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WASHINGTON — Prospectsfor any additional stimulus to ad-dress the coronavirus pandemic’sdevastating toll before the elec-tion darkened considerably onThursday, when a whittled-downRepublican plan failed in the Sen-ate on a partisan vote.

Democrats voted unanimouslyto block the proposal from ad-

vancing, calling it inadequate tomeet the mounting needs for fed-eral aid, in the latest indication of alack of political will to reach anagreement, even as critical fed-eral aid for individuals and busi-nesses has run dry.

It was a nearly party-line votewhose outcome was never indoubt. The proposal amounted toa fraction of the $1 trillion plan Re-publicans had offered in negotia-tions with Democrats, who in turn

are demanding more than twiceas much.

A failure to compromise wouldleave millions of jobless Ameri-cans in potentially dire straits, asthey exhaust traditional joblessbenefits and states run out of addi-

tional funds that President Trumpsteered to the unemployed by ex-ecutive order last month. It wouldalso strand a wide swath of smallbusiness owners who have en-dured steep drops in revenue asthe pandemic chilled economic ac-tivity, with little prospect of a re-turn to normal levels for monthsto come.

“Along with a pandemic ofCovid-19, we have a pandemic of

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Booms and busts and scamsand panics have changed WallStreet in many ways over the dec-ades, but one thing has stubbornlyremained the same: The top jobshave always gone to men. Now,that last citadel is about to fall.

Come February, Jane Fraserwill become the first woman tolead a major financial institutionin the United States when shetakes the reins at Citigroup, thecountry’s third-largest bank. Ms.Fraser, who has been at Citi for 16years and runs its biggest globaldivision, the consumer bank ca-tering to individual customers,will succeed Michael Corbat aschief executive.

“It’s about time,” said HeidiMiller, a former top executive atJPMorgan Chase who was onceseen as a potential successor toJamie Dimon, the bank’s longtimechief executive. “Kudos to Citi forrecognizing the talent and givingher the opportunity and letting

her grow,” Ms. Miller said, addingthat she was “ecstatic.”

Ms. Fraser’s ascension isgroundbreaking on Wall Street,which has never quite shaken offits longstanding reputation as aboys’ club, with men dominatingthe upper ranks of banks andother financial firms, despite ef-forts to recruit and promote morewomen. At a hearing of the HouseFinancial Services Committee inApril 2019, one lawmaker asked

Citigroup Names Female Chief,Breaching a Wall Street Barrier

By EMILY FLITTERand ANUPREETA DAS

Jane Fraser is expected to takeover at Citigroup in February.

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A series of fires at the Moria camp, Europe’s largest, displaced nearly 12,000 migrants. Page A11.Calamity in Greece

On Martin Luther King’s Birth-day in January 2017, Donald J.Trump, then the president-elect,welcomed a group of civil rightsleaders, led by Dr. King’s eldestson, into his office in Trump Tower.

After a tour of Mr. Trump’s ce-lebrity curio collection (ShaquilleO’Neal’s sneakers, size 22, were ahighlight), the visitors presentedhim with a proposal intended toprevent state voter identificationlaws from disenfranchising peo-ple of color.

The delegation had low expec-tations. Mr. Trump had champi-

oned the lie that President BarackObama was not born in Americaand, in their view, played to racialfears during the 2016 campaign.He quickly dashed even thosemodest hopes. Low turnoutamong Black voters, Mr. Trumpdeclared, had helped him defeatHillary Clinton.

“Many people didn’t go out —

many Blacks didn’t go out — tovote for Hillary because they likedme. That was almost as good asgetting their vote,” Mr. Trumpsaid, lowering his voice to say theword “Blacks,” on a recording pro-vided by a meeting participantand confirmed as authentic bythree others. (A White Housespokesman did not dispute the ve-racity of the recording.)

Mr. Trump promised he wouldseriously consider their proposal.It went nowhere.

“I will be better to the African-American people than anybodyelse in this room,” he declared just

When Trump Talks Race, Photo Ops Come FirstBy GLENN THRUSH Shunning Substance in

Encounters WithBlack Leaders

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The Russian military intelli-gence unit that attacked the Dem-ocratic National Committee fouryears ago is back with a series ofnew, more stealthy hacks aimed atcampaign staff members, consult-ants and think tanks associatedwith both Democrats and Republi-cans.

That warning was issued onThursday by the Microsoft Corpo-ration, in an assessment that is farmore detailed than any yet madepublic by American intelligenceagencies.

The findings come one day aftera government whistle-blowerclaimed that officials at the WhiteHouse and the Department ofHomeland Security suppressedintelligence concerning Russia’scontinuing interference because it“made the president look bad,”and instructed government ana-lysts to instead focus on interfer-ence by China and Iran.

Microsoft did find that Chineseand Iranian hackers have been ac-tive — but often not in the wayPresident Trump and his aideshave suggested.

