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hackers stole records detailing Aims to stem tide of calls

the phone contacts of almost all asking him to leave race
aT&T wireless customers in one
of the most serious breaches of
sensitive consumer data in recent BY Y ASMEEN A BUTALEB
years, the company disclosed in a AND C LEVE R . W OOTSON J R.
securities filing Friday.
The cache includes the num- DETROIT — President Biden,
bers called or texted by more than turning up the volume on his case
100 million customers between for another term, delivered his
May 1 and oct. 31, 2022, as well as most forceful defense yet of his
one day in January 2023. it con- candidacy in a fiery rally here
tains the numbers themselves as Friday, charging that Republican
well as the frequency and com- Donald Trump was receiving a
bined durations of the interac- “free pass” and unspooling a list of
tions, but not the customer names factors he said rendered Trump
or the content of those communi- unfit to serve as president again.
cations, aT&T said. Before a crowd of more than
since most numbers can be SaRaH l. VOiSin/THe WaSHingTOn pOST
2,000 enthusiastic supporters
tied to real names, such records chanting “Don’t you quit” and
illuminate who is close to whom. “we’ve got your back,” Biden ac-

After Maui’s fires, a battle

That would provide a road map cused journalists and pundits of
for criminals who could imper- fixating on his verbal slip-ups
sonate a friend or relative to trick while ignoring Trump’s criminal
a victim. Texts from financial in- conviction and the accusations of

for a town’s sacred water

stitutions could be mimicked to sexual assault and rape against
get an account holder to divulge him.
passwords, and workplace rela- “Mr. Trump raped her,” Biden,
tionships could reveal the identi- emphasizing the word “raped” as
ty of U.s. spies. he read from a judge’s ruling in a
“This data could be used by case in which Trump was found

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spies, scammers and other bad civilly liable of defaming writer e.
actors to target specific people or ong before Lahaina burned to the its most precious resource — has only Jean Carroll after she accused him
to improve the feasibility of scams ground, canals crisscrossed the Locals see a chance grown more intense. The fire has forced a see bIden on a4
by impersonating the numbers of community. spring-fed pools and reckoning over the ways outside interests
people you regularly call,” said taro patches dotted downtown. to restore the have historically exploited the island’s Eclipsed: Democrats worry good
technologist Cooper Quintin of
the electronic Frontier Founda-
The seat of the hawaiian Kingdom was a
small island in the middle of a sacred pond
ancient ecosystem natural environment. But for those who
want change, Lahaina’s wholesale de-
news on economy being buried. A5

tion. off modern-day Front street. of Lahaina, once struction has presented an unprecedented Losing Clooney: The fundraiser
The ability of U.s. intelligence so much water coursed through Lahai- opportunity to reimagine the town from
to access similar calling records na, on its path from the mountains to the flush with wetlands. the groundwater up, a chance to restore
where some say Biden was frail. A6

was one of the most alarming and

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ocean, that early european visitors chris-
tened it the “Venice of the Pacific.”
But over two centuries, everything
changed. american colonizers landed on
hawaii and flocked to Lahaina. sugar
It won’t be easy. the wetlands and the hallowed site at their
heart.
MsNBC leans forward: “Morning
Joe” plays arbiter of Biden fray. C1
“Right now, believe it or not, even
BY R EIS T HEBAULT in Lahaina, hawaii though people say our town is gone, i look
at it as the opposite,” said Ke‘eaumoku

Baldwin’s plantations and land developers followed,

steadily siphoning and diverting, draining
the area dry. wetlands were buried under
‘Rust’ case parks and parking lots. The town was
transformed into a tinderbox.
when flames finally came for the old
tossed out Lahaina town in august, they killed at
least 101 people and destroyed thousands
of homes.
by judge since then, Maui’s oldest struggle — for
Ruling says prosecutors
improperly hid potential
BY E MILY
AND F RITZ
H EIL
H AHN
Kapu, standing outside the charred re-
mains of his na ‘aikane o Maui Cultural
Center, near the now-buried wetlands.
RFK Jr.
Kapu is part of a growing group of
native hawaiian leaders, local advocates
and elected officials who are pushing to
apologizes
ke‘eaumoku kapu stands near
the site of his na ‘aikane o
Maui cultural center, which
revive the town’s pre-colonial ecosystem.
The campaign could eventually lead to a
showdown with powerful private firms
to accuser
burned down in august. see LahaIna on a8
via text
Woman who alleges
Maryland invented the es the drink’s ascension — but that
might just be ruffling a few old he groped her calls his

orange
evidence from defense Bay-scented feathers. message ‘disingenuous’
Unlike so many other storied “Meet you at the boardwalk at
cocktails, the orange Crush’s ori- noon,” joked Derek Brown, a

