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The first explosions rang out af-ter 1 a.m., shattering the calm inthe neighborhood that was hometo President Jovenel Moïse andmany of Haiti’s most affluent citi-zens.

Residents immediately fearedtwo of the terrors that haveplagued the nation — gang vio-lence or an earthquake — but bydawn, a much different reality hademerged: The president wasdead.

A group of assailants hadstormed Mr. Moïse’s residence onthe outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, early Wednesday,shooting him and wounding hiswife, Martine Moïse, in what offi-cials called a well-planned opera-tion that included “foreigners”who spoke Spanish.

In a televised broadcast to thenation, the nation’s interim primeminister, Claude Joseph, appealedfor calm and presented himself asthe new head of the government,announcing that he and his fellowministers had declared a “state ofsiege” and placed Haiti under aform of martial law.

The assassination left a political

void that deepened the turmoiland violence that have grippedHaiti for months, threatening totip one of the world’s most trou-bled nations further into lawless-ness.

While the details of who shot thepresident and why remained un-known, four people suspected ofbeing involved in the assassina-tion were killed by the police in agun battle and two others were ar-rested, Haiti’s police chief saidlate Wednesday. The chief, LéonCharles, also said that three policeofficers who had been heldhostage were freed.

“The police are engaged in abattle with the assailants,” he saidat a news conference, noting thatthe authorities were still chasingsome suspects. “We are pursuingthem so that, in a gunfight, theymeet their fate or in gunfight theydie, or we apprehend them.”

In recent months, protestershad taken to the streets to demandMr. Moïse step down in February,five years after his election, atwhat they deemed was the end ofhis term.

Armed gangs have taken great-er control of the streets, terroriz-ing poor neighborhoods and send-

CRISIS GRIPS HAITIAS ATTACKERS KILLPRESIDENT IN HOME

4 Suspects Dead and 2 in Custody AfterBattle With Police, Officials Say

This article is by Catherine Porter,Michael Crowley and ConstantMéheut.

President Jovenel Moïse, who was assassinated on Wednesday.DIEU NALIO CHERY/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Richard Williamson, 86, wasrushed from a Florida jail to a hos-pital last July. Within two weeks,he had died of Covid-19.

Hours after Cameron Melius,26, was released from a Virginiajail in October, he was taken byambulance to a hospital, where hedied. The coronavirus, the au-thorities said, was a contributingfactor.

And in New York City, JuanCruz, 57, who fell ill with Covid-19while in jail, was moved from ahospital’s jail ward into its regularunit before dying.

None of these deaths have beenincluded in official Covid-19 mor-tality tolls of the jails where themen had been detained. And thesecases are not unique. The NewYork Times identified dozens ofpeople who died under similar cir-cumstances but were not includedin official counts.

In some cases, in places includ-ing Texas, Ohio and California,deaths were added to facilities’ vi-rus tolls after The Times broughtmissing names to the attention ofofficials. In other cases, people

Covid’s True TollIn U.S. PrisonsTough to GaugeThis article is by Maura Turcotte,

Rachel Sherman, Rebecca Gries-bach and Ann Hinga Klein.

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WASHINGTON — When SteveAdler, the mayor of Austin, heardthe Biden administration plannedto give billions of dollars to statesand localities in the $1.9 trillionpandemic aid package, he knewexactly what he wanted to do withhis cut.

The remarkable growth of theTexas capital, fueled by a technol-ogy boom, has long been shad-owed by a rise in homelessness, solocal officials had already cobbledtogether $200 million for a pro-gram to help Austin’s 3,200 home-less people. When the relief pack-age passed this spring, the citygovernment quickly steered 40percent of its take, about $100 mil-lion, to fortify that effort.

“The inclination is to spreadmoney around like peanut butter,so that you help out a lot of peoplewho need relief,” Mr. Adler, a Dem-ocrat, said in an interview. “Butnobody really gets all that theyneed when you do that.”

