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Bowman Beats
Top Democrat
In House Race
Power of the Left Seen
in Victory Over Engel
By JESSE McKINLEY
After a little-known candidate
named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stunned a powerful Queens con-
gressman in a 2018 primary, Dem-
ocratic Party leaders were deter-
mined to never be surprised the
same way again, vowing to pro-
tect incumbents and clashing with
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and other up-
starts for pushing for more pro-
gressive candidates.
On Friday, it became clear that
those efforts had failed, as an-
other unlikely challenger, Jamaal
Bowman, shocked the Democratic
establishment by defeating Rep-
resentative Eliot L. Engel, over-
coming the attempts of old-guard
party elite like Hillary Clinton,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to save a
16-term incumbent.
Mr. Bowman, 44, did so by run-
ning against Republicans in
Washington and the caution of
centrist Democrats everywhere,
capitalizing on seven-figure
spending by progressive groups
to help him win the primary in a
district that straddles the Bronx
and Westchester County.
“It means this country is ready,
it’s yearning, it’s excited for pro-
gressive change,” Mr. Bowman, a
middle school principal from Yon-
kers, said on Friday. “And it’s ex-
cited to finally hold elected offi-
cials accountable.”
Unlike Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s vic-
tory, Mr. Bowman’s looks more
like an indicator than an anomaly:
He is one of three younger, insur-
gent Democrats in New York who
seem poised to tilt the state’s, and
the party’s, congressional delega-
tion further to the left.
The other two, Mondaire Jones
and Ritchie Torres, are candidates
for open seats in two neighboring
districts. If elected, they would be
the first openly gay Black men in
Congress. On Tuesday, Mr. Jones
was declared the winner of the pri-
mary in a district that covers
parts of Westchester and Rock-
land counties; Mr. Torres holds a
healthy lead in his Bronx district’s
race.
Another veteran Democrat,
Representative Carolyn Maloney,
is fighting for her political life in
the district that includes Manhat-
tan’s East Side. Ms. Maloney
holds a slim lead over another left-
wing challenger, Suraj Patel. The
contest, like the one Mr. Bowman
won and many others in New
York, has dragged on as election
officials grapple with the deluge of
absentee ballots that were cast by
mail because of the coronavirus
pandemic.
The crush of absentee ballots —
more than 50 percent of the total
cast in some races — has over-
whelmed election officials who
are accustomed to handling far
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Ginsburg Says Cancer Is Back,
But She’s ‘Fully Able’ to Work
This article is by Adam Liptak,
Denise Grady and Carl Hulse.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
the most prominent member of
the Supreme Court’s liberal mi-
nority, said Friday that she has
had a recurrence of cancer, caus-
ing a wave of anxiety among Dem-
ocrats that was not completely as-
suaged by her assurance that she
was undergoing chemotherapy,
with “positive results,” and would
remain on the Supreme Court.
At 87, Justice Ginsburg is the
court’s oldest justice and, as “No-
torious R.B.G.,” its most celebrat-
ed. Her health has been the sub-
ject of intense interest to both par-
ties since the election of President
Trump, but particularly to Demo-
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Queen Elizabeth came out of seclusion
to honor Tom Moore, 100, a war veteran
and charitable fund-raiser. PAGE A9
Égalité for All French Citizens
Assa Traoré is leading France’s fight
against discriminatory police violence.
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Where People Are Most Likely to Wear Face Masks
The patterns in mask use reflect partisanship, peer pressure and the footprint
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Respondents were asked how often they wear a mask when they expect to be within six feet of another person in public.
For Democrats, In War on Coronavirus, Janitors Feel Unarmed
A Convention
In Miniature dying up. The new one is protect- Some Bring Their executives and union officials, as
The old job of custodians was ti-
By REID J. EPSTEIN
and LISA LERER
When Democrats awarded
their 2020 convention to Milwau-
kee, plans called for a crowd of
more than 50,000 delegates, jour-
nalists, party officials and V.I.P.s.
But as the coronavirus spread this
spring and the convention was
pushed back to August, the num-
ber dwindled.
First to 5,000 attendees. Then, a
mere 1,000.
Now, one month before the
party is set to gather at a conven-
tion site smaller than the one orig-
inally selected, officials are ex-
pecting the quadrennial event to
include as few as 300 people — a
number that includes not only at-
tendees but members of the news
media, security personnel, medi-
cal consultants and party work-
ers.
Every aspect of the four-day
Democratic National Convention,
scheduled to begin Aug. 17, has
been scaled back from the ambi-
tions set when Milwaukee was
named the host city in March 2019.
A program of five to six hours of
daily speeches, engineered to en-
tertain delegates in the arena and
draw heavy television coverage
and headlines for Joseph R. Biden
Jr. and his vice-presidential nomi-
nee, will be cut down closer to
three hours each night. Much of
the program is likely to be pre-
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crats. They fear that if she died or
had to resign, Mr. Trump and his
Republican allies in the Senate,
led by Mitch McConnell of Ken-
tucky, the majority leader, would
quickly try to install a conserva-
tive successor even as the Novem-
ber election is imminent.
For Democrats increasingly op-
timistic about defeating Mr.
Trump and possibly retaking the
Senate, that would be an even
more painful version of what Mr.
McConnell and Senate Republi-
cans were able to accomplish in
2016.
That year they prevented Presi-
dent Barack Obama’s Supreme
Court nominee, Judge Merrick B.
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Uncovering the Past
Nearly a century after a white mob
massacred Black residents of Tulsa,
Okla., the city broke ground this week
in a search for mass graves. PAGE A16
Charges in Grisly Murder
A tech entrepreneur’s ex-assistant was
accused of killing and dismembering
him in his Manhattan condo. PAGE A19
BUSINESS B1-7
On Front Line Against Fire
A Times reporter and photographer
followed PG&E in its efforts to improve
the utility’s maligned system. PAGE B1
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2020
of the coronavirus itself. Page A8.
