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I can be set and my kids can be set, and they don’t need to push so hard.”
Canethia Miller, a mother of three and participant in the Strong Families, Strong Futures pilot program
reveals
still pile up border
The once-thriving package
industry sheds workers
as it tries to boost profits BIPARTISAN BILL HAS
A RISKY PATH AHEAD
G ERRIT D E V YNCK,
BY
D ANIELLE A BRIL Deal includes foreign aid,
AND C AROLINE O ’ D ONOVAN aims to stem crossings
SAN FRANCISCO — The first time
Julian Chavez got laid off, from BY L IZ G OODWIN
his job as a digital ad sales rep at AND L EIGH A NN C ALDWELL
web.com, didn’t turn him off
from the tech industry. Neither After months of talks, senate
did the second time, when he was negotiators on sunday released a
laid off from ZipRecruiter. By the sweeping bipartisan border secu-
third time, though, Chavez had rity deal that is aimed at discour-
had enough. aging migrants from crossing the
“I really loved what I did,” said U.s.-Mexico border.
the Phoenix-based Chavez in a The $118 billion national secu-
text message. “But the layoffs got rity legislation also includes bil-
me jaded.” Now he’s pursuing a lions of dollars in funding for
graduate degree in psychology. Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-
Chavez is one of hundreds of Pacific, but it has a politically
thousands of tech workers perilous path ahead. Even before
who’ve been laid off in the past seeing its contents, lawmakers on
two years in what seems like a both the right — and, to a lesser
never-ending wave of cuts that extent, the left — flanks in Con-
has upended the culture of sili- gress have slammed the measure
con Valley and the expectations and House speaker Mike John-
of those who work at some of son (R-La.) has called it “dead on
America’s richest and most pow- arrival” in the chamber. Former
erful companies. president Donald Trump, who

A boost toward a better future

Last year, tech companies laid
off more than 260,000 workers,
according to layoff tracker
Layoffs.fyi, cuts that executives
mostly blamed on “over-hiring”
during the pandemic and high
interest rates making it harder to
invest in new business ventures.
But as those layoffs have dragged
into 2024 despite stabilizing in-
terest rates and a booming job
market in other industries, the
tech workforce is feeling despon-
dent and confused.
The U.s. economy added
353,000 jobs in January, a huge
boost that was around twice what
economists had expected. And
yet, Google, Amazon, Microsoft,
Discord, salesforce and eBay all
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has made the border a core cam-
paign issue, opposes the deal.
senate Majority Leader
Charles E. schumer (D-N.Y.) an-
nounced that he would hold the
first procedural vote on the legis-
Three mothers describe how receiving $10,800 as part of a D.C. pilot program changed their lives lation on Wednesday, leaving the
bill’s boosters little time to sell its
provisions. “senators must shut
BY M ICHAEL B RICE- S ADDLER out the noise from those who
want this agreement to fail for
In 2022, the D.C. government announced a pilot program that their own political agendas,” he
offered 132 new and expecting low-income mothers $10,800 over said in a statement sunday eve-
the course of a year — no strings attached — intended to assess how ning.
unconditional cash payments could improve their families’ out- The legislation — a top priority
comes and economic mobility. for President Biden — would, if
Facilitated by the nonprofit Martha’s Table, the $1.5 million passed, mark the first significant
strong Families, strong Futures pilot was limited to families in action taken by Congress on im-
Wards 5, 7 and 8, which contain some of the District’s poorest migration in decades. It attempts
neighborhoods. The city’s program was based on similar successful to close loopholes in the asylum
cash-transfer pilots that have now been modeled in at least sEE border ON a5
100 U.s. jurisdictions and drew 1,553 applications in just
three weeks, requiring a lottery system to winnow down the final
group.

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payments of $900 or the entire amount immediately in a lump sum, NRA limps
state o∞cials into election
a unique feature of D.C.’s pilot. About 75 percent chose the lump
sum — which was better for those also receiving government
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toP: erika James put some of her funds toward a first birthday
party for her son, loyal, on Jan. 22, 2023, in capitol heights. season amid
Washington internal strife
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A Taylor Swift endorsement? It’s delicate.

AND C ATE C ADELL AND S ILVIA F OSTER- F RAU

When mayors from cities in- In 2016, the National Rifle As-
cluding Carmel, Ind., and Oxford, sociation endorsed a Republican
Miss., went to China recently,
they were feted in ways big and Democrats want some shine from the megastar, but if they try too hard, it could backfire presidential candidate with a
spotty record of supporting gun
small. They test-drove the newest rights — then helped catapult
electric-vehicle models, some BY K ARA V OGHT him to the White House with a
with seats that doubled as mas- AND A SHLEY P ARKER record-setting $31 million in
sage chairs. They were hosted by a campaign spending.
deputy provincial governor and Last Thursday, in a not-quite “Donald Trump didn’t get a lot
treated to aged Maotai, Mao Ze- dive bar on the east side of of help from major Republican
dong’s favorite liquor, from one Capitol Hill, five Democratic institutions, but he did from the
Chinese official’s private collec- staffers crammed into a leather NRA,” NBC political guru Chuck
tion. booth with beers and white Todd said as Trump declared vic-
Their counterparts in China, wines to discuss the latest tory on election night. “This is a
starved of international visitors spasms of political drama swirl- big night for the NRA.”
and potential investors during ing around the leader of their It was a crowning achievement
four years of pandemic and bor- movement. for the gun-rights lobby, capping
der controls, were “overjoyed” to “I want one single person to be decades of power brokering in
receive the American mayors, normal about this and treat her Republican primaries and state-
said Min Fan, executive director like a human being,” one Hill wide races, and setting the stage
of U.s. Heartland China Associa- staffer said of Taylor swift. for the NRA to wield outsize
tion, a U.s. nonprofit group that “All the MAGA people have influence during Trump’s presi-
organized the trip for six mayors been super annoying this week,” dency.
to five cities in China late last said another. But as the former president
year. After nearly 90 minutes, one stages his political comeback, the
“Everywhere we went, whether dared to wonder aloud if Taylor’s NRA has tumbled from power.
it was Hong Kong or Wuhan, they relationship with her football- Internal feuds, corruption allega-
hadn’t had a delegation like this playing boyfriend, Travis Kelce, tions and an onslaught of litiga-
for a long time,” she said. Even was, in fact, a publicity stunt. The tion have ravaged the group’s
more Chinese cities wanted to others screamed. finances and public image. Long-
host them, Fan added. “Cities “We’ve been here for an hour time chief executive Wayne LaPi-
were fighting to get on our itiner- and you’re saying this now?” erre stepped down amid a civil
ary, but we literally couldn’t.” The women belong to the Hill corruption trial in New York ex-
Chinese provincial and city swifties, a group chat of congres- pected to last until mid-February,
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while in office — an issue that Former president Donald Trump arrives at a polling place in New Hampshire on Jan. 23. The Supreme Court will hear arguments about
could also end up at the Supreme whether Trump can be disqualified from holding office, which stems from a ruling the Colorado Supreme Court handed down, Thursday.
Court and, if Trump prevails,
potentially lead to the dismissal resume until the appeals process tainted the proceedings and said deep state bureaucrats acting in Question Time
of the federal election-obstruc- plays out. And this brings us to claims that the case should be concert with Biden administra- Q. A jury in New York found
tion case against him. Nearly our . . . dismissed because of it are “mer- tion political operatives. Trump liable for sexually assault-
four weeks have passed since a itless.” In a court filing made public ing and defaming writer E Jean.
federal appeals court in D.C. Nerd word of the week Trump and other co-defen- Friday, prosecutors lambasted Carroll. So why isn’t he a regis-
heard oral arguments on that Docket. The docket is a log of dants said Willis financially ben- Trump for claiming the govern- tered sex offender?
question. In the meantime, the the history of a case — a rolling efited from hiring Wade since he ment is hiding evidence of politi- A. Trump was found liable in a
case is frozen and the trial date index of all the players, motions paid for her vacations — claims cal machinations behind his in- civil trial, which is not the same
scrapped (more on that below). and orders. It lists the lawyers, that Willis rejected. Much of this dictment. thing as being found guilty in a
Separately, in a New York civil parties and judge, as well as a only became public because Special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal trial. In a civil trial, the
case, we’re waiting for Judge short description of each court Wade is going through divorce office also denied claims by jury decides if the burden of
Arthur Engoron to decide how filing. Chutkan’s postponement proceedings in Georgia court. Trump’s lawyers that he held a proof has been met by a “prepon-
much Trump should pay for of the Jan. 6 federal trial became Willis attested in the filing high level “Q” security clearance derance of the evidence.” In other
exaggerating the values of his official Friday, with a docket that she did not have a personal long after he left office, saying words, jurors are convinced
properties and other assets to entry scrubbing the March 4 relationship with Wade when that a paperwork error at the there is a 51 percent chance or
secure better financial terms. date. she hired him to work on the Energy Department kept his better — more likely than not —
The New York attorney general case. That relationship, she said, name on a list for such clearanc- that an allegation is true.
seeks $370 million in penalties. 2. Georgia: State case on developed later in 2022. es, but he didn’t actually have The burden of proof is much
Here’s a recap of last week’s 2020 election one. higher for jury verdicts in crimi-
action in Trump’s four criminal The details: Trump faces 13 3. Florida: Federal classified nal cases — “beyond a reasonable
cases. state charges for allegedly trying documents case 4. New York: State hush doubt.” Civil cases typically in-
to undo the election results in The details: Trump faces 40 money case volve financial penalties, while
1. D.C.: Federal case on 2020 that state. Four of his 18 co-de- federal charges over accusations The details: 34 charges con- criminal cases can carry far more
election fendants have pleaded guilty. that he kept top-secret govern- nected to a 2016 hush money severe penalties, including pris-
The details: Four counts relat- Planned trial date: None yet ment documents at Mar-a-Lago payment. on time, probation, or, depend-
ed to conspiring to obstruct the What happened: The big — his home and private club — Planned trial date: March 25 ing on the type of case, register-
2020 election results. news again centered around the and thwarted government de- What happened: Legal ex- ing as a sex offender.
Planned trial date: TBD: De- Fulton County district attorney’s mands to return them. perts have long considered this We answered a whole bunch
layed from March 4 relationship with the outside Planned trial date: May 20 case to be weakest of the bunch. more questions last week during
What happened: The writing prosecutor she hired to work on What happened: As we await But with the delay of the D.C. a Reddit AMA.
was on the wall, and now it’s on the case. District Attorney Fani T. a key March 1 scheduling hear- federal case, it now appears to be Thanks for reading. Want this
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Conduct of Trump prosecutor
in Ga. clouds trial’s next steps
Willis asked judge to cancel a Feb. 15 evidentiary
hearing on the misconduct allegations she faces
BY A MY G ARDNER
AND H OLLY B AILEY
Shortly after Fulton County
District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D)
admitted in a Friday court filing
that she had a personal relation-
ship with the lawyer she appoint-
ed to lead the investigation into
former president Donald Trump
— and had taken vacations with
him — the judge overseeing the
case dashed off an email to the
defense attorney who had first ac-
cused Willis of misconduct.
In her filing, Willis asked Fulton
County Superior Court Judge
Scott McAfee to cancel an eviden-
tiary hearing on the accusations,
saying that the relationship did
not create a conflict of interest, did
not financially benefit her and
should not be used by those she
says criminally conspired to try to
overturn the 2020 election to
evade justice.
McAfee quickly turned to Ash-
leigh Merchant, who represents
Trump co-defendant Mike Ro-
man, and through his staff
emailed her this request, Mer-
chant told The Washington Post:
File a response explaining why I
should still hold that hearing.
Merchant did so late Friday,
claiming to have evidence to dis-
pute some of Willis’s assertions.
She accused the prosecutors of
trying to “escape accountability”
in a case where “freedom and lives
are at stake.”
Now, it falls to McAfee to decide
what comes next. Canceling the
hearing could allow the case to
proceed, but it would also prompt
outrage from Trump, who has
used all four criminal cases
against him as a rallying cry as he
marches toward the Republican
nomination for president. Moving
ahead guarantees more salacious
headlines about Willis’s personal
life and finances that could under-
mine the public’s — and a future
jury’s — faith in her judgment and
the merits of the case.
More important, holding the
hearing leaves open the possibility
that McAfee does what Merchant
asked him to do when she first
raised the allegations last month:
remove Willis and her entire office
from the case, which would almost
certainly delay and potentially
even scuttle the prosecution.
McAfee’s office declined to com-
ment on the case.
Roman, Trump and another de-
fendant in the sprawling election
interference case have asked McA-
fee to disqualify Willis and her
office from pursuing this case and
drop the charges against them.
Roman alleged in a court filing
nearly a month ago that Willis
financially benefited from ap-
pointing a lover, Nathan Wade, as
the special prosecutor and then
allowing him to pay for “lavish”
vacations. The district attorney’s
office has paid Wade’s law firm
more than $650,000 since his ap-
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Wade, in a sworn affidavit, said
that the personal relationship did
not start until 2022, once the in-
vestigation against Trump was al-
ready underway, and that the two
split expenses when traveling to-
gether. The filing did not say
whether the relationship is on-
going.
Even if McAfee decides to can-
cel the hearing or not take action,
the scandal is unlikely to go away.
A Georgia Senate committee
with subpoena power is investi-
gating the allegations, and a mem-
ber of the Fulton County govern-
ing board has suggested he might
also launch an investigation. Rep.
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)
has referred the matter to the state
ethics commission for potential
sanctions and has also requested
that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp or
Attorney General Chris Carr, both
Republicans, launch a criminal in-
vestigation. House Judiciary Com-
mittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-
Ohio), who has been critical of
Willis and the Georgia case
against Trump, subpoenaed the
district attorney Friday while
questioning her use of federal
funds.
Even the case’s defenders con-
cede that Willis has damaged her
credibility.
“Even those of us who under-
stand that Georgia law does not
require disqualification are acute-
ly sensitive to the fact that this
matter is not being tried merely in
the court of law,” said Norm Eisen,
who served as special counsel to
the House of Representatives’ first
impeachment of Trump. “It’s also
being tried in the court of public
opinion.”
Merchant told The Post she was
already planning a response to
Willis’s filing when McAfee’s re-
quest landed Friday afternoon.
She quickly filed an initial reply,
claiming she will call witnesses
who will testify that Wade and
Willis were indeed romantically
involved before he was appointed
to the case. A disputed fact could
be reason enough to proceed with
the hearing.
Roman gave formal notice
through Merchant on Wednesday
that he had subpoenaed a dozen
witnesses, including Willis and
Wade and several of their associ-
ates, to testify at the Feb. 15 hear-
ing. Merchant has also subpoe-
naed documents from Atlanta-ar-
ea travel agencies and financial
records tied to Wade and his law
firm. Willis’s Friday motion noted
that she plans to file a motion to
quash the witness subpoenas — a
move that could require its own
evidentiary hearing.
Willis’s office declined to com-
ment on the case, but in her filing,
Willis called the accusations “mer-
itless,” “distasteful” and “mali-
cious.” She said that they are irrel-
evant to the case and that there is
no basis in Georgia law for remov-
ing her from the prosecution or
dismissing the charges. She ar-
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) in August. In Friday’s filing, she said her relationship
with the lawyer she appointed in the case did not create a conflict of interest or financially benefit her.
gued that defendants’ plans to
delve into prosecutors’ personal
lives amount to a “ticket to the
circus” designed to “garner more
breathless headlines” rather than
settling any matter of law.
There is also the matter of Wil-
lis’s highly publicized speech at a
historically Black church in Atlan-
ta shortly after the allegations be-
came public. Framed as a talk with
God to commemorate the Martin
Luther King Jr. federal holiday,
Willis questioned why Wade was
targeted and not the two other
private attorneys appointed as
special prosecutors in the case,
who are White. Willis and Wade
are Black. She did not mention
Roman or any other defendants by
name, and she neither confirmed
nor denied any of the specific ac-
cusations.
Trump’s defense lawyers, led by
Steve Sadow, seized on the speech
in their own motion to disqualify
Willis and dismiss the case, accus-
ing her of making racially charged
accusations against the defen-
dants that could prejudice a future
jury. They wrote that Willis’s re-
marks amount to a violation of
Georgia’s rules of professional
conduct, which state that the pros-
ecutor in a criminal case shall
“refrain from making extrajudi-
cial comments that have a sub-
stantial likelihood of heightening
public condemnation of the ac-
cused.” They noted that the maxi-
mum penalty for such a violation
is disbarment.
Willis wrote in her response
Friday that her remarks “neither
reference this case nor these de-
fendants,” so to cite that as a basis
for disqualification “is transpar-
ently meritless.”
“Much like the motion ad-
vanced by Defendant Roman, De-
fendant Trump’s motion appears
designed to generate media atten-
tion rather than accomplish some
form of legitimate legal practice,”
Willis wrote. “It should be dis-
missed out of hand.”
It will fall to McAfee, who has
not yet set a trial date, to decide
what to do. There is precedent to
allow the case to continue, but
some argue there is also precedent
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to do the opposite — a previous
ruling that blocked Willis and her
team from investigating Burt
Jones, a 2020 Trump elector who
is now Georgia’s lieutenant gover-
nor.
The July 2022 ruling came from
Fulton County Superior Court
Judge Robert McBurney, who
oversaw the special purpose grand
jury that spent months investigat-
ing the efforts by Trump and his
allies to try to overturn Joe Biden’s
win in Georgia.
Jones, then a state senator, was
one of the 16 Georgia Republicans
who signed a certificate falsely
claiming that Trump had won the
election in Georgia. He was in-
formed by the district attorney’s
office in 2022 that he was a “tar-
get” in the investigation.
Jones asked McBurney to dis-
qualify Willis, arguing that she
had a conflict of interest because
she hosted a fundraiser for Jones’s
eventual Democratic opponent
for lieutenant governor, Charlie
Bailey. Bailey, a former prosecutor,
previously worked with Willis and
is married to her spokeswoman,
Pallavi Bailey.
In a hearing on the issue, Mc-
Burney criticized Willis, describ-
ing her decision to host a fundrais-
er for a likely opponent of a target
in an investigation as a “what are
you thinking moment” and “prob-
lematic” to efforts to “maintain
confidence that this investigation
is pursuing facts in a nonpartisan
sense no matter who the district
attorney is.”
“The optics are horrific,” Mc-
Burney said.
Anna Cross, one of the three
special prosecutors on the elec-
tion case, unsuccessfully sought to
change McBurney’s mind, arguing
that Jones’s attorney had not
proved that Willis’s behavior had
legally compromised the case or
was an actual conflict — an asser-
tion similar to the arguments
raised in Willis’s Friday response
to the latest efforts to disqualify
her from the case.
“Appearance of a conflict isn’t
enough,” Cross told McBurney.
“Under Georgia law, the disquali-
fication of a prosecuting attorney
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or entity requires an actual con-
flict. Not speculative, not conjec-
ture, an actual personal interest.
… While optics in this case may be
more front and center than in
some others, optics doesn’t carry
the day. It’s an actual conflict.”
McBurney ultimately dis-
agreed. In his ruling he acknowl-
edged that Willis had done noth-
ing illegal and that elected district
attorneys may engage in political
activity. But he also concluded
that Willis had compromised pub-
lic trust in the investigation.
“An investigation of this signifi-
cance, garnering the public atten-
tion it necessarily does and touch-
ing so many political nerves in our
society, cannot be burdened by
legitimate doubts about the Dis-
trict Attorney’s motives,” McBur-
ney wrote. “The District Attorney
does not have to be apolitical, but
her investigations do.”
Three of the 16 Republican elec-
tors were charged alongside
Trump in August.
Three people close to the dis-
trict attorney’s office, who spoke
on the condition of anonymity be-
cause they were not authorized to
speak publicly about the ruling,
criticized McBurney’s decision,
saying he had legally overstepped.
But some wonder now if McBur-
ney’s caution in seeking to protect
the public trust in the case could
provide an avenue for his col-
league, McAfee, to take the same
route — finding that Willis and
Wade may not have done anything
legally wrong but that their ac-
tions have undermined public
trust in the case.
At least one Trump co-defen-
dant is pointing to McBurney’s
decision on Jones as precedent.
Attorneys for Bob Cheeley, an At-
lanta-area attorney facing multi-
ple charges in the alleged election
scheme, joined Roman’s motion
last month and cited McBurney’s
ruling that the mere “appearance”
of conflict disqualified Willis from
investigating Jones and that the
“appearance of impropriety” now
“requires disqualification.”
“The fact that the District Attor-
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gard of her oath to impartially and
fairly exercise the enormous pow-
er vested in her office,” Christo-
pher Anulewicz and Richard Rice,
Cheeley’s attorneys, wrote.
In her Friday response, Willis
argued that McBurney’s ruling on
Jones should not be “binding prec-
edent.”
“The elevated standard applied
in that analysis was, respectfully,
inconsistent with the actual legal
standard Georgia appellate courts
have applied for decades” and
“sheds no light” on the current
motions in the case, Willis wrote.
If Willis and her office were to
be removed from the Trump case,
the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Coun-
cil of Georgia, a state agency that
advises local prosecutors, would
be asked to find another prosecu-
tor to take on the case. The agency
has already been looking for a
district attorney to take on the
investigation into Jones. Peter
Skandalakis, the group’s executive
director, said he still has not found
a prosecutor to take the Jones case
— a fact that does not bode well for
the Trump case should it meet the
same fate.
If McAfee allows the case to
continue — and Willis’s team to
stay on it — her troubles wouldn’t
be over. The state Senate commit-
tee that will investigate the con-
troversy, composed of six Republi-
cans and three Democrats, has
subpoena power that it is expected
to use to examine Willis’s and
Wade’s financial records. The goal,
the committee’s boosters said, is to
examine whether Willis misused
taxpayer funds by appointing
Wade while having a personal re-
lationship with him.
The committee does not have
the power to remove Willis, but it
could generate uncomfortable
headlines for her. And it is expect-
ed to issue recommendations that
could lead to new laws affecting
her position.
Georgia lawmakers also creat-
ed a commission last year to police
— and remove — prosecutors for
misconduct, and some are calling
on the commission to remove Wil-
lis. The panel is in limbo, however,
because the enabling law required
its rules to be approved by the
Georgia Supreme Court. The court
declined to approve the rules, cit-
ing separation of powers. The leg-
islature is expected to rework the
law and get the commission on its
way sometime this year, after
which Willis is expected to be one
of its first targets.
The state ethics commission —
formally known as the Georgia
Government Transparency and
Campaign Finance Commission
— will be responsible for weighing
Greene’s ethics complaint, in
which she accuses Wade of failing
to file required paperwork as a
government vendor. Potential
penalties include fines but not re-
moval from office.
It’s not clear what will come of
Greene’s demands for a criminal
investigation. Spokespeople for
Kemp and Carr did not respond to
requests for comment. Both resist-
ed demands from Trump and his
allies to reverse the 2020 election
results, and they could be called as
witnesses at trial.
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NRA from A1
with prosecutors claiming he and
other NrA leaders cheated do-
nors by squandering millions on
personal expenses. on the stand,
LaPierre has confirmed various
luxury trips and other perks
charged to the NrA over several
years, including private jet travel
on family vacations, helicopter
flights for executives attending
NASCAr events, and hair and
makeup services for his wife
when she attended NrA events.
D.C.’s attorney general is also al-
leging the group misused charita-
ble funds.
The NrA has never faced a
more perilous moment: It is hem-
orrhaging money and members,
uncertain about the next genera-
tion of leadership and facing the
possibility of court-ordered over-
sight, all at a time when gun-con-
trol groups are gaining strength
amid frequent mass shootings. As
Trump closes in on the republi-
can presidential nomination,
some current and former leaders
concede the organization is too
depleted to spend significantly on
his campaign.
“The presidential race is al-
ways important, but the NrA has
finite resources and needs to
maximize its impact,” said David
Keene, a longtime board member
and former president. “The mon-
ey we have might be better spent
on closely contested, down-ballot
races.”
Yet the NrA’s struggles do not
signal doom for the gun-rights
movement as liberals have long
predicted. Its legacy endures in a
republican Party that casts even
modest gun-control proposals as
attacks on the individual’s consti-
tutional right to self-defense, and
in Trump’s mAGA movement,
where the NrA’s hostility toward
government bureaucracy is deep-
ly internalized.
“The NrA was Trump before
Trump,” said Nick Suplina, a sen-
ior vice president at Everytown
for Gun Safety, a leading gun-con-
trol group. “The NrA taught a lot
of the republican Party about
what it means to be in the van-
guard of the culture war — what
the uncompromising, come-and-
take it, conspiracy-theory-mind-
ed populists look like, and they’ve
been tapping into that for a really
long time.”
The story of the NrA’s down-
turn, told through court docu-
ments, financial records and in-
terviews with current and former
officials, makes clear that the
years of lax oversight and self-
dealing described in the ongoing
New York trial have brought one
of the most influential grass-roots
organizations in the United
States to a historic low — while
fueling the rise of further-right
firearms groups.
Since 2016, NrA revenue has
fallen more than 40 percent,
while membership dues are down
roughly 50 percent, according to
tax filings through the end of
2022. Between 2018 and 2022, tax
filings show the NrA spent more
than $181 million on legal expens-
es — more than three times the
amount it spent on federal candi-
dates over the past three election
cycles, according to spending
tracked by openSecrets.
“It’s honestly just a dead man
walking right now,” said former
NrA board member Phillip Jour-
ney, who left the board last year
and is campaigning for another
term as a reformer. “over my last
three-year term in the NrA, we
lost over a million members.
That’s a thousand a day. . . . I’m
scared to death that someday the
[NrA] magazine just won’t show
up in my mailbox.”
In a statement, NrA spokes-
man Billy mcLaughlin said the
organization is still a powerful
defender of the Second Amend-
ment. The NrA scored “plentiful”
victories in recent years, he said,
pointing to the organization’s role
in a landmark 2022 Supreme
Court ruling on the right to carry
a handgun outside the home, in
passing more state laws making it
easier to carry concealed weap-
ons, and in republican Jeff Lan-
dry’s 2023 gubernatorial victory
in Louisiana.
“Current economic conditions
are challenging for many organi-
zations,” he said. “Yet the NrA
still prevails, much to the chagrin
of our detractors.”
Peaks and valleys
The original mission of the
NrA, chartered in 1871, was to
boost marksmanship, not the
Second Amendment. The group
was best known for promoting
shooting sports, hunting and fire-
arms safety until 1975, when the
NrA launched the aggressive lob-
bying and voter-contact opera-
tion that has become its trade-
mark.
LaPierre, an experienced polit-
ical hand, took over the NrA in
1991 and built a juggernaut that
could make or break legislation
and campaigns. The NrA primed
millions of supporters for Elec-
One week after the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Wayne LaPierre — the longtime NRA chief executive who led the
orgnanization to outsize influence but has faded because of his role amid scandal — accused gun-control activists of fearmongering.
tion Day with postcards grading
the gun-rights records of their
representatives in Congress.
A striking example of NrA
political might came in late 2012,
when a gunman killed 26 people,
including 20 children, at Sandy
Hook Elementary School in New-
town, Conn. Amid the public out-
cry, Congress weighed expanding
background checks and banning
many semiautomatic weapons
and high-capacity magazines.
Just one week after the massa-
cre, a defiant LaPierre accused
gun-control activists of fearmon-
gering and demanded armed
guards in schools. Democrats
joined republicans in bowing to
the gun lobby, and legislators
voted down one proposal after
another.
At the time, Trump, then a real
estate mogul turned reality televi-
sion star, endorsed President Ba-
rack obama’s call for action on
gun control. As a republican pri-
mary candidate in 2016, however,
Trump dubbed himself “a Second
Amendment person” and bashed
gun-free zones. The NrA rallied
behind him months earlier than
previous candidates and un-
leashed a record-breaking adver-
tising blitz that cast Democrat
Hillary Clinton as a dire threat to
the Second Amendment.
once Trump won the election,
a pattern developed after mass
shootings: The president would
demand stronger background
checks. NrA leaders would ap-
peal directly to Trump. And the
calls from the White House would
fade.
Behind the scenes, though, the
powerful gun-rights group was
beginning to fracture. Its elec-
tion-year spending spree in 2016,
had left a $45.8 million budget
shortfall, according to tax filings.
In a tipping point, the gun-con-
trol movement outpaced the gun-
rights lobby for the first time in
the 2018 midterm elections with
more than $12 million to $10
million in outside spending on
federal candidates. revenue, in-
cluding membership dues, began
to decline in 2019.
The NrA’s internal battle burst
into public view at the annual
convention in April 2019, where
President oliver North, the lead-
ing figure in the Iran-contra scan-
dal in the 1980s, was ousted after
he and LaPierre publicly traded
accusations of financial miscon-
duct. An ugly, litigious falling out
between the NrA and its long-
time advertising agency, Acker-
man mcQueen, exposed exorbi-
tant spending by LaPierre, in-
cluding six-figure charges to a
Beverly Hills boutique and posh
travel to Italy and the Bahamas.
In the wake of the 2018 mass
killing of 17 students and staff
members at a Parkland, fla., high
school, LaPierre asked the non-
profit group to buy him a $6
million, 10,000-square-foot man-
sion in a gated community near
Dallas, citing safety concerns.
Amid the negative publicity,
LaPierre — long the pugnacious
face of the group’s messaging —
largely faded from public view.
His appearances on the major
Sunday morning news shows,
which peaked after the mass kill-
ing at Columbine High School in
1999, gradually declined, accord-
ing to an analysis by mediamat-
ters, a liberal watchdog group.
LaPierre’s last Sunday morning
appearance on broadcast net-
works was in 2017. That was also
the year in which he last ap-
peared on a weekday fox News
show, according to mediamat-
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In August 2020, the attorneys
general of New York and D.C.
sued the NrA, alleging wide-
spread financial improprieties.
The NrA sought bankruptcy pro-
tection the following year and
announced a move from New
York, where it is chartered, to
Texas. Testimony and court docu-
ments revealed that LaPierre
failed to advise NrA directors
about the filing, concealed free
trips on an NrA contractor’s lux-
ury yacht, and spent $65,000 of
the charity’s money on Christmas
gifts for staff. A federal judge in
2021 blocked the bankruptcy at-
tempt, which he called a bad-faith
end run around the New York
attorney general’s suit.
“There was so much corrup-
tion, and they didn’t want any of
that getting out,” said former
board member roscoe “rocky”
marshall, who is running for an-
other term on a reform platform.
“They really wanted the board to
rubber stamp stuff. They didn’t
want the board to disagree with
anything.”
Donations to the NrA slumped
as the organization fell into disar-
ray. Spending on Trump’s reelec-
tion campaign in 2020 dipped by
46 percent from the last presiden-
tial election cycle, to about $17
million. member dues nosedived
from $170 million in 2018 to $83
million in 2022, according to tax
records.
The organization reduced
spending on firearms training,
hunter services and other flag-
ship programs. But it could not
keep up with legal bills, which
mushroomed from less than
$7 million in 2017 to an average of
$36 million annually over the
next several years, according to
tax filings. from 2016 to 2022, the
NrA reported budget shortfalls
in five of those seven years, end-
ing 2022 in a $22.5 million hole,
the filings show.
“The NrA is in a financial
spiral that will not be easy to
recover from,” said Brian mitten-
dorf, an ohio State University
accounting professor who has
studied the organization’s financ-
es.
In may 2022, a mass shooting
at an elementary school in Uval-
de, Tex., killed 21 people, includ-
ing children, and rocked the na-
tion. A month later, 14 republi-
cans in the House and 15 in the
Senate helped pass the most sig-
nificant gun legislation since the
early 1990s. The new law expand-
ed criminal background checks,
funded mental health services
and widened the ban on domestic
violence offenders purchasing
firearms.
“That was really a wake-up
call,” said Keene, the NrA board
The faces of the NRA from its 2019 meeting are no longer in power
and the group is uncertain about the next generation of leadership.
member. “In retrospect, we clear-
ly didn’t blow the alarm enough.”
The NrA did not exact sweep-
ing electoral vengeance on the
renegades. of the 29 republicans,
only about one-third were on the
2022 ballot, and most of those
members received downgrades
from the NrA or kept their low
grades, according to data com-
piled by Everytown. Those who
were not reelected were muscled
out by Trump-backed candidates
or because their districts became
more Democratic, not directly
because of their support for the
bill.
Contributions by the NrA’s po-
litical committee and spending
by the lobbying arm have plunged
since Trump’s watershed victory.
In last year’s election in Virginia,
when Democrats gained a House
majority and retained Senate
control, Everytown said it spent
more than eight times as much as
the NrA.
“It’s literally a zombie compa-
ny,” said Josh Powell, LaPierre’s
former chief of staff, who was
initially named as a defendant in
the New York case but reached a
settlement with the attorney gen-
eral to pay $100,000 to benefit
NrA charities. “What’s everybody
afraid of?”
The NRA on trial
In early January, days before
the trial in New York began,
LaPierre abruptly announced he
was stepping down after more
than four decades in the NrA —
marking the end of an era and
signaling the challenges ahead as
the organization searches for his
successor.
LaPierre, 74, cited health rea-
sons in his resignation letter, and
a letter from his doctor to the
judge says he suffers from Lyme
disease and “cognitive decline,”
among other conditions.
The trial has featured a num-
ber of former NrA insiders who
broke with LaPierre and testified
for Letitia James, the attorney
general. North, the former presi-
dent, told jurors that he was
pushed out after raising alarms
about LaPierre’s “astronomical”
spending on lawyers. The attor-
neys were “the only reason I’m
not going to spend the rest of my
life in an orange jumpsuit,” LaPi-
erre responded, according to
North’s testimony.
“NrA is a charity, and these
people, through corruption and
greed, have literally destroyed it
and gutted it,” said marshall in an
interview; the former board
member also testified for the
prosecution.
In the courtroom, NrA offi-
cials have sought to distance the
organization from its longtime
leader. The NrA is “not Wayne
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LaPierre,” NrA attorney Sarah
rogers said, adding that LaPierre
was a “visionary” but “not always
a meticulous corporate execu-
tive.”
LaPierre’s lawyers have de-
fended his travel and clothing
expenses as the doing-business
costs of cultivating wealthy do-
nors. He flies on private planes,
they said, out of security con-
cerns. Court records show he
repaid the NrA more than
$990,000 since 2019 for expenses
classified under IrS rules as “ex-
cess benefits,” beyond what
would be considered reasonable
compensation.
During his recent testimony,
LaPierre confirmed numerous
private jet trips and luxury car
services charged to the NrA over
several years, including a
$37,000, one-way flight to the
Bahamas for his family’s annual
summer vacation on a contrac-
tor’s luxury yacht. Asked if a chef
would prepare their meals, he
said, “Not all the time, but some-
times.”
If LaPierre, former treasurer
Wilson “Woody” Phillips and gen-
eral counsel John frazer are
found liable, they could be or-
dered to reimburse the NrA and
be barred from ever leading a
charity in New York. The attorney
general is also asking the court to
seek recommendations from a
governance expert and to appoint
a financial monitor.
But to NrA loyalists, the case
in New York is a political vendet-
ta, much in the same way they
view the multiple criminal cases
against Trump as a witch hunt.
James, a Democrat, is seeking to
penalize NrA leaders for alleged
fraud at the same time she is
pursuing a $370 million civil
fraud judgment against Trump.
“There is no question about the
intent of using the court to at-
tempt to take Donald Trump out
and to take the NrA out,” said
former senator Larry Craig (r-
Idaho), one of the NrA’s longest-
serving board members. “The
courts are being politically weap-
onized.”
In D.C., the attorney general is
accusing the NrA’s foundation of
funneling millions of dollars to
the group without proper over-
sight and despite conflicts of in-
terests. A trial is scheduled to
begin April 29. The two civil cases
threaten to drain the NrA’s fi-
nances and distract from its mis-
sion just as the 2024 campaign
season is getting underway.
“They’re basically out of the
election cycle,” marshall said.
“Those dollars are just not there.”
NrA board members argue
that money isn’t everything in
campaigns, especially in a year
when billions of dollars will flood
the presidential race. The NrA’s
super power has long been its
ability to mobilize an army of
gun-rights supporters to swamp
polls on Election Day.
“Will we have the kind of mon-
ey to spend that we have had in
the past? No, and that’s a fact,”
Craig said. “But we will activate
the grass-roots as best we can,
and that can be done through
social media and other efforts.”
A bullish movement
Even as NrA’s downturn takes
center stage in a New York court-
room, the gun-rights movement
is bullish on its future.
The organization’s internal
strife has been a boon to other
gun-rights groups on the far
right. Gun owners of America,
which claims 2 million members,
. monday, february 5 , 2024
touts a “no compromise” posture
that led the group to view Trump
as unfit for an endorsement in
2016. The leader of the National
Association for Gun rights re-
cently denounced Trump, in part
for his administration’s 2018 ban
on bump stocks after a Las Vegas
gunman in 2017 used the devices
to kill 58 people in the deadliest
mass shooting in modern U.S.
history.
“Each of those entities are com-
peting to be as far right as they
can,” said David Pucino, legal
director at Giffords, a gun-control
advocacy organization. “You’re
seeing some of the extreme
groups’ influence on our politics
and our legal system.”
While none of these groups are
on track to supplant the NrA
brand, their growth suggests gun-
rights advocates no longer need a
preeminent institution to lead
the way in a hyperpartisan envi-
ronment.
“NrA’s strength has really not
been the headquarters. NrA’s
strength has been the member-
ship,” said Alan Gottlieb, founder
of the Second Amendment foun-
dation, another NrA rival.
“There’s so many ways of getting
millions of gun owners out there,
to get them engaged and active
now. It’s a different playing field.”
revenue rose 67 percent for
Gottlieb’s group from 2016 to
2022, according to tax filings,
which he attributed, in part, to
increasing support from a fire-
arms industry wary of NrA tur-
moil. other gun-rights groups
have been outspending the NrA
on federal lobbying since 2018,
according to openSecrets.
“The NrA is not the gun-rights
movement,” said 71-year-old mar-
tin Phillips of Wichita, a longtime
NrA member who also belongs to
Gun owners of America. If the
NrA disappeared, he said, “that’s
not going to stop the gun rights
movement at all. It’s a God-given
right to protect yourself.”
At the same time mass killings
have led to a surge of gun-control
initiatives in blue states, the NrA
and other gun-rights groups have
successfully lobbied red states to
loosen restrictions. Last year,
florida and Nebraska became the
26th and 27th “constitutional
carry” states, passing laws that
allow gun owners to carry with-
out concealed-weapons permits.
“The opposition has thought
they need to neutralize the NrA
and get Wayne out of the way and
everything will be fine,” Keene
said. “But these gun owners be-
lieve so strongly in their rights
whether we drop the ball or carry
it.”
The gun rights movement also
has found an ally in a Supreme
Court stocked with Trump-ap-
pointed conservatives. In 2022,
the U.S. Supreme Court struck
down New York’s century-old law
requiring a specific need to carry
a concealed weapon for self-de-
fense, a landmark ruling making
it easier to challenge regulations
in other states. The court’s con-
servative supermajority has
agreed to hear in march the NrA’s
argument that the New York fi-
nancial regulator is violating the
first Amendment by pressuring
banks and insurers to boycott the
gun lobby.
meanwhile, the republican
frontrunner is signaling his loyal-
ty to the embattled group. Trump
is scheduled to address an NrA
event in Pennsylvania next week,
bringing gun rights to the fore-
front of a campaign that, so far,
has featured little to no debate
over policy. Trump’s speech will
be his eighth appearance before
NrA members since 2015.
“It is significant that Trump
sees the NrA as a force multipli-
er,” said Ken Blackwell, a former
ohio secretary of state and long-
time board member, said of
Trump’s upcoming speech. “This
is a sign that our partnership is
alive and well.”
Public support for stricter gun
laws has increased by 6 percent-
age points since 2017, according
to a Pew research Center report
conducted in June. A closer look
at the data, however, finds stark
partisan divides: 79 percent of
people who often vote republi-
can says gun ownership increases
safety in the United States, while
78 percent of frequent Democrat-
ic voters say it reduces safety.
Demonstrating the NrA’s arc
of influence, pressure from the
group a decade ago led then-Sen.
mark Udall (D-Colo.) to vote
against an assault weapons ban
after the Sandy Hook shooting —
a vote he regrets. Now, the gun
lobby holds little to no sway over
Democrats in Congress. Udall,
who lost his Senate seat in 2014 to
an NrA-backed challenger, won-
ders whether the NrA will be a
player in November’s election.
“It’s going to test the influence
and the reach of a weakened NrA
and, more broadly, the Second
Amendment proponents in the
country,” Udall said. “That snap-
shot in time will tell us where the
public mind is at this point.”
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Namibia’s longtime president dies of cancer

BY L EO S ANDS
Namibian President Hage
Geingob died Sunday in a hospi-
tal in the country’s capital, Wind-
hoek, where he was receiving
treatment for cancer. He was 82.
His death was announced by
Namibian Vice President Nango-
lo mbumba. Geingob was diag-
nosed with cancer following an
annual medical checkup last
month, the southern African
country’s presidential office pre-
viously said. mbumba briefly
salWan georges/the Washington Post took on Geingob’s duties when
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), seen on Jan. Geingob traveled to the United
17, said he’d hold the first procedural vote on the bill Wednesday. States for “a two-day novel treat-
ment for cancerous cells” last
In a post on X, formerly Twit-
ter, Nandi-Ndaitwah described
Geingob as “a true democratic
and a transformational leader
who touched many lives.”
Geingob, who had served as
president since 2015, played a
center-stage role on Namibia’s
political scene since it became
the last country on the continent
to decolonize in 1990, following
nearly a quarter-century of
armed conflict with apartheid
South Africa.
In a statement Sunday, South
African President Cyril rama-
phosa described Geingob as “a
towering veteran of Namibia’s
liberation from colonialism and
constitutional convention in
1989, “have given us a mandate
to hammer out and adopt in a
spirit of compromise, a spirit of
give and take, a constitution that
will launch our country and
people into nationhood.”
In 2017, Geingob, who was
educated in the United States,
attended a U.N. General Assem-
bly event in New York City dur-
ing which President Donald
Trump made two references to
“Nambia.” Geingob did not react
publicly to the error, which was
corrected in a White House tran-
script of Trump’s comments.
Last month, Geingob de-
nounced Germany for defending
tions,” Geingob said in a state-
ment.
With a territory larger than
Texas and a population of less
than 2.8 million, Namibia is one
of the world’s least densely popu-
lated countries. “We don’t have
to fight over land because there
is enough to go around,” Geingob
said in 1993.
According to the CIA World
factbook, the country is rich in
natural resources but has had a
falling GDP per capita in recent
years.
Namibia ranks as one of the
world’s most unequal countries,
the World Bank said, and a U.N.
report last year found that about

Trump’s opposition to a week. mbumba is now acting

president.
Namibia was already sched-
apartheid. He was also greatly
influential in the solidarity that
the people of Namibia extended
Israel from accusations of geno-
cide in Gaza, referring to a
genocide committed against
40 percent of the population
lives in poverty.
Namibia was colonized by

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process, limit the use of parole for
migrants at the border and give
the president new authority to
effectively shut down the border
to migrants when attempted
crossings are high.
Sen. James Lankford (r-okla.)
the lead republican negotiator,
called the bill’s changes to asylum
“dramatic,” and predicted it
would discourage migrants from
attempting to come to the United
States if passed.
“People come in mass numbers
because they’re getting released,”
into the country, Lankford said in
an interview Sunday. “If the word
gets out immediately that it’s not
true anymore, people will come in
a more orderly fashion.”
The proposal raises the stan-
dard for migrants to qualify to
apply for asylum and increases
the capacity for detaining them.
The bill also encourages quicker
resolutions to asylum cases at the
border and creates a new expedit-
ed removal authority to speedily
remove migrants who don’t qual-
ify for asylum.
The bill includes a trigger
mechanism that would allow the
border to be effectively shut
down to migrants if crossings
have been particularly high for
several days in a row. (A number
of migrants would still be able to
qualify for asylum at ports of
entry.)
That “border emergency” pro-
vision, which expires in three
years, would automatically kick
in when crossings reached 5,000
per day for several days, but a
president could choose to use the
tool at a lower number, 4,000 per
day. The legislation also scales
back the Biden administration’s
use of parole at the ports of entry
and provides for the hiring of new
Border Patrol and asylum offi-
cers.
The proposal also includes
some Democratic priorities, in-
cluding adding thousands more
family-based visas, providing
more work visas for some asylum
seekers and guaranteeing a right
to counsel for migrants in expe-
dited removal proceedings.
republicans initially demand-
ed a border policy change to pass
$60 billion in Ukraine aid re-
quested by the White House last
year, and the final deal contains
many tough border provisions
that republicans have long
hoped to implement.
But the politics of the deal
abruptly changed when Trump
and his allies began attacking the
idea of passing any border legisla-
tion — fearful that addressing the
legislative elections this year,
with Geingob announcing last
to the people of South Africa so
that we could be free today.”
Between 1990 and 2002, Gein-
Namibia’s population by its for-
mer German colonizer that
killed at least 75,000 people.
Germany and later administered
by a white-minority government
controlled by South Africa.
year that his political party, gob served as the country’s first “on Namibian soil, #Germany SWAPo, Geingob’s party that has
invasion. Schumer has also firmly South West Africa People’s or- prime minister after chairing the committed the first genocide of governed the country since its
backed negotiations led by Lank- ganization (SWAPo), would put committee that formulated the 20th century in 1904-1908, in independence, launched a guer-
ford, Sen. Chris murphy (D- forward Deputy Prime minister Namibia’s first constitution. which tens of thousands of inno- rilla war in 1966 that culminated
Conn.), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I- Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as its The Namibian people, he said cent Namibians died in the most in a U.S.-brokered peace plan
Ariz.) and the White House, argu- presidential candidate. at the time of the country’s inhumane and brutal condi- and elections in 1989.
ing that it is the Senate’s responsi-
bility to ensure russian President
Vladimir Putin does not continue
his assault on a European nation.
The United States has sent $44
billion in security assistance to
Ukraine since the 2022 invasion,
but the Biden administration
warned late last year that it had
reached the end of its ability to
continue to arm Ukraine absent
congressional help. republican
lawmakers began to object to
sending more money to the na-
tion last year as polls showed
their voters souring on the idea.
“The challenges we face will
not resolve themselves, nor will
our adversaries wait for America
to muster the resolve to meet
them,” mcConnell said in a state-
ment. “The Senate must carefully
consider the opportunity in front
of us and prepare to act.”
Border officials in December
processed the most migrants ever
recorded in one month — about
300,000 — and Biden has said he
wants congressional help to ease
the crisis. A majority of voters
disapprove of his handling of the
border, polls show, making the
issue a potential liability for him
as he seeks reelection in 2024.
The overall aid package in-
cludes $14 billion in assistance
for Israel, $60 billion for Ukraine
and $4.83 billion to Indo-Pacific
nations. It also has $10 billion in
humanitarian aid for civilians in
Gaza, the West Bank, Ukraine
and other nations, as well as $20
billion in U.S. border funds. Its
$118 billion overall price tag is
higher than the White House’s
initial request of $106 billion.
The talks have been unusual,
given that past efforts at biparti-
san immigration reform included
discussions of providing path-
ways to citizenship for undocu-
mented immigrants already liv-
ing in the country demanded by
Democrats, in addition to tight-
ening border restrictions.
republicans who support this
deal are urging their colleagues to
back it, arguing there is no way
they would get border restric-
tions even if Trump is elected
president, given that Democrats
are unlikely to cooperate with
him without demanding legaliza-
tion for undocumented immi-
grants as part of the process.
“This is a unique moment,”
Sinema said last month. “And I
think we should take it.”
“I’m an optimistic person, peri-
od,” Lankford said Thursday.

border crisis might remove a
potent campaign issue for him in
an election year. many Senate
republicans have signaled that
they will not support the package,
and some have mischaracterized
Balance.
“And that’s one of the reasons I’m
still standing here after being hit
in the face repetitively for a
while.”
Johnson and other republi-
cans opposed to the deal have

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months to finalize the bill text.
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Johnson said over the weekend
that he planned a vote in the
House on billions in aid to Israel
without money for Ukraine or the
border, further complicating the
Senate deal’s prospects. “The
House is willing to lead and the
reason we have to take care of this
Israel situation right now is be-
cause the situation has escalated,”
he said on NBC’s “meet the Press”
before the release of the text.
In a letter to his Democratic
colleagues, House minority Lead-
er Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called
Johnson’s new Israel-only bill “a
cynical attempt to undermine the
Senate’s bipartisan effort.”
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mcConnell (r-Ky.) has been
strongly supportive of the deal,
however, as he publicly fights for
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Short-form, often cheesy, dramas have viewers hooked
Following in the steps of other Chinese-linked apps, ReelShort offers engrossing plotlines in a bite-size format — and U.S. audiences are, again, eating it up
BY M EAGHAN T OBIN
AND L YRIC L I
The show opens with a dramat-
ic scene. A young woman stands
alone in a bar, drinking away her
bad memories: her fiancé de-
manding his engagement ring
back in the wake of her family’s
bankruptcy and her father’s
death.
A handsome man enters the
bar. It’s her ex-fiancé’s uncle, who
is coincidentally also the richest
guy in town. Our protagonist
downs another shot, shakes her
shiny blonde hair loose and walks
right up to him. Her relationship
with his nephew? That’s over, she
says. She grabs his tie. Seconds
later, they kiss, and the scene
ends.
This all happens in a minute
and a half. It is the entire first
episode of “Snatched a Billionaire
to Be My Husband,” a new series
on Chinese-backed short video
app ReelShort, which has dozens
of shows — similarly light on
character development and
packed with curveballs — made
for binge-watching in minutes.
It’s part soap opera, part TikTok,
all heavy-handed drama.
ReelShort is the latest app to
follow in the steps of TikTok,
aiming to bring an entertainment
model popular in China to a
global audience. Despite the
cheesy plots, unknown actors and
flubbed lines — not to mention all
the real-life drama that has sur-
rounded the popularity of Chi-
nese apps like TikTok, Shein and
Temu — Americans are flocking
to the service.
Their target viewers are busy
middle-aged American women
looking for romance and fantasy,
said Joey Jia, chief executive of
Crazy Maple Studio, the company
behind the ReelShort app.
Crazy Maple Studio was found-
ed by Jia, a Chinese tech industry
veteran, and Beijing-based digital
content company COL, to take
these ultrashort dramas to the
international market.
The Chinese-backed app
knocked TikTok out of the top
spot in the entertainment catego-
ry of Apple’s App Store several
times in November, and has re-
mained in the top 10 since, ac-
cording to data from mobile data
analytics firm Sensor Tower.
ReelShort has topped 30 million
downloads worldwide, 40 per-
cent of which came from the
United States, Jia said.
While some people scoffed at
the corny narratives, Jia bet
they’d be a hit because many are
cribbed straight from the ro-
mance stories popular on Crazy
Maple Studio’s other apps, which
include interactive story game
Chapters and web novel reader
Kiss.
In the era of prestige television,
when Netflix spends upward of
$14 million per episode on hits
like The Crown, the short shows
on ReelShort and other Chinese
apps like GoodShort and Drama-
Box keep production costs to an
absolute minimum. It costs less
than $300,000 to make an entire
ReelShort show from start to
finish, Jia said. No expensive sets
or quiet luxury wardrobe, just
romantic tension, scandals and
betrayal.
“You need the conflicts up
front, to simplify the characters,
and not focus on a character arc,”
Jia said. “We’re making vertical
video, so people don’t care about
the background.”
seNegAL
Protests break out
over election delay
Senegalese police cracked
down Sunday on protests against
the postponement of the
presidential election, as
parliament prepared to debate a
bill that would reschedule the
vote for August and extend
President Macky Sall’s mandate.
Sall announced Saturday that
the Feb. 25 vote would be
delayed because of a dispute
over the candidate list and
alleged corruption within the
constitutional body that handled
the list. Some opposition and
civil society groups denounced
the move as an “institutional
coup.”
Lawmakers on Monday will
debate a proposal to hold the
vote on Aug. 25 and keep Sall in
power until his successor is
installed, according to the text of
the bill seen by Reuters.
Senegal has never delayed a
Visitors take photographs at an area dedicated for the fans of the TV show Blossoms Shanghai at the Peace Hotel in Shanghai on Jan. 12.
Although other attempts to
make ad-break-length TV catch
on have failed in the United
States — notably the high-profile
flameout of short-video platform
Quibi in 2020 — bite-sized dra-
mas made for streaming on
smartphones have become a
multibillion-dollar industry in
China. The concept took off while
movie theaters were closed dur-
ing the coronavirus pandemic
and has been particularly popu-
lar with workers who might have
only a few minutes of downtime
between gigs like delivery driv-
ing.
Promotional ads for two series on ReelShort. The shows, which often lack serious character
development, are part of a $5 billion market in China, though they cost as little as $300,000 to make.
presidential vote, and
uncertainty about what happens
next threatens to fuel further
unrest like the deadly protests of
recent years that have tarnished
its reputation as one of West
Africa’s most stable democracies.
On Sunday, groups of
protesters blocked traffic along a
main thoroughfare in Dakar
with burning tires. In one area,
about 200 people retreated into
side streets after police in riot
gear fired tear gas and started
detaining protesters.
At least two opposition
presidential candidates were
swept up in the melee.
In an online post, candidate
Daouda Ndiaye said he was
attacked by police, and the
campaign manager of Anta
Babacar Ngom told Reuters she
had been detained by security
forces and was being held into
the evening.
Former prime minister
Aminata Touré also said she had
been detained and taken to a
police station in Dakar as soon
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The short drama trend is al-
ready redefining China’s film and
TV business, said Oscar Zhou, a
scholar at University of Kent in
Britain who studies the industry.
One screenwriter he interviewed
had been told to fit three plot
twists into each minute on
screen. “It’s not about the sto-
ryline — it is redefining the proc-
ess of telling a story,” he said.
In Hengdian, the center of
China’s movie industry, many
production studios have turned
their attention to churning out
short dramas. Up to 300 crews
might be out shooting short dra-
Digest
as she got out of her vehicle.
“President Macky’s exit slip is
now marked with the seal of this
unprecedented democratic
regression,” Touré posted
Saturday.
— Reuters
KOsOVO
Currency crackdown
raises tension, alarms
The United States and the
European Union stepped up
criticism this weekend of
Kosovo’s recent crackdown on
the use of the Serbian dinar,
which included seizing a vehicle
transporting payments for the
members of the nation’s Serbian
minority.
The actions of Kosovo’s
government have “direct and
negative” effects on ethnic Serbs
and are “unnecessarily raising
ethnic tensions,” U.S.
Ambassador Jeff Hovenier said
in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
That in turn limits the options of
mas around Hengdian, south of
Shanghai, on any given day, short
drama director and screenwriter
Fu Yicong said.
Film crews in Hengdian are
dispensing with much of the in-
tense production that has gone
into traditional movies and tele-
vision, Fu said. Instead, they’re
focused on volume, filming a
100-episode series in a single
week.
“If you leave your artist’s pride
at home and embrace streamlin-
ing, there is a good chance you
can make big money,” Fu said.
There’s another factor: The
Crazy Maple Studio
the U.S. “to serve as an effective
advocate for Kosovo in the
international arena.”
The U.S. reaction came after
Kosovan police held raids in
multiple locations, detaining
post office workers and seizing
cash in Serbian dinars intended
to pay out pensions, salaries and
welfare for local Serbs.
European Union external
affairs spokesman Peter Stano
noted “great concern” about the
police operations in a post on X.
“The sudden closure of these
offices will have negative effects
on the daily lives and living
conditions of Kosovo-Serb
communities,” he said.
Tensions between the Balkan
neighbors escalated again last
week after Kosovo’s authorities
decided to enforce the euro as its
sole currency.
The move, which seeks to ban
the use of the Serbian dinar,
could endanger lifelines of Serbs
in Kosovo and has been heavily
criticized by Belgrade, the
European Union and the United
the washington post
Chinese government’s ongoing
scrutiny of the tech industry has
led many of these companies to
look abroad.
China’s biggest tech companies
have tried to make new Chinese
internet trends — such as selling
clothes and other items on live
streams — popular in other mar-
kets, partly as a hedge against the
mounting risks in the domestic
market, where the government
has repeatedly demonstrated
willingness to wipe out billions
from domestic tech company val-
uations to rein in their influence.
Although the market for short
dramas in China — last year
valued at more than $5 billion,
according to Chinese analytics
firm iiMedia Research — is boom-
ing, short drama companies are
worried they’ll become the next
target.
One Chinese production com-
pany, Xi’an Fengxing Culture,
made eight series in as many
months before striking gold in
February last year with “The
Knockout,” a 108-episode drama
in which an underdog bank clerk
travels back in time to prevent his
mother’s murder and exact re-
venge on a cheating girlfriend. In
the year since, Fengxing has pro-
duced 17 more hit shows, includ-
ing costume drama
“Unparalleled,” which raked in
$16 million over just eight days in
August.
But after a Fengxing thriller
series was censored for being too
steamy, chief executive Li Tao
decided to look for audiences
outside of China.
They’re now filming a show in
Egypt for the local market, and
are in talks to make a show for
ReelShort for which the actors
States.
The currency restrictions risk
further deepening the rift
between the former wartime foes
at a time tensions are already the
worst in more than two decades.
— Bloomberg News
Zelensky says he’s considering
replacing several senior
Ukrainian officials: Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky,
in an interview broadcast
Sunday, said he was considering
replacing several senior officials,
and not just in the military, to
determine who is to lead the
country. “It is a question of the
people who are to lead Ukraine,”
Zelensky told Italian state RAI
television when asked about
widespread suggestions that he
was about to dismiss Ukraine’s
army commander, Valery
Zaluzhny. “A reset is necessary, I
am talking about a replacement
of a number of state leaders, not
only in the army sector. I am
reflecting on this replacement. Is
a question for the entire
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must speak “impeccable Ameri-
can English,” Li said.
But making shows for the
American market comes with its
own set of challenges. They might
not have to worry about censor-
ship like in China, but they do
have to think about stricter pro-
tections for copyright and intel-
lectual property rights — and
lawmakers’ vocal concern over
how Chinese tech companies
handle American users’ data.
Jia was already familiar with
that level of scrutiny. Years before
he started Crazy Maple Studio, he
was part of the U.S.-based team
for Chinese telecom giant ZTE,
which was penalized beginning
in 2017 for violating U.S. prohibi-
tions on equipment sales to
North Korea and Iran.
Jia said he isn’t worried that
ReelShort will come under the
same microscope. Crazy Maple
Studio is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, Calif., and emphasiz-
es that it has no audience in
China. It does, however, have an
office in Shenzhen and remains
49 percent owned by Beijing-
based COL. (Jia owns the remain-
der.)
At the very least, Jia expects
the company’s growth will have
fewer ups and downs than the
“Snatched a Billionaire” story arc.
Over the course of the show’s next
10 minutes, the lead’s mother
wakes up from a coma and her
ex’s handsome uncle gives her
$50,000. Insults, accusations and
multiple punches are thrown.
“When they first saw the app,
some people said, ‘I can’t believe
someone would pay for this,’ ” Jia
said. “Our answer is: You think
you understand the entire enter-
tainment market? You don’t.”
leadership of the country.”
Cosmonaut sets record for most
time in space: Russian
cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko on
Sunday set a record for total
time spent in space, surpassing
Gennady Padalka, who logged
878 days, 11 hours, 29 minutes
and 48 seconds in orbit, Russia’s
space corporation said. At 8:30
a.m. Greenwich Mean Time
(3:30 a.m. Eastern time)
Kononenko broke the record,
Roscosmos said. He is expected
to reach a total of 1,000 days in
space on June 5. “I fly into space
to do my favorite thing, not to
set records,” Kononenko, 59, told
Russian news agency Tass in an
interview from the International
Space Station, where he is
orbiting about 263 miles from
the Earth. “I am proud of all my
achievements, but I am more
proud that the record for the
total duration of human stay in
space is still held by a Russian
cosmonaut.”
— From news services
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Tiring of Washington, China is turning to Midwest states

