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Tesla claim
of drivers’
Trump
liability is trial is
challenged hardly
Crash-related suits say
Autopilot creates a false
sense of complacency
the trail
case is disrupting
BY T RISHA T HADANI his campaign plans
SAN FRANCISCO — As CEo Elon
Musk stakes the future of Tesla on Trump to bounce from
autonomous driving, lawyers court to rallies this week
from California to Florida are
picking apart the company’s most
common driver assistance tech- BY H ANNAH K NOWLES,
nology in painstaking detail, ar- J OSH D AWSEY
guing that Autopilot is not safe AND A SHLEY P ARKER
for widespread use by the public.
At least eight lawsuits headed NEW YORK — For 20 minutes
to trial in the coming year — Donald Trump campaigned like
including two that haven’t been everything was normal. He made
previously reported — involve fa- his way down a line of cheering
tal or otherwise serious crashes fans outside a construction site at
that occurred while the driver 6:30 a.m., pumping his fist, clasp-
was allegedly relying on Auto- ing outstretched hands and sign-
pilot. The complaints argue that ing MAGA hats. “Election inter-
sARAh RicE fOR thE WAshiNgtON POst
Tesla exaggerated the capabilities ference,” he grumbled about the
of the feature, which controls criminal charges against him, re-
steering, speed and other actions prising his year-long mantra.
typically left to the driver. As a
result, the lawsuits claim, the
company created a false sense of
complacency that led the drivers
A mayor in the eye of Gaza storm But by 9:30 a.m., Trump was
stuck in court, no longer narrat-
ing the legal saga intertwined
with his run for president. He sat
to tragedy. quietly for hours at a time Thurs-
Evidence emerging in the cases bdullah Hammoud had been outspoken Lebanon and Yemen, where many of Dearborn’s day and watched stone-faced as a
— including dash-cam video ob-
tained by The Washington Post —
offers sometimes-shocking de-
tails: In Phoenix, a woman alleg-
edly relying on Autopilot plows
A about Israel’s assault in Gaza and
President Biden’s unconditional sup-
port of Israel for nearly four months,
but he had not attracted much attention outside
his native Dearborn. That all changed in late
In Michigan,
navigating
residents had ancestral roots. This was the first
outreach he had received from anyone in the
Biden camp and it was not a White House
official with the ability to influence policy, but
someone whose sole job was getting the presi-
longtime friend and former tab-
loid publisher recounted Trump’s
agitation in 2016 when a hush
money scheme failed to quash a
story about an alleged affair with
into a disabled car and is then January, when he made a decision that would dent reelected. a Playboy model. His go-to outlet:
struck and killed by another vehi- catapult him from little-known mayor to na-
residents’ rage Hammoud, a Democratic mayor of a city of brief interludes in a dingy court-
cle after exiting her Tesla. In tional figure. over war and just over 100,000 residents, made a decision house hallway in front of TV
Tennessee, an intoxicated man Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez that sent an unmistakable message: He turned cameras, where he has vented
sEE TESla on a2 Rodriguez, was coming to town, a fellow Arab
Democrats’ down the meeting. about the judge, the “freezing”
American official told Hammoud. How would fears of Trump “That was a concept people couldn’t under- temperatures in the courtroom
the Dearborn mayor feel about meeting with stand: ‘Why would you do that?’” Hammoud and “sitting up as straight as I can
her? BY Y ASMEEN said in a recent interview while driving around all day long.”

Anti-trans something didn’t sit right with Hammoud.

Israel’s military campaign in Gaza had killed
more than 25,000 Palestinians. Hammoud had
A BUTALEB
IN DEARBORN, MICH.
Dearborn. “Immediately when I got the invita-
tion, I felt like it was a disingenuous engage-
ment. It was an engagement only for the worry
Two weeks in, the first criminal
trial of a former president has
been personally taxing for Trump

ire targets heard from residents of this majority Arab

American city who had lost 20, 40, even 80,
relatives. The war was spreading to southern
of what’s going to happen in the upcoming
election, and not for the worry of what’s actually
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and disruptive to his campaign.
Despite efforts to schedule din-
ners at which donors, friends and

Planet Dearborn Mayor abdullah Hammoud at his office in Michigan last month. Hammoud, who is an arab american, is playing
a key role in mediating between the anger of arab americans and Muslims in Michigan and president Biden’s White House.
world leaders join him, Trump’s
moods are worse on trial days,
according to several people close

Fitness to him. The former president is

accustomed to near-daily rounds
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For Jewish students,
pinballing off emotions
BY T AYLOR L ORENZ
AND G US G ARCIA- R OBERTS Columbia.
In the days that followed, her
John Hart-Battles, a 17-year-old
Protests against Israel’s anger and sadness would grow.
high school junior in oklahoma, war effort in Gaza so would her frustration, as she
joined Planet Fitness last June to saw friends unwilling to take a
keep in shape as a member of his
produce intense feelings stand against what she saw as
school’s color guard team. As a antisemitism on campus. When
young gay man, he liked Planet she went home to Toronto for the
Fitness’s focus on inclusivity, an BY L AURA M ECKLER Jewish holiday of Passover, part
approach that turned it into one of AND M ICHELLE B OORSTEIN of her did not want to come back
the leading fitness brands in the to new York. But she did.
United states. He started going The protests outside her win- “I can’t walk away from some-
twice a week. dow at Columbia University were thing that’s hard,” she said.
But for the past few weeks, he, loud, and Dahlia soussan lay For Jewish college students,
like many LGBTQ+ Planet Fitness awake all night, tossing in her this is a moment of intense and
patrons and staffers, has stayed dorm room bed, a little bit scared. sometimes conflicting emotions
away, as at least 54 bomb threats As a Jewish student, some of as many college campuses erupt
have been made to Planet Fitness the chants felt threatening, like in loud protests against Israel’s
locations across the country, she was being targeted because conduct in the war and, in some
many of which led to evacuations. she supports the existence of the cases, its existence — all while the
“It’s one of my worst fears, to be state of Israel. But the next day, deadly war in Gaza presses on
hate crimed, specifically in a lock- when more than 100 protesters and Israeli hostages remain in
er room,” said Hart-Battles, who were arrested, that was upsetting, captivity.
called the attacks on Planet Fit- too. she did not want students It adds up to profound ques-
ness “very unsettling.” taken to jail or suspended from tions over what it means to be a
Local police and the FBI say BRYAN tERRY/OKlAhOmAN/UsA tODAY NEtWORK college. she, too, wants the bomb- young Jew in America in 2024.
they have yet to determine who is ing in Gaza to stop. For some, the overriding feeling
behind the threats, which in some ‘You just can’t believe the destruction’ “Every value that I hold in my is one of fear and pain. others
instances have forced the evacua- A man looks at the wreckage of a building damaged by tornadoes that tore through Sulphur, Okla., on heart is in tension with another sEE STUDEnTS on a6
tion, police say, not just of Planet principle I hold deeply right now,”
Saturday. An unusually severe outbreak of storms has hit several states, including Oklahoma, Kansas, said soussan, a junior at Barnard Policing protests: A new set of
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senting the family of Jovani mal-
donado, 15, who was killed in
Northern California when a Tesla
in Autopilot rear-ended his fam-
ily’s pickup truck in 2019.
Tesla did not respond to multi-
ple requests for comment on the
lawsuits.
The outcomes of the cases
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Tesla’s stock has lost more than a
third of its value since the begin-
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A Model 3 on the assembly line at the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif. A new federal review of Autopilot
signals concerns that a December recall failed to significantly prevent misuse of the technology.
if the system is not engaged.”
But the Huang case also poten-
tially involved a distracted driver:
Huang was allegedly playing a
video game when his Tesla
plowed into a highway barrier in
2018. Tesla has not said why it
decided to settle the lawsuit, and
details of the settlement have not
been disclosed in court docu-
ments.
“A reckoning is
coming as more and
more of these cases
are going to see the
light of a jury trial.”
Brett Schreiber,
a lawyer representing the family
of a 15-year-old who died after
a tesla in autopilot rear-ended
the family’s pickup truck
More fatal crash details
emerge
meanwhile, federal regulators
appear increasingly sympathetic
to claims that Tesla oversells its
technology and misleads drivers.
Even the decision to call the
software Autopilot “elicits the
idea of drivers not being in con-
trol” and invites “drivers to overly
trust the automation,” NHTSA
said Thursday, revealing that a
two-year investigation into Auto-
pilot had identified 467 crashes
linked to the technology, 13 of
them fatal.
NHTSA did not offer specific
information about those crashes.
But two fatal crashes from 2022
are detailed in lawsuits that have
not been previously reported.
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Camry that had stalled on the
highway, according to court docu-
ments and dash-cam footage ob-
tained by The Post. According to
the mitchell family’s lawyer, Jona-
than michaels with mLG Attor-
neys at Law, Autopilot and the
car’s other features — including
forward collision warning and
automatic emergency braking —
failed to result in mitchell’s Tesla
taking evasive action and prevent
the vehicle from barreling into
the stalled sedan.
mitchell was then struck and
killed by an oncoming vehicle
when she got out of her car.
Tesla did not respond to a
request for comment regarding
this case. In response to the com-
plaint in January 2024, Tesla said
it denies the allegation and “has
not yet had an opportunity to
inspect” mitchell’s vehicle.
About a month later in Sumner
County, Tenn., Jose roman Jara-
millo Cortez drank two beers and
three tequila shots after his shift
at a local restaurant, and then
hopped into his Tesla model 3,
court documents say. He plugged
his address into the Tesla’s GPS
and flicked on Autopilot, it said.
According to the lawsuit filed
in June 2023 and dash-cam foot-
age obtained by The Post, the car
then pulled onto the wrong side
of the road. After driving south in
a northbound lane for several
minutes, the Tesla rammed into a
car driven by Christian malone,
20, who died from the impact. In
its response to the complaint,
Tesla said “the crash was caused
by the negligence and/or reckless-
ness of the driver.”
Trial dates for both cases will
be set later next year, michaels
said.
In another case — set for trial
in November in Key Largo, fla. —
a Tesla in Autopilot allegedly
failed to detect an approaching
T-intersection while its driver
searched for a dropped phone.
The Tesla barreled through flash-
ing lights and a physical barri-
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Mason trinca for the Washington Post
cade before crashing into a vehi-
cle parked on the side of the road,
killing a woman and seriously
injuring a man.
In court documents, Tesla has
argued that the driver was ulti-
mately responsible for the trajec-
tory of the car. Tesla also states in
user manuals that Autopilot may
not operate as intended “when
unable to accurately determine
lane markings” or when “bright
light is interfering with the cam-
era’s view.”
When these cases head to trial,
juries may be asked to consider
whether Tesla’s many driver
warnings are sufficient to spare
the company from liability. ross
Gerber, CEo of Gerber Kawasaki
Wealth and Investment manage-
ment, said the last thing the
company needs is a highly publi-
cized courtroom battle that focus-
es attention on such questions.
At a trial, “the defense would
dig into the weeds . . . and it
would become very clear that the
perception of the Autopilot soft-
ware was very different from the
reality,” Gerber said. “Every day
would be a headline, and it would
be embarrassing.”
So far, Tesla has faced a jury
only once over the role Autopilot
may have played in a fatal crash.
In riverside, Calif., last year, a
jury heard the case of micah Lee,
37, who was allegedly using Auto-
pilot when his Tesla model 3
suddenly veered off the highway
at 65 mph, crashed into a palm
tree and burst into flames. Lee
died of his injuries, while his
fiancée and her son were severely
injured.
Because of the extensive dam-
age to the car, Tesla said it could
not be proved that Autopilot was
engaged at the time of the crash.
During the trial, michael Carey,
the attorney for Tesla, argued the
technology was not at fault, and
that the crash “is classic human
error.” According to a toxicology
report taken after the crash, Lee
had alcohol in his system but it
was within the legal limit in Cali-
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fornia.
“This case is not about Auto-
pilot. Autopilot didn’t cause the
crash,” Carey said during opening
statements. “This is a bad crash
with bad injuries and may have
resulted from bad mistakes — but
you can’t blame the car company
when that happens. This is a good
car with a good design.”
Ultimately, Tesla’s arguments
prevailed, and a jury found the
company not liable.
But the company appears to
face headwinds in some other
cases. Last year, florida Circuit
Judge reid Scott upheld a plain-
tiff’s request to seek punitive
damages in a case concerning a
fatal crash in Delray Beach, fla.,
in 2019 when Jeremy Banner and
his Tesla in Autopilot failed to
register a semi truck crossing its
path. The car plowed under the
truck at full speed, killing Banner
on impact.
In the ruling, Scott said the
family’s lawyers “sufficiently”
presented evidence to reasonably
seek punitive damages at trial,
which could run millions of dol-
lars.
The plaintiffs’ evidence includ-
ed that Tesla “knew the vehicle at
issue had a defective Autopilot
system,” according to the order.
Citing other fatal crashes involv-
ing Autopilot, Scott wrote that
there is a “genuine” dispute over
whether Tesla “created a foresee-
able zone of risk that posed a
general threat of harm to others.”
Tesla’s appeal of the ruling is
pending.
Change in defense strategy?
As the spate of lawsuits churns
forward, Tesla has shown a fresh
willingness to settle such cases —
despite musk’s vow on Twitter in
2022 to never settle “an unjust
case against us even if we will
probably lose.”
In addition to settling the
Huang case, Tesla “indicated”
that it was open to discussing a
potential settlement in the river-
side case as it was being present-
ed to a jury last fall, said michaels,
the mLG lawyer who represented
Lee’s family.
The month-long trial featured
testimony from an accident re-
constructionist, a top engineer at
Tesla and a paramedic who re-
sponded to the crash and said it
was among the most horrific acci-
dents he had ever seen. michaels
said he declined to engage in
settlement talks because he want-
ed to continue to “make this a
really public issue.” He said he
also “did not have confidence in
our ability to come to an agree-
able amount.”
Tesla and its lawyer in the case,
Carey, did not respond to a re-
quest for comment.
After four days of delibera-
tions, the jury decided the case in
Tesla’s favor.
Though he lost, michaels said
the trial attracted media atten-
tion and gave other lawyers with
cases against Tesla insight into
the company’s defense strategy.
Plus, he said, his law firm’s phone
has since been blowing up with
potential clients.
“We walked away from guaran-
teed money,” michaels said, “but
that wasn’t what it was about.”
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Despite icy dynamic, Trump and DeSantis meet in Miami
BY J OSH D AWSEY
Former president Donald
Trump and Florida Gov. Ron De-
Santis met privately Sunday
morning in Miami, according to
people familiar with the matter,
breaking a years-long chill be-
tween the presumptive Republi-
can nominee and his onetime
chief primary rival.
Allies brokered the meeting in
hopes of a potential détente be-
tween the two men, and Trump’s
advisers hope DeSantis will tap
his donor network to help raise
significant sums of money for the
general election, the people fa-
miliar with the matter said. Like
others interviewed for this story,
the people spoke on the condition
of anonymity to describe private
deliberations.
The pair met for several hours
and DeSantis agreed to help
Trump. The meeting was friendly,
according to a person with direct
knowledge.
Trump and allied groups have
lagged behind President Biden
and his allies in the money chase.
DeSantis has built a wide net-
work of wealthy patrons whose
assistance would be valuable in
helping Trump try to close the
gap, and is popular with some
Republican voters who are ex-
hausted by Trump.
There is an incentive for De-
The Trump Trials
Trump tries to hit the campaign trail, but he can’t escape from New York
BY P ERRY S TEIN
AND D EVLIN B ARRETT
Welcome back to The Trump
Trials newsletter. Last week was
a whirlwind, between Donald
Trump’s ongoing criminal trial
in Manhattan and the high-
stakes Supreme Court presiden-
tial immunity arguments in D.C.
that could determine when and
if the former president goes on
trial in the nation’s capital.
Throughout it all, Trump has
lashed out about the cases, com-
plaining about being stuck in
court and claiming his legal
troubles were concocted by
Democrats who want to hurt his
chances in the 2024 presidential
election. On Wednesday, he is
scheduled to make two cam-
paign stops in the Midwest. He
can’t escape his trial, however,
so the next day it will be back to
New York.
Have questions on Trump’s
criminal cases? Email us at per-
ry.stein@washpost.com and
devlin.barrett@washpost.com
and check for answers in future
newsletters.
Okay, let’s get into it.
What’s ahead
The focus this week will most-
ly be on New York, where the
trial resumes Tuesday with more
witness testimony. On Thursday,
the judge will hold a second
hearing about Trump’s alleged
violations of a gag order (more
on that in the gag-tracker).
In the Florida classified docu-
ment case, we’re still waiting for
U.S. District Judge Aileen M.
Cannon to makes some big deci-
sions (details below).
Now, a recap of last week’s
action.
1. New York: State hush
money case
The details: 34 charges con-
nected to a 2016 hush money
payment.
Planned trial date: Underway
Last week: Testimony from
David Pecker — the former top
National Enquirer executive
and the government’s first wit-
ness — consumed the bulk of
the week. He testified that he
killed potentially damaging
stories about Trump around the
2016 election, then published
articles pummeling Trump’s
political rivals. He said he knew
that paying subjects for their
stories — in coordination with
a campaign — and then not
publishing them in order to
influence an election violated
election laws.
Trump’s former executive as-
sistant at the Trump Organiza-
tion, Rhona Graff, testified Fri-
day, along with a banker for
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former
lawyer and fixer. Graff said she
maintained Trump’s contact
list and that he had contact
information for Stormy Dan-
iels. It is Cohen’s hush money
payment to Daniels, and how
Trump classified his reim-
bursement to Cohen, that is at
the heart of this records falsifi-
cation case.
2. D.C.: Federal case on 2020
Politics & the Nation
Former president’s allies
eye Florida governor’s
donor network
Santis to form a closer relation-
ship, as well. People close to De-
Santis have said it is untenable
for him to continue to have a
strained relationship with
Trump, particularly as he eyes his
political future. He is widely
viewed among Republican do-
nors and consultants as weak-
ened after a shellacking by Trump
in the primary.
The meeting was orchestrated
by Steve Witkoff, a Florida real
estate investor and developer
both men know, and he attended.
Witkoff called the former presi-
dent’s team and asked for him to
meet with DeSantis, a person
familiar with the matter said.
Trump and DeSantis had not
spoken since the end of a bruising
primary season, where DeSantis
dropped out after a disappointing
finish in Iowa, following months
of attacks from Trump and his
supporters. DeSantis offered a
video endorsing Trump on the
day he left the race.
“It’s clear to me that a majority
of Republican primary voters
want to give Donald Trump an-
TOP: A sketch shows Donald Trump’s attorney D. John Sauer speaking before the Supreme Court on
Thursday about Trump’s claims of immunity from prosecution. ABOVE: A courtroom sketch shows
former National Enquirer executive David Pecker on the witness stand in New York on Friday.
election
The details: Four counts re-
lated to conspiring to obstruct
the 2020 election results.
Planned trial date: Unclear
Last week: The Supreme
Court heard arguments to deter-
mine whether presidential im-
munity extends to Trump’s al-
leged actions laid out in this
election interference indict-
ment. His lawyer, D. John Sauer,
told the justices that presidents
have sweeping immunity from
criminal prosecution and that
the charges against Trump for
actions around Jan. 6, 2021,
should be dismissed. Prosecu-
tors argued that Trump’s alleged
deception to overturn the 2020
election results extended far be-
yond possible immunity protec-
other chance,” DeSantis said in
the video he posted that Sunday
afternoon on the social media site
X. “They watched his presidency
get stymied by relentless resis-
tance, and they see Democrats
using lawfare to this day to attack
him.”
But DeSantis has not cam-
paigned for Trump or helped him
since, and in fact has made back-
handed criticisms of Trump. De-
Santis was stung by how Trump
and his team treated him during
the primary, people close to the
Florida governor said.
In a call with supporters in
February after dropping out, De-
Santis said Trump had political
baggage and criticized some in
Trump’s orbit.
“I think he’s got people in his
inner circle who were part of our
orbit years ago that we fired, and I
think some of that is they just
have an ax to grind,” DeSantis
said. The comments angered
Trump’s team.
At the time, Chris LaCivita, a
top aide to Trump, called DeSan-
tis a “sad little man.”
DeSantis is widely loathed in-
side Trump’s orbit, but the former
president has shown a willing-
ness to be forgiving and remark-
ably transactional when it ben-
efits him.
“Will I be using the name Ron
DeSanctimonious?” he said after
tions for presidents.
The justices appeared ready to
reject Trump’s overall immunity
claim, but in a way that could
require more litigation and fur-
ther delay the trial — which has
been completely on pause while
the immunity question is set-
tled. A decision is expected to
come by the end of the court
term, in late June or early July.
Gag-tracker
Trump keeps talking — at
campaign events, outside the
courtroom, in interviews and on
social media. And state prosecu-
tors in New York keep claiming
his speech is violating the court-
imposed gag order, which bars
him from attacking witnesses,
prosecutors or family members
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This combination of photos shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former president Donald Trump,
both in 2023. Before leaving the presidential race, DeSantis was considered Trump’s primary rival.
DeSantis endorsed him. “I said
that name is officially retired.”
The two men have never been
personally close, but Trump en-
dorsed DeSantis in 2018 for gov-
ernor of Florida — and once
viewed him as a rising star in the
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of the judge and the Manhattan
district attorney.
On Tuesday, New York Su-
preme Court Justice Juan Mer-
chan held a hearing to review
allegations from prosecutors
that Trump had violated the gag
order 10 times. Trump’s lawyers
countered that the former presi-
dent’s postings about potential
witnesses are a permitted re-
sponse to political attacks
against him — an assertion the
judge didn’t seem to buy.
Merchan has not ruled yet.
But two days after the hearing,
prosecutors raised another four
new potential violations. The
judge then scheduled another
contempt hearing for Thursday.
Trump is slated to make cam-
paign stops in Wisconsin and
party.
In recent weeks, DeSantis held
an event for donors at a resort in
Florida, and people close to him
said he is potentially interested in
running for president again in
2028. During the Republican pri-
Dana VErkoutErEn/aP
Michigan on Wednesday, mean-
ing his capacity for violating the
gag order may continue to out-
pace the judge’s capacity to hold
hearings about alleged viola-
tions of the order.
3. Florida: Federal classified
documents case
The details: Trump faces 40
federal charges over accusations
that he kept top-secret govern-
ment documents at Mar-a-Lago
— his home and private club —
and thwarted government de-
mands to return them.
Planned trial date: TBD
Last week: Prosecutors and
defense lawyers continued to
spar in pretrial court filings,
which include partially redacted
exhibits that detail the early
days of the investigation.
Almost two months after Can-
non held a hearing about how
far back to push the originally
scheduled May 20 start date,
we’re still waiting for a decision.
Cannon also has not yet said if
she’ll keep a May 9 deadline for
prosecutors and defense attor-
neys to disclose what classified
information they expect to dis-
cuss at trial — a wonky, but
necessary step in cases that
involve national secrets. Trump’s
lead attorney in Florida, Todd
Blanche, is also his lead attorney
in New York, and wants to push
the deadline back several weeks
so he can spend days in a secure
facility in Florida to review the
classified materials. Prosecutors
say Cannon can’t keep delaying
this trial.
4. Georgia: State case on
2020 election
The details: Trump faces 10
state charges for allegedly trying
to undo the election results in
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mary, Trump told advisers he
wanted to hurt DeSantis for 2028,
too. But he has moved his focus
on to Biden and his criminal trial
in recent weeks, and Trump allies
say he would favorably view De-
Santis raising money for him.
that state. Four of his 18 co-
defendants have pleaded guilty.
Planned trial date: None yet
Last week: Another quiet
week in Georgia, but a similar
state election interference case
was filed in Arizona. State pros-
ecutors indicted seven attorneys
or aides affiliated with Trump’s
2020 campaign, as well as 11 Ari-
zona Republicans, on felony
charges related to efforts to offer
“fake electors” from their state.
Among those charged: former
Trump White House chief of
staff Mark Meadows, attorneys
Rudy Giuliani and top campaign
adviser and attorney Boris Ep-
shteyn.
Unlike in Georgia, Trump was
not charged in Arizona, but is an
unindicted co-conspirator.
Which leads us to our . . .
Nerd word of the week
Unindicted co-conspirator:
When prosecutors detail con-
spiracies in an indictment —
such as an alleged coordinated
effort to overturn election re-
sults — they often include people
who allegedly participated in the
conspiracy but are not charged
with a crime. These are unindict-
ed co-conspirators. Prosecutors
may have opted not to charge
them because of legal strategy, a
lack of evidence, because their
actions fall short of a crime or
because they may be cooperat-
ing with investigators.
Because unindicted co-
conspirators can’t clear their
name at trial, they are typically
unnamed in court documents.
But they often describe them in
identifiable ways. In the Arizona
indictment, Trump — identified
as Unindicted Conspirator One
— is described as a “former
president of the United States
who spread false claims of elec-
tion fraud following the 2020
election.” Guess who?
Question Time
Q. If Donald Trump and Da-
vid Pecker were such good
friends, why did Pecker agree to
testify for the prosecution?
A. Pecker testified under a
grant of immunity from prosecu-
tors. While he seemed chipper
and friendly, Pecker also made
clear that he believed he and his
company had violated election
law on Trump’s behalf. When the
Federal Election Commission
and the FBI came calling, he
cooperated to protect himself
and his company.
Pecker is not in the same cat-
egory as Trump’s former lawyer
Michael Cohen, who has turned
on the former president not only
in the legal sense but also in the
personal sense.
For years, Cohen’s antipathy
for Trump has been on display on
a daily, sometimes hourly, basis.
Pecker, by contrast, said he con-
siders Trump a friend but hasn’t
spoken to him for several years,
largely because of the legal mess
the two men are in.
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Former president Donald trump at Manhattan criminal court in New York on thursday. the trial has been taxing for trump as it disrupts his 2024 campaigning efforts.
Trump on trial brings political defiance and a loss of control
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of golf, “constant stimulation”
and cheers when he enters and
exits a room at mar-a-Lago, they
said. Instead, he is now reporting
four days a week for mundane
court arguments and long
stretches without permission to
check his phone.
“The phrase around here is ‘the
process is the punishment,’” said
one person close to Trump, who
like others spoke on the condition
of anonymity to describe private
conversations.
Trump has done his best to
turn his trial into an extension of
his 2024 campaign, raging that
the case is politically motivated
and bragging that he can assem-
ble adoring crowds even in heavi-
ly Democratic manhattan. He has
marveled to advisers that he gets
more media attention outside
court than he even did on the
campaign trail, and that his com-
ments are sometimes carried live.
But the indictments that once
helped Trump lock down the GoP
nomination by firing up his base
have become a serious constraint
in the general election and thrust
the domineering candidate into
an unusually humbling position.
The trial is taking time and
resources just as his campaign is
rushing to build out infrastruc-
ture for the general election and
close a fundraising gap with Pres-
ident Biden. Expected to stretch
six to eight weeks, the trial is
limiting the schedule of the pre-
sumptive GoP nominee at a criti-
cal moment when Biden is out-
spending him on the airwaves
and seeing some improvement in
the polls, though Trump’s team
notes the former president still
holds an edge in many surveys of
a very tight race.
During the republican pri-
maries, Trump could swoop in
and out of his court proceedings
with more flexibility and cam-
paign on the sidelines. Now the
former president is required to
attend; adding insult to injury,
his first mid-trial rally was can-
celed last weekend because of bad
weather. This week, Trump is
planning to squeeze two rallies —
in michigan and Wisconsin —
into his off day. His team was
angered that the judge chose
Wednesday as the day off — be-
lieving it was meant to hurt him
politically. He has trekked to his
club in nearby Westchester Coun-
ty to play golf on the days he has
been off, instead of hitting the
trail.
Although Trump has consis-
tently survived major scandals,
the New York case is training new
attention on salacious allegations
that could give some voters
pause. Trump is accused of falsi-
fying business records to conceal
a hush money payment to an
adult-film actress, whose allega-
tions of an extramarital affair
with Trump threatened to hurt
his 2016 campaign. He has plead-
ed not guilty.
Trump campaign senior advis-
er Jason miller, who has been
attending court with the former
president, rejected the idea that
the trial has dampened Trump’s
mood or hindered his campaign,
despite what he called “some jus-
tifiable outrage” about the case.
He said Trump “keeps telling us
to load up his schedule” with
events.
“obviously, Trump would rath-
er be in battleground states,” mil-
ler said. “But we have a great
candidate; we have a phenome-
nal airplane. … We’re going to
bring the campaign trail to us.”
Trump has settled into a pre-
dictable if surreal rhythm for the
trial, with his court appearances
punctuated by all-caps social me-
dia posts and brief combative
remarks in front of the press. He
fields questions occasionally,
sometimes ignoring reporters’
shouted queries.
“I’d love to say everything
that’s on my mind,” Trump la-
mented to reporters this past
week, chafing at a gag order
forbidding him to talk publicly
about witnesses, jurors and some
other people linked to the case.
Prosecutors complained to the
judge that Trump was still not
restrained.
He’s been violating the gag
order “right outside the door,”
Assistant District Attorney Chris-
topher Conroy said.
The outcome of the trial could
sway some voters, polling shows,
and Trump faces three other
criminal cases, though it is un-
clear if any others will go to trial
before the election. Nearly a quar-
ter of registered voters who back
Trump say a conviction in one of
his cases might cause them to
reconsider supporting him, ac-
cording to a CNN poll conducted
April 18-23.
Americans were evenly split on
whether Trump has been treated
more harshly or more leniently
than other defendants, under-
scoring how voters of different
political persuasions and back-
grounds are absorbing Trump’s
legal woes in very different ways.
Trump’s lawyers have argued
that there was nothing improper
and attacked the credibility of a
central witness, former Trump
attorney michael Cohen. on his
first monday in court, Trump
emerged with his trademark red
tie, shoulders slightly hunched, to
denounce proceedings as a “polit-
ical persecution,” “an assault on
our country” and “really an attack
on a political opponent.” (Despite
Trump’s claims, there is no evi-
dence that local prosecutors have
coordinated with Biden or his
administration.)
“So I’m very honored to be
here,” Trump concluded.
‘He can’t believe it’
The trial has been a jarring
shift for a man who is rarely
confined to silence, often around
people paying to see him, and
used to spending his days making
phone calls, holding meetings,
reading newspapers, tending to
his properties, taping videos and
peacocking around his mar-a-La-
go Club in florida. Trump has
also long prized having control of
many of the details in his day-to-
day life, people familiar with the
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matter said.
He largely avoids restaurants
outside his properties because he
wants control over the food —
particularly how his steak is
cooked. He has avoided certain
hotels on the road, telling advis-
ers he prefers a Holiday Inn Ex-
press, because the bathroom
floors are light colored and he can
see if there is dirt. At his property,
he controls the music — both the
song choice and the volume. He
was personally involved in reno-
vating his plane, asking for con-
stant updates, and complained
about having to use the private
planes of others while his was in
the shop for over a year.
Last year, a group of Trump
advisers and lawyers spoke with
him about the benefits of his
criminal cases — his small-dollar
fundraising was surging, he was
crushing republicans in the
nomination fight, and his base
was rallying to his defense. But
Trump stopped the conversation
to remind the group of a problem:
He had been indicted four times
and was going to spend the next
year in court.
“It’s almost like he can’t believe
it,” the person close to Trump
said. “There is a sense when you
talk to him, ‘Can you believe this?
They indicted me.’”
Now captive to the courthouse
for much of the day, Trump tries
to exert influence over what he
can, often serving as his own
spokesman between sessions. on
the first Thursday of the trial, the
former president appeared bran-
dishing a thick stack of news
clippings, claiming that every ar-
ticle vindicated him. But his loss
of power is evident: At one point,
when he stood up, the judge
immediately told him to sit down
— and he did. When he has
mumbled in court, the judge has
reprimanded him.
Privately, he has complained
at times to his lawyers, giving
suggestions for what arguments
they should make and sometimes
second-guessing their arguments
in the courtroom. But he is gener-
ally pleased with this set of attor-
neys, people close to him said.
on friday, he opened his morn-
ing media remarks by wishing his
wife, melania Trump, a happy
birthday.
“It would be nice to be with her
— but I’m in a courthouse for a
rigged trial,” Trump said.
He rails against the lack of
mass demonstrations outside,
falsely claiming that police are
keeping hordes of supporters
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away. on monday, he declared on
social media that the area outside
the court was “completely
CLoSED DoWN,” though some
protesters had been chanting and
walking on the sidewalk. By Tues-
day he was saying that “Thou-
sands of people were turned away
from the Courthouse in Lower
manhattan by steel stanchions
and police.”
There have been some minor
demonstrations, with appearanc-
es from far-right activist Laura
Loomer and conservative com-
mentator Andrew Giuliani. But
on Thursday afternoon, 68-year-
old Gary Phaneuf was the only
Trump supporter visibly protest-
ing in the park outside the court-
house.
“fight for Trump!” the Staten
Island resident shouted as other
New Yorkers in the park went
about their day.
Phaneuf, who was arrested for
a curfew violation in Washington
after the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of
the U.S. Capitol, said he was
disappointed in the turnout for
the trial. He speculated that
Trump supporters got discour-
aged from mass mobilization af-
ter Jan. 6.
“We got nothing here right
now, let’s be real,” Phaneuf la-
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mented. “You don’t see any prom-
inent republicans here today, do
you?”
trump in court: Quiet, then
combative
Trump has been mostly impas-
sive when court is in session,
sandwiched between lawyers at
the defense table as reporters
scrutinize his every move. Some
days, his most notable reaction is
a yawn.
He frowned when David Peck-
er, the former National Enquirer
publisher, discussed a Trump
Tower doorman who had claimed
— falsely, Pecker said — that
Trump had fathered a child out-
side his marriage. He briefly fold-
ed his arms in front of his chest
when Pecker turned to the topic
of Karen mcDougal, the Playboy
model who alleged an affair with
Trump.
His tone during his brief ap-
pearances outside the trial room,
meanwhile, has at times veered
into outright mewling. “I’m sit-
ting here for days now, from
morning till night in that freezing
room,” he moaned at one. “freez-
ing! Everybody was freezing in
there, and all for this.”
He has griped about the court-
imposed gag order, complaining
that he has been unfairly muz-
zled. And he says he should be out
campaigning. “I should be right
now in Pennsylvania and florida
and many other states — North
Carolina, Georgia — campaign-
ing,” Trump said during the first
week.
Some of Trump’s grousing has
provided an opening for the
Biden campaign, which has glee-
fully seized on his daily remarks
to portray him as feeble and
infirm. “Trump says he has diffi-
culty sitting for long periods of
time and staying awake,” the
Biden campaign wrote on X.
At the end of the day, Trump
returns to Trump Tower, his fa-
mous property in manhattan.
People close to Trump said he
appears happiest in his gilded
triplex there, which remains fur-
nished from his time in New York.
During evening dinners, the con-
versation often veers back to the
case.
Late Thursday afternoon, a
small crowd began to gather out-
side the tower at the intersection
of fifth Avenue and East 56th
Street. By just after 5 p.m., about a
hundred people were waiting to
catch a glimpse of Trump, even
though police insisted they would
not be able to see anything be-
sides the black vehicles.
Some people waiting were the
die-hard fans whom Trump aides
have made sure to highlight in
their videos from New York. “I
love him!” declared Lucy Cooper,
16, who said she was visiting from
Boston.
others who wandered by were
hostile. one man stopped to take
a selfie under the chunky gold
“TrUmP ToWEr” letters with
his hand in the shape of an L, for
“loser.”
dawsey and Parker reported from
Washington.
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Campus protests bring new set of challenges for police
BY R OBERT K LEMKO,
M OLLY H ENNESSY- F ISKE,
T IM C RAIG
AND K IM B ELLWARE
At least 900 protesters have
been arrested at pro-Palestinian
demonstrations on college cam-
puses in the last 10 days, accord-
ing to a Washington Post tally,
the largest police response to
campus activism in years and
one that experts say poses myri-
ad potential challenges for law
enforcement agencies.
Mass demonstrations on cam-
puses ranged from peaceful sit-
ins on sun-soaked grassy malls to
vitriolic confrontations with
counterprotesters. To remove
protesters calling for a cease-fire
in the Israel-Gaza war and for
universities to divest from Israeli
financial interests, some admin-
istrators turned to police, point-
ing to numerous reports of hate,
antisemitic speech and violence
that marred some demonstra-
tions.
On some campuses, law en-
forcement offered repeated
warnings and conducted cordial,
orderly arrests. On others, police
and demonstrators engaged in
physical confrontations, with of-
ficers employing some of the
same tools and tactics used to
quell riots and demonstrations
four years ago, when thousands
marched through the streets of
U.S. cities after a Minneapolis
police officer killed George
Floyd.
Atlanta police said officers
used “chemical irritants” to clear
an encampment at Emory Uni-
versity last week, and a Georgia
State Patrol trooper was cap-
tured on video using a stun gun
to subdue a man on the ground.
The agency said the man was
resisting arrest. In Boston, the
Northeastern University police
cleared an encampment Satur-
day after a shout of “Kill the
Jews” was heard. A witness post-
ed on social media that the shout
came from a pro-Israel counter-
protester. School officials said
the demonstration had been “in-
filtrated by professional organiz-
ers with no affiliation to North-
eastern.”
The national wave of campus
arrests kicked off April 18, when
Columbia University President
Minouche Shafik wrote a letter
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Protesters at George Washington University in D.C. on Saturday. As U.S. universities have called police
to campus demonstrations, there have been both scenes of orderly arrests and physical confrontations.
to New York police requesting
help to clear the student demon-
strators.
The decision led to the arrests
of more than 100 people on the
Manhattan campus and inspired
fresh waves of protests across
the country.
Phillip Atiba Solomon, a Yale
professor of psychology and Afri-
can American studies, and co-
founder of the Center for Polic-
ing Equity, attributed the swift
interdiction on several campuses
in part to the mounting political
pressure on university presi-
dents to avoid appearing as if
they are appeasing anti-Israel
demonstrators.
Those presidents watched the
careers of former Harvard presi-
dent Claudine Gay and former
University of Pennsylvania presi-
dent Liz Magill unravel late last
year after both were accused of
antisemitism for their comments
on how to deal with protesters,
Solomon said, and want to avoid
a similar fate. Shafik was ques-
tioned about antisemitism on
campus by lawmakers on Capitol
Hill the day before she called in
police.
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“Presidents are trying to fig-
ure out how to deal with what
seems like a fracturing on the
political left, tons of pressure on
the political right, some reason-
able arguments — students say
they don’t feel safe,” Solomon
said. “And commencement is
coming up. So they call the
police.”
He cautioned that such action
“sends chills to the academic
environment and alienates stu-
dents,” and could reignite ten-
sions between police and pro-
testers that escalated during the
racial justice demonstrations.
“Any university who is calling
law enforcement this weekend
and beyond is asking for a trag-
edy,” Solomon said.
The equation is complicated
by the shifting nature of youth-
driven protests, which have be-
come more difficult for law en-
forcement to manage in the age
of social media, experts said.
Policing guidelines for manag-
ing civil disobedience that were
taught for decades have been
rendered moot. Fractured and
leaderless protest movements
make negotiations useless in
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many scenarios; the ability to
spontaneously and anonymously
organize protest action online
hampers law enforcement’s abil-
ity to prepare; and an influx of
bad actors — often masked —
seeking to escalate conflicts with
police can turn scenes violent in
an instant.
“These are more dynamic
events than any time in history,”
said Eugene O’Donnell, a crimi-
nal justice professor at John Jay
College in New York. “Every day
that goes by, there is more so-
phistication that makes them
problematic. It is more their
playing field than ever before.”
Four days after the Columbia
arrests, city police were called
onto the campus of New York
University, also at the request of
university leaders. Dozens of stu-
dents occupied a plaza at the
university, and several hundred
demonstrators and onlookers
formed a ring around the en-
campment to protect them.
When police moved to clear
the area April 22, intense clashes
broke out. Several objects, in-
cluding water bottles, were
thrown at the police. Police re-
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University of Southern Cali-
fornia administrators canceled
next month’s main commence-
ment ceremony after police ar-
rested dozens of people late
Wednesday in Los Angeles. At
Emerson College in Boston, po-
lice said they arrested 108 people
during a confrontation in which
four officers were injured in the
early hours of Thursday.
Many law enforcement agen-
cies feel their hands are tied
when universities declare that
students and others breaking
rules on campus are trespassing,
experts said. When university
presidents call, the police typi-
cally answer without regard for
optics.
But that did not happen at one
university in the nation’s capital.
At George Washington Uni-
versity, university leadership
asked D.C. police to arrest pro-
testers for trespassing — and
were denied, The Post reported
late Friday.
Two officials familiar with the
talks, speaking on the condition
of anonymity to discuss them,
said police officials concluded
that taking enforcement action
against a small number of peace-
ful protesters did not align with
the department’s interests.
In many locales, today’s law
enforcement leaders are far less
willing to take action against
protesters since the racial justice
unrest of 2020, O’Donnell said.
“Policing is a political institu-
tion now, and there is no worse
time to be an officer in uniform
than at a protest right now,”
O’Donnell said. “The people who
have failed to lead on campuses
now are dumping this in the laps
of the police.”
At least one university scram-
bled to construct the legal
grounds to remove protesters
before calling police.
Indiana University adminis-
trators changed course on a
55-year-old campus policy that
allowed temporary structures
like tents and signs without a
permit in Dunn Meadow, a
sprawling 20-acre park on the
university’s main campus, except
during overnight hours. A uni-
versity spokesperson said the
policy includes a provision that
allows changes in the rule as
needed and officials did so to
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“balance free speech and safety.”
On Thursday, campus police
arrested 34 people, with charges
ranging from trespassing and
resisting law enforcement to bat-
tery on a public safety official,
said Indiana University police
spokeswoman Hannah Skibba.
To combat strategic disadvan-
tages inherent to modern pro-
tests, some law enforcement
agencies have responded in re-
cent years with an overwhelming
show of force, according to polic-
ing experts, who see the tactic as
an effort to cow protesters with
large numbers of personnel and
fearsome armor.
At the University of Texas at
Austin, state troopers in riot gear
helped detain 57 protesters who
were arrested by campus police
Wednesday, drawing praise from
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).
But local prosecutors dropped
the charges due to “deficiencies”
in the charging documents, a
Travis County Attorney spokes-
person said.
George Lobb, who volun-
teered with 15 other lawyers to
represent protesters through the
Austin Lawyers Guild, said
“there was no violence” at the
protest until the state police
showed up. He also noted that
state universities in Arlington
and San Antonio had protests
the same day but no police
crackdowns or arrests.
He faulted the university pres-
ident for “poor leadership” and
“not realizing when you call in
the Pretorian guard, goon squad,
you’re going to get goon squad
behavior.”
Ammer Qaddumi, 21, of Hous-
ton, a junior economics and
government major who is Pales-
tinian American, was among
those taken into custody by po-
lice.
“The arrests themselves were
unlawful,” Qaddumi said while
participating in a protest on the
campus mall Friday afternoon,
the same spot where he had been
detained days before. About a
dozen campus police officers
looked on from a distance.
“The fact that UT’s default
response was police force in-
stead of trying to understand
student grievances, that is the
most egregious thing,” he said.
“It’s a blatant violation of our
right to protest and free speech.”
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From fear to solidarity to conflict, a kaleidoscope of emotions for Jewish students
StUDentS from A1
have joined with the protesters,
seeing the opposition to the war
in Gaza as an opportunity to live
out Jewish values taught growing
up about justice and the value of
human life. And many others are
conflicted, seeing nuance when it
feels like so many around them
see black and white.
“A lot of students I talk with in
the last few months are genuinely
torn and confused but don’t feel
they can ask their questions,” said
rabbi Jill Jacobs, a human rights
advocate who helps train rabbini-
cal students and others.
It’s been that way since oct. 7,
she said, when the war began
with an attack on Israel by
Hamas, the militant group that
runs Gaza, killing about 1,200,
according to Israeli estimates,
and taking more than 250 hos-
tage. After that, Israel launched a
counterattack that has killed over
34,000 Gazans, according to the
Gaza Health ministry.
Jewish students are left pin-
balling between emotions: worry
over Israel’s safety and the fate of
the hostages, fear of rising anti-
semitism at home, empathy for
Palestinians.
“They are horrified by what’s
happening in Gaza and also by
what happened on oct. 7 and by
antisemitism,” she said. They
“don’t see enough models for how
to hold it all.”
‘everyone is a little scared’
Seeing a Columbia-like en-
campment spread to the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh in recent days
has been “terrifying” to Alitza
Hochhauser, president of the or-
thodox Jewish group Chabad on
campus.
The junior said she saw a
“rules” sign at the encampment
that included, “Don’t talk to Zion-
ists.” (The rules also said to “love
each other,” which she found
contradictory.) Someone inside
the encampment told a friend of
hers to “go back to Europe,” she
said.
“I think people make unedu-
cated assumptions. They look at
Jewish students and assume
what they believe. They assume
[the Jewish students] want a
certain group of people dead,
which isn’t true at all, whatso-
ever. What everyone wants is
peace,” she said.
Sometimes there is a produc-
tive dialogue on campus, Hoch-
hauser said, but other times it’s
difficult. Some people don’t really
want to talk constructively, she
said.
“Jewish students on campus
are very involved right now, be-
cause, to put it bluntly, everyone
is a little scared about where this
is going.”
In a survey conducted in De-
cember and January by the Uni-
versity of Chicago’s Chicago Proj-
ect on Security and Threats,
19 percent of college students
reported feeling in “personal dan-
ger” due to their support of Israel
or the Palestinians. But those
feelings were far more wide-
spread among Jewish and mus-
lim students, where more than
half said they feel in danger.
The survey also found that
13 percent of college students
agreed or neither agreed nor dis-
agreed with the statement “when
Jews are attacked, they deserve
it,” and 17 percent said the same
about supporters of Israel.
Separately, Hillel Internation-
al, a major network of campus
Jewish groups, said its members
have recorded more than 1,350
incidents considered antisemitic,
including social media posts, van-
dalism, assaults and harassment
since the oct. 7 attack. That
includes over 400 acts of vandal-
ism, said Adam Lehman, presi-
dent and CEo of the group.
“This year, and in particular
the past week, has been very
crystallizing for many young
Jews,” he said.
At Stanford University in Palo
Alto, Calif., senior Leo Spunt ex-
perienced what felt like hate first-
hand last fall when someone
pulled down the mezuza — a
small scroll with religious texts,
inside a little case — that he had
posted on the doorway of his
room in his fraternity house. He
thought it might have been an
accident — “maybe someone was
drunk” — and he replaced it.
Then the second one was pulled
down, too.
“I felt like I can’t trust the
people I live with who are around
me,” he said. He got a third
mezuza from Hillel but never put
it up.
Protests and pro-Palestinian
actions are common at the Clare-
mont Colleges, a network of
schools outside Los Angeles. Ben
Cohen, a junior at one of them,
Pitzer College, tries to steer clear
but said he can’t help feeling
uncomfortable — even unsafe.
“I’ve seen swastikas on cam-
pus. I’ve been called a ‘filthy Jew’
for wearing a Star of David on
campus,” he said, “There is no
EZ rE
In a chat for resident advisers at Barnard College, Dahlia Soussan said not condemning antisemitism on campus “casts a stain of bigotry.”
voice for us, no conversation. I the orthodox Hasidic group Cha-
feel I’m just being yelled at, rather bad. They wore a kaffiyeh, there
than being heard.” was disagreement, “and it was
Cohen, who grew up in marin beautiful.”
County, Calif., said that in middle “There were people speaking
school, someone put a swastika in in different ways about Israel and
his backpack, and in high school, the violence, and we were able to
he saw Nazi salutes. “I’ve dealt coexist in that space as Jews,”
with this since I was 13, and right they said. “A lot of it is about
now this is the most antisemitism shared values and remembering
I’ve ever experienced.” the empathy and justice Judaism
Cohen says he still proudly can give all of us.”
wears his star, which hangs on a A Pew research Center poll
necklace. about the war conducted in feb-
“I feel like I hold a stronger ruary shows that younger Ameri-
bond now to Judaism,” he said. cans, and younger American
“The moment we break, I break, Jews, are more reticent about
our people break, that’s when supporting Israel than their older
they win.” counterparts. Twenty-six percent
of Jews ages 18-34, for instance,
Finding common cause said President Biden is favoring
While some Pitzer students the Israelis too much, twice the
were feeling under attack, Ezra percentage of American Jews
Levinson, a first-year student overall, according to the poll.
there from Hawaii, described a And the Chicago report survey
very different experience. Levin- showed how the same words can
son is an organizer with Jewish be interpreted differently by dif-
Voice for Peace, which rejects the ferent people. for instance,
current state of Israel and the 66 percent of Jewish students
idea of a Jewish nation-state in interpreted the phrase “from the
which Jews have more rights river to the sea” to mean “Pales-
than others. The group has staged tinians should replace Israelis in
several protests on campus in the territory, even if it means the
recent months. expulsion or genocide of Israeli
“What’s critical right now is to Jews.” Among all students,
take necessary steps to stop the 26 percent interpreted it that
loss of life and to address the fact way, with roughly the same share
that Palestinians are being killed interpreting the phrase to be a
and forced out of homes on a call for two nations, side by side.
mass scale by Israel,” Levinson Across the country, at Yale
said. “And it’s being perpetrated University in New Haven, Conn.,
in our name as Jews.” freshman Elijah Bacal, 19, was
Last week, Levinson attended also feeling spiritually lifted by
a campus Passover Seder run by connecting with people in both
courTEsY of BEn cohEn
Ben Cohen, a Pitzer College junior, said he tries Lauren Haines, national president of J Street U,
to avoid protests but can’t help feeling unsafe. has called “this past week … hell.”
courTEsY of Yakira GallEr
Yakira Galler said she has heard “pro-terrorism” elijah Bacal, a founder of Yale Jews for Ceasefire,
rhetoric in her first year at Barnard College. said it feels like he is “straddling two worlds.”
camps of this debate. He is deeply
involved in both mainstream
Jewish life and pro-Palestinian
protests on campus — as he puts
it, “straddling two worlds.”
He prays every Shabbat at the
main Jewish community center
on campus, is associate editor of
Yale’s undergraduate Jewish jour-
nal and joins a group on mondays
singing nigguns, or wordless Jew-
ish spiritual melodies.
He is also a founder of Yale
Jews for Ceasefire, which calls for
a stop to fighting in Gaza, return
of the hostages, and an end of the
Israeli occupation and blockade
of Gaza. He has been a regular
presence on the campus encamp-
ment, running the Instagram
feed.
“I don’t see a contradiction —
in fact, they feed each other,” he
said Wednesday. Work to create a
“more just and equal world” is
“part and parcel with my Judaism
and my spirituality,” he said. Pro-
testing the war, he said, has given
him “a palpable spiritual connec-
tion for the first time” — deepen-
ing, not questioning, his faith.
Leaders at the Slifka Jewish
Center had asked Bacal several
weeks ago to deliver last week’s
Shabbat talk on the question,
“What does Judaism mean to
you?” He worked hard on a piece
about how important Jewish ritu-
als, the center and the campus
Jewish community are to him,
and how the unity he feels there is
forged “from our profound diver-
sity.” His talk didn’t directly men-
tion the war or politics.
Zain charania
courTEsY of Elijah Bacal
the washington post
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on Thursday night, leaders at
Slifka told Bacal that a staffer
would give the talk instead.
Tensions had flared at Yale in
the past week, including arrests
after a demonstration on the
campus. rabbi Jason rubenstein,
Yale’s Jewish chaplain, told The
Washington Post that leaders at
Slifka felt “a need to speak in a
broad way, with pastoral urgen-
cy.”
Bacal felt shaken and con-
fused. He was torn between want-
ing to trust leadership about their
reasons, and doubt over whether
his pro-Palestinian activism
might be playing a role. ruben-
stein told The Post that it was not
a factor.
Shortly before the Sabbath be-
gan, a student leader from the
center shared Bacal’s talk with
the community by email, calling
it “beautiful.” But Bacal was still
upset at the turn of events.
“Since oct. 7, there’s been a lot
of talk at Slifka about this word
‘pluralism,’ and me giving this
talk feels like low-hanging fruit in
terms of making that happen,” he
said friday night.
A search for nuance
Then there are those who feel
out of place everywhere they go.
Lauren Haines, a junior at the
University of michigan, has long
opposed the Israeli government
of Prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu. As national president
of J Street U, the student branch
of a liberal advocacy group, she
supports a two-state solution
with Palestinians living in peace
beside Israelis. She is horrified
by the number of Palestinians
who have been killed by Israeli
bombs.
Yet she supports the existence
of the state of Israel and is deeply
unsettled by vandalism on cam-
pus and hateful comments, in-
cluding a call by a student leader
for “death and more” for everyone
who supports “the Zionist state.”
“Holding my point of view,
which is one of nuance and com-
plexity, is really difficult,” she
said. “This past week and honest-
ly the past six months have been
hell.”
Haines, 21, who is from Athens,
Ga., said she does not think she
should have to choose between
innocent Israelis and innocent
Palestinians. She said people
should stand up for Palestinians
and call out antisemitism.
“I always tell people I stand on
the side of humanity, which for
some reason on college campuses
is not a popular view,” she said.
“There are people on both sides
who are hurting right now.”
Campus politics make this
even harder. She said she identi-
fies with progressive politics on
every other issue. Now there is a
coalition of groups supporting
university divestment from Isra-
el, and J Street is one of the only
liberal groups that has not signed
on.
“It’s really hard feeling alienat-
ed from the left because in my
mind, being a leftist or being a
progressive means you stand for
equal rights for everyone. You
stand for justice for everyone,”
she said.
Before enrolling at Barnard
College last fall, Yakira Galler had
spent a gap year studying in
Israel about the shared future of
Israelis and Palestinians. once in
New York, she planned to dive
into dialogue with these commu-
nities, but she said she was met
with “a complete wall” of resis-
tance from anti-Israel students.
After oct. 7, it got worse. She
said that this month, as tensions
over the encampment and the
calling in of police soared, she
began hearing antisemitic and
. monday, april 29 , 2024
even “pro-terrorism” rhetoric.
She saw videos of people at Co-
lumbia holding a sign in front of
Jewish students that said, “Al
Qassam’s next targets,” referenc-
ing Hamas’ military wing, and
heard chants at Columbia of
“Hamas we love you, keep bomb-
ing Tel Aviv.”
Her first year of college, she
said, has been “very painful and
I’m filled with a lot of fear and
anxiety, especially on campus,”
she said.
“I completely disagree that
these protests are peaceful. They
are shouting for violence,” Galler,
20, said.
Through these months, she
said, she has lost friends. When
she registered for classes, she
checked to see if professors have
signed open letters against Israel.
Lately, she has tried to stay off
social media to avoid posts about
Israel from her classmates.
She came to college hoping to
be immersed in communities of
Jews and non-Jews, but now that
feels more complicated. Still, she
said she remains “deeply commit-
ted to dialogue.”
Another sleepless night
for Dahlia Soussan, the sleep-
less night at Barnard, listening to
protesters outside her window,
was scary. But the most frustrat-
ing moments for her have been
among friends, not strangers.
Soussan is a resident assistant
in a Barnard residence hall and
part of the union that represents
rAs. After police cleared the en-
campment at Columbia, right
next door, the rAs in the union
pushed for a resolution con-
demning the action. Soussan and
some other Jewish rAs worried
about the message this would
send to Jewish students who
might feel like the statement was
endorsing some of the hateful
rhetoric espoused by the protest-
ers.
“It is not our place to send out
messages that are divisive,” one
woman wrote in a group chat
shared with The Post. Another
suggested a statement simply rec-
ognizing how hard things have
been for students of all views.
But others felt it was important
to call out the police involvement,
which one rA wrote is “making
people feel unsafe.” A statement
was quickly drafted, won majori-
ty approval and was posted on-
line, noting that it was endorsed
by “30+ members” of the union.
That weekend, Soussan went
home to Toronto for Passover,
and one rabbi serving orthodox
students at Columbia suggested it
was not safe for Jews to be on
campus. With tensions so high,
Soussan texted the rA group chat
and suggested a statement con-
demning antisemitism.
“Just as we stood up for stu-
dents who were targeted by
NYPD and the administration for
protesting, I feel we also need to
write a statement on behalf of the
union assuring Jewish students
that we stand with them in the
face of antisemitism,” she wrote.
She agreed to a suggestion that
the statement also condemn anti-
muslim hate. Still, late monday,
after her family’s Passover Seder
was over, she went online and
learned that there were not
enough votes to pass the state-
ment.
“I am tremendously disheart-
ened and disturbed that we
couldn’t get enough votes. our
inability to join together in con-
demning hatred against Jews on
our campus casts a stain of bigot-
ry on this union and some of its
leadership,” she wrote in the
group chat.
That night, she again couldn’t
sleep. Here were women she
thought of as friends, unwilling
to take this stand. She was staying
with her grandmother and went
into her room at 3 a.m. to find she
was awake, too. She sat down on
the bed next to her grandmother
and let the whole story out. She
left for the airport just a few
hours later and kept crying think-
ing about what she would be
returning to.
Back in New York, she kept
pushing. When there was talk in
the union of a new statement,
Soussan offered to write it. The
message voiced concern about an
increase in surveillance on cam-
pus and its impact on Black,
Brown and muslim students but
said the union was “equally con-
cerned by the recent surge in
antisemitic incidents on cam-
pus.”
Late friday night, it passed.
Union leaders, asked about the
previous failure, pointed The Post
to the new statement on Insta-
gram.
The approval was heartening
to Soussan, but it still bothered
her that a stand-alone statement
about antisemitism could not be
approved.
“I’m feeling a little bit jaded
about antisemitism on campus,”
she said. “But I feel resolved to
continue showing up and advo-
cating.”
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World Central Kitchen says it’ll resume aid work in Gaza