BY S AMANTHA C HERY
AND M ARÍA L UISA P AÚL
alec Baldwin’s “Rust” shooting
trial was dismissed Friday, after a
judge ruled that prosecutors im-
properly withheld potential evi-
dence from the defense team. The
ruling was a shocking end to the
emmy award-winning actor’s
years-long effort to clear his name
after a prop gun discharged in his
hand on a film set in 2021, releas-
ing a live bullet that killed cinema-
tographer halyna hutchins and
wounded the film’s director.
Judge Mary Marlowe sommer
said in her ruling that prosecutors
had failed to properly inform de-
fense lawyers of live ammunition
in their possession, which may
have been connected to the shoot-
ing. “The state’s woeful withhold-
ing of this information was inten-
tional and deliberate,” she said.
The actor had been on trial for
involuntary manslaughter since
Tuesday, as prosecutors argued
that his reckless handling of a
prop gun on the set of the low-
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crush.
gins are undisputed. without the
fog of centuries obscuring which
monocle-sporting bartender first
coined the term or which long-
closed Gilded age establishment
first served the drink, the crush’s
biography is well known: once
upon a time (1995, in fact), at the
harborside Bar & Grill in ocean
City, Md., bartenders came up
with a concoction of vodka, fresh-
ly squeezed oranges and triple sec,
which they topped off with a
splash of lemon-lime soda.
so begins the history of the
orange Crush, a drink whose pop-
ularity quickly spread, making it a
summertime staple at bars and
crab shacks not just in Maryland
but all along the Mid-atlantic
coast. nearly 30 years on, its leg-
end has reached a new inflection
point. Thanks to swift legislative
action this summer, the orange
Crush is set to become the official
cocktail of the great state of …
Delaware.
Yes, the state located less than
10 miles north of the drink’s actual
cradle was the one to give it this
distinction, a move that recogniz-
washington-based drinks expert
who grew up in Maryland. Brown
was careful to say that while many
Delaware bars make a good crush,
bragging rights for the drink
rightly belong to his native state.
“on one side, i do recognize that
Delaware has that claim — they’ve
made a good orange Crush,”
Brown said. “however, this legis-
lation is a little like saying, ‘i went
to your house and stole something
and it’s mine now.’ saying that
possession is nine-tenths of the
law doesn’t make it so.”
The bill establishing the drink
Now Delaware in the First state’s firmament, ad-
opted by the legislature late last
is claiming it. month and now awaiting the gov-
ernor’s pen, does not — exactly —
attempt to rewrite the drink’s his-
tory. “The orange Crush cocktail
is claimed to have been originated
by bartenders in ocean City,
Maryland in 1995,” the legislation
states (the added emphasis is
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independent presidential can-
didate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has
privately apologized to a woman
who accused him of sexual assault,
saying he does not remember the
alleged incident and that any
harm he caused was “inadvertent.”
in a story published last week in
Vanity Fair, the woman, eliza
Cooney, described inappropriate
behavior and sexual advances
from Kennedy when she worked
as his family’s weekend nanny in
the late 1990s, including an inci-
dent in which Kennedy ap-
proached her from behind and
allegedly groped her in a pantry.
at the time, Cooney was 23. Ken-
nedy was 45 and married, with five
children.
“i have no memory of this inci-
dent but i apologize sincerely for
anything i ever did that made you
feel uncomfortable or anything i
did or said that offended you or
hurt your feelings,” Kennedy
wrote in a text message to Cooney
sent at 12:33 a.m. on July 4, two
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Tax-funded youth treatment centers are ‘warehouses of neglect,’ report finds
“Your tax dollars
at work” was
never meant to
include child
abuse.
But that’s the
Federal odious image
Insider presented in a new
Joe Senate report,
davidson whose title
describes
numerous youth
residential treatment facilities
(RTF) that receive federal
funding as “warehouses of
neglect.”
Bipartisan oversight
legislation is now planned, after a
Senate Finance Committee
hearing last month on the two-
year congressional investigation
into facilities caring for children
with a range of issues: emotional,
mental, behavioral and
occasionally criminal. Instead of
getting the care they need,
according to the report, in too
many cases children are injured,
psychologically and physically —
at times fatally — while the
government pays the bill.
Committee Chairman Ron
Wyden (D-Ore.) accused a
number of facility operators of
“profiting off rampant abuse”
while “American tax dollars are
funding this abuse.”
The committee’s investigation
found that treatment facility
residents “suffer harms such as
the risk of physical, sexual, and
emotional abuse at the hands of
staff and peers, improperly
executed and overused restraint
and seclusion, inadequate
treatment and supervision, and
non-homelike environments.”
Industry representatives reject
the broad allegations, although
documented cases are chilling.
A particularly egregious
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example in the report was the
2020 death of 16-year-old
Cornelius Frederick, who, as a
video shows, was killed by staffers
at Lakeside Academy in
Kalamazoo, Mich. After he threw
a sandwich at other youth in the
cafeteria, he was knocked to the
floor by a staffer and multiple
employees piled on. Two staffers
pleaded no contest to involuntary
manslaughter. Another pleaded
no contest to third-degree child
abuse.
More than 100 former
residents of the facilities, and
their family members, attended
the hearing and a preceding news
conference, while others
submitted statements to the
committee with their personal
horror stories.
Sasha Oates’s statement said
she was placed in a Utah facility
when she was 14 because of
mental health and self-harm
issues.
“I was sexually assaulted by a
staff member, restrained in a
violent manner that led to
multiple injuries, isolated in a
concrete room without clothing
or my eyeglasses or even a
bathroom, gassed by mixed
cleaning chemicals that caused
permanent scarring in my lungs
to the point I was taken to the
hospital,” she recalled. “I was
called a number, 316, instead of
my name. I was dehumanized and
forced to stand or sit in stress
positions. I was forcibly tube-fed,
one of the worst experiences of
my life multiple times. I was over-
medicated, including chemical
restraint, and forced through
conversion therapy. This
treatment had a profound
negative impact on me, including
nightmares, chronic asthma from
the scars in my lungs, severe
In Congress, a stando≠ over the $1.5 trillion farm bill
Lawmakers can’t agree
on whether to hike crop
prices or expand food aid
BY J ACOB B OGAGE
Congress could promise farm-
ers new guaranteed minimum
prices for their crops, as it consid-
ers sweeping new agriculture leg-
islation. Or lawmakers could pro-
vide more generous aid to help
needy families afford to buy food.
But they don’t seem to be able
to agree on doing both.
In the latest draft of a $1.5
trillion measure known as the
farm bill, Republicans in Con-
gress have plans to spend $50
billion over the next decade to
raise price floors for major agri-
cultural products such as corn,
wheat, soybeans, cotton and pea-
nuts. But to pay for those new
prices, the House version of the
bill would scrap a 2018 change in
the law that allowed presidents to
increase benefits in the Supple-
mental Nutrition Assistance Pro-
gram, formerly known as food
stamps, which subsidizes grocer-
ies for nearly 42 million Ameri-
cans each month. President
Biden used that authority in 2021
to boost funding by the largest
amount in the program’s history.
Now Congress is locked in
negotiations over whether to
send money to food producers or
food consumers, as the current
farm bill is set to expire Sept 30.
Farm lobbyists say the farm
bill already dedicates much fund-
ing to nutrition programs and
farmers are struggling.
“It’s really that farm safety net
that’s been left behind,” said Joe
Gilson, director of governmental
affairs for the American Farm
Bureau Federation. “Farmers are
just asking for an increase for the
reference price, a modest in-
crease, that can address some of
the concerns that they’ve seen in
their production over the past
five or six years.”
A bill from House Agriculture
Committee Chairman Glenn
Thompson (R-Pa.) would raise
price guarantees for 14 commod-
ity crops. The proposal raises
“reference prices,” the federally
guaranteed minimum price, for
those products by up to 20 per-
cent. It also includes a 15 percent
crop insurance subsidy for new
farmers, up from the current 10
percent; those policies can pro-
tect specialty crops and livestock
that lack commodity price pro-
tections.
“It’s risk management. It pro-
tects against market volatility.
Crop insurance protects against
weather,” Thompson said. “What
we put together is really what the
American farmer is asking for.”
To balance that spending, Re-
publican proposals would pre-
vent the White House from flex-
ing power to increase future food
assistance. Lawmakers also plan
eZ re
“American tax dollars are funding this abuse,” said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, which issued a report on problems at youth residential treatment facilities.
PTSD, and a loss of self.”
Christina “Chrissy” Clark-
Atkins said she was assigned to a
facility where she received “no
real mental health care” for
severe emotional and
psychological stress. After being
called a liar by staff, then refusing
their instructions, “I, at 16 and 95
pounds, was suddenly yanked off
my bed and thrown face down
and laid on by 3 adults. Then
more came piling through the
door,” Clark-Atkins wrote. “I had
about 5-6 adults by the end fully
holding me down and pressing
their collective weight on me.
Then, I was suddenly stuck with a
needle and injected with
something into my hip, which I
later found out was likely
Thorazine, to sedate me.”
Government Accountability
Office and Finance panel staffers
could not provide the amount of
A woman in Binghamton, N.Y., calculates the cost of her groceries to make sure she’s within her monthly budget. House Republicans want
to scrap a law that lets presidents increase the benefits of SNAP, which subsidizes groceries for nearly 42 million Americans each month.
to cut funds the Agriculture De-
partment has traditionally used
to help small farmers survive
market shocks. The GOP propos-
als, advanced by Thompson and
Sen. John Boozman (Ark.), would
not cut SNAP benefits, which
would continue to receive annual
automatic cost-of-living adjust-
ments to keep up with inflation.
But the bill would prevent the
president from recalculating
benefits outside of budgetary
limits.
That would prevent $30 billion
in future food assistance expan-
sions, according to the Congres-
sional Budget Office, a red line in
negotiations for Democrats and
anti-poverty groups.
“The farm bill has a great
responsibility to the health and
viability of our agricultural econ-
omy and also authorizes the na-
tion’s foremost and effective anti-
hunger programs. It shouldn’t be
a choice between those two,” said
Vince Hall, chief government re-
lations officer for Feeding Ameri-
ca, a leading anti-hunger advoca-
cy group. “We have a responsibili-
ty to do both as a country.”
Republicans have countered
that without these changes, a
future GOP president could use
the same authority Biden lever-
aged to boost SNAP benefits to
unilaterally cut them.
“They could abuse it signifi-
cantly,” Thompson said.
Now, the farm bill’s future is in
jeopardy. Previous farm bills have
passed with bipartisan support
from nutrition-conscious urban
Democrats and farm-focused ru-
taxpayer money going to the
facilities, but the committee
estimated that the tab is in the
billions, and Wyden said some
RTFs receive more than $1,200
per day per child from Medicaid.
“We’re talking about child
welfare dollars,” Wyden said
during an interview, as he
complained that “federal
oversight has significant gaps and
deficiencies.”
He expects his legislation,
which he has not yet introduced,
to seek improved health and
safety standards, oversight, and
enforcement, as well as more
resources for community-based
services.
When Wyden cited several
companies in his opening
remarks, he singled out Marc
Miller, president and CEO of
Universal Health Services (UHS),
for refusing the committee’s
ral Republicans with a tacit
agreement: Money shifted from
one side’s priority won’t be used
to fund a priority for the other.
But the spending dispute over
food assistance and commodity
prices threatens to fray that alli-
ance.
Using SNAP funds to pay for
higher price floors is “a trade-off
that none of us Democrats are
willing to make,” Sen. Cory Book-
er (D-N.J.) told The Washington
Post. Booker said Congress
should address SNAP and refer-
ence prices as independent is-
sues.
The standoff could force law-
makers to extend the current
farm bill again, either to consider
legislation after November’s elec-
tions or after a new Congress
takes office in January. Without a
farm bill, U.S. commodity and
dairy markets could face massive
upheaval.
Reference prices are the main
method policymakers use to keep
agricultural commodity prices
stable and help withstand global
shocks. U.S. growers compete
with international producers in
an industry that experiences
more price fluctuation than
many other goods-producing in-
dustries, economists say. Favor-
able soybean growing conditions
in Brazil, for example, could tank
the price U.S. growers can de-
mand for their product. But by
the same token, a drought in
India could boost American rice
export prices.
If the market price falls below
the reference, taxpayer dollars
the washington post
Demetrius Freeman/tHe WasHington Post
invitation to testify. In an email to
The Washington Post, UHS —
which operates facilities around
the nation — said the committee’s
report “is incomplete and
misleading and provides an
inaccurate depiction of the care
and treatment provided” by
extrapolating “certain incidents
and survey reports into a false
narrative. … We vehemently
dispute this characterization of
our facilities.”
In a letter to Wyden declining
the invitation, a UHS lawyer said
the company provided 12,000
pages of documents responding
to committee requests. UHS was
concerned, the letter added, that
the panel was creating “an
incomplete picture” and that the
hearing “will not provide the
opportunity to fully respond to
complex situations.”
But in his remarks at the
pay agricultural producers a sub-
sidy to make up the difference.
That smooths over some of the
price volatility, agro-economists
say, and can help keep farmers
afloat after a rough growing sea-
son.
Those floors have not in-
creased since 2014, and inflation
has increased dramatically since
then, essentially leaving pro-
ducers with a lower price guaran-
tee.
But price guarantees only kick
in for a subset of commodity
farmers. Producers are eligible
for the guarantees if they farm on
“base acres,” land set aside in
1985 for crop-specific farming.
Congress has gradually added
acres to the allotment, but the
designation only covered 244
million acres of the United States’
879 million acres of farmland in
2023. So reference prices tend to
mainly help larger industrial
farm operations, which over time
have consolidated ownership of
much of those acres.
“It’s a lot of money going to a
very small number of farmers,
representing a very small num-
ber of counties in the U.S., who
already are receiving significant
payments anyway from this pro-
gram,” said Joelle Johnson, depu-
ty director at the Center for
Science in the Public Interest.
The advocacy organization En-
vironmental Working Group, for
instance, found in 2021 that the
largest 10 percent of farms re-
ceived 81 percent of reference
price payouts. The largest 20
percent received 91 percent of the
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hearing, Wyden said it is
“overwhelmingly … clear that the
operating model for these
facilities is to warehouse as many
kids as possible while keeping
costs low to maximize profits.
This means intentional
understaffing with people who
have zero experience or
qualifications to provide the care
these children need. … It also
means facility conditions are
often unsanitary and dangerous,
and feel more like a prison than a
safe place to help a child get
through a difficult time. In these
conditions, children can’t get the
care they need, like high-quality
and individualized treatment.”
Shawn Coughlin, president
and CEO of the National
Association for Behavioral
Healthcare, a trade group for the
facilities, supported his member
companies, saying, “The
comprehensive information,
statistics, and insights they
provided were not reflected at all
in the Committee’s one-sided
report. The report describes all
residential treatment facilities
(RTFs) as the same, and it fails to
acknowledge that our members’
RTFs offer clinical treatment
programs and educational
services that have helped
thousands of kids who need
behavioral health care services —
and, in many cases, saved lives.”
Wyden does not claim all
operators are equally guilty.
“The industry is a multibillion-
dollar sector … and they get
billions of taxpayer dollars in
Medicaid, child welfare,” he said.
“These kids ought to get good-
quality care. And yet in too many
instances … not in every facility,
but in too many instances, they’re
getting abuse rather than good-
quality care.”
Carolyn Van Houten/tHe WasHington Post
subsidies.
Congress has also relaxed rules
about which crops farmers must
grow to claim subsidies. Legisla-
tion in 1996 divorced crop re-
quirements from price support,
encouraging growers to “farm the
market” instead of “farming the
reference price.” Producers no
longer have to match the crop
they grow on a base acre to the
subsidy they receive.
For example, a farm can grow
more price-stable soybeans on
land set aside for long-grain rice,
which regularly receives govern-
ment support. That farm would
get subsidies based on the rice
market, even though it’s growing
soy.
A Senate companion bill has
yet to be released.
To nutrition advocates, a new
investment in commodity pro-
ducers feels like it comes at the
expense of families in financial
straits, said Johnson from the
Center for Science in the Public
Interest. Biden’s SNAP benefit
boost wasn’t an overzealous ex-
pansion, said Hall of Feeding
America; the move just helped
food assistance keep pace with
the cost of a healthy diet.
“We all accept that SNAP ben-
efits should be adjusted for infla-
tion,” he said. “And we have to be
equally accepting of the fact that
nutritional guidance, societal
norms around food, the availabil-
ity of food products, the way in
which we prepare food are also
things which should be account-
ed for to ensure that SNAP recipi-
ents are not losing ground.”
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Rehab of Alamo sparks fight over portrayal of slavery’s role in battle
BY E MMANUEL F ELTON
Nearly 200 years after the his-
toric battle, Texans are still fight-
ing over how exactly to remember
the Alamo.
Officials in San Antonio are
preparing to break ground on a
$550 million project that will
transform the site of the 300-
year-old former Spanish mission.
In addition to restoring the centu-
ries-old church and convent, a
new 100,000-square-foot visitor
center and museum, decked out
with a 4D theater and a rooftop
restaurant, is being built across
the street.
But amid all the fanfare, one
question has plagued the project
for years: Will it fairly and accu-
rately portray the role slavery
played in the Texas war for inde-
pendence against Mexico?
For many in the state, the Ala-
mo is a sacred place where brave
revolutionaries were slaughtered
by the Mexican army in 1836. For
generations, the battle has been
used as shorthand for Texas
pride. That is how the Alamo
should continue to be remem-
bered, some officials say.
If the new museum focuses too
much on slavery or other unsa-
vory aspects of Texas history, it
may deter visitors to one of the
state’s most popular tourist at-
tractions, Jerry E. Patterson, a
Republican who served as Texas
Land commissioner from 2003 to
2015, said. “If we make it a mu-
seum about all the bad things and
whatever, nobody’s going to go
there,” he said.
But some historians say the
story of the Alamo is more com-
plicated than the legend por-
trayed in movies and it’s time to
recognize that preserving slavery,
which had been banned in most
of Mexico, influenced many of
those fighting for independence.
Presenting the full history is im-
portant to understanding the
state’s current racial inequalities,
they say.
“Slavery was maybe not the
spark of the revolution, but it was
the underlying tension that could
not be reconciled,” Chris Tomlin-
son, co-author of “Forget the Ala-
mo: The Rise and Fall of an
American Myth,” said.
The fight over the Alamo
comes as the story of America’s
racial history, from slavery to Re-
construction, is the subject of a
fierce political battle in Texas and
around the country. In 2021, Tex-
as lawmakers passed legislation
restricting how public school
teachers could discuss race and
racism in American society. After
the New York Times’ 1619 Project
launched a national debate over
the legacy of slavery and its role in
the nation’s founding, Texas law-
makers established the 1836 Proj-
ect, a nod to the year of the
historic battle at the Alamo, “to
promote patriotic education and
increase awareness of the Texas
values.”
The job of the Alamo Trust,
which is overseeing the renova-
tion project, and its museum
planning committee is to arrive at
the truth, said Kate Rogers, exec-
utive director of the nonprofit.
“We’re at a time in our country
where history can be a hotly de-
bated topic and we’re a historic
site so some conflict is to be
expected,” Rogers said.
In 2023, Texas Land Commis-
sioner Dawn Buckingham (R)
rode into office promising to pro-
tect the image of the Alamo as a
“Shrine of Texas Liberty,” against
Judge throws out Giuliani’s bankruptcy case, opening path for asset seizure
BY H OLLY B AILEY
A federal judge in New York on
Friday threw out Rudy Giuliani’s
bankruptcy case, paving the way
for a litany of creditors, including
two former Georgia election work-
ers who won a $148 million defa-
mation claim against him, to pur-
sue and potentially seize his as-
sets.
The decision by U.S. Bankrupt-
cy Judge Sean Lane in the South-
ern District of New York comes
almost seven months after Giu-
liani sought bankruptcy protec-
tion after he was ordered to im-
mediately pay millions in damag-
es to Ruby Freeman and Shaye
Moss, two Georgia women he
falsely accused of helping to steal
the 2020 presidential election.
In his 22-page order, Lane cited
Giuliani’s “continued failure to
meet his reporting obligations
and provide the financial trans-
parency required of a debtor in
possession” and called his behav-
ior “troubling.” It restricts Giu-
liani from seeking bankruptcy
protection for one year.
Ted Goodman, a spokesman for
Politics & the Nation
A member of the San Antonio Living History Association waits to deliver William B. Travis’s “Victory or Death” letter during a historical reenactment at the Alamo in San
Antonio in 2016. The site is about to undergo a $550 million restoration project that will add a new visitor center and museum.
what she described as a left-wing
attempt to rewrite the state’s his-
tory. In his endorsement of Buck-
ingham, former president Donald
Trump said she was running “to
protect the great legacy of Texas
including defending the Alamo
which, like all other amazing in-
stitutions, is under siege.”
Among Buckingham’s first ac-
tions in office was to request
nearly $400 million from state
lawmakers for the then-flagging
Alamo makeover. The site, the
most visited destination in the
state with about 2 million visitors
a year, hasn’t been updated for
decades and is need of major
renovations, supporters of the
project have said.
“In the past, an average visit to
the Alamo was only minutes
long,” Buckingham said in a state-
ment. “We’re ensuring a visit to
the Alamo is worthy of the signifi-
cance of the events that took place
there.”
Last year, lawmakers approved
$400 million to restore the site,
which was built in 1724 for Span-
ish missionaries converting local
Indigenous people to Christiani-
ty, and construct a new visitor
center and museum, which are all
scheduled to be finished in 2027.
But even with bipartisan sup-
port for the plan, the project has
repeatedly been drawn into the
state’s culture war over history.
It was nearly derailed after the
Alamo Trust endorsed a proposal
to move the Alamo Cenotaph, a
60-foot-tall monument honoring
those who fought in the famous
battle.
During Black Lives Matter pro-
tests in 2020, the Cenotaph was
spray painted with the words
“white supremacy,” prompting
armed members of This is Texas
Freedom Force, a conservative
group that the FBI calls an “ex-
tremist militia,” to stand guard
Giuliani, called the decision “yet
another example of the effort to
punish” Giuliani. “We will contin-
ue to pursue justice and we are
confident that — in the long run —
our system of justice will be re-
stored and the mayor will be total-
ly vindicated,” he said in an email.
Lane’s written ruling came
amid claims by Giuliani’s credi-
tors that the former New York
mayor and personal lawyer to for-
mer president Donald Trump had
used the proceedings to hide de-
tails about his assets and avoid
paying the former election work-
ers.
Friday’s order would allow
Freeman and Moss and other
creditors to pursue legal remedies
to collect money owed to them by
Giuliani. It also allows other pend-
ing lawsuits against the former
mayor that had been frozen by the
bankruptcy proceeding to re-
sume, including defamation suits
by the voting machine companies
Dominion Voting Systems and
Smartmatic and a sexual harass-
ment and wage theft claim by for-
mer Giuliani associate Nicole
Dunphy.
over the monument.
The Trust and city leaders ulti-
mately agreed not to move it.
There was also a fight over the
Woolworth Building, one of three
buildings the Trust purchased to
house the new museum. Some
Black San Antonio residents orga-
nized to save the building, which
was a key site in the city’s integra-
tion of lunch counters during the
1960s civil rights movement. To
end the dispute, the Alamo Trust
agreed to add a civil rights exhibit
to the museum.
The latest fight has been over a
planned statue of a man named
Joe.
Most aspects of Joe’s story are
undisputed. He was an enslaved
Black man who was at the Alamo
during the famous 1836 battle
with his owner, William B. Travis,
a commanding officer among the
Texas revolutionaries. As one of
just a handful of survivors, Joe
has gone down in history as the
battle’s key eyewitness. When tell-
ing the tale he repeatedly referred
to being armed during the con-
flict, according to several histori-
cal accounts.
What divided the Alamo Mu-
seum Planning Committee, over-
seen by the Alamo Trust, was
whether Joe’s statue should show
the enslaved man with a musket.
Displaying Joe armed would
falsely give the impression that he
and other enslaved Black people
fought freely for Texas independ-
ence and their continued bond-
age, some Black committee mem-
bers argued.
“If his contribution to this bat-
tle was he told the story, let’s show
him doing that,” said Deborah
Omowale Jarmon, one of nearly
30 members of the planning com-
mittee.
“But the next thing we know,
Joe has a gun now and they’re
saying he’s an Alamo defender,”
All are part of a committee of
“unsecured creditors” that had
sought relief in the bankruptcy
case.
A committee of other Giuliani
creditors had pressed for the
bankruptcy case to continue and
for a trustee to be appointed to
oversee Giuliani’s finances. They
argued it would be the only way to
get a full and accurate picture of
Giuliani’s cash and assets after
months in which the former may-
or filed inconsistent and incom-
plete financial statements and
failed to turn over financial infor-
mation about his businesses and
other holdings.
But in his Friday ruling, Lane
rejected that proposal, saying
there was “little reason to con-
clude” that Giuliani’s “uncoopera-
tive conduct will change” even
with the appointment of an out-
side trustee.
“Mr. Giuliani has failed to pro-
vide an accurate and complete
picture of his financial affairs in
the six months that this case has
been pending,” the judge wrote.
“Transparency into Mr. Giuliani’s
finances has proven to be an elu-
EZ rE
said Jarmon, who runs the San
Antonio African American Com-
munity Archive and Museum. “To
think that an enslaved person is
there willfully fighting for Texas
independence is delusional.”
But other committee members
argued that including the musket
was an important part of adher-
ing to the historical record. Joe
himself told others that he was
armed, though his motivations
for carrying a weapon were un-
clear, Patterson, the former land
commissioner, said.
“By his own words, Joe carried
a musket during the battle,” said
Patterson, who also serves on the
museum planning committee.
“The question is what was that
for? Was it self preservation, or
was he fighting for the Texas
Revolution? We will never know
the answer, but it’s a wonderful
question.”
The committee’s meetings are
private and the Trust requires
members to sign nondisclosure
agreements. News of the fight
over the statue of Joe only became
public when Jarmon wrote a let-
ter to the San Antonio Express
News saying that she was “serving
under protest” after the commit-
tee initially voted to feature Joe
armed in his statue.
Nondisclosure agreements are
common in museum planning
and the goal is not to limit trans-
parency but to offer a space where
members can speak freely, Rog-
ers, the Trust’s executive director,
said.
The planning committee re-
cently reached a compromise.
The bronze statue, which was
modeled after a local college stu-
dent, will not show the enslaved
man armed. Instead, he will be
depicted in his role as a survivor
of the battle and an eyewitness.
That compromise will honor
Joe while remaining historically
sive goal.”
Citing suspicions that Giuliani’s
stonewalling was an attempt to
hide money, lawyers for the credi-
tors hired investigators made up
of former CIA and FBI officials to
look for hidden assets. They
sought to question individuals
who Giuliani has done business
with. And they have suggested
they could sue parties that Giu-
liani claims owe him money as
part of their effort to recover debts
— potentially including Trump.
In a February court hearing,
Giuliani claimed Trump still owes
him “about” $2 million in unpaid
legal fees related to his work seek-
ing to overturn Trump’s 2020 elec-
tion loss — though he suggested
that debt is with the Trump cam-
paign or the Republican National
Committee. But in a Feb. 27 court
filing, Giuliani noted a possible
claim against Trump personally
for unpaid legal fees.
In dismissing the case, Lane
cited the potential challenges of
trying to recoup fees Giuliani says
he is owed by Trump and the RNC,
describing the investigation and
potential recovery as “complex
accurate, Rogers said.
The Trust and the committee
are walking a political tightrope.
San Antonio and surrounding
Bexar County are a blue dot in a
sea of red in Texas. About 60
percent of the county’s residents
are Latino, 30 percent are White
and 7 percent are Black, accord-
ing to census data. President
Biden won it by a nearly 20-point
margin in 2020.
Most of the project’s $550 mil-
lion budget is being covered by
the millions approved by the Re-
publican-controlled legislature.
State Republicans have called for
the new museum to focus narrow-
ly on the famous battle.
The city of San Antonio and
other Democratic-controlled lo-
cal governments are providing
about $60 million for the effort,
and say the new museum should
explore topics like the area’s Na-
tive American history and the
role of slavery in sparking the
Texas Revolution.
“The staff at the Alamo have
expressed to me that they want to
deal with controversial issues,
but I don’t think they’re free to do
so,” said Tommy Calvert (D), a
commissioner in Bexar County.
“Much like we’re in a heart and
soul battle for America, we’re in a
heart and soul battle for Texas,
and the Alamo is at the center of
that.”
Patterson acknowledges that
Texas has long held on to a sani-
tized version of history. Growing
up, his view of the Alamo and
Texas independence was influ-
enced by movies like Disney’s
“Davy Crockett: King of the Wild
Frontier” and the 1960 film “The
Alamo,” starring John Wayne, he
said.
“The bottom line is for about
100 years, Texas taught, believed
and supported a narrative of his-
tory that was not completely fac-
matters with uncertain out-
comes.”
In court documents, Giuliani
has listed roughly $153 million in
debts to at least 20 people and
businesses, including Moss and
Freeman. A list of top creditors
filed in February said Giuliani
owes more than $3.7 million in
unpaid legal fees to three law
firms — though he is disputing
some of those bills — and more
than $1 million in state and feder-
al taxes.
The former mayor and federal
prosecutor has claimed about $11
million in assets — including an
estimated $5.6 million New York
apartment and a Palm Beach, Fla.,
condo he has valued at $3.5 mil-
lion. While Giuliani has put his
New York property on the market,
he has so far successfully resisted
selling his Florida home, with one
of his lawyers claiming the sale
could render the former mayor
“homeless.”
A financial disclosure report
filed last month said Giuliani had
less than $100,000 in the bank at
the end of May and was funding
his living expenses through a rap-
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tually accurate and did not in-
clude all players that needed to be
included,” he said.
But some people are trying to
force an overcorrection, Patter-
son said.
“The undercurrent here is not
so much about the Alamo, it’s
about those who believe that the
1836 rebellion of Texas was about
slavery and candidly, that is”
wrong, he said.
Texans fighting for independ-
ence didn’t believe slavery was at
risk, Patterson said, noting that
other non-slave Mexican states
were also in rebellion. The Texas
Declaration of Independence did
not mention slavery among its
grievances, he notes.
Though, Patterson said, the
Texas constitution, which was
written at the same time, “was
about as proslavery as you can
get.”
But not all historians agree.
Slavery was regularly under at-
tack at the time and a key issue for
those fighting for Texas inde-
pendence, said Tomlinson, co-au-
thor of “Forget the Alamo.”
There’s still a long battle ahead
to ensure slavery is incorporated
into the story of the Alamo as
plans for the renovation and the
new museum continue, some
planning committee members
and local officials said.
“The genie is out of the bottle,
they’re not going to be able to put
this story out there without peo-
ple knowing that there’s another
version of what really happened,”
Mario Marcel Salas, a retired po-
litical science professor and au-
thor of “The Alamo: A Cradle of
Lies, Slavery, and White Suprem-
acy,” said.
“Eventually,” said Salas, a na-
tive of San Antonio, “maybe not in
my lifetime, but eventually, San
Antonio will be ready to give up
the myth of the Alamo.”
idly diminishing retirement ac-
count. But creditors have repeat-
edly complained that Giuliani has
not filed a complete picture of his
net worth, as is required in bank-
ruptcy proceedings.
Both creditors and the judge
criticized Giuliani for blowing off
court deadlines and filing incom-
plete and inconsistent monthly fi-
nancial disclosures that have
raised questions about his spend-
ing and income. In response, Giu-
liani’s lawyers have cited adminis-
trative struggles, including prob-
lems hiring an accountant.
“Since day one, Giuliani has re-
garded this case and the bank-
ruptcy process as a joke, hiding
behind the facade of an elderly,
doddering man who cannot even
remember the address for his sec-
ond multimillion dollar home and
claims impending homelessness if
he must sell that second multimil-
lion dollar home,” Philip C. Dub-
lin, an attorney for the committee
of creditors, wrote in a July 8 court
filing that accused Giuliani of
treating the bankruptcy process
“with utter disrespect and without
accountability.”
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Biden, in fiery speech, promises to shine a ‘spotlight’ on Trump’s missteps
biden from A1
of assaulting her years ago. “many
people understand the word
‘rape.’ ”
Biden doubled down on his in-
sistence that he would remain in
the presidential race, reiterating
that Democratic primary voters
had chosen him and complaining
that “elites” were trying to undo
their will. “You’ve probably no-
ticed there’s been a lot of specula-
tion lately: ‘What’s Joe Biden go-
ing to do? Is he going to stay in the
race? He’s going to drop out,’ ”
Biden said. “Here’s my answer: I
am running, and we’re going to
win.”
Biden cited an NPr/PBS News-
Hour/marist poll that found the
presidential race virtually un-
changed after the June 27 presi-
dential debate, in which Biden
repeatedly made verbal stumbles,
prompting a growing number of
Democrats to call on him to end
his bid for reelection and allow
someone else to head the ticket.
“I’m the only Democrat or re-
publican who has beaten Donald
Trump ever. And I’m going to beat
him again,” Biden said. “I know
him. Donald Trump is a loser.”
Still, the speech came as Biden
faced a continuing drip of state-
ments from Democrats urging
him to step aside. Two more law-
makers joined the calls for him to
end his candidacy friday, under-
lining that this week’s high-stakes
news conference had not
squelched concerns in the party
that he would struggle to defeat
Trump.
The two defectors — reps. Brit-
tany Pettersen (D-Colo.) and mike
Levin (D-Calif.) — joined three of
their Democratic colleagues who
had asked Biden to pull out Thurs-
day night after the news confer-
ence concluded. In all, 21 House
members had urged the president
to reconsider his candidacy as of
late friday — about 10 percent of
all House Democrats — as well as
one senator, Peter Welch of Ver-
mont.
“Joe Biden saved our country
once, and I’m joining the growing
number of people in my district
and across the country to ask him
to do it again,” she said friday
morning. “Please pass the torch to
one of our many capable Demo-
cratic leaders so we have the best
chance to defeat Donald Trump.”
Schumer maintains his devotion to Biden but leaves plenty of room for doubt
BY L IZ G OODWIN
AND L EIGH A NN C ALDWELL
Senate majority Leader
Charles E. Schumer has been
firmly repeating one simple
phrase when asked about wheth-
er President Biden should step
aside from his campaign: “I’m
with Joe.”
But behind the scenes, the New
York Democrat has left himself
plenty of room to maneuver as he
faces immense pressure from
some Democratic senators and
donors to convey a message to
Biden to abandon his campaign
after his faltering debate per-
formance two weeks ago. A
Thursday evening news confer-
ence in which Biden elaborated
on foreign policy questions,
though stumbled over some an-
swers, hadn’t publicly changed
much as of midday friday.
“I think Chuck Schumer’s in a
unique position,” said Sen. Alex
Padilla (D-Calif.), one of Biden’s
loudest supporters in the Senate,
when asked if he believes Schu-
mer wants Biden to stay in the
race. “He uniquely among Senate
Democrats is also working to en-
sure we maintain the majority
this November. In my opinion,
those two things are not at odds.
… The way Chuck Schumer thinks
about it might be slightly differ-
ent.”
A naturally cautious leader,
Schumer didn’t publicly com-
ment following Biden’s news con-
ference. And unlike House Demo-
cratic leader Hakeem Jeffries
(N.Y.), he did not go to the White
House to personally deliver a
message to the president about
where his members stood. But as
time wears on and Biden’s politi-
cal crisis continues, there are
signs that Schumer’s stance may
be shifting.
In a private lunch Tuesday, two
of Schumer’s most vulnerable in-
cumbents up for reelection —
Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-ohio)
and Jon Tester (D-mont.) — blunt-
ly told the caucus that Biden
would lose to former president
Donald Trump, according to
three people familiar the meet-
ing. one senator made the point
that even if all of Democratic
incumbents won their tough rac-
es, that would still only produce a
50-50 Senate, which means re-
publicans would have the majori-
Petterson was followed later in
the day by Levin. “making this
statement is not easy,” said Levin.
“I have deep respect for President
Biden’s five-plus decades of public
service … But I believe the time
has come for President Biden to
pass the torch.”
House minority Leader
Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), in a let-
ter to colleagues friday, said he
had met privately with Biden the
previous night to discuss the elec-
tion and convey the sentiments of
his fellow Democratic lawmakers.
Jeffries did not specify what he
had told the president or how
Biden had responded, but his let-
ter notably did not urge Biden to
stay in the race or say that House
Democrats were behind his candi-
dacy.
At friday’s rally, Biden signaled
his intent to lean harder into the
argument that whatever his own
flaws, Trump is beyond the pale of
American politics. He contended
that Trump has escaped scrutiny
for his numerous liabilities: a
criminal conviction, a judicial
declaration that he is civilly liable
of sexual assault, the loss of a
fraud case and ongoing investiga-
tions into his attempt to over-
throw the 2020 election.
“They hammer me because I
sometimes confuse names. I say
that’s Charlie instead of Bill,”
Biden said. “But guess what? Don-
ald Trump has gotten a free pass.”
He recalled that Trump had mixed
up his former republican oppo-
nent, former South Carolina Gov.
Nikki Haley, with former Demo-
cratic house speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Today we’re going to shine a
spotlight on Donald Trump,”
Biden said. “The press so far
hasn’t. I think they’re going to
soon. We’re going to say who he is.”
About 30 minutes into his re-
marks, Biden laid out a vision for
the first 100 days of a second term,
a response to criticism that he has
been vague about what he would
do if reelected. Nearly all of the
president’s priorities would re-
quire passage by Congress, in-
cluding making Roe v. Wade fed-
eral law, signing the John Lewis
Voting rights Act into law, ex-
panding and strengthening Social
Security and medicare and ban-
ning assault weapons.
The president’s impassioned
delivery was in a sense its own
pitch for Biden’s continued candi-
ty if Biden is ousted from the
White House.
“President Biden’s bad debate
performance raised serious ques-
tions about whether he’s up for
the job for the next four years,”
Tester said in a statement after
the meeting. “He needs to prove
to the American people, and me,
that he can do it.”
Nonetheless, Schumer is urg-
ing senators to be cautious and
hold their fire as he guides them
through a politically perilous mo-
ment with an unclear endgame.
But he is also taking in public and
private polling and data showing
Biden’s effect on key swing state
Senate races, according to people
familiar with his thinking. It has
all left some in the Senate — as
well as some donors — with the
impression that the majority
leader is keeping the door open to
a change at the top of the ticket.
Schumer is a skilled fundraiser
who helped build and maintain
the Democratic Senate majority.
Now he has to figure out how to
preserve it — or as much of it as he
can — with Senate Democrats and
challengers already wary of being
dragged down by Biden in key
states where they are outperform-
ing him.
At times, Democratic senators
have not been exactly clear where
he stands on the path forward for
the party. Schumer has mostly
been in listening mode, they said.
The usually press-happy politi-
cian has avoided the spotlight on
Biden’s fate as well, as he finds
himself in the uncomfortable po-
sition of no longer being closely
aligned with a president who he’s
worked hand-in-glove with over
the past four years to pass an
ambitious liberal legislative agen-
da.
“With something as complex as
this situation, his inclination is
not to stake out a bold position
and then cajole the caucus to
come along,” said matt House, a
former top aide to Schumer. “He
likes to listen to his members very
carefully, likes to facilitate discus-
sion, and he prefers caucus unity
wherever possible.”
Schumer’s top priority is pro-
tecting the five vulnerable Demo-
cratic senators running for reelec-
tion, and that’s made him wary of
rushing into action on Biden, sev-
eral people close to him have said.
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dacy, an implicit response to Dem-
ocrats who have worried he no
longer has the vigor or forceful-
ness for a hard-fought campaign.
But the combination of Biden’s
determination and his fellow
Democrats’ doubts left the land-
scape where it has been for some
time: A Democratic Party deeply
divided over the path forward,
with the prospect of a second
Trump presidency, which most
Democrats consider catastrophic,
hanging over every move.
The president also continued
his behind-the-scenes effort to
shore up his support, joining a
virtual meeting with BoLD PAC, a
group affiliated with the Congres-
sional Hispanic Caucus. Biden
also delivered remarks and took
questions during a virtual meet-
ing with leaders from the Con-
gressional Asian Pacific American
Caucus and members of that
bloc’s political arm.
on the way to the rally, Biden
stopped by a campaign organizing
event in a Detroit suburb, joking
twice about his age and ending his
14-minute remarks by reassuring
organizers that he’s “okay.”
“That’s why I’m running to fin-
ish this job. There’s more to do. I
know I’m only 41,” Biden said. “I
Senate Majority Leader Charles e. Schumer (d-n.Y.) in Washington on Thursday. behind the scenes,
there are signs that his position may be shifting on whether President biden should stay in the race.
Democrats began floating replac-
ing Biden with Vice President
Harris, Schumer encouraged sen-
ators to wait for more data before
reacting publicly.
“It’s a more complicated calcu-
lus for him because you have to
balance what the top of the ticket
is — Biden or Harris — and then
you have to go race by race,” said
one person close to Senate leader-
ship, who — like others in the
article — spoke on the condition
of anonymity to discuss private
conversations. “He wants the ben-
efit of clarity instead of the fog of
war.”
Schumer obtained data points
that show Biden’s shrinking path
to 270 electoral votes after the
debate, according to three people
familiar with his thinking.
But it takes more time to get
enough information from swing
states to analyze how taking the
dramatic step of changing a presi-
dential ticket less than four
months before an election would
impact different Senate incum-
bents in diverse states.
Christie roberts, the Demo-
cratic Senatorial Campaign Com-
mittee’s executive director, told
Bloomberg News that internal
data since the debate shows Sen-
promise you I’m okay.” Earlier in
his remarks, as he touted his ad-
ministration’s accomplishments
on health care, the economy and
manufacturing, he joked that he
was “270 years old.”
rep. Debbie Dingell (D-mich.)
said that despite troubling polls
for Democrats in michigan, a state
Biden almost certainly must win
to retake the White House, the
state remains “competitive.”
Some Democrats said they
were looking forward to Trump’s
imminent announcement of a
running mate and to the republi-
can National Convention taking
place next week, hoping that
would shift some of the nation’s
focus to the GoP’s own vulnerabil-
ities, including Trump’s own mis-
statements and often rambling
speeches.
Biden’s aides hoped the speech
would mark another step in
Biden’s effort to recover from his
stumbling debate performance,
following a news conference
Thursday when he displayed a
sophisticated command of for-
eign policy and global economics
but continued to make verbal mis-
steps.
Early on in the question-and-
answer session, for example, he
ate races “holding steady or even
moved a little in our direction in
the last two weeks,” indicating
that voters are prepared to split
their ticket between races for
president or Senate.
Initial data had suggested sen-
ators in montana, ohio and Ne-
vada would not be helped by hav-
ing Harris instead of Biden run-
ning at the top of the ticket, two
people close to Senate leadership
said. The political situation is in-
credibly fluid, however, and it will
take time to see the full picture.
“I don’t think anything he does
right now to add to the panic is
useful,” a second person in con-
stant contact with senators and
aides said.
The majority leader is in fre-
quent contact with White House
Chief of Staff Jeff Zients and ad-
viser Steve ricchetti but has only
spoken directly with the presi-
dent once since the debate, ac-
cording to a person familiar with
the outreach. Congressional
Democrats have complained
about the lack of contact from
Bidenworld in the debate’s im-
mediate aftermath, though com-
munication has increased. There
is a sense that the White House
and Biden’s top aides are too
Sarah rice For The WaShingTon PoST
mistakenly referred to Vice Presi-
dent Harris as “Vice President
Trump,” a verbal slip that elicited
audible gasps in the room and
frustration from already-nervous
Democrats.
He took issue with a report that
he had told a group of supporters
he needed to end his days at 8 p.m.
“What I said was, instead of my
every day starting at 7 and going to
bed at midnight, it would be
smarter for me to pace myself a
little more,” Biden said. “Instead
of starting a fundraiser at 9
o’clock, start it at 8 o’clock —
people get to go home by 10
o’clock. That’s what I’m talking
about.”
Biden also delivered lengthy,
complex answers to a range of
foreign policy questions and ar-
gued forcefully that he is the most
qualified person to defeat Trump
and govern the country. Aides
seized on those answers, saying
they should lay to rest any ques-
tions that may have arisen after
the debate about the president’s
intellectual capacity and mental
agility.
The president’s visit to michi-
gan, however, highlighted an-
other key political vulnerability,
one that was bedeviling his cam-
alliSon robberT/The WaShingTon PoST
isolated from the reality of the
situation, Hill Democrats said.
Biden has also made it clear
that only hard data will convince
him to leave the race, not the
opinions of Hill Democrats, Sen.
Chris Coons (D-Del.), the cam-
paign’s co-chair, has told his col-
leagues. And Democrats are
aware that ultimately the deci-
sion to step aside is Biden’s to
make.
At the news conference, Biden
said he would only drop out if the
data says that “there’s no way” he
can win.
“They’re not saying that,”
Biden said. “No poll says that.”
So far, just one senator, Peter
Welch (D-Vt.), has called on Biden
to step aside — although a majori-
ty of the caucus is concerned the
president cannot win in 2024,
according to multiple senators
and aides.
As donors and senators bom-
bard Schumer with their con-
cerns, he’s urged them to directly
contact the White House, rather
than offering to be their messen-
ger, according to two people fa-
miliar with the conversations.
Donors are more focused on
Schumer’s expensive battle to
save his narrow majority. Angsty
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paign well before the June debate:
Arab Americans, muslims and lib-
erals deeply angered by his re-
sponse to Israel’s war in Gaza.
many have said they will withhold
their votes because of his failure to
call for a permanent cease-fire
and cut off U.S. military aid to
Israel.
more than 38,000 Palestinians
have died in the enclave in the
past nine months, according to
the Gaza Health ministry. Israel
launched a punishing military as-
sault in Gaza after Hamas mili-
tants crossed the border into Isra-
el on oct. 7, killing 1,200 people
and taking about 250 hostage.
michigan is home to the coun-
try’s largest Arab American popu-
lation, with about 300,000 people
who claim ancestry from the mid-
dle East or North Africa. michi-
gan’s Arab and muslim communi-
ty overwhelmingly supported
Biden in 2020, when he won the
state by 154,000 votes.
Abdullah Hammoud, the may-
or of Dearborn, mich. — where
Arab Americans make up the ma-
jority of the population — said he
has not spoken to White House
officials for several months about
his constituents’ concerns over
the war in Gaza. Even as Gaza
receded from the headlines in re-
cent weeks, Hammoud said, the
situation on the ground has con-
tinued to worsen and residents
have not lost focus on the issue.
“Earlier this year, the president
sent his senior White House offi-
cials to listen to the constituency
he sought support from four years
ago, and there have been no mean-
ingful steps since. Things have
only gone backward,” Hammoud
said, referring to a feb. 8 meeting
in which senior national security
officials visited Dearborn and met
with the mayor and other officials.
“We’re looking for a president
with the backbone to call for a
cease-fire,” Hammoud added.
“This is not the president that was
promised to us four years ago.”
most public polls show Biden
trailing Trump in michigan,
which is key to the president’s
narrowing path to victory — he
has few, if any, paths without it.
The Biden campaign argued in
a memo obtained by The Wash-
ington Post on Thursday that it
can win by focusing on the “blue
wall” states of michigan, Wiscon-
sin and Pennsylvania.
and angry large-dollar donors
who want Biden to step aside are
in a holding pattern, hoping to
pressure the president out of the
race, according to multiple peo-
ple who are responsible for court-
ing large campaign contribu-
tions. Donor anxiety is trickling
down to at least one Senate cam-
paign and to the anti-Trump su-
per PAC American Bridge 21st
Century, which have both seen
the effects of a fundraising freeze,
according to two people familiar
with the fundraising.
Schumer, who raised hundreds
of millions of dollars to win the
Senate, has seemed to share do-
nors’ concerns at times. Some
donors said they believed the ma-
jority leader was open to a change
at the top of the ticket, Axios
reported.
“As I have made clear repeated-
ly publicly and privately, I sup-
port President Biden and remain
committed to ensuring Donald
Trump is defeated in November,”
Schumer said in a statement this
week.
multiple major donors have
communicated that they are in-
creasing their commitment to
Senate Democrats and have sent
new six-figure donations, one na-
tional Democrat with knowledge
of Senate races said. one major
donor increased their support to
the Democratic Senatorial Cam-
paign Committee following the
debate by 50 percent, this person
said. Part of the motivation be-
hind the increased giving was the
Supreme Court’s decision on
presidential immunity and the
Senate’s role in confirming high
court justices.
Schumer invited top Biden
campaign officials ricchetti,
mike Donilon and Jen o’malley
Dillon to talk to his angry caucus
so that they could make their
concerns known directly to the
inner circle of the campaign. In
the tense meeting Thursday, sev-
eral senators expressed their deep
concern that Biden could be a
drag on Democrats’ chance to win
the Senate.
“The polling is really what’s
driving this discussion,” one na-
tional Democratic official said.
“Chuck is leaning more into the
position of making clear to Biden
what his problems are.”
Paul Kane contributed to this report.
saturday, july 13 , 2024 . the washington post
Black women are backing Biden. But Harris excites them more.
As calls mounted for the president to bow out, Essence Festival attendees voiced anxieties about the upcoming vote and fears of a Trump victory
BY H OLLY B AILEY
AND A MBER F ERGUSON
NEW ORLEANS — April Sheris
plans to vote for Joe Biden in
November. Her two college-age
daughters, Camari Knox and Ami-
aya Bridgewater, both voting in
their first presidential election,
will be, too, as will her mother,
Diamond Ryan. The three genera-
tions of Black women vigorously
oppose Donald Trump’s bid for a
second term in the White House
and feel all Democrats have a duty
to cast their votes to stop him.
But as the women, who are
from Santa Fe, N.M., made their
way into the Essence Festival of
Culture in New Orleans this week-
end, all four shared varying levels
of enthusiasm for Biden amid
growing questions about his age
and stamina that have led some
Democrats to suggest the 81-year-
old president should drop out of
the race and allow someone else to
run.
Vice President Harris, who
made her own appearance at Es-
sence Fest on Saturday, is among
those most frequently mentioned
as a replacement — a prospect
that makes Sheris, 41, and her
daughters light up.
“Obviously, I support them
both. I probably would be more
excited if she was at the top of the
ticket,” Sheris said. Both Bridge-
water, 18, and Knox, 20, nodded in
agreement.
But while Ryan, 61, praised
Harris and said she would be
thrilled at the prospect of a Black
female president, she worried
that a change to the ticket four
months out from Election Day
might be too risky.
“How many voters will actually
support Kamala?” she asked.
Those anxieties were shared by
some of the tens of thousands of
Black women from across the
country who descended on New
Orleans for this massive annual
gathering celebrating Black cul-
ture. Black women have long been
the Democratic Party’s most dedi-
cated and reliable voting bloc —
and they will likely be key to
deciding the winner of the 2024
election.
Polls consistently have shown
Biden losing some ground to
Trump among Black voters since
the 2020 election. Maximizing
support among Black voters and
ensuring they cast ballots will be
essential for Biden to win, or for
Harris should she replace him as
the presidential nominee.
In a series of interviews, more
than a dozen Black female voters,
young and old, expressed growing
fear that Trump could retake the
White House. They said they still
support Biden despite his shaky
and halting debate performance
late last month, which has
prompted party-wide concern
and fueled calls for him to step
aside.
But several admitted they
would be more enthusiastic if
Harris were atop the ticket, de-
scribing her as a fresh face who
could appeal to newer genera-
tions of voters and potentially
make history as the nation’s first
Black and Asian American female
president.
Harris drew rapturous ap-
plause from hundreds of Black
women during her appearance
Saturday — though she was not
asked about, nor did she mention,
the controversy swirling around
Biden and his future on the ticket
or what that might mean for her.
Democrats fear Biden drama may squander ‘Goldilocks’ economy
BY J EFF S TEIN
The inflation report released
Thursday represented virtually
everything the White House has
been hoping to see for years. New
and used vehicle prices fell. Rent
finally moderated. Overall prices
dropped on a monthly basis for
the first time in four years, raising
the prospect that the Federal Re-
serve could cut interest rates be-
fore the November election.
And yet Democrats inside and
outside the administration could
only greet the data with a feeling
of exasperation, knowing the
news would be overshadowed by a
second week of turmoil over Pres-
ident Biden’s fitness to lead the
presidential ticket. Compounding
their fears is the prospect that
former president Donald Trump,
if victorious in November, could
for a second time inherit a grow-
ing economy that Democrats be-
lieve they deserve credit for fixing.
The missed opportunity to
capitalize on the inflation report
highlights the political fallout
from Biden’s disastrous perform-
ABOVE: Attendees pose for a photo at the Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans on July 5. BELOW: Jaevin Reed, of Dallas, puts on a
pin after registering to vote at the festival. Black women have long been the Democratic Party’s most dedicated and reliable voting bloc.
Instead, she explained why this is
“the most significant election of
our lifetime” and why Trump can-
not be reelected.
Still, even as women said they
like Harris and believe her capa-
ble of the presidency, some also
said they fear racist and sexist
vitriol could upend her campaign
and possibly lead to a second
Trump term.
“People have a hard enough
time respecting Black people, and
they have a hard time respecting
Black women,” said Alexandria
Henderson, 22, from Denver. “I
would love for her to win, but I’m
just scared that our nation isn’t
ready yet.”
But even as they acknowledged
that a Harris-led ticket was sure to
spark ugly attacks from Trump
and his allies, who have already
stepped up their targeting of Har-
ris, many expressed frustration
that the question of whether a
Black woman could win the presi-
dency was a part of the discussion
ance in the debate, which has
spurred a wave of calls for him to
step aside in favor of another
party standard-bearer. The White
House appeared unable to stanch
the bleeding again on Thursday,
as more Democrats in Congress
called for the president to step
aside amid intensifying concerns
about his capacity for the job.
“There is broad frustration in
the building that there will not be
a political news cycle about this
data,” said one person who talked
to senior White House officials,
speaking on the condition of ano-
nymity to describe private conver-
sations. “Everyone feels the
strong inflation data is just get-
ting lost in the political news right
now. You can easily imagine an
alternative political universe
where this is the top story from
the campaign.”
The controversy has raised the
prospect that Democrats could
fail to take advantage of a spate of
economic news that would other-
wise be expected to buoy the pres-
ident’s electoral prospects. In ad-
dition to moderating inflation,
ELECTION 2024
at all.
“Black women are top entre-
preneurs. They are leading in edu-
cation and in the economy. So I
don’t think ‘Can a Black woman be
president?’ should be the ques-
tion,” said Lydia Myers, 42, a
communications specialist from
Washington, D.C. “The question is
whether she’s capable of running
the country. Is she qualified?”
In Myers’s view, Harris is “abso-
lutely” qualified and “a better
choice than Biden’s Republican
counterpart.”
Worries about Black voter
turnout
The turmoil engulfing the
Democratic Party comes at a mo-
ment when party officials were
already anxious about turnout
among Black voters, especially
Black women.
A Washington Post-Ipsos poll
conducted in April of more than
1,300 Black adults found that 62
percent of Black Americans said
the economy is set to grow by 2
percent in the second quarter this
year. Wage growth is up, and the
number of weekly jobless claims
ticked down again to the lowest
level since May, suggesting the
economy can keep growing even
as inflation falls.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported Thursday that prices
rose at a 3 percent annual pace,
one of the lowest since Biden’s
first year in office and close to the
Federal Reserve’s goal inflation
benchmark. The better-than-ex-
pected report bolsters hopes for a
September interest rate cut,
bringing long-awaited relief to
millions of borrowers throughout
the economy.
“Democrats had a strategy for
this campaign, and it was touting
Biden’s accomplishments on the
economy, which are becoming
clearer by the day. We’re not hear-
ing about that, and Democrats are
worried it undermines their
whole strategy for the campaign,”
said Dean Baker, a liberal econo-
mist at the Center for Economic
and Policy Research, a left-lean-
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they were “absolutely certain to
vote” — down from 74 percent in
June 2020.
One of the steepest drops in
enthusiasm was among Black
women, who fueled Biden’s ascent
to the White House four years ago.
According to the poll, 61 percent
of Black women said they were
“absolutely certain to vote” in
2024 — compared with 80 percent
in June 2020. The numbers were
more dire among Black women
ages 18 to 39, where certainty to
vote went from 69 percent in 2020
to 39 percent this year, according
to the poll.
That generational divide was
clear at Essence Fest. Many older
voters reaffirmed their support
for Biden and defended his debate
performance as a bad day that did
not reflect the strength of his
candidacy. But many younger
women expressed a desire to see
someone else on the ticket, even
as they said they would vote for
Biden if he remained in the race.
ing think tank. “As long as there
are concerns about Biden’s health,
the economic news will not be
front and center, no matter how
good it is.”
In a statement, the Biden cam-
paign said voters would focus on
the president’s economic policies
when voting this November.
“When Americans across the
country head to the ballot box,
they’ll be focused on kitchen table
issues like rent and food prices,
and how the next president’s pol-
icies will impact their everyday
lives,” Biden campaign spokes-
man Seth Schuster said in a state-
ment. “Joe Biden is fighting to
lower costs for American families
and is delivering — lowering infla-
tion, creating new jobs, and mak-
ing the wealthy pay their fair
share.”
Conservatives strongly dispute
the idea that Biden deserves cred-
it for the economy, arguing his
$1.9 trillion 2021 stimulus pack-
age spurred additional inflation
that eroded worker earnings. Ste-
phen Miran, who served in the
Treasury Department during the
“I am a Democrat, and I’m
faithful, and I believe 100 percent
in Biden,” said Holley Murphy, 57,
from Augusta, Ga. “We do have
some concerns, and we know
things are up in the air right now,
but I was always told you go with
the person who can win, and I still
think Biden is our best pick.”
Several women at the festival
acknowledged they felt less pas-
sionately about voting for Biden
now than they did four years ago,
when the country was amid a deep
reckoning over race and policing
in the aftermath of George Floyd’s
murder.
Now, the economy feels precar-
ious; rent and costs for things like
groceries have gone way up.
ShaQuayla Henderson, 33, from
Dallas, was raised to believe that
Democrats were for low-income
people, but sometimes she doesn’t
know if she believes that anymore.
Biden has done some things she
likes — like canceling student
loan debt — but she struggled to
name any other policies that she is
enthusiastic about.
“We’re not for Trump,” Hender-
son insisted, standing with her
sister. But she isn’t happy with
Biden, either — an unease that
existed well before the debate. But
she doesn’t know who could suc-
cessfully replace him at this point.
She longs for a hopeful figure
like Barack Obama — and she isn’t
sure Harris is that person. “I will
say, four years ago, Black people
were for her because she looked
like us,” Henderson said. But she
has been surprised by Harris’s low
profile in the administration. “At
this point, it’s like, what are you
doing in office to show us that you
are for us?” she said.
‘It’s going to be a hard
election’
Across the festival, some at-
tendees visibly cringed when
asked how they felt about the
2024 presidential campaign.
Tijuana Richardson, 54, from
Houston, said the debate was a
Trump administration, said wag-
es adjusted for inflation remain
down by about 3 percent since the
end of 2020 for Americans who
had not changed their jobs. He
also pointed to the approximate
doubling of the cost of mortgage
payments on the new median
home, as housing prices exploded
following the pandemic.
“It’s pretty patronizing to lec-
ture Americans about how they
should be feeling based on the
quirks of measurement of eco-
nomic data,” Miran said. “There’s
more to measuring well-being
than looking at the one-month
inflation data.”
It’s also not clear the extent to
which replacing Biden at the top
of the ticket would give Demo-
crats a chance to improve voters’
perceptions of their economic
stewardship. Elaine Kamarck, di-
rector of the Center for Effective
Public Management at the Brook-
ings Institution, a Washington-
based think tank, said the eco-
nomic numbers are unlikely to
significantly impact the party’s
decision about who should run at
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“hard one” to watch, recalling
how she felt herself “cringing” at
Biden’s struggles and wanting to
leap from her couch through the
television to help him.
She remembered how Biden
had run in 2020, presenting him-
self as a calm, steady force who
could undo the chaos of the
Trump presidency. She worries
that lingering questions over
Biden’s health undermine public
confidence and risk reopening the
door to Trump and the daily stress
she felt during his presidency
about his chaotic approach to
governing.
“If he remains in the election,
it’s going to be a hard election,”
Richardson said of Biden. She
pushed back against Democrats
who have suggested Harris can-
not defeat Trump. “She is capable.
She is qualified,” she said. “Biden
would not have picked her if she
wasn’t.”
Harris took the stage on Satur-
day evening to Beyonce’s “Free-
dom” for a “Chief to Chief” con-
versation with Caroline A. Wanga,
the president and CEO of Essence.
Although Harris didn’t mention
the calls for Biden to step aside,
the appearance illustrated many
of her strengths in this moment.
Though Biden mostly reads
short speeches off a teleprompter,
Harris answered questions for 25
minutes. Though Biden looked
pale and frail during the debate,
Harris was loose and energetic,
frequently smiling and making
eye contact with a friendly crowd
as she emphasized elements of
her own biography. Though Biden
has struggled to articulate the
case against Trump, Harris did so
with the precision and sharpness
of a practiced prosecutor.
Asked to introduce herself,
Harris smiled and simply said:
“The vice president of the United
States of America.”
After the laughter and applause
died down, she continued: “And I
am a wife, and we have children. I
am a godmommy. I am an auntie. I
am a best friend. I am a good cook.
… And I am a fighter for the
people. I care about the people.”
Harris delivered a vigorous
pitch on the Biden administra-
tion’s achievements for Black
Americans, including efforts to
improve Black maternal health,
lower the cost of insulin and other
prescription drugs, cancel billions
of dollars in student debt and
confront housing costs and short-
ages.
She acknowledged that politi-
cians say every election is the
most important but insisted that
2024 really is “the most signifi-
cant election of our lifetime.” She
spoke of Trump’s praise for dicta-
tors, his promises of revenge
against his political enemies, and
the Supreme Court’s recent deci-
sion opening the door to wider
presidential immunity. She point-
ed to his support for the rollback
of Roe v. Wade, saying he is proud
“of the fact our daughters will
have fewer rights than their
grandmothers.”
At a time when some voters
think both presumptive nominees
are too old and out of touch, Har-
ris spoke in personal terms about
the challenges she has faced as an
ambitious woman of color.
“People in your life will tell you:
‘It’s not your time. It’s not your
turn. Nobody like you has done it
before,’” Harris said. “Don’t you
ever listen to that.”
In the audience, an older wom-
an shouted, “YES!”
the top of the ticket.
“They’ve had trouble getting
credit for other good economic
news, too, so it’s a constant frus-
tration for the White House and
Democrats,” Kamarck said. “The
controversy is about his mental
state — not his handling of the
economy.”
Still, the positive economic
data could intensify the sense of
frustration about the election.
Democrats already believe that
Trump lucked out in his first term
in presiding over the economic
growth that liberals attribute to
President Barack Obama’s pol-
icies. Now, Democrats are bracing
for the prospect that Trump could
again inherit an economy they
believe is booming due to the
policies passed during their time
in government.
“Until this is over, it’s going to
be very hard for anything else to
break through,” said Bill Galston,
who served as a policy aide to
President Bill Clinton. “For heav-
en’s sake, when the sun is out, the
stars are invisible. And right now,
the Biden situation is the sun.”
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GOP Senate candidate wants Wis. college town’s drop boxes watched
BY P ATRICK M ARLEY
MADisON, Wis. — The top Repub-
lican running for the Senate in
Wisconsin this week suggested
without evidence that absentee
ballot drop boxes could be stuffed
with fake ballots, and he called for
monitoring them around-the-
clock in one of the state’s most
Democratic cities.
Republican Eric Hovde made
the comments to supporters on
Wednesday, five days after the
Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liber-
al majority reversed a two-year-
old decision and allowed the use of
ballot drop boxes this fall.
“Who’s watching to see how
many illegal ballots are being
stuffed?” Hovde said, according to
a recording of his remarks ob-
tained by The Washington Post.
“Look, we’re probably going to
The glitzy Hollywood
fundraiser where
Biden lost Clooney
Some there say president
was frail and slow,
presaging debate setback
BY D AN D IAMOND,
S AMUEL O AKFORD
AND C AROL D . L EONNIG
Hollywood executives, per-
formers and thousands of other
Californians filed into a Los An-
geles theater last month, expect-
ing a star-studded fundraiser for
President Biden, backed by ac-
tors George Clooney and Julia
Roberts, that would inject mil-
lions of dollars into Biden’s static
campaign and launch him on a
path to beat Donald Trump in
November.
Instead, many attendees — led
by Clooney — now say they
watched a dud and a preview
screening of what the nation saw
two weeks later in Biden’s prime-
time debate against Trump.
“I said to my wife, either he’ll
do great at the debate, and we’ll
realize he was just tired tonight,
or he’ll perform like this and
then the whole country will be
talking about it,” said Jon
Favreau, an Obama White House
speechwriter who attended the
event.
Reflecting on the June 15 event
at L.A.’s Peacock Theater, some
donors said this week that they
noticed Biden seemed slow. He
appeared frail. As he greeted
donors lined up for photos, he
trailed off or spoke too quietly in
small-talk conversation to be
heard.
The lingering doubts among
Biden’s closest supporters that
evening help explain why sup-
port for him has collapsed so
quickly in the days after the June
27 presidential debate: The de-
bate confirmed many voters’
long-held suspicions that the el-
derly president was not up to the
task of campaigning. The reac-
tions among attendees of the
event also raise questions about
why Biden’s allies did not speak
up sooner about their concerns,
allowing his campaign to insist
for months that Biden was vigor-
ous and sharp behind the scenes,
when many now say that was not
their own experience.
Measured by dollars, the eve-
ning was a success: It brought in
more than $30 million for
Biden’s campaign, setting a rec-
ord for a single political fundrais-
er. The president, who had just
flown in from Italy that morning,
first met with top donors and
allies in a two-hour-plus series of
private receptions and photos
before taking the stage with
former president Barack Obama
and talk show host Jimmy Kim-
mel in the 36-minute main event.
But even with Kimmel posing
softball questions, and Obama
frequently interjecting to pro-
vide support, Biden struggled to
explain key parts of his campaign
platform, with attendees saying
that the president frequently
stumbled over his remarks,
trailed off or was simply confus-
ing.
Some attendees said it was
even worse at the smaller recep-
tions before Biden took the stage.
Greeting hundreds of supporters
for grip-and-grin photos, the
president stumbled over small
talk and seemed frail, according
to six attendees. For high-level
donors who were meeting the
81-year-old Biden for the first
time, several said they found his
have to have — make sure that
there’s somebody standing by a
drop box everywhere.”
Hovde faces nominal opposi-
tion in next month’s Republican
primary and is expected to handi-
ly win the nomination to face Sen.
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) in No-
vember. A businessman with
banking and real estate holdings,
Hovde has seeded his campaign
with $8 million from his personal
fortune.
He made his remarks at a cam-
paign stop in Ashland, in far
northern Wisconsin, and said he
wanted to focus the monitoring in
Madison, home to the University
of Wisconsin and one of the most
Democratic areas in the swing
state.
“It’s probably not a risk up here
in this part,” Hovde said of north-
ern Wisconsin. “But, you know, I
decline shocking.
“It felt like he was still the
smart, witty guy we’ve all fol-
lowed for many years, but the
volume and speed are turned
way down — to an alarming
level,” said one longtime Demo-
cratic supporter who, like several
others, spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss her person-
al experience meeting the presi-
dent after she and her husband
donated $100,000.
Making small talk with the
current and former presidents
while preparing for a photo, the
donor said that she and Obama
shared a brief joke that Biden
initially seemed to miss. The
current president only attempt-
ed a retort “in a barely audible
voice” after the photo was over
and others had moved on, she
said.
Biden campaign staff and al-
lies have characterized the criti-
cism as unfair and retroactive
second-guessing, pointing to the
president’s travel and his stami-
na through the roughly three-
hour-long event. They note, too,
that the Kimmel portion of the
evening was open to the media.
“Several reporters were pre-
sent for the President’s interview
with Jimmy Kimmel at the L.A.
fundraiser,” Lauren Hitt, a cam-
paign spokesperson, said in a
statement. “None of them report-
ed out anything like this at the
time.”
The donor said she and her
husband were asked by friends
after the event about Biden’s
condition and “struggled to an-
swer them honestly,” fearful of
eroding Biden’s support.
“We were worried that if we
told the truth — that President
Biden was stiff, slow and dare we
say it, fragile — that we risked
losing their support for the presi-
dent,” said the donor. “It was
painful to be deceptive. Now, we
realize we were not alone in
withholding what we experi-
enced.”
Another donor said he focused
on what he considered the eve-
ning’s high points, such as
Biden’s rousing slam on the Su-
preme Court’s recent rulings.
“You want to believe in the
possible,” he said.
The fundraiser appears to
have been a breaking point for
Clooney. In an op-ed in the New
York Times on Wednesday, he
wrote that he loved and support-
ed Biden — but that he believed
Biden should drop out of the
race, in part because of what he
had observed at the event.
“It’s devastating to say it, but
the Joe Biden I was with three
weeks ago at the fund-raiser was
not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden
of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe
Biden of 2020,” Clooney wrote.
“He was the same man we all
witnessed at the debate.”
A spokesperson for Clooney
declined to elaborate on the
actor’s interactions with Biden at
the fundraiser.
Others who attended said they
felt Biden had been engaging and
energetic, particularly given the
circumstances.
“You’d be tired too after two
overseas trips to Europe in a
matter of days, plus just getting
off an 11-hour flight with a nine-
hour time zone change, standing
and shaking 200 hands for a
couple of hours, and then head-
ing into a giant event to per-
form,” said Kimberly Marteau
Emerson, an attorney whom
Biden appointed to the United
States Holocaust Memorial
Council last year. “Given all that,
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think in Madison, let me assure
you, we’ve got to make sure that
there’s somebody standing by that
drop box literally 24 hours a day,
you know, for, you know, 45 days to
make sure that you don’t have
people just jumping, jamming
fake ballots.”
By raising the prospect of fake
ballots, Hovde leaned into a dis-
credited theory at the center of the
right-wing film “2000 Mules,”
which focused on ballot drop box-
es in 2020. Salem Media Group,
which produced the film in part,
removed it from its platforms last
month in response to a lawsuit.
Hovde offered no evidence that
fake ballots were used in Wiscon-
sin or anywhere else. There were
no reports of fake ballots in Wis-
consin in 2020 after recounts, law-
suits and a detailed review by a
conservative nonprofit law firm.
From left, late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel, President Biden and former president Barack Obama at the Peacock Theater in Los
Angeles on June 15. The fundraiser brought in more than $30 million for Biden’s campaign.
I think he did a fantastic job.”
Hunting Hollywood cash
Air Force One touched down at
Los Angeles International Air-
port around 5 a.m. on June 15,
with the president and his team
fresh from meetings with world
leaders and the pope in Fasano,
Italy, and a brief layover outside
of Washington, D.C.
The red-eye flight had re-
quired crossing 10 time zones,
but the Saturday night fundrais-
er promised to be lucrative and
exciting, representing a glamor-
ous break from Biden’s political
battles. VIP donors and political
staff could mingle with Clooney
— who has helped organize Dem-
ocratic fundraisers for years,
such as a $15 million event for
Obama at Clooney’s home in
2012 — and other Hollywood
stars.
Biden would also share the
stage with Kimmel, one of his
staunchest — and wittiest —
supporters in Hollywood. The TV
host is a reliable Democratic
donor who has also given to
Senate candidates such as Mis-
souri attorney Lucas Kunce and
Arizona Rep. Ruben Gallego, ac-
cording to Federal Election Com-
mission data.
While L.A. is a deep-pocketed
and reliably liberal enclave —
Biden won Los Angeles County
by a nearly three-to-one margin
over Trump four years ago — the
president’s campaign had been
late to fully tap Hollywood’s
checkbooks given entertainment
industry strikes last year.
Now the campaign was work-
ing to make up for lost time. The
Los Angeles Times reported that
access to the most exclusive VIP
perks, including the photo line,
reception and after-party, cost
$500,000. The cheapest tickets
to the public portion of the event
required a $250 donation to the
campaign.
The campaign was also look-
ing for a boost of energy. As
Biden arrived in California, polls
showed the presidential race
closely tied or with Trump hold-
ing a slight edge, and that many
Americans were deeply dissatis-
fied with both major candidates.
Giving Biden time to recover
from his international travel, the
president had no scheduled
events until around 5:15 p.m.,
when his motorcade arrived at
the Peacock Theater, driving past
a smattering of demonstrators
protesting about the Israel-Gaza
conflict.
The city has 14 drop boxes at or
near fire stations. They are under
24-hour video surveillance.
A spokesman for Hovde de-
clined to comment Friday but said
he may weigh in later. A spokes-
man for Baldwin declined to com-
ment on Hovde’s remarks.
Hovde lives just outside Madi-
son, and public records show he
has voted absentee three times in
recent years — in the 2018 mid-
term elections and in the 2021 and
2023 elections for state offices.
Hovde floated the possibility of
fake ballots three months after
suggesting that nursing home
residents shouldn’t be allowed to
vote. “If you’re in a nursing home,
you only have a five-, six-month
life expectancy,” he said. “Almost
nobody in a nursing home is in a
point [in life] to vote.” After facing
blowback, Hovde said he believes
Attendees and campaign staff
described several reception areas
backstage at the theater, includ-
ing one area filled with high-pro-
file actors, and another where
donors mingled with Democratic
elected officials including Cali-
fornia Gov. Gavin Newsom and
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
Guests were eventually invited to
queue up for a photo opportunity
with Biden and Obama.
Emerson — whose husband
served as ambassador to Ger-
many under Obama — said she
had a pleasant experience meet-
ing Biden and Obama in the
photo line.
“I mentioned how much we
enjoyed hosting Jill at our home
a few weeks earlier. He immedi-
ately lit up and said, ‘She told me
about it!’ and squeezed my
hands,” she wrote in a text mes-
sage.
But other Hollywood donors
and attendees said that they were
disappointed by their glimpses of
Biden, particularly when they
compared the president with the
younger and more energetic
Obama standing next to him.
“He just seemed so worn out,”
said one donor who hadn’t seen
Biden in person in several years.
Several members of Congress,
who interact more often with
Biden than the Hollywood
crowd, were in attendance and
said they found the president’s
performance underwhelming,
but little different from what
they’re accustomed to in Wash-
ington.
“I’ve been with him. I know
what to expect,” said one law-
maker, speaking on the condition
of anonymity to describe the
fundraiser and other private ex-
periences. “It’s hard to think he’s
our best chance to beat Trump.”
Meanwhile, onstage, Barbra
Streisand, Kathryn Hahn, Jason
Bateman and other performers
entertained the packed crowd.
“When democracy is at stake,
Jack Black answers the call,” the
actor said, endorsing Biden in
American-flag overalls and a
“Dark Brandon” T-shirt.
Around 7:45 p.m., Biden took
the stage alongside Obama. The
two men bantered with Kimmel
about how traffic-congested Los
Angeles roads can miraculously
open once you’re president.
The conversation then turned
more serious, as Kimmel rattled
off Biden’s accomplishments as
president — such as lowering
prescription drug costs for sen-
iors and decriminalizing canna-
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that elderly people should vote.
“Mr. Hovde seems determined
to insult every group of voters in
Wisconsin one after the other,”
Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-
Conway said in a statement. “Drop
boxes, whether in Madison or Ash-
land, Milwaukee or Eau Claire, are
a safe, secure and convenient way
for eligible voters to return their
ballots.” Monitoring drop boxes 24
hours a day for a month and a half
would require dozens of volun-
teers and would divert crucial
GOP resources away from contact-
ing voters and making sure they go
to the polls.
Brian Schimming, the chair-
man of the state Republican Party,
said Thursday he didn’t like the
court ruling on drop boxes but
believes that Wisconsin voters can
have confidence in the results this
fall. He made his remarks at a
bis — and contrasted him with
“Orange Julius Caesar,” one of
several mocking references to
Trump.
Kimmel also referenced the
Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to
overturn Roe v. Wade and end
the constitutional right to abor-
tion. The Biden campaign later
released a clip of one exchange,
showing Biden forcefully arguing
the Supreme Court “has never
been as out of kilter as it is today,”
citing an opinion written by
Justice Clarence Thomas that
suggested the court should re-
consider other decisions that es-
tablished rights to contracep-
tion, as well as same-sex rela-
tions and marriage.
“Not on my watch. Not on my
watch,” Biden said to applause.
But Biden also stumbled over
some questions, even as Kimmel
and Obama interjected with
quips and support. Asked why
some Republicans continue to
oppose the Affordable Care Act,
the president offered a meander-
ing reply.
“I was able — and I was able to
expand it to — and save another
8,000 buck — 800 bucks a year
for them,” Biden said, according
to an official White House tran-
script. “But here’s the deal. The
fact is that these guys don’t seem
to care. They somehow — and, by
the way, it’s not — it’s saving the
country money. It’s not wasting
money. All the cost — it would —
if — this — if it — what — what’s
— it’s about, I guess, 40 million
people would be affected.”
“Millions of people would be
affected,” Obama quickly fol-
lowed up. “And the reason that
the Republicans say they’re op-
posed to it is because we did it.”
Monica Zierhut, a 55-year-old
music supervisor who spent
$250 on her seat, said she was
impressed by Biden, particularly
when accounting for his age and
travel.
“I felt he was very articulate
when he was talking,” Zierhut
said. “He wasn’t, you know, a
meandering old man.”
But for Favreau, who was sit-
ting close to the stage, the eve-
ning was an opportunity lost.
Rather than convey a strong and
inspiring reelection message,
Biden’s performance “was slow,
halting, and hard to follow,”
Favreau said.
Other attendees said they too
left the theater with grave con-
cerns but tried to shove them
aside. Bedford McIntosh, a 69-
year-old retired education fund-
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news conference before The Post
obtained the recording of Hovde’s
comments and did not mention
launching a drop box monitoring
program in line with what Hovde
promoted.
Ballot drop boxes were widely
used in 2020 in Wisconsin, as vot-
ers turned to absentee voting in
large numbers in response to the
covid-19 pandemic. In 2022, con-
servatives who then controlled the
state Supreme Court barred the
use of drop boxes because state
law does not specifically authorize
them. Last week, the liberals who
now hold a majority reversed that
decision, saying depositing ballots
in drop boxes is the equivalent of
turning them in personally in the
offices of election officials.
The latest ruling allows cities to
use drop boxes but does not re-
quire them to do so.
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raiser who spent $1,000 on seats
for himself and his wife, said he
left the fundraiser worried about
the president’s ability to galva-
nize voters — particularly given
Biden’s contrast with Obama.
“You juxtapose those two, and
it’s night and day,” said McIntosh.
“I didn’t walk out of there think-
ing, ‘oh, we got the right guy.’”
The fallout
Twelve days later, Biden’s poor
performance in the debate
against Trump unlocked frustra-
tions across Hollywood, with
some longtime Democratic do-
nors venting that they’d been
privately reassured that Biden
remained sharp even as millions
of television viewers discovered
the opposite.
Biden “gave us a bunch of
malarkey, and I’m really pissed,”
said Ari Emanuel, CEO of enter-
tainment conglomerate WME,
speaking at the Aspen Ideas
Festival the day after the debate.
Emanuel — whose brother,
Rahm, was picked by Biden to be
ambassador to Japan — suggest-
ed that donors should stop giving
to the president’s campaign. The
Biden campaign or White House
hasn’t contacted him since his
criticism, Emanuel said in an
interview Wednesday.
“Let’s go with the bullpen
please. Let’s go with relief,” Da-
mon Lindelof, the producer and
showrunner behind TV shows
“Lost,” “The Leftovers,” and
“Watchmen,” wrote in a column
for Deadline last week, calling for
a “DEMbargo” on donations until
Biden drops out.
Clooney’s column in the New
York Times this week went fur-
ther, calling on Democrats in
Congress to speak out and help
push for a new nominee.
“The dam has broken. We can
put our heads in the sand and
pray for a miracle in November,
or we can speak the truth,”
Clooney wrote.
Other Biden supporters at the
fundraiser have stayed with the
president. Hahn, who performed
at the event, joked about calls for
Biden to drop out of the race
when she guest-hosted Kimmel’s
show on Monday.
“Here’s the thing: I would vote
for a skeleton over Donald
Trump,” she said.
“In fact,” she said, “I may
literally be voting for a skeleton.”
tyler Pager, aaron schaffer, shawn
Boburg and michael Kranish
contributed to this report.
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Freed from the constrictions that long suppressed its flow, water returns to Lahaina’s burn zone in January — five months after the fire — giving community leaders hope that a larger restoration is possible.
Lahaina
sees signs
of natural
revival
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and large landowners, who have
long benefited from the water
that would flow back into the
renewed wetlands.
Such a project might take
years, and it would have to clear
many practical and political hur-
dles. But with Lahaina reduced to
ashes, some of the state’s most
influential voices, from politi-
cians to tourism groups, are sig-
naling their support for restora-
tion, an early indicator that the
effort may have more momentum
than ever.
in the burn scar, the water itself
is already making a statement.
freed from the constrictions that
long suppressed its flow, it is seep-
ing back. in once-dry ditches and
abandoned fields, beneath piles
of twisted metal, rubble and
charred ruins, the water is return-
ing all on its own, a sign, experts
say, that restoration is ecological-
ly possible.
in a now-abundant stream run-
ning alongside Kapu’s demol-
ished cultural center, fish darted
beneath a thick layer of water
plants, all in the shadow of a
burned-out car and mounds of
debris.
“the land,” Kapu said, “is heal-
ing itself.”
the long process — and poten-
tial fight — is going to be a crucial
piece of the larger debate over
how to rebuild a place with so
much cultural, spiritual and eco-
nomic significance. the outcome
will shape Lahaina’s future.
‘The piko’
of all the places where water
once flowed in Lahaina, none was
more important than a 17-acre
area near the center of town, not
far from the pacific ocean.
this was a fishpond known as
Loko ‘o mokuhinia, and in the
middle of it sat a small island
called moku‘ula, which measured
about 40,000 square feet. Both
are now buried beneath feet of
dirt, but cultural practitioners
and archaeologists say it is one of
the most sacred sites in all of
Hawaii. following the fires, it has
become the focal point of the
ambitious wetland restoration ef-
fort.
“as we rebuild moku‘ula, we
rebuild Lahaina,” said archie
Kalepa, a legendary waterman
and local community leader.
for Hawaiians, moku‘ula con-
tains layers of religious, political
and cultural importance, sus-
tained by oral history and spirit-
ual tradition. over the centuries,
moku‘ula was said to be the pal-
ace of kings, home to a powerful
lizard goddess and used as a sa-
cred burial site of maui royalty.
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according to traditional accounts,
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in the 19th century, when La-
haina was the capital of the Ha-
waiian Kingdom, King Kame-
Lahaina hameha iii lived on moku‘ula in a
complex of grass and stone build-
ings. the kingdom’s first constitu-
tion was signed there, in 1840.
“this was the center, this was
wainee the jewel, this was the piko,” said
Janet Six, maui county’s archae-
ologist who spent years working
at moku‘ula, using the Hawaiian
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destroyed 1/2 MiLe where life begins.
fed by both underground
springs and a network of streams,
moku‘ula and mokuhinia an-
chored a wetland system that con-
veyed water through Lahaina
town. in this lush environment,
taro patches thrived and native
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gan to dominate maui. and, as
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Moku‘ula Island— “Sugar Water,” the cane is a thirsty
crop.
it takes 500 gallons of water to
produce one pound of sugar, a
million gallons per day to irrigate
100 acres, and many thousands
were being farmed. from the mid-
1800s into the 1900s, increasingly
powerful plantation corporations
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that diverted water to their crops.
this had widespread consequenc-
es: a brutal famine swept through
Lahaina in the 1860s, when fields
that grew traditional staple foods
went dry. mokuhinia gradually
became stagnant and swamp-
like. the pond soon turned into a
breeding ground for mosquitoes,
and an official from the u.S. gov-
ernment — which backed an over-
throw of the monarchy and an-
nexed Hawaii in 1898 — said it
should be filled in and covered.
moku‘ula and mokuhinia were
buried a few years later, after local
businessmen claimed the pond
was a health risk and eyed it as a
development opportunity, said
anthropologist p. christiaan
Klieger, who wrote “moku‘ula:
maui’s Sacred island.”
the territorial government
then replaced the revered island
with a classic symbol of american
imperialism: a baseball field.
the park’s first game featured a
matchup between the “town
team” and a group of players from
a nearby plantation, the maui
news reported in 1918. the plan-
tation side won.
Water wars
the burial of moku‘ula sent a
message.
Because water is integral to
Hawaiian life, erasing moku‘ula
and the surrounding wetlands in
the wake of the overthrow was
“both a means of asserting con-
trol and a symbol of the control
that was being asserted,” said
Jonathan L. Scheuer, co-author of
“Water and power in West maui.”
“it is the historic physical heart
of Lahaina,” Scheuer said. “But it
is also deeply, deeply symbolic of
the way in which water is central
to who controls Hawaii and who
Hawaii is for.”
after the plantation system col-
lapsed under the pressure of an
increasingly competitive market,
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opportunistic developers bought
large tracts of land from failing
sugar companies, hoping to lure
more tourists and well-heeled
residents to maui.
these plantation successors
continued to divert water to new
luxury housing and hotel devel-
opments, filling swimming pools
and greening golf courses.
the economic transition
sparked a new era of confronta-
tion over water rights.
native Hawaiian tradition has
long held that water is part of the
public trust and should be pro-
tected and conserved for future
generations, a principle en-
shrined in law by the Hawaii con-
stitution and the state water code.
and yet, in West maui, the local
government controls less than a
quarter of the water, while private
utility companies manage the
rest.
this setup, a vestige of the
plantation era, has led to years of
conflict.
Several such entities are con-
nected to the maui real estate
mogul peter martin and his devel-
opment company, West maui
Land, both a magnet for contro-
versy in recent years. martin and
his empire have been accused of
overdrawing water, disturbing sa-
cred burial sites and trying to
force native Hawaiian families off
their land.
Kapu, the cultural center
founder, has spent decades fight-
ing with martin’s companies in
court over land and water rights
around his family’s homestead in
the verdant Kaua‘ula Valley, nes-
tled in the foothills above Lahai-
na.
now, a case involving one of
martin’s companies in front of
Hawaii’s public utilities commis-
sion is the first sign that
moku‘ula’s restoration could be-
come contentious.
in the proceeding, which began
before the fire, Kapu is arguing
that Launiupoko irrigation co. —
a subsidiary of West maui Land —
should stop pumping from a plan-
tation-era well in Lahaina be-
cause it will impede mokuhinia’s
restoration.
attorneys for the irrigation
company have denied that its
pumping impacts the historic
pond and have contended that,
because mokuhinia “presently
does not exist and must be re-
stored,” restricting pumping
“would not protect an existing
public trust purpose.”
nonetheless, glenn tremble,
an executive with both West maui
Land and the irrigation company,
said he supports restoring
moku‘ula and mokuhinia. But he
maintained that the pumping will
not affect those efforts, a position
echoed by a hydrologist hired to
testify on the company’s behalf. if
Launiupoko irrigation co. is
forced to stop using the well,
tremble said, it may have to shut
down, jeopardizing water deliv-
ery to its customers.
the state’s division of consum-
er advocacy, which argues on be-
half of utility users, appears to
agree with Kapu, recommending
in a filing late last year that the
company be banned from pump-
ing, at least temporarily, while
restoration efforts are consid-
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ered.
separately, Kapu and his cul-
tural center filed a permit appli-
cation with the state, asking for
access to water to begin the long,
complex restoration process.
all this paperwork could be an
early test of how much sway La-
haina’s influential developers will
have over the town’s rebuild. mar-
tin did not respond to requests for
comment and has not spoken
publicly about moku‘ula’s resto-
ration. He told a reporter late last
year that preserving water for
Native Hawaiian cultural practic-
es was “a crock of s---.” at the same
time, he said, activists were un-
fairly characterizing him as “a
colonialist.”
There has been little overt pub-
lic opposition to the moku‘ula
project, which will largely take
place on government-owned
land. However, if future plans
involve private parcels, the proc-
ess could become more combat-
ive.
Large developers have long en-
joyed outsize influence over West
maui’s water policy, and advo-
cates expect they won’t relinquish
it easily, said Kapua‘ala sproat,
the director of the university of
Hawaii’s Ka Huli ao Center for
excellence in Native Hawaiian
Law.
“in Hawaii, we have a saying:
‘Whoever controls water controls
the future,’” said sproat, who
helped Kapu file his restoration
permit. “That’s really at bottom
what this is about. This is a fight
for the soul of Hawaii. mokuhinia
is going to be a proving ground.”
‘Mauka to makai’
Blossom feiteira knows it will
be hard.
The lifelong maui resident,
whose ancestors resided on
moku‘ula, was the last director of
a nonprofit that first popularized
the idea of restoring the sacred
island.
Before friends of moku‘ula
dissolved in 2017, the group held
community meetings and reject-
ed a plan that would have turned
the area into a tourist destina-
tion, which they said would defile
a place of immense spiritual and
cultural importance.
at the time, feiteira estimated
the restoration project would
cost up to $100 million. But after
butting heads with the county,
the nonprofit lost its funding,
and moku‘ula lost its momen-
tum.
A Maryland
neighbor’s
crushing
declaration
ORAnge cRusH from A1
ours). But it goes on to make
bolder pronouncements: “The or-
ange Crush has been made fa-
mous and become synonymous
with Dewey Beach, Delaware,” it
reads. and it calls out a legendary
beach-town establishment. “The
starboard in Dewey Beach, Dela-
ware perfected the orange Crush
and serves the most orange Crush
cocktails of any bar in Delaware
every beach season,” it continues.
But even that last claim isn’t
sitting so well with certain mary-
landers. “Well, we’ve had it per-
fected since 1995,” said Lauren
rolleston, a server at the Harbor-
side Bar & grill who described
herself as a born-and-bred mary-
lander. rolleston seemed miffed
about the neighboring state’s
move on the signature cocktail,
but she stopped short of trash
talk. “if Delaware wants to take
credit for it, well i don’t know how
we feel about that,” she said, with
a tone that suggested she pretty
much did know how to feel.
sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-md.)
struck a generous note — with just
the barest hint of shade. “mary-
landers aren’t shy about our state
pride — we happily share what we
have to offer with the nation,” he
told The Washington post in an
emailed statement. “That’s why i
consider it a compliment that our
eastern shore neighbors like our
orange Crush so much. But to get
the real thing, everyone knows
that you have to come to mary-
land — i’d be happy to host my
Delaware colleagues anytime so
they can find out for themselves!”
in other words, the gentlemen
from Delaware are oh-so-politely
invited to get crushed.
The matter even came up on
Capitol Hill: During a Wednesday
hearing about the march collapse
of Baltimore’s francis scott Key
Bridge, Van Hollen brought up the
issue of the cocktail, calling out
sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.). “sena-
tor Cardin and i are willing to
forgive this transgression by the
state of Delaware since you’re co-
operating with us as a good neigh-
bor on other issues,” Van Hollen
Ke‘eaumoku Kapu, left, and wife u‘ilani Kapu examine a Lahaina restoration plan from the 1960s to help guide today’s renewal effort.
Ke‘eaumoku Kapu in January at the Lahaina unity gathering, put on to mourn the burned town.
“Now the question of the day
is: Can the restoration really hap-
pen this time?” feiteira said.
it’s possible, she added, but
there are many roadblocks. it
would be massively expensive
when the island’s economy is still
reeling from the fires. residents,
Delaware’s legislature passed a bill last month to make the Orange crush — invented in Maryland — the official state cocktail.
allowed.
it’s not like maryland could
ever hide the crush’s light under a
crab bushel, anyway. since its in-
vention, the drink (which is not to
be confused with Crush soda) has
crept up and down the eastern
seaboard, with sightings on
menus from florida to New York.
it’s most often found in water-
front and beach towns, but it has
begun soaking its way into land-
locked regions, too.
and Delawareans are attempt-
ing interstate diplomacy — to a
point. “We know we didn’t invent
it,” says steve “monty” montgom-
ery, the longtime co-owner of the
starboard. “We’ve just grown it
and grown it.”
perhaps maryland simply
should have moved faster to claim
dibs on the drink. The state does
not currently have an official
cocktail of its own, although in
1998, it designated a state drink:
milk.
With the orange Crush’s popu-
larity and increasing reach, it’s
possible that it might someday
take a spot in the pantheon of
classic american cocktails. But
that status might take more time
to attain, Brown says. He found
parallels between the crush and
still trying to rebuild their lost
homes, would need to have a
delicate discussion about what
moku‘ula would look like and
who would be allowed to enter a
place that was historically re-
stricted.
and burial grounds would
the Cape Codder, a similarly sim-
ple mixture of vodka and cranber-
ry juice. That drink, which also
has strong geographic associa-
tions, hails from the mid-1960s.
“The orange Crush just isn’t yet
old enough to be considered clas-
sic,” he said. “a lot more people
have to know it and like it.”
over the years, the drink has
seen its variants multiply. grape-
fruit crushes are popular. old-
fashioned crushes might swap
bourbon for the vodka. a “skinny”
crush uses club soda instead of
sweetened.
one thing drink-slingers on ei-
ther side of the state line can agree
on? a crush absolutely must be
made with fresh juice. That makes
it a more time-consuming drink
to serve (and expensive, too, given
rising prices on everything, in-
cluding citrus). But it’s essential,
according to marylanders and
Delawareans alike. Crush con-
noisseurs know to look for an
old-fashioned metal juicer sitting
atop the bar as a good sign that an
establishment is serving true-to-
style drinks.
“people try to copy them and
make them with orange juice on a
gun or a can — and i laugh,
because that’s not a true crush,”
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need to be navigated, a sensitive
matter for Native Hawaiians who
distrust a government that his-
torically shut them out of deci-
sion-making. Direct descendants
of the buried must be involved in
every step of the process, feiteira
said.
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montgomery says.
rolleston concurs. “That,” she
says, “is just a screwdriver.”
after The post published this
story online, the governors of both
states got in on the action. gov.
John Carney (D-Del.) invited gov.
Wes moore (D-md.) to come try
what he said is a superior version.
“my good friend @govWesmoore
should visit the starboard in Dew-
ey Beach, and we’ll have the best
orange Crush you can find,” he
posted on X. moore responded in
kind. “They say imitation is the
highest form of flattery,” he re-
plied. “good to know Delaware
has a crush on our crushes! Y’all
are welcome to try the real mcCoy
anytime, @JohnCarneyDe!”
it’s fun to argue about the me-
chanics of the orange Crush. it’s
more fun to drink one. in the
spirit of community, here are six
of our favorite places to get
crushed — in ocean City, at the
Delaware beaches and in D.C., too.
D.c.
801: a sister bar to Dewey’s
starboard and Bethany’s mango’s,
the rooftop bar at 801 features a
juicer front and center. While
there are variants made with mez-
cal or limes, nothing beats a
The knowledge that the island
has survived centuries of turbu-
lence, even if underground, gives
her hope.
“at the end of the day,” feiteira
said, “moku‘ula will always be
there.”
organizers are still in the early
stages of mapping out a restora-
tion plan, but Kapu wants to start
small. if his water permit is grant-
ed, he would begin by restoring a
modest section of mokuhinia and
reestablishing a fishpond and
taro patch on the site, surrounded
by native trees.
increasingly, political leaders
are getting on board, along with
the formidable hotel and tourism
industries. in april, Hawaii gov.
Josh green (D) announced he
would use executive powers to
restore moku‘ula. Dawn Chang,
the first Native Hawaiian woman
to chair the powerful Department
of Land and Natural resources,
said the state would support a
community-led restoration plan.
Chang, whose department is-
sues water-use permits, said there
are at least six applications possi-
bly competing for water in the
vicinity of moku‘ula, including
Kapu’s, which means a protracted
legal dispute could be ahead.
even so, she said she’s optimistic
straight-up orange Crush — espe-
cially when the price drops to $7 at
happy hour.
801 Florida Ave. NW.
801dc.com
Lyman’s Tavern: The owners of
the Columbia Heights pinball bar
are regular visitors to Dewey
Beach, and it shows in their dedi-
cated crush menu. Choose from
classics like orange and grape-
fruit, or try the strawberry Crush,
which adds juice from muddled
fruit to lime vodka and soda.
3720 14th St. NW. lyman-
staverndc.com.
Maryland
Harborside Bar & grill: The
spiritual home of the orange
Crush sits next to a row of boats
along a West ocean City pier. The
no-frills dock bar is packed with
customers sipping an endless
stream of crushes while listening
to live music.
12841 S. Harbor Rd., Ocean
City. weocharborside.com.
M.R. Ducks: ocean City has
adopted the crush as its own, and
you’ll find juicers atop bars at
Boardwalk haunts (Hammer-
heads) and biker-friendly dives
(the Bearded Clam). on a recent
trip, no crush satisfied like a juicy
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that there will be enough water
for restoration — a project she
considers so important that “ev-
eryone has to be willing to com-
promise.”
it’s too early to know just how
expensive it would be, Chang said,
but there will probably be cost-
sharing among government and
private entities. she also hopes
her agency can fast-track the nor-
mally interminable permit appli-
cation process.
“if it’s going to happen for any
issue, this is probably it,” she said
of the hurdles that restoration
must clear. “This is a worthy ini-
tiative for all of us to stand be-
hind.”
officials said they believe
moku‘ula can be restored without
sacrificing opportunities for eco-
nomic revival, which they said
will be plentiful in other parts of
Lahaina.
“We recognize those are two
different worlds: There’s the reali-
ty of cultural reverence and the
reality of economic revitaliza-
tion,” said mahina martin, maui
County’s head of public affairs,
who worked for friends of
moku‘ula before joining the gov-
ernment. “There doesn’t have to
be any tension because they are
two different things.”
most of the land entombing the
pond and island belongs to the
state, while the rest is county-
owned, and officials have begun
identifying other parcels they
might acquire for restoration.
since modern zoning codes could
make rebuilding difficult for
oceanfront businesses, local lead-
ers have a chance to reclaim land
that was home to other historical-
ly important Native Hawaiian
sites.
a restored historic district
could eventually become a uNes-
Co World Heritage site, which
would open up new funding, said
six, the county archaeologist.
such steps should be Hawaiian-
led, she said, and could provide a
sense of what maui was before the
plantations and development.
“if you restore it,” six said, “it
might give people the real story.”
standing in the burn zone,
which is still tightly controlled,
Kapu can look out over what used
to be moku‘ula and mokuhinia,
and he can picture the future. it’s
the Lahaina he wants for his chil-
dren, and their children. and
coursing through it all: water.
“from mauka to makai,” he
said — from the mountains to the
ocean. “everybody sees it’s a pos-
sibility now.”
Harborside Orange
Crush Cocktail
1 serving (makes 1 drink)
freshly squeezed juice is a
must for the orange Crush, a
refreshing summertime quaff.
The Harborside Bar & grill in
ocean City, md., is generally ac-
cepted as the cocktail’s birth-
place, but since its 1995 creation,
the drink has spread among the
beachside bars and crab shacks of
the mid-atlantic coast. Delaware
has now moved in on the crush
and is set to name it the state’s
official cocktail.
Total time: 5 mins
adapted from Harborside Bar
& grill in ocean City, md., from
punch.
Ingredients
l ice
l 2 ounces orange vodka, such as
smirnoff
l 2 ounces triple sec
l fresh juice of 1 orange (about
1/ cup)
3
l Lemon-lime soda
steps
l fill a pint glass with ice, then
add the vodka and triple sec.
add the orange juice, top with a
splash of soda, and serve im-
mediately.
nutrition | per drink: 178 calories, 26g
carbohydrates, 0mg cholesterol, 0g fat, 0g
fiber, 1g protein, 0g saturated fat, 5mg
sodium, 24g sugar
recipe tested by lisa Cherkasky; email
questions to food@washpost.com
grapefruit version at the venera-
ble m.r. Ducks, paired with wa-
terfront sunset views.
311 Talbot St., Ocean City. mr-
ducks.com.
Delaware
The starboard: some might
argue whether the starboard
“perfected” the orange Crush, but
there’s no denying that the Dewey
Beach hotspot makes a lot of
them. for something different, try
the mexican Catapult with tequila
and freshly squeezed ruby red
grapefruit juice.
2009 Coastal Hwy., Dewey
Beach. thestarboard.com.
Big chill Beach club: Located
above the sand in the Delaware
seashore state park, the Big
Chill’s offerings include a Jack
Daniels-based crush — think of it
as a whiskey-and-orange on vaca-
tion — and a refreshing cherry
vodka with lime.
27099 Coastal Hwy., Bethany
Beach. bigchillbeachclub.com.
A10
Trump allies declare 2024 election illegitimate
Presentation at Heritage
assumes administration
has conspiracy underway
BY I SAAC A RNSDORF
Barbra Streisand kidnapped by
Hamas. Antifa-BLm protesters
taking over a migrant detention
facility. The fBI arresting Donald
Trump two days after winning the
election.
These were among the far-
fetched scenarios imagined by a
simulation of threats to the 2024
election showcased Thursday by
the right-wing Heritage founda-
tion. The presentation, delivered
at the foundation’s Washington
headquarters, stated as a given
that the Biden administration
was already engaged in a sweep-
ing conspiracy to use multiple
forms of federal power to influ-
ence the presidential election. It
did not supply any evidence.
“As things stand right now,
there’s a zero percent chance of a
free and fair election,” said mike
Howell, executive director of Her-
itage’s oversight Project. “I’m for-
mally accusing the Biden admin-
istration of creating the condi-
tions that most reasonable poli-
cymakers and officials cannot in
good conscience certify an elec-
tion.”
The report said a key finding
was that the sitting president is
the greatest danger to the peace-
ful transition of power, with no
Webb telescope keeps delivering cosmic wonders
BY J OEL A CHENBACH
The latest made-ya-look image
from the James Webb Space Tele-
scope has arrived, and it looks like
… a penguin. A giant penguin in
space.
NASA officials on friday
marked two full years of scientific
results from the telescope with the
release of the image, which actual-
ly shows a pair of intertwined
galaxies, known as Arp 142, and
nicknamed the Penguin and the
Egg. The first is a spiral galaxy; the
second is an elliptical galaxy.
“The galaxies’ ‘dance’ gravita-
tionally pulled on the Penguin’s
thinner areas of gas and dust,
causing them to crash in waves
and form stars,” NASA said in a
news release. “Look for those ar-
eas in two places: what looks like a
fish in its ‘beak’ and the ‘feathers’
in its ‘tail.’”
The Webb telescope has done
everything that astronomers had
hoped it would do, notably look-
ing deeper into space and further
back in time than any previous
telescope. And it has produced
pretty pictures. The universe as
captured by the Webb’s mirror
and suite of instruments is beauti-
ful, dazzling, flamboyant. These
grabby images demonstrate the
remarkable resolution of the
Webb telescope, NASA’s $10 bil-
lion successor to the still-operat-
ing Hubble Space Telescope.
But the primary reason the
Webb exists is to do something
Hubble can’t do: look far into the
infrared portion of the spectrum,
enabling scientists to analyze the
highly red-shifted light emitted by
galaxies when the universe was
very young.
That has produced a major sur-
prise. Astronomers had assumed
that the early galaxies would be
small and faint. That’s not what
the Webb saw.
Instead there is a remarkable
array of big, bright galaxies, many
containing supermassive black
holes, that emitted their light just
300 million years or so after the
big bang. (The best estimate for
the age of the universe is 13.8
billion years.) The processes of
star formation and the assem-
blage of galaxies were faster, more
efficient or just different from
what theorists had assumed.
This is how science is supposed
to work: A new instrument with a
novel way of looking at nature
puts hard data where previously
there had been only theories, com-
puter models and notions.
“The biggest impact we’ve had
so far is in understanding the first
billion years. That was the eleva-
tor pitch to sell the telescope, and
it’s been gratifying to me how well
we’ve delivered,” said Jane rigby,
the senior scientist for the Webb.
“The universe cooperated.”
The unexpected number of big,
bright galaxies early in the uni-
verse doesn’t mean the Big Bang
Theory is wrong, Webb scientists
hasten to add.
“We have this deluge of data, we
have all these interesting things
that we’re finding, and we don’t
quite understand why,” NASA as-
trophysicist Amber Straughn said.
But this does not represent the
discovery of “new physics” or any-
thing so revolutionary, she said.
“The Big Bang is still the best
mention of Trump’s efforts to
overturn his 2020 loss. Instead it
offered that conclusion as justifi-
cation for doubting the outcome
of the 2024 election and trying to
reject anything other than a
Trump victory. Trump himself
has repeatedly declined to say he
will accept the results or rule out
a violent response. He has told his
supporters that he can only lose
through cheating.
Howell said the exercise would
lead Heritage to file more litiga-
tion over election procedures. He
also said it should help the public
resist “psychological operations”
that he claimed were used in
2020 and are being used again.
He didn’t say who supposedly ran
the operations.
“The upshot is that we will see
a contested election the likes of
which we’ve never seen,” said
Adam Ellwanger, a rhetoric pro-
fessor at the University of Hous-
ton-Downtown who helped lead
the simulation. “If we see the kind
of manipulations that we saw in
2020, I wonder if average Ameri-
cans who are supporters of the
president [Trump] will swallow
that so easily as they did in 2020.”
The simulation, known as the
“2024 Transition Integrity Proj-
ect,” is technically independent of
the Heritage foundation but in-
cluded multiple Heritage employ-
ees. The full list of participants
was withheld, which Howell said
was for their safety. Another par-
ticipant present Thursday was
Josh findlay, who was until re-
cently the republican National
Committee’s director of election
A pair of intertwined galaxies nicknamed the Penguin and the Egg. Known as Arp 142, the
phenomenon is made up of a spiral and elliptical galaxy that have been pulled together by gravity.
theory of the universe that we
have,” Straughn said.
The Webb has looked at the
nearby universe as well, including
observations of the intriguing
Trappist-1 planetary system,
where a swarm of rocky planets
orbits a red dwarf star. This plan-
etary system is about 41 light-
years away, within our own galaxy
and virtually next door in the
cosmic scheme of things.
An ongoing astrobiological
question that the Webb might an-
swer is whether red dwarf stars
are too stormy to allow nearby
planets to hold on to an atmos-
phere and seem plausible as a
place where life could prosper.
“So far, we haven’t found a
rocky planet like ours with a life-
sustaining atmosphere,” plan-
etary astronomer Heidi Hammel
said in an email. “That may re-
quire an even bigger telescope.”
Could this telescope find the
first incontrovertible evidence of
alien life? That seems unlikely,
rigby said.
“Personally I don’t think Webb
is going to find life. It’s not built to
EZ rE
integrity operations. Heritage
foundation President Kevin rob-
erts spoke at the end of the event.
The Heritage foundation, a
longtime bastion of conservative
orthodoxy that has more recently
reinvented itself for the Trump
era, has become a lightning rod in
the campaign because of its role
in convening “Project 2025.” That
project published detailed policy
proposals for every federal agen-
cy, ready for the next republican
administration to implement.
Some of the most controversial
ideas including banning abortion
medication, facilitating White
House involvement in law en-
forcement and rolling back legal
protections for LGBTQ+ Ameri-
cans.
As some of those proposals
have garnered scrutiny, Trump
and his campaign have repeated-
ly distanced themselves from the
effort. many of the proposals
were written by alumni of his
administration and are likely to
be appointees if he wins another
term.
The republican National Com-
mittee has its own election integ-
rity operations, including litiga-
tion.
Attendees on Thursday walked
past a mobile billboard criticizing
Trump and Project 2025, which
the Democratic National Com-
mittee positioned outside Heri-
tage’s headquarters. Biden cam-
paign spokesman James Singer
called Thursday’s presentation
“nothing more than an attempt to
justify their efforts to suppress
the vote, undermine the election,
do it,” rigby said. “I think we can
find potentially habitable plan-
ets.”
Garth Illingworth, an astrono-
mer at the University of California
at Santa Cruz who was among the
people who dreamed up the Webb
in the late 1980s, said the tele-
scope has assembled a vast
amount of data on exoplanets —
the worlds that orbit distant stars.
That data still needs to be assem-
bled into a coherent picture, he
added.
“It is a little like an alien walk-
ing through an earthly zoo, look-
ing at the vast range of animals
and then trying to assemble the
relationships and common as-
pects,” he said.
The Webb rocketed into space
on Christmas morning 2021 and
spent six months getting into
shipshape as it orbited the sun
roughly a million miles from
Earth. The big headline from that
period was that the telescope
overcame 344 potential single-
point failures, including the de-
ployment of a tennis-court-sized
sun shield necessary for the cold-
and ultimately another January
6.”
Howell said the election
threats project was devised in
response to a 2020 bipartisan
group of academics, former offi-
cials, journalists and others that
tried to anticipate and prepare
for ways that then-President
Trump might try to disrupt the
election or the peaceful transfer
of power. Their report raised
concerns about violence but did
not imagine the deadly riot at the
U.S. Capitol that temporarily dis-
rupted the certification of Joe
Biden’s win.
Both that effort and the 2024
project used tabletop exercises,
also known as “war games,” that
assign participants various roles
to simulate how they might inter-
act. In the 2024 project at Heri-
tage, President Biden was played
by former senator robert G. Tor-
ricelli (D-N.J.). Those war games
included contemplating surprise
emergencies such as the Strei-
sand kidnapping. (In the war
game, she was rescued the next
day.)
Howell accused the Biden ad-
ministration of a “coordinated
invasion over our southern bor-
der for the purposes of impacting
this election.” As evidence, he said
a camera crew went door to door
in an apartment complex outside
Charlotte, asking people whether
they were noncitizens registered
to vote, with 10 percent respond-
ing yes. Howell said his team did
not verify those registrations.
Noncitizen voting is extremely
rare.
NASA/ESA/cSA/STScI
temperature observations in the
infrared portion of the spectrum.
one of the telescope’s 18 hexag-
onal mirrors took a nasty strike
from a micrometeoroid, but that
had limited impact. NASA has
since tried to lower the risk of such
impacts by flying the telescope
with the mirrors facing away from
the direction of travel.
“We’re sort of flying it so that it’s
not facing, quote unquote, into
the rain,” Straughn said.
The telescope has also pointed
itself at the worlds we know best,
in our own solar system. Jupiter’s
icy moon Europa, long known to
have a deep subsurface ocean, is
leaking carbon dioxide fitfully, the
Webb discovered. And the tele-
scope saw a 6,000-mile plume of
water erupting from Saturn’s
moon Enceladus, which like Euro-
pa has a hidden ocean under the
crust of ice, Hammel said.
“The next 20 years are only
going to be even more exciting as
we really push the capabilities of
this fantastic tool into the un-
known and unexpected,” Hammel
said.
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told
