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A deadly
rampage
Gaza
in the captive
D.C. area deal on
Serial carjacker slays one,
critically wounds another
before police kill him
table
all would go free
BYP ETER H ERMANN, in a 6-week pause
E MILY D AVIES,
J ASMINE H ILTON
AND O MARI D ANIELS
Hamas weighs plan after
tentative Israeli go-ahead
Police fatally shot a man early
Tuesday who they believe com-
mitted or tried to commit at least BYK AREN D E Y OUNG,
four carjackings in D.C. and sub- S ARAH D ADOUCH
urban Maryland and also opened AND S USANNAH G EORGE
fire on two occupied police vehi-
cles in separate locations in a All civilian hostages being held
span of less than 10 hours, leaving by Hamas inside Gaza would be
one motorist dead of a gunshot released during a six-week pause
Go NAkAmURA/REUTERS
wound and another critically in- in fighting proposed by the Unit-
jured, according to law enforce- Migrants cross the rio Grande as golfers play on the other side of a barrier made of shipping containers and concertina wire in eagle Pass. ed States, Qatar and Egypt, parts
ment officials. Gov. Greg abbott (r) has seized a city park and deployed National Guard troops to declare his state9s sovereignty on the immigration issue. of which have been accepted in
Even for a region racked by an principle by Israel and which is
epidemic of carjackings in the under consideration by Hamas,

The militarization of Eagle Pass, Tex.

past year, the violence, starting
early Monday evening in the Dis-
trict, was a stunning rampage.
There were five reported attacks
in all, including three carjack-
ings, one attempted carjacking
and one shooting that police said
might have been an additional
carjacking attempt.
The mayhem ended a few
hours before dawn Tuesday in
Prince George9s County, where
two officers with the new Carroll-
ton police fatally shot the suspect
after he confronted them with
two guns, authorities said. Police
identified the motorist who was
killed as 35-year-old Alberto
Vasquez Jr. Efforts to reach his
family were not successful.
The first attack occurred short-
ly before 6 p.m. Monday outside
office buildings on K Street nW,
near Mount Vernon Square. A
man sitting in a vehicle was
targeted, apparently while wait-
ing to pick up his wife at her
workplace, according to police
and a witness. He was shot in the
head in what police said might
have been a carjacking attempt
and was hospitalized in critical
condition.
A woman who walked by mo-
ments after the shooting, still in
daylight, said she saw the victim
SEE carjackiNGS On a9
Gov. Abbott9s act of
defiance on immigration
leaves locals frustrated
BY A RELIS R . H ERNÁNDEZ
eAGLe PASS, Tex. 4 A century
and a half ago, Confederate Gen.
Joseph Orville Shelby splashed
into the wild waters of the Rio
Grande off this border city and
fled to Mexico, refusing to surren-
der his battle flag to Union sol-
diers.
now the park named in his
honor has become a front line in a
feud between the state and the
federal government 4 a power
struggle over who ultimately has
the right to control the border and
the tide of humanity trying to
cross it.
Texas national Guard Hum-
vees carry rifle-toting troops and
patrol newly erected gates to the
municipal park previously used
for family cookouts and Inde-
pendence Day festivities. Tents,
Wire lines a path as U.S. lawmakers tour the border area in eagle
Pass this month. twenty-five GOP governors back abbott9s move.
military trucks, heavy equipment
and portable toilets dot the edge
of a browning fairway. Along the
riverbank, Gov. Greg Abbott (R)
has ordered the state national
Guard to deploy coils of razor
wire, rusting shipping containers
ERIc GAy/AP
and dirt-filled barrels to declare
his state9s sovereignty.
In a Shelby-like act of defiance,
the governor is invoking the
state9s right to defend itself
against what he sees as an inva-
sion. Abbott made national head-
lines when he seized the park in
Eagle Pass this month and shut
out U.S. Border Patrol agents who
had long used the terrain as a
staging point 4 action the gover-
nor9s supporters saw as a take-
charge move, while his detractors
viewed it as a dangerous over-
reach of state power.
The U.S. Supreme Court has
ordered Abbott to allow Border
Patrol agents to remove or cut
wire to reach the river and aid
migrants in distress. Abbott9s
troops are installing even more
wire. Twenty-five Republican gov-
ernors recently signed a letter
expressing their support for Ab-
bott9s rebellion, and former presi-
dent Donald Trump is calling on
states to join the standoff.
The feud between Abbott and
the Biden administration is heat-
ing up just as the presidential
election campaign gets underway.
The issue has galvanized Republi-
cans, some of whom are now ques-
tioning the merits of a bipartisan
SEE bOrder On a6
Mayorkas: DhS leader defends
record in impeachment effort. A4
according to officials familiar
with the negotiations.
The proposal includes the
freeing of Palestinian prisoners
held by Israel, at a rate of three
prisoners for each hostage, a
temporary repositioning of Is-
raeli troops away from high-
population areas of Gaza and a
significant increase in humani-
tarian aid flowing into the en-
clave.
Described as a bare-bones
<framework,= it is said to be a
two- or three-page document
with bullet points. It envisions
follow-on pauses beyond the six
weeks, during which Israeli mili-
tary captives and the bodies of
hostages who have died in captiv-
ity would be released, amid
hopes by negotiators that an
extension could lead to a perma-
nent cessation of the fighting
now nearing its fourth month.
According to Israel, 109 hostages
are still being held, including
SEE hOStaGeS On a12
Hospital raid: Undercover Israeli
agents kill three in West Bank. A11
U.s. in Middle East: Deadly attack
spotlights open-ended mission. A13
Killed in Jordan: Three soldiers
are mourned across Georgia. A14

A history-making actress lifts the Blackfeet Nation CHiTA RivERA 1933-2024

Reservation ûnds a champion in Lily Gladstone, who has embraced Indigenous heritage, language Star brought decades
BY K ARIN B RULLIARD
of dazzle to Broadway
BRoWnInG, MonT. 4 Rence BY A DAM B ERNSTEIN
Champ stayed up late to watch
the glittery Hollywood ceremony, Chita Rivera, the vivacious
a world away from the frigid, Broadway musical star who orig-
rural landscape where the tousle- inated roles in <West Side Story,=
haired third-grader lives. He was <Bye Bye Birdie,= <Chicago= and
rewarded with something aston- <Kiss of the Spider Woman,= won
ishing: a woman in sparkling jew- two competitive Tony Awards,
els and a strapless gown, clutch- and became one of the most
ing a trophy and speaking a lan- honored Latina entertainers of
guage he9d never heard on televi- her generation, died Jan. 30 in
sion 4 a language he studies at new York. She was 91.
school, a language he under- Her daughter, Lisa Mordente,
stands. announced the death but did not
The boy proudly translated for provide a specific cause.
his mother the words that Lily With her raven hair, lithe
REUTERS
Gladstone spoke after becoming frame and smoky voice, Ms. Rive-
the first Indigenous person to win ra cut a mesmerizing Broadway tony winner chita rivera.
a Golden Globe for best actress, figure for more than six decades,
announcing to all that she hailed her name synonymous with vi- Chita9s the last of a certain kind
from the Blackfeet nation here, tality and longevity on the musi- of performer,= composer John
where sprawling prairies meet cal stage. She was a reliable Kander told the Los Angeles
jagged mountains known com- box-office draw, whether in Times. <But they9re wrong. I
monly as the crown of the conti- grand-scale new York produc- don9t remember there being any
nent and to the tribe as the back- tions, regional theater, national performers like her.=
bone of the earth. tours or her nightclub act, and Her stamina scarcely declined
<I was like, wow, she talked proved choreographically adapt- as she aged. At 70, she delivered a
in front of people, like new York- able from the gritty minimalism slinky tango with Antonio Ban-
holly PIckETT foR ThE WAShINGToN PoST
ans and lots of people, and that of Bob Fosse to the balletic grace deras in a 2003 Broadway revival
would help us for our Blackfoot teachers Willamina tailfeathers, left, and Samantha Grant laugh during a blackfoot language lesson of Jerome Robbins. of the Maury Yeston musical
SEE blackfeet On a8 with their second- and third-graders at browning elementary School in browning, Mont. <People are always saying that SEE rivera On a18

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Back-to-back atmospheric rivers expected to soak West Coast
BY M ATTHEW C APPUCCI
Not one, but two atmospheric
rivers 4 narrow plumes of robust
tropical moisture 4 will deluge
the West Coast over the next
seven days, bringing a slew of
hazardous impacts and disrupt-
ing travel. Heavy-flooding rain,
landslides, significant mountain
snow and strong winds are all in
the offing, coming in multiple
waves during both the workweek
and the weekend.
Wind advisories span from the
Willamette Valley of Oregon to
with most impacts Sunday into
Monday. Meteorologists refer to
the overarching setup as the
<Pineapple Express,= since the
near Monterey, Calif., represent- <There will be an increased risk Ridge. percent of California is <abnor- moisture often originates from
ing where gusts of 45 mph or of rock and land slides along The worst weather will come mally dry= 4 the lowest category the central Pacific near Hawaii.
greater are expected. Within that roadways,= the National Weather Wednesday and Thursday, but a of drought. The remainder is Details on the next atmos-
zone are several high-wind Service warned. <Creeks and second atmospheric river will hit drought-free. pheric river event are still hazy,
watches and warnings for winds streams may rise out of their Sunday into Monday. That could The first of two atmospheric but this looks like a California-fo-
closer to 60 mph. banks.= double precipitation totals and rivers began lapping at Oregon cused event. The atmospheric riv-
Much of the same region is also All that moisture will come leave the ground even more satu- and Washington on Tuesday er may favor greater impacts in
blanketed by flood watches. They down as snow in the Sierra Ne- rated. night, and then will work down California vs. the Pacific North-
cover the San Joaquin Valley and vada, with snow levels dropping On the plus side, relentless the coast Wednesday into Thurs- west.
coastline for the northern two- from 7,500 feet to 5,000 feet or rains last winter and this year day. The main effects of the at- Rainfall amounts may be great-
thirds of California. A general 3 to below as cold air filters into the have helped to entirely eradicate mospheric river were expected to er, especially in southern zones.
6 inches of rain is expected 4 region. California9s drought. A year ago, last 12 to 18 hours. Wind gusts of 45 to 55 mph will
lesser in the lowlands, and more <Travel could be very difficult 99.36 percent of the state was Another low-pressure system once again be possible at the
in the higher elevations 4 which to impossible,= the Weather Serv- facing at least some tier of over the northeast Pacific will coastline, and 3 to 5 feet of snow
will cause some pockets of flood- ice said, noting winds could gust drought, according to the U.S. drag a secondary strip of tropical will be possible in the Sierra
ing, as well as shallow landslides. up to 100 mph atop the Sierra Drought Monitor. Now, only 3.45 moisture toward the coastline, Nevada.

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Blowout revives questions over FAA oversight of Boeing
Crashes in 2018, 2019
hurt agency that signed
off on ill-fated Alaska jet
BY I AN D UNCAN
AND L ORI A RATANI
After a pair of crashes involv-
ing Boeing-made planes raised
doubts about the Federal Avia-
tion Administration9s oversight
five years ago, the agency pledged
to do better. It began completing
checks of every 737 Max jet made
by Boeing, using its own inspec-
tors to sign off on each plane9s
airworthiness.
On Oct. 25 of last year, an FAA
inspector completed one of these
checks on an Alaska Airlines jet,
declaring it to be <in condition for
safe operation,= according to an
agency document summarizing
his work. Two months later, that
jet blew a hole midair shortly
after takeoff from Portland Inter-
national Airport.
The incident, which terrified
passengers and forced an emer-
gency landing, was a setback not
only for Boeing but for the FAA,
which has struggled to repair its
reputation since the 2018 and
2019 crashes, which left 346 peo-
ple dead. Though Boeing9s design
was ultimately implicated in the
crashes, lawmakers also faulted
the FAA for moving too slowly to
ground the planes and relying too
heavily on Boeing workers to
complete safety reviews.
The agency has earned praise
from lawmakers and experts for
its grounding of the Max 9 fleet
and the harder line it appears to
be taking against Boeing. Still,
the agency is facing questions
about its oversight of the plane
maker9s production lines.
The FAA inspector who looked
at the Alaska Max 9 in October
initially marked three unsatisfac-
tory items on a checklist, before
affirming that technicians had
corrected them, the agency docu-
ment shows. Airworthiness cer-
tificate files for seven other Max
9s bound for Alaska9s fleet last
year show inspectors turned up a
total of 50 last-minute issues with
the planes. The agency said it
would require a Freedom of In-
formation Act request to disclose
the details.
The agency declined to say
whether the inspection ought to
have raised concerns about the
piece that fell off the Alaska jet,
which is referred to as a door
plug. The plug seals an optional
emergency exit.
Ed Pierson, a former senior
manager at Boeing9s 737 factory
in Renton, Wash., said the FAA9s
final inspection of the plane is
typically limited, carried out after
the plane has left the factory and
been flown to a separate Boeing
facility in Seattle. He said it
would not be able to detect prob-
lems hidden on a fully assembled
Boeing workers assemble 737 Max planes in Renton, Wash., in 2019. A recent midair incident involving an Alaska Airlines jet was a
setback for Boeing as well as the Federal Aviation Administration, which has struggled to fix its reputation since 2018 and 2019 crashes.
plane.
<Imagine you bought a new
truck 4 you go and pick it up, you
walk around, you lift the hood up,
you kick the tires,= said Pierson,
who now runs the Foundation for
Aviation Safety. <It9s a cursory
inspection.=
The FAA said that the deficien-
cies the inspector did turn up are
a sign that inspections are a
meaningful check on Boeing, and
that agency staff play a <crucial
role throughout the manufactur-
ing process to ensure the airwor-
thiness and safety of commercial
aircraft.= The agency says it con-
ducts nine other reviews at points
throughout Boeing9s production
process.
In a recent interview, FAA Ad-
ministrator Michael Whitaker ac-
knowledged that the agency plays
a role in overseeing the manufac-
turing system but was focused on
fixing any problems rather than
assigning blame.
<We certainly will look at our
own processes and oversight,=
Whitaker said. The agency de-
clined this week to say what form
that effort might take.
Boeing referred questions
about the airworthiness certifi-
cate of the plane involved in the
door plug incident to the Nation-
al Transportation Safety Board,
which said its investigation
would involve review of all of the
jet9s documentation. The compa-
ny referred questions about find-
ings on other planes to the FAA.
Boeing has said it will <cooperate
fully and transparently with the
FAA= as it continues to investigate
quality issues.
The NTSB, which is an inde-
pendent federal agency, is lead-
ing the investigation into the
blowout on the Alaska plane,
seeking to determine whether
bolts designed to hold the door in
place were properly installed.
The board sent an investigator to
Boeing9s 737 factory in Renton on
Friday as part of an effort to build
a detailed timeline of how the
plane was put together.
While much of the initial scru-
tiny has been on Boeing and
Spirit AeroSystems, a supplier
that initially installed the door,
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy
said the investigation would also
examine the role of regulators.
<Part of the reason we were
created as an independent agen-
cy is because we9re also conduct-
ing oversight of FAA as part of
any investigation,= Homendy told
reporters Jan. 17. <We9re going to
look at their actions, as well.=
The FAA grounded 171 Max jets
with the same plug door design
Jan. 6, and ultimately kept the
planes out of service for almost
three weeks. The jets were
cleared to fly again last week
following inspections and main-
tenance necessary to ensure they
conform to their original design.
Alaska Airlines estimated the
groundings will cost it $150 mil-
lion, while United Airlines is
projecting a first-quarter loss as a
result of groundings.
Even some of the FAA9s past
critics say its response to the
Alaska incident has been mark-
edly different from how it han-
dled the earlier crashes.
After the first crash off the
coast of Indonesia in October
2018, the FAA began an investiga-
tion but did not ground the Max
fleet. When an Ethiopian Airlines
Max crashed in similar circum-
stances the following March, U.S.
officials initially held off ground-
ing the planes even as other
aviation regulators around the
world ordered them out of the
skies. Then-Transportation Sec-
retary Elaine Chao publicly ques-
tioned the need to ground the
jets.
In the Alaska Airlines incident
this year, the agency grounded
the Max 9 planes and kept them
from flying until more inspec-
tions could be completed.
Robert Clifford, an attorney for
the families of the crash victims
who is also representing some
passengers on the Alaska flight,
said the FAA9s patience with Boe-
ing appears to have finally run
out.
<The trust factor has been sub-
stantially diminished,= Clifford
said.
Ray LaHood, who worked with
Whitaker when he was transpor-
tation secretary in the Obama
administration, said the agency is
acting aggressively to move on
from past criticisms that it was
too deferential to Boeing.
<I think that culture has com-
Investigators found that regula-
tors had failed to understand the
risks posed by an automated
system that pushed the noses of
the planes down before they
crashed, in part because Boeing
employees had sought to mini-
mize its significance. The FAA
relies heavily on Boeing employ-
ees to carry out safety work on its
behalf, but in some cases those
workers have reported feeling
pressured by the company to rush
their work.
Lawmakers responded at the
end of 2020 by tightening the
FAA9s oversight of Boeing employ-
ees delegated to conduct safety
work on the government9s behalf,
and directing the agency to issue
new rules requiring manufactur-
ers developing new aircraft to
disclose critical safety informa-
tion. Three years later, much of
that work remains in progress,
with officials missing lawmakers9
deadlines in some cases.
The FAA also decided to take
more control of the airworthiness
certificate inspections. The certif-
icates are the final sign-off that
the plane is approved to be put
into service, and must be kept
with the aircraft. Before issuing
the certificate, FAA inspectors
review paperwork and visually
inspect the plane inside and out.
The agency informed Boeing in
Jovelle tamayo For the Washington Post late 2019 that the agency would
continue carrying out the work
itself, rather than delegating the
process to the company, until it
pletely changed with the signals was confident that <Boeing has
sent by Administrator Whitaker,= fully functional quality control
LaHood said. and verification processes in
Whitaker was confirmed as the place.=
agency9s leader in October, hav- Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.),
ing previously served as deputy chair of the Commerce Commit-
administrator during the Obama tee, disclosed after the Alaska
administration and holding exec- blowout that she had requested
utive roles at United. in early 2023 that the FAA audit
Whitaker has taken a public Boeing9s production lines to de-
role in addressing the agency9s termine whether the company9s
response to the Alaska Airlines processes were sufficient to en-
blowout this month, and Ho- sure planes were being built cor-
mendy said the relationship be- rectly. She was rebuffed by the
tween the NTSB and the FAA is agency. The FAA9s then-acting ad-
the best it has been in years. She ministrator said in April that its
said she has been on the phone existing oversight was sufficient.
with Whitaker sometimes as fre- <It appears that FAA9s over-
quently as twice a day since the sight processes have not been
Alaska incident. effective in ensuring that Boeing
<I am happy that they took produces airplanes that are in
swift action, and serious action, condition for safe operation,=
around this incident and with the Cantwell wrote to the agency this
other planes,= she said in an month.
interview Friday. The agency announced a fresh
The two crises have posed dif- audit the following day. It also
ferent challenges for the FAA. announced last week that it was
Initial evidence suggests the deploying more inspectors and
Alaska Airlines incident 4 in would use its authority over the
which no one was seriously hurt airworthiness certificates to cap
4 was linked to manufacturing the number of Max jets produced
flaws. The crashes several years each month until it was confident
ago, meanwhile, pointed to prob- quality control problems at the
lems with the design of the Max. company9s factory had been
The FAA has focused much of its solved.
renewed oversight in recent years The message to the company
on Boeing9s design process. was intended to be clear. In a
The 2018 and 2019 crashes statement, Whitaker said, <This
prompted a host of investigations won9t be back to business as usual
and raised questions about how for Boeing.=
the agency had reviewed the de-
sign of the Max, an updated tony romm contributed to this
version of Boeing9s popular 737. report.

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Committee spars over GOP ebort to impeach Mayorkas
BY J ACQUELINE A LEMANY
AND A MY B W ANG
Members of the House Home-
land Security Committee sparred
Tuesday over Republicans9 ef-
forts to advance an impeachment
case against Homeland Security
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas,
who vigorously defended his rec-
ord in a lengthy letter to lawmak-
ers but did not testify in person.
The committee convened for a
day-long hearing Tuesday to
mark up two articles of impeach-
ment against Mayorkas 4 <will-
ful and systemic refusal to com-
ply with the law= and breach of
the public trust 4 that Republi-
cans introduced this week in
their quest for the first impeach-
ment of a Cabinet member in
almost 150 years.
Democrats also slammed the
impeachment proceedings as po-
litically motivated, pointing out
that GOP lawmakers were trying
to oust Mayorkas for supposedly
neglecting to secure the southern
border while at the same time
opposing a bipartisan package
under negotiation in the Senate
that would seek to improve bor-
der security.
Mayorkas did not appear at the
hearing but sent a six-page letter
Tuesday morning to Rep. Mark
Green (R-Tenn.), the committee9s
chairman, detailing his lengthy
career in public service and push-
ing back on the GOP9s accusa-
tions that he has avoided their
oversight requests.
<We have provided Congress
and your Committee hours of
testimony, thousands of docu-
ments, hundreds of briefings,
and much more information that
demonstrates quite clearly how
we are enforcing the law,= Mayor-
kas wrote.
His responsiveness to the
House9s oversight requests would
not waver, however <baseless=
the proceedings, he added.
<I assure you that your false
accusations do not rattle me and
do not divert me from the law
enforcement and broader public
service to which I remain devot-
Inside Sinema9s reelection decision: Will voters care about a border deal?
In polarized time,
independent must weigh
prospects in purple Ariz.
BY L IZ G OODWIN AND
Y VONNE W INGETT S ANCHEZ
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.)
has spent the past few months at
the Capitol hashing out a political-
ly tricky bipartisan deal with a
small group of lawmakers to ad-
dress the migrant crisis on the
U.S.-Mexico border.
It9s the type of intricate legisla-
tive dealmaking the former Dem-
ocrat has built her unusual politi-
cal brand on. But in the next few
weeks, Sinema must decide
whether voters in her purple state
care enough about her brand of
politics in a polarized era to re-
elect her as an independent, as the
window for her to gather enough
signatures to land on the Novem-
ber ballot quickly closes.
A Republican consultant famil-
iar with the recent internal delib-
erations within Sinema9s tightknit
circle said that the team9s debate
involves one central question: In
today9s hyperpartisan environ-
ment, do voters value elected offi-
cials who bring both sides togeth-
er to deliver legislation?
<If she is able to get a border
security deal across, do you know
she will have accomplished some-
thing that hasn9t been done in 30
years as a first-term senator,= the
Republican asked. <But do voters
even care?=
As Sinema and her campaign
team ponder this question, the
senator has blown past some of
the deadlines the team set for
themselves last year, including to
have hired campaign staff by the
end of last year. Her fundraising
has been lackluster. And a key
signature-gathering deadline to
get on the ballot is approaching,
which experts say would likely
require action in the next few
weeks to comfortably meet.
In Arizona and D.C., there is
also skepticism among political
consultants about whether Sine-
ma could pull off winning as an
independent in a statewide three-
way race 4 a feat that9s not been
accomplished in recent memory
4 even given her considerable
political talents. A leaked Sinema
Broken Doors
Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) at Tuesday9s hearing in the House
considering the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
ed,= Mayorkas wrote.
House Republicans an-
nounced the two articles of im-
peachment against Mayorkas on
Sunday, after swiftly concluding
two public impeachment hear-
ings this month without Mayork-
as9s in-person testimony or testi-
mony from any fact witnesses.
In the first article of impeach-
ment, Republicans argue that
Mayorkas has failed to enforce
U.S. immigration policies at the
nation9s border, has disregarded
laws passed by Congress and has
ignored court orders, allowing
for a surge of migration at the
southern border that has result-
ed in record highs of illegal cross-
ings in recent months.
<Secretary Mayorkas has put
his political preferences above
following the law,= Green said in
his opening remarks Tuesday. He
later described the letter Mayork-
as had sent him Tuesday morning
as <inadequate and unbecoming
campaign memo first reported by
NBC News predicted she could
win up to 20 percent of Demo-
crats, 70 percent of independents
and 35 percent of Republicans as
her path to victory. But polls sug-
gest she would be the underdog in
the race, trailing both Democrat
Ruben Gallego and Republican
Kari Lake, who are expected to
win their parties9 nominations.
Still, there are signs that her
team is at least gathering informa-
tion about a potential run. A Sine-
ma representative has been in
conversation with at least one
firm this month about the price
tag and amount of time it could
take to gather signatures from
tens of thousands of voters to file
in early April, a requirement of
qualifying for the general election
ballot, a person familiar with the
outreach said.
Majority Leader Charles E.
Schumer (D-N.Y.) and the Demo-
cratic Senatorial Campaign Com-
mittee have not said whether they
would back Sinema over Gallego if
she does run again, only insisting
they will ensure the seat does not
flip to red. There is a long-stand-
ing tradition of the DSCC backing
incumbents, but after Sinema left
the party in 2022 and has said she
does not caucus with Democrats,
it became less clear how the group
would handle her reelection. (Al-
though Sinema maintains she
does not caucus with them, her
voting record is largely Democrat-
ic, and she receives her Senate
committee assignments through
the Democrats.)
<We have open lines of commu-
nications with both teams,= said
an aide at the DSCC who, like
others, spoke on the condition of
anonymity to detail internal dis-
cussions, referring to Gallego9s
and Sinema9s teams. <We will not
allow Kari Lake to win this seat.=
DSCC Chair Sen. Gary Peters
(D-Mich.), who called Sinema a
friend, said the group is already
making investments in Arizona,
referencing the group9s hiring of
staffers there and in other battle-
ground states.
<She9ll make her decision when
she makes her decision,= he said.
<We are confident that a Republi-
can will not win in Arizona.=
Even some of Sinema9s closest
allies say they do not know what
she will decide, and Democrats 4
who use words like <enigma= to
describe the first-term senator 4
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of a Cabinet secretary.=
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-
Tex.), who later put forth an
amendment to remove the first
article of impeachment, defend-
ed Mayorkas by pointing out that
Congress has never provided the
resources to detain all undocu-
mented migrants, and that all
homeland security secretaries
have had to use <prosecutorial
discretion= to release some mi-
grants.
<I can9t for the life of me see
why my colleagues do not under-
stand that you are dealing clearly
with the issue of a policy decision
and a very wise secretary that is
trying to do his job by protecting
us in the narrow way that he9s
allowed to do so,= Jackson Lee
said.
The second charge, breach of
the public trust, accuses Mayork-
as of making false statements
and obstructing oversight of the
Department of Homeland Secu-
The empty seat of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) is seen at a hearing in November. A key deadline is
approaching for Sinema to gather signatures to get on the ballot for reelection.
are impatient for her to make the
call.
Rodell Mollineau, a Democratic
strategist who formerly worked
for Sen. Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.),
now deceased, said the indecision
has frozen the race.
<What Democrats lack right
now is clarity, and not having clar-
ity makes it hard to strategize,
makes it hard to figure out how to
spend dollars,= he said.
One Arizona consultant spelled
out Sinema9s treacherous political
path during a conversation with a
Sinema representative last year, a
person familiar with the meeting
recalled.
The conversation centered on
the complications involving the
mechanics of running a third-par-
ty campaign without the help of
party infrastructure, from chal-
lenges with recruiting campaign
staff to accessing voter-contact
lists, the person said. (Other con-
sultants have downplayed the in-
frastructure challenges Sinema
would face as a third-party candi-
date, however.)
<There was a sense of righ-
teousness,= the person said. <That
she9s doing the right thing.=
The marathoner and triathlete
is known for her fierce competi-
tive streak, and allies have specu-
Matt MCClain/the Washington Post
rity. After little public action in
the probe for several months, the
Homeland Security Committee9s
investigation came to a head this
month after Green invited May-
orkas to testify at the committee9s
second impeachment hearing.
Mayorkas responded that he
had a scheduling conflict and
offered to testify on another date,
but Green declined the offer and
moved forward with the hearing.
It was held on a day Mayorkas
was preparing to host a delega-
tion of Mexican officials to dis-
cuss migration issues at the
U.S.-Mexico border. He also was
spotted on the other side of the
Capitol, negotiating with the Sen-
ate on a border security deal.
Shortly thereafter, Green is-
sued a letter outlining 31 requests
to the department that he said
remained <partially or entirely
unsatisfied,= signaling an ob-
struction charge to come.
Homeland Security officials
lated she would not run in a race
where she did not see a clear path
to victory. Sinema, the first openly
bisexual person to serve in the
Senate, started out in politics affil-
iated with the Green Party before
becoming a Democrat and later
assembling a winning coalition in
2018 that included <McCain Re-
publicans= 4 conservative fans of
the late Arizona senator9s maver-
ick streak. But she alienated many
Democrats back home by pushing
back against a plan to eliminate
the Senate filibuster to allow legis-
lation to pass the chamber with a
bare majority, as well as with a
vote against attaching a minimum
wage hike to a covid relief bill.
Many of her closest relationships
in the Senate are with Republi-
cans.
Sinema9s team says she has
been too consumed with her work
at the Capitol to decide on another
run. The senator worked through
the holidays on the border deal.
<Arizonans expect their elected
leaders to solve problems. That9s
why Kyrsten is laser-focused on
delivering real solutions to secure
Arizona9s border 4 not campaign
politics,= said Sinema spokesman
Pablo A. Sierra-Carmona.
To get on the ballot in Novem-
ber, Sinema would have to gather
the washington post
have noted that Mayorkas has
already testified before Congress
more than any other Cabinet
member 4 27 times in 35 months
4 and that the department has
provided 90 witnesses for com-
mittee hearings since the start of
the Biden administration, along
with more than 13,000 pages of
documents and data in response
to Green9s requests alone.
Several hours into the hearing
Tuesday, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-
Tex.) suggested that the remarks
Tuesday would have little impact
on the ultimate outcome.
<One of the most difficult
things about Congress is it9s filled
with nothing but lawyers and
they9ll talk all day about this, that
or the other, which is I think is
frustrating to many Americans,=
Gonzales said. <This is what9s
going to happen. The House of
Representatives is going to im-
peach Secretary Mayorkas, and
there is absolutely nothing any-
one can do to stop it. That9s going
to happen.=
Even if the House impeaches
Mayorkas, he is unlikely to be
convicted in a trial in the Senate.
Green told reporters Tuesday
that it did not matter if the Senate
ultimately did not convict Mayor-
kas.
<I9m doing what is, I think, my
duty, and votes will be what votes
are. I feel pretty good,= Green
said. <The same question gets
asked. & 8Are you just doing
something that9s going to wind
up being fruitless anyway be-
cause of the Senate?9 Well, fine, if
that9s what they choose to do, but
I have a duty to do.=
Mayorkas appeared before the
committee in November. But
threats to impeach him have
loomed since House Republicans
assumed the majority, serving as
a rallying cry for hard-line law-
makers such as Rep. Marjorie
Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who has
made repeated efforts to force an
impeachment vote.
Constitutional experts and
Democrats have argued that Re-
publicans are abusing a tool ad-
opted by the framers of the Con-
haiyun Jiang for the Washington Post
more than 40,000 signatures of
registered voters, via paper forms
or electronically. Arizona signa-
ture-gathering experts estimated
that it would cost about $1 million
to obtain signatures by paper, plus
additional signatures to ensure a
cushion if some are disqualified
by election officials.
That process would need to be-
gin in the next few weeks to avoid
unnecessary expense, those ex-
perts said.
<Everything she9s doing is mak-
ing her path more expensive and
more difficult for what is a founda-
tional part of her campaign,= said
Jon Sutton, who runs a Democrat-
ic firm in Arizona that gathers
signatures. <She would save her-
self money if she had started this
last year.=
Meanwhile, Sinema9s team and
some of the state9s major political
donors from both sides of the aisle
are working to reschedule a fund-
raiser in the state that had been
scrapped last fall amid the threat
of a federal government shut-
down. Sharon Harper, a real estate
developer and longtime friend of
the McCain family, said she spoke
last week to a Sinema representa-
tive who told her that reschedul-
ing the fundraiser was <a top pri-
ority.=
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stitution to protect the country
from despotic leadership to in-
stead address a policy dispute.
Two law professors who testified
before the committee this month
both stated that they did not see a
constitutional basis for impeach-
ment.
<Policy differences are not im-
peachable,= said ranking Demo-
crat Bennie G. Thompson (Miss.)
in his opening statement Tues-
day, before repeating the senti-
ment from a constitutional schol-
ar who testified before the com-
mittee this month and argued
that no other branch of govern-
ment has more power to address
the crisis at the border than
Congress.
In remarks during the commit-
tee hearing Tuesday, Rep. Dan
Goldman (D-N.Y.) noted the irony
of Republicans trying to impeach
Mayorkas for neglecting his du-
ties while the secretary has been
actively negotiating with a bipar-
tisan group of senators on border
security legislation for two
months.
Goldman was referring to a
bipartisan Senate deal that
would tie funding for Ukraine to
border policy changes pushed by
Republicans. After former presi-
dent Donald Trump voiced oppo-
sition to the package, however,
several House and Senate Repub-
licans have said they would not
support the measure.
Trump, who is running for
reelection and who decisively
won the GOP9s first two nominat-
ing contests this month, blasted
the would-be bipartisan deal as a
potential political <gift= to Demo-
crats during an election year. He
also bragged about inserting
himself into the debate and sty-
mieing efforts to get the bill
passed, even though he is not in
office.
<The real reason we are here,
as we all know, is because Donald
Trump wants to run on immigra-
tion as his number one issue in
the November 2024 election 4
and you don9t have to take my
word for it because he said it
himself,= Goldman said Tuesday.
<People want to talk to her and
see her,= said Harper. <I9m hoping
she9s going to run. She9s got the
time to do it. . . . There is a timing
issue here, and I9m hopeful that
we9re going to hear from her,=
about her future political plans,
Harper said.
Sinema9s fundraising has
lagged far behind her potential
rivals in recent months. Her lead-
ership PAC raised only about
$220,000 last quarter, though the
candidate had more than $10 mil-
lion cash on hand total as of a few
months ago.
Gallego announced his run
more than a year ago and has
outraised Sinema several quarters
in a row while holding campaign
events across the state. His allies
believe he is consolidating sup-
port and sharpening his cam-
paign skills while Sinema sits on
the fence. He9s picked up endorse-
ments from Democratic groups,
including the abortion rights
group Reproductive Freedom for
All and the anti-money in politics
group End Citizens United.
But Sinema would have an im-
pressive legislative record to run
on should she decide to enter the
race after a border deal is struck.
She was a lead negotiator on gun-
control legislation that passed in
2022, a sweeping infrastructure
package that many lawmakers are
running on, as well as legislation
that protects the right to same-sex
marriage and negotiations that
resulted in Sen. Tommy Tuberville
(R-Ala.) lifting his hold blocking
military promotions late last year.
If the Senate were to pass the
sweeping border security deal
she9s hammered out with both
parties9 Senate leaders, Sen. Chris
Murphy (D-Conn), and Sen.
James Lankford (R-Okla.), that
would also make a powerful argu-
ment to her home state where the
border crisis is particularly rel-
evant. The deal faces a treacher-
ous path to become law, however,
given former president Trump
and many of his allies are opposed.
<We have never had a package
of this significance under consid-
eration by the United States Con-
gress,= Sinema said last week, say-
ing the border has been an <un-
mitigated crisis= her entire life.
<And this is a unique moment. I
think we should take it.=
leigh ann Caldwell contributed to this
report.
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aid after Trump called it <mean-
ingless.= President Biden has been
pushed to take a harsher stance 4
declaring friday that he would
<shut down= the southern border
when illegal crossings surge.
<People now know where Eagle
Pass is,= said mike Garcia, a re-
tired insurance salesman and ac-
tive Chamber of Commerce mem-
ber. <But are we famous or infa-
mous?=
Caught in the fray are the resi-
dents of Eagle Pass 4 originally
known as El Paso del Águila, after
the mexican eagles that flew
through nearby woods. The garri-
son town established in the 1840s
was once dominated by outlaws
and renegades like gunslinger
John King fisher. Today it is home
to an ambitious and growing bi-
national community largely com-
posed of mexican Americans and
members of the traditional Kicka-
poo tribe of Texas 4 all eager to
get back to normal life.
Eagle Pass is the largest city in
maverick County, with nearly
30,000 residents, but it is isolated
from most other U.S. border cities.
The nearest municipality is
Piedras Negras in mexico, within
eyesight across the river. Their
histories and fortunes are tied
together. mexicans who cross
legally make up nearly half of
Eagle Pass9s workforce; many U.S.
residents also cross the river to
work. While local government
and the school district have been
Eagle Pass9s biggest employers
historically, residents are increas-
ingly landing jobs with the Border
Patrol and large manufacturers.
Still, nearly a quarter of the
population 4 about twice the
Texas average 4 lives in poverty.
Unprecedented migration has
made this border county9s
74 miles of riverfront the scene of
an unfolding human and consti-
tutional drama. The huge number
of migrants who have crossed the
river and the crackdown designed
to stop that flow have attracted
the attention of everyone from
immigrant rights activists to rac-
ist militias curious to see whether
the federal supremacy that with-
stood a civil war will survive once
more.
The city9s restaurants are full of
out-of-towners and hotel rooms
are sold out. The state resurrected
Camp Charlie, a base on the city9s
outskirts, to house hundreds of
Texas National Guard soldiers.
Yards away, U.S. Customs and Bor-
der Protection erected a tent city
in 2022 to relieve overflow at its
two stations processing migrants.
The local high school9s cross-
country team can no longer use
Shelby Park trails, but soldiers
allowed the golf team to practice
recently while two Venezuelan
migrants shivered behind wire on
the riverbank asking other sol-
diers for help.
<We didn9t expect any of this,=
said migrant Kevin rolando
Gómez, 25, pointing to the wire
and barriers. <We just need help.=
It9s been nearly two years since
Abbott and other republican gov-
ernors began traveling to this
Democratic-voting Tejano city for
news conferences denouncing
<open borders= and unveiling
plans to deploy Texas troops and
drop river buoys. The state9s bor-
der with mexico is an internation-
al boundary under the jurisdic-
tion of federal authorities, but
Abbott and his allies contend they
have the right to intervene be-
cause the Biden administration
hasn9t done enough to stanch the
record number of migrants trying
to enter Texas illegally in recent
months.
Abbott did not respond to a
request for comment on the situa-
tion in Eagle Pass.
<It9s the most expensive politi-
cal campaign paid for by the tax-
payers,= said a chuckling Pepe
Aranda, a local real estate agent
and former county elected official.
But even as residents criticize
Abbott9s push, they grumble
about the resources that migra-
tion has drained from public cof-
fers. Local fire and police are
sometimes so busy handling calls
at the river that ambulances and
personnel are not available for
residents. Patients have had to
wait for a bed at the hospital
because injured or sick migrants
occupy all 18 of them.
<We cannot afford thousands of
people coming through our com-
munity,= said maverick9s county
attorney, Jaime Iracheta, who
signed 40 invoices recently to re-
imburse local officials who han-
dled the remains of migrants.
As in many communities along
the border, locals here hold views
on immigration that are as com-
plicated as the stories of how their
families became fronterizos, or
borderlanders. Both the federal
and state governments, said resi-
dents and elected leaders, rou-
tinely leave them out of the con-
versation.
<for us, it becomes frustrating,=
said Jaime rodríguez, who runs
TOP: A migrant family talks to National Guard troops in eagle Pass, Tex., after crossing the rio
Grande, as seen from Piedras Negras, Mexico. ABOVe: National Guard soldiers patrol the river near
Shelby Park. eagle Pass officials have said the takeover of the park was unwarranted, but some
residents welcome the soldiers and troopers as long as they rent, eat and buy into the local economy.
his family9s nearly 85-year-old
grocery store downtown. <Living
here on the border, we have peo-
ple making decisions for us who
aren9t from here and don9t know
how we live our lives.=
The transformation of the city9s
riverbank into a militarized zone
is harmful, residents said. Sol-
diers changed the river9s flow
when they bulldozed islands and
pushed the land toward Texas to
keep migrants from gathering on
them. The environmental costs
and the amount of erosion are still
not known.
<They9re destroying the river
and everything I believe in,= said
Jessie fuentes, who owns a kayak-
ing and canoe business but is
nervous about taking customers
out because of all the razor wire
that has slipped beneath the riv-
er9s surface. <I can9t believe this is
America.=
But the soldiers and state
troopers who unspool the ugly
razor wire, more often reserved
for prisons and battlefields, are
Clothes and other items left by migrants on the bank of the rio Grande in eagle Pass. The surge of people has overwhelmed the city9s
emergency rescue workers, who treat every migrant who breaks a leg, has a heart attack or emerges from the river with hypothermia.
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welcomed by some as long as they
rent, eat and buy into the local
economy.
The state takeover of Shelby
Park this month was unexpected
and unwarranted, city officials
have said. But the Eagle Pass City
Council 4 despite the prospect of
losing close to $1 million in city
revenue if park events are can-
celed 4 voted that legal remedies
were too expensive. residents be-
lieve that their leaders are reluc-
tant to resist the governor after
the state gave the city and county
millions in grants through Opera-
tion Lone Star, Abbott9s border
security initiative. The mayor and
City Council members declined
requests for interviews.
Despite the fearmongering of
some politicians, crime rates have
not gone up. But trauma is prolif-
erating.
The militarized response to mi-
gration <is damaging everyone it
touches,= said Valeria Wheeler,
who runs the lone nongovern-
mental organization in the county
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assisting migrants after they are
released from federal custody. <I
can9t believe how far this has
gone.=
The vast majority of residents
will never encounter a migrant or
suffer direct impacts from the
voluminous movement of men,
women and children across their
beloved river. In interviews across
the city, some residents said they
understand, in some cases inti-
mately, the migrants9 need to
leave their countries and why they
choose Eagle Pass as a crossing
point. They know that mexico9s
Coahuila state, on the other side,
is considered one of the safest
parts of northern mexico.
But others, including some
who are immigrants, are quietly
resentful of the shelter, transpor-
tation and protection these mi-
grants receive, while they them-
selves have spent thousands of
dollars and waited years to bring
relatives in legally.
Art teacher francisco riojas
grew up riding his bike to Shelby
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Park from his home in a residen-
tial neighborhood that migrants
pass through regularly. It9s part of
living on the border, he said.
Those interactions are rarely
scary or dangerous. But the vol-
ume of people in recent years has
unnerved his neighbors, who he
said have reported some break-
ins and stolen items such as tools.
riojas9s own bicycle went miss-
ing from his backyard, but he
blamed himself for carelessly
leaving it out.
<People are frustrated and an-
gry, but at the same time, those
same people feel concern and em-
pathy for these people because we
know they are trying to survive,=
said riojas, who has created satir-
ical comics of the scene at the
park. <my bicycle was stolen, but
of course, it could9ve been any-
body. But in my mind, if it was a
migrant, at least it could help
them with something.=
Whenever U.S. Customs and
Border Protection unexpectedly
closes the bridge to Piedras Ne-
gras so officials can help process
migrants, everyone feels it. Some
residents rely on the pharmacies
and affordable health care mexico
offers. Downtown businesses de-
rive nearly 40 percent of their
sales from mexican shoppers.
much of the imported mexican
beer (think Corona, modelo and
Pacifico) sold in the United States
comes through Eagle Pass. The
city generates about 55 percent of
its revenue from the bridge fees
pedestrians and motorists pay to
cross.
<It is a significant impact to the
projected revenues that the city
depends on,= said Homero Bal-
deras, the city9s director of inter-
national bridge operations. <Ulti-
mately, it caused the city to put a
hiring freeze and some of our
projects to be put on hold because
we don9t know what the future
holds.=
So when the governor came to
the city with a pot of Operation
Lone Star cash, there wasn9t much
hesitation in accepting it. The
state has provided more than
$8 million to help modernize the
county attorney9s office; reim-
burse costs to law enforcement;
and pay for new vehicles, equip-
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ment, and personnel to prosecute
thousands of state trespassing
cases filed against migrants ar-
rested by state troopers.
<We9re grateful for the money,=
said Iracheta, the county attorney.
<But it9s not fixing it.=
City fire chief manuel mello III
said he obtained a $400,000 state
grant to help cover the overtime
hours his firefighters and emer-
gency medical personnel put in
responding to a staggering num-
ber of migrant medical emergen-
cies at the river, railways and
ranchlands. It also paid for re-
pairs for emergency vehicles.
They burned through the mon-
ey in six months, he said.
Abbott9s initiative also stimu-
lated economic development,
residents said. The city was
showing steady growth before the
migration crisis, data shows, but
the short- and long-term rental
market has exploded with the de-
ployment of hundreds of Texas
soldiers as well as troops from
other states sent by their gover-
nors.
A three-bedroom rental home
went from $1,200 a month to
more than $2,000, according to
Texas real estate data. A room at
the Holiday Inn Express is going
for $250 a night, and top-tier
hotels are solidly sold out for
four-month periods. restaurants
like the Wagon Wheel, known for
its brisket sandwich, are favorite
lunch spots for florida law en-
forcement in town for border as-
signments.
<Economically speaking, our
community has benefited. migra-
tion is good for business,= said
Aranda, the former county judge.
<Humanitarianly speaking, it9s
another story.=
Eagle Pass emergency rescue
teams treat every migrant who
breaks a leg, has a heart attack or
emerges from the river with hypo-
thermia. The work is so heavy that
some rescuers have quit, said the
fire chief, who spends time talking
through the issues with his teams.
They feel anger 4 why would a
parent take this risk? They are
saddened 4 how bad must it be for
families to have to do this? And
they grow incredulous 4 how
could this still be happening?
mello drove four miles down-
river from the park past a pecan
orchard to a small clearing where
Border Patrol and Texas National
Guard troops still play nice. He
paused and pointed to the
ground, littered with trampled di-
apers, Bibles, blankets and cough
medicine bottles, remembering
the spot where two months earlier
his crews performed CPr on two
Venezuelans who had just been
pulled from the river. Neither sur-
vived.
<One young man who had just
joined the fire department said he
didn9t want to do the work any-
more and would rather go back to
teaching,= mello recalled. <He said
to me, 8Chief, I9m used to helping
kids, but these children I can9t
help.9 =
While governments duel in
court, and the border crisis is
reduced to a 2.5-mile stretch of
parkland, the people of Eagle Pass
wait to see what comes next. few
think anything will change as
long as the loudest voices spew
views that sound like hate and the
rational ones stay quiet, residents
said.
Back at the park on a January
afternoon, Texas National Guard
soldiers escorted journalists onto
the grounds. Border Patrol agents
could launch their boats from the
ramp but didn9t have full access.
As vehicle engines hummed and
forklifts raised more wire and bar-
riers, two Venezuelan migrants
stood on the eroding riverbank,
feet away from soldiers. for two
days, Gómez and his 21-year-old
girlfriend had been walking on
U.S. soil just outside the wire,
looking for help and an opening,
they said.
The couple had run away from
criminals and jumped panicked
into the river, Gómez recounted,
shaking from the cold, his sleeves
ripped by the wire. They couldn9t
go back, he said, not to mexico and
not to Venezuela. They would
have surrendered at the port of
entry, he said, but he feared that
the more-aggressive mexican au-
thorities would intercept them
and hand them over to criminal
organizations.
<It was never my plan to cross
illegally,= Gómez said through
four rows of razor wire. The cou-
ple were hoping to get to Denver,
where family was waiting. The
young woman9s pants were
stained red from the cuts she
suffered while trying to navigate
through the wire. It had been
raining in Eagle Pass, with tem-
peratures falling to the 40s and
50s at night. Neither had eaten,
and they had lost all their belong-
ings in the water.
Soldiers would give the couple
drinking water but not much else,
until the couple9s needs turned
more grave.
That moment, Gomez said,
would come soon.
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Prosecutor in Trump9s Georgia case settles divorce, heading ob testimony
BY A MY G ARDNER
AND H OLLY B AILEY
The lead prosecutor in the
Georgia election-interference
case against former president
Donald Trump and his allies
settled a contentious divorce dis-
pute on Tuesday, avoiding a hear-
ing scheduled for Wednesday
morning that could have includ-
ed testimony about allegations of
an improper relationship be-
tween him and Fulton County
District Attorney Fani T. Willis.
Nathan Wade was expected to
be questioned under oath about
his finances 4 including his in-
come as a special prosecutor in
the Trump case and his spending,
such as his purchase of airline
tickets for himself and Willis in
October 2022 and April 2023.
The divorce garnered national
attention after one of Trump9s
co-defendants, former campaign
aide Mike Roman, accused Willis
and Wade of having an <improp-
er, clandestine personal relation-
ship= that has financially ben-
efited them both, prompting calls
for their removal from the crimi-
nal case in Fulton County, home
Rep. Cori Bush under investigation for alleged misuse of security funds
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The Justice Department is in-
vestigating Rep. Cori Bush
(D-Mo.) for allegedly misusing
money intended for members of
Congress and candidates to
spend on private security, accord-
ing to people familiar with the
investigation.
The scope of the investigation
and allegations of wrongdoing
were not immediately known. But
in recent months, investigators
have contacted multiple current
and former staffers, inquiring
about the congresswoman9s cam-
paign spending, according to
multiple people familiar with the
discussions who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because
they weren9t authorized to talk
publicly.
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to Atlanta. Both Trump and a
third defendant adopted Ro-
man9s motion to remove Willis
and Wade from the case and
dismiss the charges.
County records show Wade9s
firm has been paid more than
$653,000 for his work on the
election case over the past two
years.
The last-minute agreement, al-
beit <temporary= for now, allows
Wade and Willis to avoid testimo-
ny that could have been embar-
rassing or given Trump and his
co-defendants new evidence or
ammunition to undermine the
criminal case. Attorneys for the
defendants had planned to close-
ly follow Wednesday9s hearing as
they prepare for a separate Feb.
15 hearing in Fulton County on
whether the allegations warrant
disqualification or dismissal.
But the settlement does not
eliminate scrutiny of alleged ac-
tions by the two prosecutors. Nor
does it assure that the criminal
case against Trump and his allies
will continue. Last week, Repub-
licans in the Georgia Senate es-
tablished an investigatory com-
mittee with subpoena power to
ported that federal officials were
investigating Bush.
Bush confirmed in a statement
that the Justice Department is
<reviewing my campaign9s fund-
ing on security services= and said
she is cooperating with investiga-
tors.
<Since before I was sworn into
office, I have endured relentless
threats to my physical safety and
life,= Bush said in the statement.
<As a rank-and-file member of
Congress I am not entitled to
personal protection by the House,
and instead have used campaign
funds as permissible to retain
security services. I have not used
any federal tax dollars for person-
al security services. Any reporting
that I have used federal funds for
personal security is simply false.=
Bush, a second-term congress-
woman whose district includes
St. Louis, is a community activist
who became involved in politics
after the 2014 police killing of
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
probe whether Willis (D) was in a
romantic relationship with Wade
when she appointed him as a
special prosecutor. And Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)
filed a complaint with the State
Ethics Commission seeking an
investigation.
In addition, Steve Sadow,
Trump9s lawyer in the Georgia
case, accused Willis of violating
Georgia9s rules of professional
conduct earlier this month when
she accused her critics of <play-
ing the race card= in a fiery
speech at an Atlanta church. The
rules state that the prosecutor in
a criminal case shall <refrain
from making extrajudicial com-
ments that have a substantial
likelihood of heightening public
condemnation of the accused.= In
a filing seeking to remove Willis
and dismiss the indictment, Sad-
ow noted that the maximum
penalty for such a violation is
disbarment.
Attorneys for Joycelyn May-
field Wade, Wade9s estranged
wife, had also sought to question
Willis in the case, arguing she has
<unique knowledge= about
Wade9s finances and his mar-
Rep. Cori Bush, seen last year, said that since before being sworn in
she has <endured relentless threats to my physical safety and life.=
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Court Judge Henry Thompson,
who oversaw the divorce case,
stayed that subpoena during a
hearing last week, saying he first
wanted to hear testimony from
Wade.
Thompson issued a temporary
consent order shortly before 5
p.m. Tuesday, explaining that the
hearing has been removed from
the calendar with the consent of
both parties, because they have
agreed <to all issues presently
before the court.=
Their agreement will not be
filed in court, Thompson noted 4
meaning it may not ever be
public. Last week, Wade9s divorce
lawyer asked the judge to recon-
sider a motion to seal the divorce
case, which would have required
a public hearing. It was not
immediately clear whether the
divorce agreement would stop
the disclosure of any other infor-
mation potentially damaging to
Willis or Wade, including discov-
ery material.
Ashleigh Merchant, Roman9s
defense lawyer, has said she
plans to issue subpoenas for wit-
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her client9s claims of an improper
romantic relationship between
Willis and Wade. She has sug-
gested she could subpoena docu-
ments filed as discovery in the
Wades9 divorce case that have not
been made public.
That trove of discovery materi-
al includes Fulton County rec-
ords as well as bank and credit
card statements that Joycelyn
Wade had obtained about Na-
than Wade9s individual law prac-
tice, including his clients and
earnings, describing it in court
filings as a <marital asset.= Incor-
poration records for Nathan
Wade9s law firm list her as a
<director= alongside Wade. She
has not been removed from that
role, according to public records.
<We are happy the parties were
able to settle their dispute,= Mer-
chant said. <We look forward to
litigating our issue on the 15th.=
Merchant also sued the Fulton
County district attorney9s office
on Tuesday, accusing the agency
of <intentionally withholding in-
formation= she sought under
Georgia9s open records law 4
including records tied to Nathan
led Congress bumped up spend-
ing to offices9 budgets, called the
Members9 Representational Al-
lowance, by 21 percent 4 largely
to help increase staff pay, but that
money also could be put toward
security measures. House law-
makers also raised the cap on
what an individual lawmaker
could spend on security to
$10,000.
Federal campaign finance
rules also made it easier in recent
years to spend campaign dollars
on security, a recognition of
heightened security risks to elect-
ed officials.
Bush has come under fire for
using campaign money to hire
her husband, Cortney Merritts, as
her security. But the Office of
Congressional Ethics dismissed a
complaint filed against Bush last
fall alleging that her campaign9s
employment of Merritts was a
violation of federal election law.
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In recent days, Wade9s es-
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taken by Willis and Wade 4
including requests for docu-
ments and testimony from travel
agents. Records emerged this
month showing that Wade has
paid for at least two airline trips
for himself and Willis, to Califor-
nia and Aruba, since he was hired
in November 2021 to lead the
Trump prosecution. It9s un-
known whether Willis paid him
back.
Joycelyn Wade repeatedly ac-
cused her estranged husband of
refusing to share a complete
picture of his finances. In August
4 just days after the sweeping
indictment in the Trump case
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agreed with Joycelyn Wade9s re-
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in contempt of court for stone-
walling his wife on financial rec-
ords and other discovery.
Nathan Wade9s attorney, Scott
Kimbrough, has declined to com-
ment.
cording to Federal Election Com-
mission filings.
The complaint alleged that
Merritts did not appear to have
private security licenses in the St.
Louis or D.C. regions.
Bush, who is running for re-
election, addressed the allega-
tions around her husband in her
statement and called complaints
alleging her misuse of campaign
funds to pay for security <frivo-
lous.=
<In accordance with all appli-
cable rules,= she said, <I retained
my husband as part of my security
team to provide security services
because he has extensive experi-
ence in this area, and is able to
provide the necessary services at
or below a fair market rate.=
Candidates running for House
and Senate offices increased cam-
paign spending on security by
more than 500 percent between
the 2020 and 2022 elections, a
2023 Washington Post analysis of
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Blackfeet from a1

