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LONDON — For more than adecade, Flavius Tudor has sharedthe money he has made in Eng-land with his mother in Romania,regularly sending home cash thatenabled her to buy medicine.

Last month, the flow reversed.His 82-year-old mother sent himmoney so he could pay his bills.

Suffering a high fever and a per-sistent cough amid the coro-navirus pandemic, Mr. Tudor, 52,could no longer enter the nursinghome where he worked as a care-giver. So his mother reached intoher pension, earned from a life-time as a librarian in one of Eu-rope’s poorest countries, and sentcash to her son in one of thewealthiest lands on earth.

“It’s very tough times,” he said.“I’m lost.”

Around the globe, the pandemichas jeopardized a vital artery of fi-nance supporting hundreds ofmillions of families — so-called re-mittances sent home fromwealthy countries by migrantworkers. As the coronavirus hassent economies into lockdown,sowing joblessness, people accus-tomed to taking care of relatives athome have lost their paychecks,forcing some to depend on thosewho have depended on them.

Last year, migrant workers senthome a record $554 billion, morethan three times the amount of de-velopment aid dispensed bywealthy countries, according tothe World Bank. But those remit-tances are likely to plunge by one-fifth this year, representing themost severe contraction in his-tory.

The drop amounts to a catastro-phe, heightening the near-cer-tainty that the pandemic willproduce the first global increasein poverty since the Asian finan-cial crisis of 1998. Some 40 millionto 60 million people are expectedthis year to fall into extreme pov-erty, which the World Bank de-fines as living on $1.90 a day orless.

Diminishing remittances areboth an outgrowth of the crisisgripping the world and a portentof more trouble ahead. Develop-ing countries account for 60 per-cent of the world economy on thebasis of purchasing power, accord-ing to the International MonetaryFund. Less spending in poorer na-tions spells less economic growthfor the world.

Like the pandemic that has de-livered it, the slide in remittancesis global. Europe and Central Asiaare expected to suffer a fall ofnearly 28 percent in the wagessent home from other countries,while sub-Saharan Africa sees adrop of 23 percent. South Asia ap-pears set for a 22 percent decline,while the Middle East, North Afri-ca, and Latin America and the Ca-ribbean could absorb a reductionof more than 19 percent.

Overall, the pandemic has dam-aged the earning power of 164 mil-lion migrant workers who supportat least 800 million relatives inless affluent countries, accordingto an estimate from the United Na-

Virus Cuts OffGlobal LifelineAiding Millions

Wages Sent Home byMigrants Plunge

By PETER S. GOODMAN

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. —LeBron James of the Los AngelesLakers has likened his new sur-roundings to a youth basketballtournament for grown men whohappen to be some of the most rec-ognizable sports stars on the plan-et.

CJ McCollum of the PortlandTrail Blazers combats the pangshe feels for his fiancée and his dog

back home with “my essential oilsand my dehumidifier and mybooks,” and the occasional indul-gence in wine he packed.

Gone are the ostentatious arenaentrances dressed in the finestfashions and the whirl of big-city

night life. N.B.A. players havegathered for the most extraordi-nary experiment in league his-tory: to play out the rest of theseason without fans on a confinedcampus and abide by a thick bookof rules that includes assignedseats on the bench and prohibi-tions on postgame showers untilplayers return to a team hotel.(The W.N.B.A. is engaged in a sim-ilar experiment in Bradenton,Fla.)

For N.B.A., a Safe, Strange Haven in a Hot SpotBy MARC STEIN No Dazzle, Many Rules

and Care Packages

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LEXINGTON, Va. — It’s a shortdrive in Lexington from a home onConfederate Circle past the Stone-wall Jackson Memorial Cemeteryand over to the Robert E. Lee Ho-tel, where locals like to stop for adrink.

There may be tourists therelooking for directions to the LeeChapel, or one of the two Stone-wall Jackson statues in town.

They might see a Washington andLee University student paddling acanoe down the Maury River,named for Confederate oceanog-rapher Matthew Fontaine Maury.

If medical treatment is needed,residents can head to the Stone-

wall Jackson Hospital. For grocer-ies, there’s a Food Lion at Stone-wall Square, which isn’t far fromRebel Ridge Road, just up the wayfrom Stonewall Street and Jack-son Avenue.

For 150 years Lexington, a pic-turesque city nestled in Virginia’sBlue Ridge Mountains, has beenknown as the final resting place ofLee, the Confederacy’s command-ing general during the Civil War,and Jackson, whom Lee referred

A Virginia Town Rethinks Its Confederate PillarsBy REID J. EPSTEIN Where Lee Is Buried,

No More Lee Hotel

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JONAH MARKOWITZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The emotional cost of keeping New York City moving during the pandemic is high. Page A8.Transit Workers’ Sacrifice

TIMOTHY IVY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A funeral caisson took Representative John Lewis across the Alabama bridge he first marched on over a half-century ago. Page A18.A Final Sunday in Selma

HOUSTON — Elaine Roberts, alongtime bagger at a supermar-ket, tried to be so careful. She puton gloves and stopped riding thebus to work, instead relying on herfather to drive her to keep theirfamily safe. She wore masks — inspace-themed fabrics stitched byher sister — as she stacked prod-ucts on shelves, helped people totheir cars and retrieved carts fromthe parking lot.

But many of the customers atthe Randalls store in a Houstonsuburb did not wear them, she no-ticed, even as coronavirus cases

in the state began rising in earlyJune. Gov. Greg Abbott, who hadpushed to reopen businesses inTexas, was refusing to makemasks mandatory and for weekshad blocked local officials from en-forcing any mask requirements.The grocery store only postedsigns asking shoppers to wearthem.

