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IMMIGRATION

Nation-building effort unlikely

to stem Central American tide
U.S. money lures workers; countries rely on remittances
BY STEPHEN DINAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A Homeland Security-backed study
has found that it’s unlikely Central Amer-
ican countries can boost their economies
enough to stop people from trying to mi-
grate to the U.S., undercutting President
Biden’s plans to rely on nation-building
to curb the border surge.
Incomes rise tenfold — an incompa-
rable lure — for migrants from the key
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Northern Triangle countries of Guate-
RUSH TO RICHES: Migrants from the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, mala, Honduras and El Salvador by work-
Honduras and El Salvador are fleeing their countries because of devastating weather ing in the U.S., according to the Borders,
and violence, but a compelling factor is found to be economic opportunity in the U.S. Trade and Immigration Institute.
“The potential economic gain fol-
lowing migration from the Northern
Triangle to the U.S. is enormous,” the
institute concluded. “In the presence of
a wage gap this large, even significant
percentage changes in home-country
income will have relatively little quan-
titative impact on the gain that could be
expected from migration.”
Inviting more migrants or curtailing
deportations of those in the U.S. could
worsen the surge.
The BTI study said the Northern Tri-
angle economies have become danger-
ously dependent on migration to the U.S.
because of the cash their citizens send
back home. That, in turn, may be hurting
the countries’ export markets, or what is
known in economics as “Dutch disease,”
further depressing the economies.
The findings were released as Vice
President Kamala Harris returned from
a trip to the region. She said the record-
setting border surge afflicting the Biden
administration is spawned by people
seeking better jobs, fleeing violence or
being pushed from their homes by envi-
ronmental effects of a changing climate.
“We know that the reason why people
are coming to our border is because of
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TEA WITH THE QUEEN MILITARY

Troops get reading

lists for books on
critical race theory
Segregated for ‘privilege walks’
BY JOSEPH CLARK
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Sen. Tom Cotton has revealed
some of the hundreds of whistle-
blower complaints from service
members who object to critical
race theory indoctrination in the
military, including airmen di-
vided by race and sex into groups
for “privilege walks.”
The service members also
spoke out against receiving read-
ing lists of critical race theory
books as part of the Pentagon’s
new anti-extremism and diversity
training within the ranks.
“This is about a very specific
kind of anti-American indoctri-
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nation that is seeping into some
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II received President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Sunday at Windsor Castle. Mr. Biden, the 14th U.S. president the parts of our military,” Mr. Cotton
queen has met, said she was “very gracious” and asked about Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Story, A3. said at a recent Senate Armed
Services Committee hearing.
Mr. Cotton, Arkansas Repub-
lican, received the complaints
through a whistleblower site he
launched in late May in partner-
ship with Rep. Dan Crenshaw,
Texas Republican.
Mr. Cotton, a former Army in-
fantry officer, and Mr. Crenshaw,
a former Navy SEAL lieutenant
commander, created the site to
identify “woke” ideology within
the military, they said.
The service members’ com-
plaints add to the mounting
pushback against “woke” culture
that is quickly spreading through
America’s schools, workplaces
and government. These institu-
tions increasingly adopt training
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ISRAEL CIVIL RIGHTS

Ex-ally forges fragile, unwieldy Black activist

coalition to oust Netanyahu
BY DAVID R. SANDS
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A coalition united solely by
the proposition that Benjamin
Netanyahu should not be prime
minister took power in Israel,
sending into opposition a figure
who has dominated the country
and the region for a dozen years.
An unwieldy coalition of eight
parties headed by conservative
former Netanyahu ally Naftali
Bennett and centrist Yair Lapid
controls just enough seats in the
120-member Knesset to oust Mr.
DISTRICT
Netanyahu.
Just hours before he was de-
posed, Mr. Netanyahu launched
a bitter diatribe in the Knesset
against the new government.
The final vote, taken after
hours of debate, was 60-59, with
one abstention, showing how
narrow the margin of error is for
the new government.
Mr. Bennett, a 49-year-old
former high-tech entrepreneur,
spent part of his childhood in
Canada and the United States. Ne-
tanyahu backers jeered the new
prime minister as he promised to
fashion a government that would
“represent all of Israel.”
“The time has come for differ-
ent leaders, from all parts of the
population, to stop, to stop this
madness,” he said.
The vote was the culmination
of two years of political gridlock
and four inconclusive elections
centered largely on Mr. Netan-
yahu, whose conservative Likud
party still controls the largest
single bloc of seats in the Knesset.
Under the coalition
» see ISRAEL | A9
battles critical
race theory in
Minnesota tour
BY JAMES VARNEY
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
An occasional interview series with Americans
who are challenging the status quo.
Kendall Qualls believes that decades of well-
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intentioned social and economic policies have
EYE ON RIVAL: Naftali Bennett sat behind decimated Black families,
outgoing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu weakened Black abilities and
during a Knesset session in Jerusalem on Sunday limited Black goals — argu-
before he was sworn in as the country’s new leader. ments largely unheard in racial
justice debates over the past
half century.
“You never heard this from Republicans without
a lecture,” he said. “The Republicans don’t know how
to go with the heart. My wisdom has been received

Inmates on ballot for vacant commissioner seat
BY EMILY ZANTOW
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
If a politician holding public office can end up in
a jail cell, then why can’t an inmate take the opposite
journey — from locked away behind bars to out in
front, leading a community?
It’s an audacious question that five inmates at the
D.C. Jail in the District’s Ward 7 are asking by running
for elected office while still incarcerated.
The five would-be public servants — Aaron
Five run for Ward 7
spot in Tuesday vote
Brown, 25; Gary Proctor, 43; Joel Caston, 44; Keith
Littlepage-El, 59; and Kim Thompson, 63 — are the
only names on the ballot in an election for a Ward 7
Advisory Neighborhood Commission seat that has
been vacant for a decade.
That will change Tuesday, thanks in large part to
D.C. activist Julie Johnson, a co-founder of Neighbors
for Justice, a prisoners’ rights group. Ms. Johnson
helped orchestrate the campaign to add an inmate
to the advisory group in the D.C. neighborhood east
of the Anacostia River.
When a friend offhandedly mentioned the va-
cancy on the commission last year, she said, she knew
exactly who should fill the spot: someone who could
give voice to the prisoners in the D.C. Jail.
» see INMATES | A5
from fathers, mothers and grandparents, and we
didn’t used to live like this.”
In January, Mr. Qualls founded TakeCharge,
whose website says it aims to counter “the prevail-
ing narrative in popular culture that America is
structured to undermine the lives” of Black Ameri-
cans. He and his nonprofit group have taken that
message on a barnstorming tour of Minnesota this
week in response to unrest over police killings of
Black men, sometimes violent protests and efforts
to defund police forces.
TakeCharge has teamed with the Center of The
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by the Flathead Beacon — a local newspaper — as Americans

‘I WAS RIGHT’: DONALD TRUMP SOUNDS OFF

Former President Donald Trump has offered a handy summary
of recent political developments, investigations and media coverage
which suggests his perceptions about certain matters were correct.
Mr. Trump suggests that analysts and rivals are changing their tune
about his time in office.
“Have you noticed that they are now admitting I was right about
everything they lied about before the election?” he asked in a state-
ment issued Saturday. And here are his answers, verbatim:
“Hydroxychloroquine works. The virus came from a Chinese lab.
Hunter Biden ’s laptop was real. Lafayette Square was not cleared
for a photo op. The ‘Russian Bounties’ story was fake. We did
produce vaccines before the end of 2020, in record time. Blue state
lockdowns didn’t work. Schools should be opened. Critical Race
Theory is a disaster for our schools and our Country. Our Southern
Border security program was unprecedentedly successful,” Mr.
Trump said.
But wait. We have a happy birthday of note to bring to your
attention.
The aforementioned 45th president turns 75 on Monday.
Sign his official Republican Party birthday card at Gop.com/
trump-birthday-card-2021.
SUMMIT SPECULATION
The news media is already deep in speculation about Presi-
dent Biden ’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on
Wednesday.
The press is also somewhat intrigued by Mr. Biden’s decision
to stage his own solo press conference in the aftermath of the big
meeting, rather than attending a traditional joint event with his Rus-
sian counterpart.
A few predictions from the last 48 hours:
“Talking about the summit alone will spare Biden, 78, from open
jousting with Putin, 68, before the world’s media after what is cer-
tain to be a combative encounter.” (Reuters)
“Biden defended the decision not to hold a joint news conference
with Putin after their high stakes meeting, arguing such an ap-
pearance would only serve to detract from the US’ goal of working
toward a stable and predictable relationship with Russia.” (CNN)
“Biden says he won’t hold a joint press conference with Putin
because he doesn’t want to get ‘diverted’ by who ‘talked the most’”
(Insider).
“Less than half of Americans trust Biden to negotiate with Putin
ahead of U.S.-Russia summit” (Forbes).
“Pressed on not having a joint press conference with Russian
Pres. Vladimir Putin at their upcoming summit, Pres. Biden says,
‘this is not a contest about who can do better in front of a press con-
ference or try to embarrass each other’” (ABC News).
BELTWAY
INSIDE THE
BY JENNIFER HARPER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former President Donald Trump released a statement last Saturday
about current events and developments and claimed he was right.
SUMMING UP DEMOCRATIC ‘ISSUES’
Well, here’s a terse statement from Saul Anuzis, president of 60
Plus Association, a conservative organization for seniors.
“Yes, today’s Democratic Party has issues, actually several. They
are printing and borrowing more money than ever before causing
rising prices for gas, food, energy and everyday living … yes inflation
(think Jimmy Carter). Second, their cancel culture and complete
disregard for main street America — in favor of discriminatory and
extreme leftist, progressive identity politics — is ruining western
civilization,” Mr. Anuzis writes in an editorial for the organization.
“The border crisis is real, damaging and expensive for all Ameri-
can taxpayers because of the Biden’s administration’s cancel culture
aimed at anything related to Donald Trump. And worst of all, they
have empowered their allies to use riots to push their radical agenda
— destroying jobs, cities, and a way of life most would like to go
back to.
The Democrats are responsible. America is watching. Things are
getting worse and the crazy left is in charge of today’s Democratic
Party,” Mr. Anuzis concludes.
FOR THE LEXICON
“COVID migration.”
This simple term is now in use in the state of Montana, coined
from elsewhere in the nation flock to there seeking big skies, sol-
ace, escape from coronavirus concerns, and respite from meaning-
less city life.
“The coveted crown of the ‘It Spot’ goes to Montana … if you
can get in,” reports the New York Post, which cites a shortage of
hotel and resort rooms and rental cars — plus wait lists for guest
bookings which reach into 2022 and even 2023.
“COVID homes” is another term now in circulation among the
locals. Prefabricated track homes are now springing up on former
timber tracts and sell for $550,000, many for cash or in sight-un-
seen deals, The Post said.
According to Realtor.com, a home in Whitefish, a town of
7,700 people, averaged $369,450 in 2020. That price now stands at
$704,000.
HUMA TO HAVE A SAY
On the way from publishing giant Scribner: a memoir from
Huma Abedin titled “Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds,” due on
the shelves in the U.S. and four other nations on Nov. 2.
“It shares Huma Abedin’s personal accounts as a longtime aide
to Hillary Clinton during Mrs. Clinton’s years as First Lady, U.S.
Senator, a presidential candidate, Secretary of State, and Demo-
cratic Presidential Nominee, and a candid and moving reckon-
ing of Ms. Abedin’s marriage to former Congressman Anthony
Weiner,” the publisher says in advance notes.
“We knew Huma Abedin had a story to tell,” Nan Graham, se-
nior vice president and publisher of Scribner, said in a statement.
POLL DU JOUR
• 80% of U.S. adults would feel comfortable taking a road trip
right now despite concerns about COVID-19; 88% of Republicans,
79% of independents and 76% of Democrats agree.
• 71% overall would feel comfortable gathering with friends and
attending parties; 83% of Republicans, 69% of independents and
63% of Democrats agree.
• 56% overall would feel comfortable going to a tourist location
or resort; 76% of Republicans, 54% of independents and 49% of
Democrats agree.
• 50% overall would feel comfortable getting on an airplane;
65% of Republicans, 46% of independents and 44% of Democrats
agree.
• 45% overall would feel comfortable attending a large sports
or entertainment event; 61% of Republicans, 44% of independents
and 36% of Democrats agree.
SOURCE: A CBS NEWS POLL OF 2,037 U.S. ADULTS CONDUCTED JUNE 8-10.
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POLITICS
INSIDE
SUPREME COURT
Ocasio-Cortez wants Breyer to retire,
avoiding risk of a Ginsburg rerun
Add Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to
the list of Democrats giving Supreme Court
Justice Stephen G. Breyer a nudge out the
door.
Pressed by CNN host Dana Bash, the
New York Democrat said Sunday she would
be “inclined to say yes” on whether Justice
Breyer, a member of the high court’s liberal
wing, should call it a career and allow
President Biden to choose his successor.
“Just to be clear, you do think that
Justice Stephen Breyer should retire at the
end of his term?” Ms. Bash asked on CNN’s
“State of the Union.”
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez replied: “It’s some-
thing I think about, but I would probably
lean towards yes — but yes, you’re asking
me this question, so I would give more
thought to it, but I’m inclined to say yes.”
Another progressive Democrat, Rep.
Mondaire Jones of New York, called in
April for Justice Breyer to retire, saying
“have we not learned our lesson?” referring
to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was
confirmed following the September death
of 87-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
a liberal stalwart.
At 82, Justice Breyer is now the oldest
member of the Supreme Court.
— Valerie Richardson
FREE SPEECH
Catholic deacon plans to take church
to Supreme Court over abuse listing
The lawyer for a 77-year-old Roman
Catholic deacon in Lubbock, Texas, says
he plans to ask the Supreme Court of the
United States to reverse a June 11 state su-
preme court ruling allowing the Diocese
of Lubbock to label Jesse Guerrero, as
“credibly accused” of sexually abusing a
minor.
Under the Texas Supreme Court deci-
sion, attorney Nick L. Olguin told The
Washington Times, the church “can define
words to mean whatever they want it to be
in terms of ‘canon law.’ They can say what-
ever the heck they want to say to whomever
they want to say it, even if it’s not true.”
The case centers on a list entitled
“Names of All Clergy with a Credible Alle-
gation of Sexual Abuse of a Minor” that the
Lubbock diocese posted on its website.
“As I said to him, ‘I read the op-ed, you left the door open,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
said about Sen. Joe Manchin III on persuading him to vote for H.R. 1, an election bill.
CONGRESS
Pelosi not giving up on persuading Manchin to back election bill
Sen. Joe Manchin III, West Virginia
Democrat, appeared emphatic when he
declared that he would oppose H.R. 1, the
sweeping elections overhaul that passed
the House with no GOP votes, but House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday she
sees some wiggle room.
“I read the op-ed, and you read a part
of it — I think he left the door open. I
think it’s ajar. I’m not giving up,” Mrs.
Pelosi told CNN’s “State of the Union”
host Dana Bash.
In his June 6 op-ed, Mr. Manchin
noted that the legislation has garnered no
Republican support. The House passed
the measure in March by a vote of 220-
209, with one Democrat crossing party
lines to oppose it.
In that list, Mr. Guerrero was listed
as having abused a “minor,” although the
woman purportedly involved was over 21.
The diocese later clarified that it classi-
fied the woman as a minor because she had
severe bipolar disorder and was reportedly
not on her medication at the time of the
incidents — which Mr. Guerrero denies.
— Mark A. Kellner
VICE PRESIDENCY
Harris dinged for pride parade visit,
while avoiding southern U.S. border
Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to
visit the southern border, but she did turn
up Saturday for the Capitol Pride Walk and
Rally in Washington, D.C., as critics were
quick to note.
Ms. Harris, who became the first sitting
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Mrs. Pelosi, however, said she dis-
cussed the issue with him, and “I do
know that he has certain concerns about
the legislation that we may be able to
come to terms on.”
“As I said to him, ‘I read the op-ed, you
left the door open,’ ” she said.
Mrs. Pelosi added that their conver-
sation focused primarily on the bill’s
requirement that states appoint indepen-
dent redistricting commissions to draw
their congressional districts, instead of
allowing state legislatures to do so.
“I don’t give up on Joe Manchin,” she
said. “When he was governor and secre-
tary of state in West Virginia, he initiated
many of the ideas” in the proposal.
— Valerie Richardson
vice president to march in a pride event,
took plenty of flak on social media for
her appearing at the festivities with her
husband, Doug Emhoff, after dodging ques-
tions about when she plans to witness the
chaotic border situation.
“Hey, look you guys,” said the conserva-
tive site Twitchy. “Kamala Harris made
time for a photo op with her hubby at DC
Pride … and still hasn’t made time to visit
the border.”
Other comments included: “Kamala
went to pride but not to border,” and
“Maybe they should have a pride event at
the border. Then you’d do your job!”
Ms. Harris made her surprise appear-
ance shortly after her bumpy trip to Guate-
mala and Mexico to study the root causes
of international immigration.
— Valerie Richardson
House antitrust panel
working on five bills
aimed at tech companies
BY RYAN LOVELACE
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The House antitrust panel’s top
Democrat and top Republican said
Friday they are working together
on five new bills aiming to crack
down on large technology com-
panies such as Amazon, Apple,
Facebook and Google.
Rep. David Cicilline, Rhode
Island Democrat, and Rep. Ken
Buck, Colorado Republican, un-
veiled a slew of new antitrust
proposals that they sponsored
along with their colleagues. The
bills seek to empower the Justice
Department and Federal Trade
Commission to sue the large tech
platforms, better police start-
up acquisitions and route more
funding toward those agencies
by increasing merger filing fees,
according to Mr. Buck’s office.
The bills also target the large
tech platforms’ marketplaces by
attempting to prevent alleged
“self-preferencing” or the practice
of favoring their products at the
expense of competitors.
“Right now, unregulated tech
monopolies have too much power
over our economy,” Mr. Cicilline
said in a statement. “They are in
a unique position to pick winners
and losers, destroy small busi-
nesses, raise prices on consumers,
and put folks out of work. Our
agenda will level the playing field
and ensure the wealthiest, most
powerful tech monopolies play by
the same rules as the rest of us.”
Mr. Buck’s office said the bills
also seek to empower state attor-
neys general to choose their ven-
ues for federal lawsuits against the
companies. The bills attempt to
make it easier for users to transfer
data from allegedly dominant tech
platforms to other tech platforms,
per Mr. Buck’s team.
Mr. Cicilline pursued a legisla-
tive strategy of releasing a series
of antitrust proposals rather than
a large package because he wanted
to make it more difficult for the
tech lobby to intervene and disrupt
his work, he previously told Axios.
The stack of antitrust propos-
als means that other pending an-
titrust legislation now has a more
complicated path forward, par-
ticularly as the looming midterm
elections will make overhauling
antitrust laws a campaign issue.
The News Media Alliance, a
coalition of news publishers in-
cluding The Washington Times,
said it hoped the antitrust panel
would take new action in mid-
June on legislation that aims to
give news publishers the ability
to better negotiate with large tech
platforms.
The alliance lobbied in support
of previous versions of the Jour-
nalism Competition and Preserva-
tion Act that have failed to make
much progress and the most re-
cent iterations proposed in March
have yet to receive markups by
relevant committees in the House
or Senate.
David Chavern, president of
News Media Alliance, said the
current digital market for news
content is not working for anyone
— whether large publications rep-
resented on his board or smaller
outlets.
“The entire news industry —
from all sources — is a round-
ing error compared to Google
and Facebook and all publishers
are squeezed and undervalued,”
Mr. Chavern said in an email.
“This [is] true of even the very
biggest players who could get a
compensation deal on their own.
My Board would much prefer a
vibrant market that accurately
reflects the public’s growing inter-
est in news content, even if that
means facing new entrants and
more competition.”
Amazon, Apple, Facebook,
and Google each did not imme-
diately answer requests for com-
ment on lawmakers’ new antitrust
proposals.