BY T IM C ARMAN
Three days after an emotional
ceremony at Washington Nation-
al Cathedral in which World Cen-
tral Kitchen celebrated the seven
workers killed in an Israeli air-
strike, the organization an-
nounced it would resume opera-
tions in Gaza, where more than
1 million Palestinians face cata-
strophic levels of hunger.
In an announcement sent to
the media Sunday, WCK said it
will resume humanitarian work
Monday with a “Palestinian team
delivering food to address wide-
spread hunger, including in the
north.” It was not clear whether
WCK would continue to allow
staff and outside contractors to
enter Gaza as part of its renewed
operations.
“The majority of our Gaza op-
eration has always been Palestin-
ians feeding Palestinians,” said
Linda Roth, chief communica-
tions officer for WCK, when
asked by The Washington Post.
“Our model, as you know, is one
of community engagement. We
have hundreds of Palestinians
employed as contractors and
hundreds more volunteering.
They want to get back to work.”
Late on April 1, an Israeli
airstrike hit a WCK convoy, kill-
ing all seven people inside three
vehicles, two of which were ar-
mored. Among those killed were
four members of WCK’s relief
team: Lalzawmi “Zomi” Frank-
com, a 43-year-old Australian;
Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, a
25-year-old Palestinian; Damian
Soból, a 35-year-old from Poland;
and Jacob Flickinger, a 33-year-
old dual U.S.-Canadian citizen.
The other three victims — John
Chapman, 57; James Henderson,
33; and James Kirby, 47 — were
British nationals contracted to
WCK’s security team.
The killings received world-
wide condemnation, including
from President Biden. “I am out-
raged and heartbroken by the
deaths of seven humanitarian
workers from World Central
Kitchen,” Biden said in a state-
ment at the time. “. . . They were
providing food to hungry civil-
ians in the middle of a war. They
were brave and selfless. Their
deaths are a tragedy.”
In an April 6 interview with
Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This
Week,” World Central Kitchen
founder and celebrity chef José
Andrés said: “I will have to live
with this the rest of my life. We
will all have to live with this the
rest of our lives.”
The organization said that, be-
fore April 1, it had distributed
more than 43 million meals in
Gaza, accounting for 62 percent
of all international nongovern-
mental organization aid.
Before suspending its opera-
tions for four weeks following the
deaths, WCK had established
68 community kitchens in Gaza,
including two high-production
facilities, one in Rafah in the
south and the other in Deir al-
Balah in the central part of the
territory. When it resumes opera-
tions, WCK will open a third
high-production kitchen in hon-
or of Soból. Located in Mawasi on
the southern coast of Gaza, the
facility will be called “Damian’s
Kitchen,” WCK said in its an-
nouncement.
Soból “was pure joy for every-
one who knew him,” an emotion-
al Andrés said during the funeral
ceremony Thursday.
At the ceremony, Andrés also
implied WCK’s possible return to
Gaza. “That’s what we do at
World Central Kitchen: We stand
next to communities as they feed
themselves, nourish themselves,
heal themselves,” his prepared
remarks said. “People don’t want
our pity; they want our respect. …
The only way to show respect is
facing the mayhem alongside
them.”
“We remind them that they are
not alone in the darkness,”
Andrés added.
Anera, another aid group that
had stopped operations in Gaza
after the killing of the WCK
workers, resumed its aid work
there on April 11.
According to its statement
Sunday, WCK has 276 trucks
ready to enter Gaza; the organiza-
tion said the trucks were carrying
the equivalent of 8 million meals.
The group said it will continue to
explore the use of a maritime
corridor that WCK established
this year, with a makeshift jetty
created out of wartime rubble.
The organization is looking to
send more food and goods via
boats with the help of Open
Arms, a Spanish humanitarian
group, and the United Arab Emir-
ates.
Even as its resumes operations,
WCK continues to call for an
independent, third-party investi-
gation of the Israel Defense Forc-
es’ attack on the humanitarian
convoy.
Four days after the attack,
Israel’s military released the re-
sults of its internal investigation.
It said the attack was a “serious
violation” of its policies — the
result of “errors” — and was
“contrary” to military pro-
cedures. It said two officers
would be dismissed and com-
manders reprimanded, but made
ahmED zakot/rEutErS
no mention of legal actions such
as prosecutions. World Central
Kitchen responded by saying that
the IDF “cannot credibly investi-
gate its own failure in Gaza.”
In its announcement Sunday,
Erin Gore, WCK’s chief executive,
said: “We have been forced to
make a decision: Stop feeding
altogether during one of the
worst hunger crises ever, ending
our operation that accounted for
62 percent of all International
NGO aid. Or keep feeding know-
ing that aid, aid workers and
civilians are being intimidated
and killed.”
“These are the hardest conver-
sations, and we have considered
all perspectives when deliberat-
DarEk DElmanowicz/EPa-EFE/ShuttErStock ing,” Gore added. “Ultimately, we
TOP: One of three World Central Kitchen vehicles hit by an Israeli decided we must keep feeding,
airstrike on April 1 that killed seven workers. ABOVE: A memorial continuing our mission of show-
for Damian Soból in Przemysl, Poland, on April 4. Soból was ing up to provide food to people
among the seven World Central Kitchen workers killed in Gaza. during the toughest of times.”

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Tornadoes kill at least 4, devastate Oklahoma towns
BY M ATTHEW C APPUCCI
AND B EN B RASCH
OKLAHOMA CITY — Crews were
assessing damage Sunday after a
tornado outbreak killed at least
four people and leveled neigh-
borhoods in several Oklahoma
towns Saturday night.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R)
stood before a battery of micro-
phones in downtown Sulphur,
about 85 miles southeast of
Oklahoma City, and said he had
never seen such destruction
since he took office in January
2019.
“You just can’t believe the
destruction,” he said. “It seems
like every business in downtown
has been destroyed.”
Stitt said a woman died in
Sulphur after the storm hit
Saturday night. He said about 30
more people had been injured
there, including 20 who had
washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang
been taken to a hospital and
since released. He cautioned
that authorities were still as-
sessing those numbers.
At least two fatalities were
confirmed in the town of Hold-
enville, about 70 miles southeast
of Oklahoma City. An infant was
among those reported to have
died there.
The Oklahoma medical exam-
iner’s office said the other death
was on Interstate 35 near Mari-
etta, about halfway between
Oklahoma City and Dallas.
Saturday was the third day in
a four-day stretch of severe
weather that kicked off with
severe storms across Kansas on
Thursday. Friday featured 78 re-
ported tornadoes, primarily in
eastern Nebraska and south-
western Iowa, which besieged
neighborhoods in the Omaha
and Lincoln metro areas and hit
parts of the Des Moines area.
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Then came Saturday’s storms
from a separate weather system.
The National Weather Service
received 35 tornado reports on
Saturday and Saturday night
from northern Texas to northern
Missouri. Between Friday and
Sunday morning, the Weather
Service issued 250 tornado
warnings and 494 severe thun-
derstorm warnings from Texas
to Michigan.
The Weather Service rated the
Sulphur and Marietta tornadoes
at least EF3 on the 0-to-5 En-
hanced Fujita scale for intensity.
It’s virtually unheard of to
have tornado outbreaks two
days in a row from two storm
systems, but that highlights how
erratic — and dangerous —
springtime weather can be in
the Plains.
More severe weather was ex-
pected Sunday, although strong
tornadoes were less likely.
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Saturday’s tornadoes devas-
tated parts of Sulphur, where
storm-chaser footage showed
scores of homes and buildings
flattened, and vehicles over-
turned and demolished.
On Sunday, state leaders
pledged help for the town.
Oklahoma House Speaker
Charles McCall (R), who repre-
sents the area, mourned those
who were killed.
“Everything else can be re-
built, but we can’t restore life
and the wonderful Oklahomans
we lost,” McCall said.
The number of injuries state-
wide wasn’t clear Sunday after-
noon, said Annie Mack Vest,
director of the Oklahoma De-
partment of Emergency Man-
agement and Homeland Secu-
rity. She added that crews were
trying to restore electricity at
medical facilities.
About 22,000 customers were
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without electricity in the state
Sunday afternoon, according to
the poweroutage.us tracker.
In Holdenville, two people —
including a 4-month-old — died
in the storm, ABC affiliate KOCO
reported. The woman who died
in Sulphur had been in a down-
town bar, Stitt said. Oklahoma
emergency services spokeswom-
an Keli Cain did not provide
identifying details for the per-
son who died on I-35.
At least 16 tornadoes formed
in Oklahoma on Saturday, with a
few additional twisters reported
in southeastern Kansas and
northwestern Missouri. The ma-
jority in Oklahoma struck be-
tween 9 p.m. and midnight Cen-
tral time and repeatedly target-
ed a narrow zone of communi-
ties near and just east of
Interstate 35 between the Texas
border and Oklahoma City.
Sulphur may have been hit by
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two tornadoes within an hour.
One tornado caused major
destruction around 10 p.m.; as
the next storm closed in, a new
tornado warning was issued and
urged that “first responders
need to prepare for additional
tornado impacts immedi-
ately!!!”
The National Weather Service
in Norman, Okla., issued torna-
do warnings continuously be-
tween 8:59 p.m. and 1 a.m.
Central time. At one point, five
simultaneous PDS — Particular-
ly Dangerous Situation — torna-
do warnings were in effect.
Ardmore, Okla., was hit by a
tornado about 9:30 p.m. It
carved through the west side of
town and tossed debris up to
20,000 feet high, indicating it
was probably a powerful torna-
do of at least EF3 strength. Two
additional tornadoes came very
close to or sideswiped the town
within the next 90 minutes to
two hours.
Holdenville was hit by a tor-
nado around 10:45 p.m.
Quick-hitting, weaker torna-
does spun up on the northern
band of a line of storms that
passed just south of Oklahoma
City, impacting Cole, Dibble and
Norman. One or more tornadoes
danced dangerously close to the
University of Oklahoma cam-
pus.
Forecasters had been confi-
dent that the storms would be
dangerous.
The tornadoes initially were
expected to come in several
rounds, possibly starting mid-
Saturday. A few had been report-
ed across Oklahoma before the
sun went down, mainly over
rural areas.
Then, about the time the sky
went dark, a low-level jet stream
fed two supercells that surfed
from south to north and pro-
duced intense tornadoes. The jet
stream acted as a conveyor belt,
sending multiple tornadoes
through some communities.
It was among the most severe
local tornado outbreaks in mem-
ory, with back-to-back-to-back
tornadoes reminiscent of histor-
ic outbreaks like those in 1974 or
2011 — albeit on a smaller scale.
In Sulphur on Sunday after-
noon, Oklahoma Senate Majori-
ty Leader Greg McCortney (R)
looked over a devastated down-
town area in his district and
took stock of what could have
been.
“We’re probably blessed that
it wasn’t worse than it was,” he
said, heavy machinery lifting
the wreckage behind him.
Brasch reported from Washington.
Maham Javaid in Washington
contributed to this report.
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Planet Fitness faces threats after anti-trans posts

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fitness locations but of business-

es nearby.
But the pattern is familiar to
LGBTQ+ activists, who link the
wave of threats to far-right influ-
encer Chaya raichik, who runs
the social media account
@libsoftiktok. She has made
Planet fitness the object of criti-
cal posts since early march, when
Planet fitness revoked the mem-
bership of a woman in Alaska who
complained about “a man shaving
in a women’s bathroom” and post-
ed a photo of the person online.
Though the threats and evacu-
ations have directly affected only
a relative few of the chain’s 2,600
locations in the United States, the
attacks have caused fear and anxi-
ety among LGBTQ+ people across
the country, some of whom said
they are now too anxious to use
their local Planet fitness or set
foot in the locker room.
“our gender identity non-
discrimination policy states that
members and guests may use the
gym facilities that best align with
their sincere, self-reported gen-
der identity,” a Planet fitness
spokesperson said in a statement
following the Alaska incident.
“The member who posted on so-
cial media violated our mobile
device policy that prohibits tak-
ing photos of individuals in the
locker room, which resulted in
their membership being termi-
nated.”
raichik, who operates the Libs
of TikTok account on X and Insta-
gram, declined to comment for
this story. She previously has de-
nied responsibility for threats lev-
eled at businesses, schools and
hospitals she has criticized for
LGBTQ+ inclusive policies.
After the Alaska incident, rai-
chik criticized Planet fitness’s MiChAel Noble JR. foR the WAshiNgtoN Post

trans-inclusive policies and en-

couraged her more than 3 million aBOVE: Whitaker McManus, 18, left, and John Hart-Battles, 17, are concerned about the rise in
followers to boycott the chain. She attacks on LGBTQ+ people. Hart-Battles is a regular at his Planet Fitness in Oklahoma and felt unsafe
has posted dozens of times since, after recent threats against the gym chain. LEFT: Planet Fitness co-founder and former CEO Michael
encouraging followers to protest Grondahl built the gym empire’s brand on inclusivity — but said he never intended the “judgment-free
the gym in an effort to “take back zone” to apply to transgender people using bathrooms of their choice. BELOW: Chaya Raichik, center,
our country” and documenting who operates Libs of TikTok, is introduced during the 2023 Conservative Political action Conference
updates in a thread that she titled in D.C. on March 2, 2023. She has attacked Planet Fitness online for its trans-inclusive policies.
“PLANET fITNESS BLooD-
BATH mEGA THrEAD.”
In late march, she posted a
video interview with Planet fit-
ness’s co-founder and former
CEo, michael Grondahl, who left
the company in 2013. “I’d want to
go in there and freakin’ take the
guy by the neck and throw him out
in the parking lot,” Grondahl said
in the interview. “That’s the way
that things would’ve been done a
while back.”
Violent threats have followed
raichik’s tweets before, including
dozens of bomb threats against
LGBTQ+ pride events, children’s
hospitals that provide gender-
affirming care, drag queen story
hours, and at least two dozen pub-
lic schools and libraries. Schools
in California, Colorado and okla-
homa have canceled classes and
evacuated students following
Libs of TikTok posts about them.
Planet fitness’s stock price is
down more than 7.5 percent since
the incident in Alaska, but it’s
unclear how much, if any, of that
is due to raichik’s call for a boy-
cott. Its value has dipped over
20 percent over the past year, a
turbulent period that saw top-lev-
el turnover and scandal before
this controversy.
Planet fitness declined to pro- Josh RitChie foR the WAshiNgtoN Post ZACh d RobeRts/NuRPhoto/AssoCiAted PRess

vide a count of how many loca-

tions have been threatened. The
nonprofit media watchdog media
matters has catalogued the at-
tacks in its ongoing efforts to doc-
ument anti-LGBTQ+ hate online,
and that tabulation has been con-
firmed by police departments and
local news accounts.
“We have been working closely
with local and federal authorities
to investigate these threats and
will continue to take action to
ensure the safety of our members
and employees,” a Planet fitness
spokesperson told The Washing-
ton Post.
Bomb threats and evacuations
The 54 incidents are national in
nature: Seven Planet fitness loca-
tions in Virginia have been target-
ed, and at least two in maryland,
according to the tabulations. In
fargo, N.D., two locations were
evacuated, and a franchise man-
ager explained to police that “this
has been happening across the
country at their other locations”
since the incident in Alaska, a
police report shows.
on friday, a bomb threat to a
Planet fitness location in Char-
lottesville caused a nearby street
“We didn’t just evacuate Planet Fitness.
We were forced to evacuate a Big Lots
department store and a health-care facility.”
Lt. Nicholas Rankin, of the police department in Norwich, Conn.
to be closed to traffic during rush
hour, police said. It was at least
the second threat to the same
location. The Planet fitness em-
ployee who answered the phone
at that location shortly after the
incident said they were “not al-
lowed to say anything.”
“It’s not just disrupting Planet
fitness businesses; a lot of these
locations are in plazas with multi-
ple businesses,” said Lt. Nicholas
rankin of the Norwich Police De-
partment in Connecticut. “We
didn’t just evacuate Planet fit-
ness. We were forced to evacuate a
Big Lots department store and a
health-care facility.”
one transgender Planet fit-
ness staffer, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity for their
safety, told The Post that they
initially heard about the cam-
paign when a member called the
club “screaming and ranting hei-
nously transphobic nonsense.”
“They were screaming about
pedophiles, calling me a pedo-
phile. I was misgendered over the
phone. They jumped right into
talking about men and women’s
locker rooms, everything you’ve
been seeing in comments online
but directed at me personally,” the
staffer said. “I don’t feel comfort-
able going into the bathroom now
at my own job.”
Grondahl said he and raichik
deserve no blame for the rash of
threats. “Number one, nothing’s
happened,” Grondahl said. “It’s
bomb threats, I mean, it’s crazies
doing what crazies do . . . I haven’t
seen any violence to.wards any-
body.”
an unlikely ally
In Grondahl, the Planet fitness
founder who built the brand on
inclusivity, raichik has found an
unlikely ally. Grondahl and his
brother, marc, bought their first
gym in the early 1990s and par-
layed it into the fitness empire
branded as a “judgment-free
zone” because it welcomed every-
body — except for the bodybuild-
ers to whom the industry had
previously catered.
The Grondahl brothers cut
membership fees to the bone; cre-
ated a “lunk alarm,” a siren that
would go off if weightlifters grunt-
ed too loudly; and hosted a
monthly pizza night. They were
all measures to make the gym feel
like, as the company’s stock filings
stated, a place “where anyone —
and we mean anyone — can feel
they belong.” The pitch worked,
with the chain signing up millions
of members. The company’s mar-
ket capitalization is now more
than $5 billion.
Grondahl said his downfall at
the company began with the rise
of an executive with a controver-
sial criminal past. richard moore
started as Planet fitness’s chief
administrative officer and gener-
al counsel in 2012, according to
his LinkedIn profile. Twelve years
earlier, moore, at the time a North
Carolina assemblyman, was in-
dicted on charges of “crime[s] of
nature” for allegedly engaging in
oral sex with three former stu-
dents at the high school where he
taught, court records show. The
youngest of the former students
was 16, North Carolina’s age of
consent.
moore pleaded guilty to a felo-
ny count of crimes against nature,
and two misdemeanor counts of
attempted crimes against nature.
That statute has been challenged
for potentially criminalizing
same-gender sex. In a later letter
to the massachusetts bar, which
allowed moore to be licensed as
an attorney, moore acknowledged
that the relationships were “inap-
propriate.”
moore said in a statement to
The Post: “In retrospect, I regret
the choices I made in my early
20s; however, there were no und-
eraged individuals involved and
all contact was consensual.”
“richard moore has not
worked at Planet fitness in nearly
seven years and has no involve-
ment with the company,” a
spokesperson said when asked
about the former general counsel.
In Grondahl’s telling, a clash
with moore was central to his exit
from the company. He stepped
down as CEo in late 2012 and left
the company’s board the follow-
ing year, he said, and he was paid
roughly $140 million for his
shares. In his interview with rai-
chik, Grondahl said he was
“shown the door” when he tried to
raise the alarm about moore’s
past.
By Grondahl’s own account,
drug abuse played a role. He told
The Post that as CEo, he was in a
daily stupor from Ambien, other
prescription drugs and booze —
and that he believes the signature
on his separation agreement was
forged while he was impaired.
Planet fitness disputes that
claim. Since his departure, the
former CEo “has had no involve-
ment with the Company or insight
into Planet fitness’ operations,
strategy, performance or culture,”
a company spokesman said.
A reporter from The Post visit-
ed Grondahl last year at his man-
sion in Jupiter, fla. Grondahl was
in full war room mode, having put
a team of lawyers and investiga-
tors on retainer to prove his alle-
gations.
Grondahl recently told The
Post that he has spent roughly
$100,000 a month over the past
year-plus attempting to build a
case, but his planned lawsuit has
not been filed.
Then came the bathroom inci-
dent at the Planet fitness in Alas-
ka. Grondahl’s team reached out
to conservative news outlets,
though there are indications that
they were wary of airing Gron-
dahl’s claims. Grondahl said that
fox News arranged for Jesse Wat-
ters to interview him, but then
canceled. And a Newsmax inter-
view aired but was edited, accord-
ing to Grondahl, to remove in-
flammatory comments concern-
ing moore.
(A fox News spokesperson de-
clined to comment; Newsmax did
not respond to a request for com-
ment.)
But raichik aired a mostly
unedited interview with Gron-
dahl. flanked by his attorney,
Grondahl alleged that the compa-
ny harbored sexual abusers and
that it was “devastating” to see the
welcoming philosophy he coined
now being made to include trans
people. “fast-forward to what’s
happening today, and ‘judgment-
free zone’ means that if you’re a
man, you can use the woman’s
locker room,” Grondahl said. “Just
insane.”
meanwhile, raichik has con-
tinued to post. Last week, she
lambasted the company’s new
CEo, Colleen Keating, for signing
onto the “CEo Action for Diversi-
ty & Inclusion pledge,” which sup-
ports inclusive workplaces, claim-
ing that the company was stand-
ing by its “woke policies.”
Haley Zapal, an LGBTQ+ Plan-
et fitness member in Atlanta, said
that she hopes the company can
remain publicly supportive of the
trans community and not cave to
online pressure. “If they’re priori-
tizing safety,” Zapal said, “I think
they should keep in mind who is
doing the aggression, and it
doesn’t seem like it’s the trans
people.”
A10
Earth’s record hot streak might signal a new climate era
BY S ARAH K APLAN
The heat fell upon Mali’s capital
like a thick, smothering blanket —
chasing people from the streets,
stifling them inside their homes.
For nearly a week at the beginning
of April, the temperature in Bama-
ko hovered above 110 degrees Fahr-
enheit. The cost of ice spiked to 10
times its normal price; an over-
taxed electrical grid sputtered and
shut down.
With much of the majority-
Muslim country fasting for the
holy month of Ramadan, dehydra-
tion and heat stroke became epi-
demic. As their body temperatures
climbed, people’s blood pressure
lowered. Their vision went fuzzy,
their kidneys and livers malfunc-
tioned, their brains began to swell.
At the city’s main hospital, doctors
recorded a month’s worth of
deaths in just four days. Local cem-
eteries were overwhelmed.
The historic heat wave that be-
sieged Mali and other parts of West
Africa this month — which scien-
tists say would have been “virtually
impossible” in a world without
human-caused climate change —
is just the latest manifestation of a
sudden and worrying surge in
global temperatures. Fueled by
decades of uncontrolled fossil fuel
burning and an El Niño climate
pattern that emerged last June, the
planet this year breached a feared
warming threshold of 1.5 degrees
Celsius above preindustrial levels.
Nearly 19,000 weather stations
have notched record-high temper-
atures since Jan. 1. Each of the last
10 months has been the hottest of
its kind.
The scale and intensity of this
hot streak is extraordinary even
considering the unprecedented
amount of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere, researchers say. Sci-
entists are still struggling to ex-
plain how the planet could have
exceeded previous temperature
records by as much as half a degree
Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit)
last fall.
What happens in the next few
months, said Gavin Schmidt, di-
rector of the NASA Goddard Insti-
tute for Space Studies, could indi-
cate whether Earth’s climate has
undergone a fundamental shift —
a quantum leap in warming that is
A woman is treated for dehydration this month in Niamey, Niger. The record heat wave in West Africa
would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, scientists say.
Images of injured wolf, muzzled in bar, draw fury over Wyo. hunting laws
BY D ANIEL W U
Phones in Wyoming’s Sublette
County are still ringing off the
hook three weeks after images of
an injured wolf spread widely on
social media. Local businesses
have fielded threats from angry
callers, while the sheriff ’s office
was inundated by thousands of
complaints — some from as far as
Brazil, Greece and Australia.
The rural county just south of
Yellowstone National Park, home
to oil wells, ranches and around
8,900 people, is an unlikely tar-
get for international outrage. But
the images of the injured gray
wolf, reportedly taken in Sublette
County, drew swift condemna-
tion, including from officials in
Wyoming, one of the few states
where it is legal to hunt wolves.
A man seen posing with the
wolf in a photo allegedly struck
the animal with a snowmobile
before muzzling it, showing it off
at a Sublette County bar and later
killing it, the Cowboy State Daily
reported in early April. Videos
later released by Wyoming’s
Game and Fish Department
show the wolf muzzled and
slumped on a wooden floor, as
one of its hind legs twitched and
bar patrons talked in the back-
ground. The man was fined $250
for violating Game and Fish De-
partment regulations on possess-
ing live wildlife, according to
The Branco riverbed in Brazil’s Roraima state is seen in March. Drought in the Brazilian Amazon pushed the flow of the Branco River to historic lows at the end of March.
confounding climate models and
stoking ever more dangerous
weather extremes.
But even if the world returns to a
more predictable warming trajec-
tory, it will only be a temporary
reprieve from the conditions that
humanity must soon confront,
Schmidt said. “Global warming
continues apace.”
Mysterious heat
As soon as the planet entered an
El Niño climate pattern — a natu-
rally occurring phenomenon asso-
ciated with warming in the Pacific
Ocean — scientists knew it would
start breaking records. El Niños
are associated with spikes in
Earth’s overall temperature, and
this one was unfolding on a planet
that has already warmed 1.2 de-
grees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahren-
records obtained by The Wash-
ington Post.
Gov. Mark Gordon (R) issued a
statement calling the incident
“reckless, thoughtless and hei-
nous.” The Sublette County Sher-
iff ’s Office announced it is inves-
tigating “allegations of animal
abuse” after activists called for
the man to face further punish-
ment. But Sublette County offi-
cials announced last week that
the treatment of the wolf might
not break state laws, which ex-
empt the creatures and others
classified as “predatory” from
animal protections.
Kristin Combs, the executive
director of Wyoming Wildlife Ad-
vocates, likened the controversy
to the high-profile killing of Cecil
the lion in Zimbabwe in 2015.
Attempts to toughen Wyoming’s
wildlife protection laws have
failed in the past. But the anger
over the images of the injured
wolf might be enough to rekindle
efforts, she said.
“It’s just something that’s so
egregious,” Combs said. “ … Peo-
ple just can’t sit by and let that
happen.”
Wyoming is one of the three
states in the Intermountain West
— alongside Idaho and Montana
— that permit wolf hunting (gray
wolves are protected under the
Endangered Species Act in the
rest of the contiguous 48 states).
Activists have raised concerns
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heit) from preindustrial levels.
Yet this El Niño did not just
break records; it obliterated them.
Four consecutive days in July be-
came the hottest days in history.
The Northern Hemisphere saw its
warmest summer — and then its
warmest winter — known to sci-
ence.
By the end of 2023, Earth’s aver-
age temperature was nearly 1.5 de-
grees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahren-
heit) higher than the preindustrial
average — and about 0.2 degrees
Celsius (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit)
hotter than climate modelers pre-
dicted it would be, even taking El
Niño into account.
Researchers have spent the past
several months investigating pos-
sible explanations for that 0.2 C
discrepancy: a volcanic eruption
that spewed heat-trapping water
mAHAmAdou HAmidou/rEutErS
about the loosening of wolf-hunt-
ing laws in Montana, which has
led to a decline of wolf popula-
tions in Yellowstone, The Post
reported in 2022.
Wyoming allows more wolf
hunting than its neighbors do. In
most of the state, wolves are
classified as a predatory animal
and can be hunted year-round
without a license. Animals classi-
fied as predatory are not protect-
ed by the state’s animal abuse
laws, an issue raised in 2019
when a legislator tried to amend
them to outlaw “coyote whack-
ing”: the practice of hunting
those animals, also classified as
predatory, by chasing them down
and ramming them with snow-
mobiles. The bill did not pass.
The Cowboy State Daily re-
ported that Cody Roberts, a Wyo-
ming resident, allegedly used a
snowmobile to run down the gray
wolf in the photo in late Febru-
ary, injuring but not killing the
animal. Roberts took a live wolf
to his house and a business in
Daniel, Wyo., according to a Wyo-
ming Game and Fish Department
investigation.
Attempts to reach Roberts for
comment were unsuccessful.
The case might have escaped
further attention if images of the
injured wolf had not been re-
leased this month. The Cowboy
State Daily first published an
image of Roberts smiling with his
vapor into the atmosphere, chang-
es in shipping fuel that affected the
formation of clouds that block the
sun. So far, those factors can ac-
count for only a small fraction of
the anomaly, raising fears that sci-
entists’ models may have failed to
capture a longer-lasting change in
the climate system.
“What if the statistical connec-
tions that we are basing our predic-
tions on are no longer valid?”
Schmidt said. “It’s niggling at the
back of my brain that it could be
that the past is no longer a guide to
the future.”
This possibility has preoccu-
pied the climate community,
sparking multipart explainers in
science magazines and special
breakout sessions at academic
meetings. But Schmidt says it is
too soon to know how worried the
world should be. New data from a
recently launched NASA satellite
could show that changes in ship-
ping emissions did in fact contrib-
ute to the extra warming. Studies
might find that an accumulation
of seemingly small shifts in the
atmosphere and oceans were
enough to push the planet to such
extremes.
Another test will come over the
next few months, as the planet
shifts out of an El Niño and into its
opposite pattern, La Niña — some-
thing that the National Weather
Service predicts will happen by the
summer. Because La Niña is typi-
cally associated with cooler global
temperatures, scientists expect it
will bring an end to Earth’s record
hot streak.
There are hints that may be hap-
pening, said Zeke Hausfather, a
climate scientist at Berkeley Earth
and the payments company Stripe.
Even though last month was the
hottest March in history, it broke
the previous record by a mere 0.1
degree Celsius — not the whopping
0.5 C margin seen last September.
“I hope we’re going to return to a
predictable regime,” Hausfather
said. “But if we keep setting rec-
arm around the wolf April 6.
Days later, the Wyoming Game
and Fish Department released
two videos from its investigation
that showed the wolf in a bar, and
the Sublette County Sheriff ’s Of-
fice began investigating the inci-
dent.
The sheriff ’s office received
phone calls and emails from
countries including Canada,
France, Greece and South Africa,
and it is also investigating
threats made to Roberts’s family
and unrelated Sublette County
businesses, spokesperson Travis
Bingham told The Post.
Combs said her organization
also received a flood of inquiries.
“I think the eyes on the wolf in
that photo are really … one of the
reasons people are having such a
visceral reaction to this,” Combs
said. “Because the look on that
wolf ’s face is just so sad.”
Dozens of people criticized
Wyoming’s animal abuse laws
and called for Roberts to face
further punishment during a
two-hour public comment period
in a Wildlife Game and Fish
Department Commission meet-
ing this month. Some speakers
said they drove from other states
to attend the meeting and declare
that they would no longer visit
Wyoming. A California wolf sanc-
tuary called to offer $10,000 to
advocate for the strengthening
Wyoming’s animal protection
the washington post
ords, then we have to revisit some
of our assumptions, because it may
be there is some new persistent
forcing that is not being accounted
for.”
A whole new kind of weather
Even if global average tempera-
tures do return to a more predict-
able trajectory, the effects of warm-
ing on people and ecosystems have
already entered uncharted terri-
tory.
Sea ice around Antarctica
shrank to its smallest extent ever
last year. The mighty Amazon Riv-
er has reached its lowest level since
measurements began. Research-
ers this month declared a global
coral bleaching event — just the
fourth in history — and warned
that the crisis in the oceans is on
track to set a record.
“The climate is warming at such
a rate that we’re now pushing be-
yond the bounds of what would
have been not even normal weath-
er but feasible weather in the past,”
said Clair Barnes, a researcher at
the Grantham Institute at Imperial
College London.
In the analysis published this
month, Barnes and her colleagues
reported that the recent heat wave
in West Africa could not have oc-
curred on a cooler, preindustrial
planet. In one Malian city, the mer-
cury hit 48.5 degrees Celsius (119.3
degrees Fahrenheit) — probably
the hottest temperature ever reli-
ably recorded in Africa, the re-
searchers said.
Nights offered little relief, with
temperatures often staying above
90 degrees. Studies show that high
nighttime temperatures are espe-
cially dangerous, because they
deny the body a chance to recover.
Kiswendsida Guigma, a cli-
mate scientist and adviser for
the Red Cross Climate Center
based in Burkina Faso who con-
tributed to the new analysis, said
he barely slept during the heat
wave. Frequent power outages pre-
vented him from even using a fan
laws. Several people who identi-
fied themselves as hunters with
generations of history in Wyo-
ming said the treatment of the
wolf betrayed their values.
“Many hunters are worried
that this incident will affect their
hunting rights and their ability to
hunt in the future,” Jim Lay-
bourn, a hunter and program
director at Wyoming Wildlife Ad-
vocates, said at the meeting. “I’m
worried about something even
worse. I’m worried that if there’s
no change on this issue, that
Wyoming hunters will forever be
associated with the likes of the
wolf torturer from Daniel.”
Dave Stalling, a hunter and
wildlife advocate from Montana
who also spoke at the meeting,
told The Post that the incident
called for a broader reckoning
around how wolves are viewed by
hunters in the region. Wolf hunt-
ing is buoyed by a hunting cul-
ture that dismisses the animals
as disruptive predators and
threats to livestock, he said. Bum-
per stickers encourage hunters to
“save a hundred elk” by killing a
wolf and to “smoke a pack a day.”
“We have a deep, irrational
hatred for these animals,” Stall-
ing said. “And we treat them
horribly.”
Last week, Sublette County
Attorney Clayton Melinkovich re-
leased a statement through the
sheriff ’s office, responding to
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to cool off.
“We are used to heat, but this
level of extreme we have never
experienced,” Guigma said. “We
will soon be at the very edge, the
very limit of what human beings
can actually tolerate.”
As in most climate disasters, the
heat wave’s worst effects were
borne by some of the world’s poor-
est and most vulnerable people.
Few in Mali and Burkina Faso have
access to air conditioning, Guigma
said. And the architecture of many
poorer neighborhoods — where
buildings are often constructed
with heat-trapping bricks and met-
al roofs — exacerbated the danger.
The heat wave analysis was just
the latest report from World
Weather Attribution — a global
network of researchers who study
the influence of climate change on
extreme events — to find that pre-
viously unthinkable events are
becoming commonplace as the
world continues to warm. An Octo-
ber heat wave in Madagascar,
where record-breaking heat per-
sisted for 10 unbearable days,
“would not have occurred” without
human-induced warming, the
group said. Last September’s heavy
rainfall in Libya, which contribut-
ed to a catastrophic dam failure
and killed thousands of people,
was made 50 times more likely
because of climate change.
The West African heat wave
might have been unprecedented
today, Barnes said. But if the world
warms to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 de-
grees Fahrenheit) — something
that could happen by the middle of
the century without rapid action to
tackle climate change — a heat
wave of that magnitude would be
expected to occur every 10 years.
“If we keep putting carbon diox-
ide and other greenhouse gases
into the atmosphere, we’re just go-
ing to keep warming … and this is
going to continue to get worse,”
Barnes said. “The sad truth is this is
not the new normal. This is on the
way to the unknown.”
criticism that the wolf ’s treat-
ment did not result in harsher
punishment. Melinkovich said
that Wyoming’s animal abuse
laws exempt the lawful capturing
and killing of predators, and that
it is lawful to hunt predators
using vehicles, but he said the
incident remains under investi-
gation.
“While many of the animal
abuse provisions do not apply to
the hunting, capture, killing, or
destruction of a predatory ani-
mal, there are narrow circum-
stances where a person could be
charged and convicted of animal
abuse,” Melinkovich said.
Combs, the wildlife advocate,
said she hopes the sustained
anger can pressure legislative
change to outlaw hunting with
snowmobiles, even in a state that
has resisted attempts to strength-
en animal protections in the past.
Few legislators have spoken
publicly about the incident,
Combs said, but an update on
wolf management was recently
added to the agenda of a Travel,
Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural
Resources Committee meeting
scheduled to start May 14.
“The state of Wyoming, they
just need to know that they have
to take action,” Combs said.
“There’s no other option right
now. Basically, do you want to be
seen as condoning animal
abuse?”
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The World
Paris Olympics may face shortage of security contractors
Organizers are having trouble finding companies that can provide enough qualified private-sector guards to work in and around venues for the Games
BY RICK NOACK

PARIS — Three months before an

Olympics that presents unprec-
edented security challenges at a
globally tense time, French offi-
cials are facing a potential short-
fall of qualified private contrac-
tors to help protect the Games.
Paris 2024 organizers have
been saying that they need 22,000
private security agents to work in
and around Olympics venues,
while 35,000 police officers and
18,000 French troops secure pub-
lic spaces. But leaders in the pri-
vate security sector say that a
worker shortage may make it hard
to meet the demand.
“The problem is the workforce,”
said Pierre Brajeux, president of
the French Federation of Private
Security. “Will we have enough
guards to properly ensure the
security of the Games? We need to
hit the accelerator.”
The Olympics organizers, he
said, “have struggled to find com-
panies” through four rounds of
contract bidding.
An especially tough sell: the job
of managing the 104,000 ticketed
spectators on the lower banks of
the Seine during the floating boat
parade of the July 26 Opening
Ceremonies. President Emmanuel
Macron has said that only in the
case of a clear and imminent
terrorist threat would the event be
modified — contained in the Tro-
cadéro Square facing the Eiffel
Tower or moved to the Stade de
France, the national stadium.
“We didn’t manage to convince
the companies for the ceremony,”
Paris 2024 security chief Bruno le
Ray told Le Monde this past week.
Some private security compa- gonzAlo fuenTes/reuTers

nies were reluctant to bid because

they did not want to be liable for
contracts they might not be able to
fulfill. Even before the Olympics,
the sector assessed that it was
dealing with a labor shortage of
20,000 people. Although there has
been a concerted push to get more
people trained and certified, in-
cluding through an accelerated
three-week course funded by
France’s unemployment agency
and the regional administration, it
may not be enough.
Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-
Castéra said in a television inter-
view this past week that the sector
needed 8,000 more recruits to
ensure full staffing for all the
Olympics events in Paris.
Above all, French officials want
to limit the vulnerability of the
Games — to terrorism, crowd
crushes and other security threats.
They are also wary of an embar-
rassment similar to the London
Olympics in 2012, when a private
security company’s failure to de-
liver on its contract meant that
troops had to be called in to check
handbags.
Some officials have shrugged
off concerns, saying that more
than 20,000 people are newly
trained or in the pipeline. By July,
they should at least be certified to
work at major events — doing bag
checks and pat-downs, interacting
with crowds, monitoring for sus-
picious behavior and performing
other basic security work.
“There is no failure. We have
surpassed the goals that we had
set for ourselves,” Marc Guil-
laume, the chief administrator for
the Île-de-France region, said at a
news conference Thursday.
But private security specialists
said that while they appreciate the
government’s efforts, officials may
be overestimating the number of
contractors available and under-
estimating how many contractors
will be needed this summer in
connection with the Olympics —
not just at competition sites but
also at airports, train stations and
department stores.
Brajeux said the Olympics pose
a “problem in terms of geography
and of timing.”
The Games will take place in
late July and August, when about
one-third of French security con-
tractors traditionally are on vaca-
tion. And many of the country’s
certified contractors do not live in
the Paris region, where the vast
majority of competitions will be
held. They may not be keen to
spend weeks in the capital with-
out their families, working long
shifts in the oppressive Paris heat.
The newly trained people will
provide a boost. But they won’t all
be hired for the Olympics. Typical-
Jeff PAChoud/AfP/geTTy imAges ly, only about 60 percent of those
who go through training go on to
take private security jobs, accord-
ing to industry estimates. More-
over, because the training is not
Olympics-specific, people getting
certified this year may be recruit-
ed for the Games — or for con-
struction sites or to replace people
leaving the sector.
Brajeux said things could still
be turned around. A final recruit-
ment push now aims to attract
last-minute candidates, including
students. “If there is a big wave of
candidates,” he said, “we have the
capacity to train them. We have
enough training facilities.”
“People think one needs to do
karate to work in private security,
but that’s not the case,” he said.
Some applicants for Olympics
roles have themselves generated
security concerns.
ThibAulT CAmus/AP Officials have screened only a
FROM TOP: A security worker is seen this month near Olympics small portion of the 1 million
venues under construction in Paris. A security training exercise is people they want to assess before
held at the Groupama Stadium near Lyon, France. A worker carries the start of the Games. But as of
a suitcase at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris. late March, according to Interior
Minister Gérald Darmanin, 800
had been excluded from participa-
tion, including 15 people who were
on national security watch lists.
“There are people who wanted
to register to carry the flame, be
volunteers at the Olympics, and
who clearly did not have good
intentions,” Darmanin said.
He noted that officials were also
screening everyone holding pri-
vate security certification “out of
precaution,” in case some of them
might be asked to help at the
Olympics. The Interior Ministry
flagged 1,392 of them, including
102 who were on watch lists.
By early April, the total number
of people excluded because they
were on watch lists appeared to
have risen from 117 to 161 people,
according to Darmanin: 105 for
radical Islam, 35 for the extreme
right, 18 from the extreme left and
three for foreign interference. Al-
most all were French nationals.
While those findings could in-
deed reflect the “possibility of an
infiltration” by militant groups
such as Islamic State-Khorasan,
the Afghanistan and Pakistan arm
of the Islamic State, other dynam-
ics may also be at play, cautioned
Marc Hecker, a French terrorism
researcher.
“The watch lists are pretty big,”
he said. Some people may have
ended up on them accidentally.
Others may have at some point
been suspected or convicted of
extremism-related crimes but are
genuinely trying to reintegrate
into the job market.
Brajeux said he was not con-
cerned about the exclusion of the
security contractors. “On the con-
trary, it’s comforting,” he said,
noting that fewer than 1 percent of
guards were flagged by the au-
thorities. He added that although
280,000 people were screened,
“only around 180,000 people real-
ly work in this sector. Some have
changed profession, others died.”
In addition to French private
security, the police and the mili-
tary, the Paris 2024 security plan
includes support from about 50
foreign countries who are expect-
ed to send a combined 2,500 offi-
cers and an array of equipment.
Darmanin said they will focus
on “securing their teams, lending
us anti-drug, anti-bomb or anti-
weapon dogs, or being in touch
with their compatriots.” He added
that they may be armed.
Poland said it would be sending
soldiers, including dog handlers,
focused on explosives detection
and counterterrorism. In Rabat
this past week, he thanked Moroc-
co for being among those to agree
to send law enforcement officers
this summer, while a security com-
mittee from Qatar visited the gen-
darmerie headquarters in Paris to
plan coordination.
Although French parliamentar-
ians voiced criticism of Qatar’s
human rights record when France
sent officers to help secure the
2022 soccer World Cup there, this
year’s arrangements with Qatar,
Morocco and other nations have
prompted less public scrutiny in
France.
Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior
director of the Counter Extremism
Project, said such agreements
have been in place during major
events in the past, and they are
likely to be useful in boosting
French police forces’ “capacity
with individuals who speak the
language of participating teams.”
But coordinating security for
this high-risk Olympic Games will
remain a challenge, even with
international help.
“I really wouldn’t want to be the
person responsible for the Olym-
pics in France this year,” Schindler
said.

