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Antibiotic Israeli government votes to limit court power

could slow
STIs, but at OPPOSITION UNABLE
TO DERAIL MEASURE

some cost Judicial overhaul begins,

but next steps unclear

Post-sex pill may fuel BY S TEVE H ENDRIX

AND S HIRA R UBIN
drug resistance even as it
helps prevent infections JERUSALEM — Israeli lawmakers
voted Monday to limit the Su-
preme Court’s ability to strike
down government actions, deliv-
BY F ENIT N IRAPPIL ering a long-sought goal of the
country’s ascendant right-wing
Public health officials are de- movement. The measure was
ploying a powerful new weapon pushed through despite months
in the war against rising sexually of civil unrest, international con-
transmitted infections: a com- demnations, and pleas from busi-
mon antibiotic that works as a ness and security leaders to seek
morning-after pill. consensus in a deeply divided
It is the latest advancement as society on the verge of chaos.
the sexual health field shifts to Lawmakers methodically vot-
preventive medicine — not just ed down 140 amendments from
condoms, abstinence and tests — the opposition, just as they had
as the best hope for quashing the shouldered through more than
pathogens that can spread during 1,000 objections in a week of
sex. preliminary maneuvering and
For the past decade, people more than six months of nation-
have been able to have unprotect- wide protests.
ed sex with a low risk of contract- Prime Minister Benjamin ne-
ing HIV thanks to daily pills tanyahu — just hours after leav-
known as PrEP, or pre-exposure ing the hospital where he had an
prophylaxis. But they were still emergency pacemaker implanted
susceptible to bacterial bugs, in- — sat calmly through the voting
cluding the recent spike in syphi- as shouts of derision rained
lis, gonorrhea and chlamydia — maHmoUd IlleaN/aP around him, occasionally leaving
until now. authorities use a water cannon to disperse people demonstrating against plans by the israeli government to overhaul the country’s for consultations. He took several
Recent studies show the anti- judicial system. Protesters had been camping in the heat of central Jerusalem for days, awaiting parliamentary action on the measure. phone calls, including from Is-
biotic doxycycline taken after sex- raeli President Isaac Herzog, who
ual encounters works as a post- was trying to broker a last-
exposure prophylaxis to prevent
those infections. But experts are Ally’s defiant turn to the right minute compromise.
But in a dramatic parliamenta-
also worried about unintended
consequences. The Centers for puts White House in a tight spot ry session, with shouts of
“Shame!” chanted by demonstra-
Disease Control and Prevention tors outside the Knesset and by
plans to release guidelines later BY M ERYL K ORNFIELD with increasing anger at Israel opposition members inside, the
this summer for deploying the from within Biden’s party and prime minister’s coalition of
treatment, known as DoxyPEP, in The Israeli parliament part- even among some in the Ameri- right-wing, religiously conserva-
hopes of addressing fears among ed ways with President Biden can Jewish community. tive and ultranationalist parties
medical professionals that pre- on Monday in taking its explo- “It is unfortunate that the stood steadfast.
ventive use would fuel antibiotic sive vote to weaken Israel’s vote took place today,” White Shortly before 4 p.m. local
SEE infections On a14 Supreme Court, rebuffing House press secretary Karine time, after opposition members
weeks of pleas from the presi- Jean-Pierre told reporters in a had left the chamber in protest,
dent not to do so without first gentle but unmistakable re- government loyalists voted 64-0
building consensus and creat- buke. “It happened with the in the 120-seat body to change

DNA testing ing tension between the United

States and one of its closest
slimmest possible majority.”
While the U.S.-Israel relation-
Israel’s Basic Law, stripping the
Supreme Court of some of its

casts doubt
allies. ship remains strong, she add- powers of judicial review. It was a
The White House responded ed, “the core of that relation- first victory in a more expansive
by issuing unusually clear signs ship is certainly on democratic plan to rein in the judiciary,

on verdicts of displeasure with Prime Min-

ister Benjamin netanyahu’s ac-
values — shared democratic
values and interests, and that
abIr SUlTaN/ePa-efe/SHUTTerSTock

israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, left, sits with Yariv

which has long been a thorn in
the side of Israel’s right wing.

in ’97 killing
tions, as it sought to balance will continue to be the case.” levin, deputy prime minister and minister of justice, during a “The courts will continue to be
longtime U.S. support for Israel SEE biden On a20 meeting of the Knesset to vote on the changes. SEE israel On a20

Lawyers for 3 prisoners

say results in Pa. case
point to unidentified man
A defense of diversity fell
to an o∞ce that lacks it
BY J USTIN J OUVENAL
U.S. government lawyers arguing cases before
In 1997, 70-year-old Henrietta
nickens died after she was beaten
the Supreme Court are disproportionately White
in the one-bedroom apartment
where she lived alone in the BY T OBI R AJI U.s. solicitor
Philadelphia suburbs. There was AND T HEODORIC M EYER General
evidence she may have been sexu- elizabeth b.
ally assaulted. When Solicitor General Eliza- Prelogar
Authorities accused a group of beth B. Prelogar defended college argued an
teens and young men, most of affirmative action programs be- affirmative
whom are Black, in the killing, fore the Supreme Court in Octo- action case in
alleging they broke into nickens’s ber, she cited the lack of diversity october.
home, robbed her of $30 and then in a group of people the justices
brutally hit her and left her to die. know well: the lawyers who argue “When there is that kind of
One had dated nickens’s grand- before them. gross disparity in representation,
daughter. Just two of 27 lawyers who ap- it can matter and it’s common
Three of the accused have al- peared before the court over the sense,” she told the justices.
ways maintained their inno- next two weeks would be women, Her argument didn’t sway the
cence, even as they have spent Prelogar told the justices — a sta- court’s conservative majority,
more than half of their lives tistic that she argued could lead which ruled last month that Har-
behind bars. now, attorneys for HeIdI levINe for THe WaSHINgToN PoST women to wonder whether they vard and the University of north
the men say newly tested DnA have a shot at arguing before the Carolina’s affirmative action pro-
evidence shows that the trio was Wreckage in Odessa Supreme Court. grams were unconstitutional.
wrongly accused and strongly A view of the Transfiguration Cathedral in the Ukrainian port city after Russian missiles ripped Prelogar cited only the dearth It did garner the attention of
suggests a stunning conclusion: of women and not of Black and the court’s three liberal justices,
apart the church. Odessa has faced nightly attacks since Russian President Vladimir Putin
A yet unidentified man is the true Hispanic lawyers arguing before who cited Prelogar’s remarks in a
culprit. canceled a grain deal last week. As debris was cleared from the cathedral, one of many monuments the court, but her message in a dissent, warning that “inequality
The attorneys say the case has badly damaged in the city, Ukraine launched drone attacks in Moscow and Crimea. Story, A12 case dealing with race-conscious in the pipeline to this institution,
SEE convictions On a4 admissions programs was clear. SEE diversitY On a8

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A grizzly bear at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center just outside Yellowstone National Park in West
Yellowstone, Mont., in 2017. The woman killed by a bear was found on a trail near West Yellowstone.
Service recommends that people according to the National Park
“keep at least 100 yards away Service. A federally protected
from bears at all times and never species of brown bear that once
approach a bear to take a photo.” roamed large swaths of the
Spokespeople with Custer Gal- mountains and prairies of the
latin National Forest, the Mon- American West, the grizzly bear
tana Department of Fish, Wild- now remains in a few isolated
life and Parks, and Yellowstone locations in the Lower 48 states,
National Park did not immedi- including Yellowstone.
ately respond to requests for The grizzly bear population
comment. has “expanded in abundance and
The woman’s death following a distribution in Montana in re-
grizzly bear encounter comes cent years,” which has proved to
days after an Arizona woman be a challenge for residents, ac-
visiting Yellowstone was gored cording to the Montana Depart-
by a bison as she was walking ment of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
away from the animal. The gor- “This [expansion] enhances
ing, which left Amber Harris, 47, the long-term prospects for pop-
with significant injuries to her ulation sustainability by increas-
chest and abdomen, was the first ing the likelihood of connectivity
incident of its kind at Yellow- between recovery zones,” the de-
stone in 2023; several events partment said on its website.
made headlines last year for “However, because grizzly bears
visitors being attacked for being can damage property and injure
too close to the bison. people, their closer proximity to
The estimated grizzly bear human habitation poses new
population has increased inside challenges for Montanans.”
the Yellowstone ecosystem in re- Even with the increased popu-
cent years. It rose from 136 in lation, grizzly bears are still faced
1975 to a peak of 1,063 in 2021, with danger. A grizzly bear in
DI gEST
Grande intended to stop in its lawsuit that the barrier
migrants from crossing the U.S.- was built without the federal
Mexico border. authorization that is legally
Abbott ordered the required under the Rivers and
installation of a 1,000-foot chain Harbors Act, which bars the
of orange buoys earlier this obstruction of U.S. waterways.
month at a busy area for illegal “We allege that Texas has
crossings near Eagle Pass, Tex. flouted federal law by installing
The barrier is one component of a barrier in the Rio Grande
“Operation Lone Star,” Abbott’s without obtaining the required
$4 billion campaign to bus federal authorization,” Associate
migrants to northern U.S. cities Attorney General Vanita Gupta
while deploying Texas state said in a statement announcing
police officers and National the lawsuit. “This floating
Guard troops to the border. barrier poses threats to
Texas officials have lined the Rio navigation and public safety and
Grande’s banks with new presents humanitarian concerns.
obstacles, including stacked Additionally, the presence of the
shipping containers and thickets floating barrier has prompted
of concertina wire. diplomatic protests by Mexico
The Justice Department says and risks damaging U.S. foreign
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Wyoming was found dead near
Yellowstone in May in a case that
sparked outrage among bear
watchers and environmental ac-
tivists concerned about how the
animal was found with a disfig-
ured face. The case remains un-
der investigation by federal and
state officials.
Grizzly bears can weigh any-
where between 200 to 700
pounds and adults are about 3.5
feet at the shoulder when stand-
ing on all fours, according to the
Park Service. The bears can climb
trees, swim and run up and
downhill up to 40 mph. They are
typically larger and have a “much
more aggressive behavior” than
black bears, the Park Service
says.
While bear attacks at Yellow-
stone are rare, the park averages
about one bear attack a year,
officials say. Eight people have
been killed in bear attacks at
Yellowstone since the national
park was established in 1872,
data shows. Three visitors were
killed by grizzly bears inside the
policy.”
Biden officials had given
Abbott until Monday to respond
to a letter requesting that he
commits to quickly removing the
buoys. But the Texas governor
continued to defend the use of
floating barriers despite the
threat of a lawsuit.
— Maegan Vazquez
NEW HAMPSHIRE
GOP ex-senator Ayotte
to run for governor
Former senator Kelly Ayotte
(R-N.H.) announced Monday
that she is running for New
Hampshire governor, seeking to
succeed Gov. Chris Sununu (R),
who said last week that he
park in separate incidents in 2011
and 2015. More than 40 people
have been injured in bear attacks
since 1979, the park says.
“More people have died by
drowning or suffering thermal
burns from hot springs than
aggressive bears,” the Park Serv-
ice said. “For all park visitors
combined, the chances of being
injured by a grizzly bear are
approximately 1 in 2.7 million
visits. The risk is significantly
lower for people who don’t leave
developed areas or roadsides,
and higher for anyone hiking in
the backcountry.”
Before the woman was found
dead on Saturday, the Montana
Department of Fish, Wildlife and
Parks had recently confirmed
sightings of grizzly bears that
hadn’t been seen in some places
in years, “and in some cases more
than a century.”
“Vigilance is important for
those who live and recreate in the
outdoors,” Quentin Kujala, chief
of conservation policy for the
department, said in a July 17
news release. “This is a busy time
of year for bears and our field
staff are responding to calls in
these particular areas and across
the state.”
Since all of Yellowstone is
considered bear territory, the
Park Service says there are tips
visitors can follow in a place
where “your safety cannot be
guaranteed.”
In addition to keeping at least
100 yards away from a grizzly
bear and not taking photos of the
animal, park officials urge visi-
tors to never feed bears and to
honk your horn and drive away
to discourage a bear from ap-
proaching or touching your car.
Officials have also recommended
that people make noise to scare a
bear away and carry bear spray, a
nonlethal deterrent used to stop
aggressive behavior in the ani-
mals that’s been proven to “re-
duce human injuries caused by
bears and the number of bears
killed by people in self-defense.”
The Montana agency recently
reiterated arguably its most im-
portant piece of advice: “Don’t
approach a bear.”
c OR R Ec TION S
l A July 24 Page One article about
hurdles facing President Biden’s
push for green energy incorrectly
reported the number of
renewable energy projects
rejected at the state and local
level as tracked by the Renewable
Rejection Database. A total of 79
projects have been rejected this
year, not 547. The article also
incorrectly said the number of
rejections had risen 15 percent
from last year. Fewer projects
have been rejected so far this year
compared with the total from
2022, when 138 were rejected.
l A July 22 A-section digest item
about Alabama’s newly adopted
congressional districts said that
the percentage of Black voters
increased in two of the districts.

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All the ways DeSantis is trying to rewrite Black history
Florida’s GOP governor
is shaping and limiting
what students can learn
BY H ANNAH N ATANSON
It is increasingly difficult to say
what Black history means in Flori-
da.
A host of laws and policies en-
acted during the controversial ad-
ministration of Gov. Ron DeSantis
(R) hem in teachers on all sides,
requiring them to give — or stay
away from — certain lessons, on
penalty of possibly losing their
jobs. A 2022 law mandates stu-
dents may not be made to “feel
guilt, anguish, or other forms of
psychological distress” because
they were forced to reflect on bad
acts committed in the past by
members of their race. And now,
according to curriculum stan-
dards released last week, Florida
students must learn that enslaved
people “developed skills” that
“could be applied for their person-
al benefit” — an assertion that
immediately drew fire from histo-
rians.
Over the past three years, De-
Santis, a candidate for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination,
has led his state through a rapid-
fire reevaluation of Black history
education. In that time, Florida
has adopted laws restricting the
teaching of race; repudiated an
Advanced Placement course that
DeSantis blasted as “woke”; re-
jected a host of math and social
studies textbooks partly for al-
leged references to critical race
theory; and, in late July, approved
a set of history standards empha-
sizing the benefits of slavery for
the enslaved.
DeSantis’s initiatives have di-
vided and riveted not only his
state, but also the nation. Some
warn of an erasure of the reality of
Black lives. “They are whitewash-
ing history and the African Ameri-
can experience in the United
States,” said Andrew Spar, head of
the Florida Education Associa-
tion.
Yet others laud these measures
as a needed corrective to liberal
bias in education. “The governor
and the Department of Education
is teaching history in a balanced
way, not from a one-sided point of
view that the United States is an
oppressive nation,” said Keith
Flaugh, co-founder and CEO of
the Florida Citizens Alliance, a
conservative education advocacy
group.
Each of the DeSantis adminis-
tration’s actions on Black history
has drawn harsh blowback from
not only the political left, but also
many educators and historians.
Last week’s release of the stan-
dards was no exception. It earned
bipartisan political condemna-
tion, too, from figures such as Vice
President Harris (D) and GOP
presidential candidates Will
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) speaks at the Moms for Liberty summit in Philadelphia on June 30.
DeSantis has guided state lawmakers to adopt laws restricting teaching about sex, gender and racism.
governor of New Jersey.
“Enslavement wasn’t a training
ground for job placement. It was
an institution that was horrific,”
said LaGarrett King, a professor at
the University at Buffalo and
founding director of the school’s
Center for K-12 Black History and
Racial Literacy Education.
Asked about the cascade of crit-
icism and the administration’s
track record on Black history
more generally, DeSantis press
secretary Jeremy Redfern sent a
link to tweets he posted quoting
William B. Allen, a member of
Florida’s African American His-
tory Standards working group, in
support of the curriculum he
helped develop. Contacted for
comment, Allen, a Black professor
emeritus at Michigan State Uni-
versity, wrote in an email that the
goal of the standards is to tell the
truth.
“It is correct that people held in
slavery both arrived with and de-
veloped skills that inured to their
personal benefit and accomplish-
ment,” Allen wrote. “I stand be-
hind the work of the group in its
literal rendering.”
DeSantis has spoken out in re-
cent days to back up the stan-
dards. He told a group of reporters
and supporters Friday that en-
slavement sometimes led to job
opportunities. “They’re probably
going to show some of the folks
that eventually parlayed, you
know, being a blacksmith into do-
ing things later in life,” DeSantis
said, addressing an almost all-
White crowd. He said the stan-
dards are “rooted in whatever is
factual.”
The governor’s intervention
into the teaching of Black history
dates at least to summer 2021.
That June, the state Board of Edu-
cation banned “critical race theo-
ry,” a catchall term used on the
right to denote various teachings
about race, and the New York
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rooms. DeSantis spoke to the
board before its meeting, telling
the members that “some of this
stuff is, I think, really toxic” and
that “we will not let them bring
nonsense ideology into Florida’s
schools.”
The campaign has since shifted
to state lawmakers. Between 2021
and 2023, the Republican-domi-
nated legislature — with DeSan-
tis’s guidance and encouragement
— adopted a raft of laws restrict-
ing teaching about sex, gender,
race and racism.
One such measure that took
effect in July 2022, known as the
“Stop WOKE Act,” prohibits
teaching that an individual, by
virtue of his or her race or color,
“bears responsibility for . . . ac-
tions committed in the past by
other members of the same race.”
Signing this law in April 2022,
DeSantis promised: “We are not
gonna use your tax dollars to
teach our kids to hate this country
or to hate each other.”
That same month, the Florida
Department of Education also re-
jected 54 math textbooks, some
for alleged references to critical
race theory. The department con-
ducted a similar review of social
studies textbooks this spring,
deeming more than 30 unaccept-
able, some because they conflict
with state laws on race education.
In early 2023, the Education
Department rejected a pilot ver-
sion of the College Board’s long-
planned AP African American
studies course, contending it
lacked “educational value.” De-
Santis declared the class a form of
“indoctrination.” DeSantis’s bash-
ing of the AP course led at least
four other states to launch reviews
of the program, The Washington
Post reported.
Most recently came the
216-page state academic stan-
dards, which encompass Black
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history. In addition to mandating
that teachers detail the benefits of
slavery for the enslaved, these
standards — approved unani-
mously by the Florida Board of
Education last week — specify
that, when talking about mob vio-
lence against Black citizens,
teachers must mention “acts of
violence perpetrated against and
by African Americans.”
The standards also say teachers
must highlight positive contribu-
tions made by Black leaders such
as Booker T. Washington and tell
fifth-graders about the “resilien-
cy” of Black Americans, such as
their efforts to help enslaved peo-
ple escape through the Under-
ground Railroad. Florida is one of
12 states with a law requiring the
teaching of Black history, per a
tally by Education Week. DeSan-
tis’s “Stop WOKE Act” reiterated
that teachers must discuss “the
history of African Americans” —
an element of the legislation tout-
ed by the governor’s supporters as
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history.
DeSantis has based his White
House bid on modeling a federal
agenda that mimics how he has
governed in Florida. He has em-
phasized using government pow-
er to shape corporate and aca-
demic positions on controversial
social issues, especially diversity
and sexuality.
The initial strength off DeSan-
tis’s landslide reelection as gover-
nor has faded in early polls as
Republicans have rallied around
former president Donald Trump
after his multiple indictments.
The DeSantis campaign is now
working to recalibrate its spend-
ing, events and media strategy,
with a special focus on pulling off
an upset in Iowa’s first-in-the-na-
tion nominating contest.
Teachers are already contact-
ing Spar of the Florida Education
Association about the standards,
he said, sharing worry and frus-
tration. If educators fail to teach
to the standards, they could lose
their teaching certificate, Spar
said. He added that by attacking
teachers’ certificates, Florida’s
government could also make it
very hard for erring teachers to
get school jobs in other states.
For mother Stephana Ferrell,
meanwhile, the standards added
weight to fears that children in the
state, including her elementary-
schoolers, are not learning true,
full history, with serious conse-
quences for their and the nation’s
future. Ferrell, who directs the
Florida Freedom to Read Project,
which advocates against book
bans in schools, said people have
advised her to supplement her
children’s education with outside
reading.
“But if my children decide they
want to go to college out of Flori-
da,” she asked, “will their applica-
tion be viewed the same way as
another student in another area of
the country who did have a more
robust education and an under-
standing of our shared history?”
To others, though, DeSantis is a
hero.
Flaugh of the Florida Citizens
Alliance said schoolteachers have
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ative aspects of U.S. history in
recent years, especially the
wrongs and violence done to
Black people. He said DeSantis is
fighting against what he called a
depressing, harmful and inaccu-
rate trend.
“The balance was just not
there,” he said, “in terms of teach-
ing our kids what actually hap-
pened.”
Some historians take issue with
this characterization.
Donald Ritchie, former histo-
rian of the U.S. Senate who has
written history textbooks since
the 1970s, said America has a long
tradition of justifying slavery. He
said the “moonlight and magno-
lia” school of thought held sway
from the 1860s to the 1960s, as-
serting that plantations were love-
ly places in which enslavers treat-
ed the enslaved like family.
Only in the 1960s through the
1990s did historians begin to reas-
sess that rosy picture, relying on
1930s-era interviews with former
enslaved people as well as run-
away slave advertisements in
newspapers and records docu-
menting enslaved people’s rebel-
lions. The consensus, Ritchie said,
was overwhelming.
“They began to get a slave’s
perspective, and it’s much darker,”
Ritchie said. “The benefits of slav-
ery were entirely to the slaveown-
ers. Enslaved people did not ben-
efit from slavery; that is a point of
view that has been pretty much
refuted.”
Still, over the weekend, Red-
fern, the DeSantis spokesperson,
sent The Washington Post a mes-
sage justifying the new state stan-
dards.
The message linked to an Ency-
clopedia.com entry titled “Crafts
and Slave Handicrafts: An Over-
view.” The first sentence of the
entry states, “There is ample evi-
dence regarding the production of
crafts by slaves in the American
colonies and during the antebel-
lum period in the Untied [sic]
States.”
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new trials, citing DNA tests
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striking parallels to the infamous
1989 rape of a Central Park jogger,
in which a group of Black and
brown teens were charged and
later exonerated in a case that
became a glaring example of ra-
cial bias in the justice system. The
attorneys are hoping for the same
outcome in the Pennsylvania
case.
Attorneys for the national In-
nocence Project, the Pennsylva-
nia Innocence Project and Centu-
rion, a group that works on inno-
cence cases, will now test their
theory, which is rejected by pros-
ecutors, when they ask a judge at
a Tuesday hearing to vacate the
convictions and order new trials.
The new tests did not find the
DNA of any of the four men
prosecuted — morton Johnson,
Derrick Chappell, Samuel Grasty
and richard mcElwee — in Nick-
ens’s apartment, despite a violent
struggle there that the attorneys
argue would have left traces. The
men’s DNA was also not found on
the only piece of physical evi-
dence allegedly linking them to
the crime, a green jacket left at
the scene.
The men’s attorneys say the
tests plainly point to an alternate
suspect. They contend that an-
other man, whose genetic materi-
al is now known to have been in
several places at the crime scene,
raped and killed Nickens.
The new tests for the first time
revealed that that man’s DNA was
mixed with Nickens’s on her bed,
where blood was spattered and a
can of mace was nearby. The same
genetic profile also was found on
the green jacket and on a chewed
straw in a jacket pocket, indicat-
ing it belonged to the man and
not the defendants, attorneys ar-
gue.
The same unknown man’s ge-
netic profile was previously iden-
tified in semen recovered from
Nickens’s rectum during her au-
topsy in the late 1990s. Attorneys
for the defendants argue that the
semen was likely the result of
sexual assault because Nickens
had no boyfriend and was in poor
health.
The unknown man’s genetic
profile has been run through a
law enforcement DNA database
but has produced no hits to date.
Nilam Sanghvi, an attorney
with the Pennsylvania Innocence
Project who is representing
Chappell, said the new evidence
rules out any known forensic
links between the convicted men
and the crime.
“We now have the DNA evi-
dence that really shows this was
done by one unknown person,”
Sanghvi said. “The defendants
have been excluded from every-
thing. The notion that [the] four
… could somehow commit this
crime without leaving a trace of
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their DNA seems absurd.”
Delaware County District At-
torney Jack Stollsteimer does not
contest the new DNA evidence
but is opposing the motion to
vacate the convictions. His office
argues in a brief that the DNA
tests would not have changed the
outcomes of the men’s trials — the
chief legal standard for the relief
the defendants are asking for.
Prosecutors argue it was re-
vealed during the legal proceed-
ings that DNA found on Nickens’s
body did not match any of the
alleged perpetrators, so the new
tests would not be enough to
change jurors’ minds. Stollsteim-
er’s office declined to comment
before the hearing.
“Absent compelling evidence
of innocence, the trial court’s
verdict should not be disturbed,”
a prosecutor wrote in a brief.
“The postconviction DNA evi-
dence is neither compelling nor is
it evidence of innocence.”
A heinous murder
Nickens, who was Black, lived
about 35 minutes southwest of
Philadelphia.
She spent the evening of oct. 9,
1997, with her daughter, the
daughter’s boyfriend and her
granddaughter eating dinner and
playing cards in her apartment,
according to the prosecutor’s
brief. After leaving, the daughter
talked to Nickens by phone until
11 p.m., she later testified at trial.
Nothing was amiss.
But when the daughter re-
turned the next day, she found a
scene of horror. She testified that
Nickens’s front door was un-
locked and that when she went
inside the apartment, it looked
“like a tornado hit it.”
Blood was spattered on a wall
and the bed, items were scattered
everywhere and Nickens was
dead, lying facedown on the floor,
according to the prosecutor’s
brief. Nickens’s underwear had
been removed and was found
near the body, according to a brief
by Grasty’s attorney.
The daughter also testified
that she noticed something that
was not there the night before: a
green jacket draped on a TV.
Police were called and Nick-
ens’s family told investigators
that Grasty, who was 20 and lived
nearby, might be involved in the
slaying because the granddaugh-
ter had recently told Grasty she
was pregnant by him and he
didn’t believe he was the father,
according to the prosecutor’s
brief. Grasty is a cousin of John-
son, then 18, and friends with
Chappell and mcElwee, who were
both 15.
The medical examiner ruled
Nickens’s death a homicide and
found that she had blunt-force
injuries to her face and head. The
examiner found that the injuries
aggravated preexisting heart and
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researchers said the gap in
excess death rates was larger in
counties with lower vaccination
rates and noted that the gap was
driven primarily by voters in
ohio. The results suggest that
differences in vaccination atti-
tudes and the uptake among re-
publican and Democratic voters
“may have been factors in the
severity and trajectory of the pan-
demic” in the United States.
In their paper, Yale researchers
Jacob Wallace, Jason L. Schwartz
and Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
cautioned the data did not in-
clude individual causes of death
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lung disease, which led to Nick-
ens’s death in the minutes or
hours after the attack.
The examiner also discovered
semen in Nickens’s rectum, but
found little other evidence of
injuries consistent with sexual
assault, according to the prosecu-
tor’s brief. Nickens’s daughter
would testify at trial that her
mother did not have any known
male companions.
An informer also told police
she overheard mcElwee, Grasty,
Johnson and Chappell discussing
their involvement in Nickens’s
killing, according to the prosecu-
tor’s brief.
In an effort to gain evidence on
Grasty, Chester Police Detective
Todd Nuttall reached out to the
narcotics division to see if they
had anything on mcElwee, who
was mildly intellectually disabled
and had an IQ of 69, according to
a brief by Johnson’s attorney.
Nuttall learned that mcElwee
had twice sold drugs to undercov-
er officers without being charged,
so he brought mcElwee in and
interrogated him about Nickens’s
killing, according to Johnson’s
brief. for two hours, mcElwee
denied involvement, but even-
tually implicated himself and his
friends in the slaying.
on the night of the killing,
mcElwee told investigators, he
served as a lookout while John-
son, Grasty and Chappell broke
“We now have the DNA evidence that really shows
this was done by one unknown person. The
defendants have been excluded from everything.”
Nilam Sanghvi, an attorney with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project
who is representing Chappell
into the back door of Nickens’s
apartment and robbed her of $30,
according to Johnson’s brief. The
day after the statement, Chester
police charged mcElwee with
murder, sex crimes and other
counts.
Nuttall did not respond to mes-
sages seeking comment.
Authorities dropped the sex
charges against mcElwee after a
DNA test ruled out him, Johnson,
Chappell and Grasty as contribu-
tors to the semen found on Nick-
ens’s body.
As part of a plea deal, mcElwee
agreed to testify against Johnson,
Grasty and Chappell in exchange
for a reduced sentence of six to 12
years, according to Johnson’s
brief. mcElwee was sentenced in
1999.
The attorneys for Johnson,
Grasty and Chappell have raised
doubts about mcElwee’s story.
They point out that he told inves-
tigators the break-in occurred at
10 p.m. and lasted five to 20
minutes, while Nickens’s daugh-
“We have all these
data points that really
highlight the relevance
of sound public health
policy.”
Neil Jay Sehgal, associate
professor at the University of
Washington School of Public Health
samuel Grasty, Derrick chappell and Morton Johnson, seen in undated photos, were convicted in the
1997 murder of Henrietta Nickens, 70, of chester, Pa. They will get a new hearing in court on Tuesday.
ter said she talked to her mom
until about 11 p.m. that night.
mcElwee’s mother testified at tri-
al that he was home by 10:30 p.m.
Vanessa Potkin, an attorney
with the Innocence Project repre-
senting Johnson, said mcElwee
was vulnerable to manipulation
because of his age and mental
capacity and because he possibly
faced a lengthy sentence. mcEl-
wee and his family did not re-
spond to multiple requests for
comment.
“Police are bringing in, interro-
gating and putting pressure on
mcElwee,” Potkin said. “Essen-
tially, the whole case rests on the
word of an intellectually disabled
teenager facing life in prison.”
Trials and a push for
innocence
Two years after Nickens’s kill-
ing, Johnson, Grasty and Chap-
pell were charged with murder
and other counts. The men faced
separate trials that played out in
2000 and 2001.
Prosecutors argued that Grasty
was angry that Nickens’s grand-
daughter had said she was preg-
nant with his child, so he per-
suaded his cousin and friends to
rob Nickens, according to the
prosecutor’s brief. mcElwee testi-
fied against the three other defen-
dants in each of their trials, laying
out his account of the break-in.
During two of the trials, Nut-
tall and witnesses offered testi-
mony that the green jacket found
in Nickens’s apartment looked
like one owned by Grasty, linking
the defendants to the scene of the
crime.
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or whether someone had been
vaccinated. The data did not look
at voters who had no party affilia-
tion and was limited to florida
and ohio, which aren’t neat com-
parisons to other states.
The excess death rates between
groups could be affected by other
factors, such as differences in
education, race, ethnicity, under-
lying conditions and access to
health care, said Wallace, an assis-
tant professor at the Yale School
of Public Health and the lead
author.
“We’re not saying that if you
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the washington post
At all three trials, prosecutors
revealed that the DNA found on
Nickens’s body did not match any
of the defendants, but offered no
definitive explanation for how it
got there. They called it a “mys-
tery” at one trial.
They also alternately suggest-
ed that Nickens might have had
consensual sex before her attack;
that Johnson, Grasty and Chap-
pell might have picked up a used
condom and deposited the semen
on Nickens to cover up their
crime; or that another person
could have entered Nickens’s
apartment after the trio left and
raped her as she lay dying or after
she was dead, according to the
brief by Grasty’s attorney.
Paul Casteleiro, an attorney
with Centurion who is represent-
ing Grasty, called those possibili-
ties “preposterous.”
“Their original theory … was
that the person whose semen is in
this woman’s rectum is the per-
son who did this,” Casteleiro said.
“They went ahead and did the
[DNA] testing and the theory
didn’t comport with the guy they
wanted to pin it on, so they just
abandoned the theory even
though the evidence supports it.”
Johnson and Chappell were
offered deals before trial that
would have given them six-to-12-
year sentences, but both rejected
guilty pleas and decided to mount
cases for their innocence, accord-
ing to Johnson’s brief. Johnson,
Chappell and Grasty were all
found guilty of murder and sen-
tenced to life in prison.
After the final sentencing for
Johnson in 2002, Nickens’s fam-
ily expressed relief. The Philadel-
phia Inquirer reported at the
time that Nickens’s sister, Estella
Payne, cried and held a framed
photo of her sister outside the
courtroom.
“I hope this family will be able
to heal,” Payne said. “I hope these
young men repent of their sins
and ask the Lord to forgive them.”
Nickens’s son, Edward, said
simply: “Justice has been served.”
filiation and were to change it
from the Democratic Party to the
republican Party that they would
be more likely to die from covid-
19,” Wallace said.
researchers also pointed out
that more than 50 million Ameri-
cans have yet to get an initial
coronavirus vaccine and that rea-
sons often extend “beyond politi-
cal beliefs or party affiliation
alone.” Surveys have shown re-
publicans lagged in vaccination
rates, including for booster shots.
Kff estimated that between June
2021 and march 2022, at least
234,000 covid-19 deaths could
have been prevented if people had
received a primary series of vacci-
nations.
The Yale study adds to a grow-
ing body of research indicating
that republican messaging on
vaccines and other public health
measures such as mask-wearing,
limiting crowds and social dis-
tancing may have led to prevent-
able deaths.
Last year, a study from re-
searchers at the University of
maryland and University of Cali-
fornia at Irvine published in
Health Affairs concluded that re-
publican-majority counties expe-
rienced nearly 73 additional
deaths per 100,000 people rela-
tive to majority Democratic coun-
ties through october 2021. The
study suggested that vaccine up-
take accounted for only 10 per-
cent of the republican-Democrat
gap in deaths.
“We have all these data points
that really highlight the relevance
of sound public health policy,”
said Neil Jay Sehgal, who led the
maryland study and is now an
associate professor at the Univer-
sity of Washington School of Pub-
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Nickens’s relatives did not re-
turn calls for comment.
The men spent the decades
that followed filing appeals and
attempting to challenge their
convictions from prison. At
times, the men filed their own
motions. Kenyett LeBue, John-
son’s sister, said the intervening
years have been difficult.
LeBue and Johnson lost a sis-
ter in a fire and morton’s incar-
ceration has been like another
death in the family, LeBue said.
He’s missed graduations, family
reunions and a memorial service
for his sister. LeBue described her
brother as outgoing, witty and
sarcastic. He was the baby of the
family.
“It’s been hard on the family.
It’s really hard,” LeBue said. “We
can’t get back those memories we
could have made.”
Johnson is now 43 and has
spent more than two decades in
prison, like the other defendants.
Chappell is 41 and Grasty is 46.
The defendants eventually got
the innocence groups to take up
their cases. Under Pennsylvania
law, defendants can request post-
conviction testing or retesting of
DNA evidence if they meet cer-
tain criteria. Prosecutors agreed
to the new round of testing in
2021.
After the results were returned
last year, the men’s attorneys filed
the motions to vacate their con-
victions. The judge could decide
on the motions Tuesday, but is
more likely to issue a ruling in the
weeks or months to come.
Potkin said Johnson, who was
held in pretrial detention, would
have served less than four more
years after sentencing if he had
accepted the plea deal from pros-
ecutors. He would have been
home from prison long ago.
“Because he maintained his
innocence, exercised his right to a
trial and had hope in the system
and a belief that truth would
prevail, he ended up punished
infinitely more than if he falsely
admitted guilt,” Potkin said.
lic Health.
The release of the Yale study
comes as the vaccine rollout and
policies under President Biden
have faced criticism by some re-
publicans, including members of
the republican-led House Select
Subcommittee on the Coronavi-
rus Pandemic.
In florida, Gov. ron DeSantis
(r) pushed the rollout of vaccines
early in the pandemic. But as he
prepared to mount a bid for the
republican presidential nomina-
tion, DeSantis displayed in-
creased hostility toward vaccines,
petitioning for a state grand jury
to investigate supposed wrongdo-
ing related to vaccines. The flori-
da Health Department even is-
sued a “health alert” on mrNA
vaccine safety, which drew sharp
rebukes.
Public health officials fear
mixed messaging on coronavirus
vaccines by republicans is shap-
ing attitudes toward the vaccines
in dangerous ways.
In a nationwide survey pub-
lished in march by the University
of South florida, only 49 percent
of republicans said they were
“very” or “somewhat confident”
that coronavirus vaccines are
safe, contrasted with 88 percent
of Democrats. Stephen r. Neely, a
professor at USf’s School of Pub-
lic Affairs who conducted the sur-
vey, said the Yale study was im-
portant because it highlighted
how sharply partisanship over
coronavirus vaccine safety and
efficacy has led to unnecessary
deaths.
“It’s one of the most telling
metrics I’ve seen in how the politi-
cization of the pandemic has
played out in the real world,”
Neely said.
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As 3rd indictment looms, many in GOP stand by Trump
He retains support even
among voters weary of
legal woes, rhetoric
BY S ABRINA R ODRIGUEZ
BooNE, Iowa — Vickie Farmer,
66, knows her presidential candi-
date of choice comes off as “abra-
sive, offensive and sometimes
looks orange,” but she’s all-in for
Donald Trump for a third time —
especially in the face of what she
sees as a never-ending legal witch
hunt.
Randy Mitchell, 70, is tired of
all the controversy surrounding
Trump — he thinks the former
president’s legal troubles are a
farce — but he concedes that he
will vote for him again if he’s the
2024 GOP nominee.
But Amy Rohe, who’s in her
mid-40s, thinks the Republican
Party — and the country — needs
someone fresh with new ideas
who isn’t pushing a personal
agenda. She voted for Trump
twice but doesn’t plan to support
him again. Too much baggage,
she says.
During a hot, sunny weekend
at the Boone County Fair — where
hundreds of Iowans came togeth-
er to eat funnel cakes and corn
dogs and to watch their children
and grandchildren show off ani-
mals from their family farms —
the range of Republican voters’
views on Trump, the undisputed
front-runner in state and nation-
al polls, was on full display. Inter-
views with GOP voters in the
rural county, which Trump car-
ried by double-digit percentage
points in 2016 and 2020, show
that Trump continues to have a
tight grip on the party, even
among those who have grown
weary of his rhetoric and legal
troubles.
Even with the backdrop of
Trump facing another potential
indictment over his efforts to
overturn the 2020 election, many
GOP voters wrote off the former
president’s legal challenges as
part of a continued liberal smear
campaign and said it didn’t im-
pact the image — positive or
negative — they already have of
him. Some, however, said they
were tired of all the drama sur-
rounding Trump and are increas-
ingly open to other candidates as
they look to 2024.
In a Fox Business survey of
Iowa Republicans released Sun-
day, Trump continued to domi-
nate the GOP primary field, gar-
nering support from 46 percent
of likely Republican caucus-goers
and leading the field by 30 per-
cent. The same poll found that
Trump is seen as the candidate
with the best chance of defeating
President Biden.
Trump is facing two live indict-
ments: Manhattan District Attor-
ney Alvin Bragg’s indictment ac-
cusing Trump of paying hush
money to an adult-film actress
before the 2016 election and spe-
cial counsel Jack Smith’s indict-
ment in Florida in June accusing
Trump of mishandling classified
documents. Another potential in-
dictment from Smith’s investiga-
tion could come as early as this
week into Trump’s attempts to
overturn the 2020 election, while
an Atlanta-area district attorney
is investigating efforts to over-
turn Trump’s electoral defeat in
Georgia.
Mitchell, who has been in-
volved with the Boone County
Republican Central Committee
for more than a decade, sat be-
hind the local party’s booth in the
air-conditioned vendor area on
Saturday afternoon and handed
out kernels of corn to fairgoers
Biden campaign beefs up data, analytics operation
BY T YLER P AGER
During the 2020 Democratic
primary, Joe Biden’s campaign
had scant resources and stunted
momentum as it braced for dis-
appointing finishes in Iowa and
New Hampshire. As the cam-
paign prepared for the make-or-
break moment of Super Tuesday,
when 14 states would hold pri-
maries or caucuses, a small
group of staffers in the Philadel-
phia headquarters suggested a
plan to maximize Biden’s pros-
pects.
The strategy called for pouring
resources such as ads, endorse-
ments and media into specific
congressional districts where
Biden could sweep the delegate
haul rather than splitting it with
other candidates. The plan suc-
ceeded: On March 3, Biden won
nearly 100 more delegates than
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), cata-
pulting him from underperform-
er to likely nominee.
On Monday, President Biden’s
campaign elevated two of the
Watermelon is passed out Saturday at Iowa’s Boone County Fair, where interviews with GOP voters show Donald Trump continues to have
a tight grip on the Republican Party, even as he faces another potential indictment over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
passing by for its informal poll.
GOP voters were asked to drop
their kernel in labeled jars for the
primary candidate they plan to
support.
The 70-year-old pointed to
Trump’s jar — which clearly had
more kernels than the rest — and
said he had mixed feelings about
the former president. He called
Trump a “promise keeper” who
“gets things done” and said he
still has a hat that Trump auto-
graphed at a rally in 2016. But he
said he wished Trump would stop
picking fights with everyone.
“I’m worn out by all the contro-
versy,” Mitchell said as he leaned
on the table with fliers for GOP
candidates including Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim
Scott (S.C.), businessman Vivek
Ramaswamy, former U.N. ambas-
sador Nikki Haley and former
vice president Mike Pence. “If he
makes it through, I’ll probably …
I just don’t know if I’ll support
him in the caucus. I get tired of it.”
Mitchell said he’s curious to
learn more about Ramaswamy
and Scott but isn’t convinced
about the hype around DeSantis,
who remains a distant second in
most polls. He said, however, that
he thinks all of Trump’s recent
legal troubles are part of a “witch
hunt” that stem from him “pok-
ing the bear all the time.” Mitchell
added that the Jan. 6, 2021, attack
on the U.S. Capitol was a “farce”
and that the Justice Department
was after Trump. He worries it
will impact Trump’s chances of
winning.
Just a few booths down, Farm-
er heard that the local GOP was
handing out kernels for the corn
poll and she made her way to the
booth to drop one in Trump’s jar.
“He’s the only choice, in my
opinion,” she said.
Farmer has been a Trump sup-
porter from the start, but in the
years since Biden came into of-
fice, her support for the former
president has only grown. She
said she’s most worried about the
economy, because she sees her
adult children living paycheck to
paycheck and at times struggling
to juggle food and gas costs.
“I was very happy with the way
things were going. I don’t think
he is guilty of nearly all of the
things they’re accusing him of,”
advisers behind that strategy to
top positions in his reelection
effort, part of a broader effort to
make data and analytics central
to his push for a second term.
Becca Siegel, who served as
chief analytics officer for the
2020 campaign, was named a
senior adviser to lead those ef-
forts, and Meg Schwenzfeier,
who was the data science direc-
tor, will serve as chief analytics
officer.
Political campaigns have in-
creasingly employed data scien-
tists and engineers to better
understand the electorate and
inform decisions on where to
spend time and money. The
Biden campaign says those ef-
forts will be turbocharged this
cycle, becoming central to how
the campaign targets and con-
nects with voters over the next 16
months.
As software programs become
smarter and more powerful, they
are increasingly able to provide
nuanced profiles of specific
groups. And technology provides
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she said, sitting next to a table she
set up with her husband to sell
scented wax melts and other
home goods. “I think there’s a
smear campaign to try to keep
him from getting into office.”
Farmer wouldn’t weigh in on
the Jan. 6 insurrection but said
she didn’t think the 2020 election
was carried out “legally and fair.”
“If indeed he tried to overturn
it, I don’t blame him,” Farmer
said, adding that she would “ab-
solutely” back Trump in the Iowa
caucuses in January.
Many Boone County fairgoers,
like Farmer, were supporting
Trump. Dozens of kernels were in
his jar at the GOP booth, while
Roxanne and Harold Bickelhaupt voted for Trump twice and said
they would vote for him again in a matchup with President Biden.
a growing number of ways to
contact them.
“The reason that I’m excited
about our roles, and the role of
data and analytics and strategy
generally this time, is that there
are just more options for how we
reach people,” said Siegel, who
joined the White House after the
2020 campaign to work on covid
response. “To keep them all orga-
nized and in alignment with our
strategy requires more support
and more leadership as these
options grow and change.”
The Biden team’s emphasis on
these efforts is clear: Siegel and
Schwenzfeier are among the first
staffers to be hired by the cam-
paign, which is trying to run a
lean operation as long as possi-
ble.
Siegel said the team will re-
search how and where people get
their information, then tailor its
messages to particular kinds of
voters. The campaign will deter-
mine whether to reach out to
them through direct mail, televi-
sion spots, digital ads or in-per-
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DeSantis and Scott were visibly in
second and third place. Other
candidates had no kernels or just
a few. A day earlier, the final tally
showed Trump with 54 kernels,
DeSantis with 8 and Scott with 7.
Outside in the afternoon sun,
sporting a “Let’s go Brandon”
T-shirt, Rob Loew, 47, said he
would be backing Trump again in
the 2024 election even though
he’s convinced that his vote
doesn’t matter and elections are
rigged.
He said he was convinced the
indictments were all aimed to
hinder Trump from picking up
more momentum on the cam-
paign trail.
son door knocking. And it will
decide who would make the best
messengers in each case — elect-
ed officials, celebrities, commu-
nity leaders or friends and fam-
ily.
“The work of persuading vot-
ers and turning out voters is
everlasting,” Siegel said. “It goes
on at all times. From the day the
election is over in 2020 to now,
there’s work to be done.”
And data findings can lead to
strategy. On Super Tuesday 2020,
the innovation of the data team
was to focus on congressional
districts that award delegates on
a winner-take-all basis, maximiz-
ing the impact of even a small
Biden win.
Schwenzfeier oversaw data
and analytics for the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign Committee
during the 2022 midterms, when
Democrats expanded their Sen-
ate majority, and said one of the
biggest challenges for campaigns
is keeping up with Americans’
ever-changing media habits.
“I think the way that Becca
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“Trump might be very self-cen-
tered, but he’s not bought and
paid for by the ‘deep state.’ They
can’t buy him, and that’s why they
want to get rid of him,” Loew said.
“This new stuff they’re pulling
out again about Jan. 6, they’re
just doing to try to put him in a
position that he can’t campaign
as much and he’s going to be in
and out of court.”
Roxanne and Harold Bickel-
haupt, both 72, were less inclined
to defend Trump, as they sat
waiting for their grandchildren,
who came to the fair to show off
their family’s animals including
goats, horses and rabbits. The
couple, who have been married
for 50 years, voted for Trump
twice and will vote for him again
if it’s a matchup between Biden
and Trump, but they don’t neces-
sarily like Trump as a person.
“I can’t say I like the guy, but I
did like the way he ran the
country,” Harold said as he sipped
on a Gatorade and sat in the
shade beside his wife. “I think he
could’ve handled [Jan. 6] better
than what he did. But until you’re
in that situation, how do you
know for sure how you’d handle
it?”
His wife nodded. “They’re just
kind of picking on him. Yeah, I’m
sure some of what’s being said
he’s probably done. But all of our
presidents have got something.”
Meanwhile, Rohe is less invest-
ed in whether Trump is innocent
or guilty of trying to overturn the
election or inciting the insurrec-
tion on Jan. 6. She wants the
country to move on. Instead, she’s
more concerned about the safety
of the country and of her 11-year-
old son Tommy.
“We don’t need to continue to
rehash all this stuff,” she said
after her son participated in a dog
obstacle-course competition with
his 2-year-old dog Lucy. “It’s slow-
ing us down from progressing
and moving forward like America
does. I hope there’s somebody
fresh on both sides for us to have
good luck to move forward. Be-
cause there’s a lot of baggage all
around.”
So far, Rohe is a fan of the
national security-focused mes-
sage she’s heard from North Da-
kota Gov. Doug Burgum and
wishes South Dakota Gov. Kristi
and I are thinking about it is not
in terms of any one tool or
platform, but making sure that
the way that we’re talking to
voters across platforms and
across tools is coherent, and then
keeping track of all of that and
making sure that we understand
where we’re meeting voters and
who we still need to talk to,” she
said.
That, Schwenzfeier added, is
“a huge logistical and infrastruc-
ture undertaking.”
Julie Chavez Rodriguez,
Biden’s campaign manager, said
integrating data and research
into the campaign’s overall strat-
egy will be a priority, calling
Siegel and Schwenzfeier “two of
the brightest minds in the Demo-
cratic Party.”
“Both Becca and Meg were
instrumental in President Biden
and Vice President Harris’ 2020
victory, presenting a clear and
accurate picture of the electorate
and getting it right when it
mattered most,” she said in a
statement. “With their leader-
ship, our campaign will use data
to take a holistic view of all the
ways we are interacting and
communicating with voters, to
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L. Noem was running in the
primary, but she’s not committed
to supporting anyone yet. She
does, however, know she doesn’t
want Trump again.
“I feel like he’s just gone off the
deep end,” she said. “And we need
somebody who wants to repre-
sent us as a whole and not just
themselves.”
Carl McKnight, 72, blocked the
summer sun at the fair with a red
bucket hat that read “Trump
won.” McKnight remains a loyal
Trump supporter and doesn’t
think “we should gamble on
somebody else.”
He said he understands that
some people are turned off by
Trump’s personality and all the
negative headlines around him,
but he personally doesn’t think
Trump has “ever made a wrong
decision” and feels he’s a “winner
who bounces back.” He’s already
had conversations with several
GOP voters in his community to
urge them to support Trump even
if they don’t like him because he
can keep the country out of war
and get the economy back on
track.
On Trump’s legal battles, he
feels people should give him the
benefit of the doubt. But it does
keep McKnight up at night to see
indictments piling up for Trump
— not because it’s affecting his
support but because he worries
it’s having an impact on other
supporters.
“Nobody wants to waste their
vote if they think you can’t win,”
McKnight said.
In New Hampshire, a similar
picture emerged in conversations
with GOP voters attending events
for Pence. Several said the indict-
ments against Trump were not a
significant factor in their think-
ing about the upcoming primary.
Even those who are open to
supporting an alternative candi-
date did not cite the indictments
as a reason, and several viewed it
as an example of a weaponized
Justice Department.
“The whole thing is very, very
tragic for our country,” said Bren-
da Dolan, 74, a registered Repub-
lican in Florida, who attended a
garden party for Pence in New
Hampshire and is undecided.
“There may have been wrongdo-
ing, but it reeks of election inter-
ference, unfortunately. The tim-
ing is bad. Everything is bad
about it. … It’s a terrible distrac-
tion, it’s a distraction for the
country, it’s a distraction for him.
My heart breaks for his family.”
Warren Ignacio, a Republican
voter in Massachusetts who plans
to support Pence, described the
Trump indictments as “humiliat-
ing to the country, to the Ameri-
can people. These committees
coming up with false or making
up things, making up different
rules, just to affect this election
and just for one guy. Because he’s
not liked. He’s not liked because
he did good.”
Other voters said that they
were waiting for more informa-
tion about the indictments.
Reggie Pettitt, another New
Hampshire Republican who at-
tended the Pence town hall and is
open to supporting Trump again,
said he has “some significant
questions with regard to the tim-
ing of things.”
When asked whether the in-
dictments factor into his candi-
date choice, Pettitt said, “I
wouldn’t disregard that, I
wouldn’t ignore that.”
“If something surfaces eviden-
tiary in one of those, or multiple
pieces of evidence, that could
sway me to a position where I’m
considering it more heavily,” he
said.
Marianne leVine in new hampshire
contributed to this report.
ensure we’re reaching the right
people in the right ways to win in
2024.”
Siegel and Schwenzfeier will
join only a handful of staffers
working directly on Biden’s cam-
paign at this point. Since it
launched in April, the campaign
has built only a skeletal staff,
part of a strategy to rely heavily
on the Democratic National
Committee, state parties and out-
side groups. The goal is to save
money by taking advantage of
changes in campaign finance
rules.
The Biden campaign has been
operating out of the DNC’s offices
in Washington, but some staffers
will soon begin to work out of a
campaign headquarters in Wilm-
ington, Del.
“We don’t believe that data can
answer every single question or
solve every problem or make
every decision for a campaign,”
Siegel said. “It’s more we want to
use it to the best of its abilities
and inject it into all the places
where we can use it and make
sure that people have the very
best information possible when
they are making strategic cam-
paign decisions.”
tuesday, july 25 , 2023 . the washington post
‘Oppenheimer’ may have exaggerated the threat of an Earth-ending bomb
BY M ARK J OHNSON
In a chilling, existential, bi-
zarrely comic moment, the new
movie “Oppenheimer” revives an
old question: Did Manhattan
Project scientists think there was
even a minute possibility that
detonating the first atomic bomb
on the remote plains of New
Mexico could destroy the world?
The long, strange history of
what came to be known as the
“atmospheric ignition” scenario
has been distorted over the years,
and the movie distorts it further.
The nightmarish idea was this:
The tremendous fireball generat-
ed by the bomb is so great that it
heats nitrogen atoms in the at-
mosphere to the point that their
atomic cores, called nuclei, fuse.
The energy released causes more
nuclei to fuse, triggering a run-
away reaction that sets the at-
mosphere ablaze.
And this is the way the world
ends.
Except that it didn’t. And phys-
icists knew it wouldn’t, long be-
fore the Trinity test on July 16,
1945, at the Alamogordo Bomb-
ing Range, about 210 miles south
of the secret Los Alamos, N.M.,
laboratory.
“This thing has been blown out
of proportion over the years,”
said Richard Rhodes, author of
the Pulitzer Prize-winning book
“The Making of the Atomic
Bomb.” The question on the sci-
entists’ minds before the test, he
said, “wasn’t, ‘Is it going to blow
up the world?’ It was, ‘Is it going
to work at all?’”
In the movie, one scene has J.
Robert Oppenheimer, director of
the laboratory, seeking to reas-
sure his boss, Gen. Leslie Groves,
on the eve of the test. Upon
investigation, Oppenheimer tells
him, physicists have concluded
that the chances the test detona-
tion will destroy the world are
“near zero.” Realizing the news
has alarmed, not reassured, the
general, Oppenheimer asks,
“What do you want from theory
alone?”
“Zero would be nice,” the gen-
eral replies.
Oscar voters may decide next
March that director Christopher
Nolan made the correct dramatic
choice. But no physicists or histo-
rians interviewed for this story
recalled coming across any men-
The first atomic explosion at Project Trinity in New Mexico in July 1945. The “near-zero” chance of
doomsday that was quoted in the movie just means not impossible to some physicists in the field.
tion of such a conversation be-
tween Oppenheimer and the gen-
eral in the historical record.
“Did the actual exchange hap-
pen at that moment? No, I don’t
think so,” said Alex Wellerstein,
an associate professor at Stevens
Institute of Technology in
Hoboken, N.J., and author of the
2021 book, “Restricted Data: The
History of Nuclear Secrecy in the
“I don’t think any physicists
seriously worried about it.”
John Preskill, professor of theoretical physics at California Institute of
Technology, regarding the catastrophic potential of early atomic bombs.
United States.”
“But were there discussions
like that? I believe so,” he added.
The ultimate catastrophe?
At a conference in the summer
of 1942, almost a full year before
Los Alamos opened, physicist
Edward Teller raised the possibil-
ity of atomic bombs igniting
Earth’s oceans or atmosphere.
According to Rhodes’s account,
Hans Bethe, who headed the
theoretical division at Los
Alamos, “didn’t believe it from
the first minute” but nonetheless
performed the calculations con-
vincing the other physicists that
such a disaster was not a reason-
able possibility.
“I don’t think any physicists
seriously worried about it,” said
John Preskill, a professor of theo-
retical physics at California
Institute of Technology.
Still, the discussions and cal-
culations persisted long after the
Trinity test. In 1946, three Man-
hattan project scientists, includ-
ing Teller, who would later be-
come known as the father of the
hydrogen bomb, wrote a report
concluding that the explosive
force of the first atomic bomb
wasn’t even close to what would
be required to trigger a planet-
destroying chain reaction in air.
The report was not declassified
until 1973.
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AP
A 1979 study by scientists at
the University of California’s
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
examined the question of wheth-
er a nuclear explosion might
trigger a runaway reaction in the
atmosphere or oceans. In page
after page of mathematical equa-
tions, the scientists described a
complex set of factors that made
atmospheric ignition effectively
impossible.
Probably the easiest to grasp is
the fact that, even under the
harshest scenarios, far more en-
ergy would be lost in the explo-
sion than gained, wiping out any
chance to sustain a chain reac-
tion.
In 1975 and 1976, the dooms-
day issue flared up again in the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
when the journal published “The
ultimate catastrophe,” a shocking
essay by H.C. Dudley, a professor
of radiation physics at University
of Illinois Medical Center in
Chicago. Dudley reported that
during World War II, “eminent
scientists” had offered President
Franklin D. Roosevelt two op-
tions: either accept the possible
slavery of the Nazis, the scientists
said, or develop and explode
atomic bombs.
“There was a third option,
however, that was kept under
wraps, top secret, discussed only
behind closed doors,” Dudley
wrote. “This was the possibility of
triggering a vast nuclear accident
when and if a fission device was
detonated.” Dudley went on to
explain that, in an interview with
writer Pearl Buck published in
1959 in the American Weekly,
Manhattan Project physicist Ar-
thur H. Compton had acknowl-
edged that there was a concern
that Earth would be vaporized.
“It would be the ultimate ca-
tastrophe,” Buck quotes Comp-
ton as saying.
Dudley’s essay also recounted
a story that on the day of the test,
“as zero hour approached” Gen.
Groves was annoyed to find Man-
hattan Project physicist and
Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi
making bets with colleagues
about whether the bomb would
ignite the atmosphere, “and, if so,
whether it would destroy only
New Mexico or the entire world.”
(Some experts have suggested
Fermi’s actions may have been
more of a joke, or an example of
gallows humor.)
The Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists printed letters critical
of the essay, then a full rebuttal
from Bethe himself, in which the
physicist quickly dismissed the
idea that an atomic blast could
ignite the atmosphere or ocean as
“nonsense.” He wrote that “Buck
had completely misunderstood”
Compton.
Still, more than a decade later,
Bethe found himself asked about
the same issue in an interview
published in Scientific American.
“It is such absolute nonsense,” he
repeated, “and the public has
been interested in it … and
possibly it would be good to kill it
once more.”
What scientists
are really saying
Fascination with this dooms-
day scenario may stem, at least in
part, from a misunderstanding of
what physicists mean when they
say “near zero.” The branch of
physics known as quantum me-
chanics, which deals with matter
and light at the atomic and
subatomic scale, does not rule
out any possibilities. For exam-
ple, if a boy tosses a rubber ball at
a brick wall, there is an exceed-
A7
ingly remote — but still valid —
possibility that instead of watch-
ing the ball bounce back, he
could see it pass through the
wall.
Aditi Verma, an assistant pro-
fessor of nuclear engineering and
radiological sciences at the
University of Michigan, put it
this way: “What a physicist
means by ‘near zero’ would be
zero to an engineer.”
In the 2000s, scientists en-
countered a similar problem of
terminology as they prepared to
generate high-speed particle col-
lisions at the Large Hadron
Collider in Geneva. Talk surfaced
that the activity might generate a
black hole that would devour
Earth.
As outlandish as the notion
was to many scientists, the nu-
clear research organization
CERN felt obliged to deal with
the fear, noting on its website
that “some theories suggest that
the formation of tiny ‘quantum’
black holes may be possible. The
observation of such an event
would be thrilling in terms of our
understanding of the Universe;
and would be perfectly safe.”
In other words, any black hole
created by the collider would be
far too small to pose any risk to
the planet.
Scientists say such disaster
scenarios are sometimes the
price of crossing new thresholds
of discovery.
The discussions and calcula-
tions on the issue of atmospheric
ignition were entirely appropri-
ate given the situation and “en-
capsulates the fear of the un-
known,” said Daniel Holz, a
University of Chicago physics
professor and co-chair of the
board at the Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists that sets the
Doomsday Clock.
“You don’t often talk in cer-
tainties,” he said. “You talk in
probabilities. If you haven’t done
the experiment, you are hesitant
to say, ‘This is impossible. It will
never happen.’ … It was good to
think it through.”
Rhodes added that he hopes
the “Oppenheimer” movie will
not lead people to doubt the
scientists on the Manhattan
Project.
“They knew what they were
doing,” he said. “They were not
feeling around in the dark.”
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The slow road to a more diverse solicitor general’s o∞ce
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too, will deepen.”
But a similar lack of diversity to
the one Prelogar pointed out in
her argument has persisted for
years in the solicitor general’s of-
fice, which is part of the Justice
Department and represents the
federal government before the Su-
preme Court.
over the past dozen terms,
nearly three-quarters of Supreme
Court arguments made by lawyers
in the office have been delivered
by men, according to an analysis
by The Washington Post.
more than 80 percent have
been made by White lawyers, ac-
cording to the analysis of the of-
fice’s attorneys whose race could
be confirmed. No Hispanic lawyer
has argued a case for the office
since 2016. No Black lawyer has
done so since 2012.
Prelogar declined an interview
request for this story, and the
Justice Department declined to
comment on the record.
But Prelogar told The Post in a
statement last year that “there is
more work to be done to ensure
that we reflect the American peo-
ple as we represent them before
the Court” and that she was com-
mitted “to seeking out, hiring, and
retaining outstanding attorneys
who fully represent our Nation’s
diversity.”
Prelogar has taken steps since
the Senate confirmed her in 2021
to make the office more diverse.
But the years-long absence of
Black and Hispanic lawyers from
the office demonstrates the gla-
cial pace of change even in an
office whose leader says she is
committed to diversity and who
works for a president who has
promised “to build an administra-
tion that looks like America.”
Among the challenges are fed-
eral hiring rules that forbid taking
race or gender into account as
well as a low turnover rate among
lawyers in the office, the vast ma-
jority of whom are civil servants,
not political appointees.
Critics argue that the office’s
preference for hiring former Su-
preme Court clerks — who histori-
cally have been disproportionate-
ly White — has made it harder to
achieve diversity.
Neal Katyal, who served as act-
ing solicitor general during the
obama administration, said the
office needs racial and ethnic di-
versity — along with diversity of
political views, religion and sex-
ual orientation — to make the best
arguments before the court.
“You are arguing your case to
nine justices who come from a
variety of different perspectives,”
said Katyal, who is Indian Ameri-
can. “And to have a workforce that
is attuned to those differences in
ideology, approach, outlook and
background makes for much bet-
ter advocacy strategy.”
Advocates for a more diverse
Supreme Court bar also argue the
solicitor general’s office has a spe-
cial responsibility to reflect the
country it serves.
“The solicitor general is often
referred to as the 10th justice. The
lawyers in the office represent us,
the United States,” said Juvaria
Khan, the founder of the Appel-
late Project, which seeks to help
more lawyers of color do appellate
work. “Because they represent the
people, they should prioritize de-
veloping an office that reflects all
our people and the diversity of the
country.”
Lawyers and academics who
follow the court closely said that
diversifying the solicitor general’s
office could have an outsize effect
on the diversity of the broader
group of lawyers who argue be-
fore the court, in part, because
lawyers in the office appear so
often. Lawyers who argue before
the Supreme Court are dispropor-
tionately White and male.
The simplest way to diversify
the Supreme Court bar “is to di-
versify the SG’s office,” said Noah
feldman, a Harvard Law School
professor and former Supreme
Court clerk.
Lawyers in the office made
more than a third of the 155 oral
arguments delivered during the
court’s most recent term. many
veterans of the office, in turn, go
on to work in Supreme Court
practices at prominent law firms.
“The SG’s office is the most
important training ground for
lawyers to get stand-up experi-
ence arguing cases in the Su-
preme Court relatively early in
their career,” roman martinez, a
member of the law firm Latham &
Watkins’s Supreme Court and ap-
pellate practice, wrote in an email.
“It’s very hard to do that from
scratch in private practice with-
out having SG office experience.”
martinez, who worked in the
solicitor general’s office between
2013 and 2016, was the last
Hispanic lawyer in the office to
argue before the court, according
to The Post’s analysis. The last
Black lawyer to do so, Leondra
Kruger, is now a California Su-
ABOVE: A courtroom sketch
depicts Solicitor General
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
arguing before the Supreme
Court in November 2021.
RIGHT: Prelogar appears
before the Senate Judiciary
Committee during a 2021
hearing on her nomination to
serve as U.S. solicitor
general. Among the obstacles
she faces in efforts to boost
diversity in her office are
federal hiring rules that
forbid taking race or gender
into account as well as a low
turnover rate among lawyers
in the office, the vast
majority of whom are not
political appointees.
“You are arguing your
case to nine justices
who come from a
variety of different
perspectives. And to
have a workforce that
is attuned to those
differences in ideology,
approach, outlook
and background
makes for much better
advocacy strategy.”
Neal Katyal,
acting solicitor general during the
Obama administration
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preme Court justice.
Prelogar’s record
There are about 21 lawyers in
the solicitor general’s office, in-
cluding five deputies and 15 or 16
assistants. Prelogar has filled five
openings during her tenure.
one of them, Luke mcCloud, is
a Black man. Next term, he’s set to
make his first Supreme Court ar-
gument since joining the office.
Three of them — Yaira Dubin,
Aimee Brown and Caroline flynn
— are White women. The fifth,
Ephraim mcDowell, is a White
man.
The number of arguments de-
livered before the court by women
in the office has gone up under
Prelogar, in part because solici-
tors general typically argue many
cases themselves. Women argued
40 percent of the office’s Supreme
Court cases during the 2022 term,
according to The Post’s analysis.
That’s higher than the overall
share of arguments delivered by
women — 23 percent — before the
court last term.
racial diversity is another sto-
ry.
White lawyers argued 84 per-
cent of the office’s Supreme Court
cases during the most recent term
and Asian American lawyers ar-
gued 16 percent, according to an
analysis of the attorneys whose
race The Post was able to confirm.
Prelogar and all five of her depu-
ties are White.
Some conservatives have ex-
pressed skepticism that increas-
ing racial and gender diversity
would lead the office’s lawyers to
make better arguments.
“It’s possible that having people
of multiple races in the room
when you’re writing your briefs
and preparing for the argument
could make the briefs better and
the arguments better,” said Brian
fitzpatrick, a former clerk to Jus-
tice Antonin Scalia and a profes-
sor at Vanderbilt Law School. “I’m
certainly open to that. But I just
don’t think we should engage in
racial discrimination based on
speculation.”
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Veterans of the solicitor gener-
al’s office, meanwhile, said that
diversifying the government’s Su-
preme Court litigators is not as
easy as critics may make it seem.
While Prelogar and her princi-
pal deputy, Brian fletcher, are po-
litical appointees, the other law-
yers in the office are civil servants,
and Prelogar is forbidden by fed-
eral law from taking race or gen-
der into account while hiring.
many lawyers in the office also
tend to stay for years or even
decades, limiting the number of
openings to be filled.
michael Dreeben, a former dep-
uty solicitor general who worked
in the office for more than two
decades, said those constraints
mean “you can’t really expect the
solicitor general’s office to turn
the world upside down over-
night.”
Dreeben praised the job done
by Prelogar given the constraints.
“I think that current leadership
is doing a great job with it,” he
said.
Still, advocates for diversity are
becoming impatient with the pace
of change.
“It’s really disheartening, espe-
cially around issues that acutely
affect women of color, when there
are no women of color arguing
before the court,” said fatima
Goss Graves, the president and
chief executive of the National
Women’s Law Center.
And one former lawyer in the
office argued progress had not
only slowed, but also gone into
reverse in some ways.
“The reason for that is, disap-
pointingly, all the leadership posi-
tions in the solicitor general’s of-
fice are held by White lawyers,”
the lawyer said, speaking on the
condition of anonymity to discuss
a sensitive issue. “most of the ar-
guments done in the office are
done by the leadership positions
— the deputies and the SG. So,
unlike during much of the obama
administration and all of the
Trump administration, there is
not a single person of color in the
oSG leadership.”
the washington post
A historic role
The position of solicitor gener-
al was created in the aftermath of
the Civil War in part to defend the
constitutionality of the newly en-
acted Civil rights Act of 1866.
Union veteran Benjamin Bristow
became the country’s first solici-
tor general in 1870.
The office has been a spring-
board for the careers of notable
lawyers from underrepresented
backgrounds.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
selected Thurgood marshall to be
the first Black solicitor general in
1965 before nominating him to
the Supreme Court two years lat-
er. President Barack obama chose
Elena Kagan as his solicitor gener-
al in 2009, making her the first
woman to hold the position per-
manently, before nominating her
to the Supreme Court the follow-
ing year.
Prelogar is the second woman
to be confirmed by the Senate as
solicitor general. (Barbara Under-
wood served as acting solicitor
general for five months in 2001,
but President George W. Bush did
not nominate her to lead the office
permanently.)
Two other Black men, Wade H.
mcCree Jr. and Drew S. Days III,
have served as solicitor general
since marshall. Noel francisco,
whom President Donald Trump
nominated in 2017, was the first
Asian American confirmed as so-
licitor general.
But the rank-and-file lawyers in
the office have been slower to
diversify.
Katyal, the former acting solici-
tor general, said he worked hard
to persuade more women and
lawyers of color to apply while he
led the office, speaking with Su-
preme Court justices, judges, law
professors, leaders of Supreme
Court practices at law firms and
Justice Department officials to
identify potential recruits.
But while he succeeded in hir-
ing more women, he didn’t recruit
any lawyers of color.
Some lawyers said considering
candidates with a wider range of
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qualifications could help diversify
the office.
“The vast majority of attorneys
come from one to two law schools,
have the same set of clerkships
and are already connected to,
quote unquote, ‘the right people’
who can help get their foot in the
door,” Khan said. “There are
many, many talented attorneys of
color who would thrive in the
office but are outside of those
networks and thus never get con-
sidered, especially those who are
first-generation.”
(Three of the five lawyers Prel-
ogar has hired went to Harvard
Law School, and all of them are
former Supreme Court clerks.)
Days, who served as solicitor
general under President Bill Clin-
ton, tried to hire lawyers from a
broader range of backgrounds, ac-
cording to Beth Brinkmann, a
lawyer in the office whom he
tasked with assessing its hiring
practices. He made changes based
on her recommendations, which
included considering more appli-
cants who hadn’t clerked for Su-
preme Court justices as well as
public interest lawyers.
“That increased the number of
applicants, resumes and inter-
views and ultimately led to more
diverse hiring, including, for ex-
ample, two women who now are
judges on the D.C. Circuit — Judge
[Cornelia] Pillard and Judge [Pa-
tricia] millett,” she said. “Ensur-
ing that the focus of hiring is on
demonstrated quality and experi-
ence rather than just traditional
credentials is important.”
But Brinkmann’s hiring recom-
mendations don’t seem to have
had a lasting effect.
Donald Verrilli, who served as
solicitor general for five years
during the obama administra-
tion, succeeded in hiring more
women, including Prelogar and
rachel Kovner, who is now a
federal judge. But he said he
wished he’d done more to attract
racially diverse lawyers to the
office.
“I probably would have picked
up the phone and called judges
and asked them about their law
clerks more aggressively,” Verrilli
said. “I would have picked up the
phone and called my colleagues,
former colleagues in the private
sector who were leaders of the
appellate practices, and asked
them whether they can identify
some up-and-coming lawyers of
color and encourage them to ap-
ply and that sort of thing. I really
didn’t do much of that, and I look
back on it and think that would
have been something I should
have done.”
He praised Prelogar for the ef-
forts she’s made so far.
“I think the presence of an Afri-
can American lawyer in the office
could be a spur to other African
American lawyers applying and
thinking that they’ve got a real
shot,” Verrilli said.
feldman, the Harvard profes-
sor, is more skeptical.
“Because I’m a long-term opti-
mist, I have hope,” he said. “In the
short term, I’m also a realist.”
“We’re still very far from where
we ought to be,” he added.
dave Clarke and Anu Narayanswamy
contributed to this report.
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Biden to establish
national monument
honoring Emmett Till
BY D E N EEN L . B ROWN
President Biden will announce
on Tuesday the establishment of a
national monument dedicated to
Emmett Till, whose 1955 murder
helped spark the civil rights move-
ment, according to a White House
official.
The United States is at long last
acknowledging the momentous
role that 14-year old Till and his
mother, Mamie Till-Mobley,
played in shaping American his-
tory, Marvel Parker, who co-
founded the Emmett Till and
Mamie Till-Mobley Institute, said
in an interview.
“Emmett and Mamie are finally
being recognized for his tragic
death and her heroism to allow the
world to see his mutilated body in
the casket in 1955, which is said to
have become the catalyst for the
civil rights movement,” Parker
said.
The Emmett Till and Mamie
Till-Mobley National Monument
will include sites in Mississippi
and Chicago, the White House offi-
cial said, speaking on the condition
of anonymity ahead of the public
announcement about the monu-
ment.
Agencies
to review
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AND D EVLIN B ARRETT
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National Guard member charged
with sharing hundreds of classi-
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line, is unlikely to stand trial for
several months owing to what
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sensitive information related to
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The locations slated for the
monument are: the Roberts
Temple Church of God in Christ in
Chicago, where Till’s funeral was
held and his mother decided to
allow the undertakers to show his
body; the Tallahatchie County
Courthouse in Sumner, Miss.,
where those accused of killing him
were acquitted by an all-White
jury; and a Tallahatchie River
bank in Mississippi, where the
teenager’s body was found.
“This new national monument
is the physical evidence and a liv-
ing testimony to the legacy of one
family whose unimaginable trag-
edy led our nation one step closer
to the arc of justice,” said Brent
Leggs, executive director of the
African American Cultural Heri-
tage Action Fund and senior vice
president of the National Trust for
Historic Preservation. “We en-
courage the world to learn from
this history, reckon with what
caused harm and continue the
work to prevent the same trauma
from ever happening again.”
In August 1955, Mamie Till-
Mobley put her only son on a train
to Mississippi, warning him that
the state was a boiling pot of rac-
ism. She reminded Emmett, who
the case.
A Justice Department attorney
told a judge in federal court in
Boston that the documents are
held by “a number of other gov-
ernment agencies,” each of which
must be consulted before authori-
ties can hand over the material to
Teixeira’s attorneys, a laborious
and usually slow process that is
typical for cases featuring classi-
fied information.
The materials Teixeira is al-
leged to have leaked pertain to
operations by numerous intelli-
gence agencies, including the CIA
and the National Security Agency.
“The government is working as
expeditiously as possible,” Christi-
na A. Clark, the trial attorney, told
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani,
who agreed to reconvene for a
status update in two months.
Teixeira did not appear in the
courtroom, but his father, mother
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the civil rights movement, during its unveiling in Greenwood, Miss., on Oct. 21.
had grown up in Chicago, that he
should be careful around White
people and to obey his uncle.
The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr.,
Till’s cousin, says the family was
hesitant.
“They did not want Emmett to
go,” said Wheeler Parker, the au-
thor of “A Few Days Full of Trou-
ble: Revelations on the Journey to
Justice for My Cousin and Best
Friend, Emmett Till.” He added:
“To understand that, you had to go
and stepfather were present. All
three declined to comment on the
case.
The hearing comes after Teixei-
ra pleaded not guilty last month to
a six-count indictment accusing
him of illegal retention and trans-
mission of national defense infor-
mation in a leak case that raised
alarms about the government’s
ability to keep sensitive military
secrets. He faces years in prison.
A 21-year-old from North Digh-
ton, Mass., Teixeira has been in
jail since his April arrest after FBI
agents traced to him photos post-
ed online of classified documents.
Authorities say he worked as an IT
professional at a military base in
Cape Cod, Mass., and abused his
top secret clearance by illegally
sharing U.S. intelligence assess-
ments and other sensitive infor-
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cially in the South.”
On Aug. 24, 1955, Emmett and
his cousins decided to buy candy
and snacks at Bryant’s Grocery and
Meat Market in Money, Miss,
where people often gathered to
play checkers on the porch outside.
Wheeler Parker says he remem-
bers thinking as Emmett entered
the store, “I hope he got his lan-
guage right.”
game players.
Dozens of highly classified doc-
uments have been leaked online,
revealing sensitive information
intended for senior military and
intelligence leaders. In an exclu-
sive investigation, The Washing-
ton Post also reviewed scores of
additional secret documents Teix-
eira is said to have shared with
friends, though most of those ma-
terials have not been made public.
Teixeira is accused of violating
the same section of the Espionage
Act that former president Donald
Trump is charged with violating,
among other crimes, for allegedly
stashing classified documents at
his post-presidency home in Flor-
ida.
Trump has pleaded not guilty
in that case, and the two criminal
matters have prompted numer-
ous comparisons about the re-
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A few nights later, Carolyn Bry-
ant’s husband, Roy Bryant, and his
half brother, J.W. Milam, drove to
the home of Emmett’s great-uncle,
Mose Wright, and demanded that
Emmett come out.
The men pulled Emmett from
his bed and tussled over Emmett
wanting to put on his shoes,
Wheeler Parker said. They
marched Emmett out of the house
and told his grandfather they
“would bring him back if he wasn’t
the one,” he recalled. “My grandfa-
ther said he heard a light voice,
like a woman’s voice, who said,
‘That’s the one.’”
“That was the last time we saw
him alive.”
Three days later, on Aug. 31,
1955, Emmett’s body was pulled
from the Tallahatchie River. He
had been tortured, beaten and fa-
tally shot. His skull was crushed,
one eye was dislodged and a cot-
ton-gin fan was tied around his
Rogelio V. solis/AP neck with barbed wire.
Till-Mobley demanded that his
battered and bloated body be re-
turned home to Chicago, where
As they left, Carolyn Bryant, the she then opened his casket during
store clerk, walked out front. “Em- his wake and funeral to “let the
mett loved to make people laugh, world see” what hatred and racism
and so he whistled,” Wheeler Park- had done to her only son.
er said. What happened that night is
Wheeler Parker said he was something everybody needs to
stunned. “He gave the wolf whistle know, Wheeler Parker said. The
and we could not believe it,” he national monument, he said, will
said. “If there was any way possi- help people understand the racist
ble, we would have disappeared. terror they faced in the South.
We knew that he had violated the “The things they were afraid could
Southern mores. That was not happen,” he said, “were exactly
good at all. So we all made a bee- what happened.”
senior-most official in govern-
ment and one of the most junior
members of the military.
by a desire to keep them informed
about the war in Ukraine and to
reveal to them information not
Teixeira’s attorneys have ar-
gued that the Justice Department
has applied an uneven hand to the
generally available to the public.
A friend who said he received
the documents from Teixeira on
two cases and that their client
should not stay in jail awaiting
trial since the far wealthier Trump
Discord said the airman under-
stood that the information was
classified.
is not being held in custody.
The indictment alleges Teixeira
disclosed information based on
“He knew what he was doing
when he posted these documents,
of course. These weren’t acciden-
“sensitive U.S. intelligence, gath- tal leaks of any kind,” the friend
ered through classified sources said. He added that Teixeira never
and methods.” intended for the information to be
The descriptions of documents widely known and was not trying
Teixeira allegedly shared are con- to expose potential wrongdoing
sistent with those obtained by The by the government. Rather, he
Post that friends of Teixeira said seemed motivated by a desire to
he posted on Discord, with what demonstrate his superior knowl-
he believed was a trusted circle of edge of current events, based on
associates who would not share his access to classified informa-
the information more broadly. tion.
Those friends said in recent inter-
views that Teixeira was motivated Barrett reported from Washington.
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ne of the oldest sailing races
in the world is the america’s
Cup. Right behind is the
Thames Sailing Barge Match. The
america’s Cup competitors race
$10 million space-age hydrofoils
that are so fast their crews are
required to wear helmets. The
Thames barges are like 100-year-
old “bathtubs with sails,” accord-
ing to crew members, who drink
tea during the race.
The barge skippers are highly
competitive, in their own way, but
their race is now largely about the
preservation of British tradition,
recalling a time when thousands
of these craft plied the River
Thames, transporting cargo —
coal, barley, rubbish — under red
ocher sails.
Only a couple dozen barges sur-
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On a clammy Saturday this
month, eight of them appeared in
the early morning haze, ghosts of
the maritime past — but real.
They cast off from gravesend, a
Thames-side town that boasts the
oldest remaining cast iron pier in
the world and was once a muster-
ing point of British imperial sea
power, but today, not so much.
Some of the barge skippers
cranked up their auxiliary diesels
to hurry to the starting line, four
miles downriver. Others, having
no engine, coasted along.
The brawny boats looked like
what they were: hard workers.
They were designed to ferry
enormous loads in their holds, up
and down the Thames and its
nearby rivers and estuaries, in
shallow, shoaling waters, subject
to notorious tides and nervous
wind.
With their flat-bottomed hulls,
steadied by leeboards instead of a
keel, the barges could be easily
settled in the shoreside mud on a
low tide for loading or unloading.
While they were “in trade,” they
hauled brick, cement, timber,
sand, coal, grain and gunpowder.
They ran barley to london’s brew-
ers and wheat to its bakers. When
the city’s transport was dominat-
ed by horse and carriage, the barg-
es brought in straw and hauled
away manure — in what was
known as “hay up, dung down”
trade.
“They were practical boats, but
clever, suited to their task,” said
Richard Walsh, 80, a former own-
er of the barge Wyvenhoe, who
was on board as a guest on match
day.
He pointed out the ingenious
rigging that makes them among
the largest sailing vessels in the
world that can be handled by a
crew of two — or, as the lore has it,
“a man, a boy and a dog,” though
many were husband-and-wife
teams.
“The racing made the barges
even better,” Walsh said.
The Thames Sailing Barge
Match has been running since
1863 — with pauses for economic
recessions and world wars. it
started with a barge owner named
Henry dodd, who made his for-
tune hauling rubbish — and prob-
ably inspired Charles dickens’s
character noddy Boffin, the
wealthy london “golden dust-
man,” in the novel “Our Mutual
Friend.”
dodd noticed that skippers on
the river would often try to best
each other, and he decided to for-
malize the competition, according
to a historical account by Frank
Carr, a onetime director of Brit-
ain’s national Maritime Museum.
Soon the ship yards were playing
with hull shapes and sail plans,
and barge owners were vying for
prize money and boasting rights.
in a fresh breeze, the barges are
capable of 12 knots, or 14 miles per
ALgeRiA
Wildfires kill 34,
including 10 soldiers
Wildfires sweeping across
parts of algeria have killed 34
people, including 10 soldiers, the
interior Ministry said Monday,
as a heat wave spreads across
north africa and Southern
Europe.
The defense Ministry said the
10 soldiers were killed and 25
others were injured as they
fought fires in the resort area of
Beni Ksila, east of algiers.
it wasn’t immediately clear
over what period of time the
casualties happened, but the
fires have been burning for
several days. about 1,500 people
have been evacuated so far.
Some 8,000 firefighters were
battling to bring the flames
under control, said authorities,
who have launched a judicial
probe into the causes of the fires.
— Reuters, Associated Press
The barge Niagara can be seen from the deck of the Wyvenhoe sailing ship during the recent Thames Sailing Barge Match, the world’s second-oldest sailing competition.
The last of the Thames barges race
to preserve British maritime history
Competition recalls a time when thousands of these workhorses with their distinctive red sails
transported enormous loads on busy waterways. Only a couple dozen of them remain.
hour. That’s nowhere close to
america’s Cup racers, which can
do 50 mph. But it’s pretty fast for
an ordinary sailboat — and nearly
as fast as the average cruising
speed of modern container ships.
“Ease away the sheets!’ called
out Wyvenhoe skipper gerard
Swift, who grew up on a Thames
barge in the 1960s.
Wyvenhoe had a smart down-
wind start, and as the barge gath-
ered speed, the skipper at the
wheel coaxed her on, “let’s go, girl,
let’s go.”
The barges were well-matched.
Racing in three classes, they
fought each other for the lead. The
two barges in the coasting class,
gladys and Pudge, kept up a day-
long tacking duel.
The race was supposed to run 43
nautical miles — starting in lower
Hope Reach and heading downriv-
er past Southend-on-Sea to the
north Oaze Buoy before returning
Wyvenhoe owner Jim Dines operates the winch during the Thames Sailing Barge Match, which has been running since 1863, with
pauses for economic recessions and world wars. Dines bought Wyvenhoe in 2018. The steel, he recalled, was “paper thin.”
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‘We are at war’ with
flames, premier says
a week-old wildfire on the
greek resort island of Rhodes
tore past defenses Monday,
forcing more evacuations as
strong winds and successive heat
waves fueled three major fires
elsewhere in greece.
The latest evacuations were
ordered in south Rhodes after
19,000 people, mostly tourists,
were moved over the weekend
out of the path of the fire that
reached several coastal areas
from nearby mountains. it was
the country’s biggest evacuation
effort in recent years.
“We are at war — completely
focused on the fires,” Prime
Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis
said during a debate in
Parliament. a government
spokesperson said an average of
50 new wildfires have broken out
daily for the past 12 days.
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to finish at gravesend. But as the
fleet reached Canvey island, the
already light winds slackened, and
the race committee shortened the
course. By the time the fleet turned
to race back, the crews were trying
to keep up with seaweed that slid
past them in the tide.
all this was happening in the
narrow confines of navigable wa-
terways busy with commercial
traffic, as container ships, sand
dredgers, tug boats and ferries
made their way through the race.
The Thames remains a working
river — its low banks, by turns, a
smudged watercolor of marsh and
birds, then the harder angles of
industry. We passed the Tilbury
Sewage Treatment Works and the
london gateway, one of the larg-
est ports for container ships in
Britain.
There are low hills, which are
actually landfills, and the shut-
tered Coryton Oil Refinery and
Di gest
Evacuations were also ordered
overnight on the western island
of Corfu, on the island of Evia
and in a mountainous area in the
southern Peloponnese region.
The Rhodes fire roared down
mountain slopes, burning homes
and cars and leaving livestock
dead on the roadside. no serious
injuries to people were reported,
but hospitals and health
volunteers provided first aid to
tourists and others, mostly for
heat and dehydration.
— Associated Press
Suicide bomber kills 25 soldiers
in Somalia: a suicide bomber
targeted a military training
academy in Somalia on Monday,
killing 25 soldiers in the capital,
Mogadishu, a senior army officer
said. More than 40 others were
wounded in the bombing at the
Jalle Siyad military academy, the
officer said. al-Qaeda’s affiliate
in East africa, al-Shabab,
asserted responsibility. Somali
authorities launched a new
long-ago decommissioned
Coalhouse Fort, built in the mid-
19th century to protect the estuary
from the French.
The fort would have witnessed
the heyday of the sailing barges.
according to the Society for Sail-
ing Barge Research, 4,860 barges
were built for trade from the 18th
century to World War i. There
were maybe 8,000 in all, including
smaller vessels that were unregis-
tered.
almost all have been lost, aban-
doned or dismantled.
a few of the ones still around
spent decades in ignominy — as
houseboats and dockside restau-
rants. Others have done their turn
as corporate training venues.
Wyvenhoe was made to look as
though she was blown up in the
opening sequence of the James
Bond movie “The World is not
Enough.”
Others took a long nap in the
offensive against al-Shabab last
year to try to recapture
extremist-held territory and
dismantle the financial network
that funds the fighters.
Ecuadoran mayor slain by
gunman: The mayor of the
Ecuadoran Pacific port city of
Manta was shot dead Sunday,
authorities said, in a brazen
attack that stunned the political
establishment. Police said 38-
year-old agustín intriago, who
was reelected mayor in February,
had been inspecting public
works at the time of the assault.
it was not clear why he was
attacked, though police said he
had reported receiving threats.
Regional police commander
Edwin noguera said a gunman
got out of a stolen truck and
opened fire on intriago, hitting
him and a woman described as a
“collateral victim.” Both died.
The shooter escaped, but the
driver was wounded by return
fire and was captured, he said.
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mud before being revived by en-
thusiasts.
asked why the modern-day
owners are obsessed with the
barges and dedicated to keeping
them afloat — and racing — Walsh
said, “We British have salt in our
veins.”
He mentioned that the barges
preserved “the maritime tradition
of this island nation.”
Walsh thought maybe the barg-
es had something to teach the
world — that cargo could still be
moved by wind. “Why don’t we do
it again?” he said. “Maybe we
could save the planet.”
The cost of restoring and pre-
serving the sailing barges is be-
yond the means of most patrons.
Some of the boats have continued
to deteriorate while fundraising
efforts languish. Walsh named
nine barges in recent years broken
up for scrap: Felix, Scone, Vigilant,
Venture …
Sudanese general warns Kenya
against sending peacekeepers:
a top Sudanese general violently
rejected a Kenyan-led proposal
that East african peacekeepers
help end the war in Sudan,
suggesting in a video released
Monday that any such troops
would not make it home alive.
The Sudanese army and the
paramilitary Rapid Support
Forces it is fighting have received
multiple international mediation
offers, but none has succeeded in
ending the fighting that broke
out april 15. This month, igad,
an East african regional bloc of
which Kenya is a member,
proposed an initiative that
would include the deployment of
peacekeepers in Sudan’s capital,
Khartoum. The Sudanese army
has repeatedly rejected the
initiative, accusing igad of
supporting the RSF. “leave the
East african forces where they
are. Bring the Kenyan army ... i
swear to god, not one of them
would make it back,” said
. tuesday, july 25 , 2023
among those that have ben-
efited from public money is Pudge,
a veteran of the “little Boat” evac-
uation of dunkirk, France, in the
early days of World War ii.
The barge was towed across the
English Channel at night and en-
countered an explosion near the
French beaches that lifted her out
of the water, according to records
maintained by the Thames Sailing
Barge Trust. “She came down the
right way up,” her skipper recount-
ed.
Pudge helped save the lives of
160 soldiers.
There was nothing quite so dra-
matic on the most recent match
day. Toward the end of the race,
the wind finally filled in and the
barges made pace. The finish line
was by Three daws pub, serving
the waterfront trade since the
1450s. Wyvenhoe finished second
in her class.
Jim dines, her owner, who had
been roving fore and aft all day,
finally had a moment to talk. He
joked that he works to keep the
boat afloat.
He crewed on a barge at age 12
and wanted to buy one when he
was 19 but didn’t have the money.
He served as an engineer in the
merchant marine for years,
aboard oil tankers. He now runs a
boatyard on the Blackwater River
and bought Wyvenhoe in 2018.
“The steel was paper thin,” he
recalled. Today, below decks, the
salon is half polished wood and
half a construction site.
“They just get under your skin,”
said dines, 54, remembering see-
ing the barges on the quay as a boy.
“They are just a big square big old
box. But they sail so well.”
The barges are huge — his is 80
feet long and 20 feet wide — but it
can dance around the river like a
skiff. He thought the barges per-
fectly evolved, perfectly at home in
their home waters.
He knows that every few years
one disappears. “But people are
still looking after them and they’re
rebuilding them so they’ll keep
going. i dunno. i don’t see that
they’ll ever disappear, i hope.”
Sudanese general Yassir al-atta
in comments to troops.
Rights group reports atrocities
in Mali: Mali’s army together
with suspected mercenaries
from the shadowy Russian group
Wagner have committed
summary executions, lootings,
forced disappearances and other
abuses, a leading human rights
group said Monday. The abuses,
according to witnesses
interviewed by Human Rights
Watch, included the killing of at
least 20 civilians, among them a
woman and a 6-year-old, during
an operation in the Mopti region
by “scores of Malian and ‘white’
foreign soldiers.” Mali has
struggled to contain an islamist
extremist insurgency since 2012.
The country had been receiving
help from French forces, but the
military government, which took
power in a 2021 coup, ousted the
French in 2022 and welcomed up
to 1,000 Wagner group fighters.
— From news services
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Election shows Spain still has little interest in reembracing extreme right
Instead of playing an
expected kingmaker role,
far-right Vox lost votes
BY A NTHONY F AIOLA
AND B EATRIZ R ÍOS
MADRID — For drag queen Onyx,
makeup on Spain’s election day
became war paint. In a blitz of
Twitter videos, she rallied liberals
to the polls to defeat the anti-
LBGTQ+, anti-feminist climate
deniers of the far-right Vox party.
By 1 a.m. — amid losses for the
far right and surprising gains for
the left — she addressed her
followers in triumph. “It was all
worth it,” Onyx said in another
video blast. “Congratulations to
all my queers, brave fighters and
bold ones who had [the guts] to
go and vote. You did what you
should do, which is to exercise
your democratic right. Ole!”
If election night here proved
anything, it’s that Spain — a
nation with some of the most
recent memories in Europe of
extreme-right repression, from
the Francisco Franco era that
ended in 1975 — still has little
interest in reembracing the radi-
cal right.
Vox only marginally underper-
formed expectations in Sunday’s
race, winning a handful fewer
seats than some analysts predict-
ed. But when compared with its
last national showing in Novem-
ber of 2019, the result stood as a
stark defeat. The party slipped
from 15 percent to 12 percent of
the vote and lost 19 of its 52 pre-
liminary seats. In one region
where Vox is already co-ruling in
local government — Castilla y
León — it lost five of its six seats.
The extent of the party’s losses
meant that it couldn’t play the
predicted role of kingmaker on
election night. In fact, the pros-
pect of a coalition with the far
right may have been more of a
liability than an asset for the
center-right Popular Party (PP),
which came in first in Sunday’s
elections but without enough
votes to govern on its own or with
Vox as its sole partner.
In the chaos of the hung parlia-
ment delivered by Spanish voters,
the PP and Vox are now scram-
Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of Spain’s center-right Popular Party, addresses supporters at the party’s headquarters in Madrid. His party
came in first in Sunday’s elections but without enough votes to govern on its own or with far-right Vox as its sole partner.
bling — with their best shot at
power some sort of tactical agree-
ment with small regional parties.
The incumbent Socialists, led
by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez,
outperformed expectations, fin-
ishing with 1 million more votes
than in 2019, though coming in
second in this year’s more frac-
tured results.
The left may have the better —
though still difficult — chance at
cobbling together a government.
If no one can, Spain would
head to a new round of elections.
It will probably take weeks or
months to find out.
Amid all the murkiness, it
seems clear that Spain — which
over the past five decades
morphed into a bastion of pro-
gressiveness — remains resistant
to the sort of far-right resurgence
that has emerged in other parts of
Europe and the United States.
When Vox formed a decade
ago, it capitalized on growing
Spanish nationalism in the face of
Catalonia’s then-active separatist
movement. It attracted extreme
voters even then. But it also ben-
efited from Spaniards fearful of
losing territorial integrity.
With a relative lull now in the
independence movements, Vox
has adopted an approach to poli-
tics more reminiscent of Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) — target-
ing liberal thought wherever it
may be. In one community where
Vox recently won local control, it
has banned nonofficial stan-
dards, including the rainbow LG-
BTQ+ flag, from public buildings.
It wants to give parents the right
to pull their children from school
lessons they deem offensive and
determine assigned reading. It
has vowed to change local codes
to do away with the term “gender-
based violence,” arguing women
are not the only victims and men
not the only abusers. Some activ-
ists fear that could jeopardize
funding for safe houses for wom-
en who experience domestic vio-
lence.
The PP once refused to do
business with Vox. But it has
begun to leverage the far right in
regions such as Valencia to hold
back the left and enter co-govern-
ing political alliances. In doing so,
it has offered concessions —
allowing Vox, for instance, to
push its demands to remove
“ideology” from classrooms.
Analysts cited the risk of a
national PP-Vox alliance as one
factor that galvanized the left and
saw the Socialists fare better than
expected. Voter turnout was up,
at about 70 percent, compared
with about 66 percent in Novem-
ber 2019. And this was in the
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middle of vacation season and a
brutal heat wave.
“The big surprise was that the
Socialist Party was three points
stronger than what the polls told
us,” said Pablo Simón, a noted
Spanish political guru at Madrid’s
Carlos III University. “Three
points stronger and 1 million
more votes than expected. That
for me is the key that explains this
result.”
Another factor turning the
tide, Simón said, could have been
moderate voters who were deeply
averse to the idea of a right-wing
coalition including Vox. Smaller,
harder-left parties also lost some
ground Sunday, suggesting that
Spanish voters appear to be re-
jecting extremes.
“It’s possible this [threat of a
government with Vox] activated
voters on the left who did not go
to vote in the previous elections,”
Simón said. “But it’s also possible
that there was a certain moderate
voter who was hesitating between
the PP and the Socialist Party, but
who, because of this potential
alliance, chose not to vote for the
PP again.”
Sánchez and his Socialists still
have problems of their own. Their
path to governance leads through
the Catalonian pro-independence
party Junts per Catalunya. But on
Monday, a state public prosecutor
asked a judge on the Spanish
Supreme Court to issue an arrest
warrant against one of the move-
ment’s most prominent leaders
and the former president of Cata-
lonia, Carles Puigdemont, who is
being prosecuted for his partici-
pation in the organization of an
illegal referendum for independ-
ence in 2017.
Puigdemont fled to Belgium
and is now a member of the
European Parliament. He was re-
cently stripped of his parliamen-
tary immunity so he could be
prosecuted. Belgium will have to
proceed with the arrest warrant,
though it could take months. It
only adds pressure to the neces-
sary negotiation between Sán-
chez and the Catalonian pro-
independence political forces,
who could now include a pardon
among their demands.
On Sunday, the left-wing Es-
querra Republicana de Catalunya
leader Gabriel Rufián suggested
Sánchez would have to choose
between “Catalonia or Vox” if he
wants support, suggesting the So-
cialists would need to grant an
independence referendum in Cat-
alonia to avoid a government that
includes the far right. Few see the
Socialist leader as willing to go
that far — but a referendum may
also be the starting point of nego-
tiations, not an end.
For the moment, however, the
Spanish left — including one par-
ticular Madrid drag queen — is
breathing a little easier.
Vox’s losses put it below the
threshold of representation need-
ed to present legislative censures
such as no-confidence votes with-
out the aid of other parties, or
launch appeals before Spain’s
Constitutional Court, as it has
against Spain’s abortion and
transgender laws.
“We are relieved,” Onyx said in
telephone interview Monday.
“Spain has spoken.”