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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

Pelosi blasts Trump Justice Department probe into leaks

House speaker says efforts undermine ‘rule of law’
BY VALERIE RICHARDSON
AND JEFF MORDOCK
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
House Speaker Nancy Pe-
losi said Sunday that Congress
will investigate what she called
the Trump Justice Department’s
“rogue” efforts to seize the pri-
vate information of Democrats as
part of its probe into media leaks,
saying it went “beyond Richard
Nixon.”
“In terms of the data mining,
what the Republicans did, the ad-
ministration did, the Justice De-
partment, the leadership of the
former president, goes even be-
yond Richard Nixon,” Mrs. Pelosi
said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“Richard Nixon had an enemies
list. This is about undermining the
rule of law.”
She referred to Friday’s flurry of
reports about a behind-the-scenes
2017-18 Justice Department inves-
tigation into leaks that involved
issuing grand jury subpoenas to at
least two Democrats on the House
Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, Reps. Adam B. Schiff
and Eric Swalwell of California.
Justice Department Inspec-
tor General Michael E. Horowitz
announced Friday that his office
would conduct an investigation
into “the issuance of subpoenas,
DOJ’s use of subpoenas and other
legal authorities to obtain com-
munication records of Members
of Congress and affiliated persons,
and the news media.”
He said the probe would in-
clude the department’s “compli-
ance with applicable DOJ poli-
cies and procedures, and whether
any such uses, or the investiga-
tions, were based upon improper
considerations.”
Senate Majority Leader Charles
E. Schumer of New York and Sen.
Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, chair-
man of the Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee, demanded that Mr. Trump’s
two attorneys general — Jeff Ses-
sions and William Barr — appear
before Congress and explain them-
selves under oath.
“Former Attorneys General
Barr and Sessions and other
officials who were involved must
testify before the Senate Judiciary
Committee under oath,” the state-
ment said. “If they refuse, they are
subject to being subpoenaed and
compelled to testify under oath. In
addition, the Justice Department
must provide information and an-
swers to the Judiciary Committee,
which will vigorously investigate
this abuse of power.”
Mrs. Pelosi said the House
would also be involved in investi-
gating the matter.
“The inspector general’s report
is very important, but it is not a
substitute for what must do in the
Congress,” she said. “The Senate
has called for some review, we will
certainly have that in the House of
Representatives.”
Apple confirmed Friday that it
received grand jury subpoenas in
February 2018 requesting metadata
on 73 phone numbers and 36 email
addresses in February 2018 as part
of its leak investigation into law-
makers, staffers and their families.
Apple said the subpoena was
issued by a federal grand jury and
included a gag order from a federal
judge barring the tech giant from
telling targets of the subpoena
about the data request.
Apple added that the request
“provided no information about
the nature of the investigation and
it would have been virtually impos-
sible for Apple to understand the
intent of the desired information
without digging through the users’
accounts.”
“Consistent with the request,
Apple limited the information it
provided to account subscriber
information and did not provide
any content such as emails or pic-
tures,” the statement said.
The nondisclosure was ex-
tended three times, each lasting
a year, according to CNN. Apple
notified the subpoena targets last
month when the order was not
extended a fourth time.
Mr. Swalwell said that he had
been notified by Apple that his
data had been seized as part of the
probe, and that records of family
members and a minor had been
obtained.
“I do know that to be true,”
Mr. Swalwell told CNN. “I believe
they were targeted punitively not
for any reason in law but because
Donald Trump identified Chair-
man Schiff and members of the
committee as an enemy of his.”
At the time of the subpoenas,
Mr. Sessions was trying to uncover
the source of leaks about contacts
between President Trump’s cam-
paign associates and Russia.
Mr. Barr revived the investiga-
tion when he replaced Mr. Sessions
in 2019.
He ordered a federal prosecu-
tor from New Jersey to work on
the cases, but told The Wall Street
Journal on Friday that he didn’t
recall the subpoenas.
Mrs. Pelosi expressed skepti-
cism about Mr. Barr and Mr. Ses-
sions saying they were unaware of
members of Congress having their
records sought, and that she hoped
they would agree to testify without
being served with subpoenas.
“For the attorneys general, Barr
and Sessions, at least two, to say
they didn’t know anything about
it is beyond belief. So we will have
to have them come under oath to
testify about that,” Ms. Pelosi said.
She also accused the Justice
Department of being “rogue under
President Trump,” adding that “this
is just another manifestation of
their rogue activity.”
In a 2018 interview with The
Washington Times, then-Attorney
General Sessions said the epidemic
of government workers leaking in-
formation to the media was fueled
by animosity toward President
Trump.
“My view when I came here
was that there was way too much
leaking, but it really seemed to
accelerate when President Trump
became president,” he said at the
time.
Leaks dogged Mr. Trump even
before he took office, with the sala-
cious and uncorroborated Steele
dossier and secret information
about his national security adviser
leaking before Inauguration Day.
Democrats say the investiga-
tion was another overreach by
the Trump administration and an
attempt to weaponize the Justice
Department against his political
enemies.
“The politicization of the De-
partment and the attacks on the
rule of law are among the most dan-
gerous assaults on our democracy
carried out by the former Presi-
dent,” Mr. Schiff said in a statement.

DIPLOMACY

Blinken says Russian

relations at low point
ahead of summit
BY JOSEPH CLARK
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Secretary of State Antony
Blinken said Sunday that rela-
tions between the U.S. and Russia
are at their lowest point in recent
years as President Biden prepares
to meet with Russian President
Vladimir Putin this week.
The high-profile meeting
slated for Wednesday in Geneva
at the tail end of Mr. Biden’s first
foreign trip abroad has drawn fire
from some in Washington recently
who say the administration is re-
warding Mr. Putin despite increas-
ing Russian aggression against the
United States.
“It’s not a matter of trust,” Mr.
Blinken told CBS’s “Face the Na-
tion.” “I think someone once said
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
‘trust but verify.’ I’d say, ‘don’t trust
President Biden inspects a Guard of Honor after arriving to meet Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle near London on Sunday. and verify.’ We’ll see by Russia’s ac-
tions whether it will make good on
DIPLOMACY — on any commitments it makes.”
Biden administration officials
with Mr. Putin.
Mr. Putin reportedly remarked
earlier Sunday that he would be
willing to turn over Russian cy-
bercriminals if the U.S. hands over
those he claims to have attacked
Russian interests.
Mr. Blinken said no country
should harbor cybercriminals and
that it would be on the summit
agenda, but he gave few details
in terms of specific actions in
response.
In terms of sanctions, ABC’s
Martha Raddatz pressed Mr.
Blinken on whether the sanc-
tions that were imposed after last
year’s hacking of the Solar Winds
information technology firm had
worked.
“Well, there are a few things.
One is you never know the dogs
that don’t bark,” Mr. Blinken said.
But he said sanctions are less
effective when they are not backed
by other countries.
“We’re now coming off of G-7,

Biden praises Queen Elizabeth have claimed leading up to the

meeting that they seek a more
predictable relationship with the
Kremlin, following a recent spate
we’ll be coming off of NATO, we’ll
be coming off an EU meeting,”
the secretary of state said. “Col-
lectively, when our countries are

as ‘very gracious’ after their tea of high-profile cyberattacks ema-

British monarch, 95, has now met with 14 U.S. presidents
BY VALERIE RICHARDSON
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Few figures on the interna-
tional stage have been in the
game longer than President
Biden, but one of them is Queen
Elizabeth II.
Nearly 40 years ago after the
two first met when he was a U.S.
senator, the British monarch
received Mr. Biden as well as
first lady Jill Biden at an official
ceremony Sunday followed by
tea at Windsor Castle, the final
stop on his trip to England for
the Group of Seven economic
summit.
The 95-year-old monarch
has now met 14 U.S. presidents,
undoubtedly more than any liv-
ing person, including all but one
sitting president since her reign
began in 1952 — the excep-
tion being President Lyndon
B. Johnson during his 1963-69
White House tenure.
Mr. Biden praised the queen
afterward as “very gracious,”
and said that she asked about
Chinese president Xi Jinping
and Russian president Vladimir
First lady Jill Biden joined
Queen Elizabeth II on the
dais for the Guard of Honor
ceremony at Windsor Castle.
Putin, with whom the presi-
dent is scheduled to meet
Wednesday.
He also said that she re-
minded him of his mother,
Catherine Finnegan Biden.
“We had a long talk, and
she was very generous,” Mr.
Biden told reporters afterward.
“I don’t think she’d be insulted,
but [she] reminds me of my
mother, in terms of the look
of her and just the generosity.”
Mr. Biden met the queen in
1982, but his first rendezvous
with her as president came
Friday at a reception in Corn-
wall, the site of the summit, an
event that included G-7 leaders
as well as the two royals next
in line for the throne, her son
Prince Charles and grandson
Prince William.
Mr. Biden’s visit to Windsor
Castle began with a presenta-
tion of the honor guard at the
Windsor Castle quadrangle.
The Bidens stood on the
dais on either side of the queen
for the ceremony, then Mr.
Biden was invited for an in-
spection of the Guard of Honor
accompanied by Maj. James
Taylor, captain of the queen’s
company, and Maj. Gen. Chris-
topher Ghika, captain of the
guard.
The Bidens were escorted
into the castle to the queen’s
apartment for the private
meeting. Mr. Biden said after-
ward that he invited her for a
visit to the White House.
After tea, Mr. Biden jetted
off to Brussels for the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
summit.
The Biden visit represented
one of the queen’s first public
appearances since the death
of her husband Prince Phillip,
who passed away in April at
the age of 99.
The royal family marked
what would have been his 100th
birthday on Thursday.
In her life, Elizabeth has
met 14 U.S. presidents — 12
while she was queen and he
was president.
She was still a princess
when she was introduced to
her first U.S. commander-in-
chief, President Harry S. Tru-
man, in 1951.
The 14th of those presidents
was no longer in office for their
encounter. In 1957, she met for-
mer President Herbert Hoover
at a luncheon, about 24 years
after he left the Oval Office
in 1933.
nating from Russian bad actors,
Mr. Putin’s attempted murder
and jailing of Russian opposition
leader Alexei Navalny, and his
backing of Belarusian President
Alexander Lukashenko, who
forced the landing of a commer-
cial flight to detain a Belarusian
journalist.
“What the president is going
to make clear to President Putin
is that we seek a more stable,
predictable relationship with
Russia, and if so, there are areas
where our interests overlap, and
we may be able to find ways to
work together,” Mr. Blinken told
Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the
Union.” “But if Russia chooses to
continue reckless and aggressive
actions, we will respond force-
fully, as the president has already
demonstrated that he would when
it comes to election interference
or the SolarWinds cyber attack or
the attempt to murder Mr. Navalny
with a chemical weapon.”
Mr. Blinken told “Fox News
Sunday” host Chris Wallace that
the U.S. would begin testing Rus-
sia on whether they seek a more
stable relationship, and on areas
where the U.S. and Russia can find
mutual interests.
But key questions still remain
in terms of what specific actions
the administration will take in
responding to Russia and what
specific message Mr. Biden in-
tends to convey in his meeting
actually working together, rolling
in the same direction militarily,
economically, diplomatically, po-
litically, it’s an incredibly powerful
force.”
Several lawmakers have chal-
lenged the Biden administration’s
posture toward Russia as weak,
claiming that the administration
has not taken aggressive enough
actions toward Mr. Putin. Namely,
the summit follows the adminis-
tration’s recent decision to waive
sanctions against Nord Stream 2
AG, effectively greenlighting the
completion of a Russia-backed
natural gas pipeline spanning Eu-
rope from Russia to Germany.
“The president waved in the
natural interest Nord Stream II
which will be Putin’s pipeline
going into Europe so that Europe
— European — you know, our
partners will be dependent on
Russian energy,” Rep. Michael
T. McCaul of Texas, the ranking
Republican on the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, told Ms. Rad-
datz after Mr. Blinken’s appear-
ance. “I don’t think that’s in the
United States’ national interest.
And, quite frankly, it’s not in Eu-
rope’s best interest either. And
this really empowered Putin when
this happened. And I think we’re
giving him a lot of stuff.”
Mr. McCaul said last week that
the administration’s decision to
meet with Mr. Putin effectively
rewarded the Kremlin and sent a
dangerous message.
A4 | POLITICS ☆R MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2021

HOMELAND SECURITY

Officials: DHS ‘legally required’ to spend border wall money

Funds to focus on ‘mitigating’ construction damage
BY STEPHEN DINAN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Homeland Security officials
said Friday they are “legally re-
quired” to spend billions of dollars
Congress allocated to Mexican
border wall construction, but said
they will focus on projects that
“mitigate” damage from previous
construction rather than on fin-
ishing the wall former President
Trump had planned.
Billions of dollars in Defense
Department money Mr. Trump
had diverted toward the wall have
already been canceled and re-
turned to the Pentagon, but the
Department of Homeland Secu-
rity said there is a large pool of
money Capitol Hill approved over
the last four years specifically for
border barriers, and it is obligated
to spend it.
“Congress provided DHS with
some funding for border barrier
projects, which the agency is le-
gally required to use consistent
with their appropriated purpose,”
the department said. “In doing so,
DHS will prioritize the remaining
border barrier funds to address
and remediate urgent life, safety
and environmental issues resulting
from the previous administration’s
border wall construction.”
That means such things as plug-
ging gaps in the levee wall in south-
ern Texas and repairing soil erosion
in San Diego. Both of those projects
had previously been announced.
It’s not clear how much of the
billions of unspent wall dollars
would be absorbed by that kind
of repair work.
Homeland Security tacitly ac-
knowledged it can’t spend all the
money on repairs, and begged
Congress to claw back the funding.
In the meantime, the depart-
ment signaled it will move slowly
to spend the rest of the cash, de-
tailing a lengthy approval process
designed to tie construction up
for years. The process includes
extensive environmental studies,
community input and negotiations
with “advocates.”
Rep. John Katko, the ranking
Republican on the House Home-
land Security Committee, blasted
the new priorities.
“Soil erosion is not border se-
curity,” he said. “This is clearly not
what Congress intended when
appropriating these funds.”
The conclusion that the depart-
ment is legally obligated to spend
the money is a blow to President
Biden, who had vowed not to build
another foot of wall, and early
in his tenure issued an executive
order halting building.
The Washington Times re-
ported that the decision likely
broke the law, violating Congress’
power of the purse. Since 2017,
Congress had specifically ap-
proved about $5 billion in money
for wall construction.
The Government Accountabil-
ity Office is investigating the halt
to determine whether it did in fact
violate the law.
Mr. Trump campaigned in 2016
pledging that Mexico would pay for
the wall. Once in office, he regularly
asked Congress for $5 billion a year
in wall money, but lawmakers ap-
proved $1.375 billion each of his
final three years. He signed those
bills, but then declared a national
emergency and claimed the power
to siphon money from Pentagon ac-
counts for the border barrier as well.
Mr. Biden canceled that
emergency and restored whatever
money hadn’t already been spent.
When Mr. Trump left office
about 460 miles of wall had been
built on his watch, most of it re-
placing outdated fencing put up in
the Bush and Obama years.
Homeland Security officials
had plans and funding for about
300 more miles, with much of that
going to places where no barriers
had existed before.
Mr. Biden, who supported wall-
building while a senator and who
was part of the Obama adminis-
tration that built dozens of miles
of border wall, has now said he
doesn’t think it’s a viable solution
to the problem of illegal immi-
gration from Mexico and Central
America.

SENATE

Barrasso signals opposition to Biden’s BLM pick over ties to ‘eco-terrorists’

BY VALERIE RICHARDSON
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming
said Friday he would oppose Presi-
dent Biden’s nominee to head the
Bureau of Land Management over
her early ties to “eco-terrorists,” re-
ferring to her stint with Earth First!,
a radical environmental group.  loan of between $50,000 to $100,000
Tracy Stone-Manning, Mr.
Biden’s pick to serve as BLM di-
rector, was affiliated with the eco-
group three decades ago while
attending graduate school at the
University of Montana, serving
as an editor of the group’s “radical
environmental journal” and testify-
ing at a tree-spiking trial.
“Tracy Stone-Manning collabo-
rated with eco-terrorists,” Mr. Bar-
rasso, the ranking Republican on
the Energy and Natural Resources
Committee, said in a statement to
The Washington Times.
“She worked with extreme en-
vironmental activists who spiked
trees, threatening the lives and
livelihoods of loggers,” he said.
“While she was given immunity
from prosecution to testify against
her companions in court, her ac-
tions were disgraceful. This clearly
disqualifies her from serving as the
next director of the Bureau of Land
Management.”
His opposition comes with Re-
publicans raising concerns about
her activist background as well as a
she received in 2008 while working
for Sen. Jon Tester, Montana Demo-
crat, and finished paying off in 2020.
Sen. Roger Marshall, Kansas
Republican, identified the lender
as Democratic donor and Montana
developer Stuart Goldberg, and
asked whether she received “spe-
cial treatment” with the 6% interest
rate, significantly less than the 11%
being charged on average at the
time for consumer personal loans.
The Times has reached out to
Ms. Stone-Manning for comment.
Ms. Stone-Manning boasts a
blue-chip resume of public service
in Montana — she served chief-
of-staff for Montana Gov. Steve
Bullock and headed the state De-
partment of Environmental Quality
— but she got her start in environ-
mental activism with Earth First!,
a radical collective associated with
civil disobedience, direct action
and industrial sabotage.
The group was co-founded in
1980 by Dave Foreman, an activist
who the FBI arrested in 1990 on
charges related to a plot to target an
Arizona power line tower. He said
he was not involved but pleaded
guilty to a misdemeanor charge
and served no jail time, according
to the Aspen Daily News.
Ms. Stone-Manning’s involve-
ment appeared to run for about
three years: She said in court tes-
timony that she became affiliated
with the group in 1988, and the June
1991 edition of the Earth First! jour-
nal, which features a wrench and
hammer on the masthead, listed
her as an editor.
In the 1993 conspiracy trial in
Idaho, she said she got to know sev-
eral men who were later accused
of driving metal spikes into trees,
known as tree-spiking, to disrupt
a timber sale in the Clearwater
National Forest near Powell, Idaho.
One of the men, John Blount,
asked her in April 1989 to mail an
anonymous letter to the Forest
Service warning that 500 pounds
of bridge spikes had been driven
into trees.
In her court testimony, she said
she took the letter and retyped it on
a typewriter she rented from the
university, changing some spelling
errors and deleting some profan-
ity, then mailed it a few days after
receiving it.
Why mail it?
“Because I wanted people to
know those trees were spiked. I
didn’t want anybody getting hurt as
a result of trees being spiked,” she
said in the court transcript.
Asked why she retyped it, Ms.
Stone-Manning said she did so
because “I didn’t want it on my
personal computer.”
Two of the men, Arvid E. Hart-
ley and Neil K. McLain, pleaded
guilty to misdemeanor tree-spik-
ing charges and agreed to testify
against three others, including Mr.
Blount, according to the 1993 As-
sociated Press report.
In a 2013 interview with the
Missoulian, Ms. Stone-Manning of-
fered more details, saying that after
Mr. Blount handed her the letter,
she realized “now my fingerprints
were all over it.”
“The easy thing to do would
have been to burn that letter and
walk away and not be associated
with it, but that was the wrong
thing to do because trees were
spiked and somebody could be hurt
when the loggers were sent in,” she
said. “So I mailed the letter.”
The retyped letter from “George
Hayduke” said that 11 people were
involved in the tree-spiking and
that the “sales were marked so
that no workers would be injured,”
adding that he would pay them $1
for the sale, but “you would have to
find me first and that could be your
WORST nightmare.”
Ms. Stone-Manning said at the
trial that she was unaware of other
tree-spiking incidents, although
Earth First! made no secret of its
eco-sabotage sympathies.
In his book, “Ecodefense: A
Field Guide to Monkeywrenching,”
Mr. Foreman described “the proper
way to spike a tree and explains
why, when decommissioning a
bulldozer, pouring sand into its gas
tank is much more effective than
pouring sugar,” the Los Angeles
Times reported in 1990.
Mr. Foreman later stressed that
the technique was meant to stop
logging, not harm people, after
California logger George Alexan-
der was badly injured in 1987 when
a bandsaw hit a spike embedded
in a log. The broken blade went
flying, hitting him in the head and
slashing his face.
The June 1991 Earth First! jour-
nal on which Ms. Stone-Manning
is listed includes a comic about
tree-spiking and an ad for T-shirts
that feature the slogan “Not One
More Tree” with a spike running
through it.
The publication, posted on the
Environment & Society Portal, also
includes a warning about discre-
tion: “Although we do not accept
the authority of the hierarchical
state, nothing herein is intended
to run us afoul of its police power.”

