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FAYSH KHABUR BORDERCROSSING, Iraq — The nineyoung mothers rushed into thespartan offices of a Syrian borderpost, looking for the sons anddaughters taken from them twoyears ago, children they thoughtthey would never see again.

The bewildered children,

dressed in new puffy jackets fromthe orphanage they had comefrom, were mostly too young to re-member their mothers. Theystarted to cry as the sobbing wom-en grabbed and kissed them andthen led them away from the or-phanage workers who were theonly caregivers they knew.

“I was so happy, but it was ashock for both of us,” said onemother, who said she had been

dreaming of seeing her daughteragain for nearly two years. “She isnot used to me yet.”

The girl was now 2 and a half.The secret operation on the Syr-

ian-Iraqi border last week, wit-nessed by journalists for The NewYork Times, was so far the only re-union of Yazidi women from Iraqand the children they had whilesexually enslaved and raped bytheir Islamic State captors.

The plight of these women, whosurvived almost unimaginablehorrors in five years of captivity, isone of the many tragic but least-known footnotes in the story of theIslamic State’s conquest of largeswaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014.

For them, the story is far fromover, their path forward still un-certain.

To the traumatized Yazidi com-

Yazidi Women Once Enslaved by ISIS Reunite With ChildrenBy JANE ARRAF

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VINCENT TULLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Broadway singers, dancers and actors returned to Times Square for a pop-up show. Page A20.Staging a RevivalBIG GOALS President Biden has

taken a risk by setting a high bar.White House Memo. PAGE A16

WASHINGTON — PresidentBiden, under intense pressure todonate excess coronavirus vac-cines to needy nations, moved onFriday to address the global short-age in another way, partneringwith Japan, India and Australia toexpand global vaccine manufac-turing capacity.

In a deal announced at the so-called Quad Summit, a virtualmeeting of leaders of the fourcountries, the Biden administra-tion committed to providing finan-cial support to help Biological E, amajor vaccine manufacturer in In-dia, produce at least 1 billion dosesof coronavirus vaccines by theend of 2022.

That would address an acutevaccine shortage in SoutheastAsia and beyond without riskingdomestic political blowback fromexporting doses in the comingmonths, as Americans clamor fortheir shots.

The United States has fallen farbehind China, India and Russia inthe race to marshal coronavirusvaccines as an instrument of di-plomacy. At the same time, Mr. Bi-den is facing accusations of vac-cine hoarding from global healthadvocates who want his adminis-tration to channel supplies toneedy nations that are desperatefor access.

Insisting that Americans comefirst, the president has so far re-fused to make any concrete com-

U.S. Takes StepTo Use VaccineFor Diplomacy

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERGand MICHAEL CROWLEY

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LAS VEGAS — Bobby Hernan-dez plans to spend his stimuluscheck on medication to managehis diabetes. Wilma Estrella willuse hers to pay the electricity bill.Lizbeth Ramos intends to catch upon the rent, though the money willnot be enough to cover all that sheowes.

They are hardly alone: Nostate’s work force has been bat-tered as badly by the coronaviruspandemic as Nevada’s, and peopleare especially struggling in LasVegas, a boom-and-bust citywhere tourist dollars and lavishtips have given way to shutteredhotels and weed-strewn parking

lots.It is hard to remember the level

of optimism and exuberance thatprevailed a year ago, as presiden-tial hopefuls traipsed through thestate for the Democratic cau-cuses. The economy had roaredback from the Great Recession,and it could seem that growth waslimitless.

Today, the grim desperation issoftened only by the hope that

vaccinations will bring touristseager to celebrate and spend.Though most casinos have re-opened, they have a small fractionof the tourists they once did. Manyrestaurants have shuttered theirdoors for good, and those that areopen are at limited capacity.

As a result, a year into the pan-demic, Las Vegas has the highestunemployment rate among largecities, with more than 10 percentout of work, according to the Bu-reau of Labor Statistics, and overthe last year, the work force in Ne-vada has lost more income than inany other state.

For many, the only thing thatcushioned the blow was the fed-

In Nevada, Relief Is Coming but May Fall ShortBy JENNIFER MEDINA A Hard-Hit Work Force

Awaits the Return of Gamblers

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Late Edition

VOL. CLXX . . . . No. 58,996 © 2021 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2021

The City of Minneapolis agreedon Friday to pay $27 million to thefamily of George Floyd, the Blackman whose death set off months ofprotests after a video showed awhite police officer kneeling onhis neck.

The payment to settle the fam-ily’s lawsuit was among the larg-est of its kind, and it came as theofficer, Derek Chauvin, was set togo on trial this month for chargesincluding second-degree murder.As the settlement was announcedby city officials and lawyers forMr. Floyd’s family, Mr. Chauvinsat in a courtroom less than a mileaway, where jurors were being se-lected for his trial.

Mayor Jacob Frey called theagreement a milestone for Minne-apolis’s future. Ben Crump, thecivil rights lawyer who is amongthose representing Mr. Floyd’sfamily, said it could set an exam-ple for other communities.

“After the eyes of the worldrested on Minneapolis in its dark-est hour, now the city can be a bea-con of hope and light and changefor cities across America andacross the globe,” he said.

But legal experts said theagreement might make it evenharder to seat an impartial jury inthe case against Mr. Chauvin,which was already a challenge be-cause of the attention given to Mr.Floyd’s death and the intensedemonstrations that followed. Inthe first four days of jury selectionthis week, nearly all of the poten-tial jurors said they had seen thevideo of his arrest, including allbut one of the seven selected forthe trial so far.