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Ukraine defiant as Russia repeatedly strikes Odessa, wrecks grain facilities
BY J OHN H UDSON
AND A NASTACIA G ALOUCHKA
ODeSSa, Ukraine — If the largest
cathedral in this besieged port city
survived Joseph Stalin, it will sur-
vive Vladimir Putin, said Myroslav
Vdodovych, the chief priest of
Transfiguration Cathedral, less
than a day after a barrage of Rus-
sian missiles ripped the church
apart alongside 24 other architec-
tural monuments across the city.
Odessa, a critical southern port
city, has been under nightly mis-
sile attacks since Russia’s presi-
dent last week canceled a deal
brokered by the United Nations
and Turkey that allowed Ukraine
to export its grain, lessening a
global food crisis that had put a
strain on the developing world.
Ukraine has responded with de-
fiance — launching drone attacks
on buildings in Moscow and on an
ammunition depot in Crimea —
while cleanup crews and parishio-
ners cleared debris from the ca-
thedral’s littered floors.
“You can damage a church, you
can kill a man but you can’t de-
stroy the faith,” said Vdodovych,
wearing a black robe and a hard
hat as dust swirled through a hole
in the cathedral’s roof left by a
missile still buried two stories be-
neath the altar.
At the start of his brutal war,
Putin harbored hopes of occupy-
ing Odessa, a historically Russian-
speaking city known as the “pearl
of the Black Sea” for its beautiful
architecture and history as a vi-
brant, multiethnic cultural center.
But Russia’s military faltered and
failed even to seize Mykolaiv, the
capital of the region directly east
of Odessa, and the two cities have
become symbols of resilience. In-
stead, Moscow blocked the ports,
aiming to strangle Ukraine’s agri-
cultural sector until the grain deal
brought relief.
The Kremlin had threatened for
months to kill the deal and finally
did so last week, days after
Ukraine carried out a strike on the
Crimean Bridge, destroying part
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warehouses along the Danube
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tary General António Guterres
called on Russia to return to the
deal because of the devastating
impact it was having on “vulner-
able countries struggling to feed
their people.”
Romanian President Klaus Io-
hannis denounced the strikes. “I
strongly condemn the recent Rus-
sian attacks against the Ukrainian
civilian infrastructure on Danube,
very close to Romania,” Iohannis
tweeted, adding that the attacks
posed “serious risks to the security
in the Black Sea.”
In Odessa, the missile barrages
killed at least one person and in-
jured several more while wrecking
cars, blowing out windows and
damaging other sites including
Zhvanetsky Boulevard, the House
of Scientists and a number of his-
torical mansions.
“Russians deliberately aimed
their missiles at the historic city
center of Odessa, which is under
the UNESCO protection. Every-
thing that was built with hard
work by great architects is now
being destroyed by cynical inhu-
mans,” said Oleh Kiper, head of
Odessa’s regional military admin-
istration.
The Transfiguration Cathedral
was first destroyed in 1936 during
a Stalinist campaign to rid the
Soviet Union of religion. “They
tried to blow it up multiple times,
but the walls were so thick they
couldn’t do it,” said Vdodovych,
the chief priest.
Instead, authorities filled an ad-
jacent clock tower with explosives,
“then blew it up and the clock
tower fell onto the church,”
Vdodovych said.
The Soviets’ persistence was
only matched by a stoicism that
the people of Ukraine carry with
them today, he said. “Stalin killed
so many people, thousands of
U.N. Command, North Korea in talks
about U.S. soldier who crossed border
BY J ENNIFER H ASSAN
Conversations have started
with North Korea’s military about
Travis King, a U.S. soldier who was
detained after he intentionally
crossed from South Korea, Lt.
Gen. Andrew Harrison, a British
deputy commander of the U.S.-led
multinational command that
oversees the Korean War truce,
said at a news conference Monday.
“The conversation has com-
menced” between the U.N. Com-
mand and the Korean People’s
Army “through the mechanisms
of the armistice agreement,” Har-
rison said in Seoul. The Korean
War, fought from 1950 to 1953,
ended in an armistice rather than
a peace treaty, and both Koreas
technically remain at war.
Harrison said King’s welfare is
of paramount concern and de-
clined to give details about the
conversations with North Korea.
citing their sensitivity. Harrison
said he “remained optimistic” but
added that “none of us know
where this is going to end.”
King, 23, “willfully and without
authorization” crossed the mili-
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them priests, but the Church
didn’t disappear because we have
the support of God,” he added.
The Russian Defense Ministry
denied responsibility for the ca-
thedral strike, saying it only at-
tacked areas where “terrorist acts”
were plotted. “All targets sched-
uled for attack were destroyed,” it
said. (Russia has repeatedly hit
civilian targets in Ukraine, includ-
ing residential buildings and hos-
pitals.)
Ukraine, which has received
missile defense systems from the
West but has to ration their use
because of shortages, has strug-
gled to block Russia’s repeated
strikes on Odessa. Ukrainian Pres-
ident Volodymyr Zelensky has
condemned Russia’s attacks, say-
ing that “there can be no excuse
for Russian evil.”
“As always, this evil will lose and
there will definitely be a retalia-
tion to Russian terrorists for Odes-
sa,” Zelensky said Sunday. “They
will feel this retaliation.”
Hours later, drones struck
buildings in Moscow, a rarity giv-
en the limited range of most of
Ukraine’s unmanned aircraft.
tary demarcation line between
the two Koreas on Tuesday, De-
fense Secretary Lloyd Austin told
reporters at the Pentagon last
week.
King, who served as a cavalry
scout with the 1st Armored Divi-
sion, was scheduled to return
home to Texas after being pun-
ished for misconduct while serv-
ing in South Korea but never
boarded his flight, a U.S. official
told The Washington Post last
week, speaking on the condition
of anonymity because of the sensi-
tivity of the matter.
While King is the first Ameri-
can known to be held in North
Korea in almost five years, the
state has a long history of detain-
ing foreign nationals, charging
them with myriad offenses and
often using them as bargaining
chips or for propaganda.
After almost a week without an
update from Pyongyang, concerns
about King’s safety are growing.
House Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Tex.)
told ABC News on Sunday that he
was worried about the “price”
North Korea may demand for
. tuesday, july 25 , 2023
Shattered glass fell from the 17th
and 18th floors of a tall building in
Russia’s capital, Russian officials
said. The wreckage of a second
drone was found on Komsomol-
sky Prospect, a thoroughfare in
central Moscow. Mayor Sergey
Sobyanin said two nonresidential
buildings were struck but there
were no casualties.
Additionally, the Russian De-
fense Ministry said Ukraine at-
tacked Crimea, the peninsula in-
vaded and annexed by Russia in
2014, with 17 drones, but the min-
istry said most were disabled by
air and electronic defenses. Three
drones fell on Crimean territory,
and there were no casualties, the
ministry said. The Washington
Post could not independently veri-
fy the account. Russia uses Crimea
as a base for its forces and the
Crimean Bridge as a crucial link
for supplies coming from Russia.
The wreckage in Odessa was far
worse than in Moscow or Crimea.
Parishioners of Ukraine’s ca-
thedral worked diligently to clean
the floor of the church’s less dam-
aged entryway so it could be used
for upcoming services.
King’s return. McCaul said he
doubted King was “defecting” but
added that the soldier was prob-
ably “running from his problems”
when he chose to sprint into
North Korea. “That was the wrong
place to go,” McCaul said.
“When they take an American,
particularly a soldier, captive,
they exact a price for that,” Mc-
Caul said of the North Korean
government.
King’s family told the Associat-
ed Press that they were confused
about his decision to dart across
the border. “I don’t understand
why he would do that, because it
seemed like he was on his way
back here to the United States,”
King’s uncle Myron Gates said.
“He was on his way home.”
King’s grandfather Carl Gates
described him as “a nice, quiet
guy” and called on the U.S. govern-
ment to save his grandson.
Travel to North Korea for Amer-
icans is restricted under a 2017
State Department order imposed
because of security concerns.
alex Horton, Michelle ye Hee Lee and
Leo sands contributed to this report.
tuesday, july 25 , 2023 . the washington post
States lose federal water funds as o∞cials redirect money
38 states and territories
have been shortchanged
$660 million, data shows
BY T ONY R OMM
Members of Congress have re-
directed roughly $2.3 billion in
federal water funds toward polit-
ical pet projects over the past two
years, cutting at times into the
money that could have been
made available for poorer, needi-
er communities.
As a result, 38 states and terri-
tories have been shortchanged
about $660 million in federal
water aid, according to data ob-
tained and analyzed by The
Washington Post, illustrating
how the system often has reward-
ed politically well-connected law-
makers in some of the wealthiest
areas nationwide.
The problem is expected to
worsen in the coming fiscal year,
as House Republicans eye a
$1.7 billion cut to the overall
funding that Washington sends
states for their water needs. That
could complicate a new national
push to replace lead pipes, repair
wastewater facilities and im-
prove other aging infrastructure
— an urgent task at a moment
when the United States is grap-
pling with extreme heat and oth-
er consequences of a fast-warm-
ing planet.
Every year, Congress appropri-
ates money for two key federal
water funds that are overseen by
the Environmental Protection
Agency, which then distributes
grants to states. Since 2022, the
federal allocation has totaled
roughly $5.5 billion, amounting
to a literal and figurative drop in
the bucket for a nation with an
estimated $625 billion backlog in
projects just to provide cleaner,
reliable drinking water.
Before states receive any mon-
ey, however, members of Con-
gress can skim off the top of the
funds. Using a legislative tool
known as earmarks, lawmakers
can reserve federal water aid for
specific projects in their home
communities. Only after that
does Washington divvy up and
distribute a smaller pool of re-
maining cash among the states.
In some parts of the country, the
result of that congressional med-
dling is a net cut in funding —
creating, in effect, a system of
water winners and losers.
In Illinois, for example, ear-
marks last year shortchanged the
state $14.7 million in federal aid
to improve clean water systems,
according to state data and rec-
ords compiled by the Council of
Infrastructure Financing Author-
ities, known as CIFA, which rep-
resents local officials. Illinois has
some of the greatest water needs
in the country, including the
second-most lead pipes in the
United States, a recent federal
analysis shows.
The flood of congressional re-
quests also siphoned away criti-
cal water money from Puerto
Rico, even as the U.S. territory
continued to rebuild from the
devastation of Hurricane Fiona
in 2022. Over the past two fiscal
years, Puerto Rico received
roughly $26.6 million less than it
would have without earmarks,
according to CIFA data shared
with The Post. The territory —
whose officials did not respond to
a request for comment — does
not have voting representation in
Congress.
For now, most states and terri-
tories have still been able to
finance their water projects,
FinAnCe
UBS to pay millions
to U.S., U.K. regulators
UBS has been ordered to pay
$388 million to British and U.S.
regulators over Credit Suisse’s
dealings with private investment
firm Archegos Capital
Management, the Swiss bank
said on Monday.
The settlement is the first of
several that UBS could have to
pay after it last month closed its
takeover of Credit Suisse,
inheriting the collapsed bank’s
legal battles.
Under the agreement, UBS
said Credit Suisse, now a
subsidiary of the bank, has
agreed to pay the Federal
Reserve $269 million.
It will also pay the Bank of
England $119 million, bringing
the total payments to
$388 million.
Economy & Business
Guillermo Paz and Jose Olivera put together pipe sections that will be used to drain a flooded catch basin in Alexandria in 2021.
thanks to a bipartisan 2021 infra-
structure law that greatly in-
creased federal water spending
for five years. Eventually, though,
that money will run out — leaving
local officials with fewer federal
dollars to address infrastructure
needs.
The fiscal situation could
worsen more rapidly under a bill
advanced by House Republicans
last week: The measure would
slash federal water spending by
more than half and reserve nearly
every dollar remaining for ear-
marks — creating a combination
of fiscal constraints next year
that state officials have described
as devastating.
States “are worried about this
trend, the direction that it’s go-
ing,” said Gary Bingenheimer, a
top official at the Illinois Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency.
“But if it continues, and our
grants continue to be reduced,
and the bipartisan infrastructure
law money ends, then what do we
do?”
For many Americans, the na-
tion’s water needs are laid bare in
its harrowing past tales of fail-
ures — from the lead contamina-
tion that long has plagued Flint,
Mich., to the recent images of
brown liquid flowing from spig-
ots in cities such as Jackson, Miss.
The stories share a theme of
persistent neglect, exacerbated in
a country that only recently has
grappled with economic short-
comings that trace along lines of
race and class.
After decades of underinvest-
ment, Congress in 2021 offered a
massive financial reprieve: Dem-
ocrats and Republicans approved
roughly $55 billion to improve
water access, supply and treat-
ment as part of a sprawling
infrastructure package signed
into law by President Biden. The
measure channeled most of that
money through two federal pro-
grams that annually write checks
to states — one focused on drink-
ing water and the other focused
on clean water, which includes
wastewater systems.
Yet the burst of one-time fund-
UBS on Monday said it
would tighten up operational
and risk management
discipline at Credit Suisse after
it completed its takeover of its
smaller rival.
UBS said in May, just before
completing the deal, that it was
setting aside $4 billion for
potential lawsuits connected to
its Credit Suisse takeover.
Although unable to levy fines,
Swiss financial regulator FINMA
has ordered corrective measures
in the wake of the Archegos
affair, including changes to the
bank’s compensation culture
that take more account of risk
appetite.
The British fine is the highest
levied by the Prudential
Regulation Authority, part of the
Bank of England, to date, and
comes after it found Credit
Suisse had breached four of its
“fundamental rules.”
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ing — on top of other state and
federal spending — still fell far
short of the country’s estimated
needs. The infrastructure law in-
cluded about $15 billion specifi-
cally to replace lead pipes, for
example, though analyses from
groups including the Brookings
Institution suggest it could cost
three times as much to solve the
problem.
“There continues to be a huge
gap between the funding and the
need,” said Jeffrey Diehl, chief
executive of the Rhode Island
Infrastructure Bank.
The result is a vast and grow-
ing water spending gap, one that
has created a yearly competition
among lawmakers for still-scarce
funds.
Since 2022, California has
reaped a windfall in federal water
spending: The state’s two Demo-
cratic senators — Dianne Fein-
stein and Alex Padilla — last year
helped secure more than $32 mil-
lion in water-related earmarks,
according to a Post analysis of
spending data. In total, those and
other earmarks helped the state
obtain roughly $43 million more
than it would have if lawmakers
had not intervened last year, an
analysis from CIFA shows.
Diana Marin, a spokeswoman
for Padilla, said in a statement
that the earmarks reflected the
senator’s ongoing work “to ad-
dress decades of underinvest-
ment and the needs of the 40 mil-
lion Californians he represents —
including nearly one million who
are without access to safe drink-
ing water.”
The same dynamic played out
in Alaska, which saw a roughly
$73 million boost to its water
funding over the past two years
thanks to the combination of
direct federal funding and con-
gressional earmarks. Most of the
increase was attributable to ear-
marks sponsored by Republican
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a veteran
lawmaker who serves as a top
appropriator in the chamber, ac-
cording to spending records.
In an interview, Murkowski
said she had labored “aggressive-
Di gest
CRYPtoCuRRenCY
FTX founder agrees to
gag order in fraud case
FTX founder Sam Bankman-
Fried has agreed to a gag order
largely preventing him from
publicly discussing his case after
prosecutors accused him of
trying to discredit their star
witness, Caroline Ellison.
The order still needs to be
approved by U.S. District Judge
Lewis A. Kaplan, who has
summoned the former chief
executive to appear in court
Wednesday. The judge will deal
with the “adequacy and
continuation” of Bankman-
Fried’s bail, suggesting his house
arrest could be in jeopardy.
According to the proposed
order, filed Monday in federal
court in Manhattan, Bankman-
Fried and other parties would be
banned from discussing
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ly” to secure that money because
Alaska has had “significant un-
met needs for decades now, and
didn’t receive the resources” un-
der the formula that normally
awards water aid.
“Some would look at last year’s
accounts for Alaska and say,
‘That’s rather eye-popping; it
seems out of line given Alaska’s
population,’ ” she said. “But what
far too many people fail to recog-
nize in my state [is] we’re not
repairing existing infrastructure,
we’re not replacing, we’re putting
in water and sanitation for the
first time.”
Nationally, lawmakers secured
more than $1.4 billion in clean
water and drinking water ear-
marks in the most recent fiscal
year, nearly double the amount in
2022. But for every state that saw
significant funding gains, others
experienced surprising losses.
In Colorado, the first sign of
trouble surfaced in 2022: Keith
McLaughlin, executive director
of the Colorado Water Resources
and Power Development Author-
ity, said he “came close to running
out of loan money” to fund proj-
ects. In that first year Congress
allowed earmarks, the state’s del-
egation did not take home
enough aid to make up for what
Colorado lost to other states,
putting local officials in a place
where “we almost had more re-
quests than we had dollars avail-
able,” according to McLaughlin.
The state’s shortfall ultimately
totaled about $20 million, he
said. While its immediate effects
may have been blunted by one-
time aid under the infrastructure
law, McLaughlin added that Colo-
rado could be in dire financial
straits if the trend continues at its
current pace.
“There are more projects than
we can fund,” he said. “We’re
within a year or two of running
out of loan funds. That is an
issue.”
Over the past two fiscal years,
Pennsylvania similarly received
about $36 million less than it
would have received if lawmakers
had not allowed earmarks. For
anything with the news media
that could interfere with a fair
trial. That would include
statements about the credibility
of witnesses, information that
isn’t admissible at trial, and
anything that could influence
public opinion about the case.
Bankman-Fried, who is
accused of orchestrating a
multibillion-dollar fraud at his
now bankrupt crypto exchange,
found himself under new
scrutiny last week after a story
in the New York Times about
Ellison’s diary. Ellison, who
pleaded guilty to fraud in a deal
with prosecutors, was the CEO
of Alameda Research — FTX’s
hedge fund affiliate. She also at
one point dated Bankman-
Fried.
The story was based on
Ellison’s writings in Google Docs
and in personal journals. The
excerpts appeared to reveal
Ellison’s ambivalence about her
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Indiana, the cut totaled roughly
$45 million; in Texas, the reduc-
tion exceeded $65 million. Each
of the states declined or did not
respond to requests for com-
ment.
For some states, though, the
headaches have been more than
financial in nature: The congres-
sional earmarks appear to benefit
wealthy communities over needi-
er ones, raising the specter that
the process could be worsening
the country’s racial and economic
divides.
In states such as Maryland,
Massachusetts and Virginia, few-
er than 20 percent of congres-
sional water earmarks in the
2023 fiscal year went to commu-
nities that are considered disad-
vantaged, according to an analy-
sis circulated within the Biden
administration and later ob-
tained by The Post. Members of
Congress decided where to send
those dollars, not state officials,
who might have directed them to
areas in greater need.
The unpublished federal study
aimed to explore whether ear-
marks had comported with an
executive order signed by Biden
in 2021 that aims to deliver
40 percent of all federal benefit
programs to cities and towns in
greatest need. In total, it found
that earmarks in 18 states last
year failed to meet that bench-
mark, depriving disadvantaged
communities of an estimated
$79 million in water aid.
The White House goal does not
apply to the money authorized by
Congress. Many states also set
their own definition for what
qualifies as “disadvantaged,”
marking a break with the Biden
administration’s view. Still, ex-
perts said the finding illustrates
the unintended consequences of
the earmarking practice, which
removes the decision from the
hands of state leaders or federal
agencies.
“The earmarks basically are
taking the money away from
low-income communities that re-
ally need the funding most to fix
their drinking water — and put-
role at FTX and relationship
with Bankman-Fried.
Federal prosecutors filed a
scathing letter accusing
Bankman-Fried of leaking the
material to the newspaper to
“cast Ellison in a poor light, and
advance his defense through the
press.”
— Bloomberg News
Also in Business
The Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp. on Monday called on
some banks to fix their financial
statements for “incorrectly”
reducing the amount of
uninsured deposits. The
banking crisis earlier this year
has prompted regulators to draft
new rules to make the industry
more resilient. In May, the FDIC
had said it would charge a
“special assessment” fee to
recoup losses to its deposit
insurance fund from the
collapse of three U.S. banks.
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ting it into wealthier communi-
ties, that often are White commu-
nities, that don’t need the money
as much,” said Erik Olson, the
senior strategic director for
health and food at the Natural
Resources Defense Council.
The EPA declined multiple re-
quests for comment.
The congressional earmarks
also took the form of grants, even
though states typically provide
such money in the form of loans,
offering exceptions for the needi-
est applicants. That, in effect,
allowed wealthier communities
to receive support under better
financial terms than they other-
wise would have, according to
Timothy Male, executive director
of the Environmental Policy In-
novation Center.
Raising the issue in a March
letter to the Biden administra-
tion, Male estimated that 200
congressional earmarks in 2023
aided communities “wealthier
than the statewide average in-
come.” Those cities and towns,
according to EPIC, “would have
been eligible for loans, but not
grants,” if Congress had not inter-
fered.
The beneficiaries included the
city of Bellaire, Tex., just outside
Houston, which scored $2.4 mil-
lion to replace its water lines last
year. With an average household
income exceeding $200,000 an-
nually, Bellaire normally might
have had to take a loan. Instead, it
received a federal grant, thanks
to Democratic Rep. Lizzie Fletch-
er.
Clarissa Robles, a spokeswom-
an for Fletcher, said in a state-
ment that it is “important to our
constituents to have the ability to
advocate for their needs and
receive funds directly.”
In an interview, Male noted
that such earmarks are legal. “It
may be unfair, but it’s an elected
representative’s prerogative,” he
said, adding: “Millions of dollars
are going to communities that
are very, very wealthy.”
Entering the coming fiscal
year, earmarks are expected to
surge again: Lawmakers this
spring requested more money
than is likely to be available in the
program. A key water-related
spending bill in the GOP-con-
trolled House would earmark
about 88 percent of these funds
in 2024, while slashing overall
spending by $1.7 billion. The
Senate plans to consider its own
legislation this week.
At an early hearing on the bill,
House Democrats lambasted the
GOP approach, arguing that cuts
could damage work nationally to
upgrade the country’s infrastruc-
ture and respond to climate
change.
“These are not numbers on a
page,” said Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro
(Conn.), the top Democrat on the
House Appropriations Commit-
tee. “These are basic life necessi-
ties that we have a simple obliga-
tion to protect for the American
people.”
Republican aides say the cuts
won’t be damaging, because the
2021 infrastructure law still pro-
vides states with additional water
funding. If the bill becomes law,
though, CIFA predicts that 43
states would each receive less
than $1 million in drinking water
aid to use as they see fit — a
staggering drop some states say
they can’t afford.
In Colorado, McLaughlin of-
fered an ominous warning as he
expressed dismay with the ex-
pected uptick in earmarks and
the potential cut in spending.
“We’re really close to having to
make some tough decisions on
projects,” he said, “and tell people
no.”
That fee would be determined
by the amount of uninsured
deposits a bank held at the end
of last year.
FedEx pilots have rejected a
tentative contract deal with the
parcel delivery firm and the two
sides will reopen negotiations,
probably under the supervision
of the National Mediation Board,
the company and the pilots
union said Monday. The
tentative FedEx deal included a
30 percent pay increase and a
30 percent increase to the pilots’
legacy pensions. Earlier this
month, United Airlines and its
pilots — also represented by the
union — announced a tentative
deal that included a cumulative
pay increase of up to
40.2 percent. American Airlines
and the Allied Pilots Association
are revising their tentative deal
following the United agreement.
— From news services
A14 eZ re the washington post . tuesday, july 25 , 2023

Antibiotic pill shows promise in preventing STIs
infecTions from A1
resistance — and the rise of drug-
resistant superbugs.
“It’s the first major interven-
tion we’ve had for STIs since the
vaccine for human papillomavi-
rus” nearly two decades ago, said
Jonathan mermin, who leads STI
prevention for the CDC. “But it is
a new intervention, and because
of that, there are potential ben-
efits and potential risks.”
Doctors, public health officials
and sexual health clinics have
embraced preventive pills as a
realistic way to curb STIs because
they preserve pleasure while pro-
tecting partners. Some doctors
have started prescribing it to a
narrow segment of the gay com-
munity considered at elevated
risk for STIs.
“Just like PrEP was a game
changer, this empowers individu-
als to make choices about their
sexual health,” said Jorge roman,
senior director of clinical services
at the San francisco AIDS foun-
dation, one of the first to widely
distribute DoxyPEP. “It doesn’t
always have to be about con-
doms.”
Doxycycline is already used as
a front-line antibiotic treatment
for chlamydia and, occasionally,
for syphilis and gonorrhea. But its
use for prevention has drawn con-
cerns that it would no longer be
effective in patients who use it
regularly and that it may facilitate
the evolution of antibiotic-
resistant strains of the pathogens.
The drug’s proponents say
these concerns are overblown be-
cause the criteria for eligibility
are often narrow: Transgender
women and men who have sex
with men — and only if they have
condomless sex and contracted
an STI in the preceding year.
Those were the demographics
recruited for a study of 500 pa-
tients in San francisco and
Seattle that found DoxyPEP effec-
tive. The study found a roughly 65
percent reduction in syphilis,
gonorrhea and chlamydia cases
in those who used the antibiotic
between 2019 and 2022, mirror-
ing results from European stud-
ies.
Another study of DoxyPEP use
by cisgender women in Kenya
between 2020 and 2022 did not
find the treatment effective, a
result that surprised and
stumped researchers. Anatomical
The antibiotic doxycycline, when used immediately after sex, helps prevent sexually transmitted
infections, but some in the medical community worry widespread use could fuel drug-resistant strains.
differences could play a role, but
health officials say other studies
suggest doxycycline becomes con-
centrated enough in vaginal fluid
to confer protection against STIs.
Experts say that it’s too early to
conclude that DoxyPEP won’t
work for women and that more
research is needed. Another pos-
sible explanation is women en-
rolled in the Kenyan study may
not have consistently used doxy-
cycline after sex. researchers
note that early studies that found
PrEP ineffective in protecting
African women from HIV were
eventually explained by poor ad-
herence to the drug regimen rath-
er than biological differences.
researchers studying
DoxyPEP are scrutinizing wheth-
er it could also render antibiotic
treatments less effective. The U.S.
study found a slight increase in
antibacterial resistance, which
the study’s authors said merits
long-term attention. But they also
said the finding should be tem-
pered by the fact that doctors
would also be administering few-
er antibiotics if people avoid
catching and spreading STIs.
David Hyun, director of the
Antibiotic resistance Project at
the Pew Charitable Trusts, said he
was concerned by patients in the
study using DoxyPEP as frequent-
ly as 20 times a month. more data
is needed to understand the long-
term effects — for individuals as
well as broader communities, he
said.
“If you keep exposing a patient
to antibiotics like doxycycline,
you are raising the risk of that
patient being colonized or infect-
ed with a resistant strain some-
time in the future,” Hyun said.
Some LGBTQ+ health provid-
ers suspect doctors may be using
concerns about antibiotic resis-
tance to mask discomfort with
condomless gay sex. They note
that syphilis has yet to become
resistant to penicillin since the
antibiotic became the front-line
treatment for the STI in the 1940s.
And they point out doxycycline is
widely used for other reasons,
including long-term acne treat-
ment and malaria prevention.
“We have used doxycycline for
multiple other things,” Shira
Heisler, medical director of the
Detroit Public Health STD Clinic,
said during a may conference of
the National Coalition of STD
Directors. “And I think specifical-
ly now being like, ‘We are not
going to do it because of antimi-
crobial resistance’ when it’s spe-
cifically related to STIs is a good
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time to call out, ‘This is what
stigma is. This is what bias is.’ ”
Proponents of DoxyPEP said it
offers a long-needed solution to a
spike in STIs. The CDC recorded
more than 2.5 million cases of
syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamyd-
ia in 2021, up from 1.8 million in
2011.
In 2021, 36 percent of syphilis
and gonorrhea cases were in men
who have sex with men, according
to the CDC. The CDC says these
disparities cannot be explained
by differences in sexual behavior
alone. When people have a small-
er pool of potential sexual part-
ners with higher rates of STIs,
they are more likely to have sex
with someone with an infection.
Cases in cisgender women and
heterosexual men also have been
rising.
Experts say everyone would
benefit from DoxyPEP being lim-
ited to those most at risk because
that would break chains of trans-
mission early and reduce the like-
lihood of infections spreading
more broadly.
Some physicians say allowing
people to have worry-free sex is a
worthy goal on its own.
“my goal as a physician is to
make sure my patients are able to
have whatever type of sex they
want and however much sex they
want as safely as possible,” said
Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, an in-
fectious diseases specialist in
Atlanta. “And if DoxyPEP would
allow them to do it, then I have no
problem offering it.”
Nick, a 35-year-old resident of
Lafayette, Ind., said he recently
started taking DoxyPEP for peace
of mind, knowing he would be
less likely to get an infection as he
has frequent condomless sex.
HIV was no longer a concern
because he has been taking PrEP
for a decade, said Nick, who spoke
on the condition that his last
name not be used so he could
candidly discuss his sex life. But
he has endured uncomfortable
bouts of syphilis and chlamydia.
“If you are taking HIV PrEP,
why not take another extra kind
of safeguard, too?” he said. “It’s
like a security blanket.”
As the country considers how
widely to distribute DoxyPEP,
public health officials and activ-
ists are worried it will be the latest
medical advancement to roll out
in an inequitable way, following
similar racial gaps seen with PrEP
and mpox vaccinations. federal
officials say PrEP users are dis-
proportionately White, even
though most new HIV cases are in
Black and Latino people. The CDC
estimates that most mpox cases
have been in Black and Latino
men but that only a third of vac-
cine doses have gone to them.
LGBTQ+ health providers are
already reporting disparities,
with White patients more likely to
ask about DoxyPEP and Black and
Latino patients less likely to be
familiar with it.
During a discussion about
DoxyPEP at the STD conference,
one state health official noted
that those who can afford to travel
to Puerto Vallarta, a popular vaca-
tion destination among some gay
Americans, can buy doxycycline
to stockpile for themselves and
their friends because the antibiot-
ic is available over the counter in
mexico. But experts say concerns
about antibiotic resistance would
make it difficult for over-the-
counter sales to occur in the
United States.
mermin, the CDC official, said
equity is a top concern as the
agency crafts its guidance for the
use of DoxyPEP. It would be es-
sential to ensure the medication
is available in clinics serving peo-
ple at the highest risk for STIs, he
said, and to raise awareness out-
side of medical settings, such as
on dating apps.
In London, Joey Knock said he
started buying DoxyPEP outside
of official channels, a common
practice among some gay
Europeans, last winter after regu-
lar bouts of gonorrhea.
But he limits his use to higher-
risk nights, such as when he has
unprotected sex in dark rooms
with strangers.
“I’m someone who was averag-
ing an STI a month,” Knock, 33,
said. “I’ve done the risk analysis
for me, but it also benefits other
people if me taking DoxyPEP
means I don’t get chlamydia, then
I don’t pass chlamydia around.”
In San francisco, the first ma-
jor jurisdiction where public
health officials recommended
DoxyPEP, providers noticed pa-
tients taking a similar approach:
Using it after higher-risk sexual
encounters rather than every en-
counter.
“We need to do more analysis to
see if that could be making Doxy-
PEP less effective or if perhaps
people are making really good
decisions about when to use it,”
said Stephanie Cohen, who leads
STI prevention for the San fran-
cisco Department of Public
Health.
The San francisco AIDS foun-
dation, which says it has connect-
ed more than 1,800 people to
DoxyPEP, does not limit the anti-
biotic to people who have recently
contracted a sexually transmitted
infection but counsels patients on
the unknown risks of antibiotic
resistance.
Anu Hazra, co-medical direc-
tor of Howard Brown Health, an
LGBTQ+ health provider in
Chicago, said that antimicrobial
resistance is “probably the largest
public health threat we have” but
that doxycycline for a small group
of people pales in comparison
with the rampant use of antibiot-
ics in the meat industry and other
sectors.
He and other experts say vac-
cines to prevent STIs could be
another game changer that does
not carry the same baggage as
antibiotics. A recent study show-
ing that a vaccine for meningitis
can also reduce the likelihood of
contracting gonorrhea offers
promise on that front. But
DoxyPEP offers an immediate so-
lution to an ongoing problem and
could be pared back if antibiotic
resistance emerges, Hazra said.
“We are seeing rising rates of
STIs across the board for nearly a
decade now. What we are doing
now is not working,” Hazra said.
“We need to try something new.”

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Fight over ‘SALT’ cap snags Republican tax bill, reopens GOP policy rift
BY J ULIE Z AUZMER W EIL
A group of moderate Republi-
cans is demanding a tax cut for
residents of their largely blue
states, snagging a House effort to
extend an array of tax cuts adopt-
ed during the Trump administra-
tion and reopening simmering
divides in the Republican Party
over tax policy.
Forming what they call the
SALT Caucus, the Republicans
are working with a group of
Democrats to achieve a single
goal: Undoing a 2017 provision
that capped the amount taxpay-
ers can deduct from their federal
income taxes for state and local
taxes (abbreviated as SALT).
President Donald Trump’s sig-
nature tax law limited that de-
duction to $10,000. That sum
affected fewer people in red
states where tax rates tend to be
lower and many more people in
blue states with higher rates,
including New York, New Jersey
and California.
Now, Republican House mem-
bers from those states are threat-
ening to vote against a tax pack-
age approved in June by the
House Ways and Means Commit-
tee unless a provision is added to
raise the SALT cap. As written,
the measures would restore ex-
pired tax cuts for businesses
passed under Trump and repeal
climate-oriented tax credits
passed under President Biden —
initiatives key to the House GOP
agenda this year.
Given the party’s slim House
majority, passage of the mea-
sures will require virtually every
Republican vote.
“If they want to move a tax bill
forward, they’re going to need
the votes of those from New
York,” said Rep. Anthony D’Es-
posito (R-N.Y.), who represents a
Long Island district with some of
the highest local property taxes
in the country. “If they need our
vote, if they want our vote, we
should really be having sincere
and legitimate conversations
about how we include SALT.”
The median household in
D’Esposito’s Nassau County pays
more than $10,000 in annual
property taxes. So do households
in Falls Church, Va.; New York
City; and six other counties in the
New York and New Jersey sub-
urbs. (In the vast majority of U.S.
counties, the median household’s
property tax bill is below $4,000.)
“I have too many constituents
leaving Long Island for places
like Florida and the Carolinas,”
said Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.).
“One of the ways we can blunt
that is having a higher SALT
deduction.”
But adding a provision to raise
the SALT cap would alienate
some other Republicans. Rep.
Kevin Hern, who chairs the con-
servative Republican Study Com-
mittee, said the “vast majority” of
owners pay on their business
income effectively does not count
toward the federal SALT cap.
Only North Dakota, Delaware
and D.C. have not enacted or
proposed such a workaround,
according to the American Insti-
tute of Certified Public Accoun-
tants.
In a 2018 analysis, the Tax
Policy Center noted that the
SALT cap made a meaningful
difference only on the incomes of
the top 20 percent of earners. It
forecast that removing the cap
would save taxpayers in the top
quintile an extra $2,500 a year on
average and those in the top 1
percent about $30,000 a year.
eva DeiTch for The WashingTon PosT Even some members of the
Homes in Kingston, N.Y. Parts of New York state have some of the SALT Caucus acknowledge that
highest local property taxes in the country. would be a big giveaway to
high-income households. Rep.
his 176-member caucus would gives blue states and cities an Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), a
oppose eliminating the SALT cap. incentive to cut taxes. member of the SALT Caucus who
“I don’t see how the votes Some observers are skeptical sits on the Ways and Means
would be there,” Hern (R-Okla.) that the SALT deduction has Committee, said she wants to
said in an email. much influence on local policy. study other options, such as pro-
The SALT cap has inspired “The states affected by [the SALT hibiting people above a certain
endless arguments since Repub- cap] have Democratic control. high income threshold from tak-
licans approved it in 2017. Those They’re not going to run out and ing any SALT deduction at all
opposed to the cap see it as a cut taxes on their highest income while allowing a larger deduc-
targeted jab at blue states by earners,” said Richard Auxier, an tion for the middle class. Mall-
Republican lawmakers and a analyst at the nonpartisan Tax iotakis said she also wants to
pain point for some middle-class Policy Center. explore ways to use federal dol-
homeowners with high local tax Instead, many states have lars to directly pressure states
bills. Those in favor of the cap passed laws to get around the and cities to cut their taxes.
include some lawmakers on the SALT cap — especially for busi- “It’s these Democrat-run cities
left, who say unchecked deduc- ness owners. Almost every state and states that continue to pick-
tions are a giveaway to the rich, with an income tax has changed pocket taxpayers,” Malliotakis
and those on the right, who say it its state law so that the taxes said. “One of my biggest concerns
is that we would provide relief on
the federal level, and then these
state legislatures and city coun-
cils keep adding to their big,
bloated bureaucracies year after
year.”
The SALT Caucus’s efforts to
modify the House bill are just the
beginning of a longer push to
include SALT changes in future
tax legislation.
As written, the Republican tax
bill stands little chance of pas-
sage with or without SALT
changes. Instead, the Republi-
can-led House and Democrat-led
Senate will attempt to compro-
mise on a tax bill later this year.
The end result could combine
some Republican goals, such as
extending business tax cuts, with
some Democratic goals, like in-
creasing the size of the child tax
credit, that have fans on both
sides of the aisle.
Malliotakis said she would be
willing to vote for the current
House bill in hopes of adding
changes to the SALT cap later in
talks with the Senate.
“A bipartisan caucus can work
together to push for it to be on
the table during negotiations,”
Malliotakis said, noting that Sen-
ate Majority Leader Charles E.
Schumer (D) also hails from New
York.
“I imagine that Schumer
would be supportive and help-
ful,” she said. “My constituents
are his constituents.”

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BY J EFF S TEIN
Congress managed to raise the
debt limit this year to prevent a
U.S. government default. Law-
makers are working to reach
agreement on next year’s budget
by Sept. 30 to prevent a federal
shutdown.
The House could begin voting
as soon as this week on some of
the spending bills to fund the
government for next year; the
Senate is working on the bills, too.
The debt ceiling deal, reached
in May by President Biden and
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
(R-Calif.), specified that most of
the federal government should be
funded at essentially flat levels for
the next two years.
But some House Republicans
say that bipartisan agreement
only means the government won’t
spend more than the caps — and
that spending less is just fine.
Many GOP leaders are pushing
to limit funding for the 2024 fiscal
year to what the budget was in
2022, which would mean a $115
billion cut that Democrats reject.
“The agreement reached on the
debt limit set a number for appro-
priations for upcoming fiscal
year, but that number is looked at
by the Senate as the floor and
looked at by the House as the
ceiling,” said Bill Hoagland, sen-
ior vice president at the Biparti-
san Policy Center, a Washington-
based think tank. Republicans
control the House of Representa-
tives, while Democrats control
the Senate. “There’s still a lot of
differences.”
A government shutdown
would not be as calamitous as
breaching the debt ceiling, but it
would affect hundreds of thou-
sands of federal workers and, de-
pending on how long it lasts,
potentially impact the broader
U.S. economy.
Roughly 800,000 federal work-
ers missed two consecutive pay-
checks during the longest govern-
ment shutdown in 2019, amid a
rift between President Donald
Trump and House Democrats
over funding for the U.S.-Mexico
border wall. A government shut-
down can also interfere with criti-
cal federal services, such as food
safety inspections and the opera-
tions of the Internal Revenue
Service.
For now, aides on Capitol Hill
of both major parties remain con-
fident an agreement will be
IRS says it will end most unannounced visits by agents to taxpayers’ homes
New policy, prompted by
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Internal Revenue Service
agents will no longer make unan-
nounced visits to taxpayers’
homes, the agency said Monday,
in a policy shift meant to protect
employees’ safety amid concerns
about potentially irate taxpayers
answering the door.
Since at least the 1950s, rev-
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er without a deal.
1. When is the next
government shutdown
deadline?
Congress and the Biden admin-
istration have until Sept. 30 to
avoid a government shutdown.
That’s when the federal fiscal year
ends. The 2024 fiscal year begins
Oct. 1.
Lawmakers are trying to ap-
prove 12 appropriations bills,
doors each year, according to
agency staff. The new policy will
reduce these visits to no more
than a few hundred per year, and
only under unusual circum-
stances.
Instead of making house calls
to taxpayers who have ignored
overdue tax notices in the mail,
the agency will send letters that
instruct taxpayers to schedule a
visit with a revenue officer, it
explained.
“This is the right thing to do
and the right time to end it,” IRS
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all of these 12 different bills have
been rolled into a single “omni-
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spending law in December, are
slightly higher than what Biden
and McCarthy agreed to spend for
2024 during the debt ceiling
standoff, making a temporary ex-
tension less palatable for Republi-
cans seeking cuts.
The debt ceiling deal also in-
cluded automatic changes to the
spending caps McCarthy and
Biden agreed on if the appropria-
tions bills haven’t all been passed
by Jan. 1. That could translate into
cuts in defense spending and an
increase in nondefense spending
over current levels if a continuing
resolution is in effect.
3. Who would be affected by a
government shutdown?
Government shutdowns affect
most federal workers. During the
last shutdown, which started in
December 2018, roughly 800,000
workers were sent home without
pay. (Once the shutdown ends,
workers are typically compensat-
ed in full for their missed pay-
checks.) Workers who are deemed
“essential” continue to work un-
paid. Other impacts can include
shutting down national parks, re-
cipients missing food stamp pay-
ments, and disruptions to envi-
ronmental and food inspections.
Unlike a default, U.S. bond pay-
ments to creditors are not at risk.
4. When was the last
government shutdown?
The most recent government
shutdown started in December
2018 during a dispute between
Trump and House Democrats
over the proposed U.S.-Mexico
border wall. It lasted 34 days,
which made it the longest shut-
down in U.S. history.
The shutdown ended when de-
lays hit major East Coast airports
as unpaid air traffic controllers
did not report to work.
5. What is the main
disagreement?
The core issue is how much
money the government should
spend next year.
Under the debt ceiling deal
reached by McCarthy and Biden,
Republicans agreed to raise the
debt ceiling in exchange for keep-
ing funding flat for most domestic
spending programs, which would
amount to an inflation-adjusted
cut. (The deal did not affect feder-
al programs funded outside the
annual appropriations process,
cent months, by focusing on high
earners known to have not paid
their taxes.
The agency has also vowed to
update its computer systems so
that tax data in the future can be
analyzed by artificial intelli-
gence. The upgrades should help
flag tax cheats in a more sophisti-
cated manner than random au-
dits.
Ending the door-knocking
practice will help recruit tax ex-
perts to work for the agency, IRS
staff predicted.
“These are some of the hardest
jobs in government. … There is a
better way of doing it,” IRS
spokesman Terry Lemons said.
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and Medicaid.)
But since then, senior Republi-
cans have again pushed for more
cuts, citing inflation as a reason to
cut government spending. House
Appropriations Chair Kay Grang-
er (R-Tex.) said in a statement that
the debt ceiling deal “set a top-line
spending cap” but “not a floor” for
the following year’s government
funding. Negotiators remain par-
ticularly divided over the appro-
priations bill that primarily funds
the Education Department, the
Labor Department and the De-
partment of Health and Human
Services, according to Hoagland.
“By clawing back $115 billion in
unnecessary, partisan programs,
we will refocus government
spending consistent with Repub-
lican priorities,” Granger said in a
statement.
Democrats have ridiculed the
idea they should vote for a lower
spending number than what Mc-
Carthy and Biden agreed to in
May. Bobby Kogan, senior direc-
tor of federal budget policy at the
left-leaning think tank the Center
for American Progress, said the
GOP appeared to be trying to
force Democrats to make conces-
sions on other matters in ex-
change for sticking to the original
spending agreement.
“Republicans reneged on the
deal so they could defund, dam-
age, or destroy vital programs and
investments,” said Rep. Brendan
F. Boyle (Pa.), the top Democrat on
the budget committee, in a state-
ment. “MAGA extremism has put
us on the path toward a shut-
down.”
6. What else do lawmakers
disagree about?
Beyond the top-line number,
Democratic and Republican law-
makers have numerous disagree-
ments about what should be in
next year’s federal budget.
The House Republicans’ push
for lower spending has led them
to seek cuts to the Internal Rev-
enue Service, the Securities and
Exchange Commission and the
Consumer Product Safety Com-
mission, among other federal
agencies. Democrats have also
sharply criticized the proposed
cuts to the education budget,
which Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro
(Conn.), the top Democrat on the
House Appropriations Commit-
tee, said would lead to 22,000
fewer teachers.
safety and security, that will help
us bring good people in to the
agency.”
The union representing IRS
employees pushed for the
change.
“The safety of IRS employees is
of paramount importance and
this decision will help protect
those whose jobs have only grown
more dangerous in recent years
because of false, inflammatory
rhetoric about the agency and its
workforce,” National Treasury
Employees Union President Tony
Reardon said in a statement.
Werfel also noted that scam
artists have knocked on doors
falsely claiming to be IRS agents
— a fraud that should be easier to
detect under the new policy.
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FaReed ZakaRia
The threat from
far-right populism
still lingers
W
hen I speak to people about right-wing
populism these days, I notice that many
tend to believe that it’s old news. Popu-
list leaders captured the world’s atten-
tion in 2016 with the Brexit referendum and then,
later that year, with Donald Trump’s election
victory. Now, seven years later, many seem to feel it
is past its prime. Trump was defeated in 2020 and is
under indictment. Brexit has been a messy failure; a
majority of Britons now regret that it passed.
Though it’s true that some populist heroes and
causes have been battered, the core appeal of the
movement persists and has actually gained ground
in recent months.
Consider Spain, which was one of those countries
long thought to be immune to right-wing populism
because (like Germany) it once suffered under a
right-wing autocracy. The conservative party Vox,
founded a decade ago, was long seen as too extreme
to make real inroads in the political system. Today, it
is the country’s third-largest party. In May, it
doubled its vote share in regional and local
elections, and it now governs in many places. In
Sunday’s election, the party didn’t do quite as well
as expected — yet it maintained its status as the
third-strongest force in parliament. Though its
chances of participating in government have nar-
rowed, it could still end up playing a role in a
conservative coalition.
In Germany itself, the Alternative for Germany
(AfD), once seen as taboo, has won back-to-back
local elections in the country’s east. Nationwide, it is
now polling in second place, roughly tied with the
Social Democrats, Germany’s main leftist party. In
Italy, the birthplace of fascism, Giorgia Meloni of
the far-right Brothers of Italy party has been serving
as prime minister since October. Though she has
moderated her stance in many ways, Meloni
continues to praise the Movimento Sociale Italiano,
a now-defunct fascist organization to which she
once belonged.
The one issue always at the heart
of the rise of modern far-right
populism: immigration. Everywhere
you look, you see that fears of
uncontrolled immigration have
produced political rewards for the
‘anti-globalists.’
Sweden and Finland have both seen the rise of
far-right parties that are gaining strength and
political power. The Dutch political system now has
several populist parties, some brand-new, and the
tensions produced by their rise recently led to the
resignation of that country’s longest-serving prime
minister, Mark Rutte. In France, some polls show
Marine Le Pen winning the next presidential
election.
Why is this happening? Europe is going through
tough times. Russia’s war on Ukraine and the
resulting sanctions against Russia have affected
Europe more severely than any other part of the
world. The continent has been forced to abandon its
addiction to cheap Russian energy and find alterna-
tives, usually more costly. The rest of its trade with
Russia has also collapsed. Meanwhile, cheap energy,
new subsidies and a better regulatory environment
are making some European companies think about
moving their factories to the United States.
But it’s not really about economics. Spain’s
economy is healthy; the country grew at 5.5 percent
last year, and its inflation rate is among the lowest
in the euro zone. But that growth is varied, and
there are parts of the country such as Aragon —
Spain’s Ohio — where deindustrialization has left
people feeling dispossessed. Regions like Aragon
exist all over Europe, and they add to a sense of
despair and frustration with the country’s establish-
ment and the European Union’s elites. The war in
Ukraine has also led many in the E.U. to worry about
the price they are paying for a conflict that, they
think, doesn’t directly threaten them — especially
because that is what many populist leaders tell
them.
If I had to point to one issue, however, it is the one
that has always been at the heart of the rise of
modern far-right populism: immigration. Every-
where you look, you see that fears of uncontrolled
immigration have produced political rewards for
the “anti-globalists.” Covid-19 destabilized many
developing countries in the Southern Hemisphere,
which then exacerbated poverty and violence as
those countries struggled. The Ukraine war has
caused a once-in-a-lifetime movement out of that
country on one side of the world, while Venezuela’s
brutal crackdown has led to another of similar
magnitude on the other. Climate change adds to this
toxic brew. When you put it all together, you end up
with a historic movement of people across the
world.
Global leaders are struggling to mitigate the
problem. The Biden administration has taken
several measures to address the crisis at the border
with Mexico, and, as a result, the flow of migrants
into the United States in recent months has slowed
considerably. It is working with other governments
in the Western Hemisphere to tackle some of the
issues that are driving out-migration. British Prime
Minister Rishi Sunak is trying to forge a new asylum
policy that would move illegal asylum seekers to
Rwanda or elsewhere for evaluation. Greek Prime
Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has pledged to extend
an existing wall between Greece and Turkey by
more than 100 kilometers over the next few years to
tamp down illegal border crossings.
But I worry that, as the pressures for migration
increase, the rhetoric from the right will get louder
and noisier. Trump is well aware that hostility
toward immigration was his ticket to the White
House in 2016. And at some point, as the dema-
gogues raise their rhetoric and scare more people,
the center will not hold.
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The Fat Boys — Buffy, Prince Markie Dee and Kool Rock Ski — perform at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago in January 1985.
theodoRe R. Johnson
How the music of summer
is healing the nation
I
went to my first concert at 9 years old. It was
the mid-1980s, and rap was entering the
mainstream. Grocery stores sold records,
and, while I was shopping with my mother,
an album cover caught my eye. Three big dudes
hovered over a pizza while holding a burger, soda
and ice cream. A miniature version of the guys —
clad in black-and-white prison uniforms straight
out of a “Three Stooges” skit — stood in the pizza
box sharing a slice. Emblazoned across the top
was the group’s name: Fat Boys.
The Fat Boys concert was held in a hotel
ballroom. My best friend invited me to go with
him and his adult cousins. I begged my parents
for permission, and though they didn’t know
much about the music, they had a feeling that a
rap concert was probably not the place for a
fourth-grader. But when I showed them the
ridiculously comedic cover art and introduced
them to the group’s signature beatboxing, they
gave in. They must’ve thought my attempts to
mimic the human percussion — at the dinner
table, during shootarounds with friends, at
church (until my mother gave me The Look) —
sounded so silly that this group must be for kids.
That concert is a memory I’ll always treasure.
Countless children are making their own first-
concert memories this summer. On social media,
I’ve seen the light come on in the eyes of kids and
teens at Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Drake con-
certs, among others. For many, the coronavirus
pandemic delayed the experience of sharing time
and space with thousands of people who love the
same songs. And aside from how technologically
advanced a major concert is now, I’m most struck
by the diversity of the crowds. Maybe there is
some social and civic magic to be found in our
return to shared, in-person experiences.
Social scientists have identified four themes
that help explain the attraction of concerts and
the significance of attendance. The most promi-
nent is the experience, followed by the engage-
ment, the novelty and, lastly, the practical rea-
sons. That makes sense to me. Summer 2023 is
Jim geRaghty
As Daniel Snyder shows, character is destiny — eventually
B
efore the Trump years, conservatives often
argued that “character is destiny,” a quote
sometimes attributed to the Greek philoso-
pher Heraclitus or the 19th-century English
author George Eliot.
Then a notoriously temperamental and patholog-
ically lying, egomaniacal, twice-divorced former
casino owner won the GOP nomination in 2016, and
many on the right convinced themselves that “eh,
maybe character isn’t all that connected to destiny
after all.”
And Lord knows, in both national public life and
our personal lives, we’ve seen nice guys finish last.
We’ve seen the unscrupulous and unethical prosper.
The #MeToo scandals demonstrated that the country
has no shortage of powerful, famous and wealthy
men who are creeps and abusers. It is all too easy to
grow cynical and believe that ethics and good
judgment hold people back and that in our society,
much as in a fetid pond, the scum rises to the top.
But the rise and fall of so many infamous
characters in our national life suggests the aphorism
just needs a little tweaking: Character is destiny —
eventually.
And if you doubt that, consider Daniel Snyder,
now the ex-owner of the Washington Commanders.
Sure, Snyder walks with $6 billion, and he gets to
sail away on his superyacht with a built-in Imax
theater. But he was already fabulously wealthy when
he began as owner. And now, by just about every
measure other than his balance sheet, he’s poor.
Snyder can’t buy himself a better reputation or a
better record, or the trust of fans, any of his former
business partners or anyone else in professional
sports. He cashed in but lost everything else along
the way.
Snyder’s reign was a colossal failure, and the
team’s performance on the field would be bad
enough. Perhaps fans of the then-Redskins were
spoiled by a spectacular run of success, including
three Super Bowls between 1983 and 1992, and
should have been prepared for some lean years. But
the National Football League is built for parity; the
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rich with engaging and novel experiences. One of
the features of Drake’s tour is a performance of
some of his older songs with a hologram of his
younger self. Audiences look on in awe as they
rap and sing along to music from a decade ago. At
Swift’s stadium concerts, middle-schoolers trade
friendship bracelets with fans twice their age, all
euphoric to be glimpsing — and singing with —
their idol in the company of tens of thousands of
new besties. And when Blue Ivy, Beyoncé’s
daughter, appears onstage to dance with her
mom, little girls explode with joy, doing the same
choreographed moves from their seats.
Engagement matters. Ours is a society that
requires frequent positive community participa-
tion if it’s to be resilient against the forces pulling
us apart. Scholars have explored the impact of
attending concerts, and they’ve found such ben-
efits as an increased sense of belonging and
improved well-being. Concert audiences “experi-
enced feelings of togetherness,” researchers re-
port. Sharing a love for something facilitates a
path to connection.
At the same time, concert attendance serves as
a public affirmation of one’s sense of self. Music
can be “a means to help formulate identities and
meet certain emotional needs” — critical espe-
cially to the development of young people. At a
stage of life in which everyone is seeking to fit in
somewhere, shared music is a crew, a family, a
nation. At concerts, individually meaningful mo-
ments converge into collective joy. People —
especially young people — bond over creative
expression and the sheer excitement of being
alive together.
Back in that hotel ballroom, the Fat Boys were
running extremely late. The crowd grew antsy.
When “Five Minutes of Funk” blared through the
speakers to distract us, my friend’s cousins
hoisted us on their shoulders. I cannot describe
the joy. The whole room was dancing. Everyone
was dressed like the people we saw in magazines
and videos. It was a vibe, with kindred spirits.
The place was a frenzy when the group finally
worst team gets the first pick in the following year’s
draft of new players. It is hard to be consistently
excellent for many years in a row, and it should be
similarly hard to be consistently terrible for many
years in a row. Under Snyder and a rotating carousel
of hyped coaches and high-priced free agents, the
Redskins — then the Washington Football Team and
then the Commanders — accumulated a record of
164 wins, 220 losses and two ties, with a postseason
record of two wins and six losses.
A lot of people lose their jobs;
almost none see parties thrown
throughout the metropolitan area
to celebrate their departure.
As many fans despairingly observe, the team had
more names than playoff wins during the Snyder era.
But quite a few NFL teams have struggles, and
their owners aren’t nearly as detested and villain-
ized. It’s the off-the-field issues that made the team
an embarrassment to loyal and patient fans who
once made up arguably the most impassioned fan
base in the league.
The Redskins-turned-Commanders faced wide-
spread claims of sexual harassment, verbal abuse
and a toxic workplace culture. Emails revealed Jon
Gruden, a coach-turned-TV analyst, wrote racist and
misogynist comments to Bruce Allen, then the
president of the team. Snyder sued fans for backing
out of season-ticket purchases during a recession
and sued Washington City Paper for defamation,
ultimately dropping the suit. He reportedly collected
“dirt” on other owners and NFL Commissioner
Roger Goodell. A team employee described Snyder’s
philosophy to The Post’s Sally Jenkins as saying
whatever the other person wants to hear, smiling
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arrived, and its trademark sounds thumped in
our chests. I was too young to articulate what my
soul needed. I could only feel it: the cultural
affirmation from being right in the thick of it.
Connected.
Some people fear that technology, instead of
enhancing this profound experience, will replace
it. I think the covid shutdown taught us how
insufficient that would be. The popular Verzuz
concert series — streamed live on Instagram at
the height of the pandemic — was a moment for
the culture, but it was nothing compared with
the particular alchemy of an in-person concert. A
recent study found that those who’ve watched
virtual concerts treasure the individual experi-
ence; social engagement was least important for
them. Technology can make convenience more
attractive than connection.
The Fat Boys bounced after about three songs.
I never learned why they left so abruptly. As we
exited, people were saying the group was forced
to vacate the stage because the room had exceed-
ed maximum occupancy. Others, seeking a more
sensational story to tell, suggested fights had
broken out. Whatever it was, we had waited for
hours to enjoy a 15-minute performance — yet I
rode home on Cloud 9. There was something
about being in that room, with that crowd, that
made this little suburban kid from the other side
of town feel that I belonged — that there was a
place for me beyond my own world.
We are a nation with plenty of places to
convene and commune but with a dwindling
interest in doing so with people who are different
from us. The folks who traffic in stoking conflict
intentionally target the places where we gather
across our differences: concerts, the movies,
sports. The pandemic separated us out of neces-
sity. Those days are over now, and legions are
turning out to share powerful experiences this
summer. The crowds teeming with excitement
remind us — and teach a new generation — that
constructive shared experiences are necessary
for a strong and cohesive society.
and shaking hands and then betraying at the first
opportunity.
One of the worst tragedies of all this is how
unnecessary it was. Snyder didn’t have to act this
way to build a winner. He didn’t have to act this way
to become rich. At seemingly every juncture, he
chose to treat people badly just because he could.
Had he been a nicer, more honest person who was
more respectful of others, the team might not have
been better on the field, but the organization’s
reputation would be better.
Character is destiny — eventually.
No wonder the Commanders ranked last in the
NFL in average home attendance last year, and the
stands of FedEx Field now regularly look like a home
game for the Eagles, the Giants and even the lowly
New York Jets. Who wants to root for an underper-
forming team that’s constantly getting in trouble off
the field and that reportedly has an internal culture
that seems as decadent as the late Roman Empire?
In one last insult, as the fans were celebrating a
new owner, the NFL announced Thursday that
Snyder sexually harassed a team employee and
oversaw team executives who deliberately withheld
millions of dollars in revenue from other clubs. He
agreed to pay a $60 million fine.
If you could go back in time to 1999 and ask the
then-34-year-old new owner Snyder what he hoped
to achieve over the next 21/2 decades, he would have
described the opposite of this embarrassing mess.
Snyder wanted to win, and like many people, he
probably wanted to be celebrated as an icon of
intrepid virtues. He probably wanted respect, admi-
ration, prestige and maybe to stir a little envy.
Today, you might want Snyder’s wealth, but you
would never want to be him. He ends his tenure as
one of the most widely despised figures in Washing-
ton — ever. A lot of people lose their jobs; almost
none see parties thrown throughout the metropoli-
tan area to celebrate their departure.
It’s a sad, sordid, outraging and depressing story.
But Dan Snyder’s character wouldn’t allow any other
outcome.
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The July 21 Metro article “Farm, coast-
line pollution part of Moore’s targeted
mand on extremely hot days, when every-
one is running their air conditioners.
The need for larger batteries and more
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The ruling coalition’s judicial maneuvering fuels a crisis. that the efforts to clean up the Chesa- Touring, criticized for having a big battery

