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CASPER, Wyo. — Representa-tive Liz Cheney was holed up in asecure undisclosed location of theDick Cheney Federal Building, re-counting how she got an alarmedphone call from her father on Jan.6.

Ms. Cheney, Republican of Wyo-ming, recalled that she had beenpreparing to speak on the Housefloor in support of certifying Jo-seph R. Biden Jr.’s election aspresident. Mr. Cheney, the formervice president and his daughter’sclosest political adviser, consultedwith her on most days, but thistime was calling as a worried par-ent.

He had seen President DonaldJ. Trump on television at a rallythat morning vow to get rid of “theLiz Cheneys of the world.” Her

floor speech could inflame ten-sions, he told her, and he feared forher safety. Was she sure shewanted to go ahead?

“Absolutely,” she told her father.“Nothing could be more impor-tant.”

Minutes later, Mr. Trump’s sup-porters breached the entrance,House members evacuated andthe political future of Ms. Cheney,who never delivered her speech,was suddenly scrambled. Herpromising rise in the House,which friends say the former vicepresident had been enthusiasti-cally invested in and hoped mightculminate in the speaker’s office,had been replaced with a very dif-ferent mission.

“This is about being able to tellyour kids that you stood up anddid the right thing,” she said.

Ms. Cheney entered Congressin 2017, and her lineage always en-sured her a conspicuous profile,although not in the way it hassince blown up. Her campaign todefeat the “ongoing threat” and“fundamental toxicity of a presi-

Once Royalty, Cheney Is G.O.P.’s Lonely WarriorBy MARK LEIBOVICH

Representative Liz CheneySTEFANI REYNOLDS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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As the national economy recov-ers from the pandemic and beginsto take off, New York City is lag-ging, with changing patterns ofwork and travel threatening theengines that have long poweredits jobs and prosperity.

New York has endured deeperjob losses as a share of its workforce than any other big Americancity. And while the country has re-gained two-thirds of the positionsit lost after the coronavirus ar-rived, New York has recoupedfewer than half, leaving a deficit ofmore than 500,000 jobs.

Restaurants and bars are fillingup again with New Yorkers eagerfor a return to normal, but scarsare everywhere. Boarded-upstorefronts and for-lease signs dotmany neighborhoods. Emptysidewalks in Midtown Manhattanmake it feel like a weekend in mid-week. Subway ridership on week-days is less than half the level oftwo years ago.

The city’s economic plightstems largely from its heavy reli-ance on office workers, businesstravelers, tourists and the servicebusinesses catering to all of them.All eyes are on September, whenmany companies aim to bringtheir workers back to the officeand Broadway fully reopens, at-tracting more visitors and theirdollars. But even then, the re-bound will be only partial.

The shift toward remote workendangers thousands of busi-nesses that serve commuters whoare likely to come into the officeless frequently than before thepandemic, if at all. By the end ofSeptember, the Partnership forNew York City, a business advoca-cy group, predicts that only 62percent of office workers will re-turn, mostly three days a week.

Restoring the city to economichealth will be an imposing chal-lenge for its next mayor, who islikely to emerge from the Demo-cratic primary on Tuesday. Thecandidates have offered differingvisions of how to help strugglingsmall businesses and create jobs.

“We are bouncing back, but weare nowhere near where we werein 2019,” said Barbara Byrne Den-ham, senior economist at OxfordEconomics. “We suffered morethan everyone else, so it will take alittle longer to recover.”

At 10.9 percent in May, the city’sunemployment rate was nearly

NEW YORK TRAILSREST OF THE U.S.IN VIRUS REBOUND

ECONOMIC SCARS LINGER

Businesses Challenged byDearth of Commuters

and Visitors

This article is by Nelson D.Schwartz, Patrick McGeehan andNicole Hong.

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More than seven years afterone of the nation’s wealthiest menstepped down as New York City’smayor and was replaced by a suc-cessor who shunned the rich, bil-lionaires have re-emerged as a po-tent force in the mayor’s race.

Together, billionaires havespent more than $16 million thisyear on super PACs that are pri-marily focused on the mayoral pri-mary campaign that ends onTuesday — the first mayoral elec-tion in the city’s history to featuresuch loosely regulated organiza-tions devoted to individual candi-dates.