Mary Moriarty, the former chiefpublic defender in Minneapolis,said that the timing could hardlybe worse for the court case andthat Mr. Chauvin’s lawyers might

Minneapolis to Pay $27 MillionTo Settle George Floyd Lawsuit

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS and JOHN ELIGON

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Stephanie Miner is no friend ofAndrew Cuomo.

A onetime top Democratic offi-cial in New York and a formermayor of Syracuse, Ms. Miner hasspent years criticizing the gover-nor’s polarizing leadership style,even mounting a bid to unseat himin 2018. But as Mr. Cuomo fightsfor his job, facing growing calls byDemocratic lawmakers to resignover allegations of groping andsexual harassment, Ms. Minerisn’t quite ready to push him out.

“We have this culture now of pu-rity tests where there’s this in-stant gratification — are you onthe right side or the wrong side?”said Ms. Miner, who wants to waitfor an independent investigationinto the accusations, which shebelieves is the best way to addressbroader problems of sexual har-assment in Albany. “The answersand the solutions need to be morenuanced.”

Democrats are now confrontinga highly fluid, still-developing sit-uation in New York, with manyvoters appearing to share Ms.Miner’s caution about swiftly ex-pelling the governor. The gravityof the allegations increased thisweek when The Times Union ofAlbany reported a new accusationagainst Mr. Cuomo: that when hewas alone with a female aide in theExecutive Mansion last year, heclosed a door, reached under herblouse and began groping her. Hehas denied that he touched any-one inappropriately.

Support for Mr. Cuomo amongDemocratic politicians in NewYork has fallen away. On Fridayevening, the state’s senators,Chuck Schumer, the majorityleader, and Kirsten Gillibrand,called on him to resign, hours af-ter most of the other Democrats inNew York’s congressional delega-tion urged him to step down. A dayearlier, state Democratic officialstook the first step toward poten-tially impeaching Mr. Cuomo.

Public opinion could now shiftrapidly against Mr. Cuomo, but itis also clear that after a decadewith him as governor, many Dem-ocrats have found that sitting injudgment of him — and demand-ing a penalty like resignation —isn’t so simple.

For some, the question of Mr.Cuomo’s future has intensified aconversation that has been hap-pening within the party since Sen-

Party Struggles With#MeToo Moment

By LISA LERER

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Facing a deluge of calls to re-sign from New York’s U.S. sena-tors and the majority of its HouseDemocrats, Gov. Andrew M.Cuomo made clear on Friday hehad no intention of quitting, derid-ing the mounting pressure fromhis own party as “cancel culture”and insisting he would not bow toit.

The calls first came in a coordi-nated barrage of statements re-leased in the morning from morethan a dozen House members —most of the state’s Democratic del-egation — including Representa-tives Jerrold Nadler and Alexan-dria Ocasio-Cortez. The senti-ment was clear: Mr. Cuomo hadlost the capacity to govern andmust leave office.

By the end of the day, SenatorChuck Schumer, the majority

leader, and Senator Kirsten Gilli-brand had also called on Mr.Cuomo to step down.

“Due to the multiple, crediblesexual harassment and miscon-duct allegations, it is clear thatGovernor Cuomo has lost the con-fidence of his governing partnersand the people of New York,” thesenators said in a joint statementlate Friday afternoon. “GovernorCuomo should resign.”

It was a remarkable momentfor Mr. Cuomo, a third-term Dem-ocrat who won national acclaimlast year during the early monthsof the pandemic, but is now con-fronting multiple investigationsand the threat of impeachmentover a string of sexual har-assment allegations and his at-tempt to obscure the virus-relateddeath toll in nursing homes. Byday’s end, he was almost entirelyisolated.

CUOMO IS DEFIANTAS TOP DEMOCRATSTELL HIM TO RESIGN

2 U.S. Senators Joina Growing Chorus

By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍand JESSE McKINLEY

Gov. Andrew M. CuomoGABBY JONES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Conventional gas-powered vehicles arebecoming more reliable and thus lastinglonger. That will keep cleaner autosfrom ruling the road for a while, compli-cating climate policy. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

Electric Cars Wait Their TurnDescendants of a Black family who hada thriving resort taken away 100 yearsago may get the land back. PAGE A14

NATIONAL A14-21

Reclaiming Their Plot of BeachTHE WEEKEND

A fan applied to trademark the Cleve-land Spiders, which could be the nextname of the city’s baseball team. PAGE B7

SPORTSSATURDAY B7-9

Laying Claim to a NameYayi Bayam Diouf defied chauvinism tobecome her town’s first woman to workat sea. The Saturday Profile. PAGE A7

INTERNATIONAL A7-13

A Mother Fishes in Senegal

The men’s basketball teams of Kansasand Virginia each withdrew from theirconference tournaments. PAGE B9

Virus Eliminates 2 Top TeamsMexico is close to legalizing cannabis,but analysts warn that the economymay not see much of a lift. PAGE A10

Mexican Green Boom? The works in this edition of the DesertX biennial, scattered around PalmSprings, Calif., explore issues like landrights, water supply and more. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-7

Art Rooted in a Sense of Place

Jamelle Bouie PAGE A22

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

A provision in the relief package ismeant to prevent the use of stimulusfunds to fuel tax cuts. Republicans saythat is an infringement on sovereigntyand the budget process. PAGE B1

Aid for States, With StringsMembers of Congress are pushing toscale back security measures, as offi-cials balk, fearing new threats. PAGE A15

Chafing at Capitol Fences

Today, mostly sunny skies, breezy,cooler, seasonable, high 49. Tonight,clear, low 37. Tomorrow, mostlysunny, windy at times, high 53.Weather map appears on Page C8.

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