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peake Bay and its estuaries are a sobering providing a “whopping 516-mile range.”
OR MONTHS, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin In more than 30 weeks of street demonstrations, the indicator of our inability to address hu- Who would pay that much for a car that
Netanyahu was warned of the consequences. He movement has developed financial, social, political and man impact on our environment. could not be used for a road trip?
was strongly urged to negotiate a deal over the psychological resources, and the protests are sure to As a volunteer for the organization Long-range batteries have become es-
proposal to emasculate the Israeli Supreme Court, continue. The most popular chant at the demonstrations Save the Bay in the early 1970s and sential, given the poor state of charging
a misguided power grab advanced by his far-right has been: “If there’s no equality, we’ll take down the subsequent efforts to address the degrad- capacity and the amount of time needed
coalition. On Monday, the first part of the legislation was government. You picked the wrong generation to tangle ed bay, I heard so many excuses for not to charge an EV. So, even with a long-range
approved by the Knesset. It appears Mr. Netanyahu went with.” Yes, these are probably not voters who support making contributions or changes in life- EV, a road trip can be a hassle. With a
over a cliff. What now? Mr. Netanyahu and his extreme religious and nationalist styles to stop the deterioration. I doubt short-range EV, such a trip would be all
Mr. Netanyahu and his coalition have ignited a coalition partners, but there are rumblings of dissent many people have the courage or forti- but impossible.
political crisis of immense proportions, perhaps the most even in his own Likud party ranks. tude required to make a difference. Bob Benna, Potomac
consequential in Israel’s history. Massive protests against The passage of the legislation on Monday abolishes the The environmental conditions and
the judicial reform have filled Israel’s streets for months, court’s ability to nullify actions it deems “unreasonable.” challenges we face are far more dire than
and the vote brought open resistance from not only But that is only the first step for this coalition, which also the pollution of the Potomac and the Protecting workers from heat
Israel’s progressive and secular Jews but also other would like to gain control of the committee that selects Susquehanna rivers, yet we have not
bastions of the establishment. judges and, with the judicial system no longer a achieved anywhere near the public The July 17 front-page article “In Texas,
Large businesses and unions are planning strikes and counterweight to the executive, open the way to even awareness that is required to alter the a deadly heat with no breaks” shone a
closures. A former head of Israel’s security service, the more far-reaching goals such as annexation of the West climatic changes. What we are left with critical light on the need for more legal
Shin Bet, was among those on the streets protesting after Bank, which Palestinians envision as a future state. are reactive-responsive patchwork ap- protections for those working in extreme
the vote. Nadav Argaman said he came to “mark the end” This presages a grim future. Mr. Netanyahu, having proaches that will only address our cur- heat. It overlooked, however, important
of Mr. Netanyahu’s rule. “Bibi has a coalition, but he brought Israel to this point, should immediately seek to rent, individual realities rather than real- legal protections already in place.
doesn’t have the people. He’s lost the people,” he said. A open negotiations with the opposition on some compro- ize more far-reaching solutions. For instance, 15 states and D.C. have
letter signed by more than 1,100 air force reserve officers mise over the just-passed legislation, which won’t Much misplaced blame and ire will be paid sick-time laws allowing workers to
declared, “The legislation, which allows the government become law until signed by the president. Mr. Netanyahu assigned to our government for these take time off for illness or preventive care,
to act in an extremely unreasonable manner, will harm could use the upcoming Knesset recess for talks. He conditions, suggesting that the govern- including if they feel sick related to heat
the security of the State of Israel, will break the trust and should signal that he and his coalition will not attempt to ment is something other than ourselves. or air quality. Three states have laws that
violate our consent to continue risking our lives — and unilaterally ram through the rest of the judicial reform If we could not affect the conditions of allow paid leave for any reason. Colora-
will very sadly leave us with no choice but to refrain from package. our rivers, streams and bays with decades do’s and Minnesota’s laws will soon allow
volunteering for reserve duty.” Dozens of former top If he proceeds without compromise, the risks are great. of effort, what chance, if any, do we have workers to take paid time off to care for a
security officials — including former heads of the Israel He endangers Israel’s security, further splinters an of positively affecting the climate? Mak- family member whose school or day care
Defense Forces, Mossad and Shin Bet — sent a letter already badly divided body politic and strains Israel’s ing any appreciable, beneficial dent in is closed for inclement weather, and many
declaring, “The legislation is shattering the common relationship with the United States, which has repeatedly our inevitable environmental challenges states allow use of sick time when an
foundation of Israeli society, tearing the people apart, called on him to compromise. Much damage has already will take societal changes (consumption, employee’s workplace or their child’s
dismantling the IDF and causing grievous harm to been done. Mr. Netanyahu should not throw more fuel on production and economy) that we, as school is closed for a public health emer-
Israel’s security.” this dumpster fire but start to find a way out of the crisis. corporations and as Americans, simply gency, which can include dangerous heat.
refuse to make voluntarily. Pregnant people, who, according to the
Derek Havens, Mason Neck Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
tion, are more likely to get heat-related
illnesses, also have new nationwide pro-

Inflation has taken a pause Mr. Tuberville’s principles

In his July 20 Thursday Opinion col-
tections. The Pregnant Workers Fairness
Act requires employers to provide accom-
modations for limitations related to preg-
umn, “Tuberville is holding the military nancy, childbirth and related medical
But the Fed should not let up yet. chain of command hostage,” Hugh Hewitt conditions. Examples might include extra

T
missed the point of the hold by Sen. Tom- breaks to rest in the shade or drink water
HE FEDERAL RESERVE is almost certainly my Tuberville (R-Ala.) on military promo- or a temporary transfer to an indoor
going to lift the benchmark interest rate Wednes- tions. position. Too many workers are still un-
day to nearly 5.5 percent, a stunning rise from Yes, the senator disagrees with taxpay- aware of their rights. We must continue to
practically zero in March 2022. The Fed was too er money being used to fund travel for educate workers while pushing for heat
slow to recognize inflation’s painful bite, which reached abortions, a change that came about in standards and a nationwide sick-time
more than 9 percent year-over-year last summer, but the October via a memo from Defense Secre- law.
Fed’s credibility has been restored. The central bank tary Lloyd Austin. The larger issue here is Sarah Brafman, Washington
acted aggressively, helping cool inflation to a fairly one of supreme importance: Who has the The writer is national policy director at
tolerable 3 percent. authority to make such a change? The A Better Balance.
Now, the path is murkier. As anyone alive in the 1970s Constitution vests all legislative powers
knows, the biggest danger is to give up too soon. Fed in Congress, not the defense secretary. If
Chair Jerome H. Powell has made this case repeatedly. “Is the Biden administration wants to fund American ideals
there a risk that we would go too far? Certainly, there is a abortion or abortion-related travel, it
risk, but I wouldn’t agree that it’s the biggest risk to the should work to get Congress to change the To an American who has spent years
economy. The bigger mistake to make would be to fail to policy, especially because 10 U.S. Code living abroad, Fareed Zakaria perfectly
restore price stability,” he said last July. That’s still true 1093, the law that prevents such expendi- laid out in his July 15 op-ed, “The old
today. tures, has been in place since 1984. consensus on U.S. foreign policy is dead,”
The Fed needs to project that it’s still in inflation- Mr. Tuberville should be applauded, the practical risks of the Republican Par-
fighting mode. Congress gave the central bank two goals: not derided, for protecting the authority ty’s increasingly isolationist approach to
maximum employment and price stability. With the of every lawmaker, from either party, to foreign policy. But more should be said
unemployment rate at a half-century low, jobs still easy to make laws for the people they are elected about the moral implications of the GOP
obtain and labor force participation of Americans ages to represent. turning its back on the rules-based inter-
25 to 54 at the highest level since 2002, the Fed deserves Kristen Ullman, Alexandria national order.
an A grade on employment but a C on price stability. Yes, The writer is president of the Eagle Foum. Those not standing with Ukraine in the
there has been significant improvement, but inflation is face of a genocidal attack by Russian
still well above the 2 percent target. President Vladimir Putin are the moral
Even more troubling, the inflation gauge that strips The case for big EV batteries equivalent of those in the late 1930s and
out volatile food and energy prices is sitting at 4.8 per- early 1940s who opposed the “lend-lease”
cent. Inflation, like unabated mold, has a tendency to I disagree that the batteries used in program and whose isolationist “it’s not
return, and spores of it are still lurking in the services electric vehicles are getting too big, as our problem” agenda provided aid and
side of the economy: restaurants, travel, entertainment, Jabin botsford/the Washington Post contended in the July 20 analysis “Bigger comfort to the Nazis until the United
car insurance. Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell in D.C. on March 7. EV batteries are overkill — for most Amer- States finally joined the war. That values
Of course, Mr. Powell and his fellow board members icans and the planet.” The purpose of — not just interests — play an active role in
cannot be blind to what is going on in the rest of the 2019, bringing rates down somewhat during the Trump larger batteries is to increase the range an U.S. foreign policy is, if not unique, at least
economy. There’s rightly concern about the Fed trigger- trade wars, and took fast action in March 2020 when the EV can be driven before needing a charge. rare. The idea that the United States, at
ing an unnecessary recession by raising rates too high. pandemic began. The article noted that “87 percent of all minimum, tries to be on the right side of
But so far, the economy and labor market have been far Some have suggested reconsidering the 2 percent driving days in the United States” could be history in the post-World War II era is
more resilient than expected. In fact, recession fears are inflation target. It is an arbitrary number that New satisfied with an EV with a range of central to who we are as modern Ameri-
fading. More and more economists and business leaders Zealand policymakers came up with around 1990. But 73 miles. cans. It’s also important to the way we are
are starting to believe inflation can subside without this is not the moment to change it. The Fed’s credibility Many, if not most, Americans take long viewed abroad, particularly by our allies,
substantial pain in which millions of workers have to lose has been a major factor in helping inflation cool. The road trips from time to time, and their and to our soft power more broadly.
their jobs and incomes. This resilience gives the Fed public now believes the Fed will win this fight. Abandon- vehicles must be suitable for such trips, no The increasing isolationism among Re-
leeway to hike more if needed. ing the target now risks undermining that hard-won matter how infrequent. This is akin to the publicans isn’t just a danger to the inter-
If the economy starts to deteriorate rapidly, Mr. Powell confidence. capacity needed by an electric utility for national order; it’s a betrayal of the very
will likely reconsider. He has a proven knack for pivoting. Wall Street expects this to be the last rate hike in this peak loads. Though demand on most days idea of what the United States stands for
He shows both humility and a recognition that economic series. But what matters most is that the Fed do what’s might be moderate, the power company in the modern era.
forecasts have a poor track record. He reversed course in needed to ensure inflation returns to target. must have enough capacity to meet de- Oliver Kendall, Barcelona

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Jason Aldean?
Spare me the
small-town
nostalgia.
I’
m not here to talk about Jason
Aldean’s country song “Try
That in a Small Town.” I’m not
a fan. I’m just here to pat you
on the back if you’re one of the many
Americans, like me, who ran from
small-town life and never looked
back.
I’m from a small town in Ohio. I’ve
blocked out many of my memories of
the place. I spent my childhood there
in the 1970s and 1980s, and I do
remember playing outside and being
surrounded by friends when I was a
child. I remember the summers
when we got sprayed with the garden
hose and the winters full of snowball
fights and forts.
But none of that makes up for
what the place really was.
All the Black people lived on one
side of town, and all the White
people lived on the other. Our
churches were separate. We went to
school together, but it was at school
that I was called or heard the n-word
from White students on a weekly
basis. The racism of my small town
was naked and powerful; seething
hatreds were baked into its soil. And
when all the steel jobs disappeared,
leaving many on welfare, in poverty
or desperate, those hatreds deepened
and the n-word flew more freely than
ever.
As I got older and realized that I
was gay, my small town became for
me a coffin lined with razor blades.
But it wasn’t just my sexuality that
made it uncomfortable. I was differ-
ent. I thought differently. I began to
question the things I had been
taught, and I found no one in my
hometown who offered good an-
swers. I was just told to be quiet: by
my teachers, by my friends, by my
church and even by my parents. And
then the smothering feeling set in,
the wondering whether there was
more to life than what I was being
shown. And I knew I had to escape. I
wanted to meet different kinds of
people, I wanted different experi-
ences, I wanted to learn new things,
and none of that was going to happen
in a small town in northern Ohio. I
couldn’t wait to leave.
As I got older and
realized that I was gay,
my small town became
for me a coffin lined
with razor blades.
My story isn’t unusual. There are
many like me in this country. People
who could not wait to put their small
hometowns in the rearview mirror
because they couldn’t or wouldn’t
fall in line. People who dreaded the
thought of going back to them on
holidays because, at the moment
your feet land on the ground where
you were raised, the memories come
flooding back. You dread the mo-
ment when you run into someone
from high school who wants to talk
about how great it was. But you have
nothing to add to this conversation
because you don’t remember the
glory days in quite the same way. And
you dread the assumption that many
will make that you somehow think
you’re a big shot simply because you
ran for your life.
You were the “weird girl” who had
an opinion and had no interest in
being a cheerleader. You were the boy
who couldn’t play sports. You were
the one who thought just a little too
much outside the box. I see you. You
were different. For you, these places
represent the mind-set and mores
you were so keen to put behind you.
You can see our national mythol-
ogy around small towns shot through
our culture. It is everywhere, in every
Hallmark movie where the success-
ful, young city woman returns to her
hometown because her urban life is
an empty one full of loneliness and
streetlights. In this version, the real
meaning of life comes from being
surrounded by men in boots and
women in housedresses. Nothing
could be further from the truth.
I have had awful things happen to
me in the city. But nothing more
awful than things that have hap-
pened to me in the country. And we
need to start shedding this idea that
purity and goodness reside only in
the places with one stoplight.
So, all you weirdos out there who
escaped your small town? I see you. I
know what you went through. And I
hope you have found a place where
you feel at home and comfortable
enough to be yourself. You were
never a weirdo. There was never
anything wrong with you. You are not
depraved. Sometimes we’re just born
where we don’t belong. And someone
creating an idyllic and violent fanta-
sy of “community” of the place you
had to leave behind doesn’t change
that one bit.
A service member trains at the Mezaine military training ground in Latvia on Sept. 10, 2022.
LEE hockstadER
NATO’s front-line nations
face a rising Russian threat
RiGa, Latvia
O
n the day tens of thousands of
Russian soldiers stormed into
Ukraine last year, U.S. paratroop-
ers from the 173rd Airborne Bri-
gade, kitted out in full battle gear, landed at
the airport here in Latvia — a boots-on-the-
ground symbol of Washington’s commit-
ment to defend its most vulnerable NATO
allies in Europe.
On paper, that commitment has been
ironclad since the U.S.-led alliance extend-
ed its collective security umbrella guaran-
tee to Latvia and its sister Baltic states,
Lithuania and Estonia, almost 20 years
ago. In practice, fulfilling that promise
would be a nightmare, given the current
lack of resources and the rising threat of
Russian aggression, which has mounted
exponentially. Neither Washington nor its
European allies are ready.
NATO reckoned drowsily for years with
Moscow’s rising threat, then got a wake-up
call when Russian President Vladimir
Putin launched his ruinous attack on
Ukraine 17 months ago. In its annual sum-
mit last week, the alliance adopted
4,000 pages of secret plans to prepare hun-
dreds of thousands of U.S. and other rapid-
reaction troops from bases across Europe
to defend front-line states, including the
Baltics. The mission: “deterrence by deni-
al,” meaning stopping Russian troops be-
fore they can seize an inch of NATO terri-
tory — and potentially subject the bloc’s
front-line states to the risk of atrocities like
those committed in Ukraine.
But those plans, and the dollars, euros
and political will to fulfill them, remain in
doubt. And nowhere are those doubts
deeper than in the Baltic states, where
Russia’s threat is existential.
“If you want to prove that the alliance is
real and credible, this is the place,” said
Kristine Berzina of the German Marshall
Fund, which organized a research trip to
Latvia for several transatlantic security
experts and me this month.
The Baltic states — colonized by imperi-
al Russia, then subjugated by the Soviet
Union for much of the 20th century — have
been warning for years that Putin would
not be content to live within Russia’s exist-
ing borders. They were ignored in Wash-
ington, London, Paris and Berlin.
Today in central Riga’s handsome Art
Nouveau center, a two-story banner of Pu-
RamEsh PonnuRu
The future isn’t what it used to be
A
merican politics is awash in nos-
talgia. It’s bipartisan, and it
starts at the top. All of our recent
presidents have trafficked in it.
Donald Trump’s inaugural address in
2017 portrayed a nation that had fallen
from its peak because “a small group in
our nation’s capital” had plundered the
country for years while “struggling fami-
lies” were left with “little to celebrate.”
President Biden says our economy has
been lagging behind other countries, at
least until he took office, and that mis-
guided policies have been impoverishing
the middle class for 40 years.
Americans agree that the present
doesn’t measure up to the way things
used to be. In April, the Pew Research
Center reported that 58 percent of re-
spondents to its survey said life for people
like them is worse than it was 50 years
ago.
There’s some debate over what ac-
counts for this sentiment. One school of
thought holds that economic trends am-
ply justify the public’s sense of decline.
According to this view, wages have stag-
nated for decades, making it harder for
young people to marry and to start fami-
lies. But the best evidence contradicts this
story. The Congressional Budget Office
reports that households in the middle of
the pack had income growth of 26 percent
from 1990 to 2019 — and of 55 percent if
you count taxes and government benefits.
Those impressed by such statistics
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tin gazes across the street at the Russian
Embassy, his face a grotesque skull against
a blood-red background. The image cap-
tures the loathing Russia inspires for many
Latvians, whose grandparents and great-
grandparents were rounded up by Soviet
forces and deported en masse to Siberian
concentration camps during and after
World War II.
Russian propagandists train their ven-
om at the Balts — “Nazis” is a favorite
epithet — and were enraged when Latvia,
shortly after the full-scale invasion of
Ukraine, ordered the destruction of a So-
viet Red Army monument in downtown
Riga.
The Balts are bulking up their Lillipu-
tian defenses to prepare for a Russian
invasion, which many consider plausible
within three to five years. Determined not
to be a free-rider in NATO, Latvia has raised
defense spending from 1 percent of gross
domestic product to 2.3 percent of GDP
over the past decade; has reinstated the
draft; and is buying U.S.-made missiles and
German air defense systems. Insiders say
the defense minister is the only official who
doesn’t break a sweat during the govern-
ment’s annual budget negotiations.
But Latvia, the size of West Virginia and
with a population under 2 million, shares
240 miles of borders with Russia and its
vassal state Belarus. Its own forces would
be scarcely a speed bump if Russia did
invade. The Latvian navy, whose offensive
capacity consists of five small patrol boats,
“is a coast guard, frankly,” according to its
commander, Capt. Maris Polencs.
A 2016 study by the Rand Corp. conclud-
ed that Russian ground forces could cap-
ture Riga and Tallinn, capital of neighbor-
ing Estonia, in two to three days. “Without
U.S. support, we are done,” said Andis
Kudors, a Latvian scholar.
The Pentagon has deployed more than
20,000 additional troops to European bas-
es since Russia’s full-scale invasion of
Ukraine, bringing U.S. strength across the
continent to at least 100,000. U.S. Gen.
Christopher G. Cavoli, the supreme allied
commander Europe, is leading an effort to
muster some 300,000 rapid-reaction
NATO troops, roughly eight times the
strength of the current force. The goal is
that they could deploy to defend front-line
states in 10 to 30 days.
The problem is aligning the massive
wonder why we are so ungrateful. May-
be it’s the negative bias of the news
media, they speculate, or the natural
wistfulness of an aging society. Or may-
be our unhappiness is not mostly a
matter of economics. Social conserva-
tives point to declining rates of church
attendance and marriage as causes of
lamentation, although they cannot pine
for the higher divorce and abortion rates
we had 50 years ago.
Most Americans used to trust
the government to solve
problems and work in the
public interest. During the
1960s and 1970s, that
confidence cratered.
I have a tentative theory about the hold
the “good old days” seem to have on us.
Yes, we have more material possessions,
more wealth, more access to medicine
and more educational opportunities for
our children than we did 50 years ago. But
living standards were rising more rapidly
back then. And that steady upward move-
ment is a large part of what we miss —
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buildup needed to achieve that goal with
the political will and available resources of
most of the alliance’s member states. The
prognosis is not encouraging.
Across most of Europe, years of anemic
military spending produced rickety armed
forces and meager weapons stockpiles.
Arming Ukraine has emptied arsenals
across the continent. Defense industry pro-
duction in the United States and Europe is
inadequate to the task of arming and
equipping the additional brigades Cavoli
wants. And new investment to juice weap-
ons assembly lines will take years to bear
fruit.
It’s also unclear who will provide the
tens of thousands of additional NATO
quick-reaction troops Cavoli wants, given
that about two-thirds of NATO countries
fail to meet the alliance’s minimum target
of spending 2 percent of national output
annually on defense.
At Adazi, a base near Riga, a Canadian-
led NATO battalion is earmarked to grow
by a couple thousand troops to reach bri-
gade strength, about 4,000 soldiers. Even
that modest upgrade will take at least three
years. By then, Moscow might already have
reconstituted its own brigades depleted in
Ukraine.
The outlook was no more heartening
when I visited Lielvarde Air Base in Latvia,
where a small fleet of U.S. Blackhawk heli-
copters trains to ferry combat troops to the
front to repel invaders. It depends on a
supply line so flimsy that spare rotor blades
take up to three weeks to arrive from U.S.
factories. “In a crisis, we’d be grounded in a
week or two,” Lt. Col. Lukas B. Berg of the
U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, the helicopter
task force commander, told me.
NATO retains enormous power, as it
demonstrated this spring with its largest-
ever air exercise, which included
10,000 personnel and 250 aircraft, about
100 of them from the United States. The
alliance gained more muscle in the Baltic
region when Finland joined this spring
and will be further bolstered by Sweden’s
likely accession later this year.
Nonetheless, Cavoli and his successors
have their work cut out, and the urgency is
clear. Without renewed resolve from
Washington and major European capitals,
the Kremlin is likely to regard NATO’s
front-line states as tempting targets — and
soft ones.
even those of us with no personal memo-
ry of it.
This idea of progress was not merely
material. The civil rights revolution was
making our society more just. Most
Americans trusted the government to
solve problems and work in the public
interest. During the 1960s and 1970s, that
confidence cratered. (It partly recovered
in the 1980s and early 1990s and then
resumed its downward trajectory.) Even
if that confidence was misplaced, as it
certainly was in the 1960s, it’s under-
standable that we would regret losing it.
Social changes have continued, often
using the civil rights struggle as a model.
But even as most Americans see same-sex
marriage as a social advance, the convic-
tion that the arc of history bends toward
justice, as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
liked to say, has faltered.
The sheer size — and current age — of
the baby boom generation is surely re-
sponsible for some of today’s nostalgia.
But not all of it. When its members were
kids, the country really did look forward
to what lay ahead more than we do now.
The problem isn’t that we’re idealizing
the past. It’s that the future’s not what it
used to be.
If I’m right, then convincing Ameri-
cans that we were poorer than we remem-
ber in the old days will not suffice to
change our mood. We will have to find a
way to recapture yesterday’s way of look-
ing at tomorrow.
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EugEnE Robinson
Slavery was an
atrocity, not an
apprenticeship
F
lorida’s decision to teach in schools
that slavery in this country was of
“personal benefit” to some enslaved
people is obscene revisionism. It is
like teaching that though Abraham Lincoln
might have been assassinated, at least the
performance at Ford’s Theatre that night was
first-rate.
For those who doubt this obscenity is actu-
ally in the curriculum, look no further than
Page 6 of Florida’s 2023 academic standards
for teaching social studies: “Instruction in-
cludes how slaves developed skills which, in
some instances, could be applied for their
personal benefit.”
It was Gov. Ron DeSantis, running for the
GOP presidential nomination as an “anti-
wokeness” Savonarola, who inspired this
latest effort to both-sides slavery. (Months
ago, the state rejected an Advanced Place-
ment course on African American studies,
saying it “significantly lacks educational val-
ue.”) On Friday, DeSantis blamed the state
Department of Education — “I wasn’t in-
volved,” he claimed — but also defended the
abomination: “They’re probably going to
show that some of the folks that eventually
parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into
doing things later in life.”
Where to begin? I’ll start with my own
family history. One of my great-great-grand-
fathers, enslaved in Charleston, S.C., was in-
deed compelled to learn to be a blacksmith.
But he had no ability to “parlay” anything,
because his time and labor were not his own.
They belonged to his enslaver. He belonged to
his enslaver.
To pretend my ancestor was done some
sort of favor by being taught a trade ignores
the reality of race-based, chattel slavery as
practiced in the United States. He was sold
like a piece of livestock at least twice that I
know of. To say he “developed skills,” as if he
had signed up for some sort of apprenticeship
program, is appallingly ahistorical. As was
true for the millions of other enslaved African
Americans, anything he achieved was in spite
of his bondage.
To pretend my ancestor
was done some sort of favor
by being taught a trade
ignores the reality.
What was the reality? In the years right
before the Civil War, there was an enterprise
in Charleston known as “Ryan’s Mart” —
colloquially called “Ryan’s n----- jail.” Occupy-
ing the width of an entire block, the premises
consisted of an open yard surrounded by four
buildings. There was a four-story barracoon,
or barracks, where Black men, women and
children were housed, usually in chains,
pending sale. There was a free-standing
kitchen so the merchandise could be fed.
There was a small morgue for lost inventory.
And in front, where buyers entered, there was
an auction gallery where bargains in flesh
were consummated.
Only the haunted gallery remains, thought
to be the lone surviving building in the state
where enslaved people were auctioned. In
1988, the city government acquired the prop-
erty, eventually opening it to the public as the
Old Slave Mart Museum to tell the story of
slavery in Charleston. Last month, the new,
more comprehensive International African
American Museum opened a mile away at the
site of Gadsden’s Wharf, where more en-
slaved Africans were brought ashore than
anyplace else in the country.
I have looked through the new Florida
curriculum to see whether that sentence
about “personal benefit” might be a singular
aberration, and it is not. Yes, the standards do
require that students be taught about the
horrors of slavery. But they also leave some
very wrong impressions.
The curriculum mandates that teachers
“examine the various duties and trades per-
formed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work,
painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic serv-
ice, blacksmithing, transportation).” That
suggests a smorgasbord of career options, but
in fact the vast majority of enslaved African
Americans were forced to do backbreaking
work as field hands. Very small numbers were
employed otherwise.
Florida wants students to study “how trad-
ing in slaves developed in African lands (e.g.,
Benin, Dahomey)” and “the practice of the
Barbary Pirates in kidnapping Europeans
and selling them into slavery in Muslim coun-
tries.” In other words, I guess, “Black people
started it” and “White people were slaves,
too.” Students are also to be taught that the
first Africans brought to Jamestown in 1619
were technically indentured servants. Show
me the indenture documents.
The problem with all of this is that it seeks
to contextualize American slavery as some-
thing other than what it was: a unique
historical crime, perpetuated over 21/2 cen-
turies. Slavery was practiced here on an
industrial scale, based on race and the belief
in white supremacy, with not just individu-
als but also their descendants consigned to
lifelong servitude.
The Florida curriculum does a similar trick
in interpreting the Jim Crow period. It calls
for studying “acts of violence perpetrated
against and by African Americans” — blam-
ing both sides — but then mentions the “1906
Atlanta Race Riot, 1919 Washington, D.C.
Race Riot, 1920 Ocoee Massacre, 1921 Tulsa
Massacre and the 1923 Rosewood Massacre.”
All of those atrocities, and many more, were
White riots against innocent Black victims.
What happened happened. We will not
move forward until we truthfully acknowl-
edge where we’ve been.
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Netanyahu coalition approves measure to initiate overhaul of judicial system
ISrAel from A1
independent, and no side will
take it over,” Netanyahu said in
an address to the nation monday
evening, adding that he was open
to compromise on other parts of
the judicial overhaul.
The prime minister and some
of his allies signaled that the vote
was necessary to appease his
most extreme coalition partners
and that there were no imminent
plans to push through the rest of
the legislative package. But other
coalition partners said they were
just getting started.
“We will, God willing, respon-
sibly continue to pass these laws,”
finance minister Bezalel
Smotrich told reporters outside
the Knesset after final passage of
the first bill.
The mixed messaging high-
lighted concerns that Netanyahu,
beholden to Smotrich and others
for his narrow majority and beset
by health concerns, is not in
control of events, as the country
is rocked by domestic instability
and a resurgence of violence
across the occupied West Bank.
“We have no prime minister,”
opposition leader Yair Lapid said
in a televised statement. “Netan-
yahu has become the doll of
messianic extremists.”
The effort to weaken the judici-
ary has split the country since the
proposal was launched unexpect-
edly just days after Netanyahu’s
new right-wing government took
office in late December. Yariv
Levin, the justice minister, intro-
duced a package of Knesset bills
that would give the ruling parties
more power to override Supreme
Court decisions and select judges.
The package included legisla-
tion that would stop the Supreme
Court from blocking politicians
convicted of crimes from serving
in top government jobs under the
judicial standard of “reasonable-
ness.” That authority was
stripped from the court in mon-
day’s vote.
Without a written constitu-
tion, the courts have used the
reasonableness doctrine to block
certain decisions and appoint-
ments. Earlier this year, in a case
that infuriated conservatives, the
court forced Netanyahu to fire a
key political ally — ultra-ortho-
dox party leader Aryeh Deri —
from his twin appointments as
health and interior minister. Deri
was convicted of tax fraud in
2021.
Critics said Netanyahu could
now not only reappoint Deri but
also fire Israel’s independent at-
torney general, Gali Baharav-mi-
ara, who has angered coalition
members by not prosecuting peo-
ple who have demonstrated at the
A longtime friend of Israel, Biden grapples with navigating its sharp right turn
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While Israelis have taken to
the street by the hundreds of
thousands to declare the judicial
overhaul vote “undemocratic,”
Jean-Pierre would use no such
word.
In an early indication of how
Biden will seek to navigate this
diplomatic and political mine-
field, the White House said plans
for the president to meet with
Netanyahu sometime this year
remain intact — but declined to
specify when, where or how the
two leaders might meet. The
encounter is likely to take place
sometime this fall, a National
Security Council official said,
speaking on the condition of
anonymity to preview future
events. The official added that
“the details will be worked out by
our teams to see what is feasible.”
recent shifts in American pol-
itics appear to be complicating
Biden’s position. rep. Pramila
Jayapal (D-Wash.) recently called
Israel a “racist state,” and it is
clear a growing number of mem-
bers of Biden’s own party are
questioning whether Netanyahu,
at least, fully shares those values.
Jayapal apologized for her re-
marks, but while she declared in
doing so that “I do not believe the
idea of Israel as a nation is
racist,” she added, “I do, however,
believe that Netanyahu’s ex-
treme right-wing government
has engaged in discriminatory
and outright racist policies.”
republicans — seizing the mo-
ment to question whether Biden
is supporting Israel strongly
enough — held a vote after
Jayapal’s comment to reaffirm
U.S. support for Israel, a resolu-
tion that passed with an over-
whelmingly bipartisan vote.
In the lead-up to the conten-
tious vote, Biden last week wel-
comed Israeli President Isaac
Herzog to the White House and
restated his strong support for
the Jewish state. Still, Herzog’s
role is largely ceremonial, and
Biden’s invitation contrasted
pointedly with his approach to
Netanyahu, whom he has not
demonstrators assemble on the street in Jerusalem. The legislative effort to weaken the judiciary has split Israel since the proposal was
launched unexpectedly just days after Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu’s new right-wing government took office in late december.
homes of government ministers.
In allowing the measure to
proceed, Netanyahu brushed
past a remarkable and growing
chorus of entreaties from busi-
ness and security leaders, includ-
ing a rebuke late Sunday from
President Biden, who told Israeli
media, “It doesn’t make sense for
Israeli leaders to rush this.”
After the vote monday, the
White House reiterated its disap-
proval: “As a lifelong friend of
Israel, President Biden has pub-
licly and privately expressed his
views that major changes in a
democracy to be enduring must
have as broad a consensus as
possible,” press secretary Karine
Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
“It is unfortunate that the vote
today took place with the slim-
mest possible majority.”
Across Israeli society on mon-
day, the fallout was fast and
far-reaching.
more than 10,000 military re-
serve pilots, cyber experts and
other service members pledged
to skip their training duties if the
coalition pushed the legislation
through. Netanyahu was sched-
uled to meet after the vote with
the army’s chief of staff amid
invited to Washington since Ne-
tanyahu regained the prime min-
ister’s office in November.
As Netanyahu has pressed
ahead with his judicial overhaul,
in part at the urging of his
right-wing coalition partners,
Biden has spent weeks trying to
navigate the increasingly turbu-
lent moment in the U.S.-Israeli
relationship. Biden has been a
staunch supporter of the Jewish
state for 50 years, often recount-
ing his meeting with former
prime minister Golda meir, and
he shares the view of many U.S.
politicians that Israel is a vital
democratic ally in an often-
hostile region.
But Netanyahu’s moves, which
could greatly weaken the inde-
pendence of Israel’s judiciary,
have challenged Biden’s agenda
of promoting democracy, putting
the president in a difficult situa-
tion as he seeks to rebuke Netan-
yahu while affirming his support
for Israel itself.
Before monday’s vote, Biden
found various ways to signal his
displeasure without issuing an
overly harsh statement. He told
New York Times columnist
Thomas L. friedman, for exam-
ple, that his “recommendation to
Israeli leaders is not to rush.” on
other occasions, he has said
simply that in democracies it is
best not to make fundamental
changes unless they have wide-
spread support.
for the moment, a significant
alteration in U.S. policy toward
Israel appears unlikely.
Israel has been Washington’s
biggest foreign aid recipient
since the Jewish state’s founding
in the aftermath of World War II,
most of it through military aid. A
standing memorandum of un-
derstanding between the two
countries provides for an annual
average of $3.8 billion in military
and defense aid through 2028,
according to a report this year by
the Congressional research
Service.
This is not the first time
American politicians and activ-
ists have raised serious concerns
about Israel’s conduct. But that
eZ Re
warnings from top generals that
Israel’s defensive readiness could
be impaired if enough reservists
follow through on the threat.
The country’s largest labor fed-
eration, whose own compromise
proposal was rejected on Sunday,
has said it may call a general
strike — a move that paralyzed
Israel in late march and forced
Police arrest protesters outside the Knesset, where lawmakers
voted to strip some authority from Israel’s Supreme Court.
has never been enough for law-
makers or the White House to
take significant steps toward cut-
ting aid.
The Washington Post and oth-
er outlets reported in 2021 on the
use by several nondemocratic
governments of Israeli-devel-
oped Pegasus spyware to hack
the phones of journalists and
political dissidents. Israel’s top
three defense export markets —
India, Azerbaijan and Vietnam —
have independently drawn scru-
tiny from human rights organi-
zations for their own abuses.
more recently, some lawmak-
ers, including Sen. Lindsey o.
Graham (r-S.C.), have com-
plained that Israel has not shown
enough support to Ukraine since
the russian invasion in 2022.
Israel has rebuffed Ukrainian
requests for broader military
assistance, including advanced
“It is unfortunate that the vote took place today.
It happened with the slimmest possible majority.”
Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary
missile defense systems, citing a
desire to avoid an Israeli conflict
with russia.
And liberal activists are in-
creasingly vocal about Israel’s
policy toward the Palestinians,
including the construction of a
large number of settlements in
the occupied territories, which
they say puts a two-state solution
increasingly out of reach.
monday’s vote by the Israeli
Knesset, or parliament, stripped
the Israeli Supreme Court of its
power to overturn government
decisions for being “unreason-
able.” In the absence of a written
constitution or a bicameral legis-
lature, that power has been a key
check on a ruling coalition’s
ability to force measures through
the Knesset, including by a very
narrow majority.
Supporters of the judicial
overhaul say it promotes democ-
racy, elevating the power of elect-
ed lawmakers over unelected,
Netanyahu to temporarily pause
the judicial overhaul.
Bankers said deposits and in-
vestments had already begun to
flee the country. The shekel and
the Tel Aviv stock exchange plum-
meted.
High-tech leaders warned that
Israel’s reputation as an open and
innovative start-up incubator
KoBi Wolf/BloomBeRg NeWs
elite judges. monday’s action was
just the first step, they add,
saying they also plan legislation
allowing the Knesset to overturn
court opinions with a simple
majority.
The Supreme Court has long
been an irritant to Israel’s right
wing. But Netanyahu’s overhaul
has torn the country apart, with
hundreds of thousands of Is-
raelis pouring into the streets for
months of protests. Numerous
reservists have said they will not
report for duty if the law went
through, an unprecedented ges-
ture in a country that puts the
military at the center of its
national life.
While liberal Democrats have
become more willing to criticize
Israel, republican figures,
backed by evangelical leaders,
have embraced the Jewish state
all the more closely. David fried-
man, who served as U.S. ambas-
sador to Israel under President
Donald Trump, said in an inter-
view that Biden’s reprimands of
Netanyahu were a “mistake from
the get-go,” given Israel’s precari-
ous position in the middle East.
“Israel just needs a friend,”
friedman said. “Support them,
help them, make sure they have
what they need to defend them-
selves and to meet their security
requirements. make it clear
there’s no daylight between
America and Israel. And maybe
behind the scenes you can be
encouraging.”
The administration has
framed Biden’s comments as the
kind of honest criticism that can
be made only by close friends
whose underlying bond is un-
questioned. Secretary of State
Antony Blinken told NBC News
that Biden’s public remarks re-
flect what “he’s shared privately
on several occasions with differ-
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was at risk. The Israel Business
forum, a federation of 150 of the
country’s largest companies,
shuttered malls, law firms and
gas stations.
Several advocacy groups said
they were preparing to challenge
the move in a petition to the
Supreme Court, though it was
unclear what powers the court
now has to review the challenge
to its authority. Scholars warned
of a protracted legal crisis with-
out precedent in Israeli history.
Hopes for a last-minute deal
rose and fell several times
throughout the day. Herzog —
who has warned that Israel is at
risk of “civil war” — met with
Netanyahu at the hospital after
returning late Sunday from a visit
to Washington. Netanyahu also
talked to Lapid on monday, but
the opposition leader announced
shortly before voting began that
compromise talks had collapsed.
organizers of demonstrations
that have drawn tens of thou-
sands of Israelis into the streets
week after week since January —
a grass-roots spectrum of veter-
ans, academics, tech workers and
doctors — said passing the bill
would unleash even greater fury.
ent leaders in Israel.”
“President Biden, more than
anyone I know, is in his gut
committed to Israel’s security,
and that will never change,”
Blinken said friday. “But as such
close partners and friends, we
share the concerns that we have
with Israel, and I think it’s also
born of our own experience as
democracies.”
Netanyahu had a notably
fraught relationship with former
president Barack obama, whom
the Israeli prime minister fa-
mously offended in 2015 by deliv-
ered an address to a republican-
held Congress condemning
obama’s forthcoming Iran nu-
clear deal. Tensions between the
two leaders simmered publicly
during the obama administra-
tion over the Iran deal and over
Washington’s displeasure with
Israel’s expansion of settlements
in the occupied West Bank and
its use of deadly force against
Palestinian civilians in the Gaza
Strip.
obama and Netanyahu, at
turns, snubbed each other’s
meeting invitations. And the ac-
rimony culminated when the
United States abstained from a
2016 U.N. Security Council reso-
lution calling for an immediate
halt of Israeli settlement con-
struction in occupied Palestinian
territory — the sort of resolution
the United States consistently
vetoed in the past.
But through all that, the flow
of aid from the United States to
Israel remained strong. And the
obama administration in 2016
signed a 10-year memorandum
of understanding with Israel,
which pledges $38 billion in U.S.
military assistance from 2019 to
2028 — the largest such security
assistance package to date.
Still, there is little doubt the
U.S.-Israel relationship is chang-
ing, a seismic if slow-moving
shift in American politics and
diplomacy. for decades, the emo-
tional bond between the two
countries was powered in part by
Israel’s creation shortly after the
Holocaust, when it was widely
seen as a crucial haven for a
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Protesters, some of whom have
been camping in the heat of
central Jerusalem for days,
poured into the parks and plazas
around the Knesset after mon-
day’s vote, joined by throngs get-
ting off trains from Tel Aviv.
Police used water cannons and
horse patrols to disperse crowds
that tried to block roads into the
parliament compound through-
out the day. They dragged dem-
onstrators out of roadways, in-
cluding military veterans and
reservists who linked arms as
they lay on the hot pavement.
more than 2,000 demonstra-
tors marched along a Jerusalem
highway at rush hour, according
to media reports. By nightfall,
crowds had gathered in Tel Aviv,
the center of the protest move-
ment, and other cities.
Conservatives contend that
monday’s change was crucial to
reining in a judiciary that has
usurped parliamentary authority
and is hopelessly biased toward
Israel’s leftist elite. Critics say it’s
a power grab that would gut the
long-standing balance of power
between the legislative and judi-
cial branches.
The division reflects a widen-
ing gap in Israelis’ view of their
country and vision for its future.
for the ultra-orthodox and
ultranationalist parties that gave
Netanyahu his four-seat majority
in the Knesset — bringing him
back to power after a year and a
half on the sidelines — the courts
have been a barrier to their long-
standing ambition of centering
religious conservatism in public
spaces and government policy.
The court has limited draft ex-
emptions for Yeshiva students,
for example, and been a check on
the confiscation of land in the
West Bank, where some cabinet
members are pushing for de facto
annexation.
for Israel’s more liberal resi-
dents in the tech and cultural
hubs along the mediterranean
coast, the courts have been one of
the few counterweights to the
growing power of the right wing.
reducing judicial authority, they
say, risks putting Israel on the
path to autocracy and even theoc-
racy, with religious leaders dic-
tating more aspects of civic life.
Nadav Argaman, the head of
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency
until 2021, lamented that Netan-
yahu had been “captured by the
hands of a coalition that has lost
touch with the people.”
“We will fight with all the tools
at our disposal,” he told demon-
strators in Jerusalem.
Rubin reported from tel aviv. miriam
Berger in Washington contributed to
this report.
long-persecuted people.
In recent years, Israel has
become more powerful, its treat-
ment of the Palestinians has
become more controversial, and
its government has moved sharp-
ly to the right. Netanyahu was
central to all these shifts, at
times openly aligning himself
with the GoP — prompting a
growing number of Democrats to
openly criticize Israeli policies.
Dissent, too, has cropped up
more often in the American Jew-
ish community.
Biden has long been viewed as
an old-school Democratic Israel
backer, coming from a time when
support for Israel was more bi-
partisan than ever.
“Biden’s experience with Israel
is an Israel that just doesn’t exist
any longer,” said Steven Cook, a
senior fellow for middle East and
Africa Studies at the Council on
foreign relations.
Cook and other experts said
Netanyahu is a savvy operator
with the political acumen to get
what he wants despite the public
disagreement with Biden. But
they also warned that the Israeli
prime minister could be mis-
judging the current moment.
Shalom Lipner, senior fellow
for the middle East Programs at
the Atlantic Council, said that
monday’s vote is a “watershed
moment” and that it would be
wise for Netanyahu to pay atten-
tion to how public opinion
forms, especially in the United
States, where a growing share of
Democrats have expressed
doubts about the direction of
Israel.
The decision by Netanyahu to
move so clearly toward the re-
publican Party was a strategic
error, he added.
“It would be shortsighted of
Israeli decision-makers to put all
their eggs in one basket,” Lipner
said. “I don’t think the Israelis
want to be in a situation where
there’s a Democrat in the White
House and they broke those
ties.”
abigail Hauslohner contributed to
this report.

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light of hot-wiring wave
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Hyundai Motor Co. is opening
a drive-through clinic in D.C.
offering owners of certain mod-
els free anti-theft software up-
grades to curtail a wave of thefts
inspired by social media reports
showing how to hot-wire the cars
with a UsB phone charger cord.
The clinic will be open from 8
a.m. to 7 p.m. July 27-31 at Lot 8 at
the old RFK stadium, 2400 Inde-
pendence Avenue se. Officials
who announced the initiative on
Monday said the upgrades are
expected to take less than an
hour to install.
While a statement from the
D.C. government says the clinic is
for District residents, a Hyundai
spokesman said anyone who
owns or leases a Hyundai that fits
the criteria will be not turned
away, no matter where they live.
no appointment is necessary.
The program is being offered
through a partnership with the
D.C. government.
D.C. Mayor Muriel e. Bowser
(D) told reporters at Monday’s
announcement that police are
focused on “pushing down vio-
lent crime.” But, the mayor said,
“stealing people’s property is also
something we’re going to fight to
defeat in our city.” she said that
having a car stolen is “stressful,
frustrating, maddening and cost-
ly.”
Auto theft in D.C. has spiked
117 percent this year, compared
with this time in 2022, according
to police statistics. so far this
year, 4,048 vehicles have been
stolen in the District. Acting D.C.
police chief Pamela A. smith said
about 1,400 of those were Hyun-
dais.
“some of those are being used
by individuals to commit other
crimes,” smith said. Auto thefts
have risen in other cities as well.
In Prince George’s County in
Maryland, police have said thefts
of Kia and Hyundai vehicles
accounted for nearly one-sixth of
all thefts in 2022.
Videos on social media
showed people how to take apart
steering columns that exposed a
nob that could be turned using a
UsB cable, igniting the ignition.
Hyundai officials said the soft-
ware upgrade makes it so locking
the vehicle with a key fob will set
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He was there when JFK was shot,
and he’s over the conspiracy theories
Those three shots
— and the
conspiracy
theories that
followed — have
haunted him for
Petula decades.
Dvorak now 91, Joe
Carter was on the
press bus in the Dallas
motorcade that day in 1963. He
has struggled in the 60 years
since, troubled by people whose
wild ideas clashed with the
dogged reporting he did in those
early, raw moments after the
assassination of President John
F. Kennedy.
“I didn’t know at that moment
how deadly those shots were,”
Carter said. And by deadly, he’s
talking about more than the
clanging violence, more than the
blood and brain matter he saw
on Jackie Kennedy’s clothes in
the hospital, more than the
nation’s massive spasm of grief at
his death.
“To me, it unleashed an
ugliness in the American people,”
he said. For decades, he would
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For volunteers, repopulating
bay with oysters is personal
BY J OE H EIM
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urt Koenig spent about
nine months taking
loving care of his baby
oysters. They weren’t much
to look at but he was deter-
mined to keep them safe.
Last fall, Koenig picked up
three five-gallon buckets full
of spat — oyster larvae at-
tached to oyster shells — and
brought them to his home on
nabbs Creek in Glen Burnie.
He emptied the buckets into
six cages and lowered them
from his dock. each week he
knocked the cages about to
keep them clean. In the cold
weather he dropped them to
warmer water depths. When
it got warm he raised them
again.
The goal was to keep the
spat alive and thriving so
they could be relocated to a
reef in the Chesapeake Bay as
part of a broad, ongoing ef-
fort in Maryland and Virginia
“I’m just trying to do my part to keep the bay clean.”
Kurt Koenig, one of about 1,500 volunteers taking part in Marylanders Grow Oysters
JOSeph CarTer
Joseph Carter was a reporter
on the scene when President
John F. Kennedy was
assassinated in Dallas in 1963.
not mention his role. “When I
did, very often some nitwit
would tell me what really
happened. shouting loudly. not
daring to call me a liar, but
insinuating.”
The cancer has metastasized
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Programs connect residents to essential
work for the Chesapeake’s ecosystem
marylanders grow Oysters program coordinator Carl
Treff dumps oysters into buckets on the maryland Yacht
Club’s dock. “Anybody that participates in these programs,
they get a much better understanding of what’s wrong with
the bay and what needs to be done to help it,” he said.
in recent years, fueled by the
MAGA movement’s embrace of
“alternative facts” and denial of
election results. Amplified by
keyboard warriors who’ve never
heard fatal gunshots or knocked
on a door to ask questions, the
lies rage on — resulting in a
different type of harm. And now
the flash of conspiracy theories is
being reignited by Kennedy’s
own nephew, Robert F. Kennedy
Jr., who is challenging President
Biden to become the Democratic
Party’s presidential nominee in
2024.
A vocal anti-vaxxer who
suggested the coronavirus was
engineered to spare Ashkenazi
Jews and Chinese people,
equated mask mandates with the
Holocaust and said chemicals in
the nation’s water supply are
turning people transgender,
Kennedy is also reviving the
theory that the CIA had
something to do with his uncle’s
assassination, that Lee Harvey
Oswald was working for them.
Beloved in his luxe circle of
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to repopulate native oysters
in the Chesapeake and its
tributaries. Koenig, who grew
up in Texas but came to love
the Chesapeake when he was
in the navy, is one of approxi-
mately 1,500 volunteers in
Maryland taking part in
Marylanders Grow Oysters, a
nonprofit group that helps
residents raise oysters and
participate in the repopula-
tion plan.
“I’m just trying to do my
part to keep the bay clean,”
Koenig, 60, said in a recent
interview. “When I first was
introduced to the Chesa-
peake in the mid- to late ’90s,
it still had a lot of problems.
… In the 10 years I’ve been on
nabbs Creek I’ve seen the
creek really starting to flour-
ish.”
Water pollution, disease
and overharvesting in the
20th century devastated the
Chesapeake’s oyster popula-
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DOrOthY GOODMAN | 1926-2023
Co-founder likened the Washington
International School to a mini U.N.
BY A DAM B ERNSTEIN
Dorothy Goodman, who co-
founded the Washington Interna-
tional school in 1966 to foster
what she called the “Wilsonian
dream” of world peace, in part by
disintegrating national barriers
through education, died July 23
at her home in the District. she
was 97.
The cause was congestive heart
failure, said her son Matthew
Goodman.
A native Minnesotan who bris-
tled at the provincial world in
which she had grown up, Dr.
Goodman left for postwar europe
after college at Bryn Mawr to
work with refugee and relief or-
ganizations. she trained in eng- WaShINGTON INTerNaTIONal SChOOl
land as a historian on a Fulbright Dorothy goodman initially
scholarship before settling in the opened what she called the
Washington area in 1956 with her Little Language Class in the
husband, a British-born World basement of her home in D.C.
Bank official.
Their social life centered on sional life starting in the late
the international community in 1950s focused on the classroom.
Washington, while her profes- she taught history at Howard and
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Thieves
lift keys
at valets
in D.C.
SECURITY REMINDER
FOR BUSINESSES
Vehicle owners line up
new fobs and lock resets
BY P ETER H ERMANN
James Bernard Tyler III said he
doesn’t like to be in D.C. too late at
night. But with friends visiting
from out of state, the Maryland
resident made an exception on
saturday.
As the group’s $765 dinner at
Del Frisco’s Double eagle steak-
house on I street nW in the
CityCenter area drew to a close,
police said someone swiped four
keys or key fobs from the valet
stand in front of the restaurant.
If the theft was a precursor to a
broader automobile heist, it
didn’t come to fruition. none of
the vehicles were taken. But the
victims, including Tyler, a 50-
year-old retired D.C. police offi-
cer, now have to get new keys and
reprogrammed locks, an inconve-
nience that Tyler said has re-
quired his time and could cost
him money, depending on how
much his insurance and the valet
company cover.
Tyler said he had told his
guests from Mississippi before
the night began: “I don’t like to be
out this late in D.C. because stu-
pid stuff happens.”
“Then it happened,” he said.
Car thefts and robberies are up
precipitously in D.C. this year
over last, and restaurant valets
have occasionally been targeted,
including in February and during
Christmastime last year, accord-
ing to police. Authorities record-
ed another incident on Thursday
night at Kitchen + Kocktails in
the 1300 block of I street nW, on
Franklin square.
A police report in that case says
four people in a black Infiniti
pulled up to the valet stand. As
one person distracted the door-
man, others broke into the valet
box and stole keys to several
vehicles, according to the report.
They jumped back into the
Infiniti and the driver took off.
But police said a valet chased the
vehicle on foot to 13th and K
streets nW, where a BMW be-
longing to a patron had been
parked. Police said the valet was
beaten while trying to stop at
least one person from getting into
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American universities and grew
convinced that American public
schools were failing to teach es-
sential language skills and pre-
pare children for college and the
world beyond. As a young wom-
an, she had seen the conse-
quences of such shortcomings in
a dangerous world, writing of her
generation, “Upon us lies the
responsibility of winning the war
and winning the peace.”
With the help of World Bank
wives and Bryn Mawr alumni
with teaching experience, Dr.
Goodman opened what she called
the Little Language Class in the
basement of her home in D.C.’s
Cleveland Park neighborhood,
initially with three 4-year-old pu-
pils. enrollment reached 250 stu-
dents by the early 1970s and more
than double that by the end of the
decade, with children represent-
ing more than 75 countries. “Our
main thrust,” she later told The
Washington Post, “is that educa-
tion should not be parochial. In
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Oyster restoration links Md. residents to Chesapeake Bay
oysters From B1
tion and oysters remain at histor-
ically low levels, according to
organizations that monitor the
bivalve mollusks. Water quality
continues to be a significant is-
sue. A may report by the federal
Chesapeake Bay Program found
that in 2020 the share of the bay
that met water quality standards
was in the mid 30 percent range,
not that much better than it was
in the mid-1980s.
But there are some encourag-
ing signs that community, state
and federal oyster repopulation
efforts begun in the 1990s are
making an impact.
“I don’t know if we’re ever
going to get back to the way it was
pre-Colonial era … but it’s not
like the future is bleak,” said
olivia Caretti, coastal restoration
program manager for the oyster
recovery Partnership, a mary-
land nonprofit that helps oversee
oyster restoration projects in the
Chesapeake Bay and its tributar-
ies.
“We are making a really big
difference through all the part-
nerships that we have and all the
effort that is going into this.”
The oyster restoration pro-
gram is the biggest of its kind in
the world, Caretti said. Since it
began its work in 1994, the part-
nership has worked with the
University of maryland Center
for Environmental Science Horn
Point Lab and the maryland De-
partment of Natural resources to
plant more than 10 billion oysters
in reefs in the Chesapeake. By the
end of this year the total will
eclipse 12 billion.
marylanders Grow oysters is
one of the smaller programs run
by the oyster recovery Partner-
ship, which gets its funding from
grants and donations from feder-
al, state and local government as
well as corporations and individ-
uals. Last year, the partnership
provided 5 million oysters to the
volunteers with marylanders
Grow oysters to keep over the
winter and plant in reefs this
summer. That’s a drop in the
bucket in terms of the overall
numbers, but the program is
essential, Caretti said, because it
connects marylanders to the es-
sential work being done to re-
build the oyster population and
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Reporter balks at Kennedy falsehoods
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conspiracy-theory-embracing
friends in malibu and Napa
Valley, Calif., Kennedy also
doubts that Sirhan B. Sirhan
acted alone in the assassination
of his father, Sen. robert F.
Kennedy, in 1968. He even told
The Washington Post’s Tom
Jackman about his prison visit
with Sirhan.
Kennedy family members
were denouncing his claims all
week.
Jack Schlossberg, John F.
Kennedy’s grandson, called his
cousin’s campaign an
“embarrassment” and a “vanity
project” in an Instagram post.
“I’ve listened to him. I know him.
I have no idea why anyone thinks
he should be president,” he said.
Schlossberg accused him of
“trading in on Camelot, celebrity,
conspiracy theories, and conflict
for personal gain and fame.”
Carter said he places him in
the “nitwit class,” but said his
name gives his lies a larger
platform and a “funky
credibility.”
“He undermines much more
in America’s democratic system,
in my view,” Carter said. “This
part I take personally.”
Carter was an Army veteran
Maryland
Suspect in fatal shooting charged with hate crimes
BY J ASMINE H ILTON
A 43-year-old man has been
charged with three hate-crime
counts in the fatal shooting of
three Hispanic men over a park-
ing dispute at a large party in
Annapolis in June, according to
court filings and the Anne Arun-
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gives them a deeper understand-
ing of all of the critical issues
affecting the bay and what they
can do to address them. “The
people who participate are really
proud of the time that they put
into maintaining the oysters that
they’re growing,” Caretti said.
“And there is a huge education
engagement component of that
project.”
Carl Treff, who grew up on
maryland’s waterways and orga-
nizes volunteers and oyster col-
lection for the marylanders Grow
oysters program, agrees that get-
ting ordinary people involved in
oyster restoration increases their
overall interest in the health of
the bay.
“Anybody that participates in
these programs, they get a much
and 31 years old working as a
police reporter in United Press
International’s Dallas bureau
when his editors asked him to
join the presidential team
covering Kennedy’s visit on Nov.
22, 1963.
He remembers the tension
among the press corps that day.
Texans weren’t supposed to
have high regard for the
Kennedys and their Camelot.
During the campaign in 1960, a
hostile, conservative crowd
swarmed and harassed then-
Senate majority Leader Lyndon
B. Johnson and even grabbed
Lady Bird’s gloves and threw
them in the gutter. Two years
before he was assassinated,
Kennedy was rebuked by Ted
Dealey, then the publisher of the
Dallas morning News, who said
at a White House luncheon “that
the country needs a man on
horseback, and Kennedy is riding
around on Caroline’s tricycle,”
Stephen Fagin, curator of the
Sixth Floor museum at Dealey
Plaza, told The Post.
“Now I was being a very
cautious reporter,” Carter said,
remembering the people
gathered along a barricade to
greet the Kennedys as they
arrived at Love Field. “I was
waiting for someone to do
del County state’s attorney’s of-
fice.
Charles robert Smith, who is
White, faces 42 counts in total in
an indictment filed Friday, in-
cluding first-degree murder, at-
tempted murder, assault and
firearms offenses in the shooting
that killed 55-year-old Nicolas
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something nasty along that
fence. Nothing happened. They
were great.”
He boarded the press bus and
sensed the relief of the White
House press corps. “There were
no nasty signs as we drove
toward downtown,” he said.
Then suddenly, the caravan
stopped. “We all leaped to our
feet,” he said. They anticipated a
conflict.
“But Kennedy stopped to talk
and to, you know, shake hands
with some school kids,” he said.
Again, they exhaled.
Then, those three shots.
Carter had recently left the
Army, where he was trained to
the same level of marksmanship
that oswald, the shooter, had
reached in the marine Corps.
He ran toward the front of the
bus, toward the gunshots. The
other reporters, used to covering
policy and politics, looked at him
in horror and awe as he tried to
stop the bus and get off.
Instead, the bus sped on and
Carter followed the story,
winding up in the hospital,
where he watched a bronze
casket wheeled out and a stoic,
blood-spattered first lady follow
it. He used his last dime to phone
that scene in.
In the days that followed,
mireles, 27-year-old mario Anto-
nio mireles ruiz and 24-year-old
Christian marlon Segovia, ac-
cording to a state’s attorney’s
office news release. mireles and
mireles ruiz were father and
son. The victims’ families had
called for hate-crime charges at a
vigil last month.
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democratic presidential hopeful robert F. kennedy Jr. testifies at a congressional hearing last month.
John F. kennedy’s nephew has amplified conspiracy theories about his uncle’s assassination.
Carter and an entire nation of
journalists followed tips and
leads after oswald was arrested.
The work in those days —
knowing how hard everyone ran
down every possibility, triple-
checked every fact — and the
exhaustive investigation by the
Warren Commission convinced
Carter that oswald acted alone.
Carter had a long career in
Smith’s indictment included
charges involving six surviving
victims, including three who
were shot and another three who
were uninjured.
According to charging docu-
ments, on June 11, Smith con-
fronted mario mireles before
pulling out a gun during an
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aBove: Jason and tanya
krauch, owners of Pasadena
seafood, dump thousands of
oysters at the man-made oyster
reef near Fort Carroll for the
Marylanders Grow oysters
program. LeFt: oyster larvae
attached to other oyster shells,
are known as spat. the oyster
recovery Partnership
coordinates with seafood
restaurants in Maryland, the
district, Northern virginia and
as far west as Pittsburgh to
collect used oyster shells so that
they can be used in the seeding
process when larvae are
attached to them and to add to
existing reefs.
Washington after that
tumultuous year. He eventually
retired in his native oklahoma,
back where he was born during
the Dust Bowl, where his dad was
a cowboy trying to feed eight kids
during the Great Depression.
But those three shots — and
the idea that popular culture’s
obsession with conspiracy
theories began with a nation
argument about a parked car
blocking Smith’s driveway. The
men “tussled over the gun.”
“During the tussle, mr. Smith
shot mario mireles. He also shot
Christian Segovia,” police said in
the charging documents. “mr.
Smith then stood over mario
mireles and shot him several
more times.”
Smith went inside his house to
grab a rifle before shooting out
. tuesday, july 25 , 2023
better understanding of what’s
wrong with the bay and what
needs to be done to help it,” Treff
said. “So they just become gener-
ally good stewards of their local
waterway, which ultimately is
good for the bay itself.”
The replenishment effort is
about more than just increasing
numbers. oysters filter and clean
the water and oyster reefs pro-
vide a welcome habitat for crabs,
fish and other denizens of the
Chesapeake.
And there’s a significant mon-
etary interest as well. oysters are
a $27 million-a-year industry in
maryland, according to the
maryland Department of Natural
resources, and increasing their
numbers is essential to the water-
men and processors who collect
and prepare them.
one aspect of the oyster re-
covery Partnership that is often
overlooked, Caretti said, is its
oyster shell recycling program.
The organization coordinates
with seafood restaurants in
maryland, the District, Northern
Virginia and as far west as Pitts-
burgh to collect used oyster
shells so that they can be used in
the seeding process when larvae
are attached to the shells and to
add to existing reefs. The part-
nership also purchases millions
of oyster shells from shucking
houses.
“We’re trying to keep shells out
of the landfill any way we can
because it’s really valuable and
critical for our operations,” she
said.
Last month, Koenig got re-
warded for his diligent oyster
care.
He delivered 2,400 healthy
spat to the dock of the maryland
Yacht Club in Pasadena where a
boat waited to take them into the
Chesapeake. There, it will take
two to three years for them to
reach market size.
As he thinks about his role in
returning oysters to the Chesa-
peake, Koenig said he recalled
reading passages about early ex-
plorers who described the crystal
clear blue water of the bay and
oysters the size of dinner plates.
“You just gotta think,” Koenig
said, “that one day, maybe not get
back to crystal clear blue water,
but we can keep getting better
and better than we are.”
JaBiN BoTsford/The WashiNgToN PosT
questioning their origin — keep
Carter from exhaling.
“Let me say, there are not
alternative facts. What
happened, happened,” he said.
“But you know, with Bobby
Kennedy Jr. … I know the pangs
of losing your father and he lost
his father and that’s so sad. But
that doesn’t mean he gets to twist
history.”
the front window at people,
killing mario mireles’s father,
Nicolas, who came to his son’s
aid, the charging documents
said.
The investigation is ongoing.
Smith is currently being jailed
without bond.
An attorney listed in online
court records for Smith said he
was no longer representing
Smith.
tuesday, july 25 , 2023 . the washington post
Every family has
stories. Some are
too good to be true.
Every family has
them: stories that
have been passed
down from
generation to
John generation,
Kelly's shared at
Washington holidays, reunions
and funerals.
But just
because a story is memorable, it
doesn’t mean it’s true. I asked
readers to share these faulty
family memories.
Johnny Bilheimer’s
grandmother, aleta Jessup (nee
Aleta Garrison), was a dyed-in-
the-wool Southern girl who
never wholly reconciled to the
fact that the South had lost the
Civil War — which, Johnny said,
she often pronounced WAW-uh.
Aleta’s father, sam, was from
Georgia. The youngest in the
family, Sam had been too young
to fight in the war. His next
oldest brother was too young,
too. But the five oldest Garrison
boys were old enough. In a
memoir that Johnny’s
grandmother dictated into a tape
recorder in 1979, she said the five
of them went off to fight for the
South, “never to return.”
Wrote Johnny, of Silver
Spring: “That’s a precise quote
from my grandmother.”
Never to return. But Johnny
also has a copy of a letter Sam
wrote in 1923 to his two children,
including Johnny’s grandmother
Aleta. In it, Sam mentions that
after fighting for the
Confederacy, four of his five
brothers did return to Georgia,
where they lived out their lives.
And the one who was “never
to return?” He resettled in
minnesota.
from one civil war to another:
Roger feeley is descended from
an Englishman named francis
hacker. That was not a name
you’d want to utter around
London in 1600. Col. francis
Hacker was in Oliver
Cromwell’s inner circle and was
among the men who signed the
death warrant for Charles i.
“When Cromwell died,
Charles ii returned from exile
and Hacker was drawn and
quartered,” wrote roger, of falls
Thieves grab keys at D.C. valet stands
thEfts from B1
the customer’s vehicle, and the
assailants escaped with that car.
The valet was treated at a hos-
pital for head and facial injuries,
authorities said. Police said there
was a Glock handgun and ammu-
nition in the vehicle. Attempts to
reach the valet and the owner
were not successful.
At a news conference monday
to discuss ways to curtail auto
thefts, acting D.C. police chief
Pamela A. Smith said officers
have been visiting city businesses
that use valet parking to discuss
crime prevention. She said they
are advising valets to find secure
Hyundai to o≠er free anti-theft upgrades in D.C.
hyundai from B1
an alarm and activate an “igni-
tion kill” feature so it cannot be
started without the key.
A Hyundai spokesman said
that D.C. is the first location for
the rollout of the drive-through
clinic and that plans are to repli-
cate it elsewhere if successful.
Police officials credited the
organization of the event to Lt.
megan mulrooney, who they said
thought of the idea while earlier
distributing steering wheel locks
to drivers of Hyundais and Kias,
another company whose vehicles
are impacted by thefts. Wheel
locks are still available at D.C.
police stations for 2011-2021 Kia
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Church. “Hacker’s family hopped
the first ship to the colonies.”
Except, roger wrote: “right
name, wrong Hacker.”
diane Maddex’s mother liked
to tell people that her own
mother, born Myrtle McCarroll
in 1886 in Topeka, Kan., was
almost adopted by Mark twain.
“In researching our family
history, I solved this intriguing
mystery,” wrote Diane, who lives
outside of Tucson.
It’s true that myrtle had a
complicated childhood. Her
mother had taken off for the
bright lights of Los Angeles,
leaving behind three daughters.
And there was a mr. Clemens in
Topeka around that time.
“But he was Gaspar
Christopher Clemens, a
crusading lawyer who styled
himself as a humorist and a
writer in the vein of his
doppelgänger,” Diane wrote. “If
anyone had attempted to do the
good deed of adopting a young
girl in Topeka in the 1890s, it is a
safe bet that it was G.C. rather
than Samuel Langhorne
Clemens.”
Growing up, the story Kathy
Riley always heard about her
grandfather Kline Ober was that
after World War I he was
personally discharged from the
Army by Gen. John “Black
Jack” Pershing. The tale was
that his wife, Kathryn, was so
angry that he’d been stuck in
france after the war processing
other soldiers as they went
home, she sent a strongly
worded letter to the general.
Last year, Kathy, of marstons
mills, mass., found her
grandfather's discharge papers.
And? “No personal discharge,”
she wrote.
Matt Mcdonell’s great
grandfather, Chief Gunners
Mate Joseph hauser, was a
legendary family figure, the
subject of many stories,
including one that as a Navy
sailor he had deserted, shot an
officer, been court-martialed —
and was acquitted.
“Even my grandmother’s best
friend told me that story in 2007
after my grandmother’s death,”
wrote matt, of oakland, Calif.
places to keep boxes and keys “so
they’re not readily accessible for
someone to just walk by and grab
them.”
mayor muriel E. Bowser (D)
said, “If you make it less easy to
steal your keys, then we’ll prob-
ably have fewer keys stolen.”
“That’s not to say we don’t
want to live in a place where you
can’t leave your valuables out and
expect that nobody will steal
them,” she said. “But this isn’t
mayberry. There are really no
mayberrys anymore.”
Tim Whitlock, chief operating
officer of Del frisco’s, said in a
statement that the parking valet
station at its D.C. restaurant is
and Hyundai vehicles.
James Bell, head of corporate
communications for Kia Ameri-
ca, said that company also held a
software upgrade program for its
vehicles at some D.C.-area dealer-
ships. He said that if Hyundai’s
drive-through clinic at rfK is
successful, Kia may follow suit.
The Hyundai vehicles eligible
for the upgrade are: 2018-2022
Accent; 2011-2022 Elantra; 2013-
2020 Elantra GT; 2013-2014 Gen-
esis Coupe; 2018-2022 Kona;
2020-2021 Palisade; 2013-2022
Santa fe; 2013-2018 Santa fe
Sport; 2019 Santa fe XL; 2011-
2019 Sonata; 2011-2022 Tucson;
2012-2017 and 2019-2021 Ve-
loster; and the 2020-2021 Venue.
Joseph hauser was court-martialed for “missing movement” — his
navy boat left without him after he had to go to the bathroom.
matt got a copy of his great-
grandfather’s court-martial
proceedings from the Navy. It
turned out that Hauser did not
shoot an officer but had been
busted for a pretty egregious
offense known as “missing
movement.” That’s when a sailor
or marine doesn’t get back to his
ship on time, and it sails off
without him.
Hauser had been selected by a
coxswain to help get other
sailors to a ship. After landing on
shore, Hauser asked the
operated by building manage-
ment. The statement says that no
vehicle was stolen and building
officials “took protective mea-
sures … to reimburse guests any
valet charges, pay for key replace-
ments, and offered Uber rides.”
Efforts to reach a representa-
tives for Kitchen + Kocktails were
not successful monday afternoon.
Tyler said Del frisco’s should
have secured keys in a box inside
the restaurant. The valet told
police that customer keys were on
a table in front of the restaurant,
and that someone walked past
and grabbed several while he was
busy with a patron. The valet
could not be reached monday.
d.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (d) is shown a hyundai at the end of
a Monday news conference announcing an anti-theft mobile clinic.
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FaMily PhoTo
coxswain if he could use the
“head” — a.k.a. the bathroom —
because he’d been stricken by
what is identified in the trial as
“montezuma’s revenge.” While
he was in the bathroom, the boat
left.
matt wrote: “As I tell people,
he missed a ‘movement’ because
he had a movement.”
Despite the court-martial,
Hauser spent 32 years in the
Navy; though, matt said, “It took
him 12 years to get a Good
Conduct medal.”
Tyler said he learned of the theft
from an acquaintance at another
table and headed outside, where
he found a scene of “chaos.”
Tyler said the valet company is
in contact with his car dealership
to work out an agreement to pay
for a new fob, which he said could
cost up to $2,000.
He said his friends returned to
their hotel after the dinner while
he waited an additional two
hours for his son to drive from
D.C. to his home in maryland, and
then return with spare keys. He
said his vehicle had been parked
securely in an underground ga-
rage.
“Times are just bad,” Tyler said.
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the District
Four killed in another
violent D.C. weekend
The city is on track
to record its most
homicides since 2003
BY P ETER H ERMANN
AND O LIVIA D IAZ
four people were killed in D.C.
since friday, including two men
shot in the same incident in the
Columbia Heights neighborhood,
as the city continues to see in-
creasing homicides with a new
police chief on board.
D.C. had recorded 138 homi-
cides this year as of midnight
monday, an 18 percent increase
over this time last year. The city is
on track to record its deadliest
year since 2003. July has been
particularly violent, with 21 ho-
micides in 24 days.
on July 17, mayor muriel E.
Bowser (D) named Pamela A.
Smith acting police chief while
she awaits D.C. Council confirma-
tion for the permanent role. She
inherits a shrinking police force
and a city facing increasing crime
in almost every category.
No arrests have been made in
the killings since friday.
The latest fatal shooting oc-
curred Saturday night in the 1400
block of Girard Street NW, in
Columbia Heights. Police said the
victims were found a block apart;
each was shot shortly before 10
p.m. and pronounced dead on the
scene.
Police identified the victims as
Luke Whitaker, 29, who had ad-
dresses in Northwest Washing-
ton and in Prince George’s
County, and Zion Hollingsworth-
Hayes, 19, of Silver Spring. Police
the District
Warnings going out for
bus-only lane violations
BY L UZ L AZO
D.C. transit users have long
complained about cars and trucks
blocking the red-painted bus
lanes in downtown and other
parts of the city. Those days may
soon be over.
The District and metro this
week are beginning to use camer-
as on 140 buses to ticket motorists
who drive, idle or park in bus-only
lanes throughout the city. A warn-
ing period began monday, with
fines up to $200 expected to start
in September.
Transportation officials said
they expect the program to send a
message to drivers that the city’s
bus lanes are not to be used for
parking, to pick up or drop off
passengers, or to get ahead of
other traffic.
Transit officials also hope the
enforcement will speed up buses,
which are subject to crawling traf-
fic, especially during rush hour.
The average speed of metrobuses
has declined 9 percent in 15 years
to less than 10 mph, transit offi-
cials said, slowed by an explosion
of delivery and ride-hailing vehi-
cles on city streets.
“Keeping our bus lanes and bus
stop zones clear of traffic is a
significant step to creating a bet-
ter bus experience,” metro Gener-
al manager randy Clarke said in a
statement. The enforcement, he
said, will help keep bus riders
“moving safely and reliably, while
positioning metrobus as one of
the most sustainable and most
cost-efficient ways to travel in DC.”
The cameras aboard metrobus-
es operating in D.C. will send im-
ages of cars parked in bus lanes
and at bus stops to the city for
ticketing. The city will mail warn-
ings to drivers starting this week,
while fines ranging from $100 to
$200 will begin Sept. 18, the Dis-
trict Department of Transporta-
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did not comment on a possible
motive; efforts to reach the vic-
tims’ families were not success-
ful.
Earlier on Saturday, about 6:45
a.m., police said Antoine Ealey,
43, of Southeast Washington was
found fatally stabbed in the 2300
block of L’Enfant Square SE, just
off Pennsylvania Avenue SE, near
Anacostia Park.
Police said he had been
stabbed multiple times with a
sharp object. Authorities did not
describe a possible motive.
Ania Ealey, Antoine Ealey’s
younger sister, said her brother
was the kind of person who put
everyone before himself, and
worked hard to care for his sib-
lings and his daughter.
“He was known as the golden
child growing up,” Ealey, 35, said.
“He was very hard on us. He
wanted us to be better.”
Ania Ealey said her brother
had worked as a plumber, herbal-
ist and a naturalist, but he strug-
gled with depression.
“They last time I talked to him,
he was very frail,” she said. “And
the last time I talked to him, he
was doing drugs to cope with
whatever he was fighting. … But
he never gave up. I feel like he
was getting to the point where he
was about to awaken to some-
thing powerful, but before that
could happen, someone took his
life.”
on friday, police said malik
Haggans, 27, of Bowie was found
fatally shot in the hallway of a
residential building in the 600
block of 46th Place SE in the
Benning ridge neighborhood.
Police did not comment on a
possible motive, and efforts to
reach family members were not
successful.
tion said.
The enforcement strategy,
known as Clear Lanes, is a part-
nership between metro and
DDoT to reduce the number of
vehicles blocking bus lanes and
bus zones — the areas around bus
stops. The city has 12.7 miles of bus
lanes, which are painted red and
feature signs that show the times
of day and the days of the week
when the lane is operating as bus-
only.
Cars are generally allowed to
enter bus lanes within 40 feet of
an intersection or driveway to
make a turn or to enter a parking
space. Bus lanes are open to bikes,
scooters, emergency vehicles and
other transit vehicles.
DDoT Director Everett Lott
said the enforcement will ensure
better accessibility at bus stops,
where he said parking “even a
minute” can disrupt bus opera-
tions, such as preventing a bus
from being able to fully pull up to
the curb to pick up riders in wheel-
chairs or with mobility devices.
It’s not known how much mon-
ey the project could generate —
none of which metro would re-
ceive. DDoT spokesman German
Vigil said the agency doesn’t have
revenue estimates, adding that
the “program is the first of its
kind.”
The bus-lane cameras are part
of a large-scale modernization
and expansion of the city’s auto-
mated enforcement program,
which includes the rollout of cam-
eras that will look for violations
regarding speed, red lights, stop
signs and oversized vehicles. may-
or muriel E. Bowser’s budget for
the fiscal year starting in october
projected using $578 million in
expected revenue from more than
300 new automated traffic camer-
as, including the bus-mounted
cameras, to help close a budget
shortfall.
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Washington-area trails receive $25 million for construction and renewal
BY L ATESHIA B EACHUM
At least 15 miles of trails will
be constructed or revitalized in
communities spanning Prince
George’s County, montgomery
County and D.C. with help from a
$25 million federal grant that
local leaders highlighted on
monday.
The investment — part of a
competitive Department of
Transportation program that tar-
gets projects with national or
regional impact — will advance
more than $70 million in efforts
to enhance recreational and eco-
nomic opportunities, local lead-
ers said, improving trail access
for nearly 300,000 residents.
The award will support con-
struction of the Central Avenue
Connector Trail along the Blue
Line Corridor, a key component
of the economic and community
development strategy that
Prince George’s County Execu-
Co-founded ‘pilot school for the planet’
goodmAn from B1
every way, we try to be a world
school.”
Likening the Washington In-
ternational School (WIS) to a
mini United Nations, she empha-
sized a functionally bilingual ap-
proach to all subjects. She called
her initiative “a pilot school for
the planet” because it offered a
broad-based, multilingual curric-
ulum and insisted on a teaching
staff with international back-
grounds. “She did not want Amer-
icans teaching french,” another
founder, Cathya Stephenson, said
in a phone interview. The pro-
gram attracted many children
whose parents were diplomats or
worked for nongovernmental or-
ganizations.
Dr. Goodman oversaw the
school’s acceptance into the elite
International Baccalaureate pro-
gram, helped obtain vital grants
to keep the operation running
and looked for space to hold the
rapidly expanding student body.
Its first formal home was an old
elementary school on olive Street
in Georgetown, which Dr. Good-
man was able to obtain with
$500,000 in ford foundation
support. In 1972, WIS also began
leasing space for upper grades in
a stone-columned Georgian man-
sion on the Tregaron Estate in
Cleveland Park.
Dr. Goodman engaged with the
Maryland
Inspector general says EPA failed at driving Chesapeake Bay cleanup e≠ort
BY C HRISTINE C ONDON
The Environmental Protection
Agency “did not fully embrace its
leadership role” in the 2025 Ches-
apeake Bay cleanup effort, con-
tributing to its failure, according
to a report released Tuesday by
the federal agency’s inspector
general.
The report comes in the wake
of a painful consensus on the bay
cleanup: The states in the Chesa-
peake Bay watershed won’t meet
their promised goals to reduce
pollution by 2025.
According to the office of In-
spector General report, some of
the blame falls at the feet of the
EPA, specifically the agency’s
mid-Atlantic region. It’s in charge
of the states that surround the
nation’s largest estuary and funds
the Chesapeake Bay Program of-
fice in Annapolis, which coordi-
nates the bay cleanup.
The EPA had data as early as
2018 showing the bay restoration
effort was off track, according to
the report. But the agency was not
able to steer the bay states in the
right direction, said Paul Berg-
strand, who oversaw the team
that conducted the analysis from
June 2022 to march of this year.
“once there’s data indicating
that the goals are not going to be
met — which was in 2018 — as the
leader of the partnership, it’s real-
ly then incumbent on them to
think through: ‘okay, what do we
need to do now?’” said Berg-
strand, assistant inspector gener-
al for special review and evalua-
tion at the office of Inspector
General.
Namely, the EPA needed to con-
vince states to prioritize curtail-
ing “nonpoint” sources of pollu-
tion, such as runoff that carries
contaminants from farmland, ur-
ban and suburban areas, Berg-
strand said.
So far, the bulk of the pollution
reductions the bay states have
achieved came from easy-to-iden-
tify “point” sources, such as
wastewater treatment plants. Ad-
dressing the large amounts of
Federal funding will
support Md.’s Central
Avenue Connector Trail
tive Angela Alsobrooks (D) has
laid out to bring amenities to
parts of the county that histori-
cally have gone overlooked.
“The completion of this proj-
ect will provide cyclists and pe-
destrians an alternative to high-
way travel and will also provide
convenient access to the new
regional hospital in downtown
Largo, as well as schools and
regional parks,” Alsobrooks said
at a news conference, noting that
it is the second rebuilding Amer-
ican Infrastructure with Sustain-
ability and Equity (rAISE) grant
for the county in the past calen-
dar year. “I want everyone to
hear that our county had never
heirs of the Tregaron property
when some wanted to sell the 21
bucolic acres to developers. A
long-running family dispute end-
ed in 1980, with a sale that al-
lowed the school to take owner-
ship of the mansion and six acres
of the immediate surrounding
property. In 1997, the school sold
“I was instinctively
against the Horace
Mann, Founding
Fathers tradition that
children must be
exposed only to
Americans … and
taught American
things.”
dorothy Goodman
the olive Street building and used
the money to buy a property for a
new primary school on reservoir
road in Georgetown. WIS, with
the middle and upper school still
at Tregaron, now has more than
900 students and a community of
parents, staff and students repre-
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is seen from Sandy Point State Park in Anne Arundel County last year. The
states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed won’t meet their goals to reduce pollution by 2025.
“nonpoint” pollution, which in-
crease with development and
population growth, has been
much more vexing, imperiling the
progress of the bay cleanup.
To a certain extent, the EPA is
handcuffed by the federal Clean
Water Act, which gives states
most of the control over nonpoint
pollution, according to the in-
spector general’s report.
But the report also points to
President Barack obama’s 2009
executive order focused on the
bay cleanup, which put the EPA in
the driver’s seat, Bergstrand said.
To that end, the agency could do
more to push states to address
nonpoint pollution despite its
limitations.
“There is an executive order
giving them a leadership role in
the partnership. And so that is for
them to take and run with, so to
speak,” Bergstrand said.
eZ re
been a recipient of a federal
rAISE grant.”
Alsobrooks’s office applied for
the grant in late february on
behalf of the Prince George’s
County Department of Parks and
recreation, montgomery Parks
and the District Department of
Transportation. Congressional
members and maryland Depart-
ment of Transportation officials
wrote letters emphasizing the
importance of the application.
federal Highway Administra-
tor Shailen Bhatt at the news
conference underscored the
competitive nature of the grants,
adding that $2.2 billion rAISE
grants have been awarded out of
$15 billion for projects around
the nation in the most recent
round of the grant’s funding.
Seventy percent of the grants
are going to projects in places
defined as an Area of Persistent
Poverty or a Historically Disad-
vantaged Community, according
senting more than 100 countries.
Despite Dr. Goodman’s success
in getting WIS well underway, the
board forced her aside as head of
school in 1983. She stayed to work
on fundraising and curriculum,
Stephenson said, but Dr. Good-
man tended to micromanage be-
yond her duties. That further
inflamed tensions that had earli-
er stemmed from Dr. Goodman’s
unsuccessful effort to stop teach-
ers from unionizing.
Even if Dr. Goodman’s depar-
ture in 1985 was not on friendly
terms, Stephenson said that “she
was an entrepreneur and vision-
ary. Her vision has sustained the
school ever since: the same at-
mosphere, the same ethos.”
Dorothy Bruchholz, the daugh-
ter of a banker and a homemaker,
was born in minneapolis on Jan.
15, 1926, and graduated in 1942
from miss Harris’ florida School
for girls in miami and in 1946
from Bryn mawr College, the
women’s college in Pennsylvania
where she helped bring former
first lady Eleanor roosevelt to
campus.
Her post-college experience
working with relief organizations
in war-ravaged Europe inspired
her further study of the Balkans,
and she obtained a fulbright
scholarship to attend the Univer-
sity of London’s School of Slavon-
ic and East European Studies. She
received a doctorate in 1955.
The report called for the agen-
cy to “lead the Chesapeake Bay
Program in developing a new ap-
proach to specifically address
nonpoint source pollution” and to
develop an “assurance mecha-
nism” to hold states accountable
for reducing nonpoint pollution.
The inspector general also
called for the EPA to work with
the Chesapeake Bay Program to
set new goals for the bay states
and a new deadline for the clean-
up effort.
In a written response to a draft
copy of the inspector general’s
report, Adam ortiz, the adminis-
trator for the EPA’s mid-Atlantic
region 3, noted that the latter
recommendation is underway.
Last year, the Chesapeake Bay
Program’s Principals’ Staff Com-
mittee, of which ortiz is chair-
man, was tasked with reevaluat-
ing the 2025 deadline for the
to the U.S. Department of Trans-
portation.
The funds are part of a broad-
er vision for connecting mary-
landers under the administra-
tion of Gov. Wes moore (D) and
Lt. Gov. Aruna miller (D), which
has seen the relaunch of Balti-
more’s red Line and other proj-
ects, said Sen. Ben Cardin (D),
who lauded the Biden adminis-
tration’s investments in mary-
land. moore and miller joined
Biden and Department of Trans-
portation Secretary Pete Butt-
igieg in January to launch the
B&P Tunnel replacement Pro-
gram in Baltimore, which offi-
cials said then would receive
more than $4 billion in federal
support.
The list of projects federal
officials announced this summer
also included $20 million for
improvements at the mondaw-
min Transit Station in Baltimore
County. Prince George’s County
In 1953, she married raymond
J. Goodman, who retired as direc-
tor of the World Bank’s East Asia
and Pacific department. He died
in 2016. In addition to her son, of
Washington, survivors include
three other children, Jeremy
Goodman of Princeton, N.J., Har-
riet Goodman of London and
Sophia Goodman of Blooming-
ton, Ind.; two sisters; nine grand-
children; and a great-grand-
daughter.
After she left WIS, Dr. Good-
man helped start short-lived
charter schools in Washington.
matthew Goodman said she grad-
ually reconciled with WIS be-
cause of outreach by successor
heads of school.
She made a video in which she
reiterated a long-standing impe-
tus for the school: “I was instinc-
tively against the Horace mann,
founding fathers tradition that
children must be exposed only to
Americans … and taught Ameri-
can things.”
Suzanna Jemsby, the current
head of school, said in a state-
ment: “The fact that the School
thrived is testament to Dorothy’s
foresight, particularly in regard
to the importance of being able to
communicate in more than one
language. … Her vision has en-
sured that thousands of students
have developed an inclination to
engage with the world as true
global citizens.”
MaTT MCClaIn/The WaShIngTon PoST
restoration.
“It should be understood that
EPA alone does not have authority
to simply ‘set’ goals or target
dates,” ortiz wrote. “EPA will con-
tinue active engagement in the
CBP partnership’s efforts to revis-
it the existing target date for
achieving the water quality goals.”
The committee’s recommenda-
tions, which could include a new
target date, are expected by late
2024.
ortiz sought to highlight the
limitations of the Clean Water Act
when it comes to addressing
“nonpoint” pollution, and the fact
that states participate in the bay
cleanup on a voluntary basis. He
stated that the EPA’s role in the
Chesapeake Bay Program is as a
“partner, not a regulator.”
He wrote that the EPA would be
willing to “lead, in collaboration
with the seven bay jurisdictions,
the washington post
previously received $20.5 million
in rAISE grant funding for the
construction of the New Carroll-
ton multi-modal Transportation
Station Project.
miller on monday said the
rAISE grant’s equity lens has
ushered in revitalization of his-
torically disinvested areas, and
she noted that trails can offer
benefits such as reducing traffic,
decreasing pollution and pre-
serving the environment.
“The new trails and renova-
tions will provide access to our
regional historically disadvan-
taged communities whereby
80 percent of the households
identify as Black or Hispanic and
where 90 percent of the house-
holds are low income,” she said.
“Equitable transportation is a
critical aspect of a just and
thriving society as it enables
individuals to participate fully in
social, economic and civic life.”
Equity and more investment
“our main thrust,” dorothy goodman said, “is that education
should not be parochial. In every way, we try to be a world school.”
an exploration of potential differ-
ent or additional accountability
mechanisms” for nonpoint pollu-
tion.
The inspector general’s office
said ortiz’s responses did not re-
solve the concerns. Namely, its
staff members believe ortiz
hasn’t committed to establishing
a new “assurance mechanism.”
“our recommendations specif-
ically state that the regional ad-
ministrator should lead the Ches-
apeake Bay Program,” the report
read.
“We’re not saying this is easy,”
Bergstrand told the Baltimore
Sun. “There’s a lot of partners,
there’s a lot of types of ‘nonpoint’
and it’s different for every state. …
What we’ve done with our report
is highlight the issue — the chal-
lenge — and make some recom-
mendations to help the agency
address the challenge.”
The EPA has previously come
under fire for a perceived lack of
strong enforcement of the bay
agreement, particularly during
President Donald Trump’s admin-
istration.
In 2020 the state of maryland,
alongside environmental groups
as well as Delaware, Virginia and
D.C., sued the EPA over its han-
dling of bay pollution from Penn-
sylvania. They took that step after
an EPA official under Trump stat-
ed publicly that the agreement
was an “informational docu-
ment” and “not enforceable.”
In contrast, under President
Biden, the agency said in April
2022 that it planned to increase
the pace of environmental inspec-
tions and penalties in Pennsylva-
nia. And maryland and the rest of
the litigants settled their lawsuit
with the EPA this April.
Under a settlement agreement,
the agency promised greater scru-
tiny of agricultural operations
and storm water pollution in
Pennsylvania, as well as funding
assistance to help that state reach
its goals.
Asked if maryland would ben-
efit from increased EPA leader-
ship on nonpoint source pollu-
. tuesday, july 25 , 2023
have been part of the chorus
Alsobrooks and the maryland
delegation have been singing for
years as they wait on a decision
about where the next fBI head-
quarters will be placed — in one
of two Prince George’s locations
or a spot in fairfax County.
Standing on the site where the
Central Avenue Connector Trail
will be, longtime rep. Steny H.
Hoyer (D-md.) gave directions to
where he grew up and attended
school as a child, underscoring
that he was delighted to see
“regeneration” in a familiar area.
“As the congressman who
grew up … just a couple of miles
away from here, who went to
high school here, who played
baseball,” he said, “I am so glad to
see this $25 million, which seems
like at the federal level, a rela-
tively modest sum, will have such
a great impact, such a tremen-
dous impact on this neighbor-
hood and our families.”
WaShIngTon InTernaTIonal SChool
tion, maryland Department of the
Environment spokesman Jay Ap-
person did not directly address
the inspector general’s recom-
mendations.
He noted that “new leadership
at the state and federal level pre-
sents an opportunity to accelerate
progress toward our shared clean
water goals” and emphasized
working in partnership to ad-
dress the challenge of nonpoint
pollution.
As of 2021, only two of the
seven jurisdictions involved in
the bay cleanup effort were on
pace to meet their goals: D.C., and
West Virginia. And they have far
smaller roles to play in the overall
restoration, compared with key
states like maryland, Pennsylva-
nia and Virginia.
The EPA’s mid-Atlantic region
encompasses maryland, Dela-
ware, D.C., Pennsylvania, West
Virginia and Virginia. New York is
part of the EPA’s region 2, but
because it’s in the bay watershed
it works with the Chesapeake Bay
Program on the cleanup effort.
Pennsylvania is the furthest
from reaching its goals, due in
large part to its high density of
agricultural operations, which
send damaging pollution from
animal waste and fertilizer down-
stream and into the Chesapeake.
The state has more than 30,000
small farms and dairies, most of
which are not federally regulated,
according to Tuesday’s report. By
2021, Pennsylvania had accom-
plished 22 percent of its promised
reductions for nitrogen, 48 per-
cent for phosphorous and 45 per-
cent for sediment.
reducing nutrient pollution in
the bay is seen as critical to the
restoration because, in excess, ni-
trogen and phosphorous contrib-
ute to the overgrowth of algae,
which eventually starves the estu-
ary of oxygen.
maryland has achieved 58 per-
cent of nitrogen reductions, 74
percent of its phosphorous reduc-
tions and all of its sediment re-
ductions.
— Baltimore Sun
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BASINGER JOHNSON SMITH
ELIZABETH MARTIN SMITH (Age 97)

