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Los policías piden amparo ante la violencia en Barcelona Los sindicatos policiales reclaman apoyo político y más medios ante lo que la Generalitat reconoce que es “violencia pura, desbocada e inaudita” CLARA BLANCHAR, Barcelona El intento del sábado en Barcelona de quemar un furgón de la Guardia Urbana en cuyo interior se hallaba un agente, que salió ileso, durante la novena manifestación que pedía la libertad del rapero Pablo Hasél, ha hecho saltar las alarmas entre responsables policiales, sindicatos, autoridades y partidos. Entienden que esos hechos, sumados al ataque a la comisaría de los Mossos en Vic hace 12 días, son un salto en la escalada de la violencia. Sindicatos de policías nacionales, autonómicos y locales mostraron su condena e indignación por los actos violentos y el ataque a la Guardia Urbana. Los representantes de los policías locales acusaron a los políticos de esconderse, criticaron la pasividad de la alcaldesa, Ada Colau, y pidieron un “apoyo institucional claro” y más medios humanos y técnicos. El malestar de la Guardia Urbana se suma al de los Mossos d’Esquadra, que durante los últimos altercados se han sentido cuestionados por el propio Govern en un contexto político poselectoral en el que diferentes responsables de partidos independentistas han criticado la labor del cuerpo. El consejero de Interior de la Generalitat, Miquel Sàmper, tachó ayer de “violencia pura, desbocada e inaudita” los disturbios de la marcha del sábado, que congregó a 4.000 personas y acabó con 14 detenidos y seis mossos heridos leves. PÁGINA 15
El PP, decidido a mantener el bloqueo a la renovación del Poder Judicial Los populares insisten en que Podemos no participe en el pacto ELSA GARCÍA DE BLAS, Madrid El Partido Popular está decidido a mantener el bloqueo de la renovación del Consejo General del Poder Judicial si Pedro Sánchez no acepta dejar a Unidas Podemos fuera del pacto. Pablo Casado tiene el aval de la cúpula del partido para mantenerse firme en esta postura. Un dirigente del PP admite que el objetivo es que un eventual acuerdo deje a Podemos “humillado”. PÁGINA 14
Laya reclama “respeto” a Maduro tras su ataque a España
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La represión golpista mata a 18 personas en Myanmar La represión de las protestas contra el golpe de Estado en Myanmar (antigua Birmania) causó ayer al menos 18 muertos, según Naciones Unidas. Fue la jornada más violenta desde que los militares tomaron el poder hace un mes. Durante
el fin de semana hubo 479 arrestos. Las fuerzas de seguridad efectuaron disparos para disolver concentraciones en lugares como Dawei. En la imagen, un herido durante los choques con la policía es evacuado en la ciudad de Mandalay. PÁGINA 3
Trump reaparece para reivindicar el trono del Partido Republicano clausura de la cita, centrado en reivindicar su liderazgo presente y futuro. Trump insistió en que las elecciones que perdió en noviembre “fueron manipuladas”. “Tenemos un sistema electoral muy corrupto”, dijo ante un público entregado. PÁGINA 2
SANTIAGO TORRADO, Bogotá La diplomacia española evita el enfrentamiento con el régimen venezolano de Nicolás Maduro, quien calificó de “agresión” la visita de la ministra de Exteriores, Arancha González Laya, a la ciudad fronteriza de Cúcuta, en Colombia. “Vamos a revisar a fondo toda la relación con España”, dijo Maduro. Laya explicó ayer que visitó proyectos financiados por la cooperación española. “El mismo respeto que yo predico es el respeto que yo exijo”, afirmó la ministra. PÁGINA 17
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“Tenemos un sistema electoral muy corrupto”, afirma el expresidente AMANDA MARS, Washington El gran cónclave de la derecha estadounidense, la Conferencia de Acción Política Conservadora, sirvió ayer para exhibir el dominio de Donald Trump sobre el Partido Republicano. El expresidente pronunció el discurso de
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MIGUEL GONZÁLEZ, Madrid Corinna Larsen asegura que Juan Carlos I pidió su mano a su padre, pero fuentes próximas al rey emérito dicen que, al contrario, fue su entonces amante la que presionó para formalizar su relación. Juan Carlos I consultó con un despacho de abogados especializado en divorcios, pero la ruptura de su matrimonio no pasó de ser una idea. La posibilidad de que Corinna fuera reina consorte se volvió una cuestión de Estado. PÁGINA 16
