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Maryland community grapples with the sudden, surreal loss of a landmark and economic artery
‘That bridge was a symbol of us’
BY J OE H EIM
in dundaLK, md.
T
he people of this blue-collar
town on the north side of what
used to be the Francis scott
Key Bridge, now a tangle of metal in
the Patapsco River, are still trying to
make sense of it all.
How could a 1.6-mile span of steel
and concrete, which took five years
to build and towered over their
community for decades, simply van-
ish in the night, demolished by a
giant, out-of-control cargo ship
headed to sea from Baltimore Har-
bor?
in the search for answers, there
will be multiple investigations, volu-
minous reports and complex litiga-
tion. experts will delve into such
issues as ship maintenance, struc-
tural engineering and occupational
safety related to the march 26 disas-
ter, which occurred shortly before
1:30 a.m. and killed six Latino immi-
grants working on the bridge deck.
N.Y. court Arrests, clashes continue on university campuses
overturns
Weinstein
conviction
S AMANTHA C HERY,
BY
M ARK B ERMAN,
H ERB S CRIBNER
AND J ANAY K INGSBERRY
Hollywood producer Harvey
Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction
was overturned Thursday by the
new York Court of appeals, re-
versing a case that helped launch
the #meToo movement.
The court suggested a retrial,
ruling that the original judge had
improperly allowed women to
testify about allegations that
Weinstein was not on trial for.
arthur aidala, one of Wein-
stein’s lawyers, said in a news
conference that Thursday was a
“great day for america because it
instills in us the faith that there is
a justice system,” adding that
from the beginning, his team
“knew that Harvey Weinstein did
not get a fair trial.”
The manhattan district attor-
see weinStein On a22
in the news
Feeling betrayed A vote by Rep. Victoria
Spartz (R-Ind.) against sending aid has upset
residents of her Ukrainian hometown. a14
u.s. growth slows The economy expanded in
the first quarter at an annualized rate of
1.6 percent, a result welcomed by some but
one that also raised “stagflation” fears. a18
Democracy Dies in Darkness
PHoToS By aNdré CHUNG for THE waSHiNGToN PoST
The financial consequences of the
collapse will be immense. But what of
the emotional blow — the sudden,
surreal disruption for the residents of
dundalk, where an enduring landmark,
an economic artery that shaped the
town’s horizon and helped fuel its
aspirations for 47 years, was ripped
away in a matter of seconds?
“it’s like a death — a friend is gone,”
said Rhonda Green Randolph, 59, who
recalls the bridge being built when she
was a child and now can’t bring herself
to look at the wreckage in person.
“There’s a real emptiness in the sky,”
said Baltimore County executive John
Olszewski (d), 41, who grew up here
and remembers it was a rite of passage
for teenagers to drive across the span
after getting their licenses.
see dUndalK On a8
tOp: robert and Kristian Hayes and
their son, Gage, view the wreckage of
the bridge in early april. leFt: Mary
Branch is a community elder who has
lived in turner Station for 75 years.
In Daniels,
Pro-Palestinian protests Washington
persist as college leaders
struggle to rein in unrest hopes it has
a QB, savior
MikE STEwarT/aP
Georgia State patrol officers detain a protester at emory University in atlanta on thursday, when
police disrupted an encampment and faced off with demonstrators while attempting to clear the area.
tending to a frayed alliance: an HBCU president in Louisiana seeks to help mend Black-Jewish ties. a10
in the region: Hundreds of students from area universities gather on the George washington campus. B1
the economy
the epa finalized rules
to slash air and water
the nation the world pollution and other
a CdC report detailed weeks of heavy rains in emissions from power
an HIV cluster linked to Kenya have left at least plants, but legal chal-
“vampire facials” at an 38 dead and displaced lenges are likely. A17
unlicensed spa. A2 more than 11,000. A12 a massive study pin-
as bird flu spreads in Haiti’s premier sub-
pointed major brands
cows, the U.S. response mitted his resignation, responsible for the larg-
evokes memories of ear- and a transitional coun-
est shares of the world’s
ly covid missteps. A3 cil was sworn in. A15 plastic pollution. A18
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High court poised
to reject Trump’s
immunity claims
deCision Could delay his d.C. trial
Justices wrestle with ‘writing a rule for the ages’
BY A NN E . M ARIMOW he is the likely Republican nomi-
nee.
The supreme Court on Thurs- Trump, who is already on trial
day appeared ready to reject don- this week in a separate new York
ald Trump’s sweeping claim that case involving business records
he is immune from prosecution connected to a hush money pay-
on charges of trying to subvert the ment, was known for breaking
2020 election, but in a way that is norms while in the White House.
likely to significantly delay his He faces two other criminal cases
stalled federal trial in the nation’s as well, and is the first former
capital. president to be indicted. But
in nearly three hours of oral again and again on Thursday,
argument, both conservative and members of the high court noted
liberal justices grappled with the that their decision, expected by
historic significance of the case, late June or early July, will not
which will set boundaries for just affect him.
presidential power in the future “We are writing a rule for the
even as it impacts whether Trump ages,” said Justice neil m. Gor-
faces trial in d.C. before this year’s such.
presidential election — in which see iMMUnity On a6
a secret deal: Testimony details the Trump-National Enquirer alliance. a4
killing stories: witness says election, not family, was the motivation. a5
Even out of sight, former
president still ubiquitous
BY D AN B ALZ his being as much as Thursday.
Both the justices on the supreme
From the lofty chambers of the Court and the jurors in the man-
supreme Court to the gutters of hattan courtroom were confront-
tabloid journalism, Thursday ed with the alleged misdeeds of
was, once again, a day all about the former president. nothing
donald Trump. about either matter cast Trump
the take He was largely in- positively. and yet it is not know-
visible, as he was able today whether these pro-
sequestered in a courtroom in ceedings will help or hurt his
manhattan. nonetheless, he was chances of being elected presi-
ubiquitous. it is who he is. dent again in november.
Throughout his life, whether as The nine justices on the high
a flamboyant developer, a reality- court were asked to answer a his-
TV star or a politician who be- toric constitutional question: is a
came president, Trump has al- president immune from criminal
ways found ways to keep the prosecution? in the manhattan
bright lights focused squarely on courtroom, the issues were far
himself. Good stories or bad sto- tawdrier, involving hush money
ries, it never really mattered. paid to an adult-film actress over
What was always important was an alleged affair and the national
to dominate, to be the center of at- enquirer’s catch-and-kill practice
tention, to win the ratings war, to designed to stamp out negative
cloud out everyone else. stories about Trump ahead of the
Rarely has there been a day 2016 election.
that underscored that aspect of see taKe On a4
commentary
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J ENNIFER H ASSAN,
R ICHARD M ORGAN
AND K ARIN B RULLIARD BY B ARRY S VRLUGA
arrests at pro-Palestinian pro- He walked onto a stage in de-
tests that expanded Thursday to troit in a light blue suit and im-
colleges across the country possibly sparkly earrings, doing
brought the total number of peo- nothing that will be required of
ple detained in a week of demon- him in the future but represent-
strations to more than 500, with ing so much to so many just by
officials struggling to quell the his presence. There are few more
unrest by clearing encampments tantalizing characters in any
and closing buildings. town than a talented quarter-
a tumultuous scene and dozens back who hasn’t yet taken a snap
of arrests late Wednesday at the — and therefore hasn’t thrown
university of southern California an interception or missed a read
pushed the administration to can- or lost a game.
cel the school’s main commence- Welcome to Washington,
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safety measures that have been do now is save the city’s favorite
put in place after protests there. franchise.
since april 18, police have de- The Washington Commanders
tained demonstrators at schools selected daniels with the second
including emerson College in Bos- pick in Thursday night’s nFL
ton, new York university, the uni- draft. it was, in so many senses, a
versity of Texas at austin and Ohio widely anticipated move. dan-
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Welcome to Washington, Jayden Daniels. Now, save the franchise.
SVRLUGA from A1
iels’s résumé sparkles. His tape
might be better. He won the
Heisman Trophy last season at
LSU, when he completed more
than 72 percent of his passes and
threw just four interceptions.
With his arm and his feet, he
accounted for 50 touchdowns
and 4,946 yards of offense. It’s
video game stuff.
What lies ahead, though, is not
just a challenge. It’s a burden.
“I’m going to come in and
really just try to play my role,
whatever that is,” Daniels said
Thursday night in a Zoom call
with reporters.
Ha. Good one, Jayden. Your
role is starting quarterback.
from Day 1. more than that, it’s
to provide stability at a position
— the most important position —
for a franchise that doesn’t know
anything of the sort.
This was Josh Harris’s first
draft as the Commanders’ owner.
It was the first draft for Adam
Peters, Harris’s handpicked
general manager. There were a
handful of options — Drake
maye of North Carolina, J.J.
mcCarthy of michigan. The job
for whoever was the choice: start
immediately, and star.
“I’m very confident,” Daniels
said. “obviously, it’s a new
regime there, and I’m excited
just to come in and really just
change the culture and help the
team win in each and every way
that I can. Come in, work hard,
and we’ll see where the course
takes itself.”
on the night of the draft, this
can feel franchise-shifting. for
the next few months — as
Daniels goes through minicamp
and training camp and appears
in the preseason before finally
CDC details HIV cluster tied to ‘vampire facials’ at unlicensed spa
BY F ENIT N IRAPPIL
The woman’s HIV diagnosis
was puzzling.
Her only recent sexual partner
tested negative. She didn’t report
injecting drugs or undergoing a
blood transfusion. But she did re-
ceive a cosmetic rejuvenating pro-
cedure known as a vampire facial,
in which a person’s face is injected
with their own blood through mi-
croneedles.
In the coming years, disease
detectives discovered that is how
she and two other women who
went to the same unlicensed New
mexico spa with unsanitary prac-
tices probably contracted HIV.
This marks the first known trans-
mission of the virus through non-
sterile cosmetic injection services.
A report on the case published
Thursday by the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention illus-
trates the dangers of unlicensed
establishments that meld medi-
cine with beauty and how a persis-
tent viral foe continues to surprise
even after infecting tens of mil-
lions worldwide.
Within months of the first cli-
ent testing positive, New mexico
officials shut down VIP Spa in
Albuquerque in fall 2018 after dis-
WHITE HOUSE
Secret Service agent on
Harris detail removed
A member of Vice President
Harris’s Secret Service security
eZ sU
beginning his career in earnest
— the perception will be that the
fate of the organization hangs on
his rocket of a right arm and his
spindly legs.
In this case, there’s truth in all
that. Washington’s stagnation for
the entirety of this century — a
span in which the franchise has
more names (three) than playoff
wins (one) — is rooted in its
meddling former owner and its
inability to find a reliable
presence at quarterback. In that
way, Daniels offers that most
dangerous of sporting
commodities: hope.
This should be an optimistic,
exciting time for the
Commanders. But there must be
a reminder, especially around
here, of the difficulties in
projecting how talent will
translate from college to the
pros. Just three years ago, five
quarterbacks went in the first
round. of those, only Trevor
Lawrence — the first overall pick
to Jacksonville Jaguars —
remains with his original team.
Each selection is a complex
equation with its own unique set
of circumstances. But there’s a
cautionary tale wrapped up in
what the other first-rounders
brought their teams in return.
Zach Wilson, taken second
behind Lawrence by the New
York Jets, was traded with a
seventh-round pick to the
Denver Broncos, probably to
serve as the backup to Bo Nix,
who was taken with the 12th pick
Thursday night. The San
francisco 49ers traded three
first-round picks to move up to
third and select Trey Lance, who
fractured his ankle in the second
week of his second season and
was dealt to the Dallas Cowboys
for a fourth-round pick a year
covering it was operating without
proper licenses and an inspection
uncovered numerous unsafe in-
fection control practices. The spa’s
former owner, maria de Lourdes
ramos De ruiz, 62, is serving a 31/2
prison sentence after pleading
guilty in 2022 to five counts of
practicing medicine without a li-
cense.
Her downfall began with a for-
mer client who tested positive for
HIV while abroad in the summer
of 2018. Needle sharing is a known
mode of HIV transmission, and
the patient’s exposure to needles
while undergoing a vampire facial
at VIP Spa months earlier spurred
public health officials and state
inspectors to scrutinize the busi-
ness.
A vampire facial, more precisely
described as platelet-rich plasma
microneedling, involves drawing
a patient’s blood, separating out
the platelets and injecting them
into the face through tiny needles
that barely pierce the skin. Propo-
nents of the procedure claim it
beautifies the skin and can reduce
wrinkles and acne scars because
platelet-rich plasma encourages
the growth of new skin cells and
collagen, which provides struc-
ture to the skin. They also say it
detail was involved in an
altercation with other agents
monday and was removed from
their assignment, law
enforcement officials said.
Harris was not affected by the
incident, which took place at
Joint Base Andrews while she was
at the Naval observatory,
according to the Secret Service.
“At approximately 9 a.m.
April 22, a U.S. Secret Service
special agent supporting the Vice
President’s departure from Joint
Base Andrews began displaying
behavior their colleagues found
distressing,” Secret Service
spokesman Anthony Guglielmi
said in a statement. “The agent
was removed from their
assignment while medical
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The Commanders chose former LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels
with the No. 2 draft pick, hoping he can change their fortunes.
later.
Justin fields and mac Jones
played three years apiece for the
Chicago Bears and New England
Patriots, respectively. Before this
draft, they were traded for sixth-
round picks. The futures of those
franchises were wrapped up in
those players. Just three seasons
later, they returned pennies on
the dollar.
Is that failure entirely the
responsibility of those
quarterbacks? It can’t be. So
much of any of their fates — and
this includes the fates of Caleb
Williams, the No. 1 pick
Thursday night, and Daniels and
maye, who went third to New
England — are wrapped up in
the coaching staff that selects
them and the roster that
surrounds them. The former
must have the vision to know
how to use a player’s talents and
the teaching ability to extract the
most from him. The latter must
have players who complement
also offers a cheaper and less inva-
sive alternative to surgical face-
lifts.
Vampire facials gained atten-
tion in 2013 when Kim Kar-
dashian posted photos on Insta-
gram of her blood-smeared face
after undergoing the procedure.
When state inspectors descend-
ed upon VIP Spa, they discovered
unsafe practices that increased
the risk of exposure to bloodborne
pathogens such as HIV and hepa-
titis B and C. A rack of unlabeled
tubes filled with blood was on the
kitchen counter. Unwrapped sy-
ringes were in drawers and coun-
ters. Equipment that was meant to
be single-use, such as disposable
electric desiccator tips, were being
reused. There was no steam steril-
izer.
Public health officials couldn’t
determine precisely how the pa-
tients contracted HIV, but there
are two primary suspects: The
needles themselves or the blood
vials, which showed signs of being
reused. Investigators confirmed at
least two cases of clients who had
tested positive for HIV before
their visits to the spa.
Another woman who received a
vampire facial from the spa tested
positive for HIV during a routine
DIgEST
personnel were summoned.”
The statement did not address
media reports that the agent got
into a fight with other agents and
had to be handcuffed before
being taken in for a medical
assessment.
Harris departed Joint Base
Andrews later monday for
Wisconsin without incident.
“The Vice President was at the
Naval observatory when this
incident occurred and there was
no impact on her departure from
Joint Base Andrews,” Guglielmi
said. “The U.S. Secret Service
takes the safety and health of our
employees very seriously. As this
was a medical matter, we will not
disclose any further details.”
A White House official declined
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the new quarterback — an
offensive line that can protect
him, receivers who can get open
for him, a defense that doesn’t
demand he hang 30 points on
the board every week just to
compete.
It’s almost impossible to
overstate how many careers
hang in the balance based on the
success or failure of this pick.
Peters either has solved the most
important position in North
American sports for his franchise
and can put his energy into
acquiring the supporting players
necessary — or he’ll be looking
for a replacement in coming
offseasons, which would set the
entire operation back years.
Dan Quinn, the new coach
with a defensive pedigree, is
handing new offensive
coordinator Kliff Kingsbury a
shiny new toy. The potential
outcomes: Daniels excels, and
Kingsbury becomes a hot head
coaching candidate. or Daniels
evaluation for life insurance in fall
2018. A third did not learn she had
HIV until she was hospitalized
with an AIDS-related illness in
spring 2023.
“These are people who had no
known risks for HIV acquisition,”
said Anna Stadelman-Behar, a
CDC epidemiologist who investi-
gated the case, spoke to the wom-
en and wrote the report. “It was a
shock to them definitely.”
The spa did not keep detailed
appointment records, investiga-
tors found. many customers were
Spanish speakers, forcing officials
to scramble to find former clients
and warn them to get tested for
HIV. They asked New mexico doc-
tors treating patients with new
HIV diagnoses to ask whether
they visited spas. officials can-
vassed community health centers
and businesses in neighborhoods
where most people spoke Spanish
in search of former clients. Nearly
200 additional VIP Spa clients and
their sexual partners got tested for
HIV, and no one else was positive.
“Some people didn’t know that
they were at risk,” Stadelman-
Behar said. “There was also disbe-
lief. The spa owner was somebody
who was a trusted member of the
community.”
to comment.
— Toluse Olorunnipa
maSSacHUSETTS
Chinese student gets
prison in stalking case
A Chinese college student was
sentenced to nine months in
federal prison Wednesday for
stalking and harassing a former
fellow student who had shared
pro-democracy fliers around
campus.
According to prosecutors,
Xiaolei Wu, 26, targeted his
female victim — who was
identified in court documents
only as Zooey — after she posted
fliers around the Berklee College
of music’s campus in Boston
calling for solidarity with pro-
democracy activists in China.
After seeing the posters, Wu
threatened to “chop [his victim’s]
hands off” if she continued to put
them up around the campus
where both had studied.
According to prosecutors, he also
provided her details to his
mother, a Chinese government
official.
In a message shared with the
court, Wu told his victim that her
family in China should expect a
visit from state security agents,
whom he said he had informed
about her actions.
Prosecutors said the victim is
originally from China and is a
permanent U.S. resident.
After his arrest in December
2022, a federal jury convicted Wu
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fails, and Kingsbury is looking
for work.
The trickledown here can’t be
overstated, and it’s colored by
the absolute baked-in volatility
of the quarterback in Ashburn, a
constantly evolving state that
has defined the franchise — and
limited its success — for more
than a generation. This is the
franchise that won three Super
Bowls with three different
quarterbacks. Even its highs
were marked by change.
Those highs, with the last
championship coming after the
1991 season, were so long ago
that plenty of adult
Washingtonians have no
memory of them. What they
know is tumult. Since the turn of
the century, Washington has
started 27 different players at
quarterback. It’s a fun parlor
game to try to list them all.
(Yeah, Kirk Cousins leads the
way, and you can’t forget robert
Griffin III or even Taylor
Heinicke or Alex Smith. But
don’t sleep on Garrett Gilbert
and mark Sanchez and John
Beck.)
So here comes Daniels.
Thursday night, he put aside any
concerns that he was reluctant to
come to Washington by calling
his new situation a “blessing.” He
was asked about Peters, and said,
“AP, he’s a dude.” He referred to
Quinn as “DQ.” And he described
himself thusly:
“A competitor, a leader, but
someone that just wants to win
at all costs and help the team win
no matter what,” he said,
“because it’s team-first always, so
I’m excited.”
You and the entirety of an
exhausted fan base, Jayden. Be
excited. The work — so much
work — lies ahead.
Experts note that the HIV clus-
ter linked to the vampire facials
represents an anomaly and that
the procedure itself is low risk.
Cisgender women accounted
for 18 percent of new HIV cases in
2021, according to the CDC, with
83 percent of those infections
linked to heterosexual contact and
16 percent to injection drug use.
Just five cases were linked to un-
common causes, such as blood
transfusions.
Stadelman-Behar said people
undergoing cosmetic procedures
can keep themselves safe by verify-
ing that the establishment is li-
censed and making sure needles
and other single-use supplies are
being taken directly from their
original packaging.
HIV activists say that the spa
cluster demonstrates how the en-
demic virus remains a reality, even
as it fades from public conscious-
ness and that anyone exposed
could be infected.
“People need to understand it’s
not just certain types of people
who contract HIV,” said Dafina
Ward, executive director of the
Southern AIDS Coalition. “It’s not
a ‘those people’ disease. And that
is the stigma we are working to
eradicate.”
in January — he was living in the
United States on a student visa —
on one count of cyberstalking and
one count of interstate
transmission of threatening
communication.
Wu will have three years of
supervised release after the
completion of his nine-month
sentence, according to
Wednesday’s statement from the
Justice Department.
— Leo Sands
Pregnant teen among four killed
in fiery crash: Three adults and a
pregnant teenager died in a fiery
crash as police pursued their
vehicle in connection with retail
thefts in southeastern
Pennsylvania, authorities said.
The car was speeding away from a
traffic stop with seven people
inside Wednesday afternoon
when the driver lost control while
using the right shoulder to pass a
vehicle that was not involved in
the pursuit, state police said.
Police had stopped the car shortly
after troopers spotted it at a
Concord Township shopping
center and approached the group,
who got back in the car and drove
away. The crash killed Isaiah
miller, 20, who was driving;
Ikeam rogers, 20, and Kalyn
Billups, 21. Tyjana motley, 17, who
was pregnant, died a short time
later at a hospital. Emergency
medical steps were taken in an
attempt to save motley’s child,
state police said, but they were
unsuccessful.
— Associated Press
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Fractured U.S. bird flu response has echoes of early covid
As pathogen spreads in
cows, experts decry lack
of clear, timely updates
BY L ENA H . S UN
AND R ACHEL R OUBEIN
Federal agencies with compet-
ing interests are slowing the
country’s ability to track and con-
trol an outbreak of highly virulent
bird flu that for the first time is
infecting cows in the United
States, according to government
officials and health and industry
experts.
The response has echoes of the
early days of 2020, when the coro-
navirus began its deadly march
around the world. Today, some
officials and experts express frus-
tration that more livestock herds
aren’t being tested for avian flu,
and that when tests and epi-
demiological studies are conduct-
ed, results aren’t shared fast
enough or with enough detail.
They fear that the delays could
allow the pathogen to move un-
checked — and potentially ac-
quire the genetic machinery
needed to spread swiftly among
people. One dairy worker in Texas
has already fallen ill amid the
outbreak, the second U.S. case
ever of this type of bird flu.
Officials and experts said the
lack of clear and timely updates
by some federal agencies re-
sponding to the outbreak recall
similar communication missteps
at the start of the coronavirus
pandemic. They point, in particu-
lar, to a failure to provide more
details publicly about how the
H5N1 virus is spreading in cows
and about the safety of the milk
supply.
“This requires multiple agen-
cies to coordinate and communi-
cate internally, but most impor-
tantly externally, which doesn’t
seem to be happening due to
different cultures, priorities, legal
responsibilities, scientific exper-
tise, and agility,” said Katelyn
Jetelina, an epidemiologist who
writes a weekly infectious-diseas-
es newsletter and has closely
tracked the avian flu outbreak.
“Mix that in with the usual chal-
lenges of scientific uncertainty,
complexity and, quite frankly
global pressure, and you got your-
self an utterly, unacceptable
mess.”
A senior administration offi-
cial said there have been “no com-
peting interests.” The White
House’s Office of Pandemic Pre-
paredness and Response Policy is
coordinating the outbreak re-
sponse with relevant agencies
“that are working quickly and
methodically.” The government is
“committed to sharing results as
soon as possible,” said the official,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss internal de-
liberations.
“This work is an urgent priority
as we work to ensure the contin-
ued effectiveness of the federal-
state milk safety system and rein-
force [the Food and Drug Admin-
istration’s] current assessment
that the commercial milk supply
is safe,” the administration offi-
cial said.
Until Wednesday, testing for
H5N1 in dairy herds was volun-
tary and limited to cows with
certain symptoms. The number of
tests per farm was limited, too.
That protocol provoked sharp
criticism from public health ex-
perts. With growing evidence that
the virus is more widespread than
feared among cows, the U.S. Agri-
culture Department announced
Wednesday that lactating dairy
cows must be tested for bird flu
before moving across state lines,
starting Monday.
Responsibility for monitoring
and containing the outbreak is
divided among three agencies.
USDA leads the investigation into
the virus in cows, the FDA over-
sees food safety, and the Centers
for Disease Control and Preven-
tion is monitoring risks to people.
Agencies have given individual
updates on their parts of the out-
break investigation, but Wednes-
day marked the first time since
bird flu was detected in cows four
weeks ago that CDC, FDA and
USDA, along with other agencies,
held a news briefing jointly. On
Thursday, government scientists
shared detailed data at a webinar
hosted by the Association of State
and Territorial State Health Offi-
cials.
For weeks, key federal agencies
have expressed confidence in the
safety of the commercial milk
supply, including pasteurized
products sold at grocery stores.
But it was two weeks before the
FDA responded directly to The
Washington Post’s questions
about whether the agency was
testing milk on grocery store
Politics & the Nation
shelves for H5N1. On Tuesday, the
agency confirmed that viral parti-
cles had been found “in some of
the samples,” but it declined to
provide details. On Wednesday,
an FDA official confirmed frag-
ments were found in milk on
shelves but declined to say how
many samples the agency has
tested, how many had virus frag-
ments and where the milk origi-
nated. The testing does not indi-
cate whether genetic traces of the
virus are active or dead.
During the Thursday webinar,
Donald A. Prater, acting director
of the FDA’s Center for Food Safe-
ty and Applied Nutrition, said
early results showed 1 of 5 sam-
ples had viral fragments, “maybe
with some preponderance for ar-
eas with known [infected dairy]
herds.” He did not say how many
samples were tested, or from
what parts of the country. Addi-
tional tests must be done to check
whether the virus is infectious.
Even with these results, the agen-
cy has seen nothing to change its
assessment that the commercial
milk supply remains safe, Prater
said.
Officials are seeking answers to
other key questions: They want to
know whether the virus is spread-
ing among cows through mechan-
ical means, such as milking
equipment, as evidence suggests,
or through the air, which would
be more dangerous and lead to
more sustained spread. They are
also interested in knowing how
long livestock will shed virus in
their milk once they have recov-
ered from an infection. And, cru-
cially, they will seek to ascertain
the risks for human exposure and
whether protocols are in place at
the state level if additional people
test positive.
The investigation “involves dif-
ferent types of samples, different
types of studies and really being
methodical about how we’re ap-
proaching answers to those ques-
tions around things like ensuring
safety of the food supply,” said one
senior government official who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to share internal policy
discussions.
“We’re not trying to pull the fire
alarm here and suggest that
there’s more of a risk to people
than exists,” said another federal
health official, who also spoke on
the condition of anonymity to
share internal deliberations.
The key to the outbreak resides
with the cows.
Public health officials and in-
dustry experts say the USDA
should be doing broader testing
to paint a clearer picture of the
scale of the outbreak. The govern-
ment has been too slow in sharing
genetic information and epi-
demiological studies, they said.
More routine testing on herds
and even other animals would
reduce the risk of spreading the
virus to other cattle and poultry
farms, public health experts and
veterinarians have said.
“Given this is a novel outbreak,
testing needs to be done widely
and rapidly, investigators need to
be on affected farms, and scien-
tists and policymakers need to be
bringing it all together to set a
coordinated plan of action,” Tom
Inglesby, director of the Johns
Hopkins Center for Health Secu-
rity, said in an email last week.
Inglesby was the White House
testing czar during the Biden ad-
ministration’s coronavirus re-
sponse.
“This isn’t just about protect-
ing U.S. agricultural interests,”
said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of
the Pandemic Center at the
Brown University School of Pub-
lic Health. “This is about protect-
ing human health, protecting
farmworkers that may be in
harm’s way and preventing an-
other pandemic from happen-
ing.”
Nearly three dozen livestock
herds in eight states have been
infected in the last month. The
virus has also spread from dairy
farms to poultry farms and infect-
ed barn cats. Epidemiologists fear
that indicates cows can pass the
virus to birds, and possibly other
animals, broadening the poten-
tial for spread.
Scientists who performed ge-
netic analyses of virus taken from
infected animals say the tests sug-
gest the outbreak may have been
occurring for longer and across
more of the United States than
previously thought.
Michael Worobey, a University
of Arizona virologist who led a
team of scientists who analyzed
239 genetic sequences released
Sunday by the USDA, said the
evolutionary tree of the virus “re-
soundingly indicates that this
outbreak had a single origin and
that it had been circulating under
our noses for months before it
was noticed.”
“The concerning thing was it
meant that all of these outbreaks
in at least eight different states
traced back to a common ances-
tor that had been around prob-
ably since late 2023 and that
meant that this outbreak almost
certainly has its tendrils all across
the U.S. and perhaps beyond,”
Worobey said.
Scientists trying to piece to-
gether the outbreak’s genesis said
the USDA was too slow in sharing
critical genetic data initially, and
when “a big dump” of 239 genetic
sequences arrived Sunday, it was
not comprehensive.
“Like what samples they are
coming from, when exactly they
were collected … and where ex-
actly they were collected,” said
Angela Rasmussen, a virologist
and principal research scientist at
the Vaccine and Infectious Dis-
ease Organization at the Univer-
sity of Saskatchewan in Canada.
Public health and veterinary
experts say they also want more
epidemiological data — including
information on the movement of
animals, their feed sources and
how many workers are on-site —
to understand how and where the
virus is circulating.
Beth Thompson, South Dako-
ta’s state veterinarian and presi-
dent of the National Assembly of
State Animal Health Officials,
said such information needs to be
shared quickly.
“It’s like if you just rip one page
out of a chapter in a book and
hand it to the states, that isn’t the
whole chapter,” Thompson said.
“We need all of the information to
be given back to us.”
The lack of more aggressive
testing of livestock and transpar-
ent data-sharing has frustrated
officials at the Department of
Health and Human Services, ac-
cording to another federal health
official and a public health expert
who were briefed on the response.
USDA officials may be con-
strained by their mission to pro-
mote new markets for farmers
and protect animal health and
welfare, said an administration
official who spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity to discuss in-
eZ Re A3
virus moving outside the lactat-
ing herd.”
This strain of avian flu has been
circulating for more than 20
years, but its leap into cows is of
significant concern, surprising
even longtime observers of the
virus. While avian flu has infected
humans — especially in Asia —
the virus has yet to prove able to
spread efficiently in people. But
the more the virus jumps animal
to animal, the greater the chance
mutations will emerge that allow
sustained person-to-person
transmission, the required next
step for a pandemic.
State health officials have test-
ed at least 23 people; only the
dairy worker in Texas, who has
since recovered, was confirmed
positive. Ongoing surveillance of
emergency department visits and
flu testing results in regions with
bird flu have not identified any
unusual or concerning patterns,
the CDC’s principal deputy direc-
tor, Nirav Shah, said Wednesday.
The risk to the public from bird
flu remains low.
For dairy farmers, the potential
impact on their business is top of
mind.
“Lots of farms aren’t raising
their hands to be tested because
they don’t want to be known as
having an infected herd,” said
Keith Poulsen, director of the vet-
FRedeRIc J. BRown/aFP/getty Images erinary diagnostic lab at the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jamie Jonker, chief science offi-
cer for the National Milk Pro-
ducers Federation, described as
appropriate the USDA announce-
ment on testing and interstate
movement. But milk producers
are waiting for the USDA’s de-
tailed guidance to know how
many tests may need to be per-
formed on milk cows, estimated
to number about 8 million, Jonk-
er said.
The testing mandate could
help overcome reluctance from
some milk producers to allow
testing in their herds, the USDA’s
Mike Watson said Wednesday.
The cost of mandatory testing
would be reimbursed by the agen-
cy.
A wide swath of federal agen-
JIm VondRuska/ReuteRs cies are mobilizing in the event
FROM TOP: Federal officials say the nation’s milk supply remains the highly pathogenic virus
safe. Dairy cows on an Illinois cattle farm April 9. Experts fear that evolves.
delays could allow the pathogen to move unchecked — and At highest risk are farmwork-
potentially acquire the genetic machinery needed to spread swiftly ers, who, like many in the agricul-
among people. One dairy worker in Texas has already fallen ill. ture sector, are undocumented or
do not wish to interact with the
ternal deliberations. “They’re just to 10 days, according to agricul- government, Shah said.
twisting themselves into knots ture officials. In an emergency call three
because they’ve got two missions The biggest challenge so far has weeks ago with state health and
that are, in this instance, pointing been identifying farms willing to lab officials, Shah laid out a de-
in different directions,” the ad- share samples, said Rosemary Sif- tailed list of operational ques-
ministration official said. ford, the USDA’s chief veterinary tions state officials needed to an-
The official suggested the agen- officer. The agency has been test- swer to prepare for potential ex-
cy is operating at a level of urgen- ing sick and healthy cows in af- posures in people.
cy closer to a 4 when it should be a fected herds, and in recent days “What nurse and what epi-
10, the official said. began testing in unaffected herds, demiologist have you trained up
Not true, said USDA spokes- she said in an interview last week. to do this? Do you have the [nasal]
woman Marissa Perry. The virus appears to be spread- swabs ready? Do they know how
“USDA’s top priority is contain- ing in cows that are producing to approach that conversation in
ing this emerging animal health milk “and the place that those a culturally competent and lin-
issue,” Perry said. animals are most closely congre- guistically competent manner? …
While H5N1 is typically fatal in gated, have the most contact, Is the lab ready to go?”
poultry, the disease in infected would be as they’re moving
cows has been relatively mild, and through the milking parlor,” Sif- dan diamond and Fenit nirappil
animals have recovered in a week ford said. “We are not seeing this contributed to this report.
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The Take
A day of the
courtroom
drama that
defines race
TAke frOm A1
The justice system has put
Trump in the dock, currently in
manhattan but potentially in
three other cases and
jurisdictions in the future. At the
same time, he and his lawyers
have tried to bend the system in
his favor, legally and especially
politically, with motions, appeals
and demands designed to delay
his reckoning long enough to
potentially free him from
prosecution.
Trump is headed toward a
rematch with President Biden in
November. But there is nothing
normal about this campaign. for
Trump, who is required to be in
court four days a week as the New
York trial continues, typical
campaigning is constrained. But
once again on Thursday, the
campaign trail ran through the
courts, and Trump sought to turn
bad news to his advantage.
Down in Washington, if the
Supreme Court was adjudicating
a historic question, it was due
entirely to what Trump did in
refusing to accept the results of
the 2020 election and the steps he
took to prevent a peaceful
transfer of power to Biden, which
culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021,
attack on the Capitol. Trump has
never relented in his false claim
that the election was stolen.
The Supreme Court, under
nine different justices, ruled in
1982 that richard m. Nixon was
immune from civil prosecution,
based on a suit filed years earlier
by a fired government official. But
no president ever did what Trump
has done, and no former
president has ever been charged
with as many felonies. And so the
court, which is now made up of
three justices nominated by
Trump, will have to answer a
question that has gone
unanswered for nearly 250 years.
What these justices decide in
the coming weeks will determine
whether a president has absolute
immunity from criminal
prosecution, and if not, and the
federal trial is allowed to proceed,
whether it will take place before
the November election.
How Trump turned the 2016 primary into a supermarket tabloid gutter fight
BY I SAAC A RNSDORF,
J OSH D AWSEY
AND L IZ G OODWIN
NEW YORK — Back in march
2016, as the republican presiden-
tial primary narrowed to a show-
down between Donald Trump
and Ted Cruz, unsubstantiated
rumors about the senator from
Texas having extramarital affairs
started appearing in the National
Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid
of wide circulation and ill repute.
Cruz called the allegations
“complete and utter lies … a
smear that has come from Donald
Trump and his henchmen.”
Trump responded, “I had abso-
lutely nothing to do with it.”
Eight years later, testimony
in a manhattan courtroom final-
ly revealed what happened. Ac-
cording to the Enquirer’s then-
publisher, David Pecker, Cruz was
right. Trump was wrong.
That incident was just one
small part of a secret deal and a
coordinated campaign that
helped transform the republican
Party and American politics.
Pecker’s testimony here Tuesday
detailed a close alliance between
Trump and the National Enquirer
that sullied Trump’s rivals while
protecting him and lowering the
entire race to the level of sordid,
sensational scare headlines. Pros-
ecutors argue that the arrange-
ment led to falsified business
records to cover up hush money
payments to an adult-film actress
before the 2016 election.
Trump has denied that affair,
and his lawyers argue he commit-
ted no crime. But the fresh details
about the inner workings of his
tactics in the 2016 republican
primaries provide fresh clarity on
how his unlikely candidacy up-
ended the customs and logic of
presidential campaigns. And in
another measure of how com-
pletely that overhaul has taken
hold, those same rivals maligned
by Trump in 2016 are now vocally
defending him against the cur-
rent charges.
Asked Tuesday about Pecker’s
testimony pointing to Trump’s
involvement in an Enquirer story
accusing Cruz’s father of some-
how being involved in the assassi-
nation of John f. Kennedy, Cruz
told NBC News that he is “not
Former president Donald Trump waves as he visits the construction site for the new JPMorgan Chase headquarters in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday.
Based on the analysis of nearly
three hours of oral argument on
Thursday, there seemed a distinct
possibility that the court’s
conservative majority would
reject Trump’s broad claim of
immunity but could issue a ruling
that causes further delays in the
federal trial, possibly until after
the election. That would
represent at the least a partial
victory for the former president.
The high court has already
been helpful to Trump in his
efforts to delay. The justices might
have simply let stand the
appellate court ruling that Trump
did not have immunity from
criminal prosecution. By taking
the case and waiting to hear oral
argument until Thursday, the
court has prevented a more
timely trial on the biggest
indictment facing the former
president.
The conventional presumption
is that, for a political candidate,
no good can come from being
criminally charged and forced to
interested in revisiting ancient
history.” Cruz has criticized the
charges against Trump as politi-
cally motivated and, in an echo of
his own 2016 retort, “utter gar-
bage.”
Trump campaign spokesman
Steven Cheung dismissed Peck-
er’s testimony in a statement
Wednesday: “The American peo-
ple stand with President Trump
as he fights against these Crooked
Joe Biden-directed Witch Hunts.
The Washington Post should be
writing about the unconstitution-
al gagging of the leading candi-
date for President and not one-
sided gossip.”
The judge has prohibited
Trump from attacking witnesses
or family members of the judge
and prosecutors, as is common
for criminal defendants. He is
considering a motion from pros-
ecutors to fine Trump for violat-
ing the gag order.
When Trump announced his
2016 presidential campaign, he
had trouble getting mainstream
news outlets to take him serious-
ly, recalled former aide Sam Nun-
berg.
Nunberg said he remembered
Pecker visiting Trump Tower and
sharing information with Trump
and his team before it was pub-
lished. Trump would sometimes
repeat things he had learned
from Pecker, Nunberg said. At
one point, Trump asked Nunberg
to buy copies of several super-
market tabloids because he was
interested in a story about former
florida governor and rival Jeb
Bush.
“The way we looked at it, the
National Enquirer was effective
and had a role to play,” said
Nunberg, who said he never dealt
with Pecker himself. “No other
candidate was doing it. People are
going to be looking at the cover.
It’s a free billboard. Not only
useful — it was viewed as impor-
tant in the scheme of Donald’s
strategy.”
As Pecker described it in sworn
testimony as the trial’s first wit-
ness, he and Trump struck “an
agreement among friends” to
help his campaign by suppress-
ing bad stories about Trump and
planting them about his oppo-
nents. Pecker recalled taking di-
rection from Trump’s personal
eZ re
go through a trial in the middle of Not everyone thinks it will.
a campaign. Yet the four Stuart Stevens, a longtime
indictments returned against republican strategist and
Trump did the opposite during vociferous anti-Trump critic,
the republican primaries. His wrote in the New York Times that
support solidified in the wake of it’s entirely possible that the effect
the charges, and he easily of the court cases will be to boost
dispatched his republican rivals, the former president politically,
though pockets of resistance just as the indictments did earlier.
continue to appear in state after “The trial will afford mr. Trump
state. the opportunity to define the
Until the manhattan trial essence of his candidacy: I am a
began, Trump had the freedom to victim,” he wrote.
campaign mostly as he pleased, Stevens offered another
with occasional appearances at observation. Trump’s signature
court hearings. He used those rallies have gone a bit stale, and
moments to his advantage, and cable news networks no longer
regularly denounced the judicial cut to the routine campaign
system as weaponized against events as they did in the past. He
him. does not always command the
Now that the manhattan trial is attention he once did. “By
underway, he no longer has that contrast, the trial gives mr. Trump
freedom. Trump has lashed out the benefits of renewed interest
repeatedly as he has emerged from voters and the media with
from court over the past week, no burden on his team to increase
risking being charged with campaigning or produce a
contempt for violating the terms newsworthy event,” he wrote.
of a gag order. His petulance is on With the legal cases, cable
display daily. Will it hurt him? comes to Trump. It started with
DAviD J. PhilliP/AP
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a rival of Donald Trump in the 2016
campaign, has called the hush money case against Trump “absurd.”
ment.)
“The revelations of just how
direct it was — they were brain-
“We assumed storming ideas, they were fabri-
cating things, they were approv-
something was going ing the copy,” said Tim miller, a
former spokesman for Bush’s
on, because it was so 2016 campaign, in describing his
reaction to Pecker’s testimony.
over the top in the way “We assumed something was go-
ing on, because it was so over the
it was going after his top in the way it was going after
his enemies and elevating him,
enemies and elevating and it’s his tabloid world. We
knew something was going on
him, and it’s his there, but I didn’t realize it was
that hand-in-glove.”
tabloid world.” miller recalled people asking
him about the Enquirer stories,
Tim Miller, spokesman for Jeb
leading him to conclude that they
Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign,
stuck with people despite the
on former National enquirer publisher
tabloid’s lack of trustworthiness.
David Pecker’s testimony about how
“To me, it made a difference,
the tabloid worked with Donald Trump
pretty clearly,” he said. “That little
germ gets in people’s heads. It’s
like, everyone is bad, it muddies
the water to allow you to vote for
lawyer, michael Cohen, on which Trump. It brought everyone
rivals to attack based on how they down to Trump’s level.”
performed in polls and debates, Other campaigns were also
even reviewing and commenting participating in the time-hon-
on advance copies of stories. (Co- ored political tradition of push-
hen, who is expected to testify ing negative stories about their
later in the trial, pleaded guilty in rivals, but they were more inter-
2018 to campaign-finance viola- ested in credible national publi-
tions arising from the hush mon- cations.
ey scheme. His lawyer did not “If I wanted to cause damage,
respond to a request for com- I’d go to the New York Times, Wall
the washington post
the indictments, with cable
channels following his
motorcades and tracking his
flights from florida to New York
for court appearances. Not that
his team isn’t looking for
opportunities for traditional
campaign events. The former
president was up early Thursday,
greeting union workers at a
construction site in manhattan,
where he got a warm reception
amid chants of “We want Trump.”
And he is ever active on Truth
Social, using it to lash out about
the trial in New York, at the risk of
being held in contempt for
violating terms of a gag order
imposed by New York Supreme
Court Justice Juan merchan, and
taking potshots at Biden and
other adversaries.
On Wednesday night, Trump
drew a comparison between the
pro-Palestinian rallies on college
campuses and the neo-Nazi rally
in Charlottesville in 2017 that was
replete with antisemitic chants
and resulted in the death of a
Street Journal, Washington Post
or the AP,” said Barry Bennett, the
2016 campaign manager for can-
didate Ben Carson, who later
became a Trump adviser. “The
National Enquirer is a real jour-
nalistic magazine? It had no cred-
ibility. One week there would be
about martians, the next week it
would be about Carson.”
One 2015 Enquirer headline
presented in court Tuesday blast-
ed Carson, a former neurosur-
geon, for having “Left Sponge in
Patient’s Brain!” The widely read
website the Drudge report
picked up the story, and Carson
responded in a radio interview,
explaining that a special kind of
sponge is sometimes left in, but
some patients have a negative
reaction.
Other Enquirer stories gained
wider exposure through Trump
himself, as when he seized on the
Enquirer’s story about Cruz’s fa-
ther to insinuate he had some
role in the Kennedy assassina-
tion. Cruz’s communications di-
rector at the time, Alice Stewart,
recalled having to call the candi-
date’s furious father to ask him
about the allegation because re-
porters were asking how she
knew it wasn’t true.
“It was extremely frustrating
when you have an absolutely ludi-
crous story in a trash tabloid that
picked up steam, then you have
Donald Trump mentioning it on
fox News, and then you have
mainstream media picking up
tabloid trash, and then we have to
defend it,” Stewart said. “We all
knew his relationship with David
Pecker. It didn’t take a rocket
scientist to connect the dots. We
didn’t have the emails or a smok-
ing gun.”
Just as the JfK conspiracy
theory tied up the Cruz cam-
paign, the Enquirer also turned
its fire on Sen. marco rubio
(r-fla.) whenever his candidacy
gained popularity, according to
Pecker’s testimony. One headline
referenced in court Tuesday sug-
gested a “Love Child” by misrep-
resenting reporting on research
the rubio campaign had itself
commissioned to debunk rumors.
“It’s got to be the first time a
presidential campaign has col-
luded with the National Enquirer
— that’s normally something you
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young woman after a
demonstrator drove his car into a
group of counterdemonstrators.
He noted that Biden had said
the Charlottesville event had
propelled him to run against
Trump in 2020, and he broadly
criticized the current president’s
handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
for the next several weeks,
however, those campaign forays
will take a back seat to courtroom
drama. for all practical purposes,
Trump is grounded. Attention
will focus on the trial in
manhattan as everyone waits for
the Supreme Court to rule on the
issue of immunity, likely to come
near the end of the court’s term in
late June.
Thursday was but one day in
the long campaign, and it was
about only one of the two major
candidates. It was a reminder still
of how Trump has distorted the
lens through which politics is
seen, and of what is at stake when
the voters make their choice in
November.
stay as far away from as you can,”
said Alex Conant, a spokesman
on rubio’s 2016 campaign. “It’s
the complete opposite of politics
as usual.”
rubio’s office did not respond
Wednesday to requests for com-
ment. He has described the hush
money case against Trump as
“absurd” and reminiscent of
“Third World” countries. “We are
all going to regret it for a very
long time,” he said at the time of
the indictment.
Trump has discussed rubio
and Carson as potential vice-pre-
sidential picks, advisers said.
Conant said he was unsur-
prised to see the senator sticking
with Trump. “Once you’ve
crossed the rubicon and go from
saying the guy is unfit to be
president to campaigning along-
side him, nothing is going to
change your mind,” he said.
The salacious stories about
other GOP candidates — not to
mention those aimed at Demo-
cratic nominee Hillary Clinton —
were mutually beneficial by
boosting Trump as well as the
Enquirer’s sales, Pecker testified.
But in the cases when the Enquir-
er suppressed stories that would
damage Trump, Pecker said only
the candidate benefited.
In one instance described
Tuesday, the Enquirer paid a
Trump Tower doorman for exclu-
sive rights to his claim that
Trump fathered a child with a
housekeeper. Pecker said he ar-
ranged with Cohen to investigate
the story, including an offer for
Trump to take a DNA test, and
concluded that it was not true.
Even if it had been true, Pecker
testified, he agreed with Cohen
that he would have waited to
publish it until after the election.
“If the story was true and I
published it,” Pecker said, “it
would be probably the biggest
sale of the National Enquirer
since the death of Elvis Presley.”
Pecker’s testimony, covering
payments to suppress publica-
tion of stories about Trump’s al-
leged affair with a Playboy model
and later with the adult-film ac-
tress that led to the criminal
charges, continued Thursday. Be-
fore a break Tuesday, the witness
flashed a wide grin at Trump as
he left the room.
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Trump tried to block bad press because of election, not family, witness says
S HAYNA J ACOBS,
BY
T OM J ACKMAN
AND D EREK H AWKINS
NEW YORK — Donald Trump
repeatedly sought to block poten-
tially damaging media reports
that might hurt his 2016 presi-
dential campaign but did not
seem worried about how his fam-
ily would feel about them, the
former publisher of the National
Enquirer testified Thursday.
David Pecker, the former me-
dia executive, said at Trump’s
criminal trial on 34 charges of
falsifying business records that
Trump did not appear concerned
about how a story of his alleged
affair years earlier with Playboy
model Karen McDougal would
impact his family, including his
wife, Melania.
“It wasn’t ‘What would Mela-
nia say, or Ivanka?’ ” Pecker
testified at the Manhattan court-
house, referencing Trump’s
spouse and his eldest daughter.
“It was basically [about] what the
impact would be to the campaign
and the election.”
The trial is the first faced by a
former U.S. president.
Manhattan District Attorney
Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump,
the likely Republican nominee in
the presidential election in No-
vember, is centered on an at-
tempt to cover up the nature of a
$130,000 payment to adult-film
actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 to
keep her quiet about a decade-
old alleged sexual encounter with
Trump. The payment was made
before the 2016 presidential elec-
tion.
Trump’s former lawyer Mi-
chael Cohen fronted that pay-
ment, and when Trump repaid
him, he purposely misclassified
the disbursements as routine le-
gal costs instead of what they
were: a shifting of funds that was
ultimately designed to buy her
silence about a tawdry encounter
that could have derailed Trump’s
campaign, according to Bragg.
Prosecutors say that Trump
had a legal obligation to disclose
the Daniels payment under cam-
paign finance laws and that fail-
ing to do so amounted to election
interference. Trump lawyers
have said that he was trying to
save his family from public em-
barrassment and that he has
denied any involvement with
Protesters outside Manhattan criminal court Thursday. A former National Enquirer publisher testified
that Donald Trump seemed indifferent to how a story about an alleged affair would affect his family.
Daniels. They have presented the
matter as an extortion attempt by
Daniels.
Pecker had a number of discus-
sions with Cohen, acting as a
conduit to Trump, and he also
spoke directly to Trump about
the McDougal story and attempts
to suppress it. Pecker told jurors
that he believed McDougal was
telling the truth about her 2005
intimate relationship with
Trump — which overlapped with
Melania’s pregnancy — and that
he purchased the rights to it as a
way to protect his friend.
Melania Trump was not part of
the conversations about the need
to handle any issues involving
McDougal and later Daniels, the
witness said.
“His family was never men-
tioned, and the conversation I
had directly with Mr. Trump, his
family wasn’t mentioned, so I
made the assumption the [main]
concern was the campaign,” said
Pecker, the former CEO of Ameri-
can Media Inc., the company that
once ran the Enquirer and other
celebrity gossip publications.
Pecker recounted several con-
versations with Trump about the
McDougal situation. In Pecker’s
recounting for the jury, he did not
mention any type of denial by his
longtime friend. On Trump’s be-
half, AMI paid McDougal
$150,000, Pecker said, because “I
believed the story was true” and
“it would have been very embar-
rassing for himself and also his
campaign.”
“What should I do?” Pecker
testified Trump had asked him.
Pecker said he told Trump he
should “buy the story and take it
off the market,” but AMI ended
up doing it for him, initially
expecting to get reimbursed. As
the reimbursement was set to
happen, Pecker told jurors, he
withdrew the arrangement to
transfer rights of the story to
Trump. It was not clear from his
testimony why he reversed his
plan.
According to the testimony,
Trump had several conversations
with Pecker about the McDougal
agreement. He continued to keep
track of whether McDougal was
abiding by her confidentiality
contract even from the White
eDuaRDo MuNoz/ReuteRS
House. In July 2017, he invited
Pecker to the White House for
dinner to thank him for his help
with the McDougal situation and
the purchase of a Trump Tower
doorman’s false story of Trump
having a child outside his mar-
riage.
By that point, the hush money
payment to McDougal had been
reported by the Wall Street Jour-
nal, and Trump asked for an
update. “How’s Karen doing?”
Trump asked Pecker as they
walked across the White House
grounds, according to Pecker’s
testimony. “I said, ‘She’s doing
well,’” Pecker recalled. “ ‘She’s
quiet. She’s doing good.’”
And when McDougal started
doing press interviews, Trump
called Pecker to ask why and gave
him an earful when Pecker ex-
plained that she had been re-
leased from that condition of her
AMI agreement. Trump hung up
without saying goodbye.
Pecker learned of the Daniels
allegation after the release of a
2005 “Access Hollywood” clip
that featured Trump bragging
about his ability to grab women’s
genitals without asking permis-
sion. Pecker told one of his edi-
tors to pass the tip about Daniels
along to Cohen because he
“thought it could be very damag-
ing. ... I thought Michael Cohen
and Donald Trump should buy
it.”
The crux of the district attor-
ney’s case is that Trump’s aim was
to protect his run for president
and that was his motive when he
allegedly concealed the payment
to Daniels. Prosecutors have used
the McDougal story to show a
pattern of similar strategies by
Trump and his advisers to keep
quiet disparaging stories about
him.
Pecker testified earlier in the
week that in 2015, he reached an
agreement with Trump and Co-
hen to tip them off to any sala-
cious stories that people may
have been trying to shop around
at publications like his that pay
sources for information. That
agreement included a promise to
promote negative pieces about
Trump opponents such as Sen.
Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and former
secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
In particular, women try to sell
stories about male politicians,
Pecker testified, illustrating for
the jury the business of running a
checkout-aisle tabloid that rou-
tinely paid for stories it had no
intention of publishing just to
take them from the competition.
Pecker said the “catch and kill”
method was a common event at
the National Enquirer.
It was murky to navigate, Peck-
er testified, because he knew that
buying stories like that one to
keep them out of a political
campaign was a potential legal
problem. For that reason, AMI
drafted a confidential agreement
with McDougal that also prom-
ised her professional opportuni-
ties, such as publishing articles
and being featured on the cover
of fitness publications.
Pecker said he once had a
similar deal with another celebri-
ty who ran for office — Arnold
Schwarzenegger — and in that
experience he learned that such
financial exchanges during a
campaign could run afoul of elec-
tion laws.
“Did you come to appreciate
the legalities surrounding such
an arrangement with a political
candidate?” Assistant District At-
torney Joshua Steinglass asked
Pecker in New York Supreme
Court on Thursday.
“Yes,” Pecker said. “That was
the first time I ever came across a
political contribution and what a
violation was.”
Trump and Pecker had been
friends since the late 1980s, ac-
cording to Pecker, who said on
the witness stand that he still
considered Trump a friend even
though they no longer speak to
each other. Pecker also said he
has worked with Trump as far
back as 1998, even before he took
over the tabloid publication. He
tipped off Trump when the En-
quirer was working on a negative
story about Trump’s second wife,
Marla Maples.
The case against Trump is
supported by the testimony of
co-conspirators, including Peck-
er and Cohen. A former editor at
the National Enquirer, Dylan
Howard, was also part of the
alleged scheme. Prosecutors said
he is unable to testify because he
has a medical issue and is in
Australia.
It’s been widely reported that
Pecker received immunity from
federal prosecutors for his infor-
mation about withholding nega-
tive Trump stories, but Pecker
said Thursday that he was testify-
ing under an immunity agree-
ment with Bragg’s office.
Daniels and McDougal are also
likely to be witnesses in the case.
On cross-examination,
Trump’s lawyers had Pecker ac-
knowledge that he had been buy-
ing, and sometimes squashing,
stories about high-profile celebri-
ties for years, long before the
2016 election. Pecker said that he
used photos of golfer Tiger
Woods having an extramarital
affair to persuade him to give an
interview and cover photo for a
fitness magazine published by
Pecker’s media company, and
that he helped suppress negative
stories about actor Mark Wahl-
berg and politician Rahm Eman-
uel.
The defense seemed to be lay-
ing the groundwork that Pecker
was merely conducting business
as usual when he paid for and
killed two negative stories about
Trump, as he had done before
with Schwarzenegger, rather
than acting to influence an elec-
tion.

