Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Friday. |
 | | People vaccinated at a school in the Bronx.James Estrin/The New York Times |
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The agency cited an outbreak in Provincetown, Mass., after more than 60,000 people celebrated the Fourth of July. It mushroomed to nearly 469 cases in the state as of Thursday, three-quarters of whom were fully immunized. |
The research informed the agency's decision this week to advise even vaccinated Americans to resume wearing masks in indoor public spaces in some areas. |
The vaccines remain effective against severe Covid, and infections in vaccinated people are rare. But the agency concluded that the vaccinated carry high virus levels if they become infected with the Delta variant, making it likely they can transmit the virus as often as the unvaccinated. |
The average number of virus cases in New York City has quadrupled since early July, to more than 1,000 per day. Hospitalizations are up 90 percent since July 4, to more than 300 people, for the most part unvaccinated or vaccinated but immunocompromised. |
Broadway audiences will need proof of vaccination and masks. Children ineligible for vaccination will be able to attend shows if tested for the virus. |
 | | The demands were another attempt by President Trump to delegitimize the election results.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times |
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"Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me" the president said on Dec. 27, as summarized by Richard Donoghue, a deputy to the acting attorney general at the time, Jeffrey Rosen. |
The Justice Department provided Donoghue's notes to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, which is investigating the Trump administration's efforts to unlawfully reverse the election results. |
The demands were an extraordinary instance of a president interfering with an agency to advance his personal agenda. |
 | | Martine Moïse still has her arm in a sling from the attack.Maria Alejandra Cardona for The New York Times |
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3. "They thought I was dead." |
In her first interview since the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse, his widow, Martine Moïse, recounts that night. |
Struck by gunfire, she lay bleeding on the floor beside her bed, unable to breathe, as the assassins stormed the room. "The only thing that I saw before they killed him were their boots," she said. "Then I closed my eyes, and I didn't see anything else." |
She believes there must have been a mastermind behind the plot. "Only the oligarchs and the system could kill him," she said. |
 | | Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Joe Manchin and Jon Tester, from left, promote the infrastructure bill on Friday.T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times |
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4. The Senate voted to advance a $1 trillion infrastructure package. |
At the White House, President Biden and top Democrats met to discuss their efforts to pass voting rights legislation. Democrats are close to finalizing a scaled-back bill that activists hope could be a battering ram in the fight over the filibuster. |
 | | Megan Rapinoe celebrates after winning the quarterfinal match against the Netherlands.Chang W. Lee/The New York Times |
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5. The U.S. women's soccer team kept its hopes for gold alive — barely. |
The U.S. beat the Netherlands in a penalty shootout to advance to the semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics. Megan Rapinoe, the team's veteran forward, delivered the winning kick, but it was goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher who truly saved the game. |
Track and field arrived in Tokyo in sweltering heat as Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands contemplates an unprecedented challenge: win the women's 1,500, 5,000 and 10,000 meters, which would require five races in six days. JuVaughn Harrison will be the first American to compete in the high jump and the long jump since 1912. |
Simone Biles has not yet announced whether she will compete in the gymnastics apparatus finals, but she has revealed more about her struggles: She's suffering from a mental block gymnasts call "the twisties" and "cannot tell up from down." |
 | | A woman cries during a massive forest fire on Turkey's southern coast.Ilyas Akengin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
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6. Wildfires have afflicted the Mediterranean this summer. Turkey is next. |
Dozens of wildfires raged for a third day. The fires, which Turkish authorities say may have been sparked by arson or human negligence, have killed at least four people while forcing residents of rural areas and tourists at popular holiday resorts to flee. Areas in Lebanon, Syria, Greece, Italy and Cyprus are also battling fast-moving fires. |
 | | Former Afghan interpreters who worked with U.S. troops protested at the U.S. embassy in Kabul in June.Reuters |
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7. Under threat from the Taliban, a first group of Afghan interpreters arrived on U.S. soil. |
The Afghans — 221 interpreters, drivers and others — who were promised refuge by the Biden administration for helping the U.S. during the 20-year war in Afghanistan landed at Dulles International Airport outside Washington. They will stay at a hotel at an Army base in Fort Lee, Va., for about a week before being resettled permanently. |
Many of the newly arrived interpreters have long been targets of the Taliban for their cooperation with U.S. troops. Many more are still trapped as Taliban fighters tighten their grip around rural areas. |
In other international conflicts, Israeli officials say an attack on an oil tanker managed by an Israeli-owned firm appeared to have been carried out by unmanned Iranian drones. The incident, which killed two crew members, was apparently the latest salvo in a maritime shadow war between the countries, and the first attack known to have killed civilians. |
 | | Alexis Nikole Nelson with a jar of mushrooms.Adraint Bereal for The New York Times |
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8. Black foragers are finding freedom in the natural world. |
When Alexis Nikole Nelson was a kindergartner, she counted a honeysuckle tree among her most cherished friends. Now 29, she's also known as the Black Forager, with 1.7 million followers on TikTok, where she posts exuberant videos about edible finds in the woods. |
Foraging is seemingly up during the pandemic, and Nelson is one part of an increasingly visible community challenging the idea that Black people just don't do the outdoors, which developed over centuries of dispossession. |
 | | Ryan Liebe for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. |
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9. "Pregnant shrimp" are perfect for grilling at home. |
Camarones embarazados gets its name from a play on words: "En vara" means on a stick, and "asado" means roasted, which sounds like "embarazados," the Spanish word for "pregnant." In Puerto Vallarta, the shrimp — soaked in adobo sauce, skewered and cooked on makeshift grills — have been part of the culture since forever. Here's a recipe. |
 | | The shipwreck of the L.M. Mason in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary.Kevin Miyazaki for The New York Times |
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10. Finally, America's underwater national parks. |
The National Marine Sanctuary System is almost 50 years old and encompasses 15 sanctuaries covering an area almost the size of Alaska. But because they're beneath the surface of the water, the number of visitors is a fraction of those to the National Park system. |
Still, sanctuaries like Thunder Bay in Michigan attract divers from all over the world to explore shipwrecks at depths that exceed the boundaries of recreational scuba diving. |
Compared with the popular and well-trodden paths across mountains and through forests, the National Marine Sanctuaries are an entry to a world that remains mysterious, and perhaps to the wildest part of this country. |
| David Poller compiled photos for this briefing. |
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