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U(D54G1D)y+=!#!]!$!# GREENLAND EUROPE AFRICA NORTH AMERICA ICELAND Warmer water Cooler water Dublin Lisbon New York St. John’s JEREMY WHITE/THE NEW YORK TIMES COLD BLOB Atlantic Ocean The warming atmosphere might be causing an arm of the powerful Gulf Stream to weaken, and scientists fear that could lead to faster-rising seas, stronger hurricanes and reduced rainfall. PAGES A12-13 SHIFTS IN ATLANTIC HINT AT DANGER FAYSH KHABUR BORDER CROSSING, Iraq — The nine young mothers rushed into the spartan offices of a Syrian border post, looking for the sons and daughters taken from them two years ago, children they thought they would never see again. The bewildered children, dressed in new puffy jackets from the orphanage they had come from, were mostly too young to re- member their mothers. They started to cry as the sobbing wom- en grabbed and kissed them and then led them away from the or- phanage workers who were the only caregivers they knew. “I was so happy, but it was a shock for both of us,” said one mother, who said she had been dreaming of seeing her daughter again for nearly two years. “She is not used to me yet.” The girl was now 2 and a half. The secret operation on the Syr- ian-Iraqi border last week, wit- nessed by journalists for The New York Times, was so far the only re- union of Yazidi women from Iraq and the children they had while sexually enslaved and raped by their Islamic State captors. The plight of these women, who survived almost unimaginable horrors in five years of captivity, is one of the many tragic but least- known footnotes in the story of the Islamic State’s conquest of large swaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014. For them, the story is far from over, their path forward still un- certain. To the traumatized Yazidi com- Yazidi Women Once Enslaved by ISIS Reunite With Children By JANE ARRAF Continued on Page A8 VINCENT TULLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Broadway singers, dancers and actors returned to Times Square for a pop-up show. Page A20. Staging a Revival BIG GOALS President Biden has taken a risk by setting a high bar. White House Memo. PAGE A16 WASHINGTON — President Biden, under intense pressure to donate excess coronavirus vac- cines to needy nations, moved on Friday to address the global short- age in another way, partnering with Japan, India and Australia to expand global vaccine manufac- turing capacity. In a deal announced at the so- called Quad Summit, a virtual meeting of leaders of the four countries, the Biden administra- tion committed to providing finan- cial support to help Biological E, a major vaccine manufacturer in In- dia, produce at least 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines by the end of 2022. That would address an acute vaccine shortage in Southeast Asia and beyond without risking domestic political blowback from exporting doses in the coming months, as Americans clamor for their shots. The United States has fallen far behind China, India and Russia in the race to marshal coronavirus vaccines as an instrument of di- plomacy. At the same time, Mr. Bi- den is facing accusations of vac- cine hoarding from global health advocates who want his adminis- tration to channel supplies to needy nations that are desperate for access. Insisting that Americans come first, the president has so far re- fused to make any concrete com- U.S. Takes Step To Use Vaccine For Diplomacy By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and MICHAEL CROWLEY Continued on Page A6 LAS VEGAS — Bobby Hernan- dez plans to spend his stimulus check on medication to manage his diabetes. Wilma Estrella will use hers to pay the electricity bill. Lizbeth Ramos intends to catch up on the rent, though the money will not be enough to cover all that she owes. They are hardly alone: No state’s work force has been bat- tered as badly by the coronavirus pandemic as Nevada’s, and people are especially struggling in Las Vegas, a boom-and-bust city where tourist dollars and lavish tips have given way to shuttered hotels and weed-strewn parking lots. It is hard to remember the level of optimism and exuberance that prevailed a year ago, as presiden- tial hopefuls traipsed through the state for the Democratic cau- cuses. The economy had roared back from the Great Recession, and it could seem that growth was limitless. Today, the grim desperation is softened only by the hope that vaccinations will bring tourists eager to celebrate and spend. Though most casinos have re- opened, they have a small fraction of the tourists they once did. Many restaurants have shuttered their doors for good, and those that are open are at limited capacity. As a result, a year into the pan- demic, Las Vegas has the highest unemployment rate among large cities, with more than 10 percent out of work, according to the Bu- reau of Labor Statistics, and over the last year, the work force in Ne- vada has lost more income than in any other state. For many, the only thing that cushioned the blow was the fed- In Nevada, Relief Is Coming but May Fall Short By JENNIFER MEDINA A Hard-Hit Work Force Awaits the Return of Gamblers Continued on Page A17 