Digest

UKRAiNe
Troops retreating in
east, army chief says
Ukraine’s troops have been
forced to make a tactical retreat
from three villages in the
embattled east, the country’s
army chief said Sunday, warning
of a worsening battlefield
situation as Ukrainian forces wait
for much-needed arms from a
huge U.S. aid package.
Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky
reported that Russian forces
continue to attack “along the
entire front line” of more than
620 miles, with battles raging
west of Avdiivka, the eastern city
they took in February after a
grueling, months-long fight.
“The most difficult situation is
in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove
directions, where fierce battles
continue,” Syrsky said in an
update posted to the Telegram
messaging app, referencing two
Ukrainian-held cities in the war-
torn Donetsk region.
The Washington-based
Institute for the Study of War
predicted late Saturday that
“Russian forces will likely make
significant tactical gains in the
coming weeks,” as acute
ammunition shortages continue
to hobble Ukraine’s defense
efforts. The think tank said
Moscow’s forces could push
forward around Avdiivka and
threaten nearby Chasiv Yar, but
assessed that neither of these
efforts is likely to cause Kyiv’s
defensive lines to collapse “in the
near term.”
President Biden promised
Wednesday that U.S. weapons
shipments would begin making
their way into Ukraine within
hours, as he signed legislation
that included $61 billion for the
country.
— Associated Press
NigeRiA
At least 23 civilian
force members killed
At least 23 members of
Nigeria’s Civilian Joint Task Force
were killed Saturday in separate
attacks by militants and an
armed kidnapping gang in the
north, two officials from the force
said Sunday.
In northeast Borno state,
suspected Islamic State West
Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters
used an improvised explosive
device to blow up a vehicle
carrying a task force team, said
local force chairman Tijjanima
Umar. Nine people died instantly
and two others were severely
injured, Umar said.
In northwestern Soko state, 14
task force members were killed
and several were missing
following an ambush by gunmen
who regrouped after the task
force destroyed a bush camp
belonging to a kidnapping gang’s
leader, sector commandant
Ismail Haruna said.
The task force was formed in
2013 to protect communities in
the northeast and help the
military fight Boko Haram and
later its offshoot, ISWAP.
— Reuters
Thousands of Georgians
marched through the capital,
Tbilisi, on Sunday, as protests
built against a bill on “foreign
agents” that the country’s
opposition and Western
countries have said is
authoritarian and Russian-
inspired. Georgia’s Parliament
said it would hold the bill’s
second reading Tuesday, with
opposition parties and civil
society groups calling for mass
protests against its expected
passage. If passed, the draft law
would require organizations
receiving more than 20 percent of
their funding from abroad to
register as “foreign agents” or
face fines. The European Union
and Western countries have
warned that the bill could halt
Georgia’s integration with the
E.U., which granted Georgia
candidate status in December.
A tornado swept through the
southern Chinese city of
Guangzhou on Saturday, killing
five people and causing wide
devastation. Aerial photos posted
by Chinese state media on
Sunday, as businesses and
residents began cleaning debris,
showed block upon block of
devastation in the hardest-hit
areas, with a few clusters of
buildings standing amid the
destruction and cars crushed by
rubble. Some buildings’ sheet-
metal roofs were torn off. The
tornado also injured 33 people
and damaged over a hundred
buildings, officials said.
Human rights groups and
diplomats criticized a law that
was quietly passed by the Iraqi
parliament over the weekend that
would impose heavy prison
sentences on gay and transgender
people. U.S. State Department
spokesperson Matthew Miller
said the law “threatens those
most at risk in Iraqi society.”
British Foreign Secretary David
Cameron called the law
“dangerous and worrying.” The
law passed Saturday with little
notice. It imposes a sentence of
10 to 15 years for same-sex
relations and a prison term of
one to three years for people who
undergo or perform gender-
transition surgeries and for the
“intentional practice of
effeminacy.” It also bans any
organization that promotes
“sexual deviancy.”
— From news services
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Blinken set to travel to Saudi Arabia

BY NIHA MASIH,
JENNIFER HASSAN
AND ADELA SULIMAN
U.S. Secretary of State Antony
Blinken will travel to Saudi Ara-
bia this week for meetings with
regional partners, including Pal-
estinian, Egyptian and Qatari
leaders, to discuss efforts for
securing the release of Israeli
hostages and a cease-fire in
Gaza, the State Department said
in a statement. After participat-
ing in meetings of the World
Economic Forum and Gulf Coop-
eration Council in Riyadh, he
will continue on to Jordan and
Israel later in the week.
The foreign ministers of Brit-
ain, Germany and France are
also expected at the WEF meet-
ing, alongside the Saudi foreign
minister, Prince Faisal bin Far-
han al-Saud, WEF President
Borge Brende said at a news
conference. “There is some new
momentum now in the talks
around the hostages and also for
a possible way out of the impasse
that we are faced in Gaza,” he
said.
Relatives and supporters of hostages taken captive by militants during Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack hold a
demonstration calling for their release in Tel Aviv on Saturday. “There is some new momentum now in
the talks around the hostages,” WEF President Borge Brende said at a news conference Saturday.
Visit comes amid
renewed push for
hostage deal with Hamas
Blinken traveled to the coun-
try in March to discuss a U.S.
plan to normalize relations be-
tween Israel and Saudi Arabia,
but leaders in Riyadh have said
any such deal would require a
pathway to a Palestinian state —
a scenario rejected by Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu.
On this visit, National Security
Council spokesman John Kirby
said, “pushing for this temporary
cease-fire” would be “right at the
top of the list for Secretary Blink-
en.” Kirby told ABC’s “This
Week” on Sunday that Blinken
will “also be talking to the Is-
raelis about their intentions and
their thinking on Rafah military
operations and where they are in
the planning stages for that.” U.S.
officials have repeatedly voiced
opposition to a major military
operation in Rafah, in southern
Gaza, which Israel says is home
to Hamas’s last intact battalions
but is also a refuge for more than
a million displaced civilians.
Egyptian officials, who visited
Israel on Friday for talks on a
proposed cease-fire deal, are op-
timistic about the prospects of a
truce being reached, according
to a former Egyptian official with
knowledge of the talks who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to discuss a sensitive
subject. The former official said
Israeli cabinet members accept-
ed “for the first time” the idea of
a long-lasting halt to the fighting
and expressed willingness to
hold off on attacking Rafah if a
deal can be reached. The propos-
al is now with Hamas, he said.
On Sunday, President Biden
reaffirmed the United States’
“ironclad commitment to Israel’s
security” in a call with Netanya-
hu. In a statement, Biden de-
manded that Hamas release its
remaining hostages to “secure a
ceasefire and relief for the peo-
ple of Gaza.” The two leaders also
discussed “increases in the deliv-
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ery of humanitarian assistance
into Gaza including through
preparations to open new north-
ern crossings starting this week.”
In Israel, concern is increasing
about the possibility of arrest
warrants being issued by the
International Criminal Court
against Netanyahu and Defense
Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged
war crimes in Gaza, Israeli media
reported.
Netanyahu appeared to ad-
dress the reports Friday, writing
on social media that “Israel will
never accept any attempt by the
ICC to undermine its inherent
right of self-defense.” Israel and
the United States do not accept
the jurisdiction of the ICC, but
member states would be obliged
to carry out arrests of anyone in
their jurisdiction who faced a
warrant. On Sunday, Foreign
Minister Israel Katz instructed
all Israeli embassies worldwide
“to prepare immediately for a
wave of severe antisemitism,”
should the ICC issue warrants
for senior Israeli officials.
Here’s what else to know
Blinken’s visit comes amid a
renewed push for a deal with
Hamas, which released videos of
three hostages last week, includ-
ing two Israeli Americans. The
latest video, released Saturday,
shows U.S.-born Keith Siegel, 64,
and Omri Miran, 47, who were
taken hostage on Oct. 7. The
footage has added to pressure on
Israel to negotiate a deal for their
release.
Aid group World Central
Kitchen said Sunday it would
resume its operations in Gaza,
following the deaths of seven
staff members this month by an
Israeli military strike. The
D.C.-based nonprofit led by ce-
lebrity chef José Andrés said in a
statement that a Palestinian
team would begin delivering
food Monday, including in the
north of the enclave, where the
hunger crisis is most acute. The
group said it had 276 trucks with
the equivalent of almost 8 mil-
lion meals ready to enter
through the Rafah crossing and
will also send trucks into Gaza
from Jordan.
Pro-Palestinian protests un-
folded outside the White House
correspondents’ dinner on Sat-
urday night, with demonstra-
tors posing as slain Gazan jour-
nalists outside the Washington
Hilton. They laid out press vests
to honor media workers who
Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,
listens to her lawyer at an April 1 court hearing in Kazan, Russia.
Continuing crackdown,
Russia arrests journalists
BY ROBYN DIXON
Russia has arrested two Rus-
sian journalists on “extremism”
charges in recent days, the latest
moves in a continuing crackdown
targeting independent reporters
and media outlets. A third Rus-
sian journalist, with Forbes Rus-
sia, was charged with publishing
what authorities called “fake
news.”
The increasing use of anti-ex-
tremism laws to prosecute report-
ers — one piece of a larger cam-
paign to stifle domestic dissent
during Russia’s war in Ukraine —
is likely to have a further chilling
effect on the few independent
journalists still operating in Rus-
sia, many of them freelancers or
employees of small outlets with
few legal protections.
The Associated Press on Satur-
day reported that video journalist
Sergey Karelin, who has worked
with the AP, Deutsche Welle and
other international outlets, was
arrested Friday in the Murmansk
region in northern Russia and
charged with extremism. He was
placed in custody pending trial.
The AP said in a statement that
it was “very concerned” by Kare-
lin’s detention and was “seeking
additional information.”
On Saturday, a Moscow court
sent Konstantin Gabov, a Russian
freelance journalist who has
worked with Reuters, Deutsche
Welle and other outlets, to a pre-
trial detention center.
Both men are accused of work-
ing with the Anti-Corruption
aP
Both journalists have denied
the charges against them and face
up to six years in prison.
Meanwhile, Sergei Mingazov, a
journalist with the Russian edi-
tion of Forbes, was arrested in the
eastern city of Khabarovsk on
Friday and accused of spreading
fake news on social media about
Russia’s military, according to his
lawyer, Konstantin Bubon. He fac-
es up to 10 years in prison if
convicted of reposting stories on
Telegram about the killing of civil-
ians by Russian forces in the
Ukrainian city of Bucha.
Kremlin-connected tycoon Ma-
gomed Musaev holds the license
to publish Forbes Russia, which
has reported on Mingazov’s case
but has not commented.
A court in the western city of
Kaliningrad last month jailed
journalist Mikhail Feldman for
two years for “discrediting the
military” in social media posts
denouncing the war. He was also
banned from posting online for
two years.
Since Russia’s full-scale inva-
sion of Ukraine in February 2022,
Putin has jailed hundreds of
activists, opposition politicians,
LGBTQ+ people, feminists, art-
ists, poets and other perceived
enemies, part of what Amnesty
International has called an effort
to “blindfold” the Russian public.
Russia has swept up a number
of other journalists in recent
months for past video or photog-
raphy work for Navalny’s organi-
zation. At least six independent
journalists were arrested last

KOSTAS IS
have been killed in the enclave
and unfurled a Palestinian flag
out of a window at the venue.
France’s foreign minister ar-
rived in Lebanon on Sunday, in
a bid to “pursue the objective of
Foundation started by Alexei Na-
valny — President Vladimir Pu-
tin’s most prominent political ri-
val until his death in an Arctic
prison in February — which Rus-
sia has designated an “extremist
month, several merely for report-
ing on Navalny’s imprisonment,
death and burial.
Antonina Favorskaya, a jour-
nalist with SOTAVision, a small
independent outlet that publishes

FRED
peace and stability in the region,”
Stéphane Séjourné tweeted.
Séjourné praised the United Na-
tions’ peacekeeping force in
southern Lebanon as he inspect-
ed troops. Reuters has reported
that France is trying to ease
tensions between Israel and Hez-
bollah, which have escalated
their tit-for-tat border attacks in
recent weeks.
At least 34,454 people have
been killed and 77,575 injured
in Gaza since the war began,
according to the Gaza Health
Ministry, which does not distin-
guish between civilians and
combatants but says the majori-
ty of the dead are women and
children. Israel estimates that
about 1,200 people were killed in
Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including
more than 300 soldiers, and says
261 soldiers have been killed
since the launch of its military
operation in Gaza.
claire Parker, Lior soroka, Hannah
allam and steve Hendrix contributed
to this report.
organization.”
Navalny’s family accused the
Kremlin of killing the opposition
leader, a claim that Kremlin
spokesman Dmitry Peskov de-
nied. Western leaders have stated
that Putin bears responsibility for
his death.
aP
Russian journalist Sergey
Karelin in court on Saturday.
news about government repres-
sion on Telegram, was arrested
over her reporting on Navalny and
is in detention awaiting trial on
extremism charges.
She was initially jailed for 10
days for insubordination to police
after reporting from his gravesite;
after her release, she was immedi-
ately detained on the more serious
charges.
At least four journalists who
covered her arrest and detention
were also detained, including Al-
exandra Astakhova, Anastasia
Musatova, Konstantin Zharov and
Ekaterina Anikievich.
Zharov, from the independent
outlet RusNews, was beaten by
police and threatened with sexual
violence, according to Reporters
Without Borders. Another Rus-
News journalist, Olga Komleva,
was arrested in the city of Ufa,
about 800 miles east of Moscow,
over her reporting on Navalny and
allegations of involvement with
the Anti-Corruption Foundation.
The Kremlin banned criticism
of the Russian armed forces in
early 2022; after invading

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The clock is ticking for TikTok to find a non-Chinese owner

Complicated questions abound with uncertain answers: Can you still use the app? Who exactly is going to buy it? Are other tech companies in the crosshairs?
BY SHIRA OVIDE

The law that President Biden

signed Wednesday gives TikTok
up to a year to find an owner that
isn’t Chinese or be banned in the
United States.
The new law and the ultima-
tum to TikTok’s current owner,
Chinese technology giant Byte-
Dance, sound straightforward.
But wow, they really aren’t.
I want you to think about
three burning questions that
don’t have straightforward an-
swers:
Should you just keep using
TikTok as though nothing
happened?
I'm not sure that we’ve ever
been in a situation quite like this
other than Prohibition. A prod-
uct that’s used by roughly half of
Americans is essentially illegal
as it currently exists (or will be
soon).
Sure, other products exist in a
legal gray area. Most e-cigarettes
and weed that Americans buy
are not approved by the govern-
ment or are downright against
the law. Some of you with tinted
car windows are breaking the
law.
With TikTok, though, you are
now in a surreal moment in
which the federal government
says TikTok is a menace to Amer-
icans and to the country’s na-
tional security, but it’s also not
telling you to dump the app.
“We’re not saying that we do
not want Americans to use Tik-
Tok,” the White House press sec-
retary said Wednesday, just after
the president signed a law de-
claring that TikTok cannot exist
in its current form in the United
States.
Whether you or your children
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choice.
I imagine that most people
will keep using (or not using)
TikTok just the way they did
before.
Except now you face the loom-
ing risk that the app could disap-
pear sometime months or years
from now.
Who might buy TikTok?
The White House says it wants
TikTok to be sold to a non-
Chinese owner instead of being
banned in the United States.
Will a sale happen, and to
whom? (Insert shrug emoji.)
TikTok said it will challenge
the new law in court. Maybe in
the next few months (or years),
courts will declare the TikTok
forced sale or ban unconstitu-
tional. Maybe they’ll say it’s con-
stitutionally kosher.
Maybe the legal case will take
years to resolve. TikTok and peo-
ple who use the app will remain
in limbo the entire time.
Maybe Donald Trump will be
elected president later this year
and will try to stop a forced sale
or ban of TikTok.
Maybe some rich dude or Wal-
mart will sweep in to lead a
purchase of TikTok — with or
without the secret computer
code that tailors videos to each
person’s tastes.
Maybe China’s government
will try to stop that from happen-
ing.
Maybe Earth will get clob-
bered by a giant asteroid.
What happens next with Tik-
Tok is unpredictable.
Don’t trust anyone who confi-
dently predicts what’s going to
happen.
Will the government try to
ban other popular
technologies from China?
American officials haven’t
made public specific evidence of
why they believe TikTok poses
such a dire threat of Chinese data
harvesting and propaganda.
They also haven’t told you how
much you should or shouldn’t
worry about other technologies
from China.
Is it safe for you to shop on
Shein and Temu, two widely used
apps that originated from China?
Is it risky for you to own a
computer from Chinese compa-
ny Lenovo or a Motorola smart-
phone also from Lenovo? Should
your kid keep playing the video
game “League of Legends,”
which is controlled by Chinese
tech giant Tencent? Is it okay
that nearly all our smartphones
and other electronics are made
in Chinese factories?
Will the government keep out
electric cars or smartphones
from Chinese brands that are
affordable and popular in some
countries other than the United
States?
TikTok may be a unique risk,
given how many Americans use
the app and get information and
news from an app controlled by a
Chinese company.
But again, American officials
haven’t been upfront with you
about where the line might be
between dangerous and accept-
able technologies from China.

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A student loan plan with lots of unintended consequences
TUDENT LOAN DEBT is so often described as
S a “crisis” that saying so has become cliché.
Responding to such cries, President Biden has
pushed the bounds of his powers to forgive
federally backed higher education debt. Some even
believe that university education should be free, or
near-free, as it is in many other countries (though
these nations’ university systems
EdiTOriaL are notably less vibrant and presti-
gious). But what do the facts suggest
about how bad things have gotten — and what to do
about it?
Forty-four million U.S. borrowers hold federal
student loans — adding up to more than $1.6 trillion
in debt. That is actually a tad lower than the total
amount Americans owe in auto loans; home mort-
gages total a whopping $12 trillion held in debt. As
for whether the problem is getting worse, the total
amount given in federal student loans by the U.S.
government has decreased in the past decade, by 35
percent. And the average amount of loans per
student has decreased, too, illustrating the broader
downward trend in borrowing.
Today, the average amount of debt a student
leaves a U.S. college with after completing a four-
year bachelor’s degree is around $30,000, largely
because there’s a federal limit — $31,000 for
dependents — on the loans students can take out in
the first place. (One caveat: Almost half of students
LETTErs TO ThE EdiTOr
What city-dwellers and rural
Americans don’t get about each other
Regarding the April 21 Opinion column “The
last acceptable American stereotype: White rural
rage” by Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea:
Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Shea are not entirely wrong
to argue that outsiders’ perceptions of White rural
residents are often rooted in stereotypes. I’ve
learned that myself.
I was raised in the suburbs of Baltimore and
lived in Los Angeles for more than 25 years.
Twelve years ago, I convinced my husband, a rabbi
in the Reform movement, to apply for a job in
Morgantown, W.Va. People were surprised when
Tree of Life Congregation hired him.
After our move, I decided to try to visit a
different county within about 300 miles of us
every month. For the most part, I’ve liked the
people I’ve met and the places I’ve been. Usually
traveling alone, and not being young, people don’t
immediately see me as Jewish or queer, which
helps.
The politics in our state, however, are awful,
even in our county, Monongalia, which is the
most liberal in the state. Instead of dealing with
issues such as disinvestment and
deindustrialization, our Republican-majority
legislature focuses on making life hard for
transgender teens, worrying about immigrants
and allowing guns on college campuses while
eliminating the world languages department at
West Virginia University. The fossil fuel industry
funnels money into the state to fight any action
that might improve the environment, while cancer
rates in our polluted state are among the highest
in the country.
In my travels, I’ve seen the same “F--- Biden”
posters John Grogan described in the April 21
Sunday Opinion article, “How does the election
feel around the country? 5 writers capture the
vibe.”
When I was the Democratic nominee for
U.S. Congress in West Virginia’s Second District in
2022, I was mostly ignored rather than attacked.
Democrats I met complained that when unions
were strong, they kept some of the racism of their
neighbors in check, but they say that now they
don’t recognize the hatred they see.
I don’t let my coastal friends disparage West
Virginians. I like it here. I tried to change the
politics, and maybe my husband and I have made
some sort of difference through our presence and
through our work. Both of our senators, Democrat
Joe Manchin III and Republican Shelley Moore
Capito, voted for the Respect for Marriage Act,
making marriages such as ours secure in every
state in the country.
Of course, Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Shea don’t exactly
live in the heartland. They teach at a college
located in a moderately Democratic county in the
far northeastern part of the country. Going native,
as we have, has allowed us to see some of the
best and worst of our chosen home, and has
changed us.
Barry L. Wendell, Morgantown, W.Va.
I tired of the sanctimonious whining about
alleged put-downs of White rural residents.
Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea offer a
three-pronged argument intended to excuse these
voters and shift blame to others.
First, they suggest that these residents are
victims of “economic policies that have devastated
local industries,” an idea they support with only a
glancing reference to the North American Free
Trade Agreement, which has a history and
impact more complicated than they acknowledge.
Then they decry a “lack of investment in rural
infrastructure and education” (with not even one
example given, and no acknowledgment of the
benefits of the Biden policies of the past few
years). And finally, they blame “a sense of
cultural dismissal from urban-centric media and
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who went to for-profit schools owe $40,000 or
more.)
Borrowers with more than six figures of debt do
exist. Indeed, what they owe makes up 35 percent of
all the student loan debt in the United States. But
that’s not because there are a lot of them; borrowers
with more than $100,000 in debt represent less than
10 percent of all borrowers. It’s because they owe a
lot of money. And they owe a lot often because
they’ve paid for more education. Americans with
professional or doctorate degrees are only 3 percent
of the population but hold a vastly disproportionate
share of the total debt. These borrowers also make
more than twice the average earner does, usually
just over six figures in annual salary. Graduate
borrowers rarely default on their debt; those who
default most often, in contrast, didn’t complete their
degrees at all.
So, is student debt a crisis? It depends on who’s in
debt. People who complete their degrees, particular-
ly if they didn’t come from poverty, tend to pay off
their debt over time. That makes sense: In general,
higher education is worth the cost. Forgiving loans,
meanwhile, results in those who didn’t go to college
subsidizing the tuition costs of those who did.
That doesn’t mean it’s never a good idea. On the
contrary, it’s precisely because a college education is
so valuable that the government ought to make it
easier for Americans to enroll. But the fairest system
Traveling on public transit while scrolling TikTok
politics” for the politicians and policies White
rural residents have embraced.
Such rhetoric suggests complete amnesia about
other minority groups that are truly oppressed.
Check out the anti-LGBTQ+ legislation of recent
years, which goes beyond any perceived “cultural
dismissal” and which truly harms people.
Additionally, atheists and agnostics, who
represent a good chunk of Americans, have zero
representation in Congress, the Supreme Court or
any other seat of power.
What I see is not so much rage and disgust
directed at rural White people, but fear of the rage
Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Shea so easily dismiss. I’ve
seen rainbow flags at my church ripped out of the
ground; I’ve seen people afraid to even put
bumper stickers on their cars for fear of being
harassed. The memory of the murder of Heather
Heyer in Charlottesville remains fresh in the
minds of many.
More recently, I read about a Missouri state
senator, Mary Elizabeth Coleman, who declared
“we are coming for you” about her efforts to
defund Planned Parenthood, where many people
get essential health care. There is tangible fear
that these people in power are indeed bent on
actively harassing citizens.
Fear of this sort of rage is real, and it is rational.
For an example, look to former president
Donald Trump’s ongoing trial in Manhattan,
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is one in which those whose degrees land them in
comfortable circumstances pay off their loans — and
those who are struggling, and therefore at most risk
Is student debt a crisis?
It depends on who’s in debt. People
who complete their degrees tend
to pay off their debt over time.
Those who didn’t complete their
degrees need the help.
of default, don’t. Janitors’ paychecks should not end
up in dentists’ pockets.
Mr. Biden’s Save plan, whose enrollees were
treated to an additional $7.4 billion in debt
cancellation this month, gestures at this principle
with its focus on income-based repayment. And
parts of the proposal, such as wiping out debt that
has been held for more than 20 or 25 years while
giving enrollees who borrowed relatively small
amounts of money a chance to have debt canceled
EdiTh PriTchETT
where potential jurors asked to be released
from jury duty for fear of what might happen
if their identities were exposed. For another,
take The Post’s April 21 Metro article “Militia
warned of group member.” There is good reason
to be afraid of the rage of people walking
around in combat gear and talking about using
explosives.
Bill Fogarty, Arlington
Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea’s
argument that rural White voters have some
grounds for their discontent rests heavily on
their unhappiness with the North American Free
Trade Agreement and its impact on their
communities. However, while Democratic
President Bill Clinton was a NAFTA booster, the
agreement was signed by the United States,
Canada and Mexico in 1992, when Republican
George H.W. Bush was president.
And when NAFTA was ratified by the House
and Senate in 1993, Democrats voted against it in
the House by a 156 to 102 margin, and in the
Senate split narrowly, with 27 Democrats in favor
and 28 against. By contrast, 132 House
Republicans and 34 Republican Senators voted in
favor of the pact.
So, a moderate Democratic president supported
NAFTA, but congressional Republicans were very
supportive, and the Democrats were net
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sooner, also make sense.
But the terms are too generous toward those who
can do without the government’s beneficence. The
income maximum is set at a very comfortable
$125,000 for single people and $250,000 for married
couples and heads of household, and the Urban
Institute found that nearly half of bachelor’s degree
recipients will end up paying less than half of their
loans back. The result is not merely to provide a
safety net to those for whom higher education
proves a poor investment, as ought to be the case. It’s
also to give a freebie to those whose plans worked
out just fine.
Another problem: If loans seem to have no
downside, colleges have scant incentive to contain
tuition. Students won’t worry about sticker price if
they feel they can get whatever they require to afford
school for what will, in the end, amount to little or
nothing.
There are ways to adjust the program so that it
helps those who need it most — while costing the
public less. For instance, upping the share of income
paid by better-off borrowers, relative to the share
paid by those who earn less — similar to how the
progressive income tax works. Most important,
policymakers should focus on a connected, more
acute crisis: those rising tuition rates that an
unreasonably charitable student loan policy could
encourage to continue upward.
opponents. The Democratic House majority leader
and whip even voted no and whipped support
against the agreement. It’s hard to find firm
ideological consistency across the votes, but in the
House, progressive Democrats were most heavily
represented in the “anti” group.
Yes, NAFTA has had a harmful impact in many
rural areas. That said, it’s not clear why — based
on the party vote breakdown laid out above —
rural residents would conclude that they should
blame Democrats. And it’s definitely not clear
why frustrations over NAFTA ought to lead to
other cultural and political beliefs and
resentments.
Maybe next time, these disgruntled voters
should try casting their ballots for progressives.
They’re the ones who want to expand Medicaid
and pass other policies that would mitigate the
impact of decades of economic neglect.
Peter Kovar, Takoma Park
Greetings from the deep-red state of Arkansas.
It is an election year, and people are fired up. No
surprises here: Most people will be voting a
straight ticket.
Never mind that Donald Trump sat on his
hands for the longest time in his life while the
U.S. Capitol was being stormed by his supporters.
The GOP chose a man who tried to overthrow
democracy and strategically chose justices to seize
jurisdiction over my body by overturning Roe
v. Wade. Our kids have fewer rights than we did
and, yes, that makes me angry. My husband served
in the Air Force for 27 years, so I know what it
looks like to “protect and defend the
Constitution.” Jan. 6, 2021, was not that.
I spoke with a friend recently, and she summed
it up perfectly: “I like all of those progressive
ideas and everything, but I earned $17,000 last
year and I have two kids. I don’t know how much
more of this I can take.” Even though she largely
disagrees with Mr. Trump, she felt she couldn’t
afford to vote for President Biden. I know she is
not alone.
There are a lot of hungry and hopeless people
in these hills. They are busy maintaining the lungs
of our nation, providing military recruits for our
national security and food to our populace — and,
yet, no one respects us.
People assume we are backward or stupid, but
we are not. We are deeply rooted Americans
accustomed to the challenge of breaking ground
among the rocks. We are not a people “too far
gone” to save, but we are the embodiment of
kitchen-table economics.
Few people here see the big stock-market gains
because they haven’t ever had a 401(k) or
investment account. We do see that Coffee Mate
creamer was $2.49, and now it is $4.29. Morning
coffee has become a splurge, but have we seen any
benefit from the developments that fueled the
inflation that dogs us? No. We have not.
If you want to change the hearts and minds of
the free people in the heartland, we need to see
changes immediately in grocery prices. We need to
know, when we go to the store, that our cries of
“uncle” are heard.
Kathryn Childs, Eureka Springs, Ark.
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No joke:
Biden turns
up the heat
on Trump
ere he ever to consider a
W
career in stand-up com-
edy, Joe Biden would be
well advised to keep his
day job. But delivering big laughs
was not the president’s mission when
he appeared Saturday night before a
black-tie audience of 2,600 journal-
ists and Washington power players at
the White House correspondents’
dinner.
Almost from the start of his ap-
pearance in what is traditionally a
lighthearted evening, Biden took the
kind of personal swipes at his oppo-
nent that we have rarely heard from
him. “The 2024 election’s in full
swing and yes, age is an issue,” he
said. “I’m a grown man running
against a 6-year-old.”
Where he has ordered White
House aides not to speak publicly
about Donald Trump’s legal troubles,
Biden himself mocked the seamy
scandal that has the former presi-
dent spending his days in a Manhat-
tan courtroom. “I had a great stretch
since the State of the Union. But
Donald has had a few tough days
lately. You might call it ‘stormy
weather,’ ” Biden said, making an
unsubtle reference to adult-film star
Stormy Daniels, whose claims that
she had an affair with Trump are at
the center of the hush-money trial.
And toward the end, Biden chas-
tised the media: “I’m sincerely not
asking you to take sides. I’m asking
you to rise up to the seriousness of
the moment. Move past the horse
race numbers and the gotcha mo-
ments and the distractions, the side
shows that have come to dominate
and sensationalize our politics, and
focus on what’s actually at stake. . . .
The stakes couldn’t be higher.”
Does this mark a pivot, a turn from
the Uncle Joe geniality that has
been Biden’s personal brand? It
sounded like it to me. And it comes at
a moment when, for the first time in
a while, Team Biden is feeling a
few things going their way in this
election.
The polls in which the president
has trailed his predecessor have nar-
rowed a bit since Biden’s State of the
Union address in March, but it’s not
worth reading too much into slight
shifts in the numbers. The race is
close, and it appears likely to stay so
all the way until November.
And Biden’s campaign is building
a significant financial advantage
over Trump’s, even as the former
president’s legal bills mount.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the
House Republicans’ sputtering im-
peachment drive against Biden has
become an embarrassment.
But at least as important as any of
that is the fact that a president who
came to office promising to make
Washington work again is showing
some tentative progress in that re-
gard. Most notable was his successful
effort to bring House Speaker Mike
Johnson (R-La.) around on badly
needed aid to Ukraine, which paid
off spectacularly with a big biparti-
san vote in favor of sending $61 bil-
lion to Kyiv.
Biden has had some other victo-
ries as well, including on funding to
avert a government shutdown in
March and, more recently, reauthori-
zation of a government surveillance
program that the MAGA forces on
Capitol Hill were determined to kill.
Will voters give him credit for any
of this? They might, but they haven’t
yet. As Gallup reported last week, his
average job approval rating in
the 13th quarter of his presidency
is mired at 38.7 percent, which is
lower than any of his past nine
predecessors at this point in their
presidencies.
“With about six months remaining
before Election Day, Biden stands in
a weaker position than any prior
incumbent, and thus faces a taller
task than they did in getting reelect-
ed,” Gallup’s Jeffrey M. Jones wrote.
Meanwhile, Biden is struggling
to hold together traditional Demo-
cratic constituencies, including non-
Whites and young people, a chal-
lenge that is not getting any easier as
college campuses are being roiled by
protests over the war in Gaza and
Biden’s support for Israel’s military
campaign there.
Indeed, as guests in their formal
attire made their way into the corre-
spondents’ dinner on Saturday night,
they were greeted by hundreds of
pro-Palestinian protesters shouting,
“Shame on you!”
Given all of this, the best option
for Biden now — perhaps his only
one — is not to hope the country will
begin to recognize his achievements.
It is to start drawing a sharper,
no-holds-barred contrast with
Trump and what it would mean if he
is allowed to return to the White
House.
To quote one of the president’s
own favorite phrases, that’s no joke.
Starlord, a Pomeranian, at the 2021 Westminster Dog Show in Tarrytown, N.Y.
Dogs are our greatest creation.
And we might be theirs.
BY T OMMY T OMLINSON
he dog is humankind’s great-
T est invention. The wheel, the
lightbulb, concrete — all
amazing. Top of the line. But
nothing in human creation has been
as essential and adaptable as the
countless descendants of the ancient
gray wolf.
How did we do it? I spent three
years following the traveling carnival
of American dog shows — like a
Grateful Dead tour with Milk-Bones
— in search of the answer. My jour-
ney culminated in the dog world’s
most prestigious event: the West-
minster Dog Show. Show dogs are
bred from the purest stock, culled
from litters at just a few weeks old,
trained with the dedication of Olym-
pic gymnasts — and groomed like
supermodels. They’d be unrecogniz-
able to their ancient kin — and to
ours.
The American Kennel Club, arbi-
ter of bloodlines, now recognizes
about 200 breeds, while tracking
crossbreeds like goldendoodles, and
even mutts. From the most massive
mastiff to the tiniest teacup chihua-
hua, all dogs trace back to the same
common ancestors.
Scientists think this weird and
powerful companionship of humans
and dogs might have started some-
where between 15,000 and 30,000
years ago. Humans of that era were
mainly hunters traveling in camps.
They ate meat by the fire. The cook-
ing meat attracted wolves who were
drawn to the aroma but stayed safely
out of range of the flames. Every so
often, a human would fling a bone
into the darkness. The wolves
gnawed on the bones. They trailed
the humans to the next campsite, still
E.J. DionnE JR.
A political odd couple takes on social despair
re you skeptical of bipartisan
A dialogues and commissions that
pretend away differences in a
chase after a lowest-common-
denominator “center”? Me, too.
Yet there is good reason to be weary of
a political culture so saturated with neg-
ative partisanship and mutual mistrust
that it makes discussing our nation’s
most intractable problems impossible.
That’s especially true of challenges that
defy easy ideological categorization: so-
cial disconnection, loneliness, the dam-
aging side effects of social media, the
shattering of families, the curse of drug
addiction.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who has
made it a personal crusade to move these
challenges to the forefront of politics,
told me he sees “a lot of room between
right and left to work hard” on these
questions.
This has now taken the form of an
alliance with Republican Gov. Spencer
Cox of Utah to convene “a national con-
versation” under the rubric “restoring
the common good.” A small group of
prominent intellectuals and activists
ranging from progressive to conservative
held its first meeting in Utah on Friday.
It is worth briefly interrupting the
news about a certain trial in New York
and ludicrous claims that presidents
don’t have to obey the law to celebrate
this effort to do politics differently.
Their initiative matters as a signal that
parts of both the left and right are
reconfiguring politics around communi-
tarian themes. By focusing on deep per-
sonal dissatisfactions, they are also offer-
ing an explanation for the disconnect
between the good news of a nation where
“the unemployment rate is low, crime is
going down, GDP is growing,” as Murphy
put it, and the unhappiness so many
Americans express.
Murphy and Cox initially came togeth-
eZ
opinion
keeping their distance. There was an
unspoken arrangement. The wolves
alerted the humans to intruders, and
the humans fed the wolves well.
Over time the wolves crept closer.
One fateful night a curious wolf came
all the way into the firelight. The
humans didn’t chase it off.
Slowly, the humans mingled with
the wolves. After days or months or
generations or centuries, a wolf
curled up at a human’s feet. Maybe
got its belly rubbed. That was the first
dog.
As far as we can tell, dogs are the
first animals that humans ever
tamed. The wolves that hung out
with humans found themselves
changing inside and out. They devel-
oped shorter muzzles and smaller
teeth. Their instinct to run became a
desire to stay close. With time, dogs
were manufactured through breed-
ing to meet different human needs.
We made huskies to pull sleds and
Newfoundlands to pull fish nets and
dachshunds to catch badgers.
Dogs taught humans the early
science of designer genes. In the
mid-19th century, as we moved off
the farm and into the factory, we
created dogs we could bring indoors
at the end of a workday. And we
created dogs we could bring to work:
French bulldogs (now the most popu-
lar breed in America) started out as
literal lap dogs for lace-makers in
France. We molded dogs to be
friends, companions, playmates and
unofficial therapists.
So dogs are not just humanity’s
greatest invention but also its
longest-running experiment.
That’s one way to look at it.
Now switch out the frame. Swap
the subject and the object. Change
the verbs.
er because of their mutual desire to
respond to the damage that cellphones
and social media are doing to children
and teens. In the process, Murphy told
me, they realized they shared a “common
worry that this country feels like it’s
falling apart at the seams emotionally
and spiritually.”
If that sounds grand or even theologi-
cal, the specific forms of suffering that
alarm Murphy and Cox are tangible and
heartbreaking — from “deaths of de-
spair” caused by suicide and drug over-
doses to the collapse of communities that
lost their economic purpose. “We had
more opioid prescriptions than people in
some of these counties,” Cox said in an
interview, referring to rural parts of his
state.
Murphy is emphatic in distinguishing
their effort from the usual bipartisan
confab. “This is not intended to be some
milquetoast, moderate, let’s-all-get-
along conversation,” he says. “This is
about trying to push right and left into a
. . . conversation about why so many
Americans are feeling bad and some of
the really big things we may have to do
together to fix that.”
What could turn this conversation
into a larger challenge to the status quo
are the links Murphy and Cox draw
between the social breakdown often
highlighted on the right and the eco-
nomic injustices that engage the left.
Ian Marcus Corbin, a philosopher at
Harvard Medical School and architect of
the initiative, says the emphasis on the
material roots of personal struggles dis-
tinguishes this era’s communitarians
from their forebears. “You pull out the
economic foundation of a community,”
he told me, “and family formation goes
haywire, and all sorts of social patholo-
gies — drug abuse, loneliness, alienation
and anti-social behavior — emerge.”
Murphy speaks of how “concentrated
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Here’s another view:
Around the time early humans
evolved, Neanderthals also walked
the planet. At some point — roughly
40,000 years ago — humans started
to thrive while Neanderthals died off.
And this is about the time when those
first curious wolves began to evolve
into dogs. Some scientists believe the
timing is not a coincidence. Maybe
the dog was the key advantage in the
triumph of humankind.
Dogs enabled humans to settle
down and stop their endless wander-
ing. Dogs protected humans at this
vulnerable transition from nomadic
to settled life. Dogs did work that
humans did not have the strength or
stamina to do: guarding, herding,
hunting, pulling sleds. They created
time for humans to build and think
and create without having to focus
every moment on the next meal or
the next threat.
We domesticated dogs, and they
domesticated us.
Today, dogs provide not just com-
panionship but also an uncomplicat-
ed kind of love in an ever more
complicated world. And for those
restless souls wandering from town
to town, chasing job after job —
nomads again — a dog can be an
anchor, something to hold on to on a
lonely night.
From the gray wolf by the ancient
fire to a coifed Pomeranian prancing
around the show ring, dogs have
been with us nearly as long as we
have been human.
They might be our greatest crea-
tion. And we might be theirs.
tommy tomlinson is the author of
“dogland.” he lives in Charlotte with his
wife, her mother and a cat named Jack
reacher.
power is driving Americans crazy,” the
need to “grow bipartisan coalitions
around breaking up monopolies and big
companies that have way too much pow-
er in our economic lives,” and the impera-
tive to recognize that there are “some
sacred places where efficiency and profit
shouldn’t govern.”
Cox has pioneered a call on Americans
to “disagree better” — meaning to argue
substantively without holding each oth-
er in contempt — and he expects to have
some disagreements with Murphy about
“the proper role of government” in the
economy. But, Cox added, “I think he and
I will find agreements that when there
are major economic changes to a com-
munity, that does lead to some of these
deaths of despair, this hopelessness that
we’re seeing.” Repairing the social dam-
age will require public action to “help
build more resilient neighborhoods and
economies.”
Murphy and Cox also have different
(but not diametrically opposed) perspec-
tives on the fiercely contested presiden-
tial campaign in the backdrop of their
dialogue. Murphy is a staunch supporter
of President Biden, whom he credits with
pushing “transformational policies.” Cox
is critical of both Biden and former
president Donald Trump. “We should be
nominating different people,” Cox said
earlier this year.
Yet both insist the nation needs to pay
attention to the discontent Trump has
exposed. “I guess we can thank him for
that, and nothing else,” Murphy said. Cox
said that to move forward, the country
must figure out why so many voters used
Trump as an opportunity “to throw a
brick through the window.”
Democracies can founder when they
fail to address festering social wounds.
These bipartisan partners are standing
up for the democratic project by insisting
that we can’t ignore them any longer.
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CathERinE RampEll
We can’t blame
Russia for our
unrest anymore.
It’s homegrown.
NEW YORK
e can’t blame the Russian bots. We
W can’t scapegoat Facebook or even a
newer, more addictive platform
we’re trying to delink from China.
The problem, at its core, is us. We, regular old
Americans, are the ones destroying America’s
social fabric.
In the past week, U.S. campus conflicts over
Israel and broader issues of bigotry and human
rights have exploded, scattering shrapnel
across the campaign trail and the criminal
justice system. And the speed of the escalation
has been astounding.
Last fall, of course, there were heated pro-
tests and counter-protests, including defaced
posters of Jewish hostages around my New
York neighborhood and chants about Palestin-
ian genocide in a local park. But tempers
cooled, even as hostages languished and deaths
in Gaza mounted.
I remember congratulating one university
president last December for not having made
headlines. Remarkably, the school’s quads
hadn’t appeared in a single viral video. This
president said the secret was giving demonstra-
tors on both sides an opportunity to speak and
grieve — but, crucially, away from each other.
Emotions were raw, the president said. The
only way to keep the peace was to keep
everyone apart.
This seemed depressing at the time. Had
Americans given up on the idea that exposure
to opposing views could be constructive? At
places dedicated to the free exchange of ideas,
no less?
Now, that president’s strategy seems wise.
Our adversaries discovered long ago that
Americans were becoming so alienated from
one another that merely bringing us into the
same space was sufficient to ignite conflict.
Recall the 2016 election, when Russian opera-
tives were seeding disinformation — the origi-
nal “fake news” — across social media to sow
discord. One of the strategies, a Senate intelli-
gence report found, was siting opposing politi-
cal rallies in the same place to create fights. For
instance, two separate Russian-controlled
Facebook groups planned simultaneous “Stop
Islamization of Texas” and “Save Islamic
Knowledge” rallies on the same block in Hous-
ton in 2016.
This election cycle, bots are not orchestrat-
ing the dueling rallies. Americans are deliber-
ately showing up at the same places, seeking
out their political opponents and spoiling for a
fight.
Don’t get me wrong, disinformation is still
spreading across social media (about Gaza,
among other issues) and encouraging public
pugilism. And adversaries abroad are still
planting or at least amplifying some of the most
inflammatory content. But Americans are au-
thoring and sharing it, too, especially when the
material plays to their political biases.
Meanwhile, political leaders and pundits
have exploited these vulnerabilities. They
learned that there’s great political (and fund-
raising) value in selectively quoting the other
side or in the humiliating, viral social media
“dunk.” Not unlike our adversaries abroad,
U.S. leaders seek clout by becoming conflict
entrepreneurs.
To wit: The recent re-escalation of campus
conflict began because Congress called Colum-
bia University President Minouche Shafik
to testify about her handling of campus anti-
semitism.
As a regular target of antisemitism, I agree
the subject is worthy of public scrutiny. But
lawmakers were out to shed heat, not light. At
the hearing, both Republicans and Democrats
engineered viral videos by berating Shafik for
personnel decisions and the intricacies of the
student disciplinary process. Perhaps these
politicians should’ve run for openings on Co-
lumbia’s board of trustees instead of Congress.
Unsurprisingly, the day after Shafik’s public
flagellation, Columbia brought in police to
clear pro-Palestinian student encampments.
Alas, this only martyred the students and
inspired copycat protests nationwide.
In the days since, any hope of civil discourse
has disintegrated. Arrests and tear gas have
been deployed across other campuses. Classes
and commencements have been canceled.
Damning, highly shareable footage shows
some protesters don’t actually know what
they’re protesting. Others have called for the
killing of Jews. Meanwhile, in some instances,
cops have violently manhandled peaceful stu-
dents and faculty.
Outsiders have eagerly entered the brawl. In
New York and elsewhere, non-student agitators
have shown up to heckle students or police.
Federal lawmakers such as Speaker Mike John-
son (R-La.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)
have made pilgrimages to Columbia (to help
cool things down, surely). Somehow a multi-
millennia-old Holy Land conflict, playing out
through terrorism and famine, has been neatly
converted into campaign memes.
Both left and right, and both pro-Israel and
pro-Palestinian factions, are calling for the
resignation of Columbia’s president. For oppo-
site reasons, of course: She’s being too hard on
the protesters, or maybe too soft. This is
reminiscent of the bipartisan rage at Facebook
and Twitter after the 2016 election and during
the pandemic. Depending on your politics,
these platforms engaged in either too much
censorship or too little. But everyone could
agree they were hoppin’ mad at tech compa-
nies. It was too fun not to be.
Like social media platforms, college campus-
es are no longer town squares where citizens
hash out how we understand our common
values. They are boxing rings. There are just too
many factions, here and abroad, that get utility
from the fight.
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Michigan mayor faces dilemma in backing Biden reelection
HAMMOUD from A1
happening to the people on the
ground and to their friends and
family and my residents.”
Since then, Hammoud, the
first Arab American and muslim
mayor of Dearborn, has had to
navigate myriad crosscurrents.
He has spoken with White House
officials — though not campaign
operatives — who have looked to
him to try to understand his
constituents’ anger at the presi-
dent, and what it might take to
win them back. He has become a
prominent voice for Arab Ameri-
can and muslim voters, not just
in Dearborn but across the coun-
try, who say that Biden has
betrayed and dehumanized
them.
And still, the 34-year-old
Hammoud has to keep his atten-
tion on the job he was elected to
do: overseeing the city of Dear-
born. He now spends hours dis-
cussing foreign policy and the
political fallout of Biden’s sup-
port of Israel. But his days are
filled with meetings about budg-
ets, flooding, community parks
and city events.
“I ran for office on the idea
that I’d ensure your garbage was
picked up on time,” Hammoud
said. He has received numerous
invitations for dinners and
speaking engagements related to
the war, but he has turned most
of them down. “It’s humbling,” he
said. “But I try to tell folks I’m
still the mayor of Dearborn, and
this is my primary focus.”
After rejecting the meeting
with Chavez rodriguez, Ham-
moud made clear that he would
only meet with policymakers,
not campaign operatives. Two
weeks later, the White House
sent a high-level delegation to
Dearborn that included Jon fin-
er, Biden’s deputy national secu-
rity adviser, and Samantha Pow-
er, the administrator of the U.S.
Agency for International Devel-
opment.
The Israel-Gaza war is, on its
face, a foreign policy issue thou-
sands of miles away from a
midsize city in michigan. But it
occupies a unique space in Dear-
born, where it has in essence
become a local issue, now con-
suming the community for more
than six months. The city is a
little more than 50 percent Arab
American and sits in a swing
state that is crucial to Biden’s
path to a second term.
residents have organized doz-
ens of protests and fundraisers
since oct. 7, when Hamas mili-
tants rampaged through the
Israel-Gaza border fence and
killed 1,200 people, many of
them civilians, and took 253
others hostage into Gaza, accord-
ing to Israeli authorities. In re-
sponse, Israel launched a pun-
ishing military assault that has
killed more than 34,000 Palestin-
ians, the majority of whom are
women and children, according
to the Gaza Health ministry.
Israel’s siege of the enclave has
also created a humanitarian ca-
tastrophe as Gaza’s health sys-
tem has collapsed and its resi-
dents face famine.
michigan is home to the na-
tion’s largest Arab American and
muslim population, with about
300,000 people who claim ances-
try from the middle East or
North Africa, and that communi-
ty overwhelmingly supported
Biden in 2020. Biden won michi-
gan by 154,000 votes in 2020 and
is expected to face another tight
contest this year against former
president Donald Trump.
Along the way, Dearborn has
become the informal headquar-
ters of a movement among pro-
gressives to withhold their votes
from Biden in November. Activ-
ists in the city helped organize a
campaign urging voters to
choose “uncommitted” in the
michigan Democratic primary in
february, an effort that garnered
more than 100,000 votes and
spread to other swing states.
Those election protests have now
been joined by demonstrations
at numerous college campuses
across the country.
Against that highly charged
backdrop, Hammoud faces furi-
ously competing pressures.
many Arab Americans and mus-
lims view meetings with Biden or
his top aides as pointless or even
a betrayal. And many Democrats,
while sympathetic to the com-
munity’s anger, believe Ham-
moud has a responsibility to help
convince his constituents — as
well as Arab Americans and
muslims across the country — to
vote for Biden and prevent a
second Trump term.
“I think he’s probably the most
influential person in the state of
michigan when it comes to the
muslim and Arab American com-
munity and young progressives,”
said rep. ro Khanna (D-Calif.),
who met with Hammoud in feb-
ruary. Khanna is a Biden sup-
porter and surrogate who has
strong ties to the Democratic
Party’s progressive and minority
eZ Su
mayors. When Biden hosted the
group at the White House, Ham-
moud skipped the event.
“I did not feel that at this point
in time, the administration
would be welcoming to a muslim
Arab American. The White
House didn’t feel like it repre-
sented me,” Hammoud said in an
interview in January. “So I felt
like there was no reason for me
to be there.”
mayors of large, prominent
cities like New York and Los
Angeles often have national pro-
files. But it is rare for a mayor of a
small or midsize city to gain that
kind of recognition, let alone for
a foreign policy issue.
Hammoud did not dream of
political life. Born to Lebanese
SARAh Rice FoR The WAShingTon PoST immigrants in Dearborn, he
grew up the second of five chil-
dren in a poor family. His mother
dropped out of high school at age
17 after she got married and then
pregnant, and his father spent
most of Hammoud’s childhood
“He’s probably the most influential person in as a truck driver delivering steel
for auto companies.
the state of Michigan when it comes to the Hammoud was 12 or 13 when
he truly realized his family was
Muslim and Arab American community.” poor. A stranger called asking for
their address and Hammoud in-
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.)
nocently gave it to him, even as
his father was bellowing at him
from the other room to hang up.
A few days later, collections
agents showed up at the house.
Hammoud initially dreamed
of medical school as a path to
financial stability, but after he
didn’t get in, he shifted to public
health, and by age 25, he was
being interviewed for six-figure
jobs at health firms.
Then his life took an unexpect-
ed turn. on oct. 15, 2015, Ham-
moud’s older brother, Ali, who
suffered from seizures, called
him at 5:29 a.m., saying some-
thing felt wrong. Hammoud
called an ambulance and ran to
his brother’s home. Ali went into
a seizure, and Hammoud knew
before they left the house that his
brother, then 27, was dead.
Hammoud dropped his career
plans, deciding he wanted to
pursue a more meaningful path,
and a few weeks later was ap-
JoShuA LoTT/The WAShingTon PoST
proached with an opportunity to
FROM TOP: Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, center, speaks run for an open state House seat.
to the media a day after the Michigan presidential primary in His parents were against the
February. Hammoud, right, greets workers at the Papaya Fruit idea. Politics had ruined Leba-
Market. People embrace as they listen to election results during a non; why would their son want
“Vote Uncommitted” event on the evening of Michigan’s primary. to become a part of that?
Hammoud’s father told him in
factions. Khalid Turaani, co-chair of Arabic: “Don’t forget your name
If Hammoud does not support michigan’s “Abandon Biden” is Abdullah Hammoud.” He
Biden, “I’d be disappointed, be- campaign, commended Ham- didn’t think it was possible for an
cause I want the president to win moud for deftly navigating these Arab and muslim to win elected
and I think that would make his political crosscurrents. But he office in America.
path more challenging, especial- said he is worried the mayor may But Hammoud did win, be-
ly in michigan,” Khanna added. ultimately feel pressured to sup- coming, at age 26, the first Arab
“But I understand this is a matter port Biden as a fellow Democrat, American and muslim elected to
of conscience for Abdullah and which Turaani said would be a represent michigan’s 15th dis-
he’s true to the community he “betrayal.” trict.
represents.” “It would be a huge disservice After a couple of years, Ham-
Hammoud has not yet decided to our community, because our moud felt he could have more
whether he will vote for Biden. community is not going to mat- impact directly overseeing Dear-
But he gets asked that nearly ter if we don’t stand our ground,” born than as one of 110 in the
every day, and he knows he can Turaani said. state House. He ultimately beat
only postpone the decision for so out five other candidates and
long. ‘No reason for me to be there’ assumed the mayor’s office in
“The whole community wants Even before he rose to nation- January 2022.
to know, how do we all march al prominence, Hammoud wres- many of Hammoud’s experi-
together in one direction? … tled with how to interact with ences growing up have shaped
How do we demonstrate our the White House. his policies as mayor. He remem-
power come November, and He visited Washington in mid- bers how he and his siblings
what are the trade-offs?” he said. January, about a week before he could not afford the $5 entrance
“Because we also understand turned down the session with fee to the local pool; during his
that a losing Biden is a winning Biden’s campaign manager, for a first summer as mayor, Ham-
Trump.” meeting of the U.S. Conference of moud made community pools
the washington post
free for all children 13 and under.
As someone who focused
much of his mayoral campaign
on the nuts and bolts of the city’s
flooding problem, Hammoud
could have never foreseen his
rise to become a leading voice on
a foreign war.
His chief adviser through this
unlikely maze is his wife, fatima.
Hammoud consults with her
nearly every night on when and
how he should speak out, what
meetings he should take and how
he should approach them.
fatima is wary of the attention
that comes with Hammoud’s
fame, especially after the Wall
Street Journal published an edi-
torial in february titled “Wel-
come to Dearborn, America’s Ji-
had Capital.” The article prompt-
ed increased threats to Ham-
moud and the city, including one
person who threatened to be-
head his 2-year-old and then-4-
month-old children. But fatima
believes Hammoud has a unique
opportunity to advocate on be-
half of his Dearborn community.
During a recent evening at
home, playing with their kids,
the two discussed Hammoud’s
rise and his potential to swing
critical voters. Hammoud ex-
pressed discomfort at having
that kind of impact.
“Why do you hope you don’t
influence the election?” she
asked him. “I hope you do.”
A careful balance
on a Tuesday afternoon in
march, Hammoud, who was fast-
ing for ramadan, held meetings
on city business. Abed Ayoub,
director of the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee,
a national group, made the case
for holding its annual conference
in Dearborn instead of Washing-
ton — a move he argued would be
especially meaningful after the
Wall Street Journal column. “If
you want to talk to Arab Ameri-
cans, you’re going to do it in our
city,” Ayoub said. “What we’re
basically doing is welcoming all
Arab Americans home.” Ham-
moud agreed.
The following afternoon,
Hammoud stopped in at one of
Dearborn’s grocery stores as resi-
dents were picking up items for
iftar, the meal in which muslims
break their fast during rama-
dan. Several of the store’s em-
ployees warmly greeted Ham-
moud: one man stocking shelves,
another behind the meat coun-
ter.
Hammoud knows he is likely
to face criticism whether he
endorses Biden or ultimately an-
nounces he cannot support him.
many muslims and Arab Ameri-
cans, as well as progressives and
people of color, could be swayed
by the mayor’s decision, and if
Biden loses michigan — and the
White House — as a result,
Hammoud fears that Arab Amer-
icans and muslims will be
blamed for Trump’s triumph. Yet
casting a vote for Biden now,
after his backing of Israel’s mili-
tary onslaught in Gaza, seems
unpalatable to many Arab Amer-
icans.
for now, Hammoud is pursu-
ing a careful balance.
Before meeting with finer and
Power in february, he pored
through six hours’ worth of inter-
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views the two officials had given
since the war started; at various
points, he read their quotes back
to them. He came in with 10
pages of notes not just on Gaza,
but on West Bank settlements,
sanctions and other issues.
The meetings between Biden
officials and Hammoud, as well
as other leaders in michigan,
showed the White House the
depth and political impact of the
community’s anger, according to
a White House official speaking
on the condition of anonymity to
discuss internal conversations.
Biden began shifting his rhet-
oric, calling Israel’s military re-
sponse in Gaza “over the top.” He
more directly acknowledged Pal-
estinian suffering, and he told
Israel there were “no excuses” for
not allowing in more aid.
Hammoud so far has managed
to keep his city, as well as Arab
and muslim communities out-
side of Dearborn, largely united
behind him. He has advocated
for his residents, and has sought
to convey to the White House the
sense of betrayal felt by many
Arab Americans and muslims.
Hammoud has also distanced
himself on occasion from the
more hard-hitting rhetoric com-
ing from his community. When
video emerged earlier this month
of protesters in Dearborn chant-
ing, “Death to Israel” and “Death
to America,” Hammoud publicly
condemned it.
“The Dearborn community
stands for peace and justice for
all people,” Hammoud wrote on
X. “We are proud to call this city
and this country home.”
Shortly after the oct. 7 attacks,
Hammoud faced criticism for a
statement that condemned the
killing of innocents but only
after blasting Israel’s military
occupation of Gaza, saying that
“context” of the decades-long
conflict was crucial to under-
stand the unfolding events.
Hammoud said he recognizes
Biden’s shift in tone toward Is-
raeli Prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu but insisted the pres-
ident must do more. “Is it truly a
win to say the president no
longer casts doubt on how many
Palestinians have been killed? Is
that the bar in which we as a
community are moving for-
ward?” Hammoud said.
Until the Gaza war, Hammoud
considered Biden one of the best
American presidents since
franklin D. roosevelt. His city
has won tens of millions of
dollars in grants under Biden’s
infrastructure law. His residents
have benefited from the presi-
dent’s health reforms, including
a $35 cap on insulin prices.
But Hammoud says he cannot
look past the tens of thousands
killed and wounded in Gaza, the
millions displaced, the stream of
U.S. weapons flowing to Israel.
“We want the world to see and
recognize that humanity is on
the ballot in November,” Ham-
moud said. “my biggest fear is
that [Biden] is not going to be
remembered as the president
who saved democracy in 2020
and all this transformative legis-
lation — he’s going to be remem-
bered as the president who sided
with Benjamin Netanyahu and
chose him over American democ-
racy.”
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access at
center of
Va. case
Couple underwent
iVF while married
Judge must decide if
embryos are ‘property’