The stimulus package thatPresident Biden signed into law inMarch was intended to stabilizestate and city finances drained bythe coronavirus crisis, providing

Local LeadersProve Inventive

As Aid ArrivesBy GLENN THRUSH

and ALAN RAPPEPORT

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The morning after winning theDemocratic nomination for mayorof New York City, Eric L. Adamson Wednesday asserted that hehad won a mandate to address theurgent struggles of America’s ur-ban working class.

As he appeared at a parade cel-ebrating essential workers andtoured morning television newsshows, Mr. Adams, a former policecaptain who would be the city’ssecond Black mayor, sought to ce-ment his image as a man who un-derstands what it is to fear bothgun violence and police miscon-duct. It was one thing to theorizeabout solving problems of injus-tice and inequality, he suggested.It was another to experience themas a working-class person of colorin New York.

“Finally one of your own is go-ing to understand,” Mr. Adamssaid to a throng of health careworkers at a parade.

If Mr. Adams sounded, in thatmoment, like a political outsider, itis because for many years he wasmore iconoclast than institution-alist.

Mr. Adams was the rebel policeofficer who agitated against policemisconduct from within the force,eventually rising to captain. Hewas the borough president who at-tracted more attention for quirkystunts — displaying drowned ratsat a news conference to draw at-tention to a vermin problem, forinstance — than for his record on

land use policy. And he was theBrooklyn mayoral candidate wholost out on first-place endorse-ments from prominent Brooklyn-area members of the New Yorkcongressional delegation.

But in other ways, Mr. Adamsemerged in the mayoral contest assomething of an establishmentfigure, earning the support ofleading labor unions; lockingdown key party officials, includingtwo fellow borough presidents;and building an old-school Demo-

cratic coalition that attractedworking-class Black and Latinovoters and some moderate whitevoters.

He was among the most mes-sage-disciplined candidates in therace, repeatedly declaring thatpublic safety was the “prerequi-site” to prosperity, a pitch that be-came increasingly resonant amida spike in violent crime. And heused his personal story of over-coming poverty and police vio-lence to emerge as a credible mes-senger on urgent issues of safety,justice and inequality.

“We don’t live in theory,” saidthe Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rightsleader who has known Mr. Adams

A Political Outsider Mastered the Inside GameThis article is by Katie Glueck,

Dana Rubinstein and Jeffery C.Mays.

Adams Aimed Messageat Working Class

Eric L. Adams said at a parade for essential workers in Manhattan on Wednesday, “Finally one of your own is going to understand.”GABRIELA BHASKAR/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Source: New York City Board of Elections

How Ranked-Choice Tabulations Led to the Winner

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Adams

Wiley

Yang

Stringer*

Morales*McGuire*Donovan

Garcia

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*Three candidates were eliminated after the fifth round.

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Bill Gates and Melinda FrenchGates have at times referred tothe foundation they establishedtogether as their “fourth child.” Ifover the next two years they can’tfind a way to work together fol-lowing their planned divorce, Mr.Gates will get full custody.

That was one of the most impor-tant takeaways from a series ofannouncements about the futureof the world’s largest charitablefoundation made on Wednesdayby its chief executive, Mark Suz-man, overshadowing an injectionof $15 billion in resources that will

be added to the $50 billion previ-ously amassed in its endowmentover two decades.

“They have agreed that if aftertwo years either one of them de-cides that they cannot continue towork together, Melinda will resignas co-chair and trustee,” Mr. Suz-man said in a message onWednesday to employees of theBill and Melinda Gates Founda-tion. If that happened, he added,

Ms. French Gates “would receivepersonal resources from Bill forher philanthropic work” separatefrom the foundation’s endowment.

The money at stake under-scores the strange mix of publicsignificance — in global health,poverty reduction and genderequality, among other importantareas — and private affairs thatattends any move made by thefirst couple of philanthropy, evenafter the announcement of theirsplit. The foundation plans to addtrustees outside their close circle,a step toward better governancethat philanthropy experts hadurged for years.

