SERIES

NCIS The team links a bizarre crime scene at Arlington National Cemetery to a string of attacks on homeless veterans in this new episode of the procedural drama. 8 p.m. CBS

The Voice The battle rounds continue as the coaches enlist Normani, Darius Rucker, Usher and will.i.am to prepare their artists to go head-to-head. 8 p.m. NBC

The Conners Desperate for more income, Becky (Alicia Goranson) applies for a bartending position at Casita Bonita, but Dan (John Goodman) worries about the effect the job could have on her struggles with alcoholism. Also, Darlene (Sara Gilbert) nears a decision about Ben and David (Jay R. Ferguson, Johnny Galecki). 8 p.m. ABC

The Resident Conrad (Matt Czuchry) begins to doubt Devon’s (Manish Dayal) judgment after one of the latter’s patients suddenly revives after being pronounced dead. Also, Cain and Nic (Morris Chestnut, Emily VanCamp) clash over how to deal with a patient who’s a well-known white supremacist. Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Shaunette Renee Wilson also star in this new episode. 8 p.m. Fox

Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Melissa McCarthy and Eric Stonestreet retrace their ancestral journeys. 8 p.m. KOCE and KPBS

Bless This Mess Mike (Dax Shepard) decides to revive the town’s newspaper, the Bucksnort Bugle, and stirs up local tensions when he discovers several community secrets and rivalries in this new episode of the fish-out-of-water comedy. Lake Bell, Ed Begley Jr. Pam Grier, David Koechner and Lennon Parham also star. 8:30 p.m. ABC

Lost LA The season premiere of this local history documentary series focuses on Griffith Park, one of the nation’s largest municipal parks, which hasn’t always lived up to its founder’s vision of a public recreation ground for all. 8:30 p.m. KCET

Arrow Oliver (Stephen Amell) is still trying to figure out the nature of the Monitor’s (guest star LaMonica Garrett) mission as he returns home in the eighth and final season of this superhero drama. Kathleen McNamara, Ben Lewis and David Ramsey also star. 9 p.m. CW

The Purge The first season of this TV series adaptation of a horror movie franchise focused primarily on the events during a single Purge night, an annual 12-hour event when all crime, up to and including homicide, is legal. In the second season, the series takes a wider perspective, exploring how the events of the most recent Purge affected the lives of some survivors. Derek Luke, Max Martini, Rochelle Aytes, Joel Allen and Charlotte Schweiger star. 9 p.m. Syfy and USA

black-ish After Jack (Miles Brown) gets cut from the basketball team, Dre (Anthony Anderson) frets over his son’s future, while Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross) strongly feels that any challenges Jack may face will make him a stronger, better person. Marcus Scribner and Marsai Martin also star. 9:30 p.m. ABC

NCIS: New Orleans Pride (Scott Bakula) and his team expose a plot to covertly house migrants at a private detention center contracted by the federal government in this new episode. 10 p.m. CBS

Emergence After learning more about Piper’s (Alexa Swinton) origins, Jo (Allison Tolman) struggles with the decision to shelter her in this new episode. 10 p.m. ABC

Treadstone Sleeper agents around the world are awakened to undertake the covert missions for which they were programmed in this sleek new spy drama set in the same world where CIA super-spy Jason Bourne operated. Jeremy Irvine (“War Horse”), Brian J. Smith (“Sense8”), Omar Metwally (“The Affair”) and Michelle Forbes (“The Killing”) star. 10 p.m. Syfy and USA

SPECIALS

Democratic Presidential Debate From the campus of Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, the dozen candidates qualified for this 2020 Democratic presidential event gather for their party’s fourth sanctioned primary debate. Featuring Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang. Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett and Marc Lacey moderate. 5 and 10 p.m. CNN

Debate Post Analysis Live debate coverage and analysis. 8 p.m. CNN

MOVIES

TALK SHOWS

CBS This Morning Author John Grisham. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS

Today Cyntoia Brown; Julie Andrews; Victoria Beckham. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC

KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA

Good Morning America Mike Rowe; Lupita Nyong’o; Adam Rippon; “Dancing With the Stars”; Michelle Pfeiffer; Daymond John. (N) 7 a.m. KABC

Good Day L.A. Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety; Betty Buckley. (N) 7 a.m. KTTV

Live With Kelly and Ryan Author Lupita Nyong’o (“Sulwe”); author Alyssa Milano (“Project Middle School”). (N) 9 a.m. KABC