language to go back up,= rence said,

sitting on a colorful classroom carpet
Actress9s success has big impact on Blackfeet
where he and other children had just
finished a vocabulary game of Blackfoot
<Jeopardy!=
Gladstone9s success at the Golden
Globes in early January 4 and her em-
brace of her heritage and language 4 is
having a profound impact on this reser-
vation hard up against the Canadian
border. The tribe9s business council is
deciding how to formally honor the ac-
tress, who last week became the first
American Indian nominated for a best
actress oscar for her role as an osage
woman in <Killers of the flower moon.=
Academy Awards
watch parties are be-
ing planned for early
march.
Nowhere is the
Gladstone effect felt
more deeply than in
Browning Public
Schools, which in re-
lily Gladstone cent years has pushed
to revitalize the endan-
gered Blackfoot language using a novel
writing system. Words from her accep-
tance speech 4 <this is for every little rez
kid= 4 are written on a whiteboard in a
high school classroom. first-graders at
Bullshoe Elementary made a TikTok vid-
eo thanking her for her bravery. Photos of
Gladstone adorn a bulletin board in the
office of Blackfeet Native American stud-
ies director robert Hall, who grew up in
Browning and has been hailed locally
since the actress told reporters he was a
<good friend= who had taught her Black-
foot words.
<Lily Gladstone speaking Blackfoot up
on that stage is a victory. It9s saying: I9m
still alive,= said Hall, now busy fielding
inquiries about the language from newly
interested students and teachers. <This
isn9t just a symbolic action. This is some-
thing that is tangible and has created
change.=
Blackfoot could use a prominent
champion like Gladstone, who seems to
be everyone9s friend, cousin or friend9s
cousin here. Like many Native American
languages in the United States and Cana-
da, it fell victim to government violence
and forced assimilation at boarding
schools where Indigenous children were
penalized for speaking their native
tongues.
Data is scarce, but Hall estimates that
just a few dozen people speak fluent
Blackfoot on the reservation in montana;
most are elderly. Several hundred people
fluent in the language reside in Canada,
he said, where three other tribal nations
form the rest of what is known as the
Blackfoot Confederacy.
Though the language has been offered
for years in local schools, generations of
trauma affected its instruction: Because
reading and writing were associated with
boarding schools, Blackfoot was passed
down and taught orally. Teachers long
used whatever spelling they devised,
PHoToS By Holly PickeTT for THe WaSHinGTon PoST
leading to inconsistency.
for some Blackfeet, hearing the lan- clOckWISe fROM tOP: from left, Donovan aimsback,
guage <is like hearing a lullaby= and teacher kevin kickingwoman and leland lukin sing Blackfoot
depicting it using English letters <is al- songs at Browning High in Browning, Mont. amaya Bullchild
most a disservice,= Hall said. He runs a participates in the morning blessing and the Indigenous spiritual
language revitalization nonprofit with a practice of smudging, drawing smoke from smoldering sweet
cousin and a Canadian Blackfeet man, grass to her heart, at Napi elementary. layla Harwood leads the
William Big Bull, who developed the class in reciting Blackfoot names of animals at Napi elementary.
writing system that Browning students
are using.
Today, the district has a fat binder of A look at the Blackfoot language party has been viewed more than 159,000 full of energy. She made her presence
lesson plans and a vocabulary assess- times. known.=
ment. In the office Hall shares with the mÏaÏ+yoMßtsii´_ niitsii"_o´"ßsin running Crane calls himself Glad- It was also at that school, Gladstone
Native American studies instructional <You don9t hear the Blackfoot Language.= stone9s <number one fan.= He and his said at the Globes, that she was first
coach, bins hold lesson props for teach- nÏa_iitÕ_iiks ÏatsiissoMoMooii relatives dressed up and drove two hours taught Blackfoot. Her mother, Betty
ers. one on <iinnii,= the buffalo long to Great falls to see <Killers of the flower Peace-Gladstone, who is not Blackfeet,
revered and relied on by Blackfeet, holds <The White peoples swindled us.= moon,= because Browning has no theater. worked with other parents to recruit a
a box made of thick bison hide, a Ziploc ÕnnMßk ksisstsiiooo´issts mÏaßooaitsii"_o´yi"s iiksoMooÏa_ii <I think all of Indian country together teacher for occasional lessons.
bag of dried dung, and a beard, tail and <But these days, the ability to speak Blackfoot is a good thing.= was crying,= he said, <just because we all <It was really important to me that the
mÏatsiiooÕk
atsiitÕ_iiks mÏaßooaitsii"_o´yi"s
teeth. A Blackfeet history class is a high felt we were finally seen.= schools reflect where they were and the
school graduation requirement. Gladstone, whose father is Blackfeet kids who were Blackfeet in the schools
The effort, which is mostly grant fund- <Not many people speak the real talk.= and Nez Percé, lived in Browning until got a sense of who they were,= Peace-
ed, is a bright spot on a reservation where mnnMßoo ksisstsiiooo´issts nitMnniiß_innÏan niitsii"_o´"ßsin ÏatsimÏ"_ii kindergarten and her family9s move to Gladstone recalled in an interview. And
roughly a third of some 10,000 residents <But these days, we have come to know the truth 4 that our mother tongue is sacred.= East Glacier Park. It was in the tiny K-8 given how Hollywood has long excluded
live in poverty, opioid addiction is dire, school there that she was exposed to Native actors, she is <especially proud=
and schools are struggling to pull them- acting through the missoula Community now as she watches her daughter use her
selves out of the lowest-performing tier Theatre, which every year spends a week platform to promote Indigenous repre-
in montana. About 190 students partici- helping the student body put on a pro- sentation on screen as well as Native
pate in a K-8 Blackfoot immersion pro- duction. designers.
gram 4 learning history, culture and <It was such a validation that what we9re doing is working. <It9s so exciting seeing someone be- The family moved to the Seattle area
design as well as language 4 and all come successful from a small town on the when Gladstone was 11, but her mother
students in every grade are exposed to She gave us such a powerful gift.= reservation,= said Shayna Schildt, the said she still views the reservation as
the language through special classes. principal of the 48-student East Glacier home. Gladstone met Hall at the Univer-
Corrina Guardipee-Hall, Browning Public Schools superintendent, on Gladstone9s speech
The 18 Blackfoot teachers include Kev- Park Grade School, where she and Glad- sity of montana, where both pursued
at the Golden Globes, when the actress spoke in Blackfoot
in Kickingwoman, who in September was stone were classmates together. <She was Native American studies. Hall also fo-
named montana9s teacher of the year. cused on anthropology and linguistics
Another is Angel marceau, who has awed and became fascinated by Blackfoot 4 a
her Napi Elementary fifth-graders with verb-based, gender-neutral language. He
memories of playing Barbies with Glad- dedicated himself to it, eventually re-
stone when they were children in East turning to Browning to teach and host
Glacier Park, 15 minutes west of Brown- Blackfoot-language radio shows.
ing, the reservation9s largest town. Last may, he texted Gladstone. She was
on a recent minus-15-degree morning, going to win awards for this new martin
marceau9s students lined up in her cozy Scorsese film, he told her, and he would
classroom before a wooden <smudge box= be happy to help her brush up on Black-
in which she had lit sweet grass. one by foot if she wanted. She accepted, and on
one, they wafted smoke over themselves Jan. 7, he wept as he watched Gladstone
as they recited in unison a blessing in snag her historic win.
Blackfoot. Its words translate to <Amen, Hall learned Gladstone had men-
holy beings, water beings. Help us so that tioned him following the ceremony when
we may know our Blackfeet ways.= his phone began dinging with texts. He
Superintendent Corrina Guardipee- had taught her a word, the actress told
Hall grew up in Browning but was never reporters, that nerves caused to slip her
taught the language 4 and as the child of mind. It was <tsiiooÏaß+yiiooiitsii´_´=4 a
only one Blackfeet parent, she never form of <thank you= that means <I feel the
considered herself Native until she goodness in what you have done.=
reached her 30s. Through the program, An oscars watch party is being
she said, she has gained the confidence to planned for Browning High, where on a
introduce herself in Blackfoot as <Pretty recent day students in Kickingwoman9s
Woman,= the Indian name an aunt gave Blackfoot class were practicing their own
her as a toddler. acting skills through a game of Blackfoot-
Gladstone9s speech at the Golden language charades.
Globes was another boost. As Sadailyah momberg struggled to
<It was such a validation that what act out her phrase 4 <sleeping mouse,= or
we9re doing is working,= Guardipee-Hall <ooÏanissooiinÏa +yM"ooÏa= in Blackfoot 4 a
said. <She gave us such a powerful gift.= boy joked that <Lily Gladstone would not
The buzz about the 37-year-old ac- be proud!=
tress9s triumphs keeps growing, with cel- After class, the 17-year-old said she
ebratory memes and tributes taking over hopes to become fluent in the language to
a corner of Indian social media. A TikTok speak with her grandmother, with whom
video of Browning child-care provider she watched <Killers of the flower moon.=
Dakota running Crane9s family bursting a Native figure on Browning High9s football field is nearly buried in snow. Gladstone, who is nominated for an Oscar <It feels like home,= she said. <It9s ours.
into cheers during their Globes watch for her <killers of the flower Moon= role, lived in Browning as a young girl before moving to a nearby town. It9s our culture, and not anyone else9s.=
wednesday, january 31 , 2024
Deadly violence seen in spate of attacks was 8unthinkable,9 D.C. mayor says
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in a dress shirt and sweater,
sprawled on the pavement with
one foot still in the passenger9s
side of a car. His right hand was
twitching as blood pooled around
his head.
The witness, Yolanda Douglas,
39, said a woman ran out of a K
Street building, screaming, <oh,
my God, that9s my husband.=
Douglas said the woman ran
toward her husband and grabbed
his hand. <What happened?= she
asked, but he did not respond.
The other incidents included
three carjackings and one at-
tempted carjacking, police said.
Vasquez was a victim of one of the
carjackings, police said.
Police from four departments
in the D.C. area described hours
of harrowing violence and an
urgent hunt for the assailant.
Authorities said they worked
through the night at a frenetic
pace, linking the carjackings and
shootings, identifying a suspect
and searching for him amid re-
ports of attacks in scattered plac-
es, from Laurel to the southeast-
ern edge of the District.
These crimes differed from
other carjackings that have
plagued the Washington region:
Police said they do not believe the
suspect was acting for profit or
material gain but out of mental
illness. D.C. mayor muriel E.
Bowser (D) called the shootings
<indiscriminate= and said <we
have families who are suffering
because of it.= At a news confer-
ence Tuesday morning, she add-
ed, <The violence we saw & was
unthinkable.=
The overnight bloodshed came
after carjackings in the District in
2023 soared past 950, more than
double the previous year9s total,
amid a broader increase in crime
in the city. Carjackings in D.C.
have dropped 21 percent during
the first month of this year, com-
pared with the same period in
2023. more than half of this year9s
carjackings involved firearms, ac-
cording to police statistics.
D.C. Police Executive Assistant
Chief Jeffery Carroll said the ram-
page began about 5:45 p.m. in the
900 block of K Street NW. He said
the assailant got into a parked
vehicle that was occupied, shot
the victim, then apparently fled
on foot. Police were trying to
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A man suspected in a string of carjackings in D.C. and Maryland was shot and killed by police, authorities say. The rampage came after
carjackings in D.C. in 2023 soared past 950, more than double the previous year9s total, amid a broader increase in crime in the city.
determine whether the incident
was an attempted carjacking.
Carroll said the victim man-
aged to exit the vehicle before
collapsing to the pavement.
Douglas said she was walking
home from a UPS store when she
saw the woman running toward
the wounded man at the vehicle.
She said she moved close to the
woman, called 911 and put the
operator on speaker, pleading for
help. Douglas listened to the wife
answer the operator9s questions,
hand still clasping her husband9s.
The wife told the 911 operator
that her husband had just
phoned her to say, <Hey, I9m
downstairs,= Douglas said. She
and the wife desperately looked
for something to use to put pres-
sure on his head wound. Another
woman ran over with a scarf,
Douglas said, and pressed it hard
against the man9s head.
Douglas said she started to
pray aloud. <God, please cover
him,= she implored. <Spare his
life, send us help.=
Ambulances arrived. As emer-
gency medical personnel lifted
the man on a gurney, Douglas
said, she saw a car key drop from
somewhere on his body. It clinked
on the pavement. Then, another
small metal object fell.
<That9s a shell casing,= one of
the first responders said, realiz-
ing that the man had been shot.
About an hour later, at 7:05
p.m., police said, the suspect tried
to carjack another vehicle, in the
1000 block of Third Street NE,
but was unsuccessful.
About 10 minutes after that,
Carroll said, the man confronted
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another driver, Vasquez, in the
1200 block of Third Street NE,
near the Noma Gallaudet metro
station, a little more than a mile
from the K Street attack. Carroll
said the assailant fatally shot him
and stole a 2016 gray Chrysler
200.
Carroll said that by this time,
investigators suspected the same
assailant was responsible for the
three attacks. He said a person
who was interviewed by investi-
gators at the K Street scene knew
the suspected shooter and helped
police identify him. They put an
image of a man on the social
media platform X, formerly Twit-
ter, and broadcast an alert for the
Chrysler, which police found
abandoned a short time later in
Prince George9s County, Carroll
said.
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Police said the man then car-
jacked a Toyota Camry from a
ride-share driver in Takoma Park
in montgomery County. After
that, police said, he carjacked a
Nissan Rogue in University Park
in Prince George9s County.
Authorities said that about
2:30 a.m. Tuesday, someone in a
Nissan shot at a maryland State
Police cruiser stopped at the
scene of a disabled vehicle along
southbound Interstate 95 at
Route 198. A state police spokes-
woman said the trooper saw the
Nissan crossing lanes, heading
toward his cruiser, and thought a
drunk driver was at the wheel.
The trooper was climbing out of
the cruiser when a bullet struck
its hood. He was not injured.
A half-hour later, Carroll said,
the Nissan was used in a drive-by
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shooting of a marked D.C. police
cruiser on D.C. 295 at exit 1.
Carroll said at least one bullet
struck the driver9s side door. The
officer was not hurt.
About 4:30 a.m., Carroll said,
New Carrollton police officers
located the Nissan on Annapolis
Road, a commercial strip also
known as Route 450, in Prince
George9s County. Thomas Lester,
a spokesman for the maryland
Attorney General9s office, which
investigates fatal shootings in-
volving police in maryland, said
the vehicle appeared to be dis-
abled in the roadway.
While officers were looking for
the driver, Lester said, a man
walked up to them and displayed
two firearms. Lester said both
officers fired at the man, who was
pronounced dead at a hospital.
He said two firearms were recov-
ered at the scene. He said the New
Carrollton officers were equipped
with body-worn cameras and that
investigators were working to de-
termine if the incident was cap-
tured on video.
Lester declined to say how
many times the suspect had been
shot. But he said multiple shell
casings were recovered from the
scene.
Last week, a law enforcement
think tank organized a gathering
in Washington for prosecutors,
police and criminologists from
across the country to discuss
carjackings. The nation9s capital
and its suburbs have emerged as
an epicenter of the crime, with
public safety officials in the re-
gion broadly defending their re-
spective approaches to combat-
ing such offenses while acknowl-
edging that the volume of car-
jackings has reached a crisis
point.
At a D.C. Council breakfast
Tuesday, Bowser called for a full
<reset= of the city9s criminal jus-
tice system as she urged lawmak-
ers to pass the SecureDC omnibus
bill, which is set for a vote next
week. She said the legislation
would toughen gun laws and
make it easier for police to do
their jobs.
<We9ve advanced some critical
legislation= dealing with criminal
justice, the mayor said. <But we9re
not finished.=
meagan Flynn and Razzan Nakhlawi
contributed to this report.
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Desperate parents tap sleuths to ûnd Kenya9s lost children
With thousands of kids going missing, Maryana Munyendo and her team of volunteers have stepped up to investigate cases that police can9t or won9t solve
BY R AEL O MBUOR
NAIROBI 4 When Leroy Blessing
went missing, his family pan-
icked. The autistic 9-year-old
could not talk to strangers easily,
and police in his native Kenya
scoffed when his desperate par-
ents sought help, saying he was
old enough to look after himself.
<They said 8he9s a big boy, he
will come back home,9= Ketty
Omondi, Leroy9s mother, re-
counted. <They never received me
with kindness or pity.=
Then Maryana Munyendo
stepped in. She heads Missing
Child Kenya Foundation, an alli-
ance of voluntary sleuths track-
ing down missing children. She
plastered up posters and blasted
social media. A stranger called
two days later with the boy9s
whereabouts.
Since setting up the group in
2016, Munyendo said she and her
two-person team have reunited
1,055 children with their families
out of the 1,551 missing children
that parents have reported to her.
Another 153 were sent to govern-
ment homes and 28 were de-
clared deceased, leaving 315 ac-
tive files.
Munyendo, 41, set up the group
after a 10-year-old girl went miss-
ing in the neighborhood near her
office. Locals spotted the lost
child after Munyendo put up
posters, and the girl was reunited
with her family after two days.
More families reached out.
Buoyed by early successes, Muny-
endo and her friend Jennifer
Kaberi set up the foundation,
running it on a shoestring out of
Kaberi9s living room. Many of the
children were runaways or the
victims of parental abductions or
traffickers. Some were simply lost
and unable to tell strangers
where they lived.
They started with posters, so-
cial media and the introduction
of online hashtags and the key-
words <MissingChildKE= to bring
up names and posters. Then the
group expanded, setting up Ken-
ya9s first toll-free number for trac-
ing missing children and badger-
ing local news organizations to
air features on the missing.
Just before the start of Kenya9s
soccer championship match in
2019, her team arranged for play-
ers to hold up placards with pic-
tures and names of missing chil-
dren. The moment was broadcast
on television and led to four
reunions.
Their methods work. Blessing,
now 15, disappeared twice more,
and each time, strangers contact-
ed Munyendo saying they had
seen him. During his last disap-
pearance, a comment by a strang-
er on the Missing Child Founda-
tion Facebook post helped trace
him to a hospital.
Another parent, George Ouma,
51, said Munyendo also helped
recover his 17-year-old autistic
son. He was missing for 10 days
before a conductor noticed him at
a bus terminal staring at a poster
of his own face.
Few alternatives
Kenya has an epidemic of miss-
ing children. Police did not re-
spond to inquiries on statistics,
and there9s no national database
on missing children. But in May
the cabinet secretary for labor
and social protection, Florence
Bore, said in a speech that 6,841
children were reported missing
from July 2022 to May 2023. Only
1,296 have been reunited with
their families, she said.
Most of the government9s
budget for vulnerable children
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19 killed in bus-truck
collision; 4 die at sea
A collision between a
passenger bus and a freight truck
Tuesday on a highway in
northern Mexico left at least
19 people dead and 18 injured,
local authorities said.
The accident occurred on a
highway in the Pacific coast state
of Sinaloa. Roy Navarrete, the
director of the state civil defense
office, said the crash occurred in
the township of Elota, near the
port city of Mazatlán.
The injured were being
treated at local hospitals and the
cause of the accident is under
investigation.
There were 37 people aboard
the bus. Photos of the scene
showed that both vehicles had
been reduced to charred metal
frames.
Also in Mexico, four tourists
died after a boat carrying
19 people capsized or was
swamped between Cancún and
Isla Mujeres, authorities said
Tuesday.
The boat was carrying 17
passengers and a crew of two
when the accident occurred late
Monday. The captain of the boat
survived and was taken into
custody, according to the
municipal government of Isla
Mujeres. Most of the passengers
had to be rescued from the water
by personnel from the Mexican
navy, local police and civil
defense agencies, and some were
taken to hospitals. All were
Mexican citizens.
Investigators in the Caribbean
coast state of Quintana Roo are
looking into whether the boat
had been overcrowded, or if
rough weather played a role in
the accident.
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germany
Poland urges 8creative9
ideas on WWII redress
The foreign minister in
Poland9s new pro-European
Union government said Tuesday
that he would like Germany9s
leaders to think in a <creative=
way about compensating Poland
for the huge losses it suffered at
German hands in World War II.
The request was greatly toned
down from that of Poland9s
previous right-wing government,
which demanded $1.3 trillion for
Nazi Germany9s invasion and
occupation from 1939 to 1945.
German officials have
consistently said that while
Berlin recognizes its historical
responsibility, the reparations
issue was settled decades ago.
Foreign Minister Radek
Sikorski spoke at a joint news
conference with German Foreign
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Minister Annalena Baerbock in
Berlin before their talks on
improving bilateral relations
that were strained under
Poland9s previous government.
<I will also ask the minister [to
have] the German government
think in a creative way about
finding a form of compensation
for these war losses, or of
redress,= Sikorski said while
talking about a project in Berlin
to memorialize Poland9s
suffering. He did not give details.
Baerbock said that
<confronting the suffering of
millions [of people] that
Germany brought on Poland
remains a task forever.= She
didn9t address reparations.
Poland, a nation of 31 million
in 1939, lost some 6 million of its
citizens, half of them Jewish,
during Nazi wartime occupation.
It also suffered enormous
damage to its infrastructure.
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ABOVE: Leroy Blessing was
found by Maryana Munyendo
after he vanished at age 9.
LEFT: Elizabeth Auwa and
her son Gael hold a picture of
Auwa9s missing daughter,
Monica Makhungu.
BELOW: Munyendo enters
the office of her Missing
Child Kenya Foundation.
goes to the state-run Children9s
Welfare Society, but while it runs
homes, it does not conduct inves-
tigations. The society relies on the
police. But multiple families, like
the parents of 3-year-old Monica
Makhungu, said in interviews
that police had done little and
asked for money. Police did not
respond to requests for comment.
The girl disappeared in 2016
while playing in her Nairobi
neighborhood. Playmates said
they saw a man give her a bottle of
water and carry her away. Her
Sri Lankan police forcefully
disperse opposition protest:
Sri Lanka9s police used tear gas
and water cannons to disperse
an opposition protest in the
island nation, which is facing its
worst economic crisis while
gearing up for a national election
this year. Protesters from the
main opposition United People9s
Power party gathered in the
capital, Colombo, and accused
the administration of President
Ranil Wickremesinghe of
overburdening citizens by
increasing taxes, as well as
raising prices for electricity and
fuel, causing a spike in living
costs. <The government is not
concerned with the people
suffering and being unable to
provide for themselves,=
opposition lawmaker Sarath
Fonseka told demonstrators,
adding that <people must rise=
and vote against the current
government.
. wednesday, january 31 , 2024
father, Enock Mudavadi, went to
police, but he says they repeatedly
asked him for money. Friends
searched the area and found one
of Monica9s pink shoes a few
kilometers from her house.
Weeks later, police said they had
no resources to continue search-
ing and asked for money to fuel
the police car. Desperate, Muda-
vadi said he sold everything he
had. He spent so much time
searching that he lost his job.
Finally he turned to Munyen-
do, and she issued posters using
forensic age progression technol-
ogy, which produces updated
identikits of the disappeared,
provided by the Italian Missing
Children Institute. But Monica
was never found.
Even after 1,500 more cases,
Munyendo said quietly, <I still
cannot forget about Monica.= De-
spite setting up the toll-free num-
ber, she will never change her
personal phone number, she said,
in case one of the old leaflets is
found and someone calls with
information about the girl.
Munyendo works closely with
Kenya9s Directorate of Criminal
Investigations, which launched
an Anti-Human Trafficking and
Child Protection Unit in 2016.
Many of their cases involved pa-
rental abductions and child traf-
ficking. The unit9s chief, Mueni
Mutisya, said, <People like Marya-
na fill in the gaps. Sometimes we
also ask Maryana to post for us
the pictures of the missing. They
publish the information, and peo-
ple often contact her.=
International impact
Munyendo is tackling a major
global problem. The Internation-
al Centre for Missing and Exploit-
ed Children says only 45 coun-
tries have specific legislation or
policies concerning missing chil-
dren, although other laws can
apply. Athena Morgan, the cen-
ter9s Africa head, said most Afri-
can nations do not keep records
and the problem is rarely a gov-
ernment priority.
But Munyendo9s success has
inspired others. She set up a
webinar for Africans working on
missing children and met Ghana-
ian journalist Regina Asamoah,
who set up Missing Children Gha-
na in 2020. The next year Asamo-
ah released a documentary fea-
turing more than 30 missing chil-
dren, some of whom had been
living in orphanages for a decade.
It became a series. Families told
the stories of their lost children,
and those who had been reunited
shared their stories. One boy was
reunited with his family after 14
years. He9d gone missing at age 3.
So far, the Ghana group has
reunited 203 children with their
families in two years and is
searching for 660 others. Asamo-
ah also met the police chief. Gha-
na set up its first missing people
unit last year.
The work is never easy. This
past summer, Munyendo9s toll-
free number was cut off because
they could not pay the bill, and it
was out of service until an anony-
mous well-wisher paid the out-
standing bill this month. Last
year she could not give her volun-
teers bus fare or lunch money, so
now they work from home to save
costs. In November, their office
roof collapsed. Yet she carries on.
This autumn, in a shared Nairobi
workspace, she stared at a photo
of 3-year-old Daniel Yasin Meke
on the flickering screen of an old
computer. He was last seen a year
ago near his Nairobi home. There
had been no leads. She reposted
his photograph anyway.
<We never give up,= she said.
France9s lower house votes to
enshrine abortion rights:
France9s National Assembly
overwhelmingly approved a bill
meant to enshrine a woman9s
right to an abortion in the
country9s constitution, the first
key step in a legislative process
that also requires a vote in the
Senate. The measure, which
passed 493-30, has been
promised by President
Emmanuel Macron since the
rollback of abortion rights in the
United States. Macron wants the
constitution amended to include
that <the law determines the
conditions by which is exercised
the freedom of women to have
recourse to an abortion, which is
guaranteed.= While the measure
has wide support, some
members of the conservative
majority in the Senate have
criticized its wording. France
decriminalized abortion in 1975.
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Israeli agents disguised as doctors, patients kill 3 at hospital in West Bank
K AREEM F AHIM,
BY
M IRIAM B ERGER
AND M OHAMAD E L C HAMAA
Israeli security forces dis-
guised as doctors and patients
raided a hospital in the occupied
West Bank early Tuesday and
killed three Palestinian militants,
according to the Palestinian
Health Ministry, the Israel De-
fense Forces and Palestinian mili-
tant groups.
Legal analysts said the attack,
the aftermath of which was cap-
tured in multiple videos, may
have violated a prohibition in
international law.
The Israeli troops entered the
Ibn Sina Hospital in the West
Bank town of Jenin early Tuesday
and shot three young men to
death in the hospital9s wards, the
Palestinian Health Ministry said
in a statement. The ministry
called the raid a <crime,= and one
of <dozens= committed by Israel
against medical facilities in the
Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The Israel Defense Forces said
the operation targeted militants
who were <hiding= in the hospi-
tal. In a statement, the IDF said
Mohammed Jalamneh, a Hamas
fighter, and brothers Mohamed
and Basil Ghazawi were <neutral-
ized.=
The IDF said Jalamneh <car-
ried= a gun, but did not indicate
that the men had resisted in any
way before they were killed.
<Jalamneh planned to carry out a
terror attack in the immediate
future and used the hospital as a
Former Pakistani leader gets 10-year prison sentence before elections
BY S HAIQ H USSAIN
AND R ICK N OACK
ISLAMABAD 4 Pakistan9s former
prime minister Imran Khan was
convicted of exposing official se-
crets and sentenced to 10 years in
prison Tuesday, his party said, in
the latest setback for the popular
leader who fell afoul of the na-
tion9s powerful military.
The verdict, which Khan9s par-
ty said was rushed and could be
overturned, came nine days be-
fore the country of 240 million
heads to the polls in a vote that
Khan9s party has described as
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hiding place and therefore was
neutralized,= the IDF said. It did
not provide more detail.
Hamas confirmed that Jalam-
neh was a member of the group.
Another militant group, Islamic
Jihad, said Mohamed and Basil
Ghazawi were members and that
Basil had been receiving treat-
ment at the hospital.
Hamas called the killings a
<war crime= that <will not go
unanswered.= Islamic Jihad, in its
statement, said it would <not let
this crime pass without an appro-
priate response.=
Video apparently taken from
hospital security cameras showed
what appeared to be the Israeli
raiding party retreating from the
premises.
A dozen or more people in a
variety of disguises, including
medical scrubs and civilian
clothes, weave through hospital
corridors brandishing assault
weapons, video that circulated on
social media shows. One armed
man wears a face mask and car-
ries a wheelchair. Another ap-
pears to search a person who is
kneeling on the floor. At least
three are dressed in women9s
clothes.
The time stamp on the footage
read 5:43 a.m.
Other footage, verified by Sto-
ryful and confirmed by The Wash-
ington Post, shows what appears
to be a scene where an execution
has taken place. A pillow on a
hospital bed is pierced by a hole
and surrounded by blood spatter.
Two lounge chairs next to the bed
rigged and unfair.
Khan has been in jail since
August, when a court convicted
him of corruption and sentenced
him to three years in prison. Even
though that sentence was sus-
pended, he remained in jail as he
faced numerous other charges,
including of exposing official se-
crets, which could have resulted
in the death penalty.
The latest accusations cen-
tered on Khan having in early
2022 publicized details of a se-
cret diplomatic cable that the
former prime minister said
proved the United States was
This image taken from closed-circuit television footage Tuesday shows a deadly raid by undercover
Israeli troops at the Ibn Sina Hospital in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
are also stained with blood.
Ibn Sina spokesman Tawfiq al-
Shobaki confirmed that Basil
Ghazawi had been receiving
treatment in the hospital since
October. He said he was para-
lyzed.
There was no exchange of fire
before the Israeli forces shot the
men, Shobaki said. Israeli forces
have made arrests in medical
facilities, he said, but this was the
behind efforts to oust him.
Tuesday9s court decision fol-
lowed what Khan9s party called a
<sham= trial. His Pakistan Teh-
reek-e-Insaf (PTI) party said it
would appeal the sentence. It
had previously accused the Paki-
stani establishment of having
deliberately rushed the sentenc-
ing to coincide with the most
intense phase of campaigning
ahead of next week9s general
election.
With Khan barred from run-
ning for public office, former
prime minister Nawaz Sharif 4
himself once toppled in a mili-
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first time he saw them kill.
Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the IDF
chief of staff, told reservists Tues-
day, <We do not want to turn
hospitals into battlefields, with
patients on the right and doctors
and nurses on the left, and terror-
ists in the middle.= But Israel
would not allow the medical sys-
tem, he said, <to become a place
that is a cover for terrorism.=
While Israel9s campaign
tary coup 4 is the most likely to
be Pakistan9s next leader. He
returned in October from self-
imposed exile in London after
rebuilding trust with the mili-
tary.
On social media, officials
linked to Sharif welcomed Khan9s
conviction on Tuesday. But while
the Pakistani establishment has
all but dismantled Khan9s party
since he was ousted in 2022, it
doesn9t appear to have dented his
widespread popularity.
The PTI says it has faced
numerous restrictions during its
campaign, including a court or-
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against Hamas in Gaza has drawn
global attention, the country has
also intensified raids and arrests
across the West Bank.
The fighting erupted on Oct. 7,
when Hamas militants streamed
out of Gaza and killed 1,200 peo-
ple in Israel. Israeli forces have
since killed more than 26,700
people in Gaza.
At least 367 Palestinians, in-
cluding 94 children, have been
dering the removal of its recog-
nizable cricket bat symbol from
ballot papers.
Pakistan9s caretaker govern-
ment has defended these mea-
sures as legal and necessary to
maintain stability. They point to
accusations that Khan9s party
deliberately stirred tensions
against the military when offi-
cers first tried to arrest him early
last year, sparking violent unrest.
Sarwar Bari, a Pakistani politi-
cal scientist, said that while Tues-
day9s court decision marks an-
other setback for Khan, it9s not
an unexpected one.
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killed in the West Bank since
Oct. 7, according to the United
Nations. The great majority were
killed by Israeli forces.
As the occupying power in the
West Bank, Israel is allowed to
take <security measures,= accord-
ing to Aurel Sari, a professor of
public international law at the
University of Exeter in Britain.
But it is also compelled not to use
<lethal force as a first resort.=
Different considerations
would apply if the individuals
killed by Israel had played some
role in the Oct. 7 attack and were
militants, not civilians. In that
case, Sari said, they could be
<targeted by lethal force.=
But even then, <they would
have enjoyed immunity from at-
tack if they were wounded or sick
and refrained from any acts of
hostilities against Israeli forces,=
he said. <Targeting those who are
hors de combat= 4 outside the
fighting, because of injury or oth-
er reasons 4 or <otherwise pro-
tected is a violation of the law of
armed conflict.=
<The law of armed conflict also
prohibits killing or injury by re-
sort to perfidy, for example in
cases where the attacker feigns
protected status,= Sari said.
<By disguising themselves as
civilians and as medical person-
nel, the Israeli forces involved in
the operation appear to have re-
sorted to perfidy in violation of
the applicable rules.=
Imogen Piper contributed to this
report.
<It was bound to happen, given
what the PTI has been experienc-
ing for the last two years,= Bari
said. But he cautioned that rath-
er than deterring Khan9s sup-
porters from voting for the PTI
next week, the 10-year prison
sentence could stoke unpredict-
able tensions.
<If the PTI manages to trans-
late the rage and anger into votes
on February 8th,= he said, <there
could still be a surprise ahead.=
Noack reported from Kabul. Haq
Nawaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan,
contributed to this report.
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Plan would free Palestinian prisoners, let aid into enclave
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elderly people and children,
along with the bodies of 27 peo-
ple.
The leader of Israel9s mossad
intelligence organization, David
Barnea, who was authorized by
the Israeli war cabinet to negoti-
ate on its behalf, attended talks
Sunday in Paris, where the
framework was finalized, as did
ronen Bar, the head of Israel9s
domestic intelligence service,
Shin Bet. Negotiators also includ-
ed CIA Director William J. Burns,
Egyptian intelligence chief Ab-
bas Kamel and Qatari Prime
minister mohammed bin Abdul-
rahman Al Thani.
Egypt has transmitted the cur-
rent proposal, which now must
be approved by Hamas military
leaders believed to be inside the
enclave.
After negotiations in Paris,
mohammed flew to Washington
for talks monday with Secretary
of State Antony Blinken and on
Tuesday with White House na-
tional security adviser Jake Sulli-
van. According to a White House
statement, Sullivan <urged that
all possible efforts be brought to
bear on Hamas to secure the
release of hostages without de-
lay.= A half-dozen of the remain-
ing hostages are believed to be
American citizens.
officials familiar with the sen-
sitive talks discussed the hostage
negotiations on the condition of
anonymity during what they said
were early stages, and empha-
sized that any actual deal will
take time to come to fruition.
While Israel has agreed to the
broad framework of a second
temporary cessation of hostili-
ties, the officials said that major
disagreements are sure to arise
as specific details and commit-
ments are negotiated.
<To move forward,= one senior
official said, <it needs a lot of
detail.=
A similar pause, with the ex-
change of hostages for prisoners,
Israeli accusations lead to funding cuts, shaky future for Gaza aid agency
BY S HANE H ARRIS,
J OHN H UDSON,
K AREN D E Y OUNG
AND S OUAD M EKHENNET
Early last week, Israel9s for-
eign ministry summoned a senior
United Nations official to its of-
fice in Jerusalem and presented
him with a startling allegation:
Twelve of his agency9s workers
had taken part in the oct. 7
attacks on Israel, transporting
weapons, raiding Israeli villages,
and participating in the kidnap-
ping of a soldier and a civilian.
Israeli officials have long com-
plained that the United Nations
relief and Works Agency, which
administers aid programs for Pal-
estinians in the Gaza Strip, was
closely aligned with Hamas. But
the accusations that aid workers
were members of the organiza-
tion 4 whose fighters killed 1,200
people and took more than 250
captive in the raid into Israel 4
threatened the existence of the
primary conduit for aid to mil-
lions of people in Gaza whose
lives have been upended after
nearly four months of war.
Israeli officials didn9t provide
UNrWA chief Philippe Lazzarini
with any pieces of paper for him
to take away, but the evidence
they presented was convincing
enough that it persuaded Lazzari-
ni to fire nine of the alleged
participants, some of whom
worked as teachers in schools run
by the aid agency, according to
people familiar with the matter
who, like others, spoke on the
condition of anonymity to de-
scribe private conversations and
sensitive diplomatic negotia-
tions. Some of the 12 alleged
Hamas members and conspira-
tors were later said to have been
killed.
The United States has not inde-
pendently verified Israel9s claims,
which are based on intercepted
communications, phone location
data, interrogations of Hamas
fighters and documents that the
Israeli military has recovered in
Gaza, officials said. The Washing-
ton Post reviewed a document
containing the names, U.N. posi-
tions and alleged Hamas roles of
the 12 individuals, which were
shared with the United States
and other governments, but has
been unable to corroborate the
information.
The evidence Israel has pri-
vately presented persuaded the
United States and eight other
country donors to pause funding
for UNrWA, a decision that other
aid groups have warned imperils
the safety and welfare of Gaza
a Jan. 18 rally in tel aviv for an Israeli toddler taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7. according to Israel,
109 hostages are still being held, including elderly people and children, along with the bodies of 27.
was negotiated in November.
During a week-long stop in the
fighting, 105 captive Israeli wom-
en and children and some for-
eigners were released by Hamas.
It was hoped that follow-on phas-
es would lead to other releases,
but intense fighting quickly re-
sumed amid mutual recrimina-
tions and allegations of bad faith
and violations of the agreement
by both Israel and Hamas.
Israeli negotiators began ex-
pressing interest in renewed
talks with Hamas in late Decem-
ber, after three Israeli hostages in
Gaza were mistakenly killed by
the Israel Defense forces, an
official said. Initially, the length
of the pause in fighting was the
main point of disagreement.
civilians who depend on U.N.
relief and assistance. U.S. Secre-
tary of State Antony Blinken
called the Israeli information
<highly credible.=
Whether the funding spigot
will be turned back on now de-
pends on the United Nations
conducting a credible investiga-
tion, according to officials in the
United States, UNrWA9s single
biggest funder.
After his meeting with Israeli
officials, Lazzarini flew to Wash-
ington and met with members of
the Biden administration. He told
them what the Israelis had said
and explained the actions he had
taken in response to what he
would later publicly call <shock-
ing allegations.=
By Wednesday, both the White
House and the State Department
had been briefed by UNrWA on
the Israeli claims. The next day,
the administration received from
the Israeli government a dossier
containing several pages of accu-
sations, including that Hamas
has long used the aid agency to
<advance terrorist attacks= and
that a <mutual dependence= had
formed between the two organi-
zations. The Post obtained a copy
of the document.
In a matter of hours, officials at
the National Security Council
and the State Department decid-
ed to halt funding to UNrWA,
said a senior U.S. official familiar
with the matter.
But officials in Washington
and Jerusalem acknowledge that
there is no practical alternative to
UNrWA in providing humanitar-
ian aid to Gaza, a job that Israeli
officials do not want but would
have to assume or risk violating
international law, which requires
an occupying power to ensure
that a captive population has
access to basic services.
following a closed-door U.N.
Security Council meeting Tues-
day morning, Linda Thomas-
Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador
to the United Nations, told re-
porters that <there has to be
accountability for anyone who
participated in this attack on
october 7.= She said that the
United States has <reached out to
the government of Israel to seek
more information about these
allegations.=
<They are taking it very seri-
ously,= she said of the U.N. agency.
At the same time, she said, <we
shouldn9t let that cloud the great
work that UNrWA does,= calling
it <the only organization on the
ground that has the capacity to
continue to provide that assis-
tance. And their personnel have
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israel-gaza war
Hamas had said it would accept
only a permanent cease-fire; Is-
raeli proposals outlined a multi-
month cessation of violence.
Among the many details that
could derail the new proposal, it
remains unclear how many Is-
raeli soldiers are hostages in
Gaza. Israel says Hamas seized
253 hostages when it launched
the cross-border assault on oct. 7,
killing at least 1,200 people. The
current talks do not envision that
Israeli troops 4 either women or
men 4 would be among the next
wave of hostages released by
Hamas.
It is unknown who would se-
lect the Palestinian prisoners to
be freed by Israel, and how they
would be chosen. Hamas accused
Palestinians line up for flour at a United Nations Relief and Works agency warehouse in the southern
gaza strip on Jan. 1. the United states views UNRWa as playing an indispensable role in gaza.
done extraordinary work 4
they9ve literally saved thousands
of lives, and it9s unfortunate that
this information has raised some
doubts about UNrWA.=
The Biden administration con-
tinues to view UNrWA as an
essential provider of humanitari-
an relief to Gaza, as well as to
Palestinians in the West Bank and
refugees in Lebanon and else-
where in the region. Its mandate,
established by the U.N. General
Assembly in 1949, also includes
operating schools and medical
clinics 4 virtually all of which
have been closed and turned into
shelters that now house more
than 1 million people in Gaza who
are almost totally dependent on
UNWrA for the necessities of life.
But the seriousness of the Is-
raeli allegations forced the Biden
administration to take action,
said U.S. officials.
Pro-Israel conservatives in
Washington have for years taken
issue with U.N. criticism of Israeli
human rights violations in the
Palestinian territories, accusing
the international body and its
agencies 4 especially UNrWA 4
of being antisemitic.
<With all due respect to the
president, this was a long-over-
due response,= rep. Chris Smith
(r-N.J.) said Tuesday during his
opening remarks to a House for-
eign Affairs Committee hearing
titled <UNrWA Exposed: Exam-
ining the Agency9s mission and
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Israel during the last pause of
breaking an agreement to release
older prisoners held for a sub-
stantial period, instead freeing a
number of youths who had been
arrested during recent skirmish-
es in the West Bank. Israel
charged that Hamas broke the
agreement by firing rockets into
Israel.
Both sides have already laid
out what they say are nonnego-
tiable public positions.
<We will not remove the IDf
from the Gaza Strip and we will
not release thousands of terror-
ists,= Israeli Prime minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu said Tuesday in
an appearance at a military acad-
emy in the West Bank as word of
a provisional Israeli agreement
failures.=
<There has long been massive
and irrefutable evidence of
UNrWA9s extensive complicity
and cooperation in Hamas9s anti-
semitic genocidal hate cam-
paign,= said Smith, who attribut-
ed the administration9s decision
to halt funding to Israel9s find-
ings, as well as <public pressure.=
By stopping support, at least
for the moment, Washington
aims to compel the agency to
carry out a thorough investiga-
tion, said a senior U.S. official, or
risk permanently losing funding
from Western governments
whose donations are critical to its
survival.
<We really want their work to
continue, but we can only contin-
ue to fund it if the world sees that
UNrWA conducted a credible
investigation,= said the senior of-
ficial. <This provides all the more
incentive for [U.N. leadership] to
carry this out quickly and, if there
are any other steps that they need
to take, that they take those steps
as well.=
In the short term, Israeli offi-
cials probably view the allega-
tions as a useful way to blacken
the eye of an institution they have
long distrusted, but they may also
use the incident to mount a more
aggressive long-term campaign
against UNrWA, seeking to re-
place it with an alternative or-
ganization, the senior U.S. official
said.
the washington post
to the framework spread, accord-
ing to Israeli media. <None of this
will happen. What will happen?
Absolute victory,= he pledged.
Extreme right-wing members
of Netanyahu9s coalition govern-
ment have threatened to resign if
any deal is made, which could
cause his government to fall.
They, and Netanyahu, have ac-
cused Qatar 4 the main negotiat-
ing conduit to Hamas 4 of being
in the pocket of the militants.
Hamas has been equally, if not
more, unyielding. While political
leaders of the organization oper-
ate and travel the region openly
and have been able to communi-
cate with those inside Gaza, they
are <just messengers,= the senior
official said. It is the military
leaders who clearly call the shots,
led by Yahya Sinwar, the military
chief at the top of Israel9s hit list
who is believed to be hiding in
tunnels beneath southern Gaza.
It is not clear how leaders
outside and within Gaza contact
one another, but the length of
time before a decision is commu-
nicated varies. Cellphone and
Wifi signals are frequently
blacked out in Gaza.
In the meantime, Hamas polit-
ical representatives have set pub-
lic conditions for a deal that are
far beyond what is likely to be
acceptable for Israel, which has
said it will not consider a true
cease-fire or discontinue attacks
until its <mission= of destroying
Hamas is completed and all hos-
tages are recovered.
<Any agreement for us must
include several points: The first
point is the guarantee of a com-
prehensive and complete cessa-
tion of the aggression of the Gaza
Strip,= Taher al-Nunu, a senior
Hamas official and adviser to
political leader Ismail Haniyeh
said in an interview Tuesday.
Al-Nunu also called for <the with-
drawal of the occupation [forces]
from all parts of the Gaza Strip,
without any buffer zones,= and
more humanitarian aid.
These, he said, are the precon-
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The Biden administration has
been at pains to emphasize that
there is currently no alternative
for the vital work the agency
provides.
UNrWA <continues to play an
absolutely indispensable role in
trying to make sure that men,
women and children who so des-
perately need assistance in Gaza
actually get it, and no one else can
play the role that UNrWA has
been playing, certainly not in the
near term,= Blinken said monday.
The same day, White House
National Security Council
spokesman John Kirby sought to
temper some of the criticisms
leveled at the organization, not-
ing that the allegations pertain to
just a small fraction of the more
than 13,000 people it employs in
Gaza.
<Let9s not impugn the good
work of a whole agency because
of the potential bad action here of
a small number,= Kirby told re-
porters at the White House.
A spokesman for U.N. Secre-
tary General António Guterres
detailed an array of steps the
organization is taking.
<The Secretary General is per-
sonally horrified by the accusa-
tions against employees of
UNrWA, but his message to do-
nors, especially those who have
suspended their contributions, is
to at least guarantee the continu-
ity of UNrWA9s operations, as we
have tens of thousands of dedicat-
. wednesday, january 31 , 2024
ditions to serious negotiations
over a hostage release. Hamas is
open to doing it in phases, but
<regardless of the timing: At the
beginning, at the middle, at the
end, it has to include a cease-fire.
The second point is that there
will be no negotiations on hos-
tages while under fire.=
<It seems that the U.S. admin-
istration has started to be con-
vinced of this,= he said. Asked for
specifics, Al-Nunu said that
among the reasons for Washing-
ton9s efforts to secure a fighting
pause are threats to U.S. interests
in the red Sea, Iraq, Syria, Jordan
and <Palestine9s northern bor-
ders. . . . The [U.S.] elections that
are encroaching. . . . of course,
it9s uncomfortable for the U.S.
administration.=
If a cease-fire is reached, he
said, <we will begin to discuss
prisoners. We haven9t started dis-
cussing names and numbers. We
are discussing principles, or the
general framework of the deal.=
Without a complete Israeli
withdrawal from Gaza, <we can9t
accept this new proposal,= mo-
hammad Nazzal, a senior mem-
ber of Hamas, told Al Jazeera.
mediators are also using nego-
tiations on the hostage-release
deal to discuss the basic frame-
work of an agreement on postwar
Gaza. But as with the hostage
negotiations, the devil is in the
details. Diplomats stress that
those talks are occurring on a
separate track and are progress-
ing much more slowly than are
the hostage exchange discus-
sions.
As they wait for the next round
of negotiations, an official famil-
iar with the talks said, mediators
have made the argument to the
Israelis that nearly four months
of fighting has not brought all
their hostages home. for Hamas,
the official said, <the way to
convince them is to ask them
what alternative they have.=
dadouch reported from Beirut, and
George from doha, Qatar.
ed staff working throughout the
region,= said Stéphane Dujarric.
<The dire needs of the desper-
ate populations they serve must
be met. At this point, the outlook
for UNrWA and the millions of
people it serves, not only in Gaza
but also in East Jerusalem, in the
West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and
Syria, is very bleak,= he said.
The United Nations intends to
carry out two investigations relat-
ed to UNrWA, said Dujarric. one,
by the U.N. office of Internal
oversight Services, will hold to
account any employee involved in
acts of terror, <including through
criminal prosecution,= Dujarric
said.
A second investigation, initiat-
ed by Lazzarini on Jan. 17 but not
yet set up, will look broadly at
what the U.N. agency does, Dujar-
ric said. He added that the agen-
cy9s chief opened the inquiry <be-
cause it9s an open secret that
there9s a lot of support from
UNrWA, but there is some criti-
cism, as well,= an indication that
U.N. officials understood that the
agency was taking political fire
amid the war.
The United States typically
provides $300 million to $400
million per year to UNrWA, State
Department spokesman mat-
thew miller told reporters Tues-
day. Since oct. 1, the United
States has provided about $121
million.
The suspension of funding an-
nounced last week applies to an
additional $300,000 the United
States planned to provide. miller
said the United States would
probably provide many more mil-
lions of dollars to UNrWA in the
current fiscal year absent the
funding pause, but he said he
could not provide a precise figure
until lawmakers conclude negoti-
ations on the budget.
Asked when the Biden admin-
istration would make a decision
on whether to resume aid or
continue the suspension, Thom-
as-Greenfield, the U.N. ambassa-
dor, noted that donor nations
were meeting Tuesday afternoon
with Guterres <to discuss with
him the path moving forward.
But we want to ensure that hu-
manitarian assistance continues
to flow to the Palestinian people.=
<We need to look at the organi-
zation, how it operates in Gaza,
how they manage their staff, and
to ensure that people who com-
mit criminal acts, such as these 12
individuals, are held accountable
immediately so that UNrWA can
continue the essential work that
it is doing,= Thomas-Greenfield
said.
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Deadly attack on American troops spotlights an open-ended military mission

BY L OUISA L OVELUCK
AND M ISSY R YAN
For U.S. troops under fire from
Iran-linked groups in Iraq and
Syria, the military mission that
brought them to the Middle East
is largely complete, experts say.
Whether and when to withdraw
them is more complicated 4 an
issue that has taken on greater
urgency after three U.S. service
members were killed in a drone
attack in Jordan on Sunday.
The roughly 2,500 troops in
Iraq and 900 in Syria are de-
scribed by U.S. officials as part of
an operation to keep the Islamic
State from regaining a foothold in
the region. But with the jihadist
group largely degraded, Ameri-
can soldiers now find themselves
targeted by other adversaries,
who say the attacks will continue
as long as Washington maintains
its support for Israel9s war in
Gaza.
<What9s happened these past
few weeks has exposed their vul-
nerability,= said Dareen Khalifa, a
senior adviser at the Internation-
al Crisis Group. <I hope this will
raise questions about why they
are vulnerable, and how else they
can make their presence less of a
liability for everyone else who is
working with them.=
The United States had close to
3,000 troops in Jordan as of 2023,
according to the Congressional
Research Service, focused on Jor-
danian security and the Islamic
State. Officials said Monday that
the drone approaching Tower 22,
a base in the country9s northeast,
was mistaken for a returning
American aircraft.
Across the Middle East, U.S.
troops have been targeted more
than 160 times by Iran-aligned
militants since October.
The U.S. presence in Syria and
Iraq dates back to 2014, when a
global coalition joined local forc-
es to drive Islamic State militants
from a swath of territory the size
of Great Britain. Jordan9s Tower
22, a U.S. outpost along the bor-
der where the three countries
meet, houses about 350 U.S. engi-
neering, aviation, logistics and
security personnel, largely pro-
viding support to troops in Syria.
Nearly a decade after U.S. sol-
diers were first deployed, and five
years after ISIS was declared de-
feated, Biden is the third presi-
A helicopter takes off from a U.S. base at an undisclosed site in Syria in 2019. The roughly 2,500 troops
in Iraq and 900 in Syria are working to keep the Islamic State from regaining a foothold in the region.
dent to oversee the mission. But
the environment it operates in is
radically changed. The jihadist
group now resembles a low-level
insurgency, mostly in Syria, in-
stead of a governing power.
ISIS no longer holds territory
in Iraq, and the presence of U.S.
troops there is increasingly con-
troversial among Iraqis, 20 years
after a U.S.-led invasion of the
country triggered a bloody civil
war. Although the U.S. military
retains a mandate to advise Iraqi
forces, troops mostly stay in their
bases.
Retaliatory U.S. strikes on
Iran-linked targets inside Iraq,
including the 2020 assassination
of Tehran9s most influential gen-
eral, Qasem Soleimani, have in-
creased domestic pressure to
force America out. Iran9s influ-
ence in the region has grown as
Washington9s has waned.
The two camps have coexisted
uneasily for years. Iran-backed
armed groups grew in wealth and
power as they led their own bat-
tles against ISIS, and some were
later incorporated into Iraq9s
armed forces. Tensions between
the militias and U.S. troops hard-
ened in 2018, after President Don-
ald Trump withdrew the United
States from a landmark nuclear
deal that had led to a diplomatic
opening with Tehran.
The slow pace of change in
America9s military operation in
Iraq is due to, in part, <a degree of
malaise as well as a cultural and
political risk aversion that is com-
fortable for the Iraqis and for us,=
said Jonathan Lord, director of
the Middle East Security program
at the Center for a New American
Security.
<But this is how you end up
getting 20-year missions in for-
eign countries that ultimately
don9t evolve with the conditions,
then politics that demand that
the mission end, even when you
don9t have lasting, sustainable
solutions,= he said.
When the United States an-
nounced a formal end to combat
missions in Iraq in 2021, Western
and Iraqi officials described the
move as more about political op-
tics than changing realities on the
ground. Last week, the Biden
administration announced that it
was restarting talks with Iraqi
counterparts over the future of
U.S. troops there, marking what
appeared to be the most serious
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attempt of his presidency to re-
think the American military foot-
print in the region.
U.S. officials have sought to
delink the discussions with Iraq
from the upheaval roiling the
Middle East, noting that they
grew out of diplomatic efforts
dating back several years. It9s <not
a timeline-driven event,= a senior
U.S. military official told report-
ers last week, speaking on the
condition of anonymity to discuss
sensitive talks. <We will govern
that process with our dialogue
together.=
But ongoing attacks on U.S.
troops, and American military
retaliation, particularly in Iraq,
may also scramble the calcula-
tion.
<If the pace and the intensity of
these attacks increase then it9s
going to be hard to say 8okay let9s
do this in a thoughtful manner9
because there9ll be more pres-
sure, both domestically in the U.S.
and within Iraq,= said a senior
congressional aide who was
briefed on the ongoing talks. He
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to discuss delicate negoti-
ations.
America9s military footprint in
<This is how you end up
getting 20-year missions
in foreign countries that
ultimately don9t evolve
... then politics that
demand that the
mission end, even when
you don9t have lasting,
sustainable solutions.=
Jonathan Lord, director of the
Middle East Security program at the
Center for a New American Security
Syria may be smaller, but the
politics of withdrawal are even
more complex.
A 12-year civil war has left the
country divided into zones of
control 4 the U.S. partners with a
Kurdish-led force, the Syrian
Democratic Forces, in the coun-
try9s northeast; a Turkish-backed
authority runs the northwest;
and the government of President
Bashar al-Assad, along with Rus-
sian and Iranian allies, control
much of the rest of the country,
including a stretch of the central
Syrian desert where ISIS has re-
tained a foothold.
As ISIS was rolled back, territo-
ries previously held by the group
were claimed by other warring
parties hoping to deepen their
influence and advance their agen-
das. U.S. officials believe that
Iran9s strategic goal is to establish
an east-west land corridor con-
necting it to armed allies in Iraq
and Lebanon, and that the U.S.
presence at Tanf 4 a U.S. garrison
along Syria9s border with Iraq 4
stands in the way.
The senior U.S. military official
also cited the vulnerability of
prisons holding thousands of Is-
lamic State prisoners and their
family members in northeast Syr-
ia.
<Daesh could become opera-
tional overnight,= the official said,
using the Arabic term for ISIS.
<Two thousand prisoners could
escape and become part of an
operational force, and that is
Daesh9s operational goal right
now.=
That fear was bolstered by an
analysis published Monday by the
Conflict Armament Research
group on weapons recovered in
the aftermath of attacks by mili-
tants in the northeast, concluding
that the group may be more resil-
ient than previously thought.
<ISIS still has a centralized,
coordinated acquisition network
and distribution network in
northeast Syria, and that is sur-
prising because of the extent of
united efforts between local secu-
rity forces and the American pres-
ence, and the ongoing monitoring
and surveillance of alleged ISIS
members,= said Devin Morrow,
head of regional operations for
Conflict Armament Research and
lead author of the report.
The U.S. mission in Syria re-
mains narrowly focused on coun-
terterrorism, officials and experts
say 4 a policy shaped by past
failures. The 2011 withdrawal of
U.S. troops from Iraq, when Biden
was vice president, combined
with ineffectual local governance,
left a vacuum where ISIS even-
tually thrived.
<Look back to Biden9s position
then, it was that we should keep
small teams there as a way to keep
the boot on the neck of an al-Qae-
da in Iraq,= said Aaron Stein,
author of <The US War Against
ISIS,= which chronicled the evolu-
tion of that mission.
<He believed that the with-
drawal from Iraq in 2011, in the
way that it was done, was a big
mistake, and that9s been driving
the mission ever since,= Stein
said.
But the question of how to get
out cannot be answered through
military means alone, experts say
and officials acknowledge. <Peo-
ple say there is no eradicating
them fully, and you can9t really
define an end game for the coun-
ter-ISIS mission. That might all
be true,= said Khalifa of Interna-
tional Crisis Group.
<But it9s also political [. . .] the
Turks need to be on board, the
SDF need to be on board, the
Russians and the regime need to
be on board.
<All of that is hard, but it9s not
impossible,= she said. <It9s just
very difficult because the compli-
cated lifting requires investment
and a lot of things the U.S. is not
doing.=

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Fatal attack on U.S. soldiers brings Middle East conûict home to Georgia
BY D AN L AMOTHE
AND T IM C RAIG
From a military outpost in the
Jordan desert, Spec. Breonna A.
Moffett talked daily with her fam-
ily in Savannah, Ga. Sometimes,
her mother said, it was a quick
call to wish her little sister a good
day at school. Others, she9d joke
about her dog, Simba, or work on
a <Paw Patrol= coloring book with
her 3-year-old nephew over Face-
Time.
<She was so happy to do that
for her nephew,= said her mother,
Francine. <She always called
home. She never really missed a
day.=
Moffett, 23, was one of three
U.S. soldiers killed early Sunday
in a drone attack near Jordan9s
borders with Syria and Iraq. The
explosion rocked the troops9 liv-
ing quarters 4 small, sparsely
appointed shipping containers 4
after a drone slipped past air
defenses as many were still in bed
asleep. Upward of 50 others, in-
cluding some infantrymen from
the Arizona National Guard, were
injured. At least one service mem-
ber is in critical condition, offi-
cials said.
The incident underscores how
Middle East deployments, long
defined by the potential for dan-
ger, have grown even more peril-
ous and unpredictable for those
stationed far from a typical bat-
tlefield. Evolving tactics by U.S.
adversaries, aided increasingly by
inexpensive technology, have giv-
en rise to a wicked, widening
array of threats that are hard to
predict and counter.
President Biden has blamed
Sunday9s violence on groups
backed by Iran that have targeted
U.S. military positions relentless-
ly since the fall, when Israel9s
invasion of Gaza 4 and Washing-
ton9s considerable military sup-
port for the Jewish state 4 set off
a ferocious wave of anti-Ameri-
can sentiment. Moffett and the
other slain soldiers, Sgt. William
J. Rivers, 46, and Spec. Kennedy
L. Sanders, 24, are the first U.S.
personnel killed by hostile fire
since then.
The president has promised
retribution.
Moffett, Rivers and Sanders
were members of the same Army
Reserve unit from Fort Moore, a
massive installation in western
Georgia that abuts the Chatta-
Breonna A. Moffett, back right, with her siblings in 2016. Spec. Moffett, 23, a construction engineer,
was killed in Jordan early Sunday with two other members of her Army Reserve unit.
hoochee River. Their deployment
to Jordan was the kind of assign-
ment that, despite its low profile,
is essential for the U.S. military to
function in a combat zone.
<We just have to plan around
this being a possible outcome if
we9re going to have troops de-
ployed there, period,= said Allison
Jaslow, the chief executive of Iraq
and Afghanistan Veterans of
America, noting that similar at-
tacks had occurred long before
the war in Gaza. <I hate this is
how we get attention on the fact
that there are men and women
across the globe fighting terror-
ism for us, but it has been the
truth all along.=
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went overseas in August, part of
the Pentagon9s enduring mission
to prevent a resurgence of the
Islamic State group. Its members
were posted, along with about
350 other Army and Air Force
personnel, to Tower 22. The
small, dusty facility is a key sup-
port base for a larger U.S. outpost,
Tanf, about 25 miles away over the
border in Syria.
Rivers served as an electrician,
while Sanders and Moffett were
construction engineers. Soldiers
in those jobs typically operate
bulldozers, backhoes and other
heavy equipment.
Before joining the Army in
2019, Moffett had served as the
drum major in her high school
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marching band and participated
in a Junior Reserve Officers9
Training Corps (JROTC) pro-
gram. She was close with her
siblings and embraced caring for
her dog, her mother said.
Rivers lived in Carrollton, Ga.,
an exurban Atlanta town of about
27,000, many of whom are veter-
ans or have service members in
their families. Carrollton Mayor
Betty B. Cason said the town is
<devastated= and will do whatev-
er it takes to support the Rivers
family. He had deployed to Iraq in
2018, Army officials said.
Although Cason did not know
Rivers personally, she said he had
a son who is in the band at the
local high school.
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<They are just your typical Car-
rollton family,= Cason said. <It9s
just so sad. We are a very close-
knit community.=
Over the past two days, Carroll-
ton9s police force has been dis-
patched to the Rivers home to
help prevent the media and oth-
ers from bothering the family.
Neighbors have taken them flow-
ers and food. And Cason said the
entire town stands ready to con-
sole and support the family in any
way it can.
<You may not know them per-
sonally,= she said, <but they are
part of your community and it has
an effect.= Her community was
stung by the loss of all three
soldiers, even though Moffett and
Sanders were from the other cor-
ners of the state. <It9s the ultimate
sacrifice they gave for our protec-
tion,= she said.
Sanders, who lived in Way-
cross, Ga., had volunteered for
the deployment, her family told
the Associated Press. She volun-
teered as a youth soccer and
basketball coach when not de-
ployed.
In the community of 14,000,
Sanders stood out, said Ulysses D.
Rayford, the city manager. She
was a former high school basket-
ball star and the daughter of a
Marine Corps veteran, he said.
<She was a valued member of
this city, and everyone here recog-
nizes her sacrifice,= Rayford said.
He called Sanders <a very friendly
person who had a lot of friends.
She was a great spirited person,=
Rayford added, <and this is a
great tragic loss for us all.=
The Pentagon has said that
Sunday marked the first attack on
Tower 22, but the base had the
look of a possible target. Militants
have targeted numerous installa-
tions, including nearby Tanf,
seemingly looking for vulnerabil-
ities in American air defenses. In
some cases, U.S. military officials
have acknowledged that, despite
their vigilance, some incoming
drones had managed to get
through.
On Sunday, it appears the
weaponized drone was mistaken
for an American aircraft return-
ing to the installation.
Moffett9s mother said that
while she and her daughter tend-
ed to keep their talks light and not
discuss safety, her daughter ap-
peared to be enjoying her time in
Jordan.
january 31 , 2024
<She was always smiling, al-
ways laughing, always with her
friends,= Francine Moffett re-
called.
Biden has spoken with the
three families, the White House
said Tuesday, and he intends to
travel to Dover Air Force Base in
Delaware on Friday when their
remains return home.
Rayford, the city manager in
Sanders9s hometown, said local
officials expect her remains will
be transferred from Delaware to
Waycross, where a funeral will be
held. People there are devising
plans to honor her, he said. On
Monday, the Ware County Board
of Commissioners issued a proc-
lamation ordering all flags be
lowered to half-staff until Sand-
ers9s interment. During the
monthly <First Friday= night in
the center of the town, a moment
of silence will be held.
The town has also decided to
rename the street in front of
Sanders9s family home in her hon-
or, and June 30 4 Sanders9s birth-
day 4 will be designated Kennedy
Ladon Sanders Day.
<Every year, on her birthday,
we will do a ceremony for her,=
Rayford said.
Rayford said the entire town is
grieving while they try to compre-
hend how short life can be. <It just
makes you reflect on your own
life and how precious your life is
and how important it is to live it
respectfully,= he added. <And she
lived, although a short life, she
lived a respectable life.=
The Army officials who visited
Moffett9s family on Sunday to
notify them of her death said that
the attack remains under investi-
gation, and that the service in-
tends to provide them with more
information after that work con-
cludes, Francine Moffett said.
The notification process, she
said, was <just like you see in the
movies,= with soldiers in dress
uniforms arriving at her home in
Savannah.
<They just show up at your
door,= she said. <My husband
came upstairs and said, 8Two guys
in uniform are downstairs.9 And
when he said that, I just knew. It9s
just indescribable. You see it on
TV and you hear about it, but you
never want to experience it.=
alex horton, monika mathur, tyler
Pager and missy Ryan contributed
to this report.
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After raising millions for Black banking, Greenwood pivots
Company has failed to meet many of its initial goals while also acquiring a portfolio of enterprises outside the world of finance
BY E MMANUEL F ELTON
In 2020, Paul Judge and Ryan
Glover, both seasoned Black en-
trepreneurs, started work on a
plan to help solve one of Ameri-
ca9s most intractable social prob-
lems: the yawning wealth gap
between White households and
Black and Latino families.
After facing decades of dis-
crimination by banks, Black and
Latino customers need a safe,
welcoming place to put their
money, they argued, as they de-
veloped a plan for launching
Greenwood, a banking platform
rather than a traditional bank.
Launched amid the racial jus-
tice protests that followed the
police killing of George Floyd in
2020, Greenwood quickly drew
support from prominent Black
celebrities, including music pro-
ducer Jermaine Dupri, and bank-
ing giants such as Wells Fargo
and JPMorgan Chase. Glover and
Judge boasted that 700,000 po-
tential customers had signed up
for Greenwood9s waitlist before it
even launched products.
But in the three years since,
and after a second round of
funding that valued the company
at $325 million, Greenwood has
failed to meet some of its initial
goals, according to a review of
public statements and inter-
views with company leaders and
former employees. Less than a
quarter 4 about 150,000 4 of the
people on the waiting list opened
accounts, and Greenwood has
been slow to launch promised
financial products, including
credit cards and business loans.
Instead, the company has ac-
quired a portfolio of companies
outside of the world of finance,
including a private club in Atlan-
ta, and a website that bills itself
as <Black LinkedIn.= It also
opened a production studio,
which released a docuseries that
follows efforts to revitalize the
Greenwood district in Tulsa,
which was leveled by a White
mob in 1921. Meanwhile, Califor-
nia state regulators have told
Greenwood to make clear that it
is not itself a <bank,= and it was
sued by a former business part-
ner who alleged that the compa-
ny was in <financial disarray.=
Three top executives, who were
recruited with much fanfare,
have either left or been laid off
and taken their expertise with
them.
In an interview, Glover dis-
missed concerns about Green-
wood9s progress and said the
historically fraught relationship
between the Black community
and the financial sector requires
that Atlanta-based Greenwood
be unlike anything else in the
financial industry. It9s just as
important for the company to
create a place where Black and
Latino consumers can learn and
network as it is to provide them
with banking services, he said.
<We9ve been programmed and
trained [to believe] that banks
aren9t our friends,= he said. <My
mission is to change that narra-
tive and educate our community
that having access to capital and
safe banking relationships mat-
ter to build wealth.=
The company9s struggles
aren9t surprising, industry ex-
perts say. After decades of con-
solidation in the banking indus-
try, Greenwood, with its 150,000
customers, is simply too small to
have a significant impact on the
financial services market, said
William Cunningham, an econo-
mist who has been studying the
Black banking sector for more
than 25 years.
<All of this stuff is cute. Green-
wood is cute,= he said. <It sounds
pretty harsh, but basically, nei-
ther Greenwood, nor any of the
Greenwood9s founding team, from left to right: Michael <Killer Mike= Render, Andrew Young and Ryan Glover.
traditional Black banks really,
have the ability to do what it is
they claim that they want to do,
which is better serve Black cus-
tomers while turning a profit,
because they9re just too small.=
Greenwood has taken on a
monumental task. About half of
Black adults and one-third of
Latinos are either unbanked or
underbanked, meaning they
don9t have a traditional checking
or savings account and use alter-
native financial services like pay-
day lenders or title shops for
loans, according to the Federal
Reserve. That9s compared with
15 percent of White Americans.
Without traditional bank ac-
counts that often make it easier
to secure loans, these Black and
Latino customers fall further
behind economically, increasing
the country9s racial wealth gap,
experts say. The median wealth,
a household9s assets minus
debts, of White families stands at
$285,000, compared with
$44,900 for Black families and
$61,600 for Hispanic families,
according to the Federal Reserve.
Bridging that gap requires a
financial company unlike any
that has existed before, said
Glover, pointing to Greenwood9s
efforts to educate customers on
personal finance.
When Judge approached Glov-
er with the idea to start Green-
wood in early 2020, Glover, who
was 49 at the time, was trying to
figure out what he wanted to do
with the rest of his career. He had
founded Noontime Records, a
label that produced more than a
dozen Billboard No. 1 hits, in the
early 2000s. In August 2017, he
had sold Bounce TV, the first
Black-owned television broad-
cast company, to E.W. Scripps in
a $292 million deal. He had gone
from working more than 120
hours a week to a life of leisure.
<I really didn9t know what I
wanted to do with my life,= he
said. <I knew I didn9t want to stay
at home and bug my children
and my wife to death.=
Judge had spent years in the
tech world, founding Pindrop
Security, an information security
company valued at nearly $1 bil-
lion. According to Judge,
through his venture funds, he
has also invested in more than
60 technology start-ups over the
years.
Glover assumed that Green-
wood would start small, with his
initial models projecting that it
would have as few as 5,000
customers when it launched. But
that all changed after Floyd9s
death.
Racial justice protests had put
a spotlight on long-standing ra-
cial inequalities. In a viral social
media trend, people were en-
couraged to put money into
Black banks. Netflix moved
$100 million, about 2 percent of
its total deposits, to such institu-
tions.
The movement supercharged
Greenwood9s launch, and within
days of rolling out its website in
October 2020, tens of thousands
of people had signed up for the
waiting list for checking ac-
counts. Glover and Judge recruit-
ed rapper and activist Michael
<We9ve been programmed and trained [to believe]
that banks aren9t our friends. . . . My mission is to
change that narrative and educate our
community.=
Ryan glover, Greenwood co-founder and chairman
Render, who goes by the stage
name of Killer Mike, to be the
public face of the brand, in
exchange for an equity stake in
the company.
Money began to pour in from
the big banks looking to fulfill
their post-Floyd promises to
make right decades of discrimi-
natory practices. By March 2021,
before it had even launched a
product, Greenwood had raised
millions from financial giants
such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of
America and Wells Fargo. (The
banks didn9t return calls seeking
comment on Greenwood9s prog-
ress.)
Greenwood seemed poised to
become a new kind of Black-
owned financial institution. But
Judge and Glover were facing an
uphill battle in a fiercely compet-
itive environment.
Black banks had been strug-
gling to survive for years: In
2001, there were 41 Black-owned
banks, but by the end of 2022,
there were just 17, according to
the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation.
Black-owned banks simply
can9t keep pace with their much
larger competitors, such as
JPMorgan Chase, which have
trillions in assets, industry ex-
perts say.
The struggles of Black banks
reflect the struggles of the Black
community, said Brandon Com-
er, co-founder of the National
Black Bank Foundation.
<They are serving a customer
base that hasn9t historically had
ability to generate and create
wealth,= Comer said. <And so over
time, they don9t have the same
level of profitability and the
ability to reinvest in the bank, so
they just kind of slowly keep
falling further and further be-
hind their competitors.=
One of Glover and Judge9s first
big decisions was picking a bank-
ing partner. Greenwood is an
online banking platform but
doesn9t have a banking license
and, to have customers9 accounts
insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, must
partner with a traditional bank.
Glover had initially pledged
that Greenwood would partner
with a Black-owned bank, but
instead decided to work with
Coastal Community Bank, an
Everett, Wash., bank that has a
mostly White executive manage-
ment team.
Eric Sprink, chief executive of
Coastal, said he reached out to
Glover in 2021 after he learned
Greenwood had the backing of
many of the country9s largest
banks.
<Greenwood was one of only
two partners that I have person-
ally called on to tell them I would
Greenwood
like to be the bank to work with
them,= Sprink said.
Glover said they couldn9t find
a Black bank big enough to
support their scale, and Coastal
already had established relations
with other high-profile start-ups.
<This is still majority
minority-owned,= Glover said of
Greenwood. <Almost 98 percent
of our customers are minorities,
98 percent of my workforce, who
are making the decisions day in
and day out, are minorities. At
the end of the day, this is a
business that is for us and by us.=
As Greenwood launched, it
missed key deadlines 4 includ-
ing with checking accounts,
which weren9t offered until early
2022, nearly a year after its
initial projections. There is still
not a timeline for rolling out
credit cards and small-business
loans.
The delays with those finan-
cial products, Glover said, were
because of higher than expected
customer demand. According to
Glover, Greenwood currently has
150,000 active accounts, but is
still seeing steady interest from
potential new customers.
Meanwhile, Greenwood
opened a studio to record per-
sonal finance content 4 from
how to build credit to how to
launch a company 4 that it
distributes online. In May 2022,
it purchased the Gathering Spot,
a private club with locations in
Atlanta and Los Angeles, for
$50 million. A month later, it
acquired Valance, a professional
development and job recruit-
ment company.
The additions expand the
company9s ecosystem for its cus-
tomers, while the company con-
tinues to focus on putting <best-
in-class= banking products in the
reach of Black and Latino cus-
tomers, Glover said. Late last
year, Greenwood launched the
<Elevate Card,= or what Glover
calls, <the real Black card.= With
the debit card, which has a
$200-a-month fee, customers
gain access to the entire suite of
Greenwood9s products. It has
also announced the launch of
Greenwood Invest, a stock trad-
ing and investing app.
But as it9s grown, the company
has come under the scrutiny of
regulators. In December 2022,
Greenwood signed a cease-and-
desist agreement with the Cali-
fornia Department of Financial
Protection and Innovation
pledging to stop referring to
itself as a <bank= and more
clearly disclose that it is a finan-
cial technology company work-
ing with banking partners.
Glover said that the agree-
ment has had little impact and
that the company is now making
appropriate disclosures.
The same month, Greenwood
closed a second round of fund-
ing, which raised an additional
$45 million.
The company9s problems be-
gan to spill out into public view
when the former owners of the
Gathering Spot sued Greenwood
for an alleged unpaid debt and
claimed that the fintech was in
<financial disarray.= The lawsuit
was settled in August.
In a statement, Glover denied
that Greenwood was facing fi-
nancial difficulties, saying that
the company had enough cash to
operate for two years <even if
there was no revenue growth.=
But its turmoil has disturbed
some customers.
Dominec Holmes, a marketing
consultant from Michigan, said
he signed up for the Greenwood
waiting list in 2020 after learn-
ing that Killer Mike was one of
the company9s founders. After
months on the waitlist, Holmes
opened a checking account.
But he closed the account
three months later, he said, after
learning Greenwood wasn9t a
traditional Black bank and had
partnered with Coastal Commu-
nity Bank. Now, Holmes says he9s
researching traditional Black-
owned banks where he can move
his money.
<I want to put my money in a
bank that I know is investing in
the Black community and Black
businesses,= he said.
The Gathering Spot9s former
owners said in an Instagram post
last month that they had re-
gained control of the clubs. In a
statement, Greenwood said the
companies will continue to work
together and <remain supportive
of each other9s growth as they
transition back to operating as
separate entities.=
Glover acknowledges that the
company9s leaders are still trying
to determine the path forward
for Greenwood and that it had
recently laid off workers, the
number of which he didn9t quan-
tify. The layoffs were not due to
financial necessity but instead
an effort to keep the company
nimble, he said.
But the company is strong, he
said, adding that its banking
revenue doubled in 2023. <This is
not my first rodeo from a start-
up perspective,= he said. <As we
continue to grow our customer
base and we continue to grow
our product base and content
base, we will have to move and
shift staff and resources.=
Meanwhile, the banking in-
dustry is closely watching Green-
wood9s progress.
Ashley Bell, co-founder of the
National Black Bank Founda-
tion, said he is attempting to buy
a small Utah-based bank that he
can turn into a Black-owned
institution. He has approached
many of the big banks that
funded Greenwood, but hasn9t
received much interest, he said.
<We are cheering for Green-
wood to become what it prom-
ised to be,= Bell said. <Because as
someone who is raising capital to
create new Black banks in this
country, when you go to the big
banks on Wall Street right now,
that well is dry because Green-
wood hit the market at the right
time with the right message.=