the trump trials

Former media executive sheds light

on ties with tabloid, hush money talks
David Pecker takes stand
to discuss 2016 election,
among other matters
BY P ERRY S TEIN
AND T OM J ACKMAN
The seventh day of Donald
Trump’s Manhattan criminal tri-
al saw prosecutors dive deeper
and deeper into the inner-work-
ings of the defendant’s relation-
ship with America’s premiere
grocery store tabloid, the Nation-
al Enquirer.
The government’s first wit-
ness, David Pecker — formerly
the head of the company that
publishes the National Enquirer
— spent hours answering ques-
tions about what he knew in 2016
about Trump, the election and
election laws.
Late in the day, Trump defense
attorney Emil Bove started cross-
examining Pecker, who will be
back on the stand Friday.
Here are our highlights:
1. Prosecutors say Trump
continues to violate the gag
order
The day again started with
prosecutors asking New York Su-
preme Court Justice Juan Mer-
chan to hold Trump in contempt
or fine him, alleging that he had
violated the gag order at least
four times in the last three days.
The order bars him from attack-
ing witnesses, prosecutors or
leges she had an affair with
Trump while he was married.
Pecker said on the stand Thurs-
day that he was aware that hush
money payments intended to in-
fluence an election — in coordi-
nation with a campaign — violat-
ed election laws. He also said
Trump’s team never reimbursed
him for the payment.
The hush money to McDougal
is not part of the criminal allega-
tions against Trump. But pros-
ecutors seem to be using this
testimony to show the jury that
Pecker and Trump’s team falsi-
fied business records to hide the
hush money payments to Stormy
Daniels — the adult-film actress
whose payments are at the center
of the New York trial — because
they knew those transactions
violated election laws.
3. Pecker received immunity
from state prosecutors in
2019
It’s been widely reported that
Pecker received immunity from
federal prosecutors when he pro-
vided information on withhold-
ing negative stories about Trump
during the 2016 campaign. (Fed-
eral prosecutors did not pursue
charges against Trump.)
But Pecker testified that he
also got an immunity agreement
from New York state prosecutors,
agreeing to meet with them and
speak truthfully about his meet-
ings with Trump and Cohen as
well as any transactions the com-
pany had with McDougal and
Daniels.
Pecker also agreed to testify
turn, Pecker would “provide in-
formation” to Trump about po-
tentially negative stories.
Bove’s questioning seemed
aimed at bolstering the idea that
Pecker and Trump have had the
same mutually beneficial rela-
tionship since long before the
2016 election. That helps suggest
that their intent with the pay-
ment to Daniels was not about
the campaign or circumventing
election laws, as prosecutors
allege.
Pecker said during the cross-
examination that he did not con-
sider Cohen, Trump’s lawyer with
whom he was communicating, a
part of the presidential cam-
paign. Bove also tried to under-
mine Pecker’s credibility by
pointing out that he flubbed the
date of a key meeting that Pecker
had at Trump Tower.
“What I’m getting at is that
these things happened a long
time ago and that even when
you’re doing your best, it’s hard
to remember exactly what hap-
pened when,” Bove said.
Question time
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foreperson selected before the
entire jury was chosen?
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trial was the first juror selected
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alleged gag violations Tuesday
but has not yet ruled.
2. Pecker knew payment to
Playboy model violated
election laws
Pecker testified that during
the 2016 election, after discus-
sions with Trump and his attor-
ney at the time, Michael Cohen,
Trump spent $150,000 to quash a
story from Karen McDougal, a
former Playboy model who al-
Under questioning from Bove,
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said he had been working with
Trump since 1998 — that’s a year
before he became publisher of
the National Enquirer. He said he
alerted Trump when he learned
of a negative story the tabloid
was working on about Trump’s
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Justices seem poised to reject Trump’s immunity claims
ImmUnITy From A1
“This case has huge implica-
tions for the presidency, for the
future of the presidency, for the
future of the country,” added Jus-
tice Brett m. Kavanaugh.
The court seemed unlikely to
fully embrace either Trump’s
broad claim of immunity or the
special counsel’s position that for-
mer presidents have no guarantee
of immunity for their official acts.
Instead, a majority of justices
seemed to be looking for a way to
provide more narrow protections
for a president’s core constitu-
tional duties, with some of the
conservative justices especially
concerned about hampering the
power of future presidents.
In contrast, the court’s three
liberal justices emphasized that a
president is not above the law.
They seemed to reject the idea of
immunity from prosecution, ex-
pressing fears about giving a pres-
ident unbounded power to com-
mit crimes from the White House.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
asked Trump’s lawyer about the
prospect of turning the oval of-
fice into “the seat of criminal
activity in this country.”
“If the potential for criminal
liability is taken off the table,” she
asked, “wouldn’t there be a signif-
icant risk that future presidents
would be emboldened to commit
crimes with abandon while
they’re in office?”
most of the justices — and even
the lawyers on opposite sides in
the case — seemed to agree that a
former president can be pros-
ecuted for private conduct while
in office.
“There does seem to be some
common ground between you
and your colleague on the other
side that no man is above the law
and that the president can be
prosecuted after he leaves office
for his private conduct. Is that
right?” Gorsuch asked Trump
lawyer D. John Sauer, who agreed.
No lower court has determined
whether the allegations in
Trump’s indictment amount to
official acts that could be shielded
from liability or private conduct.
But when the Supreme Court
agreed to take the case, it re-
phrased the question it would
consider as: “whether and if so to
what extent does a former presi-
dent enjoy presidential immunity
from criminal prosecution for
conduct alleged to involve official
acts during his tenure in office.”
That means the high court’s
ruling is likely to require lower
courts to separate out Trump’s
official acts from his private ones,
as alleged in the indictment, be-
fore proceedings can restart in
the election obstruction case. If
the D.C. trial is stalled until after
the election, and Trump returns
to office, he could pressure his
attorney general to drop the fed-
eral charges against him.
Special counsel Jack Smith,
who sat in the courtroom on
Thursday to hear the arguments,
has charged Trump with four felo-
nies. The former president is ac-
cused of using false claims of
massive voter fraud to pressure
state officials, the Justice Depart-
ment and former vice president
mike Pence to change the election
results; scheming with others to
As it hears arguments, court charts boundaries of future presidential power
BY D EVLIN B ARRETT
AND A NN E . M ARIMOW
The Supreme Court spent
hours Thursday morning debat-
ing former president Donald
Trump’s claim of immunity from
prosecution for allegedly con-
spiring to undo the results of the
2020 election. The ruling, which
could come in June, could do far
more than chart the course of
Trump’s case; it may forever alter
the boundaries of presidential
power.
“We’re writing a rule for the
ages,” Justice Neil m. Gorsuch
said.
As they try to write such a rule,
here are the big takeaways from
the oral argument:
The justices seemed to
generally agree, in broad
terms, that Trump does not
have blanket immunity
“There is no perfect system,”
assistant special counsel michael
Dreeben told the high court as he
argued for them to allow the
prosecution of Trump, the pre-
sumptive 2024 republican presi-
dential nominee, to proceed.
Trump faces four felony counts
for allegedly trying to block Joe
Biden’s 2020 victory.
Dreeben told the justices the
current legal system “works pret-
ty well.” It may need fine-tuning
in the form of whatever ruling
the court makes, he said, but not
“the radical proposal” offered by
Trump’s lawyer — that Trump,
and all presidents, operate with
eZ re
A tour group walks past during a protest outside of the Supreme Court. Inside, justices grappled with a case that could have implications for the future of U.S. presidencies.
submit to Congress slates of pho- official role in the certification of
ny electors from swing states and an election.
get lawmakers to toss out lawful He said prosecutors would
ballots; and encouraging sup- want to tell jurors about Trump’s
porters to gather on Jan. 6, 2021, interactions with the Justice De-
at the Capitol, where a violent partment and Pence even if the
mob stopped the vote count for high court rules a president is not
many hours. liable for some official acts, be-
In a key exchange during oral cause those actions would help
argument, Justice Amy Coney illustrate the full context of
Barrett read aloud from detailed Trump’s alleged wrongdoing.
allegations in the special coun- Sauer, however, said any action
sel’s indictment and got Sauer to deemed official “has to be ex-
concede that many of the alleged punged completely from the in-
acts amount to private conduct dictment before the case can go
that would not be shielded from forward.”
prosecution. That assertion drew skepti-
Even if the court decides there cism from Chief Justice John G.
is some level of immunity for a roberts Jr., who said wiping out
president’s official acts, Barrett the official part was like a “one-
noted, the special counsel has legged stool” and suggested the
told the court that there is enough case could not go forward without
evidence of Trump’s private con- jurors having the full picture.
duct to go to trial. She asked The justices were reviewing a
michael Dreeben, the special unanimous ruling from a three-
counsel’s lawyer, if the trial could judge panel of the U.S. Court of
proceed based solely on the al- Appeals for the D.C. Circuit,
leged private acts in the interest which forcefully said Trump
of “speed and wanting to move could be prosecuted for his al-
forward.” leged efforts to stay in power after
In a foreshadowing of potential he lost the 2020 election to Joe
additional legal wrangling in the Biden. Their decision to hear the
lower courts, there was sharp case on the last day of the high
disagreement between the par- court’s argument calendar —
ties about what in the indictment rather than let the appeals court
amounts to official conduct. ruling stand — has drawn criti-
Dreeben said the allegations cism from Trump’s critics, who
involve an “integrated conspira- say the American public should
cy” and abuse of public office for a know the outcome of the prosecu-
private aim — staying in power tion before voting in November.
after losing the election. roberts was highly critical on
Presidents, he said, have no Thursday of the reasoning in the
A demonstrator protests outside the Supreme Court as justices hear the case regarding Donald Trump’s
claim he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while in office.
broad protection from criminal Jr. slammed the sweeping deci-
prosecution. sion by the U.S. Court of Appeals
“I agree,” said Justice Amy for the D.C. Circuit that denied
Coney Barrett, a Trump appoin- Trump’s immunity claim. If a
tee. majority of the nine-justice panel
agrees with him, that could push
The chief justice does not like Trump’s trial well past the elec-
the appeals court ruling on tion.
this issue roberts characterized the Feb-
Chief Justice John G. roberts ruary decision reached by the
D.C. Circuit opinion, which he
characterized as saying in essence
that “a former president can be
prosecuted because he’s being
prosecuted.” Such circular rea-
soning “concerns me,” he said, in
part because it relies only on a
prosecutor acting in good faith
with no other protections for the
office of the presidency.
“You know how easy it is in
many cases for a prosecutor to get
a grand jury to bring an indict-
ment, and reliance on the good
faith of the prosecutor may not be
enough in some cases,” roberts
said, adding, “I’m not suggesting
here.”
Dreeben, representing the spe-
cial counsel’s office, said the Jus-
tice Department was not endors-
ing a scenario that would expose
former presidents to criminal
prosecution in bad faith, for polit-
ical reasons, or without adequate
evidence. But he took issue with
roberts’s assertion that the D.C.
Circuit’s opinion had taken away
immunity.
“There is no immunity that is
in the Constitution, unless this
court creates it today,” said Dree-
ben, who has argued before the
court more than 100 times as a
former deputy solicitor general
representing both Democratic
and republican administrations.
Because Trump is the first for-
mer president to face criminal
prosecution, the justices do not
have many past cases to look to
for guidance. Trump’s lawyers
Craig hudson for the Washington Post
appeals court as saying in es-
sence that “a former president
can be prosecuted because he’s
being prosecuted.” He called that
“circular” reasoning and added,
“it concerns me.”
The chief justice then floated
a proposal that could make
the entire issue more complicat-
ed and time-consuming, rather
the washington post
urged the court to expand on a
1982 decision in a case involving
President richard m. Nixon. A
divided court recognized “abso-
lute presidential immunity” from
private civil lawsuits for “acts
within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his
official responsibility.”
But that case did not address
criminal liability. The special
counsel’s office has pointed to a
different decision involving Nix-
on from 1974. In that case, a
unanimous court refused to “sus-
tain an absolute, unqualified
presidential privilege of immuni-
ty from judicial process,” and said
Nixon had to comply with a sub-
poena for tapes of his White
House conversations.
The questions from the high
court on Thursday illustrated
how differently justices from op-
posite sides of the ideological
spectrum view the allegations
against Trump.
Some of the conservatives re-
peatedly tried to steer the discus-
sion away from the specifics of
Trump’s indictment, instead fo-
cusing on concerns about politi-
cally motivated prosecutions that
they said could undercut democ-
racy in the future.
Justice Clarence Thomas —
whose wife, Virginia “Ginni”
Thomas, was involved in the ef-
forts to overturn the 2020 elec-
tion — asked whether a president
could be prosecuted for orches-
trating a coup. (Democrats called
on Thomas to recuse himself from
than less.
“Now, you know how easy it is
in many cases for a prosecutor to
get a grand jury to bring an
indictment,” roberts said. “Why
shouldn’t we either send it back
to the Court of Appeals or issue
an opinion making clear that
that’s not the law?”
If the Supreme Court did send
the question of presidential im-
munity back to the appeals court,
that would probably eat up
weeks or months — potentially
opening a can of legal worms that
could take a lot of time for
judicial debate and decisions.
Conservative justices seem
more focused on future
presidents than Trump’s
future
The Supreme Court ruling is
considered hugely important to
Trump’s political and legal
chances, but conservative jus-
tices kept insisting they were
more worried about all future
White House officeholders than
the specific fate of the 45th
president.
Justice Brett m. Kavanaugh
said their ruling will have “huge
implications” for the future of
the presidency, and the country,
adding: “I’m not as concerned
about the here and now, I’m more
concerned about the future.”
Kavanaugh said he was wor-
ried that the trend of prosecutors
investigating presidents is only
growing. “It’s not going to stop,
it’s going to cycle back and be
used against the current presi-
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Craig hudson for the Washington Post
the case because of his wife’s
involvement but he did not.)
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., a
former U.S. attorney, asked what
would happen if an incumbent
president loses a closely contest-
ed election and knows that “a real
possibility after leaving office is
not that the president is going to
be able to go off into a peaceful
retirement but that the president
may be criminally prosecuted by a
bitter political opponent.”
“Will that not lead us into a
cycle that destabilizes the func-
tioning of our country as a democ-
racy?”
In response, Dreeben said
there is an appropriate, legal way
to contest the outcome of an elec-
tion through the courts. He sug-
gested that until Trump, officials
have understood: “If you lose, you
accept the results. That has been
the nation’s experience.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one
of the high court’s three liberals,
followed up on Alito’s question
and said, “A stable democratic
society needs the good faith of its
public officials, correct?”
“And that good faith assumes
that they will follow the law?” she
asked, adding that Trump’s im-
munity argument had “put into
suspicion here, that no man is
above the law either in his official
or private acts.”
devlin Barrett, spencer s. hsu, tobi
raji, Perry stein and rachel Weiner
contributed to this report.
dent and the next president and
the next president after that,” he
said.
Liberal justices say Trump’s
immunity claims would
create a lawless king
The three liberal justices also
focused much of their attention
on the future implications of an
immunity ruling — but they
worried most that granting
Trump protection in this case
would subvert the very premise
of the founding of the United
States, to escape the tyranny of
kings.
“The Framers did not put an
immunity clause into the Consti-
tution. They knew how to,” Jus-
tice Elena Kagan said. “They
were reacting against a monarch
who claimed to be above the law.
Wasn’t the whole point that the
president was not supposed to be
above the law?”
Trump lawyer John Sauer said
the Constitution was designed to
build “checks on the presidency,”
and did not describe a format for
criminal prosecution of a presi-
dent.
While the conservatives fret-
ted that ruling against Trump
would create a permanently hob-
bled presidency, the liberals fret-
ted that giving him significant
immunity would encourage a
new kind of criminal presidency
without consequence.
Perry stein, rachel Weiner and
spencer s. hsu contributed to this
report.
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Pro-Palestinian protests continue at
colleges as more students are detained
ProTEsTs from A1
State University. But even as law
enforcement has moved in, stu-
dents — many demanding that
their institutions cut ties with cor-
porations doing business with Is-
rael — have gathered on campus-
es, defying exhortations and
threats by administrators and
calls for crackdowns by politi-
cians.
Those students on Thursday
showed little appetite for folding
up their tents and signs as the
academic year comes to a close. In
some places, the police action
drew recruits to their cause.
In one of the most dramatic
clashes, police officers in Atlanta
disrupted an encampment at Em-
ory University and faced off with
demonstrators while attempting
to clear the area. An officer de-
ployed a stun gun at a protester
who was being restrained, accord-
ing to social media video exam-
ined by The Washington Post.
The Atlanta Police Department
said officers used chemical irri-
tants but denied using rubber bul-
lets in making arrests. Social me-
dia videos appeared to show offi-
cers pinning one person to the
ground amid screams. In a state-
ment, the department claimed
that its officers “were met with
violence” after the crowd refused
to disperse.
Emory police took “a couple of
dozen” people into custody, but
university spokeswoman Laura
Diamond said Thursday after-
noon that she was unable to pro-
vide an exact number or say
whether any charges were filed.
She said that the first protesters
were not students, though some
students joined them later, and
that the group ignored warnings
from campus police to leave — at
which point the Atlanta police and
Georgia State Police were de-
ployed to assist.
Diamond did not respond to
questions about tactics used by
those officers.
Jareer Imran, a 21-year-old sen-
ior at Emory, said he heard what
sounded like gunshots while in
class. When he arrived at the en-
campment, he said he saw 50 to 60
officers facing off with hundreds
of protesters, many of them
coughing from what they told him
was gas sprayed by police.
A video he took shows agitated
students chanting, “Let them go!”
as police escort two students away.
At Emerson, Boston police
moved to break up a protest out-
side the State Transportation
Building early Thursday, moving
in on students who formed a hu-
man wall and raised umbrellas,
according to footage from the
scene. A total of 108 arrests were
made, and four officers were in-
jured, according to a Boston Police
Department spokesman who said
there were no reports of injuries
among the protesters in custody.
Willow Torres, a 20-year-old ju-
nior who had attended protests
nightly since Sunday, was among
those arrested. She said she saw
police enclose a crowd of demon-
strators in an alley and soon felt an
officer grab the back of her sweat-
shirt, push her to the ground and
zip-tie her hands behind her back.
“I was tossed around,” Torres said,
describing it as “incredibly vio-
lent.” She was released from jail at
7 a.m. She plans to avoid nighttime
protests from now on.
Emerson President Jay Bern-
hardt expressed regret for the po-
lice actions, noting in a statement
that school officials were at police
precincts and courthouses with
arrested students and that the stu-
dents would return to campus af-
ter their release. The college “rec-
ognizes and respects the civic ac-
tivism and passion that sparked
the protest,” Bernhardt said.
In some places, peaceful scenes
of protest played out even with law
enforcement presence. At North-
eastern University, also in Boston,
dozens of students linked arms
around a couple of tents set up
shortly after sunrise. As the circle
grew, so did the presence of uni-
versity police.
Hours later, a handful of Jewish
students — some wearing kippah,
and one wearing an Israeli flag as a
cape — calmly debated with mem-
bers of the protest movement. “In
Gaza, if there wasn’t a wall, people
would come in and kill people,
right?” one student asked. A pro-
Palestinian student disagreed
with the premise. “But that’s a
hypothetical, right?” he replied.
“Just because a group does some-
thing wrong shouldn’t mean you
wall everyone in.”
Both sides in the discussion
then looked up. Boston police offi-
cers, wearing helmets and holding
zip ties, started to surround pro-
testers. About 10 minutes later,
after campus administrators
asked for the IDs of the everyone
in the circle, those officers left and
were replaced by campus police.
And at Columbia University,
where the week of protests and
arrests of more than 100 people
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protests and encampments na- bananas for allergy reasons, no
tionwide, the once-fiery momen- drugs and no weapons. Everyone
tum was mellowing into a sense of was asked to wear masks. “If
mere inertia. The encampment on you’re in this space, you have to
the school’s main mall Thursday cover your face,” a woman passing
was both more crowded and less out masks said.
noisy. Yet as the administration’s Political science professor mi-
deadline for a negotiated resolu- chael Chwe stood on the steps of
tion entered its final 24 hours, royce Hall holding a banner that
students did not approach the read: “UCLA faculty and Staff
ticking clock with now-or-never Stand With our Students.”
urgency. He said he didn’t want what
When an initial midnight dead- happened at USC to happen at
line came this week, students UCLA. faculty members “strongly
there were braced given rumors believe that we need to protect the
that the National Guard would right of students on campuses,” he
descend on campus. But the mid- said. “So many great things have
night deadline became an 8 a.m. come out of students’ protests at
deadline — and then an unspeci- the University of California, and
fied deadline that by Thursday it’s an important part of our de-
afternoon was in its foggy final mocracy.”
hours.
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ing in history who is next school Washington; molly-hennessy-Fiske in
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year’s student body president, ac- austin; trevor Bach in ann arbor,
knowledged the change in atmos- mich.; and yvonne Condes in Los Police officers move in to arrest pro-Palestinian demonstrators who were blocking the road after an
phere. angeles contributed to this report. encampment was cleared at Emerson College in Boston on Thursday.
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will not be met,” Jallow, 21, said
Thursday afternoon. “Part of it
feels like defeat, but a lot of it is
pride in what we’ve done and how
we’ve changed the conversation —
not just within Columbia, but
around the country.”
She hopes the activism will
start up again next year. “We came
to college not exactly with this
experience in mind, but definitely
expecting difficult conversations
and difficult growth. I came here
for an education, and I’ve gotten a
great one in the last few weeks.”
Elsewhere, though, students
said their enthusiasm for protest
was far from waning — and, in
some cases, just beginning.
Students in orange vests moni-
tored the perimeter of a small
pro-Palestinian tent camp at the
University of michigan in Ann Ar-
bor. A couple of police officers
stood chatting farther back in the
courtyard, and a small number of
pro-Israel students stood nearby.
The protesters’ aim is to push
the university to divest from com-
panies that support Israel. But
they also want charges be dropped
for dozens of students who were
arrested at a pro-Palestinian rally
in November — part of a university
response that organizers say has
been harsher than toward racial
justice or environmental activism.
Ember mcCoy, an environmen-
tal policy doctoral student, noted
that the university recently divest-
ed based on climate issues and
russia’s war in Ukraine. Protest-
ers will camp out until divestment
happens, she said, no matter the
school calendar. “I think it’s at-
tainable, because they’ve done it
in the past,” mcCoy said. “So why
not now?”
At a calm midday rally at the
University of Texas at Austin,
where officers had arrested 57
people the day before, many pro-
Palestinian protesters said they
either returned or showed up for
the first time because they were
outraged by what they viewed as a
crackdown on free speech.
“It was almost tyrannical, what
happened yesterday,” said ryan
Campbell, a geology major from a
conservative Catholic family in
the Houston suburbs. He said he
had not taken a stand on the war
in Gaza before Thursday. “I felt
very comfortable at this univer-
sity, and that all changed yester-
day.”
Standing nearby, biology major
Isaac Howard nodded. “No matter
where you stand on this issue,
pro-Israel or pro-Palestine, this
should be really concerning be-
cause this is the state saying, ‘We
don’t care about constitutional
rights,’” he said.
Pro-Palestinian protests have
rocked dozens of universities in
the past week, from Yale Univer-
sity to California State Polytechnic
at Humboldt, as students and
sometimes faculty rally against
the Israel-Gaza war.
Though the spring semester is
drawing to a close, the encamp-
ments continue to spring up. more
than a dozen student activists be-
gan setting up one at Northwest-
ern University early Thursday;
more than 60 students began a
sit-in at Princeton University; and
students at the University of Dela-
ware held firm during the second
day of a “die-in,” according to cam-
pus newspapers. About 30 tents
filled one corner of George Wash-
ington University’s central lawn
Thursday morning.
At USC, officers had struggled
with protesters while seeking to
break up a demonstration
Wednesday night. Los Angeles po-
lice said that 93 people were ar-
rested, with no reports of injuries,
and that the protesters later dis-
persed. The campus was open only
to students and staff Thursday.
Across town at UCLA, a student
encampment was ringed Thurs-
day with signs. “UCLA Says free
Palestine,” one read. The atmos-
phere was calm.
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Scrappy Md. town

faces another test
DunDALK FrOm A1

“it means history was just tak-

en away from all of us,” said
michael grossman, 29, as he
watched his stepson compete in a
duckpin bowling tournament at
pinland Bowling Lanes, a dun-
dalk institution since 1951.
PhoTos by andré Chung for The WashingTon PosT
“that bridge was a symbol of
us,” grossman said. “and a sym-
bol of maryland.”
now, even as they mourn, they
are thinking about the long road
ahead and how to navigate it.
dundalk has seen its fortunes rise
and fall over the past century,
often on decisions made by peo-
ple far from their community.
the federal government and
maryland leaders have promised
to rebuild the bridge and reopen
the port of Baltimore, where
many people in dundalk work,
and on which they depend.
Jobs have left dundalk before.
they can’t lose any more now.
Relying on God, and
Bethlehem Steel
the bridge was a source of
great pride here when it opened
on march 23, 1977. a symbol of
can-do spirit as the nation lum-
bered out of a recession, it gave
dundalk a much-needed boost.
Bethlehem Steel’s massive
plant in neighboring Sparrows
point was the engine of this com-
pany town, which saw its popula-
tion surge in the first half of the
20th century, especially in war-
time, as demand for steel jumped
and workers flocked to the area
for dangerous but good-paying
jobs and affordable housing.
“Back in the day, there was only
two entities that existed in peo-
ple’s minds around here, and that
was god and Bethlehem Steel,”
said derrick Lyons, 65, a long-
shoreman who was born in tur-
ner Station, a predominantly
Black neighborhood here forged
by dundalk’s segregation practic-
es in the last century. “When it
was your time to get your wings,
god took care of you — but in the
meantime, Bethlehem Steel is go-
ing to take care of you.”
By the mid-1970s, however,
america’s steel industry had be-
gun its long decline, and precious
jobs were starting to dwindle at
nearby factories that manufac-
tured cars and telephone cables.
the bridge’s construction, which
got underway in 1972, promised
growth for dundalk and a fast
route across the patapsco to em-
ployment opportunities beyond.
it gave worried workers and their
families some reason for opti-
mism.
“the bridge was the lifeblood,”
said Linwood Jackson, 76, who
returned to his job at Bethlehem
Steel in 1970 after serving in
Vietnam. “it really opened our
imagination.”
Jackson remembers watching
the opening day celebration
through binoculars and talking
with friends about how commut-
ing from Baltimore county,
where dundalk is located, to
anne arundel county would no
longer mean using Baltimore’s
Harbor tunnel, which was almost
always backed up and choked
with exhaust. they were glad for
the shortcut and eager to see an
economic turnaround.
But the new span, carrying CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: “I hope the next devastating thing that happens somewhere else doesn’t
interstate 695 on a gentle arc 185 diminish attention here,” said Mike Winkler, a third-generation Dundalk resident and owner of Then
feet over the patapsco, couldn’t and Again, a secondhand store in Dundalk’s historic town center. Curtis Winston gets a haircut in
halt dundalk’s gradual fade. early April from Hartwell Speed at Speed’s Barber and Beauty in Turner Station, which has been open
about 85,000 people lived there 70 years. At left is barber Edward “Bunny” Fleming. “The bridge was the lifeblood,” said Linwood
in 1970, according to u.S. census Jackson, 76, who has lived in Turner Station for 50 years and worked at Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows
data. as manufacturing jobs Point. In 2012, the mill — which had been in operation for more than a century — closed for good.
dried up and Bethlehem Steel’s Wayne Lipka owns Pinland, a duckpin bowling alley that has been a fixture in Dundalk for 73 years.
decline hastened, hardship fol- The bridge was a source of great pride here when it opened on March 23, 1977.
lowed. By the turn of the millen-
nium, the town’s population had employing tens of thousands of ed, it did leave a void, but we 2000, made up roughly 13 percent es — to america, the Baltimore been a bump in new homes being
dropped to about 53,000. workers through the years — evolved,” said gresham-James, in 2020, while the Black popula- Orioles and the Baltimore ravens built here, and small-business
“We thought it was going to closed for good. 47, who was born the year the tion grew from 9 percent to 14 — flutter in the front yards of tidy entrepreneurs have begun open-
bring more commerce,” Jackson bridge opened. “We’re a very resil- percent. gresham-James also homes and from apartment ing shops and restaurants, gresh-
said of the bridge. “But when the High hopes threatened by ient community.” said the number of asian and building windows. democrats am-James said. the pandemic
plants started closing, that dissi- disaster By 2020, the population had pacific islanders has slightly in- outnumber republicans more slowed that growth, yet move-
pated.” in recent years, dundalk has climbed to about 68,000, and creased. than two to one in Baltimore ment continued in the right di-
the downturn hit dundalk been plugging its way back, said today, new residents are chang- though it borders southeast county, but dundalk has been a rection.
hard. By the 2010s, many of the Latasha gresham-James, execu- ing the face of the community. Baltimore, dundalk feels more pocket of red as many White While she and others here have
good jobs were gone, home- tive director of dundalk renais- dundalk’s White population small town than big city. Flower- working class voters here have high hopes for dundalk’s resur-
owners faced foreclosures, and sance, a community development dropped from nearly 88 percent ing dogwood trees line the main routinely opted for gOp candi- gence, they acknowledge that
the future felt grim. in 2012, the nonprofit that has been working in 2000 to about 65 percent in roads. parks and boat slips are dates in presidential, state and poverty remains a problem, as do
Bethlehem Steel mill in Sparrows for almost 25 years to revitalize 2020, according to census data. plentiful in a community that local elections, particularly in the crime and drug use, and the
point — which had been in opera- the town. Latinos, who comprised about 2 boasts 40 miles of waterfront. last decade. median income of about $33,000
tion for more than a century, “When the steel industry end- percent of the population in Flags signaling a trio of allegianc- in recent years, there’s has cOntinued On next page
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but he said he is optimistic the

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: The Duckpin Dynasty men’s bowling league gathers at Pinland, a
community fixture for seven decades, in April for some duckpin bowling. Derrick Lyons, a Turner
Station native, formerly owned a trucking company and is now a longshoreman at the Port of
Baltimore. The federal government and Maryland leaders have promised to rebuild the bridge and
reopen the port. “We’re a very resilient community,” said Latasha Gresham-James, executive director
of Dundalk Renaissance, a community development nonprofit that has been working for almost
25 years to revitalize the town. In Dundalk, the median income of about $33,000 lags well behind the
state’s figure of roughly $47,000. Brian McKinney of Middle River bowls in a league at Pinland.
from previous page
lags well behind the state’s figure
of roughly $47,000. still, they
perceived signs of an upswing
and were encouraged by the new
arrivals. Now they’re concerned
that the bridge collapse and po-
tential economic havoc to come
has left their community imper-
iled again.
efforts have begun to fully
reopen the port of Baltimore, and
plans for a new bridge are already
being discussed. until intentions
become reality, though, jobs are
on the line, and business owners
and workers are wondering
about the way forward. Dundalk
can’t afford to be left behind
again.
Keno fills the television
screens at the North point Diner
where 30 types of scratch-off lot-
tery tickets are available at the
checkout counter. regulars show
up for the chipped beef platter
and signature scrapple, said me-
gan stone, 34, the restaurant’s
manager. she worries that the
bridge catastrophe could affect
business.
“a lot of our customers come
over the bridge to eat here, and
that might put a damper on us,”
she said. Longshoremen and oth-
ers working around the docks
also were among her everyday
patrons.
stone moved here in 2000 and
could see the bridge from her
bathroom window. Last month,
after her 16-year-old daughter’s
wrestling tournament, they drove
across it on their way home.
“once i reached the Key
Bridge, i could turn off my gps,”
she said, smiling. “i knew how to
get home from there.” Now the
span is in the river, destroyed
when the 984-foot container ship
Dali, loaded with cargo, slammed
into one of its support piers.
Despite her hopes for a new
bridge and an open port, stone
said, the collapse has left her
unsettled.
“it felt like a movie and kind of
makes you think what could go
wrong next?” she said.
at Then and again, a second-
hand store in Dundalk’s historic
town center, owner mike Win-
kler, 41, said he also worries about
the economic fallout. “it was diffi-
cult enough before the bridge
fell,” he said.
Winkler knows some owners of
businesses connected to the port
who have had to lay people off,
port will be back at full capacity
before long. “my big concern is,
the bridge collapse is getting a lot
of attention now, but i hope the
next devastating thing that hap-
pens somewhere else doesn’t di-
minish attention here.”
‘We’ll lift each other up’
ramps that led to the Key
Bridge are visible from the back
door of the fleming senior Cen-
ter in the Turner station neigh-
borhood, where local residents
gathered for bingo one recent
afternoon. The Temptations’
“Just my imagination” floated
from the speakers as mary
Branch, 86, checked in guests and
handed out playing cards.
Branch moved here in 1949
and has ridden Dundalk’s ups
and downs. after the thunderous
boom of the bridge collapse
shook her from sleep hours be-
fore dawn, she immediately
checked on friends and family
members. The next day, she said,
the enormity of the disaster start-
ed to sink in.
“i thought about the whole
picture,” Branch said. “We’re go-
ing to take a hit — locally, nation-
ally, globally. my heart goes out
for the impact it’s going to have.”
gresham-James, the commu-
nity development executive,
whose father worked as a long-
shoreman for 35 years at the
Dundalk marine Terminal, said
efforts have begun to address the
economic impact and buttress
residents whose livelihoods are
threatened. Within days, she said,
the federal small Business ad-
ministration deployed five staff
members to her offices to help
merchants, independent truck
drivers, restaurant owners and
others file claims to see if they are
eligible for relief funds.
she knows the path forward
will be filled with unexpected
obstacles but insists that Dun-
dalk won’t shrink from the chal-
lenge. “after all the media excite-
ment goes away,” she said, “the
community will still be here to
work together and forge ahead.”
olszewski, who is running for
Congress to replace outgoing
rep. C.a. Dutch ruppersberger
(D), is optimistic as well.
“i think Dundalk is on the
move, and it’s not the first time
we’ve known hard times,” he said.
“When we lost our steel plant, we
rallied and came together and
found a way forward.” olszewski
pointed to the thousands of jobs
created in recent years at Trade-
point atlantic, the massive ship-
ping and distribution terminal
that sits on land once occupied by
Bethlehem steel, and to new
homeowners who have moved in
to the area.
Long-timers here believe the
community will overcome this
latest challenge.
Larry Warble, 66, and his wife,
shelly, 62, were both born and
raised in Dundalk. The bridge
was built when they were teen-
agers, and it changed everything.
“it connected us, the way i saw
it, to another world,” said shelly.
on morning walks along the wa-
ter in their Bear Creek neighbor-
hood, the bridge was a sublime
landmark. “When you’re out
there and the sun’s coming up
over the bridge, it was absolutely
beautiful,” said Larry, a retired
inspector for the maryland Trans-
portation authority.
The Warbles hope the port
reopens soon and a new bridge
can be built relatively quickly.
The town, they say, will embrace
the effort.
“Dundalk gets a bad rap,”
shelly said. “But Dundalk people
stick together, and we’ll lift each
other up and do whatever needs
to be done.”
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Amid praise and pushback, college leader seeks to mend Black-Jewish ties
BY E MMANUEL F ELTON
NEW ORLEANS — After two Black
celebrities were accused of anti-
semitism in late 2022, the new
president of Dillard University, a
historically Black college, worried
the relationship between Black
and Jewish Americans was being
tested.
Dillard had once run a national
center that promoted research on
the historical alliance between
these two communities, Rochelle
Ford had learned. That center was
needed again, she decided,
launching a fundraising cam-
paign for its $200,000-a-year
budget among religious groups
and academic leaders.
Ford’s work had just begun
when it become entangled by the
Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the
Israeli response and the subse-
quent fallout between many in the
Jewish community and Black-led
organizations such as the African
Methodist Episcopal Church and
the Movement for Black Lives,
which have been critical of the
Israeli government.
The relaunch of the once-laud-
ed center — and her subsequent
speech at a rally for Israel — ush-
ered Ford, 52, into a tense national
debate on U.S. support for Israel
that has rocked college campuses
across the country, upset some
Dillard students and alumni and
raised larger questions about the
alliance between the Black com-
munity and Jewish Americans.
At Dillard, meanwhile, some
students and alumni complained
that the administration appeared
to be putting the desires of poten-
tial donors ahead of their con-
cerns for the Palestinian people.
“All the alumni I was talking to
were trying to figure out what’s
going on. Is the president trying to
get a big donation?,” said Leslie
Grover, a 1998 graduate who re-
members the center from her time
on campus. Many in the Black
community see a parallel between
the historical mistreatment of
Black Americans and the plight of
Muslims in Israel and the Pales-
tinian territories, she said.
Recent polling has shown that
Black Americans are less likely to
be supportive of Israel’s treatment
of Palestinians than White Ameri-
cans. While 38 percent of White
Americans side mostly or entirely
with Israel in the war in Gaza, just
13 percent of Black Americans do,
according to a recent Pew Re-
search Center poll.
During the civil rights move-
ment, the majority of Black Amer-
icans were pro-Israel and saw
their interests as aligned because
“if we can have Jewish national-
ism, that legitimizes Black nation-
alism,” Adam S. Meyer, associate
professor of Jewish Studies at
Vanderbilt University, said. Jew-
ish leaders were often at the front
lines of the movement, including
Andrew Goodman and Michael
Schwerner, two Jewish men killed
by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964 after
they helped register Black voters
in Mississippi.
Indeed, Dillard itself has had a
long relationship with the local
Jewish community. When the uni-
versity was founded in 1930,
much of the money to open the
school came from local Jewish
supporters.
But more recently, Black Lives
Matters supporters and Palestin-
ian activists have formed an alli-
ance, launched amid the protests
in Ferguson, Mo., after the 2014
police killing of Michael Brown.
Myers said those views hard-
ened as Israel began to be viewed
more as an occupying force in
Gaza and Black sympathies shift-
ed to Palestinians. “I think that’s
still where that is today,” he said.
Those sentiments have riled
many in the Jewish community,
As protests spread to more campuses, colleges change graduation plans
USC calls off its main
ceremony, will increase
security on campus
BY K IM B ELLWARE,
J ONATHAN E DWARDS
AND D ANIEL W U
The University of Southern Cal-
ifornia canceled its main com-
mencement ceremony and intro-
duced a host of security measures
for those visiting its campus for
the celebratory weekend in early
May, a sign that the student-led
pro-Palestinian protests roiling
college campuses are starting to
disrupt graduation plans.
USC will still hold school-spe-
cific commencement ceremonies,
where students will receive their
diplomas. But the university will
not hold its May 10 main-stage
ceremony that usually hosts
around 65,000 students and com-
munity members, the university
announced Thursday. USC will
including Julianna Margulies, the
actress known for “The Good
Wife,” who voiced frustration that
more Black Americans weren’t
supporting Israel.
“The fact that the entire Black
community isn’t standing with us,
to me, says either they just don’t
know, or they’ve been brain-
washed to hate Jews,” she said on
the podcast “The Back Room With
Andy Ostroy.”
Margulies later apologized, but
her statement underlined the del-
icate nature of the relationship
between the Black and Jewish
communities.
“Blacks and Jews have been
more reliable allies for each other
than Blacks and any other White
group,” said Samuel Freedman,
whose recent book “Into the
Bright Sunshine” traced the ori-
gins of the alliance. “And I think
it’s partly because they’ve been
such strong allies that there’s an
unrealistic expectation that
they’ll be in sync all the time.”
Ford, who was named Dillard
president in 2022, was still getting
to know the school’s history when
she was thrust into the national
debate. She had been recruited
from Elon University, a small pre-
dominantly White private college
in North Carolina, to take over
leadership of the college just two
miles from New Orleans’s famous
French Quarter.
Ford was facing a big challenge.
Hurricane Katrina had devastat-
ed the 55-acre, oak-tree-filled Dil-
lard campus and drove the univer-
sity, which has about 1,200 stu-
dents, to the brink of financial
collapse. The campus has been
rebuilt, but the budget remains
tight. There are still no degree
programs in history or mathemat-
ics.
That meant Ford would need
outside donors to help relaunch
the university’s National Center
for Black-Jewish Relations.
Dillard’s original center was
founded in 1989 to address what
Samuel DuBois Cook, then Dil-
lard’s president and a veteran of
the civil rights movement, saw as
rising hostilities between the Afri-
can American and Jewish com-
munities.
At the time, many Jewish peo-
ple were upset that some Black
Americans had embraced the
presidential run of Jesse Jackson,
who disparagingly referred to
New York City as “Hymietown,” a
also require tickets to enter cam-
pus from May 8 to 11, screen peo-
ple before events and allow only
clear bags.
As they have at a growing num-
ber of other colleges, tumultuous
scenes swept USC’s Los Angeles
campus Wednesday, when officers
arrested 93 people while breaking
up a pro-Palestinian demonstra-
tion. Students who were protest-
ing the Israel-Gaza war had set up
an encampment on the lawn at the
center of campus where the
school’s main graduation cer-
emony was set to take place, the
Los Angeles Times reported.
USC’s cancellation comes as
other colleges across the country
mull their own plans for the end of
the academic year, weeks before
many are set to welcome thou-
sands of students, their families
and faculty for graduation cer-
emonies. As they prepare, the
specter of disruption looms as stu-
dent-led protests have been met
with police crackdowns, arrests
and evictions of students from
campus housing. USC and other
schools have faced swift backlash
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slur against Jewish people, and
drew the support of Louis Farra-
khan, the leader of the Nation of
Islam whose statements have
been condemned as antisemitic.
For more than a decade, the
center hosted an annual confer-
ence that brought together schol-
ars from the Jewish and Black
communities to discuss how to
mend their divide. The first con-
ference’s theme was “Healing the
Broken Community.”
Through a center program,
Shirley Williams-Kane, who grad-
uated from Dillard in 1997, said
she attended several weekend
classes at a New Orleans syna-
gogue and watched as students
were taught about their Jewish
history. “That was one of the ex-
periences that inspired me to start
teaching Black history classes in
my community on my own,” said
Kane, who now works as a college
educational consultant.
Since Ford relaunched the cen-
ter last year, Dillard has held joint
service programs with local Jew-
ish students and documentary
screenings on campus, including
a film on the Tree of Life syna-
gogue shooting in Pittsburgh in
2018, which resulted in 11 deaths.
It also sent a small group of
Dillard students to Israel.
“That trip was life-changing,”
said Derrick Webb, who graduat-
ed from Dillard in May. “To actual-
ly understand someone else’s ex-
periences and traumas, you have
to immerse yourself in their cul-
ture.”
During that time, Ford was also
traveling the country to raise
money and build relationships
with peers at Yeshiva University, a
private Orthodox Jewish univer-
sity in New York City, and Brande-
is University in Massachusetts,
which was founded by the Jewish
community.
Ford estimated that a national
center would need a $200,000
yearly operating budget. So far,
she has been able to secure a few
small grants from Interfaith
America, a nonprofit that pro-
motes cooperation across reli-
gious groups. She is still looking
for major funding.
The center could help raise the
overall profile of the college
among all types of potential do-
nors, she said. “And that means
that we’ll have better facilities and
that means people might want to
invest in us to help our faculty to
over attempts to defuse contro-
versy by limiting student com-
mencement speeches or announc-
ing designated protest zones dur-
ing graduation ceremonies.
Columbia University President
Minouche Shafik said in a state-
ment Tuesday that she hoped the
disruptions from the protests
would not interfere with her
school’s May 15 commencement.
“I am deeply sensitive to the
fact that graduating seniors spent
their first year attending Colum-
bia remotely,” Shafik wrote, refer-
encing the coronavirus pandemic
shutdowns. “We all very much
want these students to celebrate
their well-deserved graduation
with family and friends.”
A Columbia spokesperson said
in an email to The Washington
Post that the school is monitoring
protests on its New York campus
but declined to confirm any
changes to commencement plans.
Tensions had loomed over
USC’s graduation before the pro-
tests and arrests. The university
announced last week that it would
not allow this year’s valedictorian
Photos By Kathleen Flynn For the Washington Post
TOP: Rochelle Ford, president of the historically Black Dillard
University, is reviving a center on the New Orleans school’s
campus to promote research on the historical alliance between
Black and Jewish Americans. ABOVE: Ford holds a book whose
author, Samuel DuBois Cook, once led the school.
learn and grow and do better,”
Ford said.
But that all came to a screech-
ing halt on Oct. 7, when about
1,200 people in Israel were killed
in an attack by the Palestinian
militant group Hamas. Since
then, more than 34,000 people
have been killed and 77,000 in-
jured during the resulting warfare
in Gaza, according to the Gaza
Health Ministry.
“We paused on aggressively
seeking funds because of the ter-
rorist attack and the ensuing war
because I didn’t want it to seem
opportunistic,” Ford said.
She still had a months-planned
meeting on her calendar to speak
with Ari Berman, the president of
Yeshiva University, on Oct. 11.
“I could feel his pain,” Ford said.
“So I said, ‘Listen, you are not
alone. You have people like me
who are going to be here praying
for you and helping to lift you up.’”
Berman said he agreed to have
Yeshiva partner with Dillard on
the center, which he considers a
critical opportunity to strengthen
the bond between the Jewish and
Black communities.
“Perhaps we need to express
better to the Black community,
the multiracial, diverse Jewish
community,” he said in an inter-
view. “And to grow the Jewish
community’s understanding of
the Black American experience
both past and present.”
After their call, Ford and Ber-
man began working on a letter
speak at commencement, citing
vague concerns over security.
Valedictorian Asna Tabassum,
who is Muslim, had shared pro-
Palestinian views; university offi-
cials said news of her selection as
graduation speaker had drawn re-
sponses that had “taken on an
alarming tenor,” but did not speci-
fy any threats. After backlash at
the decision, the school canceled a
keynote commencement speech
by film director Jon M. Chu, an
alumnus of the school.
On Tuesday, eight law students
at the City University of New York
sued school administrators on
First Amendment grounds over a
September 2023 decision to end
the long-standing practice of hav-
ing a student-elected peer speak at
graduation.
Eric Horowitz, a 26-year-old
third-year law student and a
plaintiff in the suit, told The Post
that students being able to select a
peer speaker is especially impor-
tant in the “seventh month of a
genocide,” an accusation Israel
has denied after Hamas’s Oct. 7
attack on Israel and the subse-
the washington post
titled “We Stand Together With
Israel Against Hamas.” The orga-
nizers of the March for Israel,
planning a demonstration on the
National Mall, soon invited Ford
to speak at a November event,
which drew a crowd of thousands.
One segment of the march was
dedicated to the rise of antisemi-
tism on college campuses.
Organizers wanted to include a
university president and thought
of Ford’s letter with Berman, said
Eric Fingerhut, president of Jew-
ish Federations of North America,
one of the groups that organized
the march. “When I talked to her
she shared with me her faith-
based approach to this issue . . .
and it was just so beautiful and
moving,” he said.
Ford spoke for about five min-
utes, asking the crowd to pray for
not just Israeli victims but also the
Palestinians who had lost their
lives since the Israeli offensive
began.
“I ask you to join me in pausing
to acknowledge that there have
been too many innocent people in
Gaza and in Israel who have died,”
she said.
Praise came pouring in.
Her speech was “brave,” said
Bill Hess, a member of the Dil-
lard’s board of trustees, whose
family has had a four-generation-
long relationship with Dillard,
starting with his great-grandfa-
ther Julius Rosenwald, a part-
owner of Sears, Roebuck and Co.,
who used his fortune to support
quent war in Gaza, where more
than 34,000 people have been
killed, according to the Gaza
Health Ministry. A case brought
before the International Court of
Justice by South Africa alleges
that Israel is violating internation-
al law by committing and failing to
prevent genocidal acts. The court
has ordered Israel to do more to
prevent the deaths of civilians.
Horowitz, who serves as a
board member on the law school’s
Jewish Law Students Association,
said university officials ended the
practice of allowing student-se-
lected speakers after two criti-
cized Israel’s treatment of Pales-
tinians. That led some to de-
nounce the speeches as antisemit-
ic, accusations Horowitz denies.
“We think it’s more important
than ever … to have our voices
heard in solidarity with the people
of Palestine,” he said.
CUNY Law School officials did
not respond Wednesday to a re-
quest for comment from The Post.
University of Michigan officials
this month announced on the
school’s website that they would
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education for Black Americans.
“She was one of the few college
presidents who right away con-
demned the attack that happened
on October 7th and she has stood
with that,” he said.
The revived center’s work is
critical, said Hess, who sits on its
advisory committee. “There’s ap-
prehension in some quarters of
the Jewish community that Afri-
can Americans have the wrong
impression of us and sort of aban-
doned the Jewish community,”
Hess said.
But the backlash to Ford’s ap-
pearance in Washington was
swift.
On social media, students and
alumni criticized her for attend-
ing what they saw as an event that
dehumanized Palestinians and an
affront to the university’s civil
rights legacy. Some students led a
silent walkout.
“I want to make it abundantly
clear that myself and many other
students at Dillard University do
not support the stance of our
president,” one student posted on
X.
Skye Spencer, a political sci-
ence major at Dillard, and a small
group of other students met with
Ford soon after she returned to
campus. But the meeting felt like a
gesture rather than a substantive
conversation, she said. “All she
would say is ‘I hear you and I
understand,’ but she wouldn’t re-
ally give us meaningful feedback
or apologize.”
Spencer said she supports
Ford’s efforts to revitalize the cen-
ter but is worried it will conflate
issues facing Jewish Americans
with those facing Israel. “The cen-
ter needs to focus on the hate that
is currently being spewed towards
Black people and towards Jewish
people,” she said.
Grover, the 1998 Dillard gradu-
ate, said she was upset by Ford’s
presence at the march, which she
considered part of an effort to
justify Israel’s actions in Gaza. But
then she noticed that the univer-
sity had closed the comments sec-
tion on some of its social media
posts about the event. That was
“the final straw for me,” she said.
“It felt like they were telling
students their voices didn’t mat-
ter, and that’s the very opposite of
what I was taught at Dillard,” said
Grover, managing editor of Push-
Black, a nonprofit media organi-
zation focused on Black Ameri-
cans.
A lot has changed since the
1980s, when the center was ini-
tially launched and Dillard’s lead-
ers should think hard about what
a 21st-century center for Black-
Jewish relations should look like,
she said.
“A lot of Jewish people contrib-
uted to the campus, a lot of them
took a role in civil rights, there
was a lot of schooling for Black
people that Jewish people paid
for, and I completely understand
and appreciate that allyship from
the Jewish community,” Grover
said.
But times have changed, she
said. “That historical allyship def-
initely does not give them the
right to expect us to center Israel
and Zionism just because they
do.”
The backlash from students
and alumni was surprising, Ford
said, but it also strengthened her
belief in the need for the center.
Fundraising remains on pause,
she said, but she is still trying to
build new relationships between
Black and Jewish leaders to sup-
port the effort.
Relaunching the center is
about “ending hate and trying to
build bridges between our two
communities,” she said.
scott Clement contributed to this
report.
set up an area outside the com-
mencement venue that would be
designated for protests. That
came after demonstrators “signif-
icantly disrupted” the annual
Honors Convocation, which uni-
versity President Santa Ono de-
scribed as an unacceptable “intru-
sion on one of the university’s
most important academic tradi-
tions.”
Earlier this month, the Anti-
Defamation League wrote an
open letter to university presi-
dents urging them “to take clear,
decisive action now to ensure that
graduation ceremonies, events,
and functions run smoothly, and
that all students and their families
feel safe, welcomed and celebrat-
ed.”
In the letter, ADL President
Jonathan Greenblatt suggested
officials strengthen policies about
disrupting school events, then
communicate to students the
rules and consequences for violat-
ing them.
susan svrluga contributed to this
report.
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Abbott’s use of troopers
to quell campus protest
draws praise, scrutiny
BY M OLLY H ENNESSY- F ISKE
AND P ATRICK S VITEK
AUSTIN — As word got out that
pro-Palestinian protesters were
planning to occupy a lawn on the
University of Texas campus, Gov.
Greg Abbott made a dramatic
move: calling in more than 100
state troopers with orders to clear
them out.
With that decision, which led
to dozens of arrests amid dramat-
ic video of riot-clad troopers on
campus, Abbott sought to reas-
sure his party — and the rest of
the country — that Texas would
not countenance a replay of the
extended protester camp at New
York’s Columbia University.
It was the latest move by Ab-
bott (R) to position himself as one
of the most assertive red-state
governors in America, eager for a
fight with the political left under
the national spotlight. But the
aggressiveness of the response
has alarmed students, faculty,
Democrats and even some Re-
publicans who have previously
sided with Abbott in his crusades
to protect free speech on college
campuses.
The third-term governor has
already staked out a national
reputation for his envelope-push-
ing policies to secure the Texas-
Mexico border, including by bus-
ing migrants to Democratic-led
cities. Former president Donald
Trump has mentioned him as a
possible running mate, though
Abbott has denied interest. And
Abbott has moved increasingly to
the right in recent years, leading a
charge this spring to purge the
state house of fellow Republicans
who have thwarted his agenda on
school vouchers.
On Thursday, however, Abbott
found himself in a storm of
broader scrutiny. Critics were
quick to note, for example, that
Abbott proudly signed a law in
2019 that aimed to protect free
speech on college campuses by
guaranteeing anyone can protest
in common outdoor areas as long
as they are not breaking the law
or disrupting the regular func-
tioning of the school. That is
precisely what those arrested
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Wednesday were doing, they said.
Prosecutors also dropped
charges against 46 of the 57 pro-
testers arrested Wednesday, cit-
ing “deficiencies” their lawyers
had challenged in the probable
cause affidavits submitted as part
of their arrests, according to Di-
ana Melendez, a spokeswoman
for the Travis County Attorney’s
Office.
“We will continue to individu-
ally review all cases presented to
our office to determine whether
prosecution is factually and legal-
ly appropriate,” Melendez said.
State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt (D),
whose district includes the Aus-
tin campus, said the politics in-
volved in the response “is not
going to let this go, and that’s
deeply, deeply troubling.”
“I’ve not yet heard any evi-
dence of property damage or per-
sonal injury, and so the response
— the police response — seems to
have been in anticipation of
something that didn’t happen,
that ultimately didn’t happen,”
Eckhardt said.
Abbott’s office did not respond
to a request for comment on the
rationale for his action nor criti-
cism of it. But on social media, the
governor responded approvingly
to the law enforcement response,
saying the protesters “belong in
jail” and that any students taking
part in “hate-filled, antisemitic
protests” at public colleges
should be expelled.
The latter reflected Abbott’s
issuance last month of an execu-
tive order requiring public uni-
versities to revise their free
speech policies to curb the “sharp
rise in antisemitic speech and
acts” on campuses.
On Thursday, protesters said
the show of force ordered by
Abbott was striking but not sur-
prising.
“Governor Abbott is taking a
very political opportunity to en-
force his agenda, a very right-
wing agenda focused on control,
not on governance,” said Chelsea
Collier, a doctoral student at the
school of information and a na-
tive Texan who spent her entire
academic career at UT.
Varun Jawarani, 21, a senior
State troopers attempt to break up a pro-Palestinian demonstration on the University of Texas at Austin campus on Wednesday.
computer science major from
Austin, said the message he re-
ceived was “Don’t have a dissent-
ing opinion from state govern-
ment or we’ll send in the police.”
Not every student found the
response unsettling.
Lily Caplan, 19, a sophomore
journalism major from Westport,
Conn., joined fellow members of
Longhorn Students for Israel at a
counterprotest next to the pro-
Palestinian gathering Thursday,
waving Israeli flags and chanting
“Bring them home now” — a
reference to Jewish hostages in
Gaza.
“Yesterday we saw a totally
different response than other uni-
versities around the country and
me, as a Jewish student, I was so
grateful for that. Don’t mess with
Texas,” she said, echoing a state
slogan as she stood in a circle
with other counterprotesters. Ca-
plan said she was reassured by
support from Abbott and univer-
sity president Jay Hartzell.
As governor, Abbott has ag-
gressively wielded his executive
power to address issues impor-
tant to conservatives. The biggest
example is Operation Lone Star, a
vast border security mission that
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has cost Texas taxpayers billions the Justice Department after” col- ing,” Amash said on X.
of dollars and has involved bor- leges where antisemitic protests Abbott’s confrontations with
der blockades and masses of state are taking place and cancel visas higher education are unfolding as
law enforcement in defiance of for foreign students participating the Republican majorities in the
the federal government’s immi- in the protests. Texas legislature grow only more
gration role. In Texas, many Republican ac- supportive — and combative
More broadly, Republicans in tivists and lawmakers applauded toward those who do not share
Texas have been targeting public Abbott’s response Wednesday. their views. The March primary
colleges more than ever, portray- But it was not universally em- was a triumph for insurgent Re-
ing them as bastions of “woke- braced on the right. publicans, some with Abbott’s
ness” where conservative views Mark Davis, a conservative ra- backing, with 17 GOP incumbents
are unwelcome. Last year, Abbott dio host in Dallas who has inter- in the House being defeated or
signed a bill into law to ban viewed Abbott multiple times, forced to runoffs.
diversity, equity and inclusion initially questioned why exactly One of the challengers who
(DEI) offices at public colleges protesters were being arrested. captured a seat, North Texas at-
and universities in Texas — a law He later said he had received torney Mitch Little, was unapolo-
that has hit UT especially hard. adequate answers. getic Wednesday about the re-
Abbott and his GOP allies are He said he found the response sponse to the protests, saying
unlikely to stop there. Abott said justified after social media users free-speech rights in Texas “do
in an Austin speech last month noted UT leaders had told orga- not include an AstroTurfed camp-
that there are “some scofflaws out nizers not to proceed with the site for terrorist advocacy.”
there” trying to circumvent the event, saying it would “violate our “If you struggle to live within
anti-DEI law and that lawmakers policies and rules, and disrupt these simple boundaries, I en-
will work to crack down harder our campus operations.” courage you to examine your oth-
next legislative session. Justin Amash, a former Michi- er 49 options,” Little said.
“Just know this,” Abbott said, gan congressman now running The Democrats’ nominee for
“we’re monitoring what our uni- for Senate as a Republican, chal- Senate, Rep. Colin Allred, sug-
versities are doing.” lenged Abbott to be more clear gested the state’s response to the
Abbott is not the only red-state about the reason for the arrests. UT protests was “overly aggres-
governor who is pushing a hard “If he’s arresting them for their sive.” The GOP incumbent, Sen.
line against protests related to speech, then he’s violating the Ted Cruz, cast Allred’s comments
the war in Gaza. In Florida, Gov. law, and his actions threaten ev- as “explicitly attacking Tex. law
Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that if eryone in the state, including enforcement for protecting Jew-
he were present, he would “send everyone he claims to be protect- ish students at UT.”
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BY R AEL O MBUOR

NAIROBI — Devastating floods

during Kenya’s rainy season, ag-
gravated by climate change, have
killed at least 38 people and
displaced thousands as rivers
burst their banks and inundated
low-income neighborhoods.
Social media sites were awash
Thursday with images and vid-
eos of people on rooftops of
submerged houses. Residents
across Nairobi neighborhoods
used boats to rescue those
stranded by the rising floodwa-
ters.
Venant Ndighila, the emergen-
cy response manager of the Ken-
ya Red Cross, said 38 deaths and
11,275 displaced people have
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been reported across the country.
He warned about accompanying
risks, including disease out-
breaks and the disruption of
goods and services.
April is traditionally the peak
of the spring rainy season, said
David Koros, assistant director of
the early-warning system at Ken-
ya’s Meteorological Department.
“Right now we have the rem-
nants of what was happening last
year in terms of El Niño effect,
where we had a lot of the temper-
atures in the Indian Ocean that
were a bit high.
“For the last two weeks, we
have had extreme rainfall being
observed over several parts of the
country,” he said, which followed
a heavier-than-usual rainy sea-
son at the end of last year. Even
the north of the country has been
getting rain after experiencing
severe drought in 2023 that re-
sulted in a major loss of livestock.
“The frequent extreme weath-
er events such as the occurrence
of droughts and heavy rainfall
are definitely effects of climate
change,” he said, adding that
after weeks of 1.5 to 2 inches of
rain a day, the ground was satu-
rated.
“There are other factors we
can talk about in Nairobi,” Koros
added. “For example, how is the
nature of the drainage? How is
the nature of the growth of the
population? How is the nature of
economic development such as
infrastructure, the buildings,
material used?” MonIcAh MwAngI/reuters

In Nairobi’s Mathare slum,

volunteers coordinated by activ-
ist Happy Olal searched for those
swept away by the rising waters.
By Thursday, they had recovered
four bodies.
“We are alone. There is no
government. We are just here,”
Olal said. “There are 400 homes
that have been washed away in
Mathare alone, and you know
Mathare is big. It is disappoint-
ing that the government has left
the people alone.”
Many Kenyans on social media
expressed anger at the govern-
ment for the slow response in
helping those affected. Some cit-
ed infrastructure built along riv-
er beds, blaming the flooding on
corruption and a lack of govern-
ment oversight of developers and
construction companies that put
up the buildings.
In a news briefing Thursday
afternoon, Kenyan Deputy Presi-
dent Rigathi Gachagua said the
government was setting up an
emergency response center to TOP: Residents of Nairobi’s
monitor “what is happening Mathare slum use a wall to
across the country and initiate cross a flooded school field
immediate intervention to save Wednesday following heavy
lives and property.” rains in Kenya’s capital.
In Kiamaiko ward, another ABOVE: Residents try to
settlement in Mathare, Emily recover belongings in the
Kwamboka and a group of wom- Mathare Valley area of Nairobi
en volunteers gathered to sort on Thursday. RIGHT: People
donations they had just received wade through floodwaters
for those displaced by the floods. Thursday after the Nairobi
“The problem is just not the River burst its banks and
floods,” she said. “The problem is destroyed their homes in the
the poverty in these areas, pover- Mathare Valley area.
ty that is causing people to live
near rivers, to live in houses
made of iron sheets where, when
floodwaters come, there is no
chance of survival.”
By Thursday evening, Kwam-
boka said, the volunteers had
managed to get some clothes and
blankets for most of the dis-
placed in her area. “Now we have
to see how the women and chil-
dren will have dinner as we wait
MonIcAh MwAngI/reuters
for tomorrow,” she said.

