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CAIRO — Violence between Is-raelis and Palestinians expandedin new directions on Friday, withdeadly clashes convulsing the oc-cupied West Bank and anti-Israeliprotests erupting along Israel’sborders with two Arab neighbors.
The widening sense of mayhemin Israel and the Palestinian terri-tories came as Israeli airstrikesbrought mass evacuations and fu-nerals to Gaza, and as Hamasrockets singed Israeli towns for afifth consecutive day.
Hamas and Israeli officials sig-naled they were open to dis-cussing a cease-fire amid globalcalls for peace and frantic diplo-macy aimed at heading off a fur-ther fracturing in one of the Mid-dle East’s most intractable strug-gles.
But the violence, which has me-tastasized with startling velocitycompared with previous Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, was findingnew footholds and threatening theveneer of Israeli society in waysnot seen before.
By Friday evening, Israel facedfurious demonstrations in at least60 places across the West Bankand new protests just across theborders with Jordan and Leba-non, all atop the vigilante violencebetween Arabs and Jews withinIsrael, and the continuing battlewith Gaza militants.
The Israeli military claimed tohave significantly weakened Ha-mas in its latest offensive bykilling dozens of high-rankingcommanders and damaging themilitant group’s network of tun-nels under Gaza. It was unclear ifsuch losses prompted a Hamasspokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, totell Al Jazeera on Friday night thatthe group would consider negoti-ating a “calming” in the fighting ifIsrael complied with unspecifieddemands about “lifting its hand”
from Gaza and the sites of clashesin Jerusalem.
Israeli media quoted anony-mous Israeli security officials say-ing they would be open to cease-fire talks.
As Gazans waited to hear whatmight come next, their miserywas deepening: Power was downto five hours a day in some places,and water came out of the pipesonly once every few days. Effortsto contain what had been a wors-ening coronavirus infection crisisin Gaza all but collapsed.
But if the coastal strip’s immedi-ate future was murky, the multi-plying front lines of the conflictmade it even harder to forecast
SURGE IN VIOLENCEDROWNS OUT CALLSFOR CALM IN ISRAEL
Vigilante Attacks and West Bank Clashesas Threats Grow in Gaza Conflict
By VIVIAN YEE
Israeli ground forces at a staging area near the border with Gaza on Friday. Hamas rocket attacks continued as fury grew in the region.DAN BALILTY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
A family in Gaza grieved afterrecovering bodies of relatives.
HOSAM SALEM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A8
WASHINGTON — News out-lets in Florida may soon be able tosue Facebook and Twitter if thesocial media companies takedown their content.
Arkansans shopping on Ama-zon will be able to see contact in-formation for third-party mer-chants, which the site won’t be re-quired to show people outside thestate.
Residents of Virginia can ask
Google and Facebook not to selltheir personal data, and the statecan sue the companies if theydon’t comply.
The moves are the result of anextraordinary legislative blitz bystates to take on the power of thebiggest tech companies. Over the
past six months, Virginia, Arkan-sas, Florida and Maryland havebeen among at least 38 states thathave introduced more than 100bills to protect people’s data pri-vacy, regulate speech policies andencourage tech competition, ac-cording to a tally by The New YorkTimes.
That is a drastic escalation frompast years. For online privacyalone, states proposed 27 bills in2021, up from two in 2018, accord-ing to the International Associa-
States Unleash Legislative Blitz to Curb Big TechBy DAVID McCABEand CECILIA KANG
Setting Internet Limitsas Congress Dithers
Continued on Page A14
SAN ANTONIO — Minnesota’sstatewide mask mandate is over.But in Minneapolis, the state’slargest city, face coverings are stillrequired.
In Michigan, Kentucky and Ore-gon, governors cheerily told vac-cinated people that they could goout maskless. But mask mandatesremained in force for New York-ers, New Jerseyans and Californi-ans.
So unexpected was new federalguidance on masks that in KansasCity, Mo., Mayor Quinton Lucaswent from saying he would notchange his mask order, to sayinghe would think about it, to an-nouncing that he was getting ridof it altogether, all in the span ofabout seven hours.
Across the country, governors,store owners and people runningerrands were scrambling on Fri-day to make sense of the abruptchange in federal guidelines,which said fully vaccinated peoplecould now safely go most places,indoors or outdoors, without amask.
