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In Israel, Gunmen
doubling
down on storm
defiance Moscow
Leaders’ rebuke of U.S. concert
warning not to invade
Rafah is latest example at least 40 killed,
over 100 injured
M ICHAEL B IRNBAUM,
BY
K AREN D E Y OUNG, ISIS claims responsibility
L OUISA L OVELUCK for deadly attack
AND M IRIAM B ERGER

TEL AVIV — secretary of state BY F RANCESCA E BEL

Antony Blinken and Israeli lead-
ers confronted each other Friday
about the future of the war in
Gaza, with the top U.s. diplomat
urging Israel not to invade a city
packed with civilians, and Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin netan-
yahu defiantly declaring that
“we’ll do it by ourselves.”
The tense back-and-forth — on
the same day that Israel’s far-
right finance minister an-
nounced the seizure of three
square miles of Palestinian terri-
tory in the West Bank — marked
the latest show of Israeli defiance
in the face of U.s. demands that it
reduce civilian suffering in Gaza
and move toward a two-state
solution.
The exchange came at the end
of Blinken’s trip to the region and
appeared to signal that Israeli
leaders have little interest in
moderating their actions in Gaza,
despite increasingly sharp criti-
cism from their main military
backer and ally.
According to the Gaza Health
see gaza On a11
Partisan divide: Republicans in
Congress embrace Netanyahu. A6
Israel’s assurances: U.S. weighs
claims of compliance on arms. A10
ELECTION 2024
AP
a law enforcement officer stands outside Crocus City Hall in moscow amid a massive blaze on Friday, when the deadliest terrorist
attack in russia for over a decade left dozens dead or injured. more than 50 ambulance teams had been deployed to the concert venue.
After absence, Catherine shares cancer diagnosis
shock,” Catherine said in a prere-
Revelation follows weeks corded message posted on X and
broadcast on the BBC.
of speculation over her “William and I have been do-
January surgery ing everything we can to process
and manage this privately for the
sake of our young family,” Cath-
erine said.
BY K ARLA A DAM, she said that after she under-
B RYAN P IETSCH went major abdominal surgery
AND J ENNIFER H ASSAN in January, she thought that her
condition was noncancerous.
LONDON — Catherine, Princess “The surgery was successful,
of Wales, announced in a person- however, tests after the opera-
AND M ARY I LYUSHINA
several gunmen opened fire
Friday night at Crocus City Hall, a
popular concert venue on the out-
skirts of Moscow, Russian state
news agencies reported. Dozens
of people were reported injured
or killed and the building was on
fire in the most deadly terrorist
attack in Russia for over a decade.
“People in camouflage, at least
three, burst into the ground floor
of the Crocus City Hall and
opened fire from automatic
weapons. There are definitely
wounded,” state news agency RIA
novosti reported, citing its corre-
spondent at the scene.
The terrorist group IsIs
claimed responsibility for the at-
tack, according to its news agen-
cy. A U.s. official, speaking on the
condition of anonymity to discuss
sensitive information, said the
United states had “no reason to
doubt” the claim.
“After that they threw a gre-
nade or an incendiary bomb,
which started a fire,” RIA novosti
added. “The people in the hall lay
down on the floor to escape the
shooting, and stayed there for
15-20 minutes, after which they
began to crawl out. Many man-
aged to get out.”
Videos, which were shared on
Russian Telegram channels and
verified by The Washington Post,
show four men in camouflage
entering a large marbled hall and
opening fire, and shooters firing

Stutter is a al video message Friday that she

has been diagnosed with cancer
BBC StUdioS/AP
tion found that cancer had been
see CanCEr On a12
rounds in a concert hall, thick
with smoke.

story both
and that she was in the early Other clips show scores of bod-
stages of chemotherapy. in a prerecorded message, Catherine, Princess of Wales, said that Monica Hesse: Kate shared her ies slumped on benches or the
The news came as a “huge she is in the early stages of preventive chemotherapy. health news. Happy now? C1 ground as well as a large fire

campaigns see mosCoW On a9

want to tell
Agent says DHS failed to shield her from abuse Roadblocks
possible as
BY M ATT V ISER

President Biden recently sent

Lawsuit filed after agency rejected sexual misconduct claims over explicit texts from supervisor
out a video of a meeting with a
9-year-old with a stutter, telling Senate takes
up spending
the young boy, “Don’t let anybody
tell you that you can’t do any- BY M ARIA S ACCHETTI about harassment by her super-
thing.” visor and other DHs employees,
He wrote about having “strug- NEWARK — emiljana Kodra felt after she filed a formal com-
gled with a stutter all my life,” an thrilled to land a job as a U.s. plaint with the agency. The de-
unusual nod to the ongoing nature
of his battle. And in interviews, he
immigration agent after serving
as a police officer in Baltimore,
partment said in a written deci-
sion last year that the text mes-
GOP could push vote
has spoken at length about the until one of her new supervisors sages appeared mutual and that on $1.2 trillion package
childhood trauma and embarrass-
ment of struggling to speak.
started texting her.
He asked what kind of under-
managers transferred Kodra af-
ter a female employee accused
past shutdown deadline
Donald Trump has mocked wear she wore. He wondered her of unprofessional conduct,
Biden in recent weeks by falsely about the warmth of her body. which Kodra denied in inter-
claiming that the president is stut- At the office, he allegedly views and court records. BY J ACOB B OGAGE
tering during his speeches, and he grabbed her, according to a feder- Labor lawyers say cases such
has parodied the purported stam- al lawsuit she filed against the as Kodra’s illustrate how diffi- The House approved a $1.2 tril-
mer on occasion, but Biden has Department of Homeland secu- cult it can be for workers to lion spending package Friday
been relying on a longtime center- rity. After she resisted him, Kodra pursue, let alone win, a harass- hours before a midnight govern-
piece of his personal and political said, she was transferred to one of ment complaint in the federal ment shutdown deadline, press-
biography, embracing it to sell U.s. Immigration and Customs government. employees must ing the senate against a ticking
himself as the candidate of com- enforcement’s least desirable as- show they were targeted clock to pass the measure and
passion for the 2024 presidential signments, inside a dingy new because of their sex and that the setting off reverberations that
rematch. Jersey detention center. treatment they experienced threatened the GOP’s brittle
The election may ultimately be “I would go home and tell my created a hostile work environ- House majority.
decided by sweeping issues like mom and cry,” Kodra, 43, said ment. even then, there is no The bill, which passed by a
the economy, immigration, abor- during a recent interview at a guarantee that a harasser will be 286-134 vote, would fund about
tion and democracy. But the early newark coffee shop. “I felt scared. disciplined. three-quarters of the federal gov-
phase has also been marked by a I felt disgusted.” Researchers say sexual ha- ernment for the next six months,
discussion, in ways both crass and DHs and ICe officials declined rassment is especially pervasive while also raising military pay,
subtle, of a far more personal topic to comment on Kodra’s allega- in law enforcement, where eliminating U.s. funding for the
— Biden’s stutter. That back-and- tions because the lawsuit is pend- women make up just 12 percent U.n. relief agency for Palestinians
forth reflects the candidates’ ing. ICe said the agency takes of sworn officers. The Depart- and bolstering security at the
sharply differing views of disabili- misconduct seriously and refers ment of Homeland security has U.s.-Mexico border.
ty and struggle, and their role in a allegations of improper behavior the largest law enforcement But its passage through the
divided political culture that can for possible internal investiga- population in the U.s. govern- SARAH BlESENER FoR tHE WASHiNGtoN PoSt House was more fraught than the
reward ridicule more than accep- tions. ment, and the lowest share of Emiljana Kodra at her home in new Jersey last month. vote total might appear: House
tance. Kodra filed the federal lawsuit female officers at 9.8 percent. Last year, the department of Homeland security found the speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)
see bidEn On a4 after DHs rejected her allegations see iCE On a7 text messages her supervisor sent her appeared mutual. see CongrEss On a14

in the news THE ECONOMy

in a new stage in the
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cials fear a repeat of pro- make weapons at home, people helping oligarchs during a hearing. B1 with presidential
poor and disabled Americans before levying Trump disruptions in despite a shortage of defy sanctions. A13 Jewish people in the sneakers? C1 CONTENT © 2024

huge fines on them, a report found. A4 Maricopa County. A3
debunking the most
no early exit In a letter, the D.C. attorney common false narratives
general said the Wizards and Capitals were surrounding birth con-
trol and IUDs. A5
legally stuck in the District until 2047. B1
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money and materials. A8 Lawmakers have re- area are struggling over The Washington Post
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Prince Harry and his ported violent threats how to observe Purim, sPORTs
allies expanded their from TikTok users who the celebration of a story The maryland women
blow a 20-point lead,
case against the Mur- are upset about a possi- many say has parallels
lose to Iowa State in the
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A2 EZ rE the washington post . saturday, march 23 , 2024

Federal workers protest arrest of firefighter by site of anti-government stando≠

Ricky Snodgrass, private land. its active effort to extinguish the should not have been singled out Yet, the Malheur connection Idaho “so that conservative
a U.S. Forest Around the same time, fire,” according to his defense . . .” and the political atmosphere are counties can become a part of a
Service fire Snodgrass called law brief. He was not indicted and Snodgrass’s arrest has his too obvious to ignore. red state.” Donald Trump, who
fighting “burn enforcement to report people arraigned until last month. colleagues wondering if being a In January 2016, armed, was not federal-employee
boss,” was literally harassing the fire crew by Now, Snodgrass’s lawyer, burn boss is worth the potential right-wing extremists, angry friendly when in the White
fighting fire with driving aggressively in an area Michelle Kerin, wants the case hassle. “With what happened to about government land House, won the county’s 2020
Federal fire on a warm with a history of strident moved to federal district court. If Snodgrass, there’s a lot of us just management practices, seized presidential election with
Insider afternoon in anti-government activity, that happens, it could lead to questioning the risk involved control of the Malheur National 76 percent of the vote. It’s a
Joe Malheur National including an armed takeover in dismissal of the charges. and if it’s worth it,” said Wildlife Refuge, leading to a sparsely populated place, with
davidson Forest when 2016 of the Malheur National In her federal court motion Jeremiah Marsh, a burn boss in 41-day standoff with federal only 7,200 people, in 4,528
things got hot. Wildlife Refuge. filed last week, Kerin argued that Wallowa County, in Oregon’s authorities, who shot and killed square miles, less than two
His crew was The aggressive actions against “because Mr. Snodgrass was northeast corner. Citing LaVoy Finicum, a spokesman for people per square mile.
executing an intentionally set Snodgrass’s crew, which followed acting in his official capacity as a anti-government attitudes, the occupiers. About 20 people Grant County and other
“prescribed fire” that land previous abrasive incidents in federal official . . . he is immune Marsh, a NFFE local vice were arrested, including leader Mountain West rural counties
management officials use to the area, included swerving in from prosecution based on the president representing Ammon Bundy, who was have a long history of
reduce natural, hazardous fuels front of wildland fire engines, Supremacy Clause” and is employees, including Snodgrass, notorious for his “substantial tension” with
that can feed more extreme and almost hitting a Forest entitled to have his case heard in in five national forests, said, “I anti-government activities. Washington, according to John
flames. Service four-wheeler, according federal court. really don’t like going down to Glenn Palmer, who was sheriff Kincaid, a professor of
Late afternoon on Oct. 19, to firefighters with knowledge of That part of the Constitution, Grant County.” at the time, expressed favor with government and public service at
2022, that controlled burn lost the incident. They did not want Section VI, says, according to a Grant County District the occupiers, calling them Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.
control to what his lawyers to be identified because of the Cornell Law School summary, Attorney Jim Carpenter declined “patriots,” and supported the In 1995, county voters approved
described as “sudden unforeseen sensitive nature of the ongoing “the federal constitution, and an interview request but did Bundy family, according to local a symbolic measure “prohibiting
high winds” and jumped the Izee case. federal law generally, take provide a news release issued by news reports. That fueled a the federal Bureau of Land
Highway north of Seneca, Ore., “There’s a very strong precedence over state laws, and his office shortly after the arrest. continuing sense of dissonance Management and Forest Service
scorching about 20 acres of anti-government sentiment in even state constitutions. It “To be clear,” it said, “the between federal and local from owning and managing
the part of what we refer to as prohibits states from interfering employer and/or position of authorities. federal lands within Grant
Eastern Oregon, where I live. It’s with the federal government’s Snodgrass will not protect him if McKinley, formerly a deputy County,” said Kincaid, who also is
KLMNO my home now,” said Eric Franta,
a National Federation of Federal
exercise of its constitutional
powers . . .”
it is determined that he acted
recklessly. That the USFS was
under Palmer, declined to
comment. He defeated Palmer in
a National Academy of Public
Administration fellow. “In 2002,
Employees (NFFE) steward who If the case moves to federal engaging in a prescribed burn 2020, saying, according to public the county asked Congress to
NEWSPAPER DELIVERY
For home delivery comments
has fought wildland flames for 17 court, Snodgrass could still be may actually raise, rather than broadcaster OPB, “I could see give the county title to all federal
or concerns contact us at fire seasons with the Forest tried, but with a state prosecutor lower the standard to which more and more that it [the lands,” which is about 60 percent
washingtonpost.com/subscriberservices or Service. “And particularly in arguing the case. Snodgrass will be held.” sheriff’s office] was going in a of Grant’s territory, in another
send us an email at Grant County, where the In a message to employees In an apparent reference to way that I could not support. . . . symbolic effort.
homedelivery@washpost.com or call Malheur is located.” soon after his arrest, Forest political tensions in the area, It appeared to me that it was just The Forest Service will
202-334-6100 or 800-477-4679 Although Snodgrass called the Service Chief Randy Moore said Carpenter added “many will serving certain individuals in the continue its work there, even if
TO SUBScRIBE cops, when Grant County Sheriff it “was highly inappropriate attempt to hype this into community, and not the entire some don’t appreciate it.
202-334-6100 Todd McKinley responded to the under these circumstances, and I something that it is not. The community.” “Our mission remains the
fire scene, he busted Snodgrass will not stand idly by without question is whether one Some small-government same,” said Wade Muehlhof, a
TO ADVERTISE for reckless burning, a class A fully defending the Burn Boss neighbor, given the prevailing advocates in that area back the Forest Service spokesman,
washingtonpost.com/mediakit
Classified: 202-334-6200
misdemeanor, while the flames and all employees carrying out conditions, was reckless when Greater Idaho campaign to move “regardless of where Forest
Display: 202-334-7642 continued — removing him their official duties as federal starting fires adjacent to another a large portion of Oregon, Service employees are
“from his crew in the middle of employees. This employee neighbor.” including Grant County, into performing their duties.”
MAIN PHONE NUMBER
202-334-6000
TO REAcH THE NEWSROOM
Metro: 202-334-7300;
metro@washpost.com
national: 202-334-7410;
‘It’s ruining my life’: O∞cials seize
national@washpost.com
Business: 202-334-7320;
business@washpost.com
alligator that man had for 3 decades
Sports: 202-334-7350;
sports@washpost.com ton Post that he’s fighting for said Albert accidentally bit his
Investigative: 202-334-6179;
investigations@washpost.com
Agency finds that owner Albert’s return and will make any
changes the state requires to live
hand while he was feeding the
alligator a chicken wing. Albert
Style: 202-334-7535; illegally allowed other with his “baby” again. felt so guilty that he stopped
style@washpost.com
people to pet Albert “It’s ruining my life,” said Cav-
allaro, 64. “I mean, I’m a mess
eating, Cavallaro said. After bad
days or breakups with his girl-
TO REAcH THE OPINION PAGES
and I’m breaking down.” friends, Cavallaro went home to
letters to the editor:
letters@washpost.com or call In the late 1980s, Cavallaro be with Albert.
202-334-6215 BY K YLE M ELNICK began collecting reptiles — “That makes me forget about Tony Cavallaro

opinion: geckos, chameleons and snakes everything else,” Cavallaro said. Albert had lived with Tony Cavallaro for nearly 34 years before last
oped@washpost.com Soon after New York officials — as a hobby. He attended a In 2016, Cavallaro spent about week, when New York environmental conservation officials took
Published daily (ISSn 0190-8286). began searching Tony Cavallaro’s reptile show in Columbus, Ohio, $115,000 on an additional room possession of the alligator that Cavallaro bought in August 1990.
PoSTMaSTEr: Send address changes to
The Washington Post, 1301 K St. nW, Washington,
house for dangerous animals last in August 1990, where baby alli- in his Hamburg, N.Y., home for
D.C. 20071. week, he learned that he would gators were on sale. Cavallaro Albert. He included a pool with a for a new one. But Cavallaro said said, environmental conserva-
Periodicals postage paid in Washington, D.C., and be separated from his best friend thought one alligator’s overbite waterfall and an exit ramp, in- that he needed to pay about tion officers told him they had a
additional mailing office.
of over three decades. and short snout were cute, so he floor heating and an under- $18,000 for a fence around his warrant to search his home.
The state’s Department of En- bought the 2-month-old. Cavalla- ground filter system. He decorat- yard and more for zoo insurance About 30 minutes later, Cavalla-
vironmental Conservation was ro named him Albert Edward so ed the room similarly to a golf to renew his permit. ro said the officers told him they
cO R R E c TI O NS seizing Cavallaro’s pet. Cavallaro his nickname would be Al E. course in Florida, where many Cavallaro said his friends would be taking Albert.
paced his kitchen while arguing Gator. American alligators live. He im- posed for pictures next to Albert. Since then, Cavallaro said, he
with officers, who he said barred Cavallaro obtained a permit plemented a fake palm tree and The environmental conservation has hardly slept and has lost his
The Washington Post is committed to him from watching his 11-foot, with the state environmental cut carpet into a makeshift put- department said in a statement appetite, causing him to lose a
correcting errors that appear in the 750-pound alligator be carried conservation department for ed- ting green, where Albert sleeps to The Post that allowing people dozen pounds. He said he cries
newspaper. Those interested in into a van. ucational purposes. He took Al- on pillows. to come into contact with an when he enters Albert’s room.
contacting the paper for that purpose
While most people choose bert to reptile shows at colleges, Many days, Albert savors sit- alligator is “prohibited and Cavallaro said he has contact-
can:
Email: corrections@washpost.com. dogs, cats or other small animals community centers and amuse- ting under the waterfall or by an grounds for license revocation ed friends across the state re-
call: 202-334-6000, and ask to be as pets, Cavallaro bought an ment parks, where Cavallaro dis- air jet. Cavallaro enjoys brushing and relocation of the animal.” questing help. A friend started
connected to the desk involved — alligator, Albert, at a reptile show played reptiles while teaching the bottom of Albert’s legs, where Cavallaro, who lives by him- an online petition, where more
national, Foreign, Metro, Style, Sports, in 1990. The duo provided each audiences about them. he’s ticklish, prompting Albert to self, said he would’ve made those than 121,000 people have asked
Business or any of the weekly sections. other company for nearly 34 Cavallaro brushed Albert’s smile and duck underwater to requested changes if he had for Albert to be returned to
Comments can be directed to The years, often by the indoor pool teeth and fed him chicken, pork escape. known the state agency would Cavallaro, who said he’s pursuing
Post’s reader advocate, who can be Cavallaro built for Albert. and cheese cubes. Cavallaro said Cavallaro even included Al- visit his home on March 13. a lawsuit against the state agen-
reached at 202-334-7582 or But the stage agency said in a Albert snipped at him as a baby bert in his will, asking that he be As he was driving home from cy.
readers@washpost.com.
statement that Cavallaro illegally but hasn’t acted aggressive in sent to an animal preserve in an errand at the post office, He said he can’t stop thinking
allowed people to pet Albert, so decades. Albert doesn’t even tear Fort Myers, Fla. Cavallaro said, he saw multiple about how scared Albert might
officers took the alligator to a his stuffed alligator and dinosaur After his state permit to own cars and vans on his street and in be in his new home.
“licensed caretaker.” toys. an alligator expired in 2021, Cav- his driveway. When he ap- “I miss him so much,” Cavalla-
Download The Cavallaro told The Washing- In the early 2000s, Cavallaro allaro said, he filed paperwork proached his house, Cavallaro ro said. “I can’t even explain it.”
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saturday, march 23 , 2024
Ahead of election, Ariz. county
braces for pro-Trump attacks
Maricopa officials fear
repeat of baseless claims
and threats from 2020
BYY VONNE W INGETT
S ANCHEZ
AND A DRIANA U SERO
PHOENIX — As the board of su-
pervisors for Arizona’s largest
county abruptly ended a meeting
late last month, a swarm of peo-
ple rushed toward the dais, shout-
ing that the members were illegit-
imate.
The Maricopa County leaders
made a beeline for a side door and
were swiftly escorted out of the
chamber by security guards, who
called for backup from the sher-
iff’s office. After the meeting’s live
feed went dead, a member of the
crowd yelled that a “revolution”
was underway.
“I’m here today to put you on
public notice and to inform you
that you are not our elected offi-
cials,” said Michelle Klann, co-
founder of a pro-Trump group,
from a podium she had comman-
deered. “This is an act of insurrec-
tion. Due to all the voter fraud,
you have never been formally
voted in.”
The scene at the Feb. 28 meet-
ing terrified many Maricopa em-
ployees and others who were re-
minded of what happened after
Joe Biden won the county — and,
with it, Arizona — in the 2020
presidential race. Back then,
Trump supporters used baseless
claims of fraud to try to pressure
or scare elected leaders into
changing the results for the met-
ro Phoenix county, which is home
to more than half of the state’s
residents.
Now with another presidential
election quickly approaching and
Arizona again likely to be central
to Donald Trump’s electoral strat-
egy, the incident late last month
has revived fears that officials
responsible for running Marico-
pa County elections will be target-
ed with a campaign of threats and
abuse — or worse.
Prosecutors won’t press charges in Oklahoma teen Nex Benedict’s death
BY M OLLY H ENNESSY- F ISKE
Prosecutors on Thursday an-
nounced that they will not file
criminal charges in connection
with the death of Nex Benedict, a
nonbinary student who died a
day after a fight last month at a
high school in suburban Tulsa.
Tulsa County District Attorney
Stephen Kunzweiler said in a
statement that after reviewing
the investigation by Owasso po-
lice into the 16-year-old’s death
on Feb. 8 and the Oklahoma
medical examiner’s attribution of
the death to suicide, he did not
think charges were warranted.
Neither report has been publicly
released.
Kunzweiler said that police did
not believe charges should be
filed and that he agreed.
The death of the Oklahoma
sophomore, who used they/them
pronouns and had told family
they were bullied, sparked na-
tional outrage, particularly from
LGBTQ+ advocacy groups. One of
the groups complained to the U.S.
Education Department, which is
investigating allegations of dis-
crimination and sex-based ha-
rassment in violation of federal
law at Owasso High School.
The Human Rights Campaign
A candlelight vigil to honor Nex Benedict, 16, is held last month at As You Are Bar, a safe place for the
LGBTQ+ community in D.C. Benedict, who identified as nonbinary, died after a fight at their school.
. the washington post
Politics & the Nation
“This was an organized, coor-
dinated attack,” one top county
official said, speaking on the con-
dition of anonymity to discuss
sensitive security matters. “It was
a dress rehearsal for the election.”
Since the 2020 vote, the Mari-
copa supervisors — most of whom
are Republicans — have faced
relentless public ridicule, false
accusations and death threats for
signing off on the results and
refusing to go along with Trump’s
efforts to overturn the outcome.
Trump’s razor-thin loss of the
state — a mere 10,457 votes of
nearly 3.4 million cast — thrust its
most important battleground
county into the heart of national
efforts to undermine confidence
in elections.
Arizona voters in 2022 narrow-
ly defeated Republican candi-
dates for governor and other
statewide offices who made elec-
tion denialism a centerpiece of
their campaigns. The issue re-
mains a major animating force
for the state’s GOP, and Republi-
can lawmakers have gone so far as
to try to break up Maricopa in a
move widely seen as retribution
for the county’s role in Trump’s
defeat.
Maricopa supervisors have be-
come accustomed to the crowds
of people who heckle and dispar-
age them in public meetings, a
tactic that has played out since
the 2020 vote in localities around
the nation, from California to
Texas. In response to escalating
disruptions, Maricopa officials
have recently become more ag-
gressive in ordering out unruly
attendees or adjourning sessions
early to try to avoid viral confron-
tations.
But the chaotic ending to last
month’s meeting marked for
some a new level of menace — one
reminiscent of the tone preceding
the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
Capitol — and illustrated the
lengths to which Trump’s sup-
porters are willing to go in dis-
rupting public proceedings.
Trump’s fraud claims were de-
bunked long ago, but his most
ardent backers remain uncon-
vinced.
“There are people who have
also asked the U.S. Justice De-
partment to investigate in the
wake of Benedict’s death, but it
has yet to intervene. Kelley Rob-
inson, the organization’s presi-
dent, on Thursday repeated the
group’s demand for an independ-
ent investigation into the teen’s
death.
“Nex was failed by their school,
and failed by every elected official
who allowed a culture of bullying
and harassment to grow un-
checked,” Robinson said in a
statement, demanding “a full and
complete investigation” into the
district, the state’s Education De-
partment and “the response after
Nex was attacked.”
“We won’t stop until there is
justice for Nex and for all kids —
in Oklahoma and beyond,” she
said.
Kunzweiler, a Republican, did
not mention in his statement that
Benedict was nonbinary or ac-
knowledge anti-LGBTQ+ bully-
ing. Gov. Kevin Stitt (R), Okla-
homa Superintendent of Public
Instruction Ryan Walters and
several lawmakers have champi-
oned anti-LGBTQ+ legislation
and policies. More than 50 anti-
LGBTQ+ bills have been pro-
posed in the state legislature this
year, more than any other state,
believed those messages — as
false as they are — and are believ-
ing that they need to take action,”
said Tammy Patrick, the chief
executive for programs at the
National Association of Election
Officials.
In the case of last month’s
meeting, the action taken ended
peacefully. Outnumbered, county
security staff members waited for
sheriff’s deputies as they calmly
ushered out the approximately
20-person crowd. No arrests were
made.
Before the board met again in
public March 13, supervisors re-
hearsed emergency evacuation
drills, according to people famil-
iar with the training who spoke
on the condition of anonymity as
they were not allowed to talk
about security measures publicly.
Video cameras were added to
the chamber, and about a dozen
uniformed and undercover law
enforcement officers or security
guards stood watch during the
meeting. Sheriff ’s deputies
swarmed outside and, away from
public view, members of a SWAT
team had gathered in case they
were needed. The board cor-
doned off rows of seats closest to
the dais and required that speak-
ers during the public comment
period be escorted to the micro-
phone.
The most popular portion of
the meeting — a pet showcase
that helps to match homeless
dogs with new owners — took
place virtually to reduce activity
in the chamber and keep employ-
ees safe.
“Please know that this is done
to protect your safety as well as
ours,” Jack Sellers (R), chairman
of the board, told the crowd,
speaking of the new security mea-
sures.
Outside the meeting, Klann
and others asserted without evi-
dence that the county board rep-
resented foreign interests — not
constituents of Maricopa County.
Klann declined to answer ques-
tions.
The crowd that confronted
county leaders on Feb. 28 includ-
ed supporters of a new Arizona-
based anti-government group
according to the American Civil
Liberties Union.
Kunzweiler’s use of the stu-
dent’s birth name, or “dead-
name,” at the start of his state-
ment drew fire from an LGBTQ+
advocacy group.
“A statement that deadnames a
trans victim as its opening sen-
tence is one that clearly indicates
the brand of justice doled out by
DA Kunzweiler’s office,” said Ni-
cole McAfee, executive director of
Freedom Oklahoma.
McAfee said her group was
awaiting results of the federal
Education Department investiga-
tion. “We deserve the safety to
learn here, to thrive here. We
deserve truth, transparency, and
justice,” McAfee said. “We stand
in solidarity with those seeking
honest answers to what hap-
pened to Nex.”
Jordan Korphage, a spokes-
man for Owasso Public Schools,
said it had no comment on the
district attorney’s decision.
The fight happened Feb. 7. The
next morning, the 16-year-old col-
lapsed at home and died within
hours at a hospital. Last week,
Oklahoma’s medical examiner re-
leased a single-page summary of
Benedict’s autopsy report, which
listed the cause of death as sui-
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From left, Jack Sellers, Thomas Galvin, Bill Gates and Clint Hickman conduct a Maricopa County
Board of Supervisors meeting in Phoenix in November 2022.
that Klann co-founded called the affirmed Biden’s win. “Every single two weeks we try
Peoples Operation Restoration. “We’d like them replaced,” said to do this here,” Galvin told the
The group’s website features a Brenda Ireton, a pro-Trump Re- attendees. “This is the people’s
painting of Trump dressed as a publican who said she views the business — we represent 4.5 mil-
Founding Father and riding a board as “corrupt” and “bought lion people in this county. You
horse. and paid for” by unknown inter- don’t get to control what people
Citing false claims that the ests. get to hear.”
2020 election was stolen and Inside the chamber, the board Amid another fraught election
challenges to the validity of U.S. moved quickly through its agen- season, county leaders are draft-
laws and structures, supporters da. When the pro-Trump activists ing rules for public meetings as a
have shown up to Maricopa meet- entered, about 15 minutes after way to try to force civility — and
ings and offices in recent weeks the meeting had begun, at least make clear the consequences for
delivering paperwork that falsely one of them live-streamed on a those who disrupt the board’s
claims leaders are illegitimate phone while another carried pro- work, according to three people
and have broken the law. fessional-looking camera gear. As familiar with the discussions. The
Klann and supporters gained the meeting entered a period county must vote on any pro-
attention for a similar effort reserved for public comment, the posed rules before they take ef-
waged against school boards group’s members began to loudly fect, possibly within the next two
around the nation involving pan- complain that they were not al- months.
demic-era public health mea- lowed to speak. They had missed The rules could become critical
sures, said Katie McCarthy, an the deadline — 10 minutes after to the board’s ability to perform
investigative researcher for the the meeting had started — to its duties, including the approval
Anti-Defamation League’s Center submit paperwork to do so. of election results. Supervisor Bill
on Extremism. The strategy, she As the meeting barreled to an Gates (R) declined to speak about
said, had served as a “harassing end and supervisors spoke about the proposed rules, but said that
intimidation tactic” that is now community events in their dis- he appreciated the board chair-
being echoed in the election deni- tricts, the shouting began. Super- man’s work behind the scenes to
al movement in Arizona. visor Thomas Galvin (R) thanked try to balance First Amendment
Some in the group that gath- officers in the room for protecting rights with the board’s attempts
ered outside the chamber on them. to do its work without disruption.
Wednesday said they did not rec- “You’re an insurrectionist,” a “In a year filled with what’s
ognize the county supervisors’ woman jeered. expected to be difficult meetings,”
authority because they do not Galvin shot back: “Your per- said Gates, who has been the
believe the results of the 2020 formance is noted.” The board target of particularly intense at-
election. They said they came to chair stepped in, warning those tacks, “it’s important to be able to
know one another during the disrupting the meeting that he maintain control.”
post-2020 review of 1.1 million would have them removed if they
ballots in metro Phoenix, which continued shouting. Usero reported from Washington.
cide due to a lethal combination parents indicated that Benedict review a report and make a deci-
of an antidepressant and antihis- reported being picked upon for sion to file a charge I must be
tamine. Benedict’s family has dis- various reasons while at school,” convinced — as is every prosecu-
puted that finding, citing passag- he wrote. tor — that a crime was commit-
es from the full autopsy report Kunzweiler did not quote from ted.”
that noted Benedict suffered the suicide notes, saying the con- In this case, he wrote, “From all
head trauma and other injuries. tents are “a personal matter” for of the evidence gathered, this
Kunzweiler wrote in his state- the family to address. fight was an instance of mutual
ment Thursday that police recov- The family’s attorney, Jacob combat.”
ered “brief notes, written by Ben- Biby, did not immediately re- “I do not have a reasonable
edict, which appeared to be relat- spond to a request for comment belief that the state of Oklahoma
ed to the suicide.” about Kunzweiler’s statement. could sustain its burden of proof
“Although the notes do not “Fighting takes place at beyond a reasonable doubt if
make any reference to the earlier schools everyday across this na- charges were presented for pros-
fight or difficulties at school, the tion,” Kunzweiler wrote. “When I ecution,” Kunzweiler wrote.
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Report: Social Security o∞ce didn’t properly notify people of fines
BY L ISA R EIN
The Social Security Adminis-
tration’s internal watchdog office
failed to properly notify some
poor and disabled Americans be-
fore levying huge fines on them,
an investigation by an independ-
ent watchdog agency found.
The two-year probe into a little-
known anti-fraud program dis-
covered particularly stark due
process violations starting in
2018, with investigators finding
no evidence that the government
ever sent written notice to some of
those hit with massive penalties,
which at times reached more than
$100,000. Even when the inspec-
tor general’s office, which runs
the program, did send notifica-
tion letters in previous years, in-
vestigators found it often failed to
properly serve people with notice
of the proposed fines.
The findings raise “significant
legal questions about the validity
of penalties” on low-income peo-
ple “who are potentially subject to
having their future Social Secu-
rity and disability benefits with-
held,” Justice Department Inspec-
tor General michael Horowitz
wrote, summarizing his findings
in a report issued this month to
Congress and Social Security
Commissioner martin o’malley.
Horowitz took the unusual step
of urging the Social Security Ad-
ministration to review every pen-
alty the government has issued
under the Civil monetary Penalty
program since 1995, to notify
claimants who were fined and to
take “corrective action.”
His report follows a Washing-
ton Post investigation in 2022
that revealed how escalating pen-
alties — which started before In-
spector General Gail Ennis took
office in 2019 as a Trump adminis-
Trump mocks, exaggerates stutter. Biden embraces it as reflecting compassion.
BiDen from A1
“We don’t even talk about what
is ‘presidential’ anymore,” said Ted
Kaufman, a longtime confidant
and friend of Biden’s. “But if you
look at Joe Biden’s reaction and
you look at Trump’s reaction, one
is presidential and one is not.”
He insisted that Trump’s at-
tacks don’t get under Biden’s skin
— “He’s been through worse
things than that in his life” — and
said the stutter highlights a core
part of the president’s past and “an
example of how he overcame
things.”
Trump’s aides contend that he
ridicules Biden’s competence, not
his stutter. “President Trump has
never mocked Joe Biden’s speech
impediment,” said adviser Jason
miller. “He’s simply called out the
fact Biden is a cognitively im-
paired, low-IQ individual.”
There is no evidence that Biden
is cognitively impaired, and miller
declined to say how he squares his
assertion with Trump, for exam-
ple, telling a crowd after one Biden
speech earlier this year: “Did you
see him? He was stuttering
through the whole thing.”
It was after the State of the
Union on march 7, when Biden
attacked Trump in fiery terms,
that Trump most recently intro-
duced Biden’s stutter into the cam-
paign. At a rally in Georgia, Trump
asked sarcastically if Biden would
“bring the country t-t-t-together.”
Biden never used that phrase in
his speech, and in the seven in-
stances he said the word “togeth-
er,” he did not stutter.
Biden reacted by embracing the
disability he battled to overcome
as a child, one that he still works to
subdue. In Wisconsin last week,
Biden met with Harry Abramson,
a 9-year-old boy who had written
to Biden asking how he had de-
feated his stutter and adding that
— if he could overcome his own —
perhaps he, too, could one day
become president.
“You can do whatever you want
to do,” Biden told Harry, according
to a video released by the cam-
paign.
Afterward, Biden sent out a clip
of the exchange from his personal
X account, writing: “Harry, I’ve
struggled with a stutter all of my
life. Thank you for telling me
about yours, and don’t let anyone
tell you it will stop you from
achieving your dreams.”
Biden’s use of the phrase “all of
my life” reflects a new way of
talking about his battle, said John
Hendrickson, author of “Joe
Biden’s Stutter, and mine,” an in-
depth article in the Atlantic. “This
is a remarkable shift in language
from Biden — by far the closest
he’s ever come to saying ‘I still
stutter,’” he tweeted.
Biden and his aides talk about
the stutter in complex and even
contradictory ways. Biden has of-
ten portrayed it as something he
fully conquered as a child, a story
of resilience and triumph. At other
A watchdog’s probe of a Social Security anti-fraud program found that the government did not send
proper notice to some poor and disabled Americans who were hit with huge penalties.
tration appointee and continued
under her tenure — affected more
than 100 disabled and elderly peo-
ple receiving disability benefits
who were accused of fraud. over a
seven-month period that ended in
mid-2019, 83 people were charged
a total of $11.5 million, documents
obtained by The Post showed — a
jump from less than $700,000 for
all of 2017.
Social Security, which long ago
delegated administration of the
program to the inspector gener-
al’s office, suspended the Civil
monetary Penalty program fol-
lowing The Post’s report. Agency
spokesman mark Hinkle said in
an email that officials have “dili-
gently moved forward with a re-
view of the Civil monetary Penalty
Program.”
following The Post’s report, the
White House also ordered the
Council of the Inspectors General
on Integrity and Efficiency
(CIGIE), a group that assigns fed-
President Biden greets 9-year-old Harry Abramson, who has a stutter and wrote to Biden, who also has a speech impediment, this month
in Milwaukee. “Don’t let anybody tell you that you can’t do anything,” the president advised him.
times, aides have highlighted the
stammer to explain Biden’s verbal
stumbles, framing them as a func-
tion of a disability rather than age.
In a December interview with
Conan o’Brien, the comedian and
podcast host observed that Biden’s
struggle with stuttering must have
helped “fuel” and “forge” him as a
person. Biden responded, “Well,
when I was a kid …,” prompting
o’Brien to quickly add, “You’ve got
this problem licked, by the way.”
Biden cast the childhood ex-
perience as central to his sympa-
thy for those less fortunate.
“We were never allowed to
make fun of anyone, no matter
how mean they were to us, if they
had something they couldn’t over-
come. Swear to God,” Biden told
o’Brien. “If you did, you’d get your
rear end kicked when you went
home. Not a joke. And so, it taught
me that there’s a lot of people
dealing with dilemmas that take
away their pride, their dignity.”
Although Biden rarely focuses
on his stutter as a current chal-
lenge, he often brings it up as a
story of overcoming adversity.
He has spoken about it at fund-
raisers and campaign rallies. He
brought it up when presenting the
Presidential medal of freedom
and when honoring the national
teachers of the year. He men-
tioned it at an event in Virginia on
health-care costs, at a eulogy in
Delaware, at a commencement
eZ Re
eral watchdogs to investigate mis-
conduct allegations against fel-
low inspectors general, to launch
an inquiry into Ennis’s office.
Horowitz is continuing a broad
investigation of Ennis’s office but
said he moved more quickly to
notify a committee of fellow
watchdogs of the specific impro-
prieties he found in the anti-fraud
program “because we believe they
require prompt agency attention
and corrective action.” The Post
obtained a copy of the report,
which has not been made public.
Ennis’s office, in responses
published in the report, pushed
back on a number of the conclu-
sions and wrote that any mistakes
made in trying to notify people of
fines were in effect harmless er-
rors. Horowitz disagreed with the
arguments.
In a comment sent separately
to The Post, Ennis spokeswoman
rebecca rose referred specific
questions about the findings to
address at South Carolina State
University. He cited it during a
banquet in Dublin, a talk to U.S.
military personnel in the United
Kingdom, an event for the Toys for
Tots drive.
“Probably the best thing that’s
ever happened to me was one of
the worst things,” Biden said on a
podcast hosted by Anderson Coo-
per that explores grief. “When I
was a kid, I stuttered badly —
t-t-t-talk-talk like-like that — …
and I used to hate the fact I stut-
tered.”
When he had a paper route,
Biden has said, he would work out
conversations in his head before
he got to someone’s door to avoid
tripping over his words. He would
read poetry — the same Irish poets
he would later quote as president
— to sound out the words.
He recalled as a high school
freshman being embarrassingly
exempted from a public speaking
assignment. “But I realized it was
a great lesson I learned, because
everybody has something they
can’t fully control — everybody,”
Biden told Cooper. “And so it
turned out to be a great gift for me
that I stuttered.”
To this day, he says that one of
his favorite movies is “The King’s
Speech,” which depicts the ascent
to the throne of King George VI of
Britain, who must overcome a
speech impediment and address
the country during World War II.
Jenny KAne/AP
Social Security since the agency
“has had full responsibility over
administration” of the anti-fraud
program since 2022.
Ennis, an attorney who was a
partner at the WilmerHale law
firm before her federal appoint-
ment, has asked the chairman of
the inspectors general council in
meetings and letters since early
this year to curtail the probe,
correspondence shows, accusing
Horowitz of exceeding his author-
ity and violating the federal law
designating the authority of fed-
eral watchdogs. Ennis has urged
in the letters that the report on the
anti-fraud program be rescinded.
“We believe DoJ oIG has no
authority to make unprecedent-
ed, programmatic recommenda-
tions to [the Social Security Ad-
ministration],” rose wrote in an
email monday. “It is disappoint-
ing that our concerns, which have
government-wide implications,
are not being taken seriously.”
for Trump, however, the stutter
has been one more way to go after
Biden. The presumptive republi-
can nominee regularly embraces
mockery and derision, whether
the target is undocumented immi-
grants, GoP rivals or liberal Dem-
ocrats.
Trump most often makes fun of
Biden for purportedly struggling
to find his way offstage after a
speech, depicting the president as
confused and aimless. But the
stutter has also become a target.
following a Biden speech in
Pennsylvania in January, Trump
spoke to a crowd in Sioux Center,
Iowa. “Did you see him? He was
stuttering through the whole
thing,” Trump said to a chuckling
crowd. “He’s saying I’m a threat to
democracy.”
“'He’s a threat to d-d-democra-
cy,’” he continued, pretending
himself to stutter. “Couldn’t read
the word.”
The remark was untrue. Biden
said the word “democracy” 29
times in his speech, never stum-
bling over it.
miller, the Trump adviser,
downplayed the distinction be-
tween mocking Biden’s stutter
and attacking his general compe-
tence.
“Joe Biden can’t put two sen-
tences together,” miller said. “It’s
not President Trump’s responsi-
bility to diagnose what’s wrong
with Biden. He’s simply observing
the washington post
After lawmakers and the Social
Security commissioner received
Horowitz’s report this month, En-
nis’s office also protested in a
letter to the Justice Department’s
office of Legal Counsel. That com-
munication, obtained by The
Post, called the findings an invalid
interpretation of the law, which
Ennis’s staff argued gives the of-
fice wide latitude on how to serve
notice to people of proposed fines.
The report comes as President
Biden faces pressure from a top
Senate Democrat to fire Ennis,
whose 500-person office is
charged with oversight of the
agency that distributes retire-
ment benefits to 69 million Amer-
icans and monthly disability
checks to about 15 million others.
Senate finance Committee Chair-
man ron Wyden (ore.), in a letter
in february, told the president
that he had lost confidence in
Ennis, whose promises to “estab-
lish a culture that welcomes de-
bate, collaboration, and transpar-
ency … appear to have been hol-
low.” The letter cited numerous
performance issues.
In a new statement monday,
Wyden said the investigation into
the operations of the anti-fraud
program bolsters his case.
“It continues to be clear that
the Inspector General refuses to
take responsibility for anything,”
Wyden said. “Gail Ennis needs to
go so that trust in the Inspector
General’s office can be restored.”
A spokesman for Horowitz re-
ferred a request for comment to
the inspectors general council. In-
terior Department Inspector Gen-
eral mark Greenblatt, chairman
of the council, declined to com-
ment through a spokeswoman.
Congress created the anti-
fraud program with bipartisan
support to help Social Security
Kevin LAmARque/ReuteRs
what every other American sees,
that Joe Biden is a shell of his
former self and unable to lead our
country. This weakness has em-
boldened our adversaries and led
to death and destruction at home
and abroad.”
Experts say that someone who
has conquered a stutter in his
youth can see it reemerge as he
ages. Biden himself can shift his
emphasis, sometimes framing the
stutter as a distant memory and
other times as an ongoing battle.
for the most part, he places it
far in his past. “I used to stutter
when I was a little boy, until I was
in high school,” Biden said in De-
cember 2022. on another occa-
sion that same year, he said he
largely vanquished his stutter
when he took a speech and debate
class in college, even if it still
appears from time to time.
But occasionally, as during a
CNN town hall in february 2020,
Biden talks of a never-ending
struggle. “It’s a debilitating situa-
tion,” Biden said at that event.
“And I still occasionally, when I
find myself really tired, ca-ca-
catch myself saying something
like that.”
David frank, a professor of
rhetoric at the University of or-
egon who has studied Biden’s
speeches, said the president clear-
ly uses techniques to work around
his stutter, like staying away from
certain words or phrases. “There
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recover benefits paid in error in
its two antipoverty programs for
low-income elderly Americans
and those with disabilities. Civil
fines are the common alternative
when fraud is considered too
small to warrant criminal pros-
ecution by the Justice Depart-
ment. In years past, cases had
often been settled, with agree-
ments for drastically lower fines
as claimants gradually paid back
what they owed taxpayers.
The law establishing the pro-
gram requires the government to
notify anyone who is a target of a
fine and allow them to request a
hearing before imposing the pen-
alty.
This did not always happen on
Ennis’s watch, though, Horowitz
found. Her office imposed a fine of
$135,000 in one case in march
2019, but there was “no [United
Parcel Service] confirmation”
that any notice was provided to
the individual, the report said. A
month earlier, the office imposed
another penalty of more than
$140,00o, with no notice deliv-
ered. The same was true in may
2019, when a penalty in excess of
$160,000 was imposed with “no
proof in file” that any notice of the
initiation of the action was pro-
vided to the individual. The in-
spector general’s office said it is
continuing to review its records in
these cases, according to the re-
port.
Before Ennis arrived, the inves-
tigators found, her predecessors
did attempt to serve notice by
sending letters to those targeted
with penalties. But the report
found that this method also often
violated the statute, since many
states do not consider notifica-
tion by U.S. mail and private deliv-
ery services a legally permissible
method of serving notice.
are words that he avoids or substi-
tutes for, and he avoids syllables
that he knows will stumble over,”
frank said.
frank said Biden should ac-
knowledge his stutter more fully,
saying it would help him connect
to audiences. “He’s like a lot of us
confronting our own demons,”
frank said. “If he admits he hasn’t
conquered it, he is perceived to be
weak. If he says he’s totally over-
come it, he’s not being true to
himself.”
Biden allies have often pointed
to his willingness to speak openly
about his struggle, even if it’s usu-
ally in the past tense, as a way to
uplift the estimated 3 million
Americans who stutter.
At an event in 2022, for exam-
ple, he noticed someone in the
crowd holding a sign that read,
“Thank you for having a stutter.”
In 2020, he encountered 13-year-
old Brayden Harrington at a cam-
paign stop, giving him advice for
handling his speech impediment
and later inviting him to speak at
the Democratic National Conven-
tion. And last week, he met Harry
Abramson, the 9-year-old in Wis-
consin.
“If you think about it, the only
handicap everybody thinks they
can still laugh at is stuttering,”
Biden said at a fundraiser in octo-
ber.
As for Trump, Biden is not the
first person whose disability he
has made fun of. In 2015, as a
presidential candidate, he deri-
sively imitated New York Times
reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has
a congenital condition affecting
joints known as arthrogryposis.
Trump has denied knowing about
Kovaleski’s condition.
As president, Trump resisted
appearing alongside wounded
veterans, as reported by Peter Bak-
er and Susan Glasser in their book
“The Divider,” and later confirmed
by former White House chief of
staff John f. Kelly. “I don’t want
them,” Trump said. “It doesn’t look
good for me.”
Trump has disputed Kelly’s ac-
count.
In a 2015 television interview,
Trump responded to criticism
from columnist Charles Kraut-
hammer, who used a wheelchair,
by calling him “a guy that can’t buy
a pair of pants.”
“Trump thinks mocking people
and taking away their rights
makes him look strong,” said
Biden campaign spokesman TJ
Ducklo. “But it just reveals how
weak, insecure and vulnerable he
is having to face voters who want
real leadership.”
Some of those close to Biden say
it is significant that he not only
overcame his stutter, but also en-
tered a profession that demands
endless public speaking.
“It’s like, how does a guy go
from being a stutterer to a guy who
makes a career out of speaking?”
he added. “Who in history has
given more speeches than Joe
Biden?”
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Birth-control facts: Methods, side effects and more

BY S ABRINA M ALHI
AND L AUREN W EBER
The spread of medical misin-
formation on social media has
resulted in misconceptions about
the safety and efficacy of hormon-
al birth-control methods.
The long-standing lack of phy-
sician transparency about some of
the serious but rare side effects
has prompted patients to seek ad-
vice from unqualified online com-
munities. The underfunding of
women’s health research also
leaves many questions unan-
swered because of the dearth of
quality scientific studies, allowing
misinformation to fill the gap.
(President Biden signed an execu-
tive order March 18 to strengthen
data collection and funding for
women’s health research.)
The false narratives that birth-
control pills and intrauterine de-
vices (IUDs) cause infertility and
other health problems lead some
women to make contraceptive de-
cisions based on fear rather than
facts.
As a consequence, women may
face unintended pregnancies or
other health complications amid
continued efforts by Republicans
to restrict reproductive health op-
tions in the United States.
Here’s what to know about
birth control:
What is the most effective
birth-control method?
The Nexplanon implant and
IUDs are two of the most effective
forms of birth control available.
Called long-acting reversible con-
traceptives, both release hor-
mones to prevent pregnancy. The
implant is placed in a woman’s
upper arm and an IUD in the
uterus (copper IUDs act without
hormones and are just as effec-
tive).
“I call them ‘get it and forget it’
methods as there’s no need to
remember to do anything (take a
pill, change a ring, get a shot, etc.),
so there’s no user error which, we
know, is the main reason why
other methods fail,” Alexandra
Hall, a family physician who
teaches human sexual biology at
the University of Wisconsin at
Stout, said in an email.
While no form of birth control
is 100 percent effective, both Nex-
planon and IUDs are more than
99 percent effective at preventing
pregnancy. In contrast, the birth-
control pill is 91 percent effective
with typical use.
What are the side effects of
hormonal birth control such
as the pill or IUD?
Birth-control pills and IUDs are
generally safe and effective, but
like many other medications, they
can be associated with some side
effects. The most common include
nausea, headaches, breast tender-
ness and bleeding between peri-
ods.
Many of these side effects can
be mitigated by switching to an-
other type of birth control or just
waiting a few months for symp-
toms to subside.
“Just because you’re having mi-
nor side effects doesn’t mean the
method that you’re using is not
safe,” said Kathryn Gray, an OB/
GYN who is the director of mater-
nal fetal medicine research at the
University of Washington School
of Medicine. “If they stay on the
birth control for a few months, a
Examples of birth control in a museum at the Washington headquarters of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
lot of times the side effects will go
away.”
More-adverse side effects,
which are rare, are blood clots and
stroke — but not all forms of
hormonal birth control increase
these risks. Talk to your medical
provider about your medical his-
tory before going on birth control;
they may recommend different
forms if you have a history of
migraines with aura or smoking.
Many birth-control methods on
the market have decreased the
amount of estrogen, to lower the
risk of blood clots. Opill, the over-
the-counter pill that will soon be
available in stores and online, con-
tains only progestin — meaning it
does not have the blood clot risk.
How effective is ‘natural’
family planning as a form of
birth control?
Natural family planning, also
known as “fertility awareness-
based methods,” is a set of practic-
es used to track a person’s men-
strual cycle to identify when they
are most likely to conceive. Mea-
suring basal body temperature
and cervical mucus for signs of
ovulation can help determine
when a person should abstain
from sex if their goal is pregnancy
prevention.
This method can be up to 98
percent effective with perfect use,
but it can have a failure rate of up
to 23 percent. Franziska Hay-
danek, an OB/GYN from Roches-
ter, N.Y. said the effectiveness of
this method depends on many
factors, including regular men-
strual cycles and accurate ovula-
tion tracking.
This method of birth control is
less effective for people who have
recently given birth or had an
abortion, are breastfeeding, have
recently stopped using hormonal
birth control, have a medical con-
dition such as polycystic ovary
syndrome (PCOS) or are nearing
menopause, because those hor-
monal changes make it harder to
accurately track when people are
ovulating.
Does hormonal birth control
make you gain weight?
Studies show no definitive link
between birth control and weight
gain. A 2011 Cochrane review, con-
sidered the top-tier systematic re-
view of scientific evidence, ana-
lyzed data from 49 clinical trials
related to the effects of combina-
tion contraceptives — a combina-
tion of two hormones, estrogen
and progestin — on weight chang-
es. The experts did not find suffi-
cient evidence to show that con-
traception impacts weight gain.
The one exception physicians
pointed to is Depo-Provera, an
injection containing progestin.
Women who receive the shot —
administered every three months
to prevent ovulation, thicken cer-
vical mucus and thin the uterine
lining — can gain an average of
five pounds in the first year.
Many women gain weight as
they age, regardless of whether
they use contraception.
Physicians say they recognize
the importance of dispelling the
Minh Connors for the Washington Post.
misconception that women gain
weight on birth control, a reason
many patients give for stopping
the pill. Michael Belmonte, an OB/
GYN in D.C., tells patients the
scientific evidence shows that
their weight gain is unlikely to be
related to their birth control, but
offers them the option of switch-
ing methods.
Does hormonal birth control
cause depression?
Doctors say that oral contracep-
tives are safe in women with mood
disorders and that most women
using birth control do not experi-
ence a negative impact on mood.
While the side effect is rare, wom-
en with a history of depression
may be more likely to encounter
mood effects. Doctors say women
who experience mood changes
should talk to their physician.
“When people have actually
looked at the evidence,” Gray said,
“most individuals who are on hor-
monal birth control do not have a
negative impact on their mood.”
Can birth control cause
personality changes or impact
whom you’re attracted to?
Researchers say the studies
that influencers cite when dis-
cussing this phenomenon have
small sample sizes or are other-
wise flawed because they are ret-
roactive chart reviews, where re-
searchers analyze existing medi-
cal records. Influencers may selec-
tively choose data from those
reviews, which can show correla-
tion but not necessarily causation.
Haydanek, the OB/GYN from
Rochester, said the gold standard
for research studies is random-
ized controlled trials, where a con-
trol group and an experimental
group are compared to determine
any differences for a particular
treatment.
“Social media influencers’ job is
to get followers, … but that doesn’t
mean what they’re presenting is
evidence-based,” said Gray, the
University of Washington OB/
GYN. “I’m not saying for any given
person it doesn’t have any effect,
but what’s important to think
about, for most individuals, is that
the evidence suggests there is no
impact.”
“It’s important for patients to
get information from reliable
sources, which is not TikTok and
Instagram,” Gray said.

