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Tenants handing out masks and sanitizer in the South Bronx. Residents of public housing aren’t waiting for the city to help. Page A6.Taking On the Outbreak Themselves

On a Thursday afternoon inJanuary, Robert Julian-BorchakWilliams was in his office at an au-tomotive supply company whenhe got a call from the Detroit Po-lice Department telling him tocome to the station to be arrested.He thought at first that it was aprank.

An hour later, when he pulled

into his driveway in a quiet subdi-vision in Farmington Hills, Mich.,a police car pulled up behind,blocking him in. Two officers gotout and handcuffed Mr. Williamson his front lawn, in front of hiswife and two young daughters,who were distraught. The policewouldn’t say why he was being ar-rested, only showing him a pieceof paper with his photo and thewords “felony warrant” and “lar-

ceny.”His wife, Melissa, asked where

he was being taken. “Google it,”she recalls an officer replying.

The police drove Mr. Williams toa detention center. He had his mugshot, fingerprints and DNA taken,and was held overnight. Aroundnoon on Friday, two detectivestook him to an interrogation roomand placed three pieces of paperon the table, face down.

“When’s the last time you wentto a Shinola store?” one of the de-tectives asked, in Mr. Williams’srecollection. Shinola is an upscaleboutique that sells watches, bicy-cles and leather goods in thetrendy Midtown neighborhood ofDetroit. Mr. Williams said he andhis wife had checked it out whenthe store first opened in 2014.

The detective turned over the

Facial Recognition Tool Led to Black Man’s Arrest. It Was Wrong.By KASHMIR HILL

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Lewis Miller, a florist beloved for hisbotanical street installations, spreads alittle joy with “flower flashes.” PAGE D6

THURSDAY STYLES D1-6

Hearts in Bloom Across CityThousands turned out to mark Russia’sdefeat of Nazi Germany, but few, includ-ing veterans, took precautions. PAGE A4

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-10

A Maskless Salute in Moscow

As new cases mount, Gov. Greg Abbottis facing increasing pressure over hisdecision to open the economy. PAGE A9

Texas Restart BackfiresWomen report rampant sexual har-assment and other mistreatment fromtop male management. PAGE D1

A Toxic Culture at CrossFit

North Korea, having raised tensionslast week, lowered them — a familiarapproach of Kim Jong-un and his fore-bears. News Analysis. PAGE A11

INTERNATIONAL A11-13

Kim’s Flip-Flop Strategy

After the killing of George Floyd, someargue the country’s role should beremembered and explained. PAGE A12

France’s Slave-Trading Past

Career Justice Department officials tolda House committee that politics drovedecisions in two cases. PAGE A15

NATIONAL A14-22

Barr Accused During Hearing

The chemical and pharmaceuticalmaker faced claims linking its Roundupweedkiller to cases of cancer. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-7

Bayer’s $10 Billion Settlement

From racist graffiti to missed promo-tions, black employees at Amazon say a“systemic pattern of racial bias” perme-ates the company. PAGE B1

Asking Bezos to Walk the Talk

Marathons in New York City and Berlinwere canceled as organizers decidedthe risks were too high. PAGE B9

SPORTSTHURSDAY B9-11

Pandemic’s Latest CasualtiesRoss Douthat PAGE A24

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25

A curator’s Instagram post on protectingmonuments from “zealots” drew staffcharges of systemic racism. PAGE C1

Turmoil at the Met Museum

Jon Batiste, the “Late Show” bandleader,has been marching and bringing hismusical message to the streets. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-6

Protests, and All That Jazz

The cliffhanger elections onTuesday night in Kentucky andNew York didn’t just leave thecandidates and voters in a state ofsuspended animation wonderingwho had won. Election officials,lawyers and political strategists inboth parties said the lack of re-sults was a bracing preview ofwhat could come after the pollsclose in November: no clear andimmediate winner in the presi-dential race.

With the coronavirus pandemicswelling the number of mailed-inballots to historic highs across thenation, the process of vote-counting has become more un-wieldy, and election administra-tors are straining to keep up anddeliver timely results. The jumbleof election rules and deadlines bystate, including in presidentialbattlegrounds like Pennsylvaniaand Wisconsin, all but ensuresthat the victor in a close race won’tbe known on Nov. 3.

