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Who Had Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases?

April 10, 2021 Sept. 4

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CASES PER 100,000800

0

200

400

600

April 10 Sept. 4

30 – 49

April 10 Sept. 4

50 – 64

April 10 Sept. 4

65 – 79

April 10 Sept. 4

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April 10 Sept. 4

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Unvaccinated

Unvaccinated

DEATHS PER 100,00060

0

40

20

April 10 Sept. 4

30 – 49

April 10 Sept. 4

50 – 64

April 10 Sept. 4

65 – 79

April 10 Sept. 4

80+

April 10 Sept. 4

18 – 29

Fullyvaccinated

Fullyvaccinated

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention THE NEW YORK TIMES

Average weekly coronavirus case rates by age and vaccination status

Average weekly coronavirus death rates by age and vaccination status

WASHINGTON — It was 73days until Christmas, and theclock was ticking down for CatchCo.

The Chicago-based fishing com-pany had secured a spot to sell anew product, an advent calendarfor fishing enthusiasts dubbed “12Days of Fishmas,” in 2,650 Wal-mart stores nationwide. But likeso many products this holidayseason, the calendars were miredin a massive traffic jam in the flowof goods from Asian factories toAmerican store shelves.

With Black Friday rapidly ap-proaching, many of the calendarswere stuck in a 40-foot steel box inthe yard at the Port of LongBeach, blocked by other contain-ers stuffed with toys, furnitureand car parts. Truckers had comeseveral times to pick up the CatchCo. container but been turned

away. Dozens more ships sat inthe harbor, waiting their turn todock. It was just one tiny piece in avast maze of shipping containersthat thousands of American retail-ers were trying desperately toreach.

It’s a Merry ‘Fishmas’ After All,No Thanks to the Supply Chain

By ANA SWANSON

What good is an advent calen-dar if it arrives in January?

CHASE CASTOR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Continued on Page A20

GLASGOW — President Bidenwill walk into a riverside eventspace on Monday to try to con-vince a gathering of world leadersthat the United States, which haspumped more greenhouse gasesinto the atmosphere than anyother nation, is finally seriousabout addressing climate changeand that others should follow itslead.

But Mr. Biden is coming with aweaker hand than he had hoped.

He has been forced to abandonthe most powerful mechanism inhis climate agenda: a programthat would have quickly cleanedup the electricity sector by re-warding power companies thatmigrated away from fossil fuelsand penalizing those that did not.His fallback strategy is a bill thatwould provide $555 billion in cleanenergy tax credits and incentives.It would be the largest amountever spent by the United States totackle global warming but wouldcut only about half as much pollu-tion.

And that proposal is still pend-ing; Mr. Biden was unable tobridge divisions between progres-sives and moderates in his ownparty to cement a deal before leav-ing for Glasgow. If the legislationpasses, he hopes to pair it withnew environmental regulations,although they have yet to be com-pleted and could be undone by afuture president.

The president traveled to Glas-gow from Rome, where theworld’s 20 largest economies metand decided on Sunday that theywould no longer finance new coaloperations overseas.

But they failed to agree to set adate for ending the use of the dirti-est fossil fuel at home, with China,India and Australia especially re-sistant. And that did not bode wellfor significant progress at the cli-mate talks in Glasgow.

The leaders of the wealthy na-tions did say they were committedto the goal of the 2015 Paris Agree-ment to keep the rise in average

BIDEN INSISTS U.S.IS READY TO LEADGLOBE ON CLIMATE

TALKS OPEN IN GLASGOW

Skepticism Abounds asPresident’s Own Party

Slows Legislation

This article is by Lisa Friedman,Jim Tankersley and Coral Daven-port.

Continued on Page A9

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba —In a stark rebuke of the torturecarried out by the C.I.A. after theSept. 11 attacks, seven senior mili-tary officers who heard graphicdescriptions last week of the bru-tal treatment of a terrorist while inthe agency’s custody wrote a let-ter calling it “a stain on the moralfiber of America.”