ChiNA from A1
leaders have for decades ap-
pealed to their American counter-
parts to try to create investment
and trade opportunities. Those
efforts, stalled during the corona-
virus pandemic, are ramping up
again — with newfound gusto.
Chinese officials are seizing on
opportunities to forge ties with
mayors and other local American
leaders, the kinds of connections
that give Beijing leverage against
an increasingly hostile govern-
ment in Washington.
The United States’ relationship
with China is at its worst since the
two countries agreed to officially
recognize each other more than
45 years ago, although there have
been recent efforts to stabilize
relations. Chinese leader Xi Jin-
ping’s bid for global dominance
means that, more than ever, Bei-
jing is seen by Washington as a
threat to the country’s national
security and economy.
With Xi’s encouragement,
leaders outside the Beltway are
the next target of Chinese efforts
to win friends and influence in
the United States. But during a
sensitive election year these
friendships will be hard to come
by as American leaders are wary
of being seen as too close to
China.
“What the Chinese are doing is
trying to find supporters and ad-
vocates for the U.S.-China rela-
tionship and operationalize
them,” said Evan medeiros, head
of Asia studies at Georgetown
University, who served as a top
Asia Pacific adviser during the
obama administration. “They
want to activate the sources of
ballast in the relationship to stop
the deterioration.”
Before the pandemic, these ex-
changes — business delegations,
governor visits, cultural and aca-
demic exchanges — were com-
mon between the two countries.
U.S. states, after the 2008 finan-
cial crisis, actively sought Chi-
nese investment and chances to
benefit from China’s economic
rise. more than 100 “sister city”
agreements were signed, while
dozens of Chinese-government-
linked Confucius Institutes set up
shop in U.S. universities.
That all slowed during the
An outdoor screen in Beijing shows a news report in November about Chinese President Xi Jinping
meeting President Biden during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders’ Week.
Trump administration as the rela-
tionship soured, and ground to a
halt during the pandemic. Inci-
dents such as the Chinese “spy
balloon,” U.S. export controls lim-
iting China’s access to advanced
chips and back-and-forth threats
over Taiwan didn’t help.
This past fall, things began to
shift as China hosted a series of
American politicians, including
California Gov. Gavin Newsom
(D) and a delegation of senators.
In November, Xi, on his first visit
to the United States in six years,
called for building “more bridges
and more roads for people-to-
people interactions,” and had din-
ner with business executives from
Apple, Nike, Pfizer and Boeing.
Chinese diplomats in the Unit-
ed States are doing their best to
engage in what Chinese and
American diplomats call “subna-
tional diplomacy” — an area of
new focus for both governments.
“our purpose is quite simple:
to promote subnational coopera-
tion. for example, business in-
vestment and people-to-people
exchanges,” said Zhou Zheng,
head of the subnational affairs
section at the Chinese Embassy in
Washington.
Zhou, who said he was “cau-
tiously optimistic” about restart-
ing these exchanges, said a desire
for Chinese investment means
that U.S. city and county govern-
ments are “quite relaxed” about
interacting with Beijing com-
pared with more frigid national-
level relations.
Even in republican stronghold
states where legislators have
pushed laws limiting Chinese in-
vestment, some are actively
scouting for Chinese money.
mississippi Gov. Tate reeves
(r) — who last year dubbed Chi-
na’s ruling Communist Party an
“existential threat” to America
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when signing into law restric-
tions on the use of Chinese tech-
nology on state networks — re-
cently approved tax incentives for
a $1.9 billion EV battery factory
that is 10 percent owned by a
Chinese firm.
“I think that we face challenges
of, kind of, shooting ourselves in
the foot by eliminating opportu-
nities because we’re scared of
them,” said robyn Tannehill,
mayor of oxford — a town not far
from the proposed EV plant —
who joined the Heartland mayors
tour.
Invites have started coming in
for more U.S. mayors — as well as
business people, university staff
members, artists and others — to
visit China. “A lot of people are
like, okay, we have the marching
order now,” said fan, whose or-
ganization has been fielding
some of those requests.
But these efforts are meeting
resistance in an election season
when China has become a cam-
paign issue and public mistrust of
Beijing is at historical highs. In
2023 at least 81 bills were intro-
duced in 33 states to restrict
Chinese land purchases.
former president and likely
GoP presidential nominee Don-
ald Trump has discussed with
advisers the possibility of impos-
ing a flat 60 percent tariff on all
Chinese imports and has claimed
that he is being pursued in law-
suits because of his efforts to “end
the sellout of our country to Com-
munist China.” His rival, former
United Nations ambassador Nik-
ki Haley, in turn has criticized
Trump for being soft on China,
calling the country “the most
dangerous threat America has
faced since World War II.”
And florida governor and for-
mer presidential hopeful ron De-
Santis in November criticized Ha-
ley for welcoming a Chinese fiber-
glass company into South Caro-
lina while she was governor and
writing the Chinese ambassador
a “love letter, saying what a great
friend they were.”
“That’s the difficulty we have
right now. If we approach some
local governments, in particular
republican governors, they just
refuse to meet with us,” said Zhou,
of the Chinese Embassy. “In the
past these [were] things we just
did normally, that’s just what two
countries did normally, but these
days everything is demonized.”
Analysts say there is a real risk
that ground-level connections
could undermine national policy
or be used to disrupt the demo-
cratic process.
The ruling Chinese Commu-
nist Party has long had a strategy
of using “the local to surround the
center,” cultivating local support
for its agenda in other countries,
according to Anne-marie Brady, a
professor at New Zealand’s Uni-
versity of Canterbury, who focus-
es on Chinese influence opera-
tions. And the United States is the
main target.
“We have a hostile foreign state
that’s deliberately trying to target
your political elite to engage in
political warfare,” she said, not-
ing that lower-level American of-
ficials can go on to much more
influential positions. (As gover-
nor of Arkansas, future president
Bill Clinton visited China four
times.)
“It’s an ongoing challenge,
[and] we can expect now in the
lead-up to the election that there
will be more examples of foreign
interference,” she said.
Another complicating factor in
China’s campaign is Taiwan, the
democratic island that the ruling
Chinese Communist Party claims
is part of its territory. Taiwan has
for decades honed local ties in the
United States — one of few avail-
able channels of engagement be-
cause it does not have official
diplomatic relations with Wash-
ington.
In sister city agreements, Chi-
na has required some U.S. cities to
agree with Beijing’s one-China
principle that Taiwan is part of
China. But in recent years, sup-
port for Taiwan has become a
badge of honor for officials keen
to show their tough stance on
China. Since then-House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) visited
Taipei in 2022, angering Beijing,
nine U.S. governors have made
trips to Taiwan.
“many governors are consider-
ing going to Taiwan, but they
aren’t going to [China],” said Jes-
sica Bissett, who manages subna-
tional initiatives at the National
Committee on United States-Chi-
na relations.
There’s been “a huge pullback”
on the U.S. side, said Kyle Jaros,
an associate professor at the Uni-
versity of Notre Dame working on
a book on the topic. “China is
reaching out and finding it hard
to find partners.”
Still, China, with its gargantu-
an economy, has found some will-
ing partners.
mayor Kim Norton of roches-
ter, a town of about 120,000 in
southern minnesota, visited Chi-
na for the first time on the Heart-
land trip. She was impressed by
the abundance of high-speed
trains and electric buses. Her city
is on a years-long wait list for
electric buses, but Washington
continues to limit the import of
Chinese EVs.
She has recently flagged her
interest in high-speed rail with
Transportation Secretary Pete
Buttigieg. “Can we have a part-
nership with a country like China
that might help us along?” she
said. “I wish there was a way to
bridge that and have a better
partnership.”
Kuo reported from taipei.

U.S. urges Iraq to stop militia threats

BY D AN L AMOTHE

The White House on Sunday

urged Iraq’s government to act
more quickly against Iran-backed
militias operating in the country
after senior officials in Baghdad
raised an outcry over a wave of
airstrikes that the United States
launched in retaliation for the
deaths of three U.S. soldiers.
National Security Council
spokesman John Kirby said Sun-
day that the Iraqi government
must “move with more alacrity”
to end threats from militia groups
that have attacked U.S. military
positions. The groups, organized
under the umbrella of the Islamic
resistance in Iraq, have launched
at least 165 attacks against U.S.
forces since october.
“Three Americans were killed,
three troops; three families now
are grieving,” Kirby said, speak-
ing on “fox News Sunday.” “The
president’s not going to sit back
and idly just take that. We’re
going to respond.”
Kirby said that President
Biden had approved smaller
strikes in response to earlier at-
tacks on U.S. positions and that
he wasn’t going to let the deaths
of the three soldiers go unan-
swered. The soldiers — Staff Sgt.
William rivers, 46; Sgt. Breonna
moffett, 23; and Sgt. Kennedy
Sanders, 24 — were killed Jan. 28
when a one-way attack drone
crashed into sleeping quarters at
a small outpost in northeastern
Jordan that is close to the borders
of Syria and Iraq.
The strikes on friday night hit
about 85 targets across Iraq and
Syria, the Pentagon said, prompt-
ing the Iraqi government to sum-
mon a senior U.S. diplomat,
David Pecker, and issue an official
note of protest. The Iraqi foreign
ministry said that civilians were
killed in the strikes and that Iraq
does not want to be an arena “for
settling scores between rival
countries.”
The comments underscored
the difficult balancing act Wash-
ington and Baghdad are trying to
maintain as the militias, which
are armed and trained by Iran,
pressure the United States to
leave Iraq.
The Pentagon has about 2,500
U.S. troops in Iraq at the invita-
tion of the government in Bagh-
dad to prevent a resurgence of the
Islamic State. About 900 more
U.S. troops are in Syria with a
similar mission.
The United States and Britain
on Saturday also launched a new
wave of attacks in Yemen, hitting
roughly 35 targets connected
with Houthi militants that seized
control of much of the country in
2014. for months, Houthi fighters
have attacked commercial vessels
and U.S. warships in the red Sea
and Gulf of Aden.
Like the militias in Iraq and
Syria, the Houthis have linked
their attacks with the war in Gaza
and U.S. support for the Israeli
government. They also receive
weapons and training from Iran,
U.S. officials have said.
There were signs over the
weekend that the attacks would
continue.
In Syria, two rockets were
launched Saturday against a U.S.
military outpost known as
mission Support Site Euphrates,
said maj. Pete Nguyen, a Penta-
gon spokesman. No one was in-
jured.
In Yemen, Houthi officials said
they will respond to the strikes
launched against them on Satur-
day.
“The American-British aggres-
sion against Yemen will not go
unanswered, and we will meet
escalation with escalation,”
mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a mem-
ber of the Houthi political office,
said in a social media post early
Sunday. He added that the
Houthis will not stop their at-
tacks on shipping until Israel’s
military operations in Gaza end.
Jake Sullivan, the White House
national security adviser, said on
ABC News’s “This Week” on Sun-
day that U.S. officials cannot rule
out further attacks by the groups
on U.S. forces.
“The central purpose of the
strikes has been to take away
capabilities from the Iranian-
backed militias in Iraq and Syria
that are attacking our forces and
from the Houthis that continue to
threaten red Sea shipping,” Sulli-
van said. “And we believe they
had good effect in reducing, de-
grading the capabilities of the
militias and of the Houthis. And,
as necessary, we will continue to
take action.”
Sullivan, in a separate inter-
view on mSNBC’s “Inside with
Jen Psaki,” said the United States
also will watch for potential reac-
tions from Iran in coming weeks.
Biden, he said, is not trying to
escalate the conflict.
“How Tehran chooses to pro-
ceed from here, obviously, will be
up to them,” Sullivan said. “But
we will watch that carefully, and
we’re prepared to deal with what-
ever comes next.”
republicans and some nonpar-
tisan national security experts
have criticized the Biden admin-
KOSTAS IS
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istration for its approach, saying
Washington has not done enough
to deter Iran’s role in the attacks.
Kenneth “frank” mcKenzie, a
retired marine Corps general who
led U.S. military operations
across the middle East from 2019
to 2022, said on CBS News’s “face
the Nation” that the United States
has “explicitly taken Iran itself off
the list of potential targets in this
campaign,” and that doing so
gives Iran “aid and comfort.”
“I am not advocating for strik-
ing Iran,” mcKenzie said. “I am
advocating that they need to be in
the space of possible targets … so
that they’re held at risk.”
mcKenzie said “there’s some
truth” to Iran probably not direct-
ing the specific attacks against
U.S. forces. A few years ago, he
said, Iran gave blanket clearance
for the militias to attack U.S.
positions in Iraq and Syria, creat-
ing a structure where the militias
do not need to go back to Tehran
for approval.
As the Biden administration
worked to contain the fallout, it
dispatched Secretary of State
Antony Blinken to the middle
East for his fifth trip to the region
since october. Blinken will travel
to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar,
Israel and the West Bank, the
State Department said Sunday.
Blinken has sought to prevent
a wider expansion of the conflict.
He is also working on longer-
term postwar planning for Gaza,
including an agreement among
Arab states and Israel for a uni-
fied, Palestinian-led body that
would govern the West Bank and
Gaza Strip.
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Wildfires in Chile
kill at least 112
BY S AMANTHA S CHMIDT,
R ACHEL P ANNETT
AND A NA V ANESSA H ERRERO
Forest fires tearing through
central Chile have killed at least
112 people, Interior Undersecre-
tary Manuel Monsalve said Sun-
day, after the president warned
the death toll would rise as high
temperatures and widespread
droughts fan blazes across South
America.
Authorities counted 164 fires
nationwide, Monsalve said, at
least 40 of those still active.
“I have decided to decree two
days of national mourning start-
ing this Monday,” President Ga-
briel Boric said on social media.
“It is all of Chile that suffers and
mourns its dead.”
The deaths were recorded in
the Valparaíso region northwest
of the capital, Santiago, where
the fires started in hard-to-reach
mountain areas and then spread
to the outskirts of several dense-
ly populated cities and resort
towns.
were missing, calling it an “un-
precedented tragedy.”
Boric declared a state of emer-
gency and asked for more mili-
tary personnel to immediately
deploy to the affected areas,
home to more than 1 million
people.
A curfew was announced in
cities threatened by the flames,
to make way for fire engines and
ambulances, and to prevent loot-
ing, officials said.
Authorities are investigating
the possibility that the fires were
deliberately lit.
“While it is difficult to imagine
who would be willing to cause so
much tragedy and so much pain,
know that we will investigate,”
Boric said Saturday.
On Sunday, Valparaíso region-
al governor Rodrigo Mundaca
reinforced that theory and said
the government will investigate.
“These fires began in four
points that lit up simultaneous-
ly,” Mundaca said, according to
Associated Press reporting. “As
authorities, we will have to work rodrIGo aranGua/aFP/Getty ImaGes

Authorities estimate that at
least 15,000 homes were de-
stroyed in the affected region. In
Viña del Mar, a popular vacation
spot, Mayor Macarena Ripamon-
ti said more than 190 people
rigorously to find who is respon- A fire burned homes in Viña del Mar, Chile. Hillside neighborhoods around the coastal resort city have been among the hardest-hit areas.
sible.”
Wildfires are relatively com- The country’s peak fire season Niño weather pattern — which waves across the region, includ- month asked for international
mon in Chile during the South- typically begins in early Decem- causes rising sea temperatures ing in the Chilean capital, Santia- help to combat raging wildfires
ern Hemisphere’s summer ber and lasts several months. near South America — has led to go. spanning nearly 40,000 hect-
months. This year, a change to the El soaring temperatures and heat Colombia’s government last ares.

Focused on safety and pollution, Paris votes to triple parking fees for SUVs
BY K ARLA A DAM
Parisians on Sunday voted
“oui” on a proposal to triple the
parking charges for SUVs in the
city center — a vote that was
closely watched by the auto in-
dustry and city officials across
Europe.
Residents of the French capital
voted 54.5 percent in favor of
charging SUV drivers $19.40 per
hour to park in the city center.
The measure was the latest effort
by Parisian officials to combat
pollution in one of the world’s
most beloved metropolises.
Paris was one of the first big
European cities to adopt bike
rental programs, and last year it
became the first city in Europe to
ban rented electronic scooters.
Two decades ago, it was rare to
see cyclists in central Paris. Today,
thanks to the introduction of new
cycling lanes, it’s not unusual to
see tourists and locals alike ex-
ploring the city by bike.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said
she was targeting SUVs for rea-
sons of road safety, air pollution
and climate change. In a video
posted on her Facebook page (she
no longer uses X, formerly Twit-
ter, which she calls a “gigantic
global sewer”), Hidalgo cited a
report by the World Wild Fund for
Nature that said SUVs were 20
percent more polluting than aver-
age cars. She also said a pedestri-
an was twice as likely to be killed
in a collision with an SUV than
with a standard vehicle.
Driver advocacy groups at-
tacked the plans. Pierre Chasser-
ay, a spokesperson for the cam-
paign group 40 Million Motorists,
said “penalizing the SUV based
on weight criteria means penaliz-
ing families.”
“The French SUV is not an
American Hummer,” he added.
Campaigners point to “car
bloat” or “autobesity” — in recent
years, SUVs have grown wider
and heavier. A recent report by
Transport and Environment, a
Brussels-based group, found that
SUVs in Europe were expanding
by one centimeter (0.4 inches)
every two years. The group found
that some new cars in Europe are
wider than some on-street park-
ing spaces.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has
said he would monitor the effec-
tiveness of the Paris plans, al-
though he does not have the
power to implement parking lev-
ies on SUVs.
Europeans have a very mixed
relationship with SUVs. While
city officials are trying to push the
large, heavy vehicles out of city
centers, consumers love them.
More than half of the vehicles
sold last year in Europe were
SUVs.
Just over 1 million Parisians
were eligible to vote Sunday —
and polls ahead of the vote sug-
gested that the referendum
would pass. The eligible voters
are those who live in the inner
city and are less likely to drive
SUVs than their suburban neigh-
bors.
The proposal will see non-Pari-
sians’ SUVs or other large vehicles
weighing more than 1.6 tonnes
(1.76 tons), or two tonnes (2.20
tons) for electric vehicles,
charged 18 euros, or $19.40 per
hour, to park in the city center.
Those who live or work in the city
who have parking permits in
their area will be exempt.
Philipp Rode, executive direc-
tor of LSE Cities, a program at the
London School of Economics,
said the referendum was “sym-
bolically important.”
“Paris is a very important city
that has been innovating on a lot
of things,” he said. “Ultimately,
this could be an education for
people. If you want to drive these
vehicles somewhere in Arizona,
that’s your choice. But in inner
cities, they are problematic.”
“The car industry is watching
this space,” he added. “European
cities have a market-shaping
role.”

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Severe storm brings cascading threats to much of Calif.

BY M ATTHEW C APPUCCI,
Y VONNE W INGETT S ANCHEZ
AND B RIANNA S ACKS
California is feeling the effects
of the historic and potentially
deadly storm that has slammed
into the western coast, unleash-
ing evacuation orders or warn-
ings and risks of serious and wide-
spread flash flooding, damaging
winds, isolated tornadoes and
prolific mountain snow.
High winds have downed trees
onto homes, cars and power lines
in the Bay Area and Central
Coasts, where wind gusts exceed-
ing 80 mph have been reported; in
the Sierra Nevada some gusts
topped 100 mph. over 500,000
customers in the state were with-
out power as of around 4 p.m. on
Sunday local time, and officials
are urging residents to only travel
for essential reasons.
As the storm damage was felt
around the state, Gov. Gavin
Newsom (D) declared a state of
emergency for eight Southern
California counties, including Los
Angeles, orange, San Diego and
Santa Barbara. As the storm was
expected to gain strength, flight
delays, diversions and cancella-
tions began piling up at San fran-
cisco International Airport and
Los Angeles International Air-
port, according to data from
flightAware, a flight-tracking
website.
The National Weather Service
in oxnard, Calif., advised that the
storm would bring “major risks”
to life and property. It warned that
low-lying neighborhoods could
flood, that roadways big and small
would be shut down or sub-
merged by water and that “many
parked cars will be damaged.”
The storm could bring months’
worth of rainfall, which will trig-
ger rockslides and mudslides,
warned officials, who are bracing
to see double-digit rainfall totals
in the mountains north of Los
Angeles and east of Santa Bar-
bara. Waves of torrential rain
were expected Sunday night into
monday night. A flash-flood
warning was issued Sunday after-
noon for southern Santa Barbara
and Ventura counties, which saw
1 to 3 inches of rain and was brac-
ing for more, officials said.
“flash flooding and debris
flows are occurring and will wors-
en tonight,” the National Weather
Matt Katz looks at an oak tree that fell in the Foster Park neighborhood of Ventura, Calif., on Sunday.
Service said.
The Weather Service is calling
the episode “one of the most dra-
matic weather days in recent
memory,” warning of “potentially
life-threatening flash flooding.”
It drew a level 4 out of 4 “high”
risk of flash flooding and exces-
sive rainfall between Santa Bar-
bara and orange counties. Evacu-
ation orders were made in Ventu-
ra County, where runoff from up
to a foot of rain in the mountains
will couple with drenching in the
lowlands.
officials also issued preemp-
tive evacuation orders in the Los
Angeles area near steep slopes
and areas previously burned by
wildfires. There is growing con-
cern that the atmospheric river
will park itself over Southern Cali-
fornia, streaming a conveyor belt
of moisture over the region.
“This system really could stall
out somewhere between Santa
Barbara County and orange
County and cause big problems,”
UCLA climate scientist Daniel
Swain said in an online update
Sunday morning.
most of the California coast is
under other flood watches and
high-wind warnings or wind advi-
sories. In addition to a wide-
spread 2 to 8 inches of rain from
MiChael robinson Chávez for The WashingTon PosT
the Bay Area to San Diego, winds rooms while residents slept, ulti-
gusting to at least 50 to 60 mph at mately displacing four people and
the coast and much higher in the a dog.
mountains were predicted to bat- Emergency crews quickly re-
ter the region. sponded and were on the go in the
The Weather Service had hours since, said Scott Safechuck,
warned gusts could reach 70 to 90 a spokesperson with the county
mph for the Big Sur coastal wa- fire department. Throughout the
ters, where it issued what ap- day, trees fall onto cars, across
peared to be the first-ever roads and into power lines, caus-
hurricane-force wind warning for ing pockets of homes to lose pow-
the area into Sunday evening. er.
mountainous areas were also pre- Santa Barbara emergency offi-
dicted to endure winds to hurri- cials have been bracing for worst-
cane-force. case scenarios, ordering the evac-
The National Weather Service uations of about 630 homes that
in Los Angeles increased expected are tucked into fire-scarred can-
rain amounts to 4 to 8 inches on yons, near creeks, and at the base
the coastal plain and 8 to 14 inches of the hills. Heavy rain can quickly
for mountain areas. saturate the terrain, just as it did
Areas farther south, toward in 2018 in montecito — when pre-
San Diego, and east may not see cipitation fell quickly overnight
the heaviest rain until monday and sent rivers of mud and boul-
into Tuesday. ders the size of houses hurtling
Strong, rain-filled winds lashed down straight into neighbor-
Santa Barbara starting early Sun- hoods, leveling many and ulti-
day morning, roiling the surf and mately killing 23 people. The body
toppling trees whose roots were of a boy from that storm is still
already loose in saturated soil. missing. That disaster was a glar-
Before dawn, a 70-foot tree fell ing wake-up call for the coastal
on a condo complex in the town of community, whose land is still not
Goleta, just north of Santa Bar- recovered from three significant
bara and home to many UC-Santa wildfires, making it prone to mud-
Barbara students. The trunk slides.
crashed through the roof, sending To complicate matters further,
bales of pink insulation into the storm is bringing a risk of
isolated tornadoes or landfalling
waterspouts along the central
California coastline. Extreme
wind shear, or a change of wind
speed/direction with height, will
cause rotating downpours to
swing ashore. It comes just days
after a tornado briefly touched
down in Sonoma County during
the last atmospheric river event.
The waterlogged system will
encounter frigid air in the higher
elevations. A general 3 to 6 feet of
snow can be expected above 6,000
feet in the Sierra Nevada, where
winds gusting up to 75 mph will
combine with possible thunder-
snow and snowfall rates exceed-
ing 3 inches per hour. Winter
storm warnings are in effect and
note virtually impossible travel.
Snow will also fall in Nevada.
Impacts will wane late monday
in central and Northern Califor-
nia, but the state won’t finally
shake the storm system until the
latter half of Tuesday.
Timing
By Sunday afternoon, the at-
mospheric river was already soak-
ing large parts of California while
dropping snow in the mountains.
most of the precipitation was fall-
ing from Los Angeles northward;
San Diego was still dry. The north-
ern extent of the precipitation
shield was just north of the or-
egon border.
overnight Sunday, models pro-
jected rainfall to expand south-
ward and eastward. rain may
ease or become more showery in
the Bay Area while continuing to
drench the zone from Santa Bar-
bara to Los Angeles.
on monday, the main atmos-
pheric river will swing into South-
ern California, but intermittent
downpours will continue across
north-central and Northern Cali-
fornia. That’s associated with the
“cold core” of low pressure, or the
low’s pocket of frigid air aloft,
moving over the region.
A few additional thunder-
storms may pivot ashore along
the central coast of California as
well. Isolated small hail can’t be
ruled out.
Impacts
Flooding: There is a moderate
to high risk of flash flooding from
San francisco southward. In the
Bay Area, 2 to 4 inches of rain is
likely — with more in the North
Bay and the mountains to the
south. from Santa Barbara and
Los Angeles, a month or two’s
worth of rain, or at least 4 inches,
may fall; some models project the
heaviest rainfall just east of Santa
Barbara and just north of Los
Angeles.
In the transverse ranges and
Los Angeles County mountains,
6 to 12 inches of rain is possible.
That will trigger major flooding
problems, particularly as the rain
drains into the lower elevations.
rockslides and landslides are
likely; recent heavy rains will bol-
ster the risk of shallow landslides,
since the top layers of soil are
unstable, particularly on steeply
sloped surfaces.
Winds: At the coast, gusts of 60
to 70 mph are possible between
the Bay Area and Santa Barbara,
with gusts over 70 mph possible
along the coastal ranges. Inland,
there could even be some gusts of
50 to 60 mph in the Sacramento
Valley. Even San Diego is under a
wind advisory, with gusts up to
40 mph possible.
Tornadoes: There is a low, but
not zero, risk of an isolated spin-
up tornado between San Jose and
the Lompoc/Santa maria area.
Heavy snows: Several feet of
snow is expected in the northern
Sierra Nevada above 6,000 feet,
with 2 to 6 feet above elevations of
7,000 feet. The snow is ongoing
now, with snowfall rates probably
exceeding 3 inches per hour.
Thunder and lightning may spo-
radically accompany snowfall.
Wind gusts of 75 mph or greater
are possible on the Sierra ridge.
for the southern Sierra, expect 10
inches or more above 6,000 feet,
with 1 to 2 feet above 7,500 feet.
Coastal flooding: Coastal flood
advisories and/or high surf advi-
sories span much of the California
coastline. Large breaking waves
of 14 to 18 feet are expected just
offshore. A storm surge of a couple
of feet is also possible due to
persistent onshore flow piling wa-
ter against the coastline.
The worst weather will pull
south out of Northern California
on monday afternoon. By Tues-
day, impacts will be waning in
Southern California, and mostly
over across central and northern
region.
Diana leonard contributed to this
report.

Gaining Taylor Swift’s per, then a U.S. representative

running for reelection. (Cooper, a
17-term incumbent, won his race;
dorsement, some Democratic
Swifties are nervous about all the
members of their party who are

backing a delicate dance Bredesen lost.)

SWIFT from A1
sional worker bees who adore the
pop star and who occasionally let
their fandom out at work by
sneaking Swift references into
their bosses’ news releases — or,
conversely, talking those bosses
out of posting cringeworthy Tay-
lor content. After all, it’s easy to
appropriate Swiftisms poorly in
Washington. The State Depart-
ment’s “Eras Tour”-themed
checklist for international travel?
That was good. The fBI’s tip line
tweet cloaked in the aesthetics of
Swift’s album “Speak Now,” en-
couraging citizens who “have
information about a federal
crime” to “speak now?” Not so
good.
The staffers — who allowed
The Washington Post to join their
conversation on the condition
that it not use their names, so
nobody mistakes their personal
views for their bosses’ — have
been fans of Swift almost as long
as they’ve been alive. Certainly
longer than they’ve been in-
volved with politics.
“Thank goodness we have Tay-
lor Swift,” one Hill Swiftie joked
about her obsession with the pop
star, “otherwise I wonder if I’d be
into QAnon.”
It’s an especially heady time
for Swifties in Washington. Her
latest appearance at one of
Kelce’s games — a playoff win
that sent his team to the Super
Bowl — coincided with murmurs
that President Biden’s campaign
may be courting her support. The
comment.
Team Biden is playing any
Swift strategy close to the vest: A
campaign spokesperson and a
White House spokesperson both
declined to comment on Swift-
specific outreach. “I have no idea
if Taylor Swift would actively
offer herself or not, but of course
he’d love to have her endorse-
ment,” said mitch Landrieu, a
co-chair of the Biden reelection
campaign who said he loves Swift
and also Beyoncé.
It’s unclear how much the
president, a fan of Irish folk
music, knows or cares about
Swift, whose name he appeared
to confuse with Britney Spears’s
during remarks at last year’s
presidential turkey pardon.
Educating the president has
fallen to his die-hard Swiftie
staffers. on a day that music
manager Scooter Braun visited
the White House, former Biden
communications director Kate
Bedingfield found herself inad-
vertently briefing the president
about Swift’s bad blood with
Braun over control of her master
recordings. As Biden’s team
prepped the president in the oval
office for the upcoming meeting,
Bedingfield stepped forward.
“I was like, ‘Sir, this is the
briefing I was born for!’ ” she
said.
An unequivocal endorsement
for Biden’s reelection from Swift
could matter, said Bedingfield,
especially to her fans who aren’t
deeply engaged in politics. “Ulti-
mately knowing what she has
Taylor Swift accepts the Grammy award for best pop vocal album
for “Midnights” on Sunday in Los Angeles.
Swift and her friends out on the
town — just in case someone
knows someone who knows
someone who knows Swift!
Biden’s team was particularly
miffed to see a suggestion from a
well-meaning supporter, that
Biden just show up to a Swift
concert, circulating in recent
news reports. The logistics alone
— Secret Service, getting concert-
goers through the security line —
would create the sort of headache
that could alienate the very
Swifties they’re trying to woo.
Because anyone who knows
how Swift operates understands
that any meaningful Swift en-
dorsement has to be authentic
and on her terms.
“Do not seek it,” warned a Hill
Swiftie at the Capitol Hill bar.
“She does these things on her
own, based on the side of history
she wants to be on.”
aMy sussMan/geTTy iMages
first lady michelle obama’s “Let’s
move!” campaign — showing up,
prophetically, alongside some
NfL players who had teamed up
with the White House through
the league’s youth wellness initia-
tive.
Whenever she was asked
about her politics, Swift would
demur. “It’s my right to vote, but
it’s not my right to tell other
people what to do,” a 24-year-old
Swift told David Letterman in
2014. members of Congress from
both parties held fundraisers at
her D.C. stop for her “1989” tour
in 2015. When some of her fa-
mous friends became outspoken
surrogates for Hillary Clinton,
campaign staffers wondered if
Swift herself would endorse Don-
ald Trump’s 2016 opponent —
and were ultimately disappoint-
ed when she didn’t.
Swift would come to regret her
silence. In “miss Americana,” a
Lisa Quigley, who served as
Cooper’s chief of staff, remem-
bers being caught off guard by
the endorsement; she was at
home and her phone just started
“blowing up.”
“I remember Jim being like,
‘That’s nice,’ ” Quigley said of her
boss’s reaction to the news.
“Then he called back and said,
‘my daughter says this is a very
big deal.’ ”
Laura Zapata, the communica-
tions director for Bredesen’s Sen-
ate campaign, had been driving
back from a campaign event
when a friend alerted her to
Swift’s Instagram announce-
ment.
Swift never spoke with either
campaign; Zapata said that she
and Swift interacted exclusively
through Instagram, liking and
reposting each other’s political
content. “It was very millennial,”
Zapata said. (Blackburn’s 2024
opponent, Democrat Gloria
Johnson, is not playing it coy:
“I’m a big fan, and we are reach-
ing out,” she said of Swift.)
Swift similarly surprised the
Biden campaign in 2020 when
she posted an emphatic “YES” in
response to then-Sen. Kamala
Harris’s announcement that
she’d been chosen as Biden’s
running mate. Swift would later
formally endorse, sharing a pho-
to with cookies frosted with the
Biden-Harris campaign logo. She
also gave rep. Eric Swalwell
(D-Calif.) permission to use her
song “only the Young” in a pro-
Biden super PAC advertisement
that year, according to Variety.
How Swalwell got Swift’s cooper-
ation, he’ll never tell: “You’re
talking explicitly about wanting
the pop star to boost Biden — and
whether it’s cool that they’ve said
all that.
“I don’t want us to overdo it,”
said Annie Wu Henry, who, as a
social media producer for Demo-
crat John fetterman’s 2022 cam-
paign for Senate in Pennsylvania,
leaned on Swift references in the
candidate’s social posts. “I want
us to be aware of how we’re
coming off publicly,” said Wu,
now a digital communications
strategist for various Democrats
and organizations. “All of this
conversation is giving me the
ick.”
The recent Swift backlash on
the right — dominated by a vocal,
mostly male, minority — has
been giving some conservatives
the ick, regardless of whether
they’re fans of Swift.
“This ‘psyop’ stuff makes us
look QAnon crazy,” said Alex
Clark, a hardcore Swiftie who
hosts a pop culture podcast for
Turning Point USA, a right-wing
youth organization. “The left
tries to say we’re insane, and this
doesn’t help.”
“If we looked at these pop
culture topics with a spirit of
inquisitiveness instead of lam-
pooning them as psyops, then
maybe more young people would
listen to what we have to say,”
said mary morgan, a Gen Z
conservative who hosts a pop
culture YouTube show and isn’t a
fan of Swift.
“It’s exactly the kind of criti-
cism that gives weight to the
left-wing stereotype that con-
servative men don’t support
women,” says Vanessa Santos, a
conservative millennial and non-

developments had kicked off a
multiday frenzy over what, if
anything, Swift could mean to
the politics of 2024.
on the left: open thirsting for
Swift, a vocal advocate for wom-
en’s and LGBTQ+ rights whose
known views generally align with
the Democrats, to enter her Dark
Brandon Era. on the right: spec-
ulation that Swift and her “vac-
cine shill boyfriend” — a refer-
ence to Kelce’s advertisements
for a coronavirus vaccine — are a
“psyop” (spy-world shorthand for
a psychological operation) to
throw the election to Biden.
Swift, meanwhile, has very
much excluded herself from the
narrative: She has not weighed in
publicly on the endorsement
chatter, and a publicist for Swift
did not respond to a request for
told us — us the public — about
how she feels about issues, I
think it would be more powerful
for her to say, ‘These are the
stakes in this election, and here’s
why I’m going to vote Joe Biden
and Kamala Harris and I hope
you will, too,’ ” Bedingfield said.
Bidenworld has been inundat-
ed with suggestions for how to
try to make a Swift endorsement
happen — from the person who
claimed they had a secret plan
with their lawyers that would
soon be making its way to Swift’s
lawyers, to the person who
claimed their brother had played
on the same basketball team as
Swift’s brother back in Pennsyl-
vania — a swing state! — and
perhaps that could be an in.
Supporters regularly send aides
the latest paparazzi snaps of
O
nce upon a time, a few Eras
ago, Taylor Swift was a
teenage country music star
who never, ever, ever discussed
her politics. It was up to obses-
sive fans to glean what they could
from her lyrics and social media
posts. “There was this whole
portion of the fandom who would
examine her old posts, figure out
who her friends were and find
out if they’d said anything politi-
cal,’” said Lauren Lipman, a Tay-
lor Swift influencer who discuss-
es the pop queen on her YouTube
channel.
When she did get politically
active, she kept it nonpartisan
and extremely local. In 2007, she
worked with then-Tennessee Gov.
Phil Bredesen (D) on a campaign
to combat online predators. In
2010, she helped promote then-
documentary that chronicles
Swift’s political coming-out, the
pop star points to her 2017 sexual
assault lawsuit against a Denver
DJ as a political awakening.
(Swift won the suit, which
charged that the DJ had groped
her at an event in 2013.) The
experience left her “completely
and unchangeably different,” she
says in the documentary.
“I just thought to myself, ‘Next
time there is any opportunity to
change anything, you had better
know what you stand for and
what you want to say,’ ” she adds.
Next time arrived during the
2018 midterms. She offered her
first political endorsements — to
a pair of Tennessee Democrats:
Bredesen, who was running for
U.S. Senate against republican
marsha Blackburn, and Jim Coo-
asking Colonel Sanders the reci-
pe for the chicken,” Swalwell said
when asked.
marquee names mattered a lot
to Biden in 2020, a year when
nearly all of the campaigning had
been done virtually. The 2024
campaign will have a different
feel, and particular types of ce-
lebrities will be called upon for
every reason, every season. The
campaign surrogate operation,
for instance, is keeping tabs on
hip-hop artists in Atlanta, and
lists of bands that are influential
in Wisconsin, a swing state with a
strong local music culture. Big
names like Swift will be called
upon, the campaign hopes, for a
moment in the fall to lend a jolt
of excitement to voter registra-
tion or get-out-the-vote efforts.
As for the coveted Swift en-
Swiftie who runs a publicity firm
in D.C.
The Hill Swifties have a nu-
anced view of Swift’s power as a
political actor. To them, that
power doesn’t necessarily have to
do with naming her preferred
candidates.
Their group chat is actually a
spinoff of another — one dedicat-
ed to queer female staffers on the
Hill. Swift’s advocacy on LG-
BTQ+ rights has been meaning-
ful to members of both chats. one
of them recalls crying when she
saw Swift cast a trans man as her
love interest in her music video
for her song “Lavender Haze.”
“maybe she can’t convince a
republican to vote for Joe Biden,”
one Hill Swiftie said, “but she
could convince them that trans
people are people.”
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Laid-o≠ tech workers find it di∞cult to obtain new jobs

lAyoffs from A1
made significant cuts in January,
and the layoffs don’t seem to be
abating. on Tuesday, PayPal said
in a letter to workers it would cut
another 2,500 employees or
about 9 percent of its workforce.
The continued cuts come as
companies are under pressure
from investors to improve their
bottom lines. Wall Street’s sell-off
of tech stocks in 2022 pushed
companies to win back investors
by focusing on increasing profits,
and firing some of the tens of
thousands of workers hired to
meet the pandemic boom in con-
sumer tech spending. With many
tech companies laying off work-
ers, cutting employees no longer
signaled weakness. Now, execu-
tives are looking for more places
where they can squeeze more
work out of fewer people.
“We’re going to continue to be
careful on what we invest in, and
we’re going to continue to invest
in new things and new areas and
things that resonate with cus-
tomers. And where we can find
efficiencies and do more with
less, we’re going to do that as
well,” Amazon Chief financial
officer Brian olsavsky said in
response to a reporter’s question
during a Thursday media earn-
ings call.
“That is the way the American
capitalist system works,” said
mark Zandi, chief economist at
moody’s Analytics. “It’s ruthless
when it gets down to striving for
profitability and creating wealth.
It redirects resources very rapidly
from one place to another.”
Economic concerns and infla-
tion in 2022 and 2023 also cut
into the amount of software and
cloud services that businesses
were buying, said Gil Luria, a
tech analyst with D.A. Davidson
Co.
“That rippled through the en-
tire software ecosystem, and
looking into 2024, it seems like
the most recent data points are
things are no longer getting
worse but they’re not getting
better yet,” Luria said. “Their
customers haven’t loosened the
purse strings.”
Unable to get back to the
showstopping revenue growth of
years past, tech executives are
instead opting to put a positive
spin on things for Wall Street by
continuously cutting high-paid
workers.
It seems to be working. In
2022, the Nasdaq Composite, a
stock index dominated by tech
companies, lost a full third of its
value. In 2023, it grew by 43
percent. It rose another 3 percent
in January.
shine has come off the tech
industry
As stocks have risen, spirits in
the San francisco Bay Area — the
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heart of the U.S. tech industry —
have only fallen further. The pow-
er that tech workers felt they
commanded to switch jobs and
win higher salaries and meatier
stock awards has partly evaporat-
ed.
for many tech workers, the
shine has come off an industry
that they had given their lives to
in return for steady employment,
flashy perks and the chance for
lucrative stock options. Google
and meta in recent years have cut
down on employee perks like free
laundry, free massages, and food
and fitness offerings. “Seems like
tech has changed forever since
mass layoffs,” an anonymous
worker posted to the workplace
gossip app Blind this week.
“It’s very new to feel job inse-
curity,” said Julia Grummel, a
former senior product designer
for a Bay Area software company.
Since being laid off in february
2023, Grummel says she has re-
ceived rejections from automated
systems, been ghosted by em-
ployers after several rounds of
interviews and gotten rejections
without any feedback. And she’s
facing competition from huge
numbers of laid-off workers like
her.
She has gotten interest from
some companies that have al-
ready cut employees, but she’s
wary of them, Grummel said.
“I am not really interested in
joining an organization that has
demonstrated that they don’t val-
ue the people who are keeping
the business running.”
Like Chavez, she says she’s
beginning to think of looking for
other kinds of work, focusing less
on pay and more on jobs that
might provide better work-life
balance and more meaning and
fulfillment, she said.
Even workers with years of
experience or deep technical ex-
pertise are having trouble getting
hired again.
Parker Lopez, a machine learn-
ing engineer and data scientist in
Seattle, was laid off from his job
at a health tech start-up in may
2023. The last time he was on the
job market, several years ago, it
only took him three months to
find work. But this time he’s
applied for more than 1,000 roles
without any success.
“I’ve been doing “It feels very futile,” he said.
Even with several years of
this stuff for 20 years experience in software engineer-
ing, data science and manufac-
. . . and right now turing, including at microsoft,
laid-off Amazon contractor
I’m lucky to get a Jennifer Pearl said landing an
interview has been tough. Pearl
call back.” said previously they were able to
land a job in a matter of days.
Jennifer Pearl,
“I am worried,” they said. “I’ve
laid-off Amazon contractor
been doing this stuff for 20 years
… and right now I’m lucky to get a
call back.”
Some of the more recent lay-
offs are targeting middle-manag-
ers who ran the teams that were
hit in previous waves of cuts.
Some of them are trying to return
to jobs where they write code
rather than direct the work of
others, calculating that those
roles might be safer. Workers who
tried to hop from company to
company every three or four
years to maximize the amount of
stock options they could amass
are staying put.
Tech workers have also been
exposed to a year of nonstop
discussion of the artificial intelli-
gence boom and its potential
effect on the workforce. many
programmers use AI tools to help
them write code faster, and exec-
utives and tech pundits frequent-
ly talk about how much more
efficient workers will become in
the near future.
Starry-eyed AI executives ar-
gue that as workers become more
productive, companies will make
more money, resulting in more
growth and more jobs.
But tech workers themselves
aren’t so sure. Neither are econo-
mists.
“The tech sector may be able to
produce a lot and innovate a lot
without as many people going
forward,” Zandi, the moody’s
economist, said. “That is a lesson
of AI.”
once glitzy, high-paying and
highly coveted, tech jobs have
become less secure and less at-
tractive to many in recent years.
As a result, workers are more
willing to take a lower-paying job,
make a lateral move, or seek out
alternative job opportunities.
for a former meta user experi-
ence researcher in the Bay Area,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to avoid hurting her
future employment prospects,
the job hunt has been tough since
her layoff last April. originally
employed in academia, she
joined the industry to expand her
knowledge and ensure job secu-
rity, good benefits and higher pay.
“It was the perception of stabil-
ity,” she said about joining the
tech industry. “Yet here we are.”

