Gregory Formicone, of Bradenton, Fla., used online comments to call for several of President Trump’s most prominent adversaries to be targeted, the authorities said.

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It was right to decry factional strife. Its remedy was a grave mistake.

The cumulative damage done to the agency is so profound that it may not regain any semblance of its former self in our lifetimes.

The People’s Daily newspaper put the star player’s name on an opinion article, an example of the political perils the N.B.A. could face in China.