nationwide battles Protests in several major

cities turned violent, as thousands gathered in

public squares demanding racial justice. A

Mount Vernon memorial A 240-year-old tree

planted by George Washington g ets s olemn

honors before facing the sawmill. b

stYle

mail-in ballots

beset by gridlock

a month later, this new

york city primary is still a

train wreck and a

warning to us all. c

advice to the

media for 2020

emphasize voting rights,

present opinion polls

wisely, and don’t get

caught in tr ump’s

distraction machine. c

In the News

tHe nation

the season’s first At-

lantic hurricane u nload-

ed over 15 inches of rain

in South Texas, result-

ing in flash flooding and

unleashing strong winds

and several tornadoes at

a time when the Lone

Star State is grappling

with a spike in coronavi-

rus cases. A

tHe world

russia’s activists and

independent journalists

are facing a new wave of

crackdowns following a

nationwide vote that

cleared the way for

Vladimir Putin to keep

his hold on power. A

the killing of a promi-

nent researcher has s ent

shock waves through

Iraq’s government, un-

derscoring the high

stakes of a crackdown

on Iranian-backed mili-

tias and exposing the

limits of the prime min-

ister’s power to take

them on. A

tHe region

d.c.’s police chief has

questioned why suspects

in the fatal shooting of

an 11-year-old were on

the streets despite hav-

ing previous firearm ar-

rests. B

as public schools an-

nounce they will go all

virtual in fall, parents

are considering private

schools that say they will

open their campuses. B

tHe week aHead

mondaY

president trump visits

a Morrisville, N.C., facil-

ity developing compo-

nents for a coronavirus

vaccine candidate.

durable-goods orders

for June are expected to

show a 6.5 percent gain.

philippine president

Rodrigo Duterte deliv-

ers his address on the

state of the nation.

tuesdaY

attorney general Wil-

liam P. Barr is slated to

testify before the House

Judiciary Committee.

wednesdaY

Federal reserve C hair

Jerome H. Powell holds

a news teleconference.

the trade deficit for

June is expected to total

$74.3 billion.

tHursdaY

the nba season is set

to restart in Orlando.

second-quarter gdp

could drop 35 percent.

Jobless claims for the

week ended July 25 are

estimated at 1,388,000.

FridaY

personal income for

June is expected to show

a decline of 1 percent.

anthony s. Fauci is

scheduled to appear be-

fore a House coronavi-

rus subcommittee.

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BY MEGAN JANETSKY

AND ANTHONY FAIOLA

mEDEllÍN, Colombia — Lorena

Paredes sat in the passenger seat

of a silver sUV as it sped through

the night roads of Colombia’s Pa-

cific coast. T he 28-year-old lawyer

was nervous. she was returning

from a doctor’s appointment late

— well past the s tart of a coronavi-

rus c urfew that c an be as deadly as

the v irus itself.

Armed groups in this violence-

fraught nation of 50 million are

imposing new levels of control

during the coronavirus outbreak

and e nforcing some of the strictest

lockdown measures in the world

— with harsh penalties for viola-

tors. In the port city of Tumaco, a

narcotrafficking hub in the Co-

lombian southwest, guerrillas

posted pamphlets declaring all

curfew violators “military tar-

gets.” In a w arning to all, a medical

transport responding to a call af-

ter curfew was torched in early

May, i ts driver and patient k illed.

Paredes, driven by a friend,

sEE coLombia ON a

The last crossing for John Lewis

(D-Calif.) has rejected the piece-

meal approach, but time is run-

ning short because the tempo-

rary unemployment benefits are

set to expire at the end of this

week. The $600 weekly payments

were approved by Congress in

March.

After weeks of inaction, White

House officials have displayed a

new sense of urgency about the

economy in the past week amid

signs that the recovery is slowing

markedly.

In addition to new calls for a

pared-down stimulus bill, White

House officials are also planning

to push for an eviction moratori-

um through the end of the year,

according to a senior administra-

tion official. The Department of

sEE stimuLus ON a

BY ERICA WERNER

AND JEFF STEIN

Treasury secretary steven

Mnuchin and White House Chief

of staff Mark Meadows said sun-

day that Congress might have to

pass a narrow piece of legislation

this week to ensure enhanced

unemployment benefits don’t ex-

pire for millions of Americans.

But they a lso said the slimmed-

down legislation should include

sweeping lawsuit protections de-

manded by businesses, a provi-

sion that Democrats have op-

posed for weeks. Democrats also

oppose the White House push to

extend the unemployment bene-

fits at a dramatically reduced

amount.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi

New urgency on

narrow relief bill

Jobless benefits set to expire this week

White House officials press for piecemeal approach

dent Trump, who has spent the

past several months attacking

voting by mail as a practice he

says is susceptible to massive

fraud. In recent weeks, he has

seized on the situation in Pater-

son as the prime exhibit in the

case he is making about why the

November election will be

“rigged,” as he has repeatedly put

it.

