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MINNEAPOLIS — Days after apolice officer murdered GeorgeFloyd, protesters gathered out-side Mayor Jacob Frey’s home de-manding that the Minneapolis Po-lice Department be abolished. Themayor said no. The crowd re-sponded with jeers of “Shame!”

On Tuesday, nearly a year and ahalf since Mr. Floyd’s death thrustMinneapolis into the center of afervent debate over how to pre-vent police abuse, voters in thecity will have a choice: Should theMinneapolis Police Departmentbe replaced with a Department ofPublic Safety? And should Mr.Frey, who led the city when Mr.Floyd was killed and parts of Min-neapolis burned, keep his job?

Minneapolis became a symbolof all that was wrong with Ameri-

can policing, and voters now havethe option to move further thanany other large city in rethinkingwhat law enforcement should looklike. But in a place still reelingfrom the murder of Mr. Floyd andthe unrest that followed, residentsare deeply divided over what to donext, revealing just how hard it isto change policing even whenmost everyone agrees there is aproblem.

“We’re now known worldwideas the city that murdered GeorgeFloyd and then followed that up bytear-gassing folks who weremourning,” said Sheila Nezhad,who decided to run for mayor af-ter working as a street medic dur-ing the demonstrations, and whosupports the proposal to replace

Minneapolis Voters Hold FutureOf Police Dept. in Their Hands

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ATLANTA — The AtlantaBraves are making their firstWorld Series appearance since1999 because of star players atseveral positions, an underratedpitching staff and shrewd mid-summer moves by the front office.

Inside the clubhouse, though,players also point to a secretweapon. It doesn’t field, throw or

hit, but it has delivered over andover again. Atlanta’s game-changer in 2021? A soft-serve icecream machine.

“When they brought that intothe clubhouse, it was like magic,”infielder Johan Camargo said.Added the star reliever TylerMatzek, “It’s just something thatwe kind of rallied around.”

The story of how a frozen treatinvigorated a team that was tread-ing water early in the season be-

gins in Boston in late May. Atlantawas visiting Fenway Park when,during a 9-5 loss to the Red Sox,the team endured a rain delay thatlasted nearly three hours.

“We didn’t restart the game un-

til midnight,” Matzek said. “Therewas nobody in the stands. It wasabsolutely pouring. We were like,‘Oh, well, there’s nothing to do, solet’s eat ice cream.’”

The pantry in the visitor’s club-house at Fenway has a soft-serveice cream machine. For relieverJosh Tomlin, it brought backmemories of trips to Dairy Queenwith his father when he was grow-ing up in Texas.

A Team in the World Series Found a Secret Sauce. It’s Sugary.By JAMES WAGNER An Ice Cream Machine

Helps Propel Atlanta

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As New York City workers demonstrated, agencies braced for a possible labor shortage. Page A14.Protesting the Vaccine Mandate

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomowas charged on Thursday withgroping a female aide’s breast in-side the Executive Mansion “forthe purposes of degrading andgratifying his sexual desires,” ac-cording to a criminal complaintfiled in Albany City Court.

The misdemeanor complaintwas based on the account of one ofthe dozen or so women whose ac-cusations of sexual harassmentagainst Mr. Cuomo formed the ba-sis of a state attorney general’s re-port that eventually led to his res-ignation in August.

For Mr. Cuomo, the complaintwas a serious and potentially dev-astating development, as he con-tinues to fight the allegations andattempts to discredit the report. Italso served as a stunning chapterin the political demise of a manwho dominated state politics for adecade, seemed on a glide path toa fourth term and, less than a yearago, was hailed as a national heroof the coronavirus pandemic.

Now Mr. Cuomo, who has spenttime living on Long Island sincehis resignation, will be required toappear in court in Albany on Nov.17 to be arraigned on a charge offorcible touching.

The criminal complaint centerson an alleged interaction betweenMr. Cuomo and a female aide inthe governor’s residence in Al-bany on Dec. 7, 2020. The aide,Brittany Commisso, had previ-ously accused Mr. Cuomo of grop-ing her breast while they werealone in the mansion late last year.