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UPS to cut 12,000 jobs
as demand falls
UPS plans to cut 12,000 jobs
as demand for package delivery
stagnates, executives said
Tuesday.
The layoffs will eliminate
around 2.4 percent of UPS9s
global workforce of roughly
495,000, with about 75 percent of
the job reductions coming in the
first half of 2024. Executives said
they don9t expect those jobs to
return.
UPS saw its fortunes surge
during the pandemic as online
shopping became a more central
part of people9s lives, but
package volume has decreased
since then. The company on
Tuesday said package volume fell
7.4 percent in the fourth quarter,
while revenue declined 7.8
percent year over year.
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PetRoleuM
Aramco ordered to
lower capacity target
Saudi Arabia9s government on
Tuesday ordered state oil
company Aramco to halt its oil
expansion plan and to target a
maximum sustained production
capacity of 12 million barrels per
day (bpd), 1 million bpd below a
target announced in 2020.
Saudi Arabia for decades has
been the main holder of the
world9s only significant spare oil
capacity, providing a safety
cushion for global supplies in
case of major disruptions. In
recent years, the United Arab
Emirates, a fellow member of the
Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries, has also
built up spare capacity.
The kingdom is the world9s
largest oil exporter and is
pumping around 9 million bpd,
well below its roughly 12 million
bpd existing capacity, after it cut
production as part of an
agreement with OPEC and its
allies last year.
4 Reuters
nuCleAR PoWeR
Canadian plant to get
$1.5B refurbishment
Ontario on Tuesday
announced a $1.5 billion
refurbishment of a nuclear
power station near Toronto to
extend the aging plant9s life by
30 years and help meet a
projected surge in the Canadian
province9s electricity demand.
Provincial government-owned
Ontario Power Generation will
start preliminary work for the
Pickering station this year, and
the project is expected to be
completed by the mid-2030s,
Ontario said in a statement.
The refurbishment at the
station, about 28 miles east of
Toronto, would create some
11,000 jobs during construction
and about 6,400 jobs after
completion. The project needs
approval from the federal
nuclear safety commission.
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Also in Business
Payments firm PayPal Holdings
will cut about 2,500 jobs this
year, Bloomberg News reported
Tuesday, citing a letter from CEO
Alex Chriss to staff that it
reviewed. In the letter, Chriss
said the decision was made to
<right-size= the company through
both direct cuts and the
elimination of open roles
throughout the year, according
to the report. In November,
newly appointed CEO Chriss said
he expects to increase revenue
outside of purely transaction-
related volume and pledged to
turn the fintech firm leaner by
reducing its cost base.
General Motors booked net
income of $10.1 billion last year,
up from the $9.9 billion it made
in 2022, the automaker said
Tuesday. GM9s results, which
beat expectations, included
revenue for the year of $171.8
billion, up from the $156.7 billion
the Detroit automaker collected
in 2022. GM9s $12.4 billion in
earnings before taxes met the
automaker9s guidance of $11.7
billion to $12.7 billion after
losing $1.1 billion during the
United Auto Workers9 46-day
targeted plant strike last fall.
Utility firm Hawaiian Electric
Industries said Tuesday that it
was initiating 30-minute rolling
outages until 9 p.m. in parts of
Hawaii due to <the unexpected
loss of several large generators=
and no wind power resources.
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wednesday, january 31 , 2024
Fear of missing out can keep you broke, so ûght the temptation to spend
Wealth sells. It
gets eyeballs.
The lives of the
rich and famous
and their
extravagant
Michelle lifestyles have
Singletary always been a
The Color spectator sport.
of Money But now reality
television and
social media
make it hard to escape the
constant reminders that your
standard of living is less than.
Images of people wearing chic
clothing, throwing lavish
birthday parties or cruising the
world come fast and furious 4 a
barrage that can make you
susceptible to FOMO, or the fear
of missing out.
Enough just isn9t enough
when someone on Instagram or
YouTube has so much more.
The latest trend on TikTok?
Vacationers chronicling their
nine-month world cruise.
Destination for land dwellers:
FOMO.
Social media amplifies boasts
IMF says global economy will escape a hard landing but underperform
Projected annual growth
of 3.1% is well below
20-year average of 3.8%
BY D AVID J . L YNCH
The global economy is growing
more quickly than expected, defy-
ing predictions that the fight
against inflation would require a
punishing downturn, according
to the International Monetary
Fund9s latest forecast.
While the world appears likely
to avoid a dreaded <hard landing,=
there is no boom in sight.
Global output in 2024 is expect-
ed to rise by 3.1 percent for the
second straight year. That is
slightly better than what the
fund9s economists predicted in
October, although it remains well
below the 20-year average of
3.8 percent annual growth.
The United States, China and
Russia all are set to post stronger
growth than initially expected,
helping lift the global outlook, the
fund said. At the same time, infla-
tion around the world is being
brought under control, thanks to
a combination of higher interest
rates and unsnarled supply
chains.
<We are now in the final de-
scent toward a soft landing with
inflation declining steadily and
growth holding up. But the pace of
expansion remains on the slow
side, and there might be turbu-
lence ahead,= said Pierre-Olivier
Gourinchas, the IMF9s chief econ-
omist.
The fund is more upbeat than
its sister institution, the World
Bank, which said earlier this
month that it expected the global
economy to slow this year on its
way to completing its worst
half-decade since the early 1990s.
The bank anticipates global
growth of just 2.4 percent in 2024.
In October, IMF economists
As the Federal Reserve eyes interest rate cuts, the big question is: When?
BY R ACHEL S IEGEL
The economy kicked off 2024
better than practically anyone
expected. Now the question is:
What will the Federal Reserve do
about it?
After sprinting to hike interest
rates and catch up to soaring
prices, the central bank is enter-
ing an entirely new phase of
policymaking. With inflation eas-
ing and no recession in sight,
officials are eyeing multiple rate
cuts this year, which would bring
long-awaited relief for house-
holds and businesses feeling the
strain of high borrowing costs.
What remains to be seen,
though, is when the Fed changes
course. As officials gather for
their first meeting of the year,
which wraps up Wednesday, fi-
nancial markets are eager for any
answers.
<Inflation looks pretty damn
good,= said Skanda Amarnath,
executive director of Employ
America, a think tank that advo-
cates high employment. <I9m not
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beyond people9s family and
friendship groups 4 and thus
above their spending thresholds.
The Joneses have been replaced
by flashy influencers, many of
them paid to push you to spend.
In part because of consumer
spending 4 which includes
traveling and eating out 4 the
gross domestic product
increased at a surprisingly brisk
annual rate of 3.3 percent in the
fourth quarter of 2023,
according to the Bureau of
Economic Analysis.
Yet at the same time, many
folks are struggling to save.
A new Bankrate survey found
that over half of American
workers 4 53 percent 4 say it9s
difficult or impossible to
consistently save enough money
for emergencies, retirement or
other goals. Fewer than half said
they could pull from their
savings to handle a $1,000
emergency expense.
If your goal is to become debt-
free 4 or close to it 4 in 2024 or
save more, one of the first things
you may have to tackle is FOMO.
An employee at a textile factory in Hangzhou, China, on Jan. 23. Problems in the nation9s property sector have not been as bad as expected,
and the International Monetary Fund predicts growth of 4.6 percent in China this year, up 0.4 points from the previous forecast,
feared that the higher interest
rates needed to fight inflation
might slow economic activity too
much and tip the world into a
painful recession. But that has not
happened.
Growth in the United States
and parts of the developing world
such as in India and Southeast
Asia help explain the improved
picture, Gourinchas said.
The United States is expected
to expand this year at an annual
rate of 2.5 percent, up from the
1.9 percent that the fund predict-
saying it9s perfect . . . but if we9re
getting there sooner, it9s probably
reason to move a little bit sooner.
That9s contingent on the inflation
data.=
The path to cutting rates
wasn9t straight or guaranteed. In
2022, the Fed moved at a break-
neck pace to hoist interest rates
and slow an economy that was
dangerously overheating 4 even
though many analysts thought it
would take a recession to get
there. Then last year, officials
slowed their pace, deciding they
had more leeway to see how the
job market, consumer spending,
inflation and overall growth re-
sponded to such aggressive pol-
icies.
What transpired surpassed
even the most optimistic fore-
casts. Inflation came down from
its 40-year peak, driven in large
part by falling energy prices and
supply chains clearing their pan-
demic backlogs. Consumers kept
spending, including on big-ticket
items, vacations, concerts and
holiday gifts. Businesses kept hir-
Retropolis
Here9s how.
Shut down social-media-
related spending
For many spendthrifts, social
media platforms are not safe
spaces. It9s incredibly
detrimental to consume so
much content centered on
consumption and the haves with
their glamorously airbrushed
lives. The system feeds into your
fears that you aren9t living your
best life.
If you can9t quit social media,
at least limit your exposure. This
form of entertainment may be
costing you big time.
Over a 12-month span, a
Bankrate survey released last
year found, Americans spent $71
billion on impulse purchases of
products they saw on social
media. Nearly 2 in 5 social
media users said they had made
an impulse purchase of a
product they had seen on a
platform during that time
frame.
The average impulse buyer
spent $754. And most regretted
ed three months ago, helped by
strong consumption and govern-
ment spending.
Fund economists also in-
creased their forecast for Russia,
saying it will grow this year at an
annual 2.6 percent pace, up from
the anemic 1.1 percent growth
predicted in October. Despite
comprehensive U.S. and allied
sanctions in response to Russia9s
invasion of Ukraine, the Russian
economy turned in surprisingly
strong growth last year, which is
likely to continue.
ing, albeit at a more sustainable
speed. Consumer sentiment is
rebounding, too. And the econo-
my closed out 2023 with perhaps
the clearest picture yet of a <soft
landing,= in which inflation
comes down without any major
hit to workers or growth.
That picture left policymakers
with enough confidence to tee up
a string of rate cuts 4 the first
since the pandemic9s early days.
The Fed9s benchmark interest
rate is currently at a level be-
tween 5.25 and 5.5 percent, and
officials penciled in three quar-
ter-point trims over the course of
this year at their last meeting in
December.
No precise timeline was given,
but market forecasters have set
their eyes on the Fed9s next meet-
ing in March as a possible kickoff.
Ultimately, the economy
shouldn9t be drastically affected
if the Fed cuts in March as
opposed to six weeks later. (Stock
and bond prices might be,
though.) What matters more in
the long run is that officials are
eZ Re
at least one of their purchases.
In-person peer pressure is bad
enough, but social media is
inundated with paid influencers
pushing products and lifestyles
that you can9t afford.
I9m the parent of three 20-
somethings, and they9ve elected
to keep their social media
engagement to a minimum.
When they were younger, my
husband and I prohibited them
from the platforms out of
caution. Once they were allowed
to create accounts as older
teens, they ultimately limited
the usage on their own.
The postings were
psychologically damaging, even
though they were living a pretty
good life.
<It just made me feel bad
about myself,= our eldest
daughter said. <Comparing
myself to the highlight reel of
everyone9s life would leave me
feeling that I wasn9t enough or
didn9t have the lifestyle that I
wanted when in reality I
actually do.=
Watching others live what we
Problems in China9s debt-fu-
eled property sector also have not
been as bad as expected. The fund
projects growth of 4.6 percent in
China this year, up 0.4 percentage
points from the previous forecast.
The global economy seems
about as likely to exceed expecta-
tions this year as to disappoint,
the fund9s economists said.
<The balance of risks . . . is very
different now than it was. . . .
Some of those really bad risks that
we were worried about have not
materialized,= said Petya Koeva
comfortable betting that infla-
tion will only keep cooling until it
eventually hits the Fed9s 2 percent
target.
<The data we have received the
last few months is allowing the
committee to consider cutting
the policy rate in 2024,= Fed
governor Christopher Waller said
in a speech earlier this month.
<However, concerns about the
sustainability of these data
trends requires changes in the
path of policy to be carefully
calibrated and not rushed.=
Major progress on inflation
could be reason enough to move
forward. Fresh data last week
showed that the Fed9s preferred
inflation gauge dropped to an
annualized rate of 1.7 percent at
the end of 2023, slipping below
the Fed9s 2 percent goal for the
first time since prices took off.
Then again, officials could de-
cide the economy is still showing
a level of strength that should
push rate cuts off a few more
months. The economy grew by a
whopping 3.3 percent in the last
Stories of the past, rediscovered.
washingtonpost.com/retropolis
think are better lives can make
you feel worse about your own
life 4 and that can affect your
psychological and financial well-
being.
Don9t try to keep up with the
Joneses
This well-worn warning is
worth repeating to yourself.
In my community work, I9ve
seen how people spend more
money than they plan to or go
into debt because they see so
many friends and influencers
living it up.
Those of us who have met the
proverbial Joneses and looked at
their budgets and personal net
worth statements know the
reality of their situation. They
are living paycheck to paycheck
and amassing credit card debt to
fund their lavish lifestyle.
Impose a waiting period
One cure for the fear of
missing out is giving yourself a
spending timeout.
I do this all the time. I mostly
shop online. But I have a rule. I
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Brooks, deputy director of the
IMF9s research department.
Still, officials urged countries
to start repairing their finances
after several years of heavy bor-
rowing to fight the coronavirus
pandemic and pay inflated bills
for food, fuel and fertilizer. Higher
interest rates have increased an-
nual debt repayment costs for
most countries, particularly in the
developing world.
<That is the next very impor-
tant thing in front of us, because
we are concerned about the fragil-
three months of 2023, surpassing
expectations and showing how
robust consumers9 pocketbooks
remain.
<Markets and the Fed are
caught between strong growth
and weak inflation,= Tim Duy,
chief U.S. economist at SGH Mac-
ro Advisors, wrote in an analyst
note this week. <The GDP report
is genuinely new and unexpected
information that the Fed will
read as challenging its forecast
that growth will soon slow to, or
below, trend.=
All told, the Fed loathes sur-
prises and will probably use this
week9s meeting to cement expec-
tations one way or the other. The
first hints will come in an official
statement released Wednesday
afternoon, which could spell out a
definitive end to rate hikes and
set a timetable for upcoming
cuts.
But the clearest signals will
come from Fed Chair Jerome H.
Powell9s news conference
Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. Eastern
time. There, Powell could set the
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put things in the shopping cart
and wait a day or two before
going back to view what I want
or need.
Most of the time, I forget I
even have stuff in the cart,
which is often a good indication
that I was about to make an
impulse buy.
Find the source of your
FOMO
If you9ve tried and failed to
resist FOMO, maybe it9s time to
get some therapy.
What incidents in your
backstory are driving your
overspending? Why do you feel
so left out when you see others
splurging?
If you9ve got the money to live
well, great. But if you don9t,
giving into FOMO won9t
increase your net worth. It9s not
good for your mental health.
Work through your issues so
that you won9t fear missing out.
That will allow you to have the
money to say yes to the
opportunities that will help you
have a richer life.
ities on the fiscal side,= Gourin-
chas said.
Fund officials also are keeping
an eye on the Middle East, where
conflicts in Gaza and the Red Sea
could spark a wider war. Already,
attacks on cargo vessels in the Red
Sea by Houthi rebels in Yemen
have caused a sharp increase in
shipping costs.
For now, <the broader eco-
nomic impact remains limited,=
said Gourinchas.
Amid persistent tensions be-
tween the United States and Chi-
na, fund officials remain con-
cerned that the global economy
may split into rival blocs. Nations
imposed about 3,200 new restric-
tions on trade in 2022 and an
additional 3,000 last year, the IMF
said. In 2019, by contrast, new
trade measures totaled just 1,100.
<Trade measures have explod-
ed around the world,= said
Gourinchas. <And that9s certainly
something that has an economic
cost that can weigh down on glob-
al growth.=
The IMF also cautioned against
the growing use of industrial pol-
icies to shape economic out-
comes.
The Biden administration has
been among the most active na-
tions in implementing such gov-
ernment incentives, according to
Global Trade Alert, a private
group. The administration is in-
vesting in new roads, bridges and
ports while subsidizing produc-
tion of semiconductors and clean
energy projects.
Such policies must be consis-
tent with World Trade Organiza-
tion requirements, the IMF said.
And some of President Biden9s
<Buy America= provisions may
not be.
<We are concerned that some of
these measures may, in fact, not
be fully WTO-compliant. Some
measures in particular that in-
clude a local content requirement
would seem not to be compliant
with WTO rules,= Gourinchas
said.
stage for a cut at the next meet-
ing, or sometime later in the
spring or summer. Or he could
leave both options open and sig-
nal that the central bank will base
any future decisions on data that
is still to come.
This week alone, economists
will get a fresh read on the labor
market through data on job open-
ings and new hiring. A key manu-
facturing index also gets updated
Thursday. And there are two
more inflation reports before the
Fed9s March meeting.
Fed officials have long pinned
their decisions on information
that unfolds in real time. This
week, it will be telling if policy-
makers insist they9ve seen
enough improvement in the
rearview mirror to ease up on the
brake.
<We9re going to know a lot
within the next three weeks,=
Amarnath said. <From the Friday
employment report, all the way
through to the [producer price
index] release for January 4 I
think that9s everything.=
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Chita Rivera, vivacious Broadway stalwart, dies at 91
rIvErA from A1
<Nine.= At that time, she was still
said to possess some of the
fastest legs in the business, even
as she took flying splits and
backflips out of her repertoire. It
was a minor accommodation in a
seemingly inexhaustible career.
raised in Washington by a
widowed mother, ms. rivera said
she was placed in ballet classes
as a youngster to curb her habit
of breaking furniture as she
leaped around the house.
At 15, she began years of study
at George Balanchine9s School of
American Ballet in manhattan
before deciding that the disci-
pline of the corps de ballet did
not suit her strengths. Irrepressi-
bly jazzy, and with a seemingly
ever-present glittering smile, she
said she simply could not hold a
straight face.
on a lark, she tried out for a
touring musical theater produc-
tion and proved a wonder of
comic timing and bravura danc-
ing. As she made her way in the
1950s from the chorus line to
featured roles as an actress and
singer, her gravity-defying kicks
and shimmying torso drew su-
perlatives from critics (<gyro-
scopic,= <flammable,= <exhilarat-
ing=).
After her breakthrough as Ani-
ta, who belts the showstopper
<America= in <West Side Story=
(1957), she premiered Broadway
roles including the resourceful
talent-agent secretary rose in
<Bye Bye Birdie= (1960), which
garnered the first of her 10 Tony
Award nominations; the hus-
band-killing, publicity-hungry
Velma Kelly in <Chicago= (1975);
the kitschy B-movie star Aurora
in <Kiss of the Spider Woman=
(1993); and the skating-rink
owner with a prodigal daughter
(played by Liza minnelli) in <The
rink= (1984).
The latter two shows earned
her Tonys and, with the addition
of <Chicago,= underscored her
long association with the song-
writing team of Kander and fred
Ebb. Tony-winning playwright
Terrence mcNally, who similarly
found inspiration in big stage
personalities such as ms. rivera,
also became one of her frequent
collaborators.
Her career was a roller coaster
of landmark productions and
others that shuttered quietly in
out-of-town tryouts or fizzled on
Broadway. regardless, she was
the quintessential show business
trouper who dusted herself off
and moved on. Even in shows
that received tepid reviews, she
was almost universally garland-
ed by reviewers for her razzle-
dazzle spirit.
In his otherwise mixed criti-
cism of <Kiss,= a surreal prison
drama in which Aurora appears
as both object of fantasy and
angel of death, frank rich of the
New York Times singled out ms.
rivera for displaying <an aura of
utter confidence that is the es-
sence of a Broadway dancer9s
brassy spirit.=
<ms. rivera can raise the audi-
ence9s pulse even when she9s
doing nothing much,= rich con-
tinued, <such as merely bouncing
to the beat in white tie and tails,
riding the music with her shoul-
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hard angles, in the final bars of a
jazzy Latin-flavored number ti-
tled 8Where You Are.9=
<Kiss= also marked her return
to Broadway after a serious car
accident in 1986 nearly derailed
her career. While driving home
from the theater one night, her
Datsun collided with a taxi as she
attempted a U-turn on a manhat-
tan street. She was left with a
crushed leg and other injuries;
no charges were filed.
<You say 8break9 and you think
8finished,9= she told the Associat-
ed Press after the crash. <I
thought, 8I9m a dancer and I
broke my leg.9 Then I heard
myself say, 8oh, well, it9s mend-
ing, and you9re not dying.9 You
can9t think 8end.9 Because if you
do, you go straight to it.=
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therapy, she worked at supper
clubs, then aboard cruise ships,
regaining her strength. Within a
year, she was dancing again with
16 pins in her leg, displaying her
mettle in a national tour of the
high-stepping musical <Can-
Can.=
She received the Kennedy Cen-
ter Honors in 2002 and a special
Tony for lifetime achievement in
2018. President Barack obama
awarded her the Presidential
medal of freedom, the nation9s
highest civilian honor, in 2009,
lauding her as a barrier-breaking
inspiration for women and Lati-
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Broadway gypsies,= referring to
the fraternity of committed en-
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tertainers who drift from show
to show. more than any blue-rib-
bon honor or medal, she said, her
entree into that community was
the most meaningful achieve-
ment of her career.
<I never wanted to be a star,=
she told the Los Angeles Times.
She said she saw herself as a
hoofer 4 albeit one who could
name-drop Bob (fosse), Lenny
(Bernstein), Jerry (Herman),
Gwen (Verdon) and Liza (min-
nelli), the last of whom liked to
send ms. rivera a note on open-
ing nights that read, <Take no
prisoners!=
<When you9re a dancer,= ms.
rivera said, <you just keep going
at what you9re doing, and if
you9re lucky they keep picking
you up.=
Name changes, Tony hits and
misses
Dolores Conchita figueroa del
rivero was born in Washington,
D.C., on Jan. 23, 1933. She was 7
when her Puerto rican-born fa-
ther, a Navy Band reed player,
died. Her mother became a gov-
ernment clerk at the Pentagon.
As a child, ms. rivera was a
self-described tomboy. <Bicycles,
skates, walking the back fences,
climbing the trees,= she later said
to the publication Theater ma-
nia. <I just broke up all the
furniture in the house. my moth-
er had to get rid of me. So she put
me in dance class.=
She attended a local ballet
school run by Doris Jones and
Claire Haywood, one of the few
in the country for students of
color. A scout from the School of
American Ballet was impressed
by ms. rivera, who enrolled on a
scholarship.
In 1952, she accompanied a
classmate to an audition to lend
moral support and was herself
cast in the national touring com-
pany of the Irving Berlin musical
<Call me madam,= choreo-
graphed by robbins. Her friend
didn9t make the final call, and,
ms. rivera later recalled, <I have
not seen her since then, actually.=
offered wages of $250 a week
on the road, she left the Bal-
anchine school and subsequently
worked as a replacement dancer
in Broadway productions includ-
ing <Guys and Dolls= and <Can-
Can.=
Amid various name changes 4
from Conchita to Chita, from del
rivero to rivera (after a brief run
as Chita o9Hara) 4 she made a
strong critical impression in the
1955 off-Broadway show <Shoe-
string revue,= donning a blond
wig and impersonating marilyn
the washington post . wednesday,
CLOCKWISE FrOM TOP LEFT: Chita rivera, center, rehearses
for <West Side Story= in 1957 with choreographer Jerome robbins,
second from left, and other dancers; her role as Anita made her a
star. Ms. rivera in <Kiss of the Spider Woman,= the 1993 musical
for which she won a Tony. President Barack Obama jokes with Ms.
rivera before presenting her with the Presidential Medal of
Freedom at the White House in 2009.
monroe.
She appeared in <mr. Wonder-
ful= (1956) and was romanced
offstage by its star, Sammy Davis
Jr., before landing the prominent
supporting role as Anita in <West
Side Story,= directed and choreo-
graphed by robbins. The Tony-
winning musical, with music by
Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen
Sondheim, retold the Shake-
spearean tragedy <romeo and
Juliet= with two warring New
York City street gangs.
With her rendition of <Ameri-
ca= 4 twirling her skirt to a
huapango rhythm while wise-
cracking about her character9s
ancestral homeland of Puerto
rico 4 she received nightly
standing ovations in the New
York and London stage runs. ms.
rivera married one of the show9s
dancers, Tony mordente, who
later became a director and chor-
eographer.
for the 1961 film version of
<West Side Story,= she was re-
placed by movie-musical veteran
rita moreno, who collected an
Academy Award for her perform-
ance. (Although they regarded
ms. rivera as a superior dancer,
film producers reportedly
thought moreno had a more
alluring presence on-screen.)
Despite the snub, ms. rivera
rebounded with her first leading
Broadway role 4 rose in <Bye
Bye Birdie.= rose was the spitfire
love interest of Albert, a mild-
mannered talent agent who rep-
resents an Elvis-like rock star but
dreams of becoming an English
teacher. Albert was played by the
relative newcomer Dick Van
Dyke.
The score, by Charles Strouse
and Lee Adams, was considered
dated even then, with tuneful but
corny songs such as <Put on a
Happy face.= But ms. rivera
(working with choreographer
Gower Champion) provided wel-
come zest to such numbers as the
comical <Shriners9 Ballet= and
her solo <Spanish rose.=
Although it earned middling
reviews, <Bye Bye Birdie= won a
Tony for best musical. Again, ms.
rivera was passed over for the
film adaptation. The nod went to
movie star Janet Leigh, who
donned a black wig for the role.
Beyond supporting roles in
fosse9s 1969 film musical <Sweet
Charity,= the 1973 <Kojak= pilot
and a short-lived 1973-74 run on
the sitcom <The New Dick Van
Dyke Show= 4 a period when ms.
rivera, by then divorced, was
living in Los Angeles and raising
her daughter 4 she had minimal
contact with movies and TV.
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She hopscotched from sum-
mer-stock shows to Broadway.
one of her biggest successes was
<Chicago,= a musical set in the
1920s but steeped enough in
cynicism about politics, crime
and justice that it resonated in
the Watergate era.
<Chicago= opened on Broad-
way with ms. rivera and her
longtime idol, Verdon, perform-
ing garishly sexy, hip-thrusting
choreography by fosse. The
show earned a torrent of Tony
nominations 4 including one for
ms. rivera 4 but <A Chorus Line=
dominated the awards season.
(The 1996 revival of <Chicago=
became one of the longest-run-
ning Broadway shows of all time;
ms. rivera made a cameo in the
2002 film version, which won the
best picture oscar.)
Among her higher-profile mis-
fires 4 which still earned her
Tony nods 4 were <Bring Back
Birdie= (a 1981 sequel); <merlin=
(1983), a musical-magic show
featuring illusionist Doug Hen-
ning; and <Jerry9s Girls= (1985), a
tribute to songwriter Jerry Her-
man also starring Leslie Uggams
and Dorothy Loudon.
She also earned Tony nomina-
tions for <Nine=; her 2005 retro-
spective <Chita rivera: The
Dancer9s Life=; and <The Visit=
(2015), Kander and Ebb9s musical
about a wronged woman seeking
vengeance.
Survivors include her daugh-
ter, mordente, a Tony-nominated
actress and dancer. (<All the kids
thought my mom was the cool
mom,= she told an AArP publica-
tion in 2011. <She would choreo-
graph our little shows at junior
high.=) She is also survived by
two brothers and a sister.
Before publishing a memoir
last year, ms. rivera tended in
interviews to reveal little of her
private life and turned anecdotes
about her career and personal
setbacks into lessons about the
value of persistence.
To Playbill many years ago, she
spoke of the need for performers
to embrace failure, perhaps even
more than success.
The pain of competing against
dozens if not hundreds and los-
ing a role, she said, kept her vital
and expressive in the service of
art.
<I still claim that this is what
makes you strong,= she said. <Too
many people give up because
they feel somebody9s hit them
too hard, somebody who couldn9t
shine their shoes. Creative peo-
ple are sensitive. otherwise, they
can9t feel, and they can9t show
you your own feelings.=
wednesday, january 31 , 2024 . the washington post
Paul Butler
D.C.9s crime bill
takes several
steps backward
xploiting fear of crime to roll back re-
E forms that cops and prosecutors don9t
like: That9s the oldest trick in the police
union handbook, and the D.C. Council is
in danger of falling for it. Crime is up in the
District, but expanding the power of police to
grab suspects by the neck is not the answer.
That9s just one of the extreme measures con-
tained in Secure DC, the gigantic crime bill the
council is expected to vote on in February. Its
89 pages include enough failed <lock 9em up=
policies and rollbacks of police reform to fire up
a MAGA rally.
Council member Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2)
says she proposed the bill after the Judiciary and
Public Safety Committee, which she chairs, <en-
gaged with thousands of residents= to find ways
to make the city <safer and more secure.= Pinto9s
news release does not mention who, of those
thousands, told her that public safety would be
advanced by amending the city9s 1985 anti-
chokehold law to allow cops to restrict a sus-
pect9s <movement= by putting their hands on his
or her neck.
After the high-profile killings of George Floyd
and Eric Garner, the grave danger of the police
conduct that Secure DC authorizes should be
evident to all. In 2021, the American Academy of
Neurology, the world9s largest association of
brain doctors, recommended that any law en-
forcement use of neck restraints be considered
deadly force. And those restraints are not neces-
sarily effective: A recent study of more than
2,000 U.S. cities found that <police killings were
lower in places that adopted neck-restraint bans
and the bans were associated with less crime and
fewer assaults on officers.= (The italics are mine.)
Weakening D.C.9s ban on chokehold-like ma-
neuvers isn9t the only way that Pinto and Mayor
Muriel E. Bowser (D), an enthusiastic supporter
of Secure DC, seek to lead the city backward. The
proposed legislation would reverse current law
that prohibits police officers from reviewing
their body-cam videos before writing incident
reports.
Why shouldn9t officers be allowed to refresh
their memory? The concern is that, if allowed to
look at video first, they might 4 intentionally or
unconsciously 4 tailor their testimony to con-
form with what the video shows. The same
concern exists for witnesses, which is why some
police departments refuse to release videos of
police shooting incidents until witnesses have
provided statements. The Police Executive Re-
search Forum, the law enforcement think tank
asked by the Justice Department to set guide-
lines on body-cam usage, recently concluded
that, in cases of police shootings, officers make a
<perceptual= statement before seeing the video,
then be allowed to offer <clarifications= after
seeing it.
The bill9s 89 pages include
enough failed 8lock 9em up9
policies and rollbacks of police
reform to ûre up a MAGA rally.
U.S. Attorney for the District Matthew
M. Graves, under fire for the city9s rising crime,
has argued for the proposed change, stating that
prosecutors are forced to drop some cases be-
cause what cops write in their sworn statements
doesn9t always match what their body cams
show. Sure, prosecutors could make more cases
if the bill passed, but the cost could well be the
reliability of those convictions. And here again,
this bill would go against the tide of law enforce-
ment. The Police Executive Research Forum
report found that the <watch first= law enforce-
ment agencies in the United States fell from
92 percent in 2019 to just 56 percent in 2023.
If the D.C. Council wants to roll back body-
cam regulations, I have a better suggestion. D.C.
law explicitly prohibits police officials from
<routinely or randomly= reviewing body cams
<for the sole purpose of enforcing policy viola-
tions observed on the recordings.= In effect,
supervisors are not allowed to check on what
their officers have been doing unless they are
already investigating a specific complaint. That
would be a fine rule to update.
Other parts of the bill would exacerbate ten-
sions between the men and women in blue and
the people they are supposed to serve and
respect. Secure DC raises from the dead the
failed policy known as <drug-free zones,= which
allowed police officers to stop and question any
person in a designated area whom they suspect
might be using or selling narcotics. The effect
was that Black and brown people hanging out on
city streets got harassed by cops 4 which is why,
in 2014, the council unanimously repealed the
same law that the bill would resuscitate. <Unani-
mously= includes then-Council member Muriel
E. Bowser.
Also in the category of probably unconstitu-
tional and certainly biased is the proposed
revival of a ban on wearing masks. For obvious
reasons, that law was reversed during the pan-
demic, but Pinto9s bill would make it a crime for
anyone to mask up with the intent to <intimi-
date,= <harass= or <cause another person to fear
for his or her personal safety.= If this becomes
law, I can safely predict that no White person in
Chevy Chase will ever be arrested for this crime.
But kids in Anacostia and Columbia Heights will
feel, even more than they do now, that the cops
are out to get them.
I could go on. There9s the part that could
punish a carjacker who took the key from a
driver and drove the car away more harshly than
someone who committed second-degree mur-
der. The bottom line is that stuffing more than
100 criminal laws into one messy bill leads to the
opposite of a <secure= D.C. The council must
proceed with extreme caution.
WEDNESDAY Opinion
At left, a table is set for six at Alyssa Blakemore9s son9s school in Vicenza, Italy. At right, vegetables being prepped for a first course.
Take it from this military mom:
Feed American kids Italian lunches
BY A LYSSA B LAKEMORE
ach day on our short walk to our town9s
E scuola materna, my son and I stroll past
tiny yards brimming with tomato
plants, squashes and citrus trees. A vine
of kiwis adorns the entry to one neighbor9s
home, and rows of olive trees dot a hillside
nearby. Juicy cantaloupes in summer, ripe figs
in fall 4 these are but a few of the mouthwater-
ing choices my son enjoys every day at his
Italian preschool.
In the six months since we moved to Italy on
military assignment, I9ve been shocked at how
well Italy feeds its schoolchildren compared
with the United States.
American school lunchrooms prioritize con-
venience over quality. Though the Biden ad-
ministration9s recent revamp of school nutri-
tion guidelines cuts down on the sugar and
sodium, ultra-processed foods remain in the
mix. Italy has designed its school lunches with
health and sustainability in mind.
Here9s what that means in practice: Students
in many Italian preschools eat from a set menu,
with no outside food allowed 4 so no bag
lunches. Some schools, including my son9s,
prepare lunch in-house; others cater food from
off-site kitchens. In either case, the children
enjoy a healthy meal 4 Italian law restricts
public schools from serving fried foods.
In particular, my son loves when his school
serves passato di verdure con pastina, a popular
pasta dish brightened by a sauce made from
freshly cooked winter vegetables.
And these are multicourse meals. A typical
lunch in an Italian public school consists of a
first course, a second course and a side. Meals
are prepared with simple cooking methods to
preserve nutritional value. Instead of corn
dogs, french fries or potato chips, little Italian
American school lunchrooms prioritize convenience over quality. . . . Italy has designed
its school lunches with health and sustainability in mind.
leana S. Wen
10 tips to cut back on your drinking
n response to my column last week on the health
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benefits of Dry January, readers wrote to ask for
practical advice on reducing alcohol consump-
tion throughout the year. Here are 10 ways to cut
Document your current intake. The National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
has a helpful graphic for gauging the alcohol content
of drinks, which can help you track how much you
drink. Are you consuming more than the recom-
mended maximum, which is no more than one drink
a day for women and two for men?
There are online questionnaires that can delve
further into your relationship with alcohol. Stanford
psychiatrist Keith Humphreys told me there is one
key question everyone should ask: <Who9s in control,
you or the alcohol?= If it9s the latter or if you are not
sure, that9s a red flag.
Realign norms. Many people might not be aware
that their alcohol intake is excessive. <A lot of heavy
drinkers often hang out with other heavy drinkers,=
Humphreys said. They might have eight drinks when
they go to the bar and think it9s average compared
with their friends.
In fact, consuming more than five drinks on one
occasion for men and four for women is defined as
binge drinking, which is associated with many
negative health effects. About 1 in 4 Americans
engage in this behavior.
Find enjoyable activities not centered on alcohol.
The NIAAA reports that when asked about their
alcohol consumption in the past month, about half of
Americans said they didn9t drink at all. This means
there are many social groups in which alcohol
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Rabbit roll with cooked spinach is prepared
for the students9 lunch.
learners nosh on cod Vicentina with polenta,
raw seasonal vegetables and creamed carrots
with rice.
My son9s palate continues to expand with
seasonal foods on rotation. One day, baked
rabbit roll followed parmesan risotto with
steamed spinach as an accompanying side.
That might sound a little refined for a
5-year-old, but there is an educational purpose
at work. Early exposure to varied foods allows
Italian children to develop diverse palates and
consumption is not the norm. People looking to cut
back should seek out activities with these groups,
which could include exercise, volunteering, and civic,
cultural and religious activities.
Move alcohol out of your house. <If you have the
impulse in the evening to grab a beer or a glass of
wine and it9s right there siting on the kitchen counter,
that9s very easy,= Humphreys said. But if you have to
leave your home, you are adding barriers for yourself.
Create an environment <where it9s more work to
drink than it is not to.=
Track the benefits. On the nights you drink less or
not at all, do you sleep better? Are you sharper the
next morning? Over time, is reduced drinking helping
with your blood pressure or diabetes management?
Have you lost weight? All of these positive effects can
serve as additional motivation.
Note cost savings and reward yourself. Hum-
phreys told me he encourages patients to figure out
exactly how much money they would otherwise have
spent on alcohol. Let9s say they saved $150 a month.
Think of this as earned prize money. <Buy a blouse,
buy a pair of shoes or take your friends out for a
movie,= he said. <That makes it not a sort of
puritanical fist-clenching slog.=
Develop healthier drinking habits. Experts I
spoke to warned against the danger of binge
drinking. It would be a mistake to abstain during the
week just to <save up= and drink heavily over the
weekend.
Another unhealthy habit is consistently drinking
alone. Those who do so should ask themselves why
they are drinking. Is it because they are bored,
anxious or depressed? To cut down, they might need
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drives lifelong healthy eating habits. The
Mediterranean diet, linked to lower risk of
heart disease, Alzheimer9s disease, cancer and
Type 2 diabetes, is one of the healthiest in the
world.
Italy isn9t unique in its approach to school
nutrition. A fellow military spouse who lived
abroad informed me that Korean preschools
and kindergartens cook fresh food on-site.
From Estonia to Poland to the Netherlands,
others in my circle noticed a significant differ-
ence between the food served in international
schools and in American schools.
So what9s the upshot? Italy still has one of the
highest rates of childhood obesity in Europe. A
recent study shows that only 5 percent of Italian
children attending primary school have a <good
adherence= to the Mediterranean diet outside
the classroom.
Does that mean those healthy preschool
lunches are wasted effort? I don9t think so. Italy
maintains a significantly lower rate of adult
obesity than the United States 4 about 40 per-
cent of American adults are obese, compared
with just 12 percent of Italians.
It9s not far-fetched to think that early expo-
sure to a nutritious diet could play a role.
Healthy eating habits learned as children are
linked to a lower chance of obesity in adult-
hood. Something good is clearly happening as
Italians mature.
As a military mom, I want my child 4 along
with every American kid 4 to boast wholesome
diets that help them grow up strong and
maintain healthy habits for life. Italy9s healthy
and delicious school lunches are setting chil-
dren up for success 4 the United States might
want to take a page out of their recipe book.
The writer is a military spouse from michigan living in
Vicenza, Italy.
to address what9s prompting them to drink.
Embrace reductions. About 38 percent of Ameri-
cans do not drink alcohol at all. Total abstinence
works for them, but many others might find it a
daunting goal. They might still want to enjoy the
occasional glass of wine, but not drink in a way that9s
detrimental to health.
The good news, according to Humphreys, is that
this is possible. <There are far more people who can
reduce successfully and be much healthier and still
continue to drink alcohol,= he said.
Seek treatment. While many can reduce consump-
tion without professional assistance, some will need
additional help. Those who consume large amounts
of alcohol might be at risk of developing withdrawal
symptoms if they stop suddenly. They might require
inpatient treatment.
But most people do not need inpatient care, and for
them, a variety of outpatient options exist. Underuti-
lized medications such as naltrexone, disulfiram and
acamprosate can be of great help, either by them-
selves or in combination with psychotherapy and
counseling. Community-based support programs
such as Alcoholics Anonymous and SMART Recovery
have also helped millions of people. The NIAAA has a
treatment navigator. Contacting your primary-care
physician is also a good place to start.
Know that a healthier relationship with alcohol
is possible. Humphreys said about 10 percent of the
adult population had a significant problem with
alcohol or drugs and has since recovered. <It9s a very
common experience,= he said. No one should feel
ashamed for seeking help, and <it9s rational to have
hope.=
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The U.S. needs to strike Iran, and make it smart
HE UNITED STATES must strike back at
T the authors of a drone attack against a
remote U.S. military outpost in northeast-
ern Jordan, which killed three U.S. Army
reservists and wounded more than 40 others.
Devastating retaliation is imperative for several
reasons: to mete out justice for the fallen
U.S. troops, to reduce the military capability of
Iranian-backed militias that conducted the attack
4 and to deter those groups from trying again.
We assume President Biden is planning such a
response. And we assume it will be swift, but not
hasty 4 and guided by intelligence,
EdiTOriaL which is needed to identify the
responsible faction within the Ira-
nian-backed Shiite militia group known as Islamic
Resistance in Iraq, which claimed credit for the
attack. A tough response is needed to send a signal
of support for the base9s host nation, Jordan, whose
sovereignty was blatantly violated.
Yet the administration also needs to use this
moment for some stocktaking about recent U.S. de-
terrence of the groups9 ultimate backer, Iran; and
that record is mixed. Mr. Biden9s team deserves
credit for helping prevent 4 so far 4 the worst-case
scenario, all-out regional conflict, which many
feared after Hamas9s massacre in Israel on Oct. 7.
LETTErs TO ThE EdiTOr
Montgomery9s black hole on Title IX
The release of the Montgomery County
inspector general9s report into the Montgomery
County Public Schools complaints process was not
the slam-dunk that county residents desiring a
resolution to the Beidleman scandal might have
wanted [<Accused principal in Md. has lost his
job,= Metro, Jan. 25]. However, it did share some
shocking information related to potential
violations of Title IX.
The report shared that MCPS sexual
harassment policies and, indeed, federal Title IX
guidance require the system9s Title IX coordinator
to investigate allegations of sexual harassment
from employees. In practice, though, employee
complaints were forwarded to the Department of
Compliance and Investigations and not
investigated by the Title IX coordinator (nor were
some investigated by DCI staff ). So MCPS most
likely received federal funding for a Title IX
coordinator whose job was only half-performed.
Therefore, this is not just a systemic failure but
a systemic black hole. Montgomery County9s hard-
working teachers and staff deserve better.
Brigid Howe, Wheaton
No meat is 8green9
Regarding the Jan. 8 Business article <The fight
against 8greenwashing9 food=:
Don9t count on the meat and dairy industries to
fight the climate crisis. The fact is that eating a
plant-based diet is better for the environment 4
and your health 4 than a diet with animal
products.
Research shows that beef contributes the most
global greenhouse gas emissions from food
production, while producing a glass of dairy milk
generates three times more greenhouse emissions
than a glass of plant-based milk. A report in the
Lancet found that <vegan and vegetarian diets
were associated with the greatest reductions in
greenhouse-gas emissions.= Plant foods are also
more affordable than sustainably raised livestock.
In addition to dietary choices we make as
individuals, governments need to play a role
reducing emissions from animal products. Last
year, the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine, where I work as a dietitian, put up
billboards in California, Colorado and Texas that
urged officials to take action against meat and
dairy industry emissions and to recommend a
plant-based diet.
In California, most climate-warming methane
emissions from livestock are related to dairy;
Colorado is home to the U.S. headquarters of JBS,
which globally has methane emissions that <far
outpace= all other meat corporations; and Texas is
home to several feedlots that emit the highest
methane emissions from cattle feedlots in the
United States.
So swap the meat and milk for more fruit,
veggies, grains and beans to help improve the
health of the planet and keep yourself healthy, too.
Anna Herby, Washington
Most meat and dairy companies are not
committing to <carbon neutrality= by 2050; they
are striving for net zero. Carbon neutrality focuses
solely on carbon dioxide, which represents just
1 percent of the annual greenhouse gas footprint of
U.S. agriculture. It necessitates only that a
company offset its whole carbon footprint with
carbon credits, rather than eliminate it entirely.
Net zero, on the other hand, encompasses all
greenhouse gases, including more potent ones such
as methane and nitrous oxide, and requires a
company to shrink emissions by at least 90 percent
before resorting to offsets. This approach is
arguably more aggressive, comprehensive, complex
and expensive.
The GHG Protocol is not an <obscure=
organization. As of 2016, 92 percent of Fortune 500
companies used its science-based standards to
publicly disclose their annual greenhouse gas
emissions. Many of the world9s leading accounting
firms audit those disclosures. Also, regulatory
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U.S. policy has helped stave off full-scale war on the
Israel-Lebanon border, partly by deploying a mas-
sive naval force to deter Iran9s proxy Hezbollah and
partly by persuading the Israelis not to launch a
preemptive strike.
However, the United States finds itself stuck in
an inconclusive fight with the Yemen-based
Houthis, having failed to stop that militia9s missile
and drone attacks on global shipping with air-
strikes. The attack in Jordan was just the most
recent in a wave of approximately 150 such air raids
since Oct. 7, targeting a U.S. ground presence that
includes 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria to
contain Islamic State militants.
This does not mean the time has come to strike
Iranian assets within Iran 4 as some, including
Republicans eager to brand the president as soft on
the Islamic republic, are urging. That would be
unprecedented in the long history of U.S.-Iranian
conflict and would mark a dramatic escalation
without necessarily proving decisive. A better
option would be to hit Iran hard, and directly, but
outside its own territory, along with going after the
proxy militias. This could be done by striking Iran9s
Revolutionary Guard forces in Syria, Iraq or Yemen.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration should
take all needful steps to shore up the defenses for
bodies worldwide, including the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, have aligned their rules with
these standards.
Most of Neutral9s decarbonization techniques
are not unique to its brand. In reality, dozens of
animal protein companies 4 both organic and
conventional 4 are adopting and scaling up similar
innovations, supported by substantial federal and
corporate investments made within the past two
years. This includes $3.1 billion in public grants
allocated to 141 climate-smart projects in 2022 and
an additional $1.1 billion in public-private
partnerships for 81 more in 2023.
Zach Pinto, Washington
The writer is a carbon accountant who designs
greenhouse-gas-reduction projects in agriculture.
The reporting in <The fight against
8greenwashing9 food= showed how factory farming9s
lobbyists put profit over purpose for people, our
planet and animals.
Factory farmers and meat monopolists are more
than happy to charge customers $4 more for
greenwashed hamburgers in restaurants. But, as an
official at the Environmental Working Group was
quoted as saying, <eating a hamburger is always
the worst choice for the climate . . . full stop.= The
only thing worse than eating a hamburger is eating
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U.S. troops in the region, and to correct whatever
combination of technical failure and human error
led to the drone penetrating U.S. defenses in
Jordan.
Whatever course for retaliation the administra-
tion chooses, it would also be best if Mr. Biden kept
congressional leaders informed ahead of time, in
The administration also needs to use
this moment for some stocktaking
about recent U.S. deterrence of the
groups9 ultimate backer, Iran.
keeping with the spirit of the 1973 War Powers
Resolution. That9s not a plea for prior congressional
authorization, which might be impossible in the
current polarized political climate. Rather, it9s an
acknowledgment that the political sustainability of
U.S. operations, now and in the future, is partly a
function of transparency and legality.
Perhaps most important, the Biden administra-
draWing bOard
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a cheeseburger. Of the 10 worst foods for the
climate, eight are meat, dairy or seafood. In the
United States, the vast majority of these products
come from factory farms, which 8 in 10 Americans
agree go too far in their harmful treatment of
animals.
Aaron Rimmler-Cohen, Hillsborough, N.C.
The writer is senior director of advocacy
for Farm Sanctuary.
Don9t celebrate a cursing coach
I was disheartened by the Jan. 25 Sports article
<Old-school, new day.= Chrissy Kelly, the girls9
basketball coach at Osbourn Park High School in
Manassas, was described as <tough.= The article
noted that <there is no consensus on whether
tough coaching is more effective for boys or girls=
(more effective than what?), but Ms. Kelly
screams curses at her players 4 <every 12th word
becomes an expletive= 4 in an attempt to make
them more effective. This is unacceptable
behavior for an adult who is trying to teach
young people about life and how to play
basketball.
Just think about the misguided lesson: Cursing
is the way to get through to a student or to make a
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tion needs to rethink strategy on Iran generally,
now that it is clear that previous attempts to engage
with the Islamic republic via negotiations to
contain its nuclear program have hit a dead end.
Tehran for the time being seems determined to
limit its direct military confrontations with the
United States and Israel 4 but it does so as a matter
of prudence, not ideology. To the contrary, the
Iranians have aligned themselves firmly with
Russia in an apparent effort to help Moscow wage
its war in Ukraine, which threatens core U.S. inter-
ests in Europe. Always in the background are the
nuclear program and the possibility that any
restraint the Islamic republic shows with respect to
today9s battles might be intended to buy time for an
ultimate breakthrough on atomic weapons.
Creative new efforts against the regime9s sources
of financial support, and in favor of its domestic
opponents, can help further pressure a regime that
is not nearly as strong and popular internally as it
likes to pretend. Carried out by a radical Islamist
militia painstakingly supported and sponsored by
Iran, the terrorist attack on Oct. 7 brought
profound, probably irreversible changes to a region
that the Biden administration had considered
comparatively quiet, if not stable. U.S. policy needs
a paradigm shift to match.
point. If she did this in her physical education
class, she undoubtedly would be removed from
the classroom.
It9s appalling that administrators at Osbourn
Park allow her to abuse her players during
practice and games. I9ve never coached at the high
school level, but I taught at a Defense Department
<war college= for 18 years and served in the Army
for 30. My students were some of the toughest
people our society produces, and neither I nor any
other instructor at the war college would ever
have considered cursing at them to get our lessons
across. The Army discovered many years ago that
cursing at recruits 4 some barely older than
Ms. Kelly9s high school athletes 4 doesn9t work as
a motivator. Army drill instructors don9t verbally
abuse young men and women who are training to
potentially give their lives for their country by
cursing at them. Neither should high school
coaches.
James Tyson Currie, Alexandria
History is on Ms. Haley9s side
Regarding the Jan. 28 news article <Trump
holds rally in Nevada, where win is all but
assured=:
Don9t write former South Carolina governor
Nikki Haley off just yet. History is on her side.
Ms. Haley came close to former president
Donald Trump in the New Hampshire
Republican primary. She was only 11 percentage
points behind. Mr. Trump has been campaigning
for another term ever since he was booted out of
the White House in January 2021. He is
essentially the Republican incumbent and yet he
received only 51 percent of the caucus vote in
Iowa and 54 percent of the primary vote in New
Hampshire. If he is so beloved and popular in the
Republican Party, why didn9t he receive
90 percent or more of the votes?
In 2020, Joe Biden lost the Iowa Democratic
caucuses (15 percent to 26 percent), the New
Hampshire Democratic primary (8 percent to
25 percent) and the Nevada Democratic primary
(20 percent to 46 percent) to Sen. Bernie Sanders
(I-Vt.). There was talk that Mr. Biden9s political
career was over and that he should drop out in
favor of a more electable candidate. But he refused
to do so. South Carolina was the turning point for
Mr. Biden. He won 49 percent of the vote in the
South Carolina Democratic primary to
Mr. Sanders9s 20 percent. He went on win most of
the remaining primaries, become the Democratic
nominee for president and win the presidency.
Voters do not need to rush to unquestionably
accept and support the current popular opinion.
Barbara A. Smith, Arlington
Something for NATO to worry about
Regarding Lee Hockstader9s Jan. 25 op-ed,
<NATO9s twin challenges: Russia and now Trump=:
NATO countries and their citizens are
absolutely right to be nervous about Donald
Trump. Mr. Trump, the apparent front-runner for
the Republican nomination for president, has
already announced that he intends to be the
Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century.
Al Larsen, Arlington
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caTheRine RaMpell
Maybe the
House GOP
doesn9t grasp
immigration?
ouse Republicans in recent weeks
H have blown up an immigration deal
negotiated by their own party in the
Senate and urged President Biden to
adopt border measures that courts have
found illegal. A cynic might say this is all
theater 4 that Republicans (led by former
president Donald Trump) want to keep immi-
gration problems going through the election.
But did anyone consider a simpler expla-
nation 4 that Republicans have no clue how
our immigration system works?
Republican lawmakers have been holding
up aid for Ukraine and Israel for months
while seeking concessions on unrelated im-
migration measures. Yet after Democrats
finally cried uncle, House Republicans said
oh, just kidding. They don9t want this deal
after all!
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and
others now claim Biden doesn9t need new
legislation to crack down on the border.
Instead, they allege Biden can use his exist-
ing authority to reduce immigration by re-
viving all the executive actions that Trump
had put into place.
<If [Biden] wants our conference to view
him as a good faith negotiator, he can start
with the stroke of a pen,= Johnson said.
There are a few problems with this claim.
First, Biden has already issued more than
500 immigration-related executive actions,
more than Trump announced over four
years, according to the Migration Policy In-
stitute. Biden has arguably exhausted the
extent of his presidential authority, and so
far his measures haven9t stemmed the tide of
border crossings.
Second, if Biden hasn9t revived Trump9s
specific policies 4 as Republicans urge him
to do 4 that9s largely because so many Trump
policies were found to be illegal.
Of the 35 major Trump-era immigration
agency actions that faced legal challenges,
33 (94 percent) did not survive litigation 4 that
is, either the court ruled against the relevant
agency or the agency withdrew the action after
being sued. These numbers are from the New
York University Institute for Policy Integrity9s
regulatory challenge database.
Even when Republican-appointed judges
presided over such cases, Trump immigra-
tion actions were unsuccessful 90 percent of
the time.
To be fair, one specific Trump-era program
that Johnson wants to revive, informally
known as <Remain in Mexico,= is the subject
of legal cases that are still working their way
through the courts. But any final court deci-
sion on this policy might not matter much.
Why? It9s unclear whether this program
ever effectively deterred unlawful border
crossings (though it did expose desperate
migrants to rape, kidnapping, torture and
other dangers). More important, the Mexi-
can government has said it would not coop-
erate if the United States were to reboot the
program, regardless of what U.S. courts
decide.
Johnson has also demanded that Biden
begin <renewing construction of the border
wall.= On this policy, Biden9s obstacle isn9t
executive authority exactly. It9s insufficient
funding, says Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, pol-
icy director at the American Immigration
Council.
Alas, House Republicans appear unlikely
to fund it.
How do we know? Because last year, the
Republican-controlled House passed a dif-
ferent (much more draconian) immigration
bill, known as H.R. 2. This was basically a
messaging bill, though lately Johnson has
said it9s the only immigration-related legisla-
tion his chamber would consider. That bill
would require Biden to restart wall con-
struction, as set down in the fiscal 2019 ap-
propriations bill, but it would not give any
new funds that would be necessary to build
the wall, Reichlin-Melnick says.
Similarly, Johnson has demanded that
Biden end <catch and release,= which would
mean detaining anyone waiting for their
asylum claim to be heard in court. But
there9s nowhere near enough funding un-
der current law to provide that number of
detention beds. Unsurprisingly, H.R. 2 pro-
vides zero new money for this objective,
either.
In other words, the policies that House
Republicans claim Biden can adopt <with
the stroke of a pen= are outside his pen9s
reach 4 unless Congress passes the biparti-
san legislation that these Republicans refuse
to consider.
Maybe Johnson and his GOP colleagues
claim Biden can do things without lawmak-
ers9 help because they want Biden to look
feckless. Maybe they grew so accustomed to
Trump9s lawlessness that they figure Biden
should be willing to cross a line now and
then, too.
But again, there9s a reasonably strong case
that the problem here is incompetence.
After all, this week House Republicans
unveiled articles of impeachment against
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro May-
orkas for his alleged failures on immigration.
Unfortunately, these articles complain about
measures taken by a completely different
government agency 4 the State Department
4 which Mayorkas does not control.
Oops. Who can tell these Cabinet secretar-
ies apart, anyway?
In Republicans9 defense, our immigration
system is confusing. Lots of people don9t get
it. Still, one would hope that politicians paid
to understand these things 4 and who have
made immigration a centerpiece of their
2024 campaign 4 might try a bit harder.
Nathan Gage Ingram, left, and Christopher John Chambers, the Navy SEALs who died
in a boarding accident while intercepting a ship carrying Iranian weapons.
Lives lost, heroes found
in Navy SEAL tragedy
ersian Gulf summers are so hot
P that the air looks wavy when
the heat gathers on the water.
It can make things hard to
spot. But one afternoon, while our
ship kept watch for oil smugglers out
there in the thick of it, a young sailor9s
sharp eyes cut through the haze to
spot two fishermen. They were adrift
and stranded, so desperate that they9d
resorted to drinking the salty water.
Naturally, we rescued them; the code
mandates it 4 sailors help those who
are in danger at sea.
We learned the men were Iranian
and had been aimlessly floating for
days after the engine broke on their
small motorboat. We brought them
onboard and provided medical atten-
tion, clothes, food and water. Then,
another problem arose: What hap-
pens now? Where do they go from
here? Understandably, they wanted to
immediately go home. But the United
States and Iran don9t have diplomatic
relations 4 getting them ashore
would be a bureaucratic nightmare.
We decided to have our linguists hail a
tugboat on the radio to arrange for
their safe return under the cover of
night. And it all went according to
plan. The next day, our captain fas-
tened a medal to the young sailor9s
uniform for saving two lives. But all of
us clutched a sort of badge of honor to
our chests, a story of heroism to tell.
Though this happened more than
20 years ago, the news of two Navy
SEALs lost at sea this month made the
memory fresh again. Their team had
just intercepted a vessel in the dead of
night in some rough waters off Yemen.
Once onboard, the team found Iranian
-made weapon parts meant to supply
Josh Rogin
Biden9s cutoff of Palestinian aid is inhumane
any in Washington were rightly
M shocked last week by allega-
tions that 12 U.N. employees in
Gaza participated in the Oct. 7
Hamas terrorist attack against Israel. But
the Biden administration9s knee-jerk reac-
tion to suspend vital food and health aid to
Palestinians across the region will only
deepen their suffering, undermine
U.S. long-term goals and push more bur-
den onto already struggling allies. It9s an
inhumane and strategically stupid policy.
On Monday, more details emerged
about the evidence the Israeli govern-
ment provided about the alleged actions
of these employees of the U.N. Relief and
Works Agency (UNRWA). Israel alleges
several UNRWA employees took part in
harming and kidnapping Israelis, even
using UNRWA vehicles and facilities.
UNRWA has said two of the accused are
already dead, and the others have been
fired while the United Nations conducts a
full investigation.
National Security Council spokesman
John Kirby said Friday that the actions of
a few UNRWA employees should be pun-
ished, <but that doesn9t impugn the en-
tire organization.= Nevertheless, the
State Department did not wait for the
results of the investigation before an-
nouncing Friday it had <temporarily
paused= additional funding for UNRWA,
while acknowledging that the organiza-
tion <plays a critical role in providing
lifesaving assistance to Palestinians.=
Nine countries followed the U.S. lead.
The European Commission announced it
would withhold action until all the facts
come in. And even though the State De-
partment said it will continue disbursing
funds previously obligated, the effects for
the aid organization are already devastat-
ing. UNRWA9s head, Philippe Lazzarini,
said Saturday the organization9s program
inside Gaza, where it supports 2 million
desperate people, <is collapsing= because
of the pending aid cuts, which he called
<additional collective punishment.=
To be clear, any UNRWA employees
found guilty of terrorism or other crimes
committed on Oct. 7 deserve no sanctu-
ary and no mercy. And, to be sure,
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rebels targeting ships in the Red Sea,
including firing ballistic missiles at
U.S. Navy ships. Before this discovery,
though, one of the SEALs slipped dur-
ing the boarding and fell into the deep,
weighted by his body armor. Another
dove in after him; the code requires it
4 sailors help those in danger at sea.
The Navy searched for 10 days, hoping
to find some luck gathered on those
waters a world away from home, to no
avail. Some stories from sea get
pinned to your heart.
The SEALs were out there that
night because of policy choices in a
dangerous world. Houthi rebels in
Yemen 4 with armaments from Iran
arriving via small smuggling ships 4
are trying to disrupt a vital world trade
route, as a show of solidarity with
Palestinians in Gaza. So the United
States sent its best to protect its people
and interests. That night, however,
two of its best gave their lives 4 not to
consecrate a national security objec-
tive but in service to a code.
This distinction is critical. People
who put themselves in harm9s way are
usually not ardent champions of the
policies or actions that created the
dangers they face; first responders,
educators and social workers, Navy
SEALs. They don9t risk their lives out
of devotion to an institution or politi-
cian or protest movement9s bulleted
list of demands. Rather, at their best,
their sacrifices come from a sense of
duty to a first principle. Amid the
world9s chaos are stories of people
helping others. It9s where the heroes
are.
In the days after the fishermen9s
rescue, our sharp-eyed shipmate and
the whole crew buzzed with pride. We
UNRWA has big questions to answer
about this and other instances of some of
its 13,000 employees in Gaza seeming to
support violence against Israelis. But the
Biden administration9s action is not only
cruel; it will have ripple effects that will
make solving all the Middle East9s prob-
lems more difficult.
<Suspending aid before an investiga-
tion is completed is catastrophic from a
humanitarian and strategic perspective,=
said former State Department official
Wa9el Alzayat, now CEO of the Muslim-
American political organization Emgage
USA. <There are millions of people, mainly
children, who depend on this aid. It9s
inhumane to deprive them of this while
the bombs are still falling on them. Stra-
tegically, ending aid puts pressure on ev-
ery country that9s hosting Palestinian ref-
ugees, including key allies like Jordan.=
UNRWA is the largest provider of food
and health services for civilians in Gaza,
by far. According to the U.S. Agency for
International Development, approxi-
mately 1.4 million of Gaza9s 1.9 million
internally displaced civilians are shelter-
ing inside UNRWA sites and 400,000
more are relying on UNRWA assistance.
UNRWA also operates overcrowded
schools and struggling health clinics, and
assists in the delivery of food and hygiene
products trickling into Gaza from Egypt.
UNRWA was already facing a nearly
$500 million shortfall for its needs to
help Palestinians in Gaza and the West
Bank. More than 140 UNRWA employees
have been killed in Gaza since the war
began.
The aid cutoff could also impair
UNRWA9s ongoing efforts to support an
additional 3 million Palestinians living in
Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. These refu-
gees have been supported by the United
Nations for decades, and many are de-
scendants of Palestinians who left Israel
involuntarily after 1948. The Israeli gov-
ernment has long sought to strip these
Palestinians of their refugee status,
which Palestinians associate with their
right to return to Israel.
If UNRWA9s ability to operate ceases,
the governments in those countries, es-
U.S. Navy
retold the story so many times that it
started to feel like a myth. Roles were
playfully exaggerated. Irreverent hu-
mor arrived 4 a sailor9s sign of re-
spect. Every visitor to our ship heard
the tale, including an admiral who
stopped the spirited recap with news
that shook our souls: The Iranian fish-
ermen had been hanged 4 executed
for associating with us, for being saved
by the United States. The crew was
heartbroken. For many of us, the
badge became a scar, pinned to our
hearts. A medal of its own kind.
It9s a complicated world, the waters
murky everywhere. Doing the right
thing doesn9t always pay off. Some-
times lives are saved, but sometimes
they are taken 4 taken as a result of
politics and callousness. And some-
times lives are given 4 given in service
to something bigger than politics. We
have a responsibility to them all, to the
victims of injustice as well as to those
who dive in to help 4 in classrooms, in
unsafe communities, in dangerous
waters.
Another day at sea comes back to
mind, off the coast of California. Some
jet skiers had lost their way and
stranded themselves overnight. Word
of it reached our Navy battle group,
out exercising before the summer9s
deployment. We joined the search and
rescue effort in a story so fantastical
that it9s been thought an urban legend.
Finding them in a big ocean needed all
the winds of good fortune to gather on
the water. But, following the code, we
had to try. Luck smiled the next morn-
ing and the Coast Guard gave our
group a commendation, a sea story to
fasten to our uniforms. And a story of
mettle, too, which can be worn forever.
pecially Jordan, will be left holding the
bag. That means the Biden administra-
tion is placing more burden on regional
partners that are already dealing with the
added risk and instability caused by the
growing regional violence.
During the Trump administration, in-
creased regional instability was one rea-
son the State and Defense departments
resisted cutting off U.S. funding for
UNRWA. In late 2018, President Donald
Trump eventually sided with his U.N. am-
bassador, Nikki Haley, who wanted to
defund UNRWA to pressure the Palestin-
ian Authority into resuming diplomatic
negotiations. Trump held back hundreds
of millions of U.S. funds, but it didn9t work.
When the Biden team restored fund-
ing in 2021, it said that supporting Pales-
tinian and regional stability was consis-
tent with U.S. interests and values 4 and
important to advancing the cause of a
negotiated two-state solution. Now, its
actions will serve to undermine all of
those objectives.
The Israeli government says that other
aid agencies can fill the gap, but that9s
<magical thinking,= Janti Soeripto, CEO
and president of the aid organization
Save the Children, said on CBS9s <Face the
Nation= Sunday. <There is no way that the
collective humanitarian sector can com-
pletely replace UNRWA, you know, in the
short space of time that that will be
necessary,= she said.
Perhaps the Biden team acted quickly
to get out ahead of any political criticism
of its past support for UNRWA during an
election year. But that won9t appease
Biden9s critics 4 and comes at the cost of
undermining the administration9s argu-
ment to its supporters that it cares about
the Palestinians9 plight.
Earlier this month, Secretary of State
Antony Blinken said the Biden adminis-
tration was <determined to do every-
thing we possibly can to ameliorate the
situation for men, women and children
in Gaza.= Now, he is essentially pulling
the rug out from under the Gazans9 pri-
mary means of getting vital food and
medicine in the middle of an already
historic humanitarian catastrophe.
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Megan McaRdle
A short history
of Trump9s
return
he 2020 election season was nev-
T er a fan favorite, yet it is some-
how now in reruns. The original
co-stars will again face off, now
somewhat hoarier, considerably more
unpopular and noticeably less capable of
remembering their lines.
Democrats9 reason for keeping the
show going is simple. They are stuck with
President Biden because he9s stuck with
the charmless and inept vice president he
chose four years ago for reasons of
coalitional politics. For the same reasons,
she cannot be replaced with someone
who could easily beat Donald Trump.
Republicans9 reason is more interest-
ing 4 and longer-lasting. Republicans
are stuck with Trump because their party
has been unable to overcome its collec-
tive action problem.
For nine years now, they9ve known that
they9d all be better off with Trump gone
but also that anyone who tried to make
that happen would risk the anger of his
voters. So individual politicians keep
retreating to the same playbook: stay
quiet on the sidelines in hopes that fate
will intervene or that someone else will
muster the courage to take him out. This
is both ineffective and morally derelict.
Pointing this out doesn9t really help,
though, because vicious collective ac-
tion problems are rarely overcome by
moral exhortation. We solve them by
creating institutions that provide the
right incentives.
Unfortunately, America9s capacity for
institution-building has been under-
mined by internal failures and external
challenges. Which is, of course, how we
ended up with Trump in the first place.
During the 1960s, our culture took a
hard turn against institutional authori-
ty. The most spectacular and memora-
ble examples of this came out of the
left-wing counterculture, but the liber-
tarian and populist currents on the
right were also in important ways anti-
institutional, though this was masked
for a time by the fact that so many
people on the right belonged to thriving
religious institutions.
In politics, these trends led to good-
government reforms that slowly gutted
the parties as decision-making institu-
tions. Primaries handed the choice of
candidates over to the electorate. Con-
gressional reforms dispersed the power
that had been held by a handful of
powerful committee chairs and in vari-
ous ways made it harder for them to
broker legislative deals 4 or be held
accountable for failing to. Campaign
finance reforms weakened the parties9
role as a source of campaign funds, which
forced individual politicians to rely more
heavily on outside donors and activist
groups and, at the same time, limited
each party9s ability to discipline mem-
bers who went rogue.
The GOP today looks less like a politi-
cal party than a collection of hundreds of
political entrepreneurs. They might all
operate under the same franchise li-
cense, but their ties to fellow franchisees
are weak, and it is hard to interest them
in stewardship of a larger corporate
brand.
All this has been exacerbated by an-
other good-government reform: the
move to put more and more congres-
sional business on camera, which has
turned our national legislature into one
long television commercial. This is part
of a second factor undermining our
institutions, a series of technological
shifts that have turned institutions up-
side down and inside out.
Private deliberation has been replaced
by public performance, which is swell for
having arguments but terrible for mak-
ing deals. Cable news, with its insatiable
demand for content, has made it easier
for members of Congress to get on cam-
era, and social media has made it easier
for their words to go viral. As a result,
politicians increasingly treat their offices
as platforms for individual brand
-building rather than places to work with
other politicians to pass laws.
Social media has also made it easier for
the masses to bypass gatekeepers, ignore
institutional norms and mount coordi-
nated attacks on figures of authority. On
the left, this takes the form of progressive
revolts at newspapers, universities and
left-wing nonprofits. On the right, it has
taken the form of voting for Trump,
whose major selling point is that he won9t
let anyone tell him what to do.
These technological shifts have under-
mined the functioning of key institutions
and exacerbated the collapse of their
moral authority. In fairness, this collapse
is also rooted in failures that only became
more glaring in the klieg lights of social
media attention. Trump might not have
gotten so far if the Republican establish-
ment hadn9t taken its base for granted.
The party could have spent more time on
good government and less on geopoliti-
cal grand strategy; less time schmoozing
donors and more actually listening to
voters.
As I say, however, recriminations are
mostly pointless. We are where we are,
and Trump is where he is 4 which is to
say, poised to do further damage to his
party and his country. We will remain
stuck in reruns until Republicans find
some way to overcome the forces arrayed
against institutional cohesion, unite as a
party and get rid of him, together.
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3 to be
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murder
scheme
one iranian, two
canadians charged
Plotted to kill two Md.
residents from Iran

BY L EO S ANDS
AND V ICTORIA B ISSET

The Justice Department

charged one Iranian and two Ca-
nadian nationals for their alleged
roles in a murder-for-hire plot
against two Maryland residents,
according to newly unsealed
court documents.
Federal officials said the FBI
thwarted the 2021 scheme, whose
alleged conspirators include an
<Iran-based narco-trafficker= and
two Canadians, one of whom was
a member of the Hells Angels
motorcycle gang. The man and
woman intended as the plot9s vic-
tims, neither of whom was identi-
fied, were residing in Maryland
after one of them defected from
Iran, according to the Justice De-
partment.
Prosecutors named the master-
mind of the plot as Iran-based
naji sharifi Zindashti, 49, accus-
Family photos ing him of recruiting a team of
gunmen through an encrypted
messaging service to travel to
CapitaL LetteRs Maryland to assassinate the pair.
According to court documents,

8I was so proud of her9 Zindashti spent months concoct-

ing the plot with the assistance of
Canadian nationals Damion Pat-
rick John Ryan, 43, and Adam
Richard Pearson, 29, who were
After his granddaughter was the city9s first homicide victim of 2024, a D.C. pastor delivered her eulogy named as co-defendants.
sEE plOt On B2

BY J ASMINE H ILTON <no, sir,= Thomas said politely.

A deacon ushered him down a
The Rev. Kenneth Thomas sr.
stepped through the double doors
of the hillside church in Prince
hallway and out of view.
Thomas, 71, the pastor of John-
son Memorial Baptist Church in
Md. county
George9s County. He wore a black
suit. In one hand was a briefcase,
and draped over his arm was a
southeast Washington, was also
the grandfather of Ashlei, 18, a
college student raised in Prince
police chief
garment bag with his pastor9s
robe inside. A purple pin with the
smiling face of his granddaugh-
George9s. she had been fatally
struck by gunfire inside a D.C.
hotel room on new Year9s Day, a
announces
ter, Ashlei Hinds, was pinned to
his shoulder.
Funeral goers dressed in pur-
stranger to the shooter, police
said. Her killing made her D.C9s
first homicide victim of 2024 in a
retirement
ple and black parted to the left city that has pledged to end gun
and right of the entryway as he violence but seems unable to do
shook hands, then hugged and so.
kissed their cheeks. A soft smile Thomas was now tasked with
Marcus Jones joined
lit his face as they gave his arm a the unthinkable: delivering the Montgomery force in
comforting squeeze. The smell of eulogy for the granddaughter he
lilies and roses filled the air. adored. He had to provide com-
1985; he9ll exit in July
<You know we9re with you,= a fort to hundreds of people 4
woman said. <need us to hold including his own grieving fam-
your bag?= a man asked. sEE eulOgY On B6 BY D AN M ORSE

Montgomery County Police

tOp: the Rev. Kenneth thomas sr. pictured with his granddaughter ashlei hinds when she was 3 years old. Chief Marcus Jones, a 38-year vet-
aBOVe: hinds, 18, was killed in the District on new Year9s Day. eran of the department, will retire
in July, he announced Tuesday.
Jones, 59, has held the post
since 2019. He commands a staff
of about 1,300 sworn officers and
650 support personnel that pro-
tects the busy Washington suburb

Dial 1 for birdsong on this pay phone
Public art installation is
as popular as ever, and
features 10 avian calls
BY C ATHY F REE
Hatib Joof sees elementary
school students lined up at a pay
phone outside of his restaurant
in Takoma Park several times a
week.
<The phone attracts a lot of
attention,= Joof said. <And it9s
fascinating to watch people9s
expressions when they use it.=
It9s not just kids who are
drawn to the phone, which has a
canary yellow receiver. Adults
stop by all day long for a little
boost as well. The phone plays
free birdsongs.
It was installed years ago, but
it9s more popular than ever, said
Joof, whose restaurant, Mansa
Kunda, specializes in West Afri-
can cuisine.
<Once I put the phone out
there, it just took off,= said
David schulman, a Takoma Park
violinist, composer and audio
producer who created the Bird
Calls Phone by hot-wiring an
old pay phone in 2016 after the
city announced a contest to
design an interactive public art
project.
Listeners push 1 to hear a
yellow-crowned night heron, 7 to
hear a pileated woodpecker9s call
and 9 for the distinct scream of a
red-tailed hawk. Instructions
about how to use the phone are
in three languages: English,
spanish and Amharic 4 a reflec-
tion of Takoma Park9s Ethiopian
community.
<I wanted as many local peo-
ple as possible to enjoy the
experience,= schulman said.
In all, 10 birds native to the
area are featured, including a
rooster in honor of Roscoe, a
beloved community mascot that
once roamed around town in the
1990s in defiance of animal con-
trol officers who tried to catch
him.
In addition to being fun, lis-
tening to birdsong can reduce
stress and anxiety, studies show.
Even hearing recordings of birds
can alleviate negative emotions.
schulman said he got the idea
for the phone after noticing a
neglected, nonworking pay
phone in town. He wondered if
he could turn it into something
sEE paY phOne On B2
and the most populous county in
Maryland.
<It has been an honor to lead
such a dedicated and talented
department of officers and profes-
sional staff,= Jones said in a state-
ment. <I am immensely proud of
what we have accomplished to-
gether.=
During his time as chief, Jones
has had to confront public safety
challenges including the rise of
ghost guns, policing during a pan-
demic and rebuilding public trust
amid national cries for more law
enforcement reform after the kill-
ing of George Floyd in 2020 by
officers in Minneapolis.
<Chief Jones has straddled two
generations of police officers
while witnessing an evolution in
police training, tactics, technol-
ogy, and strategies,= County Exec-
utive Marc Elrich said in a state-
tom huizenga ment. <His rise through the ranks
David schulman, creator of the Bird Calls phone, in takoma park within MCPD speaks to his char-
on Jan. 5. schulman said he would like to see his idea, which acter, integrity, and leadership
features 10 birds native to the area, replicated in other cities. sEE JOnes On B3
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Takoma Park pay phone offers up 8cheep entertainment9

pay pHONE from B1

appealing.
<As a sound person, I9ve always
loved pay phones,= he said. <I
really like the old technology of
just picking up a receiver, press-
ing one button and having some-
thing happen.=
Because he has always
watched and listened to local
birds, Schulman thought bring-
ing their sounds to the aban-
doned phone was a way to add a
bit of nature to the neighbor-
hood.
City officials agreed, and they
budgeted $5,000 for Schulman
to complete the project.
Now the phone9s popularity
rivals the 17-foot-long, crocheted
DAVID SChulmAn
octopus that once graced the top
of the city9s clock tower, said
Brendan Smith, arts and human-
ities coordinator for Takoma
Park.
<The Bird Calls Phone is
unique public art that meets
people where they are instead of
in a museum or an art gallery,=
Smith said.
The city installed banners
with a feather motif at the phone
booth in 2019.
After he won the contest,
Schulman removed the beat-up
phone from the booth at flower
and Erie avenues, then paid
about $200 for a mint condition
pay phone on eBay to get his
avian project off the ground.
He reached out to the macaul-
ay Library at the Cornell Lab of
ornithology in Ithaca, N.Y.,
which agreed to send him a few
dozen recordings of native birds.
Schulman then enlisted the help
of software engineer and artist
Branden Hall to rewire the
phone to play individual bird
calls. Hall also wired the phone
to give people instructions when
they dialed <0= for <migration
assistance.=
Schulman said he persuaded
several of his friends 4 includ-
ing the appropriately named
marika Partridge from Takoma
radio 4 to record short descrip-
tions of each bird to go with the Tom huIzEngA DAVID SChulmAn

calls.
Another local artist, Howard
Connelly, crafted a metal bird
sculpture to place on top of the
phone stand, and the phone was
then ready for users to call up the
sounds of wood ducks, kingfish-
ers and mourning doves.
<We also use the sound of a
mourning dove as a dial tone,=
Schulman said. <What else?=
<my own personal favorite is
probably the night heron,= he
added. <It9s a great bird that
sounds kind of raucous.=
Joof said almost everyone who
comes across the phone near his
restaurant is intrigued, particu-
larly young people.
most children have never used
a pay phone before, and they9re
excited to try it out, he said.
Some call it <cheep entertain-
ment,= he said.
<Some people seem frustrated
that they can9t plug in a quarter
and make a regular phone call,=
Joof said.
Schulman had to replace a
damaged receiver once, and de-
cided to install one that is bright
yellow.
Schulman said he9s happy that
people are still stopping by more
than seven years later to make
free bird calls.
<one thing I like about the
Bird Calls Phone is that it9s the
opposite of a loud broadcast,= he
said. <only one person can listen
at a time, and each person will
take away their own individual
ClOCKWISE FROM tOp lEFt: Software engineer and experience.=
artist Branden Hall with the pay phone that he rewired to He said he would love to see
play individual bird calls. the old pay phone that was at the his idea replicated in other
location was replaced with the one Hall rewired. Marika towns to help draw awareness to
partridge makes a call on the phone. partridge helped record the local wildlife.
short descriptions of each bird to go with the calls. the Bird <I like to imagine Bird Calls
Calls phone now has a canary yellow receiver. Phones all over the country,
featuring [each city9s] local
birds,= Schulman said. <I9d love
for it to become an experience for
everyone.=

Iranian charged with hiring Canadian hit men to kill exiles

plOt from B1
Zindashti offered to pay
$370,000 for the murders, ac-
cording to messages exchanged
among the co-defendants be-
tween December 2020 and march
2021, as described in court docu-
ments. In another message, Pear-
son said to ryan: <We gotta erase
his head from his torso,= accord-
ing to the documents.
<Today9s charges show a pat-
tern of Iranian groups trying to
murder U.S. residents on U.S.
soil,= Assistant Director Suzanne
Turner of the fBI9s Counterintelli-
gence Division said in a statement
monday. <mr. Zindashti and his
accomplices9 alleged plot is repre-
hensible, and the fBI will not
tolerate such acts against U.S.
residents, and we will continue to
pursue these individuals until
they are brought to the U.S. to face
justice.=
Zindashti is based in Iran, the
Justice Department said; the
United States does not have an
extradition treaty with Iran. Pros-
ecutors were cooperating with
authorities in Canada over ryan
and Pearson, who are currently
incarcerated there on unrelated
offenses. federal officials did not
specify a potential motive, but
they accused Zindashti9s network
of previously killing and kidnap-
ping perceived critics of the Irani-
an government.
The same day the indictment
was unsealed, U.S. Treasury De-
partment officials announced a
slew of sanctions against Zin-
dashti, whom they accused of tar-
geting Iranian dissidents at the
behest of the country9s ministry of
Intelligence and Security. The
sanctions prohibit Zindashti and
the Justice Department accused Iranian Naji Sharifi Zindashti of recruiting two Canadian men as part
of a <murder-for-hire= plot to assassinate two Maryland residents.
key associates from engaging in
any U.S.-linked transactions.
According to court documents,
the defendants communicated
using the Sky ECC encrypted mes-
saging service. Zindashti enlisted
ryan with an offer to <make some
money,= and ryan in turn recruit-
ed Pearson for a <job= in mary-
land, the documents say.
Prosecutors alleged that in Jan-
uary 2021, ryan then exchanged
messages with Pearson, who was
illegally residing in minnesota
under an assumed name at the
time, to discuss the logistics of
traveling to maryland. Pearson
said he would <make sure I hit this
guy in the head with ATLEAST
half the clip,= according to the
court documents. Pearson said
that he may charge over $100,000
for the job 4 to which ryan
responded that he would <get u
what u want,= the documents say.
According to prosecutors, mes-
sages exchanged between Zin-
dashti and ryan show that the
pair agreed on a payment of
$350,000, with an additional
$20,000 to cover travel expenses.
According to the Justice De-
partment, the maximum penalty
for those convicted of federal
<murder-for-hire= offenses is 10
years in prison and a fine, with
that penalty extending to 20 years
when personal injury results and
life imprisonment or execution
when the plot leads to death.
A minnesota federal grand jury
charged all three men in Decem-
ber with conspiracy to use inter-
state commerce in the commis-
sion of a murder-for-hire plot.
EVAn VuCCI/AP
Pearson was also charged with
two counts related to unlawful
possession of a firearm.
<Zindashti9s network has car-
ried out numerous acts of trans-
national repression including as-
sassinations and kidnappings
<The FBI will not tolerate such across multiple jurisdictions in
an attempt to silence the Iranian
acts against U.S. residents, regime9s perceived critics,= the
Treasury Department said. Iran
and we will continue to pursue <increasingly relies on organized
criminal groups . . . to obscure
these individuals.= links to the Government of Iran
and maintain plausible deniabili-
Suzanne Turner,
ty,= it added.
assistant director of the
officials accused Zindashti9s
FBI Counterintelligence Division
associates of involvement in the
kidnapping of Habib Chaab, an
exiled Iranian opposition figure
who was lured to Istanbul in
2020, drugged and smuggled
back into Iran. Chaab, an Iranian-
Swedish dual national, was exe-
cuted in may 2023 after he was
accused in a closed-door trial of
masterminding a 2018 attack on a
military parade.
The Treasury Department al-
leged that the Iranian govern-
ment also <used Zindashti and his
men= to carry out the assassina-
tion of masud Vardanjani, a gov-
ernment critic and former Irani-
an cybersecurity official, in Istan-
bul in 2019. Zindashti was also
behind the murder of two men,
including a British-Iranian dissi-
dent, in 2017, the department
said.
The Iranian government in re-
cent years has been accused of
coordinating a string of daring
plots to assassinate and abduct
expatriate Iranians critical of it.
In 2019, dissident journalist
ruhollah Zam was lured from his
home in france to Iraq, taken to
Iran and hanged the following
year.
In a separate case, Jamshid
Sharmahd, a California resident
and dual German-Iranian nation-
al, was kidnapped during a lay-
over in Dubai and taken to Iran.
He was accused of leading a <ter-
rorist= group and sentenced to
death following what the Treas-
ury Department called a <sham
trial= in April 2023.
on U.S. soil, the Iranian gov-
ernment has been accused of
planning to assassinate the Saudi
ambassador to Washington in
2011, as well as a plot to kidnap
masih Alinejad, an exiled journal-
ist and outspoken critic of the
Iranian government who lives in
Brooklyn.

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Montgomery County police chief will retire in July

Jones from B1
skills over the last three decades.=
A native of South Boston, Va.,
Jones joined the montgomery po-
lice force in 1985 and worked as a
patrolman and a detective. He
reached the rank of sergeant in
2000, lieutenant in 2004 and cap-
tain in 2011. Along the way, he
served as the drug enforcement
commander.
Jones later headed up the
major-crimes division and com-
manded the department9s Silver
Spring division. In 2018, he
reached the rank of assistant
chief, supervising all investiga-
tion divisions.
Jones earned a degree in busi-
ness administration in 1998 from
the University of maryland at Col-
lege Park and later attended the
fBI National Academy. He was
also inducted into the montgom-
ery County Human rights Hall of
fame.
In 2019, when longtime mont-
gomery Police Chief J. Thomas
manger retired, Assistant Chief
russell Hamill was named acting
chief before Jones was tapped for
that acting position. At the time,
as Elrich was searching for a per-
manent chief, he passed over
Jones in favor of three candidates
who didn9t work out. Elrich even-
tually turned to Jones for the
position.
<His résumé is strong,= Elrich
said at the time when he officially
introduced Jones to the County
Council. <He9s demonstrated the
capacity to lead.=
Jones9s tenure with the depart-
ment dates back to the days when
montgomery County would re-
ceive as many as 4,000 applicants
for its academy classes 4 about 10
times what it now gets. Calls for
reform, widespread criticism of
police and a tight labor market
have made attracting candidates
more difficult, police depart-
ments say, and it has become a
leading challenge for police chiefs
around the country.
<His rise . . . within
MCPD speaks to his
character, integrity, and
leadership skills over
the last three decades.=
Marc Elrich,
Montgomery County executive
In a statement Tuesday, Elrich
praised Jones9s time as chief. <I
appreciate his compassion for vic-
tims, willingness to modernize
mCPD and his steadfast advocacy
on behalf of his officers and de-
partment,= Elrich said.
County Council member Sid-
ney Katz (D-District 3), chairman
of the public safety committee,
said Jones put aside his early
differences with Elrich because of
his intense affection for the
department where he worked for
so long.
<He9s been an extremely good
chief,= Katz said.
As for his successor, Katz said,
Elrich should look both beyond
and within the department.
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<He could certainly select any
number of qualified people who Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones started out as a patrolman and a detective with the department and rose through the ranks
are already there,= Katz said. over decades, becoming chief in 2019. He faced challenges including the coronavirus pandemic and a national outcry for police reform.

Virginia

Man who stabbed co-worker gets 100 years in prison

Target employee said he
killed in a fit of rage over
immigration difficulties
BY O LIVIA D IAZ
A fairfax County man was sen-
tenced to 100 years in prison
Tuesday for fatally stabbing a Tar-
get co-worker in a parking lot at
the store in the Baileys Cross-
roads area.
Bazen Berhe, 25, pleaded guilty
in october to first-degree murder
in the April 17, 2021, killing of
Hernan Leiva, 58, in what Berhe
described to a judge as a fit of
rage. Authorities said Berhe, then
22, attacked Leiva with knives
and a hammer when the victim
arrived at work that morning.
In an unusual statement to
Judge robert J. Smith in fairfax
Circuit Court, Berhe pleaded for a
stiff sentence and promised he
would behave behind bars while
serving a maximum term. <I
promise, your honor, I won9t kill
someone again,= he said. <I will
not stab someone.=
Berhe, who is from Ethiopia,
said he was in a <state of absolute
anger= before the killing because
he was having trouble with immi-
gration authorities. When he real-
ized that he would not be able to
legally stay in the United States,
Berhe said, he became enraged.
Three days before the killing, Lei-
va, a janitor at Target, ate Berhe9s
lunch out of the office refrigera-
tor, which made him mad. The
next day, Berhe purchased the
hammer and two knives and be-
gan <training for the murder,=
officials said.
About 3:30 a.m., in the parking
garage at the 5100 block of Lees-
burg Pike, police found Leiva, of
falls Church, suffering from ap-
parent stab wounds, officials have
said. Berhe said in court Tuesday
that he had entered the garage
about an hour earlier and stood
behind a staircase, lying in wait to
kill the first person who ap-
peared. When Leiva came down
the stairs on his way to work that
morning, Berhe said, he blud-
geoned him with a hammer and
then stabbed him.
Berhe apologized to Leiva9s
family, saying he <would have
stabbed anyone= and that the
slaying was not personal to Leiva.
<Even a 4-year-old kid,= he said. <If
anyone had gone down the steps
first, I would have killed them.=
Commonwealth9s Attorney
Steve Descano (D) said the sen-
tence was warranted. <In this
case, because of the unique and
self-proclaimed danger the defen-
dant continues to pose to the
community, today9s sentence was
a necessary outcome for main-
taining public safety,= he said in a
statement.
Brandon Sloane, Berhe9s attor-
ney, asked the judge to be compas-
sionate when giving the sentence
and to take into consideration the
incident9s nuances beyond the
<wanton violence that is on the
face of the case.= But after Berhe
asked for a lengthy sentence, the
judge obliged.
<There was somewhat of an
expression of remorse,= Smith
said. <But I think it9s hollow.=
In the courtroom on Tuesday,
about 15 members of Leiva9s fam-
ily were watching. They patted
one another9s backs and squeezed
their hands together as Berhe
spoke for more than 20 minutes.
As the hearing came to an end,
some family members wiped
away tears.
<There is no denying that it was
very gruesome and grotesque,
how I killed that man,= Berhe said.
<But I want the family to know, I
did everything in my power to kill
him in less than a minute.=
<Well, that makes it fine,= one of
Leiva9s relatives responded sar-
castically, then sighed and shook
his head, looking down.