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$3,500 Apple Vision Pro is ‘spatial computing’ . . . whatever that means
BY SHIRA OVIDE
Apple insists that its $3,500
Vision Pro ski goggles, which offi-
cially debuted Friday, is not virtu-
al reality but “spatial computing.”
One problem: No one agrees on
the definition of spatial comput-
ing. Ask 10 people in technology
and you might get 12 answers.
What Apple calls a spatial com-
puter, some technologists call
“mixed reality” — or possibly
“augmented reality,” “holograph-
ic computing,” “the metaverse” or
“XR,” which some people say is
shorthand for “extended reality.”
Others say the letters don’t stand
for anything.
Technologists parse different
meanings from these terms. And
this is confusing for just about
everyone.
“Even I can’t get my head on
straight of what things mean all
of the time,” said Alex Coulombe,
co-founder of Agile Lens, which
calls itself an XR company. Cou-
lombe started to tell me that
spatial computing and XR are the
same — but changed his mind
midsentence.
It’s revelatory when a term
encapsulates a product or your
emotions — “podcast” or “lan-
guishing.” When a technology
can’t define itself clearly, it’s a
roadblock to feeling like it’s right
for you.
Let’s run through the nonsense
words and how the gibberish
jousting shows that none of these
computers for your face are what
you or their creators really want.
Oh, and if you’ve assumed the
Vision Pro is a virtual reality
headset — you’re basically right.
What is spatial computing,
anyway?
I’m going to define it as an
immersive video feed of the phys-
ical world plus the internet.
When you strap on the Vision
Pro, you can watch a movie
through the screen on your face
and see your living room around
you. You can pull up a recipe app
through Apple’s headset and posi-
tion virtual cooking timers above
your pots as you follow the in-
structions.
But you’re not seeing the real
world. You’re seeing a nearly live
streaming video of your living
room or kitchen with apps super-
imposed on there. Meta’s $500
Quest 3 headset works this way,
too.
Some technologists use terms
such as “mixed reality” to de-
scribe a combination of virtual
elements and a digital feed of
your physical environment. Or
“pass-through.” I’m sorry.
Some experts instead use spa-
tial computing as a catchall term
Four big takeaways from last week’s
Senate hearing on kids’ online safety
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by cristiano lima-strong
Senators grilled the CEOs of
Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and
Discord for nearly four hours
Wednesday about allegations the
companies are amplifying and
facilitating child abuse on their
platforms.
The session — the highest-
profile congressional hearing yet
to focus on child sexual abuse
material, or CSAM — came as
lawmakers try to build
momentum to revitalize the
numerous children’s safety bills
that have languished since
advancing out of their
committees last year.
Here are our four big
takeaways:
Lawmakers put grief-stricken
parents front and center
Parents of children whose
deaths have been linked to social
media were literally and
figuratively at the forefront of
Wednesday’s hearing, with
lawmakers invoking the stories
of family members in attendance
as dozens of them sat directly
behind the tech executives. The
committee reserved more than
half a dozen rows for the families
and other children’s safety
advocates, a decision that left an
indelible mark on the tone of the
hearing.
Lawmakers expressed hope
that the families’ support could
help energize legislative efforts.
“To all those who held a photo
today, if we’re able to be
successful, your loved one did
not die in vain,” Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-S.C.) said at a news
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for a range of technologies, in-
cluding 3D images, virtual reality
and smartphone games such as
“Pokémon Go.” Other people use
XR as a catchall term.
An Apple representative didn’t
respond when I asked how the
company defines spatial comput-
ing.
Even the experts don’t agree!
It’s probably best if no one uses
any of these words. (I hereby vow
to avoid them.)
“The industry loves to argue
about these terms,” said Anshel
Sag, principal analyst with Moor
Insights & Strategy. “Most of the
terminologies we use today are
irrelevant to the layman.”
Actually, the Vision Pro is
mostly VR
After days of conversations
that left me dizzy, most experts
agreed on a verbal shortcut.
Most of the digital-plus-physi-
cal experiences that companies
might call spatial computing, the
metaverse, mixed reality, blah
blah blah, are on a continuum
conference after the hearing. “My
goal is to make sure that your
suffering will end other people’s
potential suffering.”
Tech CEOs come around
on children’s safety bills
Senators repeatedly chastised
the executives for not taking a
consistently firm stance on key
bills under consideration,
including the STOP CSAM Act
and the Kids Online Safety Act
(KOSA). But the committee did
notch some notable
endorsements.
Snap’s Evan Spiegel, for
example, reaffirmed the
company’s support for KOSA in
his opening testimony, and X’s
Linda Yaccarino endorsed
several proposals, including the
STOP CSAM Act.
Snap became the first tech
company to back KOSA, and Sen.
Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said X was
the first to support his STOP
CSAM Act. Lawmakers have
blamed industry lobbying for
tanking many of their legislative
efforts and have been eager to
win over key players.
“That is progress, my friends,”
Durbin said after Yaccarino’s
remarks.
Senators want this to become
an election issue
Durbin and Graham, the
Senate Judiciary Committee’s
chair and ranking Republican,
have both suggested in recent
days that the key to unlocking
Congress’s agenda on children’s
safety could be amplifying the
topic as an election issue.
Asked what could finally help
bills get signed into law, Durbin
told me: “It has to become a
bigger national issue politically,
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T
HE 2024 election is shaping up to be much
more than a likely rematch between Presi-
dent Biden and former president Donald
Trump — or even as a test of their
competing visions for U.S. democracy. To a greater
extent than any other moment since the 1920
debate over U.S. entry into the
EdiTOriaL League of Nations, this country’s
role in the world will be on the
ballot. At the same time, the United States faces
critical global challenges in Ukraine, the Middle
East, East Asia and elsewhere.
Assuming they do end up facing each other in
November, Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump will offer
voters a stark choice between the former’s support
for the network of alliances and international
institutions the United States helped create after
World War II and the latter’s “America First”
approach. In that sense, U.S. voters will not be
choosing a direction for their country alone but for
the world as a whole.
The assumption underlying such institutions as
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the
mutual defense agreements that bind the United
States with Japan and South Korea is that security
is not a zero-sum proposition. By committing
resources over extended periods and combining
LETTErs TO ThE EdiTOr
Maryland is left twisting in the wind
Orsted’s announcement that it is suspending
offshore wind projects in Maryland should cause
Maryland’s climate activists to reconsider their plans
going forward. Fortunately, there is a better
alternative available.
Maryland fell in love with offshore wind. It was,
the state said, clean, green, safe and affordable.
Orsted became Maryland’s seemingly ideal suitor.
Not only would it build offshore wind farms; it
would also create manufacturing operations for the
entire East Coast right here.
Seemingly, the affair is now over. Last month,
Orsted canceled its Maryland contract.
This hurts. It would appear to put Maryland in a
pickle. Maryland, though, does have an old clean-
energy standby: nuclear energy.
Nuclear energy beats offshore wind in practically
every category but public perception. Its safety
record is superior. It uses fewer materials and less
land. It tracks and maintains its waste safely. Yes,
public perception is a problem. It is, however,
changing as climate change becomes more and more
apparent. When all other options are eliminated,
whatever is left must be the answer.
Intriguingly, newer nuclear technologies, such as
breeder reactors, especially factory-produced small
modular reactors, offer essentially renewable
solutions. Breeder reactors generate their own fuel
using recycled fuel from older plants. This
transforms nuclear energy into an almost limitless
resource. Maybe it is time for a new infatuation.
Factory-produced reactors are the way to move
toward net zero carbon emissions. Maryland needs
to switch course toward that clean-energy future —
and as quickly as possible.
Bill Temmink, Joppa, Md.
Understanding natural gas exports
Regarding the Jan. 30 editorial, “Mr. Biden’s LNG
pause is just political theater”:
The Energy Department is updating the economic
and environmental analysis used to determine
whether liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to non-
Free Trade Agreement countries are in the “public
interest,” as required by the Natural Gas Act. As this
review takes place, the Energy Department is pausing
new non-FTA export applications. This action is
aligned with the department’s responsibility to
consider energy affordability, energy security at home
and abroad, and environmental risks.
The Energy Department is temporarily pausing
new authorizations until a new assessment is
complete. Our last assessments were updated in 2018
and 2019. Since then, U.S. LNG exports have more
than tripled, making the United States the largest
exporter of LNG. Further, we have authorized almost
three times more than today’s large volumes — in
projects that are under construction or awaiting a
final investment decision. This pause does not affect
projects previously authorized.
We need to know what these greatly expanded
exports mean for affordable and stable prices for
American consumers and industries.
Because LNG export facilities are huge
infrastructure projects that will have impacts for
decades, we must understand and evaluate long-term
effects on local communities and our global climate.
This pause is not a retroactive review of already
authorized exports. It will not disrupt projects under
construction or impair domestic jobs on those
projects. It will not ban U.S. LNG from the market,
and it will continue to keep our allies well-supplied. It
is not unprecedented, as the Energy Department has
regularly updated our LNG analysis.
A lot has changed since our last update. Americans
should have the latest understanding of what higher
exports mean for our economy, our security, our
environment and our health before U.S. energy leaves
our shores. Those saying otherwise are asking the
DOE — a department based in facts, data and science
— to operate willfully blind to the realities around us.
Jennifer M. Granholm, Washington
The writer is the secretary of energy.
The fossil fuel industry wants us to believe that
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them, taking mutual advantage of differing capa-
bilities, countries can make themselves far safer
than would have been possible if they acted
unilaterally or in temporary concert. Mr. Biden
believes this is still a workable model, which is why
he is trying to apply and expand it to deter the
challenge to NATO posed by Russia’s aggression
against Ukraine.
Mr. Trump, by contrast, has repeatedly depicted
security alliances not as prudent long-term invest-
ments but as free rides for allies who get
U.S. protection but do not shoulder their fair share
of the defense burden. This is why Mr. Trump is
pushing to end America’s support for Ukraine and
hinting at a separate peace of some kind with
Russia’s Vladimir Putin. His campaign website
promises “fundamentally reevaluating NATO’s
purpose and NATO’s mission.”
Self-absorbed and easily swayed by honeyed
words and calculated attention from autocrats
such as North Korea’s Kim Jong Un — as opposed to
longstanding U.S. geopolitical interests — he
inconsistently directs venom at China’s predatory
trade practices and admiration for that country’s
leader, Xi Jinping. This sows uncertainty that can
only concern not just Taiwan but also the wider
range of allies and partners that includes Vietnam,
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expanding liquefied national gas (LNG) exports
wouldn’t increase global climate pollution, when, in
reality, it would make it nearly impossible for the
United States to reach its climate goals.
In an effort to protect their already sky-high profits,
polluting industries are spreading misinformation
about “economic turmoil” in Europe and higher
energy prices at home. The editorial itself pointed out
that the European Commission said the decision will
have no short- or medium-term impact on the E.U.’s
gas supply, and the truth about pricing is that when
we sell more LNG abroad, U.S. consumers face more
competition and higher energy prices.
The Biden administration made the right call for
our climate, our communities and our future by
pausing approvals of new LNG exports. It’s
disappointing that the editorial ignored the facts and
echoed the fossil fuel industry’s false and outrageous
claims when it has never been clearer that we must
transition to a more equitable and just clean-energy
future.
Tiernan Sittenfeld, Washington
The writer is senior vice president for government
affairs at the League of Conservation Voters.
Describing the Biden administration’s pause of new
gas export projects as “political theater” completely
missed the moral and scientific reality of this
moment.
We just came off the hottest year on record, with
heat, storms and wildfires costing thousands of lives
and billions of dollars. Each new oil and gas project
worsens the interlinked climate, environmental
justice, public health and wildlife extinction crises. In
fact, my colleagues’ research shows current and
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the Philippines, Australia and India. The Eurasia
Group, a risk consultancy, has warned that a Trump
return would raise foundational questions about
America’s trustworthiness as well as “the credibili-
ty of its commitments to foreign partners, and the
durability of its role as the lynchpin of the global
security order.” We wish it were exaggerating.
We say this in full awareness of the fact that
Mr. Biden’s record is hardly perfect. Also, there are
weaknesses in the U.S.-sponsored global security
and economic architecture, such as the European
allies’ neglect of military contributions to NATO
and China’s mercantilist exploitation of its mem-
bership in the World Trade Organization.
Mr. Trump has exploited these valid issues, albeit
by exaggerating them. But if his harsh words
helped force Europe to boost spending, well and
good. In the case of trade, there is less disagree-
ment between him and Mr. Biden than there is on
alliances and security — unfortunately. His protec-
tionist turn actually represents a point of conver-
gence between him and the president, who has,
alas, maintained many of Mr. Trump’s tariffs and
even alienated European allies by using subsidies
designed to steer green energy investment to the
United States.
At the same time, Mr. Trump’s brand of America
pending fossil fuel approvals by this administration
severely undermine the emissions reductions in the
Inflation Reduction Act.
The only sustainable way forward, for the planet
and geopolitical stability, is to advance the clean-
energy transition as rapidly as possible.
The United States is already the No. 1 exporter of
liquefied natural gas, which raises energy prices at
home and makes sacrifice zones of Gulf of Mexico
communities.
It makes no sense to double down on dirty energy
for decades when energy forecasts show declining oil
and gas demand in Europe as it transitions to clean
energy.
For the first time, the Biden administration has
committed to properly evaluating the climate,
environmental justice, economic and foreign policy
harms of gas exports. That’s a good start. If it leads to
rejecting all fossil fuel projects as contrary to the
public interest, that would be even better.
Jason Rylander, Arlington
The writer is legal director of the Center for
Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute.
The Jan. 30 editorial on liquefied natural gas
significantly misrepresented the climate and
economic impacts of natural gas exports in the United
States.
Since 2000, U.S. natural gas production has grown
more than twice as fast as U.S. natural gas demand.
About 20 percent of all natural gas produced in the
United States is exported. Projects currently
permitted and under construction will roughly
double existing export capacity by 2027 — that is
locked in and not affected by the announcement.
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First is ascendant within the GOP but not unani-
mous. Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the
United Nations and governor of South Carolina, is
still running against him and speaking for the
Republican Party’s internationalist wing. Most
Senate Republicans still support Ukraine. Part of
what’s so concerning about the prospect of an
isolationist second Trump presidency is that it
would defy majority sentiment: 65 percent of
Americans want the United States to play a
“leading” or “major” role in world affairs, accord-
ing to the most recent Gallup Poll.
In short, U.S. foreign policy has evolved but still
can rely on its time-tested essentials. Mr. Biden is
far likelier to make sure of that than Mr. Trump.
One way to gauge the radical changes that might lie
in store is through the anticipatory words and
deeds of leaders abroad. Mr. Putin shows no signs
of backing down in Ukraine or negotiating peace
because he obviously hopes for a better deal from
Mr. Trump. Democratic leaders in Europe, by
contrast, speak nervously of hedging against
Trump Round 2. Whether or not he wins,
Mr. Trump has already created a more dangerous
world, in which the power and principles of the
United States are seen not as constants but as
variables.
Asia is the largest market for new U.S. natural gas
exports, not Europe. And one need look no further
than the 2022 Freeport terminal explosion in Texas,
which led to a 30 percent reduction in domestic
natural gas prices (as the increased domestic supply
enhanced U.S. consumers’ negotiating power) to
prove that increasing exports to chase higher-priced
foreign markets do, in fact, increase domestic natural
gas prices.
Finally, natural gas liquefaction consumes roughly
14 percent of the energy in the natural gas — and if all
the projects currently seeking export permits were
built, the resulting carbon dioxide emissions would
exceed the current CO2 emissions of the entire
European Union.
There are plenty of natural gas producers and
exporters who would like the public to believe that
their interests are aligned with U.S. energy
consumers, that natural gas exports primarily
displace Russian exports to Europe or that natural gas
combustion lowers CO2 emissions. None of those
things is true.
Sean Casten, Washington
The writer, a Democrat,
represents Illinois in the House.
The Jan. 30 editorial found fault with President
Biden’s proposal to limit future liquefied natural gas
sales because we need them to counter autocratic
regimes that use energy as a political weapon. It failed
to acknowledge or understand that the way to solve
that problem is to eliminate dependence on fossil
fuels, not to perpetuate the use of them. That was
advice given to us by Jimmy Carter nearly 50 years
ago, but we never followed it. It’s about time we did.
Richard Tolin, Lakewood Ranch, Fla.
Getting tough with Jan. 6 defendants
Regarding Ruth Marcus’s Jan. 30 Tuesday
Opinion column, “This federal judge is fed up with
falsehoods about the Jan. 6 rioters”:
I agree with U.S. District Judge Royce
C. Lamberth’s statements. Infuriatingly, the
sentences meted out to the Jan. 6, 2021,
insurrectionists mock the seriousness of the crimes
committed. These criminals are free after short
sentences for an armed insurgency on Congress.
They tried to destroy my country and the peaceful
transfer of power. That they still can be U.S. citizens
is an affront to those who voted in free and fair
elections and who truly love this country. The
sentences are an abomination, as are the rioters.
Victoria Brombacher, Vienna
The IRS leak was a service
Regarding the Jan. 30 front-page article
“Maximum sentence for high-profile tax ‘heist’ ”:
Americans maintain the dubious cultural belief
that incomes should be secret. In opposition to that
belief, the pay of all Maryland state employees is
published yearly. Maryland’s yearly revelation serves
as a tonic. How else would taxpayers learn that the
highest-paid state employee is the university’s football
coach and not the president of the university?
Meanwhile, former president Donald Trump and
the IRS continue to argue that the pay and tax-
avoidance shenanigans of federal big shots should not
be revealed to the public.
The public should demand to know why Mr. Trump
and the richest Americans are allowed to escape their
duty as citizens and why that information is withheld
from public scrutiny. Charles Littlejohn joins Edward
Snowden in publicizing information that the public
needs to know.
Greg Johnson, Greenbelt
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kraine and its allies heaved a
sigh of relief Thursday when
European leaders approved a
$54 billion economic aid pack-
age, skirting a threatened veto by Hun-
garian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. But
the move, while providing Kyiv with
some breathing room, was a reminder
that alarm bells should still be ringing —
and not mainly because of Orban.
Think of Ukraine as a family inhabit-
ing a house. In effect, the European
Union’s assistance will help the family
feed and clothe itself for the next four
years — even as an earthquake cracks the
foundation under their feet and razes the
walls around them.
The earthquake, of course, is Russia,
which has systematically laid waste to
Ukraine’s cities, towns and infrastruc-
ture. The World Bank pegged the recon-
struction bill at $411 billion. That was
nearly a year ago, and it was on the low
end of estimates that ranged to $1 trillion.
Let’s not forget recent history. When
the European Union’s $54 billion assis-
tance proposal was unveiled in June in
conjunction with an international do-
nors’ conference in London, it was the
lowest of various sums under consider-
ation and framed as part of a reconstruc-
tion program.
The reality is that from now until 2027,
the E.U. funds will mainly go to cover part
of Kyiv’s bulging budget shortfall, about
$3 billion monthly, which accounts for
roughly half of the government’s overall
annual spending. Almost 50 percent of
Ukrainian public funds are spent on
defense, simply to boost its odds of
survival against Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin’s onslaught.
Little of the E.U. money will be spent
on long-term reconstruction; more will
go to pay salaries for teachers and sol-
diers, manufacture arms munitions, and
patch up missile-blasted port and electri-
cal facilities.
And this winter, it’s a safe bet that
Putin, who has shifted the Russian econ-
omy to a war footing, devoting a third of
government spending to the military, will
continue to blow up Ukraine’s critical
facilities as fast as Kyiv can repair them.
What’s more, most of the E.U. funds
will be dispensed as loans, not grants,
meaning Kyiv will be expected to repay
them at some point. That’s hardly realis-
tic for the foreseeable future, but it’s what
the politicians and bureaucrats in Brus-
sels could manage.
That goes to the underlying problem:
Europe, like the United States, pays con-
stant lip service to the fact that Ukraine is
fighting not just for its own survival but
also to defend the rules-based interna-
tional order. Yet measured against those
very high stakes, and against its own
enormous resources, the E.U.’s financial
commitment is meager.
Granted, Europe is a model of pru-
dence compared with the United States.
In Washington, funding for Ukraine has
dried up completely, owing to a handful
of right-wing Republican lawmakers in
thrall to Donald Trump, who is no friend
of Ukraine’s. The dysfunction on Capitol
Hill is an appalling blow to American
prestige and self-interest.
Yet by various measures, the E.U.’s
commitment is inadequate to the chal-
lenge, and paltry when measured against
the continent’s resources.
Europe is rich. The bloc’s 27 nations
collectively represent one-sixth of the
world’s economy; collectively, the E.U.’s
economic output is nearly the size of
China’s. During the pandemic, it ap-
proved $800 billion in relief funds for
member states. About a quarter of that
was earmarked to Italy, which is the
world’s eighth-largest economy.
If the E.U. can mete out more than
$200 billion for Italy, which, despite
chronic growth problems, is prosperous
and at peace, it is fair to ask why it can
muster just $54 billion for Ukraine,
which is locked in an existential struggle.
That question is likely to become more
pressing as the West confronts the chal-
lenge of rebuilding, given the staggering
scale of destruction in Ukraine. Already,
that task has shifted the debate over
seizing Russian assets frozen in the West
and Japan, including more than $200 bil-
lion in European banks.
So far, an outright seizure remains
widely seen as legally and economically
risky. But lately E.U. officials have
warmed to the idea of using the interest
generated by Moscow’s frozen assets as a
down payment on the cost of repairing
what Russia has broken in Ukraine.
That would be a smart opening move,
generating nearly $5 billion annually for
Kyiv. Eventually, though, if Western lead-
ers shy away from seizing the Russian
assets themselves, the remaining alterna-
tives are few and unappealing. Without
using Moscow’s funds, “it’s Western tax-
payers and governments — there’s no-
body else,” economist Sergei Guriev, pro-
vost of the university Sciences Po in Paris,
told me.
Orban is surely a thorn in the E.U.’s
side, but European leaders showed last
week that he can be managed — and
tamed. Now it’s time for the same leaders
to take a hard look at what more they
can do.
I stopped trying to sleep — and
found a di≠erent self in the night
BY A NNABEL A BBS- S TREETS
I’
m closing my bedroom cur-
tains when something catch-
es my eye. I open the window
and crane upward. A crescent
moon hangs like a slice of ice among
a diaspora of stars. I should try again
to sleep. But the stars are too bright,
too beautiful, flickering too wildly.
Suddenly, I long to be outside, and
I do something I have never done. I
shunt a mattress out of the window
to a narrow ledge of metal roof and
make myself a bed — sheet, pillow,
duvet. I crawl into it, unsure whether
the roof will hold or the English rain
will hold off. I lie back and look up.
My world shifts on its axis.
Nights spent outside are just some
of the many nocturnal journeys I’ve
since taken. But they were the first to
transform my relationship with
sleeplessness. Of all the gifts of my
insomnia — and there were many —
the night sky was one of the most
poignant and profound.
It showed me that all those wide-
awake hours didn’t have to be rumi-
native and anxious, that my sleepless
self was not an enemy to be battled,
sedated and despaired of. Instead,
she could be my ally, a friendly
teacher with wisdom to impart and
experiences to share.
My penchant for open air nights
might be unusual; my inability to
sleep is not. In 2020, nearly 1 in 5
adults in the United States had
trouble falling or staying asleep most
nights. Up to half of U.S. adults
experience insomnia from time to
time. At the last count, 8 percent
were taking prescription sleep medi-
cation and 11 percent were regularly
forking out for sleep aids.
But though huge amounts of time
and money have been spent explor-
ing the sleeping and the sleep-
deprived brain, virtually nothing has
been invested in understanding the
brain in its awake-at-night state.
My sleep began to fragment in my
early 30s. Pregnant with my first
Protecting abortion care keeps America safe
BY L OUIS C ALDERA,
R AY M ABUS AND D EBORAH J AMES
T
he tragic attack on our troops at
Tower 22 in Jordan is a stark
reminder of how those in
uniform might give their lives at
any moment in service to our country.
Two of the three soldiers killed were
women. They lost their lives for a
country that is moving to restrict the
rights of all women — including those
in uniform.
Though it might not seem to be a
military issue, the Supreme Court will
soon decide a case that will affect the
armed forces and hundreds of
thousands of women who serve in
uniform — as well as those civilians we
need to recruit. The question before the
court is whether to severely limit access
to mifepristone, one of two drugs used
for medication abortions up to 10 weeks
of pregnancy. Medication abortions
make up more than half of the cases in
the United States.
Threatening vital reproductive health
care will only make it harder to recruit
and retain women across the military
and meet the security challenges of a
dangerous world. That is precisely
why we, as former secretaries of the
Army, Navy and Air Force, felt com-
pelled to join with retired general
officers in filing a landmark amicus
brief to the Supreme Court with the
eZ
opinion
child and working in a demanding
corporate job, I pushed on, assuming
the wakefulness would eventually
pass. It didn’t. After five years of
night-feeds, sick toddlers and early
morning conference calls, I quit the
corporate job. Surely I would sleep
now?
I didn’t. For another two decades I
tried pills, oils, bedding, endless
“sleep hygiene routines” and the rest
of what the $101 billion sleep indus-
try has to offer. Eventually, wearily, I
whiled away my nights listening to
audiobooks and podcasts. Mean-
while, I panicked about imminent
death, impending obesity, heart dis-
ease and dementia, and the criminal
tendencies that, according to some
experts, I’d accrue.
Three years ago, I snapped. A
series of family deaths within a
six-week period left me awake for
hours every night. Audiobooks no
longer soothed me.
As it happened, I was already
researching women of the pre-
sleeping-pill past. Many had wel-
comed the wee hours as a space for
solitude, reflection and study. I
called these women my “night
spinners.”
Their accounts prompted me to
dig around in the corners of my own
insomniac brain. Instead of seeking
distraction from my churning
thoughts, I tried to describe and
name them. I sensed a subtly differ-
ent sort of mind, less inclined to
judge, more receptive, imaginative
and fearful, with the ears of an
elephant and the nostrils of a blood-
hound. I called her my Night Self.
When light drains from the sky,
our bodies respond. Hormones rise
and fall, dead skin cells are shed, we
metabolize alcohol more slowly, our
appetite shrinks, our blood pressure
drops, our temperature falls, and
much more besides. Come the eve-
ning hour, the darkness, wrote
Virginia Woolf, “we are no longer
quite ourselves.”
As my own night journeys went
nonpartisan Vet Voice Foundation.
Our filing marked the first time that
former defense professionals and re-
tired military officers have weighed in
on a Supreme Court abortion case on
national security grounds.
Although there are a number of barri-
ers to receiving reproductive care, serv-
ice members for now can still obtain safe
and effective medication abortions
without visiting a doctor’s office. Mife-
pristone offers a less expensive, more
private and convenient method of abor-
tion care, including for those women
stationed in remote locations and to
whom the military cannot provide care
directly.
This case could not come at a worse
time. We are deeply concerned about
our country’s defense readiness. The
Army, Navy and Air Force all failed to
meet recruiting goals last fiscal year.
Men in particular have lost interest in
joining the military, and the number of
people who meet its rigorous enlistment
standards has gone down.
Women are critical to our military.
But for many, the demands and chal-
lenges can be career-ending. Female
service members are 28 percent more
likely to leave military service, driven in
part by difficulties with family planning
and child care. Reducing that attrition
rate — combined with bringing in new
female recruits — is essential to main-
taining America’s military readiness
re
iSabel Seliger FOr the WaShingtOn POSt
on, and as my knowledge grew of the
sleepless habits of past women, a
handful of illuminating studies fell
into my inbox. These hinted that
insomnia and darkness were infi-
nitely more nuanced than headlines
suggested. Most serendipitous was a
pioneering study on the “Mind after
Midnight.” A group of American
sleep researchers found evidence
that chimed with my own experi-
ences and historical gleanings. The
brain, it appears, resets for nocturne.
Some regions go into partial hiber-
nation, others bloom.
No one yet understands how or
why, but at night many of us think,
feel, behave in ways we might not
during daylight. I, for one, am a little
more reckless, with a yen for wistful-
ness and whimsy. This is how I found
myself outside on that fateful starry
night.
I continued to head out when
weather permitted. And — released
from the anxious grip of the sleep
industry and my own fears — I went
further. I followed in the footsteps
of the legions of women who once
snatched time from the night to
write, paint, pray, photograph or
simply to observe moths, bats,
glowworms.
I discovered dozens of living wom-
en, too, who have made peace with
their restive nights — who walk
cities and forests alone, who swim on
full moons or who make art, courtesy
of their creative night brains.
Which is to say, I discovered wom-
en who flower in darkness, who
thrive on all that we’ve been taught
to fear and avoid. I was grateful to
the researchers diligently shedding
light on the therapeutic nature of
darkness. But when my sleep even-
tually returned, it was my night
spinners that I thanked. It has been
my privilege to join them.
annabel abbs-Streets is a writer based in
london and Sussex. her latest book is
“Sleepless: Unleashing the Subversive
Power of the night Self.”
and protecting our national security.
Mifepristone has provided military
women and veterans safe and effective
care they need, regardless of where they
are stationed or deployed. When women
are forced to take extended leave and
travel out of state to access health care,
their units are deprived of full staffing,
and the women’s morale and careers
suffer. Moreover, delays in accessing
care increase the health risk associated
with abortion.
Military service requires many sacri-
fices, including being stationed in loca-
tions where access to reproductive care
is already hard to find. Undermining our
female service members’ physical and
mental well-being could have disastrous
consequences.
Those who take an oath and wear the
uniform will always do their duty and
put their lives on the line for us. But
those who defend America should not —
while on the front lines or training to
defeat our nation’s enemies — also have
to fight for reproductive care and bodily
autonomy. That is more than a matter of
principle. It’s a matter of national
security.
louis Caldera is a former army secretary and
former director of the White house Military
Office. ray Mabus is a former navy
secretary. Deborah James is a former air
Force secretary and former assistant
defense secretary for reserve affairs.
a13
E.J. DionnE Jr.
Yes, Trump
should be
thrown off
the ballot
I
t is annoying when your political judg-
ments come into conflict with what you
decide is right. That’s what has hap-
pened to me on the question of whether
Donald Trump should be barred from run-
ning for president under Section 3 of the
14th Amendment.
The section disqualifies from office those
who took an oath to support the Constitu-
tion and then engaged “in insurrection or
rebellion against the same” or gave “aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof.”
When a narrowly divided Colorado Su-
preme Court threw Trump off the state’s
primary ballot in December on the basis of
Section 3’s plain language, my initial reac-
tion was, well, political — and skeptical.
Though I agreed that Trump had, indeed,
engaged in insurrection, I thought it would
be best for the country to have him go down
to defeat again in a free and fair election.
Keeping him on the ballot so voters could
decide was the path to long-term institu-
tional stability and might finally force a
reckoning in the Republican Party.
Many people I respect continue to hold
versions of this view. But the more I read
and listened, the clearer it became that
Section 3 was directed against precisely the
conduct Trump engaged in. Its purpose is to
protect the republic from those who would
shred the Constitution and destroy our
system of self-government. What Trump did
in advance of the attack on the Capitol and
on Jan. 6, 2021, legally disqualifies him from
the presidency.
The record is clear that the legislators
who wrote and enacted the amendment in
the wake of the Civil War were not just
thinking of the Confederacy’s leaders but
also of “the leaders of any rebellion hereaf-
ter to come.”
Those are the words of John B. Hender-
son, a Republican senator from Missouri,
when he cast his vote for the amendment in
1866. They are recorded in a powerful
amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court
by a distinguished group of historians of the
era: Jill Lepore, David Blight, Drew Gilpin
Faust and John Fabian Witt.
The amendment’s authors, they argue,
“hoped not only to prevent a resurgence of
secessionism but also to protect future gen-
erations against insurrectionism.” It was
intended “to bar anyone who has betrayed
an oath to uphold the Constitution from
becoming President of the United States.”
They back up these assertions with a
compelling 34-page account of what the
framers of the amendment intended and
why they wrote it as they did. The essay
should encourage conservatives on the Su-
preme Court, which hears the case on
Thursday, to ponder words they love: “origi-
nalism” and “textualism.”
Other historically minded briefs made it
harder for me to stick with my earlier,
prudent view. A group of 25 historians,
including James McPherson, the Civil War’s
premier chronicler, and Nell Irvin Painter, a
specialist in Black and Southern history,
cite the congressional debate on Section 3 to
show that it plainly applies to the office of
the president. They offer clear evidence that
implementing the section “did not require
additional acts of Congress,” as some de-
fenders of Trump claim.
Sherrilyn Ifill, a Howard Law School
professor and former president of the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, shows how the
clause to disqualify insurrectionists is close-
ly linked to the 14th Amendment’s core
purpose, “a bold and expansive promise of
citizenship for Black people.” Its framers
were preoccupied with the “ongoing resis-
tance to full Black citizenship by southern
states” and feared that “Black men who had
been loyal to the Union . . . would be disen-
franchised, while disloyal white former
Confederates would be rewarded with the
vote.”
Trump is a present-day embodiment of
their fears, she wrote, having offered “a false
narrative discrediting the votes cast in juris-
dictions with high concentrations of Black
voters,” including Detroit, Philadelphia and
Atlanta.
And to argue that barring Trump from
the ballot is “antidemocratic,” wrote profes-
sors Carol Anderson and Ian Farrell in
another brief, is “ironic . . . as he bears by far
the most responsibility for attempting to
subvert democracy on Jan. 6.” An effort to
overthrow constitutional procedures, wrote
Ifill, should be distinguished from political
protests, even those “accompanied by spo-
radic acts of violence.” Demonstrators are
not the same as a mob trying to hijack the
government.
There are paradoxes galore on this mat-
ter. Believing Trump should be unable to
run, for example, is the opposite of a parti-
san wish, since he is without question the
weakest Republican whom President Biden
could face. Another: Even if Colorado was
right to block Trump from the ballot, it
shouldn’t be allowed to do so on states’
rights grounds alone. This is a national
question, and the court should not duck the
fundamental issues at stake — though my
hunch is that the court might look for a way
to punt.
The biggest paradox of all: Throwing
Trump off the ballot would seem, on its face,
the opposite of democracy. Yet the whole
point of Section 3 is to protect constitution-
al democracy from anyone who has already
tried to destroy it. If its provisions don’t
apply to Trump, they don’t apply to anyone.
The court would not be disqualifying him.
He disqualified himself.
A14
PILOT PROGRAM from A1
The Washington Post spoke to
several mothers throughout the
year. Some used the funds to set
up their first savings account or
buy baby formula. others used it
to live the lives they had always
dreamed for their families, help-
ing cushion their savings to buy a
new home — or just live large for a
week: a new hairdo and a trip to
miami with new outfits every day
for the children.
Here is how their lives were
changed.
Canethia Miller
Mother of three
Payment choice: Lump sum of
$10,800
for Canethia miller, 27, being
accepted into the pilot felt like a
stroke of good fortune: She had
missed the application deadline
but submitted her paperwork any-
way and eventually made it off the
waiting list.
She was a stay-at-home mom
when her third child, Nazir, was
born in summer 2022, making
things work financially through a
host of public benefits.
Her two-bedroom apartment in
Anacostia is subsidized, and with
Temporary Assistance to Needy
families (TANf) as her only in-
come, her rent payments are about
$120 a month. food stamps and
WIC, a program that offers nutri-
tional support for low-income
mothers, offered another lifeline
for miller to provide for her infant
and two older children, ages 5 and
8. But making these benefits last
through the month is another sto-
ry.
“Groceries last us the first three
weeks of the month, then it’s try-
ing to figure out the last week of
my benefits,” she said. “It lasts, but
it cuts close.”
By August 2022, miller was
looking for affordable day care for
Nazir and part-time work, but she
struggled to find a job with hours
flexible enough to get her other
children to and from school. She
had pursued a bachelor’s degree in
social work but paused her own
education to focus on her growing
family.
Then came the pilot. After set-
ting aside some of the money for
essential expenses, she made a
major decision on how to spend
the bulk of it.
“Some of it I just left alone. The
other side is, I wanted to blow it. I
wanted to have fun,” she said.
“[my kids] got to experience some-
thing I would never have been
able to do if I didn’t have that
money.”
The five-day, $6,000 trip to mi-
ami was a dramatic upgrade from
the ocean City and Virginia Beach
visits that miller’s family was used
to. Joined by the children’s father,
a boat tour exposed them to mil-
lion-dollar homes and luxury
yachts. Her kids went to a dino-
saur museum and saw animals in
florida’s swamps they had never
seen before. miller still talks about
trying Benihana, a Japanese steak
and sushi restaurant, for the first
time.
Some of the money went
toward preparations for the trip:
new clothes, shoes, gadgets and
toys. “Every outfit they wore was
new,” she added.
In what she called a rare mo-
ment of self-indulgence, miller
spent $180 ahead of the vacation
to get her own hair and nails done,
a glow-up from her usual inexpen-
sive short, dyed style. Her eyes
light up when she swipes through
an album of photos from their
trip.
“Do you know how good I look
in this picture?” she exclaimed. “I
didn’t have to look like a working,
stressed mom.”
But miller says the trip served a
greater purpose. on a normal day,
she tries to encourage her kids to
work hard academically by show-
ing them videos of students gradu-
ating early or being praised for
doing well in school as the key to
success. At miami Beach, they got
to see luxury firsthand.
She also wants to set a good
example: miller says she was nev-
er taught about financial literacy
in school or by her parents. But the
infusion of cash, and financial
literacy courses offered through
the program, has helped her with
some firsts. She opened up a sav-
ings account, aiming to keep at
least $50 in it. She used the re-
maining $4,000 or so from the
pilot in a matter of months, mostly
on bills and a used car.
“A lot of communities in my
area don’t know the financial gain
of credit, saving for your kids;
that’s why we’re broke, that’s why
we don’t have nothing to pass
down or no house to give down,”
miller said. “I’m trying to get to
the level where I’m passing some-
thing down that really matters, so
I can be set and my kids can be set,
and they don’t need to push so
hard like I’m doing now.”
meanwhile, she coaches flag
football part time and is taking a
free course on information tech-
nology at a local adult charter
school. She expects to graduate in
february with a remote job that
could pay $30 an hour — a devel-
opment she credits to increased
confidence from the pilot.
eZ Re
Pilot program gives families new opportunities
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TOP: Participants gather at Martha’s Table in Southeast Washington on May 20 to celebrate completing one year of the program.
ABOVE LEFT: Stacie Adams’s daughter Zoe, who turned 4, enjoys a cupcake at her birthday party in January 2023 at a Chuck E.
Cheese in Alexandria. ABOVE RIGHT: Adams’s son, Aiden, then 6, points out the gifts that are for him under the family’s Christmas
tree as his sisters, Onika, who was 9 months, and Zoe, then 3, look for their gifts at their D.C. apartment on Dec. 21, 2022.
Erika James would just be swipe, swipe, swipe
— it’s better to put it in her ac-
Mother of two count,” James said. “I look in my
Payment choice: monthly pay- bank statement and see De’Vire
ments of $900 and I want to touch it, but I know I
When Erika James became can’t.”
pregnant in 2021, her mother of- But after expenses began piling
fered congratulations — and a up, James started to wonder if she
warning. should have gone with the lump
“It’s going to be hard,” her sum instead. Her intense schedule
mother recalled saying, “when with the U.S. Postal Service left her
you’re already struggling finan- with little time to dwell on it.
cially.” Her long mail routes enabled
It was true. James, who turned James to take advantage of re-
32 that year and was raising an sources offered by the pilot, like
11-year-old daughter, had moved mommy monday sessions that she
back into her mother’s maryland listened to through Zoom. Around
home months earlier to save mon- the time she gave birth to Loyal,
ey in hopes of moving into a bigger James’s doctor determined she
apartment. She was also $2,000 was depressed and gave her a
behind on her car note. She gave referral for mental health support.
birth to her son, Loyal, in January But it wasn’t until one of the
2022 after a high-risk pregnancy monthly Zoom calls with the
that forced her to stop working as mothers that James realized just
a mail carrier and then return at how many others had faced simi-
half time. lar challenges.
Already stretched thin manag- “They explained you can go
ing her finances, James moved through postpartum depression
back to D.C. with one more mouth for like two years,” James said. “my
to feed. It was around then that a own mom didn’t even really know
friend sent her a text about the how to recognize it.”
pilot, which had just been an- In addition to paying down her
nounced by the city and seemed debt, James had several goals for
too good to be true. herself at the start of the pilot, like
Her friend urged her to apply. purchasing a home and obtaining
for James, now 34, enrolling in her commercial driver’s license,
the program was an opportunity which would allow her to work at
to examine her own financial night and more easily navigate
strengths and weaknesses. for as child care. Her demanding work
long as she can remember, she has schedule had caused her to miss
been putting nearly her entire some milestones with De’Vire,
paycheck into the savings account like dance recitals.
of her oldest child, De’Vire, taking She hoped that the supplemen-
out money for bills and other tary income from the pilot could
expenses. While she has to dip into help her create more balance dur-
the funds pretty regularly, it’s a ing Loyal’s first year.
ritual that James says helps her “I was always at work. But the
stay disciplined with spending. older I got, I learned sometimes,
She tried the same strategy to the mail just has to sit there,”
manage the monthly pilot pay- James said. “I don’t want to miss
ments. those moments with my son.”
“If it was in my account, it She used half of one monthly
Canethia Miller attends to her youngest son at Martha’s Table in September 2022. Miller, who
has three children, chose the $10,800 lump sum as a Strong Families Strong Future participant.
payment to throw Loyal’s first
birthday party at an indoor play-
ground for toddlers in Capitol
Heights, md., pulling out all the
stops to ensure the celebration
was special. The venue’s cheapest
package was $525. There were
other costs, too: $17 for a cake
from Sam’s Club and $23 to fill
goody bags with snacks and toys.
James’s mother Loretta Coles
attended. Though she had early
concerns, Coles said she admired
James’s choices around how to use
the money — and was even more
struck by the ways her daughter
was now discussing her mental
health.
“She’s stayed on top of it. I see
her maturing and being a lot more
responsible when it comes to life,”
Coles added. “I tell her to focus on
what you need to do. And not just
blow that money, because once
this is all over, you’re going to be in
the same situation.”
Those words weighed on
James’s mind: How would her
lifestyle change once the monthly
checks ceased?
She wished she had taken ad-
vantage of the financial counsel-
ing offered by martha’s Table, but
she had missed emails to sign up
because she was tied up with
work. She regretted not using any
of the money to take care of her-
self.
“I think I should’ve took at least
$200 and spent on myself. But
every time I blink my eye it’s a bill,”
James said one may afternoon
while on her mail route. “You look
back on things and say: ‘Well I
should’ve did this,’ and that’s how
I feel. maybe I could’ve did some-
thing different. But the money did
help me a whole lot.”
How would James navigate
these expenses when the monthly
payments came to an end?
She paused. “I don’t know,”
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James said.
Stacie Adams
Mother of four
Payment choice: Lump sum of
$10,800
Stacie Adams has ambitious
goals — some of them plastered on
her bathroom wall, where she
keeps her vision boards.
The boards haven’t changed
much in the past few years. That’s
because they’ve included goals
that she has dreamed about for
years, like buying a home and
advancing her career.
originally from ohio, Adams
moved to the District at 18 and got
her bachelor’s degree from How-
ard University, where she studied
psychology with a minor in Arabic
studies. She got her master’s de-
gree in social work at Catholic
University. In march, she landed a
new D.C. government job — an
opportunity she learned about at a
career fair hosted by the mayor’s
office.
Adams was pregnant with her
youngest daughter, onika, in 2022
when she started receiving emails
from martha’s Table about the
pilot program; she applied suc-
cessfully and opted for the lump
sum.
The windfall could not have
come at a better time for Adams,
who was let go from her $50,000-
a-year job while on maternity
leave after failing her social work
licensing exam; she was unaware
her job was contingent on her
passing. And Adams was unable
to immediately apply for unem-
ployment benefits after learning
that someone had fraudulently
made a claim using her personal
information to collect unemploy-
ment.
The $10,800 helped cover two
months of rent and payments
toward her car, which typically ate
up half her paycheck each month.
By the time Adams found another
job, she had $5,000 left in her
savings account.
“I’m not the best with money,”
she said. “But I’m trying to be
more financially responsible.”
All the while, Adams still
dreamed of ditching her apart-
ment near the Anacostia metro
station and buying a home, a proc-
ess that has taken years as she has
navigated the application for the
city’s Home Purchase Assistance
Program for first-time home buy-
ers, known as HPAP.
Even the $70,000 salary in her
latest role with D.C.’s office of
Neighborhood Safety and Engage-
ment feels insufficient to meet all
of her goals, which include travel-
ing the world with her family.
Before she started the job in the
spring, Adams was already think-
ing about how she could get a
promotion. And she still needed to
retake her social work exam.
“I be thinking: ‘Am I doing this
right?’” she said. “You never know
if you’re doing it right.”
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The contingency funds had giv-
en her a runway to think more
strategically about her career and
her family’s future. She has earned
nearly $7,000 through a savings
account match program that she
learned about because of martha’s
Table, funds she can use to invest
in her first home.
Thanks in part to her boosted
savings, this past summer Adams
finally submitted her HPAP appli-
cation and was approved — she is
on the cusp of closing on a three-
bedroom home in fort Dupont
with a backyard. And she has
started a certificate program at
Georgetown University focused
on community health.
She is now readying her grow-
ing family for a move. Adams in
December gave birth to her fourth
child, a baby girl named ostacia.
“The program definitely
helped, especially when I was in a
rough spot and didn’t have the
money,” Adams said. Assessing the
pilot, she said more mothers
should have taken advantage of
the financial literacy courses and
other benefits.
“It wasn’t mandatory, but may-
be it should have been. A lot of
people haven’t seen $10,000 and
might have spent it right away —
even me, I have issues with financ-
es as well,” Adams said. She added
later: “Sometimes I do wish I put a
little money into my self care.
maybe I’ll get to a point where I’ll
be like that.”
What comes next?
Did it work? Program coordina-
tors at martha’s Table say that over
the pilot’s duration, the moms
reported spending the majority of
their funds on needs such as hous-
ing, food and transportation.
Comparing responses from the
middle of the program’s first year
to the closing months, partici-
pants increasingly said they were
using the money to build up cash
savings for the future, illustrating
a behavioral shift toward financial
security — a core goal of the pilot.
Lloyd, the deputy chief of pro-
grams at martha’s Table, said he
received strong feedback about
the community created among the
pilot’s participants.
At a sparsely attended event in
may for moms to celebrate the
conclusion of the pilot’s first year,
self-assessments on how they had
used money from the pilot ranged
widely.
marissa rayford, 32, a first-
time mom who learned about the
program on Instagram, said she
was able to open a savings account
and a whole life insurance policy
using some of the funds, hoping to
one day borrow against it for her
child’s future college tuition.
Saleemia Quigley, a 41-year-old
mom who took the lump sum, said
it helped her feel a sense of “peace”
even though the fathers of her
17-year-old and 1-year-old have
been in and out of their lives. She
was able to catch up on credit card
bills and rent payments she had
fallen behind on, then paid her
$1,100 rent in advance for a couple
of months.
But Quigley chastised herself
for not using the funds to boost
her savings account and won-
dered if the monthly option would
have forced her to have more
discretion.
“To get picked [for the pro-
gram], out of all those people, it’s a
blessing,” Quigley said. “But I did
splurge, I ain’t going to lie. I went
shopping, clothes — stuff I didn’t
need. It was like, ‘I paid my rent, so
I can go ahead and do this.’”
Stacia West, co-founder and di-
rector of the Center for Guaran-
teed Income research at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, said some
of the mothers’ critiques of them-
selves are unfair to them.
“It’s an internalization of the
systems that are incredibly op-
pressive to folks that are partici-
pating in these programs — like if
they weren’t able to radically
change their life in a year, it’s
because it was somehow their
fault,” West said. “You will look at
yourself in the end and not say,
‘Wow I did these great things,’ but
instead say: ‘I still didn’t live up to
what they wanted me to be.’”
But West said that while there
has been a surge in one-year pilot
programs throughout the country
— with data showing benefits for
participants such as reductions in
anxiety and boosts in physical
health — there has been much
slower movement toward perma-
nent policies. Additional data
from multiyear programs, she
said, could help change the tide.
“No person is radically going to
change their life because they re-
ceive a year of guaranteed income.
most likely those changes are go-
ing to take a longer period of time,”
West added. “So smaller experi-
ments that have a longer duration
I think are more scientifically
valuable right now.”
Last summer, the D.C. Council
in its budget process voted to
extend Strong families, Strong
futures for another year. Coordi-
nators at martha’s Table are think-
ing through the most strategic
way to move the program forward.
“We know at some point it will
end,” Lloyd said. “But we’re excit-
ed about the impact one year has
had on the moms’ lives.”

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FAFSA delays hold up D.C. tuition aid program
BY L AUREN L UMPKIN
setbacks in the nation’s federal
student aid program are affect-
ing a unique scholarship pro-
gram that thousands of college-
bound students in D.C. rely on to
attend school.
The D.C. Tuition Assistance
Grant, also known as DCTAG,
lowers the cost of college for the
city’s students, who do not have
access to a wide array of in-state
public colleges and — more criti-
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Former D.C. election o∞cial dies days after man’s rampage
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BY
E MILY D AVIES
AND L IZZIE J OHNSON
Michael “Mike” Gill, 56, a
former D.C. election official who
was shot and critically wounded
the evening of Jan. 29 in down-
town Washington during an
hours-long crime rampage in the
District and Maryland, died sat-
urday, police said.
Gill, a senior vice president of
the Housing Policy Council — a
trade association — was married
and the father of three grown
children. A st. Louis native, he
was a graduate of the University
of Dayton, the former coach of
his daughter’s youth soccer team
and a member of the parish
council at Holy Trinity Catholic
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cally — discounted tuition. The
exception is the University of the
District of Columbia, the city’s
sole public university.
The federally funded program
pays the difference between in-
state and out-of-state tuition, up
Church in northwest Washing-
ton, where at saturday evening’s
Mass he was honored during
intercession prayers.
Known for his Midwest
charm, Gill also worked on Capi-
tol Hill and served three terms as
an appointee to the D.C. Board of
elections, his wife said in a
statement, where his “unwaver-
ing sense of fairness” found a
home. He didn’t shy away from
difficult policy problems and
brought warmth and humor to
every discussion.
“He was dedicated . . . to en-
sure that our elections are open
and fair,” the board said in a
statement saturday, “and he con-
tributed to that mission in hun-
dreds of meetings, events, and
interactions over his seven years
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to $10,000 each year for students
to attend public colleges outside
of the city, $2,500 for D.C. private
universities or $2,500 to enroll at
any private historically Black in-
stitution in the country. To secure
those funds, students must first
on the Board.”
People who knew him de-
scribed him as highly competent
and also self-effacing. He was
devoted, they said, to his work
and to his community, and was
genial and good-natured, smart,
outgoing, and witty. He brought
people across the political spec-
trum together — ensuring every-
one felt included and creating an
extended family of friends.
He served with the U.s. Com-
modity Futures Trading Com-
mission, the federal agency that
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Michael “Mike” Gill was a
married father of three and a
senior vice president of the
Housing Policy Council, a trade
association.
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complete the Free Application
for Federal student Aid, or FAF-
sA.
But delays in the federal stu-
dent aid process — part of an
effort to modernize the applica-
tion and make more aid available
to students — mean families will
have to wait to apply for DCTAG
and other scholarships that rely
on information from the FAFsA.
It also means it will take longer
for students to understand how
much help they’ll get to pay for
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MS-13
school. Advocates and school
members
leaders say the situation is add-
ing another layer of stress to an
already high-stakes process and
convicted
worry it could dissuade students
from pursuing college.
“It’s just a disgrace that the
of murder
Department of education did not
get this right from the start,” said
Patricia McGuire, president of
Trinity Washington University.
Three men found guilty
Roughly 70 percent of the cam- in spate of 2019 killings
pus’s students come from low-in-
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in Northern Virginia
BY S ALVADOR R IZZO
Three members of the Ms-13
gang were convicted of murder
and racketeering Friday in what
federal prosecutors called “a
bloody spree” of random killings
in northern Virginia in the sum-
mer of 2019.
U.s. officials said leaders and
enforcers of an Ms-13 cell called
sitios Locos salvatrucha (sTLs)
assassinated four victims — Mil-
ton Beltran, Jairo Mayorga, Anto-
nio smith and eric Tate — in
Prince William County so the
perpetrators could move up in
the gang’s ranks and grow Ms-
13’s turf in the Washington area.
Two juries in U.s. District
Court in Alexandria convicted a
total of six Ms-13 members in
back-to-back trials this year on
charges stemming from the
nighttime killings. With the lat-
est guilty verdicts Friday, Cristian
Arevalo, Carlos Turcios and Mar-
vin Menjivar, who was alleged to
be the sTLs ringleader, face man-
datory terms of life in prison.
Two others, Jairo Aguilera and
Melvin Canales, face mandatory
life sentences after being convict-
ed of murder in the trial last
month. Another gang member,
Manilester Andrade, faces dec-
ades in prison after being con-
victed on drug and conspiracy
counts. other Ms-13 members
have pleaded guilty to the killings
and received life sentences, but
their court filings are under seal.
“They sneak up on people.
They shoot them in the back.
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Council set
to vote on
omnibus
crime bill
D.C. legislation includes
provisions on drug-free
zones, pretrial detention
BY E MILY D AVIES
AND P ETER H ERMANN
Amid a sharp increase in vio-
lence in the District, including
more homicides in 2023 than in
any year since 1997, local officials
are under pressure to show resi-
dents that they have ideas for
how to lower crime — and fast.
over the past 12 months, May-
or Muriel e. Bowser (D) and D.C.
Council members have crafted an
array of public safety legislation,
naming the bills for goals that
have proved elusive: “safer
stronger,” “Accountability and
Victim Protection,” “Addressing
Crime Trends (ACT) now.” While
each proposal has been trumpet-
ed as a key element in the fight
against crime and some have
passed on an emergency basis,
others have foundered in com-
mittees and no individual bill has
emerged as a defining response
to a seemingly intractable prob-
lem.
now, the chairwoman of the
council’s public safety commit-
tee, Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), has
combined parts of 12 bills into an
omnibus package that she hopes
will serve as the municipal gov-
ernment’s comprehensive an-
swer to the crime crisis. The
legislation includes some of the
most controversial provisions
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A rural community fights to keep education options after college closes
BY J ON M ARCUS
FAYETTEViLLE, ohio — Ghosts
populate the campus of Chatfield
College.
They’re in the fading photos on
the library walls of students who,
over 177 years, attended the col-
lege and the boarding school
from which it sprang, and of the
Ursuline nuns who taught them,
in their tunics and scapulars.
Amid seemingly endless acres
of tobacco, soybean and wheat
farms in a village in southwest
ohio with a population of 241, the
now-closed college sits at the end
of a narrow entrance road
flanked by Bradford pear trees,
colorless and bare in the winter
gloom.
Chatfield has been shut down
for a year now, although the
buildings and grounds remain so
neatly tended that they look as if
they’re ready for the students to
return. It’s among a fast-growing
number of closed colleges in rural
America, stripping communities
of nearby higher-education op-
tions to which young people can
aspire and eventually go.
In this case, however, some-
thing unusual has happened: The
assets left by the defunct college
are being used to help some local
students continue their educa-
tions past high school.
It’s a story that underscores
the role played by colleges and
universities in rural America,
what’s lost when they close and
how advocates are trying to keep
the proportion of rural high
school graduates who go to col-
lege from falling further than it
has.
“It was a really great starting
point for me, and it could have
been a starting point for other
students,” said Anna robertson,
23, who attended Chatfield until
the end.
Locals once saw greater poten-
tial for the college, which was
founded in 1845 as a boarding
school by an English-born Ursu-
line nun named Julia Chatfield.
In the early 20th century, it
benefited from being close to U.S.
50, a heavily trafficked, major
east-west route. And in 1971, it
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chatfield college in ohio is one of more than a dozen rural colleges that have closed since 2020, but
assets left by the college are being used to continue some local students’ educations past high school.
which conferred two-year associ-
ate’s degrees.
“It was the heart of the area,”
said Amber Saeidi Asl, who grew
up next to the campus.
Just having a college nearby
inspired her to go there, she said.
“A lot of kids that wouldn’t
otherwise go to college felt com-
fortable coming here,” mary Ja-
cobs, a Chatfield graduate who
later worked as its director of
finance, said in a video history. “If
it hadn’t been for this college, a
lot of them wouldn’t have attend-
ed college at all.”
But the interstate highway sys-
tem long ago supplanted U.S. 50.
Even the village where the college
was located, St. martin, was dis-
solved in 2011; the campus was
absorbed into fayetteville.
Like other small, rural, tuitio-
n-dependent and religiously affil-
iated institutions, Chatfield grew
more imperiled as Americans in-
creasingly questioned the cost
and value of postsecondary edu-
cation. There are only about 80
two-year private, nonprofit col-
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Chatfield was also in a part of
the country that has been among
the most acutely affected by a
decline in the number of high
school graduates and their inter-
est in going to college. The per-
centage of ohio high school stu-
dents going directly to college fell
to 53 percent by 2020, the most
recent year for which the figure is
available — nearly 10 percentage
points below its peak.
Even though Chatfield accept-
ed everyone who applied, it was
down to 129 students in its last
semester, according to federal
data. Nearly half took their class-
es exclusively online.
The college had an annual
budget of around $4.5 million,
and it lost $373,528 in 2020 and
$850,282 in 2021, tax records
show.
“We could see the enrollment
trends,” said robert Elmore,
Chatfield’s last president. “We
just didn’t see how we could
sustain this and continue operat-
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fall of 2022 that it would shut
down at the end of that semester,
taking 70 jobs with it. The closure
barely made the headlines. But
Chatfield had joined more than a
dozen other private, nonprofit
universities and colleges in rural
areas, or that serve rural stu-
dents, that have closed or an-
nounced their closings since
2020.
Nearly 13 million Americans
now live in places, mostly in the
midwest and Great Plains, where
the nearest college or university
is beyond a reasonable commute
away, the American Council on
Education reports. The nearest
colleges to the Chatfield campus
— a community college and a
branch of the University of Cin-
cinnati — are about 45 minutes
away.
“for a lot of college students
who are living in rural areas, it’s
just not feasible to drive to one of
the city universities,” robertson
said.
Helping people to overcome
those kinds of obstacles is now
the purpose of the nonprofit or-
ganization set up with the re-
maining Chatfield College en-
dowment, which Elmore put at
$4 million. The organization also
claims the grounds and buildings
as assets, valued along with the
endowment at $11 million.
The organization, called the
Chatfield Edge, has provided vol-
unteer mentors, career counsel-
ing, assistance with admission
and financial aid applications,
and other help to 21 students, and
scholarships of about $1,500 per
semester to 19 of them, said David
Hesson, director of programs,
who was an associate dean at the
college.
It’s not only about getting stu-
Edge will also help with trade
school and certificate programs.
The target is low-income high
school students who would be the
first in their families to go to
college and students who are
DCTAG application delayed
scholarships from B1
come households and rely on
scholarships such as DCTAG to
attend. “It’s one more blow to our
D.C. students who do not need
one more blow.”
The DCTAG application will
open on march 11, more than a
month later than usual. At that
point, students can submit their
information online through the
DC one App. Students eligible for
the scholarship will still get the
funds they need, officials said.
The application period closes
Sept. 6.
The altered timeline means
families will have less time to
assess their award packages.
many colleges traditionally ask
accepted students to confirm at-
tendance by may 1, but some
school leaders worry students
won’t have their aid packages in
hand until mid- to late April.
“To then ask those families to
make a reasonable, conscious
decision about a $250,000 invest-
ment in a week is unconsciona-
ble, especially for families who
don’t have the means,” said San-
jay mitchell, interim head of
school at Cesar Chavez Public
Charter Schools for Public Policy.
Under normal circumstances,
students at this point in the
school year would have an idea of
how much aid they’ll have for
college, he added. That informa-
tion helps students decide what
they can afford and where they
should apply to school.
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older than the traditional age.
robertson, who is finishing her
bachelor’s degree at Asbury Uni-
versity in Kentucky, is among the
beneficiaries.
“We said we don’t have to
necessarily provide the educa-
tion. But we could support them,
and we know what that looks like,
and we have the scholarship
money to cover the gap,” Elmore
said.
other than Hesson and El-
more, the only former Chatfield
employees left are a facilities
director and the director of devel-
opment. They work in the one-
time student center. An Ursuline
sister, Patricia Homan, has an
office in a separate, otherwise
empty building, and spends time
in the library compiling an ar-
chive of the college’s history.
The small number of students
helped so far speaks to the chal-
lenges faced by the Chatfield
Edge and other organizations
promoting access to college and
other education after high school
for young people growing up in
rural places.
“A lot of the kids I knew grew
up to do what their parents did,”
said Saeidi Asl, who now volun-
teers as a mentor. “If your parents
were farmers, you became a farm-
er. If your parents were truckers,
you became a trucker.”
That was not the case for
Destiny Jones, who also was at
Chatfield when it closed.
“I didn’t think I was going to do
well in the workforce without an
education,” Jones said. “I’m a
person who needs to be told how
to do something.” Plus, “it was
going to lead to a higher-paying
job.”
Jones, who is 21, was speaking
at a day-care center where she
works during breaks to help
make money for tuition at mount
St. Joseph University in Cincinna-
ti, which she attends on her way
to getting a degree in art educa-
tion and becoming a teacher.
Going to Chatfield was much
easier. “I didn’t feel like I had to
stress about not being able to get
there,” she said. Now, at mount St.
Joseph, “I definitely get pretty
homesick, especially in the mid-
dle of the semester.” As someone
who is close to her family, “I
didn’t want to be away.”
rural high school graduates
are far less likely to go directly to
college than their suburban
counterparts, according to the
National Student Clearinghouse
research Center — 56 percent,
compared to 62 percent, respec-
tively. That’s down substantially
in the past three years.
A big reason for this is a lack of
confidence, Hesson said. “They
don’t think they can do it. It’s
unknown.” And without a college
close by, “you lose accessibility.”
Like Jones, rural students who
do go to college generally prefer
to stay close to home, research
shows.
robertson said she misses hav-
ing a college closer to home than
the Kentucky college where she
goes now, which is 21/2 hours away.
It was also cheaper, because she
could commute.
“We’re now having to work
double time trying to convince a
population that already doesn’t
believe that they can do this that
they can actually do this,” mitch-
ell said. many of his students
hope to be the first in their
families to graduate college.
The delay stems from an error
the Education Department made
while trying to implement a
three-year-old bipartisan law to
simplify the fAfSA process. The
Washington Post reported in De-
cember that the department was
planning to use an outdated for-
mula for determining how much
aid a student was eligible for in
the 2023-2024 application cycle
and would update it the follow-
ing year. The mistake would have
cost families $1.8 billion in feder-
al aid.
officials are fixing the error,
but it will take time. The federal
agency said last week it will start
sending applicant data to colleg-
es in march, two months later
than originally planned.
“The issue is the uncertainty
and the stress that it adds to what
is already a stressful process for
students and families, especially
low-income students and fami-
lies,” mcGuire said. She also wor-
ries it will disrupt the university’s
finances, which are largely deter-
mined by how many students can
attend.
officials usually have a solid
idea of how many students will
enroll in the fall by June,
mcGuire said. But if students
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Her new life “is a pretty differ-
ent experience,” robertson said.
“I’m living away from home for
the first time. It’s a much bigger
campus. There’s more of a sense
of anonymity. It can be a little
lonely.”
Small rural colleges are more
supportive, said Homan, the Ur-
suline nun and archivist, who
also went to Chatfield and later
worked there and at a tiny branch
campus in Cincinnati that has
also closed. “I was the cheerlead-
er,” she said. “I found students if
they didn’t show up. If they didn’t
have bus fare, we would help
them with that.”
Her experience of working in
the area “is that the older genera-
tion says, ‘I don’t have a college
education and I did fine.’ Stu-
dents aren’t looking for a college
education. It is not the aspira-
tion.”
many people, when they’re old-
er, find they do need one, howev-
er. That was the case for Jackie
Schmidt, who got her associate’s
degree at Chatfield and went on
to a successful career as an office
manager and accounting manag-
er before helping to start a con-
tract manufacturing company.
When she was laid off, she found
“the jobs I thought I was qualified
for required a bachelor’s degree.”
But “I was intimidated at this age
to be going back to school.”
Schmidt, now 56, found her
way to the Chatfield Edge and,
with its help, enrolled in an
online bachelor’s degree program
in business administration.
With rural colleges closing, she
said she worried “not only for
kids just getting out of high
school but adults who decide they
want to go back to school — what
avenues do they have?”
Chatfield College created a
sense of community not only for
its students, but for the surround-
ing township, said April Houk, a
fayetteville resident, who lives a
mile from the campus on a 1,300-
acre farm. Her husband’s grand-
mother worked there as a cook,
and Houk went to summer camps
at Chatfield and was married in
the chapel.
“We loved this place,” she said.
“It really has a lot of history.”
She looked around at the all-
but-abandoned campus. “It al-
most makes you emotional — the
integrity it brought to the com-
munity.” Even though it’s no lon-
ger operating, she said, “I still say,
‘I live one mile from Chatfield
College at the stop sign.’ It’s sad to
have it gone.”
Without the college, “We lose
that educational opportunity and
the gifts that these young people
have if they were educated,” said
Homan, who is now on the board
of the Chatfield Edge and
Schmidt’s mentor. She, too,
looked around the campus. “oh
my gosh, it’s quiet. But it lives on.
It does. I know that.”
this story about rural higher
education was produced by the
Hechinger Report, a nonprofit,
independent news organization
focused on inequality and innovation
in education.
need more time to assess their
financial aid, and therefore make
later decisions, it could throw off
budget deliberations — ultimate-
ly affecting the number of faculty
members that can be hired or
how much institutional scholar-
ship money can be doled out.
Trinity Washington isn’t as
strict as other schools about its
decision deadline and often en-
rolls students through the start
of the semester. Advocates are
calling on other colleges to be
flexible, as well.
“I’m really hopeful that insti-
tutions will extend their enroll-
ment dates,” said Eric Waldo,
president and chief executive of
the D.C. College Access Program,
a nonprofit that helps students
go to college. “Colleges are hun-
gry for students; they don’t want
to make it harder for students to
find them.”
In the meantime, counselors
are using financial aid forecasts
and other tools to give students
some idea of what they can
expect to pay next year.
“It’s really a wait-and-see, un-
fortunately. We can do our best
predictors; we can have all the
conversations we can have with
financial aid officers,” mitchell
said. “What I’m encouraging my
school counselors to do, and also
my college advisers in the school,
is to help our families under-
stand that a delay is not a denial.”
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel contributed
to this report.
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Three MS-13 members convicted of murder
ms-13 fRom B1
They lure them into the woods.
Shoot them in the face. They’re
hammered drunk,” Assistant U.S.
Attorney John C. Blanchard said
during closing arguments in the
final trial. “That’s what these
guys — that’s how they were
finding their victims. That’s how
they were moving up in the
gang.”
A witness, mario Guevara, 28,
testified at both trials under a
cooperation agreement with U.S.
officials. Guevara, who pleaded
guilty last year in the killings of
Beltran, mayorga and Smith,
among other charges, told the
jury he hoped prosecutors would
recommend a reduction of his life
sentence in exchange for help in
their investigation. He gave de-
tailed court testimony implicat-
ing all the trial defendants in
Relatives, colleagues mourn man slain in rampage
shooting fRom B1
oversees commodities markets,
under Presidents Barack
obama and Donald Trump. on
Sunday, Trump posted online
that Gill had been “wonderful
and brilliant . . . a SPECIAL
PERSoN.”
Gill drove his new Jeep in the
early evening Jan. 29 to pick up
his wife, Kristina, at her law
office near mount Vernon
Square. He called and told her he
was waiting downstairs.
But according to authorities,
MarylanD
State lawmakers consider bill to
shield judges’ personal information
BY H ANNAH G ASKILL
The maryland General Assem-
bly is considering a bill to shield
judges’ and their families’ person-
al information from vengeful par-
ties in the cases they oversee.
The protective bill is named in
honor of Judge Andrew f. Wilkin-
son, who police suspect was killed
outside his Hagerstown home by
a man the judge ruled against in a
custody case.
Wilkinson’s widow, Stephanie
Wilkinson, testified Wednesday
before the Senate Judicial Pro-
ceedings Committee in favor of
the bill offered in her husband’s
name. She tearfully described the
events of oct. 19.
“my husband was downed by
one bullet, a quarter-inch off cen-
ter. And the stippling from the
other bullet tells us that it was a
vengeful final blow,” she said.
Wilkinson paused as her eyes
began to well with tears.
“I try to tell myself that my
husband did not suffer that
the District
Man, 51, fatally shot in Southeast
leaves behind a close-knit family
BY L AUREN L UMPKIN
Brenda Coe, 56, was in church
Saturday afternoon when her
younger brother was shot in
Southeast Washington. She didn’t
find out until hours later, when
she was home for the night.
“my daughter called me at 11-
something,” the West Hyattsville
resident recalled, “and was telling
me my brother got shot in a
parking lot.”
D.C. police are investigating
the Saturday shooting that left
David Coe, 51, dead, officials said
Sunday. Police said they respond-
ed at about 2:46 p.m. to reports of
gunfire in the 1200 block of
Southern Avenue SE.
Coe, of Southeast Washington,
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either ordering or participating
in the 2019 homicides.
Defense attorneys called Gue-
vara a “sociopath” who once
wrote rap lyrics bragging about
the fatal shootings he carried out
and was incriminating the other
mS-13 members in a bid to shave
years off his life sentence.
Guevara narrated a chain of
text and voice-message exchang-
es he had over several months
with mS-13 members in the sum-
mer of 2019 about killing rivals in
the Washington area. The gang
kept a list of targets to kill,
referred to them with code words
such as “food” or “hens,” and also
kept detailed records on drug
sales and firearms, Guevara said.
Although the mS-13 members
had reason to believe that Bel-
tran, 40, was active in the rival
Sureños gang, the other three
victims were killed because of
a man climbed into his vehicle
and shot him. His wife found
him on the sidewalk, his head
resting in a halo of blood, one
foot still inside the Jeep. He was
taken to a hospital in critical
condition.
“It is with profound sadness
that I wish to inform the commu-
nity of the passing of my hus-
band, mike Gill,” she said in a
statement Saturday night. on
Sunday, D.C. police confirmed
that Gill died of his injuries.
“His sudden departure has left
a void in our lives that can never
night,” she said. “But in reality, my
heart is shattered when I think
Drew’s last feeling on Earth was
fear.”
The Judge Andrew f. Wilkin-
son Judicial Security Act, or Sen-
ate Bill 575, would create an office
in the judiciary that would allow
current or retired justices, judges,
magistrates or court commission-
ers to request that their personal
information not be published on-
line. Such information could in-
clude physical and email address-
es, phone numbers, Social Secu-
rity and tax data, debit or credit
card numbers, license plate infor-
mation, and birth and marital
records.
The legislation also would al-
low them to have their children’s
information removed from the
internet, including their name,
school, day care or place of em-
ployment.
Personal information that a
member of the judiciary consen-
sually publicized or information
relevant to the public, including
was found with a gunshot wound,
authorities said. He was pro-
nounced dead at the scene.
“Police . . . didn’t tell us too
many details,” Brenda Coe said.
The family, originally from Dar-
lington, S.C., is looking for an-
swers. “The crime is so high in
D.C.”
The shooting came days before
the D.C. Council is set to take an
initial vote on a massive public
safety bill that seeks to change
crime and punishment and polic-
ing laws. It would also create new
crimes and enhance punishment
for illegal gun possession. The
action represents the council’s
most definitive response to soar-
ing crime in the nation’s capital.
Last year, the city recorded more
vague hints that they might be
involved in street activity, Gue-
vara said. He said mayorga, 39,
was assumed to be involved with
a rival gang simply because he
was hanging out with Beltran.
Guevara said Smith, 37, and Tate,
25, seemed suspicious because
they were walking around at
night just before they were killed.
mark Petrovich, an attorney
for menjivar, said during closing
arguments that although his cli-
ent was the leader of the STLS
crew, he “was not pressuring or
putting any kind of pressure or
pushing the members to commit
murder.”
That pressure was coming
from Canales, who was the crew’s
second-in-command, and menji-
var could have been ousted as
leader “or potentially much
worse” had he refused to go
along, Petrovich argued.
“Mike’s life represented
everything right about
how we should live our
lives.”
Drew Maloney,
president and CEO of the American
Investment Council and a friend of
Michael Gill’s for 15 years
things reported by the news me-
dia, would be exempted.
If information they requested
be removed remains online, they
could sue the person responsible.
If anyone puts a judge’s personal
information online knowing it
may pose an imminent threat, or
if the result of the publication
leads to a member of the judiciary
being physically assaulted, ha-
rassed or having their property
destroyed, the person responsible
would have to pay a fine of up to
$5,000 and spend up to 18
months in jail.
The legislation also would es-
tablish an address confidentiality
program, which would allow gov-
ernment agencies to redact judg-
es’ home addresses when they
respond to records requests and
allow them to list an alternate
address provided by the newly
established maryland office of
Information Privacy in the judici-
ary.
A similar bill was brought be-
fore the legislature last year but
homicides than in any other year
since 1997.
Coe, who spent part of his life
working in construction, did not
have children, and his wife died a
few years ago, his sister said. But
he leaves behind a tightknit fam-
ily. They laughed and talked at
gatherings in Brenda’s maryland
home or during visits with David
in D.C. In the summertime, they
hosted cookouts — complete with
a spread of dishes that included
chicken, hot dogs, baked beans,
tuna salad and watermelon.
“my brother was a very quiet
person. He was to himself; he
wasn’t like a talkative person,”
Brenda Coe said. But sometimes
that changed. “He had these times
that he wanted to joke around.”
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Blanchard, the lead prosecutor,
said menjivar “was the one ap-
proving orders and calling the
shots,” even if Canales “may have
been the one who had the idea to
start stepping it up.”
Arevalo was convicted of mur-
dering Beltran and mayorga in
June 2019, but the jury acquitted
him of charges that he shot and
killed Tate two months later. In
the first trial, a jury found that
Andrade also was not guilty of
charges that he fatally shot Tate.
Defense attorney Bernadette
Donovan said Arevalo was inno-
cent of all three killings and was
being framed by Guevara. “Cris-
tian was there to make friends,
sell a little weed and smoke some
weed,” she said during closing
arguments. Donovan and de-
fense attorney Daniel Goldman
said they were grateful the jury
found Arevalo not guilty of kill-
be filled. In this time of grief, we
are grateful for the outpouring of
love and support from family,
friends, and the community, and
extend our heartfelt gratitude to
everyone who has reached out to
offer condolences and assis-
tance,” Kristina Gill said. “Thank
you for respecting our privacy as
we mourn the loss of an incredi-
ble man.”
michael Gill was the second
person to die as a result of the
series of crimes that authorities
attributed to one man. The first
man killed was identified as
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Judge Andrew F. Wilkinson
was shot dead in october.
did not make it to the governor’s
desk by the session’s end.
Senate Judicial Proceedings
Committee Chairman William C.
Smith Jr., a montgomery County
Democrat, is determined to pass
the bill.
“This piece of legislation is a
priority for our committee as it
was last year, and, because of the
unpredictability of the legislative
process — and the arduousness of
the legislative process — we were
unable to get it done,” Smith said.
“We’re committed to getting it
done this year.”
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“They sneak up on
people. They shoot them
in the back. They lure
them into the woods.
Shoot them in the face.
. . . That’s how they
were moving up in the
gang.”
John c. Blanchard,
assistant u.s. attorney
Alberto Vasquez Jr., 35, who was
fatally shot in a carjacking.
The man who police said was
responsible for the rampage was
killed by police early Tuesday. He
was identified by authorities as
Artell Cunningham, 28, of Suit-
land.
from the evening of Jan. 29 to
the next morning, in addition to
attacking Gill, Cunningham
committed or tried to commit at
least four carjackings and fired
shots at two police vehicles, po-
lice said. Cunningham was
thought to be undergoing a psy-
chiatric crisis at the time of the
events, law enforcement officials
said.
Drew maloney — a friend of
Wilkinson presided over a di-
vorce case hours before his death
in october. He had ruled against
Pedro Argote, his suspected killer,
granting sole custody of Argote’s
children to his estranged wife.
Wilkinson suffered a fatal gun-
shot wound in the driveway of his
home that evening. Argote was
found dead in a wooded area in
Williamsport about a week later.
The bill is sponsored by state
Sen. Paul D. Corderman, a Repub-
lican representing portions of
frederick and Washington coun-
ties.
Beyond Corderman’s attempt
to prevent other judges from fac-
ing the harm Wilkinson did, the
bill holds personal significance.
His father, who served as a judge
in Western maryland, received a
package of four pipe bombs —
“three of which detonated inside
of his residence,” Corderman
said.
“members of the maryland Ju-
diciary serve because they care
deeply about their communities
and about our state — despite the
additional safety risk to them and
their families associated with
their role,” he said. “These threats
are real. They happen to real
people. They’ve happened in our
state.”
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members of the judiciary are not
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ing Tate and “will be honored to
continue fighting on his behalf.”
Near the end of the second
trial, U.S. District Judge Leonie
m. Brinkema told the jury to
disregard the entire closing argu-
ment from Turcios’s attorney, be-
cause the judge said the attorney
had improperly “vouched” for a
witness’s credibility. Turcios’s at-
torneys said the judge’s “knee-
jerk” reaction had deprived their
client of a fair trial.
Brinkema also disqualified a
witness, Abner molina, 26, who
had testified for the prosecution
in the first trial after pleading
guilty to murder. Donovan had
argued that prosecutors failed to
share key information about mo-
lina until the first trial already
was underway.
As a result, Guevara was the
only witness who testified about
the killings. He said that he was
out drinking and not present the
night Tate was killed in August
2019, but that Andrade, Arevalo
and molina had told him what
happened.
Gill’s for 15 years, ever since their
daughters befriended each other
in kindergarten — said Gill’s
impact was felt “far and wide”
across Washington. His death
“left a avoid in our lives that can
never be filled,” said maloney,
president and CEo of the Ameri-
can Investment Council.
“mike’s life represented every-
thing right about how we should
live our lives — and his senseless
death represents what is wrong
in our communities,” maloney
said in a statement. “. . . We
should take this moment to chal-
lenge government officials to do
more to provide the basic safety
and security that all families in
Washington DC deserve.”
uncommon.
According to James K. Bredar,
the chief judge of the U.S. District
Court for the District of mary-
land, the U.S. marshals Service
investigated over 4,500 threats
against federal judicial officials in
2021 alone.
Bredar told members of the
Judicial Proceedings Committee
on Wednesday that judges are
meant to “enforce the rule of law.”
“Accordingly, if judges are not
safe, then the rule of law is not
safe — and there’s ample evidence
that judges increasingly are not
safe,” he said.
U.S. District Judge Esther Salas
of the District for New Jersey,
whose family suffered violence
because of her role as a judge,
testified over video.
“When evil comes to get you, it
comes to get you and you don’t
see it coming,” Salas said. “Judge
Wilkinson didn’t see it coming. I
didn’t see it coming.”
In 2020, a lawyer went to
Salas’s home, killed her son, Dan-
iel, and wounded her husband,
mark.
“If we don’t do something to
protect our personally identifi-
able information, this will not be
the last tragedy,” Salas said.
“Stephanie Wilkinson will not be
the last widow.”
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AFTER
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A guide to the proposals The version of the “drug free

