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Brazil Warnings waved o≠ before shooting, sta≠ers say Klain,

tightens BY H ANNAH
AND J USTIN
N ATANSON
J OUVENAL
6-year-old’s behavior spurred repeated calls for help
raged over Richneck officials’
management of events before
the shooting. Newport News Su- Biden’s
vise on The Virginia teacher who was
shot by a 6-year-old student
asked administrators repeatedly
for help with the boy but officials
teachers obtained by The Wash-
ington Post.
police say he shot Abigail Zwer-
ner as she taught her first-grade
perintendent George Parker III
has said school officials got a tip
the boy had a gun that day and
searched his backpack but that chief, to
speech downplayed educators’ warn- The previously unreported in- class earlier this month. Author- staffers never found the weapon
ings about his behavior, includ-
ing dismissing his threat to light
a teacher on fire and watch her
die, according to messages from
cidents raise fresh questions
about how Richneck Elementary
School in Newport News han-
dled the troubled student before
ities have called the shooting
“intentional” but are still investi-
gating the motive.
Many parents are already out-
before authorities say the 6-
year-old shot Zwerner. Newport
News Police Chief Steve Drew
see Shooting on A11
bow out
Lula seeks to squelch
online misinformation; Top adviser helped
far right sees ‘witch hunt’ steer first 2 years
First among inner circle
BY A NTHONY F AIOLA, to depart White House
S AMANTHA S CHMIDT
AND M ARINA D IAS
BY T YLER P AGER
BRASÍLIA — For conservative
wunderkind Nikolas Ferreira, the Ron Klain, President Biden’s
election last fall was a triumph: chief of staff, plans to step down in
He garnered more votes than any the coming weeks after playing a
other member of Brazil’s Con- central role in steering the admin-
gress. istration through its first two
Then he set about undermin- years, according to two people
ing the very election he’d just familiar with his plans, depriving
won. To his audience of nearly the president of his top adviser as
10 million followers online, the he enters a challenging new phase
26-year-old lawmaker questioned of his presidency.
the reliability of Brazil’s electron- During his tenure, Klain helped
ic voting machines — and sug- Biden navigate a closely divided
gested, without evidence, that de- Washington, a polarized country
feated former president Jair Bol- and a predecessor who falsely in-
sonaro might have been robbed of sisted he was the election’s right-
victory by an unscrupulous left. ful winner. The experienced insid-
The Brazilian judiciary, calling er was key to Biden’s success in
disinformation a singular threat winning a string of legislative vic-
to Latin America’s largest coun- tories, but he also oversaw the
try, has launched a crackdown on sometimes-rocky effort to defeat
anti-democratic speech and in- the covid-19 pandemic and a drop
citement that’s ensnaring politi- in the president’s popularity rat-
cians and influencers on the po- ings.
litical right. And in the days after Klain’s successor, who is likely
Bolsonaro supporters, many driv- to be named imminently, could
en by misinformation and disin- face even bigger challenges. Klain
formation, stormed the country’s would become the first member of
Congress, presidential palace and the president’s inner circle to
Supreme Court, Ferreira found leave the White House, and his
himself among the growing list of exit would come just as Republi-
Brazilian conservatives banned cans take control of the House of
by the courts from their social Representatives — determined to
media platforms. investigate the president and
“What is democracy when only block his agenda — and as Biden is
one side speaks?” Ferreira asked Zack Wittman for The Washington Post expected to launch his reelection
The Washington Post. “This is campaign.
clearly political persecution.” Klain, whose plans were first
Brazil, one of the world’s larg-
est democracies, is emerging as a
global laboratory for a highly
charged experiment: How to ad-
History lessons NEWBERRY, Fla. — The inscriptions on many of the
tombstones at the Pleasant Plain Cemetery tucked
in the north Florida woods are so worn by time and
weather that they are unreadable.
reported by the New York Times,
has not set an official exit date for
leaving. He has told colleagues he
will stay on through the State of
dress the rapid rise of misinfor-
mation, hate speech and incite-
ment that’s increasingly fueling
real-world actions?
challenge law But Marvin Dunn knows their stories.
On a recent afternoon, he gathered students and
their parents at the cemetery and told them about
the Rev. Josh J. Baskin and five other Black Floridi-
the Union address on Feb. 7 and
will assist with the transition to
his successor, the people said,
see Klain on A13
The new administration of left- ans hanged by a White mob from an oak tree in 1916
ist President Luiz Inácio Lula da A retired Florida professor teaches at sites after an accusation over a stolen hog sparked two
Silva, saying far-right misinfor- of racist events, defying DeSantis’s policy days of terror.
mation should be taken as seri-
ously as Islamist extremism, is
taking several steps. A new BY L ORI R OZSA
The painful chapter in Florida’s history known as
the Newberry Six lynchings is one the university
professor has taken pains to help document over
DOJ search of
watchdog within the executive
branch will be charged with
decades of research. It’s also one that he fears will be
removed from Florida history lessons under a new
Biden’s home
see Brazil on A16