Digest

NigeRiA
Over 100 inmates
escape from prison
More than 100 inmates have
escaped from a prison in Nigeria
near the capital city of Abuja
after overnight heavy rains
destroyed parts of the facility, a
prison official said Thursday, as
security agencies searched for
the fleeing prisoners.
The downpour, which lasted
for several hours on Wednesday
night, destroyed the perimeter
fence of the medium-security
prison in the neighboring town
of Suleja, in Niger state, “giving
way to the escape of a total of
118 inmates from the facility,”
according to Adamu Duza, a
prisons spokesman.
The prison service and other
agencies have managed to
recapture 10 of the escaped
inmates, while the search is on
to find the rest, Duza said.
There are fears they could go
into the vast forests that connect
Suleja town and neighboring
states, some of which are known
hideouts for criminal gangs.
— Associated Press
sCOtLAND
Opponents aim to oust
government leader
Opponents said on Thursday
they would seek to oust the
leader of Scotland after the
pro-independence party that has
dominated Scottish politics for
more than a decade abandoned
a coalition with the Greens.
Scottish National Party leader
Humza Yousaf, who serves as
first minister in Scotland’s
devolved government and favors
leaving the U.K., ended an
alliance with the Greens over a
decision to scrap a climate
change emissions reduction
target last week.
The Scottish arm of the
Conservative Party that governs
Britain said it would seek to
topple Yousaf with a
no-confidence motion, calling
him a “lame duck.” Other
opposition parties did not
immediately disclose how they
would vote.
The SNP has led Scotland’s
devolved government since 2011,
but its fortunes faltered since a
funding scandal and the
resignation of a party leader last
year. Both deny wrongdoing.
— Reuters
A court in Turkey sentenced
nine rail officials to more than
108 years’ imprisonment over a
crash six years ago that killed 25
people, local media reported on
Thursday. A passenger train
operated by Turkish State
Railways derailed in July 2018 as
it passed through Corlu district
some 68 miles west of Istanbul.
The train was traveling from
Unlukopru, near the Greek
border, to Istanbul’s Halkali
station, Turkey’s main rail route
to Europe. Seven children were
among the dead, and more than
300 people were injured. An
expert report submitted to Corlu
1st High Criminal Court said a
rail embankment had collapsed
due to heavy rain and found the
railways operator at fault for not
taking precautions against
severe weather. The collapse of
the embankment above a culvert
left six carriages lying on their
sides. Photographs taken in the
aftermath of the crash showed
no ground support under a
section of rail above the culvert.
Thousands of Indigenous
people marched on Thursday in
Brazil’s capital, calling on the
government to officially
recognize lands they have lived
on for centuries and to protect
territories from criminal
activities like illegal mining.
With posters bearing messages
like, “The future is Indigenous,”
they walked toward Three
Powers Square, where Congress,
the Supreme Court, and the
Planalto presidential palace are
located in Brasília. In addition to
calls for more land recognition,
some tribes protested a
proposed 590-mile rail project to
transport soybeans from the
state of Mato Grosso, in the
central part of the country, to
ports along the Tapajos River, a
large Amazon tributary.
France and the Philippines will
begin talks next month on a
defense pact that would allow
troops from each country to
hold exercises in the other’s
territory, the French ambassador
said Thursday. French and
Philippine officials will meet in
Paris next month for talks on a
visiting forces agreement,
French Ambassador to the
Philippines Marie Fontanel said
at a news conference with
French Ambassador to the Indo-
Pacific Marc Abensour.
— From news reports
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Iran expands public crackdown on women and girls, sparking public anger
New wave of repression
seems aimed at reversing
perceived social gains
BYS USANNAH G EORGE,
N ILO T ABRIZY
AND J ONATHAN B ARAN
With global attention focused
on Iran’s escalating conflict with
Israel, Tehran has intensified its
domestic crackdown on women,
giving police expanded powers to
enforce conservative dress codes.
The new wave of repression
appears to be one of the most
significant efforts to roll back
perceived social gains in the af-
termath of the 2022 protest
movement — a months-long up-
rising that challenged gender
segregation and clerical rule.
Some Iranians suspect the gov-
ernment is using fears of regional
war as cover to tighten its grip at
home; others say it’s just the
latest salvo in a long-running
campaign aimed at extinguishing
all forms of dissent.
But the public backlash has
been swift. In many instances,
videos of women being violently
detained showed crowds of by-
standers gathering to support
them. Now, authorities appear to
be responding to pressure to curb
their harsh tactics.
On Monday, Iran’s national po-
lice made a rare statement to
local media about Operation
Noor, its new campaign of hijab
enforcement. A police spokesper-
son said that officers would not
refer cases to the judiciary, poten-
tially removing the threat of
criminal charges for women who
have been detained.
The unnamed spokesperson
blamed “malicious media
streams that seek to divide and
polarize society” — an apparent
reference to videos of police re-
pression that have gone viral on
social media.
The latest videos began emerg-
ing the same weekend that Iran
launched hundreds of drones
and missiles at Israel. The Wash-
ington Post spoke to Iranians
who have witnessed the crack-
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Women wait to cross a street in downtown Tehran in September as a member of Iran’s special police
force monitors the area. Some Iranians have recently observed larger numbers of police on the streets.
down and verified four videos of
women being forcibly detained;
in one from Tehran, posted April
16, security forces use a stun gun
on a woman before dragging her
off a city street and into a van.
A spokesman for Iran’s mis-
sion to the United Nations in
New York declined to comment
for this story.
The police are not “backtrack-
ing,” but rather trying to find a
way to carry out the crackdown
with “less friction,” according to
Tara Sepehri Far, a senior Iran
researcher at Human Rights
Watch. “They don’t want another
dead body on their hands,” she
added — an allusion to Mahsa
“Jina” Amini, a young Kurdish
woman whose death in the cus-
tody of Iran’s “morality police” in
2022 was the spark for nation-
wide protests.
Dina Ghalibaf, a 23-year-old
freelance journalist and univer-
sity student, was detained by
police at a metro station in Teh-
ran on April 15.
“When I insisted that I pay my
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taxes and I have the right to use
the metro, they violently took me
to a room. They hit me with an
electric shocker,” she wrote on X.
“The whole time, they restrained
my arms and one of the officers
sexually assaulted me.”
The posts quickly went viral.
When contacted by The Post the
day she was released, Ghalibaf
confirmed the account of her
detention and agreed to speak in
detail later that day.
But hours later, she was arrest-
ed again. This time she was sent
to Iran’s notorious Evin prison
and her social media accounts
were taken down.
Her family was told she had
been charged with “spreading
disinformation, disobeying the
police and disturbing the public,”
according to a family friend who
spoke to The Post on the condi-
tion of anonymity for fear of
reprisals. Authorities offered to
grant her bail this week, but
demanded she sign a letter stat-
ing that her claims of sexual
assault were untrue. When Ghali-
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baf refused, the offer was with-
drawn, the family friend said.
The police announced the
launch of Operation Noor in a
video address on April 12, vowing
to “legally deal with the viola-
tors” of the hijab law.
The law requires women to
cover their hair and wear loose
clothing that hides the shape of
their body. Many Iranian women
choose to wear a headscarf for
religious or cultural reasons, and
the law mandating hijab has
strong support among the coun-
try’s conservatives. But many Ira-
nians increasingly believe the
headscarf should be a woman’s
personal choice, not a govern-
ment matter.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
appeared to foreshadow the
crackdown in a speech on April 3.
“I am sure that the women of
our country, even those who are a
little disobedient in the field of
hijab, are attached to Islam, at-
tached to the regime,” he said,
addressing politicians and gov-
ernment officials in Tehran.
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“They must observe this issue
of hijab. Everyone must follow it.”
Yet Iranian authorities have
struggled to enforce the law with-
out triggering social unrest. The
protests in 2022 were the most
significant threat to Iran’s cleri-
cal rulers in decades. Hundreds
of protesters were killed by secu-
rity forces and thousands arrest-
ed.
While people retreated from
the streets, many women contin-
ued to appear in public uncov-
ered — a small but meaningful
act of defiance that would once
have been unthinkable. Iran’s
morality police started to adopt a
lower profile, operating without
uniforms and using unmarked
vehicles.
In the months that followed,
though, a “prevailing view”
emerged within Iran’s clerical
leadership that the country need-
ed “a comprehensive system of
enforcement” of the hijab law,
Far said. “Because giving up the
enforcement would be seen as
giving up ground to the opposi-
tion.”
The government tried to apply
economic pressures: using traffic
cameras to fine women without
headscarves and denying women
accused of violating the law the
ability to work or pursue educa-
tion. Businesses accused of serv-
ing or employing women who
defied dress codes were shut-
tered.
But some women and girls
remained undaunted.
“Us Iranian women have got-
ten to a point where it’s either
death or freedom for us,” said a
40-year-old woman from Tehran.
“We will pay any price, but we
won’t go back to what life was
before” the uprising.
“If we wear hijab, it’s as if the
blood of those [killed in the
protests] are at our feet,” she said.
Though new cases of police
violence last year sparked out-
rage online, they did not lead to
public demonstrations. On the
first anniversary of Amini’s death
in September, Iranian security
forces were deployed across the
country to prevent rallies. The
rollout of Operation Noor, how-
ever, could be a new inflection
point.
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Several Iranians interviewed
by The Post reported larger num-
bers of police on the streets and
visibly harsher treatment of
women and girls. They spoke on
the condition that they be identi-
fied by their first names for fear
of reprisals.
“Before this current wave, if
someone was not wearing a hijab
or wearing a short dress, they
would warn them verbally. But
this time is completely different,”
said Parsa, a 24-year-old man
from Tehran, who said he saw
officers attack a woman outside
his office.
He tried to intervene, he said,
but was pulled away from the
scene by men in plain clothes and
beaten. When a crowd began to
gather, the police released him
and the woman who had been
detained. As they walked away,
one of the officers yelled, “Let
them go, just take their pictures,”
he recalled.
His account could not be inde-
pendently confirmed, but it
aligns with videos and other re-
ports from Iran in recent weeks.
“It is way more strict and more
violent than before,” he said. “It
is as if they have gone back in
time 10 years.”
Jasmin Ramsey, deputy direc-
tor at the Washington-based In-
dependent Center for Human
Rights in Iran, said the reports
coming out of the country were
likely just a small sample of what
appears to be a far-reaching
crackdown.
“These girls are being pushed
into vans without doing anything
and [with] no chance of due
process,” she said. “Anything can
happen to them, as we have seen
in the past. This extreme form of
violence against women being
perpetuated by the state is ex-
tremely dangerous.”
Fatemeh, a 20-year-old univer-
sity student, told The Post she
was grabbed by police this month
but managed to escape before
being pulled into a nearby van. It
has only made her more resolute.
“When you see other people
fighting like you, you get braver
and more determined on your
path,” she said. “I have not really
observed that much fear. . . . Peo-
ple might have more rage.”
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Rep. Spartz’s Ukrainian hometown feels betrayed after she voted against aid
BY S IOBHÁN O ’ G RADY,
A NASTACIA G ALOUCHKA
AND M ARIANNA S OTOMAYOR
CHerniHiV, Ukraine — In this
small city north of Kyiv where
Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) grew
up, locals once lauded her as one
of their own — proud of the studi-
ous girl with blonde pigtails who
moved to America and became
the first Ukrainian-born member
of Congress.
But after Spartz voted against a
$61 billion aid package for
Ukraine last week, that pride for
some turned to anger and a sense
of betrayal — feelings made more
raw because her “no” vote came
days after Chernihiv was bombed
during morning rush hour, killing
18 people.
“She is not Ukrainian anymore,
and I see this,” said Natalia
Khmelnytska, 50, a teacher at
School Number 15, where Spartz
studied, and who lives in the
apartment block where the con-
gresswoman grew up. “We are
disappointed. We are frustrated.”
“At first we were very proud of
her and we thought she wanted to
support us,” Khmelnytska added.
“But now we see that politics and
careers are higher than our inter-
ests.”
Valentyna Rudenok, 65, a his-
tory teacher who was a librarian
when Spartz studied at the school
and remembers sneaking the
teenager extra books, said she
was proud to learn a former stu-
dent was elected to Congress. But
Rudenok said she is upset by
Spartz’s vote.
“When we read about it, we just
didn’t understand — it was like
she became a different person,”
she said. “It was shocking because
this woman got so far in her life
and is in a position where she
could actually influence and help
our one city or our one school in
which she was educated.”
In the past two years, eight
graduates of School 15 have been
killed fighting on the front lines.
Russian strikes have broken 88 of
the building’s windows. Adminis-
trators set up a museum on the
first floor to display evidence of
the war collected by students:
shell fragments, a piece of a Rus-
sian airplane, a dead Russian sol-
dier’s uniform.
On Capitol Hill, even among
Republicans, Spartz is known to
be erratic.
First elected in 2020 as a sup-
porter of President Donald
Trump, she announced last year
that she would not run again, only
to reverse her decision a year
later, citing her upbringing “un-
der tyranny” as a motivation. She
now faces a competitive primary;
one challenger has aired televi-
sion ads accusing her of putting
“Ukraine first” over securing the
U.S. border.
Spartz’s “no” vote was the latest
twist in her transformation from
a pro-Ukraine advocate who
toured war wreckage in her
hometown to a critic of Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky, in
line with the GOP’s most right-
wing camp.
In an email, she defended her
vote, saying she is proud of her
heritage but that it is “actually
offensive and un-American to
think that as an American my
loyalty would not be to the people
who elected me to represent them
and to my family and children
Macron calls for a stronger Europe
BY E MILY R AUHALA
French President Emmanuel
Macron made the case Thursday
for a stronger, more independent
European Union, arguing that
Europe needs a more credible
defense policy to stand up to
Russia and not be a strategic
“vassal” to the United States.
In a sprawling speech delivered
under the soaring ceilings of the
Sorbonne in Paris, Macron out-
lined his updated vision for Eu-
rope’s “strategic autonomy,” in-
cluding plans to bolster European
defense production and expand
industrial policy to stand firm
against Russia and compete with
economic superpowers that no
longer play by free-trade rules.
“Our Europe, today, is mortal,
and it can die,” he said. “It can die,
and this depends only on our
choices.”
The speech, which lasted about
two hours, was his attempt to set
the agenda ahead of European
elections in June and shape the
E.U.’s course for the next five
years.
It comes as Europe tries to
maintain momentum on Ukraine
aid and mulls what the potential
return of Donald Trump to the
American presidency might
mean for the continent. It also
comes less than a week before
Macron hosts Chinese President
Xi Jinping, who is keen to peel the
E.U. away from Washington.
Thursday’s speech was pitched
TOP: Natalia Khmelnytska, 50, a teacher at School Number 15 in
Chernihiv, Ukraine, stands Tuesday in front of the apartment
building where she lives and where Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.)
grew up. MIDDLE: Neighbors Nelia, left, and Halyna talk on a
bench near the building where Spartz’s mother used to live and still
owns an apartment. ABOVE: Spartz in her office on Capitol Hill in
Washington on May 24, 2023. She has shifted from being a pro-
Ukraine advocate to a critic of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
as the sequel to a talk Macron
delivered in the same setting in
2017 — and he could not stop
himself from making it some-
thing of an “I told you so” mo-
ment. When he first made his
pitch for strategic autonomy,
many in Europe were skeptical,
he said. That, like so much, has
changed.
Macron sketched out how the
past seven years have trans-
formed the continent — at least in
his telling — and affirmed his call
for strategic autonomy.
During the pandemic, the
members of the E.U. worked to-
gether to buy and deliver vac-
cines, he said. When Russian
tanks rolled into Kyiv, Europe
rallied to wean itself off Russian
energy, impose sanctions on Rus-
sia and surge support to Ukraine.
Europe needs to build on this,
he said, creating a union that is
more integrated, better defended
and more competitive — and nev-
er too reliant on the United States.
Macron stressed that Europe
can no longer rely on the United
States alone for its security. “The
United States has two priorities:
the United States first and the
China question second. The Euro-
pean question is not a geopolitical
priority,” he said.
Though the United States is
still very much NATO’s most pow-
erful member and the key guaran-
tor of European security, Macron
envisioned a time when Europe
will be able to defend itself
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against Russia without American
help. To get there, it will have to
boost its defense sector, he said.
“How can we build our sover-
eignty, our autonomy, if we don’t
assume the responsibility of de-
veloping our own European de-
fense industry?” he asked.
Macron called for the creation
of a European academy to train
high-ranking military personnel
and spoke at length about the
need to bolster European indus-
trial production.
“We must produce more, we
must produce faster, and we must
produce as Europeans,” he added.
Though there is broad consen-
sus about the need to rebuild
Europe’s industrial base, his focus
on buying European will not be
popular in every capital. Indeed,
some allies have been irked by his
focus on French and European
weapons, particularly when it
comes to quickly arming Ukraine.
His remarks will also raise
some eyebrows in Washington.
The speech included several
pointed references to the Biden
administration’s Inflation Reduc-
tion Act and suggested that both
the United States and China have
decided to abandon the global-
trade rule book and go it alone.
“The rules of the game have
changed,” he said. And if Europe
does not adapt, he said, it will be
left behind.
Beatriz ríos in Brussels contributed
to this report.
oksana Parafeniuk for the Washington Post
back home in Indiana, but to
some foreign government in the
country I left 24 years ago.”
Her history, however, is insepa-
rable from Ukraine’s and she has
used it repeatedly to her advan-
tage.
After Russia invaded in Febru-
ary 2022, troops advanced quick-
ly toward Chernihiv, just 50 miles
from the Russian border. Spartz’s
grandmother was among those
trapped as the city came under
constant shelling and aerial
bombs. Many residents died. (Her
grandmother survived the at-
tacks but later died at age 95.)
Spartz visited in April 2022,
just weeks after Russian forces
failed to capture the city and
retreated. Residents had slept un-
derground and survived without
electricity, cooking over fires out-
side. Hundreds slept in the base-
ment of School Number 15, where
she attended high school.
The city’s acting mayor, Olek-
sandr Lomako, who met her then,
saw the trip as a brave sign of
support. Spartz’s shift has
In the dead of night, windmill
of Moulin Rouge loses its sails
BY A NNABELLE T IMSIT
For over a century, a windmill
has welcomed Parisians and
visitors from around the world
to the famous Moulin Rouge
cabaret.
The windmill — which was
destroyed in a fire in 1915 and
then rebuilt — became a univer-
sally recognizable symbol of dec-
adence, fun and the French can-
can, rising above the otherwise
gloomy neighborhood of Pigalle
in northern Paris.
But no more: In the wee hours
Thursday, the sails of the wind-
mill collapsed in a mysterious
incident, along with three letters
from the cabaret’s name — leav-
ing late-night revelers and early-
morning commuters stunned.
No one was injured, Eric
Lejoindre, mayor of Paris’s
18th district, wrote on X. And
the structure is not in danger of
collapse, firefighters told local
media outlets. But without its
sails, is the Moulin Rouge —
meaning “Red Windmill” — still
the Moulin Rouge?
“It’s pretty disturbing to see it
without” its sails, resident
Raphaël told the newspaper
Le Parisien. “After all, it’s a
symbol in Pigalle and even
throughout Paris. But the main
thing is that there were no
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stunned him. “I’m very disap-
pointed,” he said.
“She’s been here,” Lomako add-
ed. The destruction she saw and
people she met who lost loved
ones, he said, “is not from the
news, not from Fox News or con-
servative channels.”
After Russia’s invasion, House
Republicans eagerly handed
Spartz the microphone to share
her story. She made passionate
defenses of her homeland, wore
blue and yellow, criticized Presi-
dent Biden for not imposing more
sanctions on Russia before the
invasion, and pledged to fight for
aid.
When she returned from her
April 2022 trip, she voted for bills
sending $40 billion to Ukraine
and stood by Biden’s side as he
signed a law to rapidly ramp up
military support.
But by that summer, Spartz
began criticizing Zelensky —
widely seen in Congress as a war
hero — urging him to “stop play-
ing politics and theater.” Spartz
said Congress should impose con-
ditions on aid and more oversight
of funds — a talking point Repub-
licans have amplified.
Spartz’s rhetoric rankled Kyiv.
Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesman for
the Foreign Ministry, posted on
Facebook that he had told Spartz
“to stop trying to earn extra politi-
cal capital on … the grief of Ukrai-
nians.”
Spartz’s own family has been
touched by that grief.
She was born Viktoria
Kulheyko in 1978 in the town of
Nosivka, then part of the Soviet
Union. She moved to Chernihiv
for kindergarten and in 1986, her
father, an engineer, helped in the
aftermath of the Chernobyl nu-
clear disaster, exposing him to
radiation that later caused can-
cer.
Spartz was 12 when Ukraine
declared independence in 1991.
Her father died that year.
His company helped pay for
her college education in Kyiv and
in 2000, she immigrated after
meeting her husband, Jason.
injuries.”
The collapse happened short-
ly before 2 a.m. Thursday, Jean-
Victor Clerico, the director of the
Moulin Rouge, told the French
television station TF1. The
Moulin Rouge’s last show begins
about 11 p.m. and ends about
12:30 a.m., and the audience had
cleared out of the venue by the
time the sails collapsed, Clerico
said.
It’s not clear what caused the
collapse. Clerico said the sails
were regularly checked and
maintained by an external com-
pany and by the cabaret’s own
technical teams. He told journal-
ists Thursday that the incident
was not sabotage, but rather “a
technical problem” that caused
the sails to fall to the ground,
bringing three letters on the
front of the building down with
them, according to Le Monde.
Earlier, an unnamed Moulin
Rouge official told Agence
France-Presse that technical ex-
perts from the cabaret checked
the windmill weekly and “did
not note any problems” with it.
The Moulin Rouge did not
immediately respond to a re-
quest for comment from The
Washington Post on Thursday.
Clerico told TF1 it was the first
time an accident like this had
happened since the Moulin
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They settled in Indiana, his home
state, and had two daughters. She
worked in accounting and real
estate before being elected to In-
diana’s state senate.
Oleksandr Serdyuk, 70, a close
friend of Spartz’s father who has
known her since she was a child,
met with her when she visited in
2022.
Serdyuk said he was disap-
pointed by her vote. “I don’t really
trust in words, I trust in actions,”
he said. “The way she voted, the
amendments, show me a lot more
colorfully what her intentions
are.”
Serdyuk said that like Spartz,
Ukrainians worry about corrup-
tion, but that the U.S. aid is essen-
tial to Ukraine’s survival.
“I understand the fight against
corruption,” he said as air raid
sirens blared outside his office
window. “But what you’re sacri-
ficing is our state. … Any political
motives or election motives don’t
justify the deaths of so many
people.”
Spartz not only joined in block-
ing the aid bill but pushed amend-
ments to reduce the package and
limit other help to Ukraine.
“President Biden and Presi-
dent Zelensky failed the Ukraini-
an people,” Spartz said on the
House floor Saturday before the
vote. In her email to The Washing-
ton Post, Spartz said she feels
“bad for the Ukrainian people
and fighters on the front lines
who have been electing bad lead-
ers and paying a very high price
for it.”
In a hallway of School 15 this
week, staff prepared their own
aid: knitting camouflage nets for
Ukrainian troops. When air raid
sirens wail, students rush to the
basement. This same building
still houses bits of Spartz’s his-
tory, including her grades from
the early 1990s, handwritten on a
scale of 1 to 5 in yellowed note-
books the director keeps in her
safe.
If she could speak to Spartz
now, Rudenok, the history teach-
er, said she would note that the
congresswoman’s children — safe
in Indiana — “are not waking up
at night from air raid sirens.”
“I would ask her how did this
happen,” she said. “Who could
have offended her so badly?”
On a bench outside Spartz’s
childhood apartment building in
Chernihiv, two elderly women
speculated on why she voted “no.”
They spoke to The Post on the
condition that they be identified
only by first name to preserve
relations with Spartz’s family.
One, Halyna, defended Spartz.
“I don’t think she wants anything
bad to happen to Ukraine,” Haly-
na said. “She’s with Trump, so
she’s forced to vote that way. She’s
not an enemy of the state. … She
didn’t have any other option.”
The other, Nelia, was not sure:
“We don’t know what her options
were or why she voted the way she
did.”
In the village of Nosivka, a
woman answered the door at a
home that neighbors said be-
longed to Spartz’s relatives. “I will
rip people’s tongues out,” she said
when asked if she was related to
the congresswoman. “No com-
ment.”
Then she slammed the door.
sotomayor reported from
Washington.
Rouge opened in the late 1800s.
He said the cabaret would be
open as usual Thursday evening,
adding, “The show continues —
that’s the most important thing.”
The Moulin Rouge was one of
several cabarets to spring up
across Paris in what became
known as the Belle Époque — a
time of peace and prosperity
between the Franco-Prussian
War and World War I. It was “a
period of transition between two
centuries, during which social
barriers collapsed and the indus-
trial revolution gave hope of a
better life for all, in a rich
cultural profusion of fun and
frivolity,” according to a history
of the Moulin Rouge.
The music hall opened on
Oct. 6, 1889, and Parisians
showed up en masse “to discover
this extravagant place,” accord-
ing to the history. When the
French cancan was invented, it
became a staple of the cabaret’s
shows as well as a symbol of
changing social mores and the
role of women in French society.
The Moulin Rouge has been
part of Parisian life since then,
though now its shows mainly
draw tourists. The fire in 1915
ravaged it and forced it to close
for nine years for renovations.
It will celebrate its 135th anni-
versary in October.
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Haitian prime minister resigns, in step toward approval of U.N. force
BY W IDLORE M ÉRANCOURT
AND A MANDA C OLETTA
PORt-aU-PRiNCE, Haiti — Em-
battled Haitian Prime Minister
Ariel Henry has submitted his
resignation, clearing the way for a
new government to accept the
deployment of a U.N.-approved
security force to restore order to
this gang-racked Caribbean na-
tion and lead it to elections.
Henry is to be succeeded by
Finance Minister Michel Patrick
Boisvert, according to a decree
published in the country’s official
gazette. He has been leading the
government since Henry left the
country on a diplomatic trip two
months ago. Boisvert is to work
with a panel of representatives
from several political parties,
which was sworn in on Thursday,
until it appoints a new govern-
ment and prime minister.
Henry, Haiti’s de facto leader
since the assassination of Presi-
dent Jovenel Moïse in 2021, ini-
tially enjoyed the support of the
United States and other foreign
nations, but he proved ineffective
at reducing endemic gang vio-
lence or restoring order in the
Western Hemisphere’s poorest
nation. He resigned in a letter
dated Wednesday from Los Ange-
les but made public Thursday.
“We served the nation in diffi-
cult times,” Henry said in the let-
ter. “I thank everyone who had the
courage to face such challenges
with me.”
While leaders in the hemi-
sphere have expressed hope that
the installation of the council
would be a key milestone on a
path to stability, the challenges it
faces are enormous amid what
observers have called Haiti’s
worst crisis since a 2010 earth-
quake that killed 220,000 people.
Democratic institutions have
been whittled away. Haiti’s presi-
dency has been vacant since
Moïse’s still-unsolved killing and
U.S. suddenly finds itself in retreat in a crucial part of the world: Africa’s Sahel
WorldView
Ishaan Tharoor
For boosters of U.S. security
interests in Africa, the past few
days carried grim tidings.
At the end of last week, the
United States informed the
coup-plotting leadership of
Niger that it would comply
with its request to withdraw
U.S. forces, which had been
operating in the country in a
counterterrorism role for more
than half a decade.
About the same time, reports
emerged that authorities in
Chad had sent a letter this
month to the U.S. defense
attaché based there, ordering
the United States to cease
activities at a base that
also accommodates French
troops.
The potential withdrawal of a
detachment of U.S. Special
Forces based in Chad would
mark yet another blow for the
Western security presence in the
Sahel — the vast arid region
below the Sahara that has seen a
wave of coups in recent years
that toppled fragile Central and
West African governments.
U.S. troops to leave Chad, the latest African nation to reassess relationship
BY R ACHEL C HASON,
D AN L AMOTHE
AND J OHN H UDSON
LiViNGStONE, Zambia — Dozens
of American military personnel
are expected to withdraw from
Chad in coming days, three senior
U.S. officials said Thursday, amid
a broader, involuntary reconfigu-
ration of Washington’s security
policy in a volatile part of Africa.
The officials, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss
military movements, said the re-
positioning could be temporary as
the United States intends to nego-
tiate with Chad about their secu-
rity relationship — including po-
tentially returning the troops who
departed — following the coun-
try’s presidential elections May 6.
It marks the second time in a
week the Biden administration
has acknowledged it will comply
with a host-nation directive to
remove deployed forces from an
African country deemed integral
to U.S. counterterrorism opera-
tions in the region. On Friday,
officials said the United States
had agreed to pull out more than
1,000 military personnel from
neighboring Niger.
The shake-up in Chad affects
fewer than 100 Army Special Forc-
es soldiers who are stationed at
the French base in N’Djamena,
the capital. They had been on a
six-month rotation that is ending,
its National Assembly empty
since the last senators’ terms ex-
pired in early 2023. Henry, who
left the country for a diplomatic
trip in February, has been unable
to return since a coalition of
armed gangs shut down Toussaint
Louverture International Airport
in early March. With outgunned
security forces unable to restore
order, lawlessness has flourished.
The paramilitary groups,
which have long wielded power in
Haiti, now control roughly 80 per-
cent of the capital. In recent
weeks, they have also attacked
several prisons, a key seaport, po-
lice stations and medical centers
to demand Henry’s ouster. Some
gang leaders have said they want
a seat at the table in any new
government.
Gangs have kidnapped or
killed thousands of people, raped
scores of women and children,
and forced several hundred thou-
sand Haitians from their homes.
Almost half of the country’s popu-
lation faces acute hunger. The
U.N. human rights office has
called conditions here “cataclys-
mic.” This week, gangs attacked
the Varreux fuel terminal, spark-
ing fears of shortages and sky-
rocketing prices.
Peterson Dorlus, a gas station
attendant, said the station has
been forced to close. It hasn’t had
gasoline for a week, and diesel
supplies ran out Wednesday.
“I hope the council will deliver
results,” Dorlus said. “The insecu-
rity crisis has gone on for far too
long.”
The nine-member transitional
presidential council, set up by
Haitian leaders, the intergovern-
mental Caribbean Community
and the United States, includes
representatives of several politi-
cal parties, the private sector, civil
society and the faith community.
Henry had said in March that he
would resign once it was sworn in.
After the arrangement was an-
Chad is slated to hold elections
in May, and the orders to the
United States may amount to a
bit of nationalist preening by
the country’s vulnerable interim
leadership.
But elsewhere, the writing on
the wall is starker. Successive
coup-plotting regimes in Mali,
Burkina Faso and Niger have
ousted weak civilian-led
governments, angrily railed
against the presence of former
colonial power France, and
turned toward Russia and China
for support.
Before its coup last year,
Niger was seen by Western
diplomats as something of
a democratic bulwark in a
region where juntas and
Islamist insurgencies were
gaining ground. Now its regime
has pivoted the impoverished
country firmly away from
the West, booting out French
troops before it moved to
end the significant U.S.
footprint in the country’s
desert uplands.
“The agreement will spell the
end of a U.S. troop presence that
totaled more than 1,000 and
throw into question the status
of a $110 million U.S. air base
that is only six years old,” my
In this handout photo from the U.S. military, Chadian special-
forces soldiers receive training in Massaguet, Chad, in 2017.
according to one of the U.S. offi-
cials. A small number of U.S. serv-
ice personnel working with a re-
gional joint task force focused on
Lake Chad — where the extremist
group Boko Haram and its affili-
ates are active — will remain in
the country, this person said.
The official emphasized that
unlike in Niger, Chad’s govern-
ment has not canceled the “status
of forces” agreement that gov-
erned its military relationship
with the United States. Rather, the
Special Forces troops’ departure,
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, left, seen in 2021, will be succeeded by Finance Minister Patrick
Michel Boisvert, right, who will work with a panel until it appoints a new government and premier.
nounced in March, U.S. officials
said they expected the council to
be stood up within 24 to 48 hours.
But that was delayed. Gangs
threatened chaos if the council
was sworn in. One nominee
stepped down after threats to her
life, and members disagreed
about the council’s responsibili-
ties, highlighting the difficulties
ahead for a body that must make
decisions by majority vote and is
made up of members who have
often failed to agree on much of
anything.
The council’s mandate ends
Feb. 7, 2026, when a new presi-
dent is to be elected.
Marie Rosy Auguste, a program
director at Haiti’s National Hu-
colleagues reported. “It is the
culmination of a military coup
last year that ousted the
country’s democratically elected
government and installed a
junta that declared America’s
military presence there
‘illegal.’ ”
The U.S. exit in Niger follows
the arrival of a detachment of
Russian military trainers there
this month. Le Monde sketched
out what preceded this
deployment of some 100 officers
of the Africa Corps, the
rebranded Russian paramilitary
successor to the mercenary
Wagner organization, which had
a broad, murky presence in
Africa before disbanding late
last year.
“Their official mission was to
train Niger’s army, particularly
in the use of a Russian-supplied
anti-aircraft defense system,”
the French newspaper noted.
“Three months earlier, Niger’s
[prime minister] had flown to
Tehran to outline plans for
closer cooperation with Iran,
without providing any details of
the nature of the envisioned
contracts. This was a clear cause
for concern for Western
countries, particularly the U.S.”
The developments are “a blow
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first reported by the New York
Times, follows an apparent dis-
agreement between U.S. officials
and a Chadian general, who con-
tended that Washington had
failed to produce documents jus-
tifying its military presence in
N’Djamena and asked the Ameri-
cans to “immediately stop” their
activity at the base.
Those concerns, raised by Id-
riss Amine Ahmed, a top general
in Chad’s air force, were relayed by
letter, not through traditional dip-
lomatic channels, according to
eZ re
man Rights Defense Network,
told The Washington Post that
“society must remain vigilant be-
cause some of the personalities
[on the council] don’t inspire con-
fidence.”
“Society must always remind
itself that this council is transi-
tional and does not have a blank
check for life,” Auguste said. “We
are already at 30 massacres and
bloody events. Not a single crimi-
nal has been judged, not even in
absentia. The council must set the
Haitian justice system in motion.”
Jean Eddy Saint Paul, a found-
ing director of the Haitian Studies
Institute at the City University of
New York, said he watched the
installation of the council online
to Western counterterrorism
efforts in the Sahel and Libya,”
Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel
program at the Konrad
Adenauer Foundation, a
German think tank, told me.
“Perhaps even worse, a U.S.
pullout will further open the
door for an expansion of Russia
and Iran in the Sahel.”
A mess of geopolitical
intrigue courses through the
region.
“Like Libya, this part of Africa
has become a playground for
foreign powers, not least Russia,
which provides security for coup
regimes and orchestrates
massive disinformation
campaigns leading to the
ousting of Western forces,” an
editorial in Le Monde observed.
“This is a major trend, of which
Americans and Europeans have
too belatedly become aware of
its cost, without knowing how
to respond.”
The Wall Street Journal was
more blunt in its editorial: “In
the new era of great power
competition, Africa is one place
where the U.S. is losing.”
China, less conspicuous than
the opportunistic Kremlin, has
steadily shouldered its way into
Niger. The country’s junta
two U.S. officials. CNN first re-
ported on his letter last week.
There was confusion, too, about
its intent, with some officials say-
ing the Chadians appeared to
want more from the United States
in terms of the partnership and
others saying Chad’s desires were
unclear.
A spokesman for the Chadian
government did not respond to
requests for comment.
Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the
Pentagon press secretary, said
Thursday during a news confer-
ence that while talks with Chad
continue, commanders are “plan-
ning to reposition some U.S. mili-
tary forces.”
He characterized the shift as “a
temporary step.”
“They are asking Western part-
ners the question of, ‘What is in it
for us?’ ” one Western official said
of the Chadians. “And it’s not such
a bad thing for the West to be
considering the same thing.”
The discussion around the U.S.
military presence in Chad — a vast
landlocked nation in Central Afri-
ca — is particularly fraught given
the rejection of the Western mili-
tary partnerships in the central
Sahelian nations of Mali, Niger
and Burkina Faso.
The three former French colo-
nies are facing escalating threats
from Islamist extremist organiza-
tions, are ruled by military juntas
and are increasingly looking to
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and was glad to see members from
across the political spectrum hug-
ging.
“I didn’t think this council was
the best option, but now this is
what we have,” he said. “We . . .
need to advise them, helping
them to succeed, instead of cross-
ing our arms and waiting for them
to fail. I wish them all the best.”
Henry in 2022 called for the
deployment of an international
force to restore order, beat back
the gangs and aid an outgunned
Haitian police force. The U.N. Se-
curity Council approved the mis-
sion in October.
Kenya has pledged to lead the
force, but the deployment has
been held up by legal challenges.
announced recently that a
Chinese state oil company had
made an advance $400 million
payment for crude oil purchases
from Niger’s Agadem field. The
deal, structured with further
interest payments to the
Chinese company, would help
Niger’s cash-strapped
government reckon with
mounting domestic debts.
Some Nigeriens who spoke to
my colleagues in Niamey, the
capital, see the junta exercising
a new kind of sovereignty after
years of overweening French
interest. “Why is it a problem
for the Americans and France
that the Russians are helping
us?” said Abdoulaye Oussein, 51.
“I think we’re free to make our
own choices.”
New polling from Gallup sees
strong approval for Russia and
China in many parts of the
Sahel.
“Last year, China recorded its
highest approval rating in Africa
in over a decade,” Julie Ray,
managing editor for world news
at Gallup, told me. “It picked up
substantial support in countries
in Western Africa — which
helped nudge it ahead of the
U.S. by two percentage points.”
When Russia invaded
Russia for military assistance.
The respective governments in
each have in recent years de-
manded that French military forc-
es, which historically had been the
lead international counterterror-
ism partner, leave their countries.
The United States, which has
not had a security relationship
with Mali or Burkina Faso since
their coups, had maintained its
presence in Niger, which includes
a newly constructed drone base
that cost $110 million to build.
While U.S. security assistance
paused after Niger’s military
seized power last summer, negoti-
ations continued, with the United
States seeking to compel Niger to
agree to a democratic transition.
But a tense meeting last month
prompted the junta to cancel the
status-of-forces agreement and
declare the U.S. military presence
“illegal.”
The junta’s spokesman said the
U.S. delegation had tried to dic-
tate that the West African nation
not have relationships with cer-
tain other countries, including
Iran and Russia.
Unlike in the central Sahel,
Chad’s leader, Gen. Mahamat Id-
riss Déby Itno, who has ruled
since 2021, has not called for re-
moval of the French. But he has
fostered ties with leaders in the
central Sahel and with Russia,
and some analysts say a with-
drawal by the French is inevitable.
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Henry traveled to Nairobi in Feb-
ruary, before he was locked out, to
finalize an agreement that would
help Kenya overcome those obsta-
cles. But the Kenyan government
has said it won’t deploy a force
until the council is sworn in and a
new prime minister is put in
place.
Funding for the international
police force is also uncertain, and
some members of Congress have
demanded more information
about its structure and rules of
engagement from the Biden ad-
ministration, which supports the
mission but has vowed not to lead
it or put boots on the ground.
Kenya’s Foreign Ministry did
not immediately respond to a re-
quest for comment.
Brian A. Nichols, the U.S. assis-
tant secretary of state for Western
Hemisphere affairs, said in a post
on X that the swearing-in of the
council is “a vital step in Haiti’s
return to inclusive governance.”
Richard Senecal, a film direc-
tor, said he had to move house
because of gang violence and has
had three contracts frozen. One is
with international organizations
and the Haitian government, but
there is no minister to sign it. He
said he lost his best assistant to
the Biden administration’s hu-
manitarian parole program.
Senecal returned to Haiti in
2018 after spending eight years
abroad. He said he doesn’t think
that the council is the best solu-
tion, given the “challenges of uni-
ty” it will face, but he believes that
it is “a compromise” and that citi-
zens will encourage it to do its job.
“I’m still in the country because
I have hope,” Senecal said. “We
can’t all leave the country. We
have a moral responsibility to
genuine reconstruction. If we all
give up, what will happen to the
country? Do we hand the keys
over to Uncle Sam?”
Coletta reported from toronto.
Ukraine in February 2022, it lost
significant support across the
continent. But, Ray added,
“Moscow’s image has recovered
since then,” especially in the
Sahel, where it scored high
approval ratings in Mali,
Burkina Faso and Chad.
“Washington was seen in the
region as a credible partner
without the colonial baggage of
France, which is on its way out
in the region,” said Laessing,
who is based in Bamako, Mali’s
capital. But U.S. messaging to
West African governments may
not have been particularly
effective, and U.S. officials have
been faulted for perhaps
bullying their African
counterparts in private.
“Washington has a lack of
self-awareness about how it is
coming across,” Cameron
Hudson, a senior fellow at the
Center for Strategic and
International Studies, told my
colleagues this month. “They
have made Russia the
boogeyman in all of this, like
what the French have done, but
that is a way to deflect
responsibility and to avoid any
kind of introspection about
the policies the U.S. has
pursued.”
Earlier this year, Déby went to
Russia to meet President Vladi-
mir Putin, who said the two coun-
tries had “great opportunities to
develop our bilateral ties.”
That meeting marked a shift
from just last year, when U.S. in-
telligence officials warned that
Russian mercenaries were work-
ing with rebels to overthrow
Chad’s government, which then
was seen as too pro-Western.
The Western official lauded the
multinational task force’s work to
counter Boko Haram in the Lake
Chad basin, but he said personnel
in N’Djamena have seen their mis-
sion shrink because the region’s
wave of coups have limited the
types of military activities that
partner forces can do from Chad.
“It’s important to consider our
strategic partnerships,” the offi-
cial said, “to think about what
purpose we are serving.”
Maj. Gen. Todd R. Wasmund,
who oversees a small number of
Army personnel in Chad and Ni-
ger, said in an interview that Sahe-
lian countries continue to want to
partner with the United States.
“But they also want us to re-
spect them as sovereign nations,”
he added. “So we both have to
make a choice about how to dem-
onstrate a commitment to shared
values and shared objectives.”
Lamothe and Hudson reported from
Washington.
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Gaza coast attack underscores risk to U.S. pier mission
BY D AN L AMOTHE
Militants launched mortars at
Israeli forces in Gaza as they
prepared for the arrival of a
floating U.S. Army pier dis-
patched to facilitate delivery of
humanitarian aid, U.S. officials
said Thursday, an incident that
underscores the mission’s vul-
nerabilities.
The attack on a “marshaling
area” for the pier caused mini-
mal damage, and occurred while
U.S. ships involved in the opera-
tion remain a ways off shore, said
Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, a Penta-
gon spokesman. The pier is un-
der construction by U.S. troops —
though “nowhere near mortar
range,” he said — and expected to
be put into service by early May.
President Biden announced
the pier’s deployment during his
State of the Union address in
March.
With rising alarm about star-
vation in the war zone, and little
sign that Israeli officials would
heed U.S. pleas to allow more
food into Gaza, Biden pledged to
open a “maritime corridor” via
the Mediterranean Sea using a
temporary floating pier and a
steel causeway connecting it to
the shore.
While U.S. troops will not be
deployed inside Gaza, U.S. offi-
cials say, security analysts have
raised concerns about an array of
threats, including speedboats
packed with explosives, divers
swimming in with mines and
incoming rockets. They also have
warned that if bottlenecks occur
distributing aid flowing from the
pier, it could upend the entire
U.S. solar companies demand protection from cheap imports as prices fall
BY E VAN H ALPER
Several of the largest American
solar manufacturing companies
are demanding aggressive action
against cheap imports, arguing in
a petition filed Wednesday with
the Commerce Department that
firms in four Asian countries are
illegally flooding the U.S. market
with Chinese-subsidized panels.
Though the panels are not pro-
duced in China, the petitioners
allege many are made in factories
linked to China-based companies
that benefit from massive price
supports.
The complaint comes amid a
glut of solar panels on the global
market that has driven prices
down by 50 percent over the past
year, with the International En-
ergy Agency projecting prices will
fall even further. Manufacturers
are currently making two solar
panels for every one that is get-
ting installed, according to the
IEA. The oversupply is imperiling
a boom in U.S. manufacturing
driven by President Biden’s signa-
ture climate bill, the Inflation
Reduction Act.
“We are seeking to enforce the
rules, remedy the injury to our
domestic solar industry and sig-
nal that the U.S. will not be a
dumping ground for foreign solar
products,” said Tim Brightbill, an
attorney for the American Alli-
ance for Solar Manufacturing
Trade Committee, the group of
U.S. firms that filed the petition.
The group includes such industry
giants as Ohio-based First Solar
and Qcells, which has used Infla-
tion Reduction Act subsidies to
invest in huge new manufactur-
ing facilities in Georgia.
In an email to The Washington
Post, Chinese Embassy spokes-
Chinese micro-dramas
run afoul of the censors
BY C HRISTIAN S HEPHERD
AND P EI- L IN W U
Tales about evil mothers-in-
law have landed China’s wildly
popular ultrashort dramas in
trouble with official censors.
Bossy matriarchs who baby
their adult sons are a staple of
the latest entertainment craze
among Gen Z in the country.
They harangue daughters-in-law
— the heroines of the shows —
for subpar cooking and high
electricity bills.
Sometimes, it gets weird. In
one series, the mother even helps
her son shower and brush his
teeth. Wronged and disgusted,
the young wife plots revenge.
In dramatic finales, the young
wife invariably reveals her
mother-in-law’s bullying to her
husband — or dumps him and
strikes out alone.
Over-the-top dramas about
family bust-ups like these helped
turn bite-size soaps into a $5 bil-
lion industry for Chinese stream-
ing giants. Now, Beijing is crack-
The coastline on April 19. A mortar attack on a “marshaling area” for the pier caused minimal damage
and occurred when U.S. troops were offshore, said Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman.
process.
Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said Thursday that he had
just received a briefing about
security efforts for the pier and
expressed confidence that the
risks can be mitigated through
collaboration with Israeli mili-
tary forces and other nations
who’ve pledged to help protect
the operation.
“Nothing we do is risk-free,”
the general said during an ap-
pearance at Georgetown Univer-
man Liu Pengyu said his coun-
try’s “leading edge in new energy
is gained through strong per-
formance and full-on market
competition, not government
subsidies.”
“China has been and will al-
ways be open to industrial coop-
eration,” the statement said. “We
hope relevant countries will em-
brace fair competition and work
with China to contribute to a
world-class, market-oriented and
law-based environment for trade
and economic cooperation.”
But the petition is also renew-
ing tensions in the American so-
lar industry, as installers of pan-
els and developers of large solar
farms warn that placing restric-
tions on imports could hurt con-
sumers and raise prices. If the
petitioners succeed, companies
that buy solar panels from busi-
nesses in any of the four nations
cited could be subject to steep
penalties, which federal trade of-
ficials could enforce retroactively.
The industry only recently
emerged from a bruising battle
over the enforcement of trade
laws, after the administration
found Chinese companies were
illegally sidestepping them by
producing panels in China but
then finishing assembly in other
countries to avoid tariffs.
After industry groups warned
strict enforcement of those trade
laws could cripple growth, the
administration agreed to waive
penalties for two years. Enforce-
ment is set to begin again in June.
Now, American manufacturers
say Chinese companies have
shifted their strategy, building
plants in Cambodia, Malaysia,
Vietnam and Thailand with big
subsidies from a Chinese govern-
ment eager to maintain domi-
ing down on the format’s alleged-
ly “inappropriate” plots about
marital strife for fear they will
hurt the government’s campaign
to encourage families to stay
together and have more children.
Rising official concern about
the corrupting influence of
micro-dramas will probably slow
the meteoric rise of the industry
in China, experts say, and may
accelerate studios’ efforts to go
global.
After two years in which
production companies have
sprung up across the country to
take advantage of an emerging
trend — sometimes relying on
ChatGPT to churn out scripts —
the industry has reached a turn-
ing point, said Huang Zhongjun,
a scholar at Zhejiang Normal
University who has studied
micro-dramas.
For Huang, the format has
proved harmful to society in part
because viewers are fed unrealis-
tic plots that “vilify people and
amplify conflicts” within fami-
lies. Young people, who spend
EZ rE
sity in Washington.
“I feel strongly that it will be
protected,” he added. “That
doesn’t mean it won’t potentially
have some threat against it, but
it’s something we are focused
on.”
Sen. Roger Wicker (Miss.), the
Senate Armed Services Commit-
tee’s top Republican, doubled
down on his earlier criticism of
the mission, saying after news of
the mortar attack circulated that
the plan was “ill-conceived from
the start.”
Mark Widmar, CEO of First Solar, at an Ohio facility in 2021. At a Senate hearing in March, Widmar
told lawmakers “the U.S. solar manufacturing industry remains in a precarious position.”
nance over the global solar
market. Those four countries ac-
counted for 84 percent of the
solar panels imported into the
United States in the last quarter
of 2023, according to the petition-
ers.
Their petition was immedi-
ately opposed by major clean en-
ergy groups in the United States
that represent the full spectrum
of companies in the industry, and
not just manufacturers.
“Today’s filing creates market
uncertainty in the U.S. solar in-
dustry and poses a potential
threat to the build-out of a domes-
tic solar supply chain,” said a
more time with their screens
than older people, are becoming
“emotionally deficient” and “un-
willing to get married or have
children,” he added.
Censors this month called out
mother-in-law dramas for stray-
ing from the “mainstream val-
ues” approved by the Chinese
Communist Party. State media
have since reported that the
National Radio and Television
Administration is conducting a
nationwide review and will re-
move unapproved titles by
June 1.
Since 2020, Chinese streaming
giants and television studios
have bet big that dramas unfold-
ing in minutes will overtake
slow-burn television among
young viewers. In the format’s
widespread appeal they also see
an opportunity to dominate
global markets, much as Byte-
Dance-owned TikTok did with
short videos.
Writers and creators, many
already attuned to the “invisible
hand” of censorship, are begin-
ning to jump to international
production teams, said Oscar
Zhou, a media studies lecturer at
the University of Kent who is
researching the industry.
“Conventional family values is
something the government cares
mohAmmEd sAbEr/EPA-EfE/shuTTErsToCk
“The risks to Americans will
only intensify,” Wicker said in a
statement. “President Biden
should never have put our men
and women in this position, and
he should abandon this project
immediately before any U.S.
troops are injured.”
A senior U.S. official, speaking
on the condition of anonymity to
discuss plans for the pier, said
the aid will be delivered to a
location near Wadi Gaza, south
of the last security checkpoint on
a “control corridor” that Israeli
statement from a coalition that
includes the Solar Energy Indus-
tries Association and the Ameri-
can Clean Power Association.
“America’s clean energy indus-
try is urging the Biden adminis-
tration to consider alternative so-
lutions to address the petitioners’
concerns so that we can uplift
American manufacturers and
maintain a thriving clean energy
economy across the value chain.”
The groups warn disruptions in
the market could undermine the
administration’s climate goals.
The backlog of solar panels
stockpiled in U.S. warehouses is
so large that it could fulfill a year
about a lot,” Zhou said. “They are
trying to use short dramas to
promote their own ideological
agenda.”
That agenda involves more
marriages and many more chil-
dren as the country faces a
demographic crisis that is fast
becoming existential.
Since China’s population be-
gan to shrink in 2022, officials
have stepped up controls on
“unhealthy” portrayals of love
and marriage in popular culture.
At the same time, they have
dialed up propaganda to encour-
age young couples to settle down
and get busy having children.
But that effort to spread “posi-
tive energy” around marriage
and childbearing has repeatedly
clashed with the shifting ideals
of young Chinese — particularly
women — who are tired of gov-
ernment lectures about filial
piety and familial responsibility.
The battle over lifestyle choic-
es often plays out in popular
culture, leaving officials scram-
bling to take control of content
targeting young audiences using
new mediums.
Ahead of Lunar New Year
celebrations in February, young
people, souring on the annual
pilgrimage home for the holiday,
flocked to an online game that
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forces have established to split
Gaza in two and control nearby
movement.
Initially, the aid is expected to
go north, where the risk of
famine is considered highest, but
planners envision it could even-
tually go in either direction, this
person said.
A senior U.S. military official,
speaking to reporters on the
condition of anonymity under
ground rules set by the Pentagon,
said that assembly of the floating
pier began Thursday miles from
Gaza.
U.S. service members will re-
main at least several hundred
meters off shore at all times, this
official said, and that those
tasked with piloting military ves-
sels to the causeway would come
closest to land.
The pier route, run with over-
sight from the U.S. Agency for
International Development
(USAID), will begin with the
delivery of about 90 trucks per
day from the causeway to the
shore, and eventually expand to
150, the senior military official
said.
It is meant to complement
other routes being used to let aid
into Gaza, which he said now
account for about 220 truckloads
daily.
Trucks coming over the pier
will be loaded and inspected in
Cyprus, and driven on the cause-
way to the beach by personnel
from a country that is neither the
United States nor Israel, the
military official said, declining to
identify who would be responsi-
ble for what will be perhaps the
most dangerous part of the mis-
ElAinE CromiE for ThE WAshingTon PosT
and a half of demand, according
to the IEA. The manufacturing
firms that filed the petition say
imports of panels into the United
States last year exceeded installa-
tions by more than 25 gigawatts
— roughly the amount of power
produced by 25 large nuclear
plants.
The glut comes after billions of
dollars in new U.S. tax incentives
triggered a solar manufacturing
boom in this country. The incen-
tives were meant to muscle solar
production away from China and
back to the United States. They
have led to the groundbreaking of
new plants and a resurgence in
mimicked “nosy aunts” asking
prying questions about your love
life. It was a hit — until it was
taken down.
A brief window of relative
freedom for ultrashort dramas is
now closing, too.
The industry’s early days were
a freewheeling bonanza of con-
tent, as Big Tech firms poured
investment into cheesy and
schmaltzy shows in a bid to lure
subscribers. Streaming plat-
forms would churn out dramas
at such a pace that even China’s
well-practiced censors struggled
to keep up.
Now, the country’s streaming
giants will need to voluntarily
censor themselves if they want to
keep a slice of the $5 billion
industry, analysts said.
After censors warned that the
plots of series like “My Husband
is a Mama’s Boy” were too “exag-
gerated” and negative, major
Chinese short-video platforms
like Douyin, the Chinese version
of TikTok, promised to self-police
content.
Bilibili, a rival service, an-
nounced it had taken down hun-
dreds of shows that “deviated
from the mainstream societal
values.”
The crackdown is just the
latest example of China’s censor-
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sion.
USAID has established a coor-
dination cell in Cyprus and the
U.S. military has created one in
Israel at Hatzor air base, with the
expectation that American sol-
diers and sailors there will help
coordinate aid delivery and
watch for bottlenecks. A three-
star U.S. Army general will over-
see activities at the base.
Security is expected to include
thousands of Israeli soldiers, sev-
eral Israeli navy ships, and air-
craft from the Israeli air force,
the senior U.S. military official
said.
The Pentagon also will deploy
additional security measures, he
added, citing the presence of U.S.
destroyers in the region as an
example.
Still, the mortar attack spot-
lighted the various ways the aid
mission could be strained or
halted, said Mark Cancian, a
senior adviser with the Center
for Strategic and International
Studies.
Even if militants wanted to
avoid interruptions in humani-
tarian assistance, they may con-
sider it collateral damage to
harm the pier system while at-
tacking U.S. or Israeli personnel,
he said.
Mortars are not an ideal weap-
on in this instance because they
are not very accurate, Cancian
said, but if enough are fired,
eventually one may strike.
“You put a round on any of
that,” he said, “and it will stop
things.”
karen deYoung and Alex horton
contributed to this report.
solar cell production, a key part of
the industry that had been almost
entirely ceded to China and other
countries.
But the solar market has also
been going through growing
pains unrelated to geopolitics.
Rooftop solar installations col-
lapsed in California after the state
passed new rules cutting the sub-
sidies for homeowners who gen-
erate power with them. The
change came amid worries that
lower-income utility ratepayers
who could not afford solar panels
would shoulder too much of the
cost of the rooftop installations.
At a Senate hearing last month,
Mark Widmar, CEO of First Solar,
one of the companies that signed
onto the petition filed Wednes-
day, warned lawmakers that “the
U.S. solar manufacturing indus-
try remains in a precarious posi-
tion, despite the passage of the
IRA.”
Earlier this year, a company
called CubicPV, which had back-
ing from Bill Gates, scrapped its
plan to build a factory that would
make solar wafers — a key compo-
nent in the panels — citing rapid-
ly sinking prices in the market.
The Commerce Department
now must decide within 20 days
whether to launch the trade in-
vestigation requested in the peti-
tion, according to U.S. trade rules.
Should an investigation happen,
it is a long process, according to
the groups that filed the petition,
likely to stretch into 2025 before
there is full resolution. But the
administration would be re-
quired to make a preliminary
determination within the next
couple of months on the issue of
whether trade rules were likely to
have been violated and American
companies were harmed.
ship machine evolving to ensure
that new forms of popular cul-
ture remain on Communist Party
message.
In addition to licensing re-
quirements brought in last year,
the National Television and Ra-
dio Administration is developing
systems to streamline the review
process so authorities can more
easily classify and approve — or
reject — content, Chinese state
media reported.
Officials also frame the new
measures as a way of preventing
Big Tech from putting profit
above the social good — an
obsession of the Chinese leader-
ship that has fueled sweeping
regulatory crackdowns in recent
years on industries such as on-
line tutoring, ride hailing and
digital payments.
One state television supervi-
sion official lamented that too
much profiteering was keeping
short dramas from progressing
from “substandard” to true art.
“Our judgment is that short
dramas are currently merely
products going through rapid
growth but remain a way off
becoming premium works,” the
official told state-run Shanghai
Securities News, blaming “the
widespread pursuit of commer-
cial profit.”
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Economy & Business
EPA rules would slash pollution from power plants
New limits could impact
public health and planet,
but legal fights are likely
BY M AXINE J OSELOW
The Environmental Protection
Agency on Thursday finalized an
ambitious set of rules aimed at
slashing air pollution, water pol-
lution and planet-warming emis-
sions spewing from the nation’s
power plants.
If fully implemented, the rules
will have enormous consequenc-
es for U.S. climate goals, the air
Americans breathe and the ways
they get their electricity. The
power sector ranks as the na-
tion’s second-largest contributor
to climate change, and it is a
major source of toxic air pollut-
ants tied to various health prob-
lems.
Before the restrictions take
effect, however, they will have to
survive near-certain legal chal-
lenges from Republican attor-
neys general, who have been
emboldened by the Supreme
Court’s skepticism of expansive
environmental regulations.
Another wild card is the No-
vember election, which could
hand the White House back to
former president Donald Trump,
who has pledged to scrap dozens
of President Biden’s green pol-
icies if he returns to office.
One of the most significant
rules will limit greenhouse gas
emissions from new natural gas-
fired power plants and existing
coal-fired power plants. It will
push all existing coal plants by
2039 to either close or capture
90 percent of their carbon diox-
ide emissions at the smokestack.
A second regulation will re-
duce releases of mercury and
other toxic air pollutants from
the smokestacks of coal plants
nationwide. Exposure to mer-
cury, a powerful neurotoxin, can
cause serious health effects, es-
pecially for developing fetuses
and children.
A third rule will expand feder-
al oversight of coal ash, the waste
from coal plants that often con-
tains a mix of chemicals linked to
increased cancer risk. A fourth
will limit the levels of toxic
metals in the wastewater that
coal plants can discharge into
rivers, lakes, streams and other
waterways.
Each rule will yield huge ben-
efits for public health and the
planet, according to the EPA. The
greenhouse gas standards alone
will prevent up to 1,200 prema-
ture deaths, 870 hospital visits
and 1,900 asthma cases in 2035,
the agency said. They will also
reduce carbon emissions
through 2047 by 1.38 billion tons
— equivalent to the annual emis-
sions of 328 million gasoline-
powered cars.
Together, the rules represent
the culmination of an aggressive
plan that EPA Administrator Mi-
chael Regan first outlined in
2022. Speaking to an energy
industry conference in Houston
that year, Regan promised an
array of regulatory actions to
tackle pollution from power
plants, which he said often hits
poor and minority neighbor-
hoods the hardest.
On Thursday, Regan an-
nounced the final rules during
an event at Howard University, a
historically Black college.
“More than 70 percent of the
nation’s coal and natural gas
MiCRoCHiPs
Biden announces
$6.1B Micron chip deal
President Biden traveled to
Syracuse, N.Y., on Thursday and
announced a preliminary
agreement with memory chip
maker Micron Technology for up
to $6.14 billion in subsidies for
two chip factories.
The agreement signed by the
Commerce Department will fund
facilities in New York and Idaho
under the 2022 CHIPS and
Science Act, which aims to boost
domestic manufacturing of chips
and reduce reliance on supplies
from China and Taiwan.
Biden said the United States
used to have 40 percent of the
chips market, but over time
production moved outside the
country, and the pandemic
exposed weaknesses in the U.S.
supply chain that hurt critical
industries.
The Commerce Department
TOP: Emissions from the Naughton coal-fired power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. ABOVE: Michael
Regan, chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, speaks at a 2022 energy conference in Houston.
plants are located in communi-
ties of color or low-income com-
munities, making their health
impacts and outcomes dispro-
portionately worse,” he said.
“Folks, this is simply unaccept-
able.”
West Virginia Attorney Gener-
al Patrick Morrisey (R) has al-
ready promised to sue over the
EPA’s greenhouse gas limits for
power plants. He has argued that
the limits violate the Supreme
Court’s 2022 decision in West
Virginia v. EPA, in which the
conservative majority found that
the agency lacks the authority to
force utilities to shutter coal
plants and switch to renewable
energy generation.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito
(R-W.Va.) on Thursday said she
plans to introduce a resolution to
repeal the greenhouse gas stan-
dards. “The administration has
chosen to press ahead with its
said the federal grants would
support the construction of a
fabrication plant, or fab, in Clay,
N.Y., a first step toward Micron’s
plans to invest about $100 billion
in New York and create 13,500
jobs.
— Reuters
teCHnologY
Microsoft beats
quarterly estimates
Microsoft beat Wall Street
estimates for third-quarter
revenue Thursday, driven by
gains from artificial intelligence
adoption across its cloud
services and business software
products.
Revenue rose 17 percent to
$61.9 billion in the quarter
ending in March, compared with
analysts’ consensus estimate of
$60.80 billion, according to
LSEG data.
Shares of the Redmond,
Wash.-based company gained
unrealistic climate agenda that
threatens access to affordable,
reliable energy for households
and employers across the coun-
try,” she said in a statement.
Jeff Holmstead, a partner at
the law and lobbying firm Brace-
well LLP and a former top EPA
official under President George
W. Bush, said legal or political
challenges could scuttle the reg-
ulation.
“I have a hard time believing
this will be upheld in court,” he
said. “And if there is to be a
Republican administration in
2025, it would be pretty easy for
them to just undo the rule.”
Jody Freeman, who directs the
Environmental and Energy Law
Program at Harvard Law School,
said she thinks the rule is on
solid legal ground, because EPA
lawyers crafted it to comply with
the 2022 decision and the Clean
Air Act. But it is difficult to
Digest
4 percent after the bell. The stock
price has soared on Microsoft’s
shipping of genAI tools based on
its strategic partnership with
ChatGPT creator OpenAI.
Microsoft became the world’s
most valuable company earlier
this year, overtaking Apple.
— Reuters
Alphabet announces
first-ever dividend
Alphabet announced its first-
ever dividend of 20 cents per
share Thursday, returning
capital when the Google parent
is spending billions of dollars on
data centers to catch up with
rivals on generative artificial
intelligence.
Shares rose nearly 13 percent
in trading after the bell.
Alphabet also said it had
authorized the repurchase of up
to an additional $70 billion of its
Class A and Class C shares.
It also beat Wall Street
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predict what the conservative
justices will decide, she said.
“The Supreme Court will do
what it wants, and it’s shown a
particular hostility to EPA rules,”
Freeman said.
Putting guardrails on gas
If fully implemented, the
greenhouse gas standards could
have the greatest impact in the
Southeastern United States,
where many utilities are plan-
ning for a boom in gas plants to
meet explosive power demand
fueled by electricity-hungry data
centers and clean-technology
factories.
In North Carolina, Duke En-
ergy has argued that a new gas
plant is necessary to meet “un-
precedented” energy needs. In
South Carolina, Dominion En-
ergy and Santee Cooper are urg-
ing the state legislature to fast-
track a new gas plant to address
estimates for first-quarter
revenue Thursday, powered by
rising demand for its cloud
services on the back of
increasing adoption of AI and
steady advertising spending.
— Reuters
Intel forecasts revenue
below estimates
Intel forecast second-quarter
revenue and profit below market
estimates Thursday, as it faces
weak demand for its traditional
data center and personal
computer chips amid efforts to
build its contract manufacturing
business.
Shares of the Santa Clara,
Calif.-based company fell nearly
5 percent in extended trading.
Enterprises have prioritized
spending on advanced and
speedy AI server chips, hurting
demand for Intel’s central
processing units, which have
been the mainstay chip powering
Kim raFF For the WaShington PoSt
what they call a power “crisis.”
Yet a recent report by Energy
Innovation, a climate think tank,
found that utilities can reliably
meet surging energy demand
without new gas generation. The
report warned that new gas
plants could become “stranded
assets” as the country transitions
to cleaner energy, and the costs
could be passed down to utility
customers.
Charles Harper, power sector
senior policy lead at Evergreen
Action, an environmental group,
said utilities are fomenting fear
about power demand to justify
plans that jeopardize the climate
and consumers.
“These gas plants are a poten-
tial carbon bomb that could
make U.S. climate goals unat-
tainable,” Harper said. “They’re
one of the most expensive tech-
nologies that they can charge
their customers for, but there are
so many low-cost alternatives
available with clean energy.”
EPA officials strengthened the
emissions limits for new gas
plants compared with the pro-
posed rule released last year. The
final rule will apply to new large
gas plants that operate more
than 40 percent of the time,
rather than those that operate 50
percent of the time, which The
Washington Post first reported
earlier this month.
In another notable change, the
final rule will no longer assume
that new gas plants can switch to
low-emissions hydrogen to com-
ply. The EPA will still specify that
utilities can use carbon capture
technology, which sucks carbon
dioxide from power plant smoke-
stacks and stores it deep under-
ground. Some environmentalists
worry the technology, which has
failed to deliver in several promi-
nent trials, could prolong the life
of fossil fuel infrastructure for
decades.
EPA officials announced in
February that the rule would
only apply to new gas plants, not
existing ones. The agency prob-
ably won’t finalize emissions
standards for existing gas plants
data centers for decades.
According to analysts, a
surging demand for graphics
processing units for AI
applications has reduced the
appetite for CPUs.
— Reuters
Also in Business
T-Mobile US on Thursday
raised its annual forecast for
monthly-bill-paying phone
subscriber growth, as more
customers tap into its
discounted plans and its 5G
network coverage expands.
Although the overall market for
postpaid phone additions is
shrinking, T-Mobile is viewed as
the top pick by analysts as it
gains share from
underpenetrated smaller-market
segments like rural and business.
Smokers in Minneapolis will
pay some of the highest cigarette
prices in the country after the
City Council voted unanimously
until after November, so their
fate may rest on the outcome of
the 2024 election.
Cracking down on coal
The other three rules will
marshal the full powers of the
federal government to clamp
down on pollution billowing
from coal plants’ smokestacks,
waste dumps and wastewater
discharges.
The United States is already
moving away from coal, which
has struggled to compete eco-
nomically with cheaper gas and
renewable energy. U.S. coal out-
put tumbled 36 percent from
2015 to 2023, according to the
Energy Information Administra-
tion. The Sierra Club’s Beyond
Coal campaign contends that 382
coal-fired power plants have
closed down or proposed to re-
tire, with 148 remaining.
Yet these remaining coal
plants rank as the country’s larg-
est source of mercury pollution,
affecting hundreds of families
and communities downwind. On
Thursday, the EPA finalized the
most stringent update to mer-
cury limits for these plants since
the Obama administration first
issued Mercury and Air Toxics
Standards in 2012. The agency
estimated the rule will reduce by
more than two-thirds the mer-
cury emissions from plants that
burn lignite, also known as
brown coal.
Rich Nolan, president and
chief executive of the National
Mining Association, said in a
statement that the Biden admin-
istration seems bent on shutter-
ing coal plants before the end of
their useful life. “For the last
three years, the administration
has methodically developed and
executed a comprehensive strat-
egy to force the closure of well-
operating coal plants,” he said.
But Patrice Tomcik, national
field director for the advocacy
group Moms Clean Air Force,
cheered the updated mercury
limits as long overdue. Tomcik
grew up two miles downwind
from the Cheswick Generating
Station, a coal plant in south-
western Pennsylvania that shut-
tered in 2022. As a child, she
watched plumes from the smoke-
stack float over the river toward
her school playground, and she
missed many school days be-
cause of chronic bronchitis. As
an adult, she still lives in the area
and worries about the health of
her son, a cancer survivor.
“I recognize I can’t control the
air my son breathes, and I really
rely on EPA to do their job,”
Tomcik said.
Tomcik and other advocates
also hailed a separate regulation
that will boost federal oversight
of hundreds of coal ash dumps.
Research suggests that the vast
majority of these sites have
leaked toxic chemicals such as
arsenic and chromium into near-
by groundwater.
Lisa Evans, an attorney spe-
cializing in hazardous waste liti-
gation at the environmental law
firm Earthjustice, said the rule
will require monitoring and
cleanup at about 700 additional
coal ash dump sites that were
exempted from the Obama ad-
ministration’s 2015 regulation.
“This is a watershed moment,”
Evans said on a call with report-
ers. “Industry fought long and
hard to avoid spending a dime to
clean up their toxic pollution.
That ends today.”
brady Dennis contributed to this
report.
Thursday to impose a minimum
retail price of $15 per pack to
promote public health. The
ordinance sets a price floor and
prevents smokers and retailers
from getting around it by
prohibiting discounts and
coupons, which several tobacco
companies circulate online to
lure customers and reinforce
brand loyalty.
Walmart said Thursday that
Rob Walton would retire from
the board of the big-box retailer
at the end of his term June 5.
Walton, the eldest son of
Walmart founder Sam Walton,
served as the company’s
chairman of the board of
directors from 1992 to 2015,
according to a bio on the
company’s website. After joining
the company in 1969, Walton
held several roles, including
senior vice president, corporate
secretary, general counsel and
vice chairman.
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Massive volunteer-aided study reveals biggest known plastic polluters
Coca-Cola is globe’s
largest contributor at
11% of branded waste
BY S HANNON O SAKA
Every year, companies produce
more than 400 million metric
tons of plastic. Some of that plas-
tic spills onto waterways or beach-
es, clogging streams or floating in
huge gyres in the ocean. Some of it
breaks down into tiny microplas-
tics or nanoplastics that float in
the air and enter human lungs,
blood and organs.
Sometimes it’s hard to know
which companies are behind all
this plastic — but now, scientists
have identified some of the largest
contributors.
A new study published
Wednesday in the journal Science
Advances has pinpointed some of
the major brands responsible for
plastic pollution across six conti-
nents. The researchers, who used
a team of over 100,000 volunteers
to catalogue over 1.8 million piec-
es of plastic waste, found that 56
companies were responsible for
more than 50 percent of branded
plastic waste globally.
The largest contributor was Co-
ca-Cola, which accounted for
11 percent of the branded plastic
pollution worldwide.
The findings, researchers say,
reveal the enormity of the planet’s
plastic pollution problem. “This is
a herculean effort we have to do,”
said Win Cowger, a research di-
rector at the Moore Institute for
Plastic Pollution Research and the
lead author of the study. “There
are no easy fixes.”
U.S. economy cools in first quarter, growing at 1.6 percent annual rate
Slowdown is welcomed
in some quarters but also
raises ‘stagflation’ fears
BY A BHA B HATTARAI
U.S. economic growth slowed
in the first three months of the
year, after more than a year and a
half of rapid expansion — a wel-
come cool-off that nonetheless
raises questions about how the
rest of the year might shake out.
The U.S. economy grew by an
annualized rate of 1.6 percent in
the first three months of the year,
a sharp slowdown from the previ-
ous quarter’s growth rate of 3.4
percent, according to the Bureau
of Economic Analysis’s measure-
ment of gross domestic product,
the sum of all of the goods and
services produced in the country.
The deceleration reflects
swings in business inventory and
trade, as well as weakening house-
hold and government spending.
In the most recent quarter, Ameri-
cans bought more foreign-made
goods while selling fewer
U.S.-made items overseas, both of
which dragged down economic
growth.
“Clearly this is a notable slow-
down — growth has stepped down
quite a bit, but that’s coming after
some really strong numbers,” said
Claudia Sahm, chief economist at
New Century Advisors. “You have
to pick your head up and look at
the context: We have an economy
that’s still really working for con-
sumers and businesses despite
the fact that inflation is elevated
and interest rates are higher than
before the pandemic.”
Markets, though, were decid-
edly downbeat on the potential of
lower economic growth and high-
Calif. fertility clinic transferred ruined embryos into patients, lawsuits claim
IVF provider says it
didn’t realize error until
pregnancy rate dropped
BY J USTINE M C D ANIEL
AND M AHAM J AVAID
A California fertility clinic
transferred ruined embryos into
multiple patients, failing to real-
ize that the embryos had been
compromised and could not re-
sult in pregnancy, a set of lawsuits
alleged this month.
At least 11 people being treated
at an Ovation Fertility office in
Newport Beach, Calif., under-
went embryo transfers and wait-
ed to find out whether they would
become pregnant — but the em-
bryos were no longer viable, the
patients claimed in separate law-
suits, nine of which were filed
Tuesday.
Volunteers clean up plastic and other waste Jan. 15 in Southeast Washington. Researchers recently
found that 56 companies were responsible for more than 50 percent of branded plastic waste globally.
To get the data, thousands of
volunteers around the world con-
ducted plastic “audits,” in which
they scoured beaches, parks, riv-
ers and other locations for plastic
waste. Volunteers examined each
piece of waste and recorded any
visible brands or trademarks. The
group Break Free From Plastic
organized 1,576 audit collections
between 2018 and 2022.
Out of more than 1.8 million
pieces of plastic surveyed, close to
910,000 had visible brands. (Plas-
tics can lose their brand markers
through exposure to sunlight and
er inflation, commonly referred to
as “stagflation.” All three major
stock indexes tumbled by more
than 1 percent Thursday morning,
with the Nasdaq and Dow Jones
Industrial Average both down
about 1.6 percent at lunchtime.
“What the market is worried
about, even at the margin, is any
suggestion that stagflation is tak-
ing hold,” said Quincy Krosby,
chief global strategist at LPL Re-
search. “Certainly the economy is
still solid — perhaps not stellar
like it was — but the question is
whether it will stay that way.”
After the pandemic recession,
the U.S. economy bounced back
far stronger than anticipated. Un-
employment, at 3.8 percent, is in
the longest stretch of near-record
low jobless rates since 1970. Wag-
es are going up. And crucially,
families, businesses and govern-
ments are continuing to spend,
keeping money sloshing through
the economy.
Even though Americans are
making more money than they
were last year, they’re spending
more and saving less. Disposable
incomes rose by 1.1 percent after
accounting for inflation in the
first quarter. Still, people saved an
average 3.6 percent of their in-
come in early 2024, down from 4
percent the quarter before, the
GDP report shows.
That exuberant spending — es-
pecially on travel, restaurants,
concerts and other services — has
recently lifted inflation, reignit-
ing fears that the Federal Reserve
may have to be even more aggres-
sive in its efforts to slow the econ-
omy.
The central bank has raised
interest rates 11 times in the past
two years, making it more expen-
sive for families and businesses to
borrow money. That’s put a chill
on some parts of the economy,
including home sales. Now there
Dozens of embryos are thought
to have been affected, and more
patients plan lawsuits, an attor-
ney for two of the couples who
filed complaints in Orange Coun-
ty, Calif., told The Washington
Post. Adam Wolf, the attorney,
accused Ovation of transferring
compromised embryos into pa-
tients over multiple weeks.
“This is a complete tragedy
that was entirely needless,” Wolf
said. He said he represents two
additional patients who plan to
sue.
The company said in a state-
ment that “a very small number”
of patients were affected.
Some of the lawsuits allege that
clinic staff cleaned an incubator
— where embryos are placed
ahead of transfer into a patient’s
uterus — with an “extremely un-
safe” amount of hydrogen perox-
ide. Staff then put embryos into
the incubator, which effectively
destroyed them, making them no
longer viable. Still, they were
eZ Re
weather.) And of those hundreds
of thousands of pieces of plastic,
the top companies responsible
were Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé
and Danone.
In an email, a spokesperson for
the Coca-Cola Co. pointed to the
company’s World Without Waste
strategy, noting that it aims “to
make 100% of our packaging recy-
clable globally by 2025 and to use
at least 50% recycled material in
our packaging by 2030.”
Nestlé said in an email that the
company aims to reduce its use of
new plastic by one-third and in-
U.S. gross domestic product growth
6%
4%
2%
−2%
2021 Q1 2022 Q1
seasonally adjusted and shown in constant 2017 dollars
source: Bureau of economic analysis
are signs that those higher costs
are weighing down other pur-
chases and investments as well:
Manufacturing spending took a
hit and Americans spent less on
goods, including cars, at the be-
ginning of the year, according to
the GDP report. A downturn in
government spending, which has
been juicing the economy in re-
cent months, also contributed to
cooling growth.
Those signs of deceleration,
combined with a recent uptick in
price growth, is muddying the
economic picture.
Inflation — still considerably
higher than the Fed’s 2 percent
goal — has ticked up for two
months, while economic growth
appears to be uneven. Many are
closely watching what happens
transferred into the patients.
That information is based on
what the Ovation office told some
patients, Wolf said. Rob Mar-
cereau, an attorney for other
plaintiffs, told the City News
Service in Los Angeles that the
clinic “has given different stories”
to various patients.
The clinic did not know the
embryos weren’t viable, Ovation
Fertility said in the statement,
realizing something might have
gone wrong only after the trans-
fers didn’t result in pregnancies.
“As soon as we recognized that
pregnancy numbers were lower
than our usually high success
rates, we immediately initiated
an investigation,” the statement
said. “We did not knowingly
transfer nonviable embryos for
implantation.”
Ovation blamed “an unintend-
ed laboratory technician error”
for what it called an isolated
incident and said the clinic had
rigorous protocols in place to
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corporate more recycled content
into its packaging. In an emailed
statement, PepsiCo said it advo-
cates a global policy framework to
address plastic pollution and is
working to build a circular econo-
my in which plastic is reused.
“Altria reviewed the study and
believes it is fundamentally incor-
rect regarding our company,” Da-
vien Anderson, a spokesman for
Altria, said in an email. “The study
includes data from more than 80
countries, yet Altria’s cigarette
company Philip Morris USA only
operates in the US.”
2023 Q1 2023 Q3
the Washington Post
next, starting with a fresh round
of inflation and consumer spend-
ing data on Friday, as well as
upcoming earnings reports from
tech giants Apple and Nvidia.
“The soft landing is coming
into view, although not in the way
either the Fed or the Biden admin-
istration might like,” said Eswar
Prasad, an economics professor at
Cornell University. “Business in-
vestment is already weakening,
and if you have consumer demand
also weakening, that’s going to
make for a very complicated sce-
nario in the summer and fall.”
Still, he said, the chances of a
recession this year remain slim.
Americans are continuing to
spend, especially on experiences
they missed out on during the
pandemic.
protect embryos.
IVF involves retrieving eggs
from a patient’s ovaries, fertiliz-
ing them to create embryos and
transferring embryos to the uter-
us. It can be a lengthy and diffi-
cult process, and disappoint-
ments are common for couples
experiencing infertility.
Some couples don’t get many
embryos from the treatment, and
not all embryos result in pregnan-
cies, so every one is valuable.
Wolf said he knew of some
patients who had used their last
embryos in the transfer.
“Plaintiffs have been deprived
of the opportunity to use their
embryos,” the lawsuit said.
IVF has been in the spotlight
since the Alabama Supreme
Court’s ruling in February that
frozen embryos are people — a
decision that set off a political
firestorm, alarmed couples in
treatment and led Alabama law-
makers to give providers legal
cover. That case stemmed from a
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“The idea that products created
by a company in a specific country
only stay within the countries that
create them is unsupported,”
Cowger said in a response to Al-
tria’s statement.
Danone did not respond to a
request for comment.
The researchers also found that
there was a direct relationship
between a company’s production
of plastic and the amount of
branded plastic waste found in
the environment. If a company
such as PepsiCo produced 1 per-
cent of the world’s plastic mass,
for example, that company was
responsible for roughly 1 percent
of the waste found in the audit.
To the researchers, that finding
means that recycling and waste
management alone aren’t enough
to manage the plastic problem.
“Many of these companies ac-
tually do have programs in place
to recover their waste from the
environment or prevent it from
ending up there,” said Neil Tangri,
science and policy director for the
Global Alliance for Incinerator Al-
ternatives and another author of
the study. “And what we’re seeing
is that those are not really effec-
tive.”
Global leaders and negotiators
are gathering in Ottawa this week
to hammer out a global plastics
treaty. Many environmental
groups and countries are looking
for an agreement that will include
cutting the amount of plastic pro-
duced, a goal that U.S. negotiators
have resisted.
Industry groups and compa-
nies say that “circular plastics,”
advanced recycling and waste
management can solve the prob-
lem without production limits.
“Our members are investing
billions of dollars in infrastruc-
Ralph Rapa opened a brewery
in Coconut Creek, Fla., two
months ago, and says there’s been
a steady stream of young families
and other locals stopping in for $7
pints. Nights with special events
have been particularly popular —
he hosts karaoke on Wednesdays,
live music Thursdays through
Sundays, and paint-and-sip
events once a month.
“People might be anxious about
inflation, but everybody seems to
have money to drink and eat,” he
said. “They want to get out — they
want live music and family-
friendly, dog-friendly places to
hang out.”
Rapa, a railroad health and
safety manager, came up with the
idea for Rule G Brewing three
years ago when the pandemic was
still in full swing. He has poured
more than $1 million into the
business from a mix of personal
and retirement funds, crowd-
funding, investments and a grant
from the Small Business Adminis-
tration. He expects it will take a
few years to become profitable. In
the meantime, Rapa says, he’s
hopeful his business — and the
economy — will hold up.
Still, there is mounting evi-
dence that Americans are pulling
back. Many families have used up
their pandemic savings and are
taking on extra debt to keep up
with costs. Credit card debt has
risen 22 percent since the pan-
demic. Delinquencies on credit
cards and car loans are also rising,
especially among younger and
lower-income Americans, as in-
flation and higher interest rates
take a toll on household budgets.
“We’re a bit concerned about
the U.S. consumer,” said Erik
Lundh, principal economist at the
Conference Board. “There’s been
quite a surge in debt, and just
making interest payments on that
stuff is eating into people’s pock-
lawsuit filed by couples whose
embryos had been destroyed by a
hospital patient who allegedly
accessed and dropped a container
holding them.
How strictly to regulate IVF
has long been a topic of debate in
the United States. Reproductive
technology has been the target of
criticism from some conserva-
tives, while clinicians say it is
sufficiently regulated. The Ameri-
can Society of Reproductive Med-
icine, which represents provid-
ers, says state, federal and profes-
sional regulation ensures safety.
“Incidents like this are exceed-
ingly rare,” said Gerard Letterie, a
reproductive endocrinologist and
partner at Seattle Reproductive
Medicine in Washington state.
Though IVF clinics are certi-
fied by independent regulatory
bodies, more federal or state reg-
ulation could enforce standards
more stringently, said Naomi R.
Cahn, who co-directs the Family
Law Center at the University of
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ture to scale-up the supply of
circular plastics, so that used plas-
tics are prevented from entering
the environment as waste, landfill
or via incineration, and instead
become new plastics,” Benny Mer-
mans, chair of the World Plastics
Council, said in a statement in the
lead-up to the talks.
Plastic industry groups have
also argued that plastics help
boost the global economy. Accord-
ing to a study commissioned by an
industry group, limits on produc-
tion would disproportionately af-
fect low-income people.
Researchers say that things
such as advanced recycling and a
circular economy may have a
place in the future, but so does
actually slowing the pace at which
plastic is made.
“We know what works: Make
less plastic and use less plastic,”
Tangri said.
Plastics, which are made from
fossil fuels, have helped to buoy
the fossil fuel industry even as
climate policies take aim at the
production of oil and gas. Plastic
is projected to account for half of
growth in oil demand by
mid-century, according to the In-
ternational Energy Agency.
At the same time, scientists are
rushing to understand the conse-
quences of the tiny pieces of plas-
tic that can enter the body and
organs. While microplastics have
been found in many systems of
the body, their effects on human
health are still unclear.
Scientists say that without
curbs on production, plastics will
continue to accumulate in the
environment — and in human
bodies.
“It’s been status quo for a long
time,” Cowger said. “And it’s obvi-
ously not working.”
etbooks and their ability to spend
and save.”
As a result, Lundh said, con-
sumer spending is poised to tum-
ble in the coming months, poten-
tially denting economic growth.
He expects GDP growth to slow to
0.5 percent in the middle of the
year, before rebounding in the fall.
“We don’t think things are go-
ing to fall apart this year, but
consumers are going to have to
pause and do some hard thinking
on how they’re spending their
money,” he said.
In Bend, Ore., Kristi Coughlin
and her family have started to
rethink their spending, especially
on food. Instead of going out to
dinner three times a week like
they used to, they’re eating more
“hodgepodge meals” at home —
enchiladas with tater tots, say, or
leftover rotisserie chicken with
chili.
“We’re buying less fresh stuff
than we used to,” the 40-year-old
registered dietitian said. “I don’t
get a cart at the grocery store
anymore. My new rule is: If I can’t
carry it, I don’t buy it.”
Her household of three is also
relying more on frozen fruits and
vegetables, canned beans and left-
over meats. Coughlin, who has 17
chickens in her yard, has started
trading eggs for a morning brew
at her local coffee shop. In all, her
family spends about $1,800 a
month on groceries, considerably
more than they did before the
pandemic.
Other costs, such as medical
bills and their older daughter’s
college fees, have also gone up.
Coughlin and her husband, an
electrician, are both self-em-
ployed, making them particularly
susceptible to the whims of the
economy. They’re not struggling
financially, at least not yet. “But
we’re cutting back proactively,”
she said, “just in case.”
Virginia and researches repro-
ductive technology.
“Currently, lawsuits are serv-
ing as a way of regulating the
industry,” Cahn said. “We need to
work toward prevention of these
mishaps.”
She added that the Newport
Beach case demonstrates “the
need for better monitoring and
regulation of IVF clinics.” She
said it is difficult to estimate how
many errors occur in labs because
only the most egregious cases are
usually publicized.
The suits accuse Ovation of
negligent misrepresentation,
fraud and medical battery and
seek monetary and punitive dam-
ages.
“It’s hard to describe just how
deeply traumatic this is for
would-be parents,” Wolf said. “A
fertility journey is hard enough
when everything goes perfectly,
and it’s just inexcusable when a
fertility clinic is so reckless and
indifferent.”
friday, april 26 , 2024 . the washington post
Josh Rogin
If Ukraine falls
to Russia, Moldova
knows it’s next
fter months of delay, on Tuesday, Congress
A passed urgent aid for Ukraine in its fight
against Russian aggression. But Vladimir
Putin’s expansionist aims do not end there.
In Moldova, wedged between an embattled Ukraine
and Romania, Russia’s interference is only increas-
ing. And without more Western help, its foreign
minister told me this week, this small European
country could fall under Moscow’s control.
Mihai Popsoi, Moldova’s 37-year-old newly mint-
ed top diplomat, was in Washington to remind
Biden administration officials and lawmakers that
the war in Ukraine is not just about Ukraine. Since
Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor two years
ago, the 3 million residents of Moldova have faced
unprecedented instability and anxiety. Putin is
threatening Moldova’s security, squeezing its econ-
omy and undermining its democracy, efforts that
are all aimed at replacing its pro-Western leader-
ship with a new government bought and paid for by
the Kremlin.
While Moldova, under European Union-aligned
President Maia Sandu, struggles to fight off Russian
meddling and build ties with the West, it knows that
its survival as a democracy is contingent on
Ukraine’s survival, the foreign minister told me. The
only thing standing between Moldova (which has
fewer than 10,000 personnel in its armed forces)
and a Russian attack is the Ukrainian army.
“It’s not an issue of whether Russia wants to
invade, it’s only an issue of if they can,” Popsoi said.
“God forbid, if the Russians would feel embold-
ened, clearly Moldova would be next. And after
that, it’s anybody’s guess.”
For now, Russia is waging hybrid warfare in
Moldova, whereby the Kremlin is using all available
means of leverage and interference to impose its
will — short of bombing the country. Moscow has
tried to orchestrate a coup, trained fake anti-
government protesters, flooded the country with
disinformation and funneled illicit cash to pro-
Russian opposition parties.
The West needs to understand
that the only thing standing between
Moldova and a Russian attack
is the Ukrainian army.
Just last weekend, Moscow hosted a conference
for pro-Russian Moldovan opposition leaders, who
announced a new election bloc ahead of Moldova’s
October presidential elections. The main pro-
Russian party is led by Israeli-born Moldovan
billionaire Ilan Shor, who was convicted in 2017 of
stealing $1 billion from banks in his country. In
2022, the U.S. government imposed sanctions on
Shor for working with “corrupt oligarchs and
Moscow-based entities to create political unrest in
Moldova” and undermine Moldova’s moves to join
the European Union.
Moldovans will also vote in October on whether
to amend the country’s constitution to enshrine its
E.U. membership aspirations. This is what angers
Putin most of all, Popsoi said. It’s not lost on
Moldovans that Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine
was sparked by Kyiv’s turn toward the E.U., and that
Putin tries to justify his 2022 invasion by pointing
to Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO.
“The Russians are using our democratic process
against us,” Popsoi said. “They are trying to install a
pro-Russian authoritarian regime that would mim-
ic the Russian model of government, to stab
Ukraine in the back.”
The internationally recognized territory of Mol-
dova includes two regions already with greater
loyalty to Moscow. Russia has about 1,500 “peace-
keeper” troops in the autonomous region of
Transnistria, a strip of land along Ukraine’s west-
ern border, that it could activate as troublemakers
at any time. And last year, Moscow scored a success
in its political incursions into Moldova when its
heavily supported candidate for governor of the
autonomous region of Gagauzia won, despite being
virtually unknown before her candidacy.
Meanwhile, the Western-leaning Moldovan gov-
ernment has been moving to reduce dependence
on Russian energy and to thwart Russian interfer-
ence, with significant U.S. help. Largely because of
U.S. and European investment, Moldova cut its
dependence on Russian gas and is now buying
U.S.-supplied liquefied natural gas (at lower
prices, by the way) through a new cooperative
project with Greece.
But there’s a lot more the United States and its
partners can and should do. President Biden
should show solidarity by inviting Sandu to the
White House. Moldova needs more foreign invest-
ment in its infrastructure so it can become a hub for
the future reconstruction of Ukraine. It also needs
help dealing with Russia’s advances in technology,
such as deepfakes and other tools powered by
artificial intelligence, which are amplifying the
Kremlin’s disinformation campaigns.
“Moldova is a petri dish for Russian hybrid
warfare,” Popsoi said. “And the tactics that we see
being used in Moldova, if the Russians feel they are
effective here, they are going to take them on the
road.”
There’s a popular narrative in parts of the
Republican Party that holds that Ukraine can’t win
its war with Russia, and that U.S. aid is only
prolonging the conflict. This view, as espoused by
Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio) and others, ignores the
impact Ukraine’s defeat would have for its neigh-
bors, the rest of the region — and the United States.
“Putin’s ambitions are imperial; he doesn’t deny
them. He wants to rebuild the Soviet Union,” the
foreign minister said. If Russia isn’t stopped in
Ukraine, “then all democracies are in trouble.”
Congress has now sent enough military aid to
Ukraine to last the rest of this year. But military
attacks are only one tool in the Kremlin’s toolbox.
Moldova is sounding an alarm about how the West
needs to increase its response to Russia’s other
weapons. Putin is counting on Washington to not
listen.
FRIDAY Opinion
The writer’s favorite tree is located in Big Meadows in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park.
Everyone should have a favorite tree.
Here’s mine.
BY M ARK H ENDRICKS
o you have a favorite tree?
D In the expanse of Big Meadows, one of the
most popular areas in Virginia’s Shenando-
ah National Park, stands a lone gray birch
tree. It is a beautiful tree. It emerges from the ground
with multiple trunks sculpted by the wind, its form
mimicking the veins of one’s hand. Its bark is white,
rather unusual for the area, and it is adorned with
triangular leaves that turn a golden hue come
October.
The tree is a member of a disjunct population that
serves as a reminder of the Blue Ridge Mountains’
boreal past. I met the tree two decades ago, on my
first hike through the meadow. Over the years, I
would admire its beauty through the seasons, from
the way its bark matched the snows of winter to how
its catkins wafted in spring winds. I began a
photographic odyssey documenting the tree
through seasonal changes and weather patterns. It
was at first more akin to a muse but later became an
old friend. I visit Shenandoah rather frequently to
hike its trails and camp in the backcountry, and no
trip is complete without a visit to my friend, my
favorite tree.
Why do I admire this tree so much? Part of it, I
guess, is its resilience. That it continues to thrive in a
southerly latitude long past the period of its prime is
impressive. Of course, I admire its beauty. When the
warm glow of the rising sun, or the cool blue of
evening twilight, is reflected off its bark, it becomes
something marvelous. As does the sound of its leaves
under a midnight sky. But mostly it is because when I
see this tree, I am able to travel to the past,
specifically my past. To times of joy, times of sorrow,
of grief and loss, of marriage and childbirth. The
seasons of my life follow the seasons of this tree.
I don’t have a school to visit where I can roam the
halls laced with the nostalgia of my formative years.
The schools I attended have been either bulldozed
into concrete rubble or transformed into warehouse
space for a hospital. But this birch tree still stands. A
fixture in the constant progress of life and nature, for
better or worse. What makes it all the more ironic is
that the gray birch is generally a short-lived tree.
I first took my daughter to the tree after she
turned 1, when the meadow floor was strewn with
Whatever happened to the middle-class candidate?
BY D USTIN G UASTELLA
emocrats are struggling to win over working-
D class voters, which spells trouble for the party
because these voters compose a commanding
majority of the electorate. But Democrats’
blue-collar blues also reflect a much larger problem:
the total dominance of our government by the rich.
The United States has long been governed by
millionaires. In 2020, more than half of all members
of Congress were millionaires, including nearly
two-thirds of senators. It’s also true for more than
80 percent of those who have served as president,
after adjusting for inflation.
In the tens of thousands of times that congres-
sional seats have changed hands since 1789, lawyers
have succeeded lawyers, millionaires have succeed-
ed millionaires and millionaire-lawyers have suc-
ceeded millionaire-lawyers. But as Nicholas Carnes,
a political science professor at Duke University,
documented in his 2018 book, “The Cash Ceiling,”
“two former blue-collar workers have never served
in the same U.S. House seat back-to-back.”
Progressives often appeal for greater representa-
tion of women and minorities in government. Yet
rarely is the case made for working-class lawmakers,
even though the percentage of women and people of
color who run for (and hold) public office far exceeds
the percentage of ordinary workers who do the same.
If members of the working class were proportionally
represented in Congress, they would make up 60 to
70 percent of lawmakers, instead of the 2 percent to
5 percent that have historically won seats.
Unfortunately, Democrats don’t seem likely to
increase their number of working-class officehold-
ers anytime soon. A new study I co-wrote for the
Center For Working Class Politics found that of the
925 Democratic candidates who competed in the
2022 midterm elections, only 2.3 percent worked
exclusively in blue-collar jobs — in manufacturing,
construction or the service sector — before entering
eZ re
The writer’s children, Liliana and Adrian, playing around the tree.
blue phlox. When she returned as a big sister and
showed the tree to her brother, in autumn, when the
meadow is painted with the scarlet hues of wild
blueberry shrubs, she gave it a hug and said to her
mother, “I love this tree, like Papa.”
It is these moments that gave rise to my belief that
everyone should have a favorite tree.
I think most of us can agree that trees in general
deserve our admiration and respect. A Pew Research
Center poll in 2020 found that 90 percent of
Americans support planting trees to absorb carbon
emissions. Not many issues can produce such a
consensus. Trees provide food and oxygen as well as
shade, and they increase property values. Planted in
urban environments, they have positive effects on
both physical and mental health. They protect
wildlife: Brook trout thrive when Eastern hemlocks
shade the mountain rivers they inhabit; the wander-
politics. Expand that to include pink-collar workers
— such as elementary and high school teachers,
librarians, social workers, and nurses — and that
figure grows to a measly 5.9 percent.
(Don’t count on Republicans for more working-
class candidates, either. Despite their attempts to
rebrand as worker-friendly, they increasingly draw
from the uber-rich. Several GOP Senate candidates
this year are multimillionaires. One, Jim Justice of
West Virginia, might even be a billionaire.)
The lack of working-class representation matters.
It means workers’ political, economic and social
interests have been shoved into the back seat while
the wealthy drive the car. As the Center for Working
Class Politics will show in a forthcoming study, only
18 percent of Democratic political ads from 2022
mentioned jobs at all. Less than 2 percent mentioned
the need for good, high-paying, living-wage or union
jobs, and issues such as reshoring manufacturing
and implementing a bold industrial policy were
virtually absent.
Even President Biden’s own signature economic
policies barely registered. Candidates were 6½ times
more likely to talk about abortion than the Inflation
Reduction Act, the Chips Act or the bipartisan
infrastructure law. No wonder many working-class
voters don’t think Democrats represent their inter-
ests on the campaign trail.
In 2020, Democrats lost the non-college-educated
working-class vote by four percentage points, and
recent polls suggest that deficit could worsen in
November. Fixing the party’s reputation among
working-class voters won’t be easy, but recruiting
and running working-class candidates could be a
good first step for three reasons:
First, it’s good politics. The Democratic Party needs
to win swing states, especially Michigan, Pennsylva-
nia and Wisconsin — home to a disproportionate
share of working-class voters. Our research has
shown that such voters prefer working-class candi-
dates over those from elite backgrounds. These
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ing salamander lives the entirety of its existence on
the thick branch of a towering redwood. Trees
inspire art and contribute to science.
But a favorite individual tree is something special.
(Turns out, I’m not the only one who thinks so. After
writing this, I was gratified to learn of a piece from
semi-rad.com expressing similar sentiments, which
I wholeheartedly approve.) It gives you a living thing
of your own to admire and celebrate, to appreciate as
time goes by. A favorite tree grows, as you do. A
favorite tree has an expiration date, as you do. Take
the time to find one and love it, if you haven’t
realized that you have one already.
Mark Hendricks, a professor of psychology and co-director
of the animal behavior program at towson University, is
the author of “the central appalachians: Mountains of the
chesapeake.”
candidates are more prone to highlight working-class
interests on the campaign trail, such as jobs, wages
and making big investments in left-behind regions.
And our findings show that when Democrats put
forward a strong pro-worker message, they can win
crucial working-class toss-up districts.
Second, working-class officeholders are good
policymakers. Compared with their elite counter-
parts, politicians from working-class backgrounds
are likelier to pursue the sort of progressive
economic agenda that Biden has tried to champion.
They can provide a needed counterweight to the
profound influence that the rich have in the halls of
power.
Third, working-class candidates are surprisingly
well-suited to challenging Republicans on their
home turf. Cycle after cycle, Democrats pour energy
and money into their own liberal backyards, home to
the richest congressional districts in the country. By
focusing on running up the score in safe, affluent
blue districts, the party has neglected huge swaths of
small-town and rural America, where many working-
class voters struggle to get by. These voters rarely
hear political appeals from the left, but there’s no
reason working-class Democrats can’t go toe to toe
with the GOP in Trumpland. Who better to challenge
hedge-fund executives than candidates drawn from
the working class?
The good news is that efforts to recruit and run
working-class candidates, with a pro-worker cam-
paign message, have been successful. The New Jersey
state affiliate of the AFL-CIO has helped train and run
more than 1,000 working-class candidates — from
City Hall to Congress — and boasts an impressive
77 percent success rate. Democrats ought to emulate
that model if they are to have any hope of winning our
democracy back from the grip of the rich.
the writer is a research associate at the center for
Working class Politics and the director of operations for
teamsters Local 623 in Philadelphia.
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The Trump immunity case is not so complicated
T WOULD seem to go without saying that the
I president, tasked with faithfully executing the
laws of the United States, cannot also violate any
one of those laws without fear of criminal
prosecution after leaving office. Nonetheless, the
Supreme Court decided this question is serious
enough as it relates to Donald Trump that it must
deliver an answer, rather than leaving the matter to
the lower courts to state the obvious.
EdiTOriaL Yet Trump v. United States is an easy
case; the justices should not belabor
the issue more than they already have.
Thursday’s oral argument in the case revolved
around whether Mr. Trump can claim absolute
immunity for his conduct while president, including
for the alleged crimes in Justice Department special
counsel Jack Smith’s election fraud case. Thankfully,
most of the justices appeared skeptical that the
president may avoid prosecution for any action he
takes on the job.
From there, however, things got complicated.
Assuming a president can be prosecuted for private
or personal conduct — committing perjury to cover
up an affair, say — can he be prosecuted for official
conduct? What even counts as “official”? The court
decided in Nixon v. Fitzgerald that ex-presidents
have immunity from civil suits for anything within
the “outer perimeter” of their duties. This generous
standard enables the commander in chief to do the
LETTErs TO ThE EdiTOr
Trans kids deserve treatment access
Regarding Paul Garcia-Ryan’s April 19 op-ed,
“Youth gender care is resting on shaky ground”:
As a parent of a gender-expansive child, and
someone who works with the families of such
children regularly, I believe The Post should
approach the Cass Review — a report on the
gender identity services offered through England’s
National Health Service and a set of
recommendations about how the NHS should
develop its standards of care going forward — with
a more critical eye.
The op-ed, as well as the Associated Press article
“A major UK report says trans children are being let
down by toxic debate and lack of evidence,” did not
address questions regarding which studies were
included in the Cass Review’s survey of evidence,
which were excluded and whether Dr. Hilary Cass
and the researchers at the University of York who
conducted a review of the scientific literature used
the appropriate standards to determine whether
research was sound. The report claims there is “no
good evidence on the long-term outcomes of
interventions to manage gender-related distress.”
But surely gender-expansive adults who had
medical interventions when they were younger
exist? Why are their voices not “high-quality”
enough to serve as evidence?
The articles lean heavily on the Cass Review’s
statements that there is “lack of evidence” and a
“toxic political debate” around this topic. I actually
agree: Trans kids are being let down by these
things, but not in the same way the authors of
these pieces do.
Where are the voices of children who have
socially transitioned and are thriving? Teens who
take hormones and are doing great in school and in
life? Don’t try to tell me they don’t exist: There’s
one in my kitchen right now! But the way the
report covers this makes it seem as though they’re
unicorns, some mythological beings only seen in
left-wing literature. Their voices deserve a
prominent place in The Post’s and the AP’s
reporting.
Gender-expansive children exist. Younger
generations are approaching gender differently. As
such, we are probably going to see more gender
exploration than we ever did. Does that mean all of
these children are going to grow up to be gender-
expansive adults? No. That is what “exploration”
means. I think in the “old days” of the 2000s,
primarily children with strong gender dysphoria
came out. Treatment was probably more clear-cut.
Today, it might be less so. More children might be
“trying on” gender identities. Treatment should
adapt. But this does not mean treatment should be
banned, which is what many states and
institutions are using the weight of the Cass
Review to do.
Tina Neal, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
The writer is the founder of Tertium Quid, a
nonprofit support organization.
I am in a support group for parents of trans-
identified youths, and many of us have similar
stories. Our once-happy kids spent more time
online during school closures. After going down
rabbit holes on Reddit, Tumblr and Discord, they
discovered groups of people talking about gender.
Their curiosity became an obsession, and they
announced a “trans” identity soon after.
Many of us observed that our children’s
obsession was accompanied by uncharacteristic
displays of anger, self-harm, anxiety, depression
and estrangement from the family. These
personality changes and behaviors intensified after
our children announced their new gender
identities, even if we affirmed them.
Declaring themselves transgender has
dramatically worsened our kids’ mental health.
The professionals we’ve turned to for help have
simply been unwilling to listen to any broader
context we shared with them.
Until recently, we have not been able to speak
about our pain, because the topic has been
off-limits. With publication of the Cass Review,
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job without fear of countless frivolous lawsuits.
There are more guards against frivolous prosecu-
tions than frivolous lawsuits, so the level of protec-
tion the executive needs from post-presidency crimi-
nal proceedings should be correspondingly lower —
though, most of the justices seemed persuaded, not
nonexistent. Even the Justice Department concedes
that presidents can’t be criminally liable for certain
“core conduct” listed in Article II of the Constitution.
The justices contemplated President Barack Obama
being dragged before judge and jury for conducting
a drone strike against a terrorist.
On the other hand, the justices considered a
hypothetical borrowed from D.C. Circuit Court of
Appeals Judge Florence Y. Pan: “Could a president
order SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?”
The court explored many ways to distinguish
between the former hypothetical and the latter.
Courts could consider whether the president’s mo-
tive or intent in taking an official action was to serve
himself rather than the public. Judges could exam-
ine whether the president reasonably should have
known a given action was illegal — because of
contrary advice from his attorney general, for
example, or because it’s just that obvious.
But amid all the nuance, the Supreme Court might
be missing the point. Not only would Mr. Trump’s
alleged conduct surrounding the 2020 election fail
an intent test, or a reasonability test governing when
ann TELnaEs
Mr. Trump’s right to free screech
perhaps now we can speak more freely.
K.A. Lynne, Orlando
I am a physician with special interest in the
evidence behind medical strategies to affirm a
trans identity, and have followed the Cass study for
at least two years. The detailed final review is a
huge resource for medicine and the broader society
as we try to sort out what actually helps gender-
dysphoric kids. Unfortunately, opinions on gender
identity have become aligned with political
identity in the United States. With the Cass Review,
Britain is taking the lead in getting politics out of
gender care. Our country should follow Britain’s
example.
The Post took early leadership in covering
questioning voices back in 2021 when it published
an op-ed by Erica Anderson and Laura Edwards-
Leeper advocating gender exploratory treatment as
a first step for gender-questioning kids. That was a
good start, but with the release of the Cass Review,
journalists now have an enormous opportunity to
inject more and better science into the American
debate.
Mark Buchanan, Avon, Conn.
A step backward for students’ rights
Regarding the April 20 front-page article “Title
IX widened for trans students”:
As an attorney who defends students accused in
Title IX proceedings. I was distressed to read about
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official acts are criminal, but almost all of the acts
included in prosecutors’ complaint against
Mr. Trump are also clearly not official. Nothing in the
presidential job description relates to certifying the
winner of the election, and, as Justice Department
counsel Michael Dreeben pointed out, “It seems
likely that the framers designed the Constitution
Amid all the nuance about whether
a president can be prosecuted for
official conduct, the Supreme Court
might be missing the point.
that way.” And, as even opposing counsel D. John
Sauer admitted, there is no obligation as chief
executive to call up the Georgia secretary of state
and ask him to “find” the votes necessary to declare a
false victory in the state.
The Supreme Court could devise a complex new
standard governing former presidents’ criminal
liability, then demand that Trump trial Judge Tanya
S. Chutkan engage in further analysis before the
already much-delayed trial she’s overseeing can
the new rules approved by the Biden
administration that backslide on the rights to
cross-examination guaranteed by the regulations
promulgated by then-Education Secretary Betsy
DeVos during the Trump years.
It is difficult to imagine how one-sided and
unfair these proceedings can be. The schools are
under pressure from the Education Department to
assure that they are doing everything possible to
combat sexual misconduct, and are subject to
financial penalties if they are deemed to have
fallen short. Before the DeVos rules, the university
hired a “neutral” investigator that heard from both
parties and made a recommendation — informed
by a mere preponderance of the evidence — to a
rubber-stamp tribunal. In some schools, the
investigator was also charged with acting as the
prosecutor, judge and jury.
Under the rules now being discarded, each party
had the right to cross-examine participants and
witnesses at a live hearing to test the credibility of
the testimony. Now, we will return to a system
where the alleged victim’s story is not tested by
serious questions. In every instance in our legal
system, except in student disciplinary proceedings,
a participant has a right to confront an adverse
witness by cross-examination. In Maryland, you
can confront your adversary in a zoning hearing,
but not when your ability to graduate or to seek a
further degree can be determined by a disgruntled
former partner who now reviews the relationship
in a different light. In every instance, a crime
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proceed. Or it could simply find that actions de-
scribed in Mr. Trump’s indictment lie outside any
plausible scope of presidential immunity. The jus-
tices might find the former approach more comfort-
able. But trying to set standards in such murky legal
circumstances can have unintended consequences
— even enabling dubious executive behavior once
presidents know more clearly what they can get
away with. By the same token, the court might also
chill legitimate executive action, depending on how
it worded such a ruling.
Declining to sort through the particulars of
Mr. Trump’s case would not actually allow the court
to avoid getting embroiled in his prosecution —
quite the opposite. Giving him the time he wants
would put a thumb on the scales in a way it would
not for any other defendant: His legal strategy hasn’t
been to win his case so much as to delay it. That way,
if he ends up back in the Oval Office next winter, he
could order the charges dropped.
Mr. Trump can press an immunity claim at the
Supreme Court only because he is a unique defen-
dant: a former president being charged with crimes.
But his unique status also means it’s unusually
important to move quickly. Pretending, after all
these extraordinary legal proceedings, that he’s just
any other defendant — by ignoring how delay might
deny the public a trial — would not help the court
appear impartial.
victim must get on the witness stand and be
subjected to the testing of that testimony by cross-
examination. Even Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a
feminist icon, expressed dismay at the restriction
of due process rights in Title IX proceedings. Is our
current crop of college students so devoid of
agency that they cannot be trusted to stand on
their own two feet and tell their story and have
that story tested for credibility and truthfulness?
As a liberal, I always believed that due process
was for everyone, not just for the group allied with
one’s political cause. It appears the Biden
administration has forgotten that.
Ronald L. Schwartz, College Park, Md.
A cruel tradition
Regarding the April 21 front-page article “A
legendary cowboy’s last ride”:
Here’s hoping that Post sports columnist Sally
Jenkins will do a follow-up rodeo story, one from
the animals’ point of view.
Rodeo is not a true “sport.” That term denotes
willing, evenly matched participants. Rodeo
doesn’t qualify. Rather, it’s mostly hype, a macho
exercise in domination that has little to do with
ranching. Real working cowboys never routinely
rode bulls, wrestled steers, rode bareback or
practiced calf roping as a timed event. Nor did they
put flank straps on the animals or work them over
in the holding chutes with “hotshots,” tail-twisting,
kicks and slaps. Hundreds of animals are crippled
and killed in rodeo arenas annually, all in the name
of “entertainment.” It needs to end.
Consider what legendary labor leader Cesar
Chavez wrote in a 1990 letter to me at Action for
Animals: “Cruelty, whether directed against human
beings or against animals, is not the exclusive
province of any one culture or community of
people. Racism, economic deprival, dogfighting
and cockfighting, bullfighting and rodeos are cut
from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have
become nonviolent towards all life will we have
learned to live well ourselves.” These are words to
live by.
Britain outlawed rodeos back in 1934. Can the
United States be this far behind?
Eric Mills, Oakland, Calif.
A hopeful dispatch
Regarding Anna Husarska’s April 20 op-ed
“Missiles rain down, tulips bloom, Ukraine
soldiers on”:
Ms. Husarska’s dispatch contains a powerful
message. I had a company in Kharkiv, Ukraine,
with an office off Freedom Square and a factory
outside the city. I saw a country evolve from an
economically destitute state following the Soviet
breakup to a thriving, vibrant entity.
Kharkiv has a theater similar to Kennedy Center,
a magnificent classical organ theater, shops and,
most important, a highly educated,
entrepreneurial and technically advanced
population. The young people were so amazing —
and they still are, having maintained their spirit
and willingness to die for their independence. We
must stay behind these people. They must know
they can depend on us.
Howard Pedolsky, Rockville
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ruth Marcus
Oral arguments
on immunity hint
at a Trump trial
— but not soon
f there was any chance of Donald Trump being
I prosecuted before the next presidential elec-
tion for trying to interfere in the previous one,
that prospect looks even more dim after nearly
three hours of oral argument at the Supreme Court
on Thursday. The conservative justices’ professed
concerns over the implications of their rulings for
imaginary future presidents, in imaginary future
proceedings, seemed more important to them than
bringing Trump to justice.
First, there is certainly no prospect of a speedy
decision. The issues as hashed out before the
justices, and the evident division among them, all
but guarantee there will be no ruling until the court
finishes up its work in late June or early July.
Second, the eventual outcome doesn’t seem
likely to offer the kind of decisive rule that would
allow special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal pros-
ecution of Trump to proceed to trial quickly. True, a
majority might not be willing to fully accept
Trump’s audacious claim of absolute immunity
from criminal prosecution for his official acts as
president. On Thursday, Trump lawyer D. John
Sauer reprised his contention that a president
could send SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political
opponent.
“How about if a president orders the military to
stage a coup?” Justice Elena Kagan asked him. That
“could well be” an official act, Sauer said — which
would mean, under his bizarre reading of the
Constitution, that the only way a former president
could be charged with a crime would be if Congress
had first impeached and convicted him.
But if they’re unwilling to go that far, at least
some justices seemed unsettlingly inclined to draw
distinctions between official and private acts that
could both narrow the scope of the case against
Trump and entail additional pretrial proceedings.
This doesn’t absolutely doom the possibility of a
pre-election trial — Trump’s lawyer made impor-
tant concessions Thursday that many of the
allegations against the former president involved
private conduct — but it sets the stage for more
litigation and therefore more delay.
Third, at least some justices appeared interested
in a new twist that Trump’s lawyers raised for the
first time in their Supreme Court brief: whether the
criminal laws under which Trump has been
charged can constitutionally be used to prosecute a
president if the statutes don’t state explicitly that
they apply to the president. Ordinarily, a defendant
who fails to bring up a claim in the lower courts is
deemed to have waived it, but Justice Brett
M. Kavanaugh in particular seemed inclined to let
the claim proceed and to decide in Trump’s favor.
Such nuts-and-bolts questions will shape the
outcome of the case. But the oral argument in
Trump v. United States was mainly suffused with
the broader question of which poses the greater
risk — putting a criminal president above the law
or hamstringing noncriminal presidents with the
risk of frivolous or vindictive prosecutions brought
by their successors.
This has been the essence of Trump’s argument
for immunity. “Without presidential immunity
from criminal prosecution, there can be no presi-
dency as we know it,” Sauer told the court in his
opening statement. “If a president can be charged,
put on trial and imprisoned for his most controver-
sial decisions as soon as he leaves office, that
looming threat will distort the president’s decision-
making precisely when bold and fearless action is
most needed.”
This is a typical Trumpian overstatement. No
president before Trump believed he possessed
immunity from prosecution after leaving office —
that’s why Richard M. Nixon accepted a pardon —
and they managed just fine. The only president
the country has to fear this from is Trump himself,
if he succeeds in winning a second term and
implementing his plan to pursue his political
enemies.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson never mentioned
Trump, yet it was hard not to have his potential
return to office in mind when she pressed Sauer on
this point. “You seem to be worried about the
president being chilled,” Jackson said. “I think that
we would have a really significant opposite prob-
lem if the president wasn’t chilled. If someone with
those kinds of powers, the most powerful person in
the world with the greatest amount of authority,
could go into office knowing that there would be no
potential penalty for committing crimes, I’m trying
to understand what the disincentive is from
turning the Oval Office into, you know, the seat of
criminal activity in this country.”
What was striking — and disconcerting — in
Thursday’s arguments was the degree to which the
conservative justices seemed willing to prioritize
presidential flexibility over presidential account-
ability, although whether they were seeking to
protect Trump or were moved by solicitude for
executive power is impossible to know.
“I’m not concerned about this case, but I am
concerned about future uses of the criminal law to
target political opponents based on accusations
about their motives,” said Justice Neil M. Gorsuch.
Kavanaugh warned that “the concern going for-
ward is that . . . it’s going to cycle back and be used
against the current president or the next president
and the next president and the next president after
that.”
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. even made the
up-is-down suggestion that trying Trump for
seeking to subvert the election could undermine
democracy. “If an incumbent who loses a very close,
hotly contested election knows that a real possibili-
ty after leaving office is . . . that the president may
be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political
opponent,” he asked, “will that not lead us into a
cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our
country as a democracy?”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor offered a powerful
response. One of the convictions that sustains
democracy, she noted, is the “encouragement to
believe words that have been somewhat put into
suspicion here, that no man is above the law either
in his official or private acts.”
We’ll find out, even if not soon enough.
OPINION
Megan Mcardle
Why campus protests against Israel
probably won’t be effective
n alien who landed on our planet during the
A current news cycle could be forgiven for
concluding that the biggest foreign policy
issue facing America today is what the
U.S. government should do about Columbia Univer-
sity’s occupation of the Palestinian territories. Oth-
erwise, why would throngs of protesters be crowding
the campus to protest actions more than 5,000 miles
away?
The short answer is that they are advocating for a
cease-fire in Gaza, for an academic boycott of Israeli
universities, and for the administration to “divest all
of Columbia’s finances, including the endowment,
from companies and institutions that profit from
Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation in Pales-
tine,” as one of the organizing groups put it. The
longer answer is that American progressive activ-
ism, including Gaza activism, has become quite
centered around college campuses.
While this might boost its influence among
college-educated professionals, it often weakens the
wider cause.
Divestment has become a popular idea on cam-
pus, meant to wound companies that offend protest-
ers in various ways, from running private prisons to
manufacturing firearms to producing fossil fuels.
Many of these activists appear to have been inspired
by the late 20th-century global campaign of boy-
cotts, divestment and sanctions against South Afri-
ca, which is often credited with helping end apart-
heid in that country.
More recent campus efforts have had some suc-
cesses. For example, under pressure from student
activists in 2015, the Columbia endowment divested
from private prison firms. However, it’s not clear
what effect this has had on anything other than the
returns of the endowments.
It’s true that U.S. university endowments repre-
sent a vast accumulation of capital, at least $839 bil-
lion at last count. And it seems as though that much
money must be able to change the world, if it could
all work together. But not all of that money is
invested in stocks or corporate bonds; according to
Columbia’s annual trustee report, at the end of last
year, only a quarter of its investments, about
$3.7 billion, were in global equities. (Another
$3.6 billion is in private equity, and the rest is in
cash, fixed income and various alternative assets.)
This is tiny compared with the roughly $100 trillion
global stock market.
Of course, if a university holds an unusually large
share of some stock, then selling it might drive its
price down, at least temporarily, particularly for
smaller firms and markets where trading is less
frequent. But as long as there are buyers with fewer
ethical scruples — and there always are — the stock’s
long-term price will mostly be set by market funda-
mentals, things such as expected returns, rather
than ethical concerns. Even those temporary price
changes will affect only the current owners, not the
company that sold them stock long ago.
China already manufactures too much.
Now, it wants to make more.
BY B RIAN D EESE
s its economy stagnates, China is doubling
A down on a policy agenda that threatens to
destabilize global economic growth and the
energy transition. In response, the United
States should send a clear message that the world will
not absorb the costs of these distortionary policies,
and should work with our allies toward a more
durable framework for global growth.
China confronts an economic dilemma of lagging
growth, low consumption and an elevated savings
rate. This is partly the result of its highly unequal
economy, in which workers are paid a smaller share of
what they produce than in most maturing economies.
A shift toward policies that support domestic de-
mand, such as expanding the social safety net or even
direct payments to households alongside more pro-
gressive taxation, could reduce inequality, increase
consumption and support more sustainable eco-
nomic growth. But instead, Beijing announced at its
National Party Congress last month that it would
ramp up investment in advanced manufacturing to
export products overseas.
China’s manufacturing surplus — the gap between
the value of manufactured goods it exports and those
it imports — already amounts to nearly 2 percent of
global gross domestic product, far above that of Japan
in the 1980s and Germany in the early 2000s. In some
industries, including steel, aluminum and certain
clean energy technologies, substantial government
support has allowed for an outright flooding of the
global market. For example, China’s capacity to man-
ufacture electrolyzers, a technology needed to pro-
duce low-emission hydrogen, is four times the global
demand. Its steel exports in 2024 are projected to top
100 million tons after increasing 36 percent in 2023,
with another 100 million tons in new capacity
planned. Now it wants to increase manufacturing
even further.
This decision has three victims.
First, China’s agenda will limit its own growth
prospects. After two decades of investment-led
growth, additional investment, especially in indus-
tries with excess capacity, offers diminishing returns.
It has already begun to distort and lower prices to the
detriment of domestic firms. In recent months, the
world’s largest solar company, China’s Longi Green
Energy Technology, announced a 5 percent cut in its
workforce in the face of what its chief executive
described as “irrationally” low prices, leading to
plunging profits and diminishing share values. And
this strategy will do little to address pervasive issues
such as high youth unemployment, a rapidly aging
population and depressed home sales.
Second, China’s overcapacity targets and under-
mines other countries’ ability to maintain their own
healthy industries. As Treasury Secretary Janet
L. Yellen said in a recent visit to Beijing, “We’ve seen
this story before.” Unmitigated trade shocks cause the
U.S. economy to lose not just millions of jobs but also
the powerful industrial ecosystems that enable us to
eZ re
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators face off at Columbia University in New York on Monday.
Stock prices can still influence company manage-
ment decisions through indirect effects, but only to a
point. If a company urgently needs to raise money
for investment, a sell-off could make that harder. It
also might make the now-poorer shareholders angry
with management. But there are limits to the power
of shareholder anger: Investors might demand that
ExxonMobil do something to boost returns, but they
are unlikely to demand that the company get out of
the oil business altogether, because doing so would
incinerate a lot more shareholder money. Similarly,
shareholders are unlikely to demand that Boeing
stop selling fighter planes to Israel.
It’s harder still to translate divestment’s small
effect on companies into a change in the policies of
the countries where those companies are headquar-
tered. Countries such as Russia and Iran have
persisted for years in the face of sanctions far more
punishing than anything that the Columbia endow-
ment, or all university endowments, could possibly
impose.
This brings us back to our bewildered alien: Why
Columbia? Why divestment? The answer is that
Columbia is simply where activists are, and the
endowment is something the Columbia administra-
tion can control, unlike the foreign policy of the
United States — or Israel.
By now, this pattern is familiar; on the left, issue
after issue has been filtered through the prism of the
campuses where so many activists are concentrated.
operate at the cutting edge of global innovation. Since
the days of Alexander Hamilton, the United States has
recognized the importance of maintaining a strong
industrial base to meet our core economic and nation-
al security needs. This value has been brought into
stark relief in recent years as we have paid the price
for our exposure to concentrated supply chains for
critical goods such as semiconductors. Ultimately, we
should not — and will not — accept a framework for
global trade that is predicated on hollowing out our
industrial base.
Third, while China’s strategy of overcapacity and
underconsumption could at least temporarily lower
the prices of certain clean energy technologies, it is
inconsistent with a stable, long-term clean energy
transition. Chinese manufacturing is more carbon-
intensive than that of the United States and other
nations. According to a 2021 study, solar panels
Responding to China’s anti-market
behavior strongly enough to
discourage it is challenging
but essential to the well-being of our
economy and that of our peers.
manufactured in China produce 30 percent more
emissions than those manufactured in the United
States. And, as Matthew C. Klein recently explained,
those who cheer the disparity between Chinese pro-
duction and consumption of clean energy technol-
ogies tend to assume that “the green transition
requires that Chinese workers be exploited.”
Moreover, the geographic concentration of supply
chains increases the risk of disruptions. Thanks to
decades of government support and hundreds of mil-
lions per year in state subsidies, China will soon
produce nearly 95 percent of certain essential solar
panel components — a virtual monopoly. A natural
disaster or geopolitical conflict in the region would
decimate the industry and threaten the energy transi-
tion. There can be trade-offs between costs and supply
chain resilience, but no single country should hold a
monopoly over the manufacture of an essential good.
To some, the answer to China’s overcapacity policy
seems to be resignation. As the Financial Times’s
Rana Foroohar recently wrote: “When it comes from
China, protectionism is understood to be the status
quo. The rest of the world seems to simply accept that
this is the starting point of China’s state capitalism.”
But resignation is not a strategy; it is neither eco-
nomically nor politically sustainable.
Others, even more dangerously, advocate unilater-
al retreat. Former president Donald Trump’s call to
end all essential imports from China within four years
is a cynical fantasy playing on populist fears. In 2022,
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Concerns about sexual assault frequently ended up
centered on the campaign against campus rape;
concerns about economic insecurity became de-
mands for student loan forgiveness; concerns over
the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza have become
arguments about elite university endowments.
To some extent, this is natural. Universities have
concentrated populations of progressive students
whose flexible schedules that can be organized
around political action, and of progressive adminis-
trators who can be expected to smile on these efforts.
But it’s also costly, because 20-year-olds don’t neces-
sarily make the best ambassadors for a cause. The
most passionate, possibly, but not the most strategic.
The best hope that activists have of changing
Israel’s behavior isn’t fiddling with university en-
dowments; it’s changing U.S. government policy on
weapons sales to Israel. The best hope of doing that
lies in convincing ordinary American voters that
policy should change. And as political writer Matt
Yglesias keeps pointing out, “The median voter is a
50-something White person who didn’t go to col-
lege.” Is this protest going to change that person’s
mind?
Hardly. It’s difficult to imagine anything less likely
to appeal to that voter than an unsanctioned tent city
full of belligerent elite college students whose chants
have at least once bordered on the antisemitic.
There’s only one real customer for that sort of
performance: the participants themselves.
U.S. goods and services trade with China amounted to
over $750 billion. It is not practically possible to
decouple from any major economy, let alone our
third-largest trading partner. There are important
benefits from global trade, and unilateral, asymmet-
ric escalation will leave the United States isolated and
vulnerable.
Responding to China’s anti-market behavior
strongly enough to discourage it — and yet not so
strongly as to inadvertently replicate it — is challeng-
ing but essential to the well-being of our economy and
that of our peers.
The right approach is for the United States to build
an international coalition to send a clear message to
China that its current policy choices are neither
acceptable nor sustainable. Other countries are mov-
ing in this direction. In recent months, Brazil has
launched several investigations into the alleged
dumping of Chinese industrial products. Vietnam,
Thailand, South Africa and Mexico have each taken
steps to protect domestic industries from Chinese
exports. The European Union has undertaken an
anti-dumping investigation into Chinese EVs. And
India already has more anti-dumping orders than any
other country.
A global coalition could start with harmonized
tariffs targeting Chinese exports.
These tariffs should focus on areas such as steel,
where manufacturing capacity is already projected to
meet global demand, and clean energy components,
where China’s strategy to dominate the market is
evident and the economic and planetary costs of
concentration are especially acute. In some sectors,
including steel and energy-intensive elements of the
clean energy supply chain, such as polysilicon and
battery chemicals, tariffs could reflect the carbon
content of products to encourage decarbonization as
we move toward more balanced trade. Eventually,
this regime could replace the across-the-board tariffs
the Trump administration imposed on China, which
are too weak in industries with overcapacity and
needlessly hit other sectors.
The United States and the E.U. have been working
on an effort to harmonize external tariffs on steel and
aluminum, but those talks stalled last fall. Washing-
ton should use the Group of Seven and Group of
20 meetings this year to seek broader support for this
approach, including among key emerging economies
such as Brazil and other industrialized economies
such as Canada and Japan. The E.U. should reengage
in these efforts and support a pragmatic framework
that can accommodate a coalition broad enough to
have real impact.
Ultimately, China alone will determine its growth
trajectory. But in the meantime, these steps would
give our industries a level playing field and send a
clear signal to Beijing on the need to reform its
economic policies. We and other concerned nations
have the power — and the obligation — to act.
The writer, an Innovation Fellow at MIT, was director of the
National economic Council from 2021 to 2023.
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Court suggests retrial in case that helped launch #MeToo
WeiNsTeiN From A1
ney’s office pledged in a state-
ment to “do everything in our
power to retry this case, and
remain steadfast in our commit-
ment to survivors of sexual as-
sault.”
Weinstein, 72, will remain in
prison because he also faces a
16-year sentence in a separate
case in California, where he was
convicted in 2022 of rape, forced
oral copulation and sexual mis-
conduct. The New York reversal
— a 4-3 decision — nevertheless
outraged sexual-violence survi-
vors, their advocates and judges
in the minority on the case.
In her dissent, associate judge
madeline Singas wrote that toss-
ing out Weinstein’s conviction
amounted to “whitewashing the
facts to conform to a he-said/she-
said narrative” and “continued a
disturbing trend of overturning
juries’ guilty verdicts in cases
involving sexual violence.”
once one of the most powerful
people in Hollywood, Weinstein
was accused in late 2017 of using
his influence to assault and abuse
women going back decades.
Blockbuster articles in the New
York Times and the New Yorker
were followed by a wave of accu-
sations against other celebrities.
What became known as the #me-
Too movement eventually ex-
panded beyond Hollywood, in-
creasing public attention on sex-
ual abuse and harassment and
sparking prosecutorial efforts
across the country.
Weinstein was originally sen-
tenced to 23 years in prison in the
New York trial. He was convicted
of forcibly performing oral sex on
a former production assistant,
mimi Haleyi, at his apartment in
2006; and of rape in the third
degree for an attack on aspiring
actress Jessica mann at a hotel in
2013.
But like some other #meToo-
era cases, the trial also featured
testimony from women whose
accusations against Weinstein
had not been prosecuted —
known as molineux witnesses af-
ter the landmark decision in Peo-
ple v. Molineux. Taralê Wulff, for
example, told jurors that Wein-
stein had masturbated in front of
Weinstein’s overturned N.Y. conviction likely to stir scrutiny in Trump case
BY M ARK B ERMAN
The New York appeals court’s
stunning decision Thursday to
overturn Harvey Weinstein’s sex-
crimes conviction landed during
the second week of Donald
Trump’s ongoing criminal trial —
and will undoubtedly be closely
examined by the judge oversee-
ing the Trump trial, according to
legal experts.
The Weinstein decision could
offer a potential avenue of appeal
to the former president’s attor-
neys or prompt New York Su-
preme Court Justice Juan mer-
chan to adjust his rulings in the
Trump case in real time, reflect-
ing this newfound direction from
New York’s highest court, the
experts said.
In the Weinstein case, the
appeals court ruled 4-3 that the
former movie producer’s 2020
conviction should be thrown out
because the trial judge allowed
testimony regarding “un-
charged, alleged prior sexual
acts” that were not included in
the criminal charges he faced.
The appeals court also said the
trial judge erred by saying that
Weinstein, if he testified, could
be questioned about a wide
range of other alleged wrongdo-
ing.
merchan has similarly con-
fronted questions about how
much evidence to allow jurors to
hear about Trump’s behavior
with women over time and what
topics he could be asked about on
the stand.
“He doesn’t want to risk a
reversal,” said Stephen Gillers, an
emeritus law professor at New
York University. “The decision
has to factor in and maybe affect
[his] rulings.”
But Cynthia Godsoe, a law
professor at Brooklyn Law
School, said that while merchan
would closely review the deci-
sion, she believed it was unlikely
to impact Trump’s case.
“I’m sure he is scrutinizing it,”
Godsoe said of merchan. But she
said merchan has already been
meticulous about what allega-
tions and evidence he allows into
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles in 2022. Though New York’s Court of Appeals overturned his
2020 rape conviction, Weinstein, now 72, will remain in prison as he faces a 16-year sentence in a separate California case.
her and raped her — alleged
incidents for which he had not
been charged.
In another dissent from Thurs-
day’s reversal, associate judge An-
thony Cannataro said the trial
court was right to let those wom-
en tell their stories, so jurors
could better understand Wein-
stein’s “intent and his knowledge
of their lack of consent.”
But a majority of the appellate
judges disagreed. “We conclude
that the trial court erroneously
admitted testimony of un-
charged, alleged prior sexual acts
against persons other than the
complainants of the underlying
crimes,” associate judge Jenny ri-
vera wrote in the ruling.
Attorney Gloria Allred, who
represented Haleyi and two other
Donald Trump in Manhattan criminal court Thursday. The decision to overturn Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes conviction could offer the
former president’s attorneys a path toward appeal or affect rulings by the judge in Trump’s case, legal experts said.
the trial, putting him on safe
ground.
“The judge has been very care-
ful to keep out stuff that arguably
could go in, but he’s trying to be
really careful, given the context”
of a former president on trial,
Godsoe said. “He’s definitely be-
ing conservative.”
Trump has been charged with
34 counts of falsifying business
records as part of a hush money
scheme to keep the adult-film
actress Stormy Daniels, whose
real name is Stephanie Clifford,
from publicly alleging during the
2016 presidential campaign that
they had an affair. He has plead-
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witnesses in the case against
Weinstein, said in a statement
that her client would consider
testifying again in a retrial.
The ruling caused anguish for
women who spoke out against
Weinstein and raised uncertainty
about other high-profile cases
where witnesses painted defen-
dants as serial predators.
“Preparing for the trial took
two years of my life. I had to relive
the trauma of the assault every
day,” Dawn Dunning, who testi-
fied as a molineux witness in the
New York trial, said in a state-
ment after the reversal.
“Today’s decision is a major
step back in holding those ac-
countable for acts of sexual vio-
lence. Courts routinely admit evi-
dence of other uncharged acts
ed not guilty and also faces three
other prosecutions in Florida,
Georgia and D.C.
Weinstein, like Trump, is a
prominent New Yorker from
Queens who was prosecuted by
the manhattan district attorney’s
office. In 2020, Weinstein was
convicted in New York by jurors
who found that he forced oral sex
on a former production assistant
and raped an aspiring actress. He
was sentenced to 23 years. He
was also convicted in California
in 2022 on counts that included
rape and sentenced to 16 years
behind bars there.
The manhattan district attor-
where they assist juries in under-
standing issues concerning the
intent,” Douglas H. Wigdor, who
has represented eight Weinstein
accusers, said in a statement.
“The jury was instructed on the
relevance of this testimony and
overturning the verdict is tragic
in that it will require the victims
to endure yet another trial.”
Ashley Judd, one of the first
women to accuse Weinstein of
sexual assault in 2017 and whose
sexual harassment lawsuit
against Weinstein was revived by
a federal appeals court in 2020,
wrote on her Instagram Story
that the court’s decision was “un-
fair to survivors. We live in our
truth. We know what happened.”
During a news conference in
New York on Thursday with Judd
ney’s office on Thursday pledged
to retry Weinstein. Cyrus Vance
Jr., who had led that office during
Weinstein’s prosecution, said in a
statement that he was “shocked”
by the court’s decision, saying a
lower court had previously con-
cluded that Weinstein’s trial
judge allowed witness testimony
that was needed and fair.
The appeals court’s decision
hinged on two things: what is
known as “molineux” material,
which deals with evidence of
other alleged crimes not charged
in the case at hand; and “San-
doval” material, which covers
what “bad acts” can be brought
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and other activists, #meToo pio-
neer Tarana Burke said she was
not deterred by the overturning:
“This moment and this decision
actually means that we have a
movement.”
Thursday’s ruling calls back to
another high-profile case of the
#meToo era: the criminal trial
against Bill Cosby, who was re-
leased from prison in 2021 after
the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
ruled that he was wrongly con-
victed of sexually assaulting a
woman. The reversal was based
on a violation of Cosby’s constitu-
tional right to not incriminate
himself, though his attorneys also
argued that “prior bad act wit-
nesses” unfairly prejudiced the
jury during the 2018 trial.
At that time, prosecutors suc-
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up if a defendant chooses to take
the stand and testify.
Godsoe said she thought the
appeals court acted correctly in
the Weinstein case. In that trial,
she said, the “molineux” witness-
es — three women who accused
Weinstein of wrongdoing that
they said took place years before
and after the incidents for which
he was charged, allegations that
were not included in the charges
against him — should not have
been called to testify.
She said the witnesses and
testimony that merchan has so
far signaled he will allow to be
introduced in Trump’s trial
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cessfully filed a motion to invoke
a legal rule known as the “doc-
trine of chances,” which allowed
five more accusers to testify in a
trial that centered on allegations
by just one woman, Andrea Con-
stand.
“The logic of the doctrine of
chances says that the more times
you get a similar kind of story
coming forward from different
people, the greater the likelihood
that story is actually true,” said
Stacey Hannem, a professor of
criminology at Wilfrid Laurier
University in Canada who co-au-
thored a 2022 book that examines
the trial outcomes of sexual vio-
lence cases that were first report-
ed in the media and public spaces.
That reversal sets a precedent,
Hannem said, adding that the
close 4-3 ruling is indicative of
other arguments that could arise
about sexual assaults that occur
outside of the statute of limita-
tions, which often lack physical
evidence.
“This case, I think is going to be
one to watch,” Hannem said.
“There seems to be a sense that …
this deluge of evidence somehow
is not fair to the accused, that he
should be tried on the evidence of
that one singular event only, and
only on the testimony of that one
singular woman he’s alleged to
have assaulted.”
A lawyer for Evgeniya Cherny-
shova, who testified as a witness
in Weinstein’s Los Angeles crimi-
nal case, said in a statement that
his client is “obviously disap-
pointed.”
“However, both she and I are
confident that Weinstein’s Los
Angeles conviction for rape will
be upheld,” said the lawyer, David
ring.
Legal experts said the reversal
in Weinstein’s case could also
have consequences for former
president Donald Trump’s hush
money trial unfolding in manhat-
tan. Some said they expect the
judge in that case — who has also
been asked to consider what oth-
er allegations of wrongdoing
against Trump could be brought
up in court — to carefully review
the Weinstein ruling.
Shayna Jacobs contributed to this
report.
seemed much closer to the crimi-
nal allegations at hand.
merchan last month ruled that
testimony from or discussing
Daniels and Karen mcDougal —
who also alleged a relationship
with Trump — could be allowed.
merchan wrote that “evidence
and testimony surrounding
these individuals is inextricably
intertwined with the narrative of
events and is necessary back-
ground for the jury.”
on the other hand, the judge
found that said instances in
which women accused Trump of
sexual misconduct or assault
cannot be presented to jurors,
describing them as too flimsy
and “very, very prejudicial.” And
he decided that jurors would not
be shown the “Access Holly-
wood” recording, in which
Trump can be heard discussing
grabbing women by their geni-
tals, though he said he would
allow prosecutors to introduce
emails from Trump campaign
officials about the tape.
Judges need to carefully con-
sider what evidence gets intro-
duced, making sure that the
material is relevant and doesn’t
prejudice jurors against a defen-
dant, according to Cheryl Bader,
an associate law professor at
Fordham Law School. merchan
has tried to “thread the needle to
lessen the risk of prejudice in this
case,” Bader wrote in an email,
pointing to his decision on the
“Access Hollywood” video.
But, she wrote, the appeals
court’s ruling in the Weinstein
case offers “a cautionary remind-
er in real time for the Trump
prosecutors and the judge that
bad act evidence can be a risky
proposition that could backfire
on appeal.”
merchan has said that if
Trump testifies, prosecutors can
ask him about issues including a
recent civil court case in which a
judge concluded that he and
others carried out a years-long
financial fraud; his violations of
a gag order in that case; and his
two separate court losses to the
writer E. Jean Carroll, who sued
him for defamation.
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curfew
revived
after fight
begins today at
national harbor
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tive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) an-
nounced on Thursday that she
will reinstate a youth curfew at
National Harbor following a
brawl over the weekend involving
hundreds of teenagers at the pop-
ular shopping and entertainment
destination.
“The incident that we saw this
past weekend, to put it mildly, was
quite troubling,” Alsobrooks said
at the Tanger outlets in National
Harbor, adding that she shares the
frustration of community resi-
dents who want to enjoy their
surroundings without rowdiness.
The curfew will begin Friday at
5 p.m. for unaccompanied minors
age 16 and younger and will be
effective throughout the weekend.
“I want to be clear that this
decision was not made in reaction
to the events of this past week-
end,” she said. “Instead, this past
weekend’s incident confirms what
we’ve been planning for the past
several months. This executive or-
der curfew is just a temporary