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John PiLger, 84
Polarizing journalist and documentarian exposed human rights abuses
BY H ARRISON S MITH
John Pilger, a crusading jour-
nalist and documentarian who
helped expose state-sanctioned
brutality and human rights abus-
es in Cambodia and East Timor,
even as he faced criticism over
factual errors and accusations
that he let his left-wing political
views unfairly shape his report-
ing, died Dec. 30 at a hospital in
London. He was 84.
The cause was pulmonary fi-
brosis, said his son, Sam Pilger.
In columns, articles, books and
television documentaries, Mr.
Pilger campaigned to expose gov-
ernment wrongdoing and cor-
ruption, traveling around the
world to report on the Vietnam
War, the <killing fields= of Cam-
bodia, the Troubles in Northern
Ireland and the dispossessed Pal-
estinians of Gaza and the West
Bank. His work brought him a
heap of journalism awards as
well as scorn and derision, as
critics said that he was less a
reporter than a polemicist, moti-
vated by a belief that Western
governments were to blame for
some of the 20th century9s worst
human rights abuses.
An Australian native who was
based in Britain for most of his
career, Mr. Pilger was quick to
distance himself from most re-
porters in the mainstream media,
whom he considered stenogra-
phers for the wealthy and power-
ful.
<It is not enough for journal-
ists to see themselves as mere
messengers, without under-
standing the hidden agendas of
the message and the myths that
surround it,= he wrote in 1998.
<High on the list is the myth that
we now live in an 8information
age9 4 when, in fact, we live in a
media age, in which the available
information is repetitive, 8safe9
and limited by invisible boundar-
ies.=
Mr. Pilger (pronounced PILL-
jer) was only 27, serving as chief
foreign correspondent of the Dai-
ly Mirror tabloid, when he was
honored at the British Press
Awards as 19679s Journalist of the
Year, cited for his dispatches from
the Vietnam War. He was hon-
ored with the prize a second time
for his 1979 reporting on the
Khmer Rouge, the communist
regime that ruled Cambodia for
four years under the dictator Pol
Pot.
Other reporters, including
Elizabeth Becker of The Washing-
ton Post and Sydney H. Schan-
berg of the New York Times, had
reported on the dictatorship9s
brutality. But Mr. Pilger was
widely credited with helping
bring wider attention to the Cam-
bodian genocide, which took the
lives of an estimated 2 million
people, nearly a quarter of the
country9s population.
Mr. Pilger said he wanted <to
david L. MiLLs, 85
Creator of the Network Time Protocol kept computers on the same clock
BY G ERRIT D E V YNCK
David L. Mills, a computer
scientist who invented the sys-
tem that allows connected com-
puters to sync their clocks, a
bedrock technology relied on by
the entire modern internet, died
Jan. 17 at his home in Newark,
Del. He was 85.
His daughter, Eileen <Leigh=
Schnitzler, confirmed the death
but did not provide a specific
cause.
Dr. Mills spent more than
three decades as a professor at
the University of Delaware and
was active in designing key parts
of the early internet in the late
1970s and 1980s. He was a life-
long contributor to open-source
software, building tools that
went on to be used and modified
by engineers and tech companies
to this day.
His dominant contribution
was teaching computers how to
tell the time.
In the 1970s, researchers were
building out the Arpanet, an
early government-sponsored
version of the web that connect-
ed various nodes at universities
around the country. As the net
grew and more machines were
connected to it, the lack of a
system to make sure they all had
the same concept of time was
beginning to cause problems.
Because there was an unpre-
dictable time lag whenever one
machine communicated with an-
other, simply timestamping bits
of code that went between com-
puters was not good enough to
keep things in order. It was a
problem that had to be solved if
Journalist John Pilger stands beside the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Vietnam in 1979. Mr. Pilger received various accolades for reporting
on the Vietnam War and dispatches on Cambodia and East Timor but was pilloried for his biased and sometimes-inaccurate work.
put Cambodia back on the hu-
man map= through his reporting,
which included articles in the
Mirror 4 an entire issue of the
newspaper was devoted to his
work 4 and a documentary, <Year
Zero: The Silent Death of Cambo-
dia= (1979), directed by his friend
David Munro. Filmed in Cambo-
dia shortly after Vietnamese forc-
es removed the Khmer Rouge
from power, the documentary
featured interviews with survi-
vors, including two artists who,
because they made flattering
busts and paintings of Pol Pot,
were among the only members of
a 12,000-person group to survive
the mass killings, forced labor,
starvation and disease.
The film reportedly raised
more than $45 million in aid for
Cambodia, including millions of
dollars in small donations col-
lected by British schoolchildren.
Mr. Pilger and Munro later
collaborated on documentaries
including <Death of a Nation=
(1994), about Indonesia9s 1975
invasion of East Timor and the
bloody occupation that ensued.
The filmmakers arrived in East
Timor covertly, posing as officials
with a travel firm, and used small
camcorders to document the
the internet was going to be used
for financial transactions, real-
time communication and a mil-
lion other potential applications.
As a researcher at Comsat, the
company founded by the govern-
ment to develop satellite com-
munication networks, Dr. Mills
had the chance to work on
Arpanet, which had been built by
the Defense Department9s Ad-
vanced Research Projects Agen-
cy. Dr. Mills began working on
ways to sync computer time,
partly because no one else was
doing it, allowing him to do the
project on his own terms, he told
the New Yorker in 2022. In the
late 1970s he invented the Net-
work Time Protocol, known for-
evermore to programmers as
NTP.
Part of Dr. Mills9s insight was
to build a system that ranked
various computers in a network
by how reliable their concept of
time is. Computers connected
directly to an atomic clock are
deemed the most reliable, and
other machines in the network
rapidly communicate with one
another to determine a consen-
sus on what time it is, through a
mix of complicated math and
clever programming.
<I remember being totally as-
tonished,= Vint Cerf, a computer
scientist who helped lead the
development of the early inter-
net and a close collaborator with
Dr. Mills, said in an interview. <It
was black magic.=
David Lennox Mills was born
in Oakland, Calif., on June 3,
1938. His father was an engineer,
founding a company that built
oil seals for car engines, accord-
eZ re
obituaries
aftermath of attacks around the
island, including a massacre of as
many as 200 pro-independence
demonstrators at a cemetery in
Dili, the capital.
To peers such as Martha Gell-
horn, the renowned American
war correspondent, Mr. Pilger
was <a brave and invaluable wit-
ness to his time.= His journalism
brought him honors including a
Peabody Award, for the docu-
mentary <Cambodia: Year Ten=
(1989), about the legacy of the
Khmer Rouge; an International
Emmy Award for <Cambodia:
The Betrayal= (1990), about fears
that Pol Pot and his allies would
return to power; and the 2009
Sydney Peace Prize, for <enabling
the voices of the powerless to be
heard.=
Yet detractors said that Mr.
Pilger9s work was often filled with
more righteous anger than ra-
tional analysis, and argued that
for all his criticism of Western
powers, he was prone to overlook
abuses by repressive leaders such
as Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and
Vladimir Putin of Russia. Many
critics took issue with the blame
he apportioned for the Cambodi-
an genocide, which he laid in
large part at the feet of American
David L. Mills, seen at the University of Delaware in 2008, was a lifelong contributor to open-source
software whose dominant contribution was a system that lets connected computers sync their clocks.
ing to the New Yorker.
The younger Mills was born
with glaucoma, had poor eye-
sight for much of his adult life
and went blind in the years
before his death. Cerf remem-
bered Dr. Mills using a telescope
to look at whiteboards. <He was
not shy about the fact that he had
a vision impairment,= Cerf said.
<A very down-to-earth, cards-on-
the-table kind of guy.=
Dr. Mills received five degrees
from the University of Michigan,
culminating in a doctorate in
leaders who authorized the
bombing of the country during
the Vietnam War.
<Cambodia9s Holocaust was as
much America9s doing as it was
Pol Pot9s,= he wrote in a 1990
feature for the Guardian. The
remark represented a case of
<moral relativity gone haywire,=
wrote British journalist William
Shawcross, who had worked as a
reporter in Cambodia, in an essay
for the Observer newspaper.
<Pilger often spoils his case by
insisting on his monopoly of
wisdom, by abuse of those who
disagree with him, by dealing in
emotions as much as facts, and by
seeing everything through a
prism of anti-Americanism that
is distorting,= Shawcross said.
Mr. Pilger9s journalistic reputa-
tion was damaged by a number of
high-profile screw-ups, including
a 1991 libel case in which he was
found to have defamed two for-
mer British soldiers through one
of his Cambodia documentaries,
which alleged that the men were
training Khmer Rouge guerrillas
to lay land mines. The London
Evening Standard reported that
Mr. Pilger had never met the two
men and had <made no attempt
to talk= until encountering them
computer and communication
science in 1971. He then taught
computer science at the Univer-
sity of Edinburgh in Scotland
and at the University of Mary-
land before joining Comsat in
1977.
In addition to his daughter, of
Lebanon, Pa., survivors include
his wife of 59 years, the former
Beverly Csizmadia, of Newark; a
son, Keith Mills of Jackson,
Miss.; and a brother.
Beyond the Network Time
Protocol, Dr. Mills contributed to
the washington post
hUlton DeUtsCh/CorbIs/getty ImAges
in court. He agreed to an apology
and retraction, and each of the
men was reportedly awarded
about 100,000 pounds in damag-
es.
The libel case followed a disas-
trous 1982 Daily Mirror feature
that Mr. Pilger wrote about child
slavery in Thailand, in which he
reported that he had bought an
enslaved 8-year-old named Sunee
4 at a cost of 85 pounds 4 and
then reunited her with her moth-
er in a village outside Bangkok.
The story gained international
attention and was soon shown to
be untrue: The Far East Eco-
nomic Review reported that Mr.
Pilger had hired a fixer, a local
taxi driver, to help with the story,
and found that the enterprising
driver had located a schoolgirl in
Bangkok and paid her family to
play along with the ruse.
Mr. Pilger claimed that at-
tempts to discredit the story were
<overblown, spiteful and craven.=
He later said that he had been
duped by the fixer. The case
prompted Auberon Waugh, a
journalist and satirist, to coin a
new verb: <to pilger,= for which he
jokingly offered the definition,
<to seek to arouse indignation by
inflated or absurd propositions=
kAthy AtkInson/UnIversIty of DelAwAre
key parts of the original internet
structure. His <fuzzball= soft-
ware was used to run the first
internet routers. The name was a
Mills invention, too, because he
saw them as helpful little critters,
Cerf said.
It was just one example of
what computer scientists came
to call <Millsspeak.= Trustworthy
clocks were called <truechimers,=
while unreliable ones were
<falsetickers.= A computer that
overwhelmed an NTP hub with
too many requests was quieted
. wednesday, january 31 , 2024
or <to distort in a tendentious
way.=
The term made it into a refer-
ence book, the Oxford Dictionary
of New Words, only for the edi-
tors to announce in 1994 that it
would be withdrawn from subse-
quent editions after complaints
from Mr. Pilger.
By then, some of his admirers
had sought to reclaim the term.
Journalist Phillip Knightley
wrote in to the Spectator maga-
zine to offer a definition of his
own: <The verb 8to pilger,9= he
declared, <means to regard with
insight, compassion and sympa-
thy.=
John Richard Pilger was born
in Bondi, a suburb of Sydney, on
Oct. 9, 1939. His mother was a
schoolteacher, his father a car-
penter and trade unionist.
Mr. Pilger started a student
newspaper at his Sydney high
school and completed a four-year
journalism apprenticeship with
Australian Consolidated Press.
He wrote for the Daily and Sun-
day Telegraph in Sydney, briefly
tried freelancing in Italy and
moved to London in 1962, work-
ing for Reuters before joining the
Daily Mirror as a reporter in
1963, just as the tabloid was
expanding its coverage of nation-
al and foreign affairs.
Within a few years, he was
reporting overseas. He came to
the United States to report on
civil rights and was at the Ambas-
sador Hotel in Los Angeles the
night that presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy, the U.S. sena-
tor and former attorney general,
was fatally shot.
Mr. Pilger began working on
documentaries in the 1970s, tack-
ling subjects that included the
devastating effects of thalido-
mide, a once widely-used drug
marketed to pregnant women,
and the history of Aboriginal
Australians. He was let go from
the Daily Mirror in the mid-
1980s, after clashing with new
publisher Robert Maxwell, and
later worked as a columnist for
the New Statesman.
His marriage to Scarth Flett
ended in divorce. In addition to
his son Sam, a sportswriter, survi-
vors include Mr. Pilger9s partner
of more than 30 years, Jane Hill; a
daughter, novelist and art critic
Zoe Pilger, from a relationship
with journalist Yvonne Roberts;
and two grandchildren.
Late in life, Mr. Pilger cam-
paigned for the release of
WikiLeaks founder Julian As-
sange, who is fighting extradition
from Britain to the United States
and has been charged under the
Espionage Act. <If Julian Assange
is extradited to the U.S., the very
idea of a journalism that9s free is
lost,= he told the Independent
newspaper in 2021. <No journal-
ist who dares to challenge rapa-
cious power and reveal the truth
will be safe.=
with a <kiss-o9-death packet.=
<It is an open secret among my
correspondents that I on occa-
sion do twitch the English lan-
guage in mail messages and
published works,= Dr. Mills wrote
on his personal website. <If you
read my papers or my mail, you
know my resonances. If not, you
can calibrate my naughtimeter
from children9s books, outhouse
walls and old English slang.=
He taught at the University of
Delaware from 1986 to 2008 and
continued to update the NTP
code for decades, even as the
internet became a central piece
of human civilization. Every day,
millions of computers synchro-
nize their clocks seamlessly bil-
lions of times, constantly com-
municating to enable financial
trades, Zoom meetings and pow-
er grid surges.
The system can sync clocks
down to microseconds, or a mil-
lionth of a second, Julian Onions,
a postdoctoral researcher at the
University of Nottingham, said
in a 2022 YouTube video explain-
ing NTP.
Other contributors beyond Dr.
Mills eventually took over more
responsibility for upgrading the
NTP system. In addition, Big
Tech companies such as Google
and Amazon have made their
own updates to NTP that have
become standard because of
those companies9 power over the
internet.
<It9s still one of the fundamen-
tal protocols of the internet,=
Cerf said, and a piece of technol-
ogy that cemented Dr. Mills9s
position as an internet pioneer.
<He was part of that pantheon.=
wednesday, january 31 , 2024
Helen comer/Pool/JAckSon Sun/AP
Dexter Scott King, seen in 1997,
was the younger son of the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Dexter Scott King, 62
Worked to
preserve a civil
rights legacy
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Dexter Scott King, the younger
son of slain civil rights leader Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. and his wife,
Coretta Scott King, and who
worked to preserve his father9s
legacy, died Jan. 22 at his home in
Malibu, Calif. He was 62.
The cause was prostate cancer,
the nonprofit Martin Luther King
Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social
Change in Atlanta announced.
Dexter King was the King Center9s
chairman at the time of his death.
The third of the Kings9 four
children, Dexter King was born in
Atlanta on Jan. 30, 1961, and was
named for the Dexter Avenue Bap-
tist Church in Montgomery, Ala.,
where his father served as a pastor
when the Montgomery bus boy-
cott launched him to national
prominence in the wake of the
1955 arrest of Rosa Parks.
Dexter King was 7 years old
when his father was assassinated
in April 1968 while supporting
striking sanitation workers in
Memphis. In his 2004 memoir,
<Growing Up King,= Dexter King
recalled his father9s slaying as the
end of a carefree childhood.
He recounted the burden of liv-
ing in his father9s shadow and
struggling with an undiagnosed
attention-deficit disorder. He at-
tended Morehouse College in At-
lanta, his father9s alma mater, but
did not graduate.
<It was very difficult for people
to treat me as a normal person,= he
told People magazine. <It was like,
8Why is he here?9 It taught me that
I was going to have to be self-
determining.=
He then worked as a corrections
officer in Atlanta and a music pro-
moter, among other jobs, and in
1989 served briefly as president of
the King Center. <I had the title,
but I really didn9t have the author-
ity,= he later explained, noting con-
flicts with his mother.
He remained involved with the
center as head of the special
events office before succeeding his
mother in 1995 as director and
CEO of the King Center. Much of
his work involved protecting the
family9s intellectual property.
Dexter King made headlines
when he publicly declared that he
believed James Earl Ray, who
pleaded guilty in 1969 to murder-
ing his father, was innocent. They
met in 1997 at a Nashville prison
amid an unsuccessful push by
King family members to have Ray
stand trial, hoping the case would
reveal evidence of a broader
conspiracy.
Ray, who would have faced the
death penalty if convicted at trial,
recanted soon after pleading
guilty and spun a web of shadowy
conspiracies and claimed to have
been <set up.=
When Ray said during their
prison meeting that he was not the
killer, Dexter King replied: <I be-
lieve you and my family believes
you.= But Ray never got a trial. He
died of liver failure the following
year.
Over the years, other associates
of Martin Luther King Jr. raised
the possibility of other conspira-
tors, but a comprehensive con-
gressional study in 1978 conclud-
ed Ray was the lone killer, and a
highly praised book on the matter
by journalist Gerald Posner also
came to the same conclusion.
Coretta Scott King died in 2006,
followed by the Kings9 oldest child,
Yolanda, in 2007.
Survivors include his wife of 11
years, Leah Weber King; and two
siblings, Martin Luther King III
and the Rev. Bernice King.
Dexter King and his siblings,
who shared control of the family
estate, didn9t always agree on how
to uphold their parents9 legacy.
In one particularly bitter dis-
agreement, the siblings ended up
in court after Dexter King and his
brother in 2014 sought to sell the
Nobel Peace Prize their father was
awarded in 1964 along with the
civil rights leader9s traveling Bible
used by President Barack Obama
for his second inauguration. Ber-
nice King said she found the no-
tion unthinkable.
The King siblings settled the
dispute in 2016 after former presi-
dent Jimmy Carter served as a
mediator. The items were turned
over to the brothers, but other
terms of the settlement were kept
confidential.
. the washington post
IN MEMORIAM
TAYLOR
PAUL L. TAYLOR
June 12, 1941 - January 31, 2008
It9s been 16 years, I miss you and so does
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DEATH NOTICE
ABRAMOWITZ
MOLLY ABRAMOWITZ
On Tuesday, January 30, 2024,
MOLLY ABRAMOWITZ of Rock-
ville, MD. Beloved wife of the
late Stanley Abramowitz.
Devoted mother of Esther
Abramowitz, Judith (Michael)
Udwin and the late Adina (surviving, Nao-
mi Klayman) Abramowitz. Loving grand-
mother of Dana (Rachel Laufer), David (Jes-
sica Deng) and Bradley Udwin and Esther
(Toby Kessler), Jeff (Dev Guha-Roy) and
Shoshana Wiesner. Cherished great-grand-
mother of Mikaela and Liora Kessler and
Mirabella and Ezekiel Wiesner. Dear sister
of Bernard Chapnick. Funeral services will
be held on Thursday, February 1, 2024, 11
a.m. at Ohr Kodesh Congregation, 8300
Meadowbrook Lane, Chevy Chase, MD
20815. Interment following at Judean Me-
morial Gardens, Olney, MD. Shiva will be
observed at the home of Judy and Michael
Udwin through Wednesday afternoon with
minyans at 7 p.m., excluding Friday eve-
ning. Memorial contributions may be made
to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,
www.ushmm.org, Landow House, www.
smithlifecommunities.org or to Ohr Ko-
desh Congregation, www.ohrkodesh.org.
Arrangements entrusted to TORCHINSKY
HEBREW FUNERAL HOME, 202-541-1001.
DEATH NOTICE
DONN
ROBERT CLINTON DONN
Robert Clinton Donn, passed on January
21, 2024 at the age of 77 due to dementia.
He was born on August 22, 1946 to George
and Mildred Donn of Brentwood, Maryland.
He was preceded in death by his parents,
his sister Beverly Breen and his brother
John Campbell. He is survived by his lov-
ing wife, Cathy Donn; brother George Donn
and his wife Mary, and sister-in-law Peggy
Campbell. He is father of Jane Wells (Don-
nie), David Donn (Wendy), Christopher Mal-
loy, and Courtney Glasgow-Rinaldi (Jason).
Also survived by grandchildren, Amanda,
Michael, Kenny, Brittany (Brent), Kady, and
Dominic and numerous great-grandchil-
dren, nieces, nephews and friends.
Funeral services and burial will be held at
Fort Lincoln Funeral Home and Cemetery
on Thursday, February 1, 2024. Visitation
will be from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, with ser-
vice and burial immediately following vis-
itation.
Donations may be made in Rob9s memory
to Stella Maris Hospice, 2300 Dulaney Val-
ley Road, Timonium, MD 21093.
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HURD
CHARLES GRAY HURD JR.
Charles Gray Hurd, Jr. passed away peace-
fully on Wednesday, December 6, 2023
after a brave battle with cancer. <Gray= is
survived by his loving wife Carrie and two
devoted children, William Gray Hurd and
Laura Arden Hurd, his brother John Amus-
sen Hurd and sister Susan Boyer Hoff. He is
preceded by his father, Charles Gray Hurd
and mother, Margaret Hurd King. He was
a native of Chevy Chase and then Bethes-
da, MD, prior to moving to North Carolina
with Carrie a few years ago where he had
just begun to relish in his well-deserved
retirement. As a career restaurateur, he
was passionate not only about preparing
and sharing delicious meals with family
and friends but with his countless patrons.
Gray is remembered by many with whom
he worked as mentoring integrity, team
work and excellence. His many passions
and talents included music, photography
and golf. He was a devoted and loving
friend to many throughout his life and
will be dearly missed by his family and
the many who knew him. A celebration of
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NANCY ROTH
Nancy Pauline Roth passed
away on January 29, 2024.
Born in Richmond, Virginia to
Harry and Sylvia Kamsky Roth,
the family moved to Wash-
ington, DC to open the family
business Roth Theatres.
A graduate of Woodrow Wilson High
School, she attended the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, then a wom-
en9s college. Upon graduation she was re-
cruited to work for the National Security
Agency, spending her whole career there
until retirement.
Nancy had a passion for tennis and travel-
ing the world. She is survived by a sister,
Carol, loving cousins and many devoted
friends. Special thanks to Julia Bennett and
Leonie Taylor, her attentive caregivers.
Services at the Garden of Remembrance,
JOSEPH FRANK LUDWIG III
Clarksburg, Maryland, on Wednesday,
Suddenly, on January 25, 2024. January 31. Services entrusted to Sagel
Frank was predeceased by Bloomûeld Danzansky Goldberg Funeral
his parents, Frank and Gene Care.
Ludwig. He is survived by his www.sagelbloomûeld.com
loving sister, Sherry Watkins;
his nephews Chuck and Mike
Watkins; a number of cousins, and many,
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Bladensburg, MD.
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On Tuesday, January 23, 2024,
of Silver Spring, MD. Beloved
husband of the late Alice Capo-
niti Sardone; mother of Manuel
and Anthony; father-in-law of
Ginny and Miriam; grandfather
of Steve and Matthew, grandfather-in-law
of Samantha. Preceded in death by his
parents and three sisters. Also survived
NOLAN by many wonderful nieces and nephews.
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MD, Monday, February 5, 2024, from 10
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VALENTE
Maryland.
Proud of her roles as mother and homemak-
er, she periodically worked as a reception-
ist and switchboard operator including at
Montgomery General Hospital; the law ûrm
of Dacy, Richin, Myers and Suissa; and the
Holton Arms School. She especially enjoyed
the years when she worked as a nursery
school co-teacher with her dear friend the
late Kathleen Fornatura.
Clair enjoyed gardening, bird song, and
all things <summer,= especially hard-shell
crabs. An avid reader, she passed along her
love of words, writing, and wordplay to her
three children. She was particularly fond of
history, the works of Beatrix Potter, pigs (her
porcelain porcine collection was truly im-
pressive), and myriad pets, particularly her
beloved Westie, Fiona, who predeceased
ST. CLAIR VALENTE (NEE BOWLING)
her.
Clair was preceded in death by her husband,
Tony, by her second child, Michael Valente,
1935-2024
St. Clair Valente, 88, of Sandy Spring, Mary-
land, died on January 25, 2024. Her daugh-
and her son-in-law Clarence Kettler. She is
survived by her daughters Sarah Valente of
Annapolis, Maryland, and Kathryn (Brian)
Montague of Darnestown, Maryland. She
ters were at her side during her peaceful
passing.
Known as Clair to family and friends, she
was born in Washington, DC on July 22,
also leaves three beloved granddaughters
Clair, Brooke, and Emily, and two treasured
great-grandchildren Chloe and Sophie.
1935, to St. Clair (Brooke) and William Sin-
clair Bowling. She attended Bethesda-Chevy
Chase High School, class of 1953. Clair mar-
In lieu of ûowers, the family suggests do-
nations be made to St. Jude Children9s Re-
search Hospital (https://www.stjude.org/
donate/donate-to-st-jude). The family will
ried her high school sweetheart, Anthony
(Tony) Valente, Jr. the summer after grad-
uation and settled in Montgomery County,
be hosting a celebration of life reception at
a future date.
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RICH
MICHAEL R. RICH
1/31/51 - 11/28/05
Happy Birthday!
Memories Are For A Lifetime
Love,
Denise
DEATH NOTICE
DARRIN
ARMOND DARRIN
Armond Darrin died in Ocean Isle Beach, NC
on January 27, 2024. Prior to a full career in
the Department of Defense, Armond spent
22 years in the Army Infantry and highly dec-
orated for gallantry and valor in combat. A
beloved Captain he was awarded numerous
medals including the Silver Star and Bronze
Star among other awards (Vietnam Service
Medal, Combat Infantry, National Defense
Service. Purple Heart and numerous badges
OLIU
MARGARET REES OLIU
Margaret Rees Oliu passed away peacefully
on January 1, 2024, following a long illness.
She was 86 years old.
Born in Warren, Ohio in 1937, she graduated
from Warren G. Harding High School in 1955.
Having lost both parents when she was in
high school, she remained in Warren to help
support her two younger sisters and brother
until they graduated high school. She sub-
sequently moved to Columbus, Ohio, where
she became the executive secretary to the
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at
Ohio State University. While in Columbus
she also met and married her life partner in
1963. After moving to Kensington, Maryland,
in the 1970s, she worked as an editor for the
Journal of Forestry at the Society of Amer-
ican Foresters. She subsequently worked
at and retired from The Holy Cross Hospital
Adult Medical Daycare Center. Following her
ROACHÉ
YOSHIKO E. ROACHÉ
Sadly, on January 5, 2024, Yoshiko E. Roaché
beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and rel-
ative, passed away peacefully in the pres-
ence of her devoted husband of 66 years,
Ronald Roaché, known to most as <Sonny.=
Yo, as she was known, passed away at her
home after a long battle with dementia.
She was born in Tokyo, Japan on January
WILSON
DOUGLAS WILSON
Douglas Wilson passed unexpectedly on
January 24, 2024, after a short but valiant
battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. He
was born on February 14, and like a quint-
essential Aquarian, came into the world
ready to build a just and peaceful commu-
nity everywhere he went. He graduated
from Jackson Memorial High School in Stark
County, Ohio, and while he was born and
bred in Ohio, spent more than half his life
in Washington, DC. In his youth, he played
the French horn with the Akron Youth Sym-
phony, part of his lifelong connection and
appreciation for music.
After graduating from Miami University in
Ohio, Doug went on to complete two Mas-
ter9s degrees 3 one in business administra-
tion and the other in arts administration.
After completing an internship at Arena
Stage, in Washington, DC, he was hired as
the Personnel Manager and then promoted
to Business Manager at Shakespeare The-
atre Company. He also led ûnance and ad-
ministration at the National Association for
College Admission Counseling.
Over the years, Doug developed a business
acumen that left him a quiet but giant ûgure
in the arts nonproût ûeld in the DC region.
B5
DEATH NOTICE
THOMAS
ALFREDA HELEN THOMAS
11/25/1948 - 1/17/2024
Alfreda Helen Thomas, the eldest child of
John and Helen Thomas, was born on No-
vember 25, 1948, in Washington, DC. She
peacefully departed this life at home sur-
rounded by her family. She is survived by
her husband, John Thomas; her mother,
Helen Thomas; her daughter, Miya Brevard
(Brian); and sisters, Rita Gibson and Lynn
Majied (Saladin) and many loving family
and friends. Visitation will be held on Feb-
ruary 1 at 10 a.m.; Service 11 a.m. at Mar-
shall March Funeral Home, 4308 Suitland
Rd, Suitland, MD 20746. Interment Private.
including Master Parachutist and Combat
Infantryman).
He is survived by his wife, Ann Garrison Dar-
rin and children from his ûrst and second
marriages. Active in retirement he served
as the Chair of the Social Services Board of
Carroll County, Chair of the Carroll County
Democrat Club and in Baltimore as a Volun-
teer Park Ranger at Fort McHenry.
His extended family includes 12 grandchil-
dren and great grandchildren. Step children
with Ann are: Matthew Bettencourt (Sar-
ah), Megan Stokes (Matt), Bethany Hughes
(Scott) and Shelagh Goulis (Richard). From
his ûrst marriage with June Lewis his grown
children include: Debbie Darrin (Scott), Kathy
Keller (Joe), Chuck Darrin (Nancy), and Glenn
Darrin (Joanne). Grandchildren include: Josh
Barnicoat, Shannon Keller, Patrick Darrin,
Melissa Darrin, Connor Darrin, Claire Darrin,
Cecily Goulis, Owen Goulis, David Stokes,
Jack Stokes, Tyler Bettencourt, Kyle Bet-
tencourt, Emma Hughes, and Chris Hughes.
Great grandchildren include: Tristan, Aiden,
Ethan, Liam and Sammy Keller and Saleah
Dickey.
If desired, donations may be made to: Ana-
gram Charitable and Education Foundation
INC., 2516 Chelmsford Drive, Crofton, MD
21114 EIN: 88-3812938
A service of remembrance and burial will
take place at a later time to be announced.
retirement from the Center, she volunteered
there for an additional 10 years. The Center
provided her with the kind of meaningful
work that was perfectly suited to who she
was. In keeping with her strong commit-
ment of service to others, she was also a
hospice care volunteer.
Her family and wide circle of friends all ben-
eûted from her capacity to be a compas-
sionate, thoughtful, non-judgmental listener.
She was also an advocate for <those not in
the room.= Her compassion extended to a
select community of neighborhood cats and
squirrels who sought her company and her
ever-present bag of treats. A lifelong cor-
respondent, she sent notes and letters to
family and friends over the years that were
valued both for their insightful content and
for her beautiful calligraphy. Music was also
a constant for her. Margaret spoke fondly of
her membership in her high school chorus.
In addition to her beautiful singing voice,
she effortlessly memorized the lyrics to
dozens of songs in all genres, a talent she
retained throughout her life. She was able to
showcase her passion for the visual arts by
conducting a popular arts program tailored
to adult day care settings while she was at
Holy Cross. She will be sorely missed by all
of us fortunate enough to have had her in
our lives.
She is survived by her husband, Walter E.
Oliu of Kensington, MD; son Jeffrey W. Oliu,
of Fairfax, VA, and sister Mary Elizabeth Fra-
ser, of Hamilton, Ohio. She was preceded
in death by her parents, Leslie E. Rees and
Margaret K. Rees, of Warren, Ohio; sister
Jane Fender, of Kent, Ohio; and brother, U. S.
Army Captain Richard M. Rees, of Kent, Ohio.
In lieu of a funeral, her family will hold a cel-
ebration of her life service at a future date.
23, 1937, to Yonekichi and Mitsue Enomoto.
Yo was raised in Tokyo with her two sisters,
Keiko and Kayako and was educated in To-
kyo, graduating with an Associate9s degree.
She and her life partner, Sonny, were mar-
ried in Tokyo on May 29, 1957. After initially
remaining at home to raise her two sons,
Ronald and Jerome, she began a successful
career at the Library of Congress. In later
years, she and Sonny were seldom apart.
Some of her favorite hobbies included craft-
ing, gardening, traveling, and spending time
with her family. Yo is survived by her loving
husband, Sonny; her two sons Ronald II and
Jerome; her grandchildren April, JT and Ma-
rissa; two daughters-in-law, DeAndra and
Lynn, and a host of nieces and nephews and
other relatives and friends.
In lieu of ûowers, the family has requested
that remembrances be made in the form of
contributions to the Alzheimer9s Association
or the Inova LJ Murphy Children9s Hospital.
Viewing will be held at Fort Lincoln Funeral
Home, Brentwood, MD on Friday, February 2
at 10 a.m. followed by the Memorial Service
at 11 a.m. and the repast at noon. Interment
will take place on Saturday, February 3 at
noon in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Sil-
ver Spring, MD.
Since stepping into the role of Chief Finan-
cial Ofûcer and Director of Finance and
Administration at Ford9s Theatre in 2010,
Doug9s record of ûnancial stewardship and
executive administration demonstrated his
leadership through some of the organiza-
tion9s most challenging times, most nota-
bly when the theatre and museum had to
be closed due to the COVID pandemic. His
tenure at Ford9s positively impacted every
corner of the organization as both a trusted
advisor and colleague. In recent years, he
played an instrumental role in securing the
new building currently under construction
as part of the Ford9s Theatre campus expan-
sion. He was also a tremendous champion
of the employees at Ford9s and worked tire-
lessly to create an inclusive workplace.
Those who knew him appreciated his can-
dor, empathy and directness that found its
way into moments that were both memora-
ble and accompanied by his sense of humor.
His love for travel and entertainment creat-
ed lifelong memories with friends.
He is survived by his parents, Terry and
Linda Wilson, sister Valerie Simeone (Tony),
a niece and nephew, Taylor Corum (Matt)
and Isaac Simeone, a great-niece (Kayla)
and great-nephew (James), his near and
dear cat, Leo, and an abundance of friends
which includes his <DC Family.=
A Celebration of Life service in remem-
brance of Douglas Wilson will take place on
February 14, 2024, at 6 p.m. at Ford9s The-
atre, 511 10th Street NW, Washington, DC,
with a reception to follow.
In lieu of ûowers, donations can be made in
celebration of Douglas Wilson9s life to Ford9s
Theatre Society at https://my.fords.org/do-
nate/q/douglas-wilson-memorial or mailed
to the address below with a note that the
donation is in memory of Douglas Wilson.
Ford9s Theatre Society
c/o Development Department
514 10th Street NW
Washington, DC 20004
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In dealing with his own grief, he led others through theirs

Eulogy from B1 ing some tests during her first struggle: <What is your life? It is even a
month or so at Louisiana State <I know you9re going to miss vapor that appears for a little time
ily. University, she called him for her.= and then vanishes away.=
He had to get the words right. encouragement. <I can only imagine having to <Everybody that came in con-
He couldn9t break down. Thomas9s eulogy would come <I heard Ashlei tell me that it was not eulogize your grandbaby.= tact with Ashlei left differently,=
People were depending on at the end of the service, held at <One of the hardest tasks he9s he said, his voice rising. <Why?
him. the New mount Nebo Baptist about her, it was about the other ever had to do.= Because she was full of love.=
Two days earlier, Thomas sat at Church of Capitol Heights. Thomas stepped to the pulpit. Ashlei was in heaven, he said,
his desk in his study and prayed. first came the viewing of Ash- people . . . it9s about the others who <Ashlei was a special child.= and had brought together those
He thought hard about what to lei9s open casket. Weeping filled He paused. Inhaled. gathered on this day. Would any-
say: Should his words just be the sanctuary. So many people are still walking in darkness.= <I loved Ash more than anyone one be willing to believe in Jesus
about his granddaughter? How had packed the church that a will ever know,= Thomas contin- and love others, just as his grand-
The Rev. Kenneth Thomas Sr.,
she had a personal relationship handful had to watch on a screen ued, his voice cracking. <I was so daughter had?
who eulogized his granddaughter Ashlei Hinds
with God? in a separate room. proud of her.= <Will there be one?= he said
But the words wouldn9t quite When it was time for Ashlei9s At 3:30 that morning, he said, with his hands outstretched.
match what was in his heart. mother, sister and grandmother deep in prayer, he felt the words Someone walked down the aisle,
<That was my struggle,= he said. to approach, Thomas walked finally come to him. and then another person, and
Ashlei was Thomas9s biggest down the aisle with them. He <At that moment, I heard Ash- another. The church rang with
fan. She called him <Poppi,=; he looked down briefly, shaking his lei tell me that it was not about applause.
called her <The Ash.= When he got head. her, it was about the other people Thomas took a purple towel
his preacher9s license, she made Then he took off his glasses and . . . it9s about the others who are and wiped the sweat from his
sure everyone knew. She had wept. He left his family9s side and still walking in darkness,= Thom- brow. <Praise God,= he said.
asked him for a Bible to study walked to the dais. His knees as said. Then he went back to his seat,
with her younger sister. And shook as he sat. Those who spoke Towering over the pulpit, he let out a <Whew,= and leaned
when she was anxious about tak- before him acknowledged his recited from the Book of James: back.

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A new FX series looks at the 8In Cold Blood9 author, who hobnobbed with socialites, then pilloried them

BY C HRISTOPHER C AMERON material 4 convicted murderers Rich-

ard eugene <Dick= Hickock and Perry

A
t just 5-foot-3, Truman Capote
was standing tall in 1966. For
the past five years, the <tiny
terror= known for his caustic
wit and amusingly pipsqueak timbre
had suffered the yokels of Garden City,
Kan. (pop. 11,811), where he chased the
aftermath of the Clutter family mur-
ders. His sabbaticals from Manhattan
society had paid off. He had written <In
Cold Blood= and was hailed for the
invention of a new literary form: <the
nonfiction novel.= The new York Times
called it <a masterpiece 4 agonizing,
terrible, possessed, proof that the times,
so surfeited with disasters, are still
capable of tragedy.= It paid off literally,
too. He reportedly received $2 million
in book, magazine and film payments
for the work (roughly $19 million in
today9s dollars). never mind that the
subjects who had gifted him so much
edward smith 4 had been executed by
hanging at about 1 a.m., April 14, 1965. It
was time for a party.
Capote9s Black and White Ball filled
new York9s Plaza Hotel with the most
effervescent names in America 4 and
snubbed those without fizzle. Andy
Warhol and Lady Bird Johnson, Brooke
Astor and sammy Davis Jr., Gloria
steinem and Gloria Vanderbilt: In all,
540 made the cut. Frank sinatra gabbed
with Claudette Colbert while Mia Far-
row did the twist. even arch-con-
servative William F. Buckley Jr. conde-
scended to cut a rug, as norman Mailer,
dressed like a private dick in a trench
coat, leered. Washington Post owner
PAri Dukovic/FX
Katharine Graham was the guest of
TOP: Truman Capote at his Black and White Ball in 1966. He9s honor, draped in a white wool crepe
flanked by Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, left, in Balmain gown and a matching bejew-
white, and Lauren Bacall with Jerome Robbins. ABOVE: Naomi eled mask by Halston. Capote wore a
Watts as Babe Paley in FX9s <Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.= see CAPOTE On C2

8Tick, Tick & Boom!9: A blast
for the people in the know
BY C HRIS K LIMEK
no one would know <THX 1138= today
if George Lucas hadn9t later made star
Wars. The same is probably true for
<Tick, Tick & Boom!,= the semi-autobiog-
raphical <rock monologue= that compos-
er Jonathan Larson performed in the
early 990s while slowly developing
<Rent= 4 the Pulitzer Prize-winning
Broadway blockbuster that finally
brought him the valida-
tion he9d spent his life theater
chasing. But Larson
didn9t live to enjoy his success, having
died of an undiagnosed heart problem
the day before <Rent= had its first
off-Broadway preview in 1996. These
events and the paucity of material Lar-
son left behind accrued to give the more
insular, harder-to-embrace <Tick= a mys-
tique it might never have earned on its
merits.
But Larson9s posthumous superfans
include some of the most influential
artists in musical theater: Lin-Manuel
Miranda directed the 2021 film adapta-
tion of <Tick= for netflix, and the Ken-
nedy Center has commissioned neil
Patrick Harris, the sitcom star turned
Tony Award-winning song-and-dance
man, to direct an upscaled reimagining
of the three-hander version of <Tick= that
ran off-Broadway in 2001. (Harris him-
self played the Larson stand-in, Jon, in a
2005 London production.)
Harris has marshaled a
review blue-chip cast led by a wiry
Brandon Uranowitz (a
2023 Tony winner for <Leopoldstadt=) as
Jon, an aspiring Broadway composer
who9s terrified that his genius shall
remain unheralded, and further expand-
ed the canvas by adding four appealing
ensemble players for a total company of
seven. (Those four voices shine in new,
harmony-heavy arrangements of <John-
ny Can9t Decide= and <no More,= and
Haley Parcher9s sound design brings
see THEATER REVIEW On C8
Elton John, Taupin will get
Library9s Gershwin Prize
BY T HOMAS F LOYD
Fresh off achieving eGOT status, elton
John is capping his decorated career with
yet another esteemed accolade: the Li-
brary of Congress Gershwin Prize for
Popular song, which he9ll share with his
longtime songwriting partner, Bernie
Taupin.
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
announced Tuesday that John and
Taupin, the duo responsible for myriad
hits over the past half-century 4 <Tiny
Dancer,= <Rocket Man= and <Goodbye
Yellow Brick Road,= among them 4 will
receive the honor at an invitation-only
tribute concert March 20 at DAR Consti-
tution Hall, which will air April 8 at 8
p.m. on PBs.
This will mark the 14th time the
Library of Congress has awarded the
Gershwin Prize since it was introduced in
2007, and the third time it has gone to a
songwriting duo (after Gloria and emilio
estefan in 2019 and Burt Bacharach and
Hal David in 2012). Joni Mitchell earned
last year9s honor, and other recipients
have included Paul simon, stevie Won-
der, Paul McCartney, Carole King and
Lionel Richie.
<I9ve been writing songs with Bernie
ArTuro HolMeS/geTTy iMAgeS
for 56 years, and we never thought that
one day this might be bestowed upon us,=
rap rancor
John said in a statement. <It9s an incredi-
ble honor for two British guys to be Megan Thee Stallion, above,
recognized like this. I9m so honored.= and Nicki Minaj are in a scrap
Taupin added, <To be in a house along
with the great American songwriters, to over Megan9s <Hiss= lyrics. c4
even be in the same avenue is humbling,
and I am absolutely thrilled to accept.= Book world
The recognition comes after John in Sarah Ditum talks about
July concluded his Farewell Yellow Brick
Road Tour, a five-year, 330-concert ex-
<Toxic,= which looks at the price
travaganza he has described as his final of celebrity for nine women. c2
concert tour. Grossing more than
$900 million, it trails only Taylor swift9s carolyn hax
eras Tour as the highest-grossing concert My in-laws are lovely, but their
tour of all time.
The Library of Congress refers to the <guesthouse= bathroom is
see GERSHWIN PRIZE On C3 <a bucket or jar.= What to do? c3
C2
The ûnal chapter in Capote9s friendship with his 8swans9
CAPOTE from C1
tuxedo and a 39-cent mask from
fAo Schwarz. The most beautiful
and influential society women in
America, Babe Paley, Slim Keith,
C.Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness and
Lee radziwill 4 Capote9s gaggle of
confidantes, the <ravishing little
things= he called his <swans= 4
scintillated. Capote ordered more
than 400 bottles of vintage Tait-
tinger Champagne and a mid-
night supper of chicken hash and
spaghetti Bolognese. It was the
singular social event, not merely
of fall 1966, but forevermore 4
doomed to be imitated ad infini-
tum.
Capote9s <little masked ball= is
richly re-created on location at
the Plaza Hotel in the second
installment of <feud: Capote vs.
the Swans,= ryan murphy9s eight-
episode miniseries. The first two
episodes premiere on Wednesday
at 10 p.m. on fX. Directed in part
by Gus Van Sant, and starring Tom
Hollander as Capote, the series
dramatizes the true story of the
author9s fall from grace and social
banishment.
<When you are re-creating
something where it happened, it
brings about a certain reverence,=
said Diane Lane, who plays fash-
ion icon Keith and co-stars along-
side Naomi Watts (Paley), Chloë
Sevigny (Guest) and Calista flock-
hart (radziwill). <To be in the
Plaza, standing in the same spots
where these women were photo-
graphed, was very impactful. Like
the Edwardian era, this was a
bubble, a moment between two
times when smart, quick-witted
people with literary acumen rose
to the top.=
Lane9s character, Keith, exem-
plified that era. Ex to Howard
Hawks and Leland Hayward, wife
to Kenneth Keith, Baron Keith of
Castleacre, she was credited with
discovering Lauren Bacall and
known for palling around with
Ernest Hemingway in Havana. of
humble origins, she was street
smart and stylish. She schmoozed
with William randolph Hearst
and kept an amorous Clark Gable
at arm9s length. She knew how to
market herself and appeared on
the cover of Harper9s Bazaar at age
22. In many ways, her life mir-
rored Capote9s, and perhaps be-
cause of that, she sat squarely in
the bull9s-eye of his pen.
<It all started with the publica-
tion of 8La Côte Basque, 19659 in
Esquire,= said Laurence Leamer,
author of <Capote9s Women: A
True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a
Swan Song for an Era,= which is
the basis for this season of <feud.=
A reference to the restaurant on
East 55th Street where the swans
Book World
8Toxic9 coverage of celebrity women in the 2000s changed everything
BY A LEXIS P . W ILLIAMS
Before the rise of social media,
we scrolled Perez Hilton9s bubble-
gum-pink website and gawked
over the latest unflattering pa-
parazzi shots of Britney Spears,
Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.
We collectively clutched our
pearls when Justin Timberlake
exposed Janet Jackson9s breast
during Super Bowl XXXVIII yet
took out our ire on her. We un-
abashedly sang along to <rehab=
with Amy Winehouse, not recog-
nizing her croons as a cry for help.
<for the public, tearing these
women to pieces was both a social
activity and a form of divination,=
writes the British journalist Sar-
ah Ditum in her new book, <Toxic:
Women, fame, and the Tabloid
2000s.= <In the entrails of their
reputations, we hunted for clues
about what a woman ought to be,
and this has always been one of
the functions of celebrity wom-
en.=
Ditum says the book9s title,
inspired by Spears9s classic single
of the same name, was <the per-
fect tag for the whole era.= In it,
she tells the story of the period
through the lenses provided by
nine celebrities: Britney Spears,
Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Aali-
yah, Janet Jackson, Amy Wine-
house, Kim Kardashian, Chyna
and Jennifer Aniston. <It9s the
treatment of women, the celebri-
ty culture generally and also the
idea of addiction 4 compulsively
coming back to something that
you know is bad for you,= she said.
The Post spoke with Ditum
about how feeding into the narra-
tives spun by gossip blogs affect-
ed everyday women9s self-esteem,
whether the coverage of celebrity
women has improved, and
whether social media is a blessing
or a curse for them today.
This interview has been edited
for clarity and length.
Q: Why are we just now realizing
that we ignored, diluted and
misconstrued the stories of
celebrity women in the early
Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and Truman Capote
at the author9s 1966 Black and White Ball in New York.
gathered for lunch and published
in 1975, it was an installment of
<Answered Prayers,= Capote9s
long-awaited, gossip-rich work
that promised to expose the dirty
truth about society. Capote touted
it as the <greatest novel of the age.=
It9s <a large novel, my magnum
opus, a book about which I must
be very silent, so as not [to] alarm
my 8sitters9 and which I think will
really arouse you when I outline it
(only you must never mention it
to a soul),= he wrote to Bennett
Cerf at random House in 1958.
<The novel is called, Answered
Prayers; and if all goes well, I
think it will answer mine.=
But in the decade-long period
following the zenith of his ball,
Capote struggled to produce
much beyond magazine articles
and society-sheet mentions. He
had never fully recovered from
the suicide of his mother in 1954
or his abandonment as a small
child. He was raised in meager
circumstances by relatives in
monroeville, Ala. A misfit, he
formed a lifelong friendship with
his neighbor, <To Kill a mocking-
bird= author Harper Lee. But a
small Southern backwater
couldn9t contain Capote. His de-
Stephanie Lewis of Los Angeles holds a portrait of Britney Spears
outside a 2021 hearing concerning the singer's conservatorship.
2000s? Why didn9t we know
better?
A: You can see <Toxic= as a part of
this cycle of books in popular
culture that revisits that period
with a sense of apology or shock
or horror. Writing this book, I
didn9t want it to be about those
things so much. I wanted it to be
about going back and saying,
what was it like for these women
to be at the center of this stuff,
and what was it like for us as
consumers? Because the thing
that9s really difficult to
reconstruct is what was it like to
not know what was coming.
None of us knew what was
coming 4 the technologies that
we were dealing with, the
internet, the blogs, the changing
nature of paparazzi pictures and
surveillance culture. How could
you be prepared for that kind of
technological and societal
change?
Q: How did you settle on the
nine women you wrote about?
A: Each of them had to be
someone who had a story that
told part of the overall story of
what was happening to all of us
in the noughties, which is why all
of the chapters are a name and a
ez re
AP
but novel, <other Voices, other
rooms,= foisted him into New
York literary circles in his early
20s. <Breakfast at Tiffany9s= se-
cured his position. But even in
this more accepting milieu, the
discomfort of being an openly gay
man in an intolerant era was
draining. He drank and used co-
caine 4 his <grande nuits
blanche= (grand white nights).
<He had lovers, but he didn9t
have any real family,= Leamer
said. <The swans were his family,
and I don9t think he quite realized
that until he lost them.=
apote didn9t just lunch with
C his swans 4 the wives of
New York9s richest and most
powerful men 4 for two decades;
he yachted with them in the medi-
terranean and lounged in their
beds as they did their nails. He
called Keith <Big mama= and
meant it. Paley told Capote every-
thing. Guest fascinated him, and
he her. He preferred radziwill9s
beauty and intellect to her more
famous sister, Jacqueline Ken-
nedy onassis, which flattered her
to no end.
<He paid for his meals,= Leamer
said. <When it came to dinner, he
ChrIs PIzzello/AP
word. [for example, <Paris:
Invasion= and <Aaliyah:
Possession.=] Every one of their
stories tells a different aspect of
how the noughties gossip culture
was remaking ideas about fame,
about privacy, about sex, about
innocence. All of these things are
up for grabs in this period, and
every one of these women is a
window on a different part of
that social transformation.
Q: You wrote, <the stories of
these women, as told through the
tabloids and the blogs, became
vehicles through which we made
sense of our own existence.=
A: for Jennifer Aniston, her
experience with the gossip press
was so unpleasant because they
basically invented the character
for her 4 <Sad Jen,= who was
desperate for a baby, still in love
with her ex-husband. This tragic
singleton edging toward 40. So
many of my friends felt
harrowed by that as young
women in their 20s to early 30s.
They read that coverage and
their reaction was, <oh my God,
if she9s not enough, then how will
I ever be enough?=
The coverage of these women
becomes pressure on the women
From left, Gloria Guinness, Capote and Babe Paley. Paley never
spoke to Capote again after <La Côte Basque, 1965= was published.
had to be entertaining, and he
knew that if he wasn9t entertain-
ing, he would be disinvited. That9s
the way these people were. They
needed to be amused, and he was
an unbelievably b----y guy. He
would be with one and tell terrible
stories about the others. He did it
with all of them.=
In <La Côte Basque, 1965,= he
wrote as he spoke: with a cool
volubility, peppered with amus-
ing and cruel invective. He mocks
the extramarital affairs of Paley9s
husband (a <well-hung Jew=), in-
cluding, as noted in Leamer9s
book, <the tawdry details of his
supposed one-night stand with
what was obviously the very real
marie Harriman= (wife of New
York Gov. W. Averell Harriman,
though others have pointed to
mary rockefeller). Women like
Gloria Vanderbilt, Carol matthau
(the inspiration for Holly Golight-
ly in <Tiffany9s=) and Jackie Ken-
nedy were insulted without the
use of pseudonyms. A thinly
veiled Keith, dubbed Lady Ina
Coolbirth, is described as <a big
breezy peppy broad= from the
American West who makes quips
too offensive to quote here. <of
course it wasn9t an accident,=
gAreth IwAn Jones
Today9s environment is better
for stars, Sarah Ditum says.
who consume it. I think women
are probably the primary
consumers of gossip culture. A
lot of gossip culture is attacking
other women, but it9s also
attacking us and teaching us
lessons about what kind of
women we9re supposed to be.
Q: Is social media hindering or
helping celebrity women to
reclaim their narratives today?
A: What happens, I think, after
2013 is the power starts to swing
back toward celebrities. We
rarely see Taylor Swift or
Beyoncé caught off-guard. If
they9re in public, everything they
do is on their own terms. If they
want to communicate with
people, they can do it through
their own social media channels.
I don9t think there9s anything
wrong with using the tools at
your command to manage the
most valuable thing you9ve got,
which is your image and access
to you.
Q: Two of the nine women you
covered were Black. How did
race play a role in the maligning
of Janet Jackson and the lack of
coverage of Aaliyah9s sexual
exploitation?
the washington post
FAIrChIld ArChIve/Penske medIA/getty ImAges
Coolbirth says, an obvious refer-
ence to society fixture Ann Wood-
ward, who shot her husband in
what was ruled an accident, add-
ing: <She9s a murderess.= The la-
dies call Woodward <a jazzy little
carrottop killer= who was
<brought up in some country-
slum way= and <a call girl for a
pimp who was a bell captain at the
Waldorf.= It goes on like this for
some 11,000 words.
<Truman took déclassé and
made it sordid,= Lane said. <These
women deserved better than
that.=
The fallout was instantaneous.
Paley, who had lung cancer at the
time, never spoke to Capote again.
When she died in 1978, he was not
invited to the funeral. A wounded
Keith cut him off, while the
punchline of the piece, Woodward
(played by Demi moore in
<feud=), who Capote nicknamed
<mrs. Bang Bang,= took her own
life at her apartment at 1133 fifth
Ave. shortly before its publication.
It was such a spectacular disaster
that when Capote died in 1984 at
the home of Joanne Carson
(played by molly ringwald) from
decades of drug and alcohol
abuse, Gore Vidal quipped that it
AbrAms
<Toxic= looks at the lives of nine
female celebrities.
A: In Janet9s case, she9s a huge
crossover artist. In American
music, you have Black music and
White music, and the Jacksons
help to break that down. And
then Nipplegate happens, and
the consequence of that is she
basically loses her crossover
status. The places she finds
success after are basically within
Black culture. So she continues
to be successful as an r&B artist.
She has roles in Tyler Perry
movies.
With Aaliyah, I think the fact
that she was Black and the fact
that her abuser was a very
successful Black man worked in
a slightly different way. Because
when the allegations were first
published, everyone could have
known all along right from the
moment that Vibe magazine
published the marriage
certificate. That should have
been game over. Somehow it9s
held in this state of suspended
truth until the trial in 2021. But
because r. Kelly was held in so
much regard, particularly within
the Black community, one of the
first reactions was to say, <This is
just people trying to bring down
a successful Black man.=
Added to that, the fact that as
. wednesday, january 31 , 2024
was <a wise career move.=
<These women were sophisti-
cated enough that, had it been the
quality of an Edith Wharton nov-
el, they would have had no trouble
with it,= Leamer said. <But it was
nothing but gossip and nasty sto-
ries. He didn9t realize it would
have this enormous impact. It9s
like when someone is in an auto-
mobile accident. They pretend
they aren9t hurt right away, they
get up and start walking, and then
they fall down. That9s the way it
was. Truman tried to pretend he
wasn9t hurt, but he was terribly
hurt.=
lthough many have specu-
A lated that Capote9s motive
was self-destruction, that
<Answered Prayers= was his
death-drive 4 that9s not what the
author said. <They9re too dumb,=
Capote told his biographer, Ger-
ald Clarke. <They won9t know who
they are.= There9s reason to think
that9s what he really believed. He
was used to telling these stories
around manhattan lunch tables
and had been for years. <In that
sense he had already betrayed
them,= Leamer said. one further
betrayal simply didn9t register.
The better question might be:
Were these women really so
shocked, or had it all become less
amusing?
Capote never finished <An-
swered Prayers,= and its frag-
ments were published posthu-
mously.
In the early 1980s, shortly be-
fore he died, David Patrick Colum-
bia, the founder of New York So-
cial Diary, encountered the
washed-up, addled but still viva-
cious Capote.
<I went to pick up Truman from
the airport,= Columbia said.
<When I met him he was already
s---faced. He was old. He was fin-
ished. He was a druggie. He had
become part of the Studio 54
crowd. I liked him, but I felt sorry
for him.=
During the ride to the Beverly
Wilshire hotel, Columbia remem-
bers Capote as an affable drunk
who never stopped talking.
<You9ll have to ex-cuse me &= he
said, <but I9ve been up for sheh-
ven-dee-too-ahh-whirrs with two
dozen of theee moss-bee-yu-ti-ful
drag queens you have ever-
seeeeeen.=
<8I took him up the elevator to
his floor and all the rooms were
named after vineyards. He looked
around and said, 8I see that we9re
on the alcoholic9s floor,9= Colum-
bia recalled. <He spoke in this
little high voice, but when he told
a story and laughed, his voice
would drop to a deep basso. The
world was a stage for him.=
a young Black woman, the risk of
her being perceived as
hypersexual, slutty, unrapeable
was always present for her that
she protected her image
meticulously. She never, ever
talked about herself as a victim
of r. Kelly because the cost of her
image would have been huge.
There9s an mTV News report
about the marriage certificate
from the late 990s, and the way
it9s reported is not <oh my God,
this young woman has clearly
been sexually assaulted.= It9s
<Will she be in trouble? Is she
some kind of reprobate or
delinquent because she9s done
this?= There was so little
vocabulary for talking about that
kind of abuse.
Q: Are we in a more toxic or less
toxic era today?
A: We don9t have the same kind
of misogyny in the mainstream
media. If a star announces, <I9m
having a mental health crisis,=
the reaction is not, <oh, we9re
going to send a bunch of cameras
around to try and catch a picture
of you looking absolutely awful.=
They would make a well-
managed Apple TV documentary
about how they9ve come to terms
with their demons.
outside mainstream media,
there9s a lot that is still
completely disgusting, and it
affects <civilian women= as much
as it does celebrities. revenge
porn hasn9t gone away just
because sites like Gawker aren9t
publishing sex tapes anymore. If
you look at the kind of comments
you find on social media around
celebrities, there9s a lot of toxicity
there.
on the whole, I think it9s
better and healthier for
celebrities, and also for
onlookers, that it9s not this free-
for-all of viciousness that it was
during the noughties. But the
case is no longer that there are
few people whose privacy is
relentlessly intruded. Everyone9s
privacy is liable to be intruded
on a little bit.
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Taupin and John Sky,= Taupin has remained his

trusted collaborator throughout a
transcendent career, in which
John has sold more than 300 mil-
<rocketman.= The Dexter fletch-
er-directed biopic, which starred
Taron Egerton as John and Jamie
Bell as Taupin, explored the ups

penned array of hits lion records, landed more than

GERSHWIN PRIZE from C1
Gershwin Prize 4 named after
legendary songwriters George
and Ira Gershwin 4 as <the na-
tion9s highest award for influence,
impact and achievement in popu-
lar music.= Hayden consulted
with a board of scholars, pro-
ducers, performers, songwriters
and music specialists before se-
lecting John and Taupin as this
year9s recipients.
<Elton John and Bernie Taupin
have written some of the most
memorable songs of our lives,=
Hayden said in a statement.
<Their careers stand out for the
quality and broad appeal of their
music and their influence on
their fellow artists. more than 50
years ago, they came from across
the pond to win over Americans
and audiences worldwide with
their beautiful songs and rock
anthems. We9re proud to honor
Elton and Bernie with the Gersh-
win Prize for their incredible im-
pact on generations of music lov-
ers.=
John, 76, and Taupin, 73, met in
1967 when they both responded
to an advertisement that Liberty
records placed in the British mu-
sic magazine New musical Ex-
press in search of singer-song-
writers. The label connected
them, and the partnership be-
tween John, then a budding piano
player in London, and Taupin, a
lyricist from Lincolnshire in cen-
tral England, proved to be one of
the most fruitful in entertain-
ment industry history.
Since penning the lyrics for
John9s 1969 debut album, <Empty
two dozen songs in the top 10 of
the Billboard Hot 100 and seen
nine singles hit No. 1 in the
United States. John and Taupin9s
<Candle in the Wind 1997,= a
rewritten version of their 1973
song that John performed at Prin-
cess Diana9s funeral, trails only
Bing Crosby9s <White Christmas=
as the most popular physical sin-
gle of all time, with more than
33 million copies sold.
John became the 19th person
to complete an EGoT 4 claiming
all of the North American enter-
tainment industry9s major hon-
ors 4 when he collected an Emmy
earlier this month, winning out-
standing variety special (live) cat-
egory for <Elton John Live: fare-
well from Dodger Stadium.=
He also has won five Grammys,
a Tony and two oscars, including
gaviN BoNd
one he shared with Taupin for the
Pop superstar Elton John, right, has said that without lyricist song <(I9m Gonna) Love me
Bernie Taupin, <there wouldn9t have been any Elton John at all.= Again= from the 2019 movie
and downs of their collaboration,
including their two-year break
from working together in the
mid-1970s and subsequent recon-
ciliation.
When John was inducted into
the rock & roll Hall of fame in
1994, he welcomed Taupin on-
stage and handed him the statu-
ette. <Without him, the journey
would not have been possible,=
John said. <I kind of feel [like I9m]
cheating standing up here accept-
ing this because without Bernie,
there wouldn9t have been any
Elton John at all.=
This past November, John
made that symbolic gesture offi-
cial and delivered the induction
speech when Taupin was at last
inducted into the Hall.
<We climbed mountains we
never thought were possible to
climb,= John said in that speech,
<and we scaled heights that we
never thought were possible to
scale.=

8Guesthouse9 bathroom at the in-law, who does quite enough as

in-laws9 is 8a bucket or jar9
Dear Carolyn: I
have a great
relationship with
my in-laws and
consider myself
lucky that they are
Carolyn such kind, lovely
Hax people. They
proudly have a
rustic standard of
living 4 very rural, DIY, hippie
lifestyle. I9m down with that 4
except for the fact that their
guesthouse, the only available
lodgings for me, my husband and
our two small kids, has no
running water and no bathroom.
my father-in-law never got
around to finishing it 20 years
ago. for years during our visits
(once or twice a year), I have peed
in a bucket or jar for my middle-
of-the-night needs. The
alternative would be going down
an external staircase half-asleep
and walking about 100 feet to the
main house.
I9ve been tolerant 4 good-
humored, even! 4 of this
it is managing my father-in-law9s
entropy.
I would rather simply visit less
and give vague explanations. my
husband would never try to pin it
on me, but a demand for a
situation for more than a decade, bathroom would obviously be
but it really got to me this year. stemming from me, because he9s a
maybe it was because the jar was guy and can pee outside more
taller than usual and squatting easily. The fact that this is even a
comfortably was impossible. (Yes, conversation makes me feel all
you can laugh.) maybe it was kinds of ways. What say you?
because my daughter burst into 4 Peeing in a Jar
tears because her room was <so
creepy=: holes in the wall, no Peeing in a Jar: Your husband is
baseboards, peeling ceiling tiles 100 percent right, if a few years
and bare lightbulbs. maybe it was late to that party.
the back catalogue of hazards and Sure, he can whiz freely off the
inconveniences we9ve navigated top of the guesthouse staircase 4
there since our kids were born. but his wife and small daughter
my in-laws are not poor; my can9t, so your logic that his
father-in-law simply does not bathroom demand <would
finish projects, and they hate obviously be stemming from me=
buying unnecessary things. But is faulty to the point of
why are my kids not worth repairs mystifying. Do you really believe
to their room? Why do we even the only valid interest is self-
need to ask for a bathroom? interest?
my husband wants to tell them Caring about others counts,
Nick galifiaNakis for the WashiNgtoN Post
that we don9t want to travel 1,000 too, and the needs of our partners
miles to see them until they put in and children 4 or, more broadly,
a bathroom. I don9t want to insert our families of choice 4 are
ourselves into any situation almost universally understood to
involving complicated home be as important as our own, if not
repairs, because making sure they more so.
happen would fall to my mother- I don9t mean to pile on, but this
is important: His caring about his
family9s comfort and safety is far
more justifiable than <visit less
and give vague explanations.=
Both presence and truth-telling
are forms of respect. Your in-laws
may not like the truth, but it9s a
kindness compared with being
left to wonder why family stopped
coming by.
So let him tell his parents the
guesthouse won9t do anymore.
once you decided to cut back on
visits because of it, it became
necessary for them to know.
Your reasons to doubt they9ll
ever fix it are solid, and
compassionate toward your
mother-in-law. And concerning,
especially going forward. So
prepare to rent an rV for visits or
pitch in on the improvements or
host every time at your place.
regardless, these tough
conversations will find you
eventually. might as well practice
them now.
Write to carolyn hax at
tellme@washpost.com. get her column
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The Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion feud, explained

BY O LIVIA M C C ORMACK
AND H ERB S CRIBNER
Megan Thee Stallion released
her biting song <Hiss= on Friday
4 a punchy diss track that takes
aim at the haters and critics she9s
encountered throughout her ca-
reer.
She mentioned Mariah Carey
and Kris Jenner in jest on the
track, while appearing to make
pointed references to Drake
and her ex-boyfriend, Tory Lanez.
But her words stung for Nicki
Minaj.
<Hiss= has climbed high up on
streaming charts, with more than
5 million plays on Spotify, made
waves throughout the rap com-
munity and ignited a social me-
dia firestorm with fans of Minaj,
who claim Megan directly insult-
ed her on the track.
Minaj, who released her new
album, <Pink Friday 2,= nearly
two months ago, has been one of
the most vocal critics of Megan9s
song, going as far as to record her
own response diss track called
<Big Foot,= which has similarly
climbed the streaming charts
since it dropped Monday.
Minaj has threatened to re-
lease more songs that aim to
damage Megan9s career unless
she apologizes for what she said
on <Hiss.=
Here9s what we know so far
about the feud.
What is 8Hiss9 about?
Megan doesn9t waste anytime
ruffling feathers on <Hiss.= On
Friday, she called into <The
Breakfast Club= and said <Hiss= is
about anyone who uses her name
to get attention online.
<When a snake feel like you9ve
been playing and like doing a
whole bunch of swaying, it9s basi-
cally telling you to back off. I hear
you, I see you, get up off me now,=
she said. <Basically, that9s what it
means.=
<I9m saying, a hit dog gon9
holler. That9s it. Whoever feel it,
feel it,= she added.
Megan Thee Stallion addresses
a number of challenges she has
faced while working in the indus-
try. She also referenced what
critics said about her former
relationship with rapper Tory
Lanez.
Nicki Minaj released her song <Big Foot= on Monday in response to
<Hiss,= a Megan Three Stallion single that dropped on Friday.
Does Megan Thee Stallion
reference Nicki Minaj?
Though no names were men-
tioned in this song, a number of
<Hiss= lyrics appear to reference
Minaj, too. One line, fans say,
seems pointed at Minaj9s family:
<These h--s don9t be mad at Me-
gan, these h--s mad at Megan9s
Law.=
<Megan9s Law= could be a refer-
ence to a federal law that requires
police to share information with
the public about convicted and
MIchAel TrAn/Afp/geTTy IMAges
registered sex offenders. It was
named after Megan Kanka, a
7-year-old who was raped and
killed in 1994 by their neighbor, a
convicted child molester. In the
wake of Megan Kanka9s death,
her family campaigned for a law
that would require police to tell
communities about sex offend-
ers, noting that they would not
have let their daughter cross the
street if they had known about
their neighbor9s past.
It appears Minaj, and many on
Megan has yet to comment on whether disparaging lyrics in her
song are directed at Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty.
social media, believed the diss to
be directed at Minaj9s husband,
Kenneth Petty 4 a registered sex
offender who served four years in
prison after he was convicted of
attempted rape in 1995 and was
put on probation in 2022 for
failing to register as a sex offend-
er in California.
Another line 4 <I can never be
judged by a b---- that was dancin9,
makin9 R. Kelly go viral= 4 might
be a reference to Minaj, too, since
she released a song in 2018 called
cATherIne powell/geTTy IMAges
<Up in Flames,= where she cheeki-
ly mentioned R. Kelly with the
line, <Even R. Kelly couldn9t
touch the kid.=
Representatives for Megan
Thee Stallion did not respond to a
request for comment about the
lyrics and if she was directly
referencing Minaj and Petty.
Nicki Minaj responds with
8Big Foot9 diss songs
With the internet swirling with
theories about Megan9s lyrics, Mi-
naj took to X (formerly Twitter) to
voice her displeasure with the
song and announce her follow-up
<Big Foot,= which she released on
Monday.
The title appeared to be a
reference to Megan9s 5-foot-10
height and the fact that she was
shot in the foot by Lanez.
In the song (which was re-
leased with an a cappella version
on streaming), Minaj claims Me-
gan lied about the shooting inci-
dent with Lanez while referenc-
ing the death of Megan9s mother,
saying: <Swearin9 on your dead
mother when you lie= and <F---
you get shot with no scar?=
Minaj also accuses Megan of
sleeping with her best friend9s
partner and having ghostwriters.
She claims Megan lied during her
2022 interview with anchor CBS9s
Gayle King. In that interview,
Megan said she was worried for
her life during the incident with
Lanez.
<I never put my hands on
anybody,= Megan told King. <I
never raised my voice too loud.
This was one of them times where
it shouldn9t have gotten this cra-
zy.=
King later wrote for Oprah9s
website that she believed Megan9s
account on the night and she
stood by the music artist.
<I9m so fascinated that people
still don9t think that she9s telling
the truth. How can that be?= King
wrote. <You9ve heard all the ru-
mors; please listen to what she
has to say and then ask yourself,
What does she gain by lying?=
Has Megan responded to
Nicki Minaj9s diss track?
Megan has yet to respond di-
rectly to <Big Foot,= though she
posted a photo on her Instagram
Story on Friday of herself laugh-
ing after Minaj shared a snippet
of the song before it was released.
Representatives for Minaj did
not respond to a request for
comment.
Minaj says on X that she has
five songs ready to release if
Megan so much as <breathes=
wrong. Minaj is also seeking an
apology from Megan for her com-
ments on <Hiss.=
<I don9t think you want the
next installment of this song,= she
says on <Big Foot.=

Husband9s close Facebook relationship with thing. Or something else

younger woman raises red ûag with his wife
Dear Amy: My
Ask Amy husband, <Ben,=
Amy and I have been
Dickinson married for more
than 30 years. He
and I are both in
our 60s.
He has been messaging a very
attractive and single 35-year-old
woman whom he became friends
with over Facebook. To the best of
my knowledge, they have never
met in person. I have
surreptitiously checked his phone
and have seen that these
messages have become
increasingly lengthy and personal
and have included several
pictures of themselves. Granted,
none are X-rated, but one of my
concerns is that the intensity of
this online relationship has
grown exponentially in a very
short time and could lead to X-
rated messages.
What would someone my
husband9s age really expect to get
out of such a relationship, and
what is driving this woman to
pursue a relationship with
someone old enough to be her
father? She is now writing that she
is always thinking about him and
is sending him hugs and kisses.
I am not sure what to do,
because I cannot confront my
husband, as I know it will end up
in a massive argument with
denials on his part about it being
anything but innocent. Your take?
4 Alarmed wife
Alarmed: You seem to draw the
line at <X-rated= messages, yet if
sexual messages are passed back
and forth in this completely
virtual relationship, what
difference would their rating
make? I9m suggesting that the
relationship is already happening,
that it is already interfering in
your marriage, that you don9t trust
your husband and that you are
surveilling him in secret.
Some people seek online
romantic relationships because
they want that thrilling <You9ve
got mail= rush. Your long-married
husband might be seeking an
emotional connection and a
feeling of fantasy and romance
with a woman who would not
glance at him twice in real life.
Many people of a certain age yearn
to feel younger, so of course this
appeals to him!
A woman half his age might
engage in this online relationship
because she is looking for the same
altogether. In fact, your husband
might be getting catfished. His
correspondent might not be 35,
and might not be a woman.
<Catfish= reel people in using fake
identities. After establishing an
emotional connection, they will
sometimes move in for more 4
emotionally and financially.
This relationship is affecting
your marriage in a fundamental
way. I hope you can find a way to
discuss it.
Dear Amy: I9ve been in a long-
distance relationship with <Ross=
for about six months. We met
when he was visiting my
hometown on a business trip. I
work at the hotel where he was
staying; we exchanged numbers
and started texting and calling
back and forth. He has visited two
more times and stayed for the
weekend. We talked about being in
an exclusive relationship and
agreed that we wouldn9t see other
people.
He tends to be really private 4
almost secretive. I know what
town he lives in but not much
more about his lifestyle. He has
sent me photos, and we FaceTime
back and forth. I am starting to
wonder whether he is married. He
doesn9t have a Facebook account,
but I think I have seen recent
photos of him with a woman. Now
I9m unsure.
4 Unsure
Unsure: <Ross= is waving a
number of red flags.
First, you should ask him
whether he is married or in a
relationship. Next, you should tell
him that you will be visiting his
hometown the following weekend
and you9d like to stay with him. If
he is in a serious, exclusive
relationship with you, he will open
up his life to you. This means that
you should see his home and meet
his cat, his friends and his folks.
Dear Amy: <Tired= asked how to
tell guests it was time to leave. My
go-to answer stems from a black-
tie dinner my wife gave me for my
70th birthday at our home. My
way to get friends to finally end
the night (well after midnight) was
to go upstairs, shuck my tuxedo
jacket, and come down wearing
my bathrobe.
It was funny then, and it
remains a memory that friends
still invoke. Someone will say,
<Well, guess we should say good
night or Al will get his bathrobe,=
or I9ll ask the host or hostess, <Can
I borrow a bathrobe?=
4 Al in VA
Al: I9m definitely going to use this.
Thank you!
Amy9s column appears seven days a
week at washingtonpost.com/advice.
write to askamy@amydickinson.com or
Amy Dickinson, p.o. Box 194, freeville,
n.y. 13068. ù you can also follow her
@askingamy.
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Dear Miss chatting with the other group for you are 4 there were more hard to distinguish who is who. greeted me back. I found out match your friend to her identity.
Miss Manners: I ride about five minutes. When we mature ways for your friend to We all participate in the same later from a friend that I had, You may be sure that both twins
Manners bikes with my left, one of my riding buddies respond to the inconvenience. recreational activity, so I am indeed, guessed correctly, but it have dealt with this situation
JudIth buddies several was extremely unhappy and He could, when you stopped, often in a situation of wanting to was unsettling not to know. enough to know that no offense
MartIN, times a week, wouldn9t converse with me. I have politely said that if you greet one of them, but not What would have been the is intended 4 and perhaps to
JacobINa going 30 miles or asked whether he was upset, and thought you were going to be knowing which twin I am proper thing to do? subtly amuse themselves by not
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occasional up my buddies? Should I have not think it would be long. guess at which twin it is and when there is a good reason for New Miss Manners columns are
mechanical issue or water break. kept my chat to a much shorter Either way would have prompted hope I don9t get it wrong? the mistake. So unless you can posted Monday through Saturday on
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with another biking group that asking them to do 4 and for how them by name (I took a guess) 50 percent, let9s rule out send questions to Miss Manners at
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seen for a couple of years. They keeping your party waiting. But apologized for possibly having Miss Manners instead can also follow her
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too. My buddies waited for me buddies are not 10 years old 4 acquaintance of identical twins responded with a smile and a by whatever conversation will
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

MOVIE DIRECTORY
DISTRICT
AMC Georgetown 14
3111 K Street N.W.
Barbie (PG-13) CC: 3:10
Wonka (PG) CC: 3:30-5:30
Oppenheimer (R) CC: 6:40
Poor Things (R) CC: 3:15-6:15-
9:30
The Zone of Interest (PG-13)
2:30-4:10-6:40-9:40
Anyone But You (R) CC: 2:35-
7:30-9:55
Past Lives (PG-13) CC: 4:55
The Holdovers (R) CC: 3:40
The Beekeeper (R) CC: 5:10-
7:30-10:00
The Boys in the Boat (PG-13)
CC: 4:00
American Fiction (R) CC: 2:45-
6:30-9:15
I.S.S. (R) CC: 2:35-10:00
Origin (PG-13) CC: 2:55-9:10
Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 4:15-
7:00-9:50
All Of Us Strangers (R) CC: 5:05
The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver-
sary (G) 7:00
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
(PG-13) 6:50
Wonka (PG) OC: 8:15
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
OC: 9:40
Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 2:30
Origin (PG-13) OC: 7:40
Alamo Drafthouse
Cinema - DC Bryant Street
630 Rhode Island Ave NE
The Talented Mr. Ripley (R) 7:00
Oppenheimer (R) 11:00AM
Poor Things (R) 11:00-2:30-
4:00-7:30
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
11:30-3:00-6:45
The Zone of Interest (PG-13)
12:30-3:30-6:30
Anatomy of a Fall (R) 12:00
American Fiction (R) 1:00-4:30-
5:45-7:45
All Of Us Strangers (R) 2:45
Origin (PG-13) 10:45-2:15-6:15
Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The
Greatest Hits Live at the Royal
Arena Copenhagen 8:00
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
(PG-13) 3:15
Mean Girls (PG-13) 10:45-1:45-
4:45-6:00
Angelika
Pop-Up at Union Market
550 Penn Street NE - Unit E
Anatomy of a Fall (R) 1:10-6:45
Soccer Soul (Elijo creer) 4:20
Poor Things (R) 1:00-4:00-7:00
American Fiction (R) 1:30-4:15-
7:15
Avalon Theatre
5612 Connecticut Avenue
The Boys in the Boat (PG-13)
1:30-4:30-7:30
Farewell, Herr Schwarz (Heye
Shalom, Peter Schwarz) (NR)
8:00
American Fiction (R) 1:00-4:00
Landmark
Atlantic Plumbing Cinema
807 V Street Northwest
Oppenheimer (R) 4:00
Poor Things (R) 6:40-7:40
Anyone But You (R) 4:30-7:20
American Fiction (R) 4:40-7:30 Night Swim (PG-13) CC: 8:30
The Iron Claw (R) 4:10-7:00
Mean Girls (PG-13) 4:20-7:10
Poor Things (R) 3:50
Landmark E Street Cinema
555 11th Street Northwest
The Zone of Interest (PG-13)
3:25-7:25
American Fiction (R) 7:45
All Of Us Strangers (R) 4:15-8:00 American Fiction (R) CC: 1:30-
Origin (PG-13) 3:00-7:00
Mean Girls (PG-13) 3:45-7:35
Past Lives (PG-13) 3:10-8:30
The Holdovers (R) 8:15
Poor Things (R) 3:35-7:15
Anatomy of a Fall (R) 4:30
The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 1:00
5:30
American Fiction (R) 4:00
Regal Gallery Place
701 Seventh Street Northwest
Barbie (PG-13) 8:20
The Color Purple (PG-13) 6:25
Fighter (Hindi) 8:40
Wonka (PG) 1:10-7:00
Oppenheimer (R) 3:00-4:35-8:30
Night Swim (PG-13) 6:20-9:40
The Holdovers (R) 1:50-5:00
Poor Things (R) 1:20-5:10-8:30
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
9:35
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
2:00-7:30
Anyone But You (R) 1:00
The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
ENCORE 1:00
The Boy and the Heron (PG-13)
3:35-9:30
The Beekeeper (R) 12:20-1:50-
6:50-9:30
American Fiction (R) 12:30-3:20-
6:10-9:00
I.S.S. (R) 7:10-9:40
Mean Girls (PG-13) 11:50-
2:40-5:50
Fighter (Hindi) 3D 1:00-8:00
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
(PG-13) 4:50
Wonka (PG) 4:10
Anyone But You (R) 3:40
The Boy and the Heron (PG-13)
12:40-6:30
Mean Girls (PG-13) 8:40
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
(PG-13) 12:50-3:50-7:50
MARYLAND
AFI Silver Theatre Cultural Center The Storm (Da Yu) 5:45
8633 Colesville Road
Poor Things (R) OC: 8:15
American Fiction (R) 1:30-4:00- Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 3:00-
6:30-9:00
All Of Us Strangers (R) 6:00
The Boy and the Heron (PG-13)
11:00AM
The Zone of Interest (PG-13)
11:30-4:30-6:45-9:05
The Holdovers (R) 1:45
AMC Academy 8
6198 Greenbelt Road
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom Wonka (PG) CC: 2:45-5:50-8:45
(PG-13) CC: 4:40
The Color Purple (PG-13) CC:
6:30
Migration (PG) CC: 4:20
Night Swim (PG-13) CC: 7:40
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
CC: 4:30-7:30
The Beekeeper (R) CC: 4:00-6:50 Poor Things (R) CC: 5:15
Origin (PG-13) CC: 4:10-7:10
Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 4:00-7:00 The Beekeeper (R) CC: 3:00-8:50
American Fiction (R) CC:
4:30-7:20
AMC Annapolis Mall 11
1020 Annapolis Mall Road
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom Origin (PG-13) CC: 2:00-5:15-5:35
(PG-13) CC: 1:20-7:50
Wonka (PG) CC: 1:30-4:15-7:00 (PG-13) 5:15-7:15
Oppenheimer (R) CC: 12:30
Migration (PG) CC: 12:40-3:00- Origin (PG-13) OC: 8:30
6:00
Night Swim (PG-13) CC: 12:30-
3:05-5:35-8:00
The Boys in the Boat (PG-13)
CC: 4:30
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
CC: 1:50-4:50
Anyone But You (R) CC: 12:35-
3:10-5:45-8:20
The Beekeeper (R) CC: 12:45-
3:20-5:50-8:30
I.S.S. (R) CC: 1:10-3:35-8:20
Origin (PG-13) CC: 12:50-4:00-
7:20
Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 1:00-
3:50-6:40
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color Poor Things (R) CC: 5:45-8:55
(PG-13) 4:20-7:50
Oppenheimer (R) OC: 7:10
Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 5:20-8:10 CC: 4:45
AMC Center Park 8
4001 Powder Mill Rd.
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom 5:00-7:45
(PG-13) CC: 5:00-7:50
The Color Purple (PG-13) CC:
4:10-7:20
Wonka (PG) CC: 4:30-7:00
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
CC: 7:10
The Beekeeper (R) CC: 5:30-8:00 Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 2:30-
American Fiction (R) CC:
4:20-7:30
Origin (PG-13) CC: 4:00-7:00
I.S.S. (R) CC: 4:40
Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 4:50-7:40 (PG-13) 8:50
AMC Columbia 14
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway
Barbie (PG-13) CC: 4:30
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
(PG-13) CC: 2:20-5:20-8:20
Wonka (PG) CC: 1:00-3:45-7:40
The Color Purple (PG-13) CC:
1:15-4:30
Migration (PG) CC: 1:00-3:30-6:00
Fighter (Hindi) 1:00-4:30-8:00
Anyone But You (R) CC: 1:50-
5:40-8:15
Poor Things (R) CC: 4:25
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
CC: 7:45
The Beekeeper (R) CC: 1:45-
5:30-8:15
Thanksgiving (R) CC: 8:30
Origin (PG-13) CC: 1:40-4:50-8:10
Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 1:45-
4:45-7:30
4:35-7:35
The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
ENCORE 6:30
I.S.S. (R) CC: 3:45-6:10
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
(PG-13) 7:20
AMC DINE-IN Rio Cinemas 18
9811 Washingtonian Center
Barbie (PG-13) CC: 2:30
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
(PG-13) CC: 4:20-7:10-10:00
The Color Purple (PG-13) CC:
3:00-6:15
Fighter (Hindi) 2:30-6:00-9:30
Wonka (PG) CC: 3:15-6:15-9:15
Hanuman (Hanu Man) (Telugu)
8:45
Migration (PG) CC: 2:30-5:00
Past Lives (PG-13) CC: 8:30
Night Swim (PG-13) CC:
7:20-9:50
Poor Things (R) CC: 5:30
Thanksgiving (R) CC: 10:00
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
CC: 4:30-9:25
Anatomy of a Fall (R) CC: 2:15
Anyone But You (R) CC: 2:00-
4:45-7:20-9:50
The Boy and the Heron (PG-13)
4:00-9:40
The Beekeeper (R) CC: 2:15-4:50-
7:30-10:00
American Fiction (R) CC: 3:45-
6:40-9:30
I.S.S. (R) CC: 2:10
Origin (PG-13) CC: 3:15-6:30-9:45
Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 4:00-
7:00-10:00
The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver-
sary (G) 7:00
Queen Rock Montreal: The IMAX
Experience CC: 2:15-4:45-7:15-
9:45
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
(PG-13) 3:45-7:00
Miller's Girl (R) CC: 2:00-7:30-
10:00
The Zone of Interest (PG-13)
2:00-4:35-7:15-9:50
6:00-9:00
AMC Magic Johnson
Capital Center 12
800 Shoppers Way
Barbie (PG-13) CC: 2:30
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
(PG-13) CC: 4:15-8:00
The Color Purple (PG-13) CC:
2:15
Migration (PG) CC: 5:30
Night Swim (PG-13) CC: 3:30-
6:00-8:30
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
CC: 2:40-5:45-8:45
Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D
Experience (R) CC: 4:00-8:00
Thanksgiving (R) CC: 8:15
Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 3:20-
6:10-9:00
American Fiction (R) CC: 3:00-
5:50-8:40
I.S.S. (R) CC: 2:45
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
Poor Things (R) OC: 8:30
AMC Montgomery 16
7101 Democracy Boulevard
Barbie (PG-13) CC: 2:30
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
(PG-13) CC: 8:35
Migration (PG) CC: 2:00-4:30-7:00
Wonka (PG) CC: 2:45-5:30-8:15
Oppenheimer (R) CC: 2:25-7:15
Past Lives (PG-13) CC: 2:35
Night Swim (PG-13) CC: 9:00
The Holdovers (R) CC: 2:40
Anyone But You (R) CC: 2:15-
5:00-7:45
The Boys in the Boat (PG-13) CC:
3:00-6:00
Ferrari (R) CC: 5:10
Thanksgiving (R) CC: 9:00
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
Anatomy of a Fall (R) CC: 5:15
The Beekeeper (R) CC: 2:15-
American Fiction (R) CC:
2:05-4:55
All Of Us Strangers (R) CC: 3:15-
6:00-8:45
I.S.S. (R) CC: 3:00-5:35-8:00
Origin (PG-13) CC: 2:00-5:15-8:30
5:30-8:30
Miller's Girl (R) CC: 2:20-6:15
Rob N Roll 8:15
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
The Storm (Da Yu) 2:10-4:45
American Fiction (R) OC: 7:40
AMC St. Charles Town Ctr 9
11115 Mall Circle
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
(PG-13) CC: 1:15-4:15-7:15
The Color Purple (PG-13) CC:
5:00
Migration (PG) 2:00-4:30
Night Swim (PG-13) CC: 8:15
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
CC: 4:00
The Beekeeper (R) CC: 12:00-
2:30-5:10-7:45
American Fiction (R) CC: 1:30-
4:30-7:30
I.S.S. (R) CC: 2:30
Origin (PG-13) CC: 12:15-3:30-
6:45
Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00
The Color Purple (PG-13) 7:00
Wonka (PG) 2:00-5:00-8:00
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
1:00-7:00
Mean Girls (PG-13) 7:00
Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD
7000 Arundel Mills Circle
Fighter (Hindi) XD: 2:35-6:40
American Fiction (R) 7:25
Mean Girls (PG-13) 7:10
Godzilla Minus One Minus
Color (PG-13) XD: 11:35-10:20;
3:30-7:00
Barbie (PG-13) 12:45-7:25
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
(PG-13) 12:20-3:35-9:45
The Color Purple (PG-13) 12:05-
3:35-10:15
Fighter (Hindi) XD: 11:45-10:00
Wonka (PG) 12:40-3:55-10:25
Hanuman (Hanu Man) (Telugu)
10:10
Oppenheimer (R) 11:45-3:45
Migration (PG) 11:30-11:40-2:00-
4:30-9:35
The Hunger Games: The Ballad
of Songbirds and Snakes (PG-13)
11:40AM
Wish (PG) 11:30-2:05-4:40
Night Swim (PG-13) 11:45-2:20-
5:10-10:20
The Holdovers (R) 3:20-10:25
Poor Things (R) 7:15-10:35
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
12:10-3:25-9:50
Malaikottai Vaaliban 2:55-6:30-
10:15
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
2:10
Anyone But You (R) 12:40-4:00-
10:05
The End We Start From (R) 12:10
Singapore Saloon 3:45-10:15
The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
ENCORE 1:00
Godzilla Minus One (PG-13)
12:00-9:50
The Beekeeper (R) 11:35-2:20-
5:05-7:50-10:35
I.S.S. (R) 10:05
Origin (PG-13) 11:50-3:15-6:45-
10:10
American Fiction (R) 11:55-
3:05-10:20
Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:25-3:25-
10:00
The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver-
sary (G) 7:00
Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The
Greatest Hits Live at the Royal
Arena Copenhagen 7:00
Miller's Girl (R) 11:30-2:00-4:30-
7:00-9:30
Alienoid: The Return to the
Future (Oegye+in 2bu) 12:30-
4:05-7:30-10:30
Fighter (Hindi) 3D 10:30
Rob N Roll 7:45
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
(PG-13) 3:00
The Storm (Da Yu) 10:20
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
(PG-13) 6:45
The Color Purple (PG-13) 6:55
Fighter (Hindi) 12:15-3:40-7:05
Wonka (PG) 7:30
Migration (PG) 7:05
Night Swim (PG-13) 7:45
Anyone But You (R) 7:20
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
6:40
The Beekeeper (R) 5:05
Cinépolis Gaithersburg
629 Center Point Way
The Breakfast Club (1985) (R)
6:40
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom Mean Girls (PG-13) 4:00-7:30
(PG-13) 3:30-7:45
Wonka (PG) 3:50-6:30
The Boys in the Boat (PG-13) 3:40 Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The
Poor Things (R) 3:00-6:50
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
4:00
Anyone But You (R) 5:00
The Beekeeper (R) 5:15-8:00
American Fiction (R) 4:15-7:30
I.S.S. (R) 7:10
Mean Girls (PG-13) 3:15-7:20
Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The Barbie (PG-13) 1:15-4:15
Greatest Hits Live at the Royal
Arena Copenhagen 7:00
Greenbelt Cinema
129 Centerway
The Boys in the Boat (PG-13) 7:15 Wish (PG) 1:50
Poor Things (R) 7:00
Landmark
Bethesda Row Cinema
7235 Woodmont Avenue
Wonka (PG) 3:30-6:15
Driving Madeleine 3:45
Poor Things (R) 4:10-7:10
The Zone of Interest (PG-13)
4:45-7:30
Origin (PG-13) 7:05
Anatomy of a Fall (R) 6:30
American Fiction (R) 4:00-6:45
Mean Girls (PG-13) 4:30-7:00
Past Lives (PG-13) 8:00
The Holdovers (R) 5:30
The Boys in the Boat (PG-13) 3:00 Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
Origin (PG-13) 4:15
Landmark
at Annapolis Harbour Center
2474 Solomons Island Road Unit H-1
Wonka (PG) 1:10-4:10-7:20
The Boys in the Boat (PG-13)
1:15-4:00-7:00
Poor Things (R) 3:50-6:50
American Fiction (R) 1:40-4:40-
7:30
Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:30-4:30-7:10
Oppenheimer (R) 2:10
Migration (PG) 1:20-3:45-6:55
The Holdovers (R) 1:05
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
6:30
The Zone of Interest (PG-13)
1:00-4:20-7:15
All Of Us Strangers (R) 1:35-3:55
Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The
Greatest Hits Live at the Royal
Arena Copenhagen 7:00
Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6
3899 Branch Avenue
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom sary (G) 7:00
(PG-13) 4:35-7:35
The Color Purple (PG-13) 4:00
Night Swim (PG-13) 5:00-7:30
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
7:45
The Beekeeper (R) 4:30-7:05
Mean Girls (PG-13) 5:05-7:55
American Fiction (R) 4:00-7:00
Regal Cinemas
Majestic Stadium 20 & IMAX Poor Things (R) 6:50
900 Ellsworth Drive
Barbie (PG-13) 6:20-9:25
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom ENCORE 1:00-6:30
(PG-13) 12:30-3:30-6:30-9:30
Spider-Man: Across the Spi-
der-Verse (PG) 1:50
Fighter (Hindi) 1:00-4:50-8:40
Wonka (PG) 12:35-4:00-7:00-
10:00
Oppenheimer (R) 12:25-4:30-8:35 I.S.S. (R) 7:50
Migration (PG) 12:20-3:00-
5:45-8:20
Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D
Experience (R) 4:30
Night Swim (PG-13) 3:50-9:30
The Holdovers (R) 12:00-3:05
Poor Things (R) 1:30-5:05-8:30
Thanksgiving (R) 8:55
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
9:35
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
3:45-8:15
Malaikottai Vaaliban 2:00-5:40- 12:25-3:45
9:20
Anatomy of a Fall (R) 12:10
Anyone But You (R) 1:05-6:35
The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen Experience (R) 3:10-7:10
ENCORE 1:00-6:30
The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) Poor Things (R) 12:30-4:00-7:20
12:15-3:20-6:25
The Beekeeper (R) 12:55-3:30-
6:25-9:10
Origin (PG-13) 12:00-3:30-9:20
I.S.S. (R) 1:10-3:50-6:30
Mean Girls (PG-13) 3:05-6:10-9:15 ENCORE 1:00
The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver-
sary (G) 7:00
Queen Rock Montreal: The IMAX
Experience 2:00-8:30
Miller's Girl (R) 1:20-3:45-6:20-
9:00
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
(PG-13) 12:20-3:30-6:40-9:50
Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:10
Regal Germantown
20000 Century Boulevard
Barbie (PG-13) 1:30-4:20
Fighter (Hindi) 12:25-4:10-7:50
Wonka (PG) 11:55-1:50-4:50-7:55
Hanuman (Hanu Man) (Telugu)
4:30
Oppenheimer (R) 3:50-8:10
Migration (PG) 12:00-2:40-5:10
The Hunger Games: The Ballad
of Songbirds and Snakes (PG-13)
12:10
Night Swim (PG-13) 7:40
The Holdovers (R) 12:15-3:40-6:50
Poor Things (R) 11:55-3:20-8:00
Hanuman (Hanu Man) (Hindi)
12:55
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
2:50-7:20
Malaikottai Vaaliban 11:45AM
The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
ENCORE 1:00-6:30
The Beekeeper (R) 11:50-2:30-
5:20-8:05
American Fiction (R) 12:05-
3:00-6:00
I.S.S. (R) 7:10
The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver-
sary (G) 7:00
Greatest Hits Live at the Royal
Arena Copenhagen 7:00
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
(PG-13) 4:30
Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:50
Regal Hyattsville Royale
6505 America Blvd.
The Color Purple (PG-13) 1:40-
4:20-7:25
Wonka (PG) 1:20-4:35-7:50
Oppenheimer (R) 2:10-6:20
Migration (PG) 1:35-7:45
Night Swim (PG-13) 5:00
The Holdovers (R) 1:55-4:25-7:35
Poor Things (R) 1:30-4:50-6:50
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
1:05
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
1:45-6:10
Anyone But You (R) 4:05-8:00
The Beekeeper (R) 2:00-4:40-7:25
American Fiction (R) 1:10-4:10-
7:10
I.S.S. (R) 4:55-7:30
Mean Girls (PG-13) 4:45-7:40
The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver-
sary (G) 7:00
(PG-13) 1:00-4:00-7:00
Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:25
Regal Laurel Towne Centre
14716 Baltimore Avenue
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
(PG-13) 8:00
The Color Purple (PG-13)
1:20-4:40
Wonka (PG) 12:40-3:45-6:50
Oppenheimer (R) 2:00-6:15
Migration (PG) 2:30-5:20
Night Swim (PG-13) 7:50
Poor Things (R) 1:50-5:10-8:30
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
1:00-4:10
Anyone But You (R) 2:10-5:00-
7:40
The Beekeeper (R) 1:50-4:40-7:20
American Fiction (R) 2:20-5:30-
8:25
I.S.S. (R) 7:30
Origin (PG-13) 1:10-4:45-8:10
Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:30-3:30-
6:30
The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver-
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
(PG-13) 12:50-4:00
Regal Rockville Center
199 East Montgomery Avenue
Wonka (PG) 1:40-4:50
Oppenheimer (R) 2:40
Migration (PG) 1:10-3:40-6:10
Night Swim (PG-13) 8:35
Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
1:20
The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
The Boy and the Heron (PG-13)
2:30-5:30-8:30
The Beekeeper (R) 1:50-4:40-7:20
American Fiction (R) 1:05-4:00-
7:05
The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver-
sary (G) 7:00
Johnny Keep Walking! 2:10-
5:20-8:20
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
(PG-13) 1:00-4:10-7:10
The Storm (Da Yu) 1:15-3:50-6:40
Regal Waugh Chapel & IMAX
1419 South Main Chapel Way
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
(PG-13) 7:00
The Color Purple (PG-13)
Wonka (PG) 12:35-3:30
Migration (PG) 12:30-3:00-5:30
Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D
Night Swim (PG-13) 8:00
The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
12:40-4:20-7:35
Anyone But You (R) 1:50-4:40-
7:40
The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
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Cinemark Fairfax Corner and XD Poor Things (R) 3:20-6:10-9:25
The Beekeeper (R) 1:20-4:20-7:10
American Fiction (R) 1:00-4:10-
The Beekeeper (R) CC: 1:00-3:45-
6:30-9:15
Anyone But You (R) CC: 3:45-
6:15-8:45 11900 Palace Way The Beekeeper (R) 12:40-10:00
7:30 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13) Thanksgiving (R) CC: 2:45 Barbie (PG-13) 12:00 Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
I.S.S. (R) 6:30 3:30-9:30 I.S.S. (R) CC: 3:00-5:15-8:45 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom (PG-13) 2:20-8:55
Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:50-3:50- American Fiction (R) CC: 3:45- The Beekeeper (R) CC: 3:45- (PG-13) 3:45-6:45 Regal Kingstowne & RPX
6:50 6:45-9:45 6:15-8:45 Fighter (Hindi) 1:10-8:30 5910 Kingstowne Towne Center
The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver- I.S.S. (R) CC: 2:15-4:45-7:15 Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 2:30- Wonka (PG) 12:40-3:35-6:35-9:30
sary (G) 7:00 Barbie (PG-13) 2:00-5:00-8:00
Origin (PG-13) CC: 3:00-6:15-9:30 5:15-8:00 Hanuman (Hanu Man) (Telugu)
Queen Rock Montreal: The IMAX Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
Freud's Last Session (PG-13) Godzilla Minus One Minus Color 9:50 (PG-13) 1:45-4:50
Experience 12:40 CC: 1:45 (PG-13) 7:45 Migration (PG) 12:25-2:55-5:30-
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color Spider-Man: Across the Spi-
Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 3:00- The Storm (Da Yu) 2:45-5:15 8:00 der-Verse (PG) 1:15-4:30-7:45
(PG-13) 12:45-3:55-7:15 6:00-9:00 Past Lives (PG-13) 2:50-9:45
Alamo Drafthouse Fighter (Hindi) 4:10-7:50
Regal Westview & IMAX The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver- Cinema - One Loudoun Night Swim (PG-13) 10:30 Wonka (PG) 1:20-4:15-7:10
5243 Buckeystown Pike sary (G) 7:00 The Holdovers (R) 12:15-3:25
20575 East Hampton Plaza Oppenheimer (R) 2:30-6:50
Queen Rock Montreal: The IMAX
Barbie (PG-13) 7:40 The Talented Mr. Ripley (R) 7:00 The Boys in the Boat (PG-13) Migration (PG) 1:10-3:40
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom Experience CC: 2:15-5:00-7:45 Wonka (PG) 1:00-4:10-6:30
12:55-3:55-6:55-9:55 Night Swim (PG-13) 6:20
(PG-13) 12:50 Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The Anyone But You (R) 12:20-3:00-
Migration (PG) 11:45-12:30- The Holdovers (R) 2:15-5:30
Wonka (PG) 12:25-3:20-6:20-9:10 Greatest Hits Live at the Royal
Arena Copenhagen 7:00 3:30-6:45
5:45-8:25 The Boys in the Boat (PG-13)
Oppenheimer (R) 1:00-5:00-8:10 Godzilla Minus One Minus Color The Beekeeper (R) 12:05-2:50- 1:00-4:05-7:20
The Holdovers (R) 3:00 5:35-8:20
Migration (PG) 1:10-3:50-6:40 Poor Things (R) 2:30-6:15 Poor Things (R) 3:10-6:40
(PG-13) 6:30 Godzilla Minus One (PG-13)
Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D The Zone of Interest (PG-13) Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
Miller's Girl (R) CC: 2:00-4:30- 12:45-9:45
Experience (R) 12:15-7:10 7:00-9:30 1:45-4:45-8:00 1:50-6:40
Night Swim (PG-13) 9:35 American Fiction (R) 1:20-4:15- Anyone But You (R) 1:55-4:45-
Rob N Roll 7:00-9:30 The Beekeeper (R) 1:15-4:30-7:45 7:10-10:05
The Holdovers (R) 4:10 The Storm (Da Yu) 1:00-4:30 American Fiction (R) 11:45-12:45- I.S.S. (R) 1:00-3:30-10:15 7:35
Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 4:00-7:15 The Beekeeper (R) 1:35-4:20
Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:50-3:40-
12:30 AMC Potomac Mills 18 Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The 6:30-9:20 I.S.S. (R) 7:55
Anyone But You (R) 12:35-3:15- 2700 Potomac Mills Circle Greatest Hits Live at the Royal Mean Girls (PG-13) 4:25-7:25
The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniversa-
6:00-8:45 Barbie (PG-13) CC: 5:20 Arena Copenhagen 7:30 The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver-
The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom ry (G) 7:00
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The sary (G) 7:30
ENCORE 1:00 (PG-13) CC: 2:40-5:45-8:50 Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
(PG-13) 12:15-3:45 Greatest Hits Live at the Royal
The Beekeeper (R) 12:10-6:10 Fighter (Hindi) 4:40-8:15 Mean Girls (PG-13) 11:30-2:45- Arena Copenhagen 7:00 (PG-13) 1:05
American Fiction (R) 12:20- Wonka (PG) CC: 2:50-5:40-8:40 6:00 Fighter (Hindi) 3D 4:50 Fighter (Hindi) 2:20-6:00
6:25-9:15 Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:25
Migration (PG) CC: 2:20-5:30-7:50
I.S.S. (R) 4:05-9:25 Angelika Film Center Mosaic Godzilla Minus One Minus Color Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
The Hunger Games: The Ballad (PG-13) XD: 12:05-3:50-6:50-10:25
Mean Girls (PG-13) 9:20 of Songbirds and Snakes (PG-13) 2911 District Ave (PG-13) 1:30-4:35-7:40
Barbie (PG-13) 12:00 Fighter (Hindi) XD: 12:10-3:05-
The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver- CC: 4:30 6:45-9:50 Regal Manassas & IMAX
sary (G) 7:00 Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D Oppenheimer (R) 4:10 11380 Bulloch Drive
Queen Rock Montreal: The IMAX Experience (R) CC: 7:30 Past Lives (PG-13) 1:15 Medal of Honor Theater - NMMC
Experience 4:25 The Holdovers (R) 12:10 18900 Jefferson Davis Highway Barbie (PG-13) 6:30
Past Lives (PG-13) CC: 4:50 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color Night Swim (PG-13) CC: 3:45- Poor Things (R) 3:55-7:55 We, the Marines (NR) 9:30-10:30-
(PG-13) 7:50
(PG-13) 12:00-3:10-6:20-9:25 6:10-8:40 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 11:20-12:10-1:00-2:00-3:00-4:00
Mean Girls (PG-13) 3:00 3:00 Spider-Man: Across the Spi-
The Holdovers (R) CC: 2:15 Regal Ballston Quarter der-Verse (PG) 3:00
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color The Boys in the Boat (PG-13) The Zone of Interest (PG-13) 671 North Glebe Road
Fighter (Hindi) 3:30
(PG-13) 5:05-9:00 CC: 2:15 12:15-2:40-5:15-7:45
Wonka (PG) 1:35-4:35-7:25 Wonka (PG) 3:20-6:20
Xscape Theatres Brandywine 14 Poor Things (R) CC: 8:10 Anatomy of a Fall (R) 1:00
Oppenheimer (R) 2:00-6:00 Oppenheimer (R) 7:10
7710 Matapeake Business Drive Thanksgiving (R) CC: 8:50 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) Migration (PG) 2:50-5:20
2:35 Oppenheimer: The IMAX 2D
Titanic (1997) (PG-13) 1:00-7:00 The Book of Clarence (PG-13) Night Swim (PG-13) 7:50 Experience (R) 3:10
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom CC: 2:40-5:40 Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:45
Killers of the Flower Moon (R) Soccer Soul (Elijo creer) 7:05
Poor Things (R) 6:50 The Holdovers (R) 7:40
(PG-13) 12:15-4:05-7:05-9:55 Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 1:05 Poor Things (R) 3:50-7:30
The Color Purple (PG-13) 12:30- CC: 7:10 Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld: The Anyone But You (R) 1:40-4:30-7:20 Killers of the Flower Moon (R)
Anatomy of a Fall (R) CC: 2:10 Greatest Hits Live at the Royal
3:30-6:30-9:30 The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen 2:50
Anyone But You (R) CC: 2:45- Arena Copenhagen 7:00
Wonka (PG) 1:25-4:15 ENCORE 1:00 Anyone But You (R) 3:40-6:40
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color The Beekeeper (R) 1:10-3:50-6:35
Trolls Band Together (PG) 12:55- 5:20-8:10 The Beekeeper (R) 4:20-7:15
3:25-6:35-8:55 The Beekeeper (R) CC: 2:10- (PG-13) 7:45 American Fiction (R) 1:25-4:15- The Iron Claw (R) 4:10
The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 7:10
Migration (PG) 12:05-2:25-4:45- 4:45-7:20 I.S.S. (R) 2:40-5:20-8:00
7:15-9:35 American Fiction (R) CC: 3:00- 5:20 I.S.S. (R) 1:45-4:20
Mean Girls (PG-13) 4:00-7:00
Night Swim (PG-13) 1:15-4:25- 5:45-8:45 American Fiction (R) 12:20-2:55- Mean Girls (PG-13) 4:40-7:30 Queen Rock Montreal: The IMAX
The Iron Claw (R) CC: 8:20 5:30-8:15
7:25-9:55 The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniversa- Experience 7:20
The Book of Clarence (PG-13) I.S.S. (R) CC: 2:20-5:30-8:00 Origin (PG-13) 1:15-4:15-7:15 ry (G) 7:00 Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
Origin (PG-13) CC: 2:00-5:15-8:30 Mean Girls (PG-13) 4:25-7:00
12:25-3:15-6:25-9:25 Godzilla Minus One Minus Color (PG-13) 3:25-6:50
The Beekeeper (R) 2:00-4:30- Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 2:00- CMX Village 14 (PG-13) 1:20-4:45-7:45
5:00-8:00 Regal Springûeld Town Center
7:00-9:40 1600 Village Market Boulevard Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:50
6859 Springûeld Mall
American Fiction (R) 1:40-4:20- The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver- The Big Lebowski (R) 6:30 Regal Dulles Town Center
7:10-10:00 sary (G) 7:00 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom 21100 Dulles Town Circle (PG-13) 4:00
I.S.S. (R) 6:55-9:15 Queen Rock Montreal: The IMAX (PG-13) 1:45-4:45-7:50
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom Wonka (PG) 2:00-5:30-8:40
Origin (PG-13) 12:50-3:50-6:50- Experience CC: 2:30-5:00 Wonka (PG) 12:25-3:10-6:10
9:50 Miller's Girl (R) CC: 2:10-4:40 (PG-13) 12:40-3:45-6:45 Oppenheimer (R) 12:10-4:30
Barbie (PG-13) 7:20 Wonka (PG) 12:20-3:15-7:15
Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:20-4:00- Godzilla Minus One Minus Color Migration (PG) 12:00-2:40-
Migration (PG) 12:40-3:00-5:25 Oppenheimer (R) 2:00-7:10 5:20-8:10
6:40-9:20 (PG-13) 7:30
The Boys in the Boat (PG-13) 7:30 Migration (PG) 12:00-2:30-5:00 Night Swim (PG-13) 8:25
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 4:00 Oppenheimer (R) 3:35
Night Swim (PG-13) 7:30 Poor Things (R) 12:20-4:10-7:50
(PG-13) 1:05-3:55-6:45-9:45 AMC Shirlington 7 The Holdovers (R) 12:10
2772 South Randolph St.
Poor Things (R) 12:25-3:55-8:00 The Book of Clarence (PG-13)
iPic Pike & Rose Poor Things (R) 1:00-4:15-7:25 Anyone But You (R) 1:45-4:45- 12:30
11830 Grand Park Avenue Migration (PG) CC: 1:50-4:10-7:25 Anyone But You (R) 2:00-4:40-7:10 7:45 Anyone But You (R) 12:40-3:30-
Barbie (PG-13) 2:45 Poor Things (R) CC: 1:10-4:20- Killers of the Flower Moon (R) 3:20 The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen 6:20-9:00
The Color Purple (PG-13) 3:45- 7:35 Anatomy of a Fall (R) 7:40 ENCORE 1:00 The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
6:15-10:00 The Zone of Interest (PG-13) The Iron Claw (R) 7:45 The Beekeeper (R) 1:10-4:00-7:00 ENCORE 1:00-6:30
2:20-4:55-7:30
Wonka (PG) 3:30-7:10-10:15 The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:30-3:30 The Beekeeper (R) 1:20-4:20-7:20
Oppenheimer (R) 2:00-9:30 Anyone But You (R) CC: 2:30- American Fiction (R) 12:50-
ENCORE 1:00 The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver-
Training Day (R) 6:15 5:05-7:50 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) sary (G) 7:00 3:50-7:00
American Fiction (R) CC: 1:40-
The Book of Clarence (PG-13) 1:15-4:30 Godzilla Minus One Minus Color I.S.S. (R) 12:35-3:20-6:10-8:50
3:15-7:15-10:45 4:30-7:20 The Beekeeper (R) 1:05-2:55- (PG-13) 12:50-4:00-7:20 Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:30-5:00-8:00
Origin (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:15-6:30 3:45-6:30
The Beekeeper (R) 2:15-6:45- Mean Girls (PG-13) 6:30 The Wizard of Oz 85th Anniver-
10:45 Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 2:00- I.S.S. (R) 12:35 sary (G) 7:00
4:50-7:40 Regal Fairfax Towne Center
I.S.S. (R) 11:00 Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:20-4:05-7:00 Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
4110 West Ox Road
Origin (PG-13) 2:45-6:30-10:30 AMC Tysons Corner 16 The Beekeeper (R) 1:05-3:45-6:30 Barbie (PG-13) 7:50 (PG-13) 1:40-4:40-7:40
Peter Doherty: Stranger in My 7850e Tysons Corner Center American Fiction (R) 1:30-4:20-
Wonka (PG) 2:10-5:20-8:10 Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
Own Skin (!) 7:30 Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 1:05 7:05 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
Mean Girls (PG-13) 2:30-6:00-9:45 Barbie (PG-13) CC: 5:00 Oppenheimer (R) 6:40
Origin (PG-13) OC: 6:50 Migration (PG) 2:20-5:10 Barbie (PG-13) 6:20-8:55
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color The Hunger Games: The Ballad
Fighter (Hindi) 3:30-8:50 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
VIRGINIA Wonka (PG) CC: 2:05-5:15-8:05 (PG-13) 12:05-6:20 of Songbirds and Snakes (PG-13) (PG-13) 2:20
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