Late Edition VOL. CLXX .... No. 58,996 © 2021 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2021 The City of Minneapolis agreed on Friday to pay $27 million to the family of George Floyd, the Black man whose death set off months of protests after a video showed a white police officer kneeling on his neck. The payment to settle the fam- ily’s lawsuit was among the larg- est of its kind, and it came as the officer, Derek Chauvin, was set to go on trial this month for charges including second-degree murder. As the settlement was announced by city officials and lawyers for Mr. Floyd’s family, Mr. Chauvin sat in a courtroom less than a mile away, where jurors were being se- lected for his trial. Mayor Jacob Frey called the agreement a milestone for Minne- apolis’s future. Ben Crump, the civil rights lawyer who is among those representing Mr. Floyd’s family, said it could set an exam- ple for other communities. “After the eyes of the world rested on Minneapolis in its dark- est hour, now the city can be a bea- con of hope and light and change for cities across America and across the globe,” he said. But legal experts said the agreement might make it even harder to seat an impartial jury in the case against Mr. Chauvin, which was already a challenge be- cause of the attention given to Mr. Floyd’s death and the intense demonstrations that followed. In the first four days of jury selection this week, nearly all of the poten- tial jurors said they had seen the video of his arrest, including all but one of the seven selected for the trial so far. Mary Moriarty, the former chief public defender in Minneapolis, said that the timing could hardly be worse for the court case and that Mr. Chauvin’s lawyers might Minneapolis to Pay $27 Million To Settle George Floyd Lawsuit By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS and JOHN ELIGON Continued on Page A17 Stephanie Miner is no friend of Andrew Cuomo. A onetime top Democratic offi- cial in New York and a former mayor of Syracuse, Ms. Miner has spent years criticizing the gover- nor’s polarizing leadership style, even mounting a bid to unseat him in 2018. But as Mr. Cuomo fights for his job, facing growing calls by Democratic lawmakers to resign over allegations of groping and sexual harassment, Ms. Miner isn’t quite ready to push him out. “We have this culture now of pu- rity tests where there’s this in- stant gratification — are you on the right side or the wrong side?” said Ms. Miner, who wants to wait for an independent investigation into the accusations, which she believes is the best way to address broader problems of sexual har- assment in Albany. “The answers and the solutions need to be more nuanced.” Democrats are now confronting a highly fluid, still-developing sit- uation in New York, with many voters appearing to share Ms. Miner’s caution about swiftly ex- pelling the governor. The gravity of the allegations increased this week when The Times Union of Albany reported a new accusation against Mr. Cuomo: that when he was alone with a female aide in the Executive Mansion last year, he closed a door, reached under her blouse and began groping her. He has denied that he touched any- one inappropriately. Support for Mr. Cuomo among Democratic politicians in New York has fallen away. On Friday evening, the state’s senators, Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, and Kirsten Gillibrand, called on him to resign, hours af- ter most of the other Democrats in New York’s congressional delega- tion urged him to step down. A day earlier, state Democratic officials took the first step toward poten- tially impeaching Mr. Cuomo. Public opinion could now shift rapidly against Mr. Cuomo, but it is also clear that after a decade with him as governor, many Dem- ocrats have found that sitting in judgment of him — and demand- ing a penalty like resignation — isn’t so simple. For some, the question of Mr. Cuomo’s future has intensified a conversation that has been hap- pening within the party since Sen- Party Struggles With #MeToo Moment By LISA LERER Continued on Page A18 Facing a deluge of calls to re- sign from New York’s U.S. sena- tors and the majority of its House Democrats, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made clear on Friday he had no intention of quitting, derid- ing the mounting pressure from his own party as “cancel culture” and insisting he would not bow to it. The calls first came in a coordi- nated barrage of statements re- leased in the morning from more than a dozen House members — most of the state’s Democratic del- egation — including Representa- tives Jerrold Nadler and Alexan- dria Ocasio-Cortez. The senti- ment was clear: Mr. Cuomo had lost the capacity to govern and must leave office. By the end of the day, Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, and Senator Kirsten Gilli- brand had also called on Mr. Cuomo to step down. “Due to the multiple, credible sexual harassment and miscon- duct allegations, it is clear that Governor Cuomo has lost the con- fidence of his governing partners and the people of New York,” the senators said in a joint statement late Friday afternoon. “Governor Cuomo should resign.” It was a remarkable moment for