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BRITTAINY NEWMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was kept to one block of 34th Street, left, and lacked last year’s crowds, right. Page A10.One Year, So Many Changes

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In the now-distant Republicanpresidential primaries of 2016,Senator Ted Cruz of Texas handilywon the Iowa caucuses. This wasdetermined by a method that haslately come under attack but atthe time was considered stand-ard: elementary math.

One of the losers in Iowa, the de-veloper and television personalityDonald J. Trump, soon accusedMr. Cruz of electoral theft. He firedoff several inflammatory tweets,including this foreshadowing ofour current democracy-testingmoment: “Based on the fraudcommitted by Senator Ted Cruzduring the Iowa Caucus, either anew election should take place orCruz results nullified.”

The episode vanished in thetsunami of political vitriol to comeduring the Trump presidency.Still, it reflects what those who

have worked with Mr. Trump sayis his modus operandi when try-ing to slip the humiliating epithethe has so readily applied to others.

Loser.“The first thing he calls some-

one who has wronged him is aloser,” said Jack O’Donnell, whoran an Atlantic City casino for Mr.Trump in the 1980s. “That’s hismain attack word. The worst thingin his world would be to be a loser.To avoid being called a loser, hewill do or say anything.”

Across his long career, he hasspun, cajoled and attacked — inthe press, in lawsuits and lately, ofcourse, on Twitter — wheneverfaced with appearing as anythingless than the superlative of themoment: the greatest, the smart-est, the healthiest, the best. Thishas at times required audacious

To the Very End, a PresidencyHaunted by One Word: Loser

By DAN BARRY

Continued on Page A22

SARAH PABST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

People in Argentina and all across Latin America rememberedDiego Maradona as a soccer star and a hero of the left. Page A11.

A Legacy Larger Than the Field

At lunchtime on Oct. 28, ColleenCargill was in the cancer center atthe University of Vermont Medi-cal Center, preparing patients fortheir chemotherapy infusions. Anew patient will sometimes beteary and frightened, but thenurses try to make it welcoming,offering trail mix and a warmblanket, a seat with a view of agarden.

Then they work with extremeprecision: checking platelet and

white blood cell counts, measur-ing each dosage to a milligram persquare foot of body area, beforesettling the person into a port andhooking them up to an IV.

That day, though, Ms. Cargilldid a double-take: When she triedto log in to her work station, it

booted her out. Then it happenedagain. She turned to the system ofpneumatic tubes used to trans-port lab work. What she saw therewas a red caution symbol, a circlewith a cross. She walked to thebackup computer. It was down,too.

“I wasn’t panicky,” she said,“and then I noticed my cordlessphone didn’t work.” That was, shesaid, the beginning of the worst 10days of her career.

Cyberattacks on America’shealth systems have become theirown kind of pandemic over the

past year as Russian cybercrimi-nals have shut down clinical trialsand treatment studies for the co-ronavirus vaccine and cut off hos-pitals’ access to patient records,demanding multimillion-dollarransoms for their return.

Complicating the response,President Trump last week firedChristopher Krebs, the director ofCISA, the cybersecurity agencyresponsible for defending criticalsystems, including hospitals andelections, against cyberattacks,after Mr. Krebs disputed Mr.

Patients Put at Risk as Russian Hackers Sabotage U.S. HospitalsBy ELLEN BARRY

and NICOLE PERLROTHWave of Recent Attacks

May Be Retaliation,Experts Say

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ALBANY, N.Y. — As the corona-virus pandemic has deepened anddarkened in recent months, thenation’s governors have taken in-creasingly aggressive steps tocurb the current surge of infec-tions, with renewed and expandedrestrictions reaching into people’shomes, businesses, schools andplaces of worship.

Many of these rules, often en-acted by Democratic officials andenforced through curfews, clo-sures and capacity limits, havebeen resisted by some membersof the public, but largely upheld bythe courts.

Late Wednesday night, though,the U.S. Supreme Court forcefullyentered the arena, signaling that itwas willing to impose new con-straints on executive and emer-gency orders during the pan-demic, at least where constitu-tional rights are affected.

In a 5-4 decision, the courtstruck down an order by Gov. An-drew M. Cuomo that had re-stricted the size of religious gath-erings in certain areas of NewYork where infection rates wereclimbing. The governor had im-posed 10- and 25-person capacitylimits on churches and otherhouses of worship in those areas.

The decision seemed to signalthat some governmental efforts tostem the pandemic had over-reached, impinging on protectedfreedoms in the name of public

Rebuke to States onReach of Power

By JESSE McKINLEYand LIAM STACK

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WASHINGTON — A few min-utes before midnight on Wednes-day, the nation got its first glimpseof how profoundly PresidentTrump had transformed the Su-preme Court.

Just months ago, Chief JusticeJohn G. Roberts Jr. was at thepeak of his power, holding the con-trolling vote in closely dividedcases and almost never findinghimself in dissent. But the arrivalof Justice Amy Coney Barrett latelast month, which put a staunchconservative in the seat formerlyheld by the liberal mainstay, Jus-tice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, meantthat it was only a matter of timebefore the chief justice’s leader-ship would be tested.

