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Kathy Hochul was to be swornin as governor early Tuesday.
GABRIELA BHASKAR/THE NEW YORK TIMES
On his last day in office, Gov.Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, athree-term Democrat once envi-sioned as a national standard-bearer for his party, appearedalone.
Abandoned by virtually everypolitical ally he once had, the gov-ernor held no public event onMonday, confining his lone ap-pearance to a prerecordedfarewell address where he defi-antly cast his resignation as theunavoidable outcome of a rush tojudgment on sexual harassmentallegations made against him.
Mr. Cuomo, seated by himselfand staring into a camera, charac-terized a damning 165-page reportby the state attorney general’s of-fice as a “political firecracker onan explosive topic,” forcing hisresignation and clearing the wayfor his lieutenant governor, KathyHochul, to succeed him.
Ms. Hochul takes over as gover-nor on Tuesday, becoming the first
Cuomo DefiantAnd All AloneIn Final HoursBy LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ
and KATIE GLUECK
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WASHINGTON — The Foodand Drug Administration on Mon-day granted full approval toPfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirusvaccine for people 16 and older, adecision that is likely to set off acascade of vaccine requirementsby hospitals, colleges and univer-sities, corporations and other or-ganizations.
Within hours, the Pentagon,CVS, the State University of NewYork system and the New YorkCity school system, among others,announced that they would en-force mandates they had pre-pared but made contingent on theF.D.A.’s action.
The approval came as the na-tion’s fight against the pandemichas intensified again, with thehighly infectious Delta variant bit-ing deeply into the progress thatthe country had made over thefirst half of the year. The Biden ad-ministration hopes the develop-ment will motivate at least someof the roughly 85 million Ameri-cans who are eligible for shots buthave so far rejected them tochange their minds.
The regulatory move goes astep beyond the emergency useauthorization that the agencygranted in December. More than92 million people have alreadybeen fully vaccinated since thenwith Pfizer doses. Some who haverejected the vaccines, expressing
fears that they are experimental,have said they wanted to wait un-til the agency spent more timestudying their safety and fully ap-proved them.
In a roughly 10-minute addresson the approval, President Bidensaid it should sweep away any lin-gering doubts about vaccines andspur more mandates. Appealingto corporate, state and local lead-ers, he said: “Do what I did lastmonth. Require your employeesto get vaccinated or face strict re-quirements.” In late July, he an-nounced that all federal employ-ees and on-site contractors mustbe vaccinated against the virus orbe required to submit to regulartesting and other measures.
Mr. Biden tried to cast theF.D.A. approval as an example ofhow his administration was mak-ing headway against the pan-demic, despite overflowing inten-sive care units in some states andan average of more than 1,000lives a day lost. He said the deathtoll, while rising, was still farlower than it was last winter, be-cause more than nine in 10 olderAmericans are now vaccinated.
With the F.D.A. yet to authorizea vaccine even on an emergencybasis for children under 12, Mr. Bi-den also tried to reassure anxiousparents about the growing num-ber of children who are getting in-
MANDATES ON WAY AS PFIZER VACCINEGETS FULL U.S. NOD
F.D.A. Approval Paves Way for Colleges,Hospitals and Corporations to Act
By SHARON LaFRANIERE and NOAH WEILAND
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SAN FRANCISCO — When Al-ice Zhang set out in 2018 to raisefunding for her drug discoverystart-up, investors kept askingher about Theranos, the bloodtesting start-up led by the entre-preneur Elizabeth Holmes thathad collapsed in scandal.
Others asked, too. At a StanfordUniversity event, the organizerswanted Ms. Zhang to talk aboutTheranos. One adviser told herthat when her start-up came up inconversation, people respondedby cracking jokes about Ms.Holmes.
Ms. Zhang was initially con-fused. Her start-up, Verge Ge-nomics, uses artificial intelligenceto aid the discovery of therapeuticdrugs. That was completely differ-ent from Theranos’s business ofmarketing blood testing machinesas a diagnostic tool. Ms. Holmeshad also been accused of criminalfraud. Ms. Zhang had not.
