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This article is by Joseph Gold- impose a stay-at-home order. stein, Shawn Hubler and Katherine Mayor Bill de Blasio of New J. Wu. York announced that it was ex- New Yorkers stood for hours in tremely likely that the city would long lines to be tested for the co- have to shut down its school sys- ronavirus on Friday, a disturbing tem, the nation’s largest, with 1.1 indicator that shows the basic million children, because the sev- public health challenges that the en-day test positivity rate across United States still faces many the five boroughs would soon hit 3 months after the pandemic first percent. hit. In Washington, President People waited for tests they Trump made his first appearance needed for work or school. Some to discuss the outbreak since the feared they might have gotten election and said it was possible sick after flouting social distanc- that vaccines for the virus could ing while celebrating after the be widely available by the spring. election. Others hoped to safely Mr. Trump also deepened his visit family on Thanksgiving, sug- feud with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo gesting that the problem might of New York, threatening to with- worsen over the coming holidays. hold a vaccine from the state be- And some, dissuaded by the cause of Mr. Cuomo’s criticism of prospect of lingering on sidewalks the administration’s distribution NICOLE CRAINE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES for more than three hours in the plan. One Down, Millions to Go rain, walked away untested. The potential impact of the “It’s so frustrating,” said Coun- president’s threat was not imme- In Georgia, the grueling process of recounting nearly five million ballots by hand has begun, and is likely to go on for days. Page A15. cilman Mark Levine of Manhat- diately clear, given that Mr. Trump tan, the Health Committee chair- is leaving office on Jan. 20. Presi- man. “We keep hitting new prob- dent-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is a lems in tests. We solve one and an- close ally of Mr. Cuomo and is VOTE CHALLENGES Biden Eager to Dismantle DeVos’s School Rules other pops up.” likely to put in place a different The lines and escalating de- distribution plan. The Trump administration has mand for testing underscore how By all accounts, even if things go well, vaccines are still months FIZZLE IN COURTS By ERICA L. GREEN Vowing to Drastically demanded that schools reopen, a second wave of the virus is despite severe budget constraints threatening New York City, and away. For now, much of the atten- WASHINGTON — Like most and confusing health guidelines, they come as the entire country tion is focused on testing prob- federal agencies, the Education Increase Resources while the Education Department confronts record numbers of new lems, which were threatening to Department followed President delay results and hinder efforts to Legal Defeats Leave the has all but absolved itself of track- cases — more than 165,000 nation- Trump’s lead in seeking to undo for Education control the spread of the virus. ing the virus’s impact and offering ally on Friday. Several governors the legacy of his predecessor, and New York City had a record President Little Room solutions. The Biden campaign have warned that they are seri- Education Secretary Betsy DeVos number of tests on Thursday, has promised federal relief fund- ously considering further restric- diligently tore into President den, is a community college pro- more than 74,000, officials said. ing and assistance for schools to tions in a last-ditch effort to curb By ALAN FEUER Barack Obama’s policies. fessor and member of the Na- the outbreak. Across the country, nearly 1.5 mil- address the devastating effects of President-elect Joseph R. Biden tional Education Association, the The governors of California, Or- lion people a day are being tested, President Trump suffered mul- the pandemic on the academic tra- Jr. is planning to return the favor. nation’s largest teachers’ union. egon and Washington urged resi- according to the Covid Tracking tiple legal setbacks in three key jectory of their most vulnerable swing states on Friday, choking The contrasts in Trump-era ed- The Biden administration has dents to avoid all nonessential in- Project. That is nearly double the ucation policy and the incoming promised to drastically increase students. terstate travel in the days ahead. number in August and far more off many of his last-ditch efforts to But the president-elect’s close- use the courts to delay or block Biden agenda are stark. Ms. De- resources for public schools, ex- In Utah, which also just set a case than during the pandemic’s first Vos, a lifelong booster of private pand civil rights advocacy for ness with the powerful teachers’ record, Gov. Gary Herbert issued wave in the spring, when there President-elect Joseph R. Biden unions has raised concerns. Un- Jr.’s victory. schools and opponent of the teach- marginalized students and re- a statewide mask mandate this was far less testing capacity. ions have come under fire from In quick succession, Mr. Trump ers’ unions, set out to reduce the assert department leadership in week and told residents to limit Public health systems around parents and school leaders who was handed defeats in Pennsylva- Education Department’s footprint policymaking. casual social gatherings to those the country are once again strain- say their opposition to in-person nia, Arizona and Michigan, where by proposing cuts to public school On the most pressing issue fac- in their immediate households. ing under the need for testing. instruction conflicts with science a state judge in Detroit rejected an funding and narrowing the de- ing education, reopening schools In Illinois, which has recorded Some areas face looming short- unusual Republican attempt to partment’s enforcement of federal during the pandemic, the Biden and students’ well-being. Ms. De- more than 80,000 new cases in the ages of lab capacity. In other halt the certification of the vote in education laws and civil rights. administration has signaled a Vos posted a series of articles on past week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker places, like New York City, clinics Wayne County pending an audit of The incoming first lady, Jill Bi- sharply different approach. Continued on Page A16 warned that the state could soon Continued on Page A7 the count. The legal losses came as Mr. Bi- den was declared the victor in Georgia and a day after an agency in the president’s own Depart- Baseball First: Qaeda’s No. 2 ment of Homeland Security flatly contradicted him by declaring A Woman Rises Killed in August that the election “was the most secure in American history” and that “there is no evidence” any To Run a Team In Iran Capital voting systems malfunctioned. On Friday, 16 federal prosecu- By TYLER KEPNER This article is by Adam Goldman, tors who had been assigned to and JAMES WAGNER Eric Schmitt, Farnaz Fassihi and monitor the election also directly Ronen Bergman. debunked claims of widespread Kim Ng has long been viewed fraud, saying in a letter to Attor- as the person who would break WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda’s ney General William P. Barr that one of baseball’s most stubborn second-highest leader, accused of there was no evidence of substan- barriers. being one of the masterminds of tial irregularities. Thirty years ago, Ms. Ng, 51, the deadly 1998 attacks on Ameri- In his first public remarks of the started work in the game as an in- can embassies in Africa, was week, Mr. Trump ignored the de- tern for the Chicago White Sox, at- killed in Iran three months ago, in- velopments during an appearance tempting to carve out a career in a telligence officials have con- in the Rose Garden. But he sport dominated by men. She firmed. showed a momentary crack in his worked her way up, earning sen- Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who previously relentless insistence ior positions with the Yankees and went by the nom de guerre Abu that he would eventually be pro- the Los Angeles Dodgers and, Muhammad al-Masri, was claimed the winner of the cam- most recently, serving as Major gunned down on the streets of paign, saying at one point, “What- League Baseball’s senior vice Tehran by two assassins on a ever happens in the future, who president of baseball operations. motorcycle on Aug. 7, the anniver- knows, which administration, I On Friday, she became the first SAI AUNG MAIN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES sary of the embassy attacks. He guess time will tell.” woman hired to run a major Supporters of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi after elections this week. Her political party won handily. was killed along with his daughter, Mr. Trump’s bad day at the bar league team’s baseball operations Miriam, the widow of Osama bin began at dawn when news when she was named general Laden’s son Hamza bin Laden. emerged that lawyers from Porter manager of the Miami Marlins. The attack was carried out by Wright Morris & Arthur had “This challenge is one I don’t How a Human Rights Celebrity Lost Her Halo Israeli operatives at the behest of abruptly withdrawn from a fed- take lightly,” Ms. Ng said in a the United States, according to eral lawsuit they had filed only statement released by the team. country’s borderlands at war for four of the officials. It is unclear days earlier on his behalf in Penn- “When I got into this business, it By HANNAH BEECH seven decades. what role if any was played by the sylvania. The firm’s withdrawal seemed unlikely a woman would Civilian Leader Tastes But the two pledges have gone United States, which had been followed internal tensions at the lead a major league team, but I am When Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Power in Myanmar unfulfilled, and the world’s most tracking the movements of Mr. al- firm about its work for Mr. Trump dogged in the pursuit of my goals.” emerged from years of house ar- shimmering icon of democracy Masri and other Qaeda operatives and concerns by some lawyers The significance of Ms. Ng’s hir- rest exactly a decade ago, having has lost her luster. Ms. Aung San in Iran for years. that Porter Wright was being used ing extends beyond baseball, as never used a cellphone or Face- Suu Kyi, 75, has turned into an The killing occurred in such a to undercut the integrity of the she is the first woman to be a gen- book, she held court in the office of awards, she wore fresh flowers in apologist for the very generals netherworld of geopolitical in- electoral process. eral manager in any of the major her banned political party, the her hair, sat with impeccable pos- who once locked her up, down- trigue and counterterrorism spy- Then, shortly after noon, a law- men’s sports leagues in North smell of damp emanating from the ture and promised the world two playing their murderous cam- craft that Mr. al-Masri’s death had yer for the Trump campaign effec- America. The move, to many in human rights reports piled on the things: She would ensure that paign against the Rohingya Mus- been rumored but never con- tively dropped its so-called Sharp- baseball, was considered long floor. Myanmar’s political prisoners lim minority. Her strongest critics firmed until now. For reasons that iegate lawsuit in Arizona. That overdue and comes at a time when Armed with nothing more than would go free, and she would end accuse her, as a member of the Ba- are still obscure, Al Qaeda has not Continued on Page A17 Continued on Page A20 a collection of international the ethnic strife that had kept the Continued on Page A10 Continued on Page A11

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Wesley Morris I think it would require us to actually do the work. And I think one of the things about the way we traditionally talk about progress versus tradition is that I feel like the directions are wrong. Tradition is about anti-change. You want things to just be the way they are or the way they always have been. And progress is about moving forward. But I actually think that the direction we should be trying to go in more frequently is down.

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Remote life can leave both kids and adults “When I got into this with screen fatigue. As an adolescent medicine specialist at Children’s Hospital business, it seemed at Montefiore, I have some tips to help you practice digital wellness as a household. unlikely a woman HINA TALIB would lead a major Start the conversation. As a family, watch league team, but I am a documentary like “Social Dilemma,” “Screenagers” or “LIKE.” Use it to discuss dogged in the pursuit the benefits and pitfalls of screen time and of my goals.” social media. Or bring up relevant news ISTOCK items, such as the proposed TikTok ban, an alarm clock.) Try screen-free Saturday KIM NG, the first woman to be named over dinner. mornings or a daily “no-power” hour, and the general manager of a major league Take stock of your use. Assess how certain use that for family time instead. Challenge baseball team, the Miami Marlins. apps make you feel. Eliminate unneces- each other to a one-day phone fast. The sary platforms that don’t bring you joy. first person to lose does everyone’s laun- Consider how much time you are spending dry for a week. with your phone. And remember: Parents Make a family plan to moderate use. With modeling healthy relationships with their your kids, draft a family media plan that phones are the most influential part of balances online and offline activity, out- family digital well-being. lines unsafe media use and establishes Helping you livebetter. Use your phone. Don’t let it use you. Avoid check-ins. Nomatterwhereyoulive. device multi-tasking, especially while For more wellness tips, visit nytimes.com/well. trying to learn or work from home. Jump- ing between screens and apps makes work take longer. Pro tip: Turn off notifications for all but the essential apps. Create device-free zones. Eliminate phones from tables at mealtime and bed- nytimes.com/realestate rooms overnight. (You might need to buy A4 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N Tracking an Outbreak

Hot Spots in the United States Coronavirus Update As of Friday evening, more than 10,764,900 people across every state, plus Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories, have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to a New York Times database. More than 243,700 people with the virus have died in the United States. States Scramble to Add New Restrictions Average daily cases per 100,000 people Scientists Say 1 in 8 Have Been Infected in the past week Wash.

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By JAMES BARRON Vt. Ore. Minn. Behavior modification: It is a term with psychotherapeutic connota- Idaho N.H. Mass. tions, but on Friday, it was the message — not from psychiatrists or S.D. Wis. N.Y. psychologists, but from governors worried that the pandemic was Wyo. Mich. Conn. R.I. continuing its vicious acceleration. They urged. They implored. And — as gently as they could — they ordered, hoping to change their Calif. Pa. Neb. N.J. constituents’ behavior in ways that would impede transmission of Nev. Iowa Ind. Ohio the coronavirus and bring down infection rates. Md. Ill. Del. On the West Coast, three governors beseeched their constitu- D.C. ents to avoid interstate travel. The three — Gov. Gavin Newsom of Utah W.Va. California, Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon and Gov. Jay Inslee of Wash- Colo. Kan. Mo. Va. ington — also pushed people to limit interactions to their immediate Ky. households and stay local. Ariz. N.C. In New Mexico, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued the most Okla. Tenn. sweeping statewide order of the fall, a stay-at-home directive that S.C. said nonessential businesses and nonprofits cannot have in-person N.M. interactions for two weeks. In Oregon, where daily coronavirus Ga. Ark. numbers have more than doubled over the past month, Gov. Kate Ala. Brown ordered a partial lockdown for two weeks, starting Wednes- Miss. day. She limited social gatherings to no more than six people from no more than two households. She also cut the customer capacity in Texas La. grocery stores, told restaurants they could provide only takeout Alaska service and left Oregonians to exercise at home: Gyms must close. Fla. In Idaho, Gov. Brad Little prohibited gatherings of more than 10 people as he mobilized the National Guard to help with testing and decontamination efforts. Puerto Rico Hawaii In the first wave of the pandemic, which was centered on the New York metropolitan area, officials issued widespread stay-at- home orders. This time around, officials have been reluctant to impose expansive measures, although some have begun to move in that direction. Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia expanded the state’s Sources: State and local health agencies. The map shows the share of population with a new reported case over the last week. Parts of a county with a mask mandate to include children as young as 5. He also announced population density lower than 10 people per square mile are not shaded. Data for Rhode Island is shown at the state level because county level data is infrequently reported. Data is as of Nov. 13, 2020, at 5 p.m. Eastern. an “on-site alcohol curfew” that bans the sale of liquor — and public THE NEW YORK TIMES drinking — after 10 p.m., starting Sunday. Officials are well aware that they are fighting pandemic fatigue. “Everyone is tired of this pandemic and restrictions on our lives,” Mr. Northam said in a video message on Friday. “I’m tired, and I know you are tired, too. But as we saw earlier this year, these mitigation measures work.” PUBLIC HEALTH But the pandemic is again worsening on the coasts while it mushrooms in the nation’s center, which was largely spared the first time. Health officials on Thursday recorded more than 150,000 new Since Election, C.D.C. Issues More Assertive Advice cases in a single day for the first time — more than 160,000, in fact. On Friday, more than 165,000 new cases were reported nationally. By APOORVA MANDAVILLI mination to return to an apolitical “The huge fight over the dence is growing that children of The first 100,000-case day had come only nine days earlier. Also on As the pandemic engulfs the na- identity, according to four senior M.M.W.R. led to the administra- all ages are susceptible to SARS- Friday, Iowa reported 5,000 new cases for the first time in one day. tion, recent recommendations scientists who spoke on condition tion backing off, and they’ve been CoV-2 infection and, contrary to Illinois set its second single-day record in a row, and Arkansas, from the Centers for Disease Con- of anonymity because they feared putting out great M.M.W.R.s for early reports, might play a role in Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Montana and Ohio set one-day records. trol and Prevention have been as for their jobs. the past six to eight weeks that are transmission.” Hospitalization numbers are also at their highest. notable for what they do not say as “We couldn’t allow ourselves to really important,” Dr. Frieden The C.D.C. also acknowledged The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the Univer- for what they do. In a turnabout, be politicized at this moment in said. in October, months after the World sity of Washington, whose modeling the White House used early in the agency now is hewing more time,” said one of the scientists, The scientific brief on face cov- Health Organization had done so, the pandemic, said that 12 percent of Americans — more than one in closely to scientific evidence, of- who is involved in the agency’s erings, for example, is at odds that the coronavirus could be air- every eight — had been infected as of Monday. And the institute’s ten contradicting the positions of pandemic response. “We weren’t with the actions of administration borne in poorly ventilated indoor forecasts are bleak. It predicted that 268,240 new cases would be the Trump administration. going to spend time licking officials including Mr. Trump, who settings. And it laid out sensible, wounds and worrying about what rarely wears masks and has posted on Thanksgiving Day alone, 105,000 more than were re- In scientific briefs published on science-based steps that public had gone wrong in the past.” mocked Mr. Biden’s strict adher- health laboratories should take to ported on Thursday. After climbing steadily through December, the Tuesday, the C.D.C. described the Another senior C.D.C. scientist ence to wearing them in public. confirm suspected reinfections daily case count would reach 329,438 on Christmas Day before benefits of masks to wearers, not just to those around them. Agency said, “Sometimes you just feel The bulletin also broke from the with the virus. topping out at 333,700 on New Year’s Day. On Jan. 20, the day on compelled to say, ‘I don’t care agency’s earlier watered-down But none of these reports have which President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is to be sworn in, another researchers also urged people to celebrate Thanksgiving only with what happens; I’ve got to do view that the evidence “may con- been accompanied by briefings by 313,262 cases would be added to the total, according to the institute’s others in their households or, fail- this.’” vince” Americans that they agency scientists — a mainstay of modeling. ing that, to wear a mask with two Until the pandemic, the C.D.C. should wear masks and that mask the C.D.C.’s response to previous or more layers. was widely regarded as the use “could prevent” an infected infectious disease outbreaks. New Coronavirus Cases Announced Daily in U.S. Administration officials fa- world’s leading public health person from spreading the virus The mask advice, for example, agency. But the muzzling of its sci- to others. As of Friday evening, more than 10,764,900 people across every mously have disregarded evi- might have been missed if news entists by the Trump administra- The C.D.C.’s recommendations organizations had not caught state, plus Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories, have tested dence about the effectiveness of tion and the politicization of some for Thanksgiving gatherings ar- wind of its arrival and reported it. positive for the virus, according to a New York Times database. masks, one reason there have been at least three coronavirus of its advice crippled its efforts to rived more than two weeks before “Here’s a situation now where answer critical questions, experts the holiday, in itself an improve- New cases outbreaks at the White House and there’s enough data to recom- hundreds of cases linked to Presi- ment. Until recently, much of the mend it scientifically, and it might dent Trump’s rallies. agency’s guidance was delayed by help change the behavior of some 100,000 “the many eyes above them that The guidance was the latest in a people, if you were seeing the nor- needed to see things and clear series of newly assertive bulletins ‘A weight’s been lifted mal reinforcers of public health 7-day average Many cases from things and possibly change from the C.D.C. Agency officials and political leaders supporting unspecified days things,” Mr. Becker said. have recently issued strict re- off the C.D.C. that each other,” said Dr. Richard quirements for cruise lines; up- “But the Thanksgiving and Besser, who served as interim 50,000 allows them to do dated the science on coronavirus mask thing sort of made me real- chief of the C.D.C. during the H1N1 infections in children; re-evaluat- ize, OK, we’re getting a little bit virus outbreak of 2009. their job again.’ ahead of it, like we used to,” he ed the risk from airborne virus in- The continuing absence of pub- added. doors; and released recommen- lic health messaging from govern- dations for labs investigating viral Other C.D.C. documents in re- ment agencies is dangerous, giv- reinfections in patients. say, including how schools, cent weeks have also taken an un- en the uncontrolled spread of the compromising tone. The Trump March 1 Nov. 13 Still, C.D.C. officials have not churches and businesses should coronavirus and the approaching administration blocked a C.D.C. Note: Friday’s total is incomplete because some states report cases after publicly announced these findings reopen, and how Americans could holidays, he and others said. order to keep cruise ships docked press time. Data is as of Nov. 13, 2020, at 5 p.m. Eastern. nor held news conferences to ex- best protect themselves and their Dr. Carlos del Rio, an infectious Sources: State and local health agencies; hospitals; C.D.C. THE NEW YORK TIMES until February, but in late October, plain them, instead posting the disease expert at Emory Univer- families. the agency’s scientists outlined bulletins quietly online. Word of sity in Atlanta, said he had ad- The turnabout began after the strict new rules for the industry, them has often appeared first on vised his friends at the C.D.C., in- Trump administration meddled in including requiring cruise ships to Traditions in Pandemic Times Twitter and noted by outside ex- cluding Dr. Redfield, to “do the the C.D.C.’s vaunted weekly bul- have C.D.C. approval for the lab- perts. Dr. Robert Redfield, the right thing.” Officials worry that turkey and trimmings on Thanksgiving Day letins, the Morbidity and Mortal- oratories and tests they use. agency’s director appointed by “I told Redfield, ‘You start doing could hold the same troubling prospects as trick-or-treat parties on ity Weekly Reports, according to (Nonetheless, one of the first Mr. Trump, has remained largely press briefings, you step up — and Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, who led ships to resume cruising in the Ca- Halloween. silent despite record-breaking if they fire you, they fire you,’” Dr. the agency under President ribbean now hosts a coronavirus On Friday, Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana blamed Hallow- numbers of coronavirus cases. del Rio recalled. “There’s a total Barack Obama. outbreak.) een — when “many of the restrictions and mitigation measures In interviews, scientists at the vacuum in the coronavirus re- Political appointees tried to re- Also in October, Dr. Michael were not being followed” — for a surge in cases, while in New Jer- C.D.C. and public health experts sponse at this point in time.” vise, delay or even halt publica- Beach, a senior C.D.C. scientist, sey, Judith M. Persichilli, the health commissioner, attributed more who work closely with them de- Dr. Redfield did not respond to a tion of the reports, sparking public told a House subcommittee that than 60 cases to just three Halloween parties. Looking to Thanksgiv- scribed the reasons for the shift: request for comment. outcry and condemnation at a the agency’s guidance on schools ing, Gov. Philip D. Murphy urged New Jerseyans to gather on a an administration distracted by The scientists were also anx- congressional hearing. The dust- — written under pressure from the election, the explosion of co- ious about how the next few weeks smaller-than-usual scale, with “just your immediate cohabitants,” he up precipitated the swift exit of the White House — did not reflect ronavirus cases across the coun- will unfold. The nation is facing said on Thursday. “Anything else and you are risking your dinner Michael Caputo, a political ap- the latest science on risks of chil- try, and the likelihood that Joseph record numbers of infections and table becoming a Covid hot spot.” pointee who had accused C.D.C. dren becoming infected with and R. Jr. Biden would defeat Mr. hospitalizations, and record num- Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago was blunter in a tweet that scientists of sedition, and Dr. Paul transmitting the coronavirus. Trump — now a certainty. bers of deaths may soon follow. accompanied a stay-at-home order that will go into effect on Mon- Alexander, a science adviser hired The current version, updated a “A weight’s been lifted off the Whether the C.D.C. can ad- day: “Cancel traditional Thanksgiving plans.” Repeating her holiday to help Mr. Caputo. week later, said, “The body of evi- equately respond will depend on guidance at a news conference on Thursday, she acknowledged that C.D.C. that allows them to do their job again,” said Scott Becker, chief whether administration officials “this is tough — and of course this whole year has been tough.” executive of the Association of resume meddling with the agency Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Public Health Laboratories who or remain distracted during the has said that his daughters, living in different parts of the country, has worked closely with C.D.C. lame-duck period. would not travel to visit him in the Washington area for Thanksgiv- scientists for decades. Already at least one Trump ap- ing this year. He suggested on Friday that those who do attend Under the Biden administra- pointee has vacated a key posi- Thanksgiving gatherings wear masks. “People who say wear a tion, the C.D.C. will be restored to tion. Tammy Beckham, a close mask indoors, they’re really talking about when you get into a set- its status as the premiere public aide to the administration’s test- ting where you’re really unsure what the status of people are” — health agency in the world, said ing czar, Adm. Brett P. Giroir, over- meaning whether they are asymptomatic, he said on “CBS This Dr. Céline Gounder, a member of saw supply and distribution of Morning” on Friday. “Even if it’s a very small group, to the extent President-elect Biden’s advisory testing supplies but moved last possible, keep that mask on. There is community spread right now.” group on the coronavirus. week to the F.D.A. As for the holidays in December, the Netherlands has already “While their role has been di- Dr. Beckham was succeeded by decided that 2020 will not go out with a bang. It banned fireworks, minished during this current cri- an agency veteran, Dr. Michael saying that New Year’s Eve spectacles usually pack emergency sis, they play a very important Iademarco. Some at the agency rooms with people injured by pyrotechnics. “Even without the im- role in all this,” she said. The new saw it as a sign that pressure from administration will rebuild public the administration may ease even pact of coronavirus, there is always a heavy burden on first-aid health and data infrastructure, re- before Mr. Biden takes office. workers and police” as one year gives way to the next, Mark Rutte, store C.D.C. staffing in its over- “This is not about a Republican the Dutch prime minister, said at a news conference on Friday. seas outposts and give “control or a Democrat,” one senior scien- back to the C.D.C.” AUDRA MELTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES tist said. “This is about public Coronavirus Update wraps up the day’s developments with infor- Within the C.D.C., there is a pal- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The health. The pandemic is not parti- mation from across the virus report. pable sense of relief and a deter- agency is calling for stronger measures to control the virus. san.” THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N A5

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Tracking an Outbreak The New Reality

PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETE KIEHART FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Above, connecting to the internet is a challenge for Orlandrie Lennon, left, and her sister, Shekinah. Broadband service is unavailable in their town, Orrum, N.C., and cellphone hot spots don’t last for long. Below, Calob Kerns, 13, doing schoolwork in a grocery store parking lot in Lumberton, N.C., last month while connected to the Wi-Fi of a nearby school bus.

INTERNET ACCESS In Rural ‘Dead Zones,’ School Comes on a Flash Drive

By DAN LEVIN phy that spans mountains, swamps and hours’ drive south in Robeson County, barrier islands. where coronavirus test positivity rates Shekinah and Orlandria Lennon were sit- About 100,000 of the state’s 1.5 million have consistently been more than double ting at their kitchen table this fall, taking on- K-12 students were unable to connect to on- the state’s 5 percent benchmark for reopen- line classes, when video of their teachers line services in August, according to the De- ing, leading the school board to extend re- and fellow students suddenly froze on their partment of Information Technology. More mote learning through December, a district laptop screens. The wireless antenna on the than 75,300 cellular hot spots were provided spokesman said. roof had stopped working, and it could not to schools by late October, and the state is Sherry Park, the principal of South Robe- be fixed. trying to connect other students with public son Intermediate School, said about 60 of Desperate for a solution, their mother Wi-Fi locations and community grants for her 310 students live in cell service “dead called five broadband companies, trying to broadband infrastructure. zones.” Every two weeks, their parents get connections for their home in Orrum, But politics has also hampered the state’s come to the school to exchange drives filled N.C., a rural community of fewer than 100 connectivity. In 2016, Republican state law- with completed schoolwork for new ones, people with no grocery store or traffic makers won a legal battle to halt the spread uploaded with lesson videos and assign- lights. of municipal broadband providers, which ments. All the companies gave the same answer: had increased competition by serving resi- Sharon Hunt works 12- to 14-hour days Service is not available in your area. dents where commercial networks had teaching eighth-grade math at the school. The response is the same across broad been unwilling to go. In a voice frayed by exhaustion, she de- stretches of Robeson County, N.C., a swath In Orange County, which is home to the scribed a grueling schedule: teaching on- of small towns and rural places like Orrum University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill line in an empty classroom from 7:30 a.m. to dotted among soybean fields and hog farms and just west of some of the state’s biggest 3 p.m., after which she returns home to on the South Carolina border. About 20,000 cities, more than 5,200 households lack spend several more hours compiling flash of the county’s homes, or 43 percent of all broadband internet access, including an es- drive presentations before grading assign- households, have no internet connection. timated 1,100 students in the local school ments. The technology gap has prompted teach- district, said Monique Felder, the superin- Most of her students live in rural areas, ers to upload lessons on flash drives and tendent. and half of the students in one of her classes send them home to dozens of students ev- She noted with frustration that the dis- have no internet access. One family has to ery other week. Some children spend school James P. Steyer, the chief executive of Com- trict is just a few miles away from the state’s walk to the nearest crossroad to get cell- nights crashing at more-connected rela- mon Sense Media. “There was no federal prominent Research Triangle Park, where phone reception. Ms. Hunt said she tried to tives’ homes so they can get online for strategy, and it was left to the individual IBM, Cisco and dozens of other information answer their questions over the phone, but classes the next day. states to come up with a patchwork of solu- 20,000 technology companies employ thousands of both teacher and students know it is not the “It’s not fair,” said Shekinah, 17, who, after tions,” he said. Households in Robeson people. same. weeks trying to stay connected to classes When Congress passed a coronavirus re- County, N.C., (43 percent of “It’s un-American,” said Ms. Felder, who “You can tell in their voice that they’re through her cellphone, was finally able to lief package in March, it provided billions of the total) that have no pointed to unaffordable pricing and a lack of struggling, but once we’ve kind of talked get online regularly again last month dollars for emergency education needs, but internet. The population is cell towers as having contributed to the through some things, they sound better,” through a Wi-Fi hot spot provided by the none specifically for closing the digital di- predominantly Black and problem. “I can’t wrap my head around the she said. “That’s all I have to go on until I get school. “I don’t think just the people who vide. Despite advocacy from groups includ- Native American. fact that we live in a place where you have their work.” live in the city should have internet. We ing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Mr. all this technology, yet we have families who The lack of internet access has reshaped need it in the country, too.” Steyer said, Republican leaders in Congress can’t access the internet in the comfort of the home lives of some students. Clarissa Millions of American students are grap- blocked efforts to add such funds. their home.” Breedan, an unemployed cosmetologist, pling with the same challenges, learning re- “The tragedy is this is not a Democratic In September, the district’s school board lives with her parents and two children in a motely without adequate home internet or Republican problem,” Mr. Steyer said. “It voted to continue with remote learning for double-wide trailer home outside the small service. Even as school districts like the one is simply not fair that a poor family in a rural 100,000 most students through the end of the se- town of Roland. This fall, her four nieces in Robeson County have scrambled to pro- area or a low-income urban area does not K-12 students who were mester, citing health concerns. have also stayed there during the week so vide students with laptops, many who live have the resources to send their kids to unable to connect to online To help students connect, the district has they can get online for classes, only going in low-income and rural communities con- school in this pandemic.” services in August, distributed over 1,500 hot spots, often sev- home to their parents on weekends. tinue to have difficulty logging on. Desperate for workarounds, schools according to the North eral to each family. Yellow buses outfitted Some of the girls sleep in reclining chairs About 15 million K-12 students lived in across the country have scrambled to dis- Carolina Department of with Wi-Fi regularly rumble outside apart- because there are not enough beds. “We households without adequate online contribute mobile hot spots and internet- Information Technology. ment complexes and housing develop- have to do what we have to do,” Ms. nectivity in 2018, according to a study of fed- equipped iPads. Districts everywhere from ments. Breedan said. eral data by Common Sense Media, an edu- Wisconsin to Kansas to Alabama have Today, many parents use a map of public Josie Hunt lives on the outskirts of Ro- cation nonprofit group that tracks chil- transformed idle school buses into roving Wi-Fi locations to help their children get on- land; the only internet access there is via dren’s media use. Wi-Fi vehicles that park in neighborhoods line, and students can often be seen satellite for $140 per month. But she can- Before the coronavirus, that was mainly so students can sit nearby and log in to hunched over laptops in cars parked within celed her subscription in September after a an obstacle for students doing homework, classes. the invisible range of wireless routers. “It barrage of extra charges incurred from re- and it was an issue that state and federal of- In Baltimore, where a recent study found just adds insult to injury when you’re forced mote classes made the service unafford- ficials struggled to address. But the pan- that nearly 20,000 households with school- to sit in a McDonald’s parking lot to learn,” able. And a broadband provider said laying demic turned the lack of internet connectiv- age children lacked broadband internet or Ms. Felder said. a cable to her home would cost $12,000. ity into a nationwide emergency: Suddenly, computers, the public school system is pro- For months, Ms. Felder and other local of- “I’d rather not ever have internet if I have millions of schoolchildren were cut off from viding internet connectivity to an estimated ficials have been lobbying the state for sys- to pay that much,” said Ms. Hunt, who is dis- digital learning, unable to maintain virtual 44,000 students, or 55 percent of the dis- temic solutions, rather than Band-Aid fixes abled and whose husband works odd jobs. “attendance” and marooned socially from trict’s total enrollment, officials said. like hot spots. “We need cell towers and Without it, her son Nehemiah, 14, has their classmates. The challenge of closing the digital divide broadband,” she said. “That’s something we been forced to rely on flash drives to do his The Trump administration has done little can be particularly daunting in states like cannot build ourselves. We need the gov- school work, with devastating results. “In to expand broadband access for students, North Carolina, home to the nation’s sec- ernment to step in and make this happen.” school I made all A’s and B’s,” he said. “Now both before and during the pandemic, said ond-largest rural population and a geogra- The strain is even more profound a two I’m failing.”

Markers of the technology gap: A park ranger installing a sign indicating Wi-Fi access at Lumber River State Park; a cell tower in Maxton; and advertisement for high-speed internet near Fairmont. THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N A7

Tracking an Outbreak New York City

A FLASH POINT Homeless Men Moved Into a Tourist Hotel. Anger Turned to Belonging.

By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK An opera singer who also studied public relations is struggling to find work. His new roommate, released from prison a year ago, is trying to find his footing, too. A neighbor is focused on his sobri- ety. All three men live at the Lu- cerne Hotel, which used to offer spa services and valet parking to tourists on the Upper West Side. The Lucerne is now one of 63 hotels the city has turned into homeless shelters since the beginning of the pandemic to help prevent the spread of coronavirus inside dormitory-style shelters where single men and women cannot safely distance. The conversion of hotels into shelters has sparked the threat of lawsuits, an actual lawsuit, a dozen protests, news conferences and the formation of several neighborhood groups — some opposed to shelters and others in favor. But caught in the middle of the political push-and-pull are displaced men and women, a group whose lives have often been upended by evictions, unemployment and other traumatic events. “I don’t want to leave because of the love that we experienced,” said a resident of the Lucerne who goes by Shams DaBaron. For some men living at the Lu- cerne, the debate has had an unexpected effect: a sense of belonging that eluded them at other shelters. Hundreds of people banded together to pressure Mayor Bill de Blasio and his administration to move the men. But other residents, community activists and advocacy groups rallied around the men, and in October a judge delayed a plan to relocate them. AMR ALFIKY/THE NEW YORK TIMES That pause could end on Mon- day if a Manhattan Supreme Homeless men who live at the Lucerne Hotel in Manhattan got donated coffee, clothes and books in a shop set up by the Upper West Side Open Hearts Initiative. Court justice decides to move the men to a Radisson Hotel in the Fi- resented Mr. de Blasio in the past, hotels in the wake of the deadly vi- that the move would be traumatic dangerously high fever for two ing to die earlier this year. nancial District instead of allow- to threaten a lawsuit against the rus, placing about 9,500 homeless for them and others at the hotel. weeks, he said, recalling other pa- He was staying at the Kenton ing them to stay for now. city. people in them so far. On Oct. 19, Justice Debra James tients dying. Hall Men’s Shelter in the Bowery Mr. DaBaron, 51, has become Supporters of the men saw the The Department of Homeless granted a temporary restraining He said he had been approved where he said he slept in an open the de facto representative of the complaints and efforts to move Services regards the pandemic order that allowed the men to stay for housing in nearby Harlem and room with more than 30 men. He men at the hotel, a role that has them as pure NIMBYism. hotel program as a success, noting at the Lucerne, a decision that wanted that apartment to be his contracted the coronavirus and kept him busy as he clings to so- The debate has been so volatile that 104 people in their care have came as a bus idled outside the ho- next and last move. was moved to a quarantine facility briety. that people on both sides said they died from the coronavirus, even tel to take them downtown. Mr. Hackett’s roommate, Jerry in Queens, where he said that he He and some of the other men have been doxxed. Mr. Mastro’s though the prospects for the Now the men await the judge’s Lugo, said he went straight into was given oxygen after his levels were flabbergasted when people townhouse on the Upper East Side nearly 60,000 people in the main decision, which could let them the shelter system after he was re- dropped dangerously low. welcomed them with kind mes- shelter system looked dire this stay for the time being. leased from prison in August 2019. “I started calling on every god sages in sidewalk chalk and do- spring. Leaving the Lucerne now He said one shelter “was like jail.” in the book, just so I didn’t get it nated clothes. Still, after a visit to the Upper would be painful because they “You got to sleep with one eye wrong,” Mr. DaBaron said. “Putting their babies in our A relocation was put West Side in September, the may- connected with an outreach group open, otherwise anything that’s After he recovered he was sent arms, their babies, I don’t know or described the situation as “not called the Upper West Side Open not nailed down, they take it from back to a shelter downtown, then these women!” said Mr. DaBaron. off, but the pause acceptable.” The city began mov- Hearts Initiative, which initially you,” he said. to the Washington Jefferson Hotel ing forward with a plan to relocate The Lucerne was a relief, but he in Hell’s Kitchen, and finally to the “Bringing their dogs and saying, formed in response to neighbor- ‘Hey, hold my dog,’ and ‘Hey, he may end on Monday. the men. had mixed feelings about the pos- Lucerne in July. hood opposition, some men said. loves you,’ and I’m saying, ‘This is After protests, the city aban- sible move. While Mr. Lugo, 38, Mr. DaBaron, a former rapper, On a recent chilly, rainy Sunday crazy, I’ve never experienced this doned an original idea to move appreciated the services there, he grew up in the Bronx in the foster in my life.’” families out of a shelter near the afternoon, a few dozen men came said he thought he could have a care system, and started living on was vandalized with graffiti that The Lucerne became the focus Empire State Building to make out of the hotel to browse a store single room at the Radisson. the streets periodically as a teen- included the phrase, “Randy Mas- for the debate on homeless hotels room for the men. The city then the group had set up, many walk- And while the Open Hearts ager. He said speaking out about tro you can’t displace us.” this summer after more than 200 settled on moving the men to the ing away with new jeans, socks or group has been welcoming, the the Lucerne has helped his sobri- men moved there in July. Some Mr. Mastro and Megan Martin, Radisson, but a group of residents sweaters that had been donated. neighborhood remains hostile, he ety and reminded him of how he residents complained about in- the president of West Side Com- in the Financial District filed a Steven Hackett III, the opera said. “I experienced walking would speak up for himself and creased loitering, drug use and munity Organization, the nonprof- lawsuit, charging that the site was singer, found a few ties and a down the block and I feel the bad other foster children. public urination. A private Face- it group that hired him, both said unsuitable for a shelter, even sweater that he liked. He planned energy. ‘There goes one of those He said that he hoped he and book group that now has more their effort to move the men was though it has been used as an to wear the new clothes for job in- guys from the shelter,’” he said. the other men would be allowed to than 15,000 members became a motivated primarily by concern emergency hotel for some time terviews, he said. “We shouldn’t be treated differ- stay at the Lucerne, at least forum that sometimes veered into for their well-being. and will eventually be turned into Before the Lucerne, Mr. Hack- ently.” through the pandemic. racist, degrading language. A Before the pandemic, Mr. de a permanent shelter for families, ett, 35, spent some time in a nurs- Mr. DaBaron, though, seems to “We have this unique opportu- group of residents hired Randy Blasio had vowed to end the city’s the homeless agency said. ing home in Queens to recover have found his calling. In a matter nity,” Mr. DaBaron said. “I just Mastro, a powerful lawyer and dependence on hotels as a stop- Some of the men at the Lucerne, from a seizure he had at a shelter. of months, he has become a com- hope that the mayor has the com- former deputy mayor for Mayor gap to house the homeless. But the including Mr. DaBaron, got a law- In the nursing home, he caught munity activist, a turn of events passion to say, ‘Maybe I made a Rudolph W. Giuliani who has rep- city greatly expanded the use of yer and filed affidavits stating the coronavirus and suffered a for a man who thought he was go- mistake.’”

