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LAM YIK FEI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

In cramped areas of Hong Kong, residents of apartments so tiny they’re often called coffins or cages fear the risk of infection. Page A8.Locked Down but Hardly Safe

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One person died in New Delhi as angry farmers split barricades and officers fired tear gas. Page A9.Tractor Rally Turns Violent

WASHINGTON — As Presi-dent Biden prepares on Wednes-day to open an ambitious effortto confront climate change, pow-erful and surprising forces are

arrayed at his back.Automakers are

coming to acceptthat much higher

fuel economy standards are theirfuture; large oil and gas compa-nies have said some curbs ongreenhouse pollution lifted byformer President Donald J.Trump should be reimposed;shareholders are demanding thatcorporations acknowledge andprepare for a warmer, more

volatile future; and a youthmovement is driving the Demo-cratic Party to go big to confrontthe issue.

But what may well stand in thepresident’s way is political in-transigence from senators fromfossil-fuel states in both parties.An evenly divided Senate hasgiven enormous power to anysingle senator, and one in partic-ular, Joe Manchin III of West

Virginia, who will lead the SenateEnergy Committee and whocame to the Senate as a defenderof his state’s coal industry.

Without a doubt, signals fromthe planet itself are lendingurgency to the cause. Last yearwas the hottest year on record,capping the hottest decade onrecord. Already, scientists saythe irreversible effects of climatechange have started to sweepacross the globe, includingrecord wildfires in California andAustralia, rising sea levels, wide-spread droughts and strongerstorms.

“President Biden has calledclimate change the No. 1 issuefacing humanity,” Gov. Jay Inslee

Battle Lines Form Over Biden’s Push on ClimateBy CORAL DAVENPORT

and LISA FRIEDMANCar and Fuel Giants Are

Receptive, but SenatePoses Tough Test

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NEWSANALYSIS

WASHINGTON — PresidentBiden, under intense pressure tospeed up the pace of coronavirusvaccination, said Tuesday that hisadministration was nearing a dealwith two manufacturers thatwould enable 300 million Ameri-cans to have their shots by the endof the summer.

Supplies to the states will be in-creasing by 16 percent beginningnext week, according to figuresprovided by Mr. Biden, who prom-ised that his administration wouldgive governors something theyhad long asked for: certainty overthe supply they would receive. Hesaid states would now have threeweeks’ advance notice of howmany doses they would get.

“Until now we’ve had to guesshow much vaccine to expect forthe next week, and that’s what thegovernors had to do: ‘How mucham I getting next week?’” thepresident said. “This is unaccept-able. Lives are at stake here.”

But while Mr. Biden said themoves were “going to allow mil-lions more Americans to get vacci-nated sooner than previously an-ticipated,” that was probably notthe case. Next week’s increase tothe states was expected as vac-cine makers ramp up manufactur-ing. And the replenishing over thesummer — when the governmentwas likely to run out of supply —was anticipated under contractssigned by the Trump administra-tion, which gave the governmentoptions to continue increasing itscommitments in increments of 100million doses.

Even so, experts said the ad-ministration was wise to lock

President Vows To Hasten PaceOf Inoculation

This article is by Sheryl Gay Stol-berg, Noah Weiland and Sharon La-Franiere.

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The leadership of the ProudBoys has come under increasedscrutiny as agents and prosecu-tors across the country try to de-termine how closely members ofthe far-right nationalist groupcommunicated during the riot atthe Capitol this month and to whatextent they might have plannedthe assault in advance, accordingto federal law enforcement offi-cials.

At least six members of the or-ganization have been charged inconnection with the riot, includingone of its top-ranking leaders, Jo-seph Biggs. Mr. Biggs, a U.S.Army veteran, led about 100 menon an angry march from the site ofPresident Donald J. Trump’sspeech toward — and then into —the Capitol building.

The Proud Boys, who have ahistory of scuffling with left-wingantifascist activists, have longbeen some of Mr. Trump’s mostvocal, and violent, supporters, andhe has returned the favor, tellingthem during one of the presiden-tial debates to “stand back andstand by.” Along with the right-wing militia the Oath Keepers, theProud Boys was one of the extre-mist groups with a large presenceat the Capitol incursion, investiga-tors said.

Despite having launched one ofthe most sprawling inquiries inAmerican history, investigatorshave yet to unearth clear-cut evi-dence suggesting there was awidespread conspiracy to assaultthe Capitol on Jan. 6.

Inquiry Focuses on Proud BoysAs U.S. Hunts for Riot Planners

By ALAN FEUER and FRANCES ROBLES

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FOOD D1-8

Gorging on InstagramHerman Cornejo, above, is workingwith a “photo-scientist” to create animmersive dance experience. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-6

Capturing Every Move

A Times editor reflects on a plane crashthat killed 10 people, devastatingOklahoma State and its men’sbasketball program, while he was astudent journalist there. PAGE B7

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B7-9, 12

After 20 Years, Grief Remains

Baseball writers failed to elect anyplayers to the Hall of Fame for the 12thtime since 1936, but history suggeststhat several of the candidates will even-tually be inducted. PAGE B8

Hall of Fame Pitches Shutout

The Historical Dictionary of ScienceFiction explores the farthest reaches ofthe lexicographic universe. PAGE C1

From Aerocars to Zero-Gravity

Companies inspired by Bitcoin’s build-ing blocks are creating social networkswithout any central authority. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