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As Democrats criticize war, Republicans embrace Netanyahu

BY L IZ G OODWIN,
A BIGAIL H AUSLOHNER,
Y ASMEEN A BUTALEB
AND L EIGH A NN C ALDWELL
Israeli Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu joined Senate Re-
publicans via live video confer-
ence Wednesday, his face and
booming voice beamed into the
party’s weekly closed lunch meet-
ing as he criticized the Senate’s
Democratic leader, in the latest
display of deepening partisan
politics around U.S.-Israel policy.
A week after Senate Majority
Leader Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.) chastised Netanyahu and
called for a new election in Israel,
and amid mounting criticism
from Democrats of Israel’s war in
Gaza, congressional Republicans
are seeking to amplify their par-
ty’s unconditional loyalty to the
Jewish state, in contrast with the
party that has long attracted the
most Jewish voters.
The push comes as the GOP’s
presumptive presidential nomi-
nee, former president Donald
Trump, said in an interview pub-
lished this week that American
Jews who vote for Democrats
“hate” their religion — a commen-
tary on Democrats’ growing criti-
cism of Netanyahu’s war in Gaza.
Democrats and some Republi-
cans expressed disgust at Trump’s
remarks, which they said played
on antisemitic tropes.
Netanyahu on Wednesday up-
dated Senate Republicans on the
status of the war and criticized
Schumer, as multiple lawmakers
reassured him that they strongly
disagreed with Schumer’s cri-
tiques.
“You know, we’re trying to tell
them how to fight a war,” said Sen.
Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), de-
scribing Netanyahu’s reaction to
Schumer’s remarks. “They didn’t
try to tell us how to fight World
War II, or Iraq, or Afghanistan.”
(The end of World War II, in
which the United States and allies
fought Nazi Germany and Hitler’s
efforts to exterminate Europe’s
Jews, predated the creation of
Israel by three years.)
Schumer turned down Netan-
yahu’s request to address the Sen-
ate Democrats’ closed-door lunch
on the same day, saying he be-
lieved the party-specific presen-
tations would give the impression
that supporting the close U.S. ally
was a matter of politics instead of
policy.
“I care deeply about Israel and
its long-term future,” Schumer
told reporters. “When you make
the issue partisan, you hurt the
cause of helping Israel.”
In the past, state leaders have
generally addressed all senators
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen giving a speech in Jerusalem on Sunday, spoke to
Republican senators via video on Wednesday, providing an update on Israel’s war in Gaza.
together, such as when Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky
spoke to senators via video in a
secure room in the Capitol com-
plex in December.
But in this unusual scenario —
with Netanyahu virtually attend-
ing a lunch meeting that is more
typically the province of political
strategizing and airing intraparty
grievances — Senate staff and
security kept reporters at a dis-
tance, seemingly to avoid the
journalists overhearing any as-
pect of the video address or con-
versation.
“I think it’s unfortunate that
Republicans may be trying to use
it as a wedge issue, politically,”
said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-
Conn.), who has not joined Schu-
mer’s call for a new election.
There are several Jewish sena-
tors, all of whom caucus with the
Democrats, and no Jewish Re-
publican senators.
In his remarks, which included
a question-and-answer session,
Netanyahu acknowledged that he
was speaking to “a friendly audi-
ence,” Tuberville said, given Re-
publicans are “100 percent” be-
hind him while Democrats are
raising objections. And the prime
minister said he intended to fol-
low through with Israel’s plan to
eliminate the remaining battal-
ions of Hamas fighters, Sen. Rick
Scott (R-Fla.) said — which Israeli
officials have said are in the
crowded city of Rafah.
Biden has urged Netanyahu
not to launch a ground invasion
of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost
city where many of the territory’s
2 million residents have sought
refuge, and where Netanyahu
says Hamas fighters remain. Ne-
tanyahu’s commitment to the op-
eration has raised concerns that
Gaza’s death toll — which is al-
ready approaching 32,000, ac-
cording to the Gaza Health Minis-
try — could rise dramatically.
Asked by a senator to respond
directly to Schumer’s comments,
Netanyahu said his diplomatic
reaction would be to call it inap-
propriate, and his undiplomatic
reaction would be to call it “outra-
geous,” according to a senator in
the room who spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity to discuss a
private conversation.
Israel’s war in Gaza, in re-
sponse to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on
Israel, exposed some critical fault
lines in the Democratic Party, as
liberals have wrestled with hu-
man rights concerns in the con-
text of one of the United States’
most steadfast alliances.
Even as Biden provides weap-
ons and diplomatic support for
the war, he has criticized Netan-
yahu for doing too little to pre-
vent civilian casualties, and for
imposing a blockade on Gaza that
aid organizations say has crip-
pled the humanitarian response
and is fueling mass hunger and
starvation.
The administration also has
condemned Netanyahu’s opposi-
tion to Washington’s long-sought
vision of a “two-state solution”
that would involve an independ-
ent Palestinian state alongside
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Israel.
Biden is facing mounting pres-
sure from a faction of the Demo-
cratic base that opposes the war
and is calling on the administra-
tion to cut off U.S. military aid to
Israel — for decades, its largest
recipient. Democrats in key swing
states have lodged protest votes
in recent primaries over what
they see as the president’s defer-
ence to Israel, a warning that he
could lose their vote if he does not
change course before November.
Even so, Biden and the over-
whelming majority of Democrat-
ic lawmakers support sending bil-
lions in additional military fund-
ing to Israel. That aid is pending
in the GOP-controlled House over
Republican objections to funding
for Ukraine, part of the same
Senate-approved package.
Republican lawmakers, who
have often attributed their party’s
waning interest in funding
Ukraine’s war effort to domestic
political pressures, accused Dem-
ocrats this week of heeding their
voters — rather than America’s
national security interests —
when it comes to Israel.
“I’ve heard in Israel, that
there’s a joke that the Democrats
are pursuing a two-state solution
— the two states being Michigan
and Nevada,” said Sen. Ted Cruz
(R-Tex.), referring to two swing
states key in the upcoming elec-
tions. “Domestic politics is driv-
ing the willingness of Democrats
to throw our friend and ally Israel
under the bus.”
Rep. Max L. Miller (Ohio), one
of two House Republicans who
are Jewish, said Jewish voters are
“pouring” into the Republican
Party because of the rhetoric from
Democrats. “Jewish voters see it,”
Miller said. “They see that, you
know, President Trump has stood
beside Israel.”
Republicans have spotted an
opening in the split among Dem-
ocrats.
House Speaker Mike Johnson
(R-La.) said he had a “lengthy
conversation” with Netanyahu on
Wednesday in which he reiterat-
ed House Republicans’ support
for Israel and called Schumer’s
comments “dangerous.”
And Trump accused Jews who
vote for Democrats of betraying
their own people.
“Any Jewish person that votes
for Democrats hates their reli-
gion,” Trump said in a podcast
interview that aired Monday.
“They hate everything about Isra-
el, and they should be ashamed of
themselves because Israel will be
destroyed.”
Schumer, the highest-ranking
Jewish official in the country,
called Trump’s words antisemitic
in remarks on the Senate floor
this week, saying they furthered
the trope that Jewish Americans
have a “dual” loyalty.
“They think of Israel as a politi-
cal wedge as opposed to a country
and a homeland,” Sen. Brian
Schatz (D-Hawaii) said of Repub-
lican efforts to rally around Israel.
Trump “is an antisemite,” and his
recent comments provided “a
megaphone for one of the oldest
antisemitic tropes in American
politics.”
“We are allowed to argue with
each other about Israel,” said
Schatz, who is Jewish. “We are
allowed to grapple with what it
means to be Jewish. We are al-
lowed to assess whether or not we
as individuals or in a collective
sense are Jews. Donald Trump is
not allowed into that conversa-
tion.”
In a speech that drew fierce
blowback from Israeli officials
and some American Jewish
groups last week, Schumer said
Netanyahu’s handling of the war
was “pushing support for Israel
worldwide to historic lows.”
The comments, coming from
one of the strongest Democratic
supporters of Israel in Congress,
reflect a widespread exasperation
with Israel’s right-wing prime
minister. Netanyahu, some Dem-
ocrats allege, cares more about
holding on to power than what is
best for Israel — a state that
“cannot survive if it becomes a
pariah,” Schumer said last week.
Netanyahu, who faces abysmal
approval ratings in Israel follow-
ing the Oct. 7 attacks, has long
been a thorn in the side of Demo-
cratic presidents, angering Presi-
dent Barack Obama when he ad-
dressed Congress in opposition to
the Iran deal in 2015.
On Wednesday, 18 Senate Dem-
ocrats — including swing state
Sens. Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) and
Sherrod Brown (Ohio) — sent a
letter to Biden, urging him to
publicly set a “road map” for
recognizing a Palestinian state.
Sen. Tom Carper (Del.), who led
the letter, said he believes the
president supports the push “in
his heart” and the letter was
meant to show Biden that Demo-
crats “have his back.”
“This crisis has reached an
inflection point,” they wrote.
“Your leadership is needed at this
time now more than ever.”
Biden has sought to distance
himself from Netanyahu in recent
weeks as White House frustration
at Netanyahu’s repeated rebuffs
of U.S. requests has grown.
On Monday, Biden spoke with
Netanyahu for the first time in
about a month. The White House
was unusually blunt about that
phone call, with national security
adviser Jake Sullivan telling re-
porters after the call that Biden
summoned a senior Israeli mili-
tary, intelligence and humanitari-
an team to Washington for con-
sultation over Israel’s plans to
launch a major operation in Ra-
fah. Biden told Netanyahu any
effort to “smash” into the south-
ern Gaza city would be a mistake,
Sullivan said.
It was time for Israel and the
United States to “get down to
brass tacks” about their differing
views on the war in Gaza, Sullivan
said.
More than 1 million Palestin-
ians fled to Rafah under Israeli
orders, and the White House has
made clear for several weeks that
it would not support a large-scale
Israeli invasion of the city. That
marks the first time the White
House has openly opposed an
Israeli military operation in the
war, which is in its sixth month.
Further angering the Biden ad-
ministration and many Demo-
crats are the horrific conditions
in Gaza, particularly in the north,
where aid groups have warned
that famine is imminent. Chil-
dren in northern Gaza have be-
gun dying of starvation and mal-
nutrition, according to the United
Nations, and the United States
has repeatedly pressed Israel to
surge aid into Gaza to alleviate a
rapidly worsening humanitarian
catastrophe.
mariana Alfaro and marianna
sotomayor contributed to this report.

Ark. airport director was fatally shot during investigation of illegal gun sales
BY V ICTORIA B ISSET
An Arkansas airport director
who was fatally wounded in a
shootout with federal agents this
week was being investigated for
illegal arms sales, according to
unsealed court documents.
Bryan Malinowski, who was 53
BEFORE
and the executive director of Lit-
tle Rock’s Bill and Hillary Clinton
National Airport, was shot when
the agents arrived at his home
early Tuesday to serve a federal
search warrant, the Arkansas
State Police said. He died on
Thursday, according to state-
ments from his family and the
airport. Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
State police said the shooting, (ATF) said in a statement shared
also in Little Rock, took place at with local media.
around 6 a.m. Tuesday. The Malinowski was treated at the
agents were trying to serve the scene for gunshot wounds before
warrant when Malinowski being transported to a hospital,
opened fire, resulting in the while an agent received “a non-
agents returning fire, the local life-threatening gunshot wound,”
division of the Bureau of Alcohol, police said.
Malinowski’s family have criti-
cized the raid, saying in a state-
ment released by their lawyer:
“We do not understand the gov-
ernment’s decisions which led to
a dawn raid on a private home
and triggered the use of deadly
force.”
According to the unsealed and
partly redacted affidavit from
ATF, Malinowski bought more
than 150 guns between May 2021
and February 2024, which he re-
sold without a license. The un-
sealed affidavit was first reported
by local media Thursday.
EL
E B R ATIN Six of the weapons were recov-
40 ered after being linked to a crime,
C
while three others were pur-
chased during undercover opera-
tions. Malinowski bought the
guns legally but checked a box
confirming they were for his own
use, the affidavit said.
The case against him began
when Canadian police officials
received a photograph of weap-
ons from a confidential inform-
ant. The serial numbers of some
of the firearms were visible and
passed to U.S. authorities, who
were able to trace multiple weap-
ons back to Malinowski, accord-
ing to the affidavit.
The affidavit was included in
an application for a search war-
rant to investigate charges of
dealing in firearms without a li-
cense and the unlawful acquisi-
tion of a firearm.
The Malinowski family said in
a statement that they had “en-
dured an unspeakable tragedy
and one that is almost impossible
to understand.” They said their
thoughts and prayers go to the
agent who was wounded and his
relatives.
But they also voiced their con-
cerns over the affidavit and the
use of deadly force.
“Even if the allegations in the
affidavit are true, they don’t begin
to justify what happened,” the
statement said. “At worst, Bryan
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saturday, march 23 , 2024
ICE from A1
DHS has faced recent scrutiny
over its response to harassment
cases, with reports that the Coast
Guard and the Border Patrol —
agencies that, like ICE, are housed
within DHS — have covered up
misconduct or allowed employees
to retire without investigating
allegations against them.
DHS spokesman Luis miranda
said Homeland Security Secretary
Alejandro mayorkas has strength-
ened discipline procedures in re-
sponse to public concerns about
harassment and made clear that
misconduct of any kind will not be
tolerated.
“There’s no question there are
pockets of severe problems inside
of DHS,” said Nick Schwellen-
bach, a senior investigator at the
Project on Government over-
sight, the nonprofit that in 2022
disclosed that the agency’s inspec-
tor general had failed to publish a
major internal survey on sexual
harassment. “Some of those pock-
ets include agencies that are heav-
ily male-dominated like ICE and
CBP, especially out in the field.”
The nonprofit found that in
many cases, DHS failed to proper-
ly investigate complaints or disci-
pline offenders, even when the
complaints led to settlements to-
taling hundreds of thousands of
dollars.
In 2022, mayorkas ordered offi-
cials to centralize the discipline
process at each of the depart-
ment’s 20-plus agencies, ensuring
that immediate supervisors
would not handle allegations of
serious misconduct against their
employees. He also ordered offi-
cials to ensure that the depart-
ment’s guidance for disciplining
workers for serious misconduct is
consistent throughout the agency.
Kodra said she had to file a
lawsuit the next year because
DHS said she failed to prove that
she suffered harassment and dis-
crimination, though she had evi-
dence showing that one of her
supervisors sent her sexually ex-
plicit text messages.
Advocates say one way to try to
reduce harassment and other
problems within law enforcement
agencies is to hire enough women
to make up 30 percent of the
workforce, based on research that
indicates that percentage is the
critical mass needed to change an
organization’s culture. research
also shows that female officers are
less likely to face lawsuits or to use
excessive force, advocates say.
“You constantly hear that cul-
ture eats policy for breakfast,” said
Ivonne roman, a former police
chief in Newark who co-founded
the 30X30 Initiative, which
launched in 2021 with the goal of
increasing the share of female law
enforcement officers in each re-
cruiting class to 30 percent by
2030.
Nationwide, about 440 of the
nation’s 18,000 law enforcement
agencies have signed up for the
initiative, including the Secret
Service and Customs and Border
Protection, which are part of DHS.
Kristie Canegallo, acting DHS
deputy secretary, last year called
the gender gap in policing “a bona
fide public safety crisis” and said
the agency embraced the national
goal. more than 30 percent of
recent law enforcement hires at
DHS were women, she said.
ICE’s most recent figures show
that the share of female officers is
14 percent.
Kodra filed the federal lawsuit
against DHS in october, alleging
the department failed to protect
her from harassment and retalia-
tion. She is seeking a jury trial and
an undisclosed amount of com-
pensation.
In addition to interviewing
Kodra for this story, The Washing-
ton Post reviewed DHS records
she obtained as part of her initial
complaint against federico mad-
era, a former assistant field office
director in Newark. The Post re-
viewed the 2023 DHS decision
denying her harassment claim
and sworn affidavits madera pro-
vided to internal investigators in
which he confirmed that he sent
the text messages referenced in
this article.
madera called the messages
“friendly banter,” according to
copies of his sworn statements
that Kodra shared with The Post.
He denied grabbing Kodra, and
said he tried to kiss her once on
the cheek to congratulate her for
graduating from the ICE academy
but instead awkwardly kissed her
forehead.
In telephone interviews with
The Post, madera said ICE never
disciplined him for the text mes-
sages and that he retired in good
standing. ICE confirmed that he is
no longer with the agency.
In interviews, Kodra said she is
a naturalized U.S. citizen who
started as an ICE officer in New-
ark in 2019. She said she moved to
the United States from Albania in
. the washington post
Emiljana Kodra at her home last month. She alleges her transfer to another ICE facility was retaliation for resisting harassment.
Sexually explicit texts spanned
two years, agent says in lawsuit
1999 as a teen, settled with her
parents in New Jersey and be-
came a U.S. citizen. She later
worked for seven years as a Balti-
more police officer.
After her father died in 2017,
she wanted to move closer to her
mother.
“I figured this job would be
much better and safer,” she said.
Kodra had been on the job for a
few weeks when madera started
texting her, activity that would
span two years, she said in the
lawsuit.
In one of the earliest messages,
which began in April 2020, made-
ra asked if she thought they had
“chemistry.”
“I should not have asked that
question,” madera, an immigra-
tion agent for about three dec-
ades, quickly followed up.
Kodra said in interviews that
she had given madera her phone
number so he could advise her
about housing and taxes.
“What do I do? Do I lose the
job?” she said she asked herself.
“It was scary because I already left
a job and this was [on] probation.”
At first, she tried to change the
subject.
“omg is so cold out,” she replied
to madera’s message about chem-
istry, according to copies of the
messages she provided to The
Post. “Took the dogs out for a
second and it’s freezing.”
Another time, madera offered
Kodra his family’s guest room if
she needed a place to stay.
“might get a middle of the night
visitor though,” he texted, with
laughing emojis.
“Haha,” she replied.
Kodra said she thought she
could answer the questions and
move on.
“He would remind me all the
time I’m on probation,” she said in
an interview. “I was under the
impression that he hired me and
that he could fire me. So I’m like, I
don’t know how to act.”
Kodra said she began to feel
like she was being blacklisted at
work, according to the lawsuit. In
her lawsuit, she alleges another
supervisor, Brett Danielson, had
brushed against her breasts in
may 2021 and disparaged her at
work, which he categorically de-
nied to DHS, according to DHS’s
written decision last year in re-
sponse to her harassment claim
and which is attached to her fed-
eral lawsuit.
ICE declined to make Daniel-
son available for an interview and
he did not respond to requests for
comment. In his response to DHS,
Danielson, who was not identified
in the DHS decision until Kodra
filed her lawsuit, said, “this inci-
dent never occurred.”
Kodra complained to the field
office director about alleged mis-
treatment and inappropriate con-
duct by Danielson and another
“There’s no question there are pockets of
severe problems inside of DHS.”
Nick Schwellenbach,
senior investigator at the Project on Government Oversight
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supervisor in September 2021, but accidentally and denied being
she says nothing happened. The inappropriate.
Newark office had been under DHS said another manager
scrutiny before: A 2016 internal told Kodra days later that she
review of the office requested by would be transferred to work at
field office Director John Tsou- the local ICE detention center,
karis found a perception that fe- which management said was to
male employees had to “sleep” separate her and a female office
with upper management to get assistant because they had a con-
promoted. tentious working relationship, ar-
Tsoukaris, who is still the field guing over files, professional du-
office director, declined through a ties and personal space, according
spokesman to comment, citing to court records.
the pending litigation. But he told Kodra worked at the local ICE
DHS that Kodra did not mention detention center for the next two
sexual harassment in her Septem- years, according to the complaint
ber 2021 complaint, according to and her interviews with The Post.
court filings and the agency’s Kodra said she considered it retal-
2023 written decision. iation for her resisting harass-
In addition to the text messag- ment, according to federal court
es, Kodra alleged in the lawsuit records.
that madera had grabbed her but- That month, Kodra decided to
tocks at work when nobody else come forward with a complaint
was around and tried to kiss her. about DHS. That led to a formal
In october 2021, madera called complaint in february 2022 about
her into his office and then madera and others with the Equal
dropped a paper clip in his lap and Employment opportunity Com-
rubbed his crotch in front of her, mission, but she withdrew it after
she alleges. According to court the judge limited the number of
records, madera told investiga- depositions she could take. She
tors he dropped the paper clip also read a news report that the
judge rarely ruled in complain-
ants’ favor. EEoC officials said the
proceedings are confidential and
declined to comment on them but
said they are committed to fair-
ness.
Kodra asked DHS to decide her
complaint instead, an administra-
tive process she had to undergo
before she could file a lawsuit.
As part of an investigation by
the ICE office of Professional re-
sponsibility, investigators ques-
tioned madera in July 2022 and
November 2022. At first madera
denied sending sexually explicit
texts, according to his statements.
He admitted sending them after
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Kodra showed copies to investiga-
tors.
madera then told investigators
the texts were consensual, accord-
ing to the statements.
He said he asked Kodra if they
had “chemistry” to see if they had
“common ground.” He offered her
his spare room as a joke.
He said he couldn’t remember
why he texted “I like sex too.”
madera said Kodra enticed
him, which she denied. He said he
had been seeking friendship and
was stressed during the covid-19
lockdown.
“I did not realize how much I
was struggling, but I now believe
she saw it and exploited the situa-
tion,” he told investigators, ac-
cording to the sworn statement he
gave investigators in November
2022.
An investigator asked why
madera thought he could send
explicit texts to a subordinate.
“I am ashamed of my behavior,”
madera said.
Kodra’s lawsuit said she felt
frightened when madera showed
up at a gun range where agents
train in December 2022 on the
same day that she was scheduled
to be there. madera, in response to
the allegation, emphatically told
DHS officials that he did not know
she would be at the range that day,
federal records show.
In July 2023, the DHS office for
Civil rights and Civil Liberties
said Kodra failed to prove that ICE
discriminated against her.
Adjudicator Amelia Demopu-
los wrote that Kodra had waited
nearly two years to report madera
and did not mention him when
she complained to ICE about oth-
er supervisors in September 2021.
She said Kodra’s texts with
madera amounted to mutual
after-hours discussions.
“The vast majority of these
messages were not of a sexual
nature and appear to have oc-
curred outside of the workplace
(e.g.: references to being in paja-
mas, watching television, going to
sleep),” Demopulos wrote.
Kodra’s lawyer, Paul Bartels,
said DHS’s findings show how
difficult it is for workers to win
protections, even when they offer
evidence such as inappropriate
texts. He said many employees
fear reporting it at all.
“It’s not that common to get
that in writing,” he said, referring
to madera’s text messages. “It just
shows you how it’s always against
the employee, no matter what,
even when you have smoking-gun
evidence.”
Subjecting an employee to un-
wanted sexual jokes, messages or
harassment violates Title VII of
the 1964 Civil rights Act, Kodra’s
lawsuit says.
ICE’s anti-fraternization policy
discourages romantic or sexual
relationships between supervi-
sors and subordinates and says
supervisors must avoid the ap-
pearance of a conflict of interest.
federal agencies train workers
to report sexual harassment. But
labor lawyers say training isn’t
enough if agencies fail to disci-
pline offenders.
“The #meToo movement has
not yet made it to federal law
enforcement agencies,” said
Washington labor lawyer Heidi
Burakiewicz.
Women at DHS are more likely
than men to experience sexual
harassment — 19 percent of wom-
en compared with 11 percent of
men, according to a 2021 federal
survey, which included employees
beyond law enforcement.
few reported it: The agency
fielded 277 sexual harassment
complaints during the past five
years, mostly from women, feder-
al reports show. During that same
period, the government issued 10
decisions finding sexual harass-
ment.
Some lawyers say federal em-
ployees are at a particular disad-
vantage because U.S. law gives
them just 45 days to file a discrim-
ination complaint about sexual
harassment or another issue,
compared with at least 180 days or
longer for those who are not feder-
al workers.
Emotional distress damages
for workers who sue large employ-
ers under federal law are capped
at $300,000, an amount that ad-
vocates say is low considering that
many workers fear losing their
jobs in retaliation for challenging
harassment.
Kodra said the alleged harass-
ment and the lengthy investiga-
tive process traumatized her. She
is anxious, with dark circles under
her eyes, and struggles to fall
asleep. She feels shunned at work
and fearful.
She had dreamed of working in
ICE’s fugitive operations, hunting
down criminals to deport them.
Now she is unsure whether she
has a future in law enforcement.
“This is going to follow me
everywhere,” she said. “Every-
where I go for the rest of my life.”
A8
BY D AVID L . S TERN
KYIV — Ukraine manufactured
practically no weapons before
Russia invaded in February 2022,
but the local arms industry is now
booming.
Factories spit out shells, mortar
rounds, military vehicles, missiles
and other items crucial to the war
effort. Production tripled in 2023
and is expected to increase sixfold
this year, Prime Minister Denys
Shmyhal said at a Ukrainian gov-
ernment meeting in January.
Local production is not suffi-
cient to make up for a loss of
international support, especially
weapons from the United States.
But with a $60 billion aid package
stalled in Congress, domestic
manufacturing is more critical
than ever.
For certain crucial items, such
as the drones that have trans-
formed how the war is fought,
Ukraine is already making 90 per-
cent of what it needs, Mykhailo
Fedorov, the digital transforma-
tion minister, said at a conference
last month.
Among these items are the
long-distance unmanned aerial
vehicles that have struck oil facili-
ties deep inside Russia in recent
weeks, as well as the sea drones
that have caused severe damage to
Russia’s Black Sea fleet and
helped reopen sea lanes to Ukrai-
nian grain exports. Ukraine also
builds its own mortar rounds and
Soviet-standard 122mm and
152mm artillery shells.
Ukrainian defense companies
are also moving to fill the mili-
tary’s greatest need by building
their own NATO-standard 155mm
shells, which are necessary for the
artillery systems supplied by
Ukraine’s Western backers.
These shells are in desperately
short supply on the front, but an
official at Ukroboronprom, the
state-owned defense company,
said production would not begin
until “the second half of this year.”
The official, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because
of the sensitivity of national secu-
rity issues, did not provide further
details.
But President Volodymyr Zel-
ensky has said that domestic man-
ufacture is key to Ukraine’s being
able to sustain its defense.
“This is the way out,” Zelensky
told the Associated Press in De-
cember, in discussing the hope
that Ukraine could fully develop
its arms industry. If these aspira-
tions are realized, he said, Russia’s
plans “for destabilization, expan-
sion, and occupation of Ukraine
will end.”
While Ukraine has the manu-
facturing capacity and some raw
materials, especially steel, the mil-
itary urgently needs the weapons
now.
“Unfortunately, I can say that
without the help of our Western
partners, our friends, including
from the United States, we will not
be able to fully meet the needs of
the armed forces of Ukraine,” said
Maksym Polyvianyi, deputy gen-
eral director of Ukrainian Armor,
the country’s largest private arms
producer.
After the fall of the Soviet
Union, the weapons industry in
Ukraine effectively fell apart.
Years of mismanagement and cor-
ruption, coupled with the fact that
much of the industry had been
focused on Russian buyers, meant
Ukraine had to look abroad for
everything from bullets to fighter
jets.
Ukraine also surrendered its
nuclear arsenal in exchange for
guarantees, including from Rus-
sia, that the country’s territorial
sovereignty would be respected.
Now, after more than two years
of full-scale war, Ukraine needs
everything from staples such as
bullets to sophisticated weaponry
such as long-range missile sys-
tems, fighter jets and bombers.
Some weapons are on the hori-
zon. Ukraine’s minister of stra-
tegic industries, Oleksandr Kamy-
shin, said last month that Ukraine
had deployed a locally made mis-
sile with a range of more than
400 miles. He did not provide
details. Air defense systems and
high-precision missiles similar to
the U.S.-made High Mobility Artil-
lery Rocket System (HIMARS) are
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Migrants’ bodies found
in mass grave
At least 65 migrants’ bodies
have been discovered in a mass
grave in southwest Libya, the
International Organization for
Migration said on the social
media platform X on Friday.
IOM said in a statement the
circumstances of the migrants’
death and nationalities was
unknown “but it is believed that
they died in the process of being
Ukraine ramps up its manufacture of weapons
But lack of money, shortage of explosive materials hamper an effort that couldn’t make up for a loss of international support
TOP: Workers build 82mm
mortars at a shop owned by
Ukrainian Armor, the
country’s largest private
arms producer. ABOVE: A
worker at the shop holds
an 82mm mortar shell.
BELOW: An employee at a
Kvertus repair shop.
Homegrown Kvertus
specializes in systems that
protect against drones, as
well as electronic warfare
and intelligence systems.
smuggled through the desert.”
In an unverified message on
Facebook, the Criminal
Investigation Department of the
interior ministry in Tripoli on
Monday said the bodies were
found in al-Jahriya valley in Al
Shuwairf town, south of Tripoli.
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also being developed, officials
said.
But the high-tech systems that
Ukraine needs to push back the
Russian invaders are a long way
off from being manufactured in
Ukraine. “To master such a pro-
duction, to build such a produc-
tion, decades must pass,” said
Polyvianyi, who is also director of
the National Association of Ukrai-
nian Defense Industries, which
includes more than 50 private
contractors.
Digest
befriended and worked for an
older couple, poisoned them
with fentanyl and monitored
their death with his cellphone
was sentenced Friday to a
minimum 37 years in prison.
The sentencing of Luke D’Wit,
34, came two days after he was
found guilty of murder in the
deaths of Stephen and Carol
Baxter, 61 and 64, last April at
their home in West Mersea, 70
miles east of London.
During the six-week trial at
Chelmsford Crown Court, jurors
also heard that D’Wit had
In recent weeks, Ukraine’s
troops have lost ground in the
east, as they struggle with dwin-
dling numbers of shells, bullets
and even soldiers. And the situa-
tion could soon become much
worse. U.S. intelligence has pre-
dicted that Ukraine may run out
air defense missiles by the end of
the month.
As the White House works to
get the $60 billion in aid through
Congress, there have been glim-
mers of hope for Ukraine.
This month, the European
Union approved a $5 billion mili-
tary package and the Biden ad-
ministration announced that it
would send $300 million in aid,
made possible by “unanticipated
cost savings” in Pentagon con-
tracts for Ukraine. And a Czech
initiative hopes to start sending
about 800,000 shells in the com-
ing weeks.
All this still falls far short of the
country’s needs, however.
Ukrainian officials say they
cannot disclose exact figures
about their manufacturing output
because of security concerns. But
a laundry list of constraints —
from lacking adequate financing
to finding enough gunpowder — is
preventing Ukrainian industry
created a fake will on his phone
to make him a director of their
shower mat company, a day after
he killed them. He monitored
them remotely as they died.
— Associated Press
NigeRiA
23 soldiers killed in
attack, defense says
A militant attack on Nigerian
forces in a border region near
Mali and Burkina Faso killed 23
soldiers, the defense ministry
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PhOTOs by Oksana Parafeniuk fOr The WashingTOn POsT
from ramping up production.
“Our state budget is not
enough,” said Oleksandr Zavit-
nevych, head of the Committee on
National Security, Defense and In-
telligence in the Ukrainian parlia-
ment.
Ukraine’s ability to finance do-
mestic arms production is limited
by the investment capital it can
allocate, since Western financial
support generally goes to nonmili-
tary expenditures. This year,
Ukraine will spend about $5 bil-
lion on domestic arms produc-
tion, officials said, but everyone
agrees that is not enough.
“The main defense resource is
money,” Zavitnevych said.
Raising taxes is politically risky,
if not economically unfeasible,
given that the country’s economy
is already on life support with
much of the working population
living abroad, fighting in the war
or unemployed.
Ukrainian officials advocate us-
ing some of the estimated
$300 billion in Russian Central
Bank assets frozen by the West.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
recently said for the first time that
he supported the idea.
But even if money is found,
Ukraine must confront a world-
wide shortage of explosive chemi-
cals.
Supply-chain bottlenecks and a
steep increase in international de-
mand — caused in part by the wars
in Ukraine and Gaza — have ex-
hausted supplies of gunpowder
and rocket propellants. In
Ukraine, this has caused periodic
production stoppages, said Ukrai-
nian Armor’s Polyvianyi.
“We will reach the stage where
as much gunpowder as we find, we
will make as much ammunition,”
the Ukroboronprom official said.
The Ukrainian government’s
procurement methods also ham-
per production, defense contrac-
tors say, with multiple ministries
signing contracts and no cohesive
system.
“The stupid question every
time we get from different minis-
tries is ‘How much can you pro-
duce this month?’” said Artem
Viunnyk, head of Athlon Avia,
which makes the Furia, Ukraine’s
main reconnaissance drone for
spotting artillery. “They have to
said in a statement Friday.
The soldiers were taking part
in an overnight clearing
operation on Tuesday in the
country’s west when they were
ambushed by armed men on
motorcycles with homemade
bombs, the statement said,
according to state television.
The statement by Defense
Minister Gen. Salifou Mody
blamed the attack on jihadi
fighters, saying the army had
killed about 30 attackers in
response.
— Associated Press
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understand that manufacturing
does not work like that.”
Before the war, Athlon pro-
duced 100 drones a year, Viunnyk
said. Now it makes 150 a month.
But contracts require months of
planning to buy raw materials.
Viunnyk said he gives officials
the same answer — he cannot
increase production immediately
but can build more next year with
preparation. “I can do that, but tell
me about this right now,” he said.
Ukrainian officials say they are
streamlining the process, led by
the Defense Ministry and the Gen-
eral Staff of the military.
Ukraine is also working with
Western companies like Ger-
many’s Rheinmetall, Britain’s
BAE Systems and Turkey’s Baykar.
Last month, Rheinmetall agreed
on a joint venture to produce
155mm shells and propellants.
Ultimately, Zelensky hopes to
obtain cheap loans and licenses to
manufacture and repair Ameri-
can weapons.
As Ukraine increases arms pro-
duction, Russia has begun target-
ing weapons factories. Many mis-
siles are intercepted, but several
reportedly have found their mark.
Ukraine does not disclose when
a factory is hit. A recent trip by
Washington Post journalists to a
Ukrainian Armor facility produc-
ing mortars was interrupted twice
by air-raid alerts. No Russian mis-
siles or explosive drones were
seen in the vicinity, however.
Ukrainian Armor and other
firms have moved part of their
production outside Ukraine, Poly-
vianyi said.
As a protective measure, com-
panies break up production stag-
es, or duplicate them, and put
them in different locations. Some
critical processes occur under-
ground. All this diminishes out-
put.
Athlon Avia’s Viunnyk said he
divided his operation in Kyiv and
moved part of it to Lviv in western
Ukraine. After a bomb scare in
Lviv, he divided production there,
too. “This decreases our efficien-
cy,” he said. “But we have to do
this, because if we don’t, we could
have a big problem.”
serhiy Morgunov and kostiantyn
khudov contributed to this report.
Boat refugees feared dead off
Indonesia: About 70 Muslim
Rohingya refugees are feared
missing or dead after a boat from
Bangladesh sank off Indonesia’s
coast this week with 75
survivors, U.N. agencies said. A
statement issued jointly by U.N.
High Commissioner for
Refugees, or UNHCR, and the
International Office for
Migration said that accounts
from survivors indicated about
150 people originally were
aboard.
— From wire reports
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Dozens dead, injured

after shooting and fire at
Moscow concert venue
MOsCOW from A1
erupting from the building’s roof.
The roof of the concert venue
partially collapsed and the fire
reached 140,000 square feet, ac-
cording to the state news service
Interfax, which cited emergency
services.
one graphic video showed
shooters firing for a full minute at
point-blank range on a group of
people trapped in an entrance-
way.
At least 40 people were killed
and more than 100 wounded, the
Tass news agency reported, citing
the press office of the federal
Security Service.
moscow’s health ministry said
more than 50 ambulance teams
had been deployed to the venue.
Some foreign embassies in
moscow had issued warnings in
recent weeks urging their citizens
to avoid mass gatherings out of
concern for the risk of terrorist
means,” malofyev wrote on Tele-
gram.
recent intelligence reporting
indicated the ISIS-K terrorist
group, a branch of the Islamic
State that has operated in Af-
ghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, was
active inside russia, two U.S. offi-
cials told The Washington Post.
The U.S. Embassy in moscow said
march 7 that it was “monitoring
reports that extremists have im-
minent plans to target large gath-
erings” in the russian capital,
including concerts, and urged
U.S. citizens to avoid them.
The warning was based in part
on intelligence reporting about
possible ISIS-K activity inside
russia, said the U.S. officials who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to discuss sensitive infor-
mation.
Crocus City Hall is adjacent to a
large shopping mall and was the
site of the 2013 miss Universe
pageant attended by Donald mAxIm shemetov/reuters

attacks.
Ukraine swiftly denied any re-
sponsibility for the attack.
“Ukraine definitely has nothing
to do with these events,” said
mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to
Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky.
Ukraine’s military intelligence
agency blamed russia’s security
services for the operation and
said they would probably use the
fallout to build support for their
war in Ukraine.
The attack was “a planned and
deliberate provocation by the
russian special services at the
behest of Putin,” GUr said in a
Telegram post. Its purpose was to
“justify even tougher strikes on
Ukraine and total mobilization in
russia,” the agency said.
Some senior russian officials,
including former president Dmit-
ry medvedev, blamed the attack
on Kyiv and threatened harsh
retaliation. russian oligarch Kon-
stantin malofyev called for a nu-
clear strike.
“Let’s give the civilian popula-
tion of Ukraine 48 hours to leave
the cities and finally end this war
with the victorious defeat of the
enemy. Using all forces and
Trump — a visit to moscow that
factored into the controversial
“Steele dossier,” a collection of
largely unverified reports that
claimed the russian government
had compromising information
about the future president.
The attack began before the
start of a friday night concert by
the rock band called Picnic. The
musicians were apparently in
their dressing room when it start-
ed. The concert was sold out,
according to ticket agencies, sug-
gesting that as many as 6,200
people may have been in the ven-
ue.
one witness said she was about
to enter with her parents when
the attack began.
“We were literally three steps
away from the entrance when the
shooting started … and a man fell
down dead in front of me,” the
girl, who gave her name as Anna,
told the russian channel TV rain
in a telephone interview. “People
started shouting, ‘run, they’re
shooting!’ We didn’t realize it at
first, because it sounded like fire-
crackers.”
Another witness counted “at
least five” attackers, armed with
assault rifles, ammunition and
ABOVE: Firefighters work at Crocus City Hall in Moscow on Friday. A large fire erupted at the concert venue during a deadly shooting,
with flames reaching 140,000 square feet, according to state media. BELOW: People stand outside Crocus City Hall on Friday.
armored vests.
“They act like trained fighters,”
the witness told mash, a russian
Telegram channel. “At the mo-
ment of entering the building, the
guards and people standing at the
door were killed. Then they
blocked the main entrance.”
As condolences and condem-
nations from world leaders
AFP/getty ImAges
poured in, moscow mayor Sergei
Sobyanin ordered assistance for
those affected by the attack and
said authorities would cancel all
cultural, sport and other mass
gatherings for the weekend.
Valentina matviyenko, the
speaker of russia’s federation
Council, said that “those who are
behind this monstrous crime will
suffer a well-deserved and inevi-
table punishment.”
opposition politician Yulia Na-
valnaya called the attack “a night-
mare.”
“Everyone involved in this
crime must be found and held
accountable,” Navalnaya, whose
husband, Alexei Navalny, died
last month in a russian prison
colony, wrote on social media.
Initial reports by russian me-
dia suggested that some assail-
ants might have barricaded them-
selves inside and that there could
be at least 100 people still in the
building — some potentially
trapped by fire on an upper floor.
Video appeared to show panicked
concertgoers diving under seats
as the sound of gunfire echoed
around the hall. Some tried to
escape through underground
basements but found exit doors
locked.
The scene outside the venue
was chaotic. Emergency workers
tended to the wounded while fire-
fighters battled the blaze from the
ground and helicopters above.
Journalists covering the attack
were reportedly beaten and forci-
bly removed from the scene by
police.
moscow regional governor
Alexei Vorobyov said that at least
20 people had been hospitalized
and that five were in critical con-
dition.
russia has suffered several ter-
rorist attacks over the years,
many of them related to its wars
in Chechnya and authorities’ sup-
pression of radical Islamist
groups.
In 2011, an explosion at mos-
cow’s Domodedovo airport killed
37 people and injured 72.
In october 2002, heavily
armed Chechen terrorists seized
the Dubrovka Theater in moscow
and held hundreds of hostages for
three days. At least 150 people
died, the great majority due to
russian special forces’ decision to
fill the venue with gas.
siobhán o’grady and Kostiantyn
Khudov in Kyiv, robyn Dixon and
Natalia Abbakumova in riga, Latvia,
and shane harris in Washington
contributed to this report.