zone” provision in the omnibus
package adds a requirement for
recommended in 2022. Another
provision would require the of-
fice of Unified Communications,

in the D.C. Council’s D.C. police to notify the council

chairman and several D.C. govern-
ment officials and agencies of the
which runs the District’s 911 call
center, to post more comprehen-
sive data for the public. And a

omnibus crime bill zone designation. It also tweaks

criMe from B1
from past proposals — such as
creating drug-free zones in which
loiterers would be subject to ar-
rest; limiting information avail-
able to the public about the D.C.
police department; and making it
easier to hold certain adults and
youths in secure detention while
they await trial.
Pinto’s committee has unani-
mously voted in favor of the
package, dubbed “Secure D.C.”
on Tuesday, the full council is
scheduled to hold the first of two
votes on whether to approve the
bill and send it to the mayor for
her signature.
Here is a breakdown of what’s
at stake:
changing police oversight
The bill would restore several
transparency-related provisions
that were stripped from earlier
proposals, but it would keep lan-
guage that limits public access to
certain information about police
officers.
The committee rejected an ear-
lier version of the bill that would
have omitted the names and
badge numbers of police officers
from a disciplinary database that
is supposed to be public by the
end of this year (it has yet to be
funded). But the omnibus pack-
age would limit public informa-
tion to allegations of sustained
complaints, leaving the public in
the dark about the full scope of
the disciplinary records and how
cases in which officers were exon-
erated were adjudicated.
The bill also would allow po-
lice to withhold the duty status of
an officer named in the database
because such information is “not
relevant to public transparency,”
a council report said.
Some council members have
suggested there could be an
amendment to broaden access to
police records for the public or an
oversight body. But Pinto has
defended the bill in its current
form: “Secure D.C., I believe,
strikes the appropriate balance of
ensuring there’s accountability
when misconduct happens while
also maintaining basic employ-
ment rights for our officers.”
increasing penalties for gun
possession
The bill would create several
new gun laws in the District,
including the offense of “endan-
germent with a firearm,” making
it a felony to fire a gun in public, a
change that was established in
emergency legislation last sum-
mer.
It would also increase punish-
ment for certain charges related
to illegally possessing firearms.
Pinto wrote in the committee
report that ‘these enhancements
should bring sentencing ranges
into lengths that make it more
likely that defendants will actual-
ly serve time in detention which
matches the danger they pose to
the community.”
expanding pretrial detention
for youths
over the summer, the council
passed emergency legislation
that made it easier for judges to
detain youths charged with any
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D.c. council member Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2), seen July 17,
combined parts of 12 bills into the omnibus package.
violent offense while they await-
ed trial. After that bill took effect,
the number of children and teens
held in secure detention facilities
ballooned, putting a strain on the
juvenile justice system.
This omnibus bill includes a
more limited version of that pro-
vision, making it easier for judges
to detain certain youths charged
with firearm possession or with
committing a dangerous or vio-
lent crime while armed, includ-
ing with a knife. It also would
expand the likelihood of pretrial
detention to juveniles charged
with unarmed murder, first-de-
gree sexual abuse, carjacking or
assault with intent to commit any
of those offenses.
Locking up more adults
before trial
The bill says that, absent a
compelling reason for pretrial
release, people charged with vio-
lent offenses should be detained
while they await trial, even if they
have no previous convictions for
such crimes. It also would require
judges to write explanations if
they decide to release defendants
in those cases.
That provision is an expansion
of a similar one that passed on an
emergency basis over the sum-
mer. It had said there should be a
presumption of pretrial deten-
tion only if a person accused of a
violent crime also had a past
conviction involving violence.
Some council members asked
for more evidence that holding
people in pretrial detention
drives down crime. Pinto said
they would have to check back
after the policy had been in place
for more than a year.
Allowing police to create
‘drug free zones’
The bill includes a “drug free
zone” provision from legislation
proposed by Bowser in the fall,
which would allow police to cor-
don off temporary zones for five
days where anyone congregating
to use, buy or sell drugs could be
arrested if they refuse to leave.
The proposal has drawn scrutiny
for its similarity to a 1990s ap-
proach to cracking down on
open-air drug markets, a prob-
lem that public safety officials
concede is not driving the current
crime crisis as it did decades ago.
some language to remove a provi-
sion that would have allowed po-
lice to stop a person who displays
“physical characteristics of drug
use.”
Several council members have
expressed concern that the policy
could be too draconian and could
not actually help drive down
crime citywide.
Adding new voices to D.c.’s
sentencing panel
The bill would change the
makeup of the District’s sentenc-
ing commission, which drafts
and modifies sentencing guide-
lines used by D.C. Superior Court
judges, to “ensure that the per-
spective of prosecutors is better
represented.”
The commission has 12 voting
members — including one ap-
pointed by the U.S. attorney for
D.C. and one by the D.C. attorney
general — and five nonvoting
members. The bill would add, as
voting members, the D.C. police
chief, one additional representa-
tive of the mayor and one addi-
tional representative of the coun-
cil. It also would require that one
of the council’s appointees be
someone who has been previous-
ly incarcerated.
requiring more efforts from
city agencies
multiple provisions in the om-
nibus package require D.C.’s pub-
lic safety agencies to take certain
actions that others outside of
government already have recom-
mended.
one would require city offi-
cials to convene twice-monthly
meetings to review shooting inci-
dents in the District, similar to
what a government consultant
third provision would require the
government to create a new “di-
rector of emerging adults” to
coordinate services, programs
and other initiatives for people
ages 18 to 24. The city’s People of
Promise program, launched
years ago, also works to assist
vulnerable residents, including
young people.
Some notable omissions
The bill does not include sev-
eral provisions from past bills
that would have changed the
District’s so-called second-
chance law, which allows certain
people who are imprisoned for
crimes they committed before
age 25 to petition for release after
15 years behind bars, regardless
of how much time they were
sentenced to serve. The changes
would have made it easier for
judges to deny such applications.
In a committee report, Pinto said
that testimony by people who
have benefited from the second-
chance law convinced her to keep
it in place as is.
In fashioning the omnibus bill,
Pinto also removed a controver-
sial provision from one of her
past legislative proposals that
would have allowed law enforce-
ment to randomly search people
charged with violent offenses
who are on pretrial release. After
a harsh rebuke from many resi-
dents in D.C., who worried that
the provision could empower po-
lice to harass residents, Pinto
wrote in the committee report
that “this proposal could under-
mine relationships between [D.C.
police] and the communities
whose buy-in it needs the most.”
meagan flynn contributed to this
report.

obituaries
Melanie Safka, 76

Singer of 1970s hits who

found fame at Woodstock
BY T IM P AGE
melanie Safka, who won sud-
den fame as a 22-year-old folk
singer playing for hundreds of
thousands of people on the first
night of the Woodstock festival in
1969 and followed it up with a
string of heartfelt and sometimes
quirky hits, died Jan. 23 at 76.
The news was announced by
her children — daughters Leilah
and Jeordie and son Beau Jarred
— on their mother’s facebook
page. No further information was
provided. She had been living near
Nashville.
ms. Safka, who often just used
her first name during her enter-
tainment career, summited the
Top 100 charts in late 1971 and
early 1972 with “Brand New Key.”
Come (According to Plan),” “What
Have They Done to my Song, ma,”
“ring the Living Bell,” “The Nickel
Song” and an idiosyncratic cover
version of the rolling Stones hit
“ruby Tuesday.”
But she may be best remem-
bered for “Lay Down (Candles in
the rain)” — a yearning, joyful,
intensely felt collaboration with
the Edwin Hawkins Singers, an
urban gospel group. The song was
inspired by her appearance at
Woodstock. It had been raining
most of the day, and some mem-
bers of the audience had been
holding up candles as though to
fend it off by communal action.
She recalled herself as “a girl
alone with the guitar never having
sung for more than 500 people” as
she stepped out into a night full of
she had the chorus of “Lay Down”
already in her head as she left the
field. “I would never perceive the
world the same again.”
Wearing long hair and longer
dresses, ms. Safka became a sort of
gentle hippie goddess to the coun-
terculture, singing about peace
and community in what some-
times sounded like a little girl’s
voice — albeit one capable of enor-
mous power.
Chicago Tribune rock critic
Lynn Van matre called her “one of
those performers whom people
seem to either adore or abhor,
with her sugary sincerity repelling
some while attracting others.”
ms. Safka herself grew tired of
“Brand New Key,” which she called
“the song that doomed me to be
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Her other best-known songs from little lights. Still, as she told the was generally proud of her life’s
that era included “Peace Will Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2016, work, and she never regretted giv-
ing up on stardom to concentrate
on having a family.
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Singer-songwriter Melanie Safka topped the charts with “Brand New Key” in 1971 and may be best
remembered for “Lay Down (candles in the rain),” inspired by her Woodstock Festival appearance.
event, but some 30,000 people “I guess a key and a lock have With one exception, her 30-odd
showed up anyway and the event
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always been freudian symbols
and pretty obvious ones at that.”
albums were produced by her hus-
band, Peter Schekeryk, whom she
taking, the example of which Indeed, writer-director Paul married in 1968 and who died in
helped curtail such large rock festi- Thomas Anderson included 2010.
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obituaries
larry Taylor, 81
Retired Army Capt. Larry Taylor attends a Sept. 5 White House
ceremony during which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Gunship pilot led daring
rescue in Vietnam War
BY B RIAN M URPHY
The call came over the radio on
the Cobra attack helicopter: Re-
turn to base to resupply. The
gunship’s ammo was almost ex-
hausted. Fuel was running low.
The Cobra’s commander, 1st Lt.
Larry Taylor, flicked off the radio.
He had made his decision. Some-
how, he would attempt to rescue
four members of a U.S. military
reconnaissance team surrounded
by guerrillas allied with North
Vietnam near the village of Ap Go
Cong, northeast of what was then
the South Vietnamese capital,
Saigon.
He turned on the Cobra’s lights
to draw fire away from the recon
unit, pinned down in a rice paddy.
The gunship had only two seats,
pilot and co-pilot. Even if he
managed to reach the four Army
Rangers, they would have to hang
on to whatever they could grab to
be flown to safety.
“Before I started the approach
in, I thought, ‘This is a good
idea,’ ” he recalled. “And when I
got about halfway through it, I
thought, ‘What the hell am I
doing?’ ”
The nighttime gambit on
June 18, 1968, became one of the
Vietnam War’s most daring air-
borne rescues and, 55 years later,
brought him the Medal of Honor
after a long campaign to recog-
nize the mission with the mili-
tary’s highest award for valor.
In September, President Biden
presented the medal to the for-
mer Army aviator, who retired at
the rank of captain. He was 81
when he died Jan. 28 at his home
in Signal Mountain, Tenn.
“He could have left the fight,”
Biden said at the ceremony in
September, recounting how then-
Lt. Taylor’s Cobra was nearly out
of ammo and facing intense rock-
et and machine gun fire. “You did
something extraordinary,” the
president added.
Two AH-1 Cobra gunships were
dispatched on a moonless night
to aid the reconnaissance patrol.
“The fortunes of war had turned
against us that night. We were in a
Custer-like situation,” one of the
Rangers, Sgt. David Hill, recount-
ed to Stars and Stripes. The Cobra
crews pinpointed Hill and the
others by having them radio just
one word — “now” — when the
helicopters flew over their loca-
tion.
The two Cobras then made
strafing runs for the next 45 min-
utes, skimming just above the
jungle canopy, to try to push back
the 100 or so guerrillas, known as
the Viet Cong.
Over the radio, Lt. Taylor heard
that commanders had scrapped a
rescue mission using a UH-1
“Huey” helicopter because of the
high risks and relentless Viet
Cong fire. That meant the recon
team had to either manage an
escape on their own or face al-
most certain death. Lt. Taylor
directed the other Cobra pilot to
fire his remaining rounds on the
eastern flank of the guerrillas and
then return to base closer to
Saigon, now known as Ho Chi
Minh City.
At the same time, Lt. Taylor
and his co-pilot, Chief Warrant
Officer James Ratliff, blasted the
western side of the battle zone
with whatever ammo they had
left. When they were out, Lt.
Taylor used the Cobra’s landing
light in attempts to fool the guer-
rillas into thinking that the gun-
ship was still making attack runs.
The ploy worked long enough
to give the reconnaissance scouts
time to make their way to a place
near the Dong Nai River, where
there was room for the Cobra to
touch down for just a moment.
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The Rangers were told they
had 10 seconds to make it to the
Cobra. “Within two seconds . . .
they were hanging on,” he said in
an interview with NBC News last
year. Covered in mud, Hill and
another man straddled the Co-
bra’s rocket pods; the two others
coiled themselves around the
landing skids. Never had any such
rescue been tried with the newly
introduced Cobras.
“Someone slapped the side of
the ship, which meant haul ass,”
he said. “And we did.”
They reached a landing zone
with the Cobra’s fuel tanks nearly
empty. The gunship had 16 bullet
holes. Remarkably, no one aboard
was hit. The Rangers scrambled
away from the helicopter. The
blades churned, and Lt. Taylor
and his co-pilot were set to leave.
They exchanged salutes with the
four men they rescued, and then
the Cobra was aloft and racing
back toward base with the fuel
that remained.
It would be 31 years before Mr.
Taylor would formally meet some
of the men he carried to safety. At
a 1999 veterans’ reunion, Hill
learned that Mr. Taylor had re-
ceived the Silver Star and other
honors for his more than 2,000
combat missions but had not
been considered for the Medal of
Honor, the military’s highest
award for valor. The pilot’s direct
commanders in Vietnam, who
normally would have filed the
paperwork for high-level honors,
were killed in the war soon after
the rescue.
Hill spearheaded two attempts
over the next 20 years to win
military support for the Medal of
Honor for Mr. Taylor. A third
submission in 2021, aided by re-
tired Army Gen. Burwell B. Bell
III, was successful.
“People ask me about that
night. ‘What possessed you to do
that?’ Well, it needed doing,” Mr.
Taylor said at the White House
ceremony in September. “Then
they’ll say, ‘You’re insane, aren’t
you?’ I’d say, ‘Well, Cobra pilots
are a little weird anyway.’ ”
‘Didn’t lose a man’
Larry Lowe Taylor was born in
Chattanooga, Tenn., on Feb. 12,
1942. His father ran a roofing and
sheet metal company, and his
mother was a homemaker.
He joined the Army’s Reserve
Officer Training Program at the
University of Tennessee in Knox-
ville and was commissioned as a
second lieutenant in the Army
Reserve after his graduation in
1966. He entered the Army that
August and later trained as a
helicopter pilot. He already had
his private pilot’s license and
moved quickly through the heli-
copter program, qualifying as an
Army aviator in June 1967.
He served in Vietnam from
August 1967 to August 1968, fly-
ing some of the first Cobra attack
helicopters in the war. He fin-
ished his military service in 1971
as a captain with the 2nd Ar-
mored Cavalry in West Germany,
then returned to Chattanooga to
take over the family roofing and
metal company.
His first marriage, to Dolly
Caywood, ended in divorce. In
1971, he married the former Toni
Bechtel, who confirmed the death
of her husband and said the cause
was cancer. In addition to his
wife, survivors include two sons
from his first marriage and five
grandchildren.
“I’ve thought long and hard
about that night, over and over,”
Mr. Taylor once said. “I don’t
know what we could’ve done to
make it any better, but we didn’t
lose a man. Everybody we came
with went home with us.”
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IN MEMORIAM
COOPER
LARRY COOPER III
February 5, 1985 ~ March 27, 2012
Happy 39th Birthday!
Love, Dad, Mom and Marcus
NEWBY
THEODORE K. NEWBY JR. “Ted”
2/5/76 - 6/24/95
The cloud of sorrow in our home,
And heartache still remain.
The Family
SCARLATA
LAWRENCE J. SCARLATA III “Jay”
(Age 2/5/1962 - 10/23/2022)
Happy Birthday Jay. You left us much too
soon, but our memories of you will last for-
ever. Rest in peace and know you are loved
and in our prayers.
Dad, Mike, Steve, Charina and Paul.
DEATH NOTICE
BRANCH
JAMES ARTHUR BRANCH SR.
James Arthur Branch, Sr. went to be with
the Lord on January 15, 2024. He was
born on January 3, 1930 and was blessed
for 94 years of life. He is survived by two
sons James, Jr. and Michael (Cristina), one
daughter Paula; and grandchildren Saman-
tha, Kendric and Jasmine. He is also sur-
vived by sister-in-law Hazel, nieces, neph-
ews and a host of family and friends. His
only living brother, Paul Branch, proceeded
him in death that same day.
Family and friends are invited to cele-
brate both brothers on February 8, 2024
at First Baptist Church of Glenarden, 3600
Brightseat Road, Landover, MD 20785. The
combined viewing is from 9:30 a.m. to 11
a.m. and the combined service begins at
11 a.m.
BRANCH
PAUL L. BRANCH
Paul L. Branch entered peacefully into
eternal rest on January 15, 2024. He was
born in October 1933 and lived 90 won-
derful years. He is survived by his wife, Ha-
zel Branch; sons Lawrence (Jackie), Mark
(Aundria), Nathan and Philip (Julie); seven
grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren,
nieces, nephews and a host of family
and friends. His only living brother, James
Branch, passed with him that same day.
Family and friends are invited to celebrate
both brothers on February 8 at First Bap-
tist Church of Glenarden (3600 Brightseat
Road, Landover, MD 20785). The combined
viewing is from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. and
the combined service begins at 11 a.m.
BACON
VIRGINIA BACON
Virginia Bacon passed peacefully on Jan-
uary 28, 2024. Born Virginia Lee Taylor on
February 12, 1930 in Norfolk, VA, daughter
of Mills H. Taylor, Sr. and Margaret Beil Tay-
lor. She is survived by her daughters Joyce
(Keith) Matney and Carolyn (Dennis) Rude;
granddaughters Kelley Matney, Rachel (Mi-
chael Campbell) Matney and Meg Rude, a
great-granddaughter, Eleanor, as well as
nieces, nephews and their families. She
BARRUETA
JESUS FERNANDO BARRUETA
Jesus Fernando “Fern” Barrueta passed
away at home surrounded by family on
January 29, 2024. Born March 1, 1943 in the
Sunset Heights neighborhood of El Paso,
Texas, he graduated valedictorian of Ca-
thedral High School in 1961 before moving
to Washington, DC to attend Georgetown
University. Working his way through George-
town as a pre-med biology major at the
Georgetown Coffee, Tea and Spice shop, he
graduated in 1965, and turned his formida-
ble persuasive gifts to a career in sales.
He joined the Washington, DC commercial
real estate community in 1971, first with the
Julien J. Studley Company and later Smithy
Braedon. He established Barrueta & Associ-
ates in 1986 with several business partners.
Representing both tenants and landlords, he
earned numerous accolades, including top
producing commercial broker in DC in 1980
and 1990 and DC Realtor of the Year in 1991.
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DEATH NOTICE
DUNNE
CHARLES DUNNE
Charles Dunne passed away in the compa-
ny of his family in Fairfax on February 2,
2024 at the age of 87. He is survived by
his wife Lucy, whom he married in 1967,
their five children, their twelve grandchil-
dren, and by his brother. Charlie was born
and raised in County Limerick and got
his start in the hospitality industry at the
Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin. He was soon
hired by the Marriott corporation, with
which he worked as a manager for fifty
years. Charlie was a devoted family man
and a beloved fixture of the Irish expatri-
ate community in the Washington area. A
funeral Mass will be offered at 10:30 a.m.,
Thursday, February 8 at Holy Spirit church
in Annandale, VA. In lieu of flowers please
consider a donation to St. Jude’s Children’s
Research Hospital.
PENDERS
MARY PATRICIA PENDERS
Mary Patricia Coyne Penders died Jan-
uary 16, 2024, peacefully at her home in
Vienna, Virginia at age 92. She is survived
by her husband Walter Lee Penders; sons
John Dunkle of Gainesville, Florida, Gary
(Debbie) of Cochran, Georgia, Christopher
(Tara) Penders of Baltimore, Maryland and
daughter Julie Dunkle of Fremont, Califor-
nia. She was predeceased by sons James
Dunkle and Gregory Dunkle. She is also
survived by her sister Katherine Torrey
of Fremont, California and brother James
(Martha) Coyne of Mendon, New York
along with seven grandchildren. Mary Pat
was a native of Rochester, New York and
attended Our Lady of Good Counsel Gram-
mar School, Saint Agnes High School, Naz-
areth College and graduated from Florida
Atlantic University.
Professionally she was known as Mary
Coyne Penders and authored five books on
quilting as well as travelling widely in the
US and Europe lecturing about quilting. She
and husband Lee also traveled for pleasure
to the far corners of the world sharing an
interest in learning about other cultures.
She was well read throughout her life and
stayed up to date on a variety of subjects
including a keen interest in politics. A me-
morial service will be held in Vienna, Virgin-
ia at a later date.
SEIDMAN
MYRNA SEIDMAN
Passed on Monday, February 2,
2024 of Chevy Chase, MD.
Devoted Mother of Jonathan
(Mary) Levine and Jesse Levine,
loving Sister of Daniel Seidman.
Also survived by: Her grand-
children Carly, Ava, and Ethan Levine, and
Isabelle, Sophie and Samuel Curry-Levine,
her nieces Rhona (Lou) Fromm and Caryn
Seidman Becker and her grandnephews
and nieces, Jordan and Jamie Fromm and
Olivia, Willow and Hayden Becker.
Funeral Services will be held Monday, Feb-
ruary 5, 2024 at 12 noon at Adat Shalom
Reconstructionist Congregation, 7727 Per-
simmon Tree Lane, Bethesda, MD 20817
with interment to follow at Garden of Re-
membrance, 14321 Comus Road, Clarks-
burg, MD 20871. Family will be observing
shiva on Monday and Tuesday February 5
and 6 beginning at 6:30 p.m. at her late
residence. Memorial contributions may be
made to HIAS.
Services entrusted to Sagel Bloomfield
Danzansky Goldberg Funeral Care
www.sagelbloomfield.com
SLIFKIN
GERTRUDE SLIFKIN (Age 94)
GERTRUDE LEILA “Babe”
SLIFKIN of Chevy Chase, MD,
peacefully passed away on
Friday, February 2, 2024. Mrs.
Slifkin was a longtime resident
of Montgomery County. She
was preceded in death by her beloved
husband, J. Milton Slifkin, and her parents,
Charles and Rebecca “Bee” Tenenbaum.
Funeral services will be held on Monday,
February 5, 2024, 10:30 a.m. at Temple
Sinai, 3100 Military Road NW, Washington,
DC. Interment to follow at Judean Memori-
al Gardens, 16225 Batchellors Forest Road,
Olney, MD. A memorial gathering will be
held on February 5 at 7 p.m., at The Car-
leton, 4550 N. Park Ave., Chevy Chase, MD.
Memorial contributions may be made in
her memory to the Leukemia and Lympho-
ma Society or Jewish Council for the Aging.
Arrangements entrusted to TORCHINSKY
HEBREW FUNERAL HOME, 202-541-1001.
was predeceased by her beloved husband,
John (Jack) Bacon, her parents, her brother,
Mills H. Taylor, Jr. and sister, Margaret Taylor
Mangus.
Jack and Viginia married in August 1952 and
were together until Jack’s death in 2014.
She was a teaching assistant specializing
in reading for Montgomery County Public
Schools for 22 years, retiring in 1992.
Virginia was a member of Good Shepherd
United Methodist Church in Silver Spring,
MD since 1964, teaching Sunday School and
involved with United Methodist Women. She
joined the church choir and sang until her
declining health made it a challenge for her
to attend. She treasured her church friends.
Friends may call at the Hines-Rinaldi Funeral
Home, 11800 New Hampshire Avenue, Sil-
ver Spring, MD, on February 21, 2024 from 3
p.m. to 7 p.m. A Celebration of Life service
will be held on February 22, 2024 at 11 a.m.
at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church,
9701 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD
20903. Interment is private.
In lieu of flowers, please contribute to the
National Park Foundation at http://give.na-
tionalparks.org/goto/VirginiaBacon
or by mail National Park Foundation, Attn:
Gift Processing, P.O. Box 17394, Baltimore,
MD 21298-9450.
www.hinesrinaldifuneralhome.com
He served on the board of the National As-
sociation of Realtors, was President of the
Washington DC Association of Realtors in
1988, was a founder of the Greater Wash-
ington Commercial Association of Realtors.
He was active in many business associa-
tions in the District, including the DC Cham-
ber of Commerce and Leadership Greater
Washington. His dedicated board service
included the Hispanic College Fund, which
he cofounded and later served as CEO, and
the Latino Student Fund, promoting access
to higher education for Latino students in
need. He also served on the boards of the
Levine School of Music, Independent Living
for the Handicapped, the University of the
District of Columbia and Building Hope, and
as the first chair of the DC Marketing Center
(now WDCEP). He was named Washingto-
nian of the Year in 2003.
He is preceded in death by his mother, Olga;
father, Alfonso; and brothers Alfonso and
Hector. He is survived by sons Anthony (Erin
Meadows) and David Barrueta, daughters
Tina Jenkins (Bill) and Jeanne Barrueta (Pe-
ter Weistroffer); seven grandchildren, Jillian
Heffern (Caleb), Megan and Jack Jenkins,
Michael and Lawson Barrueta, and Hector
and Cassandra Weistroffer; and two great
grandsons, William and James Heffern. His
marriages to Deborah McNichol (now Halak)
and Barbara Schwartz Barrueta ended in di-
vorce. The family is grateful to Ruth Luper
for her years of friendship and companion-
ship to Fern. Inurnment at Gate of Heaven
Cemetery in Aspen Hill, MD will be held in
a private family ceremony on February 17.
A memorial gathering for friends, colleagues
and organizations he embraced will be an-
nounced shortly. In lieu of flowers or gifts,
please consider a donation to the Latino
Student Fund.
DEATH NOTICE
SMITH
ALASTAIR IAN SMITH
Alastair Ian Smith. A kind, loving and de-
voted family man. Born in Perth, Scotland
in 1947 and died in Springfield, Virginia on
February 1, 2024. Alastair was educated in
Perth and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and the
University of Cape Town, South Africa. He
was an engineer working mainly in the
newspaper industry. He is survived by his
wife Anne, daughter Jean (Rob) and son
David (Lauren). He also loved his grandchil-
dren Ian, Kate and James and his brother
Alan and family. We will miss him. The cel-
ebration of his life will be a private family
ceremony.
DEATH NOTICE
BARNARD
CHARLENE BARNARD 1940 - 2024
It is with heavy heart that the Bernard
family announces the passing of our Mom
and Matriacrch on January 29, 2024. Char-
lene’s amazing life was demonstrated in
her faith, love of family, and dedication to
friends. Her love and laugher will be dearly
missed by all.
Funeral services will be held on February
7, 2024 at Ebenezer AME Church, 7707 Al-
lentown Road, Fort Washington, MD 20744.
The viewing will be held from 10 to 11 a.m.
and the funeral service will immediately
follow.
BRUFF
WILLIAM T. OLIVER BRUFF JR.
William Theodore Oliver Bruff, Jr. “Bill”, born
March 1, 1936, passed away peacefully on
January 12, 2024, in Dripping Springs, Texas.
Bill is survived by his wife of 43 years, Jean;
his children: Sheryl Bruff (Aren Self), Jeffery
Bruff (Lisa Dority), Karen Zina (Glenn), J. Mi-
chael Bruff (Caryn), and Susan Diggs (Greg);
ten grandchildren and five great-grandchil-
dren. Friends and family will gather to cele-
brate Bill’s life in Pinehurst, North Carolina
on Friday, March 1, 2024, 5 p.m., Sandhills
Presbyterian Church, 650 Pee Dee Road,
Southern Pines, NC 28387. Repast at the
church immediately following the service.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a dona-
tion to the Sandhills Presbyterian Church.
DEATH NOTICE
ELPERN
SARAH JANE ELPERN PH.D (Age 77)
Dr. Sarah Jane Elpern, a well re-
spected clinical neuropsyschol-
ogist in the DMV area, died on
November 22, 2023 at INOVA,
Fairfax Hospital. Dr. Elpern was
awarded her Ph.D. in psychology
by The George Washington University. Her
career included staff work at the Northern
Virginia Mental Health Institute, private
practice and as an Independent Evaluator
for the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Ser-
vice Board in psychiatric civil commitment
proceedings, where she was known for her
skill and patient advocacy. In her private
practice, Dr. Elpern provided mental health
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therapy as well as forensic examinations
and testimony in civil and criminal proceed-
ings.
Prior to her decades of work in psychology,
Dr. Elpern received a bachelor’s degree from
Temple University and a master’s degree
from the University of Pennsylvania, after
which, she applied her skills in political sci-
ence and the Russian language as an ana-
lyst in the Federal Research Division, Library
of Congress, on behalf of a major U.S. intel-
ligence agency.
Among her community activities was ser-
vice as an elected Advisory Neighborhood
Commissioner in the Chevy Chase area of
the District of Columbia. She provided her
leadership abilities to Hadassah, The Wom-
en’s Zionist Organization of America, includ-
ing as Co-President of the Northern Virginia
Chapter and as Co-President of the Greater
Washington Region. She received the Presi-
dent’s Award for her volunteer work at Con-
gregation Olam Tikvah in Fairfax, Virginia.
She and her husband of 49 years, Bruce I.
Waxman, enjoyed international travel, visit-
ing all seven continents and many dozens
of countries. Besides her husband, she is
survived by her son, Jordan Waxman (Adee
Telem) and daughter, Leila Elpern-Waxman;
and two granddaughters, Aviv and Tal Wax-
man.
The funeral was held on November 26, 2023
at Congregation Olam Tikvah in Fairfax, Vir-
ginia.
Donations in her memory can be made to
Hadassah, 11900 Parklawn Drive, Suite 350,
Rockville, MD 20852.
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highs are again in the upper 40s to

the low 50s. Breezes from the north-
northeast could gust near 15 mph.
Overnight, drier air moves in upon
northerly breezes under mostly clear skies. Low
temperatures are in the mid-20s to about 30
degrees, near average for this time of year. 50° 31 ° 47° 29 ° 50° 33 ° 57° 41 ° 60° 47 ° 64° 46 °

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CHNCE PRECIP: 0% P: 0% P: 0% P: 5% P: 40% P: 40%
WIND: NNE 6–12 mph W: NNE 7–14 mph W: N 4–8 mph W: S 4–8 mph W: S 7–14 mph W: WSW 7–14 mph
HUMIDITY: Moderate H: Low H: Moderate H: Moderate H: Moderate H: Moderate
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REGIO N NATION Weather map features for noon today.

National Dulles BWI
High 51° 3:00 p.m. 54° 3:41 p.m. 55° 3:30 p.m.
Low 32° 7:13 a.m. 26° 7:00 a.m. 27° 6:32 a.m.
Harrisburg Philadelphia
46/27 Normal 46°/30° 44°/25° 44°/25°
49/27 Record high 70° 1990 70° 1991 72° 1991
Hagerstown Record low 2° 1898 4° 1965 5° 1918
Baltimore
48/26
49/29 Dover Difference from 30–yr. avg. (National): this month: +5.7° yr. to date: +2.7°
47/27
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Washington Annapolis
48/22 50/31 43/30
46/32 OCEAN: 41°

Charlottesville Ocean City

54/31 44/34
OCEAN: 42°
Lexington
56/23
Richmond
55/28 Virginia Beach
48/38 National Dulles BWI
Norfolk OCEAN: 44°
49/36 Past 24 hours 0.00" 0.00" 0.00"
Total this month 0.01" Trace 0.02"
Kitty Hawk
48/40
Normal 0.38" 0.38" 0.41"
OCEAN: 45° Total this year 5.89" 6.00" 6.79"
Normal 3.24" 3.32" 3.49"
Pollen: Low Air Quality: Good Snow, past 24 hours 0.0" 0.0" 0.0"
Grass Low Dominant cause: Ozone Snow, season total 7.9" 10.0" 9.1"
Trees Low
Weeds Low UV: Moderate Moon Phases Solar system
Mold Low 3 out of 11+
Rise Set
Sun 7:11 a.m. 5:33 p.m.
Blue Ridge: Today, mostly sunny. High 39 to 45. Winds Moon 3:35 a.m. 12:39 p.m.
T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front Feb 9 Feb 16 Feb 24 Mar 3
north–northeast 7–14 mph. Tonight, clear. Low 26 to 30. Yesterday's National World
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Venus 5:30 a.m. 3:05 p.m.
Winds north–northeast 6–12 mph. Tuesday, sunny; winds High: Brownsville, TX 84° High: Warburton, Australia 114° Mars 6:05 a.m. 3:39 p.m.
Quarter Quarter
<–10 –0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110+ Low: Clayton Lake, ME –13° Low: Ilirney, Russia –55° Jupiter 10:42 a.m. 12:15 a.m.
gusting past 40 mph in central parts. High 33 to 41. Winds for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica Saturn 8:15 a.m. 7:12 p.m.
north–northeast 25–35 mph.
NATIONAL Today Tomorrow Des Moines 51/31/pc 56/39/s Oklahoma City 56/36/pc 61/43/pc WORLD Today Tomorrow Islamabad 62/38/s 63/38/s Rio de Janeiro 85/75/c 86/76/pc
Atlantic beaches: Today, sunny. High 43 to 49. Winds Detroit 44/27/pc 42/28/s Omaha 50/30/pc 56/44/pc Addis Ababa 75/53/c 77/53/s Istanbul 58/49/pc 61/50/s Riyadh 75/48/pc 71/46/pc
north–northeast 8–16 mph. Tonight, mainly clear. Low 29 Albany, NY 38/21/s 35/21/s El Paso 67/47/c 67/52/c Orlando 67/51/c 67/47/c Amsterdam 51/48/pc 53/39/c Jerusalem 52/44/c 57/42/sh Rome 62/47/c 63/43/c
to 36. Winds north–northeast 8–16 mph. Tuesday, partly Albuquerque 56/36/pc 57/43/c Fairbanks, AK 2/–11/pc 11/–4/pc Philadelphia 46/27/s 42/27/s Athens 67/46/s 67/50/s Johannesburg 85/60/s 88/61/s San Salvador 88/63/r 86/58/s
sunny. High 40 to 44. Winds north–northeast 15–25 mph. Anchorage 22/17/sn 24/14/pc Fargo, ND 45/32/pc 46/32/pc Phoenix 76/57/c 66/52/r Auckland 77/58/s 79/60/s Kabul 35/16/s 35/18/s Santiago 94/58/s 95/60/s
Wednesday, partly sunny. Atlanta 56/38/c 59/36/s Hartford, CT 44/24/s 39/26/pc Pittsburgh 45/25/s 47/24/s Baghdad 69/50/c 67/45/pc Kingston, Jam. 85/75/r 86/69/pc Sarajevo 56/28/s 55/35/c
Austin 63/41/pc 68/43/s Honolulu 80/71/pc 81/71/s Portland, ME 35/22/pc 37/22/pc Bangkok 95/78/s 95/78/s Kolkata 81/63/pc 83/65/t Seoul 39/29/r 40/22/c
Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, sunny. Wind north– Baltimore 49/29/s 45/28/s Houston 65/44/pc 69/46/s Portland, OR 46/42/r 47/38/r Beijing 41/19/sn 43/24/pc Kyiv 40/31/pc 43/40/sn Shanghai 42/32/c 40/38/r
northeast 6–12 knots. Waves less than a foot. Visibility generally Billings, MT 52/35/c 50/31/c Indianapolis 49/28/s 49/30/pc Providence, RI 43/25/s 37/28/pc Berlin 51/46/c 53/40/c Lagos 91/74/s 91/73/s Singapore 92/77/pc 91/78/c
clear. • Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly sunny. Birmingham 61/37/c 62/36/s Jackson, MS 64/37/c 62/36/s Raleigh, NC 59/33/pc 52/27/s Bogota 67/52/c 67/49/r Lima 84/74/pc 85/74/s Stockholm 30/16/s 27/19/pc
Wind north 7–14 knots. Waves 0–1 foot on the Lower Potomac; 1–3 Bismarck, ND 46/29/c 45/30/c Jacksonville, FL 64/45/c 61/36/s Reno, NV 47/32/sn 44/24/sn Brussels 51/47/c 53/48/r Lisbon 64/50/c 63/55/c Sydney 90/77/c 78/66/sh
Boise 55/34/sh 48/33/c Kansas City, MO 53/30/pc 57/41/pc Richmond 55/28/s 48/25/s Buenos Aires 86/78/pc 87/81/pc London 54/51/c 57/44/c Taipei City 65/56/pc 66/59/c
feet on the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages: The stage at Little Falls
Boston 40/28/s 35/29/pc Las Vegas 54/45/sh 57/45/r Sacramento 59/47/sh 57/43/pc Cairo 66/54/c 71/53/pc Madrid 61/41/pc 59/40/c Tehran 48/38/pc 50/37/pc
will be around 4.90 feet today, falling to 4.80 Tuesday. Flood stage Buffalo 38/24/c 38/24/s Little Rock 62/34/s 60/38/s St. Louis 52/30/s 56/36/s Manila 91/76/pc 91/76/pc Tokyo 43/34/sh 41/35/s
Caracas 80/67/t 79/66/t
at Little Falls is 10 feet. Burlington, VT 30/18/pc 30/19/s Los Angeles 58/51/r 57/49/r St. Thomas, VI 86/78/t 85/77/r Copenhagen 43/36/r 44/34/r Mexico City 76/43/s 78/44/s Toronto 39/27/pc 39/28/s
Charleston, SC 54/40/r 58/33/s Louisville 57/31/s 53/32/pc Salt Lake City 52/39/r 54/40/sh Dakar 85/70/pc 87/72/pc Montreal 31/13/s 29/13/s Vienna 58/47/pc 59/43/pc
Charleston, WV 53/27/s 49/25/s Memphis 58/36/s 57/38/s San Diego 63/55/r 61/53/r Dublin 54/49/c 52/34/r Moscow 27/22/sf 29/13/sf Warsaw 46/40/c 49/42/sh
Today’s tides (High tides in Bold)
Charlotte 59/35/pc 55/29/s Miami 70/56/r 69/55/pc San Francisco 60/46/sh 56/48/pc Edinburgh 52/40/r 46/31/r Mumbai 91/75/s 91/75/pc
Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,
Washington 3:29 a.m. 9:47 a.m. 3:44 p.m. 11:15 p.m. Cheyenne, WY 49/29/s 54/29/pc Milwaukee 40/34/pc 46/38/s San Juan, PR 90/77/pc 88/75/c Frankfurt 56/45/pc 52/48/c Nairobi 82/61/pc 82/59/c sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,
Chicago 43/32/s 47/36/s Minneapolis 46/33/pc 53/37/pc Seattle 46/41/r 49/39/r New Delhi 67/48/pc 66/46/pc sn-snow, i-ice
Annapolis 6:34 a.m. 1:43 p.m. 8:03 p.m. none Geneva 53/35/pc 53/35/pc
Cincinnati 49/28/s 50/30/pc Nashville 61/34/s 55/33/s Spokane, WA 42/34/sn 45/33/c Oslo 36/11/s 23/16/sn Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized
Ocean City 3:06 a.m. 9:34 a.m. 3:22 p.m. 9:26 p.m. Ham., Bermuda 63/55/c 65/61/r Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air
Cleveland 40/30/s 42/28/s New Orleans 60/48/c 64/47/s Syracuse 40/20/pc 39/22/s Helsinki 27/14/c 18/6/c Ottawa 34/12/pc 27/13/s quality data); National Weather Service
Norfolk 4:58 a.m. 11:36 a.m. 5:18 p.m. 11:21 p.m. Dallas 63/39/pc 65/46/s New York City 44/29/s 41/30/pc Tampa 65/54/r 69/47/s Ho Chi Minh City 96/77/pc 97/77/pc Paris 51/47/c 55/50/c * AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature®
combines over a dozen factors for an accurate
Point Lookout 1:51 a.m. 9:21 a.m. 4:39 p.m. 9:03 p.m. Denver 51/32/pc 58/35/pc Norfolk 49/36/s 44/37/pc Wichita 55/30/pc 58/42/pc Hong Kong 73/65/sh 72/64/pc Prague 52/41/c 48/43/c measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

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Did journalist
cross a line in
story subject’s
assisted death?
BY J EREMY B ARR

Kevin Cullen, a veteran columnist for

the Boston Globe, spent months shadow-
ing a terminally ill Connecticut woman
as she campaigned for permission to
have an assisted suicide and ultimately
died that way several weeks ago. The
result was a heart-wrenching front-page
story in the Jan. 28 edition of the
newspaper.
But Cullen did more than just chroni-
cle Lynda Bluestein’s journey. He also got
involved in her story by signing a legal
form attesting that she was sound of
mind when she requested to die in
Vermont, which granted her the right to
do so.
Cullen’s involvement, which was di-
vulged in an editor’s note that accompa-
nied the story, has triggered an ethics
controversy at the Globe. Journalists are
traditionally required to maintain dis-
tance from their subjects, even as they
often establish informal relationships
with them over time, since playing a role
in their lives risks a conflict of interest
that could tarnish a story’s credibility.
But while the Globe’s editor concluded
that Cullen violated the paper’s stan-
dards by inserting himself into the story,
his subject’s husband is defending the
writer’s actions. Paul Bluestein said that
he and his wife asked Cullen to sign the
form; he didn’t volunteer to step in
otherwise.
“What he did may or may not have
been a violation of the Globe’s stan- ILLuSTRaTIoN by LauRa PadILLa CaSTeLLaNoS/The WaShINgToN PoST

dards,” he said in an email to The

Washington Post, “but it was very much

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in keeping with the standards for acting
like a decent human being.”
A Globe spokesperson said that the
newspaper learned of Cullen’s signature
after Lynda Bluestein died on Jan. 4, and
after he filed his story to his editors.
In her note to readers, Globe editor
nancy Barnes wrote that Cullen “re- On the platform’s 20th anniversary, its early users are clearing 40. Where’s the ‘dislike’ button?
grets” signing the form for Bluestein.
“That it was intended primarily as a
gesture of consideration and courtesy BY M AURA J UDKIS

does not alter that it was out of bounds,”
she wrote.
some media critics have argued that
the article should have been shelved. But
a Globe staffer who spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity because they were not
authorized to comment said the newspa-
per felt it owed it to Bluestein to publish
the story because she had trusted the
journalists and granted extensive access
in her final months.
The story noted that Bluestein had
granted that access “hoping her story
would change policy in Connecticut and
elsewhere.” (only 10 states, including
Vermont, have authorized medical aid in
dying.)
“To have withheld it would have, in my
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wenty years ago, scattered reports of something
cool began popping up in college newspapers
across the country: a website called
thefacebook.com. ¶ A “very popular place for
college students to ‘hang out’ and meet other students
across the nation,” reported the Georgia Southern
University student newspaper. ¶ “Hundreds” had
registered, reported the Harvard Crimson. ¶ “Already an
instant hit,” wrote the Cornell Daily Sun. ¶ “Many report
getting friend requests from people they haven’t spoken
to in years,” reported the Wesleyan Argus. ¶ Launched on
Feb. 4, 2004, for Harvard University students, Facebook
is now as old as many of its earliest members were when
they first joined — not quite old enough to legally drink.
And for many of those early users, the site itself might
now feel like that old friend they haven’t spoken to in
years. Someone whose company they used to enjoy but
who has since changed quite a bit. The kind of person
whose life they only know about via, well, Facebook. ¶
Before it was a forum for your weird aunt to post Minions
memes and terrible opinions, before it contributed to the
possible ruin of our democracy, before its nerdy founder
was scolded by the Senate for having “blood on [his]
hands,” thefacebook.com (the “the” — so quaint!) was
actually fun. Elder millennials remember. ¶ Dan
Bobkoff, the author of that Wesleyan story, is now 41. But
20 years ago, “if you existed on campus,” he says, “you
had to be on Facebook.” see FACEBOOK on C2

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Lights, camera, ‘Action Jackson’: Carl Weathers was a leading man