The officers, all but one mem-ber of an eight-member jury, con-demned the U.S. government’sconduct in a clemency letter onbehalf of Majid Khan, a suburbanBaltimore high school graduateturned Qaeda courier.

They had been brought to theU.S. Navy base at GuantánamoBay to sentence Mr. Khan, whohad earlier pleaded guilty to ter-rorism charges. They issued asentence of 26 years, about thelowest term possible according tothe instructions of the court.

At the behest of Mr. Khan’s law-yer, they then took the prerogativeavailable in military justice ofwriting a letter to a senior officialwho will review the case, urgingclemency.

Before sentencing, Mr. Khanspent two hours describing the vi-olence that C.I.A. agents and oper-atives inflicted on him in dungeon-like conditions in prisons in Paki-stan, Afghanistan and a thirdcountry, including sexual abuseand mind-numbing isolation, of-ten in the dark while he was nudeand shackled.

“Mr. Khan was subjected tophysical and psychological abusewell beyond approved enhancedinterrogation techniques, insteadbeing closer to torture performedby the most abusive regimes inmodern history,” according to theletter, which was obtained by TheNew York Times.

The panel also responded to Mr.Khan’s claim that after his capturein Pakistan in March 2003, he toldinterrogators everything, but “themore I cooperated, the more I wastortured,” and so he made up liesto try to mollify his captors.

“This abuse was of no practicalvalue in terms of intelligence, orany other tangible benefit to U.S.interests,” the letter said. “In-stead, it is a stain on the moral fi-ber of America; the treatment ofMr. Khan in the hands of U.S. per-sonnel should be a source ofshame for the U.S. government.”

In his testimony on Thursdaynight, Mr. Khan became the firstformer prisoner of the C.I.A.’s so-called black sites to publicly de-scribe in detail the violence and

Military Jurors Rebuke TortureAs Moral Stain

Urge Giving Clemencyto a Terrorist

By CAROL ROSENBERG

Continued on Page A11

In California, a Black collegefreshman from the South is tellinga story about his Latino friendsfrom home when he is interruptedby a white classmate. “We say‘Latinx’ here,” he recalls her say-ing, using a term he had not heardbefore, “because we respect transpeople.”

In Philadelphia, Emma Black-son challenges her white neigh-bor’s assertion that Black childrenmisbehave in school more thanothers. “It’s just my implicit bias,”the neighbor offers, saying thatshe had recently learned thephrase.

In Chicago, Kelsey O’Donnell,31, wonders why colleagues andfriends have suddenly startedsaying “BIPOC,” an acronym thatencompasses individuals who are

Black, Indigenous or other peopleof color. Where had it come from?“There was really nobody to ask,”says Ms. O’Donnell, who is white.“It was just, ‘This is what we saynow.’”

Americans have always wres-tled with language when it comesto describing race, with phrasesand vocabulary changing to meetthe struggles and values of themoment. But especially in thewake of last summer’s protests forsocial justice, there is a height-ened attention to this language,

On the Left, a New ScrambleOver the Right Words to Say

By AMY HARMON BIPOC or POC? Equity or Equality? Debate

Over Language.

Continued on Page A16

WASHINGTON — In late 2019,with bipartisan backing, includingfrom the iconoclastic Senate Dem-ocrat Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona,President Donald J. Trump’sdaughter Ivanka hosted a summitat the White House to promote hervision for paid family and medicalleave.

As with many domestic initia-tives of the Trump years, the effortwent nowhere, thanks in part tothe former president’s lack of in-terest in legislating. But it alsostalled in part because of opposi-tion from Democrats like SenatorKirsten Gillibrand of New York,who saw the plan not as a true fed-eral benefit but as a “payday loan”off future Social Security benefits.

Ms. Gillibrand believed shecould do much better.