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Russia hits energy
targets in Ukraine
Strikes illustrate need for
Patriot air defense in
cities, Zelensky says
BY S IOBHÁN O ’ G RADY
AND K OSTIANTYN K HUDOV
KYIV — Russia launched a mas-
sive missile and drone attack on
Ukrainian cities early Friday that
destroyed energy infrastructure,
caused power blackouts in differ-
ent regions and killed several peo-
ple — highlighting the country’s
urgent need for stronger air de-
fenses outside Kyiv.
The strikes, which hit
Ukraine’s largest hydroelectric
power plant in the southeastern
city of Zaporizhzhia, amounted to
“the largest attack on the Ukraini-
an energy sector in recent times,”
Ukrainian Energy Minister Ger-
man Galushchenko said.
Ukrainian President Volod-
ymyr Zelensky said Friday the
strikes showed that Zaporizhzhia
and Kharkiv, in the northeast,
urgently need Patriot air defense
systems to protect infrastructure
and civilians as Ukraine waits for
more Western aid, including $60
billion blocked in Congress by
House Speaker Mike Johnson
(R-La.).
Ukraine has long requested
more air defense to protect major
cities from such attacks. Defend-
ing Kharkiv — just 19 miles from
the Russian border — is especially
complicated because missiles can
travel so quickly from inside Rus-
sia that even advanced air defense
systems would struggle to re-
spond in time.
“There are no delays in Russian
missiles, as in aid packages to our
state,” Zelensky said. “Shaheds do
not have indecision, like some
politicians,” he continued, refer-
ring to the Iranian drones that
Russia regularly launches at
Ukraine. “It is important to un-
Russia, China veto U.S.-written resolution on Gaza cease-fire
BY K AREN D E Y OUNG
Russia and China on Friday
vetoed a U.S.-written resolution
before the U.N. Security Council
that set out the “imperative of an
immediate and sustained cease-
fire” in Gaza, tied to the release of
Hamas hostages, and warned
against any ground offensive
into Rafah.
Using language reminiscent of
the Cold War, Russia called the
measure a “hypocritical initia-
tive” and an “empty political
exercise” that played into U.S.
and Israeli hands. “If you do this,
you will cover yourselves in dis-
grace,” Russian Ambassador Vas-
ily Nebenzya said before the
vote.
Over the past several months,
the council majority has repeat-
edly called for an immediate,
unconditional cease-fire in reso-
lutions vetoed by the United
States on grounds that they did
Biden administration weighs Israel’s claims of compliance with laws of war
BY K AREN D E Y OUNG,
J OHN H UDSON
AND Y ASMEEN A BUTALEB
A group of 17 Democratic sena-
tors is calling on the Biden ad-
ministration to reject Israel’s
claims that it is not violating
international law by restricting
humanitarian aid amid a grow-
ing debate in Washington over
whether the United States
should suspend arms transfers to
the government of Prime Minis-
ter Benjamin Netanyahu.
The State Department last
week received Israel’s written
assurances that its use of
U.S.-supplied weapons in the
Gaza war has not violated inter-
national or U.S. laws in its con-
duct of the war and protection of
civilians, including the provision
of sufficient aid.
The assurances were sent in
response to a national security
memorandum issued by Presi-
dent Biden in early February.
That notice reiterated existing
standards that countries receiv-
ing U.S. weapons must adhere to
and set out a timeline for re-
sponses with “credible and reli-
able” assurances that those stan-
dards are being met. The memo
also gives the secretaries of State
and Defense 45 days within
which to assess those assurances
and recommend to the president
if remedial action — including
possible suspension of arms sup-
plies — should be taken.
derstand the cost of delays and
delayed decisions.”
Adrienne Watson, spokeswom-
an for the White House National
Security Council, condemned the
strikes Friday and said the United
States must “provide Ukraine
more air defenses to defend
against these attacks.”
“Lives are on the line,” Watson
wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
“House Republicans must pass
the national security supplemen-
tal ASAP.”
Early Friday, 15 blasts were
heard in Kharkiv, and power and
water supplies were cut off, May-
or Ihor Terekhov said. The strike
left the city in a total blackout —
meaning even the siren system
that warns residents about in-
coming air attacks was not func-
tioning. Instead, air raid alarms
would be sent directly to mobile
devices. Police and other emer-
gency officials would also walk
the streets with loudspeakers to
announce any alarms, officials
said.
By Friday evening, the power
was still out in Kharkiv, officials
said.
Traffic lights and emergency
service phones were also not
working, although new numbers
have been shared for civilians in
need of assistance, officials said.
The strikes in Zaporizhzhia also
struck a trolley bus.
“Even last winter, the attacks
on our energy system were not as
big as last night,” Volodymyr
Kudrytskyi, the chief executive of
Ukrenergo, the state energy sup-
plier, told Ukrainian news outlet
Radio Svoboda.
Mariia Tsaturian, chief com-
munications officer at Ukrener-
go, said that the company’s ultra
high voltage substations “were
damaged today, some of them
severely.”
After severe attacks on their
infrastructure last year, Ukrener-
go bulked up its security proto-
cols and protection of its facili-
ties, Tsaturian said in a phone
not condemn Hamas or demand
the simultaneous release of Is-
raeli hostages it holds. The third
and most recent U.S. veto came
on Feb. 20, when it opposed an
Algeria-sponsored measure de-
manding an immediate cease-
fire.
Secretary of State Antony
Blinken, speaking Friday as he
departed from Tel Aviv on his
latest trip to the Middle East,
condemned the “cynical” Rus-
sian and Chinese vetoes. “We
were trying to show the interna-
tional community a sense of
urgency about getting a cease-
fire tied to the release of hostag-
es, something that everyone, in-
cluding the countries that ve-
toed the resolution should have
been able to get behind,” Blinken
said. “It’s unimaginable why
countries wouldn’t be able to do
that.”
The Friday resolution was put
on the table after weeks of U.S.
But the new reporting and
assessment requirements have
led to widespread confusion
within and outside the adminis-
tration. Some international aid
organizations, and some law-
makers, have interpreted them to
mean that Sunday’s deadline for
receiving the assurances is also
the deadline for a presidential
decision on withholding arms
from Israel and six other coun-
tries deemed to be currently
involved in armed conflict.
The State Department is work-
ing to assess by Sunday whether
Israel’s assurances are “credible
and reliable,” said a senior U.S.
official, speaking on the condi-
tion of anonymity about the deli-
cate matter. At Friday’s White
House briefing, National Secu-
rity Council spokesman John
Kirby said that Secretary of State
Antony Blinken has already “de-
termined that the information
[Israel] provided was credible
and reliable.”
Both of those assertions, sev-
eral other U.S. officials said, are
inaccurate. While Sunday is the
assurance deadline — and any
concerns could be reported to
and acted upon by the president
at any time — the administration
does not expect to make a com-
plete assessment of credibility
until the State Department is
due, under the terms of the
memo, to report its findings to
Congress on May 8, the officials
said.
eZ re
A fire rages near a high-voltage line at the site of a Russian missile strike outside Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Friday. Ukrainian Energy Minister
German Galushchenko said the strikes were “the largest attack on the Ukrainian energy sector in recent times.”
interview. Such measures saved
lives Friday, she said, because
employees are aware that power
facilities are a key target and
“know what to do during the air
raid alert.”
The attack caused power out-
ages in the Dnipropetrovsk re-
gion, where 1,060 miners were
working underground at coal
mining facilities run by Ukraini-
an energy conglomerate DTEK.
All work has been halted, and
most of the miners have since
been evacuated, the company
said Friday.
Maksym Timchenko, DTEK’s
chief executive, was on a flight
from D.C. to London when the
strikes hit early Friday. In Wash-
ington, he had met business and
congressional leaders to advocate
for investment in Ukraine’s en-
attempts to accommodate other
views amid Washington’s inter-
national isolation over support
for Israel’s war effort and the
Biden administration’s growing
concern over the deteriorating
humanitarian situation in Gaza.
In appealing for support, U.S.
Ambassador Linda Thomas-
Greenfield said that the resolu-
tion reflected an effort to over-
come divisions within the Secu-
rity Council. “It would be a
historic mistake for the council
not to adopt this text,” she said
before the vote. The measure
marked the first time the United
States directly called for an “im-
mediate” cease-fire. It also con-
demned Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on
Israel that killed about 1,200
people and began the war.
“First and foremost, we want
to see an immediate and sus-
tained cease-fire as part of a deal
that leads to the release of all
hostages being held by Hamas
Early next week, the State
Department plans to announce
only that the applicable coun-
tries have met the deadline to
submit their responses, signed by
credible senior officials of those
countries. In Israel’s case, that
came in a letter from Defense
Minister Yoav Gallant.
Asked about his remarks,
Kirby said in an email that he
“misspoke earlier today when
speaking to the State Depart-
ment process regarding assur-
ances from Israel about the secu-
rity assistance we provide. Secre-
tary Blinken has not made a
determination yet about those
assurances. I regret the error.”
But attempts at clarification of
the timeline have not stopped
critics and those concerned
about the administration’s Israel
policy from moving to push
Biden to take action.
The administration has main-
tained an increasingly difficult
balance between its commitment
to Israel’s right to self-defense
and elimination of Hamas, and
its dismay over the military of-
fensive in Gaza, where local au-
thorities put the death toll from
Israeli air and ground attacks at
more than 32,000.
The president and his senior
aides became especially angered
after a humanitarian aid convoy
delivery in northern Gaza on Feb.
29 turned deadly as Israel De-
fense Forces opened fire on starv-
ing civilians who stampeded the
ergy sector and help financing the
decentralization of its energy sup-
ply, a strategy that he hopes will
prevent massive damage from
Russian attacks. For instance,
transitioning energy production
to wind turbine farms, would
spread out the targets, he said.
When Timchenko landed and
reconnected his phone, he
learned the strikes had caused
major damage to DTEK power
stations and cut power to several
regions across the country — the
exact risk he had warned about in
Washington.
Two of his company’s power
stations are inoperable and the
company’s overall capacity was
reduced by at least half, he said.
To restore up to 25 percent of
overall capacity will take at least a
month. Replacing high-voltage
and other groups, and that will
allow much more lifesaving hu-
manitarian aid to get into Gaza,”
Thomas-Greenfield said before
the vote.
Russia and China, both of
which are among the five perma-
nent members that wield veto
power over the 15-member coun-
cil, were joined in opposing the
measure by Algeria, a rotational
member representing Arab
countries on the council. Guyana
abstained.
A number of countries sup-
porting the new U.S. resolution
had voted for the previous mea-
sures demanding a “clean” call
for an immediate and uncondi-
tional cease-fire. Like Guyana,
they questioned the absence of
any mention of Israel as the
perpetrator of the humanitarian
situation it decried. While many
insisted the hostages still held
by Hamas must be released,
some said that the death and
delivery trucks. U.S. officials,
who have been increasingly pub-
lic in their demands of Israel, saw
the incident as the epitome of the
Netanyahu government’s failure
to facilitate more aid into Gaza.
Biden aides have been espe-
cially distressed by the warnings
of an imminent famine there and
reports of children dying of mal-
nutrition and starvation, accord-
ing to a person familiar with the
discussions, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to dis-
close private conversations.
The administration has
sought to pressure Israel to work
toward a weeks-long cease-fire,
enabling a massive surge in aid,
without going so far as to halt
weapons deliveries for it to con-
tinue its war against Hamas.
“The humanitarian situation is
literally intolerable — it’s a blight
on the consciousness of humani-
ty. This kind of thing can’t hap-
pen in the modern day and age,”
one White House adviser said.
“It’s the humanitarian situation
that has tipped us over the line
into open confrontation with the
Israelis.”
Earlier this week, Human
Rights Watch and Oxfam called
on the Biden administration to
quickly rule that any Israeli as-
surances are “not credible” and
to impose the “immediate sus-
pension” of arms transfers. They
issued a joint report document-
ing what they said were clear
“violations of international hu-
the washington post
transformers poses another chal-
lenge, because the production
time is eight to 10 months.
“We lost so much capacity be-
cause it’s highly concentrated,”
Timchenko said. “It was one of
the worst attacks since the full-
scale invasion and one of the
worst consequences for us and for
our production facilities.”
The strikes came just as warm-
er weather has begun in Ukraine.
Although Russia launched some
attacks on energy infrastructure
this winter, such strikes were less
common and less damaging than
the year before. Friday’s barrage
followed another large missile as-
sault directed at Kyiv early Thurs-
day, which caused some damage
to local infrastructure but was
largely deflected by the capital’s
air defense systems.
deprivation inflicted on civilians
in Gaza was so severe that it
should be addressed on its own
with an unequivocal cease-fire
demand.
The Biden administration,
along with Qatar and Egypt, has
been locked in negotiations for
weeks with Israel and Hamas
over the terms of an initial
six-week cease-fire that would
see the release of some hostages
and a massive increase in hu-
manitarian aid to Gaza. Both the
administration and Israel have
said that Hamas shouldn’t be
given “something for nothing” in
the form of a cease-fire without
returning the hostages.
Blinken, in remarks to report-
ers, said progress was being
made in the negotiations, “clos-
ing gaps.” But, he said, “almost by
definition when you get down to
the last items, they tend to be the
hardest. So there’s still a lot of …
hard work to be done, but we’re
manitarian law, deprivation of
services critical to the survival of
the civilian population and arbi-
trary denial and restrictions of
humanitarian aid.”
“If Blinken certifies that Israel
is not impeding the delivery of
humanitarian aid,” said Jeremy
Konyndyk, president of Refugees
International and a former
USAID official under the Obama
administration, it will demon-
strate that “the whole process” of
assessing its compliance with
international law “has no credi-
bility to begin with.”
“What we are seeing now is
not just that a famine is occur-
ring on the watch of this admin-
istration and these leaders, but
they have the means to stop it
and they are failing to do so,”
Konyndyk said. Like others, he
referred to Blinken’s determina-
tion as “an important pivot
point, because it really tells us a
lot about whether they intend to
stop this famine.”
In a statement provided Friday
to The Washington Post, the
Democratic senators — including
Chris Van Hollen (Md.), Dick
Durbin (Ill.) and Elizabeth War-
ren (Mass.) — urged the State
Department to reject any assur-
ances from Israel given its “exces-
sively burdensome restrictions …
on the flow of aid from land
crossings into Gaza and within
Gaza.”
“We believe it would be incon-
sistent with the letter and spirit”
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sofiia Gatilova/reuters
Air defense is key to protecting
the country’s energy systems,
Timchenko said. “They will con-
tinue attacks as long as we don’t
have enough air defense systems,”
he said. “None of the so-called
passive protection that we built —
sandbags, concrete blocks — can
protect us [against] ballistic mis-
siles.”
On Friday, Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov said that although
Russia still legally considers the
war in Ukraine to be a “special
military operation,” the involve-
ment of Western countries in sup-
porting Ukraine has pushed Rus-
sia to “a state of war.”
“De facto, it turned into a war
for us after the collective West has
been increasing its level of in-
volvement in the conflict more
and more,” Peskov said.
determined to try to get it done.”
In remarks after the council
vote, Thomas-Greenfield focused
most of her attention on Russia,
which she said had “two deeply,
deeply cynical reasons” for its
opposition.
“Russia still could not bring
themselves to condemn Hamas
terrorist attacks,” she said. Call-
ing the second reason “petty,”
she said that Russia “simply did
not want to vote for a resolution
that was penned by the United
States. … It would rather see us
fail than to allow this council to
succeed.”
“Russia, which has carried out
an unprovoked war on its neigh-
bor, has the audacity and the
hypocrisy to throw stones when
it lives in a glass house,” she said,
referring to the Russian invasion
of Ukraine.
Michael Birnbaum in tel aviv
contributed to this report.
of the memorandum, which
Biden adopted in large part in
response to pressure from Van
Hollen and others, “to find that
assurances made by the Netanya-
hu government meet the ‘cred-
ible and reliable’ standard at this
time.”
If Blinken does validate the
Israeli claims, Van Hollen said in
an interview Friday, “it would be
a bad precedent globally to sug-
gest the kind of barriers that
have been in place to humanitar-
ian assistance in Gaza are an
acceptable threshold.”
“This is a tool to try to prevent
humanitarian catastrophes, to
try to prevent people from liter-
ally dying of starvation. … I don’t
see how anybody could possibly
determine the situation within
Gaza right now suggests there is
an acceptable humanitarian de-
livery system and it’s pretty clear
that the restrictions that have
been imposed by the Netanyahu
government are the main con-
tributor to the humanitarian cri-
sis there,” Van Hollen added.
But that sense of outrage
hasn’t crossed the aisle for many
in Congress. Even as the Demo-
cratic senators were releasing
their statement, Sen. Tim Scott
(R-S.C.) introduced a “sense of
the Senate” resolution, co-spon-
sored by 23 other Republicans,
saying that “Israel has the inher-
ent right to defend itself and take
necessary steps to eradicate the
terrorist threat posed by Hamas.”
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Biden administration’s rhetoric grows tougher as Israeli leaders remain defiant
GAzA from A1
ministry, more than 31,000 Pales-
tinians have been killed during
Israel’s five-month military cam-
paign, which was launched in
response to the Hamas-led oct. 7
attacks in which militants killed
some 1,200 people in southern
Israel and took more than 250
hostage.
While the Health ministry
does not distinguish between ci-
vilians and combatants in its
published death toll, Palestinian
officials say most of the dead are
women and children. many
across the besieged enclave are
now fighting for survival: on
monday, a U.N.-backed report
said that famine may already
have reached the northern region
and that more than half of Gaza’s
2.2 million residents face cata-
strophic levels of hunger.
Before his arrival friday, Blink-
en spent days meeting with Arab
leaders to try to finalize a plan for
post-conflict Gaza that would
eventually lead to Palestinian
statehood. The West Bank land
seizure would directly under-
mine that effort.
A major military ground oper-
ation in rafah “risks killing more
civilians; it risks wreaking great-
er havoc with the provision of
humanitarian assistance,” Blink-
en told reporters in Tel Aviv after
his day of meetings with Israeli
leaders. “It risks further isolating
Israel around the world and jeop-
ardizing its long-term security
and standing.”
The Biden administration has
provided strong support to Israel
throughout the conflict, approv-
ing more than 100 weapons sales
to the country since oct. 7 and
providing diplomatic cover at the
U.N. Security Council, where it
has vetoed a number of resolu-
tions calling for an immediate
cease-fire.
for now, U.S. leaders appear
unwilling to use the most direct
leverage they have, which would
involve imposing conditions on
the supply of U.S. military equip-
ment to Israel. Blinken was asked
repeatedly during his trip wheth-
er the United States might halt or
slow aid to Israel if it invades
rafah or if the conflict continues,
and each time he said he would
not speculate about hypotheti-
cals.
But as American frustrations
over Israel’s conduct in the war
increase, the Biden administra-
tion’s rhetoric, at least, has grown
tougher, and on friday, U.S. rep-
resentatives at the Security Coun-
cil sponsored a resolution calling
for a pause in the fighting. It was
vetoed by russia and China.
While Biden has summoned
senior Israeli officials to Wash-
ington next week to outline U.S.
concerns about a rafah invasion
and to suggest tactics that might
target Hamas without major loss
of civilian life, Netanyahu
showed little sign friday that he
was about to relent.
“I told him we acknowledge
the need to evacuate civilians
from war zones and of course take
care of humanitarian needs, and
we are making sure this hap-
pens,” Netanyahu said in a video
statement following his meeting
with Blinken. “But I also told him
Israeli raid on al-Shifa Hospital continues for fifth day, deepening concerns
BYK AREEM F AHIM,
H AJAR H ARB,
M OHAMAD E L C HAMAA
AND M IRIAM B ERGER
Israel said friday its raid on
Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital was con-
tinuing for a fifth day, with the
large-scale military operation
provoking alarm among global
health officials as well as resi-
dents in the enclave’s devastated
north, who were hoping for a
ramadan cease-fire but were in-
stead sheltering from the latest
violence.
The Israeli military has cast
the operation as advancing their
goal of destroying Hamas, report-
ing that more than 150 people
they said were terrorists have
been killed and hundreds of sus-
pects detained since the opera-
tion began. The claims could not
immediately be verified.
Satellite images showed ar-
mored Israeli vehicles surround-
ing the hospital on several sides,
and residents said the raid had
introduced a new, destabilizing
chapter of violence into northern
Gaza at a time when people were
already struggling to survive.
As aid groups have labored to
transport food and other essen-
tial supplies into the north, an
international body that deter-
mines food insecurity has called
the likelihood of famine in the
area “imminent.” And al-Shifa
Hospital, once Gaza’s largest and
. the washington post
“I told him we hope
we can do it with the
support of the U.S.,
but if needed, we’ll
do it by ourselves.”
Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu,
after a meeting with secretary
of state Antony Blinken over
plans to invade rafah
there’s no way to defeat Hamas
without entering rafah and elim-
inating the rest of Hamas’s battal-
ions. I told him we hope we can do
it with the support of the U.S., but
if needed, we’ll do it by ourselves.”
Tensions also flared friday at
the Security Council as russia
and China vetoed the U.S.-led
resolution that urged agreement
on a sustained cease-fire in the
Gaza Strip, tied to the release of
Hamas hostages.
In appealing for support, Lin-
da Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S.
ambassador to the United Na-
tions, said the resolution reflect-
ed an effort to overcome council
divisions. It marked the first time
that the United States has directly
most advanced medical facility, is
now barely equipped after
months of war and a previous
Israeli raid to treat hundreds of
patients that doctors said depend
on them for care.
“Accessing al-Shifa is now im-
possible, and there are reports of
health workers being arrested
and detained,” Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, the director gener-
al of the World Health organiza-
tion, wrote on X on Thursday. The
situation, he wrote, “could impact
the hospital’s ability to function,
even minimally, and deprive peo-
ple of critical, lifesaving care.”
“We repeat once again: hospi-
tals are not battlegrounds. They
must be protected in line with
international humanitarian law.”
The Israeli operation at al-Shi-
fa is the latest in a string of
attacks that have damaged or
shut major hospitals, battering
an overwhelmed health system,
humanitarian groups say. The
Israeli military says Hamas has
used the facilities for military
activities, a claim the militant
group denies.
Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, Israel’s
chief of staff, who visited the
hospital Wednesday, said the goal
of the operation in Gaza was
striking a blow to Hamas and
“putting pressure on the negotia-
tions,” referring to ongoing talks
aimed at securing a cease-fire
between Israel and Hamas.
But the operation — more than
israel-gaza war
TOP: Families and supporters of Israeli hostages being held in Gaza demonstrate in Tel Aviv on Friday
during a protest calling for their return. ABOVE: A woman sits in her destroyed home in Rafah, in the
southern Gaza Strip, on Friday. Israel has rebuffed U.S. calls not to invade the city.
called for an “immediate” cease-
fire. It also condemned Hamas’s
oct. 7 attack on Israel.
But calling the measure a “hyp-
ocritical initiative” that played
into U.S. and Israeli hands, rus-
sian Ambassador Vasily Neben-
zya told members, “If you do this,
you will cover yourselves in dis-
grace.”
russia and China have called
for an immediate cease-fire with-
out conditions. Nebenzya
charged that the U.S. wording of
the resolution — which joined its
cease-fire call with support for
U.S. efforts to negotiate a tempo-
rary pause in fighting while hos-
tages are released and humani-
tarian aid is increased — an effort
six months into the war — re-
called the intense fighting of the
conflict’s early weeks and high-
lighted both the ability of Hamas
fighters to regroup as well as the
challenges Israel faced in meet-
ing its own stated war goals.
The Israeli military, which has
said it was “preventing harm to
civilians, patients” and medical
teams, said friday that over the
“past days, the forces eliminated
more than 150 terrorists in the
area of the hospital, apprehended
hundreds of suspects and located
weapons and terror infrastruc-
ture.” Hamas in recent days has
posted videos from the area,
showing militants attacking Is-
raeli troops.
Israel said monday that the
raid on al-Shifa had killed faiq
mabhouh, who the Israeli mili-
tary identified as a senior official
with Hamas’s internal security
division and the coordinator of
the group’s militant activities
across Gaza.
Hamas said that mabhouh was
the director of police operations
who coordinated and protected
aid deliveries. The Post could not
immediately confirm his role. Po-
lice officers, who were civil serv-
ants under Hamas’s prewar gov-
ernment, played a key role guard-
ing international aid convoys un-
til last month, when Israel began
targeting them.
In interviews with The Post, a
doctor and residents said people
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to “sell a product.”
“The American product is ex-
ceedingly politicized,” he said,
“the sole purpose of which is to
help play to the [U.S.] voters, to
throw them a bone in the form of
some kind of a mention of a
cease-fire.”
responding to the vote on the
resolution, which Algeria also op-
posed, Thomas-Greenfield said it
could impede the cease-fire and
hostage-release negotiations.
“russia, which has carried out
an unprovoked war on its neigh-
bor, has the audacity and the
hypocrisy to throw stones when it
lives in a glass house,” she said,
referring to the russian invasion
of Ukraine.
had been forced to shelter in the
hospital’s wards or in their
homes, fearing they would be
shot or arrested if they ventured
out. meanwhile, food and water
were prevented from reaching
the area.
“The situation is catastrophic,”
osama Al-Ashi, a resident of the
al-rimal neighborhood, near the
hospital, said in a voice message
Thursday. The clashes of recent
days had subsided for the mo-
ment, he said. But his family and
neighbors who had been shelter-
ing in his house had taken to
crawling from room to room to
avoid the windows. Everyone was
sleeping in the kitchen, he said.
“We can barely lift our heads,”
he said.
But they could hear weapons,
“all kinds,” including warplanes
and armed drones. Buildings had
been felled by airstrikes, sending
up plumes of smoke. “my wife is
pregnant, and this causes me
great fear,” he said. “I do not know
what to expect, or what to do.” He
had considered fleeing south,
“but the intensity of the strikes
and fire prevented us from mov-
ing,” he said. Late friday, his
family was finally able to flee, he
said.
mahmoud Bassel, a spokes-
man for Gaza’s Civil Defense, said
in a message that at least seven
houses around al-Shifa had been
targeted, killing civilians.
The Israeli assault on the hos-
oded BAlilty/AP
mohAmmed sAlem/reuters
U.S. officials say they are near-
ing an agreement with Arab na-
tions to present Israel with a
package deal to resolve the Gaza
situation with an eventual goal of
establishing a Palestinian state.
The package would include a
plan for how to administer Gaza
and rebuild the bombarded terri-
tory, and Arab states would offer
guarantees for Israel’s security.
Saudi Arabia would normalize
relations with Israel, a major step
in Israel’s ties with the region. In
return, Israeli leaders would have
to agree to a two-state solution
and to other steps that would
boost the legitimacy of the Pales-
tinian Authority, which Netanya-
hu has long derided.
pital started early monday, said
Amr fawzi Jedbah, a 31-year old
vascular surgeon. “We heard an
explosion, a weird one. We looked
out of the window to see what
happened and saw tanks around
the hospital,” he said in a phone
interview Wednesday. Within
minutes after Israeli forces ar-
rived, a representative from the
military told people there that
“they have conquered al-Shifa
and everyone is under arrest.”
The military started interro-
gating displaced people shelter-
ing in the hospital and then the
doctors, using facial recognition.
Staff members were detained or
told to leave, Jedbah said. He was
instructed to go home but plead-
ed with an Arabic-speaking offi-
cer to stay, saying he was the only
vascular surgeon in Gaza, with
many patients in the hospital.
“I told him that since you came,
there is no food or drink and
electricity and water are shut off,”
he said. “He told me that will find
a solution with the higher com-
mand.”
After the detentions and evac-
uations of hundreds of patients,
150 to 200 patients who could not
walk remained with a handful of
doctors, Jedbah said. At least
nine patients — including two in
the intensive care unit — died
from lack of treatment, he said.
Jedbah added that he did not
know what happened to col-
leagues and others who were
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The plan, in effect, is a shoot-
the-moon effort to try to end the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict once
and for all — and U.S. officials
acknowledge it is a long shot with
the current Israeli government.
But they say that, having created
the vision, they hope it will be
attractive enough to Israelis that
they decide to pursue it.
U.S. officials hope to be able to
present the plan during a cease-
fire and hostage release — which
Blinken said continue to be nego-
tiated in Qatar between Israel
and Hamas, with Qatari, Egyp-
tian and U.S. teams as interlocu-
tors.
“We have teams in Doha, and
as I said, we’ve gotten it down to a
few remaining gaps, but the clos-
er you get to the goal line, the
harder that last yard is, so there
are some hard issues to work
through,” Blinken said.
While in Tel Aviv, Blinken met
in private with the families of U.S.
citizens being held hostage by
Hamas. As he departed, he also
spoke briefly to a group of family
members of Israeli hostages and
their supporters, who were dem-
onstrating to ask for his help in
achieving a cease-fire and hos-
tage deal. “We’re working to bring
them home,” Blinken said as he
shook their hands on a street near
the Tel Aviv beachfront.
“There’s a lot of tragedy and
pain and suffering in this area
and we want the Americans to
help us end the bloodshed,” said
Tzipi Haitovsky, one of the orga-
nizers of the demonstration.
In Gaza, people described the
deepening horrors of a conflict
with no clear end in sight.
Tahani Qaoud, 38, a mother of
two living in the besieged north-
ern region, couldn’t find diapers
or milk for her 6-month-old
daughter, or food and water to
quiet her hungry 3-year-old, she
said by phone.
Her husband, Ahmed, was
among hundreds of desperate Ga-
zans who had thronged aid trucks
that reached Gaza City’s Kuwait
circle last week. Ahmed was
struck by a tank shell and bled to
death, Qaoud said.
The Israeli military denied that
its forces fired any weapons into
the crowds.
Any pause in hostilities would
be used to try to rapidly increase
the flow of aid into Gaza. on
Tuesday, the United Nations’ top
human rights official, Volker
Türk, described the humanitari-
an crisis as “human-made” and
“entirely preventable.”
“The situation of hunger, star-
vation and famine is a result of
Israel’s extensive restrictions on
the entry and distribution of hu-
manitarian aid and commercial
goods, displacement of most of
the population, as well as the
destruction of crucial civilian in-
frastructure,” he said.
Israel denies that it is limiting
the flow of aid into Gaza, blaming
the United Nations for failing to
distribute aid and Hamas mili-
tants for diverting it from those in
need.
deyoung reported from Washington,
loveluck from london, and Berger
from Jerusalem. Alon rom in tel Aviv
and susannah George in Al udeid,
Qatar, contributed to this report.
detained.
He said he was not able to
confirm allegations by Hamas
that dozens of civilians had been
executed, saying he avoided look-
ing out the windows for fear of
being shot. He said he did not
know why Israeli forces raided
the facility.
“We were all civilians here, and
this is a hospital,” he said. “We are
doctors; our job is to treat peo-
ple.”
A 37-year-old resident of the
area named Kareem, who lived a
few hundred yards away from the
hospital, said he and his family
were asleep monday when the
raid got underway with “booms
and strikes.” “We didn’t realize
they would raid al-Shifa again,”
he said. Kareem spoke on the
condition that only his first name
be used for fear of retribution.
Early the next morning, they
were able to escape, heading
north and then east. “I don’t
know if my house is still there,
damaged or destroyed,” he said.
“This is not life. This is not
something we can handle.”
During the holy month of ra-
madan — a time of fasting, and
evening gatherings to break the
fast — “suddenly we are displaced
again,” he said. “I have my wife
and three children with me,
struggling to find food every day.”
hazem Balousha and Jonathan
Baran contributed to this report.
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Catherine
announces
cancer
diagnosis
CAnCeR frOm A1
present,” she said. “As you can
imagine, this has taken time. It
has taken me time to recover
from major surgery in order to
start my treatment. But most
importantly it has taken us time
to explain everything to George,
Charlotte and Louis,” she said,
referring to her three children,
“in a way that is appropriate for
them and to reassure them that I
will be okay.”
She said that she was undergo-
ing preventive chemotherapy
and was focused on making a full
recovery. “I am well and getting
stronger every day,” she said.
The disclosure comes during a
difficult time for royal health. In
february, Buckingham Palace
announced that King Charles III
had cancer. The month before,
Sarah ferguson, the ex-wife of
Prince Andrew, said that she had
been diagnosed with malignant
melanoma, a form of skin cancer.
The palace has not revealed
what type of cancer either
Charles or Catherine has. In the
U.K., 1 in 2 people will develop
some form of cancer during their
lifetime, according to the Nation-
al Health Service. The four most
common types are breast cancer,
lung cancer, prostate cancer and
bowel cancer.
referring to his daughter-in-
law, Charles said he was “so
proud of Catherine for her cour-
age in speaking as she did.”
Prince Harry and meghan, the
Duke and Duchess of Sussex, said
in a statement: “We wish health
and healing for Kate and the
family, and hope they are able to
do so privately and in peace.”
The announcement was her
first public address following
months of speculation about her
health, as she had not made an
official public appearance since
Christmas. Kensington Palace
said in January that she had
“successful” abdominal surgery
and would not resume her offi-
cial duties until after Easter. The
palace did not disclose what kind
of procedure it was, only that it
was “planned” and the issue was
“noncancerous.”
A number of world leaders
took to social media to voice
their support for Catherine on
friday.
British Prime minister rishi
Sunak said in a statement that
his thoughts were with Cather-
Prince Harry, others seek to expand case against Murdoch tabloids
BY K ARLA A DAM
AND E LLEN F RANCIS
LONDON — Prince Harry has long
maintained that rupert murdoch
and his executives knew more
than they let on about unlawful
information-gathering at his Brit-
ish tabloids, the subject of a ruin-
ous scandal a dozen years ago.
Now, three months after win-
ning a court victory against an-
other media company for phone
hacking and other intrusive be-
havior, Harry has turned his sights
back to the 93-year-old executive
and his media empire.
This week, the prince and other
prominent figures — including ac-
tor Hugh Grant and director Guy
ritchie — sought to amend their
ongoing lawsuit against mur-
doch’s News Group Newspapers.
During a three-day hearing at the
High Court of Justice, their law-
yers asserted that murdoch per-
sonally knew about his reporters’
privacy-invading practices much
earlier than he had admitted.
Harry’s lawyers are also seeking
to change the scope of the lawsuit
to include claims regarding more
than a dozen current and former
executives at murdoch’s media
empire, whom they claim were
aware of or involved in an effort to
conceal evidence of wrongdoing.
They include William Lewis, now
the publisher and CEO of The
Washington Post; rebekah
Brooks, CEO of News UK, a subsid-
iary of murdoch’s News Corp.; and
James murdoch, the son who has
since left the family business.
The case is scheduled for trial in
January 2025. A decision on
whether the litigants can expand
the suit will be made in weeks.
In a statement, a spokesperson
for News Group Newspapers
called the latest claims a “scurri-
lous and cynical attack” on its
employees’ integrity.
The company apologized in
2011 for phone hacking and has
been paying financial damages to
victims, the statement noted, add-
ing that many of the claims aired
this week “have been investigated
Catherine, Princess of Wales, in July. The announcement of her diagnosis was her first public address, as she has not made an official public appearance since Christmas.
ine and her family. “The Princess
of Wales has the love and support
of the whole country as she
continues her recovery,” he said,
adding that her video address
showed “tremendous bravery.”
Sunak said that Catherine had
been “subjected to intense scruti-
ny and has been unfairly treated
by certain sections of the media
around the world and on social
media” since her operation.
Keir Starmer, leader of Brit-
ain’s Labour Party, said he was
“heartened by the Princess of
Wales’ optimistic tone and her
message of faith and hope.”
“Any cancer diagnosis is
shocking,” Starmer said in a
statement. “But I can only imag-
ine the added stress of receiving
that news amid the lurid specula-
tion we’ve seen in recent weeks.”
He added that Catherine and her
family, “like any parents, will
have waited to choose the right
moment to tell their children.”
Other U.K. politicians, includ-
ing the first ministers of North-
ern Ireland and Scotland, mi-
chelle O’Neill and Humza Yousaf,
in depth on previous occasions.”
British royals are often very re-
luctant to take on the British
press. “Never complain, never ex-
plain” is the unofficial royal motto.
But Harry, the younger son of
King Charles III, has launched a
full-on assault against the tabloids
— whom he blames for his moth-
er’s death after a paparazzi car
chase and the spiteful coverage of
his wife, meghan, Duchess of Sus-
sex — saying changing the media
landscape is his life’s mission.
In his memoir, “Spare,” Harry
wrote, “I began to think murdoch
was evil. No, strike that. I began to
know that he was. … I couldn’t
think of a single human being in
the 300,000-year history of the
species who’d done more damage
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respectively, wished Catherine a
speedy recovery in posts on the
social media platform X.
White House press secretary
Karine Jean-Pierre said at a
briefing friday afternoon that
“our thoughts are with” Cather-
ine and her family “during this
incredibly difficult time.” She
declined to say whether Presi-
dent Biden had spoken with the
princess.
meghan mcCain, whose father
Sen. John mcCain (r-Ariz.) died
of cancer, wrote in a post on X
that “America is sending Princess
Kate and the entire royal family
strength and support during this
challenging time.” She added:
“Princess Kate has always been
“Any cancer diagnosis is shocking. But I can only
imagine the added stress of receiving that news amid
the lurid speculation we’ve seen in recent weeks.”
Keir Starmer,
leader of Britain’s labour Party
to our collective sense of reality.”
He is scathing about Brooks,
saying she “managed to wriggle
her way into a position of great
power and lately she was focusing
all that power upon … me. She was
hunting the Spare, straight out,
and making no apologies for it.”
Harry and others claim that be-
tween 1994 and 2016, journalists
working at murdoch’s tabloid ti-
tles in Britain engaged in unlawful
activity including intercepting
voice mails and using deception to
get confidential information.
The phone-hacking scandal,
which stretches back two decades,
wracked murdoch’s tabloid em-
pire. He shuttered the News of the
World, and criminal charges were
brought against dozens of journal-
the epitome of class and grace —
never more so than now.”
french President Emmanuel
macron wrote on X that Cather-
ine’s “strength and resilience in-
spire us all,” while Prime minis-
ter Justin Trudeau of Canada
described her choice to share her
diagnosis as courageous.
Catherine’s time out of the
public eye had fueled concern,
conspiracy theories and memes
about her well-being and where-
abouts. In an apparent attempt
to quell the frenzy, the palace
released a photo showing Cath-
erine, 42, and her three children
on mother’s Day in Britain. But
news agencies pulled the photo,
citing concerns that it was al-
ists and executives — including
Brooks, who was acquitted. A 2021
investigation by Press Gazette, an
industry magazine, estimated that
the scandal cost murdoch’s pub-
lishing business more than $1.3
billion in payouts and legal fees.
Lewis joined News Corp. as a
group general manager in 2010,
after the company had already
begun to grapple with the fallout
of the phone-hacking scandal, and
the following year moved into a
role on the committee charged
with working with investigators
probing the wrongdoing. He was
later criticized by some News
Corp. journalists who believed
Lewis had sold them out by pro-
viding information about them to
the police. Lewis has denied this.
the washington post
tered. In a note posted to social
media attributed to Catherine,
she apologized for editing the
photo.
The palace said that Catherine
had started her treatment in late
february. The cancer announce-
ment on friday evening would
have come after George, 10, Char-
lotte, 8, and Louis, 5, had fin-
ished school for the Easter break.
In her video message, filmed
by the BBC, Catherine was sitting
on a bench in the gardens of
Windsor Castle. In the garden
behind her was a bed of yellow
daffodils. The flower is often
used as a symbol of the fight
against cancer.
She was wearing jeans and a
sweater, and her voice at times
was emotional. “At this time, I
am also thinking of all those
whose lives have been affected by
cancer,” she said. “for everyone
facing this disease, in whatever
form, please do not lose faith or
hope. You are not alone.”
At a shopping center in Essex,
England, some people stopped to
watch Catherine’s video address
KIrsty wIGGleswortH/aP
Prince Harry in London last
year. Lawyers for the prince
and others asserted that media
executive Rupert Murdoch
knew of his reporters’ privacy-
invading practices much earlier
than he had admitted.
“I did whatever I could to pre-
serve journalistic integrity,” he
told The Washington Post in an
interview last fall.
During the three-day hearing in
London this week, Harry’s lawyers
offered more details about their al-
legation that Lewis was instrumen-
tal in the destruction of company
emails that they argued could have
provided evidence of greater
wrongdoing. “Approval was given
for the deletion of emails by [com-
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on their phones.
Louise Bashford, 19, said she
was “shocked” about Catherine’s
cancer diagnosis. “I just wasn’t
expecting it,” she said. She and
her friends had followed the
social media frenzy about Cath-
erine on TikTok.
Isabella, 17, said the news was
“really horrible,” adding that she
understood why Catherine had
put forward a calm presence on
social media while she was out of
the public eye. Still, the mother’s
Day photo that Catherine later
admitted to altering — “trying to
fake it,” Isabella said — made the
situation “a little bit worse.”
Sam miller, 33, said his girl-
friend had been keeping up with
the rumors about Catherine.
“The mystery is finally solved,”
miller said. “It’s good that they’re
open,” he said, adding that it may
encourage others “to go and get
checked out” for possible cancer
diagnoses.
Pietsch reported from washington.
Hassan reported from essex,
england.
pany lawyer] John Chapman and
Will Lewis on the authority of re-
bekah Brooks,” David Sherborne,
the lawyer for Harry and other
claimants, said in court Wednesday.
Lewis has denied claims that he
played a role in concealing emails.
“The allegation that I was in-
volved in any wrongdoing is com-
pletely untrue,” he told the BBC in
2020 after the claim was made in
litigation related to the hacking
scandal. “my role was to put things
right, and that is what I did.” On
friday, he declined to comment
about the claims from Harry’s law-
yers this week.
Anthony Hudson, the defense
attorney for News Group Newspa-
pers, said the proposed amend-
ment to the case was unnecessary
and designed to “grab headlines.”
“It would actually take five tri-
als to try all of the claimant’s arti-
cles that he relies on,” he said in his
rebuttal. “Of course it’s very un-
likely he would get five trials,” he
told the judge, according to court
transcripts. He called the amend-
ment a tactic “to distract from the
reality” and mask what he says are
the weaknesses of the case.
In a response in court friday,
Sherborne described the defense’s
position on the amendments as “a
red herring” and said 10 months
was “far more than ample time” to
prepare for a 2025 trial.
mark Stephens, a London-
based media lawyer, said that add-
ing Lewis, Brooks and other exec-
utives was a strategy to draw out
“disclosure,” or documents that
Harry’s lawyers hope would help
them get to murdoch.
They are “shifting the argument
slightly to say, ‘You became aware
at some point of phone hacking,
and you tried to mitigate it.’ … It’s
subtly different than a ‘you-knew-
and-approved it’ approach.”
It seemed, he said, like Harry’s
lawyers were “trying to get to mur-
doch, but there are executives and
former executives in the way.”
Paul schemm in london and laura
wagner in new york contributed to
this report.
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BY J EFF S TEIN
C ATHERINE B ELTON
On Sept. 3, 2020, the staff of a
$90 million yacht placed an order
with a U.S. company for a set of
luxury bathrobes that came to
$2,624.35.
For roughly two years before
that, according to federal pros-
ecutors, the yacht’s management
had been falsely claiming it was
working for a boat named “Fanta.”
But the luxury bathrobes came
embroidered with a monogram
that, prosecutors said, revealed
the yacht’s true identity: “Tango.”
That was a problem, officials
say in court papers, because Tan-
go was owned by a Russian bil-
lionaire under U.S. sanctions, and
doing business on his behalf vio-
lated federal law.
Late last month, U.S. authori-
ties unveiled a $1 million reward
for information leading to the
arrest and/or conviction of the
man they say was running the
yacht staff and orchestrated the
deception with the robes —
Vladislav Osipov, 52, a Swiss-
based businessman from Russia.
In a new indictment, federal pros-
ecutors say Osipov misled U.S.
banks and companies into doing
business with the Tango yacht
despite the sanctions on the Rus-
sian owner, whom the Justice
Department has identified as bil-
lionaire Viktor Vekselberg.
Osipov has denied the allega-
tions. Osipov’s attorney has said
that the government has failed to
demonstrate that Vekselberg
owned the yacht, and that its
management was therefore not a
sanctions violation.
The reward offer for Osipov
reflects the latest stage in the
evolution of the West’s broader
financial war against Russia two
years into the war in Ukraine, as
the United States and its allies
increasingly target intermediar-
ies accused of enabling Russian
oligarchs to circumvent sanc-
tions.
Many Russians close to Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin have been
under sanctions dating to 2014,
when Russia seized Crimea from
Ukraine and sent proxy forces
into that country’s eastern Don-
bas region. When Russia invaded
Ukraine in 2022, President Biden
vowed to deal a “crushing blow”
with a barrage of new sanctions
on financial institutions, indus-
tries, business executives and
others tied to the Kremlin.
But roughly two years later,
Russia’s economy has proved sur-
prisingly resilient after the nation
poured tens of billions of dollars
into ramping up its military in-
dustry. Moscow has also worked
around the sanctions, finding
new third parties to supply it with
critical military and industrial
hardware, as well as countries
beyond Europe to buy its oil.
Now, the West is trying to in-
crease the reach of its sanctions
by digging deeper into Russian
supply chains. Late last month,
the Treasury Department an-
nounced more than 500 new
sanctions targeting Russia, pri-
marily on military and industrial
suppliers.
The Justice Department also
announced charges against two
U.S.-based “facilitators” of a Rus-
sian state banker who is under
sanction, as well as the guilty plea
of a dual national based in Atlan-
ta who was accused of laundering
$150 million through bank ac-
counts and shell companies on
behalf of Russian clients.
Prioritizing criminal charges
against — and the arrests of —
Western employees of Russia’s
elites represents a new escalation
of the U.S. financial war against
Putin, experts say. One Moscow
businessman, speaking on the
condition of anonymity for fear of
retribution, said many influential
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the European Union to increase
safety in the region.
Maersk, one of the world’s
biggest container shipping
companies, suspended Red Sea
traffic Jan. 5 and has since
redirected ships via the Cape of
Good Hope.
The E.U.’s naval mission in the
southern Red Sea was launched
in February to help protect the
key maritime trade route from
drone and missile attacks by
Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who say
they are retaliating against
Israel’s war against Hamas in the
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Economy & Business
$1 million bounty marks new stage in
West’s financial war against Russia
U.S. and its allies increasingly targeting figures accused of helping oligarchs circumvent sanctions
Last month, U.S. authorities offered a $1 million reward for information leading to Vladislav Osipov, alleged manager of the Tango yacht,
seen here in Spain during a 2022 law enforcement raid. Osipov is accused of providing a front for Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg.
Russians are concerned about the
arrest of two associates of Andrey
Kostin, the head of VTB, Russia’s
second-biggest state bank. These
associates, Vadim Wolfson and
Gannon Bond, were charged with
helping Kostin evade sanctions
by maintaining a $12 million
property in Aspen, Colo., for Kos-
tin’s benefit while concealing his
ownership. Kostin has said that
the charges of sanctions evasion
against him are “unfounded” and
that he has not violated any laws.
Bond has pleaded not guilty;
Wolfson hasn’t made an initial
court appearance yet.
Wolfson, also known as Vadim
Belyaev, had been a Russian bil-
lionaire until the Russian govern-
ment took over his bank in 2017.
Bond, 49, is a U.S. citizen from
Edgewater, N.J. For all Russians
living abroad and working with
people in Russia, the threat of
criminal charges is a much more
worrying prospect than the sanc-
tions imposed by the Treasury
Department last month against
hundreds of individuals and enti-
ties, the businessman said, in part
because sanctions are far easier to
dodge than criminal charges.
“What you have seen through
today’s public announcements
are our efforts at really targeting
the facilitators who possess the
requisite skill set, access, connec-
tions that allow the Russian war
machine [and] the Russian elites
to continually have access to
Western services and Western
goods,” David Lim, co-director of
the Justice Department’s Klepto-
Capture task force, which is
tasked with enforcing U.S. sanc-
tions over Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine, told reporters last
month.
Thad McBride, an internation-
al trade partner at the law firm
Bass Berry & Sims, said the crack-
down on intermediaries reflected
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the natural evolution of the
U.S. sanctions campaign in re-
sponse to Russian adjustments.
“It seems to me they have gone
through a comprehensive list of
the oligarchs, and you can debate
whether or not it’s had a meaning-
ful impact on the Russian war
effort,” McBride said. “Because
they’re getting smarter about
who’s who, they’re finding other
people who play meaningful roles
in these transactions, even
though they’re not showing up in
the headlines.”
The charges against Osipov re-
lated to his alleged management
of the Tango yacht illustrate the
mounting potential consequenc-
es for people in Europe and the
United States who attempt to do
business with Russians targeted
by Western allies, as well as the
opaque structures allegedly em-
ployed by those seeking to evade
sanctions.
With a net worth estimated by
Forbes in 2021 at $9 billion, Vek-
selberg, 66, has long drawn scru-
tiny from the West — and sought
to safeguard his wealth. He made
his initial fortune in aluminum
and oil in Russia’s privatization of
the 1990s and then expanded into
industrial and financial assets in
Europe, the United States and
Africa, with Putin’s blessing.
In addition to the yacht, federal
prosecutors say, Vekselberg ac-
quired $75 million worth of prop-
erties, including apartments on
New York’s Park Avenue and an
estate in the Long Island town of
Southampton.
Vekselberg, who declined to
comment for this article, has not
been criminally charged by the
Justice Department.
In a 2019 interview with the
Financial Times, he denounced
the sanctions as arbitrary and
harmful for international busi-
ness, saying he had been targeted
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just because he was Russian and
rich and knows Putin.
In April 2018, the Treasury De-
partment under the Trump ad-
ministration sanctioned Veksel-
berg and six other Russian oli-
garchs as part of broader finan-
cial penalties over the Kremlin’s
invasion of Crimea, support for
President Bashar al-Assad in
Syria and interference in the 2016
U.S. presidential election. Veksel-
berg was also targeted for his
work for the Kremlin as chairman
of the Skolkovo Foundation, an
attempt to create Russia’s version
of the Silicon Valley — evidence
that appeared to undermine the
Russian businessman’s claims
that he operated independently
of the Kremlin.
But with Vekselberg’s pay-
ments monitored by U.S. banks,
according to the federal indict-
ment, Osipov used shell compa-
nies and intermediaries to avert
the bite of sanctions.
Vekselberg kept other major
assets out of the reach of U.S. au-
thorities by making use of the
Treasury Department’s 50 per-
cent ownership rule, which stipu-
lates that it is illegal to transact
with firms only if an owner under
sanction controls more than
50 percent of the business.
For example, a month after
Treasury imposed sanctions on
Vekselberg in April 2018, his Ren-
ova Innovation Technologies sold
its 48.5 percent stake in Swiss
engineering giant Sulzer to Tiwel
Holding AG, a group that is never-
theless still “beneficially owned”
— meaning, owned in practice —
by Vekselberg through Columbus
Trust, a Cayman Islands trust,
according to Sulzer’s corporate
filing. Vekselberg’s longtime
right-hand man at Renova, Alexei
Moskov, replaced one of Veksel-
berg’s direct representatives on
the board. Moskov told The Wash-
year-over-year growth through
2030. Here’s the breakdown of
actual sales within the U.S.
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ington Post that he stepped down
from all his executive positions at
Renova Group in 2018 after U.S.
sanctions were first imposed and
from that moment ceased to be
Vekselberg’s employee.
The attempts to circumvent
the sanctions appear to have
found some success in the U.S.
legal system. Columbus Nova, a
U.S.-based asset management
fund controlling more than $100
million in assets in the U.S. finan-
cial and tech industry, is run by
Vekselberg’s cousin, Andrew In-
trater. The firm battled for more
than two years to lift a freeze on
Columbus Nova’s assets, imposed
by Treasury’s Office of Foreign
Assets Control because of the
sanctions on Vekselberg, and
won, reaching a settlement agree-
ment with the Treasury Depart-
ment. After renaming itself Spar-
row Capital LLC, Columbus Nova
successfully argued that Intrater
— not Vekselberg — owns the
fund. Intrater argued that the
company was 100 percent owned
by U.S. citizens and that no indi-
vidual or entity under sanction
held any interest in it. Intrater
said Columbus Nova had earned
fees for managing investment
funds owned by Renova. He said
he had repeatedly told Treasury
he would not distribute any funds
to Vekselberg.
Now Osipov, the alleged man-
ager of Vekselberg’s $90 million
yacht, is attempting a similar ar-
gument as U.S. authorities seek
his arrest on charges of bank
fraud, money laundering, con-
spiracy to defraud the United
States, and violations of sanctions
law.
The federal indictment states
that the Tango was owned by a
shell corporation registered in
the British Virgin Islands that
was in turn owned by several
other companies. The Virgin Is-
and OTC medicine; $38.3 billion
was spent on vet care and
product sales; and $12.3 billion
was spent on other services
(boarding, grooming, insurance,
training, pet sitting and walking
and all services outside of
veterinary care).
Remote work has caused a
“black hole” in U.S. office
occupancy, knocking demand
significantly below pre-pandemic
levels and vacancy rates to
historic lows, with a recovery to
prior usage unlikely for years,
said real estate analysis firm
Green Street. In addition to the
decline in demand due to
working from home, the office
sector also faces headwinds from
companies that are now more
cost-conscious with their
budgets, the firm said. The result
has caused cumulative net
absorption — the amount of
leased space less what has been
vacated — to have declined by 130
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lands shell company, authorities
say, was controlled by Osipov,
who also served in senior roles for
multiple companies controlled by
Vekselberg. U.S. officials also say
Vekselberg ultimately controlled
the other companies that owned
the Virgin Islands shell company.
According to the indictment, a
Tango official instructed a boat
management company in Palma
de Mallorca, Spain, to use a false
name for the yacht — “Fanta” — to
disguise its true identity from U.S.
financial institutions and firms,
which try to avoid doing business
with an entity or person under
sanction.
Working at Osipov’s direction,
according to the indictment, em-
ployees for Tango bought more
than $8,000 worth of goods for
the yacht that were unwittingly
but illegally processed by U.S.
firms and U.S. financial institu-
tions, including navigation soft-
ware, leather basket magazine
holders provided by a bespoke
silversmith, and web and com-
puting services.
The management company
running Tango, run by Osipov,
also paid invoices worth more
than $180,000 to a U.S. internet
service provider, federal prosecu-
tors say.
The Tango was seized by the
FBI and Spanish authorities in
the Mediterranean not long after
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022,
and Osipov was first indicted last
year. The owner of the Spanish
yacht management company
hired by Osipov, Richard Masters,
52, of Britain, was criminally
charged last year by federal pros-
ecutors with conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States and vio-
lating federal sanctions law.
A request for comment sent to
Masters’ firm was not returned.
But in recent court documents,
Osipov’s attorney argues that the
yacht was not more than 50 per-
cent owned by Vekselberg, and
that the government hasn’t dem-
onstrated it was. Barry J. Pollack,
an attorney at Harris, St. Laurent
and Wechsler, also says the gov-
ernment never warned Osipov of
its novel and “unconstitutional”
application of federal sanctions
law.
“The government points to no
precedent that supports its ex-
traordinary interpretation and
cites no authority that allows the
traditional rules of statutory con-
struction to be turned on their
head,” Pollack wrote in a defense
filing. The filing adds: “[Osipov]
is not a fugitive because he did not
engage in any of the allegedly
criminal conduct while in the
United States, has never resided
in the United States, did not flee
from the United States, and has
not concealed himself.”
Still, the State Department’s
Transnational Organized Crime
Rewards Program has said it will
provide up to $1 million for infor-
mation leading to Osipov’s arrest,
warning that he may visit Herr-
liberg, Switzerland; Majorca,
Spain; or Moscow.
The case demonstrates the ex-
tent of the U.S. commitment to
tighten the screws on those seen
as aiding Russian elites, even if
they themselves are not closely
tied to the Kremlin.
“When DOJ levels legal action
against an individual or entity,
they have quite a bit of evidence,
especially because the threshold
to press charges for money-laun-
dering and sanctions evasion is so
high,” said Kim Donovan, director
of the Economic Statecraft Initia-
tive within the Atlantic Council’s
GeoEconomics Center. “We’ve
had quite a bit of experience tar-
geting Russia directly, and what
you’re starting to see is the U.S. go
after the facilitators enabling
sanctions evasion. That’s where
the U.S. is focusing its efforts right
now.”
million square feet of U.S. office
space since the 2020 coronavirus
pandemic, the firm said in a note
called “The Black Hole of Office
Occupancy” on Thursday. “The
last four years of disruption in
the office market have been the
worst on record,” said Newport
Beach, Calif.-based Green Street.
Canada’s banking regulator is
limiting the number of highly
leveraged loans in the banks’
residential mortgage portfolios,
which have ballooned alongside
rising prices to make Canadian
borrowers among the most
highly indebted in the world, the
Globe and Mail reported Friday.
The Office of the Superintendent
of Financial Institutions has told
lenders that they will have to
limit loans to borrowers with
mortgages greater than 4.5 times
their annual income, the
newspaper reported, citing two
sources familiar with the matter.
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Lawmakers report surge in violent threats from TikTok users

BY C RISTIANO L IMA- S TRONG
As Congress considers legisla-
tion that could ban TikTok in the
United States, lawmakers are
receiving a surge of threatening
messages connected to the popu-
lar video app.
U.S. Capitol Police are investi-
gating an “uptick” in reports of
“threats and concerning messag-
es” linked to the TikTok discus-
sions, according to a law enforce-
ment official, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to dis-
cuss the sensitive communica-
tions.
The exact abundance of such
calls is unclear, but one Senate
aide said their office has received
roughly a dozen violent threats
since TikTok began urging users
to contact members of the cham-
ber, while a House aide said their
office has received multiple calls
from people suggesting they will
commit self-harm if Congress
passes legislation targeting the
app. Both spoke on the condition
of anonymity to discuss the na-
ture of the outreach.
Capitol Police have contacted
the family and school of at least
one underage person linked to a
reported threat, the Senate aide
said.
The app’s fate abruptly re-
gained national attention after
House lawmakers unveiled and
rapidly passed an aggressive
measure to force TikTok’s China-
based parent company, Byte-
Dance, to sell off the platform or
remove it from the United States
altogether.
Since the bill’s introduction,
TikTok has repeatedly nudged
users to register their opposition
to the effort with their congres-
sional representatives with pop-
up messages in the app. The
tactic has inundated lawmakers’
offices with calls from users,
some making violent threats.
“Threats like this are unac-
ceptable and we condemn this in
the strongest possible terms,”
TikTok spokesman Alex Haurek
said in a statement.
“Clearly, there are millions of
Americans who want to and have
the right to speak out against the
app.
“I’ll shoot you and find you
and cut you into pieces,” said the
caller, who sounded young and
paused to laugh repeatedly dur-
ing the 26-second clip.
Tillis said in a social media
post that the company’s “misin-
formation campaign is pushing
people to call their members of
Congress, and callers like this
who communicate threats
against elected officials could be
committing a federal crime.”
The law enforcement official
said that the threatening calls
appeared to be coming from a
broad cross-section of people,
not only younger users, as some
officials have suggested.
JaBin BoTSFoRd/The WaShingTon PoST The rise in such concerning
sen. Thom Tillis (r-n.c.) released audio from a voice mail in which messages has been observed
a caller threatens to shoot him if TikTok is banned. across both the House and the
Senate, they said.
ban bill that would trample reasons, the USCP does not dis- TikTok’s Haurek previously
Americans’ constitutional rights cuss potential investigations.” told The Washington Post that
of free expression, but we must on Wednesday, Sen Thom the prompt displayed on the app
all do so in a respectful, civil Tillis (r-N.C.) released audio of a was sent only to users who are
manner.” voice mail he said his office old enough to vote. The platform
In an emailed statement, U.S. received threatening to “shoot” has shown users messages that
Capitol Police said, “for safety the lawmaker if he banned the urged them to “speak up” to “stop
a TikTok shutdown” and that
asked them to enter their Zip
code. If they did, the app sur-
faced information about their
representatives.
TikTok first surfaced the mes-
sages as a key House committee
was set to consider the legisla-
tion but redeployed the tactic
before the full chamber voted on
it.
It has since displayed similar
notes to turn users’ attention to
the Senate, where members are
weighing whether to take up the
House proposal.
Lawmakers have widely
panned TikTok’s move, accusing
the company of demonstrating
the threat they say it poses by
exerting its will over public opin-
ion. TikTok criticized lawmakers
for taking issue with constitu-
ents speaking out against their
proposals.
TikTok has criticized the legis-
lation on Capitol Hill as a thinly
veiled attempt to ban the app.
many lawmakers have pushed
back, saying they support dives-
titure, not a ban.

Intel CEO says Biden wants federally funded chip factories ‘bigger,’ ‘sooner’
BY E VA D OU
Intel CEo Pat Gelsinger said
Thursday that President Biden is
pushing him to get new federally
funded chip factories up and run-
ning faster, amid reports of delays
and creeping costs in Washing-
ton’s flagship initiative to revital-
ize U.S. high-tech manufacturing.
“He wants it bigger, he wants it
sooner,” Gelsinger said at The
Washington Post’s futurist Sum-
mit of Biden’s wishes for the Intel
projects. He added that Com-
merce Secretary Gina raimondo
“now has sales targets for me.”
The Biden administration an-
nounced Wednesday that Intel
will receive $8.5 billion in grants
and $11 billion in loans to help it
reshore some of its computer-
chip production from overseas,
making the Santa Clara,
Calif.-based chip titan the biggest
winner of Washington’s $52 bil-
lion bet on an American indus-
trial renaissance.
Semiconductors — colloquially
called “chips” — are the brains
inside all computing devices,
from smartphones to supercom-
puters to the control systems for
smart missiles. U.S. officials have
been alarmed that the industry’s
center of gravity has shifted to
China and other lower-cost na-
tions in East Asia, calling the
development a security risk for
the United States. Biden has
vowed to bring the industry back.
Gelsinger called the package of
grants and other supports for U.S.
chips that we’re manufacturing in
what we announced yesterday,”
Gelsinger said.
Anna makanju, openAI’s vice
president of global affairs, said at
the summit Thursday that the
company was considering several
f potential chip investment part-
ners after news broke that Alt-
man was talking with investors in
the United Arab Emirates.
“We are talking to lots of peo-
ple to try to understand who is
positioned to make these kinds of
investments,” makanju said. “But
we obviously always stay close to
the U.S. government on this.”
She said that even with the
Biden administration’s invest-
ments in the sector, there still
may be a continued global chips
shortage, as companies around
the world scramble for them to
power advanced AI systems.
“The demand is really going to
skyrocket,” she said, “and it’s not
clear that the supply is going to
meet it.”
After decades of laissez-faire
kaz SaSahaRa FoR The WaShingTon PoST economic policy, the idea of a
Intel ceo Pat gelsinger, appearing on video at The Washington Post’s Futurist summit on Thursday, strong national industrial policy
said President Biden has been trying to accelerate the opening of federally funded chip factories. led by Washington has become
fashionable again as U.S. officials
chipmakers “the most important officials this month showed the sands of construction workers on debate how to stem China’s tech-
piece of industrial policy since date for the facility to become the site today.” nological rise. Chips have been a
World War II,” saying that the operational had slipped from an Gelsinger said he’s had “many prime example in a sector where
program was necessary if the early estimate of 2025 to 2027 or conversations” with openAI CEo letting market forces work unfet-
United States is to compete with later. Sam Altman about building up tered has not produced the re-
international rivals. “We’ve gone through a pretty the supply chain for AI chips and sults that the U.S. government
Gelsinger said that the time- harsh economic cycle, and the that he expects to produce them seeks. U.S. chipmakers, Intel in-
line for Intel’s new ohio factory is semiconductor industry has been at Intel’s ohio facility. cluded, have largely offshored
still “within the range,” after a hit a bit harder,” he said. “If you go “Sam, I hope to have many of their production, seeking to max-
report from the company to ohio to Columbus … we have thou- these algorithms running on the imize profits.
Stefanie Tompkins, director of
the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced
research Projects Agency, or
DArPA, said at the summit that
there was a need for government-
led technology investments in ar-
eas where profitability could not
be guaranteed for the private
sector.
“In the commercial world, ob-
viously there’s a lot of money
going into technology develop-
ment, but it is always going to be
aligned primarily with a business
motive. You have to be able to
make money,” she said. “The
kinds of things that DArPA and
other government organizations
tend to think about, we are often
thinking about the problems that
don’t align in that space.”
Gelsinger also said he believed
government leadership was re-
quired to give U.S. industry the
right financial incentives.
“None of our policies in the U.S.
encourage long-term capital in-
vestments,” he said. “We’re on
quarterly profit cycles … if you’re
only measured on a 90-day shot
clock, that’s what you get.”
He added: “I do believe that
there’s fundamental rethinking
required for these long industrial
capital investment cycles, and
making sure our financial and
industrial policy support the
r&D. And clearly Intel stumbled.
We had multiple generations of
nontechnical leaders that didn’t
have this vision of manufactur-
ing, and product innovation, and
what was required.”

Procedural hurdles could delay Senate vote on spending

congress from A1
bucked the chamber’s rules to
force the bill past far-right road-
blocks, unleashing rage among
some conservatives and slacken-
ing Johnson’s leadership grasp.
The legislation did not win a
majority of republican members,
a red line for many in the House
GoP.
The legislation’s passage in the
Senate is not in doubt — it has the
support of President Biden, Sen-
ate majority Leader Charles E.
Schumer (D-N.Y.) and minority
Leader mitch mcConnell (r-Ky.).
But a single senator can throw up
procedural roadblocks that push
the government past the deadline
and force a vote days later.
The consequences of a brief
shutdown would be mostly mut-
ed: many federal workers at un-
funded agencies would be off for
the weekend, anyway.
But if a closure went longer,
more than half of IrS employees
would face furloughs at the
height of tax filing season. Border
Patrol officers and about 1.3 mil-
lion active-duty military person-
nel would remain on the job
without pay. So would Transpor-
tation Security Administration
screeners, many of whom called
in sick as a protest after a previ-
ous shutdown dragged on for
weeks, sparking nationwide trav-
el delays.
If the bill had failed to pass the
House, it would have left Con-
gress with few alternate paths to
fund the government. A likely
last resort would have been an-
other stopgap resolution to pre-
serve existing funding, potential-
ly triggering cuts to defense
spending.
“I want to be very clear: This is
it,” said rep. Ken Calvert (Calif.),
the top republican on the Appro-
priations subcommittee on de-
fense. “Every member must un-
derstand the impact of not pass-
ing this package. The only other
option will be a full continuing
resolution which will devastate
our national security and put our
country at risk.”
If the Senate cannot reach an
agreement to limit debate, con-
sideration of the legislation —
and a government shutdown —
could stretch until next week.
Schumer said on the Senate floor
that Congress had hours to avoid
a shutdown and the Senate would
“spring into action” as soon as it
got the legislation from the
House.
republican Sens. rand Paul
(Ky.), mike Lee (Utah) and Bill
Hagerty (Tenn.) signaled that
they were likely to offer amend-
ments, which would slow the
Senate’s progress on the bill. If
the upper chamber cannot reach
unanimous consent on how
much time to spend on those
amendments before a vote later
friday, Schumer would probably
have to tee up a vote for Sunday
or even monday instead, due to
Senate procedural rules. Both
chambers were due to leave
Washington for a 16-day recess
after friday, which could add to
the pressure on members to work
fast.
In the House, Johnson moved
the bill through suspension of the
rules, requiring a two-thirds ma-
jority — which meant Democrats
had to support it — and enabling
a quick-fire vote that bypassed a
usual requirement that lawmak-
ers have 72 hours to review legis-
lation before they act. That ran-
kled members of the House free-
dom Caucus, the GoP confer-
ence’s far-right flank, who are
already at odds with the speaker
over federal spending amounts.
The measure passed the two-
thirds margin narrowly; seven
fewer votes in favor would have
tanked the bill. And while law-
makers were casting their votes,
rep. marjorie Taylor Greene
speaker Mike Johnson (r-La.) suspended the House’s rules to force
the $1.2 trillion spending bill to a vote. It passed 286-134.
(r-Ga.) filed a motion to oust
Johnson from the speakership —
the same procedure that thrust
the House into disarray in octo-
ber and stripped republicans of
much of their bargaining power
during spending talks.
“I’m not introducing this to
throw the House into chaos,”
Greene told reporters afterward,
as GoP lawmakers fretted over
their slim majority’s future. “ …
our country is in crisis, and we
need real leaders that know how
to fight and know how to walk in
a room and don’t get rolled by the
deep state, and don’t get rolled by
the Democrats.”
Johnson has met repeatedly
with the group’s members to hear
their concerns, but has frequent-
ly chosen instead to look past
their demands and rely on Demo-
cratic votes to carry spending
legislation past opposition from
House freedom Caucus members
on the powerful rules Committee
that sets the agenda for the floor.
on the five major federal fund-
ing bills that Johnson has passed
since beginning his speakership
RiCky CaRioTi/The WaShingTon PoST
in october — three last-minute
stopgap measures and two larger
appropriations packages, includ-
ing friday’s — Democrats have
supplied most of the votes.
“It’s got a dangerous cocktail
that the swamp has always
served, and we’re drunk on it
today,” rep. Thomas massie
(r-Ky.) said during floor debate
friday. “What is that cocktail?
Earmarks and budget gimmicks.”
The bill, though, marks the
completion of Johnson’s first ma-
jor bipartisan agreement since
taking the speaker’s gavel. His
predecessor, rep. Kevin mcCar-
thy (r-Calif.), was ousted over
spending disagreements with fel-
low republicans and resigned
from Congress in December.
To tame the discord within his
GoP conference, Johnson split
the 12 annual spending bills, or
appropriations, into two packag-
es, hoping separate deadlines
would give republicans more lev-
erage to secure funding cuts and
conservative policies.
But in the first funding bill,
worth $459 billion, Johnson and
republicans mostly folded on
their highest-profile demands.
Congress passed that legislation,
and Biden signed it, earlier this
month.
In friday’s bill, Johnson was
far more successful. republicans
at the negotiating table with
White House officials successful-
ly turned provisions to fund the
Department of Homeland Secu-
rity into a broader fight about
immigration policy.
“Simply put, this bill ensures
that men and women of the
Department of Homeland Secu-
rity who work tirelessly on our
behalf have the resources and
tools they need to protect this
great nation,” rep. David Joyce
(ohio), the top GoP negotiator
on the DHS provisions, said on
the House floor. “It reflects
strong republican priorities, cuts
wasteful spending, and prioritiz-
es securing the border. We cannot
surrender this progress for a
wasteful and harmful govern-
ment shutdown.”
The legislation would increase
funding for Immigration and
Customs Enforcement to support
roughly 42,000 beds in detention
facilities and fund 22,000 Border
Patrol agents. It would also cut
U.S. contributions by 20 percent
to nongovernmental organiza-
tions that provide services for
new arrivals to the country. Law-
makers who want to restrict im-
migration argue that the non-
profit groups incentivize illegal
crossings.
republicans were also able to
prohibit federal funding for the
U.N. relief and Works Agency for
Palestine refugees (UNrWA) for
the next 12 months. Israel has
accused some of the agency’s
employees of involvement in the
oct. 7 attacks that killed some
1,200 Israelis and saw hundreds
more brought back as hostages to
the Gaza Strip by the terrorist
group Hamas. A U.S. intelligence
assessment has reportedly veri-
fied some of Israel’s claims about
UNrWA.
Democrats, who provided
most of the votes to pass the bill,
worried aloud that the lack of aid
funding would worsen the deteri-
orating humanitarian situation
in Gaza.
“The mood is one of exaspera-
tion. We had to vote not to shut
down the government of the
United States because the repub-
licans are not a governing party.
They are a chaos party. So we had
to do the responsible thing,” rep.
Jamie raskin (D-md.) told The
Washington Post. “But we are
leaving for two weeks, outra-
geously, without having gotten
aid to our besieged democratic
allies in Ukraine and without
having gotten aid to the suffering
population of Gaza. That’s just an
outrageous situation.”
The bill also includes a 6 per-
cent cut to foreign aid programs,
already a minuscule slice of fed-
eral spending, and a republican
change to the law to prohibit
nonofficial U.S. flags from flying
atop American embassies. GoP
lawmakers hope to use that pro-
vision, a slightly narrower ver-
sion of which had previously
been in place, to prevent Biden-
nominated officials from display-
ing Pride flags at official loca-
tions at U.S. diplomatic outposts.
Democrats eliminated other
policy provisions to limit abor-
tion access and restrict the rights
of LGBTQ+ Americans.
Certain Democratic priorities
also saw significant funding
boosts, including $1 billion more
for the early-education program
Head Start and $1 billion for
climate resilience funding at the
Defense Department. The legisla-
tion also provides an additional
12,000 special immigrant visas
for Afghans who assisted the U.S.
military and are attempting to
escape the Taliban government.
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Ode to oy
Regarding the March 10 Travel article “Bleisure,
buddymoon and gamping: A dictionary of the
new travel trends”:
This glossary of “newfangled language to
describe different types of trips” offered a term
for almost every type of vacation, outing and
excursion. To make the list complete, I suggest
adding “Oy vey-cation” to describe any kind of
vacation that went sideways in a hurry. The
phrase could also be used to describe a journey
that ought to be fun but likely won’t be, such as
an upcoming trip with the in-laws.
Robert Wagman, Potomac
Ode to Oyamel
Two articles in the A section of the March 16
edition caught my eye: one headlined “Empty
offices, fear of crime cast a shadow over down-
town D.C.’s efforts to rebound” and a second “Who
is José Andrés, the chef who organized the first aid
ship to Gaza?”
I thought that in a city where Andrés already
helped revitalize downtown D.C. with such res-
taurants as Jaleo, China Chicano, Oyamel and
Zaytinya, many would know who he is. Perhaps
that explanatory article was aimed at an interna-
tional audience, for whom such a question might
be logical. But devoting print real estate in the
local paper to such an article does not make as
much sense. Furthermore, why not connect the
two ideas and publish an article about how
Andrés helped reshape downtown D.C. and has
since expanded his mission to the rest of the
world?
I understand that the world of journalism
(especially print journalism) has changed. That
said, I’ve seen a trend of The Post trying to
bemore of a national newspaper, with articles on
out-of-state topics, although a reporter could find
connections to the same topics within the DMV
area. Please tailor the print edition of the newspa-
per more locally so that readers including me
who still get it delivered daily will continue to
want to do so.
John Seelke, Silver Spring
JeFF ROBeRSON/AP
The Penn State Pinner: Aaron Brooks, top,
takes on Northern Iowa’s Parker Keckeisen in
St. Louis on March 19, 2021.
As grappling greats grace
Greater D.C., The Post is
pinned to far-flung feats
The Big Ten held its wrestling championship
tournament on March 9 and 10 at the
University of Maryland. More than 11,000 fans
attended each of the four sessions, over both
days, to watch some of the best teams in
collegiate wrestling, and there was nary a word
in The Post. I saw Manchester United results. I
found out who won some distant golf tourna-
ment. And I learned that the Minnesota
Timberwolves’ Rudy Gobert is in trouble for
accusing a referee of tanking a game to cover a
bet. But I can’t get a report on a major college
sporting event in my own backyard?
Maryland native and four-time state high
school champion Aaron Brooks of Penn State
won his fourth consecutive Big Ten title. A
Maryland program making strides put two
wrestlers into the semifinals. And Penn State
won its second straight championship and
eighth in the past 10 years. There were some
major upsets, classic comebacks and sudden
victory decisions in overtime, as in any
tournament. But anyone who relied on The
Post’s Sports section for an update would have
missed all the excitement. Also missing was
the NCAA’s announcement that women’s wres-
tling could be afforded a championship tour-
nament as early as 2026. Perhaps by then,
wrestling will have earned its place in the
paper.
Malcolm Wilson, Wheaton
We pledge to do beta
The March 16 Metro article “U-Md. ends limits
on sororities, fraternities” included the names of
the fraternities still under scrutiny by University
of Maryland, one of which is Phi Sigma Kappa.
Unfortunately, the photo accompanying the arti-
cle showed the Sigma Kappa sorority house, not
the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity house. This gave
the impression that this sorority is under investi-
gation. It is not. These young ladies deserve
better.
Claire Gunster-Kirby, Poolesville
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A fattoush platter in the harsh light of day.
Pulling a fast one with Ramadan recipes
I liked the recipes in the online-only March 9 Food article
“12 recipes for Ramadan to sustain you before and after the
fast,” but a few things about the article and its presentation
struck me as dissonant. Though the dishes are meant to
cover both early-morning and late-evening meals, the bright
Confusing from the jump
I recognize that it’s necessary that some
stories in the print edition “jump” from one page
to another. My pet peeve about The Post is that
the headlines on these continuations often bear
little or no resemblance to the headlines on the
originating page, causing at least momentary
confusion for the reader.
A good example of this inelegant variation was
the March 13 Metro article about a fundraising
appeal on TikTok. The headline on the section
front was “TikTok fundraiser becomes embroiled
in online backlash.” The headline on Page B3 was
“Viral tale shows limits of online giving, experts
say.” The second headline accurately reflected the
contents of the jump, in which experts were
indeed quoted about problems with crowdsourc-
ing charity. But it didn’t mention the specifics of
the headline on the section front. There was only a
vague allusion to the case, the reference to a “viral
tale.”
Headlines on jumps need not be identical to
the initial headlines, but they should echo them
to ease the reader’s navigation. If a headline on
Page 1 says “Man bites dog,” the man and the dog
should figure in the headline on the jump even if
the jump accurately reflects a new angle found
in that portion of the article, such as the views of
psychologists about why a man might chomp a
canine.
This will become a moot issue if and when
The Post and other newspapers give up on
printing dead-tree editions. Meanwhile, give
readers a break and provide them with head-
lines on jumps that make it clear which stories
they are continuing.
Michael McGough, Washington
iSTOCk
Ersatz echinacea, a double placebo.
Double-crossing cross
pollinators makes
gardeners double cross
I was both intrigued and dismayed by the March 7
Local Living article “Natives vs. ‘Nativar’ plants: Do
pollinators notice a difference?”
The article was clear in stating that in most studies,
pollinating insects gravitated to native species rather
than manipulated versions of those plants (“nativars”),
and that true native species have genetic diversity that
makes them more resilient.
The two sides of the ledger
Yes, the March 7 front-page article “Biden continues
to walk student loan tightrope” was an exploration of
the views of progressives or high-debt individuals that
President Biden has not gone far enough in forgiving
voluntarily assumed student debt.
Yet though the article was 39 paragraphs long, it did
little to explore the serious arguments on the other side
of the issue, including those that persuaded the
Supreme Court to block a larger program and persuad-
ed two Democrats and an independent senator to join
Republicans to oppose the administration’s efforts. No
one was quoted to give that side of the story, unless
describing Biden’s own doubts and decision-making
counts. Meanwhile, there was room for eight pro-relief
sources, among them debtors, two Democrats in
Congress and activists. Adding to the national debt to
improve the personal finances of a slice of Americans is
an important and complicated issue. Doing more to
explain those doubts might have helped Post readers
understand both loan forgiveness and the president’s
political calculations.
C. Stewart Verdery Jr., Washington
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light in the photos, which were otherwise very beautiful,
suggested food eaten at the height of day.
It is difficult to mention food at all, given the famine in
Palestine.
Catherine Caden, Herndon
Misleading headlines jump off the page, like these jumping-jackers in Sacramento on Oct. 20.
Jumping jacks have a jump on
jumping Jacks? Jumping Jehoshaphat!
The headline on the March 12 Health & Science article
“Women may get a bigger longevity boost from exercise
than men, study says” took me aback. My wife and I,
septuagenarians who celebrated our 50th wedding an-
niversary last year, have credited each other for enabling
us to reach those milestones. Now I learn that she has
Yet the article went on to support the purchase of an
echinacea nativar that failed to attract any pollinators
by gardeners “who want to make an environmental
impact,” if such nativars “are readily available at local
nurseries.” Attracting and feeding local wildlife should
be the primary environmental reasons that people
install native plants — not because they are “all the
rage.” The fact that a local nursery carries only a
nonfunctional nativar is the wrong reason to buy it;
instead, ask the nursery to stock true native species, or
shop where true native species are sold.
Unfortunately, many gardeners are unaware of
which nativars work in their own areas. Fewer still are
likely to carry around a list of nativars that might
outperform natives in one region but might not support
local pollinators in another. Luckily, people can learn
which native species work where they live by checking a
state or regional native plant society website, such as
those offered in Maryland and Virginia, and by going to
native plant sales and nurseries where people can find
the best native species for their location.
It was also a shame that all the photos in the article
depicted nativars, rather than straight native species.
Choosing these would disappoint both native plant
shoppers and the pollinators!
Finally, though the article talked about long-term
challenges for native insects, it would have been helpful
to mention one of the greatest immediate threats to
pollinators: anti-mosquito yard sprays. These kill all
pollinators that come into contact with the chemicals,
not just mosquitoes. With these sprays, there might be
no insects to visit any plant, either straight species or
nativar.
Kasha Helget, Alexandria
The other side of one-sideism
It appears, just from scanning the photos on the
front page, that Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, is the
president. I’ve noticed frequent placement of large
photos and long articles regarding Trump’s latest
court appearances, rallies, comments, gaffes and
posts on Truth Social. Then, off to the side, there
might be a small photo not even of President Biden
himself but of something related to a policy he has
been able to achieve. Yet it appears to this reader that
these stories are given smaller spaces and headlines
that are tepid and easy to pass over.
I was thrilled, though, to see the prominent place-
ment for the news article about Biden’s State of the
Union address as well as a wonderful large photo of
him on the March 8 front page. Additionally, I
appreciated seeing all the analysis pieces regarding
its effectiveness. I would love to see more of this type
of coverage of our sitting president when he achieves
something important regarding our country.
I love living in a democracy, and I hope the
journalists at The Post will do everything possible as
we get closer to the 2024 election to give fair coverage
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Table of
discontents
Would you be so kind as to reveal
to your readership the logic of the
sorting of the Table of Contents on
Page 1 of your printed edition? It is
not by page number; it is not
alphabetical; it is not by import; it is
not geographical; it is not chronolog-
ical; it is not by word count. What are
we missing?
Dennis Askwith, Germantown
Getting lost
in the mix
Since The Post auto-plays a new
piece after another concludes in the
audio section of its app, could the
volume please be modulated so
there is a modicum of consistency
between articles? One article is
often at low volume, followed by the
next blasting the volume. It is
particularly problematic when one
wears earbuds. I cannot be the only
listener encountering this problem
— it’s extreme!
Joan Winters, New York
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been getting a bigger boost from sit-ups and jumping
jacks than she could possibly get from any man, let alone
her husband. Unless, of course, the study actually
reveals that women get a bigger longevity boost from
exercise than men get — but that’s a different headline.
Douglas M. Pollock, Oakton
An elder statesman, not
an elderly statesman
I very much welcomed the March 10 front-page
article “The one last call Biden always needs to
make.” What a refreshing change to read a piece of
reporting that insightfully conveyed an aspect of our
president that speaks directly to his experience and
temperament — and did so without mentioning his
age.
As a senior who regularly swims, bicycles and
kayaks, and occasionally lectures and mentors at the
graduate school level, I call on journalists to help our
fellow Americans see us as productive “elders,”
rather than members of “the elderly,” and to appreci-
ate our continuing contributions to a positive future
and our worth within society.
As the race toward November’s election moves
into high gear, the focus for reporting on the candi-
dates for our nation’s highest office needs to be on
competence, accomplishments, experience and val-
ues, rather than age.
Personally, I see President Biden as a wise and
thoughtful elder, one whose life experience, dedica-
tion as a public servant, values and demonstrated
empathy are aligned with our best “angels.” It is
depressing to contemplate where Donald Trump
would take our nation if given a second term — one
need only listen to the dire warnings of those who
surrounded and supported him during his first term
but no longer do.
Steven Brody, Arlington
to our duly elected president.
Marsha Cohen, Eugene, Ore.
I opened The Post recently and felt as though every
single article I saw had bad news for President Biden.
Biden’s loan forgiveness program isn’t enough. Ber-
nie Sanders has a warning for Biden. On and on.
Meanwhile, I feel as though I read nothing about
the real weaknesses of Donald Trump’s position. The
man can’t string a sentence together, is campaigning
on some crazy democracy-killing promises and did
not win his Super Tuesday primaries as confidently
as Biden.
Where is the analysis of the risk Trump takes with
moderate voters by saying rabid things every day on
the trail? The danger that his legal troubles could
lead to him running out of money? The reports that
hardcore Republicans tell exit pollsters they’ll vote
for Biden over Trump?
At least devote some space to the fact that Trump
is also old.
Christie Mims, Oakland, Calif.
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Mr. Biden undercuts Bidenomics with steel deal cave
W
HAT HAPPENS when Bidenomics gets in
the way of Bidenomics? This is an issue
the country could encounter more and
more.
The panoply of credits and subsidies in President
Biden’s core economic policies, the bipartisan infra-
structure law, the Chips Act and the Inflation
Reduction Act, are supposed to promote investment
in infrastructure, in semiconduc-
EdiTOriaL tors and in green energy, respective-
ly. The “Buy American” provisions
attached to them are clumsy tools that will jack up
the price of the desired high-tech renaissance and
the energy transition — but they can claim a
plausible rationale: to promote the homegrown
production of steel, drywall and other such goods,
perhaps even creating American jobs.
Except, apparently, these are not the goals after
all.
Enticed by the credits, the subsidies and a
booming market for steel ring-fenced by Buy
American provisions, Nippon Steel offered some
$14 billion to buy Pennsylvania-based U.S. Steel, a
former titan of the industry now come into leaner
days. The Japanese firm promised new investment
and new technology, which could help create a
stronger and more competitive domestic steel
industry. It committed to abide by U.S. Steel’s
collective bargaining agreement with United Steel-
LETTErs TO ThE EdiTOr
Ms. Harris or Ms. Cheney for VP?
Regarding Kathleen Parker’s March 17 Sunday
Opinion column, “For the country’s sake, Harris
should step aside”:
I disagree completely with Ms. Parker’s scathing
evaluation of Kamala D. Harris’s performance as
vice president. Ms. Parker painted a picture of an
incompetent person who should step aside.
Though I think we are lucky President Biden
heads the ticket, Vice President Harris has grown
into her job in an impressive way. She is natural at
giving an impassioned talk for things that are
worth fighting for, such as reproductive rights and
the right to vote.
But it’s not just about the speeches she gives.
She shows up to try to make a difference. Ms.
Harris went to the southern border and called for
action in migrants’ home countries to improve
conditions there as a way to help the root cause of
migration. Regarding women’s reproductive
freedoms, she fights hard for women who are
having their rights stripped away and health put
at risk. She just visited a Planned Parenthood
clinic. She went to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in
Selma, Ala., to commemorate the 59th anniversary
of Bloody Sunday, when marchers, including the
great John Lewis, were attacked when they
marched for civil rights. Today, there is a
campaign of voter suppression going on that
Ms. Harris is trying to fight. I don’t see what Ms.
Parker objects to. Ms. Harris has and continues to
contribute greatly to the ticket. She is forceful,
passionate and effective at fighting for change.
Joanie Grosfeld, Kensington
Kathleen Parker wrote that Vice President
Harris “was picked because she was Black and
female, a combo tantamount to job security.” Yet a
large, long-term study of new hires found that the
largest gap in the rates at which employees left
their company came between White women and
Black women. Also, as companies became
increasingly White, Black women were more likely
to leave their jobs. And while the unemployment
rate for White women was 3.2 percent in February,
the unemployment rate for Black women was 4.4
percent.
My point is being Black and female is not a
“combo tantamount to job security” but rather in
the same precarious state that has existed for
quite a while in America.
Lawrence Bentley, Westford, Mass.
Having noted with mild puzzlement various
vague critiques of Vice President Harris, I was
drawn to Kathleen Parker’s March 17 column,
hoping to better understand all the negativity
toward our first female vice president — and to
determine whether such complaints are just
blather or rooted in substance.
Ms. Parker acknowledged Ms. Harris’s
impressive résumé, her reputation as a tough
prosecutor, centrist leanings and telegenic moxie
on the campaign trail. Ms. Parker’s first
substantive critique was of the former presidential
candidate’s criticism of Joe Biden while battling
him for the nomination, an offense every rival
commits. Ms. Parker then condemned the vice
president’s performance as border czar as “a
colossal failure,” asserted Ms. Harris’s overall
performance in office has been “disappointing”
and tossed in that “every honest person knows”
President Biden is “not in top form.” And she
supported all that with nothing more than the
results of polls, which reflect a snapshot of public
opinion in a given moment, not a sober
assessment of an official’s work. Ms. Parker’s main
complaint seemed to be about Ms. Harris’s “inane,
rambling remarks” and “laugh that erupts from
nowhere.” And despite these critiques, Ms. Parker’s
solution for this supposed poor performer was
that Mr. Biden, if reelected, let her fail upward
into the massively complex position of attorney
general.
As I ponder Ms. Parker’s preposterous proposal,
my chuckle “erupts from nowhere.” Her effort at
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workers and to not shift jobs abroad.
Mr. Biden should argue that the Nippon Steel deal
would be a success in his drive to preserve American
manufacturing. Instead, he’s opposing it. Last week,
Mr. Biden argued that “it is vital” for U.S. Steel “to
remain an American steel company that is domesti-
cally owned and operated.” In practice, this would
mean snubbing the Japanese and presumably
accepting a lower bid from U.S. steelmaker
Cleveland-Cliffs, which the United Steelworkers
likes better.
Yes, political observers might note the presiden-
tial election is less than eight months away, that
Mr. Biden needs to win Pennsylvania, and that he
seeks to please organized labor. (Former president
Donald Trump beat him to declare opposition to
Nippon Steel’s bid.) But Mr. Biden’s apparent
preference for a Cleveland-Cliffs takeover contra-
dicts the policy goals he claims to have.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a lobby
group for U.S. auto manufacturers, warned mem-
bers of Congress that the combined company would
control all of the nation’s blast furnace production
and between 65 and 90 percent of the steel that goes
into cars and light trucks. “In a combined company,
100 percent of the domestic e-steel needed for
electrical motors and EV production will be concen-
trated in a single company,” it noted. Perhaps the
Federal Trade Commission can advise the White
persuasion here was “disappointing,” if not a
“colossal failure,” but, I suppose, “every honest
person knows” the chorus of disparagement will
continue.
Marvin Solberg, Edgewater, Md.
Kathleen Parker claimed Joe Biden’s “history-
making” selection of Kamala D. Harris as vice
president might prove to be his downfall in 2024.
Ms. Parker fed into the racist and sexist narrative
of those who would strip women of hard-earned
positions of power. What’s next? Calling on
women elected to Congress to give up their seats?
Vice President Harris should not step aside
when she is stepping up for women. To cite just
one example, her remarks during her visit to a
Minnesota women’s health clinic gave a forceful
outline of the administration’s agenda. We need
Ms. Harris’s voice and the power of her presence.
There are also still persistent disparities in
women’s pay and government representation. In
the 118th Congress, only about 150 of 540
members were women. In 2022, according to the
Pew Research Center, White women earned 83
cents for every dollar earned by men, while Black
women earned 70 percent as much as their White
male counterparts and Hispanic women earned
just 65 percent as much.
Just like when Geraldine Ferraro ran for vice
president and I realized as a young girl my
potential was limitless, Ms. Harris’s election as
vice president was groundbreaking and inspired
many young women. Vote for the Biden-Harris
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House on what this sort of near-monopoly power
would do to its effort to drastically increase the
share of EVs on the road.
The president might justify his opposition to the
Nippon Steel bid on national security grounds. Per
statute, the Committee on Foreign Investment in
the United States is looking into that. But Washing-
ton has no tighter ally in East Asia than Japan.
National security considerations counsel forging
closer ties to counter China — certainly not
insulting the Japanese.
The entanglement of policy and political motiva-
tions, each at odds with the other, visible in
Mr. Biden’s Nippon Steel positioning reflects the
broader weakness in Bidenomics, a grab bag of
objectives and policies the Biden administration
hopes to sell as a grand new economic strategy. It
wants to decarbonize the economy, boost manufac-
turing and employment, and please the unions. It
hopes to “friendshore,” to curb China’s access to
advanced tech, and to somehow stay on good terms
with America’s friends as new threats emerge
around the world.
These things do not mix well. And while some
elements of Mr. Biden’s policies are extremely
important, such as his green energy plans, they
would be much more effective at, say, cutting carbon
emissions if the law weren’t also written to coddle a
select group of politically favored domestic compa-
michaEL ramirEz
Congress, heal thyself
ticket this November to protect women’s rights —
and women’s political leadership.
Kristin Battista-Frazee, McLean
Kathleen Parker was right. Democrats need a
new vice-presidential candidate.
Vice President Harris is a wonderful person. But
let’s be frank, in contrast to 2020, this election
year, she is not going to bring the Democratic
ticket many, if any, votes. Ms. Harris must know
this, but she might be hesitant to step aside
because she does not see a viable replacement
candidate in the wings.
Here’s an answer. Radical as it might sound at
first, Liz Cheney would be a great vice president
on a Biden ticket. President Biden can bring most
Democrats to the table, and Ms. Cheney can bring
“old style” Republicans as well as independents.
The only people left out in the cold by such a
Biden-Cheney ticket would be the Republicans
loyal to Donald Trump.
Would Ms. Cheney run on a Democratic ticket?
Her first reaction would probably be “Not on your
life.” But she should overcome any doubts to throw
her hat in the ring. It might be the only way to
save the country from another Trump disaster.
After all, she is already working hard to keep Mr.
Trump and his supporters out of the White House
and Congress.
Many Democrats this year will be casting their
vote against Mr. Trump and not for Mr. Biden. Ms.
Cheney is the most anti-Trump member of the
Republican Party, to the extent that it still exists. A
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nies and unions.
It’s not just that Buy America policies are
expensive — they cost about $250,000 per job
created in government procurement projects, ac-
cording to Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Euijin Jung of
the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
National champions protected by government fenc-
es usually get sloppy and fail to maintain a cutting
edge. “Friendshoring,” shrinking global production
networks to include only allies, can lead to more
unstable supply chains, vulnerable to political
realignments. And it can be difficult to sustain in an
environment in which Washington seeks to wall off
the U.S. economy even from its partners: A Euro-
pean analysis of the domestic content requirements
in the Inflation Reduction Act was titled “unfriendly
friends.”
The Nippon Steel deal could ultimately get
approved. The United Steelworkers, which has
stood in vociferous opposition, probably under-
stands that it will be treated less kindly on the other
side of the election. But the lesson of this episode
should resonate with those wondering if Washing-
ton’s bipartisan turn away from economic liberal-
ism, in favor of state-directed investment strategies
and trade protectionism, will ultimately help the
economy or effectively advance other goals. Trying
to do too many things all at once often means doing
few of them well.
lot of people from both parties could support a
Biden-Cheney ticket, and we would finally have a
chance of bringing most Americans together
again. More than that, the combination of
Mr. Biden and Ms. Cheney would be a super
powerhouse in both the international and
domestic arenas. It’s time to think outside the box.
Chuck Elkins, Washington
Regarding David Ignatius’s March 20 op-ed,
“Liz Cheney’s high-risk, higher-reward plan for
2024,” it is worth focusing on former
congresswoman Liz Cheney’s statement: “For the
first time in my life, I will be working with every
fiber of my body against the Republican nominee
for president.”
Though I share some of Mr. Ignatius’s respect
for Ms. Cheney’s position and leadership on the
matter of the 2024 presidential campaign, my own
is qualified. Ms. Cheney was complicit in Donald
Trump’s nomination and election as the 45th
president in 2016, in legitimizing his
administration and in his near-reelection in 2020.
Only in the aftermath of the last election was she
finally moved away from acting in purely partisan
interests, including by giving bipartisan credibility
to the congressional investigation of the shameful
events of Jan. 6, 2021.
Those events were not the result of actions by
the 45th president inconceivable before that date.
Instead, they were a manifestation of qualities
that have always been essential to Mr. Trump’s
public and private lives. We need to celebrate
leaders who always side with democracy and the
rule of law over partisan politics and self-interest.
Daniel J. Mustico, Cabin John
David Ignatius was right on target about former
congresswoman Liz Cheney’s efforts to publicize
Donald Trump’s many deficiencies. However,
Ms. Cheney should not waste time carrying her
message to states President Biden will win in a
cakewalk. She should focus on swing states such
as Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. If
Ms. Cheney can convince enough voters, the
nation will not have to put up with Mr. Trump
again.
Lee Hurwitz, Rockville
I am most grateful to Liz Cheney for all she has
done to spread the word about the dangers of
another Trump term, as David Ignatius laid out.
But it is time for Ms. Cheney, as well as others who
speak about the dangers of a Trump presidency, to
do more.
They need to take the next step: endorse
President Biden and campaign for him. This will
show others that it is not enough just to say no to
Donald Trump by refusing to endorse him, not
voting or voting for a third-party candidate
instead. They must commit to the one thing that is
necessary to ensure Mr. Trump does not win in
November: cast their votes for Mr. Biden. They can
do it while proclaiming allegiance to traditional
conservative principles and dismay for voting for a
Democrat, but they must do it. They must set an
example for others. They will not be in the next
Trump administration as guardrails. Their job
now is to make sure guardrails are not necessary.
Jill Leiner, Baltimore
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ColbERt i. King CathERinE RampEll

