The Trump Organization is in talks that could bring a Trump-branded property to one of Saudi Arabia’s largest government-owned real estate developments, according to the chief executive of the Saudi company leading the development. The negotiations are the latest example of Mr. Trump blending governance and family business, particularly in Persian Gulf countries. Since returning to office, the president’s family and businesses have announced new ventures abroad involving billions of dollars, made hundreds of millions from cryptocurrency, and sold tickets to a private dinner hosted by Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump is set to host Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, in Washington next week. The prince is overseeing a $63 billion project that is set to transform the historic Saudi town of Diriyah into a luxury destination with hotels, retail shops and office space. The Trump business has a history of lending its name to mixed-use projects touting “iconic luxury.”

…Next week, Prince Mohammed is expected to make his first visit to the United States in seven years. He hopes to sign a mutual defense agreement with Washington and potentially advance a deal to transfer American nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. That sets up a scenario in which Mr. Trump discusses matters of national security with a foreign leader who is also a key figure in a potential business deal with the president’s family.

…The Trump Organization swore off new foreign business deals after Mr. Trump’s 2016 election, but that pledge ended with his first term. The recent blending of business and politics has shattered American norms but is ordinary in the Gulf, where hereditary ruling families hold nearly absolute power and the phrase “conflict of interest” carries little weight. In Saudi Arabia, development officials saw Mr. Trump’s state visit in May as a chance to spark his interest in Diriyah, Mr. Inzerillo said. On his first night in Riyadh, ahead of the state dinner, Mr. Trump and Prince Mohammed visited Diriyah’s renovated historical center. The two leaders talked “not just as heads of state,” but as “visionaries and developers,” Mr. Inzerillo said. Mr. Trump was impressed by the number of construction cranes working on the vast site, he added.

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John Cleary, who was shot in the chest by Ohio National Guard troops during an antiwar protest at Kent State University in 1970, a chilling moment in American history that was captured in a Life magazine cover photo, died on Oct. 25 at his home in Gibsonia, Pa., near Pittsburgh. He was 74. His death was announced by Kent State. Mr. Cleary was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019.

Apolitical and more interested in watching “Bonanza” than the nightly news, Mr. Cleary was a 19-year-old freshman architecture major at Kent State when protests against the Vietnam War turned violent on campus…Following the shooting, Mr. Cleary spent weeks in a hospital and then moved back home. He returned to Kent State the following year to resume his studies. After graduating in 1974, he married his college sweetheart, Kathy Bashaw, and they settled near Pittsburgh. For the next decade, he barely mentioned the shooting and declined to take part in reunions or commemorations. He estimated that 90 percent of his friends and colleagues didn’t know he was the wounded student on the cover of Life.

There was another reason.

“In the aftermath of the shooting, his conservative family and neighbors in upstate New York pressured him to say nothing critical about the guardsmen who had shot him and 12 others,” Mr. VanDeMark wrote in his book. “He began not just hiding his involvement but denying it.”

That changed in 1981, when his son Andrew was born — on May 4. “I felt like God was telling me something,” he said. “You cannot bury this. You cannot pretend it did not happen to you. You cannot put it behind you. It is something that you need to confront.” Mr. Cleary began attending anniversary events at Kent State. He agreed to be interviewed by reporters. And slowly, he became a quiet yet powerful voice in warning about the dangers of poisonous political discourse and the suppression of free speech. The lesson, he said, was to de-escalate.

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John Cleary, who was shot in the chest by Ohio National Guard troops during an antiwar protest at Kent State University in 1970, a chilling moment in American history that was captured in a Life magazine cover photo, died on Oct. 25 at his home in Gibsonia, Pa., near Pittsburgh. He was 74. His death was announced by Kent State. Mr. Cleary was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019.

Apolitical and more interested in watching “Bonanza” than the nightly news, Mr. Cleary was a 19-year-old freshman architecture major at Kent State when protests against the Vietnam War turned violent on campus…Following the shooting, Mr. Cleary spent weeks in a hospital and then moved back home. He returned to Kent State the following year to resume his studies. After graduating in 1974, he married his college sweetheart, Kathy Bashaw, and they settled near Pittsburgh. For the next decade, he barely mentioned the shooting and declined to take part in reunions or commemorations. He estimated that 90 percent of his friends and colleagues didn’t know he was the wounded student on the cover of Life.

There was another reason.

“In the aftermath of the shooting, his conservative family and neighbors in upstate New York pressured him to say nothing critical about the guardsmen who had shot him and 12 others,” Mr. VanDeMark wrote in his book. “He began not just hiding his involvement but denying it.”

That changed in 1981, when his son Andrew was born — on May 4. “I felt like God was telling me something,” he said. “You cannot bury this. You cannot pretend it did not happen to you. You cannot put it behind you. It is something that you need to confront.” Mr. Cleary began attending anniversary events at Kent State. He agreed to be interviewed by reporters. And slowly, he became a quiet yet powerful voice in warning about the dangers of poisonous political discourse and the suppression of free speech. The lesson, he said, was to de-escalate.

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