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Central American laborers can multiply their income by working in the U.S., according to survey data of migrants who have been deported and of people who want to
migrate. Researchers found little evidence that weather plays a role in migration decisions, contradicting a recent assessment by Vice President Kamala Harris.
BORDER
From page A1
the problems in the region, or in the countries, of
economic and food insecurity or long-standing
damage from weather events such as hurricanes,”
one administration official said last week in sum-
ming up Ms. Harris’ trip to Guatemala and Mexico.
Those explanations are problematic, according
to the BTI Institute, a Homeland Security Center of
Excellence led by the University of Houston, which
studied survey data of migrants who have been
deported and of people in the Northern Triangle
who want to migrate. They found little evidence
that weather plays a role in migration decisions.
Family reunification and crime may be causes,
but economic opportunity is the overwhelming
factor for most traditional migrants from the
Northern Triangle — those who don’t have valid
asylum claims.
“This poses an important challenge for trying
to use economic development as a way of affect-
ing migration decisions,” the analyst said. “Even if
development policies are successful, their impact
on migration decisions may be relatively marginal.”
It’s not just survey data.
The report looked at historical cases such as
Mexico, which had a massive wave of migration,
mostly illegal, in the 1990s. The numbers dropped
dramatically by 2010.
Researchers emphasized that more study is
needed, but they said the drop in Mexican migra-
tion “can be attributed to demographic changes in
Mexico and the U.S. as well as changes in U.S. en-
forcement policies, but it is not due to improved eco-
nomic outcomes for potential migrants in Mexico.”
The researchers also looked at Puerto Rico, a
U.S. territory with no legal barrier, where migration
to American states was significant in the 1950s and
1960s. Economic improvements and government
assistance curtailed that flow, but incomes diverged
again in recent years, resulting in another “mass
exodus from the island.”
The White House didn’t respond to a request
for comment on the report. Officials insisted that
Ms. Harris’ trip was a success despite her struggles
to handle questions about the situation at the U.S.-
Mexico border.
INMATES
From page A1
“This speaks to our core mission of just trying
to be good neighbors, right?” Ms. Johnson told The
Washington Times last week. “If there is a group
of residents who have the right to representation,
by giving them representation, you’re giving voice
and visibility, which means you’re introducing
additional perspective, additional forms of … trans-
parency, accountability, additional tools to effect
change and to elevate issues.”
Unpaid commissioners represent more than 200
neighborhoods spread across 40 districts in the city.
Commissioners hold monthly meetings with
residents to help resolve problems in their neighbor-
hoods and advise government agencies on matters
that affect their areas.
The open Ward 7 seat was created in 2011 through
redistricting, which carved out a plot of land in the
eastern part of the city that includes residential
neighborhoods, a women’s shelter and the jail. It
was likely unfilled because “it was a little-known
piece of information,” Ms. Johnson said.
To reach potential imprisoned candidates, Ms.
Johnson and other advocates teamed up with the
D.C. Department of Corrections.
The inmates were confined to cells for 23 hours
a day for more than a year because of the pandemic,
so getting their names on the ballot from behind
bars was a challenge.
“So, in addition to not being able to see their
family for a year or take a breath of fresh air for a
Ms. Harris visited engineering students at a university in Guatemala City last week. The administration says
people from the region are coming to the U.S. because of economic and food insecurity or weather damage.
During her visit to Guatemala, Ms. Harris said
her message to would-be migrants right now was
“Don’t come.”
Republican members of Congress said the
administration’s actions have belied that message.
Policies have cleared the way for tens of thousands
of illegal immigrants each month to gain a foothold
in the U.S.
Activists from the left, meanwhile, said Ms. Har-
ris’ message to Central Americans was too harsh.
In an interview with Ms. Harris, Spanish-lan-
guage network Univision suggested that she was be-
traying her own roots as a daughter of immigrants.
The Working Families Party, a prominent liberal
organization, called Ms. Harris’ words “callous”
and said they “reinforce the anti-immigrant and
xenophobic policies put into place by the Trump
administration.”
“For people who are making the difficult deci-
sion to flee corruption, crime, and violence in the
hopes of building better lives for their families, no
message is likely to change their minds,” the party
said in an email to supporters.
The Biden administration says it is trying to cre-
ate more legal pathways for Central Americans seek-
ing asylum and those interested in higher wages.
legislation requiring vacant ANC positions to be
filled at the behest of the advocates.
Council member Robert C. White Jr., an at-large
Democrat who helped pass the bill, told The Wash-
ington Times last week that he is “very supportive”
of having an inmate serve as an advisory neighbor-
hood commissioner.
“By allowing a [jail] resident to serve on an ANC
and giving them tangible things to work on, we are
helping to prepare them to become stronger and
more engaged citizens once their sentences end,”
Mr. White said.
Voters can cast ballots Tuesday at the Park Ken-
nedy apartment complex or from within the jail.
Ward 7 Commissioner Whitney Weston said in
an email Wednesday that the election “provides a
segment of the population with a voice that will
be heard not only across Ward 7 but across the
District.”
Last week, neighbors for Justice posted online a
DOC video of the five commission hopefuls giving
short campaign speeches.
“When you get to see the candidates themselves
— connect names to faces and hear them, their
platform, and they all present as very, you know,
genuine, kind, earnest people who are seeking to
improve, you know, the experience of all of the
residents,” Ms. Johnson said.
Once the candidates were selected and the
election date set, another logistical question arose:
How would an incarcerated commissioner attend
meetings and interact with constituents?
Ms. Johnson said they sent the DOC a pro-
posal for ways to accommodate the incarcerated
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
On the wages front, the administration is
considering carve-outs to give the Northern
Triangle countries special access to guest-
worker visas.
But the BTI analysis says the countries have
become addicted to the remittances, or money, that
workers send back from the U.S.
In all three countries, remittances account for
more than 70% of exports of goods and services.
Remittances serve as a vital source of foreign hard
currency.
Cutting off that flow of money would be cata-
strophic for the home countries, but it “may also
inhibit achieving economic development in the
longer run,” the study said.
Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei
drove home that point last week. He told Ms. Harris
that he wants the U.S. to grant deportation amnesty
to illegal Guatemalan immigrants already in the U.S.
so they can send back cash now.
But he also said he hopes Guatemalans will
learn financial skills “so that they can establish
and grow companies and enterprises here in
Guatemala so that they can come back to this
country to create opportunities with what we have
learned abroad.”
inmate to participate virtually.
Charles Thornton, who was incarcerated at
the D.C. Jail and now chairs the D.C. Corrections
Information Council, said the election is a step in
the right direction for prisoners’ rights.
“What we’re doing in the District is really a
beam of hope,” Mr. Thornton said during a phone
interview Wednesday. “It really shows what de-
mocracy looks like.”
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American Experiment for the 17-stop tour dubbed
“Raise Our Standards,” which primarily aims to
speak out against the teaching of critical race theory
in K-12 schools.
“We acknowledge that racist people exist in the
country, but explicitly reject the notion that the
United States of America is a racist country,” the
TakeCharge website states. “We also denounce the
idea that the country is guilty of systemic racism,
White privilege and abhor the concept of identity
politics and the promotion of victimhood in minor-
ity communities.”
Mr. Qualls, 57, cites his own life and experiences
as proof. His parents divorced when he was a child,
and he and his siblings grew up in poverty with
their mother in New York’s Harlem section, where
street violence was not uncommon.
“I’ve been called everything from a ghetto kid
to trailer trash,” he said.
Nonetheless, he completed a high school ROTC
program and, at 19, was commissioned as a junior
Army officer. Much later, he served as an execu-
tive with Johnson & Johnson and other medical
supply companies, and he ran unsuccessfully for
a House seat.
Mr. Qualls, who lives in Minneapolis, acknowl-
edges that his odyssey is atypical, but he is con-
vinced it is less fairy tale and more the American
dream. TakeCharge is founded on the idea that the
death of that dream, rather than a hostile and racist
society, is the real calamity befalling young Black
Americans.
As the group puts it, “TakeCharge will ignite
a transformation within the Black Community of
the Twin Cities by embracing the core principles
of America — not rejecting them.”
It is not his accomplishments Mr. Qualls wants
to stress but the journey. In other words, the quali-
ties that allowed him to be successful were bred in
him as surely as the notion that not everyone was
thrilled with the prospect of Black success.
“Up to 50% of Black kids in Minneapolis don’t
graduate from high school,” he said. “And this is
because the Democrats here won’t allow mothers’
school choice and they won’t allow a discussion on
the rate of fatherless homes Black kids are grow-
ing up in.”
Consequently, “faith, family and education” is
the core message of the Minnesota tour harpooning
critical race theory.
Mr. Qualls said he wants to reassure parents who
fear social blowback should they oppose the idea.
“People see critical race theory and its progress,
and they think, ‘What can I do?’” he said. “They don’t
want to be embarrassed, and they know the script
is, ‘Oh, if you’re White, you’re a racist.’ But you can
pull your kid out of school, you can remember that
you are the one funding these schools.
“You’re going to have to do something a little bit
out of your comfort zone,” he said.
Mr. Qualls even embraces some of the rhetoric of
critical race theorists. He said he hopes the “Raise
Our Standards” tour and TakeCharge will “recruit
trainers who will be catalysts for change.”
He also wants to teach a different history, one
that asks: “How do we get back to what we were?”
“I think we are living off our grandparents’ fumes
right now,” he said. “It’s as if the pilot light has been
put out and we need to light it again.”
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Nation
AGRICULTURE
Judge blocks USDA race-based debt
relief that excludes White people
BY VALERIE RICHARDSON
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A federal judge has halted the
Biden administration’s program
offering loan forgiveness for mi-
nority farmers only, stating that
the federal government “cannot
discriminate on the basis of race.”
U.S. District Court Judge
William C. Griesbach granted
Thursday a temporary restrain-
ing order in response to an anti-
discrimination lawsuit filed in
April by the Wisconsin Institute
for Law and Liberty on behalf of
12 White farmers in eight states.
The program, part of the $1.9
trillion American Rescue Plan, ear-
marks about $4 billion for up to
120% in debt relief for “socially dis-
advantaged” farmers and ranchers
as defined by their race, not losses
sustained during the pandemic or
specific claims of financial need.
“Instead, the only consider-
ation in determining whether a
farmer or rancher’s loans should be
completely forgiven is the person’s
race or national origin,” said Judge
Griesbach in his 10-page ruling.
The American Rescue Plan
defines “socially disadvantaged”
producers as those “who are one
or more of the following: Black/
African American, American In-
dian, Alaskan native, Hispanic/
Latino, Asian, or Pacific Islander,”
according to the Agriculture
Department.
“Plaintiffs are completely ex-
cluded from participation in the
program based on their race,” he
said. “If the Court does not issue
an injunction, the USDA will spend
the allocated money and forgive the
loans of minority farmers while the
case is pending and will have no
incentive to provide similar relief
on an equitable basis to others.”
He found that the White farm-
ers were likely to succeed on
the merits, given that they are
“excluded from the program
based on their race and are thus
experiencing discrimination at
the hands of their government.”
The strongly worded ruling
comes as a setback for the Biden
administration, which had sought
to address the USDA’s past his-
tory of discriminatory behavior
in agricultural lending through
the economic stimulus plan’s Sec-
tion 1005 program.
The judge suggested an alter-
native: Stop discriminating.
“The obvious response to a
government agency that claims it
continues to discriminate against
farmers because of their race or
national origin is to direct it to
stop: it is not to direct it to in-
tentionally discriminate against
others on the basis of their race
and national origin,” said Judge
Griesbach, who was appointed by
President George W. Bush.
“U.S. District Judge William
Griesbach issued a temporary
restraining order halting pay-
ments in a federal farmer loan
forgiveness program that allo-
cates benefits on the basis of
racial categories,” the Wisconsin
Institute for Liberty and Law
tweeted last Friday.
In a statement, the USDA said
it would keep up its fight to pre-
serve the loan program.
“We respectfully disagree with
this temporary order and USDA
will continue to forcefully defend
our ability to carry out this act
of Congress and deliver debt
relief to socially disadvantaged
borrowers,” said the statement.
“When the temporary order is
lifted, USDA will be prepared to
provide the debt relief authorized
by Congress.”
The lawsuit is one of at least
three filed on behalf of White
agricultural producers alleging
that the Biden administration’s
race-based relief criteria violate
the Equal Protection Clause of
the Constitution.
Rick Esenberg, WILL presi-
dent and general counsel, said
that the court “recognized that
WORKERS PROTEST POLICY
the federal government’s plan
to condition and allocate ben-
efits on the basis of race raises
grave constitutional concerns
and threatens our clients with
irreparable harm.”
“The Biden administration is
radically undermining bedrock
principles of equality under the
law,” said Mr. Esenberg. “We look
forward to continuing this litiga-
tion but urge the administration
to change course now.”
Agriculture Secretary Tom
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Vilsack announced May 21 the
USDA’s first notice of funding Jennifer Bridges (left) leads a protest against Houston Methodist
availability under the program, Baytown Hospital. They’re protesting against the hospital system’s
and that payments could be de- rule of firing any employee who is not immunized by June 7 in
livered as soon as early June. Baytown, Texas. Public and Houston Methodist staff who have
Over the last 30 years, the refused the COVID-19 vaccine so far have gathered to march.
USDA has entered into settle-
ments with Black farmers over
discriminatory lending practices,
but “those settlements and other
related actions did not address
the systemic and cumulative
impacts of discrimination over
a number of decades that the
American Rescue Plan now be-
gins to address,” the USDA said.
The latest USDA Census of
Agriculture in 2017 found that
95.4% of farm producers were
White, while 1.3% were Black, 3%
were Hispanic, 0.6% were Asian
American, and 1.7% were Native
American/Alaska Native.

VIOLENCE

Rash of deadly shootings stirs worries as summer nears

BY KATHLEEN FOODY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO | Two people were
killed and at least 30 others
wounded in shootings over-
night in three states, authorities
said Saturday, stoking concerns
that a spike in U.S. gun violence
could continue into summer as
coronavirus restrictions ease
and more people are free to
socialize.
The attacks took place late
Friday or early Saturday in the
Texas capital of Austin, Chi-
cago and Savannah, Georgia.
In Austin, authorities said
they arrested one of two male
suspects and were searching for
the other after a shooting early
Saturday on a crowded pedes-
trian-only street packed with
bars and restaurants. Fourteen
people were wounded, includ-
ing two critically, in the gunfire,
which the city’s interim police
chief said is believed to have
started as a dispute between
two parties.
No arrests were reported by
late Saturday in the two other
Shooting attacks in Austin, Texas, Chicago and Savannah, Georgia, come as health restrictions ease.
Officials are worried that violence could increase as the nation heads into summer.
shootings.
In Chicago, a woman was
killed and nine other people
were wounded when two men
opened fire on a group stand-
ing on a sidewalk in the Cha-
tham neighborhood on the
city’s South Side. The shooters
also got away and hadn’t been
identified by midafternoon
Saturday.
In the south Georgia city of
Savannah, police said one man
was killed and seven other peo-
ple were wounded in a shoot-
ing Friday evening, police said.
Two of the wounded are chil-
dren — an 18-month-old and a
13-year-old.
Savannah’s police chief, Roy
Minter Jr., said the shooting
may be linked to an ongoing
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dispute between two groups,
citing reports of gunshots being
fired at the same apartment
complex earlier in the week.
“It’s very disturbing what
we’re seeing across the country
and the level of gun violence
that we’re seeing across the
country,” Chief Minter told re-
porters Saturday. “It’s disturb-
ing and it’s senseless.”
The attacks come amid an
easing of COVID-19 pandemic
restrictions in much of the
country, including Chicago,
which lifted many of its re-
maining safeguards on Friday.
Many hoped that a spike in U.S.
shootings and homicides last
year was an aberration perhaps
caused by pandemic-related
stress amid a rise in gun owner-
ship and debate over policing.
But those rates are still
higher than they were in pre-
pandemic times, including in
cities that refused to slash po-
lice spending following George
Floyd’s death and those that
made modest cuts.
“There was a hope this
might simply be a statistical
blip that would start to come
down,” said Chuck Wexler, ex-
ecutive director of the Police
Executive Research Forum.
“That hasn’t happened. And
that’s what really makes chiefs
worry that we may be entering
a new period where we will
see a reversal of 20 years of
declines in these crimes.”
Tracking ups and downs in
crime is always complicated,
but violent crime commonly in-
creases in the summer months.
Weekend evenings and early-
morning hours also are com-
mon windows for shootings.
Many types of crime did
decline in 2020 and have stayed
lower this year, suggesting the
pandemic and the activism and
unrest spurred by the reaction
to Floyd’s death didn’t lead to
an overall spike in crime.
According to a database com-
piled by The Associated Press,
USA Today and Northeastern
University, only three mass
shootings occurred at public
places — the lowest total for
that category in a decade — out
of 19 total mass shootings in 2020.
The database tracks all
mass killings including shoot-
ings, defined as four or more
people dead not including the
perpetrator.
According to that definition,
there have been 17 mass kill-
ings, 16 of those shootings, al-
ready this year, said James Alan
Fox, a criminologist and profes-
sor at Northeastern University.

HEALTH CARE

AMA doctors meet amid vocal backlash over racial equity plan
BY LINDSEY TANNER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The nation’s largest, most in-
fluential doctors’ group is holding
its annual policymaking meet-
ing amid backlash over its most
ambitious plan ever — to help
dismantle centuries-old racism
and bias in all realms of the medi-
cal establishment.
The dissenters are a vocal
minority of physicians, includ-
ing some white Southern del-
egates who accuse the American
Medical Association of reverse
discrimination.
Dr. Gerald Harmon, the
group’s incoming president, is a
69-year-old white native of rural
South Carolina who knows he
isn’t the most obvious choice to
lead the AMA at this pivotal time.
But he seems intent on breaking
down stereotypes and said point-
edly in a phone interview, “This
plan is not up for debate.”
The six-day meeting that
began Friday is being held virtu-
ally because of the pandemic.
It offers a chance for doctors
to adopt policies that spell out
how the AMA should implement
its health equity plan. But some
white doctors say the plan goes
too far.
Announced last month, the
plan is unusually bold for the his-
torically cautious AMA, acknowl-
edging that racism and white
privilege exist in the medical es-
tablishment and have contributed
to health disparities laid bare dur-
ing the coronavirus pandemic.
Portions of the plan include
the language of critical race
theory, referencing the theft of
native lands and centuries-old
white supremacy. The dissent-
ers took offense and attacked
the plan in documents recently
leaked online. One leaked draft
of a letter intended for
AMA executives called
portions of the plan
“divisive, accusatory
and insulting.”
“White males are
repeatedly character-
ized as repressive and
to some degree respon-
sible for the inequities. Harmon
This … implies reverse
discrimination,” the
letter said. It was signed by Dr.
Claudette Dalton, a member of
the AMA’s Southeastern delega-
tion, four other physicians and
five state delegations represent-
ing 68 AMA delegates.
Dr. Dalton said in an email that
the draft letter was not sent, but
she declined several requests for
comment.
Critics argue that the plan
should be put up for a vote by
delegates, but it reflects existing
policies. It was developed by
AMA executives and
staff based in part on
measures adopted at
previous policymak-
ing meetings. That
includes a declaration
last November that rac-
ism is a public health
threat.
Dr. Harmon’s effort
to knock down stereo-
types includes reflect-
ing on his own experiences. He
described a recent encounter at
a South Carolina hospital with
an older Black man stricken with
COVID-19 pneumonia. The man
was getting better but was not very
communicative and offered mostly
one-word responses to questions.
The man’s name was familiar,
so Dr. Harmon sat down at the
bedside and probed. “‘What kind
of work did you do?’ ‘Mechanic.’
‘What kind?’ ‘Jet engines.’ ”
With an Air Force background,
Dr. Harmon shared that he knew
about jet engines, and the patient
perked up. He had worked at a
NASA research center in Virginia
where Dr. Harmon had once been
assigned.
“He was literally a rocket sci-
entist,” Dr. Harmon said.
Dr. Harmon acknowledged the
racial stereotype behind his initial
impression. He said that’s the kind
of thinking that the AMA wants
to confront. But he also noted that
he took time to learn more about
the patient and to find common
ground — something Black patients
say white doctors often don’t do.
U.S. physicians, including AMA
members, are overwhelmingly
white. With roughly 270,000 mem-
bers, the AMA represents just over
a quarter of the nation’s doctors.
One measure at this week’s
meeting would have the group
create guidelines to help hospi-
tals, academic medical centers
and doctors’ offices create and
prominently display anti-racist
policies that clearly define racist
behavior and “microaggressions.”
Those are sometimes subtle be-
haviors and actions that can be
as damaging as overt racism and
bias, including assuming Black
patients aren’t educated or that
women doctors are cleaning staff.
Amid strong evidence that
patients fare best when treated
by physicians who look like them,
another measure asks the AMA to
bolster efforts to create a more di-
verse physician workforce. That
would include advocating for
programs to encourage interest
in medical careers among high
school and college students of dif-
ferent races, ethnicities, genders
and sexual orientation.
Voting is scheduled for Mon-
day through Wednesday. Dr. Har-
mon begins his one-year term as
president on Tuesday.
MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2021 ☆R NATION | A7

American Scene
ENTERTAINMENT

‘Superman,’ ‘Deliverance’ actor Ned Beatty dies at age 83

BY VICTOR MORTON comic-relief role of Lex Luthor’s voice actor, notably playing the and Q’s and nurture your fans. But winning a Drama Desk Award
THE WASHINGTON TIMES sidekick Otis in the first two evil pink bear Lotso in “Toy Story I like to surprise the audience, to for playing patriarch Big Daddy
Christopher Reeve “Superman” 3” and the scheming mayor Tor- do the unexpected.”  in a 2003 revival of the Tennessee
Oscar-nominated character movies and as the rape victim toise John in “Rango.” Mr. Beatty also was a prolific Williams classic play “Cat on a
actor Ned Beatty died Sunday. in a famous scene in the rafting- Despite his success in charac- actor on television — a rarer Hot Tin Roof.”
He was 83. journey thriller “Deliverance.” ter roles, Mr. Beatty never made thing for a movie star to do then His roots were in the the-
Mr. Beatty’s manager, Debo- He worked with some of the the transition into leading-man than now — as detective Stanley ater. He spent eight years at the
rah Miller, said he died of natural most important directors in or star territory. Bolander, aka “The Big Man,” on Arena Stage Company, appearing
causes at his home in Los Angeles American movies, making “Nash- “They’re more trouble than ”Homicide: Life on the Street” in such plays as Anton Chekhov’s
surrounded by friends and loved ville” and other films with Robert they’re worth,” he once told Peo- and playing the chaplain in “The “Uncle Vanya” and Arthur Mill-
ones Altman, “1941” with Steven Spiel- ple magazine. “I feel sorry for Execution of Private Slovik.” His er’s “Death of a Salesman,” after
Mr. Beatty was nominated berg, and “Charlie Wilson’s War” people in a star position — it’s character was assigned to com- working 10 summers at the Barter
for an Academy Award as best with Mike Nichols.  unnatural.” fort Martin Sheen’s titular soldier Theater in Abingdon, Virginia.
supporting actor for the 1976 film He specialized in yokel and He also said he enjoyed the in the hours before he was put to But his career took off when he
“Network,” despite having re- rube roles, including a dubious freedom being a character actor death for cowardice. took a train to New York to audition
ally only one scene — a sinister marshal in John Huston’s “The gave him. He was nominated for two for John Boorman for the role of
5-minute speech to anchorman Life and Times of Judge Roy “Stars never want to throw Emmys — for the TV miniseries Bobby Trippe in “Deliverance,” his
Howard Beale. Bean,” a salesman in Arthur Hill- the audience a curveball, but my “Friendly Fire,” the TV movie first major film role and the one that
“You have meddled with the er’s “Silver Streak” (1976), the fa- great joy is throwing curveballs,” “Last Train Home” — and a won him fame for the notorious
primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, ther of the titular hero in “Rudy.” he said in a 1977 interview with Golden Globe for the film “Hear “squeal like a pig” scene.
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and I won’t have it!” Mr. Be- He tackled Southern Gothic roles The Associated Press. “Being My Song.” Mr. Beatty was divorced three
atty’s character yells at Beale in in Huston’s Flannery O’Connor Ned Beatty, the actor who a star cuts down on your effec- All told, Mr. Beatty appeared times but was still married after
a starkly lit room. adaptation “Wise Blood” and in had a long and prolific career tiveness as an actor because you in more than 150 movies and TV 22 years to his fourth wife Sandra
As examples of his range as an Altman’s “Cookie’s Fortune.” died Sunday. Mr. Beatty was become an identifiable part of a shows. Johnson at the time of his death.
actor, TMZ noted that his other He enjoyed a career resur- nominated for an Oscar for his product and somewhat predict- His biggest award as an actor, He had eight children by his first
best-known roles include the gence later in life as a high-profile role in the 1976 film “Network.” able. You have to mind your P’s though, came on Broadway, three wives.

