Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Tuesday. |
 | | Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a recorded response.Cindy Schultz for The New York Times |
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1. Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, and retaliated against one for going public, the New York attorney general's inquiry found. |
 | | Celebrating at a tiki bar in New York City in May.Kathy Willens/Associated Press |
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2. New York will require proof of vaccination for indoor dining and gyms, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced. It will be the first U.S. city to do so. |
The move, similar to Covid-19 mandates issued in France and Italy last month, will start on Aug. 16. After a transition period, enforcement will begin on Sept. 13, when schools are expected to reopen and more workers may be returning to offices. De Blasio has been moving aggressively to vaccinate more New Yorkers to curtail a third wave of coronavirus cases. |
 | | Demonstrators in Washington on Sunday protested to extend the eviction moratorium.T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times |
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3. President Biden is expected to announce a new eviction moratorium in areas with high levels of the coronavirus, after a previous ban expired on Saturday. |
White House aides and officials with the C.D.C. were working out details of a potential deal that could include a new freeze that would remain in place for up to 60 days, but officials warned that no final decisions had been made. The new ban would cover about 90 percent of renters in the country, according to a Democratic leadership aide briefed on the proposal. |
 | | A worker at Tyson Foods receiving a vaccine in Joslin, Ill., in February.John Konstantaras/Associated Press |
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4. A meat processing giant is mandating Covid-19 vaccines for its U.S. work force. |
Microsoft, which employs roughly 100,000 people in the U.S., said it would require proof of vaccination for all employees, vendors and guests to gain access to its offices. But many other large companies, including Walmart, Lyft and Uber, have taken a less forceful approach: mandating vaccines for white-collar workers while leaving out millions of frontline workers. |
 | | A memorial in support of the Capitol Police in January.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times |
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5. Congress moved to award the police officers who responded to the Capitol riot with its highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal. |
The Senate unanimously approved the legislation during a week when District of Columbia police officials have announced that two more officers who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6 have died by suicide, bringing the total to four. President Biden is expected to sign the legislation. |
In other news from Capitol Hill, the infrastructure bill is inching along as rank-and-file lawmakers seek to put their own imprint on the 2,702-page bill. Republicans are looking to scrutinize the bill as the Senate continues taking up amendments. |
 | | Firefighters battling a blaze north of Athens.Costas Baltas/Reuters |
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6. Heat and wind are fueling the nation's largest blaze, with no signs of letting up. |
Almost a month after it was ignited by lightning, nearly 1,900 firefighters are still battling the Bootleg fire, which has obliterated homes in southern Oregon and scorched 414,000 acres. Fire officials said the blaze was not projected to be fully contained until October. "Above normal" fire activity in the American West is forecast through September. |
In Southern Europe, Greece is grappling with one of its hottest weeks on record as an intense heat wave has fueled major forest fires. Temperatures reached 46.3 degrees Celsius, or 115.3 degrees Fahrenheit, in central Greece, the highest temperature ever officially recorded in the country. |
 | | Simone Biles won a bronze medal on the balance beam.Chang W. Lee/The New York Times |
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7. Simone Biles didn't want the Olympics, and perhaps her career, to end with her in the stands. |
So on the final day of artistic gymnastics at the Games, after skipping all but one individual final because she was not mentally prepared, she earned a bronze medal with her balance beam routine. "I wasn't expecting to walk away with a medal," Biles said. "I was just going out there doing this for me." You can watch it all again tonight on NBC, starting at 8 p.m. Eastern. |
 | | Crates of returned looted antiquities at the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad.Sabah Arar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images |
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8. When the Iraqi prime minister's plane touched down in Baghdad last week after an official visit to the U.S., its cargo was a little heavier than when it left. |
Traveling with Mustafa al-Kadhimi were 17,000 archaeological artifacts returned by the Museum of the Bible in Washington and Cornell University in the largest-ever repatriation of looted Iraqi antiquities. The museum, founded and funded by the Christian evangelical family behind the Hobby Lobby craft store chain, owned more than 12,000 of the artifacts. |
Today, thousands of clay tablets and seals from some of the world's earliest civilizations were unveiled as the Iraqi Culture Ministry took custody of the cultural treasures. Many of the pieces are from Irisagrig, a lost ancient city. The city's existence became known only when tablets mentioning it were seized at the Jordanian border in 2003. |
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9. Lorde hated guitars. Then came "Solar Power," the title track off her new album. |
Once a moody teenage sensation who preferred electronics, the singer, songwriter and producer is now 24 and building songs on nostalgia for early 2000s pop and her love for her New Zealand home. "There is no better feeling than pop alchemy building in real time," she said. See how the song came together in the latest Diary of a Song. |
On Billie Eilish's second album, "Happier Than Ever," the 19-year-old pop phenomenon fixates on the tension between private and public knowledge. |
 | | Prince performing at Wembley Arena in London in 1986.Michael Putland/Getty Images |
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10. And finally, shoes fit for Prince. |
Hand-painted cloud boots. Platform roller skates. Ankle boots with metallic stickers proclaiming "Get Wild" on the toe and "Free Music" on the heel. These are just a few of the 300 pairs of custom heels on display now at Paisley Park, Prince's longtime estate. |
Constructing dangerously high heels that were embellished enough for the artist's taste, yet secure enough for his talent, required ingenuity. Over time, designers refined the reinforced heel and fiddled with its angle. The goal wasn't to make the 5-foot-2 musician taller, said his former costumer Helen Hiatt, but to construct a look in which his size 7 shoes "wouldn't cut your eye." |
| Lance Booth compiled photos for this briefing. |
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