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LODI, Calif. — In the wine region of northern San Joaquin Valley, the coarse spindles of pruned grapevines are sprouting delicate creepers that curl toward wire trellises, and cherry trees are shedding soft pink blossoms. Along with spring, the second harvest season of the pandemic has arrived. Fields and packing sheds soon will be filled with workers, many of whom are migrants and already traveling up the Central Valley as crops ripen. It is a “pivotal time” to inoculate farmworkers against the coronavirus before they return to their perilous work, UFW Foundation Executive Director Diana Tellefson Torres said. But it’s also the moment California is tossing out its existing strategy for vaccine distribution — controlled by local governments — and transferring it to a nonprofit insurance company, Blue Shield. The collision of harvest season with the Blue Shield takeover has left many community organizers and health officials worried that existing plans, though criticized for being inadequate and uneven, will be abandoned for a different set of uncertainties. They say the insurance company has done little to alleviate those fears and has not asked for their help — despite the challenges of working with insular farmworkers, many of whom lack insurance. “There is no plan we can look at or contribute to,” said Maria Lemus, executive director of the nonprofit Visión y Compromiso, a network of promotores, members of vulnerable communities who are trained health liaisons. Her group has been educating farmworkers about the virus for months. To date, the rollout of vaccines to farmworkers has been hit-or-miss, often driven by local elected officials, unions, nonprofits and employers using their connections to get doses into laborers’ arms. The patchwork [See Farmworkers, A7]
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‘Nomadland,’ ‘Borat’ win as show weathers criticism Subdued event acknowledges HFPA’s lack of Black members By Josh Rottenberg Although the freewheeling Golden Globes has long been billed as “Hollywood’s Party of the Year,” the 78th edition of the awards telecast held Sunday proved to be something very different — and decidedly less festive. The virtual ceremony’s usual razzle-dazzle was dimmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the red carpet nearly barren and boozy
bonhomie replaced by Zoom glitches. Adding to the sense of somewhat forced cheer, the show followed a week of mounting controversy sparked by a Times investigation into the membership and ethics of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., the 87-member group of international journalists that doles out the awards. Facing blistering criticism after The Times highlighted that the organization has no Black members, the HFPA used the occasion both to deliv-
er its latest awards — with “Nomadland” and “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” winning the best picture prizes in the drama and comedy or musical categories, respectively — and to acknowledge its failings on the issue of diversity. “Tonight, while we celebrate the work of artists from around the globe, we recognize we have our own work to do,” said the group’s vice president, Helen Hoehne. “Just like in film and [See Globes, A10]
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attorney’s investigators remove computers and files from his auto shop in 2018.
Bitter Trump rips Republicans who voted for impeachment By Eli Stokols and Laura King WASHINGTON — Making his first public appearance since leaving office not six weeks ago, former President Trump lashed out Sunday at his successor — and some fellow Republicans — during a fact-challenged and grievance-laden speech in which he teased another presidential run in three years. In an address seemingly designed to assert contin-
Teachers and workers in child care, emergency services and food and agriculture will be eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations in Los Angeles County starting Monday, though officials warn that the pace will be slowed by limited supply. Nearly 1.2 million people fall into these newly approved categories, according to county estimates. They will join about 2.2 million L.A. County residents who are already eligible to be vaccinated — those who work in healthcare, live in long-term care facilities or are 65 or older. “Opening eligibility to more groups of essential workers will save more lives and accelerate our recovery,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Sunday in a statement. The county has so far administered more than 2.1 million doses of vaccine (first and second doses), according to The Times’ vaccination tracker. Newly eligible residents will be able to make appointments at city-run vaccination sites starting Monday, the mayor’s office said, but only a small number of first-dose appointments will be available this week, at Pierce College. The 70,000 doses of Moderna vaccine the city expects to receive Monday will [See Vaccine, A7]
ued control over his political party at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., Trump made clear he’s not over his defeat and continued to lie about the outcome. But he reserved his strongest vitriol not for President Biden, who won by 7 million votes, but Republicans who he believes didn’t fight hard enough on his behalf. Frustrated by GOP lawmakers who broke with him over his months-long, falsehood-filled campaign to overturn an election, he ex-