It will be the first launch ticket sales to the public or Pittsburgh Public Safety driver looking for a way to re- said when he got home after
BRIEFLY of Blue Origin’s New Shepard
rocket with people on board,
divulge prices.
— Associated Press
Director Wendell Hissrich said
three people were killed, one of
lieve stress during the coronavi-
rus pandemic jumped into Lake
one such jump, he found about
20 scrapes and cuts on his body.
THE NATION kicking off the company’s space whom was still in the car inside Michigan for a 365th straight He was encouraged by
tourism business. PENNSYLVANIA the building. day on Saturday. the response he got for his
Fifteen previous test flights Two other people were in- Dan O’Conor said he started undertaking.
SPACE FLIGHT of the reusable rocket and
Car crashes into plasma jured, one critically, he said. jumping into the lake at Mon- “People started asking me
capsule since 2015 — short hops center building; 3 dead Two firefighters and a trose Harbor on the city’s North what this was benefiting and
$28 million bid wins trip lasting about 10 minutes — PITTSBURGH | A car crashed paramedic also were treated for Side last year to relieve stress. how they could support — and
into space with Bezos were all successful. Saturday into a building hous- smoke inhalation. “It was during the pan- when I say people, I’m talking
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. | An Saturday’s auction followed ing a plasma center in Pitts- Mr. Hissrich said he couldn’t demic, it was during the pro- strangers online, you know.
auction for a ride into space next more than a month of online burgh, killing three people and say whether the other two test, it was during an election When I started posting the vid-
month alongside Jeff Bezos and bidding that reached $4.8 mil- injuring two others, one criti- people killed were in the ve- year. … So it was somewhere eos on Twitter and Instagram
his brother ended with a winning lion by Friday. cally, authorities said. hicle and got out or were in the where I could come down … I got more wind in my sails
$28 million bid Saturday. More than 7,500 people from Police, fire and emergency building and were struck. here and block all that noise there because people started
The Amazon founder’s rocket 159 countries registered to bid, medical services responded There were about 10 employ- out and kind of be totally commenting like, ‘This makes
company, Blue Origin, did not according to Blue Origin. after the crash into the Biomat ees and five donors inside at the present with me in the lake, my day, it’s nice to see this,’ ” he
disclose the winner’s name fol- More than 20 bidders — the USA Plasma Building in the time of the crash, officials said. and find some moments of said.
lowing the live online auction. high rollers — took part in Manchester neighborhood at — Associated Press Zen,” said the father of three. Saturday was special be-
The identity will be revealed Saturday’s auction. about 11:30 a.m. He continued jumping into cause it was the culmination of
in a couple weeks — closer to the The completely automated Emergency responders ar- ILLINOIS the lake through the fall before doing it for a full year.
brief up-and-down flight from capsule can carry up to six rived to find heavy smoke and the hard part: Hacking a hole in “I just wanted to celebrate
West Texas on July 20, the 52nd passengers, each with their own people fleeing the building.
Man jumps into Lake Michigan the ice on the frozen lake that just that drive to dive for 365,”
anniversary of Neil Armstrong big window. Fire crews extinguished a every day for full year was big enough for him to jump Mr. O’Conor said.
and Buzz Aldrin’s moon landing. Blue Origin has yet to open blaze that followed the crash. CHICAGO | A Chicago bus through during the winter. He — Associated Press

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DIPLOMACY
Biden sees breakthroughs in first G-7 summit
Leaders offer rebuke of China
on rights abuses, aggression
BY DAVID R. SANDS
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President Biden claimed break-
throughs on a number of fronts
as he wrapped up his first Group
of Seven summit as president on
Britain’s Cornish seacoast, a gath-
ering marked by normalcy and
lower-volume diplomacy after the
tumultuous Trump years.
The leaders of the seven in-
dustrial democracies endorsed
Mr. Biden’s pitch for a 15% global
corporate minimum tax standard
and pledged new steps to battle
climate change, curb the global
coal industry and to supply a
collective 1 billion COVID-19 vac-
cines to the developing world.
The G-7 powers also issued
an unexpectedly pointed rebuke
of China in their final communi-
que, condemning rights abuses
in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, call-
ing out Chinese aggression in
the South China Sea, criticizing
Chinese trade and investment
practices and endorsing a fresh,
independent investigation into
how the coronavirus outbreak in
Wuhan, China, developed into a
deadly global pandemic.
Mr. Biden told reporters at the
summit’s conclusion that it had
been an “extraordinarily collab-
orative and productive meeting.
“I felt there was genuine en-
thusiasm that America was back
at the table,” he said.
Mr. Biden in his remarks took
several swipes at his predecessor,
saying on climate change that
other G-7 leaders welcomed the
U.S. shift from President Trump
because “we had a president who
said it was not a problem.”
Although there had been re-
sistance to some U.S. demands on
AFGHANISTAN
Embassy halts visa process
before Afghan troop pullout
BY JOSEPH CLARK
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The State Department on
Friday announced the suspen-
sion of all visa operations at the
U.S. Embassy in Kabul, further
diminishing hope of escape for
interpreters and other Afghans
who helped the U.S. war effort
and face Taliban retribution after
the troop pullout.
The embassy will stop process-
ing visas on Sunday in response to
rising COVID-19 cases throughout
Afghanistan, said the department.
The announcement came less
than a week after Secretary of State
MEXICO
Evidence in Mexico serial killer’s house suggests 17 victims
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEXICO CITY | Investigators
digging under the house of a
suspected serial killer on the
outskirts of Mexico City said
Saturday they have found 3,787
bone fragments so far, apparently
belonging to 17 different victims.
Prosecutors in the State of
Mexico, which borders Mexico
City, suggested the grisly finds
may not end there. In excavations
carried out since May 17, authori-
ties have dug up the floors of the
house where the suspect lived.
They now plan to extend the
search to the soil beneath several
other rooms he rented out on the
same property.
ID cards and other posses-
sions from people who disap-
peared years ago were found at
the junk-filled home, suggesting
the trail of killings may go back
years.
The number of bone
confronting China, Mr. Biden said
he was satisfied with the discus-
sions in Carbis Bay, England, on
Beijing.
“I think there’s plenty of ac-
tion on China,” he said. “... I’m
satisfied.
“I think China has to start to
act more responsibly when it
comes to international norms,
human rights and transparency.”
Battling Beijing’s ‘Belt’
Host Britain and the leaders of
the U.S., Canada, France, Germany,
Italy and Japan took direct aim
Sunday at China’s vast “Belt and
Road” infrastructure program for
the developing world, pledging to
establish a rival financing program
that is private sector-based and, in
President Biden’s words, “much
more equitable.”
U.S. leaders have watched with
concern as Chinese President Xi
Jinping’s “Belt and Road” pro-
gram has funneled tens of bil-
lions of dollars into underwriting
roads, bridges, ports and other
infrastructure projects in coun-
tries across Asia, Eastern Europe,
sub-Saharan Africa and Latin
America. The investments have
given Beijing enormous diplo-
matic and financial leverage, but
critics say many of the projects
have proven uneconomical and
have left recipients facing pun-
ishing debts to Beijing and to
the Chinese contractors who do
much of the work.
“China has its Belt and Road
Initiative, and we think that
there’s a much more equitable
way to provide for the needs of
countries around the world,” Mr.
Biden said.
Italian Prime Minister Mario
Draghi, who like Mr. Biden was
Antony Blinken committed to sig-
nificantly expediting visa process-
ing for those vulnerable Afghans.
Rep. Michael T. McCaul, the
ranking Republican on the For-
eign Affairs Committee who has
championed the Afghan allies,
demanded swift action from the
Biden administration to fix the
visa holdups.
“I have already called on Presi-
dent Biden to direct the Penta-
gon and the State Department
to evacuate any person who has
reached a sufficient stage in the
security vetting process to a third
country to finish their visa pro-
cessing before the U.S. finishes
A police officer marks a security perimeter around the house where
bones were found under the floor on the outskirts of Mexico City.
Authorities said that the remains suggest at least 17 victims.
fragments found underneath
concrete floors at the suspect’s
home would imply the corpses
may have been hacked into tiny
pieces.
That could make sense: The
suspect, identified by prosecutors
only as “Andres,” was formerly a
butcher and in fact sectioned and
filleted his last victim.
“The bones fragments are
being subjected to ‘lateralization’
studies, which include carefully
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) and President Biden talk during the G-7 on Britain's Cornish
seacoast. "I felt there was genuine enthusiasm that America was back at the table," Mr. Biden said.
attending his first G-7 summit as
his country’s leader, told report-
ers that Rome was reconsidering
its 2019 decision to become a for-
mal member of the Belt and Road
network, the only G-7 country to
have taken that step.
The U.S. also saw progress on
the minimum tax issue, as the G-7
leaders endorsed an international
push to require companies to pay
a minimum tax of 15% of their
income, targeting a drive by mul-
tinational corporate giants like
Apple to seek out low-tax havens
around the globe.
President Biden had strongly
pushed the idea, saying the cor-
porate rate-shopping had de-
prived governments of needed
revenue while allowing some of
the world’s biggest businesses to
pay little in taxes.
The G-7 endorsement is ex-
pected to give momentum to a
drive by the nearly three dozen
OECD nations to adopt the mini-
mum tax idea, though financial
experts say the plan could prove
difficult to implement fully. The
Group of 20 nations, which in-
cludes large developing econo-
mies such as India, Brazil and
China, are set to consider the
minimum tax idea next month.
U.S. officials also hope a broad
minimum tax will head off efforts
the military retrograde,” he said.
“With this latest setback in visa
processing, I also now believe
President Biden should explore
the option of humanitarian pa-
role, which has been utilized in
past refugee crises, for that same
group of Afghans awaiting the
final stages of visa processing.”
“These Afghans will have a
bullseye on their backs from the
moment we leave the country,”
he said. “If President Biden aban-
dons them, he is signing their
death warrants.”
The State Department’s
announcement did not state
how long the cessation of visa
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cleaning each one, identifying
what part of the body they are
and then placing them in their
anatomical position, providing
a method for determining the
approximate number of victims,”
the office said in a statement.
“This analysis indicates that,
up to now, the bone fragments
found may possibly be those of 17
people,” the statement said.
Authorities have not released
the full name of the 72-year-old
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by France and others to levy a
national digital services tax aimed
primarily at the overseas opera-
tions of American tech giants such
as Apple, Facebook and Google.
Preparing for Putin
In remarks at the summit’s
conclusion, Mr. Biden also pre-
viewed his much-anticipated
summit with Russian President
Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in
Switzerland, which comes after a
gathering of NATO leaders Mon-
day in Brussels.
Mr. Biden defended the deci-
sion not to have a joint press con-
ference with the Russian leader,
despite multiple points of fric-
tion in the bilateral relationship
including Ukraine, human rights
and U.S. charges that the Kremlin
has all but condoned cyberhack-
ing and ransomware attacks on
U.S. targets by Russian actors.
Russia “has its own dilemmas”
dealing with such issues as its
stagnant economy, the COVID-
19 crisis and its relations not just
with the U.S. but with the West
more generally, Mr. Biden said.
Both he and Mr. Putin said
in separate press remarks Sun-
day that there were still areas
of cooperation between the two
countries.
Mr. Biden appeared to confuse
processing was expected to last.
The Washington Times re-
ported last week that the State
Department is sitting on a back-
log of 18,000 applications for
special visas to clear the Afghan
allies to relocate to the U.S., leav-
ing those collaborators at risk of
retaliation by the Taliban.
The effort to clear the back-
log would require a significant
improvement in the application
processing time for Special Im-
migrant Visa program run by the
State Department, according to
advocates who say the program
has long been an afterthought for
U.S. officials.
James Miervaldis of No One
Left Behind, a group that ad-
vocates for interpreters who
worked for the U.S. during the
Iraq and Afghanistan wars, said
the State Department would need
to process as many applications
in a month as the department
processed in a year to meet the
withdrawal deadline.
suspect under Mexican laws pro-
tecting a suspect’s identity.
He has been ordered to stand
trial in the killing of his last vic-
tim, a 34-year-old woman whose
body he allegedly dismembered
with a butcher’s hacksaw and
knives on May 14.
He was caught, not as a result
of keen investigative work, but
because his most recent alleged
victim was the wife of a police
commander whom he knew per-
sonally. He was to have accom-
panied the victim on a shopping
trip the day she disappeared, so
her husband suspected him when
she failed to return.
The police officer gained
access to police surveillance
cameras showing his wife had
entered, but not left, the street
where the suspect lived; the po-
liceman went to the home, con-
fronted the suspect, and found
his wife’s hacked-up body inside.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
his countries, though, saying
one area of bilateral cooperation
could be addressing the humani-
tarian crisis in “Libya.” 
The U.S. and Russia have ex-
plored opening aid flows for the
refugee crisis not in Libya but in
Syria, where Russia is a major
supporter of the government of
President Bashar Assad.
Mr. Putin also seemed to be
looking for ways to lower the tem-
perature for the Geneva meeting,
telling Rossiya-1 TV Sunday the
summit could be a way to re-
establish more normal contacts
between the two leaders.
The summit is “planned to re-
store our personal contacts and
relations, establish a direct dia-
logue and create really function-
ing mechanisms of interaction in
the areas of mutual interest,” Mr.
Putin said.
Speaking on CNN Sunday, Sec-
retary of State Antony Blinken said
it was unrealistic to expect a single
summit to resolve all of the issues
dividing the U.S. and Russia.
The summit, Mr. Blinken said, is
“a beginning of testing ... whether
Russia is interested in a more stable
and predictable relationship, and
finding areas to work together.
“We’re not going to get the
answer out of one meeting,” he
added.
As the pace of the withdrawal
continues to accelerate toward
President Biden’s Sept. 11 pullout
deadline, the Pentagon has pro-
posed alternatives plans to rescue
Afghan allies, though critics say the
administration has acted too slowly.
Mr. McCaul also pressed Mr.
Blinken on the matter during a
recent hearing.
“Just last week, Secretary
Austin ordered Gen. McKenzie
to develop a plan to evacuate
these people. But we need a
place to temporarily house them
while their visas finish process-
ing, which falls within the State
Department,” Mr. McCaul said
during his questioning, referring
to Secretary Lloyd Austin and
Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr.
“And most importantly, we need
President Biden, as Commander
in Chief, to give the order.”
Mr. Blinken offered few details
on evacuation plans but expected
to expedite processing over the
summer.
But what investigators also
found was women’s clothing,
voter IDs and audio and video
tapes suggesting he may have
recorded his victims.
The format of the video tapes
found at the house may suggest
how far the killings went back:
authorities found 28 8mm video
tapes, which were discontinued
around 2007, and 25 VHS cas-
settes, which largely fell out of
favor by 2016.
However, outdated tech for-
mats often remain in use in Mex-
ico after they have been aban-
doned in other countries.
In total, prosecutors said they
have found 91 photographs, many
of the type people would have used
to obtain ID cards; eight cellphones,
and women’s jewelry and makeup.
Prosecutors said they are still
examining the bone fragments to
see if they can extract any DNA
to identify the victims.
MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2021
BRIEFLY
THE WORLD
CHINA
Gas explosion in north
kills at least 12 people
BEIJING | At least 12 people
were killed and 39 seriously
injured Sunday after a gas
line explosion tore through a
residential neighborhood in
central China.
Responders to the early
morning blast in the Hubei
province city of Shiyan sent
more than 150 people to hos-
pital, according to the city’s
official social media channel.
— Associated Press
JORDAN
Two confidants of prince
charged with sedition
AMMAN | The prosecutor of
Jordan’s state security court
on Sunday filed sedition and
incitement charges against
two confidants of King
Abdullah II’s half-brother
Hamzah, marking the latest
step in a rare, intrigue-filled
palace drama that has rattled
the Western-backed kingdom.
The affair erupted into
the open in early April when
Prince Hamzah was placed
under house arrest and two
senior associates — Bassem
Awadallah and Sharif Hassan
bin Zaid — were arrested,
amid allegations that they
tried to destabilize Jordan
with foreign help.
Mr. bin Zaid is a member
of the royal family, and Mr.
Awadallah, a former head of
the royal court, reportedly
has close ties to Saudi Ara-
bia’s powerful crown prince.
The state news agency
Petra said Sunday that the
trial of the two will begin
next week before the state
security court.
Prince Hamzah’s fate
remains unclear, includ-
ing whether his movement
and ability to communicate
remain restricted.
— Associated Press
PHILIPPINES
Four militants killed
in gunbattle with army
MANILA | Philippine troops
killed four Abu Sayyaf mili-
tants in a gunbattle Sunday in
the country’s south, includ-
ing a commander blamed for
beheadings and a suspected
would-be suicide bomber,
military officials said.
Army troops backed by
police were to serve a war-
rant for the arrest of Injam
Yadah at his home after mid-
night in Alat village in Jolo
town in Sulu province, when
he and his men opened fire.
That sparked a gunbattle
that killed the militants,
said regional military com-
mander Lt. Gen. Corleto
Vinluan Jr.
Yadah had been accused
by the military of involve-
ment in the kidnappings
for ransom of Filipinos and
foreigners, including eight
Indonesian fishermen who
were abducted at sea off
Malaysia in early 2020 and
brought to the southern
Philippines.
— Associated Press
ITALY
Gunman dies near Rome
after killing man, 2 boys
ROME | A gunman shot and
killed an older man and two
young boys in Italy before
barricading himself in a home
outside Rome.
He was found dead as
police moved in, authorities
said.
Rome Mayor Virginia
Raggi expressed shock at
the shooting in the town of
Ardea.
Police surrounded the
home where the gunman was
holed up.
Ardea Mayor Mario Sa-
varese said the gunman was
known to be unstable.
— Associated Press
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ISRAEL
From page A1
agreement, Mr. Bennett will serve as
prime minister for the first two years of
the government’s term before giving way
to Mr. Lapid.
Israeli political analysts say the coali-
tion may struggle to stay in power that
long. Its members span the political
spectrum, from religious conservatives
to far-left parties to the first Israeli Arab
party to formally join a ruling coalition.
In the sometimes raucous debate
before the vote, Likud supporters heck-
led Mr. Bennett repeatedly as he tried
to address the Knesset. Mr. Netanyahu
defended his record and vowed not to go
quietly into political oblivion.
“Our successes turned Israel from
a fringe state to a leading power,” Mr.
Netanyahu said at one point.
“If we have to be in opposition, we
will do this standing tall — until we bring
down this dangerous government and
return to lead the state,” he said.
Mr. Netanyahu faces a difficult path
personally and professionally. He is
under indictment on corruption charges
in a legal proceeding that stalled while he
remained in office. In addition, the new
coalition is expected to introduce a limit
of two terms for any prime minister, ef-
fectively barring a Netanyahu comeback.
The Knesset voted at a sensitive time
for the Biden administration, which is close
to forging a new agreement with Iran on a
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nuclear pact that the Trump administration
and the Netanyahu government staunchly Israelis celebrated after the Knesset voted in favor of a new coalition government, formally ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic 12-year rule. Netanyahu
opposed. Mr. Netanyahu told the Knesset backers, meanwhile, jeered the new prime minister as he said it was time to “stop this madness” after two years of political gridlock and four inconclusive elections.
that the coalition government would be
unable to stand up to Washington and government budget for two years be-
European leaders pushing hard to revive cause of political gridlock.
the accord with Tehran. Shira Efron, a visiting fellow at Israel’s
Mr. Netanyahu’s exit could give Presi- Institute for National Security Stud-
dent Biden more maneuvering room ies, predicted that the new government
and remove an Israeli leader who forged would be unified for now by their shared
close ties with President Trump, con- distaste for Mr. Netanyahu.
servative Republicans and evangelical But beyond some basic domestic
Christians. political housekeeping, she said, it is
“I can’t imagine that anyone in the unlikely that the coalition can take on
Biden administration is not cheering big projects or deal with difficult issues
privately that Bibi is going,” said Paul such as the Palestinian peace process.
Scham, a scholar at the Gildenhorn Insti- Ms. Efron said in a webinar Friday
tute for Israel Studies at the University of sponsored by the Middle East Institute
Maryland, using Mr. Netanyahu’s widely that the success of the coalition will
used nickname. depend on Likud and whether it can
Mr. Bennett, who rose through the po- move past Mr. Netanyahu and rebuild
litical ranks as an ultranationalist fiercely its political fortunes. Most are betting
opposed to an independent state for the that Mr. Lapid will not get the prime
Palestinians, also faces hard choices on minister’s seat in two years.
how to govern, given how fragile and “Everyone here is really skeptical
divided his coalition is on basic issues. about the government’s durability,” she From left: Avigdor Lieberman, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid and Israel’s new prime minister, Naftali Bennett, held a Cabinet meeting in
Israel has been unable to approve a said. Jerusalem on Sunday. Mr. Bennett is to serve for two years of the government’s term before handing over power to Mr. Lapid.

