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REINADO ETERNOISABEL II, 7 DÉCADASLilibeth tenía 25 años cuando relevó a su padre, víctima de una trombosisVERÓNICA GONSENHEIM - PAGS. 20 A 22

Palo Blanco. Tráiler contra la Guardia NacionalUn operativo de la Guardia y policías de Guerrero para impedir la toma de la caseta de Palo Blanco de-jó 22 heridos después de que normalistas de Ayotzinapa lanzaron cohetes y hasta un tráiler. En QR, empresarios denuncian extorsiones por 50 mil pesos al mes. DASSAEV TÉLLEZ/CUARTOSCURO PAG. 8

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“¡Muy bien, Ken!”, aplaude AMLO; Salazar espera que México cumpla con T-MEC

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Concluye 2021 con 5.7% más rescates que en 2019, consi-derado el año de más migración irregular; los de haitianos au-mentan 249.6% en tres años, según datos de Segob. pág. 11

ESTUDIANTES de Ayotzinapa llegan al sitio en 11 autobuses para "volantear"; lleva-ban explosivos en portaequipajes pág. 3

USAN camión sin freno contra agentes que se estrella en módulo; hay 37 heridos; Mesa de Paz de Guerrero acusa "agresión directa"

Consejero Córdova acusa trabas para realizar ejercicio; ve delicado y peligroso precedente

Órgano electoral no da confianza: AMLO; asegura que jefe de éste ha ido "sacando el cobre" págs. 6 y 7

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Instalará sólo57 mil 377 casillasde las 160 mil que establece la ley

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“Son tiempos distintos. Nosotros ganamos y el pueblo nos dio su confi anza porque presentamos un programa de cambio y no enarbolamos la bandera de la política neoliberal”, destacó el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador durante la mañanera de

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WASHINGTON — The case of amentally ill detainee at Guantá-namo Bay, Mohammed al-Qah-tani, has long confounded theUnited States government. Sus-pected of being Al Qaeda’s in-tended 20th hijacker in the Sept.11, 2001, attacks, he was torturedby military interrogators early inhis detention at the American na-val base in Cuba.

A senior Pentagon official laterdetermined that, because of howMr. Qahtani was initially treated,he could not be prosecuted. Secu-rity officials also considered himtoo dangerous to release, so hehas remained detained for twodecades.

On Friday, the Pentagon saidthat a parole-like board had rec-ommended repatriating Mr. Qah-tani to Saudi Arabia to a custodial

rehabilitation and mental healthcare program for extremists. TheBiden administration is expectedto send him there as early asMarch.

The move followed a report lastspring by a Navy doctor who con-cluded that Mr. Qahtani, who is inhis 40s, should be transferred be-cause he could not receive themedical treatment he needed atGuantánamo and was too im-paired to pose a future threat —especially if he was sent to inpa-tient mental care, according topeople briefed on that report.

In June, the Periodic ReviewBoard, a six-agency panel that re-views the cases of unchargedGuantánamo prisoners, unani-mously adopted that recommen-

Panel Says It Supports SendingA 9/11 Detainee to Saudi Arabia

By CAROL ROSENBERG and CHARLIE SAVAGE

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A record-setting spike in co-ronavirus cases kept millions ofworkers at home in January anddisrupted businesses from coastto coast. But it couldn’t knock theU.S. job-market recovery offcourse.

Employers added 467,000 jobsin January, seasonally adjusted,the Labor Department said on Fri-day. The report smashed the pro-jections of economists, who hadbeen expecting the wave of co-ronavirus cases associated withthe Omicron variant to lead toanemic gains, if not an outright de-cline in jobs. Instead, employerskept on hiring.

“Clearly something is differentabout this surge,” said Julia Pol-lak, chief economist for the careersite ZipRecruiter. Companies thatstruggled all fall to recruit work-ers weren’t about to reversecourse just because cases shot up

for a few weeks, she said. Evenrestaurants and hotels, whichslashed jobs during earlier pan-demic waves, hired workers lastmonth.