Something
CECIL M. BASINGER SR.
The members of the Retired
Firefighters Association of
Washington, DC regret to an-
nounce the passing of Cecil
M. Basinger, Sr. on July 20,
2023. Brother Basinger was
appointed in November 1963 to Truck 16
and retired on January 8, 1994, from Truck
SUZANNE MARIE JOHNSON
Suzanne Marie Johnson, formerly O’ Meara
of Washington DC and Lincoln Virginia, age
80, died July 10 in INOVA Fairfax Hospital
after a brief illness. She was born July 25,
1942, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Yvonne
and Daniel O’Meara. In approximately
1950 she moved with her family to Rock-
ford, Illinois, where she attended school,
Elizabeth M. Smith “Betty” transitioned
peacefully on July 14, 2023. She was born
to Effie and Napoleon Martin in Decherd,
Tennessee and raised in Gary, West Vir-
ginia. She was baptized at an early age in
the Gary Apostolic Temple. She left Gary
for Washington, DC at the age of 18 and
made the District her home for the next
79 years. Upon arriving in Washington, DC,

better out
1, Captain. followed by a degree program in journal-
ism from Marquette University. In Wash-
ington she worked as an aide to former
Senator Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania and
served on the staffs of various committees
headed by Senator McGovern and others
addressing hunger in America. Govern-
ment service was followed, inter alia, by
BENNETT dedicated service supervising the care of
elderly family members. She was devoted
she joined the Metropolitan Baptist Church
where she met her future husband Davie
E. Smith.
Elizabeth was, for many years, a member
of the Metropolitan Baptist Church, serv-
ing in many groups including the Women’s
Club, Helping Hands Club, and Deaconess
Board. She later joined the Emmanuel

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GEORGE E. BENNETT
The members of the Retired
Firefighters Association of
Washington, DC regret to an-
nounce the passing of George
E. Bennett on July 22, 2023.
Brother Bennett was appoint-
ed on December 17, 1961, to Engine 31
and retired on October 18, 1991 from
Truck 11, Captain.
to opera and subscribed to the Washington
National Opera since its first performances
at the Kennedy Center. She is survived by
her husband of 53 years, Richard; by her
brother Peter O’Meara and two sisters in
law, Betty A. Johnson of Weymouth, Mas-
sachusetts, and Susan O’ Meara of Orleans,
Massachusetts. Interment will be private.
Contributions in her name may be made to
Opera Lafayette, 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE,
Washington DC 20003.
Baptist Church and became a hardworking
committee and dedicated Women’s Club
member.
Elizabeth was preceded in death by her
parents, six brothers and a sister, and her
beloved husband, Davie E. Smith, Sr. She
is survived by her children, Davie, Jr. (Jon-
ica), and Keith (Amy); and her siblings, Alice
Martin, Fanny Martin Smith, McKinley Mar-
tin, and Pamela Butts; as well as numerous
nieces and nephews.

BOOKER MORTIMER A memorial service will be held 12 p.m. on

Friday July 28, at Emmanuel Baptist Church

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Washington, DC, followed by internment at
GISELE MURPHY BOOKER Lincoln Memorial Cemetery.
Gisele Murphy Booker of Clinton, MD, tran-
sitioned to “eternal life” during July 11,
2023. She was the loving wife of Ronald
Booker, the mother of Christine Booker
and Danielle Booker, and the grandmother
of Danielle G. Booker and Yanni Scott.
Family and friends are invited to Gisele’s

to find out.
Visitation on Monday, July 31 from 10 a.m.
until her Funeral Mass offered at 11 a.m.
at Holy Family Catholic Church, 2210 Call-
away St, Hillcrest Heights, MD 20748. Her
funeral arrangements are being conducted
by Kalas Funeral Home, 6160 Oxon Hill Rd.,
Oxon Hill, MD 20745.

COLEMAN
DAVID LEE LEE COLEMAN
On May 30, 2023, David Lee Coleman, 67, MARYJANE CANALE MORTIMER
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and sister Gale Prisaznick. A private me-
morial is yet to be held in Lovettsville, VA.
EAGLE
away peacefully on July 22, 2023 in Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina from complications
of Alzheimer’s. Born in New York City on
August 12, 1957, she grew up in Syosset
and Manhasset on Long Island and grad-
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uated from Marymount University in Ar-

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lington, Virginia. After college, she met

EDNA LOUISE EAGLE

Edna Louise Eagle was born in Ansley, Ne-
braska on March 27, 1940 to Charles I. and
Edna Grayce Brown. Edna died suddenly
on April 18, 2023 in Arlington, VA. She was
preceded in death by her parents and her
brother “Bobby Brown.” Edna leaves to
mourn her husband of 62 years, Retired
ACPD Detective Roscoe Eagle, her sister
Betty Hughes, and her sister-in-law Nellie.
A graveside service will be held on Friday,
July 28, 10 a.m. at Arlington National Cem-
etery, Administration Building. For the full
obituary, please visit
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Scott Mortimer of Springfield, Virginia; they
married in 1980 and settled in Bethesda,
Maryland where they raised three sons—
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Gregory, Christopher, and Michael—and
lived for nearly 40 years before moving
to South Carolina. She is remembered for
her extraordinary kindness, her timeless
elegance and passion for style, her love of
traveling, and her devotion to family. She
is predeceased by her parents, Robert and
Charlotte Canale, and is survived by Scott
and her sons; two grandchildren, Lydia
and Evan; siblings Joan (DeSantis), Robert,
Susan (Wilhouski), David, and Christine
(Amorosana); and seven nieces and neph-
ews. A memorial service in Manhasset,
New York will be held on Friday August
4, 10:15 a.m. at St. Mary’s Roman Cath-

HERMANN olic Church, 1300 Northern Boulevard.

RODNEY MARTIN HERMANN

FEBRUARY 17, 1933 - JULY 21, 2023
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need arises,
in Callicoon, NY. He was raised there and
Bay Shore, NY. He graduated with a B.S. in CAPTAIN, US NAVY (RET.)
Commerce and Finance from Bucknell Uni- November 21, 1942 - July 25, 2003

versity in 1955 and then served on active
duty as an officer in the U.S. Army for two
years, followed by a 35 year career in Con-
tract Management positions in the defense
industry for Litton, Sperry, and Unisys.
Survived by his spouse of 45 years, Claire
Tansill Hermann; their son, Rodney Martin
let families
As the second decade of your final depar-
ture home is upon us, we continue to cel-
ebrate you and hold you in loving memory.
find you in the Your love, character, duty, sacrifice, and
vision here on earth are forever revered.
Your Loving Family
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Hermann II and grandchildren, James,
Bailey, and Ryleigh Hermann; and two
daughters by a prior marriage, Lynne
Fabiszewski and Karyn Leins and grand-
children Maxwell and Hannah Fabiszewski
To be seen in the
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Rodney loved to spend time with his family Funeral Services
and enjoyed sailing, boating, travel, includ-
ing numerous cruises, and sports. He had Directory, please call
been active in community organizations.
paid Death Notices at
Burial will be at Gate of Heaven in Silver
Spring, MD in a private family ceremony. 202-334-4122.
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DEAR
MARGARET DEAR
Dr. Margaret R. Dear, Ph.D., former professor Dr. Dear was preceded in death by her lov-
of nursing at George Mason, Georgetown, ing husband, David R. Dear, her parents John
and Johns Hopkins universities, passed and Catherine Regan, and a brother, John
away on Wednesday, July 19, 2023 in Dan- Regan. She is survived by a brother, George
bury, Conn. She was 91. Regan, of Columbia, MDd., four sons, David
Dear, Jr. (Karen) of Danbury, CT, Fr. John Dear
Dr. Dear was born Margaret Catherine Re- of California, Brian Dear (Patricia), Stephen EVA VERDELL GRAHAM

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gan in Manhattan on June 13, 1932. She
grew up in Brooklyn. After graduating from
St. John’s University and St. Vincent’s Hospi-
tal School of Nursing, she quickly became a
head nurse at St. Vincent’s Hospital, super-
vising hundreds of nurses.
She and newspaper publisher David Reid
Dear, Sr., of Jersey City, NJ were married for
57 years before his death in 2014.
She earned a Ph.D. in sociology from The
Catholic University of America. As a profes-
Dear (Janet) of Elmira, OR, and three grand- JULY 18, 1930 - SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
children, Patrick Dear (Christina) of Sunny- Happy 93rd Birthday
vale, CA., Katherine Dear of Worcester, MA.,
and Jennifer Dear of Milford, PA. Your family and friends miss you,
your sons and daughter
A visitation will be held at Joseph Gawler’s
Sons Funeral Home, Washington, DC, on Garrick C. Graham
Monday, July 24 from 5 to 7 p.m. A Mass February 11, 1951 - January 3, 2008
in celebration of her life will be held at Our
Lady of Mercy Catholic Parish, Potomac, MD.
on Tuesday, July 25 at 11 a.m. Interment will
take place at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Sil-
ver Spring, MD. on Tuesday, July 25 at 1 p.m.

Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Theo Meyer sor of nursing in the 1970s, Dr. Dear taught
at Georgetown University, then Johns Hop-
kins University. She conducted research on
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to
Pax Christi USA or the Nursing Foundation
of Maryland. PIRO
staff of the National Institutes of Health. She

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published academic articles on a wide vari-
ety of topics related to nursing. She ended
her career in the 2000s at George Mason
University. She co-founded the Nursing
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KRASKE
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JOCHEN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH KRASKE
Of Chevy Chase, Maryland, 90, passed away
on July 22, 2023 surrounded by friends and
family.
Born on Christmas Day, 1932 in Berlin, Ger-
many, Jochen survived World War II as a child
and went on to earn a PhD in Economics at
the University of Freiburg. He was awarded
a scholarship for post-doctoral study at Yale
University and came to the United States in
SULLIVAN
HARRY E. B. SULLIVAN COL. US ARMY (RET.)
Harry Edward Brook Sullivan, 90, was born
on February 7, 1931 in Springfield, MO to
Harry and Lillian Sullivan, and passed away
January 26, 2022. He graduated from Green-
wood High School in Springfield, MO. He
was appointed to the West Point Military
Academy in 1950 by Congressman George
H. Christopher. In 1954 Sullivan graduated
from West Point. Commissioned in Armor,
he reported to Ft. Knox, KE and to Ft. Bragg,
GA for basic courses, and ended up at Ft.
Hood, TX. In 1956 he was transferred to
Landshut, Germany. He met his wife Ellen in
Bad Kissingen, where they were married in
1958. In 1959 Harry was selected to attend
Harvard University, where he was awarded
a master’s degree in Public Administration.
From 1961-64 he taught at West Point in the
Social Science Department. After this as-
signment he served in Vietnam from 1966-
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1962, after which he joined the World Bank
working on issues of poverty and develop-
ment. Throughout his career at the World
Bank, he held increasingly senior roles. In
1997 he retired as the World Bank’s His-
torian, the only person to have occupied
this position, where he authored Bankers
with a Mission, the story of the first seven
Presidents of the World Bank. He met Huda
Qubein at the World Bank in 1966 and she AMANDA CAITLIN PIRO
became the love of his life. They made their Dearest Amanda,
home in the Washington, DC area and also It has been two long, hard years without
spent many years living in New Delhi, India. you. You touched so many people during
Jochen was known and loved for his irre- your short life and saved five others
pressible spirit and sense of humor, for his through the gift of transplanted organs.
love of the outdoors and the game of Bridge. You certainly saddened so many with your
premature death. While you are now in
Jochen is survived by his wife Huda and his Heaven with mom, you are always in our
children, Anna and Paul; and granddaugh- thoughts and will be loved eternally by all.
ters, Piper, Cleo, Maya and Marley. He is Love,
also survived by his sisters Friderike Kraske Ernie and Abbey Piro
Quinnan of Orinda, CA and Ludovika Kraske
Vahlenkamp of Freiburg, Germany. A celebra-
tion of Jochen’s life will be held on Sunday,
August 20, 2023 at 3 p.m. at the Episcopal
Church of the Redeemer, 6201 Dunrobbin
Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20816. In lieu of
flowers, the family requests donations be
made in his name to the Episcopal Church DEATH NOTICE
of the Redeemer (www.redeemerbethesda.
org).
PERSON
took command of the regiment’s 2nd Ar-
mored Squadron in Bamberg, Germany. In
1974 he attended the National War College,
where he was designated a “distinguished
graduate” in 1975. In 1976 he served as Bri-
gade Commander of the Armor School at Ft.
Knox, KE until his retirement in 1978. After
retirement Harry, who had always loved to
help others, chose to work for his fellow vet-
erans at the American Legion in Washington,
DC “Harry was the love of my life.” In their
long marriage was a loving, wonderful, reli-
able husband to Ellen. He was also an out-
standing beloved father to his sons Brook
and Mark. He welcomed our daughters-
in-law Eve and Francoise with open arms. KARL RODNEY PERSON
From the moment his granddaughters, Gil- Karl Rodney Person, age 74, of Mitchell-
lian, Stella and Lydia were born, he doted on ville, Maryland, passed away on Monday,
them. Loving his family meant much to him, July 17, 2023, at Doctor’s Hospital in Lan-
as ever showed to his sister Shirley, and his ham, MD.

67 where he earned the Bronze Star with
“V” device. In 1968 he attended the Com-
mand and General Staff College at Ft. Leav-
enworth, Kansas. From there he transferred
to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming the Ex-
ecutive Officer of the 2nd Armored Cavalry
Regiment. Following this assignment he
many nephews and nieces. He was a fine
officer, scholar and friend. Harry requested
a celebratory full military interment of his
ashes at Arlington National Cemetery. It will
take place on July 26, 2023 at 3 p.m. Dona-
tions may go to the Sheherd’s Table.
Funeral arrangements provided by Lat-
ney’s Funeral Home, Inc. Funeral services
will take place at the Berean Baptist
Church, 924 Madison St, NW, Washington,
DC, 20011, on Thursday, July 27, 2023.
Viewing will start at 11 a.m. and the ser-
vice will start at 12 noon.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
a former GOP lawmaker
whose son is transgender,
tries to sway conservatives

sHuran Huang for tHe WasHington Post

Lobbying the right for trans rights

BY J ESÚS R ODRÍGUEZ

‘A
ll of these headlines, they’ve both-
ered me greatly,” Ileana Ros-
Lehtinen says.
she is 71, short, with a big voice.
A former congresswoman, a Republican.
“They, they, they affect me emotionally.
And I don’t think …”
she is looking out at the street in front of Le
Bon Café, on Capitol Hill, where a compact
sUV is trying to complete a feat of parallel
parking.
“ … that, that car’s not going to make it …”
Her 37-year-old son, Rodrigo Heng-Lehtin-
en, is sitting in the blue bistro chair next to
her. He’s stocky and slightly bearded, wearing
a navy button-down with little trees under an
oat-colored cardigan. He can’t contain his
laughter.
The car comically backs in and out, in and
out.
“I mean, this is not —” Ileana began her
quip with a straight face, but she’s giggling
now, too. “You gotta measure it. not enough
room.”
But the headlines. And the laws.
“But it’s just never-ending, the onslaught of
bills and the press conferences and the
hateful words. It impacts me emotionally.”
she’s talking about the animosity toward
transgender people — and criticizing it more
harshly than you might expect from a woman
who, as recently as the Trump administration,
was a Republican member of Congress. on
the other hand, Rodrigo is transgender. He
came out as trans to his parents when he was
in college, in 2007, a piece of news that came
as “a shock” to Ileana. But she and her
husband had embraced their son’s identity,
and they have since encouraged other parents
to do the same — a sharp contrast to the
dominant view in her party, which is openly
see rOs-lehtinen on C2

Former representative ileana ros-lehtinen and her trans son rodrigo heng-lehtinen at their home in washington.

Opera review retrOpOlis

‘Faust’ brings Oppenheimer:

a hard bargain ‘I have blood
to the Big Easy on my hands’
BY M ICHAEL A NDOR B RODEUR BY T IMOTHY B ELLA

on sunday, a matinee of Wolf Trap The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshi-

opera’s “Faust” didn’t feel all that far
removed from the muggy afternoon
beyond the sturdy walls of the Barns, set
as it was in the deep heat of fin de siècle
new orleans.
But director Alison Moritz’s smartly
refined production of Charles Gounod’s
1859 mainstay proved immediately
transportive, casting the opera in an
alluring new light and concentrating its
grandeur into a potent potion.
This “Faust” — the tale of an aging
scholar who strikes a deal with the devil
for another taste of youth — had its own
fateful bargain to strike: For the cozy
purposes of the 382-seat Barns and its
modest pit, conductor Geoffrey McDon-
ma had pulverized life and changed the
world, and J. Robert oppenheimer cel-
ebrated by clasping his hands like a prize
fighter, soaking in the roaring applause
from the crowd in Los Alamos, n.M. It
was a thrilling time for oppenheimer,
who told the crowd in August 1945 in the
place where the bombs were designed
and built about his only regret: not that
thousands of people had been killed, but
that “we hadn’t developed the bomb in
time to use it against the Germans”
earlier in World War II.
But oppenheimer’s feeling of triumph
Jenna scHoenefeld for tHe WasHington Post evaporated in the months after the
Cierra Fraser, left, and Joslin Farley before a screening of “barbie” in los Angeles. destruction of nagasaki, caused by an-
other atomic bomb three days after

The allure of Barbenheimer

ald led his lean 26-piece orchestra in a
reduced orchestration of the opera by
Francis Griffin.
McDonald handled his short staff ably
and energetically, filling in gaps of antici-
pated intensity and approximating va-
cancies of scale wherever he reasonably
could, and otherwise offering a sensitive,
responsive and clearly endeared reading
of the score. (Admittedly, I’d have traded
both of my shoes to the devil for a single
trombone.)
This tamping of Gounod’s roaring
flame put added pressure on the singers
see OperA review on C4
BY A LLIE J ONES
AND H ANNAH B EIER
When salimah Ismail was mak-
ing plans for her husband’s 36th
birthday on July 21, she knew the
perfect way to celebrate: with a
Barbenheimer doubleheader.
Ismail, 34, and her husband,
seth, traveled from their home in
Towson, Md., all the way to Beaver-
ton, ore., to meet her husband’s
family for a five-hour cinematic
journey. They caught the noon “op-
penheimer” showing, took a few
hours to walk around and grab a
meal, then settled back into the
same Cinemark theater for a
7:35 p.m. screening of “Barbie.” And
they were far from the only group to
do so this past weekend.
What began as a joke about
counterprogramming is now very,
very real: Barbenheimer took over
the weekend box office with a com-
bined $244.4 million domestic haul,
breaking all kinds of records in the
process.
Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” brought
see bArbenheimer on C8
Hiroshima, which the scientist believed
was unnecessary and unjustified. His
revulsion was so evident on his face that
President Harry s. Truman asked him
what was the matter when they met at
the White House for the first time in
october 1945.
“Mr. President, I feel I have blood on
my hands,” oppenheimer told Truman,
according to “American Prometheus,” the
2005 oppenheimer biography from au-
thors Kai Bird and Martin J. sherwin.
While Truman assured oppenheimer
that he should not carry the burden of
see retrOpOlis on C3
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Ros-LeHTInen from C1
fighting the mainstream accep-
tance of transgender people.
Ileana and rodrigo both have
been working the other side of
that battle in their own Washing-
ton ways.
He is the executive director of
the National Center for Trans-
gender Equality, an influential
advocacy group that lobbies the
Biden administration on issues
related to transgender Ameri-
cans. (“Being trans is on my
business card,” he jokes.)
She has been trying to change
minds in closed-door conversa-
tions with republican officials.
(She declined to get into details,
saying she didn’t want to make
anyone uncomfortable by nam-
ing names.)
“What do you want for your
child, do you want your child to
be happy?” Ileana says she asks
them. “And if this is how your
child is happy, and he’s not harm-
ing anyone, is leading a produc-
tive life — what is the harm in
love and acceptance and think-
ing that every person that you
see, that’s somebody’s family?”
She has a place around the
corner from the cafe, from when
she was in Congress; rodrigo
now lives there with his husband,
and Ileana — a lobbyist for Akin
Gump who lives part-time in
miami — stays there, too, when
she’s in town. She still knows a lot
of people on the Hill. Earlier, she
had spotted a familiar face hurry-
ing along on the cobblestone
sidewalk.
“rutherford!” Ileana had
called out from her seat.
A mustached man in a suit had
turned toward his name.
“Good to see you my friend!”
she said.
“Give me a hug, girl!” he re-
plied. They kissed cheeks, with
the congressman theatrically
enunciating, “Mwah!” She
cooed: “I miss you, I miss you!”
and rodrigo had risen from his
chair.
“my son, rigo,” Ileana said.
“Hiii, nice to meet you,” said
rodrigo.
“Hey! How are you? Nice to
meet you,” the congressman
smiled before hurrying along.
“He’s a florida republican
member,” Ileana told her son as
the man headed off toward the
Capitol campus.
“ohhh.”
“John rutherford.”
These days, being a republi-
can lawmaker means there’s a
decent chance you’ve voted for an
anti-transgender rights bill in the
recent past. As of may, GoP state
legislators have introduced more
than 400 anti-trans bills, many of
which have become law in at least
21 states. In Washington, Demo-
cratic control of the Senate and
the White House makes support
for such bills merely culture-war
nectar for conservative hard-lin-
ers, for the time being. Still,
House republicans in march
passed the Parents Bill of rights
Act, which would, among other
provisions, condition federal
funds on schools providing for
parental consent to allow chil-
dren to change their names on
school forms or use locker rooms
and bathrooms that align with
their gender identity. In April,
they passed the Protection of
Women and Girls in Sports Act,
which defines sex “solely” on
“reproductive biology and genet-
ics at birth” and restricts the
ability of transgender girls and
women to compete on their
teams.
rutherford voted for both of
those bills.
A few weeks after his chance
encounter with Ileana outside
the cafe, The Washington Post
found the florida republican in
the rayburn building, a floor
above Ileana’s old office.
“my stand on the LGBTQ com-
munity,” rutherford said, “has
always been, I don’t think any-
body should be discriminated
against because of who they love
and want to associate with.”
But.
“I can love the sinner, hate the
sin, because I think it’s wrong. I
think it’s a sin. Years ago, it was
even considered a mental ill-
ness.”
Two days later, he would vote
for a defense bill that bans gen-
der-affirming health care for
trans people in the military.
‘O
ne on one, they’re more
compassionate, under-
standing, and they get
the family dynamics,” Ileana says
of her republican colleagues.
“But then when you get this herd
mentality, it’s very difficult to cut
through all the fog.”
When she came to Washington
in 1989 as the first Cuban elected
to Congress, few people in na-
tional politics knew what being
transgender meant. In those
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“One on one, they’re more compassionate ... and they get the family dynamics.
But then when you get this herd mentality, it’s very difficult to cut through all the fog.”
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, talking about her republican colleagues
Former congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and son Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen outside their home in Washington.
days, some of the headlines were
about HIV/AIDS, and same-sex
marriage was just becoming a
political wedge issue. In 1996,
Ileana voted — along with 118
Democrats — to send the Defense
of marriage Act to Bill Clinton’s
desk, which he signed.
Around 2001, chatter spread at
Ros-Lehtinen is
rodrigo’s high school that he
liked both men and women. of
his feelings around gender, he
recalls: “The only way I can really
hopeful she can
describe it is like being in a fog.”
The rumor prompted a family
sit-down in the living room.
When rodrigo acknowledged
sway colleagues
that it was true, he says, his
parents treated it “as no big deal,
which is the best-case scenario.”
In interviews at the time, Ilea-
on Capitol Hill
na cited both rodrigo and his
sister — along with shifting views
in her district — as influences on
her evolution on gay rights. She
co-sponsored unsuccessful legis-
lation repealing “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” in 2005 and then
opposed a constitutional ban on
same-sex marriage in 2006. Two
years later, she became a found-
ing member of the House LG-
BTQ+ Equality Caucus. In 2011,
Ileana became the first republi-
can to support the respect for
marriage Act, which would allow
same-sex couples to wed.
In an NPr interview last De-
cember, after Congress finally
passed the respect for marriage
Act with bipartisan support, Ilea-
na described engaging in a “quiet
campaign” by the group Con-
servatives Against Discrimina-
tion to get republicans on board.
“People are coming to under-
stand that they have someone in
their own family or someone
with whom they work or some-
one who is — even someone in
sTefan ZaklIn/geTTy Images their church — who may be gay,”
she said.
Ileana and rodrigo hope that
social proximity, that personal
touch, will eventually persuade
republicans on issues relating to
transgender people.
About 1.6 million people in the
United States are transgender,
according to an estimate by the
Williams Institute. It sounds like
a large number, but it’s only
about half a percent of the popu-
lation.
“one of the challenges that I
think the trans community faces
is that there just aren’t that many
[of them],” says Trey Grayson,
Kentucky’s republican former
CHIP somodevIlla/geTTy Images secretary of state, who was co-
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), at top at a news chair, with Ileana, of Conserva-
conference on Capitol Hill in 2003 with other lawmakers tives Against Discrimination.
and above in 2011. That year, she became the first “And so,” he says, “you don’t get to
Republican to support the Respect for Marriage Act, which benefit as much from the, ‘oh
would allow same-sex couples to wed. that’s my co-worker, that’s my
aunt, that’s my uncle, that’s my
boss.’”
At the moment, progress on
the republican side might not be
measurable in acceptance but
rather the absence of hostility.
“If you can make it so that they
don’t bring up a bill every week
or two that is in this area, that’s
the washington post
progress, right?” said rep. mark
Pocan (D-Wis.), the co-chair of
the LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus,
referring to Ileana’s efforts to
dissuade her fellow republicans
from challenging the legitimacy
of transgender people. “If they
don’t amend every appropria-
tions bill to have this junk, that’s
progress.”
Being a pro-trans republican
remains a knotty paradox. The
party’s presidential candidates
know that bashing the politics of
gender identity is a good way to
fire up the base. “I’m talking
about cutting taxes, people go
like that,” Donald Trump said at a
republican event in June, mim-
icking polite applause. “Talk
about transgender, everyone
goes crazy.”
florida Gov. ron DeSantis (r),
who is also running for presi-
dent, recently signed a law mak-
ing it a trespassing offense for
trans adults to enter restrooms
that align with their gender — a
measure that LGBTQ advocates
worry will lead to arrests. This
raised an unsettling question for
rodrigo: Was it safe for him to
visit the state? “We’ll have the
bail money,” Ileana quickly said.
“That would be an interesting
test case, though.”
“Somehow, she always re-
mains positive and optimistic
about it,” Ana Navarro, former
republican strategist and a long-
time family friend, said of Ileana.
“But I’d be mad as hell at these
awfully bigoted people that are,
frankly, putting a target on my
child’s back.”
Since becoming a lobbyist,
Ileana has taken on work that
may put her in tension with the
cause of transgender rights. In
2020, she registered as a foreign
agent for the United Arab Emir-
ates, where being transgender is
punishable by a year in prison,
according to Human rights
Watch. Earlier this year, she took
as a client the conservative net-
work Americano media, which
touts itself as the Spanish-lan-
guage twin of fox News and runs
analysis and opinion pieces that
criticize transgender activism.
The federal disclosure notes the
lobbying issues as “relationship
building.” Apart from her profes-
sional work, she donated $1,000
each this cycle to the reelection
campaigns of reps. Elise Stefanik
(r-N.Y.) and Virginia foxx
(r-N.C.) — former colleagues who
have been outspoken against
transgender women playing in
women’s sports. “Sorry, they’re
males,” foxx, who chairs the
House Committee on Education
and the Workforce, said during
an April hearing.
When The Post contacted Ilea-
na to ask about whether she
thinks those ties run counter to
her advocacy for transgender
people, the ex-congresswoman
said she was traveling and un-
available for an interview. And
she did not respond to a list of
. tuesday, july 25 , 2023
sHuran Huang for THe WasHIngTon PosT
questions on the subject sent via
email.
rodrigo also declined to an-
swer questions about these ties
over email. In an earlier inter-
view, he said there was little
friction between him and his
mother on transgender rights
besides disagreements about the
fine print of some policies.
“But those are details,” he said.
fundamentally, he thinks Ileana
is unwaveringly on the side of
transgender people. “At the end
of the day, we’re trying to secure
trans rights,” rodrigo said, “and
she’s so bought in on that and the
kind of violence that we face.”
one rainy morning in late
June, Ileana came back home
from a breakfast meeting at the
republican Capitol Hill Club.
The ohio House of representa-
tives was scheduled to vote that
day on a bill that would restrict
health care for trans minors and
prevent some trans athletes from
participating in women’s sports.
She said that she’d texted three
lawmakers to see whether she
could get them to change their
vote.
“That was a no-go.”
rodrigo tilted his head, re-
plied with resignation: “oh. Yeee-
ah.”
The bill passed, 64-28.
It’s hard to change minds, no
matter how personal the connec-
tion. Being in the same party, or
even the same family, is no guar-
antee that two people will end up
on the same page.
“I don’t know if you remember
this,” rodrigo said, turning to
Ileana. “There was like, a few
months, where I got a job on
campus that I didn’t tell my
parents about, in order to save up
money, in case they kicked me
out.”
Her eyebrows pinched togeth-
er. “oh, rigo!”
“Well, and thankfully you
didn’t, right? Thank you, thank
you.”
“Ay, Dios mío!” Unfathomable,
to her.
They had known he was work-
ing on the side, but not why.
“Y estabas ahorrando el dine-
ro?” she asked. The money — was
he saving it?
“Yeah! Yeah, and so I had
opened a bank account that you
all didn’t know about, that was
Citizens Bank.”
He’d also scoped out a local
LGBTQ-friendly clinic. Thought
about how he’d pay tuition, his
bills. “The fundamentals for liv-
ing,” he called it, “if they rejected
me.”
“Well, I commend you for be-
ing so organized! El alquiler, la
salud.”
“Like a prevention strategy,” he
said.
They’re both cracking up
again. How dire, how sad it all
looked in the rear view.
“Que triste,” said Ileana. “I
mean, we’re laughing, pero que
triste.”
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Bombings in Japan left Oppenheimer shattered
reTrOPOlIS from C1
the bombs — “I told him the
blood was on my hands, to let me
worry about that” — the presi-
dent was privately infuriated by
what he described to aides as a
“crybaby scientist” and the regret
he had over the decimation, ac-
cording to author ray monk’s
2012 biography, “robert oppen-
heimer: A Life Inside the Center.”
“Blood on his hands, dammit,
he hasn’t half as much blood on
his hands as I have,” Truman said
afterward. “You just don’t go
around bellyaching about it.”
Truman later told Dean
Acheson, his secretary of state: “I
don’t want to see that son of a
bitch in this office ever again.”
It was the only time the two
would meet, and oppenheimer
believed he had missed perhaps
his only chance to avert a poten-
tial nuclear arms race that could
slaughter hundreds of millions of
people.
“He didn’t convince the presi-
dent, and the president didn’t like
him, unfortunately,” Charles op-
penheimer, the physicist’s grand-
son, told The Washington Post.
“my grandfather gave the right
advice, and the president didn’t
take it. What he said about having
blood on his hands was clearly
something Truman didn’t like.”
Almost 80 years after the nu-
clear weapons were detonated in
Japan, the life and legacy of the
man known as “the father of the
atomic bomb” is being reexam-
ined thanks to Christopher No-
lan’s new film, “oppenheimer,”
which premiered nationwide fri-
day and depicts the Truman
meeting. The film, based on Bird
and Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-win-
ning biography, won early critical
acclaim as a “supersize master-
piece” that Nolan says left some
moviegoers exiting the theater
feeling “absolutely devastated.”
“I view oppenheimer as the
most important person who ever
lived,” Nolan told CBS’s “Sunday
morning.” “oppenheimer’s story
is one of the biggest stories imag-
inable. By unleashing atomic
power, he gave us the power to
destroy ourselves that we never
had before, and that changes the
human equation.”
The interest surrounding op-
penheimer, who died in 1967, hit a
fever pitch in the run-up to the
movie. Some historians say the
war between russia and Ukraine
— and russia’s repeated threats
that it could use nuclear weapons
— make oppenheimer’s outlook
on such weaponry as relevant
today as it was decades ago.
“The movie is generating a
huge amount of interest, because
oppenheimer now is, in some
ways, a figure of our times,”
monk, the biographer and a pro-
fessor emeritus of philosophy at
the University of Southampton,
told The Post. “Because of his
central role in the atomic bomb
and the arguments about the
atomic bomb in years following
the Second World War, interest in
him has been revived as someone
who symbolizes an issue that is
still occupying us.”
Charles oppenheimer, 48, who
never met his grandfather but
has become a family spokesman
and a founding member of the
oppenheimer Project, added:
“He saw how the world had
changed, and he saw it coming. It
wasn’t a surprise. The reason he’s
so relevant is not related to just
atomic bombs but also the state
of humanity.”
The depression and over-
whelming anxiety J. robert op-
penheimer felt during the devel-
opment and testing of the bombs
appeared to dissipate on Aug. 6,
1945, after one word was shouted
by the announcer at the Los
Alamos Laboratory.
“Now!”
A tremendous burst of light
was followed by a deep growling
roar of the explosion over Hiro-
shima, according to author fer-
enc m. Szasz’s 1984 book, “The
Day the Sun rose Twice.” An
estimated 135,000 people were
dead. oppenheimer was relieved
— and feeling himself.
“I’ll never forget his walk,”
Isidor rabi, a close confidant and
colleague of oppenheimer’s, re-
counted in monk’s book. “I’ll
never forget the way he stepped
out of the car. … His walk was like
‘High Noon,’ … this kind of strut.
He had done it.”
His mood changed three days
later, when the fBI described
oppenheimer as a “nervous
wreck” over bombing Nagasaki,
AP
AP
which he argued was not justified
from a military perspective. The
second atomic bomb was
dropped on Aug. 9, 1945, and
another estimated 64,000 people
were killed.
oppenheimer, whose crippling
remorse had him smoking con-
stantly after the Nagasaki bomb-
ing, delivered a letter to Secretary
of War Henry Stimson on Aug. 17,
1945, urging that nuclear weap-
ons be banned. oppenheimer re-
signed as director of the Los
Alamos Laboratory after the war
ended.
The White House meeting with
Truman on oct. 25, 1945, was
oppenheimer’s opportunity to
persuade the president to ad-
dress a potential international
issue with russia over the use of
nuclear weapons. Truman was
curious to meet oppenheimer,
who he heard was charismatic
and eloquent, and he hoped he
could get oppenheimer’s support
in helping Congress pass the
may-Johnson Bill, which would
give the U.S. Army permanent
control over atomic energy.
“The first thing is to define the
national problem, then the inter-
national,” Truman told oppen-
heimer, according to monk.
The physicist thought what the
president said was foolish and
wrong — very, very wrong — and
pushed for international controls
over all atomic technology.
“He went into the october
meeting with strung-out nerves
eZ Re
realizing he didn’t have many
chances left,” oppenheimer’s
grandson said.
oppenheimer was perplexed
when Truman asked him to guess
how long it would take for the
russians to develop their own
atomic bomb. When oppenheim-
er said he did not know, histori-
ans say Truman offered a one-
word answer: “Never.”
It was around this time that
oppenheimer wrung his hands
together and told the president
that it felt as if he had blood on
his hands. A long and incredibly
awkward silence followed.
There are differing accounts of
how Truman responded, accord-
ing to “American Prometheus.”
one account had Truman reply-
ing to oppenheimer by saying,
“Never mind, it’ll all come out in
the wash.” Another account that
Bird and Sherwin detailed had
Truman pulling out a handker-
chief from his breast pocket and
offering it to oppenheimer.
“Well, here, would you like to
wipe your hands?” Truman asked.
The meeting concluded after
oppenheimer voiced his concern.
They shook hands, and Truman
left oppenheimer with reassur-
ance, Bird and Sherwin wrote,
reportedly saying: “Don’t worry,
we’re going to work something
out, and you’re going to help us.”
The experience stayed with
Truman, who wrote months later
that oppenheimer had “spent
most of his time wringing his
hands and telling me they had
blood on them because of the
discovery of atomic energy,” ac-
cording to “American Pro-
metheus.”
“Truman was incredibly an-
noyed that oppenheimer would
take responsibility when it was
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FrOM TOP: Truman’s responsibility for the
Physicist J. robert bombing,” monk said.
Oppenheimer, Truman still honored oppen-
known as “the father heimer in 1946 with a presiden-
of the atomic bomb,” tial citation and a medal for
in 1957. A mushroom merit, with Stimson describing
cloud rises after an the development of the atomic
atomic bomb bomb as “largely due to [oppen-
explodes over the heimer’s] genius and the inspira-
Japanese city of tion and leadership he has given
Nagasaki on Aug. 9, to his colleagues.”
1945. President Charles oppenheimer said
Harry S. Truman that he had asked his father, Peter
speaks in April 1945. — J. robert oppenheimer’s eldest
Truman and child — about the exchange, and
Oppenheimer met that his father’s theory was that
for the first time in the physicist was “trying to im-
October 1945, during press” Truman on some level.
which the physicist “With Truman, he thought he
reportedly said: was a peer,” Charles oppenheim-
“Mr. President, I feel er said. “There were certain peo-
I have blood on my ple who oppenheimer felt he
hands.” could talk to like that. … But he
was overruled by a high-school-
educated gut feeling from Tru-
man.”
He added: “I care a lot about
this when people are portraying
my grandfather as a crybaby and
not recognizing the reality of
what happened.”
monk, who spent 11 years writ-
ing his book, said interest sur-
rounding J. robert oppenheimer
is “higher than it’s ever been.” for
Charles oppenheimer, the in-
creased attention has been sur-
real. He has seen the movie — and
loved it. The spotlight on the
grandfather he never met, and
the meeting with Truman, has
been a reminder that being an
oppenheimer means “there is a
duty and heaviness to use the
name to deal with the problems
in the world.”
“He was the type of guy to do
his duty,” Charles oppenheimer
said. “And whether it succeeded
or failed, he needed to try.”
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Wolf Trap Opera o≠ers new take on Gounod’s grand classic

OpErA rEviEW from C1
to sing — not to mention the
intimacy of the space raises the
stakes on those singers to act.
fortunately, all aspects were in
order on Sunday: moritz’s vision
is graced by a keenly cast ensem-
ble of talented singers, well-com-
plemented by a chorus of Wolf
Trap studio artists, its ranks ef-
fervescently present and (for the
most part) dynamically sound.
(Here and there, the orchestra
didn’t stand a chance.)
Tenor Eric Taylor made a force-
ful and compassionate Dr. faust,
his “rien! En vain j’interroge” a
rending introduction of a man
broken by longing and (here)
jonesing for poison. A remaining
fleck or two of the youthful vigor
to which he was trying to bargain
his way back would have been
welcome, but it was still an as-
sured demonstration of the grace
and control Taylor wielded
through all five acts.
Certainly soprano Brittany Lo-
gan was the afternoon’s standout
singer as marguerite — her voice
clear and rich, capable of bur-
nished color and shocking light-
ness. She has this way of tighten-
ing her voice around a particular-
ly aching word; you can hear the
stone in her throat. It’s not that
she’s superhuman; she’s extra-
human, a quality that made her
marguerite magnetic. This was
especially so in her lithe and
lilting jewel aria (“Ah! je ris de me
voir si belle”) and her anguished
pleas (and chilling heights) in the
final trio (“Anges purs anges
radieux”).
méphistophélès was convinc-
ingly embodied in white linen
Brittany Logan as Marguerite and Eric Taylor as Dr. Faust in Wolf Trap Opera’s “Faust,” directed by Alison Moritz.
finery and impressively sung by
bass Wm. Clay Thompson. Part
unholy spirit and part Deep
South mob boss, he lent the devil
suitably skeevy form and re-
strained vocal power. (Thompson
apparently specializes at mining
a sinister undercurrent in his
voice, his lows smoldering like
magma.) I loved his cloying faux-
serenade in Act IV (“Vous qui
faites l’endormie”) and his last
stand in the demonic fifth act,
presiding in a horned mask over
an eerie mob of revelers in a
humid-looking bordello.
In a pants role, mezzo-soprano
mary Beth Nelson offered a
Scott SuchMaN/Wolf trap opera
charming take on the crushingly
dorky and perpetually friend-
zoned Siébel, skillfully girding
the young rival’s nervous voice
with a thin rod of earnest nobili-
ty. Baritones Kyle White and
mario manzo gave strong per-
formances and likable energy to
the duo of Valentin and Wagner,
the former admirably rising to
the required swagger and dying
one of the slowest deaths I’ve
ever seen onstage. I left the hall
wanting to hear more of mezzo-
soprano Kathleen felty, whose
voice was warm and rich, and
gave more than the average
marthe.
The opera’s NoLA vibe was
helped along with costumes by
Lynly Saunders and lights by
Colin K. Bills, whose golden-hour
sunsets and crimson underworld
bestowed the action with a poetic
halo. Lawrence E. moten III’s
scenic designs were clean and
clever — the wrought-iron rails
and balconies of a New orleans
court quickly transforming into a
chapel (complete with an effec-
tive shock of organ). A signpost in
front of marguerite’s home reads
“1020 rue Saint Ann” — a nod to
marie Laveau, a 19th-century free
woman of color who became
known as the “Voodoo Queen of
New orleans” that here serves as
a spiritual template of sorts for
our troubled heroine.
At times, moritz’s vision of the
Big Easy felt a touch congested
onstage, and I wondered whether
more routine use of a central
platform thrust into the front
rows might have helped. But
these were small distractions in a
production that otherwise wick-
ed uncanny power from a limited
palette. Even in reduced form, it
felt like a deal worth striking.
Faust repeats thursday and
Saturday at the Barns at Wolf trap in
Vienna, Va. wolftrap.org/opera.

