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LEIGH-ON-SEA, England —For the second time in little morethan five years, a British law-maker meeting with constituentswas killed in full view of the public,this time in a genteel seasidetown, where the victim, a Conser-vative Party member of Parlia-ment, was fatally stabbed on Fri-

day inside a church.The attack, which the authori-

ties declared a terrorist attackearly Saturday, stunned Britain’spolitical establishment, raisingquestions about the security of

lawmakers at a time when thecountry is already on edge, un-nerved by shortages of food andfuel, and frayed by a political cul-ture that has become increasinglyraw and combative in the after-math of Brexit.

“The early investigation has re-vealed a potential motivationlinked to Islamist extremism,” thepolice said.

Fatal Stabbing of U.K. Lawmaker Stuns NationThis article is by Megan Specia,

Mark Landler and Stephen Castle.Attack at Voter Meeting

Is Declared Terrorism

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When the Seattle Symphony fi-nally performed before a full audi-ence last month for the first timein a year and half, something wasmissing: its music director, theDanish conductor Thomas Daus-gaard, who could not get a visa totravel to the United States.

The New York Philharmonichad to find a last-minute substi-

tute this week for the esteemedNorwegian pianist Leif Ove And-snes, who could not get a visa, ei-ther. The Metropolitan Opera hadto replace two Russian singers inits production of “Boris Godunov.”

And the Academy of St. Martin inthe Fields, a British chamber or-chestra that has been regularlyvisiting the United States since1980, had to abandon a 10-citytour.

As the easing of coronavirus re-strictions has allowed live per-formance to return, many culturalorganizations are struggling withanother problem: their inability to

Visa Backlog Snarls Return for Classical ArtistsBy JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ Industry Faces a Wave

of Cancellations

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WASHINGTON — The mostpowerful part of President Biden’sclimate agenda — a program torapidly replace the nation’s coal-and gas-fired power plants withwind, solar and nuclear energy —will likely be dropped from themassive budget bill pending inCongress, according to congres-sional staffers and lobbyists famil-iar with the matter.

Senator Joe Manchin III, theDemocrat from coal-rich West Vir-ginia whose vote is crucial to pas-sage of the bill, has told the WhiteHouse that he strongly opposesthe clean electricity program, ac-cording to three of those people.As a result, White House staffersare now rewriting the legislationwithout that climate provision,and are trying to cobble together amix of other policies that couldalso cut emissions.

A White House spokesman,Vedant Patel, declined to com-ment on the specifics of the bill,saying, “the White House is laserfocused on advancing the presi-dent’s climate goals and posi-tioning the United States to meetits emission targets in a way thatgrows domestic industries andgood jobs.”

A spokeswoman for Mr.Manchin, Sam Runyon, wrote inan email, “Senator Manchin hasclearly expressed his concernsabout using taxpayer dollars topay private companies to dothings they’re already doing. Hecontinues to support efforts tocombat climate change while pro-tecting American energy inde-pendence and ensuring our ener-gy reliability.”

West Virginia’s other senator,Republican Shelley Moore Capito,said she was “vehemently op-posed” to the clean electricity pro-gram because it is “designed to ul-timately eliminate coal and natu-ral gas from our electricity mix,and would be absolutely devastat-ing for my state.”

The $150 billion clean electricityprogram was the muscle behindMr. Biden’s ambitious climateagenda. It would reward utilitiesthat switched from burning fossilfuels to renewable energysources, and penalize those thatdo not.

Experts have said that the pol-icy over the next decade woulddrastically reduce the greenhousegases that are heating the planetand that it would be the strongestclimate change policy ever en-acted by the United States.

“This is absolutely the most im-portant climate policy in the pack-age,” said Leah Stokes, an experton climate policy, who has beenadvising Senate Democrats onhow to craft the program. “We fun-damentally need it to meet our cli-mate goals. That’s just the reality.And now we can’t. So this is prettysad.”

The setback also means that

CRUCIAL ELEMENTOF CLIMATE PLANLIKELY TO BE CUT

MANCHIN BLOCKS EFFORT

White House Looks forAlternative Ways to

Curb Emissions

By CORAL DAVENPORT

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WASHINGTON — A key fed-eral advisory committee votedunanimously Friday to recom-mend Johnson & Johnson boostershots, most likely clearing the wayfor all 15 million people who gotthe company’s one-dose coronavi-rus vaccine to receive a secondshot.

If the Food and Drug Adminis-tration and the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention ac-cept the recommendation, as ex-pected, boosters could be offeredby late next week. But many com-mittee members made clear thatthey believed Johnson & Johnsonrecipients might benefit from theoption of a booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine,something a top F.D.A. officialsaid the agency was considering.

With a series of votes over thepast month to recommend boost-ers for all three coronavirus vac-cines used in the United States,the panel set aside significant di-visions and skepticism aboutwhether extra shots are neededand edged ever closer to the goalthat President Biden laid out inAugust when he called for boost-ers for all adults.

Well over 100 million fully vacci-

nated people will be eligible forboosters if the F.D.A. and C.D.C.endorse the committee’s latestrecommendations, even thoughsome scientists say that the evi-dence supporting boosters re-mains weak and that it would havebeen wiser to focus on reachingthe unvaccinated, includingabroad.

Johnson & Johnson’s vaccinetook a beating at Friday’s session,as did the F.D.A. for pushing for adecision without verifying all ofthe data that the company hadsubmitted.

But the panel members ap-peared swayed by the argumentthat it would be unfair to denyJohnson & Johnson recipients anadditional shot after endorsingboosters for recipients of the othertwo vaccines, especially in theface of evidence that Johnson &Johnson offers the weakest pro-tection of the three.