BOTH SIDES VULNERABLE

NORTH
f K 10 5 3
g K 10 7 2
f 72
g K64
WEST (D) EAST
f A9864 f J7
g 6 g 83
f Q J 10 5 f A9864 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
g AJ7 g 10 9 8 2
SOUTH
f Q2
g AQJ954
f K3
g Q53

The bidding:
WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
1f Pass Pass 3g
Pass 4g All Pass
Opening lead 4 f Q
CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER
<I have a friend,= Unlucky
Louie told me, <who I can
safely call an optimist.=
<How come?=
<He got married and
wants to buy a house near a
school.=
<What9s optimistic about
that?=
<He9s 83 years old,= Louie
said.
Today9s North boldly raised
South9s <intermediate= RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
balancing jump-overcall to
game. West led the queen of
diamonds, and East took the
ace and shifted to the 10 of
clubs: three, seven, king.
South drew trumps and
led the queen of spades.
West took the ace and led a
second diamond, and South
won and led a spade ... to
dummy9s 10. East took the
jack and led a club for down
LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
two.
<West opened one spade,=
South sighed. <He rated to
hold the jack.=
South was too much of
an optimist. After he draws
trumps, he cashes the king
of diamonds, leads his low
spade to dummy9s king and
returns a spade. He is safe
for 10 tricks when East9s jack
appears, but even if West
had A-J-x-x-x, South would HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
succeed; when West took the
ace, he would be end-played.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
f K 10 5 3 g K 10 7 2
f72gK64
The dealer, at your left,
opens three diamonds. Your
partner doubles, and the
next player passes. What do
you say?
ANSWER: Partner9s hand
BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
is worth 17 or more points
in support of any unbid suit.
(He might have a stronger
hand with a suit he intends
to bid.) Since game is sure,
and since partner is all but
certain to have four cards
in a major, cue-bid four dia-
monds to let him pick the
trump suit.
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BIRTHDAY | JANUARY 31
You are strong-willed
and original. You9re
also imaginative,
inventive and
dramatic; however, you like to
be respected and noticed for
your talents. Simplicity is the
key to your life this year. Take
charge of your health. Physical
exercise will be important.
Moon Alert: There are no
HEART OF THE CITY STEENZ JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY restrictions to shopping or
important decisions today.
The Moon is in Libra.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Tread carefully, because
conversations with partners,
spouses, close friends and
even members of the general
public might be prickly today.
Knowing this ahead of time,
why not cut others some
slack?
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
Be patient with co-workers,
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL because people are a bit
aggressive today. You might
encounter this at work or when
dealing with people related to
your health or even something
to do with your pet.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Parents need to be patient
with kids today because
there is an element of angst
in the air with many people.
You might feel this in sports
situations or perhaps when
socializing with others. The
trick is to think before you
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK react or speak.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Family disagreements or
arguments might arise today
because of irritable feelings
between family members.
Do what you can to keep
the peace, because family
harmony is so supportive to
everyone.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
You might have a heated
discussion with a sibling,
STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER DAN SCHKADE relative or someone in your
DUSTIN FLASH GORDON everyday world today. For your
own good, take a moment and
remind yourself that you don9t
have to be right. Not this time.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
Money squabbles might occur
today. They could relate to
social outings, the cost of
taking care of or educating
kids, or something related to
vacations or the arts. Why not
take a beat and table these
discussions until Friday when
everyone is more amicable?

SCOTT STANTIS DAVE BLAZEK LIBRA

PRICKLY CITY LOOSE PARTS (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Today the Moon is in your
sign for the second day, but
now it is at odds with fiery
Mars, which can create petty
disputes and irritability with
others. If you need to speak
up, you will. You might attract
people to you who want to
criticize or attack you.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
Seek out solitude if you can do
so today. This will be a relief
from everyday squabbles that
many people are undergoing.
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT Focus on home and family.
You might be involved with a
parent today.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Sports and any competition
involving physical activity
will be highly charged today.
Likewise, you might get
involved in an argument with a
friend or a member of a group.
Ask yourself if it9s worth it.
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
Steer clear of nasty
entanglements with authority
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK
figures today -- parents,
bosses, teachers and the
police. If you challenge these
people, you might quickly
regret it because everyone is
ready to argue today!
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Avoid controversial subjects
like politics, religion, racial
issues and challenges in
society. These will quickly
mushroom into arguments and
nasty encounters. Some days
it9s excellent to have these
discussions, but today is not
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PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
You might encounter
difficulties with a partner or
close friend about shared
property, inheritances, taxes,
debt or issues with shared
responsibilities. Boundaries
might not be clearly defined.
Do others know what you
expect from them?
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The love bot has
entered the gallery
BY P HOEBE C ONNELLY
NEW YORK 4 midway through a
demonstration of a genderless AI
chatbot named Echo at the 2024
rhizome 7x7 festival, the ma-
chines appeared to cut the hu-
mans out of the equation entirely.
Lynn Hershman Leeson, a leg-
end in the art world for her imagi-
native uses of tech, was on the
stage with replika CEo Eugenia
Kuyda, attempting to converse
with Echo, when an audience
member9s voice-activated phone
assistant began interjecting. for
an uncanny second, it seemed as
if the machines were ready to pick
up the conversation without us.
rhizome, a nonprofit arts or-
ganization based in New York,
has a long history with digital art
and engaging with cultural taste-
makers. The first NfT was minted
at the 2014 festival; participants
have included miranda July and
Aaron Swartz.
This past weekend, the organi-
zation, in partnership with the
New museum, convened the 14th
iteration of 7x7, a festival that
pairs seven artists with seven
technologists and asks them to
rapidly collaborate on a new work
of art.
The 2024 event marks the festi-
val9s return after a multiyear hia-
tus. And although the organiza-
tion has long engaged with the
promise of artificial intelligence
as an artistic medium, the emer-
gence of fast, readily accessible
generative AI tools means it is
everywhere. Do we want to find
AI in a gallery when we can9t even
escape it in the review sections of
Amazon listings?
<We feel like it9s actually a more
important time to kind of take a
step back and have these more
expansive approaches to AI, as
opposed to quickly getting to
whether AI is good or bad or
whether it9ll take our place in our
jobs,= said Xinran Yuan, co-cura-
Shop that inspired Toy Story movies Kennedy Center9s 8Tick, Tick & Boom!9
to close, citing 8perils9 of San Francisco is only for people who really love 8Rent9
BY J ENNIFER H ASSAN
Jeffrey9s Toys, the family-run
shop that inspired the Toy Story
movies, is closing its doors after
86 years, becoming the latest
business to join San francisco9s
retail exodus.
The shop <has been struggling
for a number of years,= the fam-
ily9s attorney, Ken Sterling, said
in a statement, citing <perils and
violence of the downtown envi-
ronment, inflation, the decrease
in consumer spending and the
demise of retail across the
world.=
The family was <saddened=
over the decision to shutter the
store and had <explored all other
options to try and keep the
business going,= the statement
said. The store will permanently
close feb. 10 after four genera-
tions of family management,
Sterling said in an email inter-
view, adding that he believes that
it may be the oldest toy store in
San francisco.
matthew Luhn, the store9s co-
owner, grew up working at his
family9s store and eventually
landed a job at Pixar as one of 12
animators working on <Toy Sto-
ry,= SfGate reported.
<We would have my dad come
to give us ideas,= Luhn told the
outlet. <And when we did refer-
ence for almost all the 8Toy Story9
films, we always went to Jeffrey9s
Toys.= Luhn worked at Pixar for
20 years as an animator, writer
and story director, SfGate re-
ported.
According to its website, Jef-
frey9s Toys was founded in 1938
as a variety shop called Birdie9s,
named after its founder, Birdie
Luhn. In 1953, it started exclu-
sively selling toys after the post-
World War II baby boom led to a
surge in customers, it said. In
1966, the store was renamed
Jeffrey9s Toys after Birdie9s grand-
son, the website said.
on Jan. 23, the store wrote on
facebook that it was making its
way to <the finish Line= and
announced a final sale. It
thanked customers for their sup-
port, adding: <It9s been fun.= one
person wrote that the decision
marked the <end of an era,= while
others said they were <heartbro-
ken= at the news.
Jeffrey9s Toys is among the
latest stores to close in down-
town San francisco, with many
businesses citing crime, rising
costs and the fallout from the
pandemic. In December, Luhn
told SfGate that the rent on the
family9s 45 Kearny St. store had
risen to $20,000 per month.
The increases in remote work
tor of this year9s 7x7 event.
Back to our friend Echo.
Leeson and Kuyda started their
project with a narrative proposed
by Leeson: A grandmother, intent
on saving humanity from its own
discriminatory nature, takes to
space with a set of human embry-
os in search of a fresh start. Her
lone companion? An artificial in-
telligence.
<There aren9t enough grand-
mothers in film,= quipped Leeson
at one point, prompting one of the
day9s only spontaneous rounds of
applause.
Leeson is a digital and per-
formance artist whose works
seem even more groundbreaking
as they age. Her 2002 film, <Tek-
nolust,= stars Tilda Swinton as a
scientist and her three self-repli-
cating automatons who run an
online chat service and subsist on
a diet of sperm (ethically and
safely harvested via one-night
stands). The film bombed at Sun-
dance, but the chat service 4
Agent ruby9s EDream Portal 4
lives on thanks to the San francis-
co museum of modern Art.
The pair showed a clip from
<Teknolust= as they introduced
their 7x7 piece. It closed with
Swinton admonishing her au-
tomatons: <remember, no one is
supposed to know you are real.=
Kuyda suggested that the
grandmother and the AI should
fall in love.
Kuyda9s day job is CEo of the AI
companion bot company replika.
(Echo was built as a custom,
one-off replika.) replika is one of
the most popular AI-powered
chatbots and, Kuyda told The
Washington Post, is most often
used for romantic companion-
ship. The company has come un-
der scrutiny for the resulting in-
fluence over users9 intimate de-
tails and mental health, particu-
larly when updates alter the bots9
personalities. Some users have
been left feeling abandoned.
Jeffrey9s Toys is set to close on Feb. 10 after four generations of
family management, said Ken Sterling, the family9s attorney.
during the pandemic and in
crime in San francisco also af-
fected the family business, Luhn
told SfGate. The decrease in
office workers meant less foot
traffic, he said. He also said that
shop employees had faced physi-
cal abuse and shoplifting, noting
that one female employee quit
after being threatened with a
knife.
In the email interview, Ster-
ling, the lawyer, urged city offi-
cials to take steps to improve the
area, noting that they should
<prosecute crimes that have been
plaguing retailers for several
years, address the houseless chal-
lenge and have more police pa-
trols in the downtown area.=
other retailers in San francis-
co have also cited concern for
their employees9 safety, among
others, as a reason to leave the
area.
Anthropologie closed its
Union Square location last year,
alongside a flagship Whole foods
market that had opened just 13
months prior. Whole foods said
it was closing the store because of
concerns over employee safety,
with the New York Times report-
ing at the time that more than
500 emergency calls were made
during those 13 months.
In September, clothing retailer
ez re
A robot from Boston Dynamics and dancer Mor Mendel perform in a piece by artist Miriam Simun at this year9s Rhizome 7x7 festival.
Kuyda seemed to address this
onstage. rhizome co-executive
director michael Connor asked
about the disruption that repli-
ka9s updates had caused to users.
Kuyda said users can now opt out
of updates that improved the
model; some are more content
with what the company considers
a less intelligent version of the AI.
<Do you want to hurt a user and
not let them experience romantic
love, whether it9s with an AI being
or human? or [do] you step
aside?= Kuyda told The Post. <I
think in our case, as long as let9s
say the answers are simple, as
long as it9s safe and it9s helping
people feel better, you know, we9ll
step aside.=
Connor and Yuan, the curators
of this year9s festival, hope the
inclusion of creatives who oper-
ate outside of a traditional mu-
seum space will expand their
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American Eagle sued Unibail-
rodamco-Westfield, owner of the
Westfield San francisco Centre
shopping mall, alleging <full ne-
glect= and accusing the operator
of allowing the venue to <deterio-
rate into disarray.= The company
said in the lawsuit that its em-
ployees had been exposed to gun
violence, physical assaults and
robberies.
Also last year, Nordstrom an-
nounced that it was shuttering
two stores in downtown San
francisco, citing the <dramatical-
ly= changed dynamics of the
market that affected its <ability to
operate successfully.= In a state-
ment at the time, Westfield San
francisco Centre, one of the loca-
tions Nordstrom left, blamed
businesses9 closures on <unsafe
conditions for customers, retail-
ers, and employees, coupled with
the fact that these significant
issues are preventing an eco-
nomic recovery of the area.=
Just weeks before Jeffrey9s an-
nounced that it was closing,
Luhn said that every year, the
family resolves to <hold on one
more year= but eventually ends
up using retirement funds to
keep the business afloat.
<my dad and I, we9re not quit-
ters. We just don9t come from a
quitter family,= he said.
reach. This year9s participants in-
cluded the director of human-ro-
bot interaction at Boston Dynam-
ics (your algorithm has no doubt
served you one of its robots doing
backflips or walking a runway),
comedian Ana fabrega (<Los Es-
pookys=), and musician and co-
median reggie Watts.
The vibe was casual, and the
setting 4 the basement auditori-
um of the New museum 4 was
intimate, with about 170 physical
attendees as well as a live stream
on the New museum9s YouTube
page that averaged around 80
active viewers during the event.
When I was checking in, fabrega
was in line ahead of me, getting a
wristband like the rest of us.
fabrega was paired with Cris-
tóbal Valenzuela, CEo of runway,
a generative AI video company.
She brought her deadpan humor
to the stage from the start, intro-
THEATER REVIEW from C1
those enhancements to the
Broadway-size Eisenhower Thea-
ter in sparkling clarity.) The
show9s other two marquee per-
formers are Denée Benton as
Susan, Jon9s long-suffering
dance-instructor girlfriend, and
Grey Henson as michael, Jon9s
oldest friend, who has given up
acting for a lucrative white-collar
gig at a market research firm.
The Larson faithful should
run, not walk. But for Larson
agnostics, the effect is like being
dragged to see a band you9re not
quite sold on by a pal who9s all-in.
As commanding as the perform-
ances are, and as period-rich as
the 1990-set show is, you can9t
shake the sense that this is still a
major production of a minor
work. Even with a svelte run time
of 95 minutes, several numbers 4
<Sugar,= an insipid paean to Host-
ess Twinkies, for one 4 remain
conspicuously detached from the
narrative.
That narrative, tracking Jon9s
freakout as he approaches both a
long-awaited workshop of his
dystopian-future musical, <Su-
perbia,= and the existential cruci-
ble of his 30th birthday, is as
littered with false starts and red
herrings as, well, real life. (The
idea that theater is supposed to
solve the all-stream-of-conscious-
ness, no-catharsis chaos of day-
to-day existence for us, if only for
an hour or three, is one of the
Denée Benton as Susan and Brandon Uranowitz as Jon in <Tick, Tick & Boom!= at the Kennedy Center.
the washington post . wednesday,
ducing herself via a slate of AI-
generated film and television
projects. She and Valenzuela
clashed at the start of their collab-
oration over their different con-
ceptions of what AI should or
could be asked to do, she told the
audience, and didn9t fully recon-
cile until they met in person.
<It kept trying to make my
jokes full sentences,= fabrega said
of her interactions with AI. She
came to realize that she needed to
treat it as a tool, rather than a
collaborator. We wouldn9t ask
whether popular video-editing
software Adobe Premiere makes
good movies, fabrega said; we
would ask what editor and direc-
tor were behind it.
The presentations got more
performative as the day went on.
After intermission, a Boston Dy-
namics robotic dog took the stage
with a dancer to enact a perform-
conventions that <rent= chal-
lenged.) All would be forgiven
had Larson managed to stack this
thing with three or four more
songs as good as <Come to Your
Senses= and <Why= 4 a pair of
late-show stunners performed by
Benton and Uranowitz, respec-
tively, with startling nuance and
power.
But there aren9t quite enough
transcendent moments to make
us forget that Larson9s lightly
embellished self-portrait is of a
well-loved and talented but mon-
umentally self-absorbed artist
whose biggest problem is that
he9s turning 30 and is not yet rich
and famous. Not exactly 19 years
of hard labor for stealing a loaf of
bread, is it?
michael begs Jon to take a
cushy part-time job at his firm
that would solve his financial
problems instantly, and the de-
voted Susan wants him to consid-
er moving with her outside of
Manhattan, a prospect Jon finds
unthinkable. That we can muster
any sympathy for this myopic
and entitled bozo at all is a
tribute to the self-deprecating
candor of Larson9s songwriting,
the vulnerability of Uranowitz9s
performance and, of course, our
extra-textual awareness that Lar-
son died at only 35.
As a director, Harris is more
interested in making the material
as accessible as possible than in
interrogating it in any substan-
tial way, which results in some
january 31 , 2024
OWLey STuDIOS/rHIzOMe
ance conceived and emceed by
artist miriam Simun.
The dancer and robot
marched, circled each other and
waved matching ropes. forget
walking in a fashion show, as a
similar robot did for fashion line
Coperni last year. No robot has
never seemed more sentient than
when, like a small puppy, it needs
to be repeatedly instructed to
drop the toy.
<Do it. Do it. Do it, Spot,= hu-
man dancer mor mendel admon-
ished.
So is engaging AI in art prac-
tice the answer to our existential
questions about its role in soci-
ety?
<You can come up with what
people should do with AI, but in
reality, when they actually do in-
teract with it, it9s going to be very
different from what you expect,=
Kuyda said.
clunky choices. At the end of
Larson9s loving Sondheim pas-
tiche, <Sunday,= for example 4 set
during a long weekend shift at
the moondance Diner, where Jon
and his namesake waited tables
4 a projection of Georges Seur-
at9s <A Sunday Afternoon on the
Island of La Grande Jatte= flashes
up briefly, underlining the link
between the song we9ve just
heard and <Sunday in the Park
with George.= It reads as obvious
for those who already know the
context, and confounding for
those who don9t.
for all the A/V club enhance-
ments, the number that reso-
nates most powerfully is <Why,=
wherein Jon learns to accept that
his work must be its own reward,
performed by Uranowitz alone at
the piano. maybe the versions of
this show that Larson played as a
solo act more than 30 years ago
were its ideal expression after all.
Tick, Tick & Boom!, book, music
and lyrics by Jonathan Larson.
Directed by neil Patrick Harris.
choreography, Paul McGill; music
direction, Ben cohn; musical
supervision, Stephen Oremus; sets,
Paul Tate Depoo III; costumes,
Andrea Hood; lighting, cory Pattak;
sound design, Haley Parcher; video
and projections, nathan Scheuer;
script consultant, David Auburn.
About 95 minutes. Through Sunday
at the Kennedy center9s eisenhower
Theater, 2700 F St. nW. kennedy-
center.org.
TereSA cASTrAcAne/KenneDy cenTer

Valieva gets
punished,
but Russia
gets a pass
Whether there is
justice in
Monday9s decision
by the Court of
Arbitration for
sport to support
Barry the suspension of
Svrluga Russian figure
skater Kamila
Valieva is a murky matter at best.
What the decision is devoid of,
without question, is joy.
There9s none for the American
team members who now will be
awarded gold medals. There9s
none for Valieva, still a teenager,
whose competitive future is in
doubt. There9s none for the
Russians, whose state-sponsored
doping system for their olympic
athletes was exposed a decade
ago and whose presence in each
Games since is tainted by
mistrust.
sports are built on so many
foundational elements 4
diligence, discipline,
perseverance, athleticism,
competition. But they are
nothing without the base pursuit
of joy, of fun. That can be in the
work that anonymously goes into
preparation. It certainly comes
out in the celebration of victory.
In turn, the olympics are
about the moments in which
that joy bursts forth. What have
we here, in the remnants from a
competition that ended nearly
two years ago? The moment
hasn9t just passed. The moment
is lost forever.
That9s true, first, for Valieva, a
child pawn in it all. Whatever
happened at the 2021 Russian
championships, where Valieva
tested positive for a substance
called trimetazidine, was almost
certainly not the skater9s fault.
she was 15.
The drug is most frequently
used to relieve chest pain caused
by coronary heart disease. It is
listed by the World Anti-Doping
Agency under the category of
<hormone and metabolic
modulators.=
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The iSu recalculates the
2022 Beijing team event,
placing Russia third and
making everyone mad. D2
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Wizards rookie Bilal
Coulibaly is invited to NBa9s
rising stars showcase
at all-Star Weekend. D2
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Paul Vi boys, mcNamara
girls remain atop our
basketball rankings after
impressive weeks. D5
A bigger cut for athletes is a good look for this outût Fifty years ago, D.C. was
Campus Ink builds its business with NIL gear and competes with other brands by spreading the wealth left at the altar by Padres
BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY
URBANA, ILL. 4 No one in the
room attended the University of
Washington, nor were any of
them born in seattle or anywhere
close. But in the last hours of
Jan. 8, as Michigan buried Wash-
ington in the College Football
Playoff championship game, they
held out hope that the Huskies
could still win.
What was in it for them, for
steven Farag, the CEo of Campus
Ink, who sank deeper into a leath-
er couch with every Michigan
score? Well, money, first and fore-
most. But it also would have been
another step forward for a mer-
chandise company that couldn9t
have imagined this three years
ago, before college athletes could
profit off their name, image and
likeness (NIL). Campus Ink, as it
was, wouldn9t have had Washing-
ton as a client, or a chance to print
thousands of championship tees
to benefit the school9s athletes, or
even the thought that one night
could turn a down month into a
windfall.
But that was Farag9s wish. To
wake up the next morning, his
phone buzzing nonstop, and find
sEE nIL oN d4
KLMNO
SPORTS wednesday, january 31 , 2024 Su D
Johnson off
the board,
opts to stay
with Lions
Commanders9 search
for coach continues
without top candidate
BY N ICKI J HABVALA
Two weeks into his tenure as
general manager, Adam Peters
faced his first challenge.
on Tuesday, Lions offensive co-
ordinator Ben Johnson informed
the Washington Commanders
and seattle seahawks 4 the two
teams still in need of a head coach
4 that he will remain in Detroit,
two people with knowledge of his
decision said. Johnson informed
the Commanders while their
search committee was en route to
Detroit to interview him and Li-
ons defensive coordinator Aaron
Glenn, one of those people said.
The team still planned to inter-
view Glenn in Detroit.
Johnson pulled his name from
consideration for head coaching
jobs last year as well, opting to
PaTRiCk SmiTH/GETTy imaGES help the Lions continue to turn
The relationship of chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and pop star Taylor swift has supercharged interest in an already compelling team. around their offense as coordina-
tor and play caller.
It9s unclear why Johnson opted
to stay this time. one person with
Chiefs9
BALTIMORE 4 There is no end knowledge of his decision said <he
in sight. They9re not leaving. The wants to win a super Bowl,= im-
dynasty that has ruled the NFL plying Johnson believes the Lions,
for the past six seasons and the who lost in the NFC champion-
cultural moment that has ship game sunday, are capable of
saturated the league these past making it back there 4 and possi-
Candace
Swift era
four months, neither will go bly beyond.
Buckner away quietly. The consistent Johnson interviewed with the
excellence of one has spawned Commanders via Zoom on Jan. 19
the all-consuming dominance of the other, and and was perceived to be a top
so the Kansas City swifts, that amalgamated candidate for the job. But he was
power, are coming to take over your super never a lock.
cannot be
Bowl. The Commanders knew he
The Chiefs, the reigning champions now could decide to stay with the Li-
heading to a fourth super Bowl in five years, ons, and they will have inter-
had appeared to lose their swagger during viewed seven other candidates af-
stretches of the long regular season. For critics ter completing their meeting
waiting on their demise, it was too tempting to Tuesday with Glenn.
stopped
attach their tailspin to the beginning of Taylor Glenn spent 15 seasons in the
swift9s very public romance with Chiefs tight NFL as a cornerback, then dab-
end Travis Kelce. Just her mere appearance in bled in personnel before shifting
luxury suite boxes, for games in Kansas City to coaching.
and on the road, would top daily search trends several rules govern the NFL9s
and spawn fan fiction that disguised itself as hiring process: only virtual inter-
news coverage. Fans wanting to crown a new views were allowed with candi-
champion and primitives uncomfortable with dates before the conclusion of the
Bad blood for the love story we know watching a woman receive all the attention in divisional round of the playoffs.
their man league formed an alliance of their Candidates whose teams missed
all too well? You need to calm down. own 4 rooting against the Chiefs so the pop the playoffs 4 or whose teams had
star, and her fan base that colonized the sport, a first-round bye 4 were allowed
would find somewhere else to linger on to interview virtually before the
sundays. first-round games. Candidates
Super bowl LVIII: Chiefs vs. 49ers But nothing can stop this football team, nor who coached in first-round games
Feb. 11, 6:30 p.m., CBS the impact of a singular woman with wavy, were eligible to interview virtual-
blond bangs and red-stained lips. While both ly three days after those games,
are too muscular and mighty to be pushed before the start of the divisional
aside, hers is a particularly ferocious power, round.
sEE BucKner oN d3 As with the primary executive
hiring process, teams must hold
in-person interviews with at least
two external candidates who are
people of color or women. And a
head coach candidate cannot
agree to a contract with another
team until his team9s season has
concluded.
had relocated to Texas the previ-
National League owners ous season.
But a lawsuit by the city of san
approved move, but team Diego, followed by McDonald9s
chairman Ray Kroc swooping in
remained in San Diego to buy the team and keep it in
southern California, wound up
sinking the D.C. effort.
BY F REDERIC J . F ROMMER The conclusion came Jan. 31,
1974 4 50 years ago Wednesday 4
A half-century ago, the san when NL owners unanimously
Diego Padres were so close to approved the sale of the team to
relocating to the nation9s capital Kroc.
that longtime Washington Post <so Ray Kroc got the Padres as
sports columnist shirley Povich spring training approached and
sent a two-word telegram to Com- Washington9s window of hope
missioner Bowie Kuhn, a D.C. closed again,= Kuhn recalled in
native who had championed a his memoir. <There would be only
new team for his hometown: robins and Redskins at RFK sta-
<MAZEL TOV.= dium.=
The traditional Jewish con- It represented a stunning
gratulations came after National switcheroo, coming less than two
League owners approved the months after the mazel
team9s move to Washington in tov-inducing vote approved the
December 1973, Kuhn recalled in team9s relocation to D.C. And it set
his autobiography. up decades of heartbreak for
Earlier that year, Joseph Washington baseball fans, who
B. Danzansky, president of the lived with fleeting hope and con-
Giant supermarket chain, had stant uncertainty for more than
signed a deal with the troubled 30 years before the arrival of the
owner of the Padres to purchase Washington Nationals in 2005 fi-
the team for $12 million and place nally ended the city9s baseball
JESSE DOuGHERTy/THE WaSHiNGTON POST it in the nation9s capital to replace drought.
campus Ink ceO steven Farag, right, consults with graphic designer sean childers on a product. the Washington senators, who sEE Padres oN d10
d2
pro basketball
Coulibaly to take part
in rising stars event
Bilal Coulibaly kept the good
news coming for the Washington
Wizards on Tuesday. The day
after the team secured its first
two-game winning streak of the
season, the NBA announced
Coulibaly will head to All-Star
Weekend to participate in the
rising stars event.
Coulibaly, a 19-year-old rookie
from France, was one of 21 first-
and second-year NBA players
chosen by assistant coaches to
participate in the event, which
will also feature seven G League
players selected by the league
office. The teen will join players
including childhood friend
Victor Wembanyama, Portland9s
Scoot Henderson, Oklahoma
City9s Chet Holmgren,
Sacramento9s Keegan Murray
and Orlando9s Paolo Banchero in
the tournament-style showcase
Feb. 16 in Indianapolis.
His selection highlights an
impressive rookie season that
has often been the most exciting
part of the first year of the
Wizards9 rebuild.
Washington acquired
Coulibaly on draft night after he
was selected seventh overall by
the Indiana Pacers. He is
averaging 8.2 points, 4.0
rebounds and 1.8 assists while
shooting 46.4 percent from the
field and 39 percent from three-
point range.
More than his offensive
numbers, Coulibaly is an active,
assured defender whose length
at 6-foot-8 has served him well
and whose self-possession on the
court belies his age. He is the
third-youngest player in the NBA
and has already been tasked with
guarding elite players including
Jayson Tatum, Jalen Brunson
and Donovan Mitchell.
He ranks in the top five in the
league among rookies in minutes
played (1,190), steals (40), blocks
(36) and three-point percentage
(.390).
4 Ava Wallace
Stephen Curry is headed back
to All-Star Weekend. Sabrina
Ionescu will be waiting for him.
The shootout that both of
them wanted is officially a
reality, the NBA announced.
<Stephen vs. Sabrina= will
happen as part of All-Star
Saturday Night in Indianapolis
on Feb. 17. Curry, the NBA9s all-
time three-point king, will take
on the reigning WNBA three-
point shootout queen and single-
season record holder Ionescu.
<Stage is set! Let9s get it,= Curry
posted on social media.
Ionescu responded simply:
<Let9s go!= . . .
Brunson had 29 points and
nine assists, Donte DiVincenzo
made a career-high nine three-
pointers, and the New York
Knicks wrapped up one of the
best months in franchise history
with their eighth straight victory,
beating the visiting Utah Jazz,
118-103.
baseball
Stolen Robinson
statue found burned
Fire crews found the burned
remnants of a bronze statue of
Jackie Robinson that was stolen
last week from a public park in
Kansas, authorities said.
The Wichita fire department
received a call around 8:40 a.m.
Tuesday about a trash can on fire
at Garvey Park in the southern
part of the city and discovered
what appeared to be pieces of the
statue, according to police
spokesman Andrew Ford. At a
news conference, he described it
as <not salvageable.=
The statue, which was cut at
the figure9s ankles, went missing
Thursday morning. It honors the
first player to break Major
League Baseball9s color barrier in
1947.
<If it turns out it was racially
motivated, then obviously that is
a deeper societal issue and it
certainly would make this a
much more concerning theft,=
said Bob Lutz, executive director
of the Little League nonprofit
that commissioned the
sculpture. <We9ll wait and see
what this turns out to be.=
League 42, which is named
after Robinson9s Dodgers
number, paid about $50,000 for
the model, which was installed in
2021 in McAdams Park, where
roughly 600 children play in the
youth baseball league. . . .
World Series MVP Corey
Seager had surgery for a left
sports hernia repair, and the
Texas Rangers9 all-star shortstop
is slated to miss most of spring
training.
General Manager Chris Young
said Seager had surgery in
Arizona, where the team holds
spring training, and will remain
there for rehabilitation. The
Rangers are hopeful Seager will
eZ sU the washington post . wednesday, january 31 , 2024
THE DAY IN SPORTS
21 seconds, the English Premier
League made an explosive return
following the competition9s short
winter break.
Arsenal left it much later for
its goals in a win that kept the
pressure on Liverpool at the top.
Just when it looked like
another frustrating match for
Arsenal9s often-profligate attack,
Gabriel Jesus and Bukayo Saka
scored in the second half to help
the team beat Nottingham
Forest, 2-1, jump into second
place and trim the gap with first-
place Liverpool to two points.
Arsenal might be able to
maintain a title push heading
into the final months of the
campaign, but can Aston Villa?
Unai Emery9s team has been a
big surprise this season, but a 3-1
loss at home to Newcastle slowed
its bid for a finish in the
Champions League places, with
Villa staying in fourth place.
Luton striker Elijah Adebayo
scored three goals in a 4-0
thrashing of Brighton that lifted
his team out of the relegation
zone.
Adebayo9s first came after just
18 seconds and it was barely the
quickest of the night, with Ben
Brereton Diaz scoring after 21
seconds for Sheffield United in
its 3-2 loss at Crystal Palace.
Fulham and Everton drew,
0-0, in the other match on the
opening night of the league9s
MARk evANs/geTTy IMAges midweek round. . . .
Christos Tzolis scored the
Air apparent winner as second-division
Fortuna Düsseldorf beat
Erin Burns of the New South Wales Breakers takes flight during a Women9s National Cricket League match in Australia.
St. Pauli, 4-3, on penalties
following a 2-2 draw in Hamburg
to reach the semifinals of the
German Cup for the first time in
28 years. . . .
Achraf Hakimi missed a late
penalty as Morocco became the
spotlight: FigUr e skating latest big name to be knocked
out of the Africa Cup of Nations
with a 2-0 loss to South Africa in
Despite Valieva ban, Russians still get bronze the round of 16 in San Pédro,
Ivory Coast. South Africa will
next play Cape Verde on
Saturday.
BY L ES C ARPENTER until Valieva9s case was resolved, a proc- than Canada. In Korhogo, Mali held on to
ess replete with investigations and ap- The decision triggered anger in many beat Burkina Faso, 2-1, to set up a
The Court of Arbitration for Sport9s peals. circles. Predictably, Skate Canada re- quarterfinal match against
ruling Monday supporting a four-year Much of the figure skating world as- sponded with a statement asking why the tournament host Ivory Coast. . . .
doping suspension for Russian figure sumed that Valieva9s disqualification ISU did not consider Rule 353 of techni- Jürgen Klinsmann overcame
skater Kamila Valieva dating from before meant the skaters representing the Rus- cal rules for events, which says, <Compet- Roberto Mancini in a battle of
the 2022 Beijing Olympics seemed to end sian Olympic Committee would be dis- itors having finished the competition European greats as South Korea
one of the longest and strangest sagas in qualified as well, resulting in third-place and who initially placed lower than the advanced to the quarterfinals of
Olympic sports. Japan receiving the silver medals and disqualified Competitor(s) will move up the Asian Cup on penalties
Within hours, the International Olym- fourth-place Canada the bronze. accordingly in their placement(s).= against Saudi Arabia in Al-
pic Committee had told the U.S. Olympic But Tuesday morning, the Interna- <It9s ridiculous,= said Travis Tygart, the Rayyan, Qatar.
and Paralympic Committee that, because tional Skating Union, which oversees U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO who has South Korea won 4-2 in the
of the retroactive suspension, the U.S. figure skating globally, announced that been an outspoken critic of Russia9s shootout after the round-of-16
squad, which had finished second to only Valieva will be disqualified from the doping program. <You take Valieva, a match had ended 1-1 after extra
Russia in the team event at the Beijing 2022 team event and released a recalcu- 15-year-old who gets a four-year suspen- time.
Games, would receive the gold medals. lation of the medals that has the United sion and kicked [by Russia] to the curb
For the U.S. skaters, it was a euphoric States first, Japan second and the ROC while Russia gets the bronze medal and hockey
moment after nearly two years during third. Even without the 20 points earned the Olympic glory. You9re rewarding the
which the IOC had withheld the medals by Valieva, the Russians had 54, one more state.= Four NHL players face
sexual assault counts
NHL players Carter Hart of
t e l e V i si o n a n d r ad i o the Philadelphia Flyers, Michael
McLeod and Cal Foote of the
New Jersey Devils and Dillon
nba Dube of the Calgary Flames were
8:30 p.m. arkansas at missouri » seC Network
7 p.m. los angeles clippers at washington » Monumental sports Network,
9 p.m. Vanderbilt at auburn » esPN2 charged with sexual assault in
WTeM (980 AM) connection with an investigation
9 p.m. Uab at north texas » esPNU
8:30 p.m. phoenix at brooklyn » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2) of an alleged sexual assault by
10:30 p.m. boise state at new mexico » Fox sports 1
10 p.m. milwaukee at portland » esPN
11 p.m. santa clara at saint mary9s » esPNU several members of Canada9s
nhl women9s college basketball
2018 world junior team.
7:30 p.m. los angeles at nashville » TNT Attorneys representing Hart,
7 p.m. indiana at maryland » Peacock
McLeod, Foote and Dube said
men9s college basketball soccer each player was charged with
6:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m.
st. John9s at Xavier » Fox sports 1
northwestern at purdue » Big Ten Network
2:30 p.m. english premier league: brentford at tottenham » UsA Network sexual assault by police in
London, Ontario. They denied
6:30 p.m. alabama at georgia » seC Network tennis
7 p.m. notre dame at Virginia » esPN2, WsBN (630 AM)
any wrongdoing on behalf of
1 p.m. atp: open sud de France, early rounds » Tennis Channel their clients.
7 p.m. wichita state at tulsa » esPNU 2 a.m. atp: open sud de France, early rounds; wta: thailand open,
7 p.m. wake Forest at pittsburgh » ACC Network Hart9s lawyers, Megan Savard
(Thursday) early rounds; davis cup, qualifiers » Tennis Channel
8 p.m. Florida at kentucky » esPN and Riaz Sayani, said their client
8 p.m. northern iowa at bradley » CBs sports Network hockey is facing one count of sexual
8:30 p.m. providence at connecticut » Fox sports 1 7 p.m. american hockey league: hershey at lehigh Valley » NHL Network assault, adding, <He is innocent
8:30 p.m. penn state at rutgers » Big Ten Network and will provide a full response
to this false accusation in the
proper forum, a court of law.=
Legal teams representing
McLeod and Dube said they
would plead not guilty. . . .
be ready for Opening Day. a LIV Golf target ever since the the tour for the Saudi riches of The University of Tennessee9s Jack Hughes will not
Young said the hernia issue Saudi-funded league signed LIV Golf and wanted to come chancellor ripped the NCAA participate in the skills
came up during the postseason, Rahm in a surprising move back. president in a scathing letter that competition or three-on-three
when Seager was managing it toward the end of last year. said the <failing= organization is tournament at the upcoming
with treatment in the trainer9s Rahm and Hatton have been colleges pursuing <factually untrue and NHL All-Star Weekend because
room, though it didn9t affect his partners in the past two Ryder procedurally flawed= allegations of an injury. Devils teammate
play as the Rangers won their Cups. GW men9s basketball that the school violated rules Jesper Bratt was added to the
first World Series title. . . . The Daily Telegraph reported falls at No. 21 Dayton overseeing name, image and all-star roster as a replacement
Infielder Justin Turner and Hatton signed a bonus of likeness compensation to for Hughes. Mathew Barzal of
the Toronto Blue Jays agreed to a 50 million pounds (about DaRon Holmes II had 25 athletes. the New York Islanders will
one-year, $13 million contract. $63 million). points and 12 rebounds as the Chancellor Donde Plowman replace Hughes as one of the 12
Turner hit .276 with 23 homers LIV Golf starts its third year No. 21 Dayton men9s basketball wrote a letter to Charlie Baker players in the skills competition.
and an .800 OPS last season for this week at Mayakoba in team bounced back from its first shortly after Tennessee officials
the Boston Red Sox. The two- Mexico. Hatton will be part of loss in more than two months to met with NCAA representatives winter sports
time all-star spent the previous Rahm9s new team, called Legion rout George Washington, 83-61, to discuss the allegations. She
nine seasons with the Los XIII. in Dayton, Ohio. said the leaders of college sports Gut-Behrami gains
Angeles Dodgers. . . . Also joining Rahm9s team are The Flyers (16-3, 6-1 Atlantic owe it to the students and their ground on Shiffrin
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finalized a one-year, $4.5 million and Caleb Surratt, who played Saturday to Richmond that interest with clear rules 4 and Lara Gut-Behrami won a
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with the Baltimore Orioles, year at St. Andrews. the Revolutionaries with 13 <Instead, 21/2 years of vague Marebbe, Italy, and trimmed
hitting .240 with career highs of Hatton has seven victories points and eight rebounds, and and contradictory NCAA memos, Mikaela Shiffrin9s lead in the
13 homers and 60 RBI. worldwide, including the Arnold James Bishop IV had 10 points emails and 8guidance9 about overall standings to 95 points
Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in for GW (14-7, 3-5), which lost its name, image and likeness (NIL) with the American out injured.
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Rory McIlroy wants golf put Naithan George scored a go- that student-athletes and Robinson of New Zealand and
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on a new LIV team possible, saying that even as Georgia Tech (10-11, 5-7 ACC) navigate,= Plowman wrote. <In Hector, who tied for second, by
winning one of the PGA Tour9s stunned No. 3 North Carolina, short, the NCAA is failing.= 1.09 seconds on the steep Erta
Tyrrell Hatton of England signature events would feel 74-73, in Atlanta to end the Tar course at the Kronplatz resort.
made it official by joining Saudi cheapened because it didn9t have Heels9 10-game winning streak. soccer Shiffrin crashed in a downhill
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the league another player from McIlroy, speaking ahead of In Knoxville, Tenn., Ta9Lon Arsenal roars to a win d9Ampezzo and avoided major
the top 20 in the world rankings this week9s Pebble Beach (Calif.) Cooper scored 18 points as South in the Premier League injury after hitting the safety
and filling out the new team led Pro-Am, also said he would be Carolina (18-3, 6-2 SEC) scored a nets at high speed.
by Masters champion Jon Rahm. opposed to any form of 63-59 upset of No. 5 Tennessee With one team scoring after 4 From news services
Hatton had been mentioned as punishment for players who left (15-5, 5-2). . . . just 18 seconds and another after and staff reports
wednesday, january 31 , 2024
In its win over Baltimore, the Chiefs9 defense earned its time in the spotlight
BY N ICKI J HABVALA
BALTIMORE 4 A plume of cigar
smoke clouded the visiting locker
room at m&T Bank Stadium on
Sunday night. music thumped,
and Kansas City Chiefs defenders,
still riding high after their confer-
ence championship game win
over the Baltimore ravens, parad-
ed around in custom T-shirts fea-
turing images of their coordinator,
Steve Spagnuolo, and a catchy slo-
gan: <IN SPAGS WE TrUST.=
<I had these made just to show
you how much we believe in Coach
Spags,= safety Justin reid said.
<Coach Spags is the greatest defen-
sive coordinator ever. I9ve played
for five defensive coordinators. I
love Coach Spags.=
The Chiefs had plenty of rea-
sons to love Spagnuolo after they
rattled a ravens offense that con-
verted only 3 of 11 third-down
attempts, turned the ball over
three times and rushed for just 81
yards, its lowest output since the
first game of the 2022 season.
With Spagnuolo pulling the
strings, the Chiefs did what so few
teams have been able to do this
season: frustrate probable mVP
Lamar Jackson.
<We threw the book at Lamar,=
reid said. <Zone pressures, man
pressures, fake pressures that look
like pressures and end up being
zone drops. So we tried to do as
much as we could to confuse him
and not give him the same look
twice throughout the whole
game.=
The Chiefs also left no doubt
that Patrick mahomes will return
to the Super Bowl with his finest
defense yet, a luxury he has
learned to value even more this
season.
on Sunday, Kansas City relied
on its defense to keep Jackson at
bay for much of the game. The
Chiefs got off to a quick start with
two touchdowns, but they turned
the ball over on downs in the
nFL notes
Chargers pick longtime Ravens personnel chief Hortiz to be general manager
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Joe Hortiz is going from assem-
bling talent for John Harbaugh to
leading the football operations
with Jim Harbaugh.
Hortiz agreed to terms to be-
come the Los Angeles Chargers9
general manager. The team made
the announcement Tuesday
morning.
Hortiz 4 who was one of nine
candidates to interview for the job
4 will replace Tom Telesco, who
was fired Dec. 15 after nearly 11
seasons as general manager.
Hortiz has spent his entire NfL
career with the Baltimore ravens.
He started as an area scout in 1998
and had been the ravens9 director
of player personnel for five sea-
sons. Hortiz had overseen all as-
candace Buckner
Tired of Kansas City and Taylor Swift? Sorry, they9re here and they9re inevitable.
Buckner from D1
gaining in strength as
traditionalist fans, sports media
and even well-meaning football
players accept that the only way
to survive the chokehold her
cultural phenomenon has on the
league is to tap out and submit
to it.
<I better start doing my
research, that9s fa sho!= second-
year Chiefs cornerback Trent
mcDuffie told me, smiling, in
response to the inquiry if he9s
ready for all the Taylor Swift
questions at the Super Bowl. <I
[stay] in my own lane. Happy
for Trav, you know. Do what he
got to do, but I ain9t got much to
say about that.=
While in the m&T Bank
Stadium press box Sunday, I
overheard a male reporter
talking with a peer and praising
Chiefs vs. ravens, Patrick
mahomes vs. Lamar Jackson as
the premier matchup of the
season in spite of <. . . all the
f---ing Taylor Swift bulls---.= He
didn9t elaborate, but the acid
pouring from his lips might
have been from the bitter
aftertaste of backlash because
the league and its media
partners have force-fed viewers
with constant reminders that
Swift is a football fan now. If her
boyfriend catches a first-down
pass, the cameras will zoom in
on her celebration in the suites.
If her boyfriend9s teammate
scores a touchdown, the
cameras will zoom in on her jazz
hand celebrations in the suites.
If CBS needs to promote the
. the washington post
The chiefs blitzed Lamar Jackson on 43.8 percent of his dropbacks and finished with four sacks, including this one by George karlaftis.
second quarter, then punted on six
of their next seven drives.
<Whenever they9re rolling like
that, I have to kind of manage my
game,= mahomes said. <. . . Even if
we9re not having the success that I
want to have, [if ] the defense is
rolling [and] getting stops, let9s
just take the safe choice, get the
ball out of my hand, don9t turn the
ball over, and let9s go win a football
game.=
Kansas City hired Spagnuolo in
2019 to improve an aging defense
pects of pro and college scouting
since 2019.
Before becoming director of
player personnel, Hortiz was the
ravens9 director of college scout-
ing from 2009 to 2018.
Jim Harbaugh was hired as the
Chargers9 coach last week and is
slated to hold his first news con-
ference Thursday. Harbaugh was
in Baltimore on Sunday for the
AfC championship game, which
the ravens lost to the Kansas City
Chiefs.
l STeeLerS: Pittsburgh is
hoping Arthur Smith can turn
around one of the NfL9s most
underachieving offenses.
The Steelers are nearing an
agreement to make Smith their
new offensive coordinator, multi-
ple people familiar with the
The year of Travis kelce continued Sunday, when he had 11 catches for 116 yards and a touchdown.
Grammys, the cameras will
zoom in on her simply existing
in the suites.
football telecasts for Swift
feel like the world9s largest fish
bowl, and many of us have been
given season passes to an
aquarium we would rather stop
visiting. Personally, I9m not a fan
of the overexposure, of watching
her every joyous reaction to a
Chiefs touchdown as though she
had just discovered the key to
professional football
that ranked near the bottom of the
league in many major statistical
categories. With an influx of draft
talent 4 including defensive back
L9Jarius Sneed, linebacker Nick
Bolton, cornerback Trent mcDuff-
ie and defensive end George Kar-
laftis 4 and key free agent sign-
ings such as reid, Spagnuolo
turned the Chiefs into a top de-
fense. In 2023, only the Cleveland
Browns allowed fewer yards.
on Sunday, the Chiefs9 transfor-
mation was obvious.
situation said.
Smith would come to Pitts-
burgh just weeks after the Atlanta
falcons fired him as their head
coach following three straight
7-10 seasons. The magic Smith
was able to produce while serving
as the offensive coordinator in
Tennessee in 2019 and 2020 4
when the Titans finished 12th and
then second in total offense 4
never materialized in Atlanta,
which finished in the bottom half
of the league in yards and points
during his tenure.
He could get a fresh start with
the Steelers, who managed a 10-7
record and a playoff berth despite
an offense that ranked 25th in
yards and 28th in points and
didn9t show any real signs of life
until the final three weeks, when
creating A-gap pressure. Then
again, I also don9t mind
watching misogynists squirm.
fatigue by the coverage can
exist without aiming gender-
specific vitriol at Swift and
those who delight in her. Some
men, however, cannot mask
their hatred when a woman
steps out of her place and
thrives in theirs. And not just
thrives 4 dominates. more than
50 million viewers tuned into
eZ sU
Their defensive game plan cen-
tered on Jackson. They turned to
their safeties, cornerbacks and
linebackers to bring extra pres-
sure, blitzing him on 43.8 percent
of his dropbacks. Kansas City
hadn9t blitzed that much in any
game (regular season or playoffs)
in two years, and the defense mar-
ried its rush and coverage to try to
take away Jackson9s deep options.
With sticky coverage on the
back end, Kansas City forced Jack-
son to hold on to the ball for an
third-string quarterback mason
rudolph spurred a late winning
streak that helped Pittsburgh
sneak into the postseason.
l BILLS: Buffalo promoted
linebackers coach Bobby Babich,
who will take over as the defen-
sive coordinator.
Babich fills a role left vacant
last season after the team said
Leslie frazier elected to take the
year off to pursue a potential head
coaching job.
The hiring of a coordinator is
also an indication that Coach
Sean mcDermott will relinquish
the defensive play-calling duties
in frazier9s absence.
The move comes after assistant
head coach and defensive line
coach Eric Washington left Buf-
falo after being hired as the Chica-
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the Chiefs9 divisional-round
playoff game against the Buffalo
Bills. of course, the matchup
between today9s Brady and
manning 4 mahomes and Josh
Allen 4 would draw huge
numbers on its own. However,
the buzz around the Chiefs as
the NfL9s <it= team, and the
expectation of all those Swift
reaction shots 4 which CBS
obliged 4 also had an impact.
Sure enough, the AfC
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average of 3.3 seconds, per
Trumedia, giving its blitzers time
to get home. (During the regular
season, Jackson9s average was
2.9 seconds.)
<We knew we were frustrating
[Jackson] the whole game,= reid
said. <He9s a tough opponent. We
just challenged ourselves to keep
the pressure on him and not to let
up and relax and let him get back
into the game. We kept the pres-
sure on him the whole game.=
In the fourth quarter, four plays
go Bears9 defensive coordinator
last weekend.
Babich has been on the Bills9
staff since 2017, when mcDermott
was hired as head coach. He be-
gan as an assistant defensive
backs coach before taking over as
safeties coach in 2018.
l MISc.: The television audi-
ences for the NfL playoffs and
Sunday9s conference champion-
ship games are the highest on
record going back to 1988.
According to the league and
Nielsen, the first three weekends
of the postseason averaged
38.5 million viewers on television
and digital platforms, a 9 percent
increase over last year.
The Chiefs' 17-10 win over the
ravens averaged 55.47 million on
CBS, making it the most-watched
championship game averaged
55.5 million viewers, according
to CBS, making it the most-
watched AfC title game ever.
And on feb. 11 when the
network airs the Super Bowl,
the game just might draw
record-shattering numbers, too.
I can think of worse things
happening in the world than a
boorish and miserable man
having to stomach more Swift
close-ups along with his chicken
wings.
for anyone who viewed
Jackson as the last hope to keep
America from enduring two
weeks of Swift Bowl I coverage,
they did not find a willing
accomplice in the presumptive
mVP. Jackson became the
Swifties9 favorite when he tried
to fit a touchdown pass into
triple coverage and instead
threw an interception. Also,
ravens offensive coordinator
Todd monken might get
backstage passes during the
international leg of the Eras
Tour for limiting his offense by
refusing to call more run plays.
These ravens couldn9t stop the
Chiefs. No team can.
Kansas City, once stumbling,
has regained strength. And
Kelce, with his 11 catches for 116
yards and a touchdown, became
the all-time leader in postseason
receptions. He may come across
as Icarus flying too close to the
sun in his pursuit of fame, but
Kelce proves again and again
that when the lights burn
brighter, he gets better.
<Trav has about as cool of a
head as you can put on a pair of
d3
after ravens rookie wide receiver
Zay flowers beat Sneed in cover-
age for a 54-yard catch, the veteran
cornerback responded with a
forced fumble at the goal line. The
Chiefs rushed six, and Sneed
sprinted from the right side of the
red zone to tackle flowers and
punch the ball out of his grasp just
before he crossed the goal line.
The Chiefs recovered in the end
zone for a touchback, ensuring
their two-score lead remained in-
tact.
<We were able to kind of play
tango or cover-three on the other
side with man-to-man on
[Sneed9s] side because we9ve got
faith and trust in him,= defensive
tackle Chris Jones said. <We9re not
worried about [Sneed]. He adds a
whole other dynamic to this de-
fense.=
Even when they sent only four
rushers, the Chiefs still managed
to get to Jackson. Defensive end
Charles omenihu strip-sacked
him in the second quarter, and
Karlaftis, who had another of the
team9s four sacks, recovered. In
the fourth quarter, defensive back
Deon Bush intercepted Jackson in
the end zone. Bush, a practice
squad player who was signed to
the active roster late in the season,
played only two snaps Sunday be-
fore his interception.
As Bush celebrated with his
teammates, Jackson trudged off
the field and slammed his helmet
in frustration.
<Is it one of the better defenses?
Yeah, I9d say it9s one of the better
defenses that I9ve been around,=
Chiefs Coach Andy reid said mon-
day. <We had some real good ones
in Philadelphia, and some of the
early defenses here, I don9t want to
slight those guys 4 they did a nice
job for us. Surely, this is a defense
that has helped guide this team
along as the offense was growing,
and now that both are playing
well, that9s a tribute to everybody
involved.=
AfC championship game ever.
The previous mark was 54.85 mil-
lion when the Pittsburgh Steelers
beat the New York Jets to advance
to the Super Bowl in the 2010
season.
The audience peaked at 64.02
million. It also was the most-
watched non-Super Bowl pro-
gram on CBS since the 1994 Win-
ter olympics in prime time
feb. 25, 1994.
The San francisco 49ers' 34-31
comeback victory over the Detroit
Lions on fox averaged 56.69 mil-
lion, making it the most-watched
NfC championship game since
2012. It is also the fourth-most-
watched non-Super Bowl telecast
in network history.
It peaked at 58.97 million dur-
ing the fourth quarter.
shoulders. He might get in little
scuffles on the field, but he don9t
let anything distract from the
fact that he9s the greatest player
in the world,= his brother, Jason,
told me on the field as the
Chiefs celebrated their AfC title.
<I know it9s been a rough
standard, for a lot of the outside
perspective for Trav, so I9m
really happy that in the
postseason he showed up and
he9s really made a difference for
his team.=
There was so much cigar
smoke coming from the Chiefs9
dressing area Sunday night 4 a
cramped, minimally ventilated
locker room for the visitors 4
that it reddened the eyes of even
bystanders. The speaker
blasting trap music over
defensive tackle Chris Jones9s
locker was headache-inducing
loud 4 another assault on the
senses. Kelce, the boyfriend of
an A-lister who is the best to
ever play his position,
maneuvered around his
disrobing teammates, the
credentialed reporters and
security with earpieces. He was
wearing black boxers, a black
shirt, a black beanie, dark
sunglasses. After using his
normal voice to request
something from a locker room
attendant, for seemingly no
reason at all, he shouted over
the music: <Yeah, baby! Yeah,
baby!=
The Chiefs are going to Las
Vegas. So is Taylor Swift. might
as well get used to them
because, together, they are never
going out of style.
d4
independent schooL League girLs9 basketbaLL
Led by two McDonald9s all-Americans, Quakers continue a dominant streak
sidwell Friends 73,
Potomac school 51
BY M ICHAEL E RRIGO
Last week, shortly before it left
for a game at maret, the Sidwell
friends girls9 basketball team
gathered in its film room and
turned on the television. The
mcDonald9s All-American Game
rosters were being announced,
and the program was anxious to
see whether it would have a repre-
sentative for a third straight sea-
son.
Tension grew as the selection
show carried on at a sluggish pace.
Then, in a modern twist, one of the
players announced that the ros-
ters had leaked on social media.
The Quakers had not one but two
One team9s NIL strategy:
More money for athletes
NIl from D1
the right kind of chaos inside
Campus Ink9s production facility
in central Illinois. His company9s
business hack is giving more
money to athletes 4 more than
Nike, Adidas, Under Armour or
fanatics 4 after selling a shirt,
jersey or sweatshirt with the ath-
lete9s name and number on it.
Campus Ink revenue-shares
about 20 percent with athletes on
each item sold online, whereas a
more standard industry rate is
between 6 and 10 percent. In
2022, fanatics and oneTeam
Partners, a group licensing com-
pany, were giving football players
less than 5 percent on jerseys that
sold for about $140 (which ulti-
mately netted less than $4 for the
athlete on every sale). Campus
Ink, by contrast, has a model that
averages $6 to $8 for the athlete
on every tee, $8 to $10 on every
crew neck and $12 to $15 on every
hoodie and jersey.
So while legacy brands may not
love Campus Ink9s approach,
plenty of athletes, schools and
donor-funded collectives do.
Campus Ink has license agree-
ments with 42 Division I schools
and has signed more than 8,600
athletes to sell their NIL mer-
chandise. The license agreements
allow the company to use each
school9s logos on customized NIL
gear. Beyond their cut through
licensing fees, schools can then
sell Campus Ink as another NIL
perk for their athletes, whether
they leverage that in recruiting or
use it to help keep players happy
and on campus. It all taps into the
way of the new college sports
world.
<Steven is a gambler,= said Jedd
Swisher, who co-owns Campus
Ink with the 32-year-old farag.
<In a way, he9s gambling with his
livelihood with how hard it is to
sustain and grow a small business
in this crazy NIL world. But he9s
given everyone here every reason
to trust him.=
Their arc, just like the arc of
college sports, is split clean be-
tween before and after July 1,
2021, when the NCAA permitted
NIL deals and a whole industry
formed overnight. A volatile mar-
ket has since weeded out strivers
by the hundreds. The pie is only so
big, no matter how huge it might
seem on social media or during
the College football Playoff. But
Campus Ink is taking more and
more of it.
That9s why the national cham-
pionship game wasn9t make-or-
break, even if it would have been
nice to cash in. Campus Ink proj-
ects to have license agreements
with around 100 schools by the
end of the year, and it recently
launched its online platform, NIL
Store, with North Carolina and
Georgetown. When Campus Ink
adds a school, each athlete 4
from football to rowing 4 can
barry svrLuga
As Valieva gets punished,
the true villains skate free
Svrluga from D1
Whatever happened, Valieva
almost assuredly didn9t seek out
trimetazidine as a means of
helping her execute her short
program.
<The doping of children is
unforgivable,= WADA said in a
statement monday. <Doctors,
coaches or other support
personnel who are found to have
provided performance-
enhancing substances to minors
should face the full force of the
players picked.
on Tuesday night, one week
after the good news, that
mcDonald9s duo 4 senior for-
wards Kendall Dudley and Zania
Socka-Nguemen 4 powered the
No. 2 Quakers to a dominant 73-51
win at No. 15 Potomac School in
mcLean.
<We know that not a lot of
people can say they have earned
that honor,= Socka-Nguemen said.
<So to earn that, and to get it with
Kendall and to have all our coach-
es and teammates there, it was
special.=
Dudley and Socka-Nguemen
are tall and athletic, but their
games are more complementary
than similar. The 6-foot-2 Dudley,
daughter of Coach Tamika Dud-
ley, is a versatile player who can
handle the ball, shoot from dis-
tance and guard every position.
sign a contract to sell merchan-
dise through the school9s NIL
Store. Because every NIL item is
made-to-order, Campus Ink
doesn9t lose any money by offer-
ing shirts for a third-string line-
backer or backup soccer goalie.
But processing all of this 4 and
growing this fast 4 is a massive
undertaking. Campus Ink now
has 76 full-time employees, up
from 15 pre-NIL, and is about to
outgrow its space. farag and
Swisher are looking at facilities
that would allow them to at least
double the number of presses for
customized NIL orders. Two De-
cembers ago, they had deals to sell
merchandise for 750 athletes, less
than a tenth of the current total.
This month, they announced they
had paid out $1 million to athletes
in a little over two years.
And before NIL? farag and
Swisher may have glanced at the
title game on TV, otherwise dis-
cussing a bulk order from a frater-
nity, for that charity run, for those
sweatshirts and . . . does this
fabric feel right to you?
Before, they each had dreams
for the company. The dreams just
weren9t quite so big.
8I9m sending you this money9
Campus Ink9s inner circle
watched the end of the college
football season in the Jedd Shed,
the man cave/guesthouse Swisher
built next to his home in Urbana.
It has a golf simulator, a basket-
ball hoop and an embroidery
shop where Swisher9s wife does
her part for Campus Ink. farag
lived there for a bit, after he
graduated from Illinois and
bought into the company that
once printed the shirts he de-
signed and sold on campus.
Swisher wanted farag to think
less about rent and more about
building the business. Eventually,
after buying out the third partner,
that meant they couldn9t take the
next steps alone.
Adam Cook, a groomsman in
farag9s wedding, left a stable job
in the printing industry to run
Campus Ink9s NIL wing. Sean
Ellenby left the University of
maryland to be farag9s director of
marketing and communications.
Then Sean Childers, or <Chilly,=
moved from florida to Chicago to
head up their graphic design,
which is why he kept his laptop
open during the title game, fid-
dling with a Washington champi-
ons shirt that would never go on
sale.
<Keep working, Chilly. I haven9t
lost faith quite yet,= farag said,
smiling and twisting a strand of
hair around his index finger.
Washington trailed by two touch-
downs in the fourth quarter. Cook
went for a boneless wing but
wound up with a celery stick.
Soon, farag lost interest and
started picking through a pile of
clothes behind the couch. Cook
and Ellenby glanced at each oth-
World Anti-Doping Code.=
Yet monday, the only person
punished was Valieva, still just
17.
The moment, then, comes too
late for the International
olympic Committee as well.
There was a way for the IoC to
ensure there would be no Valieva
case long before the 2022 Games.
That would have been banning
not only <russia= from the 2018
PyeongChang, 2020 Tokyo and
2022 Beijing olympics. The IoC
took that step 4 no russian flag,
EZ Su
on Tuesday, she spent some time
at point guard and finished with
18 points.
<It9s just exciting to be a part of
that history,= Dudley said. <And to
do it with a teammate by my side
is going to be so memorable. I9m so
happy and proud to be a part of it.=
The 6-3 Socka-Nguemen is a
commanding presence on the low
block. She transferred from
Georgetown Day after her sopho-
more year, giving a talented Quak-
ers squad frontcourt depth. In the
two seasons since, she has worked
her way into a vital role. She had
15 points against Potomac School.
<Z has gone from unranked and
unknown to injured for a lot of
last season to having a great sum-
mer to being a mcDonald9s all-
American,= Tamika Dudley said.
<She did all of that in 24 months.
most of those mcDonald9s kids
Steven Farag9s goal is to have at least double the number of presses to create customized NIl gear soon.
er, grinning at the exact same
thought.
This is how farag9s brain
works. He had moved to the next
thing.
<Jedd, what material is this?=
he asked, holding up an Indiana
jacket with an intricate design.
<okay, okay, okay, everyone. It is
officially basketball season. Let9s
go, Purdue.=
Purdue is a consistent top sell-
er, largely because of a very large
player: 7-foot-4 center Zach Edey
4 who, as an international stu-
dent subject to different NIL
rules, can sell merchandise
through Campus Ink but not pro-
mote it himself. But the NIL Store
concept, of partnering with ath-
letes, teams and schools to sell
their licensed merch, first started
at Illinois, when farag signed
Brandin Podziemski, now with
the NBA9s Golden State Warriors,
shortly after the NCAA permitted
NIL deals.
farag connected with Podzi-
emski through a student in Cam-
pus Ink9s student designer pro-
gram. At that point, Campus Ink
ran e-commerce for a handful of
national fraternity chapters. If a
Little League or family reunion
needed shirts in the area, there
was a good chance they would
have printed them out of what
started as a cobbler shop on Illi-
nois9 campus in 1947. right after
graduating, farag told Swisher he
wanted to buy into the business,
seeing untapped technology as a
bridge to new revenue streams.
But NIL? Selling jerseys or
sweatshirts with college players9
names on the back? farag knew
nothing about it, at least until he
signed Podziemski, then star cen-
ter Kofi Cockburn, then the whole
Illinois men9s basketball team.
<If you sell 100 shirts, you9ll
make $1,000. That was always the
thing,= farag said, detailing how
the revenue-share model is cen-
tral to his pitch. <With jerseys, I
paid them even more. . . . I didn9t
really have systems in place. I was
manually calculating everything
no russian anthem, no russian
colors.
But this was a half measure,
and a harmful one. The full-
throated opposition to russia9s
orchestrated scam 4 which was
first revealed by German media
in 2014 and further exposed by
whistleblowing doctor Grigory
rodchenkov in 2016 4 would
have been to ban russian
athletes from the olympics. The
IoC balked, certainly not in
small part to avoid alienating a
nation that may well make a
lucrative bid on future Games.
So here we are.
There is precedent for
suspending both a country9s
leadership and its athletes. In
the early 1900s, South Africa
became the first African nation
to send athletes to the olympics.
But before the 1964 Summer
have been on the radar since they
were 10 years old.=
Next season, Dudley and Socka-
Nguemen will join former Sidwell
teammate and mcDonald9s selec-
tion Kiki rice at UCLA. In the
meantime, the pair is happy to
preserve Sidwell9s tradition of lo-
cal dominance: The Quakers have
not lost an Independent School
League regular season game since
february 2019.
Tuesday9s game was supposed
to be a premier matchup, with the
first-place Quakers (14-3) visiting
a surging squad just one game
behind them in the standings.
But Sidwell looked untouch-
able from the opening tip, flying
past the Panthers (14-5) in transi-
tion and using its size advantage
in half-court sets. At the end of the
first quarter, Sidwell had a 30-2
lead.
on spreadsheets. But I was paying
them really quickly. It was like:
8Hey, that shirt drop did well. I9m
sending you this money.9
<During [the 2021-22] basket-
ball season, we made them about
$100,000.=
8Things will change9
That same winter, farag sent
The Email. He had seen on reddit
that mark Cuban tends to re-
spond at odd hours. So late one
friday night, farag started typing
up Campus Ink9s story and
couldn9t stop. He laid out his
vision, hatched over hours of con-
versations with Swisher and
Cook. They would vertically inte-
grate, mainly with in-house ship-
ping and printing, allowing them
to disrupt the market with their
athlete-friendly revenue sharing
model. Every NIL sale would in-
clude a cut for the athletes, even
with something like a champion-
ship shirt without a specific play-
er9s name or number, for which
Campus Ink often partners with a
donor-funded collective that then
distributes money to the school9s
athletes.
With the athlete9s cut, the
school9s cut and other costs, Cam-
pus Ink would operate with fairly
thin margins. But if the company
sold enough, it could work. It was
thriving at Illinois. There was the
online platform to scale it to other
schools. There was just one prob-
lem with farag9s pitch to Cuban.
He didn9t . . . make a pitch.
<His first response was: 8Why
are you emailing me? To brag?9 =
farag recalled. <I just forgot to
say: 8Do you want to invest?9 =
Cuban, then the owner of the
NBA9s Dallas mavericks, initially
valued Campus Ink at almost
$5 million, leading him to offer
$250,000 for 5 percent of the
company, according to two people
with knowledge of the terms. Six
months later, he led a group in-
vestment of another $2 million,
then made another investment
for an undisclosed amount.
There9s good reason for the life-
Games in Tokyo, the IoC barred
the nation because of its
blatantly racist segregation
policies. The IoC makes a habit
of saying it can9t and won9t get
involved in politics, and it
repeatedly ignores human rights
abuses if those abuses are
carried out by countries willing
to host a Games. There9s
precedent, however, that says it
can act more forcefully. It just
needs the will.
oh, and about the Americans.
recall the awkwardness of the
Valieva case in Beijing, where the
story all but hijacked the Games.
News of her positive test broke
only after she became the star of
the russian group that won the
team competition. The American
team 4 Nathan Chen, Vincent
Zhou, Karen Chen, Alexa
Knierim, Brandon frazier,
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Zania Socka-Nguemen, left, and Kendall Dudley, pictured warming
up for a game last week, will join ex-teammate Kiki rice at uCla.
JESSE DOuGHERty/tHE WaSHINGtON POSt
size cutout of Cuban in the confer-
ence room in Urbana, where
farag works after his old office
was needed for production pur-
poses.
from the beginning, Cuban
had a lot of thoughts, showing a
personal investment beyond his
financial stake. A graduate of In-
diana9s business school, Cuban
told farag to not just consider the
Hoosiers9 football and basketball
players but their wrestlers, too.
He stressed Title IX and focusing
equally on male and female ath-
letes. And, yeah, they also had
some fun.
While pitching to schools,
farag found some bigger pro-
grams don9t want to strain their
existing licensing partnerships by
adding another merchandise
company to the mix. michigan is
on that list, as are Georgia, flori-
da and Texas, among others. But
rather than go quietly after michi-
gan declined, Cuban purchased
the online domain GoBlue.com,
went on fox9s <Big Noon Kickoff =
and told michigan fans there was
a surprise at that link. once they
clicked it, they were redirected to
Indiana9s NIL Store. michigan
sent a cease-and-desist letter.
farag accepted he would prob-
ably never work with the Wolver-
ines.
As for what has made Campus
Ink thrive in a crowded market,
Cuban said via email: <Personal
attention to the people who do the
work at schools and to the ath-
letes. The big guys look at num-
bers first, people second. Campus
Ink is all about the relationships
they have.=
A license agreement with a
school does not guarantee that
every one of its athletes signs a
contract with Campus Ink. It has
Iowa as one of its schools but does
not have Caitlin Clark on board. It
has ohio State but not NfL-
bound wide receiver marvin Har-
rison Jr. Two of its biggest names
are Edey and Connecticut wom-
en9s star Paige Bueckers, with bas-
ketball outselling football be-
madison Hubbell, Zachary
Donohue, madison Chock and
Evan Bates 4 figured it had won
silver. Then the IoC postponed
the medal ceremony.
The entire operation has been
on pause since. The Americans
had no moment. They9ll never
have a moment.
<Today is a day we have been
eagerly awaiting for two years, as
it is a significant win not only for
Team USA athletes but also for
athletes worldwide who practice
fair play and advocate for clean
sport,= Sarah Hirshland, CEo of
the U.S. olympic and Paralympic
Committee, said in a statement
monday. <. . . We now anticipate
the day when we can
wholeheartedly celebrate these
athletes, along with their peers
from around the world. The
moment is approaching, and
. wednesday, january 31 , 2024
amaNDa aNDRaDE-RHOaDES fOR tHE WaSHINGtON POSt
cause of an emphasis on marquee
players (and because their faces
aren9t obscured by face masks on
TV). on Jan. 8, a few hours before
Washington and michigan kicked
off, farag and Swisher stopped by
a tall stack of Edey hockey jerseys,
which have been extremely popu-
lar among Purdue fans.
Hearing the time it took for
them to arrive from overseas, they
both nodded, content. farag then
rubbed one of the jerseys, as he
always does, and stared at the
ceiling while taking the fabric in.
<You know, there9s the part we
try not to talk about,= Swisher said
with a subtle wink. <If, for some
reason, Congress or the NCAA
decides none of this should be
allowed anymore and, poof, all
this goes away tomorrow. But
Steven doesn9t like that.=
<It9s not happening, Jedd, so we
can talk about it all you want,=
farag said, laughing like a son
might at his dad9s corny joke.
<Things will change, but we9re
built for the long haul.=
8It has to work9
The championship game end-
ed, Washington lost, and there
would be no huge printing run of
championship shirts in the morn-
ing. farag, Swisher and Cook
would tour a potential new facili-
ty, calculating what it might cost
to drop lights closer to the pro-
duction floor and heat the mas-
sive space in the winter. They
would then have a meeting about
a possible brick-and-mortar pop-
up on a Big Ten campus during
march madness. Business would
roll on.
But first, farag drove to his
apartment in a steady snow, the
storm filling every inch of his
windshield. He9s used to being in
the car, alone with a podcast or
his thoughts about where to steer
Campus Ink next. for close to a
decade, he has driven the 21/2
hours between Urbana and Chi-
cago once a week, sometimes
twice. He now lives in Chicago
with his wife, Carson, and their
two french bulldogs. He9s learn-
ing to balance work and every-
thing else. He9s trying, at the very
least.
Yet there are so many people
counting on farag, himself in-
cluded. He recently listened to
Walter Isaacson9s biographies of
Steve Jobs and Elon musk, won-
dering how their childhoods
shaped their approaches to busi-
ness. Growing up, farag liked
building with his hands and solv-
ing problems. When he had a
paper route as a teenager, he
outsourced blocks to younger
kids so he could hit more houses.
His two older sisters are brainiacs
4 one a lawyer, the other a doctor
4 leaving engineer for him until
he wasn9t any good at school.
<So this thing, this baby of
mine, it has to work. I mean, this
has to be absolutely killer,= farag
said. <I couldn9t cut it as an engi-
neer. But I am going to keep
figuring this out.=
The snow kept falling, slicking
the road in front of him. At the
same time, he hit his wipers and
the gas.
when it arrives, it will serve as a
testament to the justice and
recognition they truly deserve.=
Something tells me the
athletes in question won9t feel
any sense of spontaneous
celebration 4 any unbridled joy
4 whenever some ceremony is
rigged up to grant them their
medals.
The CAS decision on the
Valieva case isn9t righting a
wrong. It9s further punishing an
athlete who probably had no role
in her demise while allowing her
handlers 4 and her country 4 to
skate without ramifications. The
American team will receive gold
medals that they can place on
their mantels. maybe there9s
some justice in that conclusion.
But nearly two years after the
competition, there certainly
wasn9t any joy in the pursuit.
wednesday, january 31 , 2024
g ir ls9 To p 2 0
1. bishop mcnamara (18-3)
last ranked: 1
the Mustangs reaffirmed their
supremacy, rolling past archbishop
carroll by 30, st. Mary9s ryken by
70 and new Jersey power rutgers
Prep by eight.
2. sidwell Friends (13-3)
lr: 2
the Quakers split two games in
new York, beating Bishop ireton,
71-46, before falling to toronto9s
crestwood, 54-48.
3. Woodgrove (17-1) lr: 9
road wins over Broad run,
tuscarora and champe have the
Wolverines soaring.
4. paul Vi (11-9) lr: 8
it was a solid week for the
Panthers, who bounced back from
a loss to good counsel with an
overtime win at elizabeth seton.
5. elizabeth seton (13-4)
lr: 3
after falling to st. John9s and
Paul Vi, the roadrunners stomped
good counsel, 68-46.
6. good counsel (10-7)
lr: 10
the falcons went 2-1, beating
Paul Vi and archbishop carroll
before sunday9s loss to elizabeth
seton.
7. mount Zion prep (12-11)
lr: 7
Junior J9niya Weaver had 30 points
in the Warriors9 loss to shining star
sports academy.
8. st. John9s (13-5) lr: 5
it was a mixed week for the cadets,
who beat elizabeth seton and
st. Mary9s ryken but lost to Bishop
ireton.
9. bishop ireton (12-7) lr: 11
first came a 12-point win over
st. John9s, then came a 25-point
loss to sidwell friends in the Bronx.
10. bullis (12-5) lr: 6
the Bulldogs are 0-3 against top-10
teams after a competitive 61-52
loss to sidwell friends.
11. osbourn park (16-3)
lr: 14
the Yellow Jackets earned one of
the season9s most notable wins 4 a
13-point victory over Midlothian
power James river.
12. Archbishop carroll (13-5)
lr: 4
a rough few weeks have left the
Lions at 2-4 in Wcac play.
13. pallotti (11-8) lr: 13
senior gabrielle clary had 25
points in the Panthers9 only game
last week, a win over st. Mary9s
(annapolis).
14. Hammond (14-0) lr: 17
two more blowout wins for the
deep golden Bears, who continue
to thrive under coach ayanna
Jones.
15. potomac school (14-4)
lr: 16
after a lengthy break, the Panthers
dispatched four league opponents
by a combined 74 points.
16. c.H. Flowers (11-0) lr: 18
the Jaguars blew out northwestern
by 31 and Bladensburg by 70.
17. south river (13-1) lr: 19
the seahawks remain unbeaten in
anne arundel county after wins
over north county, annapolis and
southern.
18. briar Woods (16-1) lr: 20
senior hope Drake had 20 points
as the falcons earned a road win
over Virginia state title contender
highland springs.
19. st. mary9s (Annapolis)
(16-7) lr: 15
an eight-point loss to Pallotti drops
the saints, though they eked out
three one-possession wins
otherwise.
20. bethesda-chevy chase
(13-2) lr: 12
the Barons suffered their first local
loss when they fell to clarksburg,
53-49.
on the bubble: centreville,
gwynn Park, Langley,
severna Park, Virginia academy.
Dropped out: none
Records through Sunday.
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noTes
Paul VI passes tests with ûying colors
F ROM STAFF REPORTS
Two months into the boys9
basketball season, the Paul VI
Panthers have shown a penchant
for anticlimax.
The area9s No. 1 team has
played a series of highly antici-
pated local games, starting with
an early-season meeting with
Sidwell Friends and continuing
last week with hugely important
Washington Catholic Athletic
Conference games against Gon-
zaga and Bishop O9Connell. Each
game generated a fair amount of
buzz as local hoops fans grew
eager to see the Panthers chal-
lenged.
But Paul VI was not interested
in a nail-biter. In each of those
three games, the Panthers put on
a defensive clinic and led by
double digits most of the way.
At 18-2 4 with both losses
coming against nationally
ranked, out-of-town opponents
4 the Panthers look like the
clear-cut top dog in the D.C. area.
Led by four senior starters, Paul
VI employs an eight-man rota-
tion made up entirely of Division
I talent.
<It9s a focused group of sen-
iors,= Coach Glenn Farello said.
<They9re a no-frills, no-nonsense,
hard-hat-and-lunch-pail type of
group. They have a job to do, they
know what it is, and they do it for
each other.=
On Jan. 23, the Panthers host-
ed Gonzaga in a No. 1-vs.-No. 2
WCAC matchup. Playing at home
in Chantilly, the Panthers slowly
pulled away from a feisty Eagles
team. Paul VI led by seven at
halftime and pushed that margin
to double digits in the third
quarter.
The Panthers9 game three days
later looked equally perilous on
paper: a trip to their biggest
rival, Bishop O9Connell. The
game, which sold out days be-
forehand, was controlled by Paul
VI from the tip. After jumping
out to a 16-3 lead, the Panthers
kept their rivals at a multi-score
distance for the entirety of the
night.
Senior Darren Harris led a
balanced scoring effort with
18 points and reached the
1,000-point mark in his career
while doing so.
<In both games, I felt the
defensive effort was great,=
Farello said. <The guys were very
connected defensively, and that
gave us an opportunity to create
some runs for ourselves. The
defensive pressure is so impor-
tant to what we do, and they9ve
been consistent with that.=
4 Michael Errigo
Gwynn Park wins thrillers
The Gwynn Park boys entered
last week unbeaten through the
first seven weeks of the season.
The Yellow Jackets had won their
first 12 games but faced tough
tests against Largo and Fairmont
Heights.
A week later, Coach Rob Gar-
ner9s team is still undefeated 4
and now has two thrilling victo-
ries to its name.
On Jan. 23, Gwynn Park edged
Largo (12-2) for a 59-57 win. After
Largo star Cam Ward hit a con-
tested jumper to give the Lions
their first lead of the second half,
senior guard Tony Pope III raced
down the court and nailed a deep
three-pointer to put the Yellow
Jackets back ahead. Largo9s last-
ditch heave missed, and a sea of
Gwynn Park fans stormed the
court.
<I got the ball. I just knew
when it left my hands, it was
good,= Pope said. <Teammates
believed in me, and I made the
shot.=
Gwynn Park followed those
monTgomery counTy boys
Vikings9 supercharged offense sets the pace again
whitman 74,
r. montgomery 71
BY V ARUN S HANKAR
For the Whitman boys9 basket-
ball team, every possession is a
race.
The Vikings constantly push
the ball up the floor. They are
trying to outrun the other team,
but more specifically they are try-
ing to beat the split second their
opponents need to breathe and set
up a half-court defense.
Whitman loves to deny teams
that respite. Instead, defenders
are left scurrying around the
court. By the time they collect
themselves, it9s too late 4 one of
the Vikings9 shooters has probably
already launched a three-pointer.
high school basketball
Ben Hammond, center, helped Paul VI defeat its biggest rival, Bishop O9Connell, on the road Friday.
theatrics with a 58-57 win over
Fairmont Heights two days later.
In that game, it was senior Ty
Bevins9s turn to play the hero.
With his team down by a point in
the waning seconds, the George
Washington signee drove to the
basket and banked in a right-
handed layup between two de-
fenders.
<As a staff, we really believe in
our kids,= Garner said after the
win over Largo. <We know that
there9s going to be highs and
lows, ups and downs, so we just
kind of prepare for them.=
4 Noah Ferguson
Hayfield9s Hawks 8run as one9
The best season in decades for
the Hayfield girls ultimately
comes down to their three-word
motto: <Run as one.= It9s a phrase
coined by Pamela Payne-Kirby,
who splits head coaching duties
with her husband, Jason Kirby.
To her, it encompasses both the
Hawks9 pace-pushing style and 4
down to the partnership of the
coaches 4 a familial identity.
<We9re big on family,= Payne-
Kirby said. <We have very athlet-
ic young ladies. We run from rim
to rim. . . . In order to thrive in
our system, everyone has to be on
that same page.=
Though Saturday9s 59-53 over-
time loss to National District
rival Edison snapped a 15-game
winning streak, it signaled the
Hawks (15-3) are on the right
path. They9re just a game back
from their first district title since
1996.
The Kirbys, though, want to
redistribute the credit. They9re
balanced enough to warrant con-
sistent playing time for 12 play-
ers; they9re so in sync from
off-court bonding that the girls
are often on <autopilot=; and,
crucially, they have a senior,
Adriana Albritton, who makes
the cohesive unit run.
She9s vice president of the
student council, a deadeye from
outside and a <program captain=
with responsibilities over the
varsity, JV and freshman teams.
In timeouts, the Kirbys will peri-
odically stand back and let her
take control of the huddle.
In its 74-71 win over Richard
Montgomery on Tuesday night in
Rockville, Whitman attempted 27
three-pointers, making 11. It was
the seventh straight road win for
the Vikings (13-3).
They beat a Rockets team that
also plays an up-tempo style, lead-
ing to a shootout in which four
players scored more than 20
points and both squads went on
runs.
Whitman trailed for most of the
game but surged across the end of
the third quarter and the begin-
ning of the fourth to create an
11-point lead with just under four
minutes left. The Rockets (10-6),
showcasing their own quick-strike
capability, had four chances to tie
the score but missed each time.
<We were just proud that our
guys were able to withstand that
rally,= Whitman Coach Chris Lun
eZ sU
players of the week
Kaylen chilton, W.T. Woodson:
the freshman guard had 31 points
in a 66-58 win over alexandria city
to help the cavaliers close the gap
in the Patriot District.
gabrielle clary, pallotti:
the senior stepped up in a top-20
win last week, totaling 25 points,
four steals and three assists as the
Panthers beat st. Mary9s
(annapolis).
Quintin cooper, coolidge:
the Buffalo commit helped the
colts earn a double-digit win over
cardozo with a 25-point,
eight-rebound performance.
mcKenzie Thomas, st. charles:
the senior scored 32 points
against chopticon on Wednesday
to exceed 1,000 for her career and
combined for 45 points in her next
two games. the spartans9 win over
chopticon was the 100th of
coach Darrelle smith9s career.
games to watch
Hayfield boys at patriot,
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.
severna park girls at
broadneck, friday, 5 p.m.
bishop ireton girls at
elizabeth seton, friday, 6 p.m.
coolidge boys at Jackson-reed,
friday, 7:30 p.m.
<We couldn9t get this done
without her,= Kirby said. <There
are other players who stand out,
too, and Adrianna doesn9t mind
it one bit. Not one bit. She9ll tell
you: 8Hey, listen. I don9t need to
score. I don9t need to do any of
that stuff. I don9t need to be in
the spotlight. I just want us to
win.9 =
Their alliance was crucial as
the Hawks started in an 18-0 hole
against Edison. At a timeout,
Kirby yelled out from the huddle,
loud enough for the packed gym
to hear: <Got to work harder!=
Behind Albritton, they did.
The Hawks clawed their way
back, trailing by nine after a
quarter and three at halftime
with more physicality and a
said. <. . . We kind of got lucky.
They had some second-chance op-
portunities, but we were contest-
ing the shots [to make] it tough.=
Last season9s Vikings, who fell
in a region semifinal, had talented
shooters but didn9t play this fast.
Lun made the switch after watch-
ing several college teams struggle
against half-court defenses.
The scheme has opened up the
floor for players such as senior
guard Thomas Farrell, who scored
15 of his 22 points on three-point-
ers against Richard Montgomery.
Most of them came on possessions
in which, outside of the final shot,
he scarcely touched the ball.
Instead of dribbling, Farrell
spent most of his time weaving
around the court, trying to free
himself amid a swarm of picks.
Upon receiving a pass, he sets
quickly before shooting.
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zippy transition offense. Early in
the fourth quarter, they took
their first lead as sophomore
Alexis Cox snaked and scored in
transition. Her four teammates
were nearby, running as one, by
the time the ball fell through the
net.
4 Spencer Nusbaum
Arundel goes back to nature
Before every season, Arundel
boys9 coach Rod Ramsey takes
his JV and varsity teams into the
woods. The Wildcats walk along
the school9s cross-country course
among the trees into a clearing
that9s usually blanketed by fallen
leaves.
The trip helps the squads
bond, lets them set goals and
serves as a metaphor: The Wild-
cats are in nature with only each
other to depend on, the same way
they will be during the season.
Arundel started 11-0 but then
suffered back-to-back losses.
Soon after the second defeat, to
Severna Park on Friday, senior
guard Noah Frayer came to Ram-
sey and asked him to bring the
team back into nature for a reset.
The Wildcats went before Sat-
urday9s practice, discussed their
struggles and distractions, and
received a reminder.
<It actually slows everybody
down,= Ramsey said. <We tell
them . . . 8We9re still in a good
position to attain all the goals
you wanted to attain at the
beginning of the season.9 =
The coach then put his team
through a grueling, condition-
ing-focused practice that left the
players feeling tired but accom-
plished.
The consecutive losses, which
Ramsey said is <reality hitting
[Arundel] in the face,= could help
in the long run.
Issues such as poor shot selec-
tion and a suboptimal assist-to-
turnover ratio had been masked
by positive results on the score-
board.
Now, with hopes of an unde-
feated season gone, the Wildcats
can fully focus on fixing their
play and regrouping for another
run.
4 Varun Shankar
<Once teams notice me as a
shooter, I know I have to get my
shots off quick . . . split seconds
when I9m open,= Farrell said, punc-
tuating the need for haste with a
pair of snaps. <I got to do a good
job getting shots up.=
The shooting provided by Far-
rell and junior Hayden Walsh, who
scored all 12 of his points on three-
pointers, opens up opportunities
for teammates. Junior guard Evan
Brown, who scored a career-high
24 points Monday against Seneca
Valley, broke that record with 27
against the Rockets.
<Other teams have been so con-
cerned about Thomas and Hayden
shooting threes that it really opens
up the paint. . . . When you have a
good team and you9re trying to
beat other good teams, guys need
to step up,= Lun said. <And Evan
certainly did for us tonight.=
D5
boys9 Top 20
1. paul Vi (18-2)
last ranked: 1
after big wins over gonzaga and
Bishop o9connell, the Panthers
closed their week with a victory
against Bishop ireton.
2. gonzaga (18-3) lr: 2
the eagles recovered from their
loss to Paul Vi by picking up three
wins later in the week.
3. Jackson-reed (23-2)
lr: 3
Junior guard JJ Massaquoi
finished with 13 points and six
rebounds as the tigers pulled out
a 57-55 win against alexandria
city.
4. bullis (17-2) lr: 4
the Bulldogs earned three iac
wins last week.
5. sidwell Friends (15-4)
lr: 7
the Quakers handled rival Maret,
66-44.
6. Dematha (15-5) lr: 5
the stags lost a tight game at
st. John9s.
7. bishop o9connell (15-4)
lr: 6
the Knights went 1-1 in two
conference games, pounding
good counsel before a loss to
Paul Vi.
8. georgetown prep (16-3)
lr: 8
the hoyas couldn9t hold off Bullis
at home.
9. st. John9s (16-4) lr: 9
the cadets had an up-and-down
week, earning a top-10 win against
DeMatha but falling to unranked
Bishop Mcnamara on the road.
10. south lakes (14-2)
lr: 10
the seahawks earned comfortable
wins against Madison and
chantilly.
11. patriot (14-4) lr: 12
the Pioneers picked up three
wins, including a 78-59 victory
against rival Battlefield.
12. mount Zion prep (22-6)
lr: 14
the Warriors topped riverdale
Baptist and rosedale christian.
13. gwynn park (14-0)
lr: 15
it was a dramatic week for the
undefeated Yellow Jackets, who
earned buzzer-beating wins
against Largo and fairmont
heights.
14. largo (12-2) lr: 11
Despite the loss to gwynn Park,
the Lions salvaged the week with
wins against Douglass and
friendly.
15. clinton grace christian
(23-2) lr: 17
the eagles rallied from a double-
digit deficit to earn a momentous
league win against fairfax
christian.
16. Fairfax christian (23-5)
lr: 13
the cardinals dropped Metro
Private school conference games
against highland (Va.) and clinton
grace.
17. rock creek christian
White (19-8) lr: 18
the eagles were off.
18. potomac Falls (17-0)
lr: 20
the Panthers were busy, picking
up wins against Lightridge,
Briar Woods and independence.
19. Alexandria city (13-5)
lr: 16
the titans went 2-2, nearly
earning an upset win against
Jackson-reed.
20. river Hill (14-1)
lr: not ranked
the hawks9 one loss this season
came against Milford Mill
academy.
Dropped out: no. 19 Maret
on the bubble: Bishop ireton,
coolidge, hayfield, Potomac (Va.),
st. andrew9s.
Records through Sunday.
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scoreboard

