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Still in her prime, Maya Mooresacrificed her career, steppingaway as one of the greats in bas-ketball for a long-shot bid to helpfree a prisoner she was convincedhad been wrongfully convicted.

There would be no fifthW.N.B.A. championship, no bid foranother Olympic gold medal, nofans gasping at the perfect jumpshot.

In a shock to the sport, she leftthe game — temporarily, she said— in early 2019 to free JonathanIrons, a Missouri man who contin-uously claimed innocence as heserved a 50-year prison sentencefor burglary and assault with agun.

And on Wednesday, her sacri-fice paid the ultimate dividend.

Irons, 40, walked out of a Mis-souri prison a free man afterspending 23 years behind bars.After an appeal Moore partlyfunded and publicly backed,Irons’s sentence had been over-turned. In a scene of tearful cele-bration outside the front doors ofthe Jefferson City CorrectionalCenter, Moore and her family atlong last greeted the man they hadcome to consider one of their own.

“I’m pumped that people areunderstanding where the realchange lies as far as giving some-thing up,” Moore said at a newsconference on Thursday. “That’sall of us, giving something up, if

you have any sort of power.”Athletes across sports have

joined calls for social and racialjustice, especially in the most re-cent wave spurred by deaths ofBlack people at the hands of thepolice.

And female athletes like Moorehave often been at the forefrontbut outside the limelight as men,

working in leagues with highertelevision ratings, tend to get thelion’s share of coverage.

“The N.B.A. and N.F.L. get no-ticed and the accolades, but theW.N.B.A and women in sport so of-ten tend to be ahead of everybodyelse,” said Victoria Jackson, asports historian at Arizona StateUniversity. “Look at Maya — she

essentially gave up her career at apeak moment to put her heart andsoul into this.”

LeBron James garnered quickheadlines with his backing of Hil-lary Clinton in the 2016 presiden-tial election, his opening of a char-ter school in Akron, Ohio, his will-ingness to snipe back against con-

As Athletes Pursue Justice, Women Are a Force Without FanfareBy KURT STREETER

Maya Moore departed the W.N.B.A. to help Jonathan Irons, who was freed from prison this week.JULIA HANSEN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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The girl was 14 years old whenshe met the financier Jeffrey Ep-stein and his companion, Ghis-laine Maxwell, in the 1990s. Theytried to become her friend, takingher shopping and to the movies.Ms. Maxwell asked about her fam-ily and school.

Then, Ms. Maxwell began un-dressing in front of the girl and re-cruiting her to participate in sexu-alized massages of Mr. Epstein,prosecutors said. The pattern con-tinued for years, as Ms. Maxwellfed Mr. Epstein’s dark desires andparticipated in some of the abuseherself, according to a newly un-sealed indictment.

Ms. Maxwell, the daughter of apublishing magnate and once afixture on New York’s socialscene, was arrested on Thursday

in New Hampshire, where the au-thorities said she had been hiding.She was charged with luring mul-tiple underage girls into Mr. Ep-stein’s orbit.

The arrest of Ms. Maxwell, Mr.Epstein’s former girlfriend andlongtime associate, was the latesttwist in a legal saga that has beena source of international intrigueand conspiracy theories. The casehas drawn in prominent academ-ics, politicians, business leadersand even British royalty.

Ms. Maxwell’s arrest came al-most exactly one year after Mr.Epstein was charged in a federal

Associate Accused of RecruitingTeen Girls for Epstein Is Arrested

This article is by Nicole Hong,Benjamin Weiser and Mihir Zaveri.

Charges of Perjury andAiding Sexual Abuse

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Employers brought back mil-lions more workers in June asbusinesses began to reopenacross the country. But the recentsurge in coronavirus cases isthreatening to stall the economicrecovery long before it hasreached most of the people wholost their jobs.

U.S. payrolls grew by 4.8 millionin June, the Labor Departmentsaid Thursday. It was the secondmonth of strong gains after April’shuge losses, when businesses laidoff or furloughed tens of millionsof workers as the pandemic put alarge swath of economic activityon ice.