Evading Big Tech’s Grasp

Jamelle Bouie PAGE A22EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

Firefighters are demanding independ-ent testing to see if their suits containcancer-causing chemicals. PAGE A14

NATIONAL A14-21, 24

Fearing Their Own Gear

Antony J. Blinken, as secretary of state,will work to reverse the confrontationalTrump approach to diplomacy. PAGE A15

Blinken Confirmed by SenateMartin Baron, who led newspapers inMiami, Boston and Washington, willstep down next month. PAGE B1

Washington Post Editor Retires

WASHINGTON — Senate Re-publicans rallied on Tuesdayagainst trying former PresidentDonald J. Trump for “incitementof insurrection” at the Capitol,with only five members of hisparty joining Democrats in a voteto go forward with his impeach-ment trial.

By a vote of 55 to 45, the Senatenarrowly killed a Republican ef-fort to dismiss the proceeding asunconstitutional because Mr.Trump is no longer in office. Butthe numbers showed that loyalRepublicans were again poised tospare him from conviction, thistime despite his role in stirring upa mob that violently targeted law-makers and the vice president onJan. 6 as Congress met to finalizethe election.

“I think it’s pretty obvious fromthe vote today that it is extraordi-narily unlikely that the presidentwill be convicted,” said SenatorSusan Collins of Maine, one of thefive Republicans who voted to pro-ceed to trial. “Just do the math.”

It would take two-thirds of sena-tors — 67 votes — to attain a con-viction, meaning 17 Republicanswould have to cross party lines toside with Democrats in finding Mr.Trump guilty. If they did, an addi-tional vote to disqualify him from

ever holding office again wouldtake a simple majority.

Aside from Ms. Collins, the onlyRepublicans who joined Demo-crats in voting to reject the consti-tutional objection and proceedwere Senators Lisa Murkowski ofAlaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, BenSasse of Nebraska and Patrick J.Toomey of Pennsylvania. All fivehad previously said they wereopen to hearing the House’s im-peachment case, which wasadopted in a bipartisan vote aweek after the attack.

With the facts of the case stillspilling forth and the meat of the

Rallying Against Trial, G.O.P. Senators SignalA 2nd Trump Acquittal

Impeachment Case Moves Forward WithSupport From Just 5 Republicans

By NICHOLAS FANDOS

Senator Susan Collins, joiningDemocrats, supported a trial.

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WASHINGTON — The CapitolPolice department on Tuesday de-livered to Congress its first after-action report since the deadly pro-Trump assault on the Capitol, lay-ing out a dismal picture of failureto prepare adequately despiteknowing days ahead of time thatright-wing extremists could tar-get lawmakers.

Testifying by videoconferenceto a closed session of a House com-mittee, the acting chief of the Capi-tol Police, Yogananda D. Pittman,acknowledged that the depart-ment knew there was a “strongpotential for violence” but failed totake necessary steps to preventwhat she described as a “terroristattack.”

Officers were outmanned, hadpoor communications, lacked suf-ficient supplies and struggled tocarry out orders like locking down

the building, she said.Her comments were the fullest

account to date from the depart-ment about its preparations forand response to the events of Jan.6, when thousands of angry pro-testers, believing false claims thatthe election had been stolen,marched on the Capitol, urged onby President Donald J. Trump.

Chief Pittman, who became act-ing chief after the riot, told mem-bers of the House AppropriationsCommittee, which oversees fund-ing for the agency, that the CapitolPolice “failed to meet its own highstandards as well as yours.” Sheadded, “I am here to offer my sin-cerest apologies on behalf of thedepartment.”

Her testimony also marked thebeginning of what is likely to be aseries of hearings investigatingthe law enforcement failures thatallowed the building to be occu-pied for the first time since theWar of 1812.

Capitol Police Admit to FailuresAs Pro-Trump Mob Took Shape

This article is by Luke Broadwa-ter, Emily Cochrane and AdamGoldman.

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LONDON — The vaccine warshave come to Europe.

For months now, wealthy coun-tries have been clearing theworld’s shelves of coronavirusvaccines, leaving poorer nationswith little hope of exiting the pan-demic in 2021. But a fresh skir-

mish this week has pitted the richagainst the rich — Britain versusthe European Union — in thescramble for vials, opening a newand unabashedly nationalist com-petition that could poison rela-tions and set back collective ef-forts to end the pandemic.

The European Union, stung byits slow progress on vaccinations,threatened this week to tightenrules on the shipment of Belgian-

made shots to Britain.British lawmakers, in turn,

have accused their Europeancounterparts of a blackmail cam-paign that could embitter rela-

tions for a generation.And poorer countries, already

at the back of the line for vaccines,could face even longer waits if theintense squabbling among richcountries drives up prices for ev-eryone else.

The feuding in Europe holdsechoes of the dark, early days ofthe pandemic, when scores ofcountries banned or restricted the

‘Solidarity Is Failing’: E.U. and Britain Fight Over Vaccine DosesBy BENJAMIN MUELLER

and MATINA STEVIS-GRIDNEFFWhile the Rich Bicker,

Poorer Nations Wait

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The leaders, who do not have a historyof friendliness, spoke about a nucleararms deal, computer hacking and aRussian opposition activist. PAGE A10

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Biden and Putin Extend Treaty

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