The charge against Mr. Cuomocaught many in the state capitalby surprise, including DavidSoares, the district attorney in Al-bany, who said in a statement that,“like the rest of the public, wewere surprised to learn” about thecomplaint filed by the county’ssheriff, Craig Apple. In such inves-tigations, prosecutors and localpolice departments typically workas partners in initiating the crimi-nal process.

In a statement, Mr. Cuomo’spersonal lawyer, Rita Glavin, saidthe governor had “never as-saulted anyone” and describedMr. Apple’s motives as “patentlyimproper.” She criticized Mr. Ap-ple for not communicating withthe district attorney and accusedhim of effectively pronouncing thegovernor guilty at a news confer-ence earlier this year before an in-vestigation by his office had con-cluded.

“This is not professional law en-forcement,” she said. “This is poli-tics.”

Mr. Apple’s office did not re-spond to several requests for com-ment on Thursday, and news ofthe criminal complaint was publicfor several hours before the sher-iff released a statement confirm-

CUOMO CHARGEDOVER ALLEGATION

HE GROPED AIDE

COURT APPEARANCE SET

Ex-Governor Is Accusedof Forcible Touching,

a Misdemeanor

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WASHINGTON — PresidentBiden on Thursday unveiled hisoutline for a $1.85 trillion socialsafety net and environmental bill,imploring Democrats to put asidetheir differences and embrace aplan to provide universalprekindergarten, generous sup-port for child care costs and thelargest investment ever to combatclimate change.

But his appeal for Democrats tounite and hand him a long-delayedvictory on his domestic agendafell flat, as liberals demanded as-surances that the package wouldsurvive before they would agreeto an immediate vote on a sepa-rate $1 trillion infrastructure bill.That left Mr. Biden empty-handedas he departed for Europe, wherehe had hoped to point to progresson both measures as proof thatAmerican democracy still works.

By Thursday evening, with Mr.Biden heading for Rome aboard

Air Force One, the House Progres-sive Caucus had slammed thedoor shut on prospects of a quickwin.

“Members of our caucus willnot vote for the infrastructure billwithout the Build Back BetterAct,” the group said in a jointstatement, using the name of thepresident’s social policy and cli-mate bill.

It would provide preschool formore than six million 3- and 4-year-olds, child care and healthcare subsidies, monthly paymentsfor families with children and $555billion for programs to weanAmericans from fossil fuels.

The day’s drama at the Capitolat once fleshed out the details oflegislation that Speaker Nancy

PRESIDENT OFFERSCOMPROMISE PLAN

TO SPEED AGENDADemocrats Balk as

Biden Pleads forQuick Action

By JONATHAN WEISMANand EMILY COCHRANE

Representative Pramila Jaya-pal, Democrat of Washington.

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WASHINGTON — PresidentBiden was blunt. Democrats hadto rally behind his $1.85 trillioneconomic and environmental

spending bill, hetold them on Thurs-day, because noth-ing less than his

presidency was at stake.“I don’t think it’s hyperbole,”

he said as he unveiled a revisedproposal and pleaded with Dem-ocratic lawmakers to support it

during a last-minute morningmeeting at the Capitol, hoursbefore he left for a six-day trip toEurope to meet with world lead-ers.

“The House and Senate major-ities and my presidency will bedetermined by what happens inthe next week,” Mr. Biden toldthe lawmakers during the hour-long session, according to aperson who was at the meeting.

The president’s proposals,while about half as costly as hisoriginal plan, still amount to atransformative agenda thatwould touch the lives of millions

of Americans and serve as thecore of his party’s argument tostay in power through the 2022midterm elections and the 2024presidential contest.