At least 20 states that still hadmask mandates in place this weeksaid by Friday evening that theywould exempt fully vaccinatedpeople or repeal the orders en-tirely, while at least five otherswith mask requirements had notannounced any changes. The rap-idly changing rules brought anend to more than a year of manda-tory masking in much of the coun-try, even as some said they werenot yet ready to take off their facecoverings.
“I’m going to wear a mask for along time to come,” said Fanny Lo-
Flummoxed,U.S. Sorts Out
Mask Policies
This article is by Edgar Sandoval,Kate Taylor and Mitch Smith.
Continued on Page A6
WASHINGTON — A detaineeat Guantánamo Bay has agreed toa deal intended to lead to his re-lease in the next few years in re-turn for giving up the right toquestion the C.I.A. in court aboutits torture program, United Statesgovernment officials said.
The deal, negotiated by the Pen-tagon official who oversees themilitary commissions that serveas a court for some detainees, wasreached in recent weeks, andcomes as a number of those whohave been charged at Guantá-namo are seeking to cite theirabuse at the hands of the C.I.A. aspart of their defense.
Under the deal, the prisoner,Majid Khan, 41, who has pleadedguilty to serving as a courier for Al
Qaeda, would complete his prisonsentence as early as next year andno later than 2025 and then couldbe released to another country, as-suming one will take him, accord-ing to people who have seen theterms or are familiar with its de-tails.
In exchange, Mr. Khan will notuse his sentencing proceedings toinvoke a landmark war court deci-sion that allowed him to call wit-nesses from the C.I.A.’s secretprison network to testify about historture.
The arrangement means thatthe C.I.A. for now will avoid a fur-ther accounting in court for its useof what it called “enhanced inter-rogation techniques” under the
Detainee’s Deal Spares C.I.A.Court Testimony About Torture
By CAROL ROSENBERG and JULIAN E. BARNES
Continued on Page A12
REGIONAL RESPONSE Hamas hasmade it harder for the Arab worldto turn a blind eye. PAGE A10
YOUNG CASUALTY A fortified saferoom fails to save a 5-year-oldboy after a rocket strike. PAGE A9
BOSTON — Before she enteredthe Daughters of St. Paul conventin 2010, Sister Theresa AletheiaNoble read a biography of the or-der’s founder, an Italian priestwho was born in the 1880s. Hekept a ceramic skull on his desk,as a reminder of the inevitabilityof death. Sister Aletheia, a punkfan as a teenager, thought themorbid curio was “super punkrock,” she recalled recently. Shethought vaguely about acquiringa skull for herself someday.
These days, Sister Aletheia hasno shortage of skulls. People sendher skull mugs and skull rosariesin the mail, and share photos oftheir skull tattoos. A ceramic skullfrom a Halloween store sits on herdesk. Her Twitter name includes askull and crossbones emoji.
That is because since 2017, shehas made it her mission to revivethe practice of memento mori, aLatin phrase meaning “Remem-ber your death.” The concept is tointentionally think about yourown death every day, as a meansof appreciating the present and fo-cusing on the future. It can seemradical in an era in which death —until very recently — has becomeeasy to ignore.
“My life is going to end, and Ihave a limited amount of time,”Sister Aletheia said. “We natu-rally tend to think of our lives askind of continuing and continu-ing.”
Sister Aletheia’s project hasreached Catholics all over thecountry, via social media, a me-mento mori prayer journal — evenmerchandise emblazoned with a
signature skull. Her followershave found unexpected comfort ingrappling with death during thecoronavirus pandemic. “Memen-to mori is: Where am I headed,where do I want to end up?” saidBecky Clements, who coordinatesreligious education at her Catholicparish in Lake Charles, La., andhas incorporated the idea into acurriculum used by otherparishes in her diocese. “Memen-to mori works perfectly with whatmy students are facing, betweenthe pandemic and the massivehurricanes.” Ms. Clements keeps
a large resin skull on her owndesk, inspired by Sister Aletheia.
Sister Aletheia rejects any sug-gestion that the practice is mor-bid. Suffering and death are factsof life; focusing only on the“bright and shiny” is superficialand inauthentic. “We try to sup-press the thought of death, or es-cape it, or run away from it be-cause we think that’s where we’llfind happiness,” she said. “But it’sactually in facing the darkest re-alities of life that we find light inthem.”