The job growth surpassed econ-omists’ forecasts, and it was broadbased, cutting across industriesand demographic groups.

But the thaw is far from com-plete. There were still nearly 15million fewer jobs in June than inFebruary, before the pandemicforced businesses to close. Theunemployment rate fell to 11.1 per-cent in June, down from a peak of14.7 percent in April but stillhigher than in any previous peri-od since World War II. The ratewould have been about one per-centage point higher, the LaborDepartment said, had it not beenfor persistent data-collectionproblems.

In an appearance at the WhiteHouse on Thursday morning,President Trump hailed the num-bers as “spectacular news forAmerican workers and Americanfamilies and for our country as a

JUNE JOBS GAINSEXCEED OUTLOOK,WITH A WARNING

4.8 MILLION COME BACK

More Shutdowns BringFears After SecondMonth of Growth

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JUNE 2016144 million total jobs

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Cumulative change in U.S. jobs. Since February:14,661,000 fewer

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On the website for AmericanLegion Post 410 in Lakehills,Texas, an image shows a bald ea-gle soaring in front of an Ameri-can flag. But just below the patri-otic picture is the bad news thatthe unrelenting spread of the coro-navirus has mostly grounded thetiny community’s Fourth of Julycelebrations.

“Due to the Governor of Texasshutting down the state again —the Parade has been cancelled,”the site says. “The live band hasbeen cancelled.”

It is a familiar reality from coastto coast, as the nation staggers to-ward a holiday weekend burdenedby a pandemic that is only grow-ing worse.

On Thursday, the United Statesset a single-day case record forthe sixth time in nine days, reach-ing 53,000 new coronavirus cases.And in a dramatic reversal, thegovernor of Texas, one of the

worst-hit states this week, or-dered residents in counties withmore than 20 virus cases to wearmasks in public.

In the face of cases reaching dis-heartening new highs, with atleast 15 states setting single-dayreporting records this week,health officials around the coun-try have urged Americans to scaleback their holiday plans.

State leaders in Nebraska sug-gested that holiday cookout hostskeep guest lists to make contacttracing easier if there was an out-break. The Oregon Health Author-ity warned residents that “thesafest choice this holiday is to cel-ebrate at home.” And in Los Ange-les County, Calif., where more than12,000 new cases have been an-

nounced since last Friday, thehealth department orderedbeaches closed and fireworksshows canceled.

Elsewhere, the pleas were simi-lar: Skip the party. Stay home. Donot make a bad situation worse.

“We don’t want any more clo-sures, but our numbers are goingthrough the roof,” Dr. CameronKaiser, the public health officer inRiverside County, Calif., said.“Please don’t mix households,even if you think everyone ishealthy, and instead celebrate theholiday with the people you livewith. We started seeing more andmore cases after Memorial Dayand we can’t afford another jumpafter the Fourth of July.”

The cancellations have lent asullen tone to the typical listings ofIndependence Day events: “WhatCan You Do This Fourth of July inIdaho?” a headline asks on thewebsite of a Boise TV station, be-fore suggesting ways to sociallydistance while celebrating.

At the same time, the anti-rac-

Expect a Fourth With More Fizzle Than BangThis article is by Richard Fausset,

Mitch Smith and Sabrina Tavernise.

A coronavirus testing site in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, the same day the governor issued a broad mask-wearing order. Page A9.TAMIR KALIFA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Officials Say CelebrateFreedom by Staying

Home This Year

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College students across thecountry have been warned thatcampus life will look drasticallydifferent in the fall, with tempera-ture checks at academic build-ings, masks in half-empty lecturehalls and maybe no footballgames.

What they might not expect: alack of professors in the class-room.

Thousands of instructors atAmerican colleges and universi-ties have told administrators in re-cent days that they are unwillingto resume in-person classes, be-cause of the pandemic.

More than three-quarters of col-leges and universities have de-cided students can return to cam-pus this fall. But they are facing agrowing faculty revolt.