pressed particular contempt for the 17 Republican lawmakers who joined Democrats voting to impeach and convict him for his role in inciting a mob of supporters to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop the counting of electoral votes. Five people, including a police officer, died in the insurrection. Trump did not speak to the crowd of 1,400 activists about the riot or mention those who partook in it. He focused instead on puni[See Trump, A6]
Ramon Medina spent eight years achieving his small-town political dream and about half of that time tarnishing it. After winning a seat on the Maywood City Council in 2015, Medina was engulfed in scandals. He voted on issues that raised questions of conflict of interest, including a 2016 pay raise for his sister, the city treasurer. In 2017, he was caught growing marijuana as he pushed for a cannabis ordinance at City Hall. The following year, his home and
auto shop were part of an anti-corruption raid. Undaunted, he ran for reelection in November but lost. That Medina believed he had a chance of being reelected despite the controversies swirling around him might seem like a surprise. But he was a politician in one of a warren of small cities in southeast Los Angeles County where scandals have long festered — and weren’t always a knockout against political ambitions. The tiny 1.18-square-mile city that Medina once represented had rarely played the starring role in the corruption scandals that enmeshed neighboring towns, where criminal prosecutions from local and federal authorities sometimes rained down. [See Maywood, A6]
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L AKERS DOMINATE Talen Horton-Tucker drives for a score between two Warriors in L.A.’s convincing 117-91 victory over Golden State at Staples Center. SPORTS, D1
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A man shot in the leg Sunday in Mandalay, Myanmar. Military forces and police officers opened fire on protesters across the country.
At Least 18 Die How a Lie Took Wing as the Capitol Riot Raged mation machine primed to seize As Crackdown a lie that served its political inRight Quickly Sowed on terests and quickly spread it to a Jolts Myanmar Fiction That Invaders receptive audience. The weeksThis article is by Michael M. Grynbaum, Davey Alba and Reid J. Epstein.
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Military forces in Myanmar opened fire on crowds of peaceful demonstrators in several cities on Sunday, killing at least 18 people, the United Nations said, in a violent escalation of the junta’s efforts to suppress weeks of mass protests against its month-old coup. Videos and photographs captured images of bodies in the street and people running from the police as tear gas and smoke filled the air. The sheer ferocity of Sunday’s crackdown — soldiers appeared to shoot at unarmed people at random and rounded up groups of demonstrators before marches could begin — drew sharp rebukes internationally. The forceful response of the military signaled a new ruthless resolve to quash unrest after a month in which thousands have turned out regularly to protest the Feb. 1 coup. The demonstrations and civil disobedience movement have challenged the primacy of a military notorious for its brutality after having crushed democracy movements in 1988 and 2007 by shooting protesters. “We strongly condemn the escalating violence against protests in Myanmar and call on the military to immediately halt the use of force against peaceful protesters,” said Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman with the U.N. human rights office. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken denounced what he called “abhorrent violence” by the military. In the southern city of Dawei, police officers opened fire on a crowd of hundreds, witnesses told The New York Times. At least three people were killed and more than 50 wounded, said Dr. Tun Continued on Page A11
At 1:51 p.m. on Jan. 6, a rightwing radio host named Michael D. Brown wrote on Twitter that rioters had breached the United States Capitol — and immediately speculated about who was really to blame. “Antifa or BLM or other insurgents could be doing it disguised as Trump supporters,” Mr. Brown wrote, using shorthand for Black Lives Matter. “Come on, man, have you never heard of psyops?” Only 13,000 people follow Mr. Brown on Twitter, but his tweet caught the attention of another
Were Antifa conservative pundit: Todd Herman, who was guest-hosting Rush Limbaugh’s national radio program. Minutes later, he repeated Mr. Brown’s baseless claim to Mr. Limbaugh’s throngs of listeners: “It’s probably not Trump supporters who would do that. Antifa, BLM, that’s what they do. Right?” What happened over the next 12 hours illustrated the speed and the scale of a right-wing disinfor-