THE RESURGENCE Long Lines for Test Show Strain on Health Systems

of pipette tips and other testing es- From Page A1 sentials. and other testing sites have been “Labs have managed to make it swamped by huge numbers of work,” said Dr. Patrick Godbey, people seeking to be tested. the president of the College of “The spring pales in compari- American Pathologists and the di- son to what we are experiencing rector of two labs in Georgia. “Pa- now,” said Karissa Culbreath, the thologists and lab scientists have medical director and infectious made heroic efforts to answer the disease division chief at TriCore call. But demand has not gone laboratories in New Mexico, down, and now the numbers are ANNA WATTS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES HIROKO MASUIKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES where cases have rocketed up- going up again. You’re seeing it Left, lining up at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn for a coronavirus test on Friday, where the waits were about an hour. Right, near ward lately. now in Illinois, in Wisconsin.” Union Square in Manhattan on Wednesday. New York City tested more than 74,000 residents on Thursday, a record. In recent months, millions more In Washington State, Provi- tests have become available to dence Health and Services, which Americans, but demand has operates a drive-through testing Hoping to safely visit enough collection sites to keep up. white tent in front of a public hous- said, “but not this long.” grown faster. site near Olympia with Thurston Joy Lee-Calio, a spokeswoman ing complex in Harlem, the line at The line would grow longer “We cannot continue to just County, had to turn cars away family for the for CityMD, which has more than midday did not extend far. over the morning, with some peo- throw more testing at this pan- when more than 200 lined up on 130 clinics in the New York City “I specifically avoided going to ple waiting nearly three hours be- demic without more strategy,” Dr. Monday, the health care provider Thanksgiving holiday. area, said the number of visits, a CityMD because the lines don’t fore they reached the clinic’s door. Culbreath said. said in a statement. In Denver, most of which were related to the move there,” said Josh Fiene, 31, “We want to see our grandchil- testing sites were reporting From March to October, Dr. Cul- virus, had jumped 25 percent in who after 20 minutes was at the dren at Thanksgiving, and we hourslong waits. breath said, her team ran a half- the past several weeks. front of an eight-person line. hope if everyone tests negative Facing escalating complaints, often get tested quickly at tents million more diagnostic tests than The long lines prompted He did not have symptoms, but that can happen,” said Erica city and state officials in New York set up outside public hospitals, or is typical for their facility, a har- CityMD to announce that its clin- he decided to get tested because Eisinger, 76, who was waiting with tried to play down the delays, say- at other city-run sites. ics would start closing 90 minutes his roommates had been hanging ried attempt to keep pace with the her husband, Peter. ing that people could obtain tests “Most people get in and out earlier than usual. out with someone who was re- The scene was the same at pandemic while still testing for if they searched around. within the hour or so,” Dr. Wallach “Our site staff and doctors have cently exposed to the virus. CityMD clinics across New York: other infectious viruses and bacte- Gareth Rhodes, a member of said. been seeing patients well beyond But for many, the trouble was long lines and varying levels of ria that continue to afflict patients. Mr. Cuomo’s coronavirus task Many New Yorkers were find- normal closing time for months simply getting into a clinic. frustration and bafflement as to This week, the American Clini- force, defended the state’s per- ing that it was not so easy. now, and we’ve reached the point At 10 a.m., Avi Weinstein, 31, why getting a timely, convenient cal Laboratory Association, which formance and pointed to the num- New York City had for months where they are sacrificing their was waiting in line under a light virus test was a struggle so many represents Quest Diagnostics and ber of testing sites statewide, promoted its progress in improv- own safety and health,” the com- rain on West 88th Street on Man- months into the pandemic. the other large commercial labs roughly 1,200. More than 400 of ing testing, but the lines this week pany wrote in an email to patients hattan’s Upper West Side, inching In the Williamsburg section of that have shouldered much of the those sites are in New York City. showed that the public health on Friday about the closing-time his way toward a CityMD urgent Brooklyn, Arjun Mocherla waited virus-testing burden, warned that Some sites, Mr. Rhodes said, were structure still faced difficulties in change. care center where he hoped to get outside a CityMD clinic for nearly turnaround times for results running below capacity. addressing the outbreak. CityMD collects samples for tested. “I’ve been here for an hour an hour, advancing maybe 15 feet would start taking longer, too. For people dreading long lines, Collecting samples should be about 15,000 coronavirus tests a and a half,” he said. in a socially distanced line. Mr. The group said that its member Mr. Rhodes recommended calling the easiest part of the process, giv- day across its locations, more than Mr. Weinstein said he had come Mocherla, a New York University labs had performed nearly a half- ahead or scheduling an appoint- en the demand for testing. half of which are in the five bor- down with a fever the previous law student, had been tested million virus tests on Wednesday ment. That way, he said, “people The government has relied in oughs, Ms. Lee-Calio said. night and was worried that he through the university in the past. and were experiencing shortages don’t have to wait at all.” large part on existing urgent care Government-run testing sites in might have been infected while “This is my first line,” he said. Dr. Andrew Wallach, a senior of- clinics, like the CityMD network, New York also had waits, but they celebrating the election results “I’m starting to regret it already.” Elisha Brown and Matthew ficial with the city’s Test & Trace to do much of the sample col- were often somewhat shorter. last week with friends. Then someone told him the wait Sedacca contributed reporting. program, said that people could lection. But there are simply not At a testing site under a large “I was expecting a long line,” he might be four hours. He left. A8 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020

A.N.C. Leader Faces Charges Of Corruption In South Africa

By MONICA MARK JOHANNESBURG — A top member of South Africa’s governing African Na- tional Congress party appeared in court on Friday, charged with corruption, in a rare sign that powerful members of the party could be held to account for endem- ic pilfering of public funds under former President Jacob Zuma. Ace Magashule, the party’s secretary general, was charged with 21 counts including fraud and money laundering in a court in Bloemfontein, the capital of the Free State province, where he headed the government for nearly a decade. Mr. Magashule, who denies any wrongdoing, was released on bail. Mr. Magashule is considered one of the A.N.C.’s “top six” — the most influential members of the party that has governed South Africa since the end of white minority rule in 1994. He oversees the day- to-day running of the party. his year, the party requested that all members facing graft charges step aside until their cases were resolved, although dozens of midlevel officials have yet to TEMILADE ADELAJA/REUTERS follow that guidance. Protesters in Lagos last month. Nigeria was rocked by an uprising that became the largest popular resistance the government had faced in years. Mr. Magashule is the highest-profile serving politician to face charges since Cyril Ramaphosa was elected president two years ago in a fiercely contested Nigeria Goes on Offensive Against Youth Protesting Police Brutality race. Mr. Magashule has emerged as a top rival to Mr. Ramaphosa, instead eratives accusing him of theft. throwing his support behind the former Says It Hears the People, Lawyers who have worked on many president, Mr. Zuma. such cases cannot name one case in The charges against Mr. Magashule But Represses Activists which a perpetrator in the security are related to a government contract to forces has been disciplined. survey low-income houses built with as- Where it can, experts say, the govern- bestos. The contract, worth 225 million By RUTH MACLEAN ment has gone after #EndSARS pro- rand, or around $14.4 million, was LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigeria’s leaders testers instead. But this has not been awarded in 2014, while Mr. Magashule have made a show of responding to the straightforward, because the movement was still the head of the Free State. But demands of a massive youth-led uprising has few easily identifiable leaders. six years on, many residents say their over police brutality that recently “There is no oga,” or big boss, said Jola homes were never checked or fixes brought the country to a standstill and Ayeye recently on the popular podcast made. Prosecutors allege that the com- captured global attention. she co-hosts. panies awarded the contract outsourced The government has commissioned As the #EndSARS protests waned, the work at a fraction of the original cost, panels of inquiry into police brutality, word began to spread that state govern- and subsequently funneled millions to and the president promised to disband ments were hiding food donated by some accounts accessed by A.N.C. associates. the notoriously abusive police unit of Nigeria’s wealthiest individuals, The lengthy charges ranged from mi- known as the Special Anti-Robbery which should have been distributed to its nor kickbacks to plundering millions Squad, or S.A.R.S. poorest to sustain them during the pan- from the state coffers, implicating 13 peo- But at the same time, protesters say demic lockdown. ple in total and five companies. Prosecu- that the government is conducting a tar- Many Nigerians suspect that gover- tors allege that Mr. Magashule and other geted campaign against people associ- nors had been holding onto the supplies defendants stole public funds worth $13.7 ated with the uprising in order to harass, in order to hand them out when they million, in one case. The prosecutors say BEN STANSALL/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES were in need of political support. impede and break up the movement — A protest outside the Nigerian High Commission in London last month. The Mr. Magashule also accepted $3,431 from destroying any good faith the govern- This sent more people into the streets a businessman who is also facing the ment had hoped to build. #EndSARS movement had gained global attention on social media. across the country. Crowds of people court to pay the school fees of his person- broke into warehouses, carrying off “They are persecuting peaceful, and al assistant, Refiloe Mokoena, who is sacks of rice and cartons of noodles. In actually quite patriotic young people,” now serving as a witness for the state. of violence. And similar to the protesters reality TV stars. The Lekki incident drew some places, people destroyed property. said Chidi Odinkalu, senior manager for Another allegation involves Mr. Maga- behind the Arab Spring, young people international condemnation. Then came arrests. Africa at the Open Society Justice Initia- shule’s directing around $16,000 be paid used social media to coordinate protests “It’s one thing to shoot protesters in “They just rounded up people on the tive. to a travel company to fund a trip to Cuba on a scale that frightened authorities ac- the relative backwaters of Kaduna,” said streets with no evidence, no anything. Nigeria — Africa’s most populous na- for party members. customed to being in control. Mr. Odinkalu. “It’s another thing to shoot Lots of people in jail,” said Yemi tion — was turned upside down last Mr. Magashule arrived in court on Fri- These days, Muhammadu Buhari is protesters under the clear gaze of up- Adamolekun, executive director of month by an uprising that grew into the day without the leg shackles usually Nigeria’s democratically elected civilian market Lagos. The political ramifica- Enough Is Enough Nigeria, a nonprofit largest popular resistance the govern- worn by defendants, as thousands of president. But in the 1980s, he was its tions are higher.” promoting good governance and ac- ment has faced in years. The demonstra- supporters rallied outside. Dressed in a military ruler, with a fondness for disci- The Lekki shooting was one of the countability. “Police brutality has in- tions began as an outcry against the sharp suit, he struck a relaxed pose, smil- pline — famously forcing civil servants things the Lagos inquiry has been look- creased significantly.” S.A.R.S. police unit but evolved into a ing and posing for court photographers. late to work to perform frog jumps. ing into before it was boycotted over the Now that the protests have ended the larger protest over bad governance. With the party facing mounting public Despite trying to reassure young peo- frozen bank account. Adesina Ogunlana, streets are pretty much back to normal. The government has adopted a two- anger over the looting of funds meant for ple last month that their voices had been a lawyer at the hearing who said he rep- In Surulere, an old suburb of Lagos, pronged strategy to try to put a stop to victims of the coronavirus pandemic by heard “loud and clear,” his pronounce- resented #EndSARS, compared the traffic jams have replaced the crowds of the uproar. It has tried to persuade peo- some party members and their allies, Mr. ments have come across as highhanded shootings to tinko, a sun-dried meat. demonstrators flapping the national ple that it is listening to the protesters — Ramaphosa has intensified anti-graft and disingenuous. Nigerians are wary “Looks small. But when you put it in green and white flag. Residents are no commissioning panels of inquiry and an- messaging in recent months. After win- that his authoritarian tendencies, his your mouth and chew, it gets bigger. Gets longer terrified of venturing out lest they nouncing that S.A.R.S. is being dis- ning the internal party election with General Buhari side, is showing through. bigger. Gets bigger,” said Mr. Ogunlana, catch a bullet. banded. But it is simultaneously using its promises of “a new dawn,” he has found Just after sunset on Oct. 20, the mili- who carried a well-thumbed copy of Mal- But in a country where mostly older, power to repress and intimidate activists his attempts to address the issue repeat- tary was deployed to a peaceful #End- colm Gladwell’s “David and Goliath” to wealthy men govern a population with a by throwing many people in jail and har- edly undermined by allies of his prede- SARS protest in Lekki, an affluent area of the hearings last week, and nibbled bit- median age of 18 and an average annual assing others in ways large and small. cessor. Lagos. Floodlights were turned off. Then ter kola to fortify himself. income of $2,200, now that the youth One example of the government’s two- the soldiers began to shoot. Lekki was just one case of abuse, “but have discovered the power of protest, The government estimates that at faced approach was on display last week It is still not known how many people it involves the military, it involves the La- they say they very well might use it least 500 billion rand, or around $32 bil- in a packed hearing room in Lagos over- died that night. Amnesty International gos state government,” he said. “And of again. lion, was stolen through systemic politi- looking the ocean, where a panel was said police and soldiers killed at least 12. course it involves thousands and thou- “You never can tell what is going to cal corruption during Mr. Zuma’s tenure. supposed to be holding a hearing on po- Abuses by security forces are nothing sands and thousands of young Ni- trigger another protest,” said Ariyo-Dare Mr. Zuma himself is facing charges of lice brutality. new. In the northeast, home to the terror- gerians.” Atoye, the convener of the Coalition in corruption relating to a 1999 arms deal Two young activists had been invited ist group Boko Haram, women have been At the Lagos inquiry last month, the Defence of Nigerian Democracy and he brokered when he was deputy presi- to join the panel to represent the pro- raped an children locked up. In the capi- panel listened to a businessman testify Constitution. dent. testers. But the youth panelists boy- tal, Abuja, and the nearby city of Kaduna, that in 2018, S.A.R.S. police threw him “People will have justification to do it Mr. Magashule has been implicated in cotted the hearing because Nigeria’s Shiite protesters have been killed. from a building, breaking his spine. They again,” he said, because the government several past corruption scandals. Per- Central Bank had just frozen a bank ac- But #EndSARS had attracted social heard a father of five describe having has been given enough time to respond haps the highest-profile one, the Vrede count belonging to one of them, claiming media influencers, musicians, actors and been tortured for 47 days by S.A.R.S. op- to the issues. dairy farm case, saw $21 million intended it was linked to terrorists. In recent as aid for aspiring Black farmers instead weeks, at least 20 activists and organiza- funneled to the A.N.C.’s political allies. tions have had their accounts frozen by That episode came to symbolize wide- the Central Bank. spread corruption under Mr. Zuma’s ten- “How can I be asking as a citizen of my ure and accusations that the party had country for better government, for an betrayed poor Black South Africans. No end to police brutality,” said Bolatito charges were ultimately filed against Mr. Olorunrinu, one of the panelists, a 22- Magashule in that case. year-old student at Lagos State Univer- Although the charges announced on sity, “and my government turns around Friday could take years to reach a con- to tag me a terrorist? It’s saddening.” clusion, experts say they may represent Warned of threats to their safety, some a crossroads for the A.N.C. high-profile activists with the move- “There are so many contradictory ment, known by the hashtag #EndSARS, noises about who the real A.N.C. is — is it have gone into hiding or left the country. the cleanup A.N.C. or the inherently cor- There was a public outcry when Modupe rupt A.N.C.?” said Susan Booysen, an Odele, a lawyer helping the protesters, author and professor at the University of said that her passport was confiscated at the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. the airport. She says was prevented from But the case has also drawn an emo- traveling, but recently was given her tional response from many members of passport back. the public. During his premiership, Mr. The country’s top police official said Magashule, a former anti-apartheid earlier this month that his officers had fighter, led a drive to recruit tens of thou- arrested over 1,500 people during and af- sands of new, younger members to the ter the protests suspected of taking part party, and he remains a popular figure. in violence. Thousands of his supporters walked The government has moved to use its through the streets of Bloemfontein wav- authority to shut down the movement. ing banners with messages of support on Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city, banned Friday. Many were dressed in the gold, demonstrations. Powerful state gover- black and green of the A.N.C. or in mili- nors in the country’s north last week tary fatigues, a nod to the apartheid recalled for censorship of social media, sistance roots of the party. which had played a decisive role in mobi- Dancing and singing apartheid-era lib- lizing the marches. eration songs, one group carried a giant Like the Black Lives Matter move- cutout of Mr. Magashule’s head. ment in America, #EndSARS was trig- “You will never silence the roaring gered by viral videos of police brutality KOLA SULAIMON/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES voice of the Black majority,” the message that documented a decades-long pattern Police fired tear gas at a crowd looting a warehouse that had supplies that were not distributed during lockdown in Abuja. below read. THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N A9 THE SATURDAY PROFILE China, Ending Top Chef Draws on Survival Skills to Keep Restaurant Afloat Days of Quiet,

By CATHERINE PORTER N 1993, he saw an ad for a job TORONTO at North 44, a high-end Acknowledges ASH SIMPSON made his I restaurant in the city’s north name as a chef for Cana- end. Mr. Simpson had never Biden’s Victory S da’s rich, preparing them eaten at a place like it, let alone chardonnay-poached lobster cooked that kind of food. By RAYMOND ZHONG and $27 foie gras-smothered He arrived at the kitchen After days of silence, China on burgers. door and was sent away. Not Friday congratulated Joseph R. But four decades ago, he was only did he lack formal culinary Biden Jr. on his election as presi- training, but he was deep in his a street kid in southern India, dent of the United States, signal- Michael Jackson phase — from eating out of garbage bins ing a start to its relations with the the strings of hair hanging over behind restaurants in Coimbat- incoming administration after his eyes to the single glove. ore, a textile hub in the state of years of hostility and distrust un- But he employed the same Tamil Nadu. der President Trump. tactic that secured his adoption, When he was around 8 years “We express our congratula- returning two more times until old, staff members of an or- tions to Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris,” the chef agreed to let him work phanage noticed him begging Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for at a bus station. He was living for three months, without pay. Mr. Simpson worked his way China’s Ministry of Foreign Af- in a nearby movie theater, fairs, said at a news conference, cleaning floors in return for a from one kitchen station to the next, learning how to build a referring to Vice President-elect place to sleep. The orphanage Kamala Harris. “We respect the workers persuaded him to salad with color and texture and simmer down a blond choice of the American people.” come back with them, and that, The Foreign Ministry had pre- in his telling, is when his life chicken stock overnight. “I saw ingredients I’d never viously sidestepped the question really began. of when it might comment on Mr. “It’s all timing. Either one witnessed,” he said. “I was eating steak tartare, foie gras Biden’s victory, saying it would re- second earlier, one second later, spect U.S. laws and procedures for and they might have missed and mushrooms I had never heard of before — porcini, determining the winner of the me,” said Mr. Simpson, who KIANA HAYERI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES election — a line that Mr. Wang re- recently celebrated his 50th chanterelle, morel.” peated on Friday after conveying birthday, though he’s not sure ‘I’m a believer in miracles. It happened to me.’ Though his sisters say he China’s congratulations. of his age. “I’m a believer in always showed an innate gift Mr. Trump has not publicly con- miracles. It happened to me.” SASH SIMPSON for cooking, Mr. Simpson thinks ceded the election, and his cam- One of Canada’s top chefs, it was his work ethic that pro- paign has filed lawsuits challeng- Mr. Simpson opened his own pelled him up the ranks. He Somalia. Many were severely ing the result. But that has not restaurant last year, with all the arrived early and worked late, disabled. stopped leaders around the world luxury touches he could never filling in holes as he saw them. They lived in a 22-room man- from acknowledging Mr. Biden’s have imagined 45 years ago: sion in Forest Hill, one of Toron- “To this day, he calls the dish valet car service; four kinds of room his office,” said Amanda victory in the past week. to’s wealthiest neighborhoods, on Many of America’s democratic caviar, and vodka served with loan from an investment banker Lambert, a sous-chef who gold-encrusted ice. worked under Mr. Simpson for allies have already spoken with and philanthropist. Sash got his Mr. Biden, but several authoritar- The timing was terrible. Toron- first job delivering newspapers five years. “He’ll do all the nitty- gritty stuff, like taking out the ians who enjoyed mostly amicable to’s restaurants have been at age 12, so he could buy his garbage.” relations under Mr. Trump have among the worst hit in North own clothes, separate from the In 2003, Mr. Simpson was remained quiet. Among those who America, losing about 80 percent household’s communal pile. named executive chef, oversee- have yet to acknowledge a victor of the reservations they had At 14, he began working as a ing the kitchen and catering are President Vladimir V. Putin of received in 2019, according to dishwasher at the restaurant intimate events and galas. Russia and President Jair Bol- data collected by OpenTable, an where his older sister Melanie He gained a reputation for sonaro of Brazil. online reservation service. They worked as a waitress. impeccable service. He made the For China, relations with the were shut for almost five months “I had this mentality, ‘I’ll never during the first wave of the co- city’s rich feel special, by remem- United States have hit their lowest be that again, what I was when I bering how many ice cubes they point in decades during the Trump ronavirus, and then after a two- was adopted,’” he said. He soon month reprieve, ordered closed liked in their scotch, and how administration, which has taken migrated into the kitchen — a again on Oct. 10. they preferred soup to salad. place familiar to most of the “Everything I have is in this,” At a catering event in 2008, he A young Mr. Simpson, center in the white V-neck shirt, at an or- Simpson children, as they took Mr. Simpson said on a recent met Robin Pitcher, an event phanage in southern India when he was around 8 years old. shifts cooking pancake break- October morning, sitting in a planner 11 years his junior. They fasts and roast chicken dinners Signaling the start of $600 gray tweed custom-made have been married nine years. for the household. chair in his empty restaurant, dren, to support and raise aban- FTER five days of flying, Mr. Three days after she gave relations with a new looking over two dozen empty doned children. Most were Simpson arrived in Toron- “If anything, it made restau- birth to their second son, Sawyer, administration. tables. adopted very young. The older A to during a snowstorm in rants easy for us,” said Melanie Mr. Simpson opened Sash, to Mr. Simpson’s memories of his ones stayed, attending school, 1979. His first memory of meet- Simpson, who went on to open glowing reviews. childhood are a small collection until they could move out. Young ing his new family was the sight her own Toronto restaurant The past eight months, Mr. called Mel’s Montreal Deli- of blurry mental snapshots: A Sash made it his mission to be- of a flickering box revealing a Simpson says, have been the confrontational stances on trade, shack in a slum by the train come the exception. woman in red boots with a lasso. catessen. “It’s very, very hard for most stressful of his life. He has us to pare meals down to normal technology, human rights and a tracks was home. A father speak- Every time the group’s He was stunned. “I’d never seen borrowed money to cover the host of other issues. sizes.” ing in sign language and working founder, Sandra Simpson — who television before,” he said. Sitting payroll of a bare-bones staff, While the tone from American Wednesday nights were Sash’s in a tobacco factory. Two older he remembers as impossibly tall, around a picnic table watching even after government subsidies officials may become less strident shift, synonymous with garlic siblings. Many long nights, jump- blonde and revered in the place were “a million kids” — Sash’s were collected. He spends his under Mr. Biden, few expect him ing on and off trains. Only re- “like the president,” — arrived at new brothers and sisters. bread and spaghetti Bolognese. days in his empty restaurant, to reverse Mr. Trump’s policies on cently did he obtain his adoption the orphanage, he tugged on her The Simpsons later appeared “I always thought, ‘I want to reaching out to clients to see if China right away. Mr. Biden’s file, which stated that his mother skirt and repeated a combination on a television advertisement for feed people,’” said Mr. Simpson, they are interested in ordering views on China have hardened had “run off with a male friend” of “Mummy” and “Canada.” Anacin, a pain medication, as who also cooks regular meals for takeout or having their family since he was vice president under and that his brother had left him “He pestered the life out of me “Canada’s largest family.” a downtown homeless shelter. “It parties catered. President Barack Obama. On the at the bus station. But Mr. Simp- to come to Canada,” Ms. Simp- By the time Sash Simpson’s felt like a way to take care of Forty-odd years after eating campaign trail, Mr. Biden called son has no recollection of that. son, now 83, wrote in an email formal adoption application was them.” from garbage cans, Mr. Simpson the country’s top leader, Xi Jin- “I don’t know where I’m from from Montreal, where she still typed up in 1984, the family had While he slid in seamlessly sees some irony in feeding the ping, “a thug.” He has said that in India exactly,” he said. “I call runs Families for Children. “I 26 children, 20 of them adopted, with his new family, school was country’s ultrarich. But, as al- China’s rise represents the “great- my house the place where they told him I would look for a family four biological and another two not a good fit, after so many ways, he’s focused on survival. est strategic challenge” to the found me.” but we had nobody waiting for a fostered in the home. They came years on the streets. He dropped “There is no way this restau- United States and its allies. The orphanage was founded boy that age. We decided to from countries ravaged by civil out in 12th grade and went to rant is closing,” he said, adding: “The United States does need to by a small Canadian nonprofit adopt Sashi into our family,” she wars, natural disasters or pov- work full-time in the kitchens of “I was a street kid. You have to get tough with China,” Mr. Biden organization, Families for Chil- said, using Sash’s legal name. erty, as disparate as Ecuador and casual, family-style restaurants. fight for it.” wrote in an essay this year in For- eign Affairs. In describing China’s theft of intellectual property from American companies, the country’s use of surveillance technol- In New Zealand, a Solution ogy to facilitate repression and its efforts to extend its global reach, Mr. Biden sounded more alike Mr. To Hunger, Eyeballs and All Trump than apart. Still, Mr. Biden has so far of- By SERENA SOLOMON When just the fillets are used, as fered few concrete policy propos- and CORNELL TUKIRI is typical in New Zealand and als on China, and in his victory AUCKLAND, New Zealand — other places like the United speech he made clear that his first Leo Mulipola found a lifeline in a States, that means only about one- priority would be taming the co- load of fish heads. third of a fish is eaten, said Sam ronavirus outbreak at home. Mr. Mulipola, 49, has struggled Woolford, who runs LegaSea, an It also remains unclear what ac- to find even an entry-level job at a organization in Auckland con- tions Mr. Trump might take to- gas station during the coronavi- cerned with destructive fishing ward China in the final weeks of rus pandemic and is now unem- techniques and the underuse of his presidency. On Thursday, he ployed. So, with a household of six what is caught. issued an executive order barring to feed, he jumped at the chance to “Our objective is to change the Americans from investing in sev- pick up donated snapper and way people perceive these fish in eral companies with ties to the bluenose heads at a Maori com- their totality,” he said. He pointed Chinese military, a step closer to munity hall in Auckland, New to Iceland, where there is a push to decoupling American capital mar- Zealand. use 100 percent of cod that are kets from China. The hall, known as a marae in caught, with bones turned into cal- Even though Mr. Xi and other the Maori language, has been dis- cium supplements and skins des- officials had been silent on the tributing two tons of fish a week — tined for handbags. election outcome, the state-con- the parts often discarded in com- Mr. Woolford’s group was a trolled news media in China has mercial and recreational fishing driving force in the creation of Kai not. — to families affected by New Ika, the organization that distrib- Global Times, the voice of the Zealand’s sputtering economy. utes the fish heads in Auckland. Communist Party’s hawks, said, Kai Ika started out in 2016 with a “It would be $150 to get a meal CORNELL TUKIRI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES “The Chinese people don’t want to problem. The Outboard Boating like this,” said Mr. Mulipola, add- Grouper heads being collected from a commercial fishing company in Auckland, New Zealand. be involved in trouble after the ing that he planned to roast or fry Club in Auckland had pounds of U.S. election,” adding, “Now may fish heads, offal and frames, or be their craziest time, but we skeletons, left over after its mem- making Kai Ika self-sustaining. Marae. He said he liked to roast centers. know it’s also their most vulnera- bers filleted their catch. The un- Leisure boaters are charged them. He covers a baking tray “The only thing my stepfather ble time.” Trying to change the wanted parts, sitting out in the about $2 a fish for the filleting with a layer of onions and toma- taught me was how not to be a fa- Some commentaries have ex- sun and producing an awful service, and the fish heads, bones toes, before pouring on a liberal ther,” Mr. Hotene said of his vio- pressed hope that Mr. Biden way people perceive stench, seemed like a waste. and offal are sent to the Papatu- amount of coconut milk and sprin- lent upbringing. would help cool tensions despite A member of the club, Scott anuku Kokiri Marae, which has kling in some hot chili. Then he New Zealand has some of the unresolved differences on several the whole fish. Macindoe, the founder of begun distributing the fish parts places the fish heads on top, cov- highest rates of family violence in political issues including the sta- LegaSea, contacted the Papatu- to other marae. ers the tray with tin foil, and slides the developed world, and Maori tus of Taiwan and the democracy anuku Kokiri Marae, a Maori com- “We are in a time now where it in the oven. and Pacific Islander families are movement in Hong Kong. munity hall in South Auckland. people need food and employ- “I couldn’t get to sleep at night disproportionally affected. Chil- Those differences were on full the fish, whose cheeks contain a The marae’s manager, Lionel ment,” Mr. Woolford said. “We’re thinking about tomorrow,” Mr. dren from these families are also display during the Chinese For- good amount of fatty meat and Hotene, was eager to take the fish lucky enough to do both.” Lataimaumi said of the family’s up to three times as likely to live in eign Ministry’s news conference whose eyes he called tasty. heads and bones for the local com- Among those who are grateful food shortages before he started poverty than New Zealanders of on Friday, when the ministry’s Maori and Pacific Islanders munity and use the offal as fertil- for the donated fish is Uhiua receiving the free fish heads. The European descent, according to spokesman, Mr. Wang, responded don’t need any convincing about izer in its organic gardens. Lataimaumi, 66, whose wife pro- next week, he said, his family of the Child Poverty Action Group, to remarks that Secretary of State the value of these donations. Far A strict five-week coronavirus vides the family’s sole income four would eat fish heads most an advocacy organization in Mike Pompeo had made about from being scraps, fish heads are lockdown that began in March through a nursing home job. nights. Auckland. Taiwan the day before. prized as a “chiefly” food in Poly- proved tricky for Kai Ika. Leisure Between the ever-increasing Mr. Hotene, 48, who runs the The Papatuanuku Kokiri Marae In a radio interview on Thurs- nesian culture, creating an equi- fishing was banned, cutting off cost of housing and groceries in Papatuanuku Kokiri Marae with and others like it are trying to heal day, Mr. Pompeo said that Taiwan, librium where one person’s trash supply, even as demand for food New Zealand, their weekly budget his partner of 29 years, Valerie Te- this break in cultural identity a self-ruling democracy, was not a is another’s treat. programs increased. So Mr. Wool- walks a wire. New Zealand raitua, 44, said his organization through teaching Maori language part of China. The Chinese gov- But this effort to feed those in ford turned to two commercial charges a 15 percent tax on gro- was trying to reconnect Maori to and traditions, including by rein- ernment has long claimed Taiwan need isn’t just a matter of charity. fishing companies, establishing ceries, and there is little competi- their cultural traditions, including volving people in the growth and as its territory, and the Trump ad- It’s part of a movement to reduce relationships that have continued. tion among retailers, with two through food. distribution of their food, known ministration’s growing engage- food waste by encouraging people Kai Ika distributed 550 pounds chains controlling 98 percent of The family lines of both Mr. as kai. ment with the island’s leadership to consume or otherwise use more of fish a week before the lock- mainstream grocery stores, ac- Hotene and Ms. Teraitua became “It’s enabled us to move people has contributed greatly to recent parts of fish, which are typically down. Now, it is handing out about cording to the New Zealand Food detached from Maori life genera- from vulnerability to resilience friction with Beijing. stripped of their fillets and then four times as much. and Grocery Council. tions ago, starting with European when it comes to food,” Ms. Te- “We sternly warn Pompeo and tossed away. For every pound of With leisure boating in full On a recent Friday, Mr. colonization in the 1800s. Ties raitua said, comparing it to his ilk: Any acts that harm China’s fish produced by the seafood in- swing for the Southern Hemi- Lataimaumi looked hungry just were further eroded with a great Christ’s feeding the 5,000 with two core interests and interfere in Chi- dustry, roughly double that sphere summer, LegaSea has talking about the 10 bags of fish migration of Maori in the 1960s fish and five loaves of bread. na’s domestic affairs will be met amount becomes waste, though opened a filleting station at an heads he was about to load into his from family-focused tribal com- “Now, we have this access to kai, with resolute counterattack from much of it is edible. Auckland marina, in hopes of car at the Papatuanuku Kokiri munities in rural areas to urban rather than it going to waste.” China,” Mr. Wang said on Friday. A10 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 London’s Police Force to Recruit 40% of Officers From Minority Backgrounds

By ELIAN PELTIER the police, and that recent the widespread anger it set off has crimes. One turning point came in officers searched the vehicle. around the activities of citywide LONDON — The London Met- episodes had shed a new light on been sharply felt in Britain, where 1999, when the force was accused Nothing was found in the car. police teams,” the plan read. ropolitan Police will aim to hire 40 discriminatory practices that in- tens of thousands of protesters of “pernicious and persistent in- Mr. Khan, who oversees the To that end, officers will also re- percent of new recruits from clude the disproportionate use of marched against police brutality stitutional racism” by William city’s police forces along with Brit- view footage from body cameras Black, Asian and other minority force, including Tasers, and stop- this summer. Macpherson, a retired High Court ain’s Home secretary, said after to identify potential patterns in backgrounds by 2022, Mayor and-frisk tactics. While Prime Minister Boris judge leading an inquiry into po- the arrest of Ms. Williams he had the use of stop-and-frisk tactics, Sadiq Khan said on Friday, the “We must do more to improve Johnson has acknowledged that lice failings around the murder of commissioned the plan. But it was and how de-escalation methods centerpiece of a sweeping effort to Black Londoners’ trust and confi- there was “much more that we Stephen Lawrence, a Black teen- unclear whether Mr. Khan’s deci- could be used more frequently. make the city’s main police force dence in our police service, and need to do” to tackle racism, it ager who was killed by five white sion was prompted by the inci- Organizations that contributed more representative as it tries to ensure police powers don’t dispro- took him days to address the youths in southeast London in dent, which caused outrage, or if to the action plan welcomed the portionately impact them,” Mr. death of Mr. Floyd or the protests he had commissioned it earlier. address accusations of racism and announcement, but said they re- Khan said on Twitter. in London, and he accused some mained cautious about how discriminatory practices against Other recent episodes included In a rare public acknowledg- demonstrators of “thuggery.” a bungled investigation into the changes would be enacted and the minorities. ment, the Metropolitan Police said Many have also found his recent assault on three Black women last extent to which it would address The plan also calls for the Met- Responding to a need in a statement Friday it recog- declarations lacking credibility December that the police said was the broader problems it identified. ropolitan Police to take other nized the pain felt by Black com- because of his past use of racist to change perceptions “compounded by racial motiva- “While the acknowledgment steps to counter discrimination munities in London, and that it language. tion,” and a picture of two mur- that historic and systemic racism and racism, including a review of was “committed to eliminating the Britain has a fraught racial his- of the city’s police. dered Black women taken by offi- has created a breakdown in trust traffic stops, after the force found disproportionate use of force on tory and in recent months several cers in June that was reportedly between the police and Black Lon- that Black people were four times Black Londoners.” Cressida Dick, cities have faced a reckoning with sent to a group of people, includ- doners is welcome, there is still more likely than white people to the Metropolitan Police commis- their past, including Bristol, in ing civilians. much to be done,” said Ben Lind- be stopped and searched in their sioner, said her force was “not free southwestern England, a cos- 1993. (Two men were ultimately The Metropolitan Police said in say, the chief executive of Power vehicles in London. from racism or discrimination.” mopolitan cultural hub that was convicted in the case in 2012.) the action plan that it also would the Fight, an organization that The police in London and cities By recruiting 40 percent of new once a crucial port in the trans-At- The police force came under fire reintroduce a requirement that combats youth violence in Britain. around the world have come un- officers from ethnic minority lantic slave trade. In June, pro- again early this year for the dis- calls for recruits to live in London, “At the center of the consulta- der increased scrutiny in recent backgrounds by 2022, the Metro- testers toppled a statue of a 17th- criminatory use of stop-and-frisk and dedicate 300,000 pounds, or tion was whether institutional rac- months, and Mr. Khan said in an politan Police said the goal was for century slave trader, Edward Col- tactics, after a spike in their use about $400,000, to efforts to en- ism continues to exist in the action plan that the Metropolitan 16 percent of the force to be from ston, and threw it in the city’s har- was reported during the first co- courage young Black Londoners M.P.S.,” the plan read, referring to Police should be more inclusive; minority backgrounds by 2022, bor. A British sculptor later re- ronavirus lockdown. to consider a career in the police. the Metropolitan Police Service, work more closely with local com- and 28 percent by 2030. There are placed it with the statue of a local In July, the police apologized to Mr. Khan said in the action plan more than 20 years after the munities; and gain the trust of mi- currently 5,000 officers from eth- Black protester, but the city au- Bianca Williams, a 26-year-old that communities would also take Macpherson inquiry. norities, who are treated differ- nic minority backgrounds of a to- thorities had the new artwork re- champion sprinter, and her part- a more active role in holding po- “Either way, the fact that this ently than white Londoners. tal of 32,600, compared with 3,000 moved after just one day. ner, both of whom are Black, after lice forces accountable. One of the question is still being asked dem- In the report, Mr. Khan said that a decade ago. The Metropolitan Police also they were detained while driving most important elements, he said, onstrates how much more work the Black Lives Matter protests The killing of George Floyd and have a long history of discrimina- in West London with their toddler was “addressing the concerns of needs to be done to ensure that the this summer had highlighted the other Black men and women by tory conduct and shortcomings in sitting in the back. They were Black Londoners about the lack of M.P.S. has the trust and confi- need to change the perceptions of the police in the United States and investigating racially motivated handcuffed for 45 minutes while transparency that they feel exists dence of all Black Londoners.” Influential Johnson Aide Quits U.K. Government