accuser Eliza Cooney that he has “no memory of this incident.”
RFK Jr. texted apology
to woman who accused
him of sexual assault
KEnnEdy from A1
days after her accusations became
public. “I never intended you any
harm. If I hurt you, it was inadver-
tent. I feel badly for doing so.”
He added, “If you feel comfort-
able, Id like to tell you this by
phone, and preferably, face to face.
I recognize that this might not be
possible. I have no agenda for
sending this text other than mak-
ing the most sincere and ernest
amends.”
reached by phone on Thursday,
Kennedy declined to comment on
Cooney’s allegations or to elabo-
rate on his message to her.
“The text message speaks for
itself,” he said.
The message, which Cooney
provided to The Washington Post
and which The Post verified was
sent from Kennedy’s cellphone
number, has not previously been
reported. It represents the candi-
date’s most detailed reaction to
Cooney’s accusations.
In an interview with The Post,
Cooney, now 48, voiced increduli-
ty that Kennedy would claim not
to remember the incident and said
she believed his efforts to contact
her were meant as damage control
rather than a genuine expression
of remorse.
“It was disingenuous and arro-
gant,” Cooney said of his message.
“I’m not sure how somebody has a
true apology for something that
they don’t admit to recalling. I did
not get a sense of remorse.”
She said she was also disturbed
by Kennedy’s suggestion that they
meet in person.
“meet ‘face to face?’ What wom-
an wants to do that?” Cooney said.
Kennedy, the son of former at-
torney general robert f. Kennedy
and nephew of former president
John f. Kennedy, is poised to play
an influential role in this year’s
volatile presidential election. An
independent candidate known for
his conspiracist worldview and
anti-vaccine activism, he has
drawn a relatively small but pas-
sionate following among Ameri-
cans who say they’re disenchanted
with their major-party ballot al-
ternatives. About 9 percent of reg-
istered voters nationally support
his candidacy, polls show.
Despite his famous name, other
prominent members of his family
have disavowed his campaign,
saying they fear he could divert
crucial votes from President Biden
in a close election.
After Cooney’s story appeared
in Vanity fair, Kennedy twice
called her cellphone on July 3 and
sent her a text the same day asking
that she call him. Shortly after
midnight he sent a second text
message with his apology, accord-
ing to screenshots from her phone.
Cooney — who has not had con-
tact with Kennedy for years — said
she was unsure how he obtained
her number. She said she has not
responded to his calls and messag-
es.
Kennedy deflected last week
when asked about the incident.
“I am not a church boy,” he said
on the Breaking Points podcast. “I
had a very, very rambunctious
youth. I said in my [campaign]
announcement speech … I have so
many skeletons in my closet that if
they could all vote I could run for
king of the world.” Pressed on
whether he denied Cooney’s alle-
gations, Kennedy said, “I’m not
going to comment on it.”
Cooney said she went to work
with Kennedy in the fall of 1998
after babysitting over the summer
for some of his nieces and neph-
ews on Cape Cod. A recent gradu-
ate of Pomona College, she was
interested in a career in environ-
mental law. Kennedy was then the
top attorney at riverkeeper, one of
New York’s premier environmen-
tal organizations.
Cooney said she worked week-
days as an intern at an environ-
mental litigation clinic Kennedy
led at Pace Law School, and over
the weekends would look after his
kids. She lived in the expansive
home in mount Kisco, N.Y., that
Kennedy shared with his second
wife, mary richardson Kennedy,
who more than a decade later
would die by suicide amid bitter
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divorce proceedings with her hus-
band.
Weeks after she started, Cooney
said, she was sitting in the kitchen
with Kennedy and a riverkeeper
volunteer when Kennedy began
running his hand up and down her
leg beneath the table. She said she
batted his hand away but that he
persisted throughout the conver-
sation.
They never spoke about it after-
ward, but Cooney wrote about the
experience at the time in her jour-
nal, which she showed to The Post.
“It seemed like he thought I was
somebody else or wasn’t paying
attention,” she wrote. “Like he
would come to every once in a
while and snap out of it or I would
move away. It was like he was on
something or really tired or was
missing mary or testing me.”
Not long after that, she said,
Kennedy showed up shirtless in
her room one day with a large
bottle of Kiehl’s, an expensive
body lotion, and asked her to rub it
into his back — explaining, she
said, that his wife believed it to be
the best brand of moisturizer.
Cooney said the request made her
uncomfortable but that she
obliged, and he left afterward.
on a third occasion, she said,
she was in the kitchen pantry after
yoga class, looking for food to
make lunch, when Kennedy si-
lently approached her from be-
hind and placed his hands on her
hips.
She said he then ran his hands
up her body and along the sides of
her breasts.
“I remember being like, ‘oh my
God, what is even happening right
now?’ ” Cooney told The Post. “It’s
very much like being quiet be-
cause you’re hiding from some-
body under the bed or something,
you know? That’s how I felt.”
At that moment, she said, a man
working on renovations in the
house came into the kitchen and
made his presence known to Ken-
nedy, saying something along the
lines of, “Don’t do anything I
wouldn’t do” or, “Don’t do any-
thing you wouldn’t want your wife
to know about.”
Cooney never spoke of the inci-
dent afterward with Kennedy, al-
though she continued living in the
house for several months and
worked at the Pace Law clinic for
another few years, completing a
project on the history of the Hud-
son river.
“I felt as though if I walked
away, all the investment I put in
would be for naught,” she said. “It
was my first job. I didn’t want that
to be a failure. And it was for
Bobby Kennedy, who was at the
time a prominent environmental
lawyer, which was the work I
wanted to go into.”
But Cooney did not ultimately
pursue such a career, she said, in
part because of her negative ex-
periences with Kennedy.
Several years ago, amid the
#meToo movement’s onslaught of
revelations, she shared her story
for the first time with her mother,
Holly Cooney, who told The Post it
was “horrifying to hear about, es-
pecially with your own child.”
Last summer Cooney consulted
Elizabeth Geddes, a former feder-
al prosecutor now in private prac-
tice. Geddes said the unwanted
touching of her breasts that
Cooney described constituted sex-
ual assault, but that the criminal
statute of limitations had passed.
Cooney was still eligible — for a
limited time — to bring a civil
complaint under New York state’s
Adult Survivors Act, but decided
not to do so, concerned about the
costs and duration of a lawsuit, as
well as the potential blowback for
herself and her family.
Geddes said this week that she
considered Kennedy’s efforts to
reach out directly to Cooney high-
ly unusual.
“This is something that perhaps
might make an offender feel better
about doing it,” Geddes said. “But
it’s hard to imagine that an apolo-
gy such as this could provide any
closure or other solace to some-
body who was sexually assaulted
in the workplace.”
Alice crites contributed to this report.
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Kenyan police on patrol in Haiti, but gangs appear unfazed
After almost 3 weeks, citizens are growing frustrated at the lack of action or an apparent plan to take on the heavily armed criminals
BY W IDLORE M ÉRANCOURT
AND A MANDA C OLETTA
PORt-aU-PRiNCE, Haiti — For
Irvika François, navigating life in
this gang-plagued city requires a
series of precautions. The Haitian
educator and feminist has moved
her family. She never travels more
than a mile from home.
Several hundred Kenyan police
officers have deployed to this
Caribbean nation, the first mem-
bers of a U.N.-backed security
mission to beat back the heavily
armed paramilitaries that control
80 percent of the capital, allow
new elections and give Haitians
like François a chance to breathe.
The Kenyans, better armed and
equipped than Haitian police,
have joined their hosts on street
patrols. The gangs, who warned
they would resist the deployment,
appear unperturbed. They’re still
setting homes ablaze, attacking
police stations and killing with
impunity.
“I don’t feel the effect of the
Kenyans’ presence,” said Fran-
çois, whose cousin was kid-
napped by a gang last year. “Noth-
ing has changed in my life, and I
don’t have increased confidence
in my security. … I don’t under-
stand why the Kenyans are here.”
It’s been nearly two years since
Ariel Henry, then the prime min-
ister, first called for an interna-
tional security force to help re-
store stability. During the long
wait, gangs tightened their grip
on the capital, busting open pris-
ons, shutting down seaports, tak-
ing over fuel terminals and the
international airport.
Now, less than three weeks af-
ter the first officers arrived, frus-
tration is growing. Haitians say
the deployment has had no dis-
cernible effect on security. Police
officers say they haven’t been
looped into a plan to restore or-
der.
“Haitians have high expecta-
tions of the foreign force,” said
Diego Da Rin, an analyst with the
International Crisis Group. “They
say that if … the mission doesn’t
start conducting operations soon
that lead to tangible changes and
victories against the gangs, they
might start to frown upon [its]
presence.”
Officials from Haiti, Kenya and
the United States, which says it
won’t send troops but is by far the
mission’s largest financial backer,
counter that the effort is proceed-
ing as it should.
Rameau Normil, the new head
of the Haitian National Police,
told reporters this week that he
has met with his Kenyan counter-
parts several times for “evalua-
tion and planning.”
“There is neither a set day nor
time for operations,” Normil said.
“The population may wake up one
day to find that operations have
taken place and bandits have
been stopped or neutralized. For
strategic reasons, we cannot re-
veal how this will happen.”
A Kenyan police officer here
said the force is waiting for more
equipment to arrive before begin-
ning operations. He did not know
when that would be.
“We’re ready,” said the officer,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity because he was not
authorized to speak publicly. “We
have more training than the
gangs. We have the capacity to
kick them out. We’re going to
attack the gangs where they are
hidden.”
Gangs killed at least 3,250 peo-
ple in Haiti from January to May,
the U.N. office here reports, up
more than 30 percent from the
previous five months. U.N. offi-
cials say gangs are reportedly pay-
ing people to stay in their commu-
nities so they can serve as human
shields during police operations.
They say they have received
reports of gangs trying to recruit
NePAL
Prime minister loses
confidence vote
The Nepalese prime minister
lost a vote of confidence in
parliament on Friday after the
largest party in his governing
coalition withdrew its support,
forcing him to step down from
office after 19 months in power.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal failed to
get the support of more than half
the members of the lower house
of parliament needed to win the
vote. Parliament Speaker Dev Raj
Ghimire announced that Dahal
received 63 votes in his favor
while 194 other members voted
. the washington post
As part of a U.N.-backed mission, a Kenyan officer patrols near Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince. Kenyan forces arrived in Haiti on June 25.
children ahead of the foreigners’
arrival, allegedly “to leverage po-
tential incidents against children
involving mission personnel in
order to undermine the presence
of those personnel in Haiti.”
Haiti has had a long and diffi-
cult history of international inter-
ventions. The United States in-
vaded in 1915 and occupied the
nation for 19 years, establishing a
system of forced labor, training
the notoriously abusive gendar-
merie and executing dissidents.
Most recently, a U.N. peace-
keeping mission from 2004 to
Kenyan officers stand guard near the U.S. Embassy. The mission is meant to beat back the violent gangs that control 80 percent of Port-au-
Prince and to clear the way for elections. But the gangs are still setting homes ablaze, attacking police stations and killing with impunity.
against him, denying him the
majority required for him to hold
on to power. Dahal is now the
leader of a caretaker government
until a new one is formed.
Dahal had to move a
confidence motion in parliament
after his main ally in
government, the Communist
Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist
Leninist) decided to pull out
their support last week and join
hands with the Nepali Congress
— the largest party in the
country — to form an alliance. It
has already announced that
Khadga Prasad Oli, the leader of
the Communist Party, will be the
new prime minister.
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“I can’t say much about
the Kenyans yet. They
haven’t taken any bold
actions so far. The
armed groups think it’s
just a bluff.”
Stanley Julien, forced from
his home by gang violence
Di g eS t
POLAND
Lawmakers reject ease
of abortion limits
The Polish Parliament on
Friday narrowly rejected a law
that would have eased the
country’s strict antiabortion law,
handing a defeat to Prime
Minister Donald Tusk and his
centrist coalition government.
The vote was 218-215. Tusk
and his liberal Civic Coalition
parliamentary caucus supported
the draft that would have lifted
the punishment for people
aiding women in abortion. They
face up to three years in prison.
The proposal was a key
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2017 was marred by allegations of
abuse and blamed for a cholera
outbreak that killed more than
10,000 people. Haitians said the
troops did little to maintain secu-
rity; they branded them “turis-
tas.”
The United States backed Hen-
ry’s October 2022 call for interna-
tional help but had difficulty find-
ing a country to lead it. The U.N.
Security Council greenlighted the
mission last October, but plan-
ning, staffing and funding have
been slow.
The mission could grow to
element in Tusk’s program of
reversing policies of the previous
right-wing government that have
drawn massive protests.
However, some lawmakers of
the wider ruling coalition —
most of the agrarian Polish
People’s Party — voted against
the change, exposing cracks in
the governing bloc.
Left-wing lawmakers, who
promoted the draft, vowed to
repeatedly resubmit until it is
adopted. But conservative
President Andrzej Duda, who
was allied with the previous
right-wing government, said this
week he won’t sign the proposal.
— Associated Press
roughly 2,500 members. Several
countries from the Caribbean, Af-
rica and Asia have pledged per-
sonnel, but it is unclear when they
will send them to Haiti.
Kenyan officials have said the
mission needs about $600 mil-
lion, but international donors
have contributed just $21 million.
The U.N. office here said last
month that the mission would be
unable to complete a 12-month
deployment without more money.
Haitian police are to lead oper-
ations against gangs with mission
personnel providing support, of-
MEntor DaviD LorEnS/EPa-EFE/ShuttErStock
Kenya’s police boss resigned
Friday, the latest attempt by the
country’s president to respond to
growing concerns of police
brutality in response to protests
triggered by a proposed tax hike.
Protesters stormed Parliament
on June 25 after a tax bill was
passed, forcing lawmakers to flee
through an underground tunnel.
Police responded by opening fire
on protesters in the streets. The
protests have morphed into calls
for President William Ruto to
resign. On Friday, he accepted
the resignation of inspector
general Japhet Koome.
A two-story school collapsed
during morning classes Friday in
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ficials have said. But several Hai-
tian police officers said they re-
main confused about how that
will work.
The officers, who spoke to The
Washington Post on the condition
of anonymity because they were
not authorized to discuss the mat-
ter publicly, said the Kenyans are
better-armed and receive a much
higher salary while the Haitians
are expected to shoulder most of
the risk.
“We are going to be at the
forefront, but with what weap-
ons?” one Haitian police officer
said. “Who will give the orders?
How can we defend ourselves? We
don’t know anything.”
“The Kenyans shouldn’t be pa-
trolling the streets,” said another.
“They should be attacking the
gangs. They have the resources
we lack, including firepower.”
Stanley Julien is among the
several hundred thousand people
who have fled their homes to
escape the violence. He used to
sell drinks near Haiti’s National
Penitentiary but is now sheltering
in a school. He hopes the police
mission “will bring security and
order.”
“I can’t say much about the
Kenyans yet,” he said. “They
haven’t taken any bold actions so
far. The armed groups think it’s
just a bluff.”
Meïka Decime, an economics
student at the University of Port-
au-Prince, runs a small business
selling cocktails in the capital.
But the security crisis makes it
hard to deliver to many neighbor-
hoods, she said, and sales have
dropped 40 percent since Decem-
ber. Many of her teachers, mean-
while, have fled, and her classes
have been canceled.
She’s withholding judgment on
the international force, she said,
while giving it “space and time” to
do its work. She hopes it will
foster long-lasting stability.
“I love my country and don’t
want to leave,” Decime said. “I
can’t imagine spending my life
outside of Haiti.”
north-central Nigeria, trapping
about 120 students and teachers,
and setting off a frantic search
for those missing. Authorities
are yet to confirm the number of
students and teachers killed in
Saints Academy college in
Plateau state’s Busa Buji
community. Nigeria’s National
Emergency Management Agency
said rescue and health workers
as well as security forces are at
the scene. It said that “several
students” had been killed. The
state government blamed the
tragedy on the school’s “weak
structure and location near a
riverbank.” It urged schools with
similar issues to close down.
— From news reports
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Gaps remain as Israel, Hamas inch closer to reaching deal
BY K AREN D E Y OUNG
Israeli Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu’s office on Friday
dismissed as “absolute fake news”
a report it is negotiating with
Egypt over withdrawing its troops
from the eight-mile corridor di-
viding the two countries as part of
ongoing talks over a Gaza cease-
fire and hostage-release deal.
“The Prime Minister insists
that Israel remain on the Philadel-
phi Corridor,” as the area is
known, a statement from Netan-
yahu’s office said. It came in re-
sponse to a Reuters report that
Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza
side of the border was the focus of
negotiations throughout the day
in Cairo.
Insistence that Israeli troops
will remain in the corridor is one
of several snags that have damp-
ened last week’s optimism that an
agreement to stop the fighting
could be imminent. Egyptian
state television, citing an uniden-
tified official, said that “disputed
points go beyond what was previ-
ously agreed upon with the medi-
ators,” which include the United
States, Qatar and Egypt.
President Biden, at his Thurs-
day news conference marking the
conclusion of this week’s NATO
summit, voiced confidence that a
deal was within reach, saying the
“framework” of the cease-fire plan
he laid out six weeks ago “is now
agreed on by both Israel and
Hamas.” While “there are still
gaps to close,” Biden said, “we’re
making progress, the trend is pos-
itive.”
Just hours before Biden spoke,
Freed Israeli hostage recalls joy of rescue, depression in captivity
‘I was a really lucky guy,’
says Andrey Kozlov,
released in June 8 raid
BY S HIRA R UBIN
raMaT GaN, Israel — Andrey
Kozlov woke up on the morning
of June 8 preparing to endure
another day in Hamas captivity.
But by the afternoon, he had been
whisked out of Gaza, rescued by
undercover Israeli commandos
after eight months of war.
“Andrey! You’re going with
me!” an Israeli soldier shouted as
he entered the apartment in the
Nuseirat refugee camp where
Kozlov was held.
Now he is back in Israel with
his family, struggling to make
sense of the ordeal and advocat-
ing for the hostages still languish-
ing in Gaza. “I understand I was a
really lucky guy,” he said, adding
that even as he recalled his ex-
perience, it felt distant. “I feel I
am healthy, but some emotions
are locked.”
The rescue operation, carried
out in a crowded neighborhood
in broad daylight, was one of the
deadliest and most dramatic of
the war. Thousands of Israeli
troops trained for months for the
mission to save Kozlov, 27, and
three other hostages: Shlomi Ziv,
Almog Meir Jan and Noa Arga-
mani.
But when the raid was under-
way and their getaway car stalled,
a fierce battle with Hamas fight-
ers broke out. Israeli warplanes
pummeled the camp so they
could escape. The bombardment
left more than 270 Palestinians
dead, according to the Gaza
Health Ministry, which does not
distinguish between civilians and
combatants but says the majority
of those killed in the war are
women and children.
Kozlov said he laughed and
cried after boarding the helicop-
ter that would take them home,
watching through the window as
Gaza’s sandy beaches, concrete
buildings and sprawling tent cit-
ies disappeared over the horizon.
“Real superheroes,” Kozlov
said of the troops who rescued
him, in an interview at a hotel in
Ramat Gan in central Israel,
where he is now living with his
mother and brother.
The commandos were euphor-
ic, he said, flashing bright smiles
and shaking the hostages’ hands.
“It was wow, wow,” Kozlov said,
adding that he felt like he was in
“the main role” of an “incredible
film.”
But after the first few days of
freedom, as the euphoria and
adrenaline faded, he started
wrestling with the series of events
that caused him to end up in a
refugee camp in Gaza.
It all started on Oct. 7 when
Kozlov, a recent immigrant from
Russia, was working security at a
music festival near the border.
White House national security ad-
viser Jake Sullivan also cited “pos-
itive” signs, but said that “‘opti-
mistic’ is always a hard word to
use in a sentence around this trag-
ic conflict.”
“I think there’s still miles to go
before we close, if we are able to
close,” Sullivan said.
U.S. and Arab officials said that
while the two sides were closer
than they have been, Israel had
interjected new conditions to the
proposal’s broad outline and both
sides had balked on some of the
details during talks that took
place this week in Cairo and Doha.
The officials spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity about the sensi-
tive negotiations.
Meanwhile, Israeli media, re-
flecting ongoing tension between
Netanyahu and the leadership of
the Israel Defense Forces, quoted
anonymous military officials ac-
cusing the prime minister of in-
tentionally seeking to stall the
process.
“The ball is in Netanyahu’s
court,” said a former senior Egyp-
tian official with knowledge of the
negotiations. “Netanyahu does
not want peace. That is all. He will
find excuses … to prolong this war
until 5 November,” the date of the
U.S. presidential election. Polls
show Biden trailing his opponent,
former president Donald Trump,
whose Republican Party has been
less critical of Israel’s conduct in
the war.
In a statement Thursday,
Hamas accused Netanyahu of
“procrastination to buy time with
the aim of thwarting this round of
negotiations.”
Andrey Kozlov, with mother Evgeniia Kozlova. The Russian immigrant was working security at a musical festival when Hamas attacked on
Oct. 7. His mother feared he would return scarred after eight months in Gaza. “But I saw ... he is my Andrey,” she said. “He didn’t change.”
Kozlov arrives by helicopter at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, central Israel, after the Israeli
raid that freed him and three others. Of the troops who rescued them, he said: “Real superheroes.”
His Hebrew was still rudimenta-
ry, and as Hamas fighters began
to attack, he struggled to follow
what was going on.
All he could make out, he said,
was “b’hatzlacha,” or good luck, a
phrase the partygoers shouted at
one another as they ran for their
lives. Kozlov also ran, searching
for shelter in the open desert. He
joined Ziv, another security
guard, and they fled until a man
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israel-gaza war
The families of dozens of hos-
tages who remain in Hamas cap-
tivity have been at the forefront of
escalating demonstrations in Isra-
el demanding that Netanyahu
complete the deal, with some ac-
cusing him of holding back to
keep his government from falling
in the face of pressure from ex-
treme right-wing coalition part-
ners who oppose an agreement.
The ongoing war has also shifted
attention away from corruption
charges that also threaten his hold
on power.
Netanyahu is scheduled to trav-
el to Washington to address a joint
session of Congress on July 24,
and it is unclear whether Biden,
whose relationship with the Is-
raeli leader has become more
strained as the war’s civilian toll
has grown, will hold a formal
meeting with him. “We believe
that they will have some engage-
ment,” White House spokeswom-
en Karine Jean-Pierre told report-
ers Friday. “I just don’t have any-
thing to announce at this time.”
“He’s going to use his U.S. visit
to salvage his political situation
internally as much as he can,” an
Arab official said. “He’s going to
keep his coalition together until
he finds some allies that could
come along and compensate if he
needs to.”
The three-phase plan an-
nounced by Biden on May 31 in-
cludes a six-week initial stage with
a cease-fire and a surge in human-
itarian aid. Israeli forces would
withdraw from all populated ar-
eas, and female, elderly and
wounded hostages held in Gaza
would be exchanged for hundreds
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in a T-shirt and jeans approached
them, saying, “Come, come.”
Kozlov breathed a sigh of relief
and thanked the man, thinking
they were about to be saved. Then
another man with a beard, fa-
tigues and a Kalashnikov rifle
appeared from behind a tree. He
shuffled the two Israelis into a
Toyota Lexus. Kozlov remembers
thinking that the men must be
members of an Israeli undercover
of Palestinian prisoners held in
Israel. Palestinians would also
have free passage to return to
their homes in areas that have
long been blocked by Israeli
troops.
Assuming no violations oc-
curred, the six-week cease-fire
would continue indefinitely as the
parties negotiated a second phase
that calls for a “permanent” truce,
which would include a complete
Israeli withdrawal and the release
of remaining hostages. A third
phase would begin international-
ly financed Gaza reconstruction,
new Palestinian governance for
the enclave and the eventual es-
tablishment of an independent
Palestinian state.
While the administration has
long accused Hamas of holding up
a deal that it said Israel had al-
ready agreed to, the militant lead-
ership late last week dropped a
demand that an end state of per-
manent cease-fire and full Israeli
withdrawal be guaranteed before
it would enter the first phase. The
Biden administration character-
ized the move as a “significant
adjustment” in Hamas’s negotiat-
ing position and sent its chief
negotiator, CIA Director William
J. Burns, back to the region.
Burns has now returned to
Washington. Brett McGurk, the
National Security Council’s Mid-
east chief, continued talks in Cairo
Friday.
Israel’s Philadelphi Corridor
demand, among several Israeli
red lines Netanyahu announced
in a Thursday speech to newly
graduating IDF officers, would
appear to violate conditions out-
unit.
But when he asked the beard-
ed man if he had another gun so
that Kozlov could help kill the
militants advancing through the
music festival, everyone in the
car looked at him in utter disbe-
lief. He soon realized that they
were headed to Gaza, the Pales-
tinian enclave controlled by
Hamas.
Once there, they were chained
the washington post
lined in the framework plan.
While Egypt and Israel were said
to be close to an agreement on
adjustments to border security to
prevent Hamas smuggling, in-
cluding electronic and physical
barriers, an Israeli military pres-
ence there would also violate pre-
existing border agreements.
Far from a permanent cease-
fire, Netanyahu insisted Israel be
able to “return to the fight” follow-
ing the release of hostages “until
all the objectives of the war are
achieved.”
Negotiators were said to be try-
ing to find a way around his insis-
tence that Israel would “not allow
the return of armed terrorists and
the entry of war materiel to the
northern Gaza Strip” in order to
permit hundreds of thousands of
Gazans who fled Israeli attacks in
the north earlier this year to re-
turn home, as the proposed agree-
ment stipulates.
“We may have moved from the
performative phase of negotia-
tions — each side trying to pin the
collapse of the deal on the other —
to something that is actually head-
ed to an agreement,” said Aaron
David Miller, a former U.S. adviser
and negotiator in the Middle East.
“The danger now is that each side,
especially Netanyahu, will ask for
too much and create a self-rein-
forcing race to the bottom and a
cratering of the entire process.”
Meanwhile, the war that shift-
ed in early May from northern
Gaza to Rafah in the far south,
where at least 1.5 million Palestin-
ians had taken refuge, has now
returned to northern areas that
Israel had once declared clear of
HeIdI LevIne for THe WAsHInGTon posT
and blindfolded and grouped to-
gether with Almog Meir Jan, also
abducted from the festival. “It
was really scary,” Kozlov said. “We
were us three, with the guard,
who didn’t talk. On one side, was
a big stick. On the other side, a big
knife.”
On one of the first days, a guard
removed Kozlov’s blindfold and
said through gestures and in Ara-
bic: “I — tomorrow — you — film
— kill you.”
“I thought that would be the
end of my story,” he said.
But the next day, the guards
swapped their metal chains for
rope and the same guard ap-
proached, with a new message: “I
— love — you.”
“What? Are you crazy?” Kozlov
recalls thinking. “What are you
doing? What’s going on?”
Over the course of the next
eight months, the three men were
moved to seven homes, some
with Palestinian families and oth-
ers in abandoned buildings. The
rotating guards occasionally
brought them food or packs of
cards. They asked questions in
broken English and boasted
about the high death toll on
Oct. 7. Israel estimates about
1,200 people were killed in the
attack. More than 250 others
were dragged into Gaza as hos-
tages.
The guards also told their cap-
tives that Israel had given up on
them, saying Kozlov’s mother was
vacationing abroad and Ziv’s wife
was dating other men. In general,
they seemed incapable of com-
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Hamas.
Two days after the Israeli mili-
tary issued a sweeping directive
for all Palestinians to leave Gaza
City, suggesting intensified mili-
tary operations to come in what
was once the northern population
hub, the families that remained
there were sheltering in bomb-
and bullet-slashed buildings, Lou-
ise Wateridge, a spokesperson for
the United Nations agency for Pal-
estinian refugees, said Friday.
After nine months of war, the
city is one of the most deprived in
Gaza — mostly cut off from inter-
national aid deliveries, and with
entire streets flattened by Israeli
airstrikes.
Wateridge said that families
she met there were living in dire
conditions. Several women she
spoke with described traumatic
births without health care; girls
spoke of enduring their periods
without access to clean water or
any sanitary products.
As the United Nations convoy
approached the city, its aid work-
ers saw some Palestinian families
leaving on foot, apparently in
search of refuge further south.
They held their hands in the air as
they walked toward Israeli mili-
tary checkpoints, she said. The air
was baking, and there was little
shade. “Every group we saw had
young children. And the children
were often carrying white flags on
sticks, made out of whatever
white fabric that they were able to
find,” she said.
Louisa Loveluck in London, Heba
Mahfouz in Cairo and Lior soroka in
Tel Aviv contributed to this report.
prehending the hostages’ suffer-
ing, Kozlov said.
One day when the hostages
were visibly upset, the guards
asked what was wrong.
“I don’t see sun, I don’t see
nothing, I only see you guys,”
Kozlov responded. “Maybe you
will kill us in one hour. And you
ask, why so sad? Because of this.
Because of all of this that you did.”
Early in the war, during a brief
cease-fire in November, there was
some hope among the hostages
that they would be included in
the release. Hamas transferred
105 captives to the International
Committee of the Red Cross,
which transported them back to
Israel. Israeli authorities also re-
leased 240 Palestinian detainees.
But when the bombing re-
sumed, Kozlov and his fellow
captives knew they wouldn’t be
going home and entered “the
deepest depression,” he said.
It was in December when a
guard who called himself Mo-
hammad brought them to the
home in Nuseirat, where they
would stay for the next six
months. The apartment belonged
to the Aljamal family, according
to the Israeli military.
And Mohammad was actually
Abdallah Aljamal, an editor at the
Palestine Now news agency, ac-
cording to the Hamas-run gov-
ernment media office in Gaza. He
was also a freelance contributor
to the Palestine Chronicle, a web-
site operated by a U.S. nonprofit.
Earlier this week, Jan filed a
lawsuit in U.S. federal court alleg-
ing that the organization paid
Aljamal while he held the three
hostages.
The Israeli military later de-
scribed him as a Hamas “opera-
tive.” He was killed with his wife
and father during the raid.
At the beginning, Aljamal
joked and played cards with the
hostages. But as time passed, his
mood darkened. He confined
himself to the cramped room
where they were held, Kozlov
said, and his punishments be-
came “really creative.”
One day in May, Kozlov mistak-
enly used a few drops of drinking
water to wash his hands. Aljamal
became enraged and ordered
Kozlov to lie down on a mattress,
he said. He then forced Ziv and
Jan to help him cover Kozlov with
several thick blankets, making
him stay there for more than an
hour in 90-degree weather.
Kozlov’s mother, Evgeniia, said
she had heard testimonies from
other hostages describing physi-
cal, psychological and sexual tor-
ture, and worried that her son
would return to her broken.
“I was very afraid to see what
person returned to me,” she said.
“But I saw in a few minutes that
he is my Andrey. He didn’t
change.”
Kozlov said that his time in
captivity taught him to survive. In
the early months, he cried often.
“But with time, human beings,
their tears run out,” he said. “I
spent all of my emotion.”
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Biden wants to turn
old auto factories
into makers of EVs
$1.7 billion plan focuses
on shuttered facilities
or ones at risk of closing
BY M AXINE J OSELOW
The Energy Department on
Thursday unveiled $1.7 billion for
retooling 11 auto factories to make
electric vehicles and their compo-
nents, with a focus on facilities
that have shuttered or could close
without federal help.
The funding underscores how
the Biden administration is rac-
ing to get climate money out the
door before the November elec-
tion, even as it faces criticism for
not moving faster on green lend-
ing. Should former president
Donald Trump win a second term,
he could try to scrap billions of
dollars’ worth of federal spending
aimed at accelerating America’s
shift to clean energy and electric
vehicles.
Much of this money comes
from President Biden’s signature
2022 climate law, the Inflation
Reduction Act, which also pro-
vides tax credits of up to $7,500 for
consumers to buy EVs. Trump has
falsely claimed that EVs don’t
work, and he vowed to gut Biden’s
EV policies during an April meet-
ing with oil industry donors.
The 11 factories are scattered
across eight states, including bat-
tleground states in the 2024 elec-
tion such as Georgia, Michigan,
Ohio and Pennsylvania. All of the
facilities are unionized, unlike
many EV plants in Southern
states less friendly to union labor.
Facing pressure from his own
party to drop his reelection bid,
Biden has sought to showcase his
enduring support from unions, a
critical Democratic constituency.
The president met Wednesday
with the executive council of the
AFL-CIO, the country’s largest
federation of trade unions, al-
though that invitation was ex-
tended before his disastrous de-
bate performance last month.
“Building a clean energy econo-
my can and should be a win-win
for union autoworkers and auto-
makers,” Biden said in a state-
ment Thursday. “This investment
will create thousands of good-pay-
ing, union manufacturing jobs
and retain even more — from
Lansing, Michigan to Fort Valley,
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Nov. 13. Thursday’s failed launch did not
have astronauts on board, but is likely to delay upcoming human spaceflight missions.
stoCK MARKet
Wall Street higher on
bets for Fed rate cut
Wall Street stock indexes
closed higher Friday, on bets
that the Federal Reserve will cut
interest rates in September,
while big banks fell after
reporting mixed results.
Some of the market’s most
valuable companies bounced
back after dipping in the
previous session, with rallies by
Apple and Nvidia.
JPMorgan Chase’s second-
Economy & Business
Georgia — by helping auto compa-
nies retool, reboot and rehire in
the same factories and communi-
ties.”
Without mentioning Trump by
name, Biden added that these
communities “were left behind by
my predecessor and are now mak-
ing a comeback with the support
of my policies.” In his campaign,
Trump has accused Biden of off-
shoring U.S. jobs and has prom-
ised to “take jobs out of China and
bring jobs back to Michigan.”
The funding announced Thurs-
day is not final and is conditional
upon successful negotiations with
the companies. If awarded, it
could create more than 2,900 jobs
while saving more than 15,000
union positions at risk of being
eliminated, the Energy Depart-
ment said.
“This announcement is a hall-
mark of the Biden administra-
tion’s industrial strategy, which is
a strategy to bring manufacturing
jobs back to America after years of
offshoring,” Energy Secretary Jen-
nifer Granholm said during a
Wednesday call with reporters
previewing the announcement.
The funding comes amid
mounting anxiety in Washington
about China’s dominance of glob-
al supply chains for EVs and their
components. In a bid to prevent a
flood of low-cost Chinese EVs
from hurting domestic manufac-
turing, Biden in May quadrupled
tariffs on Chinese EVs to 100 per-
cent.
The announcement also comes
as major automakers chip away at
Tesla’s once-commanding share
of the U.S. EV market. For the first
time, Tesla’s share of the market
fell below 50 percent in the second
quarter of this year, even as over-
all EV sales set a record, according
to estimates released Tuesday by
the research firm Cox Automo-
tive.
The largest chunk of money
announced Thursday — $500 mil-
lion — will help General Motors
convert its plant in Lansing,
Mich., from producing internal
combustion engine vehicles to
EVs. The Energy Department said
the investment is expected to al-
low the plant to retain more than
650 jobs while creating 50 jobs.
An additional $89 million will
help Harley-Davidson retool its
factory in York, Pa., to manufac-
ture electric motorcycles. And
$32.6 million will go to American
Autoparts Inc., a subsidiary of
quarter profit was lifted by
rising investment banking fees.
However, shares of the world’s
largest bank dipped.
Wells Fargo tumbled after the
lender missed estimates for
quarterly interest income, while
Citigroup fell despite reporting
a surge in investment banking
revenue.
According to preliminary
data, the S&P 500 gained 31.92
points, or 0.57 percent, to end at
5,616.46 points, while the
Nasdaq Composite gained 113.58
points, or 0.62 percent, to
18,396.98. The Dow Jones
A battery moves beneath a Chevrolet electric utility vehicle at Orion Assembly in Lake Orion, Mich., in 2021. Racing to dole out climate
money before this year’s election, President Biden unveiled funding to make other auto factories capable of manufacturing such vehicles.
Hyundai Mobis, to make plug-in
hybrid electric cars and trucks in
Toledo.
Many of these facilities faced a
real risk of closure without the
infusion of federal cash, said Sam
Abuelsamid, an EV expert at the
market intelligence firm Guide-
house Insights.
“Assuming we have continued
uptake of EVs, there will be less
and less need for manufacturing
capacity for the components that
are specific to internal combus-
tion engine vehicles,” Abuelsamid
said.
A race against the clock
Beyond the Energy Depart-
ment, agencies across the federal
government are rushing to award
the rest of their climate cash be-
fore the end of Biden’s first term.
John D. Podesta, senior adviser
to the president for international
climate policy, said some Inflation
Reduction Act money is reserved
for future years. But he said
around 92 percent of major grant
programs have launched and
nearly 60 percent of grants have
been awarded.
“The agencies have done an
extraordinary job of launching
what are brand-new programs,”
Podesta told reporters Tuesday on
the sidelines of a climate event at
the Canadian Embassy.
Some climate advocates and
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D i g est
Industrial Average rose 260.02
points, or 0.65 percent, to
40,013.77.
— Reuters
online RetAil
Amazon must comply
with bias probe
A New York federal judge has
ordered Amazon to comply with
a subpoena from a U.S. civil
rights agency investigating
claims that the online retailer
discriminated against pregnant
warehouse workers.
eZ re
clean energy companies, however,
say a crucial office within the
Energy Department has made less
progress than they had hoped
toward issuing green loans, rather
than grants.
The climate law empowered
the Loan Programs Office to lend
an additional $200 billion to next-
generation energy projects, in-
cluding solar farms, hydrogen
plants and lithium mines. So far,
the office has approved a little
more than $27 billion, and it still
has an estimated $215.7 billion
left to lend.
Energy Department spokes-
woman Charisma Troiano said it
took time for the Biden adminis-
tration to hire more staff for the
office, which was largely dormant
under the Trump administration.
It also takes time for the office to
conduct a rigorous analysis of
each loan application, she said.
“Thanks to President Biden’s
Investing in America agenda, LPO
is firing on all cylinders now and
the office’s application pipeline is
stronger than ever, helping sup-
port all aspects of the nation’s
clean energy manufacturing ren-
aissance,” Troiano said in an
email.
Under President Barack
Obama, the Loan Programs Office
had a high-profile success when it
loaned $465 million to Tesla to
open its first factory in Silicon
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket suffers
engine failure during satellite launch
BY C HRISTIAN D AVENPORT
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket suf-
fered an upper stage engine fail-
ure after lifting off from Vanden-
berg Space Force Base late Thurs-
day, a setback on a mission with-
out astronauts on board that will
likely delay upcoming human
spaceflight launches while the
company investigates what went
wrong.
The problem occurred during
the launch of a batch of Starlink
satellites, used to beam the inter-
net to ground stations and cell-
phones. The company said that
since the “second stage engine did
not complete its second burn” the
satellites “were deployed into a
lower than intended orbit.”
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote
on X that the engine failed “for
reasons currently unknown. Team
is reviewing data tonight to un-
derstand root cause.”
In a statement, the Federal
Aviation Administration said it
would require an investigation
U.S. District Judge Lorna
Schofield in Manhattan late
Thursday rejected Amazon’s
claims that the Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission subpoena was too
broad and sought irrelevant
information.
The EEOC is seeking data on
requests that pregnant workers
at five U.S. warehouses made for
accommodations such as limits
on heavy lifting and additional
breaks, and whether Amazon
granted or denied them.
Amazon spokesman Sam
Stephenson said the company
Valley. But it faced fierce criticism
from congressional Republicans
in 2011, when the solar panel man-
ufacturer Solyndra filed for bank-
ruptcy after receiving $535 mil-
lion in federal loan guarantees,
leaving 1,100 people out of work
and taxpayers on the hook.
Trevor Dolan, senior industry
and workforce policy lead at Ever-
green Action, an environmental
group, said the Biden administra-
tion faces an inherent tension
when doling out climate money. If
agencies move too slowly, a sec-
ond Trump administration could
claw back unspent funds. Too
quickly, and Biden could face a
Solyndra-like scandal or leave
communities and workers be-
hind.
“We know that a Trump presi-
dency poses an existential threat
to climate action, so getting out
this funding between now and the
election is crucial,” Dolan said.
“. . . But agencies are putting ex-
tensive due diligence into this.
They’re not pushing money out
the door without regard for creat-
ing good jobs or advancing broad-
er goals.”
At the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency, $27 billion went out
the door in April. The money
comes from the Greenhouse Gas
Reduction Fund, which seeks to
leverage public and private dol-
lars to invest in clean energy tech-
that is “designed to further en-
hance public safety, determine the
root cause of the event, and identi-
fy corrective actions to avoid it
from happening again. The FAA
will be involved in every step of the
investigation process and must
approve SpaceX’s final report, in-
cluding any corrective actions.”
It added that, “no public inju-
ries or public property damage
have been reported.”
NASA relies on SpaceX and its
fleet of Falcon 9 rockets to launch
people as well as cargo to the
International Space Station. The
company was scheduled to launch
a group of private citizens to orbit
on July 31 in a mission funded by
billionaire entrepreneur Jared
Isaacman. Then, in mid-August, it
was scheduled to fly three NASA
astronauts and a Russian cosmo-
naut to the International Space
Station for a six-month stay. Those
missions will likely be postponed
while SpaceX investigates the
engine failure.
The Falcon 9 has been a reliable
has cooperated with the
investigation since it began
three years ago and disagreed
with the EEOC’s
characterization of its conduct.
(Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
owns The Washington Post.)
— Reuters
Also in Business
Southwest Airlines has signed
an agreement with Archer
Aviation to develop operational
plans for electric air taxi
networks at the California
airports the Dallas-based air
carrier flies at. Archer Aviation
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nologies such as solar panels, heat
pumps and more.
“EPA continues to work quickly
and prudently to design, open for
competition, select for award, and
obligate these funds,” EPA spokes-
man Tim Carroll said in an email.
“The Agency anticipates that
more than $32 billion in funds
will be obligated by the end of the
year.”
The $1.7 billion announced
Thursday comes from the Domes-
tic Manufacturing Conversion
Grants program, which ranks in
the top third of Inflation Reduc-
tion Act programs in terms of size,
said a White House official who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity because he was not au-
thorized to comment publicly.
A second Trump administra-
tion would have trouble clawing
back this money once it is formal-
ly awarded. But if Trump repeals
Biden’s policies aimed at spurring
EV adoption, it could still cast a
pall of uncertainty over recipients
of this funding, said Karl Brauer,
executive analyst at iSeeCars.com.
“This is where the downside of
our four-year election cycle rears
its ugly head,” Brauer said.
“Whether or not you like EVs, it’s
really wasteful to plow money
into EVs for four years and then
have another four-year time
frame where you change direc-
tion.”
workhorse of a rocket that has
upended the industry by launch-
ing frequently. Last year, SpaceX
launched it nearly 100 times. The
rocket is also reusable, flying back
to a landing pad on the coast or to
a ship at sea.
But it has had problems in the
past. In 2016, a Falcon 9 exploded
on its launchpad during an engine
test. The year before, another Fal-
con 9 blew up as it was carrying
cargo and supplies to the space
station. No one was hurt in either
failure and the FAA ultimately
cleared the company to continue
flying.
It was not immediately clear if
the Starlink satellites launched
Thursday would stay in orbit or
fall back into the atmosphere.
Musk wrote that the “satellites
thrusters need to raise orbit faster
than atmospheric drag pulls them
down or they burn up.” The rock-
et’s first stage appeared to fly nor-
mally. It returned to Earth and
landed on a ship at sea after sepa-
rating from the second stage.
is a California-based eVTOL
manufacturer. eVTOL stands for
electric vertical takeoff and
landing aircraft.
The price of first-class U.S.
mail stamps will rise Sunday to
73 cents from 68 cents, the
latest of several price hikes. The
plan raises overall mailing
service product prices by 7.8
percent. So-called Forever first-
class stamps can be used at any
time — even after prices rise.
— From news services
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Food companies feel the pain as consumers reject higher prices
Snack giants PepsiCo
and Conagra confront
recent revenue declines
BY J ACLYN P EISER
AND A ARON G REGG
Grocery inflation is slowing,
and the companies that make the
food are starting to sweat.
As part of their quarterly earn-
ings reports Thursday, snack
powerhouses PepsiCo and Con-
agra Brands reported lower rev-
enue and unit sales, pointing to
cost-conscious consumers push-
ing back on prices. And govern-
ment data reflects the trend: The
Bureau of Labor Statistics re-
ported that food prices rose only
slightly last month.
“We’re seeing consumers be
very price sensitive,” said Bobby
Gibbs, a partner in the retail and
consumer goods division of the
marketing consulting firm oliver
Wyman. “Consumers are cherry
picking promotional prices more
and retailers are putting out
more promotional pricing than
they have in the last few years.”
And while the economy is
technically strong, prices for
many goods remain higher than
before the pandemic and house-
hold debt has risen. Grocery
prices are up 18 percent since
2020, but the latest inflation
report released Thursday shows
them leveling off.
overall costs for “food at
home” rose only 0.1 percent in
June over the previous month.
AT&T says hackers stole call records
of ‘nearly all’ wireless customers
At&t from A1
impactful revelations by federal
contractor Edward Snowden a
decade ago. Now a large swath of
it might be for sale to criminals
and other governments.
AT&T said it had not detected
the material being made public,
and it said one person had been
arrested. The company said it
learned of the theft in April but
delayed disclosing it — as re-
quired under recently adopted
Securities and Exchange Com-
mission regulations — at the re-
quest of law enforcement, for na-
tional security or public safety
reasons, the first time such a
delay has been disclosed.
Justice Department spokes-
man Joshua Stueve confirmed
that the fBI had invoked the legal
provision allowing the delay, and
said AT&T had aided the investi-
gation. He did not say how the
breach could have affected na-
tional security. The federal Com-
munications Commission said it
was also investigating.
While Social Security and cred-
it card numbers were not includ-
ed in the breach, the identity of
cell towers for an undisclosed
number of customers was, and
those would point to their physi-
cal locations.
Even without that location
data, hackers could work out rela-
tionship webs, experts warned.
Someone targeting a criminal
prosecutor or police officer might
be able to identify a close relative
and then use that number to find
out where they live. Spurned ro-
mantic partners could do the
same.
Because those in contact with
AT&T users also have their num-
bers listed, “just about EVErY-
oNE in the US who uses SmS or
voice telephony is likely repre-
sented to some degree,” tech secu-
rity expert matt Blaze wrote on
the social media platform mast-
odon.
A major concern is that the
data could be used to locate U.S.
government workers employed
abroad, or people communicat-
ing with the government, said
David Berteau, president of the
Professional Services Council,
which represents contractors em-
ploying security-cleared workers.
“Given what we know now,
there is clearly a risk to anybody
who has a [security] clearance
who might have called anybody
who has an AT&T phone. Which is
probably anybody with a clear-
ance,” Berteau said.
AT&T said the attack began
with illicit access to one of its
accounts with a major but low-
profile cloud data storage compa-
ny, Snowflake. more than 100 of
that company’s corporate cus-
tomers have been compromised
in the past few months. Snow-
flake says most if not all of the
victims were not using multifac-
tor authentication.
“The incident was limited to an
AT&T workspace on Snowflake’s
cloud platform and did not im-
pact AT&T’s network,” the phone
PepsiCo’s report of lower unit sales suggests that consumers frustrated by rising prices are now
spending less on established brands. the company said it will try a wider range of prices.
Prices for some key budget items
are already falling: fruits and
vegetables are down 0.5 percent,
and cereals and bakery products
are down 0.1 percent.
PepsiCo’s and Conagra’s re-
sults suggest that consumers
frustrated by rising prices are
now spending less on established
brands, particularly in the snack
and soda aisles.
PepsiCo, which makes not only
its namesake sodas but also other
drinks, frito-Lay snacks and
Quaker cereals, raised prices by 5
the hackers accessed the numbers called or texted between May 1
and Oct. 31, 2022, as well as one day in January 2023.
company said. It said affected
consumers would be notified and
provided with resources to help
protect their information.
“We sincerely regret this inci-
dent occurred,” AT&T said. It did
not respond to questions about
whether the relevant Snowflake
account had two-factor authenti-
cation.
AT&T generates so much data,
and uses it for so many things,
that it is closely watched for the
technology it picks. AT&T has
boasted in Snowflake marketing
material that it cut costs by 84
percent when it moved to Snow-
flake.
“This data could be
used by spies, scammers
and other bad actors
to target specific people
or to improve the
feasibility of scams
by impersonating the
numbers of people you
regularly call.”
Cooper Quintin, a technologist at
the Electronic Frontier Foundation
But Snowflake has come under
heavy criticism from security ex-
perts for denying all responsibili-
ty for previous data breaches and
being slow to aid customers. re-
lated major breaches hit Ticket-
master and Advance Auto Parts.
Snowflake told The Washing-
ton Post on friday that it was still
working on a process that would
allow customers to require two-
factor authentication.
Previous Snowflake customer
data dumps have been offered for
sale in online criminal forums,
indicating that the hackers mak-
ing the most of the security weak-
ness have been motivated by
money.
In an earlier report, one of the
security companies hired by
EZ Su
percent in the second quarter
and saw unit sales shrink. Vol-
umes in North America fell 4
percent for frito-Lay, one of the
company’s more prolific snack
businesses, and 3.5 percent for
PepsiCo Beverages.
Some retailers have already
responded. Target, Aldi, Amazon
and Walmart announced in may
that they were rolling back prices
on many grocery items.
PepsiCo chief executive ra-
mon Laguarta acknowledged in a
call with analysts Thursday that
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Snowflake, Google Cloud’s man-
diant unit, said the hackers had
used log-in credentials initially
obtained by what are called infos-
tealers — specialized malware
that spirits away sensitive data
from corporate or personal devic-
es that have been compromised
through other means.
mandiant said that some of the
infected devices had downloaded
games or pirated software, a com-
mon vector for malware.
The hack marks the latest
large-scale security incident for
AT&T. In late march, the company
disclosed that account informa-
tion from 73 million current and
former customers had been
leaked to the dark web.
The incidents underscore the
massive reach of one of America’s
largest wireless carriers and the
vulnerability of calling data. Pri-
vacy advocates noted that smart-
phone apps are less likely to face
similar breaches and that some,
such as WhatsApp and Signal,
offer full end-to-end encryption,
meaning that no one can obtain
contents of a message unless they
have access to a device participat-
ing in the conversation.
They also urge consumers to
use an app for authenticating
themselves to a bank or other
service provider, instead of text
messages that can be intercepted.
AT&T said “nearly all” of its
wireless customers had been af-
fected. An employee speaking on
the condition of anonymity for
discussing private information
said about 110 million wireless
customers had data exposed.
Brad Jones, the chief informa-
tion officer at Snowflake, said the
company hasn’t seen evidence
that Snowflake itself was
breached, though it has con-
firmed a “targeted threat cam-
paign” against some customers.
“We have not identified evi-
dence suggesting this activity was
caused by a vulnerability, miscon-
figuration, or breach of Snow-
flake’s platform,” Jones said, add-
ing that this was confirmed by
mandiant and CrowdStrike.
AT&T said the hack wouldn’t
be material to its operations or
negatively affect its financial re-
sults.
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customers are hungry for better
deals.
“for particular consumers, we
need some new entry price
points and probably some new
promotional kind of mechanics
that don’t expect for the consum-
er to invest so much cash in a
purchase of salty” snacks, he
said. “So there’s adjustments that
we have to make. … There is
some value to be given back to
consumers after three or four
years of a lot of inflation.”
PepsiCo said it will try “a vast
Alec Baldwin hugs a member of his legal team Friday after his trial on involuntary manslaughter
charges at Santa Fe County District Court was thrown out by the judge.
Judge blames prosecutor misconduct
BALDWIN from A1
budget Western made him re-
sponsible for the fatal shooting.
The dismissal — which fol-
lowed a slew of dramatic twists
inside the courtroom — essential-
ly ends the threat of criminal pun-
ishment for Baldwin, one of Amer-
ica’s best-known actors, whose ca-
reer was derailed by the shooting.
He’s lauded for his Emmy-win-
ning impressions of Donald
Trump on “Saturday Night Live”
and his role as Jack Donaghy in
“30 rock.”
Baldwin — who had for much of
the proceedings maintained an
unfazed and calm demeanor —
put his face in his hands when he
heard the judge’s decision, then
embraced his attorneys and wife.
He later left court without taking
questions from the dozens of re-
porters the case had drawn to New
mexico.
Baldwin’s lawyers filed a mo-
tion to dismiss the case late Thurs-
day, alleging that prosecutors hid
evidence that could have helped
determine the source of the live
round found in Baldwin’s revolver,
on a film set where only blanks
were supposed to be used.
The potential evidence in ques-
tion was a collection of rounds in
the possession of Troy Teske, a
friend of the “rust” armorer’s
stepfather, Thell reed. Teske gave
the live rounds to personnel at the
Santa fe County Sheriff’s office
earlier this year, after armorer
Hannah Gutierrez-reed’s invol-
untary manslaughter trial con-
cluded with her conviction. The
defense claimed that knowledge
of the rounds had not been shared
with them, despite their request to
examine all ballistic evidence.
When the concerns were
brought up in court on friday, the
judge donned a pair of blue gloves,
cut open the manila packet con-
taining the ammunition and
asked for a crime-scene technician
to identify each of the rounds. As
the washington post
array of combinations” of prod-
ucts, such as variety packs of
snacks, and a wider range of
prices. It also plans to lean into
offerings branded as healthier,
which continue to sell well, such
as PopCorners, Smartfood and
Bare, and build out its foreign
snack lines, including mexican
brands Sabritas and Gamesa.
Also Thursday, Conagra re-
ported a 2.3 percent sales decline
and a 1.8 percent decrease in
volume during its mostly com-
pleted quarter. The soft sales
numbers were driven by “contin-
ued lower consumption trends,”
according to the company, whose
brands include Slim Jim, Ban-
quet, Vlasic, Swiss miss and Dun-
can Hines.
food companies have been
seeing “value-seeking behavior”
over the past year, among lower-
income and higher-income cus-
tomers alike, Conagra chief exec-
utive Sean Connolly told analysts
Thursday.
“Part of that is grounded in
reality — people needed to make
their household budgets work
for them — and part of it was
principle,” Connolly said. “Even
higher-income customers on
principle didn’t like the prices
they were seeing in the basket
and they would trim on purchas-
es.”
Those pressures are expected
to wane throughout the year as
consumers grow accustomed to
the higher price points, Connolly
said. The company’s sales of
snacks and frozen foods are now
essentially flat, for example. A
year ago those categories were in
a steep decline.
Sommer questioned the techni-
cian, it was revealed that at least
one of the bullets was similar to a
dummy round found on the “rust”
set.
After the judge sent the jury
home friday to look into the mat-
ter, special prosecutor Kari mor-
rissey called herself as a witness,
in an unusual move. She testified
that the ammunition in question
did not match live ammunition
collected from the “rust” set, and
had never been brought to New
mexico — let alone the film set —
before the shooting.
The defense was aware of the
ammunition in question, morris-
sey argued, but the rounds weren’t
formally presented to the defense
team as evidence because they did
not appear to match the rounds
that were found on the set of the
western. “This has no evidentiary
value whatsoever,” she said.
But Sommer thought other-
wise, and the judge excoriated the
prosecution in her ruling.
“If this conduct does not rise to
the level of bad faith, it certainly
comes so near to bad faith as to
show signs of scorching preju-
dice,” she said in her ruling. She
said that Baldwin’s defense team
should have been made aware of
the ammunition earlier, and it was
now too late for them to incorpo-
rate it into their defense. There-
fore, not even the declaration of a
mistrial could remedy the situa-
tion; the case had to be dismissed
with prejudice — meaning Bald-
win cannot be retried.
The dismissal marks the prose-
cutorial team’s second major mis-
step in Baldwin’s case. He was
initially charged, along with Guti-
errez-reed, of two counts of invol-
untary manslaughter in January
2023 — more than a year after the
shooting. However, Baldwin’s
charges, which initially carried a
mandatory five-year sentence,
were later downgraded to 18
months after his defense lawyers
successfully argued that they were
. saturday, july 13 , 2024
Lower-income consumers, in
particular, have struggled with
years of inflation, said Connor
rattigan, an analyst covering
food at Consumer Edge. “There’s
definitely still some sticker shock
going on, since prices have in-
creased so quickly, so fast,” he
said.
over the past six months, food
companies such as Conagra have
tried to use temporary discounts
to sell more products, Bank of
America analyst Peter Galbo
said.
“But a lot of the promotional
activity that they’ve put in place
hasn’t really worked,” Galbo said.
“So now it becomes a question of
whether they need more perma-
nent reductions on price.”
one of the growing threats for
packaged goods companies like
PepsiCo and Conagra are retail-
ers’ private-label brands. Interest
in store-brand grocery items in-
creased during the pandemic,
and customers have stuck with
them as the quality improved.
Walmart, which already has a
handful of brands, unveiled in
April a new private label lineup
of “chef-inspired food” mostly in
the $5-and-under range. Wal-
greens last month said it plans to
expand its line and has already
removed eight national brands
from its health and wellness
categories. Aldi and Lidl, Germa-
ny-based value grocery chains
that expanded rapidly during the
pandemic, specialize in private-
label products, though they also
carry popular national brands.
Rachel Siegel contributed to this
report.
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based on a firearm enhancement
law that was passed months after
the shooting.
About a month later, the charg-
es against the actor were dropped
after “new facts were revealed that
demand further investigation and
forensic analysis,” prosecutors
said at the time, noting that the
charges could be refiled.
In January, a grand jury indict-
ed Baldwin with involuntary man-
slaughter once again, leading to
the trial that was tossed out friday.
The case stemmed from an inci-
dent that occurred when some
cast and crew of “rust” were re-
hearsing at Bonanza Creek ranch
near Santa fe, N.m., on oct. 21,
2021. When Baldwin’s revolver
went off, it released a live round
that hit Hutchins in the chest and
director Joel Souza in the shoul-
der. Hutchins was airlifted from
the scene and pronounced dead at
a hospital in Albuquerque, while
Souza was expected to make a full
recovery.
Baldwin, who is also a producer
on the still-unreleased film, has
denied pulling the gun’s trigger.
Though he is now out of criminal
jeopardy, he still faces civil litiga-
tion related to the shooting —
including a lawsuit alleging negli-
gence and intentional infliction of
emotional distress filed by
Hutchins’s father, mother and sis-
ter.
In october 2022, Baldwin,
along with the film’s production
companies and several crew mem-
bers, reached a settlement after
Hutchins’s husband, matthew,
and son sued for the cinematogra-
pher’s wrongful death. As part of
the agreement, matthew
Hutchins was made an executive
producer of “rust.”
Baldwin told CNN in 2022 that
the “rust” fallout “has taken years
off” his life.
William Triplett in New Mexico
contributed to this report. This article
has been updated.
saturday, july 13 , 2024 . the washington post
There goes the ‘neighborhood’
I question Jeffrey H. Smith’s description of the
Caribbean, and possibly the entire Western Hemi-
sphere, as “our neighborhood” in his June 28 op-ed,
“Russian warships off Cuba risk 1962 all over again.”
If these sovereign nations are “our neighborhood,” is
Ukraine, and possibly all of Eastern Europe, Russia’s
neighborhood? We can’t have it both ways.
Gabriel Sucher, Rockville
An 1880 bison is no match
for a 1980 Ram
It’s long past time to jettison “Mark Trail.” The
narratives and drawings are desultory, and the
“facts” too often wrong. The June 30 strip contained
two errors:
1. “The bison is the largest mammal in America by
mass. Males can weigh up to 2,000 lbs. while
females weigh 1,000 lbs. — larger than a car.”
Actually, the average car weight in the Environmen-
tal Protection Agency’s 2023 Auto Trends Report
was just over 4,000 pounds, or twice the male
bison’s maximum weight. (The average subcompact
weighed about 2,500 pounds; the lightest car for
sale in the United States, the Mitsubishi Mirage,
weighed 2,095 pounds, about equal to a bull bison.)
2. “Bison used to number in the millions in the
U.S., but that was before humans hunted them to
near extinction in the late 1900s.” Actually, the nadir
of the bison population in the United States came in
the 1880s (some sources specify 1884) — a century
earlier than the late 1900s. (“The late 19th century”
would have been correct.)
Cartoonist Jules Rivera or a Post editor could do
some fact-checking, I suppose, but the comic strip
really isn’t worth it.
John Blodgett, Jefferson
Almost as cartoonish
I hate it when The Post gets cute with animated
articles, such as July 6’s “What would happen if
Russia detonated a nuclear bomb in space?” The Post
could at the very least give the option of a plain text
article. I get that the paper needs to engage new
audiences, but keep this up and you will lose
subscribers. It was a short article of little substance,
and the required scrolling didn’t make it any better.
Glenn Riley, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Sending ’em up, knocking ’em down
In extolling the talents of Martin Mull, the June 30
obituary “Wry comedic master was unbound by any
one medium” [Metro] and Geoff Edgers’s July 1
Appreciation, “Mull’s subversive genius was pitch-
perfect” [Style], left one
out: his ability to handle
hecklers. I saw Mull
open for Fairport Con-
vention in the late 1970s,
and while most of the
audience was enjoying
his hilarious set, a few
loudmouths began clam-
oring for the main act.
Without missing a beat,
Mull, with a gleam in his
eye, and his half-angelic/
evan agostInI/InvIsIon/ap half-wicked smile, began
Martin Mull in New riffing on their outbursts
York on May 14, 2018. to the thorough delight
of the crowd. A casual
observer could be forgiven for thinking Mull had
planted them to provide grist for his jokes. Realizing
they were losers in this battle of wits, the hecklers
finally displayed a bit of judgment that until then
had been absent: They shut up.
Jeffrey Hamilton, Jessup
‘I’ll have a bed. Make it a double.’
After reading the June 16 Travel article “The
world’s coolest hotels want to tell you a story,” I was
reminded of the time about 20 years ago when I met
up with my best friend for cocktails at the recently
opened Standard on the Sunset Strip. Dressed in our
coolest club outfits, we walked in to see the beautiful
people lounging in low-slung seats, sipping marti-
nis. We stood at the end of the long black bar trying
to catch the bartender’s eye. Only two other guys
were at the other end of the counter, also not getting
any attention. After 10 minutes of attempting to
procure a drink and wondering whether we weren’t
cool enough to get served, we waved a $20 bill at the
gentleman behind the bar. He finally walked over
and in a low voice said, “Ladies, this is the front desk.
The bar is in the next room.”
Victoria Borton, Arlington
That’s our own goal
I’m 12 years old, and I’m writing because I think it
would be super awesome if The Post included Euro-
pean soccer scores in the Sports section.
Lots of my friends and I follow European soccer
leagues and players including Cristiano Ronaldo, and
a lot of kids my age are really into sports from all over
the world, not just the ones here in the United States.
We follow our favorite players on social media and
watch highlights online. Including European soccer
scores would make us want to read the newspaper
more because it covers something we love and follow
closely.
There are also some really great American players
in European soccer leagues, among them Christian
Pulisic, Weston McKennie and Giovanni Reyna, and
we always want to know how they are doing. Seeing
their scores and achievements in The Post would be
exciting and make us feel proud of our American
players.
Adding European soccer scores might also bring
more people to read The Post. There are lots of people
from different countries living in the United States
who love European soccer. They would probably love
to see their favorite teams and players covered in the
newspaper. Plus, The Post might get some cool ads
from soccer brands that want to reach more fans.
Finally, I think including European soccer scores
would show that The Post cares about what’s popular
and interesting to a lot of people. Soccer is the most
popular sport in the world, and it’s getting bigger here
in the United States, too. By covering it more, The Post
would be keeping up with what a lot of readers,
especially younger ones like me, are really into.
Peter Dziekan, Washington
Free For All
President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House on March 30, 1968.
Don’t give Biden
the Johnson treatment
A 75-year-old liberal, I’m the child of two liberal
parents. Because my mother was a columnist who
became the lead editorial writer for the Houston Post,
I have always looked first to the opinion pages. I
grieve to see The Post’s Editorial Board and op-ed
writers succumb to the deadly liberal habit of eating
our own.
After three years of superb governance that re-
stored our standing in the world and gave us the best
economy in decades, President Biden had a bad night
at the debate. Doesn’t The Post owe its readers a sense
of perspective? Instead of taking a breath, cutting him
some slack for a day or so, The Post rushed like
lemmings to call for him to step down. Where was
commensurate coverage of his unworthy opponent?
Has The Post become so inured to Donald Trump’s
deranged rants and outrageous lies? Have they
become so “ordinary” that The Post’s writers won’t
call him out for a performance that insults the office?
I guess it wasn’t “news” like Biden’s fatigue-plagued
performance.
The Post’s writers might be too young to recall the
last time Democrats hounded a sitting president into
stepping out of the race. But they should consider
Do give diners the silent treatment
Why are restaurants so loud? In snar-
kier moments, I’ve conjectured that ar-
chitects and restaurant owners despise
those of us with hearing loss. As de-
scribed by the July 2 Health & Science
article “What science tells us about noisy
restaurants,” hard, reverberant surfaces,
photos by béatrIce de géa For the WashIngton post
Barroom conversations are toast.
often with music blaring, are just the
design for making people raise their
voices to be heard, which only adds to
the auditory chaos in a vicious cycle of
decibels.
I have fantasied an alternative: a na-
tionwide chain of tea rooms and coffee
houses to be called the Quiet Place. With
Fur and a pawprint, keepsakes of Xochi, a dog
euthanized in her home in Oxon Hill on Feb. 14.
eZ re A15
Meanness:
That’s what it’s all about
Although I often disagree with Kathleen
Parker on social and political issues, I have
always respected her viewpoints. This changed,
however, upon reading her July 7 op-ed, “How
Joe Biden got trapped.” Many commentators
have expressed dismay at the fact that Jill Biden
appears to be enabling her husband in denying
his apparent cognitive decline. Though this
criticism is legitimate, Parker’s op-ed was unnec-
essarily mean-spirited. Her suggestion that the
first lady is pushing her husband to stay in the
race because she is “probably not eager to retreat
to Delaware with … a stranger content to watch
dust particles do the hokey pokey in a shaft of
sunlight” is an insult to those experiencing
declining cognition as well as to the loved ones
caring for them. Is this how she would react,
should she find herself in a similar situation in
the future?
Joan Katz, McLean
bob daUgherty/ap
tom brenner For the WashIngton post
First lady Jill Biden applauds President Biden
during an Independence Day celebration at
the White House on July 4.
how Lyndon B. Johnson’s withdrawal gave us Richard
M. Nixon. Nixon was a small-time crook whose
criminal activities were preschool antics compared
with those of the felon who might take the presidency Geez, Lincoln really ripped off
next. And, in those days, there were honorable,
patriotic Republican lawmakers who persuaded Nix- Everlast singing ‘then you really
on to resign. Not one such person will represent the might know what it’s like’
GOP in Congress next year.
Elections are always a choice between flawed In his June 30 op-ed, “The nation deserves a
human beings, each of whom could form a govern- better debate. Or does it?,” George F. Will beauti-
ment. Biden has done that admirably. Is The Post fully encapsulated what I have struggled to
really ready for Project 2025? understand about the opposing party.
Susan Barnes, Newport, R.I. By quoting Abraham Lincoln, during the first
Lincoln-Douglas debate, in Ottawa, Ill., Will
Reading David Von Drehle’s July 1 op-ed, “For succeeded in turning on a lightbulb above my
Biden, the LBJ lesson,” I was shocked Von Drehle head.
made no comparison regarding timing. President Lincoln said of Southerners, “They are just
Lyndon B. Johnson’s surprise announcement that he what we would be in their situation.”
would not run for reelection was on March 31, 1968, Instantly, my demonization of the other party
giving the Democratic Party seven months’ notice. ceased. I was able to see my party more clearly in
With four months till Election Day, President Biden is the same light.
running for reelection, approval ratings be damned. Thank you, Mr. Will, for restoring some sanity
Mr. Von Drehle: Our dude will not abide! and humanity to these chaotic times.
Nanc R. Hawkins, Arlington Linda Trytek, Deerfield, Ill.
carpeted floors, acoustical ceilings, cov-
ered walls and high booths, Quiet Place
locations would offer people a cozy
space for relaxed, intimate conversa-
tion, confidential meetings and quiet
reading.
Restaurants that offered a noise-
reduced experience would, judging
from customer noise complaints, likely
be popular, especially among the grow-
ing number of us hearing-challenged
folks who struggle to isolate one voice
from a cacophony.
Entrepreneurs, take note: If you build
it, we will come.
David G. Myers, Holland, Mich.
The article about noisy restaurants
was excellent and long overdue. As the
authors pointed out, the problems don’t
challenge only older people like me. Tom
Sietsema made a small step in 2008
when he began to publish decibel levels
in his reviews. He could make a huge
difference by publishing a ranking, per-
haps semiannually, of restaurants by
noise categories: “conversation is easy,”
“must speak with a raised voice,” “ex-
tremely loud,” etc. I suspect that older
adults are a disproportionate percent-
age of your readers, and we will especial-
ly appreciate this. Such a prominent
ranking would not only please diners
but also give restaurants added incen-
tive to take steps to reduce their noise
levels. They can compete on the dining
experience they offer as much as the
food they serve.
Mary Jo Deering, Bethesda Seeing double, hearing treble.
Pawprints (and handprints)
on our hearts
The headline on the July 4 Local man connection.
Living article “Why a pet’s death can Penny Suritz, Ocean View, Del.
hurt worse than losing a human
loved one” stopped me in my tracks. The article on pet loss was a
Yes, we love our pets and their loss valuable service to the millions of
hurts our hearts. I certainly loved the people struggling and feeling guilty
little dog I had for 17 years. about the extent of their grief over
But did her death in any way losing their pet, especially a dog or
compare to the death of my father cat.
way too early, my mother at five I would have liked to see a word or
months less than 100 or my husband, two about the variability in the
who was unwell but whose death still length of time a person grieves —
was a devastating and unexpected from a month or so to a year or so —
shock? and their readiness to acquire an-
Well, no. other dog or cat. So often, I hear
I wanted to empathize with the people say, “I should be over it by
premise, and indeed I did, but my now.” In our relationships with peo-
pity for people whose lives appar- ple — family and others — there are
ently haven’t held much human typically both positive and negative
love or kindness certainly out- experiences. In the human-animal
marvIn Joseph/the WashIngton post
weighed that emotion. I am sorry bond, it’s all positive with rare
for your loss but more sorry that you exceptions.
have not had as comforting a hu- Sheila L. Cohen, Chevy Chase
a16
For Mr. Biden, some answers but even more questions
A
NEWS conference Thursday did not pro-
duce the clarity many were looking for as to
President Biden’s ability to campaign for
reelection and to serve four more years. The
president managed to discourse knowledgeably on
the questions posed to him, which were mostly
polite requests for reassurance about his mental or
physical health, or general queries about foreign
policy, not tough challenges regard-
EdiTOriaL ing the gap between reality and the
White House’s upbeat portrayal of
his fitness over the past year.
And yet there were moments in which Mr. Biden
veered toward the same kind of embarrassing
mistakes he had made during the June 27 debate
with former president Donald Trump, including a
cringeworthy reference to Vice President Harris as
“Vice President Trump.” That came just a few hours
after Mr. Biden, in a different setting, had mixed up
the names of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zel-
ensky and his Russian antagonist, Vladimir Putin.
(He corrected himself in that case.) Mr. Biden also
boasted of having “created 2,000 jobs just last week”
in reference to a jobs report that showed more than
200,000 new jobs last month. He claimed that five
other presidents had worse poll numbers than his in
an election year, neglecting to mention that most
lost their reelection bids.
LETTErs TO ThE EdiTOr
Does Arlington need more people?
Regarding the July 8 front-page article
“Homeowners sue over zoning changes”:
The article about Arlington County’s “missing
middle” litigation clearly outlines two critical issues
in the case. Did the county analyze whether its
sweeping Expanded Housing Options (EHO)
ordinance was the best way to create more
reasonably priced housing units? And did it analyze
how building more multifamily dwellings would
affect Arlington’s infrastructure? In my view, these
impacts have the potential to be devastating.
The Post is technically correct that multifamily
units must be “almost” identical in design standards.
But this focus on aesthetics misses an important
point: These EHO projects are allowed to build on a
larger percentage of a lot than the single-family
houses they replace. For many years before this
policy was proposed, civic associations,
environmental groups and others in Arlington had
been pressing the county to revisit its existing, overly
generous, lot-coverage limits for single-family
homes. Recognizing this concern, the County Board
assured Arlingtonians in 2022 that lot coverage for
these new developments would be at parity with
those generous existing limits for single-family
homes. Yet the county ultimately allowed developers
of EHO projects to build on an additional 5 percent
of the lots where the projects are sited, an exception
available only to those few single-family homes that
include detached rear garages.
As the county’s interim EHO report confirms,
those EHO developers not waiting for the outcome
of the litigation have already taken full advantage of
this extra 5 percent allowance in their designs. Their
projects would destroy mature trees, exacerbating
heat islands and other climate effects; pose more
stormwater management challenges, which are
already considerable given the increased frequency
and severity of flash floods; result in the teardowns
of smaller and less expensive homes; cast shade that
makes it harder for surrounding homes to generate
solar power; and disrupt the reasonable
expectations of quiet enjoyment by neighbors
identified in the article.
The county board refused to consider proposals to
defer Expanded Housing Options until it had finally
addressed this lot-coverage problem. But it has only
now directed staff to begin a study of how to address
these concerns. How promptly the county proceeds
will be critical, as developers continue to tear down
so many of Arlington’s smaller homes week by week
and the county allows even more generous lot
coverage for EHOs to go forward.
William R. Richardson Jr., Arlington
The writer is president of the
Donaldson Run Civic Association.
As I read the June 8 front-page article about
Arlington residents feuding with their government, I
looked for but couldn’t find the reason why the
Arlington government feels obliged to cram more
people into the city.
Is there a law that stipulates Arlington city
officials, whether elected or employed, must enable
more housing? And without citizen approval? If so,
then when is Arlington “full”? Surely, Arlington
government officials realize that, just as they allow a
defined number of people to occupy a space, be it a
school room, cafe or stadium, there’s a limit to how
many human beings, along with their cars and
possessions, can fit into the boundaries constituting
Arlington.
Who’s in charge in Arlington anyway, the public or
their public servants?
Jimm Roberts, Alexandria
I found the June 8 article about a lawsuit against
Arlington’s Expanded Housing Options program
hilarious. It seems that comfortable, liberal NIMBYs
are so conflicted by their desire to support affordable
housing as long as it’s built somewhere else, they
need to turn their narrow private interests into
broad public interests. It never fails: They will bring
up concerns about schools, streets, sewers, children,
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In short, Mr. Biden’s mixed reviews prolong the
Democratic Party’s predicament, as evidenced by
disparate statements from elected officials after the
news conference. Some declared that he should
leave the race, while others said the time had come
to close ranks behind him. With time running out
before the Democratic National Convention opens
Aug. 19, Mr. Biden and his inner circle of advisers
seem to be playing for time. Indeed, based on his
comments Thursday, Mr. Biden seems to be some-
what oblivious to the political furor surrounding
him and in denial about his frailty, personally and
politically.
The president and his team argue that everyone
should focus on his record of accomplishment and
brightening news on both the foreign and domestic
fronts: easing inflation, plummeting border cross-
ings and reports that a Gaza cease-fire agreement is
within reach. They have a point. Yet the terrible
irony is that the best way to ensure that a GOP
victory does not undo this progress might be to
hand the reins to a successor more capable of
making the case than the president himself.
Eighty-five percent of Americans now say Biden
is too old to serve four more years as president,
according to a Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll published
this week, and 56 percent of Democrats say he
should end his candidacy. His approval rating is
draWing bOard
gentrification, greedy developers, whether the
housing will be affordable, and if all else fails,
process and procedure. Come clean, “missing
middle” opponents; you simply want to protect your
slice of heaven. It’s okay, we all do! But at least be
honest about it.
Jeffrey Denny, Washington
The July 1 Metro article “New laws set to take
effect” neglected a significant new law in Virginia:
House Bill 1395, “Historic Preservation; filing of a
historic district designation,” which I proposed with
John Reeder, and which was diligently championed
by Del. Patrick Hope in the face of four years of
relentless opposition from Arlington County.
This new law is necessary and important, as it will
prevent the debacle that occurred in Arlington in
2021 with the destruction of the historic Febrey-
Lothrop-Rouse estate on Wilson Boulevard. This
unique antebellum mansion, numerous historic
outbuildings and 91/2 acres of open land were all
approved for demolition by Arlington County, prior
to the completion of an in-progress review for Local
Historic District designation for the entire site,
which was also in the county’s hands.
The new law requires full completion of the entire
Local Historic District review and approval process
prior to the issuance of any demolition permit by the
government entity involved. It is possible that
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36 percent. Just 14 percent of adults think Mr. Biden
has more of the mental sharpness it takes to
effectively serve as president than Mr. Trump.
Of course, Mr. Biden’s defenders are right to insist
on more attention to the dangers Mr. Trump poses.
We’ve made that point many times and will
continue to do so. The 78-year-old presumptive GOP
Mr. Biden seems to be somewhat
oblivious to the political furor
surrounding him and in denial about
his frailty, personally and politically.
nominee rambles, rants, lies and makes verbal
flubs, such as confusing Nikki Haley for Nancy
Pelosi. But the best way to keep Mr. Trump away
from the Oval Office is by offering a strong
alternative. Democratic warnings that Mr. Trump
poses an existential threat to democracy cannot be
squared with insistence that the best person to run
against him is Mr. Biden. “The voters will not
believe us about January 6 if we don’t tell the truth
Gary Markstein
Mike luckovich/atlanta Journal-constitution
adherence to this new law might soon be tested in
Arlington, with the current pending Local Historical
District review for the former Nelly Custis school site
in South Arlington, which is at serious risk of being
demolished.
Preservation advocates such as myself will be
watching closely, here and around the whole state of
Virginia, for proper compliance with this historic
new legislation.
Tom Dickinson, Arlington
I was amused by the dark humor in the July 2
Metro article “Fairfax County schools to change
grading policy.” Once you cut the educational jargon
away, the change is just another illustration of how
“what goes around comes around” in education.
Fairfax school leaders have solemnly announced
they are changing their grading system from a
“traditional” method that takes into account
“student behavior, participation, and study habits”
to new models that “prioritize” student performance
on projects, tests, homework and quizzes.
In the 1940s and ’50s when I was passing through
public schools, the traditional method of grading
was based on student performance on tests,
homework, quizzes, and projects. Sounds familiar,
doesn’t it? In fact, other than students back then
having to demonstrate mastery in a more rigorous
way than those under Fairfax’s new model, there is
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about June 27,” said former representative Tim Ryan
(D-Ohio).
To repeat: What makes Mr. Biden’s cognitive
decline especially damaging is that he and his aides
have systematically failed to level with the public
about it. This undercuts Democrats’ efforts to
contrast their commitment to facts and science with
Mr. Trump’s lies and flights of demagoguery —
however worse morally those might be.
Tellingly, Mr. Trump and his top advisers appear
to prefer to face Mr. Biden than a fresher face. No
party as dispirited and divided as the Democratic
Party is right now is likely to win the presidency —
or do well down ballot. Mr. Biden has a distressingly
narrow path to victory that requires winning
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, plus the
single electoral vote from the congressional district
that includes Omaha. This would be a challenge for
even the best politicians at their peak. Mr. Biden
denies he is in political trouble and rejects negative
polling results. We suspect Democratic fortunes
would improve with a new national ticket.
Mr. Biden said on Thursday he’s “not in this for
my legacy.” Well and good. What, then, is he in it for?
The only right answer is the good of the country.
And those with influence and access to the presi-
dent need to explain forcefully and candidly what
that calls for now.
no difference.
In the decades after the 1950s, educational
“reformers” successfully converted grading into the
present system based on student behavior, which at
its worst made preserving a student’s self-esteem its
goal rather than assuring they learned anything.
Now, this present system is being replaced by the
1950s system posing as a new model.
I will not be around to see it, but I would be willing
to bet that, 20 years from now, after the model based
on mastery of subject matter has become the
“traditional” grading system again, it will be
challenged by educational “reformers” wishing to
replace it with a new grading model based on
student behavior, participation and study habits.
Roger Burkhart, Gaithersburg
Regarding the June 27 Metro article, “Va.,
Md. bicker over blue crab dredging”:
Imagine it. Friends and family gathered around a
table, picking blue crabs, rehashing the age-old
argument about J.O. seasoning vs. Old Bay and
teaching the youngest of the crowd how to extract the
prized lump meat. This summer, this scene is likely to
play out thousands of times across Virginia and
Maryland, where the iconic blue crab is as much a
part of the cultural fabric as it is the economy.
Now, imagine a scenario in which the blue crab
fishery, the watermen who fish them and crab-picking
gatherings are a thing of the past. Because of last
month’s decision by the Virginia Marine Resources
Commission, that tragedy could be our future.
The VMRC recently voted to overturn a 15-year
closure of Virginia’s blue crab winter dredge fishery,
which operated historically from December through
March. The ban went into effect in 2008 because of
severe declines in blue crab numbers, linked to the
overharvesting of female crabs — the key to
population sustainability. The winter dredge fishery,
because of where and when it operates, takes
predominantly adult female crabs before they spawn
in the spring. Estimates indicated that when the
dredge fishery was operating, it harvested 34 percent
of all adult female crabs in the bay each year, and
along with them, the millions of juvenile crabs they
would have produced if they had been left to spawn.
Today, the outlook for the bay’s blue crab
population is once again worrisome, with scientists
racing to understand the latest challenges limiting
crab reproduction and the impact of new threats
such as blue catfish. A new stock assessment, which
will produce a statistical model that estimates crab
abundance and sustainable harvest rates, is
currently underway. Yet the VMRC chose now to
open the possibility of additional harvest, against
the best available science, the advice of its own staff
scientists and the conservation efforts of its
neighboring jurisdictions.
Crab lovers in both states are rightfully upset by
this decision. The VMRC’s verdict is concerning,
premature and not based on science. There is still
time to convince the commission to walk back this
unwise decision and not reopen the fishery this
December. That’s exactly what we urge them to do.
Ann Swanson, Annapolis
Donald Boesch, Annapolis
Emmett Hanger, Mount Solon, Va.
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Chesapeake Bay Commission, president emeritus at
the University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science and a former Republican
senator in the Virginia General Assembly.
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COLBERT I. KING
Biden can have his legacy
and bequeath it, too
H
e was called “Der Alte” (“the old one”) by
people mourning the death of Konrad
Adenauer, West Germany’s first chancellor.
Adenauer had been out of office for almost
three years when I arrived in West Germany during
the summer of 1966 to serve at the U.S. Embassy in
Bonn. But I witnessed his state funeral the following
year in Cologne and saw leaders from more
than 100 countries, including President Lyndon
B. Johnson, gather to honor the man considered the
father of West Germany.
Most observers would agree that Adenauer’s se-
niority and depth of experience had been strengths in
developing partnerships with the United States and
other Western allies. Those same enabling features
were on display this week at the NATO summit in
Washington, where President Biden worked the
world stage with the best of them. If not the com-
manding figure, Biden stood out as a forceful oppo-
nent of tyranny and a forceful advocate of democratic
principles.
As Adenauer had done, Biden loomed large in the
global arena and as an elder statesman. Ironically,
however, he also echoed the condition Johnson found
himself in in 1967: namely, a U.S. president bathing in
the esteem of an international setting but flounder-
ing in the swamp of a domestic disturbance.
Massive Vietnam War protests were the source of
Johnson’s troubles. For Biden, it is disputes within
the Democratic Party over whether he should aban-
don his reelection bid in the wake of a dreadful debate
performance and the slippage in support that has
followed.
Different hazards; same political territory.
Johnson resolved his problem by stepping aside
before being asked or forced to. Biden says he’s
staying in the race to “finish the job because there’s so
much at stake.”
The response to Biden over the past several days
has ranged from mawkish to mean to maniacal.
Convinced that Biden will lose to former president
Donald Trump in November, a growing number have
hit the panic button and called for his prompt exit
from the race.
Maybe it’s time for a few political realities.
Yes, there’s the possibility of Trump winning if a
still-weak Biden is on the November ballot.
But consider the consequences of dumping the
putative Democratic nominee within weeks of the
Democratic National Convention. Think of the gift
given to Trump if there is raucous convention fight
over the selection of a new Democratic ticket with
loads of losers licking their wounds. How enthusias-
tic will they be, come November?
Consider, too, the damage done to down-ballot
candidates if a newly constituted Democratic ticket
leaves the Chicago convention without the united
support of Democratic Party mainstays.
The last thing Biden, as well as the Democrats who
want him gone, needs is a convention that ends up
anything like the intensely divided 1968 convention
that produced presidential nominee Hubert
H. Humphrey. Or the 1980 convention, where hun-
dreds of Sen. Ted Kennedy’s supporters walked out
after President Jimmy Carter was renominated. Or
even the 1992 Republican convention that renomi-
nated incumbent George H.W. Bush but featured an
inflammatory speech by his defeated challenger,
conservative columnist Pat Buchanan.
In all three cases, the nomination clashes made
At 79, master of the house
— and student of the piano
BY D AVID B ONIOR
A
s a quarterback in high school and college, I
played in front of large crowds. I got butter-
flies before each game. As a 26-year member
of Congress from Michigan, I gave hundreds
of speeches to audiences small and large. I was
always nervous. At age 79, performing “Ol’ Man
River” during a recital in front of other students and
my family?
Well, if you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking
up too much room. That has always been one of my
favorite expressions.
Why did I decide to learn to play the piano in my
late 70s? Because I’ve always wanted to.
In fact, this is my second try. In 1963, I was
awarded a football scholarship to the University of
Iowa, and that presented an opportunity. There, in
the fall of 1964, I registered for a piano class. A piano
in the lounge of my dorm made it easy. All I had to do
was withstand the catcalls from friends and team-
mates moseying through while I practiced.
Midway into the semester, I received a notice to
report to the athletic director’s office. Was my schol-
arship on the line? For me, no scholarship meant no
school. I arrived panicked at the office, where a fella
who looked like an accountant asked about my piano
class, then bluntly informed me that the athletic
department was not going to pay for my lessons.
I was broke, so that was that, or so I thought
through the Air Force, marriage, family, social work,
politics, Congress and retirement. Wrong. For Christ-
mas in 2020, my wife, Judy, surprised me with a
full-size Yamaha keyboard. My granddaughter Alina
was my first teacher. Now I learn from Susan Yoe, a
26-year pro.
At 79, I am not in good shape for piano playing.
Years of bad snaps under center jammed my now-ar-
thritic fingers. My hands are also disfigured from
Dupuytren’s contracture. My mind and memory
wander out of focus, needing constant corralling.
My first recital this past winter was disappointing.
There I was, an old man performing with little kids
who were often better than me. My teacher and I
worked on “Bye Bye Blackbird” and “Rainbow Con-
nection” from “The Muppet Movie.” If I had been
graded, I would have been lucky to get a C-minus.
Emphasis on the “minus.”
Our spring recital brought another chance. This
time, I chose “Ol’ Man River,” music by Jerome Kern
and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. I have been fond of
this song ever since hearing the great Paul Robeson’s
performance in the 1936 film “Show Boat.” The tempo
is slow, which I thought might be easier for me.
Wrong again. Those nerves reared. As I played, my
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convention victories not worth having: Humphrey,
Carter and Bush went down on Election Day —
though Humphrey came close to Richard M. Nixon in
the popular vote.
Which is to say, waiting to sort out Biden’s fate at
the Democratic convention next month is both short-
sighted and self-defeating. The only winner in a
Democratic food fight would be Trump — who must
be praying, “Don’t go, Joe.”
I believe present-day Biden — though wrinkled
and gray, and slower with elocution skills — is fully
aware of the state of political play: that by even the
most optimistic reading of polling data, his path to
victory is narrow and getting narrower.
Biden also knows, as party leader and a creature of
Congress, that when a presidential candidate is taken
down at the polls, some down-ballot candidates go
with him. Does Biden want to be the president who
helped Republicans reinforce their hold on the
House and turn the Senate red? Will that be part of his
legacy? Does he want that on his conscience? Or do
the naysayers want it on theirs?
The president must know he doesn’t
have much time to make his case.
But he does have time to make
a good case for a path forward.
Biden is doing what he can to demonstrate his
viability, that he has command of the job and that he
can win again. And he must know he doesn’t have
much time to make his case. But he does have time to
make a good case for a path forward.
Ron Klain, Biden’s longtime adviser and former
White House chief of staff, maintains that the presi-
dent still offers the party’s best chance of defeating
Trump. In a text message to The Post, he wrote:
“[Biden] wins in 2024 as he did in 2020 — because his
personal values and character ultimately prevail
against Trump.” ’Tis maybe true, in Klain’s mind.
There’s a school of thought, however, that holds
that Biden won in 2020 in significant part because of
something Hillary Clinton didn’t do in 2016. Her
vanilla ticket with Tim Kaine paled against the hue
of the Biden-Harris ticket that faced off with Trump
four years later. That ticket energized and mobilized
the Democratic Party’s base, especially Black and
young voters. Little wonder that in celebrating his
2016 victory against Clinton, Trump mockingly
thanked Black voters for their low turnout. Think
about it.
There is a path forward for Biden’s legacy. The
contributions he has made, and has set in motion, can
live on in a well-conceived Democratic ticket that he,
between now and the convention, can do much to
create. He could step back gracefully, ceding his role to
Vice President Harris, who can carry on his democrat-
ic ideals, while he helps select the kind of smart, strong
and energetic running mate she will need.
“Der Alte,” at the peak of Germany’s rise from a
ruinous war to a state of prosperity, agreed to turn
over the reins to new leadership. His indomitable
spirit and reputation never died.
So, too, can Biden’s, if he decides wisely.
gREg KAHN FOR THE WASHINgTON POST
The author practices on his keyboard at his home
in Port Republic, Md., on June 14.
eyes and head were in constant motion between the
sheet music and the keys. I struggled to find where I
was on the sheet music. The result was an agonizing-
ly halting performance.
But it is such a good thing, this living on the edge.
Piano challenges my mind. The left hand doing its
thing while the right hand plays the melody. It’s good
brain aerobics. Playing is also relaxing. I practice
every day and often wander over to the keyboard to
work on part of a song that’s giving me trouble. It
requires my full attention. I force myself to focus on
each step in the learning process. It’s a way to
practice mindfulness.
I also find it gratifying to read music — it’s like
learning another language. And I have become a
better listener. Now, when I hear music, I think of the
notes or combination of notes that make up the
piece. I can hear the separate sounds coming from
instruments in a band or orchestra. All of this adds to
a fuller appreciation and enjoyment of music.
I have not conquered, and might never conquer,
my fear of playing in front of an audience. But I
remain undaunted. It is such a joy to be playing. I’ll
just keep rolling along.
The writer represented Michigan in the House of
Representatives from 1977 to 2003. He served as
Democratic whip from 1991 to 2002.
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evidence again with an unfair
advantage, having learned the de-
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way forward was a complete do-
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That decision was the wrong
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month. And it means Walker can-
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Music maven was proprietor of a record paradise
BY M ATT S CHUDEL
Joe Lee, an internationally rec-
ognized dealer in obscure blues,
rock and jazz recordings and
whose Montgomery County shop,
Joe’s Record Paradise, became an
informal center of the D.C. music
scene, died July 4 at a hospice
center in Rockville. He was 76.
He had throat cancer, said his
son, Johnson Lee.
Mr. Lee was the admitted black
sheep of a distinguished Maryland
family, with two ancestors who
signed the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. His father, Blair Lee III,
was a Maryland state legislator
and lieutenant governor who
served as acting governor in the
1970s.
Other members of the Blair-Lee
family were senators, governors,
presidential advisers and military
leaders, including Robert E. Lee.
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In the weeks since workers at
seven Compass Coffee locations
announced plans to unionize, the
Washington-based company has
gone on a hiring spree that orga-
nizers and labor experts say is a
traditional tactic to try to dilute
pro-union votes.
Compass co-founder and chief
executive Michael Haft said the
company has hired workers to fill
empty positions and prepare for
new store openings, including
three more locations expected to
open by the end of the year. But
union organizers have alleged
that the recent swelling of the
ranks is unlike any they’ve seen,
and that some new hires appear
to be company plants or vulner-
able people who would be reluc-
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by coffee workers in D.C. and
nationwide who seek union cards
to improve working conditions,
boost wages or improve benefits.
Residents, business owners give “I have faith in our organiza-
tion,” said union organizer and
D.C. mixed reviews on its handling store supervisor Cameron Call.
of this week’s high-stakes summit “But if all else fails I do have
confidence that the [National La-
bor Relations Board] will have
BY E LLIE S ILVERMAN our back because what we’ve seen
from Compass is just so egregious
streets were blocked off by non-scalable and blatant union-busting.”
security fences and Humvees were parked in Haft categorically denied that
the middle of roads — all to accommodate the Compass was hiring workers to
dozens of European heads of state and thou- dilute a union vote.
sands of other attendees for the first NATO “No, we didn’t pad the vote,” he
summit hosted by the District in 25 years. said.
some residents simply avoided the chaos. Haft and Harrison suarez, two
“We live right on the border of this war former U.s. Marines, opened their
zone,” Eric Lee, a 38-year-old government con- first Compass shop and roastery
sultant, said Wednesday while working re- in 2014 in the shaw neighbor-
motely with his wife at For Five Coffee Roasters hood. (suarez left Compass more
near 10th and K streets NW. than three years ago.) since those
D.C. hosted the high-stakes NATO summit early days, Compass has grown
from Tuesday to Thursday at the Walter E. into one of Washington’s most
Washington Convention Center, with addi- recognizable coffee brands, with a
tional events at the Mellon Auditorium and the warehouse-size roastery in Ivy
White House. With it came the closure of the City and 17 shops around the D.C.
Federal Triangle and Mount Vernon square area.
Metro stations. More than 20 bus routes were The unionization effort started
detoured. some business owners in the Mount in October 2022 as organizers
Vernon neighborhood near the convention demanded that the company re-
sEE NatO ON B2 instate credit card tipping, which
Compass eliminated in 2020; bol-
ster benefits; and improve other
conditions.
sEE UNION ON B3
Joe Lee in 2009 at Joe’s Record
Paradise. In his distinguished
Maryland family, he “marched
to a different drumbeat.”
whole different orchestra,” his
brother Blair Lee IV told the Wash-
ington Times in 1990. “He pro-
vides a lot of spark to our family. …
Joe helps us take ourselves not too
seriously.”
After studying art and working
in a Los Angeles record store, Mr.
Lee returned to Maryland and
opened Joe’s Record Paradise in
Takoma Park in 1974. The shop has
moved to several other locations
in Montgomery County over the
BiLL O'Leary/THe WasHingTOn POsT years and is now operated by his
son in silver spring.
other relative. he received two weeks of deten- In every location, Joe’s Record
This highbrow legacy held little tion for telling dirty jokes while Paradise was a cluttered hodge-
interest for the charismatic but nominating a high school friend podge of music memorabilia,
irascible Mr. Lee, who was kicked for class treasurer. posters and books, but mostly an
out of prep school in his teens. His “Joe’s always marched to a dif- eclectic collection of vinyl LPs,
political involvement ended when ferent drumbeat, in fact, to a sEE LEE ON B4
B2
D.C. gets mixed grades for its handling of summit
NaTO fRom B1
center decided to close. Commut-
ers bemoaned traffic, and some
joked about the need to “disman-
tle” NATo because of all the driv-
ers honking.
But a biker said it was easy to
navigate the city, calling the secu-
rity perimeter “perfectly logical in
how it’s designed.” A business
owner lamented a drop in sales
but conceded it was the price of
opening up a restaurant near the
convention center.
“There’s not much blame to go
around,” said Gareth Croke, the
owner of fossette focacceria and
All-Purpose, both of which saw
significant revenue blows this
week. “It is what it is.”
This kind of disruption, many
said, was part of living in the
nation’s capital, where an unex-
pected motorcade or protests in
the streets could make a commut-
er late for work. Getting around
this week just took a little extra
planning and a lot more patience,
especially in the sweltering heat.
Still, Alexander Padro, a long-
serving advisory neighborhood
commissioner and executive di-
rector of Shaw main Streets, said
he heard from business owners
complaining about how the secu-
rity measures were significantly
affecting revenue. Padro said it’s
“way past time” for officials to
create a fund to offset revenue
losses for businesses.
“I wish I could say that it went
better than the previous events,
but the reality is that it was just as
devastating as it has been in the
past,” Padro said. “It’s very incon-
venient for neighbors, but it’s dev-
astating for businesses.”
Events DC President and CEo
Angie m. Gates said she’s open to
hearing suggestions from busi-
nesses on possible improvements,
but said the city’s performance this
week amounts to a “job well done.”
Gates said she is looking for-
ward to debriefing residents and
businesses. for now, her message
to them is: “Thank you for your
patience. Thank you for your
grace. Thank you for your support
during this historic moment in
time.”
There were no threats or “sig-
nificant security incidents” relat-
ed to the summit as of 4:30 p.m. on
Thursday, according to a state-
ment from the National Special
Security Event Joint Information
Center. There were four arrests
near the security perimeter that
officials do not believe were di-
rectly related to the summit.
Gerren Price, president and
chief executive of the Down-
townDC Business Improvement
District, heard mixed feedback
from downtown businesses, in-
cluding hotels that saw increased
business with sold-out rooms; res-
taurants and retailers with em-
ployees who struggled to get to
work because of the traffic; and
others who were located far
enough away from the security
zone that they didn’t realize the
summit was happening.
“There’s an unspoken cool fac-
tor in all of this,” Price said, adding
that he watched people take pho-
tos of the presidential motorcade
this week. “In some ways, I think
it’s part of what makes us unique
and what makes D.C. so special.”
Prosecutors’ mistake didn’t warrant mistrial, appellate panel says
TRIaL fRom B1
were responsible, how can
anyone be held accountable?
“I’m just numb,” said Charlotte
Boyd, Brown’s sister. “I am dis-
gusted. The judicial system failed
us. It failed the families.”
Legal experts say the decision
— rooted in a constitutional pro-
tection that prevents people from
being tried twice for the same
offense — is likely to reverberate
inside the walls of the D.C. court-
house, putting judges on notice
that they should think carefully
before declaring a mistrial when
defense attorneys don’t want
them to, experts said.
Ultimately, a mistake from
prosecutors shouldn’t have de-
nied Walker the right to have his
case heard, the judges found.
“When a defendant prefers to
proceed against the headwinds of
unfair prejudice introduced
against them at trial and opts to
risk years of imprisonment rather
than immediately starting anew,
we see no adequate justification
for stripping them of that choice,”
appellate Judge Joshua Deahl
wrote.
At trial, prosecutors argued
that on the evening of April 25,
2018, the 47-year-old Walker, of
Washington, fatally shot Wilson
and Brown in the head inside a
home in the 400 block of 61st
Street NE where people gathered
to buy, sell and use drugs. Both
men were unarmed, prosecutors
said.
Boyd, who sat through the trial,
FROM TOP: across from
the Walter E. Washington
Convention Center, Fossette
Focacceria owner Gareth
Croke said business slowed
by 50 percent during the
NaTO summit. abraham
and Magdalena alexandria,
who live near the
convention center, took
their children to the Capitol
on Wednesday to get away
from the summit. Tasha
Stiger walked down Blagden
alley NW to try to find her
way around the security
fencing set up for the NaTO
summit. She was worried
she would be hit by a car
while biking downtown.
said her brother did not use drugs
but began selling them to support
his three daughters, the youngest
of whom was an infant when he
was killed. “I don’t condone sell-
ing drugs, but I understand why
he had to do it, to take care of
himself and his daughters,” she
said.
Walker’s public de-
fenders argued their cli-
ent was not the killer.
The defense said that, in
fact, one of the prosecu-
tion’s witnesses who was
in the house at the time
of the shooting and iden-
tified Walker as the killer
had conspired with an- Dalonte
other suspect, unlocked Wilson
the door of the house and
let the shooter inside.
By the time the wom-
an whose testimony de-
railed the proceedings
took the stand, the jury
had heard from 25 other
witnesses. She effective-
ly told the jury “everyone
was saying” Walker com-
mitted the killings, the antone
ruling states, prompting Brown
a flurry of objections
from Walker’s lawyers and pros-
ecutors that Brandt attempted to
compromise over with a specific
instruction to the jury about what
they should disregard — before
ultimately calling it all off.
“I have never seen anything
like this before,” said Georgetown
Law professor Erica Hashimoto,
director of the school’s Appellate
Litigation Clinic. “The D.C. Court
eZ Re
of Appeals got this exactly right.”
A judge can typically declare a
new trial only under unusual cir-
cumstances, such as inappropri-
ate actions by a juror or if a jury
cannot reach a verdict, Hashimo-
to said, adding that the constitu-
tional protection against double
jeopardy applies as soon as the
jury is sworn in and be-
gins hearing evidence.
In a statement, U.S. At-
torney matthew m.
Graves defended his
prosecutors and said ju-
rors should have had a
chance to hear the full
case.
“our prosecutors tried
this case with the utmost
integrity in their efforts
to get justice for the vic-
tims. our hearts go out to
mr. Wilson’s and mr.
Brown’s families as they
will never know what a
jury would have done
had it been allowed to
consider the evidence.”
Brandt, who serves as
the court’s deputy presid-
ing judge of the criminal
division, declined to
comment on the ruling through a
court spokesman. The District’s
Public Defender Service, which
represented Walker, also declined
to comment on the decision.
In his opinion, Deahl — a for-
mer attorney with the Public De-
fender Service before President
Donald Trump appointed him to
the bench in 2019 — wrote that
prosecutors had a challenging
case against Walker, citing wit-
nesses who were drug users and
who he said might have lacked
credibility with some jurors.
At trial, one of the prosecu-
tion’s witnesses told police and a
grand jury that she was unable to
identify the shooter, but that she
later changed her account after
learning of a $50,000 reward for
information leading to the shoot-
er’s arrest. Also revealed at trial,
according to the appellate judges,
that same witness had a prior
perjury conviction for falsely
identifying a person to protect a
drug dealer after someone offered
her $300 to identify another per-
son.
Prosecutors in the U.S. attor-
ney’s office routinely argue that
while many individuals who wit-
ness violent crimes might have
criminal backgrounds them-
selves, that does not mean their
accounts are false.
Graves defended the witnesses
and praised them for coming for-
ward. “our office believed in the
citizens who were brave enough
to come to court to testify. While
all witnesses are humans with
imperfections, we believed a jury
would have reached the same
conclusion we did,” he said.
Prosecutors also called a fire-
arms expert who testified that the
gun found in Walker’s apartment
eight months after the shooting
appeared to match the gun used
in the killings. But the expert,
according to the appellate judges’
ruling, admitted in court he only
“eyeballed” the gun and had not
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pHotos by Robb Hill foR tHe WAsHington post
At Pearl’s Bagels on Seventh
Street NW, oliver Cox, who owns
the business with his wife, Allee
Cox, decided to stop offering deliv-
ery. The manager hand-delivered
four orders because delivery driv-
ers and bikers were unable to get
through the security checkpoints.
The summit, oliver Cox said,
was “catastrophic” for business.
Revenue was down 42 percent
compared with an average mon-
day through Thursday, he said.
Despite city officials urging
residents to use public transit,
Tasha Stiger, a 42-year-old event
planner, said she saw many cars.
While she was biking downtown
on Tuesday, she said she thought
to herself, “I feel like I’m going to
get hit by a car.”
“Hectic” is how Abraham Alex-
andria, 31, described navigating
the city while pushing his two
sons, ages 1 and 3, in a stroller
alongside his wife. The family vis-
ited the U.S. Capitol on Wednes-
day, and Alexandria said what
should have been a 10-minute
walk home turned into a 40-min-
ute journey.
“It’s a hot mess out here, literal-
ly,” is how Rose Preston, 64, de-
scribed it while standing near the
corner of 10th and m streets NW
on Wednesday afternoon after
walking for nearly two hours try-
ing to get to the Veterans Affairs
office at Eighth and I streets NW.
Preston said she was in a car
accident while in a taxi earlier that
day, something she attributes to
the road closures, traffic and driv-
ers distracted by not knowing
where to turn.
“I think they did a wonderful
job accommodating NATo more
than they did the residents,” Pres-
ton added, referring to city offi-
cials. “I can’t say how many people
I saw walking around that were
lost and live right here.”
actually tested the weapon.
The woman whose testimony
upended the trial said Walker had
confessed to her the night of the
killings in his truck. There, she
told jurors, she took a call from a
friend who told her “everyone”
was saying Walker had just killed
two men. GPS data provided by
Walker’s lawyers during trial
showed that his truck was not in
the District at the time she alleged
they met up, the ruling states.
Defense lawyers wanted all of
her testimony stricken from the
record; prosecutors wanted out
only the secondhand portions.
Brandt tried to word an in-
struction to the jury to disregard
the testimony. But she and Walk-
er’s attorney did not agree on the
language of the instruction.
“This was a law school hypo-
thetical come to life,” said Adam
Kurland, a professor with the
Howard University School of Law.
Kurland said that prosecutors
made a “pretty huge mistake” in
introducing the hearsay testimo-
ny, but that Brandt “gagged and
choked” by declaring the mistrial
instead of just telling the jury to
disregard the testimony, even if
the defense attorneys disagreed
with the language of the instruc-
tion.
“This case,” Kurland said, “is
now a great teaching tool for
evidence professors and advance
criminal procedure professors”
on the type of trial errors that
should — and should not — result
in a mistrial.
. saturday, july 13 , 2024
ThE DISTRICT
Man stole
cellphones
at Capitol,
police say
He was arrested 2 other
times, including at D.C.
Walmart, days later
BY T OM J ACKMAN
A California man on a public
tour of the U.S. Capitol last
month was arrested after police
allege he veered down a hallway
and stole the cellphones of four
congressional staffers, then tried
to steal a car from behind Capitol
Police headquarters. The phones
were recovered, and authorities
said no information is believed
to have been stolen.
The sequence of events began
around 12:30 p.m. on June 17, the
Capitol Police said Thursday. A
man on a public tour on the
House side of the Capitol took an
elevator from a public area to a
hallway on the fourth floor
where a secure compartmented
information facility was located
for a subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee that
oversees the budget for the Pen-
tagon.
Anyone who enters such a
room, where classified informa-
tion is often held, may not take
their personal devices inside and
so staffers had placed theirs in an
unsecured box outside of the
room, police said. When the staff
members emerged from the
room at 1:40 p.m., six work and
personal iPhones from the four
staffers were gone, according to
an affidavit filed by Capitol Po-
lice in Superior Court.
meanwhile, surveillance cam-
eras showed that, at 1:15 p.m., a
man had entered an unlocked
Jeep Cherokee in a parking lot on
D Street NE and was quickly
confronted, the police affidavit
states. The man ran from the lot,
then sat down behind a wall on
massachusetts Avenue and was
arrested.
When officers working the
attempted auto theft learned
about the stolen cellphones, they
retraced the man’s steps as he
fled and found all the phones
and other property in some
bushes on first Street, police
said.
The committee has since in-
stalled lockboxes outside the
room, Capitol Police said.
David octavius Daffin, 36, of
Granada Hills, Calif., was
charged with felony unauthor-
ized use of a vehicle, according to
court records. At his first court
appearance on June 18, a Superi-
or Court magistrate judge or-
dered him to stay away from the
Capitol Building, grounds and all
congressional buildings as part
of his conditions of release from
jail.
on June 22, at a Walmart in
upper Northwest D.C., Daffin
was arrested again. Police allege
he shoplifted and groped a store
employee. He was charged with
misdemeanor sex abuse and
theft, and jailed until a detention
hearing on July 3, when court
records show he was released.
The following day, court rec-
ords show, Daffin approached an
officer at the Capitol and said he
needed help going to psychiatric
services. The officer found that
Daffin was banned from the
Capitol and arrested him. He is
now being held in the D.C. jail
with no bond, pending a hearing
scheduled for friday morning.
Elliott Queen, a lawyer repre-
senting Daffin on the sex abuse
and trespassing charges, de-
clined to comment. No lawyer is
listed for Daffin on phone and
car theft charges.
The New York Times first
reported the theft of cellphones
at the Capitol.
Keith l. Alexander and paul Kane
contributed to this report.
MiCHAel A. MCCoy foR tHe WAsHington post
a California man is accused of
stealing several congressional
staffers’ cellphones and then
entering an unlocked vehicle.
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Compass workers al meetings at the Ivy City roast-

