Sudanese defiantDemocracy activists vowed

to press on after seeing hard-fought gains

seemingly disappear inamilitary coup. A

Vaccines for youngFDA advisers endorsed

the Pfizer-BioNTech shot for kids ages5to11,

saying the benefits outweighed the risks. A

FOOD

Alabor of loaves

TheDay of the Dead calls

for pan de muerto.

This Arizona bakeryhas

been makingthe rich,

sweet bread since 1985.

STYLE

Achief conundrum

“SaturdayNight Live”

has had seven Joe Biden

impersonators.Theshow

still has no idea how to

parody him.C

In the News

THE NATION

As Democratspare

down their spending

bill, Sen. Joe Manchin

III’s machinations play

out in public view.A

Theworld’smajor

economies are still fail-

ing to do their part to

adequately curb green-

house gas emissions, a

U.N. report found.A

THE WORLD

António Guterres,the

U.N. secretary general,

said he sees combating

climate change as the

“most important politi-

cal battle of my life.”A

TheUnitedStateshas

“few credible options” to

respond if China seizes a

set of islands adminis-

tered by Taiwan,awar

game has showed.A

Queen Elizabethwill

beavirtual if notphysi-

cal presence at the U.N.

climate conference in

Glasgow after doctors

ordered her to rest.A

Iran appearstohave

been behindastrike last

week on U.S. troops in

Syria, suggestinganew

front in tensions with

Washington.A

THE ECONOMY

Twoweeks afterthe

White House an-

nounced round-the-

clock operations at

Southern California

ports, the backlog of

ships has grown.A

Social mediaplatforms

TikTok, Snap and You-

Tube defended to law-

makers how they pro-

tect kids online.A

THE REGION

Metro allowedtwo

cars with known defects

to continue operating

until inspectors learned

of the oversight, accord-

ing toasafety commis-

sion hearing.B

Finding jurorswho are

impartial is difficult for

the Unite the Right tri-

al, which centers on vol-

atile and well-known

events, experts say.B

Anew markerinLeon-

ardtown, Md., recounts

the 1887 killing of a

Black man dragged

from jail and lynched.B

MontgomeryCounty

is consideringaguaran-

teed income pilot that

would give out $

monthly payments to

300 households.B

OBITUARIES

Mort Sahl,who set the

bar for future humorists

with his acid-witted

brand of political com-

edy, has died at 94.B

STYLE

Maryland hotelmag-

nate Stewart Bainum

unveiled plans for the

Baltimore Banner, a

nonprofit digital upstart

dedicated to local cover-

age of the city.C

Inside

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BYLISAREIN

kalispell, mont. —By the time the third

teenager had died by suicide since thestart

of the school year,the FlatheadValleywas

desperatefor unity. Thecommunityhad

been jitteryfor months.

Supporters of former president Donald

Trump, adamant thatJoe Bidenstole the

2020 election, were driving through town in

pickups lined withTrump flags, Confeder-

ateflags and “Don’t Tread onMe”flags

featuringarattlesnakecoiled and ready to

strikeatgovernment intrusion.

Thecoronavirus pandemic had cleaved

neighborsinto camps for and against

masks.ApopularFacebook group featuring

wildlife photos and localevents had degen-

erated intoaforum for politics, bullying and

suspicion of the newpeople moving here.

TheOctober death by suicide of the ninth

local teenager in 16 months prompted offers

of counseling,trainingfor teachers and

visits from national suicide preventionex-

perts. But it also whiplashed into partisan

recriminations, as residents lashed out in

public forums againstthe superintendent of

SEEMONTANAONA

‘There’s no middle anymore’

Montanansusedtolive

and let live. Now

culturewarsandthe

pandemic have cleaved

acommunity.

TONY BYNUM FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

TheFlathead RepublicanPartyprocession downMain Street in Kalispelldurin gthe NorthwestMontana Fair in August.

JOSHUA LOTT/THE WASHINGTON POST

Khristie Brown toursasingle-familyhome developed byLawndale

ChristianDevelopmentCorpor ation inChica go.

BYKYLESWENSON

chicago —Fordecades,North
Lawndale has been slipping into
weedy neglect.
In 1966, the Rev. Martin Luther
KingJr.moved his wife and four
children intoadilapidated apart-
ment here to highlight housing
inequalities inNorthern cities.
Nearly 50 years later,when writer
Ta -Nehisi Coates wrote his influ-
ential essay, “The Case for Repa-
rations,”hestarted with thestory
of aNorthLawndale homeowner.
Today, the poverty rateistwice
thatoftherestofChicago, and

more than 2,000 lots in the neigh-

borhood arevacant, manywitha

clear viewofthecrowded down-

town skyline.

But earlier this year,twohous-

es were built on South Avers

Avenue, partofahomegrown

plan to challengemore than 40

years of public policyorthodoxy

that hasfavored renting over

owning for the working poor and

instead use homeownership as an

engine for economicstability.

Together,agroup of local resi-

dents and national organizers is

planning to build 1,000 units of

housing.With $12.5 million al-

readyraised and backing from

ChicagoMayor Lori Lightfoot, the

projecthas twomodel homes on

AversAvenue thatare apreview

of whatlocal organizers think will

transformNorthLawndale and

inner cities across the country.

Theidea has alreadyattracted the

attention of federal policymakers,

and backers are working toget

the necessaryfunding for such

projects included in the Biden

administration’s $3.5 trillion

Build Back Better Act.

