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Floridians will cast their primary bal-

lots Tuesday under new voting restric-
tions a judge once said were designed
“to target Black voters,” the first such
federal election under the new law.
Voting rights advocates say the new
rules make it harder to request and turn
in absentee ballots and register voters
as well as making it easier to challenge
votes once cast. But supporters say the
new rules are needed to combat voter
fraud. DATABASE TRACKING MASS KILLINGS
The primary will not only serve as a
preview of presidential elections in
2024, but it will also test ideas about
who should be able to vote, and how
easily, in what has become one of the
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most electorally important states in the
country.
By 2024, in fact, Florida might have
even more restrictions. Its new election
laws call for a committee to study rules
similar to those in Texas, which led to a
spike in rejected ballots in that state’s
primary earlier this year.
Operating under new rules, Texas
tossed out more than 12% of mailed bal-
lots during its 2022 primary, up from
what the Texas Tribune determined to
be less than 2% in 2018.
“A lot of people have questions about
this new law,” said Amy Keith, program
director for the good government group
Common Cause Florida.
New restrictions for midterms
Florida is part of a group of states
that have adopted new election restric-
tions fueled by claims of election fraud
T
he horror and tragedy of mass shootings in American What the data tell us
schools, churches and other public places capture the Takeaways include that most
nation’s attention. But these are only part of the larg- mass killings are committed
using handguns and most often
er violence of mass killings – deaths by guns, knives, occur in private homes.
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Republican Party.
Some examples of what Trump sent to
his followers in the days after the law en-
forcement actions include:
h “What recently took place at my
Mar-a-Lago home was an unprecedent-
ed infringement of the rights of every
American citizen,” the Save America
Joint Fundraising Committee wrote on
Aug. 12, which included the “Official
Trump Defense Fund” logo at the bottom.
h “Scam after Scam, year after year.
This POLITICAL PROSECUTION is mere-
ly a continuation of Russia, Russia, Rus-
sia, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeach-
ment Hoax # 2, the no collusion Mueller
Report, and more,” he said.
h A fundraising email sent Aug. 9 had
the subject line, “The Democrats broke
into the home of President Donald J.
Trump.” The search was approved by a
federal judge after the Department of
Justice made a case that there was prob-
able cause to believe a crime was com-
mitted.
In the first 10 days after the search,
Trump and his allies sent out more than
120 emails explicitly raising funds off the
event. There were at least dozens more
referring more generally to things like a
“witch hunt.”
‘Nothing inherently wrong with
profiteering off of galvanizing news’
The vast majority were sent by the
Save America Joint Fundraising Commit-
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in the 2020 election, which saw unprece-
dented levels of voting by mail because of
the COVID-19 pandemic.
Trump won Florida, but Republicans
in state government adopted an election
law in 2021.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Walker
said in a March ruling that the law was
designed “to target Black voters because
of their propensity to favor Democratic
candidates.” But an appeals court said
the law should stand for the Aug. 23
primary while it is challenged in court.
In addition, in 2022, Florida’s GOP-
controlled Legislature passed another set
of election law changes. State Republi-
cans hailed the changes as a victory for
“election integrity,” and Gov. Ron DeSan-
tis said his state was a “national leader”
in election security.
Voting rights advocates, though, fear
the new laws will make it harder for vot-
ers. The League of Women Voters and
other groups sued the state to stop the
enforcement of Senate Bill 90, the bill
adopted in 2021.
That bill requires, for the first time,
voters applying for a mail ballot to in-
clude their Florida driver’s license or
identification card number or the last
four digits of their Social Security num-
ber. It also forces voters to apply more
frequently for mail-in ballots.
But about 600,000 of Florida’s
14.3 million voter registrations do not
have those numbers for local election of-
ficials to cross reference because the vot-
ers used other forms of identification to
prove their identity, said Dan Smith, a
political science professor at the Univer-
sity of Florida who was an expert witness
for the groups challenging the law.
“For voters who have been on the rolls
for a long time, they may well not have
given that information,” Leon County
elections supervisor Mark Earley said,
adding that many of Florida’s elections
supervisors reached out to voters who
did not have the numbers on file to get the
information.
Once those voters receive their bal-
lots, the new law also limits who can re-
turn a ballot for a voter to immediate fam-
ily, and an individual can return only up
to two ballots that aren’t their own.
Senate Bill 90 also requires drop boxes
– rebranded later as “secure ballot intake
stations” in Florida – be monitored by
staff.
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tee. Fifteen of the emails reference an
“Official Trump Defense Fund,” language
that is strikingly similar to the “Official
Election Defense Fund” that the House
panel probing Trump’s role in the Jan. 6
Capitol attack said likely never existed.
The Save America Joint Fundraising
Committee did not reply to a question
about whether there was a segregated
fund for money that comes in for the “Of-
ficial Trump Defense Fund” or where that
money goes. Information on fundraising
and spending this month won’t be avail-
able until they report to the Federal Elec-
tion Commission in September.
Other emails came from the campaign
arms of House Republicans and Senate
Republicans, as well as funds affiliated
with House Minority Leader Kevin Mc-
Carthy, R-Calif.; Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La.;
and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
“Every single dollar raised will go di-
rectly to FIGHTING OFF the corrupt Left
and their LIES,” an email sent Tuesday
said. On Wednesday, an email promised
a 1,300% match in donation amounts for
one day only, with text that claimed the
FBI went on “a wild goose chase looking
for cocktail napkins, raincoats and golf
balls from the White House.”
Not all emails explicitly say what the
money will be used for, and the amount
raised this month will not be disclosed
with the FEC until September.
An inquiry to the Save America Joint
Fundraising Committee was not immedi-
ately returned.
“There’s nothing inherently wrong
with profiteering off of galvanizing news
– and this is obviously very galvanizing
for his base – as long as it’s going to the
stated purpose,” said Danya Perry, a de-
Election supervisors who violate the
state’s drop box laws could face a
$25,000 fine.
“All of these changes add up to constrict
(voting),” said Cecile Scoon, president of
the League of Women Voters of Florida.
In April, Florida adopted another new
election law, Senate Bill 524, which re-
quires annual purges of the voter rolls, in-
creases penalties for election crimes and
creates an “Office of Election Crimes and
Security” to investigate complaints of al-
leged voter fraud.
Scoon said she fears that the group
will act as election police and scare Black
voters away from the polls.
“The history is too raw, and it’s too
real,” she said of the South’s history of
keeping Black people from voting.
The stakes for 2022
Voters will pick candidates in a num-
ber of high-profile races Tuesday, includ-
ing a Democratic challenger to DeSantis,
who is thought to be laying the ground-
work for a presidential campaign.
At stake, as well, are a handful of open
congressional seats during the midterm
A voter fills out his ballot Aug. 8 at the Stephen P.
Clark Government Center in Miami. Early voting in the
Aug. 23 Florida primary election has been underway for
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fense attorney and former federal prose-
cutor in the Southern District of New
York.
Perry said the “Official Election De-
fense Fund” was a “cut and dried” case
because the Jan. 6 committee deter-
mined that the money largely did not go
to election litigation.
“Time and maybe FEC records will
tell,” she said.
She said Trump could also run into
trouble if he’s raising money not off of hy-
perbole, but off of false statements.
A fundraising email sent Aug. 9 had
subject line, “The Democrats broke
into the home of President Donald J.
Trump.” The search was approved by a
federal judge after the Department of
Justice made a case that there was
probable cause that a crime was commit-
ted.
Bruce Udolf, a defense attorney and
former prosecutor in the Southern Dis-
trict of Florida, said the new Official
Trump Defense Fund is “entirely predict-
able” and raises concerns.
“If Trump’s doing it, it’s questionable,”
he said.
‘Particular fundraising tactic that
the Trump campaign has perfected’
Daniel Weiner, a director at New York
University’s Brennan Center, said it’s
common for people across the political
spectrum to use the concept that a candi-
date is being unfairly persecuted when
asking for donations. And others have
used the concept of a “fund” before.
“This is a particular fundraising tactic
that the Trump campaign has perfected,”
he said.
after the departure of four sitting mem-
bers and the addition of another repre-
sentative following the 2020 census.
On the Senate side, Democratic
Rep. Val Demings showed a comfortable
lead in a recent Fox News poll over her
primary opponents and also is trending
ahead of Sen. Marco Rubio, the Repub-
lican incumbent. Rubio is unopposed in
the GOP primary.
Florida has 29 electoral votes, mean-
ing it is among the richest prizes during
presidential elections. Donald Trump’s
victory there in 2016, for example, helped
him win the White House.
2024 could bring more changes
Senate Bill 524 also sets the table for
more potential changes in 2024 that
could mirror those that led Texas election
officials to reject thousands of mail-in
ballots earlier this year.
The initial version of the bill required
voters to provide an identification num-
ber on their mail ballots, but that was
scrapped. Instead, it called for a study,
due to the state Legislature by Feb. 1, on
requiring voters to include identification
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Fundraising emails promising match-
es are also common, and in Trump’s case,
Weiner said there’s no indication the do-
nations in the past have been being
matched.
“It’s just a fundraising tactic,” Weiner
said.
Ann Ravel, a Democrat who served on
the Federal Election Commission, said
fundraising off of Mar-a-Lago is “really
unseemly.”
“He is turning it into a fundraising
(mechanism) and also using it probably
for his purposes of politicizing it and
therefore advancing his own career,” Rav-
el said. “Which is why I think it has to be
related to deciding to run again in 2024
and to rile up the base.”
Trump has not filed to run for election
in 2024, but allies have called for him to
take another stab at the White House,
and his fundraising emails regularly ask
supporters if they would vote for him a
third time.
Money that ends up with Save Amer-
ica can be spent for personal use, from
clothing to defense attorneys, but cannot
be turned back over to a potential
campaign, Ravel said. The Make America
Great Again PAC is not a leadership fund.
Erin Chlopak, a senior director for
campaign finance at the nonprofit
watchdog group Campaign Legal Center,
said the influx of fundraising emails
could be “misleading at best” and “fraud-
ulent at worst” if the donations do not in
fact go to Trump’s legal defense.
“There’s not necessarily a specific
campaign finance law that prohibits gen-
eral misleading fundraising,” she said,
“but it’s certainly a problem that we have
seen for many years.”
numbers when they return mail ballots.
Earley, the president of the group rep-
resenting 67 local election supervisors,
has opposed the idea. The change would
be expensive, Earley said, requiring extra
envelopes or different envelopes that
their equipment struggles to handle.
He also worries about the “massive
disenfranchisement” he said happened
in Texas.
During the Texas primary on March 1,
voters for the first time had to include
identification numbers on the flap of an
envelope for their mail-in ballots. That
led to a wave of rejected ballots, about
25,000 mail-in ballots out of nearly
200,000 cast statewide. That amounted
to a rejection rate of about 12.4%.
The rejections affected voters of both
parties, too, with 12.9% of Democratic
primary mail-in ballots rejected com-
pared with 11.8% of Republican mail-in
ballots, according to the Austin
American-Statesman.
“I don’t see any good way to make this
work, frankly,” Earley said. “I’ve been
very adamant about that.”
Contributing: The Associated Press
and The Tallahassee Democrat
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Mass killings database reveals trends, details

and anguish in every US event since 2006
An analysis by USA TODAY, The Associated Press and Northeastern University

KARINA ZAIETS, GEORGE PETRAS, MITCHELL THORSON, VERONICA BRAVO AND SHAWN J. SULLIVAN/USA TODAY

Mass shootings in public places have become shockingly common in
American life. Though we’re stunned and outraged by these tragic
events, research shows they’re only part of a much larger number of
mass killings across the U.S. These deaths, in public and private
settings, aren’t just from guns – they’re also caused by knives, vehicles,
In an attempt to understand the phenomenon, USA TODAY,
Northeastern University and The Associated Press have teamed up over
the past decade to track all mass killings in the U.S. since 2006.
Our database includes every mass killing over the past 16 years
involving all types of weapons in which four or more people, excluding

Mass killings by
location scaled
by number
of victims

2012
Newtown
shooting

2007
2017 Virginia Tech
Las Vegas shooting
shooting

2016
2022 Orlando Pulse
Robb Elementary Nightclub
School shooting shooting

James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern Public mass shootings are only part of the story
University in Boston, oversees the database and continues to add information
drawn from media reports, FBI data, arrest records, medical examiners' reports, Public fatal Nonpublic Other
prison records and other court documents. This is what we have learned: shootings fatal shootings mass killings

The number of mass killings in 2022 is about average 40

compared with previous years
30
2006

20
2007

2008 10

2009
0
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
2010

2011
Mass killings take place far more often in private homes
than in schools, markets or churches
2012
Residence/Other shelter
2013 349
Commercial/Retail/Entertainment
2014
50
2015 Open space
32
2016 Multiple
28
2017
Vehicle
2018
15
School/College
2019 12
Government/Transit
2020
9
2021 House of worship
7
2022 Medical facility
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Victims are more likely to Race of victims and offenders

have been killed by tends to reflect the population Most mass killings are committed using handguns
someone they know White
1,222 Handgun
230
Acquaintance Black
604
751 202 Long guns
Unknown guns
Hispanic/Latino
410
74
Unknown
First 197
responder
85
40
716 692 158 Fire Explosive Unknown
Family Stranger 32
Unknown
American Indian
445 28
Victims Sharp object Strangulation Other
11
Other Offenders
25
Blunt object Vehicle
2 Knife
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Cheney, saddened by GOP, focuses on future
Katie Wadington
USA TODAY
Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Che-
ney, in a wide-ranging interview that
aired Sunday, said she had no regrets
about how she ran her congressional
campaign or rejecting false claims that
might have gotten her reelected.
“I think that it was clear really from,
you know, the beginning, the moment
that I voted to impeach, that there, you
know, were going to be potential politi-
cal consequences,” Cheney, the vice
chair of the House’s Jan. 6 committee,
told Jonathan Karl on ABC News’ “This
Week.”
Cheney said she is “sad about where
my party is” and expressed disap-
pointment that “so many people have
failed” the “great moral test” of uphold-
ing democracy.
“We had a very – a very
good talk, a talk about the
importance of putting the
country ahead of
partisanship.”
Rep. Liz Cheney
on her chat with President Biden after her
election loss last week
Several Republican candidates who
have attempted to court former Presi-
dent Donald Trump’s base have either
cast doubt or outright denied the re-
sult of the 2020 election.
Cheney said her attention going for-
ward is squarely on defeating anyone
who does not believe in the outcome of
the last presidential contest.
“I think that they – we’ve got elec-
tion deniers that have been nominated
for really important positions all
across the country,” she said. “And I’m
going to work against those people, I’m
going to work to support their oppo-
nents; I think it matters that much.”
Here’s what else Cheney had to say
on a potential presidential bid in 2024,
Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and
more.
Water
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from the outdoors. Since new restric-
tions went into place June 1, the agency
has installed 56 of the flow restrictors,
which are stainless steel discs 1 inch in
diameter fitted to water meters. The
discs have a tiny hole the size of 1/16th of
an inch and that’s where the water trick-
les through, meaning low-flow showers
and less effective appliances.
Only seven of the 56 installed restric-
tors remain in place because residents
made the necessary changes for them to
be removed, said Las Virgenes spokes-
man Mike McNutt, adding that once the
devices are installed, they’re left in
place a minimum of two weeks.
An additional 1,600 customers are on
the list to get flow restrictors but the
agency only has the capability to install
20 a week, McNutt said.
‘Nobody is getting
preferential treatment’
And it doesn’t matter whether your
last name is Kardashian or Stallone, the
agency promises residents that their
status will not exempt them from flow
restrictors.
“We’re talking celebrities, people
who are very wealthy, people who live in
gated communities,” McNutt said. “No-
body is getting preferential treatment.”
So far, the agency has targeted the
highest users of water, those who are qua-
drupling their allocated budgets. Among
those who’ve been on the list include Syl-
vester Stallone, Kevin Hart, Kourtney
Kardashian, Howie Mandell and Michael
Jackson’s estate, McNutt said.
Those celebrities and others can and
have been able to get their names off the
list before getting a device installed if
they sign a water-use commitment form
and lower their usage, he added.
While the agency monitors water use
through meters, it also does neighbor-
hood patrols like many other utilities in
the region that are under restrictions,
which include allowing residents to wa-
ter their lawns only once a week.
The restrictions and penalties aren’t
sitting right with many residents.
Kitti McMeel, a 71-year-old portrait
photographer living in Westlake Village,
said she’s been working hard to reduce
her water use, but has now gotten three
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks to supporters at a primary night event in
Jackson, Wyo., on Aug. 16. Cheney conceded her loss in the Wyoming GOP
primary. ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES
On a White House bid
The morning after her loss to in the
Wyoming Republican primary to
Trump-backed candidate Harriet
Hageman, Cheney suggested she is
considering a run for the White
House in 2024.
Would she run as a Republican?
“I haven’t made any specific decisions
or plans about that at this point,” she
told ABC News, when asked whether
she would run under the GOP banner.
She would not speculate further on
whether she’d campaign as an
independent.
Cheney, the daughter of former Vice
President Dick Cheney, told Karl that
she would run not just to send a
message about what she believes,
but to win.
“Look, you run for president because
you believe you would be the best –
the best candidate, because you
believe you’d be the best president
of the United States,” she said. “And
so, any decision that I make about
doing something that significant and
that serious would be with the
intention of winning and because I
think I would be the best candidate.”
This type of water flow restrictor has
being installed in homes in some of
the Los Angeles area’s richest areas.
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bills from Las Virgenes telling her she’s
over her monthly allotment. The most
recent one told her she may be targeted
for a flow restrictor.
“I wrote them an email because I was
panicked,” she said, citing a recent leak
of her irrigation system that released
about 600 gallons of water after she re-
ceived a warning.
Since the new restrictions were an-
nounced, McMeel said she’s been using
a bucket to collect shower water that
would otherwise be wasted while
warming up and uses it for irrigation.
She’s also stopped rinsing dishes before
putting them in the dishwasher and
started combining whites and colors to
cut down on laundry cycles, among oth-
er adjustments.
Since being notified she was over her
allotment, she started a water diary to
track her usage. It’s all getting to be a bit
too much.
“I would like to have a life besides
worrying about my water,” she said.
And if they install a flow restrictor on
her home?
“I will figure out how to remove it my-
self or find someone who can remove it
for me,” she said.
Miriam Zacuto, a 60-year-old man-
ager of a law practice who lives in near-
by Agoura Hills, said she also believes in
conservation, but says it feels like
On Pence testifying
Cheney may be leaving Congress but
she still serves as vice chair of the
Jan. 6 committee, which has held a
series of public hearings this
summer.
She said the special panel has been in
talks with legal
counsel for former
Vice President Mike
Pence, who she says
“played a critical role
on January 6th.”
Pence Pence has said he
would “consider”
testifying before the panel if asked.
Cheney noted that while she didn’t
see those comments, “it sounds like
they were pretty similar to what his
counsel has been saying.”
She acknowledged Pence has
“concerns about executive privilege.”
She said that while she respects
those concerns, “I also think that
when the country has been through
something as grave as this was,
everyone who has information has an
obligation to step forward.
“So I would hope that he will do that.”
there’s too much onus on the homeown-
ers in her area.
Restrictions should be streamlined to
apply to all Californians and the West,
she said.
“We’re not making any fuss about our
allocation,” she said. “We’d be happy to
have our hill not die and our lawn be
green again, but we also are nervous
that at some point there will be no water
coming out of the faucet.”
On top of water patrols, most agen-
cies in Southern California provide hot-
lines or online forms for residents to re-
port wasters to the authorities.
Number of residents ratting out
wasteful neighbors skyrockets
Lawrence Springer has been with the
Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power’s conservation response unit for
four years but has been extra busy since
the new restrictions were announced in
April.
People reporting on their neighbors
have skyrocketed. (The department
says there were 544 complaints in May
2021, compared with 1,198 in May 2022,
a 120% increase.)
Springer responds to those reports
on top of his regular neighborhood pa-
trols, which range from working-class
areas in South Los Angeles to million-
dollar homes in the tony neighborhood
of Hancock Park, home of Mayor Eric
Garcetti and formerly Howard Hughes,
Mae West and Nat King Cole.
Springer drives or walks around on
the lookout for people watering their
lawns past 9 a.m. or for sprinklers that
end up watering cement.
On a recent sunny summer day in an
upscale area of the Pico-Robertson
neighborhood, Springer immediately
spotted two homes violating his agen-
cy’s rules. Sprinklers were spraying all
over sidewalks so much that it created
puddles along the curbs and flowed
down the street.
“There may be a broken pipe,” he said
as he walked around the lush green lawn
of a $2 million Spanish-style home.
But Lawrence doesn’t knock on the
door to see whether someone’s home.
Instead, he pulled out his clipboard and
began filling out information about the
house and the violation, information
he’ll use later to write a warning.
The first citation carries no fine. But a
second costs $200, a third $400 and a
fourth $600. It can escalate from there
NEWS
On Kevin McCarthy
Asked whether House Minority Leader
Kevin McCarthy should become the
next speaker of the
House, should
Republicans take back
the chamber in
November’s elections,
Cheney did not mince
words: “Well, my views
McCarthy about Kevin McCarthy
are very clear.”
Noting the speaker is in the
presidential line of succession, Cheney
said McCarthy is not fit for the role:
“He’s been completely unfaithful to
the Constitution and demonstrated a
total lack of understanding of the
significance and the importance of the
role of speaker. So I don’t believe he
should be speaker of the House.”
On Ron DeSantis
Asked about whether she would
oppose a potential presidential
candidacy of DeSantis, Cheney put the
Florida governor in the camp of those
who don’t support the 2020 outcome.
“I think that DeSantis is somebody
who is, right now, campaigning for
election denier,” she said. “And I think
that, you know, that is something that
I think people have got to have real
pause about. You know, either you
fundamentally believe in and will
support our constitutional structure,
or you don’t.”
On what’s next
She is completing the work of the
House committee investigating the
attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
She has started a political
organization to fight those who deny
the outcome of the 2020 election.
“I’m going to be very focused on
working to ensure that we do
everything we can not to elect
election deniers,” she said.
but because the restrictions are so new,
no one has been cited since June 1.
“Ninety-nine percent of the popula-
tion are receptive,” Springer said. “They
tend to want to make the corrections not
only because they don’t want to receive
citations but also this is basically a
waste of water and a waste of money. So
they tend to want to make the correction
so that they save water and save money
in the process.”
Many residents in the largely liberal
region have embraced the new normal
and made adjustments, like not flushing
the toilet for urine alone, turning the
shower off while shaving, and collecting
the sink water that runs while waiting
for it to get hot. Others have made the
switch to artificial turf or irrigation sys-
tems for watering their yards.
‘No more lawns’
The adjustments are paying off. Los
Angeles Department of Power and Wa-
ter customers used 9% less water in
June this year than June 2021, despite
the month being hotter than any June in
the past eight years, the agency said.
In the strict Las Virgenes district, wa-
ter use in May fell by 21% since last May
and by 42% in June, according to figures
provided by McNutt.
He attributes the huge decreases to
the area’s large property sizes, which
means that irrigation represents about
70% of water usage.
“So when conservation restrictions
are put into place, we can see larger sav-
ings due to cutting back on outdoor wa-
tering,” he said.
While homes in the area are now
down to being allowed to water their
lawns once a week, McNutt said resi-
dents need to start preparing for a time
when they’re not allowed to water out-
doors at all.
“What were saying is no more lawns,”
he said. “All lawns will ultimately go
dormant or turn brown or not live any-
more. That’s the future of where were
going with outdoor living spaces.”
“In Southern California, we’ve been
accustomed to having lush, green
lawns, and as we move into the future, if
we don’t get a sufficient amount of snow
and rain, it’s going to get tough to justify
having a green lawn when we can use
the water for other reasons. Hopefully,
we can move toward a more California
landscape, but it’s going to take time
and it’s going to take education.”
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US border agents
encounter record
numbers of migrants
Rick Jervis USA TODAY

Growing numbers of Mexicans, Hondurans, Cubans and Venezuelans are coming

across the U.S.-Mexico border, while some U.S. policies may continue to funnel
migrants into hazardous terrain. h The number of migrants encountered at the
U.S.-Mexico border dipped slightly last month compared with the month before,
but is still on pace to surpass last year’s record-breaking totals, according to sta-
tistics released this week by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. h “Repeat cross-
ers” and other factors may skew the numbers somewhat, making them appear
larger than they are, but the sheer number and variety of migrants arriving at the
Southwest border are still at historic highs, said Adam Isacson, of the Washington
Office on Latin America, a research and advocacy group.

Is this a record-breaking What is Title 42, and how

year for migrants at
US-Mexico border?
The consensus is mostly yes. Border
agents and officials encountered
199,976 migrants at the Southwest
border, a 4% drop from June, when
207,933 were encountered, according
to the CBP statistics. But, overall,
1.947 million migrants were
encountered at the border this fiscal
year from October 2021 through July.
That number is already higher than
the 1.7 million reported all of last fiscal
year, then the highest number on
record. (Numbers have approached
those heights in decades past: 1.6
million in 1986 and again in 2000.)
Border officials said 22% of those
encountered at the border were
“repeat crossers,” or those picked up
more than once in a year, which may
overstate the total number, Isacson
said. But even factoring in repeat
crossers, the numbers are on pace to
break previous records.
“No matter how you measure it … this
will be the largest year ever,” he said.
Are unaccompanied minors
still coming to the US?
Yes, though their numbers are waning.
Encounters of unaccompanied
children decreased from 15,255 in
June to 13,299 in July, a 13% drop. So
far this fiscal year, border agents have
encountered more than 128,000
unaccompanied minors.
did the pandemic affect
immigration numbers?
Border agents and officials continue
to expel migrants at the border under
Title 42, the pandemic-era rule that
allows agents to remove migrants
without processing their asylum
claims to avoid the spread of the
coronavirus. In July, 74,573 migrants
encountered at the Southwest border
– or 37% – were removed from the
U.S. under Title 42, according to CBP
statistics.
Many immigrants avoid Title 42 and
are allowed into the U.S. to face
removal proceedings because the U.S.
lacks diplomatic relations with their
home country or some regions of
Mexico decline to take them. The
Biden administration has kept Title 42
in place under court order.
Many of those who are expelled under
the public health order, finding
themselves mired in dangerous
northern Mexico towns, simply cross
again to seek asylum, said Jason De
León, director of the Colibri Center for
Human Rights, an advocacy group.
Title 42 also creates danger by forcing
migrants to try to cross in more
hazardous areas, he said.
This critique echoes other criticisms
of border policies. Advocates have
long said that strengthened barriers –
such as border walls – push crossers
into more-remote areas or dangerous
crossing methods, leading to more
deaths. Title 42 creates similar
pressures, De León said.
Immigrants from Haiti,
who crossed through a
gap in the U.S.-Mexico
border barrier, wait in
line to be processed in
Yuma, Ariz., in May.
MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES
“At the end of the
day, the U.S.
continues to be a
very attractive job
market, and
migrants tend to
track that very
carefully.”
Tony Payan
director of the Mexico Center at
Rice University in Houston
Who is arriving at the US-Mexico
border?
Just more than half – or 52% – of migrants
encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border came
from Mexico and the three “Northern Triangle”
Central American countries of El Salvador,
Guatemala and Honduras.
Other countries seeing large influxes of its
citizens at the Southwest border include Cuba
(20,159), Venezuela (17,651), Colombia (13,459)
and Nicaragua (12,076), according to CBP
statistics. Also, 5,396 Haitians were picked up at
the border.
The surge in migrants from countries not
historically common sources of migration to the
U.S.-Mexico border points to a global trend of
people fleeing pandemic-ravaged economies
and unstable governments, Isacson said.
“People are on the move everywhere,” he said.
Another factor driving migrants to the
U.S.-Mexico border: a robust U.S. job market,
said Tony Payan, director of the Mexico Center
at Rice University in Houston. The labor market
added more than 500,000 jobs last month,
exceeding expectations, and the unemployment
rate dropped to a pre-pandemic rate of 3.5%,
according to U.S. labor statistics.