The View Rachael Ray. (N) 10 a.m. KABC

Rachael Ray Tim Tebow. (N) 10 a.m. KTTV

The Wendy Williams Show (N) 11 a.m. KTTV

The Talk Jaime Pressly. (N) 1 p.m. KCBS

The Dr. Oz Show A police officer opens up about the fateful day he was shot by a disgruntled ex-LAPD cop. (N) 1 p.m. KTTV

The Kelly Clarkson Show Tyler Perry; Ben Platt; Lawnmower Man Movement. (N) 2 p.m. KNBC

Dr. Phil A woman says her 28-year-old son is a rageaholic and has been arrested more than 10 times. (N) 3 p.m. KCBS

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie. (N) 3 p.m. KNBC

The Real Guest cohost Tisha Campbell; Mark L. Walberg. (N) 3 p.m. KTTV

The Doctors Possible association between wisdom teeth removal and the opioid crisis. (N) 3 p.m. KCOP

SoCal Connected (Season premiere) California’s recycling industry struggles as millions in public money sits unspent while landfills fill up, often with items intended to be recycled. (N) 8 and midnight KCET

Amanpour and Company 11 p.m. KCET; midnight KVCR; 1 a.m. KLCS

The Daily Show With Trevor Noah Democratic presidential debate: Alex Wagner. (N) 11 p.m. Comedy Central

Jimmy Kimmel Live! Elton John; Taika Waititi; Thom Yorke performs. (N) 11:35 p.m. KABC

Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m. KABC

SPORTS

NHL Hockey The Tampa Bay Lightning visit the Montreal Canadiens, 4 p.m. NBCSP; the Carolina Hurricanes visit the Kings, 7:30 p.m. Fox Sports Net

CONCACAF Nations League Soccer Canada versus the United States, 4:15 p.m. ESPN2

Baseball ALCS Game 3: The Houston Astros visit the New York Yankees, 5 p.m. FS1; NLCS Game 4: The St. Louis Cardinals visit the Washington Nationals, 5 p.m. TBS

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The 1920s-era Scotty’s Castle in Death Valley National Park won’t reopen until October 2021, seven years after a flash flood caused $47 million in damage to the landmark’s buildings and road, a recent park announcement said.

The onetime unfinished vacation home of businessman Albert Johnson — and nicknamed for his buddy, cowboy and gold prospector Walter Scott — held custom-made furniture, tapestries, antique furniture, an elaborate pipe organ and a set of 25 carillon chimes in what’s called the Chimes Tower.

Some repairs have been completed. For example, a system of concrete blocks and other features at the castle’s bridge were installed to curb future erosion. “This work will prevent damage from future floods at this pinch-point where flood speeds were fastest,” the park’s statement said.

Also, re-created concrete fence posts on the property have been installed. Like the originals, some of which still stand, each post is marked with an “S” and “J” for Scott and Johnson. New posts bear the date “2019″ to distinguish them from the originals.

Other projects, such as fixing the water system, installing a new septic tank and upgrading the electrical system, are underway. Plans to flood-proof the visitor center, which was the building’s garage, are in the design and review phase.

Designs are in the works to fix the Chimes Tower and shore up infrastructure, including the heating and air-conditioning.

Also, the access road, Bonnie Clare Road, remains closed through Grapevine Canyon because of safety hazards related to ongoing construction.

How is the park paying for these piecemeal projects? Entrance fees, federal road monies, deferred maintenance accounts and donations are funding the fixes.

While Scotty’s Castle undergoes repairs, visitors can take a ranger-led walking tour ($25, plus fees) at 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. from Dec. 8 through April 12. Tours are limited to 25 participants. You can buy tickets online at Scotty’s Castle Flood Recovery Walking Tours web page.

Death Valley notches its 25th year as a national park this year. It was created by the 1994 Desert Protection Act.

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What do you get when you pair an ultra-modern, high-concept architect with a film producer-turned-spec developer with a penchant for over-the-top opulence and gargantuan price tags? This Bel-Air showplace, which just hit the market for $65 million.

The nearly 30,000-square-foot mega-mansion is the latest collaboration between architect Paul McLean — who’s designed homes owned by Calvin Klein and the Winklevoss twins — and developer Nile Niami, whose extravagant playgrounds cater to the richest of the rich.