“Employers who have been en-gaged in this dogfight for talent,they’re not standing down,” Ms.Pollak said. “They are stickingaround because they think thesurge will be over soon.”

At the White House on Friday,President Biden hailed the econo-my’s “historic” progress. “Ameri-ca’s job machine is going strongerthan ever,” he said.

The January data was collectedin the first weeks of the year, whencoronavirus cases topped 800,000a day and millions of workerswere kept home by positive tests,

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President Biden on Friday cele-brated unexpectedly rapid Janu-ary hiring and new data thatshowed historically strong em-ployment gains over the past year,seizing on good news at a momentwhen consumers are nervousabout their prospects thanks to alingering pandemic and persist-ent inflation.

America has recorded 6.6 mil-lion new jobs since January 2021,giving Mr. Biden the strongestfirst year of job gains of any presi-dent since the government begancollecting data in 1939. The unem-ployment rate has dropped pre-cipitously since the worst of thepandemic, and wages rose a rapid5.7 percent in the year throughJanuary.

The progress came on the heelsof historic job losses at the start ofthe pandemic — and the recoveryremains incomplete. But the sur-prisingly strong pace of the re-bound offers Mr. Biden a chance totry and turn around an economicnarrative that has focused largelyon negatives: soaring inflationand dour consumer sentiment.

On Friday, Mr. Biden tried tocapitalize on the numbers and themoment.

“If you can’t remember a yearwhen so many people went towork in this country, there’s a rea-son — it never happened,” Mr. Bi-den said during remarks from theWhite House.

But the administration is in adelicate position as it tries to shiftthe economic conversation and re-focus voters on the breakneckpace of the recovery, rather thanthe ongoing effects of the pan-demic.

Brisk inflation is eroding spend-ing power, government supportfor families and businesses is fad-ing, and households report pes-simistic outlooks. Inflation is ex-pected to come in at 7.3 percent inthe year through January whenthe government releases con-sumer price data next week.

And some of the same develop-ments that Mr. Biden cited on Fri-day as wins for his administrationare very likely being eyed warilyby the Federal Reserve, which ispoised to raise interest rates fromrock bottom at their March meet-ing as officials try to cool the econ-omy.

Surging wages could mean thatcompanies will lift prices to covertheir rising labor costs, exacerbat-ing inflation and forcing a more

Chance for Biden toShift the Narrative

By JEANNA SMIALEKand MICHAEL D. SHEAR


CHICAGO — More than 2,600Americans are dying fromCovid-19 each day, an alarmingrate that has climbed by 30 per-cent in the past two weeks. Acrossthe United States, the coronaviruspandemic has now claimed morethan 900,000 lives.

Yet another, simultaneous reali-ty of the pandemic offers reasonfor hope. The number of new co-ronavirus infections is plummet-

ing, falling by more than half sincemid-January. Hospitalizations arealso declining, a relief to stressedhealth care workers who havebeen treating desperately ill co-ronavirus patients for nearly twoyears.

All that has created a disorient-ing moment in the pandemic:

Though deaths are still mounting,the threat from the virus is mov-ing, for now, farther into the back-ground of daily life for manyAmericans.

Patrick Tracy of Mundelein, Ill.,has seen the disconnect up close.In his county, new infections havefallen in recent weeks as thehighly infectious Omicron varianthas begun to recede nationwide.But as those case rates were drop-ping, Mr. Tracy’s wife, Sheila, diedfrom Covid. Ms. Tracy, 81, a native

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900,000 Dead, but Many Americans Move OnBy JULIE BOSMANand MITCH SMITH

Sense of Doom Easesas Virus Cases Dip


After a brazen assault on refugees,victims were airlifted to a hospital,where they told their stories. PAGE A9

INTERNATIONAL A4-10

Congo Survivors Speak OutBefore his death, the actor Michael K.Williams sat for Chaz Guest’s series ofBlack warrior paintings. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-7

