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Water
rates
to rise,
taxes to
double
Southland wholesaler
MWD cites lower
revenue because of
conservation efforts
as well as higher costs.
By Ian James

The Metropolitan Water

District of Southern Califor-
nia has announced that it
will increase rates and prop-
erty taxes throughout the
region over the next two
years as the state grapples
Photographs by Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times with fundamental changes
A BATTLE is brewing over a tribe’s casino aspirations. Above, Jody Criner plays in February inside the Rain Rock Casino in Yreka, Calif. to its water supply and us-
age.
District leaders said the

Casino bid sparks tribal land furor

It was midafternoon at the Rain
Rock Casino in this faded Gold
Rush town, and Jody Criner had
just won $47 on the Dancing
Drums slot machine, a respectable
return on her $5 investment.
“Cha-ching,” Criner said, her
black leather jacket reflecting the
neon blues, reds and purples flash-
ing from the slots.
Criner is a Rain Rock regular,
often making the 20-mile drive
from Big Springs with her girl-
friends. She once won $1,200,
enough to pay her property taxes
for the year, and she dreams of the
day she’ll need a wheelbarrow to
haul out her cash earnings.
“I don’t mind not winning if I
have a blast,” she said. “Which I
usually have a blast.”
Rain Rock’s owner, the Karuk
Tribe of Siskiyou and Humboldt
counties, depends on regulars like
Criner to keep the casino afloat.
Once the tribe pays off the roughly
$70 million in debt that it took on to
build the Rain Rock, tribal leaders
plan to funnel the revenue into im-
proving healthcare, education and
housing for its member families.
But the Karuk fear that those
ambitions are in jeopardy.
The Coquille, a coastal Oregon
The Coquille want to build a tribe, is planning a casino about 50
miles north in Medford, a city of
86,000 in the Rogue Valley. Karuk
facility on California border. Who Tribal Chairman Russell “Buster”
Attebery worries that a competing
gets to decide ancestral rights? casino so close to the border will
cut into Rain Rock’s profits,
threatening the tribe’s investment
goals.
By Hannah Wiley | reporting from yreka, calif. “We would be affected the most
with the casino that’s going in
there,” Attebery said.
It’s not unusual for casino
tribes to fight over territory. But
the dispute playing out across
state lines over the Coquille’s pro-
posal has introduced new dimen-
sions, raising provocative ques-
tions about who gets to determine
the reaches of a tribe’s ancestral
homeland and the fairness of the
federal process for determining
where tribes can build casinos.
The federal government seized
the Coquille’s land more than 150
years ago, taking more than a mil-
lion acres. A 1989 compact allowed
the tribe to reclaim about 1,000
acres in trust for a reservation and
designated a far broader region,
crossing five counties, as a “service
area” where the tribe could draw
AT A MEDFORD hotel, guests are welcomed with a Coquille on federal funds and other revenue
phrase inscribed on the floor that means “Greetings, friends.” [See Casino, A9]
increases are necessary to
cover the costs of importing
and treating water, as well as
finance climate change
adaptations to infrastruc-
ture and make up for de-
clines in revenue due to
widespread conservation ef-
forts.
“We’ve been successful in
conservation to the point
where our sales are declin-
ing, and we need to make
that up somehow,” MWD
Board of Directors Chair
Adán Ortega Jr. said. “We’ve
made up the revenue and
stabilized the past rates
with the reserves, and we
can’t keep doing that.”
The district’s 38-member
board voted Tuesday to
raise water rates 8.5% in 2025
and an additional 8.5% in
2026. This will increase costs
for 26 cities and retail suppli-
ers that receive imported
water delivered by the MWD.
The budget adopted by
the board also calls for dou-
bling the MWD’s property
tax assessment in its six-
county area — the first such
increase to its ad valorem
(according to value) tax rate
in over 30 years.
For a median-value home
in Los Angeles County, the
MWD’s annual property tax
bill will increase to $56 from
$28; in Orange County, it will
rise to $66 from $33.
“We understand the im-
pact rate increases can have
on businesses and residents,

Arizona’s abortion ban so we have taken great steps

to limit our increase as much
as possible,” MWD General

challenges Trump’s Manager Adel Hagekhalil

[See Water, A7]

attempt to dodge issue Westside losing

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While court proceedings State Farm is not re-
Donald are likely to delay imple- newing thousands of
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to sidestep political impact was imme-
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risk. CALIFORNIA, B1
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suggesting he battleground state, remind-
would turn ing voters of Trump’s role in
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the matter overturning Roe vs. Wade fight retail theft
over to indi- and handing a gift to Presi- Lawmakers don’t want
vidual states, rather than dent Biden and fellow to change Proposition
Paul Kuroda For The Times having Congress and the Democrats. 47, but businesses do.
SANTA CLARA County Dist. Atty. Jeff Rosen, center, at a service in Palo Alto. president impose a nation- “As it is, voters think that CALIFORNIA, B1
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in California of the condemned are Black. these men (Santa Clara has that dynamic, and its conse- sought to distance himself
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Still, 625 men and 20 preparing to ask courts to in our justice system han- women couldn’t vote and Arizona at the front of a
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PERSPECTIVES

In Rio, graft stymied assassination inquiry

that some politicians fear
Authorities say state civil police, who are rumored
to keep blackmail dossiers.
police chief had a role “Everybody is scared.
in killing and hindered There is reluctance, because
of the power that the police
Brazilian investigators. force has, especially civil po-
lice,” said Rodrigues, who
By Diane Jeantet, researches public security at
David Biller and the State University of Rio
Gabriela Sá Pessoa de Janeiro. “It’s not just
about political will; it’s about
RIO DE JANEIRO — having the courage to do it.”
Two days after Rio de Ja- The police report leading
neiro City Councilwoman to the arrests provided de-
Marielle Franco’s 2018 tailed accounts of corrup-
assassination, her widow sat tion. One militia member
down with the chief of the testified in a separate inves-
state’s civil police, Rivaldo tigation that the homicide
Barbosa, who pledged to do division gets a monthly al-
everything in his power to lowance of about 70,000 reais
hold the guilty parties to ac- ($14,000). Specific cover-ups
count. require more; in one case,
In fact, the man Brazilian the unit received 300,000
media once exalted as “Rio’s reais, he said, claiming Bar-
Sherlock” had the exact op- bosa was among those ben-
posite intent, according to efiting.
newly revealed allegations. Homicide detective
Federal police arrested Bar- Brenno Carnevale testified
bosa on March 24 — more in a 2019 case that seized ma-
than six years later — on alle- terial went missing and lead
gations that he helped or- investigators were suddenly
chestrate Franco’s killing swapped, especially in cases
and took money to obstruct related to militias. A victim’s
the very investigation he daughter testified that Car-
would oversee. nevale couldn’t conceal his
“Hours after my wife’s exasperation when she
murder, I was in front of a came seeking information:
man who knew exactly what Ellis Rua Associated Press All the records had van-
had happened and, more CITY COUNCILWOMAN Marielle Franco’s 2018 slaying shook Brazil. A federal report sheds light on her ished.
than that, who was part of assassination and the extent of corruption in Rio de Janeiro, where militias allegedly pay police to look away. These machinations are
ordering it,” Mônica Benício “the reason why major ho-
told TV Brasil through tears Jacqueline Muniz, a profes- tias’ interests. mantra of those clamoring arrest]; we need some cor- micides were never solved,”
after his arrest. sor of public security at the Barbosa’s attorneys said for justice. roboration of what was said the police’s report said.
The explosive revelations Federal Fluminense Uni- that he denies any wrong- In 2019, the federal police by the cooperating defend- “This whole dynamic would
in a nearly 500-page federal versity and former director doing or having ever met the told Rio prosecutors they ant, and the report does this. not be possible if the main
police report offer an un- of Rio’s public security sec- accused politicians, and said should investigate Barbosa, Starting now, the bar for evi- body responsible for re-
precedented glimpse into retariat that oversees police. the allegations are conjec- sharing a cellphone record- dence will be higher,” Fer- pressing the actions of these
how organized crime has “In Rio, we govern with ture based on a criminal’s ing of a militia member one reira said. groups was not complicit in
undermined Rio’s institu- crime — not against it.” words. of their operations targeted, Barbosa’s lawyers, who the scheme.”
tions and reveal the extent of Barbosa’s arrest came Upon becoming police local media reported at the also represent his wife, said Rio authorities solved
corruption in a city where only after federal authorities chief, Barbosa delivered a time. In that conversation, she denies participating in 23% of homicides in 2021, half
militias allegedly pay police started investigating once defiant speech to a packed reproduced in the new re- any illicit activities and the rate of neighboring Sao
to look away. leftist President Luiz Inácio auditorium, demanding the port, the militia member questions about her income Paulo state and among the
The death of Franco, a Lula da Silva took office in “fight against one of the said Barbosa had received will be cleared up. country’s lowest, according
rising political star who re- 2023. Federal police made a greatest evils that destroy 400,000 reais, now the equiv- The arrested politicians to a 2023 report from non-
sisted militias’ expansion plea deal with former police the state: corruption!” alent of $79,000, to not clear started planning Franco’s profit Sou da Paz Institute.
and fought for the poor, has officer Ronnie Lessa, who The next day, Franco was Franco’s case. assassination after she The brother of Franco’s
driven home the conse- told them that two politician killed. “It stretched credulity voted against a bill to bypass political mentor was killed in
quences of allowing organ- brothers hired him to kill The masterminds antici- that he would be one of the authorities and bestow legal 2006, and 14 years elapsed
ized crime to run roughshod Franco and informed him pated the assassination chief architects and directly title to land and buildings in before Rio’s police indicted
over Rio’s sprawling land- that Barbosa had signed off would be a blip — a bit of involved in preventing the militia territory, the report three former officers associ-
scape. beforehand. Police say they noise feeding a news cycle investigation into this ex- alleges. ated with militias. Prose-
“The Marielle case is ordered her killed because and just another fatality in a traordinarily well-publi- The militias, which cutors didn’t press charges.
quite emblematic,” said she was an obstacle to mili- city where death is common. cized murder,” recalled formed in the late 1980s to In November, a deco-
But they underestimated Robert Muggah, co-founder stop drug traffickers’ expan- rated officer investigating
how many people had of Igarapé Institute, a secu- sion, moved into land-grab- corruption within her ranks
placed their hopes on rity-focused think tank. bing and real estate more re- was gunned down by men in
Franco, who hailed from one “Over the course of the in- cently and control over half camouflage. An officer who
FOR THE RECORD of the working-class com- vestigation, we became the territory in Rio’s metro previously worked with her
munities known as favelas. more skeptical, not neces- region, according to a 2022 was arrested; local media re-
Wildflowers: An April 9 pected to appear at Anza- The 38-year-old stood out as sarily of him, but of the civil study from the Federal Flu- ported he was on a militia’s
article in the California sec- Borrego Desert State Park a Black, bisexual woman in police’s level of commit- minense University and the payroll.
tion about flowers blooming when the weather gets politics and her abrupt end ment.” Fogo Cruzado Institute. And the newspaper O
between the runways at warmer. The Montezuma shook Brazil with mass pro- The police report alleges “This is happening be- Globo reported that lawyers
Los Angeles International Grade is a road that winds tests that echoed around the Barbosa laundered bribe cause of the public security are already pushing to re-
Airport said the “colorful through the park. It is not world. money through front com- choices Rio has made over open at least six cases from
Montezuma Grade” is ex- a flower. Weeks later, with no signs panies ostensibly owned by the last 30 to 40 years,” said when Barbosa was a homi-
of outrage abating, Lessa his wife, whose personal Rafael Soares, author of cide detective, head of the
was getting nervous. He met earnings skyrocketed the “Milicianos,” a book about unit or police chief.
the politicians to vent. They year he assumed control of Rio’s militias. Franco’s case has re-
assured him Barbosa had the homicide division. Fi- No Rio administration vealed how, at present, only
How to contact us been paid to “turn the can-
non in the other direction.”
nancial records show abun-
dant profits for the enter-
has addressed corruption,
instead appeasing public
societal outrage and federal
involvement yield advances,
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THE WORLD

Gaza airstrike kills 3 sons of Hamas leader

Israeli attack leaves
militants unbowed
even as it threatens to
strain cease-fire talks.
By Tia Goldenberg,
Kareem Chehayeb
and Wafaa Shurafa
TEL AVIV — Israeli air-
craft killed three sons of
Hamas’ top political leader
in the Gaza Strip on
Wednesday, striking high-
stakes targets at a time
when Israel is holding deli-
cate cease-fire negotiations
with the militant group.
Hamas said four of the lead-
er’s grandchildren were also
killed.
Ismail Haniyeh’s sons are
among the highest-profile
figures to be killed in the war
so far. Israel said they were
Hamas operatives, and
Haniyeh accused Israel of
acting in “the spirit of re-
venge and murder.”
The deaths threaten to
strain the internationally
mediated cease-fire talks,
which appeared to gain
steam in recent days even as
the sides remain far apart on
key issues.
The slayings also come as
Israel is under intensifying
pressure — increasingly
from its top ally, the U.S. — to
change tack in the war, espe-
cially when it comes to hu-
manitarian aid for desperate
people in Gaza.
Haniyeh said Hamas
would not cave to the pres-
sure leveled by the strike on
his family.
“The enemy believes that
by targeting the families of
the leaders, it will push them
to give up the demands of
our people,” Haniyeh told
the satellite channel Al
Jazeera.
“Anyone who believes
that targeting my sons will
push Hamas to change its
position is delusional.”
Hamas’ Al Aqsa TV sta-
tion aired video of Haniyeh
receiving the news of the
deaths through the phone of
an aide while visiting
wounded Palestinians who
have been transported to a
hospital in Qatar, where he
lives in exile. Haniyeh nod-
ded, looked down at the
ground and slowly walked
out of the room.
Al Aqsa TV said Hazem,
Ameer and Mohammed
Haniyeh were killed in the
strike near the Shati refugee
camp in Gaza City, where Is-
mail Haniyeh is originally
from. Hamas said three of
Haniyeh’s granddaughters
and a grandson were also
killed. Hamas did not dis-
close their ages.
The brothers were trav-
eling with family members in
a single vehicle targeted by
an Israeli drone, Al Aqsa TV
said.
The Israeli military said
that Mohammed and
Hazem were Hamas mili-
tary operatives and that
Ameer was a cell command-
er. It said they had con-
ducted militant activity in
the central Gaza Strip, with-
out elaborating. It did not
comment about the grand-
children killed.
The strike on Haniyeh’s
family is the latest blood-
shed in a war with no end in
sight.
Earlier, Israeli war Cab-
inet minister Benny Gantz
claimed Hamas has been de-
feated militarily, although
he also said Israel will fight it
for years to come.
“From a military point of
view, Hamas is defeated. Its
fighters are eliminated or in
hiding” and its capabilities
“crippled,” Gantz said in a
statement to the media in
the southern Israeli city of
Sderot.
But he added: “Fighting
against Hamas will take
time. Boys who are now in
middle school will still fight
in the Gaza Strip.”
Gantz reiterated the Is-
raeli government’s commit-
ment to go into Rafah, the
city at the far southern end
of the Gaza Strip where
more than half the territo-
ry’s 2.3 million people are
now sheltering.
For Palestinians, the
strike on Haniyeh’s family
A MAN MOURNS Tuesday next to the body of a boy at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital
in Deir al Balah in the Gaza Strip. The child was killed by Israeli bombardment.
darkened an already grim
Eid al-Fitr holiday, which
ends the holy fasting month
of Ramadan. Palestinians
marked the holiday by visit-
ing the graves of loved ones
killed in the war. In the Ja-
baliya refugee camp near
Gaza City, people sat quietly
by graves surrounded by
buildings destroyed by Isra-
el’s offensive, which was
launched in response to the
deadly Hamas attack on
Oct. 7.
As misery in Gaza
lingers, Israel has faced in-
creasing pressure, including
from its own top ally, the
U.S., to change tack in the
war, especially in regard to
the delivery of humanitarian
aid.
On Tuesday, President
Biden called Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s han-
dling of the war in Gaza a
mistake and urged his gov-
ernment to flood the belea-
guered territory with aid. He
Abdel Kareem Hana Associated Press
repeated that call again
Wednesday, saying the ef-
forts to boost aid were “not
enough” and demanding an-
other entry point for trucks
in northern Gaza.
Gantz said Israel would
soon open a new crossing to
serve hard-hit northern
Gaza, an early target in the
war.
After months of support-
ing the war against Hamas,
the White House has
ramped up pressure on Isra-
el to reach a cease-fire and
taken a sterner line that has
rattled the countries’ dec-
ades-old alliance and deep-
ened Israel’s international
isolation over the war.
The most serious dis-
agreement has been over Is-
rael’s plans for an offensive
in Rafah. The rift was wors-
ened by an Israeli airstrike
last week on an aid convoy
that killed seven workers
with the World Central
Kitchen charity, most of
them foreigners. Israel said
the deaths were uninten-
tional, but Biden was out-
raged.
Biden’s latest comments
highlight the differences be-
tween Israel and the U.S.
over humanitarian aid to
people in Gaza, where the
war has led to warnings of
imminent famine for more
than a million people.
“What he’s doing is a mis-
take. I don’t agree with his
approach,” Biden told Span-
ish-language broadcaster
Univision when asked
whether Netanyahu was pri-
oritizing his political sur-
vival over Israel’s interest.
Israel halted aid deliv-
eries to Gaza in the early
days of the war, but under
U.S. pressure has slowly in-
creased the number of
trucks allowed to enter the
territory.
Still, aid groups say sup-
plies are not reaching des-
perate people quickly
enough, blaming Israeli re-
strictions and noting that
thousands of trucks are
waiting to enter Gaza. Coun-
tries have attempted less ef-
ficient ways to deliver aid, in-
cluding airdrops and by sea.
Israel says it has opened
up more entry points for
trucks to enter, especially for
northern Gaza. Israel also
accuses aid groups of being
too slow to deliver aid once
it’s inside Gaza.
Aid groups say logistical
issues and the precarious se-
curity situation — under-
scored by the strike on the
aid workers — complicate
deliveries.
Netanyahu has vowed
to achieve “total victory,”
pledging to destroy Hamas’
military and governing ca-
pabilities to prevent a repeat
of the Oct. 7 attack and to re-
turn hostages captured by
Hamas and others that day.
He says that victory must in-
clude an offensive in Rafah.
Israel launched the war
in response to Hamas’ cross-
border assault in which mili-
tants killed about 1,200 peo-
ple, mostly civilians, and
took roughly 240 people
hostage, according to Israeli
authorities.
More than 33,400 Pal-
estinians have been killed in
the relentless fighting, ac-
cording to Gaza’s Health
Ministry, which doesn’t dif-
ferentiate between civilians
and combatants in its count
but says most of the dead are
women and children. Israel
says it has killed about 12,000
militants, without providing
evidence.
The war has ignited a
humanitarian catastrophe.
Most of the territory’s popu-
lation has been displaced
and with vast swaths of
Gaza’s urban landscape lev-
eled in the fighting, many
areas are uninhabitable.
Goldenberg, Chehayeb and
Shurafa write for the
Associated Press and
reported from Tel Aviv,
Beirut and Deir al Balah,
respectively. AP writer Josef
Federman in Jerusalem
contributed to this report.

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Another global temperature record falls
Last month was warmer than any previous March documented, according to European climate officials
By Hayley Smith
Earth’s worrisome warm-
ing trajectory continued un-
abated last month, with
March marking the 10th
month in a row that the
planet has broken global
heat records, international
climate officials announced
this week.
With an average surface
temperature of 57.45 degrees
Fahrenheit, last month was
warmer globally than any
previous March on record,
according to the European
Union’s Copernicus Climate
Change Service. The month
was about 0.18 of a degree
warmer than the previous
hottest March, in 2016, the
service said.
“March 2024 continues
the sequence of climate re-
cords toppling for both air
temperature and ocean sur-
face temperatures, with the
10th consecutive record-
breaking month,” read a
statement from Samantha
Burgess, Copernicus’ depu-
ty director. “The global aver-
age temperature is the high-
est on record, with the past
12 months being 1.58 degrees
Celsius above pre-industrial
levels. Stopping further
warming requires rapid re-
ductions in greenhouse gas
emissions.”
Indeed, March was well
above the 1.5-degree Celsius
(2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in-
ternational target for lim-
iting the worst effects of cli-
mate change. The global av-
erage temperature mea-
sured about 3 degrees, or 1.68
degrees Celsius, warmer
than the designated 1850 to
1900 preindustrial reference
period.
What’s more, the global
average temperature for the
last 12 months — April 2023
through March 2024 — is the
highest on record, at 2.8 de-
grees, or 1.58 degrees Cel-
sius, above the preindustrial
average.
Brenda Ekwurzel, a sen-
ior climate scientist with the
Union of Concerned Scien-
tists, noted that the 1.5-de-
gree Celsius limit estab-
lished under the 2015 Paris
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climate agreement refers to
decades of sustained warm-
ing at that temperature, as
opposed to a single day,
month or year.
“It’s just the initial part of
a decadal average,” she said
of recent records. However,
“when you see so many
months in a row being just
above the indicator that the
Paris climate agreement is
hoping the world will stay
below — it’s troubling.”
On Tuesday, a group of
women in Switzerland won a
landmark victory from Eu-
rope’s highest human rights
court on charges that their
government was failing to
protect them from the dan-
gers of extreme heat and
worsening climate change.
The women, part of a group
called Senior Women for Cli-
mate Protection, have joined
other activists in arguing
that governments must do
more to ensure global warm-
ing is held to 1.5 degrees Cel-
sius.
The current stretch of
simmering global heat has
been largely driven by hu-
man-caused climate change
and the presence of El Niño,
a climate pattern in the trop-
ical Pacific associated with
hotter global temperatures,
experts say.
El Niño arrived in June
and ushered in a sweltering
summer and fall marked by
deadly heat, raging wildfires
and boiling ocean tempera-
tures. Last month, Brazil
was stifled by a dangerous
heat wave that saw its heat
index soar to 144 degrees.
“I’m surprised at the
magnitude of the heat —
that is remarkable — but I’m
not surprised it’s the 10th
consecutive month,” Ek-
wurzel said.
Human-caused climate
change driven by fossil fuel
emissions is beginning to be-
come more dominant than
natural variability signals
such as El Niño, she said,
noting that “hot times are
now much hotter because of
climate change, and ... cool
times are just not as cool be-
cause of climate change.”
But while the worsening
heat is in many ways predic-
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table given current trends,
some scientists have strug-
gled to explain why condi-
tions are so far above normal
as temperatures soar higher
than even some climate
models predicted.
“It’s humbling, and a bit
worrying, to admit that no
year has confounded climate
scientists’ predictive capa-
bilities more than 2023 has,”
wrote Gavin Schmidt, direc-
tor of NASA’s Goddard In-
stitute for Space Studies, in
a recent article in the journal
Nature.
Theories behind the ad-
ditional warming include
changes in aerosol emis-
sions, which have allowed
more sunlight to reach the
Earth, and a recent volcanic
eruption that may have
trapped some heat, Schmidt
told The Times last month.
That the recent spike in
* tice Minister Peter Hum-
temperatures arrived before
the peak of El Niño has “ne-
ver happened in the temper-
ature record that we have,”
he said.
Ekwurzel described this
confluence of variables as
“the double-edged sword of
uncertainty with climate
change” and said factors
such as warmer and drier air,
worsening wildfire smoke,
and temporary changes in
aerosols and volcanic erup-
tions can all have a net effect
on global temperatures, in-
cluding both heating and
cooling.
For that reason, it’s pos-
sible “we’re not feeling the
full brunt of what we’ve over-
loaded the atmosphere with
primarily by burning fossil
fuels,” she said.
She said a recent study
found that the majority of
global carbon dioxide and
Denmark seeks to dissolve
Bandidos motorcycle club
associated press
COPENHAGEN — Den-
mark’s government said
Wednesday that it wants a
court to formally dissolve
the Danish arm of the Ban-
didos motorcycle club, citing
the group’s violent behavior.
Under the Danish Con-
stitution, an organization
that promotes or incites vi-
olence can be dissolved by
court order, which means it
would be illegal for the group
to have clubhouses, hold
meetings or wear their insig-
nias.
“The freedom of associ-
ation was not created to pro-
tect vicious criminals,” Jus-
melgaard said at a news con-
ference Wednesday, adding
that the Bandidos had en-
gaged in especially “brutal
New Irish leader promises
‘new ideas, a new energy’
associated press
LONDON — Lawmaker
Simon Harris was elected
Ireland’s prime minister by
a vote in Parliament on
Tuesday, becoming at 37
the country’s youngest-ever
leader.
Harris takes over as head
of the three-party coalition
government from Leo
Varadkar, who announced
his surprise resignation last
month. Harris, who served
as higher education minister
in Varadkar’s government,
was the only candidate to re-
place him as head of the cen-
ter-right Fine Gael party.
Lawmakers in the Dail,
the lower house of Parlia-
ment, confirmed Harris as
taoiseach, or prime minister,
by an 88-69 vote.
He was formally ap-
pointed to the post by Presi-
dent Michael D. Higgins in a
ceremony at the president’s
official residence in Dublin.
Silvia Izquierdo Associated Press
fossil fuel emissions pro-
duced since the Paris agree-
ment — 80% — can be traced
back to just 57 oil, gas and ce-
ment companies.
And it’s not only the land
that is baking as a result.
The global sea surface
temperature in March was
69.93 degrees — the highest
monthly value on record,
marginally hotter than the
temperature measured in
February, according to Co-
pernicus.
Antarctic sea ice extent
was 20% below average —
the sixth-lowest extent for
March in the satellite data
record.
However, Arctic sea ice
reached its annual maxi-
mum in March with a
monthly value slightly below
average, marking the high-
est March extent since 2013,
the agency said.
behavior.”
The Danish chapter of
Bandidos MC was created in
1993. Three years later, a feud
between them and rivals
Hells Angels broke out in
Norway, Sweden, Finland
and Denmark, ending with 11
dead people and nearly 100
wounded.
In recent years, members
of the Bandidos in Denmark
have been jailed for murder,
attempted murder, assault
and drug-related crimes.
On Tuesday, two mem-
bers of the Bandidos were
sentenced to 13 years each
for a murder south of Copen-
hagen.
Three other people
linked to the gang received
sentences of up to two years
for gross violence in connec-
tion with the assault.
Hummelgaard said that
the government would seek
Peter Morrison Associated Press
SAM HARRIS has been
nicknamed the “TikTok
taoiseach” because of his
use of social media.
Harris was first elected to
Parliament at 24 and has
been nicknamed the “Tik-
Tok taoiseach” — pro-
nounced TEA-shock — be-
cause of his fondness for
communicating on social
media.
He faces challenges in-
cluding a strained health
service, soaring housing
costs and an exodus of Fine
L AT I M E S . C O M
The heat is also not
reaching all parts of the
planet equally.
In the United States,
March was the 17th warmest
in the 130-year data record,
according to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration. The aver-
age temperature in the con-
tiguous U.S. was 45.1 degrees
— 3.6 degrees above average.
“March temperatures
were above average across
much of the contiguous U.S.,
while below-average tem-
peratures were observed in
small pockets of the West
and Southwest,” the agency
said this week, noting that a
blizzard blasted parts of
California’s Sierra Nevada
with up to 10 feet of snow
at the beginning of the
month.
January through March
marked the fifth-hottest
start to the year in the U.S.,
NOAA said.
The agency’s latest sea-
sonal outlook indicates
above-normal temperatures
will continue for much of the
U.S. through April, May and
June — particularly in the
Pacific Northwest and the
Great Lakes region. North-
ern California is likely to see
warmer-than-usual temper-
atures, while the forecast is
inconclusive for Southern
California.
NOAA’s most recent El
Niño advisory also indicates
that the pattern is waning
and will probably return to
neutral conditions in the
weeks ahead. There is a 62%
chance that its cooler, drier
counterpart, La Niña, will
develop between June and
August.
That could be good news
for temperatures but bad
news for water supplies — at
least in Southern Califonia,
Ekwurzel said.
“It could be cooler, but ...
the jet stream will be bring-
ing a lot of weather and wa-
ter to northern parts of the
U.S., and the southern part
can get pretty dry,” she said.
“Which, with warmer tem-
peratures, can be a tough
combination for the semi-
arid southwest United
States.”
a dissolution order against
the Bandidos and that other
similar gangs could also face
dissolution. “I would like to
have them all banned if it is
legally possible,” he said.
Authorities have given no
estimate of the number of
members of the Bandidos.
Police say about 1,200 people
in Denmark are members of
criminal gangs, which in-
clude groups besides the
Bandidos.
The head of the Danish
police’s National Special
Crime Unit, Lasse Boye, told
broadcaster DR that the
Bandidos were the largest
and “most violent” gang in
Denmark, and that the
group has been “expanding
very significantly in recent
years.”
“That is why we have cho-
sen to come after the Bandi-
dos,” he told DR.
Gael lawmakers, more than
10 of whom have said they
will not run for reelection.
“I commit to doing every-
thing that I can to honor the
trust that you have placed in
me today,” Harris said. “As
taoiseach I want to bring
new ideas, a new energy and
a new empathy to public
life.”
Varadkar, now 45, was the
previous youngest-ever pre-
mier when first elected at 38,
as well as Ireland’s first out
gay prime minister. Born to
an Irish mother and Indian
father, he was also the first
biracial taoiseach.
After officially stepping
down a day earlier, Varadkar
told the Dail on Tuesday
that his time in politics had
been the “most fulfilling and
rewarding” of his life.
“But today is the begin-
ning of a new era for my
party, a new chapter in my
life and a new phase for this
coalition government,” he
said.
L AT I M E S . C O M
IN PHOENIX, women seek appointments at a clinic in 2022, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs.
Wade and many providers halted abortions. California clinics saw an influx of Arizonans, and expects another.
Arizona sets up a swing-state
showdown over abortion law
New ban may sway presidential and Senate races, ballot amendment
By Faith E. Pinho
and Seema Mehta
With virtually all abor-
tions in the state soon to be
outlawed, Arizona has
moved front and center in
the national fight over repro-
ductive rights that could
help sway the election be-
tween President Biden and
former President Trump.
The state’s Supreme
Court set off political shock
waves Tuesday when it rein-
stated a law from 1864 — dec-
ades before Arizona became
a state — banning abortions
except when the mother’s
life is at risk.
In response to the ruling,
Biden pointed out that the
law was first put into place
when Arizona was a territory
— and long before women
had the right to vote.
“This ruling is a result of
the extreme agenda of Re-
publican elected officials
who are committed to rip-
ping away women’s free-
dom,” the Democratic presi-
dent said in a statement.
“Vice President [Kamala]
Harris and I stand with the
vast majority of Americans
who support a woman’s
right to choose.”
Harris announced that
she would visit Tucson on
Friday as part of her “Fight
for Reproductive Freedoms”
tour. She released a video
statement hours after the
ruling, blaming Trump for
Arizona’s law.
“It’s a reality because of
Donald Trump, who brags
about being ‘proudly the
person responsible’ for over-
turning Roe v. Wade, and
made it possible for states to
enforce cruel bans,” Harris
said in a statement.
The decision came one
day after Trump released a
video on social media an-
nouncing his current stance
on abortion, saying he sup-
ports leaving the issue to
states. He also took credit
for appointing the conserva-
tive Supreme Court justices
who would go on to vote
to overturn Roe vs. Wade,
returning decision-making
power over the divisive issue
to the states in 2022.
Asked on Wednesday
whether Arizona had gone
too far, Trump told
reporters: “Yeah, they did.
That’ll be straightened
out. As you know, it’s all
about states’ rights. It’ll be
straightened out. I’m sure
that the governor and every-
body else are going bring it
back to within reason.”
Arizona had previously
banned abortions after 15
weeks.
Advocates with Arizona
for Abortion Access, a repro-
ductive rights group, say
they have enough signatures
to put a state constitutional
amendment that would pro-
tect abortion access on the
ballot. The group said Tues-
day that it had collected well
over the roughly 384,000 sig-
natures required to put the
measure before the state’s
voters in November.
The issue could prove
pivotal in the election in
Arizona, where Democrats
make up 29% of the elector-
ate and Republicans 35%. A
recent KFF poll found that
people who vote because
they deem abortion the
most important issue on the
ballot lean Democratic.
The state high court’s
ruling landed at 10 a.m., just
minutes before Chris Love, a
spokesperson for Arizona
for Abortion Access, began a
news conference in the state
Capitol’s rose garden. She
told supporters that passing
the ballot measure in No-
vember “is as critical today
as it was yesterday.”
“Today is a clear example
of what’s at stake,” she said
later in an interview. “We still
have a Legislature that is
controlled by antiabortion
folks, representatives. And
at any point in time, they can
do anything with the law.
And so enshrining abortion
in our constitution gives Ari-
zonans the certainty that
their rights are protected.”
The near-blanket ban
goes into effect in about two
weeks. Love emphasized
that people less than 15
weeks pregnant who are
seeking abortions can still
get them, for now.
The ban is expected to
send Arizonans seeking
abortions to Southern Cali-
fornia.
“The last time abortion
was unavailable in Arizona,
right after the Dobbs deci-
sion [overturning Roe], we
absolutely saw spikes in our
volume,” said Sue Dunlap,
chief executive and presi-
dent of Planned Parenthood
Los Angeles, one of the larg-
est abortion providers in the
nation. “I have every expec-
tation, when this goes into
effect, we will see dramati-
cally more patients.”
After the U.S. Supreme
Court struck down Roe in
2022, Dunlap said, abortions
provided by the organiza-
tion increased by 22%.
“I went to one health cen-
ter parking lot, and one car
Trump executive given 5 months for perjury
associated press
NEW YORK — Allen
Weisselberg, a retired execu-
tive in Donald Trump’s real
estate empire, was sen-
tenced Wednesday to five
months in jail for lying under
oath during his testimony in
the civil fraud lawsuit
brought against the former
president by New York’s at-
torney general.
Weisselberg, 76, was es-
corted out of the courtroom
in handcuffs after the sen-
tencing, which lasted less
than five minutes.
Asked whether he
wanted to address the court,
Weisselberg, wearing a black
windbreaker and a mask, re-
sponded, “No, your honor.”
It is Weisselberg’s second
time behind bars. The for-
mer Trump Organization
chief financial officer served
100 days last year for dodg-
ing taxes on $1.7 million in
company perks, including a
rent-free Manhattan apart-
ment and luxury cars.
Now, he’s again trading
life as a Florida retiree for a
THE NATION
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
after another was from Ari- “I’m sorry to the women
zona,” she said. of Arizona,” Rep. Ruben
Democrats seized on the Gallego (D-Ariz.) said in a
ruling to push their abortion video on social media. “The
rights message — and to fact that women in Arizona
raise funds. now have less rights than
“Help us continue to fight they ever had, have no con-
for abortion access across trol over their bodies — it’s
the nation by electing fierce- just inhumane. But we’re
ly pro-choice women,” Col- not done. The state
leen Davis, endorsements Supreme Court has had
manager of Her Bold Move, their say. We will have our
wrote in an email appeal for say.”
the group, which promotes His most prominent Re-
female candidates who sup- publican opponent, Kari
port abortion rights. Lake, a former newscaster
Alice Stewart, a GOP and loyal Trump supporter
strategist who worked on who has supported abortion
the presidential campaigns restrictions, said she also
of antiabortion candidates opposed the ruling. She
such as former Rep. Michele called for the governor and
Bachmann (R-Minn.) and state Legislature to “come
former Sen. Rick Santorum up with an immediate com-
(R-Pa.), said the news would mon-sense solution.”
undoubtedly “motivate the Lake said she agreed
pro-abortion crowd” — giv- with Trump that abortion
ing Democrats a needed “is a very personal issue that
boost in the swing state. should be determined by
“Those in the pro-life each individual state and
community that fought to her people.”
overturn Roe vs. Wade, tak- At a PBS debate during
ing this issue out of the her run for governor in 2022,
hands of unelected justices Lake said she believes that
and putting it in the hands of “life begins at conception.”
elected legislators, need to She also said, “I don’t think
realize that could mean the abortion pills should be le-
pro-choice community is go- gal.”
ing to win,” Stewart said. Love, with Arizona for
She praised former presi- Abortion Access, said she
dential candidate Nikki didn’t trust Lake’s state-
Haley’s position on abortion ment Tuesday.
during the GOP primary as a “Some of the antiabor-
smart tactic — talking about tion legislators that have
“reasonable abortion limits, been clear about their posi-
not abortion bans.” tion for years and years are
“If the goal for Republi- now trying to moderate that
cans is to broaden the elec- position. And I’m telling
torate past Republican pri- folks, don’t believe the
mary voters and appeal to hype,” Love said.
independent voters and Arizona’s U.S. senators —
suburban women, there has outgoing independent Kyrs-
to be a more nuanced posi- ten Sinema and Democrat
tion on abortion,” Stewart Mark Kelly — lambasted the
said. decision as endangering
Both Democratic and women’s health and pres-
Republican candidates in suring doctors.
the tight race for Arizona’s “This is a really sad day
U.S. Senate seat condemned for the state of Arizona,”
the ruling. Kelly said.
Curtis Means Pool Photo
ALLEN WEISSELBERG is taken into custody
Wednesday after sentencing for lying under oath.
stay at New York’s notorious ment by the Trump Organi-
Rikers Island jail complex, zation.
though he’s also getting Weisselberg’s plea agree-
something in return. ment also does not require
When Weisselberg him to testify at Trump’s
pleaded guilty last month hush money criminal trial,
to two counts of perjury, the which is scheduled to start
office of Manhattan Dist. with jury selection Monday.
Atty. Alvin Bragg made a “Allen Weisselberg ac-
legally binding promise to cepted responsibility for his
not prosecute him for any conduct and now looks for-
other crimes he might have ward to the end of this life-al-
committed in connection tering experience and to re-
with his longtime employ- turning to his family and his
T H U R S DAY , A P R I L 11, 2 0 2 4
EPA sets limits
on PFAS in
drinking water
New rules require
utilities to test for six
toxic chemicals and
work to reduce them.
By Melody Petersen
The Environmental Pro-
tection Agency early
Wednesday issued federal
limits on dangerous “forever
chemicals” in drinking wa-
ter, which it believes will save
thousands of lives and pre-
vent serious illnesses includ-
ing cancer.
The new rules require
that water systems monitor
for six toxic chemicals
known as PFAS. The man-
made chemicals, officially
called per- and polyfluo-
roalkyl substances, are no-
toriously hard to destroy.
They build up in the body
and don’t break down in the
environment.
If the tests find the
chemicals at levels above the
new federal standard, the
water systems must notify
the public and work to re-
duce them.
“There’s no doubt that
these chemicals have been
important for certain indus-
tries and consumer uses,”
EPA Administrator Michael
S. Regan said in a call with
journalists. “But there’s also
no doubt that many of these
chemicals can be harmful to
our health and our environ-
ment.”
The chemicals have been
used since the 1940s to repel
oil and water and resist heat.
They’ve been included in
thousands of consumer and
industrial products includ-
ing nonstick cookware, stain
resistant clothing and fire-
fighting foam.
Manufacturers began
phasing out production of
two PFAS chemicals, known
as PFOA and PFOS, dec-
ades ago but they are still
prevalent in the environ-
ment.
The EPA said “the scien-
ce is clear” that exposure to
the chemicals over a long pe-
riod can cause cancer and
other illnesses.
Scientists believe that
children may be more sensi-
tive to the chemicals’ harm-
ful effects because they are
still developing.
The federal agency esti-
mates that as many as 100
Dania Maxwell Los Angeles Times
A WATER sample is
tested for per- and
polyfluoroalkyl substan-
ces at the Orange County
Water District in 2019.
retirement,” his attorney,
Seth Rosenberg, said in a
statement after the court
hearing.
The two cases high-
lighted Weisselberg’s un-
flinching loyalty to Trump,
the presumptive Republi-
can presidential nominee.
Trump’s family em-
ployed Weisselberg for
nearly 50 years, then gave
him a $2-million severance
deal when the tax charges
prompted him to retire. The
company continues to pay
his legal bills.
Weisselberg testified
twice in trials that went
badly for Trump, but each
time he took pains to sug-
gest that his boss hadn’t
committed any serious
wrongdoing.
In agreeing to a five-
month sentence, prose-
cutors cited Weisselberg’s
age and willingness to admit
wrongdoing. In New York,
perjury is a felony punish-
able by up to seven years in
prison.
Weisselberg’s sentence
mirrors his previous case, in
which he was ordered to
A5
million Americans are using
and drinking tap water con-
taminated with the chemi-
cals.
In California, water sys-
tems have been required
since 2019 to test for the
chemicals in wells near land-
fills, airports, military bases
and other sites known to be
contaminated.
Dan Newton, assistant
deputy director at the State
Water Resources Control
Board, said that 2,000 wells
near those sites have been
tested.
“We found so far that
about 60% of those wells
have detections of PFAS,”
Newton said.
He said it was difficult to
know what testing would
find in wells that were not
near sites known to be con-
taminated.
Tap water in urban areas
of Southern and Central
California appears more
likely to be contaminated
than drinking water in many
other regions of the nation,
according to a study last
year by the U.S. Geological
Survey.
The new EPA rules set a
maximum contaminant lev-
el for PFOA and PFOS of 4
parts per trillion. Four other
chemicals are also subject to
limits.
Water utilities have up to
five years to comply with the
new standards.
There are more than
14,000 PFAS chemicals.
David Andrews, senior
scientist at the Environmen-
tal Working Group, said that
although water systems
must remove just six of
those chemicals under the
new rules, the treatments
will lower the levels of other
PFAS too.
“The filtration goes be-
yond just these chemicals
and should be relatively ef-
fective for other PFAS
chemicals as well as other
contaminants,” he said.
The EPA proposed the
new rules early last year.
Since then, the agency has
received tens of thousands
of comments, which it said it
had considered before issu-
ing its final decision.
For years, the chemical
industry and the U.S. De-
partment of Defense have
fought proposals for a fed-
eral limit on PFAS in water.
The American Chemistry
Council, an industry trade
group, called the agency’s
proposal “controversial and
unscientific.”
Water systems also worry
about the costs of testing
and treating the water.
“What is clear is that
meeting these new federal
regulations will cost billions
of dollars,” said Robert F.
Powelson, president of the
National Assn. of Water Cos.
“It’s a cost that will dispro-
portionately fall on water
and wastewater customers
in small communities and
low-income families.
“The next step must now
be to develop a system where
the polluters are held re-
sponsible for the cleanup,
not our consumers.”
serve five months in jail but
was eligible for release after
a little more than three
months with good behavior.
Before that, he had no crimi-
nal record.
Trump’s lawyers took is-
sue with Weisselberg’s per-
jury prosecution, accusing
the Manhattan district at-
torney’s office of deploying
“unethical, strong-armed
tactics against an innocent
man in his late 70s” while
turning “a blind eye” to per-
jury allegations against
Michael Cohen, the former
Trump lawyer who is now a
key prosecution witness in
the hush money case.
Weisselberg pleaded
guilty March 4. He admitted
lying under oath on three oc-
casions while testifying in
New York Atty. Gen. Letitia
James’ lawsuit against
Trump: in depositions in
July 2020 and May 2023 and
on the witness stand at the
trial in October last year. To
avoid violating his tax case
probation, however, he
agreed to plead guilty only to
charges related to his 2020
deposition testimony.
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Museum changes D.A.’s mind about death row