Alabama city finds

loophole to oust officers
in racist text scandal
Christine Fernando
USA TODAY
The mayor of a small Alabama city
said the city couldn’t legally fire police of-
ficers after the city’s three-member po-
lice department was engulfed in a scan-
dal over racist texts. So the city is instead
disbanding the department and laying
off its officers.
The city council for the city of Vincent
unanimously voted to disband its three-
member police department during a pub-
lic meeting Thursday after authorities
say one of the members of the depart-
ment sent a text with a racist joke about
slavery. The texts, which Mayor James
Latimore said were sent in June, sparked
outrage after being posted online in July.
The city council this month voted to
suspend the police chief and assistant
police chief. The police department’s
third member resigned just hours before
the vote.
That meeting set in motion the proc-
ess of disbanding the department, but
the details of how to terminate remaining
officers remained unresolved.
The plan to fire them hit a legal snag,
even as some officers announced plans to
retire.
The problem with firing the officers
was uncovered by the city’s attorney, La-
timore said at Thursday’s meeting. The
city’s personnel policy requires two writ-
ten complaints and a verbal warning to
be filed before an employee can be termi-
nated.
Latimore said there have been no offi-
cial complaints against any department
employee during his time as mayor.
Voting to eliminate the department
solved the issue, the city’s mayor said.
“It’s not firing them,” Latimore said.
“It’s laying them off.”
Disbanding the department also al-
lows the city to craft a better policy to
deal with future disciplinary issues,
“This has uncovered a flaw that not a
single person at this table realized we
have with our personnel policy.”
Mayor James Latimore
should the department come back one
day.
“This has uncovered a flaw that not a
single person at this table realized we
have with our personnel policy,” Latimore
added as residents attending the public
meeting expressed outrage that the offi-
cers involved could not be fired.
Now the city plans to contract the
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office for law en-
forcement. The police chief and assistant
police chief will be laid off five days after
the new ordinance is passed, Latimore
said, adding that both officers had re-
cently submitted their paperwork for re-
tirement.
During the Thursday public meeting,
Vincent residents expressed their hurt
and outrage over the texts, and demand-
ed further investigation into the incident
and accountability for the officers in-
volved. Residents also voiced concerns
about how far Shelby County Sheriff’s
Office is from the town and questioned
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Latimore said dissolving the police
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give the city time to hire new officers, re-
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NATION+WORLD
Experts warn of risks as polio
may be making a comeback
Adrianna Rodriguez
USA TODAY
In the early 1900s, as many as 35,000
Americans a year were disabled by po-
lio. The virus, which mainly spread dur-
ing summer months, finally was tamed
with a highly effective vaccine.
For decades, transmission had dis-
appeared in the U.S.
Until now.
New York reported a confirmed case
of paralytic polio in July, and wastewa-
ter surveillance showed the virus may
have been circulating in neighboring
counties since April.
Experts are calling it a “wake-up call,”
but they don’t think the single case or
subsequent viral detection will lead to a
countrywide outbreak akin to COVID-19
or monkeypox, as more than 90% of U.S.
children are vaccinated against polio.
Experts, however, say pockets of un-
vaccinated people across the country
may be at risk.
“What worries me is the communi-
ties where vaccination is suboptimal,”
said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, professor of epi-
demiology and medicine at Columbia
University Mailman School of Public
Health. “It is in those communities
where you’re likely to get spread rather
than communities with coverage.”
Officials announced July 21 that an
adult in Rockland County, New York,
had been diagnosed with polio in June.
The person had never been vaccinated
against the virus, officials said, and suf-
fered paralysis as a result of the disease.
A report from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention shows the case
– the first transmitted in the U.S. since
1979 – came from a person who had tak-
en an oral polio vaccine in a different
country. A rare complication of the at-
tenuated live vaccine, which has not
been given in the U.S. in more than two
decades, allowed the person to develop
a mild case of polio and shed the dis-
ease.
Like every state, New York requires
children to get a polio vaccination be-
fore attending child-care facilities and
schools.
But in Rockland County, only about
60% of children younger than 2 received
their recommended series of the polio
vaccine, state data show. The CDC re-
port showed some ZIP codes have vacci-
nation coverage as low as 37%.
“Ideally, you want more than 90% at
minimum among children,” El-Sadr
said.
Although data is inconsistent
throughout the country, experts say low
vaccination rates aren’t unique to New
York. There are likely other states with
pockets of unvaccinated residents who
could be vulnerable to the virus.
Search goes on for hiker after flooding at Zion
Claire Thornton and Cady Stanton
USA TODAY
Authorities at Zion National Park
were still searching for an Arizona wom-
an who vanished after flash flooding,
the park said, and iconic sections of the
park remained closed Sunday.
Late Friday, the National Park Ser-
vice received a report that Jetal Agniho-
tri, a 29-year-old Tucson, Arizona, resi-
dent, was overdue from a trip to The
Narrows, a gorge carved by the Virgin
River that has rock walls 1,000 feet tall.
More than 20 Zion search and rescue
team members were working in the Vir-
gin River area searching for Agnihotri,
Staten Island blaze engulfs multiple homes
Cady Stanton
USA TODAY
Fifteen people were displaced and
three firefighters suffered minor injuries
after a fire spread across at least three
homes on Staten Island late Saturday
night, officials said early Sunday.
The fire started on the first floor of a
two-story home in Charleston, Staten
Island, around 10 p.m. Saturday night,
according to the FDNY. The flames then
spread to two neighboring units.
More than 140 firefighters responded
to the scene, and it took about an hour
for crews to gain control of the blaze, ac-
cording to officials. Strong winds com-
The emergency polio ward at Haynes Memorial Hospital in Boston in 1955 is
filled with iron lung respirators. The coffin-like devices helped those whose
bodies were crippled by polio breathe artificially. Later in 1955, Jonas Salk
discovered the vaccine for polio, which today has been eradicated from all but
three countries. AP
Meanwhile, wastewater surveillance
showed the polio virus in 21 sewage
samples taken in Orange and Rockland
counties since April, the CDC reported.
“For every one case of paralytic polio
identified, hundreds more may be unde-
tected,” New York health commissioner
Dr. Mary T. Bassett said in a statement.
Low levels of vaccination and circu-
lating virus in wastewater indicate “a
very major storm developing” in these
communities, said Dr. Luis Ostrosky, an
infectious disease specialist at the Uni-
versity of Texas Health Science Center
at Houston and Memorial Hermann
Hospital.
The “wastewater is showing us there
are infected people in the community
that aren’t showing clinical signs and
symptoms,” he said, as only about 1 one
in 2,000 people who are infected with
the polio virus develop the disease.
The best way to prevent further
transmission in vulnerable communi-
ties is through vaccination, experts say.
The standard vaccination series for po-
lio consists of four doses: one at 2
months old, the second at 4 months, the
third between 6 and 18 months, and the
fourth between 4 and 6 years old.
Officials urge parents to make sure
their children are current with their vac-
cines. An April report from the CDC
found coverage among kindergartners
according to NPS.
“Park rangers and other members of
the Zion Search and Rescue Team re-
sponded quickly to this event, and we
are continuing our efforts,” Jeff Brady-
baugh, Zion National Park superinten-
dent, said Saturday.
Park rangers received an initial re-
port Friday afternoon of “multiple hik-
ers being swept off their feet by a flash
flood” in The Narrows and sent rangers
to respond. They discovered one injured
hiker who had been swept downstream
and several others who were isolated by
high water on high ground and assisted
them to safety.
After all hikers were thought to be ac-
plicated efforts to contain the fire by
spreading the flames, and siding melted
off of neighboring residences.
"It could have been a lot worse if it
wasn't for the aggressive actions by the
FDNY," FDNY Deputy Assistant Chief
Kevin Woods said.
The injured firefighters were taken to
hospitals, Woods said. No residents
were hurt, but one dog is missing, local
outlet PIX 11 reported.
Resident Mark Keane, who took cell-
phone video of the fire late Saturday,
told CBS News New York that he smelled
the fire and left his home to investigate.
"It just came out of nowhere and
erupted like an absolute apocalypse,"
for the 2020-2021 school year fell by 1%
amid disruptions from the COVID-19
pandemic.
“We really have to play catch up for
some children,” El-Sadr said.
The highly infectious disease is
spread through contact with infected
feces, often when children don’t wash
their hands correctly, experts say. So,
it’s also important to maintain good
hand hygiene.
The single case of polio likely won’t
result in a nationwide outbreak, but
it’s a reminder that even eliminated
diseases can reappear if the public isn’t
careful, said Dr. Daniel Pastula, a neu-
ro-infectious disease expert at the
University of Colorado Anschutz Med-
ical Campus.
“Poliovirus isn’t eradicated around
the world,” he said. “Under the right
conditions, it can rear its ugly head and
those conditions are lack of vaccina-
tions, contaminated water and food
and unrobust public health systems.”
Contributing: Chris McKenna and
Nancy Cutler, USA TODAY
Health and patient safety coverage
at USA TODAY is made possible in part
by a grant from the Masimo Founda-
tion for Ethics, Innovation and Compe-
tition in Healthcare. The Masimo
Foundation does not provide editorial
input.
counted for, NPS later received a report
from Agnihotri’s friends that she was
missing, the service said.
Zion National Park is about 20 miles
north of the Utah-Arizona border and
is known for its narrow canyons and
massive sandstone cliffs.
The Narrows is a hiking route that
includes long periods of walking
through water. Zion National Park
closes The Narrows when the water
currents in that part of the park get too
strong.
Contributing: K. Sophie Will, St.
George Spectrum & Daily News; Melis-
sa Yeager and Haleigh Kochanski, The
Arizona Republic; The Associated Press
Keane said. “It looked like an out-of-
control bonfire. The wind then started
blowing and it completely caught fire.”
New York City Council Member Joe
Borelli, who represents Staten Island's
south shore, put out a call on social
media for gift-card donations for those
affected by the fire.
Investigators have not yet deter-
mined a cause for the blaze.
Last week, a Staten Island firefight-
er was released from a hospital after
suffering serious internal injuries to
his esophagus when his face piece was
knocked off his face while responding
to a fire, the Staten Island Advance
reported.
NEWS
WAR IN UKRAINE
NEWS BRIEFING
Russians
outraged
after car
bombing
Angry Russians called Sunday for
attacks on Ukrainian government
buildings after the death of a promi-
nent Putin ally in a car bombing after a
festival outside Moscow.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelen-
skyy, denied Ukrainian involvement:
“We are not a criminal state, unlike
Russia.” Ukrainian officials, however,
urged government employees in the
capital to work remotely this week
amid concerns that the buildings
would be targeted for attack.
Russia’s Investigative Committee
said the explosion ripped through the
Toyota Land Cruiser driven by Daria
Dugina, 29, a conservative commenta-
tor, near the village of Bolshie Vyaze-
my on Saturday night. RT reported
that the vehicle belonged to her father,
anti-Western Russian nationalist Al-
exander Dugin – often called “Putin’s
brain” – giving rise to suspicions that
he was the intended target. Dugina
herself was a hardliner who said docu-
mented Russian atrocities in Kyiv sub-
urb of Bucha were staged.
“Kyiv will shudder” said a headline
on Russia’s Tsargrad.tv website, while
state-run RT editor Margarita Simo-
nyan retweeted a call to bomb the Uk-
rainian intelligence agency headquar-
ters in Kyiv.
“Decision-making centers! Deci-
sion-making centers!! Decision mak-
ing centers!!!” she said in a post.
Russia’s Investigative Committee
said the explosion ripped through the
Toyota Land Cruiser driven by Daria
Dugina, 29, a conservative commenta-
tor, near the village of Bolshie Vyaze-
my on Saturday night. RT reported
that the vehicle belonged to her father,
well-known anti-Western Russian na-
tionalist Alexander Dugin, giving rise
to suspicions that he was the intended
target.
The blast came at about 9 p.m. local
time, shortly after Dugina left a festi-
val where she attended a “Tradition
and History” lecture led by her father,
Russian authorities said.
Latest developments:
h Ukraine’s military said it de-
stroyed two Russian ammunition de-
pots in the villages of Chornobaivka in
Kherson and Starytsia in Kharkiv. The
Kremlin said it destroyed a depot in
the Odesa region where missiles for
U.S. multiple-rocket launchers known
as HIMARS were stored.
h Two Russians and a Ukrainian
were arrested for alleged espionage at
an Albanian military plant. Albania, a
NATO member since 2009, has strong-
ly renounced Russia’s invasion of Uk-
raine and has joined in sanctions
against Moscow.
Heavyweight champion from
Ukraine retains crown
Ukrainian fighters typically draw
praise from President Volodymyr Ze-
lenskyy for their toil on the battlefield,
not the boxing ring.
Oleksandr Usyk receives it for both.
Six months after he was patrolling
the streets of Kyiv with an automatic
rifle and defending Ukraine from the
invading Russians, Usyk outpointed
Anthony Joshua in a closely fought re-
match Saturday in Saudi Arabia to
keep his WBA, WBO and IBF belts.
In defending his titles, Usyk im-
proved his record to 20-0 with 13
knockouts and lived up to his billing as
the sporting pride of Ukraine.
“I devote this victory to my country,
to my family, to my team, to all the mil-
itary defending this country,” said
Usyk, 35, who came into the ring wear-
ing a blue-and-yellow top with the
words “Colors of Freedom.”
Amid all the hardships the war has
caused, Usyk has served as inspiration
for his fellow Ukrainians, and he drew
a shoutout from Zelenskyy in his
nightly video address to the nation.
“We stick together,” the president
said. “We help each other. We restore
what was destroyed. We fight for all
our people. And we cheer for those
who represent Ukraine, today – defi-
nitely for Usyk, our guy!”
Contributing: The Associated Press
NEWS
OPINION
Why there should be
no question about
presidential records
They belong to the
American people,
not former presidents
Joseph Michael
Lieberman Alexander
Former A former Senate
U.S. senator staff director
During the years I was privileged to be
in the leadership of the U.S. Senate
Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs Committee, one of the least com-
pelling topics we dealt with was the rules
regarding presidential records. To many
members of the committee and the news
media, hearings that we were required to
hold on that subject seemed irrelevant or
boring, not anyone’s idea of must-see TV.
After the search warrant recently car-
ried out at former President Donald
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm
Beach, Florida, everyone is suddenly
talking about presidential records, espe-
cially because some of the records were
marked classified, with potentially seri-
ous consequences for national security.
How to deal with them is now an ur-
gent and, for many, divisive topic of dis-
cussion. But there should be nothing
controversial or remotely partisan about
how we maintain these records.
Simply put, they belong to the Amer-
ican people, not former presidents, re-
gardless of what political party a presi-
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The nerve of workers, insisting on their humanity
Blame or credit the
pandemic for a shift in
how we view our work
Connie Schultz
USA TODAY
Many bosses in the United States are
finally discovering that their employees
want lives outside of work.
In addition to work, is perhaps a bet-
ter way to put it. Minus their overlords,
to be crystal clear.
(I’m going to pivot to “we” and “our”
here, to be inclusive, sure, but mostly to
make clear I am not a boss, nor have I
ever aspired to be a boss. Not that
there’s anything wrong with being a
boss. Sometimes.)
Regardless of our commitment to
jobs and careers, it turns out we want
hours – heck, entire days – not just min-
utes disconnected from employers who
keep demanding more for less. We want
virtual walls between our personal lives
and bosses who feel entitled to en-
croach on our time like vines of kudzu
on Georgia pines.
As my colleague Paul Davidson wrote
recently, quoting Korn Ferry’s Mark
Royal: “Employees are saying, ‘I’m not
going to define myself by traditional
markers of career progression and suc-
cess. I’m going to put a box around
work.’”
I’m going to put a box around work.
That’s a country song waiting to hap-
pen. Somebody get on that, please.
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cording to the PRA, public presidential
records encompass “documentary ma-
terials,” irrespective of format, created or
received by the president or his staff
working on official or ceremonial duties.
It also includes some documents re-
lated to the president’s or staff’s political
activities if they also touch on the presi-
dent’s official duties.
Nixon had been forced by the Supreme
Court to turn over the now infamous
tapes that led to his impeachment. Some
in his inner circle had actually advised
Nixon to burn the tapes! After that epi-
sode, Congress was naturally concerned
about the destruction and loss of presi-
dential records, and it passed the PRA,
which gave custody of all former presi-
dents’ records to the National Archives
and Records Administration.
From Washington to Carter
The act made clear that these records
were important to the nation’s past and
future and were not the property of any
individual. They belong to the American
people. The PRA imposes on the national
archivist “an affirmative duty to make
such records available to the public as
rapidly and completely as possible.”
An incumbent president has discre-
tion to restrict access to records for up to
12 years after leaving office. But, with a
few stated exceptions, following this pe-
riod those records must be automatically
released in accordance with the stan-
dards in the Freedom of Information Act.
Among its other provisions, the Presi-
dential Records Act:
h Establishes in law “public owner-
ship of all presidential records.”
h Requires the president and White
House staff to take “all practical steps to
file personal records separately from
presidential records.”
h “Establishes that the presidential
records automatically transfer into legal
custody of the archivist as soon as the
president leaves office.”
h Allows the incumbent president, not
ex-presidents, “to dispose of records that
Blame the pandemic, credit the pan-
demic – however you cast it, this is an
earthquake in the life of working Amer-
ica. After more than two years of sacri-
fice and a remarkable ability to keep
working-America afloat during this
pandemic, it’s not unreasonable for all
those employees to wonder, “Where’s
the love?” S
hort of that, how about a return on
their investment of worker loyalty?
Davidson summed it up nicely:
“Burned out after logging excessive
hours or duties during COVID-19, (mil-
lions of Americans are) resolving to
meet their job requirements but not go
beyond. No toiling late into the night. No
calls on weekends. And no pushing
themselves to the brink even during reg-
ular business hours.”
The nerve of these people, insisting
on their humanity.
For white-collar workers, there’s lot
of coverage now about the debate of
working at home versus showing up to
the office.
In a curious development, bosses are
arguing for more face time, and they’re
not talking about the app. What I find
fascinating is this sudden professed de-
sire to see employees who are accus-
tomed to being unseen by higher-ups.
Quick, someone order those name tags.
One size doesn’t fit all workers
This NPR segment on a story about
hybrid work, in which employees split
their time between home and office,
made me stop mid-pour with the morn-
ing coffee.
First cup. I never do that.
Here’s Rich Handler, CEO of the in-
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no longer have administrative, historical,
informational, or evidentiary value, once
the views of (the archivist) on the pro-
posed disposal have been obtained in
writing.”
Before the PRA became the law of our
land, every president from George Wash-
ington to Jimmy Carter (who was presi-
dent when the act was enacted) was free
to do whatever they pleased with their
records, “including selling them, burning
them, even flushing them down the toi-
let,” as historian Mitchell Robertson has
written. Until the 1970s, the survival of
presidential papers relied on “luck and
circumstance.”
Our history, our future
President Washington’s records were,
according to Mount Vernon, “scattered
throughout the country, and around the
world.”
Today, thankfully, many presidential
records are housed in presidential librar-
ies, but only under the authority of our
national archivist. The records are avail-
able to historians, students, journalists
and members of the public who want to
know what happened in that president’s
administration in order to learn from his-
tory and hopefully protect and improve
our democracy.
The safekeeping of presidential rec-
ords is even more important when the in-
formation they contain has been classi-
fied. Our government must keep some in-
formation secret because its release
vestment banking company Jefferies:
“If you want a job, stay remote all the
time. If you want a career, engage with
the rest of us in the office. ... No judg-
ment on which you pick, but don’t be
surprised or disappointed by certain
outcomes.”
On any day, I am glad not to be an in-
vestment banker. Today I’m downright
giddy about it.
Let us acknowledge that is not a one-
size-fits-all conundrum, and it’s a de-
bate steeped in privilege and good luck.
Most low-paying jobs require in-person
work. These are essential workers, on
whom we all depend.
As I write, I was reminded of this over
the last 48 hours, after I drove to Lowe’s
to buy a major appliance.
An experienced employee helped me
choose. A cashier helped me check out
after the self-service station rejected
me. Another employee called to sched-
ule delivery.
Not long after I heard Handler’s com-
ments on NPR on Thursday, two delive-
rymen arrived to lug the appliance up
one set of stairs and down another.
This is the working life of millions of
Americans who don’t have a choice
about showing up if they want to sup-
port themselves and their families.
Dismissing them as working in jobs,
not careers, may make you feel better
about your chosen line of work, but it
makes you a lousy human being.
Working parents, people with dis-
abilities and those who can’t afford the
means of transportation for easy trips to
and from the office can be top-notch
employees without having to mingle in
the workplace.
By the way, I find it fascinating –
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could do grave harm to our security – es-
pecially when not only the contents but
also the methods and sources that our in-
telligence and military agencies use are
revealed to foreign adversaries.
Releasing classified information can
jeopardize vital national security opera-
tions. It does not take a genius to trace
the contents of documents to their
source, and when those sources are hu-
man, to put the lives of American agents
at risk.
That is exactly what happened in 2010
when Julian Assange released an enor-
mous amount of classified information
given to him in violation of U.S. law.
The Justice Department will decide
whether it will charge anyone with a
crime related to the records found at
Mar-a-Lago. Whether DOJ will is not
clear, but one thing that should be clear is
that the way presidential records are
handled by presidents and their aides is
critically important to our country, our
values, our history and our future. The
records of presidents are the property of
the American people because in our de-
mocracy it is the people, and not any
president, who are sovereign.
Joseph Lieberman, a U.S. senator from
Connecticut from 1989 to 2013, was the
Democratic candidate for vice president
in 2000. He is founding co-chair of the bi-
partisan organization No Labels.
Michael Alexander was a staff director
of the Senate Homeland Security & Gov-
ernment Affairs Committee from 2006 to
2013.
there’s the word again, in my effort to be
polite – that bosses are suddenly her-
alding the value of colleague-hobnob-
bing during work hours.
Which brings me to a recent New
York Times story titled, “The Rise of the
Worker Productivity Score,” by Jodi
Kantor and Arya Sundaram. “Since the
dawn of modern offices, workers have
orchestrated their actions by watching
the clock,” the journalists write. “Now,
more and more, the clock is watching
them.”
Hold on to your mice
It is as awful as it sounds. At some
companies, this monitoring includes
capturing photos of employees’ faces
and computer screens and tracing the
activity of their computer mice.
This is not just for employees work-
ing at home.
Companies also are installing this
software in offices where employees are
supposed to be soaking up the benefits
of mingling, but not really.
My favorite part of the story, meaning
the part that made me scream at my
computer screen, was about the pro-
ductivity points assigned to the work of
hospice chaplains. Because if anything
can be scheduled on a timetable, it’s the
stages of death and grieving.
It’s a whole new world, my fellow
Americans. Hold on to your mice – or its
it mouses? Mingle while you can.
USA TODAY columnist Connie
Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize winner whose
novel, “The Daughters of Erietown,” is a
New York Times bestseller. You can
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having enough gross margin to be able
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The pandemic housing market has
been especially tough for home buyers
looking at the lower end of the price
spectrum.
In June, homes sold under $100,000
fell by 27% compared with a year before
where homes sold between $750,000
and $1 million went up by 6%, according
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Apart from a dearth of starter home
construction, financing has been a ma-
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In 2019, only 23% of homes priced
below $100,000 were purchased with a Bonnett was evicted from a neighborhood on Detroit’s east side.
mortgage, compared with 74% of
homes priced at or above $100,000, ac-
cording to the Urban Institute.
Lenders shy away from small mort-
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and servicing costs regardless of the another. Sellers take whatever down payment the would-be owner can afford,
loan size, say experts. pull in their payments and sweat equity for as long as possible, and then evict
The shortage is leading millions of them and cycle another buyer into the property.”
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prospective homeowners to turn to al-
ternative arrangements to finance their
home purchases. One of the most com-
mon forms of alternative home financ-
ing, land contracts – also known as
“contracts-for-deed” or “installment
sales contracts” – can be particularly
predatory, say consumer watchdogs.
What is a land contract?
Land installment contracts, also
known as “contracts for deed,” are sell-
er-financed home sales in which a ho-
mebuyer makes regular payments to
the seller over a period of 30 or 40 years,
but the deed does not transfer until the
last payment is made. A single missed
payment can be a cause for eviction.
Buyers who use land contracts are
typically households who couldn’t
qualify for a conventional mortgage or
couldn’t pass a credit check to get into a
conventional rental property.
Is it a new way of financing?
Land contracts are not new. Many
working-class Black families in the
1950s and ’60s were forced to turn to
speculative sellers after the federal gov-
ernment refused to insure mortgages in
redlined minority neighborhoods.
Speculators often bought homes at a
discount from white families as they
fled racially changing neighborhoods to
sell them months later to Black families
at inflated prices and high interest.
Since the Great Recession, however,
land contracts have made a comeback,
with large investment companies hav-
ing bought up foreclosed properties
from Fannie Mae. And a high percent-
age of these properties are in Black
neighborhoods, according to a paper by
the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Are land contracts a potential
path toward homeownership?
Proponents of land contracts say
these arrangements provide a viable
means for low-income and credit-chal-
lenged families to access homeowner-
ship, especially when they can’t obtain
a traditional mortgage loan from a bank
or other financial institution.
For sellers, a contract for deed in-
stead of a mortgage could be attractive
since they can charge higher interest, a
belief that the transaction can be com-
pleted without a lawyer and in the case
of a buyer default, they can skip fore-
closure and go through a forfeiture,
which is fast, easy and inexpensive.
What are the downsides?
From the buyer’s perspective, pur-
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always trying our best to stay ahead,”
Shah said. “We’re going to stick to our
guns, but my biggest fear is if consumer
spending goes down to next to nothing.”
Shah said that because Lola’s isn’t a
multimillion-dollar company, it’s able to
pivot in a difficult time faster, because it
knows what areas of the business it can
focus on while maintaining product
quality and customer experience.
Harji Singh, a co-founder of the Delta
8 cannabis beverage LOKI, said he
shares Shah’s thinking, adding that the
alcohol industry did very well during the
2008 recession.
Singh, who also owns a creative
agency, said the company is trying to
spend as wisely as possible, cutting
back on events and influencer market-
ing that other beverage companies
might be doing. Because the company is
only 50 people with a core team of eight,
Singh said, it is trying to leverage re-
sources the company already has to
keep staff wherethey are now.
“We’ve seen what happened in the
recession in 2008, so we’re trying to po-
sition ourselves to spend wisely and le-
verage all resources we already have to
scale the brand,” Singh said. “Find out
where the majority of your revenue is
coming from and double down on it to
build the best relationship you can with
that market.”
Small business owners are worried
about the supply chain again
But some companies are still recover-
ing from the pandemic and supply chain
interruptions that followed.
Shah said COVID-19 was a double-
edgedsword because when the pan-
demic hit, panic buying helped Lola’s
products sell, but once that slowed,
Sonja Bonnett, of Detroit, sits on the front porch of her current home in Detroit
on Aug. 1. Bonnett is a mother of seven who was evicted in 2017 from a house
she thought she had bought in 2011 on a land contract.
RYAN GARZA/USA TODAY NETWORK
chasing a property on land contract com-
bines the worst of buying and renting,
say experts.
It is marketed disproportionately to
low-income families of color as an alter-
native path to homeownership but in-
stead allows investors to avoid responsi-
bility for property upkeep while churning
successive would-be homeowners
through a property they could not legally
rent, says Sarah Bolling Mancini, a staff
attorney at the National Consumer Law
Center.
Eric Seymour, an assistant professor
at the Bloustein School of Planning and
Public Policy at Rutgers, has focused his
research on contract sellers, both the big
actors such Harbor Portfolio as well as
smaller “slumlord speculators.”
Seymour says land contracts are par-
ticularly attractive for unscrupulous
property dealers looking to make money
because rather than offering them as a
rental – which ostensibly puts the prop-
erty owner on the hook for property
maintenance and repairs – a land con-
tract gives all the responsibilities to the
buyer, he says.
“The down payment on these proper-
ties could be as much or more than what
these investors paid for these properties
in the first place,” he says.
Mancini agrees.
“Sellers profit by churning a house
through one land contract buyer after an-
other. Sellers take whatever down pay-
ment the would-be owner can afford, pull
in their payments and sweat equity for as
long as possible, and then evict them and
cycle another buyer into the property,”
Mancini writes in her National Consumer
Law Center report, “Toxic Transactions:
How Land Installment Contracts Once
Again Threaten Communities of Color.”
What are the risks?
The transactions are typically invisi-
ble in the public deed records, which puts
contract buyers at risk of having their in-
supply chain bottlenecks started af-
fecting production.
“I would almost tell you right now,
supply chains are worse now than dur-
ing COVID,” he said. “Fortunately for
us, we have contracts for any time we
get a product that does not meet the
quality standard.”
Some businesses said they aren’t
too worried about staffing during a re-
cession.
Greg Davies is CEO of Full Measure
Education, a startup that works exclu-
sively with higher education institu-
tions to make student interaction ac-
cessible. When learning went remote,
Full Measure helped universities cre-
ate virtual campus tours and helped
students register for orientation and
even make a deposit for on-campus
living.
“Traditionally recessions are good
for higher (education),” Davies said.
“So far, it looks like our market isn’t
really impacted by this, but we’re look-
ing at it on a monthly basis for how we
need to reconsider and what we
should change accordingly.”
Entrepreneurs try to keep
recession and inflation in
perspective
Davies said business owners should
remember that economic events like a
recession don’t last forever, and they
should keep employees primed and
ready to help in case the business is af-
fected.
Singh said business owners should
nurture relationships with employees,
including vendor relationships, for
when things get crazy.
“When things do hit the fan, it
comes down to a personal connection
at that point,” Singh said. “People
would rather keep someone they per-
sonally like or a company they person-
ally like verses just another vendor or
just another product on our shelf.”
terest jeopardized by a later transfer or
encumbrance, and also puts the reliabil-
ity of the public land records and ability
to convey good title into question, ac-
cording to research by Pew Charitable
Trusts.
Land contracts generally include a for-
feiture remedy that can deprive contract
buyers of all of their investment in the
home and any equitable interest in the
home. In many states, the law requires
little or no legal process or public auction
of the home for the highest and best val-
ue.
Are land contracts recorded?
The terms of a contract for deed may
vary, as do particular state and local laws
and protections.
Only about a dozen states require that
land contracts be publicly recorded, an
important provision that protects all par-
ties involved by clearly and legally docu-
menting the buyer’s homeownership, ac-
cording to research by the Pew Charitable
Trusts. Only one state, Virginia, man-
dates that homes purchased with land
contracts meet specific standards for
habitability.
What are some recommendations?
The National Consumer Law Center
has made the following recommenda-
tions to the Consumer Financial Protec-
tion Bureau for rules it could consider to
govern land contracts:
h An appraisal to establish the actual
value of the property
h An inspection to establish the true
condition of the property
h Assurances that the property taxes
are paid
h Fair application of the payments
made by the buyer
h Prohibition against contractual
clauses which cost buyers their hard-
earned investments in the property
when there is an early termination.
Monkeypox
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or ulcers.
Many laboratories offer monkeypox
tests, and doctors could also order these
tests for the patients. There are no at-
home tests right now for monkeypox,
said Dave Wessner, biology professor at
Davidson College.
Where can I get the monkeypox
vaccine?
Jynneos is the only FDA-approved
vaccine in the U.S. that protects against
monkeypox and smallpox. People at
high risk from the two viruses could get
the two-dose vaccine, according to the
FDA. Jynneos could be used both pre-
and post-exposure. The vaccine could
potentially alleviate the symptoms of
monkeypox, said Brian Grimberg, asso-
ciate professor of pathology, interna-
tional health, infectious disease and
immunology at Case Western Reserve
University.
Limited Jynneos vaccines have
prompted some states to focus on vac-
cinating people at high risks of getting
monkeypox, such as men who have sex
with men, he said. Some states current-
ly vaccinate people with only one dose
to protect more people, although the
vaccine comprises two doses.
One alternative is the ACAM2000, a
single-dose vaccine used to prevent
smallpox, Grimberg said. However, this
vaccine is used sparingly because of its
multiple side effects.
While both vaccines are based on the
vaccinia virus, the live virus in
ACAM2000 could replicate in a per-
son’s cells and cause severe skin infec-
tions, especially in more immunocom-
promised recipients, Grimberg said.
“Because it’s a live virus, you actually
get a real infection,” Grimberg said. “As
MONEY
These electric
vehicles qualify
for $7,500 rebate
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Detroit Free Press
USA TODAY NETWORK
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden
signed the Inflation Reduction Act, a
major climate bill that aims to curb in-
flation while advancing clean energy
solutions.
The new law changes which electric
vehicles will qualify for the Clean Vehi-
cle Credit; now, only electric vehicles
with final assembly in North America
will qualify for the $7,500 tax credit.
Manufacturers that have reached
the 200,000 electric vehicle credits
cap will not qualify until Jan. 1, 2023.
According to the U.S. Department of
Energy, here are the electric vehicles
that qualify:
h 2022 Audi Q5.
h 2022 BMW 3-series Plug-in.
h 2022 BMW X5.
h 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV, Manu-
facturer sales cap met.
h 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EV, Manufac-
turer sales cap met.
h 2022 Chrysler Pacifica PHEV.
h 2022 Ford Escape PHEV.
h 2022 Ford F Series.
h 2022 Ford Mustang MACH E.
h 2022 Ford Transit Van.
h 2022 GMC Hummer Pickup, Man-
ufacturer sales cap met.
h 2022 GMC Hummer SUV, Manu-
facturer sales cap met.
h 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee PHEV.
h 2022 Jeep Wrangler PHEV.
h 2022 Lincoln Aviator PHEV.
h 2022 Lincoln Corsair Plug-in.
h 2022 Lucid Air.
h 2022 Nissan Leaf.
h 2022 Rivian EDV.
h 2022 Rivian R1S.
h 2022 Rivian R1T.
h 2022 Tesla Model 3, Manufacturer
sales cap met.
h 2022 Tesla Model S, Manufactur-
er sales cap met.
h 2022 Tesla Model X, Manufactur-
er sales cap met.
h 2022 Tesla Model Y, Manufacturer
sales cap met.
h 2022 Volvo S60.
h 2023 BMW 3-series Plug-In.
h 2023 Bolt EV, Manufacturer sales
cap met.
h 2023 Cadillac Lyriq, Manufacturer
sales cap met.
h 2023 Mercedes EQS.
h 2023 Nissan Leaf.
Additionally, vehicle owners can
look up the build location of their vehi-
cle using the Vehicle Information
Number Decoder website.
you have that infection, and while you are
fighting it off, you can spread that infec-
tion to other parts of your body or other
people.”
For patients infected with monkey-
pox, doctors might use tecovirimat to
treat the symptoms. However, its use for
monkeypox is not approved by the FDA,
and usually, the symptoms would go
away on their own, Grimberg said.
How does monkeypox compare to
the AIDS epidemic?
When HIV first became recognized in
Europe and the United States, most of
the cases appeared in gay and bisexual
male communities. With monkeypox,
around 99% of cases are among men, and
at least 95% of those infected are men
who have sex with men, according to
WHO smallpox expert Rosamund Lewis.
Some technicians at commercial lab-
oratories have refused to draw blood
from patients who might have monkey-
pox, raising concerns about a stigma to-
ward LGBTQ communities.
“Drawing blood in a clinical setting ...
is not a high-risk event,” Wessner said.
“Unfortunately, we saw that (stigma)
play out 40 years ago, and to some extent,
we’re seeing that stigma play out again
right now.”
Unlike HIV, monkeypox isn’t a chronic
virus, meaning patients normally recover
from monkeypox within several weeks,
while HIV usually stays with the infected
person for life, said John Thornhill, clin-
ical senior lecturer at Queen Mary Uni-
versity of London.
Although monkeypox isn’t considered
a sexually transmitted disease, most
cases so far have been transmitted
through sexual contact, he said.
“(Monkeypox) has a relatively low
mortality rate,” Thornhill said. “They’re
completely different in terms of the out-
comes for people who are infected. I
wouldn’t compare them, I think they’re
so different.”
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ALABAMA Tuscaloosa: Beer and
wine sales are coming to the Univer-
sity of Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Sta-
dium with the approval of the state’s
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.
ALASKA Juneau: The state had
about 9,900 more jobs last month
than in July 2021, as the Last Frontier
experiences a more typical tourism
season after two pandemic-stunted
years, the state labor department
reported. But Alaska had about 14,100
fewer nonfarm jobs than in July 2019,
the report released Friday said.
ARIZONA Tempe: The city is imple-
menting new rescue procedures and
equipment months after video
showed officers doing nothing as a
homeless man drowned in a city lake.
ARKANSAS Little Rock: A Penn-
sylvania man has been charged with
abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen
property and other charges after
police say he allegedly tried to buy
stolen human remains from an Ar-
kansas woman for possible resale on
Facebook. A spokeswoman for the
University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences confirmed the remains had
been donated to UAMS and were later
sent to a mortuary for cremation.
CALIFORNIA Death Valley National
Park: Death Valley National Park’s
most popular sites reopened to the
public Saturday, two weeks after
massive flash flooding, but the Na-
tional Park Service cautioned visitors
to expect delays and continuing road
closures into the fall.
COLORADO Boulder: Two gun rights
organizations filed federal court law-
suits Thursday challenging bans on
semi-automatic weapons and maga-
zine ammunition restrictions adopted
by the cities of Boulder and Louisville
after the state allowed municipalities
to enact tougher gun control mea-
sures than called for by Colorado law.
CONNECTICUT New London: Con-
struction is set to begin on a long-
awaited national museum that will
honor the U.S. Coast Guard. A special
keel-laying ceremony, a term usually
used to celebrate construction of a
cutter, was held Friday at the mu-
seum’s riverfront site in New London.
DELAWARE Wilmington: During the
demolition of a building to make way
for the new Bancroft School, a piece
of history was found buried in the
school’s walls. A time capsule from
1953 was discovered in the date stone
of the old Drew Educational Support
Center and opened at a recent school
board meeting.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washing-
ton: Fans gathered Saturday after-
noon to celebrate the life of a go-go
icon at D.C.’s eighth annual Chuck
Brown Day festival dedicated to the
legend and his music, WUSA-TV
reports.
FLORIDA Fort Lauderdale: A grand
jury empaneled after a 2018 school
massacre has recommended that
Gov. Ron DeSantis remove from office
four members of the Broward County
school board, saying they and district
administrators displayed “deceit,
malfeasance, misfeasance, neglect of
duty and incompetence” in their han-
dling of a campus safety program.
GEORGIA Atlanta: A judge has de-
clined to block a section of an elec-
tion law that bans handing out food
and water to voters waiting in line.
IDAHO Boise: Evacuations are in
place ahead of a west-central Idaho
wildfire that continues to grow de-
spite a full-suppression effort by
firefighters that includes water-
scooping aircraft skimming Lake
Cascade, a popular boating and fish-
ing destination.
ILLINOIS Chicago: Public safety offi-
cials are urging residents to exercise
caution along the city’s lakefront
after incidents spanning less than a
week saw three people apparently
drown and a woman lose her feet in a
boating mishap.
INDIANA West Lafayette: An in-
vasive insect that could affect Hoo-
sier grape growers and honeybee
producers has migrated to northern
Indiana, one year the spotted lan-
ternfly was first spotted in the state’s
southeastern corner.
IOWA Des Moines: Hundreds of peo-
ple tossing bags for hours landed the
Iowa State Fair in the record books.
On Saturday, 730 people lined the
Grand Concourse with bean bags in
hand, helping the fair smash the pre-
vious Guinness World Record for the
largest cornhole tournament.
HIGHLIGHT: HAWAII
Activists pray at the base of Mauna Kea in 2019. Native Hawaiian traditions
say the summit is where gods dwell and humans aren’t allowed to live. AP
Honolulu: For more than 50 years, telescopes and the needs of astronomers
have dominated the summit of Mauna Kea, a mountain sacred to Native Hawai-
ians that’s also one of the world’s finest places to study the night sky. But a new
state law says that Mauna Kea must be protected for future generations and that
science must be balanced with culture and the environment. Native Hawaiian
cultural experts will have voting seats on a new governing body, instead of mere-
ly advising. The shift comes after thousands of protesters camped on the moun-
tain three years ago to block the construction of a state-of-the-art observatory.
KANSAS Topeka: The Kansas At-
torney General’s Office has asked
Kansas Lottery officials to review
some proposed regulations needed
before legalized sports gambling can
begin in the state.
KENTUCKY Frankfort: Gov. Andy
Beshear’s administration has un-
veiled an initiative aimed at provid-
ing comprehensive, cost-effective
care for people age 55 and older.
People voluntarily enrolling will
receive a variety of medical and
social services.
LOUISIANA New Orleans: The city
has quietly moved a cannon owned
by a unit that originally fought for
the Confederacy out of a French
Quarter park and into a Louisiana
National Guard museum.
MAINE Portland: A federal judge
has dismissed a complaint from a
group of health care workers who
said they were unfairly discrimi-
nated against by the state’s CO-
VID-19 vaccine requirement.
MARYLAND Pocomoke City: An
accidental fire destroyed a radio
station on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
on Thursday, fire officials said.
WGOP-AM was on the air when the
fire broke out, officials said.
MASSACHUSETTS Boston: The
30-day shutdown of one of the
area’s four subway lines that began
Friday will make for longer and
more complicated commutes de-
spite a series of measures intended
to ease the pain, authorities said.
MICHIGAN Lansing: A judge on
Friday blocked county prosecutors
from enforcing the state’s 1931 ban
on abortion for the foreseeable fu-
ture, after two days of witness testi-
mony from experts, providers and
the state’s chief medical officer.
MINNESOTA Minneapolis: When
the city’s teachers settled a 14-day
strike in March, they celebrated a
groundbreaking provision in their
new contract that was meant to
shield teachers of color from sen-
iority-based layoffs and help ensure
that students from racial minorities
have teachers who look like them.
Months later, conservative media
outlets have erupted with denuncia-
tions of the policy as racist and
unconstitutional discrimination
against white educators.
MISSISSIPPI Jackson: A lawsuit
alleging a school district in the
small Mississippi Delta town of
Cleveland discriminated against a
Black student and stripped her of an
academic award has been dismissed
by a panel of federal judges, who
wrote that the way course credits
were evaluated in selecting a saluta-
torian was not unconstitutional.
MISSOURI Wyatt: A young mother
is the third member of her family to
die in a gas explosion at her home
last week that appears to have been
sparked by a propane-powered
appliance, authorities said Friday.
MONTANA West Yellowstone: A
