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WASHINGTON — Governorsacross the United States strug-gled on Monday with how to makegood on President Trump’s orderthat their economically batteredstates deliver billions more in un-employment benefits to joblessresidents.

Democrats were harshly criti-cal of Mr. Trump’s order, which hesigned on Saturday night aftertalks with Congress on a broadnew pandemic aid package col-lapsed. But even Republican gov-ernors said the order could put aserious strain on their budgetsand worried it would take weeksfor tens of millions of unemployedAmericans to begin seeing thebenefit.

Congress initially provided a$600-a-week supplement to un-employment benefits when the co-ronavirus pandemic shut downmuch of the United States inMarch. But that benefit lapsed onJuly 31, after talks between theWhite House and Congress brokedown. Republicans had pushed fora $400 supplemental benefit,Democrats said it was not enough,and so on Saturday Mr. Trump or-dered the $400 benefit — but saidit was contingent on states tocome up with $100 of that on theirown.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of NewYork told reporters on Mondaythat Mr. Trump’s directive wouldcost his state about $4 billion bythe end of the year, making it littlemore than a fantasy. He said thatno New Yorker would see en-hanced unemployment benefitsbecause of the president.

“This only makes a bad situa-tion worse,” Mr. Cuomo said.“When you are in a hole, stop dig-ging. This executive order onlydigs the hole deeper.”

His comments were echoed byGov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, aDemocrat like Mr. Cuomo, whosaid Mr. Trump’s order would costhis state $1.5 billion through theend of the year.

“It’s not workable in its currentform,” Mr. Beshear said. “It’ssomething virtually no state canafford.”

Republicans largely praised thepresident for trying to act whereCongress’s dysfunction had failed,but they said they would need topull funds from other pressingbudgetary needs.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkan-sas, a Republican, said it was pos-sible to comply with Mr. Trump’sexecutive order, but he wouldhave to reallocate money from an-other portion of the budget.

GOVERNORS ARGUEORDER BY TRUMPIMPERILS BUDGETS

FIGHT OVER JOBLESS AID

After Bipartisan Doubts,White House Weighs

Loosening Rules

This article is by Luke Broadwa-ter, Emily Cochrane, Sarah Mer-vosh and Alan Rappeport.

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HONG KONG — In a high-pro-file attack on free speech and dis-sent in Hong Kong, the police onMonday arrested Jimmy Lai, aprominent pro-democracy mediatycoon, and raided the offices ofhis newspaper, demonstratingChina’s resolve to silence the op-position and bring the city to heel.

The arrest was part of a strikingcrackdown against critics and de-mocracy advocates by Beijing andthe allied government in HongKong, in the six weeks since Chinaadopted a sweeping new nationalsecurity law. And it validatedfears that the authorities wouldmake aggressive use of the law tosmother the territory’s freewheel-ing press and political culture.

“It just gives the lie to any as-surances that the national securi-ty law would just target a few peo-ple involved in rioting,” said KeithRichburg, director of the Univer-sity of Hong Kong’s journalismschool. “It’s put a chilling effectover everything here.”

Mr. Lai and his media company,long a thorn in the side of the Chi-nese Communist Party, supportedthe antigovernment, pro-democ-racy protests that gripped the citylast year. On Monday, police offi-cers led him out of his mansion inhandcuffs and, hours later, morethan 200 officers filed into thenewsroom of his newspaper, Ap-ple Daily, and rifled throughdesks.

Some Apple Daily reporterslivestreamed video of the raid,documenting a story unfolding intheir own offices, while otherslooked on in stunned silence.When one asked Mr. Lai about thearrest and the raid, he repliedgruffly, “How should I think aboutit, dude?”

The police also arrested Mr.Lai’s two sons, who are not in-volved in his media business, andfour executives from his company,Next Digital, including its chiefexecutive, Cheung Kim-hung.

Since the security law took ef-fect, the Hong Kong authoritieshave arrested people for T-shirtsand tweets that were seen as ad-vocating independence fromChina, have asserted a right toprosecute critics abroad, havebarred 12 pro-democracy candi-dates from legislative electionsand have postponed those elec-tions by a year.