[Chabria, from A1]
mass incarceration and
capital punishment, he cites
as a main reason.
“[W]e are not confident
that these sentences were
attained without racial
bias,” his office wrote in a
motion to courts expected
to be filed in coming days in
multiple cases. “We cannot
defend these sentences, and
we believe that implicit bias
and structural racism
played some role in the
death sentence.”
For activists in the death
penalty world, that’s an old
argument. But coming from
a mainstream prosecutor,
it’s a mic drop.
Rosen’s unprecedented
move (he is the only prose-
cutor in California to have
made such a blanket re-
quest, and the only one I
could find nationwide) has
gone largely unnoticed. But
it represents a new battle-
ground in the fight over the
death penalty.
While many prosecutors
around the state and the
nation have stopped the use
of the death penalty moving
forward, Rosen is the first to
look back and answer the
question — with collective
action — If it isn’t fair now,
how could it have been fair
then?
Rosen’s move to undo
what he sees as the ongoing
injustice of past convictions
puts pressure on other
prosecutors to follow suit,
especially those such as
George Gascón who have
made their reputation as
reformers but who have
failed to go as far. Gascón’s
office said he has been ex-
amining death penalty
sentencing on a case-by-
case basis and 29 people
have been re-sentenced out
of more than 120 on death
row convicted in L.A. But he
is unlikely to ask for a group
re-sentencing in an election
year, with a solid conserva-
tive challenger.
“It doesn’t mean that I
think things are as bad
today as they were 50 years
ago. I completely reject that
idea,” Rosen told me. “But I
also trusted that as a soci-
ety, we could ensure the
fundamental fairness of the
legal process for all people.
With every exoneration,
with every story of racial
injustice, it becomes clear to
me that this is not the world
we live in.”
Elisabeth Semel, direc-
tor of the Death Penalty
Clinic at UC Berkeley, calls
Rosen’s move “highly sig-
nificant” because it exam-
ines every case in his juris-
diction, and has the poten-
tial to convince others that
it isn’t just single cases that
require examination, but
the death sentence as a
whole — a position the
Legislature’s Committee on
Revision of the Penal Code
recommended in 2021.
Currently, about 35% of
those on death row are
Black, despite Black people
making up only about 7% of
California’s population. An
additional 26% of death row
inmates are Hispanic or
Mexican. Overall, nearly
70% of death row inmates
are people of color.
Semel points out that it’s
BRYAN STEVENSON, death penalty lawyer and founder of the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Ala., calls
Dist. Atty. Jeff Rosen’s decision “remarkable” because it turns sidelined history into mainstream policy.
not just the race of the al-
leged perpetrator that can
lead to the death penalty,
but also the race of the
victim and the attitudes of
those in charge of the prose-
cution. Suspects accused of
killing a white person, for
example, are more likely to
face the death penalty than
those accused of killing a
person of color.
“There is nothing, noth-
ing that these cases have
more in common than racial
discrimination, whether we
are talking about privileging
white victims, meaning
seeking the death penalty in
white crime, or disadvan-
taging Black clients,” she
said.
The inherent unfairness
of the death penalty,
whether because of race or
its finality, has been debated
for years, often with soul-
searching arguments that
go beyond politics. Illinois
Gov. George Ryan, a Repub-
lican, in 2003 issued a blan-
ket commutation for all 167
inmates facing the death
penalty in his state, citing
worry that “the demon of
error” was ever-present —
one of the first and boldest
actions by a prominent
politician against the death
penalty.
Former Oregon Gov.
Kate Brown, a Democrat,
did the same in 2022, re-
sentencing 17 death row
prisoners to life without
parole. Twenty-three states,
including Oregon, Colorado
and New Mexico, have abol-
ished the death penalty.
But California politi-
cians, and voters, have been
less certain. Over the years,
voters have decided to keep
the death penalty when
asked via ballot measures.
Rosen has asked for it four
times, and won capital
punishment in one case —
that of defendant Melvin
Forte, convicted of sexually
assaulting and murdering a
young German tourist.
Forte’s sentence is among
those Rosen is seeking to
change.
Newsom, despite his
moratorium, hasn’t gone as
far as Brown or Ryan. That
leaves the death penalty in
California largely in the
hands of locally elected
prosecutors such as Rosen
who have virtually no politi-
cal incentive to revisit past
capital convictions.
I am not one to easily
believe politicians, but when
I asked Rosen why he was
putting himself out front on
a controversial issue, he told
me it was because it was the
right thing to do. Then he
told me how he came to that
conclusion, and it feels
genuine because I experi-
enced something similar
myself.
Rosen’s views on the
death penalty had been
shifting since the murder of
George Floyd in 2020.
Shortly after, he put into
place a series of prosecutor-
ial reforms meant to ad-
dress racial bias, including
deciding not to seek the
death penalty in future
cases.
But it wasn’t until two
trips to Montgomery, Ala. —
once the capital of the Con-
federacy and now home to
the Legacy Museum, which
traces the history of slavery
through mass incarceration
of people of color — that the
past took on relevance for
him as a matter of contem-
porary justice.
How can a museum have
such an impact? I went
myself because I couldn’t
quite imagine. A modern
monument in what can only
be described as a dismal city
where the ghosts of millions
of trafficked humans seem
ever present, the museum
lays out with astonishing
clarity a history that is
painful, but necessary to
acknowledge.
Twelve million Black
people kidnapped from
their homes overseas and
sold at American auctions.
Nine million Black
Americans subjected to the
domestic terror of Jim
Crow-era violence that left
justice in the hands of racist
vigilantes. The museum
documents the lynching of a
3-year-old girl, along with
her 10-year-old sister — just
two of dozens of children
Christian Monterrosa For The Times
killed, often while law en- Rosen, with no doubts that
forcement watched. its origin is tainted.
That violence forced Rosen said the realiza-
many to move to the North tion that was most profound
and West to avoid murders, for him was how often sup-
rapes and beatings. But posedly illegal lynchings
even in those supposed safe took place with the support
havens, including Cali- of law enforcement — too
fornia, 10 million Black often victims were handed
Americans found that, just over by deputies or killed on
like in the South, they were the courthouse steps.
segregated into lesser hous- “If not considered lawful
ing and lesser schools, and exercises of state power,
ultimately had lesser oppor- they weren’t unlawful,”
tunity. Rosen pointed out.
Banks wouldn’t lend, “Nobody was prosecuted
police used crimes such as for them.”
jaywalking to arrest, schools It was not until well into
failed to teach. And beyond the 20th century that outcry
that secretive repression, over that semi-state-sanc-
they were still not immune tioned murder made it
to the violence of the slave untenable even in the
states — California may South. The answer to that
have lynched at least 350 outrage was to move the
people between 1850 and killing back inside the court-
1935. house, with the use of the
That segregation and death penalty.
bias led to 8 million Black Bryan Stevenson, the
Americans systemically founder of the Legacy Muse-
over-incarcerated through um and a death penalty
laws and policies that tar- lawyer, calls Rosen’s deci-
geted people of color, and sion “remarkable” because
communities of color, turn- it takes that true but side-
ing vigilante justice into lined history and turns it
legal imprisonment. into mainstream policy.
At the Legacy Museum’s “It says something about
sister site, the National our ability to confront his-
Memorial for Peace and tory honestly and to turn
Justice, the weight of that the page in a meaningful
oppression and pain takes way,” Stevenson told me.
on literal significance. Rect- “Some people may not
angular steel markers, their understand it, some people
shape like a coffin hanging may have issues with it. But
from a limb, serve as monu- the truth is that we can
ments to 4,400 Black Ameri- create a future that allows
cans lynched between 1877 us to begin to experience
and 1950. something that feels more
The markers begin at eye like freedom, more like
level, but walking down equality and more like jus-
from the hilltop site, they tice than we’ve ever experi-
begin to hang over visitors, enced in this country.”
casting long, cold shadows. A devout Jew, Rosen said
It is impossible to pass the museum and his own
beneath them and not feel experiences as a prosecutor
their historical weight. made him question if the
“I think that if more death penalty can truly be
people went there, they separated from that foun-
would think a little differ- dation of lynchings — and if
ently about our country, and killing as punishment can
hopefully act a little differ- ever be just or come from a
ently also,” Rosen told me. place of moral authority
“I went there supporting regardless of race.
the death penalty,” he said. “It’s not like I open the
“I left not so sure anymore.” Bible and the penal code
Though I was less cer- and figure out what to do,”
tain about the death penal- he said. “I think that in my
ty before visiting Mont- lifetime, we will look back
gomery, I came away, like and say it was not right to
execute people.”
Rosen’s office has
reached out to all the vic-
tims in the cases he is exam-
ining. Some are relieved to
have finality in the case, he
said, knowing the death
penalty is really just a never-
ending appeal. Some would
prefer to keep the death
sentence regardless of
whether it takes place or
not.
Some have simply moved
on after so many years and
are open to his argument
that there should be limits
to human justice. Rosen
tells them he wants his
power, and ours, to end at
deciding where people who
commit the worst crimes die
— in prison.
Not when.
He makes no excuses for
horrific crimes that led to
the death sentences in his
jurisdiction. A grandmother
stabbed to death. A wife
shot and rolled down a hill,
still alive. A gas station
attendant killed to prevent
his testimony about a rob-
bery.
But he points out that
many of the crimes that led
to the death penalty dec-
ades ago would not have
garnered the same puni-
shment today. Some of the
perpetrators were convicted
as teenagers, some were
accessories to the crime at a
time when laws made fewer
distinctions. Many have
been imprisoned for more
than 30 years. Some had
unfair trials.
One of those men is
Willie Branner, a Black man
who was convicted in 1982 by
an all-white jury of shooting
and killing jewelry store
owner Edward Dukor dur-
ing a robbery in Milpitas.
The prosecutor in that case
removed Black, Asian and
Jewish jurors, including
removing one female Black
juror in part for being “over-
weight and poorly
groomed.”
Recently, a federal court
ruled that Branner was en-
titled to a new trial based on
that less-than-impartial
jury.
Now 74, Branner has
been, as they say, a model
prisoner. I messaged with
him recently, and he told me
he is relieved that his family
no longer has to worry
about him someday being
executed. He dreams of
possible freedom, opening a
tailoring business and work-
ing to “help rebuild our
society for the rest of my life,
God willing.”
Branner does not know
how his sentence will work
out, only that it will not end
with death. He is not claim-
ing he is innocent, just that
he has changed in the dec-
ades since the shooting, just
as Rosen has changed since
he first began prosecuting.
“It’s not that I think that
the people on death row in
my county have not commit-
ted horrible, terrible crimes.
They have,” Rosen said.
There is no doubt, he
believes, that decency and
public safety demand peo-
ple be held accountable for
their harms.
Even when that means
holding ourselves account-
able for ours.

Arizona’s near-total ban on abortion challenges a Trump strategy

[Abortion, from A1]
from the Arizona court
decision, saying the justices
went too far.
Speaking to reporters in
Atlanta, the former presi-
dent said he thought the
matter would be “straight-
ened out” — though Trump
was characteristically vague
and did not clearly explain
how.
Perhaps more signifi-
cantly, Trump also said he
would not sign a national
abortion ban if elected in
November, reversing a
promise he made as a candi-
date in 2016, when his anti-
abortion stance was key to
his upset victory.
Arizona — one of a hand-
ful of states that will prob-
ably decide the presidential
election — is also one of
several where proponents
have qualified or hope to
qualify November ballot
measures enshrining abor-
tion rights into law.
The effort to reach Arizo-
na’s ballot received a major
boost as a result of Tues-
day’s decision, said Barrett
Marson, a Republican strat-
egist in Phoenix.
“There’s the economy.
There’s immigration and
there are other issues, of
course,” Marson said. “But
now abortion zooms to the
top.”
The ruling seemed to
FORMER President Trump told reporters he thinks
the Arizona ruling will be “straightened out.”
catch many in Arizona off
guard, and the fear of reper-
cussions was evident in the
response of several leading
Republicans, among them
former Gov. Doug Ducey. He
appointed the four justices
who upheld the 1864 law in a
4-2 decision.
“The ruling today is not
the outcome I would have
preferred, and I call on our
elected leaders to heed the
will of the people and ad-
dress this issue with a policy
that is workable and reflec-
tive of our electorate,” said
Ducey, who signed a 2022
law allowing abortions in
Arizona up to 15 weeks.
John Locher Associated Press
That legislation was
nullified by Tuesday’s deci-
sion, which gave precedent
to the 1864 law and a ban on
abortion “except those
necessary to save a woman’s
life.”
Abortion has long been a
nettlesome issue for Trump,
whose stated views have
evolved over the decades
from supporting to
staunchly opposing legal-
ized abortion.
In a video statement
Monday, he again took
credit for nominating the
three conservative justices
who allowed the Supreme
Court to overturn Roe and
roll back the country’s 50-
year-old constitutional right
to abortion.
But after months of
musing over whether to
support a national ban and
at what stage of pregnancy
— 15, 16 weeks? — Trump
landed on a perceived mid-
dle ground. States should
decide the issue, the former
president said, not lawmak-
ers in Washington.
That disappointed some
of the most ardent abortion
foes, among them Trump’s
estranged ex-vice president,
Mike Pence, who called it “a
slap in the face to ... millions
of pro-life Americans.”
That said, leaders of
several major antiabortion
groups were quick to re-
iterate their support for
Trump in November, rea-
soning that the presump-
tive GOP presidential nomi-
nee would still be a better
choice than Biden.
“We want to protect as
many babies as possible,”
Penny Nance, the chief
executive of Concerned
Women for America, told
Politico, “and supporting
President Trump does
that.”
Polls have consistently
shown that most Americans
believe abortion should be
legal to at least some degree
— especially during the first
trimester of pregnancy —
and that a broad, bipartisan
majority favor abortion
rights in cases of rape, in-
cest and when the mother’s
health is seriously endan-
gered.
Most voters, however,
don’t cast their ballot based
solely on the abortion issue,
and even those who do tend
to support candidates com-
ing closest to their position,
even if they disagree on
some of the particulars.
Where the issue has
mattered in recent elections
is driving new voters to the
polls, or motivating those
who otherwise might not
show up to cast a ballot. All
evidence suggests that
turnout has worked to the
benefit of Democrats.
Biden and his party
bucked history and enjoyed
a relatively successful 2022
midterm election in good
part because turnout in
election battlegrounds
surged among women and
younger voters — both
groups that tend to support
legal abortion.
When the issue has been
put directly to voters in the
form of a ballot measure,
significant majorities have
upheld abortion rights in
more than a half-dozen
states, including such Re-
publican bastions as Mon-
tana, Kentucky and Ohio.
“We know when voters
have a chance ... they vote
against extreme bans,”
Matthews said.
That’s why Tuesday’s
state Supreme Court deci-
sion could prove vital come
the fall — if those voters also
support Biden.
Democrats from Wash-
ington to Arizona were
eager to capitalize on the
ruling. Vice President Ka-
mala Harris announced a
Friday trip to Tucson, where
she plans to discuss repro-
ductive rights, and issued a
statement condemning
Trump.
Stacy Pearson, a Demo-
cratic strategist supporting
the Arizona ballot measure,
said the decision under-
scored the urgency of
putting the abortion issue
before voters in November.
She expressed confi-
dence proponents would
have the nearly 400,000
signatures needed to qualify
the proposed constitutional
amendment, but said they
were aiming to gather as
many as possible by a July 3
deadline, to withstand any
legal challenges.
Pearson alluded to the
high court’s ruling and its
throwback to Arizona’s
territorial days. “I’m urging
women to go sign the peti-
tion,” she quipped, “while
they’re still [allowed] to
drive.”
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Agency to raise water rates and property taxes

[Water, from A1]
said. “The difficult reality is,
our costs have risen while
revenues have dropped, so
we need to take the fiscally
responsible step of adjusting
our rates.”
Hagekhalil said water
sales and revenues declined
in part because of the ex-
treme drought from 2020 to
2022. And at the same time,
the district’s expenses have
increased with inflation.
The MWD is California’s
largest urban water district,
supplying drinking water to
cities and other suppliers
that serve 19 million people
in six counties from San Di-
ego to Ventura.
The budget adopted by
the board includes $2.4 bil-
lion for operations, capital
investments and debt serv-
ice in the next two fiscal
years. It also includes nearly
$100 million for conservation
programs.
Officials said they also
made spending cuts to avert
larger rate increases.
As part of the budget dis-
cussion, the board con-
sidered other options that
would have involved split-
ting the increases differently Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
between rates and property THE MWD opened the High Desert Water Bank, where water soaks into an underground storage basin, in Lancaster in October.
taxes. The board is expected
to increase the property tax River. But half the water two years.” water bill collections onto approach to securing water Charming Evelyn, chair
rate, as outlined in the that can be consumed in this The district has collected property taxes will effec- for Southern California resi- of the water committee for
budget, in August. region in a given year has to property taxes for decades tively raise the cost of hous- dents,” Reznik said. the Sierra Club’s local chap-
Ortega said this budget travel that distance,” Ortega to pay its costs for importing ing for every citizen in the re- He pointed out that cur- ter, said her group remained
approach strikes the right said. “You have these costs water from Northern Cali- gion, especially those in the rently the district brings in neutral about the options
balance and ensures invest- that remain and escalate. fornia through the State Wa- disadvantaged communi- only about 20% of its reve- that were considered. But
ments that are necessary as And then you have the com- ter Project. Since the last ties.” nues from fixed sources such she said water affordability
water management be- plications of climate change time the district increased Others spoke against the as property taxes. Relying is a concern, as well as how
comes more challenging. that require us to adapt and its property tax rate in 1990, rate increases. Moorpark that heavily on water sales is the higher costs could affect
“It’s the cost of climate build the new class of infra- the rate has decreased over Mayor Chris Enegren told problematic, Reznik said, renters and those on fixed
change,” Ortega said. “The structure that’s required for the years. the board that the rate in- because water use can fluc- incomes.
reason why we have to invest that adaptation.” According to the MWD, creases are “very problemat- tuate greatly year to year. “Budgets should never be
in our water systems is be- The budget outlines the increase in the property ic for our citizens” and re- The increase in property balanced on the backs of the
cause we have to use our wa- funding for programs over tax will amount to an aver- flect “poor management.” taxes will mean a relatively working class,” Evelyn said,
ter systems differently with the next two years, and the age of $2 to $3 a month for a But the board, which has low impact for Southern Cal- adding that she thinks MWD
climate change.” district’s officials also plan typical household. Officials held four public workshops ifornia families while im- leaders “need to be more
He said that includes to consider large invest- said increasing the property on budget options this year, proving the stability of the prudent in the future.”
adding storage capacity, ments in long-term infra- tax revenues allowed them voted unanimously to adopt district’s revenues, Reznik Board member Juan
such as an underground fa- structure projects as they to adopt a smaller rate in- the budget and the rate in- said. Garza, who represents the
cility that opened last year develop what they call crease than had been ini- creases. Six board members “Stabilizing revenues will Central Basin Municipal
near Lancaster, as well as MWD’s Climate Adaptation tially proposed. abstained. enhance MWD’s ability to in- Water District, said before
building interconnections Master Plan for Water. The approach stirred Bruce Reznik, executive vest in conservation and en- voting in favor of the budget
that allow water to be moved “Metropolitan is in a controversy. The board director of the advocacy vironmentally sound oppor- that the MWD faces difficult
where it’s needed during transformational period, members representing Los group LA Waterkeeper, sup- tunities for storing and gen- decisions about rethinking
droughts. facing critical decisions on Angeles — including Carl E. ported the approach. erating local water, like its approach.
“For most residents, it’s which long-term projects to Douglas, Matt Petersen, “Relying a bit more on through stormwater cap- “It’s not a perfect budget,
probably not on the top of invest in to help our region Nancy Sutley, Tracy Quinn property tax revenue and a ture, wastewater recycling but by no means is our future
their mind that the water adapt to climate change,” and Miguel Luna — objected bit less on how much water and groundwater cleanup,” easy,” Garza said. “I think
they drink comes from 400 Ortega said. “As we embark to the increase in the proper- customers pay per gallon of he said. “These options are our business model will have
miles away in Northern Cali- on these major changes, this ty tax rate and abstained water is both a more reliable more sustainable and more to change, and the sooner
fornia, or from over 200 miles budget provides us the fiscal from the vote. They said in a way to generate funds for equitable than continuing to that we start adopting that
away from the Colorado stability we need for the next recent letter that “shifting MWD and a more equitable rely on water imports.” mind-set, the better.”

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Paramount-Skydance talks roil shareholders
Investors fear the deal
would unfairly benefit
Shari Redstone.
Stocks fall and the
board is shuffled.
By Samantha Masunaga
and Meg James
Shares of Paramount
Global tumbled Wednesday
as several of the company’s
directors are stepping down
as merger talks continue be-
tween the historic studio
and tech scion David Ellison.
It’s the latest sign of un-
ease at the media company
amid negotiations between
Ellison and Paramount’s
controlling shareholder,
Shari Redstone, which
would lead to the combina-
tion of Ellison’s Santa Moni-
ca-based film and TV pro-
duction company Skydance
with the storied entertain-
ment giant.
Some shareholders have
expressed concerns too.
They worry that the struc-
ture of the deal would confer
significant benefits to Red-
stone, who is Paramount’s
nonexecutive chairwoman,
at the expense of regular in-
vestors.
Paramount shares fell 47
cents, or 4.3%, to $10.50 on
Wednesday. The stock had
fallen as much as 7% in mid-
day trading.
Earlier in the day, the
Wall Street Journal first re-
ported that Dawn Ostroff,
Nicole Seligman and Rob
Klieger would be stepping
down from their roles on the
board in the coming weeks.
The three are among the
directors closest to Red-
stone; Ostroff and Seligman
have been longtime friends
with Redstone, and Klieger
THE SHAKEUP involving allies of Shari Redstone comes amid concerns about a
potential conflict of interest as directors have a fiduciary duty to all shareholders.
was late patriarch Sumner
Redstone’s attorney, picked
for the board by Shari Red-
stone. Frederick O. Terrell is
also exiting the board, the
outlet later reported.
Rising concerns among
investors put the spotlight
on the independent commit-
tee, which included Red-
stone’s allies. There were
concerns about a potential
conflict of interest as direc-
tors have a fiduciary duty to
all shareholders, according
to a person who had been
briefed on the tensions but
was not authorized to com-
ment.
The stock has fallen
15% in the last five days,
wiping out gains made last
week amid escalating deal
BUSINESS
chatter.
Paramount declined to
comment.
The stock slump comes
as investors express dismay
at reports of the potential
deal between Skydance and
National Amusements —
the Redstone family’s hold-
ing company and controlling
shareholder of Paramount.
The two sides are in a period
of exclusive negotiations, ac-
cording to people familiar
with the matter who are not
permitted to comment.
Such a deal would give
Ellison control over Pa-
ramount, marking the start
of an uncertain new chapter
for a company that has gone
through major upheaval in
recent years as the enter-
Al Seib Los Angeles Times
tainment industry transi-
tions from traditional televi-
sion to streaming.
In a Monday letter to Pa-
ramount’s board, investor
Matrix Asset Advisors wrote
that the in-the-works deal
between NAI and Skydance
would be “detrimental” to
Paramount’s value.
The investment firm
urged the board not to ac-
cept a “sub-optimal” offer
from Skydance, and instead
more seriously consider a
competing $26-billion bid
from private equity giant
Apollo Management Group.
Ellison first expressed in-
terest in a deal for Pa-
ramount in December. Shari
Redstone had long viewed
him as a preferred buyer be-
cause of Ellison’s long asso-
ciation with the film studio,
his respect for what’s been
built and the fact that
Ellison is from a younger
generation, according to a
person close to the sales
process but not authorized
to comment publicly.
Ellison’s father, Oracle Corp.
co-founder Larry Ellison, is
also expected to contribute
funding to the deal.
Skydance has an existing
relationship with Pa-
ramount, co-producing each
film in the “Mission: Impos-
sible” franchise since 2011’s
“Mission: Impossible —
Ghost Protocol,” along with
the 2022 hit “Top Gun: Mav-
erick.”
The two studios’ prior
collaborations, as well as the
allure of combining their in-
tellectual properties and the
cachet of owning the long-
est-operating Hollywood
studio, probably was attrac-
tive to Ellison, analysts said.
Paramount’s rich history
of films includes cinematic
hits such as “The Godfa-
ther” and “Chinatown,” as
well as blockbuster fran-
chises such as “Transform-
ers,” in addition to ground-
breaking cable channels in-
cluding BET, MTV and Nick-
elodeon.
But Paramount today
faces significant challenges,
including the decline of line-
ar TV, which has shrunk
valuable ad revenue, the
company’s struggles with its
streaming service Pa-
ramount+ and a larger, in-
dustrywide question about
when — if ever — box office
revenue will return to pre-
pandemic levels.
“Paramount still is a his-
toric studio with a legendary
venue; I can’t imagine that
would change,” said
Stephen Galloway, dean of
Chapman University’s
Dodge College of Film and
Media Arts.
But he noted how many
of Paramount’s historical ri-
vals have been bought up by
other studios — MGM by
Amazon, Fox by Disney and
Warner Bros. combining
with Discovery.
“Recent history doesn’t
bode well for the future of
these brands that basically
all came about in the ’20s ...
and lasted 100 years. A hun-
dred years is a long time.
Nothing lasts forever,” Gal-
loway said.
Ellison is not the only in-
terested buyer. Apollo’s bid
for the company is seen as
more attractive to some ana-
lysts and shareholders. The
Ellison bid heavily favors
Redstone and her control-
ling class of shares and
would dilute the value of
shares for the vast majority
of stockholders, they say.
“The notion of National
Amusements getting a pre-
mium for their voting stock
is totally warranted,” said
Mario Gabelli, chief execu-
tive of GAMCO Investors
Inc., whose clients own 5 mil-
lion shares in Paramount.
“The question is how much.
My clients want to be treated
the same as the voting stock.
All voting stock should be
treated equally.”
Redstone is said to have
recused herself from the
deal-vetting process.
Warner Bros. Discovery
also previously expressed
some interest in a merger,
though it has struggled
under the load of its debt
from previous deals and is in
similar straits as Pa-
ramount. Warner Bros. Dis-
covery’s interest, though,
was short-lived.
Media mogul Byron Allen
also made a bid for the com-
pany, though his financing
seemed more uncertain.

RICHARD LEIBNER

Pioneering talent agent transformed TV news business

ment in 2022. how Leibner’s agency dis- became household names.
By Stephen Battaglio Leibner had the ability to rupted their business mod- Soon, Leibner was repre-
recognize changes in the TV el. Ed Joyce, a CBS News senting TV news talent.
ichard Leibner, news landscape and then president in the early 1980s, “The major agencies

R the accountant-
turned-agent
who turbo-
charged the ca-
reers of numerous TV jour-
nalists, died Tuesday after a
long illness. He was 85.
Jay Sures, vice chairman
of talent agency UTA (which
acquired Leibner’s firm N.S.
Bienstock in 2014), said in an
internal memo that Leibner
died at his home in Manhat-
tan surrounded by family
members.
“Richard will be remem-
bered as the agent who
transformed the news busi-
ness,” Sures said in the
memo. “To say that Richard
was iconic and larger than
life is truly an understate-
ment.”
Over a nearly six-decade
career, Leibner was known
as a fierce negotiator for a
who’s who of network TV
news stars including Diane
Sawyer, Mike Wallace, No-
rah O’Donnell, Ed Bradley,
Bill Whitaker and Charlie
Rose. Former clients, many
of whom he represented for
decades, continued to con-
sult with him after his retire-
capitalize on them.
When legendary sports
TV executive Roone Arledge
took over ABC News in the
late 1970s, he told Leibner to
bring him clients from CBS
and NBC who believed they
were underpaid. Leibner
swung into action and lifted
the earning power through-
out the entire TV news in-
dustry as a result.
As part of Arledge’s re-
cruitment drive, he aggres-
sively pursued CBS News
star Dan Rather. Rather
stayed at CBS, but Leibner
used the offer as leverage to
get him named as successor
to “CBS Evening News” an-
chor Walter Cronkite — even
though the job had been
promised to the network’s
Washington correspondent
Roger Mudd. Rather’s new
assignment came with a
record-setting contract that
paid $2.2 million a year.
When Ted Turner
launched CNN in 1980, Leib-
ner brought the mogul es-
tablished names such as
Daniel Schorr, who gave the
nascent cable news opera-
tion credibility.
FIERCE NEGOTIATOR
Leibner, shown with his wife, Carole Cooper,
represented a who’s who of network TV news stars.
“Richard broadened the
definition of talent in the
television news business and
increased its value enor-
mously,” Andrew Heyward,
a former CBS News presi-
dent, said in a 2022 interview.
“Not just for the big-name
stars, but for other people
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that may not be in the top
echelon. You had this phe-
nomenon of associate pro-
ducers walking around say-
ing, ‘I have another year in
my contract’ with no irony.
This was a new thing.”
Some network news exe-
cutives were not happy with
referred to the Bienstock
agency as “flesh peddlers.”
Leibner maintained his goal
was to get clients “a fairer
share of what the business is
grossing.”
Leibner was born in
Brooklyn and graduated
from the University of Roch-
ester. He joined his father’s
New York City accounting
firm in 1964. Most of their cli-
ents were the music publish-
ers and small record compa-
nies that operated out of the
legendary Brill Building in
Times Square.
Leibner and his father
eventually joined forces with
Nate Bienstock, a life insur-
ance salesman whose clients
included CBS News com-
mentator Eric Sevareid and
author John Steinbeck. As
more journalists started do-
ing television work in the
1960s, Bienstock started
handling contracts for them
as a side business.
The younger Leibner ob-
served Bienstock and the
growth of TV news. Corre-
spondents and anchors cov-
ering the Vietnam War and
the civil rights movement
were all focused on movies
and television and making
the big money in package
fees,” Leibner told The
Times in 2022. “We were spe-
cialists, and that’s how we
got the foothold and got
ahead of everybody.”
By the end of the 1970s,
Leibner’s client roster in-
cluded Rather, Morley Safer,
Wallace and Andy Rooney,
all part of the cast of “60 Min-
utes” as it grew into the most
popular news program.
Leibner represented
Sawyer when she became
the first female correspond-
ent on “60 Minutes,” and
Bradley, the program’s first
Black journalist. He later en-
gineered Sawyer’s move to
ABC News, where she even-
tually became anchor of
“ABC World News Tonight.”
Leibner’s business grew
with the help of his wife, Car-
ole Cooper, a former TV
commercial producer he
met on a blind date in 1962.
She joined Bienstock in 1976,
helping develop the careers
of Bill O’Reilly, Megyn Kelly
and CNN’s Anderson
Cooper, whom she still rep-
resents at UTA, where she
continues to work.
Leibner said Cooper
complemented him, often