tanker truck hauling gasoline in
Yellowstone National Park rolled
over Friday and spilled an estimated
4,800 gallons, officials said. An
investigation was underway to de-
termine whether any of the un-
leaded gas entered an area creek.
USA TODAY ❚ MONDAY AUGUST 22, 2022 ❚ 3B
NEBRASKA Omaha: Federal health
officials confirmed Friday that a
child died of a rare infection caused
by a brain-eating amoeba after
swimming in the Elkhorn River.
NEVADA Las Vegas: Authorities say
it’s unclear if a gun found Wednes-
day in drought-stricken Lake Mead
is related to human remains found
in a barrel months earlier near the
same harbor.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Hampstead: An
explosion collapsed a house, caused
a fire and hurled the garage door
into the street, said firefighters, who
helped two residents escape Friday.
NEW JERSEY Asbury Park: Several
beach towns across the Jersey
Shore say they’ve stepped up their
efforts this summer to enforce a
smoking ban. It’s the fourth sum-
mer since the New Jersey law took
effect, but some town officials say
the start of legalized marijuana has
them facing increases in complaints
about secondhand smoke.
NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Five of
the state’s 26 county jails and de-
tention centers are suffering from
staff shortages that have pushed
vacancy rates among correctional
officers above 50%. At least one has
resorted to transporting inmates to
other facilities, including one in
Texas 166 miles away, the Albuquer-
que Journal reports.
NEW YORK Albany: A state trooper
should have been disciplined for
getting romantically involved with
then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s adult
daughter while serving on the Dem-
ocrat’s security detail, the state
inspector general said in a report.
NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: The
state’s highest court opened the
door Friday to nullifying a voter ID
mandate approved by citizens in
2018 because the lawmakers who
put it on the ballot were elected
from districts tainted by illegal ra-
cial bias. However, the North Caroli-
na Supreme Court stopped short of
striking down the voter ID require-
ment and another constitutional
amendment that limited income tax
rates, ruling that a lower court must
gather more evidence on the mea-
sures before tossing them out.
NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Law-
yers for the state’s only abortion
clinic asked a judge Friday to delay
a trigger law set to ban abortion
starting this week while they pursue
a lawsuit challenging the ban on
constitutional grounds.
OHIO Columbus: The State Teach-
ers Retirement System of Ohio
board on Thursday approved
$9.66 million in bonus pay for about
100 investment staff, over the ob-
jections of retired teachers who
pointed to more than $3 billion in
investment losses in the latest fiscal
year and high inflation rates.
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: The
historic Oklahoma City NAACP
Youth Council’s 1958 sit-in demon-
stration against Jim Crow era segre-
gation was reenacted Saturday as
part of the Freedom Fiesta, the an-
nual commemoration and cele-
bration of the start of the movement
that integrated local restaurants,
eateries and other establishments.
News from across the USA
OREGON Portland: Mayor Ted
Wheeler announced Friday that the
city’s emergency declaration banning
homeless camps near high-crash
corridors will expand to designated
safe walking routes used by school-
age children.
PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: A judge
has ordered three Republican-con-
trolled counties to add about 800
contested mail-in ballots to the re-
sults of the May election, ruling in a
legal dispute that stalled statewide
certification of the primary results for
governor and U.S. Senate.
RHODE ISLAND Providence: Brown
University will fund the construction
and renovation of three projects
through $100.7 million raised through
a bond. The biggest project will be
two residence halls that will house
350 third- and fourth-year students,
according to Brown’s website.
SOUTH CAROLINA Myrtle Beach:
Two swimmers survived being bitten
by sharks last week at the state’s
most popular beach. The attacks
happened in the ocean about a half-
mile apart, and police said there is no
way to know if they are related.
SOUTH DAKOTA Watertown: Zebra
mussels are steadily infesting South
Dakota lakes, and the state’s walleye
and perch populations likely are pay-
ing a price, as the invasive mussels
increase the mercury content in wall-
eye, experts say.
TENNESSEE Memphis: The city has
submitted its long-planned challenge
to the U.S. census. Memphis Mayor
Jim Strickland’s weekly newsletter
Friday publicly acknowledged the
work the city’s administration has
done for months gathering evidence
that the 2020 count underestimated
the amount of people who live in the
Bluff City by about 16,000.
TEXAS Austin: Chronically scandal-
plagued and perennially short-
staffed, the state agency charged
with rehabilitating some of the most
troubled and dangerous young of-
fenders in Texas is in need of yet
another overhaul that would end the
practice of shipping youth off to re-
mote institutions far from the state’s
population centers, the interim direc-
tor of the Texas Juvenile Justice De-
partment told a legislative panel.
UTAH Salt Lake City: Survivors and
faith leaders rallied Friday at the
Utah State Capitol, on a hill above the
headquarters of The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, to de-
mand change to a state law that ex-
empts religious leaders from require-
ments that they report child sexual
abuse brought to their attention in
spiritual confessions.
VERMONT Burlington: A mural that
was painted in a since-closed syna-
gogue more than 100 years ago by a
Lithuanian immigrant – and hidden
behind a wall for years – has been
termed a rare piece of art and
painstakingly moved and restored.
VIRGINIA Richmond: The state end-
ed the 2022 fiscal year with a
$3.2 billion cash surplus, a sign of a
healthy economy and some overtaxa-
tion, GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin said
Friday as he presented lawmakers
with a review of the state’s finances.
WASHINGTON Marysville: Prose-
cutors said a state prisons employee
didn’t properly secure the gun with
which her 12-year-old son killed him-
self, leading to a first-of-its-kind
criminal charge under a new state
law implemented in 2019.
WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: U.S.
Sen. Joe Manchin said during a
roundtable discussion Friday in
Charleston that he pays no attention
to criticism or campaign donations
when making decisions about what’s
best for West Virginia. Sounding
somewhat exasperated when asked
whether the dramatic bump in cam-
paign contributions he’s received
from oil and gas interests in recent
months influenced his voting, the
conservative Democrat said no.
WISCONSIN Grafton: Five conserva-
tion projects previously rejected for
funding by the Legislature received a
combined $4.5 million in funding
under a move by Gov. Tony Evers to
use COVID-19 relief money.
WYOMING Jackson: The state’s at-
torney general’s office wants the
Wyoming Supreme Court to take on a
lower court lawsuit contesting a state
ban on abortion in nearly all cases.
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Travelers can sail full time on this new ship
Nathan Diller Even the most adventurous travelers may long to sleep in their own bed after a while. But Alister Punton, co-founder and CEO of
USA TODAY
Storylines, which will launch its first residential cruise ship in 2024 departing from Croatia, has a fix for that. h “Well, you take
your home with you,” Punton told USA TODAY, who started the company with CSO Shannon Lee. h The vessel, MV Narrative, will feature 547
residences and a range of amenities. The ship will sail to six continents, and residents can treat the units as floating pieds-a-terre or year-
round homes, so their travels never have to end. Here is what travelers can expect:
What can travelers expect
from MV Narrative?
In the vein of other residential ships like
The World, a privately owned
residential yacht, MV Narrative will
travel the globe. While itineraries are
not yet finalized, destinations will likely
include Rome and Naples in Italy, the
Greek island of Santorini, and Split,
Croatia, among others.
MV Narrative will spend three to five
days in most ports, Punton said, giving
those on board time to experience
more than they might on a typical
cruise. They also can weigh in on the
itineraries.
Units range from one to four bedrooms,
the majority of which have balconies,
and residents can pick from “coastal or
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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
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Cardinals think retiring
Pujols will reach 700 HRs
Bob Nightengale
Columnist
USA TODAY
PHOENIX – We sat down for 20 min-
utes Saturday afternoon, and Albert Pu-
jols insisted he wouldn’t change his
mind about retiring after this season, no
matter how close he was to the glorious
700 home run club.
Well, as it turns out, it may be a moot
point.
The St. Louis Cardinals icon prompt-
ly went out and hit two home runs into
the Phoenix night at Chase Field – just
missing a third – as part of a 4-for-4
night that saw him pass Hall of Famer
Stan Musial for the second-most total
bases in baseball history.
It no longer may be whether Pujols
can possibly reach 700 home runs but
Texas Tech coaches’ exit a ‘disturbing pattern’
Women’s tennis coach
Todd Petty left in June,
third in less than 2 years
Josh Peter
USA TODAY
For the third time in less than two
years, the head coach of a women’s
sport at Texas Tech has left the school
under the cloud of an investigation and
allegations of mistreatment of athletes.
The school, involved in conducting
each of the investigations, announced
in June the resignation of Todd Petty,
the winningest coach in the history of
the women’s tennis program. His depar-
ture follows that of women’s basketball
coach Marlene Stollings, associate head
coach Nikita Lowry Dawkins, strength
and conditioning coach Ralph Petrella
and softball coach Adrian Gregory.
An investigation by USA TODAY
Sports, in conjunction with The Inter-
collegiate and published in August
2020, revealed women’s basketball
players describing a toxic culture. The
fallout from that investigation has been
quick and widespread as other athletes
came forward.
A player on last year’s women’s ten-
Cowboys rookie Turpin
flashes electric returns
Plus, Dolphins’ Gesicki adjusts to new role and
lacrosse legend hopes to make Falcons. Page 7C
rather: How soon will he do it?
“Yes,” Cardinals manager Oliver Mar-
mol said, “he’ll do it.”
The way Pujols is hitting these days,
with five home runs in his last five
games for 692 overall, who would dare
disagree?
He didn’t have a single homer in June
and only six the first half of the season,
but he’s hit six home runs alone since
Aug. 10, more than the combined total of
seven entire teams.
Pujols, who has 13 homers for the
year, is now five home runs shy of
eclipsing Alex Rodriguez for fourth
place on the all-time home run list, and
eight away from 700 where only three
men have ever gone before: Barry Bonds
(762), Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth
(714).
Pujols, 42, is suddenly looking like
the same guy who terrorized the Nation-
al League in his first 11 years. He went 4-
for-4 with two homers and two singles
nis team and another
person familiar with the
investigation said Petty
faced allegations from
former players of verbal
abuse and improper be-
Petty havior.
The school issued a
news release June 30 that said Petty,
who was completing the first year of a
five-year contract worth $970,000 in
scheduled compensation, “has indicat-
ed his desire to spend more time with
family as he transitions away from col-
legiate coaching.” Petty served 14 sea-
sons in the position.
“The Equal Opportunity Employ-
ment (sic) office” of the Texas Tech Uni-
versity System was made aware of a
possible violation and an investigation
was opened, according to a letter ob-
tained by USA TODAY Sports that the
school wrote to Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton. The school also wrote that
the investigation was not completed, so
“no merit” to the allegations was found.
Melissa Kopinski, who was the assis-
tant coach for the women’s tennis team,
left Texas Tech earlier in June to become
the associate head coach of the wom-
en’s tennis program at the University of
Utah. She did not return messages left
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Check out winners from across the fields of play,
including WNBA playoffs and NASCAR Cup Series
in the Cardinals’ 16-7 laugher over the
Arizona Diamondbacks, becoming the
first player to produce four hits and
two homers at the age of 42 or older.
While the rest of the baseball world
may be feeling the effects of the dog
days of summer, Pujols suddenly is in-
vigorated. He’s hitting .438 the second
half with a ridiculous .918 slugging per-
centage. The all-time slugging per-
centage record for a second half is .908
by Barry Bonds when he hit a record 73
homers in 2001.
“It’s just unbelievable watching
him,” Cardinals All-Star third baseman
Nolan Arenado said. “When we got
him, I knew he was going to help us
win games, but honestly, I don’t know
where we’d be without him.”
Well, the Cardinals have got just a
couple of months to figure it out be-
cause no matter what transpires the
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by email and phone seeking comment
about Petty’s resignation.
Petty denied the allegations, accord-
ing to his attorney, Samantha Ekstrand.
“My priority has always been the
well-being of my players,” Petty, 42, said
in a statement to USA TODAY Sports.
“To suggest otherwise is simply not
truthful. The landscape of women’s col-
lege athletics is changing. The scrutiny
of coaches is at an all-time high.”
Jonathan Katz, a sports psychologist
who has worked with professional and
college athletes and has served as a
sports psychology consultant for the
University of Texas men’s and women’s
tennis teams, said what has transpired
with the women’s basketball, softball
and tennis programs at Texas Tech is a
“disturbing pattern.”
“That’s clear,” he added. “I don’t think
somebody could ignore that.”
Michelle Bartlett, an associate pro-
fessor at West Texas A&M who has writ-
ten about anger, aggression and trauma
in sport, said the responsibility at Tech
lies with the people who are hiring the
coaches: “If we’re kind of seeing these
continual patterns, it becomes really
hard to say, ‘Oh, that’s a bad apple.’ ”
After her dismissal, Stollings filed a
lawsuit alleging Texas Tech and the ath-
Birdie on
17 lifts
Cantlay
in BMW
Adam Schupak
Golfweek | USA TODAY Network
WILMINGTON, Del. – Patrick Can-
tlay drove off with the trophy again.
The 30-year-old made birdie at the
17th hole atWilmington Country Club
and held on for a one-stroke victory
over Scott Stallings at the BMW Cham-
pionship. Cantlay shot 2-under 69 for a
72-hole total of 14-under 268 and be-
came the first player to successfully
defend a FedExCup Playoffs event.
A year ago, Patrick Cantlay needed
six extra holes at Caves Valley to claim
the BMW title en route to winning the
FedExCup. New course, but same re-
sult as Cantlay claimed his eighth PGA
Tour title and second of the season.
Cantlay won the Zurich Classic of
New Orleans with Xander Schauffele
as his partner but hadn’t won an indi-
vidual title since going back-to-back at
the BMW and Tour Championship last
year. Scottie Scheffler, who tied for
third, will start this week in the driv-
er’s seat at the Tour Championship,
where the FedExCup title will be on the
line. Cantlay will start in second place,
two strokes back in the staggered-
start leaderboard; no player has suc-
cessfully defended the FedExCup title.
Stallings, who closed in 69, was
seeking his fourth PGA Tour title and
first since the 2014 Farmers Insurance
Open. But he did succeed in booking
his first trip to the Tour Championship
in his 12th year on Tour.
Cantlay opened two 65s and then
surged into the lead with a hole-out
eagle at 14 and overcame missing some
short putts. He was the second player
all season to shoot 65 or less despite
missing three putts from inside 5 feet.
In the final round, he trailed Stall-
ings by two strokes after making his
second bogey of the day at No. 10. But
he made three birdies on his way to the
clubhouse, with birdies at Nos. 11, 14
and 17. The latter included a 351-yard
drive that benefited from a good
bounce. From there, he wedged to 6
feet and rolled in the putt.
In the tournament within the tour-
nament to finish in the top 30 in the
standings and qualify for the finale,
K.H. Lee, who finished as the odd man
out last year at No. 31, made birdie at
the first four holes and shot 65 to jump
from No. 35 at the start of the day to
No. 26. Rookie Sahith Theegala made
birdies on four of his final seven holes
to shoot 68 and finish No. 28. Aus-
tralia’s Adam Scott scrambled for par
out of a greenside bunker at the last
that kept him in the top 30 and pre-
vented Shane Lowry to qualify.
letic director, Kirby Hocutt, discriminat-
ed against the women’s sports pro-
grams. The women’s basketball pro-
gram received considerably less money,
resources and attention from Hocutt
during Stollings’ tenure from April 2018
to August 2020, according to the com-
plaint. The lawsuit was settled Aug. 11.
Todd Petty received letter of
reprimand in 2020
USA TODAY Sports filed an open rec-
ords request with the university June 30
for copies of records and documents re-
lated to all investigations of Petty be-
tween Jan. 1, 2020, and June 22, 2022.
In response, the school requested an
attorney general’s open records deci-
sion under the Texas Public Information
Act on its claims that records from the
investigation should be “excepted from
public disclosure.” A copy of the letter,
sent July 14, was provided to USA TO-
DAY Sports.
Eric Bentley, vice chancellor and gen-
eral counsel for the Texas Tech Univer-
sity System, said he could not address
why the investigation of Petty was not
completed because it is a personnel
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matter, according to Robert Giovannetti,
senior associate AD/external opera-
tions and strategic communications.
Petty, who also was director of tennis
at Texas Tech, said he did not speak to
anyone who was conducting the inves-
tigation before he resigned, according to
Giovannetti.
Texas Tech officials had been made
aware of allegations concerning Petty’s
treatment of athletes before. Petty re-
ceived a letter of reprimand from Hocutt
on Jan. 4, 2021, according to a copy of
the letter USA TODAY Sports obtained
from Texas Tech.
The letter, which Hocutt noted fol-
lowed “an extensive review in adher-
ence to NCAA rules,” also addressed is-
sues of student welfare. In part, Hocutt
wrote Petty “should be mindful that
overtly critical comments about a stu-
dent-athlete’s performance on the
courts can be taken personally. In that
regard, student-athletes should be re-
minded that you are focused on trying to
improve their play, and not being critical
of them as individuals.”
Hocutt also clarified how Petty
should handle situations when athletes
feel sick and concerns over an athlete’s
mental health.
The review was conducted in Decem-
ber 2020 after the school received alle-
gations from a player who had trans-
ferred to another school in 2019, accord-
ing to the letter of reprimand.
Petty violated NCAA rules when he
triggered “countable athletically related
activities during summer,” when activ-
ities were supposed to be voluntary, ac-
cording to an NCAA case summary that
USA TODAY Sports obtained from Tech
through a public records request.
In one instance, Petty “followed up”
with a player about why she did not par-
ticipate in a voluntary team-led hitting
drill, records show. He also “inadver-
tently observed” strength and condi-
tioning on a couple of occasions during
the summer, according to records.
In addition to the rules violations,
Petty did not adhere to Texas Tech’s
time management policy, according to
the letter of reprimand.
Texas Tech self-imposed a reduction
of seven hours of “countable hours of
athletically related activities,” double
the 3.5 countable hours that Petty trig-
gered, according to a copy of an NCAA
case summary obtained by USA TODAY
Sports through a public records request.
The case study shows the NCAA ac-
cepted the proposed action and classi-
fied the case Level III, which the NCAA
defines as secondary violations “isolat-
ed or limited in nature.”
At the same time of the review into
the rules violations by Petty, the law
firm of Holland & Knight was conduct-
ing an external review of the athletic
program commissioned by Tech after
the USA TODAY Sports investigation
into the women’s basketball program.
A 46-page report released by Holland
& Knight in November 2021 after the law
firm completed its review of the athletic
program contained no mention of the
student-welfare concerns found during
the extensive review of women’s tennis
in December 2020.
Allegations of verbal and mental
abuse, sexual harassment
In Petty’s 14 seasons, the Red Raiders
compiled a 229-106 record, won three
Big 12 regular-season titles and made
four appearances in the NCAA Sweet 16.
His success coincided with alleged mis-
treatment dating to 2014, according to
one recent player and eight other former
players who spoke to USA TODAY
Sports. Five of the players spoke on the
condition they not be named because
they said they fear repercussions. USA
TODAY Sports found no record of the al-
legations being reported to athletic offi-
cials before 2020.
Players who spoke on the record
about Petty’s behavior are Alex Angya-
losy, who played at Texas Tech in the fall
of 2017 before transferring to Clemson;
Sydney Jones, who played at Texas Tech
from 2018 to 2019 before transferring to
Rutgers; Katelyn Jackson, who played at
Texas Tech from 2014 to 2018; and Kai-
ley Evans, who played at Texas Tech
from 2020 to 2022 and said she is trans-
ferring to the University of San Diego
and plans to play tennis.
The former tennis players began
reaching out to USA TODAY Sports in
October 2020, a month after Gregory,
the softball coach, was fired. They said
they wanted Petty forced out but didn’t
think Texas Tech officials would act on
their allegations.
But the recent investigation coincid-
ed with Petty’s departure.
Evans, who was a blue-chip recruit in
Texas before signing with Texas Tech,
said she thinks she triggered the inves-
Marlene Stollings talks to Mia Castaneda during a Texas Tech game in 2018.
BRAD TOLLEFSON/AJ MEDIA FILE ART
tigation in May when she told school of-
ficials that Petty did the following:
h Remarked after Evans started dat-
ing a Mexican tennis player at Tech, “I
thought your type was basic white guys
and now you’re dating Pablo Escobar.”
h Told Evans she should wear span-
dex more after Evans said her father
would prefer she wear something more
conservative.
h Screamed so forcefully at another
player after practice that the player later
said it was the first time she felt like she
was “going to be hit by a guy.”
h Asked Evans and another player to
eavesdrop when a third player was
meeting with officials from the athletic
department’s compliance office, tasked
with ensuring rules are followed.
A person familiar with allegations
from Evans and other members of last
year’s team agreed to speak on the con-
dition she not be identified because she
fears repercussions.
Jones, a five-star recruit who left
Texas Tech in 2019 after her freshman
year, spoke with USA TODAY Sports and
made the following allegations:
h Petty contributed to an eating dis-
order she developed while at the school.
h Petty had players regularly exceed
the 20-hour weekly maximum for
countable athletically related activities,
which included practices he supervised.
h Petty was overly involved in the
players’ personal lives.
Jones’ mother, April, said her daugh-
ter first called home with complaints
about Petty’s behavior in the fall of 2018
and that things got progressively worse
until Jones left Texas Tech after the
spring semester.
“We had already heard that Todd Pet-
ty was a tough coach,” before Sydney
Jones enrolled at Texas Tech, April
Jones told USA TODAY Sports. “But we
just thought, (he’s) just going to be a
good, tough college coach. Never
thought it would cross the line of being
mentally abusive.”
Tech did not provide USA TODAY
Sports with any documents that
showed Evans or Jones reported their
allegations to the school.
“Todd told me and a few other girls
that we weren’t allowed to go out and
date tennis guys,” Jones said. “He also
knew very specific details if we decided
to go out on weekends and knew when
some of us started seeing the tennis
guys. He always made comments about
our personal lives.”
In October 2020, Jones emailed Jen-
nifer Brashear, director of compliance
for Texas Tech, and wrote that she
wanted to file a formal complaint
against Petty, according to emails Jones
provided to USA TODAY Sports. The
emails also showed Brashear scheduled
a Zoom meeting with Jones for later that
week.
In November 2020, Jones said, Tech
compliance officials contacted her to
ask what led her to transfer to Rutgers.
“I basically gave an overview of my
experience with Todd and highlighted
times he broke NCAA rules and also
spoke about my injuries and (eating dis-
order),” said Jones, adding that she de-
cided to file the complaint after discuss-
ing the issue with former teammates.
About 18 months later, amid an inves-
tigation into Petty, the coach abruptly
stepped down.
Issues continued after exits of
other women’s coaches
After resigning, Petty was provided a
lump sum payment of $95,000, an
amount equal to approximately six
months’ salary, by Texas Tech, accord-
ing to a copy of a letter Hocutt wrote to
Petty on July 1. Bentley, general counsel
for the Texas Tech University System,
said the lump sum payment is standard
negotiating for contracted employees
who are not fired for cause, according to
Giovannetti, the senior associate athlet-
ics director who also serves as a spokes-
man for the athletic department.
Gregory, the former softball coach,
received $333,000 after she resigned,
according to records obtained by USA
TODAY Sports.
“Yesterday, you indicated to me that
you are tendering your resignation as
Texas Tech University’s Head Women’s
Tennis Coach effective July 5, 2022, in
order to attend to personal matters,” Ho-
cutt wrote in a letter to Petty. “I agree
that this is in your best interest; there-
fore, I accept your resignation.”
After stepping down, Petty coached
for a week at his annual summer tennis
camps at Texas Tech, according to Gio-
vannetti. Giovannetti said Petty did not
coach at the final weeklong camp but
was unsure why.
Hocutt, in his 12th year as Texas
Tech’s athletic director, declined to
comment. Lawrence Schovanec, the
school’s president, did not respond to
multiple requests for comment.
But Texas Tech issued a statement to
USA TODAY Sports.
“Each day our focus is on our stu-
dent-athletes’ experience,” the state-
ment read. “Whenever issues come for-
ward, from any channel, we determine
the appropriate course of action. In such
cases, we conduct our due diligence and
make the best decisions for our student-
athletes and Texas Tech Athletics. It is
important to note that all details and in-
formation cannot be disclosed by the
University to the public due to legal pro-
tections such as individual privacy
rights that are made confidential under
Texas and federal law. However, it can-
not be emphasized enough that we will
follow University processes and guide-
lines as well as applicable law.”
In the statement, the school also re-
ferred to the external review of the ath-
letic program.
Referring to the 46-page report, Tex-
as Tech noted, “The external review by
Holland & Knight found, ‘Texas Tech
generally, and the Athletics department
specifically, have put in place the staff-
ing, policies, procedures, and reporting
protocols designed to support the phys-
ical and mental health and well-being of
its students, including its student-ath-
letes.’
“Texas Tech Athletics continues to
invest ensuring that its student-ath-
letes have a great experience and the
department remains a national leader in
student-athlete well-being program-
ming.”
Evans, the lone player from last
year’s team who agreed to talk with USA
TODAY Sports, said other Texas Tech
players are scared to speak publicly. She
said that stemmed in part from a Zoom
meeting July 1 called by Kacey Hanslik,
a strength and conditioning coach, and
Brooklyn Dendle, director of operations
for tennis.
According to Evans, the six returning
players were “interrogated” after news
of Petty’s resignation spread outside
Texas Tech before athletic department
officials learned about it.
“We would never interrogate them or
make them feel like they were in some
sort of trouble or anything,” Hanslik told
USA TODAY Sports. “We truly wanted to
make sure that they were all right.”
Gionvannetti said no players report-
ed to the school they felt interrogated at
the meeting.
Hanslik and Dendle both said they
had not been questioned by school offi-
cials conducting the investigation of
Petty – despite their involvement with
the women’s tennis program. And at the
time of the Zoom meeting, one day after
Petty tendered his resignation, Hanslik
and Dendle said, the two women were
unaware of the investigation.
Giovannetti said Hocutt and other
senior staff members did not know
about the Zoom meeting until USA
SPORTS
TODAY Sports questioned Giovannetti
about it. Hanslik and Dendle said they
did not inform athletic officials before
calling the meeting.
The Holland & Knight report – after
more than a year’s worth of work – also
found ongoing problems, including spe-
cific issues with the football team, men’s
golf team and, despite the firing of Stoll-
ings, women’s basketball team. Howev-
er, the report did not outline issues in
women’s tennis.
Petty’s exit followed more allega-
tions.
‘Screaming, getting into our faces,
punishing us’
Nine former players who competed
on the team between 2014 and 2022 told
USA TODAY Sports that Petty subjected
them to verbal abuse, threw tennis rack-
ets and violated an NCAA rule limiting
athletes to 20 hours a week for required
“countable athletically related activ-
ities,” such as supervised practices and
strength and conditioning sessions.
The former players who spoke to USA
TODAY Sports said they did not report
to school officials the allegations about
Petty’s abusive behavior and exceeding
the 20-hour maximum for countable
athletically related activities because
they feared repercussions or, in some
cases, did not think the school would act
on their complaints.
Jackson, who helped lead Texas Tech
to four straight Sweet 16 appearances in
the NCAA Tournament from 2015 to
2018, said Petty violated the players’
personal space during outbursts.
“He would come running up in my
face and say, ‘What the (expletive) are
you doing? Are you (expletive) kidding
me?’ ” Jackson said. “I remember one
time he was so close to my face that I
snapped back and I was like, ‘I’m trying.’
And he was like, ‘You’re not (expletive)
trying.’ ”
Angyalosy, who played doubles with
Jackson in 2017, said the verbal abuse
was common.
“Screaming, getting into our faces,
punishing us,” she said. “I was the brunt
of it many times, and it wasn’t OK the
way I was treated. I would end up calling
my parents, crying after practice.”
Angyalosy’s father, Adrian, said he
and his wife grew increasingly con-
cerned about their daughter that fall.
“She was extremely miserable,” Adri-
an Angyalosy told USA TODAY Sports.
“We were afraid that she was going to be
suicidal or something.”
One former player who spoke on con-
dition she not be identified because she
fears repercussions said Petty told her
she deserved to eat dog food after she
lost a match. Jackson said the player
told her about the alleged incident and
another former player who spoke on the
condition that she not be identified be-
cause she fears repercussions said she
witnessed the incident.
A second player who spoke on the
condition she not be identified because
she fears repercussions said she wit-
nessed the incident and that after the
match, Petty “went ballistic.”
Other former players who spoke on
the condition they not be identified be-
cause they fear repercussions, along
with Jones, said Petty berated them
with words like “disgusting,” “disgrace”
and profanity.
In 2021, Evans said, on the same day
Petty referred to her boyfriend, a Texas
Tech tennis player from Mexico, as
“Pablo Escobar,” he made the comment
about her wearing spandex.
“It was the first time I wore them to
practice,” Evans said, “and he made the
comment, said like, ‘I’ve never seen you
wear spandex.’ I said because if my dad
saw me he’d probably go tell me to
change. Then (Petty) said, ‘You should
wear them more often.’ It just kind of
made me feel uncomfortable.”
Evans said she initially shared her al-
legations with Tyler Bradstreet, director
of clinical and sport psychology at Texas
Tech. Bradstreet then joined her during
a meeting with Brian Shannon, a law
professor and the faculty athletics rep-
resentative, according to Evans.
Due to privacy laws, Shannon and
Bradstreet are unable to discuss the
matter with USA TODAY Sports, Gio-
vannetti said.
Evans said Shannon “was very open
about hearing what I had to say. He was
shocked by the racial and the sexual
(comments).”
Neither Shannon nor Bradstreet re-
sponded to requests for comment left by
email and phone.
Texas Tech announced on July 25 it
had hired Adam Herendeen of Furman
as Petty’s successor. On Monday, the
school announced it had hired Dani
Nasser of Gonzaga as assistant coach.
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Epstein
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AUTO RACING ROUNDUP
Newgarden wins, closes within 3 points of title lead
Nathan Brown
The Indianapolis Star | USA TODAY Network
MADISON, Ill. – Coming in as the
two-time defending IndyCar winner at
WWT Raceway, the only multi-time
winner on the 1.25-mile oval and with
more than two hours to scheme about
his next move for a green flag restart,
this is what we should’ve expected.
But Josef Newgarden and the No. 2
Team Penske crew’s execution of Satur-
day’s rain-delayed race had to be flaw-
less nonetheless to overtake his team-
mate, Scott McLaughlin, late and hold
off a hard-charging David Malukas on
the final lap to pick up their 5th win of
the year to move within three points of
the championship lead.
A roll of the dice on pit stop strategy
just past the halfway point ended up
handing Newgarden and McLaughlin
fresh tires and no need to save any fuel
once the rain-delayed race restarted
just after 9 p.m. local time Saturday
night with 43 laps to the checkered flag.
With the field split on two different
pit strategies by the time cars began
rolling off pitlane at 9:05 p.m.,
McLaughlin held the lead. The second-
year Team Penske driver had leap-
frogged Newgarden as the pair were
running 1st and 2nd just past lap 200
when both made their final stop one lap
apart. By virtue of stopping first on lap
205, McLaughlin avoided any other cars
on pitlane and picked up some clean
track for a lap, while Christian Lund-
gaard came in just ahead of Newgarden.
When asked during,the delay wheth-
er the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing
driver had slowed him at all during his
stop, Newgarden answered with a smirk
and a simple, “Oh yeah, oh yeah.” The
two-time IndyCar champ came out of
pit lane and onto the warmup lane
ahead of the No. 30 Chevy, but as
McLaughlin flew around Turns 1 and 2,
it took him little effort to clear Newgar-
den and take over the race lead.
Malukas, Takuma Sato, Colton Herta
and Graham Rahal remained out on a
version of the Newgarden-McLaughlin
pit strategy, but were forced to come in
to top-off on fuel mere minutes (and in
Rahal’s case, seconds) before rain began
to fall. For more than two hours, fellow
championship and race-win contenders
Will Power, Scott Dixon, Alex Palou,
Marcus Ericsson and Pato O’Ward, all
who stayed out for the race’s first cau-
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rest of the season, Pujols insists he’s
calling it a career after the Cardinals’ fi-
nal game.
“I’m still going to retire, no matter
whether I end up hitting 693, 696, 700,
whatever,” Pujols told USA TODAY
Sports. “I don’t get caught up in num-
bers. If you were going to tell me 22
years ago that I would be this close, I
would have told you that you’re freakin’
crazy. My career has been amazing.”
So, nothing will change your mind?
“If I can’t hit 70 homers, I’m not com-
ing back,” Pujols said, laughing. “No, I’ve
had enough. I’m glad I made the an-
nouncement this was it when I signed.
Really, I wouldn’t change a thing.”
Pujols, who didn’t even have a job
when spring training started, came aw-
fully close to spoiling this Hollywood
story. He had three other job offers, and
at least one that was going to pay him
significantly more than the $2 million
the Cardinals eventually offered, with
others promising more playing time.
But once the Cardinals called, the job
search was over.
He packed his bags and was in the
Cardinals’ camp by the next morning,
preparing for his farewell tour.
“I took obviously a lot less money and
less promises,” Pujols said, “but this is
where I want to be. This is where I want-
ed to finish my last year, and thank God
he allowed me to have this door open to
come here to finish my career.”
While everyone else might have
thought it was simply going to be a cere-
monial joy ride into the night, Pujols had
other ideas.
“It’s been awesome having the op-
portunity to come back to St. Louis
where everything started for me 21 years
ago,” he said. “This organization be-
lieved I can help. It wasn’t just come
back to celebrate my last year, it was
knowing I can help. That means a lot to
me.
“It’s pretty special to help this organi-
zation win every way I can, and enjoying
my last path through this city.”
It was the Los Angeles Dodgers, Pu-
Josef Newgarden reacts after winning the IndyCar Series race Saturday at World
Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois. JOE PUETZ/AP
tion rather than dipping in like Newgar-
den and McLaughlin, were shouldered
with the decision whether pit during the
impending caution – knowing they’d
have to weave through lapped cars on
fresh tires without the need to save fuel
– or stay put and hope they could, at
minimum hold on or even move up.
When pitlane opened, the three Ga-
nassi cars, all near the back of 10 cars
still on the lead lap, opted to dive in – a
move that ultimately gained them noth-
ing over the final stretch. Ericsson ulti-
mately paced his teammates in 7th, fol-
lowed by Dixon (8th) and Palou (9th).
Coming to the green on lap 224, New-
garden got a great jump on McLaughlin
and by Turn 3, he was around his team-
mate for the race lead.
“That wasn’t really planned,” New-
garden said post-race. “I was just going.
(Coming to the line) I don’t know where
I’m going, because it may work out and
it may not. That’s just my mentality, and
it seemed like it worked tonight, ‘cause
it can go so many ways.
“I’m just reacting. I’m going like a bul-
let, and this first lap, I’ve got to be quick-
er than him. I was ready to do that.”
McLaughlin, Saturday’s 3rd-place
finisher, said he felt his car just wasn’t as
equipped for running in the dark and in
cooler temperatures with his setup
compared to his teammate’s. “That slip-
stream effect here, when you can get a
run, it works pretty good,” McLaughlin
said of his teammate’s pass during the
last restart. “I’m not surprised he did it,
but I did all I could to break away.
jols said, that re-energized him. He was
released by the Los Angeles Angels last
May in the final year of his 10-year, $240
million contract. The Dodgers, even
with no DH in the National League last
year, decided to give him a chance. Pu-
jols became a pinch-hitter deluxe, hit-
ting .254 with 12 homers in 189 at-bats to
help lead the Dodgers to the postseason.
“I had so much respect for that or-
ganization, so much respect for the
players, and was so blessed to have the
opportunity to be back in the playoffs,”
Pujols said. “It kind of really excited me
to come back and play this year because
they gave me the joy, gave me that thrill
of being back in the postseason.”
Now, it’s just like 2011 all over again.
Pujols has the Cardinals sitting atop the
National League Central with a five-
game lead over the Milwaukee Brewers,
feeling like he’s a kid again.
He hit a 437-foot homer off veteran
lefty Madison Bumgarner in the second
inning, a 429-foot homer in the fourth
inning, and nearly homered again in the
sixth when the ball left his bat at 109.4-
mph, caroming off the left-field wall.
He even tried to steal second base in
the sixth inning, was barely thrown out,
and produced another single in the sev-
enth inning.
He was a one-man show.
“I feel really good to tell you the
truth,” Pujols said. “I really didn’t know
what I could do, but I know I put in a lot
of hard work with the gift the Lord has
given me. I didn’t know what the year
would look like, but what I could control
was dedication and hard work.
“Because of that hard work, I’m able
to get better, stay healthy, and accom-
plish a lot of things in this game that a
lot of players have never done.”
Pujols, who will go down as one of the
greatest right-handed hitters of all time,
can’t even keep track of all his accom-
plishments. Chris Conroy, the Cardinals’
assistant trainer, constantly brings in
baseballs for Pujols to sign and authen-
ticate, with Pujols asking what just hap-
pened.
On this night, the historic achieve-
ment was passing Musial, the Cardinals’
all-time great, in total bases (6,141) for
second place behind only Hank Aaron
(6,856). And yes, Conroy got the base-
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“If we’d gotten through Turn 3, may-
be I could’ve held him off, but (Josef)
was quick. If we’d kept green, it
might’ve been different if it hadn’t
rained. But the main thing is Penske
won, and for the team and for Roger,
that was a big deal. Ultimately, I was
disappointed with 3rd, but I feel like
we’re building – not only for the end of
the year, but for next year.”
Not long after, Malukas and Sato
with their fresh tires underneath them,
wove around IndyCar points leader Will
Power for 4th and 5th and set their
sights on potential podium finishes.
During the delay, Power, had lamented
his team not making him aware around
lap 150 about the massive fuel-saving
he’d have to undergo in order to stay on
his original pit strategy and not pulling
him in like Newgarden’s and McLaugh-
lin’s strategists had.
On lap 145, Jack Harvey drifted up
into the outside wall in Turn 4, bringing
out the race’s first caution. Coming right
in the middle of the third of four stints in
the race, drivers and teams were faced
with a decision whether to pit for fresh
tires and additional fuel that might keep
them from having to run anything less
than full-bore to the end. McLaughlin
and Newgarden (running 4th and 6th at
the time of the yellow), as well as the
leader at the time, Sato, opted to pit.
The decision slid them back to 6th
(McLaughlin), 7th (Newgarden) and 8th
(Sato) on the lap 157 restart, and in-
stantly, the paddock got a glimpse of
why they popped in. In the span of eight
ball with the home-run ball bouncing
back into the field.
“It’s just crazy, every day that I go to a
game,” Pujols says, “they’re asking for a
baseball. I say, ‘Ok, what is this for?’
They say, ‘oh, you just tied or passed so-
and-so.’ I’ll say, ‘What, I didn’t know
that. I swear, I’m not B.S.’s you, I have no
idea.’”
He was quite aware of the history of
this milestone, though.
Musial has a huge statue at the en-
trance of Busch Stadium. He was Pujols’
mentor and idol when Pujols came up
with the Cardinals, and Pujols was
moved, even a bit emotional, that he
was the one to eclipse Stan the Man.
“Just to be mentioned in the same
sentence is awesome,” Pujols said.
“What he has done for this organization
is pretty incredible. I’m sure he’s looking
down and smiling on me.”
Now, there’s one magical milestone
left. It’s the one everyone in baseball
talks about. The 700-home run club, the
most prestigious fraternity in all of
baseball.
“We talk about it all of the time when
he’s not around,” Arenado says. “I mean,
700 home runs? That’s something hard-
ly anyone has seen. It’d be pretty spe-
cial.”
While everyone is transfixed on 700,
Pujols will tell you he’s more proud of a
number no one talks about these days:
He has 2,187 career RBI. The only men in
history with more RBI are Aaron (2,297)
and Ruth (2,214).
“That’s the number that means ev-
erything to me,” Pujols said. “That’s how
you win games. It takes four walks to get
an RBI. It takes one homer to get at least
one, or a base hit.
“That’s how you win, scoring runs. If
somebody comes up to me and says that
RBIs are overrated, I’ll tell them they are
freaking crazy.”
The dream, of course, is for Pujols to
leave the game with the ultimate prize,
another World Series championship. He
already has two rings, with plenty of
room for another. Yet, no matter what
transpires the final six weeks, no matter
whether he hits 700 homers, no matter
how far the Cardinals advance into Oc-
tober, he’s leaving the game with an im-
peccable reputation and a plaque re-
laps, Newgarden picked off one car after
another, and though O’Ward had swung
around the outside of Power in Turn 2
on the restart to take the lead, the driver
of the No. 2 Penske Chevy jumped him
with ease on lap 164.
Seven laps later, Newgarden had
amassed more than a 7-second lead
over McLaughlin in 2nd-place.
“I thought that (first) yellow would
help us, but my team didn’t tell me the
(fuel) number I’d have to make if we
didn’t pit,” Power said during the stop-
page. “If they’d told me what it was, I
would’ve said, ‘Pit.’ But finishing 4th,
that’s really good for us.”
At that moment, as the track was still
drying and Power sat 4th behind his two
Penske teammates and O’Ward, the
points leader was prepared to head into
the final two races of the year with a 17-
point edge over Newgarden. By virtue of
Newgarden’s victory and Power drop-
ping to 6th, that deficit is now 3 points.
“You’ve gotta win these races when
you’re in position to do it,” said Newgar-
den, who’s won five times this year –
three more than anyone else. “I wanted
to pull that one out really badly, an I’m
elated we got back going and had the op-
portunity.
“I was really surprised the whole field
committed (to a three-stop strategy),
because when we were provided that
opportunity to pit again, it changed
things up. I thought our car was able to
maximize that strategy, and I’m really
happy with our team to pick that out.
You can’t win races like this without
that.”
With two laps to go, Malukas dove up
into the highline and overtook
McLaughlin with relative ease, but it
was too late for a run at Newgarden.
Still, his 2nd-place finish easily became
his best of the year, edging his 8th-place
run in Race 2 at Iowa. Following
McLaughlin (who’s now 54 points back
of Power for the title in 6th), O’Ward
managed to hold onto 4th and main-
tained his 7th-place position in the title
run (58 back).
Sato finished 5th, followed by Power
(6th). Finishing 8th Saturday, Dixon
dropped from just six points behind
Power to now 14 back. Ericsson only
dropped a couple points himself after
his short-oval result, making four driv-
ers within 17 point as the series enters a
week off before picking back up at Port-
land on Sept. 4.
served for him in Cooperstown.
He played the game clean, played it
right, and respected the game every mo-
ment he has stepped onto the field.
Who else would be OK being pinch-
hit for by a rookie with a a right-hander
on the mound, with the crowd of 34,248
loudly booing the hometown kid, Nolan
Gorman, and offer encouragement as he
stepped to the plate? When Gorman de-
livered a single, guess who was on the
top step of the dugout wildly cheering?
Yep, Pujols.
It was a moment that Gorman will
never, ever forget. He’ll be able to tell his
kids, grandkids, and great grandkids
that there was an August night, with 150
friends and family members in atten-
dance, when he pinch-hit for the great
Hall of Famer.
“It was awesome,” said Gorman, who
has an autographed jersey from Pujols.
“That’s all I was thinking about was get-
ting this job done for Albert.”
That’s Pujols, the ultimate team-
mate, role model and ambassador.
It hurts him when he sees players like
Fernando Tatis Jr. busted for perfor-
mance-enhancing drugs knowing that
their careers are stained forever. He
hopes that Tatis and others who have
been suspended for PEDs can be forgiv-
en, but knows they’ll never again be
viewed the same.
“I don’t judge people, but it saddens
me to see that being from the same
country, the Dominican Republic, and
the mistake the guy made,” Pujols said.
“It doesn’t make you a bad person, but
you made a bad choice. All it takes is a
bad choice and it just stinks to see that
not just for them, but for baseball and
the people in our country.
“I’m on the radar just like everybody
else, but there’s a huge responsibility
you have to carry with you,” Pujols add-
ed. “That responsibility I have with God
has helped me have the success I’d had.
I know there’s a lot of people, a country
that has followed me throughout my ca-
reer, and I want to make them proud.”
Mission accomplished, 700 homers
or not.
“No matter what happens, buddy,”
Pujols says, “I wouldn’t change a thing.
I’ve had an unbelievable career. How
blessed am I?”
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Vanessa Bryant tells jury she wants justice