Those moves, like the arrest ofMr. Lai, signaled that Chinameans to deal with Hong Kong as

Arrests TargetPress Freedom

In Hong Kong

Police Raid Newsroom,Citing Security Law

By AUSTIN RAMZYand TIFFANY MAY

HARUKA SAKAGUCHI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Joyce Stoke Jones and her daughter Michele Jones Galvin, descendants of Harriet Tubman. A century after the passage ofthe 19th Amendment, a new generation of activists traces its inspiration to the major figures of the movement. Page A18.

Legacy of Suffrage Lives On

Five years ago this month, apush to unionize college footballplayers ended in defeat.

But with the coronavirus pan-demic raging so widely that fallsports seasons had become im-periled, college football’s stars onMonday mounted a ferocious pub-lic campaign to salvage theirgames — and to assert power in amultibillion-dollar industry.

The organization, speed andreach of the pressure campaignsuggested that student-athletes,many of them already engaged inan off-season of activism aroundracial and systemic injustices,were mastering and embracingbold public strategies that couldeventually remake the relation-ship between universities and thepeople who play sports for themfor little more than scholarships.

University administrators andcoaches have spent the yearssince the unionization effort failedin 2015 watching the relative pow-erlessness of college athletescome under scrutiny on CapitolHill and in America’s statehouses.And while it is not yet clear whatthe merged #WeWantToPlay and#WeAreUnited campaigns willaccomplish, college sports leadersthink they have little choice but tonotice and, in some cases, standalongside the players.

“Players just want to be heard,

College PlayersBattle to SaveSeason at Risk

By ALAN BLINDERand BILLY WITZ

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As the coronavirus surgedacross the Sun Belt, PresidentTrump told a crowd gathered atthe White House on July 4 that 99percent of virus cases are “totallyharmless.”

The next morning on CNN, thehost Dana Bash asked Dr. StephenHahn, the commissioner of theFood and Drug Administrationand one of the nation’s most pow-erful health officials: “Is the presi-dent wrong?”

Dr. Hahn, an oncologist and for-mer hospital executive, certainlyunderstood the deadly toll of thevirus, and the danger posed by the

president’s false statements. Buthe ducked the journalist’s ques-tion.

“I’m not going to get into who’sright and who’s wrong,” he said.

The exchange illustrates thepredicament that Dr. Hahn andother doctors face working for apresident who often disregardsscientific evidence. But as head ofthe agency that will decide what

treatments are approved forCovid-19 and whether a new vac-cine is safe enough to be given tomillions of Americans, Dr. Hahnmay be pressured like no one else.

Unlike Dr. Anthony S. Fauci orDr. Francis S. Collins, leaders atthe National Institutes of Healthwho have decades of experienceoperating under Republican andDemocratic administrations, Dr.Hahn was a Washington outsider.

Now seven months into his ten-ure, with the virus surging inparts of the country and schoolsdebating whether to reopen, thepush for a vaccine is intensifying.The government has committed

F.D.A. Chief Besieged by Politics at Key MomentBy SHEILA KAPLAN

Dr. Stephen Hahn was a Washington outsider before his appointment, unlike his predecessor.ANNA MONEYMAKER/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Concerns That ScienceWon’t Be Sole Factor

in Vaccine Search

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NEW DILEMMA The president’spayroll tax order has employers’heads spinning. PAGE A7

Eight months had passed sinceMcDonald’s fired its chief execu-tive, Steve Easterbrook, for sex-ting with a subordinate. Mr. Eas-terbrook had apologized andwalked away with tens of millionsin compensation, and the fast-foodchain had moved on under a newchief executive.

Then, last month, a McDonald’semployee made a fresh allega-

tion: Mr. Easterbrook had a sexu-al relationship with another sub-ordinate while he was running thecompany.