‘We’re here to stay’

measure as we finalize a long-
term solution.”
The announcement comes just
days after members of the coun-
ty’s council passed a bill in a com-
mittee meeting to allow retail and
commercial areas to request cur-
few zones, and introduce fines on
Hundreds rally as pro-Palestinian protesters launch an encampment at George Washington University guardians with minors who vio-
late the curfew. Council member
BYE LLIE S ILVERMAN, Edward Burroughs III (D-District
E MILY D AVIES 8), who was present at Thursday’s
AND J USTIN W M. M OYER SEE curfEw oN B3

With signs on protesters’ tents and kaffiyehs

around their necks, the pro-Palestinian en-
campment movement sweeping college cam-
puses nationwide arrived Thursday in the
nation’s capital.
The demonstration, organized by the DMV
coalition of Students for Justice in Palestine,
brought together students, faculty and advo-
cates from across the region to a lawn at
George Washington University. It started with
tents in the wee hours, and by the afternoon it
had swelled to include drums, bullhorns and
hundreds of people. Some called for schools to
cut ties with Israel and protect the free speech
of pro-Palestinian student organizers. Some
chanted for the end of the state of Israel.
The demonstration on GWU’s law campus
remained mostly peaceful through the after-
noon; students near the 30 or so tents read and
typed on their laptops. But anticipation was
building. University officials asked demon-
strators to relocate to a different park and said
the protest could last only until 7 p.m., accord-
ing to an email and a note posted online from
the school. As of 5:30 p.m., the demonstrators
showed no sign of leaving.
“We’re here to stay,” said Mahmoud Bey-
doun, 20, a junior at GWU who is Palestinian.
“We have certain demands, and we want them
to be heard and met.”
SEE PrOTEsTErs oN B2
Wright will
continue to
lead Md.
schools
BY N ICOLE A SBURY
The Maryland State Board of
Education on Wednesday ap-
pointed Carey Wright, a former
Mississippi schools chief who
started her career in the D.C.
region, to serve as the next state
superintendent of schools.
Wright, the current interim
state superintendent, will be
charged with steering the De-
Robb Hill foR tHe WasHington Post
partment of Education as it im-
TOP: A pro-Palestinian encampment at george washington university in D.c. on Thursday, part of a plements the Blueprint for Mary-
growing national movement of protests on college campuses. ABOVE: Members of the georgetown land’s Future, a landmark educa-
university faculty lead students on a march to join the protest at gwu. tion law that funnels billions into
public schools in hopes of making
the state’s education system one
of the best in the nation.
“Growing up in Maryland and
spending a majority of my career
in Maryland, I knew how good