Soldiers With a Familiar FaceJason Epstein brought quality paper-backs to American readers and helpedcreate The New York Review of Books.He was 93. PAGE B8

OBITUARIES B7-8

A Visionary in Publishing

Those close to Brian Flores say his biassuit against the N.F.L. is in keeping withthe sense of moral rectitude he learnedgrowing up in Brooklyn. PAGE D11

SPORTS D1-12

An Ex-Coach’s Daring CallIn Britain, consumer prices are rising atthe fastest pace in three decades. Peo-ple with the lowest incomes are runningout of ways to cut back, and the worst isyet to come. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

Britons Feeling Squeezed

The lawyer Michael Avenatti was con-victed of wire fraud and aggravatedidentity theft for stealing almost$300,000 from Stormy Daniels. PAGE A18

Avenatti Is Found Guilty

Jon A. Shields PAGE A20

OPINION A20-21 In the Bronx, developers found ways tobuild sleek apartment buildings for low-and moderate-income tenants. PAGE C1

Templates for Affordability

Workers at an Alabama warehouseoverwhelmingly rejected a plan toorganize last year, but federal laborregulators threw out the result, citingcompany misconduct. PAGE B1

New Union Vote at Amazon

WASHINGTON — The Repub-lican Party on Friday officially de-clared the Jan. 6, 2021, attack onthe Capitol and events that led to it“legitimate political discourse,”and rebuked two lawmakers in theparty who have been most outspo-ken in condemning the deadly riotand the role of Donald J. Trump inspreading the election lies that fu-eled it.

The Republican National Com-mittee’s voice vote to censureRepresentatives Liz Cheney ofWyoming and Adam Kinzinger ofIllinois at its winter meeting in

Salt Lake City culminated morethan a year of vacillation, whichstarted with party leaders con-demning the Capitol attack andMr. Trump’s conduct, then shiftedto downplaying and denying it.

On Friday, the party went fur-ther in a resolution slamming Ms.Cheney and Mr. Kinzinger for tak-ing part in the House investiga-tion of the assault, saying theywere participating in “persecu-

tion of ordinary citizens engagedin legitimate political discourse.”

After the vote, party leadersrushed to clarify that language,saying it was never meant to ap-ply to rioters who violentlystormed the Capitol in Mr.Trump’s name.

“Liz Cheney and AdamKinzinger crossed a line,” RonnaMcDaniel, the Republican Na-tional Committee chairwoman,said in a statement. “They choseto join Nancy Pelosi in a Demo-crat-led persecution of ordinarycitizens who engaged in legiti-mate political discourse that hadnothing to do with violence at theCapitol.”

G.O.P. Calls Riot ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’By JONATHAN WEISMAN

and REID J. EPSTEINParty’s Leaders Censure

Cheney and Kinzingerfor Joining Inquiry


BEIJING — China’s leader, XiJinping, opened an OlympicGames on Friday intended to cele-brate his country’s increasinglyassured global status standing de-fiantly with his Russian counter-part, Vladimir V. Putin, in an in-creasingly ideological contestwith the United States and its al-lies.

While President Biden andother democratic leaders shunnedthe opening ceremony over Chi-na’s human rights abuses, Mr. Xidrew his own bloc of supportiveguests. Mr. Putin, another strong-man leader bristling against theUnited States’ demands, ap-peared with him in a calculateddisplay of solidarity whileMoscow’s tensions with Ukrainecould tip into war.

The meeting with Mr. Putin,with the opening ceremony,amounted to a choreographed dis-play of China’s shifting place in theworld — wanting to win overcountries wary of its rising power,but growing impatient, and dis-dainful, of Western censure.

It also underscored China andRussia’s determination to presenta united front against the West,broadly, and the United States inparticular — exactly the resultthat President Richard M. Nixonand his national security adviser,Henry A. Kissinger, were trying toavoid with their opening to Chinain 1971.