BY O LIVIA D IAZ

After Honeyhline Heidemann

PhoToS by Sarah L. VoiSin/The WaShingTon PoST
received a stage 3 breast cancer
diagnosis in 2017, she faced a
grim reality: The disease would
significantly impede her ability
to have another biological child.
But the Fairfax County woman
knew her chances of having chil-
dren were not completely gone,
despite multiple rounds of che-
motherapy. she and her then-
husband still had two frozen
embryos.
“To me, you can’t put a price
on it,” she would later say during
court testimony. “I would not
have any other biological chil-
dren without these embryos.”
Now in 2024, with the couple
divorced, the question of wheth-
er Heidemann should be allowed
to use those embryos is the focus
of a legal dispute that will be
decided by a judge.
Heidemann and her former
husband, Jason, squared off in

A battle over rent in Pr. George’s

court this month over two em-
bryos they froze during a 2015
cycle of in vitro fertilization, or
the process by which a person’s
egg is fertilized by sperm outside
of the uterus.
Housing advocates and tenants want a permanent cap on increases as homelessness rises in the county In a Fairfax Circuit Court
bench trial, Judge Dontaè L.
BY K YLE S WENSON sEE EMBRYOS ON B3

The hole in the ceiling gaped above the

shower, leaking dirty water into Jerrell
shuford’s bathroom. It took almost a year
before maintenance workers at the apartment
building in Prince George’s County cut away
Six years
the moldy parts, but they never patched the
hole, shuford said.
“That’s ridiculous,” said Jorge Benitez-
for man
Perez, an organizer with CAsA, a community
advocacy organization in Maryland, who had
only minutes before knocked on shuford’s
who filmed
door. “And no rent discount? Can I ask how
much you pay?”
“$2,500,” shuford said.
Capitol riot
shuford’s family of six have lived in their
three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at
Heather Hill, a multibuilding complex of 459
units in Temple Hills, for nearly three years.
Self-described activist
Partially thanks to a temporary cap on increas- incited violence and
es passed by the County Council in 2023, rent
has remained stable for shuford, 31, since he
recorded fatal shooting
moved in.
But that protection will expire in October,
leaving many working-class renters like BY S PENCER S . H SU
shuford possibly facing steep hikes in the
coming year, even as they struggle with poor A Utah man who recorded him-
maintenance and unresponsive landlords. self inciting violence and break-
sEE RENT ON B4 ing a window before filming the
fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt
outside the House chamber dur-
ing the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack
TOP: Jerrell Shuford near his broken washing machine in the apartment in Temple Hills he shares with his wife and four children. Partially thanks to was sentenced Friday to six years
a temporary cap on increases passed by the County Council in 2023, his rent has remained stable. ABOVE: Housing activists canvass at Shuford’s in prison.
complex, collecting signatures in support of a formal cap. Rent stabilization measures have become more common in counties across the D.C. region. John Earle sullivan, 29, was
paid $90,875 for his videos before
he was convicted at trial. A jury
found him guilty in November of
rioting and obstructing Con-
gress’s certification of the 2020
election results, both felonies,
and of five misdemeanor counts.
Prosecutors said sullivan was a
self-described activist with anar-

Pr. George’s school o∞cials finalize list of busing, bell changes
BY NICOLE ASBURY
More than half of Prince
George’s County public schools
will shift their starting and ending
times by up to 15 minutes in the
next academic year as part of on-
going changes that school officials
say could ease transportation is-
sues.
school officials presented a list
of schools that will be affected
during a school board meeting
Thursday, with some changes to
what it originally presented on its
website. The full list of schools can
be viewed online via pgcps.org/
bus.
Under the changes, a majority
of schools in the system will have
slightly different bell times. About
62 percent of the district’s more
than 200 schools are expected to
see a bell time change of up to 15
minutes. sixteen percent will see
more pronounced shifts. Twenty-
two percent will have the same
start and end times.
About 68 percent of the young-
sters in Maryland’s second-largest
school system, or about 86,000
students, use buses each day. But
just over 800 drivers transport
students to and from school, and
200 more are needed, according to
a transportation audit released in
January. Bus driver staffing short-
ages — which have affected school
systems nationally for years —
have led to “chronic lateness,” au-
ditors found. Parents have often
shared anecdotes of their children
being late to classes because of
issues with the bus service.
After superintendent Millard
House II took charge of the school
system in July, he announced that
he would hire the consultant
4mativ to conduct a transporta-
tion audit. The audit recommend-
ed several changes, including al-
tering bell times and increasing
the distances between bus stops.
House’s administration decided
to adopt some of those recommen-
dations.
Here is what Prince George’s
parents need to know.
What changes are being
made?
some schools will start and end
at different times. Bus stops may
also change.
The school system also antici-
pates it will make technical fixes
to its bus rider app, stopfinder.
It will also begin a “walk zone
audit,” a process that will require
the school system to annually re-
view whether students live close
enough to a school to walk, or if
they require a bus because of any
safety challenges.
And the school system is adding
a “codified opt-out” process, said
Keba Baldwin, the school system’s
transportation department direc-
tor. Right now, the school system
automatically assigns students to
a bus if they are deemed eligible.
But if a parent prefers to drive
their child to school, they can
formally opt out of bus service,
which school officials say will help
plan bus routes more efficiently.
Will my child’s school start or
end at a different time?
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chist views who brought a tactical
vest, a gas mask, a megaphone
and a knife to the riot. seeking a
prison term of a little more than
seven years, Assistant U.s. Attor-
neys Rebekah Lederer and Mi-
chael Barclay said sullivan
“shared a desire to see the govern-
ment burn” and the vote certifica-
tion stopped.
Defense attorney steven
Kiersh said sullivan was born in
Virginia, was adopted by a now-
retired Army lieutenant colonel
and his wife, and moved with
them to Utah, where he trained to
be an Olympic speed skater be-
fore injuries stopped him.
Kiersh cited more than a dozen
letters from friends and family
members who described sullivan
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education

When colleges close, what happens to their students?

BY J ON M ARCUS

It was when the shuttle bus

stopped coming that Luka Fer-
nandes began to worry.
Fernandes was a student at
Newbury College near Boston,
where enrollment had declined in
the previous two decades from
more than 5,300 to about 600.
“Things started closing down,”
Fernandes remembered. “The
food went downhill. It felt like
they didn’t really care anymore.”
The private, nonprofit school
had been placed on probation by
its accreditors because of its
shaky finances. Then the shuttle
bus connecting the suburban
campus with the nearest station
on the public transportation sys-
tem started running late or not
showing up at all.
“That was one of the things
that made us feel like they were
giving up,” Fernandes said.
After students went home for
their winter holiday, an email
came: Newbury would shut down
at the end of the next semester.
“It was, ‘Unfortunately we have
to close after all these many years,
and blah, blah, blah,’ ” said Fer-
nandes, who was a junior. “I was
very angry.”
The loans that students had
taken out to pay the college
weren’t forgiven, which Fer-
nandes said was “infuriating.”
“I had already put so much
money into my education, and my
family didn’t have that money,” he
said. “How am I going to apply
this to my future if it doesn’t
exist?”
Angelo Merendino for The WAshingTon PosT
This and other questions are
on the minds of more and more
students this spring as the pace of ABOVE: Notre Dame College in
college closings dramatically South Euclid, Ohio, will close
speeds up. its doors at the end of the year,
About one university or college stranding for a second time
per week so far this year, on students who transferred there
average, has announced that it from Alderson Broaddus
will close or merge. That’s up University in West Virginia,
from a little more than two a which shut down last year.
month last year, according to the RIGHT: The Manor House at
State Higher Education Execu- Goddard College in Plainfield,
tive Officers Association, or Vt. The college's Board of
SHEEO. Trustees announced this month
So many colleges are folding that the school is closing at the
that some students who moved end of the semester after years
from one to another have now of declining enrollment and
found that their new school will financial struggles.
also close, often with little or no
warning. Some of the students at
Newbury, when it closed in 2019,
had moved there from nearby
Mount Ida College, for example,
which shut down the year before.
Most students at colleges that
close give up on their educations
altogether. Fewer than half trans-
fer to other institutions, a SHEEO
study found. Of those, fewer than
half stay long enough to get de-
grees. Many lose credits when
they move from one school to
another and have to spend longer
in college, often taking out more
loans to pay for it.
The rest join the growing num-
ber of Americans — now more
than 40 million, according to the
National Student Clearinghouse lisA rAThke/AP

Research Center — who spent

time and money to go to college
but never finished.
“I was asking my dad, ‘Can I not
go back?’ ” said Fernandes, who
eventually decided to continue at
another college and now works as
a patient coordinator at a hospi-
tal.
“I’m glad I did,” he said. “But it
honestly scares me for the future
of education. I’m not sure where
education’s going to go if all of
these colleges keep closing.”
That is almost certain to hap-
pen. As many as 1 in 10 four-year
colleges and universities are in
financial peril, the consulting
firm EY Parthenon estimates.
“It’s simply supply and de-
mand,” said Gary Stocker, a for-
mer chief of staff at Westminster
College in Missouri and the
founder of College Viability,
which evaluates institutions’ fi-
nancial stability. The closings fol-
low an enrollment decline of
14 percent in the decade through
2022, the most recent period for
which the figures are available
from the Education Department.
A decline of as much as 15 percent
is projected to begin next year.
Already this year, and within a
span of a few days, Birmingham-
Southern College in Alabama,
Fontbonne University in St. Louis
and Eastern Gateway Community
College in Ohio all announced
that they would close — Birming-
ham-Southern in May, Fontbonne
next year and Eastern Gateway by
June, unless it gets a financial
bailout.
The for-profit University of An-
telope Valley in California was
ordered by the state to shut down
because of financial shortfalls.
Lincoln Christian University in
Illinois and Magdalen College in
New Hampshire will close in May,
Johnson University of Florida in
June and Hodges University in
Florida by August. The College of
Saint Rose in New York, Cabrini
University in Pennsylvania, Oak
Point University in Illinois, God-
dard College in Vermont and the
Staten Island campus of St. John’s
University will all be shuttered by
the end of this semester.
Notre Dame College in Ohio
will also close its doors at the end
of this semester, stranding for a
second time students who trans-
ferred there from Alderson
Broaddus University in West Vir-
ginia, which shut down just days
before classes were scheduled to
begin last year.
Seven out of 10 students at
colleges that have closed got little
or no warning. Of those, a smaller
proportion were likely to contin-
ue their educations than students
at colleges that gave more notice
and ended operations in an “or-
derly” way, the SHEEO study
found.
Tatiana Hicks was at her laptop
preparing for her final exams in
the nursing program she attend-
ed at for-profit Stratford Univer-
sity in Virginia when her group
chat with fellow students started
to blow up. “The only thing that
was going through my mind was
studying for finals, but my phone
would not stop ringing,” said
Hicks, who was going to school
while working 12-hour shifts
three days a week as a nurse
assistant in a hospital to pay for it.
An email had just gone out
saying Stratford had lost its ac-
creditation and was closing, ef-
fective immediately. Students
had a month to get their tran-
scripts, it said. But within a day,
the university’s phones and email
were shut down, said Hicks, now
27, who lives in Gainesville, Va.
“I started panicking. I cried. I
cried for hours that day,” said
Hicks, who lost all of the 94
credits she had earned and owed
$30,000 in student loans, though
they would later be forgiven after
more than a year of red tape.
“I thought, this just proved I
shouldn’t have gone to college in
the first place,” she said.
Hicks eventually enrolled in a
new program, beginning again
from scratch on her way to a
degree in respiratory therapy.
More common is the experi-
ence of Misha Zhuykov, who end-
ed his formal education when
Burlington College in Vermont
shut down during his junior year
there.
“There was always this ram-
shackle feeling” at Burlington, he
said. “I thought, ‘Just hold out for
another two years and I’m out of
here.’ ”
Instead, Zhuykov and the last
100 or so other undergraduates
were given less than two weeks’
notice that the college would be
closing. He said he found that not
all of his credits would be accept-
ed if he transferred.
Like many of his classmates,
Zhuykov never took his formal
education any further. He now
works as a graphic designer in
New Hampshire. “A lot of folks
just kind of dropped off,” Zhuykov
said. “They were banking on that
degree. I have a friend who’s
working at a gas station.”
Even those who graduated
from colleges that later closed run
into uncomfortable questions.
Laila Ali, who was in the last
group of students to graduate
from Newbury College, started a
new job in December, but her
employer couldn’t verify her edu-
cation. “I didn’t really know what
route to take,” she said. “Who do I
contact?” The employer ultimate-
ly accepted the physical degree
that she was handed when she
walked at graduation.
It triggered unwelcome memo-
ries.
“I remember graduation and
my last semester being gloomy,”
said Ali, now 27 and living in
Atlanta. She said Newbury’s clos-
ing came as a surprise. “They
could have given us a warning.”
How much difference a warn-
ing can make was evident at
Presentation College in South Da-
kota, which — before announcing
that it would close — contracted
with the nonprofit College Possi-
ble to help its 384 remaining
students continue their educa-
tions.
Ninety percent of those last
students either graduated before
the college closed its doors for
good or transferred to another
institution, said Catherine Mar-
ciano, College Possible’s vice pres-
ident for partnerships — a far
higher proportion than at closed
colleges elsewhere.
That kind of an experience is
an exception to the rule, however.
“Some colleges literally padlock
the door, and that’s their an-
nouncement,” said Paula Lang-
teau, the last president of Presen-
tation, who now works as a con-
sultant to help other colleges
through the process — a sign of
how frequently it’s happening.
Mergers are also picking up,
though they almost always end
with the struggling partner fad-
ing away. Woodbury University is
being merged into the University
of Redlands, and St. Augustine
College in Chicago into Lewis
University. The Pennsylvania Col-
lege of Health Sciences was ab-
sorbed by St. Joseph’s University
in January. Salus University will
become part of Drexel University
in June and stop running as a
separate institution next year.
Bluffton University in Ohio will
be integrated into the University
of Findlay, also next year.
New rules from the federal
Education Department that take
effect in July will require institu-
tions to report if they are entering
bankruptcy or facing expensive
legal judgments, and to set aside
reserves to cover the cost of stu-
dent loans if they go under.
It’s also growing more impor-
tant that consumers understand
the financial status of colleges
they consider, said Stocker, of
College Viability.
“If a restaurant has health
complaints, we don’t want to go
there,” said Stocker. “If a car
manufacturer is having trouble,
why would we want to buy that
car? Same thing for colleges.”
This article was produced by the
hechinger report, a nonprofit,
independent news organization
focused on inequality and innovation
in education. Additional reporting by
sara hutchinson.

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Virginia

Man is convicted in 2022 crash that

killed two Oakton High students
BY O LIVIA D IAZ
A Virginia man was found
guilty Wednesday in a 2022 car
crash that killed two teens walk-
ing home from oakton High
School, fairfax County authori-
ties said.
Usman Shahid, 20, was con-
victed on two counts of man-
slaughter in the June 7, 2022,
deaths of Ada Gabriela martinez
Nolasco, 14, and Leeyan Hanjia
Yan, 15, who were both students
at oakton. A jury in fairfax Coun-
ty Circuit Court also sentenced
Shahid on friday to four years
behind bars, though the sentence
will be finalized by a judge later
this year.
An attorney for Shahid did not
respond to a request for com-
ment.
The crash occurred shortly af-
ter oakton High let out on one of
the last days of the school year,
police said.
The fairfax County Common-
wealth’s Attorney’s office said in a
news release that on the morning
of the crash, Shahid drove “signif-
icantly above the 35-mph speed
limit” on Blake Lane in the oak-
ton area. A crash expert in Sha-
hid’s case testified that a data
recorder suggested he accelerat-
ed from 60 mph to 81 mph on the
roadway within five seconds be-
fore the crash, authorities said.
When Shahid approached the
intersection, he collided with an
SUV that was attempting to make
a left turn onto five oaks road.
officials said Shahid’s vehicle
then veered onto the sidewalk,
fatally striking the two girls. The
crash also injured a third teen as
the three juveniles walked home,
officials said.
“This is one of the most tragic
cases in fairfax County’s history,”
Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve
Descano said in a statement. “I
have a daughter just a few months
younger than Ada and Leeyan
were — and I can’t imagine how
broken I would be in her absence.”
oMAri DAniels/the WAshington Post
A sentencing hearing in the
case is scheduled for July 19, The scene of a crash at the intersection of Blake Lane and Five Oaks Road in Fairfax County in 2022
officials said. that left two teens dead and a third injured. The motorist was convicted on two counts of manslaughter.

A Va. woman wants access to two frozen embryos. Her ex-husband says no.
EMBRYOS from B1
Bugg is tasked with weighing
what should happen to the
Heidemanns’ embryos after
Honeyhline Heidemann filed a
partition lawsuit — a legal action
taken by one property owner at
odds with another — against her
former husband. Closing argu-
ments in the case are scheduled
for may 9, court records show.
Honeyhline Heidemann’s at-
torney, Jason Zellman, argued
that the embryos should be treat-
ed as property in light of a 2018
settlement agreement that the
Heidemanns signed, which listed
the embryos as such. Signed
during their divorce, the settle-
ment said that the Heidemanns
would keep the embryos in stor-
age until a decision is reached on
what to do with them — either by
court order or a written agree-
ment between the two.
In court, Honeyhline Heide-
mann testified that she preferred
to be awarded both embryos, but
that she would also accept the
court dividing the embryos “in
kind,” meaning each ex-spouse
gets one.
“I don’t really care about my
insurance or anything like that,”
she said, referring to another
part of the couple’s divorce set-
tlement. “But I care about my
embryos.”
The Heidemanns’ court battle
comes amid a legal and ideologi-
cal debate across the country
involving the future of IVf and
whether fetuses should be con-
sidered people. At least five
states have defined fetuses as a
“person,” “individual” or “human
being” in their legal codes, ac-
cording to Pregnancy Justice’s
fetal personhood report. In feb-
ruary, the Alabama Supreme
Court ruled that frozen embryos
are people and said that those
who destroy them can be held
criminally liable. Since that Ala-
bama ruling, multiple fertility
clinics in the state have halted
IVf treatments.
Jason and Honeyhline Heide-
mann declined to be interviewed
until after the trial is over.
But in court, Jason Heide-
mann has argued that the embry-
os should remain in storage
unless he and his former wife can
agree on what to do with them.
for Honeyhline Heidemann,
the two embryos represent her
only chance to have another
biological child after battling her
cancer, which is in remission, she
testified in court.
In 2016, the Heidemanns had
a daughter through the same in
vitro cycle in which they froze
the two other embryos, the cou-
ple testified. Since their 2018
divorce, Honeyhline Heide-
mann, who works for microsoft,
said she had two more children
through donor embryos, in 2021
and in march of this year.
Jason Heidemann argued that
it would be a heavy burden for
him to co-parent more children
with his former spouse. But Hon-
eyhline Heidemann said she
would consent to her ex-husband
not being involved in raising the
new children.
on the witness stand, Jason
Heidemann, the primary custo-
dian of their daughter, described
incidents during which he felt
his former wife had made poor
parenting decisions. He said she
had left her toddler in a parked
car on two occasions. The ex-hus-
band, who is an attorney-adviser
for the U.S. International Trade
Commission, also described a
2017 incident in which he said
his then-wife brandished a knife
after he expressed interest in
taking their child to visit the
boy’s paternal grandmother.
The Heidemanns’ case previ-
ously sparked public outcry
when Judge richard E. Gardiner
referenced a slavery-era law to
overrule Jason Heidemann’s con-
tention that the embryos are not
covered under the state’s parti-
tion statute. In an opinion letter,
Gardiner cited a 19th-century
state law that said that enslaved
people could be considered
“goods or chattels,” separate
from the land they worked on
rather than part of it.
“As shown … by 1849 slaves
were partitionable in kind or
subject to sale as they were
considered personal property
not annexed to land,” Gardiner
wrote.
Jason Heidemann’s attorney,
Carrie Patterson, argued that the
judge should reject the idea that
the embryos are property that
can be partitioned. Nor can the
embryos be sold, she said. Al-
though Virginia law says that the
court can “direct the sale” of
property that cannot be divided,
the American Society for repro-
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the sale of embryos unethical.

What to know about changing school bus service and bell times in Pr. George’s
SCHOOLS from B1
Currently, Prince George’s
County Public Schools have 13 dif-
ferent starting times and 17 differ-
ent ending times.
Next school year, school system
leaders are reducing that number
to three different start times: 7:30
a.m., 8:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.
Schools will end at six different
times, because elementary
schools have a shorter class day
than middle and high schools.
Those times include 1:40 p.m.,
2:10 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 3:10 p.m.,
3:40 p.m. and 4:10 p.m.
School bell times are shifting by
45 minutes at most at a handful of
schools, which include G. James
Gholson middle School in
Landover, francis Scott Key El-
ementary School in District
Heights and more.
Under the plan, are all
elementary schools starting at
7:30 a.m.?
No. The three starting times
will be spread among all schools.
When do the changes begin?
The new bell times and bus
stops will begin during the 2024-
2025 school year, which starts in
the fall.
How will I find out if my
child’s school is being
affected?
dia and other methods.
The school system is also host-
ing several community informa-
tion sessions. Locations and dates
can be found via pgcps.org/bus.
Will my child’s bus stop
change?
Under the plan, the average dis-
tance between bus stops will in-
crease from 0.24 miles to
0.46 miles.
Why are these changes
happening?
Charoscar Coleman, the school
system’s chief operating officer,
said the changes, recommended
through the 4mativ transporta-
tion audit, will help improve the
reliability of the bus service. He
said that changing the bell times
will give drivers “a more adequate
buffer” to complete routes.
“We’re excited to tackle this
long-standing challenge,” Cole-
man said. “We are committed to
improving the efficiency of our
transportation system and we
want to assure the public that
we’re doing this in a safe way.”
He added that “no change hap-
pens overnight.” The audit also
included other recommendations
that school leaders predict will
take years to implement and re-
fine.
Will before and after care
hours at school sites change? MiChAel A. MCCoy for the WAshington Post

A finalized plan was released
Thursday. Parents of children
whose schools will start at a differ-
ent time next year received an
alert about the change Thursday
evening. School leaders will also
share changes with parents
through email, letters, social me-
meghan Thornton, a spokes-
woman for the school system, said
officials anticipate that the bell
time changes will have “minimal
impact” on before and after care
sites at schools.
My child eats breakfast at
More than half of Prince George’s County public schools will change their starting and ending times in the fall. Leaders of Maryland’s
second-largest school system say this could help ease transportation issues that have caused students to miss classes.
school. Will it start at a the school system anticipates that and staggered arrival of buses in affected?
different time? the changes would “improve the the morning.” Students enrolled in a magnet
The school system didn’t direct- efficiency of support operations program will be affected by the
ly say whether the hours would like our student meal programs” My child rides the bus to their same bell time shifts, Baldwin
change. But Thornton said that because they will “reduce the late magnet program. Will they be said.

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Renters, housing advocates brace for fight in Pr. George’s

RENT frOm B1
Organizers like Benito-Perez have
been knocking on doors across the
county, hoping residents like
Shuford will sign a petition in
support of formalizing the cap.
Housing affordability is a
pressing issue for legislators in
Prince George’s, a majority-Black
suburb bordering D.C. Black and
Latino renters stand to be dispro-
portionately affected by rent hikes
here, where despite pockets of
affluence, 10 percent of residents
live below the poverty line, ac-
cording to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Homelessness in Prince George’s
is also on the rise, increasing by
47 percent last year — the highest
in the Washington region.
more people on the streets
would overwhelm county ser-
vices, said council member Krys-
tal Oriadha, the sponsor of last
year’s rent cap bill. “Our agency
budgets can’t bear it. We are
maxed out as a county here.”
for Shuford, the hole wasn’t the
only issue. His brand-new wash-
ing machine was filling with dirty
water, and his sink was overflow-
ing regularly.
“We have just had temporary
rent stabilization at 3 percent, but
we want to make this law perma-
nent,” Benitez-Perez said to
Shuford. “What do you think of
that?”
Shuford was silent for a mo-
ment. He drives a bus for the
Washington metropolitan Area
Transit Authority, and his wife
works in the guidance office at a
county public school. His oldest
child is 13, and the other three are
younger than 5. The family has
been plagued by chest colds and
coughs that he worries are caused
by mold.
Shuford signed the petition,
shrugging off worries that going
public with his problems would
draw a negative reaction from
Heather Hill’s management.
“my household is sick,” he said.
OneWall Communities, Heath-
er Hill’s management company,
based in Stamford, Conn., did not
return calls and emails seeking
comment on whether it plans to
increase rent or address the con-
ditions residents described.
‘Not a permanent solution’
rent stabilization measures
have become increasingly com-
mon in counties across the D.C.
region and beyond, as rents sky-
Charlene Hall, a Heather Hill resident and volunteer with the coalition gathering signatures for a permanent rent cap, listens to another
tenant. Organizers concerned about affordable housing see the county’s large share of renters as a bloc of potential political power.
“There is no way we can expect landlords to provide a service and maintain their properties
with [the 3 percent cap] in place.”
rocketed during the pandemic.
Last year, montgomery County
passed a bill that would perma-
nently cap rent increases at 6 per-
cent for all residents.
Oriadha, the Prince George’s
council member, proposed a
straight 3 percent rent cap for the
county last spring. Other council
members balked at such a meas-
ure, concerned that area land-
lords would either sell or steer
new building projects elsewhere.
Council members voted instead to
pass a temporary cap for one year,
then determine its future this
summer.
“Three percent is not a perma-
nent solution. We can’t continue
this way indefinitely,” Council
Jolene Ivey, chair of the Prince George’s County Council
Chair Jolene Ivey said in an inter-
view. She warned that in a county
where nearly 4 in every 10 resi-
dents is a renter, Prince George’s
can’t afford to put in place polices
that will scare away landlords.
montgomery County, in contrast,
has a slightly lower percentage of
renters but also saw a lower in-
crease in homelessness in 2023.
“There is no way we can expect
landlords to provide a service and
maintain their properties with
that in place,” said Ivey, who voted
in support of the temporary meas-
ure. She added that in her recent
conversations with local land-
lords, they have opposed a perma-
nent 3 percent cap.
The National Apartment Asso-
ciation, which advocates on be-
half of apartment building own-
ers, also opposes rent control.
“rent control distorts the housing
market by acting as a deterrent
and disincentive to develop rental
housing, and expedites the de-
terioration of existing housing
stock,” the association says on its
website.
Organizers concerned about af-
fordable housing, however, see
the county’s large share of renters
as a bloc of potential political
power. CASA is part of a coalition
that includes the NAACP, the
county branch of the Democratic
Socialists of America, the Poor
People’s Campaign and local
church groups. Others have also
sarah L. Voisin/the WashinGton Post
joined the push for a permanent
cap, such as the Prince George’s
County Educators Association,
which is the local teachers union,
and Life After release, an organi-
zation working with formerly in-
carcerated people.
“These partners coming to-
gether shows how dire protec-
tions on rent increases are,” Ben-
itez-Perez said.
Coalition volunteers have
teamed up to go out each week to
gather petition signatures from
renters. They’ve also engaged peo-
ple such as Charlene Hall, 59, who
has lived in Heather Hill for six
years, to help rally her neighbors.
She and her adult son and daugh-
ter share a three-bedroom unit.
Hall knows firsthand how renters
have been in a constant battle
with management over the dis-
connect between the price they
pay for rent and the housing quali-
ty that monthly price provides.
“I have been having problems
since I moved here,” she said.
“There would be water problems,
flooding in the unit. I’d wait days
for them to fix it. Then there was
mold in the closet.”
According to Benitez-Perez, sig-
natures are just the first step in
sparking more political engage-
ment among the county’s renters.
“The goal, more than anything, is
to get people informed that this is
happening,” he said.
One signature at a time
Benitez-Perez doesn’t know yet
how many signatures he and his
fellow organizers have been able
to collect. Whenever the council
moves forward with a proposal,
the coalition will submit the sig-
natures. for now, they will keep
knocking on doors, reaching out
to as many communities as possi-
ble.
At Heather Hill, raynard Dors-
ey, 51, pays $1,805 for a carpeted
one-bedroom. He doesn’t have a
washer and dryer. Calls for main-
tenance are often ignored, he told
Hall, Benitez-Perez and others
from CASA after they had
knocked on his door.
Dorsey has a steady job as a
barber in Southeast Washington,
but the monthly rent and bills
leave him without any savings he
could use to move. He was sympa-
thetic to the cause, Dorsey ex-
plained, but not sure about sign-
ing a petition that might put him
at odds with the landlords. man-
agement had just done him a favor
by cutting his rent a little.
“Do you think it’s worth what
you’re paying?” Benitez-Perez
asked.
“It’s really not, man,” Dorsey
said.
Hall saw an opening. Her own
housing problems had jolted her
into volunteering. She felt that
others should know they were not
alone in feeling taken advantage
of.
“You got a one-bedroom?” Hall
said. “I got a three-bedroom, and
you’re paying what I pay.”
Dorsey sighed, then signed the
petition. “They only lowered it by
$83,” he said.
Hall and the others moved on to
knock on the next door.

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hundreds of albums at Blue Note and Mosaic Records, a label he created in 1982 with a former Blue Note marketing executive.

BY B RIAN M URPHY
Michael Cuscuna, a jazz histo-
rian and producer who combed
the archives of storied Blue Note
Records for lost tracks of greats
such as Thelonious Monk and
Charles Mingus, and co-founded
a label that released Grammy-
winning compilations from jazz’s
golden age, died April 21 at his
home in Stamford, Conn. He was
75.
He had been under treatment
for throat cancer and other medi-
cal problems, said his wife, Lisa
Cuscuna.
Since the 1970s, Mr. Cuscuna
helped reissue recordings or find
never-released music for hun-
dreds of albums at Blue Note and
Mosaic Records, a label he creat-
ed in 1982 with a former Blue
Note marketing executive, Char-
lie Lourie. Mr. Cuscuna’s work
was often cited for significantly
deepening the knowledge of jazz
and how the genre influenced
American culture.
In a 2005 interview with Jazz-
Times magazine, Mr. Cuscuna
described his quest as filling in
the blanks in jazz history. “My
main motivation is really not
reissues, it’s focusing on unis-
sued material,” Mr. Cuscuna said.
“Even if it deserves to come out,
as long as it’s unissued, it really
doesn’t exist.”
Mr. Cuscuna explored the jazz
world much the same way a
detective works a cold case. The
legwork became an obsession,
first as a jazz radio DJ and then a
music journalist and producer.
He followed rumors of forgotten
studio sessions, read past inter-
views and liner notes, hunted
through old contracts and inter-
viewed musicians for tips about
forgotten recordings. He filled
notebooks of every detail, no
matter how obscure or hazy.
“I tried constantly to get into
the vaults,” Mr. Cuscuna wrote in
a biographical note on the Mosa-
ic website. In 1974, he arranged a
meeting in Los Angeles with
Lourie, a musician and former
CBS Records executive who had
recently joined Blue Note as head
of marketing. Mr. Cuscuna
showed Lourie his notebooks.
Within days, a contract was
drafted for Mr. Cuscuna to see
what he could do with the Blue
Note collection.
“I was at last,” he wrote, “in the
Blue Note vaults.”
For the next six years, Mr.
Cuscuna and Lourie reissued
some of Blue Note’s classic re-
cordings such as Monk’s jazz
combo, the horns of Miles Davis
and piano of Kenny Drew. Mr.
Cuscuna also made another
breakthrough find: the note-
books of Blue Note co-founder
Alfred Lion, which were full of
details on studio sessions and
tracks, including some that were
never released.
“The experience was stagger-
ing,” Mr. Cuscuna wrote. “There
were far more unissued sessions
than I had even imagined. . . . So
began a long odyssey to unravel
this mess and shape it into a body
of work that could be released.”
In 1981, the entire Blue Note
operation was effectively moth-
balled by the label’s owner, EMI.
Mr. Cuscuna and Lourie, now
jobless, negotiated continued ac-
cess to the Blue Note archives.
With that agreement in hand,
they launched Mosaic, specializ-
ing in limited-edition jazz box
sets, along with companion es-
says and photographs by Francis
Wolff, who specialized in the jazz
scene and helped run Blue Note.
Mosaic’s first release was “The
Complete Blue Note Recordings
of Thelonious Monk” (1983), a
rerelease that included about 30
minutes of music that had not
been made public. “Most of it
alternate takes,” Mr. Cuscuna
told NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” in
2009, “that I had to get out.”
Mosaic began building its cata-
logue by reissuing albums from
Blue Note and other labels. “The
Complete Nat ‘King’ Cole Capitol
Trio Recordings” (1993) won a
Grammy Award for best histori-
cal compilation. Mr. Cuscuna
also received Grammys in 1999
and 2002, respectively, for box
sets of music from Davis and
Billie Holiday.
“If I put out music that is really
unworthy or would embarrass
the artist or make an artist un-
happy, then I think that’s the
worst sin I could commit,” Mr.
Cuscuna told the Pittsburgh City
Paper in 2011.
Blue Note was revived in 1984
under its new chief, Bruce Lund-
vall. He offered Mr. Cuscuna a
role at Blue Note leading the
reissue of hundreds of albums
over the next two decades as the
label experienced a revival in the
jazz world. The projects included
Mr. Cuscuna working with Blue
Note studio engineer Rudy Van
Gelder to remaster some of his
best-known recordings with Art
Blakey, Tina Brooks and others.
In 2005, Mr. Cuscuna oversaw
Blue Note’s release of a rare
moment: Monk’s quartet and
John Coltrane onstage together.
The album, “Thelonious Monk
With John Coltrane: 1957 Con-
cert,” came after a jazz research-
er, Larry Appelbaum, uncovered
a recording of the Carnegie Hall
concert at the Library of Con-
gress.
Mr. Cuscuna called the find
“unbelievable” because Coltrane
and Monk played together for
just six months. “For decades
people have speculated on how
the group sounded after they
developed,” Mr. Cuscuna told
Billboard. “But all you had until
now was an oral history.”
Michael Arthur Cuscuna was
born Sept. 20, 1948, in Stamford,
Conn. His father was on the local
housing commission, and his
mother was a homemaker. As a
teenager, he began spending time
at jazz clubs in New York.
He received a drum kit as a gift
but soon realized he would never
become a top drummer. “And I
switched to alto saxophone and
flute, and eventually tenor sax
and flute,” he said in a 2019
interview, “and even then I
wasn’t a good musician.”
While at the University of
Pennsylvania, he landed a spot on
the campus radio station, WXPN.
After he graduated in 1970 with
an English degree, he was hired
as a disc jockey for a jazz show on
WMMR in Philadelphia and then
went to New York’s WABC-FM
(now WPLJ) as part of a morning
show.
He reviewed bands and al-
bums as a freelancer for Down-
Beat magazine, Rolling Stone
and others. In the recording in-
dustry, he became a freelance
producer for labels including At-
lantic, Motown and Arista, work-
ing on albums for musicians such
as Dave Brubeck and Bonnie
Raitt.
While sorting through the
Blue Note archives, Mr. Cuscuna
wondered about the album cov-
ers. Where were the images not
used? He learned there were at
least 20,000 unpublished shots
by Wolff stashed away. Mr. Cuscu-
na took on another job as Blue
Note’s photo archivist.
“It’s not hyperbolic to say that
there would be no legacy for us to
caretake without the exhaustive
work he did to identify, catalogue
and circulate both our master
tapes and the Francis Wolff photo
archive,” said a Blue Note state-
ment following Mr. Cuscuna’s
death.
Survivors include his wife of
38 years, the former Lisa Podgur;
two children; and two grandchil-
dren.
When asked about his efforts
uncovering jazz’s past, Mr. Cuscu-
na often said the most rewarding
part was musicians thanking him
for giving their work another life.
He described how drummer El-
vin Jones and sax player Hank
Mobley hugged him at clubs after
albums were rereleased.
One day while walking along
Broadway in Manhattan, Mr.
Cuscuna recalled, jazz horn play-
er Howard Johnson yelled to him
from a passing cab, asking if he
had nailed down some elusive
detail about a long-ago recording
session.
“The approval and the enthusi-
asm of the artists who made the
music was very important to me,”
Mr. Cuscuna wrote.
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EDITH DAVIS DAHARSH
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2024, five days after our 34th wedding an-
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nurse for many years, she practised in Vir-
ginia and Maryland. Edie and Mike met at
the Smithsonian Castle on a natural history
hike led by geologist Jim O’Connor. A me-
morial service will be held in Northbrook,
Illinois June 1, 2024. Donations in her mem-
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after a prolonged illness.
Devoted husband to Katherine, his wife of
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and his daughter, Holly (John) Johnston; and
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monday, april 29, 2024
We made it
through by
the seat of our
Express pants
In the mid-aughts, there
arose a generation of
women whose 20-
something lives were
consumed by two equally
important and not-
Monica incompatible concerns.
Hesse The first concern was
how to acquire a job
interview after graduating from college.
The second concern was how to avoid
getting roofied at a frat party. For some
reason, both of these goals involved
going to express.
express was a store in the mall. It
sold, among other apparel, pants. It
sold the kind of pants that were paired
either with rayon blouses for office
see Hesse on C4
oPERA REvIEW
an abridged “Fire Shut Up in my
Bones” turns up the heat. C5
tHEAtER REvIEW
though sometimes messy,
“hair” still has style. C8
CARolyN HAx
he gave me the passcode to his
phone. But is he still lying? C8
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WHItE HoUSE CoRRESPoNDENtS’ DINNER
oPERA REvIEW
On your marks, ‘El Niño’ at
the Met paints
guest lists, GO! the Nativity on
a grand scale
Three up-and-coming D.C. players navigate the obstacle course of a weekend
BY M ICHAEL A NDOR B RODEUR
BY M AURA J UDKIS, K ARA V OGHT, J ESÚS R ODRÍGUEZ AND B EN T ERRIS
NEW YORK — Tisn’t remotely the season,
T
here was a bit of a snafu at the entrance of Thursday’s Axios/Live nation bash, one of but the Metropolitan opera’s colorful
new production of John Adams’s “el
the many parties held in the run-up to the White House correspondents’ dinner. ¶ niño” is good reason to celebrate Christ-
“He’s not on the list,” said a woman scrolling an iPad, looking for the name Anthony mas in May.
Adams premiered “el niño” in 2000 at
Polcari — best known as Tony P, the social media content creator known for his the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, a
25-year-old normal-guy-in-D.C. shtick. ¶ “He’s my plus-one!” said Pete Kalamoutsos, owner of production directed by Peter sellars, who
also worked with the composer to assem-
the music venue echostage. Within moments, it was determined that Tony P should, in fact, be ble the variegated mosaic of its libretto.
on the list. He was given a wristband and whisked inside the organization of American states, At once an opera and an oratorio (and
yet not quite either), “el niño” is struc-
immediately encircled by a throng of selfie-seekers. ¶ The White House correspondents’ tured in a sequence of 24 parts that move
dinner weekend may be old and past its prime — but it’s still a hot ticket for young, ambitious freely between familiar episodes from
the nativity and selections from Latin
people who do business in this company town. ¶ Like eugene Daniels, Politico White House American poets, including the 17th-cen-
correspondent and co-author of Playbook, who is the vice president of the White House tury poet sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and
the 20th-century poets Rosario Castella-
Correspondents’ Association. or Annie Wu Henry, the political consultant perhaps best nos and Gabriela Mistral. An orderly
known for running Pennsylvania sen. John Fetterman’s TikTok game during his 2022 progression of narration, arias and cho-
ral passages lend its sometimes-alien
campaign. or Tony P, who is hoping to eventually parlay the popularity of his relentlessly soundscape a welcoming shape.
wholesome video diaries into an actual TV career. see parties on C2 sometimes these texts deepen the
personal drama of the nativity as well as
the physical toll of motherhood — as
A roast with no punchline: President Biden spoke seriously on Saturday of the 2024 presidential race. C3 when Mary sings (in “se Habla de
Gabriel”) of her pregnancy “I felt him
CLoCKwise FroM top: actress scarlett Johansson and her husband, Colin Jost, grow at my expense” and “steal the color
the comedian who hosted the annual white House correspondents’ dinner. anthony polcari, from my blood.”
the content creator who’s best known as tony p. actress Da’vine Joy randolph. other texts widen the frame of the
story itself, as in Rosario Castellanos’s
see opera review on C8
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3 D.C.
hopefuls,
1 packed
weekend
PARTIES from C1

promising, then, that he was on

the list. the question was: did
tony p belong on the list? (We’re
talking about the proverbial list,
here.) correspondents’ dinner
weekend parties have a way of
clarifying such things: sorting the
insiders from the wannabes, giv-
AmAndA AndRAde-RhoAdes foR The WAshingTon PosT AmAndA AndRAde-RhoAdes foR The WAshingTon PosT
ing the up-and-comers and social
climbers their moment in the
room with the moneyed old guard,
sorting the passersby and looky-
loos from those who have some-
thing to offer, something to trade.
after a turn on the step-and-re-
peat with Kalamoutsos, tony p
was whisked upstairs, champagne
in hand, to a roped-off Vip area,
where he mingled with party doy-
enne and consultant tammy
Haddad and axios ceo Jim Van-
deHei. eventually, another guest
joined the Vip section: former
speaker of the House paul d. ryan.
tony p was star-struck. He
worked up his courage. He shakes
ryan’s hand.
“i would have voted for you in
’12 if i was old enough,” tony p says
to ryan, even though tony p is a
democrat.
a dozen feet away and a foot
lower in elevation from that stage,
Henry considers this odd yet some-
how perfectly matched pairing.
“it’s paul ryan and tony p. that’s
the Vip section. and i feel like that’s
emblematic of d.c.,” she says.
for Henry, 28, d.c. is a place
where she exists in the liminal
space between insider and outsid-
er — a “very insular world, like a
little bubble,” where she comes
once or twice a month for work
(and play).
She doesn’t actually live here.
But this weekend is important
enough that she drove down from
philadelphia armed with a spread-
sheet with all 12 events she was
going to, with each event’s dura-
tion, location and travel time be-
tween venues.
“i feel like when i’m in these
places i expect to recognize people,
… but i don’t,” she says. But that’s
okay, because when she walked
into the party, people recognized KyLe gusTAfson foR The WAshingTon PosT

her. a Biden campaign spokes-

woman she knew from her work der. the room ooooohed as his hus-
with rep. alexandria ocasio-cor- band, nate Stephens, hid away the
tez (d-n.Y.), axios reporters, fellow strap of daniels’s Skims bodysuit.
content creators, others who outside, they could hear the
worked in democratic politics. growing chants of a big antiwar
even if they don’t know her, they protest, a throng of more than 100
know her social media feeds, and wearing kaffiyehs, some wearing
say she does such amazing work. fake blood.
“We were anticipating it,” dan-
f you’re getting invited to a iels says. “i mean, they go every-