Rough Want Trump’s

budgetary
waters lie
ahead for D.C.
M “T
ayor Muriel E. Bowser (D)
failed to meet the legal March
20 deadline for submitting her
proposed fiscal 2025 budget
and financial plan to the D.C. Council,
and she and council chairman Phil
Mendelson (D) pointed toward D.C. Chief
Financial Officer Glen Lee as the heavy.
Better to describe Lee as fashioning
himself the chief mate aboard the
USS D.C. looking ahead to avoid a fiscal
iceberg.
He envisioned danger in the adminis-
tration’s failure to replenish the city’s
Fiscal Stabilization Reserve Account,
which was used to meet cash obligations
during fiscal 2021 and the covid-fighting
years. Lee took a close look at the city’s
cash-flow data, slow revenue growth and
the unlikelihood of unanticipated sur-
pluses, and concluded, as he did in a
March 11 letter to City Administrator
economy back?
Careful what
you wish for.
hree more years! Three more
years!”
That’s what Donald Trump’s
supporters should be chant-
ing, given how long they seem to believe he
was in office. After all, when describing the
great economy and other idyllic metrics of
the Trump administration, they conven-
iently lop off his fourth and final year, when
everything crashed — and when he made
that crash worse.
In recent weeks, allies of the former
president have puffed up his record and
diminished his successor’s. Sen. J.D. Vance
(R-Ohio) declared that Joe Biden’s presi-
dency represents “the end of the American
dream,” whereas “under the Trump econo-
my we had American jobs for American
workers. Under Joe Biden we’ve got Ameri-
gRACe kARgOBAI; kATe kRONTIRIS can workers getting fired and replaced
David Moinina Sengeh, chief minister of Sierra Leone, before and after he cut his hair. with illegal aliens.” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.)
claimed that Blacks and Hispanics “were

I didn’t know what my dreadlocks

Kevin Donahue, that failure to replenish better off under Trump,” since he presided
the reserve will “result in a clear deterio- over “the lowest unemployment rates for
ration of the District’s financial condi- all racial demographics.”
tion.” The mayor’s proposed budget, he The American public writ large also

meant until I cut them off

wrote, “must include replenishment of
the Reserve in order to receive certifica-
tion from my office.”
I learned from city sources on Friday
that Bowser has indeed charted a budget-
ary course for the city. Whether a ship-
wreck is in the future remains to be seen.
BY D AVID M OININA S ENGEH
FreeToWn, Sierra Leone
transformative education.
Sometime in 2023, I began thinking
someone call for justice before the Secu-
rity Council, but what inspired them even
harbors nostalgia for the Trump years,
based on polling on memories of the econo-
my under Trump versus that under Biden.
There are a couple of problems with
these characterizations.
First, some of the superlatives used
about Trump’s first three years are not

A few days ago, Bowser sent Lee a
proposed fiscal 2025 budget that should,
in the administration’s view, receive CFO
certification because it fully refills the
Fiscal Stabilization Reserve, as Lee de-
mands. That means an additional
$253.6 million must be added to the
nearly $1 billion gap that Bowser has to
close to balance the budget. At this stage,
the full extent of Bowser’s budget cuts is
unknown. But it’s fair to assume that the
administration’s knife has plunged deep-
er than fat and meat and has worked its
way to bone.
And to think: This week’s dust-up was
over Bowser’s failure to meet the coun-
cil’s budget submission deadline. Men-
delson rightly faults Bowser. “This delay
is 100% on the Mayor,” Mendelson wrote
in a March 19 statement. “It disregards
the law. It is an affront to the Council.”
Tender council sensibilities notwith-
standing, it can’t be said that Bowser has
been sitting on her hands. She has been
facing a first-class spending crisis. The
flow of pandemic-era federal money into
the District runs dry this fiscal year. The
city is losing federal jobs. The commer-
cial real estate market has seen better
days, and the worst may be yet to come.
The city’s champagne ideas must now be
adjusted to accommodate a soda-water
pocketbook. Spending had to be refo-
cused on meeting unmet needs vs. unmet
desires. The likelihood of a “tight”
2025 budget was a virtual certainty, with
the prospects of pain from program cuts
and tax increases. That Bowser and her
team were scrubbing and rescrubbing
the numbers at this late stage was no
excuse, but given her decision to accom-
modate Lee’s wishes, the delay is easy to
understand. The consequences will be-
come clearer once the full scope of
Bowser’s cuts are known.
Less understandable is the inability of
Bowser, Mendelson and Lee to come to
an accord on handling of the Fiscal
Stabilization Reserve Account. Mendel-
son is holding Lee up as a power-grabber
who subverts the council’s authority over
the budget. “Think of it,” he wrote. “So
last year [Lee] cancelled the free bus
program. Next year he could cancel other
programs or maybe insist on firing agen-
cy directors because they mismanage
their budgets.”
(The free bus program, methinks,
wasn’t sacrosanct, and directors who
mismanage budgets surely should be
encouraged to seek other lines of work.)
Under the law, the CFO is an independ-
O
n Jan. 23, I represented my coun-
try’s government before the U.N.
Security Council, where I called
for a cease-fire in Gaza and jus-
tice for all parties. The following day,
International Day of Education, I gave a
lecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of
Education on “radical inclusion,” a strat-
egy for social justice outlined in my 2023
book with that title.
Then I did something that really got
people’s attention.
I cut my hair.
Specifically, I cut off the dreadlocks I
had worn for 17 years.
Dreadlocks hadn’t been my hairstyle
choice when I was growing up in Sierra
Leone, because they were associated
with drug users, school dropouts and
others on the fringes of society. But I
came to the United States to study at
Harvard, where I became interested in
soccer and music, and the locs really
seemed to fit. They had the added advan-
tage of being simple — no weekly hair-
cuts. They continued to be part of my
image as I earned a PhD from MIT and
then took a job as a scientist and, even-
tually, a manager at IBM Research Africa
in Nairobi.
And they remained when I joined
Sierra Leone’s government — first in
2018, as chief innovation officer, even-
tually as chief minister. The locs weren’t
without issues. I’ve had doors closed in
my face because people didn’t believe I
was a minister, and opponents called me
derogatory names during policy debates.
While my boss, President Julius Maada
Bio, never made a negative comment
about my hair to me, some in government
made snide remarks both to my face and
behind my back. Others told me to re-
spect our “culture” and called me a for-
eigner in my homeland.
But times were changing. More people
started growing dreadlocks. Positive ref-
erences to locs began appearing in public
spaces, from youthful graffiti to inspira-
tional sayings. Meanwhile, I was gaining
recognition both in Sierra Leone and
abroad as a spokesman for inclusive and
The courage to witness
about changing my hairstyle and, right
after the Harvard talk, I decided it was
time to do it. Perhaps because Harvard is
where I started the locs in the first place.
That evening, my cousin helped me find a
barber, a Jamaican friend of his in Boston
whose shop stayed open after 8 p.m.
As I heard the snipping sound of the
scissors, I felt lighter — even relieved,
though I wasn’t sure why. I gathered up
each of the 103 locs of shorn hair. I might
keep them safe for my grandkids. Or
Young professionals who
thought their dreadlocks
had finally gained the
‘blessing’ of their parents
and bosses sent me
screenshots of those same
people asking them when
they would cut their hair
now that I had cut mine.
maybe donate them to an organization
helping people with hair loss resulting
from medical conditions.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have been sur-
prised at what happened next. But I was.
In fact, I was shocked at the public
response: a mix of relief, disappoint-
ment, grief, anger and inspiration.
People from many places — not just
Sierra Leone, but Togo, Rwanda, Scot-
land, Australia, the United States, France
— reached out in person and online to tell
stories on how my hairstyle had influ-
enced them. As a young, Black, African
man wearing dreadlocks while occupy-
ing spaces of power typically filled with
White, Western men with gray hair, they
said, I had given them a different kind of
hope. They said that it was great to hear
a SaFER D.C. NICk BRUeL
more was I did it in locs.
Some stories came from officials (male
and female) in other governments. One
diplomat told me she finally grew dread-
locks because she had seen mine. Other
ministers wrote that when they had seen
me sit close to my president at global
meetings with my hair flowing down my
back, it encouraged them to display dif-
ference in their own cabinet rooms — not
just in how they looked but also in their
radical ideas.
Young professionals who thought
their dreadlocks had finally gained the
“blessing” of their parents and bosses
sent me screenshots of those same people
asking them when they would cut their
hair now that I had cut mine.
Community leaders who had told me
that my hair forced them to question
many of their own stereotypes reaffirmed
a commitment to their new position:
They still believed in radical inclusion.
Back in Sierra Leone, people who
thought they knew me were shocked
when they couldn't recognize me. Close
colleagues and family members couldn't
hide their amusement. Meanwhile, the
social media chatter over my hairstyle
went on.
So much emotion over one small, per-
sonal decision.
But why did I really cut my hair?
Everyone keeps asking. Am I declaring
my intent to run for president? No, I’m
not. (On the contrary, I think a president
with dreadlocks would be very cool.) The
answer is simple: I am not my hair. I am
me, as you are you. My locs didn’t start as
a public statement, though that became
loud enough over the years. I just liked
them. Now, I like my short, simple hair
that doesn’t make any statement. I like no
longer being easily recognized in a
crowd.
I am me — a hip-hop-rapping, pick-up-
soccer-playing politician who travels Si-
erra Leone, and the world, advocating
radical inclusion. And I doubt my next
hairstyle will change that.
The writer is the chief minister of Sierra
Leone.
quite accurate. For example, Black and
Hispanic unemployment were undoubted-
ly low during the pre-covid Trump years (as
Scott recalls), but since Biden took office,
these groups’ unemployment rates have
either matched the Trump-era numbers or
even bested them.
For example, Black unemployment fell
beneath 5 percent for the first time in
history this past April, an all-time low.
As for the job market overall: There are
6 million more jobs today than in Decem-
ber 2019. And while lots of older native-
born Americans have retired — I empha-
size retired, not fired, despite Vance’s
claims — the number of prime-working-
age Americans who have jobs is about the
same, according to data from the U.S. Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics.
Immigrants, for their part, have helped
employment grow even faster than expect-
ed, rather than displacing Americans’ jobs.
The second and larger problem is that
however good conditions looked at the
close of 2019, they were of course followed
by the disaster that was 2020.
Trump surrogates, and often Trump
himself, sometimes ask Americans if
they’re better off than they were four years
ago. For most people, the obvious answer is
no. But if you count correctly, “four years
ago” situates us in the first year of the
pandemic.
In early 2020, many Americans were
stuck at home, futilely Lysol-ing their gro-
ceries and searching for toilet paper. Un-
employment hit its highest level since the
Great Depression. Worse, thousands were
dying every day.
Trump squandered the first few precious
months of the pandemic. He downplayed
covid’s spread (“It’s going to disappear”)
and overstated the government’s capacity
to respond to it. His supposed “expert”
advisers enabled him, including by provid-
ing pseudoscience to prop up his predic-
tions. Meanwhile Trump mused about
treating covid with bleach injections, UV-
rays and other unproven and dangerous
therapies, which some of his followers
adopted, at great harm to themselves.
Trump bungled the crisis in other ways.
He spoke openly about withholding finan-
cial and public-health assistance from
blue-state governors who insufficiently
groveled before him. He tried to interfere
with the workings of the Federal Reserve,
just as it was swooping in to prevent a
financial crisis.
Critically, he also dismantled much of
the legal immigration system. He did so
through outright immigration bans;

ent office responsible for the District’s
finances, including the annual operating
and capital funds. Lee, as with his pred-
ecessors, is appointed by the mayor with
council confirmation. They all know the
rules of engagement.
Lee readily acknowledges that there is
no legal requirement that the reserve be
replenished as he suggests. But Lee
rightly cites his broad legal authority to
certify the mayor’s budget, and he won’t
do it unless there is concrete evidence
that the reserves will be replenished. Lee
said his position is “not based on a policy
preference, but rather on the negative
impact that [failure to replenish] will
have on the District’s financial position.”
The Fiscal Stabilization Reserve Account
is no political football, but a source of
all-important liquidity that shouldn’t be
allowed to run dry. Bowser’s submitted
budget reportedly accomplishes that
end.
I had hoped a no-wiggle-room agree-
ment on replenishment of the reserve
account could be reached among all
parties.
Bowser, instead, has decided to resolve
the issue Lee’s way with all of the painful
scaling-down of programs and services
that it entails, leaving it to the CFO and
council to sort out their differences in the
public square. Shipwreck? Iceberg? More
government seamanship is still needed
to avoid them.
S
ir Robert Peel, founder of the London Metropoli-
tan Police, once said, “The police are the public,
and the public are the police.” A critical piece to
reducing the cycle of violence in the city is for
citizens to do their duty and speak up when they see a
crime. Not just report it anonymously but be a witness.
The city, residents and businesses cannot rely solely
on the police to respond and investigate crimes.
As a police officer in D.C. for more than 26 years, I
often encountered the “I don’t want to get involved”
reaction. I had complainants not show up for court, or
drop away if they got their stolen item returned before
the case was resolved, or simply decline to identify a
suspect, despite their clear recognition as the suspect
was presented after being stopped near the scene of the
crime.
Without the consent of the people and their active
help in combating crime, the police cannot do the job. It
is a cooperative compact. If witnesses to crimes simply
shake their head and walk away, then crimes go
unsolved.
Fear is understandable, but succumbing to it leads
only to greater unsafety. The fearful citizenry must
become engaged and stand up against crime. Share
with the police what you know and what you see. If no
one takes the risk to testify, if no one stands up to
identify the perpetrators, then the system fails — and
the cycle worsens.
Officers risk their lives making arrests and recover-
ing weapons. They are ready to do their part, despite all
through travel restrictions that made it
harder for foreign-born nurses and other
health professionals to get here, just when
they were needed most; and, most endur-
ingly, through policies that required immi-
grants and immigration agencies to cut
through nearly impenetrable red tape. This
led to major backlogs in the processing of
work permits and other necessary docu-
ments, which contributed to labor shortag-
es and ultimately inflation when the econo-
my later reopened. Such consequences, of
course, were blamed on Biden.
Yet it was Biden’s reversal of many of
those Trump-era immigration policies that
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Northwest D.C. in November. The one unequivocally good thing the
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cannot remain on the sidelines, demanding change through Operation Warp Speed. Since
without being a brave and active part of it. then, as his followers have disavowed covid
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D.C. AG to Leonsis: Early exit a no-go
BY M EAGAN F LYNN
D.C. Attorney General Brian L.
schwalb sent a clear message to
Wizards and Capitals owner Ted
Leonsis this week as Leonsis
forges ahead with his plan to
leave Capital one Arena: You’re
legally stuck here for another
two decades.
In a March 18 letter to a
representative of Leonsis’s com-
pany, Monumental sports &
Entertainment, schwalb (D) ac-
cused Monumental of breaking
promises to the city by negotiat-
ing with Virginia, and said the
plan to pull the teams out of
Capital one Arena before 2047 —
the end of a planned lease exten-
sion — was a no-go. schwalb said
he didn’t want to pursue legal
action and hoped the disagree-
ment could be worked out. “In
that spirit,” he said, Monumental
should come back to the negoti-
ating table with D.C. officials,
who have offered Leonsis $500
million in public funds to up-
grade the downtown arena.
“To be clear, the District very
much prefers not to pursue any
potential claims against MsE,”
schwalb wrote in the letter,
Youngkin distorts arena analysis, lawmakers say
BY G REGORY S . S CHNEIDER
RICHMOND — Gov. Glenn Young-
kin (R) likes to tell audiences that
his plan to put a $2 billion profes-
sional basketball and hockey are-
na in Alexandria is so good, even
Democrats in the House of Del-
egates were impressed when they
hired an outside consultant to
crunch the numbers.
“The House … did their work,”
Youngkin told an audience in
Chesapeake on Monday, using
language he has repeated in other
locations. “They hired outside ad-
visers. They confirmed all the as-
sumptions. And guess what? The
House passed the bill to go for-
ward with this economic develop-
ment project.”
But the outside consultant nev-
er did a detailed financial analy-
sis, according to documents,
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Brian L. Schwalb argues Caps, Wizards
legally can’t leave D.C. before 2047, and
seeks to bring owner back to negotiations
TOP: Capital One Arena, where the Washington Capitals and
Wizards play. ABOVE: D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb
(D), seen here last January, said in a letter to a Monumental Sports
& Entertainment representative that the city prefers not to pursue
legal action over the two teams’ planned departure, and sought to
restart talks between the company and District officials.
House budget staff and two lead-
ing Democrats.
“That is a total mischaracter-
ization by the governor. It’s not
true,” House Appropriations
chairman Luke E. Torian (D-
Prince William) said in an inter-
view.
House speaker Don L. scott Jr.
(D-Portsmouth) said the consul-
tant only took a broad look at the
proposal. “What we were told was
that it was in line with other
stadium deals, that it had the
potential to be a really good deal
but we needed to continue to vet
it,” scott said.
With the arena plan calling for
$1.5 billion in taxpayer-backed
bonds, the House retained lawyer
Ronald C. Green of the Houston
law firm Jones Walker, which has
extensive experience in publicly
financed projects, to do an inde-
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pendent review of the proposal.
Green did not respond to a call
seeking comment, but according
to documents provided by the
House Appropriations Commit-
tee staff under a Freedom of Infor-
mation Act request, he did not get
much further than an initial con-
sultation.
“Because the firm was not en-
gaged until January 31, and the
negotiations fell apart prior to
final consideration of legislation,
we have no further analysis from
the firm,” House Appropriations
staff Director Anne E. oman said
in response to the records request.
Rob Damschen, a spokesman
for Youngkin, said Thursday in a
written statement that the gover-
nor appreciates the work the
House did in retaining a consul-
tant to look at the arena project
and “remains focused on moving
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which was first reported on X by
reporter Tom sherwood and lat-
er provided to The Washington
Post by a spokesman for
schwalb. “It remains committed
to maintaining and growing its
partnership with MsE and to
keeping the Wizards and Capi-
tals at the Arena until the end of
the existing lease term in 2047, if
not beyond.”
schwalb’s letter articulates in
fuller detail an argument put
forth by D.C. Mayor Muriel E.
Bowser (D) last month: that the
Wizards and Capitals are obligat-
ed to stay at Capital one Arena
through 2047, and moving them
early would amount to a legal
breach — an assertion Monu-
mental representatives strongly
disagree with. If not resolved, the
legal dispute could end up turn-
ing into a major drama while
Leonsis is already struggling to
secure enough backing from Vir-
ginia lawmakers for his plan for a
new arena.
In a statement to The Post, a
spokeswoman for Monumental
pointed to a 2007 amendment to
the ground lease allowing the
company to opt out of the lease
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Virginia forward and pursuing
policies that grow the common-
wealth.”
He did not respond to the
charge that Youngkin was mis-
characterizing the study, but he
seemed to double down on the
idea that the House had a com-
plete evaluation of the project
done. Youngkin “agrees with the
characterization made by the
team the speaker and the House
hired to evaluate it, that the eco-
nomic development project in Al-
exandria would be a great deal for
Virginia, and appreciates the
House doing the work to verify
what he’s known throughout — all
Virginians stand to benefit from
the revenues created by this proj-
ect,” he said.
scott said the consultant’s
study was not completed because
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Picco, 75, negotiated
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Trone
issues
apology
for slur
senate candidate
claims he misspoke
Congressman used term
instead of ‘bugaboo’
BY E RIN C OX
senate hopeful Rep. David Tro-
ne (D) used a racial slur during a
congressional budget hearing
Thursday and later apologized,
saying he misspoke and did not
know what the word meant.
Trone dropped a derogatory
word for Black people into a brief
speech praising President Biden’s
tax proposals toward the end of a
friendly exchange with the direc-
tor of the office of Management
and Budget.
After explaining that corpo-
rate tax rates did not influence
how he invested hundreds of
millions in his national liquor
company, Trone continued:
“so this Republican jigaboo
that it’s the tax rate that’s stop-
ping business investment, it’s
just completely faulty by people
who have never run a business,”
he said during a House Budget
Committee hearing. “They’ve
never been there. They don’t have
a clue what they’re talking
about.”
The slur is among the deroga-
tory terms used to caricature
Black people. After being con-
tacted by The Washington Post
hours after the remark, Trone
apologized in a statement.
“Today while attempting to use
the word ‘bugaboo’ in a hearing, I
misspoke and mistakenly used a
phrase that is offensive. Upon
learning the meaning of the word
I was deeply disappointed to
have accidentally used it, and I
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Some Jews
rethinking
how they
mark Purim
BY D AN R OSENZWEIG- Z IFF
on saturday night, rabbis at a
large Washington, D.C. synagogue
plan to dress up as Jewish-in-
spired Barbies and try to hold two
truths at once: that the ancient
holiday of Purim is a time for
celebration and joy, and that some
in their community want no part
in that joy.
Not with the Israel-Gaza war
raging, with roughly 100 hostages
still in captivity in Gaza, and more
than 30,000 Palestinians killed,
according to the Gaza Health
Ministry.
For the clergy at Adas Israel
Congregation in Northwest
Washington, building the festivi-
ties around Barbie was a choice,
since the holiday’s story is similar-
ly framed around a woman who
breaks free from her assumed
role. Purim typically calls for
dressing up, and the rabbis plan
to don costumes of an angelic
Barbie of peace, a Barbie sporting
Jewish garb, and, yes, even some
pink.
But they also know that the
celebration during a war will
cause discomfort, as the holiday
commemorates the Jewish victo-
ry over an enemy who called for
their total elimination more than
2,000 years ago.
“We’re creating this fantasy,
and then reality is going to slap us
in the face,” co-senior Rabbi Aar-
on Alexander said. “Part of being a
religious being is to live in that
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Gaza war has some Jews reconsidering Purim celebrations
puRIm from B1
space.”
About six months after the oct.
7 Hamas attack that killed 1,200,
and with more than a million
Palestinians on the verge of star-
vation, Jews in the D.C. region and
beyond are divided on Israel’s
response. They’re wrestling with
how to observe this year’s Purim
— with some wanting fun because
of the darkness of the war, and
others calling to wholly rethink
the holiday.
In Israel, where many Jewish
Americans have family, or visit or
know someone directly touched
by the war, Tel Aviv has canceled
its Purim parade. Jerusalem still
plans to hold its celebration, but
has faced criticism from families
of hostages.
“It’s different than usual be-
cause the world is different than
usual,” said Corey Helfand, the
rabbi at ohr Kodesh in Chevy
Chase, md., a Conservative syna-
gogue with 500 families.
Purim celebrates a story found
in the Book of Esther, when a
Persian king is advised by his
minister, Haman, to eliminate all
the Jews of Persia. The plan is
stopped by Queen Esther, who
ascended to the crown by marry-
ing the king and hiding her Jew-
ish identity. After revealing that
she is Jewish and would be one of
those killed in Haman’s plot, Es-
ther persuades the king to stop
her people’s destruction. In the
last full chapter, the book details
Jews killing 75,000 Persians in
what some say is self-defense and
others see as vengeful retaliation
against an enemy after they were
saved.
Across the country, some are
cooking the favorite recipes of
some hostages at the holiday’s
festive meal. others are using the
role of the story’s heroine, Esther,
as a call for supporting women’s
trauma. And still others are imag-
ining more peaceful endings to
the holiday’s core text.
In Chevy Chase, Helfand has
changed the focus of his weekly
biblical studies class over the past
few weeks to focus on Purim,
which he says grapples with mo-
ments of pain similar to what’s
happening in Israel, Gaza and
rising antisemitism in America.
He is also planning group discus-
sions over the holiday based on
age and gender to give a space for
congregants’ conflicting emo-
tions.
Some observers, like fran
Worshipers at Adas Israel Congregation in Northwest Washington pray Friday ahead of the purim holiday. Rabbis there are hosting a
Barbie-themed celebration Saturday, as the holiday’s story is similarly framed around a woman who breaks free from her assumed role.
Kritz, 66, are placing symbols of
the hostages inside the customary
gifts to friends known as mishlo-
ach manot. others, like 40-year-
old Aaron Shneyer, are fulfilling
the holiday’s obligation to give to
the needy by raising money for an
organization that donates food in
Gaza.
“It’s a deep struggle to imagine
celebrating on Purim considering
all the suffering in Gaza, both for
the Palestinians in Gaza who are
experiencing such horrific devas-
tation but also the nightmare that
the hostages and their families
are still experiencing,” said
Shneyer, the musician and service
leader at Sixth and I, a restored
historic synagogue that holds reli-
gious services and cultural events.
“But our tradition is very clear
that even in difficult times, we
have to find joy and celebrate life.”
RELIGION
for many, the Book of Esther’s
last full chapter, which details
how Jews killed the Persians, has
become particularly uncomfort-
able in light of the war.
Kritz said she plans to quietly
“We’re creating this fantasy, and then reality is
going to slap us in the face. Part of being a
religious being is to live in that space.”
Aaron Alexander, co-senior rabbi at Adas Israel Congregation
slip out of the service when the
time comes for that section, wor-
ried that remembering that part
of the story creates a sense of
“vengeance which goes beyond
retaliation.”
“Purim this year, for me per-
sonally, is tempered by the fact
that there are Israeli families who
lost family members on october 7
and since then, who have lost
soldier family members, have
friends and family who are still
held captive and have been dis-
placed from their homes,” the
Silver Spring resident said. “I also
dAn rosenZweIg-ZIff/the wAshIngton post
anguish over any noncombatant
in Gaza who has suffered and is
suffering.”
Alexander said Adas Israel is
planning to read the last chapter
more quietly this year, in a nod to
the discomfort some may feel in
hearing it, while having on hand
some alternative versions of the
text made by a progressive Jewish
organization called The Shalom
Center.
In the days after oct. 7, the
Shalom Center began planning
for how this Purim would be dif-
ferent, said Nate DeGroot, a rabbi
and its associate director. It invit-
ed 10 Jewish thinkers to contrib-
ute to its Chapter 9 Project, which
imagines narratives that empha-
size nonviolence.
“There are voices that under-
stand the Purim story as a call for
more violence,” DeGroot said. “Af-
ter october 7, [Israeli Prime min-
ister Benjamin] Netanyahu was
already referring to Hamas as
Amalek” — the nation that was
the enemy of the ancient Israel-
ites, and from which Haman is
said to have descended.
“It felt important for us to be
telling a different Purim story,” he
said.
DeGroot noted that this year is
the 30th anniversary of the 1994
Purim massacre in Hebron, when
Baruch Goldstein, an Israeli phy-
sician born in Brooklyn, attacked
and killed 29 Palestinians. Gold-
stein justified his attack in part by
pointing to the Purim story. That
gives further urgency to redefin-
ing Purim observances, DeGroot
said.
Some alternative endings in
the Chapter 9 Project include
Esther calling for a 36-person task
force to mend relationships in the
kingdom; for Jews to be merciful,
rather than vengeful; and for ev-
eryone in Persia to surrender
their weapons.
Amichai Lau Lavie, the rabbi of
the Lab/Shul, an experimental
Jewish community in New York,
and rachel Timoner, senior rabbi
at Congregation Beth Elohim in
Brooklyn, wrote in Jewish news
outlet The forward that Jews
should change their observance
this year, including silencing the
boos and noisemakers typically
used to drown out Haman’s name
during the service.
“Partying as we have in years
past is morally problematic, and
strategically and politically ques-
tionable,” Lau Lavie told The
Washington Post. “our holidays
can evolve. This is the year in
which some pivot feels to me
required.”
Some are focusing on simply
being there for each other.
Svivah, an organization devot-
ed to providing spaces for whoev-
er identifies as a Jewish woman,
held a Zoom with strangers from
across the country this week to
discuss how to lean into a joyous
holiday that has a heroine at its
center. Some Svivah attendees
planned to include the names of
the women still held in Gaza in
their gifts to friends and the
needy. others would dedicate
their customary fast in the day
leading up to Purim to the women
still held captive.
“People are looking for some
hope, some path forward,” said
Ariele mortkowitz, Svivah’s
founding director. “Judaism
doesn’t back away from that.”

Judge: Baltimore Archdiocese abuse victims may testify

BY A LEX M ANN
Survivors of child sexual abuse
in the Archdiocese of Baltimore
will be able to testify about their
torment during two hearings in
April and may, a judge ruled
Thursday.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge
michelle m. Harner granted a
request by the committee repre-
senting survivors in the bank-
ruptcy case to allow victims to
speak for two hours during “sta-
tus conferences” on April 8 and
may 20.
“The sole purpose of the Con-
ferences is to increase engage-
ment and understanding in this
chapter 11 case; no statements of
any party at the Conferences will
be considered as evidence in any
matter or proceeding in this case
or as part of the official record in
this case,” Harner’s order said.
Survivors who choose to speak
in court will do so with Archbish-
op William Lori, leader of Ameri-
ca’s oldest diocese, in attend-
ance, according to court records.
The church supported giving
survivors the opportunity to
testify.
Advocates for survivors cel-
ebrated the idea of victim testi-
mony when attorneys for the
committee requested as much in
a filing last friday, and again
when informed of the judge’s
pared the chance to testify to the
opportunity given to victims in
criminal cases to tell the judge
about how the crime impacted
them.
“I want you to understand
what the impact of this was on
me. I’m not just some number,”
said Lorenz, adding that it “helps
give closure.”
In a phone interview, Lorenz
also put the testimony and bank-
ruptcy proceedings in perspec-
tive.
Neither being compensated or
testifying about abuse “gives you
back what you lost,” he said.
“There isn’t a person up there
who wouldn’t trade both of those
things, the check and the chance
to address Lori, for having their
life back.”
In their filing last friday, attor-
neys for the survivor’s committee
portrayed the prospect of victims
testifying as an opportunity to
humanize the money-oriented
proceedings of the bankruptcy.
peter smIth/Ap “The Committee,” its attorneys
David Lorenz, maryland director for the Survivors Network of Those Abused by priests, holds a news wrote, “believes that accommo-
conference outside the u.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Baltimore in November 2022. dating the direct involvement of
Survivor claimants in these pro-
decision. “It’s wonderful, be- She said survivors used to we’re on an even field to talk and ceedings will properly balance
cause a lot of the survivors want have to go to the archdiocese to he gets to see it without being the case narrative and deepen
to tell their story,” said Teresa report abuse. lofty, sitting above us.” the collective understanding of
Lancaster, an Annapolis attorney “They’d have to go to the David Lorenz, director of the the histories and perspective of a
who survived abuse in the Catho- archdiocese building and be on maryland chapter of the Survi- critical constituency in the case.
lic Church as a child and advo- Lori’s turf,” Lancaster said. “This vors Network of Those Abused by . . . Providing Survivors with a
cates for other victims. way, it’s a neutral territory, where Priests, known as SNAP, com- meaningful voice in these pro-
ceedings will serve to build trust
in the process and, ultimately,
enhance prospects for a timely
and fair global settlement that
includes expanded protocols to
support the protection of chil-
dren within the Archdiocese
going forward.”
The archdiocese declared
bankruptcy Sept. 29, two days
before maryland’s landmark
Child Victims Act took effect.
That law eliminated a previous
time limit for people who were
sexually abused as children to
sue the perpetrators and the
institutions that enabled their
torment. Anticipating a flood of
lawsuits, the diocese made the
strategic decision to file for
bankruptcy to protect its assets
and limit its liability.
Bankruptcy meant lawsuits
against the church that would
have been filed publicly in state
court, and possibly ended up in
front of a jury, would need to be
submitted as claims in bank-
ruptcy court, where they may or
may not be public. After survi-
vors file claims, they are vetted
and sent to an expert to evaluate
and assign a dollar amount
based on the extent of the abuse
described.
Survivors have until may 31 to
file their “proof of claim” forms
in bankruptcy court.
— Baltimore Sun

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Judge drops resident challenge to Noncitizen Voting Act
BY M ARISA I ATI
A federal judge on Wednesday
tossed out a lawsuit challenging
a D.C. statute letting noncitizens
vote in local elections, conclud-
ing that the plaintiffs failed to
prove the law has harmed them.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson in
D.C. rejected an argument from
seven D.C. voters that letting
residents without citizenship
cast ballots in local — but not
federal — races dilutes the votes
of citizens. She said the plaintiffs
did not show that they’ve been
treated inequitably or denied
House leaders say Youngkin misrepresents arena analysis
arena from B1
the governor’s office was slow in
providing information. By the
time lawmakers had enough fi-
nancial details to use in an analy-
sis, he said, the state Senate had
made it clear that the deal was not
going to advance.
“I think that is indicative of
how this whole thing was rolled
out,” Scott said, adding that there
might have been a different out-
come “if we had gotten this infor-
mation a lot earlier and been in
true partnership from the begin-
ning.”
Instead, Sen. L. Louise Lucas
(D-Portsmouth), chairwoman of
the Senate finance and Appropri-
ations Committee, blocked a bill
establishing the arena from get-
ting out of committee and
stripped arena language from the
state budget. The General Assem-
bly adjourned march 9 without
approving the project.
Youngkin can try to revive it by
sending down a bill or budget
amendment when the General
Assembly reconvenes April 17 to
take up the governor’s amend-
ments and vetoes, or he could call
a special session focused on the
arena.
for the past two weeks, Young-
kin has staged public appearanc-
es around the state to whip up
support for both his version of the
budget and for the arena, which
he calls the “single best economic
development project in the his-
tory of the commonwealth.” He
faulted the Senate for blocking
the project but noted that the
House initially passed both a
stand-alone bill and a budget
amendment that authorized the
arena.
Schwalb suggests meeting between Monumental, D.C. o∞cials to restart talks
Lease from B1
extension to 2047 under certain
conditions; D.C. officials — in-
cluding the District’s general
counsel — signed an additional
2019 amendment affirming the
changes to the ground lease.
“We fundamentally disagree
with the Attorney General’s opin-
ions, which are contradicted by
the D.C. General Counsel as re-
cently as 2019 when the city
ratified the Ground Lease,” the
spokeswoman said.
Bowser and D.C. Council
Chairman Phil mendelson (D)
had offered Leonsis $500 mil-
lion in public funds to upgrade
Capital one Arena in December,
after Leonsis had asked the city
for $600 million for upgrades
last year. But by the time they
made the pitch to him in his
office, Leonsis had already made
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opportunities because of the D.C.
Noncitizen Voting Act, which the
D.C. Council passed in 2022.
“They may object as a matter
of policy to the fact that immi-
grants get to vote at all, but their
votes will not receive less weight
or be treated differently than
noncitizens’ votes. . . . At bottom,
they are simply raising a general-
ized grievance,” Berman wrote in
an opinion accompanying her
order.
The D.C.-based Immigration
reform Law Institute, which
represents the plaintiffs, said it
would appeal the decision. The
Virginia’s House of Delegates convenes on the last day of its session on March 9. House speaker Don L. scott Jr. (D-Portsmouth) said an
outside consultant did not do a thorough analysis of the governor’s proposal to build a sports arena in alexandria.
on Tuesday, Youngkin held a
video meeting with Lucas and
Torian to discuss the budget and
the arena, but both Democrats
said afterward that they and the
governor remained far apart.
“I’m not going to be bullied,”
up his mind to build a new arena
in Alexandria’s Potomac Yard, a
handshake deal he announced
with Virginia Gov. Glenn Young-
kin (r) the next day.
That plan has been tied up in
the state General Assembly,
where it faces intense opposition
from a powerful Senate Demo-
crat and her allies. In fact, the
senator, L. Louise Lucas (D-
Portsmouth), has pointed to
Bowser’s accusations that Leon-
sis was violating the terms of an
agreement as one of many rea-
sons she did not support the
Virginia arena plan.
In a feb. 9 op-ed in The Post,
Bowser said the city’s offer of
millions for the upgrades to
Capital one Arena still stood
and Leonsis should take the deal
— so that he could “avoid any
broken promises, breached leas-
es or potential litigation.” She
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nonprofit advocates for limiting
immigration.
“At stake is the sovereignty of
the American people over this
country,” litigation director
Christopher Hajec wrote in an
email. “The courts’ consideration
of this vitally-important case has
just begun.”
A spokeswoman for the D.C.
Board of Elections declined to
comment.
The voters who sued the elec-
tions board last year included
former republican mayoral can-
didate Stacia r. Hall, who lost to
mayor muriel E. Bowser (D) in
Lucas said in an interview later
that day.
Youngkin followed up Wednes-
day with a letter to Lucas and
Torian in which he thanked them
for meeting and urged them to
“avoid a protracted [budget] fight
told reporters a few days later
that she intended to enforce the
lease.
The lease disagreement stems
from the last time Capital one
“We fundamentally disagree with the Attorney
General’s opinions, which are contradicted by the
D.C. General Counsel as recently as 2019 when the
city ratified the Ground Lease.”
A spokeswoman for Monumental Sports & Entertainment, in response to a
letter from D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb (D)
Arena underwent significant im-
provements, in 2007, with $50
million in public financing. At
that time, the D.C. Council ap-
proved legislation hiking sales
taxes at the arena, money that
eZ re
2022, and Dick A. Heller, a
retired security officer whose
2008 Supreme Court case ended
D.C.’s gun ban.
Their complaint sought to
stop the board from registering
noncitizens as voters, counting
their ballots or spending money
to implement the statute. The
lawsuit also pointed out that the
statute allows noncitizens to be
elected to public office.
Advocates for the statute ar-
gued that noncitizens have an
interest in local issues, including
schools and public safety, and
should get a say in the public
into the summer,” according to a
copy of the letter obtained by The
Washington Post. The General As-
sembly had passed a budget that
rejected most of the tax overhaul
Youngkin had included in his pro-
posed spending plan but included
would go toward paying off the
$50 million in bond financing.
former Wizards and Capitals
owner Abe Pollin’s company
committed to extending the lease
another 20 years at the same
time, council documents show.
But monumental points to the
additional documents Pollin’s
company and District officials
signed in 2007 that say the
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officials who shape those topics.
Jose Barrios, president of the
D.C. Latino Caucus, said Thurs-
day that he was “quite happy to
hear that we’re going to have
more democracy, not less in the
District of Columbia.” He said his
organization has been contact-
ing noncitizens to help them
register to vote.
“We think that if people are
here, if they’re paying their taxes,
they are running small business-
es, employing people or being
employed in our city, having
their kids in our schools and
participating in the local eco-
Minh ConnorS for the WAShinGton PoSt
Youngkin’s proposal to extend the
state sales tax to digital down-
loads and went a step further by
expanding the tax to software
purchased by businesses, not just
consumers.
In his letter, Youngkin vowed
company can “opt out” of the
lease extension if the bonds are
paid off early — which monu-
mental representatives say they
intend to do.
In his letter to monumental,
Schwalb said he did not consider
that a valid option. He argued
that the 2007 council legislation
is binding and predates the other
agreements — and that as part of
it, lawmakers intended and re-
quired a lease extension. He
called any other agreements “un-
enforceable.”
Schwalb broached setting up a
meeting with the mayor, the
council chairman and monu-
mental representative Abby
Blomstrom, the company’s gen-
eral counsel — not to debate the
legal dispute over ending the
lease, but to restart negotiations.
“The purpose of the meeting
should not be to discuss ending
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nomics of our city, then they
should have a voice in local
politics,” Barrios said.
The voting law took effect last
year after several previous ef-
forts to let noncitizens cast bal-
lots failed. During the congres-
sional review that all D.C. laws
are subject to, House republi-
cans and some Democrats
sought to block the legislation.
Their resolution then expired in
a Senate committee, enabling the
voting bill to become law.
Justin Wm. Moyer and Meagan flynn
contributed to this report.
not to sign a tax increase. But, he
added, “we need not succumb to
Washington, D.C.-style politics.
We can come together … it is clear
to me that far more unites us than
divides us.”
That’s a sharply different mes-
sage than the one Youngkin has
been delivering for the past two
weeks as he tours the state slam-
ming the “backwards budget”
passed by Democrats. He ap-
peared on fox News on Thursday
morning and said Democrats “lit-
erally want to undermine public
safety” with 22 criminal justice-
related bills that he vetoed.
“He’s literally going on an alien-
ation tour,” Scott said later. “may-
be he wants to be a national surro-
gate for Trump but that’s not how
you govern in Virginia.”
Lucas — who has consistently
belittled Youngkin’s arena plan on
social media — and Torian sent
Youngkin a letter of their own on
Thursday, touting their budget’s
investment in public programs
and scolding the governor for his
public comments.
“Unfortunately, it is hard to
envision productive negotiations
being undertaken in the midst of
your statewide tour touting a
‘backwards budget.’ What is back-
wards is your understanding of
the budget process,” the pair
wrote, according to a copy of the
letter obtained by The Post. “Your
desire to engage the legislature in
crafting amendments to the
budget prior to the reconvened
Session is unprecedented, much
like your ongoing threats to veto
the entirety of the budget if it does
not meet your demands.”
Laura Vozzella contributed to this
report.
mSE’s partnership with the Dis-
trict, but rather to resume ex-
ploring an agreement to keep the
Wizards and Capitals in our
great city through at least 2047,”
Schwalb said. “Such an agree-
ment is not only in the best
interests of the District and, we
believe, mSE, but also what the
lawful, authorized terms of
mSE’s ground lease with the
District require.”
Complications for Leonsis in
Virginia have injected signifi-
cant uncertainty into the plan to
move the teams. Though Young-
kin’s hope to include the arena in
the state budget failed, he could
try to revive it in a budget
amendment or a stand-alone bill
when the General Assembly re-
turns April 17.
Gregory S. Schneider in richmond
contributed to this report.
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Congressman apologizes for using racial slur instead of saying ‘bugaboo’

trone from B1
apologize,” the statement said.
Trone, 68, is a leading Demo-
crat in the may 14 primary race to
succeed retiring Sen. Ben Cardin
(D-md.) and represent the most
diverse state on the East Coast.
Polling released this week
shows the race is wide open, with
39 percent of primary voters
undecided and Trone leading his
chief opponent, Prince George’s
County Executive Angela D. Also-
brooks (D), by 7 percentage
points. The winner is likely to
face former maryland governor
Larry Hogan (r) in November’s
general election.
Through a spokesperson, Also-
brooks declined to comment on
Trone’s remark.
Trone began his comments
Thursday appearing to read from
prepared remarks and cordially
welcoming omB Director
Shalanda Young, who is Black,
and offering to yield his time to
her if she had any points to bring
up.
Young and Trone went on to
agree that “something has to be
done” about how little tax corpo-
rations and the wealthy pay, with
Trone saying Biden’s proposed
budget would help free up money
to improve child care and in-
crease pre-K access across the
country. He calculated how many
people could be put on food
assistance programs if Amazon
paid a 21 percent corporate tax
rate.
“That’s a pretty good trade-off.
Amazon can certainly afford that.
Jeff Bezos can easily afford it,
good Lord,” Trone said. (Amazon
founder Bezos owns The
Washington Post.)
reached through staff, Young
declined to comment on Trone’s
remark.
Trone released an expanded
statement later Thursday saying
the word he used “has a long dark
terrible history. It should never
be used any time, anywhere, in
any conversation. I recognize
that as a white man, I have
privilege. And as an elected offi-
cial, I have a responsibility for
the words I use — especially in
the heat of the moment. regard-
less of what I meant to say, I
shouldn’t have used that lan-
guage.”