“There is a public health imper-ative here, because what we’reseeing is that this is a group withoverall lower efficacy than wehave seen with the mRNA vac-cines,” said Dr. Arnold Monto, thecommittee’s acting chairman and

Panel Endorses2nd J.&J. DoseFor All Over 18

Vaccine Is Third to BeReviewed as Booster

This article is by Sharon LaFra-niere, Noah Weiland and Carl Zim-mer.

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“There is some urgency” to dosomething, an adviser said.

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For the second week in a row, Shiites were targeted in Afghanistan during Friday Prayer. Page A7.Dozens Killed in Mosque Bombing

RICHMOND, Va. — TerryMcAuliffe does not do subtextwell.

So when Mr. McAuliffe ap-peared on “Morning Joe” onMSNBC this week, it was not longbefore the Democrat let slip thebiggest challenge he is facing nextmonth in his bid to reclaim Virgin-ia’s governorship. “People got tounderstand, Joe, this is aboutturnout,” he told the show’s co-host, Joe Scarborough.

Mr. McAuliffe could be forgivenfor effectively reading his stagedirections out loud. While he isrunning against a self-funding,hazily defined Republican, polls

and interviews show that Mr.McAuliffe is confronting anequally daunting obstacle: Demo-cratic apathy.

With former President DonaldTrump out of office, congressionalDemocrats in a bitter standoff andVirginia Democrats havingclaimed every political prize, Mr.McAuliffe is straining to motivatethe liberal voters in his increas-

ingly blue state.At the moment — one that is be-

ing watched closely by both par-ties for clues about the electionsnext year — he is bumping upagainst a fatigued electorate.

Virginia has elections everyyear, because its state campaignsare in odd-numbered years whileits federal elections are, as every-where, in even years. But votershere are drained from the Trumpadministration’s round-the-clockdrama, which they felt moreacutely because of their proximityto Washington, where the localnews is also national news.

Then there is the 19-month fogof Covid-19, which has not only

Virginia Democrats’ Biggest Challenge: ApathyBy JONATHAN MARTIN

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McAuliffe Struggles toMotivate Voters in

Governor’s Race

Mandates have prompted a surge invaccinations among those who had heldout. Some report feeling relief; others,anguish and resentment. PAGE A13

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No Longer Vaccine HoldoutsAlex Cora spent a season in exile, andthe Boston Red Sox sank to the A.L.East basement. With their managerback, the Red Sox are in the A.L.C.S.These things are related. PAGE B9

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Repentant Pennant ChaseIsolated in plastic spheres and dis-pensed by vending machines, reproduc-tions of everyday items feel like a meta-phor for Covid-era life. PAGE B1

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Tiny Toys for Japan’s Adults

Ted Sarandos, a co-chief executive, wasrebuked by a star comedian and ques-tioned by staff members on Friday overDave Chappelle’s “The Closer.” PAGE B1

Tensions at Netflix Grow

A federal voucher program may besharply scaled back as the White Houseseeks to slash its social policy packageto gain centrist approval. PAGE B1

Affordable Housing Threat

Maria Kowroski, the reigning principalof New York City Ballet and the lastcompany member to have worked withJerome Robbins, retires. PAGE C1

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A Ballerina’s Final BowThe awarding of a Nobel Prize to DmitriA. Muratov laid bare a rift betweenKremlin critics. News Analysis. PAGE A6

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Schism in Russia’s Opposition

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When Lisa Byington joined the Milwau-kee Bucks as their play-by-play an-nouncer, she became the first woman tohold that post full time in any majormen’s professional league. PAGE B7

A New Voice for the N.B.A.

A man who was unable to post bail andcontracted coronavirus while awaitingtrial at the New York City jail complexdied on Friday. PAGE A20

Death Toll at Rikers Rises to 13

The plea will include 17 counts of pre-meditated murder and 17 counts ofattempted murder for the 2018 shootingin Parkland, Fla. PAGE A20

Guilty Plea in School Massacre

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China launched a crew of three into space early Saturday, the latest move in a flurry of activity for the nation’s space program.A New Space Race

Eric Adams said on Friday thathe would keep New York City’s el-ementary school gifted and tal-ented program if, as expected, hewins the general election for may-or next month — a clear rebuke toMayor Bill de Blasio, who recentlyannounced plans to eliminate theprogram.

“There’s a new mayor nextyear, that mayor must evaluatehow he’s going to deal with thegifted and talented program,” Mr.Adams, the Democratic nomineefor mayor, said in an interviewwith CNN. “He can’t get rid of ituntil next year,” he added of Mr. deBlasio.

Asked directly whether hewould eliminate the gifted pro-gram, Mr. Adams replied, “no Iwould not, I would expand the op-portunities for accelerated learn-ing.”

In another break with Mr. deBlasio, Mr. Adams said in a radiointerview on Friday that he sup-ported requiring students to re-ceive a coronavirus vaccine to at-tend class — an action the mayorhas steadfastly resisted over con-cerns it could motivate some par-ents to keep their children home.

“I say yes, if it’s F.D.A.-ap-proved, we should also mandate itas we mandate with other vacci-nations,” Mr. Adams said in the in-terview, with WCBS.

As to the gifted program, Mr. deBlasio said last week that hewanted to scrap the current sys-tem, including an admissionsexam for 4-year-olds that hasbeen heavily criticized, and startover with a new one that offers an

Adams RejectsPlans to Scrap

Gifted Classes

By ELIZA SHAPIRO

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