Mr. Cuomo, a third-term Dem- ocrat who won national acclaim last year during the early months of the pandemic, but is now con- fronting multiple investigations and the threat of impeachment over a string of sexual har- assment allegations and his at- tempt to obscure the virus-related death toll in nursing homes. By day’s end, he was almost entirely isolated. CUOMO IS DEFIANT AS TOP DEMOCRATS TELL HIM TO RESIGN 2 U.S. Senators Join a Growing Chorus By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ and JESSE McKINLEY Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo GABBY JONES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A18 Conventional gas-powered vehicles are becoming more reliable and thus lasting longer. That will keep cleaner autos from ruling the road for a while, compli- cating climate policy. PAGE B1 BUSINESS B1-6 Electric Cars Wait Their Turn Descendants of a Black family who had a thriving resort taken away 100 years ago may get the land back. PAGE A14 NATIONAL A14-21 Reclaiming Their Plot of Beach THE WEEKEND A fan applied to trademark the Cleve- land Spiders, which could be the next name of the city’s baseball team. PAGE B7 SPORTSSATURDAY B7-9 Laying Claim to a Name Yayi Bayam Diouf defied chauvinism to become her town’s first woman to work at sea. The Saturday Profile. PAGE A7 INTERNATIONAL A7-13 A Mother Fishes in Senegal The men’s basketball teams of Kansas and Virginia each withdrew from their conference tournaments. PAGE B9 Virus Eliminates 2 Top Teams Mexico is close to legalizing cannabis, but analysts warn that the economy may not see much of a lift. PAGE A10 Mexican Green Boom? The works in this edition of the Desert X biennial, scattered around Palm Springs, Calif., explore issues like land rights, water supply and more. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-7 Art Rooted in a Sense of Place Jamelle Bouie PAGE A22 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 A provision in the relief package is meant to prevent the use of stimulus funds to fuel tax cuts. Republicans say that is an infringement on sovereignty and the budget process. PAGE B1 Aid for States, With Strings Members of Congress are pushing to scale back security measures, as offi- cials balk, fearing new threats. PAGE A15 Chafing at Capitol Fences Today, mostly sunny skies, breezy, cooler, seasonable, high 49. Tonight, clear, low 37. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, windy at times, high 53. Weather map appears on Page C8. $3.00
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GREENLAND
EUROPE
AFRICA
NORTHAMERICA
ICELAND
Warmer water
Cooler water
Dublin
Lisbon
New York
St. John’s
JEREMY WHITE/THE NEW YORK TIMES
C O L D B L O B
AtlanticOcean
The warming atmosphere might be causing an arm of the powerful Gulf Stream to weaken, and scientists fear that could lead to faster-rising
seas, stronger hurricanes and reduced rainfall. PAGES A12-13
SHIFTS IN ATLANTIC HINT AT DANGER
FAYSH KHABUR BORDERCROSSING, Iraq — The nineyoung mothers rushed into thespartan offices of a Syrian borderpost, looking for the sons anddaughters taken from them twoyears ago, children they thoughtthey would never see again.
The bewildered children,
dressed in new puffy jackets fromthe orphanage they had comefrom, were mostly too young to re-member their mothers. Theystarted to cry as the sobbing wom-en grabbed and kissed them andthen led them away from the or-phanage workers who were theonly caregivers they knew.
“I was so happy, but it was ashock for both of us,” said onemother, who said she had been
dreaming of seeing her daughteragain for nearly two years. “She isnot used to me yet.”
The girl was now 2 and a half.The secret operation on the Syr-
ian-Iraqi border last week, wit-nessed by journalists for The NewYork Times, was so far the only re-union of Yazidi women from Iraqand the children they had whilesexually enslaved and raped bytheir Islamic State captors.
The plight of these women, whosurvived almost unimaginablehorrors in five years of captivity, isone of the many tragic but least-known footnotes in the story of theIslamic State’s conquest of largeswaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014.
For them, the story is far fromover, their path forward still un-certain.
To the traumatized Yazidi com-
Yazidi Women Once Enslaved by ISIS Reunite With ChildrenBy JANE ARRAF
Continued on Page A8
VINCENT TULLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Broadway singers, dancers and actors returned to Times Square for a pop-up show. Page A20.Staging a RevivalBIG GOALS President Biden has
taken a risk by setting a high bar.White House Memo. PAGE A16
WASHINGTON — PresidentBiden, under intense pressure todonate excess coronavirus vac-cines to needy nations, moved onFriday to address the global short-age in another way, partneringwith Japan, India and Australia toexpand global vaccine manufac-turing capacity.
In a deal announced at the so-called Quad Summit, a virtualmeeting of leaders of the fourcountries, the Biden administra-tion committed to providing finan-cial support to help Biological E, amajor vaccine manufacturer in In-dia, produce at least 1 billion dosesof coronavirus vaccines by theend of 2022.