Brent Schrotenboer
USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES – Vanessa
Bryant broke down and cried
on the witness stand Friday in
federal court, wiping her eyes
and struggling through much of
her testimony as she described
her reaction to a troubling dis-
covery in February 2020.
She remembers it vividly.
She was in a game room watch-
ing television with her family
and friends when another
friend called her to share the
news:
Gruesome photos of her de-
ceased daughter and husband,
Kobe, the NBA legend, had ap-
parently been taken and shared
after they died in a helicopter
crash on Jan. 26, 2020.
Two days after the accident,
a Los Angeles County sheriff ’s
deputy trainee even showed
grisly crash scene photos to a
bartender at a Mexican restau-
rant.
“I bolted out of the house,
and I ran to the side of the
house so my girls couldn’t see
me,” Bryant testified. “And I
broke down and cried and just
felt like I wanted to run. I just
wanted to run down the block
and just scream … like wanting
to run down the pier and just
taking your clothes off and run-
ning and jumping into the
ocean. But the problem is I just
can’t escape. I can’t escape my
body. I can’t escape what I feel.”
This was Day 8 of Bryant’s
civil trial against Los Angeles
County, arguably the biggest
day of the trial so far because it
was the first day the jury of five
men and four women heard
from Bryant and the county
sheriff, Alex Villanueva. Bryant
brought this case to trial after
filing a lawsuit that accused
county sheriff ’s and fire de-
partment employees of using
their personal phones to take
and share gratuitous photos of
human remains from the crash
scene despite having no legiti-
mate business reason for doing
so.
Bryant answered questions
on the stand for nearly three
hours and covered several key
areas of the case, including
why she filed this lawsuit, how
she learned of the crash and
how the photos issue has af-
fected her. She said she has suf-
fered panic attacks about it, to
the point she says it feels like
she can’t breathe.
“I live in fear every day,” Bry-
ant testified, implying the pho-
tos could re-emerge at any mo-
ment, even though the county
says they were deleted soon af-
ter the crash and were never
posted online.
Bryant said she says a spe-
cial prayer every night for her
husband and daughter and
thinks about “why they’re not
here.”
“And then I think about what
was done to them,” she said un-
der direct examination by her
attorney, Luis Li.
Bryant noted her husband’s
body was recovered on the day
of the crash, but her daughter’s
body was not recovered until
the next day.
“Her body was found in a ra-
vine, so anyone who has pho-
tographs of her, they would
have had to go out of their way,”
Bryant said through tears. “So
they violated her, taking ad-
vantage of the fact that her
daddy couldn’t protect her. He
was at the morgue.”
Bryant is joined at trial by
Chris Chester, who lost his wife
and daughter in the same crash
and also sued the county for
similar reasons. Both say the
county violated their constitu-
tional rights to control the
death images of their loved
ones. They claim they suffered
emotional distress because of
the county’s conduct and are
seeking damages to be deter-
mined at trial.
The day of the crash
Bryant started her testimo-
ny by telling the jury about her
background and family life be-
fore recounting how she
learned of the fatal crash. Her
testimony about this was simi-
lar to her pretrial deposition
testimony last year but still
brought the tragedy to life for
the jurors on Friday.
She testified about how an
assistant knocked on her door
in an aggressive manner that
morning and eventually told
her there had been a helicopter
accident. The initial word was
that there were “five survivors.”
Then Bryant looked at her
phone and saw comments that
read, “RIP Kobe.”
At one point she tried to call
Kobe to determine his and
Gianna’s whereabouts using a
phone locater application that
showed Gianna was at a church
and Kobe was near a hillside.
This gave her the impression
Gianna was safe and Kobe was
trying to help people.
In an effort to get to them
quickly, she headed for the air-
port in Orange County, still
holding out hope there were
five survivors. Los Angeles Lak-
ers general manager Rob Pelin-
ka arrived there, too, and de-
cided to drive her to the crash
site after they were told it
Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Kobe Bryant, testified she would
go through hell and back to fight for justice for her husband and
daughter. JAE C. HONG/AP
wasn’t safe to fly from that air-
port by helicopter, as Kobe and
her daughter had done earlier
that morning.
The drive took more than an
hour. Nobody had confirmed
their deaths at this point. When
she arrived at the sheriff ’s sta-
tion near the crash, she hoped
to find them there.
“Where are they?” she
asked, according to her testi-
mony. “Where are they?”
Sheriff Villanueva told her
what happened: There were no
survivors.
“I’m sorry, Mrs. Bryant,” Vil-
lanueva said, according to her
testimony. “Is there anything I
can do for you?”
She testified she told him
that if he couldn’t bring back
her “babies,” then “please se-
cure the area” to protect her
loved ones’ remains from inva-
sions of privacy, such as from
the news media.
But it turned out it wasn’t
the news media she needed to
worry about, according to her
attorneys. A sheriff ’s deputy,
Douglas Johnson, had hiked up
to the crash scene that morning
and taken dozens of photos, in-
cluding close-ups of human re-
mains. He then shared those
with at least two others – an-
other deputy and a fire depart-
ment employee who remains
unidentified and conceivably
could still possess them.
Johnson also said he guided
a fire captain around the scene
and that he took photos of the
bodies, too. According to John-
son, he was doing his job docu-
menting the scene.
Even if he was, the photos
spread from there, eventually
ending up on the devices of 28
sheriff ’s personnel, according
to court records. One of them
was deputy Joey Cruz, who tes-
tified this week that he showed
crash scene photos at the res-
taurant on Jan. 28, 2020. After
a patron at the same restaurant
that night learned of this, that
patron filed a complaint with
the sheriff ’s department.
This news soon reached Vil-
lanueva, who then had a deci-
sion to make.
He testified about it Friday.
Willing to ‘go through hell’
“I laid it out very clearly,” Vil-
lanueva testified. “These pho-
tos can never see the light of
day.”
His goal, he said, was to pre-
vent the photos from spreading
further. So the sheriff ’s depart-
ment offered “amnesty” to any
personnel involved: If they
came clean and deleted the
photos, they would not suffer
discipline, other than a perfor-
mance-log entry in their file.
“We made the right choice,”
testified Villanueva, who was
not in uniform Friday and in-
stead wore a dark suit and tie.
He said the strategy
“worked,” though Bryant’s at-
torneys have a different view-
point. They said the deletions
were an improper destruction
of evidence. Bryant herself said
Friday that even if she never
wanted anyone to see these
photos, she wanted them pre-
served to help aid an investiga-
tion into what happened.
Because the photos were de-
leted, there is no exact way to
know what they showed or who
was in them, except to ask wit-
nesses about them in court.
This has led to graphic testimo-
ny about body parts and the
conditions of bodies after they
were flung from a high-velocity
crash.
Bryant has stayed out of
court at times to avoid hearing
some of it. At other times, she’s
heard more than she would
have liked.
But she’s pressing this suit
anyway. She said she expected
county first responders to have
“more compassion” and said
her husband and daughter de-
served dignity from them.
“I’m willing to go through
hell and back to get justice for
my husband and daughter,” she
said.
The county tried to paint a
fuller picture of Bryant’s life
and emotional state during her
cross-examination. The coun-
ty’s lead outside counsel, Mira
Hashmall, asked her about
managing her husband’s busi-
ness and promoting his book
projects after his death.
The implication was that
evaluating her emotional dis-
tress from this case could be
complicated. Her life has gone
on, including with other stress-
inducing factors.
“The only damages you’re
seeking in this case are for your
emotional distress?” asked Mi-
ra Hashmall, the county’s out-
side counsel.
“There are violations that
took place … and emotional dis-
tress,” Bryant said.
“You understand the jurors
can’t fire county personnel?”
Hasmall asked.
“I understand that,” Bryant
replied.
Two other families who lost
loved ones in the crash also
sued the county over the pho-
tos but last year agreed to end
their lawsuits in exchange for
$1.25 million each from the
county.
Bryant made clear Friday
why she has persisted and has
not settled.
“I want justice for my hus-
band and daughter,” she said.