ery.
“If people want to ask me ques-
tions, I’ll answer questions, and

say hiring spree I’ll share my views on why I don’t

think this is a good thing for
people or for Compass. But it’s not
mandatory. You don’t have to

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The fight took a different turn
after may 31 this year, when work-
ers at seven stores officially de-
clared their intent to unionize. In
the weeks after, organizers said,
they noticed droves of new hires
being added to the payroll. orga-
nizers distributed a list to the
media of new employees includ-
ing the co-founder and other ex-
ecutives of Union Kitchen, the
D.C. food-business accelerator
with its own history of union
troubles; a federal-affairs em-
ployee with Uber; and the wife
and mother-in-law of Haft.
Union organizers initially com-
piled a list of more than 100 new
hires using the staff directory, but
they can’t verify the exact number
of newcomers because the staff’s
access to the directory was re-
voked. Haft said access was taken
away because “information was
being abused.” Some were using it
to solicit workers, including po-
tentially for union organizing, he
said.
When union organizer Penina
meier-Silverman first noticed the
slew of new hires on June 9, she
saw that they were listed as direct
reports to Compass’s chief rev-
enue officer and had been as-
signed to work at the seven cafes
attempting to unionize, not any of
the company’s other locations,
she said.
“It was pretty clear to us right
off the bat, given that these people
were exclusively assigned to
unionizing cafes, that this was an
attempt to pack the cafes and
sway the election,” meier-Silver-
man said.
Some of the high-profile names
disappeared from the tentative
voter rolls that Compass submit-
ted to the National Labor rela-
tions Board on June 18. But the
list still names more than 100
barista apprentices, including a
number of new employees that
The Washington Post confirmed
via phone calls. They include a
single mother from Southeast
Washington working to support
her 1-year-old son; a man who
does not speak English; and at
least one person who was recently
released from prison — which
union organizers say is a depar-
ture from the people they’ve typi-
cally seen on staff.
At least one new employee who
spoke to The Post, 20-year-old
Daniel Chehayeb, said he did not
have to apply for the job. He said a
friend of his knew Compass exec-
utives and had heard that the
company was looking to hire a lot
of new people quickly.
The voter rolls represent work-
ers who, potentially, are eligible
to participate in Compass union
elections. But the names could
change, as the final lists are not
due to the NLrB until Sunday,
and according to stipulated elec-
tion agreements signed by Com-
pass and the union, they will
include employees who have
worked at least 52 hours in the 13
weeks prior to July 14.
“Any details about the list be-
fore that date are irrelevant, and
focusing on this list is a distrac-
tion,” Haft told The Post.
A supervisor at Compass’s
Georgetown location, meier-Sil-
verman said 11 people worked at
her cafe before the unionization
efforts. The proposed voter list
names 40 employees at the
Georgetown store, a 264 percent
increase. Haft denied the George-
town shop has that many work-
ers, but he declined to specify.
Compass, Haft said, has been
hiring more workers for all 17
locations, not just the seven look-
ing to unionize. And the company
has been hiring and training peo-
ple for new store openings, in-
cluding one on 14th Street NW, in
the former space of the Wydown
Coffee Bar, which abruptly closed
in may after workers there an-
nounced a plan to unionize.
“Some of it is seasonal. Spring
and summer, those are good
months for coffee. A lot of our
students leave for the summer,”
Haft added. “We’re always hiring
new people in the summer.”
Haft declined to share details
about the number of new workers
hired since may 31. For the most
part, he also declined to talk
about individual hires.
At least one of the workers
listed on the tentative voter rolls
has already left Compass. Liz
“Tizzy” Brown, a federal-affairs
employee for Uber, told The Post
in an email that she attended a
June 9 training “alongside several
other new hires at Compass.”
“However, I never worked a
shift beyond that initial training,
and as soon as this all came to
light I reached out to Compass
and asked to be removed from
their employment system,” she
noted.
Union organizer and store su-
pervisor Joseph Babin said the
union doubts that most of the
Compass Coffee founder Michael Haft at the company’s roastery in April. His wife and mother-in-law
were among the wave of new hires at Compass since a unionization effort was announced May 31.
high-profile hires such as Haft’s
wife or the CEo of Union Kitchen
(who did not respond to a request
for comment) will work the stipu-
lated number of hours before the
election. The hires who have re-
ported to work are of more inter-
est to the organizers. Though or-
ganizers believe that these em-
ployees were brought in to dilute
union support, Babin said they
think they can persuade many of
them to vote for unionization.
“They’re just stuck in the mid-
dle of an unfortunate battle be-
tween us and Compass, so we are
actively trying to organize them
before our election.”
Babin said the new hires ini-
tially left him bewildered because
he had repeatedly pleaded with
management for more help at the
two stores he supervises near the
White House — and was told the
company did not have the budget.
“The majority of us were doing
the work of two to three people,”
said Babin, who said his store has
been without a manager since
December.
Haft said budgets can be a
reasonable justification to freeze
hiring if a particular store’s sales
are slow. The cafes in downtown
Washington, he said, are still
down about 50 percent compared
with their pre-pandemic sales.
“Spring and summer,
those are good months
for coffee. … We’re
always hiring new
people in the summer.”
Michael Haft, chief executive
of Compass Coffee
The accusations lodged against
Compass come during an unprec-
edented wave of unionization ef-
forts at coffee shops across the
country. Some shop owners, in-
cluding one who started a small
Pittsburgh chain, closed their
Craig hudSon for The WaShingTon PoST
businesses shortly after workers
announced plans to unionize. As
workers started organizing at
Starbucks outlets, the coffee giant
was accused of, among other tac-
tics, hiring more workers to dilute
a vote.
Companies typically follow the
same playbook — created by
union-busting law firms, says re-
becca Kolins Givan, an associate
professor in the School of man-
agement and Labor relations at
rutgers University.
Unionizing smaller workplaces
is a relatively new phenomenon,
says Givan. As such, there isn’t a
lot of evidence to show whether
small companies like Compass
have the capital to go on a hiring
binge to dilute a vote. When com-
panies do hire large blocs of work-
ers, Givan says, it’s not a given
that the newcomers will vote
against a union.
Then again, the new workers
“they don’t necessarily have any
relationship with their co-work-
ers who have likely been organiz-
ing. They haven’t established
trust with them,” Givan told The
Post. “They haven’t learned about
some of the challenges in the
workplace that have led workers
to want to organize in the first
place.”
managers will often hold man-
datory companywide meetings —
known as “captive audience meet-
ings” — to try to persuade new
and veteran employees alike to
vote against a union, Givan said.
The company may hire anti-
union consultants or attorneys to
help with the task. But Compass,
Haft says, has refrained from
mandatory meetings and has re-
lied on its long-standing law firm,
Venable, to guide the company
through elections. Haft, however,
said he plans to host information-
just going to be me.”
Companies may not need to
influence some new employees if
those workers, such as people on
parole or probation, feel grateful
just to have a job, notes Givan.
Such employees “will not take
any risks that they feel might lead
them to lose their job, including
speaking up or advocating for a
union, because that can actually
send them back to being incarcer-
ated again,” Givan said.
David Black, 48, was hired at
Compass more than a month ago
despite not holding a job for near-
ly three decades. He was released
from federal prison in August
after serving 26 years on a murder
conviction. Black isn’t certain if
the conditions of his release de-
mand that he hold a job, but he
said having one “makes you look
good. It lets the judge know that
you plan to be a productive citi-
zen when you return to society.”
Black said he wasn’t sure yet
how he would vote in the election:
“I got to weigh all my options. …
It’s all about what’s best for me.”
Union organizers fear that
Compass will fire vulnerable
workers like Black after the vote if
unionization efforts fail. “our
concern is they’re going to make
them eligible for the vote, and
then as soon as the vote happens,
they’re gone,” Babin said.
Haft said he has no such inten-
tion. Compass, he says, is invest-
ing time and money to train work-
ers. He wants them to succeed.
What’s more, Haft has met Black,
whose hiring was just like every-
one else’s in Washington: Com-
pass couldn’t ask Black on his
application — or in his interview
— if he had a criminal conviction
(though the company can ask
once it has extended a conditional
job offer).
Black “told me that we helped
him sign for a new apartment,”
Haft said. “We were able to pro-
vide a reference and we could
submit his paycheck, and this is
the first time he’s had a job that’s
willing to do that. So I feel pretty
good about hiring David.”
As Tuesday’s election draws
near, union organizer Call said he
remains undeterred. Call said he
has worked in the food service
industry for nearly a decade and
has repeatedly left bad jobs in
hopes the next one would be
better. Now, at Compass, he’s tired
of merely hoping for better — he’s
demanding better.
“It’s been a long, long ride, and
I’m glad it’s finally coming to
fruition,” Call said. “I’m not will-
ing to just give up at the finish
line.”