That would address an acutevaccine shortage in SoutheastAsia and beyond without riskingdomestic political blowback fromexporting doses in the comingmonths, as Americans clamor fortheir shots.
The United States has fallen farbehind China, India and Russia inthe race to marshal coronavirusvaccines as an instrument of di-plomacy. At the same time, Mr. Bi-den is facing accusations of vac-cine hoarding from global healthadvocates who want his adminis-tration to channel supplies toneedy nations that are desperatefor access.
Insisting that Americans comefirst, the president has so far re-fused to make any concrete com-
U.S. Takes StepTo Use VaccineFor Diplomacy
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERGand MICHAEL CROWLEY
Continued on Page A6
LAS VEGAS — Bobby Hernan-dez plans to spend his stimuluscheck on medication to managehis diabetes. Wilma Estrella willuse hers to pay the electricity bill.Lizbeth Ramos intends to catch upon the rent, though the money willnot be enough to cover all that sheowes.
They are hardly alone: Nostate’s work force has been bat-tered as badly by the coronaviruspandemic as Nevada’s, and peopleare especially struggling in LasVegas, a boom-and-bust citywhere tourist dollars and lavishtips have given way to shutteredhotels and weed-strewn parking
lots.It is hard to remember the level
of optimism and exuberance thatprevailed a year ago, as presiden-tial hopefuls traipsed through thestate for the Democratic cau-cuses. The economy had roaredback from the Great Recession,and it could seem that growth waslimitless.
Today, the grim desperation issoftened only by the hope that
vaccinations will bring touristseager to celebrate and spend.Though most casinos have re-opened, they have a small fractionof the tourists they once did. Manyrestaurants have shuttered theirdoors for good, and those that areopen are at limited capacity.
As a result, a year into the pan-demic, Las Vegas has the highestunemployment rate among largecities, with more than 10 percentout of work, according to the Bu-reau of Labor Statistics, and overthe last year, the work force in Ne-vada has lost more income than inany other state.
For many, the only thing thatcushioned the blow was the fed-
In Nevada, Relief Is Coming but May Fall ShortBy JENNIFER MEDINA A Hard-Hit Work Force
Awaits the Return of Gamblers
Continued on Page A17
Late Edition
VOL. CLXX . . . . No. 58,996 © 2021 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2021
The City of Minneapolis agreedon Friday to pay $27 million to thefamily of George Floyd, the Blackman whose death set off months ofprotests after a video showed awhite police officer kneeling onhis neck.
The payment to settle the fam-ily’s lawsuit was among the larg-est of its kind, and it came as theofficer, Derek Chauvin, was set togo on trial this month for chargesincluding second-degree murder.As the settlement was announcedby city officials and lawyers forMr. Floyd’s family, Mr. Chauvinsat in a courtroom less than a mileaway, where jurors were being se-lected for his trial.
Mayor Jacob Frey called theagreement a milestone for Minne-apolis’s future. Ben Crump, thecivil rights lawyer who is amongthose representing Mr. Floyd’sfamily, said it could set an exam-ple for other communities.
“After the eyes of the worldrested on Minneapolis in its dark-est hour, now the city can be a bea-con of hope and light and changefor cities across America andacross the globe,” he said.
But legal experts said theagreement might make it evenharder to seat an impartial jury inthe case against Mr. Chauvin,which was already a challenge be-cause of the attention given to Mr.Floyd’s death and the intensedemonstrations that followed. Inthe first four days of jury selectionthis week, nearly all of the poten-tial jurors said they had seen thevideo of his arrest, including allbut one of the seven selected forthe trial so far.
Mary Moriarty, the former chiefpublic defender in Minneapolis,said that the timing could hardlybe worse for the court case andthat Mr. Chauvin’s lawyers might
Minneapolis to Pay $27 MillionTo Settle George Floyd Lawsuit
By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS and JOHN ELIGON
Continued on Page A17
Stephanie Miner is no friend ofAndrew Cuomo.
A onetime top Democratic offi-cial in New York and a formermayor of Syracuse, Ms. Miner hasspent years criticizing the gover-nor’s polarizing leadership style,even mounting a bid to unseat himin 2018. But as Mr. Cuomo fightsfor his job, facing growing calls byDemocratic lawmakers to resignover allegations of groping andsexual harassment, Ms. Minerisn’t quite ready to push him out.
“We have this culture now of pu-rity tests where there’s this in-stant gratification — are you onthe right side or the wrong side?”said Ms. Miner, who wants to waitfor an independent investigationinto the accusations, which shebelieves is the best way to addressbroader problems of sexual har-assment in Albany. “The answersand the solutions need to be morenuanced.”