Their other efforts together include the Opus, an $80-million golden-gated mansion with a Champagne room stocked with Cristal, as well as the One, a 100,000-square-foot giga-mansion with its own casino, IMAX theater and jellyfish room. The One has not yet surfaced for sale, but it has been teased in the media for years with a target asking price of $500 million.

Niami and McLean’s lastest collaboration showcases splendor as much as the others. Spanning two acres in the affluent Westside pocket, the prized property holds a contemporary home with nine bedrooms, a 160-foot outdoor pool and a 30-foot water wall.

Reflecting pools with floating steps surround the estate, which opens to a grand foyer under 25-foot ceilings. A curved staircase navigates the floor plan, breaking up the crisp, clean lines featured throughout the rest of the interior.

Traditional living spaces include an expansive living room, a chandelier-topped dining room, a marble kitchen and an indoor-outdoor family room with a built-in fireplace. For amenities, there’s a movie theater, a glass wine cellar, a hair salon and a gym. A wellness spa boasts a massage studio and separate facial and yoga rooms.

Walls of glass open outside, where a kitchen, outdoor shower and landscaping surround the massive swimming pool.

Jennie Priel and Aaron Kirman of Compass’ Aaron Kirman Group hold the listing.

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Jia Yueting, an entrepreneur who ran up billions of dollars in personal debts trying to build a business empire in China, has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. with plans to turn over his latest venture, an electric vehicle startup, to creditors.

In a proposed debt-restructuring plan filed in federal court in Wilmington, Del., Jia will use his ownership stake in Los Angeles-based Faraday & Future Inc. to set up a creditor trust to repay his debts.

Jia faces $2.3 billion in claims, according to the plan. In a statement on Faraday’s website, the company said Jia’s debts were owed to creditors in China.

The plan is also designed to help Faraday put together “equity financing efforts and prepare for an IPO,” according to the statement. Depending on the value of that proposed initial public offering, creditors may recover from 49% to 100% of what they are owed, according to reorganization plan documents filed in court.

Faraday is trying to develop an electric vehicle for sale in the U.S. and China. The company recently hired Carsten Breitfeld, a BMW veteran, to take over the chief executive role from Jia.

Faraday won a much-needed cash infusion when it formed a joint venture earlier this year with The9 Ltd., the Chinese online-gaming company. And a unit of China Evergrande Group, the property developer owned by Hui Ka Yan, China’s third-richest man, agreed to invest $2 billion but cut back on the investment after giving Faraday $800 million for a 32% stake, according to court documents.

Jia has a history of making dramatic statements about his various ventures, including a claim that one of his biggest China-based businesses would “far surpass” China’s three biggest internet companies: Baidu Inc., Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent. That claim was related to $2.2 billion that Jia raised for LeEco, a sprawling conglomerate with interests that include electric cars, TVs and entertainment.

In his first international television appearance in 2016, Jia called Apple Inc. “outdated” and said he expected his electric vehicle company to “lead the industry leapfrogging to a new age.”

In his bankruptcy filing, Jia warned that his IPO plans for Faraday may not raise as much as projected. That was due in part to “negative press related to his debts and an investigation by the China Securities Regulatory Commission into the delisting from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange” of a company where Jia served as chief executive.

Harley-Davidson Inc. has halted production of LiveWire, the debut electric bike it’s counting on to attract new riders.

The motorcycle maker recently discovered an issue during final quality checks, according to an emailed statement that doesn’t provide details. Harley said it stopped production and deliveries as it conducts additional testing and analysis.

Chief Executive Matt Levatich, who’s presided over 10 consecutive quarters of declining U.S. retail sales, has positioned LiveWire as key to building a new generation of customers. While it’s easier to operate — there’s no clutch or gears to figure out, just a twist-and-go throttle — analysts have questioned whether its $29,799 price tag will attract the younger riders the company seeks.

“We made a deliberate decision to launch a halo product to demonstrate what’s possible in electric — a no-excuses electric Harley-Davidson — and we feel very good that we’ve done that,” Levatich said during an earnings call in July.

LiveWire deliveries were initially supposed to begin in August, but the company said during an investor day on Sept. 24 that it was holding back the bikes to make sure they were perfect, according to James Hardiman, an analyst at Wedbush Securities. Pre-orders started in January.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier Monday that Harley told some of its dealers last week it was suspending output as it conducted tests on the bike’s charging mechanism, citing a memo from Chief Operating Officer Michelle Kumbier. The company asked customers and dealers to only use a professional type of charger available at dealerships rather than home electrical outlets, the Journal said.