In a tweet sunday afternoon in

which he misspelled the name of

the city, he wrote, “The 2020

Election will be totally rigged if

Mail-In Voting is allowed to take

place, & everyone knows it. so

much time is taken talking about

foreign influence, but the same

people won’t e ven discuss Mail-In

election corruption. Look at Pat-

terson, N.J. 20% of vote was cor-

rupted!”

Earlier this month, he told re-

porters that they should look into

Paterson, “where massive per-

centages of the vote was a fraud.”

White House officials said the

president has railed privately

sEE paterson ON a

BY ROSALIND S. HELDERMAN

Five days before the citizens of
Paterson, N.J., selected new mem-
bers of their city council in May, a
postal employee in a neighboring
town spotted something suspi-
cious in a local post office: 347
mail-in ballots, bundled together.
The discovery kicked off weeks
of tumult in New Jersey’s third-
largest city, a densely populated
and diverse community. Four
men, including a city councilman,
have been charged with fraud.
Amid the controversy, the county
election board disqualified
19 percent of ballots cast in the
race.
The episode probably would
have remained a local dust-up but
for the sudden interest of Presi-

Trump touts vote fraud

case, leaving out facts

Paterson, N.J., leaders

say he is oversimplifying

May mail-ballot troubles

BY CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON

Each fall, the Rev. Rob Newells

urges the congregation at Imani

Community Church in Oakland,

Calif., to get a flu shot. He builds

bridges every day between the

country’s most vulnerable, mar-

ginalized communities and the

medical system, defusing suspi-

cion about HIV prevention treat-

ments and educating people

about medical research. He p rods

health-care leaders to think hard-

er about their messengers: Don’t

send a white doctor to tell black

people what they “need” to do for

their own good.

But with the first massive coro-

navirus vaccine trial in people set

to start Monday, Newells finds

himself in an unfamiliar place: on

the fence about what to tell his

colleagues, his community, his

cousins. Biomedical research,

Newells knows, is a long and

painstaking process — and he is

concerned about a vaccine cam-

paign that seems so narrowly

focused on speed.

“What are we doing that we

haven’t done before? I haven’t got

good enough answers for me to

tell my community, ‘This is just

like we have been doing in HIV,

where I’m comfortable there’s

community at t he table,’ ” Newells

said. “What are we sacrificing for

the speed, and if we’re not sacri-

ficing anything, why couldn’t we

move at this speed with other

sEE vaccine ON a

A key test for vaccine

trials: Ensuring diversity

BY ADAM BERNSTEIN

Olivia de Havilland — a Holly-

wood actress who was the last

surviving star of “Gone With the

Wind,” won two Academy

Awards and risked her career to

push for complex roles and chal-

lenge punitive film-industry la-

bor laws — died July 26 at her

home in Paris. she was 104.

Her publicist, Lisa Goldberg,

confirmed the death but did not

provide a cause.

Ms. de Havilland was t he older

sister of Oscar-winning actress

Joan Fontaine, with whom she

had a long rivalry. she also was

one of the last links to the old

studio system whose treatment

of actors she did much to trans-

form. Both in her backstage fight

for meatier roles and her public

court battle, Ms. de Havilland

displayed a steely persistence at

sEE de HaviLLand ON a

olivia de Havilland

1916-

‘GWTW’ star

helped topple

studio system

Colombia factions use curfews for control

Violence flares as government struggles to contain pandemic

BY DAN BALZ

America’s standing in the
world is at a low ebb. Once
described as the indispensable
nation, the United states is now
seen as withdrawn and inward-
looking, a reluctant and unreli-
able partner at a dangerous mo-
ment for the world. The coronavi-

rus pandemic has only made

things worse.

President Trump shattered a

70-year consensus among U.s.

presidents of both political par-

ties that was grounded in the

principle of robust American

leadership in the world through

alliances and multilateral institu-

tions. For decades, this approach

was seen at home and abroad as

good for the world and good for

the United states.

In its place, Trump has substi-

tuted his “A merica First” d octrine

and what his critics say is a

zero-sum-game sensibility about

international relationships.

America First has been described

variously as nationalistic, popu-

listic, isolationist and unilateral-

ist. The president has demeaned

allies and emboldened adversar-

ies such as China and Russia.

At home, Trump’s handling of

the pandemic has created divi-

sion and confusion rather than an

effective national strategy. The

rest of the world sees the United

sEE reckoning ON a

Political reckoning

W orld of crises shows U.S. influence at a low ebb

oScar coraL For the WaShIngton PoSt

Lorena paredes, 28, a prosecutor in colombia, was shot as

she was returning home after curfew from a doctor’s visit.

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Ala., where as a young civil rights leader he and other marchers were beaten by state troopers in 1965. Story, A

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