Maryland

Video of aftermath of Fetterman’s June crash released by Maryland police

BY D AN M ORSE
AND H ADLEY G REEN

maryland State Police officers

who responded to a car crash
involving Sen. John Fetterman
(D-Pa.) discussed how the law-
maker was speeding when he
collided with another vehicle,
according to body-camera foot-
age released for the first time
Thursday. The video from the
June crash captured heavy dam-
age to Fetterman’s black Chevro-
let Traverse and the back of a red
Chevrolet sedan.
“The black car is, it’s actually, I
think a senator of Pennsylvania
— that real big, tall guy. . . . He
just ran into that red car,” a first
responder is heard saying in the
video.
The same officer recounting a
witness statement later says: “He
was flying, and she wanted to
merge, and he just smashed her.”
The footage, released by the
state police on Thursday under
maryland’s Public Information
Act and redacted in some in-
stances, shows Fetterman an-
swering questions politely. The
senator didn’t announce his
identity as he and his wife and
another driver gathered on the
side of a highway in Washington
County last month.
A first responder on the scene,
talking to state troopers some
distance away from Fetterman,
described how he recognized
him.
“As soon as I walked up, I saw
him in the shorts and the sweat-
shirt, and [I said], ‘Good morn-
ing, Senator,’” he recalled. “In 20
years of doing this, I’ve never,
never had a politician.”
This crash occurred the morn-
ing of June 9 on Interstate 70
near Hagerstown, according to
the state police. Fetterman rear-
ended a Chevrolet Impala while
driving west “well over the post-
ed speed limit,” the police report
said, citing a witness.
After the crash, Fetterman was
treated for a shoulder injury, and
he and his wife were taken to the
hospital by ambulance, accord-
ing to a police report and infor-
mation from his office. No cita-
tions were given at the scene, the
police report said. Fetterman
brushed off the wreck afterward,
brandishing a bag of frozen peas
and Tylenol in a video with his
wife, thanking people for their
well wishes.
Fetterman’s office did not im-
mediately respond to a request
for comment Thursday after-
noon, but in a statement last
month, Fetterman said he would
drive more slowly in the future.
“This was an unfortunate acci-
dent on Sunday, and I’m relieved
and grateful that there were no
serious injuries,” he said then.
“I’ve been driving for almost 40
years, and I’ve gotten a small
handful of tickets. When I sped, I
was held accountable. I need to
do better and do it slower — and I
will.”
Fetterman, a 6-foot-8 fresh-
man senator who survived a
stroke on the campaign trail and
iMageS froM video froM Maryland STaTe PoliCe
then checked himself into a med-
ical facility for depression treat-
ment shortly after coming to
D.C., has cut an outsize figure on
Capitol Hill. He wears his signa-
ture hoodies at formal events
and in the Capitol, sparking a
debate about the Senate’s dress
code.
“This was an
unfortunate accident ...
and I’m relieved and
grateful that there were
no serious injuries.”
Fetterman, in June after the wreck
While serving as lieutenant
governor of Pennsylvania for two
years, Fetterman had a security
detail that drove him around the
state. But as a senator, he often
drives himself, especially around
the Keystone State, according to
people familiar with his travel.
He often drives himself much of
the way to and from his home-
town of Braddock, Pa., and D.C.
The crash put a spotlight on
previous unsafe driving by
Fetterman. He has received two
speeding tickets for violations of
at least 24 mph above the speed
limit, one in 2016 and one in
march, according to Pennsylva-
nia state records. After the ticket
this year, when he was driving 34
mph over the limit, he was re-
quired by the state to complete a
driver’s improvement course, ac-
cording to a person familiar with
the outcome who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to de-
scribe the episode. Neither rec-
ord said exactly where he was
driving or how fast he was going.
In response to questions from
The Washington Post about the
accounts of his driving, a spokes-
man for Fetterman called them
“gossip and inaccurate” but de-
clined to address any specifics.
Some portions of video and
audio that appear to detail per-
sonal or medical information
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), above, rear-ended a Chevrolet
Impala, left, the morning of June 9 on Interstate 70 near
Hagerstown while driving west “well over the posted speed limit,”
the police report said, citing a witness.
were redacted by maryland offi- joke about how badly Fetter-
cials. maryland law says certain man’s SUV is damaged.
information is not considered “Gonna need a tow for this
public such as personal address- one, too, I guess,” one says.
es and phone numbers. “Yeah, this one’s definitely not
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otherwise routine wreck for po- er replies.
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SHeLLeY DUVALL, 75
In ‘New Hollywood’ of the 1970s, a new kind of leading lady
BY H ARRISON S MITH
Shelley Duvall, the waifish,
wide-eyed actress who beguiled
audiences in acclaimed 1970s
films such as “Nashville” and
“3 Women,” then delivered an
unforgettable performance in
“The Shining” while chased by an
ax-wielding Jack Nicholson, died
July 11 at her home in Blanco, Tex.
She was 75.
Publicist Gary Springer, a
friend of ms. Duvall’s, said the
cause was complications from
diabetes.
Beginning in 1970, when she
made her screen debut in robert
Altman’s black comedy “Brewster
mcCloud,” ms. Duvall established
herself as one of the most versatile
and distinctive performers of the
“New Hollywood” era. She had no
acting training or experience, but
it hardly seemed to matter: At a
time when Altman and other di-
rectors were making personal,
idiosyncratic films that ran coun-
ter to the studio mold, she repre-
sented a new kind of leading lady,
winning over viewers with her
doe eyes, lilting voice and natural-
istic style.
“There are no forebears or in-
fluences that would help to ex-
plain Shelley Duvall’s acting; she
doesn’t seem to owe anything to
anyone,” film critic Pauline Kael
wrote in the New Yorker, review-
ing Altman’s 1980 film “Popeye.”
ms. Duvall, who starred opposite
robin Williams as the cartoon-
strip character’s exasperated love
interest olive oyl, “may be the
closest thing we’ve ever come to a
female Buster Keaton,” she added.
“Her eccentric grace is like his — it
seems to come from the inside
out.”
ms. Duvall started her career
working almost exclusively with
Altman, becoming a staple of his
dialogue-rich, ensemble-driven
movies. She played a mail-order
bride in the western “mcCabe &
mrs. miller” (1971), the mistress to
a bank-robbing Keith Carradine
in “Thieves Like Us” (1974), the
wife of President Grover Cleve-
land in “Buffalo Bill and the Indi-
ans” (1976) and a distracted
young groupie in “Nashville”
(1975), a rollicking portrait of ce-
lebrity culture, presidential poli-
tics and country and gospel music
that was praised as one of the
year’s best films.
She received additional ac-
claim for Altman’s “3 Women”
(1977), a dreamlike psychological
drama — also starring Sissy
Spacek and Janice rule — that
brought her the best actress prize
at the Cannes film festival. Her
character, millie Lammoreaux,
works at a senior center in the
California desert and passes the
time paging through magazines,
collecting recipes that she orga-
nizes by cooking time.
“I put so much of myself into
Joe Lee, 76
A builder of ‘community’
around his record store
LEE from B1
compact discs, tapes and videos of
every description: country and
hip-hop; Tejano and comedy; alt-
rock and punk; jazz, including
from pianist and composer Thelo-
nious monk.
At the center of it, as resident
raconteur, impresario and all-
around music maven, was mr. Lee,
a nonstop talker who knew where
each of the 100,000-odd titles in
his shop could be found.
“A lot of your record store own-
ers are crazy,” he told The Wash-
ington Post in 1988. “They can’t
tell you their kids’ names, but they
can tell you the sidemen on some
blues guy’s first 78 rpm record.”
from the beginning, musicians,
writers, obsessive collectors and
rebel teens began to drop by. Some
went to work for mr. Lee; others
met like-minded souls and formed
bands together. music fans from
Britain and Japan sometimes
bought hundreds of albums at a
time.
“There was a whole community
around that man and that store,”
Zev feldman, a producer and rec-
ord label executive who grew up in
montgomery County, said in an
interview. “It was a barbershop
sort of environment. I went there
several times a week. I got an
education in music by hanging
around that place.”
mr. Lee began to book music
acts at the Psyche Delly, a club in
Bethesda, and friendship Station
in the District. Always drawn to
performers on the fringes of re-
spectability, he managed the ca-
Shelley Duvall with Robin Williams in the 1980 film “Popeye,” in which she played Olive Oyl. In praising her work in the film, critic
Pauline Kael wrote: “There are no forebears or influences that would help to explain Shelley Duvall’s acting; she doesn’t seem to
owe anything to anyone.” Ms. Duvall brought her naturalistic style to films by Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick, among others.
millie, especially the parts I don’t
care to see, all the vanities and the
mundane things, such as millie’s
fondness for tuna melt sand-
wiches, and Scrabble, and the
color yellow,” ms. Duvall told the
New York Times, estimating that
she wrote about half the charac-
ter’s lines herself.
The film built to an agonizing
scene in which millie is forced to
deliver a stillborn baby. ms. Du-
vall later said that her eerie, un-
settling performance inspired di-
rector Stanley Kubrick to cast her
as Wendy Torrance, the terrorized
wife and mother in “The Shining”
(1980). “I like the way you cry,” he
told her in a phone call.
“The Shining,” based on a best-
selling novel by Stephen King,
opened to mixed reviews, with
some critics dismissing ms. Du-
vall’s performance as awkward,
even cartoonish. But the film has
since been hailed as a horror
classic, with admirers defending
her portrayal of an abused and
traumatized spouse, trying to sur-
vive as her husband (played by
Nicholson) loses his mind while
working as the caretaker of a
Colorado hotel.
By many accounts, the film’s
production was as nightmarish as
its story. The movie took 56 weeks
to shoot, according to the Holly-
wood reporter — an extraordi-
narily long time that resulted
partly from a fire that required
the overlook Hotel set to be re-
reer of foster macKenzie III, a Yale
graduate better known as wild-
man singer root Boy Slim.
During the late 1970s and early
’80s, root Boy Slim and the Sex
Change Band — often backed by
the rootettes — drew enthusiastic
crowds to their shows, with root
Boy wearing capes and collapsing
onstage, as fans sang along to “my
Wig fell off” and “Boogie Till You
Puke.”
mr. Lee helped arrange a major-
label deal with Warner Bros.,
which released one album by root
Boy Slim, then paid him $40,000
not to record a second album. He
died in 1993.
many of mr. Lee’s other ven-
tures into music management in-
cluded concerts, reunion gather-
ings and fundraisers for ailing mu-
sicians. In 1984, he brought to-
gether several eccentric
performers at the Psyche Delly for
a concert billed as — thanks to a
misspelling by a designer — “Pri-
mative Night.”
In 1989, after new corporate
ownership fired longtime DJ Da-
mian Einstein of WHfS-fm, mr.
Lee organized an all-star concert
that drew some 8,000 listeners to
a parking lot in Silver Spring and
won a reprieve for Einstein. He
promoted a performer he dubbed
“Blelvis” — for Black Elvis — who
knew every song recorded by Elvis
Presley.
mr. Lee spearheaded a revival of
the orioles, a doo-wop group from
the 1950s, and coordinated the
reunion of the British Walkers, a
group from Arlington who adopt-
ed fake English accents during the
eZ re
obituaries
built, and partly from the direc-
tor’s exacting approach. Kubrick
had his actors run through doz-
ens of takes, including for shots in
which ms. Duvall was shown cry-
ing and running through the ho-
tel, waving a baseball bat at her
demonic husband or carrying her
young son (Danny Lloyd) in her
arms.
“That was a life experience like
the Vietnam War probably was for
veterans,” she told the Los Ange-
les Times in 1991, looking back on
the production. “It was grueling
— six days a week, 12- to 16-hour
days, half an hour off for lunch,
for a year and one month. The role
demanded that I cry for, whew, at
least nine of those months. Jack
had to be angry all the time, and I
had to be in hysterics all the time.”
Later in life, ms. Duvall was
quick to note that she had happy
memories from the set, where she
and Kubrick would play chess
between scenes. But she also not-
ed that the experience took a toll.
“After a while, your body reb-
els,” she told the reporter in 2021.
“It says: ‘Stop doing this to me. I
don’t want to cry every day.’ And
sometimes just that thought
alone would make me cry. To
wake up on a monday morning, so
early, and realize that you had to
cry all day because it was sched-
uled — I would just start crying.
I’d be like, ‘oh no, I can’t, I can’t.’
And yet I did it.”
Shelley Alexis Duvall, the old-
Joe Lee in 2000. Mr. Lee opened Joe’s Record Paradise in Takoma Park in 1974. The shop moved
to several other locations in Montgomery County and is now run by his son in Silver Spring.
height of the 1960s British Inva-
sion, led by the Beatles and rolling
Stones.
mr. Lee made one of his greatest
discoveries in the late 1990s, when
a friend told him about Leon Ka-
garise, who had amassed thou-
sands of records at his home in
Towson, md. While sorting
through the collection — “You
walk like a crab to get to one room”
— mr. Lee saw a tape recording
labeled “Johnny Cash, maryland
est of four children, was born in
fort Worth on July 7, 1949, and
grew up in Houston. Her father
was a cattle auctioneer turned
lawyer, and her mother worked in
real estate.
Early on, there were few signs
ms. Duvall would go into acting.
Performing Joyce Kilmer’s short
poem “Trees” at a sixth-grade tal-
ent contest, she stumbled over the
words, left the stage in tears and
declared that she would never
show her face at school again.
“I heard my parents outside my
closed bedroom door that night,”
she told the Los Angeles Times,
“saying, ‘Well, I guess she’s just
not talented.’ Isn’t that a classic?”
ms. Duvall vowed that she
would become a scientist, and
was a straight-A student until her
junior year of high school, when
she discovered “emotions and
boys.” Her grades suffered, and
she went on to attend a local
junior college, taking classes in
nutrition and diet therapy, before
dropping out and getting a job
selling cosmetics at a foley's de-
partment store.
Around 1970, she met a couple
of Altman’s crew members at a
Houston party for her boyfriend,
artist Bernard Sampson. Dressed
in patched jeans and a mexican
blouse, with bells jingling around
her waist, she showed off Samp-
son’s paintings, trying to interest
the visitors in a sale. They set up a
meeting with other Altman asso-
1962.”
The sound was pristine. Ka-
garise was a reclusive recording
engineer who had made thou-
sands of hours of tapes of live
country music shows and broad-
casts throughout the 1960s.
“Here was an unreleased re-
cording of Johnny Cash in his
prime, sounding as if it was record-
ed yesterday,” mr. Lee told the New
York Times in 2001. “I just couldn’t
believe what I was hearing.”
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ciates, she told Interview maga-
zine, where they passed on the art
but asked if she wanted to be in a
movie.
“I thought, ‘oh, no, a porno
film,’ because I’d been ap-
proached for that when I was 17 in
a drugstore.”
The film was “Brewster mc-
Cloud,” in which she played an
Astrodome tour guide who hooks
up with a reclusive, flight-
obsessed young man (Bud Cort)
trying to build a pair of wings. It
kicked off a happy and fruitful
collaboration with Altman, whom
she nicknamed “Pirate” because
of his swashbuckling appearance.
“His first and only piece of real
advice was never to take myself
seriously,” she said.
Around that same time, ms.
Duvall married Sampson. They
moved to Los Angeles and di-
vorced after four years. She later
lived in New York with singer-
songwriter Paul Simon; accord-
ing to People magazine, they met
while they were both working on
Woody Allen’s 1977 film “Annie
Hall,” in which ms. Duvall had a
small role as a rolling Stone writ-
er. (“Sex with you is a really Kaf-
kaesque experience,” she tells Al-
len’s neurotic protagonist.)
ms. Duvall later had support-
ing roles in Terry Gilliam’s “Time
Bandits” (1981), Steven Soder-
bergh’s “The Underneath” (1995),
Jane Campion’s “The Portrait of a
Lady” (1996), and “roxanne”
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mr. Lee spent about two years
cataloguing Kagarise’s music and
helping arrange for its commer-
cial release. Several albums have
been produced, and others are on
the way.
Embracing art and music
Joseph Wilson Lee was born
Aug. 17, 1947, in Silver Spring. His
mother, the daughter of a diplo-
mat, managed a household of
eight children.
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(1987), a “Cyrano de Bergerac”
retelling starring Steve martin.
Increasingly, she focused on
producing over acting. Drawing
on her love of illustrated chil-
dren’s books (she owned about
3,000, according to a Washington
Post report), she launched chil-
dren’s anthology shows, lovingly
re-creating classic stories on her
series “faerie Tale Theatre,”
which premiered on Showtime in
1982. The show’s episodes were
directed by filmmakers including
francis ford Coppola and Tim
Burton; Williams, her “Popeye”
co-star, starred in the pilot as the
frog Prince.
ms. Duvall received two Emmy
nominations as a producer of two
follow-up shows, “Tall Tales &
Legends” and “Shelley Duvall’s
Bedtime Stories.” While playing
Little Bo Peep on another chil-
dren’s project, the Disney Chan-
nel movie “mother Goose rock ’n’
rhyme,” she met and fell in love
with actor and musician Dan Gil-
roy, who became her partner of
35 years.
In addition to Gilroy, survivors
include three brothers.
Beginning in the early 2000s,
ms. Duvall stepped away from
acting and retreated from public
life, inspiring rumors and specu-
lation about what had happened
to her. She made a rare appear-
ance in 2016, when she was inter-
viewed on the talk show “Dr. Phil,”
discussing her struggles with
mental health. “I’m very sick. I
need help,” she said, before issu-
ing bizarre statements about evil
forces and messages from beyond
the grave.
The talk-show episode was
widely criticized as exploitative.
In its wake, ms. Duvall vanished
again from the spotlight, return-
ing to her home in the Texas Hill
Country. She appeared on screen
one last time in “The forest Hills,”
a 2023 indie horror film co-star-
ring Edward furlong.
The New York Times reported
in April, in a profile of ms. Duvall,
that her extended hiatus from
acting seemed to have been
caused by “the emotional impact
of two events: the 1994
Northridge earthquake, which
damaged her Los Angeles home,
and the stressful toll of one of her
brothers falling ill, which
prompted her return to her native
Texas three decades ago.”
ms. Duvall also seemed pained
by the trajectory of her career. “I
was a star; I had leading roles,”
she told the newspaper, shaking
her head. “People think it’s just
aging, but it’s not. It’s violence.”
“How would you feel if people
were really nice, and then, sud-
denly, on a dime, they turn on
you?” she continued. “You would
never believe it unless it happens
to you. That’s why you get hurt,
because you can’t really believe
it’s true.”
His father was first elected to
the maryland legislature in 1954
and to the state Senate in 1966. He
was elected lieutenant governor in
1970 and again four years later as
the running mate of Gov. marvin
mandel (D). Blair Lee III was act-
ing governor from June 1977 to
January 1979, when mandel was
recovering from a stroke and on
trial for corruption.
After being expelled from
Georgetown Prep, Joe Lee gradu-
ated from Springbrook High
School in Silver Spring. He later
graduated from the maryland In-
stitute College of Art in Baltimore.
He celebrated his 22nd birthday at
the Woodstock music festival in
1969.
In high school and college, mr.
Lee played drums in bands before
moving to Los Angeles, where he
worked for about two years in a
record shop. He occasionally act-
ed in music videos and under-
ground films that were not widely
distributed.
His marriage to mary Catherine
Pepper ended in divorce. In addi-
tion to his son — whose full name
is robert Johnson Lee, after the
Delta blues musician — of Aspen
Hill, survivors include a daughter,
matilda Lee of Chevy Chase; six
siblings; and four grandchildren.
mr. Lee lived in mount Airy
before settling on a mountaintop
near moorefield, W.Va. He turned
Joe’s record Paradise over to his
son in 2008.
He briefly opened a branch of
the store in Baltimore but closed it
after the fire department demand-
ed payments for “highly flamma-
ble” items. Content with just one
location, mr. Lee refused all offers
to launch a chain of franchises.
“You’d lose that thing we have,”
he told Billboard magazine in
1991. “You spread out, pretty soon
you’re hiring the typical know-
nothing, dysfunctional minimum-
wager. No, I don’t want that.”
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VIc SEIXAS, 100
AP
Vic Seixas at Wimbledon in
1953, when he won the singles
title. He played in what is now
the U.S. Open 28 times.
Longevity
marked
career of
tennis ace
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Vic Seixas, a Wimbledon win-
ner and tennis Hall of Famer who
was the oldest living Grand Slam
champion, died July 5 at 100.
The International Tennis Hall
of Fame announced Mr. Seixas’s
death based on confirmation
from his daughter, Tori. No cause
was noted.
Mr. Seixas was inducted into
the tennis Hall of Fame in 1971
after a career that included the
1953 Wimbledon singles title. He
also won the U.S. Championships
— now the U.S. Open — in 1954.
Mr. Seixas (pronounced SAY-
shuss) stood out for his longevity
in the sport and played in the U.S.
Championships a record 28 times
between 1940 and 1969, the last
time when he was 45. He was also
a mainstay in the Davis Cup,
where he helped the United
States reach seven straight finals
between 1951 and 1957.
The Americans faced Australia
in all of those finals and only won
one, in 1954, when Seixas won one
singles match and the doubles
together with Tony Trabert.
He also won five Grand Slam
titles in doubles and eight in
mixed doubles.
After his playing career, he
served as the tournament referee
during the 1971 U.S. Open and
was a three-time Davis Cup cap-
tain.
Elias Victor Seixas Jr. was born
in Philadelphia on Aug. 30, 1923.
His father owned a plumbing
supply company and played ten-
nis at a local court, where Vic first
picked up a racket when he was a
boy.
He served as a pilot in the Army
Air Forces in the Pacific during
World War II. He then studied at
the University of North Carolina
and played on the tennis team,
graduating in 1949.
He was a tennis director for the
Greenbrier resort in White Sul-
phur Springs, W.Va., and at a hotel
in New Orleans. In 1989, he
moved to the San Francisco area
and started a tennis program at a
Marin County racket and beach
club (now the Club at Harbor
Point).
A complete list of survivors
was not immediately available.
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In loving memory of Zena Mercedes Dullum
who passed peacefully on July 2, 2024, at
her home in Merritt Island, Florida. She
was 99 years old and is cherished by her
three children David, Jim and Mercedes,
their respective spouses Marcia, Valerie
and Bob; her seven grandchildren Carina,
Stacy, Mercedes, Stephanie, Brandan, Gen-
evieve and Elizabeth, her 12 great-grand-
children; and her younger brother Arthur
Lyons.
Mercedes, also known as Matto, was born
in Kingston, Jamaica on April 19, 1925 to
Alan and Carina Lyons. She was married to
Murph Dullum of Silverton, Oregon of over
50 years. Matto was a successful business
and community leader including President
of the Montego Omnibus Co., President of
the Montego Bay Inner Wheel and a Justice
of the Peace presiding over family court.
As the matriarch of the family, Matto will
be missed deeply by her family and is re-
membered by everyone she touched for
her grace, calm demeanor and welcoming
personality. A memorial service will be
announced at a later date and the family
requests in lieu of sending flowers or gifts,
please send donations in memory of Mer-
cedes Dullum to: St. Francis Reflections
Hospice through their website: reflection-
slsc.org/donate/
EAGAN
DAVID M. EAGAN
David M. Eagan, 88, of New Kent, and pre-
viously Centreville, VA died June 14, 2024
at his home after a long fought battle with
Parkinson. He is survived by his wife and
best friend, Lin of 41 years; daughter, Kelly
Bailey; grandsons, Kyle and Tanner Kirby.
Dave, an active member of AA, had 64+
years of sobriety which he credited to the
support of friends, consistent attendance
of meetings as well as his deep faith. His
passions were, golf, woodcarving and “fix-
ing things”. A Memorial Service will be held
at the Centreville United Methodist Church
on Saturday, July 20 at 11 a.m.
DEATH NOTICE
GREENE
RICHARD ERIC GREENE (Age 78)
Richard Eric Greene of Fairfax, VA died
on July 6, 2024. Born June 21, 1945; to
Leon and Mary Greene in Jackson, MI, he
is survived by his wife, Janet; sons, Todd
(Christy), and Eric (Katherine); daughter,
Jennifer Abbruzzese (Matthew); grandsons,
Gus, Ben, and Sam Abbruzzese and Jason
Greene; and his granddaughter, Kimberly
Greene.
Richard was the U.S. Customs Service’s
first Director of Television Operations, and
served as Acting Assistant Commissioner
of Public Affairs for U.S. Customs and Bor-
der Protection, Department of Homeland
Security.
A visitation will be held on July 14, 5 to 8
p\.m., at Adams-Green Funeral Home. On
July 15, a funeral will be held at St. Tim-
othy’s Catholic Church in Chantilly, at 10
a.m., followed by interment at Fairfax Me-
morial Park, in Fairfax.
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HICKEY
DONALD P. HICKEY
Donald P. Hickey, 74, of Clayton, NC and
Manahawkin, NJ, passed away peacefully
on June 17, 2024 in Durham NC with family
at his side.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska on July 28, 1949,
he was one of six children of Air Force
Colonel John J., and Gertrude E. Hickey. He
was a 1967 graduate of Bishop O’Connell
High School in Arlington, Virginia.
Donnie excelled in many sports but was
exceptional in baseball. He was chosen as
one of the nation’s top high school players
and played in the Orioleland Game at Bal-
timore’s Memorial Stadium in 1967. He at-
tended High Point College and was named
to the 1969 NAIA First Team All American
squad after his sophomore year. He was
the Most Valuable Player in several of the
leagues he participated in; most notably
the Shenandoah Valley League where he
played for the first place team in Luray. He
was drafted in the 7th round by the Bal-
timore Orioles in 1970, reaching Triple A
Rochester, where he had two strong years
before an injury cut short his promising ca-
reer. He is a 2002 inductee into the Bishop
O’Connell Athletic Hall of Fame.
Donnie was affectionately known as “Doc”
by many of his friends in NJ. He was a life
member of the Manahawkin Elks Lodge
#2340.
Surviving is his son Sean P. of Clayton, NC
and his former wife, Robbin of Sea Girt, NJ.
He also leaves behind his three brothers,
John (Sue), Robert (Lynn) and Brian. His
two sisters, Barbara Sickler (Jim) and Pa-
tricia McIntosh (Frank) and many nieces
and nephews. He is described by family
members as loyal, fun loving, extremely
competitive, exceptional athlete, master
carpenter and mentor, talented musician,
loving brother and uncle with an infectious
laugh. In the words of his niece, “We lost a
strong one, Uncle Donnie. You were loved
despite your rough edges. Go swing for the
fences.”
You are deeply missed by all.
A Celebration of Life will take place at a
later time.
TUNIS
OSCAR “BUZZY” TUNIS
On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, Buzzy
Tunis of Rockville, MD passed
away. Beloved husband of Judy
Tunis, devoted father of Susan
Tunis and Nancy Tunis, cher-
ished grandfather of Joshua
and Jonah Tunis. Graveside services will
be held on Sunday, July 14, 2024, 12 p.m.
at King David Memorial Gardens. Memorial
Contributions may be made to the Hebrew
Home of Greater Washington.
www.sagelbloomfield.com
IN MEMORIAM
EILERS
LAURA BETH EILERS
IN MEMORIAM
March 6, 1969 – July 13, 2023
A year has passed since Laura died follow-
ing a traumatic brain injury. She is deeply
missed by her family—mother, brother, sis-
ter, niece, and nephew--and a worldwide
network of friends who cherish her and
grieve her loss every day. Laura pursued
knowledge and connection her entire life.
She earned advanced degrees in cyber-
security, studied Mandarin, founded Send
Something, which connected people who
loved writing and receiving letters, rescued
homeless kitties, and played the bassoon.
She will be forever mourned and missed.
DEATH NOTICE
NOLAN
JOAN DOBBINS NOLAN
On Saturday, June 29, 2024, Joan Dobbins
Nolan passed away after a brief illness at her
home in Maplewood Park Place in Bethesda,
Maryland. Joan was the wife of Washington
DC attorney John E. Nolan Jr., who preceded
her in death on November 18, 2017.
Joan was born on Long Island, New York on
July 22, 1926 to Richard and Sarah Cassidy
Dobbins, attended local grammar and high
schools and received her BS in Biology from
Notre Dame of Maryland University, in Balti-
more. She was married to her husband, John
Nolan in 1950, upon his graduation from the
US Naval Academy prior to his departure as
a Marine Corps first lieutenant in the Korean
DEATH NOTICE
LARAMIE
MARGARET HANNAN LARAMIE
Margaret Hannan “Peggy” Laramie, 67,
beloved wife of, John K. “Kip” Laramie,
moved to her new heavenly home on July
7, 2024, after bravely battling a rare form
of non-smoker’s lung cancer for more than
two years.
She attended Immaculata Preparatory High
School, then graduated with honors in jour-
nalism from Loyola University in New Orle-
ans, LA. She started her career as press sec-
retary for U.S. Representative Lindy Boggs
(D-LA). Well-organized and with a keen mind
for details, Peggy then worked for more
than 30 years in public information and ex-
ecutive communications for the National
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Visitation on Monday, July 15, 8:30 a.m. to
10 a.m. at Demaine Funeral Home, 5308
Backlick Rd., Springfield, VA, followed by
a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. at
St. Michael’s Catholic Church, 7401 St. Mi-
chael’s Lane, Annandale, VA.
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War conflict.
Joan’s interests were many and varied in-
cluding literature, history, travel, art, sports,
bridge, and national and global affairs. She
is survived by four of her five children and
their spouses; Carol Nolan Klatt (Michael E.
Klatt), Kelly Nolan Spencer (Robert T. Spen-
cer), Richard C. Nolan (Mary Bentz Nolan),
and Patricia Nolan McNeill (John Christopher
McNeill). Son John E. Nolan III passed away
in 1980.
Surviving grandchildren include; David Nolan
Klatt (Kate Hannum), Andrew M. Klatt (Faith
Williams Klatt), Elizabeth Spencer Rouen
(Derrick X. Rouen), Michael F. Spencer (Ann
Schmidt Spencer), John “Jack” Nolan (Caitie
Meyer), John Nolan McNeill (Rachel Rocha),
Kelly M. Nolan, and Henry F. McNeill.
Joan’s three great grandchildren, all of whom
were born in the 10 months prior to her
passing, are Robert H. Rouen, Nolan Quinn
Hannum-Klatt, and Nathan W. Spencer.
Joan will be interred alongside her husband
John, at the US Naval Academy in Annapo-
lis in a private ceremony. Contributions, in
the name of Joan D. Nolan, may be made to
World Central Kitchen at: http://wck.org/
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Cable Television Association, the American
Gas Association, and AARP.
Loving and thoughtful Peggy was an artist
and avid storyteller whose passion was
crafting text and photos into memory books
for family and friends. She and Kip loved gar-
dening, hikes, golf, good food, and nature.
In addition to her husband, she is survived
by her siblings Cathy Hotka (Michael), Mar-
ilyn Hannan, and Tom Hannan (Cheryl); and
her sisters-in-law, Carole Laramie, Maria
Laramie, Joy Laramie (Jamie Nicholas) and
several nieces and nephews. She is pre-
deceased by her parents, Patrick J. and
Margaret T. Hannan and brother-in-law, Joe
Laramie.
Special thanks to Alex Spira, M.D. and NEXT
Oncology Virginia for extending Peggy’s life
by enrolling her in a series of clinical re-
search trials that sought to achieve FDA-ap-
proved cancer treatments. The family also
wishes to acknowledge the wonderful care
given at VHC Health and all the other med-
ical professionals who cared for her along
the way.
Friends are invited to pay their respects at
1:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 13 at Queen of
Apostles Church, 4401 Sano St., Alexandria,
VA 22312. A requiem Mass will follow at 2
p.m.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be
made to the Little Sisters of the Poor, 4200
Harewood Rd. NE, Washington, DC 20017.
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O’CONNOR
rated football players in Oberlin history. He
played both offense and defense and as
the team’s quarterback he set numerous
passing records that took decades to break.
Oberlin remained near and dear to Kev’s
heart: he was a founder and later president
of the Oberlin Heisman Club and the gen-
erous benefactor of several student schol-
arship funds.
Upon graduation from Oberlin in 1951, Kev
was immediately recalled to military service
in the Korean war. The Army recalled him
for his “special airborne qualification” and
assigned him to the 187th Airborne Regi-
mental Combat Team. As a paratrooper, Kev
made several combat jumps, including in
Haean Basin, known as the Punchbowl. Fol-
lowing his service in Korea, Kev began a suc-
cessful career in marketing: he was a senior
marketing executive at a major government
contractor in California, and then in 1972 he
KEVNEY JOHN O’CONNOR JR. (Age 98) founded his own marketing consulting firm
Kevney John O’Connor Jr. “Kev” passed away in Alexandria, Virginia.
peacefully on July 3, 2024, at the age of 98. Kev remained passionate about athletics his
Kev was a longtime resident of Arlington, entire life. He was a competitive and accom-
Virginia. Kev is survived by his sons, Andy plished tennis player until the final decade
and Rod O’Connor; step-children, Eve Murty of his life. Some of his closest friendships
(Jim), Kelly Baker (Whitney Ellerman), and were formed on the tennis courts of Wash-
Charlie Baker (MaryAnne); grandchildren, ington Golf & Country Club in Arlington, Va.
Michael and Jacob; and eight step-grand- Kev was always extremely fit and worked
children and nine step-great-grandchildren. out daily until the final years of his life. When
He is preceded in death by his parents, many men his age were entering retirement
Kevney Sr. and Margaret O’Connor; his six age, Kev would entertain friends by doing
siblings; and the love of his life, Pamela (nee push-ups from a handstand position.
Kendrick). Kev was a member of Washington Golf for
Kev was born on January 14, 1926 in Scars- 45 years. It was the center of his active so-
dale, NY. He graduated from Scarsdale High cial life and is where he met his wife, Pam.
School, where he was a star athlete and an Kev and Pam had many close friends at
Eagle Scout. Immediately upon graduating Washington Golf and they enjoyed traveling
in 1943, Kev enlisted in the US Army to fight and playing golf around the world with a
in World War II. After attending Officer Can- number of them. Kev was also actively in-
didate School, Kev was commissioned as volved in the Wounded Warriors Project, and
the youngest 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army. he would regularly entertain injured veter-
As an airborne officer, he was supposed to ans and their families at dinner.
be sent to Europe, but instead he was sent A funeral service is scheduled for 10 a.m.
to fight in the jungles of the Philippines as a on Saturday, July 27 at St. Mary’s Episcopal
company commander in the Army’s elite 6th Church, 2609 N Glebe Rd., Arlington, VA with
Ranger Battalion. His Battalion saw heavy a reception to follow at Washington Golf &
fighting and it conducted the successful raid Country Club. In lieu of flowers, please con-
to free American POWs s from the Japanese
prison camp at Cabanatuan in 1945 (the
sider a donation to Lawyers for the People,
an organization dedicated to protecting the
“Ghost Soldiers” rescue). legal rights of children with disabilities.
Following the war, Kev enrolled at Oberlin For more information and to leave condo-
College, where he played both football and lences for Kevney’s family, please visit:
lacrosse. Kev was among the most deco- www.murphyfuneralhomes.com
SALAZAR
THEODORE B. SALAZAR “TED”
Theodore (Ted) B. Salazar passed away May 20, 2024, in Reston, Virginia. He was born in
Consumers, Utah April 18, 1930, to Maria Aurelia Martinez and Eudoro Salazar, the fourth of
six children. Ted spent his early childhood in the canyons and coal mining camps of central
Utah before the family moved to Price, Utah. In Price, he attended Notre Dame School and
Carbon County High School; class of 1948, where he was a member of the basketball, foot-
ball, and track teams. While still in school, he began working as an engine dispatcher for the
Denver Rio Grande Western Railroad in Helper, Utah.
In 1951 Ted Salazar was drafted into the US Army and was stationed in Japan as part of the
transportation unit. He attained the rank of corporal and received an honorable discharge
in 1953. After his service, he came to Washington, DC to attend the Catholic University of
America, earning his Bachelor of Arts in 1958 and Master of Fine Arts degrees, in 1963.
Ted Salazar met his wife, Lois Ann Mortashed, in an art class at Catholic University and they
were married in 1961 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Alexandria, Virginia. Ted was devoted
to his two children, Teddy and Maria and actively supported them and the community as
cub scout den parent, youth soccer coach, PTA president Lake Anne Elementary School,
and president of the Herndon High School Band Boosters. Ted and Lois were also arts and
crafts counselors at Camp Winnebago in Fayette, Maine during the mid-70s, introducing
campers to a wide range of craft skills and art.
From 1960 to 1967 Ted Salazar was chairman and teacher, Art Department at Washington,
DC public schools, and taught at Woodson Jr. High and Ballou Sr. High Schools. From 1967
to 1993 he was an assistant professor of art at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC and
taught a broad range of art disciplines. He also served as Chairman of the Art Department
from 1983 to 1989.
In retirement Ted taught English and US Citizenship at the Neighborhood Resource Center in
Herndon, Virginia, using his fluency in Spanish to help many new arrivals learn English and
helped over 40 people obtain their US citizenship.
Ted Salazar was an accomplished artist creating numerous drawings and paintings in mul-
tiple mediums including portraits, figures, landscapes and abstracts; sculptures made from
welded steel, carved wood, and ceramics; ceramic pottery; and jewelry using precious met-
als. Ted and Lois were active in the nascent Reston art community in the 1970s as founding
members of the Reston Craft Guild and the Greater Reston Art Center (GRACE). Ted was
commissioned to design and create public art works including stoneware baptismal and
holy water fonts, and chalice for St. Thomas a Becket Catholic Church and The Good Shep-
herd Lutheran Church in Reston, and a commemorative sculpture made of welded steel and
ceramic plaques for the Reston-Herndon Fairfax County Regional Library. He also exhibited
his art at individual and group shows at Gallaudet, Northern Virginia Community College,
GRACE, and Virginia Craft Council shows.
Ted Salazar is survived by his wife Lois (Reston, VA); children Teddy (Sarah Meyer) (Durham,
NC) and Maria (Catharpin, VA); sister Virginia (Salt Lake City, UT); grandchildren Izzy and
Theo.
Services scheduled for a later date.
Memorial contributions may be made in Ted’s name to the Herndon Neighborhood Re-
source Center at https://www.cornerstonesva.org/ways-to-give/
WILENSKY
Bush as the head of the Health Care Financ-
ing Administration, where she both shaped
important legislation and oversaw its imple-
mentation. Her leadership within HHS was
followed by a senior White House appoint-
ment during the final year of the Bush pres-
idency. During her governmental tenure, Dr.
Wilensky focused on physician and hospital
payment reform, health care performance
improvement, the enactment of crucial im-
provements in Medicaid coverage of chil-
dren, and reforms that ultimately enabled a
historic expansion of the nation’s community
health centers.
Over the years, Dr. Wilensky assumed dozens
of leadership and advisement roles including
participation in the Congressional Physician
Payment Review Commission, the Congres-
sional Medicare Payment Review Commis-
sion, the President’s Task Force to Improve
Veterans’ Health Care, the Department of
GAIL WILENSKY PHD Defense Task Force on the Future of Military
Dr. Gail Wilensky, PhD, a seminal Health Care, and the Defense Health Board.
figure in U.S. health policy, was Indicative of her dedication to improving the
devoted to ensuring affordable health care of our country’s service mem-
and accessible health care for all bers, Dr. Wilensky traveled to military hos-
Americans while also improving pitals in Iraq and Germany to gain firsthand
health system performance and knowledge about ways to improve the mili-
efficiency, died in her home on July 11, 2024, tary’s health care system. Dr. Wilensky also
at the age of 81. She is survived by Robert, served on numerous private, public, char-
her loving husband of 60 years; her broth- itable, and foundation boards, was a much
er Gary Roggin; her son Peter, her daughter sought-after lecturer in advanced health pol-
Sara, and her five grandchildren. icy programs at leading academic centers.
A health economist by training, Dr. Wilensky She was elected to the National Academy of
gained early recognition for her work in de- Medicine in recognition of her contributions
veloping what ultimately became one of the to U.S. health policy.
nation’s most important ongoing surveys of Dr. Wilensky was devoted to her alma mater,
health insurance coverage, health care ac- the University of Michigan, where she earned
cess, and health care utilization: the National her BA in Psychology and PhD in Economics
Medical Care and Expenditures Survey. Of and served on the Dean’s Advisory Commit-
particular importance, this survey system, tee for the Univ. of Michigan’s College of Lit-
which remains a core feature of U.S. policy- erature, Science and the Arts (and met her
making, was designed to capture crucial eco- husband, Robert!). She was thrilled to create
nomic and demographic information about
Americans; its findings yielded some of the
earliest evidence regarding health care in-
an endowed chair in Applied Economics and
Public Policy to help future researchers at
Michigan continue her important work.
equality among low income people and
minoritized communities. Over five decades,
the results from this survey have served as
Graveside services will be held Sunday, July
14,2024, 2 p.m., at Judean Memorial Gar-
dens, 16225 Batchellors Forest Rd., Olney,
the basis for major health policy reforms MD 20832. The Family will be sitting Shiva
championed by Democrats and Republicans
alike, including foundational improvements
in Medicare and Medicaid, and ultimately, in
following the burial, 6 p.m. at the Wilensky
residence. Anyone wishing to honor Dr.
Wilensky’s life is encouraged to send a gift
enactment of the Affordable Care Act. to either Project HOPE or the Ford School of
Dr. Wilensky spent over three decades of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
her career at Project HOPE, a leading global Services entrusted to Sagel Bloomfield Dan-
health and humanitarian organization. She zansky Goldberg Funeral Care.
was appointed by President George H.W. www.sagelbloomfield.com
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Austin 89/76/t 93/74/pc Honolulu 88/76/sh 87/76/s Portland, ME 84/65/t 84/65/s Bangkok 91/79/t 91/80/t Kolkata 93/82/t 92/81/t Seoul 91/74/pc 87/76/t
Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, a stray morning Baltimore 89/74/t 96/76/s Houston 86/76/t 90/76/t Portland, OR 93/60/s 88/59/s Beijing 80/70/sh 86/70/c Kyiv 97/74/s 100/75/s Shanghai 86/77/t 84/79/t
thunderstorm, clouds breaking. Wind southeast 4–8 knots. Waves Billings, MT 97/65/s 100/64/c Indianapolis 88/72/t 91/73/t Providence, RI 81/70/t 91/70/s Berlin 75/56/sh 78/60/pc Lagos 84/76/r 85/76/r Singapore 89/80/t 88/80/t
under a foot. • Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly Birmingham 97/74/s 97/76/pc Jackson, MS 96/76/pc 94/75/t Raleigh, NC 90/75/t 98/76/t Bogota 65/48/r 67/48/pc Lima 65/58/pc 65/59/pc Stockholm 72/59/pc 69/56/sh
cloudy, a thunderstorm. Wind south 6–12 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on Bismarck, ND 91/64/t 95/64/t Jacksonville, FL 95/76/t 96/75/t Reno, NV 101/70/pc 91/65/t Brussels 66/53/r 73/53/pc Lisbon 77/59/s 77/66/pc Sydney 65/47/pc 62/45/s
Boise 106/74/s 103/70/pc Kansas City, MO 95/74/c 97/75/s Richmond 87/73/t 95/73/pc Buenos Aires 53/43/s 52/46/pc London 67/53/c 71/54/pc Taipei City 97/79/t 98/79/t
the Lower Potomac; 1–3 feet on the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages:
Boston 84/72/t 86/73/s Las Vegas 111/88/t 106/86/pc Sacramento 92/65/pc 99/58/pc Cairo 99/80/s 95/80/s Madrid 93/66/pc 90/67/pc Tehran 98/78/s 98/77/s
The stage at Little Falls will be around 2.70 feet today, with no Buffalo 86/66/s 87/70/t Little Rock 96/75/pc 96/75/s St. Louis 96/78/t 98/78/s Manila 91/79/t 89/79/t Tokyo 86/77/r 85/76/c
Caracas 78/64/t 78/64/t
change of 2.70 sunday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet. Burlington, VT 85/67/s 89/70/s Los Angeles 85/65/pc 82/65/pc St. Thomas, VI 90/81/t 91/80/t Copenhagen 65/58/r 68/60/pc Mexico City 73/55/r 75/56/r Toronto 86/66/s 86/71/t
Charleston, SC 93/78/t 96/77/t Louisville 92/75/s 96/76/t Salt Lake City 105/80/c 100/75/pc Dakar 86/79/pc 87/79/pc Montreal 85/68/s 87/69/s Vienna 84/66/pc 87/67/pc
Charleston, WV 93/69/s 92/69/t Memphis 96/76/pc 95/77/s San Diego 76/67/pc 75/68/pc Dublin 65/50/sh 66/50/sh Moscow 83/67/pc 78/66/pc Warsaw 83/63/t 78/61/t
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Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,
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Chicago 90/75/t 94/75/t Minneapolis 91/72/t 92/72/t Seattle 87/59/s 84/55/s New Delhi 97/83/pc 99/85/pc sn-snow, i-ice
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Cleveland 85/68/pc 88/75/t New Orleans 94/79/t 92/79/t Syracuse 88/64/s 90/69/pc Helsinki 78/60/s 71/57/sh Ottawa 86/64/pc 88/68/s quality data); national Weather service
Norfolk 3:01 a.m. 9:12 a.m. 3:38 p.m. 10:06 p.m. Dallas 96/78/s 96/80/pc New York City 82/74/t 92/78/s Tampa 91/79/t 93/78/t Ho Chi Minh City 88/76/t 86/76/t Paris 72/53/pc 75/55/c * accuWeather's RealFeel Temperature®
combines over a dozen factors for an accurate
Point Lookout 1:38 a.m. 7:01 a.m. 1:17 p.m. 8:12 p.m. Denver 102/66/pc 104/69/pc Norfolk 84/77/t 91/77/t Wichita 101/74/pc 102/75/s Hong Kong 94/85/t 96/85/t Prague 76/59/pc 79/60/c measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

Punishing heat wave that blasted the West is poised to hit the East Coast
BY I AN L IVINGSTON nas. through Sunday. Chris Bianchi, a make it feel even hotter. A huge
Even as the intensity of the broadcast meteorologist for swath from the central Plains to
After blasting the western heat in the West lessens, it will 9News in Denver, described the the Mid-Atlantic and southward
United States for the past 10 days, remain warmer than normal. heat wave as “very unusual and can anticipate heat indexes,
record heat is poised to shift into “Much of the nation will experi- serious” in a post on X. which takes humidity into ac-
the eastern United States over the ence above-average temperatures count, of 100 to 105. The steami-
weekend and early next week. next week,” the Weather Service Where the heat is headed est locations could flirt with 110.
Some parts of the east could wrote. next By Wednesday, the most ex-
see their hottest weather of the Record warmth takes a road treme heat should sink south-
summer so far. “Widespread rec- Where the worst heat is now trip from the west to the east over ward, allowing more pleasant air
ord values” are predicted as it Much of the western United the weekend, where it will linger to spread over the Midwest and
becomes “dangerously hot for States faced one more day of for a few days before returning Northeast.
many,” the National Weather widespread extreme heat that westward.
Service wrote in a discussion Fri- could break numerous records Monday and Tuesday appear to The long-range forecast
day. even while its intensity began to be the hottest days of the upcom- After this next bout of high-end
Records highs in the east were diminish some in the Pacific ing stretch. Records are likely heat in the eastern United States,
possible Friday and Saturday in Northwest. from the South into New Eng- computer models project temper-
parts of Georgia and the Caroli- Excessive-heat warnings cover land. atures near or even below normal
nas. From Sunday through much of California, Nevada and Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, in about a week but hotter-than-
Wednesday, record heat will ex- portions of surrounding states. riCky CarioTi/The WashingTon PosT N.C., and Knoxville, Tenn., are normal weather is predicted for
pand to cover much of the East Much of the Desert Southwest Folks cool off from temperatures close to 100 degrees at a pool at forecast to flirt with record highs the Mountain West.
Coast. and California Central Valley Baker Park in Frederick, Md., on Tuesday. near 100 Sunday and Monday. By late July, the most reliable
The Weather Service’s Heat- reached 110 degrees or higher Highs in the mid-90s to around long-range weather models sug-
Risk product shows numerous Thursday and did so again Friday. wide margin, easily surpassing parts of Wyoming, eastern Mon- 100 will also reach the Mid-Atlan- gest that large parts of the Lower
eastern cities reaching “extreme” Palm Springs, Calif., hit 119 on the previous mark of 115.1 in 2005. tana and western Nebraska. The tic on Monday, including D.C. Its 48 states may have to contend
Level 4 heat — the highest level Thursday, while Las Vegas Elsewhere, Salt Lake City rose heat will also extend to the Hous- forecast high of 101 would be the with above-average temperatures
on its 0-4 scale — for at least a day reached 118, its record sixth near 105 Friday, while Sacramen- ton area, where hundreds of thou- hottest of the year so far. again, except perhaps for parts of
or two through early next week. straight day making it to at least to soars to 110. sands remain without power af- Highs well into the 90s should the South.
The extreme heat will be most 115 degrees. Its average high of Heat advisories also extend ter Hurricane Beryl. also spread over much of south-
persistent and widespread from 116.9 degrees over the past week eastward, covering parts of east- In Denver, highs were expected ern New England. Jason samenow contributed to this
southern Louisiana to the Caroli- was the highest on record by a ern Colorado, including Denver, to rise near and above 100 Friday High levels of humidity will report.

THE DISTRICT rounding the return were not 4000 block of South Capitol The other teens who police say
immediately clear. Street SW. Court documents say escaped were a 14-year-old male,

4 youths escape psychiatric facility D.C. police said the four teens
remained missing as of Friday
evening. The Department of
Dawley was trapped in the vehi-
cle at the time of the crash and
police found a handgun in his
a 15-year-old male and a 16-year-
old female. It was not clear what
particular allegations they faced

after attacking staffer, memo says Youth Rehabilitation Services did

not immediately return calls
seeking comment.
breast pocket. He was charged
with unauthorized use of a vehi-
cle, carrying a pistol without a
that got them involved with the
Department of Youth Rehabilita-
tion Services, which deals with
Bonita Bolden, a spokeswom- license and possession of a high- children accused of violent and
BY K EITH L . A LEXANDER the custody of the District’s De- the facility about 9 p.m. Thurs- an for the Psychiatric Institute of capacity feeding device. nonviolent offenses, before they
partment of Youth Rehabilitation day, police said. Washington, said such incidents At the time of his February ended up at the hospital. The Post
D.C. police on Friday were Services, with at least one ac- According to a memo hospital were “infrequent” but declined to arrest, Dawley was also wanted generally does not identify
searching for four youths who cused of carjacking, according to officials sent to the Department offer additional comment on the for armed carjacking and robbery youths charged as juveniles.
escaped from an acute psychiat- a person familiar with the matter, of Youth Rehabilitation Services teens absconding, citing patient for an incident in November. Thursday’s events occurred
ric care facility in Northwest speaking on the condition of ano- on Friday morning and reviewed confidentiality laws. At a brief hearing Friday in just as a new report from the
Washington after allegedly as- nymity to discuss juvenile cases. by The Washington Post, five One of the youths, 16-year-old D.C. Superior Court over the al- District’s disability rights watch-
saulting an employee and fleeing After psychiatric evaluations, “adolescent” patients lured a hos- Andre Dawley, had been charged leged absconding, Dawley’s attor- dog, Disability Rights D.C., al-
with the person’s badge, keys and they were transferred to the Psy- pital staffer into a patient’s room. as an adult by federal prosecutors ney Rachel Cicurel said she was leged systemic abuse and neglect
other belongings, according to chiatric Institute of Washington They then assaulted the person after he was arrested in February. worried about her client, who at the Psychiatric Institute of
authorities and a memo sent by on Wisconsin Avenue NW for and left, the memo alleged. Authorities allege he stole a vehi- suffered from “serious mental Washington.
hospital officials. treatment, though it was not One of the five teens, the memo cle and led police on a chase from health challenges.” Judge Errol Bolden, the hospital’s spokes-
The four minors, ranging in immediately clear how long each said, was returned to the hospital, Prince George’s County into the Arthur issued a warrant for Daw- woman, declined to comment on
age from 14 to 16, had been put in had been at the hospital. They left though the circumstances sur- District before crashing in the ley’s arrest. the July report.

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saturday, july 13, 2024

Style Ez rE c
Faye 

A soft-focus
portrait of a
headstrong
movie star
BY A MY N ICHOLSON

Faye Dunaway took risks,

racking up three best actress
Oscar nominations (and one
win) for playing a string of
problematic women who dared
the audience to have their backs.
In turn, Dunaway herself was
equally admired and feared, and
she rarely felt the public’s warm
embrace. so it’s understandable
that after decades of polarizing
press, the now-83-year-old feels
safe revealing herself only to
Laurent Bouzereau’s friendly
and defanged documentary
“Faye” — a far gentler portrait of
a difficult woman than every-
thing else on her résumé.
Honestly, it’s pleasant to wit-
ness Dunaway getting the kid
gloves treatment. In lieu of harsh
questions, Bouzereau pokes af-
fectionate fun at her foibles with
B-roll of their sit-down. The film,
premiering saturday on HBO,
opens with her taking control of
his production before, it seems,
she was aware that the camera
was recording. Dunaway wants
to angle her shoulders just so;
WaSHInGTOn pOST IlluSTraTIOn; dIa dIpaSupIl, cIndy Ord/GETTy ImaGES; dEmETrIuS FrEEman/THE WaSHInGTOn pOST; ISTOck
she wants a glass of water, not a
bottle; and she wants to start
shooting now because she’s

Couched in ‘Morning Joe’

ready to go. Once the tape is
rolling, she volunteers that she’s
difficult — in fact, she admits it,
comfortably — empowering Bou-
zereau and the editor Jason sum-
mers to splice in these bits as

M
acknowledgment. Yes, Dunaway
MSNBC show snBC heavyweight Joe scarborough took to his eponymous
“Morning Joe” show on Thursday with a message: It was time to end
is headstrong, because she wants
everyone else on a set to match
hosts a family the Democratic civil war over President Biden’s debate perfor- her fastidiousness and iron will.
therapy session mance, one way or another.
Quoting Abraham Lincoln and the Gospel of Matthew, a solemn scarbor-
Later, there’s a montage of
Dunaway’s addiction to lip balm,
for the Biden ough called for a team of congressional power players to meet with the Biden a time-wasting tic that aggravat-
conundrum family to hash out whether he should stay in the race.
“‘We shall not fail if we stand together,’” scarborough said, as Mika
ed Hawk Koch, the assistant
director of “Chinatown.” (“Pain
Brzezinski — his co-host of 17 years and wife of six — nodded in affirmation in the ass,” he grumbles in his
BY W ILL S OMMER beside him. “Because so said Lincoln then, and so says a watchful and very interview.) still, Koch is also the
AND J EREMY B ARR worried nation now.” one to balance the scale with a
The past two weeks have demonstrated the formidable role that scarbor- story about the time Roman
ough and Brzezinski’s MsnBC morning show has played during the Biden Polanski was so irritated by Dun-
administration. A show that has always spoken to the lives and egos of political away’s cowlick that he ripped out
power brokers has put itself ever more firmly at the center of the discussion, as her hair. Yet, Polanski’s obsessive
high-profile guests hold forth on the president’s debate performance and the perfectionism got him anointed
sEE ‘MOrNiNg JOe’ On c2 as a genius.
Bouzereau knows these
From left, MSNBc co-host Joe Scarborough, President Biden and MSNBc co-host Mika Brzezinski. behind-the-scenes stories well;
he’s delivered dozens of docu-
mentaries on the making of leg-
endary films, including “China-
town,” “Bonnie and Clyde” and

Is Biden becoming Trumpified? “network.” As he doesn’t appear

to have had that much time with
Dunaway, he pads “Faye’s” run-
ning time with digressions on
Some aspects Armand Domalewski was at a Fourth of July weekend barbecue in Los Angeles
when he unlocked his phone and saw a ripple of clips on his social media feeds.
the cultural impact of her hits.
sEE ‘Faye’ On c4
of president’s There was Joe Biden, looking cool in a pinstripe shirt with a couple of buttons
image mimic undone, sitting across from ABC news anchor George stephanopoulos for a
damage-control interview after an awful debate against Donald Trump.
the shade of something struck him. The president looked a little … different. He showed the
his GOP foe phone to his girlfriend nearby.
“she immediately flagged it, like, ‘Why is he orange?’”
Domalewski, a data analyst from san Francisco, started thinking about the
BY J ESÚS crab. specifically, about a weird natural phenomenon that scientists have been
R ODRÍGUEZ observing for a while now, that certain species, over millions of years, eventually
develop hard shells and take on the body shape of crabs.
“now it’s like, between the orange tan, the fact that his son who has a
controversial reputation has become a key adviser, and the whole doubling down
and attacking the media … is it like every politician eventually evolves into
sEE TruMPiFieD On c2
JErry ScHaTzBErG/HBO

Faye Dunaway in 1968, just

after she found fame with her
role in “Bonnie and clyde.”

appreciation

Shining a light on narrative of Duvall

BY A MY N ICHOLSON
Almost nothing said about
shelley Duvall’s Wendy Torrance
in “The shining” is the truth. The
lies start as soon as she enters
the Overlook Hotel and the cook,
Dick (scatman Crothers), calls
her son Danny (Danny Lloyd) by
his nickname, “Doc.” Dick fibs
that Wendy must have said it
aloud. she hasn’t, and in the next
scene, Dick tells the boy private-
ly that they’re both psychic. But
no one ever clues in Wendy — she
just absorbs more lies — and by
the end of the movie, she’s en-
dured a literal and metaphorical
snow job.
The worst offender is, of
One of Shelley Duvall’s most
notable roles was in the 1980
EvErETT cOllEcTIOn
horror film “The Shining.”
course, her husband, Jack (Jack
nicholson). smarmily deferen-
tial to his employers, the alcohol-
ic novelist is cruel to his wife —
“the old sperm bank,” he sneers
— even before he starts dream-
ing of chopping her and Danny
into pieces. At the Overlook
Hotel, he’s the salaried caretaker,
but she’s the one doing the work:
trying to repair the phone lines,
tinkering with the boiler, con-
tacting the forest rangers, draft-
ing the family’s emergency es-
cape plans. In return, Jack
blames her for his writer’s block
and, using his most fiendishly
rational voice, tries to convince
her that their bruised and trau-
matized son must have strangled
himself.
Actually, it was a ghost. But to
Wendy, “The shining” is barely a
ghost story at all — she doesn’t
even see one until the last 10
minutes of the film. Duvall, who
died this week at 75 of diabetes
complications, claimed she nev-
er even glimpsed the film’s infa-
mous identical twins until she
screened a final cut.
stanley Kubrick, the 1980
film’s director, didn’t believe in
ghosts. He was into familial tor-
ture. (One of his preproduction
touchstones was David Lynch’s
“Eraserhead.”) To the pique of
original novelist stephen King,
Kubrick shifted Wendy’s charac-
ter from a sunny blonde to a
damaged brunette and, for the
psychotic husband, cast the actor
who’d won an Oscar playing a
mental patient in “One Flew Over
the Cuckoo’s nest.” Grumbled
King, “The audience automati-
cally identified him as a loony
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Democrats work through Biden feelings on ‘Morning Joe’
‘Morning Joe’ from C1
political firestorm it has created.
“It’s the get-together of all the
thought leaders in the country,”
said Donny Deutsch, a former
advertising executive and long-
time mSNBC pundit who has
used his recent appearances on
the show to call for Democrats to
replace Biden on the ticket.
“right now it’s the ultimate
political town hall meeting for
America with what’s going on.”
A day before Scarborough’s
monologue, the political uni-
verse was glued to the show to
see the morning’s top guest,
former House speaker Nancy
Pelosi, call on Biden “to decide if
he is going to run.”
of course, Biden has already
made up his mind that he is
running, something he made am-
ply clear in his own appearance,
via phone, on monday’s show,
when he launched an offensive
against restless Democratic do-
nors, pundits and elected offi-
cials who have publicly cast
doubt on his abilities.
“I’m getting so frustrated by
the elites,” the president told his
hosts, before quickly adding:
“Now, I’m not talking about you
guys.”
Granted, Scarborough, a for-
mer republican congressman
(now an independent), and
Brzezinski, a television news vet-
eran and the daughter of a
former national security adviser,
are about as elite as it gets in
media-political circles. And they
seem determined to use their
status to assist some compro-
mise or consensus about what
should happen to Biden’s candi-
dacy.
Not unlike “fox & friends”
during the Trump administra-
tion, “morning Joe’s” relevance is
derived in part from the influ-
ence of one particular power-
watcher: the president of the
United States, who watches the
show most mornings, often while
he is working out.
“The fact that we know the
president is a reliable viewer
means content from their show
gets outsize attention,” said a
Democratic strategist who spoke
on the condition of anonymity to
share candid thoughts.
Both Scarborough and Brzez-
inski have been regular visitors
As Biden digs in, some
detect a tinge of Trump
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Trump?”
Scientists also estimate the
Earth to be some 4.5 billion years
old, but at the present moment,
Biden, in his 82nd year of life, is
facing the most crucial decision of
his 54-year political career. Since
the president’s halting, lo-
w-energy debate performance in
late June, there have been calls
from his fellow Democrats, in-
cluding 22 members of Congress,
for the president to relinquish the
ticket and allow someone else to
face Trump in November.
At least to some, the way Biden
has responded to this self-inflicted
wound to his candidacy, and the
slow mutiny within his party, has
borne a resemblance — skin-deep,
perhaps, but noticeable — to his
78-year-old rival.
Biden phoned into mSNBC’s
“morning Joe,” a favorite show for
members of the party and himself,
to rail against “the elites in the
party” for urging him to step
Lonely, phone-distracted parent struggles to be fully present with toddler
Adapted from an
online discussion.
Hello, Carolyn:
Any advice on
how to be more
Carolyn present as a
Hax parent? I worry
that I am
distracted and
sometimes distant with my
toddler. I try not to be on my
phone all the time but
sometimes catch him trying to
get my attention and feel awful.
And I’m not great at playing
with him in an active way. I don’t
want him to grow up feeling like
his mom is only half there. I am
the lone caregiver — my partner
works long hours — we have no
family or friends around, and it’s
a half-hour drive to activities like
playgrounds or play groups, so it
seems especially important that
I be present for him, since I’m
essentially all he’s got. How do I
“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough expressed some doubt
about President Biden immediately after his debate performance,
but he has shifted back to being supportive. He and co-host Mika
Brzezinski, right, are regular visitors to the White House.
to the White House in the Biden
administration, according to vis-
itor logs. But after Biden’s highly
criticized debate performance,
the show has emerged as a
therapy session-cum-gladiatorial
arena, where shaken Democrats
grapple with what could be
Biden’s final days as a presiden-
tial candidate.
Scarborough himself has ap-
peared to be on a journey as well.
The morning after the debate, he
took pains to praise Biden as a
“man I love” — before declaring
that a CEo of any major corpora-
tion would be fired if he turned
in a similar performance.
In recent days, however, prom-
inent Democrats who spoke with
The Post said they believe that
Scarborough has moved back
into Biden’s column. (The hosts
declined a request for an inter-
down, an echo of Trump’s habit of
calling into “fox & friends” or
“Hannity” to let loose on his topic
of choice. Granted, he has ac-
knowledged his failure at the de-
bate (not very Trumpy), but some
people also see him clinging to a
stubborn belief that, to quote a
certain someone, I alone can fix it.
At a news conference Thursday,
Biden — who 85 percent of regis-
tered voters think is too old to
serve another term as president,
according to a Washington Post-
ABC News-Ipsos poll — said he
wouldn’t step down from the tick-
et even if his advisers were to give
him data that showed Vice Presi-
dent Harris outperforming him
against Trump. (That poll still has
him in a dead heat nationwide
with Trump, who 60 percent of
respondents said was too old.) “I
think I’m the most qualified per-
son to run for president,” Biden
said. “I beat him once and I will
beat him again.”
“He’s being Trump-like in that
he’s not listening,” says Jason
illuSTraTioN By NiCk galifiaNakiS for The WaShiNgToN PoST
be WITH him and present and
not somewhere else in my head?
— Distracted
distracted: What is with all that
isolation? Is that fixable?
Anything else, like putting
your phone in a different room,
which I urge you to do — beg —
would just be tweaking things at
the margins. You sound
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view.) on Thursday’s show, Scar-
borough floated a theory from
the president’s camp that former
president Barack obama is “qui-
etly working behind the scenes”
to undermine him.
While Brzezinski has been a
more reliable supporter of Biden
staying in the race, she, too,
called the debate “an unmitigat-
ed disaster by any measure” —
joining a chorus of criticism from
a group of mSNBC hosts who are
normally sympathetic to Biden.
on Wednesday, Brzezinski
told Pelosi that the party was
facing “depression” over the
president’s performance.
With a steady supply of guest
appearances by members of
Biden’s campaign team, the show
is perceived as a reliable support-
er of the president and his pol-
icies.
Palmer, the only Democrat who
has beaten Biden at anything this
year by winning the primary in
American Samoa before dropping
out.
“Donald Trump sometimes gets
into a bluster and just says, ‘I’m the
only one that could do it.’ And
some of the sentences I heard from
Joe Biden in the George Stephano-
poulos interview sounded like,
‘I’m the only one who can keep
NATo together, can protect the
free world.’ You know, thinking
you’re the only person is not the
right way to run for president.”
(No, Palmer won’t run again if
Biden drops out.)
In his interview after the debate
debacle, Stephanopoulos put a
fine point on it: “The heart of your
case against Donald Trump is that
he’s only out for himself, putting
his personal interests ahead of the
national interest. How do you re-
spond to critics who say that by
staying in the race, you’re doing
the same thing?”
“oh, come on,” Biden respond-
ed with a chuckle. “Well, I don’t
think those critics know what
they’re talking about.”
Lauren Hitt, a Biden campaign
spokesperson, wrote in an email
statement, “Donald Trump is a
convicted felon who tried to over-
dangerously, depressingly
isolated. And you’re trying to do
an exhausting job, alone, that
humans throughout time have
done collectively.
If you can’t move (closer) to a
village, then I hope you have at
least some materials around for
building one.
Carolyn: The isolation is
“The role they’ve played is just
doing the bidding of the Biden
White House and the Biden cam-
paign,” said one Democratic con-
sultant close to the White House,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to protect relation-
ships, who called it a “safe
choice” for the White House to
put Biden on “morning Joe.”
But Deutsch said there has
been no pressure to take a partic-
ular stance on Biden. The show’s
voices have ranged from Brzezin-
ski, with her supportive posture,
to former Council on foreign
relations president richard N.
Haass, who has said he does not
think Biden can beat Trump.
“You see different opinions on
the show and you don’t always
see that on television, and I think
that’s what viewers respect about
it,” Deutsch said.
throw our democracy, promises to
jail and prosecute his enemies,
and threatened violence when he
loses the election — anyone engag-
ing in this false equivalency has
truly lost the plot.”
And at his news conference,
Biden also said “there are other
people who could beat Trump,
too,” but that it would be “awful” to
start from scratch.
meanwhile, some Democrats
have been airing their real
thoughts about the president in
anonymous quotes in the press
while declining to break with him
publicly — yet another echo of
Trump days past and present,
when republicans would behave
likewise. “I wish I was more brave,”
an anonymous Democratic state
party chair reportedly admitted to
NBC News this week.
Let’s be clear. None of these
people think Biden and Trump
can be compared to each other in
terms of policy, character or their
vision for the America they’d like
to run. Their conflict comes from a
place of fundamental agreement:
that a man like Trump — actually
like him — should not occupy the
oval office.
for Brian Beutler, who writes
the Substack newsletter off mes-
sage and would like to see Biden
temporary-ish. We are stuck here
for another season at least. I use
my phone a lot to talk to friends
and family, which gets me on it.
— Distracted again
distracted again: okay. So: If
there’s any kid-friendly
institution, then push yourself
out there for whatever program
there is — as much for you as for
him. If not, then scour the land
for fellow parents of littles.
And schedule your calls with
longer stretches in between.
And humor me as I hand this
over to Nick Galifianakis, the
cartoonist for my column and
also my ex, who shared this
about being a toddler dad in a
remote area with a child-care
shortage:
This was me for months. The
nearest playground was 50
minutes away. You know you’re
in an isolated part of the world
the washington post
NaThaN CoNgleToN/MSNBC
on Wednesday, Pelosi seemed
to help revive the movement to
oust Biden with her curious word
choice about awaiting Biden’s
“decision.”
“Do you want him to run?”
Jonathan Lemire, a “morning
Joe” regular, asked Pelosi.
“I want him to do whatever he
decides to do,” Pelosi said — a
sound bite that sent shock waves
through Washington at a time
when the effort to push Biden
had seemed to ebb.
While Pelosi’s decision to ap-
pear on “morning Joe” that day
struck some political watchers as
significant, her spokesperson
said the interview had been
booked weeks ago, timed to the
NATo summit. Belarusian oppo-
sition leader Svetlana Tikha-
novskaya appeared on the show
with her, sitting quietly as Pelosi
step down, the way the president
and his supporters have reacted to
the threat to his candidacy (and,
possibly, his legacy) underscores
how unusual and distressing this
is for a career politician who has
always exhibited a decorous re-
spect for Washington institutions
and political relationships. It
speaks to the desperate spot Biden
is in, he says.
“Any leading politician who’s
facing a rebellion from within
their own party is going to reach
deep into their bag of tricks for
ways not to lose control of the
situation,” Beutler says, “and that’s
what Biden’s doing.”
Still, any comparisons to Trump
are limited. Whatever counsel he
might be getting from his son, it’s
not like Biden is trying to give
Hunter a security clearance and
naming him senior adviser, Beut-
ler pointed out, as Trump did with
his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
meeting criticism with defiance
and bravado arguably worked for
Trump, who is cruising to the
nomination and remaking the
party in his own image. In Trump’s
case, the idea was “to bypass the
republican Party,” says Kathryn
Cramer Brownell, an associate
professor at Purdue University
who studies politics and pop cul-
when you drive an hour just so
your kid can go up and down,
over and over, on an escalator.
In our rural area, many kids
are home-schooled, so the
nearest library can sport a
packed house at story time
during school hours.
At the church thrift store, for
a buck, I could fill a grocery bag
with children’s books, spreading
out the times I was asked to read
“Ulysses.” (I kid.)
A walk to “nowhere” can yield
a fun time: name this bird, name
that squirrel, name this house,
name that deer (and that and
that and that one). I often
wondered why anyone bothered
going into the woods at dawn to
hunt deer when they could just
sit in my living room, open a
window and bonk one on the
head.
We would play I Spy or vote
on the prettiest bricks
(Baltimore bricks, in case you’re
. saturday, july 13 , 2024
was grilled about American poli-
tics.
“morning Joe” which sprawls
across four hours of the morning
(plus a crack-of-dawn hour host-
ed by Lemire) may take up as big
a part of the Democratic Party’s
headspace as it does the mSNBC
schedule, with clips from the
show rocketing across social me-
dia as partisans try to turn the
interviews to their advantage.
The show was launched in
2007 as an emergency schedule
filler after veteran host Don Imus
was fired for making racially
insensitive comments. Its view-
ership, while robust, has never
been as central to its staying
power as its audience, which
includes some of the most impor-
tant decision-makers in Ameri-
can politics.
“‘morning Joe’ revolutionized
morning TV because viewers
quickly came to appreciate the
show’s authenticity,” said Chris
Licht, the show’s founding execu-
tive producer and the former
chief executive of CNN. “If you
want to make news, you go on the
program. If you want to learn
what’s happening behind the
scenes, you watch. It’s no sur-
prise that ‘morning Joe’ is front
and center at this critical mo-
ment in our nation’s history.”
While Pelosi’s “morning Joe”
appearance bolstered Biden’s
party critics, the show has also
become a regular stop for his
supporters. Democratic National
Committee chairman Jaime Har-
rison told worried Democrats to
“lock your knees and stiffen your
spines” in their support of Biden.
on Thursday, former mSNBC
“Hardball” host Chris matthews
predicted that Biden would tri-
umph in the party civil war.
“This elite-fashioned attack on
him, they’re going to pay for it,”
matthews said. “But in the end,
they’re going to end up voting for
him.”
In his final moments on the
show on monday, with the fate of
his presidency on the line, Biden
pledged to be a regular presence
on “morning Joe” — if the hosts
will have him.
“Let’s make this a thing,”
Brzezinski said.
“I’m not going away,” Biden
replied. “If you’re willing to hear
from me, I’m willing to talk to
you.”
ture, “and kind of present his mes-
sage in a way that he could control,
that it was more unfiltered — not
relying on journalists or anyone
else to convey his message, but
trying to take ownership of it.”
The question is whether this
particular way of trying to own the
narrative would work for Biden.
It’s one that his future in the race
depends on.
If Biden were to step down,
Beutler envisions a much more
diplomatic exit than what you’d
expect from Trump. He can’t really
imagine Biden taking down
names and trying to get members
of Congress to lose their primaries
— the type of vengeance Trump
has sought against republicans
who have gone against him. “He
will do it the way he’s kind of done
everything: by accommodation
and in a considerate way,” Beutler
says. “And the parallel between
him and Trump then will totally
break down.”
for now, Biden is staying in.
former president Trump, calling
into one of his own favorite cable
shows this week, offered his own
analysis of the situation.
“He’s got an ego,” Trump said,
sounding very much like his own
critics. “And he doesn’t want to
quit.”
wondering). I’d set up couch
cushions like slices of bread and
cheer on the kid to run into
them and bounce off. You can do
this over and over until a 2-year-
old says, “I’m tired.”
or I’d lie down on the couch,
exhausted, and dare her to push
or pull me off the couch. She
tried and tried. I was getting a
sort-of massage, and she was
wearing out.
I included her in loading the
dishwasher, folding sheets (yes, I
had to refold them, so what) and
even sweeping the floor with her
scaled-down cleaning tools. Kids
want to be included.
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“When the film was finished, I

told Stanley I’d probably never
cry again,” Duvall told the Los
Angeles Times before “The Shin-
ing’s” release. “But four days
later, when it came time for me
to leave, I was weeping all over
the place. It had been such an
intimate experience working
with him. There was such love
there.”
over the years, Duvall’s de-