By MARK LANDLER who said his uncompromising and STEPHEN CASTLE style poisoned the prime min- LONDON — Dominic Cum- ister’s relations with members of mings, the influential strategist his Conservative Party in Parlia- who masterminded the Brexit ment and hurt Mr. Johnson’s popularity with the public. campaign in 2016 and helped vault His departure, analysts said, Boris Johnson to 10 Downing could usher in a more conciliatory Street, abruptly quit as his chief tone at Downing Street, which adviser on Friday, after days of could even affect Mr. Johnson’s fierce infighting over the role of post-Brexit trade negotiations hard-line Brexiteers who sur- with the European Union, which round the prime minister. are in a critical phase. But it will Mr. Cummings left “with imme- add to the perception that Mr. diate effect,” according to the Johnson’s government is in disar- BBC, which had reported earlier ray. Allies of Mr. Johnson’s yearn for him to return to the more easygo- ing persona he had as mayor of A chief supporter of London, rather than the crusad- ing Brexiteer that he has some- Brexit leaves shortly times seemed to be under the sway of Mr. Cummings. after a top ally exits. “I’m not surprised in a way that it is ending in the way it is,” Bernard Jenkins, a Conservative that he would stay on until Christ- member of Parliament, told the BBC. “No prime minister can af- mas. The trigger for his departure ford a single adviser to become a was the resignation of his close running story, dominating his ally, Lee Cain, who had been Mr. government’s communications Johnson’s communications advis- and crowding out the proper mes- er and left after a squabble over HENRY NICHOLLS/REUTERS sages the government wants to Dominic Cummings leaving 10 Downing Street Friday. Critics say he frayed the prime minister’s ties within the Conservative Party. the appointment of a new press convey.” spokeswoman. Mr. Cummings’s reputation was A combative, mercurial figure, tarnished last May after reports pentant Mr. Cummings told re- did not confirm his departure. Mr. Cain objected to the role Ms. litical advisers and “maybe as offi- Mr. Cummings, 48, set out to over- that he breached coronavirus porters at the time. The palace intrigue in Downing Stratton was carving out over cials.” He said he was looking for haul Britain’s government bu- lockdown restrictions by driving Despite thunderous calls for his Street pitted Mr. Cummings and communications strategy, accord- “weirdos and misfits.” reaucracy under Mr. Johnson, 260 miles to visit his parents in the ouster, Mr. Johnson stuck by his Mr. Cain, hardened veterans of the ing to media reports, and when In 2016, he turned his blend of amassing more power than any northern city of Durham while he adviser, attesting to his enormous Vote Leave campaign, against the Mr. Johnson offered to elevate him populist instincts and ruthless unelected political adviser in re- was falling ill with Covid-19. He influence over the prime min- new spokeswoman, Allegra Strat- to chief of staff, Ms. Symonds campaigning skills to Vote Leave, cent memory. He also shaped an visited nearby Barnard Castle, ister’s political strategy and legis- ton, a journalist whom Mr. John- questioned his suitability. the official Brexit campaign. His ambitious program that sought to claiming that he was testing his lative agenda. son recruited to deliver White After he helped engineer Mr. willingness to bend — sometimes “level up” the economic dispari- eyesight before driving back to On Friday evening, Mr. Cum- House-style televised press brief- Johnson’s landslide victory in the distort — the truth appalled his ties between Britain’s north and London. mings was photographed leaving ings, and Carrie Symonds, a for- election last December, Mr. Cum- opponents but even some of them south. “I don’t regret what I did; I the building, carrying a box, as mer Conservative Party commu- mings posted a recruiting call for admired the effectiveness of his But Mr. Cummings alienated think what I did was reasonable in though he had cleared out his nications adviser who is Mr. John- data analysts, software develop- slogan: “Vote leave, take back many officials and politicians, these circumstances,” an unre- desk. The prime minister’s office son’s fiancée. ers and economists to work as po- control.” 10 Years On, a Human Rights Celebrity Loses Her Halo Her Facebook page once carried imprisoned after uncovering a From Page A1 the post “Fake rape,” abruptly dis- INDIA massacre of Rohingya, he said. mar ethnic majority, of racism and counting the systematic and heav- “If she fails to lead especially ily documented sexual violence BANGLA. an unwillingness to fight for the CHINA her ethnic Bamar supporters to a human rights of all people in committed against the Rohingya. more inclusive vision of the coun- Myanmar. Under Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s try through her words and ac- Yet even as Ms. Aung San Suu government, Myanmar’s frontier MYANMAR tions, Myanmar is likely to be- Kyi has squandered the moral au- lands, where other ethnic minor- come a less stable and more vio- thority that came with her Nobel ities are clustered, are more con- Naypyidaw lent place,” Mr. Richardson added. flict-ridden now than they were a Bay of LAOS For all her democratic rhetoric, Peace Prize, her popularity at Bengal home has endured. This week, her decade ago. And poets, painters Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi retains re- political party, the National and students have been jailed for spect for the army that her father League for Democracy, won yet peacefully speaking their minds: Yangonangon formed. Some of the founders of another landslide in general elec- In Myanmar today, 584 people are THAILAND the National League for Democra- tions, setting up five more years in either political prisoners or are Andaman Sea cy were former military officers which she will share power with awaiting trial on those kinds of who fought ethnic rebels in Myan- 300 MILESM the military that ruled Myanmar charges, according to the Assist- mar’s hinterlands. ANN WANG/REUTERS for nearly 50 years. ance Association for Political Pris- THE NEW YORK TIMES The party is organized with a While Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has squandered her moral au- oners. “Her leadership style is not go- Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi went to soldierly hierarchy in which the thority internationally, her popularity at home has endured. ing toward a democratic system, “Now that she has tasted power, Naypyidaw after the election. commanding officer is Ms. Aung it’s going toward dictatorship,” I don’t think she wants to share it San Suu Kyi. But the actual army said Daw Thet Thet Khine, a for- with anyone,” said Seng Nu Pan, a maintains a grip on important porters say that her refusal to right.” mer stalwart of the National politician from the Kachin ethnic missed her two sons growing up, ministries, a chunk of parliament speak up on behalf of Myanmar’s Since the election, Ms. Aung League for Democracy who group that is fighting for autono- and the death of her husband, a and lucrative businesses. vulnerable communities is not in- San Suu Kyi has remained holed formed her own party to compete my in the country’s north. British academic, from cancer. Since taking power five years nate chauvinism but rather a po- up in a villa in Naypyidaw, the in the elections on Sunday but Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi grew up But the virtues that served Ms. ago as the country’s state counsel- litical pragmatism that comes fortress capital that was built by failed to win any seats. “She does as political nobility, the daughter Aung San Suu Kyi so well during or, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has re- from wanting to deny the military the generals to showcase their not listen to the voice of the peo- of Gen. Aung San, the country’s in- house arrest — her straight- peatedly praised the army, while an opportunity to once again seize might. She has repeatedly refused ple.” dependence hero who was assas- backed dignity and the psycholog- refusing to acknowledge the mili- full power. Army rule began in direct requests to talk to The New It is hard to think of a human sinated when she was 2 years old. ical bunker she built around her- tary’s drive to rid the country of 1962 with the excuse that a civilian York Times. She is still said to rights hero whose global prestige After 28 years abroad, she re- self — may be what has led to her Rohingya Muslims. In 2017, government was being over- meditate every day. has tarnished so quickly. Along- turned home in 1988 as pro-de- failure, so far, to fight for true, rep- roughly three-quarters of a mil- whelmed by civil war. The coronavirus rages outside. side Nelson Mandela and Vaclav mocracy protests were coalescing resentative democracy in Myan- lion Rohingya fled to neighboring But the national mood in Myan- The military-linked party, which Havel, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi once across the country. Within a few mar. Bangladesh. mar is animated by a xenophobia was trounced by the National represented the triumph of de- months, a onetime homemaker The line is thin between resolve Many of those left in the country that limns Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s League for Democracy, has re- mocracy over dictatorship. It had emerged as the leader of the and recalcitrance, conviction and are in internment camps. The Ro- unwillingness to defend the rights jected the election results, called helped, too, that she could turn on movement. condescension. hingya were not allowed to vote in of ethnic minorities. Thousands of for a do-over and threatened to the charm. A military junta detained in “It is ironic that while the inter- Sunday’s elections, and the polls Buddhist monks have held pro- bring the army in as observers. Last year, Ms. Aung San Suu 1989, after which her National national community used its lib- were canceled in other ethnic-mi- tests against the West for wanting In Yangon, the former capital Kyi traveled to the International League for Democracy won elec- erty to promote hers, she is using nority conflict zones, disenfran- to bring the military to justice for abandoned by the military, a new Court of Justice in The Hague to tions that were ignored by the dic- some of the very same legal mech- chising more than 2.5 million non- ethnic cleansing. Many others in generation of human rights activ- defend the military against claims tatorship. In 1991, she won the No- anisms as the military to stifle Bamar. As a result, ethnic parties the country’s Bamar heartland ac- ists trade tips on how to avoid get- that it had committed genocide bel Peace Prize “for her nonvio- freedom of speech, freedom of the were unable to make the electoral cuse an Islamic cabal of trying to ting nabbed by Ms. Aung San Suu against the Rohingya Muslims. lent struggle for democracy and press, and freedom of assembly,” gains they once expected, al- turn a peaceful Buddhist nation Kyi’s government. She unapologetically insisted to human rights.” said Bill Richardson, the former though the National League for into a Muslim enclave. “We have nearly 600 political the court that while “it cannot be During house arrest in her American ambassador to the Democracy successfully fielded “People in the West thought prisoners, and I was one of them a ruled out that disproportionate crumbling villa for a total of 15 United Nations and a longtime two Muslim candidates. that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi would few months ago,” said Ma Thinzar force” had been used against the years, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi kept ally of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi. “Making peace and reconcilia- be unpopular because of the Shunlei Yi, 28, who was convicted Rohingya, inferring genocidal in- to a strict schedule. She listened to Mr. Richardson broke with her tion is much easier with ethnic crackdown on the Bengalis,” said of contravening a law on peaceful tent presented an “incomplete BBC radio news reports. She prac- two years ago, when Ms. Aung groups, but she only tried with the U Thu Citta, an influential Bud- assembly when she protested the and misleading factual picture.” ticed the piano. And she medi- San Suu Kyi became so angry that military,” said Tu Ja, chairman of dhist monk, using a term to sug- persecution of ethnic minorities. tated in the Buddhist way, intent, he thought she might slap him af- the ethnic Kachin State People’s gest, incorrectly, that the Rohing- “She has not done enough to lay Saw Nang contributed reporting she said, on transcending earthly ter he urged her to free two Party. ya are from Bangladesh, not the democratic foundation for ba- from Yangon, Myanmar. concerns. Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi Reuters journalists who had been Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s sup- Myanmar. “But what she did was sic freedoms for all.” THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N A11 U.K. Official With Cancer Asks to Work From Home By MEGAN SPECIA LONDON — A British lawmaker who is being treated for breast cancer was unable to attend a government debate on the illness on Thursday, and called on the government to “urgently reconsider” limitations on remote participation for members of Par- liament. The lawmaker, Tracey Crouch, a member of the governing Con- servative Party who received a cancer diagnosis in June, took the issue to the floor of Parliament on Thursday, pointing out the glaring disconnect and highlighting an issue that has been debated for months. Members of Parliament who are not physically present in the parliamentary chamber are not allowed to take part in debates on legislation or general debates, but they are allowed to appear by video link during question sessions with government ministers and when statements are being given. Appearing by video during one of the instances where virtual participation is allowed, Ms. Crouch, who has been an outspoken advocate for advancing cancer research, upbraided the government minister responsible for the rules, Jacob Rees-Mogg, for his decision to limit virtual participa- AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES tion during the coronavirus pan- The United States Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, was bombed in 1998, one of two attacks that day attributed to the Qaeda leader Abu Muhammad al-Masri, nom de demic. guerre of Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah. Mr. al-Masri, below in an F.B.I. “wanted” poster, was killed in Iran on Aug. 7, the 22nd anniversary of the embassy attacks. Ms. Crouch brought up the breast cancer debate and said that because of Mr. Rees-Mogg’s ruling, “some of us with real and current life experience of the disease Qaeda’s No. 2 Was Assassinated in August in Iran are disappointingly unable to participate.” She added that while she re- Daoud. ciates, serving as head of the orga- From Page A1 spected Mr. Rees-Mogg’s commit- Several Lebanese with close nization’s operations section,” ment to “traditional parliamenta- announced the death of one of its ties to Iran said they had not said Yoram Schweitzer, head of ry procedures,” if he were a lower- top leaders, Iranian officials cov- heard of him or his killing. A the Terrorism Project of the Insti- ranking lawmaker and “not the ered it up, and no country has pub- search of Lebanese news media tute for National Security Studies fine specimen of health and fit- licly claimed responsibility for it. found no reports of a Lebanese in Tel Aviv. “He brought with him ness he clearly is, he would be ar- Mr. al-Masri, who was about 58, history professor killed in Iran know-how and determination and guing forcefully for members to was one of Al Qaeda’s founding last summer. And an education re- since then was involved in a large be able to contribute more often in leaders and was thought to be first searcher with access to lists of all part of the organization’s opera- proceedings via modern technol- in line to lead the organization af- history professors in the country tions, with an emphasis on Afri- ogy.” ter its current leader, Ayman al- said there was no record of a ca.” Mr. Rees-Mogg, she added, Zawahri. Habib Daoud. Shortly after the Mogadishu should “stop thinking those of us Long featured on the F.B.I.’s One of the intelligence officials battle, Bin Laden put Mr. al-Masri Most Wanted Terrorist list, he had said that Habib Daoud was an at home are shirking our duties — in charge of planning operations in fact, quite the opposite — and been indicted in the United States alias Iranian officials gave Mr. al- against American targets in Afri- urgently reconsider virtual par- for crimes related to the bombings Masri and the history teaching job ca. Plotting a dramatic, ambitious ticipation.” of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya was a cover story. In October, the operation that, like the 9/11 at- The government proceedings and Tanzania, which killed 224 former leader of Egypt’s Islamic tacks, would command interna- that take place in the normally people and wounded hundreds. Jihad, Nabil Naeem, who called tional attention, they decided to packed House of Commons have The F.B.I. offered a $10 million re- Mr. al-Masri a longtime friend, attack two relatively well-de- proved tricky for lawmakers to ward for information leading to told the Saudi news channel Al fended targets in separate coun- navigate since the coronavirus his capture, and as of Friday, his Arabiya the same thing. tries simultaneously. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION outbreak began. But much of the picture was still on the Most Iran may have had good reason Shortly after 10:30 a.m. on Aug. process was moved to the virtual Wanted list. for wanting to hide the fact that it 7, 1998, two trucks packed with ex- space during the country’s first That he had been living in Iran was harboring an avowed enemy, operational planner not in U.S. or plosives pulled up in front of the 1963 lockdown this year, as many law- was surprising, given that Iran but it was less clear why Iranian allied custody.” The document de- American embassies in Nairobi, Abu Muhammad al-Masri was born makers remained at home. and Al Qaeda are bitter enemies. officials would have taken in the scribed him as the “former chief of Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanza- Iran, a Shiite Muslim theocracy, Qaeda leader to begin with. training” who “worked closely” in northern Egypt, and grew up to Members of Parliament could play soccer in Egypt’s top profes- nia. The blasts incinerated people and Al Qaeda, a Sunni Muslim ji- Some terrorism experts sug- with Mr. al-Adl. nearby, blew walls off buildings participate by video link and vote sional league. After the Soviet hadist group, have fought each gested that keeping Qaeda offi- In Iran, Mr. al-Masri mentored and shattered glass for blocks remotely in the spring, but in invasion of Afghanistan, he joined other on the battlefields of Iraq cials in Tehran might provide Hamza bin Laden, according to around. June, the government wanted the jihadist movement there. and other places. some insurance that the group terrorism experts. Hamza bin In 2000, Mr. al-Masri became lawmakers to return to Westmin- ster, and Mr. Rees-Mogg argued American intelligence officials would not conduct operations in- Laden later married Mr. al- 1980s one of the nine members of Al that the “hybrid model,” with say that Mr. al-Masri had been in side Iran. American counterter- Masri’s daughter, Miriam. After the Soviets withdrew, Egypt Qaeda’s governing council and Iran’s “custody” since 2003, but some lawmakers physically rorism officials believe Iran may “The marriage of Hamza bin refused to allow Mr. al-Masri to headed the organization’s military that he had been living freely in have allowed them to stay to run Ladin was not the only dynastic present and others on video link, return. He remained in Afghani- training. the Pasdaran district of Tehran, operations against the United connection Abu Muhammad did not allow Parliament to prop- stan, and eventually joined Osama He also continued to oversee Af- an upscale suburb, since at least States, a common adversary. forged in captivity,” the Qaeda ex- erly do its duty. During the sum- bin Laden in a group that was later rica operations, according to a for- 2015. It would not be the first time pert and former F.B.I. agent Ali mer Israeli Intelligence official, mer, Parliament attempted to re- Around 9 on a warm summer that Iran had joined forces with Soufan wrote in a 2019 article for to become the nucleus of Al turn to a system requiring law- Qaeda. and ordered the attack in Mom- night, he was driving his white Re- Sunni militants, having supported West Point’s Combating Terror- basa, Kenya, in 2002 that killed 13 makers to vote in person while at- nault L90 sedan with his daughter Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad ism Center. EARLY 1990s Kenyans and three Israeli tour- tempting to maintain social near his home when two gunmen and the Taliban. Another of Mr. al-Masri’s Mr. al-Masri traveled with Bin ists. distance, resulting in chaotic on a motorcycle drew up beside “Iran uses sectarianism as a daughters married Abu al-Khayr Laden to Khartoum, Sudan, where By 2003, Mr. al-Masri was scenes and long lines that were him. Five shots were fired from a cudgel when it suits the regime, al-Masri, no relation, a member of he began forming military cells. He among several Qaeda leaders who soon labeled the “Mogg Conga.” pistol fitted with a silencer. Four but is also willing to overlook the the management council. He was also went to Somalia, where he fled to Iran, which, although hos- The government eventually bullets entered the car through Sunni-Shia divide when it suits allowed to leave Iran in 2015 and helped train the fighters who tile to the group, seemed out of compromised and allowed law- the driver’s side and a fifth hit a Iranian interests,” said Colin P. was killed by a U.S. drone strike in fought U.S. troops in a battle popu- American reach. makers unable to attend for medi- nearby car. Clarke, a counterterrorism ana- Syria in 2017. At the time, he was larly known as the Black Hawk “They believed the United cal or public-health reasons to use As news of a shooting broke, lyst at the Soufan Center. the second-ranking Qaeda official Down attack. States would find it very difficult a proxy system for voting, with Iran’s official news media identi- Iran has consistently denied after Mr. Zawahri. to act against them there,” Mr. another lawmaker voting in their fied the victims as Habib Daoud, a housing the Qaeda officials. In Hamza and other members of 1998 stead. Lebanese history professor, and 2018, the Foreign Ministry the Bin Laden family were freed Schweitzer said. “Also because Mr. al-Masri was one of the mas- they believed that the chances of But even with the coronavirus his 27-year-old daughter Maryam. spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said by Iran in 2011 in exchange for an terminds of the deadly attacks on pandemic again sweeping across The Lebanese news channel MTV that because of Iran’s long, porous Iranian diplomat abducted in Pa- the Iranian regime doing an ex- American embassies in Nairobi, change deal with the Americans the country, and a renewed na- and social media accounts affiliat- border with Afghanistan, some kistan. Last year, the White House Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanza- tionwide lockdown in England, ed with Iran’s Islamic Revolution- Qaeda members had entered Iran, said that Hamza bin Laden had that would include their heads nia. were very slim.” the government has yet to allow a ary Guards Corps reported that but they had been detained and been killed in a counterterrorism full return to the earlier hybrid 2000 Mr. al-Masri was one of the few Mr. Daoud was a member of returned to their home countries. operation in the Afghanistan-Pa- model, an issue that has grown in- Mr. al-Masri became one of the high-ranking members of the or- Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed However, Western intelligence kistan region. creasingly contentious. militant organization in Lebanon. officials said the Qaeda leaders Abu Muhammad al-Masri was nine members of Al Qaeda’s gov- ganization to survive the Ameri- can hunt for the perpetrators of 9/ Speaking during Thursday’s It seemed plausible. had been kept under house arrest born in Al Rarbiya, a district of erning council and was put in debate, Justin Madders, a law- The killing came amid a sum- by the Iranian government, which northern Egypt, in 1963. In his charge of the organization’s mili- 11 and other attacks. When he and other Qaeda leaders fled to Iran, maker from the opposition La- mer of frequent explosions in Iran then made at least two deals with youth, according to affidavits filed tary training activities. bour Party, lamented that Ms. and of mounting tensions with the Al Qaeda to free some of them, in in lawsuits in the United States, he they were initially kept under 2002 house arrest. Crouch could not take part. He United States, days after an enor- 2011 and 2015. was a professional soccer player was one of several lawmakers in- in Egypt’s top league. After the So- While overseeing African opera- In 2015, Iran announced a deal mous explosion in the port of Although Al Qaeda has been volved who mentioned her during overshadowed in recent years by viet invasion of Afghanistan in tions, he issued orders for the with Al Qaeda in which it released Beirut and a week before the the debate. United Nations Security Council the rise of the Islamic State, it re- 1979, he joined the jihadist move- attacks in Mombasa, Kenya, that five of the organization’s leaders, “I am sure it would have been was to consider extending an mains resilient and has active af- ment that was coalescing to assist killed 15 people, according to a including Mr. al-Masri, in ex- enhanced by her presence, given arms embargo against Iran. filiates around the globe, a U.N. the Afghan forces. former Israeli Intelligence official. change for an Iranian diplomat her current battle,” he said during There was speculation that the counterterrorism report issued in After the Soviets withdrew 10 who had been abducted in Yemen. 2003 Mr. Abdullah’s footprints faded the session. killing may have been a Western July concluded. years later, Egypt refused to allow After the 9/11 attacks, Mr. al- provocation intended to elicit a vi- Iranian officials did not respond Mr. al-Masri to return. He re- away, but according to one of the Mr. Rees-Mogg has been criti- Masri was among several Qaeda intelligence officials, he continued cized throughout the pandemic by olent Iranian reaction in advance to a request for comment for this mained in Afghanistan where he leaders who fled to Iran. They were article. Spokesmen for the Israeli eventually joined Bin Laden in the to live in Tehran, under the protec- members of the opposition and of the Security Council vote. initially held under house arrest. And the targeted killing by two prime minister’s office and the group that was later to become the tion of the Revolutionary Guards some within his own party for his gunmen on a motorcycle fit the Trump administration’s National founding nucleus of Al Qaeda. He 2015 and later the Ministry of Intelli- decision to limit virtual participa- modus operandi of previous Is- Security Council declined to com- was listed by the group as the sev- Iran and Al Qaeda announced a gence and Security. He was al- tion. As the current lockdown ap- raeli assassinations of Iranian nu- ment. enth of its 170 founders. deal in which Iran released five of lowed to travel abroad and did, proached, he ruled out a return to clear scientists. That Israel would Mr. al-Masri was a longtime In the early 1990s, he traveled the organization’s leaders, includ- mainly to Afghanistan, Pakistan the hybrid model and has main- tained that those lawmakers who kill an official of Hezbollah, which member of Al Qaeda’s highly se- with Bin Laden to Khartoum, Su- ing Mr. al-Masri, from prison in and Syria. can attend the chambers should. is committed to fighting Israel, cretive management council, dan, where he began forming mili- exchange for an Iranian diplomat Some American analysts said In response to Ms. Crouch on also seemed to make sense, ex- along with Saif al-Adl, who was tary cells. He also went to Somalia who had been abducted in Yemen. Mr. al-Masri’s death would sever cept for the fact that Israel had also held in Iran at one point. The to help the militia loyal to the So- connections between one of the Thursday, he again defended the been consciously avoiding killing pair, along with Hamza bin Laden, mali warlord Mohamed Farrah 2020 last original Qaeda leaders and lack of virtual participation, say- Hezbollah operatives so as not to who was being groomed to take Aidid. There he trained Somali Mr. al-Masri was secretly assassi- the current generation of Islamist ing it “simply was not an option” provoke a war. over the organization, were part of guerrillas in the use of shoulder- nated in Tehran at the behest of militants, who have grown up af- to use video conferencing in some In fact, there was no Habib a group of senior Qaeda leaders borne rocket launchers against the U.S., officials said. But no one ter Bin Laden’s 2011 death. instances because all of the tech- who sought refuge in Iran after helicopters, training they used in — Iran, Al Qaeda, the U.S. or Israel “If true, this further cuts links nology available was being used. the 9/11 attacks on the United the 1993 battle of Mogadishu to — publicly acknowledged the between old-school Al Qaeda and “It is a question of striking a Adam Goldman and Eric Schmitt States forced them to flee Afghan- shoot down a pair of American killing. the modern jihad,” said Nicholas J. careful balance, in these difficult reported from Washington, Far- istan. helicopters in what is now known Rasmussen, a former director of times, between ensuring that Par- naz Fassihi from New York and Ro- According to a highly classified as the Black Hawk Down attack. the National Counterterrorism liament can serve its constituents nen Bergman from Tel Aviv. document produced by the U.S. “When Al Qaeda began to carry Center. “It just further contributes in full and making sure that mem- Hwaida Saad contributed report- National Counterterrorism Cen- out terrorist activities in the late to the fragmentation and decen- bers can complete their duties as ing from Beirut, and Julian E. ter in 2008, Mr. al-Masri was the 1990s, al-Masri was one of the tralization of the Al Qaeda move- safely and as effectively as possi- Barnes from Washington. “most experienced and capable three of Bin Laden’s closest asso- ment.” ble,” he said. 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Duo Charged With Killing Black Jogger in Georgia Are Denied Bond By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Bond hearings rarely last long- whom the father, son and other A judge denied bond on Friday er than a few hours, but prosecu- residents were trying to protect to the white father and son tors and defense lawyers intro- themselves. charged with murder in the duced a trove of evidence during Robert Rubin, a lawyer repre- killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25- the public hearings this week that senting Travis McMichael, said year-old Black man shot by the shed new light on the case. Jesse his client had responded only son after they chased him down a Evans, a prosecutor who is trying when he was “put in danger” by quiet road in Georgia. the case, read messages on Thurs- Mr. Arbery. Laura Hogue, a law- The decision came on the sec- day that he said were written by yer for the elder McMichael, said ond day of hearings over whether Travis McMichael, who the au- that the father was acting in self- the men, Gregory McMichael and thorities have said shot Mr. Ar- defense and that the case was his son Travis McMichael, should bery. Mr. Evans said he had once about whether he was “autho- be freed on bail as they await trial used an anti-Asian slur on Face- rized to protect his neighborhood over the Feb. 23 killing, which book and, in a text message to a against crime the way that he was captured on video by a third friend in November 2019, had did.” man, William Bryan, who has also talked about shooting somebody Ms. Hogue said the state was been charged with murder. Mr. while using an anti-Black slur and pursuing the case so passionately Arbery’s mother wailed in the stereotypes. because Mr. Arbery was Black, DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES VIA REUTERS courtroom on Friday as prosecu- Mr. Arbery’s mother, Wanda and suggested they would not do tors showed a video of the shoot- Cooper-Jones, also spoke at the Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother of Ahmaud Arbery, right, this summer in Washington. Mr. Ar- so if the victim was a hypothetical ing. hearing on Thursday, arguing that bery, 25, was shot after being chased down a quiet road near Brunswick, Ga., last February. white man — “Arnold Arbery” — The Arbery killing initially re- the men should not be freed on who had been suspected of steal- ceived little attention, but after bond. in his own hands” and influence in which the men had suggested Johnson, the local district attor- ing things from houses and then The New York Times published “These men are proud of what the investigation. The father and that a woman delete her Facebook ney whose office he had worked “attacked” Travis McMichael. an article about the case and the they’ve done, and they want to go son, each wearing a suit and ap- account and a man not talk to in- in, shortly after the shooting, in Judge Walmsley at times grew video of the killing was leaked, home because in their selfish pearing on a video feed from jail, vestigators, arguing that they which he asked her for advice. Ms. frustrated with the lawyers’ ex- the men were arrested in May. minds, they think that they’re the could be seen speaking to each showed that the men may try to Johnson, who was voted out last tensive arguments, calling the Many activists saw the more than good guys,” she said. “I continue other briefly after the judge’s rul- obstruct justice. Gregory McMi- week, later recused herself from bond hearing a “marathon” and two-month delay between the to suffer mentally and emotion- ing but their microphone was chael is a former police officer and the case. telling prosecutors that they were killing and the men’s arrest as a ally while I wait for justice for my muted. investigator with the local district Lawyers for the McMichaels ar- effectively trying the case before sign of corruption and racial bias, son.” Mr. Evans had argued that the attorney’s office, ties that some argued in court this week that the the trial had begun. and the Arbery case was fre- Judge Timothy Walmsley said men should be denied the oppor- gued may have helped him evade men were upstanding citizens and But ultimately, he seemed to quently referred to by protesters he had significant concerns about tunity for bond because the killing arrest. that there was no real risk that find many of the prosecutors’ ar- at the racial justice demonstra- Travis McMichael’s bias and was showed they posed a danger to Mr. Evans also played a record- they would try to flee before trial. guments persuasive, and said he tions that swept the United States worried that Gregory McMichael others. The prosecutor also ing of a phone call that Gregory Both lawyers sought to paint Mr. would write a more detailed ex- over the summer. had been willing to “place the law played recordings of phone calls McMichael had made to Jackie Arbery as a repeat burglar from planation of his ruling. Legislatures Pick Electors For Trump? Not Likely

By TRIP GABRIEL and STEPHANIE SAUL President Trump’s last-ditch efforts to reverse the election seem to come down to a far-fetched sce- nario in which Republican-led state legislatures choose the members of the Electoral College, overturning the will of voters. Could it work? Election law experts are highly skeptical. And leaders of the Republican major- ities in legislatures in key states, including Pennsylvania, Michi- gan, Arizona and Georgia, told The New York Times this week through their offices that they saw no role for themselves in picking electors. That has not stopped some high-profile supporters of the president, including the talk radio host Mark Levin and Gov. Ron De- Santis of Florida, from suggesting that Republican-led legislatures should consider ignoring the popular vote in close-fought states won by President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and hand their electoral votes to Mr. Trump. This political gambit, to the degree that it’s an organized strategy at all, has a theoretical basis in law, according to experts. But if it DAN GLEITER/THE PATRIOT-NEWS, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS were to proceed, it could cause widespread outrage and be seen Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania Senate and House of Representatives said before Election Day that lawmakers would have no role in choosing electors. as an attempt to subvert the democratic process. challenged by Congress. He was retweeted by the presi- state law did not allow the Legisla- majority leader, said that “under choosing electors. “State law out- Benjamin Ginsberg, until re- A flurry of lawsuits filed by the dent’s son Donald Trump Jr. And ture to directly select electors or normal circumstances,” the Legis- lines a legal process that has the cently one of the Republican Par- Trump campaign, most of which Mr. DeSantis, the Florida gover- to award electors to anyone be- lature would have no role. political parties designate elec- ty’s top elections lawyers, called have been defeated in court, ap- nor, urged voters in Michigan and sides the winner of the popular “Well, under any circum- tors to be appointed by the gover- the strategy an act of desperation, pear aimed at slowing down Pennsylvania, both with Republi- vote. Mr. Biden won the state by stances?” Mr. Corman was asked. nor,” said Patrick Ryan, a spokes- one that many Republican law- states’ certification timelines and can-majority legislatures, to call nearly 150,000 votes. He reiterated that Gov. Tom Wolf, man for Phil Berger, the State Sen- makers would not buy into. “The possibly providing a pretext to de- lawmakers, who have it in their In Pennsylvania, where Mr. Bi- a Democrat, appoints electors, not ate’s president pro tem. “We antic- most partisan Trump legislators clare a “failed” election. power to “provide remedies,” he den’s winning margin is currently lawmakers. ipate that process will be followed might, but I believe enough would At the same time, election law said on Fox News. more than 58,000 votes and the At the same time, Republicans this year just as it has in the past.” rebel at hijacking their constitu- experts said none of the lawsuits Michigan’s attorney general, Trump campaign is in court ask- in the Pennsylvania General As- In Arizona, Mike Philipsen, a ents’ votes that such actions presented evidence of widespread Dana Nessel, a Democrat, told re- ing for a delay in certifying the re- sembly moved to conduct a re- spokesman for the Senate’s Re- would fail,” he said. fraud that could reverse Mr. porters this week that it appeared sults, Republican leaders of the view of the election and asked the publican leadership, citing an in- Here’s how such a scheme Trump’s deficits. With Arizona the Trump lawsuits were aimed at State Senate and House of Repre- governor to delay certification of ternal legal memo, said, “The Leg- would theoretically play out. The and Georgia added to Mr. Biden’s stopping county and state boards sentatives said before Election the results, which is unlikely. islature cannot change the 2020 Constitution gives state legisla- column this week, he has comfort- from certifying the election, so Day that the General Assembly In North Carolina, which news election results through changing tures the power to determine the ably won the election with 306 that the Legislature could send “a would have no role in choosing organizations said Mr. Trump had the statutory selection process for “manner” in which electors are projected electoral votes, 36 more faithless slate of electors” to sup- electors. won on Friday, spokesmen for the presidential electors.” Mr. Biden appointed to the Electoral College, than needed for a majority. port Mr. Trump. Pressed on the issue last week Republican leaders of both cham- won Arizona by more than 10,000 the body of 538 people who for- Bob Bauer, a leading Democrat- A spokeswoman for Michigan’s during a telephone news confer- bers of the General Assembly said votes. mally choose the president. Every ic elections lawyer and senior ad- Senate majority leader said that ence, Jake Corman, the Senate lawmakers would have no role in And in Georgia, where officials state has already done that, by viser to the Biden campaign, dis- agreed to a Trump campaign de- specifying in its laws that the win- missed the notion of legislatures mand that they recount more than ner of the statewide popular vote picking electors. “When all is said 4.9 million votes — an effort that is entitled to the state’s presiden- and done, you can’t stop the most likely will cost taxpayers tial electors (Maine and Nebraska process from coming to the inev- millions of dollars — officials apportion some electors by con- itable conclusion,” he said. showed no inclination to appease gressional district). The idea of legislatures inter- the Trump forces by disrupting The Electoral Count Act, a 19th- vening for Mr. Trump gained cur- the Electoral College system. Mr. century law, sets up the mecha- rency in the days after Election Biden’s lead in Georgia is more nism for how that takes place. It Day, following months of Mr. than 14,000 votes, which news out- directs governors to certify both Trump’s raging that the election lets deemed sufficient for victory the election results and a slate of would be “rigged,” a baseless ac- on Friday. presidential electors to represent cusation, although one embraced An unusual joint statement the will of the people. In general by many of his supporters. Tuesday by Gov. Brian Kemp, Lt. practice, governors certify elec- On Nov. 5, as Pennsylvania’s Gov. Geoff Duncan and House tors chosen by the party of the gradual counting of mail-in ballots Speaker David Ralston — all Re- presidential candidate who won eroded Mr. Trump’s edge in the publicans — declined calls for a their state. votes cast on Election Day, the special legislative session on elec- The Electoral Count Act also Fox News commentator Sean tion issues. says that in the event of “failed Hannity suggested the results “Any changes to Georgia’s elec- elections,” in which voters have should be invalidated. Senator tion laws made in a special session not made a choice for president, Lindsey Graham of South Car- will not have any impact on an on- state legislatures are empowered olina, a staunch Trump supporter, going election and would only re- to step in and appoint electors. responded, “I think everything sult in endless litigation,” the The 1876 law is ambiguous about should be on the table.” statement said. what constitutes a “failed” elec- Earlier that day, Mr. Levin, the The Georgia General Assembly tion. But the law does contain a conservative radio host, had is not scheduled to convene until deadline for states to certify elec- urged Republican state lawmak- Jan. 11 — well after the electors tions: the “safe harbor” date, ers to “get ready to do your consti- meet in state capitols around the which this year is Dec. 8. Electors tutional duty,” writing in all capital ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES country to formally vote for presi- chosen before that date cannot be letters on Twitter. Trump supporters in Phoenix protested the results of the election at the Arizona Capitol last week. dent on Dec. 14. THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N A13

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3 Democrats WASH. 1 Republicans 2 3 5 MONT. 7 MAINE 1 At large N.D. Runoff At large 8 No winner called VT. 4 ORE. MINN. 1 At large 1 2 1 7 21 6 1 N.H. IDAHO WIS. 2 6 Minneapolis 8 3 Boston S.D. 24 N.Y. 20 2 2 St. Paulul 255 MASS. At large 3 4 22 1 1 9 27 1 6 2 MICH. 10 266 19 1 2 2 WYO. 5 23 5CONNN. RR.I. 5 3 2 1 At large 4 3 18 2 8 177 4 1 Detroit 8 3 1 16 12 5 111 CALIF. 4 14 6 7 2 2 1 1 14 111 15 9 7 7 6 9 PA. 1 1122 New York City IOWA 113 4 16 Philadelphphiiaa 3 3 1 2 5 3 NEB. Chicago 3 16 17 10 11 6 5 1 2 188 13 6 2 3 7 N.J. 2 17 OHIO 14 2 7 4 6 4 4 12 9 4 5 8 3 6 DEL. NEV. IND. 1 10 At large 2 10 15 11 10 7 6 18 ILL. 7 1 6 1 Washingtongton 5 1 19 3 6 MD. SaSan 16 W. VA. Baltimore 4 2 2 2 Franciscscsco 7 1 4 13 15 3 5 1 5 4 6 2 20 9 UTAH 3 1 8 VA. KAN. 3 2 3 3 22 6 21 4 4 3 COLO. MO. 12 5 2 2 9 1 KY. 5 23 24 4 1 1 3 8 10 4 6 8 7 1 5 2 3 13 1 6 226 3 5 3 3 2 11 8 N.C. ARIZ. 3 OKLA. TENN. 122 Los 1 8 9 1 7 4 4 7 Angele es 4 5 36 13 2 7 9 14 1 5 5 9 3 S.C.. 52 50 ARK. 51 2 53 4 1 4 10 2 N.M. 1 4 Atlanta 6 3 3 Phoenix 19 6 2 2 3 12 4 MISS. ALA. GA. 2 12 7 Dallas 3 161 2 Fort Worth 4 8 5 2 1 5 1 25 11 LA. 1 5 17 4 1 4 TEXAS 2 23 31 8 36 6 3 21 3 2 6 ALASKA 35 10 144 1 11 7 At large 20 10 12 155 9 8 27 Houston 141 13 1 16 FLA. 18 17 20 28 HAWAII 19 15 25

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House of Representatives by State Delegations Vt. N.H.12 1 2 Maine Most Statehouses Didn’t Budge Wash. 1 8 2368 The 11 Governors Races WIN FLIP 6 2 7 4 Mont. N.D. 21 20 19 15749 Mass. Rep. 3 10 9 5 Minn. 1 Mich. N.Y. 22 18 17 Dem. N.H. 7 8 Wis. 2 5 10 24 13 16 14 5 12 1 Wash. R.I. 1 3 Ida. Wyo. S.D. 6 3 786 4 8 14 27 25 10 12 15 6 4 3 2 Mont. N.D. Ore. 5 4 2 1 5 4 345 3 11 9 13 23 26 11 7 985 Conn. Vt. 2 1 2 2 1 6 7 12 Pa. 4 321 Colo. Neb. 2 1 3 4 Ohio 16 15 12 871 5 6 7 9 2 31 Iowa Ill. Ind. 5 14 1718 10 9 4 2 5 9 Nev. Utah Utah Ind. Del. 12 13 11 10 7 6 2 4 1 16 9 1 3 4 9 11 13 14 13 11 6 53 11 8 10 W.Va. 14 18 15 16 2 4 1 4 5 1 3 2 17 10 5 4 2 8 3 16 7 7 12 6 N.J. Mo. Calif. 2017 19 21 13 2 3 3 4 Kan. 6 8 4 7 5 1 10 12 6 6 8732 3 4 N.C. 24 30 22 1 3 14 3 7 9 6 2 15 451 1 2 26 29 23 Ariz. N.M. 4 2 Mo. 18 11 1 8 Ky. 10 Md. 33 37 28 27 4 8 1 13 5 6 13 2 3 4 W.Va. 6 11 8 1 Del. 43 34 25 32 7 6 5 2 Okla. 4 3 1 12 15 126 5 21 9 5 4372 Va. 44 40 38 39 3 9 2 3 5 1 782 3 WIN FLIP 47 46 45 31 4 2 825 6 1 14 6 9 10 6 13 41 Rep. 48 35 41 8 19 13 Ark. 9 743 11 5 7 Ga. 11 5 12 8 2 3 N.C. 49 52 42 36 Texas 11 26 3 4 1 3 1 3 13 4 10 9 7 Tenn. Dem. CURRENT GOVERNORS UP FOR ELECTION: 53 50 51 16 23 33 24 32 6 5 4 2 2 8 1 12 3 4 57 Miss. Ala. 26 Rep. 7 25 12 30 7 2 8 2 6 1 S.C. Runoff 21 31 17 18 29 36 4 La. 2 1 4 5 1 2 5 4 24 Dem. 4 Alaska Hawaii 35 9 22 27 14 3 5 3 4 6 3 113 6 8 No winner called 1 20 10 15 6 2 1 7 2 12 10 7 9 FLIPPED: 2 28 34 1 1613 14 15 18 Fla. NEXT GOVERNORS 1 to Rep. 19 17 20 21 22 27 Rep. 25 23 24 26 27 23 Dem. Old and New Balance of Power CONTROL: 218 SEATS CURRENT HOUSE The Next State Legislatures, by Partisan Control Dem. 232 Dem. Upper chamber Lower chamber (14-seat edge) WIN FLIP Maine Rep. Rep. Dem. 197 Rep. Alaska Vt. N.H. Mass.

Wash. Ida. Mont. N.D. Minn. N.Y. Conn. R.I. 1 Libertarian 5 vacancies (4 Republican resignations; 1 Democrat died in office) CONTROL: Ore. Nev. Wyo. S.D. Iowa Wis. Mich. Ohio Pa. N.J. 218 SEATS NEXT HOUSE Dem. 218 Dem. Calif. Utah Colo. Neb.* Mo. Ill. Ind. W.Va. Md. Del. (flipped 3 Rep. seats) Ariz. N.M. Kan. Ark. Ky. Tenn. S.C. N.C. Va. Rep. 202 Rep. Okla. La. Miss. Ala. Ga. (flipped 1 *The Neb. legislature has Libertarian, Hawaii Texas Fla. one nonpartisan Not called: 15 seats, including 1 runoff 8 Dem. seats) chamber.

CONTROL: The Senate’s New Partisan Mix Maine* Senior senator Control of the Senate Is Not Yet Decided 50 SEATS WITH VICE PRESIDENT Alaska Vt.* N.H. Mass. UP FOR ELECTION: AS TIE-BREAKER CURRENT SENATE 12 Dem. Junior senator Wash. Idaho Mont. N.D. Minn. N.Y. Conn. R.I. Dem. 47 Dem. Flip to Dem. Rep. 53 Rep. Ore. Nev. Wyo. S.D. Iowa Wis. Mich. Ohio Pa. N.J. Flip to Rep. 23 Rep. (3-seat edge) Jan. runoffs FLIPPED: Calif. Utah Colo. Neb. Mo. Ill. Ind. W.Va. Md. Del. NEXT SENATE 2 to Dem. Seats with Dem. 48 Dem. Ariz. N.M. Kan. Ark. Ky. Tenn. S.C. N.C. Va. elections Rep. 50 Rep. in 2020 Okla. La. Miss. Ala. Ga. 2 Jan. runoffs: Ga., Ga. special election FLIPPED: 1 to Rep.

Hawaii Texas Fla. TIM WALLACE, G.O.P. CONTROL JEREMY WHITE, UNDER BIDEN: MATTHEW BLOCH Results are as of 6:30 p.m. Eastern on Friday. Sources: National Election Pool/ AND BILL MARSH/ Edison Research; Ballotpedia; National Conference of State Legislatures 51 SEATS *Maine and Vt. each has one independent senator who caucuses with Democrats. THE NEW YORK TIMES THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N A15

Transition in Washington The Results Painstaking Work in Georgia as Five Million Ballots Get a Second Look By RICHARD FAUSSET votes, has vowed he would even- counted on Friday morning had count. And yet the workers re- and JANNAT BATRA tually win. been cast on Election Day and at counted anyway. Ms. Eveler said MARIETTA, Ga. — By the time The workers were facing a tight early-voting sites using a touch- the total would be recertified if it President-elect Joseph R. Biden deadline. Local officials must sub- screen system that produces a pa- changed. Jr. was declared the winner of mit their new counts by Wednes- per printout and seldom yields Similar scenes played out Georgia’s 16 electoral votes on Fri- day night, two days before the ambiguous results. across the state. day afternoon, hundreds of county statewide certification deadline of Later in the day, said Janine In suburban Gwinnett County, poll workers across the state were Nov. 20. Elections officials had al- Eveler, the director of elections the audit was conducted in a large several hours into the arduous ready put in long hours preparing and registration for Cobb County, room in the back of the elections slog of recounting nearly five mil- for the recount, and they expected the workers would move on to office. Near the main entrance, lion ballots by hand. many more long days ahead — hand-marked absentee ballots, black ballot boxes were lined up in Sitting several feet apart to ac- particularly as they prepare for which take more time because of five rows, ready to be distributed count for social distancing, the the Dec. 14 start of early voting in potential issues that need to be among 60 white tables spaced workers began the extraordinary two high-profile runoff elections closely examined. around the room. statewide effort, technically an that could determine control of But Ms. Eveler said that in Cobb The morning went smoothly — audit, on Friday morning. They the Senate. County, ballots deemed to have for the most part. At around 11 hunched over sheafs of ballots, re- Some of Georgia’s 159 counties, potential issues in the first count- a.m., one of the workers was given cited the names, counted and re- including Fulton and DeKalb ing — about five or six boxes’ a warning for taking out a phone, stacked them in bins. Counties, two of the state’s most NICOLE CRAINE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES worth — had already been sepa- potentially violating a rule against Similar scenes unfolded in populous, were not scheduled to A hand recount (or audit, technically) of the presidential election rated and adjudicated once, mak- taking pictures of the ballots. The warehouse-like rooms across the begin the recount until Saturday. got underway Friday in Gwinnett County and across Georgia. ing it unlikely that significant worker received a warning. The state, and would continue until ev- On Friday afternoon, Walter numbers of votes would change in counting continued. ery ballot had been checked. Jones, a spokesman for the secre- the recount. In Paulding County, a deeply “We’re pretty much living here tary of state’s office, said few prob- would investigate all allegations pacing among the folding tables, Any ambiguous ballots, includ- conservative area that went heav- right now,” said Deidre Holden, lems had surfaced in the counties of voting irregularities, the overall barked out instructions like a high ing the batch that was already ad- ily for Mr. Trump, 42 workers elections and voter registration that began counting that morning. process had been fair, trustworthy school teacher before a stand- judicated, would be sent to a panel paired up around 21 tables in a supervisor in Paulding County, a Bryan County, near Savannah, fin- and legitimate. ardized test. composed of a Democrat, a Re- government office. Most of the suburban and rural area west of ished its recount of 21,000 ballots, The Trump campaign can re- At each table, workers broke publican and a representative workers were not wearing masks Atlanta. he said. quest a third tally — a formal reopen taped-up boxes and removed from the county election board. even though coronavirus cases Georgia was called for Mr. Bi- The audit was ordered this count — if Mr. Biden’s lead is less fat stacks of ballots sealed in clear That panel is scheduled to meet are once again rising in the state. den at 2:21 p.m., extending his fi- week by Georgia’s secretary of than half a percentage point. As of plastic bags. At Team 12’s table, a publicly on Saturday. By around 3 p.m., Ms. Holden nal electoral vote tally to 306 — 36 state, Brad Raffensperger, after Friday afternoon, he was ahead man held a sheaf of ballots, de- All of Georgia’s 159 counties said, about a quarter of the coun- more than required to win the the Trump campaign and the by 0.3 percentage points. clared the name of the candidate rely on such panels to resolve is- ty’s 85,600 ballots had been re- presidency. state’s Republican Party de- In the Atlanta suburb of Cobb on each one, and handed it to a sues of ambiguous voter inten- counted. Roughly 50 ballots had Still, the political pressure on manded a hand recount after County, which Mr. Biden won by woman standing across the table tions. been flagged for review by a bi- elections officials was palpable in claiming that ineligible and dead about 56,000 votes, the work got who double-checked him, then A little more than three hours partisan adjudication panel, but in a freshly minted battleground people had voted. underway at 9 a.m. sharp in a cav- placed the ballot in a bin with the after Cobb County began its re- each case, she said, the Democrat state that President Trump, who Mr. Raffensperger, a Republi- ernous room inside an event cen- candidate’s name. count, its election board certified and Republican agreed on the vot- trails Mr. Biden by about 14,000 can, has said that while his office ter. There, a county employee, The Cobb County ballots being the results based on the original er’s intent.