‘Barbie’ star’s next venture: Hasbro’s ‘Monopoly’ movie
Margot Robbie’s
production company,
LuckyChap, has
joined the project,
Lionsgate announces.
By Christi Carras
“Barbie” star Margot
Robbie’s production com-
pany, LuckyChap Enter-
tainment, has boarded Li-
onsgate and Hasbro’s “Mo-
nopoly” movie based on the
classic game of the same
name.
Lionsgate revealed Rob-
bie’s involvement in the al-
ready-announced project
Wednesday during a attached to produce the pic-
presentation of the studio’s
upcoming film slate at Cine-
maCon in Las Vegas.
Tom Ackerley and Josey
McNamara are also
and care, and join ‘Monopo-
ly’ with a clear point of view
... on what we all believe can
be their next blockbuster.”
Robbie’s LuckyChap is
best known for producing
Warner Bros.’ “Barbie,”
based on the doll from Has-
bro’s rival Mattel, which
grossed a whopping $1.4 bil-
lion worldwide last year and
collected eight Oscar nomi-
nations.
The company has also
backed Amazon MGM Stu-
dios’ “Saltburn” and the re-
cent Sundance breakout
“My Old Ass.”
Last month, multiple
Michael Blackshire Los Angeles Times outlets reported that Lucky-
ACTOR Margot Robbie attends the Oscar nominees Chap is helming a film
luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in February. adaptation of the hit video
game “The Sims.”
Adam Fogelson, chair of Li- “Monopoly is a top prop-
ture for LuckyChap. onsgate Motion Picture erty — pun fully intended,”
“I could not imagine a Group, said in a statement. LuckyChap said in a state-
better production team for “They are exceptional ment. “Like all of the best IP,
this beloved and iconic producers who choose their this game has resonated
brand than LuckyChap,” projects with great thought worldwide for generations,
and we are so excited to
bring this game to life along-
side the wonderful teams in-
volved at Lionsgate and
Hasbro.”
Lionsgate also unveiled
plans on Wednesday to dis-
tribute a new “Blair Witch
Project” film from Blum-
house. The studio and Jason
Blum’s horror movie factory
will release that title as part
of a multi-picture deal imag-
ining horror features from
Lionsgate’s library.
“ ‘The Blair Witch Proj-
ect’ ... brought the idea of
found footage horror to
mainstream audiences and
became a true cultural phe-
nomenon,” Blum said in a
statement.
“I don’t think there would
have been a ‘Paranormal Ac-
tivity’ had there not first
been a ‘Blair Witch,’ so this
feels like a truly special op-
portunity and I’m excited to
see where it leads.”
softening his brash person-
ality.
“She knows my ex-
cesses,” Leibner said. “She
knows when to stop me from
telling dirty jokes. She also
had more confidence in my
ability to take risks and do
things than I even thought. I
guess our marriage has
lasted as long as it has, and
has been as good as it is, be-
cause we’re not afraid to be
critical and honest with each
other.”
In recent years, Leibner
devoted much of his time to
a family foundation, which
contributes to organizations
that provide scholarships
for students wanting to get
into the TV news business.
He was also a major sup-
porter of the Library of
American Broadcasting
Foundation, which houses
the papers of journalists at
the University of Maryland.
Leibner is survived by
Cooper and two sons, Jona-
than and Adam, who is also
an agent at UTA, and four
grandchildren.
L AT I M E S . C O M
Tribes dispute ancestral ties claimed for casino
[Casino, from A1]
to provide services for mem-
bers.
The Coquille want to
build a casino in Medford,
about 165 miles from its trib-
al headquarters along the
southwestern Oregon coast
in Coos Bay and North
Bend. Medford doesn’t fall
within the reservation, but
tribal leaders claim an an-
cestral connection to the
land and note that it does fall
in their federally designated
service area.
Just as crucial, they ar-
gue, many of their members
live in the Medford area now,
creating a vital modern-day
connection.
In approving Medford, in
Jackson County, as part of
the tribe’s service area, the
Coquille argue, the U.S. De-
partment of the Interior es-
sentially recognized the
tribe’s legitimate claim to
the territory.
“It’s about taking care of
our people,” said Coquille
Chair Brenda Meade. “It’s
about us expressing our sov-
ereignty and exercising our
sovereignty to make deci-
sions for what’s best for our
people.”
The most vocal critics of
the Coquille’s plans are com-
peting casino tribes in
Northern California and
southern Oregon. Federal
and state regulations make
it difficult to build casinos
outside reservations, with
limited exceptions. When ar-
guing for an exemption,
tribes typically have to show
a close ancestral connection
to the land.
The Coquille’s oppo-
nents are adamant that the
tribe has falsified its histori-
cal ties to Medford — a three-
hour drive from its coastal
base — in pursuit of profit.
The Karuk tribe is one of
several working to thwart
the project. Other oppo-
nents include California’s
Elk Valley Rancheria in
Crescent City and the
Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation in
Smith River, and in Oregon,
Klamath Tribes in Klamath
County and the Cow Creek
Band of Umpqua Tribe of In-
dians in Roseburg.
They’ve signed on to let-
ters blasting the project as a
legally dubious effort that
deviates from the regulatory
process that tribes have
been following for decades.
“This is not a fight that
we ever wanted,” said Carla
Keene, chair of the Cow
Creek Band, which owns the
sprawling Seven Feathers
Casino Resort in Can-
yonville, Ore., about 70 miles
from Medford. “We’re in op-
position because it’s threat-
ening our tribes, our people
and the livelihoods of our
tribal citizens.”
::
The Coquille’s wrought
saga with the federal govern-
ment dates to the 1850s,
when the tribe agreed to re-
linquish its ancestral land in
exchange for payments and
a reservation. According to
the tribe, the government
took control of 1 million
acres — but Congress never
signed the agreements.
“We have a long history of
broken promises,” Meade
said.
About 100 years later,
Congress terminated the
Coquille’s federal recogni-
tion status, a designation
that affords a “government-
to-government relationship
with the United States,” ac-
cording to the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs, along with fed-
eral funding and services.
It took 35 years for the
Coquille to regain federal
recognition and reclaim sov-
ereignty.
MARKET ROUNDUP
Wall Street falls after hot inflation report burns hopes for a June rate cut
associated press
NEW YORK — A
washout on Wall Street sent
stocks sinking Wednesday,
as worries rose that what
seemed like a blip in the bat-
tle to bring down inflation is
turning into a troubling
trend.
The S&P 500 dropped
0.9%, and the vast majority
of stocks within the index
fell. The Dow Jones indus-
trial average tumbled 422
points, or 1.1%, and the
Nasdaq composite sank
0.8%.
Treasury yields also
leaped in the bond market,
raising the pressure on the
stock market, after a report
showed inflation was hotter
last month than economists
expected.
THE COQUILLE tribe wants to build a casino in Medford, Ore., about 165 miles from its tribal headquarters,
claiming an ancestral connection to the land. Above, the Karuk tribe’s Rain Rock Casino in Yreka, Calif.
BRENDA MEADE, the Coquille’s tribal council chair, said she would almost wel-
come a court fight to end the issue. “It’s about taking care of our people,” she said.
The Coquille Restoration
Act of 1989 designated five
counties — Coos, Curry,
Jackson, Douglas and Lane
— as the tribe’s service area.
The agreement allowed the
Coquille initially to take up
to 1,000 acres of land into
trust in two of those coun-
ties, Coos and Curry, to es-
tablish a reservation.
In the years since federal
recognition was restored,
Meade said, the Coquille
worked to provide for 1,200
members scattered across
Oregon and 38 other states.
To help fund those efforts,
the Coquille opened the Mill
Casino in North Bend on the
Oregon coast in 1995.
The Coquille also began
investing in an overlooked
southern corner of Medford,
about 170 miles southeast.
The tribe rehabbed a nine-
hole golf course and opened
a Margaritaville-affiliated
hotel, where guests are wel-
comed with a Coquille
phrase inscribed on the
shiny floors: “Dai’sla,” or
“Greetings, friends.”
Sandwiched between the
two businesses is a retro
bowling alley. This is where
the Coquille hope to build
the casino, adding another
entertainment draw to the
revitalized corridor along In-
terstate 5. Unlike the Mill
and Rain Rock casinos,
Class III facilities that fea-
ture slots and card games
such as blackjack, the Co-
quille’s Medford plan calls
It’s the third straight re-
port to suggest that prog-
ress on bringing high infla-
tion down may be stalling.
That hurts hopes that Jan-
uary’s and February’s disap-
pointing inflation data may
not have been as bad as they
seemed because of some
technical reasons.
“There are still embers of
inflation here and there in
the economy,” said Joe
Davis, chief global econo-
mist at Vanguard.
For shoppers, that’s
painful because of the poten-
tial for even higher prices at
the store. For Wall Street, it
raises fears that the Federal
Reserve will hold back on de-
livering the cuts to interest
rates that traders are crav-
ing and have been betting
on.
The S&P 500 had already
for a Class II casino with
electronic bingo-style games
of chance.
Supporters, including
Medford Councilmember
Kevin Stine, say the changes
are a welcome boon for an
area that was largely ne-
glected before the Coquille
took interest. In lieu of taxes,
the tribe has agreed to pay
the city a $60,000 annual fee
if the project is approved.
“It’s kind of a depressed
area of Medford, and they’ve
been able to make that a
place people want to go,”
Stine said. “In my opinion,
allowing them to keep doing
their work, getting this land
into trust, having a casino,
will allow them to keep
putting money into our local
economy and be an overall
benefit to Medford.”
The Coquille first peti-
tioned the U.S. Department
of the Interior in 2012, asking
permission to place the land
into trust for a gaming facil-
ity. The proposal languished
eight years before it was re-
jected. The department,
under then-President
Trump, wrote a 15-page
denial citing opposition
from federal, state and local
officials and neighboring
tribes, and raised questions
over the distance between
Medford and the Coquille’s
“historical territory” along
the coast.
The proposal found new
life during the Biden admin-
istration, which adopted
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leaped more than 20% since
Halloween in part on expec-
tations that the Federal Re-
serve would lower its main
interest rate.
But the Fed has been
waiting for more evidence to
show inflation is heading
sustainably down toward its
goal of 2%. After an encour-
Photographs by Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times
policies to make it easier for
tribes to put land into trust.
Even with those changes,
taking land into trust is a
tortuous process that gets
more complicated when
gaming is involved, said
Katherine Florey, a profes-
sor at UC Davis School of
Law who specializes in fed-
eral Indian law.
Gaming is generally pro-
hibited on non-reservation
land taken into trust after
the 1988 Indian Gaming
Regulatory Act was ap-
proved. An exception exists
for tribes, such as the Co-
quille, that were terminated
and later had their federal
recognition restored. The
exemption process often
takes into account a tribe’s
ancestral connection to the
land, but gives tribes a
“pretty narrow path to
walk,” Florey said.
“The idea is for tribes to
regain what they lost,” Flo-
rey said. But when govern-
ment officials are making
decisions involving “histori-
cal boundaries and cultural
presence, there often aren’t
bright lines, so these are
often very difficult determi-
nations to make.”
::
The tribes lobbying
against the project say Co-
quille leaders are claiming il-
legitimate ancestral ties to
Medford as a way of
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aging cooling last year, the
fear now is that inflation
may be stuck after
January’s, February’s and
March’s inflation reports all
came in hotter than ex-
pected, along with data on
the economy generally.
“Two data points don’t
make a trend, but maybe
T H U R S DAY , A P R I L 11, 2 0 2 4
sidestepping the more cus-
tomary — and arduous —
process of getting buy-in
from the governor, local offi-
cials and other tribes.
“They have no historical
connection to the area,” said
Attebery, the Karuk chair.
The Karuk tribe is based
in Happy Camp, about 11⁄2
hour’s drive from Yreka
through the Klamath Na-
tional Forest, and provides
services to 3,700 enrolled
members and an estimated
4,000 descendants in scat-
tered communities.
Similar to the Coquille,
the Karuk went decades
without a reservation, even
after the U.S. government
took ownership of the tribe’s
aboriginal hunting and fish-
ing land in a forested swath
of the Klamath River Basin.
In 1977, the tribe began re-
claiming some of that land,
using hard-earned proceeds
to purchase hundreds of
acres of land that it put into
trust.
In 2013, then-Gov. Jerry
Brown signed a casino deal
for the Karuk to build a gam-
bling hall on a hill overlook-
ing downtown Yreka, easy
for drivers to spot from In-
terstate 5. The tribe borrow-
ed some $70 million to build a
casino, which opened in 2018,
and an adjacent 72-room ho-
tel and conference center
that are still under construc-
tion.
Behind the casino, doz-
ens of tribal apartments and
single-story houses for
elders dot a neighborhood
with a breathtaking view of
the Siskiyou Mountains.
Down the street is a Karuk
Head Start program and a
wellness center where tribal
members gather for cultural
events. In January, the tribe
opened the Karuk Commu-
nity Medical and Dental
Clinics, with six patient
rooms and a lab.
For now, the tribe uses
grant money — not casino
revenue — to fund housing
and services, Attebery said.
Once its loans are paid off,
the tribe plans to funnel ca-
sino earnings back into the
community.
The median income on
Karuk trust lands was
$24,167 in 2019, according to
tribal planning documents,
and more than 400 people
are on a wait list for housing.
If the Medford project is ap-
proved, Attebery estimates
it could cut into Rain Rock’s
yearly earnings by 25%.
“That would directly af-
three do,” said Brian
Jacobsen, chief economist at
Annex Wealth Management.
“If we get one more read-
ing like this, Fed chatter will
shift from when to cut to
whether to hike.”
Prices for bonds, gold
and more fell immediately
after the morning’s release
of the inflation data.
The yield on the 10-year
Treasury jumped to 4.54%
from 4.36% late Tuesday and
is back to where it was in No-
vember. The two-year yield,
which moves more on expec-
tations for Fed action, shot
even higher and rose to
4.97% from 4.74%.
Traders sharply cut back
on bets that the Fed could
begin cutting rates in June.
They now see just a 17%
chance of that, down from
nearly 74% a month ago, ac-
A9
fect our ability to provide
services for healthcare, edu-
cation, elder projects, youth
projects, cultural activities,
all the above,” he said. “But
even more than that, the
precedent that it will set is a
big concern.”
Gabe Galanda, an Indig-
enous rights attorney in Se-
attle, serves as outside coun-
sel for the Cow Creek, one of
the tribes fighting the Co-
quille’s bid. He has written
about how the rise of gaming
capitalism has undermined
long-standing bonds of
kinship among tribes that
helped them avoid total an-
nihilation by settler colonial-
ism centuries ago.
“I don’t begrudge a tribe
trying to find new revenue
sources,” Galanda said, “but
there have to be some guard-
rails to it, especially inter-
tribally.”
Galanda is among those
who dismiss the Coquille’s
ancestral claims to Medford:
“It’s simply false,” he said.
“They are manipulating his-
tory.”
Coquille tribal leaders
have stood their ground,
saying the Rogue Valley has
long served as a “rendezvous
point” for the Coquille and
other tribes. Project oppo-
nents, they said, are under-
mining the right of the Co-
quille — and every tribe — to
lay claim to its painful past.
“Indian folks have always
been here, because it’s just a
natural and good place for us
to be,” said Jon Ivy, the Co-
quille’s member services co-
ordinator and a Medford
resident. “This isn’t some-
thing that we manufactured
so that we could build a hotel
or redo a golf course.”
Gregory Ablavsky, a
Stanford law professor and
expert in federal Indian law,
said the agonizing dissen-
sion over the Coquille’s ex-
pansion plans underscores
tribes’ continuing struggle
— centuries after white set-
tler colonialism — to rebuild
their nations and economic
viability.
“Indian gaming is very
much a story of winners and
losers,” Ablavsky said. “This
is a consequence of the fact
that there just aren’t that
many models for economic
development, especially for
these native communities
that are very far from metro
areas.”
Ablavsky also said the
sharp disagreements over
the boundaries of ancestral
homelands should come as
no surprise. Mapping terri-
tories wasn’t a typical prac-
tice among native communi-
ties, he said, and tribes were
relocated to reservations
without much consideration
by the federal government of
how close they landed to
their ancestral territory.
“It’s not surprising that
you have different groups
who feel very strongly that
they have very strong ances-
tral connections to particu-
lar homelands, and they
come into conflict,”
Ablavsky said. “Especially
when you overlay money on
top of that.”
Meade, the Coquille
chair, said she will keep
pushing for the casino, and
would almost welcome a
court battle to settle the is-
sue.
“They’re afraid of compe-
tition and they fear they’re
fighting for scraps. And I
just don’t believe that,” she
said. Although casinos are a
good source of income now,
Meade said, there will come
a day when gaming isn’t an
option and tribes will wish
they hadn’t spent so much
time in battle.
“We know gaming is not
forever,” she said. “They bet-
ter remember, gaming is not
forever.”
cording to CME Group’s
FedWatch tool.
Perhaps more impor-
tant, traders shifted more
bets toward the Fed cutting
rates just twice over the
course of this year. At the
start of the year, they were
forecasting six or more cuts
through 2024.
Wall Street’s biggest los-
ers on Wednesday included
real estate investment
trusts, utility companies
and others whose stocks
tend to be hurt most by high
interest rates.
Real estate stocks in the
S&P 500 fell 4.1% for the big-
gest loss by far among the 11
sectors that make up the in-
dex. That included a 6.1%
drop for office owner Boston
Properties and a 5.3% tum-
ble for Alexandria Real Es-
tate Equities.
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PERSONAL NOTE

So many potholes — and not

enough people to fix them
I
was driving west on Sunset Boule-
vard heading to Pacific Palisades one
recent Saturday afternoon, enjoying a
respite from the rain, when my car was
jolted by the biggest crater in the road
I have ever hit. Slowly, I drove about half a
mile to a full-service gas station where the
attendant found a gaping hole in my right
front tire, which was expelling air like a blow
dryer.
Within 10 minutes of my arrival at the gas
station, two other cars pulled in with ruined
tires after driving over the same pothole. We
compared notes on the location of this road
menace (near Chautauqua Boulevard),
wondered whether we could get the city to
pay for damages and pulled out our cell-
phones in search of nearby repair shops
that could fix our cars that day. Luckily, my
damaged tire was a run-flat and spent its
last minutes on the road getting me to Pep
Boys.
I’m just one of thousands of motorists in
L.A. who have unknowingly steered their ve-
hicles into a pit, especially after heavy
storms. The rain turns the streets of Los An-
geles into an obstacle course of potholes for
drivers, motorcyclists, bicyclists and even
pedestrians. More than 21 inches of rain
have fallen since December, filling reser-
voirs and turning the hillsides a lush green,
but all that water has also seeped through
cracks in streets, weakening layers of as-
phalt. As more cars drive over it, the asphalt
eventually caves in, creating potholes big
and small.
If you hit a pothole, you can file a damage
claim with the city to try to recoup the cost
of repair. According to the city attorney’s of-
fice, 1,231 pothole damage claims were filed
between September 2023 and February.
(The so-called rainy season starts around
December.) Only 134 were paid out for a to-
tal of $87,627.08.
Clearly that’s a mere drop in the rain
bucket of potholes out there causing misery.
Since December 2023, the city’s Bureau
of Street Services (also known as StreetsLA
) received 16,709 requests for pothole repair.
That includes any multiple requests. Im-
pressively, the number the department
fixed during the same period was signifi-
cantly higher — 28,384.
The city searches for potholes but also
relies on people reporting them — by calling
311, filling out a form on the website,
https://myla311.lacity.org/ or using the Daniel Miller Los Angeles Times
MyLA311 mobile app. Important tip: Multi- RAIN turns L.A.’s streets into an obstacle course of potholes, such as this one
ple reports to 311 on the same pothole will near the intersection of Western Avenue and 6th Street on Jan. 12, 2023.
get crews out to it faster. So, the squeaky
pothole gets the asphalt. On average, it told me a story of driving west on Sunset on But in an effort to cut costs, the city ad-
takes three to four days for a crew to get to a his way to check out a mudslide. At the time, ministrative officer has proposed eliminat-
reported pothole, officials say. I was told the the portion he was on looked to be in good ing vacant job slots across city agencies, in-
pothole that demolished my tire on March shape. It rained that night and the next day, cluding 229 positions in Street Services.
23 was fixed less than a week later. his department responded to a report of a That’s a big chunk of jobs. I understand the
Why can’t city workers find potholes be- large pothole on a section of the street he city needs to cut costs but when it does,
fore my car does? Sometimes they do. But had just driven. Repairing potholes is like services and residents suffer. In this case,
it’s not possible to find and fix them all be- Whac-A-Mole — there’s always another one damage to vehicles is costly in time and
fore someone runs over them. But they popping up. money for owners.
could do better. To get more potholes fixed quickly, We’re grateful to have the rain but the
Keith Mozee, the general manager of L.A. Mozee says he needs more people. collateral damage of pockmarked streets is
Bureau of Street Services, says workers The Bureau of Street Services has a not just an inconvenience, it’s also a danger
drive 650 miles of city streets every day whopping 388 vacant positions. Some of to the innumerable vehicles on L.A. streets.
hunting potholes. In particular, they inspect those are being filled through a city employ- Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council
major corridors and identify locations in ment pipeline called CleanLA. Participants need to remember that when they decide
need of pothole repair or other maintenance get training and can become employees in how many of the unfilled Street Services po-
and schedule it. entry-level jobs such as fixing potholes. sitions to whittle away — jobs that could
But there are 7,500 miles of streets in the That’s great for both the streets and local, make a difference on the road.
city of L.A. Mozee, who started his career at low-income workers who might otherwise — Carla Hall,
Street Services decades ago fixing potholes, struggle to get city jobs. a member of the editorial board

LETTERS
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Carney cannot be trusted to It is truly a sign of de-

protect the rights of those pravity when billionaires
who oppose his views. would throw in their lot with
He has made it a sad Trump so they don’t have to
time in America, when those pay more in taxes. Some of
entrusted to perform their them would do well under a
judicial duties refuse to do dictator, but they all should
so. look at Russia to see what
Hector Hernandez happens when you lose
San Clemente favor with the autocrat.
We should all pay taxes,
because without taxes who
Why billionaires would pay for highways,
schools, disaster relief and
support Trump much more? When misfor-
tune happens, we all want
Re “Tax fears bring billion- the government to help.
aires back to Trump,” April Billionaires should be
7 glad they live in a democ-
racy that enables them to
Reporter David Lauter acquire such massive
misses the point of why wealth.
billionaires have “moved” Linda Shabsin
into supporting Donald Diamond Bar
Trump for president. He
narrowly focuses on their
fear of higher taxes.
In fact, the wealthy who
Needing help,
support the former presi- they were shot
dent do so for many reasons
only indirectly related to Re “Teen experiencing
taxes. mental health crisis is killed
Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times Primarily, they — like by deputies,” April 5
SHAYKH SUHAIL MULLA was invited by a Jewish temple last month to hold Ramadan services there. Trump — desire to rebuild
an economy in service of the I am horrified by recent
working class, allowing reports of law enforcement

Missed opportunity for dialogue those in it to afford life in

this country, to own homes,
to provide for medical care
shooting and killing young
people in crisis.
Last week, San Bernar-
and to save for retirement. dino County Sheriff ’s De-
Re “An act of interfaith goodwill ends in tears,” April 5 The billionaires know they partment deputies shot and
will prosper far more from killed a 17-year-old who
s the saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished. It’s a shame that prejudicial attitudes and misunderstandings

A got in the way of a partnership between the two communities of Muslims and Jews in the San Fernando Valley
during Ramadan. They could have been an example of the kind of cooperation and interconnectedness our world
so badly needs right now.
these changes than merely
avoiding taxes.
The Times seems inter-
ested in telling only the part
of the story that will divide
locked himself in his sister’s
bathroom with a knife
threatening suicide. Last
month, deputies in the same
department shot and killed
Of course, the Jewish community is still grieving from the horrific Oct. 7 attack on Israel and over the hostages still
being held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas. And, of course, the Muslim community is grieving from the brutal war in the Gaza the American people and 15-year-old Ryan Gainer, an
portray the wealthy as evil. autistic boy, after his family
Strip.
Kip Dellinger sought help during a mo-
But neither of these local groups started the conflict in the Middle East. As difficult as it may be, they have the oppor-
Santa Monica ment of distress.
tunity to show us all how to rise above our differences. We also recently saw a
If we want to live in a peaceful world, we must all learn to do this. :: video showing how San
Joanna Ryder, Hermosa Beach Bernardino County depu-
It’s sad we live in a soci- ties shot and killed an un-
ety where billionaires feel armed teenager in 2022.
It is wonderful that the
rabbi of the Hamakom L.A.
Islamic Relations office in
Los Angeles, to speak. Since Punch journalist, white supremacists to con-
tinue their violent displays.
their taxes are the deter-
mining factor in choosing
These people needed
help. Instead they are dead.
synagogue and the resident
scholar of the Islamic Soci-
the Oct. 7 attack, Ayloush
has likened Israel to Nazi
get off easy Incidentally, why people
like Laube (whose name is
whom to support for presi-
dent. Even if their taxes
We need accountability,
reform and education.
ety of West Valley are en- Germany and stated the Re “Slap on the wrist for of Jewish origin) and former went up under President Solutions include pro-
gaged in improving inter- country does not have the punching an O.C. reporter,” Proud Boys leader Henry Biden, they’re still ex- grams to send mental
faith relations. For Jews and right to defend itself. column, April 8 “Enrique” Tarrio (of Latino tremely wealthy. How much health responders rather
Muslims, effective interreli- Unfortunately, Shaykh descent) participate in money do they really think than police to address emer-
gious connections are nec- Suhail Mulla responded to Tyler Laube appears to white supremacist groups they need? gency calls related to mental
essary if we are ever to have Hamakom members’ con- embody the definition of a boggles the mind. Actually, it’s much more health. We can also raise
peace in the Middle East. tempt for Ayloush by stating thug. He has a history of Kent Grigsby than sad. It’s a shame. more awareness about the
However, it seems that that Ayloush’s views about flouting the law, and yet he Riverside Fortunately, not all bil- 988 crisis lifeline.
both gentlemen feel that the Israel and its invasion of the consistently receives a “slap lionaires feel the same way. Laura Abbasi
failure of the synagogue to Gaza Strip aligned with on the wrist.” :: Some realize that they Newbury Park
rent space to the mosque most U.S. Muslim leaders, U.S. District Judge Cor- became wealthy in our
stems from Islamophobia. I including himself. mac J. Carney’s decision not It appears that Judge society and need to give
would argue that it stems With this in mind, does to incarcerate Laube for Carney has once again something back to maintain
from anti-Hamas and anti- that make the Hamakom punching a reporter in 2017 inserted his personal beliefs the world that enabled HOW TO WRITE TO US
terrorist sentiments. congregants Islamophobic, because of the supposed into a ruling. them to be financially suc- Please send letters to
Unfortunately, the soci- or are they people who never non-prosecution of antifa From his views on unre- cessful but morally bank- letters@latimes.com. For
ety invited Hussam Ay- tolerate terrorism? members does not benefit stricted gun rights to his rupt. submission guidelines, see
loush, executive director of Linda Goldfinger society. Rather, it embold- evident sympathy for white Domenico Maceri latimes.com/letters or call
the Council on American- Irvine ens Laube and his fellow supremacist defendants, San Luis Obispo 1-800-LA TIMES, ext. 74511.

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L AT I M E S . C O M / O P I N I O N
ONE SIGN of international trepidation over another Trump
term: an effigy with an American flag in Germany this year.
The world prefers
Biden to Trump
The former president was a punchline,
a reality he now projects onto his rival
JACKIE CALMES
Not a joke, as Joe
Biden might say.
I’m talking
about our country:
America is no joke,
no matter how
many times Donald
Trump claims it is.
One of his most
obnoxious lies at every rally and in
most interviews is his contention
that, with Biden as president, a
disrespectful world is laughing at
us. Trump was at it again last
week, at his most recent rally in
Green Bay, Wis., claiming the
United States is a global laughing-
stock.
“Joe Biden is not respected and
Joe Biden is not feared” among the
world’s nations, he told his fawn-
ing crowd. But once he, Trump, is
reelected, “America will soon be
respected again, very quickly
respected, like never before.”
Like virtually all Trumpisms,
this one is demonstrably false.
“Throughout Donald Trump’s
presidency, publics around the
world held the United States in low
regard,” the Pew Research Center
reported soon after he left office.
Its 2020 survey found that among
13 allied nations, the share of peo-
ple who had a favorable view of
America was the lowest it had
been in the two decades since Pew
began asking the question. Good
feelings toward the United States
rebounded after Biden took office
and remained favorable by a 2-to-1
ratio last year.
It’s almost laughable, Trump’s
hirty years ago, I
T wrote a front-page arti-
cle for The Times about
what was then the lat-
est redesign of Pershing
Square, the much-reworked park
perched above an underground
parking garage in the center of
downtown L.A. There was much
rhetoric about how this $14.6 mil-
lion city-sponsored face-lift —
which was heavy on concrete
paving and structures such as a
purple 10-story bell tower and giant
pink cylinder barriers — would re-
vitalize the five-acre park and the
surrounding neighborhoods. At
the opening ceremony, then-Los
Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan
called the redo “a breath of fresh
air, a vision of hope.”
Not everyone agreed — I had my
doubts too. Soon enough, the nay-
sayers were shown to be right. That
renovation, designed by Mexican
architect Ricardo Legorreta and
landscape architect Laurie Olin,
had many artsy touches such as an
urban waterfall and a faux seismic
fault. But overall, it proved to be
alienating. There was little grass
and shade and not enough places
to comfortably sit (probably to dis-
courage the homeless population
from settling in). Access to the
park already was difficult because
of garage ramps; the new walls and
stairways further cut off connec-
tion to adjacent streets.
Although a winter ice-skating
rink and movie nights were popu-
lar, the park wasn’t much used ex-
cept by the homeless population.
That was a sad outcome given the
square’s history since 1866 as a city
hub.
Now the city is taking the first
steps to right its mistake. Bulldoz-
ers are at work on yet another
makeover of Pershing Square,
which fills the block enclosed by
5th, 6th, Hill and Olive streets.
Recognizing the obvious flop of
Legorreta’s plan, a civic group
sponsored a redesign contest. The
winner, announced in 2016, was the
French firm Agence Ter. Its sub-
mission called for “radical flat-
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projection of his own unpopularity
onto Biden. Except that too many
Americans believe him.
As for foreign leaders, they’re
not laughing at the United States
or Trump. They’re openly fretting
that the pro-authoritarian neo-
isolationist whose crude credo is
“America First” could return to
power. Their agita is pretty as-
tounding, really.
They don’t respect Trump at
all, though they do fear him — the
way you’d fear a madman at the
nuclear button. President Nixon
sought leverage by making foreign
counterparts think he was unsta-
ble; Trump actually is unstable.
Foreign diplomats and some
leaders don’t even mask their
anxiety. They mostly speak anony-
mously, in case he actually regains
power, but they speak nonethe-
less, ignoring norms against opin-
ing about another country’s elec-
tion.
Trump’s former national secu-
rity advisor John Bolton has said
repeatedly that even the autocrats
Trump admires — Vladimir Putin,
Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un, among
others — “think he’s a laughing
fool.”
The Japanese have a phrase for
their Trump trepidation, the
Washington Post reported ahead
of this week’s state visit by Prime
Minister Fumio Kishida. “ ‘Moshi-
tora,’ ” according to the Post re-
porter in Tokyo, “encapsulates the
mild panic brewing here. … It’s a
shorthand for: What if Donald
Trump wins?”
“It makes us nervous,” former
Japanese lawmaker Mieko
Can a redesigned
Pershing Square help
downtown L.A.?
By Larry Gordon
ness,” pushing down the garage
roof and lowering the entire park to
street level, with much more green-
ery.
Then political, financial and
technical problems delayed action.
The city eventually hired a local
architecture firm, Gruen Associ-
ates, to work with Agence Ter on
bringing a doable version of the
concept to reality, keeping as is
more of the 1951 garage. The
tweaked motto became “radical
openness.”
This latest plan takes down
walls, lowers many elevations and
makes the park more visible and
accessible. It replaces pavement
with lawns and shade trees and the
often-broken escalators to the ga-
rage with new glass elevators.
The purple tower, pink cylin-
ders and other brightly colored
structures will be demolished
(hooray!). A cafe and pergola will
go in at street level along Olive
Street across from the Biltmore
Hotel.
During a recent tour of the work
site, I watched as the Olive Street
frontage was excavated and being
lowered by about five feet. The plan
calls for the work to be done in
stages while some parts of the park
remain open. It seems very promis-
ing.
Yet, it won’t come quickly or
cheaply and is unlikely to be com-
plete for the 2028 Olympics, the
original goal. For the first yearlong
phase, $21.6 million has been
appropriated, mainly from city de-
velopment fees. Estimates call for
another $40 million — still not
funded — for subsequent work over
the next three years or so. Then,
OP-ED
Nakabayashi told the Post. “We
have to start thinking. That is the
true purpose of ‘moshi-tora’:
alarming ourselves to think about
the unthinkable.”
Americans know the feeling.
Meanwhile, the Japanese edi-
tion of Newsweek had a cover
drawing of Trump as a bloody,
frightening apparition, calling to
mind either villain or vampire.
Friendly nations, including
Japan, reliant for more than seven
decades on a rules-based system
of alliances led by the United
States, justifiably worry that a
reelected Trump will succeed at
breaking those alliances. They fear
a trade war and economic tremors
from his promised tariffs. They
expect he’d abandon Ukraine,
demanding that it cede Crimea
and the Donbas region to Russia
and thereby encouraging Putin’s
expansionism in Europe. They
sweat his odd affinity for Xi in
China and Kim in North Korea, as
the two men threaten neighbors
who count on the United States to
be a counterweight.
On the sidelines at NATO’s
75th birthday commemoration
last week in Brussels, attendees
commiserated about a potential
Trump 2.0, and talked about
“Trump-proofing” the alliance
generally and support for Ukraine
specifically. How could they not
after Trump crowed at a MAGA
rally in February that he would
encourage the Russians “to do
whatever the hell they want” to
NATO-member countries that in
his view aren’t spending enough
on their own defense?
Trump’s claim that the world is
laughing at us isn’t unique to
Biden’s era. He’s been babbling
that for years, since the adminis-
tration of Republicans’ sainted
Ronald Reagan.
But he gets the target wrong.
When the world has laughed at our
expense, it was laughing, literally,
at Trump.
Cue the blooper reels. In 2018,
then-President Trump was the
joke at the United Nations General
Assembly when he began his ad-
dress by boasting that he’d
achieved more in two years than
any president in U.S. history. The
delegates burst into guffaws. In
2019, the leaders of Britain, France,
Canada and the Netherlands,
along with Britain’s Princess
Anne, were captured on a hot mic
mocking Trump over cocktails
during a NATO summit. Trump
packed up and flew home — in
time, had he wanted, to see the
“Saturday Night Live” skit lam-
pooning him, the goofball
shunned by the cool kids in the
NATO cafeteria.
Such yuks at Trump’s expense
were easier then — before Jan. 6,
Ukraine and his many former
advisors’ post-presidency alarms
about the danger he poses should
he get back in the White House.
Experience is a teacher: Trump is
no longer a laughing matter.
@jackiekcalmes
the final task would, among other
things, reconfigure and shorten
the long garage ramps that isolate
the park and frighten pedestrians;
that could cost another $100 mil-
lion and it is uncertain whether the
city will spend that.
I hope that all gets done, even-
tually. However, my personal alarm
bell is ringing again. The new de-
sign is lovely and the phased proc-
ess looks workable. My worries are
more about what’s happening
around Pershing Square and
throughout downtown Los Ange-
les — and in many downtowns
across the nation.
After decades of revival, down-
towns are struggling. Since the
pandemic, many workers aren’t re-
turning to office buildings and
some businesses that didn’t sur-
vive the shutdown remain shutter-
ed. In L.A., office vacancies and
abandoned housing projects,
along with the large homeless
population and a revived fear of
crime, have hurt formerly vibrant
parts of downtown.
All the worthy work on the park
might be at risk if surrounding
neighborhoods are not busy
enough to keep Pershing Square
active and safe. And a flatter,
greener, more welcoming and ac-
cessible Pershing Square won’t by
itself solve those bigger urban
problems.
A gloomy outcome is not a cer-
tainty, of course. An estimated
14,000 people live within a half-mile
walk of the park. Advocates for
downtown development predict
that a much larger population will
reside in the area in a few years as
offices convert into apartments
T H U R S DAY , A P R I L 11, 2 0 2 4
Special counsel’s
latest push to get
Jan. 6 trial moving
HARRY LITMAN
pecial counsel Jack
S Smith’s latest brief to the
Supreme Court on Donald
Trump’s immunity claim
strives to ensure that the
justices’ decision puts the Jan. 6
trial back on track, ending the
detour the former president has
extracted from a weak argument.
The bulk of the brief Smith filed
Monday is a methodical rejection
of Trump’s far-fetched claims to
immunity from prosecution for
attempting to overturn the 2020
election. Smith and his Supreme
Court specialist, Michael Dreeben,
closely follow the D.C. Circuit
Court of Appeals’ persuasive,
bipartisan opinion contradicting
Trump on all points.
In the last few pages, however,
Smith argues for the particular
exigency of this case, noting that
“even if a former president has
some immunity from federal crim-
inal prosecution for official acts,
this prosecution should proceed.”
Smith contends that Trump’s
attempt to thwart the peaceful
transfer of power is a paradig-
matic example of conduct that
can’t be immunized. He describes
what’s alleged against the former
president as “a private scheme
with private actors to achieve a
private end” — namely, staying in
power by fraud.
In what may be the brief ’s most
consequential phrase, the special
counsel insists that the case
“should be remanded for trial” on
the ground that whatever immuni-
ty the Constitution might provide
a president, it can’t shield Trump
from this prosecution.
That would be dramatically
different from the order that typi-
cally concludes a Supreme Court
opinion. The justices normally set
out governing principles of law and
leave it to the lower courts to apply
them to the facts, ordering a case
“remanded for proceeding consis-
tent with this opinion.”
The practical difference be-
Alex Brandon Associated Press
SPECIAL COUNSEL Jack
Smith urged the Supreme
Court to let his case proceed.
and new buildings go up. Those
residents, bolstered by tourists
drawn to places such as Disney
Hall, L.A. Live and the Arts Dis-
trict, could also keep a restored
Pershing Square vibrant and well-
used. The redone park, they say, is
a good investment.
Over much of its history, Per-
shing Square has held a central
role in L.A. life. Originally it was a
lushly landscaped civic gathering
spot for bandstand music in a
dusty frontier town. (Pickpockets
also loved it from the start.) In the
early 20th century, it became
ground zero for leftists and antiwar
activists to test the limits of free
speech — a heritage that continues
when today’s protest marches be-
gin or end there. Later, the park be-
came a cruising area for gay men,
and a spot where immigrant work-
ers rested after shifts in the nearby
garment and jewelry districts and
lawyers and secretaries took coffee
breaks. A 1931 history of the park
describes visitors on benches, feed-
ing “arrogant pigeons,” arguing
about politics and “enjoying the
play of the sun through tropical
trees.”
If completed by next year, the
makeover’s first phase along Olive
Street will take down walls and op-
pressive structures and create a
much-improved portion of the
park there. It could become a
popular street-level gathering
place, a sort of front porch for the
Biltmore Hotel across the way, and
provide a glimpse of what the full
redesign promises.
And maybe former Mayor Rior-
dan’s wildly unfulfilled forecast
from 30 years ago can finally come
true: a downtown square that’s a
“breath of fresh air, a vision of
hope.” Maybe it will even help
spark another downtown revival.
Whatever happens, at least
those terrible pink cylinders from
1994 will be gone.
Larry Gordon is a former staff
writer for the Los Angeles Times
and EdSource, and co-author of
“Stairway Walks in Los Angeles.”
A11
tween such a standard remand
and Smith’s far more unusual
proposed remand for trial may
sound subtle. But it’s pivotal, as
Smith and dozens of friend-of-the-
court briefs recognize.
Smith’s suggestion is a preem-
ptive strike against an opinion
that would leave room for yet
another trip up and down the
federal court system before a trial
can begin, an opening Trump
would surely exploit for further
delay.
The all but certain ultimate
answer to Trump’s immunity
claim is no: Under no plausible
analysis will any court find that his
conduct can’t be prosecuted. But if
it takes even a relatively quick
series of further appellate reviews
to nail that point down, it will
probably squander any remaining
possibility that this crucial trial
will occur before the election.
The reason that the nature of
the remand is a distinct risk in the
case has to do with the question
the court crafted for argument
during the 13 days it took to act on
Trump’s petition for review. That
extended period gave rise to
speculation that some justice was
writing a dissent. But it seems the
justices were instead engaged in
negotiating and formulating the
question to be considered.
They settled on a somewhat
convoluted construction asking
“whether and if so to what extent”
a former president enjoys immuni-
ty from criminal prosecution for
potentially official acts. That
strongly suggests that at least
some of the justices are concerned
that however weak Trump’s claim
to immunity might be, presi-
dential immunity might be re-
quired in some cases.
They may have in mind an
attempted prosecution of a presi-
dent for, say, bombing an adver-
sary during a war or refusing to
crack down on unlawful immigra-
tion. And they may want to cover
that ground in the court’s first ever
consideration of criminal immuni-
ty even if it doesn’t apply to
Trump.
Whatever room the justices
leave for theoretical presidential
immunity, you can be sure that
Trump will aver in the trial court
that it precisely describes his case.
Presumably U.S. District Judge
Tanya Chutkan and the D.C. Cir-
cuit would make quick work of it,
but in the federal courts, quick
work can take a couple of months.
Given the importance of the
trial schedule, the key practical
question is whether the court
focuses solely on Trump’s case or
endorses immunity in other in-
stances. Smith’s gambit is a fall-
back that would let the court order
the trial to proceed even if its
opinion extends to broader princi-
ples of immunity.
The oral argument could also
expose a fundamental divide
among the justices about poten-
tial immunity unrelated to
Trump’s conduct.That would
suggest that the court will issue
multiple opinions after engaging
in a back-and-forth that would
itself likely eat up several weeks.
The amicus briefs in the case
divide along similar lines. The
most prominent ones in Smith’s
favor advise the court to simply
affirm the D.C. Circuit’s rejection
of Trump’s claim without ventur-
ing into possible instances of
immunity that are not remotely
presented here. The briefs on
Trump’s side tend to argue for
some immunity in some cases, a
result that would likely give rise to
a more complicated remand.
To date, the court has not
seemed very sensitive to the politi-
cal imperative of a verdict that
gives voters a piece of critical
information before the November
election: whether one of the candi-
dates is guilty of a scheme to sub-
vert the last one. That is in stark
contrast to the court’s obvious
speed in deciding Trump’s eligibil-
ity for the Colorado ballot before
the state’s primary. And the court
has shown similar haste in politi-
cally supercharged cases before,
among them Bush vs. Gore.
The justices’ apparent indiffer-
ence to the need for speed and
clarity in this case is a shame. If
they continue merely proclaiming
the law as usual, letting the politi-
cal chips fall where — and, more
importantly, when — they may, it
will be an unnecessary boon to
Trump and a loss for the country.
Harry Litman is the host of the
“Talking Feds” podcast and the
Talking San Diego speaker series.
@harrylitman
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Cicero Institute. The podcast is by
the chairman of the Cicero Insti-
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Westside L.A.
areas stand to be
hit hard by loss of
home insurance
State Farm’s move
affects some of the
county’s toniest
neighborhoods.
By Ruben Vives
Thousands of Califor-
nians who won’t see their
home insurance renewed by
State Farm this summer are
homeowners in Los Angeles
County, with some upscale
Westside neighborhoods hit
hard, according to the insur-
er’s recent filings with the
Department of Insurance.
A majority of the insur-
er’s customers in neighbor-
hoods in West Los Angeles
as well as in or near the
Santa Monica Mountains in-
cluding Bel-Air, Pacific Pali-
sades and Woodland Hills
are going to lose their cov-
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times erage.
NANCY D. leaves a 99 Cents Only store in Santa Monica this month with her purchases. “It’s an enormous The State Farm move af-
loss for people of limited income,” she said, adding that she’s shopped at the store for more than 20 years. fects some of the county’s
toniest neighborhoods —
adding another layer of ex-
Last month, State Farm
— the largest home insur-
ance provider in California
— said it would drop 72,000
property policies across the
state amid a home insur-
ance crisis. Of those, about
30,000 are home insurance
policies.
Denise Hardin, president
and chief executive of State
Farm, explained the compa-
ny’s decision in a March 20
letter to Insurance Commis-
sioner Ricardo Lara, stating
that rate hikes that were re-
cently approved by the De-
partment of Insurance amid
high inflation would be in-
sufficient to restore the com-
pany’s financial strength.
“We must now take ac-
tion to reduce our overall ex-
posure to be more commen-
surate with the capital on
hand to cover such expo-
sure, as most insurers in Cal-
ifornia have already done,”
she wrote. “We have been re-
luctant to take this step, rec-
ognizing how difficult it will
be for impacted policyhold-
ers, in addition to our inde-

99 Cents Only gave a

pense and financial risk for
homeowners in areas that
were already costly and im-
periled by wildfires. Older
homeowners and those with
comparatively lower in-
pendent contractor agents
who are small business own-
ers and employers in their lo-
cal California communities.
“A financial failure of
[State Farm] will detri-

fair shake to its clientele comes who bought when

housing was much cheaper
could be hard hit.
mentally impact the entire
market,” Hardin added, “an
[See Insurance, B4]

Those of us in the fellowship of frugality know that

California’s booms inevitably end in bust. That’s what makes Dueling approaches
the end of this retailer’s empire so distressing.
GUSTAVO ARELLANO
to fight retail theft
that aim to thwart theft by,
At 8:30 on Sunday morning, the parking lot at nies just can’t compete, and so they have to Legislation wouldn’t among other proposals, al-
the 99 Cents Only store in Santa Ana was close. And it’s poor people like us who end up lowing restraining orders to
already beginning to fill. A few days earlier, suffering.” change Prop. 47, but a keep people who steal away
the chain had announced it was closing all 371
of its stores in California, Nevada, Arizona
Victor Barrios said he hopes the rumors of
investors wanting to save the 99 Cents Only
ballot initiative would. from certain stores and let-
ting prosecutors aggregate
and Texas. empire were true. the value of thefts across
This location off Main Street had seen “This needs to stay open,” the 38-year-old By Anabel Sosa multiple incidents in deter-
better days. Unhoused people wandered near delivery driver said. “I make OK money, and mining criminal charges.
the trash bins. The walls and walkway lead- buying here helps me. But imagine if you’re SACRAMENTO — Two Meanwhile, supporters of
ing to the front door were grimy. A massive window on WIC? If you’re on Social Security? You need a approaches are gaining trac- an initiative paid for by big
decal of fresh fruit near the entrance was peeling. place like this. Are people now supposed to go to tion as California confronts retailers are preparing to
No one smiled while grabbing a shopping cart Ralphs? Or Target? With what money?” the issue of retail theft, submit signatures this
and walking in, even though all items were 10% off I can count on my hands the number of times I which was propelled to the month to put a measure on
and signs screamed “Everything Must Go! Up to had previously shopped at 99 Cents Only, and may- top of the state’s political the November ballot that
30% Off.” Customers expressed their condolences to be even on one hand — I’m more of a swap meet kind agenda this year by viral vid- would tackle the problem
anyone with a name tag and vented to anyone who of guy. I’ve only gone with my wife, only to this loca- eos of smash-and-grab rob- through harsher criminal
would listen. tion. But I had to visit out of respect — and sadness. beries and the proliferation penalties for repeat offend-
“I blame [Gavin] Newsom,” said Rick Juarez, 53, The 99 Cents Only stores’ demise is another blow of drugstores locking up ba- ers and court-mandated di-
referencing the California governor, as he entered for the thrifters who make Southern California tick. sic goods. version programs for drug
the store to stock up on batteries. He had shopped For generations, millions of us — immigrants, Assembly Speaker Rob- users.
at this location for “at least” 20 years. “Too many long-timers, working-class folks, or people who just ert Rivas (D-Hollister) on The question now is
taxes, too high the minimum wage. These compa- want a good deal — have [See Arellano, B2] Tuesday threw his weight whether the two sides will
behind a package of bills [See Theft, B5]

Slaying was no hate UC Berkeley names former business

crime, defense says school dean Rich Lyons as chancellor
Samuel Woodward’s
lawyer says killing of
Blaze Bernstein wasn’t
linked to Atomwaffen.
By Christopher
Goffard
Alienated, lonely and
“starved for validation,”
Samuel Woodward found a
brief sense of acceptance in
the Atomwaffen Division,
which preached America’s
imminent collapse and con-
sciously targeted the ostra-
cized and bullied for recruit-
ment, Woodward’s attorney
said Tuesday.
In his opening statement
at Woodward’s murder trial,
Assistant Public Defender
Ken Morrison acknowl-
edged that his client was re-
sponsible for the death of 19-
year-old Blaze Bernstein,
who was Jewish and gay.
But despite Woodward’s
association with Atomwaf-
fen, which is considered a
hate group, the attorney in-
sisted Woodward was not
driven by bigotry and had
not premeditated the killing.
“What happened that
night, plain and simple, was
not a hate crime,” Morrison
told jurors in Orange County
Superior Court in Santa
Ana.
Woodward, 26, is charged
with first-degree murder
with a hate crime enhance-
ment in Bernstein’s death.
He will face life in prison if
convicted as charged.
Bernstein, a student at
the University of Pennsylva-
nia, was home in Lake Forest
with his family for the holi-
days when he disappeared
on Jan. 2, 2018. A week later,
his body was found under a
thin layer of earth in nearby
Borrego Park.
He and Woodward had
attended Orange County
School of the Arts together.
“The ‘why’ is the single
most important issue you
will need to decide — not
who,” Morrison said. “Blaze
Bernstein’s sexual orienta-
tion had absolutely nothing
to do with the reason he was
killed. ... [He] was not killed
[See Woodward, B4]
By Teresa Watanabe
Rich Lyons, a UC Berke-
ley leader of innovation and
entrepreneurship who culti-
vated a culture of question-
ing the status quo as busi-
ness school dean, has been
named the new chancellor of
the premier public research
university following unani-
mous approval by the re-
gents Wednesday.
Lyons, 63, is a Berkeley
alumnus who headed the
Haas School of Business for
a decade, shattering fund-
raising records, and cur-
rently serves as associate
vice chancellor and chief in-
novation and entrepre-
neurship officer. A professor
of economics and finance,
Lyons has won numerous
teaching awards and is seen
as a charismatic insider with
the skills to navigate the
complex Berkeley culture —
and enliven campus events
with mean guitar-playing
Jason Armond Los Angeles Times skills.
REGENTS unanimously approved the appointment UC President Michael V.
of Lyons, an alumnus, to head UC Berkeley’s campus. Drake selected Lyons from a
diverse pool of hundreds of
candidates — 45% of them
people of color and 25%
women. Lyons will take the
helm July 1, following the re-
tirement of current Chancel-
lor Carol Christ.
After the vote, Lyons told
regents he was “humbled
and thrilled” by the appoint-
ment. “Berkeley is on the
threshold of an exciting dec-
ade,” he said.
An open letter to the new
chancellor from the Berke-
ley Faculty Assn. signaled
the challenges ahead. It
described unprecedented
demoralization stemming
from growing workloads and
financial hardships.
“You will inherit a cam-
pus that is close to breaking
point,” the letter said. “That
[See Berkeley, B2]
Capitol Journal
George Skelton’s
column does not
appear today.