“Until there’s a vaccine, I’m notsetting foot on campus,” said DanaWard, 70, an emeritus professor ofpolitical studies at Pitzer Collegein Claremont, Calif., who teaches aclass in anarchist history andthought. “Going into the class-room is like playing Russianroulette.”

This comes as major outbreakshave hit college towns this sum-mer, spread by partying students

Colleges FaceRising RevoltBy Professors

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS

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WASHINGTON — Last Satur-day night, over dinner at theWhite House, Bernard Marcus, atop Republican donor, told Presi-dent Trump he was alarmed at Mr.Trump’s plummeting poll num-bers and Jared Kushner’s stew-ardship of his father-in-law’s re-election effort.

Mr. Trump sought to assuageMr. Marcus’s concerns, assuringthe billionaire Home Depotfounder that his political fortuneswould soon change in part be-cause he was bringing in “goodpeople” to steady his campaign,according to a person briefed ontheir conversation.

The next morning, before set-ting off for a round of golf, thepresident tweeted a video from aFlorida retirement communitythat featured a Trump supporteryelling, “white power,” setting Mr.Trump’s aides on a scramble toreach him on the course and havehim delete the message.

As Mr. Trump heads to MountRushmore on Friday to spend theIndependence Day holiday in thecarved presence of presidentialgreatness, he is suffering throughthe most trying stretch of his ad-ministration thanks in large partto his self-inflicted wounds.

June represented the politicalnadir of his three and a half yearsin the Oval Office, when a race inwhich he had been steadily trail-ing, but faring respectably, brokeopen and left him facing the possi-bility of not just defeat but humili-ation this fall.

The disconnect between thesurge in coronavirus cases andMr. Trump’s dismissive stance to-ward the pandemic has been par-ticularly pronounced, mystifyingDemocrats and Republicansalike; this week, as some stateshalted their reopening because ofa record-setting number of newcases, the president predicted thevirus would “just disappear.”

In addition to public surveysshowing him losing decisively toJoseph R. Biden Jr. in a number ofbattleground states, private Re-

Crisis MisstepsBy Trump Hurt

His Campaign

A Demoralizing Monthfor Top Republicans

This article is by Maggie Ha-berman, Jonathan Martin and Alex-ander Burns.

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Nancy Baker Cahill uses augmentedreality to add meaning to historicalsites. Above, Rockaway Beach. PAGE C1

WEEKEND ARTS C1-14

Reanimating the PastCustom-van sales are booming astravel-starved people aim to put thepandemic behind them. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-6

‘Escape Pods’ That Roll

At least 26 women and girls have beenkilled during the lockdown in Britain.Others were trapped with abusers ascalls for help went unanswered. PAGE A5

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-10

Vulnerable at Home in U.K.The justices will decide whether Con-gress has the right to view blacked-outpassages in the Mueller report, but aruling almost certainly won’t comebefore the election. PAGE A16

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Court to Weigh Mueller SecretsHugh Downs, a longtime host of televi-sion shows like “Today” and “20/20,”was known for his honeyed deliveryand low-key style. He was 99. PAGE A20

OBITUARIES A20-21

A Small-Screen Fixture

N.F.L. team owners and the players’union are considering how to spreadout reductions in the salary cap if fewor no fans attend games. PAGE B7

SPORTSFRIDAY B7-8

A New Financial Game Plan

The filmed version of the hit Broadwaymusical is more vital and challengingthan ever, A.O. Scott writes. PAGE C1

A Bigger Room for ‘Hamilton’Social media’s freewheeling culture ischanging into something more account-able, Kevin Roose writes. PAGE B1

Taming the Wild Wild Web

Thousands of Black Lives Matter pro-testers are making their voices — andbells — heard in mass bicycle rides inNew York, combining creativity and abit of two-wheeled flair. PAGE A18

Doing Wheelies for JusticeMasks were mandatory on the casinofloors of Atlantic City, and food, drinksand smoking were forbidden. PAGE A7

Taking a Chance in New Jersey

Paul Krugman PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23At least 162 died when a waste pile slidinto a jade mine, setting off a toweringwave of mud and water. PAGE A11

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Mine Collapses in Myanmar

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