She never wanted an abortion, but she needed one to save her life our schools were, and I also know
how much better we can be,”
Wright said after the vote.
Joshua Michael, the board
Away from the abortion care was being heard never wanted to come to “That’s Washington.” decisions and debates taking member who chaired the search
crowd, the inside. Washington. “To heck with politics.” place more than 1,000 miles committee, said that 26 people
dueling speakers, “I just knew being here today, Heck, she barely voted. “Those activists.” away from her home in completed an application for the
the yelling, the it’s the right thing to do,” she And never specifically on this It matters. Missouri, the March for Life, the job, but “the board coalesced
chants and a five- said, after telling a large crowd issue — abortion. “I live in a pretty conservative pink hats, the rancor over this strongly” around Wright.
piece brass band outside that court about her “I’ve always believed that area,” Farmer said, days before issue, reached into her life and Michael — who is also vice
Petula that underscored harrowing night, pinballing everyone has a right to their she headed east and opened ravaged it. president of the state board —
dvorak the chaotic scene across three states, her amniotic own decisions,” she said. herself up to becoming a figure “Back in August of 2022, I added that Wright had “extensive
with a steady fluid leaking, her fetus being “But for my own personal in this polarizing issue. “And I’d was about 18 weeks pregnant,” experience as an education lead-
beat, Mylissa Farmer finally crushed in her womb, her body beliefs? I did not believe in say 95 percent of [the people Farmer began her speech, a hint er, both in Maryland and nation-
exhaled in the shade of a red headed toward sepsis, trying to doing that.” here] aren’t even consciously of ozark in her voice as she ally in public schools,” and a
oak tree. find a hospital that wasn’t too Farmer’s reluctant visit to aware that something like this described how “excited” and “track record of championing re-
“I never spoke in public bound up by politics to give her Washington is a call to the could happen.” “overjoyed” she and her partner form.”
before,” said Farmer, who had care. shoulder-shruggers of America When apolitical, quiet Farmer were about the pregnancy. In Maryland, the State Board
made her debut minutes earlier Farmer, unlike many of the to listen. To engage. To was pregnant — and delighted But a day after a routine visit of Education hires the superin-
on Wednesday afternoon, before activists, politicians, lobbyists understand. to have a baby she was going to to the doctor, “I woke up and tendent, and the governor ap-
the steps of the U.S. Supreme and lawyers who take a grand It’s too easy to dismiss the name for the Irish warrior had a gush of fluid come out,” points members to that board.
Court as a case about emergency stand in the nation’s capital, debate with a scowl: queen, Maeve — the political SEE DVOrAk oN B3 SEE wrighT oN B6
B2
the District
Rosemount Center, landlord announce deal to stay open
BY L AUREN L UMPKIN
The rosemount Center, a bilin-
gual preschool and day care, will
remain open at its mount Pleas-
ant location for two more years,
the school and its landlord an-
nounced in a statement on Thurs-
day, wrapping up a months-long
saga that threatened to leave hun-
dreds of D.C. families scrambling
for child care next year.
The long-awaited agreement
also includes an option for rose-
mount to purchase the property
from House of mercy, a nonprofit
organization with historical ties
to the Episcopal Church, after the
lease extension is up, although it
is unclear for how much. officials
also did not disclose details about
how much would be charged in
rent but said they plan to share
details after formalizing the deal
in legal documents.
“rosemount Center and House
Hundreds converge at GWU in support of Gaza
PROTESTERS from B1
GWU President Ellen m. Gran-
berg, in emails to the school
Thursday, said she had requested
the assistance of D.C. police offi-
cers after “multiple instructions
made by GWPD to relocate to an
alternative demonstration site on
campus went unheeded by en-
campment participants.”
“We will not allow students
from other local colleges or unaf-
filiated individuals to trespass on
our campus,” she said in the state-
ment. “We can and will enforce
the time, place, and manner re-
strictions that continue to govern
activities on our campus.”
By 4:45 p.m., dozens of police
officers were stationed near cam-
pus. They were located blocks
away from the protest, where
demonstrators were relaxing on
the grass, chatting and eating piz-
za.
meanwhile on Thursday, police
confronted protesters at college
campuses across the country —
deploying a stun gun at Emory
University in Atlanta and arrest-
ing more than 100 people at Em-
erson College in Boston. The stu-
dent movement has taken off in
the week since Columbia Univer-
sity deployed New York police
officers to arrest protesters occu-
pying its lawn. Students and fac-
ulty protesting in D.C. on Thurs-
day cited the activists at Columbia
as inspiration.
At GWU, a campus located in
the heart of downtown Washing-
ton, student outrage over the war
in Gaza had been building since
the oct. 7 attack. In october, Stu-
dents for Justice in Palestine pro-
jected images on a library saying
“End the siege on Gaza” and “GW
the blood of Palestine is on your
hands.” The university suspended
the student group in November,
the school newspaper, the GW
Hatchet, reported, a move many
students saw as unfair treatment
of those who criticize Israel.
Beydoun, who is studying in-
ternational relations, said stu-
dent organizers at GWU had been
following videos of death and de-
struction in Gaza for months,
wrestling with feelings of despair
and a desire to make change.
many of them were Palestinian,
he said, and had family or friends
in Gaza.
Since the war began, at least
34,305 people have been killed
and 77,293 injured in Gaza, ac-
cording to the Gaza Health minis-
try, which says the majority of the
dead are women and children.
Israel estimates that about 1,200
people were killed in the oct. 7
attack by Hamas.
The GWU students ultimately
formed a coalition with regional
Students for Justice in Palestine
chapters, and together they orga-
nized marches and sit-ins. Then,
they watched as Columbia Uni-
versity students launched an en-
campment and brought even
more attention to Gaza. Beydoun
said they knew they needed to do
the same. And they knew that if
they could pull it off in the nation’s
capital, they’d show just how unit-
ed they were in their demands.
“We’ve been very mentally
strained and we found a way to do
it,” he said. “It was the networking
power. It was the student power.”
Grace Chinowsky, 20, the in-
coming editor in chief of the
Hatchet, woke up at 6:30 Thurs-
day morning to a call from one of
The Guide to Offers
of mercy greatly appreciate the
outpouring of support from all
aspects of the community,” the
groups said in the statement.
The agreement comes two
months after the child-care center
told its staff and families that
House of mercy would not extend
its lease for another year, forcing
the school to shutter in August.
for 20 years, the school paid
House of mercy $1 per year in rent.
But that deal was no longer
financially sustainable, according
to House of mercy, which said it
informed rosemount two years
ago that its lease would not be
extended. families, however, said
they did not learn about the
school’s possible closure until
february — sparking confusion
and anger among the roughly 240
families who attend.
Vernon Kelley, chairman of the
rosemount Center board, said in
an interview monday that there
TOP: Students and faculty members protest at Georgetown
University on Thursday. ABOVE: The encampment at George
Washington University includes about 30 tents.
her reporters.
“It’s happening,” the reporter
told her.
“Let’s go,” she replied.
She ripped off a piece of blue
tape, wrote “PrESS,” fastened it to
her jacket, and arrived to find
tents erected on University Lawn,
a field in the middle of her school’s
law school campus.
By 9:30 a.m., she was parked
with her laptop on a nearby
bench, chronicling the demon-
stration with a team of student
journalists. They watched as a
group of about a dozen people
banged drums and led chants
from the H Street sidewalk.
Through bullhorns, the demon-
strators called for a cease-fire, an
end to all aid to Israel, and the
restoration of Palestinian borders
to what they were in 1948, before
the state of Israel was established.
“We don’t want two states,” a
demonstrator said. “We’re taking
back ’48.”
About a dozen people echoed
the chant, holding signs that said
“End the occupation now.”
A few feet away, two George
Washington University police of-
ficers watched the demonstra-
tion. one had an AirPod in and
sipped his coffee.
“Among many, many students
on campus, especially those here
today, there is a strong feeling of
injustice,” Chinowsky said. “Both
about the violence happening
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were instances over the past two
years when rosemount leaders
tried to arrange meetings or pro-
pose other options to House of
mercy and “it took a while for
them to respond.”
Still, news of the closure was
shocking to families, some of
whom had put their names on
waitlists before their children
were even born, they said. In a
mount Pleasant neighborhood
that has gotten Whiter and
wealthier, rosemount has been
described as the area’s most socio-
economically diverse early-child-
hood center — most of its students
live below the federal poverty line.
In the weeks since the lease
expiration was announced, staff,
families and community mem-
bers had urged school leaders to
find a way to keep rosemount
open. Earlier this month, dozens
rallied outside the school with
colorful signs reading “Save rose-
Jordan tovin for the Washington Post
abroad in Gaza, and also how
university officials have chosen to
respond to it.”
She stressed that there is a long
tradition on campus of students
advocating in support of Pales-
tine, even before the oct. 7 attack.
She said that she recognized class-
mates and professors in attend-
ance Thursday but speculated
that at least some people demon-
strating on the sidewalk — which
is located just outside of GWU’s
property — may not be enrolled at
the school.
About 10 a.m., a man who said
he was a university student
walked into the crowd holding an
Israeli flag above his head. A
school police officer stepped into
the crowd, apparently trying to
separate the pro-Israel demon-
strator from the swarm of people
around him, who chanted “from
the river to the sea, Palestine will
be free.”
Police then seemed to want the
man to leave the area — to which
he responded by holding up his
flag, shaking his head and saying
to police, “This is my campus.”
Police momentarily stepped back,
before the man appeared to push
or make contact with a pro-Pales-
tinian demonstrator in front of
him.
At that point, the officers
forced the man away from the
demonstration and into a univer-
sity building, with his hands be-
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mount” and “We love our teach-
ers.”
After robert W. marsteller,
president of House of mercy,
wrote in a letter to the D.C. Coun-
cil that an offer was made to lease
the property for a year at a market
rate of $500,000 — along with an
option to buy the property — par-
ents quickly organized a pledge
drive that raised $230,000 in few-
er than 48 hours, according to
Steve Dean, who has two children
at the school.
Local lawmakers also got
involved. D.C. Council member
Brianne K. Nadeau (D-Ward 1)
introduced a bill to authorize
mayor muriel E. Bowser (D) to
acquire rosemount Center and
another property in mount Pleas-
ant to expand facilities for early-
childhood education.
Justin Wm. Moyer contributed to this
report.
robb hill for the Washington Post
hind his back.
Around the same time about
two miles away, a group of pro-
testers gathered on the steps of
Healy Hall at Georgetown Univer-
sity. They chanted “free, free Pal-
estine” and cautioned those gath-
ered not to speak with police or
the media.
Around 11:30, the protesters
wound their way through the
neighborhood’s cobblestone
streets, headed to meet up with
fellow protesters at GW. Briefly
blocking traffic on m Street, they
chanted “Israel is a terror state”
and “Down, down, Genocide Joe”
as passing cars honked in sup-
port.
Just before 12:15 p.m., the
group arrived on the GWU cam-
pus to cheers from people around
the tents. The two groups chanted
in unison, “There is only one solu-
tion, intifada revolution.”
At the encampment a few
hours later, fida Adely, an associ-
ate professor of anthropology at
Georgetown, linked hands with
other faculty and staff from area
universities. They formed a hu-
man chain around the tents.
“We may not be the ones hold-
ing encampments, but we need to
be here to support our students
who are really willing to kind of
suspend their studies, suspend
their academic lives, and be out
here to fight against the geno-
cide,” Adely said, dressed in a light
blue regalia gown from her alma
mater, Columbia. “This is a turn-
ing point in our history.”
As the university’s deadline for
clearing the yard approached,
three counterprotesters holding
Israeli flags stood about 20 yards
from the encampment.
Dylan Lyman, a GWU senior
from Long Island who was hold-
ing one of the flags, said he
showed up to demonstrate
against some of the chants he
heard.
“We’re Zionists,” he said. “We
think Israel should exist.”
Lyman said he recognized
classmates on the other side of the
yard and hoped the division over
the war would not end friend-
ships.
Clarence Williams contributed to this
report.
the washington post
The Rosemount Center will stay open for two years, with an option
for the day care to purchase the property once the extension is up.
the District
Mayor’s vision for Anacostia
yields development in area
BY M ICHAEL B RICE- S ADDLER
Before cutting the ribbon on
the D.C. Department of Housing
and Community Development’s
new Anacostia headquarters
Thursday, mayor muriel E. Bows-
er recalled the time 10 years ago
when she first inquired about the
spot — a formerly vacant parcel of
land near martin Luther King
Avenue and the street once
known as Good Hope road SE.
“They said, ‘The District owns
it,’” said Bowser, who was run-
ning her first mayoral campaign.
“And I made a commitment to
myself that if I had the opportu-
nity to be mayor, we would not
only say that we would change
this intersection, that we would
actually do it.”
Bowser doubled down on that
promise in her State of the Dis-
trict address the next year, vow-
ing to support the historically
underserved Ward 8 neighbor-
hood by “reimagining” its Gate-
way. on Thursday, after four years
and two phases of development,
Bowser sounded a celebratory
note.
“I want to acknowledge that we
are here delivering on another
promise to Ward 8,” the mayor
said.
for Bowser (D) and her admin-
istration, completing the mLK
Gateway project marks the latest
in recent developments that, un-
der her watch, have helped re-
shape an area containing two of
Anacostia’s busiest corridors, in-
cluding the bustling Good Hope
road SE that was recently re-
named marion Barry Avenue.
In 2017, Bowser helped bring
the first Starbucks to the ward.
Ensuing years saw the arrival of a
Busboys and Poets and other res-
taurants to a community that still
has just a fraction of the sit-down
eateries that are staples else-
where in the city. In 2022, Ward 8
welcomed its first-ever urgent
care center, and earlier this
month, Bowser cut the ribbon at
D.C. Health’s new headquarters
there — part of a collective effort
to direct more city resources east
of the Anacostia river and help
fortify the area’s economy.
But as Bowser and others
spoke Thursday on the roof of the
DHCD’s new headquarters, there
was a shared understanding that
these new developments were
only a step toward rectifying dec-
ades of disinvestment. Local busi-
ness owners who attended the
celebration said that while they
are excited about the rapid devel-
opment, they expressed concern
about what the new amenities
could eventually mean for the
neighborhood’s affordability.
“To walk this corridor even in
the last three years and see the
change is mind-blowing. But then
in another three to four years,
what you see now is just going to
be even better,” said Darrell Gas-
ton, founder of Kitchen Savages, a
Southern cuisine restaurant that
opened on marion Barry last year.
“So my commitment is that while
we welcome the new owners, new
businesses, new residents, that
we make sure those that have
sustained through this time have
a piece of the pie.”
Gaston, who was born and
raised in Anacostia, is hoping to
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Justin WM. Moyer/the Washington Post
open another restaurant about
two blocks away in october. He
explained that he runs his busi-
ness with the knowledge that
some of his Anacostia neighbors
need a boost. So he hires locally,
with a focus on residents who are
returning from prison. He
praised targeted city programs
like the Nourish DC Collaborative
and Neighborhood Prosperity
fund that helped him start and
expand his business, and he seeks
to educate others about the op-
portunities available.
for example, he said, the De-
partment of Housing and Com-
munity Development has pro-
grams for aspiring homeowners.
And the city’s Employment Ser-
vices agency hosts job centers and
hiring fairs. The D.C. Infrastruc-
ture Academy, based in nearby
Barry farm, helps train residents
in industries like energy and con-
struction. And grant programs
are available to those interested
in starting a business like he did.
City officials have said that relo-
cating major agencies like D.C.
Health to Ward 8 will make it
even easier to get residents there
resources that can help them.
Still, Gaston said that the com-
munity’s transformation and new
amenities could pose a threat to
residents who are already strug-
gling to afford D.C.’s high cost of
living.
“There’s some parts of change
where people may be forced to
move out, you might have gentri-
fication, those types of things,” he
said. “But then we have to do a
much better job of connecting
people to resources, opportuni-
ties.”
Nina Albert, D.C.’s deputy may-
or for planning and economic
development, said in an inter-
view that bringing new amenities
to an underresourced area, while
also maintaining its authenticity
and preventing displacement, is a
true challenge for the city. But to
help mitigate displacement, she
said, the District’s focus must
remain on creating affordably
priced housing opportunities for
residents in the ward.
“When you’re coming in at the
ground floor thinking about
those things, you can make sure
that you don’t let the market
forces get away from you,” she
said.
ron moten, an activist who last
year broke ground on Anacostia’s
Go-Go museum and Cafe, said
that being priced out is a real
concern. He described a friend
who recently bought a home in
the neighborhood and saw his
property taxes increase by $300
in one year.
moten said the D.C. Council
should explore legislation that
could help residents and busi-
nesses avoid being pushed out as
the area gets more expensive —
similar to a bill passed years ago
by council member Anita Bonds
(D-At Large) to protect low-in-
come seniors from rising proper-
ty taxes and the cost of living.
“I think we’ve got an opportu-
nity to do it right: You can make
things better without pushing the
people out who wanted to be here
when nobody else did,” he said.
“When you do that, sometimes
you can make the growth bal-
anced.”
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Petula Dvorak
Struggle to obtain lifesaving care turns apolitical woman into a reluctant activist
dvorak fRom B1
she said, as a crowd filled with
at least two dozen emergency
room doctors in white coats
listened, nodding,
understanding where she was
going with this.
meanwhile, a
counterprotester in a hot pink
dress and silver sandals said
into a sound system cranked to
compete with farmer’s story
that she was “sorry” for the pain
of women denied abortion care.
farmer, 43, is low key. She’s
not on social media, she works a
boring job in customer service,
she wore a shirt to the rally with
the face of her fur-baby, an
Australian shepherd named
mayhem. She took a breath and
continued.
“We went to the ER for
the District
Three killed in shootings,
ending nine-day respite
BY P ETER H ERMANN
Two men and a teenager were
killed in separate shootings
across the District on Wednesday
night into early Thursday, end-
ing a nine-day respite from dead-
ly violence in the city, according
to D.C. police.
The shootings occurred over
less than two hours in Woodland
Terrace in Southeast, Petworth in
Northwest and Deanwood in
Northeast. In Petworth, police
said the man who died was
among three people who were
shot at a single location.
D.C. Police Cmdr. Kevin Kent-
ish, who heads the homicide
unit, said no arrests have been
made in the shootings. He said
the three killings are not relat-
ed.
“There’s a lot of information
we don’t have at this moment,”
Kentish said at a news confer-
ence, adding police “are throw-
ing everything we can to make
sure that this is not normal.”
Before Wednesday night, the
last homicide in D.C. occurred
April 14, when a 15-year-old girl
was fatally shot outside an
apartment complex in South-
east Washington. Killings in
D.C., which reached a two-
decade high in 2023, have
dropped 24 percent since Janu-
ary, compared with the same
time last year.
D.C. police said the first in the
latest spate of killings occurred
about 10:45 p.m. on Wednesday
in the 2300 block of Ainger Place
SE in Woodland Terrace. Police
said Quentin Brown, 17, of South-
east, died at a hospital.
In a report, police said officers
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testing,” farmer continued.
Doctors confirmed that her
water broke and that her
pregnancy would not survive.
They told her she was at risk
of “serious infection, sepsis,
blood clots and hemorrhaging,”
she said to the crowd. “They
even warned me that I could
lose my uterus and die.”
But those same doctors,
overruled by the legal
departments at their hospitals,
told her she would have to leave
her home state to get care.
missouri completely banned
abortion in June 2022, around
the time farmer got pregnant.
And because a fetal heartbeat
was still detected, the doctors in
PetuLa Dvorak/the Washington Post
missouri said they couldn’t take
Mylissa Farmer, 43, came from any emergency action.
Missouri to speak outside the So she and her partner — now
U.S. Supreme Court this week. her husband — drove across the
Alsobrooks brings back youth curfew at harbor
CUrFEw fRom B1
news conference, introduced the
bill last week, but the council up-
graded it to an emergency bill
were alerted by ShotSpotter, de- following the incident at National
vices that detect sounds of gun- Harbor. The legislation is up for
shots, and found Brown along introduction Tuesday and will be
the street. subsequently scheduled for a pub-
He is the fifth person under lic hearing and a final vote. Also-
the age of 18 fatally shot in the brooks’s order will be in place
District this year. one other until the emergency bill takes ef-
victim was 17, one was 15 and two fect.
were 14. About 800 teens swarmed Na-
Efforts to reach Brown’s rela- tional Harbor last weekend, with
tives were not successful. “fighting, shoplifting, smoking
Police said that shortly after cannabis” and confrontations
midnight, they responded to with business owners, Prince
10th Street and Spring Road George’s County Police Chief ma-
NW after people heard gun- lik Aziz said. Authorities arrested
shots. Police said they found at least three people that day, in-
three people with gunshot cluding one adult, Aziz said.
wounds. They said a woman There has been a broader push
and a teenage male were taken to address juvenile crime in the
to a hospital with injuries that D.C. suburb, which is one of many
did not appear to be life-threat- jurisdictions grappling with an
ening, and a man was pro- uptick in youth violence. for three
nounced dead on the scene. years, more adolescents than
Police said the man who died adults have been arrested on car-
was 25 years old. They did not jacking charges in the county. Last
release his name, saying they year, 92 juveniles were arrested —
hadn’t reached relatives. sometimes on school grounds —
Posts on social media cap- on suspicion of possessing a gun,
tured dozens of gunshots picked according to county police depart-
up on home surveillance camer- ment data. on the afternoon of
as. A police report said three April 19, five teens were shot and
vehicles and a house were hit by injured in a Prince George’s Coun-
gunfire. ty park where hundreds of stu-
Kentish said the number of dents from multiple high schools
shots fired in this incident dem- had gathered on “senior skip day.”
onstrates there are “just too Alsobrooks, who is running for
many guns out here on the the U.S. Senate, noted that this
streets in the hands of the isn’t the first time that a curfew
wrong people.” A police report has been implemented for Nation-
said a gun was recovered at the al Harbor. In 2022, the county
scene. renewed enforcement of its juve-
About 12:30 a.m., police said, nile curfew after logging one of
Ricky Canty, 38, of Temple Hills, the deadliest months for homi-
md., was shot in the 4500 block cides in Prince George’s history.
of Sheriff Road NE, near the According to county police de-
maryland line in the Deanwood partment data, from Sept. 10,
neighborhood. Police said he 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, there
died at a hospital. were 11 curfew-related incidents
and 15 curfew warnings issued.
The police department will in-
crease its personnel numbers at
National Harbor, though Aziz de-
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clined to say how many officers
were assigned to the harbor before
last weekend and how many will
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“It was surreal,” she told me. Center filed a complaint about personhood, the ethics of
“The fear, the pain, the disbelief farmer’s case with the Centers airlifting women in helicopters,
that we’re losing our daughter. I for medicare and medicaid as though they were in a war
couldn’t believe that all of this Services. zone, to get them to hospitals
was happening.” The federal investigation that willing to do the medical
When they got to Kansas, she followed determined that procedures that may save their
heard the same refrain. freeman Hospital West in lives.
“They told me that it was too Joplin, mo., and the University outside, farmer was glad to
politically heated in this of Kansas Health System in be done and eager to see the
environment right now to give Kansas City, Kan., failed to sights of Washington on her
me my health care,” she said. provide farmer the medical care first trip to the nation’s capital.
She called a local politician she needed in violation of the She had lost her pregnancy,
for help. He sent her to a false- Emergency medical Treatment her home, her health insurance
front abortion clinic, the kind of and Active Labor Act. and her fertility in this long,
place that exists to persuade And that’s what the court was emotional and legal fight. She
women not to have abortions debating on Wednesday, had long conversations with her
after luring them in with whether the 40-year-old act husband about whether she
misleading advertisements. preempts the new ban on should go public with her story.
She finally got the health care abortions that some states, in With the rally behind her, she
she needed in Illinois, at an this case Idaho, have adopted. was glad she had come to
abortion clinic. It was a two-day Inside, conservative justices Washington.
race across state lines to save were skeptical of the law’s “I just wanted it to mean
her life. reach. They argued about something,” she said.
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Prince George’s County Executive angela d. alsobrooks (d) in Capitol Heights in october 2021.
be present going forward. toring programs and our wrap- bias and could strain families by
“When you come into the har- around services, we’re falling fining parents, particularly those
bor, there will be no excuse for short.” with lower incomes.
saying you did not know,” he said. As with the enforcement of pre- “Criminalizing the innocent be-
“We’ll have upwards of 12 messen- vious curfews, members of the havior of children is fundamental-
ger boards that you can see when community cautioned that offer- ly ineffective. Studies show that
you enter in into the harbor from ing more robust resources to serve curfew laws do nothing to deter
the freeway.” youths would be more important. crime or to protect young people,”
Approximately 30 percent of Na- “We acknowledge a problem ex- Amanuel said in a statement.
tional Harbor’s revenue is generat- ists, but we continue to prioritize Alsobrooks and Aziz were firm
ed on weekends, Alsobrooks said. punishments instead of services,” that curfews have worked in
Prince George’s County received Dawn Dalton, a member of the Prince George’s County before.
$3 million in revenue from the Prince George’s Police Account- In roughly the first three
state in march for mGm National ability Coalition, said in a state- months of 2023, violent crime
Harbor operations’ video lottery ment. “our county cannot crimi- during curfew hours decreased
terminal and table game local tax- nalize our children and parents compared with the same time in
es, according to a county report. while promoting incarceration, 2022, but certain crimes such as
“Here’s the simple truth: If visi- fines, and fees that only make it assaults and robberies increased,
tors do not feel safe coming to the harder for families to survive. according to police data. The po-
National Harbor … our state and Let’s start providing funding to lice department had contacts with
our county will suffer,” Alsobrooks trusted youth advocacy and men- 316 juveniles during curfew hours
said. torship organizations that create from Jan. 1, 2023, to march 22,
National Harbor does need to safe spaces for our children to 2023, and issued 43 warnings. Po-
be a peaceful area, but more work express themselves in a creative lice also arrested 12 who were
is needed to help youths in the and supportive manner.” violating curfew at the time, in-
county, Burroughs told The Wash- Yanet Amanuel, public policy cluding two arrests for armed car-
ington Post in an interview. director at the American Civil Lib- jacking and six for stolen vehicles.
“Simply pushing them out of the erties Union in maryland, said “Nobody is saying that a curfew
harbor is not going to fix those that the organization opposes cures crime,” Alsobrooks said. “It’s
societal issues that are deeply em- child curfews and that the en- one tool. … None of us believe that
bedded within our own communi- forcement “shifts limited police doing nothing is right. We believe
ties,” he said. “This is a first step, but resources away from crime pre- that it is absolutely not an option
if we don’t also invest in our men- vention,” draws concern of racial not to do anything.”
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TRinA Robbins, 85
Put out first U.S. comic book created entirely by women
BY H ARRISON S MITH
Trina Robbins, a cartoonist,
writer and editor who helped
make room for women in the
male-dominated world of Ameri-
can comics, creating books and
anthologies with sophisticated
female characters and an un-
abashedly feminist perspective,
died April 10 at a hospital in San
Francisco. She was 85.
The cause was a stroke, said
her daughter, Casey Robbins.
Ms. Robbins was one of the
most prolific and acclaimed
women to come out of the under-
ground comix movement of the
late 1960s and ’70s, when cre-
ators such as Robert Crumb, Gil-
bert Shelton and S. Clay Wilson
thrilled readers with taboo-
breaking work that was by turns
psychedelic, violent, sexual and
political — a stark departure from
the mainstream fare found in
Sunday newspaper sections or on
display racks stocked with tales of
muscle-bound superheroes.
Describing herself as “a story-
teller, not a humorist,” Ms. Rob-
bins explored issues of gender,
sexuality and politics, often draw-
ing on her love of ancient cul-
tures, science fiction and mythi-
cal goddesses. Her work found
plenty of male readers, although
she wrote for a female audience,
aiming to tell the kind of stories
that she had once sought out as a
young girl in Queens.
“From day one, she looked at
the comics that were being pub-
lished and she asked herself
which stories weren’t being told,
who felt they weren’t being seen
by publishers, and she did what-
ever she could to remedy that,
both as an artist and as an editor
and publisher of anthology titles,”
said Andrew Farago, curator of
the Cartoon Art Museum in San
Francisco.
Although she spent much of
her childhood writing, drawing
and reading comics, Ms. Robbins
took a circuitous path to the art
form as an adult. For much of her
20s, she designed clothes in Los
Angeles and New York, where she
befriended Jim Morrison,
dressed folk and rock musicians
including Donovan, Cass Elliot
and David Crosby, and inspired a
verse in Joni Mitchell’s song “La-
dies of the Canyon”:
Trina wears her wampum
beads, she fills her drawing book
with lines
Sewing lace on widow’s weeds
and filigree on leaf and vine
Vine and leaf are filigree and
her coat’s a secondhand one
Trimmed with antique luxury,
she is a lady of the canyon
Gradually, she became more
interested in comics than the
velvet minidresses and ruffled
shirts she was known for design-
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Ms. Robbins worked with fellow cartoon artist Barbara “Willy”
Mendes to produce “It Ain’t Me, Babe” in 1970.
“She looked at the
comics that were being
published and she
asked herself which
stories weren’t being
told, who felt they
weren’t being seen by
publishers, and she
did whatever she could
to remedy that.”
Andrew Farago,
curator of the Cartoon Art Museum
in San Francisco
Ohio State University’s Billy Ire-
land Cartoon Library & Museum,
“and through these anthology
comics she provided a platform
for voices that had been histori-
iMAgeS CourteSy oF FAntAgrAphiCS cally marginalized.”
Trina Robbins in the window of her Manhattan boutique, Broccoli, which she ran in the late 1960s. Over the next few decades, she
Before devoting herself to comics art, Ms. Robbins designed clothes, dressing musicians including bounced between the comics un-
Donovan, Cass Elliot and David Crosby. She also inspired a verse in a Joni Mitchell song. derground and the industry’s
mainstream. She edited “Wet Sat-
ing, and fell in with a community gest-running comics anthology in” (1976), a collection of women’s
of feminist activists and cartoon- created entirely by women. erotica; became the first woman
ists after moving to San Francisco Launched by Ms. Robbins and an to draw a full issue of Wonder
in 1969. initial team of nine other collabo- Woman, in 1986; created a Marvel
Working with fellow cartoonist rators in 1972, the series lasted 20 comics character, Misty, geared
Barbara “Willy” Mendes, she pro- years and featured work by cel- toward young women; and co-
duced “It Ain’t Me, Babe” (1970),
the first American comic book to
be produced entirely by women.
The cover was emblazoned with
ebrated cartoonists including
Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Di-
ane Noomin.
Its first issue featured a story
founded Friends of Lulu, a non-
profit organization that promot-
ed the reading and creation of
comics by women.
the words “Women’s Liberation”
above a parade of classic female
cartoon characters raising their
fists: Olive Oyl, Wonder Woman,
Mary Marvel, Little Lulu, Sheena
by Ms. Robbins, “Sandy Comes
Out,” that was inspired by the
coming-out of her roommate San-
dy — Crumb’s sister — and was
believed to be the first non-por-
By the early ’90s, she had
shifted her focus to writing, con-
ducting research on overlooked
female cartoonists including Nell
Brinkley, June Tarpé Mills and
of the Jungle, Elsie the Cow. nographic comic to feature an Lily Renée — partly out of irrita-
The comic book became a hit, openly lesbian character. tion that men just wanted “to
reportedly selling 40,000 copies Ms. Robbins “understood and write about Jack Kirby,” the cre-
over three printings, and laid the bolstered the importance of col- ator of comic book heroes like
groundwork for “Wimmen’s Co- lective work between women,” Captain America and the Incredi-
mix,” considered to be the lon- said Caitlin McGurk, a curator at ble Hulk.
“I didn’t know about the wom-
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of Queens College — “partially
due to my amazing inability to
pass math,” she said — and lasted
a year at Cooper Union in Man-
hattan, where she briefly studied
drawing.
By the early 1960s, she had
moved to Los Angeles, where she
posed nude for men’s magazines
before marrying an editor, Paul
Jay Robbins, who bought her a
sewing machine and inspired her
to start making clothes. The mar-
riage didn’t last, but Ms. Robbins
soon found success as a designer
and retailer, and started a bou-
tique called Broccoli after she
moved to the East Village of
Manhattan in 1966.
The name, she explained in an
oral history for the University of
California at Berkeley, was in-
spired by “a fit of stoned hilarity”
in which she “decided that I could
talk to broccoli.”
Ms. Robbins ran the shop
while contributing cartoons to an
alternative newspaper, the East
Village Other; she had an in
through an old friend, Hollywood
chronicler Eve Babitz, who was
working as the paper’s managing
editor.
One of her early coups as a
cartoonist came in 1969, when
she developed the seductive one-
piece costume for Vampirella, a
bloodsucking superhero created
by Forrest J. Ackerman.
But from the start of her career
as a cartoonist, she said, she felt
shut out by her male peers, who
excluded her from parties as well
as comic anthologies that helped
draw wider attention to their
work. “There are very few fields
as heavily male,” she once told the
Los Angeles Times. “Maybe the
only equivalent is the fire depart-
ment.”
Ms. Robbins became a fierce
critic of peers such as Crumb,
calling out pieces like a three-
page 1970 story in which Crumb
imagined himself strangling a
female television interviewer. “I
think that a lot of these guys
simply were misogynist,” she told
the pop culture website Vulture
in 2018. “It turned out what a lot
of these guys, what they had in
their head was very vicious stuff,
very violent stuff.”
In addition to her daughter,
from a relationship with cartoon-
ist Kim Deitch, survivors include
her partner since 1977, comics
inker Steve Leialoha; her sister;
and a granddaughter.
Ms. Robbins was inducted into
the Will Eisner Comic Industry
Awards Hall of Fame in 2013. She
was still writing in recent years,
putting out books that included
the 2017 volumes “A Minyen Yidn:
A Bunch of Jews (And Other
Stuff ),” a graphic novel adapted
from a book of Yiddish stories by
her father, and “Last Girl Stand-
ing,” a memoir.
By then, she was delighted to
see a new generation of female
writers and artists getting recog-
nized for their comics. “The mi-
sogyny is still there,” she told The
Washington Post, “but to counter
it, we have smart, young, feminist
women on the internet raising
their collective voices when they
find sexism — and their voices are
heard! It’s kinda nice not to be a
lone voice crying in the wilder-
ness anymore.”
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IN MEMORIAM
CANNON
CHARLES K. CANNON “Bucky”
April 26, 1958 - April 26, 2024
Honey, it would’ve been 66 years for us.
But our love for each other still lives on.
Until we are together again.
Happy Anniversary to my wonderful love.
Loving Littte Wife, Myra XOXOXO
DEATH NOTICE
HOWARD
CARMALITA ULRICIA HOWARD
Carmalita U. Howard, 73, passed away
Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at her home in
Berwyn Heights, MD. She is survived by her
adult son, Cameron. Her body was cremat-
ed; no funeral/memorial services will be
held at the wishes of the deceased.
MURRAY
J. RAYMOND MURRAY MWPGM
Members of Naomi Chapter
No. 9, OES, PHA, are notified
of the death of MWPGM J. Ray-
mond Murray. Wake, Visitation
and Masonic Services, Mon-
day, April 29, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
OES Service 6 p.m. at Marshall Marsh Fu-
neral Home, 4308 Suitland Road, Suitland,
MD. Tuesday, April 30, Visitation 10 a.m. to
11 a.m. Celebration of Life 11 a.m. at Gal-
braith AME Zion Church, 1114 6th Street
NW, Washington, DC.
Rahshell M. Crooks, WM
Marcus M. Crooks, Sr., WP
Dorothy J. Reese, Secretary
HARDWICK
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DR. CHARLEY D. HARDWICK
June 15, 1937-February 18, 2024
Dr. Charley D. Hardwick, Professor Emeritus
of Religious Studies at American University,
prolific author, and successful investment
manager, died February 18, 2024 at his
home in Washington, DC after a five-year
battle with cancer.
Born June 15, 1937 in Spur, Texas to Char-
ley F. Hardwick and L. Dessie Dean, at two
he moved with his family to Clovis, New
Mexico. There he excelled as a student and
a Boy Scout, held class offices, lettered in
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In 1959 Hardwick earned a B.A. in Philos-
ophy from Southern Methodist University,
where he met and married Alison E. Stan-
difer. (The marriage later ended in divorce.)
He won fellowships from the Danforth and
Rockefeller foundations and used them to
earn a Bachelor of Divinity from Drew Uni-
versity in 1962. In 1962-63 he studied philos-
ophy at the University of Tuebingen, Germa-
ny and the University of Basel, Switzerland,
where he became a student of Swiss theo-
logian Fritz Buri. In 1967 Hardwick obtained
a Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from Yale
University, making Buri’s work the center of
his dissertation.
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Dr. Hardwick then became a Professor in
the Philosophy and Religion Department
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Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. She studied
microbiology at Penn State University and
became a Chemistry Professor at George
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husband Oliver Norris Philip; her son Daniel
Philip, who died in infancy in 1986; her sis-
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EDWARD ARTHUR SANDS
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passed away peacefully on April
22, 2024. Eddie, as he was af-
fectionately called, grew up in
a caring home in Brooklyn, New
York with his parents Max and Bess Silver-
man and sister Elaine. After graduating from
the City College of New York, he earned a
Masters Degree in Business at the Univer-
sity of Illinois and joined the Army Reserves
before moving to Washington, DC where he
met Roberta Rosenfield. Eddie and “Bon-
nie” were married in 1964. Two years later,
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F&AM, PHA are hereby noti-
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2024, of 80th MWPGM J. Ray-
mond Murray. Wake, Visitation,
and Masonic Services, Mon-
day, April 29, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Marshall
Marsh Funeral Home, 4308 Suitland Road,
Suitland, MD. Tuesday, April 30, Visitation
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Celebration of Life 11
a.m. at Galbraith AME Zion Church, 1114
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please assemble at 4 p.m. Monday, April
29. Masonic services will be performed.
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QUOTON
MARGUERITE M. QUOTON
Marguerite went home to be with the Lord
on Monday, April 15, 2024. She is survived
by a host of family, friends and extended
loved ones. Viewing will be held on Tues-
day, April 30, 2024 at 10 a.m., followed by
Homegoing Celebration at 11 a.m. at St.
Mary’s Episcopal Church, 728 23rd St. NW,
Washington, DC. Interment Lincoln Memo-
rial Cemetery.
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at American University in Washington, DC,
serving until his retirement in 2002. He
specialized in philosophical and systematic
theology, 19th- and 20th-Century religious
thought, and philosophy of religion. He
spent sabbaticals at the Tavistock Institute
in London (funded by a Guggenheim Fellow-
ship), studying the work of Sigmund Freud;
and in Paris, where he wrote his capstone
work, Events of Grace: Naturalism, Existen-
tialism and Theology. Published in 1996 by
Cambridge University Press, Events of Grace
joined a body of work comprising five books,
90 articles/book chapters/reviews, three
German translations, and 25 honors/awards.
Events of Grace represents Dr. Hardwick’s
deepest exploration of his naturalistic theol-
ogy, founded on the idea that Christian faith
is compatible with a scientific worldview.
In retirement Dr. Hardwick transformed his
self-taught avocation, investment manage-
ment, into a successful second career. He
stayed active in his academic field, main-
taining a philosophy reading group with
colleagues and helping lead the Highlands
Institute for American Religious and Phil-
osophical Thought. A lifelong athlete and
sports fan, he ran with friends and took
up cross-country biking for travels with
his wife, Christina Fleps, whom he mar-
ried in 1991. He and Christina traveled the
world on foot, bicycle, car, train, and cruise
ships. They visited their vacation home in
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware regularly and
returned often to Paris, where Dr. Hard-
wick strolled daily in his “axis mundi,” the
Luxembourg Gardens. Throughout his trav-
els, Dr. Hardwick relished world cuisines
and collected art, pursuing a passion born
in college. In addition to art, food, and film,
his passions included military history—and
dogs. He and Christina adopted three dogs.
Gracie the German Pinscher survives him.
Dr. Hardwick’s survivors include his wife,
Christina W. Fleps of Washington, DC; his
son, Kevin R. Hardwick of Harrisonburg,
Virginia; his daughter Cary K. Hardwick
of Turners Falls, Massachusetts, and five
grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held on June 6
2024 at 4 p.m. at All Saints Episcopal Church
in Chevy Chase, Maryland. In lieu of flowers,
memorial gifts may be sent to Heifer Inter-
national or All Saints Church.
Washington University, where she taught for
22 years.
Joan had a passion for cooking and enter-
taining, and loved to sing and play guitar.
She created many beautiful paintings, ce-
ramics and other crafts. She touched many
lives through volunteering, leading youth
organizations, acting as PTO president,
and giving tours at the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography and the Gem Hall of the
Smithsonian Institution’s Natural History
Museum.
Joan passed away on April 2, 2024 after a
brief illness. She is survived by Richard Hil-
derbrandt, her husband of 60 years, her
daughter Ami Nyitray and her husband
Brent Nyitray, her son Brian Hilderbrandt
and his wife Lenore Rossini, and two grand-
children, Spencer Nyitray and Julian Hilder-
brandt-Rossini.
Services are being planned for a later date.
Please visit Hilderbrandt.net/Joan for more
details about her life and memorial service.
ter Gwendolyn Ifill; and her brothers Oliver
Ifill and Richard Ifill. She is beloved of those
she leaves behind, including her children
Barbara Philip, Joyce Philip, Veda Philip, Paul
Philip, Peter Philip, Ray Philip, Samuel Philip
and David Philip and her 21+ grandchildren
including Craig Philip, Joselle Royer, Wesley
and Juliette Pluviose-Philip, Thabani, Ntando,
Briya, Briyanna, Damani, Paul Joseph, Kara,
Kayla, Darren, Thandie, Amina and Ajani Phil-
ip, and her brothers Earle Ifill, and Roberto
Ifill. Maria Ifill Philip’s life was marked by her
unyielding service to her country, her love for
her family, and her passion for music. She
will be deeply missed by all who knew her.
Relatives and friends may call at Collins Fu-
neral Home, 500 University Boulevard West,
Silver Spring, MD, on Sunday, April 28, 2024,
(Valet Parking) from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The
Celebration of Life Service will be held on
Monday April 29 at Calverton Baptist Church,
12625 Galway Drive, Silver Spring, MD, from
11 a.m. to 12 noon, preceded by a viewing
from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. A repast will be
provided immediately after the Celebration
of Life Service. In lieu of flowers, donations
can be made to the Parkinson Foundation
of the National Capital Area (PFNCA) - www.
PFNCA.org.
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do in Ocean City, Maryland. But his passion
was family. He and Bonnie have four children
and seven grandchildren. Family gave him
strength and joy. He was so proud of his chil-
dren and the grand kids filled his heart.
Eddie was preceded in death by his wife
Bonnie Sands. He is survived by his children
David, Steven (Valerie), Michael and Michele
(Robert) Kiewe and his grandchildren Jared,
Brian, Scott, Eric, Jordyn, Erin and Lilly, as well
as his loving companion Joan Silverman.
Funeral service will be held Thursday, April
25, 2024, 12 p.m. at Temple Beth Ami, 14330
Travilah Rd., Rockville, MD 20850 with inter-
ment to follow at Judean Memorial Gardens.
Family will be observing shiva following the
burial at the home of Adele and Roy Iger-
sheim. In lieu of flowers, memorial contribu-
tions may be made to the American Heart
Association (heart.org). Services entrusted
to Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky Goldberg Fu-
neral Care.
www.sagelbloomfield.com
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RUFUS PHILLIP RINKER
On April 18, 2024. Born in Oakton, VA and
a graduate of Washington and Lee High
School, Arlington, VA. He owned barber-
shops in Vienna, Leesburg, and Purcellville.
Visitation will be 4 to 6 p.m. and a memo-
rial service will follow at 6 p.m. Enders &
Shirley Funeral Home Chapel, Berryville,
VA.
www.endersandshirley.com
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JOYCE LYNN SMOCK
Joyce Lynn Smock, age 79, passed away on
April 16, 2024, surrounded by her family.
She is survived by her husband of 57 years,
William Smock; daughters, Kathryn Smock
and Stephanie Farley (Bryan); grandchild,
Juniper Farley, and sister, Carol Bishop
(John). Joyce taught elementary school for
almost 60 years, with the last 20 years at
Great Falls Elementary. A viewing will be
held May 3 between 4 to 7 p.m., with a
service on May 4 at 10 a.m., both at Money
and King Funeral Home, Vienna, VA.
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CAROLYN P. ATKINSON
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(Donna) and Kim Atkinson; loving grand-
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Jessica, Danielle and Kennell; cherished
great grandmother of 20 and great-great
grandmother of one; dear sister of Enoch
and Cornell Greene. Also survived by other
loving family members and friends.
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a.m.; Service 10:30 a.m.
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mourn one daughter, Claudia L. Bradley
and one son, Kelvin M. Goode; 11 grand-
children; 21 great-grandchildren; two
great-great-grandchildren; other relatives
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(Samantha); great-grandchildren Alyssa
and Gabrielle Romer. A memorial service
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ford, DE 19963. Interment will be private.
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27, 2024 at 2 p.m., followed by a reception
in the parish hall. Grace is located at 1041
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Gordon in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.
In 1945, he joined the US Navy Signal Corps.
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harrisburg Philadelphia
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67/48 Virginia Beach
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Wright from B1 promise of creating a world-class he had a pattern of microman- porate more elements of the “sci- Schools’ office of Teaching and
public education system for agement that held up important ence of reading,” a methodology Learning.
Gov. Wes moore (D) has so far maryland,” moore said. work, and several district leaders that places an emphasis on pho- In 2013, she was named missis-
appointed six people to the 14- Wright was named interim quietly expressed confusion nics while teaching kids how to sippi’s state superintendent of
member board. Wright was unan- state superintendent in october, about the Blueprint and other read. The board set a goal of education. She retired from that
imously approved by the state after former state superinten- guidance from the department. getting maryland to place among post in 2022.
board members present; one dent of schools mohammed Choudhury said the former em- the top 10 states in reading on the After the vote Wednesday,
member was absent. Choudhury lost support from the ployees could not embrace fourth- and eighth-grade Nation- several board members congratu-
moore said in a news release board. change. al Assessment for Educational lated Wright.
that Wright’s career in public An investigation by The Wash- Since Choudhury’s departure, Progress, or NAEP — a standard- “I think we’re on the right
education has “uniquely pre- ington Post last year found that Wright has been guiding the ized test sometimes called “the track, and we are so happy to
pared her to meet this moment” several former staffers alleged state’s Education Department, gold standard” of student assess- have you,” said Susan Getty, a
as the leader of the state educa- that Choudhury created a “toxic” which oversees 24 school dis- ment — by 2027. state board member from Carroll
tion system. work environment that drove out tricts with about 890,000 stu- The state ranked 40th in the County.
“She is a champion for stu- his lieutenants and dozens of dents enrolled. She was tasked by nation in fourth-grade reading Wright said her goal is to
dents, and I’m confident that she veterans in the education agency. the state board with developing a on the most recent NAEP assess- “listen to all voices at all times”
is the leader we need to fulfill the former employees alleged that literacy policy that would incor- ment. It ranked 25th for eighth- and “make maryland the educa-
graders. amanda andRade-Rhoades tion destination.” She added that
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Wright has had success boost- she intends to focus on improv-
ing performance. She is known in Carey Wright at an Oct. 24 ing literacy at all grade levels.

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fter the vows, the champagne toasts, the filet mignon and the first
slain WCK dance between the bride and groom — after all the normal wedding

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stuff — came the cue. The cue for the abnormal wedding stuff. ¶ “start
waving those hands for the PARTY ROBOT!” ¶ Into the candlelit Broadway
BY E MILY H EIL
banquet hall lumbered a menacing eight-foot-tall humanoid machine, pumping
his metallic fists to the thumping electronic music, flanked by servers bearing marquees
AND T IM C ARMAN sparklers and trays of dessert. ¶ Party Robot, you see, is a hulking Terminator
BY E LISABETH V INCENTELLI
Under low gray clouds on a
programmed to kill it on the dance floor. For anywhere from $500 to $1,200 an
chilly spring morning, mourners hour, Party Robot will keep the energy high with nonstop dancing. Party Robot NEW YORK — The words rang
gathered Thursday at Washing- loud: “I love you, Rachel McAd-
ton National Cathedral to re-
will make a reception feel like a Vegas nightclub or like a future that is not so ams!”
member the lives of the seven dystopian — a world where the robots are not our overlords but our hype men, The demonstrative admirer
World Central Kitchen aid work- who yelled out hadn’t just seen
ers who were killed in Israeli
our wing men, our 24-hour party “people.” ¶ The wedding-industrial complex the actress on a street corner or
airstrikes in Gaza this month. has apparently moved beyond photo booths, monogrammed dance floors and walking down a red carpet — she
Outside the main doors of the did it while McAdams was on-
gothic structure, a bagpiper
dove releases. Now newlyweds want to be nearly stepped on by a knockoff stage in the play “Mary Jane,”
played as an estimated 560 guests Optimus Prime. sEE rOBOT ON C2 engrossed in a scene well into the
entered, including chef José An- show. stars clearly exert a special
drés, the restaurateur turned hu- pull that makes people lose their
manitarian who helms the anti- mind and manners.
hunger organization. second gen- And right now fans have a lot to
tleman Doug Emhoff avoided the ronald Arevalo performs as Party robot at a wedding this month in Long Island City, n.Y. be excited — or overexcited —
crowds but slipped in, and was Arevalo used to work in construction and became good at walking in drywall stilts, and he about, because McAdams is one
seated in the front row. is also a good dancer — both key skills to his second career as Party robot. Last year, his of four marquee names appearing
The interfaith program, which employer’s five robots did more than 200 events, mostly wedding receptions. in Broadway shows that are open-
featured a performance by re- ing within days of each other.
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ROBOT From C1
At this wedding in Long Island
City, against a vista of the man-
hattan skyline, glow sticks were
distributed, as were shutter-
shade sunglasses that lit up. A
groomsman passed around a bot-
tle of Tito’s. The radiant, dancing
bride wore a tiara that twinkled
against Party robot’s built-in
strobe lights. As he twirled the
bride around, swishing her tulle
ball gown, Party robot almost
resembled a proud father — as if,
deep within his steel chest, a
human heart was beating . . .
here to begin with all
W this?
“Nobody really ever
wants to be the first person on
the dance floor,” says Sheri o’Bri-
an, chief creative officer of Ex-
traordinary Arts, a massachu-
setts-based robot provider.
And so …
“And so when you have a ro-
bot,” o’Brian says, “I think it
makes people feel a lot more
comfortable to let loose.”
of course. Why didn’t we think
of that? And if you pay a little
extra, Party robot will blast a
carbon-dioxide cannon of cold
fog at your guests, and also let the
bride and groom take a few turns
with it.
Adrian Zerla owns the Party
robot who was fist-pumping at
the wedding in Long Island City.
He owns five Party robots, actu-
ally, and provides a suite of party
services (DJ, lighting, etc.). Last
year, Zerla’s robots did more than
200 events; the job can range
from a bar or bat mitzvah, to a
quinceañera, to a gender-reveal
party. “They want the robot com-
ing in, in either pink or blue,” says
Zerla. (Another event company
once sent a Party robot to a
reception for an infant’s Catholic
baptism.)
“We started with a teen mar-
ket, but now I would probably say
the teen market is probably
about 40 percent of it,” says Zer-
la. “The majority of the events
that we’re doing right now are
wedding receptions.”
Because nothing says “Til
death do us part” like a giant
robot aiming its weapon at your
loved ones.
ere’s where we admit that
H Party robot is not truly a
robot.
He is a robot costume worn by
a human. A human on stilts.
Inside Party robot, at the wed-
ding in Long Island City, is a
human named ronald Arevalo.
Arevalo, 26, used to work in
construction. Because he special-
ized in applying plaster, he be-
came very good at walking in
drywall stilts. He is also — and
this is key — a good dancer. These
two separate skills, it turns out,
make him uniquely suited to
excel in a second career as Party
robot.
“I do get calls where the people
think it’s an actual robot, and
At Opera Philadelphia, countertenor Costanzo set to take charge
BY M ICHAEL A NDOR B RODEUR
on Thursday morning, opera
Philadelphia announced the ap-
pointment of opera star Anthony
roth Costanzo to be the compa-
ny’s seventh general director and
president. The 41-year-old singer
will succeed outgoing general di-
rector David B. Devan, who an-
nounced his retirement last Au-
gust, concluding his 18-year ten-
ure with opera Philadelphia
(with 13 as director) at the end of
may.
The unconventional appoint-
ment of Costanzo — a counterten-
or arguably at the height of an
active, wide-ranging singing ca-
reer — is a bold move that comes
during a particularly challenging
period for the company as it ap-
proaches its 50th anniversary
season. Last year, opera Philadel-
phia faced $2 million in budget
cuts, leading to a 16 percent re-
duction of personnel and throw-
ing the future of the company’s
annual Festival o into question.
Costanzo was the unanimous
selection by the opera Philadel-
phia board, which set about its
search in earnest in December of
2023. In a phone interview, search
committee chair David Ferguson
then we have to explain to them
that, you know, it is a person
inside of a robot costume,” says
Zerla, Arevalo’s boss.
Party robot suits are typically
custom-made overseas, for any-
where from $4,500 to $8,000
apiece. A Chinese company,
Guangdong Ledmundo Photo-
electric Ltd., sells them off the
rack for between $4,000 and
$4,500. (While the company did
not respond to this reporter’s
inquiry, it did appear to respond
to a customer’s one-star review —
about the suit overheating —
with this incredible smackdown:
“It is a pity that the giant baby’s
said the company had no explicit
goal to install a working artist as
president — let alone one with as
active a schedule as Costanzo.
“It was just his brilliance, the
strength of his ideas, his acumen,
his deep knowledge of the history
of the art form and its present
challenges,” Ferguson says. “We
just thought it was a perfect time
for a bold move.”
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desires will never be satisfied.”)
“In the very beginning, the
hardest part was just being able
to be a robot for 45 minutes to an
hour and not, like, cramp,” says
Party robot performer Shawn
Vandine, owner of Big City
Events outside Philadelphia.
Drinking Pedialyte helps prevent
muscle spasms, he adds.
Party robot sometimes falls,
which sometimes hurts the hu-
man inside. most companies re-
quire a robot handler — an assis-
tant-slash-bodyguard — to help
the human get dressed as Party
robot, and avoid hazards such as
a spilled drink or a flower girl
mATTheW PLACek
Costanzo has deep roots with
the opera Philadelphia, making
his first appearance onstage at
the music Academy as a shepherd
boy in a 1996 production of
“Tosca” — alongside Luciano Pa-
varotti.
“I found myself behind the cur-
tain on opening night,” Costanzo
tells me by phone from New York,
where he is in rehearsals for the
TOP AND ABOVE: Ronald
Arevalo performs April 5 as a
Party Robot in Long Island City.
LEFT: Arevalo suits up. A robot
at a party “makes people feel a
lot more comfortable to let
loose,” an industry insider said.
pitter-pattering across the dance
floor.
o’Brian, who used to be a
competitive cheerleader, toppled
over at an event once. “A chicken
wing,” she says.
But the biggest hazard is easy
to spot: drunk people. Drunk
people love Party robot. Some-
times, they try to push Party
robot, or fight it, like it’s been
sent from the future on a mission
to assassinate the groom.
And then there are the grop-
ers.
“A lot of people just come up”
to the robots, Zerla says, “and
they start, like, feeling their butt.”
maybe real robots will one day
take all our jobs, achieve singu-
larity and kill us all.
or maybe they’ll follow our
lead, and focus on dancing to
Pitbull.
revalo, who lives in Long
A Island, knows nothing
about the couple whose
CouRTesy of AnThony RoTh CosTAnzo
metropolitan opera’s forthcom-
ing production of Gluck’s “orfeo
ed Euridice.”
“Everyone else had taken their
bow, and Pavarotti was the last
one to go on, and he gestured to
me to take his hand. I went out
onstage with him and heard the
audience roar. At that moment, I
realized he had single-handedly
brought this audience to opera
the washington post
PhoTos by Amy LombARd foR The WAshingTon PosT
wedding he’s crashing as Party
robot except for their names:
megan and Sean. And megan and
Sean don’t know anything about
Party robot, or the man inside.
Arevalo’s handler is his sister,
Brenda Lopez, 27. At each event
she straps his feet and calves into
the bottom of the stilts, and
connects the wiring to the bat-
tery pack strapped to his waist.
The legs actually creak like a door
hinge, but no one at a party will
ever hear that over the thumping
bass.
Arevalo likes “techno music,
upbeat music” to dance to as a
robot. (Notes his boss: “Good
fist-pumping music is great robot
music.”) If the music is too slow,
it’s harder to get people on the
dance floor with him, which has
led to some awkward situations.
“Sometimes, you’re dancing,
but everybody left” to go sit
down, Arevalo says. “So you’re
dancing by yourself, and you
don’t know what else to do.”
Last year, at his own wedding,
Arevalo considered having — or
being — Party robot. He brought
the costume with him. His wife
vetoed it. Her objection was that
she wouldn’t have anyone to
dance with.
He tried to convince her that
wasn’t true.
He told her: “You’re going to
LEFT: Anthony Roth Costanzo
has been named the general
director and president of Opera
Philadelphia. RIGHT: Costanzo
and Luciano Pavarotti in 1996.
and to the opera house, and how
great his impact was. To imagine
that I’m going to go back to that
place and do the same thing, but
in my own way, is really thrilling.”
Costanzo also has previous ex-
perience with the company as a
producer. At the 2018 Festival o,
he premiered “Glass Handel,” an
ambitious large-scale presenta-
tion that intertwined the music of
Handel and Philip Glass into an
immersive multimedia perform-
ance. (Costanzo would go on to
deliver a breakthrough perform-
ance in the title role of Glass’s
“Akhnaten” at the met the follow-
ing year.)
In 2022, opera Philadelphia
built a fundraising event around
“only an octave Apart,” Costan-
zo’s ebullient exploration (with
singer Justin Vivian Bond) of the
love affair between cabaret and
opera.
In advance of his turn in “orfeo
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dance with me, the robot.”
t 10:30 p.m. in Long Island
A City, Arevalo thunked his
way down the hallway and
fist-pumped his way onto the
dance floor to greet megan and
Sean. It’s a surprise for their
guests, who scream with delight.
Party robot handed a sparkler
to the bride. megan looks like a
young reese Witherspoon, with
long blond hair and a sparkly,
floral ball gown fit for a princess.
Sean — handsome in his white
tuxedo jacket, hair in a tidy fade
— was ready to party.
Party robot will never know
megan and Sean’s story, but may-
be we can learn a few things.
“They met at a music festival,”
said megan’s father, Colin Hill,
and now Party robot’s inclusion
in this blessed event makes sense
— and perhaps even borders on
romantic. The festival was Elec-
tric Zoo, the yearly carnival of
electronic music on randall’s Is-
land, featuring trippy light
shows, soaring pyrotechnics and
blockbuster animatronics. me-
gan had a broken foot and was
walking in a cast. Sean struck up
a conversation with her, and
they’ve been together for numer-
ous electronic music festivals,
and everything else, ever since.
She’s 26, he’s 31, and they live in
the town of Wading river, on
Long Island. They’ll be honey-
mooning at a Sandals resort in
Jamaica, in one of those bunga-
lows right on the water.
Sean blasted his guests with
the carbon-dioxide gun, which
filled the air with cold fog. The
bride and groom’s slices of cake
remained uneaten at their sweet-
heart table, because they still
hadn’t left the dance floor, and
neither had Party robot. Areva-
lo’s calves ached. In five minutes,
he would cram his massive robot
body into an elevator, head
downstairs, become human
again, and massage his legs.
But for now, he knew what he
had to do, because the DJ was
telling him.
“Get one more fist pump in
with the robot!”
ed Euridice,” Costanzo is also pro-
ducing a companion series of in-
terdisciplinary performance pro-
grams titled “myths” in collabora-
tion with institutions including
the National Black Theatre and
the morgan Library.
“I certainly feel like what’s un-
precedented is a singer in their
prime not sunsetting and taking
on a leadership role,” Costanzo
says. “But the reality is — and
those who know me know that is
true — there have been two me’s
for a long time.”
For his new role at opera Phila-
delphia, Costanzo’s focus will be
on raising funds, developing “col-
laborations that take us outside of
the walls of the opera house” and
gaining a clearer view of how best
to serve a promising surge of
younger audience members (and
their vastly differing purchasing
habits).
But the singer says he’s most
excited about the opportunity to
have a team to help carry out
ambitious artistic plans — an en-
semble cast rather than a one-
man show.
“I’m excited not only to contin-
ue singing with my voice,” he says,
“but to be able to sing with many
voices.”
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Tearful
words
for slain
workers
Andrés from C1
nowned cellist Yo-Yo ma, includ-
ed hymns and prayers in the
Christian, Jewish and muslim
traditions as well as readings
from the Quran and the Bible.
A tearful Andrés — exhibiting a
grief so different from his usual
ebullient persona — spoke
against a backdrop of the flags
representing the home countries
of the victims, reading the names
of the dead and recalling each of
their stories. “They were the best
of humanity,” he said. “Their ex-
ample should inspire us to do
better, to be better.”
Those being celebrated were
Palestinian Saifeddin Issam Ayad
Abutaha, John Chapman of Brit-
ain, Jacob flickinger of the Unit-
ed States and Canada, Lalzawmi
“Zomi” frankcom of Australia,
James Henderson of Britain,
James Kirby of Britain and Dami-
an Sobol of Poland.
flat-screen televisions
throughout the space flashed
photographs of the deceased,
Star
turns by
Lange,
Carell
THEATEr rEVIEWs from C1
While I jumped in surprise at
that unexpected shout-out, mc-
Adams remained composed and
soldiered on. It was an impressive
display of steadfastness for some-
one in her first Broadway show.
And a demanding one at that: As
the title character of Amy Her-
zog’s wrenching, often unexpect-
edly funny drama, which is pre-
sented by manhattan Theatre
Club, mcAdams is onstage the
entire time.
mary Jane is the single mother
of a toddler whose severe health
issues require constant care and
monitoring, and the play (which
ran off-Broadway in 2017, with
Carrie Coon) builds her portrait
via a series of seemingly mun-
dane conversations. mcAdams
appeared a little forced at the
start of the performance I saw, a
little actor-y, but her comfort
level increased as she went along.
And her innate warmth — some-
thing you cannot learn — lends
itself perfectly to a character
whose optimism, grit and good
humor become a shield.
Like mcAdams, Steve Carell is
making his Broadway debut in a
title role. A big difference is that
he’s in a more ensemble-driven
show, Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,”
so he doesn’t have to carry as
much of the weight. But let’s be
honest: It’s unlikely that people
would flock to this Lincoln Center
Theater production, the ump-
teenth version of a familiar clas-
sic, if Carell weren’t in it.
The good news is that he has
presence — something else you
can’t learn — and handles himself
well. The bad news is that he’s
stuck in a rudderless staging (by
the usually sharper Lila Neuge-
bauer) that feels like a series of
acting-school scenes held togeth-
er by rough string.
frustratingly, Carell’s every ut-
A neighbor texted my wife that he has feelings for her. What should I do next?
dear Miss
Miss Manners: A 30-
Manners year friendship
JudIth with my neighbor
MartIN, was threatened
JacobINa when he sent my
MartIN aNd wife an overt text
NIcholas message
Ivor MartIN expressing his
feelings for her.
She was flabbergasted, and
responded by simply stating, “I
love my husband.” He then
texted back, “I’m sorry.”
Now a week has passed, and
he has not apologized to either
of us in person or provided any
explanation. I reached out and
asked him for a private
conversation, where I asked if
some smiling for the cameras,
some wearing WCK T-shirts; oth-
ers showed them at work. Pro-
grams detailed their lives and
their passion for helping people,
the drive that apparently had
drawn them each to war-ravaged
Gaza.
“They will be remembered and
revered for the kindness they
have shown and for the love they
have given,” Susan Shankman,
senior rabbi of the Washington
Hebrew foundation, told the
crowd. “They are shining exam-
ples of humanity.”
Andrés nearly broke down
when paying tribute to frank-
com, who he said was “like a sister
to me.” Sobol, he said, “had an
unstoppable desire to help.” An-
drés acknowledged the vast num-
ber of aid workers from other
organizations that have also been
killed — and he paid tribute to the
WCK staffers in attendance, ask-
ing them to stand.
“You are our light in the dark-
ness,” he said as the crowd erupt-
ed in sustained applause, a rare
outburst in a sacred space.
Andrés also expressed his dis-
satisfaction with the official ex-
planation of the attack. “I know
there are many unanswered ques-
tions,” he said, including why the
WCK was operating in Gaza.
“Even one innocent life taken is
one too many.”
Still, through tears, he also
expressed a continued dedication
to his organization’s mission. “We
take risk because we want to
change the world,” he said. “food
is a universal human right —
feeding each other, cooking and
eating together is what makes us
terance seems to be greeted by a
smattering of guffaws from the
audience. Yes, he can lean into a
line’s humor, and his Vanya has a
sardonic bent, but Carell also
commits to the character’s re-
sentment and resignation.
The last is especially difficult to
render onstage because it doesn’t
lend itself to acting tricks. As
everything was okay, as this
seemed very out of character. I
said I was hurt but that our
friendship was salvageable, and I
suggested he have a
conversation with my wife.
maybe even apologize.
The apology never came, nor
has any acknowledgment of our
existence; since that day, we just
uncomfortably pass each other
on our respective driveways. Not
sure what else we can do.
nothing! You are seeking an
apology from a man who already
gave one, and an explanation
from a man who has none. or at
least no reasonable one.
miss manners recommends
human. A plate of food is a plate
of hope, a message that someone,
somewhere cares for you.”
Seated alongside Emhoff were
deputy secretary of state Kurt
Campbell, Sen. Chris Van Hollen
(D-md.), and assistant secretary
of state Julieta Valls Noyes. Diplo-
mats from 30 countries, includ-
ing the United States and Canada,
were in attendance, organizers
said.
The memorial was no everyday
affair, as evidenced by the high-
profile attendees and the setting,
the site of state funerals whose
pews have seated foreign leaders
and U.S. statesmen, and the pha-
mAtthew murPhy
Vanya’s niece (Alison Pill) fatalis-
tically muses about the drudgery
that awaits them — stuck in place
and doing accounts for their es-
tate — Carell remains silent, a
cryptic look on his face. At one
point he flashes a tight little
smile. He makes the act of listen-
ing compelling, and that is hard
to pull off.
you let him be mortified and
move along in peace. Yes, he
made a terrible mistake. But had
you not badgered him for
another apology, and an
explanation that could only
make the situation worse, you
might have had a hope of getting
past it. Now it seems highly
unlikely.
dear Miss Manners: As the
driver, how would you respond
to a passenger who constantly
interrupts the GPS with “better”
directions?
“If you know a better way, I am
happy to turn off the GPS. But if
we get lost, that’s on you.” miss
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lanx of media perched in an upper
balcony, cameras and eyes
trained on the crowd below. But
the deaths of those remembered
have been felt around the globe.
The April 1 attack on the con-
voy carrying the seven aid work-
ers swiftly drew international
outrage. Israeli Prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu described it
as “unintentional” and said Is-
raeli authorities were “investigat-
ing the matter fully” and would
“do everything possible to pre-
vent this from happening again.”
four days later, Israel’s mili-
tary released the results of its own
investigation and said the attack
ABOVE: Eddie redmayne and
the cast of “Cabaret at the Kit
Kat Club.” LEFT: rachel
McAdams, left, and Brenda
Wehle in “Mary Jane.”
Jessica Lange also has to ma-
neuver her way through a word-
less stretch, albeit a longer, more
complex one, in Paula Vogel’s new
“mother Play,” from Second Stage
Theater. During an evening alone
in her apartment, her character,
Phyllis, listens to music, micro-
waves a TV dinner and eats part
of it, fixes herself some drinks,
looks at her watch, occasionally
smiles while lost in thought — all
of this feeling as if it happened in
real time. This may sound tedious
on paper, but Lange, who couldn’t
snuff out her movie star aura if
she tried, moves through the
scene like a glamorous, dreamily
remote siren beached in subur-
bia.
Vogel’s semi-autobiographical
piece is generous toward all three
manners recommends that last
part be said with at least a
halfhearted attempt at humor.
dear Miss Manners: During the
pandemic, my neighbors both
got covid, and I took meals to
them for three days. I asked if
there were any dietary
restrictions or any foods they
just did not care for. Now, my
husband and I are both ill, and
friends and neighbors are
delivering food that I cannot eat,
either due to food allergies or
IBS symptoms (which I do not
wish to reveal). Since no one
asked questions about our needs
and preferences, I now have pots
of soup that I cannot eat — and,
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on the WCK convoy was a “serious
violation” of its policies, the result
of “errors,” and was “contrary” to
military procedures. It said that
two officers would be dismissed
and commanders reprimanded,
but made no mention of legal
actions such as prosecutions.
World Central Kitchen responded
by saying that the IDf “cannot
credibly investigate its own fail-
ure in Gaza” and demanding that
an independent commission in-
vestigate.
The killings also prompted
WCK to pause its operations in
Gaza and other raid organiza-
tions to follow suit, even as fam-
mArc brenner
of its characters, but it is named
“mother Play” for a reason: Phyl-
lis, inspired by the playwright’s
own mom, is a devouring pres-
ence who looms over her chil-
dren, portrayed by Celia Keenan-
Bolger and Jim Parsons (alterna-
tively funny and poignant in one
of his best stage turns to date).
She is 37 when we first meet her,
in 1964, and Tina Landau’s pro-
duction wobbles at the start be-
cause Lange is not entirely con-
vincing in those early scenes (sus-
pension of disbelief is a powerful
tool, but it has its limits). She
gains in both power and vulnera-
bility as Phyllis gets older, as
years and life pass her by. After
three revivals of classics (she won
a Tony for “Long Day’s Journey
Into Night” in 2016), it’s also a
delight to see Lange in a contem-
porary piece.
Her type of charisma is one of
the reasons it’s silly to bemoan
the casting of screen stars in stage
works. Theater has a love-hate
relationship with actors who
didn’t build their name on the
boards. It loves flaunting them in
ads and parading them at the
Tony Awards ceremony, while on
while sick, need to.
Is there a polite way to say,
“By the way, what type of soup
are you planning to bring?” one
friend let it slip that she was
making cabbage soup, and I said,
“oh, cabbage and I do not get
along.” She pleasantly changed
the menu, though I felt bad.
others, I fear, would not be so
gracious, particularly the person
who brought soup containing
every type of vegetable I cannot
eat. She simply said, “I am
bringing you soup,” but that
could be anything from clam
chowder to chili! Please, miss
manners, what should one do?
Avoid it altogether: “oh, you are
C3
José Andrés, the founder of the
aid organization World Central
Kitchen, speaks at a
Washington national Cathedral
service for the aid workers who
were killed in April in Gaza.
ine threatened Palestinians in the
region. WCK officials have said
they are considering whether and
when to resume. Since the kill-
ings, Andrés has maintained a
relatively low public profile,
though he said in an interview
with reuters that WCK had com-
municated with the Israeli mili-
tary about the aid workers’
whereabouts and said they were
“targeted deliberately nonstop
until everybody was dead.”
Andrés, a Spanish immigrant
to the United States who started
building his restaurant empire in
Washington, founded World Cen-
tral Kitchen in 2010 as a scrappy
organization. Since then, it has
grown into one of the most recog-
nized humanitarian forces, part-
nering with chefs on the ground
in emergencies, including hurri-
canes in Houston and Puerto rico
and wildfires in the western Unit-
ed States and in Australia. It has
fed refugees on the U.S.-mexico
border and people fleeing war in
Ukraine. His work earned him a
nomination for a Nobel Peace
Prize and made him, with his
effusive energy and calls for “lon-
ger tables, not higher walls,” the
face of humanitarian aid.
the other hand going on and on
about the special magic of
theater-bred folks. meanwhile,
some fans mob stage doors — or
yell during shows — but others
decry what they perceive as cast-
ing stunts.
The reality is much more pro-
saic: Sometimes star power
works onstage and sometimes it
doesn’t. Which brings me to Ed-
die redmayne.
redmayne won an oscar for
“The Theory of Everything” and
leads the “fantastic Beasts” mov-
ies, but he is no stranger to the
stage, and won a Tony in 2013 for
his Broadway debut in “red.”
Now he’s back as one of the most
outlandishly theatrical charac-
ters in existence: the Emcee in
“Cabaret.”
rebecca frecknall’s immersive
revival was described as auda-
ciously dark when it opened in
London in December 2021. The
transfer now playing at the Au-
gust Wilson Theatre, trans-
formed into the Kit Kat Club after
an extensive renovation, is over-
all trying way too hard, and so is
redmayne. This smug show
doesn’t have enough edge to cut
through cottage cheese.
In this version, the Emcee is a
diabolical imp who rules over a
decadent Weimar Berlin under-
world, reflecting the destructive
force about to take over Germany
— he is not just an entertainer
having wicked fun in some louche
nightclub but an instigator and
collaborator. It’s an interesting
take, but redmayne’s perform-
ance is so relentlessly stylized and
so hampered by the songs’ glacial
pace that it curls into itself like a
desiccated husk. It felt impossible
that “Cabaret,” of all shows, could
ever be dull. That this production
so relentlessly is must count as a
feat of some kind.
Mary Jane, ongoing at the samuel J.
Friedman theater in new york. 1
hour, 40 minutes, no intermission.
manhattantheatreclub.com.
Uncle Vanya, ongoing at the Vivian
beaumont theater in new york. 2
hours, 25 minutes, including an
intermission. vanyabroadway.com.
Mother Play, ongoing at the hayes
theater in new york. 1 hour, 45
minutes, no intermission. 2st.com.
Cabaret, ongoing at the August
wilson theatre in new york. 2 hours,
45 minutes, including an
intermission. kitkat.club.
so kind, but I am afraid I have
quite a few food restrictions, and
I don’t want to trouble you.” If
that does not deter these kind
but misguided neighbors, miss
manners suggests you make
room in your freezer — until
such time as you are well enough
to donate the soup or serve it to
someone else.
new miss manners columns are
posted monday through saturday on
washingtonpost.com/advice. you can
send questions to miss manners at
her website, missmanners.com. you
can also follow her
@RealMissManners.
© 2024 Judith martin
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Should reader divulge to others that their neighbor is a convicted sex o≠ender?
Dear Amy: I have
Ask Amy a neighbor who
Amy was convicted of a
Dickinson sexual offense
involving a “child”
and served time
in jail. I don’t know the exact
circumstances, but I do
understand that the term “child”
may include a person as young as
an infant and as old as a
teenager. The sexual offender is
married with two young
children.
I know that he and his wife
want to keep his history private.
However, the other neighbors
around where I live are not
aware of the situation, and their
kids play and interact with the
sexual offender’s family. Do I
need to inform the unknowing
neighbors about his status as a
sex offender, or should I remain
silent?
I’d appreciate your advice.
— Uncertain
Uncertain: You don’t say how
you know about this offense,
but you should take it as a given
that these neighbors don’t want
others to know that he is a
convicted sexual offender. But
this is not up to them.
Convicted sex offenders are
assigned a status: level one, two
or three. Level one is
considered “low risk of re-
offense” and level three “high
risk of re-offense.” Each state
maintains a sex offender
registry. You can check the
registry within your Zip code to
see whether your neighbor is
registered and what the
classification is.
The reason the registry exists
is because people should know
that sex offenders live in the
community because of the need
to protect children from
predators. Wearing this virtual
scarlet letter is the ongoing
consequence of committing a
sex crime against a child.
Your neighbors should reveal
the offender’s conviction and
whether he is classified as low-
risk, they should reveal that and
explain the circumstances — for
instance, if he was 19 and had a
sexual relationship with a
person under the age of consent
in his state. (A convicted person
can go to jail with a level one
offense, but the penalty also
seems to depend on the state
where the offense occurred.) In
short, I am suggesting that the
convicted offender and his wife
do the ethical thing by notifying
others of his criminal status.
They most likely won’t do
that, and so yes — you should
let parents in your circle know.
People notified should make
every effort to independently
verify the information through
a neutral source, such as the sex
offender registry. (Check
nsopw.gov.)
Dear Amy: I have a weird
parenting question. My 4-year-
old takes a short nap after she
comes home from preschool.
After her nap yesterday, she
came down the stairs, and her
hair had been cut! She denies
doing this and is very upset.
Her bangs were cut all the
way up to her hairline, and one
whole side was cut short, while
the other was left longer. I am
worried that she would do this.
It seems really dangerous and
self-harming. And she denied
doing it, when she obviously
did. So she’s lying.
My husband and I are not
sure what to do about this. We
don’t know how worried we
should be.
— Worried Parents
Worried: Congratulations —
you have just passed a near-
universal rite of passage for
parents of 4-year-olds. Children
this age seem compelled to cut
their hair. And most of them lie
about it. (I remember blaming
my sister for cutting mine while
I was asleep.) This is not self-
harming. This is beautifying.
And curiosity. And a growing
awareness of how scissors work.
(It’s quite remarkable that kids
who do this don’t seem to injure
themselves.)
Stay calm and good-humored.
Tell your daughter that hair
takes a long time to grow and
now that it is cut, she will have to
be patient while it grows back.
Tell her that scissors are very
sharp and that she needs to ask
you if she wants to use them.
Take her to a salon or barbershop
to have a professional even
things out. (Correcting these
self-haircuts is probably why the
“pixie cut” was invented.)
Your child’s preschool
teachers are a great source of
wisdom. Ask for their advice.
Dear Amy: I cried when I read
these words in reply to the
question from “Scared Mom,”
about her daughter’s
alcoholism: “Offer her a
judgment-neutral safe harbor so
she won’t become isolated, and
encourage her to seek treatment
without letting her alcoholism
become her primary identity in
your relationship.”
Thank you!
— Parent of an Alcoholic
Parent: Alcoholism is a family
disease; it will consume
everyone’s life — if you let it.
Amy’s column appears seven days a
week at washingtonpost.com/advice.
Write to askamy@amydickinson.com
or Amy Dickinson, P.O. Box 194,
freeville, N.Y. 13068.  You can also
follow her @askingamy.
© 2024 by Amy Dickinson. Distributed by
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Mom’s boyfriend literally takes a back seat to her 12-year-old daughter