MILITARY DEATH NOTICE

From page A1
and curriculum based on critical race
theory, which holds that White people
are inherently racist and invested in the
oppression of people of color.
Pentagon officials defend the training.
They say it promotes diversity, equity
and inclusion in the armed forces.
Critics say it is sowing division in
the ranks.
“One Marine told us a military his-
tory training session was replaced with
mandatory training on police brutality,
White privilege, and systemic racism.
He reported that several officers are now
leaving his unit citing that training,” Mr.
Cotton said. “Another service member
told us that their unit was required to
read ‘White Fragility’ by Robin DiAngelo,
which claims ‘White people raised in
Western society are conditioned in a
White supremacist world view.’ ”
He said an airman complained that
an exercise called “privilege walk” was
a “racist exercise.”
“Members of the wing were ordered
to separate themselves by race and gen-
der in order to stratify people based on
their perceived privilege,” Mr. Cotton
said in describing the airman’s complaint.
The senator detailed several specific
complaints last week while questioning
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the
committee hearing.
“We’re hearing reports of plummeting
morale, growing mistrust between the
races and sexes where none existed just
six months ago, and unexpected retire-
ments and separations based on these
trainings alone,” he said.
Mr. Cotton asked Mr. Austin whether
he believes the military is fundamentally
racist and whether service members
should be treated differently based on
race or sex. Mr. Austin answered no to
both questions, and he said he welcomed
service members to make complaints
through their chain of command or the
inspector general.
“I would also say that diversity, eq-
uity, and inclusion is important to this
military now, and it will be important
in the future,” Mr. Austin said. “And
so we’re going to make sure that our
military looks like America and that our
leadership looks like what’s in the ranks
of the military.”
The complaints follow recent Penta-
gon efforts to stamp out extremism in
the ranks after current and former troops
were identified in the pro-Trump mob
that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. In
February, the Pentagon directed military
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told senators last week that “diversity, equity, and inclusion is important to this military now” and
“we’re going to make sure that our military looks like America and that our leadership looks like what’s in the ranks of the military.”
units to hold a one-day “stand-down”
to address extremism within the ranks.
The service members’ complaints
also point to emerging polarization in
the military ranks.
“Enough is enough,” Mr. Crenshaw
said in a Twitter post when announcing
the whistleblower site. “We won’t let our
military fall to woke ideology.”
The efforts to improve inclusiv-
ity have gone too far, the lawmakers
said. They added that the military has
long been one of the country’s great
equalizers.
“The military for decades has been
one of the institutions in this society
where you are most likely to get ahead
based on your own performance, on your
own merit, irrespective of the color of
your skin or where you came from or
who your parents were,” Mr. Cotton said.
“There’s a cultural identity that takes
place in the military, which is actually
really hard to emulate anywhere else, but
it happens in the military,” Mr. Crenshaw
told Fox News on Friday. “That’s what we
should be talking about when we say the
military is inclusive.”
Langley,
Roger Richard
Roger Richard Langley passed away
on June 3, 2021. He was born August 22,
1930, in Amsterdam, New York. He joined
the Navy in 1949 and served on the Battle-
ship Missouri during the Korean War. As
editor of the ship’s newspaper, his battle
station was his typewriter.
After an honorable discharge in 1955,
he attended Syracuse University, where
he earned a BA and a Master’s degree in
Communications, and met the love of his
life. He married Norma Ann Sekinger in
1960. His journalism career commenced
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS with working for small newspapers in up-
state New York. He worked his way up
the ranks, moving from paper to paper,
eventually landing a chief writer post with
American Media in Palm Beach, Florida.
In 1974, his family, which now included
three children, moved to Rockville, Mary-
land, and Roger served as Washington
Bureau Chief for World News Corp, then
established a freelance syndication busi-
ness, before finally taking a public rela-
tions job with Montgomery County.
After retiring in 1994, he devoted him-
self to serving the Catholic Church. He
and Norma became co-directors of the
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VIRGINIA
Singer to open private school for low-income families
Nonprofit aims to teach students in Norfolk
BY SARA GREGORY
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
NORFOLK, VA. | Singer Pharrell
Williams’ nonprofit plans to open
a group of small private schools
for students from low-income
families, starting in Norfolk.
The first school will open this
fall in Ghent — the group declined
to specify where — for students
in the city in grades three through
five with the goal of expanding
on the equity-focused nonprofit’s
decade of experience running
summer programs for students.
“If the system is fixed and
unfair, then it needs to be bro-
ken,” Mr. Williams said in a news
release. “We don’t want lockstep
learning where so many kids fall
behind; we want bespoke learning
designed for each child, where the
things that make a child different
are the same things that will make
a child rise up and take flight.”
Called Yellowhab — “yellow”
after Mr. Williams’ nonprofit
and “hab” after the name of the
Mars habitat in the movie “The
Scientists hail golden age to trace bird migration
Tech tracks genetics, movement
BY CHRISTINA LARSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A plump robin wearing a
tiny metal backpack with an
antenna hops around a subur-
ban yard in Takoma Park, then
plucks a cicada from the ground
for a snack.
Ecologist Emily Williams
watches through binoculars
from behind a bush. On this
clear spring day, she’s snooping
on his dating life.
“Now I’m watching to see
whether he’s found a mate,” she
said, scrutinizing his interac-
tions with another robin in a
nearby tree.
Once the bird moves on at
season’s end, she’ll rely on the
backpack to beam frequent lo-
cation data to the Argos satel-
lite, then back to Ms. Williams’
laptop, to track it.
The goal is to unravel why
some American robins migrate
long distances, but others do
not.
With more precise informa-
tion about nesting success and
conditions in breeding and win-
tering grounds, “we should be
able to tell the relative roles of
genetics versus the environment
in shaping why birds migrate,”
said Ms. Williams, who is based
at Georgetown University.
Putting beacons on birds is
not novel. But a new antenna on
the International Space Station
and receptors on the Argos sat-
ellite, plus the shrinking size of
tracking chips and batteries, are
allowing scientists to remotely
monitor songbird movements
in much greater detail than ever
before.
VIRGINIA
School system to appeal teacher’s return after transgender remark
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LEESBURG, VA. | A Northern
Virginia school system plans to
appeal a judge’s order to reinstate
a suspended gym teacher who
spoke at a school board meeting
against a proposal requiring that
transgender students be addressed
by their preferred pronouns.
WTOP-FM reported that
Loudoun County Public Schools
said in a statement Friday that it
“respectfully disagrees” with the
decision and will appeal the ruling
to the Supreme Court of Virginia.
“Many students and par-
ents at Leesburg Elementary
have expressed fear, hurt and
Martian” — the school will be
tuition-free for at least the first
year. The costs of attendance
will be covered by philanthropic
support.
One of the school’s early do-
nors, the Walton Family Founda-
tion, has spent millions over the
last two decades to support and
promote charter schools.
And Yellow has other ties to
charter advocates: Its executive
director founded charters in Los
Angeles, and the founder of the
Harlem Children’s Zone, a New
York-based nonprofit that runs
three charters in the city, is the
chair of Yellow’s board.
But the school has no plans to
seek local approval or funding to
make this school a public char-
ter, said Executive Director Mike
McGalliard.
“We are very clear here that
we’re not taking away from the
city or the district. We want to
be additive and not put any kind
of onerous, intrusive impact on
those institutions,” Mr. McGalliard
said. “It’s very important that we
“We’re in a sort of golden age
for bird research,” said Adriaan
Dokter, an ecologist at Cornell
University who is not directly
involved with Ms. Williams’
study. “It’s pretty amazing
that we can satellite-track a
robin with smaller and smaller
chips. Ten years ago, that was
unthinkable.”
The device this robin is
wearing can give precise lo-
cations, within about 30 feet,
instead of around 125 miles for
previous generations of tags.
That means Ms. Williams
can tell not only whether the
bird is still in the city, but on
which street or backyard. Or
whether it’s flown from the D.C.
suburbs to land on the White
House lawn.
A second new tag, for only
the heaviest robins, includes
an accelerometer to provide
information about the bird’s
movements; future versions
may also measure humidity
and barometric pressure. These
Icarus tags work with a new
antenna on the International
Space Station.
That antenna was first
turned on about two years ago,
“but there were some glitches
with the power-supply and the
computer, so we had to bring
it down again with a Russian
rocket, then transport it from
Moscow to Germany to fix it,”
said Martin Wikelski, direc-
tor of the Max Planck Institute
of Animal Behavior, whose
scientific team is honing the
technology. After “the usual
troubleshooting for space sci-
ence,” the antenna was turned
back on this spring.
disappointment about coming to
school,” the statement said. While
it “respects the rights of public-
school employees to free speech
and free exercise of religion,
those rights do not outweigh the
rights of students to be educated
in a supportive and nurturing
environment.”
Loudoun County Circuit Judge
James Plowman ruled Tuesday
that teacher Tanner Cross was
exercising his right to free speech
when he told the board he could
not abide by the proposal based
on his religious beliefs. His order
required Mr. Cross’ immediate re-
instatement until a full trial is held.
not disrupt that revenue stream.”
Mr. Williams’ nonprofit has
offered summer programs and
other educational opportunities
throughout Hampton Roads for
years, but settled on Norfolk for
the site of the first school because
of its deeply entrenched housing
segregation and the city’s plans
to redevelop three public housing
communities through its billion-
dollar St. Paul’s redevelopment.
The project is displacing fami-
lies and while the city has assured
residents they’ll have choice in
where they go, as well as the
ability to return, the majority
of families that have left public
housing so far have ended up in
racially and economically segre-
gated neighborhoods zoned for
racially and economically segre-
gated public schools.
“Residents [are] being dis-
placed from their homes with po-
tentially limited housing options
available which limits options for
the children,” Stephanie Walters,
Yellow’s director of engagement,
wrote in an email. “We have a
MARYLAND
Ecologist Emily Williams fits an Argos satellite tag to an American robin in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The technology has only recently become small and light enough for some songbirds.
As researchers deploy pre-
cision tags, Mr. Wikelski envi-
sions the development of “an
‘Internet of animals’ — a col-
lection of sensors around the
world giving us a better picture
of the movement of life on the
planet.”
The American robin is an
iconic songbird in North Amer-
ica, its bright chirp a harbinger
of spring. Yet its migratory hab-
its remain a bit mysterious to
scientists.
“It’s astounding how little
we know about some of the
most common songbirds,” said
Ken Rosenberg, a conservation
scientist at Cornell University.
“We have a general idea of mi-
gration, a range map, but that’s
really just a broad impression.”
An earlier study Ms.
Alliance Defending Freedom
(ADF), a conservative Christian
legal group, sued the county
school board last week and filed
for an emergency injunction on
behalf of Mr. Cross, a teacher at
Leesburg Elementary.
Mr. Cross was suspended after
a May 25 school board meeting
where he said that he could not
abide by proposed rules that
would require teachers to address
transgender students by their cho-
sen gender.
“I’m a teacher, but I serve God
first. And I will not affirm that a
biological boy can be a girl and
vice versa because it is against my
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great relationship with the City
of Norfolk and want to be a part
of the solution in supporting the
community with resources and
support.”
Norfolk Mayor Kenny Alex-
ander, who toured Harlem Chil-
dren’s Zone charter schools with
Mr. Williams in 2019, said he was
impressed by what he saw there
and looks forward to what Mr.
Williams’ school can accomplish.
“What happened was breaking
the cycle of intergenerational pov-
erty,” Mr. Alexander said. “To see
that students had gone on to uni-
versity and some of the Ivy League
schools was just very impressive.
That’s what we witnessed there.”
Because it’s tuition-free, Mr.
Williams’ school will let children
whose parents can’t afford private
schools enroll in one if that’s what
they want, Mr. Alexander said.
Students who attend Yellow-
hab can live anywhere in the city.
Mr. McGalliard said the nonprofit
plans to announce the school’s
location later.
The new school’s curriculum
will have a heavy emphasis on
STEAM — science, technology,
engineering, art and math — like
Williams worked on showed
some robins are long-distance
migrants — flying more than
2,780 miles between their
breeding area in Alaska and
winter grounds in Texas —
while others hop around a sin-
gle backyard most of the year.
What factors drive some
robins to migrate, while others
don’t? Does it have to do with
available food, temperature
fluctuations or success in mat-
ing and rearing chicks?
Ms. Williams hopes more
detailed data from satellite
tags, combined with records
of nesting success, will provide
insights, and she’s working with
partners who are tagging robins
in Alaska, Indiana and Florida
for a three-year study.
Scientists have previously
religion. It’s lying to a child. It’s
abuse to a child,” Mr. Cross said
at the hearing.
The school board is considering
the new regulations in conjunction
with a state mandate requiring
all school systems to update their
policies on transgender students.
The model regulations circulated
by the state include a requirement
that students be addressed by their
preferred pronouns.
The state law gives the school
board no leeway on implement-
ing the policy and existing school
board regulations already prohibit
discrimination based on gender
identity, which includes referring
the summer programs have. Col-
laboration and hands-on learning
will be emphasized.
The school initially will en-
roll between 40 and 50 students.
Though admission is open to
eligible third-, fourth- and fifth-
graders, the school doesn’t plan
to have grade-level cohorts, Mr.
McGalliard said. Instead, students
will be grouped by skill level.
The traditional focus on grade
levels instead of skill levels has
led some students to be labeled
as “below grade level” or “reme-
dial,” Mr. McGalliard said, a term
Yellowhab has banned.
“The challenge is that if you’re
progressing too slow relative to
some benchmark, then you’re
tagged with that title ‘remedial’
or something like it,” he said. “And
that’s detrimental to your evolving
self concept, to your sense of what
you can achieve. It’s oppressive,
and it’s a weight kids carry.”
Families can apply to the
school online at TeamYellow.
org/YellowHab until July 1, and
students will be picked through a
lottery process.
The new school is set to
open Sept. 7.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
put GPS-tracking devices on
larger raptors, but the tech-
nology has only recently be-
come small and light enough
for some songbirds. Tracking
devices must be less than 5%
of the animal’s weight to avoid
encumbering them.
A 2019 study co-written
by Cornell’s Mr. Rosenberg
showed that North America’s
population of wild birds de-
clined by nearly 30%, or 3 bil-
lion, since 1970.
He said tracking birds will
help explain why: “Where in
their annual cycles do migra-
tory birds face the greatest
threats? Is it exposure to pes-
ticides in Mexico, the clearing
of rainforests in Brazil, or is it
what people are doing in their
backyards here in the U.S.?”
to transgender children by their
preferred pronoun, according
to Stacy Haney, a lawyer repre-
senting the school system. That
means Mr. Cross was articulat-
ing a defiance to follow existing
school policies, she said.
The school system also ar-
gued Mr. Cross was suspended
because his remarks caused a
disruption at the school, not ex-
pressing his beliefs. A disruption
of that magnitude didn’t justify
punishing a teacher for exercising
his free speech rights, Mr. Cross’
lawyer, Tyson Langhofer of the
ADF, argued last week. Judge
Plowman agreed.
MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2021
BRIEFLY
THE METRO AREA
VIRGINIA
ARLINGTON
County to rename
highway for abolitionist
Arlington County is paving
the way to rename a major
highway that currently shares
a name with Confederate Gen.
Robert E. Lee.
The Arlington County Board
of Supervisors said at its Sat-
urday meeting that it plans to
vote next month to rename Lee
Highway for abolitionist John
Langston, who also was the first
Black person to be elected to
Congress from Virginia.
The five-member board
voted unanimously Saturday to
defer a final vote to July 17.
The board said the extra
month will allow for additional
community engagement and
refining the cost estimate.
The county currently
estimates the name change will
cost $300,000.
The highway, which also
carries the U.S. 29 designation,
was named Lee Highway in the
1920s.
The new name would be
Langston Boulevard.
The name change would
only cover the parts of Lee
Highway that run through
Arlington County.
Neighboring Fairfax County
is considering a new name
for the highway as part of a
countywide review of all street
names tied to the Confederacy.
Arlington County already
has recently renamed Jefferson
Davis Highway, which was
named for the former confed-
erate president.
Robert E. Lee lived for
many years in Arlington
County.
— Associated Press
MARYLAND
GREENBELT
Neo-Nazis linked to
attack plot plead guilty
Two neo-Nazi group mem-
bers whose talk of planning an
attack at a Virginia gun rights
rally was secretly recorded
by the FBI pleaded guilty on
Thursday to gun charges.
Former Canadian Armed
Forces reservist Patrik Jordan
Mathews, U.S. Army veteran
Brian Mark Lemley Jr. and a
third member of The Base were
arrested on federal charges in
Maryland ahead of the January
2020 rally at Virginia’s Capitol
in Richmond.
Mathews, 28, and Lemley, 35,
pleaded guilty at separate hear-
ings to charges including ille-
gally transporting a firearm and
obstruction of justice — they
destroyed cellphones when FBI
agents raided their apartment.
The third co-defendant, Wil-
liam Garfield Bilbrough IV, was
sentenced to five years in prison
after pleading guilty in Decem-
ber to helping Mathews illegally
enter the U.S. from Canada in
2019.
Mathews pleaded guilty to
four counts that carry a com-
bined total of 50 years in prison.
Lemley pleaded guilty to
seven counts punishable by a
maximum of 70 years.
However, in both cases,
federal sentencing guidelines
likely will recommend a prison
sentence that is significantly
lower than the statutory
maximum.
U.S. District Judge Theo-
dore Chuang, who isn’t bound
by the guidelines, is scheduled
to sentence Mathews and Lem-
ley on Oct. 28.
None of the defendants
faced terrorism-related
charges, and a “stipulation
of facts” signed by Mathews,
Lemley and prosecutors didn’t
mention the Richmond rally.
But prosecutors are reserving
the right to seek a “terrorism
enhancement” at sentencing
that could lead to a significant
increase in a prison term if the
judge agrees to apply it.
— Associated Press

MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2021
COMMENTARY
Biden’s runaway inflation and slow growth signal malaise for a new generation
By Michael McKenna
T
he Consumer Price Index report
for May indicated a 5% increase in
consumer prices over May 2020.
The report suggests that the United to consumers.
States is on track to experience a
9.0% increase in consumer prices
in 2021.
That would be the largest
annual increase in inflation since 1980, when it was
12.5%.
To say that is concerning, especially to those
of us who lived through the
terrible, dispiriting runaway
inflation of the 1970s, is to
wildly underestimate how
AALTERNATIVE
LTERNATIVE
bad the news is.
In the 1970s, inflation
routinely reached double
digits, and it only came
HYPOTHESIS
BY MICHAEL MCKENNA
under control because of the
intense, damaging recessions of 1980 and 1982,
which consisted of three years of high prices
and high unemployment. Those recessions
first cost President Carter his job and later, the
Republicans control over the Senate, effectively
limiting the accomplishments of the Reagan
administration.
Inflation is a thief that steals from everyone;
it is corrosive to economic growth and, more
importantly, to the confidence of citizenry in the “Inflationary pressures are mounting from the
economy and the government.
Inflation crushes those on fixed incomes, the
poor and the elderly, because they can’t readily
make or access more money to meet the rising
costs. Those working also suffer, as prices in-
crease faster than wages. People are priced out of
things, like education and housing, that help build Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, has also
long-term wealth. Those who own stocks are hurt said that the American Rescue Plan is definitely
as well; the market mantra is “when prices are
high, stocks will die”.
Local institutions like schools and hospitals on thing the size of what was done.”
mostly fixed budgets are damaged.
In short, a 9.0% annual rate of inflation is the
same as a 9% pay cut if you’re working, or a 9%
reduction in the value of your retirement, Social
Security or of your stock portfolio.
Inflation affects small business. An owner of a
salon in my hometown recently told her custom-
ers that she was closing up shop, mostly because
everything she purchased — supplies, IT sup-
port, payroll management, etc. — had become
dramatically more expensive and she either
could not or would not pass the costs (which
would have doubled the price of haircuts) along
to her customers. She closes at the end of July.
By Ambassador Sam
Brownback with
Dede Laugesen
C Trump
hristians in China are increasingly
persecuted by a regime intent on
extinguishing not only their ability to
practice their faith but the very faith
itself. To these ends, Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) authorities aim to replace Jesus
with their leader, Xi Jinping.
Those who do not fully conform to
this abominable perversion of Christian-
ity and other restrictions on the faithful
suffer violent destruction of their church
properties and homes, prohibition on
religious training and wor-
ship for children under 18,
radically increased surveil-
lance, and the detention
of pastors, elders and
congregants.
Why is the CCP
focused on blotting out
Christianity? The Chinese
Communists fear the rapid
growth of the Christian
faith. The CCP’s official
data acknowledge the PRC
has 38 million Protestants
and 10-12 million Catholics.
International observers
estimate the true number
of Christians in China as
far greater, between 100-
120 million.
U.S.-based religious-
rights watchdog, ChinaAid,
details the Communist
Party’s effort to eliminate
Christianity in a report
released in April. For
example:
• The state-run
religious authorities —
the Three-Self Patriotic
Movement (TSPM) and the Chinese
Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) —
labored in 2020 to impose new theology,
tenets and practices as part of the CCP’s
larger effort to “Sinicize” all religions, and
conform them to the Communist vision
of China, wherein the state is central and
Mr. Xi alone is worshipped.
• CCP authorities published textbooks
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‘The new Carter administration’
It affects farmers and those who eat. A friend
from the middle of the country wrote a few
weeks back that his local farm supply store has
been experiencing increased prices from suppli-
ers. Those increased costs get passed right along
Inflation affects those who drive, or who use
anything transported by anything other than
mule train. In the last five months, the price of
gasoline has increased from less than $2 per gal-
lon to more than $3 per gallon.
Why has the scourge of inflation revisited
the United States? Mostly because President
Biden, in his desperate and
sad quest for a legacy, any
legacy, injected almost $2
VE trillion into an economy
that didn’t need it. Now
he wants to inject another
$6 trillion into an already
overheated economy
through his “infrastruc-
ture” and “families” plan.
It’s crazy.
What’s worse is, Mr. Biden knows it’s crazy.
He has talked more than once to Larry Sum-
mers, former secretary of the treasury to
President Clinton and director of the National
Economic Council under President Obama
whose skepticism of the American Rescue Plan
is well-known. Mr. Summers has been clear:
boost in demand created by the $2 trillion-plus
in savings that Americans have accumulated
during the pandemic; from large-scale Federal
Reserve debt purchases … from roughly $3 tril-
lion in fiscal stimulus passed by Congress …”
Jason Furman, chairman of President Barack
“too big for the moment,” and: “I don’t know of
any economist that was recommending some-
Even a through and through company man
like Steve Rattner, who led Mr. Obama’s bailout
of the automobile industry and is an MSNBC
contributor and opinion writer for The New
York Times, was rude enough to tweet that: “ …
ILLUSTRATION BY HUNTER
inflation is accelerating rapidly and prices are
above trend. We need to trim stimulus now!” Nothing, as best anyone can tell. The budget — complete with runaway inflation and slow
Mr. Biden doesn’t care. Even after talking submitted a few days ago by Team Biden proj- growth — of the Carter administration.
to Mr. Summers personally, he still continues ects slow economic growth — in the neighbor-
to pursue this reckless and damaging path of hood of 2% a year — for as far as the eye can Michael McKenna, a columnist for The Wash-
spraying cash into an economy that doesn’t need see. ington Times, is the president of MWR Strate-
it and can’t use it. It turns out that the Biden years will not be gies. He was most recently a deputy assistant to
What are we getting for the trillions more a rerun of the Clinton administration or the President Trump and deputy director of the Of-
Mr. Biden proposes to put on the credit card? Obama administration. They will be a rerun fice of Legislative Affairs at the White House.
Jesus or Xi Jinping? Israel’s
China’s Xi is not Jesus and must face costs for insisting he is
in which, for instance, a well-known Bibli- images of Mr. Xi, and crucifixes or crosses Prisoners are denied visits by fam-
cal passage (John Chapter 8) is perverted
to portray Jesus as a sinner and murderer
instead of a merciful savior. Book-sellers
are forcibly removed. In their place,
church leaders must hang the Chinese
flag. These same mandates extend to the
ily members and legal advisers; many
are simply “disappeared.” Detainees
also report police are collecting blood
problem
are compelled to vandalize and censor private homes of believers. samples and other biometric informa- As we’ve seen in U.S.,
Christian publications, notably by remov- • More and more, ordinary Chi- tion — a serious red flag for those who
ing or covering the name “Jesus” with nese Christians are marginalized from may be subjected to China’s criminal compromising principles
the Chinese symbols for “JD,” short for society. In Yunnan province, villagers forced-organ-harvesting of religious
“ji du,” which is defined as “to hate, or to of Huangfei Zhai were told that if they dissidents and prisoners of conscience.
for the sake of jettisoning
envy.” The words “God” and “Lord” are do not “renounce their religion and Forced to redefine its faith, the one man from office has
deny Jesus,” authorities Church in China has gone to ground
would make them “suffer once more. Stripped of their fun- consequences
consequences,” includ- damental human rights, Chinese
ing confiscating their Christians rely on world leaders and
rice paddies. Believers international organizations to rally to
are subject to search and their cause and defend their right to
seizure of property. exist.
Men, women, and Their stories will be told at this
children are stalked by year’s First Annual International Reli-
plainclothes officers, gious Freedom Summit set to convene
blacklisted by authori- in Washington, D.C., from July 13-15.
ties and denied employ- The event brings together present and
ment, education, rental former government officials, religious
contracts or service at freedom activists and witnesses to
hotels, restaurants and persecution from around the world By Tom Basile
other places of busi- united by a shared determination to
T
ness. During COVID-19 illuminate and counter intensifying here’s an unholy alliance in
lockdowns, some church repression on freedom of religion or the Holy Land. One can’t
leaders and their families belief not only in Communist China help but see potential danger
were confined to their but in a record number of countries lurking for Israel in the same
homes and denied the worldwide. kind of desperate political moves we
barcodes needed to China’s state-sponsored, genocidal saw here in 2020. Wresting control
shop for food or other war on religious liberty demands par- of Israel away from Prime Minister
necessities. ticular attention and urgent interna- Benjamin Netanyahu through a loose
• The long list of tional action. The CCP must be held coalition of strange political bedfel-
jailed clerics (like Early accountable and suffer real costs for lows is reminiscent of the hysterical
Rain Church pastor such crimes against its own citizens push to oust President Trump.
Wang Yi), human rights and globally. China must not be al- A new government that creates a
ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH
activists and lawyers lowed to brutally wipe out Christians, delicate power-sharing deal between
grows by the day. Muslims and other faith communities hard-right Naftali Bennett, moderate
censored. Bibles in print or digital form • Congregant’s faces are captured with impunity. Some sort of boycott for Yair Lapid, an Arab Islamist party, and
are confiscated or deleted. Online church by surveillance cameras newly man- the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing others makes America’s most impor-
services or studies are banned. dated to be installed inside places of would be a good start. tant ally in the Middle East a political
• Thousands of churches have been worship. Only “approved participants” teeter totter. They are groups with
destroyed and desecrated by the Chinese are allowed entry. If found gathering Sam Brownback formerly served as U.S. little in common cobbling together an
Communists (in Jiangsu Providence without approval, they are subject to ambassador at large for international unsteady if not unworkable coalition
alone, an estimated 90 percent of the extended periods of interrogation, religious freedom. Dede Laugesen is ex- just to get rid of one man.
house churches have been razed). Re- torture and lengthy “administrative ecutive director of Save the Persecuted
ligious imagery inside is replaced with detentions.” Christians. » see BASILE | B3
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COMMENT & ANALYSIS

Coronavirus collusion
Facebook spread falsehood, with Fauci’s help

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nalloyed fact is hard to
come by, and only in-
dividuals with an over-
abundance of self-regard apply
for the job of minister of truth.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
and immunology’s Anthony
Fauci recklessly assumed the
role when they teamed up to
craft the official word about
the COVID-19 pandemic. Their
coronavirus collusion serves as
a warning to beware of those so
assured of their own rectitude
that they would silence oppos-
ing views.
Americans are currently
learning how the powerful duo
worked together to establish
a narrative on Facebook that
social-distancing caused be-
wilderment, but a deeper mys-
tery confounded the public:
how the virus came to be. The
Washington Times’ national
security reporter Bill Gertz re-
lated recently in these pages
how Facebook made his well-
researched January 2020 report
on links between the Wuhan
Institute of Virology, the sus-
pected source of the corona-
virus’ origin, and the Chinese
military simply vanish from the
Price transparency will
Internet. Why? Because a “fact
check” by USA Today labeled
it “false information.”
lower health care costs
Facebook had whipped up By Brooke L. Rollins and not posted any charge information
a catalog of supposed “false Kevin Roberts online, choosing instead to pay the
claims” worthy of censorship. paltry fine for non-compliance because

shaped perception of the pan-
demic. Through Freedom of In-
formation Act fillings, Buzzfeed
obtained email communications
between the two that detailed
their plans to dispense gov-
ernment-approved information,
aka propaganda.
“This isn’t public yet,” wrote
Mr. Zuckerberg in March 2020,
“but we’re building a Coro-
navirus Information Hub that
we’re going to put at the top of
Facebook for everyone (200+
million Americans, 2.5 billion
people worldwide) with two
goals ….” He described these
goals as the dispensing of “au-
thoritative information” and the
encouraging of the practice of
“social distance.”
Dr. Fauci, head of the U.S.
National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, read-
ily agreed: “Your idea and pro-
posal sound terrific. I would be
happy to do a video for your
hub.” Innocuous in tone, their
collaboration became collu-
sion when Facebook distrib-
uted Fauci-approved disease
doctrine worldwide, and quietly
mustered an army of fact-check-
ers to squelch dissent.
Conflicting instructions
about mask-wearing and
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
‘Liberty, justice’ leave some behind
Former Wisconisn Gov. Scott Walk-
er’s interpretation of the meaning of
Flag Day misses the essence of our
Pledge of Allegiance, which each
of us has taken hundreds of times
(“Reaffirming a devotion to freedom
this Flag Day,” Web, June 10). In my
view it is a pledge to the idealism
inherent in that for which the the flag
stands: “the republic,” “one nation”,
“under God” and “indivisible” and
“with liberty and justice for all.” Un-
fortunately, since its creation, “We
the People” have never kept the last
phrase of that pledge. And today we
R
Topping the list: “COVID-19 is ising health care costs con- the profits from hiding prices are too
tinue to be a major frustration great.
man-made or manufactured.” for Americans. Nearly 60% of The Biden administration’s Centers
As the White House’s top ad- the country wants Congress for Medicare and Medicaid Services
viser on disease, Dr. Fauci as- to make lowering health prices the top has started sending letters to hospitals
serted early and often that priority. There are differing opinions that are not in compliance, but the
about a solution: Some want bigger agency has also proposed removing
the deadly coronavirus was subsidies and more government spend- price transparency provisions in a sep-
almost certainly a natural oc- ing, while others say the key is remov- arate payment rule creating concern
currence. Thus, the idea that ing mandates and regulations to open about the future status of the Hospital
the virus must have seeped out the market. But almost every American Price Transparency Rule. This uncer-
agrees that one easy way to lower costs tainty is where state legislatures can
of a wet market became media is for hospitals to disclose their prices play a major role.
orthodoxy. before patients are treated. In Texas, lawmakers proposed a bill
Americans have discovered The benefits are obvious. If patients that codifies the CMS Hospital Price
know the prices, they can Transparency Rule into
recently that U.S. taxpayer shop for non-emergency state law. As stated by the
funds flowed through interme- The Trump
services like they do Texas Senate Research
diaries to the Wuhan lab, which for cars, computers and
administration Center, “State codification
clothes. Health providers finalized a rule of the rule will ensure that
has conducted “gain of func- nearly two years
will adjust costs to stay price transparency and
tion” experiments to render competitive and prices ago that requires consumer empowerment
coronaviruses more virulent. will become stable, afford- hospitals to provide will continue in Texas
Surprise — three lab employees able and consistent.
clear, accessible even if the rule is repealed
developed COVID-like symp- But some don’t like this or changed at the federal
arrangement. Namely, pricing information level.”
toms shortly before the pan- the hospitals. They want and post five types Interestingly, the bill
demic exploded. Now that the to hide prices so they can of standard charges passed both chambers
most likely source of the virus charge whatever they for items and of the Texas legislature
want, add fees for things services, including unanimously, underscor-
that has killed nearly 4 million you didn’t know were ing the tremendous bipar-
worldwide is the Wuhan facil- included or charge you a
charges negotiated tisan support for hospital
ity, the “authoritative informa- completely different price with insurance price transparency.
tion” peddled by Dr. Fauci and than other patients for companies, in two Unlike the federal
the same service. formats online. rule, the Texas reform
Mr. Zuckerberg appears false. A GAO report from comes with real teeth. In
Shifting power to
Facebook has recently lifted several years ago found
patients forces addition to a steeper fine,
its ban on claims that the virus that maternity care in
hospitals and
hospitals could poten-
was man-made, but only be- Boston could range from tially lose their licenses if
around $6500 to more insurers out into the they do not comply.
cause information it tried to than $21,000. And a open where patients We hope this sends a
suppress broke into public view. recent project from the have the information strong signal to the Biden
The Zuckerbergs and Faucis of health care startup Tur- they need to make administration to keep
quoise Health shows that the rule in place, enforce
the world must not be allowed a diagnostic colonoscopy
the best decision it and even consider
to censor the search for truth. in Texas averages $2,527 for their family making it stronger. When
but can range from $148 and finances. an issue unites far-left
to $15,789 — a startling Hollywood activists like
100x multiplication. actress Susan Sarandon with former
That’s why the Trump administra- senior Trump administration officials
tion finalized a rule nearly two years and conservative think tanks, CMS
ago that requires hospitals to provide
clear, accessible pricing information
shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss.
But in the case that the adminis-
and post five types of standard charges tration waffles, other states should
for items and services, including
charges negotiated with insurance
follow the Texas example of shifting
the dynamic in health care with policy
are increasingly divided — forming of defending “U.S. interests.” Rarely companies, in two formats online. that empowers patients with more
a less perfect union. have our soldiers fought for “liberty Shifting power to patients forces hos- information and control over health
From our nation’s beginning and justice for all.” pitals and insurers out into the open care decisions. It will inevitably bring
there was slavery, ratified by all I’m proud of the idealism on where patients have the information down costs and improve services as
13 states representing today’s flag which this nation was founded, but they need to make the best decision for providers will have to be upfront and
stripes. And we still have a “legal” I’m ashamed that we have never come their family and finances. consistent with what they charge.
system wherein a person is better close to achieving it (or any of the seven The American Hospital Association Texans and Americans across the
off being rich and guilty than being aspirations in the Preamble to our Con- immediately fought back and filed a country should be confident that their
innocent and poor. That is not a stitution). Until we keep our pledge legal challenge. Fortunately for patients, leaders will put them first by codifying
justice system. And all nations are to all, our own freedoms and security the AHA lost in court, the rule was hospital price transparency and can do
“under God” — yet repeatedly our will increasingly be threatened by both upheld, and it went into effect on Jan. so in a remarkably bipartisan manner.
economic and military power has those within and beyond our borders. 1, 2021.
empowered dictators and ignored In the five months since it became Brooke L. Rollins is president and CEO
war crimes or genocides, failing CHUCK WOOLERY law, the response from hospitals has of America First Policy Institute. Kevin
millions of innocent people in favor Rockville, Md. been varied. Some have adhered com- Roberts is CEO of the Texas Public
pletely and some partially. Some have Policy Foundation.

Just one humankind

I just have one comment to make
regarding racism as it pertains to
the Jewish people: In my opinion, it
is racist to infer or even boldly state
that Jews are somehow different
from the other people in our world.
Therefore, when we consider the
unfair claims made about what Jews
“are,” it would be a lot more help-
ful for all of us to remember what
they are not. They are not different
than the rest of humankind, and if
we realize this simple concept we
will also put all other racism to rest
as well.
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DAN WHITTMAN
Blythe, Calif. LARRY T. BEASLEY, CEO THOMAS P. McDEVITT, Chairman
CHRISTOPHER DOLAN, President & Executive Editor

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It is necessary to find out why Dem-
ocratic Rep. Ilhan Omar remains
a member of the House (“Omar’s
rhetoric on Israel causes rift in party,
Page 1, June 11).
Our expectations are that mem-
bers are there to represent all of us.
What service does a hateful, anti-
Jewish Islamist such as Ms. Omar
provide? If you need to define a
racist, there she is, front and center
(and frequently).
Ms. Omar’s views and opinions
do not represent anything “U.S. of
A.” So if she isn’t representing Mr.
And Mrs. American, whom and what
does she represent in the U.S. House
of Representatives?
Our values give a pass to isolated
mistakes or statements, but at some
point you have to identify an imbe-
cile as an imebecile. You can’t fix
stupid and there’s no place for it in
legislature.
STEPHEN MOUNGELIS
Mt. Airy, Md.
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By Robert Knight
A modern Prometheus returns, LEESBURG Stopping
O
nce upon a time not so long ago, Lou-

bringing the self-inflicted doun County, Virginia, was the most

conservative county in the Washing-
ton, D.C. metro area.
communism one
disease of ‘self-worth’
An exurb outside the Beltway with a high-tech
corridor rivaling California’s Silicon Valley, plus the
Washington Football team’s headquarters and Dulles
school district
When safe spaces for the coddled young move from campus to tennis courts ing farmland like super-charged kudzu.
Airport, Loudoun’s sprawling suburbia is supplant-

The eastern part is home to more than 100 huge,

at a time
By Everett Piper and anxious.” Their fixation on self-actualization gray “data centers,” through which more than 70 Parents and teachers
rather than personal responsibility has left them percent of the world’s Internet traffic flows. America
push back against

I
n 2017, when I published my book, with a sense of “disillusion.”  Online was based here in its heyday, alongside other
“Not A Day Care,” I warned that the “Put simply,” says Mr. Salerno, our society’s, tech giants feeding off Washington’s proximity.
snowflake rebellion wouldn’t stay on “children who have been insulated from conse- The population has more than doubled from
critical race theory and
our nation’s campuses. I said that our quences expect to continue to be isolated from 170,000 in 2000 to nearly 430,000 mostly well-heeled the radical left agenda
precious little darlings who were being consequences as they grow up. Having been residents, making Loudoun the richest per capita
coddled at Berkeley and Brown would brought up to believe that [their feelings about county in the United States. This rapid growth has Despite his stated concern that the church might
soon graduate and take their immaturity themselves] alone rule the day, they may shut brought radical political change, with Democrats get pigeonholed as “political,” Pastor Hamrick said,
and childish demands for “safe spaces” down or strike out when they discover that they now occupying most elected offices. it was important to stand up for Christians who took
with them. do not.”  As part of the “blue tide” that swept the state in difficult public stands on behalf of biblical values. He
I told anyone who would listen that ideas Mr. Salerno’s point is clear. Because America recent elections, Loudoun’s officials have pursued an called the schools’ transgender messaging “emo-
always have consequences and that what is taught (and frankly, the entire Western world) has aggressive left-wing agenda that Alexandria Ocasio- tional child abuse.”
today in the classroom will always be practiced bought the lie of self-esteem, we have produced a Cortez would admire. The Loudoun County Democratic Commit-
tomorrow in our culture. I said that an education culture of perpetual adolescents who have “never Nowhere has the transformation been more tee pushed back in a press release and a rainbow-
grounded in self-absorption would inevitably quite reached adulthood” and we now suffer a evident than at the school board. It’s controlled by enhanced tweet, saying, “We call on Pastor Gary
yield to a nation full of self-absorbed people. pandemic of “forever-children” ill-equipped to certifiables who are forcing critical race theory and Hamrick to recant his allegations due to the libelous
Well, it’s 2021, and the Mary Shelley-like mon- deal with the real world.” the LGBTQ agenda down schoolchildren’s throats. and inflammatory nature of the remarks.”
sters that we have stitched together in our post- In my book, “Grow Up! Life Isn’t Safe, but It’s It’s so bad that Loudoun has become Ground Pastor Hamrick said he is not about to recant.
modern laboratories, otherwise known as our Good,” I offer this: “Bad teaching tends to create a Zero in a parents’ pushback that is taking shape “We’re doing a disservice to our children when
public schools, are alive and well and demanding distorted understanding of how the world works around the nation. In April, the Virginia Project, a we lie to them about what gender they are,” he told
we make them feel good about themselves.  and one’s role within it. Today, bad teaching has GOP group, exposed a left-wing group that publicly CBN News. “It defies biology, reality, and the design
Consider this month’s blue-ribbon winner in led large swathes of society to throw collective named parents who opposed critical race theory of God. If the school board would just stick with the
our nation’s non-stop race to the mythical land of temper tantrums. What we teach in our schools and an advisory board that promised to “silence” the basic elements of reading and writing, I wouldn’t
tolerance, affirmation is now bearing itself parents. Subsequently, Parents for Education was have to speak up.”
and “self-worth” — out in the behavior formed, along with a Fight for Schools PAC to recall On June 6, with Christian commentator and
Naomi Osaka. we see in our streets. six school board members. author Eric Metaxas as a guest speaker, Mr. Ham-
On May 31, Ms. As Abraham Lincoln This past Tuesday, one mother, Xi Van Fleet, a rick reiterated his support for Mr. Cross and again
Osaka, the second- is reported to have refugee who lived through Communist China’s mur- allowed the petition gatherers. He also commemo-
ranked women’s said, ‘The philosophy derous Cultural Revolution, told the school board rated the anniversary of D-Day, unlike Joe Biden,
tennis player in the of the schoolroom in that they were deploying many unsavory aspects of who skipped it. Mr. Hamrick and Mr. Metaxas
world, quit the French one generation will the totalitarian regime that her family had fled. received standing ovations in all three services.
Open. Her reason? become the philoso- “To me, and to a lot of Chinese, it is heartbreak- Loudoun is not the only place where parents are
She needed to retreat phy of the [culture] ing that we escaped communism and now we expe- pushing back against Marxist indoctrination. Spurred
to her safe space. She in the next.’ Even Hit- rience communism here,” she said. “The
didn’t want to subject ler understood this Communist regime used the same critical
herself to any of those simple truth when he theory to divide people. The only differ-
nasty journalists ask- said, ‘Let me control ence is they used class instead of race.”
ing any difficult ques- the schools, and I Further, she said, “This is indeed the
tions that would cause will control the state.’ American version of the Chinese Cultural
her to “doubt herself.” What is taught in a Revolution. The critical race theory has its
It seems this fragile nation’s classrooms roots in cultural Marxism. It should have
professional athlete, will be practiced in no place in our school.”
who is so cursed that nation’s board More than 100 parents lashed the board
by intersectionality rooms, courtrooms, for several hours.
that she has already and living rooms.” Some of the outrage was triggered by
earned $55.2 million The moral to the the suspension of elementary gym teacher
in 2021, felt triggered story is obvious — Tanner Cross, who had refused to address
by any inquiry that Selfishness has a children by their chosen “identity” pro-
might imply she was cause, and that cause, nouns instead of their biological reality. He
less than perfect. in great measure, conveyed these sentiments during a school
Her response to such can almost always be board hearing on May 25.
micro-aggressions traced back to what “I love my students, but I will never lie
was simply to pick up we teach our prog- to them regardless of the consequences,”
her ball and go home ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH
eny. Solomon said he said. “I’m a teacher, but I serve God
— Literally. it well: “Train up a first — and I will not affirm that a biologi-
In his recent article, “Confusing Cure and child in the way he should go, and when he is old, cal boy can be a girl and vice versa … it’s
Disease” (Quillette, June 7, 2021), Steve Salerno he will not depart.” There is great power in ideas, lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child, and it’s
ILLUSTRATION BY HUNTER
contends that Ms. Osaka’s abrupt withdrawal and what we teach our children will result in ei- sinning against our God.” He also refer-
from the French Open is symptomatic of a dis- ther noble or narcissistic ends. Unfortunately, the enced a recent “60 Minutes” segment about people by the discovery of a school “Cultural Competence
ease sweeping across the Western world. That news of Naomi Osaka’s retreat to her “safe space” “detransitioning” after regretting their sex change. Action Plan” that incorporates critical race theory,
illness, according to Mr. Salerno, is narcissism, is the posterchild of the second and not the first.  Well, in woke Loudoun County, you can’t have conservative parents in Southlake, Texas, formed a
and it has a clear cause: Our terrible schools and Ideas matter. When you teach self-indulgence that kind of dissent, so the board channeled Mao’s PAC. In late May, they unseated two school board
their terrible teaching.  and narcissism, you are going to get a bunch of Red Guards, suspending Mr. Cross and barring him members and elected three city council members
“Rhapsodizing over a non-toxic social environ- self-indulgent narcissists, not just in your colleges from school grounds or speaking at school board and the mayor.
ment harkens back to what helped get us into this but even on your tennis courts.  meetings. In a similar campaign in Rapid City, South Da-
mess in the first place,” says Mr. Salerno. “The “Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? Mr. Cross sought help from Alliance Defending kota, conservatives recently swept all four open seats
[self-esteem] movement took root in American What was my destination…? Accursed creator! Freedom, which sued and won his reinstatement. on the school board.
schools premised on the notion that students Why did you form a monster so hideous that even Virginia 20th Circuit Judge James E. Plowman Jr. Kimberly Fletcher, who heads the grassroots
who struggled in school did so because they felt you turned from me in disgust?” — Mary Shelley, called the board’s order “an unnecessary and vindic- group Moms for America, says that mothers in
bad about themselves.” But “re-imagining every “Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus.” tive act” and “an unconstitutional action.” He said it particular are realizing the gravity of the left’s war on
aspect of the classroom experience around the “has silenced others from speaking publicly on the children’s minds.
imperative of building self-esteem” did not end Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), issue.” “Mama Bears have been poked and Marxist
well, he argues. a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former At Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, which Mr. teachers unions and government overlords have no
“Filling kids with boatloads of self-love” university president and radio host. He is the author Cross attends, Pastor Gary Hamrick prayed over him idea what they’re in for,” she wrote recently. “This is
did, however, accomplish something. Terrible of “Not a Daycare: The Devastating Consequences and his family at a Sunday service, and then gave a just the beginning.”
teaching and terrible schools have “produced of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery) and, most recently, powerful sermon. He defended Mr. Cross and said
hordes of young adults whose frustrated sense “Grow Up: Life Isn’t Safe, But It’s Good” (Regnery, that the church would allow recall signatures to be Robert Knight is a contributor to The Washington
of entitlement [has] left them feeling miserable 2021). gathered in the atrium. Times. His website is roberthknight.com.

