ABCDE Prices may vary in areas outside metropolitan Washington. SU V1 V2 V3 V4 Morning rain 45/39 • Tomorrow: Partly sunny 49/32 B8 Democracy Dies in Darkness TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2021 . $2 Variants Trial to pose tests for vaccine focus on blueprints Trump’s As coronavirus evolves, words drugmakers scramble to ensure efficacy of shots HOUSE DELIVERS ARTICLE TO SENATE BY CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON, LAURIE MCGINLEY Managers scour rioters’ AND JOEL ACHENBACH social media t o build case The scientific and pharmaceu- tical race to keep coronavirus BY SEUNG MIN KIM, vaccines ahead of new virus vari- TOM HAMBURGER, ants escalated Monday, even as a JOSH DAWSEY highly transmissible variant first AND KAROUN DEMIRJIAN detected in people who had re- cently traveled to Brazil was dis- The House on Monday formally covered in Minnesota. delivered an article of impeach- Moderna, the maker of one of ment charging former president the two authorized coronavirus Donald Trump with inciting the vaccines in the United States, deadly insurrection at the Capitol, announced it would develop and as Democrats prepared to use his test a new vaccine tailored to own words as evidence against block a similar mutation-riddled him in his Senate trial next virus variant in case an updated month. shot becomes necessary. With solemn looks on their The effort is a precautionary SALWAN GEORGES/THE WASHINGTON POST mask-covered faces, the nine step. Evidence released Monday House impeachment managers, led by House Clerk Cheryl L. Johnson and acting House sergeant-at-arms Timothy P. Blodgett followed House impeachment managers suggested that the Moderna vac- by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), lead a procession delivering an article of impeachment against former president Donald Trump to the walked over to the Senate shortly cine will still work against two Senate chamber Monday at the U.S. Capitol. Trump is accused of inciting his supporters to violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6. after 7 p.m. Monday to deliver the variants of concern that emerged article against Trump, setting in in the United Kingdom and South motion his second Senate im- Africa. The plan highlights that peachment trial. the scientists who responded While no final decisions on trial with unprecedented speed and strategy have been made, House success to develop coronavirus managers are concentrating on vaccines are already moving to Biden lifts ban on transgender people in military building their case around Trump address new challenges. It also personally — both what he said in amplifies the urgency of getting BY MISSY RYAN, The executive order, which will in a statement. “The military is which a series of decisions erased the run-up to the Jan. 6 attack and as many people immunized with SAMANTHA SCHMIDT provide immediate protection to no exception.” protections for transgender peo- at a rally that day, and how his current vaccines as quickly as AND MATT VISER transgender troops at risk of The decision represents one ple in health care, federal em- words were interpreted within possible. being forced out of the military, element in a flurry of actions ployment, homeless shelters and the White House and outside of it, “We need to double down on President Biden on Monday addresses critics’ concerns that unveiled in the Biden adminis- other areas. The Trump adminis- according to people familiar with public health measures. The less repealed the Trump administra- Trump-era restrictions would tration’s initial days that seek to tration also rescinded Obama-era the deliberations. a virus spreads, the less it’s going tion’s ban on transgender person- shrink the military’s recruiting support transgender equality — guidance that protected trans- The impeachment managers to mutate,” said Anthony S. Fauci, nel serving openly in the U.S. pool and sideline qualified serv- which the president has called gender students, and declared and their advisers have been director of the National Institute military, taking early action to ice members. Lifting the ban, “the civil rights issue of our time” that federal law required a Con- meeting daily, scouring hundreds SEE VACCINE ON A8 advance campaign promises tar- Biden said, will make for a more — a nd gay and lesbian rights. SEE TRANSGENDER ON A10 SEE IMPEACHMENT ON A6 geting discrimination against effective force. The order underscores the new Biden boosts vaccination goal LGBTQ individuals in the federal “America is stronger, at home administration’s intent to move Senate confirms Yellen Probe of Justice Department President now aims for 1.5 million government, schools and other and around the world, when it is away from a course set under First female treasury secretary led Agency watchdog looks at possible shots a day, up 50 percent. A5 areas of American