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If there was a single momentthat captured the essence of MayaWiley’s campaign for New YorkCity mayor, the Women for Mayalaunch was it.

She sat on a folding chair inCentral Park at the event thismonth, at the foot of a statue de-picting three historical figures ofwomen’s suffrage. To her immedi-ate right was Representative Ny-dia M. Velázquez, the first PuertoRican woman elected to Con-gress; to her left was Gloria Stein-

em, the feminist icon.Since entering the mayor’s race

last year, Ms. Wiley has under-scored how it is time for a woman— a Black woman — to finally leadNew York, someone who under-stood the concerns of those whostruggled even before the pan-

demic and who are worried thatthe recovery is leaving them be-hind.

“You will no longer tell us weare not qualified,” Ms. Wiley said,before starting to chant “Welead!” with a crowd of supporterswho gathered at the event.

Ms. Wiley, 57, offers a mix of ex-perience — she was a formercounsel to Mayor Bill de Blasioand led the Civilian Complaint Re-view Board — and a dose of celeb-rity: As a prominent analyst forMSNBC, she won the attention of

She Pitches ‘50 Ideas’ to New York’s ProgressivesBy EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

Maya Wiley, once a prominent analyst on MSNBC, has gained key union and political endorsements.GABRIELA BHASKAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Mayoral Hopeful Aimsto Make History for

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WASHINGTON — In a federalshelter in Dallas, migrant childrensleep in a windowless conventioncenter room under fluorescentlights that never go dark.

At a military base in El Paso,teenagers pile onto bunk cots, andsome say they have gone dayswithout bathing.

And in Erie, Pa., problems be-gan emerging within days of theshelter’s creation: “Fire safetysystem is a big concern,” an inter-nal report noted. Some of the hotwater heaters were not working,and lice was “a big issue andseems to be increasing.”

Early this year, children cross-ing the southwestern border inrecord numbers were crammedinto Customs and Border Protec-tion’s cold-floored, jail-like deten-tion facilities. They slept side byside on mats with foil blankets, al-most always far longer than the le-gal limit of 72 hours. Republicansdeclared it a crisis. Democratsand immigration groups de-nounced the conditions, whicherupted into an international em-barrassment for President Biden,who had campaigned on a returnto compassion in the immigrationsystem.

The administration respondedby rapidly setting up temporary,emergency shelters, includingsome that could house thousandsof children. But the next potentialcrisis is coming into view.

“I know the administrationwants to take a victory lap formoving children out of Border Pa-

Sites ShelteringYoung Migrants

Come Up ShortBy EILEEN SULLIVAN

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No one has to tell Raoul Rivasthat the subway is more danger-ous these days.

He has the scars to prove it:nine shiny silver staples runningdown his side following a strang-er’s unprovoked attack.

Mr. Rivas, 37, a constructionworker, and his girlfriend wereriding a train home from LowerManhattan last month when hesaid a man screamed at them forno reason. As they got off the trainin the Bronx, the man rushed for-ward with a knife, stabbing Mr. Ri-vas five times.

“People don’t get it, this is real,”he said. “I never thought I was go-ing to be a victim, but things hap-pen. Thank God I’m here.”

Though crime is always a possi-bility on the New York City sub-way, a recent rash of particularlyvicious attacks on riders and tran-sit workers has fueled fears thatthe sprawling underground sys-tem — a mainstay of urban life —is more dangerous than it hasbeen in years and threatens to un-dermine the city’s recovery.

City officials and transit leadershave clashed over whether sub-way crime has actually gottenworse — the available data showsa mixed picture — or whether it ismostly a perception fed by a re-lentless beat of headlines andnews alerts about subway vio-lence that have scared many rid-ers.

Overall crime is down, but so isridership, which has pushed the

Baseless or Not,Fears of CrimeOn Subway RiseThis article is by Winnie Hu, Nate

Schweber and Sean Piccoli.

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WAUSAU, Wis. — A standing-room-only crowd packed a drabcourthouse meeting room one re-cent night and tried to resolve athorny, yearlong debate overwhether Marathon County shoulddeclare itself “a community forall.”