‘I bunch of cool parties, embas-

sies, and all that kind of stuff,
just remember, it is your job and
your title, and your news organiza-
tion that’s getting invited, and not
you, okay?”
it is friday morning at the
White House, and anita dunn, a
senior Biden adviser, is giving a
mock briefing to recipients of the
White House correspondents’ as-
sociation scholarships for aspir-
ing journalists. daniels was acting
as something of a camp counselor
at the event before hitting the
circuit that evening, where he is
expected at many parties.
daniels, 35, will be the first gay
Black president of the WHca
when his term begins in July. at
6-foot-3 — and often taller in a
heeled pair of chelsea boots —
daniels cannot help but stand out
in a crowd. on nights like this, his
mother’s wisdom often comes to
mind: You belong in every single
room you find yourself in. But
dunn’s words resonated with him:
At these events, you are your job.
You aren’t you.
friday is the day for party-hop-
ping, with eight major events hap-
pening all across town — the net-
working olympics. daniels began
his night at crooked media’s party
at the downtown restaurant gra-
zie nonna. He was wearing a
feathered white blazer and white
tuxedo pants, and although this
ensemble instantly made him one
of the best-dressed people at the
party, it presented a problem with
the food, which involved marinara
sauce.
this was a party of the slightly
younger, slightly hipper demo-
cratic establishment, but the es-
tablishment nonetheless. daniels
found himself speaking with
White House communications di-
rector Ben LaBolt and dean Lie-
berman, deputy national security
adviser to the vice president. the
exchange on their end was friend-
ly, if transactional, ending with a
Washington Stare over daniels’s
shoulder.
across the room, tony p was
considering his goals.
“do i go to nBc last, and then
start off at the Swiss?” he asked a
trio of fellow influencers, refer-
encing Saturday’s two elite after-
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: CBS’s Gayle King, left, and journalist Kara Swisher at the Comcast-NBCU party. The musician
Questlove DJs at a party hosted at Grazie Mille. Politico White House correspondent Eugene Daniels, right, and Zack Stanton, a
deputy editor at Politico, at a party at the British ambassador’s residence in D.C. Bill Nye adjusts actor Chris Pine’s bow tie during an
after-party. Political consultant Annie Wu Henry attends a private watch party of the White House correspondents’ dinner.
parties: the nBc party at the resi-
dence of the french ambassador,
and the time party at the Swiss
ambassador’s residence.
He has been invited to both. He
has been invited to almost every-
thing, including the dinner itself, as
a guest of Bloomberg. this is tony
p’s first White House correspon-
dents’ dinner weekend, and he ap-
proaches it with his characteristic
golden retriever enthusiasm.
“i watched it on c-Span for
years. i know it’s d.c.’s version of
the oscars, i would say, right?” he
says. “it’s just incredible. it’s really
an honor.”
and: “it will be good content, of
course, but it will also be a great
time celebrating the fourth es-
tate.”
His suits — four of them plus a
tuxedo — had been provided by a
sponsor in exchange for his post-
ing about the brand. He also had
an agreement with the french
TieRney L. CRoss foR The WAshingTon PosT
embassy that he would film con-
tent from their after-party at the
ambassador’s residence. But his
goals weren’t just about mens-
wear and party tickets.
He had recently left his consult-
ing gig to become an influencer
full time, but that was just a stop-
over on the way to achieving his
real goal, for which this weekend
was critical: tony p wants to get
into broadcasting. He has an
agent, and an occasional gig on
d.c.’s fox 5, but he was going to
network the hell out of this week-
end to leverage it into something
bigger: a regular segment, and
someday, eventually, a morning
show, like his idol, regis philbin.
“You’ve got to go to nBc first if
you want to see colin and Scar-
lett,” — i.e., Jost and Johansson —
photographer dan Swartz tells
tony, who had by 9 p.m. migrated
to a swanky party in the four
Seasons hosted by Washingtonian
and the embassy of Qatar. Busi-
ness cards were being handed to
him left and right. “We’d love to
work with you,” was the refrain of
his evening, along with: “tony p!
can i get a selfie?”
a few blocks away, at fiola
mare, Henry is drinking a mock-
tail at party thrown by the united
talent agency, where she’s a client.
She had just co-hosted a three-
course dinner at the Watergate for
the model coco rocha. Soon, she
is chatting with former White
House press secretary Jen psaki
(about psaki’s resemblance to tay-
lor Swift’s publicist), and journal-
ist mehdi Hasan (the only person
she really wanted to meet). Some-
one pulls her away to introduce
her to Kevin munoz, a Biden cam-
paign spokesman.
“isn’t that what we’re here for?”
Henry says, but then quickly clari-
fies. “i’m not here to network, but
i’ll say hi to people.” unlike some
TieRney L. CRoss foR The WAshingTon PosT
partygoers, she makes a distinc-
tion between the two.
“Someone last night said like,
‘Well, you must be important be-
T by coming in through a dif-
cause you’re, you know, here,’” she
recalls the next day. “i don’t think
i’m more important because i was
invited to” these parties. “But i’m
aware that that’s like, something
that some people think.”
n Saturday, hours before he
O would sit on the Hilton ball-
room’s dais next to Vice
president Harris, daniels is host-
ing his own party. in his suite at
the Hilton, he and several politico
colleagues are passing around bot-
tles of champagne and pouring
them into whatever vessels they
could find: champagne flutes and
wine glasses, then, eventually, the
cups from the bathroom.
daniels emerges in his outfit for
the night, a royal blue suit with a
satin sash hanging from the shoul-
where Biden goes. they’re honor-
ing the first amendment, and so
are we.”
Henry is in the middle seat of a
red hybrid toyota with two of her
friends, trapped in a glut of black
Suburbans heading down con-
necticut avenue, when it became
clear that her Lyft isn’t going to get
any closer. they’ll have to walk.
“Shame, shame, shame on you!”
one of them got inches away
from Henry’s face. “do you care
about the freedom of the press?”
the woman asked, trying to block
Henry’s path. Henry was wearing
a “free palestine” pin on her cham-
pagne-colored andrew Kwon
gown, and she had visited the
george Washington university
student encampment earlier in
the week.
“i am on their side,” she will say
later.
She faces the woman. “i am not
attending the actual dinner, as
someone has called for a boycott of
it,” Henry tells her.
Where she is actually headed,
after the cocktail hour at the Hil-
ton, is a private watch party at the
Hard rock cafe downtown. as she
gets closer to the lobby’s revolving
door, she chuckles nervously. “i
was not invited to the actual din-
ner, but, you know …”
ony p avoids the whole thing
ferent entrance. He mugs
for the cameras on the red carpet
(“exhilarating. exhilarating!”) be-
fore heading down to the Bloom-
berg cocktail hour.
despite his masterful network-
ing — he has already made contact
with the bookers for several net-
works, as well as several White
House and campaign staffers —
tony is feeling a funny combina-
tion of awe and insecurity. He’s
actually here, on the inside, telling
rocha, in a frothy pink confection
of a dress, that she looks “exqui-
site. exquisite!”
“i don’t even get why people like
me,” he had said a night earlier, in
a moment of vulnerability. “i al-
ways ask myself why.”
He reminds himself: “i’m invit-
ed to the party. Senators like me.
reporters like me. if they like me,
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monday, april 29 , 2024 . the washington post
Biden laughed, but he made clear that Trump is no joke
BY R OXANNE R OBERTS
There were some 2,600 people
at saturday’s White House Corre-
spondents’ association dinner.
But, really, it came down to only
two men: Joe Biden and Donald
Trump.
Washington’s annual mashup
of political humor and earnest
paeans to the free press is typical-
ly a good-natured collection of
one-liners and affectionate jabs at
friends and enemies alike. But it
was the leading 2024 presidential
contenders who loomed largest —
one in the Washington Hilton
hotel ballroom, the other who
definitely, positively, probably
was not watching from mar-a-La-
go. unless, of course, he was.
“The 2024 election is in full
swing and, yes, age is an issue,”
president Biden told the black-tie
crowd. “i’m a grown man running
against a 6-year-old.”
“Can we just acknowledge how
refreshing it is,” comedian Colin
Jost later added, “to see a presi-
dent of the united states at an
event that doesn’t begin with a
bailiff saying, ‘all rise!’”
for most of the evening, Trump
ignored the dinner and posted
instead about presidential immu-
nity and political witch hunts.
shortly after 1 a.m., he finally
chimed in on Truth social: “The
White House Correspondents’
Dinner was really bad. Colin Jost
BomBeD, and Crooked Joe was
an absolute disaster! Doesn’t get
much worse than this!”
so, basically, another day on
the campaign trail.
But for the denizens of Wash-
ington’s political media, it was a
special occasion. The correspon-
dents’ dinner is ostensibly a play-
ful celebration of the codepen-
dent relationship between Wash-
ington politicians and reporters
who spend the rest of the year
covering them and deadly serious
issues: Trump’s legal trials, loom-
ing uncertainty about what will
happen in November (and be-
yond), the ukraine war, the isra-
el-gaza war.
it proved hard to put all that
aside for the night. especially
gaza. pro-palestinian protesters
surrounded the entrance outside
of the hotel, shouting chants such
as, “Western media, you can’t
hide! We charge you with geno-
cide!” and confronting guests ar-
riving to the dinner in their tux-
edos and gowns. some attendees
were followed by tight circles of
protesters yelling “shame!” inch-
es from their faces until they
could get behind police.
“i came in through a different
entrance, so i didn’t hear exactly
what they are chanting,” said rep.
maxwell frost (D-fla.), running
up an escalator to the lobby. “But
there are tens of thousands of
people being blown to bits in
gaza, so i understand why they
are protesting. i stand with the
movement — depending on what
they are saying.”
The experience of walking the
gantlet of activists seemed to
have left a lot of people somewhat
stunned. But inside the ballroom,
it was all smiles and hugs and
back slaps.
sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.)
charmed everyone, wearing a big
smile and a “free evaN” pin in
honor of evan gershkovich, the
Wall street Journal reporter im-
prisoned in russia. rep. Jared
moskowitz (D-fla.) gave a report
on his own encounter with the
protesters outside: “i asked them
about what was happening in
sudan. and they yelled louder.
and then i asked them about the
concentration camps full of uy-
ghurs. and they yelled louder.
and then i went inside.” olivia
Nuzzi, a political reporter for New
York magazine, got off a presiden-
tial zinger of her own: “i can’t
hear a thing in here — i feel like
Biden.”
Biden’s own zingers were di-
rected almost entirely at his op-
ponent.
“Trump’s so desperate, he start-
ed reading those Bibles he’s sell-
ing,” the president said. “Then he
A journalist, an influencer and a consultant walk into D.C.’s biggest party. . .
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i’m good.”
Tony p air-kisses Haddad and
makes his way even further inside,
to the dinner, where Daniels is chat-
ting with the vice president and
CBs News senior White House cor-
respondent Weijia Jiang. (Later, at
the NBC party, neither will say what
they and Harris talked about. Dan-
iels: “she’s actually very funny.” Ji-
ang: “No, really, she is.”)
at the Hard rock Cafe, Henry
watches Daniels congratulate this
year’s scholarship recipients on
C-spaN while she eats mac and
cheese at the private watch party
before collecting her friends and
heading to the swiss ambassador’s
residence.
“The 2024 election is
in full swing and, yes,
age is an issue. I’m a
grown man running
against a 6-year-old.”
President Biden, at the
White House Correspondents’
Association dinner
got to the first Commandment:
‘You shall have no other gods
before me.’ That’s when he put it
down and said, ‘This book’s not
for me.’”
But the president soon dis-
pensed with the yuks and pivoted
to what felt like a stump speech
about the clear and present dan-
ger posed by Trump and his move-
ment. He called on the journalists
in the room to report “truth over
lies.” He implored them to move
past the election horse race sto-
ries and focus on american de-
mocracy. “The stakes couldn’t be
higher,” he said. No punchline.
officially, the evening is non-
partisan, and the only toast of the
night goes to the sitting presi-
dent, regardless of party affilia-
tion. unofficially, the dinner has
always been perceived as a hot-
bed of Washington elites who
lean left, regardless of media affil-
iation.
Trump, who was famously
roasted by president Barack
obama at the 2011 dinner, never
attended the event as president.
His relentless criticism of the
mainstream media caused many
news organizations to threaten a
boycott of the dinner in 2017;
Trump announced that he would
not attend. He skipped two fol-
lowing years and even counter-
programmed with a maga rally
instead. The party soldiered on,
reinforcing a commitment to the
role of a free press in a democracy,
and many breathed a not-so-dis-
creet sigh of relief when the
crowd resumed in 2022 after the
worst of the pandemic with Biden
carrying the torch.
The only Trump spotted at this
year’s festivities was daughter-in-
law Lara Trump, recently
she doesn’t feel much like an
insider, despite all the parties and
invitations.
“The people who are the D.C.
insiders are the ones who are mak-
ing the lists,” she says, “and i’m not
making the lists.”
arriving at the embassy, she
finds that she couldn’t check in. But
a quick phone call between a staff-
er and her friend, political strat-
egist rina shah, clears up the mis-
understanding. minutes later,
she’s exchanging Good to see yous
with Doug emhoff and posing on
the red carpet with Bill Nye and her
friend rep. maxwell frost (D-fla.).
“He’s just a normal guy!” Henry
says of the vice president’s hus-
band.
over in Kalorama, where the
crowned co-chair of the republi-
can National Committee. Her fa-
ther-in-law wasn’t in the build-
ing, but comic impressionist matt
friend emerged from the crowd
with a Trump impersonation — as
well as sendups of Bernie sand-
ers, mitch mcConnell and
obama. He also made the first
(and, surprisingly, only) dead-dog
joke of the night.
“i am killing this dinner harder
than Kristi Noem kills the pup-
pies,” friend said in his Trump
voice, riffing off the news that the
republican governor of south
Dakota, in a forthcoming book,
admits to shooting her 14-month-
old dog because she was “untrain-
able” and aggressive.
Let’s face it: it’s a tough room
for a comedian. Jost, co-anchor of
“saturday Night Live’s” “Weekend
update,” sat at the head table next
to the president and nearby first
lady Jill Biden, vice president
Harris, second gentleman Doug
emhoff and WHCa president Kel-
ly o’Donnell, senior White House
correspondent for NBC News. His
speech came after Biden’s and felt
like one of his sNL bits: some
jokes got laughs, others landed
awkwardly.
There were a few jabs at Biden,
french ambassador’s residence is
bathed in the rainbow colors of
NBC’s logo and servers walk
through the crowd holding mas-
sive trays of shellfish, Daniels
stands in the foyer and finds him-
self in something of a receiving line
as the night’s bigwigs, from
NBC News president rebecca
Blumenstein to illinois gov. J.B.
pritzker (D), congratulate him on
his speech. Just as he was about
to leave, Daniels received kudos
from one of the evening’s brightest
stars.
“it was so lovely to meet you —
congratulations,” Johansson tells
Daniels. “i’m so excited for you.”
“Thank you so much,” Daniels
replies.
Johansson and Daniels pose to-
EZ Su
AMAndA AndRAdE-RHoAdES FoR THE WASHingTon PoST
a “decent” man who Jost said
reminds him of his beloved
grandfather, a staten island fire-
fighter. There were also some
uneven one-liners about the
press, but the press never laughs
at itself, so it’s hard to know
whether they were good or bad
jokes.
Jost took several swipes at the
former president, too: “i love that
Trump’s two attacks on Biden are
that he’s a senile old man and a
criminal mastermind. i think
you’ve got to pick one. personally,
i don’t know any criminal master-
gether, arms wrapped around one
another.
“You know, you’re going to have
to get used to this,” Johansson
says, hugging him. “You’re fabu-
lous.”
on the steps outside, Tony p is
posing, too, while someone makes
a video of his signature move, his
“triple-arm cross,” which involves
crossing his arms three times
while showing off an outfit.
sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) walks
through the shot, oblivious to the
influencing that’s taking place.
Then it’s time for the highest-
stakes mingling that Tony p has
ever mingled.
“You’re the king!” Tony p says to
sen. mark r. Warner (D-va.). “i
love your energy,” he said to secre-
BonniE CASH/Pool/EPA-EFE/SHuTTERSToCK
minds who bike to get ice cream.”
on the courtroom drawings that
have emerged from the trials:
“every sketch of Trump looks like
the grinch had sex with the Lo-
rax.”
Jost brought the evening’s
most glamorous celebrity: movie
star scarlett Johansson, whom he
married in 2020. What started a
century ago as an annual gather-
ing of reporters and their subjects
morphed into the “Nerd prom”
about 35 years ago — a red carpet
extravaganza where news organi-
zations battle to host administra-
tary of Commerce gina raimon-
do. “it’s an honor to meet you,” he
tells Lorne michaels.
Before talking to the french
ambassador, Tony p asks one of
the embassy’s staff for a transla-
tion: “How do you say, ‘i don’t
speak french, but i want to learn.’”
(He approximated part of the
phrase, in his Boston accent. “Ex-
actement,” said ambassador Lau-
rent Bili.)
“Best Boston role,” Tony says to
actor Jon Hamm, referencing his
recent turn in “Confess, fletch.”
“awesome job,” he says to Colin
Jost, shaking his hand for a full 30
seconds.
after yukking it up with New
mexico gov. michelle Lujan
grisham at a fake “Weekend up-
C3
MAnuEl BAlCE CEnETA/AP
FROM TOP: President Biden
speaks at the White House
correspondents’ dinner on
Saturday night. Pro-Palestinian
protesters demonstrate outside
the Washington Hilton as
guests arrive. Vice President
Harris was one of the attendees.
tion officials, Hollywood a-list-
ers, corporate heavyweights and
anyone else basking in their 15
minutes of fame. Within the
throngs are a few people who
actually work as White House
correspondents.
With some exceptions, this
year’s guest list fell solidly into
B-list territory: Jon Hamm, Chris
pine, Keri russell, molly ring-
wald, rosario Dawson, Jon Cryer,
Caitlyn Jenner, Billy porter, Lorne
michaels.
Before the speeches, the
WHCa handed out its awards for
excellence. The award for overall
excellence went to Barak ravid of
axios, peter Baker of the New
York Times received the print
award for deadline reporting, and
Tamara Keith of Npr received the
broadcast award in the same cat-
egory — all singled out for stories
following Hamas’s oct. 7 attack in
israel. Doug mills of the Times got
the award for visual journalism
for a striking photo of Biden, and
the award for courage and ac-
countability went to The Wash-
ington post for coverage on the
impact of assault rifles and mass
shootings.
The evening ended, as it always
does: with an impassioned de-
fense of democracy and the criti-
cal role of the press in preserving
it.
Jost had his own thoughts
about the media. “Your words
speak truth to power. Your words
bring light to the darkness.” Then
he paused and grinned, “and
most importantly, your words
train the ai programs that will
soon replace you.”
Biden ended with a toast of his
own: “To a free press. To an
informed citizenry. To an america
where freedom and democracy
endure. god bless america.”
Ben Terris, Jesús Rodríguez, Will
Sommer, Jeremy Barr and Kara Voght
contributed to this report.
date” desk (“You are hilarious,”
grisham told him. “Come to New
mexico. i will feed you” chiles)
Tony p walked into the foyer and
came face to face with one of the
weekend’s most sought-after
guests: second gentleman Doug
emhoff.
“Tony p!” emhoff says. “finally.”
Tony p is astounded. in the 30-
second encounter and photo op
that follow, a few things become
clear:
The second gentleman not only
knows Tony p’s name, but has
dispatched a staffer to follow up
with Tony p about future opportu-
nities.
Who knows what will happen
after the party ends. But tonight,
at least, he’s in.
c4 eZ re k the washington post . monday, april 29 , 2024

Monica Hesse

Express has filed for bankruptcy. Don’t pretend you never shopped there.
HESSE from C1

wear, or with Steve madden Express was not

platform slides for a party
ensemble that could be found in
all kinds of weather on all kinds
of campuses. I went to a tiny
liberal arts college, and we had
black Express pants with Steve
madden slides. I took a bus to
Penn State, and my friend’s
friends there had black Express
pants with Steve madden slides.
It was winter. Arms and toes
were bare. Pants were polyester
and spandex. The girl next to
you would watch your drink
while you went to the bathroom.
Last week, Express filed for
bankruptcy. The company
announced that it would be
closing 95 stores nationwide,
representing about a fifth of
the total retail locations. Stores
would disappear in Toledo;
miami; fresno, Calif.; and
beyond. “Closing sales” would
begin soon, the company said.
But then again, who knows
what a closing sale really
means for a chain whose stores
advertise “50% off already
reduced clearance” in
perpetuity.
Why am I writing about this? I
do not write about fashion. I
don’t care about fashion. I don’t
know anything about fashion.
But by God do I know something
about pants from Express and
the aspirations of 20-year-old
girls.
The most famous line is called
the Editor Pant, which was not
one style of pant but many, a
loose consortium of work pants
that existed under an umbrella
term. The Editor Pant could be
low-waisted, high-waisted,
tapered, cropped, black, plaid.
The Express website sells about
30 varieties of Editor Pant for
around $80 apiece, which
becomes more like $50 on
already-reduced clearance.
Somewhere in the back of my
closet, button missing and cuffs
frayed, is a pair of Editor Pants
from 2007, which I wore to the
first day of my Washington Post
selling you pants alone.
Express was selling
you pants that
imagined a whole life.
pants alone. Express was selling
you pants that imagined a whole
life. Who wore these pants?
Editors did. maybe editors wore
these pants while drinking
coffee, taking the subway,
editing things. Who else could
wear these pants? You could. You
could purchase these pants and
segue into a life that was about
to unfold like an episode of “Sex
and the City.”
When your Editor Pants were
at the dry cleaner, you might
find yourself reaching for the
black polyester going-out pants,
and trying to turn them into
office attire by adding a blazer
and replacing the Steve madden
slides with sensible loafers. Did
it look good? It did not. Did we
do it anyway? We didn’t know
any better. What we knew is that
there were casual clothes, like
the sweatshirts we’d worn to Brandon Bell/getty Images
school for 16 years, and there
were fancy clothes, like what an Express in years — which work in television, and Lara
would be worn to a prom — and might indicate why the company would move to London, and
then there was a whole murky is going bankrupt, or might just Anne would become a teacher in
middle, a class of clothes that indicate that the store isn’t for maine and then return to our
young adult women were me anymore. 15-year reunion with the most
expected to know how to But standing among the perfect redheaded son.
navigate, and those clothes could pants, I had the strongest That was all years away,
be purchased at Express. memory of a night I’d though. In that moment, what
The aesthetic of the Express completely forgotten: my we had was each other, and our
pants was not high fashion but college friends and I getting whole lives ahead of us, and our
high assimilation. It was ready for a networking fair. We shoddy wardrobes that would
shopping-as-handholding, an barely knew what networking now make us cringe with
assurance that you and millions was. We moved from dorm room embarrassment.
of other young women were in it to dorm room, seeking each And sometimes when you
together, even if you were still other’s advice on shoes and think about that time in your life
figuring it out. résumé formatting. Somehow, I — how you had to bravely keep
The store in my nearest mall had acquired an attaché case, walking forward with no idea of
isn’t one of the ones that will be which seemed like a very what the future held —
closing, but I went there a few professional thing to carry, even sometimes it fills you with such
days ago anyway, to soak up the if it was empty inside. Ahmara tenderness for your dumb past andrew HarnIk/aP

internship and never had the vibe and to commune with the told me it was, anyway, and she self, for everything you walked Express, a mall staple, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The
heart to get rid of. pants. formerly a loyal would go on to get a joint mD through and the pants you wore company announced that it would be closing 95 stores nationwide,
Express was not selling you customer, I hadn’t been inside and PhD, and Jo would go on to while doing it. representing about a fifth of the total retail locations.

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OpeRa Review
Reduced ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ turns up heat
BY M ICHAEL A NDOR B RODEUR
When Terence Blanchard pre-
miered “Fire Shut Up in My
Bones” at the Metropolitan Opera
in 2021, he made history as the
first Black composer to have his
work reach the stage in the compa-
ny’s 138-year history. Though, as
Blanchard made a point to men-
tion from the stage at Strathmore
on Friday night, he certainly
wasn’t the first to qualify.
“Fire” was widely hailed (in-
cluding by me) as a success, not
least of all for its boundary-bend-
ing music. Blanchard constructed
his orchestration to mirror the
restless internal life of his subject
(the opera is based on the
2014 memoir by New York Times
columnist Charles M. Blow), em-
bedding a tempestuous jazz
rhythm section into the core of the
orchestra.
The resultant thread of jazz that
weaves through the music doesn’t
just tether Charles in his manhood
to the haunting traumas of his
boyhood, it allows Blanchard to
vividly paint the opera’s dreamlike
progression. Though, like most
dreams, I struggled to remember
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its details once I left the hall. (A
single performance remains in the
current run of “Fire” at the Met on
May 2.)
So it was a welcome opportu-
nity at Strathmore on Friday to
hear the opera (or large swaths of
it) in the more concentrated, fo-
cused form of “Fire Shut Up in My
Bones: Opera Suite in Concert,”
co-presented by Strathmore and
Washington Performing Arts.
For this reduced but refined
vision of the score, Blanchard
combined the forces of his own
five-piece E-Collective ensemble
(including Blanchard on trumpet)
with David Balakrishnan’s Turtle
Island Quartet. A suite of arias
from the opera were sung by bari-
tone and most recent Marian An-
derson Vocal Award winner Justin
Austin, and the powerful soprano
Adrienne Danrich.
Blanchard opened with two se-
lections from “Absence,” his most
recent album with the E-Collec-
tive and Turtle Island Quartet, re-
corded in tribute to the late saxo-
phonist and composer Wayne
Shorter. It was a bracing introduc-
tion to his band — guitarist
Charles Altura, pianist Taylor Eig-
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sti, bassist Dale Black Jr. (filling in sound seeming to double itself.
for David Ginyard Jr.) and long- These opening jams bordered on
time Blanchard collaborator, psychedelic (an effect aided by
drummer Oscar Seaton Jr. large projections of vibrant ab-
This opening gambit also intro- stractions by artist Andrew F.
duced the lone issue that would Scott), but the trip felt soundly
haunt the evening — the sound mapped. (Another album track,
itself. The onstage mix of acoustic “Chaos,” served as an unofficial
and amplified instruments neces- encore and energizing send-off at
sitated the use of microphones, the evening’s close.)
and the muddled mix was often a After this, the Turtle Island
betrayal of Strathmore’s usually players — Balakrishnan and Ga-
pristine acoustics. The full drum briel Terracciano on violins, Ben-
kit and the (albeit pleasing) bass jamin von Gutzeit on viola and Jim Saah
often swallowed the Turtle Island Naseem Alatrash on cello — ush-
players whole, lending uninten- ered in the “Fire” suite, beautifully Soprano Adrienne Danrich and trumpeter Terence Blanchard.
tional novelty to their sporadic concentrating a tangle of an-
emergences from the din (like the guished themes before Austin’s Charles’s mother, Billie, embody- Blanchard’s facility not only with
staccato passages that bookend “I striking opening aria, “Tears of ing the growing apprehensions of emotional extremes, but also with
Dare You.” And the singers — both Anger and Shame.” It’s not an easy his short-term lover Greta, and the charged ambivalence between
powerhouses with no need of help one — Charles comes in hot, and so bringing exquisite sensitivity (and them — so crucial to understand-
from the sound system — had to must the singer. Austin knows titular fire) to the opera’s magnifi- ing Charles as he moves between
put in some visible work to miti- how to balance force and frailty in cent centerpiece, “Peculiar Grace.” the magnetic fields of identity.
gate the mix. his voice to bold dramatic effect, Musically, the suite is cleverly Onstage, Blanchard is most
When balance was achieved on- without ever sacrificing his care- orchestrated and arranged, with clearly doing his respective thing
stage, Blanchard’s band hit hard. ful control. casually seamless transitions when trailing behind his trumpet,
Altura’s solos were lithe, tasteful His counterpart, the soprano guiding one aria into the next, and his searing lines suggesting some-
and tasty and Seaton’s drumming Adrienne Danrich, was the stand- themes granted more intimate ar- thing between authorship and
was explosively expressive (even out performance of the evening, a ticulation across the combined en- abandon. But the “Fire” suite re-
taking to the hardware now and singer of unusual might. She in- sembles. veals the composer’s emotional
then). Blanchard’s trumpet — run habited multiple characters, cap- But perhaps the most pro- acumen and hotblooded humani-
through a line of effects — left turing the love and loss of mother- nounced effect of this new ar- ty. It’s a fire that burns brighter
behind a comet trail of delay, its hood for bookend arias as rangement is the way it showcases each time I hear it.
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Shrek 2 - 20th Anniversary (PG) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire The Ministry of Ungentlemanly 7:30-8:50 Re-Release (PG-13) 1:10-7:50
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly 7:15-10:25
12:30-5:55 (PG-13) 2:15-4:55-7:50 Warfare (R) 12:45-3:25-6:15-8:55 We Grown Now (PG) CC: 4:00 Warfare (R) 12:15-2:30-5:10-7:55 Regal Ballston Quarter Alien Day 45th Anniversary
Alien Day 45th Anniversary Abigail (R) 1:40-4:40-7:35 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Re-Release 12:40-3:40-7:30
Coup de chance (PG-13) 671 North Glebe Road
Re-Release 10:45-1:45-7:45 Monkey Man (R) 2:20-5:50 (PG-13) 1:05-3:45-6:25-9:05 (PG-13) CC: 2:20-5:20-8:20 12:00-6:00 Ruslaan 1:40
Civil War (R) 10:40-12:35-1:25- Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 2:45
The Mummy 25th Anniversary The First Omen (R) 1:15-3:55- The First Omen (R) CC: 2:25-8:50 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Civil War (R) 5:20-8:10 Challengers (R) 1:20-2:30-4:40-
3:40-4:10-7:05-10:00-10:45 Re-Release (PG-13) 1:15-4:10 6:35-9:15 Sasquatch Sunset (R) CC: 4:40 13) 12:30-3:00-5:30-8:00 5:10-6:00-8:20
Alien Day 45th Anniversary Challengers (R) 2:40-3:30- Godzilla x Kong: The New
Cinépolis Gaithersburg Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Monkey Man (R) CC: 4:30-7:20 Wicked Little Letters (R) 6:10-7:10
629 Center Point Way Re-Release 3:50-6:50 13) 9:45 Shrek 2 - 20th Anniversary (PG) 1:00-3:30 Empire (PG-13) 1:45-7:15
Civil War (R) 1:20 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Spy x Family Code: White (PG-
Civil War (R) 4:00-7:30-10:30 Monkey Man (R) 12:40-3:20- CC: 2:10 We Grown Now (PG) 1:00-3:15- Warfare (R) 2:00-5:00-7:50
13) 2:50-8:40
Challengers (R) 3:30-7:00-10:30 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- 6:30-9:20 The Mummy 25th Anniversary 5:30-7:45 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 2:10-4:30
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 13) 1:30-7:10 Boy Kills World (R) 12:10-1:10- Re-Release (PG-13) CC: 5:00 Sasquatch Sunset (R) 8:15 Abigail (R) 1:15
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli
(PG-13) 2:00-5:30-8:45 Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli 3:40-6:20-8:00-9:10 Alien Day 45th Anniversary Abigail (R) 12:35-3:10-5:35-8:05 (PG-13) 1:55-4:45
Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 2:00-5:00 Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Re-Release 2:15-8:10
CMX Village 14 Boy Kills World (R) 2:20-5:10-8:00
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Regal Laurel Towne Centre (PG-13) 12:50-3:30-6:10-8:50 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Regal Manassas & IMAX
1600 Village Market Boulevard Unsung Hero (PG) 2:05-4:50-7:40
Warfare (R) 4:00-7:15-10:15 14716 Baltimore Avenue Alien Day 45th Anniversary Warfare (R) CC: 2:40-5:40-8:30 11380 Bulloch Drive
Re-Release 12:15-6:45 Arthur the King (PG-13) 2:45 Sasquatch Sunset (R) 7:05
Boy Kills World (R) 4:30-7:45- Civil War (R) 1:20-4:10 Challengers (R) CC: 2:00-5:00 Civil War (R) 4:40-7:20
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:00- Abigail (R) 1:50-4:40-7:30
10:45 Challengers (R) 1:00-2:30-4:10- Challengers (R) 12:20-3:10- Spy x Family Code: White (PG-
3:35-7:10 Monkey Man (R) 7:35 Challengers (R) 3:30-4:30-
Abigail (R) 3:00-6:30-9:45 5:20-7:20 6:00-9:00 13) 3:00-8:20 6:40-7:40
Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Boy Kills World (R) OC: 6:15 Civil War (R) 12:05-2:00-4:40-7:20 Alien Day 45th Anniversary
Unsung Hero (PG) 2:45-6:00-9:15 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:50- Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:15- Re-Release 3:40-7:00 Dune: Part Two: The IMAX
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 4:20-5:40-8:20 13) 4:05 Unsung Hero (PG) OC: 6:10 Experience (PG-13) 4:00-7:50
5:20-7:45 Civil War (R) 2:30
(PG-13) 2:15-5:45-8:45 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Abigail (R) 12:40-3:20-6:30-9:20 We Grown Now (PG) OC: 6:20 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 3:50-6:10
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Spy x Family Code: White (PG-
Monkey Man (R) 7:45 Warfare (R) 1:10-4:00-7:10 iPic Pike & Rose AMC Shirlington 7 Warfare (R) 1:40-4:35-7:25 13) 3:00-6:50 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly
Greenbelt Cinema Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 11830 Grand Park Avenue 2772 South Randolph St. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli Warfare (R) 4:50-8:10
129 Centerway (PG-13) 12:55-3:50-6:40 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 2:15- Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 3:40 (PG-13) 2:10-4:55-7:40 Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00 Late Night with the Devil (R)
Boy Kills World (R) 1:50-4:40-7:30 6:15-9:30 Civil War (R) CC: 2:30-5:10-7:50 Boy Kills World (R) 2:20-5:05-8:00 8:30
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst Regal Dulles Town Center Godzilla x Kong: The New
essen Seele auf) 7:00 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Civil War (R) 2:45-6:30-10:30 Challengers (R) CC: 1:00-4:00- Spy x Family Code: White (PG-
21100 Dulles Town Circle Empire (PG-13) 3:40-6:30
13) 3:20-5:00 Challengers (R) (!) 3:45-6:00- 7:00 13) 1:10-3:55-6:40
Challengers (R) 1:45 Civil War (R) 12:50-3:40-6:50 Boy Kills World (R) 5:20-8:00
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 7:15-9:45-10:45 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Unsung Hero (PG) 12:30-1:30-
Love Lies Bleeding (R) 5:00 (PG-13) 1:30-4:40-6:50 Challengers (R) 1:10-2:50- Spy x Family Code: White (PG-
Remembering Gene Wilder Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 3:30 Warfare (R) CC: 1:20-4:10-7:05 3:15-4:15-6:00-7:00 4:30-8:00
The First Omen (R) 8:30 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 13) 3:20
4:45; 2:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:30 Abigail (R) 8:40
Abigail (R) 2:20-5:10-8:10 (PG-13) 2:30-6:45-10:15 (PG-13) CC: 2:00-4:45-7:40 (PG-13) 12:50-3:40-6:20
Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6 Monkey Man (R) 2:00-6:10 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Monkey Man (R) 5:00-8:20
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Wicked Little Letters (R) CC: 1:10 Abigail (R) 2:40-5:15-7:55 Warfare (R) 1:40-4:40-7:30
3899 Branch Avenue Alien Day 45th Anniversary Warfare (R) 3:15-7:00-10:00 The Mummy 25th Anniversary
Monkey Man (R) CC: 7:20 The Mummy 25th Anniversary Boy Kills World (R) 1:20-4:20-7:10
Challengers (R) 4:30-7:30 Re-Release 1:40-7:40 Abigail (R) 4:30-7:45-11:00 Re-Release (PG-13) 1:00-4:00 Re-Release (PG-13) 4:10-7:10
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 3:30-6:45 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 1:50- Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Alien Day 45th Anniversary
Monkey Man (R) 4:00-7:15-11:00 4:30-7:10 Alien Day 45th Anniversary 13) 5:10
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly 13) 2:10-8:00 Re-Release 7:05 Re-Release 4:20-7:30
Abigail (R) CC: 2:10-4:50-7:30 Unsung Hero (PG) 1:00-4:10-7:20
Warfare (R) 4:00-7:00 Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00
VIRGINIA AMC Tysons Corner 16 Cinema Arts Theatre Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli
Fest 2024 (PG) 6:50
AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 7850e Tysons Corner Center 9650 Unit 14 Main St. (PG-13) 4:00
(PG-13) 5:15-8:00 Regal Rockville Center Abigail (R) 5:50
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 2150 Clarendon Blvd. Challengers (R) CC: 2:00-5:15- Civil War (R) 9:45-12:05-2:20- Abigail (R) 2:00-5:00-7:50
199 East Montgomery Avenue 4:40-7:20 Regal Springfield Town Center
(PG-13) 4:05-7:45 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 8:20 Challengers (R) 6:00 6859 Springfield Mall
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 3:00 1:00-4:20-7:20 Challengers (R) 10:00-1:00- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Abigail (R) 5:00-7:20 Civil War (R) 2:00-4:40-7:40 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:25
Civil War (R) CC: 1:55-4:30-7:10 Warfare (R) CC: 1:25-4:25-7:20 4:00-7:10 (PG-13) 1:50-4:50-7:40
Regal Cinemas Majestic Challengers (R) 1:40-2:40-3:40- The Long Game (PG) 9:55-12:20 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Civil War (R) 2:10-5:10-8:10
Stadium 20 & IMAX Challengers (R) CC: 1:40-4:40- Boy Kills World (R) OC: 7:55
4:50-6:00-7:00-8:00 7:50 Coup de chance (PG-13) 9:50- 13) 2:10-8:10 Challengers (R) 12:40-3:30-
900 Ellsworth Drive Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:45-4:15 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- 4:00-4:30-7:20-7:50
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly 13) 12:05-5:40-8:25 12:15-2:25-4:45-7:15 Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:00-3:40
(PG-13) 1:35-4:40 Warfare (R) CC: 2:20-5:10-8:00 Abigail (R) OC: 8:15; 12:00-
Warfare (R) 2:05-5:00-7:50 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- 13) 5:05 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly
Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Boy Kills World (R) 2:20-5:10-7:55 2:45-5:30 Regal Fairfax Towne Center Warfare (R) 1:30-4:40-8:00
13) 4:35 Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli One Life (PG) 2:30-4:45 4110 West Ox Road
13) 12:30-1:00-9:45 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Cabrini (PG-13) 7:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Em-
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 2:00- Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 2:30-6:20 pire (PG-13) 1:40-4:35-7:30
13) 5:25 4:50-7:30 Wicked Little Letters (R) 9:40-
(PG-13) 8:50 Abigail (R) 2:30-5:30-8:10 The Mummy 25th Anniversary Civil War (R) 2:10-5:00-7:40 Boy Kills World (R) 12:30-3:20-
Abigail (R) CC: 2:15-5:00-7:40 Re-Release (PG-13) OC: 4:00 12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30
Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli Monkey Man (R) 6:45 The Last Bumblebee 7:15 Challengers (R) 1:30-4:10-7:10 6:40
Monkey Man (R) CC: 1:20-4:10 Spider-Man 3 (2007) (PG-13)
Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00 Alien Day 45th Anniversary Spy x Family Code: White (PG- CC: 7:00 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly
Warfare (R) 1:40-3:40-6:50
Spy x Family Code: White (PG-
Spider-Man 3 (2007) (PG-13) Re-Release 1:35-4:30-7:30 13) 9:45-12:10-2:35 13) 4:20
6:30-6:50-7:30 13) 1:30-8:10 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Unsung Hero (PG) 12:50-3:50-
Spy x Family Code: White (PG-
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 1:50 13) 2:25-8:05 Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli 12:15-4:05-7:40 Cinemark Centreville (PG-13) 3:20-6:30 7:10
Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00 Civil War (R) CC: 11:55-2:40- 6201 Multiplex Drive
Civil War (R) 3:55-4:50 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Boy Kills World (R) 4:30-7:20 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Challengers (R) 1:10-2:10-4:30- (PG-13) 1:30-4:20-7:10 AMC Hoffman Center 22 5:25-8:10 The Mummy (1999) (PG-13) Spy x Family Code: White (PG- (PG-13) 12:45-3:35
Challengers (R) CC: 12:10- 3:45-9:55
5:30-8:00-9:00 Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli 206 Swamp Fox Rd. 13) 2:00 The First Omen (R) 6:10
Dune: Part Two: The IMAX Expe- Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00 Challengers (R) OC: 9:20; 3:20-6:30 Civil War (R) 2:20-5:05-7:50-10:10 Abigail (R) 5:10-8:00 Abigail (R) 1:10-4:10-7:40
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 1:55- Challengers (R) 1:10-4:20-7:30 Monkey Man (R) 7:50
rience (PG-13) 12:45-4:45-8:45 3:30-6:25 Monkey Man (R) 6:45
Regal Waugh Chapel & IMAX
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:55- 1419 South Main Chapel Way The Ministry of Ungentlemanly 4:35-7:10 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:35-4:05 Exhuma (Pamyo) 1:50-4:50 Alien Day 45th Anniversary
3:40-6:15-8:55 Warfare (R) CC: 4:15-7:45-10:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Alamashi 4:40 Re-Release 12:20-6:50
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Boy Kills World (R) OC: 6:35 (PG-13) CC: 1:45-7:45 (PG-13) 1:30-4:25-7:20-10:15 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Spy x Family Code: White (PG-
13) 12:50-6:20
Warfare (R) 1:40-5:10-8:10 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Boy Kills World (R) CC: 2:05-4:55 Unsung Hero (PG) 1:20-4:10- 13) 4:45-7:30 13) 1:20
Boy Kills World (R) 12:50-3:50- Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli 13) 3:45-7:10-9:25 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- 7:00-9:50 Abigail (R) 2:20 Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli
6:55-9:40 Fest 2024 (PG) 7:10 13) 2:50 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Unsung Hero (PG) OC: 6:15 Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00
Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Spider-Man 3 (2007) (PG-13) Abigail (R) CC: 4:10-7:00-9:40 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 2:10- (PG-13) 9:25 Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00 Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
13) 4:10 6:30-7:30 5:10-8:05 Abigail (R) 6:40
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 3:40 Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli Regal Fox & IMAX 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
Unsung Hero (PG) 12:40-3:35- Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Rathnam 2:00-8:00
Civil War (R) 1:30-4:10-6:50 22875 Brambleton Plaza Spider-Man 3 (2007) (PG-13)
6:35-9:30 Alien Day 45th Anniversary (PG-13) CC: 1:20-4:10 Dancing Village: The Curse
Civil War (R) 1:50-4:30-9:50 6:30
We Grown Now (PG) 1:15-4:00- Challengers (R) 1:40-4:50-8:00 Re-Release 3:45-6:30 The First Omen (R) CC: 4:15 Begins 1:00-5:10-8:20
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:45-
6:45 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 2:00-4:40 Civil War: The IMAX Experience Alien Day 45th Anniversary Dune: Part Two: The IMAX Ex-
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Ruslaan 4:40-7:00 perience (PG-13) 2:10-6:00-9:50 4:20-8:10
The First Omen (R) 9:15 Spider-Man 3 (2007) (PG-13) CC: (R) CC: 1:05 Re-Release 2:10-6:50
Warfare (R) 1:35-4:30-7:50 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 3:25 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:00-3:30- Civil War (R) 1:10-3:50-6:40
Abigail (R) 2:00-5:20-8:15 7:00-10:10 Monkey Man (R) CC: 1:35-
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 4:50-7:50 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly 6:05-8:30 Challengers (R) 2:00-2:30-3:30-
Cinderella's Revenge 2:30-5:00- Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: Crew (Hindi) 3:00-6:10-9:20 5:00-5:30-8:30
7:20-9:50 (PG-13) 2:10-5:10 Challengers: The IMAX Experi- Warfare (R) 12:30-3:30-5:15-
Boy Kills World (R) 1:00-4:00-7:20 4:00-7:30 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:30-
6:30-9:30
Monkey Man (R) 2:15-5:25 Civil War (R) CC: 5:05-6:45-9:20 ence (R) CC: 4:20-7:30 4:15-6:50
The Mummy 25th Anniversary Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Warfare (R) 12:30-3:40-6:50-
13) 3:30 Challengers (R) CC: 4:10-7:10- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 13) 12:35 9:55 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly
Re-Release (PG-13) 3:30-6:40 10:15 3D (PG-13) CC: 4:45 Warfare (R) 1:40-4:40-7:40
Unsung Hero (PG) 1:10-4:20-7:40 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Spy x Family Code: White (PG-
Alien Day 45th Anniversary
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Dune: Part Two: The IMAX Expe- The Mummy 25th Anniversary (PG-13) 7:10 13) 4:10-9:45 Godzilla x Kong: The New Em-
Re-Release 1:30-8:05 rience (PG-13) CC: 6:05-9:40 Re-Release (PG-13) CC: 1:00 pire (PG-13) 2:20-5:20-8:20
Ruslaan 1:25-4:55-8:30 (PG-13) 12:55 Alien Day 45th Anniversary Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 7:40-10:35 Varshangalkku Shesham
Abigail (R) 12:35-3:20-7:55 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: Spy x Family Code: White (PG- 2:00-9:25 Boy Kills World (R) 12:30-3:20-
Civil War (R) 1:05 4:40-9:45 Re-Release 1:10-7:15 6:00-8:40
Challengers: The IMAX Experi- 13) 2:30-5:20-8:10 Abigail (R) 6:20-9:15
Regal Germantown ence (R) 12:45-3:50-7:00 Late Night with the Devil (R) CC: AMC Worldgate 9
Abigail (R) 2:05-4:55-10:05 Monkey Man (R) 10:00 Spy x Family Code: White (PG-
20000 Century Boulevard Alien Day 45th Anniversary 7:40-10:00 13025 Worldgate Drive Rathnam 2:15-5:55 13) 2:10-7:50
Cinemark
Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 4:00-7:45 Re-Release 1:45-5:00-8:05 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: Aavesham (Malayalam) Unsung Hero (PG) 1:20-4:10-
(PG-13) CC: 4:00-7:40-10:20 4:45-8:30 Fairfax Corner and XD 7:10
Civil War (R) 1:50-5:00-8:00 Regal Westview & IMAX 11900 Palace Way 5:50-9:35
Boy Kills World (R) CC: 4:05-9:10 Civil War (R) CC: 5:00-7:45 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Challengers (R) 1:05-2:00-3:20- 5243 Buckeystown Pike Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
4:40-5:10-6:30-7:50 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 3:30-4:35- Challengers (R) CC: 4:00-7:00- The Mummy (1999) (PG-13) 3D (PG-13) 12:30-3:25 (PG-13) 3:40
Civil War (R) 6:40 4:10-10:10
Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:45- 7:10-9:00-9:45 9:00 Alien Day 45th Anniversary Abigail (R) 1:50-4:30-7:20
Abigail (R) 2:00-4:45-7:50; 12:10- The Beast (La bête) 4:00-6:15 Civil War (R) 1:05-3:50-9:20 Monkey Man (R) 8:00
3:10-5:40 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: Re-Release 1:10-4:10-7:10
3:00-6:00-8:50 We Grown Now (PG) CC: 4:00- 3:30-6:30 Challengers (R) 12:20-3:30- The Mummy 25th Anniversary
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Gabru Gang 12:10-3:20-6:30-
Warfare (R) 1:20-4:25-7:30 Civil War (R) 12:45-3:40-9:30 6:30-9:00 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly 9:50-10:00 9:35 Re-Release (PG-13) 12:50
Late Night with the Devil (R) 8:20 Challengers (R) 12:50-3:55 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Warfare (R) CC: 5:15-8:00 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:00- Ruslaan 2:40-6:15-9:40 Alien Day 45th Anniversary
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:20- (PG-13) CC: 4:20-7:00-9:45 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 2:30-5:00 Challengers (R) 12:00-3:10- Re-Release 12:40
(PG-13) 12:40-3:30-6:20 3:30-6:10 The First Omen (R) CC: 4:50-9:50 (PG-13) CC: 3:45-6:00 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly 6:20-9:30 Challengers (R) 1:00-4:00-7:00
Boy Kills World (R) 12:55-4:10- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Sasquatch Sunset (R) CC: 10:30 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Warfare (R) 12:45-3:45-9:55 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Spy x Family Code: White (PG-
Warfare (R) 1:15-4:10-7:15 Civil War: The IMAX Experience 13) 4:30 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 1:20-4:10-7:00-9:50 13) 4:50
7:10
(PG-13) 1:00-4:00-10:15
Spy x Family Code: White (PG- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
(PG-13) 12:30-3:20-6:30-9:20
(R) CC: 3:30 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 4:45-7:30 Boy Kills World (R) 12:50-4:00- Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli
13) 4:20 Monkey Man (R) CC: 4:10- Abigail (R) CC: 5:30-8:15 Boy Kills World (R) 1:40-4:30- 7:00-10:00 Fest 2024 (PG) 7:05
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Boy Kills World (R) 1:30-4:20- 7:20-9:15 10:20
Spy x Family Code: White (PG-
7:40 Monkey Man (R) CC: 8:45 Spy x Family Code: White (PG- 13) 1:20-6:55 Smithsonian -
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH (D)
♠ K64
♥ 532
♦ A Q 10 8 3
♣ K 10
WEST EAST
♠ Q J 10 8 7 ♠ 92
♥ A74 ♥ J986
♦ 7 ♦ K64 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ J653 ♣ Q982
SOUTH
♠ A53
♥ K Q 10
♦ J952
♣ A74

The bidding:
NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST
1♦ Pass 2 NT Pass
3 NT All Pass
Opening lead — ♠ Q
CHARLES SCHULZ
he Time Travel Club will CLASSIC PEANUTS MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER
“T meet here at 7:30 pm
last Thursday.” — graffiti
No doubt you wish you
could go back in time and
have a second shot at deals
you booted. At today’s 3NT,
South won the first spade
with the ace and let the
nine of diamonds ride. East
took the king and returned a
spade.
South played low and won RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
the third spade. He had eight
tricks, but when he led a
heart to his king next, West
won and took two spades.
Down one.
South mistimed. He is safe
if West has the king of dia-
monds but will need a heart
trick otherwise. If South must
lose the lead twice, he must
lose to West early, before the
spades are set up. LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
South must win the first
spade in dummy and lead a
heart to his queen. If West
wins to continue spades,
South ducks, wins the third
spade and finesses in dia-
monds. He is home when
East has no more spades.
If West ducks the first
heart, South finesses in
diamonds. If East wins and
returns a spade (or a heart),
CHRIS BROWNE
South is sure of at least nine HAGAR THE HORRIBLE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
tricks.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠K64♥532
♦ A Q 10 8 3 ♣ K 10
Your partner opens one
club, you bid one diamond
and he rebids two clubs. The
opponents pass. What do
you say?
ANSWER: You should
certainly make an effort to BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
reach 3NT, the cheaper nine-
trick game, but you can’t
bid notrump yourself with
no heart stopper. Bid two
spades. If your partner bids
2NT next, raise to 3NT. If he
goes to three diamonds or
rebids three clubs, you will
avoid notrump.
— Frank Stewart
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BIRTHDAY | APRIL 29
You are generous,
supportive and
energetic. You have
impeccable manners
and appreciate the finer
things in life. Be open to
creative change this year.
Be courageous and stay
light on your feet so you can
be ready for new avenues
and opportunities.