Black Lives Matter Meets QAnon as Freshman Lawmakers Arrive Biden Wins By LUKE BROADWATER In Georgia; and EMILY COCHRANE WASHINGTON — Representa- Trump Takes tives-elect Cori Bush, a progressive Democrat wearing a Breonna Taylor face mask, and Marjorie North Carolina Taylor Greene, a QAnon-backing By GLENN THRUSH Republican whose entourage and MATT STEVENS sported “Make America Great Again” gear, arrived at freshman President-elect Joseph R. Biden orientation in Washington within Jr. narrowly defeated President minutes of each other on Thurs- Trump in Georgia, and Mr. Trump day, offering vastly different vi- won North Carolina, as the two fi- sions for their parties and for a nal states were called on Friday, a new Congress. week and a half after Election Day. The freshman class of the 117th Mr. Biden has 306 electoral Congress — featuring not only a votes and Mr. Trump has 232. Mr. surge of conservative women who Biden became president-elect upset centrist Democrats last when he won Pennsylvania’s 20 week at the polls, but also left- electoral votes Saturday, passing leaning insurgents who ousted es- the required 270-vote threshold. tablishment Democrats in prima- The victory for Mr. Biden in ries — is undergoing an unusual Georgia — a once reliably Repub- pandemic-era acculturation on lican state whose politics have Capitol Hill. shifted to the left — means he flipped five states Mr. Trump won “We’re going have to be able to in 2016. The others were Arizona, work together,” Ms. Bush said of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wis- her Republican counterparts. consin. Mr. Trump did not flip any “Hopefully, they’re willing to lis- state Hillary Clinton won in 2016. ten to me. I’m willing to listen to All told, Mr. Biden won 25 states them. I’m already seeing ‘Make and the District of Columbia, America Great Again’ hats, but I home to a combined 57 percent of have on my Breonna Taylor. So the country’s population. Mr. we’re going to talk and hopefully Trump won the other 25 states. this 117th, it will show the diversi- Mr. Biden’s margin in Georgia ty.” stands at just over 14,000 votes, or Dozens of soon-to-be first-term 0.3 percentage points. Mr. lawmakers began the biennial in- Trump’s margin in North Carolina troduction to Congress this week, is more than 73,000 votes, or 1.3 a process not unlike orientation at percentage points. a new school. With flashy badges Mr. Biden’s late surge in Geor- as temporary identification in- gia, thanks to his dominance in At- stead of the member pins they will PHOTOGRAPHS BY SARAH SILBIGER/GETTY IMAGES lanta, Savannah and their increas- be issued in January, the mem- Cori Bush, a Democrat from Missouri, arrived for her first term in Congress wearing a mask bearing the name of Breonna Taylor. ingly Democrat-friendly suburbs, bers-elect picked up House-issued transformed what had seemed to laptops and phones, sat through week was somewhat subdued — mild case of the coronavirus. She you want women to have a seat at ize them. While Ms. Boebert has be a safe Trump state in early tab- presentations on security, health families left at home, minimal said she was sorry to miss out on the table, if you want to be in of- said she is not a follower of QAnon ulations last week into one of the protocols and setting up offices, staff presence, socially-distanced meeting colleagues in person, but fice, we have to run in order to and Ms. Greene recently said she closest contests in the nation. and wandered through the virtu- Mr. Trump spurred near-record seating and some members par- was keeping up with them win.” had chosen to follow “another ally empty Capitol, snapping pho- turnout in the rural southwestern ticipating remotely — as corona- through a text chain with about 14 But as the new members ar- path,” Ms. Greene has never de- tographs with one another and of parts of the state bordering Ala- virus cases continued to spike or 15 members. nounced the group, whose convo- their new workplace. rived on Capitol Hill, Representa- bama and the Florida Panhandle, across the country. It also was the “I’m still learning everything I It was a learning experience all tive Kevin McCarthy, Republican luted theory claims falsely that a the white outer suburbs and small first of the traditional transitions need to know,” she said. “They’re around. of California and the minority cabal of Satan-worshiping, pe- cities, and the Appalachian north- of power during the pandemic, as streaming everything. So it’s as if dophile Democrats is plotting Ms. Greene, who was seen leader, found himself defending a west, which touches deep-red top lawmakers and staff wrestle I’m there.” briefly removing her American pair of newly elected members on against President Trump. Tennessee. Mr. Biden was pow- with how to smoothly welcome Perhaps the most significant flag mask upon checking in at ori- his party’s far right: Ms. Greene, a In an interview with reporters, ered by high turnout among Black newcomers to Washington with- feature of the new class is the fact entation on Thursday, declined to QAnon follower, and Lauren Boe- Ms. Boebert, a Glock-toting con- voters in Atlanta, and flipped out inadvertently creating a su- that Republican women have dou- speak with reporters but said she servative firebrand, stressed the some white voters in the subur- perspreader event in the nation’s bled their numbers, adding mem- had introduced herself to her new historic nature of Republican ban counties that ring the city. capital. bers like Ms. Hinson and Ms. colleagues with a diatribe against gains for women. Just 13 Republi- Brad Raffensperger, the Repub- The number of welcome parties Mace. Of the 10 incumbent Demo- the wearing of face coverings to Ahead of the 117th can women held seats in the lican secretary of state overseeing has been curtailed, though staff crats who lost their seats in swing House this year, while at least 27 Georgia’s elections, came under stop the spread of the coronavi- members could be seen bustling districts in the election last week, rus. Congress, orientation will when new members take of- fire this week when the Trump through Statuary Hall on Friday eight were defeated by Republi- fice in January — surpassing a campaign and the Georgia Repub- “Our first session of New Mem- to set up gold chairs, tables and can women. has new protocols. ber Orientation covered COVID in record high of 25. lican Party demanded a hand re- purple flower arrangements for a “It’s not just Democrat women “I am not only the first female to count. On Friday, the state began Congress,” she tweeted. “Masks, reception for newly elected Demo- that have the monopoly on break- masks, masks . . . . I proudly told represent that district, but I am one. State officials say it is un- crats hosted by Speaker Nancy ing glass ceilings; Republican the first mom,” Ms. Boebert said. likely to change the results. my freshman class that masks are Pelosi of California. Dr. Brian P. bert of Colorado, who has made women have been doing it all their “It’s an incredible honor to bring Georgia’s election drama is far oppressive. In GA, we work out, Monahan, the Capitol’s attending supportive comments about the lives,” said Ms. Mace, the first those values to Washington, D.C., from over: Both of the state’s Sen- shop, go to restaurants, go to physician, was on hand to outline viral conspiracy movement. woman to graduate from the Cita- in a time where I think we need ate races are going to January work, and school without masks. the unique challenges of perform- Mr. McCarthy claimed both had del, who last week defeated Rep- more common sense.” runoffs that will determine con- My body, my choice.” ing congressional duties during a resentative Joe Cunningham, a disavowed the group, which has In addition to a surge of Repub- trol of the chamber She appended the hashtag pandemic and the necessary pre- centrist Democrat, to become the been labeled a potential domestic “#FreeYourFace.” lican women, the freshman class In North Carolina, Black voters cautions required in the Capitol. first woman to represent her state terrorism threat, and urged re- shattered early-voting records be- The virus is surging in Georgia, diversifies Congress’s ranks: Hours later, after public back- in Congress. “It doesn’t matter porters to “give them an opportu- fore Election Day. But despite a where over the past week, there Marilyn Strickland, Democrat of lash and private consternation what your political affiliation is. If nity” before seeking to character- late get-out-the-vote push by has been an average of 2,460 cases Washington, is the first Black among some Democratic aides, a Democrats to motivate Black and per day, an increase of 26 percent spokesman for Ms. Pelosi said woman to represent her state in Congress and the first Korean- Latino voters, Mr. Trump — who from two weeks earlier. there would no longer be a group visited North Carolina a half-doz- Ms. Bush’s mask bore her own dinner and that “the event has American elected; Ms. Bush is the first Black woman to represent en times toward the close of the political message, although on been modified to allow members- campaign — was more effective in Missouri; and Mondaire Jones Friday, she said it had apparently elect to pick up their meals to go in motivating his base of white work- and Ritchie Torres, both Demo- been lost on some of her Republi- a socially-distanced manner.” ing-class and rural voters. crats of New York, are the first can colleagues, who seemed unfa- And the incoming lawmakers Mr. Trump defeated Mrs. Clin- openly gay Black men to serve in miliar with Ms. Taylor, the woman were instructed to remain masked ton in North Carolina in 2016 by killed by the police in Kentucky in for the duration of the orientation, Congress. fewer than four percentage a case that drew international at- a crucial safety precaution that Additionally, at least seven new points, but the state has been reli- tention and prompted huge proposed an added challenge for members of Congress — including ably red for decades: Since 1976, tests. aides, officials and lawmakers Madison Cawthorn of North Car- the only Democrat to prevail has “A few of my Republican col- themselves who were toiling to olina, the youngest member of been Barack Obama, in 2008. leagues have called me Breonna, learn all the new faces. (At least Congress in the modern era — do That Mr. Biden flipped Georgia, assuming that’s my name,” Ms. one, Representative-elect Nancy not have college degrees. a state last won by a Democrat in Bush wrote on Twitter. “It hurts. Mace of South Carolina, helpfully “I definitely feel the weight of 1992, was dramatic, but it was But I’m glad they’ll come to know wore a mask emblazoned with her responsibility,” said Mr. years in the making: Mr. Trump her name & story because of my name.) Cawthorn, who succeeded Mark defeated Mrs. Clinton there in presence here. Breonna must be Representative-elect Ashley Meadows, the White House chief 2016 by five percentage points, a central to our work in Congress.” Hinson, a Republican, partici- of staff. “I do realize that I’m 25 far slimmer margin than Republi- Despite Ms. Greene’s bombast pated remotely from her house in Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, used part of years old. I look forward to getting cans enjoyed in previous presi- on Twitter, the orientation this Marion, Iowa, after contracting a her first day to denounce mask policies to her new colleagues. to learn a lot.” dential elections. A16 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Transition in Washington The President-Elect Biden to Dismantle Trump-Era Education Policies Carried Out by DeVos students and pressed for diversity lege chain that Vice President- While Mr. Trump has empha- From Page A1 in colleges and K-12 classrooms. elect Kamala Harris sued as attor- sized low infection rates among Twitter that have questioned the The restoration of those guidance ney general of California. children, Mr. Biden has also unions’ roles. documents can be done immedi- “There’s a lot of work to be stressed concerns for educators. “When unions win, kids lose,” ately because they were not put done, but it will be nice to know During one of the debates, after she said. through the regulatory process or there’s an education secretary Mr. Trump accused him of want- With a likely Republican Senate enacted into law. who’s thinking about how to pro- ing to keep the country locked and a narrow Democratic major- Undoing what is arguably Ms. tect students from predatory down, Mr. Biden mocked the pres- ity in the House, Mr. Biden will DeVos’s most formidable accom- schools instead of the other way ident: “All you teachers out there, struggle to accomplish some of his plishment — rules for federally around,” said Aaron Ament, the not that many of you are going to loftiest policy goals. He has prom- funded schools investigating sex- president of the National Student die, so don’t worry about it.” ised to bolster funding for special ual misconduct — could be Legal Defense Network, which Becky Pringle, the National Ed- education, institute universal tougher. The incoming adminis- has sued the department for its ucation Association’s president, prekindergarten and triple fund- tration has vowed to dismantle rollbacks of loan forgiveness and said Mr. Biden understood that ing for a federal program that those rules. As vice president, Mr. consumer protection rules. “no school system budget has a line item that says, ‘coronavirus.’” helps schools serving high con- Biden had personally helped in- The team Mr. Biden has named centrations of students from low- troduce the Obama-era guidelines to help the Education Department Ms. Pringle noted that Mr. Bi- on campus sexual misconduct den had always been a strong sup- income families, devoting some of through the transition signaled that Ms. DeVos reversed through the direction he intends to take. porter of the labor movement and that funding to teacher salaries. In formal rule-making. JASON ANDREW FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES said she was proud that he had higher education, he has prom- Leading the team is Linda Dar- But unlike guidance docu- ling-Hammond, the president of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a lifelong opponent of the also “leaned in” to the associa- ised free public college, expand- ments, which do not carry the the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Learn- tion’s playbook. ing federal financial aid and can- teachers’ unions, tore into the Obama administration’s rules. force of law, and other DeVos reg- ing Policy Institute, who also “He’ll take the slings and ar- celing some student debt. ulatory measures that have been oversaw the education transition rows for being ‘too close’ to us, Stef Feldman, the Biden cam- ty groups present.” She added, “It are you going to come in and at- overturned by courts, the sexual for Mr. Obama in 2008. Ms. Dar- and he’ll be able to say, ‘Not only paign’s policy director, told report- seems we’re back to the same old, tack the choices they make for misconduct rules have already ling-Hammond, a veteran re- did they help me get elected, they ‘We’re going to do things to you, their children?” ers last month that Mr. Biden held up against legal challenges. searcher and policymaker in are- help me lead in a bold way,’” she not with you.’” Teachers’ unions have curried would “be able to get some big, The rules would have to be over- nas like desegregation, school fi- said. Unions were not seen as key favor by fighting Ms. DeVos at ev- bold education legislation passed turned through legislation or re- nance and teacher preparation, Union leaders top speculative ery turn, but Mr. Biden’s alliance and certainly immediate relief for written through the regulatory was considered a contender for players in the Obama administra- short lists of contenders to be the our schools and our educators, but system, a process that could take Mr. Biden’s secretary of education’s coalition — the National Ed- with them has raised concerns. next education secretary and will that doesn’t mean that we’re not years. tion, but took herself out of the ucation Association called for the “If it looks like the teachers' un- undoubtedly influence Mr. Biden’s also going to take executive action Mr. Biden’s team is also eyeing running, saying she was commit- resignation of Mr. Obama’s first ions are now calling the shots, and choice. Randi Weingarten, the within existing authority.” Ms. DeVos’s formal rules that ted to her work in California. education secretary, Arne Duncan not the people schools are sup- president of the American Federa- Those actions could come tightened Obama-era regulations The transition team’s strong — and have been at odds with cen- posed to be serving, the pendulum tion of Teachers, and Lily Es- quickly. on loan forgiveness for students representation from former trist Democrats on some policy is- will swing the other way,” said kelsen García, a past president of Mr. Biden has promised to ap- defrauded by their colleges and Obama-era officials and teachers’ sues, such as charter schools, Neal McCluskey, the director of the National Education Associa- point a secretary with teaching that eased oversight of for-profit unions has been met with mixed which are supported by many the libertarian Cato Institute’s tion, are among the names men- experience and a deep knowledge colleges. Those rules could also reactions. Black and Latino families. Mr. Bi- Center for Educational Freedom. tioned. of the challenges schools and stu- require regulatory action if they Keri Rodrigues, the president of den this summer reshaped the Mr. Biden has echoed union Other names include superin- dents face. survive court challenges. the National Parents Union, which Democratic platform to embrace a concerns that the country needs tendents of districts like Balti- In his victory speech on Nov. 7, The administration is likely to represents low-income parents ban on federal funding for for- to get the coronavirus under con- more and Seattle, and Represent- the president-elect referred to Dr. prioritize the immense backlog of and parents of color, said the com- profit charters, and to call for cut- trol to safely reopen schools, and ative Jahana Hayes, Democrat of Biden as he declared: “For Ameri- loan forgiveness claims that the position of the team made her ting funding to underperforming that it will take a large infusion of Connecticut and a former Na- ca’s educators, this is a great day. Trump administration let pile up, worried that the Biden adminis- charters run by nonprofit organi- cash to meet safety guidelines and tional Teacher of the Year. You’re going to have one of your and the denials of assistance the tration might stack the govern- zations. the needs of students who have Ms. Weingarten said that she own in the White House.” department has issued to stu- ment with people who are “inter- “He’s coming in saying he suffered academic and social set- was honored by the mention, but The Biden administration plans dents who claim they were ested in fortifying the status quo wants to unify people, and it’ll be backs. that she would be “really happy to to restore Obama-era civil rights cheated by their colleges, accord- that has been failing so many of interesting to see whether that “Schools, they need a lot of work with the Biden administra- guidance — rescinded by Ms. De- ing to officials familiar with the our kids.” holds for education policy,” said money to open,” Mr. Biden said tion as the president of the A.F.T.” Vos — that allowed transgender plans. Among the thousands of “This is the biggest table right Charles Barone, the director of during the last presidential de- “The Biden-Harris administra- students to choose their school students awaiting relief are those now,” she said of the transition policy at Democrats for Education bate, citing the need for better tion has the potential to enable a bathrooms, addressed the dispro- who attended Corinthian Col- team, “and I don’t see parent Reform. “If you really respect the ventilation systems, smaller class renaissance in public education,” portionate disciplining of Black leges, a now defunct for-profit col- groups, family groups, communi- role of people who got you elected, sizes and more teachers. she said.

NEWS ANALYSIS An effort to project steadiness by ignoring As America Still Holds the tweets and chaos. For Trump’s Concession, zation that is focused on climate Biden Takes Other Calls and has sought to shape Mr. Biden’s appointments. “Working with the G.O.P. elite who right By THOMAS KAPLAN January.” now are trying to undermine our and KATIE GLUECK Still, she acknowledged: “I democracy we do not believe is a WASHINGTON — Joseph R. know he wants to get started on strong way forward.” Biden Jr. ran for president insist- the transition. He would like Mr. Biden’s advisers and allies ing that President Trump was an some support from the adminis- have also acknowledged that “aberration” who did not reflect tration to do that. But he’s going they are in fact troubled by the the character or views of the forward based on his own re- possible ramifications from the American people. sources.” Trump administration’s refusal to And in his first week as presi- Mr. Biden, who spent much of give Mr. Biden and his transition dent-elect, Mr. Biden’s remarks the week working from the Wil- team access to federal agencies and activities suggest an effort to mington, Del., area, held calls as well as intelligence briefings. dismiss Mr. Trump further: this with Pope Francis and the lead- The head of the General Serv- time, as a nuisance. ers of many of the nation’s clos- ices Administration has not As he refuses to concede, Mr. est allies, taking initial steps formally recognized Mr. Biden as Trump has stoked fear and anxi- toward his goal of repairing the the winner of the election, a step ety among many Americans, and country’s standing on the world that allows the transfer of power he has plainly slowed critical stage following a campaign in between administrations to pro- RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES transition processes, to the con- which he emphasized his rela- ceed. cern of the Biden team. Yet pub- tionships with world leaders. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has moved forward despite being denied federal resources. As more time passes, that licly, Mr. Biden and his aides are After spending months stress- refusal becomes more problem- seeking to project steadiness. ing the need to follow science, he his initial moves after winning tire and go home. reporters on Tuesday: “How can atic, Biden aides say. But even They have ignored Mr. Trump’s named a group of experts to the presidency demonstrated a This week, Bob Bauer, a Biden I say this tactfully? I think it will so, they are showing little eager- tweets, they are building out a advise him on the coronavirus familiarity with how one admin- campaign adviser and former not help the president’s legacy.” ness to raise the temperature or White House staff and they are pandemic, and on Friday he istration typically passes the White House counsel, described Asked how he expected to to wage a legal battle. working to model how a shift issued a statement calling for torch to the next. Mr. Trump’s election-related work with Republicans if they “We’re not interested in having away from four years of presi- “urgent action” as virus cases “It’s a reflection of the presi- legal challenges as “noise,” while would not even acknowledge him a food fight with the G.S.A. ad- dential tumult can be done — continue to surge. dent-elect’s desire to project Mr. Biden’s sister and close polit- as president-elect, Mr. Biden ministrator or anyone, really,” and how Mr. Biden is likely to And he named Ron Klain, a stability at a time of great insta- ical adviser, Valerie Biden Ow- responded with a smile: “They Jen Psaki, a Biden transition behave once he is in the White veteran Washington figure who bility,” said former Gov. Tom ens, downplayed the significance will. They will.” adviser, said on Friday. “We just House. served as the Ebola czar in the Vilsack of Iowa, an early Biden of any postelection commentary Not everyone is so confident want to get access to intelligence “He is not going to get his Obama White House, as his chief supporter. offered by the president. that Republicans will engage — information, to threat assess- knickers in a twist around Don- of staff, a pick that was well What was not typical — far “It doesn’t matter what Donald or that Mr. Biden should even ments, to the ongoing work on ald Trump’s bad manners,” said received across the ideological from it — was the reaction of Mr. Trump says,” she said on “Axios prioritize trying to work with Covid, so that we can prepare to former Senator Carol Moseley spectrum within the Democratic Trump, who continued to refuse on HBO.” “It doesn’t matter. Joe them. govern.” Braun, Democrat of Illinois, who Party. to concede, and to make false is president-elect. He will be “Biden’s path to victory in his In the meantime, Mr. Biden served in the Senate with Mr. Those steps, to prepare to claims about election fraud. But sworn in on Jan. 20.” administration is going to be by was taking a break — or some- Biden. “He knows that he’s going govern and to combat the pan- Mr. Biden pressed on and passed Mr. Biden himself suggested putting forward bold plans to thing resembling a break. He to be president on the 20th of demic that has upended Ameri- up the chance for aggressive Mr. Trump’s refusal to concede address Covid, the economy, traveled on Thursday to his can society, followed convention confrontation, treating the presi- was more of a stain on the presi- climate change and racial injus- vacation house in Rehoboth Thomas Kaplan reported from and unfolded without drama. Mr. dent of the United States as if he dent’s name for the history books tice,” said Garrett Blad, a spokes- Beach, Del. “He’s earned, cer- Washington, and Katie Glueck Biden has decades of experience were a heckler shouting from the than an imminent obstacle for man for the Sunrise Movement, a tainly, a couple days off,” Ms. from New York. in Washington to draw on, and bleachers who would eventually the Biden transition, telling youth-driven progressive organi- Psaki said.

Prosecutors at the Justice Dept. Challenge Barr Over His Memo on Election Fraud

By KATIE BENNER “substantial allegations of voting prosecutors into partisan poli- ger, a longtime department em- was carefully worded and con- shade the integrity of the election. and ADAM GOLDMAN and vote tabulation irregular- tics.” The Washington Post earlier ployee who oversees election tained caveats that made it un- Mr. Pilger, the prosecutor who WASHINGTON — Career Jus- ities.” They asked him to rescind reported their letter. fraud crimes, chose to step down likely that a prosecutor could oversees election fraud at the de- tice Department prosecutors the memo, saying it thrust the de- On Thursday, a top career pros- over the memo was deeply con- meet the threshold to open a case partment’s headquarters in pushed back this week against a partment into partisan politics ecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office cerning, the people said. and begin investigating. Washington, stepped down from memo by Attorney General and was unnecessary because no in Washington said in an email In response, Mr. Donoghue told “Specious, speculative, fanciful his supervisory role in protest a William P. Barr that opened the one has identified any legitimate sent to Mr. Barr via Richard P. Mr. Cooney that he would pass on or far-fetched claims should not few hours after it was issued; and door to politically charged elec- suspicions of mass voter fraud. his complaint but that if it leaked be a basis for initiating federal in- other lawyers affected by the tion fraud investigations, saying The memo “is not based in fact,” to reporters, he would note that as quiries,” Mr. Barr wrote. “Nothing memo began to devise plans for in a pair of messages that Mr. Barr the monitors wrote. well. Given that the email was here should be taken as any indi- how to push back on Mr. Barr’s au- thrust the department into politics Issued Monday amid the presi- born out of a concern for integrity, cation that the department has thorization and what to do should and falsely overstated the threat dent’s efforts to falsely claim Concern that career Mr. Donoghue said in his reply concluded that voting irregular- a U.S. attorney announce an elec- of voter fraud. widespread voter fraud, the that he would assure officials ities have impacted the outcome tion-related investigation, accord- The protests were the latest re- memo allows prosecutors to in- lawyers are getting “that I have a high degree of confi- of any election.” ing to three people with knowl- buke of Mr. Barr by his own em- vestigate “substantial allega- dence that it will not be improp- Department lawyers often en- edge of these discussions. ployees, who have in recent tions” of fraud before the results of caught up in politics. erly leaked to the media.” gage in heated debates over poli- Even as the department’s offi- months begun criticizing his lead- the presidential race are certified, A department spokeswoman cies, investigations and prosecu- cials and career prosecutors ar- ership both privately and publicly. disregarding department policies declined to comment about Mr. tions, but they rarely put their gued about the memo, Mr. They argued that Mr. Barr has intended to keep law enforcement Cooney’s message. Asked about criticisms in writing and then Trump’s legal cases related to the Donoghue, an official in the depu- worked to advance President investigations from affecting the the prosecutors’ letter to Mr. Barr, send them to top officials. election began to unravel on Fri- Trump’s interests by wielding the outcome of an election. ty attorney general’s office, that she said that his memo directed But Mr. Barr’s memo churned day. A state judge in Michigan re- power of the department to shield “It was developed and an- the memo should be rescinded be- prosecutors to “exercise appropri- up rancor among prosecutors who jected an attempt by Republicans his allies and attack his enemies. nounced without consulting non- cause it went against longstand- ate caution and maintain the de- work on election fraud, in large to halt the certification of the vote On Friday, 16 federal prosecu- partisan career professionals in ing practices, according to two partment’s absolute commitment part because Mr. Trump was mak- in Wayne County, which includes tors across the country who were the field and at the department,” people with knowledge of the to fairness, neutrality and nonpar- ing false claims about widespread Detroit, pending an audit. And assigned to monitor elections for the prosecutors wrote of the email. tisanship.” voter fraud. Even the specter of lawyers for Mr. Trump withdrew signs of fraud wrote to Mr. Barr memo. “The timing of the memo- The prosecutor, J.P. Cooney, Others inside the department such an investigation into votes election-related lawsuits in Penn- that they had found no evidence of randum’s release thrusts career also said the fact that Richard Pil- pointed out that Mr. Barr’s memo for the presidential race could sylvania and Arizona. THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N A17

Transition in Washington The Tally Vote Challenges Fizzle in Court, Leaving Trump Little Room Republican Defies Divide From Page A1 lawsuit had claimed that some ballots cast for Mr. Trump were in- To Hold Seat validated after voters in Maricopa County had used Sharpie pens, In New York causing “ink bleeds.” The lawyer, Kory Langhofer, acknowledged By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ that not enough presidential votes Representative John M. Katko, were at stake in the case to affect a moderate Republican who has the outcome of the race. defied the nation’s partisan drift The lawsuit, which stemmed by holding on to a seat in a Demo- from a viral rumor that falsely cratic-leaning district in central claimed Arizona’s voting ma- New York, won his bid for a fourth chines were incapable of tabulat- term. ing ballots filled out with Sharp- His challenger, Dana Balter, a ies, was already on the rocks. At a Democratic activist and former hearing on Thursday, Mr. Syracuse University professor Langhofer told the court that the who also lost to Mr. Katko two county’s vote count had been af- years ago, conceded on Friday, ac- fected merely by “good-faith er- knowledging that the absentee rors,” not by fraud, as Mr. Trump ballots yet to be counted were un- has been claiming for days. likely to allow her to take the lead. “We are not saying anyone is The Associated Press had not trying to steal the election,” Mr. called the race. Langhofer said. The loss was the latest disap- With victories in Arizona and pointment for the Democratic Georgia, Mr. Biden has matched Party, which invested heavily in the 306 electoral votes Mr. Trump trying to flip Republican-held racked up four years ago. Mr. Bi- swing districts like Mr. Katko’s in den was declared the winner of hopes of expanding its majority in Arizona’s 11 electoral votes on the House of Representatives. In- Thursday night after he finished stead, Democrats are on track to more than 11,000 votes ahead of lose House seats while still hold- Mr. Trump. At the court hearing ing the majority. earlier that day, a Maricopa The 24th District seat, which County elections official testified covers Syracuse and rural regions BRYAN DENTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES that only 191 presidential votes in just south of Lake Ontario, has the county might have been af- Protesters outside a counting site in Detroit on Nov. 5. A judge’s ruling on Friday will allow the certification process to continue. eluded Democrats since 2014, fected by Mr. Langhofer’s suit. when Mr. Katko, a former federal Around 2 p.m. Friday, the state cast their ballots for Mr. Biden, He dismissed an affidavit by against which the Trump cam- In the other, a Philadelphia prosecutor, defeated the Demo- court judge in Michigan, Timothy that some Republican poll chal- one Republican poll observer paign has vociferously fought. County Common Pleas Court re- cratic incumbent. M. Kenny, dealt Mr. Trump an- lengers were not given adequate charging that computers at the The Pennsylvania Supreme Court jected the campaign’s appeal The district, whose voters fa- other blow by denying an emer- access to monitor the vote count, convention center had been im- had already issued a similar deci- seeking to invalidate five more vored President Barack Obama gency motion filed by two Repub- and that loads of ballots were im- properly connected to the inter- sion, and the U.S. Supreme Court batches of mail-in ballots. twice and Hillary Clinton in 2016, lican poll workers who had asked properly brought into the conven- net, noting that the observer’s refused to accept Mr. Trump’s at- The total number of ballots at is made up of slightly more regis- him to halt the certification of the tion center in the middle of the credibility was suspect: Before tempt to challenge it. stake in the two decisions: 8,927. tered Democrats than Republi- vote in Wayne County — home to night. the election, the observer had As the president was speaking Mr. Trump was not ready to cans, and a large contingent of un- Detroit — pending an audit of the Lawyers for Detroit and for the posted on Facebook that Demo- in the Rose Garden, Marc E. Elias, give up. He posted on Twitter on affiliated voters. count. States have to certify the Michigan Democratic Party had crats were using the coronavirus a lawyer who has handled several Friday evening that he would win But Mr. Katko has won time and results of the election — confirm- argued in court papers that about crisis as “a cover for Election Day election cases on behalf of the in Pennsylvania, making a base- again, attracting independent voting that the vote tabulation was 100 Republican poll challengers fraud.” Democrats, wrote on Twitter: less assertion about vote counting ers and peeling away enough accurate — in order to apportion had in fact been let into the con- In between the events in Ari- “Another Friday afternoon with in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Democratic votes to defeat his their Electoral College votes. vention center, but that some were zona and Michigan, another court, more good news coming from the With the legal fight not going challengers, by casting himself as a bipartisan lawmaker willing to The ruling by Judge Kenny not allowed to return after leaving the United States Court of Appeals courts.” well, the president put his person- work across the aisle in a divided meant that the formal completion once the room filled up. for the Third Circuit, in Philadel- That turned out to be two more al lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, in Washington. of the vote in Wayne County — Judge Kenny wrote that while phia, handed the president an- victories in Pennsylvania. charge of his lawsuits related to His electoral success made him and the broader vote in Michigan other defeat. the outcome of the election, as he took some of these accusations In one, a Montgomery County a political anomaly: He became — could continue on pace. Some seriously, some were too general The court upheld Pennsylva- Common Pleas Court denied the well as all public communications legal scholars have suggested related to them, four people famil- the only Republican in the House to be proved and others were “rife nia’s three-day extension for the Trump campaign’s request to in- to represent a Democratic-lean- that delaying certification of the with speculation and guesswork.” deadline to accept mail-in ballots, validate a batch of mail-in ballots. iar with the move said. vote in key states is part of a last- Mr. Trump has been trying ev- ing district, according to the Cook ditch strategy by the Trump cam- ery possible option to change the Partisan Voter Index, which paign to throw the election to Re- outcome and has been trying to measures how strongly a district publican-led state legislatures. get what he sees as “fighters” leans toward either party. At a hearing this week in De- making his case, often conflating a “I promised central New York- troit, lawyers for the city had media strategy with a legal one. ers I would act as an independent asked Judge Kenny not to delay But the involvement of Mr. Giu- voice in Congress, and work with certification out of concern about liani, who held a widely mocked both Republicans and Democrats this gambit. In his ruling, the news conference last weekend in to deliver bipartisan results for judge noted that the audit re- front of a landscaping company in quested by the two Republican which he claimed widespread plaintiffs, Cheryl Costantino and fraud, has vexed people on the Edward McCall, would have been campaign and in the White House. A moderate hangs on “unwieldy” and forced the rest of The Trump campaign and its Michigan to wait. proxies still have some cases in a House district that “It would be an unprecedented working their ways through the leans Democratic. exercise of judicial activism for courts, including one in Federal this court to stop the certification District Court in Grand Rapids, process,” Judge Kenny added. Mich., that closely mirrors the In a suit filed last week, Ms. Michigan state case that Judge our region,” Mr. Katko said in an Costantino and Mr. McCall made Kenny ended on Friday. election night statement in which wide-ranging claims of irregular- A lawsuit seeking to delay certi- he effectively claimed victory. “I ities during the vote count at De- fication in several counties in Wis- am honored and humbled to have troit’s TCF Convention Center. consin was filed on Thursday in once again earned the strong sup- They charged that some poll Federal District Court in Green port of our community.” workers in the heavily Democrat- Bay. On Tuesday, a federal judge in President Trump’s divisive fig- ic city were coaching voters to Williamsport, Pa., will hear argu- ure increasingly became a politi- ments in a lawsuit that seeks to cal liability for Mr. Katko, who en- Maggie Haberman contributed re- CORY MORSE/THE GRAND RAPIDS PRESS, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS halt the certification of the vote in dorsed the president this year porting. Election officials and poll watchers monitored the counting in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Nov. 4. several counties in that state. even as he sought to distance himself from Mr. Trump on the campaign trail. Ms. Balter used the endorse- ment as a cudgel against Mr. He Kept the Election Safe. But His Job May Not Be Safe From Trump. Katko and ran on progressive policies such as raising the minimum By DAVID E. SANGER through 10, he says he is used to school. He went on to the Univer- structure Security Agency Act, el- ministration.” wage, rooting corporate money and NICOLE PERLROTH living in chaos. sity of Virginia, where he was a evating a dedicated digital securi- When the pandemic upended out of politics and “Medicare for WASHINGTON — Christopher His department’s rumor control pole-vaulter, and the George Ma- ty agency in the Department of everything, Mr. Krebs’s team all.” Krebs is a 43-year-old former website, he said, was never de- son University law school. Homeland Security with more shifted focus to securing vote-by- But even President-elect Jo- Microsoft executive who had the vised with the president in mind. At homeland security, he budget and resources. Mr. Krebs mail systems, despite the presi- seph R. Biden Jr.’s apparent vic- unenviable government job of It was instead for “inoculating the worked in what was then called was named as director and dent’s campaign again them. That tory in the district was not enough protecting the nation’s election American public” to make clear the National Protections and Pro- charged with defending an elec- was when Mr. Krebs’s agency got to help Ms. Balter overcome Mr. machinery from manipulation by that even if there were fake web- grams Directorate, a predecessor tion for a president who did not in the White House’s cross hairs. Katko’s crossover appeal. Russia or other foreign hackers. It sites created by the Russians and bureaucracy in the days before want to discuss what the Russians In interviews, Mr. Krebs coun- “The current absentee ballot did in 2016 and helping states, in- turns out, though, that some of the Iranians to stir up divisions before protecting computer networks tered Mr. Trump by saying mail-in count makes it clear that our cam- cluding his native Georgia, that most dangerous interference has the election, “it wouldn’t mean seemed central to the depart- voting would make the election paign does not have a path for- did not want federal help. come not from the Kremlin but that votes were affected, or tabu- more secure by creating a paper ward,” Ms. Balter said in a state- from the White House, where the lations were wrong.” A case in He has received high marks for trail, critical for audits to establish ment on Friday. “Today, I congrat- his preparations for the election president called the election point: An Iranian effort to imitate that every legal ballot was cor- ulate Congressman Katko on his this year. “We had four years to rectly counted. “rigged” before a single vote was the far-right Proud Boys was victory.” Protecting against prepare for the 2020 election, and It also made state registration cast. caught by American intelligence, Throughout the campaign, both that meant we had time to do databases more critical: an attack Mr. Krebs’s organization, the and threatening emails the group hackers, and the candidates sought to portray each threat models and figure out the that froze or sabotaged voter-reg- Department of Homeland Securi- had supposedly sent voters were other as members of the most ex- potential actors who would enter istration data — by switching ad- ty’s new Cybersecurity and Infra- debunked. president’s claims. treme wings of their parties. the fray,” he said. dresses, marking registered vot- structure Security Agency, has If anyone believed the warnings For two years, Mr. Krebs quietly ers as unregistered or deleting In their last debate, Mr. Katko systematically shot down Mr. about false information posted on assembled a team of deputies to voters entirely — risked mass dig- warned that Ms. Balter was intent Trump’s false claims — that mail- the website were about the presi- ment’s mission. travel the country offering help to ital disenfranchisement. Mr. on raising taxes and repeatedly la- in ballots would lead to extensive dent, he said, that was their inter- He ended up as a political em- secure state election machines, Krebs made it his personal mis- beled her as part of the “far left.” fraud and that voting machines pretation. “We’ll stand up for all ployee until President Barack registration systems and polling sion to see to it that every last reg- Ms. Balter, for her part, tried to were programmed to give votes to our work,” he said. Obama’s election sent him back to procedures. Many states, particu- istration database was sealed up. chip away at Mr. Katko’s image as Joseph R. Biden Jr. — as part of its Few in the White House are the private sector, at consulting larly conservative-leaning ones, When Mr. Trump called mail-in a moderate, linking him directly to “rumor control” initiative to keep buying it. In the West Wing, Mr. companies and ultimately in perceived any kind of federal as- voting a “fraud” in his televised Mr. Trump, who is unpopular in Americans from doubting the in- Krebs’s agency is regarded as a Microsoft’s Washington office, sistance as its own kind of election debate with Mr. Biden, now the large swaths of New York, his for- deep-state stronghold, an antago- tegrity of the election system. where he directed cyberpolicy. interference. president-elect, in September, Mr. mer home state. nist that has contradicted Mr. To no one’s surprise, specula- He joined as North Korea’s Mr. Krebs and his team decided Krebs contradicted the president In 2016, Mr. Katko called on Mr. Trump’s false claims that fraud tion swept through cybercircles in hacking of Sony was underway to pivot to handling ransomware at every turn, again without men- Trump to drop out of the presiden- was rampant, software mistakes Washington on Thursday that Mr. and developed a reputation for cri- — cyberattacks that hold data tioning his name. tial race after the release of the were vast and the election was Krebs was high on President sis management as one breach af- hostage until victims paid up. “We’ve got a lot of confidence “Access Hollywood” tape. In Janu- stolen. It did not help that as Mr. Trump’s list of officials to be fired ter another unfolded across Throughout 2019, digital extor- that the ballot’s as secure as it’s ary, however, Mr. Katko said he Krebs gave speeches and inter- after his agency, known as CISA, American companies and govern- tionists were holding up American ever been,” Mr. Krebs told any re- would vote for Mr. Trump because released a statement from a gov- views around the country about ment networks. Among the poli- cities, towns, counties and clerks, porter who asked. of his achievements over four ernment-led coordinating council election security, he rarely, if ever, cies he worked on at Microsoft be it in Atlanta, Baltimore or small On Election Day, Mr. Krebs and years, including his tax and trade saying that “there is no evidence” mentioned Mr. Trump’s name. was a 2015 cybersecurity informa- towns in Texas. Soon states and senior officials held briefings with policies, though he did not con- any voting systems were compro- All of this has put Mr. Krebs in a tion act, which formalized the counties began signing up for help reporters every few hours to ap- done the president’s rhetoric. mised and that the 2020 election highly public political standoff mechanism by which private to safeguard their systems. prise them of any threats. Chad Mr. Katko won by a landslide in “was the most secure in American that he had no way to see when he companies like Microsoft could Mr. Krebs’s team worked with Wolf, the secretary of homeland 2016 when Mrs. Clinton won in the history.” This occurred only hours started at the Department of share threat intelligence with the states to scan and patch systems security, a Trump loyalist and Mr. 24th District, making him one of after Mr. Trump had repeated a Homeland Security as a contrac- federal government and vice for vulnerabilities, lock up voter Krebs’s boss, even appeared at only 25 Republicans in the coun- baseless report that a voting ma- tor during its infancy in the versa. Lobbyists watered down registration databases and voter one to praise Mr. Krebs’s work. try to win in districts Mrs. Clinton chine system had “deleted 2.7 mil- George W. Bush administration. the bill at every pass, but Mr. rolls, change default passwords, Despite small hiccups, Mr. Krebs had carried. In 2018, when Demo- lion Trump votes nationwide.” He said his closest connection Krebs was determined to see it turn on two-factor authentication, reassured journalists that there crats toppled 22 of those Republi- As of Friday night, Mr. Krebs to computers growing up in Atlan- through. and print out paper backups, all to was no major foreign interference cans to retake control of the was still employed, and still at his ta was Nintendo games. “I could Just after the 2018 midterm build up “resilience” in case of at- or signs of systemic fraud. House, Mr. Katko edged out Ms. office, and shrugging it all off. As a wire stuff up,” he said, “but coding elections, Mr. Trump signed into tack. He was protecting, he said, “It’s just another Tuesday on Balter by five percentage points to father of five children, ages 2 wasn’t really available” at his high law the Cybersecurity and Infra- “the crown jewels of election ad- the internet,” he said. hang on to his seat. 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Transition in Washington The Pandemic Response With Virus ‘Accelerating Right Now,’ Biden Urges Trump to Take Action

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR WASHINGTON — President- elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. demanded on Friday that President Trump do more to confront the coronavirus infections exploding across the country, calling the federal response “woefully lacking” even as Mr. Trump broke a ten- day silence on the pandemic to threaten to withhold a vaccine from New York. In a blistering statement, Mr. Biden said that the recent surge, which is killing more than 1,000 Americans and hospitalizing almost 70,000 every day, required a “robust and immediate federal response.” “I will not be president until next year,” Mr. Biden said. “The crisis does not respect dates on the calendar, it is accelerating right now. Urgent action is needed today, now, by the current administration — starting with an acknowledgment of how serious the current situation is.” Mr. Biden released his statement less than an hour before the president appeared in the Rose Garden at the White House, where he announced no new measures to slow the virus’s long- anticipated autumn surge, which he hardly acknowledged. Mr. Trump hailed the news from Monday that a vaccine under development by Pfizer appeared to be 90 percent effective. But he vowed not to order widespread lockdowns as long as he remained in office and threatened to withhold distribution of the vaccine to New York because Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the state intended to conduct its own review of the vaccine’s approval by the federal government. “He doesn’t trust the fact that it’s this White House, this administration, so we won’t be delivering it to New York until we have AMR ALFIKY/THE NEW YORK TIMES authorization to do so,” Mr. Trump President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has said he will make the pandemic his priority after taking office next year. He has named a 13-member Covid advisory council. told reporters in only his second public remarks since Election sponse, lied to Americans about department’s response had been Mr. Biden’s transition team, some- ronavirus,” said Richard J. “Those are tools that have been Day. “So the governor will let us how bad it was when he knew oth- shown to be effective in blunting know when he’s ready. He’s had paid for by the Coronavirus Aid, thing that has not yet happened Danzig, a former Navy secretary erwise & was fired by voters for surges,” he said. some very bad editorials recently Relief and Economic Security Act, because Mr. Trump has refused to to President Bill Clinton and a sen- about this.” his incompetence. @NYGov- known as the CARES Act, which is concede defeat. ior adviser with the Johns Hop- Mr. Trump claimed at Friday’s Cuomo is fighting to ensure the It is not clear whether Mr. set to expire Dec. 31, thanks in “It is a matter of life and death kins Applied Physics Laboratory. event that the effectiveness of Pfi- communities hit hardest by Covid Trump would be able to follow part to Mr. Trump’s failure to ne- for thousands of people,” he told The White House’s coronavirus zer’s vaccine was the result of the through on that threat before he get the vaccine. Feds providing 0 gotiate new relief despite months the newspaper. “The operation task force still meets once a week, company’s participation in Opera- leaves office. Health care work- resources.” of wrangling with Congress. has always been about making but with little resemblance to its tion Warp Speed. Pfizer took no ers, older adults and other vulner- Federal resources were very Kim Deti, a spokeswoman for vaccines and therapeutics avail- functions in the spring, when it money from the program for re- able populations could get access much on the minds of state offi- able faster for the country and for gathered to update reporters each search and development, but it did to a vaccine by mid-December, cials as they grappled with infec- the world.” day and published federal guide- sign a $1.95 billion contract to well before Mr. Biden’s Jan. 20 in- tion numbers shooting skyward Mr. Biden’s statement on Friday lines. Vice President Mike Pence, guarantee the government would auguration. and hospitals on the verge of be- No new measures underscored his pledge to make who leads the task force, said on purchase its vaccine. Mr. Trump Standing next to Mr. Trump Fri- ing overrun. the pandemic his top priority Friday that members of the group chided the company for initially day afternoon, Moncef Slaoui, a Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin, when he takes office. Since claim- would discuss the increase in saying that its vaccine had not from the White House been helped by Warp Speed. pharmaceutical executive who where the number of new cases ing victory last Saturday, the pres- cases during their weekly call reached a daily record 8,256 on was appointed by the president to as infections rise. ident-elect has named a 13-mem- with governors on Monday. More than 161 former public of- Thursday, said whatever Mr. ficials, many with deep national oversee the vaccine development ber Covid advisory board, deliv- Some federal officials — nota- Trump said now could not make security and military experience, and distribution effort known as ered several speeches about the bly Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the gov- up for his refusals to wear a mask said in a statement Friday that the Operation Warp Speed, said that topic, and repeatedly urged the ernment’s top infectious disease and his embrace of large public the Wyoming Department of administration’s refusal to give approximately 20 million people public to wear masks and practice expert, and Dr. Deborah L. Birx, gatherings, at campaign rallies Health, said health officials there Mr. Biden immediate access to in- could be vaccinated in the United social distancing. the White House coronavirus re- States in December. and at the White House. were also concerned about having telligence briefings and other By contrast, since Election Day, sponse coordinator — have con- But by the time broader distri- While the outgoing administra- enough money to continue contact transition services posed “a seri- Mr. Trump has tweeted more than tinued to speak out. bution of a vaccine is underway tion could still help, Gov. Evers tracing and other operations that ous risk to our national security.” next spring, Mr. Trump’s presi- said, “they also report to a presi- they believed had kept the state’s 264 times, much of it falsely claim- “I’m not silent, that’s for sure,” They noted that delays in the dency will have long ended. dent who, frankly, isn’t the most virus cases low for much of the ing that the election was stolen Dr. Fauci said in an interview this transition after the contested elec- A spokesman for Mr. Cuomo, consistent one as it relates to the year. from him and only twice about the week. tion of 2000 left the country vul- Rich Azzopardi, responded on things that count: masks, and “Will funding run out by the end virus. Dr. Fauci, who has not spoken to nerable to the Sept. 11, 2001 at- Twitter, saying that Mr. Trump making sure you’re not in public of the year? Will it be continued?” There have been no public brief- Mr. Trump since weeks before tacks, and that the 9/11 Commis- “has failed with his pandemic re- gatherings with a whole bunch of Ms. Deti wrote in an email. “It’s ings by the Centers for Disease Election Day, added that he was sion had recommended minimiz- people to spread the disease.” clear our Covid-19 response will Control and Prevention and little convinced the United States could ing disruption during presidential Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Noah Wei- “They’re not going to play a need to continue into 2021.” public guidance on the pandemic’s turn the current trends around if transitions. land contributed reporting from huge political role here,” he added. On Friday, Dr. Slaoui told The latest deadly surge. everyone wore a mask, practiced “That recommendation carries Washington, and Nicholas Bogel- Jennifer Miller, a spokeswoman Financial Times that Mr. Trump’s “I believe in one government at social distancing and avoided all the more force amidst a once- Burroughs and Will Wright from for the Wisconsin Department of administration should share infor- a time, but at the moment we have crowded settings, particularly in- in-a-century pandemic,” they New York. Health Services, said much of the mation about the program with no government with respect to co- doors. wrote.