WNBA PLAYOFF ROUNDUP

Thornton, Wings force deciding Game 3

The Associated Press
UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Kayla
Thornton scored 20 points and
Teaira McCowan had 17 points
and 11 rebounds to help the Dal-
las Wings beat the Connecticut
Sun 89-79 on Sunday to avoid
elimination and earn the fran-
chise’s first playoff game win
since 2009.
The sixth-seeded Wings,
who will host Wednesday’s
Game 3, never trailed. They led
by double digits for the final 26-
plus minutes, despite a 22-2
fourth-quarter run that
trimmed a 31-point Sun deficit
to 84-73 with less than 2 min-
utes left.
“I think we have to learn how
to capitalize,” McCowan said.
“With us being a young team,
you know, sometimes we get a
little sloppy – as you could see
at the end. But, I mean, once we
tighten that up, it’ll be good for
the next game.”
Allisha Gray had 15 points,
eight assists and three steals
for the Wings, and Marina Ma-
brey scored 14 points.
Jonquel Jones had 20 points
and nine rebounds for third-
seeded Connecticut, and
Brionna Jones also scored 20.
DiJonai Carrington added 13.
Stewart, Bird help Storm
oust Mystics
SEATTLE – Breanna Stewart
had 21 points, 10 rebounds and
eight assists, Sue Bird added
season highs of 18 points and 10
assists, and the Seattle Storm
beat the Washington Mystics
97-84 on Sunday to sweep their
opening-round series.
No. 4 seed Seattle plays top-
seeded Las Vegas in the second
round. The best-of-five series
begins Sunday in Las Vegas.
Jewell Loyd was 5 of 10 from
3-point range and finished with
19 points for the Storm.
Ariel Atkins hit a 3-pointer 13
seconds into the third quarter
to give the Mystics a 46-45
lead, but Stewart answered
with a 3 on the other end and
Seattle never again trailed.
Gray, record-setting Aces
sweep Mystics
LAS VEGAS – Chelsea Gray
had 27 points and eight assists
and hit a career-high seven of
Las Vegas’ WNBA playoff-rec-
ord 23 3-pointers and the Aces
beat the Phoenix Mercury 117-
80 on Saturday to sweep the
best-of-three series.
Las Vegas, which never
trailed, also set WNBA playoff
marks for consecutive field
goals made to open a game
(10) and most 3-pointers in a
half (11, in the first). The top-
seeded Aces beat Phoenix 79-
63 on Wednesday.
Kelsey Plum added 22
points for Las Vegas.
Kaela Davis led short-
handed Phoenix with 23
points, and Diamond DeSh-
ields had 21.
Sky post record rout
to tie series
CHICAGO – Kahleah Cop-
per scored 20 points and
Courtney Vandersloot added
16 to help Chicago to a record
rout of New York 100-62, tying
the first-round WNBA play-
offs series on Saturday and
forcing a decisive Game 3.
The teams will play on
Tuesday in New York with a
trip to the semifinals at stake.
Candace Parker added 12
points, 12 rebounds and four
assists for the Sky, who broke
their own WNBA record for
largest margin of victory in
the playoffs. Chicago won by
36 at home in Game 3 of the
Finals against the Mercury
last year.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 22, 2022
GLAXOSMITHKLINE CAPITAL INC.
ANNOUNCES REDEMPTION OF CERTAIN NOTES
August 22, 2022 — GlaxoSmithKline Capital Inc. (the “Issuer”), a
wholly-owned subsidiary of GSK plc, announced on August 16,
2022 that it will redeem on September 15, 2022 (the “Redemption
Date”) the following series of its outstanding notes:
Series Outstanding Principal Amount
2.800% Notes due 2023 U.S. $1,250,000,000
(the “Notes”)
All of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes will be
redeemed at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (A) 100%
of the principal amount of the Notes or (B) 100% of the principal
amount of the Notes plus a make-whole premium that will be
determined on the third business day preceding the Redemption
Date, in either case plus accrued and unpaid interest on the
principal amount of the Notes to the Redemption Date.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 22, 2022
GLAXOSMITHKLINE CAPITAL INC. ANNOUNCES
REDEMPTION OF CERTAIN NOTES
August 22, 2022 — GlaxoSmithKline Capital Inc. (the “Issuer”), a
wholly-owned subsidiary of GSK plc, announced on August 16,
2022 that it will redeem on August 31, 2022 (the “Redemption
Date”) the following series of its outstanding notes:
Series Outstanding Principal Amount
3.375% Notes due 2023 U.S. $1,250,000,000
(the “Notes”)
All of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes will be
redeemed at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (A) 100%
of the principal amount of the Notes or (B) 100% of the principal
amount of the Notes plus a make-whole premium that will be
determined on the third business day preceding the Redemption
Date, in either case plus accrued and unpaid interest on the
principal amount of the Notes to the Redemption Date.
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Minnesota 2, Austin FC 1 Atlanta 1 0 0 1.000 27 23
MLB Houston 1, Colorado 1, tie Carolina 1 1 0 .500 33 41 Purse: $1.8 million
Vancouver 1, Real Salt Lake 1, tie New Orleans 0 2 0 .000 23 37 Yardage: 7,468; Par: 72
San Jose 2, Los Angeles FC 1 Tampa Bay 0 2 0 .000 27 39 Third Round
AMERICAN LEAGUE Sunday’s Games North Maximilian Kieffer, Germany ..................................68-66-66—200 (-16)
East Division Atlanta at Columbus W L T Pct PF PA Gavin Green, Malaysia ...............................................67-63-71—201 (-15)
W L Pct GB New York City FC at Chicago Chicago 2 0 0 1.000 46 25 Louis De Jager, South Africa ...................................64-70-68—202 (-14)
New York 74 48 .607 — Orlando City at Charlotte FC Detroit 1 1 0 .500 50 53 Tapio Pulkkanen, Finland .........................................66-69-67—202 (-14)
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Baltimore 62 58 .517 11 Marcel Schneider, Germany......................................66-67-71—204 (-12)
Boston 60 61 .496 13½ Friday’s Games West NFL
Los Angeles FC at Austin FC, 8 p.m. W L T Pct PF PA Thriston Lawrence, South Africa .............................68-69-68—205 (-11)
Central Division Seattle at Portland, 10 p.m. Arizona 1 0 0 1.000 36 23 Wilco Nienaber, South Africa ....................................71-67-67—205 (-11) Monday
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Minnesota 62 56 .525 1 Seattle 0 2 0 .000 36 59 Carlos Pigem, Spain.................................................68-69-68—205 (-11)
Miami at New York, 7 p.m. Pep Angles, Spain.....................................................68-67-71—206 (-10) MLB
Chicago 62 59 .512 2½ Thursday’s Game
Toronto FC at Charlotte FC, 7 p.m. Bobby Bai, China.......................................................71-64-71—206 (-10)
Kansas City 49 74 .398 16½ Chicago 27, Seattle 11 Monday
Detroit 47 76 .382 18½
Columbus at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m. Alfredo Garcia-Heredia, Spain................................69-69-68—206 (-10)
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Houston 78 45 .634 — Antoine Rozner, France............................................67-70-69—206 (-10)
Real Salt Lake at FC Dallas, 9 p.m. Houston 24, L.A. Rams 20 Jack Senior, England ...............................................68-68-70—206 (-10) Braves 1.5 8.5 -205 PIRATES
Seattle 66 55 .545 11 Nashville at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
Texas 54 66 .450 22½ Saturday’s Games Cormac Sharvin, Northern Ireland...........................71-69-66—206 (-10) PHILLIES 1.5 8.5 -240 Reds
Los Angeles 52 69 .430 25
Sunday, August 28 Buffalo 42, Denver 15 Lee Slattery, England..............................................69-69-68—206 (-10) TWINS 1.5 8.5 -205 Rangers
D.C. United at Atlanta, 4 p.m. Detroit 27, Indianapolis 26 Rory Sabbatini, Slovakia .........................................68-69-69—206 (-10) RAYS 1.5 7.5 -190 Angels
Oakland 44 77 .364 33 New York City FC at Orlando City, 7:30 p.m. Kansas City 24, Washington 14 Laurie Canter, England ..............................................72-68-67—207 (-9) Cardinals - - -165 CUBS
Saturday’s Games LA Galaxy at New England, 8 p.m. Las Vegas 15, Miami 13 Jannik De Bruyn, Germany.........................................71-69-67—207 (-9) Marlins 1.5 6.5 -145 ATHLETICS
Detroit 4, L.A. Angels 3 Pittsburgh 16, Jacksonville 15 Grant Forrest, Scotland..............................................67-68-72—207 (-9)
Toronto 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 English Premier League DODGERS 1.5 7.5 -250 Brewers
San Francisco 17, Minnesota 7 Marcus Kinhult, Sweden ...........................................68-70-69—207 (-9)
Tampa Bay 5, Kansas City 2 GP W D L GF GA Pts Tennessee 13, Tampa Bay 3 Richard Mansell, England...........................................67-66-74—207 (-9)
Boston 4, Baltimore 3 Arsenal 3 3 0 0 9 2 9 Dallas 32, L.A. Chargers 18 Victor Perez, France ...................................................70-71-66—207 (-9) Odds are subject to change. Tipico Sportsbook
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Monday’s Games Seattle at Dallas, 8 p.m. Sean Crocker, United States .......................................71-71-68—210 (-6)
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N.Y. Mets (Scherzer 9-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Ger- Jacksonville at Atlanta, 3 p.m. Zach Murray, Australia ................................................71-68-71—210 (-6)
Man United 2 0 0 2 1 6 0 Ricardo Santos, Portugal............................................69-71-70—210 (-6)
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(Springs 5-3), 7:10 p.m. Chicago at Cleveland, 7 p.m.
Texas (Ragans 0-2) at Minnesota (Gray 7-3), Tottenham 1, Wolverhampton 0 Philadelphia at Miami, 7 p.m. Benjamin Hebert, France............................................70-66-75—211 (-5)
7:10 p.m. Crystal Palace 3, Aston Villa 1 Washington at Baltimore, 7 p.m. Hugo Leon, Chile.........................................................67-73-72—212 (-4)
Miami (Cabrera 3-1) at Oakland (Oller 2-5), Everton 1, Nottingham Forest 1 Tampa Bay at Indianapolis, 7:30 p.m. Gregory Bourdy, France ..............................................71-70-72—213 (-3)
9:40 p.m. Fulham 3, Brentford 2
Leicester 1, Southampton 2
Minnesota at Denver, 9 p.m. Sebastian Garcia Rodriguez, Spain .............................70-71-72—213 (-3)
Jordan Gumberg, United States.................................66-74-73—213 (-3)
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Tuesday’s Games Bournemouth 0, Arsenal 3 Sunday, Aug. 28 Soren Kjeldsen, Denmark ...........................................70-70-73—213 (-3)
Chicago White Sox at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Giants at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. David Tomi, Czech Republic........................................69-71-73—213 (-3)
N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. Sunday’s Games Detroit at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m. Johannes Veerman, United States.............................66-72-75—213 (-3)
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San Francisco at Detroit, 7:10 p.m.
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Texas at Colorado, 8:40 p.m. Saturday’s Games Playoff Purse: $2.1 million
Cleveland at San Diego, 9:40 p.m. Southampton vs. Man United, 7:30 a.m. (Best-of-3; x-if necessary) Yardage: 6,994; Par: 72 games
Miami at Oakland, 9:40 p.m. Brentford vs. Everton, 10 a.m. Second Round
Washington at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. First Round
Brighton vs. Leeds, 10 a.m. Mike Weir........................................................................67-65—132 (-12)
NATIONAL LEAGUE Chelsea vs. Leicester, 10 a.m. Las Vegas 2, Phoenix 0
August 17: Las Vegas 79, Phoenix 63 Padraig Harrington .........................................................66-67—133 (-11)
East Division Liverpool vs. Bournemouth, 10 a.m. Ernie Els ...........................................................................67-68—135 (-9)
Man City vs. Crystal Palace, 10 a.m. Saturday: Las Vegas 117, Phoenix 80
W L Pct GB Vijay Singh .......................................................................65-70—135 (-9) PGA Tour BMW Championship
New York 78 44 .639 — Arsenal vs. Fulham, 12:30 p.m. Chicago 1, New York 1 Jim Furyk..........................................................................65-71—136 (-8)
Atlanta 75 48 .610 3½ Sunday, Aug. 28 August 17: New York 98, Chicago 91 Tom Pernice ....................................................................68-68—136 (-8) Saturday
Philadelphia 66 54 .550 11 Aston Villa vs. West Ham, 9 a.m. Saturday: Chicago 100, New York 62 Gene Sauers ....................................................................69-67—136 (-8) South Course, Wilmington, Del.
Miami 52 68 .433 25 Wolverhampton vs. Newcastle, 9 a.m. Tuesday: Chicago at New York, 9 p.m. Doug Barron ....................................................................69-68—137 (-7) Purse: $15 million
Washington 41 81 .336 37 Nottingham Forest vs. Tottenham, 11:30 a.m. Connecticut 1, Dallas 1 Shane Bertsch..................................................................68-69—137 (-7) Yardage: 7,534; Par: 71
August 18: Connecticut 93, Dallas 68 Paul Broadhurst ...............................................................68-69—137 (-7)
Central Division NWSL Sunday: Dallas 89, Connecticut 79 Darren Clarke....................................................................65-72—137 (-7) Third Round
W L Pct GB W L T Pts GF GA Patrick Cantlay .........................................................68-68-65—201 (-12)
Wednesday: Connecticut at Dallas, 1 p.m. Thongchai Jaidee .............................................................70-67—137 (-7)
St. Louis 68 51 .571 — San Diego 8 5 4 28 24 15 Xander Schauffele ....................................................67-69-66—202 (-11)
Milwaukee 64 56 .533 4½ Portland 7 1 7 28 36 15 Seattle 2, Washington 0 Scott McCarron................................................................68-69—137 (-7)
Scott Stallings..........................................................68-68-66—202 (-11)
Chicago 52 68 .433 16½ August 18: Seattle 86, Washington 83 Stuart Appleby ................................................................68-70—138 (-6)
Houston 8 5 4 28 29 21 Alex Cejka........................................................................68-70—138 (-6) Scottie Scheffler......................................................68-67-68—203 (-10)
Cincinnati 48 71 .403 20 Kansas City 7 4 5 26 21 21 Sunday: Seattle 97, Washington 84
Matt Gogel ......................................................................70-68—138 (-6) Adam Scott..............................................................65-69-69—203 (-10)
Pittsburgh 47 74 .388 22 OL Reign 6 4 6 24 20 15 Collin Morikawa..........................................................67-72-65—204 (-9)
Chicago 6 5 5 23 22 22
Andrew Johnson .............................................................68-70—138 (-6)
West Division BASEBALL Rob Labritz......................................................................69-69—138 (-6) Aaron Wise ................................................................69-68-67—204 (-9)
W L Pct GB Angel City 6 5 4 22 16 17 Corey Conners ...........................................................68-67-70—205 (-8)
Orlando 5 5 6 21 19 31 Bernhard Langer ..............................................................71-67—138 (-6)
Los Angeles 83 36 .697 — Corey Pavin .....................................................................69-69—138 (-6) Joaquin Niemann......................................................69-68-68—205 (-8)
San Diego 67 56 .545 18 Louisville 2 6 8 14 16 22 Sungjae Im .................................................................70-69-67—206 (-7)
North Carolina 3 6 4 13 27 26 Little League World Series Ken Tanigawa ..................................................................69-69—138 (-6)
San Francisco 59 61 .492 24½ Michael Allen...................................................................70-69—139 (-5) Denny McCarthy ........................................................68-72-66—206 (-7)
Arizona 55 65 .458 28½ Gotham FC 4 11 0 12 12 32 At Williamsport, Pa. John Daly .........................................................................72-67—139 (-5) Rory McIlroy ..............................................................68-68-70—206 (-7)
Colorado 53 69 .434 31½ Washington 1 6 9 12 16 21 UNITED STATES Taylor Pendrith ...........................................................71-68-67—206 (-7)
Ken Duke .........................................................................70-69—139 (-5)
Saturday’s Games NOTE: Three points for win, one point for tie. GREAT LAKES REGION, Hagerstown, Ind.; Joe Durant .......................................................................69-70—139 (-5) Christiaan Bezuidenhout............................................67-73-67—207 (-6)
N.Y. Mets 8, Philadelphia 2, 1st game Friday’s Game METRO REGION, Massapequa, N.Y.; MID-AT- Bob Estes .........................................................................74-65—139 (-5) Tyrrell Hatton .............................................................67-71-69—207 (-6)
Chicago Cubs 6, Milwaukee 5, 11 innings Angel City 1, Kansas City 1, tie LANTIC REGION, Hollidaysburg, Pa.; MIDWEST Steve Flesch ....................................................................69-70—139 (-5) Andrew Putnam.........................................................73-68-66—207 (-6)
Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Mets 1, 2nd game Saturday’s Games REGION, Davenport, Iowa; MOUNTAIN RE- Rocco Mediate.................................................................70-69—139 (-5) Cameron Young..........................................................67-68-72—207 (-6)
Cincinnati 10, Pittsburgh 1 Orlando 2, Gotham FC 1 GION, Santa Clara, Utah; NEW ENGLAND RE- Brett Quigley ...................................................................70-69—139 (-5) Sam Burns .................................................................69-69-70—208 (-5)
Atlanta 5, Houston 4, 11 innings North Carolina 4, Chicago 0 GION, Middleboro, Mass.; NORTHWEST RE- David Toms......................................................................70-69—139 (-5) Lucas Herbert ...........................................................70-70-68—208 (-5)
Colorado 4, San Francisco 3, 10 innings San Diego 3, Houston 1 GION, Bonney Lake, Wash.; SOUTHEAST RE- Marco Dawson .................................................................69-71—140 (-4) Shane Lowry ...............................................................66-71-71—208 (-5)
L.A. Dodgers 7, Miami 0 GION, Nolensville, Tenn.; SOUTHWEST RE- David McKenzie...............................................................70-70—140 (-4) Hideki Matsuyama......................................................70-67-71—208 (-5)
Wednesday’s Game GION, Pearland, Texas; WEST REGION, Trey Mullinax .............................................................71-68-69—208 (-5)
St. Louis 16, Arizona 7 Portland at North Carolina, 7 p.m. Scott Parel .......................................................................70-70—140 (-4)
San Diego 2, Washington 1 Honolulu, Hawaii Tim Petrovic.....................................................................73-67—140 (-4) Jon Rahm ...................................................................73-70-65—208 (-5)
Friday’s Game INTERNATIONAL Y.E. Yang ...........................................................................67-73—140 (-4) Brendan Steele ..........................................................76-67-65—208 (-5)
Sunday’s Games OL Reign at Orlando, 7 p.m. Harold Varner III .........................................................66-71-71—208 (-5)
Houston 5, Atlanta 4 ASIA-PACIFIC REGION, Taipei City, Chinese Russ Cochran.....................................................................71-70—141 (-3)
Cincinnati 9, Pittsburgh 5 Saturday’s Games Taipei; AUSTRALIA REGION, Brisbane, Aus- Glen Day ............................................................................70-71—141 (-3) Emiliano Grillo ............................................................68-71-70—209 (-4)
Chicago at Louisville, 7:30 p.m. tralia; CANADA REGION, Vancouver, British Fred Funk ..........................................................................70-71—141 (-3) Max Homa .................................................................72-69-68—209 (-4)
Milwaukee 5, Chicago Cubs 2 Kurt Kitayama ............................................................71-66-72—209 (-4)
N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia Washington at Houston, 8:30 p.m. Columbia; CARIBBEAN REGION, Willemstad, Miguel Angel Jimenez......................................................72-69—141 (-3)
San Diego at Portland, 10:30 p.m. Curacao; EUROPE-AFRICA REGION, Bologna, Brandt Jobe ......................................................................67-74—141 (-3) Kyoung-Hoon Lee ......................................................68-70-71—209 (-4)
San Francisco at Colorado J.T. Poston .................................................................72-69-68—209 (-4)
Miami at L.A. Dodgers Sunday, August 28 Italy; JAPAN REGION, Takarazuka, Japan; LAT- Billy Mayfair......................................................................72-69—141 (-3)
Angel City at Gotham FC, 5 p.m. IN AMERICA REGION, Managua, Nicaragua; Duffy Waldorf...................................................................66-75—141 (-3) J.J. Spaun...................................................................68-74-67—209 (-4)
St. Louis at Arizona Jordan Spieth ............................................................68-67-74—209 (-4)
Washington at San Diego North Carolina at Kansas City, 7 p.m. MEXICO REGION, Matamoros, Mexico; PANA- Billy Andrade....................................................................70-72—142 (-2)
MA REGION, Aguadulce, Panama; PUERTO RI- David Duval ......................................................................72-70—142 (-2) Sahith Theegala ........................................................72-68-69—209 (-4)
Monday’s Games CO REGION, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Ricardo Gonzalez...............................................................71-71—142 (-2) Russell Henley .............................................................67-71-72—210 (-3)
Atlanta (Odorizzi 4-5) at Pittsburgh (Contre-
ras 3-3), 7:05 p.m. FOOTBALL Double Elimination
Cincinnati (Cessa 3-1) at Philadelphia (Syn- Wednesday, Aug. 17
dergaard 7-8), 7:05 p.m. Game 1: Willemstad (Curacao) 2, Managua 0
N.Y. Mets (Scherzer 9-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Ger- Canadian Football League 2: Nolensville (Tenn.) 5, Middleboro (Mass.) 3
mán 1-2), 7:05 p.m. East Division 3: Vancouver (BC) 7, Brisbane (Australia) 0
St. Louis (Montgomery 6-3) at Chicago Cubs W L T Pts PF PA 4: Honolulu (Hawaii) 11, Bonney Lake (Wash.) 1 9. (5) Alex Palou, Honda, 260, Running. 37. (28) Jeb Burton, Chevrolet, accident, 8, 1. Ozougwu.
Toronto 4 5 0 8 199 230
(Smyly 5-6), 8:05 p.m.
Montreal 4 6 0 8 260 273
Thursday, Aug. 18 10. (16) Graham Rahal, Honda, 260, Running. 38. (10) J. Allgaier, Chevrolet, accident, 4, 1.
Miami (Cabrera 3-1) at Oakland (Oller 2-5), Game 5: Taipei City 2, Bologna (Italy) 0 11. (11) Colton Herta, Honda, 259, Running.
9:40 p.m. Hamilton 3 7 0 6 223 265
6: Hagerstown (Ind.) 8, Davenport (Iowa) 7 12. (9) D. DeFrancesco, Honda, 259, Running. TENNIS
Milwaukee (Lauer 8-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Urías Ottawa 1 8 0 2 167 225
7: Matamoros (Mexico) 6, Guaynabo (PR) 1 13. (18) R. Grosjean, Honda, 259, Running. DEALS
13-6), 10:10 p.m. West Division 8: Pearland (Texas) 8, Hollidaysburg (Pa.) 3 14. (21) J. Johnson, Honda, 259, Running.
Tuesday’s Games W L T Pts PF PA 15. (17) H. Castroneves, Honda, 259, Running. ATP World Tour
Winnipeg 9 1 0 18 267 182 Friday, Aug. 19
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m., 1st game Game 9: Aguadulce (Panama) 9, Willemstad 16. (26) F. Rosenqvist, Chev., 259, Running. BASEBALL Winston-Salem Open
BC 8 1 0 16 323 185 17. (20) K. Kirkwood, Chevrolet, 258, Running.
Atlanta at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.
Calgary 6 3 0 12 268 210 (Curacao) 3 Major League Baseball At Wake Forest University
Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. 18. (24) D. Kellett, Chevrolet, 258, Running.
Ssktchwn 5 5 0 10 244 243 10: Nolensville (Tenn.) 11, Santa Clara (Utah) 2
19. (19) C. Lundgaard, Honda, 258, Running. American League Winston-Salem, N.C.
N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. 11: Vancouver (BC) 6, Takarazuka (Japan) 0 BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Recalled OF Yusniel
San Francisco at Detroit, 7:10 p.m. Edmonton 3 7 0 6 198 336 20. (13) S. Pagenaud, Honda, 257, Running. Purse: $713,635
12: Honolulu (Hawaii) 12, Massapequa (N.Y.) 0 Diaz from Norfolk (IL).
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m., 2nd Note: Two points for a win, one point for a tie. 21. (22) Callum Ilott, Chevrolet, 257, Running. Surface: Hardcourt outdoor
Arizona at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m. Friday’s Games Saturday’s Games 22. (25) Ed Carpenter, Chev., 256, Running. BOSTON RED SOX — Recalled 1B/OF Franchy
Game 13: Bologna (Italy) 12, Brisbane 7 Cordero from Worcester (IL). Singles - Qualification
Texas at Colorado, 8:40 p.m. Edmonton 30, Ottawa 12 23. (15) Conor Daly, Chevrolet, 244, Running. Christopher O’Connell (6), Australia, def. Tal-
Game 14: Davenport (Iowa) 6, Bonney Lake 24. (14) Jack Harvey, Honda, 239, Running. CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed C Yasmani
Cleveland at San Diego, 9:40 p.m. BC 28, Saskatchewan 10 (Wash.) 3 Grandal on the 10-day IL. Selected the con- lon Griekspoor (1), Netherlands, 7-6, 7-6;
Miami at Oakland, 9:40 p.m. Saturday’s Games 25. (10) A. Rossi, Honda, 226, Running. Marc-Andrea Huesler (4), Switzerland, def.
15: Managua (Nicaragua) 3, Guaynabo (PR) 1 26. (23) Rinus VeeKay, Chevrolet, 53, DNF. tract of C Carlos Perez from Charlotte (IL).
Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. Montreal 29, Hamilton 28 Game 16: Hollidaysburg (Pa.) 7, Middleboro Transferred RHP Kyle Crick to the 60-day IL. Shintaro Mochizuki (8), Japan, 6-2, 6-4; Jason
Washington at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. Calgary 22, Toronto 19 (Mass.) 5 NASCAR-Xfinity Sunoco Go NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled RHP Luke Kubler (5), Australia, def. Marton Fucsovics
Thursday’s Game Bard from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Placed (2), Hungary, 6-4, 6-0; Emilio Nava (7), United
Sunday’s Games Rewards 200 at The Glen States, def. Taro Daniel (3), Japan, 6-4, 3-6,
Calgary at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m. RHP Albert Abreu on the 15-day IL.
SOCCER Friday’s Games
Game 17: Willemstad (Curacao) 1, Bologna 0
Game 18: Santa Clara (Utah) vs. Davenport
Saturday TEXAS RANGERS — Reinstated OF Kole Cal- 7-5.
Hamilton at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. (Iowa), 11 a.m. Watkins Glen International houn from the 10-day IL. Optioned INF/OF Singles - Round of 64
Watkins Glen, N.Y. Josh Smith to Round Rock (PCL). Richard Gasquet, France, def. Kamil Majchr-
MLS Saskatchewan at BC, 10:30 p.m. 19: Managua vs. Takarazuka (Japan), 1 p.m. zak, Poland, 6-7 (5), 6-2, 1-0, ret; Kwon Soon
Saturday’s Game Game 20: Hollidaysburg (Pa.) vs. Massapequa Lap length: 2.45 miles National League Woo, South Korea, def. Daniel Altmaier, Ger-
EASTERN CONFERENCE Ottawa at Edmonton, 7 p.m. (N.Y.), 2 p.m. (Start position in parentheses) ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Recalled RHP
W L T Pts GF GA Luis Frias from Reno (PCL). Optioned RHP Ed- many, 6-1, 6-4.
Philadelphia 14 4 9 51 51 20 Monday’s Games 1. (3) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 82 laps, 0 points.
CF Montréal 14 8 4 46 47 41 NFL Preseason Game 21: Taipei City (Chinese Taipei) vs. 2. (4) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 82, 52. win Uceta to Reno. WTA Tennis in the Land
AMERICAN CONFERENCE Aguadulce (Panama), 1 p.m. 3. (19) Sammy Smith, Toyota, 82, 44. COLORADO ROCKIES — Reinstated C Elias Diaz Flats West Bank, Cleveland
New York City FC 12 7 6 42 46 30 from the 10-day IL. Optioned C Dom Nunez to
New York 11 8 8 41 41 33 East Game 22: Hagerstown (Ind.) vs. Nolensville 4. (16) Noah Gragson, Chevrolet, 82, 40.
(Tenn.), 3 p.m. 5. (14) Kaz Grala, Chevrolet, 82, 0. Albuquerque (PCL). Purse: $251,750
Inter Miami CF 10 10 6 36 34 42 W L T Pct PF PA
Columbus 8 6 10 34 32 27 Buffalo 2 0 0 1.000 69 39 Game 23: Vancouver (BC) vs. Matamoros 6. (7) Sam Mayer, Chevrolet, 82, 31. NEW YORK METS — Recalled RHP Jose Butto Surface: Hardcourt outdoor
New England 8 8 10 34 38 40 N.Y. Jets 1 0 0 1.000 24 21 (Mexico), 5 p.m. 7. (6) Riley Herbst, Ford, 82, 30. from Syracuse (IL). Selected the contract of Singles - Qualification
Cincinnati 8 8 10 34 43 46 Miami 1 1 0 .500 39 39 24: Honolulu vs. Pearland (Texas), 7 p.m. 8. (11) Sheldon Creed, Chevrolet, 82, 37. LHP Nate Fisher. Optioned LHP Rob Zastryzny Harmony Tan (2), France, def. Jessie Aney,
9. (17) Josh Berry, Chevrolet, 82, 32. to Syracuse. Placed RHP Stephen Nogosek on United States, 7-5, 6-4.
Orlando City 9 10 6 33 28 36 New England 1 1 0 .500 41 33 Tuesday’s Games 10. (22) Jeremy Clements, Chevrolet, 82, 34. the 15-day IL. Designated LHP Sam Clay for Singles - Round of 32
Charlotte FC 10 14 2 32 33 40 South 25: Game 21 loser vs. Game 19 winner, 1 p.m.
Chicago 8 11 6 30 28 34 11. (5) Cole Custer, Ford, 82, 0. assignment. Irina-Camelia Begu (5), Romania, def. Peyton
W L T Pct PF PA 26: Game 22 loser vs. Game 20 winner, 3 p.m. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Placed RHP Seran- Stearns, United States, 6-4, 6-3; Aliaksandra
Toronto FC 8 13 6 30 40 47 Houston 2 0 0 1.000 41 33 27: Game 17 winner vs. Game 23 loser, 5 p.m. 12. (23) Stefan Parsons, Chevrolet, 82, 0.
Atlanta 7 10 8 29 34 38 13. (34) Ryan Sieg, Ford, 82, 24. thon Dominguez on the 15-day IL, retroactive Sasnovich (7), Belarus, def. Aleksandra Krun-
Tennessee 1 1 0 .500 23 26 28: Game 18 winner vs. Game 24 loser, 7 p.m. to Aug. 18. Transferred RHP Corey Knebel ic, Serbia, 7-6 (5), 6-1.
D.C. United 6 16 4 22 28 55 Indianapolis 0 2 0 .000 50 54 14. (35) Timmy Hill, Ford, 82, 0.
15. (13) Connor Mosack, Toyota, 82, 0. from the 15-day IL to the 60-day IL. Optioned
WESTERN CONFERENCE Jacksonville 0 3 0 .000 39 67
16. (20) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 82, 21. LHP Bailer Falter to Lehigh Valley (IL). Select- WTA Championnats Banque
W L T Pts GF GA North AUTO RACING 17. (21) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet, 82, 0. ed the contract of RHP Tyler Cyr from Lehigh Nationale de Granby
Los Angeles FC 18 5 3 57 55 26 W L T Pct PF PA Valley.
Austin FC 14 6 6 48 55 36 Baltimore 1 0 0 1.000 23 10
18. (26) Anthony Alfredo, Chevrolet, 82, 19. Tennis St-Luc - Les Loisirs
19. (33) Andy Lally, Ford, 82, 19. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Selected the contract de Granby, Granby, Canada
FC Dallas 11 7 9 42 39 28 Pittsburgh 2 0 0 1.000 48 40 IndyCar Bommarito 20. (27) Brad Perez, Toyota, 82, 0. of LHP Cam Vieaux from Indianapolis (IL). Op-
Minnesota United 12 9 5 41 42 36 Cleveland 1 1 0 .500 44 34 Automotive Group 500 21. (31) Preston Pardus, Chevrolet, 82, 16. tioned RHP Yohan Ramirez to Indianapolis. Purse: $251,750
Real Salt Lake 10 8 8 38 34 35 Cincinnati 0 1 0 .000 23 36 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor
LA Galaxy 10 11 4 34 40 37 Saturday 22. (25) Kyle Weatherman, Chevrolet, 82, 21. Designated C Jose Godoy for assignment.
Vancouver 9 11 7 34 32 46 West World Wide Technology 23. (32) Scott Heckert, Chevrolet, 82, 14. FOOTBALL Singles - Qualification
W L T Pct PF PA 24. (12) Brandon Jones, Toyota, 82, 13. Kayla Cross, Canada, def. Himeno Sakatsume
Seattle 10 13 3 33 35 34 Las Vegas 3 0 0 1.000 68 44 Raceway at Gateway National Football League (8), Japan, 6-1, 6-3; Lulu Sun (6), Switzerland,
Nashville 8 9 9 33 34 36 25. (1) William Byron, Chevrolet, 82, 0. CHICAGO BEARS — Signed FB Jake Bargas.
Portland 7 7 12 33 42 40
Denver 1 1 0 .500 32 49 Madison, Ill. 26. (37) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, 82, 11. Placed WR David Moore on injured reserve.
def. Jana Fett (3), Croatia, 7-6, 6-2; Cadence
Kansas City 1 1 0 .500 38 33 Lap length: 1.25 miles 27. (2) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 82, 19. Brace, Canada, def. Nadiia Kichenok, Ukraine,
Colorado 8 10 8 32 37 40 L.A. Chargers 0 2 0 .000 40 61 GREEN BAY PACKERS — Reinstated LT David
San Jose 6 11 9 27 42 54 (Start position in parentheses) 28. (15) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 81, 0. 6-3, 6-4; Marina Stakusic, Canada, def. Erin
Bakhtiari from the physically unable to per- Routliffe, New Zealand, 6-2, 6-7, 6-1.
Houston 7 14 5 26 32 43 1. (3) J. Newgarden, Chev., 260 laps, Running. 29. (38) Blaine Perkins, Chevrolet, 80, 0. form (PUP) list. Released C Ty Clary and LB
Sporting KC 6 15 5 23 26 48
NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2. (12) David Malukas, Honda, 260, Running. 30. (8) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 73, 7. Singles - Round of 32
Chauncey Manac.
NOTE: Three points for win, one point for tie. East 3. (4) S. McLaughlin, Chevrolet, 260, Running. 31. (9) D. Hemric, Chevrolet, accident, 58, 6. HOUSTON TEXANS — Released LB Tae Davis,
Tatjana Maria, Germany, def. Nadia Podoros-
W L T Pct PF PA 4. (7) Pato O’Ward, Chevrolet, 260, Running. 32. (30) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet, axle, 51, 5. ka, Argentina, 7-5, 6-1; Harriet Dart, Britain,
Friday’s Game N.Y. Giants 1 0 0 1.000 23 21 FB Andy Janovich and OL Myron Cunningham. def. Maryna Zanevska, Belgium, 6-4, 7-5;
5. (8) Takuma Sato, Honda, 260, Running. 33. (29) M. Snider, Chevrolet, accident, 50, 4. Placed WR Chester Rogers on injured reserve.
Seattle 3, LA Galaxy 3, tie Dallas 1 1 0 .500 39 35 6. (1) Will Power, Chevrolet, 260, Running. 34. (36) Kris Wright, Chevrolet, garage, 30, 0. Katherine Sebov, Canada, def. Wang Xinyu,
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Released WR
Saturday’s Games Philadelphia 1 1 0 .500 42 44 7. (2) Marcus Ericsson, Honda, 260, Running. 35. (18) Alex Labbe, Chevrolet, accident, 26, 2. Vyncint Smith, S Troy Warner and LB JoJo
China, 3-6, 6-4, 6-0.
Cincinnati 1, New York 1, tie Washington 0 2 0 .000 35 47 8. (6) Scott Dixon, Honda, 260, Running. 36. (24) Patrick Gallagher, Ford, reargear, 14, 1.
Philadelphia 6, D.C. United 0

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In Watson mess, Browns got what they bargained for

takes weeks, months and a long time to
get where you understand so much
Jarrett Bell more about yourself … but it is not going
Columnist to happen overnight.”
USA TODAY Watson, 26, is fortunate to have the
support of the Haslams, along with gen-
eral manager Andrew Berry, coach Kev-
Jimmy Haslam put a number on it: in Stefanski and others within the or-
100. ganization. Then again, they all need
“Absolutely,” the Cleveland Browns each other.
owner declared of his comfort level in The Browns have pledged $1 million
having suspended quarterback Desh- to efforts that include preventing sexual
aun Watson on his team. “100%. 100%.” misconduct and assault. No doubt,
Add that to the smorgasbord of big that’s a noble cause. But it’s also the
numbers attached to Watson. He agreed least that you’d expect when the face of
to a settlement on Thursday that includ- the franchise was accused of serial sex-
ed an unprecedented $5 million fine on ual misconduct – and in the NFL’s eyes,
top of an 11-game suspension for violat- guilty, even without a criminal convic-
ing the NFL’s personal conduct policy, tion – during his final years with the
stemming from 24 women making alle- Houston Texans.
gations of sexual misconduct during Haslam surely feels the heat, realiz-
massage sessions. ing that many expected a harsher pun-
Watson has a five-year contract ishment. Yet this is a case where talent –
worth $230 million that is fully guaran- and Watson has so much of that as a
teed – which to some degree may ex- multiple-threat playmaker – creates
plain why Haslam insists he’s harboring more opportunity.
no regrets for swinging the huge trade “People deserve second chances,”
that brought the quarterback from Jimmy Haslam said. “Is he supposed to
Houston and signing him to the big deal. never play again? Is he never supposed
After all, despite the intense back- to be a part of society? Does he get no
lash, this is what Haslam signed up for. chance to rehabilitate himself? That is
Perhaps, given that Cleveland gave up what we are going to do.”
three first-round picks as part of the And if that helps turn the Browns into
package to get him, Watson will ulti- a Super Bowl contender, even better for
mately be the catalyst for a Super Bowl Haslam.
run. But for now and many months, if “You can say, ‘Well, that is because he
not years, the face and by extension the is a star quarterback,’ ” Haslam added.
franchise’s brand is associated with the Browns owner Jimmy Haslam on quarterback Deshaun Watson: “People deserve “Well, of course, but if he was ‘Joe
term sexual predator. NFL Commission- second chances. Is he supposed to never play again? Is he never supposed to be Smith,’ he would not be in the headlines
er Roger Goodell, after all, called the a part of society? Does he get no chance to rehabilitate himself?” BOB SELF/AP every day.”
quarterback’s behavior “egregious” and Haslam believes that with the disci-
“predatory.” plinary punishment that the high-pro-
“Since Deshaun came into our build- evaluation and treatment plan that the mixed signals and none of the remorse file Watson will have paid his debt for
ing in April, he has done everything we Browns brain trust may be banking on that Haslam says is there. Obviously, on his alleged transgressions. It is a stag-
have asked of him and more,” Haslam as a game-changer. Haslam insists that the heels of settling 23 civil suits, Wat- gering tally. A record fine. Nearly two
told reporters shortly after the settle- he’s seen growth over the past four or son welcomes the clarity that came with dozen civil settlements. Massive legal
ment was announced. “He has been the five months, since Watson took up the the settlement for his NFL discipline. fees.
person and the leader that we expected suggestion from the team owners to vol- He’s pegged to be back on the field on The Browns, too, have paid a price in
him to be.” untarily enroll in counseling. Dec. 4 in Week 13, at Houston, of all excess of Watson’s mega contract. Al-
Did Haslam expect Watson would “I think we have seen him recognize places. This, while some doubt that he though the association with the new
maintain his innocence – “I always said some things that he wished he had done will ever claim accountability for his al- face of the franchise hasn’t resulted in
that I never assaulted anyone or disre- differently and some positions he leged actions. corporate sponsors pulling out or re-
spected anyone, and am continuing to wished he had not put himself into,” “Counseling takes time,” said Dee duced season ticket demand, Haslam
stand on that,” Watson said – while re- Haslam said. “He has been very open to Haslam, the fellow Browns owner. “You and Co. have taken a tremendous PR hit.
versing course on the tone of contrition counseling and seeking help.” do not just go to a counseling session, In other words, they are getting 100%
he expressed last weekend? Maybe so, but in front of the mic on wake up and understand the impact it of what they bargained for in “winning”
The settlement includes a mandatory Thursday, Watson was a man with has. I think it is a layering effect, and it the sweepstakes to land Watson.