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B2 T H U R S DAY , A P R I L 11, 2 0 2 4
99 Cents Only Pet owners beware: Coyotes are
chain has given more aggressive during pup season
thrifters a go-to
place to shop
[Arellano, from B1]
fueled an alternate economy
far removed from fancy
department and grocery
stores. We patronize swap
meets, Salvation Army
stores, half-off warehouses
and garage sales. Food
comes from bartering with
neighbors, or outlets like 99
Cents Only. My people
inspired Carey McWilliams
to half-jokingly call Los
Angeles the “junkyard for a
continent” in his 1946
masterpiece, “Southern
California: An Island on the
Land.”
Even today, as I make a
good living and my wife runs
her own restaurant, we live a
penny-pinching life. A gro-
cery splurge for us isn’t
Whole Foods or Erewhon;
it’s Trader Joe’s. I get my
shirts and khakis at Mar-
shalls or Ross Dress for
Less, and guayaberas at the
Anaheim Indoor Swap Meet
or Olvera Street. The last
time I spent more than $100
on an item of clothing was a
black suit from Nordstrom
for my mother’s funeral.
Those of us in this fellow-
ship of frugality seek out
bargains because we know
that California’s booms
inevitably end in bust.
That’s what makes the
imminent end of the 99
Cents Only empire — which
started in Westchester in
1982 — so distressing.
Interim Chief Executive
Mike Simoncic said in a
statement that the chain
was closing because of
“significant and lasting
challenges in the retail
environment.”
Even though it was a
multibillion-dollar com-
pany, 99 Cents Only op-
erated under a premise
straight from the Great
Depression: a fair shake for
everyone who entered.
Here, the retiree shopped
alongside the hipster, and
the only colors that mat-
tered were the bright blue
and pink on the marquee of
each store. The chain had
locations in blue-collar
towns such as Santa Ana
and Colton, but also sub-
urbs such as Alhambra and
Santa Monica.
Yes, off-brands and
remaindered products
made up the bulk of offer-
ings, but treasures awaited
for those who regularly
came. One day, you’d get a
generic brand of sriracha,
another time, regular Tap-
atío hot sauce at prices you
last saw during your child-
hood. And who knew when
you might encounter a small
blowup doll of AC/DC front-
man Angus Young, like I did
on Sunday?
There was a camaraderie
among fans that rivals such
as Dollar Tree or Dollar
General or even Walmart
were never able to match.
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SoCal business iconoclast
on the level of In-N-Out
founder Harry Snyder and
cafeteria magnate Clifford
Clifton, who made sure that
the least among us could eat
and shop like kings.
Nowadays, discount
shopping is just an Amazon
click away — a race to the
bottom of inferior products
and loneliness.
“I could buy toys for my
younger kids, my older kids
could get pens for school,
and I could do groceries for
all of us,” Altagracia Nuñez
told me in Spanish as she
perused the beauty aisle,
where sticks of men’s and
women’s deodorant looked
like tumbled dominoes.
“And the prices, of course.”
She stayed quiet, then
offered a weak laugh. “Well,
everything is more expen-
sive nowadays, so I guess
this had to end.”
Friends told me that
their local 99 Cents Only
stores were beginning to
look as bereft as in the pan-
demic days. But the Santa
Ana branch I visited was
well stocked. It was interest-
ing to see what was avail-
able and what wasn’t.
The shelves that once
held reusable containers
were empty, but the Easter
decorations hadn’t moved.
There were no more bleach
bottles by LA’s Totally Awe-
some, but the rest of the
brand’s cleaning products
were available. Milk was
sold out, but stacks of bland
El Comal corn and flour
tortillas — already marked
50% off — were barely tou-
ched.
Everyone’s shopping
cart seemed fuller than
usual, and they all seemed
to have at least one package
of both toilet paper and
cleaning towels. I didn’t
need either, or anything,
really. So I bought an array
of canned goods from a
bygone era — Hormel
canned tamales, Armour
potted meat, Libby’s
chicken Vienna sausages
and pork luncheon meat,
whatever on Earth that is —
to mark the end of another
Southern California classic.
The Frito-Lay and Takis
displays near the checkout
counter were picked clean,
as was the Pepsi cooler.
Cheery new jack swing
tunes played on invisible
speakers. Behind me, a man
softly sang to himself “Se va,
se va la 99” (“It’s going, the
99 is going”). In front of me,
a woman announced in
Spanish to no one in par-
ticular, “I think I’ll come
back here another time.”
“We close June 3,” the
cashier responded. “Come
back.”
He let a beat pass.
“Come here until we’re
done.”
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The start of spring, a time
when outdoor enthusiasts
and their furry sidekicks hit
the trails, coincides with
coyote pupping season, and
experts say dog owners
should take precautions on
their next outdoor trek to
avoid confrontations with
overly protective coyotes.
In California, coyotes
breed January through
March and their pups are
born between March and
May, according to the U.S.
Forest Service.
Coyote pupping season
stretches from the time
coyotes give birth to when
the pups become juveniles
and leave their parents, said
Niamh Quinn, human-wild-
life interactions advisor for
the University of California
Agriculture and Natural Re-
sources. The average litter is
between five and six pups.
Pups tend to emerge
from the den three weeks af-
ter they’re born, Quinn said.
“Pups will stay with their
parents for about six
months, spring to summer,
and will be taught how to
hunt and behave in their en-
vironment by their parents,”
Quinn said. “In the fall,
which is when food becomes
scarce, the parents will con-
sider keeping their juveniles
or have them disperse to be
on their own.”
Similar to any parent,
coyotes become protective
around their den and could
even become aggressive dur-
ing this time. Dens can be a
steep bank, rock crevice,
sinkhole or underbrush, ac-
cording to the Forest Serv-
ice.
During puppy season,
UC Berkeley appoints chancellor
[Berkeley, from B1]
has created a huge burden
on faculty to maintain
Berkeley’s reputation as the
best public university in the
world with ever-diminishing
resources and ever-deterio-
rating working conditions.”
Lyons will oversee a cam-
pus of nearly 46,000 students
and 1,570 faculty members at
a particularly fraught mo-
ment in higher education.
Culture wars over free
speech, academic freedom,
diversity — and, more re-
cently, the Israel-Palestin-
ian conflict — have inflamed
and divided campuses
across the country, includ-
ing Berkeley.
Lyons, in remarks
Wednesday, said he leans
toward adopting a policy of
“institutional neutrality” to
refrain from statements
about issues of the day. That
policy, which holds that uni-
versities should be places to
host robust debate among
campus members but not
take stands themselves. is
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A COYOTE at a wildlife rehabilitation center in Los Olivos, Calif., in 2016. Experts
warn that coyotes with pups are more likely to attack dogs at this time of year.
when coyotes become very
protective of their young,
there is an increased poten-
tial for dog-coyote interac-
tions, Quinn said. If a dog
unknowingly wonders near a
den it could be attacked.
Dogs and cats are also
vulnerable during this time
because coyote parents will
be looking for more food
to bring back to their young,
and this could result in
domestic pets becoming
prey.
In some outdoor spaces
such as San Francisco’s Pre-
sidio, a national park site,
park managers will put signs
near den areas alerting hik-
ers and walkers to stay away.
Presidio’s precautionary
measures include closing
sections of Park Trail and
Bridge Area Ridge Trail to
dog walking; all of the park’s
institutions.
The Israel-Hamas war in
particular has set off ex-
treme controversy over
statements by university
leaders, often leading to cy-
cles of backlash and more
statements.
Skepticism over the val-
ue of college degrees has
grown, and state disinvest-
ment in public universities
has accelerated across the
nation. Even in California,
where Gov. Gavin Newsom
and state legislators have in-
creased higher education
funding, Berkeley and other
UC campuses continue to
struggle to make ends meet.
Berkeley has closed two
deficits and raised $7.3 bil-
lion in its capital campaign
that ended Feb. 29 — the
highest haul of any public
university. But, faculty
members say, the campus
needs billions more to repair
and maintain aging build-
ings, offer competitive sala-
ries, accommodate growing
enrollment and even afford
regular cleaning.
Lyons, in a 2020 campus
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24 miles of hiking trails con-
tinue to be open to people.
Coyotes are part of the
Southern California ecosys-
tem, so sightings in the
Santa Monica Mountains,
San Gabriel Mountains and
San Fernando Valley are
common.
Last May, a Woodland
Hills resident was visited by
a coyote that walked into
their home through a dog
door. In the same month, a
retired couple’s dog in Mis-
sion Viejo was attacked by a
coyote.
The University of Califor-
nia Cooperative Extension
operates a coyote encounter
website that allows visitors
to input their ZIP Code to
see when the last coyote
sighting was recorded.
Some precautionary
measures hikers and
conversation, said financial
sustainability was among
the university’s biggest chal-
lenges — noting that the pro-
portion of Berkeley’s educa-
tional expenses covered by
state funding had plunged,
from half years ago to less
than 12% in recent years.
As a fundraiser, he
helped land eight of the top
10 gifts to the Haas business
school and nearly doubled
the overall donations during
his tenure as dean from 2008
to 2018, compared with the
previous decade, the busi-
ness school reported. One
$25-million donation seeded
the $65-million development
of a six-story, 80,000-square-
foot building with class-
rooms, study rooms, an
event space and a cafe.
Lyons said he planned to
explore “fresh” ways to raise
revenue, including poten-
tially $100 million through
“shared return” investment
funds in new companies.
“That changes the game,” he
said.
The incoming chancellor
said diversity, equity and in-
clusion issues were also top
institutional challenges. UC
Berkeley enrolls a lower pro-
portion of underrepresent-
ed students — 22.6% in fall
2023 — than UCLA at 27.1%
and UC San Diego at 25.1%.
“Berkeley ... is a pro-
foundly important institu-
tion to society,” he said in
2020. “The idea that we look
so different than the society
we serve is going to get more
and more troublesome.”
Sydney Roberts, Berke-
ley’s student body presi-
dent, said financial support
for underrepresented stu-
dents to thrive and succeed
was among top student pri-
orities, along with affordable
housing, safety and free
speech protections. She
called for a leader with con-
flict-resolution skills, politi-
cal acumen and a commit-
ment to listen to students
and act on what they say.
“We need a community
builder … a person to help
people feel valued and
heard,” said Lisa García
Bedolla, vice provost for
graduate studies and dean
of the graduate division.
She and Maximilian
Auffhammer, UC Berkeley’s
Academic Senate chair, said
a new chancellor must be
able to articulate the broad
value of Berkeley to the
larger public to help build
support for the university.
Its “world-class faculty”
members have made life-
changing discoveries, Auff-
hammer said, including
breakthroughs in gene-edit-
ing processes that helped
create COVID-19 vaccines
and a treatment for sickle-
cell anemia. Berkeley in-
structors also have helped
inspire students to reach
L AT I M E S . C O M
petowners can take are re-
searching a trail ahead of
visiting it for any informa-
tion on possible closures or
warnings of frequent coyote
sightings.
When a hiker decides to
bring along their pet on a
trail, keep the dog on a leash
and be aware of your sur-
roundings.
If the hiker and dog en-
counter a coyote, leave
quickly by walking back-
ward but do not run. Quinn
said coyotes have the in-
stinct to chase after moving
targets.
“If a coyote approaches
you, haze [or] yell and throw
things like rocks [at] the
coyote,” she said.
Call 911 if a coyote or other
wild animal attacks or
threatens to attack a hu-
man.
their potential, such as one
teaching assistant who en-
couraged García Bedolla to
pursue a PhD.
But García Bedolla also
noted the low morale across
campus, stemming from lin-
gering pandemic fallout, the
2022 academic worker strike
and recent polarization over
the Israel-Palestinian con-
flict.
Daniel Sargent, an asso-
ciate professor of history
and public policy, said the
new chancellor should help
facilitate a greater embrace
of different viewpoints — in-
cluding conservative voices
as a counterweight to the
prevailing “ultraprogressive
monoculture,” he said.
Lyons has a track record
of unifying people around
shared goals. After two years
as “chief learning officer” at
Goldman Sachs, where he
observed the value of build-
ing an institutional culture,
he led a process to do like-
wise at the Berkeley busi-
ness school.
The school’s four “defin-
ing principles” — para-
phrased — include question-
ing the status quo, showing
confidence with humility,
embracing lifelong curiosity
and learning, and serving
the collective good — not
only personal interests. Ly-
ons also helped spearhead
new interdisciplinary ma-
jors combining business
with other fields, such as en-
gineering and biology, and a
“Berkeley Changemaker”
class that helped students
identify their passions and
activate them to make a dif-
ference in the world.
In selecting Lyons, Drake
said he was impressed by his
“peerless” academic creden-
tials, ability to connect with
diverse people, his love for
students evidenced by many
teaching awards and his col-
laborative skills at working
with the UC community.
He added that Lyons was
devoted to Berkeley, “a Cal
Bear through and through.”
A Palo Alto native, Lyons
earned a bachelor’s degree
in business at UC Berkeley
and a PhD in economics at
MIT. He taught at the Co-
lumbia University business
school for six years before re-
turning to Berkeley in 1993 as
an assistant professor of fi-
nance and economics. He
went on to serve at Haas as
associate dean for academic
affairs, acting dean and, in
2008, dean after his stint at
Goldman Sachs.
He was appointed chief
innovation and entrepre-
neurship officer in 2020,
serving in a newly created
role by Christ. He and his
team propelled Berkeley to
become the No. 1 university
to produce venture-funded
startups founded by under-
graduate alumni.
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Marking
the close
of a holy
month
INJURED
DRIVER TO
RECEIVE
PAYOUT
L.A. will give plaintiff
up to $9.5 million over
crash in a ‘dangerously
designed’ intersection.
By Dakota Smith
The city of Los Angeles
will pay up to $9.5 million to
settle a lawsuit by a woman
who alleged that a poorly de-
signed intersection was a
cause of a traffic collision
that injured her.
On Tuesday, the City
Council unanimously ap-
proved the settlement
amount for plaintiff Jean
Yuna Horihata, whose car
was struck by a vehicle in
February 2021 at Oakshire
Drive and Cahuenga Boule-
vard in the Hollywood Hills.
Days before, a traffic light
pole had been damaged by a
crash at the same intersec-
tion, said David Rudorfer, an
attorney at Panish, Shea
and Ravipudi who repre-
sented Horihata. The traffic
light was damaged, so the
city installed a temporary
one on a pole on the side of
the road, Rudorfer said.
Horihata was driving a
2004 Toyota Highlander on
Oakshire Drive shortly be-
fore 8 a.m., making a left turn
toward the northbound side
of Cahuenga Boulevard af-
ter the light turned green.
A driver in a 2004 Chevy
truck traveling south on Ca-
huenga Boulevard failed to
stop at the red light and
struck Horihata’s car. The
driver didn’t notice the tem-
porary traffic light “until the
last second,” said Rudorfer,
adding that the placement
of the temporary light made
it difficult to see.
Horihata underwent
neck surgery, according to
Rudorfer. She alleged in her
lawsuit that the intersection
was “improperly and dan-
gerously designed” by the
city.
Ivor Pine, a spokes-
person for City Atty. Hydee
Feldstein Soto didn’t im-
mediately respond to a re-
quest for comment.
Overcrowded shelters prompt L.A.
to halt new dog breeding licenses
By Dakota Smith
The Los Angeles City
Council voted Tuesday to
temporarily stop issuing
new dog breeding licenses
because of overcrowding at
city-run animal shelters.
The city’s six shelters
have 737 kennels, but more
than 1,500 dogs were living at
the shelters in February, ac-
cording to the most recent
available data.
That puts the shelters at
more than 200% of capacity,
which has led to dogs being
tripled up in kennels or
housed in crates in hallways
for months on end.
The number of dogs be-
ing euthanized by the city is
up 22% from this time last
year.
The Times has chroni-
cled poor conditions at shel-
ters, including a lack of
dogwalking and inadequate
food supplies for small
animals.
“It is unacceptable for the
city to continue issuing
breeding permits while
thousands of animals are
suffering from overcrowded
conditions in our shelters,”
said Councilmember Eu-
nisses Hernandez, who
chairs the committee that
oversees the city’s Animal
Services Department.
The American Kennel
Club, which bills itself as the
4 Disneyland attractions set for temporary closure
DISNEYLAND’S Monorail passes the Matterhorn
Bobsleds, one of the rides closing for maintenance.
CITY & STATE
Photographs by
DOGS SHARE a kennel at city Animal Services’ Chesterfield Square site in
South L.A. in 2022. Some dogs now spend months in crates in shelter hallways.
world’s largest not-for-profit
all-breed registry, opposes
the city’s ban. The organiza-
tion said in a statement this
week that “blaming regis-
tered, responsible breeders”
for the shelter crisis won’t
improve conditions for those
dogs.
Anecdotal evidence sug-
gests the majority of people
who purchase licenses from
the city aren’t breeding their
dogs, said Staycee Dains,
the Animal Services Depart-
ment’s general manager, at a
hearing last year.
Rather, many dog owners
buy a city breeder permit,
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times
which costs $235, so they
don’t have to spay or neuter
their pets as otherwise re-
quired under city law.
The city doesn’t regulate
breeding, and unlicensed
backyard breeders remain a
problem.
Dains said at last year’s
hearing that she was seeing
more and more purebred
dogs at the shelters.
The ban applies only to
new dog breeding permits.
It’s set to be lifted when the
three-month average of the
daily count of dogs at city-
run animal shelters is “equal
to or less than 75 percent of
By Salvador
Hernandez
Planning a trip to Disney-
land in the coming weeks?
You might want to double-
check the schedule to make
sure your favorite attraction
isn’t out of commission.
Four Disneyland attrac-
tions, including the Incredi-
coaster and Matterhorn
Bobsleds, will be closing
down in the coming weeks as
part of the theme park’s
regular maintenance.
The temporary closures
are coming as spring break
crowds have started to dwin-
dle at the Anaheim resort,
T H U R S DAY , A P R I L 11, 2 0 2 4
The Islamic Society of
West Valley held a
prayer service at
Pierce College’s sta-
dium in Woodland
Hills on Wednesday
to end Ramadan,
when Muslims fasted
from sunrise to sun-
set and focused on
worship and charity.
Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times
the department’s total dog
kennel capacity.”
People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals’ Sen-
ior Vice President Lisa
Lange praised council mem-
bers for Tuesday’s vote, but
said in a statement that
more needs to be done, in-
cluding enforcing the exist-
ing spay-and-neuter law.
Councilmember Hernan-
dez also said the ban is “far
from the only action” needed
by the city. She said she
hopes to discuss “current
conditions in the shelters
during our budget conversa-
tions” in the coming months.
and most of the attractions
are expected to reopen be-
fore the summer crowds be-
gin to arrive, a spokesperson
for the theme park said.
The Incredicoaster is ex-
pected to be closed now
through to April 18 as part of
the park’s regular refurbish-
ment schedule. The Matter-
horn Bobsleds are set to
close on Mondays through
Thursdays, starting April 15
and ending May 2.
The Many Adventures of
Winnie the Pooh will be clos-
ing May 1 as part of the larger
closure associated with
work on Tiana’s Bayou Ad-
venture, a new attraction set
to open later this year.
B3
Another
stormy
weekend
coming
A cold front will bring
rain and cool weather
to the Southland, but
the forecast beyond
that is promising.
By Grace Toohey
Southern California has
started to feel like, well,
Southern California again,
with sunny afternoons push-
ing highs into the 80s this
week.
But don’t start planning
warm-weather weekend ac-
tivities just yet.
“Friday is when [temper-
atures] decrease; it drops 10
degrees because we have an
approaching storm system,”
said Kristan Lund, a Na-
tional Weather Service me-
teorologist in Oxnard.
“Unfortunately,” she add-
ed. “I am pretty sure it’s been
every weekend for the last
several weekends too.”
These cold, wet, North-
ern Pacific storms have
seemingly targeted Ange-
lenos’ spring weekends, hit-
ting week after week on Fri-
day or Saturday — often
chilling outdoor weekend
plans.
But after this system —
which is expected to bring
cool temperatures, rain and
mountain snow across the
state — long-term forecasts
predict a much drier last half
of the month. From April 15
to 23, the National Weather
Service’s Climate Prediction
Center shows almost all of
California trending toward
below-average rainfall.
But first, Southern Cali-
fornians must suffer
through another cold, soggy
weekend.
Considerable cooling and
winds are expected to move
in on Friday with the storm’s
cold front, before rain begins
Friday evening, lasting
through Sunday.
While temperatures on
Thursday will hit 75 to 85 de-
grees across the Southland
— with a chance of reaching
90 degrees in Woodland Hills
— they’ll drop to around 65
to 75 by Friday, Lund said,
and even lower in the moun-
tains.
Rain will arrive Friday
night, starting out steady
before transitioning to
showers, Lund said. Still,
meteorologists say total rain
amounts aren’t expected to
be high, with Los Angeles
County totals measuring
around a quarter to three-
quarters of an inch from this
system.
Farther south in Orange
and San Diego counties,
only light showers are ex-
pected on and off through
the weekend, likely remain-
ing under a tenth of an inch,
forecasters said.
But across the Central
Coast, much heavier rainfall
is predicted, with the pos-
sibility of up to 3 inches,
most falling Saturday.
The storm will also bring
snowfall to the mountains,
from 1 to 4 inches in the
Southern California ranges,
forecasts show.
Snow levels will drop to
about 4,500 feet in elevation
Saturday night to Sunday,
but those lower spots aren’t
expected to see much accu-
mulation, Lund said.
Farther east, several
inches of snow are expected
across the Sierra Nevada,
primarily falling on Sat-
urday.
It’s not clear when The
Many Adventures of Winnie
the Pooh will reopen.
Great Moments with Mr.
Lincoln will be closed April
16, and no reopening date
has been announced.
The four attractions will
be joined on the inactive list
by the popular Haunted
Mansion attraction, which
was shut down earlier this
year to add a new shop and
improve wheelchair access.
Disneyland’s rides and
attractions undergo regular
maintenance and upgrades,
and the park recommends
that visitors check the
theme park’s calendar for
planned closures.
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Michael J Leahy
September 2, 1951 -
April 2, 2024
Michael J. Leahy passed
away peacefully at home
on April 2, 2024, at the age
of 72 surrounded by family,
following a valiant 18-month
battle against metastatic lung
cancer.
Mike was born on
September 2, 1951, in Santa
Monica, CA to Marcus Carver
Le a hy a n d M a rg u e r i te
McFarland Leahy, both of
whom predeceased him.
He grew up in Van Nuys and
attended Notre Dame High
School in Sherman Oaks. He
received a BA in history from
California State University,
Northridge, followed by a JD
from LMU Loyola Law School.
Mike spent most of his le-
gal career at Haight, Brown &
Bonesteel where he devoted
his practice to insurance
law and risk transfer issues,
rendering opinions, draft-
ing insurance policies and
endorsements, and litigating
insurance issues in bad faith
and declaratory relief/judg-
ment actions. For 30 years,
he was the senior partner
in the Risk Management
and Insurance Law practice
group, which was ranked by
U.S. News & World Report
in the first tier of all firms in
Southern California based on
its expertise and reputation.
He was an instructor at the
Litigation Management
Institute for 10 years and in-
structed yearly at the Claims
Litigation Management (CLM)
Claims College in Baltimore.
Upon leaving the firm in April
2021, he became a testifying
expert and consultant.
At Haight, Mike met his
wife Roxanne Wilson, whom
he married on October 3,
1990, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Mike is survived by his loving
wife Roxanne, his siblings,
Sharon Geldert, Patrick
Leahy (Lily) and Kathleen
Leahy, cousins Dave Leahy
(Linda) and Lynn Cooper
(Carl), cousin by marriage,
Alana Kelly, devoted pug
Max, and many other family
members and close friends
and colleagues.
Mike was big smart and
a brilliant lawyer. He had a
strong spirit, lots of energy,
and a great sense of humor.
There was nothing he loved
better than a good story or
joke, except his nightly glass
(or two) of wine. Although
he was open to everyone, he
didn’t suffer fools gladly. He
loved to travel, particularly
on family vacations with his
siblings and Roxanne’s
cousin. He enjoyed regular
workouts at the gym until
his health prevented them.
He loved clothes and did not
hesitate to fill his very large
closet. He was an avid reader
as evidenced by the number
of dead Kindles in his drawer.
He loved watching British
mysteries on tv. He was a
special man and he will be
missed by all who knew him.
The family is grateful to
Dr. Jonathan Goldman and
his colleagues in the UCLA
Oncology Department, who
treated Mike with skill, cutting
edge medicine and humanity
as his illness advanced.
There will be a memorial
service in the coming months.
In lieu of flowers, it was Mike’s
wish that any memorial
tributes be made in the form
of a charitable donation to
the Leahy/Wilson Scholarship
Fund at LMU Loyola Law
School. Donations may be
made in memory of Mike
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Keith Lanny
Gooding
May 3, 1935 -
April 8, 2024
Keith Lanny Gooding, age
88, resident of New London,
Ohio departed this earth,
Monday, April 8, 2024, the
day of the solar eclipse, at
his home with his loving
daughter by his side.
Full obituary can been
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neralhome.com.
George Sasaki
(66) passed away on
March 3, 2024. He is pre-
deceased by his parents,
Sakae and Namuko Sasaki,
and survived by his siblings,
Jean Akutagawa, Karen and
Thomas Sasaki; also survived
by many relatives. A private
funeral service was held on
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at LA
Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist
Temple. (213) 749-1449
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Madelon
YAMAMOTO
Madelon Yamamoto, a
long-time resident of Los
Angeles, California passed
away peacefully on April 1,
2024, at the age of 91.
She is survived by her
son, Tod (Karen) Yamamoto;
daughter, Karen (William
Biggs) Yamamoto; grandson,
Tyler Yamamoto; brothers,
Aki/Geoffry (Sachi) and Eizo/
Victor (Kathy) Arai; sister-
in-law, Kimiko Mukai; many
cousins, nieces, nephews, and
other relatives.
A funeral service will be
held at Hompa Hongwanji
Buddhist Temple at 815 E.
1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
on Saturday, April 20, 2024,
from 2PM.
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Thousands of Westside L.A.
homeowners losing insurance
[Insurance, from B1]
outcome we are all trying to
avoid.”
The letter also included
several pages of ZIP Codes
and the number of home-
owners who would lose their
coverage this summer.
In Pacific Palisades, ac-
cording to the letter, 69.4% of
the 2,342 policyholders — or
about 1,600 — will lose cov-
erage.
In Brentwood, 61.5% of
State Farm’s 2,114 customers
will lose their policies, or
about 1,300 non-renewals.
Of the 1,805 policyholders
in Woodland Hills, 60% — or
about 1,090 — won’t be re-
newed, while in Bel-Air, 67%
of 987 customers, about 660
customers, will be affected.
Orinda in Contra Costa
County and Los Gatos in
Santa Clara County also will
see a high number of policy-
holders lose coverage.
As part of its assessment,
the insurer looked at com-
munities in areas prone to
wildfires as well as those at
risk of fires following an
earthquake, which included
communities such as Bever-
ly Hills and Westwood.
Thelma Waxman, presi-
dent of the Brentwood
Homeowners Assn., whose
1,200 members own about
4,000 properties, said it had
been a stressful time for
Lawyer says killing was no hate crime
[Woodward, from B1]
because of who he was but
because of what he did to
Sam Woodward after they
met up.”
Morrison did not explain
what he meant about Bern-
stein’s actions. Instead, he
painted a picture of his client
— who sat at the defense ta-
ble in a dark suit with un-
kempt hair hanging over his
face — as a socially awkward
young man who suffered for
years with undiagnosed
autism spectrum disorder
and could not make friends.
“His ASD went undiag-
nosed and untreated for al-
most his entire life,” Morri-
son said, adding that Wood-
ward’s parents “wanted so
badly for Sam to appear nor-
mal and fit” and thought
perhaps “by force of will and
prayer, they could help him
appear normal.”
Woodward had thrived
as an Eagle Scout but was
tormented by his sexuality,
raised in an “unaccepting
household” in Newport
Beach by a conservative Ro-
man Catholic family, with a
father who considered
homosexuality a sin, the de-
fense attorney said.
After briefly attending
Cal State Channel Islands,
Woodward moved back in
with his parents.
He became involved in
the Atomwaffen Division,
traveling to a “hate camp”
the group hosted in Texas
and posing for a photo with
James Mason, author of
“Siege,” regarded as the
group’s bible.
Disputing what he called
the prosecution’s “hyperbo-
lic, sensationalized” narra-
tive of “Nazi kills gay Jew,”
the defense attorney said
Woodward did not kill Bern-
stein in service of the group
or its ideology.
members, and for residents
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zones.
Losing State Farm cov-
erage “is the No. 1 topic of
discussion” among associ-
ation members, she said.
“Everybody is nervous.”
Last year, the association
created its first California
Fire Safety Council and
worked closely with My Safe
L.A., a nonprofit providing
fire and safety education, as
well as the Los Angeles Fire
Department in an attempt
to reduce fire risks in the
area.
Waxman said the forma-
tion of the safety council was
partly in response to insur-
ance companies dropping
policyholders in the state.
“At first we thought we
could get a discount,” she
said, “but then it became
about trying to keep our
policies.”
Waxman said she’d been
urging residents who will
lose their home insurance
with State Farm to start
shopping now for a new
home insurance policy as it’s
difficult to find insurers writ-
ing policies in the state.
State Farm said non-re-
newal letters for homeowner
insurance would start to go
out on July 3, then commer-
cial properties on Aug. 20.
State Assemblywoman
SAMUEL WOODWARD is on trial on charges of first-degree murder with a hate
crime enhancement in the slaying of Blaze Bernstein, who was gay and Jewish.
Assistant Dist. Atty. Jen-
nifer Walker told jurors that
Woodward was so involved
in the Atomwaffen Division
that he devised tests for po-
tential recruits to test their
knowledge of its doctrines,
and that he had killed Bern-
stein “because he was gay.”
On Dec. 19, two weeks be-
fore the killing, Woodward
drew a skull and a bloody
knife on a napkin and
scrawled the words, “text is
boring but murder isn’t,” the
prosecutor said.
His diary showed that
Woodward liked to prank
gay people on social media
by pretending he was bi-
curious, attracting their at-
tention and then threat-
ening them.
The prosecutor sug-
gested that Woodward had
applied the principles of his
Eagle Scout training in tar-
geting Bernstein.
“If it’s fishing, what type
of lure are you going to use?”
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Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand
Oaks), whose district in-
cludes many of the affected
neighborhoods, expressed
concern but hoped that the
state could end the crisis by
altering regulations to en-
courage insurers to “return
to the business of writing
policies for Californians and
their properties.”
Insurance companies
have cited high inflation, ca-
tastrophe exposure, the cost
of reinsurance (a type of in-
surance for insurance com-
panies) and the limitations
posed by decades-old insur-
ance regulations as reasons
for scaling back policies in
the state.
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a number of Californians
have turned to the FAIR
plan as a last resort. Funded
by the insurers doing busi-
ness in California, the Fair
Access to Insurance Re-
quirement plan provides
more limited coverage as a
fallback for property owners
unable to find conventional
policies they can afford.
But the enrollment surge
is putting a financial strain
on the state insurer as it
faces a potential loss of
$311 billion, up from $50 bil-
lion in 2018.
State officials said the
FAIR plan had a surplus of
$200 million and was at risk
Walker said. In this case,
“the prey ... was gay people.”
The men exchanged flir-
tatious messages that Jan. 2.
Woodward told Bernstein
that he was straight, but
said: “I might make an ex-
ception for you.” Woodward
picked him up in Foothill
Ranch soon after that.
Bernstein’s parents be-
came alarmed when he
missed a dental appoint-
ment the next day.
When they contacted
Woodward, alerted by their
son’s social media activity
that Woodward was prob-
ably the last to have seen
him, Woodward said that
they had hung out but that
Bernstein had then walked
off into the park without
him.
On Jan. 4, Woodward
texted Bernstein’s father:
“Mr. Bernstein, it’s Sam —
has there been any word
about Blaze?” The father
replied, “Thanks Sam. We
L AT I M E S . C O M
of insolvency should a cata-
strophic event occur.
Lara has proposed a set
of new rules that would
allow insurers to raise rates
to cover reinsurance costs
and projected losses from
catastrophic fires, but also
require that they provide
coverage for more homes in
California’s canyons and
hills.
The proposals, which aim
to move people off the FAIR
plan and slow the increase in
premiums, have won sup-
port from insurance indus-
try trade groups and some
consumer groups, although
some consumer advocates,
such as Consumer
Watchdog, have criticized
the proposed rules.
In the letter to Lara,
Hardin said State Farm
would continue to cooperate
with the state in finding a
resolution to the home in-
surance crisis.
“We are acutely aware of
the political challenges that
the actions needed to im-
prove [State Farm’s] finan-
cial position pose to broader
reform efforts,” she wrote.
“Please know that we have
an ongoing desire and com-
mitment to collaborate with
you and your staff, as well as
the Governor’s office, to
achieve these reforms as
quickly as possible.”
Frederick M. Brown Pool Photo
are still looking for him.”
Investigators searched
the park for a week, but
Bernstein’s body was not
discovered until heavy rains
washed away just enough
mud to expose it.
His body had 28 stab
wounds, Walker told jurors,
many of them to his neck,
with defensive wounds on
his hands.
“Blaze fought for his life
as best he could,” she said.
Sheriff ’s investigators
later found Bernstein’s
blood on Woodward’s watch,
on a folding knife in his desk
and on a sleeping bag stash-
ed beside his house.
In addition, Woodward’s
cellphone pings showed him
in the area of the burial site
just before midnight on
Jan. 2.
Morrison said he expects
to put Woodward on the
stand.
The trial is expected to
last till the end of June.
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negotiate a middle ground
or if both approaches will ad-
vance this year, setting the
stage for a fight at the ballot
box.
The crux of the issue is a
debate over whether Califor-
nia can curb theft without
changing Proposition 47, the
liberal criminal justice mea-
sure voters approved in 2014
that reclassified some felony
drug and theft offenses
under $950 as misdemean-
ors. Rivas and Democratic
Gov. Gavin Newsom believe
they can enact new laws to
address theft while leaving
Proposition 47 intact. Sup-
porters of the initiative
backed by big-box stores
and prosecutors believe that
repealing parts of Pro-
position 47 is crucial to solv-
ing the problem.
“There’s no turning back
the clock on the criminal jus-
tice reforms that have been
enacted,” Rivas said Tues-
day during a news confer-
ence at the Capitol. “It’s
understanding the root
causes of this problem,
which is complex. And for us,
each one of these bills gets
after those layers of com-
plexity.”
Rivas dismissed propos-
als that would require
changing Proposition 47,
sending The Times a state-
ment saying that “going to
the ballot to address retail
crime or theft is not neces-
sary, because the Assem-
bly’s bipartisan and compre-
hensive plan delivers real
and urgent changes for Cali-
fornians.”
Rachel Michelin, presi-
dent of the California Retail-
ers Assn., appeared along-
side Rivas in a signal of her
group’s support for the legis-
lation. But she sees the bills
as one option on the table in
addition to the ballot initia-
tive.
“California is a very polit-
ical state, this is a very politi-
cal situation, but it’s about
how do we find solutions?”
she told The Times.
“Whether it’s a ballot initia-
tive or a legislative package,
what has the best chance of
having results?”
The ballot initiative
called the Homelessness,
Drug Addiction and Theft
Reduction Act seeks to
change Proposition 47 in nu-
merous ways. It would ele-
vate the third time someone
commits retail theft to a fel-
ony charge. It also would al-
low prosecutors to aggre-
gate the value of stolen
goods so that a person could
be charged with a felony for
multiple thefts that add up
to at least $950. It would add
fentanyl to a law that prohib-
its the possession of hard
drugs while armed with a
loaded firearm. It also would
require drug treatment the
third time a person is
charged with simple drug
possession.
“We can’t fix this without
going back to the ballot box,”
said Bobbie Singh-Allen,
president of the American
Petroleum and Convenience
Store Assn., a supporter of
the initiative, which repre-
sents nearly 2,000 conven-
ience stores in California.
“We don’t want to just leave
it to the Legislature.”
The ballot initiative has
already raised more than $7
million since October and is
largely funded by retailers
including Target, Walmart,
7-Eleven and Home Depot,
according to campaign fi-
nance records. The prose-
cutor-led initiative has been
largely backed by law en-
forcement and Republican
elected officials, but recently
received support from
Democrats including San
Francisco Mayor London
Breed.
Greg Totten, chief execu-
tive of the California District
Attorneys Assn. and a sup-
porter of the initiative, told
The Times that he is confi-
dent it will qualify for the No-
vember ballot. The deadline
to submit signatures is April
23.
A law passed in 2014 gives
the Legislature a chance to
hold hearings and negotiate
with initiative sponsors over
policies that could entice
them to pull their measures
off the ballot. Totten said his
campaign stands “ready to
negotiate any time, place or
under any circumstances.”
Rivas did not answer The
Times’ question about
whether he will hold a public
hearing on any potential ne-
gotiations.
The state Senate is also
considering a package of
bills to address the growing
fentanyl crisis and organ-
ized retail theft. Lawmakers
have until the end of August
to decide which bills they
want to send to Newsom.
The Assembly bill pack-
age has support from prog-
ressive groups that back
California’s criminal justice
reforms.
“Rather than simply
seeking to score quick and
cheap political points, the
package reflects a commit-
ment to pursuing solutions
that would reduce the inci-
dents of theft in the first
place,” Tinisch Hollins, exe-
cutive director of Califor-
nians for Safety and Justice,
said in a statement.
These are the bills Rivas
intends to prioritize:
8 Assembly Bill 2943, co-
authored by Rivas and As-
semblymember Rick
Chavez Zbur (D-Los Ange-
les), is a nod to Newsom’s
suggestions for how the
state should try to curb
theft. The bill addresses se-
rial thieves, aggregates dol-
lar amounts and expands
drug diversion programs.
Parts of this bill address sim-
ilar issues in the ballot initia-
tive.
8 Assembly Bill 1794 by
Assemblymember Kevin
McCarty (D-Sacramento)
would allow prosecutors to
aggregate theft crimes by
the same perpetrator even
when they involve different
places and victims. It also
would streamline the proc-
ess of reporting shoplifting
incidents directly to prose-
cutors through a statewide
program called “CAL Fast
Pass.”
8 Assembly Bill 1845 by
Assemblymember Juan Ala-
nis (R-Modesto) is the only
Republican bill in the pack-
age and would expand the
California Highway Patrol’s
property crimes task force
program to include cargo
theft and railroad police.
8 Assembly Bill 3209 by
Assemblymember Marc
Berman (D-Menlo Park)
would allow a court to im-
pose a restraining order for
up to two years against a
person who has stolen, van-
dalized or committed bat-
tery against an employee. It
would also require the court
to consider whether a per-
son lives in a “food desert”
and whether the store is the
only location for necessities.
8 Assembly Bill 1779 by
Assemblymember Jacqui Ir-
win (D-Thousand Oaks) is
co-sponsored by the Califor-
nia District Attorneys Assn.
It would allow prosecutors
to charge several offenses
that took place across coun-
ties and handle them in a
single court.
8 Assembly Bill 1802 by
Assemblymember Reggie
Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Ange-
les) would make permanent
the California Highway Pa-
trol property crimes task
force. Los Angeles County
Dist. Atty. George Gascón
sponsored this bill.
8 Assembly Bill 1960 by
Assemblymember Esmer-
alda Soria (D-Fresno) would
enhance penalties for a per-
son who takes or destroys
property valued at more
than $50,000. Supporters in-
clude the Merced County
district attorney, the Califor-
nia District Attorneys Assn.
and the Orange County Dis-
trict Attorneys Assn.
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NOTICE OF HEARING do not file your response on time, you may lose the
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Name Change de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda described as: “That portion of Lot 4 in Block “B” of
de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en the C. E. Tebbetts Tract, in the County of Los
ORDER TO SHOW la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte
que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota Angeles, State of California, as per map recorded in
CAUSE FOR A CHANGE Book 6 Page 178 of Maps, in the Oice of the County
de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le
OF NAME de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si Recorder of said County. Beginning at the
CASE NO. no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el Northeasterly corner of said lot; thence Southerly
caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su along the Easterly line of said lot, 54 feet; thence
24LBCP00104 sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia. parallel with the Northerly line of said lot, 165 feet,
Petitioner or Attorney
(name, state, bar, and The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y more or less, to the Easterly line of the Westerly 150
address): direccion de la corte es): feet of said lot; thence Northerly parallel with the
Westerly line of said lot, 54 feet to the Northerly line
Angelica Lynn Adams Stanley Mosk Courthouse
4161 Hathaway Ave Unit 111 N. Hill St. of said lot; thence Easterly along said Northerly line
47 Long Beach CA 90815 Los Angeles , CA 90012 165 feet to the point of beginning.”
TO ALL PERSONS
INTERESTED: The name, address, and telephone number of
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Adams filed a petition torney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero against you without your being heard unless you
with this court for a de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del respond within 30 days. Read the information
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courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or respond within 30 days. Read the information below. Online Self-Help Center
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Remaining warm inland: High pressure will hold enough to promote sunshine and warmth again Thursday, Strong storm in the East: Thunderstorms, some severe, will stretch
but temperatures will ease a little near the coast, where the morning could start with low clouds and fog. An from western Pennsylvania and Ohio southward through Florida. To
even stronger onshore flow will cool the entire region on Friday before a storm moving southward brings chilly the north and west, a soaking rain will fall from New England through
and occasionally wet weather Saturday and Sunday. the Great Lakes. Rain will move into Washington ahead of a front.
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Today 81/55 85/57 70/54 64/34 98/65 Seattle
Sunny and very warm Warm with sunshine Sunshine Sunny Hot 55/47 Winnipeg
51/30 Montreal
Friday Not as warm 71/56 Not as warm 73/53 Partly sunny 67/58 Mostly sunny 59/32 Sunny; warm 91/58 60/54
Saturday A shower 63/49 Showers 61/45 A shower 61/46 A shower 51/22 Not as warm 84/52 Billings Minneapolis Toronto
Sunday Rain possible 65/49 Rain possible 58/46 Rain possible 61/47 Showers 45/28 Showers 77/54 61/43 54/41 57/50
Detroit
Monday Sunny 68/52 Sunny; warmer 70/49 Sunny 64/51 Milder 54/24 Warmer 80/55 58/45
Chicago New York
Air quality Good Moderate Unhealthful for: Sensitive people All Not Available San Francisco
57/46 64/56
Denver
South Coast Air Quality Management District forecasts air quality 68/50 Kansas City Washington
SANTA VENTURA CO. Santa Clarita 62/38
68/59
BARBARA CO. Hesperia 62/39
Santa Paula 88/52
Santa Ojai 79/50 LOS ANGELES CO. 84/50 Los Angeles
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69/49 84/53 Burbank Monrovia
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85/55 86/54
66/51 73/50 Pomona/ Yucca Valley 84/57
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Westlake 76/54 L.A. Downtown Fairplex Ontario San Bernardino Houston
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79/51 Chino
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70/54 83/52 Fullerton 87/45
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POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO 69/54 Santa Ana
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75/56
ing west 10-20 knots in the after- Beach Newport Irvine 87/47 Springs High 94 in Palm Springs, Calif. Low 7 in Gothic, Colo.
noon. Wind waves 1-3 feet. Mixed 78/54 Beach 77/54 98/65
swell west 2-3 feet and south 2 feet. Mission Viejo
68/55 Temecula Wednesday Today Wednesday Today
Surf zone: The risk for strong rip Laguna 78/52 City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Sky City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Sky
currents will be moderate at Ventura 86/48
Beach San Albany 62 57 .30 66 61 R Seattle 60 40 -- 55 47 R
County beaches Thursday and low 68/53 Clemente Albuquerque 70 37 -- 72 48 Su Tampa 85 68 -- 81 64 Ts
elsewhere.
70/51 SAN DIEGO CO. Anchorage 38 26 .06 41 33 Sn Tucson 83 48 -- 91 60 Su
Oceanside Aspen 51 25 -- 55 27 Su Tulsa 60 53 .39 68 44 W
Atlanta 73 60 .12 71 52 Ts Washington, D.C. 76 59 .01 68 59 Ts
County Height Period Direction Temp Sun and moon 73/50 Austin 69 59 .72 81 51 Su Wichita 72 51 -- 66 41 Su
Santa Barbara 1-3’ 12 sec W 56 Baltimore 76 57 .02 66 58 Sh
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Orange 1-3’ 13 sec SW 60 Sun 6:27a/7:22p 6:26a/7:20p 6:31a/7:26p Bufalo 62 52 .02 69 49 R Amsterdam 57 46 .26 60 54 R
Moon 8:17a/11:19p 8:16a/11:17p 8:20a/11:24p Poway
San Diego 1-3’ 13 sec WSW 59 Burlington, Vt. 62 46 .17 60 55 R Athens 79 54 -- 77 62 Su
73/51 Charleston, S.C. 80 63 .01 75 57 Ts Bangkok 97 86 .04 101 83 Su
Charlotte 77 57 .13 77 53 Ts Barcelona 62 46 -- 67 52 Su
Tides San Diego Chicago 68 45 -- 57 46 R Berlin 58 50 -- 64 52 Cy
L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet. 69/55 Cincinnati 65 55 .35 66 46 Ts Cabo San Lucas 81 55 -- 84 61 Hz
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Today 12:29p 3.6 Hi 6:04a -0.9 Lo Cleveland 61 53 .22 69 46 R Cairo 77 59 -- 81 61 Su
11:38p 5.9 Hi 5:16p 1.8 Lo Columbia, S.C. 79 57 .01 77 55 Ts Dubai 93 79 -- 92 79 Pc
Fri. 1:48p 3.2 Hi 7:03a -0.5 Lo
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Wednesday Downtown readings Dallas/Ft.Worth 65 62 .12 74 51 Su Havana 88 68 -- 90 73 Sh
------ Hi 5:50p 2.3 Lo Denver 58 36 Tr 62 38 Su Ho Chi Minh City 100 81 -- 101 81 Su
Temperature Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura* Precipitation Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura* Detroit 65 48 -- 58 45 R Hong Kong 80 70 -- 82 75 Pc
UV index High/low 79/56 77/54 76/55 24-hour total (as of 2 p.m.) 0.00 0.00 0.00 El Paso 78 42 -- 84 57 Su Istanbul 66 54 -- 70 54 Su
Minutes to burn for sensitive people Normal high/low 72/54 74/53 68/48 Season total (since Oct. 1) 21.49 16.21 23.92 Eugene 67 37 -- 62 46 Pc Jerusalem 60 51 .19 69 49 Cy
High/low a year ago 75/54 77/55 65/50 Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 27.42 20.53 25.87 Fort Myers 86 67 -- 85 66 Ts Johannesburg 70 42 -- 70 48 Su
Las Vegas, 25 Phoenix, 25
Record high/date 96/1904 90/2018 89/1968 Season norm (Oct. 1 to date) 13.47 11.05 15.21 Hartford 69 45 .06 63 59 R Kuala Lumpur 92 77 .21 97 75 Hz
Los Angeles, 25 San Francisco, 25 Record low/date 41/1927 39/1999 38/1953 Humidity (high/low) 59/20 52/23 89/35 Honolulu 83 69 .04 81 73 Cy Lima 78 69 -- 78 69 Su
Houston 75 66 1.88 81 52 Su London 55 41 .01 66 52 Cy
California cities* Indianapolis 60 53 .58 60 45 R Madrid 70 37 Tr 80 45 Su
Wed. Today Fri. Wed. Today Fri. Wed. Today Fri. Jacksonville, Fla. 82 65 .01 82 55 Ts Mecca 102 72 -- 96 68 Pc
Kansas City 66 46 -- 62 39 W Mexico City 84 55 -- 82 52 Cy
City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo City Hi Lo Prcp. Hi Lo Hi Lo Knoxville 71 56 .06 75 50 Ts Montreal 64 41 .03 60 54 R
Anaheim 82 50 -- 82 53 71 55 L.A. D’ntown/USC 79 56 -- 81 55 71 56 San Diego 73 53 -- 69 55 65 58 Las Vegas 81 54 -- 85 61 Su Moscow 63 48 -- 64 46 Pc
Avalon/Catalina 75 60 -- 74 54 62 50 L.A. Int’l. Airport 73 54 -- 70 54 68 57 San Francisco 70 50 -- 68 50 62 49 Louisville 67 58 .60 68 50 Ts Mumbai 90 81 -- 91 78 Su
Bakersfield 83 56 -- 87 60 86 53 Laguna Beach 69 52 -- 68 53 63 58 San Gabriel 84 56 -- 85 54 72 54 Medford 74 41 -- 72 44 Su New Delhi 99 71 -- 101 77 Hz
Barstow 85 57 -- 89 59 86 51 Lancaster 83 44 -- 84 48 76 45 San Jose 79 56 -- 81 50 68 51 Memphis 69 61 .65 69 49 R Paris 61 39 .01 65 50 Cy
Big Bear Lake 63 31 -- 64 34 59 32 Long Beach 76 53 -- 78 54 68 58 San Luis Obispo 81 53 -- 80 52 66 53 Miami 83 72 -- 89 72 W Prague 54 43 .24 65 42 Su
Bishop 80 41 -- 82 39 79 41 Mammoth Lakes 60 27 -- 62 29 52 28 Santa Ana 76 53 -- 75 56 67 59 Milwaukee 68 46 -- 56 46 R Rome 63 59 -- 66 49 Sh
Burbank 85 56 -- 85 55 70 55 Mission Viejo 81 53 -- 78 52 69 54 Santa Barbara 68 50 -- 69 49 66 56 Minneapolis 71 45 .02 54 41 Sh Seoul 63 50 -- 66 47 Cy
Camarillo 76 50 -- 73 50 68 57 Monrovia 85 56 -- 86 54 73 52 Santa Clarita 87 54 -- 88 52 75 50 Nashville 70 60 .42 67 50 Ts Singapore 91 78 .18 89 79 Ts
Chatsworth 85 58 -- 86 56 70 52 Monterey 63 51 -- 65 48 61 49 Santa Monica Pier 75 54 -- 70 54 67 58 New Orleans 75 71 6.67 76 58 Pc Taipei City 73 65 .06 89 71 Su
Chino 86 50 -- 87 51 75 52 Mt. Wilson 67 47 -- 57 48 49 38 Santa Paula 79 53 -- 79 50 71 51 New York 66 53 -- 64 56 R Tokyo 59 48 -- 65 55 Hz
Compton 77 53 -- 78 54 69 57 Needles 90 59 -- 93 63 92 66 Santa Rosa 79 45 -- 76 44 62 47 Norfolk 76 63 Tr 70 61 Sh Vancouver 55 39 -- 50 45 R
Dana Point 70 51 -- 68 52 64 56 Newport Beach 70 52 -- 68 55 64 59 Simi Valley 81 54 -- 84 53 72 52 Oklahoma City 64 51 .64 68 46 Su Vienna 58 50 -- 68 47 Pc
Death Valley 92 74 -- 97 78 96 72 Northridge 85 56 -- 86 55 71 54 Tahoe Valley 64 26 -- 63 35 56 33 Omaha 74 42 -- 60 37 W
Del Mar 71 52 -- 63 53 63 57 Oakland 73 49 -- 69 48 62 48 Temecula 82 48 -- 86 48 72 49 Orlando 87 67 -- 88 61 Ts Key: Su sunny; Pc partly cloudy; Cy cloudy; Fg
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Fullerton 77 54 -- 82 53 70 58 Pasadena 83 58 -- 84 55 72 52 Ventura 76 55 -- 66 51 61 54 Providence 56 39 .02 58 53 R Wednesday’s readings as of 2 p.m.
Hemet 84 46 -- 87 47 74 48 Paso Robles 83 46 -- 84 46 69 49 Whittier Hills 83 54 -- 83 52 72 55 Raleigh/Durham 75 59 .03 72 57 Ts
Hesperia 79 47 -- 81 52 73 45 Redding 84 51 -- 83 52 66 52 Woodland Hills 85 55 -- 84 54 71 53 Reno 75 41 -- 78 45 Su
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Idyllwild 71 49 -- 73 49 65 44 Sacramento 79 52 -- 82 50 66 51 Yorba Linda 81 51 -- 83 51 73 51 St. Louis 62 56 .26 67 48 R
Irvine 78 50 -- 77 54 68 55 San Bernardino 85 51 -- 87 52 75 53 Yosemite Valley 68 38 -- 72 39 63 39 Salt Lake City 63 42 -- 71 56 Su