Apple Inc. came under fire on Monday for sending web browsing data, including IP addresses, to China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd., the latest criticism of how the company operates in the world’s most populous nation.

For about two years, Apple has been sending data to Tencent as part of an iPhone and iPad security feature that warns users if a website is malicious or unsafe before they load it. The U.S. company checks addresses against an existing list of sites known to be problematic. That list is maintained by Tencent for users in mainland China and by Google for other regions, including in the U.S.

In newer versions of Apple’s iOS operating systems, the company says this feature “may also log your IP address,” potentially providing Tencent, a Chinese internet conglomerate with government ties, data such as a user’s location. The safe browsing feature with Google was first added to iOS in 2008, but it was expanded to include Tencent with iOS 11 in 2017. Apple updated its description of the feature in more recent versions of iOS.

“We deserve to be informed about this kind of change and to make choices about it,” Matthew Green, a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University, wrote in a blog post. “Users should learn about these changes before Apple pushes the feature into production, and thus asks millions of their customers to trust them.”

This isn’t the first time Apple has been criticized for working with a Chinese company to handle local data. In 2018, Apple partnered with Guizhou-Cloud Big Data to store iCloud data locally for users in mainland China.

More recently, Apple has been scrutinized for what some see as appeasing China. BuzzFeed recently reported that Apple told creators of shows for its TV+ streaming service to avoid portraying China in a poor light. The company recently removed the Taiwanese flag from the emoji keyboard on devices running in Hong Kong and Macau, after earlier pulling it from mainland China. It also came under fire for removing a maps app in Hong Kong that the developer said was designed to help users avoid areas of protest. Apple said it was following local laws in both instances.

Apple said in a statement that the feature protects user privacy and safeguards people’s data. The checks occur on the devices, and the actual web addresses are never shared with Tencent and Google, the safe browsing providers. The feature is on by default, but can be switched off, Apple also said. The IP address of a user’s device is shared when a website is found to be suspicious and a warning is sent.

Some users were concerned that data would be sent to Tencent globally because the firm is mentioned even on iPhones outside China. Apple will probably clarify this in a future version of iOS.

The feature can be disabled under the Privacy & Security section in the Settings app by tapping the “Fraudulent Website Warning” toggle. If a user does that, IP addresses won’t be shared, but Apple also won’t be able to check websites against Tencent’s or Google’s lists.

Los Angeles-based womenswear designer Heidi Merrick took her show on the road during the weekend, choosing to present her first full runway show on Saturday on a rustic plot of land she owns in the wilderness of Ventura County.

“This place calms me. I become more myself when I’m here,” the designer said of the 55-acre mix of orchards, forestland and sage-filled fields nestled in the hills between Ojai and Santa Barbara. “And it gives me the inspiration to go back [to L.A.] and do stuff.”

Merrick, who has traditionally presented her collections a few looks at a time in her downtown L.A. flagship store (where the production studio also is located), explained that she decided to switch things up as a way of signaling a shift in her business model.

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“I decided this season that I wasn’t going to offer [my collection] to stores,” she said. “[Retailers] are always like, ‘You’re Heidi Merrick. You’re from California, and that’s what we want [the clothes] to be like.’ And we live such a broad life I want to be able to show that. So I’m pulling it in [from other retailers] and am going to open my own stores. I wanted to let people know I’m pulling it in because I have more to say without an edit.”

Merrick added that she’s currently looking at bricks-and-mortar locations on L.A’s Westside as well as Santa Barbara. (A Malibu pop-up closed earlier this year, but Merrick said she’s also looking at potential locations in that beach locale.)

Merrick’s spring and summer 2020 collection was noteworthy for another reason too. It was the first in the brand’s 13-year history to include menswear offerings, some pieces modeled by longtime friend John Pearson, who also, it turns out, had a hand in convincing the designer to move into men’s. (A notable ’90s male model, Pearson appeared in singer George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90” video.)

“We were at this party, and I was wearing these high-waisted pants and he kept saying, ‘Heidi, your clothes are so classic. You really need to make those for men.’ So I bought this pink palm-tree print I thought would be perfect for a dude’s shirt but then I kept chickening out and only using it for women’s pieces. He kept urging me to do it so I finally decided, ‘OK, it’s time to do men’s.’”