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husband and I feel comfortable
You are actually issuing two
hospitable invitations here, not
one that is positive and one that is
having little ones at a large event negative.
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Siblings fell out over draft-dodging husband
Dear Amy: More
Ask Amy than 50 years ago,
Amy my sister married
Dickinson a guy who skipped
the States after
being drafted into
the U.S. Army. (It was during the
Vietnam War.) I was also drafted
and served, including going to
Vietnam.
My mother was totally against
my sister marrying this guy,
because he was on the lam. I was
asked to meet with his parents
when they came to my mom’s
house, with instructions from my
parents to make it very clear that
they were totally against this
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in this scenario.
My sister told our mom that if I
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Oppenheimer PLF (R) 2:30-7:00
Indiana Jones and the Dial of
Destiny (PG-13) OC: 2:45
Theater Camp (PG-13) 12:15- 10:20
3:15-7:15-10:15
Oppenheimer PLF (R) 10:00AM Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
The Secret Life of Pets 2 (PG) CC: 10:05
11:45AM
Indiana Jones and the Dial of der-Verse (PG) CC: 5:10-10:10 Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13)
Destiny (PG-13) 10:45-6:30-
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Mission: Impossible - Dead
Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
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Oppenheimer (R) 12:00-3:45-
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Angelika
Pop-Up at Union Market
550 Penn Street NE - Unit E
Mission: Impossible - Dead
Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
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Barbie (PG-13) 11:20-2:15-
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Oppenheimer (R) 11:30-3:15-
7:00
Avalon Theatre
5612 Connecticut Avenue
Oppenheimer (R) 12:00-3:45-
7:30
Asteroid City (PG-13) 2:45-7:45 Oppenheimer (R) CC: 10:40-
Past Lives (PG-13) 12:15-5:15 3:00-8:20
Landmark
Atlantic Plumbing Cinema
807 V Street Northwest
Barbie (PG-13) 4:00-4:30-5:00- 1:15-2:30-4:45-5:30-7:45-8:30- The Blackening (R) CC: 11:15-
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Destiny (PG-13) 4:40-7:40
Mission: Impossible - Dead
Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
4:10
Oppenheimer (R) 4:20
Landmark E Street Cinema
555 11th Street Northwest
Top Gun (1986) (PG) 3:00-7:00 of Destiny (PG-13) CC: 10:10- Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
Barbie (PG-13) 12:30-2:00-3:00- 12:50-4:20-6:45-10:50
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Asteroid City (PG-13) 7:25
Theater Camp (PG-13) 1:45-
3:45-5:45-7:45
Past Lives (PG-13) 12:25
Barbie (PG-13) 2:30
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12:15
Asteroid City (PG-13) 4:55
Regal Gallery Place
701 Seventh Street Northwest 7:40-10:20
Barbie (PG-13) 11:00-11:30-
12:30-12:50-2:00-2:30-3:40-
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Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
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Spider-Man: Across the Spi-
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5:10-9:10-10:10
Elemental (PG) 10:40-12:20-
3:10-6:00
Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) Oppenheimer (R) CC: 1:30-3:20- 4:50-5:10-5:35-5:50-6:40-7:40-
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personally, because I was married
and living with my wife and son,
and the invitation should have
been sent to our home address. I
did not attend the ceremony.
They still live outside the
country, but their children — my
nephews and nieces — are
American citizens and live here.
They are grown and have kids of
their own. They greet me with
respect and call me uncle.
My sister and I never got close
again. I have yet to meet my
brother-in-law in person. They
are now alone in a foreign
country with no intention of
coming back. What steps can I
take to build a better relationship
with them?
— The Older Brother
Older Brother: When faced with
the prospect of welcoming a draft
Indiana Jones and the Dial of
Destiny (PG-13) 11:20-3:10-
AMC DINE-IN Rio Cinemas 18
9811 Washingtonian Center
5:50-9:30 Barbie (PG-13) CC: 4:15-7:15-
Sound of Freedom (PG-13) 10:15
10:55-2:20 Transformers: Rise Of The
Mission: Impossible - Dead Beasts (PG-13) CC: 10:00-1:10-
Reckoning Part One (PG-13) 4:10-7:10-10:15
12:40-6:50-8:15-10:30 Mission: Impossible - Dead
Oppenheimer 70mm (R) 10:40- Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
2:40-6:40-10:30 CC: 11:00-12:30-2:45-4:30-6:30-
Oppenheimer (R) OC: 6:10 8:15-10:15
Mission: Impossible - Dead The Flash (PG-13) CC: 10:45AM
Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
Spider-Man: Across the
OC: 4:30 Spider-Verse (PG) CC: 10:00-
1:15-4:30-7:40-10:30
MARYLAND Oppenheimer (R) CC: 12:00
AFI Silver Theatre No Hard Feelings (R) CC:
5:15-10:45
Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road The Little Mermaid (PG) CC:
2:00
Elemental (PG) CC: 11:00-1:30-
4:15-7:00-9:45
7:30
Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13)
Finding Fela (NR) 6:45 CC: 10:00-11:30-2:15-5:00-7:45-
Asteroid City (PG-13) 2:30-9:30 11:00
What Ever Happened to Baby Indiana Jones and the Dial of
Jane? (NR) 1:20
Destiny (PG-13) CC: 10:45-2:45-
Past Lives (PG-13) 12:15-4:35 6:15-10:00
Band of Outsiders (Bande à Experience (R) CC: 10:30-2:30-
part) (NR) 11:20-9:15 6:30-10:30
AMC Academy 8 Joy Ride (R) CC: 12:15
6198 Greenbelt Road Cobweb (2023-I) (R) CC:
3:00-4:45-7:45-9:00-11:15 Sound of Freedom (PG-13) CC:
Transformers: Rise Of The 10:15-12:45-3:50-7:10-10:15
Beasts (PG-13) CC: 4:10-10:10 Toy Story (1995) - Disney100
(G) 12:30-2:45-5:00-7:15-9:30
Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Barbie (PG-13) CC: 10:00-11:15-
CC: 10:10-1:20-4:30-7:20-10:40 12:15-12:45-2:15-2:45-3:45-
Spider-Man: Across the 5:15-5:45-6:15-6:45-8:15-8:45-
9:15-9:45
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Oppenheimer (R) CC: 11:00- 3:30-7:30-8:30
Barbie (PG-13) OC: 3:15
Elemental (PG) CC: 10:50-1:30-
AMC Loews
5:00-7:40 St. Charles Town Ctr. 9
Insidious: The Red Door
11115 Mall Circle
(PG-13) CC: 10:40-1:50-4:50- Barbie (PG-13) CC: 10:15-12:15-
12:45-1:15-3:15-4:15-6:15-7:15-
Sound of Freedom (PG-13) CC: 9:00-10:00
10:00-5:45 Mission: Impossible - Dead
AMC Annapolis Mall 11 Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
1020 Annapolis Mall Road CC: 10:30-2:15-6:00-9:30
Barbie (PG-13) CC: 9:00-3:50- Spider-Man: Across the
Spider-Verse (PG) CC: 11:45-
3:45-6:00-10:00
Mission: Impossible - Dead
Oppenheimer (R) CC: 10:30-
2:30-3:30-6:30-7:30-9:15
Elemental (PG) CC: 11:30-2:15-
Spider-Man: Across the Spi-
5:00-7:45-10:30
Oppenheimer (R) CC: 12:00-
6:30 CC: 10:15-1:00-3:20-7:00-10:30
No Hard Feelings (R) CC: 10:40 Indiana Jones and the Dial of
Elemental (PG) CC: 9:00-12:30- Destiny (PG-13) CC: 11:45-3:00-
4:15-6:50 6:30-9:45
Insidious: The Red Door AMC Magic Johnson
(PG-13) CC: 9:20-1:20-2:30- Capital Center 12
7:40-11:00 800 Shoppers Way
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Barbie (PG-13) CC: 11:00-12:00-
Destiny (PG-13) CC: 9:00-11:40- 1:00-1:45-2:45-3:45-4:30-6:30-
3:10-6:40-10:05 7:15-8:15-9:15-10:00
Sound of Freedom (PG-13) CC: Transformers: Rise Of The
10:00-1:00-4:00-7:00-9:45 Beasts (PG-13) CC: 3:30-6:45
Oppenheimer 70mm (R) 9:40- Mission: Impossible - Dead
1:30-5:30-9:30 Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
Barbie (PG-13) CC: 10:00- CC: 11:10-2:45-6:30-10:10
11:00-12:00-12:45-1:45-2:45- Spider-Man: Across the
3:30-4:30-5:30-6:20-7:20-8:15- Spider-Verse (PG) CC: 11:45-
9:10-9:40 3:00-6:15-9:45
Mission: Impossible - Dead Oppenheimer (R) CC: 11:30-
Reckoning Part One (PG-13) 1:45-5:00-9:00-9:45
10:40-2:20-6:10 Elemental (PG) CC: 11:00-1:45-
4:30-7:15-10:00
Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13)
CC: 11:45-2:30-5:10-8:00-10:45
AMC Center Park 8
Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D
4001 Powder Mill Rd.
Barbie (PG-13) CC: 10:15-11:30- Experience (R) CC: 12:15-
4:15-8:15
11:15
Mission: Impossible - Dead 10:00
Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Joy Ride (R) CC: 2:30
CC: 10:30-1:10-4:30-7:15-10:10 Sound of Freedom (PG-13) CC:
Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 11:15-12:45-4:00-7:15-10:30
Barbie (PG-13) OC: 5:30
Oppenheimer (R) CC: 10:45-
1:00-2:30-4:00-7:30-9:00-10:30
AMC Montgomery 16
Elemental (PG) CC: 10:20-1:30- 7101 Democracy Boulevard
4:10-6:15-10:30 Barbie (PG-13) CC: 10:00-11:30-
Insidious: The Red Door 12:15-1:45-2:30-3:15-4:00-
(PG-13) CC: 10:35-2:00-4:40- 4:45-5:30-7:00-7:45-8:30-9:15-
8:00-11:00 10:00-10:30
Indiana Jones and the Dial
Mission: Impossible - Dead
CC: 10:15-12:00-2:00-3:45-5:45-
AMC Columbia 14 7:30-9:30
Spider-Man: Across the
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway
Barbie (PG-13) CC: 4:00-9:45 Spider-Verse (PG) CC: 12:30-
3:45-7:15-10:15
Mission: Impossible - Dead
Oppenheimer (R) CC: 10:00-
Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
CC: 11:15-3:00-7:45-10:15 12:00-2:00-3:00-4:00-7:00-7:30-
8:30-10:30
Spider-Man: Across the
No Hard Feelings (R) CC:
Spider-Verse (PG) CC: 12:10-
3:30-7:00-10:15 11:00-1:00
The Little Mermaid (PG) CC:
Oppenheimer (R) CC: 12:00
11:45-1:00
The Little Mermaid (PG) CC:
Elemental (PG) CC: 10:45-1:45-
11:50-3:05
Elemental (PG) CC: 10:30-1:10- 4:30-7:15-10:00
3:50-6:40-9:20 Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13)
CC: 10:30-1:30-4:30-7:25-10:25
Insidious: The Red Door
(PG-13) CC: 11:10-2:00-4:45- Indiana Jones and the Dial of
Destiny (PG-13) CC: 11:30-2:55-
Indiana Jones and the Dial of 6:45-10:15
Destiny (PG-13) CC: 11:20-2:50- Joy Ride (R) CC: 10:30-4:15
Sound of Freedom (PG-13) CC:
12:05-3:15-6:00-9:15
Experience (R) CC: 10:30-2:30- Barbie (PG-13) OC: 6:15
6:30-10:30 Oppenheimer (R) OC: 6:30
Sound of Freedom (PG-13) CC: Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD
10:30-12:30-4:00-6:45-10:00 7000 Arundel Mills Circle
Barbie (PG-13) CC: 11:15-12:15- Barbie (PG-13) 10:30-
2:00-3:00-4:45-6:00-7:30-8:45- 1:20-4:10-7:00-9:50;
10:15
10:50-1:40-4:30-7:20-10:10;
Mission: Impossible - Dead 10:30-1:20-4:10-7:00-9:50; 9:05-
Reckoning Part One (PG-13) 9:45-10:10-11:10-11:30-11:55-
OC: 6:45 1:00-2:00-2:20-2:45-3:00-3:50-
5:30-7:40-9:30 8:05-8:25-8:45-9:30-10:30-10:55
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about scores on tests that she
took in school. When I asked my
son about it, he said, “It’s none of
your business.” This was the last
entitled to put boundaries on
“extra” guests. If others want a
different concept with an open-
door policy, they can arrange
dodger into the family (after you Dear Amy: My son married straw. their own dinner party.
have served), you are reacting to “Marian,” who made it clear that My husband has had it and is Many years ago, I was part of a
the far less serious matter of he was too close to his mom (me) done with them. I feel the same. similar group. Only the hosts
where your sister left a wedding and that this must stop. She But now they won’t let the (who provided the main course
invitation. wants no part of us except for children have contact with us. and theme) were at liberty to
But you know this is not just when she needs a babysitter. — Hurting invite extra guests. It’s
about an invitation, but about Despite her attitude toward us, unfortunate that you singled
events that shook your family and we have been very generous Hurting: Your son and his wife out this letter-writer for
removed your sister from your with them, because we adore have used you for years. And now judgment.
family’s life. Your sister’s husband our three grandchildren and that they have the house, the — Disappointed
chose to leave the country rather have a great relationship with extras and probably limited need
than serve in the military in a war them. for a babysitter, they are done Disappointed: This neighbor
that divided the country along We’ve paid for summer camp with you. seemed extremely rigid, but I take
justified matters of conscience. and all the extracurricular Of course they won’t let you see your point.
If you want to try to restore and activities for the children, along the kids! They’ve been using these
rebuild a relationship, you should with the down payment for their kids as leverage, and they don’t Amy’s column appears seven days a
reach out. A good way in might be house. However, we are not seem to care about the effects of week at washingtonpost.com/advice.
to let them know that you enjoy allowed to buy the grandchildren this loss on their own children. Write to askamy@amydickinson.com or
having a relationship with their gifts. I know I put up with too I’m very sorry. Amy Dickinson, P.O. Box 194, Freeville,
children and grandchildren, and much disrespect from both of N.Y. 13068.  You can also follow her
that this has motivated you to try them for many years, just to be Dear Amy: I disagree with your @askingamy.
to build a better relationship able to see the grandchildren. advice to “Fun Neighbor,” who
with their parents, before it is too Recently, our young planned progressive dinners. As © 2023 by Amy Dickinson. Distributed by
late. granddaughter seemed proud the primary organizer, she is Tribune Content Agency.
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3:55-7:15-10:40 Toy Story (1995) - Disney100 7:30-10:15 Cobweb (2023-I) (R) CC: 4:30- Elemental (PG) CC: 10:00-3:00- 8:10-10:55 Destiny (PG-13) 11:50-3:20-
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Elemental (PG) 9:15-10:00- 20000 Century Boulevard Destiny (PG-13) 11:40-3:20- Sound of Freedom (PG-13) CC: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Sound of Freedom (PG-13) 9:35- Barbie (PG-13) 10:45-11:10-
12:45-3:30-6:30-9:15 6:50-10:25 12:30-3:45-7:00-10:15 Destiny (PG-13) CC: 12:35-3:00- 12:45-3:55-7:05-10:15 12:10-12:40-1:10-1:40-2:10-
Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) Barbie (PG-13) 10:50-11:30- 6:45-9:30 Barbie (PG-13) 9:05-10:00-
12:10-12:50-1:30-2:00-2:30- Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D Oppenheimer 70mm (R) CC: 3:10-4:10-4:40-5:10-6:10-6:40-
9:10-10:55-1:45-4:45-7:35- Experience (R) 10:40-2:50-7:00 12:15-4:15-8:15 Sound of Freedom (PG-13) CC: 10:30-11:00-11:25-12:50-1:20- 7:10-7:40-8:10-9:10-10:15
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Mission: Impossible - Dead 6:10-7:10-8:10-8:40-9:10-10:10 Oppenheimer (R) CC: 1:30- Mission: Impossible - Dead 3:50-6:00-8:00-8:55-10:10; 5:00
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4:30-7:20-10:10 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Barbie (PG-13) 11:20-12:20-
der-Verse (PG) 11:50AM 1:40-2:20-3:20-5:30-6:40-8:00- Barbie (PG-13) 5:30-8:30 Jaws 2 (PG) 7:30 12:10-1:10-1:40-2:10-3:10-4:10- Barbie (PG-13) 10:30-11:10-
Transformers: Rise Of The 12:10-1:00-1:40-3:10-4:10-
Oppenheimer (R) 11:40-2:50- 8:40-9:40 Oppenheimer (R) 5:30 Barbie (PG-13) 2:15-3:15- 4:40-5:10-6:10-7:10-7:40-8:10-
Beasts (PG-13) 10:40-1:50
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Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) Mission: Impossible - Dead 7:30-10:15 The Secret Life of Pets 2 (PG) 11:00-1:30-2:40-5:20-6:30- Hank (PG) 11:00AM
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3:20-6:30 4:30-7:10 Barbie (PG-13) 3:50 2:50-7:00-10:00 Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
Hidimbha 3:55-10:25 Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
Oppenheimer (R) OC: 7:30 Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) CC: 10:40-12:10-2:20-3:45-6:00- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Elemental (PG) 12:00-3:00- 11:30-12:20-2:50-3:30-6:40-
Annapurna Photo Studio 9:20- Destiny (PG-13) 1:15 6:20-9:20 7:20-10:30-10:50
12:35-7:10 Regal Hyattsville Royale 5:20-8:10-9:50 7:20-9:30-11:00
Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13)
Toy Story (1995) - Disney100 6505 America Blvd. Indiana Jones and the Dial of The Flash (PG-13) CC: 10:10AM Barbie (PG-13) 12:40 Spider-Man: Across the
Destiny (PG-13) 11:40-3:30-7:20 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Man: Across the 4:50-7:50-10:30 Spider-Verse (PG) 2:45
(G) 9:30-11:50-2:10-4:30-6:50 Barbie (PG-13) 11:20-11:50- Spider-Verse (PG) 12:00 Indiana Jones and the Dial of
12:20-12:50-2:50-3:20-3:50- Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D Spider-Verse (PG) CC: 10:10- Oppenheimer (R) 11:40-1:50-
Cinépolis Gaithersburg Experience (R) 11:30-3:30-7:40 1:20-4:40-7:50-11:00 Mission: Impossible - Dead Destiny (PG-13) 11:40-3:30- 6:00-8:00-10:10
629 Center Point Way 5:50-6:20-6:50-8:50-9:20-9:50- 6:50-10:20
10:20 Sound of Freedom (PG-13) 4:50 Oppenheimer (R) CC: 3:30 Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Elemental (PG) 12:00-3:00-
Barbie (PG-13) 11:00-11:40- 3:45-7:45-9:00 Oppenheimer (R) OC: 6:00
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Mission: Impossible - Dead No Hard Feelings (R) CC: 5:50-8:40
12:40-2:00-3:00-4:00-5:00-6:20- Hank (PG) 10:00AM Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Oppenheimer (R) 3:00-5:30
2:40-5:20 Regal Dulles Town Center Indiana Jones and the Dial of
7:20-8:00 12:10-3:50-7:50 The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: Angelika Film Center Mosaic 21100 Dulles Town Circle Destiny (PG-13) 10:50-2:30-
Sing 2 (PG) 10:00AM
Mission: Impossible - Dead Mission: Impossible - Dead Oppenheimer (R) OC: 4:10 11:30-2:50-6:20-9:40 2911 District Ave Barbie (PG-13) 12:15-1:15-2:15- 6:20-10:00
Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Xscape Theatres Elemental (PG) CC: 10:30-1:15- Mission: Impossible - Dead 3:15-4:15-5:15-6:15-6:45-7:15- Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D
12:00-2:40-3:40-7:00-9:00 11:00-12:50-2:40-4:30-6:30- Brandywine 14 4:00-6:40-9:20 Reckoning Part One (PG-13) 8:15-9:15-9:45-10:15 Experience (R) 10:40-2:40-
Oppenheimer (R) 12:20-1:40-
8:30-10:10 7710 Matapeake Business Drive Indiana Jones and the Dial of 12:40-4:15-7:45 Mission: Impossible - Dead 6:50-10:50
4:40-6:00-9:00
Spider-Man: Across the Friday the 13th (1980) (R) 1:00- Destiny (PG-13) CC: 12:45-4:10- Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Sound of Freedom (PG-13)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Spider-Verse (PG) 12:10-4:00- 4:00-7:00 7:40-11:00 der-Verse (PG) 10:45-4:25 11:30-3:05-5:30-9:00 4:00
Destiny (PG-13) 1:40-3:20-8:40 7:10-10:15 Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) Spider-Man: Across the
The Croods: A New Age (PG) Asteroid City (PG-13) 1:55- Barbie (PG-13) OC: 2:10-8:05
Sound of Freedom (PG-13) Oppenheimer (R) 11:30-12:30- CC: 11:20-2:00-4:40-7:15-10:00 7:40 Spider-Verse (PG) 2:25
11:20-5:20-7:40
9:30AM Mission: Impossible - Dead
3:30-8:00-9:00 Barbie (PG-13) 11:00-1:00-1:40- Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D Indiana Jones and the Dial of Oppenheimer (R) 10:45-1:05- Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
Landmark Elemental (PG) 11:40-2:30-5:10- 2:20-3:40-4:20-5:00-6:20-7:00- Experience (R) CC: 10:30-2:30- Destiny (PG-13) 10:20-1:30- 2:45-5:30-7:00-9:30 OC: 8:20
Bethesda Row Cinema 7:50-10:30 7:40-9:00-9:50-10:20 6:30-10:30 4:55-8:15 Elemental (PG) 12:00-2:55- Oppenheimer (R) OC: 3:50
7235 Woodmont Avenue Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) Mission: Impossible - Dead Joy Ride (R) CC: 10:20AM Barbie (PG-13) OC: 12:40 5:45-8:30
Sound of Freedom (PG-13)
Barbie (PG-13) 11:15-12:00- 12:40-3:15-6:00-9:30 Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Cobweb (2023-I) (R) CC: 10:15 The Miracle Club (PG-13) Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) 11:20-7:30-11:00
12:30-1:45-3:00-4:15-5:00-5:30- Indiana Jones and the Dial of 11:40-2:30-3:10-6:10-6:50- Sound of Freedom (PG-13) CC: 10:10-6:00 2:00-5:00-7:45-10:30
Barbie (PG-13) 5:10
7:00-8:00-8:45 Destiny (PG-13) 11:10-3:00- 10:00-10:30 10:10-1:15-4:20-7:40-10:50 Theater Camp (PG-13) 10:30- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Mission: Impossible - Dead
Mission: Impossible - Dead 6:40-10:00 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Oppenheimer 70mm (R) 12:15- 12:45-3:00-5:15-7:30 Destiny (PG-13) 10:55-2:35-
Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Sound of Freedom (PG-13) der-Verse (PG) 3:15-6:25-9:25 4:15-8:15 Barbie (PG-13) 10:00-11:45- 6:30-9:55
4:20
12:05-3:20-6:30 2:20-7:00-7:20 Oppenheimer (R) 11:20-3:20- Toy Story (1995) - Disney100 2:15-3:25-4:45-5:45-7:15-8:30 Sound of Freedom (PG-13)
Oppenheimer (R) 11:30-2:00- Oppenheimer (R) OC: 4:40 7:20 (G) 12:00-2:15-4:30-6:45-9:00 Oppenheimer (R) 10:15-11:30- 11:05AM Regal Springfield Town Center
3:45-7:30 Barbie (PG-13) OC: 11:15AM 6859 Springfield Mall
Regal Laurel Towne Centre The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:25- Barbie (PG-13) CC: 10:45-11:45- 2:00-3:15-7:00-8:15
Asteroid City (PG-13) 12:45-7:45 3:35-6:35-9:35 12:30-1:30-2:45-3:30-4:15-5:45- Regal Fairfax Towne Center Barbie (PG-13) 10:10-12:10-
14716 Baltimore Avenue CMX Village 14
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Barbie (PG-13) 11:00-11:30- Elemental (PG) 10:25-1:05-3:45- 7:00-9:00-9:45 4110 West Ox Road 1:10-2:10-2:40-3:10-3:40-4:10-
1600 Village Market Boulevard
Destiny (PG-13) 12:30-3:35-6:45 12:10-1:10-2:10-3:10-4:10-5:20- 6:35-9:15 Oppenheimer (R) CC: 1:30- Barbie (PG-13) 12:10-1:20-2:20- 5:10-6:10-6:40-7:10-8:10-8:50-
Barbie (PG-13) 11:30-5:50
The Miracle Club (PG-13) 6:10-6:30-7:10-8:15-9:10-10:00 Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) 5:30-7:45 3:30-4:10-5:10-6:20-7:10-7:30- 9:10-9:50-10:10-11:00
3:15-6:30 Mission: Impossible - Dead 11:30-2:00-4:50-7:30-10:40 Cobweb (2023-I) (R) OC: 8:00 Mission: Impossible - Dead 8:00-9:10-10:00-10:30 Mission: Impossible - Dead
Theater Camp (PG-13) 12:00- Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Barbie (PG-13) OC: 6:15 Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
Sound of Freedom (PG-13) 11:05-12:25-2:15-2:50-4:10- Paws of Fury: The Legend of Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
2:45-5:30-7:20 11:50-1:10-4:10-7:10-10:10 Oppenheimer (R) OC: 9:30 10:30-11:30-12:00-2:20-3:20-
11:50-12:50-3:30-4:30-8:30- 6:35-7:45-8:45 Hank (PG) 11:30AM
Landmark at 10:00 Oppenheimer PLF (R) 2:10- Barbie (PG-13) 8:45 The Little Mermaid (PG) Sing 2 (PG) 11:30AM 6:00-7:00-10:00-10:40
6:00-9:40 Spider-Man: Across the Spi-
Annapolis Harbour Center Spider-Man: Across the Spi- AMC Shirlington 7 12:00-3:00 Mission: Impossible - Dead
2474 Solomons Island Road Unit H-1 der-Verse (PG) 10:50AM
der-Verse (PG) 1:30-4:45-8:00 iPic Pike & Rose 2772 South Randolph St. Oppenheimer (R) 11:20-12:35- Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
Top Gun (1986) (PG) 1:30- Oppenheimer (R) 11:45-12:40- 11830 Grand Park Avenue Barbie (PG-13) CC: 9:50-11:10- 1:30-3:10-4:35-5:20-7:00-8:30- 1:40-3:50-5:30-7:00-10:20 Oppenheimer (R) 10:40-11:40-
2:30-3:30-6:20-8:00-10:10
4:30-7:30 3:45-5:00-7:40-9:00 Barbie (PG-13) (!) 2:45-3:15- 11:45-2:00-2:30-4:45-5:20-6:50- 9:10 Oppenheimer (R) 11:50-1:50-
Mission: Impossible - Dead Elemental (PG) 12:10-3:10- 3:30-6:15-6:45-7:00-9:45-10:15- 7:30-8:10-10:15-11:00 Elemental (PG) 11:40-2:25- 3:40-7:40-9:20-9:50 Elemental (PG) 10:00-12:50-
Reckoning Part One (PG-13) 6:00-8:45 10:30 Mission: Impossible - Dead 5:00-7:40 The Little Mermaid (PG) 2:30 3:50-6:50-9:40
12:40-4:00-7:20 Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Elemental (PG) 1:10-4:00- Insidious: The Red Door (PG-
Barbie (PG-13) 12:15-12:45- 1:00-3:45-6:45-9:30 Reckoning Part One (PG-13) CC: 11:30-12:35-3:20-7:00-10:30 Destiny (PG-13) 12:20-3:45- 6:40-9:30 13) 10:20-1:30-4:30-7:30-10:30
1:40-2:10-3:00-4:15-5:15-6:00- Indiana Jones and the Dial of 2:15-3:00-6:30-7:15-10:30-10:45 Oppenheimer (R) CC: 11:40- 7:10 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Indiana Jones and the Dial of
7:10-7:45 Destiny (PG-13) 12:30-4:00-7:50 Oppenheimer (R) (!) 2:30-3:30- 3:30-7:20-9:40-10:30 Sound of Freedom (PG-13) Destiny (PG-13) 12:00-3:00- Destiny (PG-13) 11:10-3:00-
Oppenheimer (R) 1:30-3:15- Sound of Freedom (PG-13) 6:30-10:10
6:00-7:45-10:15 Elemental (PG) CC: 9:35-11:45- 12:10-3:20-6:05-7:20-9:20 7:20-10:50
5:30-7:00 2:50-7:30 Elemental (PG) 2:45 2:30-5:10-7:50-11:05 Barbie (PG-13) 11:10-11:30- Sound of Freedom (PG-13) Sound of Freedom (PG-13)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of 12:20
Regal Rockville Center Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) Asteroid City (PG-13) CC: 4:10 11:50-12:45-1:10-2:00-2:40- 11:20-5:30
Destiny (PG-13) 1:00-4:20-7:30 199 East Montgomery Avenue 7:30-11:15 Indiana Jones and the Dial of 3:30-4:00-4:45-5:30-5:50-6:15- Oppenheimer (R) OC: 6:00
Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
Sound of Freedom (PG-13) Barbie (PG-13) 11:45-12:30- Destiny (PG-13) CC: 12:10-3:40- 6:45-7:30-8:15-9:00-9:30 Regal Fox & IMAX 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
1:10-4:05-7:05 1:10-1:50-2:30-4:00-4:40-5:20- VIRGINIA 7:10-10:35 Cinema Arts Theatre 22875 Brambleton Plaza Barbie (PG-13) 3:40
Old Greenbelt Theatre 7:00-7:40-8:20-9:20-10:00 AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 AMC Tysons Corner 16 9650 Unit 14 Main St. Barbie (PG-13) 9:50-12:10- Paws of Fury: The Legend of
129 Centerway Mission: Impossible - Dead
2150 Clarendon Blvd. Barbie (PG-13) 9:40-1:15-3:30-
7850e Tysons Corner Center 12:55-3:10-6:10-9:10 Hank (PG) 10:30AM
Barbie (PG-13) 6:30 Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Barbie (PG-13) CC: 9:20-9:50- Barbie (PG-13) CC: 4:00-7:00- 7:10-9:25 Paws of Fury: The Legend of
11:55-2:00-3:30-5:40-7:20-9:30 Sing 2 (PG) 10:30AM
Oppenheimer (R) 6:00 10:35-11:50-1:20-2:30-4:10- 9:50 Mission: Impossible - Dead Hank (PG) 10:30AM
Spider-Man: Across the Mission: Impossible - Dead
Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6 5:15-6:30-7:20-8:00-10:05- Transformers: Rise Of The Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Sing 2 (PG) 10:00AM Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
3899 Branch Avenue
Spider-Verse (PG) 11:30-2:40- 10:45-11:10 Beasts (PG-13) CC: 9:25-2:55- 9:50-4:10-7:20-10:20 Mission: Impossible - Dead
6:10-9:40 11:00-12:50-3:00-6:50-10:30
9:35 Oppenheimer (R) 9:45-12:05- Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
Barbie (PG-13) 12:00-2:35-5:15- Oppenheimer (R) 12:10-12:50- Mission: Impossible - Dead
3:35-6:00-9:25 Spider-Man: Across the Spi-
8:00-10:30 Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Mission: Impossible - Dead 10:30-2:15-6:20-10:00 der-Verse (PG) 10:25AM
4:10-4:50-8:30-8:50 CC: 12:35-3:45-7:30-10:05 Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Asteroid City (PG-13) 2:30- Spider-Man: Across the Spi-
Transformers: Rise Of The Oppenheimer (R) 10:40-7:00-
Elemental (PG) 12:10-3:00- Spider-Man: Across the Spi- CC: 11:30-1:15-3:10-4:55-7:05- 5:00-9:45 der-Verse (PG) 10:20AM
Beasts (PG-13) 11:00-1:45-4:30- 5:50-8:40 11:00
7:15-10:05 der-Verse (PG) CC: 11:10AM 8:30-10:40 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Oppenheimer (R) 9:40-12:00-
Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) Destiny (PG-13) 12:45-3:45- Elemental (PG) 11:30-3:30-
Mission: Impossible - Dead Oppenheimer (R) CC: 10:45- Spider-Man: Across the 1:50-4:20-6:00-8:30-10:10
12:40-3:40-6:30-9:55 Spider-Verse (PG) CC: 9:55- 7:00-10:00 Elemental (PG) 1:30-4:15-7:30- 5:30-8:15
Reckoning Part One (PG-13) 12:00-2:35-3:50-7:00-9:20
Indiana Jones and the Dial of 1:10-4:25-7:40 The Miracle Club (PG-13) 10:30 Insidious: The Red Door (PG-
2:00-5:30-9:00 Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) 13) 10:35
Destiny (PG-13) 11:40-3:10-6:40 CC: 9:15-2:20-5:00-7:35-10:20 Oppenheimer (R) CC: 11:15AM 10:00-12:00-2:00-4:00-6:10- Indiana Jones and the Dial of
Spider-Man: Across the Sound of Freedom (PG-13) Indiana Jones and the Dial of
Spider-Verse (PG) 12:05-3:00- 2:20-6:00-9:10 Indiana Jones and the Dial of No Hard Feelings (R) CC: 10:55 8:00-9:55 Destiny (PG-13) 11:40-3:30-
Destiny (PG-13) CC: 9:00-12:20- The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: Past Lives (PG-13) 9:40-12:05- 7:05-10:45 Destiny (PG-13) 11:50-3:20-
6:00-9:05
Regal UA Snowden Square 4:05-7:40-10:50 10:10AM 7:30 Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D 7:20-10:55
Oppenheimer (R) 11:00-2:45-
9161 Commerce Center Drive Sound of Freedom (PG-13) CC: Elemental (PG) CC: 9:10-1:25- Cinemark Centreville 12 Experience (R) 10:40-2:50- Sound of Freedom (PG-13)
6:25-10:00
9:45-12:50-3:55-7:00-11:00 4:20-7:10-9:55 7:00-11:10 1:00-4:20-7:30-10:40
Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) Barbie (PG-13) 12:40-1:00- 6201 Multiplex Drive
11:45-2:15-4:45-7:15-9:45 2:10-3:40-3:50-4:10-5:10-6:10- Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) Barbie (PG-13) 9:00-9:10-9:50- Cobweb (2023-I) (R) 4:00- Oppenheimer (R) 11:40-1:50-
AMC Hoffman Center 22 3:50-6:00-8:00-10:10
6:40-7:10 206 Swamp Fox Rd. CC: 9:00-11:50-2:35-5:20-8:05- 10:30-10:50-11:20-11:55-12:40- 6:40-9:20
Regal Cinemas Majestic 10:45 Sound of Freedom (PG-13) Barbie (PG-13) 11:10-12:10-
Stadium 20 & IMAX Paws of Fury: The Legend of Barbie (PG-13) CC: 12:30-3:30- 1:20-1:40-2:10-2:50-3:30-4:10-
Hank (PG) 12:40 Indiana Jones and the Dial of 4:30-5:00-5:40-6:20-7:00-7:50- 2:45-6:05 12:40-1:10-1:40-2:10-2:40-
900 Ellsworth Drive 10:30 Ajmer 92 2:20-5:20-8:30 3:10-4:10-4:40-5:10-5:40-
Sing 2 (PG) 12:40 Destiny (PG-13) CC: 9:40-12:20- 8:30-9:10-9:50-10:45
Barbie (PG-13) 10:00-10:30- Transformers: Rise Of The 3:55-7:25-11:00 Hidimbha 12:20-3:40-6:50- 6:10-6:40-7:10-7:40-8:10-
Mission: Impossible - Dead
11:00-11:30-12:00-12:25-12:45- Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Beasts (PG-13) CC: 12:30- Mission: Impossible - Dead
Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D Reckoning Part One (PG-13) 10:10 8:40-9:10-9:40-10:10-10:50
1:25-1:55-2:20-2:50-3:20- 3:45-7:00 Mission: Impossible - Dead
12:50-4:30-8:00 Experience (R) CC: 10:30-2:30- 10:15-12:10-1:55-3:50-5:35- Smithsonian -
3:50-4:20-4:50-5:15-5:45-6:15- Mission: Impossible - Dead 6:30-10:30 Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
6:45-7:15-7:40-8:10-8:40-9:10; Oppenheimer (R) 1:10-1:50- Reckoning Part One (PG-13) 7:30-9:15 Airbus IMAX Theater
Joy Ride (R) CC: 9:30-12:10 11:30-3:20-7:15
2:50-5:20-6:00-7:00 Oppenheimer (R) 9:10-10:40-
9:35-10:05-10:30 CC: 11:30-12:45-2:15-3:15-4:30-
Sound of Freedom (PG-13) CC: 12:00-1:15-2:40-4:00-5:20-6:40- Baby (Telugu) 9:30
14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Mission: Impossible - Dead Elemental (PG) 1:00-4:00-6:50 6:00-7:00-9:45-10:45 Flight of the Butterflies (G)
Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) The Flash (PG-13) CC: 11:00- 9:45-12:55-4:05-7:20-10:35 8:00-9:20-10:05 Elemental (PG) 10:00AM 2:00
Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Barbie (PG-13) 10:10-11:10-
5:00-7:40 Toy Story (1995) - Disney100 Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13)
11:20-12:20-1:20-3:05-4:05- 5:00
(G) 9:20-11:25-1:30-3:40-6:05- 9:05-7:20-10:40 1:10-1:40-2:10-4:10-4:30-5:10-
Journey to Space (NR) 10:20-
5:05-6:50-7:50-8:50-10:30 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Spider-Man: Across the 2:55-4:55
Destiny (PG-13) 1:30-5:10 8:10-10:25 Indiana Jones and the Dial of 7:10-8:10-10:10-11:10
Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Spider-Verse (PG) CC: 12:30-
Barbie (PG-13) CC: 9:15-10:00- Destiny (PG-13) 9:15-11:50- Mission: Impossible - Dead Aircraft Carrier: Guardian of
der-Verse (PG) 10:00AM Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 4:00-7:30-11:00 the Seas 12:25-4:15
10:45-12:05-1:00-1:45-3:00- Reckoning Part One (PG-13)
Oppenheimer (R) 10:40-11:40- (PG) 2:20 Oppenheimer (R) CC: 6:30 3:20-6:50-10:20
4:30-5:00-6:00-7:30-7:55-8:55- Sound of Freedom (PG-13) 9:00- 12:45-4:30-8:20 To Fly! (1976) (NR) 10:55-3:35
12:40-2:50-3:50-4:50-8:00-9:00 Sound of Freedom (PG-13) 5:50 No Hard Feelings (R) CC: 10:20 Blue Planet (Il pianeta azzurro)
The Little Mermaid (PG) 10:05- Mission: Impossible - Dead 12:30-6:00 12:45-3:55-7:10-10:25 Regal Kingstowne & RPX
Reckoning Part One (PG-13) Oppenheimer (R) CC: 9:05- (NR) 11:30AM
1:10-4:15-7:25 The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: Cinemark 5910 Kingstowne Towne Center
1:05-9:00 The Dream is Alive (NR) 1:05
Elemental (PG) 10:20-1:05-4:10- 1:50-2:40-6:20 12:45-4:00-7:15-10:30
Oppenheimer 70mm (R) 12:00-
Fairfax Corner and XD Barbie (PG-13) 3:40-10:45
7:00-9:55 Regal Waugh Chapel & IMAX Elemental (PG) CC: 11:45-2:30- 11900 Palace Way Paws of Fury: The Legend of University Mall Theatres
1419 South Main Chapel Way 4:00-8:00 Barbie (PG-13) XD: 9:30-12:20- Hank (PG) 10:00AM 10659-A Braddock Road
Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) 5:15-8:00-10:45
Insidious: The Red Door (PG-13) Barbie (PG-13) OC: 10:50 3:10-6:00-8:50 Sing 2 (PG) 10:00AM Barbie (PG-13) CC; DVS: 12:20-
10:35-1:25-4:25-7:05-9:50 Paws of Fury: The Legend of
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Hank (PG) 10:00AM CC: 11:30-2:15-5:00-7:45-10:30 Oppenheimer (R) OC: 5:05 Oppenheimer (R) XD: 10:45- Mission: Impossible - Dead 2:40-5:00-7:30-9:45
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH
♠ Q5
♥ K64
♦ AQJ3
♣ J753
WEST EAST
♠ 743 ♠ 962
♥ Q J 10 8 5 3 ♥ A92
♦ 2 ♦ 10 8 7 4 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ K92 ♣ A86
SOUTH (D)
♠ A K J 10 8
♥ 7
♦ K965
♣ Q 10 4

The bidding:
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1 ♠ Pass 2 NT Pass
3 ♦ Pass 4 ♦ Pass
4 ♠ All Pass
Opening lead — ♥ Q CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE LESTER
MIKE DU JOUR

T he player we call
“Secondhand Rose”
showed up at my club today.
When the lesson about “sec-
ond hand low” on defense
was taught, Rose must have
been out with Jiggs the
plumber.
Rose was East. South’s
bid of four spades suggested
a strong five-card suit, and
North rightly passed. RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
West led the queen of
hearts and continued. South
ruffed and had only nine
top tricks; he needed a club
trick. If he drew trumps, leav-
ing him with one at most,
and led a club, the defense
would force with a third heart
lead, and South might never
score a club trick.
So South led a trump
to dummy (not best) and
returned a club ... and LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
Secondhand Rose ... with
the ace! Rose then led the
ace of hearts. South ruffed,
drew trumps and ran the
diamonds, but West won the
last two tricks with the king
of clubs and a heart.
South succeeds if Rose
ducks the first club. West
takes the king and forces
with a heart, but South
draws trumps, runs the HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
BALDO
diamonds and leads a club.
Rose must concede Trick 13
to South.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠Q5♥K64
♦AQJ3♣J753
Both sides vulnerable. The
dealer, at your right, opens
one spade. What do you say?
ANSWER: I know experts
(and many brave souls below
the expert level) who would BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
unhesitatingly double. Still,
the hand has only three-card
support for the other major
and minimum high-card
strength including a queen
of spades that may be worth-
less for offense. I would pass.
I would double with 4 2, K Q
4, A Q J 3, J 7 5 3.
— Frank Stewart
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HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | JULY 25
You are idealistic and
have a keen sense
of purpose. You have
strong personal
integrity, and you expect
the same of others. This is
the perfect year to have fun,
socialize and let your hair
down! Nurture the happiness
and beauty that you have
within yourself. Old friends
might reappear.
HEART OF THE CITY STEENZ JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY
Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or
making important decisions
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today.
After that, the Moon moves
from Libra into Scorpio.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Grab every opportunity to
play and be creative today.
Enjoy sports events and fun
activities with kids. However,
avoid intense disputes with
partners and close friends this
morning. Let sleeping dogs lie.
TAURUS
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL (APRIL 20-MAY 20).
Family discussions are
important, including home
repairs. Be patient with co-
workers and issues related
to a pet this morning. Later
in the day, rational, practical
discussions with partners and
close friends will seal the deal.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Parents need to be patient
with their kids this morning.
Likewise, romantic partners
should be patient with each
other, because intense
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK confrontations are likely.
Later in the day, it’s easy to
be productive and practical
at work.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Be patient with family
members this morning.
Problems at home are a tough
way to start your day. Later
in the day, you might hone
a particular skill in the arts,
music or sports. Whatever
you’re doing, you will be
focused and disciplined.
LEO
DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK (JULY 23-AUG. 22).
Resist the urge to win an
argument this morning. In the
long run, it doesn’t matter.
Keeping the peace is more
important. Later in the day,
family solutions, perhaps due
to the advice of someone
older or more experienced, will
come in handy. Be grateful.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
Money squabbles are likely
this morning. Keep in mind
that with fiery Mars in your
sign, you might come on
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK too strong when talking to
others. Later in the day,
research, learning and serious
discussions will yield some
practical information.
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
With the Moon in your
sign, it’s easy for you to be
overly emotional. This might
happen this morning through
confrontations with others.
Later in the day, financial
discussions and work will yield
positive, practical results.
SCORPIO
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT (OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
You might be upset by
something this morning. It
might even be a feeling that
sets you off. Pay no attention.
It will be gone by the time the
Moon enters your sign. After
that, you will have the patience
to deal with anything.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Avoid squabbles with a friend
or a member of a group;
they’re just not worth it. Why
get on the wrong side of
someone when later none of
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK this really matters?
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
Steer clear of difficulties with
parents, bosses, teachers
and the police this morning.
(Admittedly, it’s hard to keep
your shirt on when you have to
get something off your chest.)
Nevertheless, keep your cool.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Avoid controversial subjects
this morning, because these
disputes will make you
unhappy. Later in the day,
BEETLE BAILEY GREG, BRIAN & NEAL WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS discussions with authority
figures will yield positive
advice and send you in the
right direction.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
Squabbles about shared
property, taxes and debt will
be unpleasant this morning.
Avoid these. Later in the
day, plans for travel or future
education will excite you.
— Georgia Nicols
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pHotos By HannaH Beier for tHe WasHington post

abOVE: From left, Linda mcLeary, Shayla robinson, myzah Smith, Felicia Frazier, Shana Williams and roberta
Williams, before a screening of “barbie” in Philadelphia. riGHT: Josh Crump and his daughter, Ellie, after a
“barbie” screening in Somerdale, N.J.

Where ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ intersect

barbENHEimEr from C1
in $162 million, which is the
largest domestic opening to date
this year as well as the largest
domestic opening for a solo fe-
male director ever. Christopher
Nolan’s “oppenheimer,” mean-
while, raked in $82.4 million,
making this the first weekend in
Hollywood history for two films
to open over $100 million and
$50 million at the same time.
“Barbie” mania drove much of
that success: fans across the
country showed up to screenings
in full costume, turning ordinary
cineplexes into seas of pink, pink
and more pink.
Josh Crump attended “Barbie”
with his 4-year-old daughter, El-
lie, at the Cinemark Somerdale 16
in Somerdale, N.J. “There were
parts in there that were for par-
ents and for kids,” Crump, who is
a high school culinary teacher,
told The Washington Post. He
and Ellie play with Barbies daily.
“She loved it. She’s ready to go
see it again. . . .I think that [the
‘Barbie’ movie] had a great mes-
sage in it. We will probably watch
it a couple of times as she grows
up, too.”
mother and daughter Jane
Williams, 53, and Angel Wil-
liams, 20, of the Port richmond
neighborhood of Philadelphia,
coordinated their outfits for their
Saturday screening at Land-
mark’s ritz five. “We had to get
matching Barbie outfits, because
she has about 50 Barbie dolls,”
Jane told The Post.
But plenty of those dressed for
the Dreamhouse found their way
to “oppenheimer” showings, too.
According to the National Associ-
ation of Theatre owners, more
than 200,000 U.S. moviegoers
bought tickets to see “Barbie” and
“oppenheimer” on the same day
this weekend.
Even Quentin Tarantino was
among them. Variety reports that
the director first saw “oppen-
heimer” at the Westwood Village
theater in Los Angeles, then
walked across the street to the
regency Bruin to buy tickets to
“Barbie.” (The theater choice pro-
vided some subtle promotion for
Tarantino’s own work: “Barbie”
star margot robbie shot a memo-
rable scene in the Bruin for “once
Upon a Time … In Hollywood.”)
There is no hard data available
on the order in which Barben-
heimer fans saw the films, but
Tarantino seems to have followed
the consensus plan: an “oppen-
heimer” shot with a “Barbie”
chaser.
At the London premiere of
“Barbie,” star Issa rae told the
Associated Press this is the view-
ing order that makes the most
sense. “If you see ‘oppenheimer’
last then you might be a bit of a
psychopath,” she joked.
But a mother-daughter pair
who braved Barbenheimer in
Winston-Salem, N.C., on Thurs-
day evening recommended see-
ing the films the other way
around: “Barbie” first, then “op-
penheimer.” Jane Kane, 57, and
mary Carolyn Kane, 21, caught a
5:30 p.m. “Barbie” showing fol-
lowed by “oppenheimer” at 8:45
p.m. and told The Post that they
could not have imagined doing it
otherwise.
“‘oppenheimer’ is so long and
dense and mentally taxing to
watch that after it, you don’t
want to watch a ‘palate cleanser.’
You want to leave the movie
theater and process for a little
while,” the younger Kane said.
Her mother concurred: “I don’t
think I would have laughed as
robustly during the ‘Barbie’ mov-
ie if I had seen ‘oppenheimer’
first.”
Julia Brukx, a 21-year-old from
Northern Virginia, had so much
excitement for the double feature
that she took to her sewing ma-
chine. She stitched part of the
phrase J. robert oppenheimer
has said ran through his mind
during the atomic bomb testing
— “DESTroYEr of WorLDS”
— in Barbie-pink fabric onto a
T-shirt for the occasion.
Brukx saw “oppenheimer”
first, then “Barbie,” with a dinner
break in between to decompress
and discuss the first film. But
“Barbie” was surprisingly emo-
tional for Brukx, too: “It left me a
sobbing mess walking out of the
theater,” she said. (Those poi-
gnant mother-daughter scenes
will get you.)
Brukx was one of many movie-
goers who dressed up for this
five-hour expenditure of emo-
tional energy: fans across the
country have posted photos of
their Barbenheimer outfits on
social media, including one Twit-
ter user who went viral after
creating a custom two-in-one
look to seamlessly transition
from Los Alamos, N.m., to Bar-
bieland. (The user, who goes by
Danielle on social media, tweeted
that her look, which flipped from
black to pink, was “heavily in-
spired” by “ruPaul’s Drag race”
star Violet Chachki, who debuted
a similar outfit on the show. “I
wanted to create a fun campy two
in one look,” she wrote.)
Several moviegoers told The
Post that Barbenheimer simply
provided an opportunity to
spend a whole day with family
and friends, and for that, it was
worth it. Ismail, who planned the
double screening for her hus-
band’s birthday, said her whole
group enjoyed both films and
stayed engaged throughout the
marathon day. But she did per-
sonally cop to closing her eyes for
10 minutes during “oppenheim-
er.”
“When I woke up, I didn’t feel
like I missed much,” she said.

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SPORTS tuesday, july 25 , 2023 m2 D

Robertha
can return,
but Fountas
remains out
D.C. United forward
has not been reinstated
following altercation

BY T HOMAS F LOYD

Major League soccer on Mon-

day gave D.C. United forward
nigel Robertha permission to re-
sume team activities but did not
reinstate teammate Taxi Fountas,
three days after both were placed
on administrative leave following
what people familiar with the
situation described as a locker
room confrontation.
The league and United an-
nounced late Friday night that
Robertha and Fountas had been
placed on leave as MLs investi-
gated “possible violations of
league policy.” Though the league
did not provide further details,
four people familiar with the
situation told The Washington
Post that the investigation
stemmed from an altercation be-
tween the players following Unit-
ed’s 4-0 loss to the new England
Revolution on July 15 at Gillette
stadium in Foxborough, Mass.
According to two people, who
hannah mckay/reuters spoke on the condition of ano-
“Aussies love their sport, don’t they?” said Australian soccer star Sam Kerr, who missed her squad’s first game — a victory over Ireland — because of a calf injury. nymity because the probe was
ongoing, the incident occurred
when Fountas grew frustrated

A warm winter welcome

with Robertha’s second-half per-
formance. They exchanged words
on the field, and the issue escalat-
ed in the locker room. One person
said Robertha struck Fountas
with a foam roller used for
stretching. Fountas then berated
his teammate with expletives,
The World Cup feels appreciated and right at home in Australia, the globe’s most sports-mad country two people said.
Robertha, who is Black, ac-
cused Fountas, who is White, of
BY C HUCK C ULPEPPER using a racial slur, two people
said.
SYDNEY — Hop a mere 14-hour flight from Los Angeles to here in July, returned a global sporting event to its sports-fondest, sports-maddest A United spokesman said the
and it’s as if the sun has decided to renege. Where it toiled past 8 p.m. country. It calls to mind the words of a pundit in 2010 after Qatar got team had no additional comment
back up and over there, it knocks off at just after 5 down here, even in a the 2022 men’s World Cup over the United states, south Korea, Japan on the matter. An MLs official did
land it legendarily adores. All of a sudden the physiology must grapple and Australia, whereupon the pundit said, “Any vote for a sporting not immediately respond to a
with the weaker winter light, even if pleasant days in the high 60s make event in which Australia gets only one vote is automatically rigged.” request for comment.
it more “winter” than winter. The women’s World Cup feels right and well-done and appreciated and Robertha, a reserve forward
Life can seem a notch slower than peak in the great metropolis, even in a proper setting because of course it would, even if it can’t hog the from the netherlands who re-
if not in the case of the Australian white ibis who walks right through attention as could World Cups in Qatar or Russia because here it joins cently returned from a long-term
the door of the Royal Botanic Gardens’ indoor cafe to mill around, the usual and bountiful sports smorgasbord. ankle injury, has scored one goal
scavenging. There’s not a lot of skin showing on Bondi Beach, but four A World Cup can’t have unfettered attention when, for one thing, in seven appearances this year
women on the balcony of the restaurant at the famed Bondi Icebergs Collingwood and Port Adelaide just played an 85-83 Australian rules and six over three seasons with
swimming Club on sunday had thrown on enough pink to make football goose bump that one headline called a “ripper” — a word United. Fountas, a Greece nation-
themselves commendable versions of Barbie. utterly superior to its synonym “classic” — but a World Cup certainly al team regular, a 2022 MLs
none of this qualifies as even a hint of hardship, for the world has sEE AuStrAlIA On d3 all-star and United’s third-high-
est-paid player, has six goals in 17
matches this season after leading
World cup: United States vs. Netherlands tomorrow, 9 p.m., Fox | Hello, Morocco: In a historic debut, the atlas Lionesses fall to germany. D3 the club with 12 tallies last year.
sEE unIted On d2

Leagues cup:
D.c. United at cF Montreal
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Decades ago,
Chamberlain’s
power play
set a precedent
LAS VEGAS — An
on the all-time great
nBa scorer decided he
Ben wanted to leave
Golliver Philadelphia for
Los Angeles. He
issued a trade request shortly
after an inexplicable playoff
collapse against the Boston
Celtics and during a dispute with
the 76ers over his compensation.
Critics derided him as a selfish
loser and a choker, but he
pressed ahead, undeterred by
the backlash and negative
headlines.
A full 55 years before 76ers
guard James Harden tied up the
nBA offseason with his desire to
be shipped to the Clippers, Wilt
Chamberlain wrote virtually the
same story.
The Hall of Fame center got
his way with a July 9, 1968, trade
to the Lakers that set him up for
a historic 1972 title run and a
sunny retirement marked by
beach volleyball games,
Hollywood cameos and
sEE on the nbA On d5
U-Va.’s Douglass and Walsh shine on global stage Corbin has
Cavaliers standouts
finish 1-2 in 200 IM
at world championships
BY D AVE S HEININ
Anybody who witnessed Kate
Douglass and Alex Walsh going at
each other for the past three years
in practice at the University of
Virginia Aquatic and Fitness Cen-
ter in Charlottesville — or at col-
legiate meets across the United
states — might have predicted
how Monday’s final in the wom-
en’s 200-meter individual medley
halfway around the globe at the
world swimming championships
would go:
Walsh, a rising senior at Vir-
ginia, would sprint to the lead at
the halfway point, but Douglass, a
21-year-old recent graduate,
would make a huge move in the
breaststroke leg, then run down
her former college teammate in
the closing freestyle leg.
And that, more or less, is how it
played out, with Douglass and
Walsh, stalwarts for the three-
time defending national cham-
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Alex Walsh had to settle for silver after Kate douglass grabbed the gold Monday in Fukuoka, Japan. sEE SWIMMIng On d2
a rough night;
Nats’ streak
ends at three
Rockies 10,
nationals 6
BY A NDREW G OLDEN
Patrick Corbin stood between
the pitcher’s mound and home
plate, his shoulders slouched as
nolan Jones rounded the bases
and Jones’s Colorado Rockies
teammates cheered from the visi-
tors’ dugout.
One out from escaping the sixth
inning with a manageable two-
run deficit Monday night, Corbin
left a slider out over the plate and
Jones blasted it to center, one of 16
Rockies hits in a 10-6 win at na-
tionals Park that snapped Wash-
ington’s three-game winning
streak.
“It was down middle, trying to
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Rockies at Nationals
today, 7 p.m., masn
Prospect central: three keys to the
nats’ future are at harrisburg. D5

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but the arsenal striker’s club future is still unsettled. D2 al-hilal bids a record $332 million for the French star. D2 more lawsuits are filed alleging hazing at the school. D6
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U.S. squad newcomer Balogun tackles a promising future

BY T HOMAS F LOYD
When the public address an-
nouncer introduced the Arsenal
players and mLS standouts com-
peting in the All-Star Game skills
challenge last week at Audi
field, the loudest ovation came
not for an internationally recog-
nized star such as Aaron rams-
dale or a local favorite such as
D.C. United’s Christian Benteke.
rather, the cheers came for a
22-year-old Gunners forward
with two English Premier
League appearances to his name.
Such is the allure of folarin
Balogun, the Brooklyn-born,
London-raised striker of Niger-
ian parentage who recently de-
lighted stateside supporters by
committing to the U.S. men’s
national team and promptly lift-
ing the Concacaf Nations League
trophy. A month removed from
his debut U.S. appearances in
Las Vegas and his first interna-
tional goal — a crisply taken
opener in that Nations League
final win over Canada — Balogun
has felt the love from the Ameri-
can faithful during Arsenal’s pre-
season tour.
If all goes according to plan,
Balogun should be spending a
lot of time on American soil in
the coming years — for friendlies
and Nations League matches,
which resume this fall, as well as
next summer’s Copa América
and, ultimately, the 2026 World
Cup in the United States, Canada
and mexico.
“It is one of the best feelings
ever to be a part of it,” Balogun
said of the buildup to 2026. “Just
to come out here and see the fans
and the emotion is something
that a lot of people don’t realize.
With U.S. soccer in general, the
fans are really, really passion-
ate.”
Although Balogun settled his
international future by choosing
the United States over England
and Nigeria, this preseason finds
him at an early career cross-
roads. A part of the Arsenal
organization for more than a
decade, since he joined the club’s
academy as a child, Balogun
broke out last season with 21
goals during a loan stint with
Arsenal’s Folarin Balogun, pictured in last week’s mLs All-star Game, scored 21 goals last season while on loan to French club Reims.
french club reims — good for
fourth in Ligue 1 and outpacing
the likes of Lionel messi and
Neymar.
With his stock rising, the
striker finds himself back in the
Arsenal fold with a chance to win
over manager mikel Arteta in
training and preseason exhibi-
tions — or, perhaps, impress
transfer suitors ahead of a big-
money move.
“He’s a big talent,” Arsenal
captain martin odegaard said,
adding that Balogun is “very
hungry to improve all the time.”
Said forward Eddie Nketiah:
“We followed his progress last
season — he had a really good
season — so it’s good to have him
back.”
But breaking into the Gun-
ners’ sharpshooting forward
corps will be no easy task. Gabri-
el Jesus is entrenched up top
after a solid first season in North
London, and Nketiah earned
plaudits for admirably filling in
after the Brazilian suffered a
knee injury at last fall’s World
Cup. reports in the Athletic and
the Evening Standard have
linked Balogun to Inter milan,
the Italian power fresh off a run
to the UEfA Champions League
final.
“I’d be lying if I said I didn’t
want to play,” said Balogun,
whom Arsenal reportedly values
at around $65 million. “for every
young player, it should be the
aspiration to play as much min-
tIm Nwachukwu/Getty ImaGes
utes as possible — and I’m no
different. I’ve definitely shown
last year with minutes I can
produce good things.”
Arteta deployed Balogun off
the bench in Arsenal’s first two
friendlies this preseason: 34
minutes against Nuremberg in
Germany and 25 against the
mLS all-stars in Washington.
The forward, who was an unused
sub Saturday against man-
chester United in East ruther-
ford, N.J., will have one more
opportunity to impress in the
United States, when Arsenal fac-
es Barcelona on Wednesday in
Inglewood, Calif. The Gunners
then return to London ahead of
their Premier League opener
Aug. 12.
“obviously he’s done incred-
ibly well,” Arteta said. “Now we
have to think, ‘What is best to
do?’ But we want to see him . . .
and then we’ll make the best
decision.”
It’s easy to see why Balogun’s
talents are so beguiling: At
5-foot-10 with defense-splitting
speed, slick footwork and an eye
for the goal, he is a well-rounded
center forward with an enticing
ceiling. In the Nations League
final, Balogun showed off his
ability to break down a back line
when he made a run in Canadian
defender Scott Kennedy’s blind
spot, pointed to where he want-
ed teammate Gio reyna to slot
the pass, muscled Kennedy off
the ball and fired home a one-
time finish.
“He can do a lot of different
things well,” said U.S. defender
Walker Zimmerman, who start-
ed alongside Balogun in the
Nations League final. “He has
pace to get in behind. He’s got
good enough holdup play. He’s
strong, decent in the air and
obviously a good finisher. You
combine those things, and that’s
the reason why he’s in preseason
with [Arsenal] and hopefully can
sort out a good club situation.”
After fellow U.S. attackers
Christian Pulisic (AC milan) and
Tim Weah (Juventus) found new
homes this offseason, Balogun
could be next in heading to Italy
in search of club stability.
Whether he spends the 2023-24
season with Inter, Arsenal or
another club entirely, the striker
knows this campaign is a pivotal
opportunity to build on last
season and prove his prolific
Ligue 1 production was no fluke.
“Every year in football, you
have to prove yourself,” Balogun
said. “I’m trying to improve on
what I did. That was my first
season in professional football,
so I’m expecting a lot more than
myself. I mean, I’m sure I can do
it.”

MLS reinstates United’s Robertha, but Fountas is still out following altercation
united from d1
This is not the first racial alle-
gation to be aired against foun-
tas, who came to D.C. in march
2022 on a transfer from Austrian
club rapid Vienna. fountas’s de-
but season was marred by a Sep-
tember incident in which Aimé
mabika, then with Inter miami,
accused him of using a racial slur
during a matchup at Audi field.
mLS launched an investigation
and said it found the allegation to
be “credible” but could not “inde-
pendently verify” it. fountas de-
nied the accusation but did not
play in United’s final two games of
the season after being granted
additional time off by Coach
Wayne rooney.
off-field issues have cast a pall
over United since the mLS All-Star
Game returned to Washington
last week for the first time in 19
years. Hours before announcing
robertha and fountas were on
leave, United fired athletic trainer
reade Whitney for displaying a
“discriminatory hand gesture” —
the “okay” sign, which has increas-
ingly been adopted by white su-
premacists and the far right — in a
staff photo taken at an All-Star
Game training session.
United returns to the field
Wednesday night when it plays at
Cf montreal in the Leagues Cup, a
vastly expanded edition of a tour-
nament featuring every team
from mLS and mexico’s Liga mX.
D.C. will host mexican club Pumas
on Saturday night at Audi field to
conclude the tournament’s two-
game group stage.
rooney’s team, which sits in the
ninth and final Eastern Confer-
ence playoff spot with 10 regular
season matches remaining,
doesn’t resume mLS action until
Aug. 20.
steven Goff and Bailey Johnson
contributed to this report.

Ex-Virginia star Douglass owned the top time in the world

this season (2:06.89 at the Cana-
dian trials in march), scratched to
Douglass and Walsh, 21, are two
of four members of the 2022-23
Cavaliers women’s team on Team
having won seven individual na-
tional titles and having set NCAA
records in four events.
After returning to racing the
200 Im this summer, Douglass
won it at last month’s U.S. nation-

is golden in the 200 IM focus on other races, and Aus-

swimminG from d1
fukuoka, Japan. Douglass’s gold
medal, in 2 minutes 7.17 seconds,
was the first for Team USA
through nine medal events at the
eight-day meet. Walsh (2:07.97)
led her teammate by more than a
second but faded in the freestyle
and settled for silver, with China’s
Yu Yiting (2:08.74) earning
bronze.
“We do this in practice a lot,”
Douglass told reporters in Japan
of her frequent duels with Walsh.
“We know how each other swims
the race, and we know it’s going to
come down to that last 50 free. . . .
I kind of knew going into the race
it was going to be me or Alex on
top, getting a gold for the U.S.”
monday’s final went off with-
out two medal contenders: Cana-
da’s Summer mcIntosh, who
tralia’s Kaylee mcKeown, ranked
third in the world (2:07.19), was
disqualified during Sunday’s
semifinals for an illegal turn.
The rest of the week could still
bring an avalanche of golds for
Team USA, with Tuesday’s slate
alone featuring Katie Ledecky
(women’s 1,500-meter freestyle),
Lilly King (women’s 100 breast-
stroke), regan Smith (women’s
100 backstroke) and ryan mur-
phy (men’s 100 backstroke) — who
own 24 olympic medals among
them — with chances for golds.
USA’s roster in Japan, along with
Gretchen Walsh (Alex’s younger
sister) and sprinter maxine Park-
er.
In march, that quartet helped
Virginia to a runaway victory at
the NCAA championships, sweep-
ing all five relays and becoming
the first program since Stanford
from 2017 to 2019 (behind
Ledecky and Simone manuel) to
win three straight national titles.
Douglass, a native of Pelham,
N.Y., is considered one of the
greatest female college swimmers
of all time; she departed Virginia
Though she is seen as some-
thing of a unicorn as a swimmer —
with world-class speed in free-
style, butterfly and breaststroke,
strokes where there is not typical-
ly such overlap — Douglass has
had a complicated relationship
with the long-course 200 Im. Af-
ter winning bronze at the Tokyo
olympics two summers ago, she
essentially abandoned the race
for the next year, saying she had
grown weary of the training. In
her absence, Alex Walsh took gold
at last summer’s world champion-
ships in Budapest.
als, telling reporters afterward
that she had made peace with the
event. “I think I’m in a pretty good
place with it right now,” she said.
“I think taking some time off from
it was a good idea.”
Having already won gold in the
200 Im and silver in the women’s
4x100 freestyle relay, and with
two more individual swims (the
100 free and 200 breast) and as
many as three relays still to come,
Douglass is positioned for a mas-
sive haul of medals this week —
and a starring role next summer
at the 2024 Paris olympics.

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for PSG star Mbappé
After missing out on Lionel
messi, Saudi Arabian club Al-
Hilal made a record 300 million
euro (about $332 million) bid for
Kylian mbappé on monday, an
offer which could see the france
striker join Cristiano Ronaldo in
the oil-rich kingdom.
Paris Saint-Germain confirmed
the offer for its player and has
given Al-Hilal permission to open
negotiations directly with
mbappé.
The 2018 World Cup winner is
in a contract standoff with PSG
after his decision not to take up
the option of a 12-month
extension on his deal. Instead, he
plans to walk away as a free agent
at the end of the upcoming
season, at which point he is
expected to join real madrid.
PSG cut mbappé, 24, from its
preseason tour of Japan on
Saturday, with the french club
determined to sell him unless he
can be convinced to sign a new
contract.
Earlier this year, Al-Hilal failed
in an attempt to sign messi, with
the Argentina great choosing to
join Inter miami of mLS instead.
overtaking the $262 million PSG
paid for neymar, who joined
from Barcelona in 2017.
mbappé has said he plans to
see out the final year of his
contract, which would leave PSG
powerless to prevent him from
leaving for nothing next year. . . .
fIfA, soccer’s international
governing body, won the latest
ruling of an international, multi-
case fight by player agents to
block rules that would regulate
their industry and cap their fees.
The Court of Arbitration for
Sport said it “dismissed in their
entirety” arguments put forth by
the Zurich-based Professional
football Agents Association,
which brought the case.
The most controversial aspect
of the rules limit an agent’s
earnings at 10 percent of a
transfer fee when they act for the
selling club. Elite agencies have
earned tens of millions of dollars
from transfers for players such as
erling Haaland and Paul Pogba.
fIfA has said agents earned $622
million from international cross-
border transfer deals in 2022.
fIfA also wants to prohibit
player agents from representing
the buying and selling clubs in
Britain’s first 1 million pound
player when he moved to
Nottingham forest from
Birmingham in 1979, died. He was
69.
francis died in Spain after a
heart attack, his family said.
Shortly after his record move
to Nottingham forest, francis
headed in the winner in a 1-0
victory over malmo in the 1979
European Cup final.
francis made 52 appearances
for England’s national team and
later guided Sheffield Wednesday
and Birmingham to major finals
as a manager.
francis made his debut at 16
for Birmingham in 1970.
COllEgE BasKEtBall
Virginia Tech women’s coach
Kenny Brooks signed a three-
year contract extension, Athletic
Director whit Babcock
announced.
The extension will keep Brooks
with the Hokies through march
2029. It is valued at $6.4 million
over six years.
The move comes after the
Hokies’ best season — a 31-5
record, the ACC tournament
championship and a No. 1 seed in
national semifinals.
Brooks is 155-74 in eight
seasons with the Hokies,
including 62-56 in ACC play. . . .
men’s powers Kansas and
North Carolina will play each
other in regular season games in
2024 and 2025, the schools
announced.
The first meeting will be Nov. 8,
2024, in Lawrence, Kan., with the
second set for Nov. 14, 2025, in
Chapel Hill, N.C. Kansas has 2,385
all-time wins, most in college
basketball history. North Carolina
ranks third with 2,347.
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Louisville and miami will
begin competing annually this
fall with the stakes including a
trophy named for Howard
schnellenberger, the legendary
coach who guided both programs
to national prominence.
miami hosts Louisville on
Nov. 18. . . .
Duke extended Coach mike
elko’s contract through 2029
after he led the Blue Devils to
nine wins and was named ACC
coach of the year in his first
season. . . .
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tiffani-dawn sykes said the deAngelo to a one-year deal
team will be allowed to resume worth $1.675 million. DeAngelo,
using its facilities as the 27, played with the Hurricanes in
university investigates the 2021-22. Carolina traded him to
unauthorized filming of a rap Philadelphia last summer, and he
video, featuring some rattlers had 11 goals and 31 assists in 70
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roundup
Zaneratto’s
goal sparks
a Brazilian
blowout
Brazil 4,
Panama 0
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Bia Zaneratto’s spectacular fin-
ish will be tough to beat as the goal
of the tournament at the World
Cup. And based on its 4-0 win over
Panama on monday, Brazil will be
tough to beat, too.
Ary Borges scored a hat trick in
her World Cup debut, but her
assist for Zaneratto’s second-half
strike was the standout moment
of the match in Adelaide, Aus-
tralia.
When Debinha’s cross landed
at Borges’s feet toward the end of a
sweeping move, the forward, who
had struck twice in the first half,
looked set to add a third goal.
Instead, she wrong-footed Pana-
ma’s defense and back-heeled to
Zaneratto, who lifted her shot into
the top corner.
It was a goal full of the flair that
Brazilian soccer is famed for.
“The first game is always diffi-
cult,” Brazil Coach Pia Sundhage
said. “four goals — and some-
times we played quite well.”
A win against france on Satur-
day will ensure Brazil advances to
the knockout stage.
Panama, making its debut at
the tournament, could do little to
keep the 2007 runner-up at bay,
with Borges ruthless in front of
the goal.
for Borges, her introduction to
the World Cup could hardly have
been more emphatic.
She struck twice in the first half
and completed her hat trick in the
70th minute after providing her
inspired assist for Zaneratto in the
48th.
Borges headed Brazil in front in
the 19th from close range after
meeting a cross from Debinha.
She got her second in the 39th
when turning in the rebound after
her initial header was saved by
Panama goalkeeper Yenith Bailey.
Her third was another header,
this time from Geyse’s cross.
“I’ve waited a long time for this
moment. It’s a dream to be able to
be here, playing in a World Cup,”
Borges said. “It’s one of the best
days of my life. I’m very, very
happy for the three goals, but the
main thing was a debut in which
we imposed ourselves.”
Borges was replaced by Brazil
legend marta late in the match. It
was the 37-year-old’s sixth World
Cup, and she is the competition’s
all-time leading scorer with 17
goals.
l ITalY 1, aRGENTINa 0: In
the space of four minutes,
Cristiana Girelli made history.
After coming on as a substitute,
Girelli became the first Italian to
score in two women’s World Cups
with her goal in the 87th minute
that gave Italy a win in its tourna-
ment opener against Argentina in
Auckland, New Zealand.
“There’s nothing special — it’s
just that I did my duty,” Girelli
said. “I did my best. I was really
willing to help my teammates.”
Italy put the ball in the back of
the net twice in the opening half,
but both plays were offside. Girelli
came into the match as a substi-
tute in the 83rd minute.
The Italians have never
dropped an opening match at the
World Cup. But this time they
faced tenacious Argentina, eager
for its first-ever win in the tourna-
ment.
“We will try to leave this game
behind us, learn from what hap-
pened and continue reinforcing
the positive,” Argentina forward
Estefanía Banini said. “We need to
clear our minds, look at what
comes next and take on the
group.”
l COlOMBIa 2, sOUTH
KOREa 0: In moore Park, Aus-
tralia, Colombia beat South Korea
on Tuesday as the final two teams
to kick off at the World Cup got
their tournament underway.
The Colombians went ahead on
Catalina Usme’s 30th-minute
penalty kick. Nine minutes later,
they doubled the lead through
Linda Caicedo’s strike that slipped
through the hands of South Korea
goalkeeper Yoon Young-geul.
group a
GP W L T GF GA Pts
switzerland 1 1 0 0 2 0 3
new Zealand 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
norway 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
Philippines 1 0 1 0 0 2 0
. the washington post
Morocco has a major moment — even in a loss
Germany 6,
morocco 0
BY C HUCK C ULPEPPER
MElBOurNE, australia — The
walk into the stadium here at late
afternoon monday brought a
whoa. It looked as if last Decem-
ber in the middle East had flowed
directly into this July Down Un-
der, as if the lifeblood of the men’s
World Cup back then in Qatar
had relocated about 7,500 miles
to stir some energy at this wom-
en’s World Cup just now in ocea-
nia. Where moroccan fans in
thundering droves had formed
the soundtrack of that first Arab
World Cup, moroccan fans in a
large cluster on the corner beside
melbourne rectangular Stadium
fed the soundtrack of this first
women’s World Cup with an Arab
team — which is, of course,
morocco.
So this chillier air, too, filled
with drums, songs, cheers, red
and green.
“It’s happening, and it’s never
happened before,” said Hasnaa, a
moroccan woman from Casa-
blanca and an eight-year mel-
bourne resident, who declined to
share her last name. “And we are
so happy to support the moroc-
can team and for them to be the
only Arab team in the World
Cup.” for young moroccan girls,
she said: “It’s really important
and it’s like they’re the idols for
them. The young girls are watch-
ing this moroccan team in the
World Cup, and they want to be
like them.”
After the national anthems, of
course, a grudging type of ladder
usually awaits such debuts.
There’s a reality. That reality
would come in the ensuing hours,
when morocco’s first women’s
World Cup match looked very
much like the budding against
the established, with the estab-
lished, Germany, ranked No. 2 in
the world behind only the United
States, posting the kind of score,
6-0, that sometimes marks such
arrangements.
By the end of the first-ever
Group H match in a women’s
World Cup, before a spirited
27,256 in a 28,870-seat stadium,
with German flags waving and
moroccan roars greeting any ad-
vancement by the Atlas Lioness-
es, the public address announce-
ment of nine minutes of added
time could have brought a sigh of
sympathy for the players in red
and green, who looked weary
even with the five substitutions
summoned by manager reynald
Pedros.
The Germans, after all, have a
purpose and a mission and a bit
of a chip. They would like to
return to the concept of winning
this thing, as their teams did in
2003 and 2007, after going out in
In sports-mad Australia, soccer is only one part of the landscape
aUsTRalIa from D1
can mine the Australian enthusi-
asm with that enthusiasm so
ample.
“Aussies love their sport, don’t
they?” said Sam Kerr, the Aussie
soccer North Star, who missed
her squad’s first game with a calf
injury and is expected to miss its
second. “more than 90 percent of
adults have an interest in sport,”
saith the government after cull-
ing the statistics. The TV ratings
for the matildas’ opener against
Ireland on Thursday night
smashed various records for
women’s sports even without the
enthralling Kerr, snaring
4.88 million viewers across the
platforms of the Seven Network.
Some 75,784 watched in the
stadium, and some 44,369 saw
England-Haiti in 49,461-seat
Brisbane Stadium, and about
17,000 wedged into 18,727-seat
Perth rectangular Stadium for
Denmark-China, and so on. The
run-ups to such occasions have
boasted their mirth: trains roll-
ing from central Sydney out to
the olympic stadium where Aus-
tralia played Ireland brimmed
with Aussies and Irish, with the
former laughing along with one
crooner from the latter as he
thought up songs and belted
them out, maybe even buttressed
by beverage. The streets and bars
near the stadium in Brisbane
group B group C
GP W L T GF GA Pts
australia 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 Japan
canada 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 spain
nigeria 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 costa rica
ireland 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 Zambia
world cup
Germany’s lea schüller consoles Hanane ait El Haj of Morocco, the first team from an arab country to play in the women’s World Cup.
Scores and schedule
Monday’s results
group g: italy 1, argentina 0
group H: germany 6, morocco 0
group F: Brazil 4, Panama 0
group H: colombia 2, south korea 0
Tuesday
group a: new Zealand vs. Philippines,
1:30 a.m., Fox sports 1, universo
group a: switzerland vs. norway,
4 a.m., Fox sports 1, telemundo
Wednesday
group C: Japan vs. costa rica,
1 a.m., Fox sports 1, universo
group C: spain vs. Zambia,
3:30 a.m., Fox sports 1, telemundo
group B: canada vs. ireland,
8 a.m., Fox sports 1, universo
group E: united states vs.
netherlands, 9 p.m., Fox, telemundo
2011 as a host in the quarterfinals
(to Japan), in 2015 in the semifi-
nals (to the United States) and in
2019 in a stunner in the quarterfi-
nals (to Sweden). They would like
to build on their advancement to
the 2022 Euro final, which they
lost to England after a pre-match
muscle injury to longtime star
Alexandra Popp that caused her
absence.
Die Nationalelf, as the German
team is called, looked primed and
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sydney’s stadium australia welcomed 75,784 for the Matildas’
opener in the World Cup, a 1-0 victory against Ireland last week.
before England-Haiti felt like the
streets before any you-name-it
big game, even as some of the bar
TVs showed the National rugby
League match between mel-
bourne and Newcastle.
more acutely, the country,
which is co-hosting the event
with New Zealand, will follow the
plight of Kerr’s injured calf
among all the things it’s follow-
ing, such that Will Swanton in the
Weekend Australian likened it to
David Beckham’s metatarsal in
England before the 2002 World
ST an di n gS
group d
GP W L T GF GA Pts GP W L T GF GA Pts
1 1 0 0 5 0 3 denmark 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
1 1 0 0 3 0 3 england 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
1 0 1 0 0 3 0 china 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
1 0 1 0 0 5 0 haiti 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
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precise, and Popp looked very
much like Popp.
With appearance No. 129 for
Germany at 32, and with goals
Nos. 63 and 64 for her country,
she thrived even as she stated a
title as her only intent. She scored
in the 11th and the 39th minutes
for a 2-0 lead that seemed lock-
solid even among 2-0 leads.
She scored when 20-year-old
Wolfsburg teammate Jule Brand
grabbed a stray morocco pass
and fed Kathrin Hendrich up the
right side, whereupon Hendrich
took a turn with it before cross-
ing gorgeously to Popp’s head in
the center, whereupon Popp di-
rected it in easily, and she scored
when she wriggled between de-
fenders to set her shoulder upon
a corner. Each time, her team-
mates surrounded her in a man-
ner that looked more formulaic
than frantic, as if they under-
stood their superiority in season-
ing.
morocco tried commendably.
It made occasional threats. It got
a breakaway in the 41st minute
for fatima Tagnaout that caused
German goalkeeper merle
frohms to come out and thwart
Tagnaouti before the referee’s
flag scrubbed it anyway. And it
got the ball into the back of the
net in the 54th minute to rev up
Cup. “Kerr’s calf has become Da-
vid Beckham’s foot,” Swanton
wrote, soon adding, “Now we will
be watching every step Kerr takes
and every move she makes for the
foreseeable future.”
Calf injuries, he noted, can lack
for gentility.
A women’s World Cup retains
an intimate vibe. Walk the prom-
enade under the famed Harbour
Bridge in Sydney, and you might
find yourself milling among the
Colombian team taking a stroll.
Check in at the Brisbane airport,
group E
GP W L T GF GA Pts
united states 1 1 0 0 3 0 3
netherlands 1 1 0 0 1 0 3
Portugal 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
vietnam 1 0 1 0 0 3 0
the crowd before the referee’s flag
gave the offside frown again.
As a team that reached the
final of the Africa Cup of Nations
and played that before 50,000 in
rabat, morocco has nine players
who play at home, six who play in
france, two each in Spain and
Belgium and one each in Italy,
England, Switzerland and the
United Arab Emirates. It has the
pride the country feels after its
men’s team reached that semifi-
nal last December while decking
European snobs Spain and Portu-
gal, and it has the idea that soccer
just got even bigger in morocco,
but it has a ranking of No. 77 and
doesn’t have (yet) the familiarity
with playing a team like Germany
as the countries met for the first
time.
So the gates of its defense
withered and then withered ut-
terly. right out of the tunnel at
halftime, Germany scored to
make it 3-0, when another stray
morocco pass found its way to
Germany’s Klara Bühl, who
charged up the left with it before
belting it across the goal to
Brand, who nudged it to Lina
magull, whose quick shot hit the
right post. Somehow a certain
justice turned up, though, be-
cause after morocco couldn’t
clear it, it rolled to Bühl, who
and here comes the Ireland team
in its home-base city, heading to
the World Cup security line be-
fore heading clear to Perth, all the
way across a land only slightly
smaller than the 48 U.S. contigu-
ous.
In a big country, besides a
Collingwood-Port Adelaide strug-
gle atop the football “ladder” — a
word utterly superior to its syn-
onym “standings” — there’s what
looks like a furious scrap for the
finals series that will feature the
top eight teams between teams
bunched together from fifth to
12th, from Western Bulldogs to
St. Kilda to GWS Giants to Gee-
long Cats to Carlton to richmond
to Essendon to Sydney Swans to
maybe more hopefuls. It looks
like fun even if you have no idea
what any of it means.
Then, here in this dreamy
place to be a novice fan, there’s
the National rugby League with
the Penrith Panthers and Bris-
bane Broncos up top of the lad-
der. There’s cricket’s 141-year-old
Ashes tussle, between Australia
and England as always, carrying
on in England even as enthusi-
asm seems mild. Up in Japan in
the pool, Aussie marvel Ariarne
Titmus, still 22 after all this time,
just busted the 400-meter free-
style record while representing
her medals-per-capita jugger-
naut of a homeland. Horse racing
still looks abundant.
group F group g
GP W L T GF GA Pts
Brazil 1 1 0 0 4 0 3 sweden
France 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 italy
Jamaica 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 south africa
Panama 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 argentina
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came in from the left and
skimmed it back along the grass
into the goal.
own goals that clearly
stemmed from the German pres-
sure got it to 5-0, and substitute
Lea Schüller’s rebound after a
hectic save by morocco goalkeep-
er Khadija Er-rmichi got it to
6-0. That made it the second
match in this tournament with a
difference of five goals or more,
perhaps a byproduct of an event
expanded from 24 teams to 32.
The previous World Cup, in
france in 2019, had only two such
finals — Italy’s 5-0 win over
Jamaica and the United States’s
notorious 13-0 win over Thai-
land.
Now Germany seemed to score
again in the harsh added time
before referee overrule kept it
6-0, and the moroccan players
had the look of excellent athletes
who have found something un-
solvable for the night. Still, the
big screen showed fans late in the
match, and those included Haas-
na, still smiling. Back when the
Atlas Lionesses arrived to Aus-
tralia, she had joined volunteers
welcoming them to their base city
at the melbourne airport. “It was
something we were so proud to
do,” she said, “because we’re do-
ing it for love.”
The sports heritage, of course,
lurks everywhere. The stadium in
which the matildas played Ire-
land would be the same one in
which the Aboriginal Australian
Cathy freeman electrified a
country from Lane 6 in the
400 meters at the 2000 olympics,
the same freeman who surprise-
visited the matildas pre-World
Cup. “I don’t really get star-
struck,” Kerr said, “but when
Cathy walked in the room, I was
pretty star-struck, to be honest,
because she has such a presence.”
outside the Sydney football
Stadium stand statues of runners
marlene mathews and the late
Betty Cuthbert, the latter the only
person ever to win gold medals in
the 100, 200 and 400 meters, the
two presences snugly fit with the
events about to go on behind
them. Down the way there’s a
statue of Paul Kelly, the 10-season
Sydney Swans captain called
“Captain Courageous” and born
in Wagga Wagga, and up in Bris-
bane, outside that stadium, there
stands John Eales, the most suc-
cessful captain in Australian rug-
by history, kindly called “No-
body” because, of course, No-
body’s perfect. There’s too much
to learn in the best sports place to
learn it, even as the matildas have
joined the national heart to such
degree that people just want to
learn what’s going on with that
damned calf.
group H
GP W L T GF GA Pts GP W L T GF GA Pts
1 1 0 0 2 1 3 germany 1 1 0 0 6 0 3
1 1 0 0 1 0 3 colombia 1 1 0 0 2 0 3
1 0 1 0 1 2 0 south korea 1 0 1 0 0 2 0
1 0 1 0 0 1 0 morocco 1 0 1 0 0 6 0
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atlanta 64 34 .653 — 4-6 W-1 milwaukee 56 45 .554 — 7-3 W-1 x-los angeles 57 41 .582 — 7-3 l-1 Baltimore 62 38 .620 — 7-3 W-3 minnesota 54 48 .529 — 8-2 W-4 texas 59 42 .584 — 7-3 l-1
miami 54 47 .535 111/2 2-8 W-1 cincinnati 55 47 .539 11/2 5-5 l-1 x-arizona 54 46 .540 4 2-8 l-4 tampa Bay 61 42 .592 21/2 3-7 l-2 cleveland 49 51 .490 4 4-6 l-2 houston 57 44 .564 2 7-3 W-2
Philadelphia 53 47 .530 12 5-5 l-1 chicago 48 51 .485 7 6-4 W-3 san Francisco 54 47 .535 41/2 4-6 l-6 x-toronto 55 45 .550 7 6-4 W-1 Detroit 46 54 .460 7 6-4 W-2 los angeles 51 49 .510 71/2 6-4 W-1
new york 46 53 .465 181/2 4-6 l-2 x-st. louis 44 56 .440 111/2 6-4 l-3 x-san Diego 48 52 .480 10 5-5 l-1 Boston 53 47 .530 9 6-4 W-2 chicago 41 60 .406 121/2 3-7 l-3 seattle 50 50 .500 81/2 5-5 l-2
Washington 41 59 .410 24 5-5 l-1 x-Pittsburgh 43 56 .434 12 3-7 l-1 colorado 40 60 .400 18 6-4 W-1 new york 53 47 .530 9 4-6 W-3 Kansas city 29 73 .284 25 3-7 W-1 oakland 28 74 .275 311/2 3-7 l-1
x-Late game x-Late game

rockies 10,
nationals 6 Rockies dent n ot ES

rOckiES Ab
Profar lf ..............4
Tovar ss ..............5
Díaz c ..................3
Grichuk dh ..........5
Corbin’s line
r h bi bb SO Avg
1 0 0 1 0 .240 pErSonnEl dEpt.
1 3 0 0 2 .261
1 0 0 2 0 .264 braves: acquired RhP
2 3 1 0 1 .309

