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When China’s government or-dered women in her mostly Mus-lim community in the region ofXinjiang to be fitted with contra-ceptive devices, Qelbinur Sedikpleaded for an exemption. Shewas nearly 50 years old, she toldofficials. She had obeyed the gov-ernment’s birth limits and hadonly one child.
It was no use. The workersthreatened to take her to the po-lice if she continued resisting, shesaid. She gave in and went to agovernment clinic where a doctor,using metal forceps, inserted anintrauterine device to preventpregnancy. She wept through the
procedure.“I felt like I was no longer a nor-
mal woman,” Ms. Sedik said, chok-ing up as she described the ordeal.“Like I was missing something.”
Across much of China, the au-thorities are encouraging womento have more children, as they tryto stave off a demographic crisisfrom a declining birthrate. But inthe Xinjiang region, China is forc-ing them to have fewer, tighteningits grip on Muslim ethnic minor-ities and trying to orchestrate ademographic shift that will dimin-ish their population over genera-tions.
China Is Forcing Birth ControlOn Muslim Women in Xinjiang
By AMY QIN
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JERUSALEM — Weeks of sim-mering tensions in Jerusalem be-tween Palestinian protesters, thepolice and right-wing Israelis sud-denly veered into military conflicton Monday, as a local skirmish inthe decades-long battle for controlof the city escalated into rocketfire and airstrikes in Gaza.
After a raid by the Israeli policeon the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalemleft hundreds of Palestinians and ascore of police officers wounded,militants in Gaza responded byfiring a barrage of rockets at Jeru-salem, drawing Israeli airstrikesin return.
The catalyst for the escalationwas the conflict over recent Israeliefforts to remove Palestiniansfrom strategic parts of the city.The an issue that became a rally-ing cry for Palestinians, who sawthe moves as ethnic cleansing andillegal, and right-wing IsraeliJews, who said they were fightingfor their property as landownerswhile also attempting to ensureJewish control over East Jerusa-lem.
The dispute, focused on a singleJerusalem neighborhood, has ex-ploded into a major flare-up in theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict, gain-ing world attention after a periodin which the Palestinian cause hadbeen largely marginalized — bythe United States under PresidentDonald J. Trump, by the Arabcountries that normalized rela-tions with Israel, and by Israel,ruled by a right-wing governmentfor more than a decade.
By the end of the day Monday,Hamas, the Islamist militantgroup that controls Gaza, hadfired rockets at Jerusalem for thefirst time in seven years. Israeliairstrikes left at least 20 Palestin-ians, including nine children,dead, according to Palestinian of-ficials. And the region was bracingfor a cycle of reprisal attacks.
For weeks, Palestinians hadbeen protesting the planned evic-tion of Palestinian families fromthe Sheikh Jarrah neighborhoodof East Jerusalem, leading toclashes with Israeli police and far-right-wing activists. There werealso clashes between Palestinianprotesters and the police else-where in the city, as well as a spate
VIOLENCE ERUPTSBETWEEN ISRAELISAND PALESTINIANS
FIGHT OVER JERUSALEM
Airstrikes and RocketAttacks After Raid on
Old City Mosque
By PATRICK KINGSLEYand ISABEL KERSHNER
MAHMOUD ILLEAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Palestinians, top, running from tear gas during clashes with Israeli security forces at the AqsaMosque in Jerusalem on Monday; above, Hamas firing rockets from Gaza City in retaliation.
MAHMUD HAMS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. —Dogfish Head Craft Brewery isstruggling to hire manufacturingworkers for its beer factory andstaff members for its restaurantsin this coastal area, a shortagethat has grown so acute that thecompany has cut dining roomhours and is now offering vintagecases of its 120 Minute India PaleAle as a signing bonus to newhires.
The company is using its heftysocial media presence “to get thebat signal out” and “entice bever-age-loving adults” to join theteam, Sam Calagione, the compa-
ny’s founder, said on a steamy af-ternoon this month at Dogfish’sbrewpub, which was already do-ing brisk business ahead of vaca-tion season.
Economic activity is expectedto surge in Delaware and acrossthe country as people who missed2020 getaways head for vacationsand the newly vaccinated spendsavings amassed during months
at home.Yet as they race to hire before
an expected summertime eco-nomic boom, employers are voic-ing a complaint that is echoing allthe way to the White House: Theycannot find enough workers to filltheir open positions and meet therising customer demand.
An April labor market reportunderscored those concerns.Economists expected companiesto hire one million people, but datareleased on Friday showed thatthey had added only 266,000, evenas vaccines became widely avail-able and state and local econo-mies began springing back to life.Many analysts thought labor
Beach Town Lures Labor With Bonuses and BeerBy JEANNA SMIALEKand JIM TANKERSLEY
Rebound Beckons, butEmployers Complain
of Few Workers
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President Biden said on Mon-day that the United States would“disrupt and prosecute” a crimi-nal gang of hackers called Dark-Side, which the F.B.I. formallyblamed for a huge ransomware at-tack that has disrupted the flow ofnearly half of the gasoline and jetfuel supplies to the East Coast.