long fiction about a stolen election that President Donald J. Trump pushed to his millions of supporters had set the stage for a new and equally false iteration: that leftwing agitators were responsible for the attack on the Capitol. In fact, the rioters breaking into the citadel of American democracy that day were acolytes of Mr. Trump, intent on stopping Congress from certifying his electoral defeat. Subsequent arrests and investigations have found no evidence that people who identify Continued on Page A16
Aquené Tyler, a mother and hair stylist in North Philadelphia, has been disappointed in her neighborhood’s public schools for many years. There were too few books and computers. Even before the pandemic, some schools were shuttered for asbestos removal. Now, her 9-year-old son and 13year-old daughter have been
gestion that Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, be paired with Janet DiFiore, the chief judge on New York State’s highest court, to jointly pick someone to investigate the matter. Ms. James rejected that proposal. Finally, late Sunday, Mr. Cuomo relented again, saying in a state-
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo faces outrage from both parties. ment that he would grant subpoena power to whomever Ms. James chose as the outside investigator, as she had demanded. In a series of interviews with The New York Times last week, Ms. Bennett said Mr. Cuomo had asked her about her sex life, including whether she practiced monogamy and had ever slept with older men. She also recounted that Mr. Cuomo told her that he was open to dating women in their 20s and spoke to her in discomfiting ways about her own experience with sexual assault. She said she believed the governor — who also complained of being lonely and wanting a girlfriend Continued on Page A17
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Around Philadelphia, Parents Rebel Against Remote Schooling By DANA GOLDSTEIN
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Sunday sought to stem the growing political fallout over fresh allegations of sexual harassment, acknowledging that he may have made inappropriate remarks that could “have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation” to a young female aide during private meetings last spring. Mr. Cuomo, 63, said his comments — including those which emerged in an account from the aide, Charlotte Bennett — were an extension of life spent at work, where he sometimes “teased people about their personal lives and relationships.” “I now understand that my interactions may have been insensitive or too personal and that some of my comments, given my position, made others feel in ways I never intended,” Mr. Cuomo said in a statement. “I acknowledge some of the things I have said have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation. To the extent anyone felt that way, I am truly sorry about that.” The response from the governor seemed to reflect the gravity of Ms. Bennett’s accusations, and those of another former aide last week, as well as the potential damage they could cause to Mr. Cuomo, a third-term Democrat. Mr. Cuomo, who emerged as a national leader during the pandemic, also repeated his calls for an independent investigation of his own behavior, though the decision over who would oversee that inquiry has already proved torturous. His initial choice of a former federal judge to lead the investigation was met with overwhelming criticism, as was his second sug-
learning online for nearly a year, even as masked children gather boisterously at local private schools. Ms. Tyler’s children are lonely, and Mya, who is in eighth grade, seems depressed and overwhelmed by her class work. She has begun seeing a counselor remotely. So Ms. Tyler is planning a radical change: moving her family to Florida, where the Republicancontrolled state government has
They’re Suing, Seeking Office or Moving Out mandated that all districts provide in-person learning five days per week. A niece there is attending traditional public school in Sarasota, complete with sports, arts and music.
“Everywhere else, kids are given better opportunities and chances, other than Philadelphia,” she said. “It’s a slap in the face consistently.” A year into the pandemic, less than half of students nationwide are attending public schools that offer traditional, full-time schedules. Now many parents are beginning to rebel, frustrated with the pace of reopening and deterContinued on Page A6
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Mourning Arbery a Year Later The killing on a residential street in Georgia has led to an effort to reform the state’s citizen’s arrest law. PAGE A12
African-Americans fought and died as heroes for their country in World War I, but full recognition of their sacrifice was late in coming at home. PAGE A7 SPORTSMONDAY D1-5
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Delta-8-THC gummies from the Georgia Hemp Company.