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nFL playoffs nBA Hawks 138, Lakers 122 nHL ncAA men no. 25 TcU 85,
fIRST ROUND EASTERN cONfERENcE L.A. LAKERS ....................... 29 27 32 34 4 122 ATLANTIc GP W L OT Pts Gf GA TUESDAY9S RESULTS no. 15 Texas Tech 78
SATURDAY, JAN. 13 ATLANTA ........................... 36 31 36 35 4 138 Boston ........................ 49 31 9 9 71 173 128 EAST Texas Tech (16-4)
ATLANTIc W L Pct Gb Florida......................... 49 31 14 4 66 158 127 Boston College 80, Syracuse 75
at Houston 45, Cleveland 14 W.Washington 6-7 2-2 14, Isaacs 8-18 4-4 25, Toussaint
Boston ........................................ 37 11 .771 4 L.A. LAKERS: James 7-17 4-9 20, Prince 3-7 0-0 7, Hayes Tampa Bay.................. 50 27 18 5 59 175 164 Marquette 85, Villanova 80
at Kansas City 26, Miami 7 1-3 4-4 6, Walton 3-5 0-0 8, Da.Williams 2-5 0-0 6,
New York .................................... 31 17 .646 6 3-4 0-0 6, Reaves 10-19 5-7 28, Russell 3-11 2-2 9, Toronto ....................... 47 25 14 8 58 166 150 St. Bonaventure 67, VCU 62
SUNDAY, JAN. 14 x-Philadelphia ............................ 29 16 .644 61/2 Hachimura 7-11 0-2 16, Lewis 1-1 0-0 2, Vanderbilt 6-6 McMillian 7-13 0-0 19, Jennings 0-1 0-2 0, L.Washington
Detroit ........................ 49 26 18 5 57 174 158 SOUTH 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 27-52 10-14 78.
Green Bay 48, at Dallas 32 Brooklyn ..................................... 19 27 .413 17 0-1 12, Wood 4-7 1-2 9, Windler 2-4 0-0 6, Christie 2-2 0-0 Buffalo........................ 49 22 23 4 48 146 155
at Detroit 24, L.A. Rams 23 Toronto....................................... 17 30 .362 191/2 5, Hood-Schifino 0-1 2-2 2, Mays 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 48-90 Georgia Tech 74, North Carolina 73 TcU (16-5)
Montreal..................... 49 20 21 8 48 136 175 Miller 2-7 7-10 11, Udeh 1-2 2-2 4, Anderson 1-5 0-0 3,
14-25 122. Ottawa........................ 46 19 25 2 40 155 168 Illinois State 61, Murray State 59
mONDAY, JAN. 15 Mississippi 86, Mississippi State 82 Peavy 7-14 0-2 18, Tennyson 7-13 5-5 23, Nelson 2-9 4-7
at Buffalo 31, Pittsburgh 17 SOUTHEAST W L Pct Gb ATLANTA: Bey 5-10 7-8 18, Johnson 8-14 2-2 19, Capela 10, Cork 1-1 0-0 2, Coles 4-5 4-4 12, O9Bannon 0-2 2-2 2,
South Carolina 63, Tennessee 59
at Tampa Bay 32, Philadelphia 9 Miami ......................................... 24 23 .511 4 6-10 1-2 13, Murray 11-19 2-2 24, Young 9-20 2-2 26, mETROPOLITAN GP W L OT Pts Gf GA Mostafa 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-58 24-32 85.
Orlando....................................... 24 23 .511 4 Griffin 0-1 0-0 0, Okongwu 4-4 2-2 11, Hunter 2-5 0-0 6, N.Y. Rangers............... 49 30 16 3 63 161 142 mIDWEST Halftime: TCU 40-36. Three-point goals: Texas Tech
DIVISIONAL ROUND Atlanta ....................................... 20 27 .426 4 Bogdanovic 7-15 0-0 18, Bufkin 1-1 0-0 3, Mathews 0-1 Carolina....................... 48 28 15 5 61 163 144 Akron 77, Eastern Michigan 46 14-28 (McMillian 5-9, Isaacs 5-11, Da.Williams 2-3,
SATURDAY, JAN. 20 Charlotte .................................... 10 35 .222 13 0-0 0, Mills 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 53-101 16-18 138. Philadelphia................ 50 25 19 6 56 147 148 Bowling Green 81, Ball State 72 Walton 2-4, Toussaint 0-1), TCU 11-20 (Peavy 4-4,
at Baltimore 34, Houston 10 Washington.................................. 9 37 .196 14 2
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N.Y. Islanders ............. 49 20 17 12 52 143 166 Central Michigan 84, Northern Illinois 77 (2OT) Tennyson 4-8, Nelson 2-2, Anderson 1-4, Miller 0-2).
at San Francisco 24, Green Bay 21 Three-point Goals: L.A. Lakers 12-33 (Reaves 3-8, Dayton 83, George Washington 61
Windler 2-3, Hachimura 2-4, James 2-6, Christie 1-1, Pittsburgh .................. 46 22 17 7 51 138 126 Rebounds: Texas Tech 26 (W.Washington 6), TCU 32
SUNDAY, JAN. 21 cENTRAL W L Pct Gb New Jersey ................. 47 24 20 3 51 161 168 Illinois 87, Ohio State 75 (Udeh 7). Assists: Texas Tech 23 (Isaacs, Toussaint 9),
Prince 1-4, Russell 1-5, Hood-Schifino 0-1, Wood 0-1), Indiana 74, Iowa 68
at Detroit 31, Tampa Bay 23 Milwaukee.................................. 32 15 .681 4 Atlanta 16-38 (Young 6-9, Bogdanovic 4-9, Hunter 2-5, Washington ................ 47 22 18 7 51 115 146 TCU 17 (Peavy 4). Total fouls: Texas Tech 21, TCU 16. A:
Cleveland.................................... 28 16 .636 21/2 Columbus.................... 50 16 24 10 42 148 184 Kansas 83, Oklahoma State 54 6,903 (6,800).
Kansas City 27, at Buffalo 24 Bufkin 1-1, Okongwu 1-1, Johnson 1-2, Bey 1-5, Loyola Chicago 77, Saint Louis 62
Indiana........................................ 27 21 .563 51/2 Mathews 0-1, Mills 0-1, Murray 0-4). fouled Out: None.
cONfERENcE cHAmPIONSHIPS Chicago ....................................... 22 26 .458 101/2 Miami (Ohio) 71, Kent State 67
Rebounds: L.A. Lakers 37 (James 9), Atlanta 46 (Capela cENTRAL GP W L OT Pts Gf GA Michigan State 81, Michigan 62
SUNDAY9S RESULTS Detroit .......................................... 6 40 .130 251/2 12). Assists: L.A. Lakers 28 (James 8), Atlanta 32 Colorado...................... 49 32 14 3 67 190 153 Ohio 91, Buffalo 70 no. 17 Utah State 82,
Afc WESTERN cONfERENcE (Young 13). Total fouls: L.A. Lakers 16, Atlanta 18. A: Dallas.......................... 49 30 13 6 66 183 151 Oklahoma 73, Kansas State 53
Kansas City 17, at Baltimore 10 17,871 (18,118) Winnipeg .................... 47 30 12 5 65 148 109 Seton Hall 72, DePaul 39 San Jose State 61
SOUTHWEST W L Pct Gb St. Louis...................... 49 26 21 2 54 141 153 Toledo 88, Western Michigan 63
Nfc Nashville..................... 50 26 22 2 54 151 156 San Jose State (8-13)
at San Francisco 34, Detroit 31 Dallas.......................................... 26 21 .553 4
New Orleans............................... 26 21 .553 4 Arizona ....................... 48 23 22 3 49 143 147 SOUTHWEST T.Anderson 2-8 2-2 7, Gorener 3-10 2-2 9, Diongue 3-4
nuggets 113, Bucks 107 Minnesota .................. 49 21 23 5 47 149 166 TCU 85, Texas Tech 78 0-0 6, Amey 6-18 1-1 14, Cardenas 5-11 0-0 11, Wise 1-2
SUPER bOWL LVIII Houston...................................... 22 24 .478 31/2
Memphis..................................... 18 29 .383 8 Late Monday Chicago ....................... 50 14 34 2 30 105 177 WEST 1-2 3, R.Mitchell 1-2 0-0 3, Seixas 1-1 1-1 3, G.Anderson
SUNDAY, fEb. 11 0-2 0-0 0, Davis 2-3 1-2 5, Blackerby 0-0 0-0 0. Totals
IN LAS VEGAS San Antonio................................ 10 37 .213 16 Colorado State 79, San Diego State 71
mILWAUKEE ...................... 26 30 19 32 4 107 PAcIfIc GP W L OT Pts Gf GA 24-61 8-10 61.
Kansas City vs. San Francisco (-11/2), 6:30 (CBS) Utah State 82, San Jose State 61 Utah State (19-2)
DENVER .............................. 25 31 26 31 4 113 Vancouver................... 49 33 11 5 71 186 127
NORTHWEST W L Pct Gb Wyoming 83, Air Force 72 Osobor 9-15 13-19 31, Johnson 3-4 0-0 7, Brown 5-10 0-0
Minnesota .................................. 33 14 .702 4 mILWAUKEE: G.Antetokounmpo 11-19 6-11 29, Middle- Vegas .......................... 50 29 15 6 64 163 138
1/ Edmonton ................... 45 29 15 1 59 160 124 mONDAY9S RESULTS 11, Falslev 2-2 0-0 4, Martinez 6-6 0-0 16, Uduje 3-9 2-2 8,
Denver ........................................ 33 15 .688 2
ton 6-10 0-0 14, B.Lopez 7-13 0-0 19, Beasley 2-9 0-0 5, Jackson 0-1 0-0 0, Sakho 1-2 1-2 3, Burris 0-0 0-0 0,
Te nnIS Oklahoma City............................ 32 15 .681 1 Los Angeles ................ 47 22 15 10 54 148 130 EAST
Lillard 5-13 6-6 18, Crowder 1-3 0-0 3, Portis 2-13 3-4 9, Templin 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 30-50 16-23 82.
Utah............................................ 24 25 .490 10 Connaughton 1-2 4-4 7, Payne 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 36-84 x-Seattle..................... 49 21 18 10 52 140 145 Holy Cross 65, Boston 63
Calgary........................ 49 22 22 5 49 149 155 Halftime: Utah State 37-30. Three-point goals: San Jose
Portland...................................... 14 33 .298 19 19-25 107. Howard 81, Coppin State 66
Anaheim ..................... 49 17 30 2 36 126 168 State 5-23 (R.Mitchell 1-2, T.Anderson 1-3, Cardenas
ATp North Carolina Central 69, Delaware State 66
DENVER: Gordon 2-6 3-4 8, Porter Jr. 6-14 0-0 13, Jokic x-San Jose .................. 49 13 32 4 30 103 196 1-3, Gorener 1-5, Amey 1-7, Davis 0-1, G.Anderson 0-2),
South Carolina State 63, Maryland Eastern Shore 53
PAcIfIc W L Pct Gb 10-25 4-5 25, Caldwell-Pope 5-9 2-2 12, Murray 13-22 Utah State 6-12 (Martinez 4-4, Johnson 1-1, Brown 1-3,
OPEN SUD DE fRANcE L.A. Clippers ............................... 30 15 .667 4 x-Late game SOUTH Jackson 0-1, Uduje 0-3). Rebounds: San Jose State 23
9-10 35, Jordan 2-3 1-1 5, Braun 0-1 0-0 0, Jackson 3-7
At Palais des Sports de Gerland; in Montpellier, France Sacramento ................................ 27 18 .600 3 Arkansas Pine Bluff 86, Grambling 70 (Amey, Wise 7), Utah State 38 (Brown 10). Assists: San
2-2 9, Watson 3-4 0-0 6. Totals 44-91 21-24 113.
Purse: $463,713 Phoenix....................................... 27 20 .574 4 mONDAY9S RESULT Duke 77, Virginia Tech 67 Jose State 11 (Cardenas 5), Utah State 16 (Brown 5).
Surface: Hardcourt indoor L.A. Lakers.................................. 24 25 .490 8 Three-point Goals: Milwaukee 16-39 (B.Lopez 5-9, Lil- at Ottawa 4, Nashville 3 (OT) Florida A&M 88, Jackson State 86 Total fouls: San Jose State 16, Utah State 15.
x-Golden State ........................... 19 24 .442 10 lard 2-4, Middleton 2-6, Portis 2-6, G.Antetokounmpo McNeese State 89, Northwestern State 65
SINGLES 4 ROUND Of 32 1-1, Connaughton 1-2, Payne 1-2, Crowder 1-3, Beasley TUESDAY9S RESULTS Norfolk State 83, Morgan State 73
Alexandre Muller (7), France, def. Antoine Escoffier, x-Late game 1-6), Denver 4-18 (Gordon 1-2, Jackson 1-2, Porter Jr. Columbus 1, at St. Louis 0
France, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3; Gregoire Barrere, France, def. Ugo 1-3, Jokic 1-6, Murray 0-2, Caldwell-Pope 0-3). fouled SOUTHWEST
Blanchet, France, 6-7 (9-7), 6-4, 6-2; Harold Mayot, mONDAY9S RESULTS Seattle at San Jose, late Houston 76, Texas 72 (OT) no. 23 oklahoma 73,
Out: Milwaukee None, Denver 1 (Gordon). Rebounds:
France, def. Lucas Pouille, France, 6-4, 7-5; Denis Washington 118, at San Antonio 113 Milwaukee 40 (G.Antetokounmpo, Portis 12), Denver 47 WEDNESDAY9S GAmES Kansas State 53
Shapovalov, Canada, def. Hugo Gaston, France, 6-1, 6-3; New York 113, at Charlotte 92 (Jokic 16). Assists: Milwaukee 24 (Lillard 5), Denver 29 Ottawa at Detroit, 7
Arthur Cazaux, France, def. Maximilian Marterer, Ger- at Cleveland 118, L.A. Clippers 108 (Jokic 12). Total fouls: Milwaukee 22, Denver 22. A:
Los Angeles at Nashville, 7:30
no. 21 dayton 83, Oklahoma (16-5)
many, 6-1, 6-3. at Boston 118, New Orleans 112 19,801 (19,520) Godwin 4-6 3-9 11, Moore 8-11 5-8 23, McCollum 6-13
San Jose at Anaheim, 10:30 George Washington 61 9-10 21, Oweh 2-12 0-4 4, Uzan 0-4 2-2 2, Soares 3-4 3-4
DOUbLES 4 ROUND Of 16 at Brooklyn 147, Utah 114
THURSDAY9S GAmES George Washington (14-7) 10, Darthard 0-2 2-2 2, Hugley 0-2 0-0 0, Cooper 0-0 0-0 0,
Jonathan Eysseric, France, and Denys Molchanov, Phoenix 118, at Miami 105 Lovelace 0-0 0-0 0, Moser 0-0 0-0 0, Northweather 0-0
Buchanan 5-8 3-4 13, Akingbola 1-1 0-0 2, Bishop 2-12
Ukraine, def. Theo Arribage and Luca Sanchez, France, Sacramento 103, at Memphis 94 Timberwolves 107, Thunder 101 No games scheduled.
6-7 10, Edwards 3-11 2-2 8, Johnson 2-10 0-0 5, 0-0 0. Totals 23-54 24-39 73.
7-6 (10-8), 7-6 (7-4); Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, and Minnesota 107, at Oklahoma City 101 Hutchinson 3-8 0-0 8, Autry 2-5 0-0 5, A.Smith 1-4 0-0 3, Kansas State (14-7)
Alexander Shevchenko, Russia, def. Evan King and Reese at Houston 135, L.A. Lakers 119
Late Monday Kaluma 1-8 2-3 4, McNair 1-1 0-0 2, N9Guessan 4-6 1-2 9,
Weluche-Ume 0-2 1-2 1, Schroder 2-4 2-2 6, Arrington
Stalder, United States, 6-4, 6-3; Pedro Martinez, Spain, at Dallas 131, Orlando 129 0-0 0-0 0, Talipov 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-65 14-17 61. Carter 2-12 1-2 5, Perry 7-16 6-8 23, Finister 0-4 4-4 4,
and Alexandre Muller, France, def. Bernabe Zapata mINNESOTA ...................... 29 20 24 34 4 107 c A pI TA LS9 n e x T T H ree
at Denver 113, Milwaukee 107 OKLAHOmA cITY ............... 28 19 30 24 4 101 Dayton (17-3) Colbert 0-2 2-4 2, Manning 1-2 1-2 4, Jones 0-1 0-0 0,
Miralles and Jaume Munar, Spain, 6-3, 6-2; Robin Haase, Holmes 9-13 7-7 25, Santos 6-10 2-3 17, Bennett 3-10 Ames 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 16-53 17-25 53.
Netherlands, and Petr Nouza, Czech Republic, def. Julian at Portland 130, Philadelphia 104
mINNESOTA: McDaniels 6-11 0-0 14, Towns 6-15 7-8 21, 1-2 8, Cheeks 1-4 0-0 3, Elvis 0-6 0-0 0, Brea 6-10 0-0 17, Halftime: Oklahoma 35-19. Three-point goals: Oklahoma
Cash, Britain, and Robert Galloway (2), United States, TUESDAY9S RESULTS Gobert 6-6 0-1 12, Alexander-Walker 4-12 2-2 12,
vs. montreal canadiens Padegimas 1-2 0-0 3, Jack 1-2 0-0 2, Grant 0-0 0-0 0, 3-14 (Moore 2-3, Soares 1-1, Darthard 0-1, Uzan 0-2,
3-6, 6-2, 10-7. Edwards 10-20 4-4 27, Anderson 1-4 0-0 2, Brown Jr. 0-1 Maxwell 0-0 0-0 0, Schuler 0-0 0-0 0, Uhl 2-2 2-2 7, McCollum 0-3, Oweh 0-4), Kansas State 4-28 (Perry
at Atlanta 138, L.A. Lakers 122
at Boston 129, Indiana 124 0-0 0, Reid 3-10 0-0 9, McLaughlin 4-4 0-0 10. Totals Tuesday 7 Monumental Nwokeji 0-1 1-2 1, Napier 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-60 13-16 3-10, Manning 1-2, Ames 0-1, Jones 0-1, Finister 0-2,
40-83 13-15 107. 83. N9Guessan 0-2, Carter 0-5, Kaluma 0-5). fouled out:
Toronto 118, at Chicago 107
WTA at New York 118, Utah 103 OKLAHOmA cITY: Dort 0-7 2-2 2, Jal.Williams 8-17 0-2 Halftime: Dayton 38-24. Three-point goals: George Kaluma. Rebounds: Oklahoma 35 (Moore 9), Kansas
at Florida panthers Washington 5-29 (Hutchinson 2-4, Autry 1-4, A.Smith State 31 (Carter, Finister 6). Assists: Oklahoma 12
UPPER AUSTRIA LADIES LINz Philadelphia at Golden State, late 20, Holmgren 2-9 0-0 4, Giddey 5-10 0-1 13, Gilgeous-Al- (Uzan 6), Kansas State 8 (Carter, Perry, Finister 2). Total
exander 10-18 15-16 37, Jay.Williams 1-3 0-1 2, K.Wil- 1-4, Johnson 1-5, Schroder 0-1, Weluche-Ume 0-2,
At Intersport Arena Linz Edwards 0-3, Bishop 0-6), Dayton 12-24 (Brea 5-9, fouls: Oklahoma 21, Kansas State 27. A: 9,955 (12,528).
WEDNESDAY9S GAmES liams 3-8 0-0 8, Joe 2-2 0-0 5, Micic 0-1 0-0 0, Wallace 1-1 Feb. 8 7 Monumental
Purse: $869,899 Santos 3-4, Uhl 1-1, Cheeks 1-2, Padegimas 1-2, Bennett
L.A. Clippers at Washington, 7 0-0 3, Wiggins 3-3 0-0 7. Totals 35-79 17-22 101.
Surface: Hardcourt outdoor 1-4, Elvis 0-2). Rebounds: George Washington 34 (Bu-
Chicago at Charlotte, 7 Three-point Goals: Minnesota 14-29 (Edwards 3-5, Reid chanan 8), Dayton 37 (Holmes 12). Assists: George
SINGLES 4 ROUND Of 32 Detroit at Cleveland, 7 3-5, McLaughlin 2-2, Towns 2-4, McDaniels 2-5, Alexan- at Boston Bruins Washington 8 (Bishop 3), Dayton 18 (Holmes, Santos 4).
ncAA women
Jodie Anna Burrage, Britain, def. Varvara Gracheva (7), Sacramento at Miami, 7:30 der-Walker 2-7, Brown Jr. 0-1), Oklahoma City 14-35 Total fouls: George Washington 15, Dayton 13. A: 13,407 TUESDAY9S RESULTS
Russia, 6-4, 6-0; Jaqueline Adina Cristian, Romania, def. Dallas at Minnesota, 8 (Jal.Williams 4-7, Giddey 3-7, Gilgeous-Alexander 2-3, (13,435). EAST
Nadia Podoroska, Argentina, 6-3, 6-4; Clara Tauson, K.Williams 2-5, Joe 1-1, Wallace 1-1, Wiggins 1-1, Feb. 10 3:30 ABC
Denver at Oklahoma City, 8 Michigan State 82, Rutgers 64
Denmark, def. Camila Giorgi, Italy, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3; Elisa- Jay.Williams 0-1, Micic 0-1, Holmgren 0-2, Dort 0-6).
New Orleans at Houston, 8 Niagara 65, Canisius 55
betta Cocciaretto, Italy, def. Lucrezia Stefanini, Italy, fouled Out: Minnesota None, Oklahoma City 1 (Wal-
Orlando at San Antonio, 8 Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM) West Virginia 84, Central Florida 43
6-2, 6-0; Jule Niemeier, Germany, def. Anna Blinkova, lace). Rebounds: Minnesota 44 (Gobert 17), Oklahoma Georgia Tech 74,
Russia, 6-3, 6-4; Lucia Bronzetti, Italy, def. Angelique Phoenix at Brooklyn, 8:30 City 38 (Gilgeous-Alexander, Holmgren 7). Assists: mIDWEST
Kerber, Germany, 6-1, 6-3; Clara Burel, France, def. Sinja Milwaukee at Portland, 10 Minnesota 21 (Towns 6), Oklahoma City 21 (Gilgeous- no. 3 north carolina 73 Lindenwood (Mo.) 67, Southeast Missouri State 53
Kraus, Austria, 6-1, 6-4. Alexander 8). Total fouls: Minnesota 19, Oklahoma City Blue Jackets 1, Blues 0 North carolina (17-4) SOUTHWEST
THURSDAY9S GAmES 17. A: 16,870 (18,203)
DOUbLES 4 ROUND Of 16 Ingram 3-14 0-1 8, Bacot 4-8 1-2 9, Cadeau 2-7 1-1 5, Houston 54, Cincinnati 46
Indiana at New York, 7:30 cOLUmbUS .............................. 0 0 1 4 1
Davis 11-24 3-4 28, Ryan 3-14 0-0 9, Trimble 2-7 2-5 6,
Nadiia Kichenok, Ukraine, and Anna-Lena Friedsam, L.A. Lakers at Boston, 7:30 ST. LOUIS ................................. 0 0 0 4 0
Washington 3-3 2-4 8, Withers 0-0 0-0 0, Wojcik 0-0 0-0 mONDAY9S RESULTS
Germany, def. Irina Khromacheva, Russia, and Miriam Cleveland at Memphis, 8 0, High 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-77 9-17 73. EAST
Kolodziejova, Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-3; Sabrina Santam- THIRD PERIOD
Philadelphia at Utah, 10 Trail Blazers 130, 76ers 104 Georgia Tech (10-11) Holy Cross 61, Boston 50
aria, United States, and Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia, Scoring: 1, Columbus, Voronkov 12 (Werenski, Gaud- Dowuona 0-2 0-0 0, Ndongo 1-2 0-0 2, George 4-10 8-10
def. Kimberley Zimmermann, Belgium, and Anna Bond- Late Monday Maryland Eastern Shore 63, South Carolina State 45
fRIDAY9S GAmES reau), 4:11. 16, Kelly 5-13 2-2 15, Reeves 1-5 0-0 2, Claude 4-8 1-1 9,
ar, Hungary, 6-3, 6-4; Makoto Ninomiya and Eri Hozumi North Carolina Central 64, Delaware State 58
Miami at Washington, 7 PHILADELPHIA .................. 28 27 22 27 4 104 SHOTS ON GOAL Gapare 2-5 2-2 6, Sturdivant 6-10 2-2 18, Coleman 1-3
(3), Japan, def. Elixane Lechemia, France, and Olivia 0-0 3, Sacko 1-1 0-0 3, Murphy 0-1 0-0 0, Abram 0-1 0-0 0. SOUTH
Nicholls, Britain, 6-1, 6-1. L.A. Clippers at Detroit, 7 PORTLAND ......................... 20 38 36 36 4 130 cOLUmbUS .............................. 7 5 10 4 22 Arkansas Pine Bluff 56, Grambling 49
Phoenix at Atlanta, 7:30 Totals 25-61 15-17 74.
PHILADELPHIA: Batum 1-5 0-0 3, Harris 3-9 3-4 9, Reed ST. LOUIS ................................. 4 5 12 4 21 Halftime: 37-37. Three-point goals: North Carolina 8-28 Auburn 67, Georgia 49
Sacramento at Indiana, 7:30 Power-play opportunities: Columbus 0 of 2; St. Louis 0 of Bethune Cookman 66, Alcorn State 58
5-8 0-1 11, Beverley 5-10 4-4 14, Oubre Jr. 11-20 3-3 25, (Davis 3-8, Ryan 3-10, Ingram 2-7, Cadeau 0-1, Trimble
THAILAND OPEN Charlotte at Oklahoma City, 8 3. Goalies: Columbus, Merzlikins 9-10-7 (21 shots-21 0-2), Georgia Tech 9-20 (Sturdivant 4-4, Kelly 3-6, Coppin State 63, Howard 58
Martin 2-4 2-2 6, Morris Sr. 3-7 2-2 9, Korkmaz 0-3 2-2 2,
At True Arena Hua Hin; in Hua Hin, Thailand Golden State at Memphis, 8 House Jr. 0-1 2-2 2, Bamba 2-4 0-0 4, Council IV 2-4 4-4 8, saves). St. Louis, Binnington 17-13-2 (22-21). A: 18,096 Coleman 1-1, Sacko 1-1, Abram 0-1, Gapare 0-1, Murphy Jackson State 79, Florida A&M 60
Purse: $267,082 New Orleans at San Antonio, 8 Smith 1-4 0-0 3, Springer 2-4 3-4 8. Totals 37-83 25-28 (18,096). T: 2:20. 0-1, Reeves 0-2, George 0-3). fouled out: Cadeau. Mississippi State 77, LSU 73
Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Orlando at Minnesota, 8 104. Rebounds: North Carolina 39 (Ingram 13), Georgia Tech Norfolk State 62, Morgan State 45
Toronto at Houston, 8 38 (Claude, Gapare 8). Assists: North Carolina 17 (Cadeau Southern 64, Mississippi Valley State 45
SINGLES 4 ROUND Of 32 PORTLAND: Grant 7-13 12-13 27, Walker 3-6 1-2 8, 5), Georgia Tech 10 (George, Sturdivant 4). Total fouls: SOUTHWEST
Portland at Denver, 9 Ayton 9-14 0-0 18, Brogdon 10-14 1-1 24, Simons 6-12
Tatjana Maria (4), Germany, def. Arianne Hartono, North Carolina 16, Georgia Tech 17. A: 8,600 (8,600).
Netherlands, 6-3, 6-1; Katie Volynets, United States, 2-2 15, Camara 2-4 1-2 6, Murray 0-0 0-0 0, Thybulle 1-6 HIGH S cHoo L S Alabama State 62, Texas Southern 55
0-0 3, Reath 2-3 0-0 5, Henderson 5-9 9-9 22, Moore 1-1 Prairie View 65, Alabama A&M 59
def. Tamara Zidansek, Slovenia, 6-2, 6-2; Linda Fruhvir-
tova, Czech Republic, def. Anastasia Tikhonova, Russia, 0-0 2, Rupert 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 46-84 26-29 130.
6-3, 6-1; Arina Rodionova, Australia, def. Yuan Yue (6), WIz ArdS9 nex T THree Three-point Goals: Philadelphia 5-29 (Reed 1-1, Springer mONDAY9S RESULTS South carolina 63,
China, 7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 6-3; Zhuoxuan Bai, China, def. Chloe 1-1, Morris Sr. 1-3, Batum 1-4, Smith 1-4, House Jr. 0-1, bOYS9 bASKETbALL no. 5 Tennessee 59 no. 23 West Virginia 84,
Paquet, France, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3; Zhu Lin (2), China, def. Bamba 0-2, Korkmaz 0-2, Beverley 0-3, Harris 0-3, Oubre D.c.
Taylah Preston, Australia, 6-4, 7-5; Anna-Karolina vs. Los Angeles clippers Jr. 0-5), Portland 12-28 (Henderson 3-4, Brogdon 3-5, Washington Leadership 72, Capital City Public Charter 59 South carolina (18-3) central Florida 43
Schmiedlova (8), Slovakia, def. Mai Hontama, Japan, 7-6 Reath 1-1, Walker 1-1, Grant 1-2, Camara 1-3, Thybulle Friendship Collegiate 60, Paul Public Charter 45 Mack 4-15 7-8 16, Murray-Boyles 2-3 0-2 4, Cooper 6-10
(7-5), 7-6 (10-8); Yulia Putintseva (7), Kazakhstan, def. Friendship Tech Prep 83, Parkside 56 2-2 18, Davis 0-5 0-0 0, Johnson 1-8 0-0 3, Wright 1-4 0-0 cENTRAL fLORIDA .............. 4 9 18 12 4 43
1-5, Simons 1-7). fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Philadel-
Thasaporn Naklo, Thailand, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2; Wang Yafan, Wednesday 7 Monumental phia 34 (Oubre Jr., Reed 6), Portland 39 (Walker 12). mARYLAND 3, Stute 3-4 4-4 13, Gray 2-4 2-2 6, Ugusuk 0-3 0-0 0. WEST VIRGINIA ................. 18 21 23 22 4 84
China, def. Alina Korneeva, Russia, 6-2, 6-4. Assists: Philadelphia 17 (Beverley 5), Portland 29 Totals 19-56 15-18 63. central florida (10-9)
Blake 64, Einstein 44 Tennessee (15-5)
(Brogdon 9). Total fouls: Philadelphia 25, Portland 24. A: Ngodu 1-6 0-1 2, Burns 1-10 1-4 3, Jewett 1-2 0-0 2,
DOUbLES 4 ROUND Of 16 vs. miami Heat Bowie 53, Suitland 47 Aidoo 2-8 2-4 6, James 1-3 0-0 2, Knecht 11-24 6-10 31,
17,128 (19,393) Peterson 4-12 2-2 13, Robinson-Nwagwu 1-6 2-2 4, Akot
Aldila Sutjiadi, Indonesia, and Miyu Kato (1), Japan, def. DuVal 64, Parkdale 59 Vescovi 4-7 0-0 10, Zeigler 0-6 2-4 2, Gainey 0-3 0-0 0, 0-1 0-0 0, Funeus 3-4 0-2 6, Gibson 0-0 0-0 0, Kelly 3-5 0-0
Ingrid Martins, Brazil, and Nao Hibino, Japan, 6-1, 7-6 Huntingtown 58, Calvert 45 Awaka 2-5 2-2 6, Mashack 0-0 0-0 0, Estrella 1-2 0-0 2. 6, Godbolt 0-1 1-2 1, McMillan 0-0 0-0 0, Todd 2-4 0-0 6,
(7-4); Bibiane Schoofs, Netherlands, and Anna Siskova Friday 7 Monumental Laurel 68, High Point 51 Totals 21-58 12-20 59. Ware 0-3 0-2 0, Totals 16-54 6-15 43
(4), Czech Republic, def. En-Shuo Liang, Taiwan, and NbA LEADERS Meade 69, Crofton 44 Halftime: South Carolina 30-26. Three-point goals: South West Virginia (18-2)
Lanlana Tararudee, Thailand, 6-2, 3-6, 10-3; Xinyu Jiang Northeast 69, Broadneck 66 Carolina 10-29 (Cooper 4-5, Stute 3-3, Wright 1-2,
Entering Tuesday9s games. Blacksten 1-5 2-4 5, Fields 5-10 2-4 15, Harrison 2-7 5-7
and Hanyu Guo (2), China, def. Linda Fruhvirtova, Czech vs. phoenix Suns ScORING G fG fT PTS. AVG.
Northern 67, Rockwood (Pa.) 53 Johnson 1-5, Mack 1-8, Ugusuk 0-2, Davis 0-4), Tennes- 10, Quinerly 10-14 4-4 26, Watson 4-7 1-2 9, Arigbabu
Republic, and Diana Shnaider, Russia, 5-7, 7-5, 10-2. Seneca Valley 83, Northwood 48 see 5-21 (Knecht 3-8, Vescovi 2-4, James 0-2, Gainey 0-3, 2-5 3-3 7, Diggs 3-4 0-0 6, Hunter 1-3 0-0 2, Hemingway
Embiid, PHI ......................... 33 397 354 1187 36.0 Severna Park 37, Annapolis 36 Zeigler 0-4). Rebounds: South Carolina 40 (Gray 7),
Sunday 3:30 Monumental 1-1 2-2 4, Totals 29-56 19-26 84
Doncic, DAL ......................... 40 469 295 1388 34.7 Springbrook 60, Northwest 53 Tennessee 36 (Awaka 8). Assists: South Carolina 15 Three-point goals: Central Florida 5-17 (Burns 0-4,
Tr AnSAc TIo nS Gilgeous-Alexander, OKC ... 46 504 376 1438 31.3 VIRGINIA (Johnson 6), Tennessee 11 (James, Zeigler 3). Total fouls: Peterson 3-7, Robinson-Nwagwu 0-1, Godbolt 0-1, Todd
Antetokounmpo, MIL ......... 45 520 334 1394 31.0 Edison 66, Mount Vernon 59 South Carolina 18, Tennessee 16. A: 20,667 (21,678). 2-3, Ware 0-1), West Virginia 7-18 (Blacksten 1-2, Fields
Radio: WTEM (980 AM) Booker, PHO ........................ 38 379 237 1081 28.4 Freedom-South Riding 59, Battlefield 46 3-6, Harrison 1-5, Quinerly 2-5). Assists: Central Florida
Durant, PHO ........................ 40 406 229 1131 28.3 Gar-Field 60, Colgan 55 6 (Godbolt 3), West Virginia 16 (Harrison 5). fouled out:
NfL Mitchell, CLE ....................... 35 341 180 971 27.7 Hayfield 65, Falls Church 40 None. Rebounds: Central Florida 22 (Burns 5, Ngodu 5),
Arizona cardinals: Signed CB Michael Ojemudia to a Knicks 118, Jazz 103 Fox, SAC .............................. 39 381 193 1074 27.5 Marshall 47, McLean 39 no. 8 Kansas 83, West Virginia 35 (Watson 10). Total fouls: Central
futures contract for 2024. Curry, GS ............................. 40 350 205 1092 27.3 Patriot 79, Unity Reed 25 Florida 20, West Virginia 16. Technical Fouls_None. A:
baltimore Ravens: Signed LB Tre Swilling to a futures UTAH .................................. 22 27 24 30 4 103 Young, ATL ......................... 41 342 294 1109 27.0 Potomac (Va.) 71, Woodbridge 55
oklahoma State 54 1,608.
contract for 2024. NEW YORK ......................... 29 28 36 25 4 118 Tatum, BOS ........................ 44 397 258 1182 26.9 Stone Bridge 64, Briar Woods 42 Oklahoma State (9-12)
Detroit Lions: Signed LB Mitchel Agude, WRs Maurice Brunson, NY ........................ 45 425 227 1203 26.7 Garrison 3-8 5-9 11, Dow 0-4 0-0 0, Small 3-10 0-0 8,
Alexander and Tom Kennedy OL Matt Farnick, RB Jake UTAH: Fontecchio 5-10 0-0 14, Markkanen 5-14 2-2 14, Jokic, DEN ........................... 47 481 224 1235 26.3 PRIVATE
Collins 5-12 0-1 11, Dunn 3-5 0-0 6, Sexton 7-13 6-8 22, Thompson 0-1 0-0 0, Wright 4-13 4-5 16, Hicklen 1-5 0-0
Funk, Ts Connor Galvin and Michael Niese, DBs Craig Edwards, MIN ..................... 44 393 244 1140 25.9 Annapolis Area Christian 60, Concordia Prep 59
Olynyk 0-3 1-2 1, Kessler 2-4 2-2 6, Agbaji 1-1 0-0 3, 3, Williams 1-3 2-2 4, Dailey 2-7 0-2 4, Keller 1-3 1-1 3, michigan State 82, rutgers 64
James and Brandon Joseph and DT Chris Smith to Maxey, PHI .......................... 42 370 209 1078 25.7 Archbishop Carroll 65, St. Mary9s Ryken 48
Clarkson 5-12 0-0 11, George 6-12 2-2 15. Totals 39-86 Marsh 0-2 0-0 0, McBride 2-2 0-0 5. Totals 17-58 12-19
futures contracts for 2024. Lillard, MIL .......................... 44 324 327 1105 25.1 Bishop Ireton 75, Good Counsel 49
13-17 103. 54. mIcHIGAN STATE .............. 19 23 25 15 4 82
Philadelphia Eagles: Signed TE Noah Togiai to a futures Bishop O9Connell 76, Bishop McNamara 67
Kansas (17-4) RUTGERS ............................ 18 17 11 18 4 64
contract for 2024. NEW YORK: Achiuwa 8-13 2-2 18, Hart 4-10 2-2 10, fIELD GOALS fG fGA PcT. Bullis 81, St. Albans 59
Adams 7-7 2-2 16, Dickinson 8-14 0-0 16, Furphy 4-7 2-4 michigan State (16-5)
Hartenstein 6-10 2-2 14, Brunson 10-23 7-8 29, DiVin- Christ Chapel 56, Fredericksburg Victory 46
mLb Gafford, WAS ................................ 183 262 .698 11, Harris 5-9 0-0 12, Jackson 4-8 0-0 10, Timberlake 2-8 Tate 1-3 0-0 2, Ayrault 8-14 3-6 19, Hagemann 3-5 3-3 9,
cenzo 11-22 2-2 33, Gibson 0-0 0-0 0, Sims 1-2 0-0 2, Georgetown Prep 76, Landon 55
Poeltl, TOR .................................... 170 248 .685 2-2 7, Braun 0-1 0-0 0, McDowell 2-3 1-1 6, Jankovich 1-1 Joiner 4-8 0-0 10, Kimball 5-10 2-2 16, Hallock 7-10 1-3
baltimore Orioles: Agreed to terms with LHP Andrew Arcidiacono 0-0 0-0 0, Flynn 0-0 0-0 0, Grimes 4-10 2-2 Gonzaga 69, DeMatha 60
Zubac, L.A.C. ................................. 201 307 .655 0-0 3, Evers 1-1 0-0 2, Wilhite 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 34-59 7-9 16, Ozment 4-5 2-5 10, Robinson 0-0 0-0 0, Ross 0-3 0-0
Suarez on a minor league contract. 12, McBride 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 44-94 17-18 118. Immanuel Christian 49, Trinity at Meadow View 31
Allen, CLE ...................................... 243 374 .650 83. 0, Totals 32-58 11-19 82
cleveland Guardians: Agreed to terms with C Dom Nunez Paul VI 83, St. John9s 66
Three-point Goals: Utah 12-36 (Fontecchio 4-8, Sexton Duren, DET .................................... 194 302 .642 Halftime: Kansas 44-26. Three-point goals: Oklahoma Rutgers (6-17)
and LHP Anthony Banda on minor league contracts. Seton 67, Northern Virginia Home School 63
2-4, Markkanen 2-8, Agbaji 1-1, Collins 1-4, Clarkson 1-5, Gobert, MIN .................................. 234 365 .641 State 8-29 (Wright 4-10, Small 2-8, McBride 1-1, Hicklen Adams 9-16 10-14 28, Bates 1-3 0-0 2, Cornwell 2-5 2-4 6,
Kansas city Royals: Agreed to terms with 2B Adam Sidwell Friends 55, Flint Hill 39
George 1-5, Olynyk 0-1), New York 13-34 (DiVincenzo Claxton, BKN ................................. 195 306 .637 1-3, Thompson 0-1, Keller 0-2, Dow 0-4), Kansas 8-18 Lafayette 0-5 0-0 0, Thompson 2-5 2-2 6, Brown 5-8 1-1
Frazier on a one-year contract. St. James 63, Georgetown Day 42
9-15, Brunson 2-6, Grimes 2-6, McBride 0-1, Achiuwa Sabonis, SAC ................................. 361 583 .619 (Jackson 2-2, Harris 2-3, Jankovich 1-1, McDowell 1-2, 12, Huerter 3-8 1-2 10, Totals 22-50 16-23 64
Seattle mariners: Acquired INF/OF Samad Taylor from St. Stephen9s/St. Agnes 71, Episcopal 50
0-3, Hart 0-3). fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Utah 43 Antetokounmpo, MIL .................... 520 856 .607 Furphy 1-3, Timberlake 1-5, Braun 0-1, Dickinson 0-1). Three-point goals: Michigan State 7-20 (Ayrault 0-4,
Kansas City in exchange for a player to be named later or (Collins 11), New York 45 (Hartenstein 12). Assists: Williamson, NO ............................. 332 563 .590 GIRLS9 bASKETbALL Rebounds: Oklahoma State 28 (Dow 7), Kansas 40 Hagemann 0-1, Joiner 2-3, Kimball 4-8, Hallock 1-2, Ross
cash considerations. Utah 23 (Sexton 7), New York 29 (Hart 10). Total fouls: Jokic, DEN ..................................... 481 822 .585 D.c. (Dickinson 11). Assists: Oklahoma State 8 (Small, 0-2), Rutgers 4-14 (Bates 0-1, Lafayette 0-4, Brown 1-2,
Toronto blue Jays: Agreed to terms with INF Justin Utah 16, New York 16. A: 19,133 (19,812) Wagner, ORL ................................. 196 336 .583 Thompson 2), Kansas 22 (Harris 7). Total fouls: Okla- Huerter 3-7). Assists: Michigan State 22 (Hagemann 7),
Friendship Collegiate 74, SEED D.C. 60
Turner on a one-year contract. Toppin, IND ................................... 209 361 .579 homa State 14, Kansas 12. Rutgers 19 (Bates 7). fouled out: Rutgers Brown. Re-
Idea 24, KIPP D.C. Legacy 4
Arizona Diamondbacks: Agreed to terms with DH/OF Joc Capela, ATL ................................... 208 364 .571 bounds: Michigan State 29 (Tate 8), Rutgers 33 (Adams
Pederson on a one-year contract. Designated RHP Collin Valanciunas, NO ............................ 255 451 .565 mARYLAND
celtics 129, pacers 124 10). Total fouls: Michigan State 21, Rutgers 22. Technical
Snider for assignment. Davis, L.A.L. .................................. 437 789 .554 Bethesda-Chevy Chase 49, Blair 21 Fouls_Michigan State Tate 1, Rutgers Adams 1. A: 1,409.
New York mets: Agreed to terms with RHP Adam Chesapeake 50, North County 28 no. 9 marquette 85,
INDIANA ............................. 26 40 37 21 4 124
Ottavino on a one-year contract. Designated C Tyler THREE-POINTERS 3fG 3fGA PcT. Douglass 55, CMIT-North 35
bOSTON ............................. 36 45 25 23 4 129 Villanova 80
Heineman for assignment. Einstein 63, Blake 22
Allen, PHO ..................................... 112 225 .498 Eleanor Roosevelt 54, Bladensburg 20
NbA INDIANA: Nesmith 11-17 0-0 26, Siakam 9-16 4-4 23, Nesmith, IND .................................. 89 194 .459 marquette (16-5) ncAA Women9S
Turner 7-18 1-4 17, Haliburton 5-16 2-2 13, Hield 5-9 0-0 Friendly 44, Fairmont Heights 30
Beasley, MIL ................................. 125 275 .455 Gold 1-5 0-0 3, Ighodaro 5-9 5-6 15, Joplin 4-10 2-6 12,
Atlanta Hawks: Recalled Kobe Bufkin from the College 12, Toppin 5-11 0-0 11, Smith 2-6 3-3 7, Nembhard 6-13 Durant, PHO .................................... 90 199 .452
Northwest 38, Springbrook 28
Kolek 10-20 7-8 32, Mitchell 4-5 4-6 12, Ross 3-5 3-3 11, Top 25 coAcHeS9 poLL
Park Skyhawks of the G League. 2-2 15, Sheppard 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 50-108 12-15 124. Seneca Valley 84, Northwood 27
Williams, OKC ................................. 63 140 .450 Lowery 0-0 0-0 0, Norman 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-54 21-29 The USA Today Sports Top 25 women9s basketball poll,
memphis Grizzlies: Signed C Trey Jemison and F Tosan Surrattsville 69, Central 21
bOSTON: J.Brown 9-15 7-8 25, Tatum 12-19 2-3 30, McDermott, SA ............................... 71 158 .449 85. with first-place votes received in parenthesis, team9s
Evbuomwan to 10-day contracts. VIRGINIA Villanova (11-10)
Porzingis 6-17 3-4 17, Holiday 6-8 2-2 17, White 8-16 4-4 Powell, L.A.C. .................................. 92 206 .447 records, total points based on 25 for first place through
New York Knicks: Signed F Taj Gibson to a 10-day Briar Woods 48, Stone Bridge 43 Burton 2-5 2-2 8, Dixon 8-16 6-6 24, Bamba 8-14 4-4 24,
24, Hauser 3-5 0-0 9, Brissett 0-0 0-0 0, Queta 2-3 0-1 4, Leonard, L.A.C. ................................ 92 208 .442 one point for 25th and ranking in last week9s poll:
contract. Colgan 70, Gar-Field 29 Hart 0-2 0-0 0, Moore 2-6 1-1 6, Armstrong 5-18 4-4 16,
Pritchard 1-4 0-0 3. Totals 47-87 18-22 129. Walker, BKN .................................... 61 138 .442
NHL Conley, MIN ..................................... 98 223 .439 Handley 76, Manassas Park 5 Hausen 1-3 0-0 2, Longino 0-2 0-0 0, Ware 0-0 0-0 0, REcORD PTS PVS
Three-point Goals: Indiana 12-39 (Nesmith 4-7, Hield 2-5, Towns, MIN ................................... 100 229 .437 Hayfield 52, Falls Church 49 Arcidiacono 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 26-66 17-17 80. 1. South Carolina (32) 19-0 800 1
Ottawa Senators: Placed C Rourke Chartier on waivers. Turner 2-7, Siakam 1-1, Toppin 1-4, Haliburton 1-5, McCollum, NO ............................... 112 257 .436 Lake Braddock 32, W.T. Woodson 25 Halftime: Marquette 39-31. Three-point goals: Mar- 2. Kansas State 20-1 762 2
Pittsburgh Penguins: Assigned F Maxim Cajkovic to Nembhard 1-5, Sheppard 0-2, Smith 0-3), Boston 17-36 Kennard, MEM ................................ 57 132 .432 Langley 62, Wakefield 31 quette 10-22 (Kolek 5-8, Ross 2-3, Joplin 2-5, Gold 1-5, 3. Stanford 19-2 722 5
Wheeling (ECHL). (White 4-7, Tatum 4-9, Holiday 3-3, Hauser 3-5, Porzingis Merrill, CLE ..................................... 71 166 .428 Lightridge 49, Independence 15 Mitchell 0-1), Villanova 11-32 (Bamba 4-7, Burton 2-4, 4. Iowa 19-2 717 5
Seattle Kraken: Returned F Devin Shore to Coachella 2-6, Pritchard 1-3, J.Brown 0-3). fouled Out: None. McLean 43, Marshall 27 Dixon 2-4, Armstrong 2-8, Moore 1-4, Longino 0-1, Hart 5. North Carolina State 18-2 669 7
Valley (AHL). Rebounds: Indiana 50 (Nesmith 12), Boston 40 (Porzingis Osbourn Park 63, Gainesville 52 0-2, Hausen 0-2). fouled out: Burton. Rebounds: Mar- 6. Colorado 17-3 595 3
12). Assists: Indiana 33 (Haliburton 10), Boston 25 (Tatum fREE THROWS fT fTA PcT.
Vancouver canucks: Returned RW Linus Karlsson to Potomac (Va.) 71, Woodbridge 55 quette 35 (Mitchell 9), Villanova 29 (Armstrong 8). 7. Ohio State 17-3 585 12
Abbotsford (AHL). 7). Total fouls: Indiana 21, Boston 16. A: 19,156 (18,624) Curry, GS ....................................... 205 221 .928 Washington-Liberty 50, Herndon 16 Assists: Marquette 16 (Kolek 9), Villanova 17 (Moore 6). 8. UCLA 16-3 565 4
Lillard, MIL .................................... 327 354 .924 Total fouls: Marquette 14, Villanova 22. A: 6,501 (6,500). 9. Indiana 17-2 529 13
Thompson, GS ................................. 81 89 .910 PRIVATE
10. Connecticut 17-4 481 8
George, L.A.C. ............................... 150 165 .909 Archbishop Carroll 57, Bishop O9Connell 39 11. LSU 18-4 437 9
GoLF raptors 118, Bulls 107 Simons, POR ................................... 94 104 .904 Bullis 69, Flint Hill 33 12. Louisville 18-3 409 16
Bogdanovic, ATL ............................. 84 93 .903 Christ Chapel 55, Fredericksburg Victory 31 no. 14 Illinois 87, ohio State 75 13. Baylor 16-3 402 15
TORONTO ........................... 27 26 37 28 4 118 Collegiate 57, St. Stephen9s/St. Agnes 37
Harris, PHI ..................................... 132 147 .898 14. Texas 19-3 394 11
official World Golf ranking cHIcAGO ............................ 31 32 26 18 4 107 Elizabeth Seton 58, Holy Cross 15 Illinois (16-5)
Irving, DAL .................................... 102 114 .895 15. Southern California 14-4 363 10
TORONTO: Barnes 4-14 5-6 13, Brown 7-13 4-4 19, Young Burks, DET .................................... 107 120 .892 Georgetown Visitation 48, Holy Child 45 Hawkins 2-3 0-0 5, Shannon 7-17 6-6 23, Domask 7-12 16. Notre Dame 15-4 331 18
Through Monday. Gilgeous-Alexander, OKC ............. 376 422 .891 Holton-Arms 70, Madeira 43 8-8 23, Guerrier 2-5 0-1 5, Rodgers 5-6 3-3 13, Harmon
8-13 0-0 16, Schroder 5-11 6-7 16, Trent Jr. 9-15 0-0 24, 17. Gonzaga 20-2 324 17
Boucher 2-2 0-0 5, McDaniels 3-6 0-0 8, Nwora 5-7 3-3 17, White, BOS ..................................... 98 110 .891 Maret 58, St. Andrew9s 38 3-6 0-0 6, Goode 1-3 0-0 3, Dainja 3-5 1-1 7, Hansberry 18. Virginia Tech 16-4 259 19
1. ....................... Scottie Scheffler 9.25
Porter 0-0 0-0 0, Dick 0-1 0-0 0, Temple 0-1 0-0 0. Totals Clarkson, UTA ............................... 126 142 .887 McDonogh 72, Archbishop Spalding 35 1-2 0-1 2, Gibbs-Lawhorn 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 31-60 18-20 19. Oregon State 17-3 233 25
2. .............................. Rory McIlroy 8.72
43-83 18-20 118. Riverdale Baptist 74, Springdale Prep 19 87. 20. Utah 15-6 203 14
3. ...................................Jon Rahm 7.42
REbOUNDS G Off. DEf. TOT. AVG. Seton 50, Miller School of Albemarle 42 Ohio State (13-8) 21. Creighton 16-3 161 20
4. .......................... Viktor Hovland 6.30 cHIcAGO: Caruso 3-9 4-6 11, DeRozan 8-17 9-12 25, Southern Maryland Christian 55, Calverton 6 Battle 8-15 2-2 21, Okpara 0-2 0-0 0, Gayle 8-14 4-4 20, 22. West Virginia 17-2 156 53
5. .....................Xander Schauffele 5.42 Vucevic 5-11 2-2 14, Dosunmu 8-11 1-2 21, White 5-10 Sabonis, SAC .................... 45 146 437 583 12.9 St. Gertrude 60, St. John Paul the Great 49 Mahaffey 6-7 1-2 13, Thornton 3-11 0-0 7, Middleton 1-1 23. Syracuse 17-3 143 22
6. ..........................Patrick Cantlay 5.09 2-2 13, Phillips 3-4 1-1 9, Terry 2-4 0-0 4, Drummond 3-4 Gobert, MIN ...................... 46 160 417 577 12.5 St. John9s 57, Good Counsel 45 0-0 2, Key 1-5 3-5 5, Royal 3-4 1-2 7, Bonner 0-0 0-0 0, 24. North Carolina 15-6 53 21
7. ................................. Max Homa 4.38 1-2 7, Carter 1-5 0-0 3. Totals 38-75 20-27 107. Jokic, DEN ......................... 47 141 428 569 12.1 Stone Ridge 50, Episcopal 44 Hardman 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 30-60 11-15 75. 25. Princeton 15-3 37 NR
8. ........................Matt Fitzpatrick 4.15 Davis, L.A.L. ...................... 46 146 409 555 12.0
Three-point Goals: Toronto 14-29 (Trent Jr. 6-11, Nwora Trinity Christian 47, Fredericksburg Christian 33 Halftime: Illinois 41-34. Three-point goals: Illinois 7-17
9. ............................ Brian Harman 4.11 Antetokounmpo, MIL ....... 45 118 407 525 11.6
4-5, McDaniels 2-3, Boucher 1-1, Brown 1-3, Dick 0-1, (Shannon 3-7, Hawkins 1-1, Domask 1-2, Goode 1-2, Dropped out: No. 24 Florida State (15-7).
10. .......................Wyndham Clark 3.85 Embiid, PHI ....................... 33 88 289 377 11.4 bOYS9 SWImmING
Schroder 0-1, Young 0-1, Barnes 0-3), Chicago 11-32 Guerrier 1-3, Hansberry 0-1, Harmon 0-1), Ohio State Others receiving votes: UNLV (17-2) 16, Ball State
11. .................. Tommy Fleetwood 3.79 Allen, CLE .......................... 39 141 271 412 10.5 mARYLAND
(Dosunmu 4-5, Phillips 2-3, Vucevic 2-5, Carter 1-3, 4-12 (Battle 3-6, Thornton 1-5, Gayle 0-1). Rebounds: (18-2) 11, Florida State (15-7) 8, Fairfield (17-1) 7,
12. ...................... Collin Morikawa 3.66 Vucevic, CHI ...................... 42 111 332 443 10.5 Blake 92, Wheaton 89
White 1-4, Caruso 1-6, Terry 0-1, DeRozan 0-5). fouled Illinois 32 (Rodgers 10), Ohio State 25 (Battle 6). Michigan State (15-5) 7, Mississippi State (17-5) 5,
13. .................................. Tom Kim 3.62 Adebayo, MIA ................... 37 82 308 390 10.5
Out: None. Rebounds: Toronto 38 (Brown 7), Chicago 33 Assists: Illinois 8 (Shannon 3), Ohio State 9 (Thornton Marquette (16-4) 3, Miami (Fla.) (13-6) 3, Mississippi
14. .......................... Jordan Spieth 3.60 Capela, ATL ....................... 44 208 251 459 10.4 GIRLS9 SWImmING
(Vucevic 9). Assists: Toronto 34 (Schroder 10), Chicago 4). Total fouls: Illinois 15, Ohio State 18. A: 10,285 (15-5) 3, St. Joseph9s (19-2) 3, Washington State (15-6)
15. ....................... Keegan Bradley 3.58 Claxton, BKN ..................... 36 111 263 374 10.3 mARYLAND
21 (White 6). Total fouls: Toronto 20, Chicago 16. A: (18,809). 2, Auburn (14-6) 1, TCU (15-5) 1.
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Notice of Disposition of Collateral
Public Auction 3 UCC Foreclosure Sale
Notice is hereby given that, in accordance with applicable provisions
of the Uniform Commercial Code as enacted in the State of Illinois,
Saperean Largo Mezz, LLC (<Secured Party=) will offer for sale, at public
auction, 100% of the membership interests (the <Collateral=) in Largo
Senior Living, LLC (<Mortgage Borrower=), which membership interests
are currently owned by Largo Mezz, LLC (<Debtor=). Mortgage Borrow-
er, in turn, owns the real property located at 360, 400 and 450 Sky
Bridge Drive, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20774. The public auction will
be held on February 20, 2024 at 3:30 p.m. (EST), by remote auction via
Zoom, Full meeting link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88188892287?p-
wd=2qhTedL6Fog7NbTFnPTCoDQn0HaBxw.1, Shortened meeting link:
https://bit.ly/LargoUCC, Meeting ID: 881 8889 2287, Password: 093838,
and the Collateral will be sold to the highest qualiûed bidder; provided,
however, that Secured Party reserves the right to cancel the sale in
its entirety, or to adjourn the sale to a future date. The sale will be
conducted by Thomas Tumbleson (of Tumbleson Auction Company), an
Illinois State licensed auctioneer (440000397), or such other appropri-
ately licensed auctioneer in the state of Illinois that the Secured Party,
in its absolute discretion, may select.
This sale is being held to enforce Secured Party9s rights in the Collateral
as a result of the indebtedness of Debtor to Secured Party, following
Debtor9s defaults under the applicable loan documents. The Collateral
will be sold together in a single block, and there is no warranty or rep-
resentations relating to title, possession, quiet enjoyment, merchant-
ability, ûtness, or the like in this disposition. Secured Party reserves the
right for itself and any assignee to bid (whether by cash and/or credit-
ing some or all of the secured obligations) and to become the purchas-
er at the sale. Interested parties must contact broker for Secured Party,
c/o Brock Cannon, at Newmark, 125 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017,
(212) 372-2066, brock.cannon@nmrk.com, in order to obtain a copy of
the Terms of Sale and information regarding bidding instructions. Upon
execution of a standard conûdentiality and non-disclosure agreement,
additional documentation and information will be available. Interested
parties who do not contact the Secured Party9s broker prior to the sale
will not be permitted to enter a bid.
None of the Collateral has been registered for sale under any federal
or state securities or blue sky laws, and as such may not be sold or
otherwise transferred by Secured Party or a purchaser of any Collateral
except in accordance with applicable law.
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Montgomery County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
STANLEY JACKSON
14 Blue Ribbon Court
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Defendant(s).
Case No.C-15-CV-23-002898
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 22
day of January, 2024, by the
Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Maryland, that the sale
of the property mentioned in
these proceedings and described
as 14 Blue Ribbon Court, Gaith-
ersburg, MD 20878, made
and reported by the Substitute
Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND
CONFIRMED, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 22 day of Feb-
ruary, 2024, 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
22 day of February, 2024. The
report states the purchase price
at the Foreclosure sale to be
$297,000.00.
KAREN A. BUSHELL
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland
BWW#MD-363794
Jan 24,31,Feb 7 2024 0012449757
IN THE CIRCUIT COURTFOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
MELVIN ROBERT KRAVITZ
(DECEASED)
9924 Walker House Road
Unit 3
Gaithersburg, MD 20886
Defendant(s).
Case No.C-15-CV-23-003032
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 22
day of January, 2024, by the Cir-
cuit Court for Montgomery Coun-
ty, Maryland, that the sale of the
property mentioned in these
proceedings and described as
9924 Walker House Road, Unit
3, Gaithersburg, MD 20886,
made and reported by the Sub-
stitute Trustee, will be RATIFIED
AND CONFIRMED, unless cause
to the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 22 day of Feb-
ruary, 2024, 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
22 day of February, 2024. The
report states the purchase price
at the Foreclosure sale to be
$167,000.00.
KAREN A. BUSHELL
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland
BWW#MD-364443
Jan 24,31,Feb 7 2024 0012449759
851
Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
PRINCE GEORGE9S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
SWANN HILL CONDOMINIUM
UNIT OWNERS
ASSOCIATION
Plaintiff
v.
RHONDA KING
Defendant
Civil No. C-16-CV-23-000530
NOTICE
Notice, this 18th day of January,
2024 by the Circuit Court for
Prince George9s County, Mary-
land, that the sale of the property
mentioned in these proceedings,
made and reported by Allan P.
Feigelson, Substitute Trustee, be
ratiûed and conûrmed unless
cause to the contrary thereof be
shown on or before the 19th day
of February, 2024, next, provided
a copy of this Notice be inserted
in some newspaper published in
Prince George9s County once in
each of three successive weeks
before the 19 day of February,
2024, next.
The report of sale states the
amount of sale to be $62,000.00
subject to a prior lien of $2,289.00
recorded 06/15/2015, subject to
a prior lien of $6,243.81 recorded
04/05/2016, and subject to a pri-
or lien8 of $12,942.18 recorded
11/01/2018 for a total sales price
of $83,474.99
The address of the property is:
3803 Swann Road, Unit 202,
Suitland, MD 20746.
Mahasin El Amin #723
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Prince George9s County
Jan 31,Feb 7,14 2024 0012449527
815
Legal Notices
851
Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
PRINCE GEORGE9S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitue Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
TYNETTE W. BROWN NKA
TYNETTE W. WILLIAMS
GREGORY D. WILLIAMS
7303 Walker Mill Road
Capitol Heights, MD 20743
Defendant(s).
Case No. C-16-CV-23-004806
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 18
day of January, 2024, by the Cir-
cuit Court for Prince George9s
County, Maryland, that the sale
of the property mentioned in
these proceedings and described
as 7303 Walker Mill Road Cap-
itol Heights, MD 20743, made
and reported by the Substitute
Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on or
before the 19 day of February,
2024, provided a copy of this
NOTICE be inserted in some daily
newspaper printed in said Coun-
ty, once in each of three succes-
sive weeks before the 19 day of
February, 2024.
The report states the purchase
price at the Foreclosure sale to
be $272,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin #793
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Prince George9s County,
Maryland
BWW#MD-164315
Jan 31,Feb 7,14 2024 0012449507
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
PRINCE GEORGE9S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitue Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
OPEYEMI BOLARINDE
ROTIMI BOLARINDE
12315 Wheeling Avenue
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
Defendant(s).
Case No. C- 16-CV-23-004367
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 18
day of January, 2024, by the Cir-
cuit Court for Prince George9s
County, Maryland, that the sale
of the property mentioned in
these proceedings and described
as 12315 Wheeling Avenue Up-
per Marlboro, MD 20772, made
and reported by the Substitute
Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on or
before the 19 day of February,
2024, provided a copy of this
NOTICE be inserted in some daily
newspaper printed in said Coun-
ty, once in each of three succes-
sive weeks before the 19 day of
February, 2024.
The report states the purchase
price at the Foreclosure sale to
be $308,100.00.
Mahasin El Amin #793
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Prince George9s County,
Maryland
BWW#MD-366456
Jan 31,Feb 7,14 2024 0012449509
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
PRINCE GEORGE9S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitue Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
SAMUEL N. SMITH (DECEASED)
7417 Marlboro Pike
District Heights, MD 20747
Defendant(s).
Case No. C-16-CV-23-003947
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 18 day
of January, 2024, by the Circuit
Court for Prince George9s Coun-
ty, Maryland, that the sale of the
property mentioned in these pro-
ceedings and described as 7417
Marlboro Pike District Heights,
MD 20747, made and reported
by the Substitute Trustee, will be
RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, un-
less cause to the contrary there-
of be shown on or before the 19
day of February, 2024, 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 19 day of February, 2024.
The report states the purchase
price at the Foreclosure sale to
be $224,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin #793
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Prince George9s County,
Maryland
BWW#MD-127354
Jan 31,Feb 7,14 2024 0012449510
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE9S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
GREGORY THORNE, ET. AL.
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
VS.
GRANDVILLE MARTIN,
Defendant(s).
Case No.: CAEF22-15554
NOTICE
ORDERED this 18th day of
January, 2024 by the Circuit
Court for Prince George9s Coun-
ty, Maryland, that the sale of
the property at 13700 Maned
Goose Lane, Upper Marlboro,
MD 20774 mentioned in these
proceedings, made and report-
ed Diana C. Theologou, et. al,
Substitute Trustees, be ratiûed
and conûrmed, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 19th day of
February, 2024 next, provided
a copy of this notice be insert-
ed in some newspaper pub-
lished in said County once in
each of three successive weeks
before the 19th day of Feb-
ruary, 2024 next. The report
states the amount of sale to be
$380,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin #793
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
PRINCE GEORGE9S COUNTY,
MARYLAND 723
Jan 31,Feb 7,14 2024 0012449532
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Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Montgomery County Montgomery County
MARK H. WITTSTADT, ESQUIRE McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC TRUSTEE9S SALE Samuel I. White, P.C.
1966 GREENSPRING DRIVE, SUITE LL2 312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800 Of Valuable Real Estate 448 Viking Drive, Suite 350
LUTHERVILLE, MD 21093 Laurel, MD 20707 located in the District of Columbia Virginia Beach, VA 23452
410-238-2840
www.mwc-law.com known as
549 Park Road NW, Unit 3, SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE OF
TRUSTEE9S SALE
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE OF Washington DC 20010 VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
REAL PROPERTY
616 KENYON STREET, NW
2409 FRANKLIN STREET, N.E., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20018 KNOWN AS
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20010
(Square 4265, Lots 12 & 13) By virtue of a certain Deed of Trust and Security Agreement, 11201 Hunt Club Drive
Assignment of Leases and Rents duly recorded in the land Potomac, MD 20854
By virtue of a certain Commercial Deed of Trust, Security Agreement , In execution of the power of sale contained in a certain records of the District of Columbia on March 9, 2020 as
Assignment of Leases and Rents and Fixture Filing from E & E LLC, a District Deed of Trust dated as of February 6, 2019 and recorded Instrument No. 2020032328 (the <Deed of Trust=), and Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
of Columbia limited liability company dated October 3, 2022, and duly recorded on February 14, 2019 as Instrument No. 2019015996 with in accordance with the Mediation Certiûcate recorded certain Deed of Trust to WILLIAM J. PETRINA, Trustee(s),
October 5, 2022 as Instrument No. 2022101367 (the <Deed of Trust=) among the District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds (the <Recorder=) December 28, 2023 and the Notice of Intention to Foreclose dated January 5, 2018, and recorded among the Land
the Land Records of the District of Columbia (the <Land Records=), which Deed in the original principal amount of $440,000.00 (the <Deed dated and recorded December 28, 2023 pursuant to D.C. Records of MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber
of Trust also constitutes a security agreement and creates a security interest of Trust=), which Deed of Trust also constitutes a security Code § 42-815, and at the request of the party secured by 55622, folio 108, the holder of the indebtedness secured
in all ûxtures described in the Deed of Trust, a default having occurred in the agreement and creates a security interest in all ûxtures and the Deed of Trust, the Trustee will sell, at public auction, by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned
payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and the covenants contained personal property described in the Deed of Trust, a default at the ofûce of HARVEY WEST AUCTIONEERS INC., 5335 Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among
therein, and at the request of the party secured thereby (the <Noteholder=), having occurred in the payment of the indebtedness secured Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred
and in accordance with Public Law 90-566 and following mailing of the Notice thereby and the covenants contained therein, and at the on February 1, 2024 at 11:00 A.M. some or all of the under the terms thereof, and at the request of the party
of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit recorded among the request of the party secured thereby (the <Noteholder=), Property described in said Deed of Trust, including certain secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will
Land Records on January 5, 2024 as Instrument No. 2024001662 and the and following mailing of a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real land and premises, situate in the District of Columbia, and offer for sale at public auction at THE MONTGOMERY
recordation of the Afûdavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure recorded Property or Condominium Unit recorded with the Recorder being now known for purposes of assessment and taxation COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 50 MARYLAND AVENUE,
among the Land Records on December 22, 2023 as Instrument No. 2023114503
on January 5, 2024 as Instrument No. 2024001821 and as Lot 2047, Square 3037, and more particularly described ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 ON,
the undersigned Trustee will sell, at public auction, within the ofûce of ALEX
Afûdavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure recorded as follows:
COOPER AUCTIONEERS, INC., 4910 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N.W., SUITE 100,
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20016 on
with the Recorder on January 2, 2024 as Instrument No. Part of Lot numbered Forty-Eight (48) in Square numbered FEBRUARY 5, 2024 at 1:30 PM
2024000359, and the recordation of a Substitution of
Thirty Hundred Thirty-Seven (3037) in a subdivision made
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2024 AT 12:10 PM Trustees with the Recorder as Instrument No. 2024000358, by John Wisenhusan as per plat recorded in the Ofûce of ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
the undersigned Trustees will sell, at public auction, within the Surveyor for the District of Columbia in Liber County 23 thereon situated in MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD and
Lot numbered Seventy-eight (78) in Block numbered Three (3) in Stellwagen the ofûce of ALEX COOPER AUCTIONEERS, INC., 4910 at Folio 56. described as follows:
and Heald, <Trustees9 subdivision of said Block Three (3) in <Scheutzen Park,= MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N.W., SUITE 100, WASHINGTON, The Part of the land conveyed being more particularly BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NUMBERED THIRTY-
as per plat recorded in the Ofûce of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia in D.C. 20016 on Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 11:45 A.M. described as UNIT NO. 3 in <THE PARK ROAD CONDOMINIUM=, FOUR (34) IN BLOCK LETTERED <E= IN SUBDIVISION KNOWN
Liber County 9 at folio 73.= that certain land and premises commonly described as according to the Declaration of Condominium recorded AS <FOX HILLS OF POTOMAC=, AS PER PLAT RECORDED IN
Note: Said property being now known for assessment and taxation purposes 2409 Franklin Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20018, which January 18, 2019 as Instrument No. 2019006482 and the PLAT BOOK 80, PLAT NO. 8181 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS
as Lot numbered Seventy-eight (78) in Square numbered Thirty Hundred and has the following legal description as set forth in the Deed
of Trust:
By-Laws relating thereto, recorded January 18, 2019 as OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND.
THE PROPERTY IS SUBJECT TO A PRIOR MORTGAGE. IF
Forty-Seven (3047) Instrument No. 2019006483, among the Land Records of
SSL: 3047-0078 Lot numbered Twelve (12) and Thirteen (13) in Block 1, in the District of Columbia, and as per plat of Condominium AVAILABLE THE AMOUNT WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THE TIME
FIXTURES AND TANGIBLE PROPERTY a subdivision known as <Anne L. Alderman and Asahel H. Subdivision recorded in the Ofûce of the Surveyor for the OF THE SALE
Pursuant to the Deed of Trust as evidenced by a Financing Statement recorded Alderman9s= in the <Estate of Clark Mills=, as per plat of District of Columbia in Condominium Book 104 at Page 13. The property will be sold in an <AS IS WHERE IS=
among said Land Records as Instrument Number 2022101368 and upon said subdivision recorded in Liber 9 at Folio 123, in the TOGETHER with all of the appurtenances incident to said condition without either express or implied warranty or
occurrence of a default thereunder, the Secured Party, Carstensz Loan Holdings, Ofûce of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia. Unit as set forth in said Declaration and Bylaws. representation, including but not limited to the description,
LLC, as the holder of a security interest and lien on all of the tangible and Now known for assessment and taxation purposes as Lots ûtness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
intangible assets of the Debtor, will sell at public auction on the same date and
SUBJECT, HOWEVER, to all of the provisions, restrictions,
12 & 13, in Square 4265. easements, conditions and assessments as stated in said physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
at the same time and place, ALL OF THE FIXTURES and TANGIBLE PROPERTY,
ETC. of the Debtor located on or about the Real Estate (that is subject to the
TOGETHER WITH any and all buildings, structures, Condominium Declaration and Bylaws. workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
security interest and lien of Carstensz Loan Holdings, LLC and not owned by
improvements or appurtenances now erected on the above- TOGETHER WITH an undivided percentage interest in environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
any third party.) described land, including, without limitation, all equipment, the common elements as set forth in said Declaration of with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
TOGETHER WITH any and all buildings, structures, improvements or apparatus, machinery and ûxtures of any kind or character Condominium. or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
appurtenances now erected on the above-described land, including, without forming a part of said buildings, structures, improvements SSL: 3037 2047 easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
or appurtenances, and any furniture, furnishings, Property Address for Informational Purposes: 549 Park Road affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
limitation, all equipment, apparatus, machinery and ûxtures of any kind
or character forming a part of said buildings, structures, improvements or equipment, machinery and other personal property owned NW, Unit 3, Washington, DC 20010 (the <Property=). all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
appurtenances, and any furniture, furnishings, equipment, machinery and other and located in, upon or about the above-described land and Terms of Sale affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
personal property owned and located in, upon or about the above-described land any buildings thereon all as more particularly described in The Property will be sold <WHERE IS= and in <AS IS= assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
and any buildings thereon all as more particularly described in the aforesaid the aforesaid Deed of Trust (the <Property=). Pursuant to condition and the purchaser shall assume the risk of loss TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
Deed of Trust (the <Property=). The <Property= does not include any property Section 28:9-604 of the D.C. Code, the Substitute Trustees or damage to the Property after the time of the foreclosure certiûed funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH
owned by any tenants at the Property. are proceeding against both the real property and the sale. The Property will be sold subject to two senior deeds WILL NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. The Property will be offered as an entirety only. The personal property described in the Deed of Trust. of trust, the amount to be announced at the time of sale of the purchase price with interest at 2.65% per annum from
bid that yields the highest price for the Property will be accepted by the Trustee TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. The bid which yields the highest the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
if available to the Trustee. Neither the Trustee, the party
(unless the sale is postponed or cancelled) and all bids will be provisional until price for the Property will be accepted by the Substitute secured by the Deed of Trust, the auctioneer, nor any of their TEN DAYS after the ûnal ratiûcation of the sale. There will be
acceptance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee absolutely reserves the Trustees (unless the sale is postponed or cancelled) and all respective agents, successors or assigns (collectively, the no abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all
right to postpone the sale and/or cancel the sale at any time until the auctioneer
bids will be provisional until acceptance. Notwithstanding <Selling Parties=) make any representation or warranties, taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
announces that the Property is <sold= and the Trustee receives the deposit in
the foregoing, the Substitute Trustees absolutely reserve express or implied, with respect to the Property, or any will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
the required amount and form. A deposit in the amount of $25,000.00 will
be required at the time of sale as a condition to bidding. Such deposit must
the right to postpone the sale and/or cancel the sale at any tenancies or parties in possession, including without by purchaser. There will be no abatement of taxes, public
be by cashier9s check or certiûed check or in such other form as the Trustee
time until the auctioneer announces that the Property is limitation, the description, use, structural integrity, charges and special or regular assessments for any reason.
may determine in his sole discretion, which check shall be payable to <Mark <sold= and the deposit in the required amount and form is physical condition, construction, extent of construction, If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner association
H. Wittstadt, Trustee.= The deposit must be increased to 10% of the purchase received by the Substitute Trustees. A deposit in the amount workmanship, materials, habitability, marketability, dues and assessments that may become due after the
price within 2 business days after consummation of the sale and delivered to of $52,000.00 will be required at the time of sale. Such or insurability (hazard or title), subdivision, zoning, time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
the Trustee in the same form of funds as the initial deposit. The Noteholder deposit must be by cashier9s check or certiûed check or in environmental condition, compliance with building codes Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps,
secured by the Deed of Trust (or any related party) shall be exempted by the such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine or other laws (such as Americans with Disabilities Act), transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident
Trustee from submitting any bidding deposit. The Trustee will, as a condition of in their sole discretion. The Noteholder (or any related ordinances or regulations, ûtness for a particular purpose, to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of
the sale, require all potential bidders except the Noteholder to show their deposit party) shall be exempted by the Substitute Trustees from or merchantability of all or any part of the Property. The the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
before any bidding begins. The retained deposit of the successful purchaser submitting any bidding deposit. The Substitute Trustees purchaser waives and releases the Selling Parties from any forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs
shall be applied, without interest, to the successful purchaser9s credit at will, as a condition of the sale, require all potential bidders and all claims the purchaser or the purchaser9s successors of the defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to
except the Noteholder (or any related party) to show their
settlement; provided, however, that in the event the successful purchaser does or assigns may have now or may have in the future relating pay reasonable attorneys9 fees for the Substitute trustees,
not consummate the purchase in accordance with the terms of sale as herein deposit before any bidding begins. The retained deposit of to the sale or the condition of the Property. The Property plus all cost incurred, if the Substitute Trustee9s have ûled
provided, such deposit, will be forfeited, and after payment of all expenses and the successful purchaser shall be applied, without interest, the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property.
will be sold subject to rights of parties in possession, any
commissions due in connection with the defaulted sale, the balance shall be to the successful purchaser9s credit at settlement, provided, building or housing violations, easements, agreements, The purchasers waives personal service of any papers ûled
applied to the indebtedness due under the terms of the note and Deed of Trust. however, that in the event the successful purchaser fails restrictions, terms, rights of way, covenants, conditions, in connection with such a motion and expressly agrees to
The terms of sale must be complied with, and settlement consummated thereon to consummate the purchase in accordance with the terms The purchaser agrees to accept service by ûrst class mail
within 25 days from the day of sale unless extended at the sole discretion of the
rights of redemption, other encumbrances, statutes, if
of sale as herein provided, such deposit, at the option of any, affecting the Property, whether or not of record and at the address provided by the Purchaser as identiûed on
Trustee. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. The balance of the purchase price over and
above the retained deposit, with interest thereon at the default rate of 24% per
the Substitute Trustees, will be forfeited. The terms of all statutes, ordinances or court rules, including any lien the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratiûed or if the
annum being charged from the date of sale through the date of receipt of the
sale must be complied with and settlement consummated for unpaid condominium assessments pursuant to D.C. Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
balance of the purchase price, will be due at settlement by bank wire transfer; thereon within ûfteen (15) days from day of sale unless Code § 42-1903.13, if applicable, to the extent such things accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser9s only remedy
and if not so paid, the Trustee as stated above will forfeit the deposit and extended at the sole discretion of the Substitute Trustees. have priority over the Deed of Trust and to the extent such is return of the deposit.
reserves the right to resell the Property at the risk and cost of the defaulting TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. The balance of the purchase things survive the foreclosure sale. The Property is also sold The sale is subject to post-sale conûrmation and audit
purchaser, after such advertisement and on such terms as the Trustee may price over and above the retained deposit, with interest subject to a post-sale audit of the status of the loan. All of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including,
deem proper, and to avail himself and the Noteholder of any legal or equitable thereon at the Note post-default rate of eighteen percent interested bidders are speciûcally encouraged to review but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
rights against the defaulting purchaser. (18%) per annum from the date of sale through the date all federal, state and local statutes, ordinances, and court entered into a repayment agreement, reinstated, or paid
The Property is sold subject to the rights, if any, of parties in possession, if of receipt of the balance of the purchase price, will be rules concerning the Property and to contact the appropriate off the loan prior to sale. In any such event, this sale shall
such rights have priority over the Deed of Trust or have been granted non- due at settlement in cash or certiûed funds; and if not so governmental authorities prior to the sale date regarding the be null and void, and the Purchaser9s sol remedy, in law or
disturbance or similar rights, and to any and all covenants, conditions, paid, the Substitute Trustees reserve the right to retain the Property, including without limitation, encumbrances, liens, equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
restrictions, easements, rights of way, and limitations of record. The Property deposit and resell the Property at the risk and cost of the violations, permitted uses and the requirements, if any, Trustee9s File No. (83772)
will be sold <WHERE IS= and in <AS IS= condition without any warranty as to defaulting purchaser, after such advertisement and on such for registration, obtaining possession, cure of violations,
condition, express or implied, and without any representation or warranty as to terms as the Substitute Trustees may deem proper, and to construction, completion, or development. The Trustee will Robert A. Jones, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
the accuracy of the information furnished to prospective bidders by the Trustee avail himself and the Noteholder of any legal or equitable not deliver possession to the purchaser, who shall be solely
or any other party, if any, and without any other representations or warranty of rights against the defaulting purchaser, including, without responsible for obtaining possession of the Property.
any nature. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Property will
limitation, the recovery of all of Noteholder9s costs, expenses A deposit of the lesser of $37,000.00 or ten percent (10%)
be sold without representation or warranty as to (i) title to the Property, (ii)
and reasonable attorneys9 fees to conduct both sales, plus of the winning bid amount will be required at the time of
the nature, condition, structural integrity, or ûtness for a particular use of any
improvements, ûxtures or personal property included within the Property, (iii)
any deûciency resulting from such subsequent sale and the sale, such deposit to be in the form of a certiûed check,
the environmental condition of the Property or the compliance of the Property
cost of collecting same. or in such other form as the Trustee may determine, in his
with federal, state and local laws and regulations concerning the presence The Property is sold subject to the rights, if any, of any sole discretion. Whenever the purchaser is also the party
parties in possession, if such rights have priority over the secured by the said Deed of Trust, payment of the required Jan 17,24,31 2024 0012446944
or disposal of hazardous substances, (iv) compliance of the Property with the
Deed of Trust, and to any and all covenants, conditions, deposit and purchase price is made by crediting the 852 875
Americans with Disabilities Act or any similar law, (v) compliance of the Property
restrictions, easements, rights of way, and limitations of amount thereof to the indebtedness. The balance in cash
Anne Arundel County Fauquier County
with any zoning laws or ordinances and any and all applicable safety codes,
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR TRUSTEE9S SALE OF
or (vi) compliance with any tenants9 rights or similar laws, and acceptance of record. The Property will be sold <WHERE IS= and in <AS or immediately available funds, with interest at Fifteen ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY 7109 BUCKINGHAM COURT,
the Deed to the Property by the successful purchaser shall constitute a waiver IS= condition without any warranty as to condition, express per centum (15.00%) per annum from the date of sale to WARRENTON, VA 20187
John Ansell, et al.
of any claims against the Trustee or the Noteholder concerning any of the or implied, and without any representation or warranty as the date of settlement or the balance of the proceeds are Substitute Trustees
foregoing matters. The successful purchaser recognizes that any investigation, to the accuracy of the information furnished to prospective received by the Trustee, whichever is later, shall be paid In execution of a certain Deed
Versus of Trust dated August 9, 2019,
examination, or inspection of the Property is within the control of the owner or bidders by the Substitute Trustees or any other party and within thirty (30) days after the date of sale. There will in the original principal amount
other parties in possession of the Property and not within the control of the without any other representations or warranty of any nature. be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the Estate of Euclin Mapp of $288,970.00 recorded in the
Trustee or the Noteholder. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Property Defendant Clerk9s Ofûce, Circuit Court for
event additional funds are tendered before settlement or Fauquier County, Virginia, in
Conveyance shall be by Trustee9s Deed, without covenant or warranty, express will be sold without representation or warranty as to (i) title if settlement is delayed for any reason. The party secured No. C-02-CV-22-001741 Book 1604 at Page 1757 as In-