obituaries
Giandomenico picco, 75

U.N. envoy helped

negotiate crises
around the world
BY A SSOCIATED P RESS
Giandomenico Picco, a former
U.N. diplomat whose negotiating
skills helped resolve some of the
thorniest crises of the 1980s and
1990s, including the Iran-Iraq
war and the kidnappings of West-
erners by Hezbollah in Lebanon,
died march 10 in Wilton, Conn.
He was 75.
His son, Giacomo Picco, told
the New York Times the cause
was complications from Alzheim-
er’s disease.
mr. Picco worked at the United
Nations from 1973 until 1992.
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru,
the fifth secretary general of the
world body, appointed him to his
executive office in 1982, and he
eventually became assistant sec-
retary general for political affairs.
mr. Picco represented Pérez de
Cuéllar in negotiations between
the 1989 withdrawal of Soviet
forces after moscow’s 1979 inva-
sion of that country.
mr. Picco’s understanding of
and relations with Iran allowed
him to negotiate the release of
hostages kidnapped by groups
with ties to the Islamic republic,
including Terry Anderson, the
bureau chief in Beirut for the
Associated Press, who was held
the longest — from 1985 to 1991.
The mission was not without
risk. In 1987, Anglican church
envoy Terry Waite disappeared
from Beirut while trying to win
the release of the hostages and
was held captive himself — also
until 1991.
As Pérez de Cuéllar’s special
envoy, mr. Picco faced that risk
with an understanding of diplo-
macy and the middle East.
“When asked for the difference
in my approach to securing the mohammad ali/aP

New Zealand and france after
the Greenpeace flagship rain-
bow Warrior was sunk by french
secret agents in 1985. At the time
of its sinking, the vessel was
protesting french nuclear tests in
the Pacific.
The following year, he became
the chief U.N. official in charge of
negotiating the truce in the war
between Sunni-majority Iraq and
Shiite-majority Iran. more than 1
million people were killed in the
conflict that began when Iraqi
dictator Saddam Hussein invad-
ed his neighbor in 1980 and
featured trench warfare, attacks
by Iranians and chemical weap-
ons assaults by Iraq.
mr. Picco also played a role in
Afghanistan, helping facilitate
release of the hostages to that of
Terry Waite, I responded, ‘He
went to Beirut from the West and
I went to Beirut from the East.’ In
those days, the East began in
Tehran,” mr. Picco wrote in his
1999 biography, “man Without a
Gun: one Diplomat’s Secret
Struggle to free the Hostages,
fight Terrorism, and End a War.”
In a 2013 BBC interview, mr.
Picco described how at one point
in the negotiations he traveled to
Beirut, where an Iranian diplo-
mat told him he would meet with
the kidnappers that night.
The car came to a screeching
halt, he said, and a bag was put on
his head.
“Then I was thrown into the
boot of the car, something which
U.n. mediator Giandomenico Picco, center, accompanies terry Anderson, right, chief Middle east correspondent for the Associated Press,
and U.S. Ambassador to Syria Christopher ross after negotiating Anderson’s release after six years in captivity in Iran in 1991.
I don’t recommend to anybody,”
recalled the 6-foot-4 mr. Picco,
known for dressing elegantly.
mr. Picco eventually negotiat-
ed a deal in which the militias
would release 10 Western hostag-
es, including Anderson, over sev-
eral months, In return, Israeli-
backed forces in southern Leba-
non freed dozens of Arab prison-
ers.
In an interview earlier this
year, Anderson said mr. Picco was
selected for the hostage negotia-
tions because “I guess the secre-
tary general thought that if he
could talk to the Afghans and the
Iranians and the russians and
the Iraqis, he could talk to any-
body, and he did.”
“He broke the logjam, is what
he did, and he did it at great risk,”
Anderson added.
Giandomenico Picco was born
on oct. 8, 1948, in Udine, in
northeastern Italy, near both
Austria and the former Yugosla-
via. He had political science de-
grees from the University of Pad-
ua and the University of Califor-
nia at Santa Barbara, along with
the universities of Prague and
Amsterdam.
After joining the world body,
he became the political affairs
officer of the U.N. peacekeeping
force in Cyprus. Pérez de Cuéllar
brought him to U.N. headquar-
ters in New York in 1981.
In his book, mr. Picco describes
how a longtime relationship with
Pérez de Cuéllar took him to
Afghanistan when his mentor got
the “thankless Afghan brief ” af-
ter the Dec. 26, 1979, Soviet inva-
sion. Helping run the U.N.’s office
of Special Political Affairs, Pérez
de Cuéllar asked mr. Picco to
develop a road map for peace in
the country.
The experience taught him
about the role of the diplomat,
mr. Picco wrote.
“our job, then, was to fill the
gap, nurture coalition politics in
a way that would end the blood-
shed,” he wrote. “It’s fine to em-
phasize the good-officer role of
the secretary general, but then
it’s up to each of his representa-
tives to stretch the confining
rubber band as far as possible
without snapping it. This is criti-
cal to understanding what we did
in Afghanistan.”
In 1994, mr. Picco left the
United Nations to become chief
executive of international con-
sulting firm GDP Associates. He
was a regular lecturer at confer-
ences and universities, and he
wrote about foreign affairs.

thomas p. stafford, 93

Astronaut who set stage for moon landing led U.S. in Apollo-Soyuz mission
BY A SSOCIATED P RESS flights, including the first rendez- 1969 set the stage for Apollo 11’s
vous of two U.S. capsules in orbit. historic mission two months lat-
Thomas P. Stafford, an astro- He was one of 24 NASA astro- er. Gen. Stafford and Gene Cernan
naut who commanded a dress nauts who flew to the moon, but took the lunar lander nicknamed
rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon he did not land on it. Snoopy within nine miles of the
landing and the first U.S.-Soviet After he put away his flight moon’s surface. Astronaut John
space linkup, died march 18 at a suit, Gen. Stafford was the go-to Young stayed behind in the main
hospital in Satellite Beach, fla. guy for NASA when it sought spaceship dubbed Charlie Brown.
He was 93. independent advice on topics After the moon landings end-
max Ary, director of the such as human mars missions, ed, NASA and the Soviet Union
Stafford Air & Space museum in safety issues and returning to decided on a joint docking mis-
Weatherford, okla., confirmed flight after the 2003 space shuttle sion and Gen. Stafford, a one-star
the death but did not provide a Columbia accident. He chaired an general at the time, was chosen to
cause. oversight group that looked into command the American side. It
A retired Air force three-star how to fix the then-flawed Hubble meant intensive language train-
general, Gen. Stafford took part in Space Telescope, earning a NASA ing, being followed by the KGB
four space missions. Before Apol- public service award. while in the Soviet Union, and
lo 10, he flew on two Gemini The Apollo 10 mission in may lifelong friendships with cosmo-
nauts. The two teams of space
travelers even went to Disney
World and rode Space mountain
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good show.” Astronaut thomas P. Stafford participates in nASA training in the Gulf of Mexico in 1965. Stafford,
speak with on these days. As always, team members will be available The 1975 mission included two who took part in four space missions, retired from the military as an Air Force three-star general.
during regular, non-holiday business hours Monday-Saturday. days during which the five men
worked together on experiments. Later, Gen. Stafford was a cen- ed first in his class there and hot and hurt his back. Then his
The deadline to place a death notice will remain 4pm on Sunday for a Afterward, the two teams toured tral part of discussions in the stayed on as an instructor. visor fogged up, and he couldn’t
Monday insertion. The photo deadline for a Monday insertion is 1pm on the world together, meeting Pres- 1990s that brought russia into In 1962, NASA selected Gen. see.
ident Gerald ford and Soviet the partnership building and op- Stafford for its second set of astro- In all, Gen. Stafford logged 507
Saturday. On federal holidays, the deadline for next-day insertion will leader Leonid Brezhnev. erating the International Space nauts, which included Neil Arm- hours in space and flew four types
be 3pm (photo deadline: 1pm). “It helped prove to the rest of Station. strong, frank Borman and Pete of spacecraft and 127 types of
the world that two completely Thomas Patten Stafford, the Conrad. aircraft and helicopters.
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called at a 30th anniversary gath- Sept. 17, 1930. As a child, he ni 6. Their original mission was to the Air force and worked in re-
Monday 9am- 5pm ering in 2005. recalled, he would look up and see rendezvous with an empty space- search and commanded the Air
Tuesday 9am- 5pm The two crews became so close giant DC-3 airplanes fly overhead ship. But their 1965 launch was force flight Test Center before
Wednesday 9am- 5pm that years later Leonov arranged on early transcontinental routes. scrubbed when the spaceship ex- retiring in 1979 as a three-star
Thursday 9am- 5pm for Gen. Stafford to be able to “I wanted to fly since I was 5 or ploded soon after liftoff. NASA general.
Friday 9am- 5pm adopt two russian boys when 6 years old seeing those air- improvised and in December, He became an executive for an
Saturday 11am-4pm Gen. Stafford was in his 70s. planes,” he told NASA historians. Gemini 6 rendezvoused with but oklahoma-based transportation
“We are too old to adopt, but He graduated from the U.S. didn’t dock with two astronauts company and later moved to flor-
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much meaning to our life, and Korean War. But by the time he 9. Cernan’s spacewalk, connected ended in divorce. In 1988, he
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DEATH NOTICE
BOYNTON
ROSE BOYNTON
Rose Boynton (age 88) passed away on
March 19, 2024, peacefully, with family by
her side. Born and raised in Montgomery
County, MD, and living in the area her entire
life; she was married to George M. Boyn-
ton, who passed away in 2009. Survived by
her two sons, two daughters-in-law, four
grandchildren, and three great-grandchil-
dren. A memorial visitation will be held
at DeVol Funeral Home, 10 East Deer Park
Drive, Gaithersburg, MD on Sunday, March
24, 2024 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Please sign
the online guest book:
www.DeVolFuneralHome.com
DEATH NOTICE
DIPIAZZA
HOWARD JOSEPH DIPIAZZA
Howard Joseph DiPiazza, MD, age 68, of
Leland, NC (formerly Burtonsville, MD)
passed away on March 16, 2024. He was
born in Rochester, NY on May 31, 1955 to
Genevieve Alessi and Thomas DiPiazza Sr.
Beloved husband, father, grandfather and
brother. Accomplished Washington, DC
area radiologist, avid woodworker, gui-
tarist, chef, bocce player and cyclist. Sur-
vived by his wife, Sally Pineault DiPiazza;
daughter, Amanda Jeanne DiPiazza (Thadd
Williams), son, Anthony Thomas DiPiazza,
PhD (Amber DiPiazza, PhD); granddaughter,
Taylor Jeanne Williams; and older brother,
Thomas DiPiazza Jr., JD (Maureen DiPiazza).
Celebration of life will be held for family
and friends on June 8 at the family home
in Leland. In lieu of flowers, donations may
be made to the Multiple System Atrophy
Coalition or Best Friends Animal Society.
COURTEMANCHE
KAREN KELLY COURTEMANCHE
Karen Kelly Courtemanche of Ocean View,
DE passed peacefully after a battle with
Parkinson’s Disease on Tuesday, March 20,
2024. She was born on September 23, 1949,
in Washington, DC to the late Henry E Kelly
Jr and Anne Kelly.
Karen lived most of her life married to the
love of her life, Michael, for more than 51
years. They had four boys, Christopher
(deceased), Patrick (Courtney) of Hanover,
MD, Sean (Tai) of Beaver Falls, PA, and Da-
vid (Christy) of Stevensville, MD. A devoted
mother, the boys were her world. Their
spouses Karen loved as if they were her
own daughters. Her grandchildren, Addison
and Jenna, Reilly, Ava, Mary, and Emma ex-
panded her heart in a way she could never
have imagined. Karen leaves behind to hon-
or and remember her life her family listed
above as well as her brother, Henry Kelly III;
brothers-in-law Scott (Mary), and Gary (Judy)
Courtemanche, nieces and nephews and
her beloved dachshund, Bailey.
Karen was preceded in death by her par-
ents, Henry and Anne Kelly of Silver Spring,
MD), and her oldest son, Christopher (Lees-
SUGARMAN
JOEL STANLEY SUGARMAN
February 4, 1944 - March 14, 2024
Joel, Gainesville, VA, died peacefully soon af-
ter his 80th birthday, having lived a full life.
The oldest of five children of the late Joan
(Green) and Norman A. Sugarman, of Bethes-
da, MD, the family moved to Shaker Heights,
Ohio when Joel was 10 years old. An alum-
nus of Shaker Heights High School (1962)
and Miami University in Oxford, OH (1965).
Joel worked as a reporter at the Cleveland
Plain Dealer and Lorraine (Ohio) Journal. He
WALLACE
CARMEN RUIZ-CORTINA WALLACE
Carmen Ruiz-Cortina Wallace, 82 of La Pla-
ta, MD passed away on Saturday, March 16,
2024 at her residence.
Carmen was born on April 22, 1941 in Jerez
de la Frontera, Spain to Ana Maria Sierrra,
and Guillermo Ruiz-Cortina.
After elementary school in Spain Carmen
went to the Ursuline Convent boarding
school near London in Brentwood England.
After completing high school, she earned
a Cambridge Certificate to teach English
in Spain. Upon returning home she started
working as an operator and producer at Ra-
dio Jerez, the family radio station.
She later went to work for the U.S. Navy
at Rota, Spain where she met Lt. Ernest
Wallace USNR; they married September 5,
1964. In January they moved to Jackson-
ville Beach, Florida where her daughter
was born. Florida was followed by moves to
Virginia, Guam, Hawaii, California, Virginia,
Maryland, Italy, and back to Maryland.
While in Guam the ships homeport was
changed from Guam to Hawaii at the time
the ship deployed for operations in the
Western Pacific. The wives had five days
to vacate their government quarters and
depart for Hawaii. Ernie was the senior
married officer on the ship so Carmen be-
came responsible for ensuring all the wives
were able to do so and were settled when
they got to Hawaii and report progress to
the squadron commander. Her son Ernest
Jr. was born just prior to the ship moving
to Florida. Carmen and the children tempo-
rarily moved to stay with Ernie’s parents in
Missouri until Ernie was transferred to the
Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey,
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LEWIS
MORRIS ALEXANDER LEWIS JR.
Morris Alexander Lewis, Jr. went home to
the Lord on Sunday, March 10, 2024. Mor-
ris was a career law enforcement officer
and served on the Metropolitan Police
Department and also as Chief of Police in
Glenarden, Maryland until his retirement
in 1995. In his retirement he served as the
Executive Director for the International
Chiefs of Police Association.
Morris leaves behind a wife of 54 years,
three sons, a daughter, and a host of grand-
children and great grandchildren. Funeral
services will be held at J.B. Jenkins Funer-
al Home in Hyattsville, MD on Thursday,
March 28 at 10 a.m. with viewing begin-
ning at 9:30 a.m.
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burg,VA).
Karen ran a daycare in her home when the
boys were young. She had an Associate’s
degree from Immaculata University and
worked as an office manager in the medi-
cal field when the boys were older. Karen
enjoyed reading murder mysteries and
watching Perry Mason. In her retirement
she became a skilled quilter. Karen found
her greatest joy in spending time with her
grandchildren and family. She will be deep-
ly missed by those lucky enough to have
known her.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at
11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, at Our
Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, 35318
Church Rd., Frankford, DE 19945, where
family and friends may begin visiting at 10
a.m. Burial will be held privately.
Memorial Donations can be made in Karen’s
name to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for
Parkinson’s Disease by going to https://give.
michaeljfox.org/give/421686/.
Please visit Karen’s memorial page at www.
parsellfuneralhomes.com.
is a six-year veteran of the Ohio National
Guard. Joel wed the late Helene (Coblitz)
Sugarman in 1966. Son Mark Sugarman was
born in 1969 and son David Sugarman was
born in 1971 (deceased 1972). Moving to the
DC area 1972 Joel began 39 years of federal
service first as an aide for Congressman Jim
Stanton (OH) then Rep. Fernand St. Germain
(RI), then as a Public Affairs Specialist at the
Naval Surface Weapons Center, the National
Eye Institute, and finished his career at the
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Joel volunteered with Boy Scout Troop1086
for 15 years, the last 10 as Scout Master. He
volunteered at the local National Suicide Pre-
vention phone line, a local hospice, Clover-
leaf Equine Therapy, and as an usher Olney
Theatre. For his last years at Heritage Village
in Gainesville, VA, he was a regular contribu-
tor the monthly newsletter and read to those
who lived in the Memory Care Unit.
Joel is survived by his son Mark Sugarman
(Manassas, VA); his grandchildren Danielle
and Zachary, Joan Levin; his partner of 18
years; and his siblings Janet Isaacs (Raleigh,
NC), Elaine Rowgo (Palm Bay, FL), Nancy
Sugarman (South Burlington, VT) and Lau-
rence Sugarman (Pittsford, NY).
Donations in honor of Joel Sugarman can be
made to Boy Scouts of America or the Clo-
verleaf Equine Center. Service private.
California. Since Carmen spoke both English
and Spanish, she was immediately asked
to be a hostess at international receptions
while in California. Later she served as a
hostess at a meeting of the Heads of Com-
munications of those Nations participating
in the Interamerican Naval Telecommunica-
tors Network.
While Ernie attended a six-month short
course at the Joint Staff College in Virginia,
she enrolled in an oil painting class. She had
sketched all her life and it was immediate-
ly obvious that she was a talented artist.
After the college they moved to Maryland
where she started participating in numer-
ous art shows and selling her work. Her
first one-woman show was held in Italy. Af-
ter returning to Maryland, she participated
in a few group-shows and had one artist
shows in Washington DC, Prince Georges
and Charles County Maryland. She later quit
show participation and was fully occupied
with commissioned work and work for art
galleries in Waldorf, MD, Alexandria, VA, and
Annapolis, MD. She was a founding member
of the North End Gallery and participated in
several organizations in Southern Maryland.
Her most well-known work is “The Village of
Port Tobacco Maryland Circa 1870” which is
displayed in the College of Southern Mary-
land Library.
Carmen was a member of the Charles Coun-
ty Women’s Club, Historical Society, and the
Kiwanis Club of Waldorf. She enjoyed; geol-
ogy, archeology, mineralogy, antiques, sew-
ing, crochet, and painting.
Carmen is preceded in death by her parents
and two sisters.
In addition to her husband Ernest, Carmen
is survived by her children; Ana Maria Baker
and her husband Charles Baker, III, of Flori-
da and Ernest Larry Wallace, Jr. and his wife
Cynthia Wallace, of Florida; grandchildren;
Susana Baker, Charles E. Baker IV, Maia
Wallace, and Ian Kai Wallace; and siblings;
Maria Luisa Ruiz-Cortina, Trini Ruiz-Cortina,
Angela Ruiz-Cortina, Christina Ruiz-Cortina,
Lourdes Ruiz-Cortina, Federico Ruiz-Corti-
na, Guillermo Ruiz-Cortina, and Alejandro
Ruiz-Cortina.
The family will receive visitors on Monday,
March 25, 2024 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Raymond
Funeral Service, 5635 Washington Ave., La
Plata, MD 20646. Interment will take place
at a later date at a National Veterans Cem-
etery.
On-line condolences may be left at
www.raymondfuneralservice.com
DEATH NOTICE
SHURE
DEANE ANDREW SHURE
Deane Andrew Shure passed away peace-
fully in his sleep on March 9, 2024. A
celebration of life will be held on April 7,
2024 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Manor Country
Club, Rockville, MD. See full obituary at
https://www.legacy.com
DEATH NOTICE
BOSLEY
ALMEDA BOSLEY
In Loving Memory
Mrs. Bosley transitioned from this life Mon-
day, March 18, 2024. Friends may attend
the viewing at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March
26, 2024 followed by funeral services at
11 a.m. at Maple Springs Baptist Church
in Capitol Heights, MD. Tributes and mes-
sages to the family can be sent c/o Maple
Springs Baptist Church.
CATLOTH
JULIANNE PATTERSON CATLOTH
“Julie”
Julianne “Julie” Patterson Catloth of Bowie,
Maryland passed away peacefully at Johns
Hopkins Hospital on Tuesday, March 19,
2024. Born on May 23, 1945 in Washington,
DC to Milton and Florence Patterson, Julie
built her life around family, friends and love.
Julie graduated from Central High School in
1963 and after graduation worked at the
Interior Department. In September of 1963,
she met the love of her life, George Catloth
and they were married on August 24, 1968.
In 1971 they welcomed their son, George
ELSON
BEVERLY ELSON (GRAY)
Professor of Art History, collage artist, and
beautiful person, Beverly Elson (Gray) died
February 26, 2024 in Orange, Virginia.
Born in La Jolla, California in 1940 to the
Reverend Dr. Edward L. R. Elson and Helen
Elson, Beverly grew up in Washington, DC,
where her father was pastor of National
Presbyterian Church. She graduated from
Mount Vernon, which was then a girls’ prep
school; American University (B.A. and M.A.);
Southeastern University (MBA); and The
University of Maryland (Ph.D.), with a disser-
tation on the architecture of the Library of
Congress.
Although 30 of her teaching years were
devoted to D.C.’s Southeastern University,
where she also held administrative posi-
tions, she ended her teaching career at
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
and held other teaching positions at Amer-
ican University, Georgetown University,
George Mason University, and Charles Coun-
ty Community College. Early in her career
she received two Fulbright grants for teach-
ing in Vietnam; she also taught in Cairo as a
teaching fellow at American University and
as an exchange professor in Cyprus. Along
with art history, she taught classes bridging
the humanities’ disciplines and pioneered
distance learning. Wherever she taught,
Beverly’s students wrote that she intro-
duced them to new ways to look at art; also,
they said, she was funny and interesting – a
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E. Catloth III “Chip” and in 1974 welcomed
their daughter, Robbin (Catloth) Oden. After
spending some time raising her family, Ju-
lie went back into the workforce and was
a teacher’s aide at Hollywood Elementary
School and Langley Park Elementary School.
Julie went on to retire from NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center in 2006. Some of her
most treasured memories include beach
trips with her girlfriends, family trips, playing
games with her grandchildren, cruises with
family and spending time in Ocean City with
her husband George. Julie is survived by her
loving husband George, son George E. Cat-
loth III “Chip” (Elaine) and daughter Robbin
Oden (Darryl) and the loves of her life, her
three grandchildren Jordan Catloth, Sean
Oden and Amaya Oden. Julie is also survived
by her sisters Patricia Patterson, Jody Lewis
(Cleney) and sister-in-law Diana Richardson
(Bobby). Julie was proceeded in death by
her siblings Milton Patterson, John Patter-
son, Shirley Raum, William “Freddy” Patter-
son, Blanche Diffenderfer, James Patterson
and sister-in-law Mary Catloth. She is also
survived by a host of nieces and nephews.
Funeral Services are as follows: Viewing on
Monday, March 25, 2024 at Robert Evans
Funeral Home in Bowie, MD from 2 to 4
p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. The Funeral Mass will
be held on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at Holy
Family Catholic Church in Mitchellville, MD
at 11 a.m. with the interment immediately
following the service at Fort Lincoln Ceme-
tery in Brentwood, MD.
truly gifted and beloved teacher.
Beverly’s teaching across disciplines and
her international concerns intersected with
her own artistic enterprises. Her collage
creations were exhibited in Sofia, Bulgaria,
Egypt, India, and in the House Office Building
as part of a project between the Embassy of
Egypt and Congress. She curated art collec-
tions for the American Embassies in Geneva
and Stockholm through the Art in Embas-
sies program. She was also a writer; her
accounts of adventures abroad should have
been widely published: they are vivid and
funny – even about the dangers to which
her adventuresome spirit led. Her themed
parties, especially at Halloween, called on
Beverly’s creativity and challenged that of
her friends. Her gingerbread house gifts
were works of imaginative art. A lifelong
member of National Presbyterian Church,
she wrote the first article explaining the
complex “faceted” windows of the “new”
building in 1969.
Her husband of 36 years, Frank Madison
Gray Jr. died in 2012. Predeceased also by
her sister Mary Faith and her parents, Bev-
erly is survived by her sister Eleanor (Hegin-
botham), brother David Elson (Kathy Bilton),
nieces Robin Heginbotham and Melanie
Downie and family, nephew Eric Heginboth-
am and family, and many cousins. Her life-
long friend Gardiner Hubbard Myers bright-
ened her last years, and Denise Lynch, a
Gray family relative, helped her through her
last years of illness unstintingly. They and
her friends will miss her exuberant, original
style, her kindness, her creative approach to
all of life. Beverly danced, played the piano,
especially Chopin, whose music she loved,
absorbed opera, and re-imagined and re-
shaped homes in Savannah, Washington,
Nova Scotia, and Orange, VA, where, in the
Gray ante-bellum estate, she created art,
entertained, and lived with beloved pets
and, above all, with beauty.
The celebration of Beverly’s vivid life on this
earth – and the new one she anticipated –
will take place on Friday, April 19 at 1 p.m.
in the Chapel of the Presidents in National
Presbyterian Church; 4101 Nebraska Ave-
nue; DC; 20016. In her memory donations
may be made to the Archives and History
Ministry of National Presbyterian Church.
DEATH NOTICE
ERICKSON
DOROTHY LOUISE ERICKSON
Dorothy Louise Davie Erickson passed away
peacefully on March 16, 2024 in Leesburg,
Virginia at 96 years old. Born on November
26, 1927 in New Haven, Connecticut, Doro-
thy grew up in Hampton/North Haven Con-
necticut. She is reunited in heaven with her
loving husband of 63 years Daniel Hoffman
Erickson, III, who predeceased her in 2020.
She was also predeceased by her parents,
Louise Stewart Apple (1955) and Maurice
Rea Davie, Ph.D (1964), and brothers Jim
(1984) and Steve (2013). Dorothy is survived
by her daughter Beth, son Jeff (wife Shelley),
her grandsons Rob (wife Torrey and their
daughters Alexandra and Josephine) and
Jim (wife Heather and their daughters Emma
and Allie). Additionally, Dorothy is survived
by several nieces and nephews and their
families.
Dorothy was an accomplished academic,
especially for a woman of her generation.
She earned a Sociology degree in 1948 from
Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachu-
setts and earned her Master’s in Psychology
in 1952 from Wesleyan University in Middle-
town, Connecticut. She pursued a Ph.D. at
the University of the Philippines in 1974.
As an adult, Dorothy called multiple plac-
es home including Glen Ridge, New Jer-
sey (1956-1966); Bath, Maine (1966-1972);
Makati, Philippines (1972-1976); Burke,
Virginia (1976-1978 and 1980-1984); Is-
lamabad, Pakistan (1978-1979 and 1980);
Yaounde, Cameroon (1984-1986); Bridgeton,
New Jersey (1986-1996); Sterling, Virginia
(1996-2022); and Leesburg, Virginia (2022-
2024).
ESTES
HOWELL M. ESTES III GENERAL
12/16/1941 - 3/18/2024
General Howell M. Estes, III, USAF Retired,
died March 18, 2024 of old age. He was 82
at the time of his death.
General Estes was born in San Antonio, TX
on December 16, 1941, the first of three
sons to parents General Howell M. Estes,
Jr. from Fort Oglethorpe, GA and Anna Hol-
comb Verbeck from Syracuse, NY. Since his
father was in the U.S. military, he travelled
extensively in his youth living in Wiesbaden,
Germany immediately following World War
II; Montgomery, AL; Riverside, CA; Albuquer-
que, NM; Los Angeles, CA; Washington, DC;
and Belleville, IL.
His high school years were spent at The
Manlius School in Manlius, NY where he
struggled with academics, taking five years
to graduate. Even then, he had to attend
The Millard School in the hills near Lan-
glois, OR to get his college board scores
high enough to be accepted at the college
of his choice. In April 1961, he accepted a
nomination to the U.S. Air Force Academy
where, as a member of the Class of 1965, he
again proved he wasn’t an academic genius
graduating on June 9, 1965 in the top 90% of
his class. He would say his greatest accom-
plishment at the Academy was being named
the captain of the basketball team his senior
year. Speaks volumes.
From the Academy, it was off to pilot train-
ing at Moody AFB, GA. A year later he tran-
sitioned into his first fighter - the F-4C at
MacDill AFB, FL. Moving to Seymour John-
son AFB, NC in 1966 he began his career as
an operational fighter pilot, first as an F-4E
backseater and shortly thereafter, as a front
seat pilot. He flew 169 combat missions in
the F-4E out of Korat RTAFB, Thailand during
the Southeast Asia Conflict (1969). Then he
was sent to a dream assignment at Soester-
berg AB, The Netherlands (1970), the land of
windmills, tulips, bike paths, and incredible
cheese. It was extra special because the
base was very near a city called Zeist, which
was the birthplace of his great, great grand-
father, Guido H. F. Verbeck, who in the late
1800s, as a Christian missionary, was instru-
mental in assisting Japan’s move from a feu-
dal society to the country we know today.
Following the Soesterberg assignment,
he spent time at the Headquarters U.S. Air
Force Europe, first as a weapons and tactics
MURPHY
JAMES MALCOLM MURPHY JR.
James Malcolm Murphy, Jr. died on March
5, 2024 following a short illness and stroke.
Born to James Malcolm Murphy and Jose-
phine Whitby Murphy on February 21, 1942
in Petersburg, Virginia, Jim was an “Army
brat” who spent his childhood everywhere,
from Paris to Okinawa to Richmond. He
graduated from Williams College, which he
loved. He was convinced it was the best
school in the country, with only one fault:
the cold weather. As a result, he did his
graduate work in sunny Claremont Califor-
WOODWARD
ROBERT MELVILLE WOODWARD
“Bob”
10/13/68 - 1/19/24
Robert “Bob” Melville Woodward passed
away suddenly of natural causes on Janu-
B5
DEATH NOTICE
Dorothy was a pillar in every community
she lived in, and for many years was very
active in raising her children and grandchil-
dren, church activities, Women’s Clubs, and
community issues. As a member of the Glen
Ridge, New Jersey school board, she helped
gain approval for a much needed new high
school. This important contribution to the
town was recognized in 1968 with a plaque
posted in the high school honoring her
and the other school board members. As
a member of the Sagadahoc Preservation
(Bath, Maine) she helped the organization
save the historic Winter Street Congrega-
tional Church that was built in 1843. Due to
her preservation efforts, this church, an ex-
cellent example of American Gothic Revival
wooden architecture in New England that
she so loved, is now part of the designated
National Register Historic District. Dorothy
was the President of the Asian Development
Bank Women’s Club while living in Makati,
Philippines and worked in the Community
Liaison Office in Yaounde, Cameroon. In
1988, Dorothy, her husband Dan, and two
other couples were the principal organizers
of the 350th anniversary celebration of the
New Sweden Farmstead and Museum hon-
oring the Swedish settlers’ arrival in South
Jersey. The museum was formally opened
on April 14, 1988 by Swedish King Carl XVI
Gustaf and Queen Silivia and then-New Jer-
sey Governor Thomas Kean and his wife,
Deborah. Besides attending the opening,
the group was honored that evening during
a private reception at Governor Kean’s res-
idence.
Dorothy should be remembered as a
staunch advocate for women’s rights, a
vociferous consumer of the news, a savvy
investor, and for her caring and kindness to-
wards everyone. She also had a notorious
sweet tooth and never met a piece of choc-
olate she would turn down.
The Memorial Service will be held on April 4,
2024 at 11 a.m. at the Sterling United Meth-
odist Church, 304 East Church Road, Ster-
ling, VA 20164. There will be a reception to
follow in the church’s fellowship hall. Doro-
thy will be buried next to her husband, Dan,
at Arlington National Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, a donation in her name
may be made to Sterling United Methodist
Church (address above), Loudoun Abused
Women’s Center, 105 East Market Street,
Leesburg, VA 20176, or Capitol Caring
Hospice, 24419 Millstream Drive, Aldie, VA
20105.
officer at Lindsey AS, Germany (1972) and
later as a command briefer at Ramstein AB,
Germany (1973). Following graduation from
Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell
AFB, AL in 1975, he paid the price for many
years of operational flying by being assigned
to the Air Staff at the Pentagon in Washing-
ton, DC. From there he moved to George
AFB, CA in 1979 where he served as a fight-
er squadron commander, a maintenance
squadron commander, and a deputy com-
mander for maintenance of a fighter wing.
After enjoying sunny southern California, it
was back to Washington, DC, first attending
the National War College at Ft. McNair in
1983 and then returning to the Pentagon as
an AF planner. As luck would have it, that
staff assignment was only 8 months long. In
1984 he took command of one of nation’s
most top secret units, the 4450th Tactical
Group at Nellis AFB, NV, which was charged
with bringing online the nation’s first oper-
ational stealth fighter - the F-117A. He said
many times this was the most exciting,
challenging, and rewarding assignment of
his entire Air Force career.
Next came a string of assignments starting
in 1986 as a Special Assistant to the Chief
of Staff to the Supreme Headquarters Allied
Powers Europe (SHAPE), Mons, Belgium;
Commander 14th Air Division, Beale AFB,
CA (1987); three assignments at Strategic
Air Command, Offutt AFB, NE culminat-
ing in the Deputy Chief of Staff for Opera-
tions, a position held during the first Gulf
War (1991); Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff
Plans and Operations, the Pentagon (1991);
Commander 7th AF and Deputy Command-
er-in-Chief United Nations Command, Osan
AB, Republic of Korea (1992); Director of Op-
erations, the Joint Staff, the Pentagon (1994);
and Commander-in-Chief North American
Aerospace Defense and U.S. Space Com-
mand and commander of Air Force Space
Command, Peterson AFB, CO (1996). Gener-
al Estes retired from the U.S. Air Force on
October 1, 1998.
He then started a new phase of his life as
the president of Howell Estes Associates
where he served on the boards of the Aero-
space Corporation, Analytical Graphics,
Space Foundation, DigitalGlobe, and MAX-
AR Technologies. He also was a consultant
to Northrup Grumman (16 years) and ITT (8
years).
Once fully retired, he could be found visiting
family, enjoying a basketball game, riding his
mountain bike, reading the Wall Street Jour-
nal, or just putting his feet up thinking about
the life he was privileged to have lived.
General Estes is survived by his wife Karen
and his three children: Howell M. Estes, IV
living with his wife Chrissy and their children
Cason, Hayden, and Reagan in TN; Susan V.
Estes in VA and her children Ryan and Kalyn;
and Jordan L. Estes who lives where ever he
wants.
A private service for General Estes will be
held at the Verbeck Gravesite in the Man-
lius Village Cemetery, Manlius, NY. Instead
of sending flowers, please help a student in
need by contributing to the Verbeck Schol-
arship at the Manlius Pebble Hill School,
5300 Jamesville Road, Syracuse, NY 13214.
nia, where he earned masters and doctoral
degrees in Government. He also met his fu-
ture wife, Anne McCully, in the school library.
Jim and Anne moved to Washington, DC,
where Jim worked for several federal agen-
cies before joining the Office of the U.S.
Trade Representative, Executive Office of
the President. His 30+ years negotiating
trade agreements at USTR were a perfect
job for him, because he loved to argue, and
could outlast almost anyone at the table. He
also loved to eat; his favorite job, Assistant
USTR for Agriculture, “required” him to sam-
ple the food and wines of the host country
while arguing against trade barriers.
He used his negotiating skills at home as
well, arguing with city and hospital officials
to keep commuter traffic off neighborhood
streets, and with vendors about the amount
of discount he deserved. The beach and the
Appalachian Trail were two of his favorite
places; lounging with family (especially his
daughter) and friends for teasing and dis-
cussion were favorite activities.
Jim was predeceased by his parents and is
survived by his wife Anne, daughter Mary,
son-in-law Steve Fisher, and many cousins,
in-laws, and friends. A memorial service will
be held May 11 at 2 p.m. at St. Columba’s
Episcopal Church, 4201 Albemarle St, Wash-
ington, DC. In lieu of flowers, please consid-
er a contribution to So Others Might Eat, DC
Safe, or another charity of your choice.
ary 19, 2024, at his home in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania at the age of 55 years. He
was born on October 13, 1968, in Portland,
Oregon. Bob moved to Philadelphia after
high school. He attended Drexel University
and worked at Cavanaugh’s University City
in Philadelphia for many years. At the time
of his death, he was working at the Phila-
delphia Museum of Art, where he was well
liked and respected.
He leaves behind his parents, Donald and
Barbara Woodward of Gaithersburg MD,
his older brother and only sibling David
Woodward of Paoli PA, sister-in-law Jenni-
fer Higgs, niece Jessica Woodward, nephew
Dylan Woodward, his aunt Donna Woodward
Yost of Coos Bay OR, and many cousins and
friends in various parts of the country. A me-
morial service will be held on Saturday, April
6, 2024, at 11 a.m. at the Chapel at Devon
Preparatory School, 363 North Valley Forge
Road, Devon, PA 19333. An inurnment ser-
vice will be private. In lieu of flowers, dona-
tions may be made to the American Diabe-
tes Association https://diabetes.org/
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saturday, march 23, 2024
A presidential (foot) race
President Biden has
been wearing Hokas,
and Donald Trump is
selling ‘Never Surrender’
high-tops. Why do we
care about their shoes?
BY R ACHEL T ASHJIAN
theateR Review
The joy of ‘Little
Shop of Horrors’
springs eternal
at Ford’s Theatre
BY S OPHIA N GUYEN
It’s funny timing for “Little shop of
Horrors” to land at Ford’s Theatre. This
is, after all, a musical in which the whole
company sings out their desperation to
leave “downtown, where the folks are
broke/ downtown, where your life’s a
joke.” Lately, there’s been a constant hum
of anxiety about what ails this corner of
D.C.: Its offices are dark, its lunch joints
becalmed. suburban commuters com-
plain of being afraid to dine out, to park
their cars, to so much as carry their
purses. (Apparently, “somewhere That’s
Green” lies in northern Virginia.)
But if ever there was a staging to
soothe the soul, it’s this one. (Death
spiral? What death spiral?) skid Row, in
Paige Hathaway’s set, looks stable, even
cute. The storefronts are candy-colored.
The trash bags slump politely. The ba-
guettes and boules, piled in a bakery
window, do seem pointedly rubbery —
the props of a Potemkin prosperity.
(Maybe they’re winking at the glossy
luxury storefronts, a few blocks from the
theater.) But really, other than the omi-
sEE TheaTer revieW On c3
KLMNO
Style eZ re c
The princess
f as h i o n
revealed her
diagnosis.
Happy now?
There’s really only
one certainty to come
out of watching Kate
Middleton’s video
announcement,
which is that the
Monica woman would rather
Hesse not be making it. not
just because she’d
rather not have to be
receiving cancer treatments. But
also because she might have
preferred to keep those treatments
private and instead conspiracy
theories had metastasized, forcing
the Princess of Wales to a
teleprompter to disclose what the
doctors had found inside her body.
Behind Kate’s acknowledgment of
the “love, support and kindness that
has been showed by so many of you,”
lurked the unacknowledged fact
that an equal “many of you” were
not supportive and kind. Many were
instead generating memes about
how Prince William had murdered
his wife and buried her in the
backyard.
so now Kate, amid chemo, had
come to set everyone straight.
Wearing a casual sweater and sitting
on an outdoor bench, the princess
explained that the “major
abdominal surgery” she underwent
in January was not thought to be
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cancer-related at the time, but later
tests showed that cancer “had been
present.” she and William had done
“everything we can to process and
manage this privately for the sake of
our young family.” she was now
undergoing chemotherapy, and was
asking for more “time, space and
privacy” as she completed her
treatment. she felt that she was
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getting “stronger every day,” and
was focused on making a “full
his week, President Biden was in the news not for his mind, but for his feet. On sEE heSSe On c2
several recent occasions, he has worn his traditional navy suits with a pair of
thick-soled black sneakers by Hoka, the cushiony running shoe company
beloved by hypebeasts, fitness freaks and Britney spears. ¶ The sneakers are
the brand’s Transport model, “designed with the city-dweller in mind,” per Hoka’s
website, and suitable for working out as well as for daily life. The Transport sells for
$150. ¶ social media hecklers seized on the sneakers as the latest evidence of Biden’s
struggles with aging, which has been the focus of media attention since a special
counsel report on his handling of classified documents singled out his “advancing age.”
One X user dubbed them the “Air Bidens.” ¶ The new York Post and Fox news glommed
on, suggesting that Biden is wearing the Hokas for stability to avoid falling or tripping.
RnC Research reposted on X an “Inside Edition” segment on the shoes and said
“Biden’s handlers are forcing him to wear a new pair of ‘lifestyle sneakers’ because he
trips so much.” sEE FaShion On c2
Former president Donald Trump delivers remarks while introducing a new line of signature
shoes at Sneaker con in Philadelphia on Feb. 17.
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catherine, Princess of Wales,
pictured in July, announced her
cancer diagnosis on Friday.
music Review Depending on the elasticity of your
attention span, listening to Tierra
Rapper Tierra Whack expands her Whack’s 2018 debut, “Whack World,”
might have made your brain feel like
world beyond the 15 minutes of fame
it had been tossed inside a bouncy
castle the size of a jewelry box. As
conceptual rap albums go, this thing
seemed unprecedented — dizzy-mak-
ing in scope but hyper-succinct in
BY C HRIS R ICHARDS form, with 15 tracks lasting a mere 60
seconds each, Whack rotating
through a cast of voices so omnichro-
matic, it was as if we had been invited
to the secret puppet show inside her
mind. since then, she’s dropped new
songs only here and there, allowing
“Whack World” to stand as her grand
statement. Was 15 minutes of fame
too much?
Thankfully, no. The Philadelphia
native’s relatively epic new album,
“World Wide Whack,” lasts an entire
38 minutes, but give it the level of
attention Whack seems to be asking
for, and you won’t be watching the
clock. There’s an untethering emo-
tional riptide to be felt straight away
on “Mood swing,” with Whack rap-
ping about her existential alienation
in a tangy singsong: “I cannot trust a
soul, so I stay lonely.” On “Burning
Brains,” she describes a headache
triggered by overstimulation —
“grass too green, sky too blue” — then
melts her words into a nonsensical
slush that evokes Yoda cycling
through all the vowel sounds. Typical
romantic inertia gets her down, too.
During “Moovies,” she complains
Alex DA Corte about a boyfriend who won’t even
take her to the multiplex on Friday
on her new album “World Wide Whack,” Tierra Whack makes the mundane magical. sEE muSic revieW On c4
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Politicians make the news with shoes
FasHiON from C1
In fact, the president has re-
cently been wearing various
sneakers, a person close to the
president told Politico, after long
avoiding them for fear that they
did not look as presidential as
dress shoes. one of Biden’s best
moments of fashion press came
when he was pictured in may in an
oval office meeting with several
lawmakers. While Biden had on a
pair of leather brogues, others
were mocked for wearing the in-
creasingly popular zombie foot-
wear that combines a sneaker sole
with a dress shoe top.
But a stiffer gait and pain have
convinced him otherwise, accord-
ing to Politico. His footwear choice
may have inspired others: on
Tuesday afternoon, more than
12,000 people had viewed the
sneaker in the past 24 hours, the
Hoka website claimed. (The brand
declined a request to comment on
whether the spike in views trans-
lated to sales.)
The current president is not the
only politician making news with
shoes.
In february, Donald Trump,
now the presumptive republican
presidential nominee, appeared at
Sneaker Con to announce a line of
Trump sneakers, including a pair
of gold “Never Surrender” high-
tops with stars, red stripes and a
“T” on the tongue and side.
He did not design them — they
are produced through one of his
many licensing agreements, which
have been a source of Trump’s in-
come for decades — but he told the
crowd that he had wanted to make
sneakers for “12 years, 13 years, and
I think it’s going to be a big suc-
cess.” The Never Surrender, limit-
Monica Hesse
Kate was diagnosed with cancer, then burdened with breaking the news
Hesse from C1
recovery.”
for context, I might note that
when the palace announced the
surgery, earlier this year, it
described the procedure as
“planned” — which certainly
doesn’t preclude “major” but
does connote a routine
mundanity. Palace sources said
at the time that the Princess’s
illness was “noncancerous”
which is partly what made royal
watchers feel as though it was
fine to treat the whole news
story as delicious and tawdry,

   
 
TOP: Nikki Haley, right, a former presidential candidate, used her
shoes as a way to position her femininity as an authoritative but
unthreatening asset. aBOVe: President Biden wears Hoka
sneakers on Feb. 3.
ed to 1,000 pairs by sneakerhead
logic, sold out within hours,
though other styles remain avail-
able for preorder.
At the time, Biden’s team re-
sponded by taking a shot below
the belt — indeed, below the an-
kles.
“Donald Trump showing up to
hawk bootleg off-Whites is the
closest he’ll get to any Air force
ones ever again for the rest of his
life,” said Biden campaign spokes-
man michael Tyler.
In the heat of the republican
race, shoes were again a fetish for
candidates and the media alike.
florida Gov. ron DeSantis was the
subject of much scrutiny about
whether he puts lifts in his shoes
to make him taller. And Nikki Ha-
ley continually seized upon her
own high heels as a way to position
her femininity as an authoritative
but unthreatening asset.
massively multiplayer online
Game of Clue.
for even more context, I
might add that semantics and
word choice — “planned” vs.
“major” — probably mean
absolutely nothing to a 42-year-
old mother of three who is
undergoing the scariest health
challenge of her life while trying
to reassure her kids that
mommy is going to be okay. I
can’t imagine it’s a lot of comfort
for her to hear that when people
were mocking her they didn’t
think it was cancer, just, you
know, something else terrible
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Why the obsessive focus on
shoes?
“Shoes are not just fashion —
they reflect much larger social
ideas,” Elizabeth Semmelhack, di-
rector and senior curator at Toron-
to’s Bata Shoe museum, wrote in
an email. “It might seem that
shoes have a simple job to do —
protect our feet — but in fact we
task them with much more. Shoes
are used in the construction of
many social identities from class
to gender to age and even to politi-
cal leanings.”
Semmelhack applauded Biden’s
choice of Hokas, whether the logic
was to make him feel more secure
or to simply look young. “The
brand has serious credibility in
the athletic footwear world while
simultaneously capturing the at-
tention of the fashion world,” she
wrote.
The shoes became popular for
that had upended her world.
The question of what
happened to Catherine, Princess
of Wales turned out to be, in the
end, a question of what you
think you are owed by the
British royals? How much
privacy should be awarded to a
family that not only lives on the
public’s dime but whose primary
role is to be public-facing?
Queen Elizabeth II once
famously said, “I have to be seen
to be believed,” and the entire
Catherine, Princess of Wales
saga proved that statement
correct: When the princess went
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their puffy design, embraced by
runners and daily sneaker wear-
ers for comfort and by fashionably
minded menswear and womens-
wear enthusiasts amid the “dad
shoe” craze of a few years ago that
followed the preference for slim,
minimalist sneakers, such as
Nike’s roshe model.
Even though Trump isn’t wear-
ing his sneakers, they still reveal
much about how he’s approaching
this election. Semmelhack sees
them as a cynical bid for Black
voters. robert Kozinets, a journal-
ism professor at the University of
Southern California who is work-
ing on a book about fandom, sees
them as merch, the latest update
to his divisive red mAGA hat,
which has become an inextricable
part of fan culture in the 21st
century.
“for a long time, [the name
Trump] stood for success, and it
probably still does for a lot of
people,” he said. “He has this de-
voted group of people who were
willing to, and in fact eager to,
support him. And eager and happy
to be identified by some of these
ideas through clothes.” If you buy
these sneakers or wear the hat,
Kozinets said, his followers feel
“you’re a part of history.”
Semmelhack points to the con-
versation around the possibility of
lifts in DeSantis’s boots as a test of
his masculinity. “for centuries,
natural male height has been a
measure of manliness. Therefore,
any attempt to alter one’s height
artificially has long been consid-
ered suspect, leading to ridicule
and accusations of vanity and/or
insecurity.” Cowboy boots are “the
only form of high heels that don’t
call men’s masculinity into ques-
tion,” Semmelhack says. “Combin-
ing the two can lead to an altered
gait and give the ruse away.”
In other words, the wrong shoes
give away that a person is not
conforming to whom we expect
them to be. These days, the rheto-
ric of clothing is more muddled
than it’s ever been before: A
nurse’s uniform on a nurse is just a
uniform, but it can also appear on
a Prada runway as a couture-like
declaration that gives aspiration a
new spin. A person in basketball
shorts and a T-shirt may have
spent $20 or $2,000 on their out-
fit. Class, power and gender roles
have become almost impossible to
distill through garments alone.
Yet we maintain our nastiest as-
sumptions about shoes: that heels
are for women, sneakers are “ur-
ban,” chunky soles are for fogies.
How many of us have gazed blithe-
ly at someone’s outfit, only to feel a
sharp shrivel of judgment when
our eyes fall to their footwear? If we
no longer feel comfortable judging
others by their clothing choices, we
cling to our snobbery around
shoes. Projecting our fears and be-
liefs onto shoes, no matter how
much we want to believe we’ve
moved on from clichés and stereo-
typing, provides more comfort
than any squishy sneaker could.
missing, people lost their faith
in the crown. Lacking a steady
feed of royal mythology, they
created their own weird myths.
Stephen Colbert propelled
rumors about Kate and
William’s marriage, recycling an
old theory that William had had
an affair. The segment seemed
exceptionally misguided in
hindsight. Contrary to the
speculation about the health of
their marriage, Kate said in her
announcement that “having
William by my side is a great
source of comfort and
reassurance.”
the washington post
Should I apologize to my
ex-wife for cheating, 35
years after the divorce?
Adapted from an
online discussion.
Dear Carolyn: my
Carolyn
Hax
father recently
passed away, and
one of my siblings
posted the
obituary I wrote
on social media.
As algorithms do what they do,
this somehow appeared on my
ex’s feed. She sent a message
offering condolences, and we
exchanged pleasantries.
That should have been it — we
divorced almost 35 years ago —
except we divorced mostly due to
my immaturity as well as
infidelity. I grew up and changed,
and I’ve been married now 30
years to a saint of a woman and
am in a happy place in life.
The message has brought back
memories of my poor behavior. A
type of behavior and lifestyle I left
behind 30-plus years ago. I am
ashamed of who I used to be. And,
yes, my wife knows about my
past.
I have a strong desire to
apologize to my ex-wife for what I
did. I have no idea really that we
will communicate any more
beyond what has transpired. So,
do I apologize or let it go?
— I Grew Up
i Grew Up: Why would you not
tell her you’re sorry?
Her condolence note suggests
she long since forgave you, plus
these do-I-or-don’t-I-apologize
situations can be deceptively
difficult. But yours seems
straightforward: She reached out
to you, so you wouldn't be
blindsiding her out of three
decades of nowhere. And you
seem to want her to feel better,
not let yourself off the hook. And
you two were the principal
players involved, so there’s no
need to explain why you’re
apologizing before you apologize,
which can be an issue with the
dredging up of ancient wrongs.
Within minutes of
middleton’s announcement, I
was already seeing some
preemptive backpedaling online,
all of which amounted to the
idea that this is what she should
have said to begin with. If she
had simply been honest from the
beginning, the media and public
would have known to leave her
alone. I tend to agree that might
have been the case — before her
announcement, I made the
argument for transparency
myself — but it also implies that
she should have had the
presence of mind to consider
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So, “I’m ashamed of the way I
used to be, and I am sorry for
mistreating you”? Yes. Even if you
have reason to believe she already
knows this, already knows she
wasn’t to blame, it’s still a
kindness to help remove any
doubt.
Dear Carolyn: I haven’t bonded
with my boyfriend’s kids the way
I’d hoped we would. I have social
anxiety that made it kind of hard
to even talk to them at first, and
now we just don’t have anything
in common. They’re obsessed
with hunting and fishing and I’m
an animal rights vegan, so I can’t
even pretend to be interested. But
I try to plan fun outings, I go to
their events, I’m 100 percent on
their side when their dad is
unnecessarily upset with them,
etc. But they could take me or
leave me. maybe I should just be
happy they don’t hate me, but is
there anything else I can do?
— Anonymous
anonymous: That actually
doesn’t sound so bad — you’re a
benevolent presence in their lives
even while not being a close one.
That’s arguably more difficult,
since it’s based on your
commitment to your role in their
family and to them as people, vs.
social ease or shared interests.
The steadfast have a lot to teach
us, too.
You’re also doing a lot already. I
think the “anything else” you’re
looking for is just your continued
respectful presence, plus time,
minus hopes. Connections may
form organically — or not, but
that’s still better than pushing to
make it so.
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optics before she considered her
health.
And anyway, when I watched
Catherine, Princess of Wales — a
woman who had to interrupt her
cancer treatments and her
family tending to get her hair
done and put on makeup and
prove to the world that she was
not dead, not a body double, not
leaving her husband, not
growing out a bad haircut, just
sick — when I watched her give
us her bad news, what I thought
wasn’t that she should have told
us sooner. It was that it was sad
she had to do it at all.
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Adding more light to ‘Little Shop’

THeaTer revieW FRom C1
nous flicker of a stained-glass
sconce — a neat touch from light-
ing designer max Doolittle — mr.
mushnik’s florist shop looks posi-
tively spiffy.
This is where we find Seymour,
a rumpled shop assistant in love
with his co-worker Audrey, who is
dating a no-good-for-her dentist.
Seymour tends to a bulbous
plant, christened Audrey Two,
which develops unusual quali-
ties: It demands his blood. As it
grows, the plant brings custom-
ers and fame. It also brings its
caretaker more intimate, and
more precious, forms of atten-
tion: an adoption offer from mr.
mushnik, the possibility of a re-
ciprocated crush.
ing at a chance for success. You
sense the longing that’s been bur-
ied deep, and forced to lie dor-
mant, for a while now.
matching his essential decency
is Audrey, as played by Chani
Wereley. Her Audrey is crisp: All
the heels and animal prints in the
world couldn’t disguise her
steady practicality. Wereley is riv-
eting when she sings, her voice
full and rich, and she’s completely
persuasive as someone with poi-
gnantly, exactingly small dreams:
“a washer and a dryer”; a hus-
band who “loves to mow and
weed.” But she hasn’t quite
clicked with the heart of this
character, who, arm in a sling,
says of her boyfriend: “If he does
this to me when he likes me,
imagine what he’d do if he ever
his downfall, involving nitrous
oxide, makes for the show’s most
authentically unnerving scene,
the character is mostly played for
laughs. (When he showed off his
custom-embroidered dental
whites, someone in my row
groaned, with obvious delight,
“Stop it.”)
A defanged orin fits right in
with the rest of this production,
directed by Kevin S. mcAllister,
which doesn’t let things get too
gritty or creepy. Even the Greek
chorus of Ronnette, Chiffon and
Crystal — played with impres-
sively casual vocal power by Kai-
yla Gross, Nia Savoy-Dock and
Kanysha Williams — look down-
right preppy in Alejo Vietti’s cos-
tuming. It doesn’t reach for any of
the meatier themes that might scoTT suchman

The role of Seymour has, in
recent years, generally been filled
by callow, high-strung types. (off-
Broadway, that’s been the likes of
Jonathan Groff and Jeremy Jor-
dan.) Derrick D. Truby Jr. takes a
fresh approach: His Seymour is
just past the first bloom of youth,
and all the sadder for it. His
forehead gleams. His smile is
preemptively apologetic. When
Truby unleashes his voice, he
doesn’t sound like someone claw-
got mad!” You never really believe
that this Audrey is so pathologi-
cally self-loathing that she thinks
this is all she deserves.
The other half of this problem
is the boyfriend. Joe mallon
sketches his minor characters
(“Bernstein,” “Snip,” “Luce,” and
“Everyone Else”) with charming
adroitness. His orin, though, is a
villain straight out of Cartoon
Network, all burgundy pompa-
dour and quivering jowl. Though
lurk in the script: technophobia,
fame’s corrupting influence, la-
tent racial anxiety. (With its mu-
sic rooted in motown and doo-
wop, and its plot rooted in fear
over urban disorder, the material
has a complex relationship with
Blackness.) The determined
cheer, polishing the more ragged
edges of Howard Ashman’s book,
proves most problematic for the
show’s theoretical climax, when
Audrey finds out what really
Chani Wereley and Derrick D. Truby Jr. in “Little Shop of Horrors” at Ford’s Theatre.
feeds the plant. That moment has
already been sapped of the per-
versity that would allow its dark
logic to blossom.
But there’s a reason “Little
Shop of Horrors,” with lyrics by
Ashman and music by Alan men-
ken, is a perennial favorite: It’s
impossible to ruin and pointless
to overthink. Why begrudge this
version for leaning into “sweet
understanding” (per its most
hummable duet)? In the process,
the cast and crew have hit on
something organically human
and genuinely touching: the char-
acters’ desire to be loved — or,
failing that, for their devotion to
yield some sign of life. When
Seymour pleads, “Grow for me!”
it’s heartbreaking.
Downtown and beyond, the
District is currently smothered in
pink plastic blossoms: It’s just the
right time, in other words, to
retreat to the theater and surren-
der to the charms of a giant plant
puppet.
Little Shop of Horrors, through
may 18 at ford’s Theatre in
Washington. Two hours, including an
intermission. fords.org.

Owens parts ways with had been harassed during the

2014 “GamerGate” controversy
that consumed the video game
ing admiringly about Adolf Hit-
ler.
meanwhile, owens began to

Daily Wire after remarks world. An unabashed booster and

BY W ILL S OMMER
Prominent right-wing com-
mentator Candace owens has left
the Daily Wire, the website
founded by conservative com-
mentator Ben Shapiro, after
months of promoting antisemitic
ideas.
In a statement posted to social
media Friday morning, Daily
Wire CEo Jeremy Boreing said
the company and the pundit
“have ended their relationship.”
“The rumors are true — I am
finally free,” owens said in her
own post.
The details of owens’s exit
weren’t immediately clear, but it
follows increased tension over
antisemitic rhetoric that pitted
owens against Shapiro, who is
Jewish, and the rest of the site’s
more mainline conservative fig-
ures.
The Daily Wire didn’t respond
to a request for further comment.
owens couldn’t be reached for an
immediate comment.
In a Thursday appearance on
“The Breakfast Club” radio show,
owens acknowledged her
strained relationship with Sha-
piro but claimed that “Ben
doesn’t have the power to fire
me.”
owens’s split with the Daily
Wire represents the latest exam-
ple of a high-profile conservative
figure contending with the expec-
tations of a more staid employer.
Last year, Fox News fired star
Candace Owens, pictured in 2022, launched a campaign in 2018 to
try to encourage Black voters to leave the Democratic Party.
host Tucker Carlson for reasons
that were never made public but
which came after he promoted
conspiracy theories and dispar-
aged Ukrainian leaders.
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A telegenic presence and pug-
nacious social media warrior,
owens, 34, first rose to promi-
nence on the right for her com-
mentary skeptical of women who
defender of Donald Trump, she
launched a campaign in 2018
known as “Blexit” to try to en-
courage Black voters to leave the
Democratic Party.
In 2020, she joined the Daily
Wire — a Nashville-based con-
servative entertainment con-
glomerate with a massive follow-
ing and ambitions to become a
conservative alternative to Holly-
wood — and immediately became
one of its leading pundits.
Her profile grew when rapper
Ye, formerly known as Kanye
West, praised the way she
“thinks,” both appearing at a
2022 fashion show wearing
matching “White Lives matter”
shirts. But Ye had already moved
into his new role as an erratic
provocateur, recently making an-
tisemitic comments — if occa-
sionally apologizing — and speak-
use her Daily Wire platform to
promote antisemitism — claim-
ing this month on her show that
“secret Jewish gangs” terrorize
Hollywood — and recently favor-
ited a tweet repeating a lie about
Jews drinking Christians’ blood.
She has also clashed publicly
with the avowedly pro-Israel Sha-
piro by criticizing the nation in
the wake of the oct. 7 attacks.
“I think she’s been absolutely
disgraceful,” Shapiro said in a
recording posted on X in Novem-
ber. “I think that her faux-sophis-
tication on these particular issues
has been ridiculous.”
owens shot back on X that
“you cannot serve both God and
money,” in what appeared to be a
jab at her employer.
Still, the November feud ap-
peared to have been settled, with
Boreing releasing a statement
saying owens’s “job is secured.”