As Wendy, scriptions of working with Ku-

brick never changed. She always
praised their results — and she

Duvall was always said she wouldn’t do it

again. Still, the myth persists
that Kubrick triggered Duvall’s

an actress, mental health issues that be-

came apparent after she retired
to Texas, and that he was per-

not a victim haps the reason she’d quit act-

appreCiaTioN from C1
the first scene.”
King fought to preserve “The
Shining” as a horror story (fam-
ily Sees Ghouls!) while Kubrick’s
version skews closer to tragedy
(Browbeaten Housewife refuses
to See Her Husband Is the
Ghoul!) Duvall’s Wendy is suffer-
ing a real-world nightmare:
What happens when your
spouse sobers up and he’s still a
violent jerk? As recently as 2021,
Duvall would tear up watching
the scene where Wendy wards
off Jack with a baseball bat: “I
can only imagine how many
women go through this kind of
thing,” she told the Hollywood
reporter.
And that’s merely what’s on-
screen. Duvall was double-
crossed again by the stories
behind the film’s production. I’m
not just referencing Kubrick’s
antics: his well-documented
mental and emotional bullying
during the 13-month produc-
tion, a reported 127 takes of the
baseball bat scene, the docu-
mentary footage (from 1980’s
“making the Shining”) of Duvall
sprawled on the floor attempt-
ing to quell an anxiety attack.
I’m thinking about how fans of
Duvall (and hers were genera-
tional, as her weird-girl energy
made her a TikTok sensation
decades after she left Holly-
wood) interpreted these facts to
mean that Duvall herself was
hardly acting, that what we’re
seeing in the film is an abused
Shelley Duvall received harsh reviews for her role opposite Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” when it came out in 1980.
woman, not an actress — a
pitiable figure little different
than a dancing chicken on a hot
metal plate.
This victimization narrative
seems to be a well-intentioned
way to champion Duvall while
countering the harsh reviews
her performance received upon
the film’s release. (Variety called
her “a simpering, semi-retarded
hysteric.”) Her turn as Wendy
was nominated for a 1981 razzie
award for worst actress. The
organization voided her nomina-
tion in 2022, writing that “Du-
vall's performance was impacted
by Stanley Kubrick's treatment
of her.” I’m no fan of Kubrick’s
tactics — to me, if a filmmaker
makes an actor do something 127
times, that’s a failure of their
own direction — so I’ll simply
note that Kubrick’s own razzie
nomination for “The Shining”
still stands (equally unde-
served).
much of our impressions of
“The Shining” set come from
that 1980 documentary short,
Shelley Duvall
insisted that “The
Shining” was an
artistic collaboration,
that together, she and
Stanley Kubrick had
forged a unique
heroine.
directed by Vivian Kubrick,
Stanley’s then-17-year-old
daughter. It’s online, and if you
want to witness Kubrick the
tyrant, he’s in there reacting
sarcastically when Duvall shows
him that her hair is falling out
and ordering his crew to show
her no sympathy. In one tense
confrontation, he bawls her out
for missing a cue.
Look closer, however, and
you’ll see that Duvall refuses to
cower. She insists that he — not
her — bungled that take by
prematurely calling cut, and
rolls her eyes at his petty chest-
thumping. When she questions
the timing of a line, Kubrick at
first tries to steamroll her and
then, in a sign of fragility, chang-
es the boundary lines of their
argument (“I honestly don’t
think the lines are going to make
an awful lot of difference if you
get the right attitude”) before
suggesting they take their con-
versation somewhere else, as
though self-conscious of being
disagreed with on camera.
everett collection
“He pushed me and it hurt
and I resented him for it,” Duvall
says at the end of the documen-
tary. Nevertheless, she adds, “I
really respect him and really like
him, both as a person and as a
director. I’m amazed. He’s
taught me more than I’ve
learned in all the other pictures
I’ve done.” She knew who he was
and what they’d made. She even
knew (and loathed and accept-
ed) Kubrick’s use of an unflatter-
ing 18mm lens for the sole
purpose of distorting her face to
look squished and alien.
Then, and up until she died,
Duvall insisted that “The Shin-
ing” was an artistic collabora-
tion, that together, she and Ku-
brick had forged a unique hero-
ine — a battered-wife character
deemed repellent because Du-
vall channeled fear so profound-
ly that she was painful to watch.
When awful things happen, Ku-
brick’s screenplay simply reads,
“Wendy reacts.” That gulping
goldfish terror sprang from Du-
vall.
ing. Never mind that Duvall said
with amusement that “The Shin-
ing” and her subsequent level-
ing-up in star status “really has
only affected me in the way that
it takes longer to go grocery
shopping.” our images of Wen-
dy’s harrowing ordeal have
merged with our images of Du-
vall herself, much like how Dick
describes the psychic residue of
the overlook Hotel: “When
something happens, it can leave
a trace of itself behind, say like if
someone burns toast.”
Duvall maintained her truth.
So what’s it going to take to
believe her?
Let’s look again at Duvall’s
“simpering hysteric” — or as
King called her, “one of the most
misogynistic characters ever put
on film. She’s basically just there
to scream and be stupid.” once
she accepts that her husband is
dangerous, she clobbers him un-
conscious in two blows, drags
his body to the pantry, resists his
manipulations to let him out,
saves her son by pushing him
out the window, stands her
ground with a knife, and finally
executes the escape plan she’d
already hatched, driving to safe-
ty in the middle of the night, in
the middle of a storm, on a
snowcat.
Duvall does not break. The
hotel does not win. Ironically, a
woman-hating ghost (played by
Philip Stone) is the only charac-
ter who accurately describes the
woman we’re watching. “Your
wife appears to be stronger than
we imagined, mr. Torrance,” he
says.
Yes, she was.

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Film shows Dunaway’s roles often echoed her life

‘Faye’ from C1 emerge.) robbing banks with est”). makes it doubly moving when
Warren Beatty’s Clyde Barrow Dunaway says she felt an Dunaway speaks frankly about
We’re always glad to listen to film made her famous, and the paral- “enormous kinship” to Joan her own bipolar disorder diagno-
scholars like mark Harris, Dave lels between her on- and off- Crawford. Even so, she now be- sis and efforts to find stabilizing
Itzkoff and Columbia professor screen lives continued to mount. lieves that playing her in “mom- medication. “I don’t mean to
Annette Insdorf, but there’s no Dunaway was a workaholic mie Dearest” was a mistake. The make an excuse about it,” she
need to take up space inserting a taskmaster in a male-dominated film has become such a camp says. “I’m still responsible for my
clip of Howard Beale’s “mad as entertainment industry (“Net- classic that one forgets it de- actions.”
hell” speech that doesn’t even work”), a self-destructive alco- railed Dunaway’s career. She from there, the film struggles
show Dunaway’s face. holic (“Barfly”), an underfed thought it was a serious drama; to find an appropriate ending for
But maybe those classics are fashion icon in love with her the director, frank Perry, treated a woman who’s itching to get
her biography. Early on, Dun- photographer (both Jerry it like a grotesque opera. back to work. Dunaway wants —
away’s son, Liam o’Neill, says, “I Schatzberg, who was her boy- Sharon Stone, appearing in and deserves — a triumphant,
think she’s all of her characters,” friend when he directed her in the documentary as both Dun- career-capping role in the hands
a point that comes to feel in- “Puzzle of a Downfall Child,” and away’s friend and a credible of a director steeled to bring out
creasingly true. Like Bonnie Terry o’Neill — Liam’s father — advocate for misconceived ac- her best. As her son says, “If she
Parker, Dunaway was an ambi- who snapped that iconic morn- tresses, is blunter: “If the direc- wasn’t in that much pain, would
tious Southerner who believed ing-after shot of her Academy tor puts the artist in that posi- she have been that good?”
she was destined to become a Award win) and, although her tion, shame on the director.”
star. (one of the wonders of her son avoids getting into specifics, furthermore, fans of Crawford Faye Dunaway in 1977, the
childhood archival footage is an emotionally volatile movie felt queasy poking into the su- morning after she won the best
watching those cheekbones star mother (“mommie Dear- perstar’s mental illness — which actress Oscar for “Network.” Terry o’sneIll/IconIc Images/HBo

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DISTRICT MARYLAND Horizon: An American Saga

AMC Georgetown 14
3111 K Street N.W.
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC:
11:45-7:40-10:10
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
CC: 9:30
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 7:00
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 11:30-2:00-
4:30; 2:40-5:10-7:20-9:40
MaXXXine (R) CC: 2:10-5:30-
8:10-10:30
Kingdom of the Planet of the
Apes (PG-13) CC: 9:50
The Bikeriders (R) CC: 4:40
Longlegs (R) CC: 12:10-2:40-
5:15-7:50-10:20
Horizon: An American Saga
Chapter 1 (R) CC: 7:30
Touch (R) CC: 1:20-4:20-7:15-
10:00
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) CC:
12:45-5:50
Despicable Me 4: The IMAX
Experience (PG) CC: 12:15-2:45-
5:20-7:45-10:15
Kinds of Kindness (R) CC: 11:20-
6:20-9:30
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC:
1:10-4:10-7:00-10:00
Sound of Hope: The Story of
Possum Trot (PG-13) CC: 1:30
Inside Out 2 3D (PG) CC:
3:20-8:20
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
CC: 4:45-7:10
The Lion King 30th Anniversary
(G) CC: 11:50-2:30-4:50-7:15
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 11:10-
4:00-6:30-9:00
MaXXXine (R) OC: 12:00
Princess Mononoke - Studio
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
Despicable Me 4 (PG) OC: 1:30
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
OC: 12:30
Inside Out 2 (PG) OC: 12:00
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:00AM
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - MaXXXine (R) CC: 12:40-3:10-
DC Bryant Street
630 Rhode Island Ave NE
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 10:30- Apes (PG-13) CC: 6:50
1:30-4:45-7:45-10:15
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) 5:20-7:00-8:00-9:20-10:30-11:25 12:45-3:15-5:45-8:15-10:40
12:30-3:30-5:30-6:30-8:15-11:00 Horizon: An American Saga
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 10:45-1:30- Chapter 1 (R) CC: 5:30-10:10
4:15-7:00
Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:30-12:00-
2:30-3:00-6:00-6:45-10:45
MaXXXine (R) 12:15-6:15-9:15
Longlegs (R) 10:00
Kinds of Kindness (R) 2:45
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:00-
4:30-9:45
MaXXXine (R) 3:15
Longlegs (R) 11:45-2:00-5:00-
7:15-8:00-9:00-9:30-11:00
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 1:45
Angelika
Pop-Up at Union Market
550 Penn Street NE - Unit E
Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:45-2:10-
5:00-7:00-9:30
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
12:00-2:30-4:30-7:25-9:50
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
12:45-3:45-6:45-9:45
Avalon Theatre
5612 Connecticut Avenue
Thelma (PG-13) 12:00-2:15-
4:35-7:00
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
11:00-1:50-4:45-7:45
Landmark
Atlantic Plumbing Cinema
807 V Street Northwest
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) Possum Trot (PG-13) CC: 12:45 Longlegs (R) CC: 11:00-1:45-
1:50-4:20-7:30-9:40
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 2:00-4:30- 1:00-4:00-7:00-9:15
7:20-9:30
Inside Out 2 (PG) 1:15-2:15-3:50-
5:00-6:40-7:40-8:50-9:50
MaXXXine (R) 4:10-7:10-9:20
Longlegs (R) 1:30-4:00-7:00-9:10 Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC:
MaXXXine (R) 1:40
Landmark E Street Cinema
555 11th Street Northwest
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 10:30-
(R) 11:55
The Room (R) 11:55
Inside Out 2 (PG) 12:15-1:15-
3:30-4:30-7:15-9:30
MaXXXine (R) 12:45-7:45-10:00 4:10-6:55-9:10
Touch (R) 1:00-7:10-9:45
Thelma (PG-13) 1:25-4:15-6:30- 4:30-7:10-9:00-9:40-10:00
10:15
Kinds of Kindness (R) 12:00-3:00- Chapter 1 (R) CC: 9:10
7:00-8:00-9:00
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
12:30-1:30-3:45-7:30-8:30-10:30 Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) CC:
MaXXXine (R) 3:15
Touch (R) 4:45
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) 5:00 Experience (PG) CC: 11:00-1:30-
Regal Gallery Place
701 Seventh Street Northwest
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 10:30- Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC: XD: 9:30; 9:00-11:35-2:15-4:55-
6:40-9:50
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) Sarfira 5:05
12:10-1:10-2:50-5:20-5:50-6:50- Dandelion (R) CC: 9:25
7:50-8:20-9:20-10:25-10:50
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:00-
12:00-12:30-1:30-2:30-3:00-6:30- The Lion King 30th Anniversary 3:55-4:15-5:10-6:30-6:50-7:45-
8:10-9:00-10:40
Inside Out 2 (PG) 10:50-12:40-
1:40-3:10-4:10-6:10-7:10-8:40-
9:40-11:10
MaXXXine (R) 11:40-2:20-5:00-
7:40-10:15
Kingdom of the Planet of the
Apes (PG-13) 8:50
Longlegs (R) 11:10-1:50-4:40-
7:30-10:10
Horizon: An American Saga
Chapter 1 (R) 10:35-2:40
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 11:30- 11:30-2:15-5:00-8:00-10:45
2:00-4:30-7:05-9:30
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
12:20-3:40-7:20-10:20
Dandelion (R) 10:20AM
The Lion King 30th Anniversary Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 12:15-
(G) 10:40-1:20-3:50-6:20
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) MaXXXine (R) CC: 11:00-1:45-
4:20
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 5:30
Princess Mononoke - Studio
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 7:00
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 1:15
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 4:00
Chapter 1 (R) CC: 5:30-9:45
AFI Silver Theatre Cultural Touch (R) CC: 10:30-1:25-4:20-
Center
7:15-10:15
8633 Colesville Road
North by Northwest (1959) 9:15
Thelma (PG-13) CC: 10:40-1:10-
3:40-6:15-9:00
Funny Girl (1968) (G) 1:00
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) CC:
On the Town (NR) 11:45AM 1:15-3:45-6:15-8:45
A League of Their Own (PG) 4:00 Despicable Me 4: The IMAX
Thelma (PG-13) OC: 5:00 Experience (PG) CC: 11:45-2:30-
A Free Soul (1931) (NR) 11:00AM 5:15-7:45-10:15
Godzilla (Gojira) (1954) (NR) 7:15 Kinds of Kindness (R) CC: 9:30
The Green Border (Zielona Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC:
granica) 2:05 10:30-1:30-4:30-7:30-10:30
Last Summer (2023) 1:45-4:05- Dandelion (R) CC: 2:45-5:45-8:45
6:45-9:00 Sound of Hope: The Story of Pos-
Thelma (PG-13) 7:05-9:10 sum Trot (PG-13) CC: 12:30-3:40
AMC Academy 8 Hijack 1971 (R) 12:20
Indian 2 10:50-6:15
6198 Greenbelt Road
Inside Out 2 3D (PG) CC: 10:30-
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC: 1:00-3:30-6:00-8:30
1:00-4:00-6:50-10:00
The Lion King 30th Anniversary
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
(G) CC: 11:00-1:30-4:00-6:30
CC: 1:40-4:20-6:45-9:15
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 1:30- A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
CC: 11:15-12:15-3:00-5:30-7:00-
4:00-6:30-9:00
8:15
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 2:00-7:00
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 10:45-
MaXXXine (R) CC: 2:20-4:50-7:20 1:45-4:15-6:45-9:15
Longlegs (R) CC: 2:00-4:40-7:30-
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 11:30-2:00-
9:30-10:20
4:45-7:15-9:45
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) CC: Longlegs (R) OC: 11:15AM
5:15-7:45-10:10
Princess Mononoke - Studio
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC: Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
1:10-4:10-7:10-9:50
AMC Magic Johnson
Sound of Hope: The Story of
Possum Trot (PG-13) CC: 2:10 Capital Center 12
Inside Out 2 3D (PG) CC: 800 Shoppers Way
4:30-9:30 Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC:
2:30-5:15-8:00-10:45
AMC Annapolis Mall 11
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
1020 Annapolis Mall Road
CC: 12:10-2:40-5:10-7:40-10:10
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC:
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC:
11:10-2:00-4:50-7:40-10:40 3:45-6:15
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 12:00-2:30-
CC: 9:30; 11:50-2:30-5:00-7:30- 5:00-7:30-10:00
11:00 MaXXXine (R) CC: 12:00-4:30-
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 11:45- 7:10-9:45
2:10-4:35-7:00
Kingdom of the Planet of the
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 10:15- Apes (PG-13) CC: 10:05
11:00-12:30-1:30-3:00-4:00- Longlegs (R) CC: 2:30-5:00-
6:30-9:00 7:30-10:00
A Quiet Place: Day One: The
5:45-8:20-10:50
IMAX Experience (PG-13) CC:
Kingdom of the Planet of the
9:10
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) CC:
Longlegs (R) CC: 12:10-2:45-
Despicable Me 4: The IMAX
Experience (PG) CC: 1:45-
4:15-6:45
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG)
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC:
10:00AM 4:10-6:45-9:50
Kinds of Kindness (R) CC: 10:20 Sound of Hope: The Story of
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC: Possum Trot (PG-13) CC: 7:15
10:00-1:00-4:10-7:20-10:00
Inside Out 2 3D (PG) CC: 1:00-
Sound of Hope: The Story 3:30-6:00-8:30
of Possum Trot (PG-13) CC:
Bull Street (R) 8:45
12:20-3:30 The Lion King 30th Anniversary
Inside Out 2 3D (PG) 11:30AM
(G) CC: 3:05-5:25-7:45
The Lion King 30th Anniversary Despicable Me 4 (PG) OC: 1:15
(G) CC: 10:05-1:55-4:20
Longlegs (R) OC: 12:00
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 10:45- Princess Mononoke - Studio
1:10-3:35-6:00-8:30-9:40
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
AMC Center Park 8 Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
4001 Powder Mill Rd. OC: 12:00
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC:
12:15-3:00-5:45-8:30
The Lion King 30th Anniversary
(G) OC: 12:45
AMC Montgomery 16
CC: 12:30-3:00-5:30-8:00-10:00 7101 Democracy Boulevard
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC:
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC:
11:00-12:00-2:30-5:00-6:45- 2:15-5:00-7:45-10:30
7:30-10:00
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 11:30-1:15- CC: 12:30-3:00-5:30-8:00-10:30
3:45-6:15-9:00
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC:
MaXXXine (R) CC: 1:45-4:00- 11:00-1:30-2:45-4:00-6:30-7:45-
6:30-9:00
9:00-10:10
Longlegs (R) CC: 11:15-2:15-
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 11:30-
4:45-7:15-9:45 12:15-2:00-4:30-5:15-7:00-9:30
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) CC: MaXXXine (R) CC: 11:15-2:00-
4:15
4:45-7:30-10:00
Sound of Hope: The Story of
4:30-7:15-10:20
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC: Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC:
11:15-1:15-4:15-7:20-10:00
AMC Columbia 14
AMC St. Charles Town Ctr 9
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway 11115 Mall Circle
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 10:00AM Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC:
1:15-4:00-6:45-9:30
12:05-2:25-6:20-9:45 A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) CC: 12:30-3:00-5:30-8:00-8:30-
CC: 8:40
10:30
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 6:00 Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 2:15-
4:45-7:15-9:45
1:00-3:30
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 12:10-2:40-
MaXXXine (R) CC: 11:25-2:05- 5:10-7:40-10:10
4:35-7:10 MaXXXine (R) CC: 12:15-2:45-
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 11:10-1:40- 5:15-7:45-10:15
Longlegs (R) CC: 12:00-2:30-
Longlegs (R) CC: 11:10-1:50-
5:00-7:30-10:00
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) CC:
Horizon: An American Saga 12:45-6:00
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC:
Touch (R) CC: 12:25-6:20-9:30
12:00-3:00-6:00-10:00
Thelma (PG-13) CC: 10:00AM Sound of Hope: The Story of
Possum Trot (PG-13) CC: 12:15-
2:30-7:30 3:30-6:45-9:00
Despicable Me 4: The IMAX
Inside Out 2 3D (PG) CC: 3:20
Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD
4:00-6:30-9:00
7000 Arundel Mills Circle
Kinds of Kindness (R) CC: 9:00
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
11:50-3:00-6:10-9:15
5:25-7:35-8:05-10:15-10:45
Despicable Me 4 (PG) XD: 9:00-
11:30-2:00-4:30-7:00
Inside Out 2 3D (PG) CC: 11:40- Inside Out 2 (PG) 9:25-10:45-
2:20-4:50-6:40
11:05-12:00-1:20-1:40-2:35-
(G) CC: 12:00-2:20-4:40-7:10
9:25-10:25
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) Indian 2 10:35
CC: 11:20-1:55-4:25-7:05-9:40 Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 11:00-
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC:
2:00-5:00-7:55-10:50
11:30-12:15-2:00-4:30-5:00- A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
7:00-9:30
11:10-1:50-4:30-7:10-9:55
Touch (R) OC: 3:20
Inside Out 2 (PG) XD: 9:05-11:40-
Princess Mononoke - Studio 2:20-4:55
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
MaXXXine (R) 9:20-12:00-2:40-
AMC DINE-IN Rio Cinemas 18 5:20-8:00-10:40
9811 Washingtonian Center
Kingdom of the Planet of the
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC: Apes (PG-13) 9:05
Kalki 2898 AD 2:25-6:40-10:40
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) Longlegs (R) XD: 7:30-10:10
CC: 10:45 Horizon: An American Saga
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 8:15 Chapter 1 (R) 9:25-1:25
If (PG) CC: 11:20AM Touch (R) 9:40-12:40-3:45-
6:45-9:45
3:00-5:30 Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 10:50-
11:50-3:50-6:20-8:50-11:20
4:30-7:10-10:00 Kalki 2898 AD 9:00
Kingdom of the Planet of the Kinds of Kindness (R) 9:35
Apes (PG-13) CC: 9:00 Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
The Bikeriders (R) CC: 10:10 9:30-9:55-12:45-1:15-4:00-4:30-
Longlegs (R) CC: 2:00-4:45- 7:15-7:45-10:30-11:00
7:30-10:15 Sarfira 10:20
Sound of Hope: The Story of
Possum Trot (PG-13) 9:10-12:35-
3:50-7:05
Indian 2 9:10
The Lion King 30th Anniversary
(G) 9:10-11:45-2:15-4:45-7:10
Kalki 2898 AD 3D 10:25AM
Despicable Me 4 (PG)
9:20-9:40-9:50-10:00-11:10-
12:10-12:20-12:30-1:20-1:40-
2:20-2:40-3:00-4:10-4:50-5:10-
5:30-6:30-6:40-7:20-7:40-8:00-
9:50-10:10; 10:30
Longlegs (R) 9:15-11:55-2:35-
5:15-7:55-10:35
Princess Mononoke - Studio
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
Indian 2 10:30-2:30-6:35
Cinépolis Gaithersburg
629 Center Point Way
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 12:15-
3:30-6:45-10:00
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
10:15-1:15-4:15-7:15-10:15
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:15-2:00-
4:45-7:30-10:15
Inside Out 2 (PG) 10:45-1:45-
4:45-7:50-10:45
MaXXXine (R) 11:45-6:30-9:30
Longlegs (R) 10:30-1:45-4:45-
7:45-10:45
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
12:00-3:30-7:00-10:30
Sound of Hope: The Story of
Possum Trot (PG-13) 2:45
Greenbelt Cinema
129 Centerway
Robot Dreams 7:45
Janet Planet (PG-13) 5:15
Kinds of Kindness (R) 4:45-8:00
Landmark
Bethesda Row Cinema
7235 Woodmont Avenue
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
12:55-3:10-5:30-7:45-10:00
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 12:30-
1:30-2:45-3:45-5:00-6:00-7:15-
9:30
Inside Out 2 (PG) 12:00-1:15-
2:15-3:15-4:30-6:55-8:15-9:45
Touch (R) 12:05-3:30-6:30-9:25
Thelma (PG-13) 12:35-2:50-5:20-
7:35-9:50
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) 1:00-
4:00-5:15-7:00-8:30-9:15
Landmark at
Annapolis Harbour Center
2474 Solomons Island Road Unit H-1
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 4:30
Sing (PG) 11:00AM
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
2:15-4:50-7:20-9:50
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:10-
12:10-1:25-2:25-3:40-4:40-6:00-
7:00-8:15-9:15
Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:30-12:30-
1:45-2:45-5:00-6:15-7:15-8:35-
9:30
Longlegs (R) 12:05-2:20-4:45-
7:05-9:25
Horizon: An American Saga
Chapter 1 (R) 3:00-8:30
Thelma (PG-13) 12:45-3:30-
6:45-9:55
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
12:00-1:30-4:20-7:10-9:00
Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6
3899 Branch Avenue
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 12:35- 12:10-2:40-5:10-7:40-10:20
3:30-6:45-9:35
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) 12:00-12:30-12:45-1:30-2:30-
12:05-2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 12:10-
1:20-2:30-3:45-4:45-6:05-7:05- 1:40-4:10-5:50-6:40-8:20-9:10
9:30
Inside Out 2 (PG) 12:30-3:00-
5:30-8:00
Longlegs (R) 12:05-2:30-5:00-
7:30-10:00
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG)
11:00-8:35
Regal Cinemas Majestic
Stadium 20 & IMAX
900 Ellsworth Drive
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 12:50- 11:40-2:50-6:20-9:20
3:45-6:45-10:05
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) Nagi- (PG-13) 3:40
11:35-1:35-2:15-4:10-4:55-6:55- Sound of Hope: The Story of
7:40-9:40-10:35
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:00-
11:30-12:05-1:40-2:10-2:40-4:15- Princess Mononoke - Studio
4:45-5:15-7:00-7:30-8:00-9:45-
10:15-10:45
Inside Out 2 (PG) 10:20-11:20-
12:55-1:55-4:30-6:10-7:20-9:10-
10:00
MaXXXine (R) 10:10-1:15-4:00- 3:30-6:40-9:40; 11:05
6:50-10:10
Kingdom of the Planet of the
Apes (PG-13) 9:05
Longlegs (R) 11:50-12:25-2:30- Despicable
3:10-5:10-6:15-7:50-9:30-10:30
Horizon: An American Saga
Chapter 1 (R) 10:55-9:20
A Quiet Place: Day One: The
IMAX Experience (PG-13) 8:45
Touch (R) 11:10-2:05-5:05-8:05 10:00
Thelma (PG-13) 10:15-4:20-
7:10-9:55
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 3:40- Horizon: An American Saga
6:20-9:00
Despicable Me 4: The IMAX
Experience (PG) 10:00-12:40-
3:15-6:00
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
12:10-3:25-6:40-9:50
Dandelion (R) 10:05AM
Sound of Hope: The Story of
Possum Trot (PG-13) 1:20
Indian 2 12:30-4:35-8:40
The Lion King 30th Anniversary Possum Trot (PG-13) 11:40-
(G) 10:35-1:10-3:50-6:25
Inside Out 2 (PG) 3:30
Princess Mononoke - Studio
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
Indian 2 12:15-4:25-8:20
Regal Germantown
20000 Century Boulevard
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 7:20-
10:25; 11:40AM
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
12:00-2:40-5:20-8:00-10:40
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 12:20;
10:55-1:20-3:10-4:00-5:50-6:30-
8:30-9:10
Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:00-12:40-
1:30-4:20-6:00-7:00-8:40-9:40
MaXXXine (R) 11:30-2:10-5:00-
7:40-10:30
Kingdom of the Planet of the
Apes (PG-13) 8:50
Kalki 2898 AD 5:10-9:20
Longlegs (R) 12:30-2:50-5:30-
7:10-8:10-10:50
Kill (R) 10:05
Horizon: An American Saga
Chapter 1 (R) 11:05-3:05
Kalki 2898 AD 12:50
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
11:50-3:40-6:50-10:10
Sarfira 12:10-4:40-9:00
Indian 2 11:20AM
The Lion King 30th Anniversary
(G) 10:50-1:10-3:50-6:20
Princess Mononoke - Studio
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
Indian 2 3:30-7:30
Inside Out 2 (PG) 3:20
Regal Hyattsville Royale
6505 America Boulevard
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
12:00-3:30-6:30-9:10
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:00-
11:50-12:40-1:40-2:30-3:20-
4:20-5:10-6:10-7:00-7:50-8:40-
9:40-10:30
Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:20-12:20-
1:00-1:30-2:10-3:10-4:00-4:50-
6:00-6:50-7:40-8:50-10:40
MaXXXine (R) 12:30-3:40-6:40-
9:30
Kingdom of the Planet of the
Apes (PG-13) 10:20
Kalki 2898 AD 7:20
Longlegs (R) 11:40-2:20-5:00-
8:10-10:50
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
11:30-2:50-6:20-9:50
Dandelion (R) 11:10-1:50-4:40-
7:30-10:45
Sound of Hope: The Story of
Possum Trot (PG-13) 4:10
The Lion King 30th Anniversary
(G) 12:10-2:40-5:20-8:00
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 11:45-
7:10-10:10
Kalki 2898 AD 9:20
Princess Mononoke - Studio
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
Regal Laurel Towne Centre
14716 Baltimore Avenue
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 12:50-
2:00-4:50-7:40-10:30
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 10:30-
11:00-11:40-12:40-1:15-1:50-
2:30-3:20-4:00-4:40-5:15-6:45-
7:30-8:00-8:50-9:30-10:00
MaXXXine (R) 11:45-2:40-5:20-
8:10-10:50
Longlegs (R) 10:40-1:30-4:15-
7:00-9:40-10:40
Horizon: An American Saga
Chapter 1 (R) 8:30
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 6:00
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
11:50-3:10-6:30-9:50
Sound of Hope: The Story of
Possum Trot (PG-13) 11:30-
6:10-9:20
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
10:50-1:40-4:30-7:15-10:10
Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:20-12:20-
3:00-3:50-5:45-6:20-9:00
Princess Mononoke - Studio
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 2:50
Regal Rockville Center
199 East Montgomery Avenue
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:00-
3:15-4:00-5:00-5:40-6:30-7:00-
7:30-8:10-9:00-9:30-10:10
Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:10-12:20-
MaXXXine (R) 11:20-2:10-4:40-
7:10-10:00
Kalki 2898 AD 4:50
Longlegs (R) 11:50-2:20-5:20-
7:50-10:30
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 2:00
Kalki 2898 AD 8:50
Kinds of Kindness (R) 11:45-
6:10-9:40
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
Blue Lock The Movie -Episode
Possum Trot (PG-13) 2:45
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:30AM
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
Regal Waugh Chapel
1419 South Main Chapel Way
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 12:40-
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
12:00-2:30-5:20-8:10-9:50-
10:40
Me 4 (PG) 11:50-
1:10-2:20-5:10-6:10-7:50-8:40-
10:35
Inside Out 2 (PG) 10:40-1:50-
3:10-4:30-7:10-8:20-10:10-
11:00
MaXXXine (R) 1:30-4:10-7:00-
Kingdom of the Planet of the
Apes (PG-13) 11:20-2:40-6:20
Chapter 1 (R) 9:35
Longlegs (R) 10:35-11:30-2:10-
4:50-7:30-10:20
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 3:40
Despicable Me 4: The IMAX
Experience (PG) 10:50-1:40-4:20-
6:50-9:30
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
10:25-12:20-3:50-7:20-10:30
Sound of Hope: The Story of
6:30
Inside Out 2 3D (PG) 12:10-
5:40
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 10:20AM
Princess Mononoke - Studio
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
Regal Westview
5243 Buckeystown Pike
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 10:40- Inside Out 2 3D (PG) CC: 11:15-
1:30-4:20-7:20-10:10
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) Bull Street (R) 7:00
9:15
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:20-2:00- (G) CC: 10:00-12:15-2:30-4:45-
4:35-7:15-9:50
Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:10-1:45-
7:05-9:30
MaXXXine (R) 11:50-2:40-5:20- MaXXXine (R) OC: 10:30AM
8:00-10:40
Kingdom of the Planet of the
Apes (PG-13) 9:10
Kalki 2898 AD 3:20
Longlegs (R) 11:45-2:20-5:00-
7:40-10:15
Horizon: An American Saga
Chapter 1 (R) 10:45-7:50
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 11:00-
1:35-4:05-6:45
Despicable Me 4: The IMAX
Experience (PG) 12:00-2:30-5:05-
7:45-10:20
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
12:20-3:40-6:50-10:00
Dandelion (R) 8:50
The Lion King 30th Anniversary
(G) 10:50-1:40-4:10-6:40
Inside Out 2 (PG) 10:15-12:50-
3:25-6:00-8:25
Kalki 2898 AD 11:30-7:30
Princess Mononoke - Studio
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
11:15-1:50-4:30-7:10-9:45
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 10:00-
10:35-12:30-1:05-3:05-3:35-5:35-
6:15-8:10-10:45
Inside Out 2 (PG) 4:25
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
12:35-3:10-5:45-8:30
Xscape Theatres
Brandywine 14
7710 Matapeake Business Drive
The Goonies (PG) 1:00-4:00-7:00
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 11:35-
12:15-2:10-3:45-4:45-6:45-7:25-
9:25-10:05
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:10-
11:50-1:40-2:20-4:05-4:40-6:20-
7:00-8:40-9:20
Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:00-12:50-
1:30-3:10-3:50-5:30-6:10-7:50-
8:30
MaXXXine (R) 11:55-2:25-4:55-
7:30-10:00
Longlegs (R) 12:10-2:30-5:00-
7:20-9:40
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
12:00-3:00-6:00-9:00
Sound of Hope: The Story of
Possum Trot (PG-13) 11:25-2:15-
5:15-8:25
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
1:05-3:25-5:55-8:15-9:45
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 1:00-3:20-
5:40-8:00
The Lion King 30th Anniversary
(G) 12:30-2:40-4:50-7:10-9:30
iPic Pike & Rose
11830 Grand Park Avenue
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
11:30-3:30-7:00-9:45-10:15
Despicable Me 4 (PG) (!) 12:00-
12:30-3:00-3:45-6:00-6:45-9:00
MaXXXine (R) (!) 1:15-4:30-7:30-
10:45
Longlegs (R) (!) 1:45-4:45-7:45-
11:00
Inside Out 2: The IMAX Experi-
ence (PG) 12:15-3:15-6:15-9:30
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) (!)
11:15-2:45-6:30-10:00
VIRGINIA
AMC Courthouse Plaza 8
2150 Clarendon Blvd.
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC:
11:10-2:00-4:50-7:40-10:25
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
CC: 11:20-1:50-4:30-7:00-10:00
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 11:00-
1:30-4:00-6:30-9:00-10:30
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 10:45-
12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30-9:30
MaXXXine (R) CC: 11:30-2:00-
4:40-7:20-9:55
Longlegs (R) CC: 12:30-3:00-
5:30-8:00-10:30
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) CC:
12:30-5:30
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC:
1:10-4:10-7:10-10:10
Inside Out 2 3D (PG) CC:
3:00-8:00
AMC Hoffman Center 22
206 Swamp Fox Rd.
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 12:00
Indian 2 7:00-10:45
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC:
11:20-2:00-4:40-7:20-10:00
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
CC: 9:00; 10:00-11:15-12:30-
1:45-3:00-4:15-5:30-6:45-8:00-
9:45-10:30
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 6:30
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 11:00-
1:30-4:00
MaXXXine (R) CC: 1:00-3:30-
6:00-8:30-11:00
Kingdom of the Planet of the
Apes (PG-13) CC: 9:15
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 10:00-
12:20-2:45-3:30-5:15-7:45-10:15
Project Silence 11:30-4:20
The Bikeriders (R) CC: 11:20-
2:05-4:50-7:40-10:25
Longlegs (R) CC: 10:45-12:00-
1:15-2:30-3:45-5:00-6:15-6:50-
7:30-8:45-9:20-10:00
Kill (R) CC: 8:45
Horizon: An American Saga
Chapter 1 (R) CC: 11:00AM
Touch (R) CC: 11:15-4:45-7:30-
10:30
Thelma (PG-13) CC: 11:10-
1:35-4:00
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) CC:
11:30-2:00-4:30-7:00-9:30
Despicable Me 4: The IMAX
Experience (PG) CC: 10:10-12:30-
3:00-5:30-8:00-10:30
Kinds of Kindness (R) CC: 6:30
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC:
11:00-2:00-5:00-8:00-11:00
Sarfira 10:05
Dandelion (R) CC: 6:00
Sound of Hope: The Story of
Possum Trot (PG-13) CC: 10:10-
1:15-4:20-7:25-10:30
Lumina (R) 10:10
Indian 2 11:00-3:00
6:15-8:45
The Lion King 30th Anniversary
7:00
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 2:30-
5:00-7:30-10:00
Touch (R) OC: 2:00
Princess Mononoke - Studio
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
12:15-2:35-5:20-6:15-8:15-11:00
Longlegs (R) XD: 7:00-9:40
Indian 2 10:00
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 12:20-
12:50-2:20-3:00-5:40-7:40-8:20
AMC Potomac Mills 18 Despicable Me 4 (PG) 12:20- Inside Out 2 (PG) 10:40-12:00-
Regal Ballston Quarter
2700 Potomac Mills Circle 3:10-6:00 1:20-4:00-5:20-6:40-8:00-9:20
671 North Glebe Road
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:00AM; Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:00-1:40- A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) Princess Mononoke - Studio
6:30 3:00-3:20-4:20-5:45-7:00-9:10- Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:05
9:50 11:10-1:50-4:50-7:40-10:20
Longlegs (R) 5:40 Indian 2 2:50-7:10
MaXXXine (R) 12:30-3:35-6:45- Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:00-
Indian 2 5:30-9:30 11:30-12:30-1:00-1:30-2:10- Despicable Me 4 (PG) 10:20-
9:45 1:00-3:40-6:20-9:00
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC: Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
3:10-3:40-4:10-4:40-6:30-7:00-
11:10-1:30-4:20-7:10-10:30 7:30-8:30-9:10-9:40-10:10 Inside Out 2 (PG) 2:40
11:45-3:10-6:30-8:35-10:00 Indian 2 10:10-9:50
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) Despicable Me 4 (PG) 10:30- Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:40-1:20-
CC: 10:30 3:20-4:20-6:20-7:20-9:20-10:00
11:00-1:20-4:15-7:15-10:05 Regal Manassas
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 12:30- Longlegs (R) 12:05-2:05-5:05- MaXXXine (R) 11:25-2:20-5:10-
11380 Bulloch Drive
3:00-5:30 8:00-10:45
8:00-8:55-10:55 Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 8:20
The Garfield Movie (PG) CC: Kingdom of the Planet of the A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
1:20-4:00 Angelika Film Center Mosaic Apes (PG-13) 4:00-8:10
2911 District Ave
12:00-2:10-5:10-6:50
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 8:00; Longlegs (R) 11:20-2:00-5:00- Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:50-
11:20-12:30-2:15-4:45-7:15- A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) 7:50-10:40
12:40-2:20-3:10-5:40-7:20-8:10
9:45 10:40-3:25-5:45-8:00-10:25 Horizon: An American Saga Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:30-4:30-
MaXXXine (R) CC: 11:40-2:30- Despicable Me 4 (PG) 10:00- Chapter 1 (R) 11:45AM
7:00
5:10-7:45-10:20 12:15-2:30-4:45-7:05-9:30 Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 5:40
MaXXXine (R) 12:20-3:20-6:40-
Kingdom of the Planet of the Inside Out 2 (PG) 10:30-12:45- Kinds of Kindness (R) 6:00-9:50 9:15
Apes (PG-13) CC: 10:00 3:00-5:15-7:30-9:45 Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
Kingdom of the Planet of the
The Bikeriders (R) CC: 8:15 MaXXXine (R) 2:35-5:00-10:00 12:20-3:50-7:10-10:30
Apes (PG-13) 8:30
Longlegs (R) CC: 11:30-2:00- Touch (R) 11:00-1:45-4:30- Sound of Hope: The Story of
4:30-7:00-9:30 7:10-9:55 Longlegs (R) 12:50-3:40-6:20-
Possum Trot (PG-13) 11:50AM 8:50
Horizon: An American Saga Thelma (PG-13) 10:15-1:00-7:25 Princess Mononoke - Studio
Kill (R) 10:50-5:20
Chapter 1 (R) CC: 11:40-9:20 Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) CC: 10:25-11:30-1:15-4:10-7:00- Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 4:50
Regal Dulles Town Center
1:00-3:30-6:00-8:30 9:50 Despicable Me 4: The IMAX
21100 Dulles Town Circle Experience (PG) 11:00-1:30-
Despicable Me 4: The IMAX Longlegs (R) 12:30-3:05-5:30-
Experience (PG) CC: 11:30-2:00- 8:00-10:20 Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 4:00-6:30-9:00
6:20-9:10 Kalki 2898 AD 1:20-7:50
4:30-7:00-9:30 CMX Village 14
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC: Despicable Me 4 (PG) Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
1600 Village Market Boulevard 10:50-11:40-12:30-1:30-2:20- 11:20-2:40-6:00-9:10
11:30-2:45-6:00-9:15
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 11:45- 3:10-4:20-5:10-7:00-7:50-8:50- Sarfira 2:50-7:10
Dandelion (R) CC: 3:40-6:30 2:40-5:30-8:25
Sound of Hope: The Story of 9:50-10:40 Dandelion (R) 11:10AM
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) MaXXXine (R) 1:10-4:00-6:50-
Possum Trot (PG-13) CC: 12:20- 12:30-3:05-6:00-8:45-9:40 Sound of Hope: The Story of
3:40-6:45-9:50 9:30 Possum Trot (PG-13) 11:40AM
Despicable Me 4 (PG) 11:00- Longlegs (R) 11:10-1:50-4:30-
Indian 2 1:40 Indian 2 11:45-3:50-8:05
11:35-12:20-12:45-1:20-2:50-
Inside Out 2 3D (PG) CC: 11:45- 3:20-3:50-5:20-5:45-6:20-7:00- 7:10-10:00 The Lion King 30th Anniversary
Horizon: An American Saga
1:45-4:10-6:40-9:10 (G) 10:55-1:10-3:30-6:10
7:40-8:15 Chapter 1 (R) 11:00AM
Bull Street (R) 6:50-9:40 MaXXXine (R) 2:20-4:50-7:30- Inside Out 2 (PG) 2:00
The Lion King 30th Anniversary 10:05 Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 5:50 Princess Mononoke - Studio
(G) CC: 11:15-1:30-3:45-6:00- Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) 1:00- Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
Longlegs (R) 12:00-2:30-5:00- 4:10-7:20-10:30
8:15
8:00 A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) Regal Springfield Town Center
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) Horizon: An American Saga 6859 Springfield Mall
CC: 11:50-2:20-4:50-7:20-10:00 11:30-2:10-4:50-7:40-10:20
Chapter 1 (R) 11:05-3:00-6:50 Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 12:30-
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:20-12:40-
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 2:00- 2:00-3:30-4:40-6:00-7:30-8:40- 3:30-6:40
11:15-12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30-
4:25-9:30 10:10 A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
9:00-10:00 Inside Out 2: The IMAX Experi-
Princess Mononoke - Studio 11:40-2:20-7:40-10:20
Princess Mononoke - Studio ence (PG) 11:20-1:10-2:10-3:40-
Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00 Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00 Despicable Me 4 (PG) 10:30-
4:40-7:10-8:35
AMC Shirlington 7 Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) Regal Fairfax Towne Center 11:00-11:30-12:00-1:10-1:40-
2:10-2:40-3:50-4:20-5:20-6:30-
4110 West Ox Road
2772 South Randolph St. 1:10-4:15-6:10-7:20-9:15- 7:00-7:30-8:00-9:10-9:40-10:40
Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) CC: 10:25 Despicable Me 4 (PG) 10:50- Inside Out 2 (PG) 10:40-11:10-
1:50-4:35-7:20-10:05 Sound of Hope: The Story of 12:10-1:30-2:50-4:10-5:30-
11:50-1:20-1:50-4:00-6:50-9:30-
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) Possum Trot (PG-13) 12:10-3:30- 6:50-9:20
10:00
CC: 12:05-2:40-5:10-7:40-10:10 6:40-9:50 MaXXXine (R) 1:50-4:30-7:30- MaXXXine (R) 11:20-2:00-5:10-
10:10
Despicable Me 4 (PG) CC: 11:30- The Lion King 30th Anniversary 8:10-11:00
4:30-9:20 (G) 11:25-1:45-4:05-6:30-8:45 Project Silence 11:20-2:00-
7:00-9:40 Longlegs (R) 10:50-1:30-4:40-
Inside Out 2 (PG) CC: 10:55-3:00- Cinema Arts Theatre 5:10-7:50-10:50
8:00-10:25 Horizon: An American Saga
9650 Unit 14 Main St.
Chapter 1 (R) 11:50AM Horizon: An American Saga
MaXXXine (R) CC: 2:20-5:00- The Bikeriders (R) 2:25-7:15 Chapter 1 (R) 8:20
7:40-10:20 Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 8:10
Daddio (R) 4:30-9:30 Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) 4:50
Longlegs (R) CC: 11:20-2:10- Janet Planet (PG-13) 9:45-12:10- Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13)
4:40-7:10-9:40 11:30-12:30-3:40-7:10-10:20
4:45-7:20-9:25 Hijack 1971 (R) 11:10-12:00- 12:20-3:40-7:10-10:30
Thelma (PG-13) CC: 11:40AM Horizon: An American Saga Princess Mononoke - Studio
Despicable Me 4 3D (PG) CC: 6:40
Chapter 1 (R) 9:45-1:00 Escape 6:00-8:20-10:30 Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG-13) 3:00
2:00-7:00 Touch (R) 9:40-12:00-2:30-5:00-
Fly Me to the Moon (PG-13) CC: 7:30-9:45 Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 10:40 Regal Virginia Gateway
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13) 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
11:10-1:20-4:20-7:30-10:30 Ghostlight (R) 9:50-12:05-2:35-
10:40-1:20-4:00-7:20-10:00 Bad Boys Ride or Die (R) 11:30-
Inside Out 2 3D (PG) CC: 5:05-7:40-9:50
12:30-5:30 Thelma (PG-13) 10:00-12:15-
Inside Out 2 (PG) 11:00-1:40-
4:20-6:30-9:10
2:30-5:40-8:40
A Quiet Place: Day One (PG-13)
AMC Tysons Corner 16 2:20-4:40-7:10-9:10
Kalki 2898 AD 8:40 10:30-1:20-4:20-7:20-10:10
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH
♠ 82
♥ 7543
♦ AQ6532
♣ 3
WEST EAST
♠ J 10 9 6 4 ♠ Q75
♥ Q 10 6 ♥ J98
♦ 9 ♦ J 10 8 7 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ KJ98 ♣ Q 10 6
SOUTH (D)
♠ AK3
♥ AK2
♦ K4
♣ A7542

The bidding:
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
2 NT Pass 3♣ Pass
3♦ Pass 3 NT All Pass
Opening lead — ♠ J

S
CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER
imple Saturday columns
focus on basic technique
and logical thinking.
Today’s South opens 2NT
on his fine hand and lands
at 3NT after North uses
Stayman. When West leads
the jack of spades, South
may be surprised — and
dismayed — at the sight of
dummy: A contract of five
diamonds might be safer,
RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
and six diamonds would be a
reasonable undertaking.
But the auction is over.
South must focus on the
actual contract, not one he
might prefer. How should he
play?
If the diamonds break 3-2,
South has no worries: He is
sure of six diamonds, two
hearts, two spades and a
club. But what if diamonds LIO MARK TATULLI MIKE PETERS
MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM
break 4-1 (a 28% chance)?
After winning the first
spade, South gets an extra
chance by leading the A-K
and a third heart. When the
hearts break 3-3, dummy’s
fourth heart is a winner, and
dummy has a diamond entry.
South wins two spades, three
hearts, three diamonds and
one club.
If hearts failed to break HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
evenly, South could still hope
for a 3-2 diamond break.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠AK3♥AK2
♦K4♣A7542
Both vulnerable. Your part-
ner deals and opens three
diamonds. The next player
passes. What do you say?
ANSWER: Bid six dia-
monds. If partner has 6, 7 6 BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
5, A Q 10 9 5 3 2, J 3, he will
have 12 tricks. If you want to
gamble, bid 4NT, Blackwood,
and try seven diamonds if
partner has an ace. If he has
the hand above, he might set
up your fifth club for the 13th
trick. But speculative grand
slams are a bad bet.
— Frank Stewart
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HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | JULY 13
You have a physical,
action-oriented
approach to life,
which is why you’re
a courageous, daring risk-
taker. It’s important that you
believe you can succeed. New
beginnings, adventures and
major changes will take place
this year. Keep your eyes open
for new opportunities.