THE DAY IN SPORTS

Collier leaving USC

to enter NBA draft
least one of the allegations was
staff and wire reports
known to the university, according
to court documents.
Freshman guard Isaiah Collier
is entering the NBA draft, leaving Chicago White Sox third base-
USC’s roster almost completely man Yoán Moncada will miss at
bare as new coach Eric Mussel- least three months — and maybe
man takes over. the entire season — because of a se-
“Congratulations Zay and good vere leg injury sustained while run-
luck in your next chapter!” USC ning to first base. ... Baltimore 20-
posted on social media. year-old infielder Jackson Holli-
The 6-foot-5 point guard was day, baseball’s top-ranked pros-
the No. 1 overall recruit and aver- pect, made his major league debut.
aged 16.3 points, 2.9 rebounds and
4.3 assists while being named to Standout pass rusher Josh
the Pac-12 all-freshman team. Allen and the Jacksonville Jaguars
Musselman has been combing agreed to a five-year, $150-million
the transfer portal to patch up the contract, the Associated Press re-
roster. He added a commitment ported. ... Kansas City receiver
from former Pennsylvania guard Rashee Rice faces an aggravated
Clark Slajchert on Wednesday. assault charge after a high-speed Ashley Landis Associated Press
— Thuc Nhi Nguyen crash in Dallas. ... Former Balti- RORY McILROY , who needs a Masters victory to complete his career grand slam, walks off the
more linebacker Terrell Suggs was 11th green during a practice round on Tuesday at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga.
After seriously considering an- arrested in Arizona after allegedly

Will McIlroy get his career slam?

other trip to the transfer portal, de- threatening to kill another driver
fensive tackle Bear Alexander and pulling out a gun. ... Green Bay
says he’s staying at USC. will play Philadelphia when the
— Ryan Kartje NFL holds its first regular-season
game in Brazil on Sept. 6.
[Masters, from B10] three full-field events since 2023, five Masters, McIlroy has an aver-
ETC. Giannis Antetokounmpo will Reed, who finished fourth. and finished just one: last year’s age score of 73.8 in the opening
miss the Milwaukee Bucks’ final Rahm is looking to become the Genesis Invitational at Riviera. He round.
Winningest coach three regular-season games after fourth player to win back-to-back withdrew from the Masters last “That speaks to not being in the
an MRI confirmed he has a Masters, joining Jack Nicklaus, year seven holes into the third right place mentally,” Chamblee
VanDerveer retires strained calf. ... Toronto’s Jontay who repeated in 1966, Nick Faldo round after aggravating a foot in- said.
Porter could face expulsion from (1990) and Tiger Woods (2002). jury. Woods said he’s confident McIl-
Tara VanDerveer, the winning- the NBA if gambling-related accu- Rahm has played in five LIV Then again, people have roy will eventually join him as the
est basketball coach in NCAA his- sations against him are true, Com- events this year and has yet to win. counted him out before. sixth career grand slam winner.
tory, announced her retirement missioner Adam Silver said. ... All- But neither Nicklaus nor Faldo Can Woods win? Along with Woods, the others to
Tuesday night after 38 seasons Star point guard Trae Young re- had won anywhere coming into the “I still think I can,” he said. win all four major championships
leading the Stanford women and turned for Atlanta after missing 23 Masters the years they repeated, Everyone figures to be battling were Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen,
45 years overall. games because of a finger injury. ... and Woods had won once. So com- the weather. At midday Wednes- Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player.
VanDerveer, 70, surpassed Several errors on the base of the ing to Augusta on a hot or cold day, the forecast for Thursday was “No question he’ll do it at some
Mike Krzyzewski for the record in Kobe Bryant statue outside the streak is not an especially reliable brutal, calling for thunderstorms point,” Woods said of McIlroy. “Ro-
January. She departs with 1,216 vic- Lakers’ arena have been corrected. predictor of how someone is going in the early morning followed by a ry’s too talented, too good. He’s go-
tories at Idaho, Ohio State and to do. stronger band of heavy rain and ing to be playing this event for a
Stanford. Top assistant Kate Paye Defending champion Andrey “I feel physically better than I thunderstorms from 6 a.m. to 1 very long time. He’ll get it done. It’s
will be VanDerveer’s successor. Rublev was eliminated from the did last year,” Rahm said. “But p.m. The wind is expected to be just a matter of when.”
Monte Carlos Masters with a 6-4, then once the competition starts, whipping, with gusts of 40-45 mph, McIlroy was happy to hear that,
Arkansas hired John Calipari a 6-4 loss to Alexei Popyrin. Jannik it doesn’t really matter. Once the giving way to scattered showers in but acknowledged there’s a differ-
day after the Hall of Fame men’s Sinner also advanced, beating gun goes off, whatever you feel is the afternoon and evening. The ence between words and deeds.
basketball coach stepped down Sebastian Korda 6-1, 6-2 in the sec- out the window; you’ve got to go windy conditions could continue “Yeah, it’s flattering,” he said.
from Kentucky. ... Green Bay’s ond round, as did Daniil Medve- out there and post a score. until Friday morning with eventual “It’s nice to hear, in my opinion, the
Kevin Borseth is retiring after win- dev and Casper Ruud. “So it wouldn’t be the first time. sunny skies Friday afternoon and best player ever to play the game
ning 821 games in a 37-year career. It wouldn’t be the first time we hear through the weekend. say something like that. So, yeah, I
... Zach Edey of Purdue became the Track and field is set to become somebody not feeling their best NBC analyst Brandel Cham- mean, does that mean that it’s go-
second two-time John R. Wooden the first sport to introduce prize and winning.” blee said the player who will have ing to happen? Obviously not. But
Award winner, joining Virginia’s money at the Olympics, with World This also marks the fifth anni- the most pressure piled on his he’s been around the game long
Ralph Sampson, who won in 1982 Athletics saying it would pay versary of Woods’ historic victory shoulders this week is McIlroy. enough to know that I at least have
and ’83. $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris. in 2019, when he overcame all odds “You go back and look and the potential to do it. I know I’ve
to win his fifth Masters title. there’s a pattern,” Chamblee said. got the potential to do it too. It’s
Washington running back Tylin Alyssa Naeher had three saves Woods, 48, has a chance to set “Every time, he seems to play his not as if I haven’t been a pretty
“Tybo” Rogers was arrested and in a penalty shootout and con- another Masters record by making worst golf when it means the most good player for the last couple of
charged with raping two women verted her own attempt Tuesday the cut for a 24th consecutive time. — in other words, in the first round decades.”
and was suspended from the team, night to lead the U.S. past Canada But winning a sixth green jacket is when he’s got to get off to a good Finally, he conceded: “It’s nice
though he played in two College in the final of the SheBelieves Cup, almost inconceivable, especially start.” to hear it when it comes out of his
Football Playoff games after at its fifth straight title in the event. considering he has played in only Chamblee noted that in his last mouth.”
L AT I M E S . C O M T H U R S DAY , A P R I L 11, 2 0 2 4 B7

Clippers’ confidence high as playoffs approach

the locker room that this could be
They secure a 10th top-five the year when that history be-
comes … well, history.
postseason berth in West “We found a way to win in the
in the last 13 years and feel regular season. But, you know, we
just didn’t have any luck in the
good about title chances. playoffs,” said center Ivica Zubac,
who has gone to the playoffs four
By Kevin Baxter times with the Clippers, losing in
the first round twice. “But we’re
PHOENIX — The Clippers re- good enough. We got what we need.
turned home from their final trip of “I think this year is the year.”
the season early Wednesday morn- Zubac said that after Tuesday’s
ing carrying with them both a prize 105-92 win over the Phoenix Suns, a
and a challenge. game that was a 48-minute micro-
The prize is a top-five finish in cosm of the Clippers’ entire season.
the NBA’s Western Conference Injury riddled all year, the team
standings and the playoff berth played again without its leading
that goes with it. That’s hardly a scorer in Kawhi Leonard and its
novel achievement though: The top playmaker in James Harden. A
Clippers have finished in the top team that stubbornly has refused
five in the conference 10 times in to put together a full game all year
the last 13 years. also did that again, playing bril-
Which brings us to the chal- liantly in the first half, holding the
lenge. Because for all that regular- Suns to 10 points in the first period
season success, the Clippers have — the first time it has done that in
made it as far as the conference fi- nearly two decades — and taking a
nals just once in franchise history. season-high 37-point lead in the
Now, however, there’s a feeling in second quarter. Then it was dread-
ful in the second half, committing
12 turnovers and giving up 35 third-
period points, allowing the Suns to
draw within seven. But it also
showed grit, another team trade-
mark, with Russell Westbrook,
starting for the first time since No-
vember because of the injuries to
Leonard and Harden, finishing
with 16 points and season highs in
both assists (15) and rebounds
(15). That made him the first Clip-
per to finish with at least 15 points,
rebounds and assists in a game
while extending his NBA record for
career triple-doubles to 199.
Five other players also scored in
double figures including Paul
George, whose game-high 23
points gave him more than 18,000
for his career, becoming one of just
seven active players with at least
18,000 points, 5,000 rebounds and
3,000 assists.
“This locker room is extremely
talented. So we don’t rely on one
person, we kind of pick each other
up,” George said. “So who’s in,
who’s out, we still have a job to do.
And that’s just how we go about it.”
Of course they’re even better
with Leonard, who has missed five
games because of inflammation in
his right knee, and Harden, who is
dealing with inflammation in his
right foot. And those are the kinds
of injuries Zubac said have kept the
Clippers from making long playoff
runs in the past.
“We would have made that run if
we were healthy the last few years,”
he said. “We had good teams.”
So now, with the advantage of
clinching a playoff berth with
nearly a week left in the schedule,
Clippers coach Tyronn Lue has the
luxury of resting players in the final
three games, including Wednesday
night’s rematch with the Suns at
Crypto.com Arena.
“We’ve got to be smart going
into the playoffs,” he said. “So we’re
just taking it day by day.”
Maybe. But Westbrook said it’s
also time to switch focus because,
he needs to remind no one, what
the Clippers have done during the
season means nothing in the post-
season.
“The time is now,” he said. “Ob-
viously we have to do a better job of
just consistently playing the way
we need to play, finding ways to
better win basketball games. Be-
cause that’s what the playoffs are
about. Teams will make runs.
“It’s our job as a team to stay to-
gether, stick to our principles.”
The Clippers did that Tuesday,
defending so well in the first quar-
ter the Suns missed nine their first
10 shots and shot just 10.5% from
the floor, missing all four three-
pointers. Then after letting
Phoenix back into the game mid-
way through the fourth, the Clip-
pers surged again, with George
scoring six straight to help push
the lead back to 13. The win was the
team’s 26th on the road, matching
the franchise record.
“Our guys found a way to do it,
found a way to win,” Lue said. “I’m
proud of our guys and what we
were able to accomplish.”
The biggest accomplishments,
however, may be yet to come.

Lakers are left clinging to ninth in West

NBA STANDINGS
Through Tuesday
Standings have been arranged to reflect how the teams will be determined for
the playoffs. Teams are ranked 1-15 by record. Division standing no longer has
any bearing on the rankings. The top six teams in each conference qulify for the
playoffs. Teams seven through 10 will participate in a play-in tournament with
the top-seeded team playing the lowest qualifying play-in team. The next-
lowest qualifying team would play the second, etc. Head-to-head competition
is the first of several tiebreakers, followed by conference record. (Western They’re a half-game ahead
Conference divisions: SCPS-Southwest; P-Pacific; N-Northwest; Eastern Confer-
ence divisions: A-Atlantic; C-Central; S-Southeast). of Warriors in playoff race
WESTERN CONFERENCE after losing to them while
Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk.
1. x-Denver 55 24 .696 7-3 N2
an ailing Davis sits out.
1. x-Minnesota 55 24 .696 8-2 N1
By Dan Woike
3. x-Oklahoma City 54 25 .684 1 5-5 N3
4. y-CLIPPERS 51 28 .646 4 7-3 P1
5. x-Dallas 49 30 .620 6 9-1 S1 In the months before, the frailty
6. New Orleans 47 32 .595 8 5-5 S2 of the NBA season seems more ab-
7. Phoenix 46 33 .582 9 6-4 P2
stract, each game representing an
equal 1.2% slice of the season. When
8. Sacramento 45 34 .570 10 5-5 P3
you’re in the grind of it, the tomor-
rows eclipse any real finality.
9. LAKERS 45 35 .563 ⁄2 7-3
1
P4
Until the end gets here — and
10. Golden State 44 35 .557 1 8-2 P5
then, for most, all you’re left with is
11. Houston 39 40 .494 6 5-5 S3 “if only.”
12. Utah 29 50 .367 16 0-10 N4 If only the Lakers had been
13. Memphis 27 52 .342 18 4-6 S4 sharper out of the in-season tour-
14. Portland 21 58 .266 24 2-8 N5 nament, if only it hadn’t taken so
15. San Antonio 20 59 .253 25 5-5 S5 long to find their shooting stroke, if
EASTERN CONFERENCE only they had held tighter onto the
rope against Brooklyn and Sacra-
Team W L PCT GB L10 Rk.
mento.
1. z-Boston 62 17 .785 7-3 A1
If only they’d been a little lucki-
2. x-Milwaukee 48 31 .608 14 4-6 C1
er, a little better.
3. New York 47 32 .595 15 6-4 A2 If only they had more time.
4. Cleveland 46 33 .582 16 3-7 C2 With the end of the season bar-
4. Orlando 46 33 .582 16 5-5 S1 reling toward them, the Lakers
6. Indiana 46 34 .575 171⁄2 7-3 C3 played what could end be their fi-
7. Philadelphia 45 35 .563 171⁄2 7-3 A3 nal home game, losing a key game
8. Miami 44 35 .557 18 6-4 S2 for postseason positioning 134-120
to Golden State.
9. Chicago 37 42 .468 7 3-7 C4 The Lakers (45-35) lead the
10. Atlanta 36 43 .456 8 6-4 S3 Warriors by half a game for ninth in
11. Brooklyn 31 48 .392 13 5-5 A4 the West and are tied with 35
12. Toronto 25 54 .316 19 2-8 A5 losses, with Golden State owning
13. Charlotte 19 60 .241 25 2-8 S4 the season tiebreaker. The Lakers Wally Skalij Los Angeles

14. Washington 15 65 .188 291⁄2 3-7 S5 finish the season in Memphis and AUSTIN REAVES tries to keep the Warriors’ Chris Paul from stealing the ball in the Lakers’
15. Detroit 13 66 .165 31 1-9 C5 New Orleans this weekend, their 134-120 loss Tuesday. The Lakers’ defeat gave Golden State the tiebreaker in the season series.
x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference postseason fate largely out of their
hands. could, man. Give my team as much Curry made all six of his threes. making wasn’t as good as that of
The Lakers were in great posi- as I could today,” James said. “I He scored 23 on just nine attempts Golden State, the Warriors issuing
Tuesday’s late box
tion Saturday after beating came in Sunday for my normal with eight assists and seven re- death by a thousand swishes.
WARRIORS 134, LAKERS 120
Cleveland, moving into eighth and prep day for the Minnesota game bounds. The game underscored why the
GOLDEN STATE
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T owning momentum to spare. So and it started to get worse as the “They had guys step up and Lakers have been so desperately
Green................................32 5-7 0-2 0-6 10 2 15 they thought. After the game, Le- minutes went down. So I just went make shots,” Lakers coach Darvin trying to push out of the No. 9- 10
Wiggins .............................28 7-12 0-0 1-4 0 3 17 Bron James complained about an home. And pretty much today was Ham said. “It’s a make-or-miss play-in game — a single-elimina-
Jackson-Davis.....................24 2-5 3-5 2-7 0 0 7
Curry.................................32 7-9 3-4 0-7 8 2 23 illness that would sideline him like one of the first days I was able league, and it is what it is. It’s a tion game that, especially now,
Thompson..........................32 10-16 2-2 0-0 3 2 27 Sunday against Minnesota. And to get out of the room, get out of the tough loss for sure. They put a lot of could end up being played on the
Paul ..................................24 5-10 0-0 0-6 9 2 11
Kuminga ............................21 2-8 3-4 0-6 3 3 8 any chance they had against the bed and feel a little bit of energy.” pressure on your defense, not hav- Warriors’ home court.
Podziemski.........................20 5-6 0-0 1-3 2 0 13 Timberwolves ended in the first He gave the Lakers a quick ing AD back there as just our con- And when you consider the
Payton II ............................13 3-6 1-2 0-1 1 2 9
Garuba................................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
quarter when Anthony Davis left boost, but nothing compared to ductor, just communicating and speed in which they can turn a
Moody.................................1 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 0 0 the game after being hit in the face. the execution the Warriors deliv- moving around, obviously very, game — Golden State scored 10
Quinones .............................1 0-0 2-2 0-1 0 0 2 Before Tuesday’s game, there ered, the team hammering the very tough, but you know, we came straight in the final 83 seconds of
Santos ................................1 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 2
Spencer...............................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 was plenty of suspense. It started Lakers with a barrage of threes into the game and feel comfortable the third — they’re one of the last
Totals 47-80 14-21 4-42 37 17 134 with word that Davis wouldn’t be from all angles, 26 in all. with our game plan and for the teams anyone wants to see in an
Shooting: Field goals, 58.8%; free throws, 66.7% able to play because of headaches Draymond Green made five in most part, you know the majority elimination game.
Three-point goals: 26-41 (Curry 6-6, Green 5-7, Thompson 5-10, Podziemski
3-3, Wiggins 3-5, Payton II 2-3, Kuminga 1-3, Paul 1-4). Team Rebounds: 6. and nausea. the first half and rookie Brandin of the game we executed it.” The Lakers got some help
Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 12 (Jackson-Davis 3, Wiggins 3, Curry 2, It continued when players in the Podziemski canned three straight, The Warriors became the first around the league, with Sacra-
Garuba, Green, Payton II, Thompson). Turnovers: 15 (Green 4, Paul 3, Thomp-
son 2, Curry, Garuba, Jackson-Davis, Moody, Payton II, Podziemski). Steals: 3 locker room said they hadn’t even all while Stephen Curry, the Warri- team to make 26 or more threes mento blowing a big lead in its loss
(Curry, Kuminga, Thompson). Technical Fouls: None. seen James at the arena, unsure of ors’ most dangerous weapon, pa- while shooting 63.4% or better. at Oklahoma City and the Clippers
LAKERS
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T whether he’d play. tiently dissected the Lakers’ “Historic,” Lakers guard hanging on to win in Phoenix.
Hachimura .........................30 7-21 4-4 2-11 2 0 20 James upgraded to available at Davis-less defense. Spencer Dinwiddie said. They’re going to need more of it
James ...............................35 14-22 4-5 1-7 11 0 33 the last moment before the Lakers Green had made six threes in The Lakers, though, grinded — the Lakers’ playoff hopes shaky
Hayes................................28 5-6 1-2 3-6 1 4 11
Reaves ..............................34 8-15 2-3 3-7 6 3 22 needed to submit their starters. He the last month of games before their way back from 17 points down after a second straight loss.
Russell ..............................37 3-11 6-6 0-2 7 2 14 scored 33 points in 35 minutes to go Tuesday. After the game, the Lak- to get within five in the third quar- “We’ll figure out the scenarios
Dinwiddie ..........................22 4-7 1-1 0-4 0 1 12
Prince ...............................18 1-6 0-0 0-1 0 1 2 with 11 assists and seven rebounds. ers acknowledged that funneling ter and within nine early in the as we keep going,” Dinwiddie said.
Vincent..............................15 0-3 0-0 0-1 1 1 0 “Just tried to get as much rest as the ball toward Green was a part of fourth, with a chance to cut it to six. “But we know we need to win. Not
Reddish...............................9 0-2 0-0 0-0 1 1 0
Castleton .............................1 1-2 0-0 1-1 0 0 2
I could. Stay hydrated as much as I their plan. But like it was all night, their shot- keep losing.”
Christie................................1 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 2
Lewis ..................................1 0-0 2-3 0-0 1 1 2
Mays...................................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0
Totals 44-96 20-24 10-40 31 14 120
Shooting: Field goals, 45.8%; free throws, 83.3%
Three-point goals: 12-35 (Reaves 4-7, Dinwiddie 3-5, Hachimura 2-7, Rus-
sell 2-7, James 1-3, Prince 0-3, Vincent 0-3). Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turn-
overs: 1. Blocked Shots: 3 (Hachimura 2, Hayes). Turnovers: 7 (James 4, Hayes
Davis’ absence leaves void in Lakers’ game plan
2, Vincent). Steals: 8 (James 2, Vincent 2, Castleton, Hachimura, Hayes,
Prince). Technical Fouls: Hayes, 8:59 third.
[Plaschke, from B10] as a Laker and on pace to be his sence, thus leaving the Warriors sixth seed.
Golden State 38 33 35 28— 134 Survive two must-win games most games played ever (he free to essentially play the game And let’s say the Lakers win
LAKERS 29 31 29 31— 120 for a team that just blew two must- played in 75 games in back-to-back from the three-point line. both games.
A—18,997. T—2:15. win games because its two fragile seasons with New Orleans). And goodness, did they ever, They’re still not assured of
Tuesday’s late box stars couldn’t get on the court? He’s played with a nagging hip. making 26 treys, the most ever avoiding the play-in basement, as
On Sunday, the Lakers lost to He’s played with all sorts of bumps given up by the Lakers. surging Golden State would tie
CLIPPERS 105, SUNS 92
Minnesota after LeBron James and bruises. He’s played hard and The Warriors sank them on 41 them with wins against Portland,
CLIPPERS
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T missed the game because of flu- he’s played hurt. tries, a 63.4% clip, the highest New Orleans and Utah.
George ..............................39 7-15 6-6 0-7 5 4 23 like symptoms and Davis exited in And besides, nobody ques- shooting percentage in a game And by virtue of their 3-1 head-
Mann ................................37 8-10 0-0 4-10 1 4 17 the first quarter after he was tioned James when he was sick with as many as 26 three-point to-head record against the Lakers,
Zubac................................27 8-13 1-1 2-13 2 0 17
Powell ...............................32 4-12 0-0 0-5 1 5 10 socked in the left eye. with what might have been the attempts in NBA history. the Warriors own the tiebreaker.
Westbrook..........................39 7-17 0-0 2-15 15 3 16 On Tuesday, James returned to same flu bug on Sunday, right? You’ll never guess who went Indeed, in front of an ultimately
Coffey ...............................34 4-11 2-2 1-4 2 4 13
Hyland ..............................17 3-9 0-0 1-9 2 2 7 score 33 points in 35 minutes, but But, still … five for five on three-point at- glum crowd, Davis missed a pretty
Plumlee...............................7 0-0 2-2 0-0 0 0 2 this time it was Davis who didn’t Davis can’t escape his past, and tempts in the first half alone. Yeah, big game Tuesday night.
Boston Jr. ............................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Brown .................................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
play while suffering from what while it might not be fair, he prob- one Draymond Green. “We don’t have time to feel
Moon ..................................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 were apparently another set of ably will not be able to elude the “They were blazing hot,” Lak- sorry for ourselves,” Ham said.
Totals 41-87 11-11 10-63 28 22 105 flu-like symptoms. perception that he should have ers coach Darvin Ham said. “Blaz- “We gotta get our bootstraps
Shooting: Field goals, 47.1%; free throws, 0.0%
Three-point goals: 12-26 (George 3-5, Coffey 3-8, Powell 2-4, Westbrook Because he had been hit in the tried to play. ing, blazing hot.” together and get back on the draw-
2-4, Mann 1-1, Hyland 1-4). Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 3. Blocked eye Sunday, it was natural to won- The only thing for certain is: Green told reporters it was ing board, look at the film and try
Shots: 3 (Zubac 2, George). Turnovers: 18 (George 6, Westbrook 5, Zubac 3,
Mann 2, Brown, Powell). Steals: 5 (Coffey 2, Westbrook 2, George). Technical der whether the headache and When Davis doesn’t play, the Lak- more than the presence of heat. It to make the best of these last two
Fouls: Mann, 10:08 third nausea were caused by a concus- ers are a vastly different team … a was the absence of Davis. games.”
PHOENIX sion, but the Lakers insisted he noticeably worse team … a losing “It’s different when it’s AD out And to think, it was just last
Min FG-A FT-A OR-T A P T
Allen .................................31 3-13 3-4 1-6 2 3 9 was not in the concussion proto- team. there,” Green said. “He can cover weekend that they manhandled
Durant...............................39 8-22 3-5 0-2 2 2 21 col. “It’s almost pretty much impos- up so many mistakes. It’s a totally the playoff-bound Cleveland
Eubanks ............................12 3-6 0-0 3-5 1 0 6
Beal..................................39 6-13 6-6 2-7 3 2 19 So, apparently, he was sick. sible to make up for what he pro- different look for them when he’s Cavaliers and had etched a path
Booker ..............................39 1-11 10-11 1-3 5 2 12 Yeah, everyone knows what vides for our ballclub, both offen- out there.” out of the play-in tournament.
O’Neale .............................28 3-10 2-2 0-11 4 3 10 everyone is thinking, but let’s sively and defensively,” James Will Davis return in time for Two games later, their true
Gordon..............................28 4-9 0-0 0-0 0 0 11
Young..................................7 0-1 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 briefly push pause on the cyni- said. Friday’s seemingly gimme game selves once again have emerged,
Bol .....................................7 1-2 0-0 0-2 0 1 2 cism. On Tuesday, the Lakers’ task against the injury-racked Mem- This is a team with two physically
Little ...................................1 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 2
Okogie ................................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Without more detailed infor- was, well, almost pretty much phis Grizzlies? unreliable superstars. This is a
Thomas ...............................1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 mation, it feels unfair to immedi- impossible. If he’s truly suffering from the team in trouble.
Wainright .............................1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Totals 30-89 24-28 8-38 17 13 92
ately diagnose this as yet another Offensively, Rui Hachimura flu and not feeling side effects from “It’s a difficult situation, but it’s
Shooting: Field goals, 33.7%; free throws, 85.7% case of “AD Frailty.” and D’Angelo Russell were re- Sunday’s whack in the head, one not impossible,” Ham said, later
Three-point goals: 8-35 (Gordon 3-8, Durant 2-5, O’Neale 2-7, Beal 1-2, Bol This has, after all, been the quired to have big games and they would assume he’d be back. adding, “You’re a true competitor,
0-1, Booker 0-4, Allen 0-8). Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked
Shots: 7 (Beal 5, Gordon, O’Neale). Turnovers: 8 (Booker 3, Beal 2, Gordon 2, season when Davis has overcome didn’t, combining to go 10 for 32. But even if they beat Memphis, then you’ll make the best of a
Durant). Steals: 16 (Gordon 4, Allen 3, Booker 2, Durant 2, O’Neale 2, Beal, the injury stigma, the season when Yet defensively is where Davis’ the Lakers will have to win again in tough situation. So I expect us to
Bol, Eubanks). Technical Fouls: O’Neale, 7:55 fourth.
CLIPPERS 37 29 18 21— 105
he’s finally been tough enough. loss truly was felt, as the Lakers the season finale Sunday in New do that.”
Phoenix 10 23 35 24— 92 Before Tuesday, Davis had had to sag toward the middle to Orleans against a Pelicans team Headache. Nausea.
A—17,071. T—2:11. played in 74 of 79 games, his most compensate for his gaping ab- that is trying to hold on to the Everywhere.
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BASEBALL : TUESDAY FLASHBACK