That palm-tree print (in two color combinations — pale pink against black and yellow against a sandy brown) appeared in a range of pieces including wide-legged, high-waisted women’s trousers and matching long-sleeve tops with tall ruffled collars, voluminous skirts and pajama-like men’s short-sleeve shirts.

Grounded in a palette of black, brown, white and gold, Merrick’s collection included oversized blazers, blazer jumpsuits and bodysuits for women as well as high-waisted pleated trousers and short-sleeve button-front shirts for men.

Playing off the back-to-nature vibe were fly-fishing-inspired vests, trousers inspired by park-ranger pants and an iris print that climbed and curled around shorts, trousers and belted, bathrobe-like dresses to add a subtle dash of tropical flair.

After the show, attendees were urged to pluck apples from the trees lining the dirt path back to the property’s front gate. If the move into menswear — and the switched-up distribution model — are as successful as that far-flung runway show seemed to be, those trees won’t be the only thing that bears fruit.

WASHINGTON — 

President Trump, facing blowback over his abrupt troop withdrawal from Syria amid reports that Islamic State detainees have escaped in the ensuing chaos, called for an immediate cease-fire Monday and imposed sanctions against three Turkish officials and two government agencies.

Just hours after Trump issued a statement that sanctions would be imposed “soon,” Vice President Mike Pence and Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin announced that the president spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and that the sanctions had been imposed.

“The United States will aggressively use economic sanctions to target those who enable, facilitate and finance these heinous acts in Syria,” Trump said in the statement released on his Twitter feed. “I am fully prepared to swiftly destroy Turkey’s economy if Turkish leaders continue down this dangerous and destructive path.”

Pence also told reporters that U.S. officials would be traveling to the Turkish capital of Ankara soon in an attempt to find a solution to one of the most serious — and self-inflicted — foreign policy crises this administration has faced. The withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Syrian border at Erdogan’s request led almost immediately to a Turkish invasion and heavy Kurdish casualties, prompting a broad and bipartisan outcry in Washington.

It has also led to an unexpected alliance between Kurdish militia fighters — until last week, close U.S. allies — and the Syrian army, which is aligned with U.S. adversaries Russia and Iran. On Monday, Syrian units blitzed into Kurdish-held areas, state media and activist groups reported. They were racing to gain control of the region before it could be overrun by Turkish forces, who are supported by Syrian opposition rebels who have been trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad.

Convoys of Syrian army vehicles deployed across the Kurdish-held territory, including the towns of Tabqa and Ain Aissa, entering for the first time areas the government had lost more than five years ago and which only a day before had been under U.S. stewardship.

Pro-Syrian-government journalists and activists also reported government troops bunkered on the outskirts of the northern city of Manbij, once home to a U.S. base. They also posted footage of soldiers entering Tal Tamr, a village roughly 18 miles south of the Syria-Turkish border. It is on the M4, a strategic highway running east-west that opposing forces need to ferry supplies. It also serves as the main logistics route for U.S. forces in and out of the country.

Since the operation’s start on Wednesday, Turkey has established a foothold in two strategic areas along the border, completing the first phase of an operation that aims to control a buffer zone. The offensive has made swift gains, but it has also left chaos in its wake. The U.N. said some 150,000 people have been displaced, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-rebel monitoring group, put the number at 250,000. At least 69 civilians have been killed since the operation began.

In Washington, lawmakers, concerned about emboldening Islamic State and the betrayal of Kurdish fighters, are working together on a resolution condemning Trump’s decision and legislation to impose sanctions against Turkey.

Trump, whose global business interests have included office towers in Istanbul, also announced in his statement the reimposition of 50% steel tariffs, which Trump had dropped to 25% earlier this year. The new tariffs were unlikely to cause damage to Turkey’s steel industry, where U.S. purchases account for only about 5% of exports.

Democrats criticized the president’s actions as inadequate.

“Strong sanctions, while good and justified, will not be sufficient in undoing that damage nor will it stop the consequences stemming from the ISIS jailbreak,” Sens. Charles E. Schumer of New York, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Jack Reed of Rhode Island said in a statement, using an acronym for Islamic State. “The first step when Congress returns to session this week is for Republicans to join with us in passing a resolution making clear that both parties are demanding the president’s decision be reversed.”

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Monday that Turkey’s invasion had “resulted in the release of many dangerous ISIS detainees,” along with “widespread casualties, refugees, destruction, insecurity and a growing threat to U.S. military forces.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who rarely publicly breaks with the president, harshly criticized the fallout of Trump’s decision to pull back U.S. troops in Syria.

“Withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria would recreate the very conditions that we have worked hard to destroy and invite the resurgence of ISIS,” he said, adding that it would create a power vacuum readily exploited by Iran and Russia.

Trump stood by his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria, which has enabled Turkey’s onslaught. He said that the roughly 1,000 troops leaving Syria will “redeploy and remain in the region” to prevent ISIS from regaining strength in a military vacuum.

Trump’s statement came moments after two other tweets in which he asserted that it wasn’t the United States’ responsibility to protect the Syrian border. “Anyone who wants to assist Syria in protecting the Kurds is good with me, whether it is Russia, China, or Napoleon Bonaparte,” Trump tweeted. “I hope they all do great, we are 7,000 miles away!”

Esper said the Pentagon was “executing a deliberate withdrawal of U.S. military personnel from northeast Syria,” saying the roughly 1,000 troops there were “at risk of being engulfed in a broader conflict.”

Esper said Erdogan was responsible for “a potential ISIS resurgence, possible war crimes and a growing humanitarian crisis.”

U.S. troops will move into Iraq in coming days, some leaving by road and others by airlift, a senior U.S. official said. A small contingent of U.S. special forces troops will remain in Syria, farther south near the town of Tanf, the official added.

Meanwhile, Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies, taking advantage of the Kurdish collapse, pressed deeper in their assault on northern Syria, setting the ground for a confrontation against Syrian army units in Tal Tamr and Manbij. On Monday, Erdogan downplayed the chances of clashes between the two armies, saying Russia — Assad’s ally — had seen “a positive approach” to Turkey’s border operations.

The developments signal not only a major turning point in Syria’s eight-year war, but also an unraveling of years of U.S. policymaking, which had placed the Kurdish-led fighters at the center of a plan to counter Islamic State, contain Iranian and Russian ambitions and choke the Syrian government.

The Kurdish fighters, once the nexus of a U.S.-backed grouping of militias known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, had been Washington’s Syrian proxy against Islamic State. With support from a U.S.-led coalition, they rolled back the extremists’ gains while constructing a quasi-state in northeast Syria, touting it as an alternative to Assad’s rule.

Esper said he would travel to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Brussels next week to press allies to take “diplomatic and economic measures in response to these egregious Turkish actions.”

He did not mention Trump’s decision to pull back U.S. troops from the Syria-Turkey border or Trump’s Oct. 6 phone call with Erdogan, which was widely seen as giving Ankara implicit permission to carry out the invasion.

But it was an unacceptable development for Turkey, which views the Kurdish militia as a splinter of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a separatist guerrilla group that has waged a decades-long insurgency war against Ankara.

Meanwhile, lawmakers on Capitol Hill prepared bipartisan legislation to sanction Turkey as well as a resolution to condemn the president’s decision to withdraw from Syria.

The unlikely pair of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of Trump’s closest allies on Capitol Hill, said they would work together on the joint resolution, Pelosi said in a tweet. “Next, we must put together the strongest bipartisan, bicameral sanctions package” against Turkey, she said.

Times staff writers Jennifer Haberkorn and Tracy Wilkinson in Washington and Nabih Bulos in Amman, Jordan, contributed to this report.

MAPUTO, Mozambique — 

Polls opened across Mozambique on Tuesday, with 13 million voters registered to cast ballots in presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections seen as key to consolidating peace in the southern African nation.

Parties’ acceptance of the election results is a key test of the cease-fire signed in August between the government and the opposition Renamo rebels after years of skirmishes following a 15-year civil war that killed an estimated 1 million people.

The ruling Frelimo party, which has governed since Mozambique’s independence from Portugal in 1975, is expected to be returned to power. President Felipe Nyusi, who voted as polls opened, is expected to win a second term in a vote where insecurity and political tensions might keep some people from the polls.

Nyusi urged Mozambicans to avoid violence — a week after police acknowledged that several suspects in the murder of prominent local election observer Anastacio Matavel were police officers, leading to condemnation from some international vote observer groups.

The president can claim credit for the $25-billion Mozambique Liquid Natural Gas project, part of efforts to tap substantial deposits of natural gas, but his first term has been overshadowed by an economic crisis caused by a $2-billion corruption scandal in which companies set up by the secret services and defense ministry secretly borrowed money to set up projects that never materialized.