HEART OF THE CITY STEENZ JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY Moon Alert: Avoid shopping
or important decisions after
6:30 p.m. today. The Moon is
in Libra.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Enjoy today! Do what you
please. With your strong
focus on home and family,
you might be gardening or
camping. This is also a great
time for children’s activities.
Meanwhile, social outings and
sports events are appealing!
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL You might have an ambitious
to-do list, because fiery Mars
in your sign makes you eager
to have a finger in many pies.
You’re talking to siblings,
relatives and neighbors;
reading and writing; plus some
of you are taking a short trip.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
This is a lovely day to
schmooze and enjoy the
company of others. In
particular, you’ll appreciate
your daily surroundings more
than usual, which, let’s face it,
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK is such a blessing.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Although you have strong
energy to do what you want
today (including shopping and
doing financial negotiations),
you’ll love a chance to retire
and hide at home with good
food and comfy surroundings.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
Enjoy schmoozing with others
today, because the Moon
is sitting in your House of
STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER DAN SCHKADE Communications. This means
DUSTIN FLASH GORDON you have a strong desire to
talk to others and share your
ideas. You want a meaningful
connection with someone.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
Keep things relatively laid-back
today, because it’s easy to
try to do more than you really
can accomplish. Don’t push
the river. Nevertheless, you
are focused on shopping and
earning money, no question.
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK Things will go your way today,
because the Moon is in your
sign and the Sun is at the top
of your chart. This puts you in
the driver’s seat. Meanwhile,
relations with friends
(especially younger people and
creative types) will be warm
and friendly.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
You’ll be successful dealing
with parents, bosses and
important people today. People
will listen to you. Meanwhile,
you might be focused on travel
plans or legal or medical
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT matters. Whatever the case,
pull in your reins a little.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Your interactions with a friend
might be important today.
Travel will also appeal to you
because you want to explore
new ideas and see new places.
This is hardly surprising since
you’re the traveler of the
zodiac!
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
People notice you today.
LINCOLN PEIRCE BILL HOLBROOK Meanwhile, you will benefit
BIG NATE ON THE FASTRACK financially when dealing
with others today. Money
might come to you. This
is also a playful day!
Competitive sports might
be in the picture.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Shake things up a little today.
You want some adventure.
Perhaps you need to escape
from your home scene
because there’s too much
chaos or activity taking place.
Fortunately, you’re motivated
to work hard, which is why you
BEETLE BAILEY GREG, BRIAN & NEAL WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS can accomplish a lot.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
This continues to be a
playful, fun-loving time for
you. You’re also mentally
energetic, which empowers
your communication skills with
others. Don’t hesitate to roll up
your sleeves and get hands-
on with any job you’re doing.
Jump in.
— Georgia Nicols
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Jalen brunson takes one for the team, agreeing to a new catarina Macario, a midfielder for the U.S. women’s Major league cricket, which opened its second season
deal that gives the Knicks long-term payroll flexibility. D2 soccer team, will miss the games with a knee injury. D3 this month, hopes to seize on world cup momentum. D6

Winker
helps Nats
take down
his old club
nationals 5,
brewers 2
Homer and RBI double
key streak-snapping win

BY A NDREW G OLDEN

MIlWAUKEE — Jesse Winker rel-

ished every second of his fifth-in-
ning home run at American Fam-
ily Field — the place he had called
home a season earlier. He stood at
the plate as his towering 403-foot
shot carried over the visiting bull-
pen and into the first rows of seats
in right field. He trotted leisurely
around the bases as the boos car-
ried through the park. And when
he finally touched home, he
pointed to the sky before taking a
long look at the crowd behind
home.
The nationals’ 5-2 win, which
snapped a five-game skid, really
couldn’t qualify as a revenge
game for Winker — after all, he
spent just one season in Milwau-
kee — but it furthered a first-half
resurgence and showed his for-
mer team what it’s missing. Wink-
er had two of the nationals’ 12 hits
and drove in two runs. The homer
was his 11th after he managed just
boStoN globE/gEtty iMAgES
one in 61 games last season with
robertanthony Cruz, whose video after he signed with the Nationals in 2021 went viral, plays for the Savannah bananas. He did his signature flip at Fenway Park. the Brewers.
“He had a good swing today.
He’s been doing really well the

A totally Bananas tale

Cruz, a former Nats farmhand, will make Nationals Park debut with barnstorming Savannah club
BY S COTT A LLEN
on July 13, 2021, Biola University
infielder RobertAnthony Cruz surprised
his dad at work at an auto care shop in
Riverside, Calif., with the news that the
Washington nationals were signing him
as an undrafted free agent. Perhaps that
story sounds familiar.
The emotional video of the interaction,
which Cruz’s mom captured on her son’s
phone and he later posted on TikTok, was
viewed more than 15 million times over
the next two days. Cruz appeared on
Savannah bananas World Tour | Nationals Park, 7 p.m.
“Good Morning America,” received a di-
rect message from then-nationals star
Juan soto welcoming him to the organi-
zation and gained 150,000 new TikTok
followers overnight.
on saturday — exactly three years
since that day filled with tears of joy —
Cruz will make his nationals Park debut
before a sellout crowd, not for the nation-
als but for the wildly popular barnstorm-
ing savannah Bananas and their zany
brand of baseball.
“seeing this thing come full circle, it’s
pretty special,” the 25-year-old Cruz
whole first half,” Washington
Manager Dave Martinez said. “It’s
fun to watch when he’s hitting.”
Before Friday’s game, Winker
walked onto the field and greeted
some of his former teammates
with hugs as they took swings in
the batting cage. He later sat on
the steps of the Brewers’ dugout
catching up with team staff mem-
(Coach RAC to his growing fan base) said bers.
in a video interview this week. “You just Winker, an all-star with Cincin-
can’t make it up.” nati in 2021, never found his form
in Milwaukee, dealing with a back
becoming Coach raC injury that limited him to a
After being released by the nationals .199 average.
two weeks into minor league spring “I was here last year, and I
training in March 2022, Cruz drove home didn’t play well,” Winker said. “so
to Riverside feeling embarrassed and as a fan of the team, you have
unsure of what his future held. Unable to every right to react. I didn’t play
sleep a couple of months later, he record- well. That’s part of the game,
ed a video he had put off since he left unfortunately. But there’s so
Florida and posted it on TikTok. many people over there that I
see baNaNaS on d5 have great relationships with.”
The injury scared many teams
see NatioNalS on d5
Nationals at brewers
4 p.m., MASN2

An inspired choice for U.S. Coulibaly

is a coach who dreams big
It doesn’t take a
soccer aficionado
to understand
that a coach
should not only
be in the moment
barry but should be
svrluga encouraging his
team to do the
same. Pick a cliché: Be where
your feet are. Control the
controllables. Whatever.
Yet here was Gregg Berhalter,
in the final appearance of what
has to be considered a failed
second stanza as coach of the
U.s. men’s national team, telling
his players the score of a
concurrent match. Perhaps, with
Uruguay setting up a free kick,
the instructions might have been
to defend smartly and solidly, to
be present in the second half of
their final group stage match in
Copa América. Berhalter instead
informed his charges that
Panama was tied in its match
with Bolivia.
That Uruguay scored on the
ensuing free kick, that Panama’s
goal differential in that other
match could have had an impact
on the Americans’ chances of
getting through to the knockout
round, is immaterial. This
wasn’t the sole reason Berhalter
was fired — appropriately —
Wednesday night. But it was a
symptom of the disease he
allowed to infect his team. It
couldn’t fester further.
For the U.s. soccer
Federation, this is far from ideal.
The first men’s World Cup on
home soil in more than three
decades — Mexico and Canada
will also stage some matches —
is less than two years away. The
hosts would love to be surging
toward that test with both a
clear direction and decided
momentum. Instead, they’re
scrambling.
Maybe this isn’t only on Matt
Crocker, the U.s. soccer
Federation’s still relatively new
sporting director. It was
Crocker’s decision to bring back
Berhalter even after a World Cup
in Qatar in which the
Americans’ only victory came
against Iran, which has never
advanced out of the group stage.
More than that, the entire affair
was colored by a bizarre
controversy in which the wife of
American legend Claudio Reyna,
Berhalter’s former U.s.
teammate, reported to U.s.
officials allegations that, when
the two were in college,
Berhalter had abused the
woman who became his wife —
accusations Daniella Reyna
brought forth because she was
displeased with how Berhalter
was employing her son Gio on
see Svrluga on d3
Carlos alcaraz beat daniil Medvedev and will face Novak djokovic in Sunday’s Wimbledon final.
For Alcaraz, the final boss is waiting
BY A VA W ALLACE
WIMBlEdOn, EnglAnd — There
is a concept in video games called
a “final boss,” a character bigger
and badder than all the adversar-
ies a player has faced before,
waiting as the ultimate hurdle
upon reaching the game’s final
level.
In men’s tennis these days, that
character is often novak Djok-
ovic.
But as 21-year-old Carlos Alcar-
az and 27-year-old Daniil Medve-
dev pushed their minds and
shoulder ligaments to their limits
in Friday’s first semifinal at Wim-
bledon — knowing they were
vying for the right probably to
face Djokovic in sunday’s final —
the same thought may have oc-
curred to the nearly 15,000
packed into Centre Court during
KirSty wigglESworth/ASSociAtEd PrESS
the first set.
Wouldn’t it be fun to just stay
on this level for a while?
Third-seeded Alcaraz and
fifth-seeded Medvedev put to-
gether 2 hours 55 minutes of
riveting tennis in which each
tried to coax the most
see WiMbledoN on d8
Wimbledon, women’s final
9 a.m., ESPN
readies for
his Olympic
moment
After his rookie season,
Wizards guard is named
to stacked French squad
BY S APNA B ANSIL
Right after one of the biggest
achievements of his basketball
career, Bilal Coulibaly’s mind
turned to his family.
Growing up in the suburbs of
Paris, the Washington Wizards
guard and his father used to
watch various olympic events —
basketball, of course, but also
track. now, at 19 years old, Couli-
baly had received an olympic
opportunity of his own, earning a
spot on the French national team
for the upcoming Paris Games.
When he learned of his selection
in a text message, he immedi-
ately called his parents, both to
celebrate the news and to settle
their nerves.
“They were so stressed about
[the roster announcement], so I
had to calm them down,”
see WizardS on d3
d2
GOLF
Aberg fires another 64
to lead Scottish Open
Ludvig Aberg has won on the
DP World Tour and PGA Tour in
the year since he left college, and
another 6-under-par 64 in the
Scottish Open in North Berwick
on Friday put him in a position
to win a tournament sanctioned
by both tours.
Aberg kept a clean card on a
stunning day of sunshine along
the Firth of Forth, picking up
four birdies in an eight-hole
stretch and making it look easy
along the way.
He was at 12-under 128 and
had a one-shot lead over Antoine
Rozner, who also had a 64 in a
strong bid to stick around in
Scotland for another week. The
leading three players earn spots
in the British Open.
Also in the mix is Rory
McIlroy, returning from a three-
week break to digest everything
that went wrong late in the final
round at the U.S. Open. His golf
at the Renaissance Club makes it
look as if he is ready to move
forward. McIlroy had a 66 and
for the second day felt like he
should have had a few more
birdies from chances in the
10-foot range.
“I’m probably standing here
feeling like I should be sort of
around Ludvig’s score, if not a
little bit better, after the last
couple days. But I’m still in good
position,” McIlroy said.
Sungjae Im (67) and Matteo
Manassero (63) were two shots
behind at 130, while McIlroy was
in the large group at 9-under 131
that included two-time major
champion Collin Morikawa (66)
and Sahith Theegala (65). ...
Pierceson Coody followed an
opening 11-under 61 with a 67 to
take a two-stroke lead in the
ISCO Championship, with the
weekend cut a PGA Tour-record 8
under.
Coody, the 24-year-old
grandson of 1971 Masters
champion Charles Coody,
birdied three of his final five
holes in his afternoon round to
get to 16-under 128 on Keene
Trace’s Champions Course in
Nicholasville, Ky.
The Texan is winless in
26 career starts on the PGA Tour.
Chez Reavie had a 62 to join
Matthis Besard (63) and Rico
Hoey (66) in a tie for second in
the tournament co-sanctioned by
the DP World Tour. ...
Steven Alker overcame a
double bogey on his fourth hole
with three birdies on the back
nine at Firestone for a 5-under
65, giving him a one-shot lead
over Steve Stricker going into
the weekend at the Kaulig
Companies Championship in
Akron, Ohio.
Kenny Perry (69) and Robert
Karlsson (66) were three shots
behind in the PGA Tour
Champions major. ...
Ayaka Furue held a three-shot
clubhouse lead at the Evian
Championship in France before
the second round was suspended
because of a risk of lightning.
With five holes left to play in
her second round, Furue was
6 under after 31 holes, leading
Stephanie Kyriacou and
Haeran Ryu. Both players were
at 9 under overall and sat at
4 under in their second round.
Kyriacou completed 16 holes
in her second round, and Ryu
was through 11. ...
Carolina Panthers wide
receiver Adam Thielen took a
one-point lead over tennis player
Mardy Fish after the first round
of the American Century
Celebrity Championship in
South Lake Tahoe, Nev.
Thielen had a 24-point round
under the modified Stableford
scoring system. Players receive a
point for par, three points for a
birdie and six for an eagle, and
two points are deducted for a
double bogey or worse.
NHL player Joe Pavelski and
former major league pitcher
Derek Lowe were tied for third
with 21 points. ...
Dean Burmester shot a
5-under 66 for a one-shot lead
after the first round of the LIV
Golf Andalucía tournament on a
tough Real Club Valderrama
course in Sotogrande, Spain.
SOCCER
Coach defends players
fighting Colombia fans
Uruguay Coach Marcelo
Bielsa thinks his players deserve
apologies, not punishments, for
going into the stands at Bank of
America Stadium in Charlotte
and participating in a fight with
Colombia fans following his
team’s 1-0 Copa América
semifinal loss.
An angry Bielsa criticized
tournament organizers for not
doing enough to protect the
families of players seated behind
the Uruguay bench and justified
eZ su the washington post . saturday, july 13 , 2024
THE DAY IN SPORTS
OLYMPICS
More venues revealed
for Los Angeles Games
The 2028 Los Angeles
Olympics announced more
venue assignments, with Carson
and Long Beach reprising their
roles from previous Games held
in the region.
Carson will host track cycling
at the velodrome, field hockey in
the adjacent fields, rugby sevens
in the stadium and tennis at
Dignity Health Sports Park,
although the 2028 Games are not
using the existing corporate
names for stadiums and arenas.
Long Beach will be the site of
rowing and canoe sprint at its
Marine Stadium, handball at
Long Beach Arena, marathon
swimming and triathlon along
the city’s waterfront, sailing at
Belmont Shore and water polo in
a temporary pool in the
convention center parking lot, as
well as artistic swimming, which
was announced earlier.
The Los Angeles Convention
Center will host fencing, judo,
table tennis, taekwondo and
wrestling. Weightlifting will be
at a theater across the street.
Golf will be played at Riviera
Country Club. Badminton will be
at the University of Southern
California’s Galen Center. ...
The final appeal hearing to
decide medals from the 2022
Beijing Olympics doping case of
Russian figure skater Kamila
KIM LuDBROOK/ePA-eFe/shuTTeRsTOCK Valieva will be heard days before
the Paris Olympics open.
Hang a left A hearing July 22 for eight
Canadian skaters seeking to get
Riders turn a corner as fans watch Friday during the Tour de France cycling race’s 13th stage, which went from Agen to Pau.
team event bronze medals will be
held in the Swiss city Lausanne,
the Court of Arbitration for Sport
said. The Summer Games
formally open four days later,
and the International Olympic
SP O TL I G H T: nB A Committee aims to finally
present medals in Paris for the
figure skating team event from
Brunson stays with Knicks on discount deal Beijing before the Closing
Ceremonies on Aug. 11.
That will be 21/2 years after
Valieva helped Russia skate to
BY B RIAN M AHONEY when the 2018 second-round pick signed team gold, ahead of the United
with the Knicks in 2022, with critics won- States, Japan and fourth-place
NEW YORK — Jalen Brunson quickly Team gets financial flexibility dering whether a player who had mostly Canada. ...
agreed to extend his stay with a New York as point guard leaves millions been a backup with the Dallas Mavericks Saudi Arabia and the IOC are
Knicks team that has been on the rise was worth more than $100 million. teaming up for their first
since his arrival.
on table by not waiting a year Nobody can question Brunson’s new commercial deal together, with
Brunson signed a four-year contract deal. The Knicks hadn’t reached the sec- the oil-rich kingdom set to host
extension with the Knicks on Friday that a ond round of the playoffs since 2013 be- the Esports Olympics that
person with knowledge of the details said continues to show a willingness to sacri- fore Brunson helped them get there in his launch next year.
was worth about $156.5 million. fice for this organization, his teammates first season in New York. They nearly The gaming partnership will
Brunson could have earned a much and everyone in the Knicks family,” team went even further last season, falling to be for 12 years “with Olympic
bigger deal by waiting a year but chose the president Leon Rose said in a statement. the Indiana Pacers in Game 7 of the Esports Games held regularly,”
extension on the first day it was available The Knicks did not reveal terms of the Eastern Conference semifinals after he the IOC said in a statement.
to him. The move provides a financial deal, but they were confirmed to the broke his hand in the second half.
benefit to a Knicks team that the point Associated Press on the condition of ano- Brunson’s extension will begin with the COLLEGES
guard has led to the second round of the nymity. They were first reported by ESPN, 2025-26 season, and his decision to take
playoffs in both seasons in New York. with Brunson’s agent telling the organiza- lesser money now should help the Knicks Pac-12’s bowl deals
“Jalen has embraced every challenge tion his client chose the extension over a manage their payroll after a busy offsea- lasting through 2025
since he’s come to New York and has been five-year, $269 million contract he could son in which they re-signed OG Anunoby
committed since day one to the vision and have received as a free agent in 2025. on a five-year contract worth more than The Pac-12’s existing bowl
plan we set forth for the future of this Brunson averaged 28.7 points and fin- $210 million and acquired Mikal Bridges game agreements will continue
team. Since Jalen joined us two years ago, ishing fifth in NBA MVP voting last sea- from the Brooklyn Nets. through the 2025 football season
he has consistently led by example and son. That was far more than expected — Associated Press despite the league’s breakup, the
conference announced.
Among other things, it means
that Oregon State and
Washington State, the two
TE LEvISIOn A nd R Ad IO remaining Pac-12 schools after
the conference collapsed in
realignment last summer, will
MLB GOLF retain their postseason
1 p.m. Los Angeles dodgers at detroit » MLB Network 4 a.m. LPGA Tour: Evian Championship, third round » Golf Channel opportunities. ...
4 p.m. Washington at Milwaukee » MAsN2, WJFK (106.7 FM), 10 a.m. dP World Tour/PGA Tour: Scottish Open, third round » Golf Channel The NCAA women’s selection
WDCN (87.7 FM) Noon dP World Tour/PGA Tour: Scottish Open, third round » WusA (Ch. 9), committee will release the
4 p.m. new York Yankees at Baltimore » MAsN, Fox sports 1, WIYY (97.9 FM), WJZ (Ch. 13)
seeding for the entire
WsBN (630 AM) Noon PGA Tour Champions: Kaulig Companies Championship,
7 p.m. Atlanta at San diego » WTTG (Ch. 5), WBFF (Ch. 45), WsBN (630 AM) third round » Golf Channel
tournament field for the first
10 p.m. Toronto at Arizona » MLB Network 2:30 p.m. American Century Celebrity Championship, second round » time next season.
WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11) The NCAA Division I Women’s
nBA SuMMER LEAGuE 4 p.m. PGA Tour: ISCO Championship, third round » Golf Channel Basketball Committee
4:30 p.m. Milwaukee vs. Chicago » NBA TV announced the change after its
5 p.m. Charlotte vs. new York » esPN2 SOCCER
summer meetings, meaning the
6:30 p.m. Miami vs. Boston » NBA TV 3:30 p.m. Women’s international friendly: Mexico at united States » TNT,
full seed list for all 68 teams will
7 p.m. detroit vs. Philadelphia » esPN2 TruTV, Telemundo
8:30 p.m. Oklahoma City vs. Toronto » NBA TV 7:30 p.m. MLS: nashville at d.C. united » Apple TV Plus, WONK (104.7 FM),
be revealed on Selection Sunday
9 p.m. San Antonio vs. Portland » esPN2 WTsD (1190 AM) as it has been with the men.
10:30 p.m. utah at dallas » NBA TV 8 p.m. Copa América, third-place match: Canada vs. uruguay » Fox sports 1
11 p.m. Phoenix vs. Golden State » esPN2 MISC.
TEnnIS
WnBA 9 a.m. Wimbledon, women’s final » esPN Philipsen wins sprint
1 p.m.
3:30 p.m.
new York at Chicago » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2)
Los Angeles at dallas » WusA (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13)
11:30 a.m. Wimbledon, men’s doubles final » esPN
in Tour’s 13th stage
MInOR LEAGuE BASEBALL
AuTO RACInG 4 p.m. MLB All-Star Futures Game » MLB Network Jasper Philipsen won the
10 a.m. nASCAR Xfinity Series: Explore the Pocono Mountains 225, 13th stage of the Tour de France
qualifying » usA Network CYCLInG cycling race in a sprint finish,
Noon nASCAR Cup Series: Great American Getaway 400, qualifying » 8 a.m. Tour de France: Stage 14 » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11) and two-time champion Tadej
usA Network
MIXEd MARTIAL ARTS Pogacar kept the yellow jersey.
3 p.m. nASCAR Xfinity Series: Explore the Pocono Mountains 225 » Several riders fell in a crash a
usA Network 7 p.m. uFC Fight night, prelims » esPN
10 p.m. uFC Fight night: Rose namajunas vs. Tracy Cortez, main card »
few hundred meters from the
8 p.m. IndyCar Series: Homefront 250 » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11)
esPN line in Pau, but Pogacar, who was
just ahead, avoided it.
GIRLS’ HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Philipsen held off Belgian
4 p.m. Run 4 Roses Classic, finals » esPNu countryman Wout van Aert and
German rider Pascal
Ackermann after 31/2 hours to
clinch his second stage win this
month, eighth overall on the
Tour and 11th in major races.
Pogacar placed ninth in the
players taking matters into their PRO BASKETBALL A’ja Wilson scored 33 points Houston Rockets, 99-80, on the stage and still leads by 1 minute
own hands to protect their loved
Mitchell, Clark shine and grabbed 18 rebounds as the opening day of the NBA Summer 6 seconds over Remco
ones. Las Vegas Aces won for the ninth League in Las Vegas. ... Evenepoel of Belgium and by
“We are in the United States, as Fever tops Mercury time in 10 games, beating the The Philadelphia 76ers are 1:14 over two-time defending
the country of security,” Bielsa host Atlanta Dream, 84-70, in keeping at least one player champion Jonas Vingegaard of
said through an interpreter Kelsey Mitchell scored College Park, Ga. acquired in the James Harden Denmark.
during an emotional 45-minute 28 points and rookie Caitlin Wilson has scored 30-plus deal, coming to an agreement on Primoz Roglic, the 2020
news conference. “How can you Clark had 20 points and points seven times this season, a a two-year, $16 million contract runner-up to Slovenian
not defend your mother, your 13 assists for her fifth straight career high. She also tied with forward K.J. Martin, a countryman Pogacar, withdrew
sister, a baby? If they did not do double-double as the Indiana Phoenix’s Brittney Griner for person with knowledge of the ahead of the stage a day after a
it, they would have been Fever beat the Phoenix Mercury, the most games with 25-plus deal told the Associated Press. ... crash. ...
condemned by all of us.” 95-86, in Indianapolis. points and 10-plus rebounds in a Atlanta Hawks General The New York Rangers re-
CONMEBOL, South American Kahleah Copper scored 20 of single season with 10. ... Manager Landry Fields took signed veteran defenseman
soccer’s governing body, said her 36 points in the fourth Bronny James scored eight another step in reshaping the Chad Ruhwedel to a one-year
Thursday that its disciplinary quarter as the Mercury trimmed points on 3-for-14 shooting — team’s roster by signing wing Vit contract. Terms were not
committee opened an what had been a 31-point third- 0 for 8 on three-pointers — as the Krejci to a four-year, immediately available.
investigation. quarter deficit to single digits. ... Los Angeles Lakers lost to the $10.2 million contract. — From news services
saturday, july 13 , 2024 . the washington post Ez Su D3

United States’ Macario will miss the Paris Olympics because of a knee injury
BY E LLA B ROCKWAY
HARRISON, N.J. — Catarina mac-
ario, one of the top young attack-
ers on the U.S. women’s national
team, will miss the Paris olym-
pics with a knee injury, Coach
Emma Hayes said friday.
The 24-year-old midfielder has
“minor irritation” in her right
knee and will not recover in time
for the Summer Games, which
begin later this month. forward
Lynn Williams, who was original-
ly an alternate, will replace mac-
ario on the 18-player roster.
macario suffered a torn ACL in
her left knee in June 2022 while
playing for french club
olympique Lyonnais and spent
nearly two years away from the
field, missing the 2023 World
Cup. In march, she returned to
club play with England’s Chelsea,
where she was coached by Hayes
and scored a goal in her first
game back. She played in two U.S.
matches this past spring, record-
ing an assist against South Korea
in June.
“I’m absolutely gutted for Cat,
someone I’ve worked hard with
in the last 12 months,” Hayes said
at a news conference. “She’s really
put in a shift to get there, but it’s
not to be.”
macario trained with the team
this week but had some irritation
leading up to camp. It is not a
official roster later in the tourna-
ment, a change from the typical
hard rule of limiting rosters to
18 players.
“I always viewed [the roster] as
22, and with the rule changes as
such, absolutely nothing chang-
es. What does change is that
without Cat, I have to think about
some permutations for the team,
which I’ve already reflected on,”
Hayes said. “for us, it’s about now
looking toward that and making
sure that everybody else knows
what those adjustments might
be.”
macario, who played limited
minutes in 2021 as the Americans
won a bronze medal in Tokyo,
figured to play a key role during
this year’s olympic campaign.
She has eight goals in 19 appear-
ances, though the majority of her
U.S. caps came before her 2022
injury. macario twice won the
Hermann Trophy as college soc-
cer’s top player and scored
29 goals across all competitions
during two seasons at European
powerhouse Lyon.
Williams, 31, is the NWSL’s
tIM nwAchukwu/gEtty IMAgES all-time leading scorer and has
“Minor irritation” in her right knee will keep u.s. midfielder Catarina Macario out of the Olympics. made 63 appearances for the
United States. She has recorded
“long-term” injury situation, are ready,” macario wrote on fIfA confirmed Thursday that 18 goals and 12 assists, but much
Hayes said, and macario will Instagram. olympic players who suffer mi- of her career since her interna-
return to Chelsea for treatment. Defender Emily Sams will fill nor injuries during the tourna- tional debut in 2016 has been
“I will be supporting the team Williams’s spot among the four ment can be temporarily replaced spent on the periphery of the core
every step of the way and the girls U.S. alternates. by an alternate and return to the U.S. squad.
The Gotham fC forward was
also originally named an alter-
nate for the 2021 olympics and
was elevated to the full squad
after rosters were expanded. In
her first start at the Tokyo Games,
she had a pivotal goal and an
assist in the United States’ quar-
terfinal win over the Nether-
lands.
“Everybody here understands
we all have our individual goals
and we have our individual wants
but at the end of the day soccer is
a team sport,” Williams said. “You
want to be a part of this. You want
to be able to push this team and
take your special attributes and
qualities and apply them onto the
team. In the past, mine has been
an alternate, and I have been able
to come in and make a mark, and
hopefully the same thing hap-
pens for these olympics.”
The Americans are seeking
their fifth olympic gold medal
and first since 2012. They will
play two send-off games before
heading to Paris — the first Satur-
day against mexico at red Bull
Arena, the second Tuesday
against Costa rica at Washing-
ton’s Audi field.
olympic play begins July 25,
when the U.S. women face Zam-
bia in Nice. The United States will
also play Germany (July 28) and
Australia (July 31) in the group
stage of the 12-team tournament.

Barry Svrluga

With so much at stake, U.S. Soccer must dream big on Berhalter’s replacement
sVRluGA from d1
the team. (Berhalter, who has
been married for more than
25 years, admitted to the
incident, which occurred when
he was a freshman at North
Carolina.)
With that, there was baggage
— in performance, sure. But in
leadership as well.
In hindsight, Crocker’s
decision seems clearly wrong.
But even in the moment, it felt
uninspired at best. That can’t be
the case this time around.
The stakes for the American
program in the coming World
Cup are significant. There will
be no failure to qualify like the
2018 disaster that led to
Berhalter’s hiring, because as co-
host the United States is
automatically granted a berth.
Advancing out of the group
stage — normally a mark of
achievement — has new
meaning. The tournament is
expanding to 48 teams split into
a dozen groups of four. Instead
of just the top two in each group
advancing, so will the eight best
third-place teams, and the
knockout round will start with
32 countries — double the old
number. failing to reach that
level would be more disastrous
— and more unlikely — than
flopping out of Copa América in
group play.
But a performance to be
proud of is imperative. on major
international stages, Berhalter
hadn’t provided those. Copa
América — particularly one held
in the United States — was an
opportunity to take a bold step
forward. Instead, it was a clear
After firing coach Gregg Berhalter, the u.s. soccer Federation is at a pivotal moment ahead of the 2026 World Cup on American soil.
step back.
So … now what? There is a
line of thinking that the U.S.
pool of players has never been
deeper or more talented. more
Americans are developing and
being tested at the highest levels
of European soccer. It’s not
EduArdo Munoz/AgEncE-frAncE prESSE/gEtty IMAgES
unreasonable to expect more And it’s precisely the time in
than Berhalter could get from the sport’s American
this group, which includes five development for the American
goals in its past five games. team to start forcing its way into
territory where it hasn’t
traditionally competed — say,
the quarterfinals of the World
Cup. Soccer is no longer an up-
and-coming sport in this
country — which isn’t to say it
isn’t growing. Quite the contrary.
What it is is established, part
of the regular sports discourse, a
mainstream participation and
viewing endeavor. It is now
standard for American bars to
fill with fans, for American
couches to be occupied for
appointment television, all so
people can watch international
soccer matches not involving the
American side. Not only has
Copa América provided
enthralling viewing for this side
of the globe, but flip on the TV
on Sunday afternoon for the
Euro 2024 final, which amounts
to the best pregame show ever.
England-Spain? Yes, please.
By population and
prominence, the U.S. men’s
national team should be able to
reach those levels — where
international fans consider it to
be must-see TV. The coming
World Cup is an opportunity to
do just that.
But to get there, the
Americans will need a coach
who is focused solely on the
group in front of him — on
maximizing talent in the
moment. Yes, tactics that fit the
personnel will be paramount;
they always are. But at this
moment in American soccer,
there must be a leader who can
keep the focus on what’s
important. That’s winning your
own game, not worrying about
what’s happening somewhere
else.

Wizards’ Coulibaly prepares for ‘once-in-a-lifetime moment’ at Summer Games

WizARds from d1
Coulibaly said this week from his
hotel room in Lyon, where
france hosted an exhibition
game against Serbia on friday.
“… They were proud, so happy.
my mom was yelling. That was a
cool moment."
following a rookie season with
the Wizards in which he aver-
aged 8.4 points and 4.1 rebounds
and flashed high-level defensive
potential, Coulibaly was one of
12 players named this week to a
strong french roster that could
challenge the United States’ bid
for a fifth consecutive gold medal
in men’s basketball.
The precocious wing is the
youngest member of a squad
loaded with NBA talent, includ-
ing reigning rookie of the year
Victor Wembanyama, four-time
defensive player of the year rudy
Gobert and league veterans Nico-
las Batum, Evan fournier and
frank Ntilikina.
The selection is an opportu-
nity for Coulibaly to represent
his country at its home olympics.
The tournament’s group stage,
which pits france against Brazil,
Japan and Germany, begins
July 27 in Lille, approximately
three hours north of Coulibaly’s
hometown of Courbevoie. Start-
ing with the quarterfinal round,
the tournament moves to Paris.
Coulibaly’s parents and two sis-
ters plan to be in attendance each
step of the way.
Bilal Coulibaly, left, joined a French team that includes Victor Wembanyama, right, and Rudy Gobert.
“[It’s] so special,” said Couliba-
ly, who turns 20 on July 26, the
same day as the opening Cer-
emonies. “It’s a once-in-a-life-
time moment. … I’m just proud
of it and really honored to be one
of the players who are playing in
Paris.”
Coulibaly’s promising first
season with the Wizards ended
march 16, when he fractured his
right wrist against the Chicago
Bulls. Coulibaly said his recovery
progressed well, and he is play-
ing without restrictions. The
french team is in the middle of a
swing of six exhibition games
leading up to the start of the
olympics.
Those games have marked
Coulibaly’s return to the court
while also serving as a reunion
with Wembanyama. The child-
hood friends were teammates
with metropolitans 92 in
france’s top professional league
before they entered the NBA as
part of the 2023 draft class.
MArk SchIEfElbEIn/ASSocIAtEd prESS
The 7-foot-4 Wembanyama has
blossomed into one of the most
dynamic two-way talents in the
league. He averaged 21.4 points,
10.6 rebounds, 3.6 blocks and
1.2 steals in his rookie season
with the San Antonio Spurs.
“I forgot how easy it was to
play with him,” Coulibaly said.
“... Even with the friendly games,
he’s been doing his thing, I’ve
been doing my thing. We just
complement each other very
well.”
Wembanyama and Gobert,
both 7-footers, along with the 6-8
Coulibaly on the wing, give
france a formidable defensive
identity as it pursues its first
olympic gold. It faces stiff com-
petition from a heavily favored
U.S. team featuring LeBron
James, Stephen Curry and Kevin
Durant. Canada, led by Shai
Gilgeous-Alexander, and Serbia,
starring three-time NBA mVP
Nikola Jokic, are also among the
teams expected to contend for
medals.
The french are looking to
build off their showing at the
Tokyo olympics in 2021, when
they defeated the United States
during the group stage but fol-
lowed with an 87-82 loss to the
Americans in the gold medal
game. france settled for its third
silver medal and first since 2000.
Coulibaly was 17 at the time.
He remembers the gold medal
matchup as the game every
young french basketball player
was watching. Now he is eying a
rematch.
“I wish we could change that
[result] this year,” Coulibaly said.
“... I’m focused on our group for
the moment, but if we pass on
[from the group stage], I’ll be
thinking about the [United]
States. Like I can’t wait to meet
them, you know?”
Coulibaly said the olympic
experience has already been
helpful to his development. Be-
sides getting a chance to play
alongside Wembanyama and
Gobert, he has been mentored by
Ntilikina and four-time olympi-
an Nando de Colo.
With france expected to make
it out of Group B, the olympics
could also be an opportunity for
Coulibaly to experience playing
in high-stakes games against
fierce competition.
“You’re playing against the
best players in the world, so it
only can help [your develop-
ment],” Coulibaly said. “The rules
are a little different, [olympics]
and NBA, but it’s still basketball.
Just playing against the greatest
players [from] each country,
playing for the best coaches …
you can only get better.”
Wizards sign veteran Bey
The Wizards announced fri-
day that they signed veteran
forward Saddiq Bey. According
to an ESPN report this week, the
deal is for three years and
$20 million.
Bey, 25, is entering his fifth
NBA season after spending time
with the Detroit Pistons and the
Atlanta Hawks.
The 6-7, 215-pound forward,
who was a first-round pick in
2020 out of Villanova, averaged
13.7 points and 6.5 rebounds for
the Hawks last season before
he suffered a torn ACL on march
10.
Bey was raised in Largo and
played for Dematha and Sidwell
friends.
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Baseball
national league american league
East W l pCt GB l10 str CEntral W l pCt GB l10 str WEst W l pCt GB l10 str East W l pCt GB l10 str CEntral W l pCt GB l10 str WEst W l pCt GB l10 str
philadelphia 61 33 .649 — 6-4 l-1 Milwaukee 54 41 .568 — 4-6 l-2 los angeles 56 39 .589 — 4-6 W-1 Baltimore 57 37 .606 — 4-6 l-4 cleveland 57 36 .613 — 4-6 l-3 x-seattle 52 43 .547 — 5-5 W-3
x-atlanta 51 41 .554 9 5-5 l-2 st. louis 48 45 .516 5 5-5 l-3 x-san diego 49 47 .510 71/2 4-6 l-4 new York 57 39 .594 1 3-7 W-1 x-Minnesota 53 40 .570 4 7-3 W-1 Houston 50 44 .532 11/2 7-3 W-4
new York 48 45 .516 121/2 6-4 W-4 pittsburgh 46 48 .489 71/2 6-4 W-2 x-arizona 47 47 .500 81/2 6-4 W-2 Boston 51 42 .548 51/2 7-3 l-1 Kansas city 52 43 .547 6 6-4 W-4 Texas 44 50 .468 71/2 6-4 l-2
Washington 43 52 .453 18 4-6 W-1 1/
2 cincinnati 46 49 .484 8 6-4 W-2 x-san Francisco 45 49 .479 10 5-5 l-2 1/
2 Tampa Bay 47 47 .500 10 5-5 W-2 detroit 45 50 .474 13 7-3 l-1 x-los angeles 38 55 .409 13 2-8 l-1
Miami 32 62 .340 29 2-8 l-4 chicago 46 49 .484 8 7-3 W-5 colorado 33 62 .347 23 4-6 l-2 x-Toronto 43 50 .462 131/2 5-5 W-2 chicago 27 69 .281 311/2 3-7 l-2 oakland 36 60 .375 161/2 6-4 W-1
x-Late game x-Late game

nationals 5, Brewers 2 dodgers 4, tigers 3 athletics 6, phillies 2 n ot E s

NAtioNALS Ab r h bi bb So Avg shohei ohtani’s two-out lawrence Butler hom-
Abrams ss...........5 1 1 0 0 2 .270 rBi double gave los ange- ered, shea langeliers
Wood lf ...............4 0 1 0 0 2 .244
Thomas rf ...........4 0 1 1 0 1 .249 les a ninth-inning lead, and drove in a two runs, and pErsonnEl dEpt.
Winker dh ...........4 1 2 2 0 1 .264 it ended a four-game slide. oakland beat philadelphia. Blue Jays: placed four-
Yepez 1b .............4 1 2 0 0 1 .333
García 2b.............4 1 1 0 0 0 .276 The game drew the first Miguel andujar and time Gold Glove oF Kevin
Ruiz c ..................4 0 1 1 0 0 .224 sellout at comerica park Brent rooker also had rBi
Lipscomb 3b........4 0 2 1 0 0 .236 Kiermaier on irrevocable
Young cf..............3 1 1 0 1 2 .254 since the home opener. for the a’s, who are in last
totALS 36 5 12 5 1 9 — place in the al West and waivers.
DoDgErS Ab r h bi bb So Avg
brEWErS Ab r h bi bb So Avg Ohtani dh ................5 0 1 1 0 1 .312 have the fourth-fewest Mariners: right-handed
Smith c ....................4 1 1 0 1 3 .269
Turang 2b ...........2 0 0 0 2 0 .280
Freeman 1b .............5 1 2 1 0 0 .294
wins in baseball. reliever andrés Muñoz
Contreras c .........3 1 0 0 1 1 .289
Yelich dh .............2 0 0 0 1 1 .327
T.Hernández rf-lf ....3 1 1 1 1 1 .258 AthLEticS Ab r h bi bb So Avg replaced fellow rHp and
Rojas ss...................4 0 1 0 0 1 .283 Cameron cf .........2 1 1 0 1 0 .169
Adames ss ..........4
Frelick rf .............4
1
0
1 1 0 1 .238
3 1 0 1 .272
Pages cf...................4 0 1 1 0 1 .254 Bleday ph-cf .......2 0 0 0 0 0 .226
teammate logan Gilbert,
Taylor 2b-3b............4 1 1 0 0 1 .158
Hoskins 1b..........4 0 0 0 0 3 .214
Vargas lf..................3 0 0 0 0 1 .250
Andujar lf............5 1 1 1 0 2 .287 who is slated to start
Mitchell cf ..........3 0 0 0 0 0 .174 Rooker dh ...........5 0 2 1 0 3 .281
Bauers ph............1 0 0 0 0 1 .219
Barnes ph ................1
Biggio rf...................0
0
0
1
0
0 0 0 .259
0 0 0 .189
Langeliers c ........4 0 2 2 0 1 .214 sunday, on the al roster
Ortiz 3b...............4 0 0 0 0 2 .264 Gelof 2b ..............2 1 0 0 2 0 .204
Chourio lf ............4 0 0 0 0 3 .246
K.Hernández 3b.......2 0 0 0 0 1 .190 Nevin rf...............3 0 0 0 0 0 .208 for the all-star Game.
Lux ph-2b ................2 0 0 0 0 0 .212 Butler ph-rf ........1 1 1 2 0 0 .205
totALS 31 2 4 2 4 13 —
totALS 37 4 9 4 2 10 — Alvarez 1b...........3 0 0 0 0 1 .261 pirates: rHp paul
WAShiNgtoN 100 210 100 — 5 12 1
tigErS Ab r h bi bb So Avg
Brown ph-1b .......1
B.Harris 3b..........4
0
0
0 0 0 0 .190
0 0 0 1 .154
skenes (6-0, 1,90 era,
MiLWAUKEE ... 000 200 000 — 2 4 0
E: Abrams (10). Lob: Washington 5,
Ibáñez 2b.............3 0 0 0 0 0 .281 Schuemann ss ....3 2 1 0 1 0 .245 11 starts) was chosen to
Keith ph-2b .........1 0 0 0 1 0 .246 totALS 35 6 8 6 4 8 —
Milwaukee 7. 2b: Winker (18), Yepez
Malloy lf ..............2 1 2 1 1 0 .211 start the all-star Game for
(5), Lipscomb (2), Adames (22), Frelick
(12). hr: Winker (11), off Peralta. rbi:
Pérez ph-rf ..........1
Vierling 3b...........4
0
1
1 0 1 0 .263
0 0 1 2 .246
phiLLiES Ab r h bi bb So Avg the nl. He will become
Winker 2 (43), Ruiz (28), Lipscomb (10), Schwarber dh .....2 0 1 0 2 1 .252
Thomas (38), Adames (63), Frelick (20).
Greene cf.............4 0 1 2 0 1 .266 Turner ss ............4 0 0 0 0 1 .342 the third rookie to start
Canha dh .............2 0 2 0 2 0 .228
Sb: Abrams (15), Wood (2), Lipscomb
Rogers c ..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .208
Rojas cf...............0
Harper 1b............2
0
1
0 0 0 0 .234
1 0 2 0 .300
the Midsummer classic.
(11). cS: Thomas (9).
Báez ss ................4 0 0 0 0 1 .181 Bohm 3b..............3 0 1 0 1 1 .292
NAtioNALS ip h rErbb So NpErA Urshela 1b...........4 0 0 0 0 0 .252 Castellanos rf .....4 0 0 0 0 1 .233 phillies: released utility
Rutledge.........42/3 3 2 2 2 6 894.76 Vilade rf-lf...........3 1 2 0 1 1 .333
Garcia ............11/3 1 0 0 1 3 264.68
Sosa 2b-ss ..........3 0 1 1 0 0 .275 inF Whit Merrifield and
totALS 32 3 8 3 7 7 — Stott ph ..............1 0 0 0 0 1 .243
Law....................1 0 0 0 1 0 143.23 Wilson lf-2b........3 1 1 0 1 0 .143 recalled oF/iF Weston
Harvey...............1 0 0 0 0 2 204.20 L.A. ................. 000 200 011 — 4 9 0 Marchán c ...........3 0 0 0 1 0 .294
Finnegan ..........1 0 0 0 0 2 172.52 DEtroit......... 210 000 000 — 3 8 1 Pache cf-lf ..........3 0 1 1 0 0 .200 Wilson from class aaa.
Marsh ph.............1 0 0 0 0 1 .271
brEWErS ip h rErbbSo NpErA E: Báez (8). Lob: Los Angeles 8, Detroit
10. 2b: Ohtani (23), Greene (19), Canha totALS 29 2 6 2 7 6 —
twins: placed iF Kyle
Peralta ..............5 10 4 4 0 6 924.11
Payamps ...........1 0 0 0 0 0 104.54 (15). 3b: Malloy (1). hr: Freeman (14),
oAKLAND ...... 003 010 020 — 6 8 0
Farmer on the 10-day
off Skubal.
Milner................2 1
Wilson...............1 1
1 1 1 2 374.81
0 0 0 1 144.12 DoDgErS ip h r Er bb So ErA
phiLA............. 011 000 000 — 2 6 1 injured list with a right
Wp: Garcia (1-3); Lp: Peralta (6-5); S: Paxton................32/3 5 3 3 4 1 4.38 E: Turner (10). Lob: Oakland 6, Philadel-
phia 7. 2b: Pache (5). hr: Butler (6), off
shoulder strain.
Finnegan (24). inherited runners- Ramírez .............11/3 1 0 0 0 3 3.04
Ruiz.
scored: Garcia 2-0. hbp: Harvey Phillips ................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.20
AthLEticS ip h r Er bb So ErA
yankees: recalled iF
(Yelich). t: 2:41. A: 31,967 (41,700). Treinen................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.38
Petersen .............. 1 0 0 0 1 1 4.76 H.Harris............... 3 3 2 2 6 0 3.40 Jorbit Vivas, the club’s
hoW thEy ScorED Hudson................. 1 0 0 0 2 2 1.63 Bido ..................... 3 1 0 0 0 2 3.63 15th-ranked prospect,
NAtioNALS FirSt Alexander ............ 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.06
tigErS ip h r Er bb So ErA
CJ Abrams singles. James Wood called Skubal .................. 6 2 2 2 1 8 2.41
McFarland .......... 2/3 0 0 0 1 2 4.33 from class aaa scranton/
Erceg................... 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 2.94
out on strikes. Lane Thomas grounds
out. Jesse Winker doubles, cJ Abrams
Vest ..................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.35 duane Burleson/associaTed press
Miller ................... 1 1 0 0 0 2 2.27 Wilkes-Barre.
Brieske.................2/3 2 1 1 0 1 3.52
scores. Juan Yepez singles. Jesse Wink-
Detroit Rock City
Foley ....................2/3 2 1 1 0 0 3.62 phiLLiES ip h r Er bb So ErA
er out at home. Holton..................2/3 2 0 0 1 0 3.49 Suárez ................. 6 6 4 4 3 6 2.76
Nationals 1, brewers 0
Domínguez .......... 1 1 0 0 0 0 3.86 to d ay
NAtioNALS FoUrth Wp: Petersen (3-0); Lp: Foley (2-3); S:
Jesse Winker strikes out swinging. Hudson (4). inherited runners-scored: Matt Vierling, sporting the Tigers’ City Connect threads, motored home from second base Friday night on Ruiz ..................... 1
Soto ..................... 1
1
0
2 2 1 0 4.28
0 0 0 2 3.45
Juan Yepez doubles. Luis Garcia singles. Ramírez 2-0, Foley 2-1, Holton 1-1. ibb:
Juan Yepez to third. Keibert ruiz sin- off Holton (Smith). hbp: Treinen Riley Greene’s first-inning double against the Dodgers. Detroit built a 3-0 lead but eventually lost, 4-3. Wp: Bido (1-1); Lp: Suárez (10-4). in-
nl games
gles, Luis garcia to second, Juan yepez (Greene). t: 2:58. A: 42,060 (41,083). herited runners-scored: Erceg 1-0. t:
scores. trey Lipscomb doubles, Keibert 2:37. A: 42,570 (42,901).
ruiz to third, Luis garcia scores. Jacob NAtioNALS At brEWErS, 4:10

O’s slump continues

Young strikes out swinging. CJ Abrams W-L ErA tEAM
called out on strikes.
Nationals 3, brewers 0
rays 2, Guardians 0 royals 6, red sox 1 reds 7, Marlins 4 yankees 4, orioles 1 Parker (L) 5-5 3.44 8-8
brEWErS FoUrth right-hander Taj Bradley Bobby Witt Jr. and MJ Me- rookie rece Hinds hit yANKEES Ab r h bi bb So Avg Keuchel (L) 0-0 4.61 3-0

in series-opening loss
William Contreras walks. Christian
Yelich flies out. Willy Adames doubles,
limited al central-leading lendez both hit solo home his first career grand slam, LeMahieu 3b-1b ... 5 0 0 0 0 1 .193
cUbS At cArDiNALS, 2:15
Soto rf.................. 5 0 2 1 0 1 .298
William contreras scores. Sal Frelick cleveland to five hits over runs, cole ragans allowed Jonathan india and Jeimer Judge cf................ 1 1 1 1 4 0 .306 Wesneski (R) 3-5 3.68 1-5
doubles, Willy Adames scores. Rhys
Hoskins pops out. Garrett Mitchell seven scoreless innings to one run over seven innings, candelario had first-inning Rice 1b ................. 3 0 0 0 1 0 .243
Lynn (R) 4-4 4.48 10-8
Cabrera 3b............ 1 0 0 0 0 1 .237
grounds out. carry Tampa Bay to victory. and Kansas city beat Bos- solo shots, and cincinnati Torres 2b.............. 1 0 0 0 3 1 .223
Nationals 3, brewers 2 rocKiES At MEtS, 4:10
NAtioNALS FiFth Bradley struck out eight ton for its fourth consecu- beat Miami. Verdugo lf ............ 4 0 0 0 0 1 .239
James Wood strikes out swinging. Lane
Thomas grounds out. Jesse Winker
and walked two in his sev- tive victory. reds starter carson spi-
Volpe ss ............... 4 1
Trevino c .............. 4 2
1 0 0 0 .247
2 1 0 2 .244 Yankees 4, orioles 1 Feltner (R)
Scott (R)
1-8
0-2
5.29
4.15
5-13
1-6
homers. Juan Yepez lines out. enth consecutive strong adam Frazier, Vinnie pas- ers struck out eight of the Wells c ................. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .219
Jones dh............... 4 0 1 1 0 3 .263
Nationals 4, brewers 2 start. The red-hot second- quantino and salvador per- first 10 Marlins he faced totALS 32 4 7 4 8 10 — BY J ACOB C ALVIN M EYER MArLiNS At rEDS, 4:10
NAtioNALS SEvENth
Jacob Young walks. CJ Abrams strikes year player has surren- ez (with two) all added rBi and finished with a career- Cabrera (R) 1-2 6.84 3-3
orioLES Ab r h bi bb So Avg
out swinging. James Wood grounds out.
dered just five earned runs for the royals, who are high nine. elly de la cruz Abbott (L) 9-6 3.06 11-7
Jacob Young to second. Lane thomas
neck and neck with the red
Henderson ss........ 4 0 1 0 0 2 .288 BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles entered Friday
singles, Jacob young scores. over his past 42 innings stole his major league- Rutschman c......... 3 0 0 0 1 0 .279
night’s pivotal game against the New York Yankees brAvES At pADrES, 7:15
Nationals 5, brewers 2 sox in the wild-card race. Santander rf ......... 4 0 1 0 0 1 .234
this season. leading 46th base. López (R) 7-2 1.71 11-5
O'Hearn dh ........... 4
Westburg 2b......... 4
0
0
0 0 0 0 .275
0 0 0 2 .277
mired in a 24-inning scoreless streak.
royALS Ab r h bi bb So Avg Waldron (R) 5-7 3.61 7-11
gUArDiANS Ab r h bi bb So Avg
Frazier dh ............. 5 2 2 1 0 0 .213
MArLiNS Ab r h bi bb So Avg
Kjerstad lf............. 3 1 1 0 0 0 .314 They ended the skid at 25 innings, but when they
Kwan lf................. 4 0 1 0 0 1 .359 Chisholm cf.......... 4 0 0 0 1 2 .252
NAtioNALS’ LEADErS Martínez dh ......... 4 0 0 0 0 2 .263 Witt ss ................. 4 1 2 1 0 0 .327 Edwards ss .......... 5 1 2 0 0 1 .319
Mountcastle 1b .... 4
Mullins cf.............. 4
0
0
1 0 0 2 .272
1 0 0 1 .212
take the field Saturday, they will face a new streak. cUbS At cArDiNALS, 8:15
Pasquantino 1b.... 4 0 1 1 0 0 .249
Entering Friday’s game. Ramírez 3b........... 4
J.Naylor 1b........... 3
0
0
1 0 0 1 .272
0 0 1 2 .245 Perez c.................. 3 0 1 2 0 0 .280
B.De La Cruz dh ... 4
Bell 1b.................. 4
1
0
1 0 0 2 .247
1 0 0 1 .227
Urías 3b ................ 3 0 1 1 0 0 .236 Despite the balmy temperatures in Charm City this TBD ---- ---- ----
batters Avg h 2b hr rbi bb Sb
Yepez .333 10 5 0 2 4 0
Noel rf .................. 4 0 1 0 0 2 .235 Fermin c ............... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .296 J.Sánchez rf......... 4 1 1 3 0 2 .244 totALS 33 1 6 1 1 8 —
week, Baltimore’s bats remained ice cold against Gibson (R) 7-3 3.96 9-8
Giménez 2b .......... 4 0 0 0 0 2 .249 Massey 2b............ 4 0 0 0 0 0 .273 Rivera 3b ............. 4 0 1 0 0 1 .211
Call .313 5 1 0 1 3 1
Schneemann ss.... 3 0 2 0 0 1 .253 Renfroe rf............. 4 0 0 0 0 0 .220 Gordon lf.............. 4 1 2 0 0 1 .231
NEW yorK .... 021 000 001 — 4 7 1
bALtiMorE... 010 000 000 — 1 6 1
Yankees ace Gerrit Cole and his bullpen, failing to
García .276 84 17 10 44 14 12
Abrams .270 93 21 14 46 30 15
Freeman cf ........... 2
Hedges c............... 2
0
0
0 0 1 0 .214
0 0 0 1 .145
Melendez lf .......... 4
Garcia 3b .............. 3
2
0
2 1 0 1 .196
1 0 0 1 .230
Bruján 2b ............. 4
A.Sánchez c ......... 4
0
0
1 0 0 1 .218
2 1 0 0 .250 E: Volpe (9), Santander (2). Lob: New
score in the final seven innings of a 4-1 loss. The nl scores
Winker
Young
.264 77 18
.254 67 13
11 43 48 12
1 18 17 20
Fry ph ................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 .286 Isbel cf.................. 2 1 0 0 2 0 .230 totALS 37 4 11 4 1 11 — York 9, Baltimore 7. 2b: Trevino 2 (4). Orioles have scored only three runs over the past four thUrSDAy’S rESULtS
3b: Urías (1). hr: Judge (33), off Pov-
Vargas .251 42 12 1 20 14 6
B.Naylor c............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .207 totALS 33 6 9 6 2 2 —
ich. rbi: Trevino (27), Jones (3), Judge games — all losses — after entering Friday’s series at N.Y. Mets 7, Washington 0
Thomas .249 65 10 8 38 24 22 totALS 31 0 5 0 2 13 — rEDS Ab r h bi bb So Avg at Cincinnati 8, Colorado 1
Wood .244 11 1 1 6 6 2 rED Sox Ab r h bi bb So Avg India 2b ...............4 1 1 1 1 0 .275
(84), Soto (65), Urías (12). Sb: Kjerstad
(1). cS: Torres (3).
opener having endured consecutive shutouts. Pittsburgh 1, at Milwaukee 0
Lipscomb .236 33 2 1 10 11 11 rAyS Ab r h bi bb So Avg Refsnyder rf........2
Abreu ph-rf .........1
0
0
1 0 1 0 .306
0 0 0 1 .264
E.De La Cruz ss ...5 0 3 0 0 1 .255
yANKEES ip h r Er bb So ErA The most fight shown by Baltimore’s offense came at Philadelphia 5, L.A. Dodgers 1
Arizona 1, at Atlanta 0
Ramírez .233 7 1 0 6 0 0 Díaz 1b................5 0 3 1 0 0 .276 Candelario dh......3 2 2 1 2 0 .244
Meneses .231 65 11 3 42 21 2 B.Lowe dh...........3 0 1 0 1 0 .248 Duran lf ...............4 0 0 0 0 2 .275 Steer 1b ..............5 1 1 0 0 0 .244 Cole...................... 6 5 1 1 1 7 5.40 in the ninth inning, when a benches-clearing fracas
O'Neill dh ............4 0 0 0 0 2 .252 Kahnle ................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.60 FriDAy’S rESULtS
Adams
Ruiz
.225 20 5
.224 55 9
2 7 7 1
6 28 9 1
Arozarena lf........4
Paredes 3b..........3
0
0
1 0 0 1 .204
0 0 1 2 .261 Devers 3b ............4 0 1 0 0 2 .289
Stephenson c......4
Fraley lf ..............4
0
0
0 0 0 0 .244
1 0 0 1 .278 Weaver................ 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.52 broke out after Yankees closer Clay Holmes hit Washington 5, at Milwaukee 2
Senzel .209 43 10 7 18 27 1 J.Lowe rf.............4 0 2 0 0 1 .214 Wong c ................4 0 0 0 0 1 .309 Marte 3b .............3 1 1 0 0 0 .172 Holmes ................ 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.82 Heston Kjerstad in the head with a 96-mph fastball. at Cincinnati 7, Miami 4
at N.Y. Mets 7, Colorado 6
Rosario .183 40 11 7 26 13 8 Siri cf ..................4 0 0 0 0 2 .202 González 1b.........3 0 0 0 0 0 .257 Hinds rf...............3 2 1 4 1 1 .474
Millas .167 5 1 1 1 2 2 Walls ss ..............3 0 0 0 1 0 .169 D.Smith ph ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .220 Benson cf............3 0 1 1 1 0 .194
orioLES ip h r Er bb So ErA Manager Brandon Hyde appeared to get into a shout- Chicago Cubs 5, at St. Louis 1
Gallo
Robles
.164 23 7
.120 3 0
5 11 21 1
0 2 5 4
Palacios 2b..........3
Jackson c ............4
0
2
0 0 1 1 .243
2 0 0 1 .082
Westbrook 2b .....3
Rafaela cf ............3
1
0
1 0 0 1 .208
2 1 0 0 .252
totALS 34 7 11 7 5 3 —
Povich............... 51/3
Smith................ 11/3
5
0
3 3 5 6 6.27
0 0 0 2 0.00
ing match with someone in New York’s dugout, Atlanta at San Diego, late