New Outbreak Affects About 90 Officers In Uniformed Division of Secret Service

This article is by Zolan Kanno- senior White House officials and vately expressed concerns in the Youngs, Maggie Haberman and Mi- Trump allies also contracted the final weeks of the presidential chael S. Schmidt. virus after attending an election race about traveling to campaign WASHINGTON — The Secret night party at the White House. events across the country. They Service’s Uniformed Division has A spokeswoman said the Secret feared contracting the virus at the sustained a coronavirus outbreak, Service kept up its duties during events or while traveling, accord- according to four people briefed the campaign season and that it ing to two people briefed on the on the matter, the latest blow to a was taking precautions, including matter. beleaguered agency that has testing, contact tracing and isolat- The pandemic has been particu- faced challenges in performing its ing people as needed, to respond larly taxing on law enforcement duties during the pandemic. to Covid-19. agencies whose officers come in The outbreak is at least the “The health and safety of our direct contact with people to do fourth to strike the agency since their work. In the first few months the pandemic began, further hob- of the outbreak, one in six New bling its staffing as it continues to York Police Department officers provide full protection to Presi- At least 30 people were out sick or on quarantine. dent Trump and prepares for the The pandemic has created number of people it is charged have tested positive unique problems for the Secret with protecting to grow because of Service as the nature of its work — the election of Joseph R. Biden Jr. in recent weeks. especially during a presidential At least 30 uniformed Secret campaign — forces the agency to Service officers tested positive in deploy its agents across the country, including to events held by Mr. recent weeks for the virus, and the work force is paramount,” said the agency asked about another 60 to Trump where social distancing spokeswoman, Julia McMurray. DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES quarantine, according to the peo- was rarely practiced and wearing Officers in the Uniformed Divi- Members of the Secret Service’s Uniformed Division, which protects places like the White House ple, who spoke on the condition of masks was not required. anonymity because they did not sion have different responsibil- In the most glaring example of and the vice president’s home. The unit, which has 1,600 officers, also screens crowds at events. want to be identified discussing ities from the famed Secret Serv- the dangers agents faced, Mr. personnel matters. At least a ice agents who guard presidents Trump held a rally in June at an rus during training exercises and sources are already stretched. at the time and that the agents handful of agents also tested pos- and their families. The officers indoor arena in Tulsa, Okla. One of at a nearby hotel where they prac- During a transition, the agency is who were in a hermetically sealed itive or were forced to isolate, two provide protection for physical lo- Mr. Trump’s allies who attended ticed no social distancing. expected to provide more protec- Chevy Suburban with him could of the people said. cations like the White House and the event, Herman Cain, died from Earlier in the summer, two tion for the president-elect and have easily been infected, even The Washington Post first re- the vice president’s home at the the virus six weeks after the rally. members of the Secret Service vice president-elect and their fam- though they were covered in the ported the outbreak. Naval Observatory in Washing- In August, at least 11 employees who were dispatched to provide ilies while continuing its regular same kind of personal protective It was unclear how the officers ton. They also screen crowds at at the Secret Service’s training fa- security at the Tulsa rally tested duties of protecting the president equipment used by medical pro- contracted the virus. Many trav- public events. The division — cility in Maryland tested positive positive. Around that time, Vice and his family. fessionals. eled to Trump or Biden campaign which has 1,600 officers — was for the virus. The agency had President Mike Pence canceled a During his hospitalization for events in the final weeks of the widely faulted after fence jumpers shuttered the facility earlier in the trip to Florida after members of the coronavirus in October, Mr. election, the people said. Several breached the White House year to develop procedures to mit- his detail showed symptoms of the Trump had an agent drive him No day is complete grounds during former President igate transmission of the coronavirus. past a group of supporters outside without Annie Karni contributed report- Barack Obama’s second term. virus. But several trainees were The latest outbreak comes at a the hospital. Medical experts said ing. Many officers and agents pri- believed to have contracted the vi- time when the Secret Service’s re- Mr. Trump was likely contagious The New York Times. THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N A19

The 45th President The Agenda Out of the White House, Trump Will Face a Greater Risk of Prosecution By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM tain them. In his lawsuit seeking to block and BENJAMIN WEISER The district attorney’s inquiry, the grand jury subpoena, Mr. President Trump lost more than which began in the summer of Trump’s lawyers quoted 2018 an election last week. When he 2018, was first thought to focus on campaign statements by the at- leaves the White House in Janu- hush money payments made on torney general, Letitia James, a ary, he will also lose the constitu- behalf of Mr. Trump just days be- Democrat, saying they were part tional protection from prosecution fore the 2016 presidential election of a “campaign to harass the presi- afforded to a sitting president. to an adult film star who had dent.” claimed she had an affair with After Jan. 20, Mr. Trump, who They cited one statement, for him. has refused to concede and is example, in which she said Mr. But the subpoena for Mr. fighting to hold onto his office, will Trump should worry because Trump’s tax returns underscores be more vulnerable than ever to a “we’re all closing in on him.” an apparent greater focus on po- pending grand jury investigation Last year, Ms. James’s office tential tax crimes, which tax ex- by the Manhattan district attor- opened a civil fraud investigation perts, former prosecutors and de- into Mr. Trump’s businesses. As ney into the president’s family fense lawyers agree can be among business and its practices, as well recently as last month, Mr. the toughest cases for the govern- Trump’s son Eric, after months of as his taxes. ment to win at trial. The two-year inquiry, the only delays, was questioned under “The burden of proof is substan- oath by the office’s lawyers. known active criminal investiga- tial,” said William J. Comiskey, a Rebecca Roiphe, a former as- tion of Mr. Trump, has been stalled former longtime state prosecutor sistant district attorney in Man- since last fall, when the president of white-collar and organized hattan who teaches legal ethics sued to block a subpoena for his crime cases who later oversaw en- tax returns and other records, a forcement at New York’s Depart- and criminal law at New York Law bitter dispute that for the second ment of Taxation and Finance. School, said Ms. James’s earlier time is before the U.S. Supreme That, in large measure, is be- statements made it appear there Court. A ruling is expected soon. cause prosecutors must prove was some truth to the accusation Mr. Trump has contended that that the defendant actually in- that people who were investigat- the investigation by the district attended to evade taxes, Mr. ing Mr. Trump were “at least capi- DESIREE RIOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES torney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., a Dem- Comiskey said. ocrat, is a politically motivated Cyrus Vance, Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, has led a two-year inquiry of President Trump. And tax cases can be boring for fishing expedition. But if the Su- jurors. preme Court rules that Mr. Vance Mr. Vance’s inquiry could take charges to allow the country to But during the legal battle over “They involve a complicated set ‘He’ll never have more is entitled to the records, and he on outsize importance if the in- move forward after a contentious Mr. Vance’s subpoena, which of rules and numbers, and it’s hard uncovers possible crimes, Mr. coming Biden administration, in presidential election. On the other, sought eight years of Mr. Trump’s for jurors — or anyone — to keep protection’ from a Trump could face a reckoning seeking to unify the country and the district attorney was sharply personal and corporate tax re- their focus through days and days prosecutor than now. with law enforcement — further avoid the appearance of retalia- criticized for his 2012 decision not turns and other records from his of testimony,” said Amy Walsh, inflaming political tensions and tion against Mr. Trump, shies to seek an indictment against Mr. accounting firm, prosecutors sug- who handled tax cases as a federal raising the startling specter of a away from new federal investiga- Trump’s children, Ivanka Trump gested in court papers that they prosecutor and later as a defense criminal conviction, or even pris- tions. and Donald J. Trump Jr., after they were investigating a range of po- lawyer at a firm that specialized in talizing on that from a political on, for a former president. Such a move would not bind the were accused of misleading in- tential financial crimes. They in- tax matters. perspective.” “He’ll never have more protec- district attorney, an independent vestors in a condo-hotel project. clude insurance fraud and crimi- The challenge in presenting The only way for Mr. Vance to tion from Vance than he has right elected state official. Mr. Vance has said that after a nal tax evasion, as well as grand such cases to a jury is com- avoid that perception, Professor now,” said Stephen I. Vladeck, a Mr. Vance’s lawyers acknowl- two-year investigation, his office larceny and scheming to defraud pounded without a cooperating Roiphe said, was “to have a rock- law professor at the University of edged during the court fight over could not prove a crime was com- — which together are New York witness who can serve as a guide solid case with overwhelming evi- Texas. the subpoena that the Constitu- mitted. State’s equivalent of federal bank through complex financial strat- dence, which will help convince “Vance has been the wild card tion bars them from prosecuting a Some legal experts said it would fraud charges. egies and records, or emails or the public that they’re holding the here,” Professor Vladeck added. president while in office, but the send the wrong message if Mr. And prosecutors argued in other statements containing ad- former president accountable for missions, experts said. “And there is very little that even a district attorney has said nothing Vance had evidence to justify court that the documents they had criminal acts.” charges but decided to walk away “They need a smoking gun or new administration that wants to about what might happen once demanded from the accounting Ms. James, in response to criti- from a prosecution of Mr. Trump. firm, Mazars USA, represented they need someone to flip,” said let bygones be bygones could do Mr. Trump leaves the White cism from Mr. Trump last year, “That would put the president “central evidence” for their inves- Daniel J. Horwitz, who brought formally to stop him.” House. tweeted that her office “will follow above the law,” said Anne Mil- tigation. tax and complex fraud cases dur- A lawyer for the president, Jay Danny Frost, a spokesman for the facts of any case, wherever gram, a former assistant district But they have provided little in ing more than eight years in the Sekulow, declined to comment Mr. Vance, declined to comment. they lead.” She added: “Make no attorney in Manhattan and Demo- the way of specifics beyond citing Manhattan district attorney’s of- through a spokesman. mistake: No one is above the law, It remains unclear whether the of- cratic attorney general in New multiple news reports that de- fice and is now a white-collar de- not even the President.” The district attorney’s investi- fice will determine that crimes Jersey and a frequent critic of Mr. tailed a range of potential criminal fense lawyer. gation of a sitting president has were committed and choose to Trump. conduct by the president and his It is unknown whether Mr. One thing seems likely: De- taken on even greater signifi- prosecute Mr. Trump or anyone in And because Mr. Trump has re- associates, including a series of Vance’s prosecutors have ob- fending against a white-collar in- cance because Mr. Trump’s past his orbit. peatedly complained that the in- 2018 New York Times articles that tained the cooperation of any investigation, even as a former use of his presidential power — Mr. Vance’s actions in the com- vestigation was part of a broad outlined possible tax crimes com- siders for their investigation, but president, will be challenging, pardoning those close to him ing months are likely to put him partisan witch hunt, any decision mitted by Mr. Trump based on a another consequence of Mr. stressful and disruptive for Mr. charged with federal crimes — under increasing political scru- to end it once the president left of- detailed analysis of some of his tax Trump’s departure from office and Trump, said Daniel R. Alonso, who suggests he will make liberal use tiny. Mr. Trump will leave the fice could be seen as a tacit ac- return data obtained by the news- loss of the power of the presidency was Mr. Vance’s top deputy from of the pardon pen on behalf of as- White House amid calls for him to knowledgment that such criticism paper. could be that it would be easier for 2010 to 2014 and is now in private sociates, family members and face criminal charges and a drum- was justified. Mr. Trump, before and during them to do so. practice. possibly even himself, as he beat of strident criticism from the Few facts have been publicly his presidency, declined to pub- In addition to Mr. Vance’s inqui- “There are subpoenas and claimed he has the right to do. left that he has evaded any legal disclosed about the course of the licly release his tax returns, ry, Mr. Trump also faces continu- seizures and documents all over But his pardon power does not consequences for his conduct district attorney’s investigation or breaking with 40 years of White ing scrutiny by New York State’s the place, as well as constant extend to state crimes, like the over the years. the people or potential crimes be- House tradition, and he vig- attorney general — who he has meetings with lawyers,” Mr. possible violations under investi- On the one hand, Mr. Vance ing examined because the inquiry orously fought attempts by Con- also claimed has targeted him out Alonso said, adding, “It would cer- gation by Mr. Vance’s office. could face pressure to forsake any is shielded by grand jury secrecy. gress and state lawmakers to ob- of partisan rancor. tainly not be pleasant for him.”

President’s Pentagon Purge Could Accelerate Pullout Of Troops in Afghanistan

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER culty finding personnel who WASHINGTON — Consistent would faithfully execute on his is not the adjective many would preferences,” Mr. Ruger said in an use to describe President Trump’s interview on Friday. With the new national security policy. But there Pentagon leadership, “the presi- is one goal he has nurtured since dent could really cement a legacy the 2016 campaign: withdrawing here,” he said, adding that Mr. all American troops from Afghani- Trump “could be the leader who stan. ends America’s longest war.” Now, in the waning days of his This week, the American com- presidency, Mr. Trump is scram- mander in Afghanistan, Gen. bling to make it so, aided by con- Austin S. Miller, traveled to Wash- servative antiwar forces who see ington on a previously scheduled it not only as good policy but also trip as officials in both countries as a linchpin to any future he may braced for a possible announce- seek in politics. ment as early as next week to This week, Mr. Trump dis- quickly reduce the 4,500 United missed his defense secretary, States troops still left in Afghani- Mark T. Esper, who had repeat- stan. Mr. Trump has said previ- edly expressed reluctance for a ously that he wants to pull all fast pullout from Afghanistan, re- troops from Afghanistan by placing him with Christopher C. Christmas. With his recent flurry of firings and appointments, Mr. Trump has effectively pulled down a majority of the personnel guardrails Trump’s allies hope he against a fast withdrawal. is the one to end Mr. Trump’s views on reducing the United States’ footprint over- America’s longest war. seas are long standing and a cen- ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES tral component of his “America First” foreign policy agenda. After Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and President Trump in Kabul in 2019. Mr. Trump has said he wants all troops out of Afghanistan. originally supporting the war in Miller, the former director of the Iraq, he spent years criticizing placed the hawkish John R. Bolton President-elect Joseph R. Biden drawal point to logistical chal- including Tucker Carlson, have National Counterterrorism Cen- President George W. Bush for with Robert C. O’Brien as his na- Jr. will find himself having to ad- lenges of the strategy. Several cur- also advocated the drawdown. If ter, who may lack the stature and America’s wars in the region. Dur- tional security adviser. Mr. O’Bri- dress these political dynamics at rent and former Pentagon officials Mr. Trump actually announces an experience to push back effec- ing his 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump en has said the United States home and the realities on the have noted that a withdrawal expedited plan, “we are going to tively on Mr. Trump’s 11th-hour astonished fellow Republicans by needs to redirect its resources ground as progress toward peace within two months — which go big,” Mr. Caldwell said. foreign policy actions. directly attacking Mr. Bush about from Afghanistan and toward the between the Taliban and the Af- seems to be Mr. Trump’s goal — Of course with Mr. Trump, Notably, Douglas Macgregor, a the war in Iraq and suggesting he competition and possible conflicts ghan government stalls. would be challenging, given the strongly expressed intentions retired Army colonel and fierce failed to prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, with China and Russia. Critics of a fast withdrawal be- amount of military equipment concerning troops often do not proponent of ending American in- attacks. Polls have shown that a major- fore the Taliban meet the condi- that would have to be shipped out come to fruition. volvement in Afghanistan, was But what many Republicans ity of veterans have grown disen- tions of a recent peace agreement to avoid becoming spoils for the After announcing a full troop named this week as a senior ad- failed to grasp is that Mr. Trump’s chanted with the conflicts in Af- fear that any attempt to pull all Taliban. withdrawal from Syria in late 2018 viser to Mr. Miller. positions on the so-called endless ghanistan and Iraq, which helped American troops by year’s end “Those in the Pentagon will use — and abandoning Kurdish allies, Mr. Trump recently nominated wars were good politics. Rancor Mr. Trump earn strong support would potentially result in deaths the logistics argument to slow this for which he was widely criticized a new ambassador to Afghani- toward those conflicts has grown among veterans who voted in on the ground. Citing recent esca- down,” said Dan Caldwell, a senior — he opted to leave several hun- stan, William Ruger, the vice pres- among many conservatives, in- 2016. Many have been disap- lating violence across the country, adviser to Concerned Veterans for dred troops in Syria. ident for research and policy at cluding those in the Koch circle, as pointed that troops remain de- they worry that the Taliban could America, a group that has He has also told aides he the Charles Koch Institute — a vo- well as libertarians among con- ployed in Afghanistan and that succeed at seizing more territory, strongly influenced veterans’ poli- wanted to greatly reduce the 700 cal and well-financed opponent of gressional Republicans and even other promises to reduce the mili- especially in the south, the group’s cies under Mr. Trump. “People American troops in Somalia — current conflicts abroad. Even be- those on the left, including Sena- tary presence in other regions historic center of power. there have slow-walked this and most of them Special Operations fore any Senate confirmation, tor Bernie Sanders, independent have not been fulfilled. “It’s irresponsible to make tried to box the president in and forces — and so far that has gone which seems unlikely before Inau- of Vermont, among others. Exit polls this month suggest troop reduction your entire politi- that likely upset the president and nowhere. guration Day, Mr. Ruger main- Last year, VoteVets, the liberal that Mr. Trump won veterans 54 cal objective,” said Evelyn N. did not endear Secretary Esper to Mr. Ruger said the pressure tains a large chair at Mr. Trump’s political action committee, and the percent to 44 percent; in 2016, the Farkas, a former deputy assistant him.” would remain when Mr. Biden foreign policy table. conservative Concerned Veterans poll found he won veterans 60 per- secretary of defense. “If you with- Over the last year, the organiza- takes office. “The president has had diffi- for America teamed up to percent to 34 percent, a major shift draw irresponsibly, you put stra- tion has spent over $3 million on “Regardless of who the presi- suade Congress to revoke author- that could stem from a variety of tegic objectives and military lives advertisements in support of an dent is, we will support good poli- Thomas Gibbons-Neff contributed izations of military force passed factors including his mixed record at risk.” Afghanistan withdrawal. Conser- cies,” he said. “Getting out of Af- reporting from Kabul. after Sept. 11. Mr. Trump also re- on these issues. Critics of an accelerated with- vative news media personalities, ghanistan is good policy.” A20 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 In Unusually Political Speech, Alito Says Liberals Pose Threat to Liberties By ADAM LIPTAK Others said it was unexception- “For many today, religious lib- WASHINGTON — In an unusual for justices to describe positions erty is not a cherished freedom,” ally caustic and politically tinged they had already taken in their ju- he said. “It’s often just an excuse speech, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. dicial work. for bigotry, and it can’t be toler- told a conservative legal group “It’s one thing for a justice to ated.” that liberals posed a growing speak publicly about an open is- In an interview on Friday, Pro- threat to religious liberty and free sue on which the justice hasn’t yet fessor Tushnet said Justice Alito’s speech. ruled,” Ed Whelan, the president criticism of the statements he The remarks, made at the Fed- of the Ethics and Public Policy made in a blog post four years ago eralist Society’s annual conven- Center, wrote on National Re- indicated that the points he made tion Thursday night, mirrored view’s Bench Memos blog. “It’s a were correct. statements Justice Alito has made very different — and much less re- “The very intensity of Justice in his judicial opinions, which markable — thing for a justice to Alito’s remarks seems to me to have lately been marked by bitter- restate positions that he has al- confirm my judgment about who ness and grievance even as the ready formally adopted.” won the culture wars,” Professor court has been moving to the Mr. Whelan noted that Justice Tushnet said. “His are in fact the right. While Chief Justice John G. Ginsburg had criticized President observations of a person who Roberts Jr. has tried to signal that Trump in an interview during the hasn’t come to grips with the fact the Supreme Court is apolitical, 2016 campaign for refusing to re- that he’s been on the losing side of Justice Alito’s comments sent a lease his tax returns and went on many culture war issues.” different message to sit on cases concerning their In his remarks on Thursday, Coming as they did just weeks disclosure. Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Alito said the right to free after Justice Amy Coney Barrett by contrast, recused himself from speech was under threat, too. succeeded Justice Ruth Bader a case the Pledge of Allegiance af- “Tolerance for opposing views Ginsburg, giving conservatives a ter discussing the case in public. is now in short supply at many law 6 to 3 majority, the remarks Mr. Trump has repeatedly cred- schools and in the broader aca- alarmed some on the left. But le- ited the Federalist Society with demic community,” he said. gal experts said there were few helping draw up his lists of poten- He recalled the days of the co- clear lines governing what jus- tial nominees to the Supreme POOL PHOTO BY ANDREW HARNIK median George Carlin’s “seven tices may say off the bench. Court. All three of his appointees Legal commentators said Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s remarks to a conservative group were jarring. dirty words” monologue, which “There’s a difference between — Justices Barrett, Neil M. Gor- had been the subject of a 1978 Su- what a justice can do and what a such and Brett M. Kavanaugh — preme Court decision allowing the justice would be well advised to appeared on those lists. dent Barack Obama criticized the and prolonged as those experi- the majority. Her replacement by government to restrict the use of do,” said Vikram D. Amar, the Public appearances by justices court’s Citizens United campaign enced for most of 2020.” Justice Barrett may alter the bal- vulgar language on broadcast dean of the University of Illinois before friendly audiences are finance decision at the State of the Justice Alito was particularly ance on the court in similar cases, television. College of Law. “I tend to think commonplace, and several of the Union address in 2010 with six jus- critical of a ruling from the Su- including a pending one from “Today you can see shows on that John Roberts has a much bet- court’s more liberal justices have tices present. Mr. Obama said the preme Court in July that rejected Brooklyn. your TV screen in which the dia- ter instinct toward circumspec- appeared before the American decision had “reversed a century a Nevada church’s challenge to The Nevada decision was based logue appears at times to consist tion.” Constitution Society, a liberal of law that I believe will open the state restrictions on attendance at in part on a 1905 Supreme Court almost entirely of those words,” “Other than an ethical line group. But the comments they floodgates for special interests, in- religious services. decision concerning an outbreak Justice Alito said. “Carlin’s list about prejudging cases and avoid- make on such occasions are gen- cluding foreign corporations, to The state treated houses of wor- of smallpox in Cambridge, Mass., seems like a quaint relic.” ing the appearance of bias,” Pro- erally anodyne. spend without limit in our elec- ship less favorably than it did casi- the home of Harvard University. “But it would be easy to put to- fessor Amar said, “it’s a matter of At last year’s Federalist Society tions.” nos, he said. Casinos were limited “Now I’m all in favor of prevent- gether a new list called ‘things what you think a good judge convention, Justice Kavanaugh’s Justice Alito responded by to 50 percent of their fire-code ca- ing dangerous things from issuing you can’t say if you are a student should do and the image a judge keynote speech largely consisted mouthing the words “not true.” He pacities, while houses of worship out of Cambridge and infecting or a professor at a college or uni- should cultivate.” of expressions of gratitude to peo- has not attended another State of were subject to a flat 50-person the rest of the country and the versity or an employee of many Still, it was jarring, some legal ple who had helped him weather the Union address. limit. world,” said Justice Alito, who at- big corporations.’ And there commentators said, to hear politi- his confirmation hearings. On Thursday, Justice Alito fo- “Deciding whether to allow this tended Princeton and Yale Law wouldn’t be just seven items on cal sentiments, even ones echoing Justice Alito’s comments were cused on the effects of the corona- disparate treatment should not School. “It would be good if what that list,” he said. “Seventy times judicial opinions, during a web- more pointed, and they were con- virus, which he said “has resulted have been a very tough call,” Jus- originates in Cambridge stayed in seven would be closer to the cast aimed at conservative law- sistent with his sense that his in previously unimaginable re- tice Alito said. “Take a quick look Cambridge.” mark.” yers. views have not been given the restrictions on individual liberty.” at the Constitution. You will see Justice Alito went on to quote, A prime example, he said, was “Justice Alito’s speech Thurs- spect they deserve. He felt “I am not diminishing the se- the free-exercise clause of the with disdain, Mark Tushnet, a opposition to same-sex marriage. day was more befitting a Trump bruised by some of the questions verity of the virus’s threat to pub- First Amendment, which protects Harvard Law School professor. “You can’t say that marriage is rally than a legal society,” said at his confirmation hearings in lic health,” he said. “All that I’m religious liberty. You will not find a The professor, Justice Alito a union between one man and one Gabe Roth, the executive director 2006, after a career in the Justice saying is this, and I think that it is craps clause, or a blackjack said, had written: “The culture woman,” Justice Alito said. “Until of Fix the Court, a nonprofit group Department and on the federal ap- an indisputable statement of fact: clause, or a slot machine clause.” wars are over; they lost, we won.” very recently that’s what the vast that has called for stricter ethics peals court in Philadelphia. We have never before seen re- The ruling was decided by a 5- This was evidence, Justice Alito majority of Americans thought. rules for the Supreme Court. He was not pleased when Presi- strictions as severe, extensive to-4 vote, with Justice Ginsburg in said, of liberal orthodoxy. Now it’s considered bigotry.”

EPA, VIA SHUTTERSTOCK THOMAS SHEA/USA TODAY SPORTS, VIA REUTERS Kim Ng, above, was hired Friday as the general manager of the Miami Marlins after a long career in baseball. Last month the Marlins played in baseball’s postseason for the first time in 17 years. In a Baseball First, a Woman Rises Through the Ranks to Run a Big League Team

women throughout the world eral manager. Once excluded from cause she had another woman as many more amazing, incredible chael Hill, whom Ms. Ng is replac- From Page A1 view Kim differently today, and baseball, women are entering the a boss in baseball. women that are ready for those ing. several other women are moving this gives them hope that that industry more than ever. Forty Ms. Wolf said her first thought roles as well.” This stood in stark contrast to up the ranks of the sport after platform could be theirs some- percent of the professional em- upon hearing the news was happi- Ms. Ng was born in Indianapo- the field, where nearly 40 percent years of resistance, and as women day.” ployees at Major League Base- ness for her friend and mentor. lis but grew up in Queens and of this season’s opening day ros- begin to populate the benches and Ms. Ng (pronounced “ANG”) ball’s central office are women “And then my second thought graduated from Ridgewood High ters were made up of players of boardrooms of professional foot- has a formidable résumé: After (the highest percentage since was: it’s about time,” Ms. Wolf School in New Jersey. At the Uni- color, according to the Institute for seven years with the White Sox, 2008), and 21 women had on-field versity of Chicago, she starred in ball and basketball teams. said. “Anyone with her résumé Diversity and Ethics in Sport. La- she spent 13 as an assistant gen- coaching or player development should have been hired years ago, softball and graduated with a de- tinos, the largest minority group “I felt from 15 years ago that she eral manager, first with the Yan- roles for organizations entering gree in public policy. The White was always the best candidate for so I’m very excited. I feel like in baseball, made up nearly 30 kees before leaving in 2002 to re- 2020 (up from only three in 2017), males with a similar résumé Sox internship soon led to a role as the job, and for whatever reason, percent of major-league players, join Mr. Evans, who was running according to the Institute for Di- would have been hired ages ago.” the team’s assistant director of followed by Black (about 8 per- people weren’t prepared to make the Dodgers. All of those teams versity and Ethics in Sport at the Before this season, Rachel baseball operations. cent) and Asian (roughly 2 per- that move,” said Dan Evans, who reached the postseason during University of Central Florida. Balkovec, a Yankees’ minor- “Kim would come in every day cent). in 1990 hired Ms. Ng as an intern her tenure, but while Ms. Ng re- Still, that institute’s latest re- league instructor, was believed to and ask me a series of questions, Ms. Ng is believed to be the sec- for the Chicago White Sox. “So I ceived interviews for at least four port card gave Major League and at lunch ask more questions,” ond person of Asian descent to congratulate the Marlins, because general manager openings, she Baseball and its 30 teams a C Mr. Evans said. “She had a thirst lead a team. Mr. Zaidi, the this is not just a baseball move, was not chosen for the role until grade for gender hiring. Of the to learn why. She grew into her Dodgers’ general manager from this is a generational move. Young Friday. roughly 500 vice president jobs ‘Males with a similar role so quickly, and the fun thing 2014 to 2018 and now the Giants’ Derek Jeter, the Marlins’ chief among the 30 clubs, only 95 were was to watch the evolution of peo- president of baseball operations, executive, was the Yankees’ star held by women, according to the ple getting more and more com- résumé would have was born in Canada to parents shortstop during Ms. Ng’s time as report, and only 19 were women of fortable with a female in the room. from Pakistan. assistant general manager to Bri- color — about 4 percent of all vice- She had pressure that most other been hired ages ago.’ Mr. Jeter, who is biracial, be- an Cashman. Mr. Jeter cited her president level positions. people don’t have: She had to “wealth of knowledge and cham- The news of Ms. Ng’s hiring was prove herself all the time.” came Miami’s chief executive pionship-level experience” in cause for celebration Friday Ms. Ng entered the game when when the ownership group he is a naming her as the top decision- among the dozens of women in be the first woman hired as a full- top positions were often filled by part of bought the Marlins in 2017. maker on his baseball operations full-time baseball-operations jobs time hitting coach by a major- former professional players, al- He has emphasized diversity in staff. She will be responsible for, who share a text chain. Many in league organization. Rachel most all of them white. Those posi- his remaking of the Marlins, who AVE MARIA CHAPEL among other things, making the group chat, which was created Folden, also a minor-league hit- tions rarely go to former players ended a 17-year postseason Catholic Traditionalist trades, negotiating contracts, run- in the summer of 2019, look up to ting instructor but with the Chi- anymore, as increasingly teams drought this season. Center ning the team’s draft and manag- Ms. Ng as a role model. cago Cubs, was the first female lean on decisions driven more Jean Afterman, who succeeded 210 MAPLE AVE (off Post Ave) ing its moves in free agency. The group’s founder, Jen Wolf, coach in that organization’s his- heavily by data than scouting or Ms. Ng at the Yankees’ nearly two WESTBURY, L.I., N.Y. 11590 “Kim’s appointment makes his- 33, a life-skills coordinator in the tory. And in July, Alyssa Nakken of on-field experience. decades ago, said she believed Mr. TEL: (516) 333-6470 tory in all of professional sports,” Cleveland Indians’ farm system, the San Francisco Giants became Ms. Ng’s hiring resonated Jeter has found a perfect person to Commissioner Rob Manfred said said she was star struck earlier in the first woman in major league throughout an industry that re- run his team. TRADITIONAL in a statement, “and sets a signifi- her career when she first met Ms. history to coach on the field. mains heavily male and white. At “To be a G.M. in Major League LATIN MASS cant example for the millions of Ng at an annual industrywide con- “The most important thing for the beginning of the 2020 season, Baseball, you need intelligence, AS WAS OFFERED BY THE LATE vision and experience,” Ms. After- FATHER GOMMAR A. DE PAUW women and girls who love base- ference. She later worked under me is that this is not a one-off in all only four people of color led base- SUNDAY MASS @ 9 a.m. ball and softball.” Ms. Ng in Major League Base- of these roles,” Ms. Wolf said. “Just ball operations departments: Ken man said in a statement released FIRST SATURDAYS & HOLY DAYS: @9:30 a.m. Women have owned franchises ball’s central office; it was a pow- because Alyssa, Kim and both Ra- Williams of the Chicago White by the Yankees. “These qualities DAILY: RADIO MASS in baseball and other major sports erful experience, Ms. Wolf said, chels are the firsts, they should by Sox, Farhan Zaidi of the San Fran- of leadership, which Kim pos- VIDEO INTERNET MASS www.latinmass-ctm.org in the past, and still do, but never not only because she could learn no means be the last. They’re in- cisco Giants, Al Avila of the De- sesses in abundance, are gender- Facebook: Ave Maria-Chapel had one held the position of gen- directly from a role model but be- credible women, but there are so troit Tigers and the Marlins’ Mi- blind.” THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N A21 Police Watchdog Agency Layoffs Prompt Claims of Retaliation Two Are Dead

By ASHLEY SOUTHALL After Explosion Four senior officials at the New York City agency that examines In V.A. Facility allegations of police misconduct were laid off abruptly on Thurs- day in what officials described as In Connecticut a restructuring meant to expand By MICHAEL GOLD its investigative muscle. But some employees of the At a time when hospitals across agency, the Civilian Complaint Re- the country have been upended by view Board, said the layoffs were a deadly pandemic, the work that retaliation for the officials’ roles in two men were performing at a criticizing how the board re- Veterans Affairs hospital in Con- sponds when the Police Depart- necticut on Friday morning was ment refuses to cooperate with its relatively routine. investigations. The workers — one a Navy vet- The layoffs came after several eran who was employed by the high-profile police killings of Veterans Affairs health care sys- Black people, including George tem and the other a contractor — Floyd in Minneapolis, touched off were replacing a leaking steam huge protests against police bru- pipe, officials said. It was a com- tality across the United States and mon issue at the Veterans Affairs led to a surge of complaints Medical Center in West Haven, against officers in New York and Conn., an aging campus built mostly in the 1940s and 1950s. other cites. But what should have been a The protests focused new atten- routine job ended in tragedy when tion on the review board and its an explosion occurred, killing work as momentum built in the both men and injuring three other City Council and State Legislature people, officials said. to revamp New York’s criminal “This is a profoundly sad and justice system and address sys- tragic day for everyone in Con- temic racism. necticut, and everyone around the The Rev. Fred Davie, the country who cares about veter- board’s chairman, said in a state- ans,” Senator Richard Blumenthal ment on Thursday that the four of Connecticut said at a news con- senior positions were being elimi- ference. nated to free up around $600,000 As of Friday afternoon, neither that would be used to hire 20 addi- of the victims had been publicly tional investigators over the next identified, and the precise cause of year. That was the sole reason for the explosion remained under in- the layoffs, said Mr. Davie, who TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES vestigation, the authorities said. denied that the cuts were retalia- New York City police at a protest in June. Four of the most experienced officials at the Civilian Complaint Review Board were laid off. The men’s deaths struck a dev- tory. astating chord coming not only “This was the result of the need Duerr, Winsome Thelwell, Dane underscored the board’s impor- plaints filed this year were made must often find and watch hours of just two days after Veterans Day, to address redundancies at the during and after the protests, ac- when the country paused to honor managerial level and reallocate Buchanan and Nicole M. Napo- tance, said the employee, who also video, a task that has become cording to a monthly agency re- its military service members, but resources during a difficult time litano — were let go after being noted that voters in several cities more time-consuming since the summoned to meetings with hu- had approved the creation or ex- port. protests. also at time when Connecticut for our city,” he said in the state- hospital workers are grappling ment. man resources officials early pansion of police oversight agen- The average time it takes inves- The agency does not have the tigators to complete an investiga- with a surge in virus patients. Mr. Davie noted in his state- Thursday, according to an agency cies. power to discipline officers. In- employee with knowledge of the “It should be a huge embarrass- tion has risen from about eight stead, it makes recommendations “It’s a tragedy in the middle of a ment that the board had spoken pandemic,” Gov. Ned Lamont said matter who spoke on the condition ment and shame to the city when to the Police Department and, in out repeatedly about its lack of di- at the news conference. of anonymity for fear of retalia- they hear about this,” the senior the most serious cases, pros- rect access to police body-camera The contractor who died video when investigating com- tion. employee said. ecutes officers before an adminis- None of the four returned mes- The review board currently has A restructuring effort worked for Mulvaney Mechan- plaints against officers. trative judge. The police commis- ical, a mechanical contracting and sages seeking comment on Thurs- 122 investigators and a budget of He previously split with Mayor sioner has the final say on disci- construction firm based in Dan- day. less than $20 million, according to that would free up Bill de Blasio by publicly support- pline. bury, Conn., the company’s vice Mr. Buchanan helped write a a spokesman and the mayor’s ing the repeal of a law used to keep around $600,000. The board has 18 months to in- president, Charles Brough, said in memo obtained by ProPublica management report. police misconduct records secret. vestigate cases and make recom- a statement. that outlined how the Police De- After state lawmakers repealed Police have had fewer contacts mendations, and delays can cause Alfred Montoya, the director of partment withheld crucial evi- the law, known as 50-a, the review with civilians than usual this year cases to be closed before inquiries Connecticut’s Veterans Affairs dence, including body-camera board released a database of civil- because of the pandemic, accord- months in 2019 to more than nine are complete. health care system, said the part- video, from the review board and ian complaints going back dec- ing to officials, and the review months this year, which the re- Over the summer, the board ner of the Navy veteran who died steps the agency could take — but ades. board has received fewer com- view board has attributed to the threatened to bring charges told him that the man chose to did not — to fight back. Bill Neidhardt, a spokesman for plaints so far this year than it did growing role of video in examin- against officers who refused to work for the V.A. because he felt it (A board spokesman said on Mr. de Blasio, said that the layoffs in 2019. Nearly half of 3,332 coming complaints. Investigators show up for remote interviews was important to help care for fel- Thursday that 4 percent of the on Thursday would help the re- with investigators after the Police low veterans. agency’s open cases were waiting view board speed up its investiga- Department declined for weeks to “He wanted to give back to for body-camera video and that 12 tions at a time when the city has take action on the matter. The de- those men and women who fought been forced to freeze most new cases were awaiting the outcome so hard,” Mr. Montoya said. “And of internal police investigations partment eventually ordered the spending. He said the mayor “sup- officers to comply. it’s moments like that that really ports that step forward.” into officers’ use of lethal force.) Like Ms. Thelwell, Mr. Duerr tear at your heart, at your soul.’’ But current and former review Ms. Thelwell, who had been was among the agency’s longest- The explosion took place board employees said that the with the board for about 25 years, serving employees and, like her, around 8 a.m., Mr. Montoya said, four people who had been laid off was one of the agency’s longest- at a building on the edge of the he was an expert on the Police De- — two chiefs of investigations, one serving employees. Ms. Napo- West Haven campus, which cov- partment and the disciplinary deputy chief of investigations, and litano had written several memos ers about 47 acres and is just miles the director of policy and advoca- to agency executives detailing ar- process, Mr. Case said. from downtown New Haven. cy — had all pushed for the eas where it could improve. “These are people who have The building does not provide agency to take a more aggressive The senior board employee who deep institutional knowledge patient care, and no patients were stance toward the Police Depart- spoke on the condition of ano- spanning multiple executive di- believed to be injured. ment. nymity criticized the agency for rectors, multiple police commis- Earlier on Friday, Mr. Blumen- “These are the people who laying off officials who collectively sioners, multiple mayors, on how thal, a member of the Senate Vet- fought back against police stone- acted as an internal watchdog. to obtain and present evidence of erans Affairs Committee, called walling against the agency, and it The employee also took issue police misconduct,” he said. “It for a “full, complete, searching in- seems like the agency is capitu- with the timing of the cuts. The re- doesn’t seem that there’s any rea- vestigation” as to the explosion’s GABRIELA BHASKAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES lating to the N.Y.P.D.,” Andrew cent protests in the city, coupled sonable reason to choose these cause. Case, a former board spokesman, with reports that spotlighted Mayor Bill de Blasio supports the layoffs, according to a spokes- people to terminate, except to re- Later, at the news conference, said. abuses in how the police re- man. He said this step would help the review board speed up its taliate against them for some- he suggested that the incident The officials — J. Christopher sponded to the demonstrations, investigations as the city has been forced to freeze spending. thing.” may have been linked to the West Haven facility’s aging infrastructure, saying that the mechanics involved in the repair work had been an “important factor” in the explosion. Two 15-Year-Olds Face Charges of Murder After Woman Is Stabbed “This building has passed its sell-by date,” Mr. Blumenthal said. By MIHIR ZAVERI boys, 16 and 17, charged with mur- the two other people accused of She was never dangerous, Ms. lems with her family “like any “It’s on a list to be replaced, but it Nyla Bond, 20, met Anmerie der in the April killing of a Brook- playing roles in the killing — Mr. Watson said, but she would some- other 15-year-old.” has not yet been reached.” Morales, 15, about a year ago. De- lyn man in his home; a 15-year-old Hatchett and the person still being times behave erratically, kicking On Oct. 13, Ms. Bond reported The V.A. Connecticut Health- spite their age difference, they be- boy charged with fatally shooting sought — who had shared the pho- things or rushing out of the apart- that Ms. Morales had attacked care System serves about 58,000 came friends and often spent time two teenagers playing basketball. tos. Mr. Solano did not indicate ment. She did not graduate from and stabbed her, Ms. Watson said. patients annually. In addition to together at the Bronx apartment Ms. Morales and her accused what role the photos may have high school. Asked to confirm the episode, the its facility in West Haven, it oper- where Ms. Bond lived with her accomplice, Nore Hatchett, are played in the killing of Ms. Bond. “It kind of regressed who she police said only that a 20-year-old ates a campus in Newington, Conn., and six clinics across the mother. being held in a juvenile detention A lawyer for Mr. Hatchett, was,” Ms. Watson said, referring woman had complained to them of state. But there was friction between center but have been charged as Archana Prakash, declined to to her daughter’s disorder. “She being slashed in the face and Mr. Blumenthal has raised con- them, according to Ms. Bond’s adults. A criminal complaint that comment on the specifics of the was much more mature as an ado- stabbed in the back after a verbal contains the charges against them charges, but in a statement she lescent.” dispute. cerns about the facility’s opera- mother, who said that Ms. Morales tions in the past. In 2018, he asked says a third person took part in the cautioned against “rushing to Ms. Watson said it was her son Mr. Solano said he was unaware had attacked her daughter with a the Department of Veterans Af- killing and is still being sought. judge this child.” of Ms. Morales’s possible role in knife in October. Rather than who had first been friendly with fairs’ inspector general to investi- that encounter, but he questioned spurn the teenager, though, Ms. The complaint does not cite a “No one is served by a rush to Ms. Morales, and that Ms. Bond gate problems with the steriliza- Bond forgave her. Ms. Bond’s motive, but there are indications judgment while we are all still in had met her through him. When why she was not arrested if the po- tion of surgical tools there. He also mother attributed the response to that sexually explicit photos of the process of investigating and lice believed she was involved. asked for $17 million in federal a mental illness her daughter had Ms. Morales may have played a understanding the facts sur- On Nov. 2, the police said, offi- funds that year to upgrade the fa- that gave her a childlike naïveté. role. rounding this tragic incident,” Ms. cers responded to a 911 call about cilities. Three weeks later, Ms. Bond Mr. Hatchett told investigators Prakash said. Part of a growing list an assault at a different Bronx On Friday, Mr. Montoya ac- was dead after being beaten with that he and Ms. Morales con- Ms. Bond was born and raised apartment building. Ms. Bond’s knowledged that the campus was a cane and stabbed, and Ms. Mo- fronted Ms. Bond because they in the Bronx, her mother, of young New Yorkers father lived at the address, Ms. aging and that workers faced “a rales and another 15-year-old had believed she had shared such pho- Shadonna Watson, said. As a Watson said. She said she believes constant uphill battle to maintain been charged with murder. tos online, the police said. But that child, she enjoyed writing and accused of violence. her daughter’s attackers lured her the infrastructure.” They joined a growing list of is just one possible factor the au- playing basketball. She attended there. It was not immediately clear young New Yorkers accused of vi- thorities have been exploring, ac- KIPP Infinity Middle School in Officers found Ms. Bond with a whether the explosion caused any olent crimes: three teenagers cording to a law enforcement offi- Manhattan. School staff members stab wound in her chest, the police additional damage to the building, charged in the fatal stabbing of a cial who spoke on the condition of who organized an online fund- Ms. Morales visited the family’s said. Emergency medical workers he said. Barnard College student last anonymity because the investiga- raiser for her family described her apartment, she was friendly but took her to Bronx Lebanon Hospi- The local fire marshal and state emergency workers were on the year; a 15-year-old boy charged tion is continuing. as having “an unflappable sense distant, Ms. Watson said. tal Center, where she was pro- scene Friday, investigating the ac- with five counts of attempted mur- Javier Solano, a lawyer for Ms. of humor, a hugely forgiving heart Mr. Solano, Ms. Morales’s law- nounced dead. Morales, denied that she had and a quiet warmth.” yer, said her client had also been Ms. Bond gave birth to a son last cident. The Connecticut State Po- der in a shooting at a West Indian lice sent detectives from its fire killed Ms. Bond. He confirmed, About four years ago, her “men- born and raised in the Bronx and year. The boy, Chance, will turn 1 celebration in September; two and explosion unit to assist the in- however, that explicit photos of tal state started to decline,” Ms. that she and Ms. Bond would play on Thanksgiving. vestigation after reports of “seri- his client had been shared widely Ashley Southall contributed re- Watson said. She was told she had basketball together. Ms. Morales’s “She was a beautiful person,” ous injuries” at the site, a spokes- porting. Sheelagh McNeill and Su- on social media, although not by schizoaffective disorder. After upbringing had been difficult, he Ms. Watson said. “What hap- man said. san C. Beachy contributed re- Ms. Bond. that, Ms. Watson said, her daugh- said, and she had gotten into pened to her, she definitely didn’t None of the three other people search. Instead, he said, it was one of ter’s friendships became strained. fights and had experienced prob- deserve.” who were injured by the blast had life-threatening injuries, officials said. Patient care was not inter- Corrections rupted at the facility on Friday, Mr. Montoya said. The hospital has been involved in providing co- filmmaker John Waters’s dona- artist Senga Nengudi misstates NATIONAL SPORTS Errors are corrected during the press ronavirus-related care, and Gov. An article on Friday about can- tion to the Baltimore Museum of the title of one of her works. 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JAMELLE BOUIE LETTERS The Electoral College Is Stupid and Immoral Advice for Biden on His Cabinet TO THE EDITOR: or academia. It’s good for the pres- Re Who Are Contenders for Bi- ident to get a full perspective on den’s Cabinet? (news article, Nov. American life by including busi- 12): ness perspectives. What an outstanding list of Four businessmen competed for possible cabinet secretaries! All the presidential nomination this fully qualified, and from what I can year — Andrew Yang, John De- tell not a single party hack or laney, Tom Steyer and Michael industry lobbyist among them. Bloomberg. Surely business people How utterly refreshing! merit consideration for positions in I would caution, however, that the Biden administration. many are currently extremely DAVID LEVINSON useful to our nation in their SOUTHBURY, CONN. present positions and it may be best to keep them there. Perhaps a TO THE EDITOR: new system could be instituted in which a cabinet secretary is cho- Here’s a novel thought regarding sen as well as naming a few highly Joe Biden’s cabinet contenders: qualified people to staff a senior Keep Attorney General William advisory panel that would have Barr in place. His views on the access to the secretary. unbridled powers of the president, including total immunity from the RONALD B. JOHNSTONE legal process — ignoring all sub- SANTA CLARA, CALIF. poenas directed toward him or any member of his administration TO THE EDITOR: because, well, just because — and his legal opinions on ruling via The incoming Biden-Harris admin- executive orders were wholeheart- istration is considering a slate of edly supported by the Republican highly qualified individuals for Party, so certainly they cannot cabinet appointments, but there is complain if President Biden ad- one sector that has been over- heres to those policies. looked since George Washington’s What’s sauce for the goose is time: arts and culture. The arts are sauce for the gander. a critical economic driver in the United States, a $877 billion indus- WILLIAM N. FORDES RICARDO ARDUENGO/REUTERS try contributing 4.5 percent annu- SANTA MONICA, CALIF. ally to the G.D.P., according to a LAST YEAR I wrote that the Electoral Col- law and procedures. the Senate. 2017 government report. The arts lege, an archaic and outmoded system What could those lawmakers do? Un- But the thing about performance art is TO THE EDITOR: contribute more to the G.D.P. than This presidential transition takes that runs contrary to our democratic der the Constitution, states can allocate that it’s only effective when everyone transportation or agriculture, yet principles and intuitions, was the “great- electors — meaning electoral votes — in knows it is a performance. Is every Re- on additional urgency as more both have had their own cabinet than 1,000 Americans die daily est threat to our democracy.” “such Manner as the Legislature thereof publican in Michigan or Wisconsin in on representatives. Somehow, this was an understate- may direct.” Beginning after the Civil the joke? Are Republican voters nation- from the coronavirus as the infec- The arts sector has been devas- tion spreads rampantly through ment. War, every state in the union has used di- wide? If not, how can anyone really say tated by Covid-19, as organizations As recently as Wednesday, according rect popular election to choose electors. they know when and how this game will much of the country. that depend on live audiences were The president-elect’s naming of to a report by my colleague Maggie Ha- The modern process is straightforward. end? among the first forced to shutter berman, President Trump was pressing After the vote, election officials certify The best odds are that come Jan. 20, a Covid advisory panel is welcome, and will be among the last to safely but getting his transition teams his aides on whether Republican legisla- results and prepare “certificates of as- Joe Biden will take the oath of office as reopen. Their plight has been all into the federal agencies responsi- tures in key states could overturn the re- certainment” that establish credentials the 46th president of the United States. but ignored by Capitol Hill. ble for combating the spread of the sults of the presidential election and pick for each elector. There are multiple cop- Many Americans will want to breathe a Establishing a Secretary of Arts infection cannot wait, however pro-Trump electors, potentially giving ies, and the governor signs each one. The sigh of relief. They shouldn’t. and Culture would guarantee that reluctant Republican politicians him a second term. It’s not likely, but the electors meet, record their votes, and We are living through a period in this sector, so closely intertwined may be to risk offending President fact that it is even theoretically possible those votes, along with the certificates of which, for reasons of geographic polar- with tourism, hospitality and trans- Trump’s base. How many more is one of the most starkly undemocratic ascertainment, are sent to state and fed- ization in particular, the Republican portation, finally gets the long- lives will be lost as a result? Isn’t it elements of the Electoral College. If it ac- eral officials, including the vice presi- Party holds a powerful advantage in the term investment it deserves. time to put the nation’s interests tually happened, in 2020 or the future, it dent, who will preside when Congress Senate and the Electoral College, and a CHARLES SEGARS, LOS ANGELES over partisan political advantage? would mark the end of American democ- counts electoral votes early next year. If smaller one in the House of Representa- racy as we know it. a state submits conflicting electoral tives. Twice in 20 years they’ve won the The writer is chief executive of Ovation ANN KORKY, ALEXANDRIA, VA. If Americans chose their president by votes, the House and Senate may choose White House without a majority of votes. TV and founder of its Stand for the a national popular vote, the outcome which ones to accept or reject. A few shifts here and there, and Trump Arts coalition. TO THE EDITOR: would have been apparent from the time Under the theory of legislative su- might have won a second term while los- You write of Pete Buttigieg, a polls closed on the West Coast on Elec- premacy over elections, however, ing by a popular vote margin nearly TO THE EDITOR: contender for heading the Veter- tion Day. Late that night, Joe Biden held twice as large as the one he lost by in It is disappointing to see that Pres- ans Affairs Department: “Mr. a strong lead in ballots cast, and since 2016. ident-elect Joe Biden’s short list of Buttigieg, who is gay, was en- The Republican Party, in other words, then it has only grown. As of Friday It doesn’t just distort senior-level appointees contains so dorsed by . . . ” I scoured the arti- morning, the president-elect led the na- can win unified control of Washington few individuals from the business cle to discover who is straight, to tional tally with 77.8 million votes to 72.5 elections. It infects the without winning a majority of the vote or world. The others come from gov- no avail. appealing to most Americans. Aware of million for Trump, for a spread of 5.3 mil- ernment, advocacy organizations BRADLEY CRAIG, NEW YORK lion votes. With plenty of outstanding entire political process. this advantage, Republicans have em- ballots left to count in Democratic braced it. They’ve pinned their political strongholds like New York and Califor- hopes on our counter-majoritarian insti- nia, the gap will continue to grow. Trump-friendly state legislatures could tutions, elevated minority government Trump’s Refusal to Concede: ‘Slow and Painful’ Of course, Americans don’t choose possibly circumvent governors and elec- into a positive good (rather than a regret- their president by national popular vote. tion officials to create different slates of table flaw of our system) and attacked TO THE EDITOR: and he’s impervious to the pain he They choose him (still him, for now) in 51 electors to send to Congress, forcing a the very idea that we should aspire to American democracy is now in is inflicting on the entire U.S. popu- individual elections, nearly all of them choice between the people’s electors and equality in representation. “Democracy such a precarious situation that lation. winner-take-all, with special attention those of the legislature. It’s a move that isn’t the objective; liberty, peace, and this week the chairman of the Joint Thank you for your service, paid to those states competitive enough would almost certainly force the Su- prosperity are,” Senator Mike Lee of Chiefs of Staff had to issue an President Trump. You may leave to make a difference in the fight for 270 preme Court to intervene, creating con- Utah tweeted last month. “We want the unusual reminder to the armed now. electoral votes. No one designed this sys- fusion and — more important — the human condition to flourish. Rank de- forces that they all took an oath to JANET FALK, NEW YORK tem — it bears little resemblance to the sense that the outcome of the election is mocracy can thwart that.” the Constitution and “not to a king deliberative, temporary legislature em- genuinely unsettled. “Rank democracy.” Perhaps Lee, one or a queen, a tyrant or a dictator.” TO THE EDITOR: powered to pick a president described in It has to be said that there is almost no of the leading intellectual lights of the Re- FRANK DIMARCO, PORTLAND, ORE. the Constitution — but it’s what we have. chance of this happening. Pennsylvania publican Party, is alone in his contempt I was greatly relieved when the It is because the outcome depends on Republicans have already ruled it out, for political equality between citizens. election results rolled in, thinking results in individual states — and be- and without the state’s electoral votes But I doubt it. And a Republican Party TO THE EDITOR: that this was the end of our na- cause those results are much narrower Trump has no reasonable path to a sec- that holds that view is one that will do Re “Trump’s Election Tantrum” tional nightmare. Apparently I than the national tally — that Trump can ond term. Biden’s win was decisive, with anything to win power, even if it breaks (column, nytimes.com, Nov. 11): must worry — endlessly — that he claim there is a path to reversing the out- hundreds of thousands of votes in five democracy. It’s a Republican Party that Charles M. Blow’s comparison of might run again. come of the election, however ridiculous swing states separating him from Trump will suppress voters rather than per- President Trump to a 3-year-old ANNE VANDERMOLEN that claim is. Allege enough fraud in Wis- in the Electoral College. Republicans in suade them, degrade an office rather reminds me of the question my ST. JOSEPH, MICH. consin, Pennsylvania and Georgia and Washington know this and have pri- than allow the opposition to wield it and mother would ask before removing you might convince Republican state leg- vately described their public statements create districts so slanted as to make it a Band-Aid on a hurt knee: “How islators to take matters into their own (that the results are uncertain; that Bi- almost impossible for voters to remove do you want it? Fast and painful, hands, embracing the view, first articu- den is not-yet president-elect) as one them from office. or slow and painful?” The Times welcomes letters from read- lated by Chief Justice William Rehnquist part performance art for a chief execu- For that Republican Party, the Elector- It wasn’t much of a choice, be- ers. Letters must include the writer’s in Bush v. Gore and then echoed in a re- tive who cannot face reality, one part a al College is a loaded gun, waiting to be cause it would hurt me either way. name, address and telephone number. cent opinion by Justice Brett Kava- strategy to gin up turnout for the upcom- fired. We’ll disarm and disassemble it as At least I had a choice. Mr. Trump Those selected may be edited, and short- naugh, that state legislatures have sole ing pair of runoff elections in Georgia soon as possible, if we value this democ- isn’t giving us a choice; he is tak- ened to fit allotted space. Email: letters and exclusive power to decide election that will determine which party controls racy of ours. 0 ing the slow and painful course, @nytimes.com