STANDINGS
Through Tuesday
NATIONAL LEAGUE
West W L Pct. GB L10
DODGERS 10 4 .714 — 7-3
San Diego 6 8 .429 4 4-6
Arizona 5 7 .417 4 3-7
San Francisco 4 8 .333 5 3-7
Colorado 3 9 .250 6 3-7
Central W L Pct. GB L10
Pittsburgh 9 3 .750 — 7-3
Milwaukee 7 3 .700 1 7-3
Chicago 7 4 .636 11⁄2 7-3
Cincinnati 6 5 .545 21⁄2 5-5
St. Louis 6 6 .500 3 6-4
East W L Pct. GB L10
Atlanta 7 3 .700 — 7-3
Philadelphia 5 6 .455 21⁄2 5-5
Washington 5 6 .455 21⁄2 5-5
New York 4 7 .364 31⁄2 4-6
Miami 1 11 .083 7 1-9

AMERICAN LEAGUE
West W L Pct. GB L10
ANGELS 6 5 .545 — 6-4
Texas 6 5 .545 — 5-5
Oakland 4 7 .364 2 4-6
Abbie Parr Associated Press
Houston 4 8 .333 21⁄2 4-6
TWINS shortstop Carlos Correa grabs a throw from catcher Christian Vázquez, then tags out the Dodgers’ James Outman.
Seattle 4 8 .333 21⁄2 3-7
Central W L Pct. GB L10
Cleveland
Detroit
Kansas City
8
7
7
3
4
4
.727
.636
.636
1
1
— 7-3
6-4
7-3
Dodgers short after tag-out of Ohtani
Minnesota 3 6 .333 4 3-6 [Dodgers, from B10] The right-hander did limit the and one other that, in the game’s When the Dodgers traded for
Chicago 2 9 .182 6 2-8 Right fielder Alex Kirilloff damage to two runs. And unlike pivotal sequence, was thrown out Glasnow this offseason, then im-
East W L Pct. GB L10 quickly recovered and fired a relay last week, when he failed to get at the plate. mediately struck a $136.5-million
New York 10 2 .833 — 8-2 throw to infielder Carlos Correa. through two innings at Wrigley “It was just a really good base- extension with him, they did so
Standing near the foul line in shal- Field, he at least kept the Dodgers ball play,” Roberts said. “Unfortu- with nights like Tuesday in mind.
Boston 7 4 .636 21⁄2 6-4 low right field, Correa then fired a — who did their only scoring on a nately, we were on the wrong end of He began his season with three
Baltimore 6 4 .600 3 6-4 92-mph throw to the plate. Teoscar Hernández RBI double in that one.” decent performances, going 2-0
Tampa Bay 6 6 .500 4 5-5 Initially, Ohtani was ruled safe the first and Max Muncy’s solo with a 3.18 earned-run average. But
by plate umpire Marvin Hudson. home run in the fourth — in the ahead of his matchup with the of-
Toronto 6 6 .500 4 5-5
Upon a challenge by the Twins, game.
Dominant Glasnow fensively slumping Twins at Target
however, the video review showed “Not super happy about the strikes out 14 in victory Field, both Glasnow and team offi-
Today’s games
New York (NL) at Atlanta.....................9:15 a.m. that Minnesota catcher Christian outing,” Miller said. “But with only Ever since he was a kid, Tyler cials were expecting another level
Milwaukee at Cincinnati ........................10 a.m. Vázquez executed a perfect tag on two runs, given the amount of Glasnow has had a habit of count- from the tall, lanky right-hander.
Minnesota at Detroit .............................10 a.m. Ohtani — who declined to talk to baserunners I had and amount of ing strikeouts in his head. Glasnow started — fittingly —
Houston at Kansas City .........................11 a.m. reporters after — a split-second be- times I fell behind in the count, that “I always do,” he said with a with a strikeout, dotting a 97-mph
Oakland at Texas..............................11:30 a.m. fore his foot touched the plate. gives me more confidence. Be- smile. “I’d lie if I said I didn’t.” fastball on the inside corner to
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia...................3:30 p.m. “He aced a throw to home cause I could easily have given in And in a 6-3 Dodgers win over Julien. Each of his next five strike-
Baltimore at Boston ...............................4 p.m. plate,” Roberts said of Correa. “If it and made it a four- or five-run the Twins on Tuesday, his tally outs also came via the heater, like
was a little bit higher, he still game.” quickly climbed. the elevated four-seamer he blew
LEAGUE LEADERS would’ve been safe.” Miller’s replacement in the fifth In an overpowering perform- past Byron Buxton in the second,
Through Tuesday There were other little ways the inning, Vesia, gave up a home run ance that ended after seven score- or an off-the-plate bullet Correa
NATIONAL LEAGUE >>>
Dodgers lost the finale of a 3-3 Mid- for the second straight game. less innings, Glasnow matched his helplessly waved at in the fifth.
Player G AB R H Avg. west trip. Miller grinded through “I missed my spot,” Vesia said, career high with 14 strikeouts, “That’s exactly what we were
Smith, DODGERS ..............12 50 20 6 .400 his start, continually falling behind “and he got me.” flashing his full array of pitches — looking for,” Roberts said after-
Steer, Cin.........................11 40 16 10 .400
McMahon, Col ..................12 45 18 5 .400 hitters because of poor fastball The Dodgers finished one for and tantalizing front-line potential ward. “Tonight, he had complete
Arcia, Atl..........................10 39 15 4 .385 command and execution of his sec- seven with runners in scoring posi- — in his best start yet as the ace of control of the game … That was as
Betts, DODGERS ...............14 50 19 18 .380
Contreras, Mil ...................10 40 15 10 .375 ondary pitches. tion, eight runners left stranded — the Dodgers rotation. dominant as we’ve seen him.”
AMERICAN LEAGUE >>>
Player G AB R H Avg.
Kwan, Cle ........................11 52 20 12 .385
Volpe, NYY........................11 40 15 10 .375 TAMPA BAY 6, ANGELS 4 DETROIT 5, PITTSBURGH 3 BALTIMORE 7, BOSTON 1 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 7, CLEVELAND 5
Seager, Tex.........................9 38 14 7 .368
Kirilloff, Min........................9 31 11 5 .355
Caballero, TB....................10 34 12 6 .353 Tampa Bay AB R H BI Avg. Angels AB R H BI Avg. Detroit AB R H BI Avg. Pittsburgh AB R H BI Avg. Baltimore AB R H BI Avg. Boston AB R H BI Avg. Chicago AB R H BI Avg. Cleveland AB R H BI Avg.
O’Hoppe, ANGELS .............11 34 12 4 .353 Díaz 1b 5 0 0 0 .204 Rendon 3b 3 0 0 0 .150 Vierling cf-rf 5 1 2 0 .269 Triolo 2b 4 0 0 0 .250 Hender ss 5 2 2 0 .231 Duran lf 4 0 0 0 .319 Grossm rf 4 1 2 0 .133 Kwan lf 5 1 2 1 .385
Ramírez dh 5 0 2 2 .255 Moniak rf 3 1 1 0 .190 Canha rf-1b 5 0 1 0 .206 Reynolds dh 4 1 1 0 .250 Rutsch c 5 1 2 1 .316 Devers 3b 4 0 0 0 .194 Moncad 3b 2 1 1 0 .282 Giménez 2b 4 0 1 0 .317
Arozarena lf 5 0 1 0 .214 a-Adell rf 1 0 0 0 .182 Greene lf 3 1 1 0 .205 Hayes 3b 4 0 2 1 .313 Santand rf 5 0 1 1 .214 O’Neill rf 4 1 1 1 .344 Lopez 2b 3 0 0 0 .148 Ramírez 3b 5 2 3 1 .294
DODGERS 6, MINNESOTA 3 Paredes 3b 3 1 2 1 .286 b-Sanó 1 0 0 0 .261 Torkelson 1b 3 0 1 1 .200 Suwinski lf 4 0 0 0 .190 1-Hays rf 0 0 0 0 .077 Casas 1b 3 0 1 0 .244 Sosa 2b-3b 5 1 1 1 .300 J.Naylor 1b 2 1 1 2 .314
Rosario rf 5 0 1 0 .250 Trout cf 4 1 1 2 .293 1-McKin 3b 0 1 0 0 .294 Olivares rf 4 2 2 2 .321 O’Hearn dh 3 1 1 0 .333 Yoshida dh 3 0 0 0 .222 Vaughn 1b 4 1 2 1 .205 Freem cf-ss 4 0 1 1 .200
Mead 2b 4 1 1 0 .292 Ward lf 4 0 1 0 .304 Urshela 3b 4 0 2 1 .387 Joe rf 0 0 0 0 .324 Mount 1b 5 1 1 0 .282 Rafaela cf 3 0 0 0 .212 Lee dh 4 2 2 1 .375 Brennan dh 4 0 0 0 .258
Los Angeles AB R H BI Avg. Minnesota AB R H BI Avg. Siri cf 3 2 1 1 .263 Drury 2b 4 1 1 0 .171 2-Mead cf 0 1 0 0 .080 Tellez 1b 4 0 1 0 .273 Mullins cf 4 2 2 1 .188 Valdez 2b 3 0 0 0 .114 Beninten lf 3 1 1 0 .167 Laure rf-cf 2 1 0 0 .200
Betts ss 2 1 1 0 .380 Julien 2b 4 0 0 0 .107 Caballer ss 4 2 3 2 .353 Hicks dh 3 1 1 0 .160 Keith 2b 4 0 0 0 .222 Taylor cf 4 0 0 0 .375 Cowser lf 4 0 2 4 .467 McGuire c 1 0 0 0 .320 Pillar cf 2 0 1 2 .111 B.Naylor c 3 0 0 0 .148
Ohtani dh 5 0 1 0 .333 Correa ss 4 1 1 1 .300 Pinto c 4 0 1 0 .227 Schanuel 1b 4 0 0 0 .065 Kelly c 3 0 0 0 .250 Davis c 2 0 1 0 .156 Urías 3b 5 0 1 0 .091 a-Gonzál ss 1 0 0 0 .000 a-Fletch cf 1 0 1 2 .231 Arias ss 3 0 0 0 .125
Freeman 1b 5 1 1 0 .333 Kirilloff 1b 4 1 1 1 .355 Totals 38 6 12 6 O’Hoppe c 3 0 1 0 .353 a-Carpenter 1 1 1 1 .231 Williams ss 3 0 1 0 .286 Kemp 2b 3 0 0 0 .000 Hamilton ss 2 0 0 0 .333 DeJong ss 4 0 1 0 .167 b-Florial rf 1 0 0 0 .167
Smith c 5 2 2 3 .400 Buxton cf 4 0 1 0 .235 Rengifo ss 4 0 1 1 .364 Foley p 0 0 0 0 --- b-Cruz 1 0 0 0 .298 Mateo 2b 1 0 1 0 .357 b-Wong c 1 0 0 0 .313 Maldon c 4 0 0 0 .091 Totals 33 5 8 5
Muncy 3b 4 0 0 0 .250 Miranda dh 4 0 0 0 .000 Totals 34 4 7 3 Báez ss 3 0 0 0 .152 Totals 34 3 8 3 Totals 40 7 13 7 Totals 29 1 2 1 Totals 36 7 12 7
T.Hernán rf 3 1 1 0 .283 Wallner rf 4 0 0 0 .067 Rogers dh-c 4 0 1 1 .130
Outman cf 4 1 2 3 .175 Castro 3b 3 0 0 0 .111 Tampa Bay 020 200 110 —6 12 1 Chicago 500 000 020 —7 12 0
Angels 200 100 001 —4 7 0 Totals 35 5 9 4 Baltimore 010 200 112 —7 13 0 Cleveland 201 200 000 —5 8 0
Taylor lf 4 0 0 0 .038 Jeffers c 3 1 1 1 .120 Boston 100 000 000 —1 2 2
Lux 2b 3 0 1 0 .179 Martin lf 3 0 2 0 .286 a-popped out for Moniak in the 7th. b-struck out for Adell in the 9th. Detroit 100 000 004 —5 9 0 a-sacrificed for Pillar in the 6th. b-struck out for Arias in the 8th.
Pittsburgh 011 001 000 —3 8 1 a-struck out for McGuire in the 8th. b-struck out for Hamilton in the 8th.
Totals 35 6 9 6 Totals 33 3 6 3 Walks—Tampa Bay 4: Paredes 2, Mead 1, Siri 1. Angels 4: Rendon 2, Hicks Walks—Chicago 2: Grossman 1, Benintendi 1. Cleveland 5: Giménez 1,
Los Angeles 000 330 000 —6 9 0 1, O’Hoppe 1. Strikeouts—Tampa Bay 9: Díaz 1, Ramírez 1, Arozarena 1, a-singled for Kelly in the 9th. b-pinch hit for Williams in the 9th. 1-ran for 1-ran for Santander in the 9th. J.Naylor 2, Laureano 1, B.Naylor 1. Strikeouts—Chicago 10: Lopez 1, Sosa 2,
Minnesota 000 000 012 —3 6 0 Mead 2, Siri 2, Pinto 2. Angels 7: Moniak 1, Sanó 1, Ward 2, Hicks 1, Schanuel Torkelson in the 9th. 2-ran for Urshela in the 9th. Walks—Baltimore 3: O’Hearn 2, Mullins 1. Boston 2: Casas 1, McGuire 1. Vaughn 1, Lee 1, Benintendi 1, DeJong 2, Maldonado 2. Cleveland 12: Giménez
2. E—Caballero (2). LOB—Tampa Bay 9, Angels 7. 2B—Arozarena (1), Siri (3), Walks—Detroit 1: Greene 1. Pittsburgh 2: Davis 2. Strikeouts—Detroit 8: Strikeouts—Baltimore 8: Rutschman 1, Santander 2, Cowser 2, Urías 2, 1, Ramírez 1, Freeman 2, Brennan 3, Laureano 1, B.Naylor 2, Arias 1, Florial 1.
Walks—Los Angeles 6: Betts 3, Muncy 1, T.Hernández 1, Lux 1. Vierling 2, Canha 1, Urshela 1, Kelly 1, Báez 1, Rogers 2. Pittsburgh 4: Tellez 1, Kemp 1. Boston 10: Duran 2, O’Neill 2, Casas 1, Rafaela 2, McGuire 1, González
Caballero (3), Drury (1). HR—Paredes (4), off Cisnero; Trout (6), off Civale. LOB—Chicago 5, Cleveland 7. 2B—Sosa (1), Pillar (1), Vaughn (1), Benintendi
Strikeouts—Los Angeles 14: Betts 1, Ohtani 2, Freeman 3, Smith 1, Muncy 2, Taylor 1, Davis 1, Williams 1. E—Taylor 2 (1). LOB—Detroit 6, Pittsburgh 6. 1, Wong 1. E—Duran (1), Hamilton (1). LOB—Baltimore 10, Boston 3.
RBIs—Siri (4), Caballero 2 (5), Ramírez 2 (5), Paredes (9), Trout 2 (8), (1), Fletcher (3). HR—J.Naylor (2), off Soroka. RBIs—Sosa (1), Vaughn (3),
T.Hernández 1, Outman 1, Taylor 3. Minnesota 15: Julien 2, Correa 2, Kirilloff 1, 2B—Canha (2), Reynolds (5). HR—Olivares (2), off Mize; Olivares (3), off 2B—Cowser 2 (4), Henderson (1). HR—O’Neill (6), off Burnes. RBIs—Cowser
Rengifo (2). SB—Rendon (1), Caballero (5). Runners left in scoring Lee (2), Pillar 2 (2), Fletcher 2 (3), J.Naylor 2 (7), Freeman (6), Kwan (4),
Buxton 2, Miranda 2, Wallner 3, Castro 2, Jeffers 1. LOB—Los Angeles 8, Holton. RBIs—Torkelson (3), Urshela (4), Carpenter (2), Rogers (2), Olivares 2 4 (5), Rutschman (6), Santander (11), Mullins (8), O’Neill (6). SB—Mullins (2),
position—Tampa Bay 2 (Siri, Rosario); Angels 3 (Rengifo, Trout, Sanó). Ramírez (10). SB—Laureano 2 (3). S—Fletcher. Runners left in scoring
Minnesota 3. 2B—Ohtani (8), Martin 2 (2). HR—Outman (2), off Varland; RISP—Tampa Bay 4 for 8; Angels 1 for 6. GIDP—Rosario, Drury. DP—Tampa (7), Hayes (6). Runners left in scoring position—Detroit 2 (Torkelson, Henderson (3). SF—Cowser. Runners left in scoring position—Baltimore position—Chicago 3 (Maldonado 2, Pillar); Cleveland 3 (Brennan 2,
Smith (1), off Varland; Jeffers (2), off Vesia; Correa (1), off Brogdon; Kirilloff (1), Bay 1 (Mead, Caballero, Díaz); Angels 1 (Rengifo, Drury, Schanuel). Canha); Pittsburgh 0. RISP—Detroit 4 for 10; Pittsburgh 1 for 1. Runners 5 (Urías 3, Kemp, Cowser); Boston 0. RISP_Baltimore 8 for 15; Boston 0 for 0. J.Naylor). RISP—Chicago 5 for 13; Cleveland 3 for 8.
off Brogdon. RBIs—Outman 3 (7), Smith 3 (12), Jeffers (5), Correa (4), Kirilloff Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA moved up—Greene, Keith. GIDP—Urshela, Taylor. DP—Detroit 1 (Keith, Runners moved up—Mullins. Chicago IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
(3). Runners left in scoring position—Los Angeles 5 (Ohtani 3, Taylor, Civale, W, 2-1 ..............5 4 3 2 1 4 78 2.12 Canha); Pittsburgh 1 (Hayes, Triolo, Tellez). Soroka......................32⁄3 4 4 4 3 4 79 6.14
Freeman); Minnesota 2 (Correa, Julien). RISP—Los Angeles 3 for 9; Minnesota Baltimore IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Maton, H, 3 .................1 0 0 0 1 1 19 7.36 Detroit IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hill.............................1⁄3 3 1 1 0 0 11 7.71
Burnes, W, 2-0 .............7 2 1 1 2 6 90 1.93
0 for 3. Runners moved up—Julien. GIDP—Freeman. DP—Minnesota 1 Poche, H, 3..................1 0 0 0 1 0 11 8.31 Mize ...........................5 5 2 2 1 2 83 4.82 Leasure.......................2 0 0 0 1 1 25 0.00
Coulombe....................1 0 0 0 0 3 16 0.00
(Julien, Correa, Kirilloff). Adam, H, 3..................1 1 0 0 0 0 11 3.38 Holton.........................1 1 1 1 0 1 15 2.84 Wilson, W, 1-1 .............1 1 0 0 1 3 24 1.80
Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Webb..........................1 0 0 0 0 1 11 0.00
Fairbanks, S, 1-1 ..........1 2 1 1 1 2 27 15.00 Lange .........................1 0 0 0 1 1 22 2.45 Kopech, S, 2-2 .............2 0 0 0 0 4 24 2.45
Glasnow, W, 3-0 ...........7 3 0 0 0 14 88 2.25 Boston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Angels IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Miller, W, 3-0 ...............1 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.00 Cleveland IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Vesia ..........................1 1 1 1 0 1 9 3.00 Bello, L, 1-1 ..............51⁄3 4 3 1 2 3 89 4.11
Sandoval, L, 1-2 ...........5 6 4 4 3 6 101 6.57 Foley, S, 3-3.................1 2 0 0 0 0 11 0.00 Allen...........................4 7 5 5 1 4 76 4.60
Brogdon ......................1 2 2 2 0 0 21 18.00 Rodríguez ....................1 0 0 0 0 1 14 4.91
García.........................1 1 0 0 0 1 20 15.43 Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Morgan .......................1 0 0 0 0 0 15 5.40
Minnesota IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Winckowski................22⁄3 9 4 3 1 4 65 3.52
Cisnero .......................1 3 1 1 0 2 27 14.54 M.Pérez .......................8 6 1 1 0 7 100 1.89 Sandlin .......................1 1 0 0 0 2 12 0.00
Varland, L, 0-2 .............5 7 6 6 3 6 97 9.00 Strickland ....................1 2 1 1 0 0 17 9.00 Bednar, L, 1-1, BS, 1-4 . 1⁄3 3 4 4 1 0 23 12.46 Inherited runners-scored—Rodríguez 1-0. Gaddis........................1 0 0 0 0 2 12 0.00
Sands.........................2 1 0 0 1 4 35 1.69 Fulmer ........................1 0 0 0 1 0 11 0.00 Contreras ....................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 7 3.38 U— Mark Wegner, Bruce Dreckman, Jeremie Rehak, Clint Vondrak. Barlow, L, 0-2 ..............1 3 2 2 1 1 27 6.35
Stewart .......................1 1 0 0 2 2 24 0.00 WP—Sandoval(2). Inherited runners-scored—Contreras 2-0. T—2:40. Tickets sold—36,093 (37,755). Strzelecki.....................1 1 0 0 0 1 11 0.00
Alcala .........................1 0 0 0 0 2 12 0.00
PB_Jeffers (1).
U— Nick Mahrley, Marvin Hudson, Hunter Wendelstedt, John Tumpane. N.Y. YANKEES 3, MIAMI 2 TORONTO 5, SEATTLE 3 ATLANTA 6, N.Y. METS 5 KANSAS CITY 4, HOUSTON 3
T—2:23. Tickets sold—17,024 (38,544).
Miami AB R H BI Avg. New York AB R H BI Avg. Seattle AB R H BI Avg. Toronto AB R H BI Avg. New York AB R H BI Avg. Atlanta AB R H BI Avg. Houston AB R H BI Avg. Kansas City AB R H BI Avg.
MILWAUKEE 9, CINCINNATI 5 Arraez 2b 3 0 0 0 .234 Torres 2b 5 0 0 0 .200 Crawford ss 3 0 0 0 .130 Springer rf 5 0 2 2 .191 Nimmo lf 5 1 1 0 .211 Acuña rf 3 3 2 0 .256 Altuve 2b 4 1 1 0 .333 Garcia 3b 4 0 0 1 .222
De La Cruz lf 3 0 0 0 .275 Soto rf 4 1 1 1 .348 Rodríguez cf 3 1 1 0 .196 Guerr 1b 51 0 0 .196 Marte rf 5 0 1 1 .256 Albies 2b 4 1 2 2 .310 Alvarez lf 5 0 4 2 .347 Witt ss 5 1 1 1 .333
Milwaukee AB R H BI Avg. Cincinnati AB R H BI Avg. Burger dh 4 0 0 0 .261 Judge cf 1 0 1 0 .195 Polanco 2b 3 0 1 0 .186 Bichette ss 4 1 1 2 .205 Lindor ss 5 0 1 0 .089 Riley 3b 3 1 2 2 .286 Tucker dh 5 0 2 0 .286 Pasquant 1b 4 0 0 0 .108
Dunn 3b 5 0 0 0 .250 India 2b 4 0 1 0 .243 Bell 1b 3 1 0 0 .200 Stanton dh 4 0 1 1 .250 France 1b 4 0 0 0 .333 Turner dh 30 2 0 .324 Alonso 1b 4 1 2 3 .196 Olson 1b 4 0 1 1 .293 Bregma 3b 5 0 1 0 .222 2-Hampson 0 1 0 0 .077
Ortiz 3b 0 0 0 0 .313 Benson cf 5 0 0 0 .225 Chisholm cf 4 1 1 0 .211 Rizzo 1b 4 0 2 0 .244 Haniger rf 3 1 1 2 .263 Schneid lf 3 0 0 0 .227 Baty 3b 4 0 1 0 .325 Ozuna dh 4 0 1 1 .318 Diaz c 5 0 1 1 .302 Perez c 5 0 2 1 .341
Contreras c 4 2 1 0 .375 E.-Stra 1b 5 2 2 0 .163 Anderson ss 4 0 2 0 .283 Volpe ss 4 0 0 0 .375 Garver dh 4 0 0 0 .156 Biggio 2b 31 2 0 .290 Stewart dh 1 0 0 0 .071 Harris cf 4 0 1 0 .350 McCorm rf 5 0 1 0 .211 Melendez lf 2 0 1 0 .333
Yelich lf 4 0 2 3 .324 Candel 3b 5 0 0 0 .163 García rf 2 0 1 0 .179 Verdugo lf 3 1 1 1 .220 Raleigh c 4 0 0 0 .182 a-Cleme 3b 0 0 0 0 .280 a-Taylor dh 2 0 1 0 .276 Arcia ss 3 0 0 0 .385 J.Abreu 1b 4 0 1 0 .088 1-D.Blanco lf 0 0 0 0 .000
Adames ss 5 1 1 0 .250 Fraley rf 4 1 2 1 .400 a-J.Sánch rf 2 0 0 1 .174 Berti 3b 3 1 1 0 .200 Canzone lf 2 1 1 1 .241 Kirk c 30 0 0 .162 McNeil 2b 4 0 1 0 .156 d’Arnaud c 4 1 1 0 .214 b-Carati 1b 1 0 0 0 .333 Velázquez dh 4 0 2 0 .323
Bauers 1b 5 1 1 2 .174 D.L. Cruz ss 4 1 1 1 .293 Rivera 3b 2 0 0 0 .143 Wells c 3 0 0 0 .130 1-Raley 0 0 0 0 .150 K-Fa 3b-2b 4 1 3 1 .313 Bader cf 4 1 2 0 .233 Kelenic lf 4 0 1 0 .462 Peña ss 5 1 2 0 .333 Frazier 2b 3 1 0 0 .217
Hoskins dh 4 0 1 0 .212 Steer lf 3 1 2 1 .400 b-Gordon 0 0 0 1 .190 Totals 31 3 7 3 Rojas 3b 4 0 2 0 .360 Varsho cf 41 1 0 .147 Narváez c 3 2 2 1 .385 Totals 33 6 11 6 Dubón cf 3 1 1 0 .222 Renfroe rf 3 1 1 0 .156
Frelick rf 4 2 3 1 .324 Martini dh 3 0 0 0 .238 Bruján 3b 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 30 3 6 3 Totals 34 5 11 5 Totals 37 5 12 5 a-Singleton 1 0 0 0 .143 Isbel cf 3 0 0 0 .226
Turang 2b 5 1 1 0 .353 a-Fairchi dh 1 0 0 0 .300 Bethanco c 3 0 0 0 .000 Seattle 000 000 120 —3 6 2 New York 000 000 032 —5 12 1 Meyers cf 1 0 0 0 .238 Totals 33 4 7 3
Perkins cf 5 2 3 3 .385 Stephens c 4 0 2 2 .259 Totals 30 2 4 2 Toronto 003 200 00x —5 11 0 Atlanta 103 101 00x —6 11 1 Totals 44 3 14 3
Totals 41 9 13 9 Totals 38 5 10 5 Miami 000 000 200 —2 4 2 Houston 110 100 000 0 _ 3 14 1
a-hit by pitch for Biggio in the 7th. 1-ran for Canzone in the 9th. a-grounded out for Stewart in the 7th.
Milwaukee 003 021 300 —9 13 1 New York 010 011 00x —3 7 2 Kansas City 000 030 000 1 _ 4 7 0
Walks—Seattle 6: Crawford 1, Rodríguez 1, Polanco 1, Haniger 1, Canzone Walks—New York 3: Alonso 1, Stewart 1, Narváez 1. Atlanta 2: Acuña 1,
Cincinnati 000 100 220 —5 10 1 a-grounded out for García in the 7th. b-sacrificed for Rivera in the 7th. 2. Toronto 2: Turner 1, Kirk 1. Strikeouts—Seattle 10: Crawford 1, Rodríguez 1, Riley 1. Strikeouts—New York 8: Nimmo 2, Marte 2, Alonso 1, Baty 1, McNeil No outs when winning run scored. a-flied out for Dubón in the 8th. b-pinch
a-lined out for Martini in the 8th. Walks—Miami 3: Arraez 1, De La Cruz 1, Bell 1. New York 7: Soto 1, Judge Polanco 2, France 2, Garver 2, Raleigh 2. Toronto 7: Guerrero 1, Bichette 1, 1, Narváez 1. Atlanta 5: Riley 1, Ozuna 1, Harris 1, Kelenic 2. E—Narváez (3), hit for J.Abreu in the 10th. 1-ran for Melendez in the 8th. 2-ran for Pasquantino
Walks—Milwaukee 4: Contreras 1, Yelich 1, Hoskins 1, Frelick 1. Cincinnati 3, Verdugo 1, Berti 1, Wells 1. Strikeouts—Miami 7: Arraez 2, De La Cruz 1, Turner 1, Schneider 1, Biggio 1, Kiner-Falefa 1, Varsho 1. E—Polanco (1), Raleigh Albies (2). LOB—New York 8, Atlanta 7. 2B—Alonso (1), Narváez (1), Albies in the 10th.
2: India 1, Steer 1. Strikeouts—Milwaukee 5: Dunn 2, Adames 2, Bauers 1. Bell 1, Anderson 1, García 1, Rivera 1. New York 3: Rizzo 1, Wells 2. (1). LOB—Seattle 6, Toronto 9. 2B—Turner (6), Kiner-Falefa (2). (4). HR—Alonso (3), off Matzek. RBIs—Alonso 3 (6), Narváez (3), Marte (3), Walks—Houston 1: Altuve 1. Kansas City 5: Pasquantino 1, Melendez 2,
Cincinnati 12: India 1, Benson 3, Encarnacion-Strand 1, Candelario 2, Fraley 1, E—Bethancourt (1), Anderson (2), Rizzo (2), Torres (1). LOB—Miami 5, New HR—Canzone (3), off Bassitt; Haniger (2), off Richards; Bichette (1), off Kirby. Albies 2 (12), Riley 2 (10), Olson (9), Ozuna (13). SB—Acuña 2 (4). Runners Frazier 1, Renfroe 1. Strikeouts—Houston 10: Altuve 1, Tucker 1, Bregman 1,
Steer 1, Martini 2, Stephenson 1. E—Adames (1), De La Cruz (5). York 11. 2B—Chisholm (2), Judge (3), Stanton (3). HR—Verdugo (2), off Puk. RBIs—Canzone (6), Haniger 2 (6), Springer 2 (4), Bichette 2 (5), Kiner-Falefa left in scoring position—New York 3 (McNeil 3); Atlanta 2 (Olson 2). Diaz 2, McCormick 2, J.Abreu 1, Caratini 1, Meyers 1. Kansas City 7: Garcia 1,
LOB—Milwaukee 9, Cincinnati 8. 2B—Turang (4), Hoskins (1), Yelich (1), RBIs—J.Sánchez (4), Gordon (7), Verdugo (5), Stanton (7), Soto (11). (2). SB—Biggio (1). Runners left in scoring position—Seattle 1 RISP—New York 1 for 10; Atlanta 7 for 14. Runners moved up—Nimmo, Witt 1, Melendez 1, Velázquez 2, Frazier 1, Isbel 1. E—Bregman (1).
Adames (2), Bauers (2), De La Cruz (4), Stephenson (2), Fraley (3), Steer (4). SB—Anderson (2), Chisholm (2). SF—Gordon. Runners left in scoring (Haniger); Toronto 4 (Kirk 2, Schneider, Guerrero). DP—Seattle 2 (Polanco, Marte, Albies. LI DP—Olson. GIDP—Taylor, Lindor, d’Arnaud. DP—New York 2 LOB—Houston 13, Kansas City 10. 2B—Dubón (2), Alvarez (3), Velázquez (3).
RBIs—Perkins 3 (3), Yelich 3 (9), Bauers 2 (3), Frelick (3), Fraley (1), position—Miami 4 (Bell, Rivera, Anderson, Bethancourt); New York 7 (Volpe Crawford, France; Crawford, Polanco, France); Toronto 3 (Biggio, Guerrero; (McNeil, Lindor, McNeil; Lindor, McNeil, Alonso); Atlanta 2 (Olson, Arcia, 3B—Witt (2). RBIs—Diaz (5), Alvarez 2 (11), Garcia (10), Witt (3), Perez (10).
Stephenson 2 (3), De La Cruz (6), Steer (15). SB—India (2), Perkins (1). 2, Rizzo, Stanton 3, Wells). RISP—Miami 1 for 6; New York 2 for 10. Runners Biggio, Bichette, Guerrero; Kiner-Falefa, Bichette, Guerrero). Olson; Arcia, Albies, Olson). Houston IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
moved up—J.Sánchez. GIDP—Rivera, Volpe. DP—Miami 1 (Arraez, Bell); Seattle IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Javier........................51⁄3 5 3 2 3 4 93 1.10
Runners left in scoring position—Milwaukee 4 (Turang, Bauers 2, Montero......................2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 7 1.69
Perkins); Cincinnati 7 (Benson, Martini 2, Fairchild, Candelario 3). New York 1 (Berti, Torres, Rizzo). Kirby, L, 1-2 .................4 8 5 5 0 3 87 6.91 Houser, L, 0-1 ..............5 8 5 5 2 1 95 5.40
Miami IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Thornton......................1 1 0 0 0 1 13 1.50 Núñez .........................2 3 1 1 0 3 31 4.50 B.Abreu.......................1 0 0 0 1 1 19 5.79
RISP—Milwaukee 6 for 15; Cincinnati 3 for 15. Runners moved Pressly ........................1 1 0 0 1 2 26 11.57
Puk, L, 0-3 ................42⁄3 4 2 1 5 2 98 5.91 Voth............................1 1 0 0 1 0 14 4.76 Sulser .........................1 0 0 0 0 1 8 4.50
up—Contreras, Frelick, Turang, Encarnacion-Strand, Candelario, India, De La S.Sánchez ...................1 2 1 1 1 0 26 10.38 Hader .........................1 0 0 0 0 0 11 6.00
Stanek........................2⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 21 2.70 Atlanta IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Cruz. Soriano.......................1⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 10 3.86 Speier.........................1 1 0 0 0 1 19 0.00 R.López, W, 1-0 ............6 3 0 0 3 6 94 0.75 Suero, L, 0-1 ...............0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.00
Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Ross, W, 1-0..............61⁄3 5 3 2 1 7 87 1.80 Nardi ..........................1 1 0 0 0 0 15 13.50 de Geus......................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 2 6.75 Bummer ......................1 2 0 0 0 0 19 6.23
Bender........................1 0 0 0 0 1 15 3.86 Toronto IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Matzek........................2⁄3 3 3 3 0 1 19 6.75 Ragans .......................5 10 3 3 1 5 96 2.60
Peguero ....................11⁄3 4 2 2 0 2 36 2.84 Anderson.....................1 1 0 0 0 1 14 5.40
Hudson.......................1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 6 1.59 New York IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Bassitt, W, 1-2 ...........62⁄3 5 1 1 4 8 115 5.06 Jiménez, H, 3...............1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 9 1.93
Rodón, W, 1-0..............6 4 2 0 2 6 89 1.72 Richards......................1 1 2 2 1 1 28 2.70 Iglesias, S, 2-2 .............1 3 2 2 0 1 23 4.50 Stratton.......................1 2 0 0 0 2 21 3.60
Uribe ..........................1 1 0 0 1 3 24 5.40 Schreiber.....................1 0 0 0 0 0 8 0.00
Cincinnati IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Hamilton, H, 3..............2 0 0 0 1 0 17 3.24 Green, S, 2-2.............11⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 25 3.18 Inherited runners-scored—Jiménez 1-0. HBP_Houser 2 (Acuña,Arcia).
Holmes, S, 5-6 .............1 0 0 0 0 1 7 0.00 McArthur, W, 1-0 ..........2 1 0 0 0 2 25 5.40
Montas, L, 2-1 .............5 6 5 3 1 4 96 2.16
Spiers .........................4 7 4 3 3 1 81 6.75
Inherited runners-scored—Peguero 2-2, Hudson 1-0. OAKLAND 4, TEXAS 3 ST. LOUIS 3, PHILADELPHIA 0 WASHINGTON 5, SAN FRANCISCO 3 CHICAGO CUBS 5, SAN DIEGO 1