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Parent grapples with having an out-of-town
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BY C HRIS K LIMEK
During the February doldrums of
1988, the Lorimar production company
dumped a movie called “Action Jackson”
into theaters. It was just under a year
after the release of “Lethal Weapon,”
seven months after “Predator” and five
months before “Die Hard.” Like those
epochal hits, “Action Jackson” was pro-
duced by Joel silver, and featured many
of the face-famous character actors that
silver tended to use in his Reagan-era
shoot-’em-ups: Robert Davi, Bill Duke,
Mary ellen Trainor, Al Leong. But the
movie’s headliner was Carl Weathers —
for once not a sideman, but the star.
Weathers, who died Thursday at 76,
was briefly an oakland Raider before
becoming a fan-favorite actor, beloved as
a foil to sylvester stallone, Arnold
schwarzenegger, Adam sandler and, dec-
ades later, Pedro Pascal. But “Action
Jackson,” a deeply weird but highly
watchable attempt to launch Weathers as
an action star in his own right, is a
persuasive argument that the onetime
Apollo Creed’s big-screen legacy —
always the best man, never the groom —
should have been greater. It is the only
movie that could be described as a Carl
Weathers vehicle, or at the least the only
one that got a proper late-’80s promo-
Carl Weathers at the Season 3 premiere of “The Mandalorian” in Los Angeles in
February 2023. Weathers died Thursday at age 76.
tional rollout, with Weathers hosting
“saturday night Live” and joshing with
Jay Leno on “The Tonight show.” And yet
he still didn’t get his due: The title
aLLISoN dINNeR/ReuTeRS
“Action Jackson” flashes on screen in
bold red all-caps before Weathers’s name
does.
The hypermasculine, R-rated action
genre was a path to stardom in this era,
but it could also be a trap. The same year
“Action Jackson” gave Weathers his shot,
schwarzenegger pivoted to comedy in
“Twins” and was rewarded with his big-
gest hit to date. stallone tried to follow,
but a comedian the Italian stallion was
not. We know now that Weathers could
do both, but it was obvious even then:
You need only dial up his snL episode,
featuring musical guest Robbie Robert-
son but also Weathers’s dead-to-rights Al
sharpton impression, to see that he was a
game goofball in the body of … well, an
Adonis, the name that 2015’s “Creed”
would tell us that Apollo gave to his
out-of-wedlock son.
Weathers might have had a future like
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, earning an
extremely comfortable living as a
twinkly-eyed man-mountain headlining
unmemorable but ostensibly family-
friendly PG-13 flicks. Instead, it seemed
just a little too plausible when he turned
up in the cult sitcom “Arrested Develop-
ment,” playing a hilariously cheap ver-
sion of himself whom David Cross’s char-
acter hires as his acting coach. Weath-
ers’s “acting advice” consists entirely of
desperate guidance on how to save mon-
ey on food. When he tells Cross, “There’s a
lot of meat left on that bone,” he doesn’t
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Elder millennials remember quaintness of ‘thefacebook’
FACEBOOK from C1
A
re you in your late 30s or
early 40s? Then you were
probably there 20 years
ago, too, ironically “poking” your
friends and posting status up-
dates in the third person (“maura
is going to the Wilco concert!”).
You may have attended a very
ordinary party and posted
28 photos taken on a digital cam-
era of your friends in various
states of inebriation, tagging
them all, in an album with song
lyrics as its title. You probably had
a discussion with a romantic
partner about when to take the
relationship from “It’s complicat-
ed” to “facebook official.”
It was an election year. Howard
Dean had just screamed his way
out of contention for the Demo-
cratic nomination for president.
A CIA weapons inspector had
recently revealed that U.S. intelli-
gence was wrong about weapons
of mass destruction in Iraq. mar-
tha Stewart’s insider trading trial
was underway. Three days before
facebook went live, Justin Tim-
berlake exposed Janet Jackson’s
right breast in a “wardrobe mal-
function” during the Super Bowl
halftime show. The following
week, San francisco would begin
issuing its first same-sex mar-
riage licenses.
Glenda mauck will never for-
get that time, in part because
facebook’s “memories” function
relentlessly wants to remind her
of it. Even if she were to ignore
that feature, her zeal for early
facebook would still be memori-
alized in the Gainesville Sun.
In a 2005 article, mauck —
then Glenda Camacho — talked
about how easy the site made it to
find friends from her classes, and
how it helped her romantic life.
When she prompted a guy she
was dating named Lewis Kirvan
to update his page, he clicked “In
a relationship,” thus upgrading
the pair to boyfriend and girl-
friend.
“It felt special because you had
to have the .edu email to have an
account,” says mauck, now 38. “It
was silly, a lot of the things that
you would share on there.”
facebook first became a play-
pen for college students to flirt.
Also: inside jokes among friends,
posted on a friend’s “Wall,” so
everyone else could see you had
an inside joke with them. Stream-
of-consciousness thoughts as sta-
tus updates. Groups like “flip
Cup Champions” or “I went to a
public school . . . Bitch,” a once
mega-popular group founded in
2004 that somehow still exists . . .
with 618 members.
“‘Cringe’ is the word that
comes to mind when I think
about all these things,” says
mauck. “Now nobody’s interested
in seeing 17 pictures of you and
that top from forever 21 at, you
know, whatever club. But I posted
all of them.”
But if you want to talk about
cringe, let’s talk to Becky Gold-
stein, Wesleyan University Class
of 2005. In two time capsule
quotes, Goldstein marveled to
then-cub reporter Bobkoff about
all the marvelous things you
could learn about your class-
mates using this new tool — a
skill that would soon be rebrand-
ed “facebook stalking.”
“one thing I’ve learned from
thefacebook is that I’m not the
only one on campus who’s into
the olsen Twins,” Goldstein said
in September 2004. And: “It’s
better to find out the guy you like
is gay from the start, instead of
after you’ve had a crush on him
for a year.”
‘Peanuts’ special will feature origin story of Franklin, the first Black character
BY S AMANTHA C HERY
franklin’s isolated seat at the
dinner table in “A Charlie Brown
Thanksgiving” riled viewers of
the classic that aired 50 years ago.
But a new TV special coming out
this month about the first Black
“Peanuts” character literally
gives him a better seat at the
table.
“Snoopy Presents: Welcome
Home, franklin,” premiering feb.
16 on Apple TV Plus, will focus on
franklin’s origin story. The trail-
er, released friday, shows that
after moving to a new neighbor-
hood, franklin Armstrong initial-
ly struggles to fit in, with kids
passing him by as he tries to
strike up conversations. He vows
to make new friends and win the
town’s Soap Box Derby race with
his partner, Charlie Brown.
In a lighthearted part of the
trailer, Charlie asks franklin
about his music taste, to which
franklin gushes about James
Brown: “You’re not related, are
you?” franklin asks, comparing
James Brown’s face to Charlie’s.
The special was co-written by
“I guess that has always been a
preoccupation for me,” she says
20 years later, of the “mortifying”
quotes. Goldstein, now Becky Al-
bertalli, writes young adult nov-
els. one of them was adapted into
the film “Love, Simon.” “When I
gave the quote, I definitely was
not anticipating that I would go
on to write an entire canon of
work of very online queer love
stories.”
And she definitely wasn’t an-
ticipating the trajectory of face-
book. Says Albertalli: “I don’t
know that I would have even had
the frame of reference to under-
stand what facebook has be-
come.”
W
hat has it become? A ma-
levolent force on our cul-
ture, probably. Uncool,
definitely. A time capsule of some
TOP: Scrolling through Facebook in a simpler time. ABOVE: The author and one of her college best
friends in a photo posted to Facebook in 2007, when posting 28 photos of a party was the thing to do.
robb Armstrong — the “Jump-
Start” creator who inspired
franklin’s surname — along with
Charles m. Schulz’s son and
grandson — Craig and Bryan
Schulz, respectively — and “The
Peanuts movie” executive pro-
ducer Cornelius Uliano.
With the “Peanuts” characters
animated once again, one partic-
ular moment of the special’s trail-
er struck a chord with fans of the
comic strip. franklin is again
settled in a controversially placed
chair — but this time, he’s given
an upgrade.
“Hey, franklin! We saved you a
seat over here!” Linus says, refer-
ring to an empty seat between
him and Charlie Brown on the
opposite side of the table.
Some viewers of “A Charlie
Brown Thanksgiving” criticized
franklin’s spot in its dinner scene
in recent years, posting on social
media that it was unfair for the
character to sit alone on a long
side of the table in a lawn chair
while his White friends sat to-
gether on the other sides of the
table in sturdier chairs.
robin reed, who voiced frank-
eZ re
of the best years online? That, too.
“The internet was better in
2005, and we should go back,”
says Kirvan, mauck’s college boy-
friend. “Like, it used to be useful
and fun. Now it’s just five bad
websites.”
The promise of early facebook
was the ability to quantify and
solidify the friendships of young
adulthood in a way that made
both new and old connections
feel substantial. You would not
lose touch with your high school
pals, or that friendly person you
sat next to in poli sci if you
“friended” them.
for anyone (like me) who grad-
uated from high school in 2003
and went straight to a four-year
college, signing up for the site was
a defining millennial milestone.
Because the site opened up to
high school students in 2005, this
lin in the 1973 animation, told
mSNBC in 2021 that despite his
character’s seat position drum-
ming up controversy more re-
cently, that wasn’t the focus when
it was first aired.
“It’s so very easy to get offend-
ed or upset,” he said. “But we have
to remember that at that time,
that actually represented prog-
ress.”
many who commented on the
franklin special’s trailer said they
considered the reimagined ver-
sion to be a win, especially during
Black History month. fans ap-
plauded franklin’s new chair on
social media, noting how the
move symbolically honored the
character that effectively inte-
grated “Peanuts” in an era where
racial segregation was still com-
monplace.
franklin was introduced into
the “Peanuts” comic universe in
1968, after the assassination of
the rev. martin Luther King Jr.
spurred retired teacher Harriet
Glickman to ask Charles Schulz
and other prominent comic art-
ists to racially integrate their
work.
“‘Cringe’ is the word
that comes to mind
when I think about
all these things. . . .
Now nobody’s
interested in seeing 17
pictures of you and
that top from Forever
21 at, you know,
whatever club.”
Glenda Mauck, whose Facebook
use was memorialized in a 2005
story in the Gainesville Sun
courteSy oF Maura JudkIS
Franklin Armstrong, who was introduced into the “Peanuts” universe in 1968, and Linus in “Snoopy
Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin,” premiering Feb. 16 on Apple TV Plus.
Schulz initially told Glickman
in a letter he was hesitant be-
cause he didn’t want to come off
as patronizing to Black people.
But after support from Glick-
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particular cohort was the last to
experience at least one full year of
college without it, forced to con-
nect with their friends via AoL
Instant messenger, myspace and
T9 texting, or one of the home-
grown social networks that had
popped up at certain schools.
In 2004, Kara Strait told a
reporter for the Harvard Crimson
that she didn’t really think this
facebook thing — then open only
to Ivy League students — was
going to take off. She was a
freshman at Columbia, which al-
ready had its own social network.
facebook eventually won over
Strait — and the whole country.
“for years it was just one of the
tabs that I always had open,” she
says.
And now? A common refrain: “I
haven’t been on facebook in years.”
F
acebook dropped the “The.”
It opened up to everyone. It
launched the News feed,
with its all-powerful algorithm.
It introduced “likes.” It rede-
signed, and redesigned again. In
2012, it rolled out “featured
Posts,” also known as ads. In 2015,
it hit 1 billion active users, a
number it would double within
two years. In 2016, a data firm
called Cambridge Analytica ob-
tained the personal data of mil-
lions of users via the network’s
quizzes and used it to help elect
Donald Trump. In 2021, mark
Zuckerberg changed the compa-
ny’s name to meta, and, the
following year, released an ex-
tremely dorky selfie from the
metaverse, a term for a virtual
reality utopia that has instead
become a punchline.
“I remember feeling profound-
ly uncomfortable that this thing
that I had joined when it did feel
like this walled garden, just for
my friends and classmates, all of a
sudden was open,” says Bobkoff,
who is now a podcast producer. “I
think I got a friend request from a
boss. And that was a turning
point for me.”
Being on facebook, 20 years
later, feels “a little bit like going to
a mall that used to be vibrant,”
says Bobkoff. “And now it’s full of
man’s friends, who were Black
parents, and after Schulz stood
his ground when questioned by
the syndicate, franklin was
printed in papers. In his first
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terrible pop-up stores for things I
never want.”
Logging on to facebook now, I
see ads for toddler shoes and a kit
that promises to teach me how to
knit cardigans, and a group I do
not follow called “our old
House.” A post from one of my
high school teachers, now retired.
Then an ad for “posture-correct-
ing activewear.”
If being on facebook in 2004
was a hallmark of being young,
it’s now a microcosm of middle
age.
Younger generations’ nostalgia
for early-aughts tech has encom-
passed flip phones and digital
cameras, but has not extended to
facebook. It has not been a place
for the young for a long time now.
only 19 percent of teens age 13 to
17 visit facebook daily, according
to a Pew research Center survey
released in December.
How do early adopters of face-
book use the site now, if they even
use it at all? for buying furniture
on marketplace, mostly. for look-
ing up the menus of food trucks
that don’t have real websites. for
“Buy Nothing” neighborhood
giveaways. A few are in local
groups for parents. That’s the
only thing that gets Albertalli to
log in these days. on the rare
occasions she does, her time there
is brief.
“It’s like playing operation,”
she says. “Like, with surgical
precision, I will carefully enter
facebook and go straight to that
group just to get the details” on a
local event for her kids. She
never scrolls through her feed,
she says.
Strait, the former Columbia
student, logged back into the site
last week, as an experiment. The
“memories” function unearthed
some gems.
“oh, there’s [a picture] of me
from 2009,” she says. “That’s a
great picture, actually.”
“If I scroll down past the mem-
ories, I immediately just see, like
for some reason, ‘The office’
memes,” she says. “Here’s a post
from someone I had a pretty
substantial falling-out with last
year. There’s someone I slept with
in 2007 and haven’t talked to
since.”
You’ve probably already
guessed that mauck and Kirvan
eventually changed their face-
book relationship statuses back
to “single.” It was less than a year
after they joined facebook. It was
amicable.
“I ended up marrying one of
his friends,” she says.
K
irvan quit facebook entire-
ly in 2009, after an experi-
ence living in Tanzania con-
vinced him that he did not need it
in his life. He deactivated his
account but realized the company
kept his data.
“I had to essentially send them
a legal demand letter,” to have it
formally deleted, back then. He’s
now on Instagram, which is
owned by meta. (Zuckerberg is
still winning, somehow.)
mauck still uses the site occa-
sionally. She’s pleased with a cre-
denza she recently purchased on
marketplace.
“my fiddle leaf fig plant — I’m
in a group for it,” she says. “Young
me would never have predicted
that I would be so into a specific
kind of houseplant that I belong
to a facebook group about it.”
It’s very active in a way that
much of the rest of facebook is
not. “oh, my gosh,” mauck says,
“people get so upset when people
trim their plants too much and
they don’t think they’ll root
again.”
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appearance, which is also re-
created in the “Welcome Home,
franklin” trailer, he hands Char-
lie Brown’s beach ball back to
him.
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So much more than a sidekick, Carl Weathers was a star
APPRECIATION frOm C1
mean it metaphorically.
By 1988, Weathers was already
recognizable for playing Apollo
Creed, rocky Balboa’s opponent
and then ally in “rocky” and three
sequels. The character was ini-
tially based on muhammad Ali,
and was set to be played by
real-life heavyweight boxer Ken
Norton. But Norton dropped out
and Weathers got the part, which
he imbued with more and more of
his own ebullient personality as
the series went on.
The indelible, much-parodied
training montage from 1982’s
“rocky III,” with Apollo and
rocky running sprints on the
beach in short shorts before em-
bracing triumphantly in the
spray, proved that even the most
totemic or reductive beats of the
“rocky” movies were exponen-
tially better when Weathers was a
part of them.
Apollo was killed in the ring by
Ivan Drago, Dolph Lundgren’s
affectless, chemically enhanced
Soviet superathlete, in 1985’s
“rocky IV,” the rockiad’s silliest
entry and its highest-grossing at
the time. Yet Weathers’s final per-
formance in the role is the finest
of his career. The monologue in
which he tells his pal that they’re
both warriors — “and without
some war to fight, then the war-
rior may as well be dead, Stal-
lion!” — leaves you with no doubt
he would take a hopeless fight
against a younger, stronger oppo-
nent just to silence the gnawing
fear that he’s nothing. Weathers
admitted years later that he was
unhappy about his character be-
ing killed off. Apollo’s fear of
having to find his second or third
act was palpably Weathers’s fear,
Columnist’s involvement in woman’s assisted suicide raises ethics questions
GLOBE frOm C1
eyes, been much the same as
spitting on my dying wife,” Paul
Bluestein told The Post.
The paper also decided that
Cullen’s signature “did not mean-
ingfully impact the outcome of
this story” because Bluestein
likely would have found other
people to sign the form. Vermont,
which now allows residents of
other states to die by assisted
suicide, requires signatures from
two witnesses not related to
them. Cullen’s article includes
the story of another woman who
found signatories at a coffee shop
and a bookstore.
Bluestein said he has received
phone calls and emails from
family, friends and strangers tell-
ing him how much the story
meant to them.
Diana Barnard, Bluestein’s
doctor, also told The Post she saw
“nothing wrong” with what Cul-
len did. “Palliative care and dying
are constantly forcing us to be
flexible, creative and act in the
moment with the best inten-
tions,” she told The Post.
But Jane Kirtley, who teaches
media ethics and law at the
University of minnesota’s jour-
nalism school, said the story was
hurt by Cullen’s involvement.
“He did not need to be the one
to sign it,” she said in an inter-
view. “They could have gotten
someone else to sign it. And by
signing it, he became complicit in
the outcome.”
While she credited the Globe’s
transparency, she said that read-
ers will determine whether Cul-
len’s role hurts the story’s credi-
bility. “I think it’s a valuable story
to tell, and I think it’s a shame
that they made this one decision
My partner and I have terms for our open relationship. He is breaking them.
Dear Amy: I have
Ask Amy an open
Amy relationship with
Dickinson “Brett,” my
partner of many
years. I allow
Brett to have sex with other
women as long as I am
comfortable with the woman
and privy to all communication
between them. Only sex is
allowed, with no dating or
relationship.
recently, Brett saw
“Charlotte,” a single female (with
my approval). When he started
seeing Charlotte too often and
without including me in the
communication, I expressed my
concern and asked for him to
cease contact with her.
Brett has told me that it’s not
a concern and that he will
continue to see Charlotte, even
though I disapprove. He says I’m
crazy for being upset and
concerned. I’m not sure where to
go from here.
. the washington post
too.
Weathers graduated from be-
ing Stallone’s sidekick to
Schwarzenegger’s, second-billed
behind the Austrian Oak in “Pred-
ator” as an Army buddy of
Schwarzenegger’s character who
has become a two-faced pencil-
pusher for the CIA. memes
weren’t a thing when “Predator”
was released in the summer of
1987, but the close-up of
Schwarzenegger and Weathers’s
greased-up, tumescent arms as
they’re reunited was lodged in
our cultural memory long enough
to become one. Years later, when
Weathers was introduced in “Ar-
rested Development,” we got a
brief clip of his gruesome “Preda-
tor” death scene, where the titu-
lar beast blasts one of his mighty
arms off before sending the rest of
him to join Apollo Creed in the
great beyond.
Severed arms became a leitmo-
tif of Weathers’s Silver-produced
oeuvre. In “Action Jackson,”
Weathers’s “Predator” co-star Bill
Duke tells him, “You nearly tore
that boy’s arm off!” “He had a
spare,” Weathers rejoins.
“Action Jackson” was one of
those indefatigable ’80s supercop
movies, and probably the only
one where someone actually says
the word “indefatigable.” Weath-
ers’s Jericho “Action” Jackson is a
former track star turned Detroit
police officer who has a law de-
gree from Harvard, although he
hasn’t used it to challenge his
department’s policy that “Jackson
is so vicious we don’t even let him
carry a gun,” as one uniformed
flatfoot mentions in the tropey
part of the movie in which a
minor character makes sure we
know what a world-beating titan
our hero is before he makes his
Lynda Bluestein sits as a nurse organizes tubing during a cancer medicine infusion in Connecticut last year. Bluestein died on Jan. 4.
that I think really does taint the
story, because it raises the ques-
tion of how independent and
detached the reporter really was.”
former New York Times exec-
utive editor Jill Abramson, who
now leads the Burnes Center’s
Initiative on Investigative Solu-
tions Journalism at Northeastern
University, said that Barnes “has
done the correct and honest
thing” by disclosing her colum-
— Peeved Partner
Peeved: You believe that you and
your partner have a binding
agreement. I happen to believe
that this is a contract with a high
likelihood of being breached,
because you have put yourself in
the position of controlling a type
of human behavior which is
notoriously challenging to
control — in part because it
involves two people (“Brett” and
“Charlotte”).
my point is that while Brett
may have agreed to this “sex-
only” contract, if Charlotte
wants to be with him longer-
term, she has no incentive to
comply. And now, like a plot
twist from a low-rent Jane
Austen novel, these two seem to
have developed an actual
relationship.
Despite the somewhat
unconventional nature of your
contract, all of the humans
involved are behaving in
entrance. (Of course, Jackson
uses his J.D. and his fast feet later
in the film, citing case law and
outrunning a taxicab.)
The plot has something to do
with an evil automaker/martial
arts expert played by Craig T.
Nelson, who is having union offi-
cials murdered in needlessly
elaborate ways. The plot is also
very much not the point. The
purpose, rather, is to showcase
Weathers’s all-rounder versatility,
marshaling the charm and ath-
leticism for which he was known
already and the comedic gifts for
which he’d be cherished later.
Weathers’s third act was as a
primarily comedic actor, in the
1996 Adam Sandler vehicle “Hap-
py Gilmore,” as the hard-times
version of himself in “Arrested
Development,” and as an inter-
planetary bail bondsman-turned-
magistrate in “The mandalorian.”
But the cheek was there in
“Action Jackson,” which seems to
be a sendup of its genre, at least
some of the time. There’s a scene
in which Jackson, being held by
four henchmen, pretends to be a
delusional preacher before
punching his way out. (It’s the
sort of shtick Eddie murphy
pulled in the enormously popular
“Beverly Hills Cop” films of this
era.)
Elsewhere, Jackson drives a car
not just through the front of a
mansion but up the stairs to its
second floor, and then around
several corners to reach a bed-
room where Nelson’s villain is
holding Vanity — the model/
actress/singer who was briefly a
protégé of Prince — hostage. It’s
an odd film! But it’s no less
amusing an oddity than the
Silver-produced Patrick Swayze
sleazefest “road House” from a
nist’s involvement in the story.
“You can step in with some
humanity during the course of
reporting, but [you] need to dis-
close,” she said. “most important,
if you get personally involved
with a source, is maintaining the
journalistic distance necessary to
be a reporter. You need to keep
asking yourself that during long
reporting assignments and writ-
ing projects.”
conventional ways: You are
jealous and suspicious; he
responds by gaslighting you.
Welcome to regular life, where
people stray, others get jealous
and agreements are often
violated.
Brett’s most unconscionable
behavior is to throw his choice
back on you in a particularly
cruel way, by denying that he is
violating this contract and then
characterizing you as “crazy” for
objecting. Because your partner
is proving that you cannot
actually control him, your own
choices now are to give in and
redraft your agreement to “sex-
plus,” or to consider leaving the
relationship.
Dear Amy: I have maintained a
friendship with “Wendy” for
decades. She and her husband
were there for me in a major way
after my husband’s sudden death
three years ago. I simply could
not have made it through that
eZ re
Carl Weathers, center, and Sylvester Stallone, center left, in “Rocky” in 1977. A fan-favorite actor,
Weathers was beloved in roles alongside Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and later, Pedro Pascal.
year later — and no less a show-
case for the many talents of its
undervalued star.
In a 2014 interview with the
A.V. Club, Weathers said he’d
pitched Silver on the idea of a
blaxploitation-esque throwback
movie on the “Predator” set in
1986. “Predator” has just nine
actors with speaking roles, and
three of them turned up in “Ac-
tion Jackson.” The movie came,
and just as quickly went. It did
not meaningfully improve
Abramson said that she has
donated about $300 to the sub-
ject of a story she is currently
working on, a woman living in a
public-housing project in Boston
who has faced a number of
emergencies and health issues.
She split the cost of a cellphone
for the woman and bought her
some bottled water, food and
clothes.
Cullen declined to comment
awful period without their love
and emotional and practical
support.
recently, I heard a rumor that
Wendy had been caught
shoplifting at a local shop. It
didn’t really seem possible, but
my understanding is that she
was not charged because she
returned the items and because
this was a first offense. I went
out to a local brewpub with
Wendy and her husband last
week. While there, I ordered
appetizers for the group that
were delivered on a large
decorative platter. After a while I
excused myself and went to the
restroom.
As I was headed back to the
table, I witnessed Wendy putting
the (empty) ceramic platter into
her large bag, which her
husband was holding open for
her. I was stunned, but I didn’t
say anything. I thanked them for
taking me out and haven’t talked
to them since. We’ve had some
Weathers’s Q score. “‘Action Jack-
son’ is a movie where some of the
parts are good, but none of them
fit and a lot of them stink,” is how
roger Ebert opened his one-star
review. (To put that in context,
though, Ebert gave “Die Hard,”
long upheld as the action genre’s
gold standard, a tepid two stars.)
Weathers is the least awkward
part of “Action Jackson,” which
shifts tonally from scene to scene.
What we see, though, is a convinc-
ing case that he was at least as
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when reached via email, and a
spokesperson for the newspaper
declined to comment “on person-
nel matters” when asked whether
the columnist had faced any
punishment for his involvement
in the story.
In the early 2000s, Cullen was
part of the “Spotlight” team at
the Globe that won the Pulitzer
Prize in Public Service for a
report on abuse by the Catholic
contact on facebook, but
yesterday she blocked me
(possibly because I have dodged
a couple of phone calls?).
I am so sad now. I wish I’d
said something when I
witnessed them stealing, but I
fear that our friendship has
ended on a very bad note. But I
really can’t be friends with a
thief. Where do you think I
should go from here?
— Sad
Sad: You might assume that
you’ve been blocked because
“Wendy” knows that you saw her
lifting the pub’s platter. You
could tighten the circle here if
you got in touch with “Wendy” to
acknowledge her importance in
your life during a time when you
were at your lowest. “If you are
struggling with something now,
I’d like to be there for you, too.”
If she responds honestly, you
could try to move forward in
small increments.
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deserving of name-above-title
status as ’80s action flick anchors
like Chuck Norris and Steven
Seagal, who was presented to the
world as an established star in his
very first film, “Above the Law.” By
the way, a palpably overqualified
Sharon Stone played thankless-
to-exploitative wife roles in “Ac-
tion Jackson” and “Above the
Law,” four years before “Basic
Instinct” made her an A-lister.
So the ascent is possible. And
Weathers deserved to make it.
“You can step in with
some humanity during
the course of reporting,
but [you] need to
disclose.”
Jill Abramson, former New york
Times executive editor, who now
leads the Burnes center’s Initiative
on Investigative Solutions Journalism
at Northeastern University
Church.
In 2018, though, he was sus-
pended for three months without
pay after a Globe review deter-
mined that he “damaged his
credibility” when he gave inter-
views in which he spun false tales
about a firefighter’s exploits and
his own activities on the night of
the 2013 Boston marathon bomb-
ing.
But the review also concluded
that Cullen rarely made mistakes
in his column and was credited
by his story subjects for “his
willingness to call back to con-
firm details.”
Bluestein, in his email, praised
Cullen and the Globe photogra-
pher he worked with, Jessica
rinaldi.
“Kevin and Jessica are con-
summate professionals,” he
wrote. “I thought Kevin’s story
was told truthfully, respectfully
and extraordinarily well.”
Barnard, their doctor, agreed.
“It was a remarkable, beautiful,
honest story of the life and death
of a remarkable woman.”
Dear Amy: The question from
“In a Bad Place” could have been
written by me. Everything was so
familiar: the silences, walking on
eggshells, and my husband never
apologizing for anything.
However, after 30 years of this,
I’d finally had enough. It was
only after we split up that others
came forward to tell me of their
bad experiences with him. The
hardest part was the first step to
end it. I’m much happier now.
— Been There
Been There: I hope that “In a
Bad Place” can make a sound
and safe choice.
Amy’s column appears seven days a
week at washingtonpost.com/advice.
Write to askamy@amydickinson.com
or Amy Dickinson, P.O. Box 194,
Freeville, N.y. 13068.  you can also
follow her @askingamy.
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BY A NNABELLE T IMSIT
“Saturday Night Live” an-
nounced comedian Shane Gillis
as the host of its upcoming
episode, less than five years after
hiring and then almost immedi-
ately dropping him as a cast
member over previous jokes that
many viewed as offensive.
Gillis will host SNL on Feb. 24,
with rapper 21 Savage as musical
host, the show announced.
SNL said it was adding Gillis
to its cast in September 2019,
when he was still a relatively
unknown comedian. Shortly af-
ter the announcement, a 2018
podcast clip surfaced of Gillis
using racial slurs against Chi-
nese people and making racist
references to Chinatown. In sep-
arate clips, Gillis also used ho-
mophobic and sexist language.
Within days, SNL creator and
producer Lorne Michaels said in
a statement that the language
Gillis used was “offensive, hurt-
ful and unacceptable” and that
the show was “not aware of his
prior remarks.” “After talking
with Shane Gillis, we have decid-
ed that he will not be joining
‘S.N.L.,’” the statement said.
Gillis initially responded by
tweeting: “I’m a comedian who
pushes boundaries. I sometimes
miss.” He added: “I’m happy to
apologize to anyone who’s actu-
ally been offended by anything
Shane Gillis performs during a benefit in New York in November. Since SNL parted ways with the
comedian less than five years ago, he has released stand-up specials and will go on tour this year.
I’ve said. My intention is never to
hurt anyone but I am trying to be
the best comedian I can be and
sometimes that requires risks.”
He later said in a statement,
according to Variety: “Of course I
wanted an opportunity to prove
myself at ‘SNL,’ but I understand
JAMIe MCCArthy/getty IMAges For bob WoodruFF FoundAtIon
it would be too much of a
distraction. I respect the deci-
sion they made.”
It was one of the first high-
profile incidents of what critics
coined “cancel culture.” At the
time, it set off a debate about the
sometimes blurry line between
cultural satire and mockery and
raised the questions: Should
there be limits to comedy? And
who should benefit from a plat-
form as influential as SNL?
Now, Gillis will take the SNL
stage at 30 Rockefeller Plaza as
host, in a move that is already
causing some head-scratching
among the late-night show’s fol-
lowing.
Gillis reposted the SNL host
announcement on Instagram
and X on Saturday but did not
add any further information. His
representatives did not immedi-
ately respond to a request for
comment from The Washington
Post early Sunday.
The comedian has had a series
of recent successes that have
raised his profile since SNL part-
ed ways with him. In 2021, he
released a self-funded stand-up
comedy special called “Live in
Austin” on YouTube, where it has
been viewed over 23 million
times. His second stand-up spe-
cial, “Beautiful Dogs,” was re-
leased last year on Netflix. And
this year, he is doing a 14-city
tour across the United States.
The New Yorker’s Kelefa San-
neh profiled Gillis in 2022, de-
scribing him as an “unpredict-
able” comedian who delights in
the strong reactions of his audi-
ence but is at times uncomfort-
able with the support that his
removal from SNL and style of
humor have garnered him
among conservatives and “audi-
ence members who prized offen-
sive speech for its own sake.”
Sanneh pointed out that other
comedians who have faced back-
lash or lost jobs or opportunities
because of past remarks have
pivoted to making jokes about
their situation and casting them-
selves as defenders of free
speech. But Gillis did not: Ac-
cording to Sanneh, Gillis told the
podcast host Joe Rogan in 2021,
“I don’t want to be a victim — I
want to be a comedian.”
He said he did not want his
comedy to be about how he was
treated. “I understand why I was
treated that way,” he told the
New Yorker, adding that he in-
tended to keep making “wild”
statements.
On social media, the an-
nouncement of Gillis as host
sparked mixed reactions, with
fans of the comedian praising his
return and others criticizing SNL
producers for bringing him back.
Some social media users ar-
gued it was an ill-timed move to
elevate a comedian accused of
racial insensitivity during Black
History Month.
Some also criticized the show
for bringing on Republican
presidential candidate Nikki Ha-
ley on Feb. 3 for a skit in which
she said she “probably should
have said” that slavery was the
main cause of the Civil War — a
reference to her failure to men-
tion it during a town hall with
voters on the campaign trail last
year.
Abby ohlheiser and elahe Izadi
contributed to this report.

Nikki Haley takes jabs at Trump and Biden in cameo

BY L EO S ANDS
Republican presidential hope-
ful Nikki Haley made a surprise
appearance on NBC’s “Saturday
Night Live” over the weekend,
starring as herself in the pro-
gram’s cold open.
Ahead of South Carolina’s Feb.
24 Republican primary, Satur-
day’s show featured a mock CNN
town hall in the state, with cast
member James Austin Johnson
as former president Donald
Trump.
Standing in the audience, Ha-
fitness of both. “Are you doing
okay, Donald? You might need a
mental competency test,” Haley
asked.
After a long speech from John-
son’s Trump that ended with the
words “I see dead people,” Haley
responded with a deadpan:
“That’s what voters will say if they
see you and Joe on the ballot.”
In recent weeks, the former
South Carolina governor has
stepped up her attacks against
Trump, who has a significant lead
over her in polls, including by
questioning with increasing di-
the roast on Saturday, coming
under fire from actor Ayo Ede-
biri, the show’s host.
“I was just curious, what would
you say was the main cause of the
Civil War?” Edebiri asked Haley.
“Do you think it starts with an ‘s’
and ends with a ‘-lavery’?”
In response, Haley said: “Yep, I
probably should have said that
the first time.”
The exchange was a reference
to Haley’s failure during a De-
cember town hall in New Hamp-
shire to include any mention of
slavery when asked by an audi-
cluding from Republicans, she
acknowledged the next day that
the war was “about slavery.”
Haley has said her goal in
South Carolina is to improve on
her performance last month
against Trump in New Hamp-
shire, where she lost to the GOP
front-runner by 11 points. But the
former U.N. ambassador has con-
siderable ground to make up in
her home state, where Trump has
the support of 58 percent of
potential Republican primary
voters compared with 32 percent
for Haley, according to a Wash- JIM WAtson/AFP/getty IMAges

ley took shots at Trump and rectness his fitness to lead. ence member what caused the ington Post-Monmouth Univer- Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley at a campaign stop
President Biden, challenging the But Haley wasn’t spared from Civil War. After a backlash, in- sity poll published Wednesday. in South Carolina on Thursday.

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Like everything she does, Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl jet trip sparks controversy
BY N ICOLÁS R IVERO
Few celebrities have had their
jet travel come under as intense
scrutiny in recent months as Tay-
lor Swift, who has crisscrossed the
country in a private plane to watch
her boyfriend Travis Kelce play for
the Kansas City Chiefs. Fox News
blasted her last month as she
arrived in Baltimore to attend the
AFC championship game, tweet-
ing that her jet was “belching tons
of CO2 emissions.”
Private jet trips rank as the
most carbon-intensive ways to
travel, generating nine times as
much carbon per passenger as
flying commercial, according to a
2023 paper from University Col-
lege London. And now that the
Chiefs have made it to the Super
Bowl, many are wondering wheth-
er Swift will fly the roughly 14,000
miles it would take to get from a
concert in Tokyo on Feb. 10 to the
game in Las Vegas on Feb. 11 and
then to Melbourne in time for her
next show on Feb. 16, reigniting
the debate over whether owners of
private planes should be held re-
sponsible for the planet-warming
emissions they generate.
Some environmentalists are
pushing for an outright ban on
private jets, including Greta
Thunberg and the climate activist
group Extinction Rebellion, who
called for a ban while protesting at
a private jet airport near London
on Jan. 27. Others, such as Bill
Gates, have touted carbon offsets
as a way to counteract emissions
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from private jet travel, particular-
ly if the trips they make are to
promote good causes.
Swift’s publicist has said she
buys carbon offsets to compensate
for her jet travel, but didn’t re-
spond to a request for more detail
about what kind or how many
offsets the artist has bought.
There’s a wide range in quality and
oversight in the offset market, and
many offsets are meaningless.
But legal scholars and members
of Congress are pushing for an-
other way to make private jet
owners such as Swift pay for their
emissions: taxes.
Taxing private jet fuel
Last year, Sen. Edward J. Mar-
key (D-Mass.) and Rep. Nydia M.
Velázquez (D-N.Y.) introduced
the Fueling Alternative Trans-
portation with a Carbon Aviation
Tax (FATCAT) Act, which would
raise the tax on private jet fuel
from $0.22 per gallon to $1.95.
The extra money would go
toward expanding railroads, im-
proving public transit and moni-
toring air quality near airports.
If Swift flew from Tokyo to Las
Vegas to Melbourne in her Das-
sault Falcon 900 jet, the roughly
29-hour round trip might burn
about 8,800 gallons of fuel and
create about 90 tons of carbon
emissions. That’s more than all the
carbon emissions that six average
Americans will produce this year.
At the current tax rate, Swift
would pay about $1,900 in taxes
on the fuel for the flight. Under the
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Taylor Swift performs onstage during the opening night of her Eras Tour in Glendale, Ariz., on March
17. Swift has a concert in Tokyo on Feb. 10, the night before the Super Bowl in Las Vegas.
FATCAT Act, she would pay about
$17,000.
Since Markey and Velázquez
introduced the bill on July 19, it
has not advanced and shows no
sign of passing.
Taxing private jet sales
Some countries, including
Canada, have taken a different
approach: taxing the sale of pri-
vate jets. The United States once
taxed private jets. Between 1991
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Fighter (Hindi) 11:45-3:10
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad
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Night Swim (PG-13) 12:00-2:45-
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I.S.S. (R) 4:15-10:25
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Migration (PG) 1:30
Wish (PG) 2:10-4:45
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7:40
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2:40-3:45-4:10-4:30-5:50-6:50-
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12:55-4:10-7:20
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4:40-8:00
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6:45
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Anyone But You (R) 5:10
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about $24 million. A 10 percent tax
on both of these sales would net
$4.9 million.
Close business tax loopholes
Private jet owners often count
the cost of flying as a business
expense, meaning they subtract
the price of the jet, fuel, pilots,
maintenance and so on from their
income when they pay taxes, ac-
cording to Haneman.
“We could do something as sim-
ple as denying business deduc-
tions for private jet travel,” she
said. “If you decide to travel by
private jet, you bear the expense of
it.”
The annual cost of operating
Swift’s Falcon 900 jet is about
$4.9 million per year, according to
Guardian Jet. The Falcon 7X costs
a mere $5.3 million per year. Com-
bined, Swift might potentially de-
duct something like $10 million
per year from her taxable income
KevIn WInTeR/geTTy IMAgeS foR TAS RIghTS MAnAgeMenT — although that wouldn’t make
much of a dent in the roughly
$2 billion Swift made last year,
according to Billboard estimates.
and 1993, Americans paid an ex- associate dean of research and But even the 1991 luxury tax
tra 10 percent for planes, boats, innovation at Creighton Univer- made an exception for business
cars, furs and jewelry above a sity School of Law. The perceived jets, and Haneman said she isn’t
certain price. failure of the 1991 law helped kill holding her breath for U.S. law-
As a result, sales of U.S. luxury then-President Barack Obama’s makers to exclude private jets
goods dropped, and some Ameri- proposal for tighter taxes on pri- from business tax deductions.
cans avoided the tax by buying vate jets in 2011, Haneman said. “That would be extraordinarily
their luxuries abroad. Congress Swift’s Dassault Falcon 900 typ- controversial,” she said.
repealed most of the law within ically sells for about $25 million, Of course, there are alternatives
two years of passing it. according to an estimate from the to flying private jets in the first
“It’s sort of held up as an exam- private jet brokerage Guardian place: Celebrities could fly first
ple of a tax disaster,” said Victoria Jet. She also has a second plane, a class — or stay home and watch
Haneman, a law professor and Dassault Falcon 7X, which sells for the Super Bowl on TV.
(!) No Pass/No Discount Ticket
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Argylle: The IMAX Experience
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Vadakkupatti Ramasamy 8:00
Migration (PG) 4:00-7:30
Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:30-3:20-
6:20-9:20
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3:20-7:30 CC: 3:15-6:15-9:15 7:45 Anyone But You (R) 1:50 Nayab 3:30-9:25
The Iron Claw (R) 3:40 Anatomy of a Fall (R) CC: 2:30 Poor Things (R) CC: 2:30-
Cinemark Fairfax Corner and XD Kismath 12:20-9:10
Origin (PG-13) 1:10-4:30-8:00 Anyone But You (R) CC: 3:15- 4:30-8:15
11900 Palace Way Kabuliwala (1961) 11:50-3:40
Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:20-4:10- 6:15-9:30 Anyone But You (R) CC: 2:45-
7:10 Argylle (PG-13) CC: 3:30-6:45 Fighter (Hindi) 1:05-4:45-8:25 Vadakkupatti Ramasamy 12:05-
5:15-7:45 Wonka (PG) 12:50-3:45-9:40 3:25-6:45-10:05
Argylle: The IMAX Experience The Promised Land (Bastarden) Argylle (PG-13) CC: 2:15-
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One Loudoun The Beekeeper (R) 1:25-4:10- The Boys in the Boat (PG-13)
Oppenheimer (R) 12:00 (PG-13) CC: 2:00-5:15-8:30
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Miller's Girl (R) CC: 8:45 Migration (PG) 12:00-1:00- Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:35-
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1-3 (PG) 12:00-4:40-9:20
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2) (PG) 6:20 The Promised Land (Bastarden)
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2:20-5:30
7:25-9:45
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5:30-8:00 4:30-7:10
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Hubba 4:20-7:40
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6:55-9:55 5:10-8:00 Regal Springfield Town Center
Argylle (PG-13) 12:10-12:50- 1-3 (PG) 3:00-7:30 CMX Village 14
AMC Screen Unseen CC: 7:00 1600 Village Market Boulevard Mean Girls (PG-13) 2:00-4:50-7:40 6859 Springfield Mall
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The Beekeeper (R) 2:00-4:50-7:40
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American Fiction (R) (!) 3:30- The Zone of Interest (PG-13) Anyone But You (R) 1:45- 5:20-8:30
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The Beekeeper (R) 1:50-4:35-
Origin (PG-13) 2:30-6:30-10:15 Argylle (PG-13) CC: 1:10- 7:20
Argylle (PG-13) 7:50 8:10
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(R) 1:00-4:10-7:10 7:10
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VIRGINIA American Fiction (R) CC: 1:05-
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(G) 7:00
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AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 1:35- 1-3 (PG) 12:00-6:00 Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
2150 Clarendon Blvd. 4:30-7:20 The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
1-3 (PG) 2:00-6:45 My Fair Lady 60th Anniversary
Wonka (PG) CC: 1:00-4:00-6:50 (G) 7:00 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom
AMC Tysons Corner 16 Argylle (PG-13) 12:30-1:30-2:20-
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Argylle (PG-13) OC: 7:50; Wonka (PG) 4:10-7:50 4:30-5:00
Anyone But You (R) CC: 2:10- 1:20-4:35 Driving Madeleine 12:10-4:55-7:10
Migration (PG) 2:40-6:20 Night Swim (PG-13) 7:30
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Anyone But You (R) 1:20-8:10 12:50-3:50
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All Of Us Strangers (R) CC: 5:00 (PG-13) CC: 1:15 The Zone of Interest (PG-13)
Mean Girls (PG-13) 2:20-5:10- Argylle (PG-13) 1:00-1:30-2:00-
Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 1:20- Fighter (Hindi) 1:10-4:45-8:15 9:45-12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30
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Wonka (PG) CC: 1:50-4:55-7:45 The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes The Beekeeper (R) 12:15-3:15-
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AMC Screen Unseen CC: 7:00 The Promised Land (Bastarden) 1-3 (PG) 2:00-6:30 6:00-8:50
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1-3 (PG) 3:00-7:30 12:55 7:50 Hanuman (Hanu Man) (Telugu) 6:20-9:30
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Migration (PG) CC: 2:00-4:30- 4:30-7:25 Kismath 4:55 10:00 Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:20-2:40-
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH
♠ Q873
♥ J532
♦ 85
♣ AKJ
WEST EAST
♠ None ♠ KJ9
♥ 864 ♥ K 10 9
♦ J 10 9 6 4 ♦ Q732 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ 87643 ♣ 10 5 2
SOUTH (D)
♠ A 10 6 5 4 2
♥ AQ7
♦ AK
♣ Q9

The bidding:
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1♠ Pass 3♠ Pass
4♥ Pass 5♣ Pass
6♠ All Pass
Opening lead — ♦ J CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE LESTER
MIKE DU JOUR

“W e stopped at six
spades in a dupli-
cate game,” a fan writes. “I
was South and decided that
a grand slam would depend
at best on winning a finesse.
I won the diamond opening
lead and saw that I could take
13 tricks with good luck.”
My fan plopped down the
ace of trumps next — and
West discarded. South RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
threw a heart on dummy’s
high clubs and won a heart
finesse with the queen, but
she lost two trumps to East.
“I see that I could have
safety-played the trumps,”
she writes, “by leading low
from dummy and playing the
10 if East followed low. Is
that really best?”
One aspect of matchpoint
duplicate is assessing your LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
contract. “Strength of field”
is a factor. In an average club
game, where some pairs will
stop at game, South might
safeguard the contract.
South can lead a club
to dummy at Trick Two to
finesse in hearts. If the
queen lost, South would
cash the ace of trumps later,
hoping to drop the king.
When the heart finesse wins,
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
South plays safe in trumps.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠Q873♥J532
♦85♣AKJ
Your partner opens one
diamond, you respond one
heart, he bids two clubs and
you try 2NT. Partner then
bids three diamonds. What
do you say?
ANSWER: Partner’s
sequence suggests extra BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
strength with six diamonds
and four clubs. With a mini-
mum hand, he would have
rebid two diamonds to limit
his strength. Your major-
suit stoppers are too weak
to insist on 3NT. Bid three
spades, four diamonds or
four clubs.
— Frank Stewart
©2024, TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC.

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SUDOKU

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MUTTS PATRICK McDONNELL ZITS JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN

HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | FEBRUARY 5
You are capable,
confident and have a
razor-sharp wit. You’re
intelligent and like to
be surrounded by bright, witty
people. You love philosophy,
psychology, mystery and
intrigue. This is a year of
service, especially to family.
Take care of yourself so you
can be a resource. Is it time
for a makeover?
HEART OF THE CITY STEENZ JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY
Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or
making important decisions
after 9 p.m. The Moon is in
Sagittarius.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
You’ll be very persuasive
when talking to friends and
members of groups today,
which is why people will sit
up and listen to you. In fact,
you might be coming on like
gangbusters, so think about
lightening up a bit.
TAURUS
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL (APRIL 20-MAY 20).
If you’re a boss or a person
in a position of authority,
then today you will wield
your power! Your words will
be incisive and to the point.
However, even if you’re not in a
position of power, bosses and
VIPs will listen to you because
you sound like you know what
you’re talking about!
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
This is a great day to study,
because your mind is
insightful and has a strong
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK penetrating quality. You
will want to understand the
underlying reasons for things.
In discussions about politics,
racial issues or religion, you’ll
be persuasive and convincing!
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
This is an excellent day to
probe the details of anything
that concerns you about
banking matters, insurance
issues, debt, credit cards
or anything to do with
inheritances or how to share
something.
DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER FLASH GORDON DAN SCHKADE
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
Today one of two things might
happen. In discussions with
someone, you might come
on like gangbusters and blow
them over. Or perhaps, instead
you will attract someone to you
who is verbally powerful and
possibly intimidating, certainly
convincing.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
You can be enormously
productive today. You are
determined to do something.
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK You will roll up your sleeves
and dig in, because in a way,
you’re almost obsessed about
getting something done.
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Parents might find themselves
in a power struggle with
their kids today. Others will
find themselves in a similar
power struggle with romantic
partners. Lighten up! For one
thing, the energy today is
intense!
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT Family discussions might
be intense today, in large
measure because you want
to get your way or you want
to drive a point home with
someone.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
You might be obsessed about
an idea today, which is why
you will be pretty intense in
discussions with neighbors,
siblings and relatives. Be very
aware when driving, because
you might be distracted or too
aggressive. Pull back a little.
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
If shopping today, you might
feel like you really have to buy
something. “I have to have
this!” This could be a passing
obsession, so keep your
receipts, and the box.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Today Mercury is in your sign
lined up with Pluto, which will
make your conversations with
others very intense. However,
you will have the ability to
influence others because you
BEETLE BAILEY GREG, BRIAN & NEAL WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS will be persuasive.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
This is a fabulous day to do
research of any kind. Your
mind has a penetrating quality
and a steady, intense focus,
which means you will get to
the bottom of whatever you’re
looking for. You will also be
capable of excellent, intricate
analysis.
— Georgia Nicols
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FASHION
Jacobs, Galliano grapple with purpose of fashion these days
BY R ACHEL T ASHJIAN
There have been several mo-
ments over the past few years —
especially over the past 12
months — where if you find
yourself sitting at a fashion show
you have to think, “What is the
point of all this?”
Amid global warming, war and
a troubling political landscape,
what’s the point of thousand-
dollar coats and pants?
Not that we shouldn’t distract
ourselves, or find some escape —
but clothes have taken on the dull
corporate churn of bottom-barrel
streaming content, as if designed
not by humans but artificial intel-
ligence. (That being said, people
who complain that fashion shows
are a waste of time and brain cells
never seem to think the same
about streaming hours and hours
of television or watching and
reading about lengthy football
games.)
But already this year, two de-
signers, Marc Jacobs and John
Galliano, created shows that re-
charted the conversation on what
fashion’s purpose is right now —
that the most meaningful thing a
fashion show can be at this mo-
ment is a space to play. To imag-
ine. To experiment.
On Friday night, Jacobs
showed a Fall 2024 collection
themed around wonder, set
around Robert Therrien’s huge
folding chairs and table, “No title
(folding table and chairs, beige)”
from 2006. As the models came
out, in slightly jumbo clothes and
comically huge wigs, we were like
little kids under the table, a make-
shift house to play with our dolls.
Jacobs, of late, has designed
like an avid teenage fan fiction
author, writing love notes
through garments to influences
such as Vivienne Westwood, Yves
Saint Laurent and Claude Mon-
tana. Copying other designers is
considered a sin, but Jacobs does
it as an act of gratitude. Here, the
obvious homage was Comme des
Garçons, whose designer Rei
Kawakubo made a collection of
paper doll clothes in Fall 2012.
Then, her pieces read like a cri-
tique of the fashion show as an
increasingly two-dimensional
spectacle, seen through the
phone or computer instead of
experienced in life.
Jacobs’s use of the effect was
more tender — chunky skirt suits,
tomboy get-ups and naive sequin
gowns. Kiddo Jacobs brought all
his favorite icons to play:
Kawakubo, plus the late Lee
Radziwill, who was a close friend,
and her Swan pals, with their
Kenneth-inspired bouffants wob-
bling like extraordinary French
pastries; the Supremes and other
girl groups, glittering on late-
night TV in their sequins, like
heavenly angels on the altarpiece
of their time. The collection wove
in the oversize skater boy grunge
of someone like Chloë Sevigny
and the elbow grease bombshell
quality of Debbie Harry, who
were both in attendance.
Glamour can be demanding
and hard, mercurial and tough to
embrace, especially if it’s not your
natural state. (The reason “Ca-
pote vs. The Swans” is causing
such a stir is that we get to see
women who insisted on living at
such a remove in such disgusting
proximity, replicating the effect
of Capote’s “Answered Prayers.”)
Jacobs, designing as if with a
crayon on construction paper,
brought glamour not down to
earth but close to the heart. He
just adores these women, clearly,
Who watches young kids when both parents are in an out-of-town wedding?
Adapted from an
online discussion.
Hey, Carolyn: My
brother is getting
married in the
Carolyn fall, and I’ll have a
Hax 4-year-old and a
1-year-old at that
time. The 4-year-
old, my spouse and I are in the
wedding. I’m now trying to
figure out what to do with my
1-year-old for the ceremony and
both children during the day
when both parents are occupied.
My parents are willing to help
but, as parents of the groom,
might be busy, although they
insist they will be fine. My
spouse’s parents are also willing
to help, but they are low-key
boundary stompers. Also, when
my kids get tired at the end of the
day, I don’t want to have to leave
the wedding of my only sibling.
Since my family is all going to
the wedding and we don’t live in
town, we have no reliable sitter.
Do you have any suggestions for
how to navigate this?
— In the Wedding
In the Wedding: If you can
giovanni giannoni/Courtesy of Maison MargieLa.
but his admiration is that of a boy,
open-mouthed on the floor of his
mother’s closet, watching her clip
on enormous earrings before go-
ing off to a mysterious night of
cigarettes and drinks in tiny deli-
cate glasses. How does she get so
perfect, so mysterious? The ques-
tion is more beautiful for being
unanswered.
afford care, then you hire one of
the following:
l A trusted adult caregiver to
stay home with both kids all
weekend, so you can really be
present. Your 4-year-old doesn’t
have to be in the ceremony.
l A trusted helper to travel
with you, to be available as
needed throughout the weekend.
l A local sitter known to your
hosts, who can step in as needed
to free you up for an event or
two.
If you can’t afford this, or if
you can’t find someone local,
then you have your kids with you
and you either miss a lot of stuff,
or your spouse does because it’s
your brother, or you hand them
off to people who aren’t perfect
choices, or combinations
thereof. I’m sorry. A reader also
pointed out that, “as out-of-town
folks, it shouldn’t be up to you,”
and suggested you ask the host
family to sort this out.
Carolyn: The hosts mean well
but are oblivious to the logistics
of kids (I can’t judge because I
was equally oblivious before our
friends started having kids).
Money isn’t an issue — we
eZ re
A few weeks earlier was Gallia-
no’s Maison Margiela couture
show, over which the internet —
not just the fashion world — is
losing its mind. Scores of Brassaï-
inspired urchins lurched into a
nightclub, corseted and dressed
in meticulously draped rubber
and mesh.
Critics are calling it one of the
considered bringing our nanny
along, but that would be a lot for
all of us for a week-long trip
when we really only need her for
that one day/night. My in-laws
offered because they would enjoy
more time with the kids. I think
at this point, we really just have
to make a decision and decide to
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Playing under Robert Therrien’s huge
folding card table at the Marc Jacobs show. His collection also pays
homage to the Supremes and other girl groups. Gwendoline
Christie in the finale of Maison Margiela’s recent couture show.
most important fashion shows of
this era. Pat McGrath, who creat-
ed the show’s porcelain doll
makeup, spent a week on Insta-
gram teasing the reveal of the
products she used. The talk be-
fore Jacobs’s show was that Gal-
liano snapped everyone back to
life — every designer will be
shaped his insistence that bizarre
be okay with it.
— In the Wedding again
In the Wedding again: I say
bring the nanny, and expect you
will be grateful for the extra
hands at many, many points in
this week-long trip.
But, then, other people’s
the washington post
Dan LeCCa/Courtesy of MarC JaCobs
showmanship and creativity can
be the stuff of a viral fashion
show.
These two shows shared a lot of
interesting if superficial qualities
— the designers are both in their
early 60s; both were instrumen-
tal in creating the history of early
2000s fashion, with Jacobs at
Louis Vuitton and Galliano at
niCk gaLifianakis for the Washington Post
money is my favorite kind to
spend.
Readers’ thoughts:
l If you have kids, YOU are in
charge of making sure they are
cared for. It isn’t the host’s
responsibility to take care of your
children.
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Dior. Both have, in this era of
their lives, turned their public
persona toward something quiet-
er, more private, preferring most-
ly to share their tastes in art and
culture and even other designers.
Neither took bows after their
show, and neither gave backstage
interviews.
And both shows used doll im-
agery, which, thanks to the ines-
capable Barbie, has been a domi-
nating cultural theme of the past
year. (Incidentally, Martin Mar-
giela, when he was at the helm of
the brand that Galliano now de-
signs, made a doll’s wardrobe for
his Fall 1994 collection.)
But more important than any
of that was their insistence on
imagination and world-building
— that play and originality and
dreaming are the route to good
clothes and good ideas.
Fashion doesn’t need to justify
itself by showing its allegiance or
connection to politics, or making
claim that it is on the level of art.
Actually, one of the most fascinat-
ing things about fashion is its
total embrace of its commercial
necessity, unlike art, which pre-
tends to be above it though it’s
absolutely not. You never look at a
painting in a museum and think,
God, I need to be that — it will
change my life!
The big argument on fashion
TikTok at the moment is how to
develop personal style — some
promise to use some kind of
scientific or psychological meth-
odology, others say you have to
become a more cultivated person
to have style. Of course the latter
is correct, and what we can learn
from Jacobs and Galliano is that
passion and exploration are what
makes clothing — and making
clothing, and wearing it — worth
it to begin with.
parties, where of course the hosts
aren’t “responsible” for their
guests’ babysitting
arrangements. Specifically,
weddings often include guests
who travel to areas unfamiliar to
them, so their hosts help with
accommodations — arranging a
discounted room block at a hotel,
say. Not because hosts “have to,”
but because Cousin Taylor has a
4-month-old and can’t just wing
it.
The hosts can tell them all to
like it or leave, if that satisfies
your sense of suck-it-up justice —
or they can add $100 to the five-
figure-ish tab for a couple of
teenage babysitters in a side
room, to the relief of everyone
who doesn’t want to sit next to a
screaming child. And an inner-
circle guest can ask without
getting swatted down as some
kind of entitled breeder beast.
Write to Carolyn hax at
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SPORTS monday, february 5 , 2024 SU D

Quinn’s
sta≠ is
coming
together
Kingsbury to run offense
and Whitt the defense
for the Commanders

BY N ICKI J HABVALA

A day after announcing Dan

Quinn as their next coach, the
Washington Commanders quickly
found the top two members of his
staff. Former Arizona Cardinals
coach Kliff Kingsbury agreed to a
three-year contract to be the offen-
sive coordinator, and Dallas Cow-
boys secondary coach and defen-
sive passing game coordinator Joe
Whitt Jr. agreed to be the defen-
sive coordinator, multiple people
with knowledge of the hires said
Sunday night.
Kingsbury, who was a senior
offensive assistant at Southern
California last season, appeared in
line for the Las Vegas Raiders’
offensive coordinator job but re-
portedly pulled his name from
consideration and quickly
emerged as a top candidate for
Washington. He takes over amid a
top-to-bottom rebuild of the team
that started last year with Josh
Harris’s $6.05 billion purchase of
the franchise and continued with
the hiring of General Manager
Nick WASS/ASSociAted PreSS Adam Peters in January.
Former wizards franchise player bradley beal enjoyed his return to d.c. “Just took a moment to embrace it. . . . Tonight was awesome,” the Phoenix guard said. Washington turned to Quinn
largely because of his leadership,

Feeling the love

BY A VA W ALLACE
They don’t quite know him anywhere
else on the nBA circuit as they know him
at Capital One Arena, so Bradley Beal
luxuriated in the familiar Sunday after-
noon. He walked, laughing, out of the
Phoenix Suns’ locker room to warm up
more than an hour before tip-off with an
arm draped around a security guard.
After going through his shooting routine,
he moseyed over to the home team’s side
of the court to catch up with old friends.
This is what 11 years with an organiza-
tion gets you, rare as that is today —
especially for a player who didn’t become
the face of the franchise until he was nine
years in, after John Wall was traded away
in 2020.
Beal felt right at home before he helped
Cavaliers at Wizards: Wednesday, 7 p.m., Monumental Sports Network
SUNS 140,
WIZARDS 112
Beal feted in his return before
he lights up his old team for 43
his new team wallop his old one in the
Suns’ 140-112 win over the Washington
Wizards. You could tell as much with the
way he placed a hand over his heart,
waved and winked at the crowd with a
tight smile at the conclusion of a tribute
video the Wizards shared before the
game. He kept his emotions at bay as the
footage rolled, detailing the fruits of his
labor: no. 2 in franchise history in points
(15,391, 160 points shy of Elvin Hayes),
experience and success on the de-
fensive side, but Kingsbury could
have an even greater impact on
the team’s trajectory. Washington
is coming off a 4-13 season and has
not posted a winning record since
2016. It has churned through
14 starting quarterbacks over the
past decade and sorely needs an
no. 3 in games (695) and no. 1 in infusion of creativity and player
three-pointers (1,514). There was video of development on offense. Kings-
off-court events, too, including Beal help-
ing then-Mystics guard natasha Cloud
bury has a record of both.
A former Texas Tech quarter-
lead the teams’ march for social justice in back drafted by the new England
2020. Patriots in the sixth round in 2003,
“Just reminded me of everything on Kingsbury spent the better part of
and off the floor that I’ve contributed and four seasons in the nFL, primarily
encountered,” Beal said after the game. as a practice squad player. He
“Just took a moment to embrace it, be a played in the Canadian Football
little selfish in that regard and just League briefly, then turned to
embrace what I’ve done here. Tonight was coaching, starting as a quality con-
awesome.” trol coach at the University of
That was easy to say after Beal lit up Houston in 2008.
Washington (9-40) for a season-high Kingsbury, 44, was later elevat-
43 points, basking in his success all the ed to co-offensive coordinator and
way. He hung on the rim after one bucket, quarterbacks coach, then jumped
then pointed and winked at trash-talkers to Texas A&M, where he was the
in the stands after another, hamming it offensive coordinator and quar-
SEE wizardS On d3 terbacks coach and worked with
2012 Heisman Trophy winner
Johnny Manziel. In 2013, Kings-
bury was hired as his alma mater’s
coach and helped develop first-
round quarterbacks Patrick Ma-
homes and Baker Mayfield with
the Red Raiders.
After Kingsbury was fired fol-
lowing the 2018 season, the Cardi-
nals grabbed him to be their coach
SEE commanderS On d3