The lone Black member of thecounty board, Supervisor WilliamHarris, stood up and begged hiscolleagues who opposed the reso-lution to change their minds.

“I want to feel like I’m a part ofthis community,’’ he said. “That’swhat a lot of our residents are say-ing. We want to contribute to ourcommunity. We want to feel like apart of this community.”

But a fellow board member wasjust as passionate at the meetingon Thursday in arguing that ac-knowledging racial disparities isitself a form of racism.

“When we choose to isolate andelevate one group of people overanother, that’s discrimination,”said Supervisor Craig McEwen, aretired police officer who is white.

When George Floyd was killedin Minneapolis last May, commu-nities and businesses all over theworld engaged in a reckoningover social justice, diversity andinclusion. But while scores ofother communities adopted newpolicies and issued proclamationsvowing to make progress, the resi-dents of Marathon County, with apopulation of 135,000 that is 91percent white, couldn’t agree onwhat to say.

A year later, they still can’t.

County SoughtTo Be Inclusive.Not All Agreed.

By REID J. EPSTEIN

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GAZA CITY — The nine-daybattle between Hamas militantsand the Israeli military has dam-aged 17 hospitals and clinics inGaza, wrecked its only coronavi-rus test laboratory, sent fetidwastewater into its streets andbroke water pipes serving at least800,000 people, setting off a hu-manitarian crisis that is touchingnearly every civilian in thecrowded enclave of about two mil-lion people.

Sewage systems inside Gazahave been destroyed. A desalina-tion plant that helped providefresh water to 250,000 people inthe territory is offline. Dozens ofschools have been damaged orclosed, forcing some 600,000 stu-dents to miss classes. Some 72,000Gazans have been forced to fleetheir homes. And at least 213 Pal-estinians have been killed, includ-ing dozens of children.

The level of destruction and lossof life in Gaza has underlined thehumanitarian challenge in the en-clave, already suffering under theweight of an indefinite blockadeby Israel and Egypt even beforethe latest conflict.

As the crisis deepened therewere increasing international de-mands for a cease-fire on Tuesday.

President Biden, who had pub-licly supported Israel’s right to de-fend itself, privately warnedPrime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu of Israel that he could not de-ter growing pressure from the in-ternational community andAmerican politicians for muchlonger, according to two people fa-miliar with the call. The privatemessage hinted at a time limit onMr. Biden’s ability to provide dip-lomatic cover for Israel’s actions.

And all but one member of the

European Union, Hungary, calledfor an immediate cease-fire in anemergency meeting on Tuesday.They backed a statement that con-demned rocket attacks by Hamasand supported Israel’s right toself-defense but also cautionedthat it had “to be done in a propor-tional manner and respecting in-ternational humanitarian law,’’ ac-cording to the bloc’s foreign policychief, Josep Borrell Fontelles.

Israel and Hamas were lockedin cease-fire negotiations mediat-ed by Egypt, Qatar and the UnitedNations, but no progress was re-ported Tuesday as Israeli air-planes continued to pound Gazawith missiles, and Hamas and itsIslamist affiliates fired rocketsinto Israel.

At least 12 Israeli residentshave been killed in the conflict;the latest were two Thai citizenswho were hit by a rocket strikeTuesday afternoon at a food-pack-ing site, the Israeli police said.

Inside Israel and the occupiedterritories, Palestinians held oneof the largest collective protests inmemory. Hundreds of thousands

Gaza Reels From StrikesThat Underscore ScopeOf Deep-Rooted Misery

No Progress Reported Toward Cease-Fire

This article is by Iyad Abuheweila,Adam Rasgon, Isabel Kershner andMarc Santora.

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Note: Three deaths in the West Bank could not be located. One person was killed by Israeli forces on Israel’s border with Lebanon, according to Lebanese authorities. Sources: Palestinian Center for Human Rights; United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; Palestinian Ministry of Health; Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs THE NEW YORK TIMES

SHUTTERED Stores were closedin Israel on Tuesday after hun-dreds of thousands of Palestin-ians went on strike. Page A11.