But the projectalso needs to

sell working-class Americans

locked inagenerationalcycle as

renters —people likeArica

Weathers. Whatwas for sale here

wasn’t justahome but the idea of

homeownership.

A35-year-old college counselor

and single mother,Weathers

grewupintheneighborhood.As

achild, shefigured her family had

SEECHICAGOONA

In Chicago, trying to revitalize without gentrifying

North Lawndale tests

whether homeownership

can end cycle of poverty

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BYTONYROMM

Congressional Democratson
Tuesdaycontinued to clash over a
slewofpolicydisagreements that
havestalled roughly $3 trillion in
neweconomic spending initia-
tives,raising the prospectthat
President Biden could departfor
aforeign tour this week without a
long-sought deal in hand.
Twodaysbefore the planned
trip, party lawmakers in the na-
tion’s capitalstill had failed to
resolve some of their mostintrac-
table disputes.Ta lks continued
between Democrats’ warring
moderateand liberal factions,
but theystillappeared aparton
their plans toexpand health-care
coverage, investingreen energy,
provide paid leave to all Ameri-
cans and overhaul theU.S. tax
code.
One of their more audacious
ideas—anewtax targeting hun-
dreds of the country’stop billion-
aires—appeared in political lim-
bo as some Democratschampi-
oned it as acompromise and
othersraised early fears thatit
might be unworkable.Thelate-
stagescramble added to steep
task Democratsalready faced in
financing their newproposal,
which could be valuedat
$1.75 trillion.
Some Democratic leadersstill
insisted Tuesdaythattheyare
closer than theyseem onadeal. A
group of lawmakers—including
Sens. ElizabethWarren ofMassa-
chusettsandKyrsten Sinema of
Arizona—rallied behindanew
plan to finance the spending
throughanewminimum tax on
corporations. Some Democrats
hoped theycould seize on the
compromise to build more mo-
mentum, potentially opening the
door for Biden to achievealegis-
lative victorybefore he arrives in
Rome for theG-20 meeting of
world leaders on Saturdayfol-
lowed byatrip to Glasgow,Scot-
land, foraclimate summitaday
later.
SEESPENDINGONA

Splits on

Biden’s

agenda

persist

Democrats bedeviled by

details as president seeks

awin before foreign trip

BYNICKMIROFF

ANDMARIASACCHETTI

Immigration arrests in the in-

terior of theUnited States fell in

fiscal 2021 to the lowestlevel in

more thanadecade—roughly

half the annual totals recorded

during the Trump administra-

tion, according toU.S. Immigra-

tion and Customs Enforcement

data obtained byTheWashington

Post.

ICE arrests in the interior

plunged after President Biden

took office and setnewlimits on

immigration enforcement, in-

cluding a100-day“pause”on

mostdeportations. Afederal

judgequickly blocked thatorder,

and ICE’sarrests increased some-

whatinrecent months.

But enforcement levels under

Biden’s newprioritysystem re-

main relatively low.Officers

working for ICE’sEnforcement

and Removal Operations (ERO)

made about72,000 administra-

tive arrests during thefiscal year

thatended in September,accord-

ing to agencydata, down from

104,000 duringfiscal 2020 and an

averageof148,000 annually

from 2017 through 2019.

ERO administrative arrest

data is considered one of the best

gauges of ICE activitybecause

interior enforcement is entirely

SEEARRESTSONA

ICE arrests

inside U.S.

plunge in

fiscal 2021

Totals are lowest in over

adecade as agency shifts

from Trump-era focus

theorywas simple: Poststhat

prompted lots of reaction emoji

tendedtokeep usersmore en-

gaged, andkeeping users engaged

was thekeytoFacebook’sbusi-

ness.

Facebook’sown researchers

emotional and provocative con-

tent—includingcontent likely to

makethemangry. Starting in 2017,

Facebook’sranking algorithm

treated emoji reactions asfive

timesmorevaluable than“likes,”

internal documents reveal. The

sparked angryreaction emoji

were disproportionately likely to

include misinformation, toxicity

and low-qualitynews.

That means Facebook for three

years systematically amped up

SEEFACEBOOKONA

were quick to suspectacritical

flaw. Favoring “controversial”

posts—includingthosethatmake

users angry—could open“the

door to more spam/abuse/click-

bait inadvertently,” astaffer,

whose name was redacted,wrote

in one of the internal documents.

Acolleague responded, “It’spossi-

ble.”

Thewarning proved prescient.

Thecompany’sdatascientists

confirmed in 2019 thatposts that

BYJEREMYB.MERRILL

ANDWILLOREMUS

Five years ago,Facebook gave

its usersfive newwaystoreacttoa

postintheir newsfeed beyond the

iconic“like”thumbs-up:“love,”

“haha,”“wow,” “sad”and “angry.”

Behindthe scenes,Facebook

programmed the algorithm that

decides whatpeople see in their

news feeds to use the reaction

emoji as signalsto push more

Five points for anger, one for a‘like’

EMOJI WERE USED TO DRIVE ENGAGEMENT

Formula elevated misinformation, documents show

FACEBOOK UNDER FIRE

Eyes on the algorithm:How it

works and whyitisinfluential.A

‘Darker’content:Worker sfretted

that far-right sites benefited.C

Infighting:Medicare,Medicaid
proposals arestickin gpoints.A