The F.B.I., clearly concernedthat the ransomware effort couldspread, issued an emergency alertto electric utilities, gas suppliersand other pipeline operators to beon the lookout for code like thekind that locked up Colonial Pipe-lines, a private firm that controlsthe major pipeline carrying gaso-line, diesel and jet fuel from theTexas Gulf Coast to New YorkHarbor.
The pipeline remained offlinefor a fourth day on Monday as apre-emptive measure to keep themalware that infected the compa-ny’s computer networks fromspreading to the control systemsthat run the pipeline. So far, the ef-fects on gasoline and other energysupplies seem minimal, and Co-lonial said it hoped to have thepipeline running again by the endof this week.
The attack prompted emer-gency meetings at the WhiteHouse all through the weekend, asofficials tried to understandwhether the episode was purely acriminal act — intended to lock upColonial’s computer networks un-less it paid a large ransom — orthe work of Russia or anotherstate that was using the criminalgroup covertly.
So far, intelligence officials said,all of the indications are that it wassimply an act of extortion by thegroup, which first began to deploysuch ransomware last August andis believed to operate from East-ern Europe, possibly Russia.There was some evidence, even inthe group’s own statements onMonday, that suggested the grouphad intended simply to extortmoney from the company, andwas surprised that it ended up cut-ting off the main gasoline and jetfuel supplies for the EasternSeaboard.
The attack exposed the remark-able vulnerability of a key conduitfor energy in the United States ashackers become more brazen intaking on critical infrastructure,like electric grids, pipelines, hos-pitals and water treatment facili-ties. The city governments of At-lanta and New Orleans, and, in re-cent weeks, the Washington, D.C.,
F.B.I. IdentifiesGroup That Hit
Pipeline Firm
Biden Vows Action asOfficials Issue Alerts
By DAVID E. SANGERand NICOLE PERLROTH
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The university conducted thousands ofvirus tests, cut the football season andlost $10 million. Is the light at the end ofthe tunnel another train? PAGE B7
SPORTSTUESDAY B7-9
Cal Climbs Out, Reeling“Raya and the Last Dragon” and otherrecent animated movies have beenputting a lot of hot dads onscreen, KyleBuchanan has discovered. PAGE C1
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Cartoonishly Attractive Paul Krugman PAGE A18
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The share of transmission that hasoccurred outdoors seems to be below 1percent and may be below 0.1 percent,some epidemiologists say. PAGE A4
TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-6
‘A Huge Exaggeration’
A shooting in Times Square, aspike in gun violence and a spateof high-profile attacks on subwayriders have pushed concerns overcrime and public safety to theforefront of the New York Citymayor’s race, altering the trajec-tory of the contest as the June 22primary approaches.
A year after the rise of the “de-fund the police” movement amidan outcry over racial injustice, theprimary will offer one of the firsttests of where Democratic votersstand as the country emergesfrom the pandemic but confronts arise in gun violence in major citieslike New York.
The shooting on Saturday inTimes Square, the heart of tour-ism and transit in New York City,injured three bystanders, includ-ing a 4-year-old girl, a womanfrom New Jersey and a Rhode Is-land tourist who had been hopingto visit the Statue of Liberty.
Two of the leading mayoral can-didates rushed to the scene.
Andrew Yang, a former presi-dential candidate, held a Sundaymorning news conference wherehe declared that “nothing works inour city without public safety, andfor public safety, we need the po-lice.” Eric Adams, the Brooklyn
Shooting in Times Square MakesCrime Focus of the Mayor’s Race
By KATIE GLUECK and JEFFERY C. MAYS
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A new generation of South African directors and producers ismaking hits about modern life for global audiences. PAGE A7
Moving Past Apartheid
The Food and Drug Administra-tion on Monday authorized use ofthe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vac-cine for 12- to 15-year-olds in theUnited States, a crucial step in thenation’s steady recovery from thepandemic and a boon to millions ofAmerican families eager for a re-turn to normalcy.
The authorization caps weeksof anticipation among parents,who have been grappling withhow to conduct their lives whenonly the adults in a household areimmunized. It removes an obsta-cle to school reopenings by reduc-ing the threat of transmission inclassrooms, and affords more ofthe nearly 17 million children inthis age group opportunities to at-tend summer camps, sleepovers
and Little League games.“This is great news,” said Dr.
Kristin Oliver, a pediatrician andvaccine expert at Mount SinaiHospital in New York. “It feels likewe’ve been waiting a long time tostart protecting children in thisage group.” The Pfizer-BioNTechvaccine is already available toanyone over 16.
The F.D.A.’s go-ahead is not thefinal hurdle. An advisory commit-tee of the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention is expected tomeet shortly to review the dataand make recommendations forthe vaccine’s use in 12- to 15-year-olds.
If the committee endorses thevaccine for that age group, as ex-pected, immunizations in theorycan begin immediately. Clinicaltrials have shown that these chil-
F.D.A. APPROVESPFIZER’S VACCINEFOR AGES 12 TO 15
A KEY STEP IN RECOVERY
Widespread Inoculations May Speed a Return
to Classrooms
By APOORVA MANDAVILLI
Vaccinating children is crucialto reaching “herd immunity.”
KEVIN MOHATT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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The president’s comments and a raft ofpolicy announcements were a pushbackto G.O.P. criticism of his economic planafter a disappointing jobs report. PAGE B1
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