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WASHINGTON — PresidentBiden has maintained his publicsupport toward Israel even as headopted a somewhat sharper pri-vate tone with Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, a calculusshaped by Mr. Biden’s longtimerelationship with the Israelileader as well as by growinghopes that Israel’s military opera-tions against Hamas are nearingan end.

In a phone call on Monday, Mr.Biden warned Mr. Netanyahu thathe could fend off criticism of theGaza strikes for only so long, ac-cording to two people familiar

with the call. That conversationwas said to be significantlystronger than an official summaryreleased by the White House. It af-firmed Israel’s right to self-defense and did not repeat calls bymany congressional Democratsfor an immediate cease-fire.

That phone call and otherssince the fighting started lastweek reflect Mr. Biden and Mr.Netanyahu’s complicated 40-yearrelationship. It began when Mr.Netanyahu was the deputy chiefof mission at the Israeli Embassyin Washington and Mr. Biden wasa young senator with a passion forforeign affairs. Since then, theyhave rarely seen eye to eye, buthave forged an occasionally

chummy working relationshipthrough seven American presi-dencies — Mr. Netanyahu hasbeen prime minister for four ofthem — and raging political bat-tles over the Iran nuclear deal andIsraeli settlement policy.

Today, that relationship is ascomplicated as ever. Mr. Biden’sjuggling act on Israel, always achallenge for an American presi-dent, is especially difficult given

that Democrats are no longer sol-idly in Israel’s corner.

Middle East experts and formerUnited States officials say thatmany of Mr. Biden’s calculationsare rooted in a different era ofAmerican-Israeli relations —when Israel’s security concernscommanded far more attentionthan Palestinian grievances —and that his approach has less todo with the military situation onthe ground than with domesticpolitics and his broader foreignpolicy agenda, including nucleartalks with Iran.

For his part, Mr. Netanyahu isfighting for his political life athome while trying to sustain sup-

Biden and Netanyahu: Four Decades of Ups, Downs and ZigzagsBy MICHAEL CROWLEY

and ANNIE KARNIPresident Is Said to Use

Sharper Private ToneWith Israeli Leader

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Osayi Endolyn praises “High on theHog,” a Netflix series about African-Americans and their food. Above, theGeechee Gullah Ring Shouters. PAGE D1

FOOD D1-8

Reframing Culinary HistoryOver 8,000 people crossed from Moroc-co to the Spanish territory of Ceuta onMonday and Tuesday. PAGE A9

INTERNATIONAL A8-11

Migrants Engulf Spanish CityOver 1,000 doctors, and an untold num-ber of medical workers, have died, andthe heartbreak is growing. PAGE A7

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-7

Toll on India’s Medical Corps

Ten months after announcing it wouldcut 11 sports, nearly a third of its varsityathletic programs, Stanford said theywouldn’t be ended after all. PAGE B8

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B7-9, 12

Stanford Reverses Its CallClimate change is forcing the managersof national parks to make wrenchingdecisions about what natural treasurescan and cannot be preserved. PAGE A12

NATIONAL A12-17, 20

Letting Go of ‘Forever’

After working with top artists andadvising collectors like Swizz Beatz,Nicola Vassell bucks the online trendwith a brick-and-mortar space. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

A New Black-Owned Gallery

The exports violate American sanctionseven as negotiators work to revive thenuclear accord. PAGE A9

Iran Increases Oil ExportsThe chief of Emergent BioSolutions, agenerous donor to Republicans, faces ahearing in Congress. PAGE A4

Vaccine Maker Under ScrutinyA big merger brings in one of Jeff Zuck-er’s best friends, re-energizing hislong-term prospects at CNN. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

Zucker Sees Fortunes Change

Police officers in North Carolina will notbe prosecuted for fatally shooting aBlack man last month. PAGE A16

No Charges Against Deputies

Thomas L. Friedman PAGE A19

OPINION A18-19

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