Democrats are now confrontinga highly fluid, still-developing sit-uation in New York, with manyvoters appearing to share Ms.Miner’s caution about swiftly ex-pelling the governor. The gravityof the allegations increased thisweek when The Times Union ofAlbany reported a new accusationagainst Mr. Cuomo: that when hewas alone with a female aide in theExecutive Mansion last year, heclosed a door, reached under herblouse and began groping her. Hehas denied that he touched any-one inappropriately.
Support for Mr. Cuomo amongDemocratic politicians in NewYork has fallen away. On Fridayevening, the state’s senators,Chuck Schumer, the majorityleader, and Kirsten Gillibrand,called on him to resign, hours af-ter most of the other Democrats inNew York’s congressional delega-tion urged him to step down. A dayearlier, state Democratic officialstook the first step toward poten-tially impeaching Mr. Cuomo.
Public opinion could now shiftrapidly against Mr. Cuomo, but itis also clear that after a decadewith him as governor, many Dem-ocrats have found that sitting injudgment of him — and demand-ing a penalty like resignation —isn’t so simple.
For some, the question of Mr.Cuomo’s future has intensified aconversation that has been hap-pening within the party since Sen-
Party Struggles With#MeToo Moment
By LISA LERER
Continued on Page A18
Facing a deluge of calls to re-sign from New York’s U.S. sena-tors and the majority of its HouseDemocrats, Gov. Andrew M.Cuomo made clear on Friday hehad no intention of quitting, derid-ing the mounting pressure fromhis own party as “cancel culture”and insisting he would not bow toit.
The calls first came in a coordi-nated barrage of statements re-leased in the morning from morethan a dozen House members —most of the state’s Democratic del-egation — including Representa-tives Jerrold Nadler and Alexan-dria Ocasio-Cortez. The senti-ment was clear: Mr. Cuomo hadlost the capacity to govern andmust leave office.
By the end of the day, SenatorChuck Schumer, the majority
leader, and Senator Kirsten Gilli-brand had also called on Mr.Cuomo to step down.
“Due to the multiple, crediblesexual harassment and miscon-duct allegations, it is clear thatGovernor Cuomo has lost the con-fidence of his governing partnersand the people of New York,” thesenators said in a joint statementlate Friday afternoon. “GovernorCuomo should resign.”
It was a remarkable momentfor Mr. Cuomo, a third-term Dem-ocrat who won national acclaimlast year during the early monthsof the pandemic, but is now con-fronting multiple investigationsand the threat of impeachmentover a string of sexual har-assment allegations and his at-tempt to obscure the virus-relateddeath toll in nursing homes. Byday’s end, he was almost entirelyisolated.
CUOMO IS DEFIANTAS TOP DEMOCRATSTELL HIM TO RESIGN
2 U.S. Senators Joina Growing Chorus
By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍand JESSE McKINLEY
Gov. Andrew M. CuomoGABBY JONES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A18
Conventional gas-powered vehicles arebecoming more reliable and thus lastinglonger. That will keep cleaner autosfrom ruling the road for a while, compli-cating climate policy. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-6
Electric Cars Wait Their TurnDescendants of a Black family who hada thriving resort taken away 100 yearsago may get the land back. PAGE A14
NATIONAL A14-21
Reclaiming Their Plot of BeachTHE WEEKEND
A fan applied to trademark the Cleve-land Spiders, which could be the nextname of the city’s baseball team. PAGE B7
SPORTSSATURDAY B7-9
Laying Claim to a NameYayi Bayam Diouf defied chauvinism tobecome her town’s first woman to workat sea. The Saturday Profile. PAGE A7
INTERNATIONAL A7-13
A Mother Fishes in Senegal
The men’s basketball teams of Kansasand Virginia each withdrew from theirconference tournaments. PAGE B9
Virus Eliminates 2 Top TeamsMexico is close to legalizing cannabis,but analysts warn that the economymay not see much of a lift. PAGE A10
Mexican Green Boom? The works in this edition of the DesertX biennial, scattered around PalmSprings, Calif., explore issues like landrights, water supply and more. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-7
Art Rooted in a Sense of Place
Jamelle Bouie PAGE A22
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
A provision in the relief package ismeant to prevent the use of stimulusfunds to fuel tax cuts. Republicans saythat is an infringement on sovereigntyand the budget process. PAGE B1
Aid for States, With StringsMembers of Congress are pushing toscale back security measures, as offi-cials balk, fearing new threats. PAGE A15
Chafing at Capitol Fences
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