Jones rf...............4
Toglia 1b .............4
Trejo 3b...............5
Doyle cf...............4
Castro 2b ............4
to end Nats’
1 2 2 1 0 .282 Pierce Johnson from
1 1 1 0 1 .163
2 4 1 0 1 .256
colorado and lhP taylor
0 1 1 1 1 .202 hearn from texas to boost
1 2 2 0 0 .270

surge at three
tOtALS 38 10 16 8 5 6 — an injury-plagued bullpen.
NAtiONALS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg cardinals: activated RhP
Abrams ss...........4 1 1 0 1 1 .256 adam Wainwright from
Thomas rf ...........3 0 0 0 0 0 .293
Vargas pr-lf ........0 1 0 0 0 0 .270 the 15-day injured list and
Candelario 3b......4 2 2 3 0 0 .257
Meneses dh ........3 0 0 0 1 1 .275 nAtIonAls from D1 moved RhP Ryan helsley
Ruiz c ..................4 1 2 1 0 0 .248 to the 60-day il.
Smith 1b .............3 0 0 0 0 1 .269
Dickerson lf ........2 0 1 0 0 0 .252 get it a little more away,” Corbin said. Guardians: selected the
Garrett ph-lf-rf...1
García 2b.............4
1
0
0 0 1 1 .260
0 0 0 1 .266
“maybe a little too much middle of the contract of lhP Daniel
Call cf..................4 0 1 2 0 1 .210 plate there. . . . I thought I made some norris and transferred
tOtALS 32 6 7 6 3 6 —
good pitches, got some weak contact RhP shane Bieber to the
cOLOrADO...... 000 202 222 — 10 16 1
wAShiNgtON 000 000 132 — 6 7 2
and . . . they seemed to get that big hit 60-day il.
E: Castro (2), Call (1), Candelario (6).
when they needed to to put up a couple
LOb: Colorado 7, Washington 4. runs.” tigers: Put RhP mason
2b: Trejo (10), Abrams (18), Candelario
(28), Call (11). hr: Jones (9), off Corbin; Corbin’s teammates nearly helped englert on the 15-day il
Candelario (16), off Hollowell. him get out of the sixth. Lane Thomas with left hip tightness and
rbi: Grichuk (25), Jones 2 (22), Castro 2
(25), Doyle (26), Toglia (2), Trejo (16), recorded the second out with a missile optioned RhP alex Faedo
Ruiz (38), Candelario 3 (50), Call 2 (31).
Sb: Tovar (5).
of a throw from right field to get Eze- to class aaa toledo.
rOckiES iP h r Er bb SO NPErA quiel Tovar at home to keep the score twins: Placed oF Byron
Bird....................2 1 0 0 0 0 283.90 2-0. one pitch later, Jones made it 4-0. Buxton on the paternity
Kauffmann .......4 2 1 1 1 0 438.72
Hand..................1 1 0 0 0 1 124.54 By the time Corbin was lifted with one list and called up oF
Hollowell...........1 1 3 3 1 2 265.93
Koch ..................1 2 2 2 1 3 321.42
out in the seventh, it was 5-0 and the trevor larnach.
NAtiONALS iP h r Er bbSO NPErA
left-hander’s ErA sat at 5.01.
Corbin ............61/3 10 6 5 2 5 935.01 “It’s tough to see the offense come bY thE numbErS

4-14
Garcia ................1 3 2 2 1 0
Abbott............12/3 3 2 2 2 1
359.00
435.91
alive late,” Corbin said. “Those are
wP: Kauffmann (1-3); LP: Corbin (6-11).
some games maybe you can sneak away
inherited runners-scored: Hand 2-1, with a win if you just throw up some mitchell layton/getty images
Garcia 1-1, Abbott 2-2. hbP: Kauffmann
(Smith), Hollowell (Thomas), Abbott more zeros.” Patrick Corbin’s ERA rose to 5.01 after he was tagged for 10 hits and five earned runs in 61/3 innings Monday night. the Rays’ July record,
(Toglia). wP: Garcia, Abbott. t: 2:55.
A: 17,194 (41,376).
With the Aug. 1 trade deadline loom- which is the worst in the
hOw thEY ScOrED
ing, many expect the Nationals to be nationalS on dEck batter later. got to forget this one and come back american league. after
rOckiES FOUrth
selling — even if the sell-off will lack the Entering the season, the Nationals tomorrow.” starting the year 13-0,
Jurickson Profar walks. Ezequiel Tovar big names of the past two seasons. vs. colorado rockies hoped the defense behind Corbin tampa Bay trails
singles. Jurickson Profar to second.
Third baseman Jeimer Candelario, would improve. He had a 6.31 ErA last Injury updates
Elias Diaz flies out. randal grichuk sin-
today 7:05 masn Baltimore in the al east.
gles, advances to second, Ezequiel to- their most obvious trade candidate, hit year, but his fielding Independent outfielder Victor robles walked into
var scores, Jurickson Profar scores.
Fielding error by Alex call. Nolan Jones a three-run homer in the eighth to trim tomorrow 12:05 masn Pitching (fIP) — which accounts only the clubhouse before the game with a
singles, advances to second. Randal Gri-
chuk out at home. Michael Toglia pops
the deficit to 8-4. The homer was No. 16 for plays within a pitcher’s control — smile on his face and greeted team- to da Y
out. for the 29-year-old on a one-year deal. at new York mets was 4.83, meaning his defense didn’t mates. robles said he was feeling
rockies 2, Nationals 0
rOckiES SiXth He is hitting .257 and has 50 rBI. do him any favors. “much better” after back spasms sent
Ezequiel Tovar singles. Elias Diaz pops Another name to consider: Thomas, thursday 7:10 masn The Nationals’ offense was slow to him back to the injured list June 21. nl games
out. Ezequiel Tovar steals second. Ran-
dal Grichuk singles, advances to second. though General manager mike rizzo Friday 7:10 masn2 get going monday. CJ Abrams led off martinez said robles will continue to rOckiES At NAtiONALS, 7:05
Ezequiel Tovar out at home. Nolan
Jones homers, randal grichuk scores. said last week he views Thomas as an the first inning with a double; that was rehab in Washington, including when w-L ErA tEAM
Michael Toglia grounds out. all-star-caliber player and would want saturday 7:10 masn the only hit the team would manage the team travels, before going on a Gomber (L) 8-8 6.18 11-9
rockies 4, Nationals 0
rOckiES SEvENth a quality return. (Thomas was hit by a until Corey Dickerson singled to put rehab assignment. Williams (R) 5-5 4.38 10-10
sunday 1:40 masn
Alan Trejo doubles. Brenton Doyle
strikes out. harold castro singles, Alan
pitch on the left knee in the eighth two runners on in the fifth. Luis García Tanner rainey (Tommy John sur- rEDS At brEwErS, 8:10
trejo scores. Jurickson Profar flies out. inning and was taken out as a precau- grounded into an inning-ending dou- gery) threw another bullpen session
Wild pitch, Harold Castro to second. vs. milwaukee brewers Abbott (L) 5-2 2.10 7-2
Ezequiel tovar singles, harold castro tion.) Kyle finnegan is also an option as ble play to end the rally. monday in West Palm Beach, fla. fel- Burnes (R) 9-5 3.49 12-8
scores. throwing error by Jeimer can- a hard-throwing reliever with two monday 7:05 masn2 Keibert ruiz got the Nationals on the low relievers Carl Edwards Jr. and PirAtES At PADrES, 9:40
delario. Elias Diaz walks. Ezequiel Tovar
to second. Randal Grichuk flies out. more years of team control. board with an rBI single in the seventh Thaddeus Ward — both sidelined with
aug. 1 7:05 masn2 Hill (L) 7-9 4.84 9-11
rockies 6, Nationals 0
NAtiONALS SEvENth
Corbin could be a possibility, but he before Candelario’s three-run shot in right shoulder inflammation — will Snell (L) 6-8 2.67 7-13
Jeimer Candelario doubles. Joey Mene- is owed $35 million next season, a aug. 2 1:05 masn the eighth. Call added a two-out, two- throw bullpen sessions Tuesday; Ward
ses walks. keibert ruiz singles, Joey Me- cArDiNALS At DiAMONDbAckS, 9:40
neses to second, Jeimer candelario major obstacle to any deal. He has run double in the ninth. threw long toss monday. Paolo Espino
Matz (L) 1-7 4.67 5-8
scores. Dominic Smith lines out. Keibert
Ruiz doubled off first. Joey Meneses to
pitched better of late — monday’s start Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM) “We made some mistakes, couple of (right flexor strain of his finger) got a
TBD ---- ---- ----
third. Stone Garrett strikes out swinging. notwithstanding — and any trade part- mistakes uncharacteristic of our- shot in his hand over the weekend.
rockies 6, Nationals 1
rOckiES Eighth
ner probably would ask the Nationals open the fourth. After Corbin got Elías selves,” manager Dave martinez said.
Nolan Jones grounds out. Michael To- to pay down some of his remaining Díaz to fly out to center field, randal “We’ll have to bounce back tomorrow. Zimmerman visits nl scores
glia singles. Alan Trejo singles. Michael
Toglia to second. Balk, Michael Toglia salary. Grichuk singled to score two. Jurickson The good thing was we started swing- ryan Zimmerman was in the club- SUNDAY’S rESULtS
advances to third, Alan Trejo to second.
brenton Doyle singles, advances to sec-
Corbin cruised through the first Profar was going to score regardless, ing the bats there at the end. . . . The house catching up with players and on at Washington 6, San Francisco 1
at Cincinnati 7, Arizona 3
ond, Alan trejo to third, Michael toglia three innings, facing the minimum and but when Alex Call bobbled the ball in bats came alive; we just didn’t have the field during batting practice. He at Miami 3, Colorado 2
scores. harold castro grounds out,
brenton Doyle to third, Alan trejo allowing just one hit. center, Tovar scored as well. Call threw enough. also spent some time in the mASN Atlanta 4, at Milwaukee 2
at Chicago Cubs 7, St. Louis 2
scores. Jurickson Profar flies out. The first two rockies reached to out Grichuk at home to save a run one “We gave up a bunch of runs, so we booth during the game. MONDAY’S rESULtS
rockies 8, Nationals 1
NAtiONALS Eighth Colorado 10, at Washington 6
Luis Garcia flies out. Alex Call strikes at Milwaukee 3, Cincinnati 2
out. CJ Abrams walks. Lane Thomas hit Pittsburgh at San Diego, late

Kremer, Westburg, Cowser lift O’s in Philadelphia thriller

by pitch. CJ Abrams to second. Jeimer St. Louis at Arizona, late
candelario homers, ildemaro vargas
scores, cJ Abrams scores. Joey Mene-
ses strikes out.
rockies 8, Nationals 4 interleague games
rOckiES NiNth
Ezequiel Tovar strikes out. Elias Diaz
walks. Randal Grichuk singles. Elias OriOLES At PhiLLiES, 6:40
Diaz to second. Nolan Jones walks. Mi- Los Angeles Dodgers, pitched brilliant- hits and two walks, striking out three. eighth on a two-out single by Nick w-L ErA tEAM
chael toglia hit by pitch, Nolan Jones to
second, randal grichuk to third, Elias orioles 3, ly. Jordan Westburg, a 2020 first-round Westburg gave the orioles an early Castellanos. But Cowser — who had Gibson (R) 9-6 4.76 12-9
Diaz scores. Alan trejo singles, Michael
toglia to second, Nolan Jones to third, Phillies 2 pick, hit his first home run. And, most lead with a shot down the right field entered in the third inning after center Walker (R) 11-4 4.11 14-6
randal grichuk scores. Brenton Doyle pivotally, Colton Cowser — the No. 5 line in the second inning. His previous fielder Aaron Hicks suffered a left ham- MArLiNS At rAYS, 6:40
grounds into double play. Alan Trejo out
at second.
pick in 2021 — helped keep the go- long ball came June 23 for Class AAA string cramp — cut off the line drive in Cabrera (R) 5-5 4.50 8-7
rockies 10, Nationals 4 BY H AYES G ARDNER ahead run from scoring in the eighth Norfolk. the left-center gap, then fired a quick Glasnow (R) 3-3 3.62 5-5
NAtiONALS NiNth
Keibert Ruiz singles, advances to sec- inning, then hit an rBI double in the In the sixth, ryan mountcastle end- throw to shortstop Jorge mateo, who MEtS At YANkEES, 7:05
ond on error by Harold Castro. Dominic
Smith strikes out. Stone Garrett walks.
PHILADELPHIA — In the city that intro- ninth to give Baltimore a 3-2 win over ed a drought of his own. The first gunned down Bryce Harper trying to Verlander (R) 4-5 3.47 6-8
Luis Garcia strikes out. Alex call dou- duced “the Process” to the NBA, the the Philadelphia Phillies. baseman, who had not homered in the score from first. Germán (R) 5-6 4.52 9-9
bles, Stone garrett scores, keibert ruiz
scores. CJ Abrams strikes out. Baltimore orioles displayed the con- Kremer, who was tagged for five majors since may 24, blasted the first In the ninth, Cowser lined a two-out brAvES At rED SOX, 7:10
rockies 10, Nationals 6 tinued success of their rebuild monday. runs in his previous outing, was excep- pitch he saw 451 feet to center, putting double to score Gunnar Henderson, Morton (R) 10-7 3.36 11-8
Dean Kremer, acquired in the 2018 tional monday. He completed seven Baltimore ahead 2-1. and that was all the orioles needed. TBD ---- ---- ----
trade that sent manny machado to the innings, allowing just one run on three The Phillies knotted the score in the — Baltimore Sun
nl leaders cUbS At whitE SOX, 8:10
Hendricks (R) 3-4 3.38 7-4
Entering Monday’s games.
Kopech (R) 4-8 4.29 7-11
bAttiNg orioles 3, phillies 2 tigers 5, Giants 1 royals 5, Guardians 3 twins 4, brewers 3, reds 2 astros 10, rangers 9
AthLEticS At giANtS, 9:45
Arraez, Mia ...................................... .379
Acuña Jr., Atl ................................... .332 OriOLES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg tarik skubal struck out salvador Perez became mariners 3 (10) christian yelich hit a chas mccormick Waldichuk (L) 2-6 6.75 6-7
Freeman, LA .................................... .331 Hays lf.................4 0 0 0 0 3 .293 nine while recording his the 10th player in major carlos correa’s flare to game-winning single, sal homered and had a career-
Santander rf .......4 0 0 0 0 1 .262 Cobb (R) 6-3 3.15 13-5
hOME rUNS Mountcastle 1b...3 1 1 1 0 1 .236 first win in more than a league history to hit 200 right field scored automat- Frelick launched his first high six RBi before a single
bLUE JAYS At DODgErS, 10:10
Olson, Atl ............................................ 32 Frazier ph-2b ......1 0 0 0 0 0 .237 year as Detroit handed home runs as a catcher, ic runner Donovan solano major league home run, by yainer Díaz with one out
Betts, LA ............................................ 27 Henderson dh......3 1 0 0 1 0 .244 Bassitt (R) 10-5 3.92 13-8
Alonso, NY .......................................... 26 Westburg 2b .......3 1 1 1 0 1 .266 san Francisco its season- and Ryan yarbrough al- as minnesota beat seattle and milwaukee beat in the ninth inning lifted
worst sixth consecutive lowed one run in six in- cincinnati. houston past texas. Urías (L) 7-6 5.02 8-6
Schwarber, Phi ................................... 26 O'Hearn ph-1b ....1
Hicks cf ...............1
0
0
0 0 0 0 .311
0 0 0 0 .252
for its second consecutive
rbi Cowser cf ............3 0 1 1 0 1 .128 loss. nings to lift Kansas city to win in extra innings. Devin Williams pitched a Ryan Pressly pitched a
Olson, Atl ............................................ 80 Urías 3b...............4 0 1 0 0 2 .251 skubal held the giants a victory over cleveland. MAriNErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg perfect ninth for the scoreless ninth for the win. interleague scores
Arenado, StL ....................................... 76 McCann c.............3 0 1 0 0 2 .198
Martinez, LA ....................................... 73 Mateo ss .............3 0 0 0 0 0 .212 scoreless on two hits over Perez hit a two-run shot Crawford ss ......... 5 0 2 0 0 1 .260 Brewers. rANgErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg
Rodríguez cf ........ 5 0 1 0 0 0 .244 SUNDAY’S rESULtS
ErA
tOtALS 33 3 5 3 1 11 — five innings in a game that in the sixth inning off Suárez 3b............. 5 0 1 0 0 0 .225 rEDS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Semien 2b...........5 0 2 0 0 1 .273
at Detroit 3, San Diego 1
Jankowski rf .......5 1 2 1 0 1 .319
Snell, SD .......................................... 2.67 PhiLLiES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg was a makeup of an logan allen to put Kansas Hernández rf ....... 5 0 0 0 0 2 .242 De La Cruz ss ......4 1 1 2 0 1 .273
Lowe 1b ..............3 2 1 1 2 1 .284 Philadelphia 8, at Cleveland 5 (10)
Ford dh................. 4 0 0 0 0 3 .254 Friedl cf...............4 0 0 0 0 0 .288 at Texas 8, L.A. Dodgers 4
Steele, Chi ....................................... 2.95 Schwarber lf .......1 1 0 1 2 0 .185 april 16 rainout. city ahead 4-0. overall, he France 1b ............. 3 0 0 0 1 0 .247 McLain 2b ...........3 0 0 0 1 0 .301
Jung 3b ...............5 2 2 2 0 3 .275
at L.A. Angels 7, Pittsburgh 5
Stroman, Chi .................................... 3.09 Turner ss ............3 0 0 0 0 1 .247 Heim c.................4 0 0 1 1 1 .279
Sosa ss ...............1 0 0 0 0 0 .249 giANtS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg has 240 home runs in his Murphy c.............. 4 1 2 1 0 2 .277 Fraley rf ..............4 0 1 0 0 0 .268
Duran ss .............4 0 1 0 1 0 .297 at Boston 6, N.Y. Mets 1
SAvES Moore 2b-lf.......... 2 0 0 0 1 2 .128 Steer 3b-1b.........4 0 1 0 0 1 .276
Harper dh............4 0 2 0 0 0 .293 Slater lf ................3 0 0 0 0 2 .303 12 seasons. Raleigh ph............ 1 0 1 0 0 0 .225 Votto 1b..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .178
Miller dh .............1 1 0 0 1 1 .226 MONDAY’S rESULtS
Doval, SF ............................................. 30 Castellanos rf .....3 0 1 1 1 0 .283 Yastrzemski ph ....1 0 0 0 0 0 .225 Trammell pr-lf..... 0 1 0 0 0 0 .130 Garver ph-dh.......2 0 1 1 1 0 .243 Baltimore 3, at Philadelphia 2
Stott 2b ..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .301 rOYALS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Senzel 3b ............0 0 0 0 0 0 .233
Díaz, Cin .............................................. 29 Flores dh...............4 1 1 1 0 2 .295 Marlowe lf ........... 2 0 1 0 0 0 .167 Taveras cf ...........3 1 0 1 1 2 .281 at Detroit 5, San Francisco 1
Harrison 3b.........4 0 0 0 0 0 .210 EncarStrand dh...3 0 0 0 0 2 .269 J.Smith lf............4 2 1 1 0 1 .207
Williams, Mil ...................................... 25 Davis 3b................3 0 0 0 0 2 .261 Garcia 3b.............4 1 1 1 0 0 .279 Caballero ph-2b ... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .227 Stephenson c......3 1 2 0 0 1 .252 Toronto at L.A. Dodgers, late
Cave 1b ...............3 0 1 0 0 1 .216 Pederson ph..........1 0 1 0 0 0 .247 Witt Jr. ss...........4 1 2 0 0 0 .255 Wong ph-2b......... 1 1 1 2 0 0 .162 tOtALS 36 9 10 8 7 11 —
StrikEOUtS Bohm ph .............1 0 1 0 0 0 .279 Benson lf ............3 0 1 0 0 1 .287
Bailey c .................3 0 1 0 1 1 .265 Melendez lf.........4 0 0 0 0 1 .213
Stubbs c..............3 1 0 0 0 0 .214 Matos cf ...............3 0 1 0 0 0 .259 tOtALS 38 3 9 3 2 10 — tOtALS 32 2 6 2 1 8 —
Strider, Atl ....................................... 189 Perez c ................4 1 1 2 0 3 .246 AStrOS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg
Luzardo, Mia ..................................... 144 Realmuto ph .......0 0 0 0 1 0 .244 Sabol ph................1 0 0 0 0 1 .252 Duffy 1b..............4 1 0 0 0 0 .264
twiNS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Dubón 2b .............. 5 1 1 0 0 1 .268
Snell, SD ........................................... 143 Rojas cf...............4 0 2 0 0 0 .333 Conforto rf............3 0 0 0 0 1 .238 Pratto 1b.............0 0 0 0 0 0 .241
Correa ss.............5 0 1 1 0 2 .231
brEwErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg
Bregman 3b .......... 5 2 3 0 0 1 .254 al games
tOtALS 31 2 7 2 4 3 — Villar 2b ................3 0 0 0 0 2 .145 Isbel cf ................4 1 2 0 0 1 .215 Yelich lf...............3 1 1 1 2 1 .289 Tucker rf ............... 2 4 1 0 3 0 .303
Schmitt ss ............3 0 0 0 0 2 .210 Olivares dh .........4 0 1 2 0 2 .250 Julien 2b .............1 0 0 0 2 0 .305 Contreras c .........3 0 1 1 1 0 .270
Farmer 2b-3b......1 0 0 0 0 0 .251 J.Abreu 1b ............ 2 2 0 1 3 2 .241 ANgELS At tigErS, 6:40
bALtiMOrE... 010 001 001 — 3 5 0 Wade Jr. 1b...........3 0 0 0 0 2 .272 Blanco rf .............3 0 0 0 0 0 .220 Adames ss ..........4 0 0 0 0 3 .208
Kirilloff 1b ..........4 1 1 0 0 1 .282 McCormick lf-cf.... 3 1 2 6 1 1 .282
PhiLA............. 000 010 010 — 2 7 2 tOtALS 31 1 4 1 1 15 — Lopez 2b .............4 0 0 0 0 0 .204 Frelick rf .............3 1 1 1 1 1 .556 w-L ErA tEAM
Diaz dh.................. 4 0 1 2 0 1 .266
al leaders E: Turner 2 (12). LOb: Baltimore 4, Phil- tOtALS 35 5 7 5 0 7 —
Kepler rf..............4 1 3 1 0 0 .230 Monasterio 3b ....2 0 2 0 2 0 .292
Peña ss ................. 4 0 0 1 0 0 .232
Wallner dh ..........4 0 0 0 0 3 .279 Miller 1b .............4 0 1 0 0 1 .270 Canning (R) 6-4 4.52 9-6
adelphia 7. 2b: Cowser (1). hr: West- tigErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Meyers cf.............. 3 0 0 0 0 3 .222
Entering Monday’s games. Castro 3b-cf........3 0 0 0 1 0 .242 Turang 2b ...........4 0 0 0 0 2 .199 Rodriguez (L) 6-5 2.69 7-7
burg (1), off Sánchez; Mountcastle (12), McKinstry ss ......3 0 0 0 0 0 .242 gUArDiANS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Larnach lf............3 1 1 1 0 2 .213 Julks ph-lf ............ 1 0 0 0 0 1 .260
off Sánchez. rbi: Westburg (8), Mount- Jones dh .............2 0 0 0 0 2 .250
bAttiNg Báez ph-ss ..........1 0 0 0 0 1 .226 Kwan lf ...............5 0 0 0 0 1 .271 Taylor cf..............0 0 0 0 0 0 .219 Maldonado c ......... 4 0 1 0 0 2 .165
castle (42), Cowser (4), Schwarber (62), Perkins ph-dh .....0 1 0 0 2 0 .217 rOYALS At gUArDiANS, 7:10
Greene cf ............4 2 3 0 0 0 .309 Rosario ss...........4 1 3 0 0 0 .265 Solano ph-2b ......1 1 0 0 0 1 .265 Wiemer cf...........3 0 0 0 0 1 .205 tOtALS 33 10 9 10 7 12 —
Díaz, TB ........................................... .317 Castellanos (59). Sb: Rojas 2 (3). Torkelson 1b.......4 0 2 1 0 0 .233 Ramírez 3b .........4 0 0 0 0 0 .288 Vázquez c............3 0 1 1 0 1 .217 Winker ph ...........1 0 1 0 0 0 .199 Greinke (R) 1-10 5.40 4-15
Yoshida, Bos .................................... .315 SF: Schwarber. tEXAS............ 230 100 300 — 9 10 1
Carpenter rf........4 0 2 2 0 1 .271 J.Naylor 1b .........4 0 1 0 0 0 .306 Gallo cf-lf............3 0 0 0 0 2 .176
Bichette, Tor .................................... .308 tOtALS 29 3 7 3 8 11 — hOUStON ...... 400 020 301 — 10 9 2 Civale (R) 3-2 2.71 5-6
OriOLES iP h r Er bb SO ErA Ibáñez 2b ............4 1 1 0 0 0 .237 Bell dh.................4 0 1 1 0 0 .241 Jeffers ph ...........1 0 1 0 0 0 .276
hOME rUNS Kremer ................ 7 3 1 1 2 3 4.59 Cabrera dh ..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .249 Giménez 2b.........4 0 1 0 0 0 .244 One out when winning run scored.
tOtALS 33 4 8 4 3 12 — ciNciNNAti ... 002 000 000 — 2 6 1 MAriNErS At twiNS, 7:40
Coulombe ........... 2/3 2 1 1 1 0 3.12 Maton 3b ............3 0 0 0 0 1 .162 Fry c ....................3 1 0 0 1 0 .290 E: Duran (5), J.Abreu (4), Meyers (3).
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 36 MiLwAUkEE . 100 001 001 — 3 7 0
Baker .................. 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 3.79 Short 3b..............1 1 1 2 0 0 .204 Brennan rf ..........4 1 2 0 0 1 .260 SEAttLE.......000 010 002 0 — 3 9 0 LOb: Texas 8, Houston 7. 2b: McCormick Kirby (R) 9-8 3.23 10-9
Robert Jr., Chi ..................................... 28 Baddoo lf ............4 0 0 0 0 1 .209 Straw cf ..............4 0 2 2 0 0 .245 No outs when winning run scored.
Devers, Bos ......................................... 24 Pérez ................... 1 1 0 0 1 0 4.54 MiNNESOtA.000 020 001 1 — 4 8 0 (11), Bregman (14). hr: Jung (20), off López (R) 5-6 4.22 11-9
J.Rogers c ...........3 1 2 0 0 0 .216 tOtALS 36 3 10 3 1 2 — E: Steer (8). LOb: Cincinnati 4, Bielak; J.Smith (4), off Bielak;
García, Tex .......................................... 24 PhiLLiES iP h r Er bb SO ErA One out when winning run scored. Milwaukee 10. 2b: Monasterio (6).
tOtALS 35 5 12 5 0 5 — McCormick (13), off Chapman. rANgErS At AStrOS, 8:10
Sánchez ............... 7 4 2 2 0 8 2.98 kANSAS citY 020 002 100 — 5 7 1 LOb: Seattle 8, Minnesota 6. 2b: Mur- hr: De La Cruz (6), off Rea; Frelick (1),
rbi phy (10), Crawford (22), Kirilloff (13), rANgErS iP h r Er bb SO ErA
Hoffman .............. 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.70 SAN FrAN. .... 000 001 000 — 1 4 0 cLEvELAND... 000 001 200 — 3 10 1 off Ashcraft. TBD ---- ---- ----
García, Tex .......................................... 80 Kimbrel................ 1 1 1 1 1 1 3.43 DEtrOit ........ 101 010 02X — 5 12 0 Kepler (9). 3b: Larnach (3). hr: Murphy rEDS iP h r Er bb SO ErA Gray ..................... 5 7 6 6 3 6 3.66
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 77 E: Duffy (7), Ramírez (8). LOb: Kansas (7), off Maeda; Wong (2), off Jax. Leclerc ................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.97 France (R) 5-3 3.13 7-6
Naylor, Cle .......................................... 76 wP: Baker (4-3); LP: Kimbrel (6-2); LOb: San Francisco 4, Detroit 6. City 4, Cleveland 7. 2b: Witt Jr. (17), Ashcraft ........... 51/3 5 2 2 4 8 5.64
MAriNErS iP h r Er bb SO ErA Chapman ............. 1 1 3 3 2 2 3.38
S: Pérez (1). inherited runners-scored: 2b: Greene (11), Ibáñez (16). hr: Flores Olivares (14), Rosario 2 (19), Brennan Farmer................ 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 3.78 Burke ................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.63
ErA Baker 2-1. wP: Kremer, Kimbrel. (13), off Cisnero; Short (5), off Walker. (16). hr: Perez (17), off Allen; Garcia Castillo ................ 7 4 2 2 2 9 3.02 Young ................. 2/3 0 0 0 1 0 2.27
Topa..................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.77 Speas.................. 1/3 1 1 1 2 1 13.5
Cruz .................... 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 4.72
Eovaldi, Tex ..................................... 2.69 t: 2:41. A: 44,043 (42,901). giANtS iP h r Er bb SO ErA (4), off Allen.
Muñoz ................. 1 2 1 1 1 2 2.95 Law...................... 1 0 0 0 2 1 3.60 AStrOS iP h r Er bb SO ErA
al scores
Cole, NY ........................................... 2.78 Stripling .............. 6 10 3 3 0 3 5.77 rOYALS iP h r Er bb SO ErA Sewald................ 1/3 2 1 0 0 0 2.85 Díaz ..................... 0 2 1 1 1 0 2.22 Bielak ............... 42/3 6 6 3 4 5 3.62
McClanahan, TB ............................... 2.89 Alexander ......... 11/3 0 0 0 0 1 3.45 Yarbrough............ 6 6 1 1 0 1 4.70 SUNDAY’S rESULtS
OriOLES’ LEADErS Walker................ 2/3 2 2 2 0 1 2.93 Cuas..................... 1 2 2 2 1 1 4.24 twiNS iP h r Er bb SO ErA brEwErS iP h r Er bb SO ErA Mushinski......... 11/3 0 0 0 0 3 3.18 Baltimore 5, at Tampa Bay 3
SAvES Hernández ........... 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.78 Maeda............... 61/3 6 1 1 2 8 4.62 Maton.................. 0 2 3 3 2 0 3.00 at N.Y. Yankees 8, Kansas City 5
Entering Tuesday’s game. tigErS iP h r Er bb SO ErA Rea ...................... 6 5 2 2 1 5 4.53
Bautista, Bal ....................................... 28 Barlow ................. 1 2 0 0 0 0 5.15 Moran ................. 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 4.24 Stanek ................. 1 0 0 0 1 0 4.63 Chicago White Sox 5, at Minnesota 4 (12)
batters Avg r h 2b hrrbi bb Milner.................. 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.21
Clase, Cle ............................................ 27 Skubal.................. 5 2 0 0 0 9 3.71 Balazovic ............. 1 1 0 0 0 1 1.29 B.Abreu ............... 1 1 0 0 0 2 2.61 Houston 3, at Oakland 2
O'Hearn .311 23 51 11 8 32 11 gUArDiANS iP h r Er bb SO ErA Payamps.............. 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.71
Romano, Tor ....................................... 27 Cisnero ............. 12/3 1 1 1 0 2 3.96 Jax ....................... 1 2 2 2 0 1 3.19 Pressly................. 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.78 Toronto 4, at Seattle 3
Hays .293 47 96 24 9 38 20 Williams .............. 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.60
Holton .............. 11/3 0 0 0 0 2 1.70 Allen .................... 7 7 5 4 0 5 3.39 J.López ................ 1 0 0 0 0 0 5.09 wP: Pressly (3-2); LP: Speas (0-2).
StrikEOUtS Rutschman .269 48 97 17 13 43 60 Foley.................... 1 1 0 0 1 2 2.03 Norris .................. 2 0 0 0 0 2 0.00 wP: Williams (5-2); LP: Díaz (3-2). MONDAY’S rESULtS
wP: J.López (4-2); LP: Sewald (3-1). Maton pitched to 4 batters in the 7th.
Westburg .266 10 17 4 1 8 4 inherited runners-scored: Farmer 1-0, Kansas City 5, at Cleveland 3
Gausman, Tor ................................... 162 wP: Skubal (1-1); LP: Stripling (0-4). wP: Yarbrough (3-5); LP: Allen (4-3); inherited runners-scored: Moran 2-0. inherited runners-scored: Mushinski
Santander .262 51 96 25 17 55 38 Cruz 1-0. wP: Farmer, Law. t: 2:52. at Minnesota 4, Seattle 3 (10)
López, Min ........................................ 152 inherited runners-scored: Alexander S: Barlow (12). hbP: Norris (Blanco). ibb: off Muñoz (Castro). t: 2:37. 1-0, Stanek 3-2. wP: Bielak. t: 3:17.
Mullins .259 33 65 16 9 47 35 A: 29,216 (41,700). at Houston 10, Texas 9
Ohtani, LA ........................................ 148 1-0. t: 2:16. A: 16,907 (41,083). t: 2:19. A: 19,630 (34,788). A: 22,969 (38,544). A: 37,973 (41,000).
McKenna .253 16 20 5 2 11 5
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Ready to grow, Nats prospects House, Wood and Hassell link up in Harrisburg
BY A NDREW G OLDEN
Batting practice was in full
swing at Prince George’s Sta-
dium, home of the Class AA
Bowie Baysox, this past Thurs-
day, when suddenly a series of
loud thwacks cut through the
background music. Harrisburg
Senators outfielder James Wood
sent a line drive into center field,
then another.
Wood walked out of the cage
and toward infielder Brady
House. They exchanged a few
words and shared a laugh. House
twirled his bat, waiting his turn.
A few moments later, he crushed
a few line drives of his own.
Then came robert Hassell III.
He lined a ball off the wall in
center field before sending the
rest of the pitches he saw on a
line into left field.
House, 20, was promoted to
high Class A Wilmington in early
June, then was called up to
Class AA Harrisburg last week.
He joined Hassell and Wood,
forming a trio of promising play-
ers in the Washington Nationals
system who will have the chance
to learn and grow together with
the Senators.
“It was crazy — I wasn’t ex-
pecting it at the time that I was
told,” House said last week of his
rapid promotion. “I was super
happy that I had the opportunity
to come up here and play. So I’m
going to make the most of it and
enjoy my time here.”
House and Wood, a 6-foot-6
outfielder who is Washington’s
top prospect, represented the
Nationals at the futures Game in
Seattle during all-star festivities.
House called it “one of the best
things I’ve ever done” and said he
had never played in front of that
many people. It was also the first
time House and Wood had
caught up since spring training.
Wood said he knew it was only a
matter of time before House
would get called up. A few days
later, Wood noticed that one of
Harrisburg’s trainers added a
new number to their group chat.
Then House’s name popped up.
“Having to go through our
lineup, I think our lineup’s pretty
deep,” Wood said. “It’s definitely
going to be tough throughout the
game, throughout the season.
once we play together more, too,
hitting .208 with a .733 oPS in
41 games with the Senators. All
three have some adjustments to
make before they get promoted.
“The age thing, too, is great
because, speaking for me person-
ally, seeing older [pitchers], it’s
been great for me,” Hassell said.
“It’s been a challenge and it’s
been an everyday grind, and I
really have benefited from it and
learned a lot. I can’t speak for
those guys, but I assume it’s the
same for them. They’re going to
enjoy being at this level and
competing. Looking forward to
the rest of the year.”
Wood and Hassell play center
field and have split reps there
with Harrisburg. Elijah Green
and Dylan Crews — Washington’s
two most recent first-round
JoNaThaN NeWToN/The WashiNgToN PosT picks — also man center.
Brady House, 20, was promoted to high Class A Wilmington in House’s promotion does have
early June, then was called up to Class AA Harrisburg last week. an impact on Trey Lipscomb, a
2022 third-round pick who
we’ll start clicking and it’s going son in Class AA, then rejoined played third base at the Univer-
to be really fun to see.” the Senators this year after inju- sity of Tennessee. Lipscomb will
Hassell, a 21-year-old outfield- ries delayed his start. Hassell is still get some time there; House
er, has the most experience of the hitting .226 with a .628 oPS in 60 won’t play every day. But as
three at this level. He landed games with Harrisburg. Wood, House gets acclimated to third,
with Washington as part of the 20, joined him in late may after Lipscomb has sometimes shifted
Juan Soto trade, ended last sea- mashing in Wilmington — he’s to second.
All of that, however, will be
determined at some point in the
future.
Before they took batting prac-
tice, the team took part in defen-
sive drills on the field. The crack
of the bat sent Hassell to his left
as a coach near the infield yelled
“Third base!” He fielded a
grounder and fired a one-hop
toss to third that House snagged
before applying a phantom tag.
Then came Wood’s throw. He
glided toward the ball, fielded it
and threw a two-hopper that got
on House’s body quicker than he
expected. His eyes widened. His
cheeks swelled. And then he
leaned back to snag the ball and
apply another tag. House will get
used to those throws over the
coming weeks.
“I’m glad that I get to get up
here and get experience and get
some time in at third base in
Double-A,” House said. “Every-
where you go, you have to take
reps there to start feeling more
comfortable. So it’s going to take
time. And I’m sure it takes time
for everybody.
“Just getting reps in, but I’m
feeling good.”

oN the NBA Chamberlain and raised his NFL Notes

profile, but it didn’t pay

In ‘Goliath,’ immediate dividends on the

one star’s
might is on
full display
ON tHE NBA from D1
debaucherous house parties.
That landmark deal is explored
at length in “Goliath,” a new
Showtime documentary that
argues Chamberlain was a
founding father of basketball’s
player empowerment era.
“He was the NBA’s first rock
star,” said Hall of fame forward
Kevin Garnett, an executive
producer on the project. “Wilt
was the first pure athlete — his
leaping ability, running ability.
He was a track star, and that
made him a super weapon. I see
similarities [between our games]
obviously, but I was no athlete
like that. . . . The first thing [my
uncles and grandfather] would
always tell me about was
[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s]
skyhook and Wilt’s 100 points,
and how the young boys would
never break that.”
Chamberlain towered over his
contemporaries and his record
100-point game has never been
seriously challenged, but he
spent the 1960s living in the
shadow of Bill russell’s Celtics.
After the 76ers took a 3-1 lead in
the 1968 Eastern Division finals,
Boston stormed back to win in
seven games. Chamberlain, a
seven-time scoring champion
who had once averaged 50
points for a season, managed
only 14 points on 4-for-9
shooting in the finale as russell
eliminated him from the playoffs
for the sixth time in nine years.
Even though Philadelphia had
just won 62 games and had
assembled Hal Greer, Billy
Cunningham and Chet Walker
around its star center, an
unhappy Chamberlain was ready
Wilt Chamberlain once declared, “I’ll trade myself ” — and he did, leaving the 76ers for the Lakers.
for a change of scenery. In those
days, star players had relatively
little sway compared with their
teams and tended to remain
with the same franchise
throughout their careers.
Chamberlain, a Philadelphia
native, had been assigned to the
Philadelphia Warriors in the
1959 draft because the franchise
successfully argued it held his
territorial rights. He went on to
play his entire career before the
NBA instituted free agency in
1976 under mounting legal
pressure from players.
Still, Chamberlain sought to
maximize his earning power by
signing one-year contracts, and
he cultivated a close friendship
with 76ers co-owner Ike
richman, who verbally promised
to give Chamberlain a share of
the organization. After richman
suffered a heart attack and died
during a 1965 game against the
Celtics, Irv Kosloff,
Philadelphia’s other co-owner,
refused to honor the equity
agreement with Chamberlain
without a binding contract.
With no better alternative,
Chamberlain decided to flex his
power in the media by declaring,
“I’ll trade myself.” He eventually
got his wish when the Lakers
acquired him for Darrall Imhoff,
Archie Clark, Jerry Chambers
and cash, thereby forming a
superstar trio of Chamberlain,
Jerry West and Elgin Baylor.
“I feel very, very happy that
I’ve been traded to a team that
has a chance to go down as one
of the best teams in basketball
ever,” Chamberlain said at the
time.
Chamberlain acknowledged
that his headstrong behavior, his
clashes with coaches and his
struggles against russell,
combined with his playboy
lifestyle and flashy personality,
made him a “classic bad guy”
throughout his career. And his
boastful claim that he had slept
with 20,000 women, made in the
1991 book “A View from Above,”
sparked a frenzy that
contributed to his family’s
associaTed Press
reluctance to participate in
media projects following his
1999 death.
“Goliath” traces
Chamberlain’s childhood in
Philadelphia, his college years at
the University of Kansas, his 14
seasons in the NBA and his
retirement in Los Angeles across
three hour-long episodes. At
each step, director rob ford said
the documentary aimed to
provide a “humanizing”
portrayal of Chamberlain while
revealing how he was ahead of
his time.
When Chamberlain sprouted
to 7 feet as a teenager, he drew
national interest like Victor
Wembanyama. Upon his 1956
arrival in Kansas, his star power
enabled him to integrate Whites-
only restaurants. During and
after his professional career, he
wore showy outfits like russell
Westbrook, appeared in movies
like Shaquille o’Neal and sought
to build a business empire like
LeBron James.
moving to the Lakers enriched
court. Los Angeles had to
overcome some early chemistry
concerns and a knee injury that
cost Chamberlain most of the
1969-70 season before winning a
record 33 straight games en
route to the 1972 title. That
triumph gave Chamberlain his
second ring and West his only
championship. Without
Chamberlain, Philadelphia
didn’t return to the East finals
until 1977, and it didn’t win
another championship until
1983.
“[That trade] would have
changed the course of history,”
West said in the documentary.
“If that [76ers] team could have
stayed together and stayed
healthy, no one would have
beaten them for a few years.
They had it all.”
The impact of Chamberlain’s
power play extended far beyond
the short-term fates of the
Lakers and 76ers. Abdul-Jabbar
followed in Chamberlain’s
footsteps by forcing a trade to
the Lakers in 1975 and, much
later, Anthony Davis did the
same in 2019. The stigma that
greeted Chamberlain’s trade
request has faded; Harden,
Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and
Damian Lillard have asked to be
moved over the past year.
A superstar pulling levers to
determine his own fate has
become the norm rather than
the exception, while former
players such as michael Jordan
and o’Neal have claimed the
type of ownership stakes that
Chamberlain was denied in
Philadelphia.
“We got to see what it was like
to be the first of firsts,” director
Christopher Dillon said when
“Goliath” premiered in Las Vegas
this month. “He was a super
athlete and an African-American
giant at a time when the world
was set up to stop him and they
changed the rules to prevent his
success. He got recruited to
Southern colleges. Jim Crow just
stepped back and said, ‘You’re
too good.’ I didn’t ever think of
him as that revolutionary, but
his greatness made him so.”
Bills’ Hines
out for year
after jet ski
incident
A SSOCIATED P RESS
The Buffalo Bills will have to
shelve plans to incorporate Ny-
heim Hines’s versatility into their
offense after the running back
was struck by a jet ski and
suffered a season-ending knee
injury, a person with knowledge
of the situation told the Associat-
ed Press on monday.
Word of Hines’s injury came as
the Bills began reporting for
training camp, which is set to
open Wednesday in the roches-
ter, N.Y., suburbs.
Hines was sitting on a station-
ary jet ski when he was struck by
another water scooter, according
to the person who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because
the Bills had not made an an-
nouncement about his injury.
Hines will require surgery, the
person said.
l LIONS: Detroit defensive
back C.J. Gardner-Johnson does
not have structural damage to his
right knee after going down with
a noncontact injury, a person
familiar with his test results told
the AP.
The person spoke to the AP on
the condition of anonymity be-
cause the team had not an-
nounced an update on Gardner-
Johnson’s injury, which occurred
on the second day of training
camp. Gardner-Johnson, a key
addition this year, was carted off
the field after grabbing his right
knee during a noncontact drill.
l BRONCOS: The NfL indefi-
nitely suspended Denver defen-
sive end Eyioma Uwazurike for
betting on games during the
2022 season.
Uwazurike, a fourth-round
draft pick from Iowa State in
2022 who played in eight games
as a rookie, is the 10th player this
offseason to be suspended for

Three key holdovers, freshman talent lift the Terps’ hoops hopes
BY D AMON B ROOKS J R.
At Kevin Willard’s introducto-
ry news conference in march
2022, the maryland men’s basket-
ball coach vowed to bring local
recruits to College Park and con-
tinue building a staff with local
ties.
Willard landed three local re-
cruits for his 2023-24 roster:
guards DeShawn Harris-Smith of
Paul VI and Jahnathan Lamothe
of St. frances Academy, as well as
ImG Academy forward Jamie
Kaiser, who hails from Northern
Virginia. Then in April, maryland
hired mike Jones, a former
Dematha coach with a history of
producing professionals.
After two down seasons and a
coaching change, maryland sur-
passed expectations in 2022-23
with a 22-13 record and a trip to
the NCAA tournament. The
Terps’ intent to secure DmV re-
cruits paid dividends as they kept
players from their local talent
pool.
The return of starters and local
players Jahmir Young and Julian
reese alongside Donta Scott pro-
vides leadership for a team with
lofty expectations for next sea-
son.
“[The] wins are a byproduct of
the work that we put in on a daily
basis,” associate head coach
David Cox said. “So it’s about
development here, [which is] a
huge part of our culture.”
The Terps’ hopes for improve-
ment in 2023-24 start with the
return of three key players from
last season.
Young, a 2023 second-team all-
Big Ten guard who transferred to
maryland before last season,
brings experience to the back-
court. The 6-foot-1 lefty was effec-
tive in manipulating pick and
rolls but wants to improve his
assist-to-turnover ratio.
“[I’m just] slowing down some-
times in the lane [and] being sure
with every pass that I make,” said
Young, who will play his fifth
college season. “I’m working to
make sure my teammates are in
the right places so I can deliver
the basketball accurately.”
The Upper marlboro native
watched games from last season
to pinpoint areas where he can
make the defense pay with his
playmaking skills. He believes
video study and experience will
help him play at different speeds
and be decisive when delivering
the ball to teammates.
Young could play off the ball
more next season, and he has
been working on catch-and-shoot
jump shots. The added dynamic
would force defenses into tough
decisions.
one of Young’s backcourt
mates will be Harris-Smith, a 6-5
freshman whose explosive talent
should lead to “heavy minutes”
right out of the gate, Cox said.
Harris-Smith is dynamic in
transition and can score on all
three levels. Going into his first
season, he has worked heavily
with Cox and Jones on developing
consistency with his midrange
and three-point shots.
He also has learned from
Young how to prepare his body
for the rigors of a long season by
spending hours in the weight
room.
“I’m just trying to learn as
much as possible [from Young]
because . . . he’s been through the
fire [and] knows what’s best, and
he’ll point me in the right direc-
tion,” Harris-Smith said.
To assist in player develop-
ment, maryland recently broke
ground on a 44,000-square-foot
facility with a new practice court
and upgraded technology that is
scheduled to be ready by the fall
of 2025. The Terps are the only
Big Ten team without a basketball
facility dedicated to the men’s
and women’s teams.
Scott, maryland’s longest-ten-
ured player, won’t be around
when that opens, but he sur-
prised many when he returned to
College Park for his fifth season.
He has been lauded as a poten-
tial NBA prospect thanks to his
slashing ability, three-point
shooting and pro-ready size, and
after posting a career-high 12.6
points per game in 2021-22, he
entered the draft. But he with-
drew his name and played his
first season under Willard.
Last season, the 6-8 forward
averaged 11.3 points but had sev-
eral moments of scoring trouble.
In the Terps’ NCAA tournament
second-round loss to Alabama, he
had three points and shot 0 for 7
from the field. If Scott can have a
solid season, it could bode well
for maryland — and his profes-
sional aspirations.
Junior forward Julian reese,
who doubled his scoring average
from 5.7 points to 11.4 last season,
leads maryland’s frontcourt. The
6-9 Baltimore native is working
on his ballhandling skills in
hopes of using his quickness to
breeze past slower defenders.
In the summer of 2022, he
played pickup ball with former
NBA all-star Carmelo Anthony
and NBA forward rudy Gay at
St. frances Academy. There, An-
thony and Gay emphasized the
importance of being versatile and
impacting the game outside of
the box score.
“[They implored me] to do
more things that [won’t] appear
on the stat sheet,” reese said.
“You wouldn’t think even though
they’re in the league, they still do
little things, like hustle, talk and
the little things that help their
teams win.”
reese doesn’t need to look far
for motivation. He and his moth-
er traveled to the final four in
Dallas in April to watch his older
sister, Angel, help LSU win the
national title.
“She’s a motivating factor for
him, [especially with] all the suc-
cess that she’s had,” Cox said.
maryland forged chemistry by
spending long summer days in
the gym and wants to take the
next step in Willard’s second sea-
son at the helm. The Terps have a
chance to grace the Associated
Press preseason top 25 and be a
team to contend with in the Big
Ten.
“We spend a lot of time togeth-
er, so I feel like that’s one of the
best parts of the year, just getting
to know each other and grinding
together in the summer,” Young
said.
The Terps hope their early-
morning sessions of weightlift-
ing, shooting and yoga will result
in more victories. In just a short
time, Willard has delivered on his
promise of recruiting local play-
ers to “bring the swag back to
maryland basketball.”
gambling on games or betting on
other sports while in NfL locker
rooms.
He will be eligible to petition
for reinstatement no earlier than
July 24, 2024.
l RAIDERS: Las Vegas signed
two-time all-pro cornerback
marcus Peters in an effort to
address one of its most pressing
needs.
The 30-year-old will be among
the veterans who report to the
club Tuesday.
Las Vegas’s training camp
opens Wednesday.
The raiders are hoping to get
the version of Peters who has 32
career interceptions, including
six returned for touchdowns.
l SEAHAWKS: Seattle locked
up edge rusher Uchenna Nwosu
for the next three seasons, agree-
ing to an extension worth up to
$59 million on the cusp of train-
ing camp.
Nwosu’s deal includes $32 mil-
lion guaranteed and was con-
firmed by his agents with rosen-
haus Sports representation.
l DOLPHINS: miami wide re-
ceiver Tyreek Hill resolved his
dispute with a man he was
accused of assaulting at a mari-
na.
Hill had been under investiga-
tion by miami-Dade police for
assault and battery after it was
reported that he got into an
argument with an employee that
apparently ended with Hill hit-
ting the man.
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Attorney Ben Crump is representing former quarterback Lloyd
Yates, who alleges the coaching staff was aware of hazing incidents.
More suits filed
at Northwestern
BY M ATT B ONESTEEL
Two more lawsuits that allege
hazing in the Northwestern Uni-
versity athletic department
were announced Monday.
One of the lawsuits involves
former Wildcats quarterback
and wide receiver Lloyd Yates,
who alleges that members of the
football team’s coaching staff
not only were aware of the
hazing incidents but were some-
times hazed themselves. An-
other lawsuit was filed on behalf
of a former volleyball player
who alleges she required medi-
cal attention after a hazing
incident in early 2021 and that
Coach Shane Davis retaliated
against her after she reported
the incident to school officials.
Civil rights attorney Ben
Crump and Chicago law firm
Levin & Perconti are represent-
ing Yates, while Salvi, Schostok
& Pritchard is representing the
volleyball player. Three other
lawsuits against Northwestern
were filed last week by individu-
al football players represented
by the Salvi firm.
Yates, the first former North-
western football player to be
named in his lawsuit, describes
a practice called “running” in
which players forcibly held
down a nonconsenting individu-
al and “[rubbed] their genital
areas against the [person’s] gen-
itals, face, and buttocks while
rocking back and forth.” Yates
said a strength and conditioning
coach — unidentified in the
lawsuit — was subjected to “run-
ning” in front of the entire team
and coaching staff during a
training session in the fall of
2015 or spring of 2016. And Yates
said he was subjected to “run-
ning” by 12 to 15 teammates
during an off-campus preseason
camp in August 2015.
“When I read the complaint, I
was overcome with disappoint-
ment, frustration and shame.
We were conditioned to believe
this behavior was normal, which
is sickening and unacceptable,”
Yates said Monday at a news
conference.
Yates’s lawsuit, which names
only Northwestern University as
a defendant, accuses longtime
assistant coach Matt MacPher-
son “of witnessing acts of hazing
and not stopping them or re-
porting them.” It also includes
an account from an unidentified
player who claims he was a
minor when sexually abused
and suffered “an injury as a
result of the violent hazing.”
The lawsuit also says North-
western players were forced to
take part in “naked rope swings,
naked pull ups, naked center
and quarterback exchange, na-
ked one on one drills, and naked
pass rush drill”; that Black play-
ers were subject to racist re-
marks from the coaching staff;
that underage players were
forced to drink alcohol; and that
injured players were “treated as
worthless to the team until they
could get healthy.”
During the news conference
Monday, Crump said he plans to
file more than 30 individual
lawsuits against Northwestern.
“This will be acknowledged as
college sports’ #MeToo move-
ment,” Crump said at the news
conference.
In a statement Monday,
Northwestern said it has insti-
tuted anti-hazing measures and
begun an examination of athlet-
ic department culture. It’s also
“reviewing the claims made
against Coach MacPherson,” the
statement said.
The unidentified former vol-
leyball player, referred to in the
lawsuit as “Jane Doe 1,” was a
member of the team from 2019
through this past academic year.
She alleges Davis “enabled a
culture of racism, bullying, ha-
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New York .................................... 16 5 .762 — At Am Rothenbaum Rot-Weiss Tennis Club Through Sunday.
Connecticut ................................ 17 6 .739 — aRgeNtINa 0 0 0 in Hamburg, Germany points money
Atlanta ....................................... 12 10 .545 41/2 ItalY 0 1 1 purse: $2,029,849 1. .................................Jon Rahm 3,320 $16,295,608
Washington................................ 12 10 .545 41/2 first Half: None. surface: Red clay 2. ..................... Scottie Scheffler 3,146 $19,138,342
Chicago ......................................... 9 13 .409 71/2 second Half: 1, Italy, Girelli, (Boattin), 87th minute. 3. ............................ Rory McIlroy 2,304 $11,771,008
Indiana.......................................... 6 16 .273 101/2 goalies: Argentina, Vanina Correa, Lara Esponda, Abigail
sINgles — ROuND Of 32 4. ............................... Max Homa 2,128 $9,132,081
Chaves; Italy, Francesca Durante, Laura Giuliani, Rache- Luca van Assche, France, def. Alexandre Muller, France, 5. ....................... Wyndham Clark 1,944 $10,384,690
le Baldi. 7-6 (7-3), 6-4; Laslo Djere, Serbia, def. Tomas Martin 6. .......................... Brian Harman 1,827 $8,245,023
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Yellow cards: Larroquette, Argentina, 12th; Caruso, Etcheverry (6), Argentina, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3; Guido Pella, 7. ........................ Viktor Hovland 1,795 $10,125,568
Las Vegas ................................... 21 2 .913 —
Italy, 25th; Mayorga, Argentina, 68th; Bonsegundo, Argentina, def. Thiago Monteiro, Brazil, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; 8. ....................... Keegan Bradley 1,774 $8,676,697
Dallas.......................................... 13 9 .591 71/2
Argentina, 76th; Bonansea, Italy, 85th; Stabile, Argenti- Daniel Altmaier, Germany, def. Richard Gasquet, France, 9. ........................... Rickie Fowler 1,732 $7,624,286
Minnesota .................................. 10 13 .435 11
na, 90th+6. 7-5, 6-4. 10. ............................. Tony Finau 1,570 $5,472,202
Los Angeles .................................. 7 15 .318 131/2
Phoenix......................................... 6 16 .273 141/2 a: 30,889. DOubles — ROuND Of 16 11. .............................. Jason Day 1,506 $6,798,358
Seattle.......................................... 4 18 .182 161/2 12. .............................Nick Taylor 1,463 $5,783,585
Robin Haase, Netherlands, and Nikola Mektic, Croatia,
12. .................Xander Schauffele 1,351 $7,644,570
satuRDaY’s Results def. Bernabe Zapata Miralles, Spain, and Sebastian
13. ...................... Patrick Cantlay 1,443 $7,880,998
Baez, Argentina, 6-4, 6-4; Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen
Connecticut 86, at Atlanta 78 germany 6, Morocco 0 (4), Belgium, def. Hendrik Jebens and Constantin
14. ................................ Tom Kim
15. ........................... Sepp Straka
1,422
1,413
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$5,136,774
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at Dallas 98, Los Angeles 84 mOROccO 0 0 0 17. ........................Tyrrell Hatton 1,381 $8,150,779
geRmaNY 2 4 6 18. ............................ Si Woo Kim 1,351 $4,889,642
Chicago 90, at Seattle 75
first Half: 1, Germany, Popp, (Hendrich), 11th minute; 2, 19. ............................. Sam Burns 1,284 $6,637,150
suNDaY’s Results Germany, Popp, (Buehl), 39th. atlaNta OpeN 20. .....................Collin Morikawa 1,246 $5,476,781
second Half: 3, Germany, Buehl, (Brand), 46th; 4, At Atlanta Station 21. ....................... Kurt Kitayama 1,216 $6,565,702
at Washington 84, Phoenix 69
Germany, Ait El Haj, 54th; 5, Germany, Redouani, 79th; 6, purse: $737,170 22. .........................Adam Schenk 1,209 $4,139,665
at New York 101, Indiana 83 23. .......................Emiliano Grillo 1,205 $4,686,352
Germany, Schuller, 90th. surface: Hardcourt outdoor
mONDaY’s Results goalies: Morocco, Khadija Er-Rmichi, Assia Zouhair, Ines 24. .................Tommy Fleetwood 1,184 $5,170,891
Arouaissa; Germany, Merle Frohms, Ann Katrin Berger, sINgles — ROuND Of 32 25. ....................Denny McCarthy 1,179 $5,927,812
No games scheduled. 26. ............................... Chris Kirk 1,161 $3,629,834
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tuesDaY’s games Yellow cards: Anyomi, Germany, 75th. States, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3; Lloyd Harris, South Africa, def. 27. ......................... Taylor Moore 1,156 $4,062,261
Las Vegas at Chicago, 7 a: 27,256. James Duckworth, Australia, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; Thanasi 28. .......................Seamus Power 1,133 $3,682,007
Kokkinakis, Australia, def. Gael Monfils, France, 1-6, 6-3, 29. ....................... Corey Conners 1,103 $4,456,597
Phoenix at Atlanta, 7
7-6 (7-5); Jeffrey John Wolf (8), United States, def. 30. ........................ Jordan Spieth 1,099 $6,533,758
Seattle at New York, 7 Jason Jung, Taiwan, 6-2, 6-1. 31. ............................Justin Rose 1,088 $4,173,120
Connecticut at Dallas, 8 32. .................... Sahith Theegala 1,065 $4,941,293
Brazil 4, Panama 0
Indiana at Los Angeles, 10 DOubles — ROuND Of 16 33. .......................Russell Henley 1,051 $4,301,096
Marcelo Melo, Brazil, and John Peers (3), Australia, def. 34. .................... Matt Fitzpatrick 1,049 $6,343,743
weDNesDaY’s game paNama 0 0 0 Luis David Martinez, Venezuela, and Reese Stalder, 35. .............................Sungjae Im 1,047 $5,084,635
Washington at Minnesota, 8 bRazIl 2 2 4 United States, 6-1, 7-6 (7-3); Evan King, United States, 36. .....................Adam Svensson 917 $3,585,002
first Half: 1, Brazil, Borges, (Debinha), 19th minute; 2, and Constant Lestienne, France, def. Miguel Angel 37. ........................ Adam Hadwin 908 $3,404,395
tHuRsDaY’s games Brazil, Borges, 39th. Reyes-Varela, Mexico, and Andre Goransson, Sweden, 38. ..................... Patrick Rodgers 897 $2,837,083
39. ........................ Brendon Todd 884 $3,081,844
Indiana at Los Angeles, 3:30 second Half: 3, Brazil, Bia Zaneratto, (Borges), 48th; 4, 6-7 (7-3), 7-6 (7-2), 10-8; Yuki Bhambri and Saketh
Atlanta at New York, 7 Brazil, Borges, (Geyse), 70th. Myneni, India, def. Kevin King and Andres Martin, United 39. ........................Harris English 893 $4,978,351
goalies: Panama, Yenith Bailey, Sasha Fabregas, Farissa States, 6-3, 6-4. 41. ..................... Cameron Young 889 $4,890,155
Cordoba; Brazil, Leticia Izidoro, Barbara Micheline do 42. .................... Andrew Putnam 889 $3,450,453
Monte Barbosa, Camila Rodrigues. 43. ................................. Eric Cole 875 $2,887,527
Au TO R AC i n g Yellow cards: None. cROatIa OpeN 44. ................ Mackenzie Hughes
45. ..........................Alex Smalley
867
864
$3,004,998
$2,895,477
a: 13,140. At ITC Stella Maris; in Umag, Croatia 46. .............................. Tom Hoge 857 $4,134,485
purse: $623,762 47. ...............Taylor Montgomery 823 $2,541,522
nASCAR Cup Series surface: Red clay 48. ........................Thomas Detry 808 $2,238,925
rassment, hazing, and retalia- scHeDule-wINNeRs MLS sINgles — ROuND Of 32 49. ......................Byeong Hun An 796 $2,379,360
50. ............................. Nick Hardy 786 $2,358,801
tion” and that she was punished feb. 5: x-Heat Race 1 (Aric Almirola)
feb. 5: x-Heat Race 2 (Martin Truex Jr.) east w l t pts gf ga
Dino Prizmic, Croatia, def. Duje Ajdukovic, Croatia, 6-1,
6-2; Alexei Popyrin, Australia, def. Benjamin Bonzi, 51. .............................Davis Riley 768 $2,673,111
for breaking the team’s corona- feb. 5: x-Heat Race 3, (Denny Hamlin) Cincinnati ........................15
New England ...................12
2
4
6
7
51
43
39
42
25
28
France, 6-4, 7-5; Dominic Thiem, Austria, def. Facundo 52. ..................... Hayden Buckley
53. ...........................Brandon Wu
754
753
$2,832,411
$2,387,149
feb. 5: x-Heat Race 4, (William Byron) Bagnis, Argentina, 6-4, 7-5; Taro Daniel, Japan, def.
virus policies after she became feb. 5: x-Last Chance Qualifying Race 1 (Michael Philadelphia ....................12 7 4 40 39 26 Martin Landaluce, Spain, 1-6, 7-5, 6-2; Flavio Cobolli, 54. ................ Hideki Matsuyama 718 $3,500,284
Nashville .........................11 8 5 38 31 22 55. ........................Mark Hubbard 697 $2,368,186
ill in February 2021, causing the McDowell)
feb. 5: x-Last Chance Qualifying Race 2 (Chase Orlando City ....................10 6 7 37 34 28
Italy, def. Marin Cilic, Croatia, 6-4, 6-3.
56. .......................... Matt Kuchar 669 $2,735,832
program to shut down. (The Elliott) Columbus ........................10 7 6 36 45 33 DOubles — ROuND Of 16 57. ................ Matthew NeSmith
58. ...............................Aaron Rai
637
631
$2,045,915
$2,208,939
feb. 5: x- Clash at the Coliseum (Martin Truex Jr.) Atlanta..............................9 7 8 35 42 39 Guillermo Duran, Argentina, and Nicolas Barrientos,
lawsuit says the player followed feb. 16: x-Duel at Daytona 1 (Joey Logano) Chicago..............................8 7 8 32 31 31 Colombia, def. Zvonimir Babic and Luka Mikrut, Croatia, 59. ................... Vincent Norrman 623 $1,504,992
team guidelines.) According to feb. 16: x-Duel at Daytona 2 (Aric Almirola) D.C. United ........................8
CF Montreal ......................9
10
12
6
2
30
29
32
22
34
32
6-2, 6-1. 60. .............................J.T. Poston
61. ..................... Stephan Jaeger
618
604
$2,064,600
$1,906,958
feb. 19: Daytona 500 (Ricky Stenhouse Jr.)
the lawsuit, Davis and assistant feb. 26: Pala Casino 400 (Kyle Busch) New York...........................6 9 8 26 22 26 62. ......................... Beau Hossler 605 $2,014,195
Charlotte FC ......................6 9 8 26 30 40 63. .............................. J.J. Spaun 602 $2,174,768
coach Kristen Kelsay allowed march 5: Pennzoil 400 (William Byron)
march 12: Work United 500 (William Byron) New York City FC ..............5 8 11 26 25 30 ATP 64. ......................... Sam Stevens 600 $1,860,120
the team captains to select the march 19: Ambetter 400 (Joey Logano) Toronto FC ........................3
Inter Miami CF ..................5
11
14
10
3
19
18
18
22
33
36
sINgles RaNkINgs 65. .......................Austin Eckroat
66. ........................Keith Mitchell
594
593
$2,164,629
$2,589,436
march 26: EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix (Tyler
player’s punishment and that Reddick)
Through Sunday. 67. ............................. Ben Taylor 589 $1,769,225
1. Carlos Alcaraz, Spain, 9375 68. ............................. Ben Griffin 577 $1,767,830
they forced the player to run april 2: Toyota Owners 400 (Kyle Larson)
april 8: x-Qualifying Race 1 (Austin Dillon)
west
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27 2. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 8795 69. .................. Kyoung-Hoon Lee 567 $2,426,972
“suicides” that involved diving april 8: x-Qualifying Race 2 (Ryan Blaney) Los Angeles FC................10 6 7 37 34 25 3. Daniil Medvedev, Russia, 6520
4. Casper Ruud, Norway, 4905
69. ............................. Sam Ryder 575 $1,968,542
Real Salt Lake .................10 7 7 37 35 34 71. ....................David Lingmerth 561 $2,200,702
to the floor when she reached a april 8: x-Qualifying Race 3 (Kyle Larson)
april 8: x-Qualifying Race 4 (Bubba Wallace) Seattle ............................10 8 6 36 29 23 5. Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, 4850 72. ....................Davis Thompson 559 $1,785,610
line on the court. april 9: Food City Dirt Race (Christopher Bell) Austin FC ..........................9
San Jose............................8
9
7
5
8
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32
32
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32
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6. Holger Rune, Denmark, 4825
7. Andrey Rublev, Russia, 4730
73. ..........................Shane Lowry
74. ............................ Lee Hodges
556
552
$2,570,543
$2,052,479
april 16: NOCO 400 (Kyle Larson)
The former player said she april 23: Geico 500 (Kyle Busch) Vancouver .........................8 7 7 31 38 32 8. Jannik Sinner, Italy, 3975 75. .......................Justin Thomas 546 $3,052,903
9. Taylor Fritz, USA, 3310 76. ..............................Justin Suh 538 $2,348,551
needed medical attention after april 30: Würth 400 (Martin Truex Jr.)
may 7: AdventHealth 400 (Denny Hamlin)
FC Dallas ...........................8
Houston ............................8
9
10
6
5
30
29
25
26
26
31 10. Frances Tiafoe, USA, 3130 77. ...................... Cameron Davis 535 $2,900,812
the incident, the athletic depart- may 14: Goodyear 400 (William Byron) Minnesota United .............7 8 7 28 26 30 11. Karen Khachanov, Russia, 2945
12. Felix Auger-Aliassime, Canada, 2770
78. .........................Garrick Higgo 533 $1,516,463
may 20: x-Heat Race 1 (Daniel Suárez) Sporting KC .......................6 11 8 26 31 36 79. .........................Matt Wallace 527 $1,335,004
ment investigated the program may 20: x-Heat Race 2 (Chris Buescher) Portland ............................6 9 8 26 26 33 13. Cameron Norrie, Great Britain, 2610 80. ............................Adam Scott 517 $2,827,561
14. Tommy Paul, USA, 2345
for hazing in March 2021 and may 21: x-NASCAR All-Star Open (Josh Berry) LA Galaxy ..........................5
Colorado ............................3
10
10
7
10
22
19
25
16
37
30 15. Borna Coric, Croatia, 2225
81. ..........................Joel Dahmen
82. ....................Seonghyeon Kim
515
515
$1,564,761
$1,473,068
may 21: NASCAR All-Star Race (Kyle Larson)
Davis was suspended during the may 28: Coca-Cola 600 (Ryan Blaney)
weDNesDaY, JulY 12
16. Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, 2195 83. ........................ Danny Willett 511 $1,791,651
17. Alex de Minaur, Australia, 2150 84. .............................. Harry Hall 499 $1,400,424
investigation as school officials June 4: Enjoy Illinois 300 (Kyle Busch)
June 11: Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Martin Truex Jr.) at New England 2, Atlanta 1 18. Lorenzo Musetti, Italy, 1880 85. ....................Joseph Bramlett 489 $1,597,911
classified the incident as hazing. June 25: Ally 400 (Ross Chastain) Cincinnati 2, at New York 1 19. Alexander Zverev, Germany, 1755
20. Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, 1600
86. ....................... Robby Shelton
87. ...........................Michael Kim
467
458
$1,251,866
$1,706,467
July 2: Grant Park 220 (Shane van Gisbergen) at Chicago 3, CF Montreal 0
Nonetheless, in December 2021 July 9: Quaker State 400 (William Byron) Minnesota 3, at Houston 0
21. Francisco Cerundolo, Argentina, 1565 88. ..........................Nate Lashley 443 $1,421,609
22. Denis Shapovalov, Canada, 1515
the school extended Davis’s con- July 16: Crayon 301 (Martin Truex Jr.) Real Salt Lake 2, at Sporting KC 2 23. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 1505
89. ............................Will Gordon
90. ......................Gary Woodland
440
436
$1,212,442
$2,203,335
July 23: HighPoint.com 400 (Denny Hamlin)
tract. July 30: Cook Out 400 Richmond
Philadelphia 2, at Nashville 0
at Colorado 0, Portland 0
24. Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, 1500 91. ........................... Chez Reavie 435 $2,177,101
25. Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain, 1480 92. ....................... Akshay Bhatia 435 $1,913,058
The former volleyball player aug. 6: FireKeepers Casino 400, Brooklyn, Mich.
aug. 13: Verizon 200 at the Brickyard, Speedway, Ind. at San Jose 2, Seattle 0 26. Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, 1384 93. .......................... David Lipsky 429 $1,476,259
alleges in the lawsuit that Davis aug. 20: Go Bowling at the Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. at Vancouver 2, Austin FC 1 27. Adrian Mannarino, France, 1376
28. Sebastian Korda, USA, 1365
94. .................................Kevin Yu
95. ........................ Callum Tarren
428
421
$1,142,225
$1,237,523
aug. 26: Coke Zero Sugar 400, Daytona Beach, Fla. Los Angeles FC 3, at St. Louis City SC 0
retaliated against her for report- sept. 3: Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. 29. Nicolas Jarry, Chile, 1339 96. ..........................Justin Lower 419 $1,213,974
satuRDaY, JulY 15 30. Daniel Evans, Great Britain, 1321 97. .................Nicolas Echavarria 417 $951,627
ing the hazing, keeping her off sept. 10: Hollywood Casino 400 , Kansas City, Kan.
sept. 16: Bass Pro Shops Night Race, Bristol, Tenn. at New England 4, D.C. United 0 31. Yoshihito Nishioka, Japan, 1315 98. .................................Zac Blair 412 $2,246,566
the court during games and not sept. 24: AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400, Fort Orlando City 2, at Atlanta 1 32. Christopher Eubanks, USA, 1300
33. Jiri Lehecka, Czech Republic, 1233
98. .................Maverick McNealy 414 $1,309,696
100. ....................... Greyson Sigg 405 $1,234,396
allowing her to travel on road Worth
Oct. 1: YellaWood 500, Talladega, Ala.
at Cincinnati 3, Nashville 1 34. Tomas Martin Etcheverry, Argentina, 1231 101. ..................... Andrew Novak 403 $1,079,128
at CF Montreal 2, Charlotte FC 0
trips. The former player said she Oct. 8: Roval 400, Concord, N.C. at Philadelphia 2, New York City FC 1
35. Nick Kyrgios, Australia, 1175
36. Tallon Griekspoor, Netherlands, 1149
102. .... Christiaan Bezuidenhout
103. ............................. Dylan Wu
398
397
$1,571,933
$1,229,085
Oct. 15: South Point 400, Las Vegas
met with Athletic Director Der- Oct. 22: NASCAR Cup Series Race, Homestead, Fla. at Chicago 1, Toronto FC 0 37. Matteo Berrettini, Italy, 1112 104. ...................... Carson Young 394 $1,335,474
Los Angeles FC 1, at Minnesota 1 38. Ugo Humbert, France, 1102 105. ...........................Ben Martin 387 $1,222,219
rick Gragg during the 2021-22 Oct. 29: Xfinity 500, Ridgeway, Va.
Nov. 5: NASCAR Cup Series Race Championship, at St. Louis City SC 3, Miami 0 39. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Spain, 1095 106. ..................Tyson Alexander 386 $1,117,857
academic year and that he did Avondale, Ariz. at Austin FC 2, Sporting KC 1 40. Miomir Kecmanovic, Serbia, 1090
41. Ben Shelton, USA, 1075
107. ........................ Lucas Glover
108. ....................Taylor Pendrith
385
379
$1,165,876
$1,171,927
x-Non-points race
nothing in response. The former Houston 0, at Colorado 0
at Real Salt Lake 3, New York 1
42. Andy Murray, Great Britain, 1030 109. ................... Aaron Baddeley 373 $1,001,215
43. Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, 1025
player said the bullying and at Portland 3, Columbus 2
110. ...........................Alex Noren
111. .........................Chad Ramey
369
356
$1,185,463
$1,262,939
harassment continued until she nASCAR Cup Series FC Dallas 1, at Seattle 1 112. ...................... Peter Malnati 354 $1,108,848
at Vancouver 4, LA Galaxy 2 113. ........................Tyler Duncan 349 $1,087,746
retired because of medical is- pOINts leaDeRs WTA 114. ............................MJ Daffue 319 $772,163
weDNesDaY, JulY 19
sues in December 2022. Through Sunday.
mls all-staR game laDIes OpeN lausaNNe 115. .............................. Luke List
116. ........................... Doug Ghim
309
307
$1,177,680
$1,107,739
1. Martin Truex Jr, 711.
“Jane Doe 1’s case is an exam- 2. William Byron, 681.
at auDI fIelD At Stade-Lausanne Tennis Club
in Lausanne, Switzerland
117. ......................Patton Kizzire 303 $946,292
Arsenal 5, MLS all-stars 0 118. ................................C.T. Pan 301 $1,016,641
ple of how an enabled culture 3. Denny Hamlin, 656.
4. Christopher Bell, 636.
purse: $259,303 119. ...................... Billy Horschel 297 $1,302,761
and an enabled coach had be- suNDaY, aug. 20 surface: Red clay 120. ..................Kevin Streelman 297 $1,027,228
5. Ross Chastain, 613.
D.C. United at New York, 7:30 sINgles — QualIfIcatION ROuND 121. ..................... Jimmy Walker 294 $1,043,309
come accustomed to practices of 6. Kyle Busch, 609.
7. Kyle Larson, 601. Cincinnati at Columbus, 7:30 Valentini Grammatikopoulou (3), Greece, def. Valentina 122. ........................Zecheng Dou 283 $861,162
hazing and abuse for years, if 8. Kevin Harvick, 601. Charlotte FC at Miami, 7:30 Ryser, Switzerland, 6-1, 6-3; Chloe Paquet (4), France, 123. ............... Harrison Endycott
123. ..........................Aaron Wise
282
289
$767,298
$1,020,174
9. Ryan Blaney, 591. Minnesota at New York City FC, 7:30 def. Carol Zhao, Canada, 6-2, 6-4; Reka Luca Jani (2),
not decades. We see in Jane Doe 10. Joey Logano, 575. FC Dallas at Philadelphia, 7:30 Hungary, def. Amandine Hesse, France, 6-0, 6-3; Dalila 125. .......................Trey Mullinax 280 $1,378,087
126. .....................Scott Stallings 277 $1,172,950
1’s story how hazing and abuse 11. Tyler Reddick, 563.
12. Brad Keselowski, 560.
CF Montreal at Toronto FC, 7:30 Jakupovic, Slovenia, def. Jenny Duerst, Switzerland, 6-4,
127. .................. Erik Van Rooyen 275 $748,601
7-5.
causes physical and emotional 13. Chris Buescher, 549.
Orlando City at Chicago, 8:30
Portland at Houston, 8:30
128. ..........................Harry Higgs 274 $684,386
14. Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 494. sINgles — ROuND Of 32 129. ......................... Scott Piercy 270 $657,225
harm. Her story is sadly not 15. Bubba Wallace, 465. New England at Nashville, 8:30 Anna Bondar, Hungary, def. Aliona Bolsova, Spain, 6-1, 130. .........................Troy Merritt 268 $758,024
uncommon, and it permeates 16. Michael McDowell, 455. Austin FC at St. Louis City SC, 9:30 6-3; Elina Avanesyan (8), Russia, def. Evgeniya Rodina, 131. ............Austin Smotherman
132. ................... Chesson Hadley
264
252
$761,581
$806,506
17. AJ Allmendinger, 438. Real Salt Lake at LA Galaxy, 10:30 Russia, 6-2, 2-0, ret; Julia Riera, Argentina, def. Patricia
across sports, men and women, 18. Daniel Suárez, 432. Colorado at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 Maria Tig, Romania, 6-2, 6-1; Mirra Andreeva (6), 132. .........................Mito Pereira 236 $789,784
133. ................. Henrik Norlander 224 $551,623
and across campuses,” Salvi said 19. Ty Gibbs, 427.
20. Alex Bowman, 409.
Atlanta at Seattle, 10:30 Russia, def. Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine, 6-0, 6-2; Jil
Teichmann, Switzerland, def. Erika Andreeva, Russia, 133. ............................Paul Haley 249 $713,242
San Jose at Vancouver, 10:30
in a statement released Monday. 21. Chase Elliott, 399. 6-2, 6-2. 134. .......................Will Zalatoris
136. .................. Cameron Champ
244
219
$1,474,780
$711,173
22. Austin Cindric, 395.
“Here, we have a university 23. Justin Haley, 393. DOubles — ROuND Of 16 137. ................... Richy Werenski 215 $531,041
where many brave young men 24. Todd Gilliland, 358. mls leaDeRs Valentini Grammatikopoulou, Greece, and Jasmijn Gim-
brere, Netherlands, def. Bibiane Schoofs and Eva Ved-
139. ........................Russell Knox
140. ..................... Kramer Hickok
212
212
$524,226
$682,168
25. Aric Almirola, 352.
and women are standing up for 26. Corey LaJoie, 351. Through Sunday. der, Netherlands, 7-5, 7-5; Elixane Lechemia, France, and 141. ........................ Cody Gribble 209 $576,738
Quinn Gleason, United States, def. Andrea Gamiz, 142. .......................... Kevin Tway 207 $720,772
themselves, and we hope it’s a 27. Ryan Preece, 341.
28. Erik Jones, 322.
gOals Venezuela, and Aliona Bolsova (4), Spain, 4-6, 6-2, 10-7. 142. ...........................Adam Long 205 $590,105
sign of things to come, where 29. Harrison Burton, 297. Hany Mukhtar, NSH......................................................13 143. ......................... Ryan Moore
144. ................ Matthias Schwab
201
200
$541,818
$601,786
30. Austin Dillon, 295. Luciano Acosta, CIN ......................................................12
student-athletes are not abused 31. Chase Briscoe, 257. Denis Bouanga, LFC ......................................................12 145. .....................Cameron Percy 199 $502,108
146. ....................... Ludvig Aberg 199 $597,850
in the pursuit of wins for the 32. Ty Dillon, 200.
33. Noah Gragson, 190.
Cristian Espinoza, SJ ....................................................11
Julian Carranza, PHI......................................................10 HambuRg euROpeaN OpeN 147. ...................... Lucas Herbert 199 $1,010,103
school but treated like the hu- 34. BJ McLeod, 116. Jesus Ferreira, DAL.......................................................10 At Am Rothenbaum Rot-Weiss Tennis Club
in Hamburg, Germany
148. ............................. Carl Yuan 197 $501,320
Giorgos Giakoumakis, ATL ...........................................10 149. .......................Zach Johnson 196 $807,499
man beings they are.” 35. Cody Ware, 65.
36. Shane Van Gisbergen, 55. Alan Pulido, KC..............................................................10 purse: $250,960
surface: Red clay
The lawsuit, filed in Cook 37. Jenson Button, 36. Lucas Zelarayan, CLB....................................................10
38. Travis Pastrana, 26. sINgles — ROuND Of 32
County Circuit Court, names 39. Jordan Taylor, 16.
assIsts
Noma Noha Akugue, Germany, def. Laura Pigossi, Brazil,
LPgA Tour
Davis, Gragg, school president 40. Ryan Newman, 16.
41. Andy Lally, 13.
Carles Gil, NE ................................................................ 12
Thiago Almada, ATL ..................................................... 10 7-5, 6-4; Yulia Putintseva (6), Kazakhstan, def. Elsa mONeY leaDeRs
Jacquemot, France, 6-2, 6-4; Diana Shnaider, Russia, def.
Michael Schill, former school 42. Jimmie Johnson, 12. Juan Hernandez, CLB.................................................... 10
Polina Kudermetova, Russia, 6-0, 4-6, 6-1; Julia Grabher
Through Sunday.
43. Kimi Raikkonen, 8. Daniel Gazdag, PHI ......................................................... 9 trn money
president Morton Schapiro, for- 44. Jonathan Davenport, 1. Hector Herrera, HOU ...................................................... 9 (5), Austria, def. Miriam Bianca Bulgaru, Romania, 6-4, 1. ...........................Allisen Corpuz 14 $2,641,767
6-4; Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, def. Kaja Juvan, Slovenia, 6-1,
mer athletic director Jim Phil- Luciano Acosta, CIN........................................................ 8
Leo Chu, SEA................................................................... 8 6-4; Camila Osorio (8), Colombia, def. Kamilla Rakhimo-
2. ...............................Ruoning Yin
3. ..............................Ayaka Furue
10
14
$2,115,037
$1,332,406
lips and the school’s board of Brian Gutierrez, CHI........................................................ 8 va, Russia, 6-4, 6-3; Nadia Podoroska, Argentina, def.
Viktoriya Tomova, Bulgaria, 6-1, 7-5; Jule Niemeier,
4. ................................. Yuka Saso 12 $1,282,917
Nico Lodeiro, SEA ........................................................... 8 5. .............................. Charley Hull 10 $1,259,627
trustees as defendants. Formula One Alexandru Irinel Matan, CLB .......................................... 8 Germany, def. Ella Seidel, Germany, 7-6 (7-5), 1-6, 6-3; 6. ..................................... Xiyu Lin 11 $1,188,823
Bernarda Pera (3), United States, def. Zeynep Sonmez,
In December, Northwestern pOINts leaDeRs Hany Mukhtar, NSH........................................................ 8
Turkiye, 6-2, 1-6, 6-4.
7. ............................. Jin Young Ko
8. ...................................... Lilia Vu
11
10
$1,132,231
$1,130,901
Martin Ojeda, ORL .......................................................... 8
hired a law firm to investigate a Through Sunday.
DOubles — ROuND Of 16 9. .............................. Hyo Joo Kim 10 $1,057,121
1. Max Verstappen, 281. sHOts
hazing allegation lodged by an 2. Sergio Perez, 171. Denis Bouanga, LFC...................................................... 89
Vivian Heisen, Germany, and Ingrid Neel (3), Estonia, 10. ........................ Leona Maguire
11. ......................... Nasa Hataoka
12
12
$950,431
$913,051
def. Rosalie Van Der Hoek, Netherlands, and Magali
unidentified former football 3. Fernando Alonso, 139.
4. Lewis Hamilton, 133.
Hany Mukhtar, NSH ..................................................... 88 Kempen, Belgium, 6-3, 4-1, ret; Melanie Klaffner and 12. ............................Hae Ran Ryu 14 $902,204
Juan Hernandez, CLB ................................................... 83 13. ............................. Rose Zhang 3 $899,666
player at the end of the 2022 5. George Russell, 90. Thiago Almada, ATL ..................................................... 82
Sinja Kraus, Austria, def. Michaela Bayerlova, Czech
14. .......................Carlota Ciganda 13 $876,447
Republic, and Nika Radisic, Slovenia, 6-4, 6-1; Alexandra
season and then suspended 6. Carlos Sainz Jr, 87.
7. Charles Leclerc, 80.
Christian Benteke, DC .................................................. 73 Panova, Russia, and Anna Danilina (1), Kazakhstan, def. 15. ........................Ashleigh Buhai
16. ............................. Nelly Korda
13
10
$845,518
$845,304
Lucas Zelarayan, CLB ................................................... 66
Fitzgerald for two weeks with- 8. Lando Norris, 60. Julian Carranza, PHI..................................................... 65
Despina Papamichail, Greece, and Nuria Brancaccio,
Italy, 6-0, 6-2. 17. .................................Angel Yin 9 $830,807
9. Lance Stroll, 45. 18. .....................Cheyenne Knight 13 $801,116
out pay after releasing an execu- 10. Esteban Ocon, 31.
Bongokuhle Hlongwane, MIN ...................................... 62
Riqui Puig, LA ............................................................... 62 19. ......................... Celine Boutier 13 $751,834
tive summary of the law firm’s 11. Oscar Piastri, 27.
12. Pierre Gasly, 16.
Erik Thommy, KC .......................................................... 62 20. ................................Grace Kim 11 $747,662
Brian White, VAN......................................................... 62 21. ............. Brooke M. Henderson 15 $730,109
findings July 7. The next day, the 13. Alexander Albon, 11. WTA 22. ...............................Minjee Lee 10 $723,307
14. Nico Hulkenberg, 9. sHOts ON gOal
Daily Northwestern student 15. Valtteri Bottas, 5. Hany Mukhtar, NSH ..................................................... 37
sINgles RaNkINgs 23. ......................... Hannah Green
24. ............................. Aditi Ashok
11
13
$702,144
$653,335
newspaper detailed additional 16. Guanyu Zhou, 4. Denis Bouanga, LFC...................................................... 34
Through Sunday.
25. .......................... Megan Khang 12 $652,290
17. Yuki Tsunoda, 2. 1. Iga Swiatek, Poland, 9315 26. .......................Anna Nordqvist 11 $642,224
allegations of hazing within the 18. Kevin Magnussen, 2.
Thiago Almada, ATL ..................................................... 30
Luciano Acosta, CIN ..................................................... 29 2. Aryna Sabalenka, Belarus, 8845 27. .............................. Maja Stark 12 $634,017
program; the school fired 19. Logan Sargeant, 0.
20. Nyck De Vries, 0.
Juan Hernandez, CLB ................................................... 28 3. Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstan, 5465
4. Jessica Pegula, USA, 5395
28. ............................ Georgia Hall 13 $622,656
Julian Carranza, PHI ..................................................... 27 29. ..................... Atthaya Thitikul 11 $617,326
Fitzgerald on July 10. 21. Daniel Ricciardo, 0. Bongokuhle Hlongwane, MIN....................................... 26 5. Caroline Garcia, France, 4865 30. ................................Amy Yang 11 $525,067
6. Ons Jabeur, Tunisia, 4846
Fitzgerald has denied having gOals allOweD aVeRage 7. Coco Gauff, USA, 3390
31. ............................ Bailey Tardy
32. .................... Ariya Jutanugarn
12
13
$523,483
$519,451
knowledge of the hazing inci- indyCar Andre Blake, PHI........................................................ 0.85 8. Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, 3341
9. Maria Sakkari, Greece, 3310
33. ............................... Linn Grant 6 $516,996
Stefan Frei, SEA ........................................................ 0.86 34. .................Stephanie Meadow 11 $499,036
dents and has retained a lawyer. pOINts leaDeRs Joe Willis, NSH .......................................................... 0.92 10. Marketa Vondrousova, Czech Republic, 3106 35. ...............................Ally Ewing 11 $478,850
Phillips was Northwestern’s ath- Through Sunday. David Bingham, POR.................................................. 1.00 11. Daria Kasatkina, Russia, 3015
12. Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, 2840
36. ............................Hye-Jin Choi
37. ...................... Jennifer Kupcho
12
13
$443,834
$441,275
1. Alex Palou, 477. Roman Celentano, CIN............................................... 1.09
letic director from 2008 to 2021 2. Josef Newgarden, 397. Pedro Gallese, ORL .................................................... 1.10 13. Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazil, 2745 38. ............Pajaree Anannarukarn 14 $432,986
14. Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, 2570
— overlapping with nearly the 3. Scott Dixon, 357.
4. Marcus Ericsson, 330.
Maarten Paes, DAL .................................................... 1.10
15. Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, 2560
39. ..................... Elizabeth Szokol
40. ................. Jodi Ewart Shadoff
12
13
$408,497
$389,671
entirety of Fitzgerald’s 16-year 5. Scott McLaughlin, 329. 16. Madison Keys, USA, 2535
17. Liudmila Samsonova, Russia, 2315
41. .................. Albane Valenzuela 11 $388,027
42. .......... Nanna Koerstz Madsen 13 $380,051
tenure as the Wildcats’ football 6. Pato O’Ward, 329.
7. Will Power, 316.
nWSL 18. Karolina Muchova, Czech Republic, 2304 43. .............................. Jenny Shin 13 $369,825
19. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 2235
coach — before departing to 8. Colton Herta, 276. w l t pts gf ga 20. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, 2165
44. ..................... Perrine Delacour
45. ..........................Danielle Kang
11
10
$369,594
$334,587
9. Christian Lundgaard, 275.
become commissioner of the 10. Alexander Rossi, 265.
North Carolina...................8
Portland ............................7
5
4
2
4
26
25
21
34
13
21
21. Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia, 2125 46. .........................Sei Young Kim 12 $323,725
22. Donna Vekic, Croatia, 2075 47. ..................................Narin An 12 $318,479
ACC. 11. Kyle Kirkwood, 237.
12. Felix Rosenqvist, 233.
Gotham FC ........................7 4 4 25 17 14 23. Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, 2040 48. ...................... Matilda Castren 15 $315,608
OL Reign............................7 5 3 24 23 18
He said in a statement Thurs- 13. Romain Grosjean, 212. Washington ......................6 3 6 24 22 21
24. Zheng Qinwen, China, 1903
25. Magda Linette, Poland, 1835
49. ...................................... Yu Liu 14 $299,537
14. Callum Ilott, 185. 50. ............................... A Lim Kim 11 $296,543
day that he never “condoned or 15. Rinus VeeKay, 183.
San Diego ..........................6
Louisville...........................4
6
4
3
7
21
19
21
19
18
16
26. Anastasia Potapova, Russia, 1785
27. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, 1578
tolerated inappropriate con- 16. Graham Rahal, 182. Orlando .............................6 8 1 19 15 21 28. Anhelina Kalinina, Ukraine, 1567
17. David Malukas, 176. Houston ............................4 5 6 18 10 12
duct” while at Northwestern. 18. Marcus Armstrong, 156. Angel City .........................4 6 5 17 18 23
29. Marie Bouzkova, Czech Republic, 1480 TR A n SAC TiO n S
30. Elise Mertens, Belgium, 1479
Three days after Northwest- 19. Santino Ferrucci, 151.
20. Helio Castroneves, 143.
Chicago..............................5 9 1 16 19 33 31. Mayar Sherif, Egypt, 1326
Kansas City .......................5 10 0 15 17 26
ern fired Fitzgerald, the school 21. Agustin Canapino, 132. 32. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 1316
33. Paula Badosa, Spain, 1302 Nfl
22. Devlin DeFrancesco, 128. satuRDaY, JulY 8
fired baseball coach Jim Foster 23. Jack Harvey, 124. Washington 2, at San Diego 2
34. Marta Kostyuk, Ukraine, 1300 arizona cardinals: Signed LB B.J. Ojulari to a four-year
35. Petra Martic, Croatia, 1268 contract.
for “engaging in bullying and 24. Conor Daly, 120.
suNDaY, JulY 9 36. Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, 1257 Indianapolis colts: Signed CB Julius Brents, QB Anthony
25. Sting Ray Robb, 92.
abusive behavior,” according to 26. Benjamin Pedersen, 90. at Gotham FC 2, Portland 1
37. Anna Blinkova, Russia, 1253
38. Zhu Lin, China, 1227
Richardson and OT Blake Freeland to rookie contracts.
minnesota Vikings: Signed TE Colin Thompson.
a Northwestern human resourc- 27. Simon Pagenaud, 88.
28. Takuma Sato, 65.
at Angel City 2, North Carolina 1 39. Ana Bogdan, Romania, 1214 New York giants: Signed DT Brandin Bryant. Waived
es document obtained by the 29. Ryan Hunter-Reay, 62. fRIDaY, aug. 18 40. Sloane Stephens, USA, 1210
41. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 1197
WRs Dre Miller and Makai Polk. Named Mike Adams
assistant special teams coach.
30. Ed Carpenter, 40.
Chicago Tribune. OL Reign at Kansas City, 8 42. Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Italy, 1170 tennessee titans: Signed WR DeAndre Hopkins.