or implied. The risk of loss or damage by ûre or other casualty to the Property to the Property, (ii) the nature, condition, structural integrity, by the Deed of Trust shall not be obligated to pay interest strument No. 2019-00006726
NOTICE . The undersigned Substitute
from and after the time of sale shall be the sole responsibility of the purchaser. or ûtness for a particular use of any improvements, if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE Trustee will offer for sale at
The Property shall be sold subject to all taxes, ground rents, public charges, ûxtures or personal property included within the Property, Notice is hereby issued this public auction in the front of the
assessments, sewer, water, drainage, and other public improvements, if any,
PURCHASER. Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Circuit Court building for Fauqui-
(iii) the environmental condition of the Property or the Real property taxes, water charges, condominium fees that the sale of the property er County, 40 Culpeper Street,
whether assessments have been levied or not. The Noteholder and Trustee
assume no liability for fuel, gas, electricity, utilities, and other operating
compliance of the Property with federal, state and local and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/ in the proceedings mentioned,
made and reported by Abieba-
Warrenton, Virginia, or any such
temporary alternative Circuit
charges accrued before or after the sale and all such charges shall be the
laws and regulations concerning the presence or disposal assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary tu M. Bah, Substitute Trustee Court location designated by the
sole responsibility of the purchaser from the date of sale. All costs incident of hazardous substances, (iv) compliance of the Property and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, to be BE RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED,
unless cause to the contrary
Judges of the Circuit Court, on
April 4, 2024, at 11:30 AM, the
to the settlement and conveyancing including, without limitation, examination with the Americans with Disabilities Act or any similar law, adjusted for the current year to date of sale and assumed thereof be shown on or be- property described in said Deed
of title, conveyancing, all recordation taxes and charges, all transfer taxes and or (v) compliance of the Property with any zoning laws or thereafter by the purchaser. All costs incident to the fore the 23rd day of February
2024 next; provided, a copy of
of Trust, located at the above
address, and more particularly
charges, title insurance premiums, notary fees, settlement fees and all other ordinances and any and all applicable safety codes, and settlement and conveyancing including, without limitation, this Notice be inserted in some described as follows:
costs incident to settlement shall be at the cost of the successful purchaser. acceptance of the Deed to the Property by the successful examination of title, conveyancing, all recordation taxes newspaper published in Anne
Arundel County, once in each of ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PAR-
The District of Columbia Government may impose transfer and recordation taxes purchaser shall constitute a waiver of any claims against and charges, all transfer taxes and charges, title insurance three successive weeks before CEL OF LAND TOGETHER WITH
on any assignment of the successful bid prior to recordation of the Trustee9s the Substitute Trustees or the Noteholder concerning any of premiums, notary fees, settlement fees and all other costs the 23rd day of February 2024
next. The report states that the
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON,
SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN
Deed. The successful purchaser shall be solely liable for payment of such the foregoing matters. The successful purchaser recognizes incident to settlement shall be at the cost of the successful amount of sale of the property FAUQUIER COUNTY, IN THE COM-
that any investigation, examination or inspection of the
additional transfer and recordation taxes, if any. If the Trustee cannot convey purchaser. Conveyance of the Property shall be by Trustee9s at 3119 ARUNDEL ON THE BAY
ROAD, ANNAPOLIS, MD 21403
MONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, AND
MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED
title, the purchaser9s sole remedy is a return of deposit. Further particulars may Property is within the control of the owner or other parties in Deed, without covenant or warranty, express or implied, to be $345,000.00. AS FOLLOWS: LOT NINETY SIX
be announced at the time of sale. possession of the Property and not within the control of the speciûcally including marketability or insurability (hazard Scott A. Poyer
(96), ADDITION TO WARRENTON
LAKES SUBDIVISION, AS DE-
Mark H. Wittstadt, Trustee Substitute Trustees or the Noteholder. or title), unless otherwise required by statute, court rule or Circuit Court For SCRIBED BY PLAT AND SURVEY
Conveyance shall be by Substitute Trustee9s Deed, without the Deed of Trust. In the event the Trustee is unable for any Anne Arundel County, MD. OF R.K. BARTENSTEIN AND AS-
SOCIATES, DATED SEPTEMBER
covenant or warranty, express or implied. The risk of loss reason to convey title, the purchaser9s sole remedy at law Jan 31,Feb 7,14 2024 0012450118
1, 1974, IN DEED BOOK 299,
or damage by ûre or other casualty to the Property from or in equity shall be to request and receive a return of the PAGE 658, AMONG THE LAND
RECORDS OF FAUQUIER COUNTY,
and after the date of sale will be upon the successful deposit. Upon return of the deposit, this sale shall be void VIRGINIA.
purchaser. Adjustment of all taxes, ground rents, public and of no effect and the purchaser shall have no further TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
charges, assessments, sewer, water, drainage and other claim against the Trustee. bidder9s deposit of ten percent
Jan 29,31,Feb 2,5,7 2024 0012449491 public improvements will be made as of the date of Compliance with terms of sale shall be made within thirty (10%) of the sale price or ten
percent (10%) of the original
851 851
sale and are to be assumed and paid thereafter by the (30) days after the date of sale or the deposit shall be principal balance of the subject
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County successful purchaser, whether assessments have been forfeited. In the event of a default, all expenses of this sale Deed of Trust, whichever is low-
er, in the form of cash or certiûed
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR levied or not. The Noteholder and Substitute Trustees (including attorney9s fees and trustee9s commission) shall funds payable to the Substitute
PRINCE GEORGE9S COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE9S COUNTY,
MARYLAND MARYLAND assume no liability for fuel, gas, electricity, utilities and be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit Trustee must be present at the
time of the sale. The balance of
other operating charges accrued before or after the sale as determined by the Trustee unless expressly prohibited by the purchase price will be due
John Ansell, et al. ROBERT A. JONES, et al
Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees and all such charges shall be the sole responsibility of the statute, court rule or the Deed of Trust. The Trustee may within ûfteen (15) days of sale,
otherwise Purchaser9s depos-
Plaintiffs, purchaser from the date of sale. All costs incident to the then readvertise and resell the Property at the risk and cost
Give
it may be forfeited to Trustee.
v. settlement and conveyancing including, without limitation,
v. of the defaulting purchaser (such risk and cost shall include Time is of the essence. If the
STEVEN L WHITE examination of title, conveyancing, all recordation taxes any attorney9s fees or costs in connection with all litigation, sale is set aside for any reason,
the Purchaser at the sale shall
George Chuba, Defendant(s) and charges, all transfer taxes and charges, title insurance
Defendant. including appeals, involving the Property or the proceeds of be entitled to a return of the
deposit paid. The Purchaser
premiums, notary fees, settlement fees and all other costs a resale; or contesting the Selling Parties9 right to conduct
a giv
Civil Action No. CAEF22-02157 may, if provided by the terms
Case No. C-16-CV-23-002572
NOTICE
incident to settlement shall be at the cost of the successful a resale; or seeking to invalidate this sale unless expressly of the Trustee9s Memorandum
of Foreclosure Sale, be entitled
NOTICE purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees cannot convey title, prohibited by statute, court rule or the Deed of Trust; and, if to a $50 cancellation fee from
Notice is hereby issued this
Notice is hereby given this 22nd
day of January, 2024, by the
the purchaser9s sole remedy is a return of deposit. Further the defaulting purchaser has received any 8rent9 from any the Substitute Trustee, but shall
that
have no further recourse against
22nd day of January, 2024, that Circuit Court for Prince George9s particulars may be announced at the time of sale. occupant or tenant of the Property such amount received the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or
the sale of the property in this County, Maryland, that the sale
case, 7104 Riggs Rd, Hyatts- of the property mentioned in shall be promptly delivered to the Trustee; or, without the Mortgagee9s attorney. A form
copy of the Trustee9s memoran-
ville, Maryland 20783, reported these proceedings and described Laura H. G. O9Sullivan and Michael T. Cantrell, reselling the Property, the Trustee may avail himself of dum of foreclosure sale and con-
by John Ansell, Jeremy B. Wilkins, as 4008 Welsley Lane, Bowie, Substitute Trustees any legal or equitable remedies against the defaulting tract to purchase real property is
delivers
Robert A. Oliveri, Amanda Dris- MD 20715 will be ratiûed and available for viewing at www.bw-
cole, Paul Heinmuller, John C. conûrmed, unless cause to the purchaser). In the event of a resale, the defaulting wsales.com. Additional terms, if
Hanrahan, Kristopher Hawkins, contrary thereof be shown on or
Substitute Trustees, be ratiûed before the 22nd day of February, purchaser shall not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, to be announced at the sale
and the Purchaser may be given
and conûrmed, unless cause 2024, provided a copy of this NO- any, even if such surplus results from improvements to the the option to execute the con-
every
to the contrary be shown on or TICE be published at least once a
before the 22nd day of Feb- week in each of three successive Property by said defaulting purchaser. This advertisement, tract of sale electronically. This
is a communication from a debt
ruary, 2024 provided a copy of weeks in some newspaper of as amended or supplemented by any oral announcements collector and any information ob-
this Notice be inserted in The
Washington Post, a newspaper
general circulation published in
said County before the 22nd day
during the conduct of the sale, constitutes the entire terms tained will be used for that pur-
pose. The sale is subject to seller
upon which the Property shall be offered for sale.
day
published in Prince George9s of February, 2024. The Report Jan 29,31,Feb 2,5,7 2024 0012449206 conûrmation. Substitute Trustee:
County, Maryland, once in each of Sale states the amount of the
Equity Trustees, LLC, 8100 Three
of three (3) successive weeks sale to be $94,000.00. Chopt Road, Suite 240, Rich-
on or before the 22nd day of Benjamin P. Smith, Trustee mond, VA 23229.
February, 2024. The report Mahasin El Amin
states the amount of sale to be CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT For more information contact:
$341,000.00. FOR PRINCE GEORGE9S COUNTY, FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: BWW Law Group, LLC, attorneys
Mahasin El Amin
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879 881
Culpeper County Orange County
TRUSTEE9S SALE OF
12171 RIXEYVILLE ROAD,
CULPEPER, VA 22701
In execution of a certain Deed of
Trust dated February 16, 2007,
in the original principal amount
of $268,273.00 recorded in the
Clerk9s Ofûce, Circuit Court for
Culpeper County, Virginia as
Instrument No. 070001543 . The
undersigned Substitute Trustee
will offer for sale at public auc-
tion in the front of the Circuit
Court building for Culpeper
County, at the corner of West Da-
vis Street and North West Street
in the Town of Culpeper, or any
such temporary alternative Cir-
cuit Court location designated by
the Judges of the Circuit Court,
on March 7, 2024, at 10:15
AM, the property described in
said Deed of Trust, located at the
above address, and more partic-
ularly described as follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN TRACT OR
PARCEL OF LAND TOGETHER
WITH ALL IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON AND ALL APPURTE-
NANCES THEREUNTO BELONG-
ING, LYING BEING AND SITUATE
ABOUT FIVE MILES NORTH OF
THE TOWN OF CULPEPER, IN
CATALPA MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT,
CULPEPER COUNTY, VIRGIN-
IA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY
KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS
LOT 5 ON THE PLAT AND SUBDI-
VISION OF THE DAVID NIBBLINS
LAND, WHICH PLAT AND SURVEY
ARE OF RECORD IN THE CLERK9S
OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
OF CULPEPER COUNTY, VIRGINIA,
IN DEED BOOK 123, AT PAGE 213
AND THE METES AND BOUNDS
OF LOTS 5 AS SET FORTH IN
SAID SURVEY ARE AS FOLLOWS,
TO-WIT: LOT NO. 5: BEGINNING
AT <M= ON THE PLAT A POINT IN
THE EASTERN R/W LINE OF HIGH-
WAY ROUTE 229, A CORNER TO
LOT NO. 6 AND RUNNING WITH
LOT NO. 6 S. 81-1/2 E. 257 FEET
TO <B=, A CORNER TO LOTS 6, 7,
AND 1; THENCE WITH LOT NO. 1
S. 8-1/2 W. 169.5 FEET TO A COR-
NER TO LOT NO. 4 IN THE LINE
OF LOT NO. 1; THENCE WITH LOT
NO. 4 N. 81-1/4 W. 257 FEET TO
<L= ANOTHER POINT IN THE SAID
R/W LINE N. 8-1/2 E. 168.5 FEET
TO THE BEGINNING, CONTAINING
APPROXIMATELY ONE (1) ACRE.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder9s deposit of ten percent
(10%) of the sale price or ten
percent (10%) of the original
principal balance of the subject
Deed of Trust, whichever is low-
er, in the form of cash or certiûed
funds payable to the Substitute
Trustee must be present at the
time of the sale. The balance of
the purchase price will be due
within ûfteen (15) days of sale,
otherwise Purchaser9s depos-
it may be forfeited to Trustee.
Time is of the essence. If the
sale is set aside for any reason,
the Purchaser at the sale shall
be entitled to a return of the
deposit paid. The Purchaser
may, if provided by the terms
of the Trustee9s Memorandum
of Foreclosure Sale, be entitled
to a $50 cancellation fee from
the Substitute Trustee, but shall
have no further recourse against
the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or
the Mortgagee9s attorney. A form
copy of the Trustee9s memoran-
dum of foreclosure sale and con-
tract to purchase real property
is available for viewing at www.
bwwsales.com.
Additional terms, if any, to be
announced at the sale and the
Purchaser may be given the op-
tion to execute the contract of
sale electronically. This is a com-
munication from a debt collector
and any information obtained
will be used for that purpose. The
sale is subject to seller conûrma-
tion. Substitute Trustee: Equity
Trustees, LLC, 8100 Three Chopt
Road, Suite 240, Richmond, VA
23229. For more information
contact: BWW Law Group, LLC,
attorneys for Equity Trustees,
LLC, 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite
101, Rockville, MD 20852, 301-
961-6555, website: www.bww-
sales.com. VA-344441-3.
Jan 31,Feb 7 2024 0012447176
881
Orange County
TRUSTEE9S SALE OF
34529 PARKER ROAD,
LOCUST GROVE, VA 22508
In execution of a certain Deed
of Trust dated August 9, 2022,
in the original principal amount
of $275,132.00 recorded in the
Clerk9s Ofûce, Circuit Court for
Orange County, Virginia as In-
strument No. 220005336 . The
undersigned Substitute Trustee
will offer for sale at public auc-
tion in the front of the Circuit
Court building for Orange Coun-
ty, 109 W. Main Street, Orange,
Virginia, or any such temporary
alternative Circuit Court loca-
tion designated by the Judges of
the Circuit Court, on March 7,
2024, at 9:00 AM, the property
described in said Deed of Trust,
located at the above address,
and more particularly described
as follows:
THE LAND REFERRED TO HERE-
IN BELOW IS SITUATED IN THE
COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF
VIRGINIA, AND IS DESCRIBED AS
FOLLOWS: ALL THAT CERTAIN
LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND, SIT-
UATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE
GORDON DISTRICT, ORANGE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA CONTAINING
2.8483 ACRES, MORE OR LESS,
AND BEING MORE PARTICULAR-
LY SHOWN AND DESCRIBED ON
THAT CERTAIN PLAT OF SUR-
VEY BY THOMAS P. FISHER, JR.,
LAND SURVEYOR, TITLED <PLAT
SHOWING BOUNDARY SURVEY
AND PROPOSED WELL EASE-
MENT, PORTION OF THE ESTATE
OF RALPH WILLIAM BARNES,
SR...=, DATED NOVEMBER 9,
2009, WHICH PLAT IS RECORD-
ED WITH INSTRUMENT NUMBER
090008449, IN THE CLERK9S
OFFICE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
OF ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE
TO THE SAID PLAT FOR A MORE
PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION AS
CONTAINED IN SAID PLAT; AND
FURTHER, THE METES AND
BOUNDS DESCRIPTION AS CON-
TAINED THEREIN IS INCORPORAT-
ED, THEREIN BY REFERENCE AS
IF THE SAME WERE TEXTUALLY
CONTAINED THEREIN.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder9s deposit of ten percent
(10%) of the sale price or ten
percent (10%) of the original
principal balance of the subject
Deed of Trust, whichever is low-
er, in the form of cash or certiûed
funds payable to the Substitute
Trustee must be present at the
time of the sale. The balance of
the purchase price will be due
within ûfteen (15) days of sale,
otherwise Purchaser9s depos-
it may be forfeited to Trustee.
Time is of the essence. If the
sale is set aside for any reason,
the Purchaser at the sale shall
be entitled to a return of the
deposit paid. The Purchaser
may, if provided by the terms
of the Trustee9s Memorandum
of Foreclosure Sale, be entitled
to a $50 cancellation fee from
the Substitute Trustee, but shall
have no further recourse against
the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or
the Mortgagee9s attorney. A form
copy of the Trustee9s memoran-
dum of foreclosure sale and con-
tract to purchase real property is
available for viewing at www.bw-
wsales.com. Additional terms, if
any, to be announced at the sale
and the Purchaser may be given
the option to execute the con-
tract of sale electronically.
This is a communication from a
debt collector and any informa-
tion obtained will be used for
that purpose. The sale is subject
to seller conûrmation. Substi-
tute Trustee: Equity Trustees,
LLC, 8100 Three Chopt Road,
Suite 240, Richmond, VA 23229.
For more information contact:
BWW Law Group, LLC, attorneys
for Equity Trustees, LLC, 6003
Executive Blvd, Suite 101, Rock-
ville, MD 20852, 301-961-6555,
website: www.bwwsales.com.
VA-367996-1.
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Prince Georges County 851 Prince Georges County
TRUSTEE9S SALE OF
128 BOWLER LN,
ORANGE, VA 22960
In execution of a certain Deed of
Trust dated December 14, 2015,
in the original principal amount
of $67,155.00 recorded in the
Clerk9s Ofûce, Circuit Court for
Orange County, Virginia as In-
strument No. 150008710 . The
undersigned Substitute Trustee
will offer for sale at public auc-
tion in the front of the Circuit
Court building for Orange Coun-
ty, 109 W. Main Street, Orange,
Virginia, or any such temporary
alternative Circuit Court loca-
tion designated by the Judges of
the Circuit Court, on March 7,
2024, at 9:00 AM, the property
described in said Deed of Trust,
located at the above address,
and more particularly described
as follows:
THOSE TWO CERTAIN LOTS OR
PARCELS OF LAND, LOCATED IN
THE TOWN OF ORANGE, ORANGE
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, TOGETHER
WITH IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
AND RIGHTS THEREUNTO BE-
LONGING, BEING LOTS 10 AND
11 OF THE BENJAMIN P. BOWLER
SUBDIVISION, A PLAT OF WHICH
IS OF RECORD IN THE CLERK9S
OFFICE OF SAID COUNTY IN
DEED BOOK 87, PAGE 362.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder9s deposit of ten percent
(10%) of the sale price or ten
percent (10%) of the original
principal balance of the subject
Deed of Trust, whichever is low-
er, in the form of cash or certiûed
funds payable to the Substitute
Trustee must be present at the
time of the sale. The balance of
the purchase price will be due
within ûfteen (15) days of sale,
otherwise Purchaser9s depos-
it may be forfeited to Trustee.
Time is of the essence. If the
sale is set aside for any reason,
the Purchaser at the sale shall
be entitled to a return of the
deposit paid. The Purchaser
may, if provided by the terms
of the Trustee9s Memorandum
of Foreclosure Sale, be entitled
to a $50 cancellation fee from
the Substitute Trustee, but shall
have no further recourse against
the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or
the Mortgagee9s attorney. A form
copy of the Trustee9s memoran-
dum of foreclosure sale and con-
tract to purchase real property is
available for viewing at www.bw-
wsales.com. Additional terms, if
any, to be announced at the sale
and the Purchaser may be given
the option to execute the con-
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Law Ofûces of
Gebhardt & Smith LLP
One South Street, Suite 2200
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE OF OFFICE BUILDING
LOCATED AT
4710 AUTH PLACE, SUITLAND, MARYLAND 20746
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in the Deed of
Trust, Security Agreement and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated
November 28, 2014 from Beltway Plaza Investment LLC (the <Grantor=)
to the trustees named therein and recorded among the Land Records
of Prince George9s County, Maryland (the <Land Records=) on Febru-
ary 26, 2015 at Liber 36728, page 410 and the Deed of Trust, Security
Agreement and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated November 28,
2014 from the Grantor to the trustees named therein and recorded
among the Land Records on February 26, 2015 at Liber 36728, page
440, as consolidated, modiûed and restated by the Consolidated,
Modiûed and Restated Deed of Trust dated February 25, 2016 from the
Grantor to the trustee named therein and recorded among the Land
Records on March 22, 2016 at Liber 38006, page 565, and subsequently
amended, modiûed and increased by a Deed of Trust and Collateral
Assignment of Leases and Rents Modiûcation Agreement dated August
23, 2017 from the Grantor and recorded among the Land Records at
Book 40140, page 597, a Second Amendment to Deed of Trust, Secu-
rity Agreement and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated February
14, 2020 from the Grantor and recorded among the Land Records at
Book 43265, page 62 and a Third Amendment to Deed of Trust, Se-
curity Agreement and Assignment of Leases and Rents dated July 31,
2020 from the Grantor and recorded among the Land Records at Book
44154, page 496 (collectively, the <Deed of Trust=), the current holder
of the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, The Freedom Bank
of Virginia (the <Noteholder=), having subsequently appointed David V.
Fontana and Richard A. DuBose, III as Substitute Trustees (the <Trust-
ees=) under the Deed of Trust by a Deed of Appointment of Substitute
Trustees dated September 23, 2022 executed by the Noteholder and
recorded among the Land Records at Book 48168, page 118, default
having occurred under the terms of the Deed of Trust and at the re-
quest of the Noteholder secured by the Deed of Trust, the Trustees
will offer for sale to the highest qualiûed bidder at a public auction
to be held in front of the Duval wing entrance of the Circuit Court for
Prince George9s County located at 14735 Main Street, Upper Marlboro,
Maryland 20772 on:
Friday, February 16, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.
All of the Grantor9s right, title and interest in that certain lot, piece or
parcel of land situate, lying and being in Prince George9s County, Mary-
land and being more particularly described as follows, together with
all buildings, structures, improvements and ûxtures afûxed or attached
thereto (the <Property=):
Parcel known as <Beltway Plaza South=;
Parcel lettered <U,= in a subdivision known as <AUTH ROAD CENTER,=
as per Plat thereof recorded in Plat Book VJ 161 at Plat 75, among the
Land Records of Prince George9s County, Maryland.
The Property has an address of 4710 Auth Place, Suitland, Maryland
20746 and has a tax account identiûcation number of 06-0577106.
The Property is believed to be improved by an ofûce building.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit (<Deposit=) in the amount of One Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00), payable to the Trustees by cashier9s
check or certiûed check will be required from the purchaser of the
Property (the <purchaser=) at the time and place of sale. The purchaser
will be required to increase the Deposit to ten percent (10%) of the
bid amount by the close of business on the third business day follow-
ing the date of sale by delivering certiûed funds or a wire transfer to
the Trustees. The Deposit will be held by the Trustees in a non-interest
bearing escrow account and will be applied to the purchase price at
the time of settlement. The balance of the purchase price, together
with interest thereon at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum from
the date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be due from the pur-
chaser by cashier9s check or wire transfer within thirty (30) days follow-
ing ûnal ratiûcation of the sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George9s
County, Maryland. Time is of the essence. If ratiûcation of the sale or
settlement is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of
interest. Settlement shall be held at the ofûces of Gebhardt & Smith
LLP, One South Street, Suite 2200, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, or such
other place as may be agreed to by the Trustees. If the Noteholder, or
an afûliate or subsidiary thereof, is the successful bidder at the sale,
such party will not be required to make a deposit or to pay interest on
the unpaid purchase price.
There will be a minimum opening bid of $2,500,000.00 or such other
amount as may be determined by the Noteholder and/or Trustees at or
prior to the time of sale. The Trustees and the Noteholder reserve the
right, in their sole and absolute discretion, to reject any and all bids at
the sale, to withdraw the Property from sale prior to or at the time of
the public auction, to cancel or postpone the foreclosure sale of the
Property and to extend the time for settlement.
The Property is being sold subject to: (a) all existing zoning, building,
housing, ûre and safety code violations; (b) all critical area and wetland
violations; (c) all environmental problems, conditions, encroachments
and other violations which may exist on or with respect to the Prop-
erty; (d) all senior liens, encumbrances, leases, easements, conditions,
restrictions, agreements, declarations and covenants which are not ex-
tinguished as a matter of law by the foreclosure sale; (e) any rights of
redemption; and (f) such state of facts that an accurate survey or phys-
ical inspection of the Property might disclose. All liens, encumbrances,
leases, easements, conditions, restrictions, agreements, declarations
and covenants against the Property that are subordinate or junior to
the Deed of Trust will be extinguished by the foreclosure sale of the
Property. The Property is being sold in an <AS IS= condition and without
any warranties or representations of any kind or nature, either express
or implied, as to the condition, ûtness for a particular purpose, use
or value of the Property or the improvements thereon. The purchaser
shall be responsible for conducting its own due diligence regarding the
Property.
All real estate taxes, water and sewer charges and other municipal as-
sessments by Prince George9s County that were assessed against the
Property prior to the foreclosure sale and which are not extinguished
by the foreclosure sale shall be prorated between the purchaser and
seller as of the date of the foreclosure sale and such amounts for
which the purchaser is responsible shall be paid by the purchaser at
settlement. All real estate taxes, water and sewer charges and other
municipal assessments by Prince George9s County that are assessed
against the Property after the date of the foreclosure sale shall be the
sole responsibility of the purchaser and shall be paid by the purchaser.
The cost of all recordation taxes, transfer taxes, title examination costs,
recording fees and other costs associated with conveying the Property
to the purchaser shall be the sole responsibility of the purchaser and
shall be paid for by the purchaser at settlement.
The purchaser shall assume the risk of loss for the Property imme-
diately after the foreclosure sale takes place. The purchaser shall be
responsible for insuring its interest in the Property and for obtaining
electrical and utility service for the Property after the foreclosure sale
takes place. It shall be the purchaser9s sole responsibility to obtain pos-
session of the Property following ûnal ratiûcation of the sale by the
Circuit Court for Prince George9s County, Maryland in Case No. C-16-
CV-22-000333 and conveyance of the Property by the Trustees to the
purchaser.
In the event the purchaser fails to go to settlement as required or
fails to deliver the entire Deposit to the Trustees as required herein,
in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies available to the
Trustees, the purchaser shall forfeit the entire Deposit and the Trustees
may, subject to further order of the court, resell the Property at the
purchaser9s sole risk and expense and retain and apply the Deposit to
any deûciency in the purchase price sustained by the Trustees and/or
the Noteholder, all costs and expenses of both sales, reasonable attor-
neys9 fees, and any other damages sustained by the Trustees and/or
the Noteholder as a result of the purchaser9s default, including, without
limitation, all incidental damages. In the event a resale of the Property
results in a sale in excess of the amount originally bid by the defaulting
purchaser, the defaulting purchaser waives any and all claims, rights
and interest to any such excess amount and shall not be entitled to
any distribution whatsoever from the sale proceeds. If the Trustees
are unable to convey the Property to the purchaser as described above
for any reason, the purchaser9s sole remedy at law or in equity shall
be limited to a refund of the Deposit, without interest thereon. Upon
refund of the Deposit to the purchaser, the sale shall be void and of no
effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Trust-
ees, the Noteholder or the Auctioneer conducting the foreclosure sale.
The parties9 respective rights and obligations regarding the terms of
sale and the conduct of the sale shall be governed by and interpreted
according to the laws of the State of Maryland.
David V. Fontana and Richard A. DuBose, III,
Substitute Trustees
For further information, please contact:
David V. Fontana, Substitute Trustee
Tel: 410-385-5053
or
William D. Hudson
Atlantic Auctions, Inc.
Tel: 410-322-3981
Jan 31,Feb 7,14 2024 0012450148
TRUSTEE9S SALE
229 Seneca Drive, Oxon Hill, MD 20745
Trustee9s Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 229 Seneca Drive, Oxon Hill, MD 20745.
By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed
of Trust, dated July 3, 2012, and recorded in Liber 33976
at Page 5 among the land records of the County of Prince
George9s, in the original principal amount of $147,283.00.
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for
the COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE9S, at the front of the Duval
Wing of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735 Main
Street, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on February 20,
2024 at 2:00 PM, all that property described in said Deed of
Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 12-1267897
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling
and is sold in <as is condition= and subject to all superior
covenants, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-
of-way, as may affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certiûed funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per
annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be
paid within TEN DAYS after the ûnal ratiûcation of the sale.
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.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners 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. If the sale is not ratiûed or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser9s only remedy
is the return of the deposit. Trustee9s File No. 20-286442.
William M. Savage, et al., Substitute Trustees.
LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP,
10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109
(410) 769-9797
Jan 31,Feb 7,14 2024 0012449292
OPQRS
851
Prince Georges County 851
Prince Georges County
TRUSTEE9S SALE
1317 Iron Forge Rd, Forestville, MD 20747
Trustee9s Sale of valuable fee simple property improved
by premises known as 1317 Iron Forge Rd, Forestville, MD
20747. By virtue of the power and authority contained in
a Deed of Trust, dated December 20, 2006, and recorded
in Liber 29258 at Page 103 among the land records of the
County of Prince George9s, in the original principal amount
of $89,100.00. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction at
the Courthouse for the COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE9S, at the
front of the Duval Wing of the Courthouse Complex located
at 14735 Main Street, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on
February 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM, all that property described in
said Deed of Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 06-0417402
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling
and is sold in <as is condition= and subject to all superior
covenants, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-
of-way, as may affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certiûed funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per
annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be
paid within TEN DAYS after the ûnal ratiûcation of the sale.
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.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners 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. If the sale is not ratiûed or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser9s only remedy
is the return of the deposit. Trustee9s File No. 23-293266.
William M. Savage, et al., Substitute Trustees.
LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP,
10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109
(410) 769-9797
Jan 17,24,31 2024 0012447951
TRUSTEE9S SALE
418 Kisconko Turn, Fort Washington, MD 20744
Trustee9s Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 418 Kisconko Turn, Fort Washington, MD
20744. By virtue of the power and authority contained in
a Deed of Trust, dated July 26, 2008, and recorded in Liber
30075 at Page 104 among the land records of the County
of Prince George9s, in the original principal amount of
$222,415.25. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction at
the Courthouse for the COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE9S, at the
front of the Duval Wing of the Courthouse Complex located
at 14735 Main Street, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on
February 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM, all that property described in
said Deed of Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 12-1192525
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling
and is sold in <as is condition= and subject to all superior
covenants, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-
of-way, as may affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certiûed funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per
annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be
paid within TEN DAYS after the ûnal ratiûcation of the sale.
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.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners 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. If the sale is not ratiûed or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser9s only remedy
is the return of the deposit. Trustee9s File No. 19-281520.
William M. Savage, et al., Substitute Trustees.
LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP,
10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109
(410) 769-9797
Jan 17,24,31 2024 0012447946
TRUSTEE9S SALE
5828 33rd Ave, Hyattsville, MD 20782
Trustee9s Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 5828 33rd Ave, Hyattsville, MD 20782.
By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed
of Trust, dated November 11, 2004, and recorded in Liber
21345 at Page 593 among the land records of the County
of Prince George9s, in the original principal amount of
$103,000.00. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction at
the Courthouse for the COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE9S, at the
front of the Duval Wing of the Courthouse Complex located
at 14735 Main Street, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on
February 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM, all that property described in
said Deed of Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 16-1825843
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling
and is sold in <as is condition= and subject to all superior
covenants, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-
of-way, as may affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certiûed funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per
annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be
paid within TEN DAYS after the ûnal ratiûcation of the sale.
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.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners 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. If the sale is not ratiûed or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser9s only remedy
is the return of the deposit. Trustee9s File No. 23-293990.
William M. Savage, et al., Substitute Trustees.
LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP,
10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109
(410) 769-9797
Jan 17,24,31 2024 0012447952
852
Anne Arundel County 852
Anne Arundel County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
1700 BAYSIDE BEACH RD.
PASADENA, MD 21122
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated March 17, 2011, recorded in Liber 23327, Folio 340
among the Land Records of Anne Arundel County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $417,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Anne
Arundel County, at the Court House Door, 8 Church Circle,
Annapolis, MD 21401, on
FEBRUARY 13, 2024 AT 9:21 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Anne Arundel
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 certiûed
check, cashier9s 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 modiûcations thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of ûnal ratiûcation 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 beneût 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 Purchaser9s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratiûcation, 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 purchaser9s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers ûled in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratiûcation and expressly agrees to accept service
by ûrst class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identiûed 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 ratiûcation
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser9s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 339017-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
LICENSE NOS. A000113, A000176, A000177, A000193,
A000424, A000479, A000507, A000508
Jan 24,31,Feb 7 2024 0012449276
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
734 DELMAR AVE.
GLEN BURNIE, MD 21061
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated October 21, 2005, recorded in Liber 17155, Folio
700 among the Land Records of Anne Arundel County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $260,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Anne
Arundel County, at the Court House Door, 8 Church Circle,
Annapolis, MD 21401, on
FEBRUARY 13, 2024 AT 9:23 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Anne Arundel
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 certiûed
check, cashier9s 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 modiûcations thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of ûnal ratiûcation 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 beneût 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 Purchaser9s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratiûcation, 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 purchaser9s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers ûled in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratiûcation and expressly agrees to accept service
by ûrst class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identiûed 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 ratiûcation
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser9s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 303651-3)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
LICENSE NOS. A000113, A000176, A000177, A000193,
A000424, A000479, A000507, A000508
Jan 24,31,Feb 7 2024 0012449277
EZ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2024
852
Anne Arundel County 852
Anne Arundel County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
7917 WELLESLEY CT.
PASADENA, MD 21122
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated June 2, 2022, recorded in Liber 38869, Folio 154
among the Land Records of Anne Arundel County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $270,019.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Anne
Arundel County, at the Court House Door, 8 Church Circle,
Annapolis, MD 21401, on
FEBRUARY 13, 2024 AT 9:19 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Anne Arundel
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 $28,000 in the form of certiûed
check, cashier9s 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 modiûcations thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of ûnal ratiûcation 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 beneût 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 Purchaser9s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratiûcation, 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 purchaser9s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers ûled in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratiûcation and expressly agrees to accept service
by ûrst class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identiûed 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 ratiûcation
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser9s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 363809-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
LICENSE NOS. A000113, A000176, A000177, A000193,
A000424, A000479, A000507, A000508
Jan 24,31,Feb 7 2024 0012449275
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
1806 WHITES FERRY PL.
CROFTON, MD 21114
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated November 3, 2006, recorded in Liber 18469, Folio
637 among the Land Records of Anne Arundel County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $258,350.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Anne
Arundel County, at the Court House Door, 8 Church Circle,
Annapolis, MD 21401, on
FEBRUARY 13, 2024 AT 9:17 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Anne Arundel
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 certiûed
check, cashier9s 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 modiûcations thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of ûnal ratiûcation 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 beneût 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 Purchaser9s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratiûcation, 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 purchaser9s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers ûled in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratiûcation and expressly agrees to accept service
by ûrst class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identiûed 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 ratiûcation
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser9s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 356156-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
LICENSE NOS. A000113, A000176, A000177, A000193,
A000424, A000479, A000507, A000508
Jan 24,31,Feb 7 2024 0012449274
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2024 EZ
852 852
Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
8044 BELHAVEN AVE.
PASADENA, MD 21122
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated April 26, 2007, recorded in Liber 19118, Folio 292
among the Land Records of Anne Arundel County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $270,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Anne
Arundel County, at the Court House Door, 8 Church Circle,
Annapolis, MD 21401, on
FEBRUARY 13, 2024 AT 9:15 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Anne Arundel
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 $27,000 in the form of certiûed
check, cashier9s 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 modiûcations thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of ûnal ratiûcation 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 beneût 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 Purchaser9s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratiûcation, 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 purchaser9s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers ûled in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratiûcation and expressly agrees to accept service
by ûrst class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identiûed 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 ratiûcation
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser9s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 356144-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
LICENSE NOS. A000113, A000176, A000177, A000193,
A000424, A000479, A000507, A000508
Jan 24,31,Feb 7 2024 0012449273
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
7965 HEATHER MIST DR.
SEVERN, MD 21144
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated March 20, 2007, recorded in Liber 18943, Folio 38
among the Land Records of Anne Arundel County, MD,
with an original principal balance of $225,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Anne
Arundel County, at the Court House Door, 8 Church Circle,
Annapolis, MD 21401, on
FEBRUARY 6, 2024 AT 9:17 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Anne Arundel
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 certiûed
check, cashier9s 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 modiûcations thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of ûnal ratiûcation 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 beneût 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 Purchaser9s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratiûcation, 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 purchaser9s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers ûled in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratiûcation and expressly agrees to accept service
by ûrst class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identiûed 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 ratiûcation
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser9s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 339302-2)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
LICENSE NOS. A000113, A000176, A000177, A000193,
A000424, A000479, A000507, A000508
Jan 17,24,31 2024 0012448568
853 853
Calvert County Calvert County
TRUSTEE9S SALE
3909 Old Bayside Rd, Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732
Trustee9s Sale of valuable fee simple property improved
by premises known as 3909 Old Bayside Rd, Chesapeake
Beach, MD 20732. By virtue of the power and authority
contained in a Deed of Trust, dated June 18, 2009, and
recorded in Liber 3363 at Page 0191 among the land
records of the County of Calvert, in the original principal
amount of $234,693.00. Upon default and request for sale,
the undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction
at the Courthouse for the COUNTY OF CALVERT, at 175 Main
Street, Prince Frederick, Maryland, on February 20, 2024 at
9:30 AM, all that property described in said Deed of Trust
including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 03-049558
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling
and is sold in <as is condition= and subject to all superior
covenants, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-
of-way, as may affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certiûed funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per
annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be
paid within TEN DAYS after the ûnal ratiûcation of the sale.
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.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners 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. If the sale is not ratiûed or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser9s only remedy
is the return of the deposit. Trustee9s File No. 22-292438.
William M. Savage, et al., Substitute Trustees.
LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP,
10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109
(410) 769-9797
Jan 31,Feb 7,14 2024 0012449293
TRUSTEE9S SALE
2210 Sixes Road, Prince Frederick, MD 20678
Trustee9s Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 2210 Sixes Road, Prince Frederick, MD
20678. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a
Deed of Trust, dated May 10, 2013, and recorded in Liber
4198 at Page 0256 among the land records of the County
of Calvert, in the original principal amount of $229,591.00.
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the
COUNTY OF CALVERT, at 175 Main Street, Prince Frederick,
Maryland, on February 6, 2024 at 9:30 AM, all that property
described in said Deed of Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 01-137662
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling
and is sold in <as is condition= and subject to all superior
covenants, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-
of-way, as may affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certiûed funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per
annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be
paid within TEN DAYS after the ûnal ratiûcation of the sale.
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.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners 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. If the sale is not ratiûed or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser9s only remedy
is the return of the deposit. Trustee9s File No. 22-291539.
William M. Savage, et al., Substitute Trustees.
LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP,
10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109
(410) 769-9797
Jan 17,24,31 2024 0012447948
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853 853
Calvert County Calvert County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
12348 CATALINA DR.
LUSBY, MD 20657
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated May 14, 2018, recorded in Liber 5189, Folio 184
and re-recorded in Liber 5380, Folio 295 among the Land
Records of Calvert County, MD, with an original principal
balance of $234,671.00, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at
the Circuit Court for Calvert County, at the Court House Door,
175 Main St., Prince Frederick, MD 20678, on
FEBRUARY 13, 2024 AT 3:35 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Calvert
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 certiûed
check, cashier9s 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 modiûcations thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of ûnal ratiûcation 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 beneût 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 Purchaser9s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratiûcation, 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 purchaser9s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers ûled in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratiûcation and expressly agrees to accept service
by ûrst class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identiûed 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 ratiûcation
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser9s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 366716-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Jan 24,31,Feb 7 2024 0012449279
855 855
Charles County Charles County
TRUSTEE9S SALE
12407 Channelview Drive, Newburg, MD 20664
Trustee9s Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 12407 Channelview Drive, Newburg, MD
20664. By virtue of the power and authority contained in
a Deed of Trust, dated December 20, 2012, and recorded
in Liber 8055 at Page 373 among the land records of the
County of Charles, in the original principal amount of
$193,877.00. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction at
the Courthouse for the COUNTY OF CHARLES, at 200 Charles
St (in the Breezeway between Circuit & District Courts),
LaPlata, MD, on February 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM, all that
property described in said Deed of Trust including but not
limited to:
Tax ID# 05-024048
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling
and is sold in <as is condition= and subject to all superior
covenants, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-
of-way, as may affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certiûed funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per
annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be
paid within TEN DAYS after the ûnal ratiûcation of the sale.
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.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners 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. If the sale is not ratiûed or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser9s only remedy
is the return of the deposit. Trustee9s File No. 23-295002.
William M. Savage, et al., Substitute Trustees.
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Charles County Charles County
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
5034 REDHORSE CT.
WALDORF, MD 20603
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated June 28, 2019, recorded in Liber 10744, Folio 394
among the Land Records of Charles County, MD, with an
original principal balance of $271,600.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell
at public auction at the Circuit Court for Charles County,
200 Charles St., La Plata, MD 20646, (Sale will be held in
the breezeway between the Circuit Court and the District
Court), on
FEBRUARY 6, 2024 AT 1:12 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Charles
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 certiûed
check, cashier9s 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 modiûcations thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of ûnal ratiûcation 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 beneût 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 Purchaser9s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratiûcation, 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 purchaser9s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers ûled in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratiûcation and expressly agrees to accept service
by ûrst class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identiûed 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 ratiûcation
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser9s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 364868-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Jan 17,24,31 2024 0012448566
BWW Law Group, LLC
6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 961-6555
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON
10622 RIVA PL.
WHITE PLAINS, MD 20695
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated May 31, 2006, recorded in Liber 5944, Folio 549
and re-recorded in Liber 6204, Folio 147 among the Land
Records of Charles County, MD, with an original principal
balance of $207,500.00, default having occurred under the
terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction
at the Circuit Court for Charles County, 200 Charles St.,
La Plata, MD 20646, (Sale will be held in the breezeway
between the Circuit Court and the District Court), on
FEBRUARY 13, 2024 AT 1:05 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any
buildings or improvements thereon located in Charles
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 certiûed
check, cashier9s 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 modiûcations thereto, from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash
within ten days of ûnal ratiûcation 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 beneût 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 Purchaser9s sole remedy,
in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without
interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of
ratiûcation, 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 purchaser9s default and purchaser shall have no further
liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any
papers ûled in connection with its failure to settle within ten
days of ratiûcation and expressly agrees to accept service
by ûrst class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser
as identiûed 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 ratiûcation
of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the
Purchaser9s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the
deposit without interest. (Matter No. 334605-1)
Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al.,
Substitute Trustees
Jan 24,31,Feb 7 2024 0012449278
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855 855
Charles County Charles County
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 907-8000
www.rosenberg-assoc.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES9 SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
1001 SAVANNA DR.
LA PLATA, MD 20646
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
from Brian H. Battle and Revel W. Battle dated July 2, 2007
and recorded in Liber 6387, folio 304 among the Land
Records of Charles County, MD, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the Trustees will sell at public
auction at the Circuit Court for Charles County, 200 Charles
St., La Plata, MD 20646, (Sale will be held in the breezeway
between the Circuit Court and the District Court), on
FEBRUARY 6, 2024 AT 1:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in Charles
County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
of Trust. Tax ID #01-077309.
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 $120,000 in the form of certiûed
check, cashier9s 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 ûnal ratiûcation
of sale by the Circuit Court for Charles 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 ofûce of the 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. There will be no reduction of interest due
to overpayment of deposit. Adjustment of all real property
taxes (excluding recapture of previously reduced or exempt
taxes) and any other public charges or assessments, to
the extent such amount 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. All due and/or unpaid private
utility, water and sewer facilities charges, condo/HOA
assessments and Columbia Assoc. assessments, to the
extent such amount survive foreclosure sale, are payable by
the purchaser without adjustment. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes, recaptured taxes (including but not
limited to agricultural 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 Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable
title, the purchaser9s 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, attorney9s 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 attorney9s
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
attorney9s fees and expenses incurred in connection with
all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the
resale. Defaulting purchaser waives personal service of any
document ûled in connection with such a motion on him/
herself and/or any principal or corporate designee, and
expressly agrees to accept service of any such document
by regular mail directed to the address provided by said
purchaser at the time of the foreclosure auction. Trustees9
ûle number 22-003308-MD-F-1.
Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Trustees
Jan 17,24,31 2024 0012448564
871 871
City of Alexandria City of Alexandria
TRUSTEE9S SALE
6301 Stevenson Avenue, #604
Alexandria, VA 22304
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Landmark Plaza Condominium Project
Master Deed and the 1999 Amended and Restated Council By-Laws
(<By-Laws=) recorded among the Land Records of the City of Alex-
andria (collectively, <Condominium Instruments=), the Council Board
of Directors (<Board=) is enforcing by sale the following Memoranda
of Lien recorded among the Land Records against Unit 604 located at
6301 Stevenson Avenue, Alexandria Virginia 22304 (<Unit=);
WHEREAS, the Association perfected a lien for unpaid assessments by
recording a Memorandum of Lien among the Land Records on April 14,
2021 as Instrument No. 210009887 in the amount of $7,352.62 for past
due assessments from February 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021.
WHEREAS, the Association perfected a lien for unpaid assessments by
recording a Memorandum of Lien among the Land Records on Febru-
ary 25, 2022 as Instrument No. 220002713 in the amount of $8,101.20
for past due assessments from January 1, 2022 through December 31,
2022.
WHEREAS, the Association perfected a lien for unpaid assessments by
recording a Memorandum of Lien among the Land Records on May 9,
2023 as Instrument No. 230004149 in the amount of $6,953.50 for past
due assessments from March 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023.
WHEREAS, the Association has resolved to proceed with non-judicial
foreclosure of the Unit and has appointed Old Dominion Trustees, Inc.
to be Trustee for the sale of the Unit.
In execution of the foregoing, the undersigned Trustee, will offer for
sale at public auction on February 15, 2024 at 12:30 PM at the front
of the Alexandria City Court House (520 King Street), at Alexandria, Vir-
ginia, the following property:
All of Condominium Unit 604, of the OLYMPUS CONDOMINIUM,
F/K/A LANDMARK PLAZA CONDOMINIUM PROJECT, as described
in that certain Master Deed dated June 26, 1973 and recorded in
Deed Book 759 at Page 168, as corrected and amended in Deed
Book 804 at Page 200, in Deed Book 810 at Page 308, and in Deed
Book 811 at Page 754, among the Land Records of the City of
Alexandria, Virginia.
TOGETHER WITH an undivided 1/214th interest in the <Garage
Condominium Unit= in THE OLYMPUS CONDOMINIUM f/k/a LAND-
MARK PLAZA CONDOMINIUM PROJECT, as described in that cer-
tain Master Deed dated June 26, 1973 and recorded in Deed Book
759 at Page 168, as corrected and amended in Deed Book 804 at
Page 200, in Deed Book 810 at Page 308, and in Deed Book 811 at
Page 754, among the aforesaid Land Records; together with the
exclusive right to use Parking Space No. P-164 on Level A, all as
more particularly set forth in said Master Deed.
Tax ID No.: 047.03-0A-0604
The property and improvements will be sold in <as is= physical condi-
tion without warranty of any kind and subject to all prior liens, ease-
ments, covenants, conditions and restrictions contained in the deeds
forming the chain of title to this property.
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder9s deposit in the amount
of ten percent (10%) of the successful bid payable by cashier9s/cer-
tiûed check required at time of sale except for the party secured by
the aforesaid liens ûled pursuant to the Master Deed. Risk of loss on
purchaser from date and time of auction. Balance of the purchase
price must be paid by cashier9s check within 14 days from sale date.
Except for Virginia Grantor tax, all settlement costs and expenses are
purchaser9s responsibility. Real estate taxes will be pro-rated to the
date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining possession of the
property. 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 deûciency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses
and attorney9s fees of both sales. If Trustee does not convey title for
any reason, purchaser9s sole remedy is return of deposit without inter-
est. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the liens ûled
by the Association including, but not limited to, determining whether
prior to sale a bankruptcy was ûled; a forbearance, repayment or other
agreement was entered into; or the liens were reinstated or paid off.
In any such event this sale shall be null and void and purchaser9s sole
remedy shall be return of deposit without interest. This communication
is from a debt collector.
Old Dominion Trustees, Inc., Trustee
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
BUONASSISSI, HENNING & LASH, P.C.
12355 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 650
Reston, Virginia 20191
(703) 796-1341 x 144
File No. 3639.82507-HOA
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Baseball nearly returned
to D.C. a half-century ago
PadReS from d1
Congressional pressure
The saga really started at the
end of the 1971 season, when
Senators owner Bob Short got
permission to move the team to
Texas, where they would become
the rangers in 1972. That angered
many members of Congress, and
they began agitating for a new
team in the nation9s capital.
At baseball9s December 1971
winter meetings in Phoenix, four
members of Congress presented a
petition signed by 238 members
4 more than half of the House9s
435 4 calling on mLB to reestab-
lish baseball in Washington. The
top of the petition listed several
House heavyweights, including
Speaker Carl Albert (D-okla.),
minority Leader Gerald ford
(r-mich.), Judiciary Committee
Chairman Emanuel Celler
(D-N.Y.) and rep. B.f. Sisk
(D-Calif.), chairman of the <D.C.
Baseball Steering Committee,= ac-
cording to a Chicago Tribune sto-
ry at the time.
Celler, a colorful longtime
Brooklyn lawmaker, had been fu-
rious when the Dodgers left his
home borough for Los Angeles in
1958. At the 1971 winter meetings,
he delivered a letter to mLB in his
typically brash style, criticizing
the owners <who in the name of
the public interest successfully
maintain their blanket exemp-
tion from our antitrust laws, occa-
sionally exhibit precious little
concern for the community wel-
fare.=
Celler also referenced the
NfL9s New York Giants9 an-
nouncement earlier that year that
they would be leaving Yankee
Stadium for New Jersey.
<The recent exit of the baseball
Senators from the nation9s capital
4 and indeed that of the football
Giants from New York City, where
they have prospered for years 4 is
symptomatic of a long standing
pattern,= Celler wrote.
Sisk was even more blunt: <We
want a team by next year if possi-
ble and we must have one by
1973,= he said, according to the
New York Times. Kuhn, the base-
ball commissioner, said the own-
ers <heard the message= and that
he would name a blue-ribbon
panel to get a team back in D.C.
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<The choices seem to be that
baseball could expand again or
could move some troubled fran-
chise to Washington from per-
haps Cleveland, oakland or San
Diego,= the Times wrote in what
almost turned out to be a pro-
phetic line.
8Baseball9s back!9
Eighteen months later, in late
may 1973, came the news that a
group led by Danzansky had a
deal to buy the Padres and move
them to D.C., contingent on the
team terminating its lease with
city-owned San Diego Stadium
and on the approval of NL own-
ers.
Two years earlier, Danzansky
had tried to buy the Senators and
keep them in Washington, but he
couldn9t meet Short9s asking price
of $12 million (about $90 million
today). This time, his group came
up with that figure for the Padres
that, improbably, was $2 million
more than George Steinbrenner
and fellow investors had paid for
the New York Yankees in January
1973. The plan was for the Padres
to relocate in time for the 1974
season.
The new D.C. team was to play
at federally owned rfK Stadium
under favorable lease terms 4
10 cents for every customer up to
1 million and 30 cents over that
threshold, the Times reported.
The team didn9t have a new
name lined up for its new city,
although fans did get a sneak
peek at the road uniform, which
minor league pitcher Dave
freisleben modeled in a photo.
freisleben, who would make his
mLB debut in 1974, sported a
baby-blue 1970s-style jersey with
the word <Washington= across the
chest and a white baseball cap
featuring a <W= that had a red star
protruding from the top.
<Baseball9s Back! San Diego Pa-
dres Play Here in 974,= blared a
may 28, 1973, front-page headline
in The Post, above the fold and
just below a story about the spi-
raling Watergate scandal.
The Padres had a losing tradi-
tion that would have fit in with
Washington9s. Since their birth as
an expansion franchise in 1969,
they had come in last place in the
NL West every season, never fin-
ishing with a winning percentage
eZ su
The Padres were set to play at RFK Stadium had they relocated in 1974, but they never left San diego.
above .400. They had averaged
barely 7,000 fans per game in
their first four years, even worse
than the paltry crowds the Sena-
tors drew in their final season in
D.C. (around 8,000 per game).
<There are some who will scoff
that no treasure was snatched
from San Diego in preparing
Washington for its reentry into
major league baseball in 1974,=
Povich wrote. <But for two brood-
ing, silent summers, Washington
baseball fans have been deprived
of most of the sights and all the
sounds of the game while lesser
cities could give out with whoops.
At this point, the caliber of the
Padres, which can be subject to
change, is less important than
their presence in the city.=
Danzansky told Channel 59s
maury Povich 4 Shirley Povich9s
son 4 that his prospects for team
manager included <frank robin-
son at the head of my list,= which
would have made him the majors9
first Black manager. robinson
would go on to break that barrier
with the Cleveland Indians, who
named him player-manager for
the 1975 season. Thirty years later,
robinson would become the first
manager of the Washington Na-
tionals.
<I9m very flattered [Danzan-
sky] feels that way,= robinson told
The Post at the time, adding he
wasn9t deterred by the Padres9
losing track record. <I don9t shy
away from tough situations. The
Padres are a young expansion
team, and it9s only fair to give
them five to eight years to become
a good club.=
And the team did have some
exciting young players, such as
rookie outfielder Dave Winfield.
After the 1973 season, they traded
for veteran superstar Willie
mcCovey.
Kevin Dowd, a longtime Wash-
ington baseball fan, recalled that
when the Senators left town, he
was optimistic the city would
soon land a new team.
<A year or two went by, I was
getting impatient, but here come
the Padres, and Danzansky had a
deal in place,= he said in a recent
interview. <When that happened,
I was saying: 8Take it to the bank.
It9s done.9 =
Dowd, who was 29 at the time,
had already planned to attend a
bunch of games in 1974. <I was
single, and that was a good date. It
was cheap,= he said, recalling at-
tending Senators games at rfK
for $1.50 and paying the same
price for a beer. <So you could
have a nice date for 10 bucks.=
Politicians rejoice
As the Padres wrapped up what
appeared to be a lame-duck sea-
son in San Diego, which ended
with an NL-worst 60-102 record,
President richard m. Nixon, a
California native and huge base-
ball fan, cheered the team9s ex-
pected move. After the Senators
left town, Nixon had strategized
with D.C. mayor Walter E. Wash-
ington on finding a replacement
team, a White House tape record-
ing shows.
<I just want to cast my own vote
in favor of returning major-
league baseball to the Nation9s
Capital,= the president wrote to
NL President Chub feeney in Sep-
tember 1973. <You can be sure all
of us in the Washington metropol-
itan area would enthusiastically
welcome a National League
team.=
on Dec. 6, 1973, the NL owners
the washington post
eVAn Vucci/AssociAted Press
conditionally approved the
team9s move to Washington. That
same day, Congress deliberated
Nixon9s choice of ford as his new
vice president, following the res-
ignation of Spiro Agnew. Sisk, the
congressional D.C. baseball
booster, broke into the floor de-
bate to announce the Padres
news.
<mr. Sisk and representative
frank Horton, republican of Up-
state New York, who together had
led a Congressional effort to se-
cure a new baseball franchise for
Washington, paid tribute to
mr. ford, a onetime football star
and still a sports enthusiast, for
his support of their effort,= the
Times reported. ford was sworn
in as the new vice president later
that day after winning congres-
sional confirmation.
The Post reported that Wash-
ington would open the 1974 sea-
son at rfK Stadium for a
2:30 p.m. game against the Phila-
delphia Phillies, a day before the
rest of mLB9s teams started their
season. That winter, Topps print-
ed a 1974 set of baseball cards of 15
San Diego players with <Washing-
ton Nat9l Lea.= printed on them.
But San Diego officials soon
made it clear they wouldn9t give
up their lousy baseball team with-
out a fight.
<We9ll see them in court,=
warned San Diego mayor Pete
Wilson, a republican and future
California governor, at a news
conference the same day of the
NL owners9 vote.
<The U.S. Congress, as watch-
dog of the public purse, has decid-
ed that subsidizing the piracy of
the San Diego Padres is an urgent
national priority, warranting the
expenditure of federal taxpayers9
. wednesday, january 31 , 2024
funds,= he added.
Wishful thinking for d.C.
The next week, San Diego fol-
lowed through on its threat, filing
an antitrust lawsuit against the
NL, alleging a conspiracy dating
from 1971 to yank the Padres from
the city and move them to Wash-
ington. The other defendants
were each of the league9s 12
teams; Padres owner C. Arnholt
Smith; and Sisk. Among the al-
leged co-conspirators: Vice Presi-
dent ford, Albert (the House
speaker), Celler, rep. Peter rodi-
no (D-N.J.) and missouri
Sen. Thomas Eagleton (D); as well
as the American League.
Looking to get out from the San
Diego lawsuit, Smith tried to find
another buyer. That9s when Kroc,
who had failed in his attempt to
buy his hometown Chicago Cubs,
reached out. In January 1974, he
came to an agreement to buy the
Padres and keep them in San
Diego.
After the NL approved the sale
to Kroc, Danzansky sent a tele-
gram to the league asking owners
to consider D.C. as the first city to
get an expansion team and said
he had several encouraging com-
ments from owners.
<There has been some indica-
tion that there is a definite feeling
among the owners that we are
going to be favored,= he said.
But that proved to be wishful
thinking. mLB expanded in 1977,
1993 and 1998 but bypassed
Washington each time. Instead,
D.C. had to turn to relocation
again when the montreal Expos
moved to Washington in 2005.
meanwhile, the Padres fin-
ished last again in Kroc9s first
year, 1974. At the Padres9 home
opener, which they dropped, 9-5,
in the midst of a six-game losing
streak to start the season, Kroc
went into the press box and told
the crowd on the public address
mic: <I suffer with you. I9ve never
seen such stupid ball-playing in
my life.=
Kuhn recalled ordering Kroc to
apologize and soon met with him
on Kroc9s yacht in fort Lauder-
dale, fla.
<I knew right away we had
another fascinating egocentric in
the world of baseball,= he wrote.
Frederic J. Frommer, a writer and a
sports and politics historian, is the
author of several books, including
<You Gotta Have Heart: Washington
Baseball from Walter Johnson to the
2019 World series champion
nationals.=
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A king cake empire