And top election officials arewarning that if the race betweenDonald J. Trump and Joseph R. Bi-den Jr. is anything but a blowout,the public and the politicians needto recalibrate expectations forwhen the 2020 campaign willcome to a decisive conclusion.

“I don’t think it matters whenyou go to bed — you can stay up aslate as you want, you won’t havean answer,” said Chris Thomas,who served for 36 years as thestate director of elections in Mich-igan.

Already in this primary season,state after state has seen it takelonger than usual to tally enoughvotes to project winners. NewYork and Kentucky are just the

Race Will End Nov. 3, Right?Don’t Bet on It

By SHANE GOLDMACHER

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WASHINGTON — A dividedfederal appeals court panel or-dered an immediate end onWednesday to the case againstMichael T. Flynn, PresidentTrump’s former national securityadviser — delivering a major vic-tory to Mr. Flynn and to the Jus-tice Department, which hadsought to drop the case.

In the ruling, two of threejudges on a panel for the U.S.Court of Appeals for the District ofColumbia Circuit ordered the trialjudge overseeing the matter, Em-met G. Sullivan, to immediatelydismiss the case without furtherreview. The third accused his col-leagues of “grievously” overstep-ping their powers.

But the full appeals court hasthe option of reviewing the matter,and Judge Sullivan did not imme-diately dismiss the case in re-sponse to the ruling. Instead, he

suspended deadlines for furtherbriefs and a July 16 hearing in hisreview, suggesting he was study-ing his options or waiting to seewhat the broader group of judgesmight do.

The order from the panel — aso-called writ of mandamus —was rare and came as a surprise,taking its place as yet anothertwist in the extraordinary legaland political drama surroundingthe prosecution of Mr. Flynn, whotwice pleaded guilty to lying toF.B.I. agents in the Russia investi-gation about his conversations inDecember 2016 with the Russianambassador to the United States.

Mr. Flynn’s case became a polit-ical cause for Mr. Trump and hissupporters, who have sought todiscredit the broader inquiry intoRussia’s interference in the 2016election and links to the Trump

Divided Appellate Panel OrdersDismissal of Case Against Flynn

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

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China is testing restaurantworkers and delivery driversblock by block. South Korea tellspeople to carry two types of masksfor differing risky social situa-tions. Germany requires commu-nities to crack down when thenumber of infections hits certainthresholds. Britain will target lo-cal outbreaks in a strategy thatPrime Minister Boris Johnsoncalls “Whac-a-Mole.”

Around the world, governmentsthat had appeared to tame the co-ronavirus are adjusting to the re-ality that the disease is here tostay. But in a shift from damagingnationwide lockdowns, they are

looking for targeted ways to findand stop outbreaks before theybecome third or fourth waves.

While the details differ, thestrategies call for giving govern-ments flexibility to tighten or easeas needed. They require some mixof intensive testing and monitor-ing, lightning-fast response times,tight border management andconstant reminders to their citi-zens of the dangers of frequent hu-man contact.

The strategies often force cen-tral governments and local offi-cials to share data and workclosely together, overcoming in-compatible computer systems,turf battles and other longstand-ing bureaucratic rivalries. Al-

Unable to Eradicate Covid-19,World Learns to Live With It

This article is by Sui-Lee Wee,Benjamin Mueller and EmmaBubola.

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A movie theater in Tokyo. Japan is trying to keep its limits light.

On Wednesday, governors,mayors, investors and othersacross the United States woke upto news that was impossible to ig-nore. More than 35,000 new coro-navirus cases had been identifiedthe day before. It was the highestnumber reported in a single daysince late April.

The news kept getting worse.Florida, Texas, Oklahoma andSouth Carolina reported theirhighest single-day totals. NewYork instituted a quarantine forsome travelers from out of state.And the stock market slid 2.6 per-cent as investors fretted aboutwhat the latest troubling newsmeant for economic recovery.

It was as if the country hadfound itself back in March — at thestart of the pandemic, in the earlydays of the lockdown, when maskswere in short supply and the deathtoll was skyrocketing.

By the end of Wednesday, morethan 36,000 new cases had beenreported nationwide, the second-highest daily total since the pan-demic began.