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SPORTS
Turpin flashes electric return ability
Jori Epstein
USA TODAY
KaVontae Turpin had shown this
during an electric college career at TCU
three-plus years ago. He’d flashed his
rare ability again this spring in the USFL
during his league-MVP campaign.
With a 98-yard kick return touch-
down and an 86-yard punt return TD,
Turpin proved it again Saturday: He is a
legitimate threat in the return game.
Turpin’s performance in a 32-18 vic-
tory over the Los Angeles Chargers like-
ly solidified his spot on the Dallas Cow-
boys 53-man roster.
“I got the heart of a lion,” Turpin told
the CBS broadcast during a sideline in-
terview. “So I’m just trying to use my
speed, use my ability that God gave me
to my advantage.”
Turpin had handled returns in his
preseason debut Aug. 13. He returned
two kickoffs for 47 combined yards (25
and 22 yards), returned a punt for 10
yards, and caught two passes for a com-
bined 12 yards. But he “wasn’t really
comfortable” in that contest, “so during
this week of practice I got very comfort-
able,” Turpin said.
Turpin’s first touch came with 6:17 to
play in the first quarter, when he caught
Dustin Hopkins’ kickoff at the Cowboys
2-yard line. Then Turpin was off. He ran
straight up the middle of the field, trust-
ing his speed and his blockers as he
surged past a mass of defenders.
“He’s got daylight in front of him,”
said NFL Network’s broadcast after
Cowboys tight end Sean McKeon neu-
tralized the final likely threat to Turpin
streaking down the right sideline. With-
in 12 seconds of his catch, Turpin
reached the end zone.
A grin spread across head coach Mike
Gesicki adjusting to new Dolphins offense
Safid Deen
USA TODAY
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – If there’s an
NFL team looking to trade for a talented
receiving threat, there might be one in
Miami for you.
No, not Tyreek Hill – the Dolphins’
prized free agent and highest paid re-
ceiver in the NFL. Or standout Jaylen
Waddle, who broke the NFL’s rookie re-
ceptions record last season.
Instead, tight end Mike Gesicki, who
had career highs of 73 catches and 780
yards last season, could be a viable op-
tion for a team looking to upgrade its re-
ceiving corps. Because his time with the
Dolphins might be numbered.
The Dolphins and new coach Mike
McDaniel have a tough decision to make
regarding Gesicki, who has 13 touch-
downs in his first four seasons and is
making $10.9 million this year.
If Gesicki can’t improve as a blocker,
McDaniel should find a way to use him
as a slot receiver predominantly. And if
that isn’t feasible, or with the number of
Lacrosse legend Bernhardt now a long shot in NFL
Jarrett Bell
Columnist
USA TODAY
ATLANTA – Oh, for the curiosity.
Which is worse? Going across the
middle to meet a hard-charging safety?
Or getting whacked by a lacrosse stick?
No one in the Atlanta Falcons camp
would be as qualified as Jared Bern-
hardt to make the assessment. After all,
he is a lacrosse legend. The undrafted
rookie receiver is also the all-time lead-
ing lacrosse scorer for the University of
Maryland. Two years ago, he won col-
lege lacrosse’s version of the Heisman
Trophy, the Tewaaraton Award.
As he stood in the end zone, sur-
rounded by a small group of reporters
after an evening practice last week at
Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Bernhardt
pondered the comparative query:
“There’s some pretty big safeties out
here. I don’t know if some of these guys
have been hit by a lacrosse stick. I don’t
want to get hit by a lacrosse stick. But
you kind of get used to it after a while.”
Bernhardt, 24, is certainly here with
a unique range of athletic perspective
KaVontae Turpin returns a punt for a Cowboys touchdown past Chargers punter
J.K. Scott during the first half Saturday in Inglewood, California. ASHLEY LANDIS/AP
McCarthy’s face. Teammates swarmed
Turpin.
With just over a minute left in the
first half, the Chargers faced 4th-and-4
at their 32-yard line and opted to punt.
Turpin lined up to receive. He caught
this one at the 14-yard line and immedi-
ately juked to leave rookie defensive
back Deane Leonard sprawled on the
ground. Then his zigzag continued, Tur-
pin’s poise in traffic belying the defend-
ers in near proximity. At least three
Chargers were down before he crossed
the 50-yard line. Punter J.K. Scott
tracked Turpin admirably into Cowboys
territory before the 5-7, 158-pound
weapon’s speed edged him home.
Turpin knew he faced an uphill battle
when the Cowboys signed him July 28,
his first NFL training camp opportunity
new Dolphins receivers in the mix, the
team should move him.
For now, the Dolphins have patience.
But it’ll only be a matter of time before it
wears thin for both sides.
“I need it. I need all the reps I can get,”
Gesicki said after playing into the sec-
ond half of Miami’s 15-13 loss to the Las
Vegas Raiders on Saturday. “I played re-
ceiver last year. I played receiver the last
three, four years. So, I’m playing tight
end now. So, any reps I can get out there
live … I can use it.”
The Dolphins’ new offense requires a
blocking tight end who can catch the
football. Gesicki’s biggest problem?
Blocking isn’t his strong suit.
Gesicki was supposed to be quarter-
back Tua Tagovailoa’s third-best receiv-
ing option after dynamic speedsters Hill
and Waddle. But things have changed at
the start of his fifth NFL season.
Being forced to play the position he’s
listed at hasn’t come with the results
Gesicki or the Dolphins were hoping for
this preseason. Against the Raiders,
troubles as a blocker in the run game
also carried over into passing plays that
Gesicki normally makes.
“He was in a position to have a pretty
good game,” McDaniel said. “And you
on his resume. Last year, with his la-
crosse eligibility completed, he played
his only season of college football as a
grad student – and option quarterback.
He led Ferris State to an undefeated sea-
son (14-0) and Division II national
championship. In the title-game blow-
out of Valdosta State he didn’t throw a
single pass, running for 148 yards and
three touchdowns.
What was it, the Flexbone? Did they
even pitch the ball?
He seemed taken aback by the ques-
tion, then chuckled. “We pitched,” he
said. “It was like Navy-Army-Air Force.
It was a triple option.”
Now there’s another type of option.
Bernhardt is one of the most intriguing
training camp stories in the NFL given
his unusual path. The son of a football
coach – his father, Jim, who served on
Bill O’Brien’s staff with the Houston
Texans for four years and coached la-
crosse at times – put the prospect of
pursuing pro lacrosse on hold to chase
the NFL dream.
Part of the motivation, he contends,
is to compete at the highest level. Sure,
as one of 85 players still on a roster that
will be pared to 53 by Aug. 30, he’s a long
shot trying to earn a spot with the least
experience of any in the receivers room.
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arriving nearly four years after his last
college game. His on-field performance
at TCU had been impactful: Turpin
caught 145 passes for 1,748 yards and 13
TDs; rushed for 318 yards and two TDs;
and added six more scores in the return
game. But TCU dismissed him midway
through the 2018 season after he was ar-
rested for assault. Turpin pleaded guilty
in 2019 to assault causing bodily harm.
He received two years’ deferred adjudi-
cation probation in 2019, according to
The Dallas Morning News, and was or-
dered to complete a 27-week partner
abuse intervention program.
“The classes helped me,” he said last
month after signing with the Cowboys.
“I’ve learned my accountability and
consequences. I just look forward, put
that behind me and looking forward to
can ask him. He was frus-
trated. … We rely on him
and we went to him, and
had a couple really good
(opportunities) where he
didn’t come up with the
Gesicki play.”
Gesicki’s best play was
a 16-yard reception in the final two min-
utes of the first half. He was lined up in
the slot. He caught the football with no
defenders around him. He turned up
field before he was tackled. The play
was all too familiar for Gesicki, reminis-
cent of what his last set of Dolphins
coaches asked of him.
Gesicki’s worst play of the game was
quarterback Teddy Bridgewater’s first
rep. Gesicki allowed incoming edge
rusher Jordan Jenkins to get past him as
soon as the ball was snapped. Bridge-
water was flagged for intentional
grounding to avoid a sack, and the play
resulted in a safety.
And during Gesicki’s run with the
first-team offense, he did not turn his
head around fast enough on a slant
route. Tagovailoa threw the football
right between Gesicki’s jersey numbers
as two Raiders defenders waited to
break up the play.
Yet his chances are probably better here
than elsewhere, with the rebuilding Fal-
cons considered thin at receiver. With
his athletic footprint, he might also be
the perfect practice squad candidate as
a long-term developmental project.
Besides, there’s the example of re-
ceiver Chris Hogan, who starred in la-
crosse at Penn State before carving out a
productive, 10-year NFL career that in-
cluded winning two Super Bowl rings
with the New England Patriots. Going
way back, Jim Brown starred in lacrosse
at Syracuse before becoming arguably
the greatest player in NFL history.
It’s no wonder that Bernhardt says, “I
just figured I’d give it a go and just give it
my best.”
If it doesn’t pan out, he can surely cir-
cle back to lacrosse.
Bernhardt was on the field for just
seven plays during Atlanta’s preseason
opener Aug. 12 at the Detroit Lions, but
he managed to add to his legend by
hauling in a 21-yard touchdown with
1:30 remaining that held up as the win-
ning score. One catch on the night, one
TD, one viral video.
Talk about making a play to get no-
ticed. On a 4th-and-9, Bernhardt impro-
vised as rookie quarterback Desmond
Ridder scrambled out of the pocket. Rid-
becoming a greater man now.”
He reentered professional football
last fall with the Fan Controlled Football
league and starred this spring in the na-
scent USFL. Turpin’s 921 all-purpose
yards, including a league-best 540 re-
ceiving yards, earned him MVP honors.
He also posted a league-best 71-yard
punt return in the regular season and a
78-yard go-ahead punt-return TD in the
playoffs. The Cowboys were enthralled.
“When you watch the tape, the thing
that jumps out is he’s dynamic with the
ball in his hand,” McCarthy said. “He’s a
returner then his responsibility on of-
fense will be secondary. He has some
Tony Pollard-type traits, I think from an
offensive perspective. So once again I
think this is a really good opportunity
and we’ve been talking about this for
quite some time.”
Turpin’s special-teams threat is clar-
ifying at a fortuitous moment for the
Cowboys, whose shuffled roster dic-
tates a new return plan. Wide receivers
CeeDee Lamb and Cedrick Wilson split
punt-return duties last year. But Lamb’s
elevation to top receiver now makes him
too valuable to risk on returns, while
Wilson signed with Miami in free agen-
cy. Cowboys running back Pollard led
Dallas in kick returns last season, but
his expected increased role both rush-
ing and receiving will likely correlate
with a dip in returns.
Turpin believed he was ready to re-
turn from his arrival at Cowboys camp.
He sought to prove he could contribute
as a receiver as well.
“Return man, that’s what I do,” Tur-
pin said. “I’m a specialty guy. I’m here to
prove to everybody I’m a true receiver.
Special teams is what I do, I can wake up
and do that. I’m here to prove to every-
body that I’m a true receiver.”
“We’re going to be able to put it all to-
gether, and I know Mike knows that,”
Tagovailoa said of Gesicki, who had
three catches for 27 yards on six targets.
McDaniel was encouraged Gesicki
wanted to play more snaps to adjust.
“I’ll do whatever they ask me to do,”
Gesicki said when asked if he’d prefer
more passing opportunities than block-
ing ones.
After a career year, it seemed like
Gesicki was primed to be among the
NFL’s top tight ends. Even Travis Kelce,
the Kansas City Chiefs’ seven-time Pro
Bowl selection, said last year he be-
lieved Gesicki had top-five potential at
the position.
But the schematic adjustment could
cost the Dolphins valuable plays they
can’t afford to miss in a make-or-break
season for Tagovailoa with such high
expectations after Hill’s acquisition.
Gesicki surely doesn’t want to be the
reason the Dolphins fall short.
“It’s definitely a whole different of-
fense and a whole different scheme. I’m
learning a new position, honestly,” he
said. “It’s been good. It’s been exciting. I
think there’s been a lot of progress, but
obviously there’s a lot more to go. I’m
looking forward to continue to attack.”
der was desperate as the play broke
down when the receiver to his left that
was targeted for a fade pass was
jammed at the line of scrimmage. Bern-
hardt (6-1, 195) ran across the end zone
and positioned himself in front of a de-
fender to provide an alternative target.
“I don’t know it it’s a lacrosse move,”
Bernhardt said. “Just trying to compete
and go get the ball. That’s my job. Get
open and catch the ball. I was just trying
to do my job.”
Arthur Smith, the Falcons coach, can
sense transferable traits with his cre-
ative project. “He can play in space. Le-
verage. Spatial awareness,” Smith rat-
tled off.
Then the coach put the potential in
context. “I love his competitiveness,” he
said. “But he has a lot of work to do.”
The physicality of football won’t be
an issue. Learning the nuances needed
to be an elite receiver is the crux of the
challenge.
“It’s definitely a transition, for sure,”
Bernhardt said. “Lot to learn. Long ways
to go.”
In other words, for all that is unique
about the journey of the lacrosse legend,
Bernhardt is lot like every other undraft-
ed rookie in an NFL camp trying to sur-
vive the next cutdown.
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‘Dragon’
can’t match
scale, fire
of ‘Thrones’
Kelly Lawler
USA TODAY
When you play the game of TV spin-
offs, you win or you die. Well, maybe
die is a bit too strong, but there’s a lot
at stake here for a certain premium ca-
ble network and its streaming service.
HBO is betting big that more than
three years after mega-hit “Game of
Thrones” aired its final (and poorly re-
ceived) episode, there is still an appe-
tite for Westerosi drama. It’s making
that bet with prequel series “House of
the Dragon” (HBO and HBO Max, Sun-
days, 9 EDT/PDT, eeEE), a gilded
new drama that aims to recapture the
phenomenon.
Unfortunately, phenomena are sin-
gular, and extraordinary difficult to
achieve. Trying to re-create one leads
to dull, cookie-cutter series such as
“Dragon” – something that smells and
sounds and looks like “Thrones,” but
lacks the substance of the original. For
fans who love the world author George
R.R. Martin created with his “A Song of
Ice and Fire” series of novels, it’s a
deep disappointment.
Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in “Dirty Dancing.” VIA AP Created by Ryan Condal and Mar-
tin, “Dragon” is a very different beast
than “Thrones,” pun intended. Based
‘Dirty Dancing’
on Martin’s encyclopedia-like book
“Fire and Blood,” it’s a prequel that tells
the story of one episode among the an-
cestors of Daenerys Targaryen, played
soundtrack has by Emilia Clarke in “Thrones.” The cre-
ators have likened it to Shakespeare’s
“King Lear”: Not a world-spanning ep-
tunes of our lives
ic featuring 20-plus characters and lo-
cations, but rather a smaller family
drama about the ruling dynasty in the
capital of King’s Landing.
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Nobody puts Baby in a corner, and no one better disrespect the
“Dirty Dancing” soundtrack. h Celebrating its 35th anniversary
Sunday, the throwback romance/dance drama (released in thea-
ters Aug. 21, 1987) told the timeless tale of young Frances “Baby”
Houseman (Jennifer Grey) vacationing at a swanky Catskills re-
sort in the summer of 1963 with her family when she meets su-
premely cool dance instructor Johnny Castle (the late Patrick Alicent (Olivia Cooke, left) and
Swayze). Sparks fly, life lessons are had and Johnny hoists Baby Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) anchor
“House of the Dragon.” PROVIDED BY HBO
in an iconic movie moment, all set to a mix of original ’80s tunes
(including one sung by Swayze himself) and some classic oldies That in itself is not really a problem.
“Thrones” always was at its best when
to evoke the film’s retro setting. h In honor of the “Dirty” birthday, it focused on political drama instead of
we’re ranking every song on the soundtrack: fantastical. But the spinoff ’s story of
family angst amid the dragon-taming
Targaryen clan is just not nearly as in-
12. Zappacosta, ‘Overload’ 8. Mickey & Sylvia, ‘Love Is teresting as the heyday of Lannisters,
Strange’ Starks and Littlefinger in the original
This pumping, poor man’s Robert series. It’s often just boring. And all the
Palmer-type jam is better suited for, Grey and Swayze lip sync the scenes of orgies, disturbingly graphic
say, a buddy cop action comedy than bluesy pop song – plus he does a lit- childbirth and dragon flying in the
here, where it plays in the back- tle air guitar – as they first cha-cha world can’t fix a dull plot and a stilted
ground as Johnny commits a little and then playfully seduce each script.
grand theft auto (on his own car, by while taking a break from their “Dragon” primarily tells the story of
the way). dancing lessons. two women, Rhaenyra Targaryen and
Alicent Hightower, played at first as
11. Bruce Channel, ‘Hey! Baby’ 7. Eric Carmen, ‘Hungry Eyes’ teenagers by young actresses Milly Al-
cock and Emily Carey and then by Em-
Some folks are really into the Every good ’80s movie needs a ma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke after a
perky, harmonica-flavored 1961 one- montage, even the heartfelt ones, midseason time jump. Spirited and in-
hit wonder that peppers the scene and this power ballad is a sensual dependent Rhaenyra is the only child
when Johnny and Baby have to keep needle drop for when shirts come of King Viserys (Paddy Considine), a
their balance dancing on a log. How- off, leotards are put on, sweat hap- pushover of a king who longs for noth-
ever, others of us played it way, way pens and Johnny shows Baby all the ing more than a son and heir. He’s
too many times in our college pep right dance moves for an important stuck, for the moment, with his wild
band. performance. and slightly sadistic brother Daemon
(Matt Smith, of “The Crown” and “Doc-
10. Tom Johnston, ‘Where Are 6. Merry Clayton, ‘Yes’ tor Who” fame), who’s next in line to
You Tonight?’ the throne.
There’s a hip and funky Pointer Viserys also is under constant pres-
Johnston, a founding member Sisters vibe to the soul singer’s big- sure for favors from his “friends” and
and lead singer of the Doobie Broth- gest hit. You only hear a bit in the advisers, including powerful naval
ers, turned in a little beach music movie, as Baby’s sister finds out that commander Corlys Velaryon (Steve
ditty for the soundtrack. Which aforementioned jerky guy is cheat- Toussaint) and the ambitious Otto
makes sense considering the sum- ing on her, but it gets the spotlight in Hightower (Rhys Ifans) – the Hand of
mer setting, though it’s aggressively the closing credits. the King and Alicent’s father – who
bland. wants to use her for his own political
4. (tie) The Five Satins, ‘In the gains.
9. The Blow Monkeys, ‘You Still of the Night’/Maurice Poor characterization is a problem
Don’t Own Me’ Williams and the Zodiacs, ‘Stay’ with every person we encounter. None
of these characters are purely good or
In a precursor to Swayze’s pen- Kudos for including these stone- evil (well, Smith’s Daemon is definitely
chant for fisticuffs in “Road House,” cold doo-wop classics from 1956 and pretty far on the evil end of the spec-
Johnny beats up a jerky co-worker 1960 respectively that, alongside trum). And while this may reflect real
(who totally deserves it, honestly) to things such as Billy Joel’s “The life, we can’t sympathize or connect
the British new wave band’s cover of
a Lesley Gore staple. See DIRTY DANCING, Page 2D See DRAGON, Page 2D
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whether viewers would understand
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linebacker for Notre Dame, the San Die-
go Chargers and New Orleans Saints,
who now is a free agent.
“But the reception has been amaz-
ing,” Te’o says. “I’ve been humbled by
the love and the support that has come
from all around the world... I’ve gotten
messages in different languages that I
don’t understand, but by the hearts on
them, I understand that it’s all love.”
A decade ago, tides quickly turned for
the 2012 Heisman trophy finalist, then a
college player who helped the Fighting
Irish remain undefeated for the regular
season. Support for the senior that fol-
lowed the back-to-back losses of his
grandmother and his girlfriend, Lennay
Kekua, changed to backlash when a
January 2013 Deadspin article revealed
“The Most Heartbreaking and Inspira-
tional Story of the College Football Sea-
son” to be a scam.
The truth of the matter is that Ro-
naiah Tuiasosopo, assigned male at
birth, struggled with her gender. As a
way to cope, she created a Facebook
profile for the fictitious Kekua that fea-
tured images of Tuiasosopo’s high
school classmate, Diane O’Meara, and
initiated online relationships with men,
including Te’o. Tuiasosopo fabricated
Kekua’s death to end the relationship
with Te’o, who could never meet his al-
leged girlfriend.
Te’o says he requested directors Ryan
Duffy and Tony Vainuku include Tuia-
sosopo in the documentary to tell a full-
er story that extends beyond his own
perspective.
Tuiasosopo, who transitioned to
female after the scandal, shares her mo-
tivations for maintaining her fake pro-
file.
“I knew what was right and wrong,
but I was too far in love with being
looked at in this way,” she says. “Yes, it
was completely selfish, but it was what
made me happy. It was what I wanted to
be a reality.”
Te’o, who says he and Tuiasosopo
have not been in contact, concedes that
watching the person who catfished him
proved challenging.
“There are a lot of emotions there,
Dirty Dancing
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Longest Time,” gave ’80s kids an im-
portant lesson on the awesomeness of
old-school multi-part harmonization.
3. Patrick Swayze (featuring
Wendy Fraser), ‘She’s Like the
Wind’
The 1980s featured plenty of croon-
ing A-list actors – Bruce Willis, Eddie
Murphy, even Don Johnson – but the
talented Swayze arguably was the best
of them all. Swayze, who co-wrote the
track, is silky smooth on an electric
ballad that, like many of the time, also
gave good sax.
2. Bill Medley and Jennifer
Warnes, ‘(I’ve Had) The Time of
My Life’
The rousing duet (which won an
Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy
back in the day) – isn’t just what you
instantly hear in your head when you
remember the film’s final-dance cli-
max – and, of course, The Lift. Origi-
nally offered to Donna Summer and
Joe Esposito, it’s undoubtedly one of
the great movie songs, a cheesy and
joyous delight that’s become a pop-
culture and radio staple.
1. The Ronettes, ‘Be My Baby’
An all-time pop hit featuring Ronnie
Spector, one of the greatest voices
ever? Come on now. The 1963 girl-
group tune, which plays over the open-
ing credits, is the very definition of a
ringer on a record that didn’t need one
(but we’re glad it’s here anyway).
Former Notre Dame football player Manti Te’o says after participating in Netflix’s “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist”
documentary that he has “healed from it all.” PHOTOS PROVIDED BY NETFLIX
Te’o won the Heisman Trophy and led
Nortre Dame in an undefeated season.
hearing the details,” Te’o says, adding
that his forgiveness of Tuiasosopo pre-
pared him for whatever he might see in
the documentary.
“For the first three years, my life was
extremely difficult, and I was desperate
to find peace,” he says. “The only thing
that I could think of during that time
was forgiveness, was to let it go. Once I
did, I felt like I then regained the power
over my life and that peace over my life.”
Te’o’s forgiveness is awe-inspiring,
considering the fallout that followed
Deadspin’s exposé. Some in the media
suspected he was complicit and ques-
tioned his sexuality. He was mocked on
“Saturday Night Live” and inspired a
cruel trend of being photographed em-
bracing an invisible partner, dubbed
“Te’oing.”
Te’o says “many times” he felt like he
was going to break, and relied on his
family, friends and faith to get him
through.
“One of the darkest moments during
that time” came a week after the article
was published. In his Florida apart-
ment, Te’o says he was having a heated
discussion with God. “I was just yelling,
‘How could you let this happen to me?’ ”
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with many of them.
The scripts do not help. The writers
are heavy-handed with symbolism
(many rats appear at moments of cor-
ruption for the characters, shockingly).
They also chose a far more medieval ef-
fect in the dialogue (you can play a
drinking game with how often someone
says the words “mine own” instead of
“my”) that feels wooden. The words
simply don’t jump off the screen, which
is a problem because “Dragon” is talkier
than “Thrones.” Yes, there are battles
and sword fights, but they are few and
far between. This Westeros is a place
mostly of peace, which is great for the
fictional citizenry but terrible for story-
telling opportunities.
“Dragon” at times feels like it’s run-
ning through a “Thrones” checklist so
as not to miss any element from the
original series and anger a single fan.
Incest? Check. Sniveling prince?
Check. Gore? Check. Sexual exploita-
tion of women and girls? Check. Battle
sequences so dark you can’t really see
what’s happening? Check again.
Before “Game of Thrones” got bad it
was good, very good. There was nothing
on TV quite like it. “Dragon” doesn’t feel
unique or novel at all, and not just be-
cause rival fantasy series such as “Lord
of the Rings” and “The Wheel of Time”
are around. It’s because unlike TV’s
small number of spectacular spinoffs
such as “Frasier,” “Maude” or the re-
cently ended “Better Call Saul,” “Drag-
on” hasn’t nailed the sweet spot of be-
ing familiar yet new, enriching the old
story rather than copying it.
Great TV shows aren’t paint-by-
numbers endeavors. They are original
Ronaiah Tuiasosopo created a fake online persona and began a romantic
relationship with Manti Te’o.
he remembers. “And the thought ‘Foot-
prints in the Sand’ came in my head.”
Confused, Te’o pulled out his phone.
“I’m in tears, and I’m angry, and I’m just
in this dark place, and I type in ‘Foot-
prints in the Sand,’ and the poem pops
up.”
In the poem, God is questioned by
someone who’s confused why, during
difficult times, they saw only one set of
footprints. God explains these are the
times He carried his follower. “I knew at
that time, that when I looked back into
my life and I saw those one set of foot-
prints that I know that it was Him carry-
ing me and I knew at that time that He
would carry me,” Te’o says. “I just had to
just close my eyes at times and just en-
dure it and get through it and do my best
to just be resilient, and (God will) handle
the rest.”
And resilient he is. Arguably the most
moving part is the documentary is
Te’o’s teary-eyed closing remarks.
“I’mma rise above all of that, bro. No
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King Viserys (Paddy Considine) is a
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works of art, and each brushstroke is
meaningful and dynamic, each color
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matter how hard it is for me,” he says of
overcoming his adversity. “I’mma look
at all these people who made fun of me
and the people who actually believed in
me – I have to take a second to be like,
‘They actually love me, man. They love
you. They don’t want to make fun of you,
bro. Treat ’em nice in a world that’s just
spit on you.’ ”
If viewership is any indication of ac-
ceptance, the world may stop spitting
on Te’o. (As of Thursday morning, the
program ranked second among Netflix’s
most-watched movies in the U.S.) If it
can’t, at least the project has provided a
balm for the athlete that even he didn’t
know he needed.
“Doing this project and going through
old text messages and going through the
old phone, there (were) a lot of things
that were coming up that needed to be
addressed for me,” he says. “Now that
the doc is out, and everything is out
there – there is nothing that is left – def-
initely, I’ve healed from it all.”
deftly chosen, all working in tandem to
take our breath away. When “Thrones”
was at its peak, it was truly breathtak-
ing, creating drama, tension and even
comedy unparalleled by its peers. Any
spinoff didn’t really have a chance to
recreate that kind of greatness, but
“Dragon,” one of many developed by
HBO, may not have been the best choice
to attempt it.
The Targaryens are a dynasty de-
scribed in “Thrones” as rotting from the
inside, slowly failing over the genera-
tions until the last family members are
left with no dragons, no money and no
power. One can only hope that HBO
doesn’t let the world of “Thrones” fade
into oblivion like its platinum-haired
royals.
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BOOKS

Settle in with Gurnah’s epic

‘Afterlives,’ Donoghue’s ‘Haven’
In search of something good to read? USA TODAY’s Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. All
books are on sale Tuesday.

‘Afterlives’
By Abdulrazak Gurnah
(Riverhead, fiction)
What it’s about: From the Tan-
zanian-born British author and
winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize
in Literature comes a saga set
against the colonization of east
Africa, where as a boy, Ilyas
was stolen from his parents by
German troops.
The buzz: A starred review
from Kirkus Reviews calls it “a
novel with an epic feel, even at
320 pages.”
‘A Place in the World:
Finding the Meaning of
Home’
By Frances Mayes (Crown,
nonfiction)
What it’s about: The author of
“Under the Tuscan Sun” is
known for her wanderlust and
travels across Italy, but her lat-
est is a collection of personal
stories reflecting on the com-
forts of home.
The buzz: A starred review in
Publishers Weekly calls it a
“rich testament to the plea-
sures of wanderlust and per-
manence is a gift as well.”
‘My Government Means to ‘Haven’ ‘Amy Among the Serial
Kill Me’ By Emma Donoghue (Little, Killers’
By Rasheed Newson Brown, fiction) By Jincy Willett (St. Martin’s
(Flatiron, fiction) Press, fiction)
What it’s about: The author of
What it’s about: Newson’s de- “Room” returns with a new nov- What it’s about: In Willett’s
but novel is a queer coming-of- el set in 7th-century Ireland, third book in the series, Amy
age story about Earl “Trey” Sin- where three monks vow to Gallup, a retired writing in-
gleton III, a young, gay, Black leave the sinful world behind structor, hears from her former
man in 1980s New York City and find refuge – and tribula- student Carla Karolak when
who finds himself in the midst tion – on an isolated island. her therapist turns up dead and
of the AIDS crisis. The buzz: Kirkus Reviews calls finds herself swept up in a mur-
The buzz: Publishers Weekly it “more fine work from the tal- der investigation.
calls it “an eloquent story of the ented Donoghue.” The buzz: A starred review in
struggle for gay liberation.” Kirkus Reviews calls it “a riot-
ous, breathless, winking,
strangely feel-good romp.”

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MUSIC NEWS & VIEWS
Lovato rocks hard to excavate her demons on ‘Holy’
Melissa Ruggieri
USA TODAY
This is not “Give Your Heart a Break”
Demi Lovato – and nor should it be.
They’ve shed their pop skin to howl
through the pain.
For years, Lovato’s life – complicated,
messy, traumatic – has been on public
display.
Fans walked with them through a
drug overdose (detailed in 2021’s in-
tense “Dancing With the Devil” docu-
mentary) and cheered their decision to
adopt they/them pronouns to indicate
gender fluidity.
(Lovato recently reintroduced she/
her to their identity pronouns, too.)
While Lovato’s eighth studio album,
“Holy Fv--,” could be seen as a continu-
ation of 2021’s “Dancing With the Devil
… The Art of Starting Over,” it’s even
more forthright and visceral.
Lovato is not only excavating de-
mons but doing so through bold, guitar-
heavy rockers to channel her seesawing
emotions.
Here’s a look at the 16 tracks, all co-
written by Lovato:
‘Freak’ (featuring Yungblud)
Squealing guitars coupled with an in-
terpolation of the familiar circus theme
(officially called “Entry of the Gladia-
tors,” in case you were wondering), re-
sults in a blistering entry into “Holy
Fv--.” “Came for the trauma, stayed for
the drama,” Lovato thunders. Surely,
she is not alone.
‘Skin of My Teeth’
The influence of Courtney Love and
Hole blasts through several songs on the
album, but the bulldozing feel of ’90s
grunge rock is most apparent here as
Lovato bluntly declares, “I can’t believe
I’m not dead.” Her brutal honesty cuts
even deeper when she sings, “I just
wanna be free, but I can’t/’cause it’s a
(expletive) disease.”
‘Substance’
Death is never far from Lovato’s brain
(“Don’t wanna end up in a casket/head
full of maggots”), even when she uses
her sweeter tones in a display of hard
pop. Her continued desire to be heard
(“Am I talking to myself?” she wonders)
is tinged with sadness belied by a caffei-
nated drum beat.
‘Eat Me’ (featuring Royal & The
Serpent)
Call it Nine Inch Nails-lite, as Lovato
and Royal & The Serpent (aka Ryan San-
tiago) tiptoe in on a creeping goth vibe
before the song explodes into a fireball
of anger. “Would you like me better if I
was still hurt?” Lovato asks, her inten-
tion clearly more of a foregone conclu-
BOOKS
Plus-size clothing isn’t just a trend – it’s fashion’s future
Hannah Yasharoff
USA TODAY
Size equality in fashion has come a
long way from the days of Abercrombie
and Victoria’s Secret outwardly sham-
ing those who aren’t a size 0. But the
fight for inclusivity isn’t over yet.
Fashion reporter Gianluca Russo’s
debut book, “The Power of Plus: Inside
Fashion’s Size-Inclusivity Revolution”
(out now), couples his experiences cov-
ering the world of fashion over the past
five years and his interviews with doz-
ens of models, influencers, designers
and advocates about their own experi-
ences in the industry. It also outlines the
issues plus-size fashion still faces with
actionable steps on how to fix them.
“There were so many stories that
were untold and that hadn’t had their
time to shine but that were so impactful
on a personal level to me and to other
people in this community,” Russo tells
USA TODAY. “I wanted to find a way to
celebrate all these people who have con-
tributed to this size inclusivity revolu-
tion over the years.”
Enter: “The Power of Plus,” which
Russo began writing during COVID-19
quarantine in 2020. Models including
Iskra Lawrence, “America’s Next Top
Model” alum Toccara Jones, Gabi Gregg
and Tess Holliday offer horror stories
about working in a still-often fatphobic
industry and explain how those experi-
ences are worsened for those who aren’t
cisgender, white and a more “palatable”
size in the plus range.
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sion than a genuine question.
‘Holy Fv--’
Over a slithering groove, Lovato’s
voice swings from snarly and woozy to
unleashed fury in the first 30 seconds of
the efficient rocker. Searing guitars and
a symphony of crashing cymbals color a
tale spiked with serpents, angels, de-
mons, sinners and saints.
‘29’
The song’s name is a reference to Lo-
vato’s age at the time they wrote it (they
turn 30 on Saturday), giving listeners a
blunt depiction of being taken advan-
tage of by an older suitor (“Numbers told
you not to / but that didn’t stop you”),
which fans have surmised is about her
relationship with actor Wilmer Valder-
rama. “I see you’re quite the collector/
Yeah, you’re 12 years her elder,” Lovato
sneers, referencing “17 … 29,” the ages
she and Valderrama were, respectively,
when they started dating in 2010.
‘Happy Ending’
A milder pop-rocker that finds Lova-
to ruminating: “Will I ever know what
it’s like to be fine/My demons are calling
and tearing me to shreds.” A scratching
guitar riff builds into a mountain of a
chorus as a pensive Lovato provides
even more truth. “Sure, I’m sober now
and everybody’s proud,” she sings. “But
“The modeling space as a whole often
only feels welcoming when you fit neat-
ly into one category,” Russo writes.
“Choose from the list of identities and
maybe, just maybe, you’ll be deemed
worthy of having a seat at the table.
“But if you exist somewhere between
multiple intersections, far too often the
doors remain closed. For plus-size
hopefuls, that means the boundary has
already been laid; your body is the ob-
stacle to overcome. Add on another ‘dif-
ficulty’ – like gender, ethnicity, disabil-
ity – and you’re disqualified from the
race.”
Model Jordan Underwood, whose
pronouns are they and he, says in the
book they often have to “pretend that
I’m a girl for the day” when booked for a
modeling gig due to people working on
the set being “really horrible about tran-
sphobia and misgendering.”
“People are so willing to use margin-
alized people if it helps their profit or
supports their brand, but they’re not
willing to do the work to make sure that
they’re hiring people who are going to
treat us properly,” Underwood added.
Yet “Plus” also highlights how the re-
silience of plus-size advocates has posi-
tively affected not only the models try-
ing to succeed in the industry, but peo-
ple across the world who have histori-
cally been taught to hate their bodies
through the images they see and the
lack of clothing available to them.
“How awesome would it have been
when I was younger if I was able to open
a magazine and see someone who
I miss my vices.”
‘Heaven’
The Nine Inch Nails effect is preva-
lent here as well, with shards of guitar
and breathy vocal effects culminating in
a middle finger of a rocker. After asking
for forgiveness and admitting that she’ll
always be a “heathen,” Lovato cackles as
the song closes over an angelic chorus.
‘City of Angels’
Jumpy drums inject a restlessness
that perfectly complements Lovato’s
quest for sexual adventures in Los An-
geles (the Viper Room, the Roxy and
Disneyland are namechecked as locales
for her libidinous action). The spirit of
Avril Lavigne looms large over this pun-
chy romper.
‘Bones’
A pumping disco beat with teeth and
a killer guitar groove that would make
Nile Rodgers proud serve as the back-
drop to Lovato’s extremely unsubtle
lustful objectives (“Let me jump your
bones”). It’s impressive that she’s craft-
ed both a call to the dance floor and a
brazen head thrasher in one song.
‘Wasted’
What starts as a ballad soon esca-
lates into a surging chorus as Lovato ex-
looked like me?” Hunter McGrady,
known as the Sports Illustrated swim is-
sue’s “curviest model ever,” says in the
book of her first photo shoot for the
magazine in 2016.
“I think it would have saved me,” she
adds.
Where does inclusivity in fashion
go from here?
Many clothing brands, including Ab-
ercrombie & Fitch and Victoria’s Secret,
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plains how she substitutes love for
drugs (“I’m scared of the comedown …
getting wasted on you”). It’s an addic-
tion for sure, albeit a healthier one.
‘Come Together’
Clean guitar lines and a thumping
bass drum anchor an updated version of
Madonna’s similarly themed “Border-
line” (“Got me closer to the edge than
ever/We both want it but we don’t sur-
render”). Lovato’s potent vocals get a
vigorous workout at the song’s end.
‘Dead Friends’
When Lovato sings “I made it
through hell and I don’t know why/How
am I different … it doesn’t feel right,” her
survivor’s guilt is palpable.
And when she states, “I miss my dead
friends,” it’s not a soft bit of introspec-
tion, but a candid confession injected
with the type of adrenaline found
throughout the album.
‘Help Me’ (featuring Dead Sara)
A combination of sarcastic senti-
ments (“I’m gonna take your opinions,
shove ’em back in your face”) and a
quirky lyrical insert from guest Emily
Armstrong of Dead Sara culminate in
the album’s most unusual song.
‘Feed’
As this power ballad intensifies, Lo-
vato grapples with things that will never
leave her – like her demons “on the
hunt” – but also realizes now that “my
angels taught me how to run.” She also
unloads one of her most compelling lyr-
ics on an album full of them: “I found my
soul just to lose my mind.”
‘4 Ever 4 Me’
Closing this stirring but emotionally
exhausting album with an introspective
summary might sound simplistic. But
Lovato’s hopefulness at finding love (“I
think this is forever for me”) and unre-
lenting fearlessness make it easy to root
for her to succeed.
have shifted away from excluding any-
one who wears more than a size large.
Many major fashion magazines and
fashion weeks have gotten more inclu-
sive in recent years, too. But there’s still
plenty of room for growth, Russo ar-
gues.
He highlights the need for fashion
brands to ensure that inclusivity is re-
flected behind the scenes, which means
hiring a range of plus-size designers,
photographers, marketing specialists
and executives. And it isn’t enough for
fashion schools to merely offer plus-size
design as an elective course.
Russo points to brand collaborations
including Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty and
Priscilla Ono x Eloquii, as well as de-
signer Christian Siriano: All have made
diversity not just a priority but an inspi-
ration and something to be celebrated.
Ultimately, Russo writes, the move-
ment to normalize plus-sizes in fashion
has succeeded because of the commu-
nity working together, particularly the
Black women who fought for size-inclu-
sivity before the concept became main-
stream.
“I hope that this book inspires people
to keep pushing for change even when it
feels like change is not happening,” Rus-
so says. “If you look over the past 30
years, there have been low points and
there have been high points. We’ve gone
backwards and forwards. Nothing is lin-
ear. … It might take 30 more years to get
to the point of size equality, but all that
matters is that we’re in the fight togeth-
er.”