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 Capricorn.

ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
This is an excellent way to
begin your week. Your ability
to talk to bosses, parents and
people in authority is strong.
People notice you and they
will likely listen to you. It’s a
particularly good day to wrap
up old business and fine-tune
old plans.
TAURUS
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL (APRIL 20-MAY 20).
This is a great day to make
travel plans or plans related
to medical matters, the law or
something to do with higher
education. Someone older or
more experienced might help
you.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
This week much of your power,
as it were, is “hidden.” This
means you might be working
alone or behind the scenes.
On the upside, your efforts
to research anything will pay
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK off. Indeed, secrets might be
revealed.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Be prepared to cooperate with
others today, because the
Moon is opposite your sign.
Or possibly someone older or
more experienced might help
you in some way, especially
with travel plans or legal
matters.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
This is a busy, productive
STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER DAN SCHKADE way to begin your week. Five
DUSTIN FLASH GORDON planets are at the top of your
chart, which means you look
great to others! You virtually
radiate success and expertise.
Work hard to finish work that
was started in late March.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
This is a productive day for
creative people who are doing
original work. It’s also a great
day to finish matters for those
who work in the entertainment
world, the hospitality industry
or show business, because
your imagination can be
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LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Family discussions will go well
today, especially with an older
family member. It’s a good
day to decide how to share
something or allocate funds
for different reasons, including
home repairs and the support
of different family members.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
You are right to expect a lot
of yourself today, because
you can accomplish much,
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT especially by working in
tandem with others, including
partners and close friends. You
might teach or learn today.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
This is a productive way to
begin your week. For starters,
you’re in work mode. You’re
ready to roll up your sleeves
and tackle whatever is on your
plate. Furthermore, co-workers
will help you.
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
This is a playful week for
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you! It’s a productive time
for those of you involved in
sports, working with children
or anything to do with the arts
and the entertainment world.
You might see practical ways
to quickly finish a job.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Your focus is on home,
family and your private life
at this time. Many of you are
addressing home repairs and
redecorating projects, and
possibly contemplating a
residential move.
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PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
Don’t hesitate to share your
bright ideas with others
today, because five planets
are sitting in your House
of Communications, which
means you’re eager to talk
and learn. You’ll enjoy short
trips and any opportunity to
see new places and meet new
faces.
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Though messy, ‘Hair’ can still be fun and relevant in 2024
BY T REY G RAHAM
Things to know about the musi-
cal “Hair”: It’s a landmark. It’s a
cliché. And at 57, may God help it,
it’s a year older than I am.
It’s also unforgivably untidy,
impossibly naive, insufferably
lazy here and unmistakably thin-
ning there — but inescapably, in-
furiatingly winning, too, what
with the snuggle-puppies vibe of
its hippie-commune characters
and the undertone of existential
confusion that shades and deep-
ens the best of the sunny-with-a-
chance-of-apocalypse tunes.
Set aside for a moment the
macro-issue sociopolitical echoes
that could maybe, if negotiated
brilliantly, make a 2024 produc-
tion of this Vietnam-era protest
musical seem fresh as a flower in a
reservist’s rifle barrel: I turned up
for the opening of Signature Thea-
tre’s staging just off a conversa-
tion with a teenage nephew
whose hoop dreams seem to be
fading and whose relationship
just evaporated, which may be
why the essential sweetness and
fragility of “Hair’s” struggling in-
dividual adolescents is what reg-
istered most with me this time
around.
So thoroughly of its time are
the show’s once-radical specifics
— it’s all in on free love, psychedel-
ic drugs, and men figuring out
that omG, they can like each oth-
er — that it really has no business
working anymore. Yet in an Amer-
ica whose kids seem uncertain
about their place and almost fran-
tically eager to find better ways of
being in the world, matthew Gar-
diner’s exuberant and openheart-
ed production sure does — and it
bit me right in the soft spot where
I usually store up my bile.
You know the big songs —
“Aquarius,” “Let the Sunshine In,”
“Good morning Starshine” — and
the Signature Theatre cast,
backed by Angie Benson’s bangin’
’Tis not yet the season, but ‘El Niño’ is a vibrant reason to celebrate at the Met
opEra rEviEw from C1
“memorial de Tlatelolco,” which
Adams employs to relate Herod’s
edict to slaughter Bethlehem’s
children with the brutal sup-
pression of student protesters in
a 1968 massacre in mexico City.
These outside texts serve to both
ground the Nativity in contem-
porary experience while liberat-
ing it from doctrine — or faith,
even.
more than anything, this “El
Niño” is a feast for the eyes — a
radiant vision from director Lile-
ana Blain-Cruz, resident director
at Lincoln Center, and one of
several met debuts across the cast
and creative team. (Blain-Cruz
will also direct the operatic adap-
tation of George Saunders’s novel
“Lincoln in the Bardo” for the
met’s 2026-2027 season.)
At every opportunity, the opera
skews optical — sometimes to the
detriment of Adams’s music,
which several times seemed help-
lessly anemic against the visual
volume of the staging. Trees glide
in from the wings and descend
from the skies, clumps of hand-
painted flora bloom in the cor-
ners, long sheets of blue satin
become the waves of a surging
sea, shooting stars streak over-
head. The vibe is both grand and
naive; at times, the set feels like
an exploded diorama.
Projected textures lend the en-
After he lied, he gave me the passcode to his phone. But now it’s always with him.
Adapted from an
online discussion.
Dear Carolyn: I
found out that my
partner was lying
Carolyn to me about
Hax talking to ex-
girlfriends and
some other
things. He gave me the passcode
for his phone in an act of
openness but now has his phone
with him all the time. I am at a
loss as to whether I ask him to
check it, or whether I’m just
supposed to trust him going
forward because he gave me the
code?
I also feel yucky checking his
phone because it feels invasive,
but on the other hand, I want to
know whether he’s still lying to
me. What do I do?
— Trust Issues
Trust issues: He lied to you. You
don’t trust him. Those are the
facts.
Phone checks have never been
and will never be the solution to
these problems.
Let’s say you check his phone
every day for the next 10 years.
The cast of “Hair,” which runs through July 7 at Signature Theatre. Though it’s set in the 1960s and has no business working anymore,
Matthew Gardiner’s version speaks to a country whose youth seem uncertain about their place and eager to find better ways of being.
eight-piece band, sells them with
all the heart and the lung power
you’d expect in a spring-tentpole
production from an American
musical-theater powerhouse. The
physical staging more than mea-
sures up, too, with costumes by
Kathleen Geldard so apt they
might be made entirely of hemp
and patchouli, plus a jam-packed
tire scene an undulating motion,
a subtle vivacity that makes the
story feel like a living thing. The
chorus, outfitted to evoke leaves,
adds to this amplified natural-
ism. And many of the production
designs draw from this visceral
vocabulary: glaring eyes stud the
skies; a pair of descending wings
in vascular pink neon descends
from the heavens; a vaguely vagi-
nal apparition haunts Joseph in a
dream.
Not all of these visual bells and
whistles worked. Puppeteers ma-
neuvering the illuminated figure
of a young girl holding a star in
her hand struggled to keep her
head from flickering out. A tower-
ing statue of Herod — that dou-
bled as a carriage for his arrival —
felt too cumbersome and silly for
its payoff. And a center-stage
conveyor belt served several ex-
pository purposes (Joseph and
mary traversing the desert, for
instance) but contributed to a
sluggish quality that hampered
the production — i.e., lots and
lots of slow-walking (a met favor-
ite).
The kaleidoscopic nature of “El
Niño” doesn’t stop at its vibrant
colors (the eye-popping work of
lighting designer Yi Zhao) and
special effects. Adams’s telling of
the Nativity splits mary into mul-
tiples. In addition to a “mary of
the Land” (sung by soprano Julia
Bullock) and a “mary of the Sea”
You find nothing. Will you trust
him again? When? After month 1
of finding nothing? Year 3? Year
9, but only if he’s good about
remembering your birthday?
You are wracked with doubt
and suspense. That is no kind of
life. And, again, no amount of
phone-checking will fix it.
only two things will: 1.
Trusting the people in your life.
2. Trusting yourself to handle it if
someone breaks that trust.
figure out whether and how
you can get to this point, with or
without this particular known
liar, and proceed accordingly.
To: Trust issues: many people
talk to exes, and partners are
aware of it and don’t object. If
you tried to impose a rule, “Thou
shalt not speak to exes,” and he
circumvented that by lying, then
it calls for some introspection.
I’m not saying the lying is okay,
but a ban on exes suggests
insecurity on your part that
needs to be addressed, along
with trust.
— Anonymous
anonymous: fair point; the
letter writer may have
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thEatEr rEviEw
set (by Paige Hathaway) that com-
presses the proceedings toward
the audience. Activated by tightly
integrated video and lighting
schema (via Patrick W. Lord and
Jason Lyons), the frame can make
the evening feel like a shared
hallucination unfolding inside
one of Peter max’s lunchbox radi-
os.
(mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges), a
trio of alternative marys show up
from time to time as icons over
the horizon — an “Indigenous
mary,” a “Tropical mary,” a “Gold-
en mary” — elegantly (and adven-
turously) adorned by costume
designer montana Levi Blanco.
The softness and vulnerability
of Bullock’s voice cloaks its steely
force, especially present in “me-
morial de Tlatelolco,” sung over a
scaffolding of harps, violent
blurts of brass and tense violins.
Bridges brought a more regal
bearing to her mary, her tone
velvety and generously full, espe-
cially in Castellanos’s “La Anunci-
ación,” atop a tempest of wood-
winds and reaching trombones.
(mezzo-soprano Daniela mack
will sing the role may 1 and 4.)
Bass-baritone Davóne Tines
inhabited the roles of Joseph,
King Herod and the Lord himself
(in a bombastic “Shake the Heav-
ens” that felt in spirit like a
distant relative of “The Trumpet
Shall Sound,” from Handel’s
“messiah”). As Joseph, Tines was
a wounded animal, his voice a
balled fist of fury. As Herod,
comparably overdressed in mili-
tary regalia and wearing an ash-
gray face, he was contemptuous
and sinister. His rich, smoky bari-
tone anchored duets with Bull-
ock, who here and there strug-
gled with some of Adams’s more
demanding vocal leaps.
introduced pressure to lie. The
only correct answer to such
pressure, however, is to refuse to
bow to it, even if it means
breaking up.
Dear Carolyn: my girlfriend and
I watch a lot of TV together to
wind down from stressful jobs
and trying to get ahead in our
I always forget, though, that
over two acts that could easily be a
single, tighter one, the “Hair”
writing team (Galt macDermot,
Gerome ragni and James rado)
packs in a host of disposable pas-
tiche numbers that don’t earn
their time onstage. (Looking at
you, sneering satire of flag-waving
yokels, and maybe even you, unin-
Mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, foreground at left, and soprano
Julia Bullock, at right, in a new Met production of “El Niño.”
A trio of countertenors,
Key’mon W. murrah, Siman
Chung and Eric Jurenas, filled
several roles: They were narra-
tors. They were the Three Kings.
Together they were the angel
Gabriel. The presentation of gold,
frankincense and myrrh allowed
each singer a solo turn (Chung’s
silvery instrument was my favor-
ite), but they were most effective
when bound in Adams’s sleek
harmonies.
Leading the metropolitan op-
era orchestra, conductor marin
Alsop (making her met debut
with this production) empha-
illuSTrATiON by NiCk gAlifiANAkiS fOr ThE WAShiNgTON pOST
20s. It’s the only thing we fight
about. We belong to the same
gym, bike together and even
game together smoothly. With
TV, though, she wants to stop me
from having fun and being
myself.
most shows are stupid, and we
all know that, so I like to crack
jokes. She hates this and says I’m
the washington post
ChriSTOphEr muEllEr
spired riff on federal agencies
with imposing initials.) That
these hang like solo clothespins
upon the barest line of plot — will
the sensitive but hardly iconoclas-
tic Claude join the other men of
his “tribe” in burning his draft
card and stiff-arming the status
quo? — doesn’t help speed the
show along.
EvAN ZimmErmAN/mETrOpOliTAN OpErA
More than anything,
this “El Niño” is a feast
for the eyes — a radiant
vision from director
Lileana Blain-Cruz.
sized the crisp, scintillating spray
of strings, harps and guitar at the
oratorio’s outset. She effectively
ruining the shows for her.
I can’t watch TV and not do
this; it’s unnatural for me, but
she doesn’t care. She doesn’t see
that she’s ruining it for me by
expecting me to just sit there like
a dummy and watch in silence.
other girls I’ve dated have
appreciated it and laughed along
with me. I miss that.
. monday, april 29 , 2024
So even in a first-class commer-
cial revival like the 2007 Diane
Paulus staging that started in
Central Park and later played the
Kennedy Center on its way
around the nation, “Hair” can feel
like an exercise in diminishing
returns. The sonic explosion of
“Aquarius” opens the proceedings
with a sense of searchingly honest
wonder, and the downright
hymn-like ecstatics of “Let the
Sunshine In” send the audience
out feeling like it’s been taken
properly to church, dubious as
“Hair’s” counterculture warriors
might feel about the simile. In
between, though, those lesser
tunes come and go without much
impact, and the ’60s-flavored
shots they take at the mid-century
monoculture don’t feel as tart as
they once must have.
The gems among the gravel are
numbers that sketch piquant
character moments in a show that
doesn’t offer many: “Where Do I
Go,” for the uncertain Claude; the
exquisite “frank mills,” in which a
young woman rhapsodizes a con-
nection that’s probably been
missed but might still be just
possible; and “I Got Life,” a wan
body-parts listicle on the page but
an irresistible carnal bop in the
hands of Signature’s sexy, sweaty
gang of theater kids.
Who are, by the way, sensation-
al — bendy, bouncy, bountiful in
every shape and shade imagin-
able, in sync and on point and
eager to connect as they move
through Ashleigh King’s vivacious
choreography, bright-visaged and
sly-eyed and just joyously alive. In
the hands and on the bodies of an
ensemble this tightly drilled and
audaciously confident, even a
messy old museum piece like
“Hair” can get up and move.
hair, through July 7 at Signature
Theatre in Arlington, va. About
2 hours, 30 minutes including
intermission. sigtheatre.org.
spiked the froth of the seas with
bright strings pushing along in
driving rhythms. She delivered
marvelous nuance and detail —
such as the nocturnal oboes
threaded through Joseph’s
dream. At times, she struggled to
fill the space with the more deli-
cate passages of Adams’s score,
and now and then, the pace
slackened, leaving conspicuous
gaps of silence between sections.
The chorus, present onstage
for a large part of the perform-
ance, was in fabulous form, well-
attuned to the rhythmic demands
of the score, and easily maintain-
ing the sheen of its more abstract
passages. Clusters of dancers
sometimes emerged from the
chorus, choreographer marjani
forté-Saunders filling in the ora-
torio’s occasional blanks with flu-
id, heavily gestural movement.
This isn’t the type of opera you
exit, humming a favorite tune,
lamenting the fate of a certain
character, or buzzing from the
thrill ride of a well-crafted emo-
tional arc. If anything, “El Niño”
indulges in deep abstraction, as
well as a distance that feels (ap-
propriately) liturgical. Blain-
Cruz’s immersive vision collapses
the distance between heaven and
earth, and it feels like a small
miracle.
El Niño runs at the metropolitan
Opera through may 17. metopera.org.
This isn’t something I want to
break up over. Is there any
compromise here?
— Want to Be Me
want to Be Me: You’re doing
something she hates, justifying
it, pitting her against “other
girls” and permission-shopping
to keep her from being herself. Is
this how you treat everyone you
care about? And you “can’t … not
do this”? maybe get that checked.
Either you zip it, watch TV
separately or compromise: You
zip it for her shows and blab
through yours. You choose these
shows together. You try.
You don’t get to decide what
“we all know,” then use that to
insult her. By your definition, she
watches TV “like a dummy.”
She’s entitled to hear dialogue;
you’re entitled to have opinions.
So be respectful and figure it out.
Write to Carolyn hax at
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SPORTS monday, april 29 , 2024 Su D

Nationals,
Senzel get
last laugh
after rally
nationalS 12,
MarlinS 9
BY S PENCER N USBAUM

MIAMI — After the Miami Mar-

lins went down in order during
the third inning sunday after-
noon, the Washington Nationals
looked lifeless. Facing a seven-
run deficit against the National
League’s worst team, most of the
fielders returned to the dugout
with their heads pointed toward
the turf. On the other side, two
Marlins committed the faux pas
of chuckling after making an out.
At the time, it seemed forgiv-
able. The Nationals made sure it
wasn’t.
Two innings, seven hits, nine
runs and two Nick senzel home
runs later, it was Washington’s
turn to elate. Unlike Jesse Wink-
er’s towering grand slam the day
before, senzel’s fifth-inning,
three-run blast was a screamer,
gone in a flash. It put the Nation-
als ahead for good in a 12-9
victory at LoanDepot Park that
was their largest road comeback
win since they erased a 9-1 deficit
against the Atlanta Braves on
April 28, 2015.
Before the ball had left the
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RANGERS 4, CAPITALS 2: Vincent Trocheck’s power-play goal with 16 seconds left in the first period gave New York the lead en route to a sweep of Washington. 6:30 p.m., MaSN2

Clark’s deal
Last in, first out with Nike is
all about her,
not the WNBA
With Stanley Cup-winning core fading, Special teams again are downfall On the day before
it’s time for the next generation to lead as Capitals get swept by Rangers Caitlin Clark
achieved her
latest record, a
In his 24 playoff for more. BY B AILEY J OHNSON cer Carbery was asked sunday $28 million
series over But in the Washington morning, ahead of a do-or-die signature sneaker
19 seasons, Alex Capitals’ sweep at the hands of The Washington Capitals were Game 4, whether games within Kevin B. deal with Nike,
Ovechkin — the the New York Rangers, which not the better team in their first- the series felt as lopsided as the Blackistone the professional
greatest goal ended with sunday night’s 4-2 round stanley Cup playoff series 3-0 deficit made it seem, Car- basketball union
scorer of his loss, Ovechkin couldn’t find the with the New York Rangers. That bery’s response was quick and she is about to become part of
Barry generation, net, not once. It’s symbolic, really, much was clear from the start. unequivocal. released a statement on
Svrluga embarking on a because the four straight first- The Presidents’ Trophy winners “Not at all,” he said. “Not at all.” Instagram: “Endorsements are
quest to become round losses that ushered the from New York matched up On sunday night at Capital NOT WNBA salary.”
the most prolific ever over the Caps out of these stanley Cup against a Washington team that One Arena, the Capitals were, for It was a reminder from the
final two seasons of his career — playoffs showed that this needed all 82 games — and more the fourth game in a row, able to Women’s National Basketball
had never failed to score at least franchise, defined by Ovechkin than a bit of good fortune — just hang with — and at times have Players Association that, to twist
one measly goal. scoring goals is for so long, is in need of to reach the postseason as the the upper hand on — the Rangers a phrase from the now bad-and-
what defines him, what fuels him. transition. Eastern Conference’s final repre- at five-on-five. And for the fourth boujee Tony Kornheiser (who
When he sniffs one out, the scent And soon. sentative. game in a row, it didn’t matter. pointed out some years ago that
gets stronger, and he goes sEE svrLugA ON d3 But when Capitals Coach spen- sEE cApitALs ON d3 we’re in a golden era for
sportswriters but not necessarily
for sportswriting), we have
entered a golden era for a
woman playing basketball but
not for women’s professional
basketball. Or women’s college
basketball, for that matter.
It is Clark — and Clark alone
— who is all the rage.
For further proof, the
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In the draft, Falcons fumble, analysis

while the Chiefs simply reload
The NFL draft
on began with a
the nFl whirlwind of
adam offense and an
Kilgore unprecedented
flurry of
quarterbacks. It ended with
downtown Detroit a crowd-filled
main character and the
ritualistic handing out of grades.
Here’s what to know:
Falcons misread their hand
Atlanta paid for two great
benefits when it signed Kirk
Cousins to a four-year,
$180 million contract in free
agency. First, it elevated the
Falcons’ floor and ceiling in the
short term, making them the
favorite to win the ever-scuffling
NFC south. second, and maybe
pro basketball
Candace Parker retires
after 16 seasons in the
WNBa yielded two MVP
awards and three titles. D2
most important, it bought them
time to figure out their long-term
quarterback situation. They
could win now and deliberate
later. Cousins may not be elite,
but he could provide a baseline
and allow for patience. stability
was the entire point.
That’s what made the Falcons’
selection of Michael Penix Jr.
with the eighth pick such a
miscalculation. There’s wisdom
in their belief that when a great
quarterback comes along, a team
should take him no matter what.
And if Penix eventually becomes
a top-five quarterback, the
Falcons will be vindicated. But in
hoping the fourth quarterback
off the board reaches that level,
the Falcons are trying to thread
sEE oN the NFL ON d5
nba playoffs
despite letting a 31-point
lead vanish, the Clippers
hold on for a game 4 win
over the Mavericks. D6
Foundation is laid, but full remodel will take time
BY S AM F ORTIER
Adam Peters didn’t fix every-
thing in one offseason. But maybe
most importantly, given the past
25 years, the Washington Com-
manders’ new general manager
had the restraint and support not
even to try.
Instead, Peters stuck to his
long-term vision and built a
bridge roster for 2024. He hopes
this team will be good enough to
compete with anyone, of course,
but pushing for even a playoff spot
may be tough — many sports-
books project the Commanders’
win total at 61/2, tied for the fourth
lowest in the NFL.
The best measure of success
this season will be the growth of
the rookies. They are the bedrock
of the roster — and if they show
promise, Peters could be embold-
ened to make splash signings or
aggressive trades. If they don’t, he
can tweak his process and try
again, albeit with less benefit of
the doubt.
Craig hudSoN for the WaShiNgtoN PoSt Either way, Peters has
general Manager Adam peters, right, prioritized talent, leadership and experience in the NFL draft. sEE coMMANders ON d5
d2
golf
McIlroy and Lowry are
a winning PGA pair
Rory McIlroy and Shane
Lowry won the Zurich Classic of
New Orleans team event Sunday,
beating Chad Ramey and Martin
Trainer with a par on the first
hole of a playoff.
Trainer pushed a six-foot par
putt to the right of the cup to end
it, with Lowry and McIlroy
sharing a smiling embrace on the
green in Avondale, La.
The 34-year-old McIlroy,
playing in the event for the first
time, won his 25th PGA Tour title
and first of the season. Lowry
claimed his third PGA Tour
victory.
The Irish tandem closed with a
4-under-par 68 in the alternate-
shot final round to match Ramey
and Trainer at 25-under 263.
Ramey and Trainer began the
day tied for 27th at 16 under and
shot to the top of the leader board
with nine birdies between the
seventh and 18th holes. They tied
the alternate-shot tournament
record of 63 but then had to wait
nearly three hours to see if their
lead would stand up. . . .
Hannah Green closed with a
5-under 66 and won the LA
Championship for the second
straight year, holing out twice
from off the greens in a pivotal
back-nine stretch at Wilshire
Country Club in Los Angeles.
A year after making a 25-foot
birdie on the final hole of
regulation and winning on the
second hole of a playoff, Green
took the drama out of this one for
her fifth LPGA Tour victory and
second of the year. . . .
Stephen Ames celebrated his
60th birthday with a successful
title defense in the Mitsubishi
Electric Classic, closing with a
5-under 67 in Duluth, Ga., for his
eighth PGA Tour Champions
victory.
Paul Broadhurst, the 58-year-
old Englishman coming off a
victory last week in the Invited
Celebrity Classic, closed with a 72
to tie for second with Doug
Barron (69). . . .
Three-time PGA Tour winner
Brendan Steele held off a fast
finishing Louis Oosthuizen to
win the LIV Golf Adelaide
tournament at the Grange Golf
Club in Australia by one stoke.
The 41-year-old Steele shot a
final-round 68 for a 54-hole total
of 18-under 198 to earn his first
victory since he won his second
Safeway Open in 2017 on the PGA
Tour.
auto raCing
Hamlin calls his shot,
gets it done at Dover
Denny Hamlin called his shot
ahead of Dover, guaranteeing a
win on his podcast, then followed
through on a bold boast that
would have made the Bambino
proud and held off Kyle Larson
down the stretch to park his
Toyota in Victory Lane.
Hamlin wiggled past lapped
traffic, never let Larson squeak by
him over the final laps in a
showdown between two of
NASCAR’s elite drivers and won
the Cup Series race by about a
quarter of a second at Dover
(Del.) Motor Speedway.
“You better win if you’re going
to open your mouth, that’s for
sure,” Hamlin said.
Hamlin has the Victory Lane
celebration down pat this season.
He celebrated last week at
Talladega in his role as co-owner
of 23XI Racing when Tyler
Reddick took the checkered flag.
Hamlin’s contribution was a bit
overshadowed by his fellow team
owner — Michael Jordan. For
the first time since he became a
NASCAR Cup Series team owner,
Jordan was at the track to savor
in person a victory by one of his
drivers.
Hamlin knew the win was
coming. Or at least, publicly he
was willing to say he did, going so
far as to call his shot — he even
referenced Babe Ruth on the
podcast — that he would master
the Monster Mile.
“I’m going to call it now. We’re
going to win Dover,” Hamlin said
last week on “Actions
Detrimental.” “Got it?”
Hamlin led 136 of the 400 laps
and won at Dover for the second
time in his career.
Hamlin’s third win of the
season tied William Byron for
most this season in the series.
Hamlin also picked up his
54th career Cup win, all with Joe
Gibbs Racing.
He’s tied with Lee Petty for
12th on the career list. . . .
Scott McLaughlin won his
second straight race at Barber
Motorsports Park in
Birmingham, giving Team Penske
a much-needed triumph just days
after IndyCar erased Josef
Newgarden’s victory and also
disqualified McLaughlin from the
season opener.
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THE DAY IN SPORTS
Candace Parker earned WNBA titles with the Los Angeles Sparks (2016), Chicago Sky (2021) and Las Vegas Aces (2023).
Parker calls it quits after 16-year pro career
BY C INDY B OREN
After 16 seasons, WNBA champion-
ships with three teams and two MVP
awards, Candace Parker announced her
retirement Sunday, saying in an Insta-
gram post, “I promised I’d never cheat
the game and that I’d leave it in a better
place than I came into it.”
“The competitor in me always wants 1
more, but it’s time,” she wrote. “My
HEART & body knew, but I needed to
give my mind time to accept it. I always
wanted to walk off the court with no
parade or tour, just privately with the
ones I love. What now was to be my last
game, I walked off the court with my
daughter. I ended the journey just as I
started it, with her.”
Parker had said last fall that she was
considering retirement but signed a one-
year contract in February to return to the
2023 WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces.
But in announcing her decision to retire,
she spoke of playing in pain and the
realization that her game was not what it
had been because of injuries.
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McLaughlin and Penske’s fuel the push-to-pass function system
strategy worked to perfection on his car. McLaughlin, likewise,
Sunday, with teammate Will was disqualified after finishing
Power finishing second — the third.
same order they started in.
McLaughlin’s fifth IndyCar win soCCer
provided temporary solace after a
troubling week for Team Penske, PSG wins third straight
led by series owner Roger French league crown
Penske. On Wednesday,
Newgarden had his season- Paris Saint-Germain won the
opening win in St. Petersburg, French league in Kylian
Fla., stripped for manipulating Mbappé’s last season at the club
sU the washington post . monday, april 29 , 2024
sPotlight: W nba Tottenham to stay narrowly
ahead in the race for the English
Premier League title.
A 3-2 win at Tottenham
Hotspur Stadium ensured Mikel
Arteta’s team remained at the top
of the standings, ahead of
defending champion Manchester
City, which won, 2-0, at
Nottingham Forest.
But Arsenal had to endure a
nervous finish despite powering
to 3-0 lead in a London derby that
was supposed to be one of its
biggest tests in the title chase.
Under pressure, Arsenal held
on and remains one point clear at
the top, having played a game
more than City.
Meanwhile, without a win in
its first nine league games this
season, Bournemouth is now in
the top half of the table and has
set its own Premier League points
record.
A 3-0 win against Brighton
moved Andoni Iraola’s team up
to 10th place with 48 points.
Bournemouth’s previous best in
the top flight was 46 points in the
2016-17 season. . . .
Thousands of fans lined the
streets as Inter Milan was
paraded in an open-air bus from
the San Siro stadium to the city
cathedral to celebrate the
Nerazzurri’s 20th Italian league
title.
The celebration followed a 2-0
home win over Torino, which
came six days after Inter sealed
the Serie A title in memorable
fashion with a derby victory over
city rival AC Milan.
Hakan Calhanoglu scored two
second-half goals to extend
Inter’s advantage to 19 points
over second-place AC Milan. . . .
Real Betis was frustrated in its
pursuit of a European berth in
the Spanish league after a 1-1
draw at home against Sevilla in
the Seville derby.
Betis is two points from sixth-
place Real Sociedad in the final
Europa Conference League
spot. . . .
Lyon will play Barcelona in the
final of the Women’s Champions
League after it beat Paris Saint-
Germain, 2-1, in the semifinal
second leg and 5-3 on aggregate.
The May 25 final in Bilbao,
Spain, will be a rematch of the
2019 and 2022 finals, both won by
eight-time champion Lyon. . . .
Rose Lavelle, in her first
appearance for Gotham, scored
seven minutes into stoppage time
for a 1-1 draw with Racing
Louisville in a National Women’s
Soccer League game in Harrison,
N.J.
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Texans’ Dell is hurt
in shooting in Florida
Houston Texans wide receiver
Tank Dell suffered what the team
called “a minor wound” in a
Parker joined the Aces in 2023 for what shooting in which 10 people were
would become her final season and her injured in Sanford, Fla., early
Former Tennessee standout third title. A seven-time all-star, she also Sunday morning.
won three league titles, won Olympic gold medals for the United Dell was released from a
States in 2008 and 2012. hospital, according to the Texans.
two Olympic gold medals Wearing No. 3 in part because she was The team did not provide details
inspired and encouraged by Allen Iver- about his injuries.
son, she became the second woman in According to a Seminole
“This offseason hasn’t been fun on a WNBA history (after Lisa Leslie, her County Sheriff’s Office arrest
foot that isn’t cooperating,” wrote Parker, Sparks teammate) to dunk during a report, a 16-year-old was taken
who turned 38 this month. “It’s no fun regulation WNBA game June 22, 2008, into custody after 10 people
playing in pain (10 surgeries in my against the Indiana Fever. She would suffered gunshot wounds just
career), it’s no fun knowing what you quickly become the first player to do it after midnight at an
could do if only . . . it’s no fun hearing ‘she twice, dunking again two days later entertainment venue in Sanford,
isn’t the same’ when I know why, it’s no against the Seattle Storm. which is about 20 miles north of
fun accepting the fact you need surgery Parker’s impact on the sport has ex- Orlando.
AGAIN.” tended beyond the court. In 2018, she Authorities told the Associated
Parker played for Pat Summitt at became an analyst and commentator for Press that the victims suffered
Tennessee and was picked first overall by Turner Sports, appearing on TNT, NBA non-life-threatening injuries and
the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2008 draft. TV and NCAA men’s tournament broad- most were shot in their lower
In addition to rookie of the year honors, casts during the WNBA offseason. In bodies.
she won her first MVP award that season. 2019, she signed a multiyear extension Dell, 24, is from Daytona
Parker captured her first WNBA title with Turner for NBA work and for NCAA Beach, Fla. The Texans selected
with the Sparks in 2016, earning Finals work on CBS. him in the third round of last
MVP honors. She spent the 2021 and In 2023, she became the first woman year’s NFL draft out of Houston.
2022 seasons with the Chicago Sky, win- to do in-game color commentary at the He had 47 catches for 709 yards
ning another championship in 2021. NBA All-Star Game. and seven touchdowns in
11 games as a rookie before
suffering a fractured left fibula
during a December game against
t e l e V i si o n a n d r ad i o the Denver Broncos.
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the Defenders (2-3). . . .
Carlos Alcaraz continues to
make a successful return from
injury at the Madrid Open.
The two-time defending
champion cruised past Thiago
after Monaco lost, 3-2, at Lyon. PSG is on course for a potential Seyboth Wild in the third round,
PSG has an unassailable historic treble. It will play at 6-3, 6-3, in his first event after he
12-point lead over second-place Borussia Dortmund in the first skipped Monte Carlo and
Monaco, which has three games leg of the Champions League Barcelona because of an arm
left. semifinals Wednesday and then injury.
The Ligue 1 triumph is PSG’s face Lyon in the French Cup final The third-ranked Alcaraz is
third in a row and a record- May 25. trying to become the first player
extending 12th overall. In Coach Luis Enrique’s first to win three straight Madrid
Mbappé has been involved in season at the club, PSG produced Open titles. He will next face Jan-
six of them, but his contract runs one of the most dominant Lennard Struff, his opponent in
out at the end of the season. He’s seasons in league history with last year’s final in Madrid.
expected to be signed by Real just one loss in 31 games. . . . — From news services
Madrid. Arsenal survived a late scare at and staff reports
monday, april 29 , 2024 . the washington post
rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin saves a shot by Capitals winger Tom Wilson during the first period. Washington scored just seven goals across four games in the series.
Capitals get pushed aside and exit playo≠s quietly
CApITALS from D1
Washington’s inability to win the
special teams battle proved to be
its undoing in a 4-2 loss that
ended the series and its season.
It was the first time the Capi-
tals were swept out of the playoffs
since the East semifinals against
the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2011.
Captain Alex ovechkin again was
held off the scoreboard, leaving
him without a goal in the series.
Goaltender Charlie Lindgren
took the loss while making
19 saves on 22 shots. Igor Shester-
kin stopped 23 of 25 for New York,
which will face the Carolina Hur-
ricanes or the New York Islanders
in the second round.
“It stings,” center Nic Dowd
said. “I think you can play a lot of
what-if, and I think guys will be
doing that for the next couple
days. Honestly, five-on-five, we
did some really good things, and
we, at times, outplayed them. . . .
They won the special teams bat-
tle, they won the games, and
that’s what ended up turning the
series.”
Game 4 began on an inauspi-
cious note for Washington. De-
barry svrluga
Latest first-round loss shows it’s time for young core to take the lead
SvrLugA from D1
The Caps’ core won the Cup.
The Caps’ core can do it no more.
Let’s go, kids. It’s time.
In so many ways, the
experience of those four games
— regardless of the results — was
important. Think about how
fragile it was even to get here:
fail to beat Tampa Bay, Boston
and Philadelphia over the course
of four nights to close the regular
season, and the Capitals’ season
would have been more than a
week in the rearview. They
would have missed the playoffs
in back-to-back seasons for the
first time since ovechkin’s rookie
and sophomore seasons — which
would be back in 2005-06 and
2006-07.
Instead, Washington had eight
players make their postseason
debuts against the rangers.
“It’s huge,” Capitals veteran
Tom Wilson said. “You realize at
this time of year what it takes,
how hard it is. . . . It’s just
different. It’s a different animal.”
In that sense, the rangers
provided the ideal foil. They set
the standard as the team with
the NHL’s best record in the
regular season. In the series,
their considerable skill was on
display, but so was their take-
care-of-business, do-your-job
approach. They won the series
not because they overwhelmed
the Capitals but because they
were a smidgen — at least —
better in every single area.
They’re a perfect model for what
the Capitals once were and
would like to become again.
“New York is right there at the
fenseman Nick Jensen, playing
his first game since he suffered an
upper-body injury against Tampa
Bay on April 13, turned over the
puck to Kaapo Kakko on the first
shift, and Kakko needed no more
help to put his rangers in the
lead. Just 57 seconds into a do-or-
die game, the Capitals were in a
hole.
But Washington didn’t let
Jensen’s gaffe spark a death spi-
ral. The Capitals regained their
footing, controlling much of the
play at five-on-five and settling
into the game.
Late in the opening frame,
center Dylan Strome won a puck
battle along the boards and
slipped the puck to winger Aliak-
sei Protas, who spotted defense-
man martin fehervary flying
down the wing with space. Pro-
tas’s tape-to-tape feed set up fe-
hervary for a one-touch finish at
14:54 as Shesterkin sprawled, los-
ing his stick in the process.
But the self-inflicted wounds
returned for Washington in the
final minute of the period. Jensen
took a penalty for tripping Adam
fox at 18:51, and with just 16
seconds remaining, Vincent Tro-
Alex Ovechkin went without a goal in a playoff series for the first
time. The Capitals are 0-5 in series since they won the Stanley Cup.
top with some of the teams that
expect to win the Stanley Cup,”
first-year coach Spencer Carbery
said. “So it’s a good measuring
stick moment to see, ‘okay, this
is the level that I’m trying to
aspire to get to and be able to do
it consistently.’ ”
In saying that, Carbery
stopped himself. He just
completed his first season as an
NHL head coach.
“I don’t care what our scenario
[is] — rebuild, youngest team in
the league,” he said. “It will not
matter to me, and we will never
be satisfied if we,” and he went
for air quotes here, “ ‘gained
experience,’ ‘got into the playoffs.’
“Because to me, that’s a loser’s
mind-set. . . . You should have a
mind-set that you expect to win,
check found space in the slot to
lift the go-ahead goal over
Lindgren.
forward Tom Wilson, whom
Trocheck skated past into space
before the goal, went after fox as
the rangers celebrated, sparking
a skirmish behind Lindgren and
earning him a penalty for rough-
ing. Already in a precarious posi-
tion and having struggled on the
penalty kill throughout the series,
the Capitals could ill afford an
undisciplined moment from the
physical forward.
Washington killed off Wilson’s
penalty in the second period and,
for perhaps the first time in the
series, was able to build on the
momentum. It didn’t produce an
immediate goal, but the Capitals
steadily chipped away, finding
their footing and keeping the
rangers at bay.
The Capitals lacked high-skill,
game-breaking moments in the
first three games. Carbery point-
ed out Sunday morning that
Washington had one five-on-five
goal from a top-six forward in the
series — center Connor mcmi-
chael’s opening goal in Game 2.
Center Hendrix Lapierre
tom Brenner/associated press
and you expect to get in the
playoffs, and you expect to beat
the New York rangers in the first
round. And anything short of
that is a failure.”
The tone is set, then. The
Capitals won the Stanley Cup in
2018, a franchise-altering spring
that secured the legacy of
ovechkin and Co. But only four
players who had a hand in
raising that chalice suited up
Sunday night. They are
simultaneously trying to rebuild
while the old guard ages out, and
it’s hard.
The Caps have now played five
playoff series since taking the
Cup. Their record: 0-5.
In Carbery, they would appear
to have their coaching bridge
from ovechkin’s era to whatever
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changed that with a stunning solo
effort midway through the peri-
od. As he picked the puck up in
the neutral zone, four rangers
stood between Lapierre and
Shesterkin; he paid the numeri-
cal disadvantage little mind. first
weaving past Jack roslovic, then
finding a lane between Chris
Kreider and ryan Lindgren, Lapi-
erre attacked down the slot and
fired a backhand shot that
Shesterkin saved.
In previous games in this se-
ries, that would have been the
end of the threat. But Lapierre
picked up his own rebound and,
in a split second, lifted the puck
back up over Shesterkin to tie the
score at 2 at 7:48. It was his first
Stanley Cup playoff goal.
The Capitals weathered a late
push by New York to enter the
second intermission with the
score still tied. A high-sticking
penalty to winger T.J. oshie early
in the third period put Washing-
ton in a dangerous position, and
New York quickly capitalized. Ar-
temi Panarin needed just 11 sec-
onds of power-play time to find
the back of the net off a feed from
mika Zibanejad.
lies beyond. What these past two
seasons show is that they need a
further overhaul of the roster.
for the first time in the past few
offseasons, it may well be
possible.
The unsettled nature of this
season began when franchise
pillar Nicklas Backstrom
decided, after eight games, that
his resurfaced hip wouldn’t
allow him to play to his
standard, and he stepped away
from the game. If Backstrom
retires this summer, there could
be some financial relief from the
$9.2 million he counts against
next season’s salary cap.
Either way, Backstrom’s
contract is up after 2024-25, as is
that of T.J. oshie, whose
chronically bad back continues
to limit him — and may have him
pondering what to do next
season as well.
Even with no relief in either of
those situations, the Caps will
have nearly $7 million of
available cap space, according to
Spotrac. They should be able to
augment a roster that needs
improvement, particularly in the
speed department. And then the
following offseason — as
ovechkin heads into the
campaign when he hopes to
break Wayne Gretzky’s all-time
mark for goals — they will have
the space to truly spend in free
agency.
What the rangers series
showed, too, is that, for the next
few seasons to be more
successful than the past few, a
transition from the players who
won the Cup to the new core has
to start in earnest. That has to be
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mcmichael drew a hooking
penalty less than two minutes
later, but the Capitals’ series-long
problems on the power play con-
tinued to be an issue. Washington
recorded just one shot attempt on
the man advantage, a try from
ovechkin that was blocked by
defenseman Jacob Trouba, and
spent much of the two minutes
just trying to establish possession
in the offensive zone.
The Capitals never found the
push they needed for a tying goal
— not until it was already too late.
In desperation, after a series of
threatening but unproductive
shifts, defenseman rasmus Sand-
in tripped Panarin as he brought
the puck up the ice with 2:42 left.
Carbery pulled Lindgren to
bring the game back to five-on-
five — one final, last-ditch at-
tempt to save the season. With
51 seconds left, roslovic hit the
empty net to end the Capitals’
brief appearance in the playoffs.
“This time of year, it always
sucks,” Wilson said. “Proud of the
group. It’s tough knowing you’re
not coming to the rink tomorrow
and this group won’t be one ever
again. We battled to the end.”
in minutes and production. As
long as they have stalls in the
locker room, ovechkin, oshie,
John Carlson and Wilson will set
whatever tone the Caps want to
set. But the era when that
quartet can lead the team
statistically has passed.
So take Hendrix Lapierre, still
just 22 and entrusted with
centering ovechkin’s line Sunday
night. When the Caps trailed in
the second period and badly
needed someone to do
something — anything — here
came Lapierre, slicing through
the rangers’ defense, getting a
backhand on goalie Igor
Shesterkin, then poking home
his own rebound. more of that
was needed in this series. more
importantly now: more of it is
needed over the course of next
season.
That’s from Lapierre, who will
probably play his first full season
in the NHL. But it’s from Connor
mcmichael, too. And Aliaksei
Protas. And rasmus Sandin. And
Ivan miroshnichenko. The kids
can’t be along for the ride,
waiting to follow ovechkin et al.
They have to begin driving the
franchise. And someone among
them — maybe ryan Leonard,
last year’s first-round draft pick
who will return to Boston
College for a second season —
will have to become a star.
Because the stars of old have
the Cup, but the stars of old are
fading. The Capitals weren’t
embarrassed by the rangers,
even in a sweep. But they also
weren’t close to the class of the
league. The climb back awaits —
and the characters must change.
D3
stanley CuP Playoffs
Vancouver
ties it late,
then wins
in overtime
canucks 4,
PredaTOrs 3 (OT)
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Brock Boeser had the best play-
off game of his career at the
perfect moment for the Vancou-
ver Canucks.
Boeser had his first hat trick in
the playoffs, then Elias Lindholm
scored 1:02 into overtime as the
Canucks stunned host Nashville,
4-3, to grab a 3-1 series lead and
put the Predators on the brink of
elimination in the first-round.
Lindolm beat goalie Juuse Sa-
ros over his stick with a wrister
from just in front of the crease off a
pass from Conor Garland.
“I was wide open right in front,”
Lindholm said. “So, I mean, obvi-
ously we scored a goal and got
kind of relief and a lot of emotions
and lost my voice a little bit. But
it’s a good feeling.”
Boeser scored on Vancouver’s
first shot and got the Canucks into
overtime by scoring twice in the
final 2:49. His third came with
eight seconds left in regulation to
quiet a Nashville crowd that cel-
ebrated much of the third period.
Boeser said he knew time was
ticking down after he hit the post
and had the puck again.
“I just kind of saw an opportu-
nity like to jam it and just try it,
and it worked,” Boeser said.
J.T. miller had three assists. The
Canucks now will have a chance to
advance Tuesday night in Vancou-
ver in Game 5.
filip forsberg, Gustav Nyquist
and mark Jankowski all scored for
Nashville, which also blew a 2-1
lead in losing Game 1, giving up
three goals in the third period. It
was the first time the Predators
lost a playoff game leading by two
or more goals in the third period
in franchise history.
“We just kind of broke down
and lost a little composure there
in the end,” Nashville Coach An-
drew Brunette said.
The Canucks won with Arturs
Silovs making 27 saves in his
Stanley Cup playoff debut as their
third different starting goalie.
The sixth-round pick in the
2019 draft from riga, Latvia, re-
placed Casey DeSmith, who got
his first postseason win friday
night in Game 2. He took over in
net for injured all-star Thatcher
Demko who is week-to-week after
winning Game 1.
The Canucks became only the
second team in NHL history with
three different goalies to win each
of their first three games in a
postseason. Vancouver also did it
during the 2004 Western quarter-
finals.
l AvALANCHE 5, JETS 1: In
his postgame on-ice interview,
Valeri Nichushkin described his
day in as many words as he had
goals: “I feel amazing.”
Nichushkin recorded his first
career hat trick, Alexandar Geor-
giev turned in another strong
showing, and Colorado won
Game 4 in Denver to move a win
away from advancing.
It has been a roller-coaster sea-
son for the 29-year-old Nichush-
kin, who missed nearly two
months to receive care from the
NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance
Program. The 6-foot-4, 210-pound
fast-moving Nichushkin is getting
up to full speed.
“It’s hard to stop the big man,”
said Artturi Lehkonen, who
scored the game’s first goal.
Cale makar also scored for the
Avalanche, which grabbed a 3-1
lead in the first-round series.
Game 5 is Tuesday night in Win-
nipeg.
Nichushkin added an empty-
netter with 13 seconds left to give
him his first hat trick in game
No. 580 of his NHL career, includ-
ing regular season and postsea-
son.
“When he’s using his body
right and skating well, a pretty
special player to watch,” makar
said.
Georgiev was on the hot seat
after a shaky Game 1, but his
confidence keeps surging with
every big save. He stopped
26 shots in the matinee game.
Vezina Trophy-favorite Connor
Hellebuyck continues to struggle
in net. He allowed four goals on
30 shots before being replaced by
Laurent Brossoit for the third
period. Hellebuyck has surren-
dered 19 goals in the series.
“I don’t think those goals are
his fault,” forward mark Scheifele
said of Hellebuyck. “He’s our
backbone. He’s our heart and
soul.”
Lehkonen and Nichushkin
have scored in all four games of
the series.
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atlanta 19 7 .731 — 8-2 W-1 Milwaukee 17 10 .630 — 6-4 L-2 Los angeles 18 12 .600 — 6-4 L-1 New York 19 10 .655 — 6-4 W-2 cleveland 19 9 .679 — 7-3 L-1 seattle 15 13 .536 — 7-3 L-1
1/ 1/
philadelphia 19 10 .655 11/2 8-2 W-4 chicago 17 11 .607 2 6-4 L-2 san Francisco 14 15 .483 31/2 6-4 W-1 Baltimore 17 10 .630 1 6-4 L-1 Kansas city 17 12 .586 21/2 5-5 L-2 Texas 15 14 .517 2 5-5 W-1
New York 14 13 .519 5 1/
2 5-5 W-1 cincinnati 15 13 .536 2 1/
2 6-4 L-1 san Diego 14 17 .452 4 1/
2 3-7 L-4 Boston 16 13 .552 3 6-4 W-2 Detroit 16 12 .571 3 6-4 W-2 Oakland 12 17 .414 3 1/
2 4-6 W-1
Washington 13 14 .481 61/2 6-4 W-3 pittsburgh 14 15 .483 4 3-7 L-1 arizona 13 16 .448 41/2 4-6 W-1 Toronto 14 15 .483 5 4-6 W-1 Minnesota 14 13 .519 41/2 8-2 W-7 Los angeles 10 18 .357 5 1-9 L-4
Miami 6 23 .207 141/2 2-8 L-6 st. Louis 13 15 .464 41/2 4-6 L-1 colorado 7 21 .250 10 3-7 L-2 Tampa Bay 13 16 .448 6 3-7 L-3 chicago 6 22 .214 13 3-7 W-3 houston 9 19 .321 6 3-7 W-2