The new cases showed that theoutbreak had been far from con-tained. That could lead somestates to slow the process of re-opening businesses, further hob-bling the economy and delayingits recovery.

Some states, including NewYork, which at one point had themost virus cases, have broughtthe number under control. Butcases are still rising in more than20 states, especially in the Southand West.

Florida reported a new dailyhigh of 5,508 cases on Wednesday,and the percentage of residents

Virus Surges,Knocking U.S.Back on Ropes

By MATT PHILLIPSand ANUPREETA DAS

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Joseph R. Biden Jr. has taken acommanding lead over PresidentTrump in the 2020 race, building awide advantage among womenand nonwhite voters and makingdeep inroads with some tradition-ally Republican-leaning groupsthat have shifted away from Mr.Trump following his ineffective re-sponse to the coronavirus pan-demic, according to a new na-tional poll of registered voters byThe New York Times and SienaCollege.

Mr. Biden is currently ahead ofMr. Trump by 14 percentagepoints, garnering 50 percent of thevote compared with 36 percent forMr. Trump. That is among themost dismal showings of Mr.Trump’s presidency, and a signthat he is the clear underdog rightnow in his fight for a second term.

Mr. Trump has been an unpopu-lar president for virtually his en-tire time in office. He has madefew efforts since his election in2016 to broaden his support be-yond the right-wing base thatvaulted him into office with only46 percent of the popular vote anda modest victory in the ElectoralCollege.

But among a striking cross-sec-tion of voters, the distaste for Mr.Trump has deepened as his ad-ministration failed to stop adeadly disease that crippled theeconomy and then as he re-sponded to a wave of racial-justiceprotests with angry bluster andmilitaristic threats. The dominantpicture that emerges from the pollis of a country ready to reject apresident whom a strong majorityof voters regard as failing thegreatest tests confronting his ad-ministration.

Mr. Biden leads Mr. Trump byenormous margins with black andHispanic voters, and women andyoung people appear on track tochoose Mr. Biden by an evenwider margin than they favoredHillary Clinton over Mr. Trump in2016. But the former vice presi-dent has also drawn even with Mr.Trump among male voters, whitesand people in middle age and old-er — groups that have typicallybeen the backbones of Republicanelectoral success, including Mr.Trump’s in 2016.

Arlene Myles, 75, of Denver,said she had been a Republican fornearly six decades before switch-ing her registration to independ-ent earlier this year during Mr.Trump’s impeachment trial. Ms.Myles said that when Mr. Trumpwas first elected, she had resolved

to “give him a chance,” but hadsince concluded that he and hisparty were irredeemable.

“I was one of those people whostuck by Nixon until he was wav-ing goodbye,” Ms. Myles said. “Ithought I was a good Republicanand thought they had my values,but they have gone down thetubes these last few years.”

Ms. Myles said she planned tovote for Mr. Biden, expressingonly one misgiving: “I wish hewas younger,” she said.

Most stark may be Mr. Biden’stowering advantage among whitewomen with college degrees, whosupport him over Mr. Trump by 39percentage points. In 2016, exitpolls found that group preferredMrs. Clinton to Mr. Trump by just7 percentage points. The poll alsofound that Mr. Biden has nar-rowed Mr. Trump’s advantagewith less-educated white voters.

The exodus of white voters fromthe Republican Party has been es-

Biden Holds 14-Point EdgeOver Trump in a New Poll

Voters Signal Disapproval Over President’sHandling of Pandemic and Protests

This article is by AlexanderBurns, Jonathan Martin and MattStevens.

GENDER

Male

55 33

43 40

AGE

35 to 49

65 and older

50 to 64

59 25

53 30

44 45

47 45

PARTY IDENTIFICATION

Republican

Independent

90 5

50 29

5 90

White, college

RACE AND EDUCATION

Hispanic

White

White, no college

79 5

64 25

43 44

58 30

34 53

IDEOLOGY

Somewhat liberal

Moderate

Somewhat conservative

Very conservative

88 5

80 11

57 24

26 58

11 84

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Based on a New York Times/Siena College poll of 1,337 registered voters, June 17 to 22. Other responses not shown.

If the election were held today, whom would you vote for?

50% 36All registered voters

Biden Trump

18 to 34

Black

Democrat

Very liberal

Female

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