Federal officials insisted thatthe Microsoft report was consis-tent with their own warnings,which named Russia, China andIran as three nations seeking togather information from the cam-paigns, and perhaps try to influ-ence the outcome. But the most re-cent assessment by the director ofnational intelligence, last month,also said China preferred that for-mer Vice President Joseph R. Bi-

Stark WarningAbout HackingOf Both Parties

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Workers in London’s financial districtare slow to return, and the small shopsthat rely on them are hurting. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-7

Cost of Empty Offices in U.K.A sexual abuse case shows how the citycouncilor Alice Coffin, above, differswith Mayor Anne Hidalgo. PAGE A12

INTERNATIONAL A9-13

Rift Between Paris Feminists

With rinks closed and cold weather stillfar off, Ice Theater’s stars are puttingon inline skates and taking to the city’sstreets and other paved spaces. PAGE C1

WEEKEND ARTS C1-12

Gliding One Way or AnotherIn a clash over reopening schools, theIowa city is sticking with remote learn-ing, saying the state’s governor is push-ing it to risk public safety. PAGE A6

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-8

Des Moines Defies Governor

Diana Rigg became a star portrayingEmma Peel in the ’60s and, later in hercareer, found new fans on “Game ofThrones.” She was 82. PAGE B12

OBITUARIES B11-12

Angel of ‘The Avengers’The Biden team hit President Trumpover minimizing the virus’s risk, and thepresident tried to shift blame. PAGE A16

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Candidates Duel Over Virus

With pledges of a coronavirus vaccine,China is on a mission to repair strainedties with other countries. PAGE B1

Beijing’s New Charm Offensive

The N.F.L. opened its season on Thurs-day as scheduled, but the sport is likelyto look, feel and sound different duringthe pandemic. We explain what fansshould expect. PAGE B9

Football Is Back, and Bizarre

David Brooks PAGE A22

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23A birder has turned a confrontation inCentral Park into a graphic novel spot-lighting police brutality. PAGE A20

Exposing Racism With ArtThe new blaze was in a storage hangarin the port, which was rocked lastmonth by a lethal explosion. PAGE A9

Another Fire Terrifies Beirut

SAN FRANCISCO — Multiplemega fires burning more thanthree million acres. Millions ofresidents smothered in toxic air.Rolling blackouts and triple-digitheat waves. Climate change, inthe words of one scientist, issmacking California in the face.

The crisis facing the nation’smost populous state is more thanjust an accumulation of individualcatastrophes. It is also an exampleof something climate expertshave long worried about, butwhich few expected to see sosoon: a cascade effect, in which aseries of disasters overlap, trig-gering or amplifying each other.

“You’re toppling dominoes inways that Americans haven’timagined,” said Roy Wright, whodirected resilience programs forthe Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency until 2018 and grewup in Vacaville, Calif., near one ofthis year’s largest fires. “It’s apoc-alyptic.”

The same could be said for theentire West Coast this week, toWashington and Oregon, wheretowns were decimated by infernosas firefighters were stretched totheir limits.

California’s simultaneous crisesillustrate how the ripple effectworks. A scorching summer led todry conditions never before expe-rienced. That aridity helped makethe season’s wildfires the biggestever recorded. Six of the 20 largestwildfires in modern California his-tory have occurred this year.

If climate change was a some-what abstract notion a decadeago, today it is all too real for Cali-fornians. The intensely hot wild-fires are not only chasing thou-

DISASTROUS WAVEOF CLIMATE EVENTS

SLAMS CALIFORNIAScientists Fear Fires

Are Just the Start

By THOMAS FULLERand CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE

Sean Mann, 15, whose familywas evacuated, in Canby, Ore.

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MOLALLA, Ore. — As wildfiresbegan consuming communitiesacross Oregon this week, leadersat the state emergency manage-ment office fired off an email tocounterparts around the country,pleading for 10 firefighting striketeams that could bring 50 extraengines to the region.

The state got one commitment:Utah would send a team with fiveengines.

Facing a historic year of wild-fire destruction across the WestCoast, including more than threemillion acres consumed in Califor-nia, the national emergency sys-tems that rely on state-to-state as-sistance have been buckling un-der the strain. That has left emer-gency responders struggling tokeep pace with fires that have de-stroyed entire towns and led to atleast 15 deaths, with seven morepeople found dead on Thursdayfrom a fire north of Sacramento.

“I don’t know that we have anyfires where we can say we havegot enough resources to do whatwe need to do,” Andrew Phelps,the director of the Oregon Office ofEmergency Management, said.

Fires continued to rage insouthern Oregon, where hun-dreds of homes have been razed,as well as east of Salem, wheretwo bodies have been found, andalong the state’s coast. More than900,000 acres have burned, nearlydouble a typical season. Hundredsof thousands of people have beenordered to evacuate, includingparts of the Portland suburbs,where fires were still on the move.

In California, firefighters con-tinued to battle the blazes of a re-markable wildfire season, includ-ing the August Complex burningin the Mendocino National Forestthat is now the largest fire in thestate’s recorded history.

In Washington, hundreds ofhomes and other structures wereat risk of wildfires that continuedto burn, even as a deadly stretchof dry winds from the east beganto ease. Hilary Franz, the state’scommissioner of public lands, saidthe state was searching for helpfrom elsewhere in the country.

“California, Oregon, Washing-ton, we are all in the same soup ofcataclysmic fire,” said Washing-ton’s governor, Jay Inslee.

As Northwest Burns,Pleading for Help

This article is by Jack Healy, MikeBaker and Tim Arango.

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A firefighter near Oroville, Calif., on Thursday. Six of the 20 largest wildfires in modern California history have occurred this year.MAX WHITTAKER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Naomi Osaka, the 2018 U.S. Open wom-en’s singles champion, defeated theup-and-comer Jennifer Brady in a tightthree-set battle of big serves and nearlyas big forehands. PAGE B10

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Osaka Reaches Open Final

Today, cloudy morning, then sun-shine, low humidity, high 77. To-night, clear, cool, low 62. Tomorrow,sunshine, then clouds, high 73.Weather map appears on Page A24.

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