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WASHINGTON — Trump ad-ministration officials on Wednes-day defended a new recommenda-tion that people without Covid-19symptoms abstain from testing,even as scientists warned that thepolicy could hobble an alreadyweak federal response as schoolsreopen and a potential autumnwave looms.

The day after the Centers forDisease Control and Preventionissued the revised guidance, there

were conflicting reports on whowas responsible. Two federalhealth officials said the shift cameas a directive to the Atlanta-basedC.D.C. from higher-ups in Wash-ington at the White House and theDepartment of Health and HumanServices.

Adm. Brett P. Giroir, the admin-istration’s coronavirus testingczar, called it a “C.D.C. action,”written with input from the agen-cy’s director, Dr. Robert R. Red-field. But he acknowledged thatthe revision came after a vigorousdebate among members of theWhite House coronavirus taskforce — including its newest mem-ber, Dr. Scott W. Atlas, a frequentFox News guest and a special ad-viser to President Trump.

“We all signed off on it, the docs,

Questions Swirl Around C.D.C.’s Shift on TestingBy SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Finger-Pointing on Who

Made the Decision

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KENOSHA, Wis. — The JusticeDepartment on Wednesday an-nounced a civil rights investiga-tion into the police shooting of aBlack man in Kenosha, Wis., asnew details emerged in the case, awhite teenager who confronteddemonstrators was arrested inconnection with two deaths, andprotests spread to athletes inthree pro sports leagues.

Protesters have poured into Ke-nosha’s streets to decry the shoot-ing of Jacob Blake, a Black fatherwho was partially paralyzed aftera white officer fired at him in frontof his children. The authorities re-leased new details of the case onWednesday that gave a clearerpicture of why police officers con-fronted Mr. Blake, who they saidhad a knife.

Amid the ire over the shootingof Mr. Blake, some in Kenoshahave torched buildings, and theauthorities have fired tear gas inan effort to clear the streets. Coun-terprotesters have also emerged,and gunfire broke out along onecrowded, dark street late Tuesday,sending bystanders fleeing intoparking lots and screaming in ter-ror.

The violence that broke outcame as demonstrators scuffledwith a group of men carrying longguns who said they were protect-ing the area from looting. The au-thorities were investigatingwhether the white teenager whowas arrested on Wednesday, iden-tified as Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, waspart of a vigilante group. His so-cial media accounts appeared toshow an intense affinity for guns,law enforcement and PresidentTrump.

The fatal shooting followed atense night of standoffs betweenthe police and demonstrators andescalated a situation that haddrawn the attention of Mr. Trump,who is in the third day of the Re-publican National Convention andhas sought to portray Democraticcities as rife with violence andcrime. Protests over the shootingof Mr. Blake also expanded tosports, where the N.B.A. post-poned multiple playoff games onWednesday after the MilwaukeeBucks boycotted their matchupwith the Orlando Magic.

Mr. Rittenhouse was arrested inAntioch, Ill., and faces a charge offirst-degree intentional homicide,according to a court documentfrom Lake County, Ill. Antioch isabout 30 minutes southwest of Ke-nosha, just over the Illinois line.Two men, a 26-year-old and a 36-year-old from Kenosha County

U.S. INVESTIGATESPOLICE SHOOTINGAS KENOSHA BOILS

NEW DETAILS RELEASED

Teenager Is Arrested inDeaths of Protesters

in Blake Case

By JULIE BOSMANand SARAH MERVOSH

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump moved within weeks oftaking office to prohibit immi-grants from Sudan from enteringthe United States, citing terrorismthreats and including it in his trav-el ban on some predominantlyMuslim countries — restrictionsthat remain partly in place today.

But on Tuesday, when Mr.Trump wanted to portray himselfas pro-immigrant, he invitedNeimat Abdelazim Awadelseid, aSudanese woman who had justqualified to become a U.S. citizen,and four others to a White Housenaturalization ceremony that hisre-election campaign featuredprominently during the Republi-can National Convention.