Overall, super PAC spending inthe mayor’s race has exceeded$24 million, according to the NewYork City Campaign FinanceBoard, making up roughly 30 per-cent of the $79 million spent on thecampaign.

The impact has been dramatic:a deluge of campaign mailers andpolitical ads on radio, televisionand the internet, especially in re-cent weeks, as the unusually largefield of Democratic candidatesvied to win over an electorate dis-tracted by the pandemic.

Dedicated super PACs exist forall but one of the eight major Dem-ocratic candidates, but half of thebillionaires’ spending has bene-fited just three of the field’s moremoderate contenders: Eric Ad-ams, the Brooklyn borough presi-dent who is considered the front-runner; Andrew Yang, the 2020presidential candidate and a toprival; and Raymond J. McGuire, aformer Citigroup executive whotrails in the polls.

At least 14 individuals thatForbes magazine has identified asbillionaires have donated to may-oral-related super PACs. Severalrun companies that are headquar-tered in New York City, while oth-ers have interests that would ben-efit from a good relationship withCity Hall, and they are hedgingtheir bets in an apparent effort toimprove their chances of backingthe winner.

Steven A. Cohen, the hedgefund billionaire who owns theMets, donated $500,000 to Mr.Yang’s super PAC and $500,000 toMr. Adams’s in mid-May, when thetwo candidates were leading thepolls. But as Mr. Yang’s supportappeared to wane and Mr. Ad-ams’s grew, Mr. Cohen cut off Mr.Yang and donated another $1 mil-lion to Mr. Adams.

A similar trajectory character-izes the giving patterns of DanielS. Loeb, another hedge fund bil-lionaire and an outspoken sup-porter of charter schools and for-mer chairman of Success Acad-emy Charter Schools. He donated

Piles of MoneyPaving the PathTo a Mayoralty

Billionaires Buoy NewYork’s Moderates

This article is by Dana Rubin-stein, Jonah E. Bromwich and KatieGlueck.

ERIC ADAMS The front-runner visited a Brooklyn church Sunday.JAMES ESTRIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES

KATHRYN GARCIA Taking a yoga break in Times Square.MICHELLE V. AGINS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

ANDREW YANG Greeting voters at a festival in the Bronx.ANDREW SENG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

MAYA WILEY Hula-hooping at a festival in Brooklyn.HILARY SWIFT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Aswar raged in northern Ethiopiaand the region barreled toward itsworst famine in decades, a seniorAmerican envoy flew to the Ethi-opian capital last month in thehope of persuading Prime Min-ister Abiy Ahmed to pull his coun-try out of a destructive spiral thatmany fear is tearing it apart.

Mr. Abiy, though, wanted to gofor a drive.

Taking the wheel, the Ethiopianleader took his American guest,the Biden administration's Hornof Africa envoy, Jeffrey D. Felt-man, on an impromptu four-hourtour of Addis Ababa, American of-ficials said. The prime ministerdrove him past smart new city

parks and a refurbished centralplaza and even crashed a weddingwhere the two men posed for pho-tos with the bride and groom.

Mr. Abiy’s attempt to changethe channel, showcasing eco-nomic progress while parts of hiscountry burned, was just the lat-est sign of a troubled trajectorythat has baffled international ob-servers who wonder how they gothim so wrong.

Not long ago, Mr. Abiy, whofaces Ethiopian voters on Monday

in long-delayed parliamentaryelections, was a shining hope forcountry and continent. After com-ing to power in 2018, he embarkedon a whirlwind of ambitious re-forms: freeing political prisoners,welcoming exiles home fromabroad and, most impressively,striking a landmark peace dealwith Eritrea, Ethiopia’s old foe, ina matter of months.

The West, eager for a glitteringsuccess story in Africa, waswowed, and within 18 months Mr.Abiy, a onetime intelligence offi-cer, had been awarded the NobelPeace Prize.

But in just nine months, Mr.Abiy’s halo has been shattered.The civil war that erupted in thenorthern region of Tigray in No-

War Blots Out Nobel Halo of Ethiopia’s PremierBy DECLAN WALSH Leader Faces Vote Amid

Famine and Claimsof Atrocities

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WASHINGTON — Pope Fran-cis and President Biden, both lib-erals, are the two most high-pro-file Roman Catholics in the world.