But the pattern was clear. WhenVerge Genomics raised fundinglater that year, a prominent indus-try columnist wrote an article thatcompared Ms. Zhang to Ms.Holmes. Although the compar-isons dissipated as her start-uphas grown, Ms. Zhang, 32, said shehears the same stories from otherfemale founders today, eventhough “I could see no similaritybesides the fact that we’re bothwomen in the hard-sciencespace.”
A generation of female en-trepreneurs — particularly thosein life sciences, biotechnology andhealth care — is still operating inthe shadow of Ms. Holmes.Though Theranos shut down in2018, Ms. Holmes continues to
Holmes LegacyHaunts WomenAtop Start-Ups
By ERIN GRIFFITH
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WAVERLY, Tenn. — With flood-waters rising rapidly, 15-year-oldLily Bryant and her older sistermanaged to find some wooden de-bris to cling to, but it offered onlyshort-term relief. The makeshiftraft hit a tree and split in two.
“Lily went one way and her sis-ter went the other way, and no onehas seen her since,” said TarryLynn Gillinger Holderman, Lily’saunt. “She was washed away be-cause the current was so strong.”
Lily’s sister, Kailynne, 19, madeit to safety; Lily is missing.
Kailynne, Ms. Holderman said,is devastated. “She blames her-self.”
The scale of the destructionfrom the weekend’s storm in Ten-nessee came into grim relief onMonday, as emergency workersand those who escaped the worstspent the day searching for lovedones. At least 21 people were con-firmed dead and about 10 othersremained missing, officials said,in catastrophic flash flooding thatclimate scientists warned wouldbecome only more common.
“This is exactly the type ofevent we expect to see with in-creasing frequency in a warmingclimate,” said Gary Lackmann, aprofessor of atmospheric scienceat North Carolina State Univer-sity.
The Tennessee disaster came
just days after at least five peoplewere killed in flash floods in NorthCarolina in the wake of TropicalDepression Fred. Extraordinaryfloods in Germany, which sent wa-ter crashing through the streets inJuly, caused widespread devasta-
tion.Some scientists caution, howev-
er, that it can be difficult to deter-mine whether climate change isthe driving force behind any indi-vidual flood or is responsible formaking it more catastrophic, in-
cluding this week in Tennessee.Flooding is a result both of heavyrainfall and of the way water ismanaged — through dams, leveesor retention ponds — as well as alandscape’s hydrology, the way
Tennesseans in Anguish as Flood Tears Homes and Friends AwayThis article is by Rick Rojas, Win-
ston Choi-Schagrin and TariroMzezewa.
Some Middle Tennessee residents were bewildered at the disaster’s scope and still tallying its toll.HOUSTON COFIELD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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As a desperate U.S. effort toevacuate Americans from Af-ghanistan gained momentum onMonday, Taliban leaders rejecteda suggestion from President Bi-den that American forces mightremain past an Aug. 31 deadline tocomplete the operation, injectingfresh urgency into an alreadyfrantic process.
American officials are increas-ingly worried that even with thevast number of Afghans, Ameri-cans and people of other national-ities evacuated in recent days — atotal of about 10,400 people in the24 hours from Sunday to Mondayalone, according to the WhiteHouse — many still remain to berescued. In recent days, that oper-ation has increasingly focused onthe Americans still left, over theAfghans who worked with theUnited States.
On Monday, a State Depart-ment official said that some for-mer Afghan military interpretersor other close U.S. allies, a desig-nated priority group for evacua-tions, were being turned awayfrom the airport by American offi-cials in order to give priority toU.S. passport and Green Cardholders in recent days. The officialwas not authorized to brief thepress, and spoke on condition ofanonymity.