The president’s willingness touse the trappings of presidentialpower during a campaign conven-tion was a striking departure fromprevious presidents, who avoidedso blatantly blurring the lines be-tween official actions and politicalactivity. And Mr. Trump’s declara-tion that “we welcome five abso-lutely incredible new membersinto our great American family”stands in stark contrast to his anti-immigrant policies, often fueledby xenophobic language.

His decision to preside over thenaturalization ceremony ap-peared aimed at suburbanites,people of color and women put offby his usually strident talk.

Ms. Awadelseid, 66, a substituteteacher who works with Sudanesechildren in her suburban Virginiacommunity, said in an interviewthat “it is hard for my country” tobe subject to travel restrictionsbut that it was an honor to visit the

A ‘Welcome,’After 3 Years

Of ‘Stay Out’

By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGSand MICHAEL D. SHEAR

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John Geraghty, a 41-year-oldworker in a tractor factory, hasbarely paid attention to the presi-dential race or the conventions.Every day he focuses on survival:getting his son to sports practice,working at his job where he nowwears a mask, and getting hometo sleep, only to start over againthe next day.

But when he woke up on Mon-day morning to images of hishometown, Kenosha, Wis., inflames, he could not stop watch-ing. The unrest in faraway placeslike Portland, Ore., and Minneapo-lis had arrived at his doorstep, af-ter a white police officer on Sun-day shot a Black man in the backmultiple times. And after feeling“100 percent on the fence” aboutwho he will vote for in November,

he is increasingly nervous thatDemocratic state leaders seemunable to contain the spiraling cri-sis.

“It’s crazy that it’s now happen-ing in my home city,” he said. “Wehave to have a serious conversa-tion about what are we going to doabout it. It doesn’t seem like thepowers that be want to do much.”

The politically calculated warn-ings of President Trump and theRepublican Party about chaos en-veloping America should Demo-crats win in November are rever-berating among some people inKenosha, a small city in the south-

east corner of one of the most criti-cal states in this election, whereprotests have raged for a numberof increasingly combustiblenights.

While many demonstratorshave been peaceful, others haveset fire to buildings. At least fourbusinesses downtown have beenlooted. Men armed with gunshave shown up to confront pro-testers, leading to the shooting ofthree people, two of them fatally.On Wednesday, a white teenagerfrom across the state line in Illi-nois was arrested in connection tothe shooting, and Mr. Trumpvowed to send in federal law en-forcement and additional Na-tional Guard troops.

In Kenosha County, where thepresident won by fewer than 250votes in 2016, those who alreadysupported Mr. Trump said in inter-views that the events of the past

G.O.P. Warnings of Chaos Resound in WisconsinBy SABRINA TAVERNISE

and ELLEN ALMER DURSTONFires and Looting Push

Some in Swing StateCloser to Trump

Protesters confronting the police on Tuesday in Kenosha, Wis., after the shooting of Jacob Blake.ALYSSA SCHUKAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Girl Scouts GetA Fresh Look

Arrests swept up Ted Hui, a lawmaker,as officials tried to polish their imageamid a clampdown on dissent. PAGE A8

INTERNATIONAL A8-10

Hong Kong’s Push for ControlThe M.T.A. said it would have to cut busand subway service by 40 percent with-out $12 billion in federal aid. PAGE A4

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$1,000 Boost for Babies

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The Fed on Your Computer

Nicholas Kristof PAGE A26

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Stand Up NY is staging dozens of out-door shows a week across the city. Theperformances, though technically unau-thorized, raise the stakes for comediansand audiences alike. PAGE C1

Comedy in Parks, Not Clubs

The CreateNYC program increasedfunding for smaller neighborhood artsorganizations but never required insti-tutions to disclose demographic datathat would measure the results. PAGE C1

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Cloudy Progress on Diversity

This week’s one-two punch ofHurricane Laura and TropicalStorm Marco may be extraordi-nary, but the storms are just two ofnine to strike Texas and Louisianasince 2017 alone, helping to drive amajor federal change in how thenation handles floods.