ROGER COHEN Mr. President, Pack Your Bags and Be Gone

THE RULER BROODS, alone with his rage gia confirmed, Joe Biden, the president- Senate majority leader, Mitch McCon- political coup. Biden beat Trump by hint of voter fraud, and thus install a slate and shame, undone by rejection, his elect, has 306 electoral votes, 36 more nell, says it’s not over. They are complicit 148,000 votes in Michigan, 58,000 votes of Trump electors, claiming he won with mind, like Macbeth’s, “full of scorpions,” than the 270 needed to take the White in a power grab. in Pennsylvania, 36,000 votes in Nevada, the “legal” popular vote. The Electoral plotting to overturn facts and destroy House. He will end up with about 80 mil- It’s come to this in the United States of 20,000 votes in Wisconsin, 14,000 votes in College votes Dec. 14 to choose officially American democracy. His lackeys, and lion popular votes, the most any candi- America. Trump has always been a dan- Georgia and 11,000 votes in Arizona. For the next president. only they remain, try to humor the mas- date has ever gotten, and over five mil- ger to democratic institutions and the Trump to win, as Andrew Prokop wrote This potential maneuver is preposter- ter in his labyrinth. lion more than Trump. rule of law. He’s empowered dictators in Vox, he needs to “change the outcome ous and vile. Wisconsin, Michigan and Donald Trump, departing president, No recount can turn these numbers across the world. I’ve witnessed elec- in at least three of those states — a very Pennsylvania all have Democratic gov- lost in an election that a division of the around. No evidence has emerged to tall order.” ernors, who would try to veto or block Department of Homeland Security has back Trump’s lawsuits challenging the Article II of the Constitution says that such a move. The attorney general of now called “the most secure in American outcomes. Biden did not squeak this vic- Trump wants to preserve, the states must appoint electors to the Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, has already history,” with no “evidence that any vot- tory. He won clearly, period. Electoral College “in such manner as the declared that for the State Legislature ing system deleted or lost votes, changed Even Ted Olson, who successfully ar- protect and defend only Legislature thereof may direct.” The “there is no legal mechanism to act alone state legislatures of Wisconsin, Michi- votes or was in any way compromised.” gued for then-candidate George W. Bush and appoint electors. None.” in the 2000 Bush v. Gore Supreme Court gan, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania Mr. President, get the boxes, get the himself. Or, in theory, legislatures could try to case, says it’s over and Biden is presi- are Republican-controlled. How does tape, pack your bags and be gone. change the law overnight, if enough Re- dent-elect, The National Law Journal re- this look to a man like Trump who, as my He can’t. He won’t. It’s not in the man. ported. “And we have — I do believe the tions stolen in places like Iran. I never friend Greg Schwed, a lawyer, put it to publicans have taken leave of their con- Truth is unbearable. Fraud! Rigged! election is over — and we do have a new thought I would see an attempt to deny me, has never “failed to take the path sciences and concluded American de- Trump can no more accept defeat than president,” Olson said. “And we do be- the will of the American people. that would preserve his vanity and mocracy is expendable. I will not at- recall the fact that he took an oath to cause a large number of people ex- My colleague Maggie Haberman de- power, no matter what law or tradition it tempt to describe the mess that could en- “preserve, protect and defend the Con- pressed disapproval, whether one scribed a recent White House meeting would violate?” sue in Congress, except to say that it stitution of the United States.” agrees with that or not, of the manner, where Trump pressed to know “whether It looks like possible salvation. would be murky, and there’s a 6-to-3 con- His only vow is to preserve, protect style and techniques of this particular Republican legislatures could pick pro- Republican legislators may feel be- servative majority in the Supreme Court. and defend himself. He has never been president.” Trump electors in a handful of key states holden to Trump. Some of them might This is a column I never thought I able to see beyond that orange face in the Except that it’s not over. Desperation and deliver him the electoral votes he conclude they’re finished if they do not would write. But better to write it than to mirror. No Bible offers consolation to this drives Trump to look, still, for a means to needs to change the math and give him a do his bidding. These legislators might — be blindsided. The world needs an Amer- man, no creed, no truth, no sense of de- secure what Secretary of State Mike second term.” might — decide to ignore the popular ican democracy restored, rid of its brood- cency, not even Fox News now, nothing. Pompeo has called “a smooth transition This is Trump’s so-called Hail Mary vote, perhaps by declaring the mail-in ing ruler, and led by the man who won, With his victory in Arizona and Geor- to a second Trump administration.” The plan. In plain language, it’s a potential ballots invalid, even in the absence of a Joe Biden. End of story. 0 THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N A23

not in Hindi, the official language of the country. Never in my life did I imagine a Watching Tamil-speaking vice president of the United States. Our striking commonalities made Ms. Harris’s victory particularly poignant for CNN me — but I think she offers many Black and brown girls and women a sense of belonging. While Irish President Trump’s attacks on women, on people of color and on immigrants feel personal to us. As he allows a pandemic to Séamas O’Reilly run rampant in our country and even LONDON threatens our democracy, it feels like a be- trayal that so many Americans persist in S THE polls closed on Election Day supporting him. in America, my family group His vitriol encourages those who hate chat thrummed with anticipa- us. In comments under my Instagram and A tion. Maps were shared. Proba- Twitter posts, people frequently tell me, bilities mocked. We argued over exit polls, “Go back to your country.” safe seats and swing votes, breaking off I say: This is my country. I have contrib- occasionally to ask what, precisely, the uted to it with my taxes, my writing and Electoral College was. television shows and my activism. I am This was not the usual way of things. working to improve this nation, which you We’re Irish. My family — my 10 siblings, do not do for a place you do not love. their partners, my cousin and my father — I would also like to say: So many wom- are spread among Ireland, England and en in my family and our communities have Germany, and we ordinarily use Whats- been invisible, even as we have helped App to share photos of grandchildren. But, build this country with our own hands. We in a shift familiar to many families around have cleaned your toilets, we have waited the world, we spent one week in Novem- on you in restaurants, we have done your ber as an improbably fast-paced Ameri- taxes, we have ministered to your children can electoral information hub. in the pediatrician’s office, we have pro- Following American politics used to grammed your computers, we have cared mean keeping up with the big-ticket AMR ALFIKY/THE NEW YORK TIMES for your elderly, we have even led your items: announcements of war, confes- companies. But you have sidestepped us sions of extramarital affairs, the wearing and made us feel less important than you. of tan suits. But President Trump changed Ms. Harris is part of a new generation of that. Kamala Harris Moved Me to Tears elected women of color, taking office at Trying to ignore the Trump administra- this absurdly divided time when people of tion is a bit like trying to ignore a small fire color are both ascendant and under at- on your person. “Did you see Donald’s City, I was excited to see all kinds of people president. Padma Lakshmi tack. And these women are not just in gone on a Covid drive?” my father asked, — with different colors of skin, styles of Ms. Harris understands this. “While I power; they have excelled, often precisely as President Trump’s motorcade whisked dress and ways of moving through the may be the first woman in this office, I will because of their life experiences. Senator him to greet his supporters outside Walter WAS on a hike in Garrison, N.Y., world. But slowly I became aware of a dif- not be the last,” she assured us. “Because Harris pinioned Brett Kavanaugh during Reed hospital in October. “Why doesn’t he when I heard the news of Kamala ferent world, through magazines and TV, every little girl watching tonight sees that his confirmation hearing for the Supreme go door-to-door, while he’s at it?” Harris and Joe Biden’s victory. I felt where almost everyone was white. this is a country of possibilities.” Court. Representative Alexandria Ocasio- As the count entered its second day, my I elated. Then suddenly I felt this heat I watched a lot of television: “The Over the summer, I learned that Ms. Cortez brilliantly rebuked a fellow con- father feigned indifference. He said he welling up from my chest into my throat Brady Bunch,” “The Partridge Family,” Harris’s mother’s family comes from the found CNN, with its flashy graphics and and it burst out of me in tears I could not “One Day at a Time,” “Three’s Company,” same city in India as my family. Her gressman, Ted Yoho, when he used a sex- fast-talking anchors, not to his taste. He control. At first I didn’t even know why I “Happy Days,” “Fantasy Island.” As a grandparents lived right around the cor- ist insult against her. Representative watched his local bulletins, with was sobbing. latchkey kid in the ’80s, these shows ner from mine in the Besant Nagar area of Pramila Jayapal grilled Attorney General presenters who act like bank managers Finally, I was thinking. Finally a wom- raised me and taught me about American William Barr about the decision to take an who’ve won a competition to present the an, and a woman of color, takes this office. life. “aggressive approach” against Black news. I felt like a marathon runner who Children know when they are being Lives Matter protesters — but not against breaks down into tears at the end of a race. Never in my life did I But he couldn’t stay away. “Your man sorted. I could see that the idealized gun-toting protesters who crowded a state And that marathon was a lifetime of fight- with the map is very good,” he was saying America on the TV screen and the maga- capitol. ing to be seen and to advance, as an immi- imagine a Tamil-speaking by Thursday night. He was initially in- zine pages did not value Black and brown Now Ms. Harris will have new authority grant and woman of color with few guides. capable of remembering the names of the people like me and many I knew. vice president. and reach as vice president. The Trump I cried again as I watched Ms. Harris anchors and so referred to them by the I figured out how to navigate the time a era she is ending empowered people to names of television presenters they address the nation last weekend as the show their racism nakedly, in slights and vice president-elect. The world finally saw boy called me the N-word when I was 11; the city of Chennai. Our grandfathers vaguely resembled: Anderson Cooper be- and navigate the times I auditioned for jeers and acts of violence. For many peo- a Black woman, whose parents came from might have strolled together in the same ple of color and immigrants, the message acting roles in my 20s, only to be told they Jamaica and India, near the pinnacle of walking group of retirees on Elliot’s was clear: You do not belong here, and weren’t “going ethnic”; and navigate the American power. Beach. We both spent summers visiting you are not wanted. My family spent a That vision, in an instant, seemed to times in my 30s when I didn’t know to ne- there, and might have been sent on er- gotiate full credit for my work. It will be a difficult and long path to evaporate some of the unnecessary hur- rands to the same All-in-One corner store undo that damage. But for me and other week enthralled by Things might have been different if I dles I had faced, making a different path that sold half-rupee candies and lentils by girls and women of color, Ms. Harris em- had seen more women like me in positions for a child like me growing up today. the kilo. In the United States, we were bodies an opposite message: You do be- American news. of power — role models to show me a path. Now, days later, everyone is talking raised by single mothers who both worked long here, her life says, and you obviously Often now, strangers — girls and wom- about President Trump again. His refusal in health care — mine as a nurse and hers can achieve absolutely anything. 0 to concede shouldn’t steal Vice President- en of color — approach me to say that see- as a biomedical scientist. came Paul O’Grady, an English television elect Harris’s moment — his time is up and ing my face on television expanded their When she accepted the Democratic presenter who hosts “For the Love of PADMA LAKSHMI is the host and executive her time, and ours, is just beginning. aspirations. I’m just a cable food show nomination for the vice presidency, she Dogs”; John King was reborn as Roy producer of “Taste the Nation” and “Top When I first came to this country at age host. Imagine how wide the ripples of im- thanked her “chitthis,” the word for aun- Walker, a quiz show host from Belfast. Chef” and an artist-ambassador for the 4 from India, walking around New York pact can be when a woman of color is vice ties in Tamil, a language of South India — Soon, however, my father was more inti- A.C.L.U. mately acquainted with the anchors of CNN than he is with his 11 children. He related their key points and compared their styles, and referred to counties like DeKalb and Allegheny in the commonplace way he usually reserves for the The Apocalyptic Politics of the Populist Right townlands of rural Donegal. By Friday, grandchildren had been for- Ivan Krastev gotten entirely; the finger paintings of our VIENNA WhatsApp group were replaced with district maps. And our tentative stabs at com- ONALD TRUMP’S victory in the prehension soon grew into the solid pro- 2016 presidential election was nouncements of seasoned wonks. experienced by many right- “Pennsylvania is flying now,” my sister wing populists in Europe as a Dearbhaile said. And Nevada, my brother D momentous turning point. It was their Conall said, looked like a certainty, even version of 1989, when the fall of the Berlin when one factored military votes into the Wall made liberalism appear unstop- usual Democratic advantage with mail-in pable and triumphant. Right-wing popu- ballots. lists from Hungary to Britain believed We puzzled over the gains Mr. Trump that if Mr. Trump could become presi- had made among Hispanic voters, which dent of the United States, the future be- we, shockingly, had not foreseen. “May- longed to them. President Trump’s 2020 be,” my brother Dara said, in the sole mo- defeat may trigger the rise of a much ment of self-examination any of us man- darker vision. aged the whole week, “it’s more difficult Fortified by the solidarity of a majority for us to grasp because we come from a of Republicans, including, it seems, the place where identity politics is all there is.” secretary of state, Mr. Trump has wan- With our newly refined understanding tonly rejected the outcome of the recent of American politics, we began to look be- vote. Invoking allegations of fraud, he tween and beyond the numbers, taking has made it clear that for him, conceding cues from more subtle variations. “John defeat is a non-starter. This behavior King is back on shift!” my sister Caoimhe might seem pathetic — and it’s not going gasped on Friday. “It must be close.” to keep him in office — but his decision to On Saturday afternoon our time, Wolf ignore the will of the people has ramifica- Blitzer crossed the spaceship floor of tions for democracy well beyond the CNN’s studio to announce Mr. Biden as United States. the victor. The game, or this part of it, was While most presidents and prime min- over. We greeted the news as though it isters seem ready to congratulate Presi- was an acquittal for a crime we had not dent-elect Joe Biden, a handful of politi- committed, gasped at the commentary for cal leaders — Mr. Trump’s allies — are another hour or so and promptly switched endorsing his defiant gambit. When the off CNN for the first time in four long days. media announced Mr. Biden’s triumph ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES The images we shared afterward were last Saturday, right-wing broadcasters from an Irish news program that ended its across Europe insisted that the elections President Andrzej Duda of Poland has been in no rush to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden. election coverage with elegiac footage of were not over. While President Emman- Mr. Biden’s win, overlaid with audio from uel Macron of France and Chancellor An- that will define the fate of the nation for apocalyptic mind-set of the right-wing happens you can forget it.” All European one of his most prominent campaign vid- gela Merkel of Germany seemed more the next generation. But when the elec- populist voters in the West. populists have echoed Mr. Trump’s dem- eos, in which he recites “The Cure at Troy” than pleased to usher in a new adminis- tions are over, democracy forces the First, it is crucial to understand that ographic anxiety. by Seamus Heaney. Distances collapsed tration, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of losers to focus on the next election, the stakes feel alarmingly high at the mo- Can the European experience help as the man we’d just watched win the pres- Hungary and President Andrzej Duda of which will without fail be the most impor- ment. People have been haunted for America to deal with the reality of con- idency 3,000 miles away spoke the words Poland were in no rush to congratulate tant election once again. months by mass death; the global econ- tested elections? Unfortunately not. of a poet born half an hour from our family the president-elect. By refusing to concede, Mr. Trump omy has been severely disrupted. This is Consider this: In the 30 years since the home. In fact, at the same time Mr. Trump sends a message to his allies that for a toxic climate for politics already, en- end of Communism, Albanians have Then time resumed its gentle gallop. was calling foul, Mr. Orban was propos- right-wing populists, the next election is couraging end-times thinking. The fail- voted nine times in parliamentary elec- Pages peeled from the calendar once ing changes to the Hungarian electoral ure of Mr. Trump to contain the pan- tions. In only three instances has the los- more. My father’s dog died. I turned 35. system that should help him to stay in demic further fans the flames. ing party conceded defeat. In most cases power beyond 2022 and threatened to The grandchildren resumed their position But the right wing has other reasons to it was the opposition party that rejected veto the European Union budget if Berlin Trump’s sent a message to at the summit of our group chat’s interest. fear the future: A generational divide fu- the election results and asked its sup- and Brussels demanded that rule-of-law A week on, our CNN obsession seems like els its deep pessimism. A good majority porters to take to the streets. Usually, it a relic of the ancient past. Chancing on the violations lead to the suspension of Euro- his fellow strongmen that of American voters younger than 25 cast took the American Embassy in Tirana, network on a channel hop evokes only the pean funds. this is a fight for survival. their ballots against Mr. Trump. Similar Albania’s capital, to force the loser to ac- melancholy stab of a fondly remembered, By doing it he had made it clear that trends look likely in Europe, where the cept reality. but increasingly distant, summer ro- the outcome of the American elections right wing’s base is dominated by the ag- In the current American emergency mance. We hope our wider attentions to will not change his policies and that like of no importance; that if they concede to- ing population. That has been intensified an “Albanian solution” will not work be- Washington will soon follow that diving Mr. Trump’s, his choice is defiance. He is day, there will be no victories tomorrow. by the fear of the inflow of migrants who cause there is no American Embassy in arc. ready to block the much needed Euro- If in 2016 Mr. Trump’s message was that Washington. Americans must resolve will get the right to vote. We’ll always have the week we spent in pean Recovery Fund in order to demon- the future belongs to the nationalist pop- this crisis on their own. And the way they Nobody has articulated the fear of be- thrall to the beating, flashing heart of strate that he will not compromise with ulists, today, by refusing to concede his resolve it will determine the future of de- American news and the catharsis of its Brussels. defeat, he sends the message that popu- ing outvoted as a result of demographic mocracy around the world. 0 eventual end. Democratic politics serves as a nation- lists should fear the future. change better than Mr. Trump. During Not that the Biden win had surprised all wide therapy session. It allows voters to In trying to make sense of Mr. Trump’s the 2016 presidential campaign, he told of us by that stage. My father had called express their fears about the future defiance, most analysts have looked at his supporters: “I think this will be the IVAN KRASTEV is a contributing opinion Maricopa County days before. 0 while reassuring them that when the the president’s personality: Mr. Trump last election that the Republicans have a writer, the chairman of the Center for elections are over, everything will go never concedes defeat, and this entire chance of winning, because you’re going Liberal Strategies, a permanent fellow at SEAMAS O’REILLY writes for The Irish back to normal. act of defiance is a way to soothe his ego. to have people flowing across the border, the Institute for Human Sciences in Times and The Observer in Britain, and It is hardly surprising, then, that poli- But the reasons his supporters both in- you’re going to have illegal immigrants Vienna and the author of the forthcoming is the author of the forthcoming memoir ticians and the news media depict most side and outside the United States stand coming in, and they’re going to be legal- “Is It Tomorrow Yet?: Paradoxes of the “Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?” elections as turning points — choices by him run much deeper. They reflect the ized . . . and be able to vote. Once all that Pandemic.” A24 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 2 MARKETS 6 PERSONAL FINANCE 10 SPORTS With more certainty about Plans through the Affordable Tommy Heinsohn was a election results, Wall Street Care Act, or Obamacare, aren’t resounding figure in Boston responded by nudging the as expensive as you may think. sports: the loud, biased, S&P 500 to a record high. Some actually are cheaper now. lovable Celtic.

TECH ECONOMY MEDIA FINANCE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 B1

After years of hydrogen fuel setbacks, one state is seeing technology, policy and consumer demand finally come together.

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True Zero hydrogen pumps at a station in California Pushes Fountain Valley, Calif. The state has 40 hydrogen pumps. Left, a hydrogen-fueled A Hydrogen Economy bus in Santa Ana. Some proponents think hydrogen’s By IVAN PENN state and federal governments. With the biggest use will and CLIFFORD KRAUSS costs of producing and shipping hydrogen be in larger IRVINE, CALIF. — Since President George W. coming down, California is setting ambi- vehicles. Bush fueled a minivan with hydrogen 15 tious goals to phase out vehicles that run on years ago, the promise of cars and trucks fossil fuels in favor of batteries and hydro- powered by the fuel has come up mostly gen. Large auto and energy companies like empty. Toyota Motor and Royal Dutch Shell have That hydrogen pump, in Washington, committed to supplying more cars and fuel- closed long ago. But in California, the being stations. ginnings of a hydrogen economy may fi- “In past cycles, there was always some- nally be dawning after many fits and starts. thing missing,” said Matthew Blieske, Dozens of hydrogen buses are lumbering Shell’s global hydrogen product manager. down city streets, while more and larger fu- “There was a policy missing, or the technol- eling stations are appearing from San ogy wasn’t quite ready, or people were not Diego to San Francisco, financed by the CONTINUED ON PAGE B7

Law Firms A Pledge That Would Pay Dividends Biden’s Selections Suggest Back Away Ron Lieber Tougher Wall Street Rules YOUR MONEY From Trump By ALAN RAPPEPORT ident Trump’s steady rollback of and JEANNA SMIALEK regulations across the federal By Rachel Abrams, David Enrich The nation’s balance of power is government. and Jessica Silver-Greenberg WASHINGTON — For four years, at stake as both senators from Wall Street has benefited from the Among those selected for the fi- Law firms that have represented Georgia face runoff elections in Trump administration’s push to nancial regulatory transition President Trump and his cam- early January. The campaigns loosen bank rules and weaken teams are Gary Gensler, who led paign are now distancing them- have been bitter, and they stand post-crisis financial regulations. the Commodity Futures Trading selves from a quixotic effort by to get more so. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Mr. Trump and his allies to over- But here is one matter that the Jr. appears ready to shift things in turn the results of the election won four candidates agree on, even if the opposite direction, bringing Reversing course after by President-elect Joseph R. Bi- some of them have come to it back stricter oversight of the fi- den Jr. begrudgingly: Owning and trad- nancial industry. four years of steady Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, ing individual shares of stock has The transition teams that Mr. regulation rollbacks. the law firm leading the Trump stopped making sense. Biden selected to review finance- campaign’s efforts to challenge One of the two Republican related agencies are filled with the presidential election results in Commission during the Obama incumbents, Kelly Loeffler, sold ROBERT NEUBECKER proponents of stronger regula- Pennsylvania, abruptly withdrew all of her stock this year. Her tion, jarring industry groups that administration. He pushed from a federal lawsuit that it had trading in the early days of the are suddenly fearful the moderate through dozens of tough rules in filed on behalf of the campaign. pandemic, in the wake of a pri- Ms. Loeffler’s Democratic to take Mr. Perdue’s seat, also Democrat is preparing for an un- the wake of the 2010 Dodd Frank That followed a similar move by vate Senate briefing, had come challenger, the Rev. Dr. Raphael supports a stock ownership ban expected onslaught of corporate law, including some that the an Arizona law firm that was rep- under scrutiny. The other, David Warnock, owns only mutual and would sell the more than oversight. The burst of anxiety re- Trump administration has wa- resenting the Republican Party as Perdue, sold all but three stocks funds and thinks all members of $500,000 of Apple shares he flects the uncertainty surround- tered down. it challenged that state’s results. after his trades also generated Congress should do the same. owns if he won. ing Mr. Biden’s approach and wor- Also on the teams are Leandra CONTINUED ON PAGE B4 controversy. Jon Ossoff, the Democrat trying CONTINUED ON PAGE B5 ries of a sharp reversal from Pres- CONTINUED ON PAGE B4 B2 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020

The Digest

INTERNATIONAL sion initiative, which is scheduled to expire next year. Signs of Election Clarity Spur a Record Deal Reached to Aid More than 40 countries have al- Poor Nations With Debt ready received over $5 billion in By MATT PHILLIPS relief from immediate debt pay- S&P 500 INDEX Stocks on Wall Street rallied to a The S& P 500 Index Finance ministers from the ments this year. Economists have record on Friday, with investors warned that the poor countries +1.36% Position of the S& P 500 index at 1-minute intervals on Friday. world’s leading economies agreed 3,585.15 seeing the chance to finally move to a new debt forgiveness frame- face an untenable predicament as past the presidential election even 3,600 they pour resources into health work on Friday, one that could of- as the persistent spread of the co- initiatives and attempt to support fer relief to poor countries strug- ronavirus threatens to undercut workers who have lost incomes the outlook for the economy. gling to cope with the coronavirus amid the coronavirus. 3,580 pandemic. The agreement brings big cred- STOCKS & BONDS The Group of 20 said in a state- itors such as China, India and Tur- ment that the “significant debt key into alignment with the Paris A string of events seemed to re- 3,560 vulnerabilities and deteriorating Club of creditor nations in terms assure investors that President- outlook” made it necessary to go of debt restructuring and resched- DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. would beyond its existing debt suspen- uling. ALAN RAPPEPORT move into the White House in Jan- 3,540 +1.37% uary without incident, after a 29,479.81 week and half of tumult and un- Previous close 3,537.01 certainty about the Trump cam- 3,520 ECONOMY paign’s efforts to reverse the out- Wholesale Prices Rise, come of the vote. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. The state of Georgia was called Source: Reuters THE NEW YORK TIMES But Inflation Risk Is Low in the former vice president’s favor on Friday, with Arizona hav- U.S. wholesale prices rose moder- ing been added to his column the cases in the United States and the ately in October as food costs night before. Mr. Biden had al- Producer Prices potential for new efforts to contain jumped by the largest amount in NASDAQ COMPOSITE INDEX ready won the election before the spread that might also hurt the five months. those two calls, but they raised his Index of finished goods prices and economy. +1.02% services, 2009 =100, seasonally The Labor Department re- electoral tally to 306 votes, giving Besides the threat the virus 11,829.29 ported Friday that its producer him a decisive victory. adjusted. poses to the economy, some ana- price index, which measures infla- President Trump’s campaign AUG. SEPT. OCT. lysts cautioned that investors still tion pressures before they reach also lost a court challenge in Mich- 120 +0.3% +0.4% +0.3% had some political uncertainty to the consumer, increased 0.3 per- NAM Y. HUH/ASSOCIATED PRESS igan, withdrew one in Arizona, navigate, namely because the bal- and saw some of its lawyers with- cent last month, lower than the 0.4 119 ance of power in the Senate re- percent gain in September. draw from a case in Pennsylvania. mains to be resolved in two runoff fortable staying put with ultralow Put together, those moves gave in- elections in Georgia in January. Food costs rose 2.4 percent, the interest rates for a some time. vestors a touch more clarity about 118 biggest increase since a 5.6 per- Democrats could still take con- Rather than worrying about in- what to expect in 2021, giving trol of the chamber, potentially cent surge in May that was tied to flation, economists say deflation stocks the push they needed to ad- opening the door to tax increases shortages caused by the pan- 10-YEAR TREASURY YIELD 117 could become the bigger concern vance into record territory. on corporations and wealthy indi- demic. as coronavirus infections surge 0.89% “We may actually have capitu- viduals that many in the markets Over the past 12 months, whole- across the United States. +0.01 points lation from the White House and 116 see as a headwind for stocks. And sale prices are up just 0.5 percent. Consumers have a tendency to be able to say that the election is ’19 ’20 little progress appeared to be hap- The benign readings on infla- hold off on big purchases if they finally behind us,” said Steve Sos- Source: Labor pening on new federal economic tion are a welcome sign at the Fed- see prices falling, and that can nick, chief strategist at Interac- Department THE NEW YORK TIMES aid, which most economists say is eral Reserve, which will feel com- turn into a deflationary cycle. A.P. tive Brokers in Greenwich, Conn. a must to keep the economy from The S&P 500 rose 1.4 percent slowing yet again. Friday, exceeding its Sept. 2 clos- Banks, industrial companies “There is simply too much risk ing record of 3,580.84. Wall Street and small stocks — all of which right now for this market to con- AUTOMOBILES the rear seat while the cars were had toyed with that high for days, are sensitive to near-term expec- tinue to rally, and I would antici- parked and unattended. tations for growth — were among G.M. Recalling Bolts CRUDE OIL (U.S.) first because of the view that the pate we will see a pullback in the The agency said the cars should presidential election delivered an the best performers of the day Fri- near future,” said Doug Rivelli, Over Battery Fire Risk be parked outdoors until the recall $40.13 outcome that could lead to growth day. Shares of companies that president of the institutional bro- repairs have been made. –$0.99 next year, and later after Pfizer re- have become barometers of senti- kerage firm Abel Noser in New General Motors is recalling nearly The fires have happened when leased surprisingly good trial re- ment toward the pandemic also York. 69,000 Chevrolet Bolt electric cars the batteries were close to being sults for its vaccine candidate. reflected optimism: Simon Prop- That said, recent events seem worldwide because the batteries fully charged, so until a perma- The rally has left the S&P 500 up erty Group, the shopping mall op- to have reinvigorated appetite for have caught fire in five of them. nent fix is developed, dealers will 9.6 percent this month. erator, gained 8 percent, and stocks among investors. In the The company said Friday that it install software that limits charg- And despite levels of infection MGM Resorts rose more than 9 week after the election, money did not know yet what is causing ing to 90 percent of the battery’s that have surpassed the frighten- percent. has poured into equity markets. the fires. Two people have suf- capacity, said Jesse Ortega, the ing first stage of the outbreak — Companies that have benefited Bank of America Merrill Lynch fered smoke inhalation from the Bolt executive chief engineer. raising the prospect of fresh lock- during lockdowns, like Peloton In- analysts noted on Friday that the teractive and Zoom Video Com- fires, and a house was set ablaze. The recall covers Bolts from the GOLD (N.Y.) downs to stem the rise — invest- week that ended on Wednesday The National Highway Traffic 2017 through 2019 model years, in- ors appeared to bet on a short- munications, were lower. saw $32.5 billion course into U.S. Safety Administration said last cluding nearly 51,000 in the U.S. $1,885.70 term improvement in the eco- The gains on Friday came de- equity funds, the second-largest month that the fires began under A.P. +$13.10 nomic outlook. spite the surge in coronavirus weekly inflow of all time.