But in the United States, neitherof these men is determining the di-rection of the Catholic Church. It isnow a conservative movementthat decides how the CatholicChurch asserts its power in Amer-ica.

That reality was unmistakablydeclared last week, when thecountry’s bishops voted over-whelmingly to draft guidelines forthe Eucharist, advancing a con-servative push to deny Mr. Bidencommunion over his support forabortion rights.

“There is a special obligation ofthose who are in leadership be-cause of their public visibility,”Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, whoheads the diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend in Indiana, said afterthe vote.

It was the most dramatic exam-ple of the conservative Catholicmovement’s reach since Mr. Bidenwas elected. But the contingenthad been gaining strengththroughout the Trump era, clash-ing with the Vatican, wresting in-fluence away from Pope Francis’top representatives in the United

Bishops’ VoteAgainst BidenReveals Reach

By ELIZABETH DIASand RUTH GRAHAM

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PHOENIX — As the sun rose onanother day of record-breakingheat, Juan Gutierrez and his con-struction crew were alreadysweating through their long-sleeve shirts. It was 91 degrees,and workers in a subdivisioncalled Desert Oasis were racing tonail together the wooden skele-tons of $380,000 homes that hadsold before they were even built.

“Your skin falls off, you have tocover up everything,” said Mr. Gu-tierrez, 22, who has been undocu-mented since he came to theUnited States as a 4-year-old. “It’swork you have to do. You have nochoice.”

Across the West, housing mar-kets and temperatures are bothscorching hot. A punishing springof drought, wildfires and record-shattering heat is amplifyingquestions about the habitability ofthe Southwest in a rapidly warm-ing climate. But it has done little toslow the rapid growth of cities likePhoenix, where new arrivals arefueling a construction frenzy — aswell as rising housing costs that

Juan Gutierrez struggles with the Arizona heat at construction sites that creep into the desert.JUAN ARREDONDO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

For Builders, Hot Phoenix Market Feels Like 115°By JACK HEALY Housing Crunch Keeps

Crews Toiling in Sun

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Roneline Ramoutarsingh’s third gradersin Salem, Mass., navigated a year ofloss and resilience. PAGE A16

NATIONAL A11-17

How Covid Shaped Her Class

Some independent shops flout the newlimits on free expression. For readers,the stores offer a sense of connection ina politically muted city. PAGE A8

Selling Books in Hong Kong

Antibody testing after vaccination isgenerally not recommended. But forsome people, it makes sense. PAGE A17

Wondering if the Shot Worked?

Charles M. Blow PAGE A19

OPINION A18-19George Stranahan, a millionaire in-volved in fields ranging from craft beerto activism, has died at 89. PAGE B6

OBITUARIES B6-7

Physicist Who Ran a Tavern

The rock band Maneskin found fame inItaly on “The X-Factor.” But the Eurovi-sion contest — and a post-show drugscontroversy — put the group in front of a global audience PAGE C1

Next Challenge: The WorldWith different priorities as the pan-demic eases, workers are leaving theirjobs in record numbers. PAGE B1

Millions Say: ‘I Quit’

The country’s most significant col-lection of Shaker objects, out of publicview for a decade, will relocate to an $18million museum complex designed byAnnabelle Selldorf. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-6

A Movement’s TreasuresThe accident in a Soviet lab and a sub-sequent cover-up have renewed rele-vance as scientists search for the ori-gins of Covid-19. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-10

Revisiting an Anthrax Leak

Mucormycosis has sickened formerCovid patients nationwide. Hospitalsdesperate to keep virus patients alivemay have left them vulnerable. PAGE A6

‘Black Fungus’ Strikes India

When Tucker Carlson, a proud traitor tothe elite political class, is not denouncingthe liberal media, he’s trading gossipwith them. Ben Smith writes. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-5

A Double-Edged Source

Jon Rahm. above, birdied the final twoholes at Torrey Pines to defeat LouisOosthuizen by a shot for his first majorgolf championship. PAGE D1

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Spaniard Wins the U.S. Open

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