Dear Carolyn:
I’ve been dating
my girlfriend for
about two years
now. She is a
single mom with a
Carolyn 12-year-old
Hax daughter who
insists on sitting
in the front seat
whenever we go anywhere by
car. My girlfriend prefers to drive
when we go places together, so
typically I have to sit in the back.
When we discuss this, she says
we should probably take turns.
Even that feels really strange to
me. I feel like I’m her child’s little
brother, not her mother’s
boyfriend.
She also claims I started this
problem because, when we first
got together, her daughter asked
if she could sit in the front and I
said sure. Little did I know this
would be the way it would
continue. Do you have a
suggestion for how to break this
deadlock?
— Feeling Humiliated
Feeling Humiliated: Saying you drawing the line; secure her the outside. Either with the full
“have to” sit in the back distills agreement to back you. (And if support of the child’s mom or
the problems to two words. you can’t, then run for those with some serious questions
You don’t have to take orders green and beckoning hills. about the health of all the
from a 12-year-old. Seriously.) relationships involved.
You don’t have to defer to a Beyond that, though, how you Here’s a paradox worth
partner (or child, or anyone) so say it matters so much less than learning, in therapy if that helps:
thoroughly that you disappear. the fact of your saying it. Finally Pleaser tendencies please no one.
You don’t have to let a and without flinching. If your plans include still
schoolyard accusation, “You “I’ll be taking the front seat being in this relationship eight
started it!” go by un-howled at, today. And from now on, adults or so weeks from now, then a
even when it comes from a up front and kids in the back. My parenting class (try PEP at
grown woman. Especially when. fault for letting it go this long.” pepparent.org) might also help.
I do have sympathy for how it A lack of courage in your Help both of you, I mean,
feels to be in a hole you’ve spent convictions is not a good thing assuming there’s any way for a
two years digging. The best time for partners to have in common. non-parent to tell that to a
to fix an awkward situation is at Especially partners who are parent, which there pretty much
our first opportunity; once we let modeling adulthood for a 12- isn’t. “Help me help myself,”
that first one whiz by, each year-old. Not just “[you] started maybe? However you do it, learn
successive chance is notably this problem,” but also, you to put yourself in the figurative
harder to seize. I think we’ve all “should probably take turns”? front seat as well.
been there at least once. Holy abdication.
But, dude. Hers is more glaring since Write to carolyn hax at
Just speak up. Of course you she’s the parent, but your best tellme@washpost.com. get her
don’t say anything mean, response to the daughter was — column delivered to your inbox each
belittling or insincere, not to again, in that first moment, two- morning at wapo.st/gethax.
anyone but especially not to a ish years ago — “Whoa — nice
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

BOTH SIDES VULNERABLE

NORTH
♠ AQ4
♥ AJ62
♦ K83
♣ A42
WEST (D) EAST
♠ K J 10 9 5 2 ♠ 86
♥ Q7 ♥ 84
♦ QJ9 ♦ A 10 7 6 5 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ 85 ♣ Q J 10 9
SOUTH
♠ 73
♥ K 10 9 5 3
♦ 42
♣ K763

The bidding:
WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
2♠ Dbl Pass 3♥
Pass 4♥ All Pass
Opening lead — ♦ Q
CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER
T his week I’ve treated
guessing situations. When
a good declarer has a guess
— say, for a missing queen —
he relies on good technique
or clues from the bidding and
play.
Cover today’s East-West
cards. When North doubled
West’s weak two-spade bid,
your three hearts, by agree-
ment, promised a few points.
West leads the queen of RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
diamonds, then the jack and
nine. East covers dummy’s
king, and you ruff. How will
you play the trumps? Are you
in any hurry to guess?
Finesse with the queen
of spades, lead a club to
your king and return a club.
If West ruffed, he would be
ruffing a loser; but he fol-
lows, and dummy’s ace wins.
Take the ace of spades and LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
ruff a spade. East discards a
diamond.
You have a count: West
has shown six spades, three
diamonds and two clubs.
Lead a trump to the ace and
a trump to your 10. If West
wins, you don’t care: He will
have to lead a spade, and
you pitch dummy’s club loser
and ruff in your hand. You
make your game without HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
guessing.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠AQ4♥AJ62
♦K83♣A42
The dealer, at your right,
opens two spades (weak).
North in today’s deal doubled
for takeout with this hand.
Do you agree with his action?
ANSWER: North gave
himself a chance to find a BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
4-4 heart fit. If South had
“advanced” with three of
a minor, North would have
tried 3NT, counting on South
for a few points. North might
have overcalled 2NT, show-
ing at least the values for
a 1NT opening bid but with
spade strength.
— Frank Stewart
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MUTTS PATRICK McDONNELL ZITS JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN

HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | APRIL 26
You are bold yet
cautious. You
believe in logical
planning and careful
preparation. This is a slower-
paced year. It’s OK to take a
rest so you can rejuvenate
your energy. Concentrate on
your needs and relationships
and seek out people who have
your back.

HEART OF THE CITY STEENZ JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY Moon Alert: There are no
restrictions to shopping or
important decisions today.
The Moon is in Sagittarius.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Oh, happy day! As of yesterday,
Mercury is no longer
retrograde. And today the
Moon is in an exciting part of
your chart, which is why you
want to run away and join the
circus. You want freedom! You
want excitement!
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL You’re in a resourceful frame of
mind today, which is why you
might see new uses for shared
property or new ways to
handle shared responsibilities.
You also might see new ways
to invest your holdings and
your assets.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
You might attract someone
quite powerful to you today.
Whether or not this is the
case, you will definitely have to
compromise when dealing with
others and be prepared to go
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK more than halfway.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
It’s the end of the week;
nevertheless, you’re in a
productive frame of mind.
Hopefully, others will listen to
you, because you have ideas
for improvements or reforms
at work. You also might be
gung-ho to improve your body
or your health.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
This is a playful day for you!
STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER DAN SCHKADE However, it will also be a
DUSTIN FLASH GORDON particularly powerful day
for you if you work in the
entertainment world, show
business, the hospitality
industry or sports. You’re in a
resourceful, inventive frame
of mind.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
Discussions with family
members, especially females,
might be powerful today. Be
courteous and listen. Possibly
you or someone else will see
ways to make improvements
either to your home situation
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK or your family dynamic.
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Your mind is incisive today,
which is why you will get to the
bottom of anything. You will
also spot a phony a mile away
and be able to tell if someone
is dishonest. It’s like you have
X-ray vision.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
Because you’re in a
resourceful frame of mind
today, you might see new
applications and uses for
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT something that you already
own. (Could that lawn mower
become a floor lamp?)
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Today you will have a powerful
reaction and powerful feelings
about many things. You might
not notice this, but others
will. Basically, you want to get
things done. You also want to
play and get some time off for
good behavior.
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
LINCOLN PEIRCE BILL HOLBROOK Secrets might be revealed
BIG NATE ON THE FASTRACK today. In fact, these secrets
might relate to something that
is romantic. You are in a playful
mood and ready to socialize
with others. You will also enjoy
entertaining at home and
finishing DIY repairs.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
You might have a powerful
discussion with a friend today.
They might want to share a
confidence with you, or they
might have something they
feel that they have to tell
you. Whatever this is, you
BEETLE BAILEY GREG, BRIAN & NEAL WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS will handle it with tact and
diplomacy, as is your wont.
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SPORTS friday, april 26 , 2024 SU D

Gore shows
his mettle
but can’t
stop sweep
dodgers 2,
nationals 1
Yamamoto makes sure
Nats’ offense stays quiet

BY A NDREW G OLDEN

The fifth inning of MacKenzie

Gore’s outing Thursday after-
noon presented what for many
pitchers would be a nightmare:
Los Angeles Dodgers star shohei
ohtani at the plate with runners
on the corners, one out and an
opportunity to blow a one-run
game open.
This situation had doomed
Gore in his recent past, a moment
capable of souring what had been
a strong outing. It was the type of
at-bat that has had the Washing-
ton nationals left-hander stand-
ing in front of his locker after-
ward wishing he could have a few
pitches back. This time, in a 2-1
loss to the Dodgers, Gore threw a
first-pitch slider that fooled
ohtani, who flailed at the pitch
and hit into an inning-ending
double play.
Though the nationals didn’t
win, Gore threw a winning pitch.
When Joey Meneses secured the
ball at first, the typically stoic
Gore pumped his fist. And then, pAUL SANCyA/ASSOCiATED pRESS

as if he suddenly realized he was

out of character, he adjusted his
pants and belt and casually saun-

No. 2 for the show

tered back to the dugout.
“our pitchers are doing a great
job on the mound and battling
and pitching well,” Meneses said.
“And not being able to help them
on the offensive side, obviously
it’s very, very frustrating.”
But Washington fell because of
the young pitcher in the visiting
dugout. Yoshinobu Yamamoto,
Commanders regime The top 10 LSU quarterback
Los Angeles’s $325 million offsea-
son investment, tossed six score-
drafts Daniels in 1. bears: C. Williams, QB, USC
2. commanders: J. Daniels, QB, LSU tasked with reviving
less innings and helped complete
a series sweep. The nationals
its first major move 3. patriots: D. Maye, QB, UNC a stagnant franchise
(10-14), who took two of three 4. cardinals: M. Harrison Jr., WR, Ohio St.
from the Dodgers (16-11) last BY S AM F ORTIER 5. chargers: J. Alt, OT, Notre Dame BY N ICKI J HABVALA
week in Los Angeles, head to 6. Giants: M. Nabers, WR, LSU
Miami on Friday looking to get DETROIT — The Washington Command- Just forget about Topgolf and that
7. Titans: JC Latham, OT, Alabama
back on track. ers made official their long-rumored se- thinking face emoji seen around the
“MacKenzie did great, give us lection of LsU quarterback Jayden Dan- 8. Falcons: M. penix Jr., QB, Washington world. Quarterback Jayden Daniels is a
six strong innings,” Manager iels with the no. 2 pick in the nFL draft, 9. bears: R. Odunze, WR, Washington Washington Commander and roughly
Dave Martinez said. “He pitched the first major domino in a first round 10. Vikings: J.J. McCarthy, QB, Michigan $37 million richer, a reward befitting one
really well. We got to get the dominated by quarterbacks, wide receiv- of the highest-pressure jobs in the D.C.
offense going again. . . . It’s not ers and offensive tackles. on the web area.
see naTionaLS on d5 For the Commanders, the pick was a The Commanders selected the 23-
major step in the new regime’s quest to For full coverage of the entire first round, year-old Heisman Trophy winner with
Nationals at Marlins restore the franchise to glory and end a visit us online at postsports.com the second pick Thursday night and
7 p.m., MASN2 decades-long search for stability at the promptly tasked him with turning
game’s most important position. around a franchise after more than 20
For the rest of the nFL, which has Jayden daniels, who won the years of disappointments.
olyMpics known for months that the Chicago Bears Heisman Trophy at LSU last season no big deal.
would use the no. 1 pick on southern after passing for 3,812 yards and “I'm just coming in and competing,”
WADA, under fire for its California quarterback Caleb Williams, rushing for 1,134, will be the Daniels said. “I'm coming in and really
handling of doping tests of see drafT on d3 centerpiece of Washington’s rebuild. see CommanderS on d3
Chinese athletes, sets up
a review of the case. D2 rounds 2-3: 7 p.m., ABC, ESpN, NFL Network | rounds 4-7: Saturday, noon, ABC, ESpN, NFL Network | svrluga: After the glitz, the hard part awaits. A1
pro bAskeTbAll
Joel Embiid torches the
Knicks for 50 points as
the 76ers get a crucial
125-114 win at home. D6

Ever-moving Hershfelt Caps know discipline will be key to any comeback

finds foothold with Spirit BY B AILEY J OHNSON

Facing an uphill battle is noth-

Rookie is right at home early in her NWSL career
BY T HOMAS F LOYD
Hal Hershfelt’s arms may be
awash in ink, but two tattoos
carry outsize significance for the
Washington spirit rookie.
one, found below her right
wrist amid patterns of branches
and blooms, features the cher-
ished slogan “Fight the good
fight.” “My grandma and my mom
say that to me,” Hershfelt ex-
plained. “stick to your guns. Fight
for what you believe in.”
The second, inked to her left
forearm, depicts Athena, the god-
dess of war and wisdom. Hersh-
felt’s mother, a teacher who loves
Greek mythology, gets credit for
inspiring that tattoo as well.
“That one is probably my favor-
ite,” Hershfelt said. “I remember
just thinking she was so badass.”
Both tattoos befit a player who,
five games into her nWsL career,
is already carving out a reputa-
tion as a midfield warrior. Part-
nering with veteran Andi sulli-
van in the middle, Hershfelt has
brought tenacious tackling, crisp
distribution and uncanny in-
stincts to a spirit squad that, at
4-1-0, sits second in the nWsL
entering Friday night’s match
against the orlando Pride (2-0-3)
at Audi Field.
As the no. 5 overall pick in
January’s nWsL draft, Hershfelt
figured to make an impact sooner
than later. But the Clemson prod-
uct has dictated the tempo from
Day 1, leading all spirit midfield-
ers and forwards in touches, pass-
es completed and passing per-
centage while also netting two
goals and logging all but eight
minutes this season.
“she just is a very complete
player,” sullivan said. “she’s
smart; she’s communicative; she
puts in the work offensively and
defensively, can get out of
see SpiriT on d5
pride at spirit
7:30 p.m., Monumental 2
ing new for these Washington
Capitals, who had to fight their
way up a steep climb just to get
into the stanley Cup playoffs and
now face another one, as they
trail 2-0 in their first-round series
against the new York Rangers.
But as the series pivots to
Washington for Games 3 and 4,
the Capitals feel as if they’re still
in the fight. They took steps for-
ward from the 4-1 loss in Game 1
on sunday into a narrow 4-3 loss
in Game 2 on Tuesday, and that’s
where they’re keeping their focus
ahead of Game 3, which is set for
Friday night at Capital one Are-
na.
“You never want to go down
2-0, but as far as our focus and our
feeling after losing Game 2, it was
said right away in the locker room
that we’re improving as the series
goes on,” winger T.J. oshie said
Thursday. “That’s a good thing.
see CapiTaLS on d5
Game 3: rangers at capitals
BRUCE BENNETT/gETTy iMAgES 7 p.m., Monumental, TNT
“They’re very good on the power play, so we have to find a way to stay out of the box,” Tom Wilson said. New York leads series 2-0
d2
GOLF
McIlroy-Lowry team
shares lead in Big Easy
Rory McIlroy is enjoying his
first visit to New Orleans.
McIlroy and Shane Lowry
shot an 11-under-par 61 in four
ball play Thursday for a share of
the first-round lead in the Zurich
Classic of New Orleans, the PGA
Tour’s only team event.
The Irish duo shared the lead
with the Ryan Brehm-Mark
Hubbard, Ben Kohles-Patton
Kizzire and Aaron Rai-David
Lipsky teams.
The Davis Thompson-
Andrew Novak, Thomas Detry-
Robert MacIntyre and
Cameron Champ-M.J. Daffue
duos were at 62. Twenty teams
were 9 under or better on a
crowded leader board at TPC of
Louisiana. . . .
Grace Kim shot a 7-under 64
at Wilshire Country Club to take
the first-round lead in the LPGA
Tour’s LA Championship.
Maja Stark, Sei Young Kim
and Chanettee Wannasaen were
a stroke back at 65. Stark
finished second last week
outside Houston in the Chevron
Championship, two strokes
behind top-ranked Nelly Korda,
who is not playing this week
after winning her fifth straight
start Sunday. . . .
Charlie Woods failed to
qualify for his first U.S. Open
after shooting 9-over 81 in a local
qualifying event.
The 15-year-old son of Tiger
Woods tied for 61st among the
74 players who finished the
6,975-yard layout at Legacy Golf
& Tennis Club in Port St. Lucie,
Fla. The top five advanced to
regional qualifying.
TENNIS
Nadal takes advantage
of U.S. teen’s nerves
Rafael Nadal cruised to a 6-1,
6-0 victory over mistake-prone
16-year-old American Darwin
Blanch in the first round of the
Madrid Open.
The 37-year-old Nadal showed
no physical limitations in just his
third competitive match since
returning from his latest injury
layoff.
Blanch, playing in only his
second ATP tour match, made 27
unforced errors.
The encounter marked the
largest age gap (21 years 117 days)
between two opponents at an
ATP 1000 tournament.
Felix Auger-Aliassime rallied
to defeat Yoshihito Nishioka,
4-6, 6-1, 6-4, and Lorenzo
Sonego beat Richard Gasquet,
6-2, 7-5. Gasquet was playing in
his 1,000th tour-level match.
Qualifier Thiago Monteiro
topped Dusan Lajovic, 6-4, 6-3,
and fellow Brazilian João
Fonseca rallied to beat American
Alex Michelsen, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2.
In the women’s draw, top-
ranked Iga Swiatek began her
quest with a 6-1, 6-4 win over
Wang Xiyu.
Coco Gauff eased to a 6-0, 6-0
win over Arantxa Rus for her
first tour-level, main-draw win
without losing a game.
Former No. 1 Naomi Osaka
lost, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, to 15th-seeded
Liudmila Samsonova. . . .
The second retractable roof at
Roland Garros will be
inaugurated on the opening day
of the French Open next month,
organizers said.
A ceremony for the roof over
the 10,000-seat Suzanne Lenglen
Court will be held May 26 when
play starts in the main draws.
The main 15,000-seat Philippe
Chatrier Court has had a
retractable roof since 2020.
SOCCER
Foden’s two goals help
Man. City keep rolling
Manchester City chalked up
another big win in its hunt for an
unprecedented fourth straight
English Premier League title,
with Phil Foden continuing his
career-best scoring season with
two goals in a 4-0 thrashing of
host Brighton.
City extended its unbeaten run
in the league to 18 games and
trimmed the gap to leader
Arsenal to one point. City has
five games remaining — one
more than Arsenal. . . .
Liverpool might have found
its replacement for Jürgen
Klopp. Feyenoord Coach Arne
Slot said that the Dutch club is
“negotiating” with Liverpool
over his move to Anfield.
Klopp is leaving Liverpool at
the end of the season after nearly
nine years at the Premier League
club. Slot, 45, has coached
Feyenoord since 2021, winning
the league last year and the
Dutch cup this season. . . .
Bryan Cristante scored in
stoppage time and Roma made
its second trip this month to
EZ Su the washington post . friday, april 26 , 2024
THE DAY IN SPORTS
Aer Lingus College Football
Classic. . . .
The University of New Orleans
hired Texas Southern assistant
and former Loyola New Orleans
coach Stacy Hollowell as the
Privateers’ men’s basketball
coach. . . .
Guard Javian McCollum is
transferring to Georgia Tech
after leading Oklahoma’s men’s
basketball team in scoring this
past season.
He will have one season of
eligibility remaining. . . .
Charlotte announced the
hiring of Tomekia Reed as
women’s basketball coach after
she helped Jackson State win five
consecutive Southwestern
Athletic Conference
championships in six seasons. . . .
Georgia hired Cecile
Canqueteau-Landi, a longtime
personal coach of Olympic
gymnastics champion Simone
Biles, to serve alongside Ryan
Roberts as co-coach of its
women’s gymnastics team. . . .
Longtime South Carolina
women’s equestrian coach Boo
Major, who won three national
titles, is retiring after 26 seasons.
HORSE RACING
Judge denies hearing
on Baffert-trained colt
A Kentucky appeals court
JEAN-CHRISToPHE BoTT/EPA-EFE/SHuTTERSToCK judge denied Zedan Racing
Stables’ requests for an
No time to enjoy the view emergency hearing and ruling
that sought to allow Bob Baffert-
Riders speed along during the second stage of the Tour de Romandie, a UCI World Tour cycling race, in Salvan, Switzerland.
trained Arkansas Derby winner
Muth to run in next week’s
Kentucky Derby at Churchill
Downs.
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Judge Jeff S. Taylor issued an
order denying relief, saying
SPOTLIGHT: O L YMPICS Zedan’s motion failed to name
the Hall of Fame trainer
suspended by Churchill Downs
WADA sets up a review of China doping case as an “indispensable party” in its
motion. Taylor’s order added that
the action “constitutes an
impermissible collateral attack
BY G RAHAM D UNBAR report, WADA said, “within two months” committee of WADA. Its vice president, by a nonparty” after a federal
— just weeks before the opening of the Yang Yang, is a two-time Olympic gold court ruled against Baffert last
GENEVA — Heavily criticized for its secre- Paris Olympics, where some of the same medalist in speed skating from China and year.
tive oversight of positive tests by 23 Chi- Chinese swimmers could compete. a former IOC member. ZRS sued Churchill Downs
nese swimmers before the Tokyo Olym- Three of the 23 swimmers later won Investigations by the New York Times days after Muth’s Arkansas
pics, the World Anti-Doping Agency on gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, where and German broadcaster ARD published Derby victory, seeking entry into
Thursday appointed a veteran Swiss pros- American and British swimmers took the over the weekend detailed how top swim- the May 4 Derby despite the
ecutor to review how it handled the cases. silver medals. The Games were held in mers from China tested positive for the track’s extended suspension of
The Montreal-based doping watchdog 2021. same banned heart medication in Janu- Baffert through the end of this
said Eric Cottier will be an independent One of WADA’s top critics, the U.S. ary 2021 at a national meet about seven year for a failed postrace drug
prosecutor “to conduct a thorough review Anti-Doping Agency, put out a news re- months before the Tokyo Games. test by Medina Spirit (who was
of WADA’s handling of the matter.” lease calling the announcement “self- Chinese authorities told WADA they disqualified and has died) after it
Cottier was attorney general of Vaud, serving” and questioning the independ- found evidence weeks after of contamina- crossed the finish line first in the
Switzerland — the home state of the ence of the investigation. tion, including in spice containers, in the 2021 Derby. . . .
International Olympic Committee and “By calling this an ‘independent’ inves- kitchen of a hotel where the swimmers Triple Crown winner Justify,
swimming governing body World Aquat- tigation, WADA leadership is trying to stayed. It is still unclear how traces of the 2017 horse of the year Gun
ics — for 17 years until his retirement in pull the wool over our eyes,” the release medication trimetazidine (TMZ) got into Runner and jockey Joel Rosario
2022. said. the kitchen. were elected to the National
The prosecutor is expected to deliver a Cottier’s report will go to the executive — Associated Press Museum of Racing and Hall of
Fame in their first year of
eligibility.
They were elected this week in
T E L E V I SI O N A N d R Ad I O the contemporary category.
Jockey Abe Hawkins;
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NFL SOCCER Kentucky Derby in 1875; and
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COLLEGE SOFTBALL time to work their way back.
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AuTO RACING Team USA athlete can gain
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5 p.m. ACC tournament, semifinals: Syracuse vs. Virginia » ACC Network
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» Golf Channel also an athlete stipend.
USATF’s new plan increases
the time frame to give an athlete
more of an opportunity to
recover and more chances to
requalify for its funding, which is
based on results and rankings
Udinese worthwhile with a 2-1 July 24 in Santa Clara, Calif.; and Uruguay goalkeeper season as a starter but played in through a tiered system that
win in the resumption of a MLS club the Vancouver Fernando Muslera, 37, who only three games because of a need to be achieved by a certain
suspended Italian Serie A match Whitecaps on July 27. . . . played in the past four World knee injury. . . . date.
that entailed playing only the Spain’s sports authority says it Cups, announced his retirement Florida Attorney General In addition, USATF is
final 18 minutes. will step in to oversee the from international competition. Ashley Moody sued the ACC in exploring ways to provide child
The score was 1-1 on April 14 Spanish Football Federation an attempt to receive the media care options at big events for
when Roma defender Evan after a corruption probe targeted COLLEGES rights contracts with Florida athletes who are parents. . . .
Ndicka collapsed and the match the current and former State as part of an ongoing The man who fatally shot
was suspended. Ndicka was federation presidents. Quarterback Rashada dispute as FSU seeks to leave the retired NFL defensive end Will
released from the hospital a day Spain’s Higher Sports Council transferring to Georgia conference. Smith during a confrontation
later with a collapsed left lung said it was taking the The university and conference following a car crash in 2016
and has since been cleared to extraordinary measure for the Quarterback Jaden Rashada are suing each other as FSU received a 25-year prison
return to training. . . . coming months “in response to committed to Georgia after seeks to leave the ACC and sentence in a New Orleans
Wrexham, the tiny Welsh club the crisis the institution is facing leaving Arizona State in the explore a more lucrative landing courtroom.
that shot to global fame under and in Spain’s national interests.” transfer portal. spot. FSU is challenging an It was the second time Cardell
the ownership of American The government has Rashada was among the top agreement that binds the school Hayes, 36, faced sentencing in
actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob expressed concern for the 40 prospects in the country, to the league for the next 12 years Smith’s death. He was convicted
McElhenney, will play three reputational damage to the according to ESPN, when he with more than half a billion of manslaughter in December
games in the United States this federation while Spain is set to signed with Florida in December dollars in fees for leaving. 2016 and later sentenced to 25
summer as it prepares for its co-host the 2030 men’s World 2022. He ended up going to On Monday, a judge ordered years. But the jury vote had been
jump to the English third tier Cup with Portugal and Morocco. Arizona State when a the two sides into mediation. . . . 10-2, and the conviction was
next season. Spain is also hoping for success multimillion-dollar name, image Iowa State and Kansas State later tossed after the U.S.
Wrexham will play at this summer’s men’s European and likeness (NIL) deal fell apart will play their 2025 football Supreme Court outlawed such
Bournemouth on July 20 in Championship and at the Paris with the Gators. season opener Aug. 23 at Aviva non-unanimous verdicts.
Santa Barbara, Calif.; Chelsea on Olympics. . . . Rashada began his freshman Stadium in Ireland at the — From news services
friday, april 26 , 2024 . the washington post eZ su d3

Commanders’ new front office takes its first big swing, drafting Daniels at No. 2
Draft from D1
the Commanders’ pick set off a
scramble to scoop up the remain-
ing top signal-calling prospects.
In the next 10 picks, the New
England Patriots chose North
Carolina’s Drake maye (No. 3), the
Atlanta falcons chose Washing-
ton’s michael Penix Jr. (No. 8), the
minnesota Vikings chose michi-
gan’s J.J. mcCarthy (No. 10) and
the Denver Broncos chose or-
egon’s Bo Nix (No. 12) — six
quarterbacks in all, which tied
the record for the most drafted in
a first round with the 1983 class
that included Hall of famers Dan
marino, John Elway and Jim Kel-
ly.
The first 14 players chosen all
came from the offensive side of
the ball, by far the longest streak
to start a draft in NfL history. The
falcons took Penix despite re-
cently signing Kirk Cousins to a
four-year, $180 million contract
in free agency, and the Bears
followed their selection of Wil-
liams by getting him a weapon in
Washington wide receiver rome
odunze. four offensive tackles —
Joe Alt to the Los Angeles Char-
gers at No. 5, JC Latham to the
Tennessee Titans at No. 7, olu
fashanu to the New York Jets at
No. 10 and Taliese fuaga to the
New orleans Saints at No. 14 —
came off the board before a single
defensive player was chosen.
But if some of the offensive
picks were surprising, Daniels
was anything but. for the 23-
year-old, the night capped a mete-
oric rise from NfL afterthought
to top pick. The dual-threat dyna-
mo, seen as one of the most
pro-ready prospects in the class,
played five seasons in college be-
cause of the coronavirus pandem-
ic and shot up draft boards during
“It was a surreal moment,” Jayden Daniels said of hearing his name called as the second overall pick.
his second and final season at
LSU, in which he completed 72.2
percent of his passes for 3,812
yards and 40 touchdowns with
just four interceptions — in addi-
tion to amassing 1,134 yards and
10 touchdowns on the ground.
“It was a surreal moment,”
Daniels said of hearing his name
announced. He had fulfilled the
“childhood dream” he started
chasing as a kid in San Bernardi-
no, Calif., then at Cajon High
School, then for three years at
Arizona State before two years at
LSU.
But Daniels rejected the idea
that he had suddenly taken the
title of “franchise quarterback.”
He stressed he had to work hard
to earn it — “Nothing’s given to
me, no matter how high I was
gregory shamus/getty Images
drafted” — as well as build rela-
tionships with his teammates so
he could lead them.
“That’s what they’re going to
respect,” he said. “They’re going
to respect a hard worker and
someone that’s genuine to them-
selves.”
NfL draft experts often com-
pared Daniels to quarterback
robert Griffin III, making it the
second time in 12 years that
Washington has pinned its fran-
chise hopes on a dual-threat,
Heisman Trophy-winning No. 2
pick with an exciting and explo-
sive style of play that is dampened
only by durability concerns.
Daniels, who measured
6-foot-35/8 and weighed 210
pounds at his pro day, has an
unusually tall and thin frame for
a first-round quarterback. In the
past 20 drafts, only three have
had similar measurements: Ted-
dy Bridgewater (2014), Alex
Smith (2005) and Griffin (2012).
Washington must hope Dan-
iels fares better than Griffin, who
lasted only four years with the
team after his electric rookie sea-
son ended with a devastating
knee injury.
During the draft process, spec-
ulation was rampant that Daniels
wanted to go to the Las Vegas
raiders, whose coach, Antonio
Pierce, recruited Daniels to Ari-
zona State. At a pre-draft charity
event in Detroit on Wednesday, a
reporter asked Daniels whether
he would like to refute those
rumors.
“I’m blessed to go wherever I’m
called,” Daniels answered, repeat-
ing what had essentially become
his version of a campaign stump
speech. “Whoever calls my phone,
[when the] commissioner gets up
and says my name, I’ll be blessed,
and they’re going to get my all.”
Instead, the raiders stayed at
No. 13 and drafted the top tight
end, Georgia’s Brock Bowers, as
part of the record string of offen-
sive players.
Daniels also spoke at length
about the Commanders’ decision
to host about 20 prospects on
visits at the same time, which
included a group trip to the high-
tech driving range Topgolf. NfL
agent ron Butler, who represents
Daniels, seemed to criticize the
approach on X and sparked a
national debate about the effec-
tiveness of the approach.
But Daniels, who doesn’t golf,
said he shot “pretty all right” and
downplayed the controversy.
“I just had fun with the other
guys,” he said. “Just being able to
interact with people throughout
the process, obviously just go out
there and have fun. So, it was
cool.”
on draft day, Daniels said he
woke up at 6:30 a.m. and tried to
keep himself busy with an ap-
pearance on ESPN, with a break-
fast event with NfL Commission-
er roger Goodell and by spending
the down moments with his fam-
ily and LSU wide receivers malik
Nabers and Brian Thomas Jr., two
good friends who also went in the
draft’s first round.
But the day still dragged on. In
the afternoon, he dressed in a
Tom ford suit — light blue, his
favorite color — and put on a
watch and necklaces that glit-
tered. Then, around 8:25 p.m., his
phone rang; it was Commanders
General manager Adam Peters.
Daniels flexed and screamed in
joy, then made what looked like a
long walk to shake hands with
Goodell.
“It felt short,” Daniel said,
laughing. “I was excited!”
And then Daniels was cycling
through interview after interview
after interview, expressing his ex-
citement, preaching humility,
saying he couldn’t wait to work
with his new teammates and get
to know the DmV.
“S---, I’m ready to help the team
win some football games — ex-
cuse my language,” he said. “I’m
ready to go out there and live out
my childhood dream.”

Poise, mental acuity put happens to be a dangerous run-

ner too, having rushed for an
fBS-high (for a quarterback)
And is he the type of quarter-
back who might create havoc for
defensive coaches such as Quinn,
Daniels will probably need to
fill out his lean frame and will
have to work to minimize the
ronald Butler, posted a “thinking
face” emoji on social media that
seemed to imply he wasn’t fond of

LSU QB in elite company 1,134 yards last season.

CommanDers from D1
just trying to play my role, what-
ever that is. I just want to be the
best teammate to help the team
win. And we can bring back some
victories back to D.C., the DmV,
and have some fun.”
for many, Daniels seemed
bound for Washington for
months leading up to the draft.
But no one knew Washington’s
true intention until the selection
was announced in Detroit. Gener-
al manager Adam Peters, in one of
his first feats, plugged the leaks
and ensured no one tipped off his
plans. Not even Daniels knew for
sure where he was headed.
“Honestly, they did a pretty
good job not showing their hand
too much,” he said. “But the con-
versations I had, I was pretty
confident basically off the conver-
sations that we had [that] I was
able to come here and fit into the
Commanders’ team. I’m here
now, and I can’t wait to get to
work.”
months of closed-door meet-
ings in Ashburn resulted in Dan-
iels and former michigan quar-
terback J.J. mcCarthy sitting atop
the Commanders’ list for the No. 2
pick. Daniels won out, giving
Washington a dual-threat quar-
terback known for his natural
playmaking and sound decision-
making.
He completed 72.2 percent of
his passes his final season at LSU
and posted the highest passer
rating in football Bowl Subdivi-
sion history at 208.0. He just so
In his three seasons at Arizona
State and two at LSU, Daniels
became the only player in fBS
history to pass for at least 12,000
yards and rush for at least 3,000.
He’ll try to use both facets of
his game to end Washington’s
carousel at the position. over the
past 10 seasons, the Commanders
have started 14 quarterbacks and
finished above .500 twice.
In searching for a solution,
first-year coach Dan Quinn
spelled out the qualifications he
coveted in the team’s next quar-
terback, which include accuracy
(especially on deep passes) and
mobility. Above all, Quinn want-
ed a player with an elite mental
processor.
How fast can he make the right
decision? Can he speed up his
processing when blitzed? Is he
able to anticipate blitzes? Can he
get out of a broken play?
a former defensive coordinator?
“There's so much information
that comes from that position,”
Quinn said in march. “Like quite
honestly, most of my time as a
defense coach was trying to
change the look for the person so
they had to process after they had
the ball in their hands.”
Daniels fit that qualification —
and many others.
NfL Network’s draft analyst
Daniel Jeremiah described Dan-
iels as “poised and comfortable in
the pocket” and a quarterback
who can throw with “anticipa-
tion, touch and accuracy” and
“manipulate safeties with his eyes
to create separation downfield.”
Jeremiah added: “He needs to
do a better job of protecting him-
self, though, as he took some huge
hits in the games I studied. over-
all, Daniels took a massive leap in
2023 and now offers both a high
floor and ceiling.”
unnecessary hits he takes in the
pocket. But the focus for Peters
and the Commanders was clearly
on his dynamic ability.
“I’m so thrilled and excited to
welcome Jayden Daniels to the
Commanders family!” Com-
manders limited partner magic
Johnson posted on X. “I’m look-
ing forward to all the wins we will
celebrate this season and years to
come with you as our leader. I
know you’ll lead our franchise not
only as our quarterback, but also
in the locker room and the DmV
community!”
Daniels said Peters lauded his
“journey” and work ethic when he
called to inform him of Washing-
ton’s selection.
Yet much of the week leading
up to the draft was centered on
Daniels’s top-30 visit to the Com-
manders, which was shared with
roughly 20 other players, includ-
ing three quarterbacks. His agent,
the group visit, but Daniels and
his publicist immediately tried to
quash any notion that he would
be unhappy in Washington.
“oh, I’m excited,” Daniels as-
sured Thursday night before tick-
ing off the names of many of his
future teammates. “I’m excited to
come in and get to work. I knew
[Washington wide receiver] Jah-
an [Dotson] previously. We’re
kind of around the same age.
obviously, what Terry [mcLau-
rin] has done. At the next level,
you got a great running back in
Brian robinson, Austin Ekeler.
Those guys are very explosive
players. New additions with Zach
Ertz. I’m just happy to come in
and learn how to be a pro. I’m
excited to get to work, and I’m
excited to meet my new team-
mates.”
The feeling seems to be mutual.
“ELITE pick,” Dotson wrote via
text message.

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Baseball
national league american league
East W l pct gb l10 str cEntral W l pct gb l10 str WEst W l pct gb l10 str East W l pct gb l10 str cEntral W l pct gb l10 str WEst W l pct gb l10 str
atlanta 17 6 .739 — 9-1 W-3 milwaukee 16 8 .667 — 6-4 W-2 los angeles 16 11 .593 — 5-5 W-4 Baltimore 16 8 .667 — 8-2 W-1 cleveland 18 7 .720 — 8-2 W-1 seattle 13 12 .520 — 7-3 W-1
1/ 1/
Philadelphia 16 10 .615 21/2 8-2 W-1 chicago 16 9 .640 2 7-3 W-3 san Diego 14 14 .500 21/2 5-5 l-1 New York 17 9 .654 — 5-5 l-1 Kansas city 16 10 .615 21/2 6-4 W-3 texas 13 13 .500 2 5-5 l-1
New York 13 11 .542 4 1/
2 7-3 W-1 cincinnati 14 11 .560 2 1/
2 5-5 l-1 arizona 12 14 .462 3 1/
2 4-6 l-1 Boston 14 12 .538 3 5-5 l-1 Detroit 14 11 .560 4 5-5 l-1 los angeles 10 15 .400 3 3-7 l-1
Washington 10 14 .417 71/2 4-6 l-3 Pittsburgh 13 13 .500 4 2-8 l-2 san Francisco 12 14 .462 31/2 6-4 l-1 tampa Bay 13 13 .500 4 4-6 W-1 minnesota 11 13 .458 61/2 5-5 W-4 Oakland 10 16 .385 31/2 3-7 W-1
miami 6 20 .231 121/2 3-7 l-3 st. louis 11 14 .440 51/2 4-6 W-1 colorado 7 19 .269 81/2 3-7 W-1 toronto 13 13 .500 4 5-5 l-3 chicago 3 22 .120 15 1-9 l-7 houston 7 19 .269 61/2 2-8 l-5