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POLICY | REGULATION

Biden Could Change the Math for Education Loans Regulators Say By STACY COWLEY Ex-Executives and TARA SIEGEL BERNARD The federal government is the pri- For Wells Fargo mary lender for students who borrow money for college and gradu- Misled Investors ate school, and the Education De- partment directly holds more By STACY COWLEY than $1.4 trillion in student debt. and EMILY FLITTER President-elect Joseph R. Biden Federal regulators raised fresh Jr.’s administration will have the claims against two former top ability to make changes that can directly affect millions of borrow- Wells Fargo executives for their ers’ monthly bills. role in the bank’s misdeeds, accus- Here’s what you need to know. ing them of misleading investors about financial results in the unit Student Loan Pause that caters to individual customers. Some 22 million borrowers of federal student loans have had their The Securities and Exchange monthly payments temporarily Commission on Friday said John paused and interest waived G. Stumpf, the bank’s former chief through the end of the year be- executive, agreed to pay a $2.5 cause of the pandemic — a sus- million penalty to settle the fraud pension of payments on debt total- claims against him. The regulator ing more than $900 billion — and also filed a lawsuit against Carrie they’re anxious to learn if the re- L. Tolstedt, the former head of lief will continue into 2021. Wells Fargo’s community bank, in President Trump, through an federal court in San Francisco. executive action, already ex- Both executives made false cer- tended the so-called administra- tifications about the bank’s fi- tive forbearance through Dec. 31. nances, the S.E.C. said, because (It had been scheduled to expire they knew or should have known on Sept. 30 under an emergency that Wells Fargo’s sales metrics legislative package.) But it’s un- were inflated by the opening of clear whether he plans to provide customer accounts that were un- another extension before Mr. Bi- authorized or unnecessary. den takes office in late January. A “If executives speak about a spokeswoman for the Education key performance metric to pro- Department declined to com- mote their business, they must do ment. Mr. Biden’s transition team AMR ALFIKY/THE NEW YORK TIMES so fully and accurately,” said also declined to comment on its The administration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will have the ability to enact rules that will affect the lives of millions of student borrowers. Stephanie Avakian, the agency’s plans. enforcement director. Congress may feel pressure to borrowers are enrolled in income- ment and nonprofit jobs in ex- loans. After several notorious for- reer profiteers.” He also said he Ms. Tolstedt “was an honest act before the year ends, policy driven repayment plans, which change for debt forgiveness; after profit chains collapsed, including would reinstate more permissive and conscientious executive,” Enu experts said, and it could include try to help struggling debtors by a decade of on-time monthly pay- Corinthian Colleges and ITT Tech- rules for the program that were Mainigi, her lawyer, said in re- an extension in a new stimulus linking their monthly loan payments, any remaining debt is nical Institute, hundreds of thou- enacted during the Obama admin- sponse to the suit. “It is unfair and package or other legislation. ment to how much they earn. wiped away. But borrowers have sands of people flooded the Edu- istration and eliminated by Ms. unfounded for the S.E.C. to point “For millions of borrowers, the There are four plans to choose to be in the right type of repay- cation Department with claims. DeVos. the finger at Ms. Tolstedt when fallout from the pandemic is still from, but advocates say they’re ment plan and have the right kind Education Secretary Betsy De- her statements were not only true raging,” said Seth Frotman, exec- not always affordable for the most of federal loan, all while working Vos has fought them at every turn Private Student Loans but also thoroughly vetted by oth- utive director of the Student Bor- vulnerable borrowers. in a qualifying position — and only and let many applications lan- Both federal loans and private ers as part of Wells Fargo’s poli- rower Protection Center, an advo- Mr. Biden proposed a more gen- 2.2 percent of applications have guish for years, until federal student loans can be discharged in cacy group. “The thought that erous option: Individuals earning been deemed eligible since the judges in multiple cases ordered their student loan payments will bankruptcy, but they aren’t wiped $25,000 or less annually will not program began. her to speed things up. Ms. De- be turned back on and they will away as easily as credit card and owe any payments on their under- Mr. Biden said he would fix the Vos’s department responded with get money taken out of their ac- other consumer debt. Borrowers graduate federal loans, nor will problems plaguing the program mass denials of the claims, send- count via auto debit, or they will have to file a separate legal pro- they accrue interest. All other bor- “by securing passage” of a bill ing out more than 83,000 in the see their wages garnished once ceeding, and lawmakers have rowers will pay 5 percent of their that would simplify the applica- last year. However, a federal judge again — the results will be cata- toughened the rules over the past discretionary income — what re- tion and certification processes, in California questioned those de- clysmic for their finances.” several decades. In fact, Mr. Biden mains of their paychecks after ac- including making all loans and re- nials in a ruling last month, calling supported a 2005 law that made Student Debt Cancellation counting for basics like food and payment plans eligible, while also them “perfunctory” and “poten- private student loans more diffi- housing — over $25,000. That’s providing partial forgiveness af- tially unlawful.” The former stu- The higher-education platform cult to discharge, but he has compared with the 10 to 15 percent ter five years. The legislation has dents represented in the class-ac- Mr. Biden campaigned on was no- pledged to reverse that rule as of discretionary income required been introduced in both the House tion case have asked the court to ticeably silent about a proposal president. by plans now. (One plan demands and Senate, but with only Demo- cancel Ms. DeVos’s denials. that progressives say is ripe for That may prove challenging be- 20 percent.) Under Mr. Biden’s cratic support. Eileen Connor, the legal director executive action: outright cancel- cause few Republicans have sup- plan, any remaining balance Beyond strengthening the ex- of the Project on Predatory Stu- lation of some student debt. ported any changes to the bank- would be forgiven. isting program, Mr. Biden said he dent Lending, which is represent- The Higher Education Act of ruptcy laws. A House bill has one Mr. Biden also promised to go would create yet another forgive- ing borrowers in the California 1965, which created the federal Republican co-sponsor, but the further: Erased debts are gener- ness plan for workers in schools, case, said she hoped the Biden ad- student loan program, authorizes Senate’s version, led by Senator ally taxed as income, but he said government and other nonprofit ministration would revive the Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, has the education secretary to “com- JAMES ESTRIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES he planned to change that. Mak- organizations. For each year of spirit of the borrower-defense promise, waive or release” federal only Democratic support. Wells Fargo’s former chief ing a permanent change to the tax service, workers would be eligible program and grant relief to hun- student loan debts. Some legal executive, John G. Stumpf, has code would require legislation, to have $10,000 of their under- dreds of thousands of students Student Loan Servicing scholars and key lawmakers be- already agreed to a lifetime ban but tax experts say there are other graduate or graduate debt erased who were defrauded. A new edu- lieve that language gives the pres- The Education Department out- from the banking industry. ways to eliminate the tax penalty. for up to five years (for a total of ident the power to use an execu- cation secretary has the authority sources the task of servicing its 42 $50,000). tive order to direct the Education to overturn past denials, Ms. Con- million federal student loans, and Forgiveness for Public Service nor said, and create new stand- government auditors and watch- cies, procedures and systems of Department to broadly discharge Relief for Defrauded Students debts for any or all student bor- The enormous problems associ- ards for adjudicating the 80,000 dogs have repeatedly criticized controls.” rowers. Others disagree and be- ated with the federal Public Serv- A rule known as “borrower de- applications that are still pending. the contractors for doing a poor Mr. Stumpf’s lawyer declined to lieve such an action would face le- ice Loan Forgiveness program are fense to repayment” allows stu- Mr. Biden pledged during his job. Building a better system is a comment on the S.E.C. settlement. gal challenges. well documented. The program dents who were seriously misled campaign to forgive the debt of bipartisan agency goal that Wells Fargo’s problems burst Senators Elizabeth Warren of was created in 2007 to attract by the schools they attended to borrowers who “were deceived by stretches back to the Obama ad- into public view in 2016 when the Massachusetts and Chuck Schu- workers to low-paying govern- seek relief on their federal student the worst for-profit college or ca- ministration, but actually doing bank acknowledged that its em- mer of New York, both Demo- that is complicated. ployees opened what may have crats, have called for the next Ms. DeVos’s department re- been millions of fraudulent ac- president to cancel up to $50,000 peatedly changed its plans and counts in customers’ names to in debt per borrower. But Mr. Bi- canceled bid solicitations, which meet the bank’s aggressive sales den has never publicly endorsed has led it to the brink of a crisis: goals. The fallout has been exten- the idea, and two people involved Most of the agency’s servicing sive and brought to light other de- in his transition-planning discus- contracts run out in December ceptive acts in Wells Fargo’s mort- sions said his views had not 2021 and cannot be extended. gage and auto lending operations. changed. Without legislative ac- The agency’s last-ditch effort to The bank has paid a succession of tion by Congress — which is un- avert disaster was a new solicita- regulatory penalties, including a likely if Republicans retain control tion it posted last month seeking $1 billion fine, and has purged of the Senate — broad student two contractors to run an interim much of its top leadership. debt cancellation seems improba- system. But that time frame is ex- The bank paid $500 million in ble. tremely tight, and if this latest so- February to settle charges the Mr. Biden stirred excitement licitation fails, it faces two bad S.E.C. brought against the bank among student borrowers with a choices: Pay its existing vendors for misleading investors. The ac- significantly higher rates to keep tweet in March that endorsed a cusations on Friday are the first working, or shift millions of bor- pandemic-relief proposal from the agency has brought against Ms. Warren and other lawmakers rowers to new servicers, a process individual Wells Fargo execu- seeking cancellation of at least that has been chaotic in the past. tives, although another regulator, $10,000 in federal student loan “We’re at the point in the whole the Office of the Comptroller of the debt per person. However, that student-loan-servicing saga proposal called for Congress to au- where the urgency is greater than Currency, has charged multiple thorize such relief — and so far, it it’s ever been,” said Clare Mc- executives, including Mr. Stumpf has not. Without legislative ac- Cann, the deputy director for fed- and Ms. Tolstedt. As part of his tion, Mr. Biden may be reluctant to eral higher education policy at settlement with the O.C.C., Mr. jam through a measure with a New America, a left-leaning think Stumpf had agreed to a lifetime price tag of around $420 billion. thank. “This affects tens of mil- ban from the banking industry. lions of borrowers, and it’s an is- Wells Fargo is still operating Income-Driven Plans GERALD HERBERT/ASSOCIATED PRESS sue that needs to be close to the under a restriction from the Fed- Roughly 8.5 million federal loan Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education, center, has denied relief for defrauded students seeking loan forgiveness. top of the list.” eral Reserve that limits its growth until regulators are convinced that its conduct and internal controls have improved. “The amount of time and resources that the senior team is spending on this is ex- Trump Administration Gives TikTok More Time to Reach a Deal traordinary,” Charles W. Scharf, By DAVID McCABE ByteDance has offered to sell by the Chinese internet giant Ten- partment, which is playing a cen- considered by a federal commit- the bank’s current chief executive, stakes in TikTok to the American cent. tral role in vetting the proposed tee that vets foreign investment in told investors last month. WASHINGTON — The Trump ad- It is also facing a new claim that ministration gave TikTok’s Chi- cloud computing firm Oracle and U.S. officials have said TikTok’s deal, did not immediately respond the United States. Walmart. Under the deal, Oracle Chinese ownership means the app to a request for comment. “In the nearly two months since it is still failing to fulfill its regula- nese owner more time to reach a tory requirements. deal to sell the app, after demand- would supervise TikTok’s data to could send data back to Beijing, Since Mr. Trump’s executive or- the president gave his prelimi- Kelly Halvorson, an employee ing that it divest its interest in the mitigate concerns that the app under local laws that require Chi- der in August, the administra- nary approval to our proposal to in Minnesota who was responsi- social media service over national could feed customer information tion’s efforts to clamp down on satisfy those concerns, we have security concerns. about Americans to the Chinese TikTok have met legal resistance. offered detailed solutions to final- ble for monitoring Wells Fargo’s business banking group’s activi- President Trump had signed an government. The Chinese-owned Under a separate executive or- ize that agreement — but have re- executive order in August requir- The Trump administration has der, the Commerce Department ceived no substantive feedback on ties for signs that criminals were ing that TikTok’s parent company, put pressure on TikTok, where app has until Nov. 27 released rules in September to our extensive data privacy and se- trying to use the bank for illicit ByteDance, sell any assets that al- people share lip syncing and other to divest its U.S. stake. force app stores run by Apple and curity framework,” a TikTok purposes, said in a lawsuit filed lowed it to operate the app in the videos, as part of its campaign Google to stop hosting TikTok and spokesman said in a statement on this week that her bosses put her United States by Thursday. That against China’s influence in the WeChat. Federal judges have Tuesday. on administrative leave after she deadline was extended 15 days un- global technology industry. Amer- nese companies to cooperate with blocked them for now. Oracle and Walmart declined to presented evidence to them that til Nov. 27, according to a docu- ican officials have limited the use government requests. TikTok has TikTok also asked a federal comment. Wells Fargo was not keeping track ment that TikTok filed Friday in of Chinese equipment in 5G wire- denied that its app poses any se- court this week to block the order Monica Crowley, a spokeswom- of the owners of some of its busi- U.S. District Court for the District less networks, taken issue with curity threat to Americans, noting demanding that ByteDance sell an for the Treasury Department, ness banking accounts. The bank of Columbia. U.S. companies’ backing under- that many of its investors are its interest in the app. While Mr. said in a statement on Friday that also failed to report certain activi- The extension keeps in limbo a sea internet cables into mainland American and that its customer Trump signaled in September that the extension would give the com- ties to regulators, she said. deal that was aimed at preventing China and increasingly targeted data is not stored in China. he approved the broad strokes of panies “additional time to resolve A Wells Fargo spokesman de- the U.S. government from ban- consumer apps like TikTok and TikTok declined to comment on the deal involving TikTok, Oracle this case in a manner” that com- clined to comment on Ms. Halvor- ning the popular video app. WeChat, a messaging app owned the extension. The Treasury De- and Walmart, it still needs to be plied with Mr. Trump’s order. son’s claims. B4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 K

TRANSITION IN WASHINGTON

Law Firms Back Away From Representing Trump in Court FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE the few prominent law firms that And on Friday, a top lawyer at have been representing Mr. Jones Day, which has represented Trump’s campaign or the Republi- Mr. Trump’s campaigns for more can Party as they challenge as- than four years, told colleagues pects of the election. during a video conference call that In states like Arizona, the Jones Day would not get involved Trump campaign and Republi- in additional litigation in this elec- cans have relied mostly on local tion. law firms, not ones with national The moves by the law firms are profiles, to file cases challenging the latest blows to Mr. Trump’s ef- the election results or the voting forts to use a barrage of litigation process. to challenge the integrity of the Snell & Wilmer, a Phoenix law election results. Some lawyers at firm, withdrew as counsel to the Porter Wright and Jones Day had Republican National Committee become increasingly vocal about on Sunday after filing a lawsuit in their concerns that the work their Maricopa County that claimed firms were doing was helping to votes for Mr. Trump were improp- legitimize the president’s argu- erly excluded from the vote tally. ments. One Porter Wright lawyer Matt Feeney, the chairman of resigned in protest over the sum- Snell & Wilmer, declined to com- mer. ment. Porter Wright’s decision was Jones Day, one of the country’s especially remarkable, because largest law firms, was counsel to Mr. Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns, and during the Trump Growing internal presidency, it has been involved in VICTOR J. BLUE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES roughly 20 lawsuits involving Mr. opposition to a Supporters of President Trump gathered in Philadelphia on Sunday, a day after the presidential election was called for Joseph R. Biden Jr. Trump, his campaign or the Re- barrage of litigation publican Party. Most recently, Jones Day has two people who were on the call. one of the people quoted him as Federal District Court for the Mid- Mercer as a volunteer election ob- challenging the vote. been representing the Republican He said other law firms that had saying. dle District of Pennsylvania on be- server who had been “obstructed Party in Pennsylvania in litigation made unsubstantiated allegations The Lincoln Project, a well- half of the Trump campaign. It al- in a horrible way.” Mr. Mercer add- the firm stepped away from a fed- about the handling of mail-in of election fraud were engaged in funded group of anti-Trump Re- leged that there were “irregular- ed, “We’re there, supposedly ob- eral lawsuit that it had filed only votes received after Election Day. “unprincipled advocacy.” publicans, this week began pub- ities” in the presidential vote serving, but we can’t see.” days earlier. Some partners at the firm have Some lawyers at the firm re- licly urging employees of Jones across the state. Neither mentioned that Mr. “Plaintiffs and Porter Wright voiced discomfort about its in- mained unsatisfied. Day and Porter Wright to resign Jones Day was not involved in Mercer was a lawyer at the firm have reached a mutual agreement volvement in that case, as well as “I believe the question is and said it would call on clients to that suit, which is pending. The representing Mr. Trump’s cam- that plaintiffs will be best served if Jones Day’s broader work for the whether this firm should lend its stop working with the firms. Democratic National Committee paign. Reached on Friday, Mr. Porter Wright withdraws,” the law Trump campaign. prestige and credibility to the Mr. Orr told colleagues that cli- has filed a motion to dismiss it. Mercer declined to comment. firm said in a court filing late Dave Petrou, a Jones Day project of an administration bent ents had already been contacting A Porter Wright spokeswoman, On Wednesday, Porter Wright Thursday. spokesman, said in a statement on undermining our democracy Jones Day with queries about the Melanie Farkas, said on Friday issued a statement noting its The Trump campaign reacted this week that the Pennsylvania and our rule of law,” Parker A. firm’s election work. that the firm would work “to en- “long history of election law work angrily on Friday. “Cancel Culture litigation involved important con- Rider-Longmaid, a Jones Day Mr. Petrou, the Jones Day sure transition to substitute coun- during which we have repre- has finally reached the court- stitutional questions. “Jones Day lawyer in Washington, wrote to spokesman, didn’t respond to a re- sel, and so as not to cause material sented Democratic, Republican room,” Tim Murtaugh, the cam- will not withdraw from that repre- colleagues in an email reviewed quest for comment on Friday. adverse effect on the client’s inter- and independent campaigns and paign’s communications director, sentation,” he said. Mr. Petrou by The New York Times. “We as Porter Wright is the firm that est.” She declined to comment fur- issues.” said in a statement. “Leftist mobs noted that the firm had not made lawyers choose our clients and has been most involved in the ther. “At times, this calls for us to descended upon some of the law- allegations of voter fraud and was our causes. We choose what we Trump campaign’s efforts to inval- It isn’t clear if Porter Wright take on controversial cases,” the yers representing the president’s not contesting the election results. stand for. And this project, I sub- idate the results in Pennsylvania, will continue to represent Mr. statement said. “We expect criti- campaign and they buckled.” He Kevyn D. Orr, the partner in mit, should not be one of those where Mr. Biden beat Mr. Trump Trump’s campaign on the other cism in such instances, and we af- added that Mr. Trump’s team “is charge of Jones Day’s Washington things.” Mr. Rider-Longmaid did by more than 50,000 votes. cases it has filed. firm the right of all individuals to undeterred” and would continue office, tried to defuse the criti- not immediately respond to re- The firm has filed a number of One Porter Wright partner, express concern and disagree- its litigation. cisms on internal conference calls quests for comment. actions in Pennsylvania courts Jeremy A. Mercer, spoke at a ment.” Porter Wright — which is based on Friday. He pointed out that the Mr. Orr also told colleagues that challenging aspects of the state’s Trump campaign news confer- in Columbus, Ohio, and has offices firm’s work on election-related lit- Jones Day would not be getting in- voting process. The suit that the ence in Pennsylvania last week. Alan Feuer contributed reporting. in Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania igation was limited to the single volved in additional litigation sur- law firm withdrew from on Thurs- Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Ru- Kitty Bennett and Susan Beachy and Washington, D.C. — is one of Pennsylvania case, according to rounding the election. “We get it,” day was filed on Monday in the dolph W. Giuliani, introduced Mr. contributed research.

Biden’s Transition Teams Suggest Oversight of Wall Street Will Be Tougher

FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE English, a former deputy director of the Consumer Financial Protec- tion Bureau, and Dennis Kelleher, a co-founder of Better Markets, a prominent financial reform advocacy group. Ms. English tried, un- successfully, to prevent Mr. Trump from installing a critic of her bureau, Mick Mulvaney, as its acting director three years ago. The teams do not set policy or make final selections on personnel at the various agencies, but they can provide recommendations. And some members end up joining the departments they reviewed. Mr. Trump’s transition teams were filled with industry in- siders, including those from Wall Street, as well as individuals with a deregulatory bent, signaling the approach the agencies would take. The overall Biden transition team said the groups would be “responsible for understanding the operations of each agency, ensuring a smooth transfer of power.” However, their work has been delayed because of Mr. ZACH GIBSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Trump’s refusal to concede defeat Leandra English, the former acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is also on the teams. and grant Mr. Biden’s staff access to the departments. a new tone for enforcement and Senate Republicans made clear There will be limitations on While a Biden presidency may rule-making. on Thursday that they will try to what a Republican-heavy Fed can be constrained by a divided Con- “I’m actually cautiously opti- confirm the pair, Judy Shelton and accomplish on its own. Many of gress, regulatory agencies wield mistic that there will be an appe- Christopher Waller, before Mr. the more important bank restric- enormous power given their abil- tite for repairing the damage Trump leaves office. If both are tions — like tweaks to the Volcker ity to write and interpret rules and that’s been done in the Trump ad- approved, which appears likely, Rule, which prevents banks from decide how strictly to enforce ministration,” said Barbara Roper, Mr. Trump will have filled six of betting with their own money — them. director of investor protection for the seven seats on the powerful have historically been made on a For example, a Biden adminis- the Consumer Federation of Fed board, locking in a conserva- tration could reinstate the Con- cross-agency basis. KAYANA SZYMCZAK FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES America. “I think you could get tive majority that could last for sumer Financial Protection Bu- Jelena McWilliams, whom Mr. Gary Gensler, the former head of the Commodity Futures Trading more progressive policies, better Trump appointed chairwoman of reau’s efforts to limit payday lend- rules.” ing and install leaders at the Secu- Commission. The work he did under Obama has been watered down since. the Federal Deposit Insurance Ms. Roper said a Biden admin- ‘There are a lot of rities and Exchange Commission Corporation, has signaled that she istration could bring a long- and Labor Department who sup- plans to serve out her full term, back and for regulators to stop re- were put in place after the eco- needed overhaul of American ac- people hurting in this port “sustainable investing.” Mr. which does not end until 2023. But laxing rules on an industry that nomic crisis a decade ago. Among counting standards and reverse Biden’s Treasury secretary will economy. The Mr. Biden will be able to replace has raked in record profits over other changes, stress tests for big Trump administration rules that also have substantial oversight of the past several years. Some view banks are more predictable, the acting comptroller of the cur- the financial sector and will be in a benefited private equity. In June, financial sector is not rency quickly and is expected to the “landing teams” as a sign that oversight is less onerous for all for example, the Labor Depart- position to bolster bodies such as do so, and other important roles, Mr. Biden is heeding the concerns but the largest bank holding comment issued a rule allowing pri- among them.’ the Financial Stability Oversight like Treasury secretary and head of the progressive wing of his panies, and restrictions that pre- vate-equity investments in 401(k) Anat R. Admati, a professor Council, the interagency panel of the Consumer Financial Protec- party and planning to put con- vented banks from betting for retirement plans. of finance and economics that the Trump administration sumers ahead of corporations. their own profit have been slightly tion Bureau, are likely to go has starved of funding and staff. “Private funds that have been at Stanford University’s And banks are not without a say relaxed. Perhaps most important, swiftly to Democrats. That power has some banking counting on getting unfettered ac- Graduate School of Business. in Washington. the tone of bank oversight has That is why the industry is at- officials worried about the make- cess to people’s retirement ac- “They get their voices heard been more industry friendly — count should begin rethinking tuned to who is on the agency re- up of the transition teams. years and potentially pave the view teams, which could set the “They won the election, and enough — we know what they relevant because so much of the their strategy,” Ms. Roper said. way for a continuation of lighter- tone for what is coming. they have the right to choose who- think,” Anat R. Admati, a profes- real work happens at the institu- The Biden campaign does not touch financial oversight. “It will be a significant change ever they so desire,” said Richard sor of finance and economics at tion level, carried out by supervi- permit members of the agency re- While the Fed may be best Hunt, chief executive of the Con- Stanford University’s Graduate sors. view teams to talk to the media, so in the orientation of financial reg- sumer Bankers Association, an in- School of Business and an expert Financial industry lobbyists re- it is difficult to know what they are known for setting interest rates — ulation if these people are going to dustry group. “I thought it was a in regulation, said of the banks. main hopeful that Republicans thinking and planning. But it is a largely nonpartisan exercise — be the ones writing the policies,” missed opportunity by the presi- “There are a lot of people hurting will retain control of the Senate by clear that their ability to affect im- it is also among the most powerful said Christopher E. Campbell, as- dent-elect to appoint people who in this economy. The financial sec- winning both runoff elections in mediate change in financial regu- financial regulators. And while sistant secretary of the Treasury have experience in banking as tor is not among them.” Georgia in January. That could lation could be constrained by a monetary policy votes are shared for financial institutions from well as consumer activists.” The Federal Reserve and its fel- force Mr. Biden to select more last-minute push by Republicans with the Fed’s regional banks, 2017-18. “From my perspective, But proponents of a return to low regulatory agencies spent the moderate nominees for key regu- to get two remaining Trump nomi- only board members have votes the landing teams were folks that stricter oversight say the time has Trump administration eroding fi- latory posts. But once in place, his nees onto the Federal Reserve on the rules that govern the larg- appeared to be more activist than come for the pendulum to swing nancial industry protections that personnel will have latitude to set Board. est banks. centrist.” THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N B5

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DoorDash Files for I.P.O. as Profit Eludes Gig-Work Giant By ERIN GRIFFITH quarter. It also said the growth in customers, restaurants and driv- which gives holders 20 votes per and PETER EAVIS orders spurred by the pandemic ers are not particularly loyal to share. The prospectus did not say SAN FRANCISCO — DoorDash, would likely slow. one competing service over an- how much of DoorDash he would the largest food delivery start-up The prospectus did not specify other. DoorDash’s prospectus own after the offering. in the United States, revealed on the value of shares that DoorDash named four major competitors DoorDash has expanded rap- Friday that it was losing money would sell. The company was val- and said its “fragmented and in- idly in recent years, in part be- even as the coronavirus pandemic ued at $16 billion as part of a $400 tensely competitive” market was cause of aggressive cash infusions spurred a huge surge in orders, million private funding round in a risk for investors. that began in 2018. The company according to financial documents June. It has raised nearly $3 bil- In June, rival Grubhub agreed operates in the United States, released as the company prepares lion in total capital, according to to sell itself to Just Eat Takeaway, Canada and Australia, with more to go public. Pitchbook, which tracks start-up a European service, for $7.3 bil- than a million drivers and 18 mil- The San Francisco company’s funding. lion. A month later, Uber acquired lion customers. performance renewed questions DoorDash’s deep losses reflect Postmates, a smaller competitor, It has also struck partnerships about whether “gig economy” the dismal economics of the food for $2.65 billion. DoorDash had with several national restaurant businesses, which rely on armies delivery business, said Len Sher- entertained deal talks with Post- chains and created a subscription of contract workers, can turn a man, an adjunct professor at Co- mates, Uber and Grubhub over service, DashPass, which costs profit. DoorDash primarily con- lumbia Business School. the last year, but has remained in- $9.99 per month for unlimited de- dependent. nects restaurants, drivers and “There’s simply not enough val- liveries and counts five million customers to facilitate takeout or- ue created in these businesses to As social distancing rules have JEENAH MOON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES customers. reward consumers, couriers, continued, restaurants have ders. This year, DoorDash began op- restaurants, employees and DoorDash said that its revenue rose 200 percent to $1.92 billion in the first struggled to make ends meet on DoorDash was a clear winner of erating “cloud kitchens,” or com- shareholders,” he said. nine months through September, and that it had a net loss of $149 million. delivery apps. In April, DoorDash the pandemic. It reported revenue missary buildings where restau- In a long letter, Tony Xu, Door- temporarily cut its primary fees of $1.92 billion in the nine months rants can rent space and prepare through September, more than Dash’s chief executive, outlined for independent restaurants, In late summer, an ebullient In the first nine months of the food specifically for deliveries, as 200 percent above the $587 million the company’s plans to expand which it said had cost it around stock market revived tech I.P.O.s, year, its business generated $315 well as delivering groceries, pet for the same period last year, ac- beyond food delivery into “all lo- with companies like the data million of cash; in the same period $120 million. On Thursday, it an- food and items from convenience cording to the prospectus filed for cal business” in the “convenience start-up Palantir and the data of 2019, it consumed $308 million nounced a $200 million pledge for stores like Walgreens. Last its planned initial public offering. economy.” warehousing company Snowflake of cash. programs to help restaurants and month, the company invested in a It had 543 million orders through “If we can make possible the de- making their public debuts. DoorDash faces labor questions delivery drivers. September, compared with 181 livery of ice cream before it melts, Airbnb is expected to file its offer- because of its use of contractors. DoorDash was created by Mr. Bay Area restaurant group, million in the same period last or pizza before it gets cold, or gro- ing prospectus next week. This month, the company notched Xu, along with Stanley Tang, Andy Burma Bites. year. ceries in an hour, we can make the Even so, DoorDash faces chal- a political win with the passage of Fang and Evan Moore in a busi- The company’s largest share- Even so, the company contin- on-demand delivery of anything lenges, such as its lack of profits. Proposition 22, a California ballot ness school class project at Stan- holders include funds operated by ued losing money. Its net loss in within a city a reality,” he wrote. Other gig-economy companies, measure that exempted it, Uber, ford University in 2013. The com- SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Sequoia the first nine months of this year DoorDash planned to go public such as Uber and Lyft, have faced Lyft and others from a law that pany, attracting critics and strug- Capital and the government of was $149 million, compared with a earlier this year, filing confiden- similar questions about whether would have required them to treat gling to raise funding in its early Singapore. loss of $533 million a year earlier. tially with the Securities and Ex- they can become viable busi- their drivers as employees. days, has not followed a smooth Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan In the second quarter, DoorDash change Commission in late Febru- nesses. The company is also dealing trajectory. will underwrite the offering, squeezed out a $23 million profit, ary. But the pandemic halted the DoorDash, however, is no long- with steep competition and con- Mr. Xu, 36, owns 41.6 percent of which will list on the New York but returned to a loss in the third I.P.O. market. er quickly burning through cash. solidation in food delivery, where the company’s class B stock, Stock Exchange.

Avoiding the Surprise Bill For Your Coronavirus Test By SARAH KLIFF bill patients for something called More Americans are getting a facility fee, which is the charge tested for coronavirus than ever for stepping into the room and before — and that could mean seeking service. more surprise medical bills. Patients are finding that these Congress wrote rules in March fees can pop up even when they that aimed to make coronavirus don’t actually set foot in the testing free for all Americans. facility. Multiple patients at one Patients, with or without insur- Texas emergency room had ance, have found holes in those $1,684 facility fees tacked onto new coverage programs. They’ve their drive-through coronavirus faced bills that range from a few tests. A patient in New York dollars to over $1,000. faced a $1,394 charge for her test I’ve spent much of the past at a tent outside a hospital. The four months collecting patients’ majority of the bill was the facili- bills related to coronavirus. As ty fee. The investigative news part of that project, I’ve read site ProPublica has reported on through more than 100 patient how facility fees can sometimes stories about coronavirus tests. cost as much as 10 times the Many patients are happy to coronavirus test itself. report no charge at all, while If you get your test at a prima- LINDSAY D’ADDATO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES others have been billed large ry care provider, or at a public Automobiles lined up at a drive-thru test site in Salt Lake City last week as the number of coronavirus cases nationwide rose steadily. unexpected fees or denied claims test site, you shouldn’t have to related to coronavirus tests. worry about that type of billing. The surprise bills have hit They typically do not charge simple as saying: “I understand government has set up a ers to cover any other services Receive an unexpected bill? uninsured Americans as well as facility fees for coronavirus tests I’m having a coronavirus test. provider relief fund: Health that are necessary to get the Medical codes could be those with robust coverage. The or any other types of care. Are there any other services providers can seek reimburse- coronavirus test, but doesn’t the culprit. health data firm Castlight esti- you’ll bill me for?” Having a ment for coronavirus testing and define what makes the cut. Most One other issue to look for is Ask your provider mates that 2.4 percent of corona- better understanding of that up treatment provided to those experts agree that a doctor visit what billing codes your doctor virus test bills leave some share what they’ll bill you for. front can save you a headache without coverage. Once again, it fee is a pretty clear example of a used. Many of the surprise bills of the charge to consumers, When patients receive a surprise later, and you can make an in- pays to ask how providers han- service that ought to qualify, and I’ve reviewed involve a doctor which means there could be medical bill related to a coronavi- formed decision about what care dle uninsured patients and that patients facing those types charging a visit fee, then sending millions of patients facing fees rus test, the charges they face is actually needed. If your whether they submit to the fund. of bills ought to appeal to their the test to an outside laboratory they did not expect. often are not for the test itself. providers can’t tell you what Unfortunately, they are not re- insurer for coverage. Other serv- that submits its own claim. The These are some simple steps Instead, they are for other serv- they’ll bill for, that may be a quired to do so — and could ices, like a flu test or even an health plan might apply a co-pay you can take to lower your ices that the patient may not signal you want to seek care continue to pursue the debt. X-ray conducted alongside a to the doctor’s visit because it’s chances of becoming one of have known about. elsewhere. You should also be aware that coronavirus test, present a murk- not clearly linked in billing them. Some of those services make 17 states have authorized their ier situation. If you’re facing fees records to the coronavirus test. sense. Many bills for coronavirus Uninsured? Ask your doctor to state Medicaid plans to cover like those, you might want to In this case, you may need to If you can, get tested tests have fees for the doctor bill the government, not you. coronavirus test costs for unin- enlist your doctor to tell the work with your health provider insurer why the additional care at a public site. visit that went along with it. Uninsured patients have faced sured Americans. This means to get your visit recoded to show was needed. Many states, counties and cities/ Others make less sense, like the coronavirus bills upward of your state government can pay a coronavirus test occurred. towns now have public testing ones that include screenings for $1,000, according to billing docu- the bill instead of you. One last thing to know about Tell us what happened to you. facilities. Very few patients have sexually transmitted diseases ments reviewed by The New the laws is that they require To challenge a surprise bill, It helps our journalism. reported surprise medical bills that have nothing to do with York Times. insurers to fully cover out-of- from those testing sites (al- coronavirus. Those extra fees know your rights network coronavirus tests. This Nearly everything I know about That type of billing is legal: under federal law. though it’s not impossible). You appear to be a bit more common Health care providers are not can be especially important for coronavirus test billing comes New federal laws regulate how can typically use your state in emergency rooms, or when required to provide free corona- patients who go to an in-network from reading the bills that hun- health providers send their sam- health providers and insurers health department website to virus tests to Americans who doctor but unknowingly have dreds of Times readers have sent ples to outside laboratories. But can bill patients for coronavirus find public testing options. lack health insurance. But they their sample sent to an out-of- describing their experiences. If If a public test site isn’t an they can happen at public testing tests. Understanding how they network lab, a situation I’ve seen you receive a bill related to co- do not necessarily have to bill option where you live, you might sites, too: One Connecticut doc- work can help you push back on many times. Your health plan’s ronavirus testing and treatment, patients directly. The federal consider your primary care tor regularly tested patients for charges that may not be allowed. typical rules for out-of-network we ask that you take a moment doctor or a federally qualified dozens of illnesses at a town The new laws state that health care should not apply to the to submit it at nytimes/costof- health clinic. The largest sur- drive-through. The patients insurers must cover coronavirus coronavirus test. They can, how- care. It will help me continue to prise coronavirus test bills I’ve thought they were simply getting tests without any cost to the ever, be applied to other parts of report on the types of fees pa- reviewed tend to come from coronavirus tests. The Upshot provides news, analysis patients. This means that stand- the test experience (the doctor tients face, and can help identify patients who are tested in hospi- To avoid those extra charges, and graphics about politics, policy ard deductibles and co-payments visit fee, for example), so it is areas of the country where pa- tals and free-standing emer- ask your provider what diseases and everyday life. do not apply. safer to stick with in-network tients are facing unusually high gency rooms. Those places often they will screen for. It can be as nytimes.com/upshot Those laws also require insur- providers whenever possible. fees.

A Pledge to Shun Stocks While in Congress Would Pay Dividends in Goodwill FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE editors could assign reporters to ton for the first time. Where to Stock Pickers chart on the site of One reason could be ignorance. pick advisers who can do so for The potential for the reduction anything without worrying about start? a firm called Index Fund Advi- Or hubris born of the past dec- you, even after you compute the of conflicts of interest, or the conflicts. Hopefully, staff would Extremely active investors, as sors. It re-ranks the performance ade, when stocks have mostly impact of their fees on your appearance of them, is all for the also steer clear of the temptation Ms. Loeffler and Mr. Perdue of 18 household-name stocks gone up. Also, plenty of people returns. good. But here’s the other thing to try to trade on information were, might begin with the clas- over each of 20 years, before like gambling. And now that Congress could make this that many of our 535 elected that was about to be in the arti- sic 2000 paper “Trading Is Haz- your very eyes. companies like Robinhood have issue go away, and some mem- representatives should learn: cles. The New York Times had ardous to Your Wealth,” which To take this thought further, lowered the transaction costs of bers have introduced bills that Shunning stock trading is a similar rules when I arrived in used the records of over 66,000 consider a bit of analysis from active trading, it’s just so tempt- would restrict stock ownership. better way to build bigger bal- 2008, and they remain in place. households to show that the Dimensional Fund Advisors: If ing to press one’s luck, especially It could also create or extend ances. It was a relief, frankly. No annual returns of people who you examine the entire top 10 when you’re bored during a workarounds for the newly I learned this the hard way, knock on people who enjoy gam- traded the most were 6.5 per- percent of stocks each year since pandemic. elected that would make it easier albeit with much less money bling and trade stocks as a hobby centage points lower than the 1994, fewer than a fifth, on aver- I suspect something else is at for people like Mr. Ossoff to enter than the senators are playing , but trying to predict a stock’s overall market. age, make the top 10 the next work with the Georgia senators. public service and sell a bunch of around with. In 1994, I was in performance and outsmart other Next, they could move on to year. “Investors with concen- Both denied using inside infor- Apple stock without generating a and out of a regional bank stock, investors just wasn’t my idea of a what a different set of academics trated portfolios may actually mation they got on the job to large tax bill. but even when a bigger institu- good time. believed was the first-ever analy- miss out on the very stocks that inform their trades (and were But let’s be real. Bills like that tion bought the company, I didn’t Then, as I learned more on the sis of the actual portfolios of deliver the best of what the mar- cleared when investigators aren’t going to be a high priority make much more money than I job about the stock market, I members of Congress between ket has to offer,” the firm notes. looked into it), and both said they anytime soon. Better, then, that would have in a mutual fund that realized how much better my 2004 and 2008. It turned out they In fact, according to a different had outside advisers trading members of Congress erase any owned every stock in the market. odds of long-term financial secu- weren’t great at this investing bit of research, the best-perform- without their knowledge. perception of impropriety on In the wake of the terrorist at- rity were going to be if I didn’t thing and would have done bet- ing 4 percent of stocks contribut- But the success and drive that their own — and protect their tacks in 2001, I bought a stock trade stocks or try to beat the ter in basic index funds. If they ed the stock market’s entire net allowed Ms. Loeffler and Mr. portfolios to boot — by getting related to airport security with market. Far better to stick to had invested $100 that way, they gain since 1926. Buy index funds, Perdue to succeed in business out of individual stocks altogeth- similarly middling results. mutual funds that simply owned would have ended that harrow- the logic of which is apparent in and gave them the confidence to er, voluntarily. Then, in 2002, I went to work most or all of a particular market ing period with $80. Instead, the several research notes on Van- run for office could easily extend I tip my cap to the four candi- for The Wall Street Journal, segment. average member who felt above guard’s website, and you’ll get to a wrongheaded investment dates in Georgia, to varying where strict rules kept reporters The evidence is everywhere, average ended up with $69. every security that makes up strategy. If you’re a person who degrees, for doing this already or away from any individual securi- and someone ought to spend 15 Stocks bounce around a lot. whatever the 4 percent might be keeps winning in life, it’s tempt- getting close. I look forward to ties. In the absence of owning minutes shoving it under the Past performance is no indica- for the next 100 years. ing to talk yourself into believing asking every new member of any stock aside from that of the nose of every member of Con- tion of future success. If you So why do so many individuals you can pick investments that Congress to do the same thing newspaper’s parent company, gress who shows up in Washing- don’t believe it, check out the use other strategies instead? outperform an index fund — or come January. B6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 K

Personal Finance Dearth of Volunteers Leaves a Huge Hole One more way that the pandemic has buffeted nonprofit groups.

the workers who have replaced the lost Wealth Matters volunteers. By PAUL SULLIVAN Ms. Plato of Volunteer Match said 57 percent of nonprofits surveyed in May were operating with a lower budget Volunteering has fallen sharply in the than they had before the pandemic pandemic, creating an enormous finan- began. In July, when the virus numbers cial burden on the nonprofit organiza- were declining in many parts of the tions that have long depended on the country, those nonprofit groups were free assistance. still struggling, with 63 percent operat- Now, leaders of many nonprofit ing on a reduced budget. groups are looking for new ways to “Some corporations have stepped up generate donations — to pay for both their financial commitments in lieu of the rise in demand for their services volunteering,” she said. “But the finan- and the work no longer done by the lost cial situation of many nonprofits we volunteers. surveyed hasn’t improved.” Steve Hill is one of those lost volun- Some nonprofit groups have leaned teers. He began volunteering at a free on volunteers to cover some of their medical clinic run by his church in operating costs, as was the case with Salem, Ore., as soon as he retired. the Fireman sisters. “I retired on a Friday and started That was also true for Kathy Went- there on a Monday,” Mr. Hill, 65, said. For four years, he spent a day or two a week helping the doctors and nurses ‘In March, 93 percent of with their charts and medical orders and helping schedule visits. all volunteering was That all came to a halt when the canceled. We’re now at pandemic took hold in the Pacific Northwest in March. When the clinic 48 percent still heavily reopened in June, Mr. Hill stayed home, worried about contracting the virus or canceled.’ bringing it home to his wife, who has Laura Plato, chief solutions officer at chronic asthma. Volunteer Match. “It’s left a huge hole in my schedule and my heart,” he said. “I just loved it worth, who has been volunteering with so much.” Guide Dogs for the Blind in Boring, A study released on Wednesday by Ore., for two decades. She worked Fidelity Charitable, a nonprofit organi- mostly in the kennel kitchen but also zation created by Fidelity Investments, gave tours of the campus. found that two-thirds of all volunteers In March, she was asked to take a had either decreased or stopped their guide dog home, saving the foundation volunteering because of the pandemic. the costs of caring and feeding it. Other A small number were interested in volunteers were asked to do the same. virtual volunteering — doing remote MASON TRINCA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES The dogs stayed longer than expected counseling, talking to homebound peo- when wildfires near Portland in Sep- Kathy Wentworth, a volunteer with Guide Dogs for the Blind in Boring, Ore., took a guide dog home in March to help save on costs. ple or writing letters — which helps the tember kept the foundation closed. people being served but not the non- “I’ve really missed the community of profit organizations themselves. Ac- for the virus. Making up for that sud- mask-making parties in 2019.” sisters is that it takes almost two days people,” said Ms. Wentworth, 67, who cording to the Independent Sector, a den loss has not been easy. The Salem Free Clinic, where Mr. Hill to cook one meal, since they have to has been retired from the golf business nonprofit membership organization, the “What we’ve had to do is hire more volunteered, had about 350 volunteers prepare everything at home and then for six years. “I got to know a number average value of a donor’s time is paid drivers,” Ms. Hollander said. before the pandemic and lost about 10 take it to the shelter. of the trainers and the people who $27.20 an hour. “That’s been a huge increase in cost percent of them. “We roasted 90 chicken drumsticks worked on the campus. I really enjoyed “Many of the nonprofits are thinking, from the Meals on Wheels volunteers Now, “only the patient can get in today,” Janet Fireman said. “We cooked the job out there.” ‘We’re in this for the long haul, and we who used their own cars and paid for there,” Mr. Hill said. “But at least 25 pounds of potatoes and used a liter The trainers have still been able to need to think of different ways to use their own gas.” they’re open and helping patients who of olive oil. The third dish we made work with the dogs to prepare them for our volunteers,’” said Amy Pirozzolo, Volunteer Match, a website that links don’t have health insurance.” today is a salad of frozen vegetables — blind people. “If anything,” Ms. Went- the head of donor engagement of Fideli- people to volunteer opportunities, has Judy and Janet Fireman, sisters in peas, corn, cauliflower and red pep- worth said, “my donations this year ty Charitable. For example, many shel- also reported a decline in volunteers, a their mid-70s who volunteer at the pers.” may increase because there’s so much ters that serve food have encouraged greater demand for services and the Sister José Women’s Center in Tucson, The salad “looks beautiful, and that need.” their volunteers to cook the meals at need for significantly higher donations Ariz., said many of their fellow volun- matters,” she added. “We don’t want to Still, it’s hard to make up for volun- home and bring them in, she said. so organization can replace the missing teers had left, but they continue to cook open a can of green beans and drop it teers’ time. When they will feel safe Meals on Wheels, which delivers volunteers. for the homeless women they’ve come on their plate.” enough to return, no one knows. But meals to the elderly in their homes and “What we’ve found was in March, 93 to know at the center over many years. The sisters said they had each in- organizations are trying hard to keep at senior centers, has helped 47 percent percent of all volunteering was can- At the same time, the number of creased their direct financial donations their volunteers feeling connected in more clients and provided 77 percent celed,” said Laura Plato, chief solutions women served by the center has dou- by 50 percent. While a protein — the meantime — and to increase their more meals since the pandemic started, officer at Volunteer Match. “We’re now bled to 70. And Janet Fireman said she ground beef, pork or chicken — is gen- donations. It hasn’t been easy. because many older people feel less at 48 percent still heavily canceled.” and her sister didn’t have the same erally donated by local grocery stores, Mr. Hill said he and his wife had comfortable going to a grocery store, While some nonprofit groups never level of interaction. the Firemans said they had been pay- continued to donate the same amount said Ellie Hollander, the organization’s reopened or have gone out of business, “Since the pandemic protocol went ing for the extras out of their own of money to the clinic. And he has en- president and chief executive. Ms. Plato said one positive note was an into place, we don’t have the opportuni- pocket. joyed staying in touch with its director At the same time, it has lost about increase in organizations that address ty to talk to the women,” she said. Changing the way people volunteer to hear how things are going. But half of its two million volunteers. Three- the needs of the pandemic. “We’re “They’ve been kept apart from us and has been hard for nonprofits and the there’s only one thing that would get quarters of them were over age 55, seeing opportunities we’ve never seen apart from anyone else.” volunteers themselves. At the heart of him to return as a volunteer, he said: “A putting them into a high-risk category before,” she said. “No one was having But the biggest difference for the the change is the need for money to pay vaccine.”

Think Obamacare Plans Cost a Lot? There May Be Help Millions lost their jobs and their insurance during the pandemic. But many people are eligible for financial assistance.