nationals 12, marlins 9 tigers 4, royals 1 athletics 7, orioles 6 n ot E s

NAtiONALS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Wenceel pérez hit a two- AthLEticS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg
Abrams ss............5 1 1 2 0 1 .296 run drive for his first major Butler rf............... 4 1 1 0 1 1 .205
Senzel dh .............6 2 2 5 0 2 .222 Nevin 3b............... 5 2 2 1 0 2 .286
Winker lf..............5 0 1 0 1 1 .286 league homer and Jake Bleday cf.............. 3 1 1 1 0 0 .227 pErsonnEl dEpt.
Meneses 1b .........6 0 0 0 0 0 .236 rogers also homered for Ruiz ph-cf ............ 2 0 0 0 0 1 .250
Vargas 2b.............5 1 2 0 0 2 .304 Rooker dh ............ 4 0 1 2 0 2 .210 cubs: chicago placed
Lipscomb 3b.........4 3 3 0 0 0 .292 Detroit, which has won five Brown lf............... 4 1 1 1 0 1 .200
Call rf ...................2 3 2 0 2 0 1.00 Schuemann 2b ..... 3 0 1 0 0 1 .150
Lhp Jordan Wicks on the
Adams c ...............4 0 0 0 1 3 .231
of seven.
Toro ph-2b ........... 1 0 1 0 0 0 .229 15-day injured list with a
Young cf...............5 2 3 3 0 0 .333 it was Detroit’s 10th Allen ss................ 0 0 0 0 0 0 .179
tOtALS 42 12 14 10 4 9 — come-from-behind win of Noda 1b................ 4 0 0 0 0 1 .143 strained forearm. he was
Hernaiz ss-2b ...... 3 1 0 0 1 0 .150
mArLiNS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg the season. K.McCann c .......... 4 1 2 2 0 2 .313
scheduled to start the
Arraez 2b-1b.........5 1 2 0 0 0 .305 Detroit left-hander Tarik tOtALS 37 7 10 7 2 11 — series finale at Boston.
De La Cruz lf .........4 2 2 0 1 0 .261
Bell dh...................4 1 0 0 1 1 .176 skubal pitched seven in- OriOLES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg mets: rhp Kodai senga
Chisholm cf...........3 2 1 4 2 1 .245 nings of one-run ball and Henderson ss ...... 5 0 0 0 0 1 .288
Anderson ss..........4 1 1 1 1 3 .223 Rutschman c ....... 5 1 1 1 0 3 .318
(right shoulder capsule
Rivera 1b...............3 0 1 1 0 0 .241 struck out six. O'Hearn rf ........... 3 1 1 0 0 1 .297 strain) is expected to
Gordon ph-2b ........2 0 0 0 0 0 .197 McKenna ph-rf .... 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.00
Myers rf ................3 1 1 0 0 1 .333 rOYALS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Santander dh ...... 3 1 0 0 1 1 .218 throw 20 to 25 pitches of
J.Sánchez ph-rf ....2 0 1 1 0 1 .227 Garcia 3b ............. 4 1 1 0 0 1 .223 Mountcastle 1b... 4 1 3 2 0 1 .319
Bruján 3b ..............4 1 2 1 0 0 .235 Witt ss ................ 4 0 1 1 0 1 .308 Mullins cf ............ 4 1 0 1 0 0 .222
live batting practice
Fortes c.................4 0 1 1 0 1 .132 Perez 1b............... 3 0 0 0 1 0 .340 Cowser lf............. 4 0 1 1 0 2 .310 against minor league
tOtALS 38 9 12 9 5 8 — Velázquez lf......... 3 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Urías 3b............... 4 1 1 1 0 1 .186
Massey ph ........... 1 0 1 0 0 0 .208 Mateo 2b............. 3 0 1 0 1 2 .257 hitters.
wAShiNgtON 000 541 020 — 12 14 1 Fermin c............... 3 0 0 0 0 1 .195 tOtALS 36 6 9 6 2 12 —
miAmi.............. 610 000 200 — 9 12 2 Pasquantino ph ... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .217
Renfroe rf ............ 2 0 0 0 1 1 .149 OAkLANd ...... 013 000 102 — 7 10 1 by tHE numbErs
E: Abrams (1), Bruján (4), Myers (1). Melendez ph........ 1 0 0 0 0 1 .195
LOb: Washington 10, Miami 7. 2b: bALtimOrE... 023 100 000 — 6 9 0
Young (4), Abrams (5), Vargas (5), De
La Cruz (6), Rivera (2), Anderson (3).
3b: Myers (1), Bruján (2). hr: Senzel
(4), off Weathers; Senzel (5), off Bend-
er; Chisholm (3), off Corbin. rbi: Young
Blanco cf.............. 4
Hampson 2b ........ 3
Frazier dh ............ 3
tOtALS 32
0
0
0
1
1 0 0 2 .227
1 0 0 0 .212
0 0 0 1 .188
5 1 2 9 —
E: K.McCann (3). LOb: Oakland 5, Balti-
more 5. 2b: Bleday (6), Cowser (7). hr:
Brown (2), off Suárez; Nevin (2), off
Coulombe; K.McCann (2), off Kimbrel;
300
career home runs for
Rutschman (4), off Blackburn; Mount-
3 (7), Abrams 2 (15), Senzel 5 (9), Ch- tigErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg
isholm 4 (15), Bruján (2), Fortes (3), Ri- Greene lf.............2 0 1 1 1 0 .240
castle (4), off Blackburn; Urías (1), off Yankees 1B anthony
Blackburn. rbi: Brown (6), Bleday (6),
vera (3), Anderson (5), J.Sánchez (10). Canha 1b .............4 1 1 0 0 0 .272 Rooker 2 (13), Nevin (6), K.McCann 2 rizzo, who reached the
Sb: Young 2 (10), Lipscomb (5), Vargas Pérez rf ...............4 1 2 2 0 0 .286 (5), Mullins (17), Cowser (18),
(2). Carpenter dh.......4 0 1 0 0 1 .276 Rutschman (17), Mountcastle 2 (14), milestone sunday while
NAtiONALS ip h r Er bb SO NpErA Vierling 3b ..........3 0 1 0 0 0 .280 Urías (3). Sb: Mullins (6), Mountcastle
Keith 2b ..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .161 (1).
going 4 for 4.
Corbin............... 4 8 7 4 2 4 936.82
Law .................. 2 2 0 0 0 3 293.00 McKinstry ss ......4 0 1 0 0 2 .220 AthLEticS ip h r Er bb SO ErA
Weems............ 1/3 2 2 2 1 0 164.66 Rogers c..............4 2 2 1 0 1 .164 quotablE
Meadows cf ........3 0 1 0 0 0 .091 Blackburn ............ 4 7 6 6 1 5 3.34
Harvey........... 12/3 0 0 0 1 0 193.07 Muller............... 21/3 1 0 0 1 2 2.29
Finnegan ......... 1 0 0 0 1 1 212.19 tOtALS 32 4 10 4 1 5 — Adams ................ 2/3 1 0 0 0 1 1.93
mArLiNS ip h r Erbb SO NpErA kANSAS citY 100 000 000 — 1 5 0
McFarland ........... 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.97
Erceg.................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.54
“He hit one to the
Weathers ..........4 5 6 6 3 3 874.55 dEtrOit ........ 210 001 00X — 4 10 0
Bender ..............1
Smith ................1
3
2
3 3 0 2
1 1 1 1
209.00
303.77
LOb: Kansas City 6, Detroit 7. 2b: Garcia
(4), Canha (7), Meadows (1). hr: Pérez
OriOLES ip
Suárez ................. 4
h
7
r Er bb SO ErA
4 4 1 6 2.35
track last night. I
Ramirez.............1 1 0 0 0 1 170.00 (1), off Wacha; Rogers (2), off Wacha. Akin ..................... 2 0 0 0 0 2 3.46
Hoeing...............1
Cronin................1
3
0
2 2 0 2
0 0 0 0
272.00
122.25
rOYALS ip h r Er bb SO ErA
Wacha .............. 52/3 9 4 4 0 3 4.24
Coulombe ........... 2/3
Webb .................. 1/3
1
0
1 1 0 1 3.48
0 0 0 0 2.25 guess he did a
wp: Law (2-1); Lp: Bender (0-2); S: Smith.................. 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 10.6 Cano..................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.45
Finnegan (9). inherited runners-scored:
Harvey 1-0, Bender 1-1. hbp: Weathers
Anderson............. 1 1 0 0 1 0 3.60
Klein .................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
seTh WeNig/assOciaTeD press
Kimbrel................ 0
Tate ..................... 1
1
0
2 2 1 0 3.18
0 0 0 1 2.84 couple extra
3 (Call,Abrams,Lipscomb). wp: Hoe- wp: McFarland (1-0); Lp: Kimbrel (3-1);
tigErS ip h r Er bb SO ErA
ing(2). t: 3:17. A: 15,894 (37,446).
Skubal.................. 7 4 1 1 1 6 1.72
S: Erceg (1). t: 2:53. A: 40,887 (45,971).
push-ups this
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mArLiNS FirSt
Miller ................... 1
Foley.................... 1
0
1
0 0 0 1 2.03
0 0 1 2 1.38
Veni, vidi, Vientos!
Luis Arraez singles. Bryan De La Cruz
singles, Luis Arraez to second. Josh Bell
wp: Skubal (4-0); Lp: Wacha (1-3); S: Mark Vientos, called up Saturday by the Mets, hit a walk-off home run to beat the Cardinals on Sunday. morning.”
Foley (9). hbp: Wacha (Vierling). t: — a.J. Hinch, Tigers
hits into a force out, Bryan De La Cruz
2:10. A: 18,794 (41,083).
to second, Luis Arraez to third. Fielding manager, about RF Wenceel
error by CJ Abrams. Jazz chisholm hom-
ers to left field, Josh bell scores, bryan Pérez, who hit his first
de La cruz scores, Luis Arraez scores.
Tim Anderson strikes out swinging. Em- blue Jays 3, dodgers 1 White sox 4, rays 2 braves 4, mets 4, rangers 4, reds 3 yankees 15, brewers 5 career home run Sunday in
manuel Rivera lines out. Dane Myers Kevin gausman pitched erick Fedde pitched sev- Guardians 3 (10) cardinals 2 (11) Wyatt Langford and ado- aaron Judge homered in a victory over the Royals.
triples. vidal brujan triples, dane myers
scores. Nick Fortes singles, vidal brujan seven solid innings for his en-hit ball into the ninth in- austin riley knocked in Mark Vientos hit a two- lis garcía homered during the first inning and played a
scores. Luis Arraez hits into a force out, first victory of the season, ning, and chicago beat ronald acuña Jr. with a run homer in the 11th in- Texas’s four-run first in- central role as a base run-
Nick Fortes out at second. today
marlins 6, Nationals 0 and Toronto stopped Los Tampa Bay for a sweep of 10th-inning single, and at- ning to give New York a ning, helping Dane Dun- ner during a seven-run rally
mArLiNS SEcONd angeles’ six-game winning the three-game series. ning and the rangers beat in the sixth for New York.
Bryan De La Cruz doubles. Josh Bell
lanta rallied late to beat comeback victory over
grounds out. Jazz Chisholm walks. Tim streak. gavin sheets and eloy cleveland and win a three- st. Louis that prevented a cincinnati. YANkEES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg nl games
Anderson strikes out swinging. Emman-
uel rivera doubles, Jazz chisholm to alejandro Kirk went 3 for Jiménez each had three game series between the three-game sweep. Dunning struck out a Volpe ss ..............4 2 2 3 2 0 .282
Soto rf ................5 1 1 1 0 0 .318 NAtiONALS At mArLiNS, 6:40
third, bryan de La cruz scores. Dane 3 for Toronto, which had hits for the White sox in top two teams in MLB. Francisco Lindor hom- season-high 10 while Grisham cf ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .059
Myers grounds out. w-L ErA tEAm
marlins 7, Nationals 0 lost five in a row, hitting his the finale. andrew Benin- atlanta has won 11 of its ered for the Mets. throwing 69 pitches in Judge cf ..............4 1 3 3 1 0 .211
Trammell pr-rf....0 1 0 0 1 0 1.00 Irvin (R) 1-2 4.55 1-4
NAtiONALS FOUrth first homer of the season in tendi, who homered twice past 13 games. 52/3 innings.
cArdiNALS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Verdugo lf...........6 1 1 0 0 1 .267
Trey Lipscomb singles. Alex Call walks, Rogers (L) 0-3 4.10 0-5
the second. he had been in and had six rBi during sat- Donovan lf ...........5 0 1 1 0 0 .229 Stanton dh..........6 1 1 0 0 2 .237
Trey Lipscomb to second. Riley Adams gUArdiANS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg rEdS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg
Contreras dh........4 0 1 0 1 1 .288 Rizzo 1b ..............4 3 4 2 1 0 .277 cUbS At mEtS, 7:10
flies out, Trey Lipscomb to third. Jacob an 0-for-11 slide coming in. urday night’s 8-7 victory, Kwan lf ...............5 0 1 1 0 0 .339 Benson lf ............4 1 1 1 0 2 .200
Arenado 3b ..........5 0 0 0 0 1 .271 Jones 3b..............0 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Young doubles, Alex call to third, trey Giménez 2b.........4 0 2 1 1 0 .275 De La Cruz ss ......4 1 1 0 0 0 .281
had two hits and drove in Goldschmidt 1b ...3 0 0 0 1 1 .208 Torres 2b ............5 2 2 1 0 1 .218 Taillon (R) 2-0 1.69 2-0
Lipscomb scores. cJ Abrams doubles, dOdgErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Ramírez 3b .........3 0 1 0 1 0 .261 Steer 1b ..............4 0 1 1 0 1 .253
Herrera c .............3 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Cabrera 3b-1b .....4 2 2 1 1 1 .269
Jacob Young scores, Alex call scores. Betts ss.................... 4 0 1 0 0 0 .387 two runs. J.Naylor 1b .........4 0 0 0 0 1 .283 Fraley rf ..............4 0 0 0 0 3 .315 Severino (R) 2-2 2.67 2-3
Burleson ph .........1 0 0 0 0 0 .263 Trevino c .............4 1 2 3 0 0 .280
Nick Senzel homers, cJ Abrams scores. Ohtani dh ................. 4 0 0 0 0 1 .336 Fry dh..................4 0 2 0 0 1 .295 India 2b ...............4 0 2 0 0 1 .235
Jesse Winker grounds out. Joey Mene- rAYS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Pagés c ................0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 tOtALS 43 15 18 14 6 5 — rEdS At pAdrES, 9:40
Freeman 1b .............. 3 1 1 1 1 1 .306 Brennan rf ..........3 0 0 0 0 0 .225 Martini dh...........3 0 0 0 1 2 .200
ses reaches on error. Ildemaro Vargas Nootbaar rf..........4 0 1 0 0 0 .189 Candelario 3b......4 0 0 0 0 4 .159
T.Hernández lf ......... 4 0 0 0 0 2 .257 Díaz 1b .................4 0 0 0 0 2 .232 Laureano ph-rf....1 0 0 0 0 0 .157 brEwErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Lodolo (L) 2-0 2.12 3-0
strikes out on a foul tip. Winn ss ...............4 1 1 0 0 3 .311 Maile c ................3 1 1 0 0 0 .188
Muncy 3b.................. 4 0 1 0 0 1 .258 Palacios rf ............4 0 2 0 0 1 .311 Freeman cf..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .215
marlins 7, Nationals 5 Gorman 2b...........3 0 0 0 1 0 .198 Fairchild cf..........3 0 0 0 0 2 .193 Frelick lf..............4 1 1 0 1 1 .263 Waldron (R) 1-2 3.96 1-4
Pages rf.................... 4 0 2 0 0 0 .302 Rortvedt c ............0 0 0 0 0 0 .378 B.Naylor c ...........3 1 1 0 1 1 .200
NAtiONALS FiFth Siani cf ................3 1 0 1 0 1 .108 Miller ph .............1 0 0 0 0 1 .083
Outman cf ................ 4 0 0 0 0 1 .173 Rosario ss ............4 0 1 0 0 1 .320 Rocchio ss...........3 2 2 0 1 1 .215 tOtALS 33 3 6 2 1 15 —
Trey Lipscomb hit by pitch. Alex Call tOtALS 35 2 4 2 3 7 — Contreras c .........5 2 2 0 0 1 .352 dOdgErS At diAmONdbAckS, 9:40
Lux 2b....................... 4 0 1 0 0 2 .187 Paredes 3b ...........4 2 2 1 0 0 .275 tOtALS 34 3 10 2 4 5 —
singles, Trey Lipscomb to second. Riley Barnes c ................... 2 0 0 0 1 0 .238 H.Ramírez lf-rf.....4 0 1 1 0 1 .255 Wiemer ph..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .111
rANgErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Paxton (L) 2-0 2.61 3-1
Adams strikes out swinging. Jacob Shenton dh...........4 0 1 0 0 1 .207 mEtS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Adames ss ..........4 1 2 1 1 1 .276
Young singles, Alex call to third, trey tOtALS 33 1 6 1 2 8 — brAvES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Semien 2b...........4 0 0 0 0 2 .252 Bauers 1b-p ........5 1 3 3 0 2 .214 Henry (L) 1-1 5.55 3-2
Mead 2b ...............4 0 0 0 0 1 .228 Nimmo lf .............5 0 0 0 0 2 .202 Seager ss ............4 0 0 0 0 3 .238
Lipscomb scores. cJ Abrams strikes out Acuña rf ..............5 2 1 0 0 3 .255 Sánchez dh .........1 0 1 0 1 0 .213
bLUE JAYS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Siri cf....................3 0 0 0 0 1 .173 Lindor ss .............3 1 1 1 2 0 .202 Lowe 1b ..............4 1 2 0 0 1 .310
swinging. Nick Senzel homers to center Albies 2b.............4 1 2 1 0 2 .329 Dunn ph-1b .........1 0 0 0 0 1 .203
Pinto c ..................2 0 0 0 0 1 .214 Alonso 1b ............2 0 0 0 3 1 .248 García rf..............3 1 1 2 1 1 .291
field, Jacob Young scores, Alex call Springer rf ................ 4 0 0 0 0 2 .219 Riley 3b...............4 0 2 1 1 1 .234 Perkins cf............4 0 1 1 1 2 .296
Arozarena ph-lf....1 0 0 0 0 0 .152 Stewart dh ..........4 1 1 0 1 0 .204
scores. Jesse Winker lines out. Guerrero dh .............. 4 0 2 0 0 1 .218
tOtALS 34 2 7 2 0 9 —
Olson 1b..............4 0 1 1 0 2 .212
Taylor rf ..............5 0 0 0 0 1 .293
Heim c.................3 1 1 0 0 0 .261 Turang 2b ...........5 0 0 0 0 0 .310 nl scores
Nationals 9, marlins 7 Bichette ss ............... 4 0 1 0 0 1 .210 Ozuna dh.............4 0 0 0 0 0 .340 Langford lf..........3 1 1 2 0 1 .248 Ortiz 3b...............1 0 0 0 4 0 .276
McNeil 2b ............5 0 1 0 0 0 .242 Jankowski lf .......0 0 0 0 0 0 .190
NAtiONALS SiXth Turner 1b .................. 4 1 1 0 0 0 .306 Arcia ss...............4 0 0 0 0 0 .296 Chourio rf............5 0 1 0 0 0 .207 SAtUrdAY’S rESULtS
whitE SOX Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Bader cf...............5 1 2 1 0 0 .275 Wendzel 3b.........2 0 0 0 0 0 .133
Joey Meneses grounds out. Ildemaro Clement 3b ............... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .275 Harris cf..............3 0 0 0 1 1 .315 tOtALS 37 5 11 5 8 9 —
Baty 3b................3 0 1 0 0 0 .256 Smith ph-3b........0 0 0 0 1 0 .304 Washington 11, at Miami 4
Vargas doubles to deep right field. Trey Schneider lf .............. 2 1 1 0 1 1 .228 Lopez 2b .............. 3 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Kelenic lf.............4 1 1 0 0 2 .305
Vientos ph-3b .....2 1 2 2 0 0 .750 Knizner dh ..........2 0 0 0 0 2 .115 St. Louis 7, at N.Y. Mets 4
Lipscomb singles to shortstop. Ildemaro Varsho cf .................. 3 0 0 1 0 0 .233 Pham cf-rf ........... 4 1 1 0 0 1 .357 Tromp c...............3 0 1 1 0 2 .269 NEw YOrk .... 100 037 220 — 15 18 0
Nido c ..................3 0 0 0 0 2 .214 Carter ph-dh .......0 0 0 0 1 0 .213 Philadelphia 5, at San Diego 1
Vargas to third. ildemaro vargas steals Kiner-Falefa 3b-2b ... 3 0 0 1 0 1 .240 Sheets 1b............. 4 2 3 0 0 0 .269 d'Arnaud ph-c .....1 0 1 0 0 0 .292 miLwAUkEE . 000 041 000 — 5 11 0
Martinez ph.........1 0 0 0 0 0 .333 Taveras cf ...........3 0 1 0 0 1 .225 Pittsburgh 4, at San Francisco 3 (10)
home, ildemaro vargas scores. Alex Call Kirk c......................... 3 1 3 1 0 0 .206 Jiménez dh .......... 4 1 3 0 0 0 .259 tOtALS 36 4 9 4 2 13 — Narváez c ............0 0 0 0 0 0 .176 LOb: New York 8, Milwaukee 15. 2b:
walks. Riley Adams strikes out swing- Biggio 2b-1b ............. 2 0 0 0 0 0 .235 Benintendi lf........ 4 0 2 2 0 2 .204 tOtALS 28 4 6 4 3 11 — SUNdAY’S rESULtS
ing. Jacob Young lines out. Grossman rf......... 3 0 1 1 0 1 .182 cLEvELANd 001 010 100 0 — 3 10 1 tOtALS 38 4 8 4 6 6 — Rizzo 2 (4), Torres (4), Adames (7),
tOtALS 29 3 8 3 1 6 — Contreras (7), Bauers (5). 3b: Frelick
Nationals 10, marlins 7 Ortega cf.............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 AtLANtA .... 000 010 020 1— 4 9 0 ciNciNNAti ... 000 003 000 — 3 6 0 Washington 12, at Miami 9
St. LOUiS.... 000 010 000 01 — 2 4 0 tEXAS............ 400 000 00X — 4 6 2 (1). hr: Judge (6), off Myers; Volpe (3), at N.Y. Mets 4, St. Louis 2 (11)
mArLiNS SEvENth LOS ANgELES 000 001 000 — 1 6 0 Mendick 3b .......... 4 0 1 1 0 0 .250
One out when winning run scored. NEw YOrk.. 000 001 000 03 — 4 8 1 off Myers; Rizzo (5), off Junk; Bauers at San Francisco 3, Pittsburgh 2
Jazz Chisholm walks. tim Anderson tOrONtO....... 030 000 00X — 3 8 0 Lee c..................... 3 0 0 0 0 0 .255 E: García (2), Seager (3). LOb: Cincinna-
E: Gaddis (1). LOb: Cleveland 7, Atlanta (2), off Stroman. Philadelphia 8, at San Diego 6
doubles, Jazz chisholm scores. Nick Shewmake ss ...... 3 0 1 0 0 1 .171 Two outs when winning run scored. ti 5, Texas 3. 2b: Maile (1). hr: García
LOb: Los Angeles 7, Toronto 4. 2b: Pages 8. 2b: Kelenic (4), Albies (8). YANkEES ip h r Er bb SO ErA
Gordon pinch-hitting for Emmanuel Ri- tOtALS 33 4 12 4 0 7 — E: Baty (1). LOb: St. Louis 6, New York (8), off Abbott; Langford (1), off Ab-
(4), Lux (2), Muncy (7), Betts (10), gUArdiANS ip h r Er bb SO ErA
vera. Nick Gordon flies out. Jesus San- 10. 2b: Contreras (8), Nootbaar (4), bott. Stroman .............. 4 6 4 4 5 4 3.69
Schneider (4). hr: Freeman (2), off
chez pinch-hitting for Dane Myers. Je- tAmpA bAY .. 000 100 001 — 2 7 0 Lively ................ 41/3 4 1 1 2 5 2.30 Winn (4), Baty (2). hr: Lindor (5), off Marinaccio........ 11/3 1 1 1 1 1 2.35
Gausman; Kirk (1), off Grove. rEdS ip h r Er bb SO ErA
sus Sanchez singles, tim Anderson
dOdgErS ip h r Er bb SO ErA
chicAgO........ 000 200 02X — 4 12 0 Sandlin ............... 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 2.70 Lynn; Vientos (1), off Liberatore. Hamilton ............ 2/3 1 0 0 1 0 2.93 al games
scores. Vidal Brujan lines out. Nick Smith................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.77 cArdiNALS ip h r Er bb SO ErA Abbott .............. 51/3 6 4 4 0 7 3.27 Tonkin............... 11/3 2 0 0 0 1 0.00
Fortes grounds out. Grove ................... 2 4 3 3 0 3 6.88 LOb: Tampa Bay 5, Chicago 6. 2b: Shen- Barlow ................. 1 0 0 0 0 3 3.21 Sims ................... 2/3 0 0 0 1 0 6.75
Lynn .................... 5 5 1 1 3 3 2.64 Ferguson ............ 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 4.76 YANkEES At OriOLES, 6:35
Nationals 10, marlins 9 Vesia .................... 1 1 0 0 1 1 1.88 ton (4), H.Ramírez (2), Shewmake (2). Gaddis ................. 1 3 2 2 0 0 2.51 Pagán................... 1 0 0 0 2 1 3.97
Fernandez ........... 2 0 0 0 0 3 2.45 González.............. 1 1 0 0 1 1 2.61
NAtiONALS Eighth Yarbrough............ 4 2 0 0 0 2 3.00 hr: Paredes (7), off Fedde. Beede................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 5.27 Wilson ................. 1 0 0 0 0 3 4.05
Gallegos ............. 2/3 0 0 0 2 0 5.00 w-L ErA tEAm
Ildemaro Vargas strikes out swinging. Crismatt............... 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 rAYS ip h r Er bb SO ErA Clase................... 1/3 1 1 0 0 1 0.63 brEwErS ip h r Er bb SO ErA
Liberatore ........... 3 3 3 2 1 0 3.14 rANgErS ip h r Er bb SO ErA Schmidt (R) 2-0 3.55 5-0
Trey Lipscomb singles. Alex call singles, Littell................... 6 8 2 2 0 6 3.27 Myers .................. 5 5 4 4 0 5 4.50
trey Lipscomb to second, Alex call to bLUE JAYS ip h r Er bb SO ErA Rodríguez ......... 11/3 4 2 2 0 1 13.5 brAvES ip h r Er bb SO ErA Dunning ............ 51/3 3 2 1 0 10 4.13 Uribe................... 2/3 2 5 5 3 0 6.92
mEtS ip h r Er bb SO ErA Rodriguez (R) 3-1 4.45 4-1
third, trey Lipscomb scores. Riley Ad- Gausman.............. 7 5 1 1 0 5 4.50 E.Ramírez........... 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 3.18 Elder ................. 51/3 4 2 2 4 2 1.50 Sborz .................. 2/3 2 1 0 0 1 0.00 Peguero .............. 1/3 2 2 2 1 0 4.05
Quintana ............. 8 3 1 1 1 3 3.48 Robertson............ 1 0 0 0 0 3 1.17
ams called out on strikes. Jacob Young García...................2/3 1 0 0 2 1 0.68 Bummer............ 12/3 3 1 1 0 2 5.79 Junk..................... 2 8 4 4 0 0 12.0 rOYALS At bLUE JAYS, 7:07
whitE SOX ip h r Er bb SO ErA Díaz ..................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.93 Latz ..................... 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.38
singles, Alex call scores. CJ Abrams Mayza ..................1/3 0 0 0 0 0 6.30 Matzek ................ 1 1 0 0 0 0 7.71 Bauers ................. 1 1 0 0 2 0 0.00
Garrett ................ 2 1 1 0 2 2 0.61 Yates ................... 1 1 0 0 1 1 0.00 Bowlan (R) 0-0 0.00 0-0
grounds out. Romano................ 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.18 Fedde................ 81/3 7 2 2 0 9 2.60 Iglesias ................ 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.38
Minter ................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.32 wp: Garrett (5-0); Lp: Liberatore (0-1). wp: Marinaccio (1-0); Lp: Uribe (2-2).
Nationals 12, marlins 9 wp: Gausman (1-3); Lp: Grove (0-1); S: Leasure............... 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 1.59 wp: Dunning (3-2); Lp: Abbott (1-3); S: Rodríguez (R) 0-1 3.86 2-1
inherited runners-scored: Fernandez inherited runners-scored: Marinaccio
Romano (4). inherited runners-scored: wp: Fedde (2-0); Lp: Littell (1-2); S: wp: Minter (5-1); Lp: Clase (1-1). inher- Yates (5). inherited runners-scored: 1-0, Hamilton 1-1, Ferguson 2-0, Pegue-
2-0, Liberatore 2-0. ibb: off Garrett Sims 1-0, Sborz 1-1. hbp: Robertson twiNS At whitE SOX, 7:40
Mayza 3-0. ibb: off García (Freeman). Leasure (1). inherited runners-scored: ited runners-scored: Sandlin 1-0. hbp: ro 2-2. hbp: Stroman (Sánchez), Hamil-
(Gorman), off Liberatore (Alonso). t: (Maile). wp: Sims. t: 2:30. A: 37,008
hbp: Grove (Biggio). t: 2:20. A: 39,053 E.Ramírez 2-0, Leasure 1-0. t: 2:06. A: Elder (Ramírez), Sandlin (Albies). wp: ton (Sánchez). wp: Peguero. pb: Con- Ryan (R) 1-1 3.45 3-2
nl leaders 2:59. A: 30,980 (42,136). (40,000).
(39,150). 12,669 (40,241). Elder (2). t: 2:55. A: 40,758 (41,149). treras (3). t: 3:21. A: 35,295 (41,700).
Entering Sunday’s games. Crochet (L) 1-4 6.37 1-5