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With her new album, rapper Tierra Whack proves she’s no one-hit wonder
musiC review FroM C1
night. “I need love,” she raps. “It
ain’t hard as you think. I want
the popcorn with the big old
drink.”
Turns out, the more mundane
the subject, the more Whack’s
music begins to feel weirdly
sublime, like during “Shower
Song,” surely the greatest rap cut
ever written about the virtues of
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daily hygiene. “I sound great
when I’m singing in the shower,”
allows us to sing out loud but to
love what we hear. The more mundane about life and death. First comes
“Invitation,” a zesty sequence of
how “death is real” and “life is
fake”; and finally, “27 Club,” a
Whack announces over an elec-
tro-boogie bass line that refuses
And while “Shower Song”
stands tall on its own, its place- the subject, the more brags that proves precision and
goofballing aren’t mutually ex-
lullaby about suicide so devastat-
ing, you’ll wonder whether
to spin down the drain. “Soap
and water give me powers.” It’s as
ment deep in the track list gives
“World Wide Whack” its late-ar- Tierra Whack’s clusive modes; then “Snake
Eyes,” a song where the alternat-
you’re hearing it clearly. And
maybe you aren’t. More than
simple and playful as a children’s
song, but it also speaks to that
riving narrative arc. She just
spent the first two acts mulling music begins to feel ing affirmation
(“Mmmm,” “Mmmm”) sound like
ad-libs most, Whack knows that imagi-
nation is our most powerful
mysterious surge in confidence
we manage to summon in rou-
disappointments in her romantic
partners and her neurochemis- weirdly sublime. two cows playing on a seesaw.
After that, Whack makes the
shield against the cruelty of exis-
tence. Here, she would also like
tine states of naked vulnerability try, but now Whack is feeling surprising pivot into “Two to remind us that it isn’t invinci-
— a confidence that not only refreshed and alert, ready to rap Night,” a trap-tinted ballad about ble.
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Yaiba - To the Hashira Training Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Imaginary (PG-13) CC: 11:00- CC: 6:45 Arthur the King (PG-13) 4:35 4:20-7:20-9:50
8:45-10:10 (R) 3:00-8:40 (PG-13) 10:50-11:50-1:50-2:50- 1:30-4:00-6:30-10:30 Late Night with the Devil (R) CC: Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 5:40 Late Night with the Devil (R)
AFI Silver Theatre 1:40-4:35-7:45-10:35
Cultural Center Late Night with the Devil (R) CC: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - The 3:50-5:00-6:00-7:20-8:00-9:00- William Shatner: You Can Call 7:30-10:00 Cabrini (PG-13) 3:55 12:10-2:45-5:20-8:10-10:50
8633 Colesville Road 5:00-7:30-10:00 Migration (PG) 10:00-1:25 IMAX Experience (PG-13) 11:30AM 10:20-11:00 Me Bill (PG-13) 3:00-7:30 Cabrini (PG-13) CC: 12:15- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
One Life (PG) CC: 10:30-1:15- Madame Web (PG-13) 6:50- Immaculate (R) 11:40-2:10-4:40- The American Society of Magical Argylle (PG-13) CC: 1:30 3:30-9:30 (PG-13) 5:20 11:20-2:30-5:40-8:40
The War of the Worlds (1953) 10:05 7:10-9:50 Negroes (PG-13) 7:40-10:30 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Imaginary (PG-13) 11:00-1:50-
(G) 12:10 4:00-6:45-9:30 Cabrini (PG-13) CC: 11:00-3:30- Love Lies Bleeding (R) 4:15
The American Society of Magical Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Regal Germantown Love Lies Bleeding (R) 6:40 6:45-10:00 (PG-13) CC: 12:30-1:45-3:15- Immaculate (R) 3:05 4:45-7:50-10:45
The Incredible Shrinking Man 11:20-2:05-4:55-7:40-10:25 Luca (2021) - Pixar Special 4:30-6:00-7:15-8:45-10:00 Cabrini (PG-13) 11:30-3:10-
(1957) (NR) 11:15AM Negroes (PG-13) CC: 10:45-1:30- 20000 Century Boulevard One Life (PG) CC: 11:15-2:00- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
4:15-6:50-9:30 Madgaon Express 6:40 Theatrical Engagement (PG) 4:45-7:45-10:30 Love Lies Bleeding (R) CC: 1:30- (PG-13) XD: 10:00-12:15-1:00- 6:50-10:15
Call Me Dancer 3:30 Late Night with the Devil (R) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's 12:00-2:40-5:20 4:00-6:30-9:00
American Fiction (R) CC: 3:10-4:00-6:05-7:00-9:00-10:00 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Money, Freedom, a Story of the Love Lies Bleeding (R) CC: 11:05-1:35-4:05-7:10-9:40 Stone (PG) 10:50AM Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - The Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) CC: 5:00 (PG-13) 12:50-4:00-7:00-10:00
CFA Franc 4:15 10:00-12:30-3:10-5:45-8:25-11:00 Shrek (PG) 10:15AM 10:45-4:40 Medal of Honor Theater - NMMC
The Beekeeper (R) 11:10-2:25- IMAX Experience (PG-13) 12:30 Origin (PG-13) CC: 1:15-7:15 Immaculate (R) CC: 12:00-2:15- The American Society of Magical
Dune: Part Two 70mm (PG-13) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 5:10-7:55-10:45 Arthur the King (PG-13) 11:20- Immaculate (R) 11:40-2:10-4:40- 4:30-6:45-9:00 18900 Jefferson Davis Highway
Negroes (PG-13) 3:20-9:20
1:20-4:40-8:00 (PG-13) CC: 10:10-1:00-3:45- 2:10-5:20-8:10-10:55 The American Society of Magical Hidden Figures (PG) 12:30
Cabrini (PG-13) 10:00AM 7:30-10:10 Negroes (PG-13) CC: 12:00-2:30- Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Love Lies Bleeding (R) 12:30-6:10
The Thing from Another World 6:30-9:15 One Life (PG) 11:25-2:10-5:05 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 10:30- We, the Marines (NR) 10:00- Luca (2021) - Pixar Special
(1951) (NR) 9:30 Luca (2021) - Pixar Special 2:20-6:10-10:00 Regal Westview & IMAX 5:00-7:30-10:00 One Loudoun 11:00-3:00-4:00
Theatrical Engagement (PG) CC: The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo 5243 Buckeystown Pike Love Lies Bleeding (R) CC: 20575 East Hampton Plaza Theatrical Engagement (PG)
Hollywood Shuffle (R) 2:15 et Juliette (NR) 12:55 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 10:40- Regal Ballston Quarter 12:00-2:40
Monster (Kaibutsu) (PG-13) 7:00 11:30-2:15-5:00 11:10-12:20-1:10-4:30-6:30-9:20 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 11:50- 10:45-4:45-7:15-9:45 The Little Rascals (1994) (PG)
Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) CC: The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 3:40-7:30 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 11:30AM 671 North Glebe Road Immaculate (R) 11:40-2:10-4:40-
The Mother of All Lies (Kadib 3:55-7:25-10:45 Madgaon Express 6:50 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's 7:10-9:40
Abyad) 1:20 12:15-2:45 Late Night with the Devil (R) Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 6:00 (PG-13) CC: 11:00-1:45-4:30- Arthur the King (PG-13) 3:15-
The American Society of Magical Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 7:15-10:00 6:25-9:35 Stone (PG) 11:00AM Om Bheem Bush 11:10-3:00-
Coconut Head Generation 11:20AM Yolo (Re La Gun Tang) (PG-13) Negroes (PG-13) 11:35-2:15- 12:10-2:40-5:10-7:40-10:25 Shrek (PG) 11:30AM 6:40-10:20
A Tribe Called Judah 6:30 7:30 Imaginary (PG-13) 10:35-1:20- (PG-13) 1:50-3:50-4:50-6:40- Knox Goes Away (R) 7:15-10:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 11:45-
5:00-7:40-10:20 7:40-9:40-10:30 Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) CC: 2:15-4:25-8:30-9:15 Arthur the King (PG-13) 1:20- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:30
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG- 4:10-7:10-10:10
AMC Academy 8
The IMAX Experience (PG-13) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's 10:30-1:00-3:20-5:40-8:00-10:20 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:00-4:15- 4:50-7:40-10:40 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
6198 Greenbelt Road 13) 10:30-1:30-4:30-7:30-10:30 The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:30- (PG-13) 10:50-11:50-1:20-2:00-
CC: 4:45 et Juliette (NR) 12:55 Stone (PG) 10:30AM Sleeping Dogs (R) 4:40-8:45 6:30-9:25-10:25
Arthur the King (PG-13) CC: Love Lies Bleeding (R) 7:50-10:35 Shrek (PG) 11:00AM Luca (2021) - Pixar Special Theat- Problemista (R) 12:15-3:40- 4:10-8:10-9:10 2:50-4:30-5:00-5:30-6:00-7:30-
Immaculate (R) CC: 10:00-12:30- Knox Goes Away (R) 10:20- Cabrini (PG-13) 6:20-9:50 8:00-8:30-9:00-10:30-11:00;
1:30-4:10-6:45-9:50 3:00-5:30-8:00-10:30 Arthur the King (PG-13) 1:00- rical Engagement (PG) CC: 12:15 6:45-9:55 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:10-
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 1:15-4:05 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 11:50-12:40-3:30-4:20-6:50-9:20 12:20-3:30-6:30-9:30
Exhuma (Pamyo) 12:10-3:15- (PG-13) 10:00-11:00-12:00-2:00- 4:00-6:50-9:00 Yolo (Re La Gun Tang) (PG-13) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
1:00-4:00-6:50-9:20 Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 2:20 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 9:30 10:00 (PG-13) 12:30-3:45-7:00-10:15 Imaginary (PG-13) 6:40-9:50 Regal Manassas & IMAX
6:30-9:45 Luca (2021) - Pixar Special 3:00-3:50-5:00-6:00-6:40-7:20-
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 1:40- Dune: Part Two - The IMAX Immaculate (R) CC: 10:30-12:45- Love Lies Bleeding (R) 12:00- The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo 11380 Bulloch Drive
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Theatrical Engagement (PG) 8:00-8:30-9:00-9:40-10:20-11:00 et Juliette (NR) 12:55
7:30-10:20 Experience (PG-13) 8:20 3:00-5:15-7:45-10:00 3:00-6:00-9:05 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
(PG-13) CC: 11:00-12:00-1:45- 11:30-2:05-4:40 Love Lies Bleeding (R) 10:45- The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) Stone (PG) 10:10AM
Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) 2:45-5:30-7:30-8:15-10:15-11:00 1:30-4:20-7:00-10:15 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:20- Snack Shack (R) CC: 10:30-10:30 Immaculate (R) 12:25-3:15-
CC: 4:40-10:00 MAI 12:05-3:10-6:40-9:45 2:00-3:00-3:30-8:40 6:20-9:30 2:50-6:00 Shrek (PG) 10:30AM
Imaginary (PG-13) CC: 2:10- AMC Magic Johnson Immaculate (R) 11:00-1:25-3:50- Luca (2021) - Pixar Special AMC Potomac Mills 18 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Theatrical Engagement (PG) Late Night with the Devil (R) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Arthur the King (PG-13) 12:30-
Capital Center 12 7:05-9:35 2700 Potomac Mills Circle (PG-13) 10:50-12:50-1:50-4:00- 3:30-6:20-9:10
4:50-7:40-10:10 10:20-1:40 12:35-5:30-8:00-10:25 (PG-13) 10:45-2:15-5:40-7:10
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 800 Shoppers Way Exhuma (Pamyo) 10:10 Arthur the King (PG-13) 10:00AM 5:00-6:30-7:00-8:00-9:30-10:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 11:30-
Immaculate (R) 12:50-3:20-5:40- Imaginary (PG-13) 1:40-4:40- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 10:10- Angelika Film Center Mosaic
(PG-13) CC: 1:20-2:45-4:10-5:30- Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: Om Bheem Bush 7:15-10:40 7:25-10:05 The American Society of Magical 3:20-5:40-7:20-9:40
8:20-10:50 12:30-3:00-7:20-9:50 2911 District Ave
7:00-8:15-9:50 1:00-3:30-7:10-9:55 Cinépolis Gaithersburg The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo Negroes (PG-13) 2:10-4:30- Dune: Part Two - The IMAX Expe-
Manjummel Boys 2:50-4:50 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:15-
The American Society of Magical Madame Web (PG-13) CC: 629 Center Point Way et Juliette (NR) 12:55 7:20-10:10 rience (PG-13) 2:20-9:15
Om Bheem Bush 3:10-10:30 (PG-13) 7:15; 10:30-11:00-1:30- 3:45-7:15-9:55 MAI 11:40-12:10-3:00-3:40-6:20- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:10-
Negroes (PG-13) CC: 2:00-7:20 7:00-9:50 Arthur the King (PG-13) 12:00- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 3:40 2:00-4:30-5:00-7:45-9:30-10:30 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:00- 7:10-9:40-10:20
Love Lies Bleeding (R) CC: 2:20- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 5:20- 2:45-5:30-8:15-11:15 (PG-13) 1:20-4:20-7:10-10:10 1:05-3:15-5:25-7:35 1:40-4:20-6:50-9:20
5:00-7:30-10:10 7:45-8:15-10:10 Regal Hyattsville Royale Immaculate (R) 2:15 Immaculate (R) 2:00-5:10-7:50- Late Night with the Devil (R)
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 11:30- The American Society of Magical Problemista (R) 12:15-2:45-5:15-
Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) CC: Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) 3:30-7:15-11:00 6505 America Blvd. Negroes (PG-13) 6:20 Arthur the King (PG-13) CC: 10:30 1:00-4:10-7:10-10:20
1:00-3:45-6:20-10:10 7:40-10:10 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:40
4:30 CC: 2:00-4:40-7:20-10:00 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:30- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Love Lies Bleeding (R) 4:30- Imaginary (PG-13) 12:10-3:10-
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: MAI 2:25-8:25
AMC Annapolis Mall 11 Imaginary (PG-13) CC: 12:55- 12:30-2:00-4:45-5:45-8:30-8:45 Stone (PG) 11:00AM 7:20-10:00 Immaculate (R) 11:45-1:45-3:45- Regal Dulles Town Center 6:00-8:40
4:45-7:20-10:00 Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Shrek (PG) 11:30AM 11:00-11:45-2:40-3:30-5:30-6:20-
1020 Annapolis Mall Road Luca (2021) - Pixar Special Theat- 9:30-10:00 5:45-7:45-9:50 21100 Dulles Town Circle Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Arthur the King (PG-13) CC: Cabrini (PG-13) CC: 1:45-5:00 11:15-3:00-6:00-7:15-10:00 Arthur the King (PG-13) 11:40- rical Engagement (PG) 12:10-3:15 Exhuma (Pamyo) 11:20-5:25 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's (PG-13) 10:50-11:50-12:50-
The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo Cabrini (PG-13) 2:15-11:15 2:20-5:05-8:00-10:50 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - Migration (PG) CC: 12:00-2:30 1:50-3:50-5:00-5:50-7:00-8:00-
11:45-2:20-5:00-7:45-9:40 One Life (PG) 12:00-2:30-5:00- Stone (PG) 10:00AM
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 11:20- The IMAX Experience (PG-13) Dune: Part Two - The IMAX 9:00-10:00
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 10:00- et Juliette (NR) 12:55 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Experience (PG-13) CC: 10:15- 7:30-10:00 Shrek (PG) 10:15AM
11:00-12:30-3:00-4:00-6:25-9:45 The American Society of Magical (PG-13) 11:15-1:00-2:00-4:00- 3:10-7:00-10:00 11:15-2:10-5:15 Love Lies Bleeding (R) 12:30- Arthur the King (PG-13) 10:10- Love Lies Bleeding (R) 10:55-
4:45-7:00-7:45-10:00-10:45-11:15 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 10:50- Immaculate (R) 12:45-3:10-5:35- 2:00-8:30 2:50-6:30-9:30
Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Negroes (PG-13) CC: 2:10-4:45- 3:00-5:30-8:00-10:20 2:40-5:30-8:15
Love Lies Bleeding (R) 12:15- 12:15-1:50-2:45-4:20-5:40-6:50- Late Night with the Devil (R) CC:
CC: 11:10-1:50-4:40-7:00-10:20 7:20-9:55 8:10-10:35
5:15-8:00-10:30 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 11:15- Luca (2021) - Pixar Special
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: Love Lies Bleeding (R) CC: 2:15- 3:00-5:45-8:45-11:30 7:45-9:20 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:25-1:10 (PG-13) 11:30-2:00-4:30-7:00- 3:00-6:45-9:30 Theatrical Engagement (PG)
Immaculate (R) 12:00-2:30-5:15- Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) 1:30-4:00
11:00-12:00-2:35-3:35-6:10-7:10- 4:50-7:25 CC: 11:50-2:30-5:10-7:50-10:30 9:30-10:35 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 10:30-
9:00-10:00 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 7:45-10:30 10:40-1:40-4:40 (PG-13) 12:30-3:20-5:40-6:10- 1:05-2:10-3:40-6:15-8:45-9:45 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no
Imaginary (PG-13) 11:35-2:15- 8:30-9:20 Imaginary (PG-13) CC: 11:10- CMX Village 14
Imaginary (PG-13) 1:00-3:50- Yaiba - To the Hashira Training
Imaginary (PG-13) CC: 10:10- (PG-13) CC: 4:30-7:15-8:20-10:00 Greenbelt Cinema 1:50-4:30-7:10-9:45 1600 Village Market Boulevard
1:40-4:05-8:00-10:40 Luca (2021) - Pixar Special 129 Centerway 4:55-7:35-10:15 Xscape Theatres Brandywine 14 The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 6:30-10:30 (R) 3:00
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:00-
Cabrini (PG-13) CC: 10:20-12:50- Theatrical Engagement (PG) CC: Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 4:45-8:00 Late Night with the Devil (R) 7710 Matapeake Business Drive 5:00-8:15 1:20-5:20-6:40-7:30-9:10
The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire -
6:40-9:50 2:00-4:30 2:40-5:00-7:40-10:10 et Juliette (NR) 12:55 The IMAX Experience (PG-13)
Navalny (R) 1:00 Arthur the King (PG-13) 11:45- Cabrini (PG-13) CC: 11:30-2:50- Arthur the King (PG-13) 11:50- 11:20-6:10
The American Society of Magical Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 2:15-4:45-7:25-9:55 Cabrini (PG-13) 2:00-5:45
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 10:30-11:10-11:50- 6:15-9:40 2:30-5:30-8:10 Immaculate (R) 11:40-2:10-4:50-
Negroes (PG-13) CC: 10:30AM The IMAX Experience (PG-13) (PG-13) 5:00-8:15 Late Night with the Devil (R) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
12:30-1:30-2:10-2:50-3:30-4:30- One Life (PG) CC: 10:20-12:45- Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 11:30- (PG-13) 10:45-11:50-12:45-2:50- 7:40-10:15
Love Lies Bleeding (R) CC: CC: 1:00-3:45-6:30-9:15 6:45-9:15 3:40-6:30-9:15 12:50-3:30-4:25-7:20-8:40
4:20-10:45 Landmark 5:10-5:50-6:30-7:30-8:10-8:50- 4:00-5:00-6:00-7:00-7:30-10:00
Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) CC: Bethesda Row Cinema Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) The American Society of Magical Late Night with the Devil (R) Regal Springfield Town Center
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 1:00-3:25-5:55 9:30-10:20-11:00 The American Society of Magical 6859 Springfield Mall
7235 Woodmont Avenue The American Society of Magical 11:20-1:50-4:30-6:40-7:30-9:20- Negroes (PG-13) CC: 11:20-2:10- 4:40-7:15-9:50
(PG-13) CC: 11:15-2:00-4:45- Immaculate (R) CC: 3:20-5:40- 10:00 Negroes (PG-13) 10:35 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 1:15- Negroes (PG-13) 8:30-10:40 4:50-7:30-10:20 Cabrini (PG-13) 11:10-2:20- Love Lies Bleeding (R) 11:00-
7:30-10:15 8:00-10:20 Imaginary (PG-13) 11:25-1:55- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 6:10-9:25 Stone (PG) 11:00AM
Immaculate (R) CC: 1:10-3:30- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 2:15-3:45-5:30-7:15-8:15-9:00 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 4:45-7:40-10:25
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:30-4:15- - To the Hashira Training (R) 4:35-7:15-9:45 (PG-13) CC: 10:00-1:00-4:00- The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo Shrek (PG) 11:30AM
5:50-8:10-10:30 (PG-13) OC: 1:45 The Beekeeper (R) 11:05-1:35- 7:00-10:00 et Juliette (NR) 12:55 Immaculate (R) 10:25-2:10-5:10- Arthur the King (PG-13) 12:10-
Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) 6:15-8:45 8:20-10:55 8:00-10:20
Immaculate (R) OC: 1:00 The Zone of Interest (PG-13) 4:15 Love Lies Bleeding (R) CC: One Life (PG) 12:25-3:10-5:50- 3:40-6:20-9:20
1:30-7:20 Love Lies Bleeding (R) 11:15- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
AMC Montgomery 16 1:20-4:45-7:30-9:45 2:00-4:50-7:20-9:50 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 11:20-2:10-4:40-7:20-10:15 8:30 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:20-
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 11:40-12:20-2:20-3:00- Luca (2021) - Pixar Special (PG-13) 9:00 3:00-4:10-6:50-8:20
7101 Democracy Boulevard One Life (PG) 1:45-4:00-6:30-8:50 Luca (2021) - Pixar Special Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
(PG-13) CC: 10:15-1:00-3:45- 5:00-5:40-7:40-8:20 Theatrical Engagement (PG) CC: (PG-13) 11:20-12:40-1:30-2:00- Regal Fairfax Towne Center Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:10-
6:30-9:15 Wonka (PG) CC: 5:30 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Theatrical Engagement (PG)
(PG-13) 1:00-2:00-3:30-4:30- 2:30-5:20
The American Society of Magical 11:30-2:15 3:20-4:15-4:50-6:00-7:00-7:50- 4110 West Ox Road 11:40-2:30-5:15-7:40-10:10
The American Society of Magical Arthur the King (PG-13) CC: Negroes (PG-13) 11:15-1:45- 8:45-9:35-9:55 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Imaginary (PG-13) 11:20-2:10-
Negroes (PG-13) OC: 5:25 11:15-1:50-4:35-7:25-10:10 6:00-7:00-9:30 Immaculate (R) 12:20-3:00-5:30- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire - The
Love Lies Bleeding (R) 2:05- 4:25-6:55-9:25 IMAX Experience (PG-13) CC: 5:45 The American Society of Magical Stone (PG) 10:00AM 5:20-8:10
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 7:50-10:30 Immaculate (R) 11:50-2:00-4:10- Immaculate (R) CC: 11:45-4:45-
AMC Center Park 8 5:00-7:45-10:00 Negroes (PG-13) 12:00-2:45- Shrek (PG) 10:30AM The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo
10:00-12:00-2:00-4:00-6:00- Regal Laurel Towne Centre 7:10-9:50
4001 Powder Mill Rd.
8:00-10:00 Landmark at 7:40-10:15 5:40-8:25 Arthur the King (PG-13) 12:30- et Juliette (NR) 12:55
14716 Baltimore Avenue Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 10:50- Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) CC: Love Lies Bleeding (R) 1:10- 3:30-6:20-9:20 Cabrini (PG-13) 3:20
Arthur the King (PG-13) CC: Migration (PG) CC: 11:00-1:30 Annapolis Harbour Center
12:30-3:30-6:15-8:45 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's 11:30-2:30-3:10-6:00-9:30 10:45-4:15-6:45-9:20 4:10-7:05-9:45 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:20- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
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Immaculate (R) 12:40-3:00-5:25- 4:00-6:50-9:30 7:30-8:00-9:00-10:00-10:30-11:00
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7:30-9:55 12:30-6:00-7:30-8:45 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 1:50- (PG-13) 11:00-1:00-1:40-3:40- Arthur the King (PG-13) CC: 7:30-10:10 Negroes (PG-13) 6:40-9:40
Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 10:30- Cinema Arts Theatre
CC: 2:15-4:45-7:15-9:45 Perfect Days (PG) CC: 2:05 6:00-10:00 4:20-6:20-7:00-9:00-9:40 11:20-2:30-5:10-7:50-10:30 The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo Love Lies Bleeding (R) 6:30-9:30
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Cabrini (PG-13) CC: 12:15 Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) iPic Pike & Rose Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: et Juliette (NR) 12:55 Immaculate (R) 12:00-2:20-4:50-
CC: 2:15-7:45-10:30 Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) 11:10-1:30-2:50-7:30-9:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 9:50-
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The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Arthur the King (PG-13) (!) 11:30- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 12:05- Uproar (PG-13) 4:45; 9:55- 13) 10:50-11:50-2:00-3:00-4:20- Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
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et Juliette (NR) 12:55 2:35-7:10
The American Society of Magical Cabrini (PG-13) CC: 10:30-12:15- Cabrini (PG-13) 10:20-12:45-
1:30-4:30-7:40 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 11:00- Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) Problemista (R) 9:45-12:20-2:40- The American Society of Magical Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Negroes (PG-13) CC: 12:45-4:00- 3:30-6:45-10:15 Imaginary (PG-13) 11:20-2:30- 2:45-6:45-9:30 CC: 2:00-4:40-7:20-11:05 Negroes (PG-13) 3:50
3:50-6:55-9:15 Cabrini (PG-13) CC: 12:30-3:50- 7:20-9:20 Stone (PG) 10:00AM
7:30-10:00 One Life (PG) CC: 10:45-1:30- 8:50 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:30- Love Lies Bleeding (R) 11:00- Shrek (PG) 10:10AM
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 7:10-10:25 William Shatner: You Can Call
Immaculate (R) CC: 12:00-3:00- 4:15-7:05-9:45 The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo 3:30-6:30-9:45 Me Bill (PG-13) 9:50-12:10-2:25- 7:20-10:20 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 10:40-
The American Society of Magical (PG-13) 10:15-12:15-1:15-2:15- et Juliette (NR) 12:55 One Life (PG) CC: 2:40-5:20- Immaculate (R) 2:10-4:40-
5:15-8:00-10:15 3:45-4:45-6:15-7:15-9:30 Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13) 4:35-7:10-9:15 11:30-2:40-3:40-6:40-7:20-11:00
Kung Fu Panda 4 3D (PG) CC: Negroes (PG-13) CC: 11:30- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 11:45-4:45-7:30-10:45 8:00-10:40 7:10-9:50
Love Lies Bleeding (R) 1:30 Perfect Days (PG) 9:45-12:15- Arthur the King (PG-13) 10:15-
5:30 5:00-8:30
Immaculate (R) 10:25-12:10-
(PG-13) 10:00-10:50-12:00-1:00- Imaginary (PG-13) 11:00-3:00- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 5:05-9:15 Exhuma (Pamyo) 6:40-9:40 1:20-4:20-7:10-10:20
Love Lies Bleeding (R) CC: 2:00-3:00-3:50-5:00-5:30-6:05- 8:00-11:00 (PG-13) CC: 12:00-1:20-4:10- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:20
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11:15-4:15-7:00-9:45 6:50-8:00-8:30-9:00-10:10-10:50 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 7:30-9:50 11:20-12:10-1:10-2:20-3:50-
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3:30-4:30-6:15-7:15-9:00-10:00 Arthur the King (PG-13) 11:00- Love Lies Bleeding (R) 11:00- The American Society of Magical AMC Tysons Corner 16 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 4:05 10:40
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1:00-5:30-9:15 Luca (2021) - Pixar Special Negroes (PG-13) (!) 1:15-3:15- 7850e Tysons Corner Center Problemista (R) 4:55 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:50- Bob Marley: One Love (PG-13)
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Dune: Part Two - The IMAX 2:30-4:45-7:05-9:30 8:05-10:40 4:40
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8:20-10:00 (PG-13) OC: 1:45 2:20-5:00-7:40-10:30 et Juliette (NR) 12:55 Love Lies Bleeding (R) 10:10AM The Boy and the Heron (PG-13)
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5:15-7:45-10:35 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 9:35-2:50-
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4:40-7:15-9:50 Arthur the King (PG-13) 9:15; 12:00-3:30-8:20 1:40-7:05-9:45 12:05-5:20 Shrek (PG) 10:30AM (PG-13) 10:20-11:00-12:00-
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3:30-6:45-9:45 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) MAI 10:45-1:50-4:55-8:00
Love Lies Bleeding (R) CC: 10:00 The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo 8:50 11:45-2:15-4:50-7:20-10:50 Problemista (R) CC: 11:25-2:10- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 10:20- 4:50-7:40-10:10
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7:30-10:00 Dune: Part Two - The IMAX Expe- Negroes (PG-13) 5:40-8:20 6:30-9:45 The Metropolitan Opera: Roméo (PG-13) 9:50-1:00-4:00-7:00-
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NORTH
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♦ 972
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CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER
imple Saturday”
columns focus on
basic technique and logical
thinking.
If today’s declarer had
been driving a car, you would
have thought he was late for
a job interview. When West
led a low heart against 3NT,
South swiftly played dummy’s
jack. East won and returned
a heart.
Then play slowed down, RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
but as the cards lay, South
was sunk. He finessed with
his jack of diamonds; if East
had held Q-x-x, South would
have had 10 tricks. But West
took the queen ... and three
hearts and the ace of clubs.
“I can save one trick by
forcing out the ace of clubs,”
South sighed.
South succumbed to
haste, a common failing. He LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
is at risk only if West has five
hearts. But if West’s hearts
were K-Q-10-x-x, he surely
would have led the king, so
South can assume that East
has a high heart.
On the first heart, South
must play dummy’s ace. He
next leads a club to his king.
When West wins, he can lead
a heart to East’s king, but
South wins any return and HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
has nine winners.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠ Q 10 ♥ 9 6 4 3
♦AKJ84♣K6
You open one diamond,
and your partner bids one
spade. South in today’s deal
then bid 1NT with this hand.
Do you agree with that call?
ANSWER: I do. South’s 1NT
showed a balanced minimum BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
opening bid — a reasonable
description though his hand
wasn’t quite balanced. A
rebid of two diamonds would
have suggested a six-card
or longer suit. A bid of two
hearts would have been a
“reverse,” showing great
strength.
— Frank Stewart
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BIRTHDAY | MARCH 23
You’re fascinated by
everything and want
to learn as much
as possible. You’re
insightful and intrigued by
adventurous people. You will
enjoy this year because you
will learn a lot, as well as
teach. You also might explore
spiritual or religious disciplines
to discover the meaning of life.

HEART OF THE CITY STEENZ JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY Moon Alert: There are no
restrictions to shopping or
important decisions today. The
Moon is in Virgo.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
This is a positive, upbeat day!
For those who are working, you
might have meetings or get-
togethers with the staff. If so,
these will be warmer, happy
experiences.
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
Stay light on your feet
today, because unexpected
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL invitations to a social outing,
a sports event or the arts
might come your way. This is a
fun-loving day! It’s a wonderful
time to socialize. It’s also a
great date day.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Although you might like to
have time alone, this is also an
excellent day to entertain at
home. Or perhaps a gathering
will take place at your home
for some reason. It might even
be sudden and unexpected,
which means you might want
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK to have food and drink on
hand.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
This is a fun-loving weekend.
Enjoy short trips and
schmoozing with others. Today
will hold a few surprises for
you, but they will probably
expand your world in some
way. You might meet new
people or see new places.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
The energy this weekend
STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER DAN SCHKADE is upbeat! Meanwhile, you
DUSTIN FLASH GORDON can be a big spender, plus
you’re generous. Therefore,
be mindful about suddenly
splurging on something
or going overboard today,
possibly related to a parent or
an authority figure.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
This is a lovely day for you!
The Moon is in your sign
dancing beautifully with lucky,
moneybags Jupiter. Look for
sudden opportunities to travel
or do something that broadens
your horizons. You might meet
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(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
This is a wonderful day to
schmooze with others. (You’re
a great schmoozer, because
you’re one of the most sociable
signs in the zodiac.) Keep your
eyes open for advantages, gifts
and opportunities that can
come your way today.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
Today you’ll enjoy talking to
friends and mingling with
groups, including conferences
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT and conventions. Although
you’re in work mode, you also
feel sociable and eager to talk
to everyone.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Stay on your toes today,
because relations with
parents, bosses, authority
figures and the police are
subject to surprises. However,
more likely, you will receive
praise, admiration, a hot tip
completely out of the blue.
CAPRICORN
LINCOLN PEIRCE BILL HOLBROOK (DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
BIG NATE ON THE FASTRACK An unexpected opportunity to
expand your world is possible
today. You might suddenly
have a chance to travel
somewhere. Or you might have
a chance to take a course or
get further training.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Keep your pockets open,
because gifts, goodies and
unexpected favors can come
your way today. In particular,
they might benefit your home
or family. This also might be a
sudden situation that benefits
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ability to change residences.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
This is an upbeat, happy day
for you! You’re energized, and
you feel friendly to everyone.
An unexpected suggestion
from a partner or close friend
might suddenly send this day
in a new direction. Therefore,
stay light on your feet!
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FAU exits
early. More
departures
may follow.
Owls stuck together after
Final Four run. This time
it won’t be as easy.
BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY
NEW YORK — Florida Atlantic
can’t say it lacked March experi-
ence. But on Friday, after north-
western forced overtime — after
FAU had a chance to win it in
regulation, before Johnell Davis
trotted into a contested shot — the
Owls lost, 77-65, at Barclays Cen-
ter in the first round of the nCAA
men’s basketball tournament.
The darlings of last year’s Big
Dance, the mid-major team that
made the Final Four, lasted just
45 minutes this year, five more
than the minimum. They were
buried by Ryan Langborg’s
27 points for northwestern, 12 of
them in overtime. FAU lost back-
to-back games for the first time
since 2022.
still, so much already was dif-
ferent for the Owls this season.
They were ranked for most of the
season. They were a no. 8 seed
here — as opposed to a no. 9 last
spring — after losing to Temple in
the American Athletic Confer-
ence semifinals. They were no
longer an upstart Cinderella.
They were known.
But because FAU is a mid-ma-
jor program, the most pressing
questions haven’t changed: In the
name, image and likeness (nIL)
era, with hundreds of players al-
ready in the transfer portal, can it
keep this roster together again?
Can it raise enough money from
fans to keep a core of juniors —
Davis, Vladislav Goldin, Alijah
Martin, nick Boyd — from leaving
for power-conference schools?
nothing lasts forever, but will
the Owls make this thing last a
little longer?
“I think everyone is concerned
with donor fatigue and whatnot,”
see FAU On d5
baSeball
MLB launches a formal
probe into betting scandal
involving Shohei Ohtani
and his interpreter. D2
Figure Skating
Teenager Isabeau Levito
becomes first American to
win silver at worlds since
Ashley Wagner in 2016. D2
Men’S Soccer
U.S. striker Haji Wright has
already had quite a week.
Next up: a clash Sunday
with rival Mexico. D3
Nats send Wood, Crews Capitals win crazy clash with Carolina in shootout
to minor league camp
Utility infielder Lipscomb
not among eight players
who are reassigned
BY S PENCER N USBAUM
WEST PalM BEaCH, Fla. — The
Washington nationals reas-
signed eight players to minor
league camp Friday afternoon,
ending big league camp for such
top prospects as third baseman
Brady House and outfielders Dy-
lan Crews, Robert Hassell III and
James Wood. Left-handed reliev-
ers Richard Bleier and Joe La
sorsa, first baseman Juan Yepez
and catcher Israel Pineda also
were reassigned to minor league
camp.
none of the eight players will
make the Opening Day roster,
barring a last-minute injury in
camp.
The nationals also uncondi-
tionally released right-hander
Zach Davies after he had a
9.00 eRA in the spring, a decision
that probably signals right-hand-
er Trevor Williams will resume
SPORTS
“I didn’t think this would happen this soon,” said JuJu Watkins, 18, who has averaged 27 points in reviving the Trojans program.
Ready for her close-up
USC freshman Watkins, women’s basketball’s next big star, arrives on national stage
BY B EN G OLLIVER
laS VEGaS — Prodigies tend to
make a mockery of age, appearing
far older, wiser and more talented
than their birth dates would sug-
gest. In the case of JuJu Watkins,
the 18-year-old women’s basket-
ball star, the word “freshman” on
her University of southern Cali-
fornia biography reads like an
embarrassing typo or a baldfaced
lie.
Watkins’s game is so polished
she could be confused for a
28-year-old WnBA all-star. Like a
pro, the physical 6-foot-2 guard
skates smoothly around on-ball
In charlotte, Tom Izzo and rick Barnes renew a
defenders and focuses on reading
the helpers that crowd her path to
the hoop. she uncorks practiced
euro-step layups, rhythmic turn-
around jumpers, split-second
pull-ups and cheeky pump fakes
that cause opponents to elevate
against their will. Unlike many
standout teenage scorers, Wat-
cApITALS 7,
his role as the team’s fifth starter
to start the season rather than
making a move to the bullpen as a
long reliever. This would leave
eight jobs open for the nine re-
lievers left in camp (eight right-
handers and left-hander Robert
Garcia).
notably absent from the cuts
was utility infielder Trey Lips-
comb, 23, who won the organiza-
tion’s minor league Gold Glove
award last year and has hit .364
this spring. Manager Dave Marti-
nez indicated that were Lipscomb
to make the roster, it would pref-
erably be as a starter. He probably
is competing with Luis García Jr.
for the job at second base.
Many of the team’s top pros-
pects largely met or exceeded
what were already sky-high ex-
pectations during spring train-
ing.
Wood had the most impressive
spring of the four reassigned
prospects, showcasing all five
tools and lowering his strikeout
rate (31.5 percent last season to
22.6 percent this spring), while
finishing with a .341 batting aver-
age, a .491 on-base percentage, a
.707 slugging percentage and four
see NATIoNAlS On d3 dylan Strome beats Hurricanes goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov for the lone score of the shootout Friday.
KLMNO
saturday, march 23 , 2024
ivy league stunner
No. 13 seed Yale survives a frantic finish
to upset No. 4 Auburn, 78-76. D4
louisville women sent packing
No. 11 seed Middle Tennessee rallies from 18
down to beat the cardinals, 71-69. D4
two old lions in a new world
friendship that has lasted decades. D5
DAvID Becker/ASSOcIATeD PreSS
kins makes an impact on defense,
too. she fights over the top of
screens, moves well laterally to
defend drives and uses quick
hands to force turnovers and reg-
ister deflections.
During a hard-fought win over
Arizona this month in the Pac-12
tournament, Watkins took a shot
to the face, which led to a notice-
able bump on her head, and bled
from her elbow after another skir-
mish. Despite the mounting car-
nage, she maintained a typically
stony visage and blinked a few
times to clear her eyes, only in-
dulging in a brief smile once she
had banked in the game-sealing
basket and the final buzzer had
sounded.
This competitive composure
was further evidence that Wat-
kins, who leads UsC into the
nCAA tournament as the no. 1
seed in the Portland 3 Region,
has shattered the typical
see WATKINS On d6
ALex BrANDON/ASSOcIATeD PreSS
SU D
Crooks,
Cyclones
swipe win
from Terps
IOWA STATE 93,
MARYLAND 86
Freshman’s 40 points
help wipe out huge deficit
BY K AREEM C OPELAND
PalO alTO, CalIF. — Audi Crooks
took a moment to herself, stand-
ing near the sideline while her
teammates warmed up before she
played in the first nCAA tourna-
ment game of her career Friday
night. The Iowa state freshman
closed her eyes, tugged on her
shooting shirt and breathed deep.
she would need every bit of that
oxygen before putting on an abso-
lute show inside Maples Pavilion
on stanford’s campus. The all-
American honorable mention
center was an immovable force for
34 minutes as she poured in
40 points on 18-for-20 shooting
and added 12 rebounds to lead the
no. 7 seed Cyclones to a come-
from-behind 93-86 victory over
no. 10 seed Maryland.
Crooks fought back tears as she
talked about her pregame routine,
which includes taking a moment
to think about her late father. she
became the fourth player in pro-
gram history to score 40 points
and was three points shy of setting
the Cyclones’ record.
“Before every game, I just try to
take a moment,” Crooks said. “I
pray and kind of seek guidance
from my father who passed away
when I was 16 in 2021. I just try to
kind of take a second and ground
myself and tap into my spiritual
side and just know that every-
thing’s going to be okay and he’s
got the best seat in the house.”
Crooks’s big night led to Mary-
land’s first loss in the first round of
the nCAA tournament since
Coach Brenda Frese took over the
program in 2002. It was a punch to
the stomach after the Terrapins
put together their best first quar-
ter of the season and led by
20 points shortly before halftime.
Iowa state’s comeback win was
the second largest in nCAA wom-
en’s tournament history, and it
ensured Maryland (19-14) failed to
reach 20 wins for the first time
since 2003-04.
Maryland couldn’t have asked
for a better start to the game. Bri
McDaniel set the tone in the open-
ing moments with a pair of jump-
ers and defensive deflections to
fluster the Iowa state offense.
Then the threes started falling.
First it was shyanne sellers from
the top of the arc. Then McDaniel.
And that’s when Allie Kubek
caught fire.
The entire season has been a bit
of a roller coaster for Kubek, but
she found her range — and her
aggression — at the perfect time.
she made five threes in the first
see MArylANd On d6
HuRRIcANES 6 (SO)
BY B AILEY J OHNSON
spencer Carbery walked into
the interview room Friday night at
Capital One Arena and began with
a rhetorical question.
“Is there anything to talk about
tonight?” the Washington Capi-
tals coach asked after his team
outlasted the Carolina Hurricanes
in a game that featured six ties,
seven lead changes, two hat tricks
and one shootout. Center Dylan
strome, who was 0 for 9 in his
nHL career in the shootout before
his attempt in the fifth round,
scored the winner for Washing-
ton, securing a wild 7-6 win.
Winger sonny Milano led the
way for the Capitals with his first
career hat trick. Darcy Kuemper
started the game for Washington
and made 18 saves on 22 shots;
Charlie Lindgren entered to begin
the third period and made seven
saves — and didn’t allow a goal in
the shootout. Pyotr Kochetkov
stopped 19 of 25 for Carolina.
see CAPITAlS On d6
Jets at capitals
Sunday, 12:30 p.m., Monumental
d2
BASEBALL
MLB launches probe
into Ohtani scandal
Major League Baseball
launched a formal investigation
into the sports betting scandal
surrounding Los Angeles
Dodgers superstar Shohei
Ohtani and his translator, Ippei
Mizuhara, it announced Friday.
Baseball was rocked
Wednesday by competing articles
in ESPN and the Los Angeles
Times, which reported that the
Dodgers fired Mizuhara amid
vague allegations of “massive
theft” connected to payments to
an illegal bookie. While Mizuhara
insisted the gambling debts were
his, his story shifted as to whether
Ohtani knew about them. MLB
players and employees are barred
from placing bets with illegal
bookmakers.
Ohtani’s lawyers have said they
were reporting the theft to the
authorities. Though the lawyers
did not specify the agency to
which they made the report, the
IRS confirmed Friday that its
criminal field office in Los
Angeles opened an investigation
involving the bookie, Mathew
Bowyer, and Mizuhara.
MLB has been under scrutiny
for its response to the scandal
enveloping its marquee star, who
signed a $700 million deal with
the Dodgers last offseason, the
vast majority of it deferred. While
major league officials initially
indicated they were “gathering
information” but did not expect
to take action until after a
potentially lengthy law
enforcement investigation into
the bookie was resolved, the
announcement Friday put MLB’s
efforts in stronger terms.
“Major League Baseball has
been gathering information since
we learned about the allegations
involving Shohei Ohtani and
Ippei Mizuhari from the news
media,” MLB’s statement said.
“Earlier today, our Department of
Investigations (DOI) began their
formal process investigating the
matter.”
— Gus Garcia-Roberts
Jackson Holliday will have to
wait to make his MLB debut.
Holliday, the best prospect in
baseball, will not make the
Baltimore Orioles’ Opening Day
roster after the club reassigned
him to minor league camp Friday.
Mike Elias, the Orioles’
executive vice president and
general manager, said during the
winter meetings that the 20-year-
old had a “very strong possibility”
to make the Opening Day roster.
Holliday did everything he could
to make that reality during spring
training — hitting .311 with a
.954 OPS, playing clean defense at
second base and acting like a big
leaguer throughout the process —
but it wasn’t enough to convince
the Orioles to bring him north
with them.
In addition to Holliday, the
Orioles optioned outfielders
Heston Kjerstad and Kyle
Stowers to minor league camp
and reassigned right-hander
Albert Suárez, catcher David
Bañuelos and infield prospects
Coby Mayo and Connor Norby.
Throughout camp, as Holliday
impressed on and off the field, it
seemed more likely that he would
make the team. Manager
Brandon Hyde was asked this
week whether Holliday looks like
a big leaguer despite looking like
a teenager in the face.
“It’s hard to say he doesn’t,”
Hyde said.
But the potential excuses — his
age, his lack of Class AAA
experience, his transition to
playing second base — persisted.
So did the reality of baseball’s
economics, in which a prospect’s
service time is often more
important than his performance
on the field. By having Holliday
spend the first few weeks of the
season in the minors, it’s possible
the Orioles will gain another
season of Holliday before he hits
free agency.
— Baltimore Sun
pRO FOOTBALL
Free agent TE Hurst
signs with Chargers
The Los Angeles Chargers
added their second tight end
during free agency with the
signing of Hayden Hurst.
Hurst was released by the
Carolina Panthers in a salary cap
move. He had 18 receptions for
184 yards and a touchdown last
season but missed the final eight
games after suffering a
concussion during a Thursday
night game at the Chicago Bears.
Hurst is going into his seventh
season but is joining his fourth
team in as many seasons. . . .
The Buffalo Bills shored up
their interior offensive line depth
by signing free agent Will Clapp
to a one-year contract.
Clapp has six seasons of NFL
experience, including the past
EZ su the washington post . saturday, march 23 , 2024
THE DAY IN SPORTS
circuit in Melbourne. Williams
decided Albon — who praised
Sargeant as a “team player” —
was likelier to score points.
It will be the first time the
Florida-born Sargeant has failed
to start a Grand Prix since he
made his debut in F1 last year. . . .
Turns out Ferrari’s Carlos
Sainz didn’t need to “raise his
hand” and have another driver
take his place during the first two
practice sessions for the
Australian Grand Prix.
Sainz was the eighth-fastest
driver in the first session and
improved to third quickest in
the second on the Albert Park
circuit.
pRO BASKETBALL
Brown leads Celtics
to eighth straight win
Jaylen Brown scored
33 points, and the NBA-leading
Boston Celtics won their eighth
straight game, beating the
shorthanded Detroit Pistons,
129-102, in Detroit.
Boston improved to 56-15 — an
.800 winning percentage. Detroit
is tied with Washington at the
bottom of the league at 12-58 —
44 games behind the Celtics. . . .
Jaren Jackson Jr. scored
28 points, including the winning
VALENTIN FLAuRAud/EPA-EFE/sHuTTERsToCK basket with 1.2 seconds left, and
the undermanned Memphis
Above the fray Grizzlies overcame 31 points and
16 rebounds from Victor
Skier Finn Bilous soared over the snow during Friday’s Freeride World Tour finals at Bec de Rosses in Verbier, Switzerland.
Wembanyama to snap a four-
game skid with a 99-97 win over
the host San Antonio Spurs.
GOLF
Cink, 50, grabs share
SpOT LIGH T: FIGU R E SKATING of lead at Valspar
Stewart Cink made a great
U.S. teen Levito earns silver medal at worlds escape from the pine straw for an
unlikely birdie and had a
4-under-par 67 that gave him a
five-way share of the lead in the
BY L ES C ARPENTER at worlds since 2016, when Ashley Wag- she possessed. She landed all of her PGA Tour’s Valspar
ner also earned silver. jumps, including seven triple jumps. All Championship in Palm Harbor,
MONTREAL — American teenager Isa- Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto continued her were not perfect, but they were enough to Fla., and a chance to entertain
beau Levito has been on the cusp of being dominant run of the past three years with keep her more than eight points ahead of thoughts of winning for the
one of the world’s best figure skaters for a near-flawless free skate that allowed her Korea’s Chaeyeon Kim. second straight tournament.
two years. But tiny mistakes kept her from to easily win her third straight world “I was just a little concerned after my There’s just one difference for
establishing herself among the elite. championship. She is the first woman to six-minute warmup,” Levito said. “I didn’t Cink. The golf course is a lot
Then, at Friday’s ISU World Figure win three straight since American Peggy feel like I did good out there, and I was longer. And the guys he is trying
Skating Championships, she landed jump Fleming nearly 60 years ago (1966 to scared that I wouldn’t be able to do what I to beat are a lot younger.
after jump, seeming to get stronger with 1968). need to do today. So, yeah, I was in a little The 50-year-old Cink, who
each until she finished and realized she She has been the best female skater the bit of disbelief afterwards. I was so hap- blew a chance to win on the PGA
had hit every component in her free skate entire season, winning all eight of her py.” Tour Champions two weeks ago
program. That was when she realized she competitions. Her win comes nearly two months after with a back-nine meltdown,
was going to win a medal here at worlds. But the 17-year-old Levito from Mount a spectacular collapse at the U.S. Figure looked steady on a day of 30-mph
She looked around Bell Centre with Holly, N.J., was in many ways the bigger Skating Championships in Columbus, gusts in the morning and some
wide, stunned eyes. Her mouth dropped story. Skating just an hour from the U.S. Ohio. There, she needed only to complete wind in the afternoon but not
open, and then she smiled. A few minutes border, before a crowd with no shortage of a solid free skate. Instead, she stumbled close to the nasty weather
later, her silver medal was confirmed, waving American flags, she finally several times and finished third behind expected at Innisbrook.
making her the first U.S. woman to medal reached the potential many have believed eventual champion Amber Glenn. He was tied at 6-under 136
with Kevin Streelman (72), tour
rookie Chandler Phillips (68),
Brendon Todd (69) and
T EL E VI SI O N A Nd R Ad I O Mackenzie Hughes (68).
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8:40 p.m. Illinois vs. duquesne » TNT pROFESSIONAL HOCKEY
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whom he started a career-best Australian Grand Prix after his hardest moment I can remember Colombian striker Guillermo
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Wright bounces back from disappointment to rescue U.S. men’s national team
BY S TEVEN G OFF
ARLINGTON, Tex. — In the past
week, Haji Wright has:
Dealt with the disappoint-
ment of not making the initial
U.S. national soccer team roster
for the Concacaf Nations League.
Scored in the 10th minute of
stoppage time to elevate his sec-
ond-flight English club, Coventry
City, into the fA Cup semifinals
for the first time since 1987.
Packed his bags for a family
vacation to Dubai during Coven-
try’s international break before
receiving a call at the airport
from U.S. Coach Gregg Berhalter
inviting him to join the squad as
an injury replacement.
Scored two goals in extra time
as the Americans scrambled to a
3-1 victory over Jamaica, setting
up a championship showdown
with mexico on Sunday.
“It has kind of gone by really
quickly,” Wright said, smiling.
“Jealous of the weather there [in
Dubai] but happy to be here.”
for good measure, he will get
to celebrate his 26th birthday
next week.
Wright became the first player
in U.S. men’s history to score
twice in extra time and the first
to score multiple goals as a
substitute in a knockout match.
And he did it after a Jamaican
own goal on the final play of
regulation forced the 30-minute
extra period.
from there, Wright and his
teammates took full advantage of
the demoralized reggae Boyz to
dodge a major scare and contin-
ue their quest for a third consec-
utive Nations League trophy.
“It was about creating enough
chances and opportunities for us
to score a [tying] goal,” said the
Los Angeles native, who entered
in the 63rd minute. “And when
we scored, we kind of knew we’d
continue applying pressure and
hopefully get a second and third,
if not go to penalties and win-
ning.”
Wright is with the U.S. squad
for the first time since the 2022
Haji Wright became the first U.s. men’s player to score twice in extra time as the americans rallied past Jamaica on thursday night.
World Cup in Qatar, where he
scored in the round-of-16 defeat
to the Netherlands. Despite his
scoring production for clubs in
Turkey and England the past two
seasons, he had not received an
invitation from Berhalter.
for Coventry, Wright has post-
ed 13 goals in league play and two
in the fA Cup, including the
winner at Wolverhampton on
Saturday. Aside from the fA Cup
run, Coventry is in contention for
Premier League promotion.
“I didn’t really let it get to me
when I wasn’t in the initial [U.S.]
squad,” he said. “I just tried to
keep performing. I wanted to put
myself in position where I could
be called in the future. Lucky for
me, I was able to get into the
squad this time.”
Berhalter had named strikers
folarin Balogun, ricardo Pepi
and Josh Sargent to the original
23-man list. Before the squad
was announced last week, Berh-
alter called Wright.
“You have to shake off the
disappointment of not getting
selected in the first place,” Berh-
alter said after Thursday’s victo-
ry. “Then you come into the
group and not feel like you’re a
second choice. When I called him
and told him he wasn’t in the
team, the message was: ‘Listen:
You’re doing everything right.
You can’t do anything more. So
just be patient.’ ”
Then Sargent hurt his ankle
over the weekend, and Berhalter
called Wright again, this time to
extend an invitation. That would
mean, however, withdrawing
from a vacation his girlfriend
planned and his family and agent
were attending.
Berhalter said he told Wright:
“I know it’s a lot of information
right now for you to handle. Just
think about it for 10 minutes and
give me a call back.”
Berhalter added: “And he
called me back and said, ‘I’m in.’
When I heard that, it really
shows what type of guy he is,
JulIo cortez/aSSocIated PreSS
what kind of character he is.”
The vacation commenced for
the others. Wright made plans
for Dallas.
“for him to come in and put in
a performance like that,” forward
Christian Pulisic said, “it was
really special.”
midfielder Tyler Adams said:
“Being a late call-up is never
ideal because he’s probably frus-
trated at first. And then when he
gets called in, he’s probably like,
‘I should have been there to
begin with.’ ”
Adams, who plays for Premier
League club Bournemouth, has
admired Wright’s work in Eng-
land.
“What he’s done with Coventry
has been unbelievable,” Adams
said. “He’s a player that’s devel-
oped a lot, even since the World
Cup. You can see even today, he
was just clinical with every
chance he got. It’s good to see
him like that because I played
with him for a long time [on U.S.
youth teams] and I know the
talent that he has.”
Wright was the beneficiary of
Gio reyna’s immaculate foot-
work and passing. In the 96th
minute, Wright collected reyna’s
through ball in stride, warded off
a defender and slotted an angled
shot into the far corner. Later,
reyna found Wright in tight
space for another clinical finish
and his fourth international goal.
reyna, 21, arrived at camp
amid a trying period in his club
career. After falling out of favor
with Germany’s Borussia Dort-
mund, he has played sparingly
since his move to Nottingham
forest in the Premier League in
January.
“for us, it’s about supporting
him through the difficult times of
adapting to the Premier League,
but his quality is unquestion-
able,” Berhalter said. “He has that
quality not many players have,
and it’s clear he deserves to play.”
reyna and Berhalter also seem
to have put their differences
behind them — a saga that began
at the World Cup and also in-
volved reyna’s parents.
on Thursday, reyna spoke to
reporters following a U.S. match
for the first time since the World
Cup.
“What happened happened,”
he said of the friction with Berh-
alter, “but I think both of us are
so far past it and just so focused
on the group that it’s not even an
issue at all anymore.”
As for the team’s resolve, “may-
be a few years ago, we wouldn’t
have been able to come out with a
win, but a lot of us have grown up
over the last few years.”
United States vs. Mexico
Sunday, 9:15 p.m., Paramount Plus