Your Money Adviser Q. and A. About Open Enrollment for Obamacare Plans By ANN CARRNS Where can I get help choosing a plan? coverage. To be sure you are being Enrollment help is available, but may be offered full coverage when shopping for If you’ve lost your job during the pan- hard to come by in some areas, accord- a plan, she said, “always start at Health- demic, and with it your health insur- ing to the Kaiser foundation, because Care.gov.” ance, you may think that Obamacare federal funding for trained, independent ...... plans are too expensive and therefore “navigators” is limited. For federal not worth seeking. Or maybe you’re Is there a federal penalty for not having marketplace plans, you can use the “find health insurance? worried about whether the coverage local help” tool, or call 1-800-318-2596. will withstand legal challenges. No. Congress eliminated the federal tax Fourteen states and the District of Think again, health care analysts say. penalty for not having health coverage Columbia run their own exchanges, so Most people seeking insurance as of Jan. 1, 2019. A handful of states, you should check their websites. through Obamacare marketplaces however, impose their own penalties. Some insurance agents and brokers, qualify, based on their income, for tax ...... credits that significantly lower their who may earn a commission for en- cost of coverage. Two-thirds of rolling customers, also sell A.C.A.-com- I’m already enrolled in an Obamacare customers on HealthCare.gov, the fed- pliant plans and can help narrow your plan. Do I have to shop for coverage eral insurance exchange, can find a choices. But some may not show you all again? plan for $10 a month or less, according the options in your area, and some may Advocates for health insurance coverage to Get America Covered, a nonprofit offer “short-term,” bare-bones insurance recommend that you update your finan- that advocates health coverage under plans that don’t provide comprehensive cial information and look at the various the Affordable Care Act, also known as coverage. offerings, rather than let your coverage Obamacare. In some cases, tax credits If an application includes questions renew automatically, to make sure you can lower the monthly premium to zero. about your medical history, ask why, are in the most affordable plan. If your Many people are also eligible for extra income fell because of the pandemic, you financial help that reduces their out-of- because that suggests the plan doesn’t pocket costs when they seek care. cover pre-existing health problems, said may be eligible for a larger tax credit to An analysis by the Kaiser Family Erin Hemlin, director of health policy reduce your costs. Switching plans may Foundation found that benchmark and advocacy at Young Invincibles, an mean changing doctors, so be sure to premiums for 2021 plans sold on the advocacy group focusing on issues understand the details of less expensive marketplaces had fallen more than 2 affecting young adults, including health options. percent, on average. (Costs vary by TILL LAUER location and plan type, so in some cases, premiums have increased.) In people without employer-based insur- ple knew the law remained in effect, year of lower premiums.” compliant with the law have caps on many states, new insurers are entering ance, and expanded Medicaid, the Kaiser found. During oral arguments on Tuesday, out-of-pocket costs, limiting what pa- the marketplace or expanding their federal-state health plan for the poor, in That’s perhaps not surprising, given two conservative justices seemed to tients must pay for a stay in the hospi- service areas, which tends to increase many states. The law protects people that the law has been subject to Repub- indicate support for the act, but the tal. There is no guarantee that hospitals choice and lower costs. with pre-existing conditions and re- lican-backed legal challenges. The outcome of the suit is uncertain. The will waive the cost of treatment for quires health plans to provide certain Supreme Court heard arguments this court isn’t expected to announce a uninsured patients with Covid-19, “Coverage remains extremely afford- essential coverage, like preventive care. week in a lawsuit seeking to overturn decision until the middle of next year. meaning people without coverage could able for the vast majority of Health- One hurdle: Awareness of coverage the law. If the law is invalidated, more “We don’t know what will happen,” face large medical bills. Care.gov customers,” said Joshua Peck, available under the Affordable Care Act than 20 million people could lose health said Cynthia Cox, director of the Kaiser Open enrollment on HealthCare.gov co-founder of Get America Covered. has dwindled since the law was passed. coverage, according to an estimate foundation’s Program on the A.C.A. But continues through Dec. 15 for coverage Coverage under the Affordable Care That’s in part because the Trump ad- from the Urban Institute. there’s no reason not to enroll if you that begins on Jan. 1. (Some state mar- Act is a critical safety net for people ministration slashed funds for market- Last month, Carolina Fortin-Garcia, a need health insurance. If you sign up ketplaces allow enrollment for much who lack job-based health insurance ing and outreach by 90 percent, accord- spokeswoman for the Center for Medi- for coverage and plan subsidies are longer periods.) People affected by coverage, advocates say. An estimated ing to the Kaiser foundation. Just 59 care and Medicaid Services, which then eliminated, there’s no risk, she wildfires, hurricanes or other disasters 14 million people, including workers percent of the public knows the law oversees HealthCare.gov, said in an said, that you would have to continue may qualify for more time. and their families, lost coverage during offers subsidies for marketplace health emailed statement that while the paying premiums if you can’t afford If you miss the open-enrollment the pandemic, although it’s unclear if plans, down from 75 percent a decade agency did not comment on pending them. deadline, you’ll have to wait a year to the job losses will be permanent. The ago, Kaiser found. litigation, it was preparing for a “suc- “You might as well have coverage enroll unless you have a qualifying 2010 law authorized the sale of subsi- And many people are confused about cessful open-enrollment period, which while you can,” Ms. Cox said, especially change in circumstances, like losing dized private health plans through the law’s status: As of this spring, we anticipate will offer consumers given the risk of illness from the co- your health coverage, getting married federal and state marketplaces for fewer than a quarter of uninsured peo- more choices and the third straight ronavirus. At the very least, plans or having a baby. THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N B7

ENERGY

PHOTOGRAPHS BY PHILIP CHEUNG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Waiting for fuel at a hydrogen station at U.C. Irvine. Because of the paucity of hydrogen pumps, car owners often wait in line. But, unlike electric cars, fill-up takes less than 10 minutes and drivers can go for 300 miles or more. California Sets Ambitious Goals for a Hydrogen Economy FROM FIRST BUSINESS PAGE batteries, these cars have hydro- like Shell and BP, have sought to so serious about decarbonization. gen tanks and fuel cells that turn make hydrogen part of a transi- We don’t see those barriers any- the gas into electricity. The cars tion to a lower-carbon future. more.” refuel and accelerate quickly, and Most hydrogen today is ex- Some energy executives said they can go for several hundred tracted from natural gas in a they expected investment in hy- miles on a full tank. They emit process that requires a lot of ener- drogen to accelerate under Presi- only water vapor, which makes gy and emits carbon dioxide. But dent-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., them appealing to California cities combined with carbon capture who made climate change a big that are trying to reduce pollution and sequestration, the process part of his campaign and pro- and greenhouse gas emissions. can be environmentally viable. posed a $2 trillion plan to tackle “Almost any objective analysis Over time, government officials the problem. for getting to zero emissions in- and researchers expect most hy- A recent McKinsey & Company cludes hydrogen,” said Jack drogen to be made without emis- study estimated that the hydro- Brouwer, director of the National sions. The cleanest hydrogen pro- gen economy could generate $140 Fuel Cell Research Center at the duction comes from using renew- billion in annual revenue by 2030 University of California, Irvine. able electricity to split water mol- and support 700,000 jobs. The Mr. Brouwer does not think hy- ecules into hydrogen and oxygen. study projected that hydrogen drogen will become the dominant The equipment to do that is expen- could meet 14 percent of total energy source soon, but he argues sive, but costs have been falling in American energy demand by that it has great potential as a fuel recent years, especially as wind 2050. for vehicles, power plants and ap- and solar energy become the The use of hydrogen, the light- pliances. Hydrogen, he said, will cheapest ways to generate elec- est and most abundant substance complement the use of lithium-ion tricity. in the universe, is still in its infan- batteries, solar panels, wind tur- European oil companies are cy, and California is determined to bines and natural gas. also investing in renewables so be its cradle in the United States, U.C. Irvine has experimented they could, eventually, pair hydro- with $20 million in annual funding with hydrogen for years and from the California Energy Com- gen production with solar and formed partnerships with local wind farms. governments and major corpora- “The oil companies are very tions to popularize its use in An aggressive mix of Brenda Pineda fueling up in Fountain Valley, Calif. Her Toyota Mirai sells for nearly $60,000 before subsidies. well positioned to play in this,” Southern California. said Joan Ogden, an energy re- incentives and Just over a decade ago, Tim searcher at the University of Cali- Brown worked on gasoline sys- miles or more on a full tank. “We try to meet with them all Still, hydrogen’s potential con- fornia, Davis. “They know how to tems at General Motors. He went subsidies. Some proponents of hydrogen the time: ‘Look what we’re doing tinues to entice governments, re- make molecules at large scale bet- back to school in 2004, studied hy- think its biggest use will be in on hydrogen,’” Ms. Skiver said. searchers and corporations. ter than anybody, they already drogen with Mr. Brouwer and “be- larger vehicles. Among them is “They’re not interested at all.” Countries like France, Germany, use a lot of hydrogen in oil refin- mission through vehicle license came a believer.” SunLine Transit, which serves There is good reason for skepti- China, Australia, South Korea and ing, and they are used to supply- fees. California will have spent Five years after earning his cism. Japan have invested tens of bil- ing transportation fuels.” about $230 million on hydrogen doctorate in 2008, he founded Palm Springs and other cities in While there have been many lions of dollars in hydrogen, in Businesses are exploring other projects by the end of 2023. The First Element Fuel, which oper- Riverside County. part to reduce their reliance on approaches, too. state now has roughly 40 fueling ates 21 hydrogen fueling stations, The transit system has 17 hy- technical advances, hydrogen is fossil fuels and to address climate stations, with dozens more under including a four-pump unit at an drogen buses and is planning to still expensive to make and trans- Air Liquide, a French company, change. construction. While those num- Arco gas station in Fountain Val- add 10 in the next year. SunLine port. Fuel-cell vehicles also cost is building a $150 million plant out- bers are tiny compared with the ley, about a 10-minute drive from used more than $27 million in more than comparable electric Toyota, Hyundai, Daimler and side Las Vegas that will turn bio- 10,000 gasoline stations across the U.C. Irvine. The company plans to grants over the last 10 years to cars. A Toyota Mirai sells for several other automakers are bet- gas from decomposed organic state, officials have high hopes. build up to 80 stations across the buy the vehicles and equipment to nearly $60,000 before subsidies. A ting on hydrogen cars and trucks. waste into hydrogen, which it With about 7,500 hydrogen ve- state, under the brand name True produce hydrogen, which it makes Tesla Model 3 starts at about And Shell is building hydrogen plans to sell in California. The hicles on the road, an aggressive Zero. with the help of electricity from $38,000 before subsidies. Then stations in Europe and California. plant will begin operations late state program of incentives and One recent afternoon, Karen the grid and solar panels. The there is the chicken-or-egg issue The best use for hydrogen, next year. Air Liquide is building subsidies from cap-and-trade dol- Harelson pulled up to the Arco sta- transit agency already sells com- of trying to get people to buy hy- some experts argue, is to power another plant on the Canadian lars envisions 50,000 hydrogen tion in her Toyota Mirai, a hydro- pressed natural gas, which fuels drogen vehicles before there is a trucks, buses and airplanes. side of Niagara Falls to supply the light-duty vehicles by the middle gen-powered sedan that she most of its buses, to commercial comprehensive fueling infrastruc- That’s because the fuel packs en- Northeast. of the decade and a network of bought two years ago. “I person- and government agencies, and it ture. ergy in a smaller and lighter pack- “We see hydrogen as an energy 1,000 hydrogen stations by 2030. ally don’t think they should make plans to sell hydrogen, too. Critics, including Tesla’s chief age than the current generation of vector of the future,” said Michael The infrastructure required for another car without it,” said Ms. Lauren Skiver, the chief execu- executive, Elon Musk, point out batteries, leaving more room for Graff, chairman and chief execu- producing, transporting and dis- Harelson, 66, a retired professor tive and general manager of Sun- that hydrogen’s promoters have cargo and passengers. Hyundai is tive of American Air Liquide Hold- pensing the gas alone will cost at Golden West College. “It’s the Line, said that she had invited long failed to deliver on their prepared to introduce the first ings. about $10 billion, according to Cal- best car I’ve ever had. The prob- other transit agencies and utilities promises. mass-produced heavy-duty fuel- The hydrogen business may be ifornia hydrogen researchers, lem is, there’s just not enough sta- to see just how far hydrogen had In his 2003 State of the Union cell truck in a few months. Toyota, in its infancy, but interest in it is who expect both private and gov- tions around.” come but that she had often met address, President Bush said that which has been testing fuel-cell robust and growing, said Michael ernment investment. That’s a common complaint. Be- with disbelief and ambivalence. “the first car driven by a child trucks at the Port of Los Angeles Webber, a mechanical engineer- Other states are much further cause of the paucity of hydrogen born today could be powered by since 2017, recently said it would ing professor at the University of behind. The vast majority of the pumps, car owners often wait in hydrogen and pollution free.” develop heavy-duty fuel-cell Texas at Austin and chief science country’s hydrogen fueling sta- line. But unlike battery-powered SunLine Transit has invested Those hopes were propelled trucks for North America. and technology officer at Engie, a tions and vehicles are in Califor- electric cars, which can require 45 in equipment that can split mainly by the rising cost of oil and Hydrogen poses a long-term French energy company. nia. minutes to several hours to fully water into oxygen and natural gas at the time. After a threat to oil companies because it “The customers for hydrogen Hydrogen-powered vehicles charge, hydrogen cars, like gaso- hydrogen atoms, below. boom in hydraulic fracturing could compete with diesel and jet are there,” Mr. Webber said. are similar to electric cars. But un- line ones, fill up in less than 10 Hydrogen storage at the helped drive down energy prices, fuel. That is also why many large “They’re just waiting for the hy- like electric cars, which have large minutes and are good for 300 company, below right. hydrogen took a back seat. European oil and gas companies, drogen to show up.” B8 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 SCORES ANALYSIS COMMENTARY N

THE MASTERS ROUND TWO

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Dustin Johnson, who was tied for the lead after Friday’s play, teeing off at No. 17. With rain delaying play at the start of the Masters, some golfers will have to complete their second rounds on Saturday. Lost Ball Leads to Lost Day for DeChambeau By BILL PENNINGTON pitch from there skipped another 15 feet AUGUSTA, Ga. — It was almost a given past the hole. Two putts later, DeChambeau that Bryson DeChambeau would do some- had a confounding, disheartening double thing memorable at this year’s Masters bogey. tournament. It did not figure to be a boom- “I know it affected him a little bit, because ing tee shot so high in the Georgia sky that it he didn’t play his best golf after that,” Rahm landed clear out of sight. said. Just as amazing: That swing, and the re- Rahm was being empathetic, and diplo- sulting penalty for a lost ball, could cause matic. DeChambeau, the pretournament favorite, Looking frazzled, DeChambeau hooked to miss the cut and be sent home from the his drive on the fourth hole, then mis-hit an 2020 Masters on Saturday. The missing tee iron from the rough — “Oh, I popped it up,” shot on Friday triggered a three-hole melt- he yelped after the swing. down of sorts for DeChambeau as he batted He started playing considerably faster his ball around the course and dropped five and hardly sized up some shots before hit- strokes to the leaders. ting them, as if he had an Uber waiting to It has been that kind of Masters so far for remove him from the scene. It was an un- DeChambeau, who arrived at the Augusta conscious reaction any everyday duffer National Golf Club awash in a wave of pub- would have recognized — the kind of thing licity for his prodigiously long drives. But in golfers do when their minds are overcome his first two rounds, keeping his shots by a mix of exasperation and embarrass- straight has been a major issue. ment. Consider an exchange Friday evening be- Consecutive bogeys ensued on the fourth tween a reporter and Jon Rahm, one of and fifth holes. Now DeChambeau, who de- DeChambeau’s playing partners the past clined to come to the clubhouse interview two days: area late Friday, was four-over par for his Reporter: “Were you involved in the round. search for Bryson’s ball?” Rahm, who was also part of the search Rahm: “Which one?” party that on Thursday had helped More on that later. The far-fetched drama DeChambeau find a ball he blasted into the for DeChambeau began on the third hole. azalea bushes behind the 13th green, under- At that point, DeChambeau, who on Fri- stood what his playing partner was going day finished one-over par for the tourna- Bryson DeChambeau had an adventurous round on Friday that left him in danger of missing the cut. through. ment with six holes left to play in a trun- “It’s unfortunate that the rules of golf don’t let you kind of figure out it’s some- cated second round, was enjoying some- where his tee shot landed, it was clear he a one-stroke penalty and requires the play- Leaders where there and keep playing — because he thing of a tournament revival. After a would need reinforcements if he was ever er to go back and replay his shot from the had to re-tee,” Rahm said. “I mean, when bumpy start early Thursday, he had rallied going to find the ball. Augusta National is spot from where he hit it. That is counted as Abraham Ancer -9 you have Bryson hitting it as hard as he hits to get to two-under par, which left him lurk- typically an outlier as a championship golf the player’s third stroke on the hole, which it and it’s kind of hooking with not much ing behind the quartet leading the event: course because it lacks high grass outside is enough to make any golfer feel sick. Cameron Smith -9 spin into a soft area, we were all confident it Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas, Abraham the fairways. But that’s during its tradi- An increasingly distressed DeChambeau Justin Thomas -9 was pretty buried and it was going to be Ancer and Cameron Smith, who were all at tional April setting. plaintively asked the rules official Ken nine under after finishing their second Delayed to November because of the co- Tackett as the clock was ticking down: “So Dustin Johnson -9 hard to find.” rounds. ronavirus pandemic, the tournament is be- you’re saying if we can’t find it — it’s a lost To his credit, DeChambeau did mount a The 350-yard, par-4 third hole was sup- ing played on grounds that have some spots ball?” Patrick Cantlay -8 comeback. He birdied three of the next nine holes after his debacle on the third, but posed to be easy prey. On Friday, DeCham- with grass standing several inches high and Yes, indeed. DeChambeau began to won- Sungjae Im -8 beau smashed a shot that landed about 20 that on Friday remained soaked by small der aloud if the wet conditions constituted missed a four-foot eagle putt on the eighth yards short of its green and just left of the puddles from a rainstorm the day before. what the golf rule book refers to as “casual hole after a superb drive and a precise ap- fairway in some high rough. The ball disap- DeChambeau tramped the grass in the water,” and whether that might protect him proach shot. He is not out of the tournament peared in the grass. On multiple, slow-mo- general vicinity of where his ball seemed to from the one-stroke penalty and having to yet, although finding a way to contend will tion televisions replays, the white orb ap- have landed. Rahm and their fellow playing return to the tee. Tackett shook his head: take a spectacular rally on his final six holes peared to have descended roughly 330 partner, Louis Oosthuizen, joined him, as no. to finish the second round on Saturday. yards from the tee and vanished as it con- did their caddies and tournament officials. Time was up, and the ball was officially “He’s a fighter and he’s showing it,” Rahm tacted the grass. At one point, an assemblage of 14 men were lost. DeChambeau climbed into a golf cart said. In golf, that is known as a plugged ball, stomping the grass in search of DeCham- and hit another ball from the third tee. It Still, all in all, it was not the way DeCham- and it is often visible only if someone is beau’s Bridgestone golf ball. struck almost the same spot as the previous beau wanted to make his mark on golf’s standing directly over it and staring Based on television replays, it appeared ball, except it bounced and remained visi- most meaningful event. straight down, but since the 2020 Masters is they were looking about 10 yards to the left ble. But when DeChambeau returned to the There was one last indignity to cap being conducted without spectators, there of where they should have been searching. scene, it was obvious the entire incident had DeChambeau’s day: Rahm said the missing were no fans surrounding the hole to guide A rules official began timing the episode be- shaken him. golf ball had been found in the high grass DeChambeau to the proper location. cause after three minutes any ball that can- He sent a short chip, his fourth shot on the near the third green minutes after the When DeChambeau reached the area not be found is considered lost, which draws hole, flying 20 yards over the green. His search for it was abandoned. THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N B9

GOLF THE MASTERS

IN 2020, DEAFENING SILENCE

In Normal Years, the Roar ‘Just Seems to Permeate Through the Pines’

This article is by Alan Blinder, Doug Mills gusta National to bar spectators from this remembered the crowds that offered those and Bill Pennington. week’s tournament, starving its grounds of roars: “They do pull for you. They just live AUGUSTA, Ga. — On a typical day at the the swelling cheers of well-wishers and the and die with your success or failure.” Masters, a person could wait near Augusta concerned murmurs of “I-could-have-hit- One could hear just about everything else National Golf Club’s 18th green and hear the that” naysayers that have provided the around the course this week, though. Sirens unfolding story of the tournament without soundtrack of so many Sunday charges. intruding from Washington Road. Water really trying. “There are not many other professional rushing beneath a grate. The crinkle of “You could sit up there on the veranda of golf tournaments that could mimic what fallen leaves underfoot in No. 13’s tee box. the clubhouse or at any of the tables, and transpires there at Augusta National,” said But none of the roars that players recall when something happened on the lower Mark O’Meara, who won in 1998. “On the from previous generations and which usu- part of the course, around 12 or 13, you last nine holes, there’s a lot of drama that’s ally pulse through television sets around could hear the volume of the roar,” said taken place over the years. The roars are the world during golf’s most-watched yearly Charles Coody, the 1971 champion. “A lot of extremely significant from what’s going on. broadcast. As the 2020 Masters heads into a people could identify the roar as a Palmer It just seems to permeate through the starkly unusual final round this Sunday, roar or a Nicklaus roar or a Tiger roar.” pines.” these are the places where the emotive live But the coronavirus pandemic led Au- Or, as Tommy Aaron, the 1973 champion, audience will be most missed.

N0. 1 TEA OLIVE | PAR 4 445 N0. 9 CAROLINA CHERRY | PAR 4 460 N0. 12 GOLDEN BELL | PAR 3 155

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AUGUSTA NATIONAL/GETTY IMAGES ROBERT SULLIVAN/AFP, VIA GETTY IMAGES CHARLIE RIEDEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS Top: A practice round on Wednesday. Above: In 1984. Top: Mostly quiet this week. Above: A crowd in 1997. Tiger Woods on Thursday. Bubba Watson in 2013.

The first inklings of this year’s quiet are apparent at one of the With the hole now 460 yards and with a green near the first and Arguably the most famous hole in golf and the heart of Amen busiest spots at Augusta National: The path that leads to the 10th tees, as well as the 18th green and the clubhouse, spectators Corner, the 155-yard No. 12 includes three bunkers and a creek. first tee box, near the clubhouse, also abuts parts of the ninth, traditionally encircle much of the green. This year, autumn colors lightly frame part of the hole, taking the 10th and 18th holes, and is normally where eager spectators who Jack Nicklaus had already won the tournament five times spotlight from the azaleas of that dominate the spring landscape. want to watch rounds start converge with the amblers who are when he came to the green on No. 9 during his final round in Fans ordinarily crowd into grandstands around the tee box to simply on their way to another destination on the course. 1986 and heard the roars from No. 8, where Seve Ballesteros and watch how (and what) competitors hit on the par-3 hole, the Crowds traditionally coalesce around the tee box and line the Tom Kite had eagled. course’s shortest. The green is guarded by bunkers and goes fairway, their ranks regularly stretching as far as the familiar “I’ve backed off the ball twice because of the shots, so I ask mostly undisturbed by patrons, making No. 12 perhaps the qui- flag-topped scoreboard. And when a renowned player steps up the gallery, ‘OK, you’ve heard all of that noise, let’s see if we can etest putt on the course. for his tee shot, or when greats of the game like Gary Player and make some noise here ourselves,’” Nicklaus told The Augusta “Usually those fans, they make me nervous,” said Bubba Wat- Jack Nicklaus take their ceremonial swings to open the tourna- Chronicle in 2016. “And I knocked it in, and I was off.” son, the winner in 2012 and 2014. “Maybe I just haven’t noticed ment, the crowds can be 10-deep or more. Nicklaus went on to shoot 30 on the back nine and finish with them because I haven’t been as nervous right now.” a 65, earning his sixth and final Masters win. But often, he noted, those fans’ attention turns to action on No. “I think the gallery certainly helped me a lot in that time,” 11 or No. 13, sparking cheers that may seem discordant to what- Nicklaus recalled Thursday morning. “They were pretty vocal, ever is happening on the hole known as Golden Bell. and it was nice to have the support and the people behind me. I “You really hear the roars more on like an eagle putt or a shot enjoyed it very much.” into the green on 13,” Watson said.

NO. 15 FIRETHORN | PAR 5 530 NO. 16 REDBUD | PAR 3 170 NO. 18 HOLLY | PAR 4 465

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AUGUSTA NATIONAL/GETTY IMAGES AUGUSTA NATIONAL/GETTY IMAGES DAVID CANNON/GETTY IMAGES Top: Only a few on the green. Above: A throng in 1973. The difference between 2020 and 1991. Woods on Monday, top, and in 2005.

Success on the par-5, 530-yard 15th hole often hinges on the Known as Redbud, No. 16 is dominated by water and three fore- A new champion’s celebration often happens on its green, so fans second shot, which must clear a pond to reach the green. Fans boding bunkers around the green. surround most of 18 in hopes of witnessing history. Augusta congregate in a grandstand near a scoreboard, and still more can In his Masters debut in 1991, Phil Mickelson was on the 18th National even acknowledges that the surrounding area has been easily watch if they are positioned to view the 16th tee box. green when Nicklaus and Tom Watson were playing No. 16, “contoured to improve sight lines for spectators.” Aaron, the 1973 winner, remembered arriving at No. 15 that several hundred yards away. “One of them made the putt from “I’ve always watched the Masters and wondered, ‘How could year thinking he needed a birdie to keep pace with J. C. Snead, down below to the front right up-on-top pin, and the place anybody make a putt on the 18th green to win the Masters? How Sam Snead’s nephew. His drive did not go well, landing maybe 15 erupted to the point where the ground actually shook, and you does anybody do that?’” O’Meara said. “And then, of course, at yards short of where he wanted to be. “As I got ready to play my could feel the vibrations in my feet,” Mickelson said. 41 years of age, there I was. I was fortunate and hit a good putt second shot, I was debating whether to lay up or take a shot for Mickelson added his own moment in 2004, the year he won for right off the putter — I knew I hit a good putt — but I had no the green,” Aaron recalled. He rifled through his bag, ultimately the first time, when he made a final-round putt on 16 and entered idea what was going to transpire. I never thought to myself settling on his three-wood. “I heard this collective groan go up in a tie for the lead. “I could feel the ground shake there and the while I was over it, ‘Mark, if you make this, you’re going to win the crowd because they knew how far back I was.” energy and my hair standing up and my body’s almost shaking the green jacket, you’re going to be a Masters champion.’ I just He swung anyway, clearing the pond and leaving himself a from the vibration of the ground,” Mickelson said. don’t think you can go there.” pitch to the green and a birdie putt. One man’s glory can fuel another’s demise. Justin Rose had The crowd roared moments later. “I had already made up my mind, and I just tried to shake it just made birdie on 16 during the final round in 2007 and was a “When it went in and my arms and hands went up in the air off and not think about what they’re thinking,” he said. “I was shot off the lead. But as Rose stood at the 17th tee, Woods was and everybody stood up around the green and their hands went just thinking about making the best possible swing.” working on 16. “He hit a beautiful shot in there that used the up in the air, I was truly more in shock and disbelief as to what His strike won him the crowd’s confidence anew. contours, came down close. Crowd was going crazy,” Rose said. the heck just happened,” O’Meara said. “As I’d walk down the fairway on 15, I’d hear the crowd roar “I was just like, ‘Wow, this is the back nine of Augusta on a Sun- and make these comments like, ‘You’ve got it won,’” he said. day.’ I had that out-of-body experience where like I’m living what “And I’d think, ‘You are so wrong, pal. I’ve got a lot of work to I watched on TV as a kid so many times. Probably made double do.’” up 17, so it kind of taught me to stay focused next time.” THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 N B11

SCOREBOARD SOCCER

FOOTBALL For U.S. Stars, There’s Now Only Red and Blue N.F.L. STANDINGS AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF PA MANCHESTER, England — Buffalo ...... 7 2 0 .778 242 233 Miami ...... 5 3 0 .625 222 161 Rose Lavelle and Sam Mewis are N. England ....3 5 0 .375 166 194 waiting to see where, precisely, Jets ...... 0 9 0 .000 121 268 Tobin Heath is going with this. South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis ....6 3 0 .667 242 177 The first sentence was not, from Tennessee ....6 3 0 .667 249 235 their point of view, Houston ...... 2 6 0 .250 193 242 Jacksonville ....1 7 0 .125 179 247 RORY an especially North W L T Pct PF PA promising start. Pittsburgh .....8 0 0 1.000 235 161 SMITH Baltimore .....6 2 0 .750 227 142 “We were taught Cleveland .....5 3 0 .625 206 237 that there is only Cincinnati .....2 5 1 .313 194 214 ON one club in Man- West W L T Pct PF PA SOCCER Kansas City ....8 1 0 .889 286 183 chester,” Heath Las Vegas. . . . . 5 3 0 .625 218 229 began. That was probably the Denver ...... 3 5 0 .375 174 217 L.A. Chargers. . . 2 6 0 .250 205 216 point at which their ears pricked NATIONAL CONFERENCE up. East W L T Pct PF PA Phila...... 3 4 1 .438 186 205 “I love learning about all the Washington ....2 6 0 .250 153 188 history,” said Heath, whose own Dallas ...... 2 7 0 .222 204 290 Giants ...... 2 7 0 .222 168 219 Manchester United history is still South W L T Pct PF PA measured in weeks. “And we New Orleans . . . 6 2 0 .750 244 200 POOL PHOTO BY CATH IVILL POOL PHOTO BY CATHERINE IVILL Tampa Bay ....6 3 0 .667 250 203 were taught that Manchester is Atlanta ...... 3 6 0 .333 243 251 red. Like nobody goes to Man- Rose Lavelle, left, and Sam Mewis of Manchester City during an F.A. Cup match against Everton last week. Carolina ...... 3 6 0 .333 210 226 chester City games.” (This is, it is North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay ....6 2 0 .750 253 204 fair to say, a contested interpre- Chicago ...... 5 4 0 .556 178 190 tation.) “I feel like, City, because Detroit ...... 3 5 0 .375 197 240 Minnesota .....3 5 0 .375 217 234 they’re this modern global team, West W L T Pct PF PA in the United States we think Seattle ...... 6 2 0 .750 274 243 Arizona ...... 5 3 0 .625 234 180 they’re a really big club. But here L.A. Rams .....5 3 0 .625 193 152 in Manchester, it’s not a big San Fran...... 4 5 0 .444 225 207 Thursday club.” Indianapolis 34, Tennessee 17 Lavelle and Mewis, wearing Sunday Houston at Cleveland, 1 matching City tops, have leaned Jacksonville at Green Bay, 1 in a little closer to their laptop Philadelphia at Giants, 1 Tampa Bay at Carolina, 1 screen now. Heath has paused, Washington at Detroit, 1 Buffalo at Arizona, 4:05 trying to find the shimmy that Denver at Las Vegas, 4:05 might get her out of this one. L.A. Chargers at Miami, 4:05 Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 4:25 “And this,” she said, choosing her San Francisco at New Orleans, 4:25 words carefully, “is what we’re Seattle at L.A. Rams, 4:25 Baltimore at New England, 8:20 being taught.” It is something of Open: Kansas City, Jets, Atlanta, Dallas a drop of the shoulder, but it Monday Minnesota at Chicago, 8:15 works. Lavelle and Mewis have started laughing. GOLF “I was waiting to see how you CHARLOTTE TATTERSALL/GETTY IMAGES CHARLOTTE TATTERSALL/GETTY IMAGES were going to wrap that one up,” THE MASTERS Mewis responds. Christen Press, left, and Tobin Heath in Manchester City’s match against Brighton & Hove Albion last month. Friday All three of them, of course — At Augusta National Golf Club Augusta, Ga. together with Christen Press, their new differences, though, every day, to be around a team Lavelle said, when asked to with some pride that it is not, Purse: $11.5 million who has wisely chosen to stay Yardage: 7,475; Par: 72 are the similarities between again.” compare the style of play in the actually, the wettest place in the Second Round Suspended for Darkness out of the whole thing — are far them. It is telling, for example, Initially, after months of isolat- W.S.L. to that of the N.W.S.L. “I country. It is only the 15th (49 DNF) Abraham Ancer ...... 68-67—135 -9 more used to being teammates that as much as the four players ing, Press worried that she might wouldn’t put one over the other. wettest. Cameron Smith ...... 67-68—135 -9 than rivals. When healthy, they have bought into the Mancunian find it strange to be in such close In America, it is more ag- Justin Thomas ...... 66-69—135 -9 “Mancunians talk about the Dustin Johnson ...... 65-70—135 -9 have all been mainstays of the rivalry, when any of them refers contact with teammates. “It had gressive, more transitional, you weather all of the time,” Press Patrick Cantlay...... 70-66—136 -8 United States’ national team to “our team,” the others know run a lot, cover a lot of ground. Sungjae Im ...... 66-70—136 -8 been so long since I had social said. “They complain about it all Danny Willett ...... 71-66—137 -7 since 2017. All four appeared in they mean, first and foremost, contact, I was worried how I Here, you have to break teams of the time.” She, however, loves Tommy Fleetwood ...... 71-66—137 -7 last summer’s World Cup final. the United States. down more tactically. I had high Justin Rose ...... 67-70—137 -7 would be that first week just the climate. “It has the most Now, though, they find them- Sebastian Munoz ...... 70-68—138 -6 Though the national team has being around people,” she said. expectations, but it’s exceeded beautiful sky,” she said. “It is so Dylan Frittelli ...... 65-73—138 -6 selves on opposing sides of an not played a game since March, them.” Phil Mickelson ...... 69-70—139 -5 But it came back, she said, moody.” Heath has noticed the Brooks Koepka ...... 70-69—139 -5 intractable divide. This summer, the four players remain con- “quickly and easily and joyfully.” Press has found much of the abundance of rainbows (there is Rickie Fowler ...... 70-70—140 -4 first Mewis and then Lavelle nected to it not only through same. “It’s an oversimplification Billy Horschel ...... 70-70—140 -4 “It’s the longest I’ve been certainly no shortage of opportu- a-John Augenstein ...... 69-72—141 -3 signed for Manchester City in frequent Zoom meetings with the away,” Press said. “There’s the to say one is transitional and one Bernhard Langer ...... 68-73—141 -3 England’s Women’s Super nity). Lavelle keeps telling peo- Rory McIlroy...... 75-66—141 -3 coaching staff but by a shared, saying that you only know how more organized,” she said. “Orga- Victor Perez...... 70-71—141 -3 League. A few weeks later, Heath and deep-rooted, culture. “The nized does not mean slower. It is ple that she loves how it is “per- Shugo Imahira ...... 72-70—142 -2 much you love something when petually fall.” Adam Scott...... 70-72—142 -2 and Press agreed to join Man- identity of the team is something a different challenge: like Rose Christiaan Bezuidenhout ...... 69-73—142 -2 it’s taken away. I feel such a They have even identified the Cameron Champ ...... 68-74—142 -2 chester United. Since then, all you take with you,” Press said. said, it’s more of a puzzle how Chez Reavie ...... 71-72—143 -1 four have had a crash course in “Every time you play, you have it you’re going to break a team same frustrations. When Heath Bubba Watson...... 74-69—143 -1 mentions that she is looking Bernd Wiesberger ...... 71-72—143 -1 the tropes of the relationship there. It can’t be lost. We all just down.” a-James Sugrue...... 72-71—143 -1 between the teams. carry it a bit differently.” That, though, is just one part of forward to debriefing how they Nick Taylor ...... 72-72—144 E At home, teammates, Sung Kang ...... 75-69—144 E “The pride of the club is very The reasons that have brought the adventure. Press and Heath found British culture, all four Collin Morikawa ...... 70-74—144 E real, and very strong,” Heath them all to Manchester, too, are have played in Europe before; minds travel to exactly the same Matthew Fitzpatrick ...... 74-70—144 E but in England, on Zach Johnson ...... 73-71—144 E said. Though United has had a held in common. They are here, for Lavelle and Mewis, it is their place: it is, apparently, very Byeong-Hun An ...... 72-73—145 +1 Max Homa ...... 70-75—145 +1 women’s team only since 2018 — by and large, simply to play: to opposite sides. first taste of professional soccer difficult to do laundry in Britain. Andrew Putnam...... 73-72—145 +1 a delay their fellow U.S. star “feel like a normal soccer player away from home. “Packing up Heath declares the country’s Justin Harding ...... 75-71—146 +2 Brendon Todd ...... 73-73—146 +2 Megan Rapinoe has described as again,” as Heath put it, to enjoy your life and moving halfway washing machines “impossible.” Matthew Wolff ...... 70-77—147 +3 “disgraceful” — both the staff at what Mewis sees as the unadul- around the world” is never easy, Lavelle is tired of spending “four Tyrrell Hatton ...... 73-74—147 +3 J.T. Poston ...... 73-75—148 +4 the club and her new teammates terated pleasure of “having sense of nostalgia for what foot- Press said, but doing it in the hours doing laundry, and when Francesco Molinari ...... 72-78—150 +6 have informed her that the enmi- games and having practice.” midst of a pandemic it is more Fred Couples...... 77-73—150 +6 ball is supposed to mean to me. I the clothes come out, they’re still Jose Maria Olazabal ...... 78-80—158 +14 ty still applies, that it “spills over None could have found that by feel that joy every time I go on difficult still. wet.” “We’ve said this in every from the men’s team to the wom- remaining in the United States. the pitch.” The measures in place to com- interview and everyone thinks SOCCER en’s.” The National Women’s Soccer Their impression of the league bat the spread of the coronavirus we’re nuts,” Mewis said. Press She has no doubt that this League season fell victim to the they have found, too, is uniform: — Manchester spent months in believes appliances here lack — WORLD CUP QUALIFYING weekend’s derby match between coronavirus pandemic in March. the Women’s Super League has various forms of local lockdown and this may or may not be a SOUTH AMERICA the sides — with United, a little Though it was eventually re- the air of a rising force. They are before nationwide restrictions technical term — “oomph.” Top 4 teams qualify, 5th advances to unexpectedly, top of the table placed by a summer cup compe- were imposed earlier this month playoff not the only global stars to have “What a shame they don’t ...... GP W D L GF GA Pts and City, still finding its bearings tition in Utah and an abbreviated — have made it harder to social- found themselves in England: know a dryer exists,” she said, Argentina . 3 2 1 0 4 2 7 in fifth — brings with it an added fall series, both Heath and Press ize; all four have had to make do Brazil ....2 2 0 0 9 2 6 Alex Morgan joined Tottenham in with what appears to be genuine Ecuador . . 3 2 0 1 7 5 6 frisson of tension. opted not to take part. With that with bumping into each other Uruguay . . 3 2 0 1 7 5 6 September and made her debut sympathy. “And that it makes Paraguay . 3 1 2 0 4 3 5 It is the same, evidently, for over, it is not clear, at this point, occasionally near their apart- Chile ....3 1 1 1 5 4 4 Mewis and Lavelle across town. when the league will return to this month; Sam Kerr, the Aus- ments in the center of the city. your clothes warm and fluffy and Colombia . 3 1 1 1 5 5 4 tralian striker, arrived at Chelsea perfect every time.” Even across Peru .....3 0 1 2 4 8 1 Because of the pandemic, Lavelle the field. But even in that atomized Venezuela . 2 0 0 2 0 4 0 at the beginning of the year. their new divide, this is a subject Bolivia . . . 3 0 0 3 3 10 0 has done little exploring of her As Europe’s leagues started to environment, they have taken Thursday, Nov. 12 new home beyond “getting take- return, then, the appeal was Arsenal can call on Danielle van the same approach: embracing on which there is absolute unity. At La Paz, Bolivia de Donk and Vivianne Miedema, But they are dealing with it as Bolivia 2, Ecuador 3 out coffee,” but both she and obvious. “It has been such a the challenge. The best gauge of At Buenos Aires, Argentina Mewis have internalized the idea blessing,” Press said. “Tobin and two stars of the Dutch team the just how positive they have been they are dealing with everything Argentina 1, Paraguay 1 Friday, Nov. 13 that “Manchester is blue.” I have been out since March: no United States defeated in last is their acclimation to Manch- else on this adventure. At Barranquilla, Colombia “We’ve adopted that, and we team environment, no games. summer’s World Cup final. ester’s weather. The city has a “It’s very present-moment Colombia 0, Uruguay 3 At Santiago, Chile take pride in that,” Mewis said. What a source of joy it’s been to “I feel bad pitting the two reputation in Britain for rain; awareness,” Heath said. “You Chile 2, Peru 0 At Brasilia, Brazil Far more pronounced than run on a beautiful grass pitch leagues against each other,” occasionally, it will be reported have to make a thing of it.” Brazil vs. Venezuela TENNIS PRO FOOTBALL LINZ OPEN Friday At Intersport Arena Linz Linz, Austria Women’s Singles, Quarterfinals Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, d. Power Struggle in Washington: Dispute Over Team Reaches Court Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, 6-3, 6-1. Ekaterina Alexandrova (4), Russia, d. Nadia Podoroska (6), Argentina, 6-2, 6-1. Elise Mertens (2), Belgium, d. Veronika By KEN BELSON ers are signaling the depth of the the limited partners that he will the shareholders, a decision that Snyder has also named Schar’s Kudermetova (5), Russia, 6-4, 6-1. and KATHERINE ROSMAN discord with the majority owner, exercise his right of first refusal, the partners said was made with- daughter, as well as a company Women’s Doubles, Semifinals Lucie Hradecka and Katerina Siniakova The increasingly bitter battle Daniel Snyder. but buy out only Smith and Roth- out consulting them. This led to a controlled by Schar and his son- (1), Czech Republic, d. Irina Bara, Romania, series of accusations that includ- in-law, in his filings. and Sara Sorribes Tormo (3), Spain, 6-3, for control of the Washington Their maneuver to court, how- man, who together own 25 per- 3-6, 10-5. Football Team took a significant ever, risks alienating the league cent, and not Schar, who holds 15 ed financial mismanagement of Beth Wilkinson, a well-known SOFIA OPEN turn on Friday when three of the and other team owners. percent of the team. the team and efforts to smear Sny- lawyer in Washington, was hired der. to investigate allegations of wide- Friday team’s limited partners, who to- The three limited partners — This prompted the limited part- At Arena Armeec Sofia gether own 40 percent of the club, Frederick Smith, the chairman of ners to ask a judge to let them sell Snyder threw the three part- spread sexual harassment in the Sofia, Bulgaria Men’s Singles, Semifinals asked a federal judge to allow FedEx; Robert Rothman, an asset their shares as a block and stop ners off the team’s board this sum- team’s front office, details of Jannik Sinner, Italy, d. Adrian Mannarino manager; and Dwight Schar, Snyder from trying to split up the mer, and the N.F.L. appointed an which were published in July by (5), France, 6-3, 7-5. Vasek Pospisil, them to sell their shares as a Canada, vs. Richard Gasquet, France, 6-7 group. founder of a home building com- group. arbitrator to settle the dispute. The Washington Post. The Post (6), 6-2, 6-0. The arbitrator has yet to issue a cited 15 women who formerly Men’s Doubles, Semifinals Such filings are rare in the pany — said in their filing in The limited partners said that Jurgen Melzer, Austria, and Edouard opaque world of buying and sell- United States District Court in Snyder’s effort “flies in the face” of ruling. worked with the team. Roger-Vasselin (1), France, d. Marin Cilic, Croatia, and Tomislav Brkic, Bosnia- ing N.F.L. teams. Most ownership Maryland that they had received their partnership agreement, ac- At the same time, Snyder filed a Under pressure from some of Herzegovina, 7-5, 6-4. disputes are handled in-house by an offer of $900 million for their cording to the court filing re- defamation suit claiming a con- his team’s largest sponsors, in- a league arbitrator, but by taking combined shares. viewed by The New York Times. spiracy aimed at forcing him to cluding FedEx, Snyder also TRANSACTIONS it to court, the minority sharehold- Snyder has given legal notice to The agreement, they said, gives sell the team. In some of those fil- changed the team’s longtime logo Snyder only the right to buy all of ings, Snyder has hinted at Schar’s and name, which many Native M.L.B. the shares up for sale, not just the involvement in stories critical of American groups considered a National League ones he wants. Snyder’s stewardship of the team. slur. MIAMI MARLINS — Named Kim Ng general manager. “Mr. Snyder’s position also threatens to disrupt an orderly N.F.L. process — including, among other BUFFALO BILLS — Placed LB Del’Shawn Phillips on injured reserve. things, necessary due diligence — CAROLINA PANTHERS — Placed DE for plaintiffs” to sell their shares, Stephen Weatherly and RB Reggie Bonnafon on injured reserve. the filing said. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed G Chris The filing does not say who has Hubbard on the reserve/COVID-19 list. DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed DT Walter offered to buy out the limited part- Palmore ont the reserve/COVID-19 list. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Promoted DT Benito ners. But the partners said their Jones and TE Chris Myarick to the active window to negotiate with the po- Nassau/Suffolk Connecticut New Hampshire roster as COVID-19 replacements. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Acitvated G Pat tential buyer would expire on Nov. Houses for Sale 1405 Houses for Sale 1805 Elflein for injured reserve. 25. NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived TE Eric PORT WASHINGTON - 3 BR, 1 bth, LR, NEW HAMPSHIRE Tomlinson and G Kenny Wiggins. Signed The team and the N.F.L. did not For sale 80+ acre in Raymond, NH DR, den, 3 blocks to LIRR, on dead-end Connecticut house for sale no sales tax or income tax currently OT Kyle Murphy, CB Montre Hartage and street, sep cottage and 2 car gar, needs in NH. Possible Single Family RB Alfred Morris to the active roster. respond to a request for comment. TLC, $659,000. 516-883-3114 princ. only Home included in sale call today for Placed RF Devonta Freeman on injured details. KSRJ Signature Realty Group The lawyers for the three limited House in Hartford residential area, Realtor Darlene Boudreau 603-303-7760 reserve. 4BR, 2› bath, finished basement, attic. cell office 603-819-4844 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Activated partners also did not reply to a re- Rockland County Tree-lined street, large yard southern WR Kendrick Bourne from the reserve/ quest for comment. exposure. Walk to school and college, COVID-19 list. Houses for Sale 1731 park with golf course. Good public The dispute between Snyder transport, highways from NY, Boston. [email protected] (860)418-7764 Wearing Apparel COLLEGE and the limited partners, who New City New Construction TEMPLE UNIVERSITY — Signed G Brendan bought into the team nearly 20 5 beds (2 Masters), 4 full baths, dining room, mud room, +900sq ft bsmt with Danbury Barry to a one-year financial aid agreement 8ft ceilings. Features: quartz counters, years ago, began in the spring. central AC, baseboard heat, front in a transfer from Dartmouth whereby he PATRICK MCDERMOTT/GETTY IMAGES Merson's Pond $1,000,000 in hi-end Inventory will gain eligibility upon completion of his covered porch, rear deck, + much - includes wedding gowns, mother- With the future of the 2020 N.F.L. more. Located in the Clarkstown 19.4 acs w/6 ac pond. Subdividable. 1 of-the-bride gowns, and sportswear. undergraduate degree requirements. Jerry Jones, left, the Cowboys’ owner, with the embattled Daniel School District. 5 mins to Palisades mile to I84 / 75 minutes to NYC $4.750M Over 1,500 pieces offered as a bulk sale. UNC ASHEVILLE — Named JP Kimbrough season unclear then, Snyder de- Pkwy. Asking $769K Vito 845 300 4833 Broker Protected 203 - 994 - 6031 Call 646-523-1531 assistant coach of track & field. Snyder, owner of the Washington Football Team, last month. ferred paying annual dividends to [email protected]