Basile presidential candidate who ran on

a platform of raising taxes, backed
crisis, an explosion of spending, the
largest expansion of welfare in a half
From page B1 by a party that advocated defund- century, a coordinated campaign of
ing the police, radical social policy racial division, a rudderless foreign
“The Odd Couple” might have and welfare expansion. A Zogby poll policy and the threat of massive tax
made for a good movie, but such during the campaign found most hikes.
pairings in government rarely lead to respondents believed Joe Biden was Sometimes personalities get so big
stability and strength. For Israel, both suffering from cognitive decline. It they dominate, distract and polar-
of those qualities are needed now didn’t matter. ize. There can be a danger in that
more than ever with an emboldened Why just enough moderates, sub- cult of personality, but there is a bigger
Hamas and a U.S. administration shift- urbanites, conservative Democrats, risk in compromising principles for the
ing toward an appeasement strategy women and even Republicans voted sole purpose of trying to diminish the
with Iran. for President Biden relevance of that person by any means
For a dozen years, against their own necessary.
Mr. Netanyahu has led
As we’ve seen interests is no mystery. Voters didn’t reject Republicans or
Israel taking a hard line here in the U.S., They made the danger- conservative policies in 2020 the way the
against Iran and Pales- compromising ous decision to put the left-wing media suggested they would.
tinian aggression. The principles and even economy, stability and The folks on the fringes who opted to
merits of his record,
however, are imma-
voting against one’s even basic American
values at risk to get rid
vote for Mr. Biden wanted a change in
tone and while their rationale should not
terial. They’ve been own interests, for the of one person. be discounted, the results cannot not be
overtaken by a sense of sake of jettisoning The number of ignored. What they got is a weak presi-
fatigue among enough one man from office people who liked Mr. dency controlled by the far left.
Israelis to imperil him. has far-reaching Trump’s policies but That’s what’s happening to Mr. Ne-
Four elections in the didn’t like him person- tanyahu. For Israelis, they could end up
past two years, indict- consequences. ally was enough to tilt with political chaos, a disjointed strategy
ments and corruption the election in favor of leaving them even more vulnerable to
investigations have left the Likud Mr. Biden. They convinced them- Islamic terrorists and still another
Party leader having worn out his selves that Mr. Biden was the safe, election on the horizon. Despite all
welcome. moderate alternative, perhaps merely the risky maneuvering, like Donald
Perhaps it is time for someone a transitionary figure. Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu as a po-
new. But the threshold question “It will be worth it” they told litical force, for better or worse, is by
should be, “at what cost?” themselves, to have Mr. Biden as no means going the way of the dodo.
As we’ve seen here in the U.S., a price to pay to put an end to the
compromising principles and even freewheeling, unpredictable, early Tom Basile, host of Newsmax Televi-
voting against one’s own inter- morning twitter-storming unpresi- sion’s “America Right Now,” is an au-
ests, for the sake of jettisoning one dential president. thor and adjunct professor at Fordham
man from office has far-reaching We’re seeing the damage of that University’s Graduate School of Arts
consequences. myopathy already. Inflation, radi- and Sciences, where he teaches earned
In 2020, Americans voted for a cal social policies, an immigration ILLUSTRATION BY LINAS GARSYS media strategy.
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Daughter ready to cut
ties with malicious father
DEAR ABBY: I can’t
stand being around my
dad. I love my mom, but
no longer respect her
because she stays married
to him. He’s a narcissistic
bully. My brother agrees.
My
ABIGAIL parents
VAN BUREN and
I live
DEAR ABBY in the
same
town
and get together for holi-
days, birthdays and other
events. My brother lives
out of state.
I grew up with Playboy
magazines lying around
the house, watching my
father ogle women and
comment on their bodies,
including mine. He shamed
us constantly in front of
others and thought it was
funny. When I finally found
my voice, he called me a
b----. He isn’t supportive
and never hesitates to tell
me how I’m doing some-
thing wrong. He yells at my
dogs and my kids for being
dogs/kids.
I would love to not see
him again, but he’s my
dad, and my mom loves
him. I don’t want to buy
him gifts or cards on his
special days because it’s
insincere, but I find myself
doing it anyway. How do I
handle this and reconcile
the conflict I know will
ensue if I make myself
happy? — STRUGGLING IN
NEVADA
DEAR STRUGGLING:
Sometimes strategic with-
drawal is better than an
argument. Stop exposing
your children and your pets
to your abusive, hypercriti-
cal father’s rants, and if your
mother notices and asks
why, be honest with her.
See her separately if you
wish, but avoid your father
whenever possible. If you
must see him and he starts
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY
(June 14). This year, the area
of life that’s been tricky for
you will become a smooth,
downhill coast. That’s not
the result of any effort made
by you; it’s just your time for
cosmic love in this depart-
ment. A
HOLIDAY state of
MATHIS ease be-
comes
HOROSCOPE your
default.
You’ll
attract more of it, which
frees you up to be gener-
ous with loved ones in ways
you couldn’t before. Leo
and Taurus adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 3, 13, 45,
6 and 23.
ARIES (March 21-April
19). Your affinity for new
ideas is at a high. Life will
line up just the sort of mys-
teries that most delight you.
Ask purposeful questions,
and then listen and watch for
clues that will help you put it
all together.
TAURUS (April 20-May
20). The most powerful
forces are invisible. We see
their effects but have no idea
what they look like when
they are not acting on an
object. You’ll send invisible
vibes today and thus align
with the great powers of the
universe.
GEMINI (May 21-June
21). You feel that the big pic-
ture is taken care of, and you
handle the small issues that
crop up with the confident
grace of someone who’s not
too worried about the future.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
The dogs own nothing and
wag their tales every day —
just one of the many spiritual
lessons from the canine world.
Enjoy companionship. Stay
optimistic. And when you’re
happy, show it! You just might
make others happy, too.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
Young children and others
who haven’t learned to be
self-focused exist in a state of
perpetual curiosity, constantly
learning how the world
works. You’ll spend time in
such a state today as you
acting up, leave. If you feel
you have to gift him “some-
thing” on his special days,
make it a generic card so you
will feel less like a hypocrite.
You deserve to be happy, and
if you follow my advice, I
predict your children will be
happier, too.
DEAR ABBY: I lost my
husband to COVID-19 five
months ago. We were mar-
ried for 40 years. I loved
him with all my heart and
always will. I met someone
through a dating site who
lost his wife to cancer a
year ago. They were mar-
ried 37 years and, like me,
he loved her dearly.
We each have grown
children. My daughter
knows about him, but he
hasn’t told his children. We
live three hours apart, and
while doing work for his
son, he drove an hour and
a half to meet me and have
lunch. I thought that was
so nice. We really seemed
to hit it off and want to be
together.
Although I’m a grown
woman and know what I
want, I need to know if you
think it is appropriate for
me to consider being with
this man and possibly mov-
ing in with him after only
five months since my hus-
band’s death. Your answer
will help with my decision.
— LONELY LADY IN NORTH
CAROLINA
DEAR LONELY LADY:
Although this man may have
“possibilities,” he still isn’t
comfortable enough in the
relationship to introduce you
to his children. And nowhere
in your letter did you men-
tion that he has talked about
the idea of you moving in
with him. I think you are
jumping the gun right now,
and although it isn’t too soon
to consider the possibilities,
I do not think you should
push.
ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
lose yourself in a discovery
process.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept.
22). You don’t have to grab
for a feeling, because feelings
are fickle and will run when
chased. Relax into how you
want to feel before you have
reason to, though, and the rea-
sons will eventually show up.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
You’ll deal with a certain
level of inconvenience, but
it’s nothing new and you
won’t be alone in experienc-
ing such a thing. The focus
will remain on solving what’s
presented and learning as
much as possible from it.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). While looks, money and
power rank high on many
people’s lists of attractive
qualities, they’re not what
you look for first, and you’ll
be around those with similar
values. Together you’ll seek
and find and share some-
thing meaningful.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21). Packing too heavy
isn’t just a problem for air
travelers checking luggage; it
also has a spiritual applica-
tion. Don’t carry around
yesterday or tomorrow. Pack
what you’ll need today — or,
better yet, this hour.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-
Jan. 19). You’ll meet some-
one disarming and be im-
pressed by the small things
you have in common. These
shared preferences and ex-
periences are representative
of something deeper.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). A world that doesn’t
know you will try to sell you
the same things it sells to
everyone. This is why it’s so
important to know yourself.
It prevents you from wasting
resources on the stuff that’s
not going to work for you.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). There’s something you
wanted and didn’t get. There
is no mystical reason for this;
the cause and effect just didn’t
line up. You now have simple
options. You can either experi-
ment more to get the result or
change what you want.
CREATORS.COM
Rachel Zegler stars as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s revival of “West Side Story, which is one of many upcoming titles that feature Hispanic casts.
Hispanic breakthrough on horizon?
‘In the Heights’ begins run of films featuring underrepresented group
BY SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK | Color. Dance.
Music. Joy. An all Hispanic cast!
The hype for “In the Heights”
has brought great expectation for
Hispanics in the United States,
a group that’s been historically
underrepresented and widely
typecast in films.
With upcoming titles like
“Cinderella” with Cuban-Amer-
ican singer Camila Cabello, “The
Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” with
Mexican star Salma Hayek and
Steven Spielberg’s revival of
“West Side Story,” it’s just the
beginning of a string of produc-
tions that place Hispanics front
and center.
“In the Heights,” which opened
Friday, is an adaptation of the
Tony-award winning musical by
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara
Alegria Hudes about the hopes
and struggles of residents of New
York City’s Washington Heights.
Directed by Jon M. Chu (“Crazy
Rich Asians”), many hope it will
mark a new beginning on the big
screen for the largest minority
group in the country — one that
mirrors shifts that have already
happened for Black and Asian
actors and creators.
“You know, every decade
there’s, ‘Is this movie gonna break
through? Or is this particular
music style gonna break through?
Or this particular performer or
singer? Are they gonna open
the doors for a kind of explo-
sion?’” said Jimmy Smits, who is
of Puerto Rican descent. “I think
the dynamics right now in terms
of where we are culturally, just in
terms of our population, and the
potential economic power that
we have, … the universe aligned
in a nice way.
“You have this beautiful
Curtain rises on Tribeca Festival, and on New York, too
BY JAKE COYLE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK | The 20th Tribeca
Festival is aiming to not just re-
build itself after its 2020 edition
was largely scuttled by the pan-
demic, but to help revitalize its
hometown.
This year’s Tribeca, which
opened Wednesday with Jon M.
Chu’s adaption of the Lin-Manuel
Miranda musical “In the Heights,”
will be spread throughout all five
boroughs of New York with a mix
of in-person and virtual screen-
ings, ultimately culminating in a
full-capacity premiere at a newly
reopened Radio City Music Hall.
For a festival founded in the
wake of 9/11, coaxing New York
back to life is a familiar role.
“Our founding mission felt more
poignant, more important than
ever,” Jane Rosenthal, who started
the festival with Robert De Niro,
said in a recent interview. “That
original mission of the festival was
to use the power of film and sto-
rytelling not just to entertain but
to rebuild our city — emotionally
more than anything else.”
Tribeca, which this year is
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MOVIES
Actor John Leguizamo (left) thinks “In the Heights,” based on Lin-
Manuel Miranda’s (second from left) musical and starring Anthony
Ramos (right), changes Hispanic representation in films. Rita Moreno
was the first Hispanic woman to win an Oscar.
collage of people in the commu-
nity,” said Mr. Smits, the star of
“NYPD Blue” and “West Wing”
who plays Kevin Rosario, a single
father and the owner a taxi cab
service, in “In the Heights.” “It’s
the immigrant experience that’s
been part of the fabric of this
country since it started. And it’s
positive. So we need that right
now after the pandemic.”
John Leguizamo agrees.
“I think that ‘In the Heights’
is gonna be THE project that
changes the whole thing finally,”
said the Colombian-American
actor and playwright, who started
his career on film and television
but, like Mr. Miranda, found a
place to tell his stories — and
validation of this work — on and
off Broadway.
Mr. Leguizamo, who won a
special Tony Award in 2018 for his
commitment to bringing diverse
stories and audiences to Broad-
way through his one-man shows
including “Freak, “Ghetto Klown”
and “Latin History for Morons,”
said he’s been pitching stories to
Hollywood for 30-plus years.
“I started to believe that
maybe I don’t know how to write,
maybe I just don’t know how to
pitch, cause all my stories were
rejected,” he said. “And then I
started to realize, ‘Oh my God,
MOVIES
being held two months later than
usual, will be one of the biggest
film festivals yet this year to go
forward with a mostly in-person
event.
But instead of the usual the-
aters that are home to the festival,
its primary venues this year will
be outdoor screenings dispersed
around the city. There’s still a vir-
tual component to the festival but
the emphasis will be the energy
generated by perhaps the largest
cultural event held in New York
in more than a year.
“Eighteen months ago, we all
had to isolate,” said Ms. Rosen-
thal. “Now that we’re coming
out of it, I talk to so many people
who are in some ways struggling
to come out. It’s been interesting
the emotional toll this has taken
on so many of us, not to mention
the families that lost loved ones
and all the front-line workers.”
Tribeca is part of a wider effort
to restore New York’s cultural life.
Ms. Rosenthal has helped lead
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s “NY
PopsUp” program, a series of free
pop-up performances running
through Labor Day.
In just the past two weeks,
it’s because it was Latin content!’
They didn’t know what to do
with it.
“They weren’t rejecting my
ability, there were rejecting my
culture.”
He found success on the stage
“because there aren’t any gate-
keepers in theater,” he said. “I
just needed to write something
dope, get somebody to produce it
and the audience was so hungry
for it. They were dying to see
themselves!”
Almost 60 million Hispan-
ics lived in the United States
as of 2018, the Census Bureau
estimates. And many are devoted
filmgoers: Hispanics had consis-
tently led the box office, reaching
29% of tickets sold, according to
the latest Motion Picture Associa-
tion report on theatergoers.
Yet they only represent 4.5%
of all speaking or named char-
acters and a mere 3% of lead or
co-lead actors, a 2019 study of
1,200 popular movies from 2007
to 2018 by the Annenberg Inclu-
sion Initiative found.
Awards recognition, too, has
been elusive. This year’s Oscars
featured a diverse slate of nomi-
nees, but no Hispanic performers.
“I think our absence at the
Oscars was appalling,” Mr. Le-
guizamo said. “[But] the Oscars
Bruce Springsteen said that he’ll
reopen his Broadway show later
this month. A massive summer
concert in Central Park was an-
nounced. And on Sunday, the Foo
Fighters will reopen Madison
Square Garden to concerts after
a 15-month shutdown.
But Tribeca, which includes
56 world premieres and program-
ming across television, video
games, podcasts and virtual re-
ality, had to start planning its
2021 incarnation — its 20th year
— last August. Permits needed
to be filed. Selections needed to
be made. Organizers had to try
to guess how health restrictions
and vaccinations would evolve
as they put the festival together.
The rules of the road, as Ms.
Rosenthal said, kept changing. Ul-
timately, they gambled that an in-
person festival would be possible.
“We said the only way to be
sure that our festival is happening
is to pursue everything in parallel
— to look at outdoor screenings,
to look at indoor screenings and
to look at a virtual platform,” said
Cara Cusumano, festival direc-
tor. “Then as we keep getting
closer, we’ll understand which of
MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2021
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
is the symptom; the disease is
Hollywood. We need more Latin
executives making decisions.”
In 1951, Puerto Rican Jose Fer-
rer became the first Latino actor
to receive an Academy Award
for his leading role in “Cyrano
de Bergerac.” The same decade,
Mexican-born Anthony Quinn
got two for best supporting
actor, for “Viva Zapata!” (1953)
and “Lust for Life” (1957). Puerto
Rican Rita Moreno became the
first Hispanic woman to get the
best supporting actress award in
1962 as Anita in “West Side Story.”
Since then, only one more His-
panic person has been recognized
in the supporting actor category:
Puerto Rican Benicio del Toro for
2000’s “Traffic.” Spaniards Javier
Bardem and Penelope Cruz got
supporting roles awards in 2008
and 2009, for “No Country for
Old Men” and “Vicky Cristina
Barcelona,” respectively. Kenyan
actor Lupita Nyong’o, who was
born in Mexico, won the same
prize in 2014 for “12 Years a Slave.”
No Hispanic woman has won
best actress at the Oscars, and few
have even been considered. Miss
Hayek was nominated for the
English-language movie “Frida,”
but other contenders competed
for performances in foreign lan-
guage films: Fernanda Monte-
negro for Brazil’s “Central Sta-
tion,” Catalina Sandino Moreno
for Colombia’s “Maria Full of
Grace” and Yalitza Aparicio for
Mexico’s “Roma.”
Behind the camera, many
Latin American artists have been
recognized at the Oscars in dif-
ferent areas, most recently and
prominently “The Three Ami-
gos” — Alfonso Cuaron, Ale-
jandro Gonzalez Inarritu and
Guillermo del Toro, all Academy
Award winning directors from
Mexico.
these we need to turn the volume
up and down on. The outdoor
screenings ended up being the
centerpiece.”
Films will have fewer show-
ings than normal. Seats will be
distanced from one another. But
premieres will be rain-or-shine.
On Wednesday, Morgan Neville,
director of the anticipated “Road-
runner: A Film About Anthony
Bourdain,” was relieved to see
that the forecast had brightened
for Friday, the day his film debuts.
Fewer seats mean the Tribeca
Festival, which has dropped the
“film” from its name this year be-
cause of its multimedia program,
will hope to sell more virtual tick-
ets, as well as all-access passes
starting at $999. That includes
anniversary screenings of “Fargo,”
“The Royal Tenenbaums,” “The
Five Heartbeats” and Charlie
Chaplin’s “The Kid.”
Steven Soderbergh’s “No Sud-
den Move” will premiere as the
festival’s centerpiece, playing out-
doors in the Battery. Tribeca also
will feature programming timed
to Juneteenth, and hand an award
to Georgia political powerhouse
Stacey Abrams.
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U.S. Swim Trials’ 30-somethings not ready to leave pool yet
BY PAUL NEWBERRY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
OMAHA, NEB. | Amanda Weir
just can’t bring herself to say the
word “retirement.” So, she’s still at
the pool, still toiling away against
kids half her age — if that.
“I don’t think I’ll ever officially
end it,” said the 35-year-old Weir,
who is attempting to make her
fifth Olympics at the U.S. swim-
ming trials that began Sunday.
“I don’t think I’ll ever be able to
stand behind the block and say
this is my last race.”
While swimming will always
be a young person’s sport, Weir
has plenty of company in the
30-and-older club.
She and a dozen other such
athletes are competing in Omaha,
led by 40-year-old Olympic gold
medalist Anthony Ervin.
“Obviously, I have a lot of
memories and a lot of history,
but it’s great to be back in it,” said
Ervin, who shared gold in the
NATIONALS
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Washington’s way now and then.
In the second inning, Marti-
nez’s wishes were answered — at
least for a day. First came Alex
Avila’s single, which ricocheted
off San Francisco Giants starter
Johnny Cueto’s leg into no-man’s
land. Next, Cueto couldn’t field
Victor Robles’ push bunt cleanly,
setting up Ross’ sacrifice bunt
to place two runners in scoring
position with one out — the kind
of situations Washington hasn’t
frequently exploited.
“Those plays, you look at it,
you don’t think it’s a big deal,”
Martinez said. “But they matter.”
And Schwarber showed
why. He had led off the game
with a bomb, taking Cueto’s low
changeup 407 feet. The high
heat from Cueto the second time
MEN
From page B8
matches at the clay-court major
tournament.
He also had defeated Nadal in
Paris in 2015 before losing that
year’s final, and it appeared as if
the same fate was waiting Sunday.
Djokovic looked drained early,
and the 22-year-old Tsitsipas had
the upper hand for two sets.