The official’s account was sup-ported by interviews with Af-ghans who have approached theairport in recent days, and withAmerican veterans’ groups andother organizations that havetried to organize evacuations forinterpreters and other Afghans atrisk from the Taliban.
On Monday night, the State De-
Taliban Demand August PulloutAs the U.S. Rushes to Evacuate
By MARK LANDLER and MEGAN K. STACK
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VAN, Turkey — In the days be-fore the Taliban took Kabul, an Af-ghan woman was doubled oversobbing on a bench in a bus stationin eastern Turkey, her childrenwailing at her feet.
Fourteen Turkish security andmigration officials swooped downon her and other Afghan asylumseekers as our reporting team wasinterviewing them, part of an in-tensive crackdown by Turkey toapprehend Afghans crossing fromIran by the thousands and to pre-vent journalists from reporting ontheir plight. As her husband triedto gather their belongings, thewoman clutched her stomach andretched. After prolonged ques-tioning, they were escorted to apolice vehicle.
“We came out of despair,” an-other Afghan, Gul Ahmad, 17, said.“We knew if the Taliban had taken
over they would kill us — either infighting or they would recruit us.So this was the better option forthe family.”
Even before the past week’sharrowing scenes of Afghansthronging the Kabul airport to es-cape the Taliban, many thousandshad been steadily fleeing theircountry over land, making theirway some 1,400 miles across thelength of Iran to the Turkish bor-der. Their own desperate efforts toescape the Taliban have playedout in quieter, though no lesspainful, tableaus at remote bordercrossings like the one in the east-ern city of Van.
In recent months, as the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan wascollapsing, 30,000 Afghans wereleaving Afghanistan every week,not all but many across the Irani-
A 1,400-Mile Trek to TurkeyOnly to Be Told to Turn Back
By CARLOTTA GALL
An Afghan family in Turkey. The family crossed illegally from Iran and was sent back. Thousands of Afghans have met a similar fate.NICOLE TUNG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
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REQUIREMENT In a shift, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York will orderall Department of Education employees to be vaccinated. PAGE A12
More than 20 members of the far-rightgroup face charges tied to Jan. 6, butmembers have mobilized again. PAGE A8
NATIONAL A8-13
Proud Boys Still RoamThe Paralympics, which begin Tuesdayin Tokyo, have had a surge in interestfrom fans and in TV exposure. PAGE B6
SPORTS B6-8
An Afterthought No MoreAn exhibition that places 78 fiberglasscows throughout New York City may bescaled down from 21 years ago, but it isstill delighting passers-by. PAGE C5
ARTS C1-6
A Stampede of Art
Online classes helped many studentswith disabilities get an education. Theywant the option to continue. PAGE D1
SCIENCE TIMES D1-8
An Upside to Remote Learning
Michelle Goldberg PAGE A17
OPINION A16-17
As cases of the coronavirus continueto rise, remote work is being extendedfor many workers. That has madesome employees increasingly eagerto return to their cubicles. PAGE B1
Pining Anew for the Office
The problems ailing so many compa-nies may only get worse heading intothe holidays, as delays continue to snarlglobal trade and shipping prices jumpeven higher. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-5
Supply Chain in Disarray
Rod Gilbert, who spent 18 seasons withthe team and is still its only player withover 400 goals, died at 80. PAGE B8
He Was Simply Mr. Ranger
Climate change increases the likelihoodof downpours like the ones in Germanyand Belgium, scientists say. PAGE A4
Warmer Europe, Worse Floods
Jews who pray at the mount say theyare exercising their right to free wor-ship. But the change upsets a dealaimed at avoiding conflict. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-7
Quiet Shift on Temple Mount
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo commuted thesentence of David Gilbert, a participantin the infamous 1981 robbery. PAGE A9
Leniency for Brink’s Driver
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Upper Midwest: Partly sunny, hotand humid. Strong afternoon thun-derstorms with damaging windgusts. Highs in upper 80s north to90s south. Weather map, Page A18.
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