A GLOBAL ECONOMY
IN GROWING DANGER
Families struggle with soaring food, energy costs
A worker moves metal pieces that are hot-dip galvanized in the Zinkpower galvanizing company in Meckenheim,
Germany, Thursday. MICHAEL PROBST/AP
Paul Wiseman and David McHugh
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MECKENHEIM, Germany – Martin
Kopf needs natural gas to run his fam-
ily’s company, Zinkpower GmbH, which
rustproofs steel components in western
Germany.
Zinkpower’s facility outside Bonn
uses gas to keep 600 tons of zinc worth
2.5 million euros ($2.5 million) in a mol-
ten state every day. The metal will hard-
en otherwise, wrecking the tank where
steel parts are dipped before they end
up in car suspensions, buildings, solar
panels and wind turbines.
Six months after Russia invaded Uk-
raine, the consequences are posing a
devastating threat to the global econo-
my, including companies like Zinkpow-
er, which employs 2,800 people. Gas is
not only much more costly, it might not
be available at all if Russia completely
cuts off supplies to Europe to avenge
Western sanctions, or if utilities can’t
store enough for winter.
Germany may have to impose gas ra-
tioning that could cripple industries
from steelmaking to pharmaceuticals to
commercial laundries. “If they say,
we’re cutting you off, all my equipment
will be destroyed,” said Kopf, who’ also
chairs Germany’s association of zinc
galvanizing firms.
Governments, businesses and fam-
ilies worldwide are feeling the war’s
economic effects just two years after the
DC’s pioneering ‘Baby Bonds’ plan aims to narrow wealth gap
Aaliyah Wright, of Washington, nuzzles
her newborn daughter Kali and
husband Kainan Wright holds their son
Khaza, 1, during a visit to the children’s
grandmother in Accokeek, Md., Aug. 9.
JACQUELYN MARTIN/AP
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RUSSIA’S WAR AT 6 MONTHS
People shop for food in a market in
Hanoi, Vietnam, on Aug. 14. In the six
months since Russia invaded Ukraine,
the fallout from the war has had huge
effects on the global economy.
HAU DINH/AP
coronavirus pandemic ravaged global
trade. Inflation is soaring, and rocketing
energy costs have raised the prospect of
a cold, dark winter. Europe stands at the
brink of recession.
High food prices and shortages,
worsened by the cutoff of fertilizer and
grain shipments from Ukraine and Rus-
sia that are slowly resuming, could pro-
duce widespread hunger and unrest in
the developing world.
Outside Uganda’s capital of Kampa-
la, Rachel Gamisha said Russia’s war in
faraway Ukraine has hurt her grocery
business. She has felt it in surging
prices for necessities like gasoline, sell-
In single decade, idea no
longer a fringe concept
Ashraf Khalil
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON – Aaliyah Manning’s
dreams of becoming a psychologist
ended abruptly during her freshman
year at Potomac State in West Virginia
when the cost of continuing her educa-
tion became overwhelming.
“The money just wasn’t there,” she
said. “I knew I wasn’t going to finish so I
just had fun.”
After a year, Manning, 25, was back
SUBSCRIBER-EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL EDITION
ing for $6.90 a gallon. Something
that’s $16.70 this week may cost 3$25
next week.
“You have to limit yourself,’’ she
said. “You have to buy a few things that
move fast.’’
Gamisha has noticed something
else, too – a phenomenon called
“shrinkflation”: A price may not
change, but a doughnut that used to
weigh 45 grams may now be only 35
grams. Bread that weighed 1 kilogram
is now 850 grams.
Russia’s war led the International
Monetary Fund last month to down-
grade its outlook for the global econo-
my for the fourth time in under a year.
The lending agency expects 3.2%
growth this year, down from the 4.9%
it forecast in July 2021 and well below a
vigorous 6.1% last year.
“The world may soon be teetering
on the edge of a global recession, only
two years after the last one,” Pierre-
Olivier Gourinchas, the IMF’s chief
economist, said.
The U.N. Development Program
said rising food and energy prices
threw 71 million people worldwide into
poverty in the first three months of the
war. Countries in the Balkans and sub-
Saharan Africa were hit hardest. Up to
181 million people in 41 countries could
suffer a hunger crisis this year, the U.N.
Food and Agriculture Organization has
See ECONOMY, Page 6NN
in the nation’s capital working fast food
jobs. Now she lives largely on public as-
sistance in a two-bedroom apartment
with her boyfriend, his mother and his
9-year-old daughter from another rela-
tionship. She still has student debt and
there’s a baby boy on the way.
She sees a brighter future for that ba-
by, thanks to a landmark social program
being pioneered in Washington. Called
“Baby Bonds,” the program will provide
children of the city’s poorest families
with up to $25,000 when they reach
adulthood. The money is to be used for a
handful of purposes, including educa-
tion.
“It would be such a different opportu-
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confirms results in
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’24 hopefuls
a no-show
at Iowa
State Fair
‘Trump effect’ may
explain absence of some
Thomas Beaumont
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DES MOINES, Iowa – Texas Sen.
Ted Cruz raised the roasted turkey leg
like a sword in his Iowa State Fair de-
but in 2014, the up-and-coming con-
servative joining a half-dozen other
Republican presidential prospects in
strolling the Grand Concourse.
Four years later, almost as many
Democrats made the pilgrimage to the
fair, including former U.S. Housing
and Urban Development Secretary Ju-
lian Castro, who snaked his way past
tables under the Iowa Pork Producer’s
tent at the annual Midwestern tribute
to overindulgence.
But as the 2022 fair entered its final
weekend, the 2024 traffic was notice-
ably light.
It speaks to the careful dance that
potential presidential candidates are
attempting as Democrats remain un-
certain about President Joe Biden’s
political future and many Republicans
avoid taking on former President Don-
ald Trump. Several would-be GOP can-
didates have quietly made political in-
roads in the first-in-the-nation nomi-
nating state, but they’ve done so by
campaigning with Iowa candidates,
not by being so obvious as to stand on
straw bales at a perennial stop for
White House hopefuls.
“There’s a bit of a Trump effect go-
ing on. They are still coming here. But
they know there needs to be that em-
phasis that they are here for Iowa Re-
publican candidates,” said Michael
Bousselot, a former top aide to Repub-
lican Gov. Kim Reynolds and now a Des
Moines-area GOP state representa-
tive. “The fair is more in-your-face
campaigning. If you’re too overeager,
people might say, ‘Whoa, President
Trump is still the guy.’ ”
See HOPEFULS, Page 4NN
Former Vice President Mike Pence
speaks to the media during a visit to
the Iowa State Fair on Friday in Des
Moines. CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP
nity for him, a lot different than what I
had,” Manning said of her soon-to-ar-
rive baby.
In just over a decade, the Baby Bonds
idea has moved from a fringe leftist con-
cept to actual policy, with the District of
Columbia as the first laboratory. Law-
makers from coast to coast are monitor-
ing the experiment, one that propo-
nents say could reshape America’s
growing wealth gap in a single genera-
tion if instituted on a federal level.
One week after giving birth to her
second child, a daughter named Kali,
Aaliyah Wright told The Associated
See BABY BONDS, Page 7NN
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Anderson, SC 84/69/t 43 Fort Collins, CO 85/59/pc 75 Melbourne, FL 91/77/t 25 Sheboygan, WI 76/59/s 25
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Battle Creek, MI 80/58/pc 47 Green Bay, WI 81/58/s 25 Muncie, IN 80/56/pc 44 South Bend, IN 79/57/pc 25
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O Binghamton, NY 73/63/t 38 O Hackensack, NJ 78/69/t 42 O Naples, FL 92/77/t 25 Springfield, IL 82/61/s 25
O Bluffton, SC 88/74/t 42 Hagerstown, MD 81/65/t 40 Nashville, TN 86/66/c 41 Springfield, MO 85/63/s 52
Bremerton, WA 82/56/pc 33 O Hattiesburg, MS 81/72/t 17 O Neptune, NJ 79/68/t 40 O St. Augustine, FL 89/74/t 25
O Brockton, MA 77/66/sh 25 Henderson, KY 83/61/s 25 O New Bedford, MA 76/67/t 25 St. Cloud, MN 81/58/pc 25
O Brownwood, TX 83/70/t 23 Hendersonville, NC 79/63/t 35 O New Bern, NC 82/72/t 35 St. George, UT 100/75/s 55
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O Burlington, NC 83/66/t 40 Hillsdale, MI 76/56/pc 47 Newark, OH 78/61/c 42 Stevens Point, WI 80/58/s 25
O Burlington, VT 81/66/t 40 Holland, MI 76/58/pc 53 O Newton, NJ 81/65/t 40 Stockton, CA 99/62/s 50
Cambridge, OH 76/61/t 49 O Hornell, NY 76/63/t 40 O New York, NY 77/71/t 42 O Stroudsburg, PA 75/63/t 40
Camdenton, MO 84/62/s 45 O Houma, LA 86/76/t 29 O Norwich, CT 75/66/t 44 Stuart, FL 92/77/t 25
O Canandaigua, NY 74/64/t 38 Howell, MI 79/59/pc 48 O Ocala, FL 91/74/t 25 Sturgis, MI 77/56/pc 25
Canton, OH 78/65/t 25 Hutchinson, KS 91/60/s 49 Oklahoma City, OK 85/65/pc 60 Tallahassee, FL 88/72/t 25
Carlsbad, NM 82/66/t 35 O Hyannis, MA 77/68/sh 25 O Opelousas, LA 84/75/t 26 O Thibodaux, LA 86/76/t 29
Chambersburg, PA 81/66/t 40 Indianapolis, IN 82/59/pc 25 Oshkosh, WI 79/59/s 25 Topeka, KS 88/62/pc 48
O Cherry Hill, NJ 85/70/t 40 Iowa City, IA 82/60/s 40 Palm Beach, FL 91/82/t 25 O Tuscaloosa, AL 79/70/t 22
Cincinnati, OH 80/62/t 50 O Ithaca, NY 75/61/t 38 Palm Springs, CA 109/86/s 126 O Utica, NY 74/64/t 39
Clarksville, TN 86/63/pc 41 O Jackson, MS 79/70/t 35 Panama City, FL 86/74/pc 25 Ventura, CA 68/58/pc 33
Coldwater, MI 77/56/pc 48 Jackson, TN 85/65/c 60 Pekin, IL 82/62/s 25 Victorville, CA 99/66/s 97
Columbus, OH 78/63/c 42 O Jacksonville, FL 91/72/t 25 Pensacola, FL 86/74/t 25 O Vineland, NJ 84/67/t 40
O Corning, NY 78/61/t 39 O Jacksonville, NC 81/72/t 35 Peoria, IL 82/62/s 25 Visalia, CA 100/65/s 105
O Corpus Christi, TX 95/77/pc 25 Kent, OH 77/66/t 25 O Petersburg, VA 82/66/c 44 O Washington, DC 84/70/t 46
O Daytona Beach, FL 92/75/t 25 Kewanee, IL 79/59/s 25 Phoenix, AZ 99/84/t 101 Watertown, SD 83/61/s 36
O Deming, NM 83/65/t 40 Keyser, WV 83/65/t 36 Port Huron, MI 75/59/sh 40 Wausau, WI 81/59/pc 25
O DeRidder, LA 81/72/t 33 O Kinston, NC 83/69/t 35 O Portsmouth, NH 74/64/c 25 Waynesboro, PA 81/66/t 40
Des Moines, IA 82/63/pc 25 Knoxville, TN 84/65/t 46 O Poughkeepsie, NY 76/66/t 38 O White Plains, NY 75/67/t 43
Detroit, MI 78/63/pc 38 Lafayette, IN 82/56/pc 46 O Providence, RI 77/68/t 37 Wichita Falls, TX 80/68/r 50
Devils Lake, ND 84/62/pc 29 O Lafayette, LA 86/76/t 26 Pueblo, CO 84/57/pc 75 O Wilmington, DE 83/69/t 41
O Dover, NH 80/66/sh 25 Lakeland, FL 93/76/t 25 O Quincy, MA 75/66/sh 25 O Wilmington, NC 85/73/t 35
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O Elmira, NY 78/62/t 39 O Las Cruces, NM 83/65/t 43 Reno, NV 96/60/s 75 Wooster, OH 75/62/t 25
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BOX OFFICE
A still from “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero”, which topped the charts in its first weekend in theaters with $20.1 million in
ticket sales, according to studio estimates on Sunday. CRUNCHYROLL VIA AP
Anime ‘Dragon Ball Super’ bests
action flick ‘Beast’ with $20.1M
Lindsey Bahr
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Idris Elba may go head-to-head with
a lion in “Beast,” but the action flick was
no match for the latest “Dragon Ball”
movie at the North American box office
this weekend.
“Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero”
topped the charts in its first weekend in
theaters, with $20.1 million in ticket
sales according to studio estimates on
Sunday. “Beast,” meanwhile, settled for
a second-place debut with $11.6 million.
Crunchyroll released “Dragon Ball
Super: Super Hero” on 3,900 screens in
North America, marking the widest-
ever opening for an anime. The Toei Ani-
mation production was directed by Tet-
suro Kodama, who had the support of
“Dragon Ball” creator Akira Toriyama.
The Dragon Ball universe is almost 40
years old, and includes manga, televi-
sion shows, movies, games and toys.
“We’re absolutely thrilled that Drag-
on Ball fans could come together to ex-
perience and enjoy this amazing film in
theaters,” said Mitchel Berger, senior
vice president of global commerce for
the distributor, in a statement.
“Crunchyroll thanks all of the fans,
whether or not you are a ‘super’ fan or a
newcomer, and we hope they come back
again and again.”
According to PostTrak, the “Dragon
Ball Super” audience was heavily male
(79%) and 44% between the ages of 25
and 34.
“Japanese anime is a cinematic tradi-
tion, but rarely do you see a movie like
this topping the domestic chart,” said
Lopez and Affleck celebrate marriage with friends, family
Lindsey Bahr
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck said
“I do” again this weekend.
But instead of in a late night Las Ve-
gas drive through chapel, this time it
was in front of friends and family in
Georgia, a person close to the couple
who was not authorized to speak pub-
licly said Sunday.
According to People Magazine, the
wedding was held at Affleck’s home
outside of Savannah, Georgia, with all
of their kids present for the proceedings
on Saturday.
The celebrity couple were officially
married last month in Las Vegas, which
Stelter says CNN must hold media accountable as show ends
CNN “Reliable Sources” anchor Brian
Stelter said Sunday that he’ll still be
rooting for CNN even after his show
was canceled this week, but stressed
that it was important for the network
and others to hold the media
accountable. EVAN AGOSTINI/INVISION/AP
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Estimated ticket sales
Friday through Sunday at U.S. and
Canadian theaters, according to
Comscore. Final domestic figures will
be released Monday.
1. “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero,”
$20.1 million.
2. “Beast,” $11.6 million.
3. “Bullet Train,” $8 million.
4. “Top Gun: Maverick,” $5.9 million.
5. “DC League of Super-Pets,” $5.8
million.
6. “Thor: Love and Thunder,” $4 million.
7. “Nope,” $3.6 million.
8. “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” $3.5
million.
9. “Where the Crawdads Sing,” $3.2
million.
10. “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” $2.4
million.
Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media
analyst for Comscore. “To be ahead of all
these other mainstream Hollywood
movies is quite incredible. It speaks vol-
umes to the globalization of the box of-
fice.”
“Beast,” meanwhile, opened on 3,743
screens in North America. The film, di-
rected by Baltasar Kormákur (“Everest”)
stars Elba as a widowed father of two
teenage girls, played by Iyana Halley
and Leah Jeffries, who find themselves
on the run from a bloodthirsty lion dur-
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez
Lopez shared with fans in her “On the J
Lo” newsletter.
“Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And
David Bauder
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK – “Reliable Sources” host
Brian Stelter insisted Sunday that he’ll
still be rooting for CNN even after his
show was canceled this week, but
stressed that it was important for the
network and others to hold the media
accountable.
CNN gave Stelter the chance to host a
final episode of the 30-year Sunday
morning program on the media even af-
ter it was learned this week that he and
the show would be exiting – a gesture
that’s relatively rare in television.
Stelter said that it was not partisan to
stand up for decency, democracy and
ing a trip to South Africa.
Including international showings,
“Beast” has made $21.8 million so far.
“I think this is a terrific start for
‘Beast,’ ” said Jim Orr, Universal’s head
of domestic distribution. “I believe we
will have a great run at the box office.”
Elba also has another film opening in
theaters next weekend – George Miller’s
fantasy epic “Three Thousand Years of
Longing.”
Sony’s “Bullet Train,” meanwhile,
landed in third place after two weekends
at No. 1 with an estimated $8 million,
bringing its domestic total to $68.9 mil-
lion. Paramount’s “Top Gun: Maverick”
placed fourth in its 13th weekend in
theaters with an additional $5.9 million.
“Top Gun” has made over $683 million in
North America to date, which was was
enough to overtake “Avengers: Infinity
War” as the sixth highest grossing do-
mestic release of all time. “DC League of
Super-Pets” rounded out the top five.
Paramount also released “Orphan:
First Kill” on Paramount+ and in 498 lo-
cations this weekend. The Esther origin
story made an estimated $1.7 million
from theaters.
The weekend overall saw about $77
million in North American ticket sales –
up over 168% from the same weekend
last year– bringing the year to date to
$5.2 billion, according to Comscore. But
the summer movie season continues a
wind down that may last deep into the
fall.
“It’s not that there’s not going to be
any movies, there’s just not going to be a
$100 million blockbuster for a while,”
Dergarabedian said.
it turns out love is patient. Twenty
years patient,” Lopez wrote last month,
signing off as Jennifer Lynn Affleck.
Lopez, 53, and Affleck, 50, famously
dated in the early 2000s. They starred
together in 2003’s “Gigli” and 2004’s
“Jersey Girl” and became engaged but
didn’t wed at the time.
Paparazzi has feverishly trailed the
couple since they rekindled their ro-
mance last year, from the earliest
stages of the courtship, to their red car-
pet debut at last year’s Venice Interna-
tional Film Festival and their recent
honeymoon in Paris.
Representatives for the couple did
not immediately respond to request for
comment Sunday.
dialogue.
“It’s not partisan to stand up to dem-
agogues,” he said. “It’s required. It’s pa-
triotic. We must make sure we don’t give
platforms to those who are lying to our
faces. But we also must make sure we
are representing the total spectrum of
debate and representing what’s going
on in the country and the world.”
It was Stelter’s most direct reference
to what is believed to be the reason for
his demise; CNN hasn’t talked publicly
about it. Since he started this spring,
new CNN chief executive Chris Licht
has made clear he wants to tone down
opinion, particularly as it made Repub-
licans resistant to the network.
Stelter, who wrote a book about Fox
Leon Vitali,
Kubrick’s
right-hand
man, dies
Lindsey Bahr
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leon Vitali, the “Barry Lyndon” ac-
tor who became one of Stanley Ku-
brick’s closest associates, has died. He
was 74.
Vitali died Friday in Los Angeles,
his family told The Associated Press
Sunday. He passed peacefully sur-
rounded by loved ones including his
three children, Masha, Max and Vera.
“Leon was a special and lovely man
driven by his curiosity, who spread
love and warmth wherever he went,”
his children said in a statement pro-
vided by Masha Vitali. “He will be re-
membered with love and be hugely
missed by the many people he
touched.”
Though Vitali was often described
as Kubrick’s assistant, Tony Zierra’s
2017 documentary “ Filmworker ” shed
light on Vitali’s enormous and largely
unsung contributions to the work of
one of cinema’s greatest figures from
“The Shining” through “Eyes Wide
Shut.” He did everything from casting
and coaching actors to overseeing res-
torations. Vitali even once set up a
video monitor so that Kubrick could
keep an eye on his dying cat.
Matthew Modine, who starred in
Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket,” tweeted
his condolences Sunday.
“There are people we meet who
have a profound impact upon our lives.
Leon Vitali was one such person in
mine,” Modine wrote. “An artist in ev-
ery aspect of his life. A loving father &
friend to so many. A kind, generous &
forgiving nature. He exemplified &
personified grace.”
Before meeting Kubrick, Vitali was
a rising actor in England, appearing in
several British television shows in-
cluding “Softly, Softly,” “Follyfoot,” “Z
Cars” and “Notorious Woman.” Then in
1974 he got his biggest break yet, when
he was cast in “Barry Lyndon” as Lord
Bullingdon, the son-in-law of Ryan
O’Neal’s title character.
Vitali famously helped cast 4-year-
old Danny Lloyd to play Danny Tor-
rance in “The Shining” and Louise and
Lisa Burns as the creepy Grady twins
(citing Diane Arbus as inspiration).
After Kubrick’s death in 1999, Vitali
oversaw restorations for many of Ku-
brick’s films. He received a Cinema
Audio Society award for his work. Vi-
tali later worked with director Todd
Field on his films “Little Children” and
“In the Bedroom.”
Before making the documentary,
Zierra said that he and many Kubrick-
obsessed fans knew Vitali for his per-
formances in “Barry Lyndon” and
“Eyes Wide Shut,” in which he played
Red Cloak, and as a key member of Ku-
brick’s inner circle.
Zierra is working on a director’s cut
of “Filmworker” that will include new
footage that he and Vitali wanted in
the film, but couldn’t get done in time
for its Cannes debut in 2017.
Actor Leon Vitali poses for
photographers at the photo call for
“The Shining” at the 2019 Cannes
Film Festival in southern France.
PETROS GIANNAKOURIS/AP
News Channel and was frequently criti-
cal of Fox, was a lightning rod for con-
servatives’ complaints.
Some of his final “Reliable Sources”
guests were more direct.
Eric Deggans, NPR television critic,
said he hopes CNN will continue to give
viewers context and not be reduced to
false equivalency. “Just the facts” isn’t
enough, he said.
“Will CNN have the courage to do
that?” Deggans asked. “I hope so.”
Stelter, who hosted the show for nine
years, also had Watergate scribe Carl
Bernstein as a guest and brought back
the first guest from the first “Reliable
Sources” in 1992 – then-local journalist
Brian Karem.
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Democratic candidate for Florida Governor Nikki Fried is greeted by supporters
at Mount Bethel Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Sunday, the last day
of early voting in Broward County. The primary election takes place Tuesday.
JOE CAVARETTA/SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL/AP
Governor’s race highlights Florida primary
Rubio unopposed, Gaetz
faces 2 GOP challengers
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Miami governor
The Democratic primary pits U.S.
Rep. Charlie Crist, a former governor as
a Republican, against Agriculture Com-
missioner Nikki Fried, who is currently
Florida’s only statewide elected Demo-
crat.
The winner will face Republican Gov.
Ron DeSantis in November. Crist last
served in statewide office from 2007 to
2011 as a Republican governor. He lost a
2010 race for U.S. Senate as an indepen-
dent and a 2014 run for governor as a
Democrat.
Attorney general
Former Orlando-area State Attorney
Aramis Ayala and Dan Uhlfelder are
among three Democrats hoping to chal-
lenge Republican Attorney General Ash-
ley Moody, who doesn’t have a primary
opponent. Ayala received national at-
tention for refusing to seek the death
penalty in murder cases. Uhlfelder has
been a frequent critic of DeSantis and
made headlines by walking Panhandle
beaches dressed as the Grim Reaper to
protest the governor’s COVID-19 poli-
cies.
Agriculture commissioner
Republican Senate President Wilton
Simpson is running in the GOP primary
for agriculture commissioner against
little-known candidate James Shaw.
Three Democrats – Naomi Blemur, J.R.
Gaillot and Ryan Morales – are on the
primary ballot, though none has raised
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That means the few who entered the
gates on Des Moines’ working-class
east side were doing so with little such
concern.
Mike Pence, Trump’s estranged for-
mer vice president, visited the fair Fri-
day, and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a
prominent Trump critic, was there last
week.
A cowboy-boot-wearing Pence was
escorted by seven-term Republican
Sen. Chuck Grassley, as have countless
White House prospects over the years.
The former vice president was careful,
however, to keep his political remarks
focused on the November midterm elec-
tion, when Grassley is on the ballot, and
not on the 2024 presidential race.
“It’s an honor to be here at the Iowa
State Fair with you,” he told Grassley,
with the politicians surrounded by doz-
ens of news reporters and photogra-
phers in the shadow of the century-old
brick grandstand. “Iowa and America
need six more years of Chuck Grassley.”
Pence later got caught in a fast-de-
veloping thunderstorm, which soaked
him and his entourage as they sought
shelter under the Iowa Pork Producers
tent. Undeterred, Pence waded through
the damp crowds of fairgoers and even
got in a few bites of one of the fair’s sig-
nature hand-held caloric monstrosities.
As hail pummeled the roof, Pence
sampled a “picnic in a cup” – pulled
pork, coleslaw, baked beans and Fritos,
topped with barbecue sauce and bacon.
Politicians’ food choices and attire at
the Iowa State Fair are almost as impor-
tant as the visits themselves.
In 2003, Democrat John Kerry mem-
orably ordered a strawberry smoothie,
notable for an event known for its cele-
enough money or has the name recog-
nition to run a credible statewide cam-
paign.
Chief financial officer
Incumbent Republican Jimmy Patro-
nis has no GOP opposition for chief fi-
nancial officer. He will face Democratic
former state Rep. Adam Hattersley, who
also has no opposition, in the November
general election.
US Senate
Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Demings is
running against three little-known, un-
derfunded candidates for her party’s
nomination to face Republican U.S. Sen.
Marco Rubio, who has no primary chal-
lenger.
US House
Florida this year will elect at least six
new members of Congress – four be-
cause incumbents are retiring or seek-
ing higher office and two because of the
creation of a new district and redrawing
of current districts that pit two incum-
bents against each. Here are the key pri-
maries:
h District 1: Republican incumbent
Matt Gaetz is being challenged by Mark
Lombardo and Greg Merk. In 2020,
Gaetz won the primary with 80.9% of
the vote against Merk and another can-
didate. This year, Lombardo, a veteran
and business executive, is a well-fi-
nanced opponent, having sunk hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars of his own
money in the race in the hopes that GOP
voters in the western Panhandle aren’t
happy with Gaetz’ frequent inflamma-
tory remarks.
h District 4: State Sen. Aaron Bean is
among three Republicans seeking this
Potential White House hopefuls from both parties often swing by Iowa’s legendary state fair to connect with voters. This
year, more of them stayed away. CHARLIE NEIBERGALL/AP
bration of meat and deep-fried foods. In
2007, Republican Fred Thompson was
mocked for sporting Gucci loafers,
which stood out among the more com-
mon flip-flops and cowboy boots of at-
tendees.
Hogan more anonymously chowed
down on a grilled pork chops – a rite of
passage for any White House aspirant –
as he meandered through the fair with
Reynolds, his fellow governor.
Despite the smiles and laughter they
shared, the pair painted an awkward
political picture. Reynolds, heavily fa-
vored to win reelection in November, is
backed by Trump and is a devoted sup-
porter of the former president.
The dynamic reflects both the state
GOP’s pro-Trump lean but also the lurk-
ing liabilities for him.
A majority of Iowa Republicans –
57% – said they hope Trump decides to
run again for president in 2024, accord-
ing to a July Des Moines Register/
Mediacom Iowa Poll. One-third of re-
U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., greets supporters at Lorna’s Caribbean Grill on
Sunday in Miami Gardens, Fla. The winner between Crist and Fried will face
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in November.
MARTA LAVANDIER/AP
open Jacksonville-area seat. The other
two are Erick Aguilar and Jon Chuba. On
the Democratic side, former state Sen.
Anthony Hill faces LaShonda Holloway,
who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in
2020. Republicans have an advantage in
the district.
h District 7: Eight Republicans and
four Democrats are seeking the seat left
open by Democratic Rep. Stephanie
Murphy’s decision to leave Congress.
The district extends from Seminole
County to the Atlantic Coast and now
leans Republican after redistricting.
State Rep. Anthony Sabatini is among
the Republican candidates. Among
Democrats are Karen Green, a former
Florida Democratic Party vice chair, and
Al Krulick who has run unsuccessfully
for Congress three other times.
h District 10: Ten Democrats and six
Republicans are seeking the seat left
open by Democratic Rep. Val Demings’
decision to run for Senate. Among Dem-
ocrats are former U.S. Reps. Corrine
Brown and Alan Grayson. Brown is a
convicted felon from Jacksonville and
Grayson is an outspoken former con-
gressman whose inflammatory com-
ments generated headlines. His two re-
cent efforts to return to Washington
have failed. Social justice activist Max-
well Alejandro Frost has a money ad-
vantage and a number of high-profile
endorsements. State Sen. Randolph
Bracy is also in the primary for the seat
in a firmly Democratic district.
h District 11: Nationally known far-
right activist Laura Loomer, who’s been
banned by several social media plat-
forms because of anti-Muslim and other
remarks, is challenging incumbent Re-
publican Dan Webster, who has served
central Florida districts since 2011.
h District 13: Five Republicans are
seeking the nomination in the St. Pe-
tersburg-area seat left open when Crist
spondents said they hope he doesn’t.
Trump has enjoyed his kingmaker
status over the past few months, boost-
ing his endorsed candidates to victory
in primary elections ranging from top of
the ticket to state legislature.
And while he faces a number of swirl-
ing investigations, including scrutiny
from a U.S. Department of Justice
search of his Florida home for classified
documents, aides say it’s more a matter
of when he announces his candidacy for
president than whether he announces
it.
Kevin Holmes, a Republican from
central Iowa, would “absolutely” con-
sider supporting an alternative to
Trump in the 2024 caucuses.
“I’m just not happy with Trump’s
character,” the 61-year-old retired police
officer said while touring the fair with
his wife. “He’s alienated an awful lot of
people. If there were a viable alterna-
tive, I wouldn’t hesitate to get on board.”
While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – a
decided to run for governor. It is essen-
tially a rematch between Anna Paulina
Luna and Amanda Makki, who came in
first and second respectively in a five-
way primary two years ago. The former-
ly competitive seat now leans Republi-
can. The winner will face Democrat Eric
Lynn, who worked in the Obama ad-
ministration.
h District 15: Five Republicans are
competing for the new district east of
Tampa. The top Republicans include
former Secretary of State Laurel Lee,
state Sen. Kelli Stargel and state Rep.
Jackie Toledo. Five Democrats are also
seeking the nomination in the district
that heavily favors Republicans.
h District 20: Democratic U.S. Rep.
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is facing
primary competition in the seat she
won in a special election earlier this
year. Former Broward County Mayor
Dale Holness, who lost to Cherfilus-Mc-
Cormick by five votes, and state Rep.
Anika Omphroy, are also running for the
seat that includes parts of Broward and
Palm Beach counties.
h District 23: Six Democrats and
seven Republicans are running for the
South Florida seat left open by Demo-
cratic Rep Ted Deutch’s decision to re-
tire. The most prominent name among
Democrats is Jared Moskowitz, the for-
mer state representative who helped
pass gun legislation after the Parkland
shootings, and who served as DeSantis’
emergency management director. The
seat is firmly Democratic.
h District 27: State Sen. Annette
Taddeo, who was Crist’s lieutenant gov-
ernor running mate in 2014, and Miami
City Commissioner Ken Russell are
among three Democratic candidates
hoping to challenge Republican Rep.
Maria Elvira Salazar. The Miami-area
district has switched parties several
times in recent years.
common Trump alternative mentioned
by Iowa Republicans – has steered clear
of Iowa as he seeks reelection in Novem-
ber, others such as Arkansas Sen. Tom
Cotton, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki
Haley, former Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo and others have visited Iowa
this summer to campaign for Reynolds,
Grassley and others.
On Thursday, Cruz was in the north-
ern Iowa summer resort town of Clear
Lake, headlining a private fundraiser for
Grassley.
Cruz, who won the 2016 caucuses and
campaigned deep into that primary sea-
son, said this month he would wait to
see what Trump’s plans were before he
entertained a second presidential cam-
paign.
He also suggested a Trump candida-
cy would keep several prospects from
entering the 2024 race.
With that in mind, Cruz was in and
out of Iowa in one day, avoiding the fair
by 110 miles.