That accusation has now ignit-ed a rare public war between amajor company and its formerleader: McDonald’s filed a lawsuit

on Monday against Mr. Eas-terbrook, accusing him of lying,concealing evidence and fraud.

The lawsuit, filed in state courtin Delaware, claims that Mr. Eas-terbrook actually carried on sexu-al relationships with three Mc-Donald’s employees in the yearbefore his ouster and that heawarded a lucrative batch ofshares to one of those employees.McDonald’s said it was seeking torecoup stock options and othercompensation that the company

McDonald’s Accuses Ex-C.E.O. of Lying and FraudBy DAVID ENRICH

and RACHEL ABRAMSSeeks Reimbursement

of Severance Payout

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CHICAGO — All summer, dem-onstrators have marched throughChicago to protest police miscon-duct. In many neighborhoods, gunviolence has been unrelenting,soaring to levels not seen in dec-ades. The coronavirus pandemicis resurging, now sickening hun-dreds of people each day.

Then early Monday morning,hundreds of people, spurred by a

police shooting and by calls on so-cial media to take action in thegleaming heart of the city, con-verged on the Magnificent Mile,Chicago’s most famous shoppingdistrict. They broke windows,looted stores and clashed with thepolice, a chaotic and confusing

scene that prompted city officialsto briefly raise bridges downtownand halt nearby public transit tostem the unrest. Two people wereshot and at least 13 police officerswere injured.

The events instantly played intothe broader political dynamics ofthis season, in which PresidentTrump has regularly portrayedChicago as a poorly governed hot-bed of violent crime. Mayor LoriLightfoot, a Democrat, expressedfury over the violence and ordered

Chicago Staggers Anew in a Torrent of LootingThis article is by Julie Bosman,

Christine Hauser and Johnny Diaz.

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Over 100 Arrested inClashes With Police

The police arrested Jimmy Lai.VERNON YUEN/A.F.P. — GETTY IMAGES

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Riders at a motorcycle rally in Sturgis,S.D., seem unconcerned about the coro-navirus, to residents’ dismay. PAGE A13

NATIONAL A13-21

Rally’s On. Precautions Aren’t.After decades in captivity and a 1,700-mile trip from Argentina into Brazil, anAsian elephant named Mara finally gota chance to roam. PAGE D1

SCIENCE TIMES D1-8

She’ll Never Forget the JourneyMany New Yorkers want to repurposestreets for walking, biking, dining andschools, even as traffic returns. PAGE A4

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-8

Who Owns That Asphalt?

With the Warriors out, Stephen Curryhas time to attend a major golf eventand prepare for a resurgence. PAGE B7

SPORTSTUESDAY B7-10

On a Course, Not a Court

While Joe Biden has criticized the larg-est tech companies, his teams havewelcomed allies of those companiesonto staff and policy groups. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

Biden Team Lets Big Tech InLebanon faced new political uncertaintyafter its cabinet stepped down as furyover a giant explosion last week inBeirut spurred new protests. PAGE A11

INTERNATIONAL A9-12

Lebanese Leaders Resign

The doomsday warnings about techstart-ups failing in the pandemic havenot yet come to pass. PAGE B1

The Worst Never Came

A collection of short one-person worksfrom the Weston Playhouse in Vermont,presented on YouTube, furthers theredefinition of theater online — and oflife in isolation. PAGE C1

Monologues, Minus the Theater

The British prime minister is pushing toreopen schools, but as cases rise, thatmight mean closing the bars. PAGE A5

Open Schools and Closed PubsA female chief says the New York PoliceDepartment systematically limits high-level opportunities for women. PAGE A20

Stalled Near the Top

Dara Khosrowshahi PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

Tom Rauffenbart had resolved to createa tribute to his partner, the artist DavidWojnarowicz. A sewing circle of womentook up the cause for both men, stitch-ing through lockdown. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-6

AIDS Quilts in a New Pandemic

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Morning showers or thunder-storms, mainly south and east.Partly sunny. Less humid. Highs inthe 80s. Clear tonight. Lows upper50s to 60s. Weather map, Page B8.

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