Last week was the Democrats’turn to fail. A 12-week paid familyand medical leave program, cost-ing $500 billion over 10 years, wassupposed to be a centerpiece ofPresident Biden’s social safety netlegislation. But it fell out of hiscompromise framework, a victimof centrists who objected to itsambition and cost.

The demise of the effort, evenamid bipartisan interest, in partreflected the polarization sur-rounding Democrats’ marqueedomestic legislation, which Re-

Hope for Family Leave Lives On,But the Question Is How to Do It

By JONATHAN WEISMAN Desire to Keep Womenin Work Force Drives

Both Parties

Continued on Page A13

TRANSITION Britain’s evolutionfrom fossil fuels to clean energywill be on display. PAGE A7

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Duringone of the most hectic weeks of herspeakership — as she sought tounite her fractious party and cor-ral two sweeping pieces of legisla-tion — Nancy Pelosi made time fora meeting in her Capitol suite witha group of Democratic lawmakersfrom New Jersey and Virginia

bearing an urgent message oftheir own.

They warned Ms. Pelosi that ifthe candidates for governor inthose two states, particularlyformer Gov. Terry McAuliffe inliberal-leaning Virginia, were tolose on Tuesday, it could have acascading effect on the party,prompting Democrats to pull backfrom President Biden and his am-bitious agenda, and perhaps even

drive some to retirement.Representative Gerald Con-

nolly of Virginia said he used themeeting last Tuesday to urge Ms.Pelosi to pass the bipartisan infra-structure bill, which had already

cleared the Senate, and to sharehis alarm about the party’s for-tunes. “You don’t have to be afront-liner to be worried,” he said,invoking the word House Demo-crats use to describe their mostpolitically at-risk incumbents.

Unable to overcome mutualmistrust between a group ofHouse progressives and Senatemoderates, however, Ms. Pelosi

Glenn Youngkin, left, and Terry McAuliffe, the candidates for governor of Virginia, speaking on the final weekend before Election Day.KENNY HOLSTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Ugly Infighting and Virginia Election Fill Democrats With Dread

By JONATHAN MARTIN

Continued on Page A14

Fears of Political FlopsThat Could Snowball

KRISTEN ZEIS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

As wildfire seasons worsen, some ruralresidents are buying fire rigs to protectthemselves. PAGE A12

NATIONAL A10-17, 20

Taking Firefighting PersonallyHandwriting experts disagree aboutwhether Luka Doncic signed a sportscard that sold for $4.6 million. PAGE D4

SPORTS D1-7

Is This a Star’s Signature?As a child, Mary Lattimore learned toplay the instrument almost anywhere.Now her bittersweet music depends ondoing exactly that. PAGE C2

ARTS C1-8

Has Harp, Must Travel

So far, the Taliban have not banned artoutright. But many creatives have fledthe country, fearing for their work andtheir lives. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-9

Afghanistan Loses Its ArtistsAs the popularity of electric vehiclessurges, Chinese automakers are arriv-ing in European showrooms and chal-lenging foreign counterparts that havelong dominated the industry. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

China Flexes Its E.V. Muscle

Charles M. Blow PAGE A19

OPINION A18-19

Digital payments technology is forcingthe financial system to evolve. Banksfeel their power waning and want toregain control by competing in this newworld and profiting from it. PAGE B1

Banks Race to Take Up Crypto

The Atlanta Braves, an 88-win team inthe regular season, were having a post-season filled with key plays. PAGE D3

Peaking at the Right TimeThe Supreme Court justice is the mostlikely candidate to reverse course onthe Texas abortion law. PAGE A10

A Spotlight on KavanaughLouise Slade’s research focused on howto keep goodies delicious after weeks onthe shelf. She was 74. PAGE B7

OBITUARIES B7-8

Pioneer of Food Preservation

The governing Liberal Democrats won,despite having chosen a prime ministerknown for his lack of charisma. PAGE A6

Incumbents Win in Japan

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