Hiker missing in Utah flooding
Strong seasonal storms
hit parts of Southwest
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGDALE, Utah – Authorities
have been searching for days for an Ari-
zona woman reported missing after be-
ing swept away by floodwaters in Utah’s
Zion National Park as strong seasonal
rainstorms hit parts of the U.S. South-
west.
National Park Service officials said
rangers and members of the Zion Search
and Rescue Team were in the Virgin Riv-
er area Sunday looking for Jetal Agniho-
tri, 29, of Tucson.
They said Agnihotri was among sev-
eral hikers who were swept off their feet
Friday afternoon by rushing water in the
popular Narrows area in the park,
known for its spectacular red-rock cliffs
and narrow canyons, in southern Utah
near the Arizona border.
All of the hikers except Agnihotri
were found on high ground and were
stranded until water levels receded.
Rain can turn hiking in the park
deadly when the moisture runs off the
desert landscape and quickly fills
canyons with water, rocks and debris,
especially during the summer when
seasonal afternoon thunderstorms de-
velop.
The storms can lead to flooding in
normally dry washes and in areas
stripped of vegetation by wildfires that
have plagued the drought-stricken re-
gion. Vegetation normally slows and
partially absorbs precipitation.
On Sunday, an approximately 20-
mile stretch of Colorado’s main east-
west highway, Interstate 70, was tem-
porarily closed because of the risk of
flooding and mudslides from forecasted
storms in Glenwood Canyon, where a
wildfire burned in 2020.
Elsewhere in Utah, flooding in Moab,
Kansas recount confirms ruling on abortion
Heather Hollingsworth and
John Hanna
ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLATHE, Kan. – A decisive statewide
vote in favor of abortion rights in tradi-
tionally conservative Kansas was con-
firmed with a partial hand recount, with
fewer than 100 votes changing after the
last county reported results Sunday.
Nine of the state’s 105 counties re-
counted their votes at the request of
Melissa Leavitt, who has pushed for
tighter election laws. A longtime anti-
abortion activist, Mark Gietzen, is cov-
ering most of the costs. Gietzen ac-
knowledged in an interview that it was
unlikely to change the outcome.
A no vote in the referendum signaled
a desire to keep existing abortion pro-
tections and a yes vote was for allowing
the Legislature to tighten restrictions or
ban abortion. After the recounts, “no”
votes lost 87 votes and “yes” gained 6
votes.
Eight of the counties reported their
results by the state’s Saturday deadline,
but Sedgwick County delayed releasing
its final count until Sunday because
spokeswoman Nicole Gibbs said some
of the ballots weren’t separated into the
correct precincts during the initial re-
count and had to be resorted Saturday.
She said the number of votes cast over-
all didn’t change.
A larger than expected turnout of
voters on Aug. 2 rejected a ballot mea-
sure that would have removed protec-
tions for abortion rights from the Kan-
sas Constitution and given to the Legis-
lature the right to further restrict or ban
abortion. It failed by 18 percentage
points, or 165,000 votes statewide.
The vote drew broad attention be-
cause it was the first state referendum
on abortion since the U.S. Supreme
Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
Texas man accused of menacing young conservatives
ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN ANTONIO – A Texas man re-
mained jailed Sunday after authorities
accused him of making threats against a
convention of young conservative activ-
ists held last month in Florida.
Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez,
19, of San Antonio, was arrested earlier
this month after FBI agents alleged he
posted threats on social media to carry
out a mass attack on the Turning Point
USA Student Action Summit conven-
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The scene after a recent flash flood in Zion National Park in Utah. Authorities have been searching for days for
Jetal Agnihotri, 29, of Tucson, Ariz. She was reported missing after being swept away by floodwaters in the park
as strong seasonal rain storms hit parts of the U.S. Southwest. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE VIA AP FILE
the gateway to Arches National Park, on
Saturday night closed trails in the city
on Sunday as crews assessed the dam-
age. A video posted on the city’s Twitter
account showed a creek gushing under
a downtown bridge.
Meanwhile, in New Mexico, officials
at Carlsbad Caverns National Park said
about 150 tourists were evacuated late
Saturday night after being stranded by
rising water.
Park officials told people at the visi-
tor’s center to wait there for hours be-
cause of flash flooding.
Authorities said several rivers and
Bipartisan counting teams prepared to recount nearly 150,000 ballots in Wichita,
Kansas, on Wednesday. A constitutional amendment that would’ve removed
abortion rights from the Kansas Constitution failed.
JAIME GREEN/THE WICHITA EAGLE VIA AP
Gietzen, of Wichita, and Leavitt, of
Colby, in far northwestern Kansas, have
both suggested there might have been
problems without pointing to many ex-
amples.
Recounts increasingly are tools to en-
courage supporters of a candidate or
cause to believe an election was stolen
rather than lost. A wave of candidates
who have echoed former President Don-
ald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election
was rigged have called for recounts after
losing their own Republican primaries.
Kansas law requires a recount if
those who ask for it prove they can cover
the counties’ costs. The counties pay
only if the outcome changes.
Leavitt and Gietzen provided credit
cards to pay for the nearly $120,000
tion.
The event was held from July 22
through July 24 in Tampa.
Turning Point is a Donald Trump-
aligned group that organizes young peo-
ple on college campuses into conserva-
tive activism.
FBI agents allege Velasquez posted
on Instagram that the first day of the
convention would be “the day of retri-
bution the day I will have revenge
against all of humanity,” according to a
criminal complaint filed in federal court
streams in New Mexico have nearly
reached historic flood levels not seen
since the 1960s due to recent heavy rain-
fall.
In Arizona, emergency crews rescued
four hikers stranded in Sabino Canyon
east of Tucson on Friday and helped 41
students and staff from Marana off
school buses that got stuck in high wa-
ter when the storms began to move in.
More than 3 inches of rain fell Satur-
day in the mountains northeast of Tuc-
son, according to the National Weather
Service.
The rain comes amid a drought that
cost, according to the secretary of
state’s office. Leavitt has an online
fundraising page.
Gietzen said Sunday he doesn’t ac-
cept the results of the Sedgwick County
recount because of the discrepancy
about the way the ballots were sorted
and because some of the recount hap-
pened Saturday without outside ob-
servers present to watch.
“We still don’t know what happened
in Sedgwick County. I won’t pay for
Sedgwick County,” he said.
He said he’s also concerned about the
results statewide because of a report
out of Cherokee county in southeast
Kansas about the results of one county
election being transposed between two
candidates when the results were trans-
in San Antonio.
Velasquez had bought a plane ticket
to fly from Austin to Tampa on July 22
but canceled the ticket the night before
his flight, FBI agents said.
According to the complaint, agents
said they believed Velasquez had
planned an attack similar to a violent
rampage in 2014 in which Elliot Rodger,
22, killed six students and wounded
more than a dozen others near the Uni-
versity of California, Santa Barbara, be-
fore killing himself.
scientists say is the worst in the U.S.
West in 1,200 years and aggravated by
climate change. Colorado River reser-
voirs have fallen to historic lows as a re-
sult.
For Nevada, recent storms have given
the Las Vegas metro area its wettest
monsoon season in 10 years.
“Most locales in Arizona, New Mex-
ico, the California deserts, southern Ne-
vada, and a few other scattered areas
have measured at least 200 percent of
normal (rainfall) over the past 2
months,” the U.S. Drought Monitor said
in a report issued on Aug. 11.
ferred on a thumb drive from one voting
machine to a tabulating machine.
Gietzen said he plans to file a lawsuit
Monday seeking a full statewide recall.
Gietzen said he won’t publicly report
the names of private donors helping him
finance the recount, even though a state
ethics official says it’s required. Gietzen,
who leads a small GOP group, the Kan-
sas Republican Assembly, argues that
he’s not campaigning for the anti-abor-
tion measure but is instead promoting
election integrity.
Votes were recounted in Douglas
County, home to the University of Kan-
sas’ main campus; Johnson County, in
suburban Kansas City; Sedgwick Coun-
ty, home to Wichita, Shawnee County,
home to Topeka; and Crawford, Harvey,
Jefferson, Lyon and Thomas counties.
Abortion opponents lost all of those
counties except Thomas.
In Jefferson County, the margin re-
mained the same, with the pro- and an-
ti-amendment totals declining by four
votes each. Linda Buttron, the county
clerk, blamed the change on things like
ovals not being darkened and “the chal-
lenges of hand counting ballots.”
In Lyon County, the anti-amendment
group lost a vote. County Clerk and
Election Officer Tammy Vopat said she
wasn’t sure the reason. But she noted:
“You have to factor in human error.”
Johnson County, the most populous
in Kansas, faced the biggest recounting
challenge because it had the most bal-
lots. It pulled in workers from different
departments to help. The sorting proc-
ess took so long that the actual counting
didn’t begin until Thursday afternoon.
“This is almost like doing an Ironman
triathlon and having to add on another
marathon at the end,” said Fred Sher-
man, the county’s Election Commis-
sioner. “So it is quite a gargantuan proc-
ess.”
The complaint did not clarify why the
event was allegedly targeted, but Tam-
pa police took the threat seriously and
obtained an arrest warrant.
Velasquez was arrested in San Anto-
nio and charged with making threaten-
ing interstate communications. He was
also charged with possession of child
pornography for images allegedly found
on his phone.
An attorney for Velasquez didn’t im-
mediately reply to an email seeking
comment Sunday.
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Women sift wheat in a field near Segou, central Mali. It’s been six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the consequences are posing a devastating threat to the
global economy. The West responded with heavy sanctions. Both actions disrupted trade in food and energy. JEROME DELAY/AP FILE

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projected.
In Bangkok, rising costs for pork,
vegetables and oil have forced Warunee
Deejai, a street-food vendor, to raise
prices, cut staff and work longer hours.
“I don’t know how long I can keep my
lunch price affordable,’’ she said. “Com-
ing out from COVID lockdowns and hav-
ing to face this is tough. Worse is, I don’t
see the end of it.’’
Even before Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin ordered the invasion of Uk-
raine, the global economy was under
pressure. Inflation had skyrocketed as a
stronger-than-expected recovery from
the pandemic recession overwhelmed
factories, ports and freight yards, caus-
ing delays, shortages and higher prices.
In response, central banks began rais-
ing interest rates to try to cool economic
growth and tame spiking prices.
“We’ve all got all these different
things going on,’’ said Robin Brooks,
chief economist at the International In-
stitute of Finance. “The volatility of in-
flation went up. The volatility of growth
went up. And therefore, it’s become infi-
nitely harder for central banks to steer
the ship.’’ A vendor waits for customers at his stall that sells rice and other grains at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, Aug. 14. Syahrul
China, pursuing a zero-COVID-19 Yasin Limpo, Indonesia’s agriculture minister, warned this month that the price of instant noodles, a staple in the
policy, imposed lockdowns that have Southeast Asian nation, might triple because of inflated wheat prices. ACHMAD IBRAHIM/AP
severely weakened the world’s second-
biggest economy. At the time, many de-
veloping countries still grappled with bags and hoses. exporter, says he can no longer get flooring material and contractors. Sales
the pandemic and the heavy debts they In Karachi, Pakistan, far from the wheat, white chickpeas and yellow peas are down because fewer homeowners
had taken on to protect their popula- battlefields of Ukraine, Kamran Arif has from Ukraine. are borrowing to pay for home improve-
tions from economic disaster. taken a second, part-time job to supple- “Now that we have to import from ments.
All those challenges might have been ment his wages. other countries, we have to buy at high- “A huge percentage of our customers
manageable. But when Russia invaded “Because we have no control on er prices” – sometimes 10 to 15% more, finance their projects with home-equity
Ukraine on Feb. 24, the West responded prices, we can only try to increase our Shakil said. loans and similar products, meaning
with heavy sanctions. Both actions dis- income,’’ he said. As the war fuels inflation, central that the hike in interest rates really
rupted trade in food and energy. Russia A vast majority of people live in pov- banks are raising interest rates to try to killed our business,’’ CEO Todd Saun-
is the world’s third-biggest petroleum erty in Pakistan, whose currency has slow price increases without derailing ders said. “Inflation wasn’t helping, but
producer and a leading exporter of nat- lost up to 30% of its value against the economic growth. the interest rates had a bigger effect.’’
ural gas, fertilizer and wheat. Farms in dollar and the government has in- The resulting increase in loan rates is Europe, which for years depended on
Ukraine feed millions globally. creased electricity prices 50%. punishing FlooringStores, a New York Russian oil and natural gas for its indus-
The resulting inflation has rippled Muhammad Shakil, an importer and company that helps customers find trial economy, has absorbed a gut
out to the world. punch.
Near Johannesburg, South Africa, It faces the growing threat of reces-
Stephanie Muller has been comparing sion as the Kremlin throttles back flows
prices online and checking different of natural gas used to heat homes, gen-
grocery stores to find the best deals. erate electricity and fire up factories.
“I have three children who are all in Prices are 15 times what they were be-
school, so I have been feeling the differ- fore Russia massed troops on the Ukrai-
ence,’’ she said. nian border in March 2021.
Shopping at a market in Vietnam’s “There’s a lot more recessionary risk
capital of Hanoi, Bui Thu Huong said and pressure in Europe than in the rest
she’s been limiting her spending and of the high-income economies,” said
cutting back on weekend dinners out. At Adam Posen, president of the Peterson
least there’s one advantage to cooking Institute for International Economics
at home with her children: “We can and a former Bank of England policy-
bond with them more in the kitchen, maker.
while saving money at the same time.’’ The damage has hardly spared Rus-
Syahrul Yasin Limpo, Indonesia’s ag- sia, whose economy the IMF expects to
riculture minister, warned this month contract 6% this year. Sergey Aleksash-
that the price of instant noodles, a sta- enko, a Russian economist now living in
ple in the Southeast Asian nation, might the United States, noted that the coun-
triple because of inflated wheat prices. try’s retail sales tumbled 10% in the sec-
In neighboring Malaysia, vegetable ond quarter compared with a year earli-
farmer Jimmy Tan laments that fertiliz- In Bangkok, Thailand, rising costs for pork, vegetables and oil have forced er as consumers cut back.
er prices are up 50%. He’s also paying Warunee Deejai, a street-food vendor, to raise prices, cut staff and work longer “They have no money to spend,” he
more for supplies like plastic sheets, hours. SAKCHAI LALIT/AP said.

Aaliyah Wright, 25, holds newborn daughter Kali and husband Kainan Wright, 24, holds their son Khaza, 1. A landmark social program is being pioneered in the
nation’s capital. Coined “Baby Bonds,” the program is designed to narrow the wealth gap. JACQUELYN MARTIN/AP
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Press that she did not anticipate having much
savings to help her children when they reached
adulthood, especially with about $80,000 in
student loan debt.
She and her husband, Kainan, are on Medi-
caid despite steady jobs (she’s a case worker at
a nongovernmental organization and he’s a bar-
ber) and an estimated annual income of about
$70,000.
Even at that income level, their new daughter
still would qualify for the city’s Baby Bonds pro-
gram, although at a lower level.
“At that stage of maturity and adulthood,
that money can be a door opener to some pretty
big things,” Kainan Wright said
Despite the name, the bonds are more accu-
rately trust funds, designed to provide a boost
of capital at a critical time in the lives of the
country’s poorest children. At age 18, each en-
rolled child would receive a large lump sum pay-
ment that can be used to pay for higher educa-
tion, invest in a business or make a down pay-
ment on a home.
“Think about all the things that people with
money do to support themselves or what par-
ents do for kids,” said Kenyan McDuffie, a Dis-
trict of Columbia Council member who pushed
through Washington’s Baby Bonds program last
summer. The clock started ticking in October
and as of mid-August the city has so far identi-
fied 833 babies born since then who will receive
up to $25,000 when they turn 18.
“Think about all those young folks who are
going to be here in a city trapped in poverty,
graduated from high schools turning 18,”
McDuffie said. “And then having an account
with money in it for them.”
It’s an expensive and long-simmering in-
vestment that by definition will take a genera-
tion of sustained political willpower to truly
bear fruit. The district’s program will cost $32
million for the first four years alone.
The idea was originally proposed in 2010 by
academics William Darity and Darrick Hamil-
ton as a way to break the poverty cycle by giving
children of poor families a chance to build long-
term equity – either actual property, a stake in a
business or the earning potential that comes
from higher education.
It came to mainstream attention when Sen.
Cory Booker, D-N.J., made it a centerpiece of his
2020 presidential campaign.
“I think it’s an idea that’s growing,” Booker
told the AP. “And it’s a big idea. It’s on the level
of Social Security. It’s on the level of Medicare.
One generation would create a dramatic
change.”
But for politicians, the price tag can be
daunting. Booker’s national plan envisioned
annual costs of $60 billion, something he pro-
poses financing by raising taxes on the wealthy.
For now, the Washington experiment will be
closely watched by other state and local govern-
ments, with Baby Bonds proposals recently
emerging in Wisconsin and Washington state
and Massachusetts studying the issue. Califor-
nia just created a more targeted version, with
Baby Bonds funds specifically for children who
lost parents to COVID-19.
Manning and her boyfriend, Darren Gibson,
say the expectation that their child will be part
of the district’s first Baby Bonds generation is a
much needed injection of hope. Gibson, 26, left
high school three credits short of graduation.
Now he’s the sole earner for his growing house-
hold, making less than $10,000 per year as a
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videographer shooting music videos for local
artists.
“It takes such a burden off my shoulders,” he
said. Gibson said he will raise his son to make
good use of that money when he matures. “It’s
on me to work on him and make sure he follows
his ambitions.”
The concept’s journey from academic
thought experiment to on-the-ground policy
received a major boost from the national con-
versation on poverty brought on by the pan-
demic. The economic iniquities exposed by CO-
VID-19 fueled calls for a new approach to the cy-
cle of generational poverty. And the Baby Bonds
concept, already familiar from Booker’s cam-
paign, gained fresh momentum with multiple
proposals receiving serious consideration at a
state level.
But most of them have failed to see daylight.
Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., made headlines in
2020 for backing a Baby Bonds proposal. But
the Legislature stripped it out of his budget, and
Murphy did not propose it again.
In June 2021, Connecticut’s legislature ap-
proved the country’s first state-level Baby
Bonds program. But in May of this year, law-
makers, in coordination with the governor’s of-
fice, chose to delay the program’s start by two
years.
That makes Washington, D.C., the first real
test case.
Connecticut’s treasurer, Shawn Wooden,
who championed the program, said he was sur-
prised and disappointed by the delay in his own
state but remains convinced that the policy’s
time has come.
“There’s quite the level of interest in this, and
always with these things we need what we call
first movers,” Wooden said. For the concept to
spread, “there needs to be success in Connecti-
cut. There needs to be success in the District of
Columbia.”
Wooden has discussed Baby Bonds with
members of President Joe Biden’s domestic pol-
icy team. McDuffie’s office has fielded queries
from multiple state governments.
The concept is new enough that it’s still be-
ing tinkered with in real time, with multiple
models and internal debates among advocates
on issues such as how best to determine eligi-
bility. Washington’s program is so new that the
833 families who have qualified have not been
informed yet and will not be until the city hires a
fund manager.
Connecticut’s will automatically enroll any
newborn from a family on the state’s Medicaid
program. Booker’s proposal would have side-
stepped that issue by granting every child born
in the country a Baby Bonds fund and $1,000 in
seed money. Then, all subsequent payments
into the fund would have been heavily weighted
toward poorer families.
Washington’s program is open to families on
Medicaid who make less than 300% of the fed-
eral poverty line, meaning earnings of up to
about $83,250 for a family of four. With those
parameters, it is designed to benefit not only
the impoverished but also families like the
Wrights who might be considered lower-middle
class.
At their income level, their daughter will re-
ceive closer to $15,000 instead of the $25,000
limit.
There is one inevitable quirk in the system:
Any Baby Bonds program has to set a start date
that excludes anyone born before it. In the case
of the Wright family, Kali, would receive bene-
fits but her older bother, Khaza, would not. Aali-
yah Wright was fine with that.
“OK, so I know my future is set for one child,”
said Wright. “So now I need to really focus on
making things work for him.”
There are differences among plans in the size
of the final payout. Booker’s proposal would
have paid about $46,000 to children of the
poorest families, while the district expects to
pay out a maximum of $25,000. Connecticut’s
plan would pay an estimated $13,000 – some-
thing Wooden described as “pretty much the
floor” for a serious attempt at a Baby Bonds pro-
gram.
Naomi Zewde, an assistant professor in
health economics at the City University of New
York who conducted a 2019 analysis of the con-
cept, set the lowest impactful payment at
$15,000.
“It has to be a sum of money that’s kind of
outside what people would normally come
across,” she said.
Zewde’s analysis suggested that a nation-
wide federal Baby Bonds program would mas-
sively reduce the racial wealth gap between
white and Black Americans in a single genera-
tion, even as it boosted both races.
Currently the median wealth of young white
Americans stands at $46,000, compared with
$2,900 for Black Americans.
For a Baby Bonds program to succeed, it has
to be on a national level and have strong popular
support, advocates said.
Darity, a Duke professor who co-authored
the original Baby Bonds proposal, points to Brit-
ain, which instituted a similar program called
the child trust fund in 2005. But the program
was discontinued and all future payments halt-
ed in 2010 in a government austerity campaign.
“I think the assessment in England was that
they had not built grassroots support for the
policy when they started it,” he said. “So there
wasn’t any strong resistance to eliminating the
plan.”
In the United States, the program already has
been strongly endorsed by prominent liberal or-
ganizations such as the Urban Institute and
Prosperity Now.
But there are detractors.
Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow
at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center,
said the one-way nature of the deposits, with
no mechanism for the families themselves to
add money, “does nothing to encourage the cul-
ture of savings.”
She added that the program could tie up mil-
lions that could be used to address immediate
societal conditions that also help feed the cycle
of poverty.
“A lot of these kids are still going to be stuck
in bad schools,” she said.
Michael Strain, an economist at the conser-
vative American Enterprise Institute, says Baby
Bonds advocates will struggle to persuade law-
makers around the country to make such an ex-
pensive commitment. “I absolutely think it’s a
hard sell,” he said. “The 18-year lag is less of a
political obstacle than the price tag.”
Wooden rejected the perception of Baby
Bonds as having no payoff for 18 years, saying
the benefits will be immediate and measurable.
That nest egg, he said, will inspire real-time
changes in planning, academic achievement
and overall ambition in both children and fam-
ilies.
“There is a high value that should be placed
on hope,” he said. “We know what hopelessness
looks like in our communities.
Manning, the young expectant mother in
Washington, said the knowledge that the mon-
ey was waiting for her son would change how
her family talks about his future.
“It would be much more focused,” she said.
“ ‘Do you know what you want to do? What are
your plans?’ ”
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Zoran Milojkovic rides a motorcycle on the “Wall of Death” in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday. Motorcycle enthusiasts were in for a trip down memory lane when the
near-forgotten stunt show came to town. PHOTOS BY DARKO VOJINOVIC/AP

‘Wall of Death’ show delivers

thrills, memories in Serbia
One-time carnival fixture
appears to defy gravity
Darko Vojinovic
ASSOCIATED PRESS

BELGRADE, Serbia – Stunt-driving

enthusiasts waxed nostalgic when the
“Wall of Death” came to Serbia’s capital.
A cylinder-shaped wooden structure
was put up by the Danube River in Bel-
grade so motorcyclists could drive up
and around its walls, an act that appears
to defy gravity but once was a fixture of
carnivals in many parts of the world.
The round arena serves as a track,
and centrifugal force holds up the riders
who navigate it vertically. Spectators
watch from above as the deafening roar
of engines mixes with the smell of gaso-
line and screeching tires.
A performance in Belgrade thrilled
younger viewers. Most never had seen a
“Wall of Death” show, which emerged
almost a century ago and became a rar-
ity after giving way to other forms of en-
tertainment.
The stunt drivers came from neigh-
boring Bosnia. Zoran Milojkovic and
Drazen Grbic, who are from the north-
western Bosnian town of Banja Luka,
are determined to keep up the family
business started by their father-in-law Zoran Milojkovic prepares to perform in the “Wall of Death” on Thursday.
when both Serbia and Bosnia were part
of the now-former Yugoslavia.
Riding the wall of death, sometimes their motorcycle tires were in good
known as a well of death, isn’t easy. The shape. As they looked up, audience
driver must carefully speed up while as- members greeted and encouraged
cending the barrel-shaped structure them.
and must maintain the right speed and Once the show finishes its run in Bel-
position to avoid sliding down. grade, the stunt structure will be dis-
Before a performance in Belgrade mantled and ready to move on to anoth-
this week, Grbic and Milojkovic made er event in the region, bringing with it a
sure their helmets were on properly and whiff of forgotten times.

Adam Mujagic prepares lights for Thursday’s show.

Performers prepare motorcycles A performer refuels a motorcycle

Drazen Grbic drives a miniature car on the “Wall of Death” during the motorcycle Thursday. Once the show finishes, the Thursday. Drivers must maintain speed
rally Thursday. Stunt drivers come from neighboring Bosnia. stunt structure will be dismantled. to keep from sliding down the wall.

Palestinian activist defies Israeli order
Sam Mcneil
ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian rights
campaigner said that Israel tried to
summon him for questioning on Sun-
day, as it pressed ahead with a crack-
down on Palestinian rights groups
based in the West Bank.
European and U.S. diplomats have
pushed back against the claim by Israeli
officials that the targeted groups are
linked with terrorism.
The apparent Israeli order for Sha-
wan Jabarin to report to a military pris-
on followed a widely criticized raid last
week on six Palestinian civil society or-
ganizations in the occupied West Bank.
Nine European countries, using unchar-
acteristically blunt language, called the
raid “not acceptable,” while the U.S. ex-
pressed concern.
Jabarin, who is director of one of the
targeted groups, Al-Haq, said on Sun-
day that he received a five-minute
“threatening call” from Israel’s Shin Bet
security service ordering him to go to
the Ofer military prison in the occupied
West Bank. He said an officer threat-
ened arrest, interrogation and “other
things” if he did not comply.
“I will not change my mind, but if he
wants to arrest me then he can surely do
it as an occupying power,” Jabarin said.
He said he invited the officer to the Al-
Haq office and that he demanded the
summons to be sent officially through
lawyers, not over the phone.
The Shin Bet did not respond to a re-
quest for comment.
Israel last year outlawed six rights
groups, including Al-Haq, claiming they
have ties to the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine. The PFLP is a
secular, left-wing movement with a po-
litical party as well as an armed wing
that has carried out deadly attacks
against Israelis. Israel and the U.S. have
labeled the PFLP a terrorist organiza-
tion.
The rights groups deny the Israeli al-
legations. Jabarin called the claims of
PFLP ties “utter nonsense and complete
lies.” Nine European countries have also
rejected the Israeli charges, citing a lack
of evidence.
Despite the criticism, Israeli soldiers
Pope Francis told thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square that he
was closely following events in Nicaragua. DOMENICO STINELLIS/AP
Pope worried over bishop’s
detention in Nicaragua
Frances D'Emilio
ASSOCIATED PRESS
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis
voiced worry Sunday about the situa-
tion in Nicaragua, where police de-
tained several Roman Catholic clergy,
including a bishop, critical of President
Daniel Ortega’s administration.
Calling for “open and sincere dia-
logue,” the pontiff made his first public
comment on the Friday raid of Mata-
galpa Bishop Rolando Alvarez’s resi-
dence. The detention of him and an un-
known number of priests came amid
worsening tensions between the
church and a government increasingly
intolerant of dissent.
Francis told thousands of people
gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his
customary Sunday noon remarks that
he was closely following with “worry
and sorrow” events in Nicaragua that
involve “persons and institutions.” He
didn’t mention the detentions.
“I would like to express my convic-
tion and my hope that through means
of open and sincere dialogue, one can
still find the bases for respectful and
peaceful co-existence,” the pope said.
Before Friday’s pre-dawn raid, Nic-
araguan authorities had accused the
bishop of “organizing violent groups”
and inciting them “to carry out acts of
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Shawan Jabarin, director of the al-Haq human rights organization, talks to reporters at his office that was raided by
Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Ramallah. NASSER NASSER/AP FILE
last Thursday entered the West Bank
city of Ramallah in an armored convoy
and blew up the front doors of the Pales-
tinian groups’ offices. Soldiers seized
documents, computers, and broke fur-
niture and appliances before sealing the
entrances.
The nine European countries – Bel-
gium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ire-
land, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and
Sweden – stepped up their criticism of
Israel over the weekend, saying the lat-
est raids are “part of a worrying reduc-
tion of space for civil society” for Pales-
tinians.
“These actions are not acceptable,”
they said in a joint statement, adding
they have seen no evidence of extremist
links.
hate against the population.”
The National Police confirmed the
detentions, saying the operation was
carried out to allow “the citizenry and
families of Matagalpa to recover
normalcy.” It didn’t cite specific
charges.
“For several days, a positive commu-
nication from the Matagalpa diocese
was awaited with a lot of patience, pru-
dence and sense of responsibility, that
never materialized,” the statement
said. “With the continuation of the de-
stabilizing and provocative activities,
the aforementioned public order opera-
tion became necessary.”
Álvarez was held under guard at a
house in Managua and allowed to meet
with relatives and Cardinal Leopoldo
Brenes, the police statement said. The
police didn’t name the priests who were
taken into custody.
Álvarez has been a key religious
voice in discussions of Nicaragua’s fu-
ture since 2018, when a wave of pro-
tests against Ortega’s government led
to a sweeping crackdown on oppo-
nents.
Ortega’s government arrested doz-
ens of opposition leaders last year, in-
cluding seven potential presidential
candidates. They were sentenced to
prison this year in quick trials closed to
the public.
U.S. State Department spokesman
Ned Price last week said Washington
was “concerned” about the raids and
closures but Israel had pledged to pro-
vide additional information. Western
diplomats visited one of the offices
hours later in a show of support for the
outlawed groups.
The groups raided include Al-Haq, an
internationally respected Palestinian
rights group; Addameer, which advo-
cates for Palestinian prisoners in Israel;
Defense for Children International-Pal-
estine; the Union of Palestinian Wom-
en’s Committees; the Union of Agricul-
tural Work Committees, and the Bisan
Center for Research and Development.
On Sunday, some 45 Israeli and Jew-
ish advocacy groups issued a statement
Serbia warns it will protect
Kosovo Serbs if NATO doesn’t
Dusan Stojanovic
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbia’s presi-
dent called on NATO on Sunday to “do
their job” in Kosovo or he says Serbia it-
self will move to protect its minority in
the breakaway province.
The fiery televised address to his na-
tion by President Aleksandar Vucic fol-
lowed the collapse of political talks be-
tween Serbian and Kosovo leaders ear-
lier this week mediated by the Euro-
pean Union in Brussels.
Serbia, along with its allies Russia
and China, has refused to recognize Ko-
sovo’s 2008 declaration of independ-
ence. A NATO-led intervention in 1999
ended the war between Serbian forces
and separatists in Kosovo and stopped
Belgrade’s bloody crackdown against
Kosovo’s majority Albanians.
The EU has overseen years of unsuc-
cessful talks to normalize their ties,
saying that’s one of the main precondi-
tions for Kosovo and Serbia’s eventual
membership in the 27-nation bloc.
“We have nowhere to go, we are cor-
nered,” Vucic said. “We will save our
people from persecution and pogroms,
if NATO does not want to do it.”
He also claimed that Kosovo Albani-
an “gangs” need to be stopped from
crossing into northern Kosovo, where
most of the Kosovo Serbs live. He of-
fered no proof for the claim.
There are widespread fears in the
West that Russia could encourage its
ally Serbia into an armed intervention
in northern Kosovo that would further
destabilize the Balkans and shift at
least some world and NATO attention
from Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Nearly 4,000 NATO-led peacekeep-
ers have been stationed in Kosovo fol-
lowing the 1998-99 war and any armed
intervention there by Serbia or Russia
would mean a major escalation of a
simmering conflict in Europe.
Following the collapse of the EU-
mediated talks, NATO peacekeeping
troops in Kosovo have been deployed at
main roads in its north, saying they are
ready to protect the freedom of move-
ment for all sides.
Tensions between Serbia and Koso-
vo soared anew last month when the
Kosovo government led by Prime Min-
ister Albin Kurti declared that Serbian
identity documents and vehicle license
in solidarity with the targeted Palestin-
ian groups.
“Defense of human rights is not ter-
rorism,” the statement said. “We repudi-
ate these baseless declarations and call
on the international community to pres-
sure Israel to revoke its decision.”
Major Israeli human rights groups,
including B’Tselem and the Association
for Civil Rights in Israel, as well as the
liberal pro-Israel group J Street, were
among the signatories.
Rights defenders have described the
raid as part of a decades-long crack-
down in the occupied territories on po-
litical activism.
“We know that there is a price to de-
fend rights and citizens, and we are
moving forward,” Jabarin said.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic
called on NATO on Sunday to “do their
job” in Kosovo or Serbia “will save (its
minority in the breakaway province)
from persecution and pogroms.”
DARKO VOJINOVIC/AP
plates would no longer be valid in Koso-
vo’s territory. Serbia has been imple-
menting the same measures for Kosovo
citizens crossing into Serbia for the
past 10 years.
Minority Serbs in Kosovo reacted
with anger to the proposed changes,
putting up roadblocks, sounding air
raid sirens and firing guns into the air
and in the direction of Kosovo police of-
ficers. No one was injured.
Under apparent pressure from the
West, Kurti postponed implementation
of the measure for a month to Sept. 1,
when more trouble is expected if a
compromise is not reached by then.
Vucic said Serbia will “work hard” to
reach a “compromise solution in the
next 10 days” and accused the Kosovo
leadership of “only being interested in
abolishing any trace of the Serbian
state in Kosovo.”
Vucic also claimed, again without
proof, that Kosovo’s government want-
ed “the final removal of the Serbian
people from Kosovo” – something that
has been repeatedly denied by Kosovo
officials.
Kosovo Interior Minister Xhelal Sve-
cla on Sunday visited Kosovo police
units stationed near the northern bor-
der with Serbia, saying that he hopes
there will be no trouble when the new
measures begin on Sept.1.
“Our common interest here is that
this land is ours and we will not give it
up at any price,” he said.