Krueger brings veteran savvy, Olympic ambitions to Spirit’s defensive corps

BY T HOMAS F LOYD
When Casey Krueger roams
Audi field for the first time in a
Washington Spirit uniform Satur-
day, lining up at right back, left
back, center back or wherever
else her virtuosic versatility takes
her, she will do so under the most
welcome of microscopes.
That’s because Krueger — de-
spite outside expectations and, if
she’s being honest, her more pes-
simistic doubts — has remained
in the mix for the U.S. women’s
national soccer team ahead of the
Summer olympics in Paris. As the
Spirit (0-1-0) welcomes San Jose-
based expansion team Bay fC
(1-0-0), Washington’s marquee
offseason signing will be playing
not just to impress her newfound
home fans but a U.S. coaching
staff led by incoming boss Emma
Hayes and interim manager Twila
Kilgore.
Krueger is already an olympi-
an after helping the United States
take bronze at the Tokyo Games
in 2021. But to return as the
mother of a 11/2-year-old boy, play-
ing her way back into the picture
at age 33? That would be all the
more meaningful.
“There’s no word that can cap-
ture how I would feel because it
would mean that much to me,”
Krueger said. “To be a mom now
and be an olympian, I think that
would be something incredibly
special. I get emotional thinking
about it.”
A tenacious one-on-one de-
fender with the pace and in-
stincts to jump into the attack,
Krueger has been one of the
NWSL’s top fullbacks while play-
ing for her hometown Chicago
red Stars over the past decade.
Although she missed much of
preseason while representing the
U.S. squad at the Concacaf Gold
Cup in Southern California, the
veteran has quickly taken to her
role as the elder statesman on a
revamped Spirit back line after
inking a three-year contract this
past offseason.
“She’s honestly just such a pro-
fessional every day,” said Spirit
captain Andi Sullivan, Krueger’s
longtime U.S. teammate. “She’s so
hard-working, so consistent, so
steady and just a very calming
presence. It’s really awesome to
have someone who has both those
attributes — someone who will
get stuck in a tackle but then also
be so composed.”
Krueger described leaving Chi-
cago as “probably the most diffi-
cult decision I’ve ever had to
make” after a last-place finish and
considerable turnover left the
red Stars in the midst of a re-
build. The defender, who was
born and raised in the Chicago
suburb of Naperville, Ill., had to
consider the impact any move
would have on the life she and her
husband, Cody, had built for their
son, Caleb.
As Krueger entered free agen-
cy, Spirit General manager mark
Krikorian — her former coach at
florida State — pitched her on
coming to Washington to help
stabilize a back line in flux. Spirit
owner Y. michele Kang, who
made an offseason splash by
poaching heralded coach Jonatan
Giráldez from Barcelona, laid out
the club’s sprawling ambitions in
a subsequent conversation. When
it came to relocation, Krueger
said the team offered insight into
local schools and helped her hus-
band, an emergency room physi-
missed out on the 23-player
squad that traveled to Australia
and New Zealand, then watched
from afar as a veteran-heavy U.S.
team crashed out in the round of
16, she figured that might be the
end of her international career as
all signs pointed toward an Amer-
ican youth movement.
“I always knew my timeline
was going to be a little tight
because of pregnancy and post-
partum,” Krueger said. “I had one
camp, and I gave it everything I
got, and I left it on the table. I
unfortunately didn’t make it, but
at the end of the day, I felt that I
did what I could, and that helped
me be able to swallow that a little
bit better.”
Krueger got the call, however,
when Kilgore summoned the
Americans’ first post-World Cup
roster. Even when a slew of veter-
ans were left off the squad that
won the Gold Cup this month,
Krueger again made the cut.
“I was very thankful,” she said,
“that they hadn’t given up on me.”
Krueger knows a thing or two
about resilience. After her NWSL
career began with back-to-back
season-ending knee injuries, she
earned second-team all-league
honors for her debut season in
2016 and made the first team a
year later. Although she was one
of the last cuts from the 2019
World Cup squad, she rallied to
make the olympic team two years
later.
alIka Jenner/aSSocIated PreSS Such proven fortitude made
Defender Casey Krueger, in her first season with the spirit, is her an ideal fit for a Washington
hoping for a spot on the U.s. national team in Paris this summer. defense short on experience. In
the Spirit’s 1-0 loss at the Seattle
cian, look for employment. turned to the U.S. squad last April reign on Sunday, Krueger started
Krueger’s national team status for the final camp before then- alongside Gabrielle Carle
also played a factor. After giving coach Vlatko Andonovski picked (25 years old), forward-turned-
birth in July 2022, Krueger re- his World Cup roster. When she defender Tara mcKeown (24) and
rookie Kate Wiesner (23). After
beginning the match as mcKe-
own’s center back partner, Krue-
ger seamlessly switched to left
back after halftime — flexibility
that could prove key when the
U.S. team picks an olympic squad
that will feature just 18 players.
“She’s a great role model,” said
Spirit interim coach Adrián
González, who is overseeing the
team until Giráldez takes over in
June. “She always wants to learn,
she’s always listening and trying
to improve, and I think that’s
perfect. . . . All the coaches, we
want to have players like her, for
sure.”
mcKeown added: “She is one of
the best in her position, so learn-
ing from her, I think, is an oppor-
tunity for all of us.”
off the field, Krueger is settling
into her family’s Leesburg home
and, having been won over by
D.C.’s food scene during a red
Stars road trip last year, plotting
plenty of restaurant ventures.
(“I’m just a big foodie,” she said,
“and the food was so good.”) After
Krueger celebrated the Gold Cup
title on the pitch with Cody and
Caleb, that experience left her
with all the more appreciation for
the opportunity to share her on-
field exploits with her budding
family.
“Those are moments that you
realize it’s bigger than football,”
Krueger said. “This is why I do it
— to see that little boy running
around, celebrating, having the
time of his life because we’re
going to look back on this one day
and just realize how lucky we
are.”
Bay FC at Spirit
7:30 p.m., Ion

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homer) struggled at the plate in
the final month of camp, both
showed flashes that impressed
martinez. Hassell (.357, one hom-
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martinez provided an update
on outfielder Stone Garrett this
week, saying the 28-year-old has
been fielding and hitting for “six
or seven innings” in games at
minor league camp as he works
his way back from a broken left
fibula and broken ankle suffered
in August.

wpost.com/podcasts In the bottom of the ninth

Thursday, the prospects had one
final curtain call. Wood hit an
opposite-field homer and Crews
hit a walk-off single as the Na-
martinez said he still sees Gar-
rett limping after games and
thinks it’s “going to be some time”
before he returns. He did not offer
a specific timetable.
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ncaa tournament