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LIBNI WINSETT
422 Girard Street
Unit 301 a/k/a Unit 142
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
Defendants(s).
Case No. C-15-CV-22-004041
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 7th day
of July, 2023, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, Maryland,
that the sale of the property men-
tioned in these proceedings and
described as 422 Girard Street, Unit
301 a/k/a Unit 142, Gaithersburg,
MD 20877, made and reported by
the Substitute Trustee, will be RAT-
IFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless
cause to the contrary thereof be
shown on or before the 7th day of
August 2023, provided a copy of
this NOTICE be inserted in some
daily newspaper printed in said
County, once in each of three suc-
cessive weeks before the 7th day
of August, 2023.
The report states the purchase
price at the Foreclosure sale to be
$152,000.00.
Karen A. Bushell
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland
BWW#MD-355602
July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428731
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitue Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
ALEXANDRE R. VIANA
MARCELLE L. VIANA
1617 Farragut Avenue
Rockville, MD 20851
Defendants(s).
Case No. C-15-CV-22-001925
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 7th day
of July, 2023, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, Maryland,
that the sale of the property men-
tioned in these proceedings and
described as 1617 Farragut
Avenue, Rockville, MD 20851,
made and reported by the Substi-
tute Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on or
before the 7th day of August 2023,
provided a copy of this NOTICE be
inserted in some daily newspaper
printed in said County, once in
each of three successive weeks
before the 7th day of August, 2023.
The report states the purchase
price at the Foreclosure sale to be
$370,000.00.
Karen A. Bushell
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland
BWW#MD-123910
July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428730
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitue Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
DIAN UNA AWKWARD, JR.
(DECEASED)
114 Geneva Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Defendants(s).
Case No. C-15-CV-23-000406
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 7th day
of July, 2023, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, Maryland,
that the sale of the property men-
tioned in these proceedings and
described as 114 Geneva Avenue,
Silver Spring, MD 20910, made and
reported by the Substitute Trustee,
will be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED,
unless cause to the contrary there-
of be shown on or before the 7th
day of August 2023, provided a
copy of this NOTICE be inserted in
some daily newspaper printed in
said County, once in each of three
successive weeks before the 7th
day of August, 2023.
The report states the purchase
price at the Foreclosure sale to be
$484,000.00.
Karen A. Bushell
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland
BWW#MD-189215
July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428729
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C JOBS
852
Anne Arundel County
IN THE
CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
James E. Clarke, et al.
Substitute Trustees
Versus
Richard L. Taylor Jr.
Defendant
No. C-02-CV-23-000285
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this, Tues-
day, July 18, 2023 that the sale of
the property in the proceedings
mentioned, made and reported
by Christine M. Drexel et al., Sub-
stitute Trustee BE RATIFIED AND
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on or
before the 17th day of August
2023 next; provided, a copy of this
Notice be inserted in some news-
paper published in Anne Arundel
County, once in each of three
successive weeks before the 17th
day of August 2023 next. The
report states that the amount of
sale of the property at 35 BURNS
CROSSING RD, SEVERN, MD 21144
to be $201,131.89.
Scott A. Poyer
Circuit Court for
Anne Arundel County, M.D.
July 25, 2023
August 1, 8, 2023 12429800
IN THE
CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
James E. Clarke, et al.
Substitute Trustees
Versus
Kathleen L. Lupinek AKA
Kathy Lupinek, AKA
Kathleen Lupinek, AKA
Kathleen Sinnott
Defendant
No. C-02-CV-18-004061
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this, Tues-
day, July 18, 2023 that the sale of
the property in the proceedings
mentioned, made and reported
by Christine M. Drexel et al., Sub-
stitute Trustee BE RATIFIED AND
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on or
before the 17th day of August
2023 next; provided, a copy of this
Notice be inserted in some news-
paper published in Anne Arundel
County, once in each of three
successive weeks before the 17th
day of August 2023 next. The
report states that the amount of
sale of the property at 328 TEN-
NESSEE AVENUE, PASADENA, MD
21122 to be $395,000.00.
Scott A. Poyer
Circuit Court for
Anne Arundel County, M.D.
July 25, 2023
August 1, 8, 2023 12429799
856
Frederick County
CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
FREDERICK COUNTY,
MARYLAND
100 West Patrick Street
Frederick, Maryland 21701
Clerk of the Court: 301-600-1976
Assignment Office: 301-600-2015
Case Number: C-10-CV-22-000759
Other Reference Numbers:
SYDNEY ROBERSON
VS.
CHARLES HOLLINGSWORTH, JR.
Date: 7/6/2023
NOTICE OF SALE
Notice is hereby issued by the
Circuit Court for Frederick County
this 6th day of July, 2023 that
the sale made and recorded by
Nicole Lipinski for the sale of
the property described in these
proceedings
11705 Bunker Hill Court,
Union Bridge, MD 21791
be ratified and confirmed thirty
(30) days from the date of this
Notice, unless cause to the con-
trary be shown, provided a copy
of this Notice be inserted in some
Newspaper published in this
County, once in each of three
(3) successive weeks. The report
states the amount of the sale to
be $343,000.00.
Sandra K. Dalton
Clerk of the Circuit Court
July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428726
CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
FREDERICK COUNTY,
MARYLAND
100 West Patrick Street
Frederick, Maryland 21701
Clerk of the Court: 301-600-1976
Assignment Office: 301-600-2015
Case Number:
C-10-CV-22-000778
Other Reference Numbers:
JOHN ANSELL
VS.
ANDREW ALACCA ESTATE OF
Date: 7/7/2023
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued by the
Circuit Court for Frederick County
this 7th day of July 2023, that the
sale made and recorded by John
Ansell for the sale of the property
described in these proceedings
4504 Valley View Rd,
Middletown, MD 21769
be ratified and confirmed thirty
(30) days from the date of this
Notice, unless cause to the con-
trary be shown, provided a copy
of this Notice be inserted in some
Newspaper published in this
County, once in each of three
(3) successive weeks. The report
states the amount of the sale to
be $327,795.00.
Sandra K. Dalton
Clerk of the Circuit Court
July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428727
872
Fairfax County
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
3017 KINGS VILLAGE ROAD,
ALEXANDRIA, VA 22306
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
of $223,720.00, with an annual
interest rate of 5.875000% dated
December 15, 2004, recorded
among the land records of the
Circuit Court for the County of
Fairfax as Deed Book 16851,
Page 0758, the undersigned
appointed Substitute Trustee
will offer for sale at public auc-
tion all that property located in
the County of Fairfax, on the
courthouse steps at the front
of the Circuit Court building for
the County of Fairfax located at
4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax,
Virginia on September 26, 2023
at 11:00 AM, the property with
improvements to wit:
VILLAGE AT GUM SPRINGS LT
60 PH 1
Tax Map No. 101-2-15-0060
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM
A DEBT COLLECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH.
A bidder’s deposit of 10% of
the sale price, will be required
in cash, certified or cashier’s
check. Settlement within fif-
teen (15) days of sale, otherwise
Trustees may forfeit deposit. Ad-
ditional terms to be announced
at sale. Loan type: Conventional.
Reference Number 23-292873.
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Substitute Trustees, C/O LOGS
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SILVER SPRING, MD 20904 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated June 15, 2018, recorded in Liber 56451, Folio 207 dated March 3, 2003, recorded in Liber 24228, Folio 776 dated December 27, 2006, recorded in Liber 33769, Folio
from Brian Barnett and Tiffany Scott-Barnett f/k/a Tiffany Patrice among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with 703 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with
Scott dated April 28, 2006 and recorded in Liber 34327, an original principal balance of $256,000.00, default having an original principal balance of $147,000.00, default having an original principal balance of $242,500.00, default having
folio 231 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at
MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., JULY 28, 2023 AT 3:41 PM JULY 28, 2023 AT 3:35 PM JULY 28, 2023 AT 3:39 PM
Rockville, MD 20850, on
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
JULY 28, 2023 AT 3:47 PM any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
buildings and improvements thereon situated in Montgomery Trust. Trust. Trust.
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
Trust. Tax ID #05-00290153. an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and warranty of any kind. warranty of any kind. warranty of any kind.
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no Terms of Sale: A deposit of $24,000 in the form of certified Terms of Sale: A deposit of $7,000 in the form of certified Terms of Sale: A deposit of $13,000 in the form of certified
warranty of any kind. check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $28,000 in the form of certified purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. Interest to are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten
be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate pursuant days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There
to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the
funds are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS
will be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all
are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed for real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable, real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable,
any reason. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest
if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser
private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All
survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges and transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
ground rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and paid at execution Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
of the deed, except where the secured party is the purchaser, and shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale.
thereafter assumed by the purchaser. Condominium fees and/or Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be borne of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but
by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan
of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward. prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and
Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale. void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to
title, the purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court,
limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit
purchaser fails to go to settlement, the deposit shall be forfeited, retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses
to the Trustees for application against all expenses, attorney’s occasioned by the purchaser's default and purchaser shall have occasioned by the purchaser's default and purchaser shall have occasioned by the purchaser's default and purchaser shall have
fees and the full commission on the sale price of the above- no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
of this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first
on the gross sale price of this sale) shall be charged against class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified
and paid out of the forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not
re-advertise and resell the property at the risk and expense of be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale
the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of any legal even if such surplus results from improvements to the property even if such surplus results from improvements to the property even if such surplus results from improvements to the property
or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the
purchaser shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court
if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 359579-1) return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 155007-1) return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 362143-1)
to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable attorney’s fees Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
and expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving
the Property or the proceeds of the resale. Trustees' file number
22-001993-MD-F-1.
The property will be sold subject to a 120 day right of redemption
by the Internal Revenue Service.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428304 July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428099 July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428301
July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428185
872 610
Fairfax County Dogs for Sale
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF CAVACHON PUPPIES Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
IN VIRGINIA
13609 VENTURI LN, UNIT 154, Adorable baby doll faces. Ready 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
OAK HILL, VA 20171 weekend. M/F. Local breeder Bethesda, MD 20814
In execution of a Deed of Trust
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in the original principal amount
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of $311,992.00, with an annual
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ed November 9, 2006, recorded
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pure bred puppies, short legged, 2
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE (301) 961-6555 Rockville, MD 20852
among the land records of the w/ unusual merle markings. Ready OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY (301) 961-6555
Circuit Court for the County of to go 8/13. $1200 cash. Deposit SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
Fairfax as Deed Book 18907,
Page 1812, the undersigned
will hold. Serious inq only. Carmel 8712 SUNDALE DR. OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
Church, VA. 804-994-3088 after 6pm
appointed Substitute Trustee or email jratkinson01@aol.com SILVER SPRING, MD 20910 OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
will offer for sale at public auc- 3940 CHESTERWOOD DR. 73
tion all that property located in Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from SILVER SPRING, MD 20906 9805 FREESTATE PL.
the County of Fairfax, on the
courthouse steps at the front
MINIATURE POODLES PUPS AKC Denise Andrea Smith dated March 25, 2005 and recorded in GAITHERSBURG A/R/T/A MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, MD 20886
of the Circuit Court building for
hand raised,
skyechasepoodles.com Liber 29669, folio 203 among the Land Records of Montgomery Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
the County of Fairfax located at 703-303-8174 County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, dated August 16, 2005, recorded in Liber 31359, Folio 473 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax,
Virginia on September 26, 2023 the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with dated July 29, 2005, recorded in Liber 30630, Folio 271
at 11:00 AM, the property with MINI PIN - Red, male. $1000. Reg,
for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland an original principal balance of $233,600.00, default having among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with
improvements to wit: and almost potty trained, 10wks old,
docked tail, declawed. All vaccina- Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at an original principal balance of $342,000.00, default having
COPPERMINE CROSSING CONDO tions. pups and parents in Fredricks- public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at
UNIT 154 PHASE 9
Tax Map No. 0154 07 0154
burg VA. 540-993-1021 AUGUST 4, 2023 AT 2:17 PM Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM Old English Sheepdog pups, ready to ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the AUGUST 4, 2023 AT 2:05 PM Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
A DEBT COLLECTOR. go, vet check, microchipped, utd buildings and improvements thereon situated in Montgomery AUGUST 11, 2023 AT 4:21 PM
on vac, delivery, avail for more info
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. call 540-493-1104
A bidder’s deposit of 10% of Trust. Tax ID #13-01148675. any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
the sale price, will be required County, MD and described as Unit No 3940, in a Condominium any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
in cash, certified or cashier’s
check. Settlement within fif-
ROTTWEILER: Prime 2 yr old male
130 lbs housebroken crate and
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in known as Montgomery Chase Condominium and more fully County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
teen (15) days of sale, otherwise obedience trained, $2400. an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Trust.
703-258-2483
Trustees may forfeit deposit. Ad- agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
ditional terms to be announced
at sale. Loan type: Conventional. warranty of any kind. The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
Reference Number 20-286587. SHICHON TEDDY BEAR an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE PUPPIES in Virginia Terms of Sale: A deposit of $34,000 in the form of certified agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
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sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. Interest to check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
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to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at
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funds are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
Cats will be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed for are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten
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265 title, the purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan
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reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not
purchaser shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale
if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said even if such surplus results from improvements to the property even if such surplus results from improvements to the property
snow day defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either
to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable attorney’s fees marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the
or and expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court
the Property or the proceeds of the resale. Trustees' file number for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
school day? 22-003279-MD-F-1. return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 350465-1) return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 353532-1)
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Montgomery County Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
2707 URBANA DR.
SILVER SPRING A/R/T/A WHEATON, MD 20906
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated September 6, 2006, recorded in Liber 33124, Folio
337 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with
an original principal balance of $250,000.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the
Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
AUGUST 11, 2023 AT 4:17 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $25,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten
days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There
will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the
event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS
OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all
real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable,
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to
date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser
is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All
transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale.
Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but
not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and
void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be
the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to
settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court,
purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit
retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses
occasioned by the purchaser's default and purchaser shall have
no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first
class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified
on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not
be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale
even if such surplus results from improvements to the property
by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either
marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the
other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 316183-2)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
July 25, August 1, 8, 2023 12429679
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
15019 DINSDALE DR.
SILVER SPRING, MD 20906
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated May 17, 2006, recorded in Liber 32555, Folio 660
among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with
an original principal balance of $286,400.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the
Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
AUGUST 11, 2023 AT 4:19 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $26,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten
days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There
will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the
event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS
OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all
real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable,
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to
date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser
is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All
transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale.
Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but
not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and
void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be
the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to
settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court,
purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit
retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses
occasioned by the purchaser's default and purchaser shall have
no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first
class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified
on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not
be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale
even if such surplus results from improvements to the property
by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either
marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the
other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 333564-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
July 25, August 1, 8, 2023 12429680
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850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
124 SPRING ST.
GAITHERSBURG, MD 20877
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated April 10, 2007, recorded in Liber 34203, Folio 8 among
the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with an original
principal balance of $315,000.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the
Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
AUGUST 4, 2023 AT 2:12 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $21,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten
days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There
will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the
event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS
OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all
real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable,
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to
date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser
is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All
transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale.
Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but
not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and
void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be
the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to
settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court,
purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit
retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses
occasioned by the purchaser's default and purchaser shall have
no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first
class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified
on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not
be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale
even if such surplus results from improvements to the property
by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either
marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the
other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 355566-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
July 18, 25, August 1, 2023 12429108
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
13386 RUSHING WATER WAY
GERMANTOWN, MD 20874
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated December 15, 2006, recorded in Liber 33738, Folio
20 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with
an original principal balance of $427,500.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the
Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
AUGUST 11, 2023 AT 4:15 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $32,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten
days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There
will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the
event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS
OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all
real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable,
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to
date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser
is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All
transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale.
Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but
not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and
void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be
the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to
settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court,
purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit
retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses
occasioned by the purchaser's default and purchaser shall have
no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first
class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified
on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not
be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale
even if such surplus results from improvements to the property
by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either
marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the
other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 68566-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
July 25, August 1, 8, 2023 12429678
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Montgomery County Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
3908 LAWRENCE AVE.
KENSINGTON, MD 20895
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated March 23, 2017, recorded in Liber 54256, Folio 68
among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with
an original principal balance of $321,772.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the
Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
AUGUST 4, 2023 AT 2:09 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $31,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten
days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There
will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the
event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS
OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all
real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable,
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to
date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser
is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All
transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale.
Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but
not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and
void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be
the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to
settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court,
purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit
retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses
occasioned by the purchaser's default and purchaser shall have
no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first
class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified
on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not
be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale
even if such surplus results from improvements to the property
by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either
marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the
other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 332180-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
July 18, 25, August 1, 2023 12429106
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
1015 KATHRYN RD.
SILVER SPRING, MD 20904
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated August 15, 2008, recorded in Liber 36050, Folio 296
among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with
an original principal balance of $429,345.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the
Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
AUGUST 4, 2023 AT 2:10 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $49,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten
days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There
will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the
event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS
OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all
real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable,
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to
date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser
is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All
transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale.
Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but
not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and
void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be
the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to
settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court,
purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit
retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses
occasioned by the purchaser's default and purchaser shall have
no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first
class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified
on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not
be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale
even if such surplus results from improvements to the property
by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either
marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the
other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 196122-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
July 18, 25, August 1, 2023 12429107
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850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
14118 BEAR CREEK DR.
BOYDS, MD 20841
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated January 30, 2004, recorded in Liber 26670, Folio 570
among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with
an original principal balance of $429,448.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the
Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
JULY 28, 2023 AT 3:42 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $38,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten
days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There
will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the
event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS
OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all
real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable,
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to
date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser
is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All
transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale.
Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but
not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and
void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be
the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to
settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court,
purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit
retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses
occasioned by the purchaser's default and purchaser shall have
no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first
class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified
on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not
be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale
even if such surplus results from improvements to the property
by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either
marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the
other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 77498-10)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428305
COHN, GOLDBERG & DEUTSCH, LLC
1099 WINTERSON ROAD, SUITE 301
LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, MARYLAND 21090
www.cgd-law.com/sales
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF
IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
2623 BLUERIDGE AVENUE
SILVER SPRING, MD 20902
By authority contained in a Deed of Trust dated April 24,
2007 and recorded in Liber 34353, Folio 541 among the
Land Records of Montgomery County, Maryland, with an original
principal balance of $286,500.00, and an interest rate of
4.000%, default having occurred thereunder, the Substitute
Trustees will sell at public auction at the Courthouse door for
the Circuit Court for Montgomery County (Maryland Avenue
entrance), 50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850, on
July 28, 2023 AT 3:52 PM
ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and the improvements
thereon situated in Montgomery County, MD and more fully
described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is
improved by a dwelling.
Terms of Sale: The property will be sold “as is” and subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements and agreements of record
affecting same, if any and with no warranty of any kind. A
deposit of $30,000.00 by certified funds only (no cash will
be accepted) is required at the time of auction. Balance of
the purchase price to be paid within 10 days of ratification of
sale by the Court. The purchaser, other than the holder of the
Note, its assigns, or designees, shall pay interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the note rate from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Substitute Trustees. If settlement
is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of
interest or taxes. Real estate taxes and all other public charges,
or assessments, including water and sewer facilities charges,
ground rent, condo/HOA assessments, private utility, or front
foot benefit payments, not otherwise divested by ratification of
the sale, to be adjusted as of the date of auction, unless the
purchaser is the foreclosing lender or its designee. Cost of
all transfer and recordation taxes and settlement expenses, and
all other costs incident to settlement, shall be borne by the
purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical
possession of the property.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If the purchaser fails to go
to settlement within ten (10) days of ratification of the sale,
or otherwise fails to comply with the terms of the sale, the
Substitute Trustees may declare the entire deposit forfeited and
resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting
purchaser, and the purchaser agrees to pay reasonable attorneys'
fees and costs for the Substitute Trustees, if the Substitute
Trustees have filed a motion with the Court to resell the
property. Purchaser waives personal service of any paper filed in
connection with such a motion on themself and/or any principal
or corporate designee, and expressly agrees to accept service
of any such paper by regular mail directed to the address
provided by said bidder at the time of foreclosure auction.
If the Substitute Trustees cannot convey insurable title, the
purchaser's sole remedy at law or in equity shall be the return
of the deposit without interest. The sale is subject to post-
sale confirmation of the status of the loan with the loan servicer
including, but not limited to, determination of whether the
borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or
paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale
shall be null and void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or
equity, shall be the return of his deposit without interest. (CGD
File #: 459637)
Richard E. Solomon, et al.,
Sub. Trustees
July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428327
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850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
Friedman Vartolo LLP
1325 Franklin Avenue Suite
Garden City, NY 11530
212-471-5100
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
18154 ROYAL BONNET CIR.
MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, MD 20886
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Lysander Domally, dated June 8, 2018 and recorded in
Liber 56370, folio 131 among the Land Records of Montgomery
County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof and
at the request of the parties secured thereby, the undersigned
Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door,
50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
JULY 28, 2023 AT 4:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVE-
MENTS THEREON situated in Montgomery County, Maryland
and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The
property is improved by a dwelling.
Property Address (for Informational Purposes): 18154 Royal
Bonnet Cir., Montgomery Village MD 20886
Tax ID Number: 09-03057445
The foreclosure sale advertised herein has been docketed in the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland, as Case No. C-
15-CV-23-000300
The property, will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject
to conditions, restrictions, easements, encumbrances and agree-
ments of record affecting the subject property, if any, and with
no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit in the form of cashier's or certified
check, or in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may
determine, at their sole discretion, for $26,000 at the time
of sale. If the noteholder and/or servicer is the successful
bidder, the deposit requirement is waived. Balance of the
purchase price is to be paid within fifteen (15) days of the
final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Maryland. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase
price at the rate of 5.25000% per annum from date of sale to
the date the funds are received in the office of the Substitute
Trustees, if the property is purchased by an entity other than
the noteholder and/or servicer. If payment of the balance does
not occur within fifteen days of ratification, the deposit will
be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and
cost of the defaulting purchaser. There will be no abatement
of interest due from the purchaser in the event settlement is
delayed for any reason. Taxes, water rent, and all other public
charges and assessments payable on an annual basis, including
sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges to be adjusted for
the current year to the date of sale, and assumed thereafter
by the purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser
from the date of sale. The purchaser shall be responsible for
the payment of the ground rent escrow, if required. Cost of
all documentary stamps, transfer taxes (including agricultural
transfer taxes, if applicable), and all settlement charges shall be
borne by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees are unable to
convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy
in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of the deposit to
the purchaser. Upon refund of the deposit, the sale shall be void
and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim
against the Substitute Trustees. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. The purchaser
at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of loss for the
property immediately after the sale.
Adam Friedman, Ralph Vartolo, Catherine Aponte,
Rachel Kiefer, Substitute Trustees
July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428186
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
11916 JUDSON CT.
WHEATON, MD 20902
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated November 23, 2018, recorded in Liber 57397, Folio
378 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with
an original principal balance of $100,000.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the
Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on
JULY 28, 2023 AT 3:37 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $10,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten
days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There
will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the
event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS
OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all
real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable,
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to
date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser
is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All
transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser.
Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale.
Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property
from the date of sale. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but
not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan
prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and
void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be
the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to
settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court,
purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit
retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses
occasioned by the purchaser's default and purchaser shall have
no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first
class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified
on the Memorandum of Sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not
be entitled to any surplus proceeds resulting from said resale
even if such surplus results from improvements to the property
by said defaulted purchaser. Sub. Trustees will convey either
marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the
other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 359307-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428100
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Montgomery County Montgomery County
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
301 PALMSPRING DR., UNIT #12
GAITHERSBURG, MD 20878
Under a power of sale contained in a certain
Deed of Trust from John E. Karaian and Horem
Karaian dated August 2, 2005 and recorded
in Liber 30529, folio 521 among the Land
Records of Montgomery County, MD, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the
Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the
Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville,
MD 20850, on
AUGUST 11, 2023 AT 4:26 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND,
together with the buildings and improvements
thereon situated in Montgomery County, MD
and described as Unit numbered twelve (12)
in Building numbered four (4) in the plat of
condominium subdivision entitled “Phase Four,
Park Summit Condominium” and more fully
described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax
ID #09-02714194.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling,
will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject
to conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $19,000 in
the form of certified check, cashier’s check or
money order will be required of the purchaser
at time and place of sale. Balance of the
purchase price to be paid in cash within ten
days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County. Interest to
be paid on the unpaid purchase money at
the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note
from the date of sale to the date funds are
received in the office of the Sub. Trustees.
There will be no abatement of interest in the
event additional funds are tendered before
settlement or if settlement is delayed for any
reason. The noteholder shall not be obligated
to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS
OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER.
Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all
public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure
sale, including water/sewer charges and ground
rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and paid
at execution of the deed, except where the
secured party is the purchaser, and thereafter
assumed by the purchaser. Condominium fees
and/or homeowners association dues, if any,
shall be assumed by the purchaser from the
date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses
shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser
shall be responsible for obtaining physical
possession of the property. Purchaser assumes
the risk of loss or damage to the property from
the date of sale forward. Additional terms to be
announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good
and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole
remedy in law and equity shall be limited to
a refund of the deposit without interest. If
the purchaser fails to go to settlement, the
deposit shall be forfeited, to the Trustees for
application against all expenses, attorney’s fees
and the full commission on the sale price of the
above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event
of default, all expenses of this sale (including
attorney’s fees and the full commission on the
gross sale price of this sale) shall be charged
against and paid out of the forfeited deposit.
The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell
the property at the risk and expense of the
defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves
of any legal or equitable remedies against
the defaulting purchaser without reselling
the property. In the event of a resale, the
defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to
receive the surplus, if any, even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by
said defaulting purchaser and the defaulting
purchaser shall be liable to the Trustees and
secured party for reasonable attorney’s fees
and expenses incurred in connection with all
litigation involving the Property or the proceeds
of the resale. Trustees’ file number 22-001665-
MD-F-1.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al.,
Substitute Trustees
Jul 25,Aug 1,8 2023 L0011000
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Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
Samuel I. White, P.C.
596 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suite 200
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
1416 Fairlakes Place
Bowie, MD 20721
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to THOMAS DORE OF COVAHEY, BOOZER,
DEVAN AND DORE, Trustee(s), dated January 30, 2015, and
recorded among the Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE'S
COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 36759, folio 73, the holder
of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of Trust having
appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by instrument
duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, and at the request of the party
secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer
for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
AUGUST 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 9, IN BLOCK
"N", AS SHOWN ON THAT RECORDED PLAT IDENTIFIED AS
"PLAT ELEVEN, NEWBRIDGE", WHICH PLAT IS RECORDED
AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY,
MARYLAND IN PLAT BOOK 128, FOLIO 19. BEING IN THE
13TH ELECTION DISTRICT OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY,
MARYLAND.
THE PROPERTY IS SUBJECT TO AN IRS RIGHT OF REDPEM-
TION.
The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition
without either express or implied warranty or representation,
including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condition,
construction, extent of construction, workmanship, materials,
liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition, mer-
chantability, compliance with building or housing codes or other
laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters, and
subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record
which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold
subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH WILL
NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance
of the purchase price with interest at 2% per annum from the
date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN
DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. There will be no
abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all taxes,
public charges and special or regular assessments will be made
as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. There
will be no abatement of taxes, public charges and special or
regular assessments for any reason. If applicable, condominium
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments that may
become due after the time of sale will be the responsibility of
the purchaser. Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue
stamps, transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs
incident to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is
of the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs of the
defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to pay reasonable
attorneys' fees for the Substitute trustees, plus all cost incurred,
if the Substitute Trustee's have filed the appropriate motion with
the Court to resell the property. The purchasers waives personal
service of any papers filed in connection with such a motion
and expressly agrees to The purchaser agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratified
or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable
title in accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser's only
remedy is return of the deposit.
The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation and audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into
a repayment agreement, reinstated, or paid off the loan prior to
sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the
Purchaser's sol remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the
deposit without interest. Trustee's File No. (72718)
Robert A. Jones, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
www.hwestauctions.com
July 25, August 1, 8, 2023 12426910
GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP
201 International Circle, Suite 230
Hunt Valley, MD 21030
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
15933 LIVINGSTON ROAD
Accokeek, MD 20607
By virtue of a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
ROBERT M. ALLEN JR AND GERALDINE H. ALLEN, dated
October 20, 2008 and recorded in book 30179 , page 329
among the Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY,
Maryland, default having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case
docketed as Case No. CAEF22-00431; Tax ID No. 05-0355420)
the Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY courthouse located at FRONT OF THE
DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN
ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 .
JULY 27, 2023 at 2:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD and more
fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $ 24,000.00 will be required
at the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER'S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten
days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser.
If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the
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Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
Samuel I. White, P.C.
596 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suite 200
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
5920 Plata Street
Clinton, MD 20735
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain
Deed of Trust to WILLIAM J. PETRINA , Trustee(s), dated
November 9, 2016, and recorded among the Land Records of
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 39045, folio
193, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of
Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by
instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records,
default having occurred under the terms thereof, and at the
request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute
Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF
THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735
MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
AUGUST 3, 2023 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
SITUATED, LYING AND BEING IN THE 9TH DISTRICT OF
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND, NAMELY; LOT NUM-
BERED THIRTY-ONE (31), BLOCK C, CAMBRIDGE ESTATES,
AS PER PLAT ENTITLED "PLAT ONE, SINGER'S ADDITION
TO CAMBRIDGE ESTATES" DULY RECORDED AMONG THE
PLAT RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND,
IN PLAT BOOK VJ176, PLAT NO. 44. SUBJECT TO ALL
EASEMENTS, COVENANTS, CONDITIONS, RESERVATIONS,
LEASES AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, ALL LEGAL HIGH-
WAYS, ALL RIGHTS OF WAY, ALL ZONING, BUILDINGS
AND OTHER LAWS, ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS, ALL
RIGHTS OF TENANTS IN POSSESSION, AND ALL REAL
ESTATE TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS NOT YET DUE AND
PAYABLE.
THE PROPERTY IS SUBJECT TO A PRIOR MORTGAGE. IF
AVAILABLE THE AMOUNT WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THE
TIME OF THE SALE
The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition
without either express or implied warranty or representation,
including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condition,
construction, extent of construction, workmanship, materials,
liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition, mer-
chantability, compliance with building or housing codes or other
laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters, and
subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record
which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold
subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH WILL
NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance of
the purchase price with interest at 4.65% per annum from the
date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN
DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. There will be no
abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all taxes,
public charges and special or regular assessments will be made
as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. There
will be no abatement of taxes, public charges and special or
regular assessments for any reason. If applicable, condominium
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments that may
become due after the time of sale will be the responsibility of
the purchaser. Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue
stamps, transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs
incident to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is
of the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs of the
defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to pay reasonable
attorneys' fees for the Substitute trustees, plus all cost incurred,
if the Substitute Trustee's have filed the appropriate motion with
the Court to resell the property. The purchasers waives personal
service of any papers filed in connection with such a motion
and expressly agrees to The purchaser agrees to accept service
by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratified
or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable
title in accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser's only
remedy is return of the deposit.
The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation and audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into
a repayment agreement, reinstated, or paid off the loan prior to
sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the
Purchaser's sol remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the
deposit without interest. Trustee's File No. (80574)
Robert A. Jones, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
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Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
470-321-7112
TRUSTEES' SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
605 68TH STREET
CAPITOL HEIGHTS, MD 20743
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated
October 31, 2019, and recorded in Liber 42881, folio 518,
of the land records of PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY , with
an original principal balance of $196,377.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute
Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF
THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735
MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
JULY 27, 2023 at 10:15 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with
any buildings or improvements thereon situated in PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more
fully described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust.
TAX ID# - 18-2012151
The property and improvements will be sold in an "AS IS"
physical condition without warranty of any kind and subject to all
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
same, including any condominium or homeowners association
assessments pursuant to MD Real Property Article § 11-110
852 852
Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP
201 International Circle, Suite 230
Hunt Valley, MD 21030
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
789 ANNAPOLIS NECK ROAD
Annapolis, MD 21403
By virtue of a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
ALICE L. JAMES TRUSTEE OF HER SUCCESSORS IN TRUST
UNDER ALICE JAMES LIVING TRUST DATED DECEMBER 2,
1994, dated March 24, 2015 and recorded in book 28267
, page 080 among the Land Records of ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTY, Maryland, default having occurred thereunder (Fore-
closure Case docketed as Case No. C-02-CV-21-001793; Tax
ID No. 06-000-90021001) the Substitute Trustee will sell at
public auction ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY courthouse located
at 8 CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401 .
AUGUST 3, 2023 at 4:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD and more
fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $ 33,000.00 will be required
at the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER'S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten
days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for ANNE
ARUNDEL COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser.
If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the
property shall be resold at the purchaser's risk and expense. The
purchaser waives personal service and accepts service by first
class mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided
by said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for
any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including
a Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property.
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including, but
not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which may arise
therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at
five percent (5%) from the date of sale to the date funds are
received by the Substitute Trustee. There will be no abatement of
interest in the event additional funds are tendered at the time of
sale or any time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed
for any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes
a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the
above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to
execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan,
prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee's prior
knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect,
and the Purchaser's sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit
without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps,
transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if
applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed
thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date
of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee is unable to convey
insurable title for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy in
law or equity shall be limited to a refund of the aforementioned
deposit without interest. In the event the sale is not ratified
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
the return of the deposit without interest. (File # 44377.0343)
SYDNEY E. ROBERSON,
NICOLE LIPINSKI,
MARC MEDEL,
Substitute Trustee (s)
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853
Calvert County 853
Calvert County
GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP
201 International Circle, Suite 230
Hunt Valley, MD 21030
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
2921 Deep Landing Road
Huntingtown, MD 20639
By virtue of a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
SHIRLEY J. NAUGHTON, dated June 27, 2013 and recorded
in book 4237 , page 0270 among the Land Records
of CALVERT COUNTY, Maryland, default having occurred
thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No. C-04-CV-
22-000049; Tax ID No. 02-099292) the Substitute Trustee will
sell at public auction CALVERT COUNTY courthouse located at
175 MAIN ST, PRINCE FREDERICK, MD 20678 .
JULY 27, 2023 at 9:30 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in CALVERT COUNTY, MD and more fully
described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $ 40,000.00 will be required at the
time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR BY
CASHIER'S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Balance
of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final
ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for CALVERT COUNTY.
Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the purchaser
defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the property shall
be resold at the purchaser's risk and expense. The purchaser
waives personal service and accepts service by first class mail
and certified mail addressed to the address provided by said
Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any
Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a
Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property.
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including, but
not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which may arise
therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at
five percent (5%) from the date of sale to the date funds are
received by the Substitute Trustee. There will be no abatement of
interest in the event additional funds are tendered at the time of
sale or any time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed
for any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes
a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the
above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to
execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan,
prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee's prior
853 853
Calvert County Calvert County
McNamee Hosea, P.A.
6404 Ivy Lane, Unit 820
Greenbelt, MD 20770
301-441-2420
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
SINGLE FAMILY HOME
8537 SUNSET DRIVE
BROOMES ISLAND, MARYLAND 20615
(I/R/T/A 8537 SUNSET LANE)
(Case No. C-04-CV-23-000246 in the Circuit Court for
Calvert County)
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Purchase Money
Deed of Trust (Deed of Trust) from Monster Investments, Inc.,
a Maryland Corporation dated May 24, 2019 and recorded
in Liber 5370, folio 471 among the Land Records of Calvert
County, MD, to WCP Fund I LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company and subsequently assigned to Toorak Capital Partners
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company on June 28, 2019
and recorded in Liber 5390, Folio 365 default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Substitute Trustees will sell at
public auction at the Circuit Court for Calvert County, 175 Main
St., Prince Frederick, MD 20678 on
TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2023 AT 4:00 PM
Property Description:
All those parcels of ground and improvements situate, lying and
being in the First Election District of Calvert County, State of
Maryland and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust.
Tax ID: 01-027891
Premise Address:
8537 Sunset Drive, Broomes Island, MD 20615 (i/r/t/a 8537
Sunset Lane)
The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS IS”
condition and subject to conditions, restrictions, covenants,
encumbrances, easements, right of ways, existing building
and/or environmental violations, violation notices, agreements of
record affecting the same, if any, and with no warranty either
expressed or implied as to the description of the condition of the
property or improvements.
Terms of Sale: The Property will be offered as an entirety
only. These Terms of Sale are a pre-condition to bidding at the
aforementioned sale of the property, and any person submitting
a bid at the sale shall be deemed to have accepted these Terms
of Sale. A deposit in the form of cashier’s or certified check or
in such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine,
at their sole discretion, for $30,000 at the time of sale. If the
note holder and/or servicer is the successful bidder, the deposit
requirement is waived. The balance of the purchase price is to
be paid in immediately available funds, within twenty (20) days
after the final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for
Calvert County. If payment of the balance does not take place
within twenty (20) days after ratification, the deposit will be
forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and expense
of the defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not
be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any
resale of the property. In the event the property is purchased by
someone other than the note holder or an affiliate, interest shall
be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate of 24% per
annum from the date of sale to the date funds are received in
the office of the Substitute Trustees. In the event the settlement
is delayed for any reason and the property is purchased by
someone other than the note holder or an affiliate, there shall be
no abatement of interest caused by the delay. Taxes, agricultural
taxes, water, sewer, ground rent, condominium fees, and/or
homeowners association dues, if applicable, are to be adjusted
to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.
All other public charges and assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges
are to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Cost of all documentary
stamps, recordation taxes and transfer taxes shall be borne by
the purchaser.
The property will be sold in an "AS IS" condition and without
any recourse, representations or warranties, either express or
implied, as to its nature, condition or description.
Potential purchasers are responsible for conducting their own
due diligence regarding the condition, location, permissible
uses, and value of the property. Neither the Substitute Trustees,
the secured party, the note holder nor any other party makes any
warranty or representation of any kind or nature regarding the
physical condition of, the description of, or title to the property.
The purchaser at the foreclosure sale shall assume the risk of
loss for the property immediately after the sale.
If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey the property as
described above, by reason of any defect in the title or otherwise,
the purchaser's sole remedy at law or in equity shall be limited
to the refund of the aforementioned deposit. Upon refund of
the deposit to the purchaser, the sale shall be void and of no
effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claims against
the Substitute Trustees or the secured party. The conveyance
of the property by the Substitute Trustees to the purchaser
at settlement shall be by Substitute Trustees' Deed without
covenant or warranty.
The purchaser is responsible for, and the property is sold subject
to, any environmental matter or condition, whether latent or
observable, if any, that may exist at or affect or relate to the
property and to any governmental requirements affecting the
same.
Note: The information contained herein was obtained from
sources deemed to be reliable, but is offered for information
purposes only. The Auctioneer, the Substitute Trustees, the
Deed of Trust holder and the secured party do not make any
representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy of the
information contained herein. Prospective purchasers are urged
to make their own inspection.
Aaron D. Neal, Esquire
Michael L. Brown, Esquire
Substitute Trustees
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property shall be resold at the purchaser's risk and expense. The
purchaser waives personal service and accepts service by first
class mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided
by said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for
any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including
a Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property.
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
and § 11B-117 .
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder's deposit of
$19,000.00 by cashier's/certified check or such other form as
the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole discretion,
required at time of sale except for the party secured by the Deed
of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser from date and time of auction.
knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect,
and the Purchaser's sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit
without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps,
transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
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entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including, but
not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which may arise
therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at
five percent (5%) from the date of sale to the date funds are
received by the Substitute Trustee. There will be no abatement of
interest in the event additional funds are tendered at the time of
sale or any time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed
for any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes
a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the
above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to
execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan,
prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee's prior
knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect,
and the Purchaser's sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit
without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps,
transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent,
water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if
applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed
thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date
of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee is unable to convey
insurable title for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy in
The balance of the purchase price together with interest thereon basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if
applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed
at 3.625% per annum from date of sale to receipt of purchase
price by Substitute Trustees must be paid by cashier's check thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser
within 10 days after final ratification of sale. The noteholder
shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date
of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee is unable to convey
will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the
event that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if insurable title for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy in
law or equity shall be limited to a refund of the aforementioned
settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes and
other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted as of the deposit without interest. In the event the sale is not ratified
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. If applicable,
any condominium and/or homeowners association dues and the return of the deposit without interest. (File # 44377.0360)
assessments that may become due after the date of sale shall SYDNEY E. ROBERSON,
be purchaser's responsibility. Purchaser shall pay all transfer, MARC MEDEL,
documentary and recording taxes/fees and all other settlement NICOLE LIPINSKI,
costs. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining possession of the Substitute Trustee (s)
property. Time is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser
defaults, deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk
and cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any
deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and
attorney's fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not convey
title for any reason, purchaser's sole remedy is return of deposit
without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
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law or equity shall be limited to a refund of the aforementioned
deposit without interest. In the event the sale is not ratified
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity, is
the return of the deposit without interest. (File # 58342.0223)
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into; or loan was reinstated or paid off. In any such event this
sale shall be null and void and purchaser's sole remedy shall
be return of deposit without interest. File No. (22-037678)
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853 853
Calvert County Calvert County
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
470-321-7112
TRUSTEES' SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
12280 CATALINA DR
LUSBY, MD 20657
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated
April 16, 2018, and recorded in Liber 5179, folio 0423, of the
land records of CALVERT COUNTY , with an original principal
balance of $222,222.00, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees will offer for
sale at public auction at THE CALVERT COUNTY COURTHOUSE
LOCATED AT 175 MAIN ST, PRINCE FREDERICK, MD 20678
ON,
AUGUST 3, 2023 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any
buildings or improvements thereon situated in CALVERT COUN-
TY, MD, located at the above address and more fully described in
the aforementioned Deed of Trust.
TAX ID# - 01-223887
The property and improvements will be sold in an "AS IS"
physical condition without warranty of any kind and subject to all
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
same, including any condominium or homeowners association
assessments pursuant to MD Real Property Article § 11-110
and § 11B-117 .
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder's deposit of
$22,000.00 by cashier's/certified check or such other form as
the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole discretion,
required at time of sale except for the party secured by the Deed
of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser from date and time of auction.
The balance of the purchase price together with interest thereon
at 4.625% per annum from date of sale to receipt of purchase
price by Substitute Trustees must be paid by cashier's check
within 10 days after final ratification of sale. The noteholder
shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There
will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the
event that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if
settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes and
other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted as of the
date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. If applicable,
any condominium and/or homeowners association dues and
assessments that may become due after the date of sale shall
be purchaser's responsibility. Purchaser shall pay all transfer,
documentary and recording taxes/fees and all other settlement
costs. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining possession of the
property. Time is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser
defaults, deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk
and cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any
deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and
attorney's fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not convey
title for any reason, purchaser's sole remedy is return of deposit
without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust including but not
limited to determining whether prior to sale a bankruptcy was
filed; forbearance, repayment or other agreement was entered
into; or loan was reinstated or paid off. In any such event this
sale shall be null and void and purchaser's sole remedy shall
be return of deposit without interest. File No. (22-053420)
KEITH YACKO, DAVID WILLIAMSON,
BRYSON STEPHEN, THOMAS GARTNER,
Substitute Trustees
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855 855
Charles County Charles County
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
470-321-7112
TRUSTEES' SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
7625 POPLAR ST.
CHARLOTTE HALL, MD 20622
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated
October 14, 2016, and recorded in Liber 9613, folio 392, of
the land records of CHARLES COUNTY , with an original
principal balance of $279,837.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees will
offer for sale at public auction at THE CHARLES COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 200 CHARLES STREET ( IN THE
BREEZEWAY BETWEEN CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS ), LA
PLATA, MD 20646 ON,
AUGUST 3, 2023 at 12:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any
buildings or improvements thereon situated in CHARLES
COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more fully
described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust.
TAX ID# - 08-022186
The property and improvements will be sold in an "AS IS"
physical condition without warranty of any kind and subject to all
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
same, including any condominium or homeowners association
assessments pursuant to MD Real Property Article § 11-110
and § 11B-117 .
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder's deposit of
$24,500.00 by cashier's/certified check or such other form as
the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole discretion,
required at time of sale except for the party secured by the Deed
of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser from date and time of auction.
The balance of the purchase price together with interest thereon
at 3.25% per annum from date of sale to receipt of purchase
price by Substitute Trustees must be paid by cashier's check
within 10 days after final ratification of sale. The noteholder
shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There
will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the
event that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if
settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes and
other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted as of the
date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. If applicable,
any condominium and/or homeowners association dues and
assessments that may become due after the date of sale shall
be purchaser's responsibility. Purchaser shall pay all transfer,
documentary and recording taxes/fees and all other settlement
costs. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining possession of the
property. Time is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser
defaults, deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk
and cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any
deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and
attorney's fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not convey
title for any reason, purchaser's sole remedy is return of deposit
without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust including but not
limited to determining whether prior to sale a bankruptcy was
filed; forbearance, repayment or other agreement was entered
into; or loan was reinstated or paid off. In any such event this
sale shall be null and void and purchaser's sole remedy shall
be return of deposit without interest. File No. (22-089276)
KEITH YACKO, DAVID WILLIAMSON,
BRYSON STEPHEN, THOMAS GARTNER,
Substitute Trustees
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6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
11523 HANDBOARD RD.
UNION BRIDGE, MD 21791
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated
August 8, 2003, recorded in Liber 4188, Folio 279 among the
Land Records of Frederick County, MD, with an original principal
balance of $184,950.00, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the
Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court House Door, 100
W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on
AUGUST 11, 2023 AT 12:17 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Frederick County,
MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $14,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten
days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There
will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the
event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS
OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all
real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable,
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer, ground rent and front foot benefit charges, to be
adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax
credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by
Purchaser. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment
of the ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/or
homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for
obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk
of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. The sale
is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan
servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether
the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated
or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this
sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification,
subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be
resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated
damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser's default and
purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser waives
personal service of any papers filed in connection with its failure
to settle within ten days of ratification and expressly agrees to
accept service by first class mail at the address provided by
the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The
defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. Sub.
Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they
cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the sale is
denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser's sole
remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest.
(Matter No. 305020-2)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
July 25, August 1, 8, 2023 12429677
COHN, GOLDBERG & DEUTSCH, LLC
1099 WINTERSON ROAD, SUITE 301
LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, MARYLAND 21090
www.cgd-law.com/sales
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
130 STONEGATE
DRIVEFREDERICK, MD 21702
By authority contained in a Deed of Trust dated
February 16, 2019 and recorded in Liber
12850, Folio 24 among the Land Records of
Frederick County, Maryland, with an original
principal balance of $204,000.00, and
an interest rate of 4.625%, default having
occurred thereunder, the Substitute Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Courthouse
door for the Circuit Court for Frederick County,
100 W. Patrick Street, Frederick, MD 21701,
on
August 11, 2023 AT 12:10 PM
ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND
and the improvements thereon situated in
Frederick County, MD and more fully described
in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property is
improved by a dwelling.
Terms of Sale: The property will be sold
“as is” and subject to conditions, restrictions,
easements and agreements of record affecting
same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
A deposit of $19,000.00 by certified funds
only (no cash will be accepted) is required at
the time of auction. Balance of the purchase
price to be paid within 10 days of ratification
of sale by the Court. The purchaser, other than
the holder of the Note, its assigns, or designees,
shall pay interest on the unpaid purchase
money at the note rate from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Substitute
Trustees. If settlement is delayed for any
reason, there shall be no abatement of interest
or taxes. All due and/or unpaid private utility,
water and sewer facilities charges, or front foot
benefit payments, are payable by the purchaser
without adjustment. Real estate taxes and
all other public charges, or assessments,
ground rent, or condo/HOA assessments, not
otherwise divested by ratification of the sale,
to be adjusted as of the date of auction, unless
the purchaser is the foreclosing lender or its
designee. Cost of all transfer and recordation
taxes and settlement expenses, and all other
costs incident to settlement, shall be borne by
the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the
property.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If the
purchaser fails to go to settlement within
ten (10) days of ratification of the sale, or
otherwise fails to comply with the terms of the
sale, the Substitute Trustees may declare the
entire deposit forfeited and resell the property
at the risk and expense of the defaulting
purchaser, and the purchaser agrees to pay
reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs for the
Substitute Trustees, if the Substitute Trustees
have filed a motion with the Court to resell the
property. Purchaser waives personal service
of any paper filed in connection with such a
motion on themself and/or any principal or
corporate designee, and expressly agrees to
accept service of any such paper by regular
mail directed to the address provided by said
bidder at the time of foreclosure auction. If the
Substitute Trustees cannot convey insurable
title, the purchaser’s sole remedy at law or
in equity shall be the return of the deposit
without interest. The sale is subject to post-
sale confirmation of the status of the loan with
the loan servicer including, but not limited to,
determination of whether the borrower entered
into any repayment agreement, reinstated or
paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such
event, this sale shall be null and void, and the
Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall
be the return of his deposit without interest.
(CGD File #: 459520)
Richard E. Solomon, et al., Sub. Trustees
July 25,August 1,8 2023 L0011003
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6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
204 WINTER BROOK DR.
WALKERSVILLE, MD 21793
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated
August 27, 2007, recorded in Liber 6810, Folio 348 among the
Land Records of Frederick County, MD, with an original principal
balance of $540,000.00, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the
Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court House Door, 100
W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on
AUGUST 11, 2023 AT 12:15 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Frederick County,
MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust.
The property, and any improvements thereon, will be sold in
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $23,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at
the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any
modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds
are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten
days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There
will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the
event additional funds are tendered before settlement. TIME IS
OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment of all
real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if applicable,
and any and all public and/or private charges or assessments,
to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including
water/sewer, ground rent and front foot benefit charges, to be
adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax
credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by
Purchaser. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment
of the ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/or
homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for
obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk
of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. The sale
is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan with the loan
servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether
the borrower entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated
or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this
sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser's sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification,
subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be
resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated
damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser's default and
purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser waives
personal service of any papers filed in connection with its failure
to settle within ten days of ratification and expressly agrees to
accept service by first class mail at the address provided by
the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. The
defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from said resale even if such surplus results from
improvements to the property by said defaulted purchaser. Sub.
Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they
cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the sale is
denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser's sole
remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest.
(Matter No. 356230-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees
July 25, August 1, 8, 2023 12429676
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
17 RADIO LN.
THURMONT, MD 21788
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from
Deborah Barth and Kenneth Barth dated April 1, 2005 and
recorded in Liber 5879, folio 199 among the Land Records of
Frederick County, MD, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit
Court for Frederick County, at the Court House Door, 100 W.
Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on
AUGUST 4, 2023 AT 12:05 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with
the buildings and improvements thereon situated in Frederick
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust. Tax ID #15-362154.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $45,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification
of sale by the Circuit Court for Frederick County. Interest to
be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate pursuant
to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date
funds are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There
will be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed for
any reason. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest
if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE
PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or
private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts
survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges and
ground rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and paid at execution
of the deed, except where the secured party is the purchaser, and
thereafter assumed by the purchaser. Condominium fees and/or
homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be borne
by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk
of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward.
Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable
title, the purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be
limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the
purchaser fails to go to settlement, the deposit shall be forfeited,
to the Trustees for application against all expenses, attorney’s
fees and the full commission on the sale price of the above-
scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses
of this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission
on the gross sale price of this sale) shall be charged against
and paid out of the forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then
re-advertise and resell the property at the risk and expense of
the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of any legal
or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even
if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said
defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable
to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable attorney’s fees
and expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving
the Property or the proceeds of the resale. Trustees' file number
22-001867-MD-F-1.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
July 18, 25, August 1, 2023 12429127
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Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
15125 Devlin Drive,
Glenelg (Howard County), MD 21737
Account ID 04-342453
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
(“Deed of Trust”) from CTLC, LLC, as grantor, to RUSSELL S.
DRAZIN (“Trustee”), as trustee, for the benefit of WCP FUND
I LLC, as beneficiary, dated February 24, 2022 and recorded
on March 1, 2022 in Book 21365 at Page 438, securing
the principal amount of $350,000.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, Trustee will sell at public auction at the
front entrance of the Circuit Court for Howard County, located at
9250 Judicial Way, Ellicott City, Maryland, on
AUGUST 3, 2023 AT 2:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND ANY IMPROVE-
MENTS THEREON situated in Howard County, Maryland, com-
monly known as 15125 Devlin Drive, Glenelg (Howard County),
MD 21737, and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of
Trust, as well as ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY encumbered by
the Deed of Trust (collectively, “Property”).
The Property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition and subject
to recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, agreements, and
senior liens, if any, and with no warranty of any kind (except as
required by the Deed of Trust).
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 by cashier’s check
will be required of the purchaser at the time and place of sale.
The balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash or certified
funds within ten (10) days of final ratification of the sale by
the Circuit Court for Howard County. Interest to be paid on the
unpaid purchase money at the rate in effect under the debt
instrument secured by the Deed of Trust from the date of sale to
the date of settlement. Secured Party, if a bidder, shall not be
required to post a deposit or to pay interest.
Purchaser shall settle within ten (10) days of final ratification of
the sale by the Circuit Court for Howard County. TIME SHALL
BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT BY
PURCHASER. Cost of all documentary stamps (recordation
taxes), transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be borne by
purchaser. Taxes, ground rent, water, and sewer, if applicable,
are to be adjusted for the current year to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by purchaser.
In the event purchaser does not settle as required for any reason,
purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default, Trustee may
file a motion to resell the Property at the risk and expense
of defaulting purchaser. Purchaser hereby consents to entry of
such resale Order without further notice. Defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting
from any resale of the Property, and the deposit shall be
forfeited to the Trustee and all of the expenses of this sale
(including attorneys’ fees and full commission on the gross sale
price) shall be charged against and paid out of the forfeited
deposit. Purchaser shall pay all attorneys’ fees and costs, and
all other damages of any kind or nature, incurred by Trustee
and the secured party, and their respective agents, employees,
successors and assigns, in connection with any such default.
If Trustee is unable to convey title, purchaser’s sole remedy at
law and in equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit
and the sale shall be considered null and void and of no effect.
Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession
of the Property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the Property from the date of sale forward.
Trustee reserves the right, in his sole discretion, to reject any
and all bids, to withdraw the Property from sale at any time
before or at the auction, to extend the time to receive bids, to
waive or modify the deposit requirement, to waive or modify the
requirement that interest be paid on the unpaid purchase money,
and/or to extend the period of time for settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. Purchaser will
be required to execute and deliver to Trustee a contract of the
sale at the conclusion of the bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Trustee
www.hwestauctions.com
July 18, 25, August 1, 2023 12429216
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
7105 COLLINGWOOD CT.
ELKRIDGE, MD 21075
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from
Marilyn D. Rawlings and Mark D. Rawlings dated November 29,
2000 and recorded in Liber 5293, folio 90 among the Land
Records of Howard County, MD, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction
at the Circuit Court for Howard County, at the Court House Door,
9250 Judicial Way, Ellicott City, MD 21043, on
JULY 28, 2023 AT 9:25 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in Howard County,
MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax
ID #01-286668.
The property, which is improved by a dwelling, will be sold in
an "as is" condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and
agreements of record affecting the same, if any, and with no
warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit of $76,000 in the form of certified
check, cashier's check or money order will be required of the
purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase
price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification
of sale by the Circuit Court for Howard County. Interest to
be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate pursuant
to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date
funds are received in the office of the Sub. Trustees. There
will be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed for
any reason. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest
if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE
PURCHASER. Adjustment of all real property taxes, including
agricultural taxes, if applicable, and any and all public and/or
private charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts
survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges and
ground rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and paid at execution
of the deed, except where the secured party is the purchaser, and
thereafter assumed by the purchaser. Condominium fees and/or
homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the
purchaser from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be borne
by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk
of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward.
Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale.
If the Sub. Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable
title, the purchaser's sole remedy in law and equity shall be
limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the
purchaser fails to go to settlement, the deposit shall be forfeited,
to the Trustees for application against all expenses, attorney’s
fees and the full commission on the sale price of the above-
scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, all expenses
of this sale (including attorney’s fees and the full commission
on the gross sale price of this sale) shall be charged against
and paid out of the forfeited deposit. The Trustees may then
re-advertise and resell the property at the risk and expense of
the defaulting purchaser or may avail themselves of any legal
or equitable remedies against the defaulting purchaser without
reselling the property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting
purchaser shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even
if such surplus results from improvements to the property by said
defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall be liable
to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable attorney’s fees
and expenses incurred in connection with all litigation involving
the Property or the proceeds of the resale. Trustees' file number
22-001478-MD-F-1.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Substitute Trustees
July 11, 18, 25, 2023 12428183
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Fairfax County Fairfax County
NOTICE OF CREDITOR’S SALE OF COOPERATIVE HOUSING UNIT AT
10340 REIN COMMONS COURT, #2F,
BURKE, VA 22015
NOTICE OF BURKE CENTER STATION, INC.’S (a/k/a BURKE CENTER STATION
COMMONS) (the “Cooperative Corporation”) SALE OF THE COOPERATIVE
HOUSING INTEREST ATTRIBUTABLE TO 10340 Rein Commons Court, #2F,
Burke, VA 22015 (the “Unit” and the “Coop Share Interest”), in execution
of liens for assessments imposed pursuant to Va. Code Ann. § 55.1-2148
against the interest of Kevin M. Higgins, the member in the Cooperative
Corporation and the owner of the Coop Share Interest attributable to
the right to occupy the Property, the Cooperative Corporation will offer
for sale at public auction at the offices of the Cooperative Corporation,
located at 10315 Luria Commons Court, Burke, VA 22015, on Wednesday,
August 16, 2023, at 11:45 a.m., the Unit (consisting of the membership
certificate and proprietary lease evidencing the right to occupy the
Unit), to wit: The membership certificate of that cooperative housing
corporation known as Burke Center Station, Inc. (a/k/a Burke Center Station
Commons) and the proprietary lease, occupancy agreement, ownership
contract or such other evidence of rights to occupy 10340 Rein Commons
Court, #2F, Burke, VA 22015, which is among the property owned by Burke
Center Station, Inc.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH.
A bidder’s deposit of $10,000.00 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is
lower, will be required in cash, certified or cashier’s check, payable to
National Capital Title & Escrow, llc. Settlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise the Cooperative Corporation may declare a forfeiture
of the deposit. The purchaser shall be responsible for all assessments,
from and after the date of sale, for the Monthly Housing Charges allocated
to the Coop Share Interest and utility expenses for the Unit attributable
to the period from and after the date of sale. In addition, the purchaser
shall be responsible for settlement charges and the cost of conveyance
documents. The Unit/Coop Share Interest will be sold subject to a lien
securing the payment of an existing indebtedness and also subject to
an indebtedness secured by the real property owned by the Cooperative
Corporation. Time is of the essence. Sale is subject to post sale
confirmation that the debtor did not file for protection under the U.S.
Bankruptcy Code prior to the sale which affects the validity of the sale. If
the sale is set aside for any reason, the purchaser shall be entitled to a
return of the deposit paid but shall have no further recourse against the
Cooperative Corporation or its representative(s). Additional terms may be
announced at the sale.
This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be
used for that purpose.
Sale to be conducted by, and for further information contact Michael
William Sacks, National Capital Title and Escrow, LLC at 301-948-2300.
Cooperative Corporation (Creditor/Lien Holder)
Burke Center Station, Inc.
July 25, August 1, 2023 12429950
876 876
Loudoun County Loudoun County
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE
604 South King Street
Leesburg (County of Loudoun), Virginia 20175
Tax Map # 232-47-2957-000
In execution of a Deed of Trust from Waverly Mansion, LLC and Waverly
Park Limited Partnership dated December 12, 2018, and recorded at
Instrument #20181213-0071412 in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of
Loudoun County, Virginia, as subsequently modified by that certain Partial
Release of Collateral Certificate of Satisfaction dated July 7, 2023, and
recorded at Instrument #20230710-0026724 also having been recorded
in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County, Virginia
(collectively the “Deed of Trust”), Mark C. Hayes, Substitute Trustee, will
on August 3, 2023 at 11:30 A.M. by the main entrance to the Loudoun
County Courthouse, 18 E. Market Street, Leesburg, Virginia 20178, offer
for sale at public auction to the highest bidder the following property with
improvements thereon:
LOT 1 CONTAINING 57,571 SQUARE FEET OR 1.32164 ACRES, MORE OR LESS,
WAVERLY PARK SUBDIVISION, AS DEPICTED ON A PLAT BY CHAMBERLIN
ASSOCIATES, ENGINEERS, SURVEYORS, PLANNERS, DATED MAY 4, 1984, AND
RECORDED WITH CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION BY OWNER AND PLAT IN
DEED BOOK 852, AT PAGE 1004, AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF LOUDOUN
COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
AND BEING the same property conveyed to Charles Matheson Jr., Trustee for
Charles T. Matheson Crummey Trust U/A 12/21/92 by virtue of a Deed from
Waverly Mansion LLC, a Virginia limited liability company, dated August
31, 2016 and recorded as Instrument 20160901- 0057950 among the Land
Records of Loudoun County, Virginia.
With a street Address: 604 South King Street, Leesburg, Virginia 20175
This sale is subject to all restrictions, rights of way, conditions, easements,
mechanic's liens, and encumbrances, if any, whether of record or not of
record, to the extent any of the foregoing apply and take priority over the
lien of the Deed of Trust.
Deposit of $25,000.00 by cashier's or certified check shall be required to
qualify as a bidder prior to the sale, except from Noteholder. The deposit,
without interest, is applied to purchase price at settlement. Settlement
will be held on or before 15 days after sale. If purchaser defaults, the
deposit shall be forfeited, and the property resold at the risk and cost of
the defaulting purchaser.
The balance of the purchase price shall be in cash or its equivalent.
Settlement shall be at the Substitute Trustee’s office or other mutually
agreed location. The property and any improvements thereon shall be
sold in "as is" condition without any warranties. Successful bidder shall
assume all loss or damage to the property from and after the time of the
sale. Purchaser shall be responsible for all costs of conveyance, which
shall be by special warranty including, but not limited to, preparation
of the deed and grantor's tax. Real estate taxes shall be adjusted as of
the sale date. Sale is subject to such additional terms as the Substitute
Trustee may announce at the time of sale. Purchaser will be required
to sign a Memorandum of Sale incorporating all the terms of the sale.
MARK C. HAYES, Substitute Trustee
For information contact noteholder counsel:
Kevin M. O’Donnell
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Alexandria, Virginia 22314
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PERSPECTIVE

I quit my
workaholic
life and got
healthy
HIddEn PlanET BY J ANET H OOK

The glaring downside of

My name is Janet. I’m a recovering
workaholic.
Almost two years ago I quit working
full time and transformed my life. After

energy-e∞cient LED lights

decades as a frazzled, 24-7 Washington
political reporter I retired and became a
freelance writer, leaving more time to
cultivate other interests and try new
things. It’s been great for my physical and
mental health.
I loved my career, but it consumed me.
Phone calls came and went at all hours.
Pinging texts and news alerts relentlessly
jangled my nerves. All my waking hours, I
checked Twitter as reflexively as I used to
check my watch (remember wristwatch-
es?). During frequent road trips, I ate too
much bad food and exercised too little.
Then, in fall 2021, for a variety of
personal and professional reasons, I de-
cided it was time for something different.
I didn’t call it retirement, because I
planned to keep writing — just not on
deadline, not all the time and not exclu-
sively about politics.
But I had turned 67, so people inevita-
bly concluded I was retiring. My pre-
ferred description of my new chapter: “I
quit my job, and I’m not looking for
another one.” I was grateful to have the
financial security to do so.
Having thrived for so long under daily
work pressure, I’m shocked at how easy it
has been to change the tenor and tempo
of my life.
There’s been no identity crisis after
dropping my affiliation with a major
newspaper. No painful withdrawal from
the adrenaline rush of deadline writing.
No FoMo — fear of missing out — when I
am not on the front lines of major
political news, such as the indictments of
former president Donald Trump or Rus-
sia’s invasion of Ukraine or the supreme
Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade.
My friends and colleagues, many of
whom are at a similar career juncture,
are amazed that I could actually pull this
off. some research on working and retire-
ment suggests that quitting work entirely
can be bad for your well-being, if it
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source: national Park service (2019)

ClImaTE SoluTIonS

They make the night sky brighter. They also can affect our health.
BY K ASHA P ATEL, K ATI P ERRY, D ANIEL W OLFE
I
n recent years, cities, towns and small commu-
nities across the world have taken part in a
radical revolution — of our lightbulbs. Tradi-
tional orange-tinged high-pressure sodium
bulbs are being swapped for more energy-efficient,
whiter and brighter LED (light-emitting diode)
lights. But the rise of LEDs is also illuminating new
problems for our night sky, as well as our health.
over the past decade, scientists found, the night
sky has become nearly 10 percent brighter each year
because of artificial lights, mainly LEDs emitting
too much glare. streetlights are part of the problem,
as are sources such as illuminated billboards and
stadium lights.
Those same outdoor lights are also affecting our
health. Common types of LED lights contain higher
proportions of bluer wavelengths, which can affect
people’s nighttime patterns. They disrupt our
AND E MILY S ABENS
circadian rhythms, lower the performance of our
immune systems and increase the occurrence of
certain diseases, including cancer.
“People need to understand LED lights are being
installed everywhere, not just streetlights, but
they’re blasting up in all directions,” said Jim
White, senior energy efficiency engineer with the
Chelan County Public Utility District who helped
with the LED transition in the Washington state
county.
But he added, “It’s one form of pollution that we
could solve.”
Agencies and organizations such as the National
Park service and the American Medical Association
have recommended ways to reduce light pollution
and its harmful effects on life. The changes begin
with what type of LED light to buy in the first place.
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In summer,
5 cool ways
to sleep better
on hot nights
BY A LLYSON C HIU
If you’re tossing and turning trying to
fall asleep on a hot summer night, you’re
not alone.
sleep experts say a cool environment
helps you drift off and stay asleep. But in
many places around the world, nights
have warmed faster than daytime tem-
peratures — and research suggests the
heat could be leading people to lose hours
of shut-eye. one recent study, for in-
stance, estimated that people are losing
an average of 44 hours of sleep per year.
on nights above 86 degrees Fahrenheit,
people slept about 14 minutes less on
average.
“We may not feel as restored in the
morning as we should,” said Mathias

Seniors should consider costly Basner, a psychiatry professor in the

Division of sleep and Chronobiology at
the University of Pennsylvania Perelman

weight-loss drugs with care school of Medicine.

