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New details on Lafayette Square A National

Guard officer’s account contradicts Trump

officials’ claims about the clearing of

protesters last month. B

Medical milestone The first two large U.S.

trials to test coronavirus vaccines launched,

with 3 0,000 participants each. A

STYLE

You only think

you know Scranton

“The Office” and politicos

have made it an idea as

much as a place. C

HEALTH & SCIENCE

Manure matters

Farmers convert methane

into energy, curtailing a

greenhouse gas. E

In the News

THE NATION

Black mayors released

a policing plan that in-

cludes transparency and

community engagement

but doesn’t support “de-

funding police.” A

President Trump’s

pandemic response re-

minds ex-students and

lawyers of the fight over

Trump University. A

THE WORLD

In the absence of tour-

ists, Rome’s businesses

are turning to selling

masks. Among the en-

trepreneurs: t he three

teens who opened La -

maska in a wine shop

their father owns. A

THE ECONOMY

About 4,000 federal

employees are seeking

compensation on the

grounds t hey got the

coronavirus at work. A

The Payroll Protec-

tion Program was in-

tended to keep employ-

ees on the payroll, but

workers at some firms

that got millions have

yet to be rehired. A

THE REGION

The living son of an

enslaved man heard his

father’s stories of the

lynching tree a nd wit-

nessed the civil rights

movement from Selma

to Black Lives Matter

Plaza. B

CONTENT © 2020

The Washington Post

Year 143, No. 236

BUSINESS NEWS.........................A

COMICS.........................................C

OPINION PAGES..........................A

LOTTERIES....................................B

OBITUARIES..................................B

TELEVISION...................................C

WORLD NEWS.............................A

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A military honor guard places the casket of congressman John Lewis in the Capitol Rotunda. After the Rotunda

memorial event, the casket was moved to the top of the East Front steps for the public to pay tribute. Coverage, A6-

Colleagues honor ‘conscience’ of Congress

BY KARIN BRULLIARD

AND RACHEL WEINER

S

arah Poe watched with ris-

ing alarm as coronavirus

cases began to spiral last

month in rural Malheur County,

Ore., turning the remote region

bright red on maps of hot spots.

The county health director knew

locals were ditching masks and

isolation. But she also saw a

threat directly across the Snake

River: Idaho.

Half the workforce in Mal-

heur, where the minimum wage

is $4 higher than across the

border, lives in Idaho. Other

Idahoans come for Oregon’s

sales-tax-free shopping and le-

gal marijuana. But the intermin-

gling looks more menacing to

Poe and other Malheur officials

these days — because unlike in

Oregon, masks are not mandat-

ed across the border and the

coronavirus metrics there are

far bleaker. Now, the public

health department in that Ore-

BY HEATHER LONG

For real estate agent James

D ietsche, there is only one way to

describe the real estate market

right now: “It’s insane.”

A 1950s three-bedroom home

he listed in late June for $200, 000

in a small town outside Harris-

burg, Pa., received 26 offers the

initial weekend it was for sale.

Many would-be buyers were

young couples seeking a starter

home and retirees looking to

downsize. But bids a lso came from

Philadelphia, New York City and

the Washington, D.C., area. One

person was willing to pay up to

$50,000 above the asking price.

Several were offering to buy it

without inspections.

While Dietsche’s cellphone has

been ringing with eager buyers,

Ta mmy Steen’s phone has been

buzzing for a different reason. Her

landlord keeps calling, demand-

ing the $700 rent she does not

have. Steen, 52, was a hotel house-

keeper at a H ampton Inn in Pensa-

cola, Fla. Her temporary layoff

now looks permanent. She has yet

to receive unemployment aid de-

spite applying in late March. She

has applied to countless fast-food,

retail and maid jobs but has not

SEE INEQUALITY ON A

Virus fuels widening gap

between buyers, renters

BY DAVE SHEININ

Major League Baseball’s first

existential crisis in a season un-

like any in its history came on the

fifth day of its 2020 schedule,

before half its 30 teams could even

hold their home openers. It ar-

rived in a way that would not

surprise an epidemiologist: with a

novel coronavirus outbreak fo-

cused on a team whose home city

is a hot spot. And it has placed the

remainder of the season in a pre-

carious position.

For now, the outbreak among

members of the Miami Marlins —

with 11 players and two coaches

testing positive by Monday, ac-

cording to an official familiar with

the testing — has not brought

down the entire MLB season, and

MLB officials hoped the outbreak

SEE MLB ON A

For now,

outbreak

won’t derail

MLB season

Fragmented virus rules stir tensions

Lax neighbors crossing state lines are putting healthy communities at risk

gon county has traced cases to

origins in Idaho.