And even as party membershave engaged in a fierce, ideolog-ical debate among themselves,the monthslong negotiation hasthrown into stark relief the differ-ences between Democrats andRepublicans, almost all of whomhave refused to back spending onchild care, climate change, pre-school, expanded Medicare serv-

President’s Gamble Comes With Grim WarningBy MICHAEL D. SHEARand JIM TANKERSLEY

WASHINGTON — Climate hasemerged as the single largest cat-egory in President Biden’s newframework for a huge spendingbill, placing global warming at thecenter of his party’s domesticagenda in a way that was hard toimagine just a few years ago.

As the bill was pared down from$3.5 trillion to $1.85 trillion, paidfamily leave, free community col-lege, lower prescription drugs forseniors and other Democratic pri-orities were dropped — casualtiesof negotiations between progres-sives and moderates in the party.But $555 billion in climate pro-grams remained.

It was unclear on Thursday if allDemocrats will support the pack-age, which will be necessary if it isto pass without Republican sup-port in a closely divided Congress.Progressive Democrats in theHouse and two pivotal moderatesin the Senate, Joe Manchin III ofWest Virginia and KyrstenSinema of Arizona, did not explic-itly endorse the president’s frame-work. But Mr. Biden expressedconfidence that a deal was insight.

If enacted, it would be the larg-est action ever taken by theUnited States to address climatechange. And it would enshrine cli-mate action in law, making it hard-er to be reversed by a future presi-dent.

In remarks Thursday, Mr. Bidencalled it “the most significant in-vestment to deal with the climatecrisis that ever happened, beyondany other advanced nation in theworld.”

The centerpiece of the climatespending is $300 billion in tax in-centives for producers and pur-chasers of wind, solar and nuclearpower, inducements intended tospeed up a transition away fromoil, gas and coal. Buyers of electricvehicles would also benefit, re-ceiving up to $12,500 in tax credits— depending on what portion ofthe vehicle parts were made inAmerica.

The rest would be distributedamong a mix of programs, includ-ing money to construct chargingstations for electric vehicles andupdate the electric grid to make itmore conducive to transmittingwind and solar power, and moneyto promote climate-friendly farm-ing and forestry programs.

The plan would still fall short ofthe ambitious pledge Mr. Biden

Climate Projects AreTop Priorities in

Spending Bill

By CORAL DAVENPORT

President Biden with Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, who insisted on protecting climate plans.SARAHBETH MANEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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NEWSANALYSIS

Our critics invite you to come along onthree walks through the neighborhood,visiting galleries along the way. Above,a popup gallery, Zugzwang. PAGE C1

WEEKEND ARTS C1-18

The Art of TriBeCaThe country is racing to expand coalmining despite risks to the economy,environment and miner safety. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

China’s Quest for ElectricityBrescia, Italy, a city devastated by thevirus, has adopted “Winged Victory”as the emblem of its recovery. PAGE A8

INTERNATIONAL A4-8

Strength Symbolized in Statue

The commissioner said Native Ameri-cans in the Atlanta area were “whollysupportive” of the war cries and toma-hawk chops. But it depends on whomyou ask. Sports of The Times. PAGE B8

SPORTS B7-9

Baseball’s Blind SpotKyle Rittenhouse will stand trial for theshootings of three men — two of whomdied — in the aftermath of demonstra-tions in the Wisconsin city. PAGE A10

NATIONAL A10-19

Kenosha Shooter on Trial

Start-ups are betting that the pandemichas spawned a new kind of worker, onewho wants an office space closer tohome, without the commute. PAGE A13

Co-Working in the Suburbs

The government has staked its politicallegitimacy on controlling the virusbetter than other countries. PAGE A6

China Sticks With ‘Zero Covid’ The Supreme Court lifted a stay im-posed by a federal appeals court in achallenge to Oklahoma’s lethal injectionprotocols. PAGE A12

Two Executions to Proceed

The embattled social network said thechange was part of a bet on a digitalfrontier called the metaverse. PAGE B1

Facebook Renames Itself ‘Meta’

The N.F.L. commissioner’s $128 millionin compensation for the last two fiscalyears, bolstered by bonuses for laborand media deals, was disclosed to teamowners in a private meeting. PAGE B9

Roger Goodell’s Big Payday

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