Hockey Canada scandal When Clark shows up, it’s bigger than any old game
now embroils the NHL
BY B AILEY J OHNSON
AND G US G ARCIA- R OBERTS
The sexual assault scandal that
has gripped hockey for months
already has led to widespread
changes. Sponsors have pulled
funding. Hockey Canada, the
sport’s national governing body,
experienced a sweeping shake-up
with the resignations of its CEO
and board. Parliament investigat-
ed.
But for the most part, the back-
lash to the allegations has focused
on Hockey Canada and the cul-
ture of junior hockey in that coun-
try. The nHL, the game’s biggest
stage, had largely avoided it —
until now.
More than five years after a
woman accused members of the
Canadian junior hockey team of
sexual assault, four active nHL
pro basketball
MVP Joel embiid will have
his left knee surgically
repaired, complicating the
76ers’ playoff hopes. D2
players and one former nHLer
now in Europe left their profes-
sional teams and reported to Lon-
don, Ontario, to face criminal
charges. Their identities, shroud-
ed for years, were made public,
and police are expected to hold a
news conference Monday.
Michael McLeod, a center for
the new Jersey Devils, and a team-
mate, defenseman Cal Foote,
turned themselves in, along with
Philadelphia Flyers goalie Carter
Hart and Calgary Flames forward
Dillon Dube. The fifth player,
winger Alex Formenton, plays in
Switzerland, though his nHL
rights are owned by the Ottawa
Senators. All five were granted
leaves of absence from their
teams; the Flames initially said
Dube’s absence was for mental
health reasons.
SEE hockey On d3
soCCer
MetLife Stadium gets
the nod as the host of
the championship game
of the 2026 World cup. D2
The best thing
that happened
Saturday night in
College Park —
after sirens from
the motorcade
Candace blared the arrival
Buckner of the Iowa
women’s
basketball team to the University
of Maryland campus and after
17,950 fans made such noise that
it felt like spending two hours on
a seashore getting pelted by
waves — was that so many eyes
in this sellout crowd saw it as
just a Saturday night.
Because Caitlin Clark, the best
show in college basketball, came
to town and fans of the Maryland
women as well as the traveling
Iowans responded accordingly,
every seat in Xfinity Center was
taken for no. 3 Iowa’s 93-85 win.
So many young girls and boys
were in the crowd. And bless
their little hearts — they don’t
know better. In their eyes, they
got to see a very cool basketball
player and the buzzy atmosphere
she creates, the boos of mixed
hostility and admiration and the
thunderbolts of shouts and
applause. It was a scene and yet,
Nick WASS/ASSociAted PreSS for the youngest fans in
caitlin clark’s 38-point performance in a victory at maryland on Saturday left a sellout crowd amazed. SEE buckner On d8
d2
pRO BASKETBALL
In blow to 76ers’ hopes,
Embiid to have surgery
In a decision with far-reaching
implications for the Philadelphia
76ers and their franchise player,
reigning NBA MVP Joel Embiid
will undergo surgery to address a
lateral meniscus injury in his left
knee, the team announced
Sunday. Embiid’s recovery
timeline has yet to be determined,
but he is expected to be sidelined
for a considerable period.
The 29-year-old center was
diagnosed with the meniscus
injury after Jonathan Kuminga
landed on his leg during a fight
for a loose ball during the 76ers’
loss to the Golden State Warriors
on Jan. 30. He underwent an MRI
exam and missed Philadelphia’s
next two games as he explored his
treatment options.
The setback complicates the
76ers’ hopes of making a deep
postseason run and effectively
eliminates Embiid from the MVP
race; end-of-season award
candidates must appear in
65 games to be eligible.
— Ben Golliver
Lauri Markkanen scored
21 points as the Utah Jazz
knocked off the Milwaukee
Bucks, 123-108, in Salt Lake City.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Edey joins elite group
as Purdue prevails
Zach Edey joined another
exclusive club and Lance Jones
scored 20 points as the second-
ranked Purdue men won at No. 6
Wisconsin, 75-69, in Madison for
their seventh consecutive victory.
The Boilermakers (21-2, 10-2)
took the lead for good midway
through the first half and
extended their Big Ten lead to
11/2 games. The Badgers (16-6,
8-3) lost their second straight.
Edey had 18 points,
13 rebounds and three blocked
shots. The 7-foot-4 center has
201 career blocks, joining Patrick
Ewing and David Robinson as
the only players in NCAA history
to combine 2,000 points,
1,000 rebounds and 200 blocks
with 60 percent shooting.
This was the NCAA-leading
74th straight game in which Edey
scored in double figures. . . .
Georgia Amoore hit a big
three-pointer in overtime and
finished with 21 points and
11 assists, and the No. 17 Virginia
Tech women rallied to a 70-61
victory at No. 24 North Carolina
in Chapel Hill.
The Hokies (18-4, 9-2 ACC) led
the Tar Heels (16-8, 7-4) by a point
in the extra period when Amoore
buried a three-pointer for a 61-57
lead. Matilda Ekh, who hit a
three-pointer to open overtime,
hit another to push the lead to
seven with 1:21 remaining and
wrap up Virginia Tech’s fifth
straight win in the series. . . .
Madison Booker scored
20 points as No. 12 Texas (21-3, 8-3
Big 12) sent No. 2 Kansas State to
its second straight loss with a
61-54 victory in Austin, knocking
the Wildcats (20-3, 9-2) out of
first place in the conference. . . .
Cameron Brink had 19 points,
19 rebounds and seven blocked
shots as No. 4 Stanford (20-3, 9-2
Pac-12) stormed to an 80-60
victory over No. 7 UCLA (17-4, 6-4)
in Stanford, Calif. . . .
Jacy Sheldon scored 25 points,
and No. 8 Ohio State (19-3, 10-1)
used a second-half surge to post a
74-69 win over No. 10 Indiana
(18-3, 9-2) in Columbus, its ninth
consecutive victory. . . .
Sam Brunelle and Kymora
Johnson scored 24 points apiece
for Virginia (10-12, 2-9 ACC) but
got little help in a 75-69 loss to
Clemson (11-12, 4-7) in
Charlottesville. . . .
Graceann Bennett and Mya
Bembry had double-doubles to
power Georgetown (15-7, 5-6 Big
East) to a 44-42 win over DePaul
(11-13, 3-8) at McDonough Arena.
Bennett had 12 points and
13 rebounds and Bembry 12 and
10 for the Hoyas. . . .
Timaya Lewis-Eutsey scored
15 points to boost VCU (19-3, 8-2
Atlantic 10) to a 71-51 victory over
George Washington in Richmond.
Essence Brown had 13 to lead the
Revolutionaries (8-14, 1-9). . . .
Anna LeMaster (Stone Bridge)
scored 15 points off the bench, but
American (8-13, 6-4 Patriot
League) couldn’t get past
Bucknell (7-14, 4-6) in Lewisburg,
Pa., falling, 61-47.
GOLf
Clark declared winner
at soaked Pebble Beach
Wyndham Clark was declared
the winner of the Pebble Beach
Pro-Am in California when the
PGA Tour canceled the final
round because of wicked weather
Sunday that would linger into
Monday and cause safety
concerns.
eZ sU the washington post . monday, february 5 , 2024
THE DAY IN SPORTS
game that gave fans and a
national television audience
glimpses of what the soon-to-be
Olympic sport could look like
with such highly skilled athletes
on the field.
The NFC defeated the AFC,
64-59, with the final score
determined by combining points
from Sunday’s game with those
accumulated over two days of
skills challenges. . . .
The father of Kansas City
Chiefs quarterback Patrick
Mahomes was arrested in Tyler,
Tex., on at least his third charge of
driving while intoxicated,
according to jail records. The
legal issue comes as the younger
Mahomes prepares to lead his
team into the Super Bowl against
the San Francisco 49ers on
Sunday.
Patrick Mahomes Sr. was
arrested Saturday night, and his
bond was set at $10,000. The
54-year-old was released Sunday,
according to Smith County jail
records. . . .
Former New York Jets tight end
and wide receiver Richard
Caster, who was selected for
three Pro Bowls during his
13-year career, died at 75.
TENNIS
Bublik gets past Coric
CHris o'MeArA/AssoCiATed Press
for fourth career title
No slide necessary Alexander Bublik again lost
the first set before rallying to beat
NFC quarterback Baker Mayfield of the Buccaneers scrambles against the AFC during the Pro Bowl Games’ flag football event.
Borna Coric, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, and win
the Open Sud de France for his
fourth career title.
The second-seeded Kazakh
dropped the first set in every
match he played at the indoor
tournament in Montpellier. The
SpO TLIGHT: SO CCE R ATP website said he is the first to
win a tour event after losing the
first set in each match. . . .
FIFA awards World Cup final to New Jersey Russian rising star Diana
Shnaider bounced back from a
turbulent second set to upend
defending champion Zhu Lin of
BY S TEVEN G OFF Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta) were stage matches after the round of 16. In all, China, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1, for her
awarded the semifinals. The quarterfi- 78 games will take place at U.S. venues, maiden title at the WTA’s
MetLife Stadium will stage the cham- nals were given to SoFi Stadium, Gillette with 13 apiece in Mexico and Canada. Thailand Open in Hua Hin. . . .
pionship game of the 2026 World Cup, Stadium (Foxborough, Mass.), Arrow- The 48-nation field will be determined Argentina reached the Davis
FIFA announced Sunday, bringing the head Stadium (Kansas City, Mo.) and through continental qualifying that be- Cup Finals group stage by
final of the men’s soccer spectacle to the Hard Rock Stadium (Miami Gardens, gan last year. The draw to determine the eliminating Kazakhstan, 3-2, at
New York area. Fla.), which also will handle the third- groups, first-round matches and start home in the best-of-five-match
The choice of the 82,500-seat venue in place game. dates/times will take place in December qualifying round when Sebastian
East Rutherford, N.J., was a departure The U.S. national team — which, like 2025. Baez erased two match points
from World Cup titles decided in South- the Mexican and Canadian squads, re- To reduce travel for teams and fans, and came back to edge Dmitry
ern California — the 1994 tournament for ceived an automatic berth — will open FIFA created geographic clusters in the Popko, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (8-6) in
men and the 1999 and 2003 events for group play at SoFi Stadium, then visit group stage. Teams that finish first in Rosario.
women. The Los Angeles area was not in Seattle’s Lumen Field before returning to their group will receive preferential trav- Belgium, Chile, the Czech
contention this time because its World the Los Angeles area. el for the round of 32. Republic and France also
Cup venue, three-year-old SoFi Stadium “We know how Americans get behind AT&T Stadium will host the most wrapped up victories.
in Inglewood, Calif., fails to meet FIFA’s their teams and international events,” matches (nine). Atlanta, East Rutherford
minimum seating capacity of 80,000 for U.S. Coach Gregg Berhalter said on a and Inglewood will have eight apiece. mISC.
a men’s final. video call with reporters. “We know how Eight of the 16 venues, including seven
The other serious contender for the Americans can host international events. of 11 in the United States, must convert to Skier Yule pulls off
2026 final was believed to be AT&T So when you add those two things togeth- grass fields at least several months before unprecedented rally
Stadium in suburban Dallas. er, it’s going to be an incredible environ- the World Cup. Houston, Atlanta and
“As an advocate for this region, and a ment for our team.” Vancouver have retractable roofs and Swiss skier Daniel Yule staged
lifelong soccer fan, I am thrilled that Mexico will play twice in Mexico City artificial turf. AT&T Stadium has a per- an unprecedented comeback to
FIFA chose to place their trust in New and once in Guadalajara, while Canada manent roof. SoFi Stadium, which also win a men’s World Cup slalom in
York New Jersey,” New Jersey Gov. Phil will open in Toronto before playing twice uses artificial turf, has a translucent roof Chamonix, France, less than four
Murphy (D) said in a statement. in Vancouver. Mexico’s first match, at but is open on three sides. hours after he thought his race
Sixteen venues across the United Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, is the Most venues will undergo alterations was over.
States, Mexico and Canada will take part tournament opener. to accommodate the width of a World Believing that his error-prone
in the 48-nation, 104-match competition, The other venues are Santa Clara, Cup field. (A soccer field is about 20 yards first run wouldn’t be enough to
the largest in World Cup history. FIFA Calif.; Houston; Philadelphia; and Mon- wider than a football field.) MetLife Sta- qualify for the second leg, Yule
selected the cities in June 2022 and terrey, Mexico. As part of the joint bid dium must cut into the curved walls in started preparing to go home.
announced game designations Sunday. agreement between the host countries, the corners, an expense to be paid by the But he did qualify as the last
AT&T Stadium (Arlington, Tex.) and Mexico and Canada were not eligible to state. racer and was left with
1.93 seconds to make up on leader
Clement Noel, then took
advantage of a deteriorating
T E L E V I S I O N A N d R Ad I O course in springlike conditions to
become the first skier to win a
World Cup race from 30th place
NBA after the opening run. . . .
3 p.m. English premier League: manchester City at Brentford »
7:30 p.m. Golden State at Brooklyn » NBA TV
UsA Network Five-time Olympic champion
mEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 3 p.m. men’s Olympic qualifier: Brazil vs. paraguay » Fox sports 2 Diana Taurasi was selected for
7 p.m. miami at Virginia » esPN, WsBN (630 AM)
6 p.m. men’s Olympic qualifier: Argentina at Venezuela » Fox sports 2 the U.S. women’s basketball team
9 p.m. Kansas at Kansas State » esPN, WsBN (630 AM) that will play in a pre-Olympic
TENNIS
9 p.m. Southern at Jackson State » esPN2 qualifying tournament in
5 a.m. ATp: Open 13 and Cordoba Open, early rounds;
Belgium this week.
WOmEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL WTA: Transylvania Open and Abu dhabi Open, early rounds »
Tennis Channel
Taurasi is one of seven former
6 p.m. minnesota at michigan State » Big Ten Network
4:30 p.m. ATp: dallas Open and Cordoba Open, early rounds » Tennis Channel Olympians on the roster. She is
7 p.m. Louisville at North Carolina State » esPN2 joined by Ariel Atkins, Napheesa
4 a.m. ATp: Open 13 and Cordoba Open, early rounds;
7 p.m. Alabama at Vanderbilt » seC Network
(Tuesday) WTA: Transylvania Open and Abu dhabi Open, early rounds » Collier, Jewell Loyd, Kelsey
8 p.m. Illinois at purdue » Big Ten Network
Tennis Channel Plum, Breanna Stewart and
SOCCER Jackie Young.
HOCKEy
1 p.m. Women’s U-17 championship, Group A: Costa Rica vs. El Salvador » Additionally, 2022 World Cup
9 p.m. American Hockey League: All-Star Classic » NHL Network
Fox sports 2 champions Kahleah Copper,
Sabrina Ionescu and Alyssa
Thomas will be part of the team.
Aliyah Boston and Rhyne
Howard round out the squad. . . .
Diving powerhouse China won
gold in the men’s three-meter
Clark’s final stroke was a two- Dylan Frittelli earned his first Rasmus Hojlund failed to find Madrid scored a stoppage-time synchronized springboard for the
putt birdie from 25 feet Saturday, DP World Tour title in more than the net in his first 14 Premier equalizer in a 1-1 draw. fourth time in a row at the World
giving him a course-record six years after making three League games for Manchester Marcos Llorente scored with a Aquatics Championships in
12-under-par 60 and a one-shot birdies in his last six holes for a United. Now he can’t stop header three minutes into added Doha, Qatar.
lead over Ludvig Aberg, who two-stroke victory at the Bahrain scoring. time after Brahim Díaz had put Wang Zongyuan and Long
missed a long eagle putt on the Championship in Riffa. The Denmark striker marked the hosts ahead in the first half at Daoyi finished with a total
par-5 18th hole. . . . his 21st birthday by scoring for Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. . . . 442.41 points, beating Italy’s
Joaquin Niemann outlasted SOCCER the fourth straight league game, An own-goal by Bianconeri Lorenzo Marsaglia and Giovanni
Sergio Garcia well after sunset in setting United on its way to a 3-0 defender Federico Gatti was Tocci (384.24) and Spain’s Adrian
the season-opening LIV Golf Arsenal rises to second win against West Ham at Old enough to hand Serie A leader Abadia and Nicolas Garcia
Mayakoba in Playa del Carmen, by defeating Liverpool Trafford. . . . Inter a 1-0 win in the Derby Boissier (383.28). . . .
Mexico, making a 12-foot birdie Gio Reyna made his debut for d’Italia in Milan and lift it four Earl “The Twirl” Cureton,
putt from the fringe on the fourth The English Premier League Nottingham Forest as a second- points above second-place who won two NBA
hole of a playoff with the green lit title race just got a lot tighter. half substitute in the team’s 1-1 Juventus. . . . championships in 12 seasons in
by a large video screen. Arsenal benefited from two draw at Bournemouth. Kurt Hamrin, a former the league, died at 66. . . .
Niemann won his first LIV second-half errors from Liverpool The American midfielder came Fiorentina and Sweden great who Former Florida athletic
Golf title two days after opening goalkeeper Alisson Becker to on in the 78th minute four days was the last living player to have director Bill Carr, an all-
with a 12-under 59 — and a day claim a 3-1 victory over the after signing from Borussia participated in the 1958 World American center and team
after having two penalty strokes visiting league leader. Dortmund on loan until the end Cup final, died at 89. captain for the Gators football
tacked on to his second-round Arsenal moved up to second of the season. . . . team in 1966, died at 78. . . .
score for taking incorrect relief on place and just two points behind Just a minute away from pRO fOOTBALL Barry John, a rugby great who
a drop from a cart path on the Liverpool after 23 of 38 games in beating its city rival for the played 25 games for Wales and
13th hole. what might shape up to be a second time in less than a month Pro Bowl Games offer inspired the British and Irish
Masters champion Jon Rahm, three-way fight for the title. and taking a four-point lead of the Olympic sport preview Lions’ famous series victory over
the biggest name to sign with LIV Manchester City is in third Spanish league, Real Madrid New Zealand in 1971 before
Golf during the offseason, tied for place, five points off Liverpool but couldn’t hang on. The Pro Bowl Games in retiring at 27, died. He was 79.
third at 10 under in his debut on with two games in hand. City Madrid’s improvised defense Orlando concluded with NFL — From news services
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Commanders will turn
to Kingsbury and Whitt
Commanders frOm d1
in 2019, the same year they select-
ed quarterback Kyler murray with
the draft’s first pick. The Cardinals
went 28-37-1 in four seasons under
Kingsbury before firing him in
January 2023. He joined USC
three months later and worked
with 2022 Heisman Trophy-win-
ning quarterback Caleb Williams,
whom the Commanders will eye
closely as the draft nears.
Kingsbury has modified his of-
fense over the years to be a pro-
style Air raid. His scheme gives
the appearance of a more modern-
day spread offense, but it doesn’t
discount the running game. In
2020 and 2021, the Cardinals
ranked sixth and seventh in rush-
ing attempts, an aspect that was
missing in Washington’s offense
last season. But how he tailors his
scheme to Washington’s person-
nel remains to be seen, in part
because Washington’s personnel
figures to be in flux, too.
The Commanders have five
picks in the first three rounds of
the draft. They also are projected
to have the most salary cap space
in the NfL, giving them plenty of
room to add talent.
Kingsbury will be Washington’s
third play caller and coordinator
in as many years, following Scott
Turner, who ran an Air Coryell
system from 2020 to 2022, and
Eric Bieniemy, who ran a West
Coast offense in 2023. Bieniemy
has another year on his contract
and seems likely to be let go after
Kingsbury’s arrival.
Whitt, 45, follows Quinn for the
second time to take over a Com-
manders defense that struggled in
nearly every facet last season. A
former walk-on wide receiver at
Auburn, Whitt began coaching in
2000 and joined the pro ranks as
assistant defensive backs coach
for the Atlanta falcons in 2007.
After 11 seasons as a defensive
assistant for the Green Bay Pack-
ers, with whom he won Super
Former arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury agreed to a three-
year contract to become the Commanders’ offensive coordinator.
Beal returns to D.C. and lights up his former team for 43
Wizards frOm d1
up some eight months after he
was traded to Phoenix in a move
that eventually brought Jordan
Poole, Landry Shamet, Patrick
Baldwin Jr. and a handful of
draft assets, including a 2030
first-round pick, to the Wizards.
The 30-year-old guard had a
muddled reputation among Wiz-
ards fans in the latter part of his
tenure because of his five-year,
$251 million contract and the
team’s inability to scrape togeth-
er a playoff run with him as its
centerpiece, but you wouldn’t
know it from the standing ova-
tion he received after checking
out of the game for the last time.
“You still want to kick the
team that traded you’s a--, for
sure,” Beal said. “But it wasn’t on
my mind the whole night. Get
the win. We wanted to finish our
road trip off strong.”
After spending four years or
so as the Wizards’ lone founda-
tional player, that has to be
Beal’s approach now. This new
chapter of his career demands a
team mind-set from the guard,
who is now the third prong
alongside Kevin Durant and
Devin Booker. After injuries de-
layed their time on the court
together, the trio are jelling and
Phoenix is rising — the Suns
(29-21) have won 10 of their past
13 and are sixth in the Western
Conference. Suns Coach frank
Vogel said Beal’s mind has been
on team success since he ar-
rived.
“The messaging that he’s com-
municated to me is, ‘I’ve done a
lot individually; I’ve gotten a lot
of individual accolades in scor-
ing and in All-Star Games and
those types of things,’ ” Vogel
said. “The biggest thing for him
is to win at the highest level and
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Bowl XLV, and a year with the
Cleveland Browns, Whitt re-
turned to Atlanta as the secondary
coach and passing game coordina-
tor under Quinn. He kept that title
when he joined Quinn with Dallas
in 2021.
Whitt and Quinn helped trans-
form a Cowboys defense that
ranked 28th in points allowed and
23rd in yards allowed in 2020 into
a group that led the league in
interceptions and finished sev-
enth in points allowed in 2021.
Last season, the Cowboys ranked
fifth in total yards, passing yards
and points allowed. The Com-
manders ranked last in all three
categories.
Although Quinn pulled the
strings for the Cowboys’ defense
last year, it’s unclear whether he
plans to call the coverages as
Washington’s coach; he did so in-
termittently for Atlanta. more
pressing, it seems, was ensuring
his coordinator was familiar with
his system and that he quickly
assembled his staff to begin a full
evaluation of the roster and the
team’s plans to revamp it.
Peters, who will orchestrate the
Commanders’ rebuild, said at his
introductory news conference
that he views this situation similar
to that of the 2017 San francisco
49ers, who also had the second
draft pick (they traded down), a
new coach (Kyle Shanahan) and a
new Gm (John Lynch).
“We’re going to be very process-
driven and diligent in who we
select in free agency,” Peters said.
“But we’re going to build through
the draft here. . . . It’s having an
aligned vision, having collabora-
tion, having inclusion with every-
body, everybody pulling in the
same direction.”
On Sunday at around 8 p.m.,
Peters waited at Dulles Interna-
tional Airport to greet Quinn as he
stepped off a private jet. Less than
an hour later, word got out about
Kingsbury’s and Whitt’s agree-
ments.
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Bradley Beal’s 43 points were a season high, and the Phoenix guard made 16 of his 21 shots in his first game against the Wizards in d.C.
have an opportunity to compete
for a championship. So he’s had
nights where he’s had 10 points,
eight assists, great defense, and
he’s had nights where he’s gone
Hockey Canada’s scandal reaches NHL
HoCKey frOm d1
Through their attorneys, all of
the players denied wrongdoing.
The charges are the culmina-
tion of a scandal that has built in
Canada for more than five years,
with media attention and a grow-
ing political firestorm seemingly
forcing police and prosecutors to
revisit sexual assault allegations
they previously shelved — and
which appear to have been virtu-
ally ignored until now by the NHL.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bett-
man, speaking friday ahead of the
All-Star Game in Toronto, said the
league had no advance notice of
the charges.
“All of the NHL players who
appear to be subject of indictment
are no longer with their teams,”
Bettman said. “And so at this
stage, the most responsible and
prudent thing for us to do is await
the conclusion of the judicial pro-
ceedings, at which point we will
respond as appropriate at the
time.”
But Amos Guiora, a law profes-
sor at the University of Utah and
former chair of the Gymnastics
Canada Task force for Assault,
said it was unlikely team and
league officials were unaware of
rumors connecting these players
to the allegations. “I think they
made a cold calculation that the
fan base will tolerate this if he’s
able to put a puck in the net,”
Guiora said.
a quiet settlement
All five of the players were part
of the 2018 Canadian team that
won gold at that year’s world ju-
nior championships, an annual
showcase of potential NHL talent.
That summer, members of the
team attended a Hockey Canada
fundraiser in London, where they
were honored for their title.
It was at a bar in London, the
woman later claimed in her law-
suit, that she met one of the play-
ers and returned to his hotel
room, where they had consensual
sex. Afterward, the woman
claimed, “seven or eight” of the
hockey player’s friends arrived in
the room and sexually assaulted
her. The lawsuit doesn’t name the
woman or the players; The Wash-
ington Post doesn’t typically iden-
tify alleged victims of sexual as-
sault unless they ask to be named.
The woman’s family reported
the alleged sexual assault the next
morning to Hockey Canada,
which then notified London po-
lice, according to later testimony
in the Canadian Parliament. But
both entities were apparently sty-
mied by the task of even identify-
ing the alleged perpetrators.
Hockey Canada initially took no
action, and the police closed their
investigation in february 2019
without filing charges. The allega-
tions did not become public.
By the time of the alleged as-
sault, in June 2018, all five players
had been drafted by their NHL
teams. formenton already had
for 40.”
Beal said that adjustment re-
quired him to shelve his ego the
moment he left Washington. He
is averaging 18.1 points, his few-
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Flyers goaltender Carter Hart was one of several players who
recently took a leave of absence but has denied wrongdoing.
made his NHL debut. It’s common
for players to require a year or two
of development before becoming
contributors, and mcLeod, Hart
and Dube played in the NHL in the
2018-19 season. foote began his
professional career with Syracuse
of the American Hockey League,
one level below the NHL, in 2018
and made his NHL debut in Janu-
ary 2021.
The allegations erupted into
view in may 2022 when a Cana-
dian outlet reported Hockey Can-
ada had settled a multimillion-
dollar lawsuit filed by a woman
who alleged she had been sexually
assaulted by eight players from
the 2018 world junior team. Hock-
ey Canada reportedly used funds
from a secret account bankrolled
by registration fees from its mem-
bers to settle the suit on behalf of
all defendants, including hockey
players whose identities it pur-
ported not to know.
The ensuing outcry and pres-
sure from Parliament led to Hock-
ey Canada and police in London
reopening investigations, even-
tually leading to charges.
The Senators did not re-sign
formenton, who instead signed
with Swiss club Ambri-Piotta. At
the time of the signing, the Swiss
club acknowledged formenton
was a member of the Canadian
junior team under scrutiny.
“Should the new investigation by
the Canadian police reveal el-
ements that are currently un-
known,” the team said, “the club
and the player have reserved the
right to reevaluate their contrac-
tual relationship.”
But the other members of the
2018 junior team returned to their
NHL cities for training camp that
fall. many of them — including
Dube and foote — issued state-
ments denying their involvement.
The NHL also opened an investi-
gation that Bettman said friday
was completed, but the league
doesn’t plan to share the report
from the investigation until, at
minimum, judicial proceedings in
London are complete. Bettman
also left open the possibility that,
depending on the outcome of the
est since 2015-16, but a lighter
burden is allowing him to flour-
ish in other ways. He’s shooting
49.6 percent, the second-best
mark of his career.
derik HAMiltoN/ASSoCiAted preSS
criminal case, the NHL may never
share the results of its report.
“That’s something, depending
on what happens in the judicial
process, we’ll have to take a look
at,” Bettman said. “That may de-
pend on what actions we think we
may or may not need to take.”
‘reasonable grounds’
After reopening the investiga-
tion, London police said in De-
cember 2022 they had “reason-
able grounds” to believe five play-
ers committed sexual assault.
They asked a court to approve
additional investigative mea-
sures, including search warrants
to access the hotel room and
thumb drives that contained text
messages between the players.
The NHL’s collective bargain-
ing agreement with its players
gives Bettman the power to sus-
pend players pending a criminal
investigation in situations in
which a failure to do so “would
create a substantial risk of materi-
al harm to the legitimate interests
and/or reputation of the League.”
But as the allegations remained
under investigation by the NHL,
Hockey Canada and London po-
lice, the players were not publicly
identified and kept playing.
Dube was the first to leave the
ice, taking a leave of absence from
the flames on Jan. 21. In a state-
ment Tuesday, after news broke
that he was among the players
charged, the flames said they had
“no knowledge of pending charg-
es” when Dube made the request.
“We take this matter very seri-
ously,” the team said. “Because the
matter is now pending legal pro-
ceedings, we will have no further
comment at this time. We had no
knowledge of pending charges at
the time Dillon’s request for a
leave of absence was granted.”
The flyers granted Hart a leave
of absence Jan. 23, citing personal
reasons. When flyers General
manager Daniel Briere met with
the media the next day, after re-
ports surfaced that Hart was
among the five players facing
charges, he read a prepared state-
ment.
NiCk WASS/ASSoCiAted preSS
Encouragement from Durant
and Booker in the locker room
helped ease the transition to his
new role.
“They tell me to be me,” Beal
d3
“We are aware of this morning’s
press reports of a very serious
matter. We will respond appropri-
ately when the outcomes of the
investigations are made public,”
Briere said. “The NHL has been
very clear that teams should refer
all investigation-related ques-
tions to them. In the meantime,
members of the organization, in-
cluding flyers players, will not be
commenting further.”
mcLeod and foote were grant-
ed leaves of absence by the Devils
on Jan. 24. formenton’s team in
Switzerland released a statement
Jan. 24 saying he had been grant-
ed a leave of absence and was
allowed to return to Canada.
formenton is already a free
agent, and the contracts for the
other four players expire after this
season. All four will be restricted
free agents, meaning their rights
are held by their current teams
and they cannot negotiate with
other NHL clubs.
“As a personal matter, if I were
them, I would be focusing on de-
fending themselves,” Bettman
said. “. . . And I would be surprised
if they’re playing while this is
pending.”
michael mcCann, director of
the Sports and Entertainment
Law Institute at the University of
New Hampshire franklin Pierce
School of Law, said the NHL acted
as expected given the players had
not been publicly identified.
“Without knowing who the names
of the players are, it’s hard to have
an expectation to take action,”
mcCann said.
But rita Smith, a senior adviser
to the NfL on issues related to
domestic violence and sexual as-
sault, said she found it unlikely
the players’ employers would be
in the dark about the allegations.
“Whether they were publicly iden-
tified or not, the teams themselves
should have heard about it,” Smith
said, adding that those teams then
had an obligation to inform the
league. “The reality is that if they
could avoid it or ignore it, I think
most of the leagues would do that
because it creates real conflict to
take action.”
Smith said sports leagues none-
theless have an obligation to con-
duct their own investigations and
take action without waiting for
cover from law enforcement. “Do-
mestic violence and sexual assault
are highly unreported and rarely
prosecuted, and so you can’t wait
for the criminal justice system to
figure this out,” Smith said.
But the NHL is under less scru-
tiny than the NfL, at least in the
United States. And the cultural
hold of hockey over Canadians
could help explain the culture of
silence, said Guiora, the Utah law
professor.
“The National Hockey League
is the dream for Canadian chil-
dren and, probably, their parents,”
Guiora said. “In that context, an
ecosystem protects them because
it is the national game and it is the
national aspiration.”
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said. “Like, ‘We need you to be
yourself; we didn’t bring you
here to do anything other than
that.’ ”
Beal did just that Sunday,
giving Wizards fans a reminder
of what they used to have. His
43 points came on 16-for-21
shooting. He was vintage Beal as
he snaked his way to the basket
time and again and hit four
three-pointers on five attempts.
Durant (18 points) and Jusuf
Nurkic (18 points, 13 rebounds)
served as the supporting cast on
this night. The Wizards, who
were without Kyle Kuzma
(shoulder) and marvin Bagley
III (back), had no answer for
their former leader. Deni Avdija
led the way with 24 points and
shared a nice moment with Beal
after the game when they ex-
changed jerseys.
Beal said the entire weekend
— interacting with the locals,
seeing familiar faces at Capital
One Arena and playing against
his old teammates — was moti-
vating.
“Just being appreciative for
everything everyone’s ever done
for me here,” he said. “Being
appreciative for where I am and
the team that I’m on now and
what we’re able to do and what
I’m trying to achieve.”
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scoreboard
PR o f o o TbA L L PRo b ASKeT bALL co LLe g e b AS K eT bAL L

