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In three shows, the Queens Museumstakes out its role in the life of the diverseresidents of its neighborhood. PAGE C1

WEEKEND ARTS C1-12

Post-Lockdown ExhibitionsTony La Russa, a 76-year-old Hall ofFamer, will manage the Chicago WhiteSox, who first hired him for that posi-tion in 1979. On Baseball. PAGE B8

SPORTSFRIDAY B8-10

A Disco-Era ComebackPresident Xi Jinping laid out plans forpost-pandemic China at a meeting ofthe Communist Party elite. PAGE A11

INTERNATIONAL A11-15

Xi Tightens Grip on Helm

The species, shielded by the U.S. sincethe 1960s, has rebounded, though criticssay the move is premature. PAGE A18

NATIONAL A18-28

Gray Wolves Lose ProtectionsRenowned for its efficient government,the Netherlands is humbled by a sky-rocketing infection rate. PAGE A5

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-10

Dutch Ask What Went Wrong

Cities are drawing connections betweenthe stresses of the coronavirus and asurge in homicides. PAGE A10

Virus Tied to Rise in MurdersThe worst fears about mail ballots haveso far been avoided, but many people arelining up at the polls anyway. PAGE A20

Postal Problems Worry Voters

Barack Obama’s memoir is landing. Soare a biography of Adrienne Rich and athriller by Jo Nesbo. PAGE C10

New Books to Watch For

David Brooks PAGE A31EDITORIAL, OP-ED A30-31

The pandemic has staggered both thefilm industry and small, independenttheaters like the Park Plaza Cinema inHilton Head Island, S.C. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-7

Fight to Save the Silver Screen

A drive to oust President Trump hasunified moderates and progressives. Butthey don’t agree on everything. PAGE B3

Democratic Divide on Trade

Bethune-Cookman, in Florida, canceledbasketball and other athletics throughspring because of the pandemic. PAGE B8

No Sports at a Division I College

Diane di Prima, a rare female voice inmale-dominated Beat circles, publishedsome 50 books. She was 86. PAGE A29

OBITUARIES A29, B11

Beat Poet and Barrier Breaker

MINOCQUA, Wis. — When co-ronavirus cases began to spike inWisconsin this fall, Rob Swearin-gen kept his restaurant open andlet customers and employees de-cide whether they wanted to wearmasks.

Mr. Swearingen, a Republicanseeking his fifth term in the Wis-consin State Assembly, didn’t re-quire other employees at hisrestaurant in Rhinelander to betested after a waitress and a bar-tender contracted the virus be-cause, he said, nobody from the lo-cal health department suggestedit was necessary.

Kirk Bangstad, Mr. Swearin-gen’s Democratic opponent, tookthe opposite approach at thebrewpub he owns in Minocqua, 30miles away. He has servedcustomers only outdoors, and

when a teenage waiter became in-fected after attending a party, Mr.Bangstad shut down for a longweekend and required all employ-ees to get tested.

Mr. Bangstad has since turnedhis entire campaign into a referen-dum on how Republicans havehandled the coronavirus. On Face-book, he has served as a townshamer, posting lists of restau-rants and stores in Wisconsin’sNorthwoods that have disre-garded state limits on seating ca-pacity and don’t require masks.

With just days until the election,the contest for Mr. Swearingen’s

As Deaths Soar in Wisconsin,Virus Is Political Dividing Line

By REID J. EPSTEIN Swing State’s ConflictsPlay Out Across U.S.

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BROWNSVILLE, Texas —When Senator Ted Cruz of Texasspoke with President Trump onthe phone last week, he congratu-lated the president on his debateperformance, nudged him to keepdriving policy-oriented attacksagainst his opponent, Joseph R.Biden Jr., and relayed one moremessage.

“We have a fight” in Texas, Mr.Cruz said he told Mr. Trump,warning him that the country’ssecond-largest electoral prize wasin play and that he should take itseriously. In an interview, Mr.Cruz said he expected the presi-dent to win here — but that he alsosaw the same surging liberal ener-gy in his state that had propelledBeto O’Rourke to a closer-than-expected defeat against him twoyears ago.

“There’s no doubt that it’s a realrace,” said the senator, echoing asimilar case Mr. O’Rourke madeto Mr. Biden earlier this month intheir own phone conversation.

But it’s not clear if Mr. Trump orMr. Biden fully believe it.

They may be on opposite sidesof the partisan divide, but TexasRepublicans and Democrats alikebelieve the long-awaited momenthas arrived: The state is a truepresidential battleground, and ei-ther candidate could prevail nextweek.

Although a Democrat has notcarried Texas since 1976, recent

‘We Have a Fight’: Big StakesBut Little Investment in Texas

By JONATHAN MARTIN G.O.P. Losing Groundin Largest Red State

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NICE, France — A terror attackthat killed three people in Nice onThursday left France increasinglyembattled at home and abroad, asthe government called for tough-ening measures against Islamistextremism, amid rising tensionswith Muslim nations.

A knife-wielding assailant lefttwo people dead in Nice’s tower-ing neo-Gothic basilica, includinga 60-year-old woman who wasnearly decapitated, and a thirdvictim died after taking refuge in anearby bar.

The attack in Nice came lessthan two weeks after the behead-ing of a teacher shook the nationand led to President EmmanuelMacron’s suggesting that Islamwas in need of an Enlightenment.

Jean-François Ricard, France’stop antiterrorism prosecutor, said

the suspected killer was aTunisian man, born in 1999, whohad entered France after arrivingin Italy on Sept. 20. He said theman, who was unknown to theFrench authorities, was arrestedafter lunging at police officerswhile yelling “Allahu akbar,” andwas hospitalized with seriouswounds.