Nuñez .077 1 0 0 0 1 3 totALS 33 2 9 1 4 8 — Hamilton ss.........2 0 0 0 1 1 .265 MiAMi............ 000 300 001 — 4 11 1 Akin .................... 2/3 0 0 0 1 0 3.80 causing the benches and bullpens to empty. After the
Baker ................ 11/3 1 1 1 1 1 5.14
totals .238 749 155 78 369 277 124 totALS 31 1 5 1 2 10 — ciNciNNAti ... 214 000 00x — 7 11 1
Pérez .................. 1/3 1 0 0 1 1 3.62 brief delay, Holmes retired the final two batters to seal
pitchers W L ErA r Er bb So
cLEvELAND... 000 000 000 — 0 5 2
KANSAS city 130 100 010 — 6 9 0 E: J.Sánchez (4), E.De La Cruz (17). Lob:
the Yankees’ win. al games
tAMpA bAy .. 001 010 00x — 2 9 0 Miami 7, Cincinnati 9. 2b: Edwards (4), Wp: Cole (2-1); Lp: Povich (1-4); S:
Floro 3 2 2.20 13 11 11 36 boStoN ......... 010 000 000 — 1 5 1
Williams 5 0 2.22 16 14 16 47 E: Schneemann (1), Carrasco (1). Lob:
E: González (1). Lob: Kansas City 6, Bos-
Gordon (10), Benson (15), E.De La Cruz Holmes (21). inherited runners-scored:
Baker 1-0, Pérez 1-1. hbp: Holmes
Baltimore (57-37) is now clinging to a one-game yANKEES At orioLES, 4:05
Finnegan 2 4 2.52 13 11 12 42 Cleveland 6, Tampa Bay 11. 2b: Schnee- (19). hr: J.Sánchez (11), off Spiers; In-
Irvin 7 7 3.13 43 39 26 96 mann (5), J.Lowe (9), Jackson 2 (4), ton 5. 2b: Westbrook (2), Rafaela (16). dia (8), off Chirinos; Candelario (15), off (Kjerstad). t: 3:02. A: 39,566 (45,971). lead over New York (57-39) atop the American League W-L ErA tEAM
Law
Parker
4 2 3.23 23 20 16 48
5 5 3.44 40 35 19 74
Díaz (20). hr: Witt (16), off Criswell; Melendez
(11), off Weissert.
Chirinos; Hinds (3), off Chirinos. East after holding a three-game advantage Tuesday. Gil (R) 9-5 3.27 12-6
gUArDiANS ip h r Er bb So ErA MArLiNS ip h r Er bb So ErA
J.Barnes 5 2 3.89 17 15 10 24 Carrasco .............. 5 6 2 1 1 3 5.02 royALS ip h r Er bb So ErA Chirinos ............ 52/3 8 7 7 4 1 5.76
orioLES’ LEADErS Ramón Urías’s RBI triple in the second inning off Rodriguez (R) 11-3 3.52 12-4
Gore 6 8 4.01 53 44 37 116
Harvey 2 4 4.20 24 21 12 50
Herrin ................. 2/3 0 0 0 2 1 1.45 Ragans................. 7 4 1 1 1 7 3.16
Stratton............... 1 1 0 0 1 3 4.74
Chargois ........... 11/3 1 0 0 1 2 1.32 Entering Saturday’s game. Cole, the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner, didn’t gUArDiANS At rAyS, 4:10
Barlow ................ 2/3 2 0 0 1 1 3.52 Faucher................ 1 2 0 0 0 0 3.44 batters Avg h 2b hrrbi bb Sb
Garcia 1 3 4.68 18 17 11 47 Curry................. 12/3 1 0 0 0 3 5.19 N.Anderson.......... 1 0 0 0 0 0 4.15 McKenna .375 3 0 2 2 1 0 just end the Orioles’ scoreless innings streak. It also Williams (R) 0-1 4.82 0-2
Rutledge 0 0 4.76 3 3 2 7 rEDS ip h r Er bb So ErA
Herz 1 3 5.17 20 18 9 41 rAyS ip h r Er bb So ErA rED Sox ip h r Er bb So ErA Spiers .................. 5 6 3 3 0 9 3.83
Kjerstad .314 16 2 3 12
Henderson .288106 18 27 61
6 1
47 14
ended their confounding slump with runners in Littell (R) 3-6 4.44 9-9
Adon
Corbin
0 0 5.40 3 3 3 3
1 9 5.57 69 65 36 73
Bradley ................ 7 5 0 0 2 8 2.90 Criswell................ 6 8 5 2 2 1 4.03 Martinez.............. 3 3 0 0 0 2 3.93 Stowers .286 10 4 1 9 0 0 scoring position. royALS At rED Sox, 4:10
Poche................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.38 Booser.................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.90 Díaz ..................... 1 2 1 1 1 0 4.46 Rutschman .279 99 12 16 59 35 1
Weems 1 1 5.94 28 24 17 29 Adam ................... 1 0 0 0 0 3 1.71 Weissert.............. 2 1 1 1 0 1 4.39 Westburg .277 93 22 15 50 17 6 Baltimore went 0 for 17 in such situations in its Lugo (R) 11-3 2.21 12-7
M.Barnes 0 0 6.75 11 10 4 10 Wp: Spiers (3-2); Lp: Chirinos (0-1). in-
Rainey 0 0 6.84 19 19 16 20 Wp: Bradley (4-4); Lp: Carrasco (3-7); S: Wp: Ragans (6-6); Lp: Criswell (3-4). herited runners-scored: Chargois 2-0. O'Hearn .275 70 10 11 37 23 3 three-game sweep at the hands of the Chicago Cubs Crawford (R) 5-7 3.24 6-12
hbp: Criswell (Witt). Wp: Ragans. t: Mountcastle .272 90 22 12 42 21 2
Gray 0 2 14.04 13 13 5 9 Adam (4). inherited runners-scored:
Barlow 2-0, Curry 3-0. t: 2:29. A: 17,290 2:16. A: 34,894 (37,755).
ibb: off Chargois (Candelario). hbp:
Chirinos (Marte). Wp: Díaz. t: 2:24. A: Hays .259 37 13 3 14 7 0 this week. rANgErS At AStroS, 4:10
totals 43 52 4.09 426 382 262 772
(25,025). 31,326 (43,891). Urías .236 34 7 4 12 11 0 — Baltimore Sun Eovaldi (R) 6-3 3.10 9-6
Arrighetti (R) 4-7 5.96 7-9
Mets 7, rockies 6 pirates 4, White sox 1 astros 6, rangers 3 Mariners 11, angels 0 diamondbacks 1,
nl leaders Braves 0
MAriNErS At ANgELS, 9:38
Jose iglesias and Harri- Marco Gonzales made a Jose altuve hit a three- Late Thursday Kirby (R) 7-6 3.38 9-10
Entering Friday’s games. son Bader each hit two of promising return to the ro- run homer, Hunter Brown cal raleigh homered Late Thursday Soriano (R) 4-7 3.87 5-9
bAttiNg new York’s season-best tation hours after coming struck out five over six in- from each side of the plate Brandon pfaadt out-
Yelich, Mil ........................................ .329 five home runs, and the off the injured list, and nings, and Houston won its for the second time in pitched Max Fried in six
Ohtani, LA ....................................... .314
Profar, SD ........................................ .311 surging Mets held off last- pittsburgh beat chicago for 10th straight home game three days in seattle’s strong innings, Jake Mc- al scores
Arraez, SD ....................................... .308
Betts, LA ......................................... .304
place colorado. its fourth victory in five with a victory over Texas. thrashing of los angeles. carthy made a leaping thUrSDAy’S rESULtS
Mark Vientos also went games. alex Bregman and Jake raleigh’s 19 homers are grab at the wall in the ninth at Detroit 10, Cleveland 1
hoME rUNS at Boston 7, Oakland 0
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 28
deep and drilled an rBi Ke’Bryan Hayes had a Meyers also homered while an ongoing record for a inning, and arizona beat at Tampa Bay 5, N.Y. Yankees 4
Ozuna, Atl ........................................... 24 double as the Mets im- pair of hits and an rBi and Josh Hader converted his Mariners catcher before atlanta. Seattle 11, at L.A. Angels 0
Walker, Ari ......................................... 22 proved to 4-0 on a six-game scored a run for the pi- 18th straight save opportu-
Harper, Phi .......................................... 20 the all-star break. pfaadt was sharp for the FriDAy’S rESULtS
Schwarber, Phi ................................... 19 homestand. rates. nity for the astros, who MAriNErS Ab r h bi bb So Avg fourth straight start, scat- N.Y. Yankees 4, at Baltimore 1
Hernández, LA .................................... 19 at Tampa Bay 2, Cleveland 0
rocKiES Ab r h bi bb So Avg Gonzales allowed one have the majors’ best rec- Crawford ss ........4 3 3 3 0 0 .212 tering three hits while strik- Kansas City 6, at Boston 1
ErA earned run, struck out four ord at 25-11 since June 1. D.Moore ss .........1 0 0 0 0 1 .212 at Houston 6, Texas 3
Blackmon dh .......4 1 1 1 1 2 .256
Rojas 3b ..............4 0 1 1 1 2 .250 ing out four to win after Seattle at L.A. Angels, late
Suárez, Phi ....................................... 2.58 Tovar ss ..............5 1 2 0 0 2 .267
Wheeler, Phi .................................... 2.70 McMahon 3b .......4 0 1 0 0 1 .272 and didn’t walk a batter. rANgErS Ab r h bi bb So Avg Raleigh c .............5 3 3 4 0 0 .215 three consecutive no-deci-
Rodríguez cf .......3 0 3 0 1 0 .259
Sale, Atl ........................................... 2.74 El.Díaz c ..............4 0 0 0 0 0 .291
pirAtES Ab r h bi bb So Avg Semien 2b...........3 1 3 0 1 0 .241
Robles cf.............1 0 0 0 0 0 .348 sions.
Sánchez, Phi .................................... 2.96
Imanaga, Chi .................................... 2.97
Doyle cf ...............4
Rodgers 2b..........3
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1 2 0 1 .277
1 1 1 1 .269 McCutchen dh.....5 0 1 0 0 1 .223
Seager ss ............4
Smith 3b .............3
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2 3 0 1 .272
0 0 1 3 .292 Raley rf ...............3 1 0 0 0 1 .246
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Abbott, Cin ...................................... 3.06 Toglia 1b .............4 1 1 2 0 1 .188 Reynolds lf..........4 0 0 0 0 1 .274 Langford lf..........4 0 0 0 0 0 .262 France 1b ............5 1 2 1 0 0 .232
Joe 1b .................3 1 1 0 1 1 .242 Polanco 2b ..........4 1 2 2 0 0 .204 Kelenic cf ............3 0 0 0 1 0 .266
Fried, Atl .......................................... 3.08 Goodman rf .........3 0 0 0 0 2 .179 García rf..............3 0 1 0 0 0 .216 Albies 2b.............4 0 0 0 0 1 .254 DoDgErS At tigErS, 1:10
Cave ph ...............1 0 0 0 0 0 .257 N.Gonzales 2b ....4 1 1 1 0 1 .272 Lowe 1b ..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .266 Bliss 2b ...............1 0 0 0 0 0 .224
StriKEoUtS Hayes 3b.............4 1 2 1 0 1 .234 Haniger dh ..........3 1 0 0 1 1 .207 Riley 3b...............4 0 2 0 0 2 .262 W-L ErA tEAM
Hilliard lf.............3 0 1 0 1 1 .238 Heim c.................3 0 0 0 1 1 .245 Olson 1b..............4 0 0 0 0 0 .234
Bart c ..................3 1 1 0 1 1 .235 Taveras cf ...........3 0 0 0 0 1 .234 Clase lf................4 1 1 0 0 0 .184 Wrobleski (L) 0-1 7.20 0-1
Glasnow, LA ..................................... 143 totALS 35 6 8 6 3 11 — Ozuna dh.............4 0 2 0 0 1 .298
Triolo ss..............4 0 1 1 0 1 .205 Hill ph .................1 0 0 0 0 1 .262 totALS 38 11 15 11 3 5 —
Cease, SD .......................................... 138 Duvall rf..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .184 Montero (R) 1-2 4.64 2-1
Suwinski rf .........3 0 0 0 1 1 .178 Jankowski dh......3 1 1 0 0 1 .215
Sale, Atl ............................................ 136 MEtS Ab r h bi bb So Avg Rosario lf ............3 0 0 0 0 0 .143
Taylor cf..............3 0 1 1 0 2 .203 Grossman ph ......1 0 0 0 0 0 .219 ANgELS Ab r h bi bb So Avg
King, SD ............................................ 129 Lindor ss .............3 0 1 0 2 1 .249 Murphy c.............3 0 0 0 0 0 .219 pirAtES At WhitE Sox, 2:10
totALS 33 4 8 4 3 10 — totALS 32 3 7 3 3 10 — Rendon dh...........3 0 1 0 1 0 .256 Arcia ss...............2 0 1 0 0 1 .208
Nimmo lf.............5 0 1 0 0 0 .251
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Schanuel 1b ........3 0 0 0 1 0 .239 d'Arnaud ph ........0 0 0 0 1 0 .239 Ortiz (R) 4-2 2.95 1-1
Martinez dh ........3 0 0 0 0 3 .270
chicAgo Ab r h bi bb So Avg AStroS Ab r h bi bb So Avg Ward lf................3 0 0 0 1 2 .233
Alonso 1b ............3 0 0 0 1 2 .241 totALS 31 0 5 0 2 6 — Flexen (R) 2-7 4.94 2-15
Pillar rf................3 0 1 0 0 1 .288
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Alvarez c .............4 1 1 0 0 0 .299 Altuve 2b ............4 1 1 3 0 1 .305
Vientos 3b...........3 1 2 2 1 0 .299 Vaughn 1b.............4 0 1 0 0 0 .240 Bregman 3b ........4 1 2 1 0 1 .257 Adell rf................1 0 0 0 0 0 .180 D'bAcKS Ab r h bi bb So Avg AthLEticS At phiLLiES, 4:05
Iglesias 2b-3b .....4 2 2 2 0 1 .347 Robert cf...............4 0 1 1 0 1 .221 Alvarez dh ..........3 0 2 1 1 0 .300 O'Hoppe c ...........4 0 0 0 0 2 .279
Entering Friday’s games. Marte dh .............4 0 2 0 0 0 .286 Spence (R) 5-5 4.29 2-8
McNeil rf-2b........4 1 1 0 0 0 .215 Jiménez dh ...........4 0 1 0 0 0 .236 Diaz c ..................4 0 1 0 0 1 .285 Drury 2b..............3 0 0 0 0 0 .170
Moreno c.............3 0 1 0 1 0 .252
bAttiNg Bader cf...............4 2 2 3 0 0 .278 Sosa 2b .................4 0 0 0 0 2 .240 Peña ss ...............4 0 0 0 0 1 .274 Hiura ph ..............1
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DeJong ss .............4 0 2 0 0 2 .232
Kwan, Cle ......................................... .361 totALS 33 7 10 7 4 7 —
Julks lf ..................2 0 1 0 0 0 .241
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Witt, KC ........................................... .325 Neto ss ...............3 0 1 0 0 1 .251 McCarthy cf-lf ....4 0 1 0 0 2 .278
coLorADo .... 020 000 130 — 6 8 0 Benintendi ph-lf ...1 0 0 0 0 0 .195 Dubón lf ..............3 2 0 0 1 0 .282 Suárez 3b............2 1 1 1 1 1 .210
Correa, Min ...................................... .310
Altuve, Hou ..................................... .306 NEW yorK..... 031 210 00x — 7 10 0 Lee c......................3 0 0 0 0 0 .222 McCormick rf ......3 1 1 0 1 0 .206 Guillorme 3b .......4 0 0 0 0 1 .244
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Mendick 3b ...........3 0 1 0 0 1 .197 totALS 31 0 5 0 4 8 — Newman 2b ........3 0 0 0 0 2 .282
Judge, NY ......................................... .304 Lob: Colorado 5, New York 7. 2b: Tovar totALS 33 6 9 6 3 5 —
totALS 32 1 8 1 1 7 — Perdomo ss.........3 0 0 0 0 0 .286 Birdsong (R) 1-0 4.40 2-1
hoME rUNS (26), Alvarez (12), Vientos (11). hr: To- SEAttLE ........ 401 204 000 — 11 15 0
glia (13), off Manaea; Rodgers (6), off tExAS............ 000 002 100 — 3 7 2 totALS 28 1 6 1 4 9 —
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Judge, NY ............................................ 32 Manaea; Blackmon (5), off Diekman; chicAgo........ 001 000 000 — 1 8 1
Henderson, Bal ................................... 27 Doyle (14), off Maton; Vientos (12), off E: Guillorme (1). Lob: Seattle 5, Los An- AtLANtA....... 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 Berríos (R) 8-6 3.76 13-6
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Santander, Bal .................................... 23 Gordon; Iglesias (2), off Gordon; Bader 2 E: Lee (4). Lob: Pittsburgh 6, Chicago 5. geles 9. 2b: Crawford (13), Rodríguez ArizoNA ....... 000 010 00x — 1 6 0
Houston 6. 2b: Singleton (5). hr: Sea- Diaz (R) 0-0 1.50 0-1
Ramírez, Cle ....................................... 23 (8), off Gordon; Iglesias (3), off Lambert. 2b: Taylor (5), N.Gonzales (12), Mc- ger (18), off Brown; Meyers (9), off (9), France (13), Neto (21). hr: Raleigh Lob: Atlanta 6, Arizona 7. 2b: Riley
Naylor, Cle .......................................... 22 Cutchen (9), Vaughn (19), Pham (10). Heaney; Bregman (12), off Heaney; Al- (18), off Kochanowicz; Crawford (8), off (20). hr: Suárez (9), off Fried.
rocKiES ip h r Er bb So ErA Rosenberg; Raleigh (19), off Rosenberg.
Soto, NY .............................................. 22 pirAtES ip h r Er bb So ErA tuve (14), off Ureña. brAvES ip h r Er bb So ErA
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ErA Lambert ............ 32/3 2 1 1 2 4 5.44 M.Gonzales ......... 5 7 1 1 0 4 2.45 rANgErS ip h r Er bb So ErA MAriNErS ip h r Er bb So ErA
Fried .................... 6 5 1 1 3 7 3.08
Interleague scores
Lawrence .............1/3 0 0 0 0 0 6.27 Mlodzinski........... 2 0 0 0 0 2 3.18 Heaney ................ 5 5 3 2 2 5 3.79 Castillo ................ 6 4 0 0 2 5 3.53 Holmes ............. 11/3 1 0 0 1 1 1.06
Lugo, KC ........................................... 2.21 Mears .................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 6.10 Holderman........... 1 1 0 0 1 0 1.82 Ureña................... 1 3 3 3 1 0 3.13 Baumann ............. 1 1 0 0 1 0 5.51 Minter ................ 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 2.52 thUrSDAy’S rESULtS
Skubal, Det ...................................... 2.37 Bednar ................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 5.01 Hernández ........... 2 1 0 0 0 0 3.67 Bazardo ............... 2 0 0 0 1 3 6.62 Chicago Cubs 8, at Baltimore 0
Burnes, Bal ...................................... 2.43 MEtS ip h r Er bb So ErA D'bAcKS ip h r Er bb So ErA Toronto 5, at San Francisco 3
Blanco, Hou ...................................... 2.53 chicAgo ip h r Er bb So ErA AStroS ip h r Er bb So ErA ANgELS ip h r Er bb So ErA
Manaea................ 7 5 3 3 1 9 3.46 Pfaadt.................. 6 3 0 0 0 4 3.97 at Houston 6, Miami 3
Houck, Bos ....................................... 2.54 Diekman ..............1/3 2 2 2 0 0 5.53 Crochet ................ 2 0 0 0 0 4 3.02 Brown .................. 6 5 2 2 2 5 4.39 Kochanowicz ....... 3 7 5 4 0 1 12.0 Ginkel .................. 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.48
Maton ..................2/3 1 1 1 0 1 5.40 Cannon ................ 6 7 4 4 2 4 4.41 Abreu................... 1 2 1 1 1 2 3.11 Rosenberg ........... 6 8 6 6 3 4 9.00 Thompson ........... 1 0 0 0 2 0 2.04 FriDAy’S rESULtS
StriKEoUtS Shuster................ 1 1 0 0 1 2 3.52 Oakland 6, at Philadelphia 2
Ed.Díaz................. 1 0 0 0 2 1 4.05 Pressly................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.68 Wp: Castillo (8-9); Lp: Kochanowicz Sewald................. 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.54
Crochet, Chi ...................................... 146 Hader................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.86 (0-1). hbp: Kochanowicz 2 (Raley, Ra- L.A. Dodgers 4, at Detroit 3
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Ragans, KC ........................................ 134
Skubal, Det ....................................... 132
Bibee, Cle .......................................... 123
Wp: Manaea (6-3); Lp: Gordon (0-2); S:
Ed.Díaz (10). inherited runners-scored:
Lambert 2-0, Maton 1-1. hbp: Gordon
(Martinez). t: 2:49. A: 28,852 (42,136).
Wp: M.Gonzales (1-0); Lp: Cannon
(1-3); S: Bednar (17). t: 2:11. A: 19,548
(40,241).
Wp: Brown (7-6); Lp: Heaney (3-10); S:
Hader (18). hbp: Brown (García). Wp:
Brown. t: 2:22. A: 39,666 (41,000).
Wp: Pfaadt (4-6); Lp: Fried (7-5); S:
ley), Baumann (Neto). t: 2:30. A: 26,747 Pittsburgh 4, at Chicago White Sox 1
Sewald (13). inherited runners-scored: Toronto at Arizona, late
(45,517). Minter 2-0. ibb: off Holmes (Walker).
Minnesota at San Francisco, late
Wp: Holmes. t: 2:29. A: 27,101 (48,359).
saturday, july 13 , 2024
Cruz’s Banana Ball journey brings him to Nationals Park
BAnAnAS from D1
“So I may have played my last
game without knowing it,” Cruz
said, before describing the thrill
of sharing a spring training club-
house with veteran Nationals in-
fielder Dee Strange-Gordon,
whom he watched play as a
young Los Angeles Dodgers fan,
and his struggles finding an op-
portunity with another major
league team over the ensuing
weeks. The next morning, the
video had a half-million views
and dozens of supportive com-
ments.
Cruz, who had hoped to pro-
vide his newfound social media
following with an inside look at
the life of an aspiring major
leaguer, pivoted to creating con-
tent that would help younger
players realize their potential. He
credited Nationals minor league
field coordinator Jeff Garber, a
10th-round pick in the 1988 mLB
draft out of James madison Uni-
versity who played 679 games in
the minors across eight seasons,
for planting the idea of coaching
in his head.
“right before I got released, he
basically said if you ever want to
get into coaching, you would be a
great coach with the way that you
listen and the way that you’re
always trying to learn,” Cruz said
of Garber. “That stuck with me.”
So Cruz, who already owned
professional-quality camera
equipment from the wedding
photography business he started
during college, resolved to post
one coaching video a day for the
next three months. As the weeks
went on and Cruz became more
adept editing with Adobe Pre-
miere, the production quality of
his content improved. Every time
he finished one video, he got two
or three more ideas.
Cruz’s coaching videos covered
a wide range of topics, from drills
he wish he knew when he was
younger to baseball etiquette,
base-running tutorials and ad-
vice for baseball parents. In addi-
tion to providing tips on proper
swing mechanics and hand posi-
tioning for infielders, Cruz creat-
ed dozens of videos about the
mental aspect of the game. He
worries the commercialization of
youth baseball has increased the
pressure on young players to
perform at the expense of having
fun.
“So many lessons that I
learned when I was [at spring
training] are lessons I’m able to
share on social media with re-
gards to dealing with pressure,”
he said.
Cruz tripled his social media
following over the next year. In
addition to the nominal pay-
ments he received directly from
TikTok, Instagram and YouTube,
he established partnerships with
baseball gear and lifestyle
brands, which came with retain-
er fees and commission bonuses.
Winker makes a triumphant return to Milwaukee, and Nats end five-game skid
nAtionAlS from D1
away in the offseason. So he got
himself into better shape and
signed a minor league deal with
the Nationals, who hoped that at
least one of their veteran signings
would bounce back.
most of those players haven’t.
Nick Senzel and Eddie rosario,
two vets who signed similar deals,
were designated for assignment
this month. Joey Gallo — still with
the team — has been injured and
is hitting just .164 with a .606 oPS.
Winker, however, has been a
bright spot. He is second on the
team in oPS (.816) and home runs
(11) behind CJ Abrams. He’s third
in rBI (43), and barring an injury,
he seems a good bet to be moved
at the upcoming trade deadline.
In the first inning, Winker
roped a two-out rBI double to
give the Nationals a 1-0 lead.
When he reached first, he pointed
at the ground as if to say this was
his house. Juan Yepez followed up
with a single, but Winker was
thrown out at the plate.
“He said the fans, they didn’t
get to see the real him because he
was hurt,” martinez said of Wink-
er. “I love the guy, man. He comes
ready to play every day. He takes
care of himself, and he’s done
great for us.”
The early lead was crucial for
Jackson rutledge, who was called
up ahead of friday night’s game to
make his first start of the year.
rutledge — the Nationals’ 2019
first-round pick — was one of the
team’s best young arms during
spring training and seemed like a
viable option to be among the
team’s first call-ups.
But rutledge was hurt when
Josiah Gray went on the injured
list in April, so mitchell Parker
debuted and retained his spot in
the rotation. When Trevor Wil-
liams went on the injured list in
June, the Nationals called on DJ
. the washington post
RobertAnthony Cruz said getting to play in D.C. after his brief stint in the nationals organization is “better than i could’ve drawn it up.”
Cruz took a job coaching the JV
team at his former high school
and, with former Biola teammate
Anj Bourgeois, created “Not Your
Average Baseball Camp,” which
features on-field instruction and
a session on how to use social
media. Cruz’s taxes were a mess,
but he was loving life as a full-
time coach and content creator.
Welcome to Bananaland
for the uninitiated, the Savan-
nah Bananas travel the country
playing exhibition games gov-
erned by a unique set of rules
designed to make baseball more
fun. They include a two-hour
time limit; prohibitions against
bunting, walks, stepping out of
the batter’s box and mound visits;
and a scoring system that makes
every inning count. oh, and if a
fan catches a foul ball, it’s an out.
Games feature constant music,
choreographed dances, props,
costumes and even a player on
stilts. most of the extracurricular
fun is scripted, but the baseball,
played by former minor league
and college players, is not. fans
can’t get enough. Tickets retail
for $35, but the get-in price on
the secondary market for Satur-
day’s exhibition in D.C. — the
latest stop on the Bananas’
96-game, 29-city tour — is nearly
three times that amount.
Last summer, a friend encour-
aged Cruz to apply for a spot at a
“He had a good swing today. He’s been doing really well the whole first half,” Manager Dave Martinez, right, said of Jesse Winker.
Herz. meanwhile, once rutledge
got healthy, he struggled. He post-
ed a 6.66 ErA in 16 starts for Class
AAA rochester (N.Y.) and strug-
Saturday is the third anniversary of Cruz telling his parents, Cynthia and Ron, the nats had signed him.
Bananas tryout in nearby orange
County, Calif. Cruz was familiar
with Banana Ball — Dalton maul-
din, one of his former teammates
from summer collegiate ball in
Casper, Wyo., had been with the
team since 2021 — but he was
hesitant. Cruz’s Coach rAC brand
was taking off, and he didn’t have
much desire to play again.
Cruz ultimately applied, re-
gled with his command.
on friday, though, he hit his
spots — especially through the
first three innings, when he al-
ez Su
ceived an invite to the tryout and
made an impression, both with
his baseball skills and the back
handsprings and tucks he had
learned as a gymnastics-obsessed
kid who watched VHS tapes of
the Summer olympics on repeat.
“Everything kind of went my
way,” Cruz said. “I got several hits,
and I was able pull out some of
the gymnastics stuff that I did
lowed just one hit and consistent-
ly got ahead.
His offense gave him a 3-0 lead
in the fourth when Keibert ruiz
fANS fiRSt eNteRtAiNMeNt
RobeRtANthoNy cRuz
forever ago. It went really well.”
Three weeks later, the Bananas
offered Cruz a spot on the team.
He left his house in redlands,
Calif., in January and settled into
an apartment with his wife, Gigi,
in Savannah, Ga., where the Ba-
nanas will play 23 games this
year. He has been back to Califor-
nia only a few days since.
The Bananas opened their sea-
KAylA Wolf/ASSociAted PReSS
(single) and Trey Lipscomb (dou-
ble) delivered run-scoring hits.
But rutledge walked William
Contreras in the fourth before
d5
son at the Yankees’ spring train-
ing ballpark in Tampa in early
february. A month later, they
sold out 41,000-seat minute maid
Park in Houston, the first of six
major league ballparks on their
2024 tour. Astros legend roy
oswalt, who made a guest pitch-
ing appearance along with roger
Clemens, said the crowd noise
was comparable to World Series
games in which he pitched in the
same ballpark.
Cruz has made his mark in his
first year as the Bananas’ left
fielder. He has added a backflip
catch, including one that ended a
game in Buffalo last weekend, to
his arsenal of trick plays, and got
a hit while stomping his feet to
Dance Dance revolution steps
that were displayed on the score-
board.
Cruz’s parents, Cynthia and
ron, have attended several of his
games, including last month’s
exhibition at fenway Park, where
Cruz launched home runs in
batting practice, signed the
Green monster, led a Bible study
the morning of the game behind
home plate and signed hundreds
of autographs. Bananas owner
and founder Jesse Cole, a.k.a. the
Yellow Tux Guy, arranged to fly
Cruz’s parents out to D.C. for
Saturday’s game.
“my dad will wear my Bananas
jersey everywhere he goes, like
the grocery store,” Cruz said. “I
think he loves it when people ask
him questions.”
Cruz has continued to grow his
personal brand with the Banan-
as. He has 782,000 followers on
TikTok, 448,000 followers on Ins-
tagram and 367,000 subscribers
on YouTube, where he posts lon-
ger-form videos.
“It’s been a little harder on the
road, but it’s definitely been a
priority to keep up with the
coaching videos,” he said. “As
much as I love playing, it’s help-
ing me realize I enjoy making
content and coaching even more.
There’s definitely more of that in
the future.”
Cruz still keeps in touch with
some of the Nationals prospects
he met during his brief time in
the organization, including 2021
draft picks Brady House and
Daylen Lile. Ahead of his first trip
to Nationals Park for what he
described as the “most special
game of the year,” it’s not lost on
Cruz that he’s connecting with
more fans playing in front of
sold-out crowds and appearing
on ESPN with the Bananas than
he would be if he were grinding it
out in the minor leagues.
“I definitely think that this
whole journey has shaped who I
am, and I’m very thankful for
that,” Cruz said. “It’s a little too
perfect that three years later, on
the same day, I get to play at that
park under a way different set of
circumstances than I would’ve
expected. … It’s better than I
could’ve drawn it up.”
n at i o n a l S o n d e C k
at Milwaukee Brewers
Saturday 4:10 MASN2
Sunday 2:10 MASN
vs. Cincinnati Reds
friday 6:45 MASN
July 20 6:45 MASN
July 21 1:35 MASN
vs. San diego Padres
July 23 6:45 MASN2
July 24 6:45 MASN2
July 25 12:05 MASN2
Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM),
WDCN (87.7 FM)
allowing a pair of doubles to Willy
Adames and Sal frelick that cut
the lead to 3-2.
Winker’s homer made it 4-2 in
the fifth before rutledge encoun-
tered trouble again with two outs
in the bottom of the inning, walk-
ing Brice Turang before Abrams
made an error to put two on.
martinez came out to get him,
turning to robert Garcia. Garcia
eventually struck out Willy
Adames to keep it a two-run
game.
Lane Thomas delivered a key
two-out single in the seventh to
score Jacob Young and give the
bullpen some insurance.
note: reliever Jose A. ferrer is
scheduled to pitch Saturday for
Class AA Harrisburg (Pa.) after
friday’s game was rained out.
ferrer, 24, entered friday with
three rehab assignments as he
works his way back from a
strained left shoulder. But his
appearances this weekend will
be his first time pitching in back-
to-back games.
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Connecticut ................................ 17 5 .773 11/2 Inter Miami CF ................14 4 5 47 51 37 In North Berwick, Scotland
Indiana........................................ 10 14 .417 91/2 Columbus ........................11 3 6 39 40 18 purse: $9 million
Chicago ......................................... 9 13 .409 91/2 New York...........................9 4 9 36 36 27 Yardage: 7,237; par: 70
Atlanta ......................................... 7 15 .318 111/2 New York City FC ............11 9 2 35 33 27 seCOND ROUND
Washington.................................. 6 17 .261 13 Charlotte FC ......................9 8 5 32 24 23
Orlando City ......................7 9 6 27 32 36 Ludvig Aberg, Sweden ....................... 64 64 — 128 -12
Nashville ...........................6 8 8 26 25 31 Antoine Rozner, France ..................... 65 64 — 129 -11
West W l pct gb Sungjae Im, South Korea ................... 63 67 — 130 -10
x-Minnesota ............................... 16 6 .727 — Toronto FC ........................7 13 3 24 30 43
Atlanta..............................6 10 6 24 31 32 Matteo Manassero, Italy ................... 67 63 — 130 -10
Las Vegas ................................... 15 7 .682 1 Alejandro Del Rey, Spain ................... 69 62 — 131 -9
x-Seattle .................................... 14 8 .636 2 CF Montreal ......................5 9 8 23 31 46
New England .....................7 12 1 22 20 38 Rasmus Hojgaard, Denmark .............. 68 63 — 131 -9
Phoenix....................................... 12 11 .522 41/2 Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland .......... 65 66 — 131 -9
Los Angeles .................................. 5 17 .227 11 Chicago..............................5 11 6 21 28 40
Philadelphia ......................4 9 9 21 36 39 Collin Morikawa, United States ......... 65 66 — 131 -9
Dallas............................................ 5 18 .217 111/2 Alex Noren, Sweden ........................... 65 66 — 131 -9
D.C. United ........................4 11 8 20 30 47
x-Late game Sahith Theegala, United States ........ 66 65 — 131 -9
Corey Conners, Canada ...................... 65 67 — 132 -8
tHURsDaY’s ResUlt West W l t pts gf ga Ugo Coussaud, France ........................ 65 67 — 132 -8
Los Angeles FC................13 4 4 43 43 24 Nicolai Hojgaard, Denmark ................ 66 66 — 132 -8
at New York 91, Chicago 76 Real Salt Lake .................12 3 7 43 48 27 Mackenzie Hughes, Canada ............... 66 66 — 132 -8
fRIDaY’s ResUlts LA Galaxy ........................12 4 7 43 44 30 Matthew Jordan, England .................. 67 65 — 132 -8
Colorado ..........................11 8 4 37 44 37 Robert Macintyre, Scotland ............... 67 65 — 132 -8
at Indiana 95, Phoenix 86 Portland ............................9 8 6 33 45 39 Yannik Paul, Germany ........................ 65 67 — 132 -8
Las Vegas 84, at Atlanta 70 Vancouver .........................9 7 5 32 34 29 Adam Scott, Australia ....................... 67 65 — 132 -8
Minnesota at Seattle, late Seattle ..............................8 7 7 31 31 26 Stewart Cink, United States .............. 66 67 — 133 -7
Houston ............................8 7 6 30 29 26 Thomas Detry, Belgium ..................... 64 69 — 133 -7
satURDaY’s gaMes Austin FC ..........................8 8 6 30 25 31 Max Greyserman, United States ....... 67 66 — 133 -7
New York at Chicago, 1 Minnesota United .............8 9 5 29 35 37 Niklas Norgaard Moller, Denmark ..... 66 67 — 133 -7
Los Angeles at Dallas, 3:30 FC Dallas ...........................6 11 5 23 32 37 Aaron Rai, England ............................. 68 65 — 133 -7
St. Louis City SC ...............4 8 10 22 30 39 Daniel Brown, England ....................... 65 69 — 134 -6
sUNDaY’s gaMes Sporting KC .......................5 13 5 20 37 48 Cameron Davis, Australia .................. 68 66 — 134 -6
Las Vegas at Washington, 3 San Jose............................4 16 2 14 30 56 Tommy Fleetwood, England .............. 65 69 — 134 -6
Phoenix at Connecticut, 1 Ryan Fox, New Zealand ...................... 67 67 — 134 -6
Indiana at Minnesota, 4 satURDaY, JUlY 6 Adam Hadwin, Canada ....................... 69 65 — 134 -6
LM otero/associated Press Atlanta at Seattle, 6 at Orlando City 5, D.C. United 0 Brian Harman, United States ............ 67 67 — 134 -6
at Cincinnati 6, Miami 1 Romain Langasque, France ................ 66 68 — 134 -6
Major League Cricket held its matches last season in two locations, including Grand Prairie, Tex. MONDaY’s gaMes at Columbus 4, Toronto FC 0 Victor Perez, France ........................... 68 66 — 134 -6
No games scheduled. Vancouver 1, at CF Montreal 1 Xander Schauffele, United States ..... 69 65 — 134 -6
New York 0, at Philadelphia 0 Connor Syme, Scotland ...................... 68 66 — 134 -6
Justin Thomas, United States ........... 62 72 — 134 -6

Is this — finally — cricket’s moment?

at Austin FC 2, New York City FC 1 Brendon Todd, United States ............ 65 69 — 134 -6
Aces 84, dream 70 at Real Salt Lake 5, Atlanta 2 Erik Van Rooyen, South Africa .......... 67 67 — 134 -6
at Seattle 2, New England 0 Jorge Campillo, Spain ......................... 68 67 — 135 -5
las vegas ........................... 20 24 13 27 — 84
Eric Cole, United States ..................... 71 64 — 135 -5
atlanta ............................... 15 15 17 23 — 70 sUNDaY’s ResUlts Jens Dantorp, Sweden ....................... 67 68 — 135 -5
las vegas MIN fg ft O-t a pf pts at Sporting KC 3, FC Dallas 2 Ben Griffin, United States ................. 65 70 — 135 -5

Professional league hopes to use recent World Cup as jumping-off point Wilson 37:20 13-23 4-4 2-18 1 2 33 at San Jose 1, Chicago 0 Lee Hodges, United States ................ 67 68 — 135 -5
Young 34:46 6-13 3-4 0-4 6 2 19 at Colorado 4, St. Louis City SC 1 Tom Kim, South Korea ....................... 69 66 — 135 -5
Stokes 14:16 0-0 0-0 0-2 0 2 0 at LA Galaxy 2, Minnesota 1 Ben Kohles, United States ................. 71 64 — 135 -5
C.Gray 31:16 2-9 1-2 0-3 5 1 5 at Portland 4, Nashville 1 Junghwan Lee, South Korea .............. 67 68 — 135 -5
Hao-Tong Li, China ............................. 64 71 — 135 -5
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Clark
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20:33 1-5 0-0 0-2 2 2 3
Los Angeles FC at Houston, ppd.
Francesco Molinari, Italy ................... 66 69 — 135 -5
deals that expansive popularity half of their schedule was in Texas, Hayes 18:34 1-4 1-2 0-0 1 0 3 satURDaY’s MatCHes Wu Ashun, China ................................ 67 69
Nick Bachem, Germany ...................... 67 69
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tOtals
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Nashville at D.C. United, 7:30
Charlotte FC at Cincinnati, 7:30
Wyndham Clark, United States ......... 68 68 — 136 -4
nizers, the timing couldn’t be bet- A promising first season out- then back to Dallas for the play- Atlanta at CF Montreal, 7:30
Harris English, United States ............ 68 68
Matt Fitzpatrick, England .................. 67 69
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percentages: FG .414, FT .824. 3-point goals: 12-29, .414
ter. performed the league’s expecta- offs. Netravalkar plays for the (Young 4-8, Wilson 3-4, Martin 2-4, Plum 2-6, Clark 1-3,
Orlando City at New England, 7:30 Grant Forrest, Scotland ..................... 67 69 — 136 -4
Philadelphia at Toronto FC, 7:30 Viktor Hovland, Norway ..................... 67 69 — 136 -4
On the heels of a T20 men’s tions, with games selling out at the Freedom while working as a soft- Hayes 0-1, C.Gray 0-3). team Rebounds: 5. team
turnovers: 1. blocked shots: 7 (Wilson 5, Clark, Stokes). Seattle at Austin FC, 8:30 Maximilian Kieffer, Germany ............ 64 72 — 136 -4
cricket World Cup in which the 3,500-capacity venue in Morris- ware engineer for Oracle in the turnovers: 9 (Plum 3, Young 3, C.Gray, Clark, Martin). New York City FC at Chicago, 8:30 Kurt Kitayama, United States ........... 67 69
Justin Lower, United States .............. 64 72
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steals: 8 (Wilson 3, Martin 2, Plum 2, C.Gray). technical LA Galaxy at FC Dallas, 8:30
American co-hosts scored a signa- ville, N.C., outside Raleigh, and Bay Area. He said last year he fouls: None. Minnesota at Houston, 8:30
Richard Mansell, England .................. 67 69 — 136 -4
Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark ............... 68 68 — 136 -4
ture victory over Pakistan in the those in the stadium in the ventured east only for MLC events atlaNta MIN fg ft O-t a pf pts Vancouver at St. Louis City SC, 8:30 Seamus Power, Ireland ...................... 69 67 — 136 -4
group stage, the domestic cricket 7,200-seat venue at Grand Prairie in Texas and North Carolina. A.Gray 38:22 4-15 3-5 2-7 4 1 11 New York at Colorado, 9:30
Real Salt Lake at Portland, 10:25
Jesper Svensson, Sweden ................. 69 67 — 136 -4
Hillmon 18:00 1-1 0-0 3-9 1 0 2 Nick Taylor, Canada ............................ 65 71 — 136 -4
league hopes to seize on that mo- averaging more than 80 percent Ahead of Year 2, some things Charles 25:46 5-17 2-4 4-12 1 4 12 Columbus at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 Gary Woodland, United States .......... 67 69 — 136 -4
mentum for greater growth. capacity. Saurabh Netravalkar, a have changed. Caldwell
Jones
28:46 6-17 0-0 1-3 0 2 13
26:38 1-5 0-0 0-1 2 3 3
Sporting KC at San Jose, 10:30 Julien Guerrier, France ....................... 69 68
Daniel Hillier, New Zealand ............... 66 71
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MLC opened its second season breakout star at the World Cup, MLC games were broadcast in Henderson 26:14 4-8 0-0 0-3 5 3 8 WeDNesDaY’s MatCHes Charley Hoffman, United States ....... 70 67 — 137 -3
Max Homa, United States .................. 67 70 — 137 -3
July 5, six days after the World Cup and other players said they were more than 80 countries last year Parker-Tyus
Coffey
20:48
15:26
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1-5 2-2 1-5 3 1 4
D.C. United at Minnesota, 8:30
New York City FC at Atlanta, 7:30 Si Woo Kim, South Korea ................... 68 69 — 137 -3
final won by India. Organizers pleasantly surprised by the profes- and were shown via Sling TV and tOtals 200 29-77 10-15 12-47 16 14 70 Chicago at Cincinnati, 7:30 Min Woo Lee, Australia ..................... 67 70
Taylor Montgomery, United States ... 66 71
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hope the U.S. success helps push sionalism and quality of competi- Willow TV, which streams cricket percentages: FG .377, FT .667. 3-point goals: 2-19, .105
Charlotte FC at Columbus, 7:30
Andrew Novak, United States ........... 66 71 — 137 -3
Toronto FC at Miami, 7:30
the sport — and ultimately the tion. events. Select games aired on CBS (Jones 1-2, Caldwell 1-9, Coffey 0-1, Henderson 0-1, Parker-
Tyus 0-1, A.Gray 0-5). team Rebounds: 9. team turnovers: CF Montreal at New York, 7:30
Shubhankar Sharma, India ................. 69 68
Marcel Siem, Germany ....................... 69 68
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league — more deeply into Ameri- “We learned an awful lot,” Geale Sports Network. To expand cover- 1. blocked shots: 4 (Coffey 2, A.Gray, Jones). turnovers: 14 New England at Philadelphia, 7:30 Sam Stevens, United States .............. 69 68 — 137 -3
Austin FC at FC Dallas, 8:30 Davis Thompson, United States ........ 65 72 — 137 -3
ca’s sports consciousness. said. “What’s most pleasing is it age this season, MLC is negotiat- (A.Gray 3, Henderson 3, Jones 3, Caldwell 2, Charles, Coffey,
Parker-Tyus). steals: 4 (Henderson 2, Parker-Tyus 2). Orlando City at Nashville, 8:30
“Cricket has tried and failed in actually worked. You spend three ing partnerships with regional technical fouls: None. a: 3,344 (3,500). t: 1:51. Colorado at LA Galaxy, 10:30
this country for probably 25, years trying to plan and you theo- sports networks in its six cities. Houston at San Jose, 10:30
St. Louis City SC at Seattle, 10:30
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30 years,” MLC director Justin rize, but people actually came, so There will be 25 matches on the Fever 95, Mercury 86 Sporting KC at Vancouver, 10:30 IsCO CHaMpIONsHIp
Geale said. “This is the furthest our crowds were really positive — schedule, up from 19. Teams such phoenix ............................... 16 19 23 28 — 86 Real Salt Lake at Los Angeles FC, 10:45 At Champions at Keene Trace; in Nicholasville, Ky.
purse: $4 million
Indiana ................................ 28 27 26 14 — 95
anyone’s got, so we’ve got to keep and we didn’t help ourselves. as the Freedom are considering satURDaY, JUlY 20 Yardage: 7,328; par: 72
pHOeNIx MIN fg ft O-t a pf pts Houston at Vancouver, 6
that momentum going.” We’re playing in Texas in the mid- how to engage their local fans Allen 25:29 2-10 0-0 0-4 3 1 4 Columbus at Atlanta, 7:30
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Cricket’s global popularity may dle of summer.” from a distance — potentially Herbert Harrigan 37:40 4-7 0-2 4-7 2 2 10 Chicago at Miami, 7:30
Pierceson Coody, United States .........
Matthis Besard, Belgium ....................
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Griner 10:58 2-6 0-0 0-0 1 0 4
come as a shock to some American The league’s priority now is through clinics, meet-and-greets Copper 34:47 11-2511-13 0-1 1 5 36
Toronto FC at CF Montreal, 7:30
FC Dallas at New England, 7:30
Rico Hoey, Philippines ........................ 64 66 — 130 -14
Chez Reavie, United States ................ 68 62 — 130 -14
sports fans. building venues in other cities to or contests in which winners are Cunningham
Mack
36:12 6-13 4-4 1-6 4
30:49 4-6 2-2 2-9 2
3 21
4 10
Cincinnati at New York, 7:30 Angel Hidalgo, Spain ........................... 65 66 — 131 -13
It is the most popular sport in connect with fans in those areas. It flown out to watch games in per- Taylor 24:05 0-3 1-2 0-3 5 0 1 New York City FC at Orlando City, 7:30 Garrick Higgo, South Africa ................
Alex Smalley, United States ...............
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Nashville at Philadelphia, 7:30
India, the world’s most populous is a critical but ongoing challenge son. tOtals 200 29-7018-23 7-30 18 15 86
Charlotte FC at Austin FC, 8:30 Hayden Springer, United States ......... 64 67 — 131 -13
country, and enjoys similar appeal that could have teams relying on Despite its stadium struggles, percentages: FG .414, FT .783. 3-point goals: 10-29, .345 St. Louis City SC at Sporting KC, 8:30 Andy Sullivan, England .......................
Johannes Veerman, United States .....
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(Cunningham 5-9, Copper 3-11, Herbert Harrigan 2-3, San Jose at Minnesota, 8:30
in parts of the Caribbean and temporary facilities such as the MLC is poised for expansion. Griner 0-1, Taylor 0-1, Allen 0-4). team Rebounds: 7. Real Salt Lake at Colorado, 9:30
Hayden Buckley, United States .......... 66 66 — 132 -12
Lanto Griffin, United States ............... 65 67 — 132 -12
countries such as England, South one used in New York for the Geale said it could add two teams team turnovers: None. blocked shots: 6 (Mack 3, Griner
2, Herbert Harrigan). turnovers: 11 (Mack 3, Allen 2,
Portland at LA Galaxy, 10:30 Neal Shipley, United States ................ 67 65 — 132 -12
Africa and Australia. The Indian World Cup as they work to secure by 2026 and is eyeing potential Copper 2, Herbert Harrigan 2, Cunningham, Taylor).
Los Angeles FC at Seattle, 10:30 Tom Vaillant, France ...........................
Harry Hall, England .............................
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steals: 7 (Cunningham 2, Herbert Harrigan 2, Taylor 2,
Premier League, the country’s top more permanent grounds. franchises in Atlanta, Chicago, To- Allen). technical fouls: None. Patton Kizzire, United States ............. 66 67 — 133 -11
Jacques Kruyswijk, South Africa ........ 66 67 — 133 -11
domestic T20 circuit, has grown The Seattle Orcas are develop- ronto, New Jersey and South Flori- INDIaNa MIN fg ft O-t a pf pts nWSL Francesco Laporta, Italy ..................... 65 68 — 133 -11
into one of the world’s most lucra- ing a stadium east of the city in da. Samuelson 27:20 3-8 0-0 1-5 2 1 6 W l t pts gf ga
Ryan McCormick, United States ......... 65 68 — 133 -11
Smith 34:48 6-13 1-2 2-10 0 0 14 Cooper Musselman, United States ..... 71 62 — 133 -11
tive leagues. And the sport, which Redmond, Wash., and the San MLC has a developmental mi- Boston 33:10 10-17 1-3 8-13 5 1 21
Orlando ...........................11
Kansas City .....................10
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1
5
5
38
35
32
40
12
22
Lukas Nemecz, Austria ....................... 68 65 — 133 -11
is the second-most watched in the Francisco Unicorns are planning a nor league through which it is Clark
Mitchell
38:26 8-16 2-2 1-6 13 2 20
33:01 11-19 3-3 1-3 0 4 28
Washington ....................11 4 1 34 32 18
Henrik Norlander, Sweden ..................
Brandon Wu, United States ................
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world, will return to the Olympics Santa Clara venue the team hopes cultivating young domestic talent. Hull 19:48 0-7 4-4 2-5 1 6 4
Gotham FC ........................9
Portland ............................8
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4
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Zac Blair, United States ...................... 70 64 — 134 -10
Spencer Cross, United States ............. 69 65 — 134 -10
in 2028 following a 128-year ab- will become part of a larger sports Over time, the idea is for pro teams Wheeler
Dantas
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North Carolina...................8 7 1 25 20 17
Ricardo Gouveia, Portugal .................. 67 67 — 134 -10
Chicago..............................7 7 2 23 23 22
sence. and entertainment hub. The and their players to be more in- tOtals 200 39-81 11-14 15-42 23 16 95 Bay FC ...............................6 10 0 18 19 28
Cody Gribble, United States ...............
Matthew NeSmith, United States .....
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Previous attempts to find a Washington Freedom was in nego- volved in their communities percentages: FG .481, FT .786. 3-point goals: 6-31, .194
Louisville...........................3
San Diego ..........................3
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7
7
6
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15
21
12
22
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Sam Ryder, United States .................. 69 65 — 134 -10
place for cricket in the American tiations with George Mason Uni- through coaching, mentorship (Mitchell 3-10, Clark 2-7, Smith 1-3, Boston 0-1, Hull 0-5,
Samuelson 0-5). team Rebounds: 12. team turnovers: 2.
Angel City .........................4 9 3 15 16 26
Andrew Wilson, England ....................
Jonathan Byrd, United States ............
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Houston ............................3 8 5 14 11 23
sports landscape have stalled. versity to build a temporary base- and other forms of outreach. blocked shots: 6 (Boston 2, Clark 2, Smith 2). turnovers: Seattle ..............................2 9 5 11 16 28
Kevin Chappell, United States ............ 68 67 — 135 -9
Luke Clanton, United States ............... 70 65 — 135 -9
Short-lived Pro Cricket operat- ball and cricket stadium on the Then there is the development 16 (Clark 6, Hull 4, Smith 3, Boston 2, Dantas). steals: 8
(Boston 3, Clark, Hull, Mitchell, Samuelson, Smith).
Utah ..................................2 11 3 9 8 28
Patrick Fishburn, United States ......... 66 69 — 135 -9
ed an eight-team league in 2004. It Northern Virginia school’s west of the U.S. men’s and women’s technical fouls: None. a: 17,274 (20,000). t: 1:56. satURDaY, JUlY 6 Bill Haas, United States .....................
Chan Kim, United States ....................
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aimed to capitalize on the advent campus, but plans fell through in national teams. Washington 3, at Bay FC 0 Marcus Kinhult, Sweden ..................... 70 65 — 135 -9
at Chicago 1, Houston 0 Russell Knox, Scotland ....................... 67 68 — 135 -9
of professional T20 cricket in the March after students and local The U.S. upset over 2022 T20 TEnniS Orlando 2, at Kansas City 1 William McGirt, United States ........... 68 67 — 135 -9
United Kingdom but folded after residents opposed the project, and World Cup runner-up Pakistan Gotham FC 2, at Angel City 1 Mac Meissner, United States ............. 69 66 — 135 -9
Troy Merritt, United States ................ 67 68 — 135 -9
one season. (T20, or Twenty20, is a the university president later said last month helped the men’s team Wimbledon sUNDaY’s ResUlts Ryan Moore, United States ................ 70 65 — 135 -9
faster, shortened version of the it “does not meet the strategic qualify for the tournament’s sec- At All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club; in London at North Carolina 3, Louisville 1
Utah 1, at Seattle 1
Seung-Yul Noh, South Korea ..............
Ben Silverman, Canada .......................
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sport.) The American Premier objectives and interests of our ond round, called the Super Eight, surface: Grass Roger Sloan, Canada ........................... 67 68 — 135 -9
fRIDaY, aUg. 23 Austin Smotherman, United States ... 67 68 — 135 -9
League, another T20 competition, campus and community and the where the dream run ended. Still, MeN’s sINgles — QUaRteRfINals Orlando at Houston, 8 Callum Tarren, England ....................... 68 67 — 135 -9
failed to launch in 2009, though it Washington Freedom.” Franchises its advancement means it auto- Carlos Alcaraz (3), Spain, def. Daniil Medvedev (5), Bay FC at Utah, 9:30 Dylan Wu, United States .................... 67 68 — 135 -9
Russia, 6-7 (7-1), 6-3, 6-4, 6-4; Novak Djokovic (2),
finally got off the ground in 2021. in New York and Los Angeles also matically qualifies for the 2026 Serbia, def. Lorenzo Musetti (25), Italy, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2), satURDaY, aUg. 24
Major League Cricket debuted are seeking stadiums. edition of the tournament hosted 6-4. Portland at Gotham FC, 2 LPgA Tour
Angel City at San Diego, 4
in July 2023. The league features That’s why teams play in North by India and Sri Lanka. Geale WOMeN’s DOUbles — seMIfINals
Chicago at Louisville, 7:30
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Taylor Townsend, United States, and Katerina Siniakova At Evian Resort Golf Club; in Evian-les-Bains, France
six teams — New York, Seattle, San Carolina and Texas, though the believes the team’s success drives (4), Czechia, def. Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Elise purse: $8 million
Francisco, Los Angeles, Washing- league has mandated each team more attention to the sport and Mertens (1), Belgium, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; Gabriela Dabrowski, Yardage: 6,527; par: 71

ton and Grand Prairie, Tex. (near secure a home ground by 2028, opens the door for the league to
Canada, and Erin Routliffe (2), New Zealand, def.
Desirae Krawczyk and Caroline Dolehide (7), United
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States, 6-4, 6-3. sUNDaY, JUNe 30 sUspeNDeD seCOND ROUND

Dallas) — competing in the T20 when Los Angeles will host the negotiate better broadcast oppor- Mexico 0, Ecuador 0 Yu Jin Sung ........................................ 72 63 — 135 -7
format. Bolstered by $120 million Summer Olympics. tunities. MIxeD DOUbles — seMIfINals Mi Hyang Lee ..................................... 69 66 — 135 -7
Jamaica 0, Venezuela 3
Santiago Gonzalez and Giuliana Olmos, Mexico, def. Georgia Hall ........................................ 69 67 — 136 -6
in league investment, those teams “Our biggest challenge is infra- Netravalkar, a bowler for the Maximo Gonzalez, Argentina, and Ulrikke Eikeri, Nor- MONDaY, JUlY 1 Narin An ............................................. 69 67 — 136 -6
include some of the top players in structure. If we had more places to U.S. national team, said MLC al- way, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5); Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Jan
Zielinski (7), Poland, def. Michael Venus and Erin
United States 0, Uruguay 1
Panama 3, Bolivia 1
Jin Young Ko ...................................... 69 67
Akie Iwai ............................................ 72 65
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the world, who are able to play play, we’d go and play, so that’s ready has contributed to that ef- Routliffe (2), New Zealand, 7-6 (7-0), 6-3. Albane Valenzuela ............................. 71 66 — 137 -5
tUesDaY, JUlY 2 Allisen Corpuz .................................... 69 68 — 137 -5
during their offseasons. Games holding back our growth,” Geale fort. Brazil 1, Colombia 1 Celine Boutier .................................... 69 68 — 137 -5
have been contested in Texas and said. “We’re looking to build stadi- “I think Major League the first WTA Costa Rica 2, Paraguay 1 Brooke Henderson .............................. 69 68 — 137 -5
Chanettee Wannasaen ...................... 69 69 — 138 -4
North Carolina only, but organiz- ums as quick as we can in all these season really helped us because NORDea OpeN QUaRteRfINals Sarah Schmelzel ................................ 71 68 — 139 -3
tHURsDaY, JUlY 4 Minjee Lee .......................................... 70 69 — 139 -3
ers say most of the funding will be areas. As soon as we can do that, I that gave us the platform to play At Bastad (Sweden) Tennis Stadium
purse: $115,000 Argentina 1, Ecuador 1; Argentina 4-2 on penalty kicks Jeongeun Lee6 ................................... 69 70 — 139 -3
used for building or upgrading think we can grow quicker, the on quality pitches within the U.S. surface: Red clay
fRIDaY, JUlY 5
Paula Reto .......................................... 73 67 — 140 -2
Maja Stark .......................................... 72 68 — 140 -2
eight venues across the country. season can get longer; we can and to sort of rub shoulders with sINgles — seMIfINals Venezuela 1, Canada 1; Canada 4-3 on penalty kicks Ally Ewing .......................................... 70 70 — 140 -2
Their goal is to grow the sport in really talk to local fans and build a some of the top cricketers across Martina Trevisan (7), Italy, def. Louisa Chirico, United
States, 6-7 (7-5), 6-4, 6-4; Ann Li, United States, def. satURDaY, JUlY 6
Ariya Jutanugarn ............................... 70 70
Rose Zhang ........................................ 72 69
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America, ideally beyond the South brand around, say, the Washing- the globe in front of good crowds,” Nuria Parrizas Diaz, Spain, 6-4, 6-4. Colombia 5, Panama 0
Uruguay 0, Brazil 0; Uruguay 4-2 on penalty kicks
Jennifer Kupcho ................................. 71 70 — 141 -1
Mao Saigo .......................................... 71 70 — 141 -1
Asian diaspora. They said they ton Freedom, rather than trying to he said. Aditi Ashok ........................................ 71 70 — 141 -1
seMIfINals
don’t want to compete for sports do that over a distance.” “It’s really heartening to see gRaND esta OpeN 88 tUesDaY’s ResUlt Gabriela Ruffels ................................. 69 72
Chiara Tamburlini .............................. 69 72
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supremacy with the NFL or the For players, that can mean little that cricket has arrived,” he added. At Tennis Club de Contrexeville (France)
purse: $100,000
Argentina 2, Canada 0 Ryann O'Toole .................................... 67 74 — 141 -1
NBA. MLC aims to capitalize on to no connection to their “home” “We planted a seed for growth, surface: Red clay WeDNesDaY’s ResUlt Emily Pedersen .................................. 67 74
Arpichaya Yubol ................................. 73 69
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burgeoning interest in cricket so city for the time being. and Major League being immedi- sINgles — QUaRteRfINals Hannah Green .................................... 73 69 — 142 E
tHIRD plaCe Anna Nordqvist .................................. 72 70 — 142 E
the league can eventually become Last season, Freedom players ately after the World Cup helps a Gao Xinyu, China, def. Margaux Rouvroy, France, 6-4,
7-5; Lucia Bronzetti (4), Italy, def. Elsa Jacquemot (8), satURDaY’s MatCH Jenny Shin .......................................... 71 71 — 142 E
a more casual presence in Ameri- attended a preseason camp in the lot to continue that trajectory and France, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Mayar Sherif (3), Egypt, def. Canada vs. Uruguay, 8 Hinako Shibuno .................................. 71 71
Elizabeth Szokol ................................ 71 71
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can sports fans’ lives — and benefit Dallas area a few weeks before the make it even bigger.” jevic, France, def. Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenia, 2-6, 6-2, CHaMpIONsHIp Miyuu Yamashita ............................... 71 71 — 142 E
6-3. sUNDaY’s MatCH Lauren Hartlage ................................. 70 72 — 142 E
IN MIaMI gaRDeNs, fla. Yan Liu ................................................ 71 72 — 143 +1
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ISF, same time. Spain 4, Georgia 1 Moriya Jutanugarn ............................ 72 74 — 146 +4
4. Biniam Girmay, Eritrea, Intermarche-Wanty/BEL, Pauline Roussin ................................. 76 71 — 147 +5
MONDaY, JUlY 1 Lucy Li ................................................ 75 72 — 147 +5
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same time. Portugal 0, Slovenia 0; Portugal 3-0 on penalty kicks Ana Pelaez Trivino ............................. 71 76 — 147 +5
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Netherlands 3, Romania 0 Alexa Pano ......................................... 72 76 — 148 +6
Turkey 2, Austria 1 Weiwei Zhang .................................... 72 76 — 148 +6
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Alcaraz and Djokovic return to the Wimbledon men’s final
WIMbLEDoN from D1
gasp-inducing shot out of the
other. But against Alcaraz, that
tends to be a losing strategy: He
beat the russian in the semifinals
for the second straight year, 6-7
(7-1), 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.
With the win, he becomes just
the second Spanish man in his-
tory to reach the Wimbledon final
more than once, after rafael Na-
dal, who lifted the trophy here in
2008 and 2010 and was the run-
ner-up in 2006, 2007 and 2011.
But it might not serve Alcaraz
to remind the crowd too much of
his roots Sunday. Hours after the
men’s singles final gets underway,
England will face Spain in the
final of the Euro 2024 soccer
tournament. Alcaraz has been
texting with members of La roja
before his matches and made the
unintended gaffe of predicting
Sunday will be “a good day for the
Spanish people” in his on-court
interview friday.
It was the only time this tour-
nament the charismatic Alcaraz
has drawn boos on Centre Court.
“I didn’t say Spain is going to
win,” he said, laughing. “I just
said it’s going to be a really fun
day!”
fun for Alcaraz and probably
everyone watching the match,
too. Djokovic, the second seed,
defeated 22-year-old Italian
Lorenzo musetti, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2),
6-4, in the second semifinal and
returns to Sunday’s final for a
redo of last year’s championship
match that Alcaraz won in five
white-knuckle sets over nearly
five hours.
While Alcaraz looks to defend
his title and claim his fourth
Grand Slam trophy, Djokovic is
aiming for history in his 37th ma-
jor final and 10th final at Wimble-
don.
A win here would give him his
25th Grand Slam title and put
him in sole position of the record.
The Serb is tied with margaret
Court at 24 major singles titles,
though Court won most of hers
before the start of the open era in
1968.
It is improbable enough that
he even has the opportunity to
collect another title here. Djok-
ovic, 37, had surgery June 5 to
repair the medial meniscus in his
right knee that he tore during the
Carlos Alcaraz will play for his second consecutive Wimbledon title Sunday at the All England Club, again facing Novak Djokovic.
french open.
“I wasn’t sure until three, four
days before the tournament
whether I’m going to take part in
it. made an extra effort to recover
as quickly as possible just be-
cause it was Wimbledon,” Djok-
ovic said. “So I’m really, really
happy to make the finals because
I was not thinking about, particu-
larly in the first couple of match-
es, of the eventual title match. I
was just thinking about moving
well, not injuring myself, to be
honest, and feeling more free, so
to say, in my movement.”
Alcaraz was more certain of his
own potential. He went into fri-
day’s match with positive memo-
ries of this stage from last year
and a 4-2 record over his fellow
Grand Slam winner — medvedev
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triumphed at the 2021 U.S. open
and was looking for another
chance to claim his second major
title after falling in the final of the
Australian open in January.
medvedev opened the match
with a set reminding fans that,
before Alcaraz came along with
his preternatural mastery of
seemingly every shot in the book,
it was medvedev who thrived by
keeping opponents guessing.
When he’s at his best, the rus-
sian makes use of every inch of a
tennis court: where he positions
himself, how he moves and where
he places the ball. Constant
change is his strength, and he
seemed at the outset to relish the
aNdrej IsakovIc/aGeNce FraNce-Presse/Getty ImaGes challenge of forcing Alcaraz to
Djokovic cruised by Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti in straight sets Friday mutate point by point, as if to
to give himself a chance at a record 25th Grand Slam singles title. make him prove how deep his bag
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of tricks really is.
The only issue: Playing that
way is exhausting. And unlike
most opponents, medvedev said,
Alcaraz gets a racket on nearly
every ball. Not being able to hit
pure winners makes for an inse-
cure player.
“The more your opponent hits
a great shot or I hit a great shot
against Carlos, and then sudden-
ly you receive a passing shot [on
the return], you’re going to try to
hit it better,” medvedev said.
“You’re going to doubt — am I
going to go to the net or not? I
remember there was particularly
one, I hit a good smash, and he
still made it. I had a very easy
volley, but I overplayed it just a
little bit. Yeah, because you are
always questioning what’s the
best shot, do I go almost for the
line or not? It’s not easy to play
such players.”
Alcaraz fought back from 3-5
down to force a tiebreaker in the
first set, the first five points of
which medvedev won with wick-
ed returns and impeccable shot-
making that included digging out
a groundstroke on a ball Alcaraz
had placed practically on his
shoelaces.
Alcaraz won his only point of
the tiebreaker with a 133-mph
serve, but he was undeterred.
medvedev’s level dipped just
enough in the second set for
Alcaraz to break his serve twice
for a 4-1 lead, then Alcaraz won
the second and third sets in
straightforward fashion as the
crowd settled in and the match
turned from stunning to predict-
able.
“The reality is that he is also
very strong physically. So even
today when there were a couple of
tough points and maybe I could
have lost my breath a little bit and
maybe dropped my level — it
always drops by 2 percent when
you play a tough opponent — and
usually against other opponents
maybe their level drops by 5 per-
cent,” medvedev said. “Carlos
doesn’t drop his level.”
Alcaraz won the fourth set in
much the same manner after
breaking medvedev at 3-3 when
the russian sent a backhand
long. He held serve from there
and later found himself back in a
familiar spot — facing down
Djokovic, Wimbledon’s final boss.