“Part of our threat is being so

close to Idaho,” Poe said. “We are

a border community up against

a state that has much looser

restrictions.”

That c oncern simmers on oth-

er state lines where neighboring

jurisdictions — just a bridge or

short drive away — have differ-

SEE NEIGHBORS ON A

ANGIE SMITH FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Damien Figueroa and his son Damien Jr. at Tacos Mi Ranchito in

Ontario, Ore. Idaho residents make up half the workforce in

Malheur County, Ore., where the minimum wage is $4 higher.

BY ERICA WERNER,

JEFF STEIN

AND SEUNG MIN KIM

A fraught showdown over the

next coronavirus relief bill got un-

derway Monday as Senate Repub-

licans unveiled a $1 trillion pack-

age and congressional Democrats

sat down with top White House

officials.

All parties face a tight deadline

for a breakthrough as expanded

jobless benefits are set to expire

later this week.

The prospects for a bipartisan

deal remained far from certain as

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-

Calif.) a nd Senate M inority Leader

Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) met

late Monday with Treasury Secre-

tary Steven Mnuchin and White

House Chief of Staff Mark Mead-

ows to begin formal negotiations.

The White House officials de-

scribed the t alks a s productive and

said they would resume Tuesday,

but Democrats left the nearly two-

hour meeting describing the ini-

tial GOP offer as inadequate.

“It’s frustrating because they

dithered for three months when

now there are very serious cliffs

that hurt lots of people — unem-

ployment, rental, s tate and l ocal —

and they’re still trying to get their

act together, which is very frus-

trating because of the needs of

people,” Schumer said.

SEE STIMULUS ON A

Coronavirus relief

talks ramp up as

GOP unveils p lan

PROPOSAL WOULD REDUCE JOBLESS BENEFIT

Prospects for passage unclear as aid expiration nears

BY TONY ROMM

Congress brought the country’s
big banks to heel after the finan-
cial crisis, cowed a tobacco indus-
try for imperiling public health
and forced airline leaders to
atone for years of treating their
passengers poorly.
Now, lawmakers are set to turn
their attention to technology,
channeling long-simmering frus-
trations with Amazon, Apple,
Face book and Google into a high-
profile hearing some Democrats
and Republicans hope will usher
in sweeping changes throughout
Silicon Valley.
On Wednesday, the industry’s
four most powerful chief execu-

tives are set to appear, swear an

oath and submit to a grilling from

House lawmakers who have been

probing the Web’s most recogniz-

able names to determine whether

they have become too big and

powerful. The focus is antitrust

and the extent to which a quartet

of digital behemoths — represent-

ing a nearly $5 trillion slice of the

U.S. economy — has harmed com-

petition, consumers and the

country writ large.

The congressional inquiry has

been more than a year in the

making. Lawmakers have

amassed 1.3 million documents,

conducted hundreds of hours of

interviews and held five other

hearings featuring the industry’s

friends and foes. Led by Rep.

David N. Cicilline (D-R.I.), the

lawmakers plan to produce a re-

port in coming months that some

party leaders expect will find the

industry has skirted federal com-

petition laws because the protec-

SEE TECH ON A

B ig Tech is next industry

to face Congress’s glare

Like tobacco, f inance,

airline chiefs of the past,

its top CEOs set to testify

BY DEVLIN BARRETT,

NICK MIROFF,

MARISSA J. LANG

AND DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD

The Trump administration is
sending more federal agents to
Portland, Ore., already the site of
aggressive policing tactics t hat ac-
tivists and city officials across the
country say are inspiring more-
violent clashes and re-energizing
protests.

The U.S. Marshals Service de-

cided last week to send more dep-

uties to Portland, according to an

internal email reviewed by The

Washington Post, with personnel

beginning to arrive last Thursday

night. The Department of Home-

land Security is also considering a

plan to send an additional 50 U.S.

Customs and Border Protection

personnel to the city, according to

senior administration officials in-

volved i n the f ederal response who

spoke on t he c ondition of a nonym-

ity to describe internal delibera-

tions.

Such moves would mark a sig-

nificant expansion of the federal

force operating at the Portland

federal courthouse — there were

114 federal agents there in mid-

July — though it is unclear how

many existing personnel could be

sent home after the arrival of at

least 100 reinforcements, accord-

ing to internal Marshals emails.

The Trump administration has

responded to protests and vandal-

ism in Oregon’s largest city with a

shock-and-awe strategy, using a

SEE PROTESTS ON A

More federal agents being dispatched to Portland

Tough response appears

to expand a s other cities

see renewed protests

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