bAttiNg
Betts, LA ......................................... .391
Giants 3, pirates 2 astros 8, rockies 2 diamondbacks 3, phillies 8, padres 6 twins 11, angels 5 red sox 5, cubs 4
Smith, LA ......................................... .367 Thairo estrada and Mike Kyle Tucker, Jose altuve mariners 2 Bryson stott hit two two- austin Martin and alex Tyler O’Neill hit a game- al scores
Ozuna, Atl ........................................ .354
Bohm, Phi ........................................ .354 Yastrzemski hit back-to- and Jeremy peña each hit Brandon pfaadt had a run homers, J.T. realmuto Kiriloff drove in two runs ending bloop single, and SAtUrdAY’S rESULtS
hOmE rUNS back home runs in the a solo home run, helping career-high 11 strikeouts, also connected and start- apiece, and Minnesota Boston topped chicago. at Baltimore 7, Oakland 0
Ozuna, Atl ............................................. 9 third inning and rookie Framber Valdez and hous- Ketel Marte broke a tie ing pitcher Taijun Walker stretched its winning Jarren Duran hit a two- at Detroit 6, Kansas City 5
at Chicago White Sox 8, Tampa Bay 7 (10)
Alonso, NY ............................................ 8 right-hander Keaton Winn ton beat colorado in Mexi- with an rBi double in the made a slick behind-the- streak to seven games. run triple and connor Minnesota 16, at L.A. Angels 5
De La Cruz, Cin ...................................... 7
Schwarber, Phi ..................................... 7 had another strong start to co city. eighth inning, christian back catch in his season The Twins pounded Wong drove in two runs SUNdAY’S rESULtS
Ohtani, LA ............................................ 7 lead san Francisco. Valdez, who had been Walker homered, and ari- debut to help philadelphia 17 hits while scoring at with a pair of two-out sin- Oakland 7, at Baltimore 6
rbi rookie shortstop Tyler out with elbow inflamma- zona beat seattle to end a beat san Diego for its first least five runs for the sev- gles, helping Boston to the at Detroit 4, Kansas City 1
at Chicago White Sox 4, Tampa Bay 2
Ozuna, Atl ........................................... 31 Fitzgerald added three hits tion, pitched five innings of three-game losing streak. road sweep of the season. enth consecutive game. series win. The red sox Minnesota 11 at L.A. Angels 5
Bohm, Phi ........................................... 26
Betts, LA ............................................ 23 for the giants, who took two-run ball in his first big d'bAckS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg phiLLiES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg twiNS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg beat the cubs, 17-0, on
Contreras, Mil ..................................... 22 two of three from the pi- league start since april 2. McCarthy rf ........3 0 0 0 0 2 .300 Schwarber dh ...... 5 1 2 0 0 1 .200 Jeffers dh...........5 2 3 1 0 0 .305 saturday.
Gurriel lf .............4 0 0 0 0 1 .268 Turner ss ............. 5 0 1 0 0 1 .339 Buxton cf............4 3 1 0 1 2 .244
ErA rates and finished their AStrOS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Marte 2b .............4 0 1 1 0 2 .307 Harper 1b............. 4 0 0 0 1 1 .234 Margot rf............2 0 0 1 0 1 .173 cUbS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Interleague games
López, Atl ........................................ 0.72 long homestand 6-4. Altuve 2b ............4 3 2 1 1 0 .342 Walker 1b ...........4 1 2 1 0 2 .271 Bohm 3b............... 5 1 3 0 0 1 .365 Kirilloff ph-rf......2 1 1 2 0 1 .266 Hoerner 2b...........4 1 1 0 0 0 .282
Imanaga, Chi .................................... 0.98 Bregman 3b ........4 1 2 1 0 0 .216 Pederson dh........3 1 1 0 0 1 .296 Realmuto c .......... 5 1 2 3 0 2 .245 Miranda 3b .........5 0 3 2 0 1 .292 Tauchman rf ........4 1 2 3 0 1 .294 cArdiNALS At tigErS, 6:40
Suárez, Phi ....................................... 1.32 pirAtES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Alvarez lf ............3 0 0 1 0 1 .275 Grichuk ph-dh .....1 0 1 0 0 0 .268 Marsh lf ............... 4 0 1 0 0 2 .291 Santana 1b .........5 0 1 1 0 0 .182 Happ lf .................4 0 1 0 0 2 .229
Hicks, SF .......................................... 1.59 Suárez 3b............4 0 1 1 0 1 .229 Castellanos rf ...... 1 2 0 0 3 0 .179 w-L ErA tEAm
Hayes 3b.............3 0 1 0 0 1 .283 Meyers cf............0 0 0 0 0 0 .217 Castro ss ............5 0 3 1 0 0 .250 Morel 3b ..............4 0 0 0 0 3 .210
Reynolds lf..........4 0 0 0 0 0 .254 Tucker rf .............4 1 1 2 0 0 .290 Carroll cf .............4 0 0 0 0 2 .189 Stott 2b ............... 3 3 2 4 0 0 .226 Vázquez c ...........4 1 3 0 1 0 .250 Busch 1b ..............3 1 0 0 0 1 .278 Matz (L) 1-2 5.55 2-3
StrikEOUtS Cabbage rf ..........0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 Barnhart c...........1 0 0 0 1 1 .200 Rojas cf................ 4 0 1 1 0 0 .250 Farmer 2b...........2 1 1 0 0 0 .115 Swanson ss .........4 0 1 0 0 1 .238
Cruz ss ................4 0 1 0 0 1 .241 Maeda (R) 0-1 5.96 2-3
Glasnow, LA ....................................... 53 Joe rf...................4 0 0 0 0 0 .282 Peña ss ...............3 2 1 1 1 0 .321 Moreno ph-c .......2 0 0 0 0 0 .230 tOtALS 36 8 12 8 4 8 — Julien ph-2b .......3 0 0 0 0 2 .236 Mervis dh.............3 0 1 1 0 1 .133
Wheeler, Phi ....................................... 46 Olivares dh .........2 1 0 0 1 1 .233 Diaz dh................4 0 1 2 0 1 .291 Newman ss.........2 1 0 0 1 0 .178 Martin lf.............3 3 1 2 2 0 .226 Madrigal ph-dh ....1 0 0 0 0 0 .219 rAYS At brEwErS, 7:40
Greene, Cin ......................................... 42 Tellez 1b .............3 1 2 0 1 0 .205 Dubón cf-lf..........4 0 0 0 0 0 .279 tOtALS 32 3 6 3 2 12 — pAdrES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg tOtALS 40 11 17 10 4 7 — Amaya c ...............4 0 0 0 0 3 .214
Cease, SD ............................................ 40 Triolo 2b..............4 0 1 2 0 0 .221 J.Abreu 1b ..........4 0 0 0 0 0 .099 Profar lf................4 1 2 0 1 0 .303 Crow-Arm- Pepiot (R) 2-2 3.77 2-3
Suárez, Phi .......................................... 40 ....3 1 1 0 0 0 .385
Taylor cf..............3 0 0 0 1 2 .261 Caratini c ............3 1 1 0 0 0 .294 mAriNErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Tatis rf .................4 1 1 1 0 0 .244 ANgELS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg strong cf .......... Wilson (R) 2-0 3.50 2-0
Davis c ................2 0 0 0 0 2 .169 tOtALS 33 8 8 8 2 2 — Rojas 3b ..............3 1 1 1 0 0 .297 Cronenworth 1b ...4 1 2 2 0 0 .264 Trout dh .............3 0 1 1 1 0 .226 tOtALS 34 4 7 4 0 12 —
Suwinski ph ........1 0 0 0 0 0 .180 Rodríguez cf .......4 0 1 1 0 1 .275 Machado 3b ..........4 0 1 0 0 0 .252 Neto ss...............4 0 0 0 0 3 .213 phiLLiES At LOS ANgELES, 9:38
Bart c ..................1 0 0 0 0 0 .259 rOckiES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Polanco 2b ..........4 0 1 0 0 3 .163 Bogaerts 2b..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .213 Ward lf ...............4 0 0 0 0 3 .265 rEd SOX Ab r h bi bb SO Avg
Sánchez (L) 1-3 2.96 1-4
al leaders tOtALS 31 2 5 2 3 7 — Tovar ss ..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .284 France 1b ............4 0 0 0 0 2 .247 Merrill cf...............4 0 0 0 0 0 .295 Drury 2b .............4 0 0 0 0 1 .167 Duran cf ................4 1 1 2 1 1 .252
Doyle cf...............4 0 1 0 0 1 .323 Garver dh ............4 0 0 0 0 2 .143 Kim ss...................3 1 0 0 1 1 .220 Hicks cf ..............4 0 0 0 0 3 .140 Devers 3b..............3 2 2 0 2 0 .279 Canning (R) 1-3 7.50 1-4
Entering Sunday’s games. Pauley dh..............3 1 1 0 0 1 .143
giANtS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg McMahon 3b.......4 0 1 0 0 2 .308 Raley rf ...............2 0 0 0 0 1 .196 O'Hoppe c ...........4 1 1 0 0 0 .293 O'Neill lf................4 0 1 1 1 2 .329
bAttiNg Lee cf ..................4 0 1 0 0 0 .269 Díaz dh................4 1 2 0 0 0 .303 Moore ph-ss .......1 0 0 0 0 0 .192 Rosario ph ............1 0 0 0 0 1 .273 Adell rf ...............4 1 1 1 0 2 .327 Abreu rf.................4 0 0 0 0 1 .292 brAvES At mAriNErS, 9:40
Wade 1b..............2 0 0 1 1 2 .339 E.Montero 1b......4 0 0 0 0 1 .220 Clase lf................3 0 1 0 0 2 .222 Higashioka c.........2 0 0 0 0 1 .174 Rengifo 3b..........3 2 1 2 0 1 .289 Wong c ..................4 0 2 2 0 0 .343
Kwan, Cle ......................................... .345 Campusano ph-c...2 1 1 3 0 1 .290 Fried (L) 2-0 4.97 5-0
M.Chapman 3b....4 0 1 0 0 2 .221 Jones lf ...............2 1 1 0 0 1 .170 Zavala c ..............2 0 0 0 0 2 .143 Schanuel 1b........3 1 2 1 0 1 .228 Yoshida dh ............2 0 1 0 0 0 .275
Perez, KC ......................................... .340 Haniger ph-rf......1 0 0 0 0 0 .237 Miller (R) 3-2 2.22 3-2
Conforto lf ..........4 0 0 0 0 0 .267 Cave lf.................1 0 0 0 0 1 .259 tOtALS 35 6 9 6 2 6 — tOtALS 33 5 6 5 1 14 — Refsnyder ph-dh ...1 1 0 0 1 0 .375
Altuve, Hou ..................................... .336 Rivas ss ..............2 1 1 0 0 1 .500
Bailey c ...............3 0 0 0 0 0 .296 Bouchard rf.........3 0 1 1 0 1 .286 Valdez 2b ..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .146
Rutschman, Bal ............................... .324 Raleigh c .............1 0 0 0 0 1 .232 phiLA............. 020 202 110 — 8 12 1 pirAtES At AthLEticS, 9:40
Soler dh ..............3 0 0 0 0 3 .216 Stallings c...........2 0 1 1 0 1 .320 miNNESOtA.. 000 140 420 — 11 17 0 Dalbec 1b ..............4 0 1 0 0 3 .137
hOmE rUNS Estrada 2b ..........3 1 1 1 0 1 .235 Trejo 2b...............3 0 0 0 0 2 .091 tOtALS 31 2 5 2 0 15 — SAN diEgO .... 003 000 300 — 6 9 0 L.A. ................ 000 040 100 — 5 6 3 Rafaela ss .............4 1 1 0 0 1 .194 Falter (L) 2-1 3.33 4-1
Yastrzemski rf....3 1 2 1 0 0 .236 tOtALS 31 2 7 2 0 11 — E: Bohm (5). LOb: Philadelphia 6, San E: Rengifo (3), Adell (1), Drury (1). tOtALS 34 5 9 5 5 9 —
Trout, LA ............................................. 10 Fitzgerald ss.......3 1 3 0 0 0 .313 ArizONA ....... 010 000 110 — 3 6 1 Boyle (R) 1-4 7.06 1-4
O’Neill, Bos ........................................... 9 Diego 4. 2b: Bohm 2 (12), Rojas (3), LOb: Minnesota 8, Los Angeles 3. 2b:
tOtALS 29 3 8 3 1 8 — hOUStON ...... 201 100 040 — 8 8 0 SEAttLE ........ 101 000 000 — 2 5 0 Cronenworth (6), Tatis (4), Profar (7). chicAgO........ 000 000 130 — 4 7 1
Henderson, Bal ..................................... 9 Jeffers (6), Farmer (3), Miranda 2 (4),
cOLOrAdO .... 020 000 000 — 2 7 0 E: Barnhart (2). LOb: Arizona 5, Seattle hr: Stott 2 (3), off King; Realmuto (5), Kirilloff (6), Castro (7), O’Hoppe (4), bOStON......... 101 002 001 — 5 9 0
rbi pittSbUrgh . 000 010 001 — 2 5 0 LOb: Houston 2, Colorado 3. 2b: Diaz 3. 2b: Walker (3), Pederson (5), Suárez off King; Cronenworth (4), off Walker; Adell (2). hr: Rengifo (1), off López; No outs when winning run scored.
Perez, KC ............................................ 26
SAN FrAN. .... 003 000 00X — 3 8 0 (5), Jones (5). hr: Tucker (7), off (6), Marte (9). 3b: Rivas (1). hr: Walk- Campusano (2), off Walker. Schanuel (2), off López. E: Hoerner (5). LOb: Chicago 4, Boston Interleague scores
Ramírez, Cle ....................................... 24 LOb: Pittsburgh 7, San Francisco 4. 2b: Gomber; Altuve (7), off Gomber; Peña er (5), off Gilbert; Rojas (3), off Pfaadt. phiLLiES ip h r Er bb SO ErA twiNS ip h r Er bb SO ErA 10. 2b: Rafaela (6). 3b: Duran (3). hr:
García, Tex .......................................... 23 Tellez 2 (2), Fitzgerald (3). hr: Estrada (3), off Gomber. d'bAckS ip h r Er bb SO ErA Walker.............. 61/3 8 6 6 2 4 8.53 Tauchman (3), off Martin. SAtUrdAY’S rESULtS
López................... 5 4 4 4 1 8 4.83
Soto, NY .............................................. 23 (4), off Jones; Yastrzemski (2), off AStrOS ip h r Er bb SO ErA Pfaadt.................. 6 5 2 2 0 11 4.63 Hoffman ............. 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 1.38 Sands ............... 12/3 2 1 1 0 3 1.35 cUbS ip h r Er bb SO ErA L.A. Dodgers 4, at Toronto 2
Ward, LA ............................................. 23 Jones. Valdez.................. 5 5 2 2 0 6 2.60 Mantiply.............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.09 Marte................... 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.13 Jax...................... 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 2.45 Wesneski ............ 4 5 2 1 1 3 0.87 Cincinnati 8, at Texas 4
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ErA B.Abreu ............... 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.30 Ginkel .................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.00 Almonte .............. 1 2 2 2 2 2 4.91 Cleveland 4, at Atlanta 2 (11)
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Miller ................... 1 0 0 0 1 1 5.54 Bird..................... 2/3 1 4 4 2 0 6.08 Saucedo............... 1 1 0 0 0 2 2.70 Kolek ................... 1 2 0 0 0 0 3.52 Kristofak ............. 2 3 2 0 2 2 0.00 Martin .............. 11/3 3 3 3 0 2 5.56 at Toronto 3, L.A. Dodgers 1
StrikEOUtS Walker................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.81 Mears ............... 11/3 1 0 0 0 0 4.50 wp: Walker (1-0); Lp: King (2-3); S: Al- Jansen ................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 1.86 at Texas 4, Cincinnati 3
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Skubal, Det ......................................... 41 herited runners-scored: Mears 2-2. hbp: Speier 1-0. hbp: Gilbert (Walker). wp: Cosgrove 1-0, De Los Santos 1-1. hbp: 1-0, Moore 1-0. hbp: Sands (Rengifo). herited runners-scored: Martin 2-0. ibb: N.Y. Yankees 15, at Milwaukee 5
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monday, april 29 , 2024 . the washington post
Kimbrel exits
with tightness
in back after
blowing save
Athletics 7,
orioles 6
BY J ACOB C ALVIN M EYER
BALTIMORE — félix Bautista
never blew a save in consecutive
appearances in his seven months
as the Baltimore orioles’ closer.
Craig Kimbrel has now done so
in his first month filling in for the
injured Bautista.
After a stellar start to his ori-
oles career, Kimbrel on Sunday
blew his second save in three days
against the oakland Athletics in
Baltimore’s 7-6 loss. Entering
with a one-run lead, Kimbrel
walked the leadoff batter and
allowed a two-run home run to
catcher Kyle mcCann before be-
ing removed with what manager
Brandon Hyde said after the
game was upper-back tightness.
on friday, the veteran right-
hander allowed all five batters he
faced to reach base, including
three on walks, to blow that save
in an eventual extra-inning loss.
Kimbrel, whose 424 career saves
are tied for sixth in mLB history,
entered the weekend with only
one run allowed in 11 innings this
season. He exits it with three
more runs allowed, four more
walks and two more blown saves
without retiring a batter across
his two outings.
Baltimore clubbed three home
runs for the second straight day —
solo shots from Adley rutschman
and ryan mountcastle in the
third and another by ramon
Urías in the fourth — to extend its
mLB-best total to 44.
— Baltimore Sun
ON The NFL
Eagles, Chiefs make some savvy moves during draft Peters lays a foundation,
oN ThE NfL from D1
an awfully thin needle when they
didn’t have to.
Signing Cousins made the
falcons one of the least
quarterback-desperate
franchises in the NfL. Penix may
turn out to be great, but he’s also
not the last quarterback on
Earth. The falcons had another
three drafts to find someone to
replace Cousins. maybe in their
minds they won’t be picking as
high as eighth again. But they
wouldn’t necessarily have to. The
Packers, whose model the
falcons are trying to follow,
traded up to take Jordan Love
25th in 2020. The Chiefs, another
team that found its future
quarterback with a solid veteran
in hand, traded up from 27th to
10th in 2017 to select Patrick
mahomes.
By taking Penix, the falcons
cost themselves the chance at a
prospect who could support
Cousins and his possible
replacement. They passed on
wide receiver rome odunze, five
offensive tackles who would be
taken in the first round and any
defensive player they wanted. It
is hard to criticize a franchise for
investing at quarterback, and it is
easy to believe Penix will be a
productive NfL quarterback.
The falcons’ mistake was
behaving with urgency when
they had bought themselves
patience.
NfC North grows stronger
If not for a handful of plays
against the San francisco 49ers
in January, the Packers would
have played for the NfC
championship and the Lions
would have won it. The Bears
became one of the hottest teams
in the NfL during the season’s
second half. The Vikings were in
playoff contention before losing
Cousins to a torn Achilles’
tendon.
The NfC North was one of the
toughest divisions in the NfL
before the draft. After the draft, it
might be the best — and
definitely the most exciting — for
the future. In Jared Goff (29),
Love (25), Caleb Williams (22)
and J.J. mcCarthy (21), the
division has four quarterbacks
under 30 leading rosters loaded
with young talent.
The Bears last won a playoff
game in January 2011, but that
seems likely to change soon.
Williams is one of the most
highly regarded quarterback
prospects to enter the league in
years, and the Bears have created
an uncommonly comfortable
situation for a first overall pick.
He will throw to DJ moore,
Keenan Allen and odunze, the
ninth pick, behind an offensive
line studded with previous first-
rounders.
Senzel hits two HRs as Nats erase seven-run deficit
NATioNALS from D1
yard, Senzel turned to the Nation-
als’ dugout, softly shrugged and
smiled. It was his fifth homer in
as many games.
“I don’t think we flinched. . . .
Everyone’s telling me I’m a home
run hitter — I don’t feel like that,”
Senzel said. “I’ve just been trying
to take advantage of the mistakes
they give me and stay aggressive.
When you stay aggressive, good
things happen.”
“It was madness,” center field-
er Jacob Young said.
“They’re going to keep fight-
ing,” manager Dave martinez
said. “They fed. After every hit,
after every run, you could see it.
Every guy wanted to get up there
and do the same thing.”
To say that three straight wins
over the marlins, who dropped to
an mLB-worst 6-23, is a sign that
the Nationals (13-14) are ready to
contend for a playoff spot is a bit
impulsive. To say that Winker and
Senzel — veterans signed to one-
year “prove it” deals — have men-
tored Washington from a team
that’s young and scrappy to one
capable of pulling out these sorts
of wins, of building on momen-
tum, of sustaining the sort of life
that’s needed to survive a
162-game slog in which the Na-
tionals were expected to be cellar
dwellers and suddenly aren’t:
That’s plenty fair now.
The Nationals used a few
tropes to define how they did it.
They all landed on relentless.
“This team just stays in the
moment,” Senzel said. “Never get-
ting too high or too low. I think
that’s key in baseball because
there’s going to be ebbs and flows
and ups and downs.
“But when you just stay in the
moment, I don’t think you get too
down on yourself. You’ve just got
to stay positive and fight like we
did today.”
saves some fixes for later
Texas wide receiver Xavier Worthy, who set an NfL combine
record in the 40-yard dash, gives Patrick Mahomes a deep threat.
The Vikings similarly built a
strong infrastructure around
mcCarthy, who probably will sit
longer than Williams. Justin
Jefferson might be the best
wideout in the league, Coach
Kevin o’Connell is considered
one of the best quarterback
developers in the NfL, and
minnesota’s offensive line is
above average. There are no
more easy games in the NfC
North.
Chiefs aim to air it out again
Patrick mahomes averaged
7.0 yards per pass attempt last
year, the lowest mark of his
career. His average depth of
target, having decreased steadily
over his six years as a starter, fell
this season to 6.9 yards, tied for
38th in the NfL. As more teams
have defended them with shell-
like defenses, the Chiefs have
accepted it and moved to an
offense built on short passing.
The Chiefs are acting this
offseason as if they are done
taking what defenses give them.
They traded up in the first round
to take Texas wide receiver
Xavier Worthy, who ran the
fastest 40-yard dash ever
recorded at the NfL combine.
They will pair him with free
agent acquisition marquise
Brown, another small wideout
with sub-4.3 speed. The Chiefs
also added TCU’s Jared Wiley, a
receiving-first tight end with
field-stretching speed, in the
fourth round.
It’s unlikely the Chiefs will
revert to the kind of pyrotechnic
offense mahomes operated in his
first year as a starter, when his
average depth of target was
9.7 yards. But their new wide
receivers will at least punish
teams that play safeties deep by
pushing them down the field and
allowing more space underneath
for Travis Kelce and rashee rice,
whose status is uncertain after
his role in a major car crash.
Nick Senzel, right, is greeted by Alex Call after ripping a go-ahead three-run homer in the fifth inning.
Before the game, martinez
moved his designated hitter up to
No. 2 in the lineup. He did so
partially as a testament to Sen-
zel’s proclivity for hitting left-
handers, partially as a reward for
a strong week and partially as a
pick-me-up for his difficult start
to the season that included a
broken thumb suffered two hours
before opening Day.
Now, powered by the bats and
guidance from two players readi-
ly described as “intense” by mar-
tinez — of the quieter variety
from Senzel compared with
Winker’s fiery gamesmanship —
the Nationals have a chance to
sweep this four-game series and
reach .500 on monday night.
“Those guys push our young
guys to be good,” martinez said. “I
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Eagles hit the jackpot at DB
No contender had a more
glaring need than the
Philadelphia Eagles, whose aging
secondary imploded as their
season collapsed. The Eagles
then saw some of the best
cornerbacks in the draft fall into
their lap.
When the Eagles picked 22nd
in the first round, no cornerbacks
had been selected — the longest
it had ever taken for a defensive
back to come off the board. They
took Toledo’s Quinyon mitchell,
filling a need at a premium
position without having to move
up.
The Eagles needed to be more
aggressive to take advantage of
another falling cornerback,
Iowa’s Cooper DeJean, who could
play cornerback and safety in the
NfL and was widely expected to
go in the first round. When he
remained available at
40th overall, the Eagles moved
up 10 spots, trading with the
Washington Commanders.
Bills do the right thing
The recent era of Buffalo Bills
football has been defined by their
inability to surmount the Chiefs,
which made their first first-
round trade unusual. They dealt
the 28th pick to Kansas City for
the 32nd pick, handing their
rival and tormentor the chance
to draft Worthy, who plays the
position the Bills needed most.
If Worthy turns out to be the
piece that makes Kansas City
even more insurmountable, it
will look bad. But the Bills have
to do what’s best for their roster,
and that’s what they did, adding
more draft capital by moving out
of the first round altogether in
swapping the 32nd pick with the
Carolina Panthers for the 33rd.
The Panthers took another
wideout (South Carolina’s Xavier
Legette), but the Bills still
seemed to read the board
appropriately. At No. 33, they
eZ su
could say the same thing about
[Eddie rosario] with the Latin
players — he’s worked really hard
with [Luis García Jr.]. I love them
all.”
Though Senzel provided the
theatrics with his fourth- and
fifth-inning homers, he was
backed up by the rest of the bats:
Every hitter reached base in what
48 hours ago looked like a stiff
lineup.
Young and CJ Abrams hit back-
to-back doubles to bring home
the Nationals’ first three runs of
the five-run fourth inning before
Senzel’s opening salvo, a two-run
blast, made it 7-5.
Young — hitting .500 in his past
six games and perhaps providing
roster complications once Victor
robles and Joey Gallo return
took Keon Coleman, whose
athletic ability and production at
florida State made it reasonable
to prefer him over Worthy or
Legette.
Having maxed out their salary
cap and cut several veterans
already, the Bills needed to
restock their roster. By adding
extra picks, they took 10 players
they can use to cheaply rebuild
around Josh Allen.
Patriots build around new QB
New England slogged through
Bill Belichick’s final season with
the worst set of offensive skill
players in the NfL. In Jerod
mayo, the Patriots have a first-
year coach from the defensive
side of the ball. Even though a
similar set of circumstances
worked for C.J. Stroud in
Houston last year, Drake maye
walked into the worst situation
of any first-round quarterback
when the Patriots picked him
No. 3 overall.
Wisely, the Patriots
immediately started to remedy
that. They used their next four
picks on offensive players,
starting with silky Washington
wideout Ja’Lynn Polk at No. 37.
They took two linemen, Penn
State tackle Caedan Wallace and
Texas A&m guard Layden
robinson, before adding big-play
wideout Javon Baker out of UCf.
The Patriots curiously used a
sixth-rounder on Tennessee
quarterback Joe milton III,
whose rocket arm made him a
decent flier at that point but was
odd for a team that shouldn’t
need a developmental
quarterback. In the seventh
round, they added florida State
tight end Jaheim Bell, whose
speed and versatility could make
him a productive player right
away.
Remember two Day 3 picks
Two players landed on teams
that perfectly fit their talent. The
49ers took Louisville running
back Isaac Guerendo in the
fourth round, and while
Christian mcCaffrey’s presence
will limit his role, Guerendo is
the perfect kind of running back
for Kyle Shanahan’s zone
running scheme: strong enough
to break one tackle and fast
enough to turn one cut into a
long run.
The miami Dolphins benefited
from an inexplicable fall.
Virginia’s malik Washington led
the NCAA with 110 catches (for
1,426 yards), turning a lousy
offense into a serviceable unit by
himself. He’s only 5-foot-8, but he
catches everything — he had just
four drops in his college career —
and has the speed and strength
to break tackles. In mike
mcDaniel’s system, Washington
will add an immediately
dangerous underneath threat.
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from the injured list — drove in a
run with a single in the fifth to cut
the deficit to 7-6 before Senzel’s
three-run homer, then added an-
other rBI single in the eighth to
put Washington up three.
Alex Call, facing big league
pitching for the first time this
year, reached base in all five of his
plate appearances and had an
improbable outfield assist that
prevented a likely miami run.
After left-hander Patrick Corb-
in put the Nationals in a jam, all
of that was pivotal. It was a break
from their recent form — Nation-
als starters had allowed just
13 runs in 48 innings (a 2.44 ErA)
in their previous nine starts.
Corbin, though, struggled with
location, leaving many first-in-
ning strikes over the plate and
aNaLysis
CoMMANDERS from D1
maintained “optionality” — one of
his favorite words — because in
2025 he’s in line to have a full
complement of draft picks and a
boatload of salary cap space again.
But let’s zoom in on this draft,
the foundation of the rebuild. Pe-
ters had a clear vision for how to
use his assets. He de-emphasized
the short-term problem of posi-
tional need and instead priori-
tized talent, leadership and ex-
perience. All nine picks spent at
least four years in college. Seven
were team captains. Two metrics,
Next Gen Stats and relative Ath-
letic Score, graded the Command-
ers’ picks as the most athletic in
the NfL.
“Washington had two players
who didn’t test, and if they had
they likely would have had an even
higher rAS,” Kent Lee Platte, the
creator of rAS, wrote on social
media.
No one encapsulated the phi-
losophy better than second-round
defensive tackle Jer’Zhan “John-
ny” Newton.
“We could not believe he was
still there,” Peters said. “We were a
little nervous that he wasn’t going
to make it to us at 36. We looked at
moving up to get him. Very sur-
prising. We had a first-round
grade on him, and he is an explo-
sive, violent player. He’s a team
captain. He got the Commander
tag, and he’s exactly who we want
to bring into this building. We
think he’s an advanced player who
can come in and play right away.”
But why draft a defensive tackle
when the Commanders already
have two stars and two depend-
able backups?
“At first glance, you think that
it’s a pretty packed room,” Peters
said. “But I don’t think you can —
what I learned in San francisco is
you can’t have too many great
[defensive] linemen, and we’ll
find a way to get them all on the
field. . . . And that’s what I said to
[Coach Dan Quinn]: ‘Can we do
this?’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, we’ll find a
way to get them all on the field.’
Talked with [defensive coordina-
tor] Joe Whitt, and he was all
about it. Because really Johnny
was certainly, clearly higher than
anybody else we had on the board
there.”
okay, great. But what about the
offensive line? Quarterback
Jayden Daniels is the team’s most
important player, and it’s critical
to protect him, especially given his
thin frame. The team still has ma-
jor question marks at tackle.
A popular theory before the
draft was that Washington would
trade up for a tackle in a deep,
talented class. But then seven of
them went in the first 29 picks.
Ultimately, the only addition
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balls in the dirt.
Washington, and Corbin,
looked finished after the inning,
with three consecutive base run-
ners and a Jazz Chisholm Jr.
grand slam putting the Nationals
behind 4-0 before Corbin record-
ed an out. After the inning, they
were down six. In all, Corbin
allowed seven runs (four earned)
on eight hits.
It was his 111th start since the
Nationals won the World Series in
2019 and his 50th time allowing
at least four earned runs. Since
then, he sports a 5.68 ErA. His
ErA this season sits at 6.82. Still,
he worked his way through an
efficient third and fourth and
then turned it over to the bullpen,
which, buoyed by six outs from
Derek Law and five from Hunter
Harvey, survived several instanc-
es when the marlins brought the
tying run to the plate.
“This team doesn’t quit,” said
Corbin, who conceded he didn’t
have his best stuff. “I don’t think
it’s in anyone’s nature. . . . With
eight innings left in a game, any-
thing can happen. And you saw
that today.”
was third-round pick Brandon
Coleman. He played guard and
tackle at TCU, and most draft ex-
perts projected him to play guard
in the NfL. NfL.com analyst
Lance Zierlein wrote that Cole-
man could play tackle “in an emer-
gency.”
“We see him as a tackle, and we
think he could be a really good
tackle,” Peters said. “He’s really
experienced. He’s got heavy hands.
He’s a really good athlete.”
After Day 2 of the draft, Peters
said he didn’t necessarily view
tackle as “a need,” but “if the right
player was available [on Day 3],
we’ll take an offensive lineman,
just like we’d take any other posi-
tion.”
The Commanders didn’t add
another. So if the season started
tomorrow, the starting left tackle
probably would be Coleman or
journeyman Cornelius Lucas, and
the top right tackle probably
would be Andrew Wylie, who
struggled last season and has been
doubted since he signed last year.
The Commanders could add
another veteran. The tackle mar-
ket is relatively thin, and on Sun-
day night, Philadelphia scooped
up one of the best available by
agreeing to terms with mekhi Bec-
ton, according to a person with
knowledge of the situation. other
remaining free agents include
Donovan Smith and Chris Hub-
bard. The pool could deepen in the
post-draft roster churn, but it’s
hard to find contributors between
the draft and training camp.
regardless of what Washington
does next, the decision not to use
more assets on the line will put a
spotlight on that unit and the
front office, especially if Daniels
gets sacked at a high rate, as he did
in college. But public perception
doesn’t seem to be top of mind for
Peters.
The front office stuck to its
process and used the late rounds
of the draft and the undrafted free
agent market to continue taking
low-risk, high-upside swings. The
Commanders were aggressive by
signing former Notre Dame quar-
terback Sam Hartman for a hefty
$245,000 guaranteed and giving
former Colorado State cornerback
Chigozie Anusiem a $300,000
base salary guarantee as well as a
$50,000 signing bonus, per people
with knowledge of the deals.
This offseason has highlighted
the new regime’s measured ap-
proach. The Commanders bet big
on Daniels, of course, but other-
wise remained disciplined. They
passed on a chance to win off the
field so that maybe, some day not
too long from now, they can win on
it instead.
nicki Jhabvala contributed to this
report.
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NBA PLAyOffS ROuNduP
Los Angeles ties series
behind Harden, George
clippers 116,
mavericks 111
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Paul George and James Harden
each scored 33 points while play-
ing key fourth-quarter roles to
help the Los Angeles Clippers hold
on after blowing a 31-point lead
and beat the host Dallas maver-
icks, 116-111, on Sunday, evening
the first-round series at 2-2.
The Clippers won again with-
out Kawhi Leonard, who missed
the series opener with right knee
inflammation before playing in
the two Dallas victories.
The teams have split a pair on
each other’s home court in the
third Western Conference first-
round meeting between them in
the past five seasons. Game 5 is
Wednesday night in Los Angeles.
Kyrie Irving scored 40 points
for Dallas, including an acrobatic
layup with 2:15 remaining for a
104-103 lead that was the first for
the mavericks since the middle of
the first quarter.
Luka Doncic had 29 points,
10 rebounds and 10 assists in his
fourth career playoff triple-double
— all against the Clippers.
George scored 26 points in the
first half, in which the Clippers’
lead reached 55-24 on a three-
pointer by Harden. The stars com-
bined to go 11 for 16 from long
range as Los Angeles finished 18
for 29 overall on three-pointers.
l PACERS 126, BUCKS 113: In
Indianapolis, myles Turner scored
29 points, Tyrese Haliburton add-
ed 24, and Indiana made a fran-
KEviN B. BLACKiSTONE
Clark’s deal says the quiet part
out loud about women’s hoops
BlACKIStoNE from D1
Washington mystics announced
last week that their June 7 home
game against the Indiana fever,
which drafted Clark first overall
April 15, sold out — in three
hours. And that came after the
game was moved from the
mystics’ 4,200-seat
Entertainment and Sports Arena
across the Anacostia to the
Wizards’ 20,356-seat Capital one
Arena in the heart of downtown.
The mystics were the second
WNBA team to move a home
date with Clark’s fever to a larger
venue. And all of this came after
three NCAA tournament games
Clark played in this season set
viewership records for the sport.
of course, unless you have
been living the past year on
Bouvet Island, you know the
myriad reasons for the
phenomenon that is Clark. She
injected basketball’s most recent
revolution of the really deep
three-point shot into the
women’s game. Her signature
shot is called the “logo three”
because she often shoots from
the border of any half-court floor
artwork. And she does so with
such remarkable accuracy that
she scaled the mountain of
college scoring — almost to its
peak, where a lower-division
player, Pearl moore, planted her
flag almost a half-century ago.
But a misogynist NCAA didn’t
acknowledge women’s sports
then, which left most of us
unaware of moore’s
achievements until Clark’s
accomplishments got fact-
checked this past season.
Clark’s leap into the national
mainstream truly launched with
the 2023 NCAA title game.
Before that, she wasn’t selling
out every arena or generating the
record-breaking television
viewership. But after the
showdown with LSU star Angel
reese, Clark became a bankable
star, which is not surprising
given the history race has always
played in sports in this country
when it comes to popularity or
villainy.
for there was Clark, an
austere representative of great
White midwestern values. And
there was reese, from the
Baltimore area, which gave us
“The Wire,” as an exemplar of
everything that is Black urban
aesthetics, living up to her
adopted and trademarked
nickname of “Bayou Barbie,” long
ponytail flying and fashionable
fake eyelashes flittering.
And with victory assured in
the 2023 title game, reese
turned to Clark and gestured she
was winning a championship
ring and Clark was not. Clark
was venerated for not
responding; reese was
villainized. And the perception
wasn’t altered even after internet
chise playoff record 22 three-
pointers as it pulled away late to
beat milwaukee.
The win gave the Pacers a 3-1
lead in the best-of-seven series.
Indiana has won three straight
since losing the opener and can
reach the Eastern Conference
semifinals for the first time since
2014 with a win Tuesday at mil-
waukee.
Haliburton posted a career
playoff scoring high for the second
straight game, while Turner
matched a playoff career high that
he set in friday’s overtime win.
The Bucks, who were missing
injured all-stars Giannis Antetok-
ounmpo (strained left calf) and
Damian Lillard (twisted left knee
and an Achilles’ tendon injury),
were led by Brook Lopez’s 27 points
and Khris middleton’s 25.
l KNICKS 97, 76ERS 92: Jalen
Brunson scored a career playoff-
high 47 points and added 10 as-
sists, and New York beat host Phil-
adelphia to take a 3-1 lead in their
first-round playoff series.
oG Anunoby added 16 points
and 14 rebounds and took on some
of the defensive assignment
against Joel Embiid in the fourth
quarter as the Knicks moved with-
in a victory of getting to the East-
ern Conference semifinals.
Game 5 is Tuesday in New York.
Embiid, who has been dealing
with lingering problems from his
surgically repaired left knee and
was recently diagnosed with Bell’s
palsy, a form of facial paralysis,
couldn’t muster a basket in the
fourth quarter. He finished with
27 points, 10 rebounds and six
assists. Tyrese maxey added
23 points.
sleuths found Clark appearing to
have made a similar gesture to
an earlier opponent.
only dereliction about the role
of race in sport could lead
anyone to downplay it in Clark’s
ascendancy, no matter her
accomplishments.
Indeed, the Great White Hope
was born in the early 1900s as a
title for any White man who
stepped up to challenge Jack
Johnson, the first Black boxer
allowed to fight for the
heavyweight championship,
which he won. Jesse owens was
celebrated for refuting white
supremacy, though America
didn’t accede to his evidencing.
Baseball patted itself on the back
for inviting Jackie robinson to
reintegrate its diamonds.
muhammad Ali was villainized
for embracing Blackness.
Someone tagged the 1988 Notre
Dame-miami football game as
Catholics vs. Convicts in
reference to the former school’s
religious foundation and the
latter’s Black players, some of
whom had been arrested. And
before this year’s Clark-reese
rematch, a column celebrating
UCLA’s wholesomeness in
contrast to LSU’s “dirtiness” was
so beyond the pale that the Los
Angeles Times apologized for it.
And if that wasn’t the quiet
part said out loud, maybe the
shoe deal Clark was just awarded
is. She received what is known of
in the sports endorsement
business as a signature shoe. It is
reserved for the best, for those
who shine so bright that shoe
hucksters believe they will
attract the most customers.
It is an elite group even within
the NBA, in which only about 25
of the fewer than 600 players
who suit up each season have
such rich deals. Their names are
household and mostly
mononymous. LeBron. KD.
Giannis. Steph. Trae. And they all
trace their legacy to, of course,
Jordan, who remains the most
supreme even if he wasn’t the
first.
The women’s lineage isn’t so
long. And the current list isn’t so
deep. Clark joined just three
other current players with
signature shoes: Breanna
Stewart, Elena Delle Donne and
Sabrina Ionescu. In the WNBA, a
league that is disproportionately
predominated by Black women,
the only players so highly
lionized are White.
But good for Caitlin Clark.
Hopefully the rest of the league
can hitch to her Air Clarks — or
whatever they will be called —
and fly.
Kevin B. Blackistone, ESPN panelist
and professor at the Philip Merrill
College of Journalism at the
University of Maryland, writes sports
commentary for The Washington
Post.
EZ SU the washington post . monday, april 29 , 2024
SCOREBO A R d
PRO B A S KE T B A L L HO CK Ey SOCC ER gOLf
NBA playoffs
first round
Best of seven; x-If necessary
Stanley Cup playoffs
first round
Best of seven; x-If necessary
MLS
eAst w L t pts Gf GA
LPgA Tour
LA chAmpionship
At Wilshire Country Club; Los Angeles
Inter Miami CF ..................6 2 3 21 26 16
Cincinnati ..........................5 2 3 18 12 9 purse: $3 million
eAstern conference eAstern conference New York...........................4 1 5 17 14 10 yardage: 6,447; par: 71
ceLtics LeAd heAt, 2-1 rAnGers eLimnAted cApitALs, 4-0
Game 1: at Boston 114, Miami 94 Game 1: at New York 4, Washington 1
Toronto FC ........................5
Columbus ..........................3
4
1
1
6
16
15
11
12
13
9
finAL round
$562,500
Game 2: Miami 111, at Boston 101
Game 3: Boston 104, at Miami 84
Game 2: at New York 4, Washington 3
Game 3: New York 3, at Washington 1
New York City FC ..............4
Philadelphia ......................3
4
1
2
4
14
13
11
15
10
11
Hannah Green .......................... 67 69 70 66
$341,488
— 272 -12
Monday’s game: Boston at Miami, 7:30 Game 4: New York 4 at Washington 2 D.C. United ........................3 3 4 13 14 15
Maja Stark ............................... 65 69 73 68 — 275 -9
Wednesday’s game: Miami at Boston, TBD hurricAnes LeAd isLAnders, 3-1 Atlanta..............................3 3 3 12 13 9
x-Friday's game: Boston at Miami, TBD CF Montreal ......................3 3 3 12 12 16 $247,725
Game 1: at Carolina 3, New York 1
x-Sunday, May 5: Miami at Boston, TBD
Game 2: at Carolina 5, New York 3 Charlotte FC ......................3 5 2 11 10 13 Hae-Ran Ryu ............................ 66 72 71 69 — 278 -6
knicks LeAd 76ers, 3-1 Chicago..............................2 4 4 10 11 18 $172,940
Game 3: Carolina 3, at New York 2
Orlando City ......................2 4 3 9 11 17 Jin Hee Im ................................ 72 72 63 72 — 279 -5
Game 1: at New York 111, Philadelphia 104 Game 4: at New York 3, Carolina 2 (2OT)
Game 2: at New York 104, Philadelphia 101 Tuesday's game: New York at Carolina, 7:30 Nashville ...........................1 3 5 8 10 17 Jin Young Ko ............................ 72 68 72 67 — 279 -5
New England .....................1 7 1 4 6 18
Game 3: at Philadelphia 125, New York 114 x-Thursday's game: Carolina at New York, TBA $115,917
Game 4: New York 97, at Philadelphia 92 x-Saturday's game: New York at Carolina, TBA Nataliya Guseva ...................... 66 73 71 70 — 280 -4
Tuesday's game: Philadelphia at New York, TBD pAnthers LeAd LiGhtninG, 3-1 west w L t pts Gf GA Emily Pedersen ........................ 70 67 73 70 — 280 -4
x-Thursday's game: New York at Philadelphia, TBD Real Salt Lake ...................5 2 3 18 17 9
Game 1: at Florida 3, Tampa Bay 2 $77,402
x-Saturday’s game: Philadelphia at New York, TBD LA Galaxy ..........................5 2 3 18 21 17 Esther Henseleit ...................... 68 68 71 74 — 281 -3
Game 2: at Florida 3, Tampa Bay 2 Vancouver .........................5 2 2 17 18 10
pAcers LeAd bucks, 3-1 Game 3: Florida 5, at Tampa Bay 3 Minnesota United .............5 2 2 17 15 10
Gaby Lopez ............................... 74 68 71 68 — 281 -3
Game 1: at Milwaukee 109, Indiana 94 Game 4: at Tampa Bay 6, Florida 3 Madelene Sagstrom ................ 74 70 72 65 — 281 -3
Game 2: Indiana 125, at Milwaukee 108 Monday's game: Tampa Bay at Florida, 7
Los Angeles FC..................4 3 3 15 18 16
Mao Saigo ................................ 71 71 70 69 — 281 -3
Colorado ............................4 3 3 15 16 15
Game 3: at Indiana 121, Milwaukee 119 (OT) x-Wednesday's game: Florida at Tampa Bay, TBA Austin FC ..........................4 3 3 15 14 13
Xiaowen Yin ............................. 72 68 73 68 — 281 -3
Game 4: at Indiana 126, Milwaukee 113 x-Saturday's game: Tampa Bay at Florida, TBA $46,990
Tuesday’s game: Indiana at Milwaukee, TBD
Houston ............................4 4 1 13 9 10
bruins LeAd mApLe LeAfs, 3-1 St. Louis City SC ...............2 1 6 12 15 14 Celine Boutier .......................... 68 74 69 71 — 282 -2
x-Thursday's game: Milwaukee at Indiana, TBD
Game 1: at Boston 5, Toronto 1 Sporting KC .......................2 3 5 11 18 18 Ashleigh Buhai ........................ 69 71 73 69 — 282 -2
x-Saturday's game: Indiana at Milwaukee, TBD Portland ............................2 4 4 10 20 21 Hye Jin Choi ............................. 69 72 74 67 — 282 -2
Game 2: Toronto 3, at Boston 2
cAVALiers And mAGic tied, 2-2 Game 3: Boston 4 at Toronto 2 FC Dallas ...........................2 5 2 8 9 12 Nasa Hataoka .......................... 73 71 64 74 — 282 -2
Game 1: at Cleveland 97, Orlando 83 Game 4: Boston 3, at Toronto 1 Seattle ..............................1 5 3 6 10 11 Wei-Ling Hsu ........................... 72 69 68 73 — 282 -2
Game 2: at Cleveland 96, Orlando 86 Tuesday’s game: Toronto at Boston, 7 San Jose............................1 8 1 4 14 25 Charley Hull ............................. 71 70 71 70 — 282 -2
Game 3: at Orlando 121, Cleveland 83 x-Thursday, May 2: Boston at Toronto, TBA Hyo Joon Jang .......................... 72 70 70 70 — 282 -2
sAturdAy, ApriL 20 Aline Krauter ........................... 71 71 69 71 — 282 -2
Game 4: at Orlando 112, Cleveland 89 x-Saturday's game: Toronto at Boston, TBA
at New York City FC 2, D.C. United 0 Jennifer Kupcho ....................... 70 69 70 73 — 282 -2
Tuesday's game: Orlando at Cleveland, TBD
Friday's game: Cleveland at Orlando, TBD western conference Cincinnati 2, at Atlanta 1 Somi Lee .................................. 73 71 70 68 — 282 -2
x-Sunday, May 5: Orlando at Cleveland, TBD AVALAnche LeAds Jets, 3-1 Portland 2, at Columbus 2 Yan Liu ..................................... 71 73 70 68 — 282 -2
Game 1: at Winnipeg 7, Colorado 6 Kaitlyn Papp ............................ 72 68 72 70 — 282 -2
at Miami 3, Nashville 1
western conference Game 2: Colorado 5 at Winnipeg 2 $31,864
thunder LeAds peLicAns, 3-0 Orlando City 2, at CF Montreal 2
Game 3: at Colorado 6, Winnipeg 2 Ally Ewing ................................ 72 68 70 73 — 283 -1
Game 1: Oklahoma City 94, at New Orleans 92 Game 4: at Colorado 5, Winnipeg 1 at Toronto FC 1, New England 0
Ayaka Furue ............................. 74 69 67 73 — 283 -1
Game 2: at Oklahoma City 124, New Orleans 92 Tuesday’s game: Colorado at Winnipeg, 9:30 Real Salt Lake 4, at Chicago 0
Game 3: Oklahoma City 106, at New Orleans 85 x-Thursday's game: Winnipeg at Colorado, TBA Austin FC 1, at Houston 0
Grace Kim ................................ 64 66 76 77 — 283 -1
Pernilla Lindberg ..................... 71 71 73 68 — 283 -1
Monday’s game: Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 8:30 x-Saturday's game: Colorado at Winnipeg, TBA St. Louis City SC 3, at Sporting KC 3 Wichanee Meechai .................. 72 67 75 69 — 283 -1
x-Wednesday's game: New Orleans at Oklahoma City, TBD oiLers LeAd kinGs, 2-1 at Colorado 2, FC Dallas 1 Patty Tavatanakit ................... 70 74 67 72 — 283 -1
x-Friday's game: Oklahoma City at New Orleans, TBD New York 2, at Los Angeles FC 2 Chanettee Wanna-
Game 1: at Edmonton 7, Los Angeles 4 .............. 65 73 73 72 — 283 -1
x-Sunday, May 5: New Orleans at Oklahoma City, TBD
Game 2: Los Angeles 5, at Edmonton 4 (OT) Vancouver 2, at Seattle 0 saen ...........................
nuGGets LeAd LAkers, 3-1 Game 3: Edmonton 6, at Los Angeles 1 $24,011
Game 1: at Denver 114, Los Angeles 103 Game 4: Edmonton at Los Angeles, late
sundAy, ApriL 21 Isabella Fierro .......................... 77 67 69 71 — 284 E
Game 2: at Denver 101, Los Angeles 99 Wednesday's game: Los Angeles at Edmonton, TBA Minnesota 3, at Charlotte FC 0 Kristen Gillman ........................ 71 71 73 69 — 284 E
Game 3: Denver 112, at Los Angeles 105 x-Friday's game: Edmonton at Los Angeles, TBA at LA Galaxy 4, San Jose 3 Sei Young Kim ......................... 65 73 74 72 — 284 E
Game 4: at Los Angeles 119, Denver 108 x-Sunday, May 5: Los Angeles at Edmonton, TBA Yealimi Noh ............................. 72 71 70 71 — 284 E
Monday's game: Los Angeles at Denver, 10 sAturdAy’s resuLts Paula Reto ............................... 70 71 71 72 — 284 E
cAnucks LeAd predAtors, 3-1 Jenny Shin ............................... 73 68 72 71 — 284 E
x-Thursday's game: Denver at Los Angeles , TBD at D.C. United 2, Seattle 1
x-Saturday’s game: Los Angeles at Denver, TBD
Game 1: at Vancouver 4, Nashville 2
at Austin FC 2, LA Galaxy 0 Rose Zhang .............................. 69 69 73 73 — 284 E
Game 2: Nashville 4 at Vancouver 1
timberwoLVes LeAd suns, 3-0 Game 3: Vancouver 2, at Nashville 1 at Cincinnati 2, Colorado 1 $17,644
Game 1: at Minnesota 120, Phoenix 95 Game 4: Vancouver 4, at Nashville 3 (OT) CF Montreal 0, at Columbus 0 Cydney Clanton ........................ 73 70 69 73 — 285 +1
Game 2: at Minnesota 105, Phoenix 93 Tuesday’s game: Nashville at Vancouver, 10 at New York City FC 2, Charlotte FC 1 Allisen Corpuz .......................... 73 70 70 72 — 285 +1
Game 3: Minnesota 126, at Phoenix 109 x-Friday's game: Vancouver at Nashville, TBA Miami 4, at New England 1 Lauren Coughlin ....................... 70 72 72 71 — 285 +1
Game 4: Minnesota at Phoenix, late x-Sunday, May 5: Nashville at Vancouver, TBA Gemma Dryburgh .................... 68 74 70 73 — 285 +1
Vancouver 1, at New York 1
x-Tuesday's game: Phoenix at Minnesota, TBD Sarah Kemp ............................. 71 69 71 74 — 285 +1
GoLden kniGhts LeAd stArs, 2-1 Toronto FC 2, at Orlando City 1 Alison Lee ................................ 74 68 71 72 — 285 +1
x-Thursday's game: Minnesota at Phoenix, TBD
Game 1: Vegas 4, at Dallas 3 Real Salt Lake 2, at Philadelphia 1 Mi Hyang Lee ........................... 74 67 74 70 — 285 +1
x-Saturday’s game: Phoenix at Minnesota, TBD
Game 2: Vegas 3, at Dallas 1 Atlanta 0, at Chicago 0 Jeong Eun Lee5 ........................ 69 72 75 69 — 285 +1
mAVericks And cLippers tied, 2-2 Game 3: Dallas 3, at Vegas 2 at FC Dallas 2, Houston 0
Game 1: at Los Angeles 109, Dallas 97 Monday's game: Dallas at Vegas, 9:30 at Minnesota 2, Sporting KC 1
Game 2: Dallas 96 at Los Angeles 93 Wednesday's game: Vegas at Dallas, TBA
Game 3: at Dallas 101, Los Angeles 90 x-Friday's game: Dallas at Vegas, TBA
San Jose 1, at Nashville 1 PgA Tour Champions
at Los Angeles FC 3, Portland 2 eLectric cLAssic
Game 4: Los Angeles 116 at Dallas 111 x-Sunday, May 5: Vegas at Dallas, TBA
At TPC Sugarloaf; Duluth, Ga.
Wednesday’s game: Dallas at Los Angeles, 10 sAturdAy’s mAtches purse: $2 million
Friday's game: Los Angeles at Dallas, 9:30
x-Sunday, May 5: Dallas at Los Angeles, TBD
Philadelphia at D.C. United, 7:30 yardage: 7,179; par: 72
Rangers 4, Capitals 2 Minnesota at Atlanta, 7:30 finAL round $300,000
n.y. rAnGers ......................... 2 0 2 — 4 Portland at Charlotte FC, 7:30
Stephen Ames ................................. 71 64 67 — 202-14
wAshinGton ......................... 1 1 0 — 2 New York at Miami, 7:30
Knicks 97, 76ers 92 Cincinnati at Orlando City, 7:30 $160,000
first period Doug Barron ..................................... 65 72 69 — 206-10
new york ......................... 17 30 30 20 — 97 Los Angeles FC at San Jose, 7:30 Paul Broadhurst ............................... 67 67 72 — 206-10
phiLAdeLphiA .................. 27 22 27 16 — 92 scoring: 1, N.Y. Rangers, Kakko 1, 0:57. 2, Washington, FC Dallas at Toronto FC, 7:30
Fehervary 2 (Protas, Strome), 14:54. 3, N.Y. Rangers, $108,000
New England at Chicago, 8:30
new york: Anunoby 8-16 0-0 16, Hart 0-7 4-8 4, Trocheck 3 (Panarin, Zibanejad), 19:44 (pp). Steven Alker .................................... 65 71 71 — 207 -9
St. Louis City SC at Houston, 8:30 K.J. Choi ........................................... 68 69 70 — 207 -9
Hartenstein 4-6 0-2 8, Brunson 18-34 9-11 47, DiVincen-
second period CF Montreal at Nashville, 8:30
zo 3-11 0-0 8, Achiuwa 0-5 1-2 1, Bogdanovic 0-0 0-0 0, $76,000
McBride 4-7 2-3 13. totals 37-86 16-26 97. scoring: 4, Washington, Lapierre 1 (Alexeyev), 7:48. Sporting KC at Real Salt Lake, 9:30
Austin FC at Vancouver, 10:30
Retief Goosen .................................. 69 71 68 — 208 -8
phiLAdeLphiA: Harris 4-10 2-2 10, Oubre Jr. 7-15 2-2 John Senden .................................... 67 70 71 — 208 -8
third period
19, Embiid 7-19 12-14 27, Lowry 1-6 4-5 7, Maxey 8-21 sundAy’s mAtches $60,000
scoring: 5, N.Y. Rangers, Panarin 2 (Fox, Zibanejad), 3:21
4-4 23, Reed 0-2 0-0 0, Batum 0-3 1-2 1, Melton 0-2 0-0 0,
Payne 2-4 0-0 5. totals 29-82 25-29 92.
three-point Goals: New York 7-27 (McBride 3-5, DiVin-
cenzo 2-7, Brunson 2-8, Hart 0-3, Anunoby 0-4), Phila-
(pp). 6, N.Y. Rangers, Roslovic 2 (Trouba, Lafreniere),
19:09 (en).
shots on GoAL
Colorado at New York City FC, 4
LA Galaxy at Seattle, 6:30
Miguel Angel Jimenez .....................
Tim Petrovic ....................................
$48,000
Darren Clarke ...................................
70 69 70 — 209 -7
66 74 69 — 209 -7
73 69 68 — 210 -6
delphia 9-33 (Oubre Jr. 3-7, Maxey 3-9, Payne 1-3, Lowry
1-4, Embiid 1-6, Batum 0-1, Harris 0-1, Melton 0-2).
fouled out: None. rebounds: New York 52 (Hart 17),
Philadelphia 42 (Embiid 10). Assists: New York 19
n.y. rAnGers ....................... 10
wAshinGton ......................... 8
6
10
7 — 23
6 — 24
power-play opportunities: N.Y. Rangers 3 of 4; Washing-
Atlanta united 0, fire 0
Late Saturday
Ken Duke ..........................................
Lee Janzen .......................................
$37,000
Gene Sauers .....................................
68 72 70 — 210 -6
68 69 73 — 210 -6
70 69 72 — 211 -5
ton 0 of 2. Goalies: N.Y. Rangers, Shesterkin 3-0-0 (24
(Brunson 10), Philadelphia 23 (Lowry 7). total fouls: shots-22 saves). Washington, Lindgren 0-3-0 (22-19). A: AtLAntA 0 0 0 Kevin Sutherland ............................. 68 70 73 — 211 -5
New York 19, Philadelphia 24. A: 21,048 (20,478) 0 (18,277). t: 2:30. chicAGo 0 0 0 David Toms ...................................... 68 71 72 — 211 -5
first half: None. Y.E. Yang .......................................... 70 68 73 — 211 -5
second half: None. $28,280
Avalanche 5, Jets 1 Goalies: Atlanta, Brad Guzan, Joshua Cohen; Chicago, Thomas Bjorn .................................. 69 71 72 — 212 -4
Clippers 116, Mavericks 111 Chris Brady, Spencer Richey. Richard Green .................................. 67 72 73 — 212 -4
L.A. cLippers .................... 39 27 16 34 — 116
winnipeG ............................... 1 0 0 — 1 yellow cards: Lennon, Atlanta, 46th; Arigoni, Chicago, Mark Hensby .................................... 72 71 69 — 212 -4
coLorAdo .............................. 1 3 1 — 5 75th; Slisz, Atlanta, 90th; Mosquera, Atlanta, 90th+8. Tom Pernice ..................................... 74 72 66 — 212 -4
dALLAs .............................. 16 33 29 33 — 111 Atlanta, Brad Guzan; Luis Abram, Brooks Lennon, Efrain Mario Tiziani .................................... 72 68 72 — 212 -4
first period
L.A. cLippers: Coffey 2-5 0-0 4, George 11-19 4-7 33, scoring: 1, Colorado, Lehkonen 4 (Mittelstadt), 8:10. 2,
Morales, Caleb Wiley; Thiago Almada, Saba Lob- $21,550
Zubac 6-11 1-2 13, Harden 12-17 5-5 33, Mann 3-9 2-2 11, zhanidze, Bartosz Slisz; Giorgos Giakoumakis (Daniel David Branshaw .............................. 71 71 71 — 213 -3
Plumlee 3-3 0-0 6, N.Powell 4-8 0-0 11, Westbrook 2-8
Winnipeg, Schmidt 1 (Appleton, Stanley), 13:56. Rios, 66th), Tristan Muyumba (Dax McCarty, 78th), Scott Dunlap .................................... 71 72 70 — 213 -3
Tyler Wolff (Edwin Mosquera, 66th).
0-2 5. totals 43-80 12-18 116. second period Chicago, Chris Brady; Allan Arigoni, Rafael Czichos,
Billy Mayfair .................................... 71 71 71 — 213 -3
scoring: 3, Colorado, Nichushkin 4 (MacKinnon, Makar), Jeff Sluman ..................................... 69 72 72 — 213 -3
dALLAs: Jones Jr. 6-9 0-1 14, Washington 4-9 1-1 10, Andrew Gutman (Jonathan Dean, 66th), Mauricio Pineda,
Gafford 1-4 3-4 5, Doncic 10-24 8-10 29, Irving 14-25 6-6 11:36 (pp). 4, Colorado, Makar 2, 15:03. 5, Colorado, Tobias Salquist; Kellyn Acosta (Brian Gutierrez, 66th); $17,000
40, Kleber 1-1 0-0 3, Lively II 4-4 0-1 8, Exum 0-2 0-0 0, Nichushkin 5 (Lehkonen, MacKinnon), 19:36 (pp). Hugo Cuypers, Fabian Herbers, Georgios Koutsias (Tom Woody Austin .................................. 69 74 71 — 214 -2
Green 0-3 2-2 2, Hardy 0-0 0-0 0. totals 40-81 20-25 111. Chris DiMarco .................................. 70 72 72 — 214 -2
third period Barlow, 71st), Chris Mueller (Arnaud Souquet, 76th).
Thongchai Jaidee ............................. 73 72 69 — 214 -2
three-point Goals: L.A. Clippers 18-29 (George 7-10,
scoring: 6, Colorado, Nichushkin 6, 19:47 (en). Kenny Perry ..................................... 69 72 73 — 214 -2
Harden 4-5, N.Powell 3-5, Mann 3-6, Westbrook 1-2, Paul Stankowski .............................. 74 72 68 — 214 -2
Coffey 0-1), Dallas 11-33 (Irving 6-12, Jones Jr. 2-3, shots on GoAL fC dallas 2, dynamo 0 Michael Wright ................................ 74 66 74 — 214 -2
Kleber 1-1, Washington 1-5, Doncic 1-9, Exum 0-1, Green winnipeG ............................