NfL playoffs NbA clippers 103, Heat 95 NcAA women No. 12 Texas 61, NcAA men
fIRST ROUND EASTERN cONfERENcE L.A. cLIPPERS .................... 19 24 26 34 — 103 SUNDAY’S RESULTS No. 2 Kansas State 54 SUNDAY’S RESULTS
SATURDAY, JAN. 13 mIAmI ................................ 22 21 24 28 — 95 EAST kANSAS STATE ................. 10 9 16 19 — 54 EAST
ATLANTIc W L Pct Gb Bucknell 61, American 47 Fairfield 77, Manhattan 68
at Houston 45, Cleveland 14 TExAS ................................ 14 15 18 14 — 61
Boston ........................................ 38 12 .760 — L.A. cLIPPERS: George 3-13 6-6 15, Leonard 8-16 6-6 25, Connecticut 78, St. John’s 63 Iona 94, Rider 93
at Kansas City 26, Miami 7 kansas State (20-3)
New York .................................... 32 18 .640 6 Zubac 2-4 0-0 4, Harden 7-13 2-4 21, Mann 3-5 0-0 7, Dayton 72, La Salle 69 (OT) Marist 63, St. Peter’s 52
SUNDAY, JAN. 14 Philadelphia................................ 30 18 .625 7 Plumlee 1-2 3-4 5, Coffey 2-3 0-0 5, Powell 6-12 2-2 16, Delaware 82, Hofstra 59
Sanchez 2-6 0-0 5, Jaelyn Glenn 3-12 0-0 8, Brylee Glenn
Mount St. Mary’s 68, Siena 61
Green Bay 48, at Dallas 32 Brooklyn ..................................... 20 28 .417 17 Westbrook 2-9 0-0 5. Totals 34-77 19-22 103. 0-2 0-0 0, Gregory 0-6 0-0 0, Sundell 5-11 4-7 14, Lester
Georgetown 44, DePaul 42 Villanova 68, Providence 50
at Detroit 24, L.A. Rams 23 Toronto....................................... 17 32 .347 201/2 0-1 1-2 1, Maupin 7-7 4-6 18, Sides 0-1 0-0 0, Walker 2-7
mIAmI: Butler 8-19 3-3 21, Highsmith 2-5 0-0 5, Adebayo Stony Brook 78, Monmouth (N.J.) 62 SOUTH
4-5 8, Totals 19-53 13-20 54
mONDAY, JAN. 15 5-13 4-4 14, Richardson 6-13 0-0 14, Rozier 7-17 3-3 17, Syracuse 75, Boston College 63
Texas (21-3) Tulane 92, Temple 80 (OT)
at Buffalo 31, Pittsburgh 17 SOUTHEAST W L Pct Gb Martin 5-9 1-2 11, Love 2-4 0-0 6, Jaquez Jr. 3-11 0-0 7. Towson 66, Charleston 59
Booker 7-18 5-5 20, Jones 6-9 1-1 13, Moore 2-8 6-10 10, mIDWEST
at Tampa Bay 32, Philadelphia 9 Orlando....................................... 27 23 .540 — Totals 38-91 11-12 95. SOUTH Gonzales 1-7 0-0 3, Holle 0-3 0-0 0, Gaston 4-4 0-0 8,
Miami ......................................... 26 24 .520 1 Illinois 87, Nebraska 84 (OT)
DIVISIONAL ROUND Three-point Goals: L.A. Clippers 16-39 (Harden 5-9, Campbell 53, Elon 35 Muhammad 0-0 0-0 0, Maul 0-1 0-0 0, Mwenentanda 3-6
Atlanta ....................................... 22 27 .449 41/2 Purdue 75, Wisconsin 69
SATURDAY, JAN. 20 Leonard 3-6, George 3-10, Powell 2-7, Coffey 1-1, Mann Charlotte 75, Temple 72 (OT) 0-1 7, Totals 23-56 12-17 61
Charlotte .................................... 10 38 .208 16 South Dakota State 70, South Dakota 67
1-2, Westbrook 1-4), Miami 8-30 (Love 2-4, Butler 2-5, Clemson 75, Virginia 69 Three-point goals: Kansas State 3-21 (Sanchez 1-3,
at Baltimore 34, Houston 10 Washington.................................. 9 40 .184 171/2 SOUTHWEST
Richardson 2-8, Highsmith 1-3, Jaquez Jr. 1-3, Martin Florida State 75, Miami 68 J.Glenn 2-7, B.Glenn 0-1, Gregory 0-3, Sundell 0-4, Sides
at San Francisco 24, Green Bay 21 Georgia 72, Kentucky 65 0-1, Walker 0-2), Texas 3-12 (Booker 1-3, Moore 0-2,
0-2, Rozier 0-5). fouled Out: None. Rebounds: L.A. SMU 72, Alabama Birmingham 69
SUNDAY, JAN. 21 cENTRAL W L Pct Gb Clippers 48 (Leonard 11), Miami 45 (Adebayo 13). Georgia Tech 58, Wake Forest 55 Gonzales 1-4, Holle 0-2, Mwenentanda 1-1). Assists:
Milwaukee.................................. 33 17 .660 — WEST
at Detroit 31, Tampa Bay 23 Assists: L.A. Clippers 23 (Harden 11), Miami 24 (Rozier LSU 106, Florida 66 Kansas State 12 (Sundell 8), Texas 12 (Booker 6, Holle 6).
Cleveland.................................... 31 16 .660 1/
North Carolina A&T 72, Northeastern 49 fouled out: Texas Jones. Rebounds: Kansas State 30 Arizona 82, Stanford 71
Kansas City 27, at Buffalo 24 2
5). Total fouls: L.A. Clippers 12, Miami 19. A: 19,855
Indiana........................................ 28 23 .549 51/
(19,600) UNC Wilmington 77, Hampton 70 (J.Glenn 5, Walker 5), Texas 39 (Moore 15). Total fouls:
2
SATURDAY’S RESULTS
cONfERENcE cHAmPIONSHIPS Chicago ....................................... 23 27 .460 10 South Carolina 85, Mississippi 56 Kansas State 20, Texas 20. Technical Fouls_None. A: 8,325. EAST
SUNDAY, JAN. 28 Detroit .......................................... 6 43 .122 261/2 Tennessee 80, Missouri 69
American 75, Bucknell 66 (OT)
Afc WESTERN cONfERENcE VCU 71, George Washington 51
Boston 72, Lehigh 71
Kansas City 17, at Baltimore 10 Timberwolves 111, Rockets 90 Virginia Tech 70, North Carolina 61 (OT)
William & Mary 75, Drexel 62
No. 4 Stanford 80, No. 7 UcLA 60 BYU 86, West Virginia 73
Nfc SOUTHWEST W L Pct Gb Colgate 88, Navy 64
New Orleans............................... 28 21 .571 — HOUSTON ........................... 23 21 20 26 — 90 mIDWEST UcLA ................................... 12 15 14 19 — 60 Connecticut 77, St. John’s 64
at San Francisco 34, Detroit 31 mINNESOTA ...................... 31 17 32 31 — 111 STANfORD ......................... 21 24 19 16 — 80
Dallas.......................................... 26 23 .531 2 Creighton 75, Butler 65 Cornell 89, Harvard 76
SUPER bOWL LVIII Houston...................................... 23 26 .469 5 East Carolina 72, Wichita State 51 UcLA (17-4) Delaware 84, Monmouth (N.J.) 80
Memphis..................................... 18 32 .360 101/2 HOUSTON: Brooks 2-7 2-2 7, Smith Jr. 1-4 0-0 3, Sengun
SUNDAY’S GAmE 7-14 0-2 15, Ja.Green 3-15 2-3 8, VanVleet 4-11 1-1 11, Illinois State 64, Indiana State 59 Dugalic 2-9 0-0 6, Iwuala 3-6 2-4 8, Jones 2-6 7-7 13, Duquesne 85, Rhode Island 71
IN LAS VEGAS San Antonio................................ 10 40 .200 181/2 Northwestern 69, Wisconsin 43 Osborne 5-18 0-0 13, Rice 3-13 2-4 9, Jaquez 4-10 1-2 9, Hampton 63, Howard 61
Je.Green 1-3 1-2 4, Samuels Jr. 2-2 0-0 4, Tate 1-3 0-0 2,
Kansas City vs. San Francisco (-21/2), 6:30 (CBS) Notre Dame 78, Pittsburgh 53 Muse 1-3 0-0 2, Brown 0-3 0-0 0, Totals 20-68 12-17 60 Hofstra 59, Towson 56
Whitmore 4-13 3-6 14, Bullock Jr. 0-0 0-0 0, Hinton 1-2
NORTHWEST W L Pct Gb Ohio State 74, Indiana 69 Stanford (20-3) Holy Cross 70, Loyola (Md.) 67
2-2 5, Thompson 2-7 4-6 8, Landale 2-4 0-0 4, Holiday 1-3
Oklahoma City............................ 35 15 .700 — Valparaiso 71, Illinois Chicago 70 Brink 8-10 3-5 19, Iriafen 8-16 2-3 18, Bosgana 3-3 0-0 6, Lafayette 64, Army 56 (OT)
3-3 5. Totals 31-88 18-27 90.
Minnesota .................................. 35 15 .700 — SOUTHWEST Jump 4-7 0-0 10, Lepolo 2-4 1-2 5, Agara 4-4 1-2 9, Maine 79, Bryant 72
T e N NI S Denver ........................................ 35 16 .686 1/
2 mINNESOTA: McDaniels 2-7 0-0 5, Towns 4-12 5-5 14,
Gobert 7-9 3-5 17, Conley 2-6 3-4 8, Edwards 11-22 6-8 Arkansas 74, Auburn 72
Demetre 1-2 0-0 3, Ogden 1-2 0-0 2, Clardy 0-1 2-2 2, Marquette 91, Georgetown 57
Utah............................................ 25 26 .490 101/2 Harriel 2-3 0-0 6, Papadaki 0-0 0-0 0, Totals 33-52 9-14 80 Marshall 91, Coastal Carolina 74
32, Anderson 3-5 0-0 6, Brown Jr. 0-0 0-0 0, Garza 2-2 0-0 Baylor 83, Houston 60 Three-point goals: UCLA 8-25 (Dugalic 2-6, Jones 2-6, Massachusetts 66, George Mason 65
Portland...................................... 15 35 .300 20 Mississippi State 74, Texas A&M 63
ATP 5, Reid 5-11 2-3 13, Alexander-Walker 2-7 0-0 5,
McLaughlin 1-4 1-2 4, Milton 0-3 0-0 0, Moore Jr. 1-2 0-0 Texas 61, Kansas State 54
Osborne 3-8, Rice 1-4, Jaquez 0-1), Stanford 5-8 (Jump
2-3, Lepolo 0-2, Demetre 1-1, Harriel 2-2). Assists: UCLA
Pittsburgh 70, Notre Dame 60
Princeton 70, Brown 60
PAcIfIc W L Pct Gb 2. Totals 40-90 20-27 111. Tulane 75, Texas San Antonio 64
OPEN SUD DE fRANcE 10 (Jones 3), Stanford 16 (Lepolo 7). fouled out: None. St. Joseph’s 88, La Salle 82
L.A. Clippers ............................... 33 15 .688 — Tulsa 79, North Texas 74 Rebounds: UCLA 29 (Brown 5, Jaquez 5, Rice 5), Stanford UMBC 114, Albany 102
At Palais des Sports de Gerland; in Montpellier, France Sacramento ................................ 29 19 .604 4 Three-point Goals: Houston 10-30 (Whitmore 3-8, Van-
Purse: $463,713 Vleet 2-6, Sengun 1-1, Hinton 1-2, Je.Green 1-2, Smith
WEST 43 (Brink 19). Total fouls: UCLA 12, Stanford 12. Vermont 62, Binghamton 49
Phoenix....................................... 29 21 .580 5 Technical Fouls_None. A: 7,207. Yale 74, Penn 58
Surface: Hardcourt indoor L.A. Lakers.................................. 26 25 .510 81/2 Jr. 1-2, Brooks 1-3, Holiday 0-1, Ja.Green 0-5), Minne- Arizona 63, Arizona State 52
Golden State .............................. 21 25 .457 11 sota 11-30 (Edwards 4-8, Garza 1-1, Conley 1-2, McDan- Colorado 80, Washington 57 SOUTH
SINGLES — cHAmPIONSHIP iels 1-3, McLaughlin 1-3, Towns 1-3, Alexander-Walker Hawaii 55, UC Irvine 43 Alabama 99, Mississippi State 67
Alexander Bublik (2), Kazakhstan, def. Borna Coric (4), SATURDAY’S RESULTS 1-4, Reid 1-4, Anderson 0-1, Moore Jr. 0-1). fouled Out: Oregon State 64, Oregon 60
Southern California 79, California 69
No. 6 colorado 80, Appalachian State 85, Georgia Southern 84 (OT)
Croatia, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3. Brooklyn 136, at Philadelphia 121 None. Rebounds: Houston 41 (Sengun 10), Minnesota 58 Auburn 91, Mississippi 77
at Atlanta 141, Golden State 134 (OT) (Gobert 13). Assists: Houston 20 (Ja.Green 7), Minne- Stanford 80, UCLA 60 Washington 57 Central Florida 74, Oklahoma 63
DOUbLES —cHAmPIONSHIP sota 21 (Conley 9). Total fouls: Houston 26, Minnesota Utah 73, Washington State 61
Sacramento 123, at Chicago 115 cOLORADO ......................... 24 26 20 10 — 80 Central Michigan 77, Bowling Green 76 (2OT)
Fabien Reboul and Sadio Doumbia (1), France, def. 19. A: 18,024 (19,356) Charlotte 67, East Carolina 52
Tristan-Samuel Weissborn, Austria, and Albano Olivetti Cleveland 117, at San Antonio 101 SATURDAY’S RESULTS WASHINGTON ................... 15 13 13 16 — 57
EAST Charleston 84, William & Mary 83
(4), France, 6-7 (7-5), 6-4, 10-6. L.A. Lakers 113, at New York 105 colorado (19-3) Florida Atlantic 68, Sam Houston State 61
Milwaukee 129, at Dallas 117 Albany (N.Y.) 69, UMBC 55 Vonleh 10-13 1-2 21, Miller 6-9 2-4 14, Formann 3-8 0-0 James Madison 78, Old Dominion 63
Binghamton 66, Vermont 57
SUNDAY’S RESULTS Thunder 135, Raptors 127 (2oT) Buffalo 75, Eastern Michigan 63
7, Nolan 4-4 0-0 11, Sherrod 2-5 2-2 7, McLeod 0-1 0-0 0,
Whittaker 3-4 0-0 6, Atchison 0-0 0-0 0, Gerber 0-0 0-0 0,
Louisville 101, Florida State 92
LSU 95, Arkansas 74
WTA Phoenix 140, Washington 112 TORONTO ................ 33 30 24 23 8 9 — 127 Columbia 71, Dartmouth 52 Johnson 1-3 0-0 2, Sadler 3-6 0-0 6, Smith 1-4 0-0 2, Memphis 65, Wichita State 63
Orlando 111, at Detroit 99 OkLAHOmA cITY .... 23 24 34 29 8 17 — 135 Duquesne 70, Rhode Island 61 Wetta 2-3 0-0 4, Totals 35-60 5-8 80
UPPER AUSTRIA LADIES LINz Miami 82, Virginia Tech 74
at Boston 131, Memphis 91 Fairfield 85, Iona 49 Washington (13-8) North Carolina State 82, Georgia Tech 76
At Intersport Arena Linz (Austria) TORONTO: Barnes 8-15 0-1 19, Trent Jr. 6-15 0-0 16, Harvard 63, Cornell 52 Daniels 4-11 5-5 14, Schwartz 1-9 0-0 2, Briggs 2-6 2-4 8,
Indiana 115, at Charlotte 99 South Carolina 72, Georgia 62
Purse: $869,899 Poeltl 8-9 3-4 19, Barrett 9-16 3-4 23, Quickley 7-20 1-2 Iowa 93, Maryland 85 Ladine 0-5 2-2 2, Stines 1-6 0-0 2, Anderson 1-2 0-0 2,
L.A. Clippers 103, at Miami 95 Tennessee 103, Kentucky 92
Surface: Hardcourt outdoor 17, Young 3-4 0-0 6, Brown 0-4 2-2 2, Dick 2-2 2-2 6, James Madison 72, Marshall 63 Gillmer 0-3 0-0 0, Brown 3-5 0-0 7, Long 4-7 0-0 8, Sellers
at Minnesota 111, Houston 90 Lafayette 68, Army 54 Troy 78, Georgia State 74
Schroder 5-16 6-6 19. Totals 48-101 17-21 127. 5-12 0-0 12, Totals 21-66 9-11 57 VCU 63, Richmond 52
SINGLES — cHAmPIONSHIP at Oklahoma City 135, Toronto 127 (2OT) Lehigh 64, Boston 62 Three-point goals: Colorado 5-12 (Miller 0-1, Formann 1-3,
Jelena Ostapenko (1), Latvia, def. Ekaterina Alexandro- OkLAHOmA cITY: Dort 8-19 1-1 22, Wallace 3-8 0-0 8, Vanderbilt 68, Missouri 61
at Utah 123, Milwaukee 108 Loyola (Md.) 60, Holy Cross 47 Nolan 3-3, Sherrod 1-1, Johnson 0-2, Smith 0-2), Washing-
va (2), Russia, 6-2, 6-3. Holmgren 9-17 0-0 22, Giddey 9-15 4-4 24, Gilgeous-Al- Virginia 66, Clemson 65
at Denver 112, Portland 103 Maine 70, Bryant 58 ton 6-30 (Daniels 1-3, Schwartz 0-3, Briggs 2-4, Ladine 0-5,
exander 9-17 3-3 23, Dieng 1-3 0-0 2, Jay.Williams 1-5 Wake Forest 99, Syracuse 70
Manhattan 67, Mount St. Mary’s 60 Stines 0-5, Brown 1-2, Long 0-2, Sellers 2-6). Assists:
DOUbLES — cHAmPIONSHIP mONDAY’S GAmES 0-0 3, Waters III 1-1 0-0 3, K.Williams 2-4 0-0 5, Micic 1-4 Marquette 66, Providence 62 Colorado 25 (Formann 9), Washington 10 (Anderson 2, mIDWEST
Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini, Italy, def. Nicole 0-0 3, Wiggins 8-17 0-0 20. Totals 52-110 8-8 135. Michigan 80, Penn State 75 Ball State 77, Western Michigan 67
Dallas at Philadelphia, 7 Briggs 2, Stines 2). fouled out: None. Rebounds: Colorado
Melichar-Martinez, United States, and Ellen Perez (1), L.A. Lakers at Charlotte, 7 Three-point Goals: Toronto 14-35 (Trent Jr. 4-8, Barnes Navy 59, Colgate 58 41 (Miller 10), Washington 29 (Daniels 5). Total fouls: Kansas 78, Houston 65
Australia, 7-5, 4-6, 10-7. 3-5, Schroder 3-6, Barrett 2-5, Quickley 2-9, Brown 0-1, New Hampshire 66, Massachusetts Lowell 52 Colorado 14, Washington 7. Technical Fouls_None. A: 4,900. Michigan State 63, Maryland 54
Sacramento at Cleveland, 7
Young 0-1), Oklahoma City 23-63 (Dort 5-12, Holmgren Princeton 76, Brown 63 Minnesota 75, Northwestern 66 (OT)
Golden State at Brooklyn, 7:30
4-10, Wiggins 4-11, Gilgeous-Alexander 2-5, Giddey 2-6, Quinnipiac 65, Rider 54 North Dakota 60, North Dakota State 58
L.A. Clippers at Atlanta, 7:30 Wallace 2-7, Waters III 1-1, K.Williams 1-2, Micic 1-3, Sacred Heart 73, Le Moyne 55 Northern Illinois 76, Eastern Michigan 66
THAILAND OPEN Toronto at New Orleans, 8 Jay.Williams 1-4, Dieng 0-2). fouled Out: None. Re- St. Joseph’s 77, Massachusetts 67 No. 8 ohio State 74, Ohio 78, Miami (Ohio) 69
At True Arena Hua Hin (Thailand)
Purse: $267,082
TUESDAY’S GAmES bounds: Toronto 48 (Poeltl 12), Oklahoma City 45
(Gilgeous-Alexander 9). Assists: Toronto 38 (Quickley
Villanova 69, Seton Hall 41
Wagner 63, Stonehill 55
No. 10 Indiana 69 Penn State 85, Indiana 71
Rutgers 69, Michigan 59
Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Houston at Indiana, 7 11), Oklahoma City 40 (Gilgeous-Alexander 14). Total Yale 74, Penn 68 (OT) INDIANA ............................. 11 26 10 22 — 69 Xavier 93, DePaul 68
Dallas at Brooklyn, 7:30 fouls: Toronto 16, Oklahoma City 15. A: 17,059 (18,203) OHIO STATE ....................... 18 14 23 19 — 74
SINGLES — cHAmPIONSHIP SOUTH SOUTHWEST
Memphis at New York, 7:30 Indiana (18-3)
Diana Shnaider, Russia, def. Zhu Lin (2), China, 6-3, 2-6, Alabama A&M 71, Florida A&M 69 Arkansas State 95, Louisiana Monroe 80
Orlando at Miami, 7:30 Alabama State 56, Bethune Cookman 53 Holmes 6-12 2-4 14, Bargesser 2-6 2-3 6, Garzon 5-10 1-1 Baylor 70, Iowa State 68
6-1. Minnesota at Chicago, 8
DOUbLES — cHAmPIONSHIP Oklahoma City at Utah, 9
Jazz 123, bucks 108 Appalachian State 80, Coastal Carolina 70
Bellarmine 64, Stetson 52
14, Moore-McNeil 4-7 2-3 10, Scalia 8-17 6-7 25, Meister
0-0 0-0 0, Beaumont 0-1 0-0 0, LaMendola 0-1 0-0 0,
Cincinnati 75, Texas Tech 72
Liberty 67, UTEP 65
Aldila Sutjiadi, Indonesia, and Miyu Kato (1), Japan, def. Milwaukee at Phoenix, 10 mILWAUkEE ...................... 26 37 32 13 — 108 Central Florida 71, Iowa State 66 Totals 25-54 13-18 69 Oklahoma State 75, Kansas State 72
Xinyu Jiang and Hanyu Guo (2), China, 6-4, 1-6, 10-7. UTAH .................................. 32 21 30 40 — 123 Chattanooga 79, Furman 62 Ohio State (19-3) Rice 80, Texas San Antonio 76
Davidson 66, Saint Louis 58 McMahon 9-13 2-4 20, Mikulasikova 4-11 0-0 11, Texas 77, TCU 66
Suns 140, Wizards 112 mILWAUkEE: Crowder 2-10 0-0 6, Portis 11-20 1-1 27, Florida Atlantic 68, Rice 63 Sheldon 8-20 6-8 25, Taylor 2-9 0-0 5, Thierry 3-5 3-4 11,
Walker 0-1 0-0 0, Greene 0-0 0-0 0, Harris 1-1 0-0 2,
Texas A&M 67, Florida 66
G.Antetokounmpo 11-15 11-15 33, Beasley 6-8 0-0 16, Florida Gulf Coast 82, Eastern Kentucky 69 WEST
go Lf Phoenix ............................... 42 37 37 24 — 140 Lillard 5-18 1-2 12, Beauchamp 0-1 0-0 0, Livingston 0-1 Georgia State 74, Georgia Southern 49 Shumate 0-0 0-0 0, Totals 27-60 11-16 74
Boise State 94, Air Force 56
Washington ........................ 28 30 28 26 — 112 0-0 0, R.Lopez 0-2 0-0 0, Connaughton 0-0 1-4 1, Green High Point 64, Presbyterian 59 Three-point goals: Indiana 6-16 (Holmes 0-1, Bargesser
3-6 1-1 10, Jackson Jr. 0-0 0-2 0, Payne 1-3 0-0 3. Totals Howard 52, Maryland Eastern Shore 47 0-1, Garzon 3-4, Moore-McNeil 0-1, Scalia 3-8, Beaumont California 81, Arizona State 66
PHOENIx mIN fG fT O-T A Pf PTS
PgA Tour Allen 27:20 2-6 1-2 0-3 4 0 6
39-84 15-25 108. Incarnate Word 64, New Orleans 54 0-1), Ohio State 9-21 (McMahon 0-2, Mikulasikova 3-6, Colorado State 73, Fresno State 61
St. Mary’s 64, Gonzaga 62
Jackson State 71, Grambling State 63 Sheldon 3-8, Taylor 1-3, Thierry 2-2). Assists: Indiana 13
PEbbLE bEAcH PRO-Am Durant 26:07 7-9 1-2 0-4 3 0 18 UTAH: Fontecchio 4-6 2-2 11, Markkanen 8-15 0-0 21, (Moore-McNeil 5), Ohio State 16 (McMahon 5). fouled out: San Diego State 81, Utah State 67
Jacksonville State 56, New Mexico State 49
In Pebble Beach, Calif. Nurkic 24:56 7-11 4-6 4-13 8 3 18 Collins 7-11 0-1 15, Dunn 1-5 0-0 2, Sexton 5-13 6-6 19, Ohio State McMahon. Rebounds: Indiana 38 (Garzon 9, Southern California 82, Oregon State 54
Kennesaw State 62, Lipscomb 59
a-Pebble Beach Golf Links (Host Course); 6,972 yards Beal 31:01 16-21 7-7 0-2 6 1 43 Olynyk 2-5 3-4 8, Kessler 5-8 3-4 13, Agbaji 1-2 0-0 3, Holmes 9), Ohio State 29 (McMahon 7). Total fouls: UC Irvine 93, Hawaii 68
Liberty 87, Texas El Paso 68
b-Spyglass Hill Golf Course; 7,041 yards Booker 25:40 4-11 5-5 0-1 6 4 14 Clarkson 3-11 6-7 12, George 7-13 0-0 19. Totals 43-89 Indiana 19, Ohio State 19. Technical Fouls_None. A: 10,130. UCLA 71, Oregon 63
Longwood 63, Charleston Southern 56
Purse: $20 million Gordon 18:30 3-6 0-0 0-0 0 1 7 20-24 123. UNLV 62, Wyoming 48
Louisiana Lafayette 73, Louisiana Monroe 52
Okogie 15:54 2-2 0-0 2-2 0 0 4 Three-point Goals: Milwaukee 15-41 (Beasley 4-6, Portis Mercer 87, Samford 59 Utah 73, Colorado 68
fINAL ROUND Bol 15:28 4-7 0-0 2-7 0 0 8 Washington State 90, Washington 87 (OT)
Event completed Saturday after three rounds. Eubanks 15:23 1-1 3-4 0-3 1 2 5
4-7, Green 3-6, Crowder 2-7, Payne 1-3, Lillard 1-8, Middle Tennessee 80, Western Kentucky 48 No. 9 LSU 106, florida 66
Beauchamp 0-1, R.Lopez 0-1, G.Antetokounmpo 0-2), Morehead State 65, Tennessee Tech 53
$3,600,000 Goodwin 8:44 2-3 0-0 0-0 1 1 4 Utah 17-44 (George 5-9, Markkanen 5-10, Sexton 3-7, Morgan State 65, South Carolina State 59 fLORIDA ............................. 11 17 15 23 — 66
Watanabe 7:54 3-4 0-0 0-0 0 0 7
Wyndham Clark (700) .......... 72b 67a 60a 0a — 199 -17
Bates-Diop 7:41 1-1 0-0 0-3 1 0 2
Agbaji 1-2, Olynyk 1-2, Fontecchio 1-3, Collins 1-4, Dunn
0-3, Clarkson 0-4). fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Milwau-
Norfolk State 79, Delaware State 52
North Carolina Central 53, Coppin State 48
LSU ..................................... 24 30 26 26 — 106 No. 2 Purdue 75,
$2,160,000 florida (11-9)
Ludvig Aberg (400) .............. 68b 65a 67a 0a — 200 -16
Little
Metu
7:41
7:41
0-2 0-0 0-1 2 0
2-4 0-0 1-3 1 0
0
4
kee 32 (G.Antetokounmpo, Portis 7), Utah 52 (Collins, Northwestern State 69, Texas A&M Commerce 66 Dut 1-4 1-4 4, Broughton 1-3 0-0 2, Reynolds 2-7 4-9 8, No. 6 Wisconsin 69
George 10). Assists: Milwaukee 27 (G.Antetokounmpo Radford 67, South Carolina Upstate 61 (OT) Rimdal 3-10 0-0 7, Warren 4-4 0-0 8, Clausen 0-0 0-0 0, Dizeko
$1,360,000 TOTALS 240 54-88 21-26 9-42 33 12 140 13), Utah 31 (Dunn, Olynyk 6). Total fouls: Milwaukee Richmond 79, Fordham 60 Purdue (21-2)
Matthieu Pavon (350) .......... 65a 70b 66a 0a — 201 -15 0-1 0-0 0, Kindred 0-1 0-0 0, Correa 5-11 2-5 13, Matharu 7-23 Kaufman-Renn 2-4 0-0 4, Edey 7-13 4-8 18, Jones 8-14
21, Utah 24. A: 18,206 (18,206) South Florida 72, Alabama Birmingham 69 6-6 20, Salgues 1-4 1-2 4, Totals 24-68 14-26 66
$877,500 Percentages: FG .614, FT .808. 3-Point Goals: 11-25, .440 Southern Mississippi 72, Troy 63 1-1 20, Loyer 3-7 6-7 12, Smith 7-15 5-5 19, Gillis 0-3 2-2
(Beal 4-5, Durant 3-3, Watanabe 1-2, Booker 1-3, Gordon LSU (19-4) 2, Heide 0-0 0-0 0, Morton 0-1 0-0 0, C.Furst 0-0 0-0 0.
Thomas Detry (313) ............. 63b 70a 69a 0a — 202 -14 Tennessee State 65, Southern Indiana 58 Morrow 7-15 2-4 18, Reese 4-6 6-8 14, Johnson 4-14 0-2 10,
1-3, Allen 1-4, Nurkic 0-1, Bol 0-2, Little 0-2). Team Totals 27-57 18-23 75.
Mark Hubbard (313) ............. 69a 68b 65a 0a — 202 -14
Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: 1. blocked Shots: 6 Nuggets 112, Trail blazers 103 Western Carolina 78, North Carolina Greensboro 71
Wofford 77, East Tennessee State 65
Van Lith 6-11 9-10 21, Williams 9-12 0-0 21, Bartlett 0-1 Wisconsin (16-6)
$642,500 (Bates-Diop 2, Eubanks 2, Durant, Goodwin). Turnovers: 0-0 0, Del Rosario 3-6 5-6 11, Besselman 0-0 0-0 0, Kent 1-1 Crowl 3-6 2-2 8, Wahl 10-16 0-0 20, Hepburn 1-6 4-4 6,
Jason Day (238) ................... 69b 71a 63a 0a — 203 -13 17 (Eubanks 3, Bates-Diop 2, Beal 2, Bol 2, Metu 2, Allen, PORTLAND ......................... 37 26 21 19 — 103 mIDWEST 0-0 2, Poa 3-7 3-4 9, Velez 0-2 0-0 0, Totals 37-75 25-34 106 Klesmit 4-7 0-1 10, Storr 4-15 6-7 14, Blackwell 2-4 0-0 5,
Tom Hoge (238) ................... 71b 66a 66a 0a — 203 -13 Durant, Gordon, Nurkic, Okogie, Watanabe). Steals: 13 DENVER .............................. 25 35 26 26 — 112 Ball State 97, Ohio 66 Three-point goals: Florida 4-23 (Dut 1-2, Broughton 0-1, Essegian 3-7 0-0 6, Winter 0-3 0-0 0, Gilmore 0-1 0-0 0.
Scottie Scheffler (238) ........ 69b 64a 70a 0a — 203 -13 (Beal 2, Durant 2, Goodwin 2, Watanabe 2, Bol, Gordon, Cincinnati 74, Texas Tech 56 Rimdal 1-6, Correa 1-3, Matharu 0-7, Salgues 1-4), LSU Totals 27-65 12-14 69.
Justin Thomas (238) ............ 68b 67a 68a 0a — 203 -13 PORTLAND: K.Murray 4-7 0-0 8, Walker 2-8 0-0 4, Ayton 7-15 (Morrow 2-2, Johnson 2-5, Van Lith 0-2, Williams 3-5,
Metu, Nurkic, Okogie). Technical fouls: Booker, 1:16 George Mason 61, Loyola Chicago 52 Halftime: Purdue 34-32. Three-point goals: Purdue 3-11
13-19 1-1 27, Simons 8-18 6-6 26, Thybulle 2-7 1-2 6, Poa 0-1). Assists: Florida 7 (Broughton 3), LSU 20 (Reese
$535,000 second. Kent State 2, Central Michigan 0 (forfeit) (Jones 3-7, Smith 0-1, Gillis 0-3), Wisconsin 3-19
Camara 4-6 0-0 10, Minaya 0-1 0-0 0, Reath 3-3 0-0 8, 6). fouled out: Florida Warren, Kindred. Rebounds: Florida
Sam Burns (175) .................. 68b 69a 67a 0a — 204 -12 Miami (Ohio) 58, Akron 48 (Klesmit 2-4, Blackwell 1-2, Gilmore 0-1, Hepburn 0-1,
WASHINGTON mIN fG fT O-T A Pf PTS Henderson 3-16 6-6 14. Totals 39-85 14-15 103. 34 (Broughton 5, Dizeko 5), LSU 59 (Morrow 20). Total
$455,000 North Dakota State 101, North Dakota 85 Wahl 0-1, Winter 0-2, Essegian 0-4, Storr 0-4). Re-
Avdija 25:03 10-13 1-4 1-3 1 3 24 DENVER: Gordon 4-8 4-4 12, Porter Jr. 4-10 2-2 12, Jokic Rutgers 71, Nebraska 70 fouls: Florida 28, LSU 20. Technical Fouls_None. A: 12,707. bounds: Purdue 38 (Edey 13), Wisconsin 27 (Wahl 7).
Keegan Bradley (155) .......... 70b 66a 69a 0a — 205 -11 Coulibaly 25:10 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
Patrick Cantlay (155) ........... 64b 70a 71a 0a — 205 -11 12-20 4-5 29, Caldwell-Pope 3-9 3-3 11, J.Murray 8-16 Southern Utah 68, Texas Rio Grande Valley 65 (OT) Assists: Purdue 12 (Jones, Smith 3), Wisconsin 15
Gafford 24:45 7-7 1-2 4-7 1 4 15 1-2 21, Jordan 2-2 0-0 4, Braun 1-4 2-3 4, Jackson 3-11 Toledo 82, Bowling Green 70 (Wahl, Hepburn 5). Total fouls: Purdue 16, Wisconsin 21.
Justin Rose (155) ................. 68b 71a 66a 0a — 205 -11 Jones 24:23 7-15 0-0 0-1 8 0 14 0-0 7, Watson 5-6 0-0 12. Totals 42-86 16-19 112. Youngstown State 73, Milwaukee 66 A: 17,071 (17,230).
$322,500 Poole 19:47 1-7 2-2 0-5 7 3 4
Three-point Goals: Portland 11-31 (Simons 4-8, Reath SOUTHWEST
No. 11 connecticut 78,
Eric Cole (118) ...................... 68a 71b 67a 0a — 206 -10 Kispert 24:51 6-13 3-3 1-2 4 4 15
Emiliano Grillo (118) ............ 66b 69a 71a 0a — 206 -10 Omoruyi 23:15 6-12 3-4 5-10 3 3 16 2-2, Camara 2-3, Henderson 2-6, Thybulle 1-5, K.Murray Arkansas State 76, Old Dominion 63 St. John’s 63
0-2, Walker 0-5), Denver 12-28 (J.Murray 4-6, Watson Central Arkansas 58, North Florida 44
Beau Hossler (118) .............. 69b 67a 70a 0a
Si Woo Kim (118) ................. 66a 71b 69a 0a
— 206 -10
— 206 -10
Shamet 21:13 6-10 0-0 2-2 1 1 13
2-3, Caldwell-Pope 2-5, Porter Jr. 2-6, Jokic 1-3, Jackson Florida International 71, Sam Houston State 65 ST. JOHN'S ......................... 17 12 20 14 — 63 H o c Key
Davis 17:38 1-7 0-0 0-0 1 1 3 cONNEcTIcUT .................... 21 21 18 18 — 78
Peter Malnati (118) ............. 69a 68b 69a 0a — 206 -10 Wright 13:07 1-3 0-0 0-1 2 0 2 1-4, Gordon 0-1). fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Portland Kansas 81, TCU 74
42 (Ayton 9), Denver 42 (Jokic 8). Assists: Portland 29 Oklahoma 81, Oklahoma State 74 St. John's (14-10)
Collin Morikawa (118) ......... 67a 70b 69a 0a — 206 -10 Baldwin Jr.
Bernard
6:56
6:56
1-4 1-2 0-1 1 0
1-2 0-0 0-1 3 0
3
3 (Henderson, Simons 9), Denver 26 (J.Murray 10). Total SMU 81, Memphis 73 Archer 5-7 0-0 10, Daye 4-7 0-0 8, Donald 4-9 1-1 10, NHL
$210,333 fouls: Portland 16, Denver 11. A: 19,715 (19,520) South Alabama 65, Texas State 64 Drake 4-12 5-7 14, Mayo 5-11 5-7 16, Gedeon 0-0 0-0 0,
Christiaan Bezuidenhout (88) 69a 70b 68a 0a — 207 -9 Gill 6:56 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 ATLANTIc GP W L OT Pts Gf GA
WEST Wingate 0-0 0-0 0, Bailey 0-0 0-0 0, Owen 2-7 0-0 5,
Cameron Davis (88) ............. 70b 69a 68a 0a — 207 -9 TOTALS 240 47-96 11-17 13-35 32 19 112 Totals 24-53 11-15 63 Boston ........................ 49 31 9 9 71 173 128
J.T. Poston (88) .................... 70b 68a 69a 0a — 207 -9 Air Force 78, San Jose State 56 Florida......................... 49 31 14 4 66 158 127
connecticut (19-4)
Adam Scott (88) .................. 72b 67a 68a 0a — 207 -9 Percentages: FG .490, FT .647. 3-Point Goals: 7-32, .219
(Avdija 3-5, Bernard 1-1, Davis 1-3, Omoruyi 1-3, Shamet
H Ig H S c H o o LS Colorado State 82, San Diego State 50
Edwards 12-20 9-12 33, Arnold 1-4 4-6 6, Bueckers 9-16 Tampa Bay.................. 50 27 18 5 59 175 164
Sahith Theegala (88) ........... 70b 67a 70a 0a — 207 -9 Denver 102, Oral Roberts 92 Toronto ....................... 47 25 14 8 58 166 150
1-4, Baldwin Jr. 0-1, Coulibaly 0-1, Wright 0-1, Jones 0-3, 7-7 26, Muhl 2-4 0-0 4, Shade 2-6 0-0 5, Brady 2-3 0-0 4,
Erik Van Rooyen (88) ........... 69a 70b 68a 0a — 207 -9 Eastern Washington 61, Montana 56 Detroit ........................ 50 26 18 6 58 176 161
Poole 0-3, Kispert 0-7). Team Rebounds: 11. Team Turn- DeBerry 0-0 0-0 0, Bettencourt 0-0 0-0 0, Samuels 0-3
$143,800 SUNDAY’S RESULTS Fresno State 70, Utah State 50 Buffalo........................ 49 22 23 4 48 146 155
overs: None. blocked Shots: 4 (Gafford 2, Avdija, Bernard). 0-0 0, Totals 28-56 20-25 78
Chris Kirk (60) ...................... 71b 69a 68a 0a — 208 -8 bOYS’ bASkETbALL Gonzaga 104, Pacific 39 Montreal..................... 49 20 21 8 48 136 175
Turnovers: 18 (Avdija 5, Gill 3, Kispert 3, Jones 2, Bernard, Three-point goals: St. John’s 4-18 (Donald 1-6, Drake
Luke List (60) ....................... 72a 67b 69a 0a — 208 -8 PRIVATE Montana State 51, Idaho 46 Ottawa........................ 47 20 25 2 42 158 170
Coulibaly, Davis, Poole, Shamet). Steals: 11 (Omoruyi 3, Gill 1-6, Mayo 1-3, Owen 1-3), Connecticut 2-7 (Arnold 0-1,
Denny McCarthy (60) ........... 68a 70b 70a 0a — 208 -8 Northern Arizona 73, Idaho State 59
2, Avdija, Bernard, Davis, Jones, Kispert, Wright). Technical Imhotep Charter 58, Mt. Zion Prep Academy 49 Bueckers 1-3, Shade 1-2, Samuels 0-1). Assists: St.
Alex Noren (60) .................... 71a 68b 69a 0a — 208 -8 Northern Colorado 73, Weber State 63 mETROPOLITAN GP W L OT Pts Gf GA
fouls: coach Brian Keefe, 00:00 third. A: 16,984 (20,356) Paul VI 74, Bishop McNamara 55 John’s 9 (Daye 4), Connecticut 19 (Muhl 9). fouled out:
Sepp Straka (60) .................. 69b 71a 68a 0a — 208 -8 Sacramento State 72, Portland State 65 N.Y. Rangers............... 49 30 16 3 63 161 142
St. John’s Mayo. Rebounds: St. John’s 28 (Archer 5),
GIRLS’ bASkETbALL Santa Clara 79, Pepperdine 58 Carolina....................... 48 28 15 5 61 163 144
$106,625 Connecticut 33 (Edwards 13). Total fouls: St. John’s 20,
PRIVATE UNLV 62, New Mexico 56 Philadelphia................ 50 25 19 6 56 147 148
Byeong Hun An (31) ............. 71b 71a 67a 0a — 209 -7 Connecticut 15. Technical Fouls_None. A: 10,299.
Corey Conners (31) .............. 70b 70a 69a 0a — 209 -7 Magic 111, Pistons 99 St. John’s 50, Paul VI 47
West Virginia 76, BYU 69
Wyoming 59, Nevada 52
N.Y. Islanders ............. 49 20 17 12 52 143 166
Tommy Fleetwood (31) ....... 69b 72a 68a 0a — 209 -7 Pittsburgh .................. 46 22 17 7 51 138 126
Nicolai Hojgaard (31) ........... 74b 65a 70a 0a — 209 -7
ORLANDO ........................... 24 26 28 33 — 111 SATURDAY’S RESULTS New Jersey ................. 47 24 20 3 51 161 168
Seonghyeon Kim (31) .......... 70a 70b 69a 0a — 209 -7
DETROIT ............................. 29 18 28 24 — 99 bOYS’ bASkETbALL No. 13 baylor 83, Houston 60 Washington ................ 47 22 18 7 51 115 146
D.c. Columbus.................... 50 16 24 10 42 148 184
Tom Kim (31) ....................... 71a 67b 71a 0a
Seamus Power (31) ............. 72a 69b 68a 0a
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-7
ORLANDO: Banchero 6-16 6-6 20, F.Wagner 17-25 0-0
E.L. Haynes 51, Thurgood Marshall 18 No. 17 Virginia Tech 70, bAYLOR .............................. 21 16 21 25 — 83
38, Carter Jr. 3-4 1-3 7, Fultz 4-9 0-0 8, Suggs 4-8 0-0 9,
Sam Ryder (31) .................... 71a 67b 71a 0a — 209 -7 Isaac 1-2 3-4 5, M.Wagner 5-5 0-0 10, Ingles 1-3 0-0 3,
Friendship Tech Prep 52, Gwynn Park 51
Jackson-Reed 59, Clinton Grace 56
No. 24 North carolina 61 (oT) HOUSTON ........................... 17 12 14 17 — 60 cENTRAL GP W L OT Pts Gf GA
$70,125 Anthony 0-3 1-2 1, Black 0-0 0-0 0, G.Harris 4-9 0-0 10. baylor (17-4) Colorado...................... 49 32 14 3 67 190 153
Model 73, McLean 47 VIRGINIA TEcH ............. 15 11 13 15 16 — 70 Edwards 6-12 3-4 15, Littlepage-Buggs 5-6 2-2 12, Dallas.......................... 49 30 13 6 66 183 151
Adam Hadwin (18) ............... 73a 67b 70a 0a — 210 -6 Totals 45-84 11-15 111.
Springdale Prep 74, D.C. International 21 NORTH cAROLINA ........ 12 8 19 15 7 — 61 Andrews 3-8 0-0 8, Blackwell 3-7 4-5 10, Walker 4-6 2-2 Winnipeg .................... 47 30 12 5 65 148 109
Kurt Kitayama (18) .............. 69a 74b 67a 0a — 210 -6 DETROIT: Bogdanovic 3-12 4-4 11, Knox II 0-3 0-0 0,
Matt Kuchar (18) ................. 69a 70b 71a 0a — 210 -6 mARYLAND Virginia Tech (18-4) 10, Fontleroy 4-6 0-0 10, Vasconcelos 0-0 0-0 0, Felder St. Louis...................... 49 26 21 2 54 141 153
Duren 7-7 1-1 15, Cunningham 6-14 5-7 18, Ivey 7-12 2-2 6-8 0-0 14, Ferreira 0-0 0-0 0, Fritz 0-0 0-0 0, Van Nashville..................... 51 26 23 2 54 153 160
Maverick McNealy (18) ........ 72a 69b 69a 0a — 210 -6 Meade 64, Annapolis Area Christian 50 Summiel 1-4 2-2 5, Kitley 7-21 1-2 15, Amoore 6-21 6-8
18, Gallinari 0-5 2-2 2, Muscala 0-0 0-0 0, Thompson 7-10 Gytenbeek 2-6 0-0 4, Totals 33-59 11-13 83 Arizona ....................... 48 23 22 3 49 143 147
Taylor Montgomery (18) ..... 69a 71b 70a 0a — 210 -6 VIRGINIA 21, Ekh 5-10 0-0 14, King 2-11 0-0 6, Baker 0-0 0-0 0,
2-3 17, Wiseman 0-1 0-0 0, Burks 3-7 3-3 10, Morris 1-5 Houston (12-10) Minnesota .................. 49 21 23 5 47 149 166
Andrew Putnam (18) ........... 72b 69a 69a 0a — 210 -6 Strack 1-1 1-2 3, Wenzel 2-3 0-0 6, Totals 24-71 10-14 70
0-0 2, Sasser 2-4 0-0 6. Totals 36-80 19-22 99. Lynchburg Home School 65, Loudoun County Home School 55 Jones 0-3 5-6 5, McFarland 4-5 0-0 8, Patterson 3-9 0-0 7, Chicago ....................... 50 14 34 2 30 105 177
Webb Simpson (18) ............. 73a 68b 69a 0a — 210 -6 North carolina (15-8)
Jordan Spieth (18) ............... 72b 69a 69a 0a — 210 -6 Three-point Goals: Orlando 10-24 (F.Wagner 4-7, Ban- PRIVATE Gakdeng 1-6 0-0 2, Donarski 5-11 0-0 12, Reniya Kelly 0-2 Blair 6-22 0-0 14, Boyd 2-8 0-0 5, Diawara 0-0 0-0 0,
chero 2-5, G.Harris 2-5, Ingles 1-3, Suggs 1-3, Carter Jr. Paul VI 73, St. Frances 57 0-0 0, Deja Kelly 6-24 13-14 26, Ustby 5-11 0-0 10, Poole Johnson 2-7 4-4 8, McNeil 1-2 0-0 2, Aaron 0-3 0-0 0, PAcIfIc GP W L OT Pts Gf GA
$48,857 Merchant 2-5 0-0 5, Onyeje 2-8 0-0 6, Totals 22-72 9-10 60
Tony Finau (13) .................... 72a 72b 67a 0a — 211 -5 0-1), Detroit 8-31 (Sasser 2-3, Ivey 2-4, Burks 1-3, Shabach Christian 70, Riverdale Baptist 47 0-0 0-0 0, Zelaya 2-3 0-0 6, Key 0-3 0-0 0, Nivar 2-6 1-2 5, Vancouver................... 49 33 11 5 71 186 127
Cunningham 1-3, Thompson 1-3, Bogdanovic 1-7, Knox II Sidwell Friends 45, Mount St. Joseph 37 Totals 21-66 14-16 61 Three-point goals: Baylor 6-20 (Edwards 0-3, Andrews 2-5, Vegas .......................... 50 29 15 6 64 163 138
Rickie Fowler (13) ................ 67b 71a 73a 0a — 211 -5 Blackwell 0-1, Walker 0-1, Fontleroy 2-4, Felder 2-3, Van
Nick Hardy (13) .................... 71a 73b 67a 0a — 211 -5 0-2, Morris 0-2, Gallinari 0-4). fouled Out: None. Three-point goals: Virginia Tech 12-35 (Summiel 1-3, Edmonton ................... 45 29 15 1 59 160 124
Rebounds: Orlando 37 (Banchero, Isaac 6), Detroit 36 GIRLS’ bASkETbALL Kitley 0-1, Amoore 3-9, Ekh 4-9, King 2-10, Wenzel 2-3), Gytenbeek 0-3), Houston 7-29 (Patterson 1-5, Blair 2-8, Los Angeles ................ 48 23 15 10 56 152 132
Taylor Moore (13) ................ 70b 70a 71a 0a — 211 -5 mARYLAND Boyd 1-3, Johnson 0-4, Aaron 0-2, Merchant 1-2, Onyeje 2-5).
Adam Schenk (13) ................ 74b 71a 66a 0a — 211 -5 (Thompson 7). Assists: Orlando 22 (Banchero 7), Detroit North Carolina 5-15 (Donarski 2-5, R.Kelly 0-1, D.Kelly Seattle ........................ 50 21 19 10 52 140 147
22 (Cunningham 7). Total fouls: Orlando 18, Detroit 18. North Point 45, Loch Raven 40 1-5, Zelaya 2-3, Key 0-1). Assists: Virginia Tech 19 Assists: Baylor 19 (Van Gytenbeek 6), Houston 13 (Johnson Calgary........................ 49 22 22 5 49 149 155
Adam Svensson (13) ............ 70a 73b 68a 0a — 211 -5 5). fouled out: None. Rebounds: Baylor 52 (Blackwell 8,
Brandon Wu (13) .................. 73a 70b 68a 0a — 211 -5 A: 17,982 (20,491) Largo 62, Concordia Prep 41 (Amoore 11), North Carolina 8 (Ustby 5). fouled out: Anaheim ..................... 50 18 30 2 38 129 170
Pikesville 50, C.H. Flowers 47 None. Rebounds: Virginia Tech 52 (Kitley 15), North Edwards 8, Littlepage-Buggs 8), Houston 26 (Boyd 4). Total San Jose ..................... 51 14 32 5 33 107 199
$42,500 Carolina 40 (Ustby 16). Total fouls: Virginia Tech 16, fouls: Baylor 13, Houston 15. Technical Fouls_None. A: 2,069.
Brian Harman (10) ............... 72b 70a 70a 0a — 212 -4 VIRGINIA SATURDAY’S RESULTS
North Carolina 18. Technical Fouls_None. A: 5,618.
Keith Mitchell (10) ............... 74b 66a 72a 0a — 212 -4 celtics 131, grizzlies 91 Fairfax Home School 59, Southern Maryland Christian 33
All-Star Game:
Xander Schauffele (10) ........ 73a 72b 67a 0a — 212 -4 Forest Park 55, Gwynn Park 45
J.J. Spaun (10) ..................... 73a 73b 66a 0a — 212 -4 mEmPHIS ........................... 20 30 26 15 — 91 Handley 53, Brentsville 38 No. 14 Notre Dame 78, Team McDavid 4, Team MacKinnon 3
Team Matthews 6, Team Hughes 5
bOSTON ............................. 29 41 29 32 — 131 PRIVATE clemson 75, Virginia 69 Pittsburgh 53 Team Matthews 7, Team McDavid 4
mEmPHIS: Jackson 8-24 0-0 18, Roddy 6-16 2-3 14, Bullis 64, Potomac School 50
Catholic 63, Flint Hill 46 cLEmSON ........................... 15 18 21 21 — 75 PITTSbURGH ...................... 14 13 10 16 — 53
Jemison 2-5 2-2 6, Gilyard 5-10 0-0 13, Kennard 4-8 0-0 VIRGINIA ............................ 14 13 17 25 — 69
SUNDAY’S RESULTS
LIV golf 11, Evbuomwan 1-7 0-0 3, Hurt 3-11 1-1 7, Pippen Jr. Shabach Christian 62, Archbishop Carroll 57 NOTRE DAmE ..................... 18 18 19 23 — 78
No games scheduled.
6-11 5-6 19. Totals 35-92 10-12 91. St. Frances 46, Riverdale Baptist 26 clemson (11-12) Pittsburgh (7-16)
LIV GOLf mAYAkObA St. Mary’s Ryken 57, Oakland Mills 53 Elmore 2-4 0-0 4, Robinson 7-13 4-4 19, Harris 6-13 11-16 Jordan 3-15 11-12 17, King 8-13 2-3 18, Malcolm 3-14 0-0 mONDAY’S GAmES
bOSTON: Horford 5-9 0-0 11, Tatum 12-22 4-4 34, Western 58, Archbishop Spalding 53 23, Kramer 4-8 2-4 13, Whitehorn 4-10 1-2 9, Freeman 8, Timmerson 0-5 0-2 0, Washenitz 1-4 2-2 5, Ayodele
At El Camaleon Golf Course; in Mayakoba, Mexico Colorado at N.Y. Rangers, 7
Purse: $20 million Porzingis 10-17 4-5 26, Holiday 2-6 2-2 7, White 5-10 1-2 0-1 1-2 1, Inyang 0-0 0-0 0, Ott 1-3 0-0 3, Valentine 1-1 0-1 1-2 1, Hutcherson 2-3 0-0 4, Rust 0-0 0-0 0, Battle 0-0
15, Banton 0-4 0-0 0, Hauser 1-3 0-0 3, Stevens 2-4 0-0 5, bOYS’ SWImmING 0-0 3, Totals 25-53 19-28 75 N.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 7
Yardage: 7,116; Par: 71 0-0 0, Perkins 0-4 0-0 0, Totals 17-59 16-21 53
a-Amateur Walsh 1-1 0-0 2, Kornet 0-2 2-2 2, Mykhailiuk 2-5 0-0 6, VIRGINIA Virginia (10-12) Notre Dame (17-4) TUESDAY’S GAmES
Brissett 2-4 1-1 6, Queta 4-4 0-0 8, Pritchard 2-8 2-2 6. Independence 390, Riverside 342, Briar Woods 341 Brunelle 9-15 0-0 24, Clarkson 1-4 0-0 2, Brown 0-1 0-0 0, Watson 2-5 2-3 6, Westbeld 7-14 0-1 15, Citron 4-8 4-4
fINAL ROUND Totals 48-99 16-18 131. Clark 2-8 0-4 4, Johnson 10-20 3-3 24, Noyan 2-3 2-2 6, Montreal at Washington, 7
PRIVATE 15, DeWolfe 4-9 0-0 10, Hidalgo 6-16 6-10 22, Marshall
x-Won on the fourth playoff hole Lawson 1-2 0-0 3, McGhee 0-1 0-0 0, Pauley 2-6 0-0 6, 2-2 1-1 5, Obinma 0-1 0-0 0, Bransford 2-7 1-1 5, Cernugel Calgary at Boston, 7
Three-point Goals: Memphis 11-38 (Kennard 3-5, Gilyard Gonzaga 773, DeMatha 547, Georgetown Prep 411 Dallas at Buffalo, 7
$4,000,000 3-7, Pippen Jr. 2-2, Jackson 2-10, Evbuomwan 1-3, Roddy Smith 0-2 0-0 0, Totals 27-62 5-9 69 0-1 0-0 0, Totals 27-63 14-20 78
x-Joaquin Niemann ....................... 59 72 70 — 201 -12 0-5, Hurt 0-6), Boston 19-51 (Tatum 6-12, White 4-8, GIRLS’ SWImmING Three-point goals: Clemson 6-16 (Robinson 1-3, Harris Three-point goals: Pittsburgh 3-23 (Jordan 0-5, Malcolm Philadelphia at Florida, 7
Mykhailiuk 2-5, Porzingis 2-5, Brissett 1-1, Stevens 1-1, VIRGINIA 0-3, Kramer 3-6, Whitehorn 0-1 (OT)t 1-2, Valentine 2-9, Timmerson 0-3, Washenitz 1-2, Perkins 0-4), Notre Vancouver at Carolina, 7
$2,250,000 1-1), Virginia 10-26 (Brunelle 6-11, Brown 0-1, Clark 0-1, Dame 10-25 (Westbeld 1-3, Citron 3-5, DeWolfe 2-5,
Hauser 1-3, Holiday 1-3, Horford 1-5, Banton 0-2, Pritchard Independence 338, Riverside 332, Potomac Falls 303 Winnipeg at Pittsburgh, 7
Sergio Garcia ................................. 65 70 66 — 201 -12 Johnson 1-5, Lawson 1-1, McGhee 0-1, Pauley 2-5, Smith Hidalgo 4-8, Bransford 0-3, Cernugel 0-1). Assists:
0-6). fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Memphis 45 (Evbuom- PRIVATE Colorado at New Jersey, 7:30
$1,250,000 wan 12), Boston 57 (Kornet, Porzingis, Queta, Tatum 8). 0-1). Assists: Clemson 15 (Harris 9), Virginia 22 (John- Pittsburgh 9 (Timmerson 2, Washenitz 2), Notre Dame Edmonton at Vegas, 10
Jon Rahm ...................................... 66 67 70 — 203 -10 Assists: Memphis 19 (Gilyard 6), Boston 30 (Tatum 7). Holton-Arms 634, Paul VI 403, National Cathedral 354 son 8). fouled out: Virginia Noyan. Rebounds: Clemson 17 (Hidalgo 5). fouled out: Notre Dame Marshall.
Dean Burmester ............................ 67 66 70 — 203 -10 Total fouls: Memphis 15, Boston 13. A: 19,156 (18,624) 41 (Whitehorn 9), Virginia 30 (Clark 7). Total fouls: Rebounds: Pittsburgh 47 (King 14), Notre Dame 39 WEDNESDAY’S GAmES
WRESTLING Clemson 13, Virginia 25. Technical Fouls_None. A: 4,959. (Westbeld 14). Total fouls: Pittsburgh 18, Notre Dame
$700,000 mARYLAND Dallas at Toronto, 7
Dustin Johnson ............................. 67 71 67 — 205 -8 20. Technical Fouls_None. A: 7,170. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Rangers, 7
Springbrook 42, Blake 28
Charles Howell III .......................... 68 69 68 — 205 -8 Minnesota at Chicago, 9:30
Brooks Koepka .............................. 69 68 68 — 205 -8 Pacers 115, Hornets 99 PRIVATE No. 1 South carolina 85,
$457,500 INDIANA ............................. 26 29 36 24 — 115
Paul VI 286, St. Mary’s Ryken 264.5 Mississippi 56 No. 15 Southern california 79,
Tyrrell Hatton ............................... 72 70 64 — 206 -7
Louis Oosthuizen .......................... 70 69 67 — 206 -7
cHARLOTTE ....................... 13 31 32 23 — 99
mISSISSIPPI ....................... 15 16 13 12 — 56 california 69 c A PI TA LS ’ N e x T T H Re e
Cameron Smith ............................. 69 70 67 — 206 -7 INDIANA: Nesmith 8-11 3-3 22, Siakam 11-20 2-3 25,
Turner 7-14 2-2 16, Haliburton 6-8 2-3 17, Nembhard 0-4
TR A NSA c TI o NS SOUTH cAROLINA ............. 17 23 20 25 — 85
SOUTHERN cALIfORNIA ..... 15 22 21 21 — 79
$370,000 mississippi (16-6) cALIfORNIA ......................... 26 13 22 8 — 69
Richard Bland ................................ 66 74 67 — 207 -6 0-0 0, Jackson 1-1 0-0 2, Toppin 0-1 0-0 0, Walker 0-1 0-0 Snudda Collins 1-9 0-0 2, Scott 6-9 4-5 17, Singleton 1-4
Southern california (16-4)
vs. Montreal canadiens
Paul Casey ..................................... 70 69 68 — 207 -6 0, J.Smith 4-9 1-1 10, Mathurin 4-12 4-6 14, Brown 1-1 0-0 2, Davis 4-15 2-2 10, Todd-Williams 2-6 5-6 9, Rhema
0-0 2, Hield 1-4 0-0 3, McConnell 2-5 0-0 4, Sheppard 0-1 NHL Davis 2-3 6-8 10, Marshall 3-4 3-6 9, Forbes 2-10 6-6 12,
Collins 0-0 0-0 0, Richardson 3-5 1-2 8, Igbokwe 0-1 1-2 1,
$330,000
0-0 0. Totals 45-92 14-18 115. Arizona coyotes: Recalled F Justin Kirkland and D Young 1-2 0-0 2, Noel 0-0 0-0 0, Stephenson 0-3 3-4 3, Padilla 3-5 0-1 9, Watkins 12-27 3-3 29, Akunwafo 0-0 Tuesday 7 Monumental
Caleb Surratt ................................. 71 70 67 — 208 -5 1-2 1, Bigby 1-5 0-0 3, Samuels 0-1 0-0 0, Williams 2-2
Steven Kampfer from Tucson (AHL). Thompson 1-2 0-0 2, Totals 19-56 16-21 56
Sebastian Munoz .......................... 67 71 70 — 208 -5 cHARLOTTE: Bridges 8-23 2-2 19, McGowens 0-2 4-4 4, 1-2 6, Totals 25-57 20-28 79
calgary flames: Claimed D Brayden Pachal off waivers. South carolina (21-0)
$292,500 Richards 5-7 2-2 12, I.Smith 1-3 0-0 3, Miller 10-25 10-12
35, Black 0-3 0-0 0, Thor 1-1 0-0 2, Washington 9-16 3-5
Placed F A.J. Greer on injured reserve. Recalled Fs Jakob Watkins 4-5 3-6 11, Cardoso 6-10 5-8 17, Hall 3-7 4-5 10, california (13-10) at florida Panthers
Talor Gooch ................................... 72 69 68 — 209 -4 Pelletier, Cole Schwindt and Kevin Rooney from Calgary Raven Johnson 1-4 3-6 5, Paopao 4-11 2-3 11, Feagin 3-3 Onyiah 2-3 1-2 5, Suarez 8-16 0-0 18, Krimili 6-14 4-5 21,
Laurie Canter ................................ 66 73 70 — 209 -4 22, Mensah 0-0 0-0 0, Bouknight 0-0 0-0 0, Smith Jr. 1-8 Martin 3-7 0-0 7, McIntosh 2-5 0-0 5, Langarita 1-3 0-0 2,
$255,000
0-0 2. Totals 35-88 21-25 99.
(AHL).
carolina Hurricanes: Recalled G Pyotr Kochetkov from
4-4 10, Jah 0-1 1-2 1, Kitts 1-3 0-0 2, Walker 0-0 1-2 1,
Fulwiley 5-12 4-6 14, Tessa Johnson 1-2 0-0 3, Totals Lane 1-1 0-0 2, Laditan-Twidale 0-2 1-2 1, Mastrov 1-4 Thursday 7 Monumental
Sam Horsfield ............................... 72 69 69 — 210 -3 Three-point Goals: Indiana 11-33 (Haliburton 3-5, Ne- Chicago (AHL). 28-58 27-42 85 1-2 3, Williams 1-2 2-2 5, Totals 25-57 9-13 69
smith 3-5, Mathurin 2-3, Hield 1-3, J.Smith 1-3, Siakam Edmonton Oilers: Recalled F Dylan Holloway from Three-point goals: Southern California 9-26 (Forbes 2-9,
Kevin Na ........................................
Cameron Tringale ..........................
70 70 70
69 70 71
—
—
210
210
-3
-3 1-4, Sheppard 0-1, Toppin 0-1, Walker 0-1, Turner 0-3, Bakersfield (AHL).
Three-point goals: Mississippi 2-7 (S.Collins 0-2, Scott
1-1, Davis 0-1, Todd-Williams 0-1, Richardson 1-1, Padilla 3-4, Watkins 2-8, Bigby 1-4, Williams 1-1), Califor- at boston bruins
Patrick Reed .................................. 64 73 73 — 210 -3 Nembhard 0-4), Charlotte 8-29 (Miller 5-12, I.Smith 1-1, montreal canadiens: Recalled C Lucas Condotta from Young 0-1), South Carolina 2-10 (Hall 0-2, R.Johnson nia 10-29 (Suarez 2-6, Krimili 5-9, Martin 1-4, McIntosh
$215,000
Bridges 1-5, Washington 1-6, McGowens 0-1, Smith Jr. Laval (AHL). Signed C Brandon Gignac to a two-year, 0-1, Paopao 1-4, Fulwiley 0-1, T.Johnson 1-2). Assists: 1-3, Langarita 0-2, Laditan-Twidale 0-2, Mastrov 0-2,
Williams 1-1). Assists: Southern California 11 (Forbes 5,
Saturday 3:30 ABC
0-4). fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Indiana 49 (Turner two-way contract. Mississippi 4 (Scott 2, Todd-Williams 2), South Carolina
Anirban Lahiri ............................... 71 73 67 — 211 -2 Watkins 5), California 14 (Krimili 4, McIntosh 4). fouled
10), Charlotte 43 (Richards 10). Assists: Indiana 34 New Jersey Devils: Recalled D Santeri Hatakka from 18 (R.Johnson 6). fouled out: Mississippi Igbokwe,
Brendan Steele ............................. 75 66 70 — 211 -2 out: California Onyiah. Rebounds: Southern California 35
Lucas Herbert ................................ 70 70 71 — 211 -2
(Siakam 9), Charlotte 18 (I.Smith 4). Total fouls: Indiana
15, Charlotte 16. A: 15,687 (19,077)
Utica (AHL).
New York Islanders: Recalled RW Simon Holmstrom and
Singleton. Rebounds: Mississippi 37 (Scott 8), South
Carolina 40 (Watkins 10). Total fouls: Mississippi 31, (Davis 8), California 32 (Suarez 9). Total fouls: Southern Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM)
Bubba Watson .............................. 69 69 73 — 211 -2 California 16, California 25. Technical Fouls_None. A: 4,356.
C Kyle MacLean from Bridgeport (AHL). South Carolina 17. Technical Fouls_None. A: 18,000.
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SUMMARY NOTICE OF BOND SALE 3819 SUITLAND ROAD SE, 724 ROCK CREEK CHURCH ROAD NW, 905 BELLEVUE STREET SE, MCMICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY, LLC
WASHINGTON DC 20020 WASHINGTON DC 20010 WASHINGTON DC 20032 7470 Technology Way
$329,240,000* Suite P
WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANITARY In execution of the Superior Court for the District of In execution of the Superior Court for the District of In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Frederick, MD 21703
DISTRICT, MARYLAND Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case: 2015 CA 010115 R(RP), Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case: 2016 CA 008852 R(RP), Columbias Decree of Sale in Case 2023-CAB-000498,
(MONTGOMERY AND PRINCE GEORGE’S
(470) 480-1820
COUNTIES, MARYLAND)
the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as3819 SUITLAND ROAD SE, WASHINGTON DC 20020 known as 724 ROCK CREEK CHURCH ROAD NW, WASHINGTON known as 905 BELLEVUE STREET SE, WASHINGTON DC TRUSTEE’S SALE
$299,310,000* $29,930,000* at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST DC 20010 at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY 20032 at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY 1719 CORCORAN STREET NW,
Consolidated Public Consolidated Public AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440, WEST AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite WEST AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite Washington, DC 20009
Improvement Improvement Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On FEBRUARY 27, 440, Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On FEBRUARY 440, Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On FEBRUARY
Bonds of 2024 Bonds of 2024 (Second 2024 AT 11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated in the 27, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated in 27, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated In execution of the Superior Court for the District of
Series) (Green Bonds) District of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot the District of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot in the District of Columbia, and designated as and being Columbia’s Decree of Sale in 2021-CA-004134-R(RP),
0138 in Square 5684, and more particularly described in the 158 in Square 3031, and more particularly described in the Lot 109 AND Square 5924, and more particularly described the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Washington Deed of Trust recorded in the Land Records of the District Deed of Trust recorded in the Land Records of the District of in the Deed of Trust recorded in the Land Records of the known as 1719 CORCORAN STREET NW, Washington, DC
Suburban Sanitary Commission (the “Commission”) of Columbia, on MAY 6, 1999 as Instrument Number: Columbia, on DECEMBER 12, 2005 as Instrument Number: District of Columbia, on NOVEMBER 21, 2005 as Instrument 20009 at public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST
will receive electronic bids only for the $299,310,000* 9900040767. The property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed 2005177982. The property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed Number:.2005167099
Consolidated Public Improvement Bonds of 2024 (the
AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
“Construction Bonds”) and the $29,930,000* Consolidated
“as is” without any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee “as is” without any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee The property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed “as is” without Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On February 6, 2024
Public Improvement Bonds of 2024 (Second Series)
Simple, subject to conditions, restrictions, easements, and Simple, subject to conditions, restrictions, easements, and any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject to AT 10:30 AM, the land and premises situated in the District
(Green Bonds) (the “Green Bonds,” and, together with
all other recorded instruments superior to the Deed of Trust all other recorded instruments superior to the Deed of Trust conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded of Columbia, and designated as and being 2020025449
the Construction Bonds, the “Bonds”) of the Washington referenced above, and subject to ratification by the Court referenced above, and subject to ratification by the Court instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, in , and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
Suburban Sanitary District (the “District”) at 10:15 A.M. and subject to ratification by the Court. recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia,
prevailing Eastern time on February 8, 2024, via I-Deal TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $40,000.00 or TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $50,000.00 or TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $25,000.00 or on February 10, 2020 as Instrument Number 2020025449 .
PARITY. No bids of less than 100% of par plus accrued 10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash 10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash 10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash
interest, no oral bid and no bid for less than all of the Bonds or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction The property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed “as is” without
will be considered. The Bonds will be awarded based on the is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject to
lowest true interest cost to the Commission, determined in or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
accordance with the true interest cost method. The winning may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above,
bidder shall submit a good faith deposit to the Commission announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is and subject to ratification by the Court
by a federal funds wire transfer, no later than 4:00 P.M. on to be paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the to be paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the to be paid in cash within 45 days of final ratification of the
the day of the award as described in the full Official Notice of sale by the Court. sale by the Court. sale by the Court. TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $ 100,000 or 10%
Sale. THE WINNING BIDDER MUST PURCHASE ALL OF TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash or
THE BONDS. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to settle TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to settle If purchaser fails to settle within the aforesaid forty—five certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction
The Bonds are authorized by Titles 16 through 25 of the within the aforesaid sixty (60) days of the ratification, the within the aforesaid sixty (60) days of the ratification, the (45) days of the ratification, the purchaser agrees to pay is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors or
Public Utilities Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, as purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable attorney purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable attorney the Trustees’ reasonable attorney fees as ordered by the assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and
amended. The Bonds are consolidated for sale pursuant to fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Trustees have filed the may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
the provisions of Section 19-101 of the Local Government the Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the the Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property. announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to
Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended. Court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal Court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal Purchaser waives personal service of any paper filed with be paid in cash within 30 days of final ratification of the
The Bonds are expected to be issued on or about February service of any paper filed with the Court in connection service of any paper filed with the Court in connection the Court in connection with such motion and any Show sale by the Court.
22, 2024. The Bonds will mature on June 1 in the following with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees to
respective years and principal amounts: Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such accept service of any such paper or Order by certified TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
Construction Bonds paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to mail and regular mail sent to the address provided by the If purchaser fails to settle within the aforesaid thirty
the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded purchaser and as recorded on the documents executed by the (30) days of the ratification, the purchaser agrees to pay
Year of Principal Year of Principal on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time purchaser at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed the Trustees’ reasonable attorney fees as ordered by the
Maturity Amount* Maturity Amount*
of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the effective upon the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Trustees have filed the
2024 $2,800,000 2039 $ 9,800,000 purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States the United States Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property.
2025 5,145,000 2040 10,195,000 Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that purchaser that actual receipt of the certified mail is not Purchaser waives personal service of any paper filed with
2026 5,400,000 2041 10,600,000 actual receipt of the certified mail is not required for service actual receipt of the certified mail is not required for service required for service to be effective. If the purchaser fails to the Court in connection with such motion and any Show
2027 5,670,000 2042 11,025,000 to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the go to settlement the deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees to
2028 5,955,000 2043 11,465,000 deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees and all expenses deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees and all expenses and all expenses of this sale (including attorney fees and accept service of any such paper or Order by certified
2029 6,250,000 2044 11,920,000 of this sale (including attorney fees and full commission of this sale (including attorney fees and full commission full commission on the gross sales price of the sale) shall mail and regular mail sent to the address provided by the
2030 6,565,000 2045 12,400,000 on the gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged on the gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged be charged against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In purchaser and as recorded on the documents executed by the
2031 6,895,000 2046 12,895,000 against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event the event of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be purchaser at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed
2032 7,235,000 2047 13,415,000 of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from effective upon the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by
2033 7,600,000 2048 13,950,000
any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of any resale of the property regardless of any improvements the United States Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the
the property regardless of any improvements made to the the property regardless of any improvements made to the made to the real property. Interest is to be paid on the purchaser that actual receipt of the certified mail is not
2034 7,980,000 2049 14,505,000 real property. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase real property. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in the Deed required for service to be effective. If the purchaser fails to
2035 8,380,000 2050 15,085,000 money at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from money at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the funds go to settlement the deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees
2036 8,715,000 2051 15,690,000 the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the are received in the office of the Trustees. In the event that and all expenses of this sale (including attorney fees and
2037 9,065,000 2052 16,320,000 office of the Trustees. In the event that the settlement is office of the Trustees. In the event that the settlement is the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, full commission on the gross sales price of the sale) shall
2038 9,420,000 2053 16,970,000 delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, there shall be no delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, there shall be no there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent, be charged against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In
_________________ abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent, condominium fees abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent, condominium fees condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, the event of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be
*Preliminary, subject to change.
and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/ and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/ all public charges/assessments payable on an annual entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from
Green Bonds
assessments payable on an annual basis, including assessments payable on an annual basis, including basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district any resale of the property regardless of any improvements
sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year made to the real property. Interest is to be paid on the
Year of Principal Year of Principal to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in the Deed
Maturity Amount* Maturity Amount* assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be Purchaser shall be responsible for the costs of all transfer of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the funds
2024 $280,000 2039 $ 980,000 responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary taxes, documentary stamps and all other costs incident are received in the office of the Trustees. In the event that
2025 515,000 2040 1,020,000 stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. to settlement. Purchaser shall be responsible for physical the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER,
2026 540,000 2041 1,060,000 Purchaser shall be responsible for physical possession of Purchaser shall be responsible for physical possession of possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent,
2027 565,000 2042 1,105,000 the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the loss from the date of sale forward. The sale is subject to condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues,
2028 595,000 2043 1,145,000 date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit post sale audit by the Mortgage holder to determine whether all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
2029 625,000 2044 1,190,000 by the Mortgage holder to determine whether the borrower by the Mortgage holder to determine whether the borrower the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/ basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district
2030 655,000 2045 1,240,000 filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/forbearance filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/forbearance forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year
2031 690,000 2046 1,290,000 agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the sale. In any agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the sale. In any sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees that upon to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.
2032 725,000 2047 1,340,000
such event the Purchaser agrees that upon notification by such event the Purchaser agrees that upon notification by notification by the Trustees of such event the sale is null Purchaser shall be responsible for the costs of all transfer
the Trustees of such event the sale is null and void and of the Trustees of such event the sale is null and void and of and void and of no legal effect and the deposit returned taxes, documentary stamps and all other costs incident
2033 760,000 2048 1,395,000
no legal effect and the deposit returned without interest. no legal effect and the deposit returned without interest. without interest. to settlement. Purchaser shall be responsible for physical
2034 800,000 2049 1,450,000 Trustees’ File No 15-900109 Trustees’ File No 14-900036 possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of
2035 840,000 2050 1,510,000 Trustees’ File No 19-900187 loss from the date of sale forward. The sale is subject to
2036 870,000 2051 1,570,000 JAMES E. CLARKE, AND RENEE DYSON , JAMES E. CLARKE, AND RENEE DYSON , post sale audit by the Mortgage holder to determine whether
2037 905,000 2052 1,630,000 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES JAMES E. CLARKE AND DANIEL K. EISENHAUSER the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/
2038 945,000 2053 1,695,000 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the
The Bonds are being issued for the purposes of (i) C/O ORLANS PC C/O ORLANS PC C/O ORLANS PC sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees that upon
financing the construction or reconstruction of water supply 1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310 1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310 1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310 notification by the Trustees of such event the sale is null
facilities, water supply lines and transmission mains, Leesburg, VA 20175 Leesburg, VA 20175 Leesburg, VA 20175 and void and of no legal effect and the deposit returned
sewage disposal facilities, sewer collection mains and trunk (703) 777-7101 (703) 777-7101 (703) 777-7101 without interest. Trustees’ File No. DC2022-00006
sewers, and the acquisition of land or equipment for, or
the construction, remodeling, enlargement, or replacement MILT THEOLOGOU,
of any office or operating building necessary to administer MICHAEL ONDECK,
or operate the water and sewer systems in the District, (ii)
financing certain projects designated by the Commission as
“Green Projects” and (iii) the payment of costs of issuance
related to the Bonds. Jan 29,Feb 5,12,19 2024 0012448676 Jan 29,Feb 5,12,19 2024 0012448674 Jan 29,Feb 5,12,19 2024 0012447764
The Bonds will bear interest at such fixed rates of interest
as are specified by the successful bidder. The successful 1480 Trucks 825
Bids & Proposals 850
Montgomery County 850
Montgomery County 850
Montgomery County 851
Prince Georges County
bidder will be determined based on the lowest true interest IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT Feb 5 2024 0012450112
FORD 2022 F250, 35,000 miles, 5 year Coalition for Green Capital IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
cost to the Commission. The Bonds will be issued in fully protection warranty (paid off) (CGC) is soliciting responses MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, FOR FOR THE
registered form, without physical coupons. The Bonds which $85,000. 6907 Riverdale Rd, Lanham to the following Requests for MARYLAND MARYLAND MONTGOMERY COUNTY
MARYLAND
COUNTY OF PRINCE 851
Prince Georges County 851
Prince Georges County
MD 20706 301-526-3991 Qualifications (RFQs) from GEORGE’S,
mature on or after June 1, 2035* may be redeemed prior to qualified law firms to provide CARRIE M. WARD, et al. John Ansell, et al. MARYLAND IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
815 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
their respective maturities at the option of the Commission Legal Notices the nonprofit organization with
the following services: General
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs,
KEITH YACKO, et al,
Substitute Trustees, WILLIAM M. SAVAGE, et al.
FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
from any money that may be made available for such Legal Services, Outside Counsel Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, Plantiffs, Trustee(s)Plaintiff(s)
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND
MARYLAND
purpose, either in whole or in part on any date not earlier for Non-Profit and Governance V.
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
Matters, and Outside Counsel vs. v. vs.
than June 1, 2034*, at the principal amount of the bonds for EPA and Regulatory Matters. Oscar Nunez, CARRIE M. WARD, et al. 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
ABC LICENSE: Harris Teeter LLC 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852
to be redeemed, together with the interest accrued thereon trading as Harris Teeter #486 624 The deadline to respond to the THE WILLIAMS FAMILY TRUST Defendant. ROBERT D. REID, et al, LAWRENCE MARTIN Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
referenced RFQs will be on DATED MAY 15, 1995 Defendants. ELLA B MARTIN A/K/A
to the date fixed for redemption, without premium. The N Glebe Rd, (Arlington County)
February 26, 2024 at 10:00 AM PAUL WILLIAMS (DECEASED) Case No. C-15-CV-22-002329 ELLA BOYKINS
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
Arlington, Virginia 22203-2267. vs.
Commission reserves the right to cancel or postpone the The above establishment is ap- EST via email to RFI@coalition- 2900 North Leisure World Case No. C-15-CV-23-002798 Defendant(s) vs.
Boulevard NOTICE Mortgagor(s)
sale and to reject any or all bids. plying to the VIRGINIA ALCOHOL- forgreencapital.com. Interested
entities may visit the CGC web- Unit 306 NOTICE THOMAS T. CALDWELL, JR.
IC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) LISLE ZIMA NZERUE (DECEASED)
Copies of the Preliminary Official Statement relating AUTHORITY for a Retail Wine and site at https://coalitionforgreen- Silver Spring, MD 20906 Notice is hereby issued this 26 Notice is hereby issued this 12 CIVIL NO: C-16-CV-23-004404 EXODUS NZERUE 3721 Lumar Drive
Defendant(s). day of January, 2024, that the day of January, 2024 that the
to the Bonds and the full Official Notice of Sale are Beer On and Off Premises license capital.com/open-RFQs/ for
sale of the property in this case, sale of the property in this case, NOTICE
801 Lake Shore Drive Fort Washington, MD 20744
to sell or manufacture alcoholic more information. Bowie, MD 20721 Defendant(s).
available in electronic format at https://www.munios.com beverages. Taryn Mecia Vice
Case No.C-15-CV-23-002258 13016 Gershwin Way, Silver 14301 KINGS CROSSING BLVD NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this Defendant(s).
or may be obtained from the undersigned at Washington Spring, Maryland 20904, re- BOYDS MD 20841, reported by 24th day of January, 2024 by the
President. NOTE: Objections to NOTICE ported by John Ansell, Jeremy B. David Williamson, Attorney for Case No.C-16-CV-23-000889
Circuit Court for the County of Case No.C-16-CV-23-004173
Suburban Sanitary Commission, 14501 Sweitzer Lane, the issuance of this license must
be submitted to ABC no later
Wilkins, Robert A. Oliveri, Aman- the Substitute Trustee, be ratified Prince George’s, Maryland and NOTICE
Laurel, Maryland 20707 (tel. 301-206-7069) or from Public Notice is hereby given this 17 da Driscole, Paul Heinmuller, and confirmed, unless cause to by the authority thereof, that the
than 30 days from the publishing day of January, 2024, by the Cir- John C. Hanrahan, Kristopher NOTICE
the contrary be shown on or be- sale made by William M. Savage,
Resources Advisory Group, 39 Broadway, Suite 1210, New date of the first of two required cuit Court for Montgomery Coun- Hawkins, Substitute Trustees, be fore the 12 day of February, 2024, Gregory N. Britto, Angela M. Ton- Notice is hereby given this
Notice is hereby given this 25th
day of January, 2024 by the
newspaper legal notices. Ob-
York, New York 10006 (610-565-5990). jections should be registered at
ty, Maryland, that the sale of the
property mentioned in these
ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary be shown
provided a copy of this Notice be ello, Rachel S. Feinstein, Trustees, 24th day of January, 2024, Circuit Court for Prince George’s
inserted in the Washington Post, of the Real Property designated by the Circuit Court for Prince County, Maryland, that the sale
www.abc.virginia.gov or (800) proceedings and described as on or before the 26 day of Feb- a newspaper published in MONT-
552- 3200. as 10801 Forestgate Pl, Glenn George’s County, Maryland, that of the property mentioned in
WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANITARY 2900 North Leisure World Bou- ruary, 2024, provided a copy of GOMERY County, Maryland, once Dale, MD 20769, and reported the sale of the property men- these proceedings and de-
levard, Unit 306, Silver Spring, this Notice be inserted in The in each of three (3) successive in the above entitled cause, will
COMMISSION MD 20906, made and reported Washington Post, a newspaper weeks on or before the 12 day of be finally ratified and confirmed,
tioned in these proceedings and scribed as 3721 Lumar Drive,
by the Substitute Trustee, will be published in Montgomery Coun- described as 801 Lake Shore Fort Washington, MD 20744,
February, 2024. unless cause to the contrary Drive, Bowie, MD 20721, made made and reported by the Sub-
RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, un- ty, Maryland, once in each of The report states the amount of thereof be shown on or before
By: /s/ Munetsi Timothy Musara_________ less cause to the contrary there- three (3) successive weeks on sale to be $206,000.00. the 26th day of February 2024
and reported by the Substitute stitute Trustee, will be RATIFIED
Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND AND CONFIRMED, unless cause
Chief Financial Officer
_________________
There now is pending before the
Superior Court of the District of
Columbia an action, case num-
Manage of be shown on or before the 19
day of February 2024, provided
a copy of this NOTICE be inserted
or before the 26 day of Febru-
ary, 2024. The report states the
amount of sale to be
Karen A. Bushell
Clerk, Circuit Court for
next; provided a copy of this
order be inserted in THE WASH-
INGTON POST, 1150 15th Street,
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on
to the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 26th day of
*Preliminary, subject to change. ber 2023-CAB-000949, Pentagon
Federal Credit Union v. Filipp G. your print in some daily newspaper printed
in said county, once in each of
$439,000.00. Montgomery County,
Maryland
Washington, DC, MD published in
said County of Prince George’s
or before the 26th day of Feb-
ruary, 2024, provided a copy of
this NOTICE be inserted in some
February, 2024, provided a copy
of this NOTICE be inserted in
some daily newspaper printed
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1447 shev, et al., seeking to affect title the 19 day of February, 2024. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
Jan 22,29,Feb 5 2024 0012449261
sive weeks before the 26th day
daily newspaper printed in said in said County, once in each of
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D6 CLASSIFIED H NOTICES H Trustee Sales—MD
840 840 840
Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
Law Office of Allan P. Feigelson PA
3812 Thoroughbred Lane
Owings Mills, Maryland 21117
410-504-5608
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF
VALUABLE RESIDENTIAL DWELLING KNOWN AS:
3628 Georgia Avenue (Units 1-8, C-1, P-1 and P-2), NW,
Washington, DC 20011
By virtue of Deed of Trust recorded in the land records of
the District of Columbia recorded on September 28, 2020,
as Instrument Number 2020117441, in case 2022 CAB
005810 and at the request of the party secured thereby, the
undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer to sell at public
auction, within the office of HARVEY WEST AUCTIONEERS,
INC., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440 Washington,
DC 20015-2034 on FEBRUARY 13, 2024 at 11:00 AM.
the land and premises situated in the District of Columbia
and more particularly described in the above referenced
Deed of Trust and as of the date hereof designated on
the Records of the Assessor of the District of Columbia
for assessment purposes as 3628 Georgia Avenue (Units
1-8, C-1, P-1 and P-2), NW, Washington, DC 20011, Lot
Numbered 0134 and Square Numbered 2897
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, the ability of the purchaser to obtain
title insurance or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject
to any assessments including assessment pursuant to D.C.
Code Section 42-1903.13.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY
BY certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale.
CASH WILL NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The
balance of the purchase price with interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of
Trust Note (9.00% per annum) from the date of sale to the
date funds are received by the Trustees, payable in cash or
certified funds within THIRTY DAYS after the final ratification
of the sale. There will be no abatement of interest due from
the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered
before settlement. Adjustment of current year’s real property
taxes are adjusted as of the date of sale, and thereafter
assumed by the purchaser. All other public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts
survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges,
ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale are
to be paid by the purchaser. All costs of deed recordation
including but not limited to title examination, conveyancing,
city revenue stamps, transfer taxes, title insurance, and all
other costs incident to settlement are to be paid by the
purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical
possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or
damage to the property from date of sale.
Time is of the essence for the Purchaser. If the Purchaser
fails to settle within thirty days of ratification, Purchaser
agrees that the property will be resold and the entire deposit
retained by the Substitute Trustees as liquidated damages
for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and
purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser
agrees to accept service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for all correspondence
including any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this
sale. The defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any
surplus proceeds resulting from said resale even if such
surplus results from improvements to the property by said
defaulted purchaser. The sale is subject to post-sale audit
of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including
but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower
entered into and repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
off the loan prior to sale. In any such event or if the sale
is not ratified, the purchaser’s only remedy is return of the
deposit without interest. Trustee’s File No. 22-0028
Allan P. Feigelson, PA.
Jan 22,29,Feb 5,12 2024 0012448193
ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
1249 CARROLLSBURG PLACE SW,
WASHINGTON DC 20024
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of
Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case: 2015 CA 003640 R(RP),
the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 1249 CARROLLSBURG PLACE SW, WASHINGTON
DC 20024 at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY
WEST AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite
440, Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On FEBRUARY
27, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated in
the District of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot
66 in Square 0651, and more particularly described in the
Deed of Trust recorded in the Land Records of the District
of Columbia, on JUNE 27, 2007 as Instrument Number:
2007085045. The property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed
“as is” without any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee
Simple, subject to conditions, restrictions easements, and
all other recorded instruments superior to the Deed of Trust
referenced above, and subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $45,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash
or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction
is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors
or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and
may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is
to be paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the
sale by the Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to settle
within the aforesaid sixty (60) days of the ratification, the
purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable attorney
fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if
the Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the
Court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal
service of any paper filed with the Court in connection
with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the
Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such
paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to
the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded
on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time
of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the
purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that
actual receipt of the certified mail is not required for service
to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the
deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees and all expenses
of this sale (including attorney fees and full commission
on the gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged
against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event
of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to
any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of
the property regardless of any improvements made to the
real property. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase
money at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from
the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the
office of the Trustees. In the event that the settlement is
delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, there shall be no
abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent, condominium fees
and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/
assessments payable on an annual basis, including
sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable,
to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be
responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement.
Purchaser shall be responsible for physical possession of
the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the
date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit
by the Mortgage holder to determine whether the borrower
filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/forbearance
agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the sale. In any
such event the Purchaser agrees that upon notification by
the Trustees of such event the sale is null and void and of
no legal effect and the deposit returned without interest.
Trustees’ File No 14-900033
JAMES E. CLARKE, AND RENEE DYSON ,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Jan 29,Feb 5,12,19 2024 0012448175
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McCabe, Weisberg & Conway, LLC
312 Marshall Avenue, Suite 800
Laurel, MD 20707
www.mwc-law.com
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
2409 FRANKLIN STREET, N.E., WASHINGTON, D.C. 20018
(Square 4265, Lots 12 & 13)
In execution of the power of sale contained in a certain
Deed of Trust dated as of February 6, 2019 and recorded
on February 14, 2019 as Instrument No. 2019015996 with
the District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds (the “Recorder”)
in the original principal amount of $440,000.00 (the “Deed
of Trust”), which Deed of Trust also constitutes a security
agreement and creates a security interest in all fixtures and
personal property described in the Deed of Trust, a default
having occurred in the payment of the indebtedness secured
thereby and the covenants contained therein, and at the
request of the party secured thereby (the “Noteholder”),
and following mailing of a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real
Property or Condominium Unit recorded with the Recorder
on January 5, 2024 as Instrument No. 2024001821 and
Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure recorded
with the Recorder on January 2, 2024 as Instrument No.
2024000359, and the recordation of a Substitution of
Trustees with the Recorder as Instrument No. 2024000358,
the undersigned Trustees will sell, at public auction, within
the office of ALEX COOPER AUCTIONEERS, INC., 4910
MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N.W., SUITE 100, WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20016 on Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 11:45 A.M.
that certain land and premises commonly described as
2409 Franklin Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20018, which
has the following legal description as set forth in the Deed
of Trust:
Lot numbered Twelve (12) and Thirteen (13) in Block 1, in
a subdivision known as “Anne L. Alderman and Asahel H.
Alderman’s” in the “Estate of Clark Mills”, as per plat of
said subdivision recorded in Liber 9 at Folio 123, in the
Office of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia.
Now known for assessment and taxation purposes as Lots
12 & 13, in Square 4265.
TOGETHER WITH any and all buildings, structures,
improvements or appurtenances now erected on the above-
described land, including, without limitation, all equipment,
apparatus, machinery and fixtures of any kind or character
forming a part of said buildings, structures, improvements
or appurtenances, and any furniture, furnishings,
equipment, machinery and other personal property owned
and located in, upon or about the above-described land and
any buildings thereon all as more particularly described in
the aforesaid Deed of Trust (the “Property”). Pursuant to
Section 28:9-604 of the D.C. Code, the Substitute Trustees
are proceeding against both the real property and the
personal property described in the Deed of Trust.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. The bid which yields the highest
price for the Property will be accepted by the Substitute
Trustees (unless the sale is postponed or cancelled) and all
bids will be provisional until acceptance. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Substitute Trustees absolutely reserve
the right to postpone the sale and/or cancel the sale at any
time until the auctioneer announces that the Property is
“sold” and the deposit in the required amount and form is
received by the Substitute Trustees. A deposit in the amount
of $52,000.00 will be required at the time of sale. Such
deposit must be by cashier’s check or certified check or in
such other form as the Substitute Trustees may determine
in their sole discretion. The Noteholder (or any related
party) shall be exempted by the Substitute Trustees from
submitting any bidding deposit. The Substitute Trustees
will, as a condition of the sale, require all potential bidders
except the Noteholder (or any related party) to show their
deposit before any bidding begins. The retained deposit of
the successful purchaser shall be applied, without interest,
to the successful purchaser’s credit at settlement, provided,
however, that in the event the successful purchaser fails
to consummate the purchase in accordance with the terms
of sale as herein provided, such deposit, at the option of
the Substitute Trustees, will be forfeited. The terms of
sale must be complied with and settlement consummated
thereon within fifteen (15) days from day of sale unless
extended at the sole discretion of the Substitute Trustees.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. The balance of the purchase
price over and above the retained deposit, with interest
thereon at the Note post-default rate of eighteen percent
(18%) per annum from the date of sale through the date
of receipt of the balance of the purchase price, will be
due at settlement in cash or certified funds; and if not so
paid, the Substitute Trustees reserve the right to retain the
deposit and resell the Property at the risk and cost of the
defaulting purchaser, after such advertisement and on such
terms as the Substitute Trustees may deem proper, and to
avail himself and the Noteholder of any legal or equitable
rights against the defaulting purchaser, including, without
limitation, the recovery of all of Noteholder’s costs, expenses
and reasonable attorneys’ fees to conduct both sales, plus
any deficiency resulting from such subsequent sale and the
cost of collecting same.
The Property is sold subject to the rights, if any, of any
parties in possession, if such rights have priority over the
Deed of Trust, and to any and all covenants, conditions,
restrictions, easements, rights of way, and limitations of
record. The Property will be sold “WHERE IS” and in “AS
IS” condition without any warranty as to condition, express
or implied, and without any representation or warranty as
to the accuracy of the information furnished to prospective
bidders by the Substitute Trustees or any other party and
without any other representations or warranty of any nature.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Property
will be sold without representation or warranty as to (i) title
to the Property, (ii) the nature, condition, structural integrity,
or fitness for a particular use of any improvements,
fixtures or personal property included within the Property,
(iii) the environmental condition of the Property or the
compliance of the Property with federal, state and local
laws and regulations concerning the presence or disposal
of hazardous substances, (iv) compliance of the Property
with the Americans with Disabilities Act or any similar law,
or (v) compliance of the Property with any zoning laws or
ordinances and any and all applicable safety codes, and
acceptance of the Deed to the Property by the successful
purchaser shall constitute a waiver of any claims against
the Substitute Trustees or the Noteholder concerning any of
the foregoing matters. The successful purchaser recognizes
that any investigation, examination or inspection of the
Property is within the control of the owner or other parties in
possession of the Property and not within the control of the
Substitute Trustees or the Noteholder.
Conveyance shall be by Substitute Trustee’s Deed, without
covenant or warranty, express or implied. The risk of loss
or damage by fire or other casualty to the Property from
and after the date of sale will be upon the successful
purchaser. Adjustment of all taxes, ground rents, public
charges, assessments, sewer, water, drainage and other
public improvements will be made as of the date of
sale and are to be assumed and paid thereafter by the
successful purchaser, whether assessments have been
levied or not. The Noteholder and Substitute Trustees
assume no liability for fuel, gas, electricity, utilities and
other operating charges accrued before or after the sale
and all such charges shall be the sole responsibility of the
purchaser from the date of sale. All costs incident to the
settlement and conveyancing including, without limitation,
examination of title, conveyancing, all recordation taxes
and charges, all transfer taxes and charges, title insurance
premiums, notary fees, settlement fees and all other costs
incident to settlement shall be at the cost of the successful
purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees cannot convey title,
the purchaser’s sole remedy is a return of deposit. Further
particulars may be announced at the time of sale.
Laura H. G. O’Sullivan and Michael T. Cantrell,
Substitute Trustees
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MORRIS, MANNING & MARTIN, LLP
1333 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE, NW, SUITE 800
WASHINGTON, DC 20036
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF 247 ROOM HOTEL
WITH UNDERGROUND PARKING
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS
“MOUNT VERNON TRIANGLE NEIGHBORHOOD”
317 K ST, N.W.
WASHINGTON, DC 20001
By virtue of a certain Construction Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents and Leases, Security Agreement and Fixture Filing
recorded in the District of Columbia at the Recorder of Deeds on May 3, 2019 as Instrument No. 2019045995, modified by
that certain Modification of Construction Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents and Leases, Security Agreement and Fixture
Filing, recorded on October 7, 2021 as Instrument No. 2021133767 in aforesaid records, as further modified by that certain
Second Modification of Construction Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents and Leases, Security Agreement and Fixture Filing,
recorded on January 6, 2022 as Instrument No. 2022002030 in aforesaid records (collectively, the “Deed of Trust”), together
with that certain Assignment of Leases and Rents from Borrower to Lender recorded on May 3, 2019 as Instrument No.
2019045996 in aforesaid records, together with that certain UCC Financing Statement from Borrower to Lender recorded on
May 3, 2019 as Instrument No. 2019045997 in aforesaid records (all of the foregoing are collectively, as amended and/or
modified, the “Security Instrument”), and in accordance with Public Law 90-566 notice recorded among the Land Record as
Instrument No. 2023114390, as amended by that notice recorded among the Land Record as Instrument No. 2024002990,
a default having occurred in the payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and the covenants contained therein, and at
the request of the party secured thereby (the “Noteholder”), the undersigned Substitute Trustees, will sell, at public auction,
within the office of ALEX COOPER AUCTIONEERS, INC., 4910 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N.W., SUITE 100, WASHINGTON,
D.C. on
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2024 AT 11:30 AM
the following described land and premises (the “Real Estate”): All that certain land located in the District of Columbia and
being more particularly described as follows:
Parcel 1:
Part of Original Lot 2 in Square 526 and more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the Southeast comer of said lot, thence West on K Street 13 feet 8 ‘1/4 inches, thence North 100 feet, thence
East 13 8 1/4 inches, thence South 100 feet to the point of beginning.
Note: At the date hereof, the above described land is designated on the records of the Assessor of the District of Columbia
for assessment and taxation purposes as Lot 825 in Square 526.
Address: 303 K Street NW, Washington, DC
Parcel 2:
Part of Original Lot 2 in Square 526 and more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at a point 13 feet 8 1/4. Inches West of the Southeast corner of said lot, and running thence West 13 feet 8
1/4. inches; thence North 100 feet; thence east 13 feet 8 1/4. inches, and thence South 100 feet to the point of beginning;
Except the West 2 1/2, inches front by depth of 48 feet conveyed by deed recorded among the Land Records of the District
of Columbia, in Liber 2088 at folio 163.
Note: At the date hereof, the above described land is designated on the records of the Assessor of the District of Columbia
for assessment and taxation purposes as Lot 824 in Square 526.
Address: 305 K Street NW, Washington, DC
Parcel 3:
Lot numbered Twenty (20) in Letitia C. Walsh and Daniel A. Duffy’s subdivision of part of original Lot 2, in Square Five
Hundred Twenty-six (526) as per plat recorded in Liber 84 at folio 171 in the Office of The Surveyor for the District of
Columbia.
Address: 307 K Street NW, Washington, DC
Parcel 4:
Lot numbered Twenty-one (21) in Letitia C. Walsh and Daniel A. Duffy’s subdivision of part of original Lot 2, in Square
Five Hundred Twenty-six (526) as per plat recorded in Liber 84 at folio 171 in the Office of The Surveyor for the District of
Columbia.
Address: 309 K Street NW, Washington, DC
Parcel 5:
Part of Original Lots 2 and 3 in Square 526 and more particularly described as follows:
Beginning for the same at a line of K Street, 44.00 feet East from the Southwest corner of said Lot numbered Three (3) and of
said Square, and running thence East along the line of said Street 22.00 feet 5 1/2 inches; thence north 80.00 feet; thence
West 22.00 feet 5 1/2 inches; thence South 80.00 feet to the place of beginning
Note: At the date hereof, the above described land is designated on the records of the Assessor of the District of Columbia
for assessment and taxation purposes as Lot 829 in Square 526.
Address: 311 K Street NW, Washington, DC
Parcel 6:
Part of Original Lot 3 in Square 526 and more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the line of K Street distant Twenty-two (22) feet East from the Southwest comer of said Lot and
running thence East Twenty-two (22) feet; thence North Eighty (80) feet; thence West Forty-four (44) feet to the line of Fourth
Street; thence South on Fourth Street, Four (4) feet; thence East Twenty-two feet (22) feet; thence South Seventy-six (76)
feet to the point of beginning.
Note: At the date hereof, the above described land is designated on the records of the Assessor of the District of Columbia
for assessment and taxation purposes as Lot 804 in Square 526.
Address: 315 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
Parcel 7:
Part of Original Lot 3 in Square 526 and more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the Southwest corner of said Lot and running thence East on K Street, Twenty-two (22) feet; thence North
Seventy-six (76) feet; thence West Twenty-two (22) feet to Fourth Street; and thence South on Fourth Street, Seventy-six (76)
feet to the point of beginning.
Note: At the date hereof, the above described land is designated on the records of the Assessor of the District of Columbia
for assessment and taxation purposes as Lot 805 in Square 526.
Address: 317 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
Said property formerly known for assessment and taxation purposes as Lots 20, 21, 804, 805, 824, 825 and 829 in Square
526.
Said property is also known as Lot 28 in Square 526 in the Subdivision made by Birchington, LLC, as per plat recorded in the
Office of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia in Liber 218 at Folio 654
Property Address: 317 K St., N.W., Washington, DC.
Description of Property: Thirteen-story hotel known as the Holiday Inn Express Washington DC Downtown, containing
approximately 138,516 square feet, with 247 rooms, approximately 797 square feet of meeting space, a fitness room,
market pantry, and guest laundry. Land area is approximately 0.25 acres or 10,755 square feet.
TOGETHER WITH any and all buildings, structures, improvements or appurtenances now erected on the above-described
land, including, without limitation, all equipment, apparatus, machinery and fixtures of any kind or character forming a part
of said buildings, structures, improvements or appurtenances, and any furniture, furnishings, equipment, machinery and
other personal property owned and located in, upon or about the above-described land and any buildings thereon all as more
particularly described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust (collectively, the “Property”).
FIXTURES AND TANGIBLE PROPERTY
Pursuant to Deed of Trust and Security Agreement as evidenced by Financing Statement duly recorded May 3, 2019
as Instrument No. 2019045997 among the Land Records of the District of Columbia and upon occurrence of a default
thereunder, the Noteholder, SSHCOF II Washington DC, LLC as the holder of a security interest and lien on all of the tangible
and intangible assets of the Debtor, will sell at public auction on the same date and at the same time and place, ALL OF THE
FURNITURE, FIXTURES, EQUIPMENT and TANGIBLE PROPERTY, ETC. of the Debtor located on or about the Real Estate (that is
subject to the security interest and lien of Noteholder and not owned by any third party.)
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. The Property will be offered as an entirety only. The bid which yields the highest price for
the Property will be accepted by the Substitute Trustees (unless the sale is postponed or cancelled) and all bids will
be provisional until acceptance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Substitute Trustees absolutely reserve the right to
postpone the sale and/or cancel the sale at any time until the auctioneer announces that the Property is “sold” and the
deposit in the required amount and form is received by the Substitute Trustees. A deposit in the amount of $1,000,000 in the
form of a cashier’s check or certified check will be required as a condition to bidding. The deposit must be increased to 10%
of the purchase price within two (2) business days after the sale, which increased deposit must be in the form of a cashier’s
check or certified check and delivered to the office of the Substitute Trustees. The Noteholder secured by the Deed of Trust
(or any related party) shall be exempted by the Substitute Trustees from submitting any bidding deposit. The Substitute
Trustees will, as a condition of the sale, require all potential bidders except the Noteholder to show their deposit before
any bidding begins. The retained deposit of the successful purchaser shall be applied, without interest, to the successful
purchaser’s credit at settlement, provided, however, that in the event the successful purchaser fails to consummate the
purchase in accordance with the terms of sale as herein provided, such deposit, at the option of the Substitute Trustees,
will be forfeited. The terms of sale must be complied with and settlement consummated thereon within 45 days from day
of sale unless extended at the sole discretion of the Substitute Trustees. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. The balance of the
purchase price over and above the retained deposit, with interest thereon at the note rate then being charged from the date
of sale through the date of receipt of the balance of the purchase price, will be due at settlement in certified funds; and if
not so paid, the Substitute Trustees reserves the right to retain the deposit and resell the Property at the risk and cost of the
defaulting purchaser, after such advertisement and on such terms as the Substitute Trustees may deem proper, and to avail
themselves and the Noteholder of any legal or equitable rights against the defaulting purchaser.
The Property is sold subject to the rights, if any, of parties in possession, if such rights have priority over the Deed of Trust,
and to any and all covenants, conditions, restrictions, easements, rights of way, and limitations of record. The Property
will be sold “WHERE IS” and in “AS IS” condition without any warranty as to condition, express or implied, and without any
representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the information furnished to prospective bidders by the Substitute Trustees
or any other party and without any other representations or warranty of any nature. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the Property will be sold without representation or warranty as to (i) title to the Property, (ii) the nature, condition,
structural integrity, or fitness for a particular use of any improvements, fixtures or personal property included within the
Property, (iii) the environmental condition of the Property or the compliance of the Property with federal, state and local
laws and regulations concerning the presence or disposal of hazardous substances, (iv) compliance of the Property with
the Americans with Disabilities Act or any similar law, or (v) compliance of the Property with any zoning laws or ordinances
and any and all applicable safety codes, and acceptance of the Substitute Trustees Deed to the Property by the successful
purchaser shall constitute a waiver of any claims against the Substitute Trustees or the Noteholder concerning any of the
foregoing matters. The successful purchaser recognizes that any investigation, examination or inspection of the Property
is within the control of the owner or other parties in possession of the Property and not within the control of the Substitute
Trustees or the Noteholder.
Conveyance shall be by Substitute Trustees Deed, without covenant or warranty, express or implied. The risk of loss or
damage by fire or other casualty to the Property from and after the date of sale will be upon the successful purchaser. Sold
subject to all taxes, ground rents, public charges, assessments, sewer, water, drainage and other public improvements
whether assessments have been levied or not. The Noteholder and Substitute Trustees assume no liability for fuel, gas,
electricity, utilities and other operating charges accrued before or after the sale and all such charges shall be the sole
responsibility of the purchaser from the date of sale. All costs incident to the settlement and conveyancing including,
without limitation, examination of title, conveyancing, all recordation taxes and charges, all transfer taxes and charges,
title insurance premiums, notary fees, settlement fees and all other costs incident to settlement shall be at the cost of the
successful purchaser. If the Substitute Trustees cannot convey title, the purchaser’s sole remedy is a return of deposit.
Further particulars may be announced at the time of sale. For further information, please contact Jessica A. Rodriguez,
Esquire 202-216-4106.
Daniel I. Prywes
Jessica A. Rodriguez
Substitute Trustees
Jan 19,22,26,29,Feb 2,5 2024 0012449257
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MARK H. WITTSTADT, ESQUIRE
1966 GREENSPRING DRIVE, SUITE LL2
LUTHERVILLE, MD 21093
410-238-2840
TRUSTEE’S SALE
REAL PROPERTY
616 KENYON STREET, NW
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20010
By virtue of a certain Commercial Deed of Trust, Security Agreement ,
Assignment of Leases and Rents and Fixture Filing from E & E LLC, a District
of Columbia limited liability company dated October 3, 2022, and duly recorded
October 5, 2022 as Instrument No. 2022101367 (the “Deed of Trust”) among
the Land Records of the District of Columbia (the “Land Records”), which Deed
of Trust also constitutes a security agreement and creates a security interest
in all fixtures described in the Deed of Trust, a default having occurred in the
payment of the indebtedness secured thereby and the covenants contained
therein, and at the request of the party secured thereby (the “Noteholder”),
and in accordance with Public Law 90-566 and following mailing of the Notice
of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit recorded among the
Land Records on January 5, 2024 as Instrument No. 2024001662 and the
recordation of the Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure recorded
among the Land Records on December 22, 2023 as Instrument No. 2023114503
the undersigned Trustee will sell, at public auction, within the office of ALEX
COOPER AUCTIONEERS, INC., 4910 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N.W., SUITE 100,
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20016 on
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2024 AT 12:10 PM
Lot numbered Seventy-eight (78) in Block numbered Three (3) in Stellwagen
and Heald, “Trustees’ subdivision of said Block Three (3) in “Scheutzen Park,”
as per plat recorded in the Office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia in
Liber County 9 at folio 73.”
Note: Said property being now known for assessment and taxation purposes
as Lot numbered Seventy-eight (78) in Square numbered Thirty Hundred and
Forty-Seven (3047)
SSL: 3047-0078
FIXTURES AND TANGIBLE PROPERTY
Pursuant to the Deed of Trust as evidenced by a Financing Statement recorded
among said Land Records as Instrument Number 2022101368 and upon
occurrence of a default thereunder, the Secured Party, Carstensz Loan Holdings,
LLC, as the holder of a security interest and lien on all of the tangible and
intangible assets of the Debtor, will sell at public auction on the same date and
at the same time and place, ALL OF THE FIXTURES and TANGIBLE PROPERTY,
ETC. of the Debtor located on or about the Real Estate (that is subject to the
security interest and lien of Carstensz Loan Holdings, LLC and not owned by
any third party.)
TOGETHER WITH any and all buildings, structures, improvements or
appurtenances now erected on the above-described land, including, without
limitation, all equipment, apparatus, machinery and fixtures of any kind
or character forming a part of said buildings, structures, improvements or
appurtenances, and any furniture, furnishings, equipment, machinery and other
personal property owned and located in, upon or about the above-described land
and any buildings thereon all as more particularly described in the aforesaid
Deed of Trust (the “Property”). The “Property” does not include any property
owned by any tenants at the Property.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. The Property will be offered as an entirety only. The
bid that yields the highest price for the Property will be accepted by the Trustee
(unless the sale is postponed or cancelled) and all bids will be provisional until
acceptance. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee absolutely reserves the
right to postpone the sale and/or cancel the sale at any time until the auctioneer
announces that the Property is “sold” and the Trustee receives the deposit in
the required amount and form. A deposit in the amount of $25,000.00 will
be required at the time of sale as a condition to bidding. Such deposit must
be by cashier’s check or certified check or in such other form as the Trustee
may determine in his sole discretion, which check shall be payable to “Mark
H. Wittstadt, Trustee.” The deposit must be increased to 10% of the purchase
price within 2 business days after consummation of the sale and delivered to
the Trustee in the same form of funds as the initial deposit. The Noteholder
secured by the Deed of Trust (or any related party) shall be exempted by the
Trustee from submitting any bidding deposit. The Trustee will, as a condition of
the sale, require all potential bidders except the Noteholder to show their deposit
before any bidding begins. The retained deposit of the successful purchaser
shall be applied, without interest, to the successful purchaser’s credit at
settlement; provided, however, that in the event the successful purchaser does
not consummate the purchase in accordance with the terms of sale as herein
provided, such deposit, will be forfeited, and after payment of all expenses and
commissions due in connection with the defaulted sale, the balance shall be
applied to the indebtedness due under the terms of the note and Deed of Trust.
The terms of sale must be complied with, and settlement consummated thereon
within 25 days from the day of sale unless extended at the sole discretion of the
Trustee. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. The balance of the purchase price over and
above the retained deposit, with interest thereon at the default rate of 24% per
annum being charged from the date of sale through the date of receipt of the
balance of the purchase price, will be due at settlement by bank wire transfer;
and if not so paid, the Trustee as stated above will forfeit the deposit and
reserves the right to resell the Property at the risk and cost of the defaulting
purchaser, after such advertisement and on such terms as the Trustee may
deem proper, and to avail himself and the Noteholder of any legal or equitable
rights against the defaulting purchaser.
The Property is sold subject to the rights, if any, of parties in possession, if
such rights have priority over the Deed of Trust or have been granted non-
disturbance or similar rights, and to any and all covenants, conditions,
restrictions, easements, rights of way, and limitations of record. The Property
will be sold “WHERE IS” and in “AS IS” condition without any warranty as to
condition, express or implied, and without any representation or warranty as to
the accuracy of the information furnished to prospective bidders by the Trustee
or any other party, if any, and without any other representations or warranty of
any nature. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Property will
be sold without representation or warranty as to (i) title to the Property, (ii)
the nature, condition, structural integrity, or fitness for a particular use of any
improvements, fixtures or personal property included within the Property, (iii)
the environmental condition of the Property or the compliance of the Property
with federal, state and local laws and regulations concerning the presence
or disposal of hazardous substances, (iv) compliance of the Property with the
Americans with Disabilities Act or any similar law, (v) compliance of the Property
with any zoning laws or ordinances and any and all applicable safety codes,
or (vi) compliance with any tenants’ rights or similar laws, and acceptance of
the Deed to the Property by the successful purchaser shall constitute a waiver
of any claims against the Trustee or the Noteholder concerning any of the
foregoing matters. The successful purchaser recognizes that any investigation,
examination, or inspection of the Property is within the control of the owner or
other parties in possession of the Property and not within the control of the
Trustee or the Noteholder.
Conveyance shall be by Trustee’s Deed, without covenant or warranty, express
or implied. The risk of loss or damage by fire or other casualty to the Property
from and after the time of sale shall be the sole responsibility of the purchaser.
The Property shall be sold subject to all taxes, ground rents, public charges,
assessments, sewer, water, drainage, and other public improvements, if any,
whether assessments have been levied or not. The Noteholder and Trustee
assume no liability for fuel, gas, electricity, utilities, and other operating
charges accrued before or after the sale and all such charges shall be the
sole responsibility of the purchaser from the date of sale. All costs incident
to the settlement and conveyancing including, without limitation, examination
of title, conveyancing, all recordation taxes and charges, all transfer taxes and
charges, title insurance premiums, notary fees, settlement fees and all other
costs incident to settlement shall be at the cost of the successful purchaser.
The District of Columbia Government may impose transfer and recordation taxes
on any assignment of the successful bid prior to recordation of the Trustee’s
Deed. The successful purchaser shall be solely liable for payment of such
additional transfer and recordation taxes, if any. If the Trustee cannot convey
title, the purchaser’s sole remedy is a return of deposit. Further particulars may
be announced at the time of sale.
Mark H. Wittstadt, Trustee
Jan 29,31,Feb 2,5,7 2024 0012449491
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Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Prince Georges County Prince Georges County Charles County Charles County Prince Georges County 852 Anne Arundel County
ORLANS PC ORLANS PC ORLANS PC ORLANS PC IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
FOR ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310 1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310 1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310 1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310 PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
Leesburg, VA 20175 Leesburg, VA 20175 LEESBURG, VA 20175 LEESBURG, VA 20175 MARYLAND Richard E. Solomon, et al.
Substitute Trustees
(703) 777-7101 (703) 777-7101 703-777-7101 703-777-7101 Diane S. Rosenberg
Mark D. Meyer Versus
Miroslav Nikolov
742 BRANDYWINE STREET SE APT 302, 1325 BARNABY TER SE, WASHINGTON DC 20032 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE 4340 East West Highway, Nancy Kathleen Holden
WASHINGTON DC 20032 OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY Suite 600 Defendant
Bethesda, MD 20814
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of 10657 Water Hickory Court Substitute Trustees No. C-02-CV-23-001409
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case 2023-CAB-002182, 7106 Westchester Drive Waldorf, MD 20601 Plaintiff(s)
Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case: 2015 CA 001764 the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property Temple Hills, MD 20748 v.
NOTICE