Brazil: Lula ousts the army chief in

People gather before a ceremony to honor the victims
of the 1923 massacre in Rosewood, Fla.
education law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)
see Florida on A10 yields more
the Jan. 8 insurrection’s wake. A16 classified files
BY M ATT V ISER

A seal and a robot unveiled AND T YLER P AGER

The Justice Department on Fri-

a potential climate disaster day completed an extensive
search of President Biden’s home
in Wilmington, Del., and turned
BY C HRIS M OONEY made a standard Antarctic jour- up additional classified docu-
AND S IMON D UCROQUET ney, but then went in an unusual ments, some of which date to his
direction. time in the Senate and others from
This is a story about a curious In March 2011, he appeared his eight-year tenure as vice presi-
seal, a wayward robot and a just offshore from a vast ocean- dent, the president’s personal at-
gigantic climate change disaster front glacier called Denman, torney announced Saturday night.
that may be waiting to happen. where elephant seals are not After being given full access to
Scientists tagged a southern generally known to go. He dived Biden’s home — including to per-
elephant seal on the island of into a deep trough in the ocean sonally handwritten notes, files,
Kerguelen, an extraordinarily re- bed, roughly half a mile below papers and binders that covered
mote spot in the far southern the surface. And that is when decades of his work — the Justice
Indian Ocean, in 2011. The seal something striking happened: Department took possession of six
was a male close to 11 feet long He provided an early bit of evi- items. Those items, according to
weighing nearly 1,800 pounds, dence that Denman Glacier could the president’s personal attorney
and they fitted his head with an be a major threat to global coast- Bob Bauer, consisted of “docu-
ocean sensor, a device that these lines. ments with classification mark-
massive seals barely notice but The seal swam through unusu- ings and surrounding materials.”
that have proved vital to scientif- ally warm water, just below the The Justice Department also
ic research. freezing point, but in the Antarc- took some of Biden’s handwritten
Elephant seals like this one tic, that is warm. Given its salt Wojciech Grzedzinski For The Washington Post notes from his vice-presidential
swim more than 1,500 miles content and the extreme depths years to further review them.
south from Kerguelen to Antarc- and pressures involved — in Nine floors of random death and destruction It is the latest striking develop-
tica, where they often forage on some regions Denman Glacier Olga Korenovskaya attends the funeral of her husband, Mykhailo Korynovskyi, who was among ment in a fast-moving investiga-
the seafloor, diving to depths that see Glacier on A6 see Documents on A18
at least 46 people killed in a Russian rocket attack on an apartment building in Dnipro,
can exceed a mile below the

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surface. As summer in the South- ‘Toadzilla’: A toad weighing nearly Ukraine, on Jan. 14. The attack laid bare some of the terrifying realities of this war. Story, A19 Debt limit: White House readies
ern Hemisphere peaked, the seal 6 pounds might be a record. A6 a hard line with Republicans. A12

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