For years, even as seas rose andflooding worsened nationwide,policymakers stuck to the beliefthat relocating entire communi-ties away from vulnerable areas

was too extreme to consider, an at-tack on Americans’ love of homeand private property as well as acostly use of taxpayer dollars.Now, that is rapidly changingamid acceptance that rebuildingover and over after successivefloods makes little sense.

The shift threatens to uprootpeople not only on the coasts butin flood-prone areas nationwide,potentially exacerbating racial in-equality while making the conse-quences of climate change evenmore painful for cities and townsalready squeezed financially.

This month, the Federal Emer-gency Management Agency de-tailed a new program, worth aninitial $500 million, with billionsmore to come, designed to pay forlarge-scale relocation nationwide.

Flood-Prone Communities Retreat to Drier LandBy CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE

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Sea Rising, U.S. Sourson Rebuild-in-Place

Republicans used the thirdnight of their convention onWednesday to amplify warningsof violence and lawlessness underDemocratic leadership, trying tocapitalize on the worsening unrestin Wisconsin to reclaim moderatevoters who might be reluctant tohand President Trump a secondterm.

The party also made appeals tosocial conservatives with attackson abortion and accusations thatthe Democrats and their nominee,Joseph R. Biden Jr., were “Catho-lics in name only.” And they inten-sified their effort to lift Mr.Trump’s standing among womenwith testimonials vouching forhim as empathetic and as a cham-pion of women in the workplace —from women who work for him, anumber of female lawmakers andhis daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.

Speaking hours after Gov. TonyEvers of Wisconsin called in theNational Guard to restore order toKenosha, Wis., where a police offi-cer shot a Black man this week,numerous Republicans led byVice President Mike Pence as-sailed Mr. Biden for what theyclaimed was his tolerance of thevandalism that has grown out ofracial justice protests, claimingthe country would not be safe withhim as president.

“Last week, Joe Biden didn’tsay one word about the violenceand chaos engulfing cities acrossthis country,” said Mr. Pence,standing before an array of Amer-ican flags at Fort McHenry in Bal-timore and vowing: “We will havelaw and order on the streets of thiscountry for every American of ev-ery race and creed and color.”

Gov. Kristi Noem of South Da-kota said that places like Seattle,Portland and other Democrat-runcities are being “overrun by vio-lent mobs.” She likened the vio-lence to the lead-up of the CivilWar and asserted that residents“are left to fend for themselves.”

Ms. Noem invoked a youngAbraham Lincoln, claiming hehad been “alarmed by the disre-gard for the rule of law throughoutthe country.’’

“He was concerned for the peo-ple that had seen their propertydestroyed, their families attackedand their lives threatened or eventaken away,” she said, adding“Sound familiar?”

The intense focus on the riotingamounted to an acknowledgmentby Republicans that they must re-frame the election to make urbanunrest central and shift attentionaway from the deaths and ill-nesses of millions of people fromthe coronavirus. Skirting the mostcomplex and trying issues of thepandemic, Mr. Pence, callingAmerica “a nation of miracles,”teased the prospect of a vaccine in

REPUBLICANS USELAW AND ORDERAS RALLYING CRY

A U.S. ‘OVERRUN’ BY MOBS

Attacks on Biden OverIssues of Religion and

National Security

By JONATHAN MARTINand ALEXANDER BURNS

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Vice President Mike Pence, in his convention speech in Baltimore on Wednesday night, accused Democrats of tolerating violence.DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES

REFUSAL TO PLAY Athletes acrosssports raised the stakes of a socialjustice movement. PAGE B9

A judge sent Brenton Tarrant to prisonfor life for killing 51 people at mosquesin Christchurch, New Zealand. PAGE A10

Punishment for a Massacre

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