Corlee Morris has dieted
Navigating throughout her adult life.
Aging Her weight began
Judith climbing in high school,
graham and she spent years losing
dozens of pounds, then
gaining them back.
Morris, 78, was at her heaviest in her
mid-40s — at 5 feet 101/2 inches tall, she
weighed 310 pounds. The Pittsburgh
resident also has had diabetes for more
than 40 years.
Managing her weight was a losing
battle until Morris’s doctor prescribed
the Type 2 diabetes medication ozempic
four months ago. It’s one in a new
category of medications changing how
ordinary people as well as medical
experts think about obesity, which
affects more than 4 in 10 people 60 and
older.
ozempic and similar drugs target
receptors in the brain to reduce feelings
of hunger and generate a sensation of
fullness; they have been shown to help
people lose an average of 15 percent or
more of their weight.
“It takes your appetite right away. I
wasn’t hungry at all, and I lost weight
like mad,” said Morris, who has shed
40 pounds.
But how these medications will affect
older adults in the long run isn’t well
understood because clinical trials of the
medications haven’t included significant
numbers of people 65 and older, leaving
gaps in the available data. Beyond that,
how seniors will pay for these expensive
drugs is another big question.
Given these uncertainties, how are
experts approaching the use of the new
obesity medications in older people?
Although opinions and practices vary,
several themes emerged in nearly two
dozen interviews.
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While air conditioning might seem like
a simple solution to this problem, experts
say it’s not the answer. High tempera-
tures tax air conditioners, which guzzle
energy and can place additional strain on
the electricity grid, and there are people
who don’t have access to it. Here are five
tips to help you sleep better on hot nights.
Keep your bedroom as cool as
possible
The process of falling asleep and your
body’s core internal temperature are con-
nected, experts say. When it’s time to
sleep, the body begins cooling down by
dissipating heat, which is largely lost
through your head, arms, hands, legs and
feet. Lowering your body’s temperature is
necessary for your brain to transition to
sleep, Basner said.
“If the bedroom is so hot that there’s
not a big difference between skin and
room temperature, then it gets harder
just to dump temperature quickly,” he
said.
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‘Oppenheimer,’ a film about first atomic bomb,

sparks conflicting feelings for residents in N.M.
BY S USAN M ONTOYA B RYAN
The movie about a man who
changed the course of world his-
tory by shepherding the develop-
ment of the first atomic bomb is
expected to be a blockbuster.
On the sidelines will be a
community downwind from the
testing site in the southern New
Mexico desert. The movie based
on the life of scientist J. Robert
Oppenheimer and the top-secret
work of the Manhattan Project
sheds no light on those residents’
off the land anddrew water from
cisterns and holding ponds. They
had no idea the fine ash that
settled on everything in the days
following the explosion was from
the world’s first atomic blast.
The U.S. government initially
tried to hide it, saying that an
explosion at a munitions dump
caused the rumble and bright
light, which could be seen more
than 160 miles away. It wasn’t
until the United States dropped
bombs on Japan weeks later that
New Mexico residents realized

Are you a shark expert? pain.

Before you take a dip in the ocean, take our quiz to learn the truth about the famous fish
BY T EDDY A MENABAR
White sharks are returning to Cape Cod to
lunch on seals. Sand tiger sharks reportedly
were biting July Fourth swimmers off the
coast of Long Island. And sharks have been
spotted swimming next to people in Florida
and California.
Ask shark researchers about the risk of
1. of the more than 500 species of sharks,
only three are responsible for most
shark bites. Which of these sharks is not
a frequent biter?
a. White
b. Hammerhead
c. Tiger
d. Bull
4. Which one of these statements
about sharks is true?
getting bitten, and they have an odd way of
reassuring you. Chances are, they say, that
you’ve already been swimming with sharks
and didn’t even know it.
One of the reasons researchers are so
confident humans aren’t “on the menu” is
because they’ve tracked how often sharks
swim near people without biting them.
“We really try to impress on folks that these
2. What was the shark bite capital of
the world last year?
a. Florida
b. New York
c. Australia
d. Cape Cod
5. true or false? Sharks are scared
of dolphins?
[shark bites] are mistakes, and they’re rare,”
said Greg Skomal, a senior fisheries scientist
with the Massachusetts Division of Marine
Fisheries. “If they were intentional, we’d have
a hell of a lot more.”
Still not convinced? Take the quiz below
before you head to the beach.
3. What is the best way to tell if a shark
is swimming nearby?
a. Taste the water. If it’s salty,
there are sharks.
b. Scan the ocean and look for a shark’s
fin above the water.
c. Check for notices from the
lifeguards on duty.
d. Play the “Baby Shark” song and
see if one shows up.
6. When a shark bites a human, how
many bites does the shark typically take?
“They’ll never reflect on the
fact that New Mexicans gave
their lives. They did the dirtiest of
jobs. They invaded our lives and
our lands and then they left,”
Tina Cordova, a cancer survivor
and founder of a group of New
Mexico downwinders, said of the
officials who established a secret
city in Los Alamos in the 1940s
and tested their work at the
Trinity Site some 200 miles away.
Cordova’s group, the Tularosa
Basin Downwinders Consortium,
has been working with the Union
of Concerned Scientists and oth-
ers for years to bring attention to
what the Manhattan Project did
to people in New Mexico.
While film critics celebrated
“Oppenheimer,” advocates held
vigils in July to mark the 78th
anniversary of the Trinity Test, in
New Mexico and New York.
Lilly Adams, a senior outreach
coordinator with the Union of
Concerned Scientists, said the
New York vigil was meant to
show support for New Mexicans
who have been affected.
“The human cost of Oppen-
heimer’s Trinity Test, and all nu-
clear weapons activities, is a cru-
cial part of the conversation
around U.S. nuclear legacy,” she
said in an email.
Government officials chose the
Trinity Test Site because it was
remote, flat and had predictable
winds. Due to the secret nature of
the project, residents in sur-
rounding areas were not warned.
The Tularosa Basin was home
to a rural population that lived
what they had witnessed.
According to the Manhattan
Project National Historical Park,
large amounts of radiation shot
up into the atmosphere and fall-
out descended over an area about
250 miles long and 200 miles
wide. Scientists tracked part of
the fallout pattern as far as the
Atlantic Ocean, but the greatest
concentration settled about
30 miles from the test site.
For Cordova and younger gen-
erations who are dealing with
cancer, the lack of acknowledg-
ment by the government and
those involved with the film is
inexcusable. “We were left here to
live with the consequences,” Cor-
dova said. “And they’ll overglorify
the science and the scientists and
make no mention of us.”
In Los Alamos, more than 200
miles north of the Tularosa Basin,
reaction to the film has been
much different.
The legacy of Oppenheimer
and the Manhattan Project
means Los Alamos is home to one
of the nation’s premier national
laboratories. and has the highest
percentage of people with doctor-
ate degrees in the United States.
There’s a pride that’s woven
into the town’s DNA, and it re-
volves around the lab’s work to
address national security and
global concerns, said Kelly Stew-
art, who works with Los Alamos
County’s economic development
division and was the film liaison
when director Christopher Nolan
and his crew were on location at
historic sites around town.
— Associated Press

Sc ieN ce Sc a N
a. Sharks have one set of teeth for life. a. True a. One.

b. Sharks are the ocean’s best sniffers b. False b. Two.

and can smell a drop of blood in an
Olympic-size pool of water.

c. Three.

c. Peeing in the ocean or swimming

during your period can attract sharks.
d. There’s no discernible pattern.

d. Some sharks can actually get

a tan in the sun.

esme Ashe-Jepson

1. Which of these sharks is not a frequent
biter? Answer: b. The hammerhead shark has
been implicated in 18 unprovoked shark bites
since the early 1960s, according to the Inter-
national Shark Attack File, a database from
the Florida Museum of Natural History and
researchers at the University of Florida. (In
“Finding Nemo,” the hammerhead shark
named Anchor is a vegetarian.)
White sharks (351 bites), tiger sharks (142
bites) and bull sharks (119 bites) are responsi-
ble for the most “unprovoked” shark bites,
according to the database. (A bite is counted
as provoked when humans are fishing near,
feeding, harassing or harming the shark.)
4. Which statement is true? Answer: d.
Yes, sharks can get a sun tan. Scientists
studying hammerhead sharks discovered that
shark pups hanging out in deeper water were
lighter in color than those in a shallower pond,
where their skin tanned and turned dark
brown or black in the sun.
Sharks are the subject of a number of
myths, including that they are these super
sniffers able to detect scant amounts of blood
from open wounds or menstruation. Sharks
do have a strong sense of smell, but it’s no
better than other fish in the sea, said Tricia
Meredith, the director of research at Florida
Atlantic University’s Lab School.
And “sharks are constantly replacing their
teeth” throughout their lives, cycling out dull
teeth for sharp ones ready for the “task at
hand” — which is biting prey.
Score: So how many questions did you answer correctly?
6 — Great job! You’ve been paying attention during Shark Week!
3-5 — Not bad, but you probably won’t win on shark trivia night.
0-2 — Needs work. “Jaws” is not a documentary.
And remember: The ancestors of today’s sharks were swimming in the oceans before dinosaurs
roamed. The sharks were here first.
illustrAtions by ChelseA ConrAd/the WAshington post
2. What was the shark bite capital of the
world last year? Answer: a. Last year, 57
people around the world were bitten by sharks
in unprovoked bites, according to the Interna-
tional Shark Attack File. Most of those bites, 72
percent, happened in the United States. And
Florida’s Volusia County is the international
capital of shark bites with seven unprovoked
bites last year. There were 16 unprovoked bites
in Florida, none of which were fatal.
Meanwhile, New York had eight unpro-
voked shark bites and Australia had nine.
There were no recorded shark bites in Cape
Cod last year.
It’s also worth noting that in the battle
between humans and sharks, the sharks are
losing. One-third of all sharks are under the
threat of extinction because of overfishing.
5. Answer: False. Contrary to popular
belief, dolphins do not ward off sharks. (The
myth may have been perpetuated by the TV
series “Flipper,” where the dolphin enlisted
his dolphin pals to beat up some sharks.)
Actually, if you see a dolphin, “it’s a pretty
good sign” there may be a shark around, said
Catherine Macdonald, the director of the
Shark Research and Conservation Program at
the University of Miami.
“Dolphins are not going to altruistically
protect you from sharks,” Waries said.
3. What’s the best way to tell if a shark is
nearby? Answer: c. The best way to check on
shark activity at your beach is a notice from
the lifeguard authority or an alert via a
shark-tracking app. The Atlantic White Shark
Conservancy developed a shark-tracking app
to map sightings of white sharks along the
Eastern Seaboard.
Check for shark sightings as you’d check for
traffic or the weather, said John Chisholm, an
adjunct scientist at the New England Aquari-
um who verifies white shark sightings submit-
ted to the Sharktivity app.
“Finning,” in which a shark’s dorsal fin cuts
through the water as it swims, rarely happens,
experts say.
“It’s not like ‘Jaws,’” said Sarah Waries, the
chief executive of Shark Spotters, a nonprofit
group in Cape Town, South Africa, that trains
staff to spot sharks from the cliffs above
nearby beaches. “Most of the time, it’s just a
dark shadow underneath the water.”
6. How many bites does a shark typically
take? Answer: a. One. Most bites are “single
hit and run bites,” said Gavin Naylor, director of
the Florida Program for Shark Research at the
University of Florida. The vast majority of
2,060 documented shark bites — 85 percent —
from 1960 to 2015 were not fatal.
Sharks learn about their environment “by
biting things,” said Culum Brown, a professor
in the School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie
University in Sydney.
“Human toddlers do the same thing,” Brown
said. “Kids are always shoving stuff in their
mouth when they’re young. They’re trying to
figure out: Can I eat this or can I not?”
A Juditha caucana butterfly from the Riodinidae family in Panama.
LepidopteroLogy
Smaller, lighter-colored butterflies may lose out
as global warming increases, scientists say
BY E RIN B LAKEMORE tropical butterflies use thermal
buffering and thermal tolerance
A recent analysis published in as alternative strategies to cope
the Journal of Animal Ecology with temperature increase
finds that smaller, lighter-col-
ored tropical butterflies might Journal of Animal ecology
lose out in a warming world.
Researchers caught over family, Lycaenidae, also known
1,000 tropical butterflies in Pan- as gossamer-wing butterflies,
ama, then measured the temper- had the worst time withstanding
atures of 54 species of the insect, the heat. Petite and fragile, the
homing in on 24 species for iridescent insects make up as
additional experiments. In the much as 40 percent of all butter-
lab, they put captured butter- fly species around the world.
flies in glass jars with water, “Lycaenidae are likely to be
then simulated human-caused ‘losers’ under future climate
climate change and extreme change, and as a species-rich
weather events by raising the family, there may be high species
water’s temperature. Over time, losses in the tropics,” the re-
they pushed the temperature searchers warn. But while small-
from about 82 to 158 degrees er, lighter butterflies are at par-
Fahrenheit, observing the point ticular risk, they note, the dan-
at which the insects could no ger doesn’t stop there.
longer function. “Ultimately all insects, includ-
A butterfly’s family, wing ing butterflies, the world over
length and wing color were all are likely to be affected by
associated with its ability to climate change,” said Esme
adapt to heat by adjusting its Ashe-Jepson, a postgraduate
behavior — changing position, student at Cambridge Univer-
perhaps, or attempting to find a sity’s Department of Zoology
shadier habitat. Some insects and the study’s first author, in a
were also better at physically news release. “Adaptation to cli-
tolerating the heat than others. mate change is complex and can
Bigger, darker butterflies be impacted by other factors
from the Pieridae family were such as habitat destruction. We
the most adaptive. But members need to address these two global
of the second-largest butterfly challenges together.”
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Older people who take a low-dose aspirin
daily may be 20 percent more likely to
develop anemia than those who do not,
according to research published in the
journal Annals of Internal Medicine. Anemia
develops when a person has an inadequate
number of healthy red blood cells, which are
percent needed to carry oxygen to tissues throughout
the body. People with anemia often feel tired
and out of breath. The research finding stems from the re-analysis of
data from a study involving 19,114 people, most 70 or older, who did
not have anemia and were generally healthy. They had been randomly
assigned to take either 100 milligrams of aspirin or a placebo daily for
about five years. In that time, participants’ blood tests showed that
the levels of hemoglobin and ferritin — proteins that help indicate the
amount of iron in the blood — had declined more steeply among those
taking a daily low-dose aspirin than they had among those not taking
aspirin. The researchers attributed the increased risk for anemia
among aspirin-takers to this iron deficiency. Aspirin of 100 mg or less
is considered low-dose, with 81 mg being the most common dosage
available for over-the-counter aspirin. For years, people often took
low-dose aspirin, which can thin the blood and help prevent clots, in
hopes of preventing a heart attack or stroke. In 2022, however,
medical advice changed. Now, taking low-dose aspirin is not
considered medically appropriate for most adults who have not
already had a cardiovascular issue. The researchers wrote that their
findings suggest that “periodic monitoring of hemoglobin should be
considered in older persons on aspirin” to guard against the
development of iron-deficiency anemia.
— Linda Searing

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Some new hearing aids require that you use a cellphone app to set them up.

WHO urge countries to keep watch on at-risk

people as heat wave hits Northern Hemisphere BY CATHERINE ROBERTS they may suit your specific hearing meet standards about minimum Pros: Price (PSAPs can be found

The World Health Organiza-
tion last Wednesday urged gov-
ernments and local authorities
to set up a strong surveillance
system for people who are most
at risk of severe symptoms from
a heat wave that was baking the
Northern Hemisphere.
People with cardiovascular
and respiratory diseases and dia-
betes, as well as pregnant wom-
en, children and homeless peo-
ple, are seen as the most vulner-
able to heat waves that scorched
parts of Europe, Asia and the
United States last week.
“We are very concerned about
those who are most vulnerable.
And clearly, the heat waves can
exacerbate all of those preexist-
ing diseases,” Maria Neira, direc-
tor of the public health, environ-
ment and social determinants of
h eAl t h S CAn
pediAtRiCS
health department at the WHO,
told journalists on July 19.
While the El Nino weather
phenomenon has been seen as
the reason for the heat wave this
year, global warming has been
further exacerbating the issue,
causing erratic weather patterns
globally.
While some are facing heat
waves, heavy rains have pum-
meled central and southern re-
gions of South Korea in recent
weeks while in northern India,
flash floods, landslides and acci-
dents related to heavy rainfall
have killed more than 100 people
since the onset of the monsoon
season on June 1.
“In the medium and long term,
we need to decarbonize our soci-
ety as well,” Neira said.
— Reuters
T
hanks to rules the Food
and Drug Administra-
tion put in place last fall,
hearing aids are now di-
vided into two key cate-
gories: prescription and over-the-
counter. OTCs can be further divid-
ed into two types: self-fitting and
preset.
You may also come across devic-
es known as personal sound ampli-
fication products (PSAPs) and
“hearables” in retail stores and
online. These aren’t considered
hearing aids but could be helpful
in some instances.
Here’s what you need to know
about each of these kinds of hear-
ing devices.
OTC hearing aid details
Self-fitting
Where to buy them: In a retail
setting, such as a drugstore or
electronics store, or online.
Pros: Currently, self-fitting
hearing aids must be cleared as
both safe and effective by the FDA.
Because they’re far more customiz-
able than preset OTC hearing aids,
needs better. Self-fitting aids can
be significantly less expensive than
prescription hearing aids. (They
start at about $699 per device.)
Cons: While you’ll probably be
guided by an app to set up your
aids, the self-fitting process might
be challenging for some people,
particularly those who are less
technologically inclined.
Preset
Where to buy them: In a retail
setting, such as a drugstore or
electronics store, or online.
Pros: With prices starting at
about $199 per device, some of
these are less expensive than many
of the self-fitting OTC and pre-
scription options. Because these
types of aids usually come with just
a handful of preset audio pro-
grams, they may also be easier to
set up than self-fitting OTC hear-
ing aids.
Cons: The preset audio pro-
grams may not match your hearing
loss as closely as a prescription or
self-fitting aid would. And these
don’t need to be cleared by the FDA
for efficacy before being sold over
the counter, although they must
technical specs and maximum safe
volume.
Other options
Prescription hearing aids
Where to buy them: From an
audiologist; an ear, nose and
throat specialist; or a licensed
hearing aid dispenser.
Pros: Those professionals vet
hearing aids and can help ensure
quality and that the aids work
properly for you. As part of the
buying process, you’ll also receive
a professional hearing test and
help selecting a hearing aid. And
the hearing care provider will pro-
gram your device so it treats your
specific hearing problems. Follow-
up adjustments are often included.
Cons: Price. A pair can cost
about $1,000 to $6,000 and is usu-
ally not covered (or not fully cov-
ered) by insurance. In addition,
you’ll have to go to the provider’s
office or a retail location for in-per-
son appointments.
PSAPs and other ‘hearables’
Where to buy them: In a retail
setting, such as a drugstore or
electronics store, or online.
for less than $20). Other devices
broadly known as “hearables” tend
to have many functions, including
some hearing-aid-like features.
For instance, with Apple’s AirPods
Pro ear buds, you can listen to
music, reduce unwanted back-
ground noise and amplify sounds
you want to hear (like a lecture).
Cons: PSAPs, which are meant
to be used by people without hear-
ing loss to amplify sound in situa-
tions such as birdwatching, aren’t
hearing aids — and aren’t subject
to FDA rules about hearing aid
safety and quality. Hearables
aren’t allowed to be marketed for
hearing loss.
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children were more cautious around firearms
BY E RIN B LAKEMORE
Could a short video save lives?
That’s the implication of a new
analysis published in JAMA Pedi-
atrics, which observed children’s
behaviors after they watched a
brief gun-safety video.
In the study, researchers at Ohio
State University investigated
whether safety videos could de-
crease children’s unsafe behaviors
around guns — a timely topic given
that firearms are the leading cause
of death among U.S. children ages
1 through 17. They had 226 8-to-12-
year-olds watch either a randomly
assigned, minute-long gun-safety
or car-safety video at home.
A week later, the kids were
effect of a gun Safety Video on
Children’s behavior Around Real
guns
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recorded that about 9 percent of
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couldn’t fire, and they had been
tricked out with a sensor that
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force to discharge the gun. The
children were told to play with
whatever they wanted, then left
alone for 20 minutes while a hid-
den camera recorded their ac-
tions.
Although the guns were out of
sight, that didn’t stop the preteens
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95.6 percent of them, discovered
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nAvigAting Aging
What older people should know about Ozempic and new weight-loss drugs
wEIgHt from E1
will Medicare pay for
Ozempic?
The food and Drug
Administration approved
ozempic, an injectable
semaglutide, to treat diabetes in
2017. Wegovy, a weight-loss drug
with identical ingredients to
ozempic, was approved by the
fDA in 2021. mounjaro, whose
key ingredient is tirzepatide, was
approved as a diabetes treatment
in 2022. Several other drugs are
in development.
While the drugs appear to be
safe — the most common side
effects are nausea, diarrhea,
vomiting, constipation and
stomach pain — “they’ve only
been on the market for a few
years and caution is still needed,”
said mitchell Lazar, founding
director of the Institute for
Diabetes, obesity and
metabolism at the University of
Pennsylvania Perelman School of
medicine.
In the near term, because
medicare doesn’t cover weight-
loss medications and these new
drugs can cost more than $10,000
a year, seniors’ ability to get the
medications is restricted.
There is an exception:
medicare will cover ozempic and
mounjaro if an older adult has
diabetes, because the insurance
program pays for diabetes
therapies.
“We need medicare to cover
these drugs,” said Shauna matilda
Assadzandi, a geriatrician at the
University of Pittsburgh who
cares for morris. recently, she
said, she tried to persuade a
medicare Advantage plan
representative to authorize
Wegovy for a patient with high
blood pressure and cholesterol
who was gaining weight rapidly.
“I’m just waiting for this
patient’s blood sugar to rise to a
level where diabetes can be
diagnosed. Wouldn’t it make
sense to intervene now?” she
remembered saying. The
representative’s answer: “No. We
have to follow the rules.”
Seeking to change that, a
bipartisan group of lawmakers
introduced the Treat and reduce
obesity Act, which would require
medicare to cover weight-loss
drugs. But the proposal has
languished amid concerns over
enormous potential costs for
medicare.
I was a workaholic. Quitting my job has made my life better in so many ways.
wORKaHOLIC from E1
undercuts your sense of purpose
and motivation to stay active and
connected to a community.
“The people who have the
hardest time are the people who
have been over-involved in work
and not invested in any other
kinds of activities, and don’t have
a community to get involved in
when the work community is no
longer there,” said Jacquelyn B.
James, founder of the Sloan re-
search Network on Aging & Work
at Boston College. But if done
right, other research shows, quit-
ting or scaling back work im-
proves well-being by allowing
more time for health-enhancing
activities such as exercise, sleep
and passion projects.
“Getting more sleep, eating
better, making more connections,
going back to hobbies you have
not done in a while — most people
find that incredibly rewarding
and enriching,” said Kenneth S.
Shultz, professor of psychology at
California State University at San
Bernardino.
for me, the health rewards
were immediate and unmistak-
able.
I’ve never been in better shape,
physically. I’m at a 6:15 a.m. boot
camp four times a week. I lost
You don’t need to constantly blast the air conditioner to keep cool in summer
HEat from E1
To keep your space cool:
l Keep blinds or shades closed
during the day.
l Increase air flow and ventila-
tion. Depending on how much
temperatures drop at night,
opening windows could help.
l If you don’t want to or can’t
open your windows, Basner sug-
gested leaving your bedroom
door open. “That way you profit a
little bit from the cooler air in the
rest of the house,” he said.
l fans can improve air flow
and help you feel cooler as long
as it isn’t too hot inside. When
indoor temperatures reach the
high 90s, electric fans, which
move air around but don’t cool it,
won’t prevent heat-related ill-
ness, according to the Centers
a patient prepares a semaglutide-injecting pen.
If all beneficiaries with an
obesity diagnosis took brand-
name semaglutide drugs, annual
costs would top $13.5 billion,
according to a recent analysis in
the New England Journal of
medicine. If all older obese adults
on medicare — a significantly
larger population — took them,
the cost would exceed the total
spent on medicare’s Part D drug
program, which was $145 billion
in 2019.
Laurie rich, 63, of Canton,
mass., was caught off guard by
medicare’s policies, which have
applied to her since she qualified
for Social Security Disability
Insurance in December. Before
that, rich took Wegovy and
another weight-loss medication
— both covered by private
insurance — and she had lost
nearly 42 pounds. Now, rich can’t
get Wegovy, and she has regained
14 pounds.
“I haven’t changed my eating.
The only thing that’s different is
that some signal in my brain is
telling me I’m hungry all the
time,” rich said. “I feel horrible.”
weight and have kept (most of it)
off. my chronic headaches have
gone away.
And psychologically, fellow
workaholics may be able to learn
from my experience. Quitting my
full-time job gave me the exhila-
rating freedom to rethink bigger
questions: What are the compo-
nents of a good life? of a fulfilling
day? How do I make a meaningful
contribution to a struggling
world that plainly needs everyone
to pitch in?
I’m not going to lie: It was not
easy to quit being a reporter when
I did, in october 2021, during the
run-up to a fascinating midterm
election. one strategy that helped
with the transition: I immedi-
ately left D.C. rather than stay in
the home where, for decades, I’d
leaped out of bed and gone to
work, I made a fast getaway to
spend the fall at our house on
Great Cranberry Island, maine —
a place I associate with a simpler,
healthier life.
I can almost feel my blood
pressure drop the moment I step
off the ferry. I spend more time
outdoors, hiking and kayaking.
All meals are home-cooked. An-
other important decision I made
was to set aside the first three
months after I quit as a sabbatical
— a completely work-free zone. I
for Disease Control and Preven-
tion.
Don’t ditch all blankets
Although you might be tempt-
ed to go without any covering on
a hot night, your body tempera-
ture changes while you’re asleep,
so some experts recommend opt-
ing for a lighter blanket or just a
sheet on hot nights.
“oftentimes when you’re lying
for a while, you actually then do
start to feel cool, so it’s good to
have something to cover you up
with,” Basner said.
Don’t take a cold shower
A cool shower could help, but
make sure the water isn’t too
cold, experts say. “You don’t want
to be uncomfortable,” said rafael
Pelayo, a clinical professor and
eZ ee
If she gains more weight, she
said, her care will cost much
more.
who should take weight-loss
drugs?
While acknowledging difficult
policy decisions lie ahead,
experts voiced considerable
agreement on which older adults
should take the drugs.
Generally, the medications are
recommended for people with a
body mass index over 30 (the
World Health organization’s
definition of “obese”) and those
with a BmI of 27 or above and at
least one obesity-related
condition, such as diabetes, high
blood pressure or high
cholesterol. There are no
guidelines for their use in people
65 and older. (BmI is calculated
based on a person’s weight and
height.)
But those recommendations
are problematic because BmI can
under- or overestimate older
adults’ body fat, the most
problematic feature of obesity,
noted rodolfo Galindo, director
Former self-described workaholic Janet Hook at the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City.
held off on seeking freelance as-
signments. Any time I had a
work-related idea — “Have a
brainstorming lunch with X” —
sleep medicine specialist at Stan-
ford University’s School of medi-
cine. “You don’t want anything to
make your heart race.”
Leaving your hair and skin
damp can help you feel cooler, he
added.
You can also try to target areas
where the most heat is lost,
Pelayo said. He recommends
placing cool washcloths on your
forehead, hands and feet.
Change your sleeping
arrangement
If you’re sharing a bed with
someone who is warm or sweats
in their sleep, try sleeping apart
from them, Pelayo said. Consider
sleeping on the floor, which is
often cooler, he said.
It may also help to move to a
cooler spot in your home, such as
of the Comprehensive Diabetes
Center at the University of miami
Health System.
Dennis Kerrigan, director of
weight management at Henry
ford Health in michigan,
suggests physicians also examine
waist circumference in older
patients because abdominal fat
puts them at higher risk than fat
carried in the hips or buttocks —
for men, a waist over 40 inches is
of concern; for women, 35 is the
threshold.
fatima Stanford, an obesity
medicine scientist at
massachusetts General Hospital,
said the new drugs are “best
suited for older patients who
have clinical evidence of obesity,”
such as elevated cholesterol or
blood sugar, and people with
serious obesity-related
conditions such as osteoarthritis
or heart disease.
Since going on mounjaro three
months ago, muriel Branch, 73, of
Perryville, Ark., has lost 40
pounds and stopped taking three
medications as her health has
improved. “I feel real good about
instead of doing it, I’d put it on a
list of things to do after Jan. 1, the
three-month mark.
I got good advice from a friend
the washington post
isTock
“My concern is, once we
put patients on these
obesity drugs, are we
supporting lifestyle
changes that will
maintain their health?”
Sukhpreet Singh, system medical
director at Henry Ford’s weight
management program
Bill PaTTerson
who had quit daily journalism
before me: make a list of four to
five things I wanted to do after
quitting. mine read a little like my
isTock
. tuesday, july 25 , 2023
myself,” she told me.
When adults with obesity lose
weight, their risk of dying is
reduced by up to 15 percent, said
Dinesh Edem, Branch’s doctor
and the director of the medical
weight management program at
the University of Arkansas for
medical Sciences.
why weight loss is different
for seniors
Still, weight loss alone should
not be recommended to older
adults, because it entails the loss
of muscle mass as well as fat,
experts agree. And with aging,
the shrinkage of muscle mass
that starts earlier in life
accelerates, contributing to falls,
weakness, the loss of functioning
and the onset of frailty.
Between ages 60 and 70, about
12 percent of muscle mass falls
away, researchers estimate; after
80, it reaches 30 percent.
To preserve muscle mass,
seniors losing weight should be
prescribed physical activity —
both aerobic exercise and
strength training, experts agree.
Also, as older adults taking
weight loss drugs eat less, “it’s
critically important that their
diet includes adequate protein
and calcium to preserve bone and
muscle mass,” said Anne
Newman, director of the Center
for Aging and Population Health
at the University of Pittsburgh.
ongoing monitoring of older
adults having gastrointestinal
side effects is needed to ensure
they are getting enough food and
water, said Jamy Ard, co-director
of Wake forest Baptist Health
Weight management Center.
Generally, the goal for older
adults should be to lose 1 to 2
pounds a week, with attention to
diet and exercise accompanying
medication management.
“my concern is, once we put
patients on these obesity drugs,
are we supporting lifestyle
changes that will maintain their
health? medication alone won’t
be sufficient; we will still need to
address behaviors,” said
Sukhpreet Singh, system medical
director at Henry ford’s weight
management program.
kFF Health news, formerly known as
kaiser Health news or kHn, is a
national newsroom that produces in-
depth journalism about health issues
and is one of the core operating
programs at kFF.
New Year’s resolutions, but they
suddenly seemed more achiev-
able: Travel and hike more. Ex-
plore different writing genres.
Learn Spanish. Do more volun-
teer work. Exercise daily.
my overriding commitment:
As often as possible, try new
things.
I’m convinced I have learned
more from this chapter of trying
new things — writing book re-
views, nature essays and travel
articles; advising young writers;
learning how to rescue myself
from an overturned kayak;
studying Zen Buddhism — than
I would have if I’d stayed on the
front lines of covering a couple
more elections, as interesting
and important as they might be.
Those 2022 midterm elections
came and went. Another presi-
dential election is looming, and I
am not sorry I’m not going to be
covering full time what could
possibly be another Biden-Trump
race.
So workaholics of the world
take heed: Quitting a full-time job
is not necessarily the end of a
career. for me, it was the begin-
ning of another growth spurt.
Janet Hook is a former political
reporter for the los angeles Times
and Wall street Journal.
a basement if you have one, said
Kathryn reid, a neurology pro-
fessor at Northwestern Univer-
sity feinberg School of medicine
who studies sleep medicine.
Practice good sleep habits
on hot nights when it might
be difficult to achieve the ideal
temperature for sleeping, ex-
perts recommend focusing on
doing other things to promote
sleep, such as creating a dark and
quiet environment, preparing
for bed by unplugging from
screens and winding down with
relaxing activities.
“It certainly can’t hurt to
weigh the different factors in
your favor,” reid said.
kasha Patel contributed to this
report.
tuesday, july 25 , 2023 . the washington post
Need a break from running in the heat? Try aqua jogging.
BY K ELYN S OONG
The suffocating summer heat
and humidity can make even the
most dedicated outdoor runner
feel unmotivated. For those who
want an alternative to running
on the roads without losing
their fitness, deep water run-
ning — or aqua jogging, as it’s
more commonly known — could
be a useful supplementary
cross-training exercise, experts
say.
Studies have shown that a
well-trained runner can main-
tain their cardiorespiratory fit-
ness for up to four to six weeks
with aqua jogging.
I first tried aqua jogging sev-
eral years ago after spraining
my ankle. My doctor told me I
could not run on land for six
weeks. Aqua jogging, however,
was allowed because it is not
weight-bearing.
Many runners turn to deep
water running as a last resort
when they are injured, but
healthy individuals can also
benefit aerobically, said Sophie
Heywood, a sports and aquatic
physical therapist based in Mel-
bourne, Australia.
We asked exercise scientists
and running experts about how
to get into aqua jogging and how
runners can use it to their
advantage.
Find the right pool and belt
You will need access to a pool
that is deep enough so that your
feet don’t touch the ground. The
depth of the water should be at
least five inches less than your
height, said Jennifer Conroyd,
founder of the deep water exer-
cise program Fluid Running and
How to make weight
training work for you
If you’ve ever felt
apprehensive
about weight
training, or
worried it’s too
complicated or
Your Move physically
GRetchen demanding, new
Reynolds research about
lifting practically
bulges with
encouraging news for you.
In one new study, middle-aged
men and women who started
lifting light weights gained about
the same amount of strength and
mass as others who used much
heavier weights, despite
widespread beliefs in the
training world that only hefty
weights can be effective.
That finding dovetails with
the results of another new study,
the largest meta-analytical
review to date involving
resistance training. It found that
the best way to lift weights is any
way at all. Every version of
resistance training the
researchers considered, whether
it involved heavy weights or light
ones, frequent weekly sessions
and sets or few, resulted in
improvements in muscular
strength and mass, whatever
someone’s age or gender.
The findings could be a useful
A simple solution to your
leg cramps: Pickle juice
Q: I often have
Ask A leg cramps. What
Doctor causes them, and
tRisha what can I do to
PasRicha alleviate them?
A: Leg cramps
can happen to
anyone — often in the middle of
the night without warning or
around the time of exercise —
and doctors don’t usually know
why.
We do know muscle cramps
occur more frequently among
the elderly and among athletes,
during pregnancy and dialysis,
and in those with certain health
conditions such as diabetes,
cirrhosis or amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis. If you’re experiencing
cramps often, be sure to check
with your doctor to rule out any
concerns.
Leg cramps seem to peak in
the midsummer and decrease in
the winter, according to one
study. Cramping among athletes
also tends to increase during
periods of hot weather, but it
seems these cramps aren’t
related to dehydration and
electrolyte imbalances from
sweating, as some have thought.
a USA Track & Field certified
coach.
“Someone who is 5-foot-5 can
run in 5-feet deep water,” she said.
A flotation belt around your
waist will help your running tech-
nique, Conroyd said. There are
different kinds of flotation belts
available to buy or rent online
and at swimming pools. Experi-
ment to find the right belt, Hey-
wood said. Wear one that is
comfortable and has a similar
shape all the way around, she
suggested.
“I think some of the belts that
have a bigger sort of volume of
foam at the back can be difficult,”
nudge to anyone who rarely, if
ever, lifts, which, according to a
study published this year, is
about 70 percent of American
adults.
“Anything at all was better
than doing nothing,” said
Bradley Currier, a graduate
student of kinesiology at
McMaster University in Canada,
and co-lead author of the new
review.
The studies did find, though,
that certain tweaks and
technique tips can help ensure
we get the most out of our weight
training.
Weight training can be easy
“A lot of people find the idea of
strength training intimidating,”
said Anoop Balachandran, an
assistant professor of exercise
science at the City University of
New York in Flushing, and lead
author of the new study of light
and heavy lifting.
He sympathizes, he continued,
since weight training often is
structured around complicated
formulas involving percentages
of someone’s one-rep max (1RM),
or the maximum weight
someone can lift once. In
standard training, people lift
weights representing 80 to 90
percent of their 1RM, meaning so
Evidence on how best to treat
leg cramps is weak. But after
reviewing the state of the
medical literature, I often
recommend trying two simple
solutions: gently stretch the
muscle or take a sip of pickle
juice.
Yep, pickle juice.
Talking about pickle juice
For cramping, athletes have
long sworn by pickle juice
(strained from jars of dill or
kosher pickles) and other acidic
substances such as mustard or
apple cider vinegar.
Experimental data in healthy
college-aged men suggests that
pickle juice inhibits muscle
cramps through a reflex
involving a nerve in our
throats. It’s why a tablespoon of
pickle brine hitting the back of
the throat seemed to bring
relief within seconds.
Pickle juice may also work
for cramps that aren’t induced
by exercise. A randomized
controlled trial published last
year found that a sip of pickle
juice reduced muscle cramp
intensity in patients with
well+being
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Heywood said. “I think people
feel like they’re being pushed into
a strange position.”
Some regular aqua joggers
choose to run without a flotation
belt. “It’s harder,” though, Con-
royd said. “You can hold onto
proper land running form for
only about a minute.”
Mimic how you run on land
The best way to aqua jog is to
mimic running on land, experts
say. Style instructions may vary,
but you should lean forward
slightly. The movement of the
arms and legs should look similar
to land-based running, Heywood
heavy they can heft them only a
few times before their muscles
give out.
But this practice is built more
on tradition than science,
Balachandran and his colleagues
realized, with relatively few
head-to-head studies of beefy
weights vs. lighter ones,
especially among lifters who
aren’t young and male, the
population most often recruited
for past experiments.
So, for their new study,
published in Experimental
Gerontology, the scientists
turned to middle-aged and older
men and women, all new to
weight training.
After assessing everyone’s
muscular strength, mass and
endurance (a measure of how
long muscles can stay active), the
researchers started half of these
volunteers on a program using
traditional heavy weights that
they could lift at most 8 to 12
times. The rest used much
lighter weights, which they could
hoist 20 to 24 times.
Lifting light weights works
Both groups lifted to
“volitional fatigue,” meaning
until they felt they couldn’t raise
or lower the weight again. Once
they could lift for more than
either 12 or 24 repetitions, the
weights were increased. (Their
full-body workout consisted of
eight exercises: the leg press, leg
extension, leg curl, chest press,
shoulder press, seated row, arm
curl and triceps pushdown, all
cirrhosis.
Researchers believe this
improvement is due to a similar
reflex that occurs almost
immediately, rather than by
how pickle juice is metabolized
by the gut.
More rigorous research is
needed on pickle juice’s effect
on muscle cramps. And this
strategy might be less helpful
for people whose leg cramps
are rare or disappear on their
own too quickly to justify
keeping pickle juice handy. But
it’s safe and cheap enough that
I’d feel comfortable
recommending it to anyone.
eZ ee
said. Runners typically move
back and forth in the pool during
their workout.
Everything except your head
and the top part of your shoul-
ders should be underwater.
Swing your arms from your
shoulders, keep your elbows at a
90-degree angle and put your
thumbs on your forefingers with
a slightly clenched fist, said Garry
Killgore, the director of athletics
at Linfield University in Oregon.
Killgore also serves as a professor
of human performance at Lin-
field and is the author of a 2012
review that looked at the biome-
chanics of deep water running.
basic weight-training moves.)
After 10 weeks of twice-a-week
workouts, the researchers
rechecked everyone’s muscles.
Uniformly, they were stronger,
larger and more durable now.
“There weren’t meaningful
differences” between the two
groups Balachandran said. The
heavy lifters’ legs were slightly
stronger, while the light lifters
showed a bit more full-body,
muscular endurance.
“This was a small, pilot study,”
Balachandran said. “But what it
shows is that there are different,
feasible options” for anyone
who’s considering lifting. “Use
the traditional approach, if you
want,” and lift heavy weights, he
said, or go lighter and longer, if
that’s more appealing. “Maybe
you have joint problems,” he said,
“or just worry about heavy loads.”
You could also use light
dumbbells or resistance bands at
home, he said. Some of the
weights lifted by the study’s
participants were that low. “The
point is, you can pick the
approach you prefer.”
The best way to lift weights
The new large-scale review of
past research, published in the
British Journal of Sports
Medicine, reached the same
conclusion. Its authors analyzed
192 past studies comparing
different versions of weight
training to no resistance
exercise, hoping to tease out the
single, most effective
combination of weights, sets and
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Remember: No need to
overdo it.
“A sip is all it takes. We’re not
telling people to chug pickle
juice,” said Elliot Tapper, a
hepatologist at the University
of Michigan and the 2022
study’s lead author.
Preventing leg cramps
Doctors often suggest a trial-
and-error approach for
preventing leg cramps,
including a few weeks of daily
calf and hamstring stretching
(which might reduce the
severity, although not
necessarily the frequency of
Work your legs up to a running
motion. A cycling action of the
legs is easier to start with and will
get your heart rate up, Heywood
said, but practice replicating a
running motion with your legs
when you feel more confident in
your balance and core control.
“Imagine extending the foot
down and behind as if you were
pushing off the ground as you
would in a run,” she said.
Try it several times
Getting used to running in the
pool takes time. Runners should
treat their first three sessions as a
learning experience and not as a
really hard workout, Heywood
said.
Workouts can be continuous,
easy running or intervals that
alternate a minute or so at a
comfortably hard pace and then
30 seconds at an easier active
recovery pace. The sessions can
be as short as 20 minutes, Killg-
ore said.
Experts say aqua jogging is a
helpful supplement to land run-
ning. In one small study, 11 com-
petitive runners trained with
deep water running instead of
on-land training for four weeks.
Researchers found that the run-
ners maintained their 5K tread-
mill race performance with this
method and that there were no
statistical differences in perform-
ance markers such as maximal
oxygen consumption and lactate
threshold.
In another study, researchers
examined the effect of a six-week
deep water running program.
They separated 16 runners into
two groups — one did treadmill
running and another did water
running. Both groups followed
sessions to produce the greatest
gains in strength and muscle
size.
But there wasn’t one. Any type
and amount of training worked
to build strength and mass, they
found, and to about the same
extent. Whether people lifted
heavy weights or much lighter
ones, several times a week or
only once, repeating their sets of
exercise once or twice or thrice,
and whether they were men or
women, 18 or 80, they generally
gained substantial strength and
muscle mass.
“You can choose
whatever appeals
to you.”
Jonathan Mcleod, a co-lead
author of the review
As in Balachandran’s study,
there were trivial variations.
Generally, people grew
marginally stronger using
heavier weights and added a
little extra muscle mass if they
completed more than one set of
each exercise, but the additional
gains were small.
“The takeaway is that you can
choose whatever appeals to you,”
in terms of how much and how
often you lift, said Jonathan
Mcleod, also a graduate student
at McMaster University and co-
lead author of the review.
nocturnal leg cramps), a stint of
magnesium (although a recent
meta-analysis found that this
probably does very little) or a
sprinkle of vitamin B complex
(which showed promise in a
small study from the 1990s).
Your physician may also try
swapping out any medications
that are implicated in
cramping, including long-
acting beta-agonists like those
found in Advair or Symbicort
and diuretics like
spironolactone.
The funny thing here is that
there’s a chance one of these
will work — despite much of
the data screaming that it
shouldn’t. Case in point: A 2017
double-blind randomized
controlled trial published in
JAMA Internal Medicine found
that taking magnesium oxide
for a month reduced the
number of night leg cramps by
about three times per week.
That’s a huge win to go from,
say, having a cramp wake you
up every single night to having
one every other night instead.
Guess what, though? The
placebo did the same thing.
Studies have also suggested
quinine can reduce the
frequency and intensity of
muscle cramps. But because of
serious safety issues associated
with its use, including an
increased risk of death, quinine
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the same workout schedule,
which consisted of alternate hi-
gh-intensity interval sessions and
moderate-intensity recovery ses-
sions. Researchers found no dif-
ference between the groups in
glucose concentration and maxi-
mal lactate levels, suggesting that
aqua jogging can be an effective
training alternative to land-based
running.
Aqua jogging is not meant to
replace all of your regular run-
ning, though, Killgore said. Typi-
cally, your heart rate will be slight-
ly lower while aqua jogging for
the same intensity of exercise on
land because of the compression
of water pushing more blood and
fluid back to your central circula-
tion, Heywood said. To increase
intensity, increase your speed.
Make it social
Aqua jogging can sometimes
be monotonous, so bring your
headphones or a friend.
Susanna Sullivan, a full-time
elementary school teacher and
elite marathon runner based in
Reston, has incorporated deep
water running into her routine
since high school. Sullivan is in
the pool about five days a week
for 30 to 45 minutes as a supple-
ment to her training on the road.
She is set to compete for the
United States in the marathon at
the World Athletics Champion-
ships next month in Budapest.
Recently, Sullivan started
wearing AirPods during her pool
sessions: “I’ve ripped through so
many books in the past year.”
She also enjoys aqua jogging
with other people.
“I love it when pool running
ends up being my social hour,”
she said.
How to start lifting weights
Ready to start or rejigger your
current resistance training now?
“Start slow,” Currier said. Try a
few basic resistance exercises
once a week to build strength
and assurance.
Most gyms have trainers
available who can show you a
simple, full-body program using
the equipment at that facility.
You can also join group classes,
in person or online.
None of the studies in the new
review included bodyweight
exercises, “but bodyweight
training is just fine,” for adding
strength and mass, Currier said.
Once you can easily complete
an exercise more than about 25
times, increase the weight,
Balachandran said.
Try to reach “volitional
failure” with each exercise, he
continued, so the work feels like
about a 7 or 8 on a scale of 1 to 10.
This effort strains your muscles
enough to prompt them to adapt
and strengthen.
Don’t worry about growing
swole. Few of us, due to our
genetics, will look like Dwayne
“The Rock” Johnson. But almost
all of us, at any age, can add some
muscle with resistance training
and, just as important, stave off
muscle loss with aging — a
process that otherwise begins “in
your late 20s,” Currier said.
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for nocturnal leg cramps is not
approved by the Food and Drug
Administration.
Some might make the logical
leap to propose a nightly gin
and tonic to ease cramping. But
prescribed doses of quinine are
around 300 mg, and the FDA
restricts the amount of quinine
in tonic water to 83 mg per liter
— far more than you’d get from
a standard cocktail.
Considering leg cramps are
associated with alcohol
consumption, I’d say we all just
hold our charley horses on that
idea.
What I tell my patients
Supplements are popular for
all kinds of reasons, including
when evidence-based medicine
doesn’t provide great solutions.
Don’t hide what supplements
you’re taking from your doctor,
even if you think they won’t
“approve.” I’d always rather
know and work with you to find
safe choices.
Many supplements interact
with common prescriptions,
and some may have unintended
— and potentially harmful —
effects.
Meet the doctor: trisha S. pasricha
is a physician at Massachusetts
general Hospital, an instructor in
medicine at Harvard Medical School
and a medical journalist.
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LED lights can cause sleep problems. But there are fixes.
LED from E1
Shedding light on the issue
The concern has come to light
in recent years with the emer-
gence of new LED technology.
LED lights are the olympic
marathon runners of lightbulbs:
They consume up to 90 percent
less energy and can last up to
25 times longer than traditional
incandescent lights.
Because LEDs are the most
energy-efficient bulb on the mar-
ket, it’s no surprise that so many
people are adopting the technol-
ogy. The Energy Department es-
timated LEDs made up about
19 percent of all lighting installa-
tions in 2017, saving about 1 per-
cent of total energy consumed in
the United States. By 2035, the
lights are expected to amount to
84 percent of lighting installa-
tions. roadways, parking, build-
ing exteriors and area lights —
which are applications typically
high in lumens, a measure of
brightness — are expected to see
nearly full conversion to LED
lights by 2035.
White was excited to have
Chelan County, located in the
middle of the state with a popu-
lation of about 80,000 people, be
part of the LED light revolution.
Starting in 2014, the Chelan
County Public Utility District
began meeting with local govern-
ments, communities and agen-
cies to discuss what it would take
to replace their streetlights. In
2018, it embarked on a $1.9 mil-
lion project, partially funded by a
state grant from the Washington
State Department of Commerce,
to replace nearly 3,700 high-
pressure sodium streetlights
(about 60 percent of its outdoor
street and area lights) with
LEDs.
The energy savings were dis-
cernible. After the transition, the
new lights conserved 2,612,491
kilowatt-hours — enough to pow-
er about 120 all-electric homes in
the county for a year.
But there were downsides,
too: researchers with the Na-
tional Park Service found the
LED lights washed out more of
the stars, particularly near the
horizon.
“You can tell the lighting gets
bigger, so it extends higher into
the sky . . . the entire sky got
brighter,” said Li-Wei Hung, an
astronomer with the National
Park Service who published a
study on the LED transition in
Chelan County. “Just a few years
ago, this [was] really new knowl-
edge for us. Does the change to
LEDs really decrease the light
pollution or increase it? We
[didn’t] exactly know.”
Camera data showed the sky
over Burch mountain was
60 percent brighter after the
inspired Life
His photography helped him
fight panic attacks, anxiety
BY S YDNEY P AGE
Chris Kam remembers his first
panic attack with unsettling clari-
ty.
“It felt like my head was discon-
nected from my body,” said Kam,
who was 19 at the time.
It was June 2022, and he was at
a camping store in Santa rosa,
Calif., near his house, getting
some gear for an upcoming trip.
out of nowhere, his surroundings
blurred.
“I got dizzy, and then my heart
rate started to rise,” Kam said.
“That was the start of my panic
disorder.”
Kam was set to start film school
at Chapman University in orange,
Calif., in the fall — which was a
long-held dream of his.
He had been rejected from the
same program the year before.
“It was a big deal that I finally
got in and was going to go that
fall,” he said, explaining that pho-
tography and filmmaking have al-
ways been his passions.
Kam was working as a free-
lance photographer and videogra-
pher during the summer months
to save money for school, but he
took on more work than he could
handle. The mounting pressure
pushed him to a breaking point.
“I didn’t know how to regulate
the amount of work I was doing,”
said Kam, now 20. “I was missing
meals, not really hanging out with
friends. That started to kind of
build up over time.”
Soon, his energy crashed. He
lost his creativity. He thought he
might find a reset in nature, he
said, so he planned a camping trip
to clear his head. That’s when he
found himself spiraling at the
camping store. He had no idea at
the time that it would be the be-
ginning of severe panic attacks —
something Kam had never experi-
enced in the past. It was terrifying.
Not only did he not go on the
county completed the switch in
2019 compared with 2018. The
new artificial light stood at 3.69
times the natural light level after
the transition; before the transi-
tion, artificial lights generated
2.30 times the natural light.
White said the increased pollu-
tion was “a total surprise” be-
cause the Public Utility District
had tried to direct lights toward
the ground, but the light still
scattered.
Detailed nightglow data from
individual cities is hard to come
by, making the transition in
Chelan County an important
case study in understanding
both the good and bad effects of
LED lights. Yet observations and
anecdotes indicate Chelan Coun-
ty is not alone. from 2011 to
2022, reports from citizen scien-
tists indicated the average night
sky got brighter by 9.6 percent
each year, which researchers at-
tribute to LED light replace-
ments. Some cities, such as D.C.,
paused a transition to LEDs after
residents complained about the
bright lights disrupting their
sleep.
But why does light from LED
bulbs appear more prominent in
the night sky than other types of
lighting? The answer lies in
LED’s blue light.
The problems with blue light
LED lights emit more blue
light than regular bulbs. Blue
light travels at shorter wave-
lengths (450 to 495 nanometers)
and higher frequencies, causing
air particles to oscillate faster
and scatter in the atmosphere
more than other colors. The blue
is redirected in several different
directions across the sky. That’s
also why our sky appears blue.
The human eye is also acutely
sensitive to the wavelength of
bluer lights. You may recall two
types of photoreceptors in our
eyes called rods and cones, which
help us recognize colors and
shades. In recent decades, scien-
tists have identified the function
of another photoreceptor called
the intrinsically photosensitive
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can help direct dimmers on lights
and contain light
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camping trip, but he became too
afraid to leave his family’s home
altogether.
“over the span of the next week,
my life closed down,” he said, not-
ing that while he had experienced
anxiety at other points in his life, it
had never been this acute. “I
would get lightheaded. I couldn’t
drive anywhere.”
for a full month, Kam said, he
barely stood up from his couch.
Even getting up to brush his teeth
felt like a daunting task. He con-
sulted with several therapists, and
it took weeks before he found one
who felt like a good fit. mean-
while, he was lost and scared.
“I thought I would never be able
to work again,” said Kam, who at
the time was fearful of most
things outside of his home.
He began seeing a therapist,
first virtually and later in person,
which became a motivation for
him to leave the house. Although
he was making small strides, he
didn’t feel strong enough to at-
tend film school in the fall, which
was “another hard blow for me,”
he said.
His friends had all moved away
for college.
“All of a sudden, it was just me
at home,” Kam said.
Despite his loneliness and de-
spair, Kam was determined to get
better. He just didn’t know how.
“I was like, ‘I have this beautiful
life ahead of me, and I can’t just let
that go to waste,’” he said.
His therapist was working with
him on exposure therapy to slowly
increase his tolerance to anxiety-
inducing situations — which, for
Kam, included simply stepping
outside of his house.
He started off with short walks
to the end of his street, accompa-
nied by his father. It took about a
month before he had the confi-
dence to go farther.
“I just slowly added streets,”
Kam said. “I had to build every-
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retinal ganglion cell, or iprGC.
These photoreceptors are sensi-
tive to shorter wavelengths and
help keep people alert by sup-
pressing a hormone called mela-
tonin, which plays a role in our
sleep.
“one of the hallmarks of our
circadian clock is this time pro-
duction of melatonin. melatonin
is correlated with sleepiness,”
said manuel Spitschan, a neuro-
scientist at the Technical Univer-
sity of munich and the max
Planck Institute for Biological
Cybernetics. “When you expose
people to light at night or in the
evening, you will suppress the
production of melatonin.”
When bluer light hits our eye,
Spitschan said, the iprGCs start
firing rapidly because of a light-
sensitive molecule called melan-
opsin, which converts photons
into an electrical signal to the
brain to suppress melatonin pro-
duction. The more photons cap-
tured by the iprGC, the stronger
the signal produced by the pho-
toreceptor, leading to the sup-
pression of melatonin.
Without melatonin to trigger
sleepiness, people are more like-
ly to stay awake longer. Disrup-
tions in our circadian rhythm
have been linked to cancer cases,
Blackout curtains can
prevent outside light
from entering your home
thing up super slowly.”
Then, Kam hatched a plan: Giv-
en his love of landscape photogra-
phy, every day for the month of
September, he would visit a new
site and capture a photo — ventur-
ing to more distant destinations
each week.
His goal was to “push myself
further and further, to test my
anxiety,” said Kam, who recorded
his daily efforts on his video cam-
era, with the aim of being able to
look back at his progress, and
capture some of the landscapes on
film.
on the first day, Kam visited the
Armstrong redwoods State Natu-
ral reserve — about 28 miles from
home — and took a photo of the
park’s towering trees.
In the beginning, “I wasn’t even
that motivated to start the proj-
ect,” he said, adding that he hyper-
ventilated during the car ride to
the first destination. But by the
second day, as he shot a photo of
someone paragliding off a cliff
35 miles from his house, his anxi-
ety began to lessen a bit.
on the seventh day, Kam
pushed himself more: He drove
40 miles from home to the Sono-
ma Coast. That day, he felt a shift.
“In a time where I was so stuck
in my head, landscape photogra-
phy gave me the opportunity to
view my outside world in a way
that I hadn’t seen it in a while,” he
Chris Kam became too anxious to leave his home. He turned to
photography to help him overcome his mental health challenges.
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such as breast cancer, and la-
beled probably carcinogenic by
the World Health organization.
other research has shown inter-
ruptions to our circadian rhythm
are linked to some heart prob-
lems.
“We’re more sensitive to blue
light at night than we are during
the daytime,” said Chris Kyba,
who quantifies artificial light in
the night environment at the
GfZ German research Center
for Geosciences.
Solutions to light pollution
There is a world where more
energy-efficient LED lights exist
and don’t significantly disrupt
nightscapes or our health.
Light pollution “can get better
with LEDs, but there has to be a
lot of attention paid to the de-
sign,” said the National Park
Service’s Ashley Pipkin, a biolo-
gist and co-author of the Chelan
County light pollution study.
These solutions, from buying a
certain type of LED light to
making changes that block the
glare, can happen at the city level
and for individual homes.
Choosing the right light, and
brightness, for your needs: The
National Park Service says one
way to reduce night sky light
Use more amber or
lower-temperature
(such as 2,700 Kelvin)
LED bulbs
said, explaining that looking at
the vast expanse of nature offered
him perspective on his own life.
The beauty of what he was look-
ing at — running water, blooming
flowers and mountain peaks —
was both stunning and humbling.
The fresh air was invigorating in
his lungs. The trail under his feet
was grounding.
The more he drank in his sur-
roundings, the more photos he
took, and the more motivated he
was to continue exploring. Each
day, the fear was a little less. He
decided to push himself even fur-
ther.
About halfway through the
month, though, he faced a set-
back. He had a panic attack during
one of his excursions, after he set
up his camera on a tripod at the
bottom of a rock, then ran to the
top to pose. His heartbeat quick-
ened, and panic set in.
It lasted for a while, and then
when he was thinking about it the
following day as he sat at his
computer, that triggered another
one.
Kam decided to regroup and
ask himself if he was still commit-
ted to finishing what he started.
He was.
His next excursion was just a
mile from home.
“I’m a very stubborn person,
and I didn’t see giving up as a
possibility,” he said.
Chris Kam
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pollution is to be intentional
about where lighting is located:
Is a light really needed in that
spot? And what’s the appropriate
brightness for that light use?
Pipkin explained that we typi-
cally think of lightbulbs based on
wattage, or how much energy the
bulb consumes, but our focus
needs to change with LEDs.
LEDs use fewer watts than tradi-
tional incandescent lightbulbs,
and people should choose a light
based on lumens, often marked
as brightness.
many people use much bright-
er LED lights than necessary,
especially outside. Ideally, you
can buy a much lower-wattage
LED and still have the same level
of brightness as an incandescent
lightbulb. A 30-watt LED bulb
has the same number of lumens
as a 250-watt incandescent bulb,
according to the National Park
Service. However, Pipkin added,
“the industry does not often
provide enough options with low
lumens.”
Additionally, replacing every
traditional bulb with an LED
bulb may be unnecessary. “You
don’t need a whole lot of wattage
to light up the street corner,”
White said.
Use warmer LED lights: Not
all LED lights are the same.
When you go to the store, you
may see some LED lights labeled
at 4,000 Kelvin, 3,000 Kelvin or
even 2,000 Kelvin. These temper-
atures correlate with the light’s
appearance of warmth (yellower)
or coolness (bluer).
Because our eyes are sensitive
to blue light at night, doctors
recommend buying LED lights
with warmer-color hues, such as
yellow or amber. That means
using LED lights below 4,000
Kelvin. on average, LED lights at
4,000 Kelvin are about 29 per-
cent blue. Lights at 3,000 Kelvin
are about 21 percent. These days,
there are LED lights available as
low as 2,000 Kelvin. Warmer
hues also scatter less in the
atmosphere than the cool blue
light.
But light manufacturers are
apply motion
detection or dimming
to light fixtures
Soon enough, he was back on
track, taking day trips along the
coast for his project.
By the 29th day, Kam was able
to travel 157 miles from home to
Newman, Calif., and capture a
photo of hilly terrain with a cell-
phone tower in the distance. for
his final destination, he made it
508 miles from home to the Cerro
Gordo mines. After spending
more than eight hours driving, he
snapped a shot of the sun setting
over the Inyo mountains. In that
moment, Kam said, he recalled
feeling lighter. He realized the
looming feelings of panic and un-
ease he’d been carrying were not
there. He felt peace.
“The project changed my life,”
Kam said.
He wanted to share his experi-
ence to possibly help others strug-
gling with mental health chal-
lenges, so he decided to create a
documentary called “The 30 Proj-
ect.” In the 23-minute film, which
he released on YouTube in may,
Kam shares his journey — from
experiencing persistent panic at-
tacks to exploring mountain
peaks with ease.
Initially, “I didn’t want to open
up because the stigma is so bad,”
said Kam, explaining that he wor-
ried that publicizing his panic dis-
order might lead to judgment and
perhaps limit his career pros-
pects.
Still, he decided that staying
silent was not the solution, espe-
cially knowing that 1 in 5 adults in
the United States lives with a men-
tal illness, and roughly 50 percent
of adolescents have had a psychi-
atric disorder.
“I realized that other people
could get something out of this,”
he said. “I’m hoping people can
watch the movie and feel less
alone.”
mark reinecke, professor
emeritus of psychiatry and behav-
ioral science at Northwestern
University, said Kam’s method can
be adapted to help anyone dealing
with anxiety or panic disorder.
“What Chris did was exactly
what he should do,” reinecke said.
“Small steps, mastering the ex-
perience each time, persisting
even when he felt the anxiety
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slow to move to warmer hues,
said mario motta, a retired cardi-
ologist who helped write the
AmA’s recommendations on re-
ducing light pollution. When he
was writing the recommenda-
tions more than five years ago, he
recalled getting pushback from
companies that already bought a
surplus of the lights with the
highest level of blue light.
Chelan County’s White said
there isn’t enough demand for
manufacturers to produce many
lights as low as 2,000 Kelvin yet.
“We need more people asking for
it and insisting on it,” he said.
Block or limit the light: In
your home, blackout curtains
can prevent streetlights spilling
into bedrooms, which can help
curb the effects on your sleep.
motion detectors, timers and
dimmers can also reduce the
hours of unnecessary light while
saving more energy.
Direct light beams down: for
lights outside your home or in
public spaces, experts say to
direct light downward. Avoid
uncovered or exposed lights that
emit light upward and horizon-
tally. The angle and height of the
light can also affect the spread of
the beam.
While directing LED light
beams down can help reduce
light pollution, it may not neces-
sarily eliminate it — as seen in
Chelan County. Bright light with
a lot of blue, Pipkin said, can
bounce off the ground and scat-
ter into the night sky, still con-
tributing to light pollution.
That’s why it’s important to buy
LEDs at warmer temperatures,
with low lumens.
Since transitioning Chelan
County’s streetlights to LEDs,
White and his colleagues haven’t
yet implemented further altera-
tions. They plan to make changes
after more-advanced commer-
cial products become available,
some that could allow the lights
to dim after a set time at night or
brighten when vehicles are ap-
proaching.
With better changes in the
future, White said he hopes night
stars will fill the sky once again.
“I love to get my telescope out
and see the rings of Saturn and
the stars and the moons on the
other planets. We tried every-
thing we could using the best
available technology to do this,”
said White. “It’s a common prob-
lem for everyone to be aware of.”
about the cover art: The National
Park service created a full picture of
the night sky by stitching together
47 photographs, a process that can
leave seams between individual
images, some of which are still
visible. The trees in the foreground
of the image on the cover do not
appear in the original images.
twinging up, and dropping a re-
ward on it to make him feel suc-
cessful for doing it.”
“It becomes a self-perpetuating
positive cycle,” he explained, add-
ing that taking tiny steps in the
right direction each day can make
a meaningful and lasting impact
on mental health.
reinecke said one of the most
effective ways to combat anxiety
and panic disorders is through
exposure therapy, which is when
someone faces the source of their
anxiety to reinforce that it does
not cause them danger.
“That which you fear is what
you should do,” reinecke advised.
“If you’re afraid of something, you
need to approach it and master it.”
After seeing the film, Colette
Kane — Kam’s friend — decided to
try the same method to mitigate
her own mental health challeng-
es, including attention-deficit/hy-
peractivity disorder. She began
writing a poem every day.
“It really helped me, in terms of
finding ways to soothe myself
through my creative passion,” said
Kane, who is studying film and
also enjoys poetry.
“Seeing how Chris was able to
focus on one step at a time, really
breaking things down, it just
shows you how even the most
tumultuous of times are not for-
ever,” she added. “A diagnosis
doesn’t define you or the trajecto-
ry of your life.”
“Being open and vulnerable
about my story was freeing,” Kam
said.
Just over one year since his first
panic attack, Kam — who is head-
ing to film school at the end of the
summer — is coping far better
than he imagined possible.
“I’ve been able to go on long-
distance plane rides, solo road
trips and speak in front of
crowds,” Kam said.
At the end of the film, Kam adds
that cognitive behavioral therapy
and medication were also part of
his recovery.
He still has anxiety, but he
hasn’t had a panic attack since
September.
on difficult days, “I watch the
movie, and it reminds me of what I
can do,” he said. “There is hope.”