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Remaining in office British Prime Minister

Boris Johnson survived a no-confidence vote

despite disgust over lockdown gatherings. A

2020 election A Trump campaign staffer told

fake electors in Georgia to keep their plan in

“complete secrecy,” an email shows. A

HEALTH & SCIENCE

‘Ghost forests’

In coastal North Carolina

and elsewhere on the

East Coast, climate

change is driving the

rapid loss of trees and

marshland. E

STYLE

Fits like a glove

Myles Frost hits it big

on Broadway, in the role

he was born to play:

Michael Jackson. C

In the News

THE NATION

Mexico’s president

said he doesn’t plan to

attend the Summit of

the Americas after Pres-

ident Biden refused to

invite three authoritari-

an countries. A

Officials in Arizona

are investigating after

police officers in Tempe

did not intervene as a

man drowned. A

THE WORLD

Dozens of people were

killed and hundreds in-

jured in a huge fire and

blast at a container de-

pot in Bangladesh. A

Russia escalated its as-

sault against Ukraine,

pummeling a city in the

east as it expanded sanc-

tions against those who

have condemned its ac-

tions. A

With pollution from

the shipping industry on

the rise globally, envi-

ronmental groups want

the Biden administra-

tion to act on its own. A

THE ECONOMY

Apple introduced two

MacBooks and several

other updates at its an-

nual Worldwide Devel-

opers Conference. A

JetBlue Airways raised

its offer for Spirit Air-

lines by $150 million,

hoping to persuade

shareholders to reject a

merger with rival Fron-

tier Airlines. A

The White House will

try to boost America’s

solar industry by tempo-

rarily exempting it from

tariffs on certain panels

made abroad. A

Elon Musk threatened

to back out of buying

Twitter, saying the com-

pany won’t reveal how

many fake accounts are

on its site. A

THE REGION

The Proud Boys’ leader

was charged with sedi-

tious conspiracy along

with four others in the

Capitol insurrection. B

The lone televised

debate of Maryland’s

Democratic candidates

for governor focused on

crime, education and

the economy. B

Remote work has been

a boon for suburban

developers, which are

adding co-working

spaces and high-speed

WiFi to attract the lap-

top crowd. B

Ilya Shapiro, who had

been hired to lead

Georgetown Law’s Cen-

ter for the Constitution,

resigned despite being

cleared in an investiga-

tion of his tweets. B

OBITUARIES

CIA whistleblower

David C. MacMichael,

93, made claims against

the Reagan administra-

tion f oreshadowing the

Iran-contra scandal. B

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The Washington Post / Year 145, No. 184

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BY ELLEN NAKASHIMA

AND CATE CADELL

China is secretly building a

naval facility in Cambodia for the

exclusive use of its military, with

both countries denying that is the

case and taking extraordinary

measures to conceal the opera-

tion, Western officials said.

The military presence will be on

the northern portion of Cambo-

dia’s Ream Naval Base on the Gulf

of Thailand, which is slated to be

the site of a groundbreaking cer-

emony this week, according to the

officials, who, like others, spoke

on the condition of anonymity

because of the matter’s sensitivity.

The establishment of a Chinese

naval base in Cambodia — only its

second such overseas outpost and

its first in the strategically signifi-

cant Indo-Pacific region — is part

of Beijing’s strategy to build a

network of military facilities

around the world in support of its

aspirations to become a true glob-

al power, the officials said.

China’s only other foreign mili-

tary base right now is a naval

facility in the East African coun-

try of Djibouti. Having a facility

capable of hosting large naval

vessels to the west of the South

China Sea would be an important

element of China’s ambition to

expand its influence in the region

and would strengthen its pres-

ence near key Southeast Asian sea

lanes, officials and analysts said.

“We assess that the Indo-

P acific is an important piece for

China’s leaders, who see the In-

do-Pacific as China’s rightful and

SEE CHINA ON A

China

building

a secret

navy base

CAMBODIA FACILITY

IS I N THE W ORKS

Officials say 2nd overseas

site fits global strategy

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BY PETER HERMANN

A D.C. police officer pulled
over the driver of a Pontiac
Bonne ville because it had license
plates registered to a different
type of car, then spotted an open
container of alcohol and ordered
its occupants to step outside.
A search turned up two silver
handguns — one, which was le-
gally registered, in the driver’s
pants; the other, which was not,
in a green and white bag in the
trunk.
Police arrested all four young
men who had been in the vehicle,
charging each with multiple gun
offenses.
But prosecutors soon dropped
the cases. According to police,
they wanted more evidence to
link the illegal gun in the trunk to
a specific person in the Bonne -
ville. Eight months after they
were taken into custody last fall,
those in the group remain un-
charged.
Officials across the country
have been under immense pres-
sure to curb gun crimes — even
before a gunman attacked and
killed 19 children and two teach-
ers last month in Texas, and
another gunman shot and killed
10 people in a Buffalo supermar-
ket less than two weeks before
that. Gun crimes have soared
across the country in recent
years, with the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention re-
SEE GUNS ON A