A Nun’s Words of Comfort: ‘You Are Going to Die’By RUTH GRAHAM
Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble wants you to think about death.TONY LUONG FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A15
WASHINGTON — The com-mander in chief was taking histime, as usual.
It was late March, and Presi-dent Biden was under increasingpressure to penalize PresidentVladimir V. Putin of Russia forelection interference and the big-gest cyberattack ever on Ameri-can government and industry. “Ihave to do it relatively soon,” hesaid to Jake Sullivan, his nationalsecurity adviser.
Mr. Biden had already spent thefirst two months of his presidencydebating how to respond to Mr.Putin, and despite his acknowl-edgment in March that he neededto act quickly, his deliberations
were far from over. He convenedanother meeting in the SituationRoom that stretched for two and ahalf hours, and called yet anothersession there a week later.
“He has a kind of mantra: ‘Youcan never give me too much de-tail,’” Mr. Sullivan said.
Quick decision-making is notMr. Biden’s style. His reputationas a plain-speaking politicianhides a more complicated truth.Before making up his mind, thepresident demands hours of de-
tail-laden debate from scores ofpolicy experts, taking everyonearound him on what some in theWest Wing refer to as his Socratic“journey” before arriving at a con-clusion.
Those trips are often difficultfor his advisers, who are pepperedwith sometimes obscure ques-tions. Avoiding Mr. Biden’s ireduring one of his decision-makingseminars means not only goingbeyond the vague talking pointsthat he will reject, but also steer-ing clear of responses laced withacronyms or too much policy mi-nutiae, which will prompt an out-burst of frustration, often lacedwith profanity.
Let’s talk plain English here, hewill often snap.
Interviews with more than two
Beneath Folksy Demeanor, a Deliberative BidenThis article is by Michael D.
Shear, Katie Rogers and AnnieKarni.
A Socratic ‘Journey’ toDecisions, but Quick
to Grow Impatient
Continued on Page A13
New technologies are allowing stageshows like the 1966 “Cabaret” to be“reanimated” for viewers. PAGE C4
ARTS C1-6
Musicals Brought Back to LifeWith its slightly tilted letters and uncon-ventional palette, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s branding has inspired politicalcopycats around the world. PAGE A11
NATIONAL A11-17
A Logo Campaigns Can’t Resist
The Capitals’ combative Tom Wilson isthe opponent everyone despises andthe teammate everyone wants. PAGE B7
SPORTSSATURDAY B7-10
Villain and HeroMa Thuzar Wint Lwin, above, is criticiz-ing Myanmar’s military coup from therunway. The Saturday Profile. PAGE A7
INTERNATIONAL A7-10
Protest at a Beauty Pageant
Bernie Sanders PAGE A19
OPINION A18-19
In high-profile cases, judges are beingasked to weigh the requests of thosewho hope to sue anonymously. PAGE C1
Anonymity Versus Openness
Elise Stefanik, a onetime moderate whohas become a vocal Trump acolyte,replaces the ousted Liz Cheney as theNo. 3 House Republican. PAGE A15
G.O.P. Elevates Trump Convert
Even as New York City emerges fromthe pandemic, the city has to grapplewith a spike in gun violence that showsno signs of receding. PAGE A16
A Persistent Problem
Fundamentals took Tim Duncan fromSt. Croix to Wake Forest, N.B.A. gloryand now the Hall of Fame. PAGE B8
Understated ExcellenceIn a podcast interview, the Duke ofSussex opened up about his life withinthe British monarchy. PAGE A7
Prince Harry on Mental Health Vaccine shortages, porous borders andinfected migrant workers on the movehave nearby countries fearing that theywill share India’s fate. PAGE A4
TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-6
Neighbors Feel India’s Crisis
Retail sales were flat in April afterrising 10.7 percent in March, showing areliance on stimulus aid. PAGE B1
A Sign of a Bumpy Recovery
FALSE ALARM News outlets pushback after a military report aboutIsraeli forces in Gaza. PAGE A8
Late Edition
VOL. CLXX . . . . No. 59,059 © 2021 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2021
The success of the Tianwen-1 missionmakes the country the second to put aspacecraft on the planet. PAGE B5
BUSINESS B1-6
China’s Mars Rover Lands
Today, sunshine and clouds, after-noon showers, high 76. Tonight,partly to mostly cloudy, low 56. To-morrow, clouds and sunshine, show-ers, high 72. Weather map, Page B12.
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