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By JODI KANTOR with dozens of work-
employers, cleaning company
ing against a killer through disin-
fection.
As the coronavirus continues to
rage and businesses and work-
places weigh the risks of reopen-
ing, janitors have a warning about
the current state of cleaning in the
United States. Many say they
have not been given enough re-
sources to fight the pathogen, or,
in a few cases, even hot water to
wash their hands. They are often
not told if someone has tested pos-
itive where they are working,
many said in interviews, making
it difficult to protect themselves
and others.
Cleaners have recently fallen ill
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Inside Story of the Twitter Attack, as Told by 4 Young Hackers
By NATHANIEL POPPER
and KATE CONGER
OAKLAND, Calif. — A Twitter
hacking scheme that targeted po-
litical, corporate and cultural
elites this week began with a teas-
ing message between two hackers
late Tuesday on the online mes-
saging platform Discord.
“yoo bro,” wrote a user named
“Kirk,” according to a screenshot
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Them’s the Breaks
The World Surf League canceled a 2020
season that had never gotten started
because of the pandemic.
N.F.L.’s Struggles With Women
Women who have counseled the league
on workplace culture aren’t surprised
by new harassment claims.
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across the country, from the Uni-
versity of Texas at Austin, to a Fox
Entertainment lot in Los Angeles,
to casinos in Mississippi. Workers
in office buildings and supermar-
kets say they lack the time and
training to do the job right. And
though airlines have tried to win
back customers by raising sanita-
tion standards, pilots, flight at-
tendants and cabin cleaners re-
port that the efforts are still inade-
quate, with reused rags, unwiped
tray tables and bathrooms that
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of the conversation shared with
The New York Times. “i work at
twitter / don’t show this to anyone
/ seriously.”
He then demonstrated that he
could take control of valuable
Twitter accounts — the sort of
thing that would require insider
access to the company’s computer
network.
The hacker who received the
message, using the screen name
“lol,” decided over the next 24
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Fast Track to a Global Pop Hit
Imanbek Zeikenov, 19, was working at a
train station in Kazakhstan when he
stumbled onto a Saint Jhn song ripe for
a dancey remix. The result lifted both
artists to a new level.
Is It Safe for a Blockbuster?
The director Christopher Nolan had
hoped to aid theater owners with the
summer release of “Tenet,” but his
PAGE B9 oft-delayed sci-fi film may be prolong-
ing their pain in a pandemic.
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well as a review of records from
the federal Occupational Safety
and Health Administration, reveal
other glaring problems. At a Mi-
ami office tower, Martha Lorena
Cortez Estrada resorted to bring-
ing in her own Clorox and making
her own masks. “Our brooms
were worn out; we were mopping
with just water and no disinfec-
tant,” said Ms. Cortez, 58, who
makes $8.56 an hour. As the coun-
try navigates whether and how to
report to work, shop, eat out, trav-
el and educate children, it is often
impossible to tell how frequently
or thoroughly anything is cleaned.
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KEVIN D. LILES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Screen Names Like ‘lol’
and ‘ever so anxious’
hours that Kirk did not actually
work for Twitter because he was
too willing to damage the com-
pany. But Kirk did have access to
Twitter’s most sensitive tools,
which allowed him to take control
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POLICE PORTLAND
‘IT FEELS LIKE FASCISM’
Accusations of Exceeding
Their Authority and
Violating Rights
This article is by Sergio Olmos,
Mike Baker and Zolan Kanno-
Youngs.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Federal
agents dressed in camouflage and
tactical gear have taken to the
streets of Portland, unleashing
tear gas, bloodying protesters and
pulling some people into un-
marked vans in what Gov. Kate
Brown of Oregon has called “a bla-
tant abuse of power.”
The extraordinary use of fed-
eral force in recent days, billed as
an attempt to tamp down persist-
ent unrest and protect govern-
ment property, has infuriated lo-
cal leaders who say the agents
have stoked tensions.
“This is an attack on our democ-
racy,” Mayor Ted Wheeler of Port-
land said.
The strife in Portland, which
has had 50 consecutive days of
protests, reflects the growing
fault lines in law enforcement as
President Trump threatens an as-
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Portland, Ore., has had 50
consecutive days of protests.
sertive federal role in how cities
manage a wave of national unrest
after George Floyd was killed by
the Minneapolis police.
One Portland demonstrator,
Mark Pettibone, 29, said he had
been part of the protests before
four people in camouflage jumped
out of an unmarked van around 2
a.m. Wednesday. They had no ob-
vious markings or identification,
he said, and he had no idea who
they were.
“One of the officers said, ‘It’s
OK, it’s OK,’ and just grabbed me
and threw me into the van,” Mr.
Pettibone said. “Another officer
pulled my beanie down so I could-
n’t see.”
Mr. Pettibone said that he was
terrified — protesters in the city
have in the past clashed with far-
right militia groups also wearing
camouflage and tactical gear —
and that at no point was he told
why he was arrested or detained,
or what agency the officers were
with. He said he was held for
about two hours before being re-
leased.
“It felt like I was being hunted
for no reason,” Mr. Pettibone said.
“It feels like fascism.”
In a statement issued on Friday,
Customs and Border Protection
said agents who made the arrest
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of almost any Twitter account, in-
cluding those of former President
Barack Obama, Joseph R. Biden
Jr., Elon Musk and many other ce-
lebrities.
Despite global attention on the
intrusion, which has shaken confi-
dence in Twitter and the security
provided by other technology
companies, the basic details of
who were responsible, and how
they did it, have been a mystery.
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