R(RP), the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the known as 1325 BARNABY TER SE, WASHINGTON DC 20032. Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from Notice is hereby issued this Fri-
property known as 742 BRANDYWINE STREET SE APT at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from ESSENCE CAMPBELL AND TERRANCE MURPHY, dated June Estate of Donald Percell
Shepherd
day, January 26, 2024 that the
sale of the property in the pro-
302, WASHINGTON DC 20032 at a public auction within AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite ROBERT MILLER AND FANNIE PRINCE, dated November 7, 9, 2006 and recorded in Liber 05883, folio 0692 among Karen Olivia Shepherd ceedings mentioned, made and
the offices of, HARVEY WEST AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 440, Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On FEBRUARY 2016 and recorded in Liber 38971, folio 391 among the the Land Records of CHARLES COUNTY, MD, default having 3536 Wood Creek Drive
Suitland, MD 20746
reported by Richard J. Rogers,
Substitute Trustee BE RATIFIED
Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015 27, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated in Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case Defendant(s) AND CONFIRMED, unless cause
202-463-4567 On FEBRUARY 27, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M, the the District of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as No.C08CV19000409; Tax ID No.06-098061 ) the Sub. Case No. C-16-CV-23-003658
to the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 26th day of
land and premises situated in the District of Columbia, 0019 AND Square 5923, and more particularly described Case No.CAEF22-30111; Tax ID No.09-0893040 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the CHARLES COUNTY February 2024 next; provided,
and designated as and being Lot 2009 in Square 6163, and in the Deed of Trust recorded in the Land Records of the Trustees will sell at public auction at the PRINCE GEORGE’S COURTHOUSE, located at 200 CHARLES STREET ( IN THE NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 24th
a copy of this Notice be inserted
in some newspaper published in
more particularly described in the Deed of Trust recorded in District of Columbia, on JANUARY 4, 2007 as Instrument COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL BREEZEWAY BETWEEN CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS ), LA day of January, 2024, by the Cir- Anne Arundel County, once in
the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on JANUARY Number:.2007001036. The property will be sold by Trustee’s WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, PLATA, MD 20646, on cuit Court for Prince George’s
County, Maryland, that the sale
each of three successive weeks
before the 26th day of Febru-
9, 2007 as Instrument Number: 2007003314. The property Deed “as is” without any covenant, expressed or implied, in UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772, on of 3536 Wood Creek Drive, ary 2024 next. The report states
will be sold by Trustee’s Deed “as is” without any covenant, Fee Simple, subject to conditions, restrictions, easements, FEBRUARY 7, 2024 at 12:30 PM Suitland, MD 20746, made
and reported, will be ratified
that the amount of sale of the
property at 226 HOLY CROSS
expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject to conditions, and all other recorded instruments superior to the Deed of FEBRUARY 7, 2024 at 2:30 PM and confirmed, unless cause to ROAD, BALTIMORE, MD 21225
restrictions, easements, and all other recorded instruments Trust referenced above, and subject to ratification by the ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 26th day of
to be $250,000.00.
superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and subject Court. ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements thereon situated in CHARLES COUNTY, MD and more fully February, 2024, provided a copy Scott A. Poyer
to ratification by the Court thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and described in above referenced Deed of Trust. of this notice be inserted in a
daily newspaper printed in said
Circuit Court For
Anne Arundel County, MD.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $30,000.00 or more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust. The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and County, once in each of three Jan 29,Feb 5,12 2024 0012450267
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $15,000.00 or 10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash THE PROPERTY IS SUBJECT TO PRIOR MORTGAGES. subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record successive weeks before the
26th day of February, 2024. The
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind. Report of Sale states the amount IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record Terms of Sale: A deposit $30,000.00 will be required at the of the foreclosure sale price to
be $246,000.00.
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind. time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR BY James E. Clarke, et al.
or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be Terms of Sale: A deposit $30,000.00 will be required at CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Balance Mahasin El Amin 723
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Substitute Trustees
may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of Prince George’s County, Versus
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is to be paid in cash within 30 days of final ratification of the OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for CHARLES Maryland
to be paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the sale by the Court. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the Feb 5,12,19 2024 0012450181 Andrew Hughes AKA
Andrew William Hughes
sale by the Court. ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the Kelly Lee Honeyman
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to settle PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s risk and expense. Defendants
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to settle within the aforesaid thirty (30) days of the ratification, the purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be The purchaser waives personal service and accepts service No. C-02-CV-23-001751
within the aforesaid sixty (60) days of the ratification, the purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable attorney forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s by first class mail and certified mail addressed to the NOTICE
purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable attorney fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service address provided by said Purchaser as identified on the
fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if the Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or Show Cause Order Notice is hereby issued this
Monday, January 22, 2024 that
the Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as incident to this sale including a Motion to Default Purchaser the sale of the property in the
Court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal service of any paper filed with the Court in connection identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or and for Resale of the Property. In the event of a resale, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
proceedings mentioned, made
and reported by James E. Clarke,
service of any paper filed with the Court in connection with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to receive PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Substitute Trustee BE RATIFIED
with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the any benefit from the resale, including, but not limited to, MARYLAND AND CONFIRMED, unless cause
to the contrary thereof be shown
Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be additional proceeds or surplus which may arise therefrom. CARRIE M. WARD, et al. on or before the 21st day of
paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including, Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
February 2024 next; provided,
a copy of this Notice be inserted
the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, in some newspaper published in
on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid the date funds are received by the Substitute Trustees. There vs.
Anne Arundel County, once in
each of three successive weeks
of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust will be no abatement of interest in the event additional before the 21st day of February
purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received funds are tendered at the time of sale or any time prior to SURIYA ABUBEKER
5900 Arbroath Drive
2024 next. The report states that
the amount of sale of the proper-
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that actual receipt of the certified mail is not required for service by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement settlement or if the settlement is delayed for any reason. Clinton, MD 20735 ty at 212 BRAXTON WAY, #212,
actual receipt of the certified mail is not required for service to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at In the event that the Secured Party executes a forbearance Defendant(s). EDGEWATER MD 21037 to be
$358,053.00.
to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees and all expenses the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the agreement with the borrower(s) described in the above- Case No.C-16-CV-23-004255
deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees and all expenses of this sale (including attorney fees and full commission settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to NOTICE
Scott A. Poyer
Circuit Court For
of this sale (including attorney fees and full commission on the gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan, Anne Arundel County, MD.
on the gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust, prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee’s Notice is hereby given this 24th
day of January, 2024, by the Jan 29,Feb 5,12 2024 0012449730
against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate prior knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and Circuit Court for Prince George’s
853
of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be the County, Maryland, that the sale
of the property mentioned in Calvert County
any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of the property regardless of any improvements made to the the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall return of the deposit without interest. Purchaser shall pay these proceedings and de-
the property regardless of any improvements made to the real property. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole for documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement scribed as 5900 Arbroath Drive,
Clinton, MD 20735, made
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR
real property. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest. expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, condominium fees and reported by the Substitute CALVERT COUNTY,
money at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/ Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
MARYLAND
the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of the Trustees. In the event that the settlement is and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, assessments payable on an annual basis, including contrary thereof be shown on Diane S. Rosenberg, et al
office of the Trustees. In the event that the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, there shall be no condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, or before the 26th day of Feb-
ruary, 2024, provided a copy of
4340 East West Highway
Suite 600
delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent, condominium fees public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed this NOTICE be inserted in some Bethesda, MD 20814
abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/ including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible daily newspaper printed in said Substitute Trustees
county, once in each of three Plaintiff(s)
and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/ assessments payable on an annual basis, including if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser successive weeks before the
assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the 26th day of February, 2024. v.
The report states the purchase
sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the date of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee(s) are unable price at the Foreclosure sale to John W. Huggins
to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to to convey insurable title for any reason, the purchaser(s) be $293,000.00. 8199 Cardinal Lane
Lusby, MD 20657
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to a refund Mahasin El Amin Defendant(s)
responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any of the aforementioned deposit without interest. In the event Clerk, Circuit Court for
Prince George’s County, Case No. C-04-CV-23-000376
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement. Purchaser shall be responsible for physical possession of reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall the sale is not ratified for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole Maryland 723
Purchaser shall be responsible for physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without NOTICE
BWW#MD-359314 Notice is hereby given this 24th
the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason, interest. (File # 17-700058) day of January, 2024 by the Cir-
date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit by the Mortgage holder to determine whether the borrower the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
Feb 5,12,19 2024 0012450177
cuit Court for Calvert County,
Maryland, that the sale of 8199
by the Mortgage holder to determine whether the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/forbearance the deposit without interest. (File # 22-006304) JAMES E. CLARKE, Cardinal Lane Lusby, MD
filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the sale. In any HUGH J. GREEN, 20657, made and reported, will
be ratified and confirmed, unless
agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees that upon notification by JAMES E. CLARKE, CHRISTINE M. DREXEL, cause to the contrary thereof be
such event the Purchaser agrees that upon notification by the Trustees of such event the sale is null and void and of CHRISTINE M. DREXEL, BRIAN THOMAS, shown on or before the 23rd day
of February, 2024, provided a
the Trustees of such event the sale is null and void and of no legal effect and the deposit returned without interest. JOANNA FORONDA, SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES copy of this notice be inserted in
no legal effect and the deposit returned without interest. Trustees’ File No 21-003829 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES a daily newspaper printed in said
County, once in each of three
Trustees’ File No 15-900009 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR successive weeks before the
JAMES E. CLARKE AND HUGH J. GREEN, PRlNCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, 23rd day of February, 2024. The
JAMES E. CLARKE, AND RENEE DYSON , SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES MARYLAND Report of Sale states the amount
of the foreclosure sale price to
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES CARRIE M. WARD, et al. be $26,792.92.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852 Kathy P. Smith
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, Clerk of the Circuit Court
Jan 22,29,Feb 5 2024 0012447757 Calvert County, Maryland
Jan 22,29,Feb 5 2024 0012446945 851 851
vs. Feb 5,12,19 2024 0012450165

Prince Georges County Prince Georges County TIMOTHY L. PARKS MARYLAND

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT CHAKEYA R. FORD
Jan 29,Feb 5,12,19 2024 0012448101 PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, FOR THE COUNTY OF
PRINCE GEORGE’S,
5315 Redd Lane
Temple Hills, MD 20748
Roommates
MARYLAND
Jan 29,Feb 5,12,19 2024 0012448171 MARYLAND Defendant(s).
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 WILLIAM M. SAVAGE, et al. Case No.C-16-CV-23-003228 COLLEGE PARK/LANHAM - 2BR
ORLANS PC Rockville, MD 20852
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
Trustee(s)Plaintiff(s)
NOTICE
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1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310 vs.
LEESBURG, VA 20175 vs.
ANNIS CREESE
Notice is hereby given this
17th day of January, 2024, Fort Washington, MD-Nr Nat'l Harbor.
703-777-7101 SANDRA L. SMALLWOOD Defendant(s) by the Circuit Court for Prince Private bedroom. All util, cable &
3702 43rd Avenue Mortgagor(s) George’s County, Maryland, that int incl. Fully furn. VETS WELCOME.
Brentwood, MD 20722 the sale of the property men- $900/mo & up. Call 703-362-0505
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE Defendant(s). CIVIL NO: C-16-CV-23-003391 tioned in these proceedings and
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY described as 5315 Redd Lane,
Temple Hills, MD 20748, made
ORLANS PC 11209 Basswood Terrace Case No.C-16-CV-23-003138 NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this and reported by the Substitute
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310 Laurel, MD 20708 NOTICE 24th day of January, 2024 by Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND HYATTSVILLE - Furn room $160/wk
Leesburg, VA 20175 ORLANS PC the Circuit Court for the County
of Prince George’s, Maryland
CONFIRMED, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown
or $600/month+security.
Notice is hereby given this 25th Incl all util inc cable. Near Metro.
(703) 777-7101 1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310 Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from day of January, 2024, by the and by the authority thereof, on or before the 19th day of No pets. 301-675-2016
Leesburg, VA 20175 CHRISLEEN M. DIXON, dated June 21, 2010 and recorded in Circuit Court for Prince George’s that the sale made by William February, 2024, provided a copy
245
555 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW, APT. 1311, (703) 777-7101 Liber 31922, folio 365 among the Land Records of PRINCE
County, Maryland, that the sale
of the property mentioned in
M. Savage, Gregory N. Britto,
Trustees, of the Real Property
of this NOTICE be inserted in
some daily newspaper printed Electronics
WASHINGTON DC 20001 GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default having occurred thereunder these proceedings and de-
scribed as 3702 43rd Avenue,
designated as 1015 Drum Ave,
Capitol Heights, MD 20743,
in said County, once in each of
three successive weeks before Switch to DISH and get up to a $300
1358 MADISON STREET NW, WASHINGTON DC 20011 (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.CAEF22-20225; Tax Brentwood, MD 20722, made and reported in the above enti- the 19th day of February, 2024. gift card! Plus get the Multisport
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of ID No.10-1053271 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at public and reported by the Substitute
Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND
tled cause, will be finally ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to
The report states the purchase
price at the Foreclosure sale to
pack included for a limited time!
Hurry, call for details:
Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case 2023-CAB-002278, the In execution of the Superior Court for the District of auction at the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE, CONFIRMED, unless cause to the the contrary thereof be shown be $301,000.00. 1-855-407-6870
undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property known Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case 2023-CAB-003449 the located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE contrary thereof be shown on on or before the 26th day of Feb-
265
as 555 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW, APT. 1311, WASHINGTON undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772, on
or before the 26th day of Feb-
ruary, 2024, provided a copy of
ruary 2024 next; provided a copy
of this order be inserted in THE
Mahasin El Amin
Clerk, Circuit Court for Home & Garden
DC 20001 at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY known as 1358 MADISON STREET NW WASHINGTON DC this NOTICE be inserted in some WASHINGTON POST, 1150 15th Prince George’s County,
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27, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated in 440, Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On FEBRUARY ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements The report states the purchase 26th day of February 2024.
Jan 22,29,Feb 5 2024 0012449460
today. 15% off Entire Purchase.
the District of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 27, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and price at the Foreclosure sale to The report states the amount of 10% Senior & Military Discounts.
Call 1-844-566-3227.
be $332,000.00. the sale to be $189,000.00.
2221 AND 2398 AND Square 0484, and more particularly in the District of Columbia, and designated as and being more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust. 610
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within the aforesaid thirty (30) days of the ratification, the the aforesaid forty-five (45) days of the ratification, the purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust by the Circuit Court for Prince
George’s County, Maryland, that NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this of the property mentioned in
purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable attorney Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received the sale of the property men- 24th day of January, 2024 by the these proceedings and de-
Circuit Court for the County of scribed as 3600 26th Avenue,
attorney fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement tioned in these proceedings and
Prince George’s, Maryland and Temple Hills, MD 20748, made
described as 15901 Perkins
if the Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the the Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at Lane, Bowie, MD 20716, made by the authority thereof, that the and reported by the Substitute
sale made by William M. Savage, Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND
Court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal Court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the and reported by the Substitute
Gregory N. Britto, Trustees, of CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND
service of any paper filed with the Court in connection service of any paper filed with the Court in connection settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the CONFIRMED, unless cause to the the Real Property designated as contrary thereof be shown on
7905 Crows Nest Court, Unit or before the 19th day of Feb-
with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the contrary thereof be shown on
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or before the 26th day of Feb-
Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust, ruary, 2024, provided a copy of reported in the above entitled this NOTICE be inserted in some
cause, will be finally ratified and daily newspaper printed in said
paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate this NOTICE be inserted in some
confirmed, unless cause to the County, once in each of three
daily newspaper printed in said
the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded on the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without contrary thereof be shown on successive weeks before the
the documents executed by the purchaser at the time of the on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
County, once in each of three
successive weeks before the or before the 26th day of Febru-
ary 2024 next; provided a copy
19th day of February, 2024.
The report states the purchase
INSURANCE
sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the purchaser of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
26th day of February, 2024.
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the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without Plaintiff(s)
office of the Trustees. In the event that the settlement is office of the Trustees. In the event that the settlement is interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason, vs. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
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date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit Gregory N. Britto, Trustees, of
the Real Property designated as
ORDERED this 17th day of Janu-
ary, 2024 by the Circuit Court for
by the Mortgage holder to determine whether the borrower by the Mortgage holder to determine whether the borrower 5404 Chesterfield Dr, Temple Prince George’s County, Mary-
filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/forbearance filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/forbearance Hills, MD 20748, and reported
in the above entitled cause, will
land, that the sale of the prop-
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reported Diana C. Theologou,
thereof be shown on or before
the Trustees of such event the sale is null and void and of the Trustees of such event the sale is null and void and of
Give the
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Hockey rivals unite, advocate for mental health awareness

Before their big game, Landon and Georgetown Prep share a dinner to honor a friend and former teammate who took his own life
BY A ARON C REDEUR
moments before the puck was
dropped to begin a game between
Landon and Georgetown Prep on
friday at Rockville Ice Arena, an
announcement rang through the
speakers, quieting the crowd as
players from both teams formed a
circle on the ice.
“You never know how someone
is really doing until you ask
them,” the public address an-
nouncer said, “and that’s really
important — just letting people
know you are there for them and
knowing they are there for you.”
Setting aside their rivalry for a
few moments, the Bears and Lit-
tle Hoyas — each sporting “Shoul-
der Check” patches on their jer-
seys — put their hands on a
neighboring shoulder as part of a
campaign to reduce the stigma
associated with vulnerability.
The moment, sponsored by
Shoulder Check, an initiative ad-
vocating for mental health
awareness particularly among
hockey players and other stu-
dent-athletes, was brief but effec-
tive. Rowdy students in the
bleachers went silent and joined
the players making commitments
to “reach out, check in, make
contact.”
for Reid Pehrkon of Landon
and Dillon moneypenny of
Georgetown Prep, it was more
than an abstract promise. It was a
way to honor the legacy of a
friend and former teammate,
Hayden Thorsen, who took his
own life in 2022. He was 16.
“He was the biggest guy I’d
ever seen,” Pehrkon said, “but he
was a teddy bear.”
“Hayden was just a light for
me,” said moneypenny, a junior
right wing. “Whenever I really
had anything that I wanted to
talk about or that I felt like I
couldn’t talk about with anyone
else, Hayden was the first person
that I’d go to.”
moneypenny met Thorsen
while playing baseball in elemen-
tary school in Brooklyn before
they joined the same club hockey
team; Pehrkon encountered him
commuting to New Jersey and
Connecticut for games in middle
school. Ever since Thorsen’s fa-
ther, Rob, founded the HT40
foundation in the wake of his
son’s death — Hayden wore
No. 40 on the ice — both have
been core members of the organi-
zation that started the Shoulder
Check initiative, helping to plan
events and searching for oppor-
tunities to bring the message to
their high school communities.
for friday, Pehrkon and mon-
eypenny took inspiration from
Shoulder Check’s launch show-
case, a fundraising scrimmage in
Stamford, Conn., in August that
brought together NHL players
including New York Rangers for-
ward Chris Kreider, Anaheim
Ducks forward Trevor Zegras and
florida Panthers goalie Spencer
Knight.
first, they would need buy-in
from coaches and teammates.
After getting approval from
school administrators, Pehrkon
and moneypenny worked with
Rob Thorsen to arrange a dinner
the night before the game in
Rockville, where both teams
could learn about the initiative
and hear Hayden’s story.
Amid the awkwardness of
sharing a meal with his biggest
rivals, moneypenny went to the
microphone to talk about who
Hayden was, how excited his
youth hockey coach was to have
such a big guy in the net and how
supportive Hayden was to any-
one in need.
Pehrkon went up next. fight-
ing back tears, he called on his
teammates and opponents to be-
come the kind of presence
Hayden was on and off the ice.
finally, Rob Thorsen explained
the significance of the Shoulder
Check, which is meant to go
beyond a simple “How’s it going?”
by encouraging authentic con-
nection and conversations about
mental health.
“We received tons and tons of
letters and anecdotes and stories
that were shared mostly from
Hayden’s friends,” Rob Thorsen
said. “And a lot of the letters
asked the same question: Who’s
going to do what Hayden did for
us now that he’s gone? . . . He was
just a hands-on-shoulder guy. He
was a bring-people-together guy.”
for Landon Coach Alex Parker,
who also spoke at the dinner,
hearing Pehrkon talk to his team-
mates about mental health was
important.
“I think they’re really proud of
Reid,” Parker said. “. . . for him to
be that vulnerable and open up
about his experiences with
Hayden and why the organiza-
tion’s important to him . . . it was
something that hit home for the
boys, and I think they certainly
rallied around that.”
Eventually, it was time to hit
the ice. What started as a moment
to check in with friends quickly
turned into an opportunity to
body-check rivals.
The Bears (11-2-2) put up two
early goals, but the Little Hoyas
(8-5-1) took control in the second
period to tie the score.
midway through the third,
with his team up by one and on
the power play, Pehrkon found an
angle and scored to ice a 4-2
Landon win.
As much as the result was
important in the mid-Atlantic
Prep Hockey League standings,
Pehrkon and moneypenny ac-
knowledged the bigger reasons
that brought their teams togeth-
er.
“When I was first dealing with
everything [after Hayden’s
death], finding someone to talk to
you, it’s really hard,” moneypenny
said. “And I kind of had to get past
that mental barrier of, you know,
how can I find someone to talk to
without in my mind always think-
ing, ‘oh, I’m so weak for doing
this’?”
“I’m hoping that our commu-
nity here in the D.C. area is able to
get that idea,” Pehrkon said, “that
it’s okay not to be okay.”

candace Buckner featured her as the brightest star student section geared up every cutting teammate, one of her role models. People look up to
in college basketball over the time Clark touched the ball, but 12 assists, that led to an open us,” Clark said. “Young girls,

To understand Clark’s impact, past two years.

Clark’s games have been more
even in its chorus of boos was
the throb of anticipation. It was
layup from the left block, the
father turned to his little girl and
young boys, no matter who they
are, I think the thing I would just

look at the faces in the crowd

buckner fRom D1
attendance, completely normal.
far greater than Clark adding
38 points to her total and
moving within 66 points of
becoming the leading scorer in
NCAA women’s basketball
history was her chiseling yet
another inch from the barrier
that obscures the women’s game
from mainstream audiences.
When Clark, a senior who still
has one year of eligibility
remaining, decides to walk away
from her stately seat in college,
she will leave a trail of logo
threes, delicious dimes and
eloquent news conferences that
should be imitated by the ballers
to come. members of the next
generation have the template. All
they have to do is watch.
fox did a solid for its college
basketball viewing audience by
bumping the game to a prime-
time slot. The network even
dedicated a camera that followed
Clark as she created her latest
masterpiece and live-streamed it
on TikTok — Ohmygah did she
get her first touch of the game
beyond the cursive script of
“Gary Williams Court” and then
take one dribble into a deep
three over the outstretched hand
of Lavender Briggs?! fire emoji!
Next Sunday, when fox airs
Iowa’s game at Nebraska, Clark
will serve as an appetizing
prelude to the Super Bowl. Then,
three of her five remaining
regular season games will be
streamed on Peacock. As tennis
star frances Tiafoe, who
switched up his schedule so he
could watch Clark from a
courtside seat Saturday, summed
it up: “She’s box office.” Networks
understand this and have
accessible than the college work
of Kelsey Plum, who set the
scoring record in 2017 while at
Washington. Plum was and is an
amazing player. But her time did
not meet this moment, when
there’s more attention on
women’s sports. Same for
Sabrina Ionescu. Same for Sue
Bird. And Diana Taurasi,
Candace Parker, Carol
Blazejowski. And those USC
legends whose greatness can be
seen only in standard definition:
Lisa Leslie, Cheryl miller and
Cynthia Cooper.
So while it might seem like
recency bias to crown Clark, in
this case, give her her flowers.
Call her the greatest. And as
we’re enjoying her singular
talent, understand how one
woman can positively impact a
whole generation.
for many old heads in the
building, Saturday night felt
bigger than a game, like the
atmosphere we have seen only in
men’s basketball. The maryland
a boo that wanted to say much
more: We kind of have to hate
you because you’re not a Terp
and stuff, but you’re literally the
reason we’re here on this
Saturday night.
I had to watch myself from
committing fits of uncontrolled
violence against my colleague
and seat neighbor Kareem
Copeland. You’re not supposed to
cheer from press row, kids, and I
kept my dignity. But when Clark
came downcourt in the closing
seconds of the first half, hit ’em
with a behind-the-back dribble
to her left, then spun from the
top of the key to her right,
stepped through and banked in a
shot while getting fouled, I might
have turned and grabbed
Copeland, needing to brace
myself because that move nearly
pulled me out of my seat.
I watched a dad react to
another play; thankfully for his
daughter, his response was a bit
more understated. When Clark
delivered a bounce pass to a
shook his head. maybe it was in
disbelief because she makes the
game look so easy, so pure, so fun
— and, at times, so pouty. many
times, Clark acts like your
favorite NBA player,
complaining about fouls and no-
calls. Alas, witnessing greatness
also means witnessing human
frailty.
After the game, as she entered
the cramped interview room,
two uniformed, armed police
officers from Iowa escorted her.
They follow her everywhere. Her
celebrity has grown, so cautious
protection has become
necessary. But as she sat and
fielded questions about being
someone for kids to look up to
and growing the women’s game
— how many other college
athletes have to tackle such
meaty topics? — Clark seemed at
ease in embracing her power.
“That’s one of the privileges in
being in the position that I am —
that I get to be a role model and
our whole entire team gets to be
say to them is the same thing I’ve
said all my career: Just dream
big. I came to Iowa with huge
aspirations, and now I’m getting
to play in front of 15,000-plus
every single night, and that’s so
cool. Those are moments that
you can really only dream of, and
now I’m living it every single day
of my life, and that’s really
special.”
one day, maybe it doesn’t have
to be so special because the next
Caitlin Clark — and the next and
the next and the next — will have
learned from her and then
elevated the game even higher.
Everything we witnessed in
College Park — the downtown
threes, the energizing runs of a
highly competitive game played
in front of loud and passionate
fans — will be the standard.
Clark’s greatest impact will be
felt five, 10, 20 years from now,
when we’re not going gaga over a
moment. It will be just another
great night in women’s
basketball.

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