Oakland AB R H BI Avg. Texas AB R H BI Avg. Philadelphia AB R H BI Avg. St. Louis AB R H BI Avg. Washington AB R H BI Avg. San Fran AB R H BI Avg. Chicago AB R H BI Avg. San Diego AB R H BI Avg.
ARIZONA 3, COLORADO 2 Toro dh 4 0 0 0 .158 Semien 2b 4 1 2 0 .295 Schwarb dh 3 0 0 0 .205 Donovan lf 4 0 0 1 .250 Abrams ss 4 1 2 3 .344 Lee cf 5 0 2 0 .255 Happ lf 4 1 0 0 .318 Bogaerts 2b 4 0 1 0 .250
Gelof 2b 4 0 1 0 .244 Smith ss 4 0 2 1 .348 Turner ss 3 0 2 0 .295 Goldsch 1b 4 0 0 0 .182 Thomas rf 4 0 0 0 .209 Wade 1b 2 0 1 0 .344 Suzuki rf 5 1 3 0 .326 Tatis rf 4 0 0 0 .264
Arizona AB R H BI Avg. Colorado AB R H BI Avg. Bleday cf 4 0 1 0 .279 Langford lf 3 0 1 0 .261 Harper 1b 4 0 0 0 .237 Contreras dh 4 0 1 0 .217 Gallo dh 3 0 0 0 .167 a-Flores 1b 3 0 1 0 .269 Bellinger cf 4 1 0 0 .209 Cronenw 1b 4 0 0 0 .288
Carroll cf 4 1 1 1 .227 Blackm dh 2 1 1 0 .333 Davis 3b-1b 3 0 0 0 .243 Jankowski lf 0 0 0 0 .429 Realmuto c 3 0 0 0 .273 Arenado 3b 3 0 0 0 .245 Meneses 1b 4 0 0 0 .190 2-Slater 0 0 0 0 .000 Morel 3b 3 1 2 4 .326 Machado dh 4 0 2 0 .204
Moreno c 5 1 4 0 .250 Tovar ss 4 1 2 0 .302 Brown lf 3 0 0 0 .143 García dh 4 0 0 0 .244 Stubbs c 1 0 0 0 .250 Gorman 2b 4 1 2 1 .222 Winker lf 3 2 2 0 .310 Soler dh 3 0 0 0 .209 Madrigal 3b 0 0 0 0 .294 Profar lf 3 0 0 0 .286
Pederson dh 4 0 0 0 .368 McMah 3b 4 0 1 1 .400 1-Hernaiz 3b 0 1 0 0 .000 Heim c 4 1 1 1 .237 Bohm 3b 4 0 1 0 .237 Herrera c 4 0 1 0 .296 Adams c 4 0 2 1 .267 Conforto lf 5 0 0 0 .310 Swanson ss 4 0 0 0 .270 Kim ss 3 0 0 0 .196
a-Marte dh 1 0 0 0 .277 Díaz c 4 0 2 1 .324 Langeliers c 4 3 3 4 .250 Duran 1b 2 0 0 0 .200 Stott 2b 4 0 1 0 .206 Burleson rf 2 1 2 0 .229 Vargas 2b 4 0 0 0 .292 Chap 3b 5 0 1 0 .184 Busch 1b 4 0 1 0 .257 Campusa c 3 0 0 0 .326
Walker 1b 3 0 2 1 .292 Bryant 1b 3 0 0 0 .114 Nevin 1b-lf 4 0 0 0 .111 Wendzel 3b 3 0 0 0 .000 Castellan rf 4 0 2 0 .154 1-Siani rf 0 0 0 0 .143 Lipscomb 3b 3 0 0 1 .243 Estrada 2b 3 1 1 0 .174 Hoerner 2b 4 0 0 0 .139 Merrill cf 3 0 0 0 .300
Suárez 3b 4 0 0 0 .261 Jones lf 4 0 0 0 .174 Butler rf 4 0 0 0 .161 a-Walsh 1 0 0 0 .306 Marsh lf-cf 3 0 2 0 .344 Winn ss 3 1 1 0 .333 Young cf 4 2 2 0 .167 Yastrzem rf 3 1 2 0 .130 Cooper dh 3 0 1 0 .417 Wade 3b 0 0 0 0 .250
Peterson 2b 4 0 0 0 .111 Rodgers 2b 4 0 0 0 .167 Allen ss 2 0 0 0 .188 Carter rf 4 1 1 1 .182 Rojas cf 1 0 0 0 .148 Scott cf 2 0 0 1 .073 Totals 33 5 8 5 Bailey c 1 1 1 1 .296 Gomes c 4 1 2 1 .200 a-Rosario 3b 1 1 1 1 .267
Grichuk rf 3 1 1 1 .250 Cave rf 4 0 0 0 .273 Totals 32 4 5 4 Taveras cf 3 0 0 0 .226 a-Merrifie lf 1 0 0 0 .167 Totals 30 3 7 3 1-Fitzgerald 0 0 0 0 .000 Totals 35 5 9 5 Totals 29 1 4 1
McCarthy lf 4 0 0 0 .273 Doyle cf 3 0 2 0 .302 Totals 32 3 7 3 Totals 31 0 8 0 Murphy c 0 0 0 0 .111 Chicago 000 050 000 —5 9 0
Alexander ss 3 0 1 0 .296 Totals 32 2 8 2 Philadelphia 000 000 000 —0 8 0 Ahmed ss 4 0 1 1 .222 San Diego 000 001 000 —1 4 0
Totals 35 3 9 3 Oakland 010 000 102 —4 5 0 St. Louis 000 120 00x —3 7 0 Totals 34 3 10 2
Texas 110 000 100 —3 7 0 a-homered for Wade in the 6th.
Arizona 210 000 000 —3 9 0 a-struck out for Rojas in the 7th. 1-ran for Burleson in the 7th. Washington 002 010 101 —5 8 1 Walks—Chicago 3: Happ 1, Morel 1, Cooper 1. San Diego 2: Wade 1,
Colorado 100 001 000 —2 8 0 a-struck out for Wendzel in the 9th. 1-ran for Brown in the 9th. San Francisco 010 002 000 —3 10 0
Walks—Philadelphia 3: Schwarber 1, Turner 1, Marsh 1. St. Louis 2: Rosario 1. Strikeouts—Chicago 11: Happ 2, Suzuki 1, Bellinger 2, Swanson 1,
a-grounded out for Pederson in the 9th. Walks—Oakland 3: Davis 1, Brown 1, Allen 1. Texas 3: Langford 1, Duran 2. Arenado 1, Burleson 1. Strikeouts—Philadelphia 13: Schwarber 1, Harper 3, a-struck out for Wade in the 5th. 1-ran for Bailey in the 8th. 2-ran for Flores Busch 2, Cooper 2, Gomes 1. San Diego 11: Tatis 1, Cronenworth 2, Machado 1,
Walks—Arizona 4: Carroll 1, Walker 1, Grichuk 1, Alexander 1. Colorado 3: Strikeouts—Oakland 13: Toro 2, Gelof 2, Bleday 2, Davis 2, Brown 2, Realmuto 3, Stubbs 1, Bohm 1, Stott 1, Castellanos 1, Marsh 1, Merrifield 1. St. in the 9th. Profar 1, Kim 3, Campusano 1, Merrill 2. LOB—Chicago 7, San Diego 3.
Blackmon 2, Bryant 1. Strikeouts—Arizona 8: Carroll 1, Moreno 1, Suárez 2, Langeliers 1, Nevin 1, Allen 1. Texas 5: Heim 1, Walsh 1, Carter 2, Taveras 1. Louis 6: Goldschmidt 3, Contreras 2, Winn 1. LOB—Philadelphia 8, St. Louis 6. Walks— San Francisco 5: Soler 2, Estrada 1, Bailey 2. 2B—Bogaerts (2), Machado (3). HR—Gomes (1), off Musgrove; Morel (3), off
Peterson 2, McCarthy 1, Alexander 1. Colorado 6: Díaz 1, Jones 2, Rodgers 1, LOB—Oakland 4, Texas 5. 2B—Semien (2). HR—Langeliers (2), off Eovaldi; 2B—Winn (1). HR—Gorman (3), off Wheeler. RBIs—Gorman (8), Scott (1), Strikeouts—Washington 9: Abrams 1, Thomas 1, Gallo 1, Meneses 2, Winker Kolek; Rosario (2), off Smyly. RBIs—Gomes (1), Morel 4 (10), Rosario (3).
Cave 2. LOB—Arizona 9, Colorado 6. 2B—Moreno 2 (3), Tovar (3). Langeliers (3), off Robertson; Langeliers (4), off Leclerc; Heim (1), off Wood; Donovan (7). SB—Turner (4). SF—Scott. S—Rojas. Runners left in 1, Adams 1, Vargas 1, Young 1. San Francisco 6: Flores 1, Soler 2, Estrada 2, SB—Wade (2). Runners left in scoring position—Chicago 2 (Swanson,
HR—Carroll (1), off Quantrill; Grichuk (1), off Quantrill. RBIs—Carroll (2), Carter (1), off Spence. RBIs—Langeliers 4 (7), Smith (6), Heim (5), Carter (3). scoring position—Philadelphia 5 (Bohm, Schwarber 3, Realmuto); St. Louis Ahmed 1. E—Thomas (1). LOB—Washington 4, San Francisco 11. 2B—Winker Morel); San Diego 2 (Bogaerts, Profar). RISP—Chicago 1 for 3; San Diego 0 for
Walker (11), Grichuk (3), McMahon (9), Díaz (6). CS—Doyle (1), McMahon (1). Runners left in scoring position—Oakland 1 (Brown); Texas 3 (Taveras, 4 (Herrera, Winn, Donovan 2). RISP—Philadelphia 0 for 8; St. Louis 0 for 7. (2), Adams (1). HR—Abrams (3), off Harrison. RBIs—Abrams 3 (8), Lipscomb 3. Runners moved up—Bellinger. GIDP—Gomes, Profar. DP—Chicago 2
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McCarthy); Colorado 2 (Jones, Bryant). RISP—Arizona 1 for 7; Colorado 1 for 6. Carter. GIDP—García. DP—Oakland 1 (Langeliers, Nevin). DP—St. Louis 3 (Winn, Goldschmidt; Winn, Gorman, Goldschmidt; Gorman, SF—Lipscomb, Bailey. S—Yastrzemski. Runners left in scoring Bogaerts, Cronenworth).
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L AT I M E S . C O M
Angels fall to Rays to close out 2-4 homestand
Tampa Bay’s two early
runs on wild pitch set
tone. Trout ends game
in the on-deck circle.
associated press
José Caballero homered
and Tampa Bay scored two
runs on a wild pitch in the
first inning as the Angels lost
to the Rays 4-2 on Wednes-
day at Angel Stadium.
Zack Littell gave up just
one run despite surrender-
ing six hits and three walks
while pitching into the fifth
inning for Tampa Bay.
Jo Adell homered and
Zach Neto had an RBI single
for the Angels, who have lost
three of four. The Angels also
have lost three of their first
four series after closing out
this 2-4 homestand.
Mike Trout doubled, sin-
gled and walked after hom-
ering in each of his previous
three games, but he finished
the game in the on-deck cir-
cle when Mickey Moniak
struck out with a runner on
base.
Moniak and Angels man-
ager Ron Washington were
visibly furious about two
called strikes earlier in the
at-bat, with Washington
stepping onto the field to
voice his displeasure.
José Soriano (0-2)
yielded four runs and six hits
over four innings in his first
major league start for the
Banks is high and mighty at meet
Birmingham senior is
a relative newcomer
to high jump yet won
Arcadia Invitational.
ERIC SONDHEIMER
ON HIGH SCHOOLS
The Arcadia Invitational
high jump competition was
about to begin. Athletes
were going through their
warmups, stretching and
practicing going over the
bar.
Deshawn Banks of Birm-
ingham finally made an
appearance, the last of 15 to
check in. He took a seat on
the turf, removed his sweats
and tied his shoelaces. It
was as if he just got out of his
car, found his way to the
field and needed no prepa-
ration to compete in one of
the biggest meets of the
track season.
And that’s about right.
At this time last year, he had
just completed his junior
basketball season and knew
nothing about high jump-
ing. Birmingham basketball
coach Nick Halic suggested
to his players they join a
spring sport to help their
development.
Banks started playing
volleyball, then changed his
mind. “I chose track be-
cause I knew a couple girls
on the team,” he said.
The high jump became
his event because he was
close to 6 feet 4 with a verti-
cal leap so impressive Halic
said, “He’s one of the high-
est-jumping kids I’ve seen.
He would do stuff in prac-
tice that you’d be amazed
and it was effortless.”
Banks really didn’t know
what he was doing in the
Kings must wait to clinch playoff spot
Ducks deny them with
third-period goals by
Killorn and Zegras to
snap L.A.’s win streak.
By Dan Greenspan
Alex Killorn and Trevor
Zegras scored in the third
period, and the Ducks pre-
vented the Kings from secur-
ing a playoff spot with a 3-1
win on Tuesday night.
Frank Vatrano also
scored, Lukas Dostal made
36 saves, and the Ducks beat
their Freeway Faceoff foes
for the first time in three
meetings. The season series
concludes at Crypto.com
Arena on Saturday.
“Our team played great
against a really good team,”
Killorn said.
Akil Thomas scored and
Cam Talbot made 24 saves
for the Kings, who had won
three straight games. The
loss also put their chance to
avenge two straight first-
round playoff losses to Ed-
monton at risk. Vegas is one
YANDY DÍAZ of Tampa Bay scores after a wild pitch by Angels starter José Soriano, left, in the first inning.
Angels.
The 25-year-old Soriano
rebounded from two Tommy
John surgeries in 16 months
early in his career to make
the Angels’ roster last sea-
son as a setup reliever. He
got an opportunity in the ro-
tation when Chase Silseth
felt elbow pain following his
start last weekend — but
DESHAWN BANKS , a senior at Birmingham High, clears the bar at 6 feet 9
inches to win the boys’ high jump on Saturday during the Arcadia Invitational.
high jump. He saw football
teammate Peyton Waters
doing it, so he copied him.
“My form was terrible,”
he said.
He went on to win the
City Section title at 6-6 and
tied for fifth at the state
championships at 6-4. This
season he went a career-
best 6-10 at the Redondo
Union Invitational and then
Saturday night won at
Arcadia by clearing 6-9.
When coaches say the
sky is the limit in describing
their athletes, that fits
Banks perfectly.
“I can only imagine how
good he’s going to be,” Halic
said. “You never know. You
could see this dude in the
Olympics.”
point behind the Kings for
third place in the Pacific Di-
vision with a game in hand.
“It seems like the Kings-
Anaheim games are always
close, regardless of where
each team is in the stand-
ings,” Kings center Blake Li-
zotte said. “Clinching a play-
off spot is always difficult, es-
pecially when it comes down
to the last four or five games
of the year, but now we have
to get it done next game.”
Killorn and Ducks coach
Greg Cronin said delaying
the Kings’ playoff qualifica-
tion wasn’t a priority, but
rookie center Leo Carlsson
was well aware of the stakes
coming in.
“It’s just nice to destroy
their hopes a little bit,”
Carlsson said.
The Ducks went in front
2-1 at 1:51 of the third when
Killorn beat Talbot on a
wrist shot from the high slot
shortly after a power play ex-
pired. Killorn looked to have
put the Ducks ahead during
the man advantage, but the
Kings successfully chal-
lenged the goal because he
was offside. It didn’t matter
Tampa Bay scored three
runs on Soriano’s first 10
pitches.
After the Rays loaded the
bases with three hard-hit
singles, two runners scored
when catcher Matt Thaiss
didn’t see Soriano’s wild
pitch had rolled all the way
to the backstop, and a third
came home on Isaac Pare-
Banks finally is getting
some coaching. A math
teacher at Birmingham,
Jonathan Wratten, used to
high jump in college and has
been giving him tips. Banks
still is learning and experi-
menting.
“A couple coaches tell me
I have to run up faster,” he
said of his approach. “My
run up is too slow and I
could be jumping so much
higher.”
The good news is Banks
wants to keep developing
his talent. He’s put basket-
ball on hold. He was an
All-City player last season
as Birmingham made it to
the City Section Open Divi-
sion semifinals.
“His gift is this track and
as he ended up tallying his
18th goal 29 seconds later.
“It’s hard to score goals in
this league so whenever they
get taken away, it’s pretty
tough, so I was happy that I
can get it back quickly,” Kil-
lorn said.
Zegras made it 3-1 at 5:50,
taking the puck from Jordan
Spence in the neutral zone
and scoring off the rush on a
wrist shot from the left cir-
cle. It was just the fifth goal
of a disappointing season for
Zegras and the Ducks.
“There’s a lot of guys
playing for different things,”
Killorn said. “I don’t know
what the team’s going to
look like next year. I’m sure
there’s guys that want to be
here next year. For certain
guys, they want to get mo-
mentum and some chem-
istry headed into next year.”
The rivals traded goals in
the first period. Thomas got
his second career goal after
Trevor Lewis got in on net,
forcing Dostal out of posi-
tion before throwing the
puck back into the paint for
the 24-year-old rookie to
score. Vatrano tied it with
T H U R S DAY , A P R I L 11, 2 0 2 4 B9
first. The right-hander gave
up three runs (two earned)
in five innings with four
strikeouts. The four earned
runs Civale has given up in
three starts have come on
three homers.
Fairbanks got his first
save despite giving up an
RBI single to Luis Rengifo in
the ninth. The Angels had
runners on first and second
with two outs, but Miguel
Sanó struck out looking.
Caballero, acquired in an
offseason trade with Seattle,
had an RBI single in the first
inning off Patrick Sandoval
(1-2) to tie it 2-all. In the fifth,
he gave the Rays a 3-2 advan-
tage when he drove in Jose
Siri with a double to left field.
Sandoval went five in-
nings and gave up four runs
(three earned) on five hits
and struck out six.
“He just couldn’t com-
mand the fastball and he
didn’t have any consistency
with his off-speed pitches.
But he stayed in there, and
when he left we were only
down 3-2,” Washington said.
Ryan Sun Associated Press
Silseth update
Silseth has no ligament
des’ sacrifice fly. Angels lose Tuesday damage, an exam revealed,
Caballero then hit his and the Angels are cau-
amid Trout heroics
first homer of the season tiously confident the No. 5
leading off the second. Caballero had three hits starter does not have a ma-
Thaiss doubled and and two RBIs, Paredes hom- jor injury.
scored on Neto’s single in the ered and Tampa Bay beat “My heartbeat was rac-
fourth. Adell homered to the the Angels 6-4 on Tuesday ing, but seeing it was clean,
opposite field off reliever despite Trout’s sixth homer. it’s good,” Silseth said. “See-
Kevin Kelly (1-0) in the sixth. Aaron Civale (2-1) gave ing the results and stuff,
Pete Fairbanks pitched up only two more hits after hopefully be back in three
the ninth for his second save. Trout’s two-run shot in the weeks, a month hopefully.”
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Davis’ absence leaves Lakers ailing
THE LAKERS’ LeBron James tries to make a shot over the Warriors’ Draymond Green in the third quarter of Tuesday’s game. Besides
Green’s defense, the Lakers also were hurt by the forward’s five-for-five performance from beyond the three-point line in the first half.
TWINS CATCHER Christian Vázquez gets a tag on Shohei Ohtani’s right foot at the plate during the seventh
inning after a relay throw from Carlos Correa. Ohtani was called safe, but the Twins successfully challenged.
Dodgers falter as Twins right on target
Ohtani’s cut down at
plate trying to score
from first late in a 3-2
loss at Minnesota.
By Jack Harris
MINNEAPOLIS — Dino
Ebel waved his arm. Shohei
Ohtani churned his legs.
For a brief moment, as
Ohtani barreled toward the
plate, trying to score a tying whelming starting pitching grounders by Mookie Betts
run from first base, it
seemed like the Dodgers’
two-way star would make it.
Instead, in the defining
Angels close homestand with loss
Adell homers and Neto produces an RBI single, but
Soriano and the Angels fall to Tampa Bay 4-2. B9
B10
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The key loss
to Warriors
puts play-in
spot in poor
position
BILL PLASCHKE
Headache.
Nausea.
The two
words were
uttered Tues-
day night to
describe the
condition of a
certain Laker.
The two
words also could describe
the reaction of their fans.
Headache. Nausea.
In the final hours before
tipoff against the Golden
State Warriors on Tuesday
night at Crypto.com Arena,
the Lakers announced that
Anthony Davis was going to
miss the game because of a
headache and nausea.
Davis is their most im-
portant player. This was
going to be, thus far, their
most important game.
It was an absence of
monumental proportions. It
became a loss of dreadful
ramifications.
The Warriors’ 134-120
victory was thus defined by
the symptoms that scuttled
the mission.
The two words have
placed the season on a
tightrope.
Headache. Nausea.
The Lakers enter their
final two games precari-
ously balancing above di-
saster, needing to win on the
road at Memphis and New
Orleans while hoping for
help to avoid ending as the
10th postseason seed.
The 10th seed is the
death seed.
If the Lakers finish there,
they’re probably finished,
because that means they’ll
have to win two road games
in the play-in tournament to
qualify for the first round of
the playoffs.
Does anybody believe
they actually could do that?
Win two do-or-die games
for a team that suddenly
Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times feels like it’s already half-
dead?
[See Plaschke, B7]
Can McIlroy win
at Masters to finish
career grand slam?
Second-ranked golfer
The Masters
will have to hold off
LIV stars and nerves When: Today-Sunday
to earn a green jacket. Where: Augusta National
Golf Club, Augusta, Ga.
By Sam Farmer Defending champion:
Jon Rahm
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Rory TV SCHEDULE
McIlroy is a green jacket Today-Friday
away from a career grand Noon-4 p.m., ESPN
Abbie Parr Associated Press slam, something only five Saturday
players have done in the his- Noon-4 p.m., Channel 2
tory of golf. But each year,
Sunday
the Masters has eluded him.
11 a.m.-4 p.m., Channel 2
He has seven top-10 finishes
All times PDT
in the tournament, includ-
ing second in 2022, yet each
year has been denied. “I think I can do most things,
moment of the team’s 3-2 nale, the Twins (4-6) capi- ripped a double into the Maybe he’s trying too but sometimes you just have
loss at Target Field on talized upon all three — right-field corner with two hard. to take the conservative
Wednesday, the Minnesota stressing right-hander outs, it looked like Ohtani “This golf course gets you route and be a little more
Twins’ defense turned a pic- Bobby Miller in a four-in- would score. Given his speed to chase things a little more disciplined and patient.”
ture-perfect relay play. ning, two-run start; taking — he raced 270 feet in just than other golf courses if you McIlroy is second in the
“That’s as clean as it the lead on an Edouard 10.89 seconds — and the awk- make a bogey or get yourself World Golf Rankings behind
gets,” said Ebel, the third- Julien home run against re- ward hop the ball took off the out of position,” said McIl- Scottie Scheffler, although
base coach. “They made a liever Alex Vesia in the fifth; wall near the foul pole in roy, 34, among the favorites that metric is skewed be-
perfect throw.” then holding on through a right, both Ebel and Dod- in the 2024 Masters, which cause it doesn’t factor in LIV
When the juggernaut couple of late-game scares, gers manager Dave Roberts begins Thursday. “Because Golf events — and that com-
Dodgers (10-5) lose games, it none bigger than their tag- said waving Ohtani home it always tempts you to do peting tour has a significant
likely will often be because out of Ohtani in the seventh. was an easy decision. something you think you can footprint on this year’s Mas-
they get beat on the mar- After a walk by Austin “When I saw the bobble do.” ters.
gins. Some days it might Barnes led off the inning, down in the corner … I said, It’s important to remem- This year’s 13-member
come down to an under- consecutive fielder’s choice ‘There it is,’ ” Ebel said. ber, he said this week, that LIV contingent includes de-
“With two outs,” Roberts the Masters is a 72-hole golf fending Masters champion
performance. Other times, a and Ohtani left the speedy added, “you’ve got to make tournament and you cannot Jon Rahm; Brooks Koepka
bullpen blunder or bang- two-time most valuable them make the play.” win it from the first tee shot. and Phil Mickelson, who tied
bang play on the bases. player on first base. And the Twins did. “I’m pretty confident in for second; and Patrick
In Wednesday’s series fi- When Freddie Freeman [See Dodgers, B8] my golf game,” McIlroy said. [See Masters, B6]
Birmingham’s Banks a quick study Clippers seal a top-five finish in West
A relative newcomer to the high jump, the senior has Despite missing stars Leonard and Harden, their
developed into top performer, winning at Arcadia. B9 confidence remains high after win in Phoenix. B7
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PHOENIX guard Eric Gordon, right, shoots as Clippers guard Amir Coffey defends during the first half of the Suns’ 124-108 win on Wednesday at Crypto.com Arena.
Suns exact swift revenge against Clippers
By Broderick Turner
The Clippers’ injury report
listed Kawhi Leonard as out with
right knee inflammation, the sixth
consecutive game the All-Star for-
ward has missed, which led to
Coach Ty Lue being asked if his
best player’s injury could bleed
into the playoffs.
“No, not at as of right now,” Lue
said before the Clippers ran out of
steam during their 124-108 loss to
the Phoenix Suns in a rematch
Wednesday night at Crypto.com
Arena.
The Clippers have two regular-
season games left before the post-
season starts on April 20, so at
some point they hope to be whole
with Leonard back in the lineup.
They were nowhere near that in
this back-to-back game against the
same Suns the Clippers beat in
Phoenix on Tuesday night.
The Clippers had to make it
Golf’s greats put their
aches and pains aside
just to play in Masters
By Dave Skretta
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Min Woo Lee
stared at the 20-pound dumbbell
sitting in the corner of the gym with
unbridled contempt.
Just days earlier, while perform-
ing the last rep in a series of side
glute bridges, the Australian had
thrown it down and somehow
clipped his finger. Bad luck made
even worse by the timing. The
three-time winner on the Europe-
an tour was due to fly out soon for
the Masters, and the swelling in his
damaged digit was bad enough to
head to the doctor.
“I thought it was OK because I
could move it. It was just red,” Lee
said. “Then they came in and said,
‘You’ve broken it.’ ”
He recounted the story after a
practice round at Augusta Na-
tional this week, because even with
a broken finger, there was no way
Lee, 25, would miss playing in the
season’s first major. And that’s in
many ways a testament to the rev-
erential nature of the champi-
onship and the great lengths those
fortunate enough to be invited will
go through to play in it.
“Well, this tournament has
meant so much to me in my life and
my family,” said Tiger Woods, who
has played through more injuries
than anyone while winning his five
green jackets over nearly three dec-
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happen without Paul George (left
knee soreness), James Harden
(right foot inflammation), Russell
Westbrook (left hand contusion)
and center Ivica Zubac (left ankle
inflammation).
So, it was left up to starters
Amir Coffey, P.J. Tucker, Mason
Plumlee, Terance Mann and Bones
Hyland to hold it down.
Even depleted, Lue had his
group playing hard and with a pur-
pose against a Suns team fighting
for playoff positioning in the West-
ern Conference.
It gave Lue a chance to get an
extended look at Hyland, who
cooked the Suns with a career-high
37 points on 15-for-29 shooting in 43
minutes.
Hyland put on a show in the first
half, hitting a step-back three-
pointer to help the Clippers come
back from 15 down in the second
and take a 56-55 lead at the inter-
mission.
Brandon Boston Jr. got an op-
ades. “It’s been a part of my life to
have won here as my first major as
a pro, hugging my dad, as you saw,
then a full circle in 2019 to hug my
son,” he said. “I always want to
keep playing in this.”
So there was Woods, with his
fused ankle and balky back, care-
fully traversing the hilly property
again this week.
There was no way Fred Couples
would let his own chronically sore
back keep him away. Or Jordan
Spieth would let his ailing wrist
cause him worry. Or Cameron
Smith would concern himself with
a bit of food poisoning, Wyndham
Clark his own back or Akshay Bha-
tia that shoulder that popped out
on his way to victory last weekend
at the Texas Open.
“I’ve had it happen two, three
times. I had a full dislocation
playing pickleball a couple years
ago,” Bhatia said. “It’s a weird,
weird experience, because I had so
much adrenaline so I had no pain
kind of in that playoff. But it is defi-
nitely something we’re going to
have to work towards.”
Couples has been withdrawing
from events on the PGA Tour
Champions because of his latest
back trouble, but the 1992 Masters
winner has done everything pos-
sible to be on the grounds this
week. He had several cortisone
shots last week, and he even
brought his physiotherapist, Chad
portunity to play more, and he did
his thing with a season-high 23
points. Tucker added a season-
high 10 points, going four-for-five
from the field.
The Clippers led 106-101 in the
fourth quarter, but the Suns went
on a 19-2 run to open a 12-point lead
L.A. could not overcome.
Celtics extend Holiday
with $135-million pact
Boston Celtics president of
basketball operations Brad
Stevens called it a no-brainer to
pursue Jrue Holiday when the five-
time all-defensive selection was
traded from Milwaukee to Port-
land as part of the deal that sent
Damian Lillard to the Bucks.
After a breakout season in
which Holiday has helped fortify
the core of a Boston team that ran
away with the NBA’s best regular-
season record, Stevens isn’t letting
Holiday go anywhere.
FRED COUPLES , left, has back trouble and Tiger Woods has a bad back and a fused ankle, but
they both go to great lengths to play Augusta. “I always want to keep playing in this,” Woods says.
Beauchamp, from Southern Cali-
fornia to help him out.
In fact, Couples put off an MRI
to better determine what is caus-
ing the pain until next week, after
the Masters.
Spieth has been dealing with an
injury to his extensor carpi ulnaris,
a major tendon in the wrist. It
tends to flare up on him, and when
that happens, the three-time ma-
jor winner can find himself unable
to do much for a day or two.
“Typically, as the week goes on,
it gets better and better, using it
more and more,” Spieth said. “But
yeah, it’s something that I don’t
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Holiday, a UCLA alum, agreed
to terms on a four-year, $135-mil-
lion contract extension with the
Celtics, his agent Jason Glushon
confirmed Wednesday. ESPN first
reported the new pact. As part of
the deal, Holiday is declining his
$37.5-million player option for next
season.
The 33-year-old Holiday has
stepped into the void created this
offseason when the Celtics parted
with defensive stalwart Marcus
Smart as part of the three-team
trade that netted them Kristaps
Porzingis.
A two-time All-Star, Holiday
has seen his scoring average drop
to 12.5 points per game, his lowest
output since his third season in the
league in 2011-12. He’s shooting a ca-
reer-best 43.1% from three-point
range and averaging a career-best
5.4 rebounds.
At 62-17, the Celtics have already
locked up the NBA’s top seed and
home-court advantage through-
think there’s really anything I can
do other than rest. And I’m not
resting it anytime soon.”
The sports landscape is filled
with tales of perseverance, often on
the biggest stages — think Willis
Reed playing through a torn mus-
cle for the New York Knicks in
Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals, the
Dodgers’ Kirk Gibson on two bad
legs hitting a walk-off homer in the
1988 World Series, or Kerri Strug’s
vault on a broken ankle to help the
U.S. win gold at the 1996 Olympics.
How about Woods, who was
dealing with a stress fracture after
arthroscopic knee surgery when he
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out the playoffs.
Jokic scores 41 to lead
Nuggets past T’wolves
Nikola Jokic scored 41 points
and powered the Denver Nuggets
past Minnesota and into sole pos-
session of first place in the tight
Western Conference playoff race
with a 116-107 win over the Timber-
wolves on Wednesday night.
Jokic made 16 of 20 shots
against the NBA’s best defense
while being guarded most of the
night by the league’s top defender,
Rudy Gobert. Jamal Murray add-
ed 20 points in 27 minutes and
Michael Porter Jr. scored 18.
Anthony Edwards led Minne-
sota with 25 points but was a non-
factor in the fourth quarter as Den-
ver pulled away. Mike Conley add-
ed 19 points for the Wolves.
The Associated Press contributed
to this report.
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arrived at Torrey Pines for the 2008
U.S. Open? He seemingly played
the week on one leg and beat Rocco
Mediate in a playoff. More recently,
and more timely, Tony Finau was
playing the Par 3 Contest on the
eve of his Masters debut in 2018
when he holed out for an ace. Finau
took off to celebrate, missed a step
and gruesomely dislocated an an-
kle. But he popped it back into
place, underwent a quick precau-
tionary MRI, iced it for hours and
was able to play the next day.
Skretta writes for the Associated
Press.
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CHRIS PERFETTI mines “tragic circumstances” to find the comedy in “Abbott Elementary’s” Jacob, the liberal white do-gooder at a West Philadelphia school.
Comfy
and sweet?
Not in his
reality
Five raw truths
revealed in Jerrod
Carmichael’s
unscripted series.
By Miriam Katz
Since he started per-
forming comedy in 2007, at
age 20, Jerrod Carmichael
has surprised and delighted
audiences by speaking can-
didly about his personal life.
In his 2014 special “Love at
the Store,” he acknowledges
that he makes good mon-
ey— not “murder” money,
say, but enough that he can
“slap a white woman” and
still “be free by Friday.”
In his 2022 Emmy-win-
ning special “Rothaniel,” he
reveals his real name, talks
[See Carmichael, E2]
HBO
JERROD Carmichael in
an onstage scene from
his new reality show.
‘The Beast’ makes a lonely howl across time
Bertrand Bonello’s
film loosely adapts a
Henry James novella
and confronts AI.
By Mark Olsen
Combining elements of
sci-fi, melodrama, horror
and romance, “The Beast”
takes place across three
separate time periods to ex-
plore the intense loneliness
and disconnection that has
become a fixture of contem-
porary life.
Starring Léa Seydoux
and George MacKay, the
film follows two characters,
Gabrielle and Louis, as they
meet each other in 1910 Paris,
2014 Los Angeles and the AI-
controlled future of 2044.
Each time, circumstances
T H U R S D AY , A P R I L 1 1 , 2 0 2 4 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L E N D A R
FEARS SPUN INTO
COMEDY GOLD
As history teacher Jacob on ‘Abbott Elementary,’
Chris Perfetti has become a fan favorite and meme king
’m so excited for this!” Chris
I Perfetti says as he ap-
proaches the Natural His-
tory Museum of Los Angeles
County. Our greeting is
drowned out by a cacophony of
nearby construction and clusters
of energetic children on field trips
shuffling down the pathway — in
the distance, a row of yellow school
buses that snake the perimeter
stand guard.
Perfetti, in monochromatic
black sweats, T-shirt and baseball
cap, is just four steps into the ro-
tunda, under the shadow of the
museum’s famous Three Graces
statue by Julia Bracken Wendt,
when he is recognized.
“Excuse me, are you Chris Per-
fetti ... from ‘Abbott Elementary’?”
a student from Lawndale High
School asks bashfully.
“Yeah,” Perfetti says with a
smile.
“Oh, wow! I love that show,” the
teenager says, sharing an enthusi-
astic look with his classmate. “Our
AP bio class is here on a field trip.
keep them from connecting
as fully as they desire.
French writer-director
Bertrand Bonello has woven
this loose adaptation of
Henry James’ 1903 novella
“The Beast in the Jungle”
into a movie very much con-
cerned with the issues of to-
day. It premiered last fall at
the Venice International
Film Festival and is in thea-
ters now.
“I was very faithful to the
argument of the book,” says
Bonello, 55, in a recent video
interview from Paris. “Then
I wanted to be as unfaithful
as I was faithful, and to ex-
plore these concepts of love
and fear. They’re even more
contemporary now than
they used to be when he
wrote the book. And so I
wanted to mix the genres, to
mix the period and to make a LOUIS (George MacKay) and Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) encounter each other
[See ‘The Beast,’ E2] across three time periods — 1910 Paris, here in 2014 Los Angeles and an AI 2044.
By Yvonne Villarreal
We’re seniors in high school. I’m
sorry to bother you. This is just so
cool.”
“I was in AP bio for about a
month,” Perfetti says. “Congratu-
lations. You’re so close to graduat-
ing. Just a couple of months to go.
Stay motivated.”
The scenario playing out in real
life is something Perfetti’s “Abbott
Elementary” character, the lov-
ably corny, socially awkward his-
tory teacher Jacob Hill, would defi-
nitely freak out over. Teenagers
thinking he’s cool? He’d run to the
teacher’s lounge to broadcast the
news.
Created by Quinta Brunson,
the mockumentary comedy fol-
lows a group of teachers trying to
give their students the education
they deserve at an underfunded
primary school in West Philadel-
phia. The series features an en-
semble cast — Brunson, Tyler
James Williams, Janelle James,
Lisa Ann Walter, William Stanford
Davis and Sheryl Lee Ralph — in
which every member delivers
scene-stealing laughs. But Per-
fetti, who had performed mostly
on stage in New York and in small
roles on TV before being cast on
the sitcom, has held his own —
making Jacob, “Abbott’s” equally
sincere and absurd white liberal
do-gooder, a fan favorite and
meme king.
During the show’s post-Oscars
episode last month, for example,
which looked at whether the
school’s namesake was racist, Per-
fetti delivers a master class in in-
stant GIF-ication, passionately
shouting at one of Abbott’s de-
scendants, “Where were you on
Jan. 6?!”
But it doesn’t stop there. The
casual disclosure of Jacob’s idio-
syncrasies across three seasons
has brought hilarious depth to
what could easily be a mere carica-
ture of a well-intentioned ally. He’s
not the biggest fan of Chris Pratt.
He admits to having applied to
Morehouse, a historically Black
college. He suspects his gluten in-
[See Perfetti, E6]
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COACHELLA
FESTIVAL
18 acts
we can’t
wait
to see
More than 100 artists
are playing. But you
can experience only
so many. Here’s help.
By Vanessa Franko,
August Brown, Mikael
Wood and Nate Jackson
With Coachella 2024 al-
most upon us, massive
crowds are preparing them-
selves (and their selfie
sticks) to catch headliners
Tyler, the Creator, Doja Cat
and Lana Del Rey and spe-
cial guests No Doubt at the
polo fields . But as always
this isn’t just about the big-
gest names on the poster, it’s
also about the cult favorites,
rare performances and art-
ists on the brink that contin-
ue to make these next two
weekends in the desert
something to brag about.
Among the many artists on
the bill during Weekends 1
and 2, here are 18 names
we’re excited to see.
Sabrina Carpenter
Come early for the Taylor
Swift cameo-hunting, as
she’s rumored to be attend-
ing this year and (if true)
would likely support her re-
cent “Eras” tour opener. But
stay to hear tracks from Car-
penter’s LP “Emails I Can’t
Send,” which was packed
with thoughtful, expertly-
sung pop in the spirit of for-
mer Coachella headliner Ar-
iana Grande, but with a
charm and relatability all
her own. Stay even longer to
catch a Barry Keoghan cam-
eo. — August Brown
Chappell Roan
She killed it as the open-
[See Coachella, E3]
Last-minute
Coachella news
Indie rock band
Vampire Weekend
joins the Indio music
festival’s lineup and
other updates. E3
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GABRIELLE (Léa Seydoux) and Louis (George MacKay) face a fire in 1910 Paris.
Fears of love and AI too
[‘The Beast,’ from E1]
cinematic trip.”
Bonello has not yet had a
major commercial break-
through in the United
States. But his adventurous
storytelling — previous films
have included an examina-
tion of a Belle Epoque bor-
dello (“House of Pleasures”),
a portrait of fashion de-
signer Yves Saint Laurent
(“Saint Laurent”) and a dis-
section of a group of young
radicals (“Nocturama”) —
has steadily gained popu-
larity on the international
festival circuit.
“The Beast” is Bonello’s
third collaboration with
Seydoux, who now divides
her time between Hollywood
blockbusters like “Dune:
Part Two” and “No Time To
Die” and arthouse films
such as “Crimes of the Fu-
ture” and “One Fine Morn-
ing.” The cast also includes
“Saint Omer” star Guslagie
Malanda and actor, film-
maker and podcaster Dasha
Nekrasova.
Bonello himself plays the
voice of a director leading
the 2014 version of Gabrielle,
an aspiring Los Angeles ac-
tor, through a green-screen
scene in the film’s very first
moments, strengthening
the feeling that the film is in
some part an exploration of
Seydoux’s own persona.
Splitting the story between
time periods also created a
deeper sense of how the
main characters are the
same people in different
situations.
“I wanted to be part of
this adventure,” says Sey-
doux in a video call from Par-
is. “When I choose a film, you
never know what the film
will be like — you can never
be 100% sure of the result.
But I was curious to live in-
side the film, not only as an
actor, but as a person. And
it’s true that the character is
also based on me in a way. I
became like the subject of
the film. And that was also
like: Why not?”
“It was something that
was always specified from
Bertrand that they are dif-
ferent people, but they are
the same person,” says Sey-
doux’s co-star MacKay dur-
ing a Zoom call from Los An-
geles. “And that kind of co-
nundrum immediately I
found exciting and challeng-
ing and enticing. The ques-
tions that the film provokes
are questions that I’m fasci-
nated with: What’s at the
core of your being, the core of
your personality?”
The L.A. section of the
story in particular is deeply
unsettling, drawing inspira-
tion from the videos of Elliot
Rodger, the 22-year-old who
killed six people in Isla Vista
before shooting himself in
2014. Gabrielle, the strug-
gling actor, is housesitting at
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puts her constantly on dis-
play, she draws the attention
of Louis, a lonely young incel
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line full of self-pitying mi-
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Bonello recalls seeing a
video of Rodger years ago.
“I was totally fascinated,
and of course very shocked
by what he had done,”
Bonello says. “I remember
precisely the words he used,
the calm he had. It’s not a
crazy video. It’s not like Jack
Nicholson in ‘The Shining,’
there is something very nor-
mal. And this freaked me
out.
“It was very difficult, to
try to have an empathy with
someone who says these ter-
rible words,” the director
continues. “And because of
technology and social media
and stuff like that, there is an
impossibility to be yourself.
So behind the psychopath, I
had to find a way to have em-
pathy for him.”
The production shot in
Los Angeles for only two
days, enough time to get the
nighttime shots of Gabrielle
driving around town as Lou-
is trails her. (Seydoux her-
self does not drive, so her
scenes were shot with a car
being pulled on a trailer.) For
this section of the film
Bonello was influenced by
the 1979 thriller “When a
Stranger Calls” for its men-
acing atmosphere. The
glass-walled hillside man-
sion that Gabrielle hous-
esits was actually a location
in the South of France.
The part of Louis was ini-
tially intended for the
French actor Gaspard Ulliel,
who starred in Bonello’s 2014
“Saint Laurent.” But follow-
ing Ulliel’s untimely death in
2022 in a tragic skiing acci-
dent, Bonello decided to re-
cast the part using a non-
French actor to avoid com-
parisons with what might
have been.
British-born actor Mac-
Kay, best known for his role
in “1917” and also recently
seen in “Femme,” had to
learn French for the role.
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Sourcing directly from Rod-
ger’s own videos, he shot his
monologues himself, using
an outdated iPhone. The ac-
tor also captured random
images — sand running
through his fingers, a bowl of
orange beads — that wound
up in the movie.
“To be honest, I didn’t
know about Elliot Rodger,”
says MacKay. “So in watch-
ing the videos, there were
such specific things about
his mannerisms that I
wanted to magpie and put
into my performance. There
was this kind of deeply self-
conscious, rather thin bra-
vado that was really quite
acute. And something that I
wouldn’t have thought to do
without having seen that.”
MacKay recalls initially
trying to do the first mono-
logue near the Pacific Coast
Highway but it proved im-
practical for recording
sound. A location with the
downtown skyline looming
dramatically behind Mac-
Kay — among the most
striking images in the film —
was ultimately chosen,
Bonello admits, because it
was convenient for parking.
Shots of MacKay’s char-
acter driving around down-
town show images along
Broadway and passing by
the Apple Store in the reno-
vated Tower Theatre.
(Bonello says these shots
were stolen, captured with-
out permits.)
A scene in which Seydoux
exits a nightclub for the
parking lot was indicative of