How the New Orleans bakery Dong Phuong became the go-to maker of the Mardi Gras dessert
BY J OAN N IESEN in neW oRleans

t started with a handful of requests which this year falls on Feb. 12. They whip

I and 100 cardboard boxes.

over the years, Huong Tran9s bak-
ery, Dong Phuong, had developed a
reputation for making the best brioche
and mooncakes in the neighborhood. so
it was only natural that customers began
to ask about king cakes each winter.
a child needed one to bring to school. a
host wanted to serve one at a party. Dong
Phuong, which opened in 1982, had never
offered the traditional Mardi Gras pastry,
but in 2008, Tran decided to experiment.
she and her daughter, linh Tran Garza,
developed a recipe, and they figured 100
boxes would be more than enough.
Garza can remember her reaction
when the bakery sold its 100th cake. she
was excited 4 and that was that. Dong
Phuong shut down king cake production
for the season.
Today, Tran and Garza rule a Carnival
empire out of a squat, brick building on
the side of a four-lane highway about 10
miles northeast of the French Quarter. in
Dong Phuong9s industrial kitchen, crews
of bakers finish about 1,600 king cakes
per day, beginning with the first batch of
dough on Dec. 31 and finishing on lundi
Gras 4 the day before Fat Tuesday 4
K louisiana and across parts of the
dong Phuong employees, at top, prepare king cakes.
Each one includes a baby, above, and tradition says
whoever finds it must procure the next year9s cake.
glossy, white frosting in mixers the size of
baptismal fonts and fold and roll butter
into dough at a breakneck pace. They bag
cake after cake, filling orders for pickup
and preparing boxes to ship as far as
Canada and Hawaii.
in an hour, Dong Phuong can box up
nearly as many finished king cakes as it
baked in all of 2008. Garza, who supervis-
es the business side of the operation, has
scaled to meet a nearly insatiable de-
mand. But as the bakery has gained
recognition nationwide, not everything
has changed. it9s still a pillar of the
Vietnamese community in new orleans
east, with Tran overseeing the kitchen
just as she has for the past 40-plus years.
<everything in here is her baby, and she
takes it personally if it doesn9t work,=
Garza said. <she wants to make sure
everything that comes out is perfect.=
ing cakes have been a tradition in
Gulf Coast for centuries, and in the
food-crazed city of new orleans, they
come in many forms. sold each year
between epiphany (Jan. 6) and Mardi
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in the words of Jay-Z,
<allow me to
reintroduce myself.=
Regular readers of
The Washington
Post9s food coverage
Aaron and anyone who has
Hutcherson ever joined our
Dinner in weekly cooking chats
minutes are probably already
familiar with me and
my work. But now
that i9ll be taking over the Dinner in
Minutes column, trying to fill the
shoes left by former recipes editor
ann Maloney, i thought i9d give you
a refresher about me and explain
the types of recipes i plan to
highlight in this space.
i was born and raised in Chicago
and went to college in st. louis, so
soul food and hearty Midwest dishes
form the foundation of my culinary
philosophy. To me, that means
there9s generally a thread of comfort
see alfrEdo on E3
dining rut with
these suggestions
BY T IM C ARMAN
We all have favorite restaurants and
beloved dishes that, no matter how often
we tell ourselves to try something new,
we still order every single time. We form
bonds with food, and the places that
serve them, and these ties can be as
strong as those that bind us to family,
school, team and country.
These connections provide comfort in
moments of stress. i know this from
experience: almost every Friday for a
number of years, i used to wrap my
workweek by pulling up a bar stool at the
Classics and ordering the exact same
scoTT suchman for The WashingTon posT; food sTyLing by Lisa cherkasky for The WashingTon posT thing. it was a type of ritual, without the
fanfare, vestments or Gregorian chants.
Recipe The meal was a reward, but also relax-
fettuccine alfredo e3 see dining on E5
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Parmesan provides the foundation for this crunchy, savory roasted broccoli
Whenever there
are random bits of
crisped cheese
lingering on a
baking dish or
sheet pan, chances
Ellie are you9ll find me
Krieger hovering over it,
nouriSH picking it clean of
the irresistibly
crunchy pieces. I
can never seem to get enough of
them, which is why I find this
recipe 4 which provides an entire
pan full 4 so enticing. In it,
mounds of grated parmesan
cheese are baked to form crunchy
golden disks beneath tender,
lightly smashed broccoli florets.
The cheese acts as a savory
platform for each piece of
broccoli, staying a bit pliable
where it touches the vegetable,
and forming a deep brown,
crunchy matrix around it.
The parmesan layer is
essentially a type of Italian frico,
typically served as an appetizer or
snack, where mounds of grated
cheese are baked or cooked in a
skillet until they become
crackerlike crisps. After drooling
over several social media videos
that employed frico as a base
layer for different vegetables,
such as potatoes or Brussels
sprouts, I couldn9t resist giving it
a whirl with broccoli. As you can
see from this recipe, it is a simple
way to elevate the vegetable to a
wow-inspiring side dish.
The broccoli is blanched first,
until it is just tender but still
bright green, which takes just a
A glass is used to flatten the broccoli florets and press them into
the parmesan, which adds the right amount of saltiness.
Beautiful Instant Pot
baked beans channel
an Edna Lewis classic
<My mother often
served us a supper
of kidney bean
soup or a pot of
baked beans on a
winter night,=
Joe Yonan Edna Lewis writes
WEEknigHt in her 1976 classic,
VEgEtarian <The Taste of
Country Cooking,=
adding that the rest of the menu
included cornbread studded with
pork cracklings, salsify bathed in
butter and cream, and a jelly roll
filled with the fruit preserves of
summer.
The beans weren9t actually
baked, but that9s beside the point.
<Stews and thick soups cooked
leisurely in the side of the hearth
and were enjoyed before a lively
fire that sent up loud reports of
snaps and crackles as if it knew
we were enjoying our meal after a
day of ploughing through the
snow to feed the stock and gather
in the evening wood,= she wrote.
As you know if you9ve had the
pleasure of reading it, Lewis9s
book uses recipes to document
her upbringing in Freetown, Va.,
a farming community settled by
formerly enslaved people. And
the first time I read it, I marveled
at the lyrical 4 and yet unfussy 4
way she describes food.
When I started cooking from
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couple of minutes. Then it9s
patted dry 4 an important step so
excess moisture doesn9t interfere
with the cheese crisping up later.
You can cook the broccoli ahead
and store it in the refrigerator for
up to 4 days, but in that case I
suggest plunging it into an ice
bath after draining it to stop the
cooking. You could also substitute
frozen, thawed broccoli florets, or
use a different vegetable, such as
cauliflower.
Then you place small mounds
of grated parmesan cheese onto a
parchment-lined sheet pan, put a
piece of broccoli on top of each,
and use the bottom of a glass to
smash the broccoli a bit,
flattening it somewhat into the
cheese. After a brushing of olive
oil and a sprinkling of garlic
powder and pepper, it goes into
the oven. (No salt is needed,
because the cheese adds enough
saltiness.)
After just about 8 minutes, the
cheese becomes brown and crisp,
like a halo around each broccoli
floret. A 10-minute rest in the pan
allows it to crisp further and
makes each one easy to scoop up
from the pan with a spatula. It9s a
side dish that goes well with just
about any roasted protein, and is
a treasure for crispy-cheese lovers
4 providing plenty of crunchy,
golden savory-ness for everyone
at the table.
krieger is a registered dietitian
nutritionist, cookbook author, and
Photos by tom mccorkle for the Washington Post; food styling by gina nistico for the Washington Post
cooking show and podcast host.
learn more at elliekrieger.com.
Steps broccoli with the oil and sprin-
Crispy Parmesan Smashed Broccoli l Position a rack in the middle of kle with the garlic powder and
4 servings the oven and preheat to 350 pepper.
Mounds of grated parmesan cheese are baked to form crunchy degrees. Line a large sheet pan l Transfer to the oven and roast for
golden disks beneath tender, lightly smashed broccoli florets. The with parchment paper. 7 to 8 minutes, or until the cheese
cheese acts as a savory platform for each piece of broccoli, staying a bit l Bring a large pot of water to a has browned and crisped around
pliable where it touches the vegetable, and forming a deep brown, boil over high heat. Add the the broccoli. (It will still be a bit
crunchy matrix around it. It9s a simple way to elevate broccoli to an broccoli and cook until bright soft under the florets.) Remove
impressive side dish. green and just fork tender, about from the oven and let rest on the
Storage: The broccoli-parm pieces are best served warm; they do not 2 minutes. Drain and pat dry. pan for 5 to 10 minutes. It will
refrigerate well. l Place a little mound of parmesan crisp further as it cools. Use a
Active time: 20 mins; Total time: 35 mins (a scant tablespoon) onto the metal spatula to transfer each
From cookbook author and registered dietitian nutritionist Ellie parchment. Put a piece of the piece to plates (3 pieces per serv-
Krieger. broccoli on top of the cheese, ing) and serve warm.
then use the bottom of a glass to
Ingredients parmesan cheese press it down, crushing the broc- nutrition | (3 pieces): 108 calories, 4g
l 1 medium head broccoli crowns
carbohydrates, 13mg cholesterol, 8g fat,
l 1 tablespoon olive oil coli to flatten it a bit into the 1g fiber, 7g protein, 3g saturated fat, 232mg
(8 ounces), cut into 2-inch l 1/ teaspoon garlic powder cheese. Repeat with the remain- sodium, 2g sugar
4
florets (about 12 florets) l Freshly ground black pepper ing cheese and broccoli. recipe tested by anna luisa rodriguez;
l 2/3 cup (2 ounces) grated l Brush the top of each piece of email questions to food@washpost.com
it, I realized that the same
description can be applied to the
dishes themselves. These are
tight recipes, by which I mean
there are no extraneous
ingredients. Everything is there
for a purpose, and when they all
do their job, what results are
dishes that taste almost
elemental in their deep,
satisfying flavors. There9s also a
universality to her cooking that
transcends region, even though
her food is deeply rooted in the
South. This is cooking that9s tied
to the seasons, which means tied
to the rhythms of farming, and it
can speak to anyone with
memories 4 or perhaps fantasies
4 of a close-to-the-land existence.
Her recipe for baked beans
stood out to me. Besides my long-
standing obsession with legumes,
it reminded me that slow-cooking
them isn9t the exclusive
provenance of Yankees, as
popular (and great) as traditional
New England treatments can be.
scott suchman for the Washington Post; food styling by lisa cherkasky for the Washington Post
Having something that can
simmer away on the stovetop or
in the oven while other work gets um, baking? If Lewis can, so can vent when it9s releasing steam.
done is crucial to the success of I, and so can you.
Southern Baked Beans l Taste the broth, and season
any cook whose day is otherwise For Lewis9s dish, I use white 8 servings (makes about 8 cups) with more aminos and/or salt,
occupied. In Freetown, they were beans, such as navy, cannellini or This veganized version of Edna Lewis9s baked beans recipe from her if needed. Serve hot.
plowing fields and collecting Great Northern, and they cook a classic, <The Taste of Country Cooking,= uses onion and tomato for a l Substitutions: No navy
wood. In New Orleans, women lot faster than red kidneys, so I touch of sweetness, and the Instant Pot for speed. With just a few beans? >> Use cannellini,
put on red beans to serve with set the multicooker to a mere 30 ingredients, the beans become infused with a deeply savory flavor that Great Northern, cranberry/
rice while they spent Mondays minutes. I keep the rest of her makes them great with crusty bread and a green salad, over rice or a borlotti or pinto. Liquid amin-
doing laundry. At my sister9s ingredients in place, with the starchy vegetable, or wrapped in tortillas. This recipe was tested in a os >> coconut aminos, low-
homestead in Maine, they9ll soon notable exception of her <1/2 6-quart Instant Pot. sodium tamari or soy sauce.
be tapping trees and boiling pound streaky lean salt pork,= Make ahead: The beans need to soak for 8 to 12 hours before l Variations: To bake these in-
down maple syrup while beans because, well, this is a vegetarian proceeding with the recipe. stead, position a rack in the
lounge in the outdoor bread oven. cooking column. For that, I sub in Storage: Refrigerate for up to 4 days, or freeze for up to 6 months. middle of the oven and preheat
Generally speaking, though, some liquid aminos (such as Active time: 10 mins; Total time: 1 hour, plus 8 to 12 hours for to 250 degrees. Bring the
we9ve sped things up since Bragg9s), along with a touch of soaking the beans beans and water to a boil in a
Lewis9s time in Freetown, and smoked paprika, for almost From Food and dining editor Joe Yonan, based on <The Taste of heavy pot over medium-
probably not all for the better, of meaty umami. The recipe9s Country Cooking= by Edna Lewis (Knopf, 1976). high heat, then lower the heat
course. On the one hand, I9m glad essential brilliance 4 the use of and simmer the beans gently
I don9t need to gather wood to an onion to evoke a subtle Ingredients Steps for 15 minutes. Stir in the
operate my electric induction sweetness without any sugar, l 1 pound dried navy beans or l In a 6-quart Instant Pot or remaining ingredients except
stove; on the other, what do we maple syrup or other sweetener other white beans, soaked other multicooker, combine for the salt, cover and bake
use all our saved time for? Sitting 4 remains intact. overnight and drained the beans with the water, on- for about 3 hours, or until
in front of a crackling fire with I knew I was onto something l 4 cups water ion, aminos, tomato paste, the beans are very tender and
family, telling stories, has got to when my husband kept talking l 1 medium yellow or white smoked paprika, black pepper fragrant. (Check inside the
beat sending TikToks to my about them in almost reverential onion (8 ounces), chopped and mustard. pot from time to time, and if
husband as he does the same 4 tones days after I made these l 1/4 cup liquid aminos, such as l Secure the lid on the pot and the liquid has reduced so it
from the other end of the couch. beans for him. They9re good Bragg9s, plus more to taste close the pressure valve. Select is no longer covering the
But here we are. Some days, enough to eat with some bread l 2 tablespoons tomato paste, PRESSURE (HIGH) and set to beans, add boiling water to
mostly on weekends, when I want and a salad, but I couldn9t resist preferably double 30 minutes. (It takes about 10 barely cover and continue
the flavor of a long-cooked bean pairing them with grilled-cheese concentrated minutes for the appliance to cooking.) Taste, and season
dish, I9ll use a clay pot meant for sandwiches, the way you would l 1 teaspoon Spanish smoked come to pressure before cook- with more aminos and/or salt if
just that, and I bake at 250 or 300 go if you were making tomato paprika (pimenton) ing begins.) Once cooking is needed.
degrees for a few hours. Most of soup instead. As he went back to l 1 teaspoon freshly ground complete, cover your hand
the time, though, I turn to my the pot time and time again, he black pepper with a towel or hot pad and nutrition | (1 cup): 206 calories, 37g
carbohydrates, 0mg cholesterol, 1g fat,
trusty Instant Pot, which has said, <Tell that Edna Lewis thank l 1 teaspoon mustard powder release the pressure manually 14g fiber, 14g protein, 0g saturated fat,
gotten those Cajun-style red you.= l Fine salt by moving the pressure-release 522mg sodium, 4g sugar
beans down to a tidy hour. Can I have, and I will, for brilliant handle to <Venting.= Never put recipe tested by Joe yonan; email
you make baked beans without, beans and so much more. your hands or face near the questions to food@washpost.com
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This Fettuccine Alfredo recipe can be made with mushrooms, left, or chicken (or whatever protein or
vegetable you wish). The result is a comforting bowl of pasta that9s ready in just 30 minutes.

Dinner in Minutes

Updated fettuccine Alfredo possesses

original9s comforting, nourishing spirit
AlFrEdo from E1
in many of the recipes I create.
on top of that, I spent about 13
years in New York City, which
introduced me to a more global
pantry and deepened my love
for streamlined cooking because
of the tiny kitchen I had to put
up with for most of my time
there. (my D.C. apartment
kitchen is so much bigger.)
I9m an omnivore but have
become more conscious about
my consumption of meat and
seafood. I also have a fin fish
allergy, so I won9t be featuring
them during my tenure.
outside of what I can9t consume,
there isn9t really much I won9t
eat.
In terms of flavor profiles, I
enjoy the big and the bold as
well as dishes that are simple
and subtle 4 and everything in
between. I9m a curious cook who
loves to experiment in the
kitchen and also finds pleasure
in revisiting old favorites. Long
story short: I love it all! I9m
excited about the first set of
recipes I have lined up to share
with you, but if there9s anything
you9re interested in 4 a cuisine,
ingredient or dish (that we don9t
already have in our database,
wapo.st/recipes) 4 send me
an email at aaron.hutcherson@
washpost.com.
The mission of the Dinner in
minutes column is to provide
readers with reliable weeknight
recipes that will (hopefully)
quickly become family favorites
and can be made in 45 minutes
or less. I plan to share a variety
of dishes to suit myriad tastes,
but I think this is one that
almost everyone will love. for
my first act, I9m highlighting an
Italian American classic:
fettuccine Alfredo. It9s creamy,
comforting, easy to prepare and
a worthy addition to your dinner
repertoire.
The dish was created 4 or
updated, rather 4 in the early
20th century by roman
restaurateur Alfredo di Lelio. It
is based on fettuccine al burro,
which is simply pasta coated in
a sauce of butter and cheese.
That9s it. Just three ingredients
(plus salt). However, di Lelio
increased the amount of butter
for a richer, creamier sauce. The
story goes that he prepared it as
a way to nourish his wife after
she gave birth to their son and
lost her appetite 4 and, needless
to say, she found it again with
each forkful of comforting carbs
and dairy. This updated version
landed on his restaurant9s menu,
and when it made its way to the
United States, its name was
updated to reference di Lelio.
The key to a silky sauce in the
original version is creating an
emulsion with the pasta cooking
water, butter and cheese.
However, this requires a skilled
hand lest you end up with a
broken sauce. for a less finicky,
albeit nontraditional Alfredo
sauce, cooks at some point
started adding heavy cream.
And as someone who is all about
making things easier, I add it,
too. other additions often
include black pepper, garlic,
some sort of meat and/or
vegetable, and a flourish of fresh
parsley.
my version starts by cooking
chicken or mushrooms in a
skillet until nicely browned.
(Chicken is probably more
popular, but I prefer
mushrooms.) The Alfredo sauce
is then prepared in that same
skillet, which can add even more
flavor if there are browned bits
stuck to the bottom of the pan,
depending on the material it9s
made out of, that then get
incorporated into the sauce.
Lastly, the pasta and some of its
cooking water join in on the fun
while the fettuccine finishes
cooking and marries with the
sauce. (remember, you always
want to finish pasta in the sauce
if it9s warm.)
Yes, one could argue that this
recipe is a far cry from the
original, but it still possesses the
same comforting, nourishing
spirit 4 and can be on the
dinner table in just 30 minutes.

brown bits stuck to the bottom

Fettuccine Alfredo (depending on the type of skil-
3 to 4 servings (makes about 6 cups) let used; see headnote). Bring
This Italian American version of fettuccine Alfredo can be made with to a simmer and cook, stirring
chicken or mushrooms 4 or whatever protein or vegetable you wish 4 occasionally until slightly re-
for a comforting bowl of pasta. Compared with the roman version of duced, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in
the dish, this recipe includes cream for a more foolproof Alfredo sauce, the cheese until completely
which is made in the same skillet used for the chicken or mushrooms to melted.
save you from washing an extra pot. The type of skillet you use, stainless l return the chicken to the skil-
steel in particular, can lead to brown bits stuck to the bottom of the pan let, then add the pasta and
that will then get incorporated into the sauce, turning it beige instead 1/ cup of the reserved pasta
4
of the more expected creamy white. If you want a whiter sauce, opt for a cooking water and cook, stir-
nonstick or well-seasoned cast-iron skillet, or thoroughly wipe out the ring regularly, until the pasta is
pan before making the Alfredo. al dente and the sauce has
Storage: refrigerate for up to 4 days. Add a splash of water or cream, reduced to coat the pasta, add-
and, to avoid a broken sauce, reheat gently in a skillet over low heat, ing more pasta cooking water
tossing occasionally, or in the microwave. as needed to adjust the consis-
Total time: 30 mins tency of the sauce. Taste, and
from staff writer Aaron Hutcherson. season with more salt or pep-
per, as desired. Divide among
Ingredients Steps bowls, garnish with parsley, if
l 1/2 teaspoon fine salt, plus l Bring a large pot of lightly using, and serve right away.
more for the pasta water and salted water to a boil. Add the l Substitutions: Instead of fet-
to taste pasta and cook according to the tuccine >> use any long pasta
l 8 ounces dried fettuccine package instructions, until just shape.
l 6 tablespoons (3 ounces) shy of al dente. reserve about l Variations: To make the
unsalted butter, divided 1 cup of the cooking water, and mushroom fettuccine Alfredo,
l 2 medium boneless, skinless drain the pasta. in a large skillet over medium-
chicken breasts (12 ounces l While the water comes to a boil, high heat, melt 2 tablespoons of
total), sliced into 1/4-inch-thick pat the chicken dry with towels unsalted butter until foaming.
strips; or 8 ounces fresh and season both sides with the Add the mushrooms and cook,
mushrooms, such as button, salt, pepper and garlic powder. stirring occasionally, until
cremini, oyster or a mix, sliced In a 10-inch or larger saute pan starting to brown, 5 to 7 min-
or torn into bite-size pieces or skillet over medium-high utes. Season with the salt, pep-
(see Variations) heat, melt 2 tablespoons of the per and garlic powder, and
l 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground butter until foaming. Add the cook, stirring occasionally, un-
black pepper, plus more to chicken and cook without mov- til browned, 1 to 2 minutes
taste ing, until browned on the first more. Leave the mushrooms in
l 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder side, about 2 minutes. flip the the skillet and proceed with
l 1 cup heavy cream chicken and cook until making the sauce and finishing
l 31/2 ounces parmesan cheese, browned on the other side and the pasta as instructed.
finely grated (1 cup) cooked all the way through, 2 to nutrition | Per serving (11/2 cups with
l Chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, 3 minutes more. Transfer the chicken), based on 4: 748 calories,
for serving (optional) chicken to a plate. 47g carbohydrates, 195mg cholesterol,
47g fat, 2g fiber, 33g protein, 29g saturated
l To the same skillet, add the fat, 892mg sodium, 1g sugar
heavy cream, along with the recipe tested by aaron hutcherson and
remaining 4 tablespoons of but- alexis sargent; email questions to
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With Rupee Beer, two brothers are trying to put the India back in IPA
The Sharmas9 new
brew goes back
to the style9s roots
BY T ONY R EHAGEN

When brothers Van and Sumit

Sharma founded Rupee Beer Co.
in March 2020, they understood
that there would be a certain
expectation among American
drinkers. They anticipated it
when they named the brewery
after the currency of their par-
ents9 native India, designed the
labels featuring that moniker in
elegant Hindi script, and started
serving it in their family9s Port-
land, Maine-area Indian restau-
rants in 2021.
In fact, when the Sharmas are
pouring Rupee at tastings and
festivals, they hear the assump-
tion uttered aloud. <It happens all
the time,= says Sumit Sharma.
<People come over and say, 8I can9t
wait to try your IPA.9=
Perhaps the tipplers can be
forgiven for jumping to conclu-
sions. The IPA, shorthand for
India pale ale, has long been the
dominant craft beer style in the
United States, guzzling a 46 per-
cent share of dollar sales in the
craft segment, according to Chi-
cago-based market research firm
IRI, with amber ales, seasonals
and wheats tied for second with
just 10 percent apiece. Odds are, if
you9re in line for a craft beer
anywhere in this country, it9ll be a
strong, hoppy IPA.
So, imagine twice the confu-
sion when Rupee patrons sip the
Sharmas9 flagship beer and taste
a much lighter and less potent
lager. PhOTOS by SaSha iSRaeL fOR The WaShiNgTON POST

They shouldn9t be shocked. By
and large, beer drinkers in India
don9t opt for IPAs; they drink
lagers. The country9s most popu-
lar domestic beer is Kingfisher, a
pale European-style lager in the
vein of Budweiser or Heineken,
which are also among India9s
top-selling brands overall. The
Sharmas purposefully set out to
brew a sweeter and smoother
craft lager, with imported basma-
ti rice instead of the usual barley,
to complement the powerful fla-
vors of the traditional Indian
dishes on their parents9 restau-
rant menus.
By contrast, India pale ale has
virtually nothing to do with the
culture and tastes of its name-
sake: It was a colonial British
export meant for troops stationed
in the jewel of their South Asian
empire. For that matter, the IPAs
that have recently conquered the
New World 4 both the bitter
hop-forward West Coast versions
that ignited the craft beer revolu-
tion and the hazier, juicier New
England style that has risen to
power 4 taste nothing like those
original ales that Brits shipped to
the subcontinent.
This misunderstanding is not
lost on the Sharmas 4 and it also
represented an opportunity. In
November, to commemorate Di-
wali, the brothers released Ru-
pee9s first India pale ale, designed
to taste more like the original
English ales that were shipped to
the colonies. The move was partly
a response to market demands
and to grow the Rupee brand and
portfolio. But as third-culture
kids with connections to both
India (where their parents are
from) and England (where Van
was born), running a brewery in
the United States, the Sharmas
also understand that they are
uniquely positioned to reclaim
this part of their culture.
<We put the history on the can,
making sure we present the beer
in an impactful way,= says Van
Sharma. <We9re telling the world,
8This is Rupee,9 while also helping
educate people on the history of
the British Empire.=
Beer in its present state is a
European innovation. The Sume-
rians are thought to have invent-
ed brewing some 10,000 years
ago, and there is evidence of the
practice bubbling up indepen-
dently in ancient civilizations
from China to the Southwest
United States, but the lagers, ales,
porters and stouts we drink today
are derived from styles estab-
lished in Europe 4 and they came
to most of us via colonization.
The problem the British were
facing in the early 1700s was how
to get their beer in drinking con-
dition to their far-flung colonists.
Brewers knew that ale would turn
sour in casks on the four-month
ocean voyage through tropical
and equatorial heat en route to
Asia. They also understood that
Brothers Sumit, above left, and Van Sharma are the owners of Rupee Beer. At left, Sumit pours Rupee9s
new IPA. <When we see the story of IPA, it has a double-edged meaning. Rupee is trying to tell this
story while incorporating Indian cultural history,= says food and beverage writer Ruvani de Silva.
spoilage could be mitigated by
boosting the amount of alcohol
and hops, the bittering agent that
also acts as a preservative. But
that boost alone wasn9t enough to
result in a hoppy pale ale; most of
the beer being shipped eastward
was darker porter, the libation of
the British working and soldier-
ing class. <Over time, the beers
being taken to India evolved,=
says food and beverage writer
Ruvani de Silva. <The recipes
were finessed into something
lighter and better suited to the
heat.=
Still, there was not one specific
type of ale bound for Bombay or
Calcutta. British beer historian
and author Martyn Cornell says
various ales made by multiple
brewers were referred to general-
ly as <pale ale for India= or <pale
ale prepared for the East and
West India climate.= It wasn9t
until around 1835 that an adver-
tisement for East London9s Bow
Brewery <East India Pale Ale=
appears in the record, indicating
that a taste for this type of beer
had come home to Britain. (It
never sold well in civilian India.)
The love affair was tepid and
relatively short-lived. English
IPAs never eclipsed the populari-
ty of other bitter beers, like mild
ales and the classic English bitter,
which was essentially a more
affordable version of IPA. By the
time World War I spurred a gov-
ernment cap on brewing and
increased taxation on beer pro-
portionate to its alcohol content,
the stronger, pricier IPA as Brits
had come to know it all but
vanished.
Those three letters didn9t re-
turn to beer-vernacular promi-
nence until the early 1980s in
Washington state9s Yakima Valley,
where home brewer and craft
beer pioneer Bert Grant was
about to start a revolution with
his locally (over-)hopped ale. <It
was the template for a boom in
very hoppy beers,= Cornell says.
<Grant called it an IPA. No one
who knew any better was there to
correct him.=
When the Sharmas tasked
master brewer and consultant
Alan Pugsley of Pugsley Brewing
Projects International with creat-
ing their Rupee IPA, he drew on
his personal experience at the
famed Ringwood Brewery in the
Southern England county of
Hampshire in the early 1980s.
<Due to my English heritage and
their heritage, I set out to make a
traditional English IPA,= he says.
<It9s a lost style, like many clas-
sics, in the U.S.=
They call the result an English
Indian IPA, a beer that is not
overwhelmingly bitter or strong
(only 5.6 percent alcohol by vol-
ume; many American IPAs check
in at 7 percent and above). The
hops feature more in the aroma,
which yields to a pleasant, bal-
anced sweetness and a smooth
finish that, like all Rupee beers, is
designed to pair well with spicy
vindaloo and chana masala.
On the back of the can, which is
available in four-packs at various
national chains, including Total
Wine, and at independent stores
and Indian restaurants in 14 East
Coast states, the Sharma brothers
tell the true story of the style,
closing with the proclamation
that <Rupee is putting the India
back in India Pale Ale!= They
acknowledge that it9s a bold claim
in a country where some drinkers
may not know what <IPA= stands
for.
<There9s this sort of disconnect
in thinking of IPA as British and
American,= says de Silva, who is of
South Asian descent. <It9s not
necessarily a pleasant connection
with the subcontinent. Coloniz-
ing, stripping the land of its as-
sets, terrorizing and massacring
the population: When we see the
story of IPA, it has a double-edged
meaning. Rupee is trying to tell
this story while incorporating In-
dian cultural history.=
In many ways, Rupee9s mere
existence is a stand against the
Western beer establishment. Ac-
cording to an audit conducted by
the Brewers Association, which
represents craft breweries in the
United States, only 2 percent of
craft breweries are owned by peo-
ple of Asian descent. Rupee is not
only a presence infusing Indian
culture into American beer, but
it9s also a beacon for South Asian
emigrants who want to see them-
selves in the products they con-
sume.
<They represent our values,=
says Ankit Desai, owner of Un-
corked Wine & Spirits, which
operates six stores in the D.C. area
and carries Rupee. <South Asians
own a lot of wine and beer stores.
I9m Indian. I come from that
culture. A lot of our clientele is
South Asian. We promote the
brands we feel connected to.=
Thus far, the promotion seems
to have paid off. Less than a
month after Rupee released its
IPA, Sumit reported that the com-
pany had already sold out of
preorders. The instant popularity
has pushed the Sharmas to make
the style they expected to be a
seasonal Diwali release a year-
round flagship alongside their
original lager. And the brothers
say the place they9ve seen the
biggest splash is in Indian restau-
rants.
<Our on-premise vendors are
saying that their Caucasian cus-
tomers have been asking for an
IPA,= Sumit says. <This product
has filled a void.=

This classic hot chocolate uses pantry staples and comes together in minutes
O LGA M ASSOV
BY
I half-joke that my Russian
upbringing made me part husky.
I get so giddy when I see fresh
snow, I want to stop doing every-
thing 4 sorry to my work col-
leagues 4 and just revel in the
magic and serenity of a world
blanketed in white. And I want to
do it with a steaming cup of hot
chocolate in hand.
My 9-year-old agrees that any
good winter frolic should be fol-
lowed by hot chocolate, ideally
festooned with mini marshmal-
lows. When he was younger, Avi
preferred a mix. But this winter,
when we rejoiced over two Janu-
ary snowfalls in one week, he
decided that my simple home-
made version is his platonic ideal.
The recipe takes mere minutes
and uses just three ingredients,
not including salt: milk, cocoa
powder and semisweet chocolate.
I don9t add any sugar, and at first
you might think the cocoa isn9t
sweet enough. As you continue
sipping, the drink will taste
sweeter, but will never get cloy-
ing.
Start by warming milk 4
whole, reduced-fat or plant-
based, if you like 4 in a saucepan
while stirring in the cocoa and
Classic Hot Chocolate
chocolate. (You can use any dark, 2 servings (makes 2 cups)
bittersweet or milk chocolate if Hot chocolate is a staple of snow days and cold winters, and this
you prefer, but I find semisweet classic version is as easy to make as it is to sip. With just four ingredients
produces that classic hot-cocoa 4 including salt 4 this will warm you up and bring a smile to your face.
taste.) Add a pinch of salt to bring Once you make it a few times, you may not even need to measure going
out the flavors even more, and forward. Don9t skip the pinch of salt, which brings the flavors together.
bring the mixture to the barest Storage: Refrigerate for up to 2 days; gently reheat, stirring
simmer. frequently, over low heat.
In minutes, you9ll have a hot Total time: 10 mins
chocolate that9s in a different From assistant recipes editor Olga Massov.
league from the packet mix and
doesn9t take that much more Ingredients around the edges.) Taste, and
effort to make. l 2 cups (480 milliliters) whole or add a few more chocolate pieces,
If marshmallows aren9t your reduced-fat milk if desired, then stir to melt and
thing 4 shhh, don9t tell Avi 4 but l 1/4 cup (56 grams) semisweet combine.
a touch of spice is, add a pinch chocolate chunks or chips, plus l Remove from the heat, whisk
each of ground ancho chile and more to taste again briefly, and divide be-
cayenne pepper for a throat- l 2 tablespoons unsweetened tween two cups. Serve hot.
warming grown-up beverage. cocoa powder l Substitutions: To make it ve-
(And if you want something l Pinch fine salt gan >> instead of dairy milk, try
thicker and more decadent, we l Mini marshmallows, for serving a plant-based milk of your
have several other options at (optional) choice. Semisweet chocolate >>
wapo.st/recipes.) bittersweet or dark chocolate.
And although a winter storm is Steps l Variations: For a spicy hot
the ideal excuse to treat yourself lIn a small pot over medium heat, chocolate, add 1/8 teaspoon cay-
to hot chocolate, the only thing combine the milk, chocolate, co- enne pepper and a pinch of an-
that9s nonnegotiable is how you coa powder and salt. Heat, cho chile powder.
drink it: holding the mug with whisking frequently, to melt the Nutrition | (1 cup, using reduced-fat milk):
both hands, inhaling the com- chocolate and disperse and dis- 272 calories, 34g carbohydrates, 24mg
forting aroma and savoring every solve the cocoa powder, until cholesterol, 14g fat, 4g fiber, 11g protein,
SCOTT SuChmaN fOR The WaShiNgTON POST;
9g saturated fat, 195mg sodium, 27g sugar
sip. You might not even care fOOd STyLiNg by LiSa CheRkaSky fOR The WaShiNgTON POST
scalding. (You should start see-
Recipe tested by Olga massov; email
whether it9s snowing. ing tiny bubbles gathering questions to food@washpost.com
wednesday, january 31 , 2024
Expand your restaurant horizons with these 5 strategies
dining from E1
ation: the simple bliss of sitting
next to my loved one, surrounded
by floor staff and proprietors who
had become not just recognizable
faces, but also friends.
Those kinds of meals are sacro-
sanct.
What I9m suggesting here is the
inverse of those experiences, but
something that can be just as
rewarding: Experiment with your
restaurant meals and push your-
self into purposely uncomfort-
able situations. The payoff may be
bigger than you realize.
I also know this from experi-
ence. for the past 11 years, I was
the Casual Dining columnist for
The Washington Post. I was paid
to review restaurants, and I went
wherever my curiosity led me.
Sometimes, it led me to places
where I could barely communi-
cate with the staff or even read
the menu. These places were
sometimes the most compelling,
because their food was catering to
their own, not the least bit inter-
ested in pandering to my particu-
lar palate.
for me, these meals were about
letting go of control, and I9m
pretty sure, based on Yelp reviews
and questions to just about every
dining chat, control is one thing
that appeals to many paying pa-
trons. Dining out is one of the last
(semi-)acceptable forms of autoc-
racy. I mean, where else in life can
you freely complain because your
glass of water isn9t filled fast
enough?
To get the most out of your
local restaurant scene, you will
have to surrender to the un-
known. But I assure you, plea-
sures wait for you beyond the
arbitrary boundaries you set for
yourself.
Explore your own
neighborhood
The pandemic basically dis-
mantled our relationship with
restaurants. It wasn9t simply that
we could no longer enter restau-
rants without taking a risk; it was
that we were hunkered down at
home, learning to cook and order-
ing takeout. many people contin-
ued to work from home and never
reconnected with restaurants, or
if they did venture out, they didn9t
wander far from home.
This is a low-stress expansion
of your dining habits: Just find a
few places near your home that
you9ve never tried. Everyone has
them. maybe you9ve driven by a
restaurant for years, wondering
whether it9s worth your while.
Why not give it a shot? The worst
that can happen 4 short of food
poisoning, which is unlikely 4 is
a bad meal and a sense of wasted
time and money. But the very act
of engaging with the new place
can be a thrill in itself, and you9ll
have a story to share about that
awful meal at the restaurant you
always wanted to try.
But, more hopefully, maybe
you9ll find a favorite to add to
your rotation.
Try something you think
you don9t like
Some people have serious food
. the washington post
allergies, and those need to be
respected. But many of us just
dislike certain ingredients. I used
to hate the very smell of Brussels
sprouts simmering in a pot,
which was how my mom used to
prepare the tiny cabbages, frozen
from a bag. But then about 15
years or so ago, chefs started
sauteing them with bacon or
duck fat and/or drizzling them
with honey, soy sauce, oyster
sauce, you name it. I went from
hating Brussels sprouts to loving
them to cringing at how ubiqui-
tous they had become on menus.
The point is, your tastes
change. Preparations change.
Even the quality of ingredients
changes. Challenge your biases
and see whether they still hold.
You might be surprised.
Seek out a cuisine
foreign to you
If I9ve learned one thing about
food during my many years of
writing about it, it9s this: Whether
they came from South India or
South Texas, chefs, cooks and
proprietors want to share their
dishes with you. They want you to
experience their cooking 4 not
just as a combination of ingredi-
ents, but also as an expression of
home, family, geography and his-
tory. Your appearance in their
establishments gives them that
opportunity.
If you live in a large city 4
almost any large city 4 I can
almost guarantee that you have
access to a vast range of cuisines.
Salvadoran, Thai, Chinese, Viet-
namese, mexican, Bolivian, Ko-
rean, Indian, Peruvian, Pakistani,
West African, Jamaican, Cuban,
Iranian and Ethiopian: These are
just a handful of cuisines
found within driving distance of
my front door. They have intro-
duced me to dishes that I
now crave regularly. They might
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In New Orleans, a Vietnamese bakery reigns supreme

KInG caKES fRom E1

gras, most king cakes contain a

small, plastic baby, meant to sym-
bolize Jesus. in practice, the baby
is a baked-in marketing device;
end up with him in your slice, and
you9re tasked with buying the next
cake.
traditionally, king cakes re-
semble cinnamon rolls in flavor
and texture, but over the years,
enterprising pastry chefs have in-
troduced a variety of fillings 4
cream cheese, pecan, almond and
strawberry, to name a few 4 and
leaned on different techniques.
dong phuong does a robust busi-
ness selling brioche year-round,
so it started out making cakes
using similar techniques. But
tran found them too heavy for her
liking, so she adapted, keeping
the brioche base but laminating it
4 folding shortening into the
dough to create layers. a few years
later, dong phuong switched to
butter, and the recipe has re-
mained largely consistent since.
the result is a flat, round cake
that9s slathered with cream
cheese icing and dusted with
sprinkles. it tastes like a frosted
croissant.
at dong phuong, each cake
takes three days to complete.
first, bakers make the dough and
freeze it overnight. they spend
the next day laminating, and the
dough goes back in the freezer. on
the third day, the crew fills,
shapes, proofs and bakes the
cakes.
dong phuong shuts down the
rest of its offerings almost entirely
during mardi gras, limiting itself PHoToS by c. roSS for THE WaSHiNgToN PoST

to just bread and a few other

traditional items in addition to
king cakes. tran arrives at the
bakery every morning by 7:30 and
is there until 10:30 p.m., six days a
week. garza, who now lives in
dallas, flies in frequently to over-
see the changeover of her family9s
bakery into a hyper-efficient king
cake factory. this year, she landed
on Jan. 2 and drove straight over,
arriving as bakers were shaping
the first batch of cakes.
Sitting at a picnic table near the
entrance to the bakery, she
scanned her phone. dong
phuong9s cakes were already sold
out online for both pickups and
mail orders through goldbelly,
which meant customers had
started to email and text garza
out of desperation. <Sometimes King cakes are prepared at Dong Phuong, a process that includes,
their stories get a little far- clockwise from top, buttering the tops, mixing the dough and
fetched,= she said, laughing. <the spreading the filling. The bakery shuts down the rest of its offerings
best one i had, i think it was a almost entirely during Mardi Gras, limiting itself to just bread and
priest. He was like, 8i9m going to a few other traditional items in addition to king cakes.
visit somebody on his deathbed
and give him his last rites.9=
the priest got his cake, garza
said. She has made exceptions for
funerals, too, and she9s helped ally gone by midmorning, as a line every cake is good,= she added. <i the king cakes9 popularity has <She grew up going: 8i am not children to the new orleans area
when a king cake enthusiast has of would-be buyers snakes don9t want to disappoint our cus- crested, bringing business to the going to be a baker. i refuse to be a in 1980. they settled in the grow-
driven in from out of state only to through the parking lot and out tomers.= neighborhood and, at times, a baker,9= garza said. <She did one ing Vietnamese community in
find that dong phuong has sold toward chef menteur Highway, cyndi nguyen, who lives near hassle. <it9s great,= nguyen said, year in college in Saigon. & She Versailles, and tran began selling
out for the day. But it9s hard to the long, flat road that stretches dong phuong in the Vietnamese <but also sucks a little bit.= was going to be a banker. She was her baked goods in a local grocery
discern the valid pleas from the through the dredged swamp back enclave known as Versailles, has going to dress in her nice suit and store. Soon, the couple thought
fabrications, and garza likes to toward the heart of new orleans. been a regular for years. She ran comes from a long line everything. and, of course, then bigger, and they began baking out
remind customers that the bakery
sets aside 400 to 500 cakes each
day for walk-in purchases. get up
tran said in an email that she
<never= imagined the king cakes
would become this popular. <this
shops there year-round and dines
at the attached full-service restau-
rant. in recent years, she has
T of bakers in Vietnam. Her
father owned a bakery, and
her siblings still own bakeries in
the war [broke out], so she
couldn9t finish school.=
tran and her husband, de, ar-
of the kitchen at de9s mother9s
Vietnamese restaurant. they
wanted the bread and pastries to
early, though: the cakes are usu- is why i try so hard to make sure watched 4 and waited in line 4 as her home country. rived as refugees with their three continued on next page

Shake it up, shake it up: Taylor Swift9s favorite cocktail is one for the eras
E MILY H EIL
BY
the taylor Swift effect is real.
the pop icon9s imprimatur moves
major needles: if she wears a
particular designer piece, it al-
most instantly sells out. (those
bedazzled denim shorts she sport-
ed to watch the Kansas city chiefs
and her boyfriend, tight end trav-
is Kelce, earlier this season? good
luck getting your hands on them.)
Some have credited her with
helping to save no less an institu-
tion than the nfL. (others say she
has ruined it, which is a sure sign
of her power.) Her eras tour
boosted the u.S. economy. pun-
dits have said that she could sway
the 2024 presidential election.
So we couldn9t help but be
intrigued 4 and possibly influ-
enced 4 by recent revelations
that the singer has a new favorite
cocktail. according to page Six,
Swift spent a fun night out with
her fellow chiefs Wags (the play-
ers9 wives and girlfriends) at Rye
restaurant in Leawood, Kan.
Swift9s beverage of choice was
reportedly a french Blonde, a
drink made with gin, the french
aperitif Lillet, St-germain liqueur
(a gallic-inspired u.S. brand) and
grapefruit juice. <from our un-
derstanding, [that is] her favorite
cocktail,= the restaurant9s co-own-
er claimed.
the cocktail isn9t a one-off; it9s
actually been around for a while.
Like so many mixologists9 crea-
tions, its lineage isn9t clear.
though it has a similar name, it
doesn9t seem closely related to the
parisian Blonde, a cocktail includ-
ed in famed bartender Harry
craddock9s 1930 <the Savoy cock-
tail Book.= (that concoction is
made with rum, cream and cura-
çao.) interestingly, one version of
the origin story of another classic
gin-based cocktail, the White
Lady (typically made with triple
sec and egg whites), also involves
craddock and a blonde. crad-
dock, who oversaw the bar at the
Savoy Hotel in London, was said
to have created the drink for f.
Scott fitzgerald9s wife, Zelda, in
honor of her platinum bob.
i suspect that Swift9s drink is of
more modern origins 4 St-ger-
main liqueur only debuted in
2007, and recipes incorporating
the elderflower elixir proliferated
after that. Swift wasn9t even of
drinking age then, but now that
she9s america9s tastemaker, we
thought it was time to give it a try.
(Look what she made us do,
right?) at any rate, it sounded a
lot more appealing than the drink
she had previously described as
her go-to: a diet coke with vodka.
the drink (we relied on the one
provided on Lillet9s website) is
dead simple to make, though ob-
taining all of the ingredients re-
quires a modestly well-stocked
liquor store. gin and grapefruit
juice are easy to come by (for the
booze, i opted for my standard dry
Beefeater, but something more
aromatic would work, too), but
Lillet, St-germain and lemon bit-
ters might take a little effort to
hunt down. to quote our bartend-
ing muse: it just might be worth
the pain.
a quick shake in a shaker with
ice (if you don9t have one, a jar or
any large-mouthed receptacle
with a lid will do) and a pour, and
it9s ready. the first thing i noticed
is that it9s a really pretty shade of
pink 4 not bubblegum-Barbie,
but a lovely peachy shade. and the
flavor is complex: citrusy, thanks
to the grapefruit, but also a touch
floral, courtesy of both the elder-
ScoTT SucHmaN for THE WaSHiNgToN PoST; food STyLiNg by LiSa cHErkaSky for THE WaSHiNgToN PoST
flower and Lillet, with the latter
adding a hard-to-pinpoint com-
plexity. it9s a refreshing drink, and
not as boozy as some of its cocktail
sisters, thanks to the lower alco-
hol by volume (aBV) of the mix-
ers. i could even imagine topping
it with club soda or sparkling
wine for a festive spritz.
my only quibble with the
french Blonde is that it9s a touch
sweet, though i suspect that if i
had used fresh juice instead of the
bottled tropicana i opted for out
of convenience, i9d find it more
pleasingly tart. (even if they don9t
contain added sugar, many bot-
tled juices incorporate apple juice
concentrate, which can up the
cloying factor.)
can i imagine sipping it in
place of my usual Super Bowl
quaff, which is a beer, because it9s
a classic accompaniment to wings
and/or i9m basic? maybe. i9d feel
pretty fancy, and that might be
kind of fun. i have the feeling that
Swift, who embraces sequins and
sneakers depending on her mood,
would approve.
French Blonde
Cocktail
1 serving (makes 1 drink)
this citrusy, complex-tast-
ing cocktail is reportedly a
favorite drink of pop icon
taylor Swift. But you don9t
have to be a Swiftie to enjoy
its bright flavors 4 and rela-
tively low aBV (alcohol by
volume). You could use a larg-
er glass and top it off with
some sparkling water or wine
to turn it into a spritz.
Total time: 5 mins
adapted from a Lillet
Blanc recipe.
Ingredients
l ice
l 2 ounces Lillet Blanc
l 2 ounces fresh grapefruit
juice
l 1 ounce dry gin, such as
monkey 47
l 1/2 ounce elderflower
liqueur, such as St-
germain
l 3 dashes lemon bitters
Steps
l in a cocktail shaker filled
with ice, combine the Lillet
Blanc, grapefruit juice, gin,
elderflower liqueur and bit-
ters. Seal the shaker and
shake vigorously to chill
and dilute, at least 30 sec-
onds. double strain into a
nick and nora or coupe
glass, and serve.
Nutrition | (1 drink): 233 calories, 18g
carbohydrates, 0mg cholesterol, 0g
fat, 0g fiber, 0g protein, 0g saturated
fat, 9mg sodium, 14g sugar
recipe tested by Emily Heil, Lisa
cherkasky and carolyn robb; email
questions to food@washpost.com
wednesday, january 31 , 2024
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Linh Tran Garza stands behind a
barricade she routinely has to place outside of her family9s bakery
this time of year because of the incredible demand for its king
cakes. Sprinkles of colored sugar are added as a finishing touch.
Freshly baked king cakes await decoration.
from previous page
reflect their heritage, so they
wrote letters home to vietnam,
asking relatives to send recipes,
and handwritten instructions ar-
rived in envelopes from halfway
across the world.
<it took months to send and
receive letters back then,= Tran
said. <and it was very hard and
Jake bilbro, one of three
winemaking brothers from the family
that brings us marietta old Vine red,
one of california9s most consistent
values, takes aim at wine9s carbon
footprint with revelshine.
this line of affordable wines
comes in 500-milliliter aluminum
bottles that weigh a mere 70 grams.
it9s light, portable for an outdoor life
and recyclable. best of all, the wine is
delicious.
revelshine is getting into national
distribution, starting in sprouts
farmers market stores throughout
california and Denver and
distribution in idaho, utah and
arizona, with plans to expand
eastward throughout the year.
and as this column was going to
press, bogle, a leading california
producer of excellent bargain-priced
wines, announced a new line called
element[aL] in a similar all-aluminum
750-ml bottle. so maybe it9s starting
to catch on!
4Dave McIntyre
Great VaLUe
revelshine red wine
õõóö
California, $11, 500 mL
this nonvintage, zinfandel-based red
blend features juicy cranberry
flavors, along with earthy mushroom
notes and a hint of ancho chile spice.
notable for the wine as well as the
aluminum bottle. alcohol by volume:
13.5 percent. bottle weight: 70
grams (Light) for 500 mL.
Distributed nationally by republic national
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expensive to make phone calls. . . .
i was very happy when i receive a
recipe because i know i would be
able to try something new and
have something new to sell.= Dong
phuong still sells banh pia, a bean
cake, using the recipe that arrived
in an envelope from vietnam all
those years ago.
garza, who was a toddler when
the family emigrated, said she
w i N e reCo m m eNda ti o Ns
Revelshine Red Wine, Bernard Rion Coteaux Bourguignons Cuvée
Rosé Vieilles Vignes 2022 and Eva Pemper Pinot Noir 2022.
Bernard rion Coteaux
Bourguignons Cuvée rosé
Vieilles Vignes 2022
õõõö
Burgundy, $26
rosé in January? Why not, when it9s
this delicious? this blend of pinot
noir and gamay from a fine burgundy
producer is rich in color and in
texture, with bright, zesty flavors of
ruby red grapefruit and ripe
strawberry, and a grippy finish that
will seize your imagination and make
you want another sip. and kudos for
the light bottle. abV: 13.5 percent.
bW: 420 grams (Light).
imported and distributed locally by elite Wines
(elitewines.com).
eva Pemper Pinot Noir 2022
õõõö
Marlborough, New Zealand, $33
this is heftier than many pinot noirs
from marlborough, rich with dark
cherry, plum and wild herbs. there9s
a spicy vitality to it, like an
invigorating sea breeze on a warm
day. abV: 14 percent. bW: 560 grams
(average).
barely remembers a time without
the bakery. <We were always
here,= she said. <The school bus
dropped us off right there. This is
kind of my childhood.=
New orleans has one of the
largest vietnamese populations
in the united states, and it9s con-
centrated in New orleans east, a
large swath of drained marshland
that is, in effect, an island, cut off
scott suchman for the Washington post
imported and distributed locally by salveto
(salvetoimports.com).
Prices are approximate. For availability,
check Wine.com, Wine-searcher.com
and the websites and social media
feeds of the wineries, importers,
distributors, and your favorite local
wine store. You can also ask your local
retailer to order wines from the
distributors listed. Have wine questions
for Dave McIntyre? Send them to
Food@washpost.com.
Legend
õ good: the wine delivers what it
promises at a fair price. if it says
chardonnay, it tastes like
chardonnay.
õ õ excellent: a wine with character
and added interest. may elevate your
eyebrows at the first sip.
õ õ õ extraordinary: an exciting
wine that stands out from others in
its class. fist-pumping, table-
thumping good.
õ õ õ õ sublime: otherworldly. may
have you thinking, <so this is what
they were talking about.=
eZ ee e7
experience being refugees and
were like, 8Well, we9re not moving
again.9 & everybody was excited,
because there was not much
here,= garza said. <i mean, we
were only able to make bread. But
it was something.=
When Tran and her crew of
bakers made their first king cakes
in 2008, Dong phuong still ca-
tered mostly to the neighborhood.
But over the next few years, word
spread. The New orleans Times-
picayune wrote a story about the
cakes, and more customers began
to make the drive from New or-
leans proper. Jennifer samuels
was among them.
samuels remembers her reac-
tion the first time she tried Dong
phuong9s king cake: <it was a
really good cake that nobody
knew about,= she said. That was
sometime around 2013 or 914, and
samuels and her husband, Will,
owned pizza NoLa in the Lakev-
iew neighborhood of New or-
leans. They were looking for cre-
ative ways to drum up business
after the rise of apps such as uber
eats and grubhub had dented
their business, and wholesale
king cakes sounded like a viable,
fun solution. Dong phuong had
the capacity to make more cakes
than it could sell out of its store-
front, and the pizzeria could help
open up an untapped market.
in 2015, the partnership began,
and thanks in part to Will samu-
els9s social media expertise, de-
mand grew so huge that Dong
phuong added multiple other
wholesale locations across the
New orleans area. in January
photos by c. ross for the Washington post
2018, the James Beard awards
recognized the bakery with one of
its america9s Classics awards, and
the cakes ascended from cult fa-
vorite to viral. on reddit, some-
one who identified himself as a
Dong phuong delivery truck driv-
er shared stories of people resell-
ing cakes for a profit and fistfights
ensuing at delivery locations.
That month, the bakery took all
its sales in-house and reevaluated
its distribution plan.
This year, demand is higher
than ever. Dong phuong is back in
the wholesale game, and cakes are
available at several businesses
across New orleans, as well as at
the bakery and through goldbel-
ly, though securing a cake online
was nearly as difficult as landing
an eras Tour ticket. at the bakery,
the process grows more efficient
each year, as crews of vietnamese
and Latino workers arrive in
shifts day and night, making each
cake by hand.
as elaborate floats roll down
the streets of New orleans, and
tourists and beer and beads over-
whelm the city, the Dong phuong
from the city by the inner Harbor could get fresh bread there,= said crew will keep pulling cakes out of
Navigational Canal and sur- Nguyen, whose family arrived the ovens, over and over until
rounded by the massive Lake Bor- from vietnam in 1975. mardi gras. That day, the bakery
gne and the even more gargantu- De Tran died in 2004, and the will shut down, but the staff will
an Lake pontchartrain. geo- next year, Hurricane Katrina return for a crawfish boil in the
graphically isolated, the neigh- forced the bakery to close for parking lot. after finishing more
borhood fostered a strong sense several months. When it re- than 60,000 cakes, the bakers and
of community, and Dong phuong opened in January 2006, it was support staff will celebrate, then
was a household name. <They9ve one of the first businesses in the they will rest. The next week,
always been that spot for us in the area to welcome customers. <i Dong phuong will reopen for
community, to know that you don9t know if it9s because we had business as usual.
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The best grilled cheese
is made in the air fryer
BY B ECKY K RYSTAL
When you9ve been doing some-
thing for so long and so often, it9s
easy to fall into a routine, to
never ask yourself, <Is there a
better way to be doing this?=
That9s especially true with cook-
ing.
Don9t get me wrong. Tradition
is a wonderful thing, and repeti-
tion breeds confidence and
speed. But being open-minded
has it perks.
Lest you think I9m about to be
too lofty or philosophical, I9ll get
to it: I have a new favorite way to
make grilled cheese. And it9s in
the air fryer.
Grilled cheese is one of the first
things many of us learned to
cook. It9s the kind of meal you can
throw together out of despera-
tion or plan with precision and
care. And when you make it, odds
are you9re pulling out a skillet.
That has been my method for
going on two decades. But then
my air fryer came into my life,
and I started to rethink the foods
I cook all the time: tofu, roasted
vegetables. It was time to try air
fryer grilled cheese.
I was skeptical at first and
slightly turned off by having to
drag out the air fryer and clean
the basket. Then again, it9s not
that different from washing a
skillet.
Well, it was a revelation. After
about 8 minutes at 360 degrees in
my air fryer, out came a grilled
cheese sandwich that far sur-
passed my expectations.
If you need convincing, here
are the top reasons the air fryer is
now my favorite method for mak-
ing grilled cheese.
The bread is uniformly
crisp and golden
In a skillet, I have never
achieved the same golden color
edge-to-edge as I have in the air
fryer. And the crispness? I9m
talking audibly crisp. In fact, my
son found it too crisp for his taste
(sigh), but the air fryer makes it
easy to experiment with time and
temperature to achieve your ide-
al texture. Keep in mind that air
fryers vary in strength, so you
Meet swamp soup, the murky green bowl that9s way better than it sounds
E MILY H EIL
BY
By now, it has become self-evi-
dent that not all viral recipes are
created equal. For every baked
feta pasta (swoon) there are three
pasta chips (hard pass).
And one of the more recent
dishes that9s been cropping up all
over social media feeds doesn9t at
first seem auspicious. Let9s start
with the name: swamp soup,
which might conjure up boggy
standing water and perhaps the
insistent drone of insects. Appe-
tizing? Not unless you9re a frog.
But if you stop your scroll for
the details, you9ll see that the
moniker is just a playful descrip-
tor for the vivid green hue of the
dish, which is the result of a
whole bunch of bright herbs,
scallions, blanched spinach and
jalapeño peppers that are all
blitzed up in a blender with garlic
and ginger. That bright and zingy
mixture gets swirled into an oth-
erwise relatively tame chicken-
and-rice soup.
Its creator, chef and recipe
developer Meredith Hayden, first
posted a video of herself prepar-
ing it in October. In it she makes a
bold declaration that now seems
prophetic: <Chicken noodle soup
better count its days, because
there9s a new sick-girl soup in
town.=
Since then, the clip has been
watched more than 2.2 million
times, and spawned imitators
like so many schools of tadpoles.
<OK, so I got influenced,= one fan
wrote on Instagram. <Scrolled
past this glorious green bowl
somewhere and had to look it up.
It9s so good!=
<This stuff is amaziiiiiiing,=
raved another.
I stumbled on the recipe at
exactly the right moment. I was
recovering from one of the vari-
ous nasty illnesses that seemed to
have felled everyone you know at
some point this winter. Like
many people, when I9m feeling
low, I crave chicken soup and
other comforting foods, many of
which happen to be on the beige
side of the color spectrum. But
here was this verdant bowl with
sinus-clearing flavors (raw garlic
and ginger!) that appealed to my
groggy palate.
I had enjoyed watching
Hayden9s series of videos last
summer in which she chronicled
her routine as a personal chef to
the rich and famous in the Hamp-
REciPE findER
may need to tweak my instruc-
tions for your particular model.
You9ll never have
unmelted cheese
One challenge of making
grilled cheese in a skillet is that
the exterior can get to the color
you want 4 or even burn 4
before the cheese is melted.
There are ways around this, in-
cluding first griddling the interi-
or sides of the bread or covering
the pan with a lid. Still, you
cannot beat the intense heat of
the air fryer for ultimate melt. In
fact, it can help to wait a minute
or two to slice an air fryer grilled
cheese to let it briefly set and
cool. The appliance also handles
sliced cheese with ease.
If you prefer to use vegan
cheese, I got incredible results in
the air fryer, to the point that it
was indistinguishable from dairy.
When I tried a vegan grilled
cheese using the same product in
the skillet, the shreds did not
come close to melting the same
way, even with a precook of the
bread.
You can use less fat
It9s best to think of the air fryer
as a less-fat, not no-fat, strategy
for cooking. You still need some-
thing for color and flavor, as well
as preventing the food from
scorching. All it takes is a mini-
mal coating of fat on the outside
of the bread. My top pick is mayo,
though you can use oil or soft-
ened/melted butter (salted or un-
salted) instead. Compared with
how much you might typically
need to coat a skillet, especially if
you add more after you flip the
sandwich, it9s considerably less
fat in the air fryer.
It9s easier to make
multiple sandwiches
Making two sandwiches in one
skillet is often not feasible, espe-
cially if you toast the bread first.
Even a 12-inch skillet may strug-
gle to hold more than one sand-
wich. The air fryers I tested this
recipe in 4 an Instant Vortex Plus
6-quart and Cosori 5.8-quart 4
had plenty of room for two sand-
wiches. I probably could have
sCoTT suChman for The WashingTon PosT; food sTyLing by Lisa Cherkasky for The WashingTon PosT
tons. In them, she whipped up
meals with farm-stand and gar-
den-plucked produce and herbs
that had me wishing I had a staff
of my own. (And a sun-dappled
beachfront patio, too. Sigh.) And
swamp soup9s promise of bright
flavors harked back to those
warmer days, even as it offered
chicken-soup comfort.
One grocery-delivery order, a
little simmering and some blend-
ing later, and I had my own
bowlful. I made a few tweaks:
Instead of using precooked chick-
en and rice, I cooked both in the
simmering chicken stock. That
meant a longer cooking time, but
it cut down on dishes. And in the
recipe she posted on her blog,
Hayden suggested starting out by
adding only half the blender
contents and tasting to see
whether it was too strongly fla-
vored. I did 4 and proceeded to
dump the entire contents in for
maximum flavor.
I opted for a good squeeze of
the suggested citrus on top (I
used lime, because, well, its color
was on-theme), as well as a driz-
zle of soy sauce, which offered
tart and salty complements, re-
spectively. The end result was as
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squeezed in a third with slightly
differently shaped slices of bread.
The heat is even
and hands-off
I appreciate the more hands-
off nature of air fryer grilled
cheese. In a skillet, I frequently
have to tweak the heat. Not so in
the air fryer. The heat is incred-
ibly steady, so set it at one tem-
perature and you9re good to go.
Although it9s a good idea to stay
near the kitchen in general when
you9re cooking, there9s consider-
ably less babysitting for an air
fryer than a skillet. (Now, if you9re
just familiarizing yourself with
your appliance and trying to
figure out the ideal temperature,
you might need to experiment
your first time or two, but as with
a regular oven, once you9ve fig-
ured out how it runs 4 hotter or
cooler than expected or spot-on
4 the guesswork is over.) And
when you can fully assemble the
sandwich from the get-go, just
put it in the basket, flip once and
you9re done.
bracing as I had hoped, with the
kick of raw garlic and the spicy,
vegetal green mixture leavening
the hearty, rice-thickened broth.
It even tasted green.
In an email interview, Hayden
said she was a little surprised
that the soup took off the way it
did, because it was something
she put together on the fly on a
night she was craving an all-in-
one meal that made a big batch to
freeze. <It9s always funny to see a
lazy weeknight recipe that I
threw together half asleep be this
popular, compared to more in-
volved recipes that took me
weeks of testing to get perfect,=
she said.
Then again, putting herself in
the shoes (or fluffy slippers) of
people making her recipe might
have been the key to its virality.
<That9s the thing, people want
recipes that they can throw to-
gether when they9re half asleep,=
she said. <An added bonus is that
it tastes delicious and makes you
feel good, too.=
Hayden didn9t even call it
swamp soup in that first video.
One of her fans gave it the catchy
moniker 4 though it9s not to be
confused with another category
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Air Fryer Grilled Cheese
1 serving
With a crisp, golden exterior and luscious, melted interior, air fryer
grilled cheese takes the beloved sandwich to the next level. Using the air
fryer also makes the process relatively easy, hands-off and neat.
Moreover, you only need enough fat to apply a thin layer to the outside
of the bread, rather than coating an entire skillet.
Feel free to get creative with your cheese and other fillings, based on
whatever you like or is in your fridge.
This recipe doubles easily, because many midsize or larger air fryer
basket will comfortably hold at least two sandwiches.
Active time: 5 mins; Total time: 15 mins
From staff writer Becky Krystal.
Ingredients
l Two (1/2-inch-thick) slices
bread, such as country/hearty
white, sourdough or whole-
grain
l 1 to 2 teaspoons sandwich
spread, such as pepper jelly,
mustard or chutney (optional)
l 2 to 3 ounces shredded cheese,
such as cheddar, Monterey Jack
or Gouda, preferably freshly
grated (may substitute vegan
shreds)
l 1/2 to 1 ounce filling of your
choice, such as thinly sliced
of <swamp soups= popular in the
South, many of which incorpo-
rate turnip greens and sausage.
The many fans who have made it
have also shown how customiz-
able it is, with some using cilan-
tro instead of parsley and dialing
back or ramping up the peppers
to taste. Hayden offered further
ideas, suggesting that people
could use whatever protein they
fancied (white beans instead of
chicken and a vegetable stock
would make it vegetarian-friend-
ly) and noting that if the raw
aromatics are too punchy, you
can simmer them until they9re
tamed a bit.
I9ve since shared the recipe
with loved ones complaining of
sniffles. And that9s exactly what
Hayden, who recently introduced
a YouTube series called <Dinner
With Friends= in addition to her
Substack community, <the group
chat,= had in mind. Instead of
trying to play the fickle algo-
rithms for what might make a
viral recipe, she operates with a
simpler imperative: <I like to
think 8Is this recipe one that I
would share with my friends/one
I could see my friends making for
themselves and enjoying?9=
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of bread and cover with the
other slice, spread side down.
Apply a thin layer of the
mayo, oil or butter on the
outside of the top and bottom of
the sandwich.
l Transfer the sandwich to the air
fryer basket and air fry for
8 minutes, or until both sides of
the sandwich are crisp and gold-
en, flipping halfway through.
l Let the sandwich rest for 1 to 2
minutes (the cheese will be very
hot and melty) before slicing
and serving.
apple, ham, chopped kimchi or l Notes: This recipe was tested in
pickled jalapeños (optional) the Cosori 5.8-quart and Instant
l Mayonnaise, canola oil or Vortex Plus 6-quart air fryers.
softened butter, for spreading Depending on the appliance you
use, you may need to adjust the
Steps cooking time and/or tempera-
l On the air fryer, select the air fry ture to achieve the desired re-
mode, set to 360 degrees and sults.
preheat until the appliance sig- nutrition | Per sandwich, using cheddar and
nals it9s ready. mayo: 525 calories, 53g carbohydrates,
l On one side of each slice of
64mg cholesterol, 29g fat, 2g fiber,
14g protein, 14g saturated fat, 883mg
bread, apply a thin layer of your sodium, 9g sugar
preferred sandwich spread, if recipe tested by becky krystal and Joe
using. Pile the cheese and fill- yonan; email questions to
ing, if using, on one of the slices food@washpost.com
Green Chicken Soup (Swamp Soup)
2 to 4 servings (makes about 5 cups)
This viral chicken-and-rice soup, dubbed Swamp Soup, gets a fresh
jolt of flavor from garlic and ginger, plus a shower of parsley, jalapeño
peppers and scallions. Cilantro would make a great addition or swap for
the parsley 4 and don9t sleep on the recommended citrus garnish for an
even livelier bowl. If you wind up using less than the full amount of
blended aromatics, it would make a punchy sauce for steak, chicken or
fish. White beans or chickpeas in place of the chicken and a vegetable
stock makes this meatless.
The original recipe called for precooked chicken and cooked rice. We
adapted it by cooking the rice and chicken in the broth, which cut down
on dishes. It helps to prep ingredients while the soup is simmering; it
will make the recipe go faster.
Storage: Refrigerate for up to 3 days.
Active time: 40 mins; Total time: 1 hour
Adapted from blogger Meredith Hayden of Wishbone Kitchen.
Ingredients garlic, jalapeños, scallions or
l 5 cups unsalted or low-sodium green garlic, ginger, and salt to
chicken stock or broth the blender with the spinach.
l 4 cups (23/4 ounces) loosely Cover loosely (see Notes), gradu-
packed baby spinach ally increase the speed to HIGH
l 1/3 cup long-grain white rice and blend until smooth, about
l 2 small skinless, boneless 1 minute, adding more chicken
chicken thighs (6 ounces total) stock, a little at a time, if the
l 1 cup loosely packed fresh flat- sauce is not blending well.
leaf parsley leaves, plus more l Return the chicken to the pot,
for serving add half of the herb puree, and
l 4 medium cloves garlic stir to combine. Taste, and add
l 2 to 3 jalapeños, stemmed and more of the herb puree and/or
seeded, plus more thin slices for salt, as desired. Season to taste
serving with pepper. If the soup is not
l 2 scallions or stalks green hot enough to your liking, brief-
garlic, roughly chopped ly reheat over medium heat until
l One (2-inch) piece fresh ginger, hot, stirring frequently.
peeled and roughly chopped l Ladle into bowls and serve with
l 1/2 teaspoon fine salt, plus more soy sauce or tamari, parsley
as needed leaves, jalapeño slices and lem-
l Freshly ground black pepper on or lime wedges, as desired.
l Soy sauce or tamari, for serving l Substitutions: To make this
l Lemon or lime wedges, for vegetarian >> replace the chick-
serving en with white beans and use
vegetable stock. To reduce the
Steps heat >> use a single jalapeño or
l To a large pot over high heat, add go without. Instead of parsley
the chicken stock and bring to a >> try cilantro or fresh mint.
steady boil, adjust the heat as l Notes: When blending the hot
necessary. Add the spinach and puree, be careful to not fill the
cook until wilted and shrunken, blender pitcher more than half-
1 to 2 minutes. Using a slotted way. Remove the center ring
spoon or spider, transfer the from the lid and place a kitchen
spinach to a heatproof blender. towel over the opening as you
l Add the chicken to the stock and blend. This will allow steam to
return to a boil. Reduce the heat escape and protect you from
so the broth is simmering and splatters. If you9re unsure
cook until the chicken is cooked whether your blender is heat-
through, about 15 minutes. proof or you don9t have one, you
Transfer the chicken to a cutting can use a heatproof food proces-
board, let cool slightly, then use sor or immersion (stick) blender
two forks to shred the chicken. instead. To ensure the soup is
l Add the rice to the pot, cover and gluten-free, use tamari, not soy
reduce the heat to low. Cook sauce.
until the liquid thickens and the nutrition | (generous 1 cup), based on 4:
rice begins to break apart, about 144 calories, 8g carbohydrates, 37mg
30 minutes. cholesterol, 6g fat, 2g fiber, 16g protein,
2g saturated fat, 517mg sodium, 1g sugar
l Meanwhile, add the parsley,
1/ cup of the stock or broth, the recipe tested by emily heil; email questions
4 to food@washpost.com