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first four
wEDNEsDAY’s rEsuLts
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tuEsDAY’s rEsuLts
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Colorado 60, Boise State 53
Arizona 69, Auburn 59
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iN AustiN
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28 points, Samson Aletan made a Iowa State 82, South Dakota State 65
Washington State 66, Drake 61
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iN stANforD, CALif. in the final seconds, and iN NEw YorK
Iowa State 93, Maryland 86
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Yale 78, Auburn 76
Tennessee (19-12) vs. Green Bay (27-6), noon
North Carolina State (27-6) vs. Chattanooga (28-4), 2:30
first round of the NCAA tourna-
sECoND rouND
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Gonzaga (30-3) vs. UC Irvine (24-8), 7:30 For the second straight year, the iN oMAhA
Utah (22-10) vs. South Dakota State (27-5), 10 Iowa State vs. Washington State, 6:10
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winner, TBA
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iN rALEiGh, N.C. NCAA tournament game for just State winner, TBA
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see-Green Bay winner, TBA
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Virginia Tech 92, Marshall 49
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iN storrs, CoNN.
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sECoND rouND 20 points for Stetson (22-13), the Ja’Kobe Walter added 19, and the formance this season — 29.7 per- March Madness exits by leading iN iNDiANApoLis
suNDAY’s GAMEs Atlantic Sun champion that was third-seeded Bears (24-10) coasted cent from the field and 13 percent the top-seeded Boilermakers Marquette vs. Colorado, TBA
iN bLACKsburG, vA.
Virginia Tech vs. Baylor, TBA making its first appearance in the past the 14th-seeded Raiders in a (3 for 23) from three-point range. (30-4) to a rout of the 16th-seeded rEGioN sEMifiNALs
iN DALLAs
iN CoLuMbus, ohio NCAA tournament. first-round game in Memphis. l DUKE 64, VERMONT 47: Tigers (21-15) in Indianapolis. friDAY’s GAMEs
Ohio State vs. Duke, TBA l MARQUETTE 87, WEST- Colgate (25-10) fell to 0-7 in the Jared McCain and Mark Mitchell The greatest scorer and re- Houston-Longwood—Texas A&M winner vs. Duke—Wis-
consin-James Madison winner, TBA
MoNDAY’s GAMEs ERN KENTUCKY 69: Kam Jones NCAA tournament. each had 15 points, and the fourth- bounder in school history finished Marquette-Colorado winner vs. Oakland-North Carolina
iN Los ANGELEs
Southern California-Texas A&M Corpus Christi winner and the Golden Eagles kept push- l COLORADO 102, FLORIDA seeded Blue Devils opened the with 30 points and 21 rebounds in State winner, TBA
vs. Kansas-Michigan winner, TBA ing the ball up the floor, and even- 100: KJ Simpson rattled in a tie- NCAA tournament with an un- 30 minutes. rEGioN ChAMpioNship
iN storrs, CoNN. suNDAY, MArCh 31
Connecticut-Jackson State winner vs. Syracuse-Arizona
tually the shots started to fall. breaking jumper from the base- even performance before finally How good was Edey? The last Semifinal winners, TBA
winner, TBA Having Tyler Kolek back defi- line with two seconds left, and the pulling away from the 13th-seeded player with a 30-20 game in the MiDwEst rEGioN
rEGioN sEMifiNALs nitely helped. 10th-seeded Buffaloes edged the Catamounts (28-7) in New York. tournament was Joe Smith of first rouND
friDAY’s GAMEs thursDAY’s rEsuLts
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Jones scored 28 points and seventh-seeded Gators in a thrill- Jeremy Roach scored 14 points Maryland on March 18, 1995. iN sALt LAKE CitY
Southern California-Texas A&M Corpus Christi—Kan- Kolek made a successful return ing first-round battle in Indian- for Duke (25-8), which was able to l ALABAMA 109, CHARLES- Gonzaga 86, McNeese 65
Kansas 93, Samford 89
sas-Michigan winner vs. Virginia Tech-Baylor—Colum-
bia-Vanderbilt winner, TBA
from an oblique injury with apolis. advance without much offensive TON 96: Mark Sears led the high-
iN pittsburGh
Ohio State-Duke winner vs. Connecticut-Jackson 18 points and 11 assists, helping Simpson finished with production from star center Kyle est-scoring offense in the country Oregon 87, South Carolina 73
State—Syracuse-Arizona winner, TBA
No. 2 seed Marquette (26-9) rally 23 points as Colorado (26-10) and Filipowski, who scored a career- with 30 points, and the fourth- Creighton 77, Akron 60
rEGioN ChAMpioNship iN ChArLottE
suNDAY, MArCh 31 past the 15th-seeded Hilltoppers Florida (24-12) put on the most low three points. seeded Crimson Tide (22-11) raced Texas 56, Colorado State 44
Semifinal winners, TBA (22-12) in the first round in Indian- impressive offensive display of l TEXAS A&M 98, NEBRAS- past the 13th-seeded Cougars Tennessee 83, St. Peter’s 49
ALbANY 1 apolis. this year’s March Madness. KA 83: Wade Taylor IV scored (27-8) in Spokane. friDAY’s rEsuLts
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DIEGO STATE 69, AL- Walter Clayton Jr. scored the 25 points, and the ninth-seeded Sears posted his 23rd 20-point Purdue 78, Grambling 50
iN CoLuMbiA, s.C. ABAMA BIRMINGHAM 65: final 16 points for Florida, includ- Aggies (21-14) sent the eighth- game of the season, tying the Utah State vs. TCU, late
North Carolina 59, Michigan State 56
South Carolina 91, Presbyterian 39
Jaedon LeDee dominated inside ing a three-pointer to tie the game seeded Cornhuskers home still school record set by Reggie King sECoND rouND
iN CorvALLis, orE. on the way to 32 points, Lamont at 100 with nine seconds left. He looking for their first NCAA tour- in 1978-79. sAturDAY’s GAMEs
iN sALt LAKE CitY
Oregon State 73, Eastern Washington 51 Kansas vs. Gonzaga, 3:15
Nebraska vs. Texas A&M, late
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Notre Dame (26-6) vs. Kent State (21-10), 2:15 iN iNDiANApoLis
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South Carolina vs. North Carolina, TBA Purdue—Utah State-TCU winner vs. Kansas-Gonzaga
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middLe tenn. 71, winner, TBA
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LouisviLLe 69 TBA
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Notre Dame-Kent State winner vs. Mississippi-Mar-
quette winner, TBA Semifinal winners, TBA
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Indiana-Fairfield winner vs. Oklahoma-Florida Gulf first rouND
Coast winner, TBA thursDAY’s rEsuLts
Middle Tennessee guard Savan- iN ChArLottE
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friDAY’s GAMEs nah Wheeler, the Conference USA North Carolina 90, Wagner 62
Michigan State 69, Mississippi State 51
iN ALbANY, N.Y. player of the year, missed her first iN sALt LAKE CitY
South Carolina-North Carolina winner vs. Indiana-Fair-
field—Oklahoma-Florida Gulf Coast winner, TBA six shots and committed two fouls Dayton 63, Nevada 60
Arizona 85, Long Beach State 65
Notre Dame-Kent State—Mississippi-Marquette winner
vs. Oregon State-Eastern Washington—Nebraska-Tex-
and a turnover during the first
friDAY’s rEsuLts
as A&M winner, TBA 18 minutes of the Blue Raiders’ iN MEMphis
rEGioN ChAMpioNship NCAA tournament opener against Clemson 77, New Mexico 56
suNDAY, MArCh 31 Louisville on Friday. Baylor 92, Colgate 67
Semifinal winners, TBA iN spoKANE, wAsh.
But when she finally scored her Alabama 109, Charleston 93
ALbANY 2
first rouND first points on a layup with 1:16 left St. Mary’s (Calif.) vs. Grand Canyon, late
friDAY’s rEsuLts in the first half, a game that Louis- sECoND rouND
iN bAtoN rouGE sAturDAY’s GAMEs
Middle Tennessee 71, Louisville 69 ville dominated changed. iN ChArLottE
LSU 70, Rice 60 Wheeler scored 20 of her North Carolina vs. Michigan State, 5:30
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Kansas State 78, Portland 65
22 points in the second half, and iN sALt LAKE CitY
Arizona vs. Dayton, 12:45
Colorado 86, Drake 72 No. 11 seed Middle Tennessee
suNDAY’s GAMEs
sAturDAY’s GAMEs stormed back from 18 points down iN spoKANE, wAsh.
iN iowA CitY to defeat sixth-seeded Louisville, Alabama vs. St. Mary’s (Calif.)-Grand Canyon winner,
Iowa (29-4) vs. Holy Cross (21-12), 3 TBA
West Virginia (24-7) vs. Princeton (25-4), 5:30 71-69, in Baton Rouge in the first iN MEMphis
iN Los ANGELEs round of the Albany 2 Region. Baylor vs. Clemson, TBA
Creighton (25-5) vs. UNLV (30-2), 7
UCLA (25-6) vs. California Baptist (28-3), 9:30
Jalynn Gregory scored 24 for rEGioN sEMifiNALs
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suNDAY’s GAMEs won 20 straight and will face North Carolina-Michigan State winner vs. Alabama—St.
iN MANhAttAN, KAN. third-seeded LSU on Sunday on MAttHew Hinton/AssociAted press Mary’s (Calif.)-Grand Canyon winner, TBA
Kansas State vs. Colorado, TBA Arizona-Dayton winner vs. Baylor-Clemson winner, TBA
iN bAtoN rouGE
the Tigers’ home court. Savannah Wheeler scored 20 of her 22 points in the second half as Middle Tennessee upset Louisville.
rEGioN ChAMpioNship
LSU vs. Middle Tennessee, TBA The Cardinals (24-10) had sAturDAY, MArCh 30
MoNDAY’s GAMEs reached five straight Elite Eights. shooting with a game-high 13 re- in the Albany 1 Region. from the 15th-seeded Black Bears Semifinal winners, TBA
iN iowA CitY l LSU 70, RICE 60: Angel bounds as the No. 1 overall seed Beers went down clutching her (24-10) in the Portland 3 Region. fiNAL four
Iowa-Holy Cross winner vs. West Virginia-Princeton iN GLENDALE, Ariz.
winner, TBA Reese had 10 points and 19 re- Gamecocks (33-0) blew past the right ankle. Her status for Sunday, Ohio State will host seventh- NAtioNAL sEMifiNALs
iN Los ANGELEs bounds, and the Tigers (29-5) 16th-seeded Blue Hose (21-15) in when Oregon State will host either seeded Duke on Sunday. sAturDAY, ApriL 6
UCLA-California Baptist winner vs. Creighton-UNLV TBD vs. TBD, TBA
winner, TBA overcame a feisty performance by the Albany 1 Region. sixth-seeded Nebraska or 11th- l DUKE 72, RICHMOND 61: TBD vs. TBD, TBA
rEGioN sEMifiNALs
the 14th-seeded Owls (19-15) to Kitts boosted a team missing seeded Texas A&M, is uncertain. Reigan Richardson had 25 points NAtioNAL ChAMpioNship
friDAY’s GAMEs begin their quest for a second starters Kamilla Cardoso and Bree l VIRGINIA TECH 92, MAR- and seven rebounds, and the Blue MoNDAY, ApriL 8
iN ALbANY, N.Y. Semifinal winners, 9:20
Iowa-Holy Cross—West Virginia-Princeton winner vs.
straight national championship. Hall. Cardoso was serving a one- SHALL 49: In Blacksburg, Va., Devils (21-11) rallied in the second
Kansas State—Colorado-Drake winner, TBA l KANSAS STATE 78, PORT- game suspension after getting Matilda Ekh scored 21 points to half to beat the 10th-seeded Spi-
UCLA-California Baptist—Creighton-UNLV winner vs.
LSU-Middle Tennessee winner, TBA LAND 65: In Manhattan, Kan., ejected for fighting during the SEC lead the fourth-seeded Hokies ders (29-6), who got 18 points from
rEGioN ChAMpioNship Gabby Gregory had 22 points and tournament final. Hall was out for (25-7) past the 13th-seeded Thun- Grace Townsend.
suNDAY, MArCh 31 Ayoka Lee scored 21 to lead the what Coach Dawn Staley called dering Herd (26-7) in the Port- l TEXAS 82, DREXEL 42: In
Semifinal winners, TBA
fourth-seeded Wildcats (26-7), “precautionary reasons.” land 3 Region. Austin, Shaylee Gonzales matched
fiNAL four who raced to a 25-10 lead against South Carolina will host No. 8 Virginia Tech won without star her season high with 21 points,
iN CLEvELAND
NAtioNAL sEMifiNALs the 13th-seeded Pilots (21-13) in seed North Carolina on Sunday. center Elizabeth Kitley, who is out Taylor Jones added 18, and the
friDAY, ApriL 5
TBD vs. TBD, TBA
the Albany 2 Region. l NORTH CAROLINA 59, for the tournament with a torn top-seeded Longhorns (31-4)
TBD vs. TBD, TBA Kansas State will host fifth- MICHIGAN STATE 56: Deja Kel- ACL. The Hokies will host fifth- drilled the 16th-seeded Dragons
NAtioNAL ChAMpioNship seeded Colorado on Sunday. ly had 13 points, and the Tar Heels seeded Baylor on Sunday. (19-15) in the Portland 4 Region.
suNDAY, ApriL 7
Semifinal winners, 3
l COLORADO 86, DRAKE 72: (22-12) held off a late rally to beat l BAYLOR 80, VANDERBILT Texas will host eighth-seeded
Aaronette Vonleh had 18 points the ninth-seeded Spartans (22-9). 63: Bella Fontleroy scored Alabama on Sunday.
and 10 rebounds to lead the Buffa- l OREGON STATE 73, EAST- 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds l ALABAMA 82, FLORIDA
los (23-9) past the 12th-seeded ERN WASHINGTON 51: In Cor- to lift the Bears (25-7) past the STATE 74: Essence Cody had
Bulldogs (29-6). vallis, Ore., Raegan Beers had 12th-seeded Commodores (23-10). 20 points and 14 rebounds for the
l SOUTH CAROLINA 91, 19 points before she was hurt at l OHIO STATE 80, MAINE Crimson Tide, which outscored
PRESBYTERIAN 39: In Colum- the end of the third quarter, and 57: In Columbus, Ohio, Jacy Shel- the ninth-seeded Seminoles 23-11
bia, S.C., Chloe Kitts tied her ca- the third-seeded Beavers (25-7) don had 19 points as the second- in the third quarter and then held
reer high with 21 points on 9-for-9 beat the 14th-seeded Eagles (29-6) seeded Buckeyes (26-5) ran away off FSU (23-11).
saturday, march 23 , 2024
Old lions in a new world, Izzo, Barnes keep on keeping on
BY G ENE W ANG
CHARLOTTE — They are among
the last representatives of the old
guard. At a time when longtime
men’s college basketball peers are
stepping away from the sport’s
evolving landscape, they coach
on, having combined for more
than 1,500 victories. one is in the
Naismith Basketball Hall of fame.
The other almost certainly will be.
michigan State’s Tom Izzo and
Tennessee’s rick Barnes also hap-
pen to be close friends who have
had time to reconnect in the
Queen City, where both teams are
seeking to advance to the NCAA
tournament’s round of 16.
The ninth-seeded Spartans
(20-14) play North Carolina
(28-7), the top seed in the West
region, in the first game Saturday
night at Spectrum Center. Tennes-
see (25-8), the No. 2 seed in the
midwest region, will meet sev-
enth-seeded Texas (21-12), where
Barnes won a school-record
402 games from 1998 through
2015.
“I just talked to [Barnes] this
morning, in fact,” said Izzo, who
has directed michigan State to
26 consecutive appearances in the
NCAA tournament, the longest
streak in the sport’s history. “He’s
done an unbelievable job. I
thought how ironic they’re play-
ing Texas, and he was there. Come
to think of it, I thought he did a
hell of job there and maybe was
unappreciated a little bit, in my
opinion.”
The two first met in 1986 when
they were assistant coaches on a
recruiting visit in Columbus,
ohio. Barnes was on the Buckeyes
staff under then-coach Gary Wil-
liams. The next season, Barnes got
his first head coaching job, taking
over at George mason. Izzo at the
time was on the staff of Jud
Heathcote, his legendary pred-
Fairfield’s Thibault-DuDonis, born into coaching, has the look of a natural
BY K AREEM C OPELAND
Carly Thibault-DuDonis had
no interest in being a head coach
— or so she claims. Coaching runs
in her blood: mike Thibault, the
winningest coach in WNBA his-
tory, is her father, and her brother,
Eric, is the coach of the Washing-
ton mystics. Patrolling the side-
line seemed inevitable, but she
was content with life as an assis-
tant and being out of the spot-
light.
She had a change of heart two
years ago and took the coaching
job at fairfield, and now her
13th-seeded Stags boast a 31-1 rec-
ord heading into their NCAA
women’s basketball tournament
opener Saturday afternoon
against No. 4 seed Indiana. They
have won 29 games in a row and
are ranked in the Associated Press
poll for the first time in school
history. Not bad for a coach who
didn’t even want to sit in that first
chair.
“for a long time I honestly
didn’t even know if I wanted to be
a [head] coach despite what ev-
eryone told me,” Thibault-DuDo-
nis said. “I was being pretty selec-
tive and picky about what oppor-
tunities and what options I would
even consider.”
Life as an assistant was pretty
good. She was director of recruit-
ing operations at florida State
under longtime coach Sue Sem-
rau. There was a brief stop at
Eastern michigan before she
moved on to mississippi State,
where the Bulldogs went to back-
The Owls’ season is over.
They hope their run isn’t.
FAU from D1
Dusty may, fAU’s coach since
2018, said Thursday. “We ap-
proach everything with the idea
that we have to be working con-
tinuously for something that’s
down the line. And me, by nature,
I’m a big security person. We have
been working since this team
came back for next year to keep
people engaged, to give access, to
find different revenue streams to
help our current players.
“And do we worry? Yes. Should
we spend time worrying? Prob-
ably not.”
fAU defied the odds once, re-
turning most of the final four
squad. Twice will probably be
much harder. Getting there last
year, so close to the title game,
made juniors Davis, Goldin and
martin want to run it back, mean-
ing each of the four tournament
wins meant a lot — meaning fri-
. the washington post
Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, left, and Tennessee’s Rick Barnes have combined for more than 1,500 wins across decades in college basketball.
ecessor at michigan State. The
2016 Hall of fame inductee is in
his 29th season in East Lansing.
The paths of Izzo and Barnes
crossed sporadically over the next
several decades, with both com-
ing together in 2006 for “opera-
tion Hardwood II” to coach sol-
diers in Kuwait in a march mad-
ness-like tournament. They bond-
ed with each other on the long
flight.
“In this business, we’re kind of
to-back national championship
games. Then Thibault-DuDonis
was able to land a position at
minnesota alongside her close
friend Lindsay Whalen, who jokes
she is the third Thibault child
after her time playing with the
Connecticut Sun when mike was
the coach and Carly was a ballgirl
and always hanging around.
Thibault-DuDonis’s ascension
to head coach might actually be
Whalen’s fault because Thibault-
DuDonis had to fill in for a couple
of games when Whalen had her
appendix removed.
“I didn’t ever know if I wanted
the headache that comes with
being a head coach,” Thibault-Du-
Donis said. “But everyone else
around me — my husband, my
dad, my brother, people I work
with — would all say, ‘oh, you’re
going to be a head coach.’ I wasn’t
in a rush. [After stepping in for
Whalen], I was like, ‘okay, that
wasn’t as scary as I thought it
would be.’ ”
The accolades piled up as Thi-
bault-DuDonis, 32, led the Stags
to just their second NCAA tourna-
ment appearance since 2001. She
was named metro Atlantic Athlet-
ic Conference coach of the year,
while guard Janelle Brown
earned mAAC player of the year
and forward meghan Anderson
won mAAC rookie of the year
honors.
Thibault-DuDonis received a
contract extension Thursday that
will keep her at the school
through the 2029-30 season.
“Her age belies her wisdom and
day’s loss could mean a lot, too.
may, who has been connected to
openings at Louisville and Van-
derbilt, was another major factor.
His future will be a major factor
again. But NIL, however fickle, is
the variable fAU will try its best to
control.
This is college sports in 2024.
Some of its most powerful people
want to expand the NCAA tourna-
ment in a way that would curb
mid-major access, further limit-
ing those schools’ shots at money
and exposure. And so success at a
school such as florida Atlantic is
more delicate than ever.
“We say yes to everything,” Bri-
an White, fAU’s athletic director,
said of the program’s approach to
NIL in a phone interview this
week. It shows, too.
on its athletics website, fAU
lists four collectives, the booster-
funded groups that funnel money
to athletes and play a major role
ncaa tournament
the same era,” said Barnes, 69,
whose 804 wins are third among
active men’s coaches behind Ken-
tucky’s John Calipari and Kan-
sas’s Bill Self. “Going over there
[to Kuwait], we all loved it. You
talk about coaching. But Tom, he
loves it. You can’t help but be
[inspired] around him. He cares
so much about the game. our
friendship has been there for a
long time, and I think it always
will be.”
Fairfield Coach Carly Thibault-DuDonis, center, the daughter of
former Mystics coach Mike Thibault, has the Stags (31-1) on a roll.
what she brings to the table. . . .
She has the it factor,” fairfield
Athletic Director Paul Schlick-
mann said. “Carly’s a rock star.
When we hired her, I believed
that. And I thought she was a gem.
. . . I will not be surprised by any
level of success we achieve be-
cause I think she’s that good.”
Thibault-DuDonis describes
herself as having a Type A person-
ality. That leads to taking copious
notes and has made her a dogged
recruiter. Brown, who played two
years at fairfield before Thibault-
DuDonis arrived, said the new
coach demanded “standards over
in recruiting (and in the owls’
case, player retention). Not all of
the fAU collectives are active any-
more. The Paradise Collective,
which rallied donors last spring —
which, in a lot of ways, saved the
team from falling apart — is no
longer operating. In its place, NIL
in Paradise is leading the efforts,
run by a company that has collec-
tives at 35 schools.
Collectives are not officially
part of universities or athletic
departments. once athletes could
profit off their NIL, they were an
outgrowth of that change, a way
to pay de facto salaries through
charity work or events with fans.
When it comes to fundraising,
fAU has distinct advantages and
disadvantages. on one hand, be-
cause the school was founded in
1961, there aren’t generations of
deep-pocketed alumni who want
to see their teams succeed. The
weather bumps indoor sporting
events down the list of entertain-
ment options. And before last
season, the owls were typically on
the right side of .500, just not by
much.
But on the other hand, there’s a
ton of money, old and new, in Boca
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niCK King/lAnSing STATE JOURnAl/USA TOdAY nETWORK
He and Izzo got together last
year for a scrimmage in Knoxville,
Tenn., and the Volunteers were
scheduled to go to michigan State
this season for a return engage-
ment. Izzo had heard Kansas and
Illinois were going to play an
exhibition benefiting the victims
of wildfires that swept through
maui, Hawaii, in August. He
reached out to Barnes to discuss
doing the same when they met in
late october.
ClOE pOiSSOn/ASSOCiATEd pRESS
feelings.” Those standards are be-
ing selfless, tough, accountable
and grateful.
fairfield wasn’t a rebuilding
situation when Thibault-DuDo-
nis arrived. former coach Joe
frager had taken the team to the
NCAA tournament in 2022. But
Thibault-DuDonis brought her
own style. The Stags increased
their aggression defensively. She
studied other successful mid-ma-
jor programs — florida Gulf
Coast, South Dakota, Creighton,
Drake — and saw they all ran
some version of offense that em-
phasized spacing. They may not
raton. most mid-major towns
can’t say that.
“There is so much wealth, not
just in Boca, but in all the sur-
rounding areas — and so much
business development — that we
think it could be a huge upside,”
White said. “I think there’s no
limit on the success we could have
here in the NIL space and the
donor space and the corporate
sponsorship space across the
board. It’s not thinking about the
long-term, like how do we have a
master facilities plan that maxi-
mizes our student-athlete experi-
ence? We still have all that, but
this is more current day, current
minute, how do our student-ath-
letes benefit from NIL as best they
can?”
“A huge key is educating people
about how their money can help,”
said Griffin Kinney, a former Ap-
palachian State basketball player
who oversees the NIL in Paradise
collective. “The school is newer.
NIL is still very new. It’s all just so
new.”
NIL rules have even changed in
recent weeks. Thanks to a court
ruling in Tennessee, collectives
can temporarily negotiate deals
A sold-out crowd of 14,797 filled
Breslin Center, with Tennessee
winning, 89-88, on a free throw
with 1.9 seconds to play. All pro-
ceeds from the game went to a
place in need that holds a special
place in the hearts of both coach-
es. Izzo’s first games as a head
coach were at the maui Invita-
tional in 1995. Barnes has coached
in the event six times, including
this season, when it moved to
Honolulu.
be able to sign the most athletical-
ly gifted players, but they can
recruit skill. Now the Stags rank
in the top 25 in the country in
three-pointers, field goal percent-
age and assists.
“Nobody works harder than
Carly,” said Whalen, who recalled
their tradition of celebrating with
tacos and margaritas after sign-
ing a big recruit. “[Before she
came to minnesota], both mike
and Eric said, ‘Well, she’s got a
chance to be the best coach out of
all of us.’ ”
Brown said the Stags go into
every game with the feeling that
no one will be more prepared. But
it’s more than just X’s and o’s.
relationships are just as impor-
tant to Thibault-DuDonis, who
said Semrau used to say, “They
don’t care about how much you
know until they know how much
you care.” That was something
Whalen was adept at, Thibault-
DuDonis said, and something she
made sure to mimic. There was
some skepticism when she was
first hired, Brown said, but that
quickly vanished.
“I talked to her on the phone,
and it was just, like, a complete
turnaround,” Brown said. “She
wasn’t, like, this old lady that you
couldn’t talk to. She knew what
we actually go through. She tries
to solve problems for us instead of
making them or creating them.”
There’s a quiet confidence
about Thibault-DuDonis that
seeps through the rest of the team.
So much so that Brown said the
Stags absolutely expected to have
and sign contracts with recruits
or transfers before they enroll at
the school. What was once under
the table can now happen in the
middle of the room. But it just
permits what was already hap-
pening.
After the owls made the final
four, bigger programs, armed
with far bigger NIL budgets, came
calling. Davis, a 6-foot-4 guard
with a scoring touch, could have
fit most rosters. Goldin, a 7-1 cen-
ter, could have filled a frontcourt
need. With the owls’ top players,
fAU donors couldn’t match the
highest offers, according to three
people with knowledge of talks
for what the athletes could make
this season. But they could get
close enough, then otherwise sell
the secondary details: the cam-
pus, the beach, the chance to stick
together and make another run.
“In terms of the NIL and stuff
like that, they did a tremendous
job helping us out,” said Boyd,
who logged 17 minutes off the
bench friday. “Every single player
on the roster had an opportunity
to make name, image and likeness
[money], which is a blessing, and
you don’t see that much in pro-
D5
on Saturday, he will get a crack
at knocking off his previous em-
ployer to take Tennessee to the
Sweet 16 for a second straight
season and the ninth time in his
career. The Volunteers last played
Texas on Jan. 28, 2023, with Ten-
nessee winning at Thompson-
Boling Arena, 82-71.
“It’s always tough playing peo-
ple that you know,” Barnes said.
“In all honesty, do you want to
match up with your friends — like
talking about Tom, I don’t partic-
ularly look forward to that,” he
said. “I don’t look forward to it,
but we all know we have a job to
do, and when we toss it up, we’re
going to try to do what we do, and
that’s try to win a basketball
game.”
Izzo, meanwhile, is seeking his
first victory over the Tar Heels in
the NCAA tournament. It is the
sixth meeting in march between
the programs and the second in
the round of 32. They last played
in the NCAA tournament in 2009
in the national championship
game, won handily by the Tar
Heels, 89-72.
The Spartans are aiming for a
second consecutive trip to the
round of 16 and the 16th in Izzo’s
career, which includes 707 wins;
eight final four appearances,
fifth most all-time; and an NCAA
tournament title in 2000.
“Two storied programs, been to
the most final fours, and yes, we
haven’t beaten them in the NCAA
tournament,” said Izzo, 69. “But
you know what? We’re going to
still show up. We’re going to show
up [Saturday], and we’re going to
see what we can do. I don’t look at
us as a 9 seed, and some of that is
my fault. I do look at them as a
1 seed, and yet I think this year
with the parity in college basket-
ball and craziness, I bet you no-
body feels any more comfortable
than anybody else.”
this kind of success, which is any-
thing but common. In the mAAC
championship game, the Stags
trailed Niagara by 11 at halftime
before rallying to win in overtime.
Schlickmann looked over during
a fourth-quarter huddle and saw
Thibault-DuDonis ask her team,
with a big smile, whether every-
one was having fun yet.
“I’ve been most impressed,
from a both dad and coaching
point of view,” mike Thibault said,
“that when everything’s going
crazy like it was the other day, she
was immensely calm in the mid-
dle of all of it and kept her team’s
composure.
“She’s her own coach. She
doesn’t need me to guide her. . . . I
could probably learn some things
from her now, too.”
It has been quite the journey
from ballgirl to rising head coach-
ing star, and there’s still plenty
ahead. She still has some of those
assistant coach habits — partici-
pating in individual workouts
and even jumping into drills to
take a charge. Coincidentally, Eric
Thibault has done the same after
moving from assistant coach to
head coach with the mystics.
meditation has become part of
Thibault-DuDonis’s routine, and
there have been some “affirma-
tions and confirmations” that be-
ing people-oriented and being in-
tentional about relationships
have proved to work for her.
“She’s comfortable in her skin,”
Whalen said. “That’s where she’s
supposed to be. This is what she’s
born for.”
grams.”
Those opportunities — local
brand deals, paid charity appear-
ances, T-shirt sales — are why the
same team, just a year older, bat-
tled Northwestern in Brooklyn on
friday. Yet after an ugly rock fight
of a first half, then a blown lead
late, the owls couldn’t find a
spark. Northwestern outscored
them 19-7 in overtime. Langborg,
a graduate transfer from Prince-
ton, nailed two pull-up jumpers
and a pair of threes in the extra
period.
So again now, far earlier than
hoped, fAU will see whether it
can recruit its roster back, let
alone new players to improve.
When White took the AD job in
2018, there were 74 season ticket
holders for men’s basketball. This
season, there were 800 people on
the waitlist, hoping to see the
owls play in person. He has stared
up mountains before, no matter
the desktop background outside
his office window. How much,
then, does he fret about holding
the current roster in place?
“Every day,” he said. “Today,
yesterday, last year. In this day
and age, it’s just reality.”
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Maryland builds 20-point lead, but roller-coaster season ends on a big downer
MArylANd from d1
half on her way to a career-high
29 points, finishing 7 for 8 from
behind the arc. The seven threes
were a program record for an
NCAA tournament game.
maryland’s coaching staff im-
plored the Terps to relax and enjoy
the moment during practices this
week. “Why not us” was men-
tioned repeatedly. Kubek seemed
to take that to heart, and she
didn’t hesitate to let the ball fly.
maryland used a 10-2 run near the
end of the first quarter to take a
33-20 lead after the opening
10 minutes.
“me and Coach [frese] had a
conversation before today’s game
just about confidence,” Kubek
said. “I had a couple lulls in the
season just because my confi-
dence was low. The coaching staff
and my teammates instill confi-
dence in me every day. And just
today, I just felt hot, so I just kept
shooting them, to be honest.”
Iowa State (21-11) got back with-
in single digits early in the second
quarter with a 7-0 run, then Kubek
hit two more threes during a 10-0
stretch to push the lead to 48-29.
After the lead peaked at 50-30
with 1:28 left in the first half, the
Terps went into halftime with a
52-36 advantage.
The third quarter, however, was
an absolute disaster for the Terps.
Iowa State tweaked its defense to
keep Crooks closer to the basket,
and the shots stopped falling.
Whereas Crooks was dominant
with 18 points in the first half,
maryland kept the Cyclones’ pe-
rimeter players in check. That
switched after halftime as Iowa
USC freshman Watkins
is ready for the spotlight
WAtkINs from d1
developmental curve. In a field
headlined by well-known upper-
classmen such as Caitlin Clark,
Angel reese, Paige Bueckers and
Cameron Brink, Watkins will get
the opportunity to stake her claim
as the next face of the women’s
college game. And with an experi-
enced roster surrounding their
brilliant centerpiece, the Trojans
have a chance to reach their first
final four in nearly 40 years.
“I’m not going to lie,” Watkins
said. “I didn’t think this would
happen this soon. Better than
anything I ever could have hoped
for, really.”
straight to the top
The Watts, Calif., native is
ahead of schedule, but she is
hardly a newcomer.
Watkins emerged as the top-
ranked player in her class at Sier-
ra Canyon High, where she won a
state title and earned multiple
national player of the year hon-
ors. When she chose to stay close
to home and play for USC, her
talent suggested it would be a
matter of when, not if, she re-
turned the long-dormant Trojans
to prominence. Though USC
hasn’t won an NCAA tournament
game since Watkins was eight
months old, she has guided an
overnight turnaround.
In her first game, Watkins tal-
lied 32 points, six rebounds and
five assists to beat ohio State. In
her fifth game, she hit a half-court
buzzer-beater to end the first half
and sliced through three defend-
ers for a game-winning layup
against Penn State. USC rolled to
a 10-0 start, and the momentum
only accelerated from there: Last
month, Watkins poured in a pro-
gram-record 51 points in a road
win over Stanford and scored 42
points to beat Colorado.
Milano gets first hat trick
in the Capitals’ wild win
CApItAls from d1
“Going into the game, we
thought, you know, wide open,
back-and-forth, that’s what we
do,” defenseman John Carlson
said, tongue planted firmly in his
cheek. “No, it was a great effort.
Plenty of momentum swings.
When we’re fighting tooth and
nail like we have been for a while
now and you get some deflating
goals against like that and we get
the lead and they come back,
those are deflating things.
“We just put our heads down
and worked through it. That pays
off. That’s kind of what the night
was tonight. It was just, whatever
happened, everyone was giving it
their all, and we wound up on the
right side of it.”
Evgeny Kuznetsov’s return to
Washington, just two weeks after
he was traded to the Hurricanes,
Audi Crooks (55) made 18 of 20 shots as the Cyclones completed the second-largest comeback in women’s NCAA tournament history.
USC’s average home attend-
ance at Galen Center more than
tripled compared with last sea-
son, with Trojans legend Cheryl
miller, Los Angeles Lakers star
LeBron James and comedian
Kevin Hart joining the swelling
home crowds. As Watkins chal-
lenged scoring benchmarks set by
Lisa Leslie, the USC icon saluted
her toughness and local roots.
Indeed, USC’s downtown arena
is just seven miles from Ted Wat-
kins memorial Park, where Wat-
kins honed her craft during child-
hood. Ted Watkins, JuJu’s great-
grandfather, was a Watts commu-
nity leader who sought to provide
affordable housing, medical facil-
ities and employment opportuni-
ties in the predominantly Black
neighborhood, which experi-
enced civil unrest in response to
police mistreatment in 1965.
“my father felt like he was
planting flowers,” Tim Watkins,
JuJu’s grandfather, said in a USC
video feature. “Just because Bev-
erly Hills has outdoor arts, sculp-
tures, fountains and so on didn’t
mean that Watts couldn’t have it.
. . . [JuJu’s] spirit is so pure, and
my father had a pure spirit. If
she’s in her books or at the hoop,
she doesn’t have a lot of other
silliness going on. It’s extraordi-
nary. I haven’t seen such a person
— outside of my experience with
my father.”
USC (26-5) sprinted to the fin-
ish by winning 12 of its final 13
games, including an impressive
Pac-12 tournament title run that
included victories over Arizona,
UCLA (in double overtime) and
Stanford. The Trojans enter the
NCAA tournament ranked third
in the Associated Press poll, the
program’s first top-five ranking
since Leslie was a senior in 1993-
94 and its highest ranking since
miller was a senior in 1985-86, the
last time USC reached the final
became an afterthought as the
chaos unfolded. The shorthanded
Capitals — playing without wing-
ers Tom Wilson, who received a
six-game suspension for high-
sticking shortly before the game
began; T.J. oshie, who is day-to-
day with an upper-body injury;
and Aliaksei Protas, who is day-to-
day with a lower-body injury —
were on a roller-coaster ride from
start to finish against Carolina.
The Capitals trailed 2-1 after the
opening 20 minutes. Sebastian
Aho put Carolina ahead at 6:53,
milano tied the game on the pow-
er play at 12:45, and Jaccob Slavin
restored the Hurricanes’ lead with
48 seconds left in the period. It
was a back-and-forth 20 minutes.
But it was relatively boring com-
pared to the next 20 minutes.
In the second period, in a span
of less than six minutes, Washing-
ton went from trailing, to being
eZ SU
“this is my first March,” JuJu Watkins said. “I’m being thrown in
the fire. I’m taking it one day at a time, but it’s just a great feeling.”
four.
Watkins has averaged
27 points, 7.2 rebounds and 3.2 as-
sists, earning spots on the all-Pac-
12 team and the conference’s all-
defensive team. The only player
to average more points this sea-
son than Watkins was Clark, a
22-year-old senior. However, Wat-
kins surpassed Clark’s freshman
mark (799 points) and enters the
tournament with 810 points, giv-
ing her a chance to unseat Kelsey
mitchell (873 points) as the high-
est-scoring freshman in NCAA
women’s history.
“We believe she’s the best
[freshman] in the country,” USC
Coach Lindsay Gottlieb said. “It’s
not because anyone else is lower;
it’s because she’s that good.”
Attracting attention
opposing coaches rain compli-
ments upon Watkins in news con-
ferences and prove their words
aren’t lip service with defensive
schemes designed to neutralize
her at all costs. Arizona’s Adia
Barnes deployed box-and-one
and triangle-and-two defenses
during the Pac-12 tournament
quarterfinals, saying afterward
that “the only good thing” about
the conference’s impending dis-
tied, to leading, to being tied
again, to leading again after suc-
cessfully challenging the Carolina
goal for offside, to being tied again
— for real this time — and even-
tually to trailing again.
Alex ovechkin tied the game at
two on the power play at 13:59 of
the second period, set up for a
tap-in finish at the back post by
Strome. Less than a minute later,
milano juggled the puck up and
over Kochetkov from the front of
the net for his second game-tying
goal of the game.
“I thought, especially early on,
when we were searching for it a bit
and you could feel we hadn’t got-
ten into the game quite yet, I think
[milano] stepping up with those
goals early on I think sort of
calmed us a little bit,” Carbery
said. “Like, ‘okay, okay, we’re go-
ing to find a way tonight.’ ”
on the shift after milano’s goal,
Jordan martinook looked to have
tied the game with a backhand
finish in alone on Kuemper, but
the Capitals challenged the goal
for offside, and it came off the
board — Washington’s second suc-
cessful challenge of the night (a
candIce Ward/geTTy IMageS
solution was that the Wildcats
wouldn’t have to face Watkins as
often in the future.
“She has good size, she’s dy-
namic, and she can handle the
ball,” Barnes said. “She’s an ath-
lete and does a really good job of
creating space. She’s able to go
downhill at will. If you put a
smaller guard [on her], she’ll post
you. If you put a bigger player [on
her], she’ll pull you outside.
Thank God she’s going to a differ-
ent league.”
Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer,
the winningest women’s coach in
NCAA history, went to even more
extreme measures, shadowing
Watkins with extra defensive at-
tention throughout the Pac-12
tournament title game in hopes
of preventing another 51-point
eruption. VanDerveer won the
battle but lost the war, holding
Watkins, who was battling an
ankle injury, to a season-low nine
points (on 2-for-15 shooting) in
USC’s 74-61 victory. mcKenzie
forbes and the Trojans’ support-
ing cast made Stanford pay for
devoting so many resources to
stopping Watkins, whom VanDer-
veer hailed as a “generational
talent.”
“[Stanford] came out with a
first-period goal also was over-
turned). Carolina needed little
time to tie things up for real,
though, as Aho scored his second
after being left wide-open in the
left faceoff circle just 43 seconds
after milano’s tally.
A point shot from Brady Skjei
went in off Kuemper’s glove with
six seconds remaining in the
frame to put the Hurricanes back
in the lead. The goal also spelled
the end of the night for Kuemper.
“I just felt like, at that point, the
group was extremely deflated,”
Carbery said. “We were just des-
perately trying to get that game to
the intermission. We had the lead,
then we give it back. Now we’re
trailing going in. I felt like I need-
ed to do something as a coach, and
that’s a not a decision that I take
lightly, to take Kuemps out there.
. . . I just feel like it wasn’t Darc’s
night and feel like we needed to
change momentum somehow,
some way, going into that third
period.”
The roller-coaster ride wasn’t
done yet — for either side — after
40 minutes.
Carlson tied the game 3:45 into
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defense that I’ve never seen,”
Gottlieb said after leading USC to
its first Pac-12 tournament title
since 2014. “There was not one,
not two, not three — five people
around [Watkins] because of the
respect they have for her.”
Gottlieb, a Brown graduate,
has lovingly referred to her team’s
core as “JuJu and the nerds” — a
nod to USC’s three graduate
transfers from Ivy League
schools. If the Pac-12 tournament
was any indication, the Trojans
will need to toggle between a
Watkins-centric offense and a
more balanced approach if they
expect to make a deep NCAA run.
USC ranks 31st in offensive effi-
ciency — well below fellow title
contenders Iowa, South Carolina,
Connecticut, Stanford and LSU —
and Watkins leads the nation
with a 43.2 usage rate, topping
even Clark.
many good things happen with
Watkins at the wheel, but she
struggled to make the proper
reads and committed some care-
less turnovers when defenses
swarmed her during the Pac-12
tournament. She also must pre-
pare for unforgiving NCAA tour-
nament opponents to attempt to
wear her down with handsy pres-
sure and hard fouls.
“This is my first march,” Wat-
kins said. “I’m being thrown in
the fire. I’m taking it one day at a
time, but it’s just a great feeling
regardless of the physicality and
whatever is going on. I’m just glad
to be a part of it.”
taking the baton
While Watkins boasts more
than 440,000 Instagram follow-
ers and sports a signature “bun”
hairstyle that has caught on
among young girls nationwide,
she hasn’t yet been engulfed by
the frenzy that follows Clark. Dur-
ing the Pac-12 tournament, the
top bowl of mGm Grand Garden
Arena was curtained off as a
result of the healthy but not over-
whelming ticket demand.
fame is a fickle beast that
doesn’t always reward the most
deserving, yet Watkins’s popular-
the third period with a blast from
just inside the blue line on the
power play, the Capitals’ third
power-play goal of the game. And
at the 8:19 mark, milano scored
his third of the game on a flutter-
ing shot that fooled a screened
Kochetkov — giving Washington
its second lead of the game. But it
still wasn’t the last time the lead
changed.
Seth Jarvis evened things up at
5 on the power play just over a
minute later, marking the fifth
time the score was tied. Center
Connor mcmichael then put the
Capitals back ahead as he swatted
a rebound past Kochetkov with
6:07 left to play, but the twists and
turns of the affair weren’t fin-
ished.
Carolina called a timeout to
pull Kochetkov for a six-on-five
advantage with 2:40 left, and just
19 seconds later, Aho completed
his own hat trick to tie the game
and force overtime.
Neither side had an over-
whelming number of chances in
overtime. In the shootout, Kuz-
netsov went first and tested
Lindgren with his trademark
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State shot 7 for 12 from behind the
arc in the second half after going 2
for 10 in the first. All the while,
Crooks seemed to catch every en-
try pass for layup after layup de-
spite maryland’s efforts.
Shyanne Sellers finished with
19 points, seven rebounds and six
assists in the loss, while faith
masonius chipped in 14 points.
“He went from the man to the
zone in the second half,” said
frese, who called Iowa State
Coach Bill fennelly, a mentor of
hers, one of the best X’s and o’s
coaches in the country. “A lot of
things impacted us in the third
quarter. our defense impacted us.
I thought they got a lot more
aggressive. Getting downhill, the
foul trouble we were in in the third
quarter really impacted us with
such a short bench.
“We were hopeful that we’d
continue to shoot that well, but
that’s not who we’ve been all sea-
son. So we really talked about
crashing the glass and being able
to move on offense. And for what-
ever reason, we weren’t able to do
that.”
It was a bittersweet moment for
the two coaches because fennelly
hired frese as an assistant coach
in 1995. The two stayed close over
the years, and fennelly referred to
her as part of his family multiple
times.
“Awful, it’s just awful,” fennelly
said. “Brenda’s part of my family.
As excited as you are for your
players and fans, you do look
down to the other bench, and their
emotions are a little different right
now. I know that’s what the tour-
nament’s about, and it’s a story,
but yeah, it was awful.”
ity appears destined for explosive
growth. The Pac-12 Network is the
Bermuda Triangle of sports, and
USC’s move to the Big Ten next
season will dramatically increase
her visibility. What’s more, Clark,
Brink and probably reese will be
off to the WNBA, thereby setting
up Watkins for a larger share of
the spotlight in the booming
women’s college game.
Clark’s imminent departure
and Watkins’s sensational start
have prompted comparisons be-
tween the two stars, who share a
rare ability to command the ac-
tion but operate in very different
manners. Clark is a far better
outside shooter and a more gifted
passer who thrives in transition;
Watkins is a more explosive fin-
isher with a more powerful on-
ball presence who prefers to work
deliberately. If Iowa, the No. 1
seed in the Albany 2 region, and
USC both avoid upsets, Clark and
Watkins would meet in a national
semifinal at the final four in
Cleveland.
Network executives would
surely welcome such a show-
down, just as television personal-
ities have seemed eager to facili-
tate a passing of the baton. Short-
ly after Watkins put the finishing
touches on her 51-point night, a
Pac-12 Network broadcaster glee-
fully quipped: “Caitlin Clark
who?” Without missing a beat,
Watkins replied: “Nah, don’t do
that. Don’t do that. much respect
there.”
The elegant evasion was an-
other example of Watkins’s matu-
rity, but it bought her only so
much time. When Clark passed
Pete maravich to become the
NCAA’s all-time leading scorer
march 3, fox Sports’ excitable
play-by-play commentator Gus
Johnson couldn’t help himself.
“folks, I hope you had a chance
to see this record-breaking game,”
Johnson said. “for those of you
that didn’t . . . don’t worry. Be-
cause if JuJu Watkins stays in
school at USC, we’re going to have
another new record in the next
three years. JuJu: We’re coming to
see you, young lady.”
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slow-motion attempt, but
Lindgren made the save with his
blocker. No one scored until
Strome fired a shot over Kochet-
kov in the fifth round to end the
game.
The win gave Washington a
critical two points in its still-hope-
ful quest to make the playoffs,
moving it within one point of the
Detroit red Wings for the second
wild-card spot.
“We’ve been on edge for a num-
ber of weeks now already,” Carlson
said. “That’s a testament to the
guys that just kept coming back
and kept fighting.”
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Toronto....................................... 23 47 .329 33 Atlanta..............................2 1 0 6 6 2 Mitchell 6-9 3-6 15, Filipowski 0-1 3-4 3, McCain 4-9 5-6 texas (31-4)
Ottawa........................ 68 28 36 4 60 215 244 Nashville ...........................1 0 3 6 5 4 Karaban 5-11 1-1 12, Clingan 9-11 1-2 19, Castle 6-11 1-1 15, Proctor 5-14 0-0 13, Roach 3-10 7-9 14, Blakes 1-2 0-0
14, Newton 5-8 0-0 13, Spencer 5-11 2-2 15, Diarra 2-3 Booker 4-11 0-0 8, Jones 7-11 4-5 18, Moore 5-9 0-0 10,
sOUthEast w L pct Gb D.C. United ........................1 1 2 5 6 6 2, Stewart 0-0 1-2 1, Young 0-0 1-2 1, Hubbard 0-0 0-0 0, Gonzales 8-11 0-0 21, Holle 0-4 0-0 0, Gaston 3-7 5-6 11,
mEtrOpOLItan Gp w L Ot pts Gf Ga Chicago..............................1 2 1 4 8 9 0-0 4, S.Johnson 1-2 0-0 2, Stewart 2-5 0-0 5, Ball 1-5 1-2 Power 0-0 0-0 0. totals 19-45 20-29 64.
y-Orlando.................................... 42 28 .600 — 3, Ross 0-2 0-0 0, Hurley 0-0 0-0 0, Roumoglou 1-1 2-2 4, Muhammad 2-5 0-0 4, Faye 2-6 6-8 10, Graves 0-1 0-0 0,
Miami ......................................... 38 32 .543 4 N.Y. Rangers............... 70 46 20 4 96 236 191 Charlotte FC ......................1 2 1 4 3 4 halftime: Duke 34-29. three-point goals: Vermont 5-20 Maul 0-4 0-0 0, Mwenentanda 0-2 0-2 0, totals 31-71
Carolina....................... 71 44 20 7 95 245 194 New York City FC ..............1 3 0 3 3 6 Singare 0-0 0-0 0, A.Johnson 0-0 0-0 0. totals 37-70 8-10 (Deloney 2-6, Hurley 1-1, Ayo-Faleye 1-2, Bogues 1-4,
Atlanta ....................................... 30 39 .435 111/2 91. 15-21 82
Charlotte .................................... 17 52 .246 241/2 Philadelphia................ 70 35 26 9 79 208 214 Philadelphia ......................0 0 3 3 5 5 Fiorillo 0-1, Ndayishimiye 0-1, Veretto 0-1, Long 0-4), three-point goals: Drexel 3-14 (Saatman 1-3, Baker 0-2,
Washington ................ 69 34 26 9 77 191 221 Orlando City ......................0 3 1 1 2 10 halftime: Connecticut 52-19. three-point goals: Stetson Duke 6-18 (Proctor 3-9, McCain 2-6, Roach 1-2, Blakes
Washington................................ 12 58 .171 30 3-20 (Oglesby 1-4, Swenson 1-4, Blackmon 1-9, Gross Mullin 2-5, O’Neill 0-2, McGurk 0-1, Sweeney 0-1), Texas
N.Y. Islanders ............. 69 29 25 15 73 206 232 New England .....................0 4 0 0 3 10 0-1). fouled out: Alamutu. rebounds: Vermont 23 5-10 (Gonzales 5-6, Holle 0-1, Graves 0-1, Maul 0-1,
New Jersey ................. 70 34 32 4 72 229 239 0-1, Thompson 0-1, Valdez 0-1), Connecticut 9-24 (Alamutu 7), Duke 36 (Filipowski 12). assists: Vermont
cEntraL w L pct Gb (Newton 3-5, Spencer 3-7, Castle 1-2, Stewart 1-2, Mwenentanda 0-1). assists: Drexel 11 (Mullin 3), Texas
Pittsburgh .................. 69 30 30 9 69 201 208 wEst w L t pts Gf Ga 12 (Bogues, Long 3), Duke 11 (Filipowski, Roach 4). total 23 (Booker 14). fouled out: None. rebounds: Drexel 23
y-Milwaukee .............................. 45 25 .643 — Karaban 1-5, Diarra 0-1, Ball 0-2). rebounds: Stetson 27 fouls: Vermont 19, Duke 13.
x-Columbus................. 69 23 34 12 58 202 250 Minnesota United .............3 0 1 10 8 4 (Hodges 8), Texas 51 (Gaston 10). total fouls: Drexel 15,
y-Cleveland................................. 43 27 .614 2 (Blackmon 8), Connecticut 42 (Clingan 8). assists:
x-Indiana .................................... 39 31 .557 6 Vancouver .........................2 0 1 7 6 2 Stetson 6 (Blackmon 4), Connecticut 22 (Newton 8). Texas 13. Technical Fouls_None. a: 7,487.
Chicago ....................................... 34 36 .486 11 cEntraL Gp w L Ot pts Gf Ga Portland ............................2 1 1 7 8 5 total fouls: Stetson 12, Connecticut 19. a: 17,183
Detroit ........................................ 12 58 .171 33 Dallas.......................... 71 43 19 9 95 260 214 LA Galaxy ..........................1 0 3 6 9 7 (17,732).
Winnipeg .................... 69 44 20 5 93 215 164 St. Louis City SC ...............1 0 3 6 8 6
colorado 102, Florida 100 lSU 70, Rice 60
wEstErn cOnfErEncE x-Colorado .................. 69 44 20 5 93 258 207 Sporting KC .......................1 0 3 6 4 3
Nashville..................... 70 41 25 4 86 230 206 Colorado ............................1 1 2 5 5 7 colorado (26-10) rIcE ...................................... 6 21 15 18 — 60
sOUthwEst w L pct Gb St. Louis...................... 70 37 30 3 77 202 211 Real Salt Lake ...................1 2 1 4 5 5 da Silva 7-10 0-0 17, Lampkin 8-14 5-5 21, Hadley 3-7 LsU ..................................... 12 18 23 17 — 70
New Orleans............................... 43 27 .614 — Minnesota .................. 70 34 28 8 76 216 225 Houston ............................1 1 1 4 3 3 Purdue 78, grambling State 50 9-11 16, O’Brien 5-5 1-1 12, Simpson 7-12 8-9 23, rice (19-15)
Dallas.......................................... 41 29 .586 2 x-Arizona .................... 69 28 36 5 61 203 229 Los Angeles FC..................1 2 1 4 2 6 Williams 2-3 5-7 9, Ruffin 0-1 0-0 0, Dak 2-2 0-0 4. totals
Grambling state (21-15) Fisher 6-15 0-0 13, Ngulefac 5-8 0-0 10, Gooden 0-3 0-0 0,
Houston...................................... 34 35 .493 81/2 Chicago ....................... 70 19 46 5 43 152 252 FC Dallas ...........................1 3 0 3 5 8 34-54 28-33 102.
Aku 1-1 1-2 3, Dozier 6-17 4-4 16, Moton 8-18 2-2 21, Jackson 6-13 1-2 15, Klaczek 3-16 1-2 10, Samb 1-1 0-0 2,
Memphis..................................... 24 47 .338 191/2 Austin FC ..........................0 1 3 3 5 6 florida (24-12)
Burnett 0-3 0-0 0, J.Smith 1-1 0-2 2, Stevenson 3-7 0-0 6, Adams 0-0 4-4 4, Bokunewicz 2-6 0-0 6, Owens-Barnett
San Antonio................................ 15 55 .214 28 Seattle ..............................0 1 2 2 2 3 Samuel 5-8 1-2 11, Condon 3-8 0-0 6, Clayton 10-17 9-10
pacIfIc Gp w L Ot pts Gf Ga Johnson 0-5 0-0 0, Cofer 0-2 0-0 0, Lamin 1-1 0-0 2, 0-3 0-0 0, totals 23-65 6-8 60
San Jose............................0 4 0 0 3 9 Munford 0-0 0-0 0. totals 20-55 7-10 50. 33, Pullin 3-8 6-7 13, Richard 6-10 0-0 15, Haugh 2-4 1-1 LsU (29-5)
Vancouver................... 70 44 18 8 96 245 187
nOrthwEst w L pct Gb Edmonton ................... 67 42 21 4 88 242 190 purdue (30-4) 6, Kugel 4-8 2-2 11, Aberdeen 2-5 0-0 5. totals 35-68 Morrow 6-11 3-5 15, Reese 1-7 8-12 10, Johnson 5-9 2-4 14,
satUrdaY, march 16 19-22 100.
y-Oklahoma City......................... 49 20 .710 — Los Angeles ................ 69 36 22 11 83 216 180 Kaufman-Renn 5-10 1-1 11, Edey 11-17 8-14 30, Jones Van Lith 2-7 2-2 7, Williams 5-10 2-2 14, Del Rosario 0-0
y-Denver..................................... 49 21 .700 1/ Miami 3, at D.C. United 1 2-6 0-1 6, Loyer 3-4 0-0 8, B.Smith 4-10 0-0 11, Heide 2-4 halftime: 45-45. three-point goals: Colorado 6-10 (da
2
Vegas .......................... 69 37 25 7 81 222 206 0-0 0, Kent 0-0 1-2 1, Poa 2-5 4-4 9, totals 21-49 22-31 70
Minnesota .................................. 48 22 .686 11/2 Calgary........................ 68 33 30 5 71 213 220 at Chicago 4, CF Montreal 3 3-4 8, Gillis 0-3 0-0 0, Colvin 0-3 0-0 0, C.Furst 0-0 0-0 0, Silva 3-3, O’Brien 1-1, Hadley 1-2, Simpson 1-4), Florida three-point goals: Rice 8-27 (Fisher 1-5, Jackson 2-3,
Utah............................................ 29 41 .414 201/2 x-Seattle..................... 68 28 28 12 68 183 199 Colorado 1, at Seattle 1 Barrett 1-2 0-0 3, Berg 0-0 1-2 1, Martin 0-0 0-0 0, 11-25 (Clayton 4-10, Richard 3-6, Aberdeen 1-2, Haugh Klaczek 3-11, Bokunewicz 2-5, Owens-Barnett 0-3), LSU
x-Portland .................................. 19 50 .275 30 Anaheim ..................... 70 24 43 3 51 175 252 at Columbus 3, New York 0 Morton 0-0 0-0 0, Waddell 0-0 0-0 0. totals 28-59 13-22 1-2, Kugel 1-2, Pullin 1-2, Condon 0-1). fouled out: 6-15 (Morrow 0-1, Johnson 2-4, Van Lith 1-3, Williams
San Jose ..................... 69 16 46 7 39 151 280 at New York City FC 2, Toronto FC 1 78. O’Brien, Condon. rebounds: Colorado 29 (Lampkin, 2-4, Poa 1-3). assists: Rice 13 (Gooden 5), LSU 11
pacIfIc w L pct Gb Philadelphia 2, at Austin FC 2 halftime: Purdue 36-27. three-point goals: Grambling Hadley 6), Florida 27 (Condon 7). assists: Colorado 27 (Johnson 4). fouled out: Rice Fisher. rebounds: Rice 29
x-L.A. Clippers............................ 43 25 .632 — x-Late game State 3-12 (Moton 3-8, Burnett 0-1, Cofer 0-1, Dozier (da Silva, Lampkin, Simpson 5), Florida 22 (Condon 6). (Fisher 5), LSU 42 (Reese 19). total fouls: Rice 25, LSU
Vancouver 3, at FC Dallas 1 total fouls: Colorado 19, Florida 22.
Phoenix....................................... 41 29 .586 3 0-1, Johnson 0-1), Purdue 9-24 (B.Smith 3-9, Loyer 2-2, 17. Technical Fouls_None. a: 12,957.
thUrsdaY’s rEsULts at Houston 1, Portland 0
Jones 2-4, Barrett 1-2, Heide 1-3, Colvin 0-2, Gillis 0-2).
Sacramento ................................ 40 29 .580 31/2 at Sporting KC 2, San Jose 1
x-L.A. Lakers .............................. 37 32 .536 61/2 St. Louis 5, at Ottawa 2 fouled out: Aku. rebounds: Grambling State 20 (Dozier,
N.Y. Rangers 5, at Boston 2 at Minnesota 2, Los Angeles FC 0 Moton, Stevenson, Cofer 4), Purdue 46 (Edey 21).
x-Golden State ........................... 36 32 .529 7
at New Jersey 4, Winnipeg 1 at Nashville 2, Charlotte FC 1 assists: Grambling State 11 (Aku, Moton, Lamin 2), yale 78, Auburn 76 North carolina 59,
x-Late game; y-Clinched playoff spot; z-Clinched division at Detroit 6, N.Y. Islanders 3 St. Louis City SC 3, at LA Galaxy 3 Purdue 23 (B.Smith 10). total fouls: Grambling State 19,
Yale (23-9) Michigan State 56
at Carolina 3, Philadelphia 2 (OT) Purdue 6.
thUrsdaY’s rEsULts sUndaY’s rEsULts Knowling 2-5 3-5 7, Wolf 4-15 4-5 13, Mahoney 2-5 9-11 mIchIGan statE .............. 10 17 8 21 — 56
at Washington 109, Sacramento 102 Nashville 3, at Florida 0 14, Mbeng 2-5 0-1 5, Poulakidas 10-15 2-5 28, Gharram nOrth carOLIna ............. 23 12 9 15 — 59
Cincinnati 2, at New England 1
at Edmonton 8, Buffalo 3 3-4 1-2 7, Townsend 1-1 2-2 4, Aletan 0-2 0-0 0, Simmons
at Orlando 121, New Orleans 106 at Atlanta 2, Orlando City 0 michigan state (22-9)
at Vancouver 4, Montreal 1 0-0 0-0 0. totals 24-52 21-31 78.
at Milwaukee 115, Brooklyn 108
at Anaheim 4, Chicago 0 satUrdaY’s matchEs baylor 92, colgate 67 auburn (27-8) Tate 1-5 0-1 2, Ayrault 5-14 2-2 14, Hagemann 2-3 5-5 9,
at Houston 127, Chicago 117 J.Williams 6-9 0-0 13, Broome 7-10 9-11 24, Holloway Joiner 4-9 1-2 13, Kimball 0-1 0-0 0, Hallock 5-10 3-4 14,
at Dallas 113, Utah 97 Tampa Bay 4, at San Jose 1 D.C. United at St. Louis City SC, 8:30 colgate (25-10) Ozment 2-9 0-0 4, totals 19-51 11-14 56
Moffatt 3-5 2-2 9, Records 6-10 2-2 14, Cox 3-7 0-0 6, 0-5 0-0 0, Jones 5-7 4-6 17, Baker-Mazara 0-0 0-0 0,
at Denver 113, New York 100 at Vegas 3, Seattle 1 Chicago at New England, 2 Donaldson 2-7 0-2 5, K.Johnson 3-9 1-2 7, Moore 1-1 0-0 north carolina (20-12)
Miami at New York, 2 Cummins 1-5 0-1 2, Smith 3-8 2-2 10, Woodward 2-2 1-2 Gakdeng 8-14 1-1 17, Donarski 1-9 2-2 5, Kelly 4-10 3-10
at Phoenix 128, Atlanta 115 frIdaY’s rEsULts 5, Thomson 5-6 1-2 11, Jones 1-3 2-2 5, Louis-Jacques 3, C.Johnson 2-4 1-1 5, Cardwell 1-1 0-0 2. totals 27-53
Real Salt Lake at Vancouver, 7:30 15-22 76. 13, Nivar 1-8 1-2 3, Ustby 8-12 0-2 16, Poole 0-1 0-0 0,
frIdaY’s rEsULts at Washington 7, Carolina 6 (SO) 1-3 0-1 2, Baker 1-7 0-0 3, Carlesimo 0-0 0-0 0, Scott 0-0 Barker 0-0 0-0 0, Key 2-5 1-1 5, totals 24-59 8-18 59
Columbus at Charlotte FC, 7:30 0-0 0, S.Wright 0-0 0-0 0, C.Wright 0-1 0-0 0. totals halftime: Auburn 41-34. three-point goals: Yale 9-20
Boston 129, at Detroit 102 at Dallas 4, Pittsburgh 2 (Poulakidas 6-9, Mbeng 1-1, Mahoney 1-4, Wolf 1-5, three-point goals: Michigan State 7-18 (Ayrault 2-7,
New York City FC at Cincinnati, 7:30 26-57 10-14 67.
Columbus at Colorado, late Gharram 0-1), Auburn 7-20 (Jones 3-5, Moore 1-1, Hagemann 0-1, Joiner 4-5, Kimball 0-1, Hallock 1-3,
Oklahoma City 123, at Toronto 103 Austin FC at Orlando City, 7:30 baylor (24-10) Ozment 0-1), North Carolina 3-10 (Donarski 1-4, Kelly
New Orleans 111, at Miami 88 Seattle at Arizona, late Broome 1-2, Donaldson 1-2, J.Williams 1-3, C.Johnson
Atlanta at Toronto FC, 7:30 Bridges 9-14 0-1 23, Missi 4-6 1-1 9, Dennis 4-8 0-0 10, 2-4, Nivar 0-2). assists: Michigan State 14 (Hagemann
Nunn 5-8 1-2 15, Walter 4-11 8-10 19, Ojianwuna 4-4 0-0 0-1, Holloway 0-3, K.Johnson 0-3). fouled out: Wolf.
at Minnesota 104, Cleveland 91 satUrdaY’s GamEs LA Galaxy at Sporting KC, 8:30 rebounds: Yale 20 (Wolf, Mbeng 5), Auburn 34 (Broome 8), North Carolina 15 (Ustby 6). fouled out: None.
Memphis 99, at San Antonio 97 Houston at Colorado, 9:30 8, Lohner 1-3 0-0 2, Little 0-1 0-0 0, Sacks 1-1 0-0 3, rebounds: Michigan State 27 (Ayrault 9), North Carolina
Boston at Philadelphia, 1 13). assists: Yale 10 (Knowling, Wolf 3), Auburn 11
Indiana at Golden State, late Nashville at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 Tchamwa Tchatchoua 1-1 0-0 3. totals 33-57 10-14 92. 45 (Ustby 17). total fouls: Michigan State 20, North
Winnipeg at N.Y. Islanders, 1 halftime: Baylor 54-34. three-point goals: Colgate 5-18 (Broome, Donaldson 4). total fouls: Yale 19, Auburn 25.
L.A. Clippers at Portland, late Philadelphia at Portland, 10:30 a: 11,051 (12,210). Carolina 15. Technical Fouls_None.
St. Louis at Minnesota, 2 (Smith 2-5, Jones 1-2, Moffatt 1-2, Baker 1-6, Records
Philadelphia at L.A. Lakers, late Detroit at Nashville, 5 Seattle at San Jose, 10:30 0-1, Louis-Jacques 0-2), Baylor 16-30 (Bridges 5-8, Nunn
satUrdaY’s GamEs Edmonton at Toronto, 7 4-5, Walter 3-8, Dennis 2-5, Sacks 1-1, Tchamwa
Ottawa at New Jersey, 7
satUrdaY, march 30
Tchatchoua 1-1, Little 0-1, Lohner 0-1). rebounds: ncaa wOmEn’s tOUrnamEnt
Middle Tennessee 71,
Toronto at Washington, 8 CF Montreal at D.C. United, 7:30
Brooklyn at New York, 1 Florida at N.Y. Rangers, 8
Minnesota at Philadelphia, 2
Colgate 22 (Smith 4), Baylor 32 (Ojianwuna 7). assists:
Colgate 11 (Moffatt 3), Baylor 17 (Dennis 9). total fouls: Virginia Tech 92, Marshall 49 louisville 69
Sacramento at Orlando, 7 Calgary at Vancouver, 10
Los Angeles FC at Colorado, 4 Colgate 12, Baylor 15. mIddLE tEnnEssEE ......... 12 15 24 20 — 71
Charlotte at Atlanta, 7:30 Chicago at San Jose, 10:30 marshaLL ........................ 12 13 9 15 — 49 LOUIsVILLE ........................ 28 10 12 19 — 69
Cincinnati at Charlotte FC, 7:30
Boston at Chicago, 8 Columbus at Vegas, 10:30 VIrGInIa tEch .................. 18 24 36 14 — 92
New York City FC at Miami, 7:30 middle tennessee (30-4)
Phoenix at San Antonio, 8 Tampa Bay at Los Angeles, 10:30 marshall (26-7)
Utah at Houston, 8
New York at Orlando City, 7:30
Northwestern 77, Maier 2-11 0-0 6, Matthews 4-9 0-0 9, Beeman 4-14 4-6
Whitson 2-9 2-5 7, Boldyreva 5-8 1-2 11, Gregory 5-8
10-11 24, Scott 2-12 3-5 7, Wheeler 6-14 7-8 22,
sUndaY’s GamEs Sporting KC at Toronto FC, 7:30
Denver at Portland, 10 Winnipeg at Washington, 12:30 FC Dallas at Austin FC, 8:30 Florida Atlantic 65 (oT) 12, Campbell 3-9 1-1 7, Aislynn Hayes 3-19 0-1 6,
Lawhorne 1-4 0-0 3, Alasia Hayes 0-0 0-0 0, Ilderton 0-0
Grabovskaia 0-0 0-2 0, totals 20-51 23-33 71
San Jose at Houston, 8:30 Louisville (24-10)
sUndaY’s GamEs Pittsburgh at Colorado, 2 northwestern (22-11) 0-0 0, Mays 0-4 0-0 0, Redman 0-1 0-0 0, Scott 2-6 0-0 6, Cochran 8-17 0-0 17, Harris 2-6 0-0 4, Jefferson 2-4 1-2 6,
New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 5 Columbus at Nashville, 8:30 Hunger 1-8 6-8 8, Martinelli 2-7 0-0 4, Barnhizer 6-12 0-1 Tudor 0-1 0-0 0, totals 19-78 5-8 49
New Orleans at Detroit, 3 Rickards 5-10 2-2 12, Taylor 2-6 2-2 7, Istanbulluoglu 2-4
Edmonton at Ottawa, 6 St. Louis City SC at Real Salt Lake, 9:30 13, Buie 8-20 2-2 22, Langborg 11-19 2-2 27, Preston 1-3 Virginia tech (25-7) 2-2 7, Mobley 0-0 0-0 0, Curry 2-10 2-2 7, Russell 4-11 0-0
Philadelphia at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 Portland at Vancouver, 10:30 0-0 2, Smith 0-0 1-2 1. totals 29-69 11-15 77. Summiel 2-5 2-2 7, Strack 7-7 2-4 17, Amoore 4-12 0-0 9,
Cleveland at Miami, 6 Florida at Philadelphia, 6 9, totals 27-68 9-10 69
Seattle at LA Galaxy, 10:30 florida atlantic (25-9) Ekh 6-9 4-4 21, King 2-3 4-4 10, Baker 1-5 4-4 6, Micheaux three-point goals: Middle Tennessee 8-23 (Whitson 1-6,
Golden State at Minnesota, 7 Toronto at Carolina, 6
Goldin 5-6 9-11 19, Davis 6-16 5-6 18, Gaffney 0-2 0-0 0, 4-4 2-4 10, Suffren 0-0 0-0 0, Wenzel 2-7 8-9 12, totals Boldyreva 0-2, Gregory 4-7, Scott 0-3, Wheeler 3-5),
Oklahoma City at Milwaukee, 7 Dallas at Arizona, 8 Martin 3-9 0-0 6, Weatherspoon 4-10 0-0 10, Greenlee 28-52 26-31 92
Tampa Bay at Anaheim, 8:30 Louisville 6-19 (Cochran 1-2, Jefferson 1-1, Taylor 1-5,
Indiana at L.A. Lakers, 10
Buffalo at Calgary, 9 NWSl 2-5 2-4 7, Boyd 1-5 0-0 3, Rosado 0-2 0-0 0, Lorient 1-2
0-0 2. totals 22-57 16-21 65.
three-point goals: Marshall 6-41 (Maier 2-11, Matthews
1-4, Beeman 0-4, Campbell 0-3, Ai.Hayes 0-7, Lawhorne
Istanbulluoglu 1-3, Curry 1-3, Russell 1-5). assists:
Middle Tennessee 9 (Gregory 4), Louisville 13 (Russell
Montreal at Seattle, 9 w L t pts Gf Ga halftime: Florida Atlantic 20-19. three-point goals: 1-4, Mays 0-2, Redman 0-1, Scott 2-5), Virginia Tech 4). fouled out: Louisville Curry, Rickards. rebounds:
x-North Carolina ...............1 0 0 3 5 1 Northwestern 8-23 (Buie 4-10, Langborg 3-8, Barnhizer 10-23 (Summiel 1-2, Strack 1-1, Amoore 1-5, Ekh 5-7, Middle Tennessee 34 (Boldyreva 12), Louisville 41
Chicago..............................1 0 0 3 2 0 1-2, Martinelli 0-1, Hunger 0-2), Florida Atlantic 5-27 King 2-3, Baker 0-4, Wenzel 0-1). assists: Marshall 11 (Cochran 10). total fouls: Middle Tennessee 15, Louis-
WIz ARdS’ Nex T THRee capitals 7, Hurricanes 6 (So) Kansas City .......................1 0 0 3 5 4 (Weatherspoon 2-6, Boyd 1-4, Greenlee 1-4, Davis 1-6, (Beeman 4), Virginia Tech 23 (Wenzel 7). fouled out: ville 25. Technical Fouls_None.
Bay FC ...............................1 0 0 3 1 0 Lorient 0-1, Martin 0-6). rebounds: Northwestern 39 Marshall Tudor. rebounds: Marshall 40 (Beeman 5,
carOLIna ......................... 2 2 2 0 — 6
OL Reign............................1 0 0 3 1 0 (Barnhizer 10), Florida Atlantic 33 (Goldin 9). assists: Mays 5), Virginia Tech 43 (Summiel 14). total fouls:
washInGtOn ................... 1 2 3 1 — 7
vs. Toronto Raptors Orlando .............................0 0 2 2 3 3 Northwestern 20 (Hunger, Buie 4), Florida Atlantic 10 Marshall 26, Virginia Tech 14. Technical Fouls_None. a:
kansas State 78, Portland 65
washInGtOn wOn shOOtOUt 1-0 Louisville...........................0 0 1 1 2 2 (Greenlee 3). total fouls: Northwestern 13, Florida 8,925.
fIrst pErIOd Atlantic 17. pOrtLand ......................... 10 18 17 20 — 65
Saturday 8 Monumental Angel City .........................0
Gotham FC ........................0
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0
1
0
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0
1
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0 kansas statE ................. 25 15 17 21 — 78
scoring: 1, Carolina, Aho 28 (Slavin, Guentzel), 6:53. 2,
Washington, Milano 11 (McMichael), 12:45 (pp). 3, San Diego ..........................0 0 0 0 0 0 Iowa State 93, Maryland 86 portland (21-13)
Portland ............................0 1 0 0 4 5 Cochrane 2-9 0-0 4, Dickie 2-7 0-0 5, Burnham 9-12 3-6
at chicago bulls Carolina, Slavin 5 (Noesen, Kotkaniemi), 19:12.
Washington ......................0 1 0 0 0 1 San diego State 69, marYLand ........................ 33 19 14 20 — 86 21, Meek 2-4 2-2 7, Shearer 4-6 0-0 8, Ananiev 3-9 1-1 7,
sEcOnd pErIOd x-Utah Royals FC ..............0 1 0 0 0 2 Alabama birmingham 65 IOwa statE ...................... 20 16 30 27 — 93 Spear 0-0 0-0 0, Fraley 0-4 0-0 0, Hamilton-Fisher 4-7 3-4
Monday 8 Monumental scoring: 4, Washington, Ovechkin 24 (Strome, Mirosh-
Houston ............................0 1 0 0 1 5 maryland (19-14) 12, Mogel 0-1 1-2 1, totals 26-59 10-15 65
alabama birmingham (23-12) Alexander 2-6 0-0 6, Masonius 7-15 0-0 14, Bro- kansas state (26-7)
nichenko), 13:59 (pp). 5, Washington, Milano 12 x-Late match Lee 7-12 7-8 21, Jaelyn Glenn 1-4 0-0 3, Brylee Glenn 0-2
(Strome), 14:40. 6, Carolina, Aho 29 (Guentzel), 15:23. 7, C.Coleman 1-3 0-0 2, Lendeborg 2-7 7-8 11, Gaines 4-12 wn-Turner 2-9 2-3 6, McDaniel 3-13 2-2 9, Sellers 6-11
vs. brooklyn Nets Carolina, Skjei 11 (Necas), 19:54. satUrdaY’s rEsULts 6-6 14, E.Johnson 7-14 0-0 19, Vasquez 2-6 1-2 7, J.Davis 6-6 19, Kubek 10-12 2-2 29, Fisher 1-2 1-2 3, totals 31-68 3-4 3, Gregory 7-13 5-6 22, Sundell 5-10 3-9 16, Maupin
2-3 0-0 4, Sanchez 1-3 0-0 2, Sides 0-0 0-0 0, Walker 3-4
2-4 3-6 7, Toney 1-2 0-0 2, Ortiz 1-5 0-0 2, Shaver 0-0 1-2 13-15 86
Kansas City 5, at Portland 4 1, Dunning 0-0 0-0 0. totals 20-53 18-24 65. 1-2 7, totals 26-51 19-29 78
thIrd pErIOd Iowa state (21-11)
Wednesday 7 Monumental at Orlando 2, Louisville 2 san diego state (25-10) Brown 2-8 1-2 5, Crooks 18-20 4-8 40, Belanger 3-7 1-2 three-point goals: Portland 3-16 (Cochrane 0-1, Dickie 1-3,
scoring: 8, Washington, Carlson 6 (Lapierre, Ovechkin), North Carolina 5, at Houston 1 LeDee 11-18 9-10 32, Pal 1-3 0-0 2, Butler 5-9 5-6 15, Burnham 0-1, Meek 1-2, Shearer 0-2, Ananiev 0-2, Fraley
3:45 (pp). 9, Washington, Milano 13 (Sandin, Strome), 8:19. 10, Jackson 0-0 0-0 0, Ryan 5-10 5-6 18, Bristow 0-1 0-0
at Chicago 2, Utah Royals FC 0 Parrish 1-6 0-0 2, Trammell 1-4 1-2 4, Saunders 2-4 0-0 5, 0, Diew 3-7 1-2 8, Natabou 0-1 0-0 0, Joens 3-6 4-4 12, 0-3, Hamilton-Fisher 1-2), Kansas State 7-16 (J.Glenn 1-3,
Radio: WTEM (980 AM) 10, Carolina, Jarvis 27 (Svechnikov, Guentzel), 9:35 (pp). 11,
Washington, McMichael 16 (van Riemsdyk, Miroshnichen- sUndaY’s rEsULts
Waters 2-8 1-2 6, Byrd 1-3 0-0 3, Heide 0-0 0-0 0. totals totals 34-60 16-24 93 B.Glenn 0-1, Gregory 3-7, Sundell 3-4, Walker 0-1).
24-55 16-20 69. three-point goals: Maryland 11-24 (Alexander 2-5, assists: Portland 18 (Cochrane 5, Meek 5), Kansas State
ko), 13:53. 12, Carolina, Aho 30 (Necas, Burns), 17:39. OL Reign 1, at Washington 0 halftime: San Diego State 35-29. three-point goals: 21 (Sundell 9). fouled out: None. rebounds: Portland 31
Masonius 0-1, Brown-Turner 0-3, McDaniel 1-4, Sellers
shOOtOUt at Bay FC 1, Angel City 0 Alabama Birmingham 7-20 (E.Johnson 5-10, Vasquez 1-2, Kubek 7-8, Fisher 0-1), Iowa State 9-22 (Brown 0-4, (Burnham 8), Kansas State 33 (Lee 9). total fouls:
celtics 129, Pistons 102 Washington 1 (Milano NG, McMichael NG, Ovechkin NG, frIdaY’s rEsULts
2-4, Gaines 0-3, Ortiz 0-3), San Diego State 5-18 (LeDee
1-1, Byrd 1-2, Trammell 1-2, Saunders 1-3, Waters 1-6,
Belanger 3-6, Ryan 3-3, Bristow 0-1, Diew 1-4, Joens Portland 25, Kansas State 21. Technical Fouls_None.
2-4). assists: Maryland 16 (Sellers 6), Iowa State 26
bOstOn ............................. 32 37 35 25 — 129 Carlson NG, Strome G), Carolina 0 (Kuznetsov NG, at Angel City 1, Orlando 1 Butler 0-2, Parrish 0-2). fouled out: Lendeborg, J.Davis. (Ryan 14). fouled out: Maryland Brown-Turner. re-
dEtrOIt ............................. 34 19 30 19 — 102 Svechnikov NG, Guentzel NG, Teravainen NG, Aho NG). North Carolina at Utah Royals FC, late rebounds: Alabama Birmingham 22 (Lendeborg 7), San
Diego State 31 (LeDee 8). assists: Alabama Birmingham
bounds: Maryland 25 (Sellers 7), Iowa State 36 (Crooks Alabama 82, Florida State 74
bOstOn: Brown 13-19 4-7 33, Tillman 1-2 0-0 2, shOts On GOaL 12). total fouls: Maryland 24, Iowa State 15. Technical
satUrdaY’s matchEs 10 (Gaines 3), San Diego State 10 (Butler 4). total fouls: Fouls_None. fLOrIda statE ................. 19 21 11 23 — 74
Porzingis 7-15 3-4 19, Pritchard 8-15 0-0 20, White 5-14 carOLIna ....................... 10 12 7 2 — 31 aLabama .......................... 15 25 23 19 — 82
Bay FC at Washington, 7:30 Alabama Birmingham 18, San Diego State 20.
8-9 19, Hauser 5-14 0-0 14, Walsh 1-2 0-0 2, Kornet 1-2 washInGtOn ................... 4 9 10 2 — 25
1-2 3, Mykhailiuk 1-1 1-1 3, Brissett 2-2 1-2 6, Queta 2-2 OL Reign at Chicago, 4 florida state (23-11)
power-play opportunities: Carolina 1 of 2; Washington 3 Timpson 11-21 1-2 23, Bejedi 4-10 0-0 11, Gordon 3-11
1-2 5, Davison 1-1 0-0 3, Springer 0-0 0-0 0. totals 47-89 Louisville at Houston, 8:30
19-27 129.
of 6. Goalies: Carolina, Kochetkov 19-12-4 (25 shots-19
Kansas City at San Diego, 10
duke 72, Richmond 61 0-0 7, Latson 9-23 7-8 25, Turnage 0-2 0-0 0, White 0-0
saves). Washington, Kuemper 13-13-3 (22-18), Washing-
dEtrOIt: Brown Jr. 3-7 0-0 8, Evbuomwan 4-9 4-6 14, ton, Lindgren 19-12-5 (9-7). a: 18,573 (18,277). t: 3:03. sUndaY’s matchEs
Marquette 87, rIchmOnd ......................... 26 11 10 14 — 61
1-2 1, Bonner 1-3 0-0 2, Tucker 2-5 0-0 5, Viegas 0-0 0-0 0,
totals 30-75 9-12 74
Wiseman 11-13 2-4 24, Cunningham 6-17 2-2 15, Ivey
7-13 1-1 16, Boeheim 0-1 0-0 0, Metu 1-3 0-0 2, Fournier Gotham FC at Portland, 7 Western kentucky 69 dUkE .................................. 23 5 23 21 — 72 alabama (24-9)
richmond (29-6) Cody 8-12 3-4 20, Barker 2-7 2-2 6, McQueen 4-7 4-5 13,
3-7 0-0 6, Rhoden 4-5 0-0 9, Sasser 3-8 0-0 8. totals western kentucky (22-12)
42-83 9-13 102. Stars 4, Penguins 2 frIdaY’s matchEs
Faye 3-3 0-0 6, Marshall 8-13 1-2 21, Lander 3-10 0-0 7,
Budnik 6-11 0-0 17, Doogan 5-13 1-2 15, Hill 1-3 0-0 2,
Ryan 3-4 2-2 9, Townsend 9-16 0-0 18, Ullstrom 0-2 0-0 0,
Nye 8-19 0-0 18, Weathers 7-10 2-4 18, Newman 0-1 0-0
0, Cunningham 1-2 0-0 2, Williams 1-3 2-2 5, totals
Chicago at Orlando, 7 McHenry 5-15 0-0 11, Newman 0-8 0-0 0, Howard 3-6 0-0
three-point Goals: Boston 16-45 (Pritchard 4-9, Hauser pIttsbUrGh ........................... 1 0 1 — 2 VanArsdale 0-1 0-0 0, totals 24-50 3-4 61 31-61 13-17 82
daLLas .................................... 1 2 1 — 4 OL Reign at San Diego, 10 6, Kalambay 2-4 2-2 6, Allen 2-4 0-0 6, Moore 0-3 2-2 2,
4-11, Brown 3-8, Porzingis 2-6, Brissett 1-1, Davison 1-1, duke (21-11) three-point goals: Florida State 5-13 (Bejedi 3-6, Gordon
satUrdaY’s matchEs Edelen 2-2 0-0 4, Dorsey 0-0 0-0 0, Marable 0-0 0-0 0, Brown 4-8 2-2 10, Donovan 4-7 0-0 8, Jackson 5-9 0-0 14, 1-3, Latson 0-2, Bonner 0-1, Tucker 1-1), Alabama 7-14
White 1-7, Tillman 0-1, Walsh 0-1), Detroit 9-31 (Sasser fIrst pErIOd Olden 0-1 0-0 0. totals 28-69 5-6 69. Mair 0-7 0-0 0, Richardson 10-18 3-3 25, Emsbo 1-2 0-0 2, (Cody 1-2, McQueen 1-2, Nye 2-6, Weathers 2-3,
2-4, Evbuomwan 2-5, Brown Jr. 2-6, Rhoden 1-2, Angel City at Kansas City, 3:30
scoring: 1, Pittsburgh, Bunting 16 (Malkin, Joseph), marquette (26-9) Thomas 1-4 0-0 2, Koabel 1-4 0-0 3, Okananwa 2-6 4-4 8, Williams 1-1). assists: Florida State 15 (Latson 5),
Cunningham 1-4, Ivey 1-4, Boeheim 0-1, Metu 0-2, Gotham FC at North Carolina, 7
2:45. 2, Dallas, Pavelski 25 (Robertson, Harley), 7:16. Ighodaro 2-7 0-0 4, Joplin 5-12 0-0 13, K.Jones 10-16 3-5 totals 28-65 9-9 72 Alabama 14 (McQueen 6). fouled out: Alabama Barker.
Fournier 0-3). fouled Out: None. rebounds: Boston 35
Louisville at Portland, 7:30 28, Kolek 7-13 2-4 18, Mitchell 6-9 3-4 16, Ross 0-2 0-0 0, three-point goals: Richmond 10-18 (Budnik 5-8, Doogan rebounds: Florida State 33 (Timpson 11), Alabama 47
(White 8), Detroit 42 (Wiseman 9). assists: Boston 31 sEcOnd pErIOd Houston at Bay FC, 10 Gold 3-8 0-0 8, Lowery 0-0 0-0 0, Norman 0-1 0-2 0, 4-7, Ryan 1-2, Ullstrom 0-1), Duke 7-20 (Jackson 4-7, (Cody 14). total fouls: Florida State 17, Alabama 16.
(White 11), Detroit 25 (Sasser 7). total fouls: Boston
scoring: 3, Dallas, Benn 14 (Robertson, Heiskanen), 5:52 Amadou 0-0 0-0 0, Brown 0-1 0-0 0, Lucas 0-0 0-0 0, Riley Mair 0-4, Richardson 2-5, Koabel 1-3, Okananwa 0-1). Technical Fouls_None. a: 7,487.
15, Detroit 23. a: 19,994 (20,491)
(pp). 4, Dallas, Benn 15 (Stankoven), 7:09. 0-0 0-0 0. totals 33-69 8-15 87. assists: Richmond 15 (Townsend 8), Duke 18 (Brown 5).
halftime: Western Kentucky 43-36. three-point goals: fouled out: None. rebounds: Richmond 22 (Doogan 7),
thIrd pErIOd go l F Western Kentucky 8-24 (Marshall 4-6, Allen 2-4, Lander
1-5, McHenry 1-6, Olden 0-1, Newman 0-2), Marquette
Duke 40 (Donovan 8, Okananwa 8). total fouls: Rich- baylor 80, Vanderbilt 63
mond 10, Duke 8. Technical Fouls_None. a: 5,684.
Thunder 123, Raptors 103 scoring: 5, Dallas, Steel 8 (Smith), 4:37. 6, Pittsburgh, 13-36 (K.Jones 5-10, Joplin 3-9, Kolek 2-5, Gold 2-7, VandErbILt ...................... 12 22 15 14 — 63
Rakell 11 (Bunting, Malkin), 11:03. Mitchell 1-3, Norman 0-1, Ross 0-1). rebounds: Western baYLOr .............................. 24 17 28 11 — 80
OkLahOma cItY ............... 28 35 26 34 — 123
shOts On GOaL
PgA Tour Kentucky 42 (McHenry 8), Marquette 35 (Joplin 11).
tOrOntO ........................... 35 21 22 25 — 103
pIttsbUrGh ........................... 7 7 8 — 22 VaLspar champIOnshIp assists: Western Kentucky 17 (Marshall 5), Marquette South carolina 91, Vanderbilt (23-10)
Pierre 4-8 3-6 11, Washington 4-6 0-2 8, Cambridge 5-7
23 (Kolek 11). total fouls: Western Kentucky 15,
OkLahOma cItY: Dort 4-9 1-1 10, Jal.Williams 9-13 2-2 daLLas .................................. 10 7 6 — 23 At Innisbrook, A Salamander Golf and Spa Resort —
Marquette 9.
Presbyterian 39 3-6 14, Moore 3-14 7-10 15, Pissott 2-6 0-0 4, Mitchell 0-0
20, Holmgren 8-13 0-0 18, Giddey 4-6 1-1 10, Gilgeous- power-play opportunities: Pittsburgh 0 of 2; Dallas 1 of 2. Copperhead; in Palm Harbor, Fla. 0-0 0, Allen 0-0 2-2 2, Brown 0-1 0-0 0, LaChance 0-0 0-0 0,
Alexander 9-20 4-6 23, Hayward 1-4 2-2 5, Waters III 0-5 Goalies: Pittsburgh, Jarry 19-24-5 (20 shots-16 saves). purse: $8.4 million prEsbYtErIan ................. 10 15 12 2 — 39 Makurat 0-3 0-0 0, Oliver 4-8 1-3 9, totals 22-53 16-29 63
0-0 0, Muscala 1-1 0-0 2, K.Williams 5-7 0-0 12, Joe 2-5 Yardage: 7,340; par: 71 sOUth carOLIna ............. 27 21 26 17 — 91 baylor (25-7)
Dallas, Oettinger 27-13-4 (22-20). a: 18,532 (18,532). t: 2:28.
3-3 8, Wallace 4-10 1-2 12, Wiggins 1-2 1-2 3. totals presbyterian (21-15) Fontleroy 6-12 3-3 19, Littlepage-Buggs 5-8 1-1 11,
48-95 15-19 123. partIaL sEcOnd rOUnd clemson 77, New Mexico 56 Brady 2-7 1-2 5, Kindseth 4-6 1-2 9, Kline 0-3 0-0 0, Neira Andrews 5-9 1-5 13, Blackwell 3-6 2-2 8, Walker 4-11 0-0 8,
Suspended due to darkness. Bartley 0-0 0-0 0, Edwards 3-6 0-0 7, Felder 1-8 2-2 4, Fritz
tOrOntO: Agbaji 4-10 3-4 12, Dick 8-15 1-3 21, Olynyk 3-11 0-0 8, Sjokvist 4-21 0-0 9, Apsite 0-0 0-0 0, Cunill 3-6
7-9 1-2 16, Brown 4-8 1-2 10, Freeman-Liberty 4-10 2-2 b A S eb A l l Kevin Streelman ................................ 64 72 — 136 -6 new mexico (26-10)
Toppin 2-7 2-4 6, Joseph 5-9 4-7 14, Dent 3-8 0-0 6, House 0-0 6, Hinds 1-2 0-0 2, Sato 0-1 0-0 0, Scoggins 0-3 0-0 0, 0-1 0-0 0, Van Gytenbeek 3-4 2-2 10, totals 30-65 11-15 80
Chandler Phillips ................................ 68 68 — 136 -6 totals 17-60 2-4 39 three-point goals: Vanderbilt 3-17 (Cambridge 1-3,
10, Gueye 0-0 0-0 0, McDaniels 0-2 0-0 0, Nwora 6-10 0-0 Stewart Cink ...................................... 69 67 — 136 -6 4-14 2-2 12, Mashburn 1-11 4-4 6, Washington 2-8 1-1 6,
12, Porter 2-3 2-2 7, Temple 2-2 2-2 8, Ramsey 3-7 0-0 7. south carolina (33-0) Moore 2-7, Pissott 0-4, Brown 0-1, Makurat 0-2), Baylor
Amzil 1-4 1-3 3, Baker 1-3 0-0 2, Appelhans 0-0 0-0 0,
totals 40-76 12-17 103. Mlb spring training Brendon Todd ..................................... 67 69
Mackenzie Hughes ............................. 68 68
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-6 Forsling 0-0 1-2 1, Webb 0-0 0-0 0. totals 19-64 15-23 56. Feagin 5-10 2-2 12, Watkins 3-6 1-2 7, Tessa Johnson 0-7 9-21 (Fontleroy 4-7, Andrews 2-4, Edwards 1-2, Felder
0-0 0, Raven Johnson 5-8 1-3 11, Paopao 7-11 0-0 18, 0-4, Fritz 0-1, Van Gytenbeek 2-3). assists: Vanderbilt
three-point Goals: Oklahoma City 12-32 (Wallace 3-5, thUrsdaY’s rEsULts Peter Mainati ..................................... 66 71 — 137 -5 clemson (22-11) 14 (Cambridge 6), Baylor 18 (Andrews 5). fouled out:
Clark 1-2 4-4 6, Schieffelin 6-10 3-4 16, Hall 5-9 2-2 14, Kitts 9-9 3-4 21, Walker 1-2 3-4 5, Fulwiley 6-11 0-0 17,
K.Williams 2-3, Holmgren 2-4, Giddey 1-2, Hayward 1-3, Washington 9, Minnesota 8 Lucas Glover ....................................... 68 69 — 137 -5 totals 36-64 10-15 91 Vanderbilt Washington. rebounds: Vanderbilt 34 (Cam-
Joe 1-4, Dort 1-5, Gilgeous-Alexander 1-5, Waters III Justin Thomas ................................... 68 69 — 137 -5 Girard 2-12 1-2 7, C.Hunter 8-16 4-7 21, Godfrey 3-6 0-0 bridge 7, Oliver 7), Baylor 39 (Fontleroy 11). total fouls:
Boston 3, Baltimore 2 three-point goals: Presbyterian 3-18 (Brady 0-1, Kline
0-1), Toronto 11-30 (Dick 4-7, Temple 2-2, Brown 1-2, Atlanta 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 Seamus Power ................................... 68 69 — 137 -5 6, D.Hunter 1-2 0-0 2, Wiggins 2-6 0-0 5, Beadle 0-0 0-0 0, Vanderbilt 16, Baylor 23. Technical Fouls_None. a: 8,925.
Kelly 0-0 0-0 0, Latiff 0-0 0-0 0, Nauseef 0-0 0-0 0. totals 0-2, Neira 2-6, Sjokvist 1-7, Hinds 0-1, Scoggins 0-1),
Olynyk 1-2, Porter 1-2, Ramsey 1-4, Agbaji 1-5, Free- Tampa Bay 6, Philadelphia 5 Scott Stallings ................................... 70 67 — 137 -5 South Carolina 9-24 (Feagin 0-1, T.Johnson 0-4, R.John-
man-Liberty 0-3, Nwora 0-3). fouled Out: None. re- Houston 9, Saint Louis 1 Michael Kim ....................................... 70 67 — 137 -5 28-63 14-19 77.
halftime: Clemson 42-28. three-point goals: New Mexi- son 0-2, Paopao 4-7, Fulwiley 5-10). assists: Presbyteri-
N.Y. Mets 10, Detroit 5 Keith Mitchell .................................... 67 70 — 137 -5
bounds: Oklahoma City 46 (Holmgren 10), Toronto 36
(Agbaji 7). assists: Oklahoma City 27 (Gilgeous-Alexan- Cleveland 8, Kansas City (ss) 5 Aaron Baddeley .................................. 67 70 — 137 -5 co 3-23 (House 2-8, Washington 1-4, Toppin 0-1, Amzil an 10 (Kline 4), South Carolina 18 (R.Johnson 4, Watkins HIgH ScHo o lS
Chi. White Sox 3, Kansas City (ss) 3 0-2, Baker 0-2, Mashburn 0-6), Clemson 7-21 (Hall 2-3, 4). fouled out: None. rebounds: Presbyterian 27 (Cunill
der 8), Toronto 34 (Porter 8). total fouls: Oklahoma City K.H. Lee .............................................. 71 67 — 138 -4 6), South Carolina 44 (Kitts 13). total fouls: Presbyteri-
20, Toronto 18. a: 19,601 (19,800) Chi. Cubs 5, Colorado 2 Kevin Roy ........................................... 65 73 — 138 -4 Girard 2-8, Wiggins 1-1, Schieffelin 1-3, C.Hunter 1-4,
Toronto 3, Pittsburgh 2 Clark 0-1, D.Hunter 0-1). fouled out: House, Godfrey. an 11, South Carolina 8. Technical Fouls_None. a: frIdaY’s rEsULts
Christiaan Bezuidenhout ................... 69 69 — 138 -4 11,536.
San Francisco 7, Milwaukee 6 Cameron Young .................................. 69 69 — 138 -4 rebounds: New Mexico 39 (Joseph 12), Clemson 38 basEbaLL
Seattle 7, Cincinnati 6 Adam Svensson ................................. 66 72 — 138 -4 (Schieffelin 12). assists: New Mexico 6 (House 2), marYLand
Cary Yuan ........................................... 66 73 — 139 -3 Clemson 16 (C.Hunter 6). total fouls: New Mexico 16, Blair 41, Springbrook 0
Timberwolves 104, cavaliers 91 frIdaY’s rEsULts Clemson 20. a: 12,754 (18,119).
Houston vs. Washington, ccd. Chez Reavie ........................................ 67 72
Adam Hadwin ..................................... 68 71
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ohio State 80, Maine 57 Broadneck 5, St. Mary’s (Annapolis) 4
Long Reach 16, Atholton 1
cLEVELand ....................... 20 29 17 25 — 91 Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh, ccd.
mInnEsOta ...................... 25 21 26 32 — 104 Detroit 4, Philadelphia 3 Dylan Wu ............................................ 68 71 — 139 -3 maInE ................................ 16 8 21 12 — 57 River Hill 3, Howard 1
Ryo Hisatsune .................................... 68 71 — 139 -3
cLEVELand: Niang 4-8 1-1 10, Okoro 2-6 1-2 5, Allen
N.Y. Yankees 5, N.Y. Mets 3
Toronto 5, Boston 1 Ben Griffin .......................................... 71 68 — 139 -3 Texas A&M 98, Nebraska 83 OhIO statE ....................... 22 21 23 14 — 80
sOftbaLL
maine (24-10) marYLand
5-10 5-6 15, Garland 8-21 3-3 19, LeVert 6-16 2-2 16, Colorado 3, Texas (ss) 2 Sam Ryder .......................................... 69 70 — 139 -3 texas a&m (21-14) Bornemann 1-1 0-0 2, Smith 5-7 0-0 11, Rockwood 5-10
Morris Sr. 4-10 2-2 11, Thompson 2-3 1-2 5, Merrill 3-7 Cleveland 10, Texas (ss) 0 Joseph Bramlett ................................ 71 68 — 139 -3 Washington 2-5 2-2 7, Leveque 0-1 1-2 1, Obaseki 8-17 Broadneck 13, Southern 0
0-0 15, Simon 11-21 2-5 25, Talon 1-2 0-2 2, Dotsey 0-0
1-1 10. totals 34-81 16-19 91. Oakland (ss) 8, Cincinnati 6 Jorge Campillo ................................... 71 68 — 139 -3 3-5 22, Radford 8-17 3-5 20, Taylor 8-14 2-2 25, Carter Wootton 10, Einstein 4
Chi. White Sox (ss) 8, Oakland (ss) 2 0-0 0, Nenadic 0-1 2-2 2, Christopher 0-1 0-0 0, Gallego
Thomas Detry ..................................... 69 71 — 140 -2 5-9 2-2 13, H.Coleman 4-5 2-2 10, Garcia 0-1 0-0 0, Hefner
mInnEsOta: McDaniels 6-10 1-4 15, Reid 7-15 1-1 18, San Francisco (ss) 7, Chi. Cubs (ss) 3 0-1 0-0 0, Gibson 0-0 0-0 0, Hodgson 0-0 0-0 0, Kahelin bOYs’ LacrOssE
Xander Schauffele ............................. 68 72 — 140 -2 0-1 0-0 0, E.Lawrence 0-1 0-0 0, Lee 0-0 0-0 0. totals
Gobert 4-7 1-4 9, Conley 8-15 2-3 21, Edwards 6-17 3-4 San Francisco (ss) 13, Chi. Cubs (ss) 12 0-0 0-0 0, Soler 0-0 0-0 0, Streams 0-0 0-0 0, totals 23-44 marYLand
Ryan Brehm ........................................ 70 70 — 140 -2 35-71 15-20 98.
16, Anderson 5-9 0-0 10, Alexander-Walker 0-2 0-0 0, L.A. Angels 2, Chi. White Sox (ss) 0 4-9 57 Bethesda-Chevy Chase 14, Blake 11
Maverick McNealy ............................. 69 71 — 140 -2 nebraska (23-11)
McLaughlin 4-4 0-0 12, Morris 1-5 0-0 3. totals 41-84 Arizona 3, Seattle (ss) 3 Ohio state (26-5) Broadneck 13, Kent Island 6
Hayden Springer ................................ 67 73 — 140 -2 Allick 6-11 2-2 14, Gary 3-5 3-4 9, Mast 2-4 2-2 7,
8-16 104. Milwaukee (ss) 4, Seattle (ss) 4 McMahon 5-11 3-5 13, Mikulasikova 3-5 2-2 9, Sheldon Sherwood 14, Quince Orchard 3
Kevin Dougherty ................................ 69 71 — 140 -2 Tominaga 7-17 2-2 21, Williams 7-15 9-10 24, J.Law-
Milwaukee (ss) 11, Kansas City 5 7-14 3-3 19, Taylor 3-4 4-5 12, Thierry 4-6 4-6 12, Parks
three-point Goals: Cleveland 7-29 (Merrill 3-7, LeVert Eric Cole .............................................. 73 67 — 140 -2 rence 1-3 4-4 6, Wilcher 1-2 0-0 2, Hoiberg 0-1 0-0 0, Diop VIrGInIa
Minnesota (ss) vs. Atlanta, ccd. 2-3 0-0 4, Walker 0-0 0-0 0, Carson 0-0 0-0 0, Collins 0-0
2-5, Niang 1-3, Morris Sr. 1-5, Okoro 0-3, Garland 0-6), Tampa Bay vs. Minnesota (ss), ccd. Cameron Champ ................................. 71 69 — 140 -2 0-0 0-0 0, Jacobsen 0-0 0-0 0, Grace 0-1 0-0 0. totals Riverside 12, Atlee 6
0-0 0, Greene 1-2 0-0 3, Harris 1-4 0-0 3, Henderson 0-0
Minnesota 14-27 (McLaughlin 4-4, Conley 3-6, Reid 3-8, Miami vs. St. Louis, ccd. Max Greyserman ................................ 69 71 — 140 -2 27-59 22-24 83. Private
0-0 0, Shumate 2-6 0-0 5, totals 28-55 16-21 80
McDaniels 2-4, Edwards 1-1, Morris 1-2, Alexander- halftime: Texas A&M 58-44. three-point goals: Texas three-point goals: Maine 7-19 (Smith 1-2, Rockwood La Salle (Pa.) 4, St. Mary’s (Annapolis) 2
Walker 0-2). fouled Out: None. rebounds: Cleveland 41 satUrdaY’s GamEs A&M 13-23 (Taylor 7-10, Obaseki 3-5, Radford 1-1, 5-10, Simon 1-5, Talon 0-1, Christopher 0-1), Ohio State
(Allen 13), Minnesota 45 (Gobert 15). assists: Cleveland St. Louis vs. Washington (ss), 1 Washington 1-2, Carter 1-3, Garcia 0-1, Hefner 0-1), GIrLs’ LacrOssE
22 (LeVert 6), Minnesota 27 (Conley 6). total fouls: Washington (ss) vs. Miami, 6 lPgA Tour Nebraska 7-22 (Tominaga 5-11, Mast 1-2, Williams 1-4,
8-23 (McMahon 0-1, Mikulasikova 1-2, Sheldon 2-7,
Taylor 2-3, Greene 1-2, Harris 1-3, Shumate 1-5). marYLand
Cleveland 14, Minnesota 12. a: 18,024 (19,356) Tampa Bay (ss) vs. Baltimore (ss), 1 Grace 0-1, Hoiberg 0-1, Wilcher 0-1, J.Lawrence 0-2). assists: Maine 12 (Smith 6), Ohio State 17 (Taylor 5). Bethesda-Chevy Chase 12, Blake 1
Baltimore (ss) vs. Toronto (ss), 6 fIr hILLs sErI pak champIOnshIp
rebounds: Texas A&M 36 (Radford 10), Nebraska 24 fouled out: None. rebounds: Maine 25 (Smith 6), Ohio prIVatE
Atlanta vs. Tampa Bay (ss), 1 At Palos Verdes Golf Club; in Palos Verdes, Calif.
purse: $2 million (Allick 11). assists: Texas A&M 16 (Radford, Taylor 5), State 29 (Taylor 6). total fouls: Maine 18, Ohio State 16.
Detroit (ss) vs. N.Y. Yankees (ss), 1 Nebraska 15 (Williams 4). total fouls: Texas A&M 21, Good Counsel 17, Hockaday (Texas) 8
N.Y. Yankees (ss) vs. Philadelphia, 1 Yardage: 6,258; par: 71 Technical Fouls_None.
Nebraska 17.
Pittsburgh vs. Boston (ss), 1
Pelicans 111, Heat 88 Toronto (ss) vs. Detroit (ss), 1:07 sEcOnd rOUnd
nEw OrLEans .................. 21 25 30 35 — 111
N.Y. Mets vs. Houston, 1:10
Kansas City vs. Texas, 3
Malia Nam .........................................
Madelene Sagstrom ..........................
65 69
66 69
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colorado 86, drake 72 TeNNIS
mIamI ................................ 20 22 24 22 — 88 Oakland vs. L.A. Angels, 3 Ruoning Yin ....................................... 70 65 — 135 -7 Alabama 109, charleston 96 drakE ................................ 21 20 12 19 — 72
Chi. White Sox vs. Seattle, 4 Alison Lee .......................................... 66 70 — 136 -6
nEw OrLEans: Murphy III 4-11 2-2 14, Williamson 2-7 Chi. Cubs vs. Milwaukee, 4 Leona Maguire ................................... 71 65 — 136 -6 charleston (27-8) cOLOradO ......................... 24 22 25 15 — 86 ATP/WTA
0-0 4, Valanciunas 4-4 0-0 8, Jones 3-8 3-3 10, McCollum Cincinnati vs. Colorado, 4 Brzovic 2-7 0-0 4, Burnham 6-11 6-8 19, Policelli 4-11 4-4 drake (29-6)
12-21 0-0 30, Marshall 6-11 0-0 13, Nance Jr. 2-2 2-3 6, Rose Zhang ........................................ 68 68 — 136 -6 mIamI OpEn
San Francisco vs. Arizona (ss), 4 Linn Grant .......................................... 69 68 — 137 -5 15, Rodgers 5-12 2-2 14, Smith 4-11 2-3 13, Butler 5-12 Becker 5-5 3-4 14, Berg 3-6 1-2 7, Miller 1-7 1-4 3,
Robinson-Earl 1-1 0-0 2, Ryan 1-2 0-0 3, Zeller 0-0 1-2 1, Arizona (ss) vs. Cleveland, 4:10 0-1 10, Fulton 0-4 2-3 2, Scott 4-6 3-4 11, London 0-1 3-4 Dinnebier 9-15 3-3 24, McAulay 3-6 5-6 13, Iiams 1-1 0-0 At Hard Rock Stadium; in Miami Gardens
Alvarado 6-12 1-2 17, Hawkins 1-3 0-0 3. totals 42-82 Lauren Hartlage ................................. 66 71 — 137 -5
Boston (ss) vs. Minnesota, 6 3, Crawford 2-2 0-0 5, Wol 0-1 0-0 0. totals 32-78 22-29 3, Brown 0-0 0-0 0, Dailey 0-1 0-0 0, Fornshell 1-3 0-0 2, purse: $8,995,555
9-12 111. Ashleigh Buhai .................................. 72 66 — 138 -4
96. Hawthorne 1-3 0-0 3, Meyer 1-2 0-0 3, totals 25-49 surface: Hardcourt outdoor
sUndaY’s GamEs In Gee Chun ........................................ 68 70 — 138 -4
mIamI: Butler 5-12 7-7 17, Jovic 4-9 0-0 10, Adebayo 4-7 Dani Holmqvist .................................. 69 69 — 138 -4 alabama (22-11) 13-19 72
N.Y. Mets (ss) vs. Washington, 1:10 Nelson 1-3 1-4 3, Estrada 6-14 0-1 13, Griffen 3-6 2-2 9, colorado (23-9) mEn’s sInGLEs — rOUnd Of 64
3-4 12, Mills 2-7 0-0 4, Rozier 5-14 0-0 13, Cain 1-3 0-0 2, Minnesota vs. Baltimore, 1 Jiwon Jeon ......................................... 70 68 — 138 -4 Tomas Machac, Czech Republic, def. Andrey Rublev (5),
Highsmith 0-3 0-0 0, Martin 0-8 0-0 0, Swider 5-7 0-0 14, Xiyu Lin .............................................. 68 70 — 138 -4 Sears 9-13 9-11 30, Wrightsell 6-8 0-0 17, Dioubate 2-4 Vonleh 8-17 2-3 18, Miller 3-6 1-2 8, Formann 1-1 0-0 2,
Houston vs. St. Louis, 12 Nolan 5-10 0-0 12, Sherrod 7-11 2-3 16, McLeod 0-0 2-2 2, Russia, 6-4, 6-4; Ugo Humbert (14), France, def. Botic
Bryant 2-2 2-2 8, Jaquez Jr. 1-7 0-0 3, O.Robinson 0-0 0-0 Boston vs. Atlanta, 1 Mao Saigo .......................................... 70 68 — 138 -4 2-6 6, Stevenson 2-4 1-2 7, Wague 2-2 2-2 6, Pringle 2-2
1-2 5, Walters 2-2 4-5 9, Scharnowski 1-1 0-0 2, Spears Whittaker 0-2 0-0 0, Gerber 0-0 0-0 0, Johnson 0-1 0-0 0, Van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, 6-4, 6-3.
0, Wright 2-7 1-2 5. totals 31-86 13-15 88. Detroit vs. Tampa Bay, 1 Aditi Ashok ........................................ 70 69 — 139 -3
0-1 2-2 2. totals 36-60 24-37 109. Sadler 3-4 0-0 7, Smith 2-3 0-0 5, Wetta 7-10 0-0 16,
three-point Goals: New Orleans 18-36 (McCollum 6-12, Philadelphia vs. Toronto, 1 Isi Gabsa ............................................ 68 71 — 139 -3
totals 36-65 7-10 86
wOmEn’s sInGLEs — rOUnd Of 64
Pittsburgh vs. N.Y. Yankees (ss), 1 Brooke Henderson ............................. 68 71 — 139 -3 halftime: Alabama 51-34. three-point goals: Charleston
Alvarado 4-7, Murphy III 4-9, Hawkins 1-1, Ryan 1-1, 10-33 (Smith 3-8, Policelli 3-9, Rodgers 2-4, Crawford three-point goals: Drake 9-24 (Becker 1-1, Miller 0-3, Coco Gauff (3), United States, def. Nadia Podoroska,
Miami vs. N.Y. Mets (ss), 1:10 Charley Hull ....................................... 70 69 — 139 -3 Argentina, 6-1, 6-2; Aryna Sabalenka (2), Belarus, def.
Marshall 1-2, Jones 1-4), Miami 13-47 (Swider 4-6, del Mexico vs. N.Y. Yankees (ss), 4 1-1, Burnham 1-3, Butler 0-1, London 0-1, Wol 0-1, Dinnebier 3-7, McAulay 2-5, Iiams 1-1, Dailey 0-1,
Rozier 3-6, Bryant 2-2, Jovic 2-5, Adebayo 1-2, Jaquez Jr. Auston Kim ........................................ 73 66 — 139 -3 Paula Badosa, Spain, 6-4, 6-3; Emma Navarro (20),
Cincinnati vs. Cleveland, 4 Nelly Korda ........................................ 72 67 — 139 -3 Brzovic 0-2, Fulton 0-3), Alabama 13-23 (Wrightsell 5-6, Fornshell 0-2, Hawthorne 1-2, Meyer 1-2), Colorado 7-17
1-5, Cain 0-1, Highsmith 0-2, Butler 0-3, Mills 0-4, Colorado vs. Chi. White Sox, 4:10 Sears 3-6, Stevenson 2-4, Walters 1-1, Griffen 1-2, (Miller 1-3, Nolan 2-7, Sherrod 0-2, Sadler 1-1, Smith United States, def. Storm Hunter, Australia, 6-4, 6-3;
Wright 0-4, Martin 0-7). fouled Out: None. rebounds: Andrea Lee ......................................... 69 70 — 139 -3 Ekaterina Alexandrova (14), Russia, def. Donna Vekic,
Seattle vs. Chi. Cubs, 4:10 Paula Reto ......................................... 69 70 — 139 -3 Estrada 1-4). rebounds: Charleston 37 (Brzovic, Butler 1-1, Wetta 2-3). assists: Drake 18 (Dinnebier 7),
New Orleans 56 (Valanciunas 10), Miami 34 (Adebayo Milwaukee vs. Arizona, 4:10 8), Alabama 28 (Estrada 7). assists: Charleston 16 Colorado 20 (Sherrod 8). fouled out: None. rebounds: Croatia, 6-3, 6-4; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (21), Rus-
10). assists: New Orleans 25 (McCollum 7), Miami 21 Jenny Shin ......................................... 69 70 — 139 -3 sia, def. Shelby Rogers, United States, 6-2, 6-1; Oceane
L.A. Dodgers vs. L.A. Angels, 7:10 (Rodgers 4), Alabama 17 (Estrada 8). total fouls: Drake 18 (McAulay 4), Colorado 39 (Vonleh 10). total
(Butler 5). total fouls: New Orleans 13, Miami 9. a: Sacramento vs. San Francisco, 8:07 Linnea Strom ..................................... 69 70 — 139 -3 Dodin, France, def. Arantxa Rus, Netherlands, 6-4, 3-6,
Jasmine Suwannapura ...................... 69 70 — 139 -3 Charleston 22, Alabama 22. fouls: Drake 12, Colorado 21. Technical Fouls_None. a:
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