Ms. Roberts, 35, who has autismand lives with her parents, gotsick first, sneezing and coughing.Then her father, Paul, and mother,Sheryl, who had been so cautiousafter the pandemic struck thattheir rare ventures out weremostly for bird-watching in anearly empty park, were hospital-ized with breathing problems.

Their cases were unusual:Sheryl Roberts, a sunny retirednurse, experienced severe psychi-atric symptoms that made doc-tors fear she was suicidal, possi-bly an effect of the disease andmedicines to treat it. She is recov-ering, but her husband is critically

‘You Do the Right Things, and Still You Get It’By SHERI FINK Texas Family Is Caught

in the UnrestrainedSpread of a Virus

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Roy Den Hollander sounded bit-ter and angry when he bumpedinto a former rugby teammate inDecember at a library in Manhat-tan. He said he was so sick from arare cancer that he could die atany moment, wondering aloud ifhe should sue his doctor for mal-practice.

Things kept getting worse forMr. Den Hollander, a self-de-scribed “anti-feminist” lawyerwho was known for his misogy-nistic tirades and the dozens oflawsuits he filed, many frivolous.A Manhattan judge dismissed oneof them in May, and a few weekslater, a federal judge in New Jer-sey named Esther Salas canceleda scheduled hearing in a differentsuit.

The delay followed years of re-sentment that he had harboredagainst Judge Salas over his un-founded claim that she was mov-ing the case too slowly. That, inturn, built upon a lifetime ofseething hatred toward women:He accused his mother of prevent-ing him from having a girlfriend,and his ex-wife of marrying himonly to obtain a green card.

Mr. Den Hollander’s rageturned to violence last Sundaywhen he showed up at JudgeSalas’s home in New Jersey pos-ing as a FedEx deliveryman andopened fire, killing her 20-year-old son and wounding her hus-band, investigators said. She wasnot harmed.

Days before, Mr. Den Hollander,72, had traveled by train to San

Misogyny FedLawyer’s RageAgainst Judge

This article is by Nicole Hong, Mi-hir Zaveri and William K. Rash-baum.

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SEATTLE — A series of stri-dent new protests over police mis-conduct rattled cities across thecountry over the weekend, creat-ing a new dilemma for state andlocal leaders who had succeededin easing some of the turbulencein their streets until a showdownover the use of federal agents inOregon stirred fresh outrage.

With some demonstrators em-bracing destructive protest meth-ods and the police often using ag-gressive tactics to subdue boththem and others who are demon-strating peacefully, the scenes onSaturday night in places like Se-attle, Oakland, Calif., and Los An-geles recalled the volatile earlydays of the protests after thedeath of George Floyd at the endof May.

The latest catalyst was the de-ployment of federal law enforce-ment agents in Portland, Ore.,whose militarized efforts to sub-due protests around the federalcourthouse have sparked massdemonstrations and nightlyclashes there. They have also in-spired new protests of solidarityin other cities, where people haveexpressed deep concern about thefederal government exercisingsuch extensive authority in a citythat has made it clear it opposesthe presence of federal agents.

President Trump has seized onthe scenes of unrest — statuestoppled and windows smashed —to build a law-and-order messagefor his re-election campaign,spending more than $26 million ontelevision ads depicting a lawlessdystopia of empty police stationsand 911 answering services thathe argues might be left in a nationheaded by his Democratic rival,Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Mr. Biden insisted last weekthat the president’s pledge to in-ject a federal law-and-order pres-ence into the already volatile issueof policing showed that he was“determined to sow chaos and di-vision. To make matters worse in-stead of better.”

The situation has left city lead-ers, now watching the backlashunfold on their streets, outraged

CITIES ARE IN BINDAS UNREST FLARESOVER U.S. ACTIONS

ESCALATION OF PROTESTS

New Outrage and Clashesin Response to Federal

Agents on Streets

This article is by Mike Baker,Thomas Fuller and Shane Gold-macher.

Police officers and protesters inconflict in Seattle on Saturday.

GRANT HINDSLEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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The Trump administration, rejectingconcerns about risks for fishing, clearedthe way for the Pebble Mine. PAGE A15

NATIONAL A15-19

Boost for Mine in AlaskaTop North American bobsledders havecommitted suicide, and many in slidingsports have neurological issues. PAGE D1

SPORTSMONDAY D1-6

A Brain-Rattling Ride’s TollThe National Theater of Greece’s pro-duction of Aeschylus’ tragedy “ThePersians” was broadcast live from theamphitheater in Epidaurus. PAGE C2

ARTS C1-6

Ancient Portrait of Defeat

A proposal by Trump aides on the daybefore Republicans unveil a larger billsignals that a deal with Democrats isunlikely before benefits expire. PAGE A5

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-11

Talk of a Narrow Jobless BillThe charisma of the fashion designerDiane von Furstenberg obscured thefact that her company, DVF, had beenlosing money for years. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

Virus Bares a Brand’s Peril

Charles M. Blow PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

Declining levels do not mean less im-munity, experts say. And two tests maybe identifying the wrong kind. PAGE A4

Your Antibodies Undetectable?

Japan has not confronted Beijing asother world powers have, mindful of itsneighbor’s economic might. PAGE A14

INTERNATIONAL A12-14

Dancing With China, GingerlyThe actions of some team owners haveundermined the N.F.L.’s efforts againstsexism and racism. PAGE D1

Powerful Hurdles to ProgressAs Hurricane Hanna made landfallduring a pandemic, residents had tochoose where to seek safety. PAGE A19

Dueling Crises in Texas

Two-time Oscar winner Olivia de Havil-land starred in “Gone With the Wind”and then fought Warner Bros. for betterroles. She was 104. PAGE A24

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