The opposition Renamo’s candidate and new leader Ossufo Momade is expected to benefit from Renamo’s popularity, particularly in the countryside.

A beaming Momade held up the inked proof of his vote and called on supporters to participate “massively” in the election. In comments carried by national broadcaster TVM, he also called on “my brother” Nyusi and security forces to respect the popular vote, and he cited the recently signed peace deal.

Momade also held up what appeared to be old, tampered-with ballots, saying, “It can’t continue like this. … We want democracy. We want peace.”

Also seeking the presidency is opposition MDM candidate Daviz Simango, the mayor of Beira city, which suffered badly in the devastating Cyclone Idai earlier this year.

The country of nearly 30 million people on the Indian Ocean was hit by Idai and, weeks later, by Cyclone Kenneth, raising fears about what climate change would bring to the sprawling coastline in the decades to come. Hundreds of thousands of people are still recovering from the storms, and hunger is a growing concern as months remain before the next substantial harvest.

Insecurity also poses a growing threat. At least 10 polling centers were not opening in northernmost Cabo Delgado province as Mozambique’s election authority said it could not guarantee safety from attacks by shadowy Islamic extremists, who have killed more than 400 people in the past two years. That means some 5,400 people are not able to vote.

Vote counting will start after polls close at 6 p.m. local time and preliminary results are expected Wednesday, with full provisional results before the end of the week.

A runoff will be held if no presidential candidate wins a majority of the vote.

For the first time Mozambicans are also electing provincial governors, a key concession to Renamo. Previously all governors were appointed by the ruling party.

In 10 of the country’s 11 provinces, the governor will be the lead candidate of the party or list which wins the most votes in the provincial assembly election. Maputo, the 11th province and the capital, is both a city and a province and it was decided not to add a governor to the elected mayor.

However, Frelimo has established a new management layer, a provincial secretary of state, which will be appointed by the president and take on many of the powers that governors have had up to now.

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NAGANO, Japan — 

The toll of death and destruction from a typhoon that tore through central and northern Japan climbed Tuesday, as the government said it was considering approving a special budget for the disaster response and eventual reconstruction.

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a parliamentary session that the number of deaths tied to Typhoon Hagibis had climbed to 53 and was expected to rise, as at least another nine people are presumed dead. Abe pledged to do the utmost for the safety and rescue of those missing or those who had to evacuate. “We put the people’s lives first,” he said.

While central Tokyo was nearly back to normal and people were able to start cleaning up in places where floodwaters subsided, hard-hit areas like Nagano and Fukushima were still inundated.

Abe said there are concerns of lasting effects in the storm-hit areas and pledged speedy support for residents.

Retired carpenter Toshitaka Yoshimura, who grew up in the Tsuno district of Nagano, was stunned when he returned to his home after staying at an evacuation center during the storm. His house seemed like an unlivable, muddy mess. Doors were knocked out, his handmade furniture tossed around and damaged, and everything from a futon to electronics was broken and covered with dirt.

“I put a lot of effort in this house. I made all the furniture with my wife. Now look what happened in one day,” he said, with his voice trembling with emotion. “Now this makes me want to cry.”

At least some of his photos of family and relatives were intact, along with toys and games that his younger relatives played when they gathered at his house.

“I’m glad they survived at least,” said his nephew Kazuki Yoshimura. “Perhaps we can still do something about the house, but nothing can be more precious than life.”

Hagibis hit Japan’s main island on Saturday with strong winds and historic rainfall that caused more than 200 rivers to overflow, leaving thousands of homes flooded, damaged or without power. Rescue crews on Tuesday were still searching for the missing, thought to number about 20.

Some 34,000 homes were without power and 110,000 lacked running water. More than 30,000 people were still at shelters as of late Monday, according to the Cabinet Office’s latest tally.

Abe said the government is funding the disaster response from the $4.6-billion special reserve from the fiscal 2019 budget and may additionally compile a supplementary budget if needed.

West Japan Railway Co. said its Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train services connecting Tokyo and Kanazawa in the central north were reduced because of flooding of six trains at its railyard in Nagano. The trains sat in a pool of muddy water up to their windows.

Questions have been raised about the site of the railyard, which is noted on a prefectural hazard map as a flood area. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the operator’s preparedness should be investigated later but the priority is to get the trains out of the water. Some water has been pumped out, but more than half of the railyard is still underwater.