dodgers 2, nationals 1 brewers 7, pirates 5 twins 6, White sox 3 n ot E s

DoDgERS ab R h bi bb So avg gary sánchez hit a edouard Julien hit two of
Betts 2b ............... 3 1 2 0 1 0 .374 pinch-hit, two-run home minnesota’s five solo
Ohtani dh ............. 4 0 0 0 0 2 .358
Freeman 1b.......... 3 0 2 1 1 0 .303 run in the eighth inning to home runs as the twins bakEr is rEcognizEd
T.Hernández rf..... 4 1 1 1 0 2 .255 lift milwaukee to a win over dropped mlB-worst chica- by basEball digEst
K.Hernández 3b ... 4 0 2 0 0 0 .231
Pages cf ............... 4 0 1 0 0 1 .258 Pittsburgh. go to 3-22. Dusty Baker, who retired
Taylor lf ............... 4 0 0 0 0 2 .047 sánchez drove an 0-2 the White sox, who
Rojas ss ............... 4 0 1 0 0 0 .278 following the 2023
A.Barnes c ........... 2 0 0 0 1 0 .222 sinker from aroldis chap- wasted a two-run lead, lost
totaLS 32 2 9 2 3 7 —
season after spending 56
man 371 feet to right to put their season-high seventh
the Brewers ahead 6-5. straight. years in the majors as a
nationaLS ab R h bi bb So avg
Abrams ss.............. 4 1 1 0 0 0 .302 player, coach and
bREWERS ab R h bi bb So avg WhitE Sox ab R h bi bb So avg
Winker dh .............. 4 0 0 0 0 1 .282 manager, received
Meneses 1b............ 4 0 3 1 0 1 .257 Frelick rf .............3 1 0 0 1 1 .279 Lopez 2b................5 1 1 0 0 0 .203
García 2b ................ 4 0 1 0 0 2 .311 Sánchez ph .........1 1 1 2 0 0 .189 Mendick 3b ...........4 0 0 0 1 2 .235 Baseball Digest’s lifetime
Ruiz c...................... 4 0 0 0 0 1 .171 Chourio rf............0 0 0 0 0 0 .213 Sheets rf...............4 0 1 0 0 1 .246
Gallo rf ................... 3 0 0 0 1 3 .129 W.Contreras c.....4 3 2 1 1 0 .365 Jiménez dh ...........4 1 1 0 1 1 .200 achievement award.
Rosario lf ............... 2 0 0 0 0 0 .107 Adames ss ..........3 1 0 0 2 2 .277 Grossman lf ..........4 0 1 0 1 0 .184
Lipscomb ph-3b ..... 2 0 0 0 0 2 .208 Bauers 1b............5 0 2 1 0 2 .176 Vaughn 1b.............5 1 2 0 0 1 .170 Willie mays won the
Vargas 3b-lf ........... 4 0 1 0 0 1 .293 Hoskins dh..........5 0 3 2 0 1 .226 Pillar cf .................2 0 0 1 0 1 .160
Young cf ................. 3 0 1 0 0 2 .271 Dunn 3b ..............5 0 1 1 0 2 .214 Benintendi ph-cf...1 0 0 0 0 1 .165 inaugural award, followed
Perkins cf............3 1 2 0 1 1 .322 DeJong ss .............3 0 1 1 1 1 .211
totaLS 34 1 7 1 1 13 — Turang 2b ...........3 0 1 0 0 0 .321 Lee c......................4 0 2 0 0 1 .279 by vin scully in 2022 and
J.Ortiz ph-2b.......2 0 0 0 0 0 .245 totaLS 36 3 9 2 4 9 — Joe torre last year.
L.a................... 010 000 010 — 2 9 1 Wiemer lf ...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .143
WaShington 000 000 010 — 1 7 0
totaLS 38 7 12 7 5 10 — tWinS ab R h bi bb So avg
E: Vesia (1). Lob: Los Angeles 6, Wash-
Kirilloff lf............3 0 0 0 1 0 .260 pErsonnEl dEpt.
ington 7. 2b: Betts (8), Freeman (8), PiRatES ab R h bi bb So avg Buxton cf ............0 0 0 0 0 0 .247
Young (3), Meneses (2). hR: T.Hernán-
McCutchen dh.....4 0 0 0 1 3 .215 Julien 2b .............4 2 2 2 0 0 .213 athletics: Placed 2B
dez (6), off Gore. Rbi: T.Hernández (20),
Freeman (16), Meneses (10). Sb: Betts Reynolds rf .........5 1 2 0 0 1 .270 Jeffers c..............3 1 1 1 0 0 .275 Zack gelof on the 10-day
(6), Abrams (5). Tellez 1b .............2 1 0 0 1 2 .183 Larnach dh ..........4 1 2 0 0 1 .375
DoDgERS iP h RERbb SonPERa
Joe ph-1b ............2 0 1 0 0 0 .292 Kepler rf..............3 0 1 0 1 0 .212 injured list because of a
Bart c ..................4 2 1 3 1 0 .304 Castro ss.............4 0 1 1 0 0 .192
Yamamoto ........6 4 0 0 1 7 973.54 Suwinski lf..........4 1 1 1 1 0 .183 Santana 1b .........4 1 1 1 0 0 .147 strained left oblique.
Vesia .................1 1 0 0 0 3 152.03 Triolo 3b..............4 0 1 1 0 0 .214 Miranda 3b .........4 1 2 1 0 0 .231
Hudson..............1 2 1 1 0 1 183.00 Cruz ss ................2 0 1 0 2 1 .242 Farmer 3b ...........0 0 0 0 0 0 .067 Mariners: Placed ss
Phillips .............1 0 0 0 0 2 140.84 Taylor cf..............2 0 0 0 1 1 .258 Martin cf-lf.........4 0 0 0 0 2 .235
Williams 2b ........4 0 1 0 0 1 .323
J.P. crawford on the 10-
nationaLS iP h R ER bb So nPERa totaLS 33 6 10 6 2 3 —
totaLS 33 5 8 5 7 9 — day il with a right oblique
Gore ..................6 7 1 1 2 41023.12 chicago........ 010 100 001 — 3 9 0
J.Barnes ............1 1 0 0 0 1 230.00 miLWaUKEE . 102 010 021 — 7 12 0 minnESota.. 000 003 12x — 6 10 1 strain.
Weems..............1 1 1 1 1 1 232.89 PittSbURgh . 300 020 000 — 5 8 0
Finnegan ...........1 0 0 0 0 1 102.61 E: Santana (1). Lob: Chicago 12, Minne- royals: Placed RhP alec
Lob: Milwaukee 10, Pittsburgh 9. 2b: sota 6. 2b: Vaughn (4). hR: Julien (6),
WP: Yamamoto (2-1); LP: Gore (2-2); S: Hoskins (4), Suwinski (4), Cruz (3). hR: off Soroka; Jeffers (4), off Soroka; Ju- marsh on the il after he
Phillips (7). t: 2:36. a: 24,185 (41,376). W.Contreras (5), off Keller; Sánchez lien (7), off Brebbia; Santana (1), off
hoW thEY ScoRED (3), off Chapman; Bart (3), off Peralta. Wilson; Miranda (2), off Wilson. took a 91 mph liner off his
DoDgERS SEconD
bREWERS iP h R ER bb So ERa WhitE Sox iP h R ER bb So ERa pitching elbow against the
Peralta.............. 42/3 5 5 5 5 5 3.18 Soroka ................. 5 4 2 2 2 1 6.83
teoscar hernandez homers. Kike Her-
Milner................. 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 3.38 Banks................... 0 3 1 1 0 0 4.09 Blue Jays on Wednesday
nandez singles. Andy Pages singles.
Kike Hernandez to third. Chris Taylor Uribe.................... 1 0 0 0 0 3 3.65 Leasure................ 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.74 night. Recalled RhP Will
strikes out swinging. Miguel Rojas flies Koenig ................. 1 2 0 0 1 0 1.35 Brebbia ................ 1 1 1 1 0 1 1.93
out. Austin Barnes flies out. Payamps.............. 1 1 0 0 1 0 3.38 Wilson ................. 1 2 2 2 0 1 4.22 Klein from class aaa
Dodgers 1, nationals 0 Megill .................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.59
DoDgERS Eighth
tWinS iP h R ER bb So ERa Omaha.
PiRatES iP h R ER bb So ERa michael Reaves/gettY images W. Richardson..... 5 7 2 2 1 6 2.45
Mookie Betts walks. Shohei Ohtani yankees: 3B DJ
Keller ................... 5 6 4 4 2 7 5.14 Sands................... 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.77
lines out. Freddie Freeman doubles ,
Ryan ................. 12/3 0 0 0 2 1 3.00 Thielbar ............... 1 0 0 0 0 0 11.2
mookie betts scores. Teoscar Hernan-
dez strikes out swinging. Kike Hernan-
Holderman.......... 1/3
Chapman ............. 1
1
2
0 0 0 1 1.59
2 2 0 1 6.75
A grand achievement Stewart ............... 1
Okert .................. 1/3
1
1
0 0 1 2 0.00
1 0 1 0 4.91
lemahieu will be shut
down for at least another
dez flies out.
R.Contreras ......... 1 3 1 1 1 0 4.91 Astros third baseman Alex Bregman notched his 1,000th career hit Thursday with this sixth-inning single Jax ...................... 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 2.53
Dodgers 2, nationals 0 week after an mRi exam
nationaLS Eighth WP: Koenig (1-0); LP: Chapman (0-2); S: WP: Sands (1-0); LP: Banks (0-2); S: Jax
CJ Abrams singles. Jesse Winker Megill (1). inherited runners-scored: Milner in a 3-1 loss to the host Cubs. Bregman, in his ninth season, finished 2 for 4 to raise his average to .216. (4). inherited runners-scored: Leasure and a ct scan showed
grounds out. CJ Abrams to third. Joey 1-0, Holderman 1-0. hbP: Keller (Perkins). 2-0, Jax 3-1. hbP: Brebbia (Jeffers), Ok-
meneses singles, cJ abrams scores. WP: Chapman. t: 3:05. a: 11,570 (38,753). ert (Sheets). t: 2:30. a: 20,363 (38,544). continued swelling in his
Luis Garcia strikes out swinging. Keib-
ert Ruiz flies out. fractured right foot.
Dodgers 2, nationals 1 phillies 5, reds 0 guardians 6, red sox 4 Mariners 4, rangers 3 cubs 3, astros 1 rockies 10, padres 9 royals 2,
Bryce harper homered José Ramírez belted his ty France and luis Urias Pete crow-armstrong hit elias Díaz capped colora- blue Jays 1 (5) today
in his return to the lineup sixth career grand slam hit two-run homers and luis a tiebreaking two-run hom- do’s six-run eighth inning salvador Perez hit a two-
nl leaders following the birth of his and had three hits, Will castillo pitched six solid in- er for his first major league with a tiebreaking RBi dou- run homer in the first in-
Entering Friday’s games. third child, and Philadel- Brennan added a solo nings as seattle took the hit, and chicago swept ble, and the Rockies rallied ning, cole Ragans held to- nl games
batting phia beat cincinnati for its homer, and american series and seized first place houston. past san Diego. ronto in check long enough nationaLS at maRLinS, 7:10
Ohtani, LA ....................................... .371 second shutout win in split- league-leading cleveland in the american league Nico hoerner had three elehuris montero and for the rain to arrive, and
Contreras, Mil .................................. .365 W-L ERa tEam
Betts, LA ......................................... .365 ting a four-game series. held off Boston. West from the reigning hits and mike tauchman hunter goodman homered Kansas city beat the Blue
Williams (R) 2-0 2.91 3-1
Smith, LA ......................................... .352 Zack Wheeler allowed RED Sox ab R h bi bb So avg World series champions. went 1 for 1 with three for colorado, which earned Jays in a game called after
Ozuna, Atl ........................................ .344 Luzardo (L) 0-2 6.58 1-4
Turner, Phi ....................................... .336 one hit in six innings, a Duran cf ..............5 0 1 1 0 3 .255 Nathaniel lowe and Josh walks as the cubs won for a split of the four-game set. five innings and a long
Bohm, Phi ........................................ .333 Devers dh............5 1 3 0 0 1 .263 caRDinaLS at mEtS, 7:10
third-inning single by santi- Refsnyder lf........5 1 2 1 0 1 .429 smith hit solo homers for the fourth time in five PaDRES ab R h bi bb So avg weather delay.
Doyle, Col ......................................... .330 Mikolas (R) 1-3 6.49 1-4
Harris, Atl ........................................ .330 ago espinal. he struck out Abreu rf ..............3 0 0 1 0 0 .306 texas, which had led the di- games. the astros have lost Bogaerts 2b............ 5 0 2 1 0 1 .227 Ragans allowed one run
Reyes 3b .............1 0 0 0 1 1 .167 Tatis rf.................... 5 1 1 0 0 2 .259 Buttó (R) 0-0 1.65 3-0
homE RUnS eight and walked four, ex- Yoshida ph ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .233 vision all season. a season-high five straight Cronenworth 1b ..... 3 1 1 1 1 0 .255 on three hits and three
Ozuna, Atl ............................................. 9 tending his scoreless steak Wong 1b .............1 0 0 0 0 0 .364 and eight of nine overall. Profar dh ................ 4 2 2 3 1 0 .295 walks while striking out PhiLLiES at PaDRES, 9:40
Dalbec 1b ............2 0 1 0 0 1 .077 maRinERS ab R h bi bb So avg
De La Cruz, Cin ...................................... 7 Kim ss..................... 5 1 1 2 0 2 .238
Alonso, NY ............................................ 7
to 131/3 innings. Valdez ph-2b.......2 0 0 0 0 2 .139 Rodríguez cf ........4 1 2 0 0 1 .276 aStRoS ab R h bi bb So avg Campusano c .......... 4 1 1 0 0 2 .286 four. Nola (R) 3-1 3.16 4-1
Hamilton 2b-ss...3 1 1 0 0 0 .194 Haniger rf............4 0 0 0 0 2 .244 Wade lf................... 3 1 1 0 1 1 .235 Musgrove (R) 3-2 5.74 4-2
Busch, Chi ............................................. 6 PhiLLiES ab R h bi bb So avg McGuire c............3 1 2 0 1 1 .275 Raleigh c..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .257 Altuve 2b.............4 1 1 0 0 0 .346
Rosario 3b .............. 2 1 1 1 1 0 .282
Perez’s home run
Abrams, Was ........................................ 6 France 1b.............4 1 1 2 0 1 .266 Bregman 3b.........4 0 2 0 0 2 .216
Schwarber dh .....4 0 0 1 0 3 .194 Rafaela ss-3b .....4 0 0 1 0 2 .163 Azocar cf ................ 4 1 1 1 0 0 .290 snapped toronto pitcher PiRatES at giantS, 10:15
Schwarber, Phi ..................................... 6 Polanco 2b...........4 0 0 0 0 0 .167 Alvarez dh ...........2 0 0 1 1 0 .267
Turner ss ............5 1 3 0 0 0 .336 totaLS 35 4 10 4 2 12 —
Betts, LA .............................................. 6 Moore ss .............3 1 1 0 0 2 .222 Tucker rf..............3 0 1 0 1 1 .283 totaLS 35 9 11 9 4 8 — José Berrios’s streak of Priester (R) 0-1 8.31 0-1
Harper 1b............3 1 2 2 1 0 .256
Tatis, SD ............................................... 6 Garver dh.............3 0 0 0 0 1 .134 Diaz c...................4 0 0 0 0 1 .274
Bohm 3b..............4 0 1 0 0 1 .333 gUaRDianS ab R h bi bb So avg 221/3 scoreless innings. Harrison (L) 2-1 5.00 3-2
Ohtani, LA ............................................ 6 Urías 3b ...............3 1 1 2 0 1 .179 Peña ss................4 0 0 0 0 0 .324 RocKiES ab R h bi bb So avg
Realmuto c .........3 0 1 0 0 1 .235
Kwan lf ...............3 1 1 0 1 0 .346 Clase lf ................3 0 0 0 0 1 .208 Singleton 1b........3 0 0 0 1 1 .238 Tovar ss...............4 2 1 0 1 2 .300
Rbi Marsh lf ..............4 1 1 0 0 0 .270 bLUE JaYS ab R h bi bb So avg
Freeman cf..........2 1 1 0 2 0 .221 McCormick lf.......3 0 0 0 0 1 .235 Doyle cf ...............4 3 3 1 1 1 .330
Castellanos rf .....4 1 1 0 0 0 .177 totaLS 32 4 5 4 0 11 — Springer rf ..........3 0 0 0 0 1 .224
Ozuna, Atl ........................................... 29 Ramírez dh .........4 2 3 4 0 0 .260 Dubón cf ..............3 0 0 0 0 0 .278 McMahon 3b .......5 0 1 0 0 2 .306
Stott 2b ..............4 1 2 2 0 1 .233 Guerrero 1b.........2 0 0 0 1 1 .214 nl scores
Contreras, Mil ..................................... 22 Rojas cf...............4 0 0 0 0 0 .250 J.Naylor 1b .........3 0 0 0 1 0 .295 totaLS 30 1 4 1 3 6 — Díaz dh ................4 0 1 3 0 0 .309
Fry c ....................2 0 0 0 2 0 .286 RangERS ab R h bi bb So avg Bichette ss .........3 0 0 0 0 1 .223
Gurriel, Ari .......................................... 22 Montero 1b .........4 1 1 2 1 1 .233
Bohm, Phi ........................................... 21 totaLS 35 5 11 5 1 6 — Giménez 2b.........4 0 0 0 0 1 .258 Semien 2b ...........4 0 2 1 0 0 .266 Turner dh ............2 1 1 0 0 0 .324 WEDnESDaY’S RESULtS
cUbS ab R h bi bb So avg Rodgers 2b ..........4 1 3 0 1 1 .228
Betts, LA ............................................ 21 Brennan rf ..........4 1 2 1 0 0 .250 Seager dh ............3 0 0 0 1 1 .247 Schneider lf ........0 0 0 0 2 0 .216 L.A. Dodgers 11, at Washington 2
Hoerner 2b .................5 0 3 0 0 0 .300 Cave lf .................3 0 2 0 0 0 .269
Steer, Cin ............................................ 19 REDS ab R h bi bb So avg Arias 3b ..............3 1 0 0 0 0 .280 Lowe 1b...............4 1 1 1 0 0 .294 Clement 3b .........1 0 1 1 0 0 .292 at St. Louis 5, Arizona 1
Tauchman rf...............1 0 1 0 3 0 .298 Bouchard ph-lf ....0 1 0 0 1 0 .278
Hernández, LA .................................... 19 Benson cf............3 0 0 0 1 3 .195 Rocchio ss...........3 0 1 0 0 1 .205 García rf ..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .299 Varsho cf ............2 0 1 0 0 0 .263 N.Y. Mets 8, at San Francisco 2
Happ dh......................2 0 0 0 1 1 .238 Goodman rf .........4 1 1 3 0 1 .167
De La Cruz, Cin .................................... 18 De La Cruz ss ......2 0 0 0 2 0 .306 Carter cf ..............3 0 0 0 0 1 .207 Kirk c...................2 0 0 0 0 0 .167 Milwaukee 3, at Pittsburgh 2
totaLS 28 6 8 5 6 2 — Busch 1b.....................4 0 0 0 0 2 .266 Stallings c ...........4 1 1 0 0 1 .304
Profar, SD ........................................... 18 Steer lf................3 0 0 0 1 1 .258 Wendzel ph .........1 0 1 0 0 0 .083 Kiner-Falefa 2b...2 0 0 0 0 1 .254 at Cincinnati 7, Philadelphia 4
Smith ss..............4 1 2 1 0 1 .292 Swanson ss................4 1 1 0 0 1 .236 totaLS 36 10 14 9 5 9 —
Smith, LA ............................................ 18 Encarnacion- boSton......... 002 002 000 — 4 10 2 totaLS 17 1 3 1 3 4 — at Atlanta 4, Miami 3 (10)
...4 0 0 0 0 2 .200 Langford lf ..........3 1 0 0 1 0 .253 Madrigal 3b................4 0 1 0 0 0 .233
Strand 1b ......... cLEvELanD... 050 000 10x — 6 8 0 San DiEgo..... 013 200 210 — 9 11 0 San Diego 5, at Colorado 2
ERa Duran 3b..............3 0 0 0 0 2 .209 Amaya c .....................4 1 0 1 0 2 .250
Martini rf ............4 0 1 0 0 1 .203 Crow-Armstrong cf ...4 1 1 2 0 2 .250 coLoRaDo .... 103 000 06x — 10 14 0 RoYaLS ab R h bi bb So avg
India dh...............4 0 0 0 0 2 .164
E: McGuire 2 (2). Lob: Boston 8, Cleve- Jankowski ph ......1 0 0 0 0 0 .211 thURSDaY’S RESULtS
López, Atl ........................................ 0.72 land 5. 2b: Brennan (4). 3b: Refsnyder Canario lf....................3 0 0 0 0 2 .250 Garcia 3b .............2 0 0 0 1 1 .202
Candelario 3b......3 0 0 0 1 2 .176 Knizner c .............2 0 0 0 0 2 .136 Lob: San Diego 5, Colorado 8. 2b: Tatis L.A. Dodgers at Washington, 4:05 p.m.
Turnbull, Phi .................................... 1.33 (1). hR: Brennan (3), off Anderson; totaLS 31 3 7 3 4 10 — Witt ss ................3 0 0 0 0 0 .308
Espinal 2b ...........3 0 1 0 0 0 .216 Heim ph-c............2 0 1 0 0 0 .275 (3), Bogaerts (3), Rodgers (5), Díaz (4). Milwaukee 7, at Pittsburgh 5
Suárez, Phi ....................................... 1.36 Ramírez (5), off Anderson. Pasquantino dh ...0 1 0 0 2 0 .244
Maile c ................3 0 1 0 0 2 .143 totaLS 34 3 7 3 2 9 — hR: Kim (4), off Hudson; Profar (3), off Philadelphia 5, at Cincinnati 0
Hicks, SF .......................................... 1.61 hoUSton ...... 100 000 000 — 1 4 0 Perez 1b ..............2 1 1 2 0 0 .352
RED Sox iP h R ER bb So ERa Mears; Montero (1), off Vásquez; Good- at Colorado 10, San Diego 9
Cease, SD ......................................... 1.82 totaLS 29 0 3 0 5 13 — chicago ........ 000 003 00x — 3 7 0 Melendez rf .........2 0 0 0 0 0 .203
Wheeler, Phi .................................... 1.93 Anderson.......... 12/3 3 5 5 3 0 5.52 SEattLE ........ 200 020 000 — 4 5 2 man (1), off Peralta.
Frazier lf..............2 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Assad, Chi ........................................ 2.00 PhiLa............. 004 001 000 — 5 11 0 Bernardino ....... 11/3 1 0 0 1 0 0.93 tExaS ............ 100 100 100 — 3 7 0 Lob: Houston 6, Chicago 10. 2b: Hoerner PaDRES iP h R ER bb So ERa Massey 2b ...........2 0 0 0 0 0 .188
Webb, SF ......................................... 2.33 cincinnati ... 000 000 000 — 0 3 0 Booser ................. 2 1 0 0 1 1 5.40 E: Haniger (3), Moore (1). Lob: Seattle 1, (7). hR: Crow-Armstrong (1), off Vásquez .............22/3 6 4 4 2 2 5.87 Fermin c ..............2 0 1 0 0 0 .211
Abbott, Cin ...................................... 2.60 Weissert.............. 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.69 Texas 6. 2b: Moore (2), Smith (6). hR: B.Abreu. Brito...................21/3 3 0 0 0 0 4.40 Isbel cf.................2 0 1 0 0 0 .214
Lob: Philadelphia 6, Cincinnati 7. 2b: Martin ................. 1 2 1 0 1 0 3.60 France (1), off Heaney; Urías (2), off aStRoS iP h R ER bb So ERa De Los Santos....11/3 0 0 0 0 4 0.84 totaLS 17 2 3 2 3 1 —
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SavES Turner (9), Bohm (9). 3b: Stott (1). hR: Jansen ................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.08 Heaney; Lowe (1), off Castillo; Smith (1), Verlander...........41/3 3 0 0 4 7 1.74 Matsui ................. 1 1 2 2 1 1 2.77
Harper (5), off Martinez.
Suarez, SD ............................................ 9 gUaRDianS iP h R ER bb So ERa off Castillo. Montero............... 1 2 2 2 0 1 2.77 Peralta .................1/3 3 4 4 1 1 4.38 toRonto ......... 000 10 — 1 3 0 athLEticS at oRioLES, 7:05
Finnegan, Was ...................................... 7 PhiLLiES iP h R ER bb So ERa maRinERS iP h R ER bb So ERa B.Abreu..............12/3 2 1 1 0 2 4.97 Kolek ....................1/3 1 0 0 1 1 4.38 KanSaS citY ... 200 00 — 2 3 0
Helsley, StL .......................................... 7 Wheeler............... 6 1 0 0 4 8 1.93 McKenzie............. 4 6 2 2 2 7 4.91 Martinez .............. 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.40 W-L ERa tEam
Herrin ................. 1/3 2 0 0 0 0 0.77 Castillo................. 6 4 2 2 2 6 4.15 RocKiES iP h R ER bb So ERa No outs when winning run scored.
Iglesias, Atl .......................................... 7 Kerkering.......... 12/3 1 0 0 1 2 0.00 Stanek..................2/3 2 1 0 0 2 2.00 Lob: Toronto 5, Kansas City 3. 2b: Tur- Stripling (R) 0-5 5.34 0-5
Phillips, LA ........................................... 6 Hoffman ........... 11/3 1 0 0 0 3 1.59 Sandlin ................ 1 1 2 2 0 1 3.09 cUbS iP h R ER bb So ERa Hudson...............31/3 6 6 6 4 4 6.57
Gaddis ................ 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 Speier.................11/3 1 0 0 0 1 0.90 Lambert .............22/3 0 0 0 0 0 4.67 ner (8). 3b: Isbel (1). hR: Perez (7), off Burnes (R) 3-0 2.76 5-0
Díaz, Cin ................................................ 5 Assad .................52/3 4 1 1 1 5 2.00
REDS iP h R ER bb So ERa Barlow ................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.75 Muñoz.................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.89 Mears................... 1 2 2 2 0 2 5.06 Berríos.
7 tied ..................................................... 4 Wesneski...........21/3 0 0 0 0 1 0.00
Martinez.............. 6 11 5 5 0 3 5.48 Smith................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.00 Neris .................... 1 0 0 0 2 0 4.00 Kinley................... 1 3 1 1 0 1 9.90 bLUE JaYS iP h R ER bb So ERa RoYaLS at tigERS, 1:10
Clase.................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.69 RangERS iP h R ER bb So ERa
StRiKEoUtS Moll ..................... 1 0 0 0 1 1 0.00 Lawrence ............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 5.59 Berríos................. 5 3 2 2 3 1 1.23 Lugo (R) 3-1 2.03 3-2
Heaney................. 6 5 4 4 0 7 6.26 WP: Wesneski (2-0); LP: Montero (0-1);
Wheeler, Phi ....................................... 46 Farmer................. 2 0 0 0 0 2 3.07 WP: Gaddis (1-0); LP: Anderson (0-1); S: Winn .................... 2 0 0 0 0 4 0.00 S: Neris (3). inherited runners-scored: WP: Kinley (1-0); LP: Peralta (1-1); S:
Clase (8). inherited runners-scored: RoYaLS iP h R ER bb So ERa Olson (R) 0-3 3.80 1-3
Glasnow, LA ....................................... 44 WP: Wheeler (2-3); LP: Martinez (0-1). Sborz.................... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 Montero 2-0, B.Abreu 1-1, Wesneski 2-0. Lawrence (2). inherited runners-scored:
Jones, Pit ............................................ 39 Sandlin 2-0, Gaddis 1-1. ibb: off Martin Brito 1-0, De Los Santos 2-0, Peralta 2-2, Ragans................. 5 3 1 1 3 4 3.90
inherited runners-scored: Hoffman 2-0. WP: Castillo (2-4); LP: Heaney (0-3); S: hbP: B.Abreu (Happ), Martinez (Canar- RaYS at WhitE Sox, 7:40
Peralta, Mil ......................................... 38 hbP: Farmer (Realmuto). t: 2:35. a: (J.Naylor). hbP: Anderson (Arias), San- io). WP: Verlander, B.Abreu, Assad. t: Kolek 1-1, Lambert 2-1. WP: Peralta, WP: Ragans (1-2); LP: Berríos (4-1). t:
Greene, Cin ......................................... 36 dlin (Hamilton). WP: Sandlin. Pb: Muñoz (3). inherited runners-scored: Kolek. Pb: Campusano (3). t: 3:06. a: 1:33. a: 9,740 (38,427). Eflin (R) 1-2 3.68 2-3
17,557 (43,891). Speier 2-0. t: 2:18. a: 21,782 (40,000). 2:43. a: 29,876 (41,363).
Cease, SD ............................................ 35 McGuire (2). t: 2:49. a: 16,082 (34,788). 27,705 (50,144). Flexen (R) 0-3 6.41 0-3
King, SD .............................................. 34
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Joey Meneses ended a 14-inning scoreless streak with an rBi single in the eighth for the nationals, who totaled four runs in the series.
Gore good but Yamamoto better as the Nationals fall
nationals from D1
easy to hold that team over there
to just two runs. We just got to hit.
We got to come back. We got to be
aggressive and start hitting the
baseball.”
What Gore showed in that fifth
inning — and for most of six
innings at Nationals Park — was
an ability to avoid damage even
when he didn’t always have his
best stuff. He came out strong,
delivering a 10-pitch first inning
that included a three-pitch strike-
out of ohtani — all on four-seam
fastballs. But his biggest mistake
came an inning later, when he left
a change-up high and over the
middle of the plate that Teoscar
Hernández launched into visiting
bullpen for a 1-0 lead. Later that
inning, Gore threw another high
change-up that Andy Pages hit for
a single to put runners on the
corners with no one out.
While Gore escaped the jam
without any further damage, the
inning cost him 26 pitches. His
third inning required 21 pitches,
driving up his pitch count to 57.
He got through the next three
innings with 45 pitches, ending
his afternoon after six innings,
Hershfelt settles down in new home with the Spirit
spirit from D1
pressure, [is a] great passer — she
just has a lot of different tools at
her disposal and is very willing to
utilize all of them.”
The 22-year-old has proved ad-
ept at acclimating. Born in San
Diego and raised alongside her
younger brother in a military
family, Hershfelt used to only
know one drill: settle in at a base,
quickly make new friends, pack
up after her father was reassigned
and do it all again. All in all,
Hershfelt has lived in Virginia,
maryland, North Carolina, flori-
da, Georgia, South Carolina, mis-
sissippi and, now, Virginia again.
“I like just being thrown into
new environments,” Hershfelt
said. “I do wish that I was some-
where for a long time, but I think
in hindsight it was a good thing
for me and my brother to have to
adapt wherever we went.”
Always a “rowdy” kid, Hersh-
felt eventually found a release on
the soccer field. (“I wasn’t the
greatest when I started,” she ac-
knowledged. “my mom taught me
how to make daisy chains, and I
would do that instead.”) But the
lack of consistent coaching and
limited visibility to scouts ham-
pered her collegiate prospects.
When Hershfelt caught the at-
tention of the elite Concorde fire
Soccer Club in Atlanta, she
moved from florida to Georgia
midway through high school in
hopes of impressing recruiters —
only to promptly tear the ACL and
meniscus in her left knee.
“I feel like my process started
so late, because I was just bounc-
ing around everywhere, which
was challenging, honestly,” said
Hershfelt, who overlapped with
fellow Spirit rookie Croix Bet-
hune at Concorde. “I didn’t take
[soccer] super seriously, and then
when I did, it was taken away
from me. I feel like it just made
me appreciate it so much more.”
Although Hershfelt’s injury
scared off some college coaches,
she said Clemson’s Eddie rad-
seven hits and four strikeouts.
The home run by Hernández was
the lone run charged to the left-
hander.
Gore threw 58 four-seam fast-
balls, but the Dodgers fouled off
17 of them. The first runner
reached in four of Gore’s six
innings, putting him in high-
leverage situations from the
jump. He said his pitch usage
could have led to the foul balls on
the fastball.
“That’s kind of been what’s
happened the last couple out-
ings,” Gore said. “But also, when
you throw heaters, people foul
them off. But I got to understand
why they’re fouling it off. I didn’t
end at-bats as quickly as I could
today. But some of it is, they’re
pretty good.”
He was at 90 pitches to start
the sixth and allowed a leadoff
single to freddie freeman. Gore
shook his head and shrugged. He
needed just four pitches to strike
out Hernández with a curveball.
Then, Jacob Young robbed Kiké
Hernández of an extra-base hit in
the right-center gap and doubled
up freeman, who was by third
base when the center fielder
made the play.
Hal Hershfelt leads Washington’s midfielders and forwards in touches and has scored a pair of goals.
wanski never wavered. finding
stability in South Carolina — easi-
ly the place she has called home
the longest — Hershfelt landed on
the ACC all-freshman team in
2019, the all-ACC third team in
2020, the second team in 2021
and 2022, and the first team last
fall, when she led the Tigers to
their first College Cup appear-
ance.
Along the way, Hershfelt
earned a bachelor’s degree in
psychology with a minor in crimi-
nal justice. When she decided to
use the fifth year of eligibility
granted because of the coronavi-
rus pandemic, she added a mas-
ter’s degree in public administra-
tion with a specialization in
emergency management and
homeland security. As Hershfelt’s
Spirit teammates can attest, she
has a knack for going full throttle
without skidding off the rails.
“She’s just a lot of energy,”
Sullivan said, “but also chill at the
“Today was a growth moment
for him,” martinez said. “He gave
us everything he had, and he
grinded it out. We keep getting
good starting pitching like that,
we’ll be fine.”
Gore, who left trailing 1-0, just
had the misfortune of facing Ya-
mamoto, who also went six in-
nings, all scoreless, allowing four
hits while striking out seven. The
right-hander looks like the real
thing through six starts. Wash-
ington’s offense, however, re-
mains a work in progress. The
team has scored six or more runs
in just five of 24 games and three
or fewer in 13.
And in getting swept at home,
the Nationals managed just four
runs over three games, ending a
14-inning scoreless streak in the
eighth inning Thursday thanks to
an rBI single from meneses. They
hoped that maybe catcher Keib-
ert ruiz, who was reinstated from
the 1o-day injured list after bat-
tling the flu, could help following
a brief rehab assignment, but he
went hitless in four at-bats.
“our pitchers are doing a great
job on the mound and battling
and pitching well,” meneses said.
“And not being able to help them
same time.”
forward Ashley Hatch added:
“Every single day at training she
is always going 100 percent. It’s
kind of a joke now sometimes —
like, ‘Hal, relax, calm down.’ She
brings such a great light and
energy to our team.”
Hershfelt played as a defensive
midfielder in college, modeling
her game after Sullivan’s well
before she could imagine playing
with her. Spirit interim coach
Adrián González, however, has
unleashed Hershfelt’s box-to-box
potential in a two-way role with
newfound attacking autonomy.
Her first professional goal —
the equalizer in a 2-1 win over Bay
fC on march 23 — exemplified
her appeal at the position: After
beating two opponents to a loose
ball in midfield, Hershfelt played
a one-touch pass, made a 40-yard
run into the box, connected with
Trinity rodman’s slipped-in feed
and whipped a no-hesitation shot
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on the offensive side, obviously
it’s very, very frustrating.”
note: Third baseman Nick
Senzel was scratched from Thurs-
day’s game with a stomach illness
and replaced by Ildemaro Vargas.
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into the top corner.
“I feel like my job changes
depending on the game, which
kind of keeps me locked in,”
Hershfelt said. “I like it, just
having a new challenge every
game or new responsibilities. I
like to run, and I feel like it gives
me that green light to go on the
attack more.”
It’s a fitting change for a player
who, one way or another, always
seems to be on the move. But by
quickly finding a foothold in the
Spirit midfield, Hershfelt has
seemed right at home in the
NWSL.
“The first game, of course, it
was a realization of, ‘oh, man, I’m
at a different level now,’ ” Hersh-
felt said. “But at the same time, I
could kind of see it and be like, ‘I
can do this. I feel like I can do it.’
I’m always one of those people
that’s going to be positive. Yeah, I
might be uncomfortable right
now — but I’m going to be okay.”
sTanley cup playoffs Roundup
Florida tightens its grip
on opening-round series
panthers 5,
lightning 3
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Sergei Bobrovsky made 26
saves and matthew Tkachuk
scored twice as the visiting florida
Panthers beat the Tampa Bay
Lightning, 5-3, on Thursday night
to take a 3-0 lead in the first-round
Stanley Cup playoff series.
Brandon montour, Sam rein-
hart and Steven Lorentz also
scored for the Panthers, who will
seek a sweep Saturday night in
Tampa.
Tkachuk had a first-period goal
and added an empty-netter with
32 seconds left.
Steven Stamkos, Tyler motte
and Nicholas Paul scored for Tam-
pa Bay, with Paul cutting the defi-
cit to 4-3 with 5:10 left. Andrei
Vasilevskiy stopped 26 shots.
montour gave florida a 3-2 lead
with a blue-line shot with 3:30 left
in the second period, and Lorentz
made it a two-goal game from the
slot at 9:41 of the third.
After withstanding several
minutes of sustained pressure at
the defensive end, florida tied it at
2 on reinhart’s goal at 9:58 of the
second.
Stamkos scored 44 seconds into
the second before motte put Tam-
pa Bay up 2-1 just 2:12 later. The
34-year-old Stamkos is the ninth
player 34 or older to score in each
of his team’s first three playoff
games and the first since the San
Jose Sharks’ Patrick marleau in
2014.
Thirty-two seconds after the
Panthers killed off Tampa Bay’s
second power play, Tkachuk
opened the scoring midway
through the first.
The Capitals still believe
but need more discipline
Capitals from D1
That means that you’re gaining
belief in yourselves and your
team and your system. A seven-
game series isn’t won or lost in
the first two. It obviously helps
when you go up two, but I like
where our game is trending right
now.”
Washington controlled play for
long stretches of Game 2 and was
arguably the better team at five-
on-five. According to the statis-
tics website Natural Stat Trick,
the Capitals had 20 scoring
chances at five-on-five to the
rangers’ 11 — and had a 7-3 edge
in high-danger scoring chances.
“I feel like five-on-five we do
okay against them,” center Dylan
Strome said this week. “We do
pretty good. Not sure the analyt-
ics or shots, but just feels like in
the game, when we’re five-on-five,
feels like it’s at least even. obvi-
ously, they get two on the power
play and one shorthanded. We get
two on the power play. It’s a pretty
even game besides those. We’ve
got to find a way to maybe limit
the penalties, maybe make some
adjustments. But I still feel like,
and I know we all feel like, we’re
still in the series.”
But between 11 combined pen-
alties and Washington’s six-on-
five sequence at the end of the
game, chasing an equalizer after
pulling goaltender Charlie
Lindgren for an extra attacker,
only 40:46 of the 60-minute game
was played at five-on-five. Capi-
tals Coach Spencer Carbery said
before the series that keeping the
games at five-on-five was one of
Washington’s top priorities.
“We have not done a good job of
that,” Carbery said Thursday, “I
can assure you of that.”
In Tuesday’s game, the rangers
scored twice on the power play,
and the K’Andre miller goal that
proved to be the game-winner
came shorthanded after captain
Alex ovechkin turned the puck
over amid a power play for Wash-
ington. The Capitals had the edge
at five-on-five, but they couldn’t
keep the game in that state long
enough to take advantage of that
momentum.
The two power-play goals
Washington scored were signs of
progress after an 0-of-4 perform-
ance on the power play in Game 1,
but the shorthanded goal for the
rangers was a dagger, and losing
the special teams battle cost the
Capitals the game.
“There’s a lot of calls being
made, so we know that we’re
going to have to be good on the
special teams,” winger Tom Wil-
son said. “They’re very good on
the power play, so we have to find
a way to stay out of the box.”
With different officiating
crews in each game, the standard
d5
Tkachuk became the 12th
U.S.-born player with 20 postsea-
son goals in 50 games or fewer.
The list also includes his father,
Keith Tkachuk.
Tampa Bay appeared to tie it
with 18 seconds left in the first, but
Anthony Cirelli’s goal on the
Lightning’s third power play was
disallowed after a video review
found the play was offside.
The Lightning, which boasted
the NHL’s top regular season pow-
er play, went 0 for 4. florida did
not have a power play.
l HUrriCanEs 3, islanD-
Ers 2: In Elmont, N.Y., defense-
men Brent Burns and Dmitry or-
lov got Carolina off to a fast start
and the Hurricanes held on to
upend the Islanders and seize a
3-0 lead in the first-round series.
Sebastian Aho also scored for
Carolina, and Andrei Svechnikov
had two assists. frederik Anders-
en stopped 29 shots. Carolina won
for eighth time in nine games at
UBS Arena.
Brock Nelson and Pierre
Engvall scored for the Islanders,
who are a loss away from being
eliminated by Carolina in the first
round for a second season in a row.
Ilya Sorokin, who got the start
in goal after Semyon Varlamov
started the first two games, was
pulled in the second period after
giving up three goals on 14 shots.
Varlamov came on and stopped all
eight shots he faced.
Game 4 is Saturday in Elmont.
With the Hurricanes leading
3-2, Andersen made a nice save
while falling backward on a shot
by Alexander romanov about
61/2 minutes into the third period.
The puck lay in the paint briefly.
Andersen made another stellar
save while sitting on the ice when
he reached up to grab a shot by
romanov with 5:48 left.
capitals vs. Rangers
Rangers lead best-of-seven series
2-0
Sunday: New York 4, Washington 1
Tuesday: New York 4,
Washington 3
Friday: at Washington, 7
(TNT/TruTV)
Sunday: at Washington, 8
(TBS/TruTV)
Thursday*: at New York, TBD
May 3*: at Washington, TBD
May 5*: at New York, TBD
* if necessary
All games also on Monumental
that was set in Games 1 and 2 —
quick whistles and close atten-
tion paid to stick infractions —
may not carry over as the series
goes on. But the Capitals know
that regardless of the standard
the referees set, they have to be
more disciplined to give them-
selves a chance.
Carbery pointed specifically to
defenseman martin fehervary’s
interference penalty against Alex-
is Lafrenière — a penalty that
came just 20 seconds after
Strome tied the game at 2 — as a
moment that Washington can’t
let happen again.
“Now we’re going shorthand-
ed, and we just tied the game. We
just grabbed momentum in the
game. Those are instances and
situations where we have to be
smarter from a discipline stand-
point,” Carbery said Thursday.
“[Center Nic Dowd’s] penalty as
well. I know what he’s doing. He’s
trying to box out. His stick gets
high. They don’t have a choice.
They have to call a penalty there.
We can do a better job of trying to
keep this thing at five-on-five and
help ourselves.”
The Capitals have been at their
best this year in must-win situa-
tions, and while Game 3 isn’t
technically a must-win, it’s a criti-
cal game for Washington, which
hopes to change the momentum.
In the two losses to open the
series, the blueprint for what it
will take for the Capitals to win a
game against the rangers be-
came clear: limit penalties, man-
age the momentum swings with-
in the game and take advantage of
the moments when they’re able to
control play at five-on-five.
And they believe, despite the
2-0 deficit they’re facing, that if
they do all of that, they’ll have a
chance.
“It’s amazing the belief that we
had in the room coming in after
going down 2-0,” oshie said. “I’ve
been part of a lot of playoff teams.
I’ve been down two plenty of
times. That’s not the typical faith
that you see going down two, so I
like where our game is at.”
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Joel Embiid, who said that the 76ers would win the series after they
fell behind 2-0, poured in 18 points in the decisive third quarter.
NBA PLAyOFFS ROUNdUP
Embiid drops 50 points
to give Philadelphia life
76ers 125,
knicks 114
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Joel Embiid scored 50 points,
making all four three-point at-
tempts and scoring 18 in a poten-
tially series-shifting third quarter
Thursday night to lead the Phila-
delphia 76ers to a 125-114 home
win over the New York Knicks in
Game 3 of their Eastern Confer-
ence first-round series.
After the 76ers dropped Game
2, Embiid boldly stated, “We’re
going to win this series.”
With one of the finest postsea-
son efforts of his career, Embiid
became the third player to ever
score 50 points against the Knicks
in the postseason and kept the
hope of a Philadelphia series
comeback very much alive.
The Knicks lead the series 2-1.
Game 4 is Sunday in Philadelphia.
Embiid was 13 of 19 from the
field, made 19 of 21 free throws and
hit five three-pointers.
Last season’s NBA MVP, Embiid
finally turned the crowd — which
had a distinct New York flavor in
South Philly — into one rocking
for the home team. The all-star
center played more like a sharp-
shooting guard in the third, when
he saved the season.
The 76ers pecked away at a
three-point halftime deficit when
Embiid got hot. He hit one three
and then two more — both with
assists from Tyrese Maxey — to
give Philadelphia an 82-72 lead.
His fourth triple pushed the lead
to 98-85.
Not bad for a career 34 percent
shooter from long range.
Maxey added two threes in the
quarter, and the 76ers went a
whopping 9 of 12 from beyond the
arc for 43 points.
After getting punished in New
York, the 76ers pushed back.
Embiid’s bulky left knee brace
helped sturdy the 7-footer after he
dealt with injuries all season. He
mostly kept his cool and was in the
mix on both ends of the court all
game. Embiid had 17 points and
three fouls and even grabbed
Mitchell Robinson and dragged
him to the court in a first half
where they again weren’t good
enough to look like a team that
could beat the Knicks.
The Knicks won the first two
games in New York, highlighted by
Donte DiVincenzo’s go-ahead
three-pointer with 13 seconds left
in Game 2. Against the backdrop
of two Villanova national champi-
onship banners they helped the
program win, the trio of former
Wildcats were largely stifled in
Game 3.
Jalen Brunson did lead the
Knicks with 39 points and 13 as-
sists. Josh Hart — whose spectacu-
lar three-point shooting in New
York was an unexpected bonus for
the Knicks — scored 20 points, but
DiVincenzo had five.
They must have felt at home
inside a 76ers arena that sounded
more like Madison Square Garden
as chants of “Let’s go, Knicks!”
echoed throughout the arena for a
chunk of the game. John Starks
wildly cheered them on from
courtside.
The 76ers countered with Allen
Iverson.
But nostalgia didn’t matter
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much between two teams that
played each other in a postseason
series for the first time since 1989.
This one could be shaping up as
one to remember.
Embiid was serenaded with
“MVP! MVP!” chants as he
stretched the lead from the free
throw line in the fourth quarter.
“Joel Embiid has been banned
from the Empire State Building,”
was posted on the skyscraper’s
social media account.
Maxey finished with 25 points.
Kelly Oubre Jr. had 15 points and
showed no lingering effects fol-
lowing his reported involvement
in a car crash after Game 2.
Game 3 was played without any
significant disputes with the offi-
ciating after the NBA said the ref-
erees missed several late calls in
Game 2.
l MAGIC 121, CAVALIERS
83: Paolo Banchero had 31 points
and 14 rebounds, Jalen Suggs add-
ed 24 points and Orlando handed
host Cleveland the worst playoff
loss in franchise history to cut its
deficit to 2-1 in their series.
Franz Wagner finished with 16
points and eight assists for the
Magic, which led by 43 points in
the fourth quarter on the way to
the third-largest margin of victory
in a playoff game. Orlando earned
its first playoff victory since 2020
and its first on its home floor since
April 26, 2011.
The Magic can even the series
with a victory at home Saturday
afternoon.
Jarrett Allen had 15 points and
eight rebounds for the Cavaliers,
who shot 39 percent from the field
and 23.5 percent from three-point
range. Caris LeVert added 15
points, and Donovan Mitchell had
13 points and seven assists.
The Cavaliers’ previous worst
playoff loss was a 36-point defeat
against the Washington Wizards
on April 24, 2008.
Orlando never had a lead dur-
ing the first two games in Cleve-
land but blew this one open in the
third quarter. Mitchell, Allen, and
Cleveland starters Evan Mobley
and Max Strus were taken out of
the game with 3:16 left in the
period and the Cavaliers down
92-58.
Bucks could be down two stars
The Milwaukee Bucks face the
possibility of continuing their
Eastern Conference first-round
series against the Indiana Pacers
on Friday without two of their top
three players.
Khris Middleton has a sprained
right ankle that kept him from
practicing Thursday and puts his
status in question for Game 3 in
Indianapolis. The Bucks already
played the first two games of this
series without two-time MVP Gi-
annis Antetokounmpo, who has a
left calf strain.
The NBA’s injury report listed
Antetokounmpo as doubtful and
Middleton as questionable for Fri-
day’s game. The Bucks and Pacers
are tied at 1 in the best-of-seven
series.
Middleton was limping in the
first quarter of the Bucks’ 125-108
Game 2 loss Tuesday and briefly
went into the locker room, but he
returned after getting his right
ankle retaped and ended up play-
ing 36 minutes.
Antetokounmpo hasn’t played
since straining his left calf April 9
against the Boston Celtics.
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ceLtics And heAt tied, 1-1 rAnGers LeAd cApitALs, 2-0 Columbus ..........................3 1 5 14 12 9 3. New England, Drake Maye, qb, North Carolina.
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Wednesday’s game: Miami at Boston, TBD x-Wednesday's game: Washington at New York, TBA Charlotte FC ......................3 4 2 11 9 11 8. Atlanta, Michael Penix Jr., qb, Washington.
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Game 2: at New York 104, Philadelphia 101 Game 2: at Carolina 5, New York 3
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Sunday's game: New York at Philadelphia, 1 Saturday's game: Carolina at New York, 2
Tuesday's game: Philadelphia at New York, TBD west w L t pts Gf GA 14. New Orleans, Taliese Fuaga, ot, Oregon State.
x-Tuesday's game: New York at Carolina, TBA 15. Indianapolis, Laiatu Latu, edge, UCLA.
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Sunday's game: Milwaukee at Indiana, 7 Saturday's game: Florida at Tampa Bay, 5 Austin FC ..........................3 3 3 12 12 13 21. Miami, Chop Robinson, de, Penn State.
Tuesday’s game: Indiana at Milwaukee, TBD x-Monday's game: Tampa Bay at Florida, TBA St. Louis City SC ...............2 1 6 12 15 14 22. Philadelphia, Quinyon Mitchell, cb, Toledo.
x-Thursday's game: Milwaukee at Indiana, TBD x-Wednesday's game: Florida at Tampa Bay, TBA Sporting KC .......................2 2 5 11 17 16 23. Jacksonville (from Minnesota), Brian Thomas Jr., wr.
x-Saturday, May 4: Indiana at Milwaukee, TBD x-Saturday, May 4: Tampa Bay at Florida, TBA Portland ............................2 3 4 10 18 18 LSU.
cAVALiers LeAd mAGic, 2-1 Seattle ..............................1 4 3 6 9 9 24. Detroit (from Dallas), Terrion Arnold, cb, Alabama.
bruins LeAd mApLe LeAfs, 2-1 25. Green Bay, Jordan Morgan, ot, Arizona.
Game 1: at Cleveland 97, Orlando 83 Game 1: at Boston 5, Toronto 1 FC Dallas ...........................1 5 2 5 7 12
Game 2: at Cleveland 96, Orlando 86 Game 2: Toronto 3, at Boston 2 San Jose............................1 8 0 3 13 24 remAinder of picks were mAde After
Game 3: at Orlando 121, Cleveland 83 Game 3: Boston 4 at Toronto 2 press time
Saturday's game: Cleveland at Orlando, 1
sAturdAY’s resuLts
Saturday's game: Boston at Toronto, 8
Tuesday's game: Orlando at Cleveland, TBD Tuesday’s game: Toronto at Boston, TBA at New York City FC 2, D.C. United 0
x-Friday, May 3: Cleveland at Orlando, TBD x-Thursday, May 2: Boston at Toronto, TBA Cincinnati 2, at Atlanta 1
x-Sunday, May 5: Orlando at Cleveland, TBD x-Saturday, May 4: Toronto at Boston, TBA Portland 2, at Columbus 2 United Football League
at Miami 3, Nashville 1
western conference western conference XfL w L t pct pf pA
thunder LeAds peLicAns, 2-0 Orlando City 2, at CF Montreal 2
Jets And AVALAnche tied, 1-1 St. Louis ............................3 1 0 .750 106 83
Game 1: Oklahoma City 94, at New Orleans 92 at Toronto FC 1, New England 0
Game 1: at Winnipeg 7, Colorado 6 San Antonio ......................3 1 0 .750 90 71
Game 2: at Oklahoma City 124, New Orleans 92 Real Salt Lake 4, at Chicago 0
Game 2: Colorado 5 at Winnipeg 2 D.C.....................................2 2 0 .500 82 93
Saturday's game: Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 3:30 Friday's game: Winnipeg at Colorado, 10 Austin FC 1, at Houston 0
Arlington...........................0 4 0 .000 75 100
Monday’s game: Oklahoma City at New Orleans, TBD Sunday's game: Winnipeg at Colorado, 2:30 St. Louis City SC 3, at Sporting KC 3
x-Wednesday's game: New Orleans at Oklahoma City, TBD Tuesday’s game: Colorado at Winnipeg, TBA at Colorado 2, FC Dallas 1
x-Friday, May 3: Oklahoma City at New Orleans, TBD usfL w L t pct pf pA
x-Thursday's game: Winnipeg at Colorado, TBA New York 2, at Los Angeles FC 2
x-Sunday, May 5: New Orleans at Oklahoma City, TBD Birmingham ......................4 0 0 1.000 100 59
x-Saturday, May 4: Colorado at Winnipeg, TBA Vancouver 2, at Seattle 0 Michigan ...........................2 2 0 .500 74 75
nuGGets LeAd LAkers, 2-0 oiLers And kinGs tied, 1-1 Memphis ...........................1 3 0 .250 68 97
Game 1: at Denver 114, Los Angeles 103
sundAY’s resuLts
Game 1: at Edmonton 7, Los Angeles 4 Houston ............................1 3 0 .250 67 84
Game 2: at Denver 101, Los Angeles 99 Game 2: Los Angeles 5, at Edmonton 4 (OT) Minnesota 3, at Charlotte FC 0
Game 3: Denver at Los Angeles, late Friday's game: Edmonton at Los Angeles, 10:30 at LA Galaxy 4, San Jose 3 week4
Saturday's game: Denver at Los Angeles, 8:30 Sunday's game: Edmonton at Los Angeles, 10:30 sAturdAY’s resuLts
x-Monday's game: Los Angeles at Denver, TBD sAturdAY’s mAtches
Wednesday's game: Los Angeles at Edmonton, TBA at Birmingham 20, D.C. 18
x-Thursday's game: Denver at Los Angeles , TBD x-Friday, May 3: Edmonton at Los Angeles, TBA Seattle at D.C. United, 7:30 at St. Louis 32, Memphis 17
x-Saturday, May 4: Los Angeles at Denver, TBD x-Sunday, May 5: Los Angeles at Edmonton, TBA LA Galaxy at Austin FC, 1:30 at San Antonio 19, Michigan 9
timberwoLVes LeAd suns, 2-0 cAnucks And predAtors tied, 1-1 Colorado at Cincinnati, 7:30
sundAY’s resuLt
Game 1: at Minnesota 120, Phoenix 95 Game 1: at Vancouver 4, Nashville 2 CF Montreal at Columbus, 7:30
Game 2: at Minnesota 105, Phoenix 93 Charlotte FC at New York City FC, 7:30 at Houston 17, Arlington 9
Game 2: Nashville 4 at Vancouver 1
Friday's game: Minnesota at Phoenix, 10:30 Friday's game: Vancouver at Nashville, 7:30 Miami at New England, 7:30 week 5
Sunday's game: Minnesota at Phoenix, 9:30 Sunday's game: Vancouver at Nashville, 5 Vancouver at New York, 7:30 sAturdAY’s GAmes
x-Tuesday's game: Phoenix at Minnesota, TBD Tuesday’s game: Nashville at Vancouver, TBA Toronto FC at Orlando City, 7:30
x-Thursday's game: Minnesota at Phoenix, TBD San Antonio at Arlington, 7
x-Friday, May 3: Vancouver at Nashville, TBA Real Salt Lake at Philadelphia, 7:30
x-Saturday, May 4: Phoenix at Minnesota, TBD Birmingham at Houston, 7
x-Sunday, May 5: Nashville at Vancouver, TBA Atlanta at Chicago, 8:30
cLippers And mAVericks tied, 1-1 GoLden kniGhts LeAd stArs, 2-0 sundAY’s GAmes
Houston at FC Dallas, 8:30
Game 1: at Los Angeles 109, Dallas 97 Game 1: Vegas 4, at Dallas 3 Sporting KC at Minnesota, 8:30 St. Louis at D.C., 12
Game 2: Dallas 96 at Los Angeles 93 Game 2: Vegas 3, at Dallas 1 San Jose at Nashville, 8:30 Michigan at Memphis, 3
Friday's game: Los Angeles at Dallas, 8 Saturday's game: Dallas at Vegas, 10:30
Portland at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 week 6
Sunday's game: Los Angeles at Dallas, 3:30 Monday's game: Dallas at Vegas, TBA
Wednesday’s game: Dallas at Los Angeles, TBD x-Wednesday's game: Vegas at Dallas, TBA sAturdAY, mAY 4 sAturdAY, mAY 4
x-Friday, May 3: Los Angeles at Dallas, TBD x-Friday, May 3: Dallas at Vegas, TBA Birmingham at Memphis, 12
Philadelphia at D.C. United, 7:30
x-Sunday, May 5: Dallas at Los Angeles, TBD x-Sunday, May 5: Vegas at Dallas, TBA Houston at St. Louis, 3
Minnesota at Atlanta, 7:30
Portland at Charlotte FC, 7:30 sundAY, mAY 5
New York at Miami, 7:30 San Antonio at D.C., 4
Magic 121, Cavaliers 83 Panthers 5, Lightning 3 Cincinnati at Orlando City, 7:30 Arlington at Michigan, 1
cleveland ............................ 21
orlando ............................... 31
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25 — 121
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Los Angeles FC at San Jose, 7:30
FC Dallas at Toronto FC, 7:30
cLeVeLAnd min fG ft o-t A pf pts first period New England at Chicago, 8:30
Mobley 22:18 4-9 2-2 0-2 1 2 10 St. Louis City SC at Houston, 8:30 gOLF
scoring: 1, Florida, Tkachuk 2 (Verhaeghe, Lundell), CF Montreal at Nashville, 8:30
Strus 24:12 2-6 0-0 0-1 1 0 4 10:39.
Allen 24:19 5-6 5-5 3-8 0 2 15 Sporting KC at Real Salt Lake, 9:30
Garland 30:52 2-10 0-0 0-3 6 0 5 second period Austin FC at Vancouver, 10:30 PgA Tour
Mitchell 26:52 6-16 0-1 0-5 7 1 13 scoring: 2, Tampa Bay, Stamkos 3 (Hedman, Kucherov), Zurich cLAssic
LeVert 29:17 5-13 4-5 0-2 3 0 15 sundAY, mAY 5
0:44. 3, Tampa Bay, Motte 1 (Jeannot), 2:56. 4, Florida, At TPC Louisiana; in New Orleans
Merrill 21:42 3-4 0-0 0-2 2 3 9 Colorado at New York City FC, 4 purse: $8.9 million
Reinhart 2 (Montour, Tarasenko), 9:58. 5, Florida,
Niang 17:57 3-8 0-0 1-3 0 1 7 LA Galaxy at Seattle, 6:30
Okoro 15:53 0-3 0-0 0-1 2 4 0
Montour 1 (Lorentz, Okposo), 16:30. Yardage: 7,425; par: 72
Thompson 10:10 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 2 0 third period first round
Morris Sr. 9:29 2-6 0-0 0-2 0 1 5 A.Rai/D.Lipsky ................................... 30 31 — 61 -11
Jones 6:59 0-0 0-0 1-2 2 0 0 scoring: 6, Florida, Lorentz 1 (Cousins, Forsling), 9:41. 7, NWSL B.Kohles/P.Kizzire ............................. 30 31 — 61 -11
Tampa Bay, Paul 1 (Duclair, Cernak), 14:50. 8, Florida,
totALs 240 32-82 11-13 5-32 24 16 83 Tkachuk 3 (Forsling, Verhaeghe), 19:28 (en). w L t pts Gf GA R.Brehm/M.Hubbard ......................... 30 31 — 61 -11
Kansas City .......................4 0 1 13 17 10 R.McIlroy/S.Lowry ............................. 30 31 — 61 -11
percentages: FG .390, FT .846. 3-point Goals: 8-34, .235 shots on GoAL Washington ......................4 1 0 12 9 4 C.Champ/M.Daffue ............................ 33 29 — 62 -10
(Merrill 3-4, Niang 1-2, Garland 1-4, Morris Sr. 1-4, D.Thompson/A.Novak ....................... 31 31 — 62 -10
LeVert 1-5, Mitchell 1-6, Okoro 0-2, Mobley 0-3, Strus fLoridA ................................ 11 9 11 — 31 Chicago..............................3 1 1 10 7 4
T.Detry/R.Macintyre ......................... 30 32 — 62 -10
tAmpA bAY .......................... 10 12 7 — 29 North Carolina...................3 2 0 9 10 5
0-4). team rebounds: 9. team turnovers: None. blocked
power-play opportunities: Florida 0 of 0; Tampa Bay 0 of Orlando .............................2 0 3 9 6 4 B.Taylor/S.O'Hair .............................. 31 32 — 63 -9
shots: 8 (Mobley 3, Allen, Jones, LeVert, Niang, Thomp- C.Conners/T.Pendrith ........................ 32 31 — 63 -9
son). turnovers: 14 (Allen 2, Jones 2, LeVert 2, Mitchell 4. Goalies: Florida, Bobrovsky 3-0-0 (29 shots-26 saves). Louisville...........................1 0 4 7 9 5
C.Tarren/D.Skinns ............................. 29 34 — 63 -9
2, Niang 2, Okoro 2, Garland, Morris Sr.). steals: 2 (Okoro Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 0-3-0 (30-26). A: 19,092 Angel City .........................2 2 1 7 6 7
2). technical fouls: None. (19,092). t: 2:34. Bay FC ...............................2 3 0 6 9 12 G.Higgo/R.Fox ................................... 31 32 — 63 -9
Portland ............................1 3 1 4 10 11 G.Sigg/C.Hadley ................................. 31 32 — 63 -9
orLAndo min fG ft o-t A pf pts San Diego ..........................1 2 1 4 2 3 K.Mitchell/J.Dahmen ........................ 31 32 — 63 -9
Gotham FC ........................1 2 1 4 2 4 L.List/H.Norlander ............................. 31 32 — 63 -9
Banchero 29:19 13-26 1-2 7-14 5 3 31
Houston ............................1 3 1 4 6 14 M.Meissner/A.Smotherman ............. 32 31 — 63 -9
F.Wagner 30:08 6-12 3-3 0-5 8 3 16
Carter Jr. 24:44 1-4 0-0 1-5 0 2 2
hurricanes 3, Islanders 2 Seattle ..............................1 4 0 3 5 8 N.Lashley/R.Campos ......................... 32 31 — 63 -9
Utah Royals FC..................1 4 0 3 4 11 N.Taylor/A.Hadwin ............................ 31 32 — 63 -9
Harris 21:06 0-3 2-2 1-2 0 3 2 cAroLinA ............................... 2 1 0 — 3
S.Stevens/P.Barjon ........................... 30 33 — 63 -9
Suggs 27:53 9-11 3-3 0-4 3 1 24 n.Y. isLAnders ...................... 0 2 0 — 2
M.Wagner 17:41 1-5 0-0 1-6 0 4 2
fridAY, ApriL 19 Z.Blair/P.Fishburn ............................. 33 30 — 63 -9
first period at Orlando 1, San Diego 0 Z.Johnson/R.Palmer .......................... 33 30 — 63 -9
Fultz 17:01 4-6 3-4 1-2 0 1 11
A.Eckroat/C.Gotterup ........................ 32 32 — 64 -8
Anthony 16:16 4-7 1-1 0-1 3 2 10 scoring: 1, Carolina, Burns 1 (Teravainen, Necas), 4:46.
Isaac 16:00 3-5 0-0 0-2 0 1 8
sAturdAY’s resuLts B.Silverman/K.Dougherty ................. 34 30 — 64 -8
2, Carolina, Orlov 1 (Guentzel, Svechnikov), 10:25. D.Berger/V.Perez ............................... 33 31 — 64 -8
Ingles 9:32 0-1 0-0 0-3 1 0 0 at Washington 2, Gotham FC 0
Houstan 6:59 1-1 0-0 1-2 0 0 3 second period at Louisville 5, Utah Royals FC 1 H.Hall/S.Piercy .................................. 33 31 — 64 -8
J.Spaun/H.Buckley ............................ 30 34 — 64 -8
Black 6:36 2-5 0-0 1-2 2 0 4 scoring: 3, N.Y. Islanders, Engvall 1 (Lee, Pelech), 2:48. 4, at Kansas City 5, Bay FC 2
K.Yu/C.Pan ......................................... 32 32 — 64 -8
Bitadze 5:35 0-2 0-0 1-3 1 0 0 Carolina, Aho 2 (Svechnikov, Chatfield), 7:14. 5, N.Y. at Portland 4, Houston 1
M.Wallace/T.Olesen .......................... 31 33 — 64 -8
Howard 5:35 2-2 0-0 0-0 0 1 5 Islanders, Nelson 1 (Palmieri, Pulock), 17:39.
sundAY’s resuLts N.Echavarria/M.Greyserman ............ 33 31 — 64 -8
Okeke 5:35 1-2 1-1 0-0 1 0 3
totALs 240 47-92 14-16 14-51 24 21 121 shots on GoAL Chicago 2, at Seattle 1
cAroLinA ............................... 9 10 3 — 22 at Angel City 2, North Carolina 1
percentages: FG .511, FT .875. 3-point Goals: 13-37, .351
(Banchero 4-9, Suggs 3-5, Isaac 2-4, Houstan 1-1,
n.Y. isLAnders .................... 15 5 11 — 31
fridAY’s mAtches LPgA Tour
power-play opportunities: Carolina 0 of 2; N.Y. Islanders
Howard 1-1, Anthony 1-3, F.Wagner 1-5, Carter Jr. 0-1, 0 of 2. Goalies: Carolina, Andersen 2-0-0 (31 shots-29 Orlando at Washington, 7:30 LA chAmpionship
Ingles 0-1, M.Wagner 0-1, Okeke 0-1, Black 0-2, Harris saves). N.Y. Islanders, Sorokin 0-0-0 (14-11). A: 0 Kansas City at Angel City, 10 At Wilshire Country Club; in Los Angeles
0-3). team rebounds: 7. team turnovers: 1. blocked (17,113). t: 2:26. purse: $3 million
shots: 3 (Isaac, M.Wagner, Suggs). turnovers: 8 (How- sAturdAY’s mAtches Yardage: 6,447; par: 71
ard 2, Anthony, Bitadze, Fultz, Isaac, M.Wagner, Suggs). Seattle at North Carolina, 7
steals: 7 (Suggs 2, Anthony, Banchero, Black, Harris,
Houston at Utah Royals FC, 7:30
first round
Isaac). technical fouls: None. A: 18,846 (18,846). t: 2:10. Grace Kim ........................................... 32 32 — 64 -7
golden Knights 3, Stars 1 Portland at Chicago, 7:30
Sei Young Kim .................................... 33 32 — 65 -6
Bay FC at San Diego, 10
Late Wednesday Maja Stark .......................................... 31 34 — 65 -6
sundAY’s mAtch Chanettee Wannasaen ...................... 32 33 — 65 -6
76ers 125, Knicks 114 VeGAs ..................................... 1 1 1 — 3 Nataliya Guseva ................................. 31 35 — 66 -5
dALLAs .................................... 1 0 0 — 1 Louisville at Gotham FC, 5
new York ............................ 29 29 27 29 — 114 Auston Kim ........................................ 33 33 — 66 -5
philadelphia ........................ 27 28 43 27 — 125 first period wednesdAY, mAY 1 Hae-Ran Ryu ...................................... 33 33 — 66 -5
Washington at Chicago, 8
Hannah Green .................................... 35 32 — 67 -4
new York min fG ft o-t A pf pts scoring: 1, Dallas, Robertson 2 (Benn, Heiskanen), 16:47 Bianca Pagdanganan .......................... 34 33 — 67 -4
Anunoby 39:21 7-11 0-0 1-4 2 2 17 (pp). 2, Vegas, Marchessault 2 (Barbashev, Eichel), North Carolina at Orlando, 7 Amy Yang ........................................... 32 35 — 67 -4
Hart 43:22 8-16 0-0 3-6 6 4 20 18:09. Portland at Bay FC, 10 Celine Boutier ..................................... 35 33 — 68 -3
Hartenstein 25:51 7-12 0-0 2-4 1 5 14 Gemma Dryburgh ............................... 34 34 — 68 -3
second period Esther Henseleit ................................ 35 33 — 68 -3
Brunson 45:25 13-27 10-12 0-2 13 3 39
DiVincenzo 28:18 2-7 1-2 1-4 3 2 5 scoring: 3, Vegas, Hanifin 1, 18:53. TeNNIS Ashleigh Buhai ................................... 35 34 — 69 -2
McBride 22:17 3-7 0-0 1-2 1 3 8 Hye Jin Choi ........................................ 34 35 — 69 -2
Bogdanovic 13:17 1-5 2-3 0-3 1 0 5 third period Carlota Ciganda .................................. 34 35 — 69 -2
Robinson 11:58 1-3 0-2 3-7 0 3 2 scoring: 4, Vegas, Eichel 1 (Marchessault), 19:26 (en). Karis Davidson ................................... 35 34 — 69 -2
Achiuwa 10:11 2-2 0-0 0-0 0 3 4
ATP/WTA Haeji Kang .......................................... 33 36 — 69 -2
totALs 240 44-90 13-19 11-32 27 25 114 shots on GoAL mAdrid open Jeong Eun Lee5 .................................. 35 34 — 69 -2
VeGAs ..................................... 6 10 10 — 26 At Caja Magica; in Madrid Polly Mack .......................................... 36 33 — 69 -2
percentages: FG .489, FT .684. 3-point Goals: 13-30, .433 dALLAs .................................. 11 5 5 — 21 purse: €7,877,020 Caroline Masson ................................. 32 37 — 69 -2
(Hart 4-8, Anunoby 3-4, Brunson 3-7, McBride 2-4, power-play opportunities: Vegas 0 of 1; Dallas 1 of 1. surface: Red clay Elizabeth Szokol ................................. 34 35 — 69 -2
Bogdanovic 1-3, Hartenstein 0-1, DiVincenzo 0-3). team Goalies: Vegas, Thompson 2-0-0 (21 shots-20 saves). Rose Zhang ......................................... 35 34 — 69 -2
rebounds: 12. team turnovers: None. blocked shots: 3 Dallas, Oettinger 0-2-0 (25-23). A: 18,532 (18,532). t: men’s sinGLes — round of 128
(Achiuwa, Anunoby, Bogdanovic). turnovers: 9 2:35. Pedro Cachin, Argentina, def. Sebastian Ofner, Austria,
(Brunson 4, Achiuwa, Anunoby, Bogdanovic, DiVincenzo, 6-3, 6-3; Tomas Machac, Czech Republic, def. Emil
McBride). steals: 4 (Anunoby, DiVincenzo, Hart, Ruusuvuori, Finland, 6-4, 1-6, 6-2; Flavio Cobolli, Italy, Official World golf Ranking
McBride). technical fouls: None. def. Alejandro Tabilo, Chile, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; Felix Auger-
phiLAdeLphiA min fG ft o-t A pf pts
Kings 5, Oilers 4 (OT) Aliassime, Canada, def. Yoshihito Nishioka, Japan, 4-6, Through Monday.
Harris 33:25 4-10 0-0 2-5 0 0 8 Late Wednesday 6-1, 6-4; Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, def. Richard Gasquet, 1........................ Scottie Scheffler 15.01
France, 6-2, 7-5; Thiago Monteiro, Brazil, def. Dusan 2............................... Rory McIlroy 7.36
Oubre Jr. 38:00 6-8 1-2 3-7 3 4 15 Los AnGeLes .................... 3 0 1 1 — 5 Lajovic, Serbia, 6-4, 6-3; Matteo Arnaldi, Italy, def.
Embiid 40:35 13-19 19-21 1-8 4 3 50 3.......................... Wyndham Clark 6.48
edmonton ....................... 1 2 1 0 — 4 Christopher O’Connell, Australia, 6-4, 6-1; Max Purcell, 4.................................... Jon Rahm 6.16
Lowry 30:50 3-5 2-2 0-2 4 2 9 Australia, def. Marcos Giron, United States, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6
Maxey 41:15 9-21 4-4 0-4 7 2 25 first period
Batum 29:04 1-2 1-2 0-6 2 1 4
(7-2); Miomir Kecmanovic, Serbia, def. Zhang Zhizhen,
scoring: 1, Los Angeles, Kempe 2 (Kopitar), 3:19. 2, Los China, 6-3, 6-2; Jakub Mensik, Czech Republic, def.
Payne 15:40 4-7 0-0 0-1 3 3 11 Angeles, Kempe 3 (Kopitar), 14:57. 3, Edmonton, Kulak 1 Yannick Hanfmann, Germany, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3); Roberto hIgh SChO O L S
Reed 7:14 1-1 1-2 2-3 1 3 3 (Foegele, Draisaitl), 17:33. 4, Los Angeles, Doughty 1 Bautista Agut, Spain, def. Daniel Elahi Galan, Colombia,
Hield 3:57 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 (Arvidsson, Danault), 18:02. 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-1; Pavel Kotov, Russia, def. Albert
totALs 240 41-75 28-33 8-36 24 18 125 Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-3, 6-4; Rafael Nadal, Spain, def. thursdAY’s resuLts
second period Darwin Blanch, United States, 6-1, 6-0; Hamad Medje- bAsebALL
percentages: FG .547, FT .848. 3-point Goals: 15-31, .484
scoring: 5, Edmonton, Holloway 1 (Carrick, Janmark), dovic, Serbia, def. Aleksandar Kovacevic, United States, mArYLAnd
(Embiid 5-7, Payne 3-4, Maxey 3-8, Oubre Jr. 2-4, Batum
1-2, Lowry 1-3, Hield 0-1, Harris 0-2). team rebounds:
7:51. 6, Edmonton, Hyman 4 (Draisaitl, McDavid), 10:33 4-6, 7-5, 6-4; Joao Fonseca, Brazil, def. Alex Michelsen, Blake 12, Paint Branch 8
(pp). United States, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2; Roberto Carballes Baena, Northwood 14, Springbrook 9
11. team turnovers: 1. blocked shots: 8 (Batum 2, Payne Spain, def. Dominik Koepfer, Germany, 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 River Hill 6, Howard 1
2, Embiid, Harris, Hield, Lowry). turnovers: 10 (Embiid 3, third period (7-5).
Oubre Jr. 2, Payne 2, Lowry, Maxey, Reed). steals: 6 priVAte
(Maxey 2, Oubre Jr. 2, Batum, Lowry). technical fouls: scoring: 7, Los Angeles, Fiala 1 (Byfield, Spence), 1:46. 8, women’s sinGLes — round of 64 St. Albans 2, Landon 1
None. A: 21,116 (20,478). t: 2:36. Edmonton, Holloway 2 (Janmark), 3:23. St. Mary’s (Annapolis) 6, Severn School 0
Victoria Azarenka (23), Belarus, def. Tatjana Maria,
oVertime Germany, 6-3, 6-1; Maria Sakkari (5), Greece, def. Donna softbALL
Vekic, Croatia, 6-3, 6-2; Madison Keys (18), United mArYLAnd
scoring: 9, Los Angeles, Kopitar 1 (Byfield, Anderson), States, def. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 7-6 (7-3), 7-6
Thunder 124, Pelicans 92 2:07. (8-6); Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, def. Elina Svitolina Einstein 15, Blake 3
(16), Ukraine, 6-3, 7-5; Jelena Ostapenko (9), Latvia, def. Walter Johnson 23, Rockville 0
Late Wednesday shots on GoAL
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Spain, 6-3, 6-1; Emma Navarro VirGiniA
Los AnGeLes .................... 7 10 8 1 — 26
new orLeAns .................. 22 28 24 18 — 92 edmonton ..................... 10 16 4 1 — 31
(19), United States, def. Nadia Podoroska, Argentina, Woodgrove 13, Broad Run 0
6-2, 6-1; Dayana Yastremska (31), Ukraine, def. Emiliana
okLAhomA citY ............... 35 28 29 32 — 124 power-play opportunities: Los Angeles 0 of 3; Edmonton Arango, Colombia, 0-6, 7-5, 6-4; Beatriz Haddad Maia
priVAte
1 of 3. Goalies: Los Angeles, Talbot 1-1-0 (31 shots-27 (11), Brazil, def. Sara Errani, Italy, 6-3, 6-2; Liudmila Potomac School 3, St. John’s 2
new orLeAns: Ingram 5-10 8-8 18, Murphy III 3-8 0-0 8,
saves). Edmonton, Skinner 1-1-0 (26-21). A: 18,347 Samsonova (15), Russia, def. Naomi Osaka, Japan, 6-2,
Valanciunas 8-14 3-3 19, Jones 6-9 2-2 18, McCollum boYs’ LAcrosse
6-14 2-2 15, Marshall 3-6 4-4 10, Nance Jr. 1-1 0-0 2, (18,641). t: 2:51. 4-6, 7-5; Coco Gauff (3), United States, def. Arantxa Rus, mArYLAnd
Robinson-Earl 1-2 0-2 2, Alvarado 0-5 0-0 0, Daniels 0-2 Netherlands, 6-0, 6-0; Sorana Cirstea (27), Romania, def.
0-0 0, Hawkins 0-2 0-0 0. totals 33-73 19-21 92. Alexandra Eala, Philippines, 6-3, 6-7 (8-6), 6-4; Maria Sherwood 16, Richard Montgomery 4
A U TO R A C I N g Carle, Argentina, def. Veronika Kudermetova (17), VirGiniA
okLAhomA citY: Dort 4-8 3-4 15, Jal.Williams 10-17 Russia, 6-4, 6-4; Ons Jabeur (8), Tunisia, def. Anna- Patriot 8, Battlefield 7
0-0 21, Holmgren 9-13 5-6 26, Giddey 4-9 4-4 13, Karolina Schmiedlova, Slovakia, 6-4, 5-7, 6-3; Sloane
Gilgeous-Alexander 13-19 4-4 33, Dieng 0-0 0-0 0, Stephens, United States, def. Elise Mertens (28), GirLs’ LAcrosse
Hayward 0-1 0-0 0, Jay.Williams 0-1 0-0 0, Waters III 0-1 NASCAR Cup Series Belgium, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Leylah Annie Fernandez (32), mArYLAnd
0-0 0, K.Williams 0-1 0-0 0, Joe 3-4 0-0 8, Wallace 1-2 0-0 points LeAders Canada, def. Anastasia Potapova, Russia, 7-5, 6-3; Iga Holton Arms 15, Flint Hill 10
2, Wiggins 2-2 2-2 6. totals 46-78 18-20 124. Swiatek (1), Poland, def. Wang Xiyu, China, 6-1, 6-4. Reservoir 18, Wilde Lake 8
Through Monday.
three-point Goals: New Orleans 7-26 (Jones 4-7, Mur- Sherwood 17, Richard Montgomery 3
1. Kyle Larson, 359. women’s doubLes — round of 32
phy III 2-6, McCollum 1-5, Daniels 0-1, Hawkins 0-2, 2. Martin Truex Jr, 344. Katie Boulter, Britain, and Marketa Vondrousova, Czech VirGiniA
Marshall 0-2, Alvarado 0-3), Oklahoma City 14-29 (Dort 3. Chase Elliott, 337. Justice 13, Falls Church 8
4-6, Gilgeous-Alexander 3-5, Holmgren 3-6, Joe 2-2, 4. William Byron, 335.
Republic, def. Makoto Ninomiya and Eri Hozumi, Japan,
Giddey 1-3, Jal.Williams 1-3, Jay.Williams 0-1, K.Wil- 7-6 (9-7), 6-0; Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sofia Kenin, boYs’ tennis
liams 0-1, Wallace 0-1, Waters III 0-1). fouled out:
5. Tyler Reddick, 316. United States, def. Erin Routliffe, New Zealand, and
6. Denny Hamlin, 308. VirGiniA
None. rebounds: New Orleans 35 (Valanciunas 7), Ashlyn Krueger, United States, 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 11-9;
7. Ryan Blaney, 302. Zheng Saisai and Wang Xinyu, China, def. Monica Independence 3, Potomac Falls 0
Oklahoma City 37 (Holmgren 7). Assists: New Orleans
16 (McCollum 4), Oklahoma City 25 (Jal.Williams 7).
8. Ty Gibbs, 296. Niculescu, Romania, and Alycia Parks, United States, boYs’ tennis
9. Ross Chastain, 277. 6-1, 6-3; Laura Siegemund, Germany, and Barbora
total fouls: New Orleans 24, Oklahoma City 19. A: 10. Alex Bowman, 261. Krejcikova (6), Czech Republic, def. Jessica Bouzas
priVAte
18,203 (18,203) 11. Bubba Wallace, 257. St. Albans 4, Landon 3
12. Chase Briscoe, 256.
Maneiro, Spain, and Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva, An-
St. John’s 6, Gonzaga 3
dorra, 6-1, 6-1; Nadiia Kichenok, Ukraine, and Miyu Kato,
13. Christopher Bell, 255. Japan, def. Alexandra Panova, Russia, and Giuliana GirLs’ tennis
14. Brad Keselowski, 254. Olmos, Mexico, 6-7 (7-5), 6-4, 10-7.
TR A NSACTIO N S 15. Joey Logano, 245.
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17. Kyle Busch, 233. boYs’ VoLLeYbALL
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detroit tigers: Sent 2B Andy Ibanez to Toledo (IL) on a 19. Austin Cindric, 192.
20. Erik Jones, 181.
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minnesota twins: Recalled RHP Simeon Woods Richard- 21. Carson Hocevar, 172. coed VoLLeYbALL
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St. Paul. Sent RHP Justin Topa to St. Paul on a rehab 23. Ryan Preece, 162. 2. Jannik Sinner, Italy, 8660
Blake def. Rockville, 3-0
assignment. 24. Todd Gilliland, 161. 3. Carlos Alcaraz, Spain, 8145
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waivers from New York Mets. Designated RHP McKinley 26. Michael McDowell, 157. 5. Alexander Zverev, Germany, 5425 priVAte
27. Noah Gragson, 154. 6. Casper Ruud, Norway, 4480
Moore for assignment. Severn School 11.5, St. Mary’s (Annapolis) 9.5
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STATE OF MARYLAND Pardo & Drazin, LLC ORLANS PC Brock and Scott, PLLC Brock and Scott, PLLC
DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT 5431 Oleander Drive
WATER AND SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION Russell S. Drazin, Attorney 1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310 5431 Oleander Drive
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2 LEESBURG, VA 20175 Wilmington NC, 28403 Wilmington NC, 28403
TENTATIVE DETERMINATION TO ISSUE STORMWATER PERMIT
Maryland Department of Transportation Washington, DC 20015 703-777-7101
State Highway Administration 202-223-7900 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
NO. 24-DP-3313, GENERAL NPDES NO. MD0068276 VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
The Maryland Department of the Environment, Water and Science TRUSTEE’S SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS KNOWN AS
Administration (Department) has reached a tentative determination OF REAL PROPERTY 8830 Piney Branch Road, Unit 401 18121 Queen Anne Road
to issue a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit to 1215 Drum Avenue
the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Admin- [no street number] Clay Street, NE Silver Spring, MD 20903 Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
istration (MDOT SHA) for Discharges from Large Municipal Separate Washington, DC 20019
Storm Sewer Systems (Discharge Permit No. 24-DP-3313, NPDES No.
MD0068276. The Department has drafted a permit designed to com- Lot 0028 in Square 5239 Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
ply with the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)
regulations and to control stormwater pollutant discharges from the
TAGIE SAMURA , dated August 9, 2007 and recorded in certain Deed of Trust to DONNA MASTASCUSA, Trustee(s), certain Deed of Trust to PLESKA & DOUGLAS LLC, Trustee(s),
MDOT SHA’s storm drain system. The permit is issued for five years. Under a power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Liber 34737, folio 556 MODIFIED ON AUGUST 15, 2018 dated September 10, 2009, and recorded among the Land dated January 26, 2007, and recorded among the Land
Under the conditions of the permit, MDOT SHA is required to possess
Trust, Assignment of Rents and Security Agreement (the IN LIBER 56469 FOLIO 188; among the Land Records of Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in
the legal authority to control storm drain system pollutants, maintain “Deed of Trust”) dated September 6, 2023 and recorded MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD, default having occurred 31051 , folio 37 , the holder of the indebtedness secured Liber 27723 , folio 704, modified February 4, 2015 in Book
its storm sewer system, monitor stormwater discharges, and develop
and implement comprehensive management programs. The permit
on September 8, 2023 as Instrument No. 2023077534 from thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.C- by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned 38272, Page 1, the holder of the indebtedness secured
also sets new requirements for impervious area treatment, property 5217 CLAY LLC, as grantor, to RUSSELL S. DRAZIN and 15-CV-21-000466; Tax ID No.13-01776932 ) the Sub. Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned
management and maintenance, and options for comprehensive water
quality monitoring. MDOT SHA is also required to develop and imple-
others, as trustees, for the benefit of RAINMAN CAPITAL, LLC, Trustees will sell at public auction at the MONTGOMERY the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among
ment plans to address wasteload allocations established under EPA as beneficiary, securing that certain Commercial Balloon COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at 50 MARYLAND AVENUE, the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under
approved total maximum daily loads. Penalties for failure to comply
with the terms of the permit are provided.
Promissory Note dated September 6, 2023 in the principal ROCKVILLE, MD 20850, on thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured
amount of $50,000.00, default having occurred under the sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for
In 2022, revisions to Maryland’s law require applicants who are apply-
ing for a permit that requires public notice to use the Department’s
terms thereof, and following the mailing and recordation of MAY 7, 2024 at 1:30 PM COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
Environmental Justice (EJ) Screening Tool to develop an EJ Score for an Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure and a OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
census tracts in the applicant’s permit area. The Department is re-
quired to review the submitted EJ scores and census tracts to verify
Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON, OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
the applicant’s information. MDOT SHA submitted this information, Unit, at the request of the current noteholder, RUSSELL S. thereon situated in MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD and more MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
and the Department verified the scores by comparing the reported
scores to the EJ Screening Tool. For more information on these EJ
DRAZIN (“Trustee”) will sell at public auction at the office of fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust. MAY 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
scores, stormwater management in Maryland, or to view this permit, Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, MAY 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
go to: mde.maryland.gov/programs/Water/StormwaterManagement-
Program/Pages/storm_gen_permit.aspx or contact Mr. Stewart Com-
Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, on The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
stock at 410-537-3543 or 1-800-633-6101 or at Stewart.Comstock@ subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
Maryland.gov. Copies of the document may be procured at a cost April 30, 2024 AT 2:00 PM affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind. described as follows: thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
of 36¢ per page.
described as follows:
The Department will hold a public hearing concerning this tentative
determination from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM on June 4, 2024 at the De-
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS Terms of Sale: A deposit $25,000.00 will be required at ALL THAT PROPERTY SITUATE IN PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
partment’s Aeris and Aqua Conference Rooms at 1800 Washington THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington, District the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK STATE OF MARYLAND, IN THE 18TH ELECTION DISTRICT, AND BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS PARCEL 8 IN THE
Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21230. Any hearing-impaired person may of Columbia, known as [no street number] Clay Street, NE, OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOTS NUMBERED TWENTY-TWO SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS PARCELS 8, 9 AND 10, “FRAZEE
request an interpreter at the hearing by contacting the Office of
Fair Practices at 410-537-3964 at least ten working days prior to the Washington, DC 20019 (Lot 0028 in Square 5239), and more Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within (22), TWENTY-THREE (23) AND TWENTY-FOUR (24) IN BLOCK ESTATES” AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK
scheduled hearing date. TTY users should contact the Maryland Relay fully described in the Deed of Trust. ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for NUMBERED SIXTY-FOUR (64), IN THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN 139, AT PLAT NO. 053 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF
Service at 1-800-201-7165.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the AS “GREATER CAPITAL HEIGHTS”, AS PER PLAT THEREOF PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND, BEING LOCATED IN
Written comments should be directed to Mr. Stewart Comstock, Mary- The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE THE 7TH ELECTION DISTRICT. COMMONLY KNOWN AS 18121
land Department of the Environment, Water and Science Administra-
tion, Stormwater, Dam Safety, and Flood Management Program, 1800 warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions, forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND, IN PLAT BOOK BDS 1, AT QUEEN ANNE ROAD, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20774
Washington Blvd., STE 440, Baltimore, Maryland 21230-1708, or at agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service PLAT 65; BEING IN THE 18TH ELECTION DISTRICT OF SAID
Stewart.Comstock@Maryland.gov. Written comments concerning this
tentative determination will be accepted through July 18, 2024. This the same – except those encumbrances of record that and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail COUNTY. TAX ID: 18-2007490. Property is subject to a IRS Right of Redemption.
comment period already incorporates the additional 60 day extension are extinguished by operation of District of Columbia law addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
period provided in Environment Article §1-606(d)(1)(ii).
by virtue of the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust. Without identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or Property is subject to a prior mortgage. The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
MD H MONTGOMERY CO. limitation, the property will be sold subject to a Deed of Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion condition without either express or implied warranty or
1408 Antiques & Classics Trust, Assignment of Rents and Security Agreement dated to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS” representation, including but not limited to the description,
WANTED VINTAGE SPORTS CARS &
Apartments September 17, 2021 and recorded on September 20, 2021 event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be condition without either express or implied warranty or fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
CLASSICS - Especially Mercedes,
Porsche, Jaguar, Datsun Z.
Condos H Co-ops as Instrument No. 2021125284 from 5217 CLAY LLC, entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including, representation, including but not limited to the description, physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
Highest prices paid for TAKOMA PARK - 2 BR, 1 BA unit as grantor, to STEVEN M. SUSHNER, as trustee, for the but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity, workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
the very best examples. for rent. $1775/mo. For more info benefit of RAINMAN CAPITAL, LLC, as beneficiary, securing may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
Call Bob 703-966-0122 email novelnobility@yahoo.com physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
or call 667-222-3851 that certain debt instrument of even date therewith in the purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision, with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
1447 Autos Wanted MARYLAND principal amount of $405,000.00 and a Purchase Money Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received environmental condition, merchantability, compliance or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
DONATE YOUR CAR/TRUCK/RV Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents and Security Agreement by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
Lutheran Mission Society of MD Roommates dated February 23, 2022 and recorded on February 25, of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
Compassion Place ministries
help local families with food, CAPITAL HEIGHTS - House to share.
2022 as Instrument No. 2022021865 from 5217 CLAY LLC, the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the easements, agreements and restrictions of record which all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
clothing, counseling. Tax deductible. Close to shopping & Metro. as grantor, to STEVEN M. SUSHNER, as trustee, for the settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
MVA licensed #W1044. $175 & up each Friday. 240-840-6308 assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
410-228-8437
benefit of RAINMAN CAPITAL, LLC, as beneficiary, securing Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
www.CompassionPlace.org DISTRICT HEIGHTS - Furnished room that certain debt instrument of even date therewith in the borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust, affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
for rent, near Metro. principal amount of $68,000.00. or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $58,000.00 payable in
$125 & up weekly. Call 240-388-4611 assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
1480 Trucks or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from
SILVER SPRING - Room in basement,
DODGE 2005 RAM 1500 with BA, separate entrance, close Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $2,000.00 payable in purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available
Gray, great cond inside,
131k miles. $5,000.
to Wheaton Metro. 240-264-7482 water and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of
Call 301-843-0090 VIRGINIA any. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest. purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid
815 Roommates property from the date of sale forward. Purchaser shall Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of at the rate of 4.25% on unpaid purchase money from date
Legal Notices be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a
On April 23, 2024, NOAA Fish- ALEXANDRIA VA near metro, property. condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all at the rate of 5.14 % on unpaid purchase money from date bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party
eries announced the proposed pref Male, no car, references, public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis, of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to
incidental harassment for public $1250/mo. 202-629-6675 text only
comment in the Federal Regis- TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $5,000.00 by cashier’s check including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party complete full settlement of the purchase of the property
ter (open until May 23, 2024), Houses Wanted will be required of purchaser at the time and place of sale. if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the
pursuant to the Marine Mammal
Protection Act. This proposed to Buy Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale. TIME assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall complete full settlement of the purchase of the property sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit
authorization would authorize
Senior Couple seeking house. SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO SETTLEMENT be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk
the “take” of marine mammals
incidental to the Vineyard Wind Rent to own. $6000 down. BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price to be paid property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public
Call 301-873-0663 in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest to be paid the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute charges and private charges or assessments, including
Offshore Wind Project Phase 2
off the coast of Massachusetts.
shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk
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Electronics on the unpaid purchase money from the date of sale to the Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be
this proposed action at https:// date of settlement at the applicable interest rate set forth in reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall charges and private charges or assessments, including adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
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tion/incidental-take-authoriza- Free Install, Free HD-DVR Upgrade, the debt instrument secured by the Deed of Trust. Purchaser be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement
tion-vineyard-wind-1-llc-con- 80,000 On-Demand Movies, Plus shall be responsible for payment of all settlement costs. interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason, adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium
struction-vineyard-wind-off- Limited Time Up To $600 In Gift and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will
shore-wind. Cards. Call Today! 1-855-407-6870 the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement
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The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be the deposit without interest. (File # 19-700279) shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not
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Bids & Proposals Home & Garden required to post a deposit or to pay interest. and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or
Eliminate gutter cleaning forever! JAMES E. CLARKE, be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title
KIPP DC
PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS
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debris-blocking gutter protection.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required CHRISTINE M. DREXEL, ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s)
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Schedule a FREE LeafFilter estimate for any reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
After-School Enrichment
Programming
today. 15% off Entire Purchase. default, the deposit shall be forfeited to Trustee and or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s) the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights
10% Senior & Military Discounts.
KIPP DC is soliciting proposals Call 1-844-566-3227. all of the expenses of this sale (including legal fees and sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known
from qualified vendors for Af-
350 costs, and full commission on the gross sale price) shall the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon
ter-School Enrichment Program-
ming. The RFP can be found on
Garage Sales, MD be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit. and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect,
KIPP DC’s website at www.kip- Community Yard Sale this Trustee may resell the property at the risk and expense of the or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the
pdc.org/procurement. Propos- Saturday April 27. Germantown MD
als should be uploaded to the The residence of the North Lake defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not be refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect, Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review
website no later than 5:00 PM Woods Community will be having entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel
EST on May 13, 2024. Questions
should be addressed to brittany.
their Annual Community Yard Sale
resale of the property. Defaulting purchaser shall be liable Apr 19,26,May 3 2024 0012455100 Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
Saturday April 27 from 8 am to 1pm.
taylor@kippdc.org.
Secondary ELA Certification
Cross Ridge Way, Drive, Court, Walnut to Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by Trustee in of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit
Cove Drive, Valleyside Drive, Court. shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and
Services Rain or Shine. connection with such default. the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
KIPP DC is soliciting proposals
from qualified vendors for Sec- 610 to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time
ondary ELA Certification Ser- Dogs for Sale If Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, purchaser’s shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the
vices. The RFP can be found on CAVALIER KING CHARLES sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s
KIPP DC’s website at www.kip- SPRING PUPPIES 6 MONTHS OLD
pdc.org/procurement. Propos- $1850
of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the order of 10.16.2020. File No. (22-05142 )
als should be uploaded to the
website no later than 5:00 PM
Call or text 540-550-5360 and of no effect whatsoever. Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s
EST on May 7, 2024. Questions CAVALIER KING CHARLES order of 10.16.2020 . File No. (22-06033 ) JOHN ANSELL, JOHN C. HANRAHAN,
should be addressed to emily. (2) 3 YEAR OLD RETIRED STUD, $1500 Trustee reserves the right, in Trustee’s sole discretion, to BRENNAN FERGUSON, JEREMY B. WILKINS,
allegrotti@kippdc.org. Call or text 540-974-5777
reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property from sale BRENNAN FERGUSON, JOHN C. HANRAHAN, AMANDA DRISCOLE, ROBERT OLIVERI,
DACHSHUND PUPPIES at any time before or at the auction, to extend the time to JEREMY B. WILKINS, AMANDA DRISCOLE, PAUL HEINMULLER , Substitute Trustees
RFP - CAPITAL CITY 2 boys, 2 girls, blue dapples with
PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL tan, will be completely vetted and receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to ROBERT OLIVERI, PAUL HEINMULLER,
wormed, ready by June 20th, now waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the Substitute Trustees
Service Provider for Access taking deposits. 540-841-4415 unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time
Control System Upgrade. All
proposals due 11AM, May 20th. GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPPIES for settlement.
Contact jovonleblanc@ccpcs. 9 wks old, AKC, champ bloodlines,
org for RFP. vet checked, 1st shots. Loving
homes only. $1500. 410-922-7125 Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The
GOLDENDOODLE PUPS - Mini and successful bidder will be required to execute and deliver