In a joint statement after Mr. Xiand Mr. Putin met, they said theirfriendship had “no limits,” andChina sided with Russia on one ofits critical security demands: anend to NATO expansion to the eastand closer to Russia’s borders.

The two leaders called for theUnited States to abandon plans todeploy intermediate range mis-siles in Europe and Asia and de-nounced what they see as Ameri-can interference in their internalaffairs by fomenting “color revo-lutions,” the public uprisings informer Soviet republics like Geor-gia and Ukraine calling for great-

BEIJING SPARKLE The 2022 Winter Games opened on Friday with a shortened, stripped-down ceremony of colorful lights. Page D1.CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Power GamesOn First Day

Of OlympicsBy CHRIS BUCKLEY

and STEVEN LEE MYERS


In his most forceful rebuttal of theformer president’s claims, the formervice president said he lacked the powerto overturn the 2020 election. PAGE A14

NATIONAL A11-18

‘Trump Is Wrong,’ Pence Says

North Carolina’s State Supreme Courtsaid new House and state legislativedistricts violate guarantees of free elec-tions, speech and assembly. PAGE A17

G.O.P. Maps Struck Down

The freestyle skier Eileen Guwas born in San Francisco but iscompeting for China. Can shebridge the political rift? Page D3.

Flying Above the Fray

Rescuers in Morocco raced to tunneldown to save a 5-year-old trapped ina 100-foot well for three days. PAGE A10

Rush to Save Boy in a Well

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Under pressure from avirus that has killed morethan 900,000 Americans, re-searchers have developed aclutch of lifesaving treat-ments that reduce the risk ofsevere COVID-19 by as muchas 89%. But there aren’tnearly enough of the newdrugs to go around. And if re-cent pandemic history is anyguide, the patients who aregetting them are probablywhiter, richer and healthierthan the ones who aren’t.

States, counties andhealthcare systems arestruggling to mete out theirlimited supplies withoutmaking existing disparitiesworse. Some are trying toprevent this by taking therace and ethnicity of pa-tients into account — andcourting controversy in theprocess. The Biden adminis-tration has offered littleguidance.

Just over a year ago, therollout of vaccines raisedsimilar concerns: that highdemand and scarce supplieswould leave low-incomecommunities and people ofcolor waiting — and dying —for their shot. Though thefederal government’s ex-perts urged steps to addressequity, early distribution ef-forts by the states largely

COVIDDRUGSEXPOSEEQUITYISSUEConcerns over accessto scarce treatmentsecho debate a yearago in vaccine rollout.

By Melissa Healy

[SeeMedications,A6]

BEIJING — A crowdgathered on the stadiumfloor, dozens of people hold-ing luminescent green poles,waving them overhead likegiant blades of grass in aspring breeze.

A child blew on a dandeli-on, sending white seeds intothe air as fireworks streamed through the nightsky.

The opening ceremonyfor the Beijing Olympics fea-tured no big dance numbers,no pop stars or professionalactors. Organizers insteadgathered a cast of commonpeople from across China —many of them young — toconvey a theme of communi-ty and pastoral calm.

Whether intentional ornot, the message stood incontrast to a Games besetby noise and turmoil on allsides.

With a scattering of ath-letes, including some bignames, already testing pos-itive for the coronavirus,there are doubts about com-petition proceeding withoutmajor disruption. More im-portant, activists worldwidehave protested the decisionto stage this event in a coun-try accused of committinghuman rights abusesagainst Muslim Uyghursand other ethnic minorities.

The U.S. and several of itsclosest allies expressed theirdisapproval by declining tosend a customary dele-gation to the famed Bird’sNest stadium Friday night.The president of the Inter-national Olympic Commit-tee sounded defiant whentalking about his hope forthe next two weeks.

“We can only achieve thismission to unite everybodyin this peaceful competitionif the Olympic Games stand

THE OPENING CEREMONY of the Beijing Olympics features performers purveying a sense of pastoralbeauty, waving luminescent green poles to evoke blades of grass. The ceremony lasted more than two hours.