the patchwork of locations
used to create the film’s Los
Angeles.
“The parking is in L.A.,
the club is in Paris,” ex-
plained Bonello.
Yet even shooting for just
two nights in Los Angeles
was still a thrill for the film-
maker. “I really loved it be-
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“When you arrive and you
put your camera down, of
course it reminds you so
much. You’re in the heart of
the cinema in a way”
Bonello estimates he
wrote some 30 drafts of the
screenplay, more than he
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ever had before on a project.
The structure of the film,
how it moves from one time
period to the next — even
when digital artifacts ap-
pear and the footage itself
seems to be suffering some
technical glitch — was all
planned in the screenplay.
Bonello compares the proc-
ess of writing as pitched
somewhere between music
and mathematics.
“It was really one of the
challenges and one of the
starting desires of the film,”
said Bonello. “It’s tricky to
mix genres, so you have to
put some love into the [2014-
set] slasher part. You have
to put some fear into the
melodrama. Writing the film
was really fascinating, like
solving a mystery.”
Working with his fre-
quent cinematographer
Josée Deshaies, Bonello
shot the 1910 portion of the
story in 35mm for a more
sensual look, while the
sharper and colder images of
2014 and 2044 were captured
using digital. A sequence de-
picting the Paris flood of 1910
and a factory on fire was a
particular challenge and
found Bonello using story-
boards to plan a sequence
for the first time in his ca-
reer.
Seydoux found the film’s
structure, bouncing be-
tween the deep past, recent
past and the future, some-
how familiar.
“In my personal life, I’m
always thinking about the
future, the past — I’m always
in my head,” says Seydoux.
“I think that this is why I love
to act. It allows me to be in
the present. I always feel
that when you play a role, it’s
always about yourself in a
way. So it’s me but with dif-
ferent attitudes and differ-
ent style.”
One way the film’s style is
genuinely unique is that it
does not have conventional
end credits. Rather, once the
story concludes, a QR code
comes onscreen that leads
viewers to an online site that
has all the credits, as well as
a brief bonus scene. This
surprising moment is made
even more unusual due to
the fact that Bonello himself
does not use a smartphone,
sticking to an outdated
Nokia. So he would not be
able to see the end credits to
his own film in a theater.
“I thought it was a perfect
ending to the film,” says
Bonello. “It’s the relation-
ship between technology
and humanity, or technology
and the loss of humanity. So
to put a credit without even
the names, I like the cold-
ness of the end. You have this
QR code, which has no feel-
ings at all.”
The intercut 2044 section
depicts a scary world con-
trolled by AI. Yet that dysto-
pian notion is no longer as
far off as it might have once
seemed. When the film pre-
miered in Venice, Seydoux
and MacKay did not attend
due to the ongoing actors’
strike, which was in part
driven by conflict over the
need for AI protections.
“The irony was not lost
on us,” said MacKay. “At the
time of filming, it felt like
something that was sci-fi,
like the future, and now it
feels so in the moment. It’s
quite scary to be honest.”
Bonello purposefully set
the future section of the film
20 years ahead so that the
world could be different, but
not entirely so. Yet he says
he’s surprised by how
quickly opinions of AI have
changed since he started
working on the film.
“I was aware of many
things, the dangers, the ethi-
cal problems, the moral
problems, the political prob-
lems,” says Bonello. “I
thought it would be in 10
years, not the year the film
was shown. I think I made a
mistake by putting it in 2044
— 2029, maybe.”
For the actors, that sense
of an encroaching shift in
how people interact often
No. Hollywood felt like it was already here.
“In 2014, she’s doesn’t
have any real human inter-
actions,” says Seydoux.
“And it’s one of the subjects
of the film, the fact that she’s
very lonely. It’s a very con-
temporary thing, with all our
devices and we want to con-
nect with people through so-
cial media and everything.
But at the end, this feeling of
loneliness is even stronger.
It’s so hard to have real inter-
actions with people.”
MacKay agrees that their
goal was emotion. “Despite
the root of there being a fear
and an existential, kind of
cerebral quality to the whole
Claremont
film, I think it also was really
important to me that that it
is also about love,” says Mac-
Kay. “It was always impor-
tant to me that it wasn’t
more head than heart, but of
course it’s kind of both.”
All of which is what
makes “The Beast” one of
the most achingly human
films of the year so far —
whether that year is 1910,
2014, 2044 or indeed 2024.
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The truths about
Jerrod Carmichael
[Carmichael from E1]
about his father’s years of in-
fidelity, and comes out of the
closet.
So what does a truth-
telling comic of his caliber do
next?
The answer, for
Carmichael, is to invite other
people in his life — his
friends, family, therapists,
boyfriend, fans and various
men he meets on Grindr —
to take part in an even more
nuanced and expansive kind
of truth-telling, in his new
eight-part HBO series “Jer-
rod Carmichael Reality
Show.”
As Carmichael says
many times in the show, re-
cording helps him to be hon-
est. “Cameras make me feel
more comfortable. It seems
permanent. And it feels
really dumb to lie.”
Carmichael is a model
subject for documentation
because he freely shares
himself, both on stage and
off. In the series, we see him
send and receive salacious
sexts, pray to God, get high,
sing gospel songs and strug-
gle with sadness. Some of
the most fun parts of the
show feature Carmichael
talking about sex, engaging
in sex, and playing around in
a sex shop.
It’s refreshing to see
someone so uninhibited on
camera and so unapologetic
in his act. And unlike talking
head interviews typical of re-
ality TV, his “confessional”
interstitials come in the
form of stand-up comedy
performances in which he
openly admits his flaws,
while making the audience
laugh.
Here are five things the
show reveals about this bold
comic.
1. He’s learning to be a
better friend
Throughout the show,
Carmichael is particularly
honest about his selfishness
(“I have this problem. I only
like to do exactly what I
wanna do,” he says in Epi-
sode 3.) We watch him miss
his best friend’s wedding,
opting to eat a hot dog in-
stead. When he tells the
story on stage later, an audi-
ence member even says so
from the crowd: “You might
not be a good friend, bro.” He
is perfectly capable of mak-
ing this a comedic moment,
but instead he takes a beat
to ask himself: “Am I a good
friend?” He spends an entire
episode exploring the ques-
tion, culminating in an ex-
tended apology montage.
The jokes Carmichael
makes during the show are
simplified, truncated pieces
of truth. The series allows us
to see the real-life fallout
from the stories he tells on
stage. To make up for miss-
ing his friend’s wedding, the
comedian flies to Atlanta in
a tux, asks the groom for for-
giveness, and delivers a be-
lated best man speech.
2. He’s learning to be a
better boyfriend
Carmichael also speaks
frankly on stage during the
show about cheating on his
boyfriend, Mike. “I am in a
relationship that I want to
be monogamous. And then
he wasn’t in the city I was
in. That’s all it took. I was like
‘I love you I love you I love
you,’ and then you’re out of
town? Alright, I’ll f— any-
body then.” At times our
laughter accidentally pro-
pels us onto the comedian’s
side, despite certain rational
objections. And yet, in the
show, we get to know Mike.
We see the repercussions of
Carmichael’s actions — the
effect they have on his sig-
nificant other and the work
it takes to repair the rela-
tionship. The joke is un-
furled, and we become privy
to a more elongated and spe-
cific story.
3. He’s trying to connect
with his dad
The comedian often talks
about his family in his act,
and as such they play a large
role in the series, particu-
larly its thornier passages.
During a road trip in Epi-
sode 4 to his father’s home-
town of Dillon, S.C., the co-
median presses his dad on a
“I ONLY like to do exactly what I wanna do,” Jerrod
Carmichael says in his show. Above: Episode 3 scene.
number of sensitive topics,
including his parents’ brutal
reaction to him coming out.
In a fluorescent-lighted
diner, Carmichael speaks
honestly to his father: “Hid-
ing that much of myself goes
against my morals… Me not
being able to bring someone
I love home is you turning
against me.” The comedian
ends the conversation with a
heavy-duty sting: “What
makes it even more insult-
ing, respectfully, is a house
that I’m paying for. I’m pay-
ing for a home that I
wouldn’t be fully accepted
in. That’s how much I love
my family.” His father, sur-
prisingly, apologizes. It’s a
brief, beautiful moment that
might not have made it into
one of Carmichael’s sets.
Later, by an outdoor fire,
Carmichael doggedly pur-
sues the subject of his fa-
ther’s cheating. His dad is
pained: “The way that you
don’t wanna be hurt, I don’t
wanna be hurt … this doesn’t
have to be discussed on cam-
eras.” Carmichael gives a
lengthy, affecting reply: “If
the cameras help me then
they f— help. But your way is
nothing. Your way is silence.
Your way is death. I’m not
doing that. I’m being a man.”
After a long pause his father
responds quietly, with a ver-
bal punch to the gut: “You
said a mouthful, son. You ex-
pressed yourself… Can I go
home?” Not everyone wants
to talk about everything,
and Carmichael’s father not
being willing to share is still
an important piece of the
truth.
4. He’s meeting his mom
where she is
Another emotional and
riveting portion of the show
involves Carmichael doing
what he can to contend with
his mother’s staunch homo-
phobia. As he tells a friend in
the show, “It breaks my
heart.” Carmichael takes
her to a Harlem Baptist
church that accepts gay peo-
ple. She remains unwaver-
ing in her beliefs. He takes
her to therapy. She is mostly
cold and grasps firmly to her
point of view. Carmichael
eventually holds her hands
as she implores God to make
him straight, perhaps to
hear for himself that after
several years she still firmly
has faith that she can pray
away his gay. On stage he lat-
er admits his remorse: “She
was so happy that I let her do
it. I immediately regretted
it.” These moments with his
parents aren’t funny. But
they are compelling and real,
and anyone who’s ever felt
misunderstood by family
just may feel extremely seen.
5. The critic in his life cares
a lot about him
Carmichael tells the cam-
era: “I keep saying that I
wanna live more truthfully.”
But one character in the co-
median’s life doesn’t believe
that the series reveals the
“capital T” truth. Several ep-
isodes in the show feature an
anonymous man in a mask,
his voice modulated to pro-
tect his identity, who rails
against Carmichael’s prom-
ise of veracity: “This is not a
neutral eye, this is not truth,
this will be narrated, edited
… and I have no access to
that, so I’m like ‘you don’t
get any of me.’” Although
carefully veiled, comedy ob-
sessives may recognize the
anonymous man’s speech
pattern as that of comedian
Bo Burnham, director of
“Rothaniel.” His direct and
sometimes harsh criticisms,
and Carmichael’s honest re-
sponses to them, make the
show stronger and more
well-rounded.
By the final episode of the
show, the anonymous man
turns from critique of
Carmichael’s exhibitionism
toward concern for his
friend: “This is going to be
viewed by the giant revolting
mass of people that is argu-
mentative, insane, and
that’s a scary collective for
the judgment of the most
precious things in your life.”
The anonymous man ends
on a lighter note: “Fingers
crossed that everyone is just
watching Tik Tok, no one
gives a f— anymore.”
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Top picks for acts to see at Coachella
[Coachella, from E1]
ing act on the first leg of Oliv-
ia Rodrigo’s Guts world tour,
where you could practically
see her blowing 12-year-old
minds with the raunchy and
theatrical alt-pop jams from
her 2023 debut, “The Rise
and Fall of a Midwest Prin-
cess,” which she made with
Rodrigo’s go-to producer,
Daniel Nigro. Now, Roan is
moving on to what she calls
“the next chapter” of her ca-
reer with her brand-new sin-
gle, the vaguely Eurythmics-
ish “Good Luck, Babe!” —
Mikael Wood
Blur
There’s a definite KROQ-
in-the-’90s vibe happening
at Coachella this year and
one of the best ways to time
travel via alt rock is yelling
“Woo-hoo!” with Damon Al-
barn and Blur as they play
“Song 2.” But what has given
Blur the staying power be-
yond the ‘90s hits like “Park-
life,” “Girls & Boys,” “Coffee
& TV,” “There’s No Other
Way” and a dozen others is
that the band consistently
puts out really good music.
Blur’s most recent release,
“The Ballad of Darren,” was
one of the best rock albums
of 2023. — Vanessa Franko
Aquabats
Anyone looking for a mix-
ture of punk-meets-ska-
meets-Saturday-morning-
cartoons has one thing to
say about the Aquabats’ re-
turn to the polo fields: “Su-
per Rad!” Any chance to see
a band that reminds you not
to take life or an ultra-hip
music festival too seriously
is worth carving out some
time for. Even casual onlook-
ers have to stop and watch
the wacky band of spandex-
wearing superheroes fight
crime and giant inflatable
monsters on stage between
acts that are said to be the
next big thing. As MC Bat
Commander and company
celebrate 30 years of playing
shows, making TV shows
and building an empire, it’s a
reminder that cool bands
often have a shelf life but fun,
weirdo bands can last forev-
er. — Nate Jackson
Bizarrap
The Argentine DJ-pro-
ducer’s now 59-song-deep
collaboration series has be-
come the hottest tour stop in
Latin music. He’s booked
stars like Peso Pluma and
Rauw Alejandro, but his cat-
alog’s crown jewel will forev-
er be #53, where a newly-sin-
gle Shakira mercilessly
strafed her ex over a sinister
cub beat and entered the all-
time diss track pantheon. It
cracked the Billboard Top 10
singles chart, and made its
producer a global star — he’s
got one hell of a contacts list
of guests he might bring out
for this set. — AB
Tems
“Me & U” was a high
watermark for Afrobeats,
one of the best songs of 2023
and a regal announcement
of the Nigerian singer’s own
pop potential after she stole
the show on Wizkid’s “Es-
sence.” She kept up the pace
with the lithe, riveting “Not
An Angel, ” and her forth-
coming debut album will be
a major event in global pop.
Catch her up close while you
still can in Indio. — AB
Bicep
The Northern Irish club
music duo have long been
underground favorites who
thought like arena stars,
packing their after-hours
material with memorable
sonic signatures and lacing
their big-tent singles with
care and complexity. Now
they’ve built a dazzling AV
stage show to match, and in
the spirt of label mates
Odesza and Bonobo, this
could be the set that kicks
them into a new tier of dance
At least one Vampire Weekend
Long-running indie
rock band will play at
Coachella Weekend 1.
Weekend 2? Not sure.
MIKAEL WOOD
POP MUSIC CRITIC
Vampire Weekend will
appear as a last-minute ad-
dition to the lineup for this
weekend’s Coachella festi-
val.
Coachella said on social
media Tuesday that the
popular indie-rock band
would play the festival’s first
weekend, which is scheduled
to run Friday through Sun-
VICTORIA MONÉT won three Grammys this year, including best new artist.
L’IMPÉRATRICE will get the dance party going with French disco.
KHRUANGBIN released its latest trippy album, “A La Sala,” just this month.
music’s arena acts. — AB
Victoria Monét
After establishing herself
behind the scenes as a song-
writer for the likes of Ariana
Grande, Fifth Harmony and
Blackpink, Monét broke out
big on her own last year with
“Jaguar II,” a crafty, witty
retro-soul record that led to
her being named best new
artist at February’s
Grammy Awards. Come for
the slinky “On My Own,”
about being “so deep in my
bag, like a grandma with a
peppermint”; stay for “I’m
the One,” in which she
taunts an ex now unable to
enjoy the sight of her “riding
horseback towards you, slow
motion on a beach.” — MW
Justice
There’s a universal truth
that whenever Justice plays
Coachella, an epic
“D.A.N.C.E.” party will fol-
day at Indio’s Empire Polo
Club before repeating April
19-21. (No word on whether
Vampire Weekend will ap-
pear during Weekend 2.)
Vampire Weekend, which
is set to perform Saturday at
5 p.m. on Coachella’s Out-
door Theatre stage, released
its latest album, “Only God
Was Above Us,” last week; it
previously played Coachella
in 2013 and 2008.
Last year, the reunited
Blink-182 appeared as a late-
breaking addition to the fes-
tival’s first weekend before
being upgraded to a headlin-
ing set for Weekend 2 after
Frank Ocean dropped out
following his controversial
performance during Week-
CHAPPELL ROAN has opened for Olivia Rodrigo.
low. The French duo’s first
live show was at the fest in
2007, with a performance
that may be second only to
Daft Punk’s iconic set for the
biggest electronic moments
of the fest. This is the electro
house duo’s fifth time at
end 1. Arcade Fire played the
festival with little advance
notice in 2022.
No Doubt, which had
been advertised as part of
Coachella’s bill — but with-
out saying on which day the
band would appear — will
perform Saturday at 9:25
p.m. on the festival’s main
stage. That slot follows slots
for two other veterans of
1990s alt-rock in Blur (sched-
uled for 7:40 p.m.) and Sub-
lime (6:05 p.m.).
Other acts on the lineup
include Lana Del Rey; Tyler,
the Creator; Doja Cat; Peso
Pluma; J Balvin; Lil Uzi Vert
and Justice.
See all of the set times at
coachella.com/schedule.
Justin J Wee For The Times
Augustin JSM
David Black
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
Coachella and it will mark
the debut of a new live show
for album “Hyperdrama,”
due out April 26. Tame Im-
pala’s Kevin Parker has the
potential for a guest spot
since he’s on the new single
“One Night/All Night.” — VF
VAMPIRE WEEKEND will hit the Outdoor Theatre stage at 5 p.m. Saturday.
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TAKING BACK SUNDAY will let the emo flow.
Reneé Rapp
Can the algorithm even
survive two high-intensity
subcultures — lesbian Tik-
Tok and musical theater —
thrust under one Coachella
tent with the famously brash
Rapp at the helm? Whatever
happens in there, “Snow An-
gel” still rips. — AB
Sublime
“Life is too short so love
the one you got.” Chances
are that if you’re at Coa-
chella you’re adhering to one
of the tenets of Long Beach’s
patron saints of reggae rock.
In the ‘90s their blend of
reggae with hip-hop and
punk rock swagger created a
unique lane amid the alt-FM
airwaves. Though their
style’s been imitated ad nau-
seum to the point of spawn-
ing its own Cali Reggae sub-
culture, none of the off-
shoots come close to the
true passion that inspired
Brad Nowell, Bud Gaugh
and Eric Wilson to create a
soulful, sun-soaked stoner
sound all their own. With the
late Nowell’s son Jakob now
taking up the mantle of Sub-
lime (without Rome), the
ability to recapture some of
the band’s original magic fi-
nally feels within reach. —
NJ
Khruangbin
When people complain
that Coachella isn’t about
the music anymore, point
them to Khruangbin. Blur-
ring the lines between
psychedelic rock, funk, soul
and surf rock, the Texas tri-
o’s mostly instrumental
jams are best described as
sonic comfort. The Coa-
chella appearance comes on
the heels of the release of
new album “A La Sala,” but
their previous two EPs,
“Texas Sun” and “Texas
Moon” featured Leon
Bridges, who is playing Coa-
chella’s country sister event
Stagecoach at the end of the
month, so here’s hoping he
drops by. — VF
Kevin Abstract
The former Brockhamp-
ton frontman has long
been a regular presence at
Goldenvoice’s festivals, in-
cluding Coachella, where
the hip-hop boy band played
two of its final gigs (at least
until the inevitable reunion)
in 2022. Abstract arrives in
the desert this year behind
last fall’s “Blanket,” a
moody, guitar-oriented solo
disc with heavy echoes of
’90s-era alternative rock.
— MW
Brittany Howard
Roots-rock fans know
her from her roof-raising
stint leading Alabama
Shakes. But on her own
Howard is much harder to
classify: Her acclaimed
sophomore solo LP, “What
Now,” which came out in
February, pulls from funk,
soul, jazz, psychedelia and
even classic house music as
E3
Ashley Osborn
Howard uses her powerful
voice to ponder the forces of
conflict and liberation. Big
Prince energy, in other
words. — MW
L’Impératrice
No matter who is playing
against L’Impératrice on
Friday at Coachella, I rec-
ommend ditching them in
favor of the French sextet
with the snazzy stagewear.
After seeing hundreds of
Coachella sets over the
years, L’Impératrice in 2022
is among the best. Get ready
to groove to some French
disco with a dash of yacht
rock. The dance party was
unmatched with songs like
“Peur des filles” and
“Voodoo?” but since the
group just announced a new
album, “Pulsar,” out in June,
here’s hoping we’ll get a new
song or two mixed into the
set. — VF
Deftones
Are Deftones a complete
mismatch with the typical
hype beast Coachella vibes?
Yes. Does that make their
set in Indio even more fun to
watch? Def-initely. The tor-
tured wails of Chino Moreno
combine with the band’s
chest-rattling wall of disso-
nance is destined to harsh
the buzz of those who were
just looking for a place to
nap in between sets — unless
you’re a really heavy sleeper.
Adding to the KROQ nostal-
gia machine working over-
time at the fest this year,
Deftones’ one-of-a-kind ag-
gression connects with sad
and angry people of any age,
whether you’re a newly-initi-
ated Zoomer or an OG Coa-
chella head. — NJ
Militarie Gun
Even as Coachella has
skewed to booking the big-
gest pop stars in the world in
recent years, the nods to
Goldenvoice’s roots as a
punk promoter are always
on the lineup with a face-
melting punk set or two. Fol-
lowing in the footsteps of
Japandroids, Fidlar and
Turnstile from previous
Coachellas, I predict Mili-
tarie Gun is the one to watch
this year. Plus, you probably
already know the L.A. band’s
song “Do It Faster” from
that Taco Bell commercial.
— VF
Taking Back Sunday
Look, there’s a point dur-
ing every Coachella weekend
where the whole thing gets a
little overwhelming. This
would be a good time to seek
out the Taking Back Sunday
set — which is fittingly on
Sunday. Let all of the feel-
ings flow through you with a
cathartic scream-along led
by the elder emos in attend-
ance to the band’s classics
such as “MakeDamnSure”
and “Cute Without the ‘E’
(Cut from the Team).” There
should be some decent
mosh pit action for this set,
too. — VF
Michael Schmelling
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puzzle, use Nos. 1-6. Do not repeat a number in any row or column. The numbers in each
heavily outlined set of squares must combine to produce the target number found in the
top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be
repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.
HOROSCOPE
By Holiday Mathis
Aries (March 21-April 19):
Your search for grace and
transcendence will lead you
to others who are searching
too.
Taurus (April 20-May
20): What takes work is en-
acting the various roles and
fulfilling the responsibilities
you have taken on. Don’t
confuse the true self with its
roles.
Gemini (May 21-June 21):
It’s good to make a big deal
over the little things you en-
joy. You’ll get even more de-
light when you look back on
them.
Cancer (June 22-July 22):
You can’t control the enjoy-
ment of others, but if it’s your
party, you can control the
guest list. So think of your
life as your party.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22):
Some wax poetic about how
every rose has its thorns.
You see this as a rather
dramatic stance consider-
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By Rebecca Goldstein
ACROSS
1 Data depiction
6 Mouth piece?
9 Slalom markers
14 Diet that precludes
grains and dairy
15 Charlottesville sch.
16 Animal wearing red
pajamas in Anna
Dewdney kids books
17 Hybrid wheat species
18 “A Life Outdoors Is a
Life Well Lived” co.
19 Get greasy
20 Mindset that may
hinder growth
23 Quick burn
24 “Me too”
25 Deep rift
28 Plant used as an herbal
medicine
32 Rollover subj.
33 Getting a grip, maybe
37 “It’s __-win situation”
38 Slip in judgment
40 “Jeopardy!” host
Jennings
41 Getting hungry,
probably
43 Uses a keyboard
44 Come to a close
45 Slips through the
cracks?
46 Spanish “Hey!”
47 Field where things
disappear?
49 NNW opposite
50 European range
51 “August: __ County”:
Streep film
52 Agile
54 Actress Gadot
55 Small part to play
57 Skilled sort
58 Let up
60 Pretty strange
61 Chops in the kitchen
63 Likely to speak out
64 “Say Yes to Heaven”
singer Lana Del __
65 Goddess of peace
66 Put forth
67 Chemistry suffix
indicating a double
bond
68 Exams
DOWN
1 Waze tech
2 Future genre
3 Smart __
4 Speaker emerita Nancy
5 Complete disasters
ing the lovely blossoms out
there with absolutely
smooth stems.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
There’s no reason to wait to
make your vision happen.
Start tweaking elements of
the current design for com-
fort, style and efficiency.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23):
The most telling mark of
character is how a person
treats those who they per-
ceive as having less power.
Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21):
Success will depend on
whether you can bridge a
gap between you and the
other person.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21): With work, raw tal-
ents and half-baked notions
will come together to create
something remarkable.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan.
19): By seeking advice,
friendship and news from a
variety of sources, you in-
crease your knowledge of the
world, make more accurate
predictions and thus, grow
your power.
6 Peer at a trial
7 State firmly
8 Counts down the
minutes, maybe
9 Member of the blue
man group?
10 Dresses that twirl
11 Unbelievable story
12 Outback bird
13 Softy
21 Notoriety
22 Investigative journalist
Paula
25 Delta deposit
26 Container that
may have a built-in
sharpener
27 Mental image during
meditation
29 Bias-free environments,
or what 20-Across and
27- and 35-Down are
30 Latte order
specification
31 Dishwasher detergent
units
34 Retail outlet whose
products often come
with Allen wrenches
35 Tabletop decor piece
with raked sand
COMICS
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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): Say yes to things that are
a little bit much and decline
the propositions that pre-
sent enormous challenge or
none at all.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March
20): Today you will send and
receive messages to some-
one regardless of where the
other person is in the world
or beyond.
Today’s birthday (April
11): Get ready for a year of ad-
venturous exploration, driv-
en by intuition and curiosity.
New destinations and un-
charted intellectual terri-
tory will be sources of exhila-
ration, discovery and
change. More highlights:
brushes with fame, intensive
study, invites that expand
your network, family or
point of view. Gemini and
Virgo adore you. Your lucky
numbers: 1, 14, 3, 28 and 39.
Mathis writes her column
for Creators Syndicate Inc.
The horoscope should be
read for entertainment.
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36 Need for some denim
jeans
39 Observes
42 Loch with a
legend
47 “Me, mon ami?”
48 Animation still
50 Tequila plant
53 Approvals
55 Suspenders alternative
56 Exchange a few words,
say
59 Roof sealant
62 Fury
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BRIDGE
By Frank Stewart
In today’s deal, East was
John Underwood, known as
“the undertaker” because he
aspires to beat opposing
contracts by three tricks —
but may not beat them at all.
Against four spades,
West led the K-A and a third
heart. John took the queen
and saw no need to cash his
ace of clubs — for down one:
He had dummy’s diamonds
well stopped, so declarer
couldn’t get rid of a club
loser. So John led a trump.
South won in dummy and
led the jack of clubs, faking a
finesse — and John still saw
no urgency to take his ace.
When South’s queen won, he
ran his trumps.
With two tricks left,
dummy had the A-Q of dia-
monds, and South had a dia-
ASK AMY
Standing against racism
Dear Amy: I have two
friends I’ve been very close
to over the past 10 to 15 years.
They don’t know each
other, but each has been an
important part of my life.
Based on comments
made over the years, I’ve
suspected these two were
racists, but only recently
have they overtly — almost
proudly — declared it. I can
no longer step over some-
thing I’ve tried to ignore.
While I completely dis-
agree with them, I don’t be-
lieve I could change their
minds; they seem to feel jus-
tified in their views.
I believe racism is abhor-
rent and cannot conceive of
any justification for it. I am
struggling with how I could
stay friends with them and
not feel like a hypocrite.
I’m feeling sad at the
thought of ending these
friendships, yet I already feel
myself pulling back.
Does a true friend con-
sider racism a character flaw
and accept them as they are,
or have I outgrown these re-
lationships?
Antiracist
Dear Antiracist: Loved
ones can sometimes learn to
accept and forgive character
flaws. But what you’re talk-
ing about doesn’t fall in the
“character flaw” category.
Racism is a choice, and a
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racist person has many op- she feels comfortable, she
portunities to learn, reflect steps over the line. She will
and change their mind. act loud, brassy, demanding
An antiracist has an ethi- and sort of obnoxious.
cal duty to try to engage with She has been begging us
racist people and institu- to let her sleep over at her
tions to inspire this change. friend’s house. The friend is
The Smithsonian Na- a nice girl and her parents
tional Museum of African seem great, though we don’t
American History and Cul- know them well. The girls
ture has published a guide have had good playdates.
about how to incorporate I’m not confident that my
antiracist ideals into your daughter will be on her best
own life. It suggests: behavior while staying
Seek clarity: “Tell me overnight. We wonder about
more about ____.” the best approach.
Offer an alternative per- Wondering Parents
spective: “Have you ever
considered ____.” Dear Parents: Your
Speak your truth: “I don’t daughter might not be ready
see it the way you do. I see it to spend the night at a
as _____.” friend’s house, but she might
Find common ground: be ready to host a friend for a
“We don’t agree on _____ but sleepover. Hosting might of-
we can agree on _____.” fer her an important per-
Give yourself time and spective on her behavior.
space: “Could we revisit this Talk to other hosting par-
conversation tomorrow?” ents and ask them to call you
Set boundaries: “Please if your daughter becomes
do not say _____ again to me.” aggressive, demanding or
In order to live up to your overly obnoxious while at
ideals, it would involve you their home. Let your daugh-
continuing to communicate ter know that you will bring
with these racist friends. her home if her behavior be-
comes a problem.
Dear Amy: My daughter is Coach her on ways to
in second grade. She is an modulate her behavior and
only child and is mainly a practice ways for her to be a
pleasure to be around. How- good guest and great friend.
ever, her dad and I noticed a
tendency to push right up Email questions to Amy
against a rule or boundary. Dickinson at askamy@
Sometimes, especially when amydickinson.com.
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Perfetti brings heart to his character
[Perfetti, from E1]
tolerance is internalized
white guilt. He listens to
podcasts at triple speed
when he isn’t hosting his
own, “This Abbott Life.”
He’s an avid viewer of “The
Real Housewives of New Jer-
sey.” He is awkward and
overeager to please, but also
a phenomenal friend with a
heart of gold. And a good
teacher.
“It was easy to make Ja-
cob annoying without any
heart or ground to stand on,
but in his audition, Chris
really brought more heart to
the character and warmth
and honesty, which, to me,
was more important than
being funny and nailing the
jokes,” Brunson says.
Perfetti offers this expla-
nation for his understanding
of the character: “[Brunson]
had an idea for who these
characters were, but also
gave over permission for
those people to just be those
people. I trust that she saw
in me where it could go, the
kind of anchoring character-
istics of what Jacob might
be. At the end of the day,
we’re trying to dupe you into
thinking that this is real life.
You need to have characters
that seem real and flawed
and multifaceted and ridicu-
lous, otherwise, we won’t
really care about their strug-
gles. It’s way more interest-
ing for me to play a real per-
son than a cartoon version of
a person. The comedy in Ja-
cob is sort of baked into
really tragic circumstances;
I kind of obsess myself with
Jacob’s fears and desires
and hope they’ll come out
funny.”
At 35, Perfetti radiates
the same curiosity and en-
thusiasm Jacob would while
wandering through the mu-
seum’s Dinosaur Hall. As he
cranes his neck to marvel at
Thomas, the 34-foot-tall Ty-
rannosaurus rex that holds
court in the middle of the
room, I ask if he was a kid
who went through a di-
nosaur phase.
“I would venture to say
I’m still obsessed,” he says,
making his way toward a
massive triceratops skull
nearby. “I’m watching this
documentary series nar-
rated by Morgan Freeman.
It’s called ‘Life on This Plan-
et.’ My Netflix queue is em-
barrassing. You would think
I was a 90-year-old man. But
the series is amazing. It’s all
about like the history of life
on our planet and I’m on an
episode right now where he’s
talking about if this huge
meteor hadn’t wiped these
dudes out, we would not be
here and that’s probably
something that I should al-
ready know from school, but
it’s like amazing to hear it
again.”
That inquisitiveness
didn’t necessarily make Per-
fetti a great student, howev-
er.
“I just couldn’t be bo-
thered. School was a really
mixed bag for me. The proc-
ess of absorbing something
to regurgitate it, I couldn’t
find a way into that. That’s
why being here now is so
amazing because, in my 30s,
I feel like I have such a thirst
for this.”
His study habits as a per-
former were more thought-
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CHRIS PERFETTI gets comfortable at home in L.A. Success on TV allowed the actor to buy his first house.
PERFETTI portrays the lovably corny, socially awkward history teacher Jacob Hill on “Abbott Elementary.”
ful, because the reward was
in the self-discovery.
“I had a drama teacher
who said that theater is not
therapy,” Perfetti says. “And
I remember understanding
why she was saying that. But
to be fair, it is kind of my
therapy. I mean, therapy is
also my therapy. But acting
feels like the conduit
through which I can experi-
ence being a human on this
planet and understand what
that is. And it is the greatest
high I have ever felt. ... You
kind of get to become an ex-
pert on everything. I remem-
ber when I was in drama
school, being in the library
and studying daily life in
turn-of-the-century Russia
— it’s like, ‘What the f— am I
doing?’ I ate it up because I
wanted to do it as opposed to
just a couple years before
where I didn’t see my pur-
pose.”
It all works to make Per-
fetti a scene partner who ne-
ver fails to surprise, says
Williams, who plays Jacob’s
more sedate colleague,
Gregory.
“He preps everything like
he does with theater. He
comes into rehearsal with
his own idea of the melody of
the scene, then he waits to
see what others are doing
around him to refine it
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down,” Williams says. “But
the energy that is Jacob is
there from the start. I need
time to ramp up, but Chris is
already locked in from the
first rehearsal. The best way
I can describe it is, when I
work with Chris, it feels like a
jazz band that is just so per-
fectly in tune.”
Perfetti’s commitment to
the character can often
make it difficult to keep a
straight face. While the actor
insists he’s not a naturally
funny person — he credits
Jacob’s comic flare to what’s
written on the page and,
maybe, the timing he honed
on stage — Williams says the
blooper reel proves other-
wise.
“There’s a thing where,
especially in comedy, every-
body knows what their joke
is and can land it but then
there’s certain days where
somebody is just hunting for
a break,” he explains. “It’s
definitely felt like he’s been
hunting. He’s broken me
four or five times. In the epi-
sode where he dives into the
trash can, that wasn’t
scripted, he just did that.
Perfetti, born and raised
in upstate New York, glosses
the origin story of these co-
medic gifts as the “stereo-
typical” tale of a kid desper-
ate for people’s attention. A
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curiosity for theater that be-
gan in grade school turned
into love — “for what I deem
are all the right reasons,” he
says — as a student of the
Conservatory of Theater at
State University of New York
at Purchase.
“In drama school, you’re
playing characters that you
would absolutely never be
cast as and you’re doing it for
free and you’re doing it for
fun,” he says. “So I got really
used to eating brown rice
and sardines and not needi-
ng to make a lot of money
and not really expecting val-
idation from anybody else or
expecting success in that
way. To be fair, it wasn’t long
before I got my first job, but I
certainly wouldn’t have
imagined that my life would
look like this right now.”
Perfetti made his profes-
sional debut off-Broadway
in 2011’s “Sons of the Proph-
et”; other notable credits in-
clude stage work in “Picnic,”
“The Tutors” and “The Tem-
pest” and roles in film and
TV shows such as “Looking,”
“The Night Of ” and “Cross-
bones.” He was initially re-
sistant to screen acting,
though, saying it always felt
elusive.
“It’s a largely isolating
and infinitely less collabora-
tive medium,” he says. “The
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actor is so in charge when
they’re in a play in a way that
they’re not in TV and film. ...
I’m a very theatrical person
and I thought that that
wouldn’t necessarily trans-
late to TV and film. But TV
and film has become a peb-
ble in my shoe. It’s this thing
that I’m thinking about all
the time.”
In spring 2020, while in
Atlanta on a project, Perfetti
received the pilot script for
“Abbott Elementary.”
“I remember sitting on
this park bench and people
were doing laps walking by
and I was laughing out loud
reading each page,” he says.
“I wanted to turn to some-
body and be like, ‘This is so
great! You have to read this
script!’ I also remember
thinking that nobody would
make the show. It just
seemed kind of like a secret.”
“Abbott Elementary” not
only made it to TV, where it
premiered on ABC in late
2021, it quickly became a sen-
sation — a rare bright spot at
a time when the industry
was still reeling from the pro-
duction havoc caused by the
COVID-19 pandemic. It’s
since received 15 Emmy
nominations, with four wins,
including the prize for come-
dy series in 2022, and has al-
ready been renewed for a
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fourth season. The security
of being on a hit show al-
lowed Perfetti to buy his first
home.
“It still feels completely
surreal,” he says. “I some-
times think somebody’s
gonna come and say, ‘We
need you to go now, thank
you for watering our plants.’
... Even in New York, where I
feel very comfortable, I was
always renting and nothing
was ever mine. When you are
really able to anchor yourself
in a way that I feel sometimes
now, I dunno, I feel like the
world just kind of catches up
with you when you least ex-
pect it.”
Sitcom success hasn’t
kept Perfetti from returning
to the stage when time al-
lows. After the first season of
“Abbott Elementary,” he
starred in a production of
“King James,” Rajiv Jo-
seph’s play about two men
whose friendship develops
over the course of 13 years in
tandem with LeBron James’
basketball career.
“ ‘Abbott Elementary’
had just premiered the first
season and it was the biggest
show on television,” says
Glenn Davis, who starred
opposite Perfetti. “The show
was getting so much atten-
tion and he is someone who
handles it so well. ... His fo-
cus is probably the one thing
that I really took away from
him; whenever I was onstage
with him, I never felt like he
was distracted or was any-
where else but in that mo-
ment.”
Jacob holds Perfetti’s fo-
cus these days, and he’s ex-
cited to see how the charac-
ter continues to change: Ja-
cob recently ended his rela-
tionship with his boyfriend,
allowing the series to explore
how he navigates life as a sin-
gle person, and as he nears
his 30s he’s begun to evalu-
ate his evolving ambitions as
an educator.
“Chris really harnesses a
lot of that [character devel-
opment] without even show-
ing it and I think he’s so nu-
anced that his work goes un-
noticed,” Brunson says.
“And I hate that. I think he’s
one of the most talented ac-
tors I’ve ever had the pleas-
ure of watching, let alone be-
ing in a scene with, but he’s
carrying so much with that
character and making it look
so easy.”
But there is recognition
in the way that perhaps mat-
ters most to Perfetti — how
the audience responds.
While meandering toward
the museum’s mammal ex-
hibition, a field trip chaper-
one recognizes him and asks
for a selfie while praising the
show and his character. It’s
the sort of dynamic that still
feels unexpected.
“The the gift that keeps
on giving from ‘Abbott’ is I’m
really used to working in a
bubble and being in a room
where the people who are re-
ceiving your work are there
as you’re doing it,” he says,
referring to the audience-ac-
tor relationship in theater.
“And now there’s like mil-
lions of people watching in
their own room after I’ve
done the thing, so I’m less
aware of how people respond
to it sometimes.”
Talk about a grown-up
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