RFP - CAPITAL CITY
PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL
Service Provider for Intrusion
Alarm System. All proposals due
11AM, May 13th. Contact jovon-
leblanc@ccpcs.org for RFP.
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Brock and Scott, PLLC
5431 Oleander Drive
Wilmington NC, 28403
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
3104 VARNUM STREET
Mount Rainier, MD 20712
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain
Deed of Trust to LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE CORPORATION,
Trustee(s), dated January 26, 2006, and recorded among the
Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in
Liber 26029 , folio 670 , the holder of the indebtedness
secured by this Deed of Trust having appointed the
undersigned Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly
recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, and at the request of the
party secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee
will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S
COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL
WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST,
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MAY 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
ALL THAT PROPERTY SITUATE IN PRINCE GEORGE’ S COUNTY,
STATE OF MARYLAND DESCRIBED AS: LOT NUMBERED SEVEN
(7) AND THE WESTERLY FORTY (40) FEET OF LOT SIX (6) IN
BLOCK NUMBERED SEVENTEEN (17) IN A SUBDIVISION
KNOWN AS “MOUNT RAINIER” AS PER PLAT THEREOF
RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 5 AT PLAT 658 AND RERECORDED
AT PLAT BOOK A AT PLAT 5 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND; BEING IN THE 17TH
ELECTION DISTRICT OF SAID COUNTY. THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON KNOWN AS 3104 VARNUM STREET
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $21,000.00 payable in
certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from
purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available
funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid
at the rate of 3.5 % on unpaid purchase money from date
of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a
bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party
purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to
complete full settlement of the purchase of the property
within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit
shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk
and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public
charges and private charges or assessments, including
water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be
adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement
shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will
be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not
ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title
or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights
and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known
or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the
Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review
of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel
the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit
shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and
conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time
and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the
Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s
order of 10.16.2020. File No. (17-07801 )
THOMAS W. HODGE, GENE JUNG,
LAURA D. HARRIS, ROBERT M. OLIVERI,
CHRISTINE JOHNSON, SCOTT ROBINSON,
LOUIS GINGHER, Substitute Trustees
Apr 26,May 3,10 2024 0012458682
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
470-321-7112
TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
11332 CHERRY HILL RD 301
BELTSVILLE, MD 20705
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated
July 5, 2007, and recorded in Liber 28697, folio 607, of
the land records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY , with an
original principal balance of $132,500.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute
Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF
THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735
MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MAY 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any
buildings or improvements thereon situated in PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and
more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust.
TAX ID# - 01-0077206
The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS
IS” physical condition without warranty of any kind and
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, including any condominium or
homeowners association assessments pursuant to MD Real
Property Article § 11-110 and § 11B-117 .
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of
$9,000.00 by cashier’s/certified check or such other form as
the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole discretion,
required at time of sale except for the party secured by the
Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser from date and time
of auction. The balance of the purchase price together with
interest thereon at 6.750% per annum from date of sale
to receipt of purchase price by Substitute Trustees must be
paid by cashier’s check within 10 days after final ratification
of sale. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest
if it is the purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest
due from the purchaser in the event that additional funds
are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed for
any reason. All real estate taxes and other public charges
and/or assessments to be adjusted as of the date of sale
and thereafter assumed by purchaser. If applicable, any
condominium and/or homeowners association dues and
assessments that may become due after the date of sale
shall be purchaser’s responsibility. Purchaser shall pay
all transfer, documentary and recording taxes/fees and
all other settlement costs. Purchaser is responsible for
obtaining possession of the property. Time is of the essence
for the purchaser. If purchaser defaults, deposit will be
forfeited and property resold at the risk and cost of the
defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any deficiency
in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and attorney’s
fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not convey title
for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return of deposit
without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of
the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust including
but not limited to determining whether prior to sale a
bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or other
agreement was entered into; or loan was reinstated or paid
off. In any such event this sale shall be null and void and
purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit without
interest. File No. (23-098746)
KEITH YACKO, DAVID WILLIAMSON,
BRYSON STEPHEN, THOMAS GARTNER,
Substitute Trustees
Apr 19,26,May 3 2024 0012455864
851
Prince Georges County
Brock and Scott, PLLC
5431 Oleander Drive
Wilmington NC, 28403
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
8207 Rison Drive
Brandywine, MD 20613
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to PATRICK J. FLANAGAN, Trustee(s),
dated April 5, 2006, and recorded among the Land Records
of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 24940
, folio 463 , the holder of the indebtedness secured by
this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned
Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among
the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured
thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for
sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MAY 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
LOT NUMBERED THIRTY-FIVE (35), AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT
ENTITLED “PLAT 2, BRANDYWINE LANDING”, AS PER PLAT
THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK CH 191 AT PLAT NO. 57,
AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND. COMMONLY KNOW-N AS: 8207 RISON DRIVE,
BRANDYWINE, MD, 20613 PARCEL: 3371275
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $40,000.00 payable in
certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from
purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available
funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid
at the rate of 4.375 % on unpaid purchase money from date
of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a
bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party
purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to
complete full settlement of the purchase of the property
within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit
shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk
and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public
charges and private charges or assessments, including
water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be
adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement
shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will
be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not
ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title
or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights
and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known
or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the
Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review
of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel
the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit
shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and
conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time
and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the
Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s
order of 10.16.2020. File No. (19-18048 )
BRENNAN FERGUSON, CHRISTINE N. JOHNSON,
ROBERT A. OLIVERI, MELISSA ALCOCER,
Substitute Trustees
Apr 26,May 3,10 2024 0012457351
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
16404 BADEN SPRINGS DRIVE F/K/A
16404 BADEN WESTWOOD ROAD
Brandywine, MD 20613
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
KARON D ETIENNE AKA KARON ETIENNE AND ROUSSAN J
ETIENNE JR AKA ROUSSAN ETIENNE JR., dated September
7, 2007 and recorded in Liber 28679, folio 723 among the
Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default
having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed
as Case No.C-16-CV-23-000239; Tax ID No.04-0250167 )
the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at FRONT OF THE
DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN
ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772, on
MAY 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $5,000.00 will be required at the
time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR
BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 22-006380)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
JOANNA FORONDA,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Apr 26 2024 0012458604
OPQRS
851
Prince Georges County 851
Prince Georges County
LTX LAW GROUP
1966 GREENSPRING DRIVE SUITE LL2
LUTHERVILLE, MARYLAND 21093
410-238-2840
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
178 UNIT HIGH-RISE APARTMENT BUILDING
KNOWN AS
“CHARLESTOWNE NORTH APARTMENTS”
8150 LAKECREST DRIVE
GREENBELT, MARYLAND 20770
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in the
Multifamily Deed of Trust, Assignment of Rents and Security
Agreement (hereinafter “Deed of Trust”) from Charlestowne
North Holding Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company to Stewart Title Guaranty Co., as Trustee, dated
December 15, 2022 and recorded January 20, 2023 among
the Land Records of Prince George’s County, Maryland at
Book 48495, Pages 277, et seq., and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in said Deed of Trust, which was given
to secure a loan on the real property and personal property
described therein, and default having occurred under the
terms and conditions thereof, and the recordation of a
Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees (Substitute
Trustees) appointing Mark H. Wittstadt, Justin T. Hoy, and
Kevin Hildebeidel, Substitute Trustees in Book 49487, Page
567, who will sell the property commonly known as 8150
Lakecrest Drive, Greenbelt MD 20770 at public auction to
be held upon the steps of the Circuit Courthouse for Prince
George’s County, Maryland located at 14735 Main St., Upper
Marlboro, MD, 20772 (Duval Wing entrance, located on Main
St.), on:
APRIL 29, 2024 AT 1:00 PM
ALL THAT CERTAIN lot or parcel of land situate, lying and
being in the 21st Election District, Prince George’s County,
Maryland, and more particularly described as follows:
Being a part of Parcel “B”, Charlestowne Village, as per plat
recorded in Plat Book WWW 52, Plat No. 70, among the land
records of Prince George’s County, Maryland, and being more
particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
Beginning for the same at a point marking the most westerly
corner of the aforesaid Parcel “B”, and running thence;
1. North 36° 37’ 00” East 369.00 feet to a point, thence;
2. South 53° 23’ 00” East 134.99 feet to a point, thence;
3. Along the arc of a curve deflecting to the right, said curve
having a radius of 2912.80 feet and a long chord bearing
and distance of South 49° 04’ 27” East 437.71 feet, an arc
distance of 438.12 feet to a point; thence
4. South 45° 14’ 05” West 60.00 feet to a point; thence
5. South 00° 47’ 31” West 35.70 feet to a point in the
northwesterly line of Prince James Way; thence with said
Northwesterly line
6. South 46° 20’ 57” West 390.96 feet to a point; thence
7. North 38° 30’ 00” West 535.25 feet to the place of
beginning, containing 5.5264 acres of land, more or less.
The improvements thereon being known as 8150 Lakecrest
Drive, Greenbelt MD 20770
Parcel ID number: 21-2294742
Property description: The property is improved by an 8-story
building containing 178 units offering studio, one-and two-
bedroom apartment homes. Located on 5.5264 acres of land
in a residential neighborhood of Greenbelt.
TERMS OF SALE: An initial deposit of $500,000.00 will be
required at the time of sale, such deposit to be in cash or
certified check, or other form acceptable to the Substitute
Trustees in their sole discretion. The initial deposit must be
increased to 10% of the purchase price within two business
days after the sale, and delivered to the office of Substitute
Trustees in the same form as the initial deposit. The balance
of the purchase price, together with interest at the rate of
5.26% per annum from the date of sale to date of receipt
of the balance of the purchase price, must be paid in cash
within twenty (20) days of sale being ratified by the Circuit
Court for Prince George’s County. Should the Purchaser fail
to increase the initial deposit to the full deposit amount
in the time aforesaid, it will be deemed a material default
and the initial deposit and contract shall, without further
notice or order, be forfeited and applied to costs of sale and
resale. Resale of the property will be made by the Trustees
immediately without further order of the Court. If payment
of the full balance does not take place within twenty (20)
days of ratification, the deposit(s) may be forfeited and
the property may be resold at the risk and expense of the
defaulting purchaser. The defaulting purchaser shall not
be entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting
from any resale of the property. All taxes, ground rent,
water, condominium fees, and/or homeowner association
dues, public charges, assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district
charges, and front foot benefit charges, if applicable,
to be adjusted to date of sale and assumed thereafter
by the purchaser. Lease rental payments and security
deposits will be adjusted to the date of settlement based
solely on information in the possession of the Substitute
Trustees if any. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer
taxes and settlement expenses for the property shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for
obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from
the date of sale forward. The Property is currently subject
to a receivership under order of the Prince George’s County
Circuit Court and will be subject to the terms of the Court’s
Orders regarding the receivership until such time as the new
owner seeks release of the same. No Purchaser other than
the Noteholder shall be entitled, unless authorized by the
Receiver, to enter onto the property nor make any changes
with respect to the property, units, tenancies or other
existing relationships nor to receive any rents or proceeds
from the Property until Purchaser has fully settled on the
purchase price and received legal title to the premises.
If the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey good and
marketable title or insurable title, the purchaser’s sole
remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
the deposit. Upon refund of the deposit to purchaser, this
sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall
have no further claims against the Substitute Trustees. The
conveyance of the property by the Substitute Trustees to the
purchaser at settlement shall be by Substitute Trustees’
Deed without covenants or special warranties.
The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS
IS” condition and without any recourse, representations
or warranties, either express or implied, as to its nature,
condition or description. Neither the Substitute Trustees,
nor any other party, make any warranty or representation
of any kind or nature regarding the physical condition of,
the description of, or title to the property. The property
will be sold subject to any violation notices and subject
to all conditions, restrictions, easements, covenants,
encumbrances, existing building and/or environmental
violations, and agreements of record affecting the same,
if any.
NOTE: The information contained herein was obtained
from sources deemed to be reliable, but is offered for
informational purposes only. Neither the auctioneer,
the undersigned Substitute Trustees nor their agents or
attorneys make any representations or warranties with
respect to the accuracy of information.
Mark H. Wittstadt
Justin T. Hoy
Kevin Hildebeidel
Substitute Trustees
Apr 12,19,26 2024 0012457495
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Prince Georges County 851
Prince Georges County
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
2507 Iverson Street, Unit 2507
Temple Hills, MD 20748
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
BERNARD ROBERTSON, dated October 11, 2006 and
recorded in Liber 26302, folio 611 MODIFIED ON JULY 18,
2018 IN LIBER 41144 FOLIO 522; among the Land Records
of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default having occurred
thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.C-16-
CV-22-000301; Tax ID No.06-0515809 ) the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE, located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE
COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO,
MD 20772, on
MAY 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $15,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 20-700376)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
JOANNA FORONDA,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Apr 12,19,26 2024 0012455999
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
2108 Redwood Terrace
Temple Hills, MD 20748
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
JESSIE R. ROBINSON AND WILLIE L. ROBINSON, dated
November 3, 2006 and recorded in Liber 26408, folio 481
among the Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MD, default having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case
docketed as Case No.C-16-CV-23-001964; Tax ID No.12-
1322072 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at
the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at
FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX
14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772, on
MAY 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $15,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 22-008838)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
JOANNA FORONDA,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Apr 12,19,26 2024 0012454690
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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
6112 Modupeola Way
Capitol Heights, MD 20743
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to DAVID P. SUMMERS, Trustee(s),
dated October 14, 2014, and recorded among the Land
Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in
Liber 36466 , folio 642, MODIFIED MAY 21, 2019 IN BOOK
42307, PAGE 409, the holder of the indebtedness secured
by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned
Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among
the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured
thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for
sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MAY 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
LOT NUMBERED FIVE (5) IN BLOCK SIX (6), IN THE
SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS “PLEASANT PARK”, AS RECORDED
AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND IN LIBER VJ 185, FOLIO 76.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $18,000.00 payable in
certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from
purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available
funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid
at the rate of 4.5 % on unpaid purchase money from date
of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a
bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party
purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to
complete full settlement of the purchase of the property
within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit
shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk
and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public
charges and private charges or assessments, including
water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be
adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement
shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will
be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not
ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title
or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights
and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known
or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the
Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review
of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel
the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit
shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and
conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time
and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the
Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s
order of 10.16.2020. File No. (18-17292 )
BRENNAN FERGUSON, CHRISTINE N. JOHNSON,
ROBERT A. OLIVERI, MELISSA ALCOCER,
Substitute Trustees
Apr 26,May 3,10 2024 0012456385
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
15310 Doveheart Lane
Bowie, MD 20721
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
SANDRA EDWARDS, dated January 25, 2007 and recorded in
Liber 27749, folio 051 among the Land Records of PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default having occurred thereunder
(Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.CAEF17-31861; Tax
ID No.07-3197258 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE,
located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE
COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772, on
MAY 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $50,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 17-700013)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
HUGH J. GREEN,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
BRIAN THOMAS,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Apr 12,19,26 2024 0012455046
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5431 Oleander Drive
Wilmington NC, 28403
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
15526 Norge Court
Bowie, MD 20716
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to FIDELITY NATIONAL TITLE COMPANY,
Trustee(s), dated November 16, 2020, and recorded among
the Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND
in Liber 44785 , folio 308 , the holder of the indebtedness
secured by this Deed of Trust having appointed the
undersigned Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly
recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, and at the request of the
party secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee
will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S
COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL
WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST,
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MAY 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NUMBERED
EIGHT (8) IN BLOCK LETTERED “M”, AS SHOWN ON THE
PLAT ENTITLED “PLAT THREE, SECTION TWO, OAK POND
TOWNHOUSES”, WHICH PLAT IS RECORDED AMONG THE
LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND
IN PLAT BOOK NLP NO. 122 AT PAGE 32. THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON BEING KNOWN AS NO. 15526 NORGE COURT,
BOWIE, MD 20716. TAX ID NO.: 07-0790451
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $26,000.00 payable in
certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from
purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available
funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid
at the rate of 3.625 % on unpaid purchase money from date
of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a
bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party
purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to
complete full settlement of the purchase of the property
within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit
shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk
and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public
charges and private charges or assessments, including
water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be
adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement
shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will
be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not
ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title
or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights
and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known
or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the
Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review
of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel
the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit
shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and
conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time
and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the
Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s
order of 10.16.2020. File No. (23-06076 )
JOHN ANSELL, JOHN C. HANRAHAN,
BRENNAN FERGUSON, JEREMY B. WILKINS,
AMANDA DRISCOLE, ROBERT OLIVERI,
PAUL HEINMULLER, Substitute Trustees
Apr 26,May 3,10 2024 0012456384
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
8201 Knollwood St
Brandywine, MD 20613
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
JACQUELINE ANDERSON PARKER, dated September 18, 2006
and recorded in Liber 26690, folio 47 MODIFIED ON MAY 9,
2008 IN LIBER 29659 FOLIO 334; among the Land Records
of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default having occurred
thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.C-16-
CV-23-005308; Tax ID No.11-1142538 ) the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE, located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE
COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO,
MD 20772, on
MAY 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $35,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 23-002624)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
JOANNA FORONDA,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Apr 12,19,26 2024 0012455927
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
Brock and Scott, PLLC
5431 Oleander Drive
Wilmington NC, 28403
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
5201 Wheeler Road
Oxon Hill, MD 20745
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to STEPHEN B. MILLSTEIN, Trustee(s),
dated May 31, 2006, and recorded among the Land Records
of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 25419
, folio 290 , the holder of the indebtedness secured by
this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned
Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among
the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured
thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for
sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MAY 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NUMBERED ONE
HUNDRED TWENTY EIGHT (128) IN THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN
AS “LOWE’S ADDITION TO BARNABY MANOR OAKS” AS PER
PLAT BOOK WWW 29, PLAT NUMBER 96, AS RECORDED
AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND.
Property is subject to IRS Right of Redemption.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $21,000.00 payable in
certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from
purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available
funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid
at the rate of 3.5 % on unpaid purchase money from date
of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a
bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party
purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to
complete full settlement of the purchase of the property
within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit
shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk
and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public
charges and private charges or assessments, including
water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be
adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement
shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will
be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not
ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title
or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights
and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known
or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the
Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review
of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel
the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit
shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and
conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time
and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the
Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s
order of 10.16.2020. File No. (22-10008 )
JOHN ANSELL, JEREMY B. WILKINS,
ROBERT A. OLIVERI, AMANDA DRISCOLE,
PAUL HEINMULLER, JOHN C. HANRAHAN,
KRISTOPHER HAWKINS , Substitute Trustees
Apr 26,May 3,10 2024 0012456358
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
231 Brock Bridge Road
Laurel, MD 20724
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
ESTELLLE ROBERTS AND ROBERT MARSHALL, dated
November 30, 2006 and recorded in Liber 18679, folio
614 among the Land Records of ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY,
MD, default having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case
docketed as Case No.C-02-CV-22-000088; Tax ID No.04-
000-03072600 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction
at the ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at 8
CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401, on
MAY 8, 2024 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD and more
fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $45,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 17-700015)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
A181, A316, A311, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463, A508
Apr 19,26,May 3 2024 0012455589
OPQRS
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
Brock and Scott, PLLC
5431 Oleander Drive
Wilmington NC, 28403
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
13414 Marburg Lane
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to NATIONS TITLE AGENCY OF MD,
Trustee(s), dated December 15, 2006, and recorded among
the Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND
in Liber 26750 , folio 418, modified October 21, 2013 in Book
37397, Page 468, the holder of the indebtedness secured
by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned
Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among
the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured
thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for
sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MAY 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
JLOT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN (27) IN THE SUBDIVISION
KNOWN AS “PLAT FIVE, SOUTH WESTON” AS PER PLAT
THEREOF DULY RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND IN PLAT BOOK REP
198, AT PLAT NO. 70. THE IMPROVMENTS THEREON BEING
KNOWN AS 13414 MARBURG LANE, UPPER MARLBORO,
MARYLAND 20772. TAX ID.: 15-3573722.
Property is subject to a IRS Right of Redemption.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $61,500.00 payable in
certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from
purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available
funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid
at the rate of 4.375 % on unpaid purchase money from date
of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a
bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party
purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to
complete full settlement of the purchase of the property
within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit
shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk
and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public
charges and private charges or assessments, including
water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be
adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement
shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will
be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not
ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title
or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights
and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known
or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the
Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review
of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel
the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit
shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and
conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time
and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the
Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s
order of 10.16.2020. File No. (17-05952 )
JOHN ANSELL, JEREMY B. WILKINS,
ROBERT A. OLIVERI, AMANDA DRISCOLE,
PAUL HEINMULLER, JOHN C. HANRAHAN,
KRISTOPHER HAWKINS, Substitute Trustees
Apr 26,May 3,10 2024 0012456329
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
470-321-7112
TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
8330 FOUNDERS WOOD WAY
FORT WASHINGTON, MD 20744
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated
December 15, 2006, and recorded in Liber 26969, folio 475,
of the land records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY , with an
original principal balance of $260,300.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute
Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF
THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735
MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MAY 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any
buildings or improvements thereon situated in PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and
more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust.
TAX ID# - 12-1345560
The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS
IS” physical condition without warranty of any kind and
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, including any condominium or
homeowners association assessments pursuant to MD Real
Property Article § 11-110 and § 11B-117 .
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of
$17,000.00 by cashier’s/certified check or such other form
as the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole
discretion, required at time of sale except for the party
secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser
from date and time of auction. The balance of the purchase
price together with interest thereon at 8.000% per annum
from date of sale to receipt of purchase price by Substitute
Trustees must be paid by cashier’s check within 10 days
after final ratification of sale. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There will be
no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event
that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if
settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes
and other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted
as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
If applicable, any condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due
after the date of sale shall be purchaser’s responsibility.
Purchaser shall pay all transfer, documentary and recording
taxes/fees and all other settlement costs. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining possession of the property. Time
is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser defaults,
deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk and
cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any
deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and
attorney’s fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not
convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return
of deposit without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale
audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust
including but not limited to determining whether prior to
sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or
other agreement was entered into; or loan was reinstated
or paid off. In any such event this sale shall be null and
void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit
without interest. File No. (18-246733)
KEITH YACKO, DAVID WILLIAMSON,
BRYSON STEPHEN, THOMAS GARTNER,
Substitute Trustees
Apr 19,26,May 3 2024 0012455556
CLASSIFIED H
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
1005 Fenton Place
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
KEVIN J. WOLFOLK AND CHARLOTTE D. WOLFOLK, dated May
9, 2006 and recorded in Liber 27959, folio 700 among the
Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default
having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as
Case No.CAEF16-25471; Tax ID No.13-1470129 ) the Sub.
Trustees will sell at public auction at the PRINCE GEORGE’S
COUNTY COURTHOUSE, located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL
WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST,
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772, on
MAY 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $30,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 16-700061)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
RENEE DYSON,
BRIAN THOMAS,
ERIN AUGUST,
HUGH J. GREEN,
PATRICK DECKER,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Apr 12,19,26 2024 0012455095
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
6203 Gabriel Street
Bowie, MD 20720
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
ROBERTA MOORE, dated March 30, 2007 and recorded in
Liber 27595, folio 495 among the Land Records of PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default having occurred thereunder
(Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.CAEF19-13295; Tax
ID No.14-1698703 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at public
auction at the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE,
located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE
COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772, on
MAY 1, 2024 at 2:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $50,000.00 will be required at
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including,
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust,
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest.
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges,
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason,
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of
the deposit without interest. (File # 19-700955)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
HUGH J. GREEN,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
BRIAN THOMAS,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
Apr 12,19,26 2024 0012456675
MERCHANDISE H Pets & Animals D9
851
Prince Georges County 851 Prince Georges County
Brock and Scott, PLLC
5431 Oleander Drive
Wilmington NC, 28403
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
9902 Woodyard Circle
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to FRIEDMAN & MAC FAYDEN PC,
Trustee(s), dated June 28, 2005, and recorded among the
Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in
Liber 24924 , folio 6 , the holder of the indebtedness secured
by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned
Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among
the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured
thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for
sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MAY 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NUMBERED 33, IN
BLOCK “A”, IN THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS “PLAT 3, THE
WOODYARD”, AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT
BOOK VJ 178 AT PLAT NO. 30 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS
OF PRINCE GEORGE’S, MARYLAND. THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON BEING KNOWN AS 9902 WOODYARD CIRCLE,
UPPER MARLBORO, MARYLAND 20772. PROPERTY
ADDRESS: 9902 WOODYARD CIRCLE, UPPER MARLBORO,
MD 20772 TAX ID# 15-3076148
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $23,000.00 payable in
certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from
purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available
funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid
at the rate of 3.125 % on unpaid purchase money from date
of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a
bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party
purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to
complete full settlement of the purchase of the property
within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit
shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk
and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public
charges and private charges or assessments, including
water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be
adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement
shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will
be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not
ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title
or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights
and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known
or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the
Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review
of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel
the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit
shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and
conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time
and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the
Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s
order of 10.16.2020. File No. (22-18762 )
JOHN ANSELL, JOHN C. HANRAHAN,
BRENNAN FERGUSON, JEREMY B. WILKINS,
AMANDA DRISCOLE, ROBERT OLIVERI,
PAUL HEINMULLER, Substitute Trustees
Apr 26,May 3,10 2024 0012457224
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
470-321-7112
TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
7107 DOWER HOUSE RD
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated
January 14, 2008, and recorded in Liber 30372, folio 406, of
the land records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY , with an
original principal balance of $327,845.00, default having
occurred under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute
Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF
THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735
MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON,
MAY 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any
buildings or improvements thereon situated in PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and
more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust.
TAX ID# - 15-1740638
The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS
IS” physical condition without warranty of any kind and
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, including any condominium or
homeowners association assessments pursuant to MD Real
Property Article § 11-110 and § 11B-117 .
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of
$31,000.00 by cashier’s/certified check or such other form
as the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole
discretion, required at time of sale except for the party
secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser
from date and time of auction. The balance of the purchase
price together with interest thereon at 6.250% per annum
from date of sale to receipt of purchase price by Substitute
Trustees must be paid by cashier’s check within 10 days
after final ratification of sale. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There will be
no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event
that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if
settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes
and other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted
as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
If applicable, any condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due
after the date of sale shall be purchaser’s responsibility.
Purchaser shall pay all transfer, documentary and recording
taxes/fees and all other settlement costs. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining possession of the property. Time
is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser defaults,
deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk and
cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any
deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and
attorney’s fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not
convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return
of deposit without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale
audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust
including but not limited to determining whether prior to
sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or
other agreement was entered into; or loan was reinstated
or paid off. In any such event this sale shall be null and
void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit
without interest. File No. (23-156295)
KEITH YACKO, DAVID WILLIAMSON,
BRYSON STEPHEN, THOMAS GARTNER,
Substitute Trustees
Apr 19,26,May 3 2024 0012455859
D10 CLASSIFIED H MERCHANDISE H Pets & Animals
853 853
Calvert County Calvert County
MCMICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY, LLC
7470 Technology Way
Suite P
Frederick, MD 21703
(470) 480-1820
TRUSTEE’S SALE
3743 6TH STREET
North Beach, MD 20714
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated August 22, 2003 and recorded in Deed Book 1992 at
Page 617 among the Land Records of CALVERT COUNTY,
Maryland, default having occurred under the terms thereof,
the Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction at the
CALVERT COUNTY, 175 MAIN ST, PRINCE FREDERICK, MD
20678, on
MAY 14, 2024 AT 9:45 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in CALVERT
COUNTY, Maryland, located at the above address and more
fully described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust (the
“Property”).
TAX ID#: 03-129438
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $12,000 by cashier’s/certified
check or such other form as the Substitute Trustee may
allow, in their sole discretion, required at time of sale except
for the party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on
purchaser from date and time of auction. The property and
improvements will be sold in “as is” physical condition
without either express or implied warranty of any kind and
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of
sale. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at
the rate of 3.5% from the date of sale to the date funds are
received in the office of the Substitute Trustees. There will
be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds
are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed
for any reason.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment
of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if
applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges
or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground
rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser
from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary
stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the Property. If the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey title for any
reason, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall
be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the
Purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited to the
Substitute Trustees for application against all expenses,
attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of
the above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default,
all expenses of this sale (including attorney’s fees and the
full commission on the gross sale price of this sale) shall
be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit.
The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the Property
at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may
avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies against
the defaulting purchaser without re-selling the Property.
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall
not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such
surplus results from improvements to the Property by said
defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall
be liable to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable
attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection with
all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the
resale. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status
of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust including, but not
limited to, determining whether prior to sale a bankruptcy
was filed; forbearance, repayment or other agreement was
entered into; or the loan was reinstated or paid off. In any
such event, this sale shall be null and void and Purchaser’s
sole remedy shall be return of deposit without interest.
DIANA THEOLOGOU, GREGORY THORNE,
ADRIAN JACOBS, BRIAN CAMPBELL,
CHRISTINE COTTON, Substitute Trustees
File No.: 23-000424-02
Apr 26,May 3,10 2024 0012457901
855
Charles County
ORLANS PC
855
Charles County
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
4829 Kingfisher Court
Waldorf, MD 20603
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
SHEA DUNCAN, dated November 24, 2006 and recorded
in Liber 6166, folio 001 MODIFIED ON NOVEMBER 22,
2016 IN LIBER 9615 FOLIO 16 AND MODIFIED ON APRIL
6, 2022 IN LIBER 12490 FOLIO 414; among the Land
Records of CHARLES COUNTY, MD, default having occurred
thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.C-08-
CV-23-000285; Tax ID No.06145264 ) the Sub. Trustees
will sell at public auction at the CHARLES COUNTY
COURTHOUSE, located at 200 CHARLES STREET ( IN THE
BREEZEWAY BETWEEN CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS ), LA
PLATA, MD 20646, on
MAY 1, 2024 at 12:30 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in CHARLES COUNTY, MD and more fully
described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $20,000.00 will be required at the
time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR BY
CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Balance
of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of
final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for CHARLES
COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the
purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the
property shall be resold at the purchaser’s risk and expense.
The purchaser waives personal service and accepts service
by first class mail and certified mail addressed to the
address provided by said Purchaser as identified on the
Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or Show Cause Order
incident to this sale including a Motion to Default Purchaser
and for Resale of the Property. In the event of a resale,
the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to receive
any benefit from the resale, including, but not limited to,
additional proceeds or surplus which may arise therefrom.
Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate
pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Substitute Trustees. There
will be no abatement of interest in the event additional
funds are tendered at the time of sale or any time prior to
settlement or if the settlement is delayed for any reason.
In the event that the Secured Party executes a forbearance
agreement with the borrower(s) described in the above-
mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to
execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan,
prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee’s
prior knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and
of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be the
return of the deposit without interest. Purchaser shall pay
for documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement
expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, condominium fees
and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/
assessments payable on an annual basis, including
sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable,
shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed
thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee(s) are unable
to convey insurable title for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to a refund
of the aforementioned deposit without interest. In the event
the sale is not ratified for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole
remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without
interest. (File # 23-002859)
JAMES E. CLARKE,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE
Apr 12,19,26 2024 0012457130
855 855
Charles County Charles County
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
470-321-7112
TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
4586 SCOTTSDALE PLACE
WALDORF, MD 20602
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated
November 30, 2015, and recorded in Liber 09176, folio 0176,
of the land records of CHARLES COUNTY , with an original
principal balance of $234,671.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at THE CHARLES COUNTY
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 200 CHARLES STREET ( IN THE
BREEZEWAY BETWEEN CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS ), LA
PLATA, MD 20646 ON,
MAY 6, 2024 at 12:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any
buildings or improvements thereon situated in CHARLES
COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more fully
described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust.
TAX ID# - 06-321097
The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS
IS” physical condition without warranty of any kind and
subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting the same, including any condominium or
homeowners association assessments pursuant to MD Real
Property Article § 11-110 and § 11B-117 .
TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of
$26,500.00 by cashier’s/certified check or such other form
as the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole
discretion, required at time of sale except for the party
secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser
from date and time of auction. The balance of the purchase
price together with interest thereon at 3.875% per annum
from date of sale to receipt of purchase price by Substitute
Trustees must be paid by cashier’s check within 10 days
after final ratification of sale. The noteholder shall not be
obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There will be
no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event
that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if
settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes
and other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted
as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser.
If applicable, any condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due
after the date of sale shall be purchaser’s responsibility.
Purchaser shall pay all transfer, documentary and recording
taxes/fees and all other settlement costs. Purchaser is
responsible for obtaining possession of the property. Time
is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser defaults,
deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk and
cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any
deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and
attorney’s fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not
convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return
of deposit without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale
audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust
including but not limited to determining whether prior to
sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or
other agreement was entered into; or loan was reinstated
or paid off. In any such event this sale shall be null and
void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit
without interest. File No. (22-054691)
KEITH YACKO, DAVID WILLIAMSON,
BRYSON STEPHEN, THOMAS GARTNER,
Substitute Trustees
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Wilmington NC, 28403
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
13995 Petzold Drive
Waldorf, MD 20601
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to BUYER’S TITLE INC, Trustee(s),
dated April 25, 2019, and recorded among the Land
Records of CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 10627 ,
folio 361 , the holder of the indebtedness secured by this
Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute
Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid
Land Records, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, and at the request of the party secured thereby, the
undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public
auction at THE CHARLES COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED
AT 200 CHARLES STREET ( IN THE BREEZEWAY BETWEEN
CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS ), LA PLATA, MD 20646 ON,
MAY 13, 2024 at 11:30 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in CHARLES COUNTY, MD and described as
follows:
PROPERTY 1: BEGINNING FOR THE SAME AT AN IRON PIPE
DRIVEN IN THE GROUND ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF A 50
FOOT RIGHT OF WAY LEADING FROM ROUTE 232 TO THE
RESIDENCE OF WILLIAMS PETZOLD, SAID PIPE BEING N
76 DEG 22 MIN W %U20AC%U201C 92.65 FEET AND N
66 DEG 47 MIN W %U20AC%U201C 281.80 FEET AND N
03 DEG 57 MIN W %U20AC%U201C 125 FEET MEASURED
ALONG SAID ROAD FROM A PIPE MARKING A CORNER OF THE
WINSTON BURROUGHS LOT; RUNNING THENCE WITH SAID
ROAD N 63 DEG 57 MIN W 125 FEET TO A PIPE; THENCE
LEAVING SAID ROAD AND RUNNING S 34 DEG 11 MIN W
%U20AC%U201C 240 FEET TO A PIPE; THENCE S 63 DEG
57 MIN E %U20AC%U201C 125 FEET TO A PIPE; THENCE
N 34 DEG 11 MIN E %U20AC%U201C 240 FEET TO THE
POINT OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING (.68) OF AN ACRE,
MORE OR LESS. LOT TWO (2) ON A PLAT ENTITLED “LOTS
1 THRU 4, PETZOLD’S SUBDIVISION”, AND RECORDED IN
PLAT LIBER 20, AT FOLIO 199, CONTAINING 1.3200 ACRES
MORE OR LESS. PROPERTY 2: LOT NUMBERED EIGHT (8-B),
CONTAINING 1.001 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, AS PER PLAT
ENTITLED “LOTS 8-A & 8-B PETZOLD SUBDIVISION”, SAID
PLAT BEING RECORDED AMONG THE PLAT RECORDS OF
CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND IN LIBER 35 FOLIO 244.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $30,500.00 payable in
certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from
purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available
funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of
CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at the
rate of 4.625 % on unpaid purchase money from date of
sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a
bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party
purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to
complete full settlement of the purchase of the property
within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the
sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit
shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk
and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public
charges and private charges or assessments, including
water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be
adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and
transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement
shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium
and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will
be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not
ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title
or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s)
sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of
the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights
and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known
or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect,
and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the
Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review
of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel
the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior
to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit
shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and
conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time
and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the
Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s
order of 10.16.2020 . File No. (20-01448 )
JOHN ANSELL, JEREMY B. WILKINS,
ROBERT A. OLIVERI, AMANDA DRISCOLE,
PAUL HEINMULLER, JOHN C. HANRAHAN,
KRISTOPHER HAWKINS, Substitute Trustees
Apr 26,May 3,10 2024 0012456314
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EZ FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2024
873 873 857 857
Prince William County Prince William County Howard County Howard County
TRUSTEE’S SALE
415 Twin Arch Road, Mount Airy, MD 21771
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
12183 Chaucer Lane, Woodbridge, Virginia 22192 Trustee’s Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
In execution of a certain Refinance First Deed of Trust on Property premises known as 415 Twin Arch Road, Mount Airy, MD
at 12183 Chaucer Lane in Prince William County and Cross Collater- 21771. By virtue of the power and authority contained in
al Deed of Trust on Property at 10235 Van Thompson Road in Fairfax
County in the original principal amount of $300,000.00 dated August a Deed of Trust, dated May 16, 2019, and recorded in Liber
16, 2022 and recorded on August 18, 2022 among the Land Records of 18733 at Page 54 among the land records of the County of
the County of Prince William, Virginia (“Land Records”) as Instrument
Number 202208180060796, as the same may be amended from time Howard, in the original principal amount of $109,500.00.
to time (“Deed of Trust”), a default having occurred in the payment of Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees
that certain Confession of Judgment Refinance First Deed of Trust Note
on Property at 12183 Chaucer Lane in Prince William County and Refi- will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the
nance Second Deed of Trust Note on Property at 10235 Van Thompson County of Howard, located at 9250 Judicial Way, Ellicott City,
Road in Fairfax County dated August 16, 2022, thereby secured and at
the request of the holder of said Note, by virtue of a Deed of Appoint- MD 21043, on May 16, 2024 at 10:00 AM, all that property
ment of Substitute Trustees executed March 21, 2024 and recorded described in said Deed of Trust including but not limited to:
on March 26, 2024 among the Land Records as Instrument Number
202403260014924, the undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer for
sale at public auction at the main entrance to the Courthouse for the Tax ID# 04-315529
Circuit Court of Prince William County, (9311 Lee Ave, Manassas, VA
20110), on
May 8, 2024 at 2:00 o’clock PM Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling
the Property described in said Deed of Trust, located at the above ad- and is sold in “as is condition” and subject to all superior
dress and described as: covenants, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-
The Land referred to herein below is situated in the COUNTY OF of-way, as may affect same, if any.
PRINCE WILLIAM, Commonwealth of Virginia, and is described as
follows:
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
All of Unit Numbered 12183, Phase V, SECOND ANTIETAM SQUARE or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
CONDOMINIUM, as the same is shown on Location Plat and Plan at-
tached to the Declaration recorded in Deed Book 1282 at Page 685, as balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per
amended by First Amendment to Declaration recorded in Deed Book annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be
1290 at Page 1612; Second Amendment to the Declaration recorded in
Deed Book 1294 at Page 1720, as corrected by Correction Amendment paid within TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale.
recorded in Deed Book 1301 at Page 252, as further amended by Third
Amendment to Declaration recorded in Deed Book 1306 at Page 1963;
Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or
and Fourth Amendment to Declaration recorded in Deed Book 1310 at
Page 884, all among the land records of Prince William County, Virginia. regular assessments will be made as of the date of sale and
A 0.901% undivided percentage interest appurtenant to said Unit in all thereafter assumed by purchaser.
Common Elements of said project, as described in said Declaration.
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners association
TOGETHER WITH the right of ingress to and egress from said property
and the right to use, for all proper purposes in common with Declarant, dues and assessments that may become due after the
its successors and assigns, and all other occupants from time to time,
time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
any and all portion(s) of the Condominium designated by statute and
the Declaration as General Common Elements. Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps,
transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident
TOGETHER WITH AND SUBJECT TO Declaration of Covenants, Conditions
and Restrictions for LAKE RIDGE, as the same appear duly dedicated, to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of
platted and recorded in Deed Book 625 at Page 443 among the land
the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
records aforesaid.
AND FURTHER SUBJECT TO reservations, restrictions on use, and all forfeited and the property may be resold at risk and costs of
covenants and obligations as set forth in said Declaration, recorded
the defaulting purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the
in Deed Book 1282 at Page 685, and amended as aforesaid, among
the land records; and as set forth in the By-Laws of Unit Owners As- Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
sociation attached hereto which may be amended from time to time; accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy
all of which restrictions, conditions, assessments and all other cove-
nants are incorporated herein by reference, and constitute and shall is the return of the deposit. Trustee’s File No. 21-289028.
constitute covenants running with the land, and which are accepted
by the Grantee as binding, and shall be binding on the said Grantee, his
successors, heirs and assigns. William M. Savage, et al., Substitute Trustees.
Property Address:
Tax Map No.:
12183 Chaucer Lane, Woodbridge, Virginia 22192
8193-85-8870.03 LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP,
Mailing Address: 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400,
Subject to any and all covenants, conditions, restrictions and ease-
ments, if any, affecting the aforesaid Property. Charlotte, North Carolina 28216
(410) 769-9797
TERMS OF SALE:
A deposit of $15,000.00 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is less, ca-
shier or certified check, will be required at the time of sale. Settlement
shall be by cashier’s check or wire transfer of immediately available
federal funds and shall occur within fifteen (15) days from date of sale,
TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE. The Substitute Trustees reserve the right
in their sole discretion (but are under no obligation) to extend the date
of settlement as may be necessary to complete arrangements for set-
tlement. The deposit, without interest, shall be applied to the credit
of the successful bidder at settlement. The balance of the purchase
price over and above the retained deposit, with interest thereon at the
note rate then being charged from the date of sale through the date of Apr 26,May 3,10 2024 0012458212
receipt of the balance of the purchase price, will be due at settlement.
If the successful bidder fails to complete settlement as aforesaid, the
deposit shall be forfeited, and the Substitute Trustees may resell the TRUSTEE’S SALE
subject Property at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser. The
Substitute Trustees reserve the right to cancel the sale, postpone the
9410 Chippenham Drive, Laurel, MD 20723
sale or remove any or all portions of the Property from sale at any
time before the sale is announced as final for any reason, to reject any
and all bids, waive deposit requirements, extend time for settlement,
Trustee’s Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
and announce additional terms of sale. Terms of sale announced at premises known as 9410 Chippenham Drive, Laurel, MD
the public auction will supersede all advertised terms of sale. All clos-
ing and settlement costs, including without limitation, the preparation
20723. By virtue of the power and authority contained in
of the Substitute Trustee’s deed, settlement and escrow fees and all a Deed of Trust, dated April 13, 2007, and recorded in Liber
state, county and local grantor tax, grantee tax, regional congestion
relief fee, and WMATA capital fee shall be paid by the successful bidder.
10683 at Page 265 among the land records of the County
In addition, at settlement, the successful bidder shall pay all current of Howard, in the original principal amount of $305,000.00.
and past due assessments, sewer or water charges, and real estate
taxes, and any penalties and interest due on any of the foregoing, with
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees
respect to the Property, whether covering periods prior to or after the will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the
foreclosure sale. The risk of loss or damage to the Property shall be
assumed by the successful bidder from and after the bid strike-down
County of Howard, located at 9250 Judicial Way, Ellicott City,
at the time of sale. The Substitute Trustees will not deliver possession MD 21043, on May 2, 2024 at 10:00 AM, all that property
of the Property to the successful bidder and the successful bidder shall
be solely responsible for obtaining possession of the Property and no
described in said Deed of Trust including but not limited to:
representation is made regarding the occupancy status of the Property.
Tax ID# 06-524168
The Property and all personal property applicable thereto shall be sold
“AS IS, WHERE IS, WITH ALL FAULTS” without any warranty whatso-
ever express or implied and subject to any and all (i) deeds of trust, Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling
judgments, liens, tax liens, lis pendens, and any matters of record (ii)
outstanding homeowner or condominium association assessments, and is sold in “as is condition” and subject to all superior
(iii) existing housing and zoning code violations, (iv) filed or unfiled me- covenants, conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-
chanic’s and materialmen’s liens, and/or (v) tenants, leasehold inter-
ests and other parties in possession, if any. of-way, as may affect same, if any.
Neither the Substitute Trustees nor the holder of the Note, nor their
respective agents, successors, and assigns, make any representations TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or warranties with respect to the Property including, without limitation, or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
representations or warranties as to the structural integrity, physical
condition, construction, workmanship, materials, habitability, fitness balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per
for a particular purpose or merchantability of all or any part of the annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be
Property. The purchaser recognizes and agrees that any investigation,
examination, or inspection of the Property being sold is within the con- paid within TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale.
trol of the owner or other parties in possession and their agents and
not within the control of the Substitute Trustees, the holder of the Note,
or their respective successors or assigns. Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or
regular assessments will be made as of the date of sale and
Immediately upon the conveyance by the Substitute Trustees of the
Property to the purchaser at foreclosure, all duties, liabilities and obli- thereafter assumed by purchaser.
gations of the Substitute Trustees, if any, with respect to such Property
shall be extinguished. Should Settlement not occur for any reason on
the part of the Substitute Trustees, the purchaser’s sole remedy, in law If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners association
or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. dues and assessments that may become due after the
Pursuant to the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, we advise time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
you that this is a communication from a debt collector and any infor- Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps,
mation obtained will be used for that purpose. Additional terms may be
announced at the sale. transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident
to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of
Substitute Trustees: Jung Kim, 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 1400
Tysons Corner, Virginia 22182 (Tel: 202-900-8595, Email: jkim@offitkur-
man.com; Anders Sleight, 8000 Towers Crescent Drive, Suite 1400 Ty-
sons Corner, Virginia 22182 (Tel: 703-745-1852, Email: Anders.Sleight@
offitkurman.com).
the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be
forfeited and the property may be resold at risk and costs of
the defaulting purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in
INTERESTED BIDDERS are encouraged to contact Substitute Trustees
for additional information and materials concerning the Property; PRO-
VIDED, HOWEVER, all such information and materials will be provided
without any representations or warranties whatsoever.
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accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy
is the return of the deposit. Trustee’s File No. 22-292193.
William M. Savage, et al., Substitute Trustees.
LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP,
Mailing Address: 10130 Perimeter Parkway, Suite 400,
Charlotte, North Carolina 28216
(410) 769-9797
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