The Gates Foundation Avoids a Custody FightBy NICHOLAS KULISH A Power Couple Seeks

to Secure a Charity

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The extraordinary heat wavethat scorched the Pacific North-west last week would almost cer-tainly not have occurred withoutglobal warming, an internationalteam of climate researchers saidWednesday.

Temperatures were so extreme— including readings of 116 de-grees Fahrenheit in Portland,Ore., and a Canadian record of 121in British Columbia — that the re-searchers had difficulty sayingjust how rare the heat wave was.But they estimated that in any giv-en year there was only a 0.1 per-cent chance of such an intenseheat wave occurring.

“Although it was a rare event, itwould have been virtually impos-sible without climate change,”said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh ofthe Royal Netherlands Meteoro-logical Institute, who conductedthe study with 26 other scientists,part of a collaborative groupcalled World Weather Attribution.

If the world warms another 1.5degrees Fahrenheit, which couldoccur this century barring drasticcuts in greenhouse-gas emissions,similar events would not be sorare, the researchers found. Thechances of such a severe heatwave occurring somewhere in theworld would increase to as muchas 20 percent in a given year.

“For heat waves, climatechange is an absolute gamechanger,” said Friederike Otto, ofOxford University in England, oneof the researchers.

Alexander Gershunov, a re-search meteorologist at theScripps Institution of Oceanogra-phy in San Diego, said the findingswere in keeping with what isknown about the effects of globalwarming on heat waves.

“They are the extreme weathermost affected by climate change,”said Dr. Gershunov, who was notinvolved in the study.

Temperature records for citiesand towns in the region were bro-ken, and by a much larger marginthan the researchers had everseen in a heat wave. Given that,they also raised the possibilitythat the world was witnessing achange in how the warming cli-mate behaved. Perhaps, they said,

Rare Heat SeenAs Proof EarthIs Warming Up

By HENRY FOUNTAIN

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England ended a 55-year wait for aplace in a major final with an extra-timevictory against Denmark. PAGE B7

SPORTSTHURSDAY B7-10

England in a Final, Finally

The nation’s Constitutional Court hadfound Jacob Zuma, a former president,guilty of contempt for failing to cooper-ate in a corruption inquiry. PAGE A8

INTERNATIONAL A4-9

Zuma Arrested in South AfricaThe film festival opened with a five-minute standing ovation for the AdamDriver-Marion Cotillard musical “An-nette,” along with parties that lasteduntil the early morning. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-6

Cannes Comes Back to LifeA new generation of fashion-consciousyoung men is using the app to teach oneanother all about clothes — how tomake them, what designers matter andhow to put together good looks. PAGE D1

THURSDAY STYLES D1-6

Like the Look? Thank TikTok.

Protests against President MahmoudAbbas of the Palestinian Authority havebeen harshly suppressed. PAGE A4

Crackdown in West Bank

After Beijing removed it from appstores, the ride-hailing platform couldface scrutiny even in the U.S. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

Didi Faces Regulatory Woes

Robots can write the lyrics, but canthey sing them? At the A.I. Song Con-test, tracks exploring the technology asa tool for making music revealed thepotential — and the limitations. PAGE C1

It Might Sound a Little Tinny

Gail Collins PAGE A23

OPINION A22-23

At parks and bars, people who mighthave hesitated to shake hands a fewmonths ago are now publicly makingout as New York rebounds. PAGE D5

A City of Cuddles and Kisses

Saying there was “zero chance of sur-vival,” search crews in Surfside, Fla.,shifted to recovery mode. PAGE A16

NATIONAL A10-19

Rescue Effort Ends at Condo

Those who fought for South Vietnamafter the U.S. left in 1975 see parallels inthe U.S. exit from Afghanistan. PAGE A10

A Pullout’s Painful EchoesTampa Bay captured its second straightStanley Cup, defeating Montreal, 1-0, towin the finals in five games. PAGE B9

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