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Idyllicimage, ifthe real’snot idealOpening ceremonyof the Games sells ascene of calm amidthe turmoil of reality.

By David Wharton

[SeeOlympics,A8]

If there’s a single immu-table law in humanbiology, it’s that no onelives forever. The samegoes for corporations.

The latest big com-pany to confront thefact that the GrimReaper spares no oneand no thing is MetaPlatforms, formerly known as Facebook.

Meta on Thursday suffered the larg-est one-day loss in U.S. stock markethistory, following an unexpectedly sourreport of fourth-quarter earnings.

The company’s chairman and chiefexecutive, Mark Zuckerberg, tried toreassure employees and investors thathe and his management team had mat-ters in hand for the long term.

It’s true that Meta remains a potentforce in the tech space. The stock closed

Friday at $237.09, about where it was asrecently as July 30, 2020, and its currentmarket capitalization of $659 billion isthe seventh-largest among U.S. compa-nies. Some market strategists say it maybe undervalued at the current price.

But it’s also possible that the com-pany is facing an inflection point in itsbusiness model with existential implica-tions.

Meta is braving what its chief op-erating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, endear-ingly labeled “headwinds” during a con-ference call with investment analystsWednesday.

Zuckerberg tried to calm investors’nerves by noting that the company hadovercome what at first appeared to beexistential challenges in the past: “We’vemade these types of transitions before ...where we took on headwinds in the nearterm to align with important trends overthe long term.”

Yet Meta hasn’t

MICHAEL HILTZIK

Can Facebook outrun thecorporate Grim Reaper?

[SeeHiltzik,A10]

KYIV, Ukraine — Tens ofthousands of Russiantroops stand battle-readyjust a few hundred milesaway. The U.S. repeats warn-ings of a “horrific” invasionthat could come at any hour.Friendly nations speed upweapons shipments to helpUkraine’s work-in-progressarmy fend off an attack.

None of that fazes Vasily,a 26-year-old street per-former in an oversize bearsuit in Kyiv’s central square.Only eight years ago, theMaidan was thronged withtens of thousands of pro-testers who succeeded inousting their pro-Russianpresident, a seismic eventthat spurred Moscow toseize Ukraine’s Crimeanpeninsula. These days, theplaza is empty of demon-

Under invasion threat, Kyivshrugs, and prepares for war

A WOMAN walks past a photo of jazz great Miles Davis in Kyiv, the capi-tal of Ukraine. “War? There’s absolutely no war here,” one resident said.

Sergei Supinsky AFP/Getty Images

By Nabih Bulos

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‘I don’t listen to news. I don’t watch TV. ... It’s the usual situationfor us. We’ve become used to it.’

— MAX IVANOV,a graphic designer, on the possibility of war between Russia and Ukraine

Authorities in Inglewoodthis week scrambled to piecetogether a timeline of the vi-olent parking lot altercationoutside SoFi Stadium thatleft a San Francisco 49ersfan in a medically inducedcoma a week before the city

is set to host the Super Bowl.Inglewood Mayor James

T. Butts on Friday an-nounced that Bryan AlexisCifuentes-Rossell, 33, of LosAngeles had been arrestedon suspicion of felonyassault in connection withthe incident.

The injured fan, 40-year-old Daniel Luna, was hospi-talized after he was found

bleeding in a stadium park-ing lot about half an hourinto the Rams-49ers NFCchampionship showdownSunday, authorities said.

The incident drew imme-diate and widespread com-parisons to the brutal beat-ing of San Francisco Giantsfan Bryan Stow at DodgerStadium in 2011.

SO FAR, what happened in the minutes leading up to the confrontation in a park-ing lot at the Inglewood stadium is murky, and no videos have been made public.

Kirby Lee Associated Press

SoFi altercation that left fan incoma may be hard to prosecuteBy Hayley Smith

and Richard Winton

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