On Wednesday, Justice Barrettdealt the chief justice a body blow.She cast the decisive vote in a 5-to-4 ruling that rejected restric-tions on religious services in NewYork imposed by Gov. Andrew M.Cuomo to combat the coronavirus,shoving the chief justice into dis-sent with the court’s three remain-ing liberals. It was one of six opin-ions the court issued on Wednes-day, spanning 33 pages and open-ing a window on a court in turmoil.

The ruling was at odds with ear-lier ones in cases from Californiaand Nevada issued before JusticeGinsburg’s death in September.Those decisions upheld restric-tions on church services by 5-to-4votes, with Chief Justice Robertsin the majority. The New York de-

TRUMP APPOINTEESSHOW THEIR CLOUTIN RULING ON VIRUS

Justices Scrap Limitson Congregations

By ADAM LIPTAK

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BOGOTÁ, Colombia — A littleboy charges along the highway,his red plastic shoes glowing inthe twilight. The suitcase he pullsweighs almost as much as he does.A truck throttles by, threatening toblow him off his feet. But Se-bastián Ventura, who at just 6 hasalready taken on the role of familycheerleader, urges his family on.

“To Venezuela!” he shouts.His mother, four months preg-

nant, rushes to keep up. There arehundreds of people on the high-way that night, all Venezuelanswho had fled their country’s col-

lapse before the pandemic andfound refuge in Colombia. Now, af-ter losing their jobs amid the eco-nomic crash that followed the vi-rus, they are trying desperately toget back home, where at least theycan rely on family.

The global health crisiswrought by the coronavirus hasplayed out most visibly in hospi-tals and cemeteries, its devastat-ing toll clocked in cases anddeaths, its aftermath tracked inlost work and shuttered busi-nesses.

But a second, less visible aspectof the catastrophe has unfolded onthe world’s highways, as millionsof migrants — Afghans, Ethi-opians, Nicaraguans, Ukrainians

and others — have lost work intheir adopted countries andheaded home.

The fortunate ones have found ahaven upon return. But manyhave run out of money along theway, have been rejected at bordercrossings or have arrived in war-torn countries only to find theirpast lives burned to the ground.

And so they have kept on mov-ing.

International aid groups havebegun to call these people the pan-demic’s “stranded migrants” —men, women and children whohave been trying to get homesince the virus began to spread.The International Organizationfor Migration said recently there

are at least 2.75 million of them.Among the most affected have

been Venezuelans, who even be-fore the pandemic formed one ofthe largest migration waves in theworld. As the oil-rich nation crum-bled in the grip of its authoritarianleader, Nicolás Maduro, hungerbecame widespread and nearlyfive million people fled.

But when the virus hit, Vene-zuelans living abroad were oftenthe first to lose jobs in theiradopted nations, the first to beevicted from pay-per-day apart-ments in cities like Lima, Quitoand Bogotá, Colombia’s capital.

In the first months of the pan-demic, more than 100,000 Vene-

Venezuelans making their way back home on a road leading out of Bogotá, Colombia, where the pandemic has taken away jobs.FEDERICO RIOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Empty Pockets and No Home After 1,500 MilesPandemic Puts Venezuelan Mother and Son on Endless Trek Between 2 Countries

By JULIE TURKEWITZand ISAYEN HERRERA

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Long pushed into vacant lots and sidestreets, skaters are getting more urbanspace at just the right time. PAGE A18

An Escape to the Grind

The number of coronavirus cases hasincreased tenfold over the past monthin the western New York city and itssuburbs, alarming officials. PAGE A4

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-10

Buffalo Reels Under 2nd WaveThe Bidens’ German shepherds will joina list of White House pets that haven’talways barked or meowed. PAGE A17

NATIONAL A17-23

All the President’s OpossumsThe American Dream complex in NewJersey began opening in 2019 afteryears of delays. But the pandemicstalled its larger unveiling. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

‘Dream’ Mall Reopens, SlowlyThe sentences were for defendantsconvicted of plotting or participating inan unsuccessful coup attempt againstPresident Recep Tayyip Erdogan fourand a half years ago. PAGE A13

INTERNATIONAL A11-16

337 Life Terms in Turkey

Gov. Philip D. Murphy wants childrenback in class. But officials at the locallevel have different ideas. PAGE A10

Split Over New Jersey SchoolsIn China, the supposed wisdom of build-ing huge statues in poorer areas toincrease tourism is coming under harshscrutiny. PAGE B1

Tourist Traps Amid Poverty

Britain and the European Union don’ttrust each other much, and interna-tional banks in London are beingcaught in the middle. PAGE B1

Global Banks Feeling Pinch

The European Union’s border agencyhas been complicit in Greece’s illegalpractice of pushing migrants back toTurkey, according to documents andinterviews with officials. PAGE A12

Cover-Up at E.U. Alleged

WEEKEND ARTS C1-16

David Brooks PAGE A24

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25The news about Lamar Jackson, theN.F.L.’s 2019 M.V.P., threatened to upendBaltimore’s game on Sunday. PAGE B8

SPORTSFRIDAY B7-8

Ravens’ Jackson Has the Virus

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Today, periodic clouds and sunshine,unseasonably mild, high 60. To-night, partly cloudy, low 48. Tomor-row, partly sunny, still rather mild,high 56. Weather map, Page B11.

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