society. inclusive,” the White House said President Donald Trump in Fed during recession recovery. A17 efforts to overturn the election. A7 LOST DECADE Coal state senator holds Unfinished business of the Arab Spring key to climate agenda The forces that unleashed uprisings across the Middle East in 2011 remain as potent as ever BY SARAH KAPLAN AND DINO GRANDONI BY LIZ SLY He’s a coal country native, born beirut — Ten years ago, much to a family of mining town may- of the Arab world erupted in ors. As West Virginia governor, he jubilant revolt against the dicta- sued the Environmental Protec- torial regimes whose corruption, tion Agency. He has scuttled ef- cruelty and mismanagement had forts to regulate greenhouse gas mired the Middle East in poverty emissions, criticized the Paris cli- and backwardness for decades. mate agreement and famously Ten years on, the hopes awak- shot a copy of a cap-and-trade ened by the protests have van- carbon proposal full of lead. ALEX BRANDON/ASSOCIATED PRESS ished — but the underlying con- Now the fate of the most ambi- Moderate Sen. Joe Manchin III ditions that drove the unrest are tious climate agenda ever pro- (D-W.Va.) will be a swing vote. as acute as ever. posed by an American president Autocrats rule with an even rests in his hands. its proposed $1.9 trillion corona- tighter grip. Wars unleashed by Sen. Joe Manchin III, who is set virus relief package. leaders whose control was to become chairman of the Senate But perhaps few of Biden’s threatened have killed hundreds Energy and Natural Resources priorities will be as polarizing as of thousands of people. The rise Committee, is a conservative the environment. The president of the Islamic State amid the Democrat from one of the reddest ran on a $2 trillion plan to resulting wreckage ravaged large states in the country. In a Senate transition the economy toward parts of Syria and Iraq and drew split 50-50, Manchin is also a renewable-energy sources and the United States into another crucial swing vote on contentious cut the planet-warming pollution costly Middle East war. legislation, defining the limits of that comes from oil, gas and coal. Millions of people were driven what President Biden and the Biden has framed his proposal as from their homes to become Democrats can accomplish. Over a jobs plan, but the fossil fuel refugees, many converging on CHRIS HONDROS/GETTY IMAGES the weekend, he led a bipartisan, industry — including coal compa- the shores of Europe and beyond. A protester sits on a roof at the edge of Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Feb. 4, 2011, as clashes with troops bicameral group of lawmakers in nies — warns of economic fallout: SEE ARAB SPRING ON A22 subsided and demonstrators regrouped. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would resign a week later. talks with the White House over SEE MANCHIN ON A16 In the News while protesting new THE REGION Inside coronavirus o rders as A firefighter for Prince “criminals.” A14 George’s County urged THE NATION gas and coal leasing on Russia’s president, first responders to get HEALTH & SCIENCE An incident in which a federal lands and wa- Vladimir Putin, denied the coronavirus vaccine Trapped in a police officer in Tacoma, ters, while letting exist- an accusation in Krem- after the virus almost Wash., drove his car into ing leases continue. A7 lin critic Alexei Naval- killed him. B1 downward spiral After her depression a crowd over the week- President Biden took ny’s viral video t hat he Construction for a appeared to worsen, a end has revived calls for executive action intend- owns a Black Sea palace maglev train line in the brain scan pointed to changes in policing. A2 ed to increase the feder- and called recent rallies Mount Vernon Square something else. E1 The Supreme Court al government’s pur- “dangerous.” A15 area could affect nearby put an end to lawsuits chases of U.S.-made properties for years, STYLE THE ECONOMY alleging that President products. A12 District officials said. B1 Taking stock Donald Trump illegally The president is pre- Governors’ coronavi- A New York man who with José Andrés profited from his busi- paring to halt a Trump rus shutdowns didn’t addressed a pro-Trump cause the jobs crisis, re- The chef and nonprofit NICK EHLI nesses w hile in office. A2 administration plan t o rally in D.C. the day be- founder discusses food Civil rights activists, let more physicians pre- search shows, because fore the Capitol attack stamps, the farm bill and ‘If we do nothing, they will disappear’ Sen. elated with representa- scribe an opioid-treat- people were already was arrested on charges A17 the new president. C1 Jon Tester is seeking federal protection for tion at the highest levels ment drug. A13 staying home. related to the riot. B1 of government, remain GameStop’s stock has A Maryland murder 300-plus miles of rivers in Montana.