D.C. police

seize guns,

but charges

don’t stick

Prosecutions falter over

stops, searches and

strength of evidence

BY SCOTT WILSON

san francisco — Chesa Boudin
ducked into the Lucky Pork Store,
established in 1949, seeking
some help.
The district attorney is in trou-
ble. On Tuesday, he faces a recall
election a little more than half-
way into his first term, one
shaped by the pandemic and a
sense among this city’s often
fearful, always frustrated resi-
dents that his approach to pros-
ecution is too lax for the times.
In fluent Spanish, Boudin
made his pitch. “They are attack-
ing me,” he told Hipolito Barraza,
the store’s manager.
“With millions, I heard,” Barra-
za replied.
“We have less than one week,
and we need your support,” Bou-
din said.
“And then we work together,”
Barraza said with a smile.
This is what the stretch run to
SEE RECALL ON A

A liberal DA

is rocked by

shift in S.F.

voters’ moods

BY JEFF STEIN

AND TYLER PAGER

A breakthrough seemed close.

It was mid-December, and Presi-

dent Biden had been negotiating

for months with Sen. Joe Man-

chin III over Biden’s sweeping

plan to reconfigure the American

economy. House Democrats had

already approved $2 trillion for

Biden’s “Build Back Better” agen-

da, and pressure was mounting to

push the measure through the

more narrowly divided Senate.

But first Biden had to over-

come resistance from Manchin

(W.Va.), the Senate’s most con-

servative Democrat.

On Dec. 14, the pair seemed to

make progress. Manchin had of-

fered to support a $1.8 trillion

package, a step toward the White

House position, while Biden

agreed to jettison a budget gim-

mick that Manchin believed dis-

guised the true cost of the plan.

The tenor of their conversations

was “peachy,” according to one

person briefed on the talks, and

the two sides agreed to put out a

statement saying they would con-

tinue talking.

And then, incredibly, it all fell

apart.

The statement drafted by

White House aides two days later

named Manchin as the focus of

negotiations. White House aides

sent a draft of the statement to

Manchin’s office ahead of its re-

lease. Manchin’s chief of staff

responded by asking the White

House legislative director either

to remove the senator’s name or

to add Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-

Ariz.).

The White House issued the

statement anyway. The president

had personally signed off on it.

But Manchin exploded, texting a

senior Biden aide that the deci-

sion was “unconscionable and

SEE MANCHIN ON A

Inside t he Manchin-Biden rift and the Build Back Better talks

Collapse was months in the making

JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST

S en. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) on May 26. The split between him and President Biden mirrors

larger ideological fissures within the Democratic Party.

BY FRANCES STEAD SELLERS

M

allory Stanislawczyk was hesi-

tant to make the call. She

hadn’t spoken to her friend in

years. But the friend, who gets

around in a wheelchair, was the only

person the 34-year-old nurse practitio-

ner could think of who would under-

stand her questions. About being ready

to accept help. About using a wheelchair.

And about the new identity her battle

with long covid had thrust on her.

“I think she is the first person I said to,

‘I’m disabled now,’ ” Stanislawczyk re-

called telling the friend. “ ‘And I’m

working on accepting that.’ ”

The coronavirus pandemic has creat-

ed a mass-disabling event that experts

liken to HIV, polio or World War II, with

millions suffering the long-term effects

of infection with the virus. Many have

found their lives dramatically changed

and are grappling with what it means to

be disabled.

“It’s an entirely new identity,” Stanis-

lawczyk said.

The dramatic influx of newly disabled

Americans changes the calculus for dis-

ability advocates, who have in recent

years been uniting around a shared

SEE DISABILITIES ON A

Long covid could change

how we think about disability

Millions are coming to terms

with ‘an entirely new

identity,’ and advocates

are taking up their cause

MATT ROTH FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Mallory Stanislawczyk, 34, sits with

her daughter Olivia, 3, while receiving

a saline infusion last month at her

home in Walkersville, Md. She said

she’s “working on accepting” the fact

that long covid has left her disabled.

Primaries: Voters in California and
six other states go to the polls. A