“Very clearly it is France that isattacked,” Mr. Macron said aftertraveling quickly to Nice. Frenchauthorities placed a jittery coun-try on its highest terrorism threatlevel.

The government’s recent wordsand deeds have put it at odds withMuslims in France and abroad, in-cluding heads of state like Presi-dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan ofTurkey. What many French peo-

2 Islamist Terror Attacks Strain French Relations With Muslims

By NORIMITSU ONISHI and CONSTANT MÉHEUT

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TAMPA, Fla. — That old politi-cal heartbreaker, the presidentialbattleground of Florida, lured thetwo White House contenders tothe same city on Thursday, asPresident Trump and Joseph R.Biden Jr. confronted some of theirbiggest political vulnerabilities ina state that is once again shapingup as the most elusive prize innext week’s election.

Mr. Trump returned to one of

the tougher parts of the state forhim four years ago, Tampa, one ofthe few areas he lost to HillaryClinton in the vote-rich I-4 corri-dor. Now behind in the polls, thepresident sought again to winover independents and moderateswith a message about corruptDemocrats, an attack that he hashad difficulty making stickagainst the former vice president.

Mr. Biden, in turn, faces an in-creasingly urgent need to build uphis margins with Latinos, a di-verse demographic in Florida thathe has struggled to broadly galva-

nize so far. He made a blunt appealto Cuban-Americans and Vene-zuelan-Americans, remindingthem of human rights abuses inHavana and Caracas.

The rare convergence of the twomen on the same day — with Mr.Biden appearing at a drive-in rallyon Thursday night in Tampa —

was one of the clearest signs yetthat both candidates not only seetheir political fortunes tied to thestate but also are far from confi-dent that they are ahead here.Though Mr. Biden has gainedground with older voters whowere once part of Mr. Trump’sbase, the president is immenselypopular with the conservative Re-publican electorate in Florida.

As with Mr. Trump, it was un-clear if Mr. Biden’s message wouldresonate with enough voters to

Road to White House Crosses Central Florida, for a Day at LeastBy KATIE GLUECK

and PATRICIA MAZZEISeeking Advantage in a

Make-or-Break State

TAMPA, FLA. President Trump, with the first lady, Melania Trump, returned to one of the few areas of the state he lost in 2016.DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

COCONUT CREEK, FLA. In a Democratic stronghold, Joseph R. Biden Jr. delivered a tailored message intended to motivate Latinos.ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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WASHINGTON — Geoffrey S.Berman was outraged.

The top federal prosecutor inManhattan, Mr. Berman had trav-eled to Washington in June 2019 todiscuss a particularly delicatecase with Attorney GeneralWilliam P. Barr and some of histop aides: a criminal investigationinto Halkbank, a state-ownedTurkish bank suspected of vio-lating U.S. sanctions law by fun-neling billions of dollars of goldand cash to Iran.

For months, President RecepTayyip Erdogan of Turkey hadbeen pressing President Trump toquash the investigation, whichthreatened not only the bank butpotentially members of Mr. Erdo-gan’s family and political party.When Mr. Berman sat down withMr. Barr, he was stunned to bepresented with a settlement pro-posal that would give Mr. Erdogana key concession.

Mr. Barr pressed Mr. Berman toallow the bank to avoid an indict-ment by paying a fine and ac-knowledging some wrongdoing.

In addition, the Justice Depart-ment would agree to end investi-gations and criminal cases involv-ing Turkish and bank officials whowere allied with Mr. Erdogan andsuspected of participating in thesanctions-busting scheme.

Mr. Berman didn’t buy it.The bank had the right to try to

negotiate a settlement. But hisprosecutors were still investigat-

Trump Ties to Erdogan SnarledU.S. Inquiry Into Turkish Bank

By ERIC LIPTON and BENJAMIN WEISER

Prosecutors accused Halkbankof violating sanctions on Iran.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

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U.S. economic output increasedat the fastest pace on record lastquarter as businesses began to re-open and customers returned tostores. But the economy hasclimbed only partway out of itspandemic-induced hole, andprogress is slowing.

Gross domestic product grew7.4 percent in the third quarter, theCommerce Department saidThursday. The gain, the equiva-lent of 33.1 percent on an annu-alized basis, was by far the biggestsince reliable statistics began af-ter World War II.

The rebound was fueled in partby trillions of dollars in federal as-sistance to households and busi-nesses. That aid has since driedup, even as the recovery remainsfar from complete: The economyin the third quarter was 3.5 per-cent smaller than at the end of2019, before the pandemic. Bycomparison, G.D.P. shrank 4 per-cent over the entire year and ahalf of the Great Recession a dec-ade ago.

The report was the last major

piece of economic data before thepresidential election on Tuesday.President Trump’s campaignhailed the big gain as “absolutevalidation” of the administration’spolicies, while the campaign offormer Vice President Joseph R.Biden Jr. dismissed it as a “partialreturn” that was already fading.

Economists said the third-quar-ter figures revealed less about thestrength of the recovery thanabout the severity of the collapsethat preceded it. G.D.P. fell 1.3 per-cent in the first quarter and 9 per-cent in the second as the pan-demic forced widespread busi-ness closures. A big rebound wasinevitable once the economy be-gan to reopen. The challenge iswhat comes next.

“The reason we had such a bigbounce is that the economy went

U.S. ECONOMY GETSA STRONG BOUNCE

BUT FACES BUMPSFederal Aid Helps Drive Record Quarter

— Rally Shows Signs of Slowing

By BEN CASSELMAN

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VIRUS SPIKE The U.S. set a dailyrecord with at least 86,000 cases,topping 9 million over all. PAGE A6

Today, cloudy, windy, colder, rainending, snow north, west, high 43.Tonight, turning clear, cold, low 34.Tomorrow, sunny, but chilly, high 47.Weather map appears on Page A26.

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