Not Quite Pot, This High Slips Past Most Bans By MATT RICHTEL
Texas has one of the most restrictive medical marijuana laws in the country, with sales allowed only by prescription for a handful of conditions. That hasn’t stopped Lukas Gilkey, chief executive of Hometown Hero CBD, based in Austin, Texas. His company sells joints, blunts, gummy bears, vaping devices and tinctures that offer a recreational high. In fact, business is booming online as well, where he sells to many people in other states with strict marijuana laws. But Mr. Gilkey says that he is no outlaw, and that he’s not selling marijuana, just a close relation. He’s offering products with a chemical compound — Delta-8THC — extracted from hemp. It is only slightly chemically different from Delta 9, which is the main psychoactive ingredient in mariContinued on Page A15
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In the ongoing calculus of how to distribute limited supplies of the coronavirus vaccine, the broad global consensus often starts with a few groups: doctors and nurses, the ill and the aging, frontline workers and teachers. At no point, typically, would elite athletes — a nation’s finest synchronized swimmers and high divers, its fastest sprinters and racewalkers, its top gymnasts and badminton players — factor into the early discussion. And yet, that is precisely the debate happening around the world in the final months before this summer’s Tokyo Olympics. It is not just a question of bioethics: The way individual governments proceed on vaccinations over the next few months could determine whether the Olympics unfold as a cathartic mass celebration of international sports, or a monthlong global superspreader event. In any other year, professional athletes — young, healthy and obviously very fit — would be ushered to the back of the line. This year, though, with the Olympic Games to open in Japan, where rising case counts forced many of the country’s largest cities into a state of emergency in January, the question has become rather more vexing. A growing number of countries, a group as diverse as India, Hungary and Israel, have announced that they will push their OlympiContinued on Page A5
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Vaccine Taken to the Fields An initiative in California is targeting immigrant workers at high risk for Covid-19, but the undocumented status of many has spurred a debate. PAGE A4
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Major league exhibition games began with limited capacity, but players were just glad fans were back. PAGE D1
Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson sought to capture Black Americans’ history in every medium she could. PAGE B6
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Protesters take cover in a clash with riot police in Yangon on Sunday. Security forces opened fire on crowds in several cities.
At Least 18 Killed in Myanmar As Police Open Fire at Protests BY NIHARIKA MANDHANA AND FELIZ SOLOMON SINGAPORE—At least 18 people were killed in Myanmar, the United Nations said, as security forces began their toughest crackdown yet against protesters who have taken to the streets for more than three weeks to oppose February’s coup, signaling the
military’s growing willingness to use lethal force despite international condemnation. The deaths occurred Sunday in cities across the country. In Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, at least three people died from bullet wounds and 16 others were injured, including a 31-yearold man who was in critical condition, said a senior doctor
at Yangon General Hospital who is involved in treating the injured. Four people were also killed in the southern city of Dawei, according to an announcement on military-run TV, which said protesters there hadn’t complied with orders to disperse. Images of bloodshed, chaos and, in some places, continuing protests flooded social media,
Trump, in Speech, Hints at 2024 Run BY JOSHUA JAMERSON AND ALEX LEARY ORLANDO, Fla.—Donald Trump took aim at President Biden’s early moves on immigration and Covid-19, left open the prospect of another run at the presidency and cast himself as the GOP standardbearer in the former president’s first major public remarks since leaving office. “We went through a journey like nobody else, there’s never been a journey like it, there’s never been a journey so successful, we began it together four years ago and it is far from being over,” Mr. Trump said Sunday afternoon at the annual Conservative Political Action
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and due to expire by the end of this year. “The market is extremely sensitive to government and company discounts,” said Arndt Ellinghorst, auto analyst at Bernstein Research. “Once subsidies are taken away EV sales will collapse by 30-40% at least for one or two quarters.” Without the subsidies, EVs are still considerably more expensive than equivalent combustion-engine vehicles. This isn’t likely to change until later this decade, analysts said, as battery prices come down because of new technology, greater scale and competition. Europe’s approach started with more sticks than carrots. Please turn to page A2
The pandemic has opened a new era for vaccines developed with gene-based technologies, techniques that have long stumped scientists and pharmaceutical companies, suggesting the possibility of future protection against a range of infectious disease. Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, which was authorized Saturday for use in the U.S., is at the vanguard of a class of shots designed to mobilize a person’s immune
defenses against the disease. It will be the first Covid-19 vaccine administered in the U.S. that uses viral-vector technology, which employs an engineered cold virus to ferry coronavirus-fighting genetic code to the body’s cells. J&J’s vaccine is the third to be authorized in the U.S. after ones from Pfizer Inc. Please turn to page A6 CDC endorses one-dose shot from J&J....................................... A6 Access to vaccines can be uneven........................................... A7
New CEO to Reshape Citigroup Jane Fraser faces challenges to reinvigorate Citigroup as she takes over as CEO. Once the world’s largest financial-services company, Citigroup is struggling to keep up with its rivals. B1 Net income
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