“It was not easy for me,”
Djokovic said, “both physically
and mentally.”
Eventually, though, he got his
best-in-the-game returning on
track and served so flawlessly
down the stretch that he did not
face a single break point over
the last three sets. That enabled
him to complete his sixth career
comeback from two sets down
— and second of the past week.
Indeed, the International Ten-
nis Federation said Djokovic is
the first man in the professional
era to win a Grand Slam tourna-
ment after twice facing a 2-0
deficit in sets.
Experience could have been
a factor, too.
This was the first major final
for Tsitsipas and the 29th for
Djokovic, who also won the
French Open in 2016, to go with
nine titles at the Australian Open,
five at Wimbledon and three at
the U.S. Open.
Of just as much, if not more,
significance to the ultimate
outcome: Djokovic is 35-10 in
WNBA
Mystics can’t handle
Dream’s 13 3s in loss
COLLEGE PARK, GA. | Court-
ney Williams scored 21 points
to help the Atlanta Dream beat
the Washington Mystics 101-78
on Sunday.
Odyssey
SPORTS Sims added a
BRIEFS season-high
20 points for
the Dream,
who made 13 of 29 from 3-point
range and 36 of 71 overall from
the field.
Atlanta (5-6), which trailed
for most of the first half and by
11 early in the second quarter,
took a 51-49 lead into the break
and pulled away with a 17-3 run
50-meter freestyle at the 2000
Sydney Games and improbably
won that event again five years
ago in Rio at age 35, is realistic
about his chances in Omaha.
He’s seeded 40th in the 50 free
and would be more than satis-
fied simply to make the final. He
knows his chances of qualifying
for the Olympic team by finishing
first or second are beyond remote.
This is essentially his farewell
tour.
“God willing, I’ll be in finals
and I can shake the hands of those
guys who are going (to the Tokyo
Games) and pass the torch, so to
speak,” Ervin said.
The most prominent of the
old-timers is 36-year-old Ryan
Lochte, a 12-time Olympic med-
alist who became a husband and
father after the embarrassment
of Rio, where he lied about being
robbed at gunpoint during a rau-
cous night on the town with sev-
eral U.S. teammates.
Lochte insists he’s gotten his
through didn’t fool Schwarber,
either, and backed up Martinez’s
decision to slot Schwarber in the
leadoff spot.
“I always think it’s kind of
funny seeing him lead off in front
of Trea [Turner], because usually
you think of him as a 3-4 guy,”
Ross said. “But he’s done great,
and kind of like [Ronald] Acuna
with the Braves leading off, it’s
kind of an immediate danger in
the box.”
Schwarber’s two blasts gave
Washington a 4-0 cushion, and
Starlin Castro doubled home Josh
Harrison later in the game. That
was more than enough run sup-
port for Ross.
After Max Scherzer exited
his Friday night start after 12
pitches due to a groin tweak and
with a doubleheader Saturday,
the Nationals needed length from
Ross. The right-hander delivered,
becoming the second opposing
Novak Djokovic raised his record Sunday to 35-10 in five-set matches
— including a men’s record 32 wins in Grand Slams.
five-setters – including a men’s-
record 32 wins in Grand Slam
matches of that length – while
Tsitsipas is merely 5-5.
“I’d like to thank the Greek
fans, and my team, who are con-
stantly behind me, for my dreams.
This is a long journey,” said Ts-
itsipas, who was trying to be-
come the first tennis player from
Greece to win a major singles
title.
On a sunny, breezy afternoon,
with the temperature approach-
ing 80 degrees Fahrenheit and
attendance limited to 5,000, about
a third of the stadium capacity,
because of COVID-19 restric-
tions, Tsitsipas needed just about
100 minutes to grab his big lead.
The footing on clay can be
tricky, and both men took tum-
bles in the first set. Djokovic’s
after the Mystics tied it at 51 to
open the third quarter.
Tiffany Hayes made 3 of 7
from 3-point range and scored
18 points, Cheyenne Parker
added 11 and Tianna Hawkins
10 for the Dream.
Myisha Hines-Allen led the
Mystics (4-6) with 16 points.
Ariel Atkins scored 15 points,
Tina Charles added 13 and The-
resa Plaisance 10
NBA
Bucks win Game 4 to tie
series as Nets lose Irving
MILWAUKEE | Giannis Ante-
tokounmpo scored 34 points
and the Milwaukee Bucks
rolled to a 107-96 Game 4
victory on Sunday to tie their
SWIMMING
“I don’t think I’ll ever retire from it,” said 35-year-old Amanda Weir, who
is attempting to make her fifth Olympics.
life in order and is confident of
not only making the U.S. team
for the fifth time, but winning
another medal in Tokyo.
pitcher to complete seven innings
against San Francisco this season.
He trotted back out for the
eighth, too, for the first time since
2017, taking the mound again with
90 pitches under his belt as rain
began to fall at Nationals Park.
But Ross escaped an 18-pitch
eighth inning, stranding a runner
on second following a one-out
double.
That would be Ross’ final con-
tribution, completing eight score-
less innings for the first time in
his career.
“I felt great,” Ross said. “I had
a lot of pitches, obviously, but I
felt like I could’ve gone out for the
ninth. But it wasn’t really neces-
sary. Felt strong all the way out.”
The 28-year-old forced eight
groundouts while striking out
nine and allowing five hits with-
out a walk. After a first-inning
double, Ross retired the next 13
batters in a row.
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ended with him prone on the
sideline after a head-first fall near
the wooden net post. Tsitsipas
slipped near the baseline during
the tiebreaker, smearing his white
shirt and purple shorts with the
rust-colored surface.
Shadows were spreading
across the court as the sun de-
scended in the early evening and,
though Djokovic complained to
chair umpire Aurelie Tourte that
the artificial lights were switched
on, he shined when it mattered
the most.
This was another match that
lasted more than four hours, and
Djokovic was up to the task again.
“The atmosphere was amaz-
ing against Rafa and today against
Stefanos,” Djokovic said. “I will
definitely remember these last
48 hours for the rest of my life.”
second-round playoff series
with the Brooklyn Nets, who
lost Kyrie Irving to a sprained
right ankle.
The Bucks won two straight
in Milwaukee. Game 5 is Tues-
day night at Brooklyn.
Irving got hurt midway
through the second quarter and
didn’t return. The Nets already
are missing nine-time All-Star
and 2018 MVP James Harden,
who hasn’t played since the
opening minute of Game 1 due
to right hamstring tightness.
That puts even more pres-
sure on Kevin Durant, who
has carried the Nets this series
and provided 28 points and
13 rebounds Sunday. The only
other Net in double figures was
Irving, who had 11 points.
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But his times coming into
Omaha aren’t too encouraging.
His only real chance appears to be
the 200 individual medley, where
NFL
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will Landon Collins’ role be?:
Eight months removed from a
torn Achilles tendon, Landon
Collins was still limited to indi-
vidual drills during minicamp.
He’d stand by Harris in team
drills, taking mental reps as the
play developed.  tributors in 2020 — had moments.  to do that,” Allen said.
But when Collins returns,
the coaching staff will have to
determine where Washington’s
highest-paid defensive player will
fit in. In a recent interview with
the team’s website, defensive co-
ordinator Jack Del Rio said Col-
lins will remain a strong safety
but the team plays the majority
of its snaps in sub packages, typi-
cally with an extra defensive back
or linebacker on the field.
⦁ What’s the receiving peck-
ing order?: Washington will have
WOMEN
From page B8
add a doubles title to her
haul. That made Krejcikova
the first woman since Mary
Pierce in 2000 to collect the
singles and doubles champi-
onships at the French Open
in the same year.
Contrast what’s been hap-
pening at the French Open in
singles with how many of the
past six winners at each of
the other major tournaments
was a first-time Slam champ:
four at the U.S. Open, three at
the Australian Open and zero
at Wimbledon, where play
begins June 28.
Here’s another recent
trend Krejcikova is part of:
From the start of the Open
era in 1968 through 2016 —
nearly an entire half-century
— there were zero unseeded
women’s singles champions
at the clay-court major.
Since 2017, though, three
of the past five French Open
winners were not seeded:
Ostapenko was ranked 47th
when she won, Swiatek 54th
and Krejcikova 33rd.
Why? Well, there are a
few plausible explanations,
including that the COVID-19
pandemic made everything
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Virginia beats Dallas
Baptist to force Game 3
COLUMBIA, S.C. | Griff Mc-
Garry struck out a season-high
10 in seven innings and Vir-
ginia beat Dallas Baptist 4-0 in
Game 2 of the Columbia Super
Regional on Sunday.
The Cavaliers (34-25) im-
proved to 5-0 this year in NCAA
Tournament elimination games
and forced a decisive Game
3 with the Patriots (41-17) on
Monday for a trip to the College
World Series.
Zack Gelof gave Virginia a
1-0 lead with a line drive home
run off Dallas Baptist starter
Rhett Kouba (6-2) to lead off
the eighth inning. Alex Tappen
he’s seeded fifth. If nothing else,
he seems to have figured out life
away from the pool.
“No matter how many times
you get knocked down, it’s how
you get up that defines you as
a person,” Lochte said. “There’s
more to life than being a rock star,
having that rock star persona. I
had a wake-up call and now I’m
the happiest person ever.”
Swimming was once a sport
that afforded few chances for
making a buck once a college
career was over.
After winning a then-record
seven gold medals at the 1972 Mu-
nich Games, Mark Spitz retired at
age 22. Matt Biondi hung up his
swimming trunks before his 27th
birthday, frustrated at the lack of
assistance from USA Swimming
and stymied in his attempts to
professionalize the sport.
These days, however, the top
swimmers can make a comfort-
able living into their 30s, thanks
to increased support from USA
tough choices to make later this
summer when deciding what re-
ceivers to keep when trimming
to 53 players. Will they retain five
or six? Last week, Washington
cycled through a flurry of receiv-
ers — and it was clear just how
much talent that the team has at
the position this year. Even those
like Antonio Gandy-Golden and
Kelvin Harmon — two noncon-
The top three options are
clear: Terry McLaurin, Curtis
Samuel and third-rounder Dyami
Brown. Then, Washington has
two or three to keep from the fol-
lowing: Adam Humphries, Cam
Sims, Dax Milne, Steven Sims,
Isaiah Wright, DeAndre Carter,
Tony Brown, Gandy-Golden and
Harmon.  got the reps over Sam Cosmi at
⦁ Will Jonathan Allen’s ex-
tension get done?: Defensive
Jonathan Allen is in the final year
of his contract, and Washington
a little more out of the ordi-
nary for everyone at the past
two editions of the tourna-
ment, held just eight months
apart. That also could help
explain why there were six
first-time Grand Slam quar-
terfinalists — including Kre-
jcikova — for the first time
at a major in the Open era,
and four first-time semifi-
nalists for just the second
time.
“This was a crazy, ran-
dom kind of French Open,
wasn’t it?” Chris Evert,
who won seven of her 18
major singles title at Roland
Garros in the 1970s and
1980s, said in a telephone
interview.
There’s no dominant
figure on red clay right now,
the way Evert was in her
day or the men’s game has
seen with Rafael Nadal.
And there’s no truly
dominant, all-surface su-
perstar in women’s tennis
at the moment — the way
Williams was at the height
of her powers. But the main
reason might just be the
red clay itself, which can
be something of an equal-
izer between opponents
and lessens the effect of the
power that works so well
on swifter surfaces.
followed with a two-out three-
run homer off reliever Kragen
Kechely. The Patriots’ Andrew
Benefield broke up McGarry’s
no-hit bid with a lead-off
double in the seventh.
SOCCER
Doctor: Eriksen ‘gone’
before being resuscitated
COPENHAGEN | Denmark’s
team doctor said Sunday
that Christian Eriksen’s heart
stopped and that “he was gone”
before being resuscitated with
a defibrillator at the European
Championship.
Eriksen collapsed during
Denmark’s opening Euro 2020
group game against Finland on
Saturday and was given lengthy
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Swimming, more sponsorship
opportunities and the new In-
ternational Swimming League
have kept some athletes around
into their 30s.
It’s also harder to walk away
for older swimmers.
Take Weir, who has competed
in three Olympics and trains in
Atlanta. Even after having major
neck surgery following the 2016
Rio Games, she still has such pas-
sion for swimming that she put
herself through an arduous rehab,
all with an eye toward Tokyo.
The odds are certainly stacked
against her. She’s seeded 34th in
the 100 free and 49th in the 50
free. But when she steps up on the
blocks, gazes out on that lane in
front of her and plunges into the
water, it all seems worth it.
“I just love it. I love the train-
ing. I love the routine of it,” Weir
said. “I don’t think I’ll ever fully
retire from it. Even if I’m not
competing for anything major,
I’ll always be in the water.”
would like to give him a long-term
extension. The two sides are in
negotiations, and Allen said last
week he hoped that an agreement
would be reached before training
camp.
Allen is set to make $10 mil-
lion in 2021. 
“I’ve always had the dream
and goal of playing for one team
my entire career, and I really want
⦁ How many spots on the of-
fensive line are up for grabs?:
The answer is likely two: Left
guard and right tackle. Both spots
seem to have a bit to go until a
starter is determined.
At minicamp, Wes Schweitzer
got the nod over Ereck Flowers at
left guard, while Cornelius Lucas
right tackle. Washington is look-
ing to improve upon a unit that
gave up the second-most sacks
in 2020 with 50. 
“You can’t get over-
powered on a clay court
as much as you can on a
grass court or a hard court.
... So that brings in another
style, with consistency and
defensive tennis and run-
ning balls down. Players have
more time to set up for the
ball and meet their targets
or to just retrieve balls and
still be in the point,” Evert
explained. “Serena is like the
only player in the last, really,
15 to 20 years who has been
able to blast opponents off
the clay courts. She was a
great clay-court player be-
cause she had the offense and
defense in her prime.”
That’s why Evert expects
a smaller group of title
contenders as Grand Slam
tennis moves to the grass
of Wimbledon. Past cham-
pions such as Williams or
Muguruza or Petra Kvitova,
a two-time winner at the
All England Club, can take
advantage of the slickness
of the courts there.
“The serve is a big plus
on grass, whereas on clay
it’s a little bit neutralized. I
mean, Barbora didn’t win the
French Open with her serve,”
Evert said. “But other players
can win Wimbledon with
their serve.”
medical treatment before re-
gaining consciousness.
“He was gone. And we did
cardiac resuscitation. And it
was cardiac arrest,” said team
doctor Morten Boesen, who
led the work in giving Eriksen
treatment on the field. “How
close were we? I don’t know.
We got him back after one
defib. That’s quite fast.”
Eriksen was in stable condi-
tion at a Copenhagen hospital.
From wire dispatches and staff reports.
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Djokovic rallies
TENNIS
for 19th major title
Wins French final in five sets
BY SAMUEL PETREQUINA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS | Talented and
tenacious as they come,
Novak Djokovic was not
about to concede a thing
after dropping the first two
sets of the French Open
final against his younger,
fresher foe, Stefanos
Tsitsipas.
Djokovic looked dimin-
ished and depleted at the
outset Sunday. By the end,
he was at his imperious
best.
The top -seeded
Djokovic came all the
way back to beat the fifth-
seeded Tsitsipas 6-7 (6),
2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 for his
second championship at
Roland Garros and 19th
Grand Slam title overall.
“I’m very proud, very
happy. I don’t want to
stop there,” said Djokovic,
who spread his arms,
then tapped his chest and
crouched to touch the red
clay at Court Philippe
Chatrier after ending the
match with a leaping vol-
ley. “Hopefully I can keep
on (winning) here in Ro-
land Garros, at least one
or two more times.”
As things stand,
Djokovic is just one major
trophy away from tying the
men’s record of 20 shared
by Rafael Nadal and Roger
Federer and will get his
Novak Djokovic kisses the winner’s trophy after defeating
Stefanos Tsitsipas, 6-7 (6), 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4, for his second
French Open championship and 19th Grand Slam title.
Paris clay an equalizer
for the women’s field
BY HOWARD FENDRICH
ASSOCIATED PRESS
It started with Garbine
Muguruza beating Ser-
ena Williams in the 2016
French Open final.
Jelena Ostapenko’s
triumph came in 2017.
Then, the following year,
the woman Ostapenko
beat for the title at Roland
Garros,
On tennis Simona
Halep,
had her moment. Next it
was Ash Barty’s turn and,
in 2020, Iga Swiatek’s.
And now Barbora
Krejcikova has joined
the chat: Her victory at
Roland Garros on Satur-
day made the 25-year-old
from the Czech Republic
the sixth consecutive
first-time Grand Slam
champion to earn the
women’s singles trophy
in Paris.
“Why is it happening?
Why so many players are
(debut) Grand Slam cham-
pions here? I don’t know,”
Krejcikova said after her 6-1,
Men’s major championships
Player Country
Roger Federer Switzerland
Rafael Nadal Spain
Novak Djokovic Serbia
Pete Sampras U.S.
Roy Emerson Australia
Rod Laver Australia
Bjorn Borg Sweden
Bill Tilden U.S.
first chance to pull even
with his rivals at Wimble-
don, which starts in two
weeks.
Djokovic became one of
only three men — along-
side Rod Laver and Roy
Emerson — to have won
each major tournament at
least twice. And now, as
the reigning champion at
the Australian Open and
French Open, Djokovic can
set his sights on another
rare achievement: He is
halfway to joining Laver
(1962 and 1969) and Don
Budge (1938) as the only
men with a calendar-year
Grand Slam.
The 3 4 - ye a r- o l d
Djokovic eliminated 13-
time French Open cham-
pion Nadal in a semifinal
that lasted more than four
hours Friday night.
That was only Nadal’s
third career loss in 108
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Barbora Krejcikova is the
sixth straight women’s
winner to be a first-time
Grand Slam champion at
the French Open.
2-6, 6-4 victory over Anasta-
sia Pavlyuchenkova at Court
Philippe Chatrier in the
singles final. “But I’m happy
that I’m part of them.”
She entered an even
more exclusive club
Sunday by teaming with
Katerina Siniakova to beat
Swiatek and Bethanie
Mattek-Sands 6-4, 6-2 to
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Race for safety roles still up in the air
Safety
Deshazor Allen’s deal, receivers in question before training camp
Everett
BY MATTHEW PARAS question marks surrounding Everett got the majority of first-
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Washington’s roster following team reps, but don’t discount
mandatory minicamp:  Bobby McCain — the 27-year-
Ron Rivera plans to get ⦁ Who will emerge at free old who Washington signed last
No. away. With the team’s OTAs safety?: Washington’s trouble month after the Miami Dolphins
done, the Washington coach in finding a solution at free safety released him. 
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will go on vacation after he extends far past Rivera’s tenure McCain, who’s on a one-year
20 gets another scan to make with the franchise. Just last year, contract worth $1.4 million,
sure he’s still clear of cancer.  Washington cycled through op- popped throughout the three
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“So far, so good,” Rivera tions trying to find an answer. days. He grabbed a total of three
14
said Saturday at Joe Gibbs’ Troy Apke, the Day 1 starter, was interceptions, two off of Ryan
12 “Youth for Tomorrow” a mess and eventually benched. Fitzpatrick. 
11 charity event.  Deshazor Everett played well, “We have some really good
Washington has six but got hurt. Jeremy Reaves candidates for that position,” de-
11
weeks until training showed promise, though is still fensive backs coach Chris Harris
10 camp, so Rivera has a developing.  said. “So I’m excited to see how
chance to rest up.   But Will it be better this year? At the thing plays out.”
when he returns, there the very least, the competition ⦁ Speaking of safety, what
are unanswered ques- may be the most competitive
tions. Here are the biggest on the roster. During minicamp, » see NFL | B7
NATIONALS
Power surge
Schwarber’s homers back Ross’ gem in Nationals’ win
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Nationals outfielders Kyle Schwarber, Juan Soto (right) and Victor Robles celebrate after a 5-0 win over the Giants on Sunday. Schwarber hit a
407-foot solo home run to lead off the game and added a 426-foot three-run blast to center field in the second inning.
BY ANDY KOSTKA for Schwarber’s second long ball
THE WASHINGTON TIMES of the afternoon. That swing, plus
a leadoff homer in the first, were
Kyle Schwarber wasn’t think- the defining moments in the Na-
ing of hitting a home run in that tionals’ 5-0 win Sunday, splitting
situation. All the Washington the four-game set against the San
Nationals left fielder wanted to Francisco Giants with the help of
do with two runners on and one a strong outing from Joe Ross on
out in the second inning Sunday the mound.
was put the ball in play to score “Just a great, great day for
a run, so his eyes lit up when the him,” manager Dave Martinez
high fastball came his way. said of Ross. “I just kept on watch-
Midway through his swing, ing him, and he painted a picture
though, he realized how high that of what he looks like when he’s
high fastball really was. really good. And he was really
“It’s one of those things when good.”
you fire at it, you’re like, ‘Oh no,’ ” With the offense laboring for
Schwarber said. “But then it hits production much of this season,
your bat and you’re like, ‘Oh yes.’ ” Martinez has stressed the need to
That “Oh yes” took the form of put the ball in play to put pressure
a three-run blast that left his bat on opposing defenses. He has also
at 105.6 mph and traveled 426 feet, wished for a little luck to flow
Nationals starter Joe Ross struck out nine and walked none while where it banged off the second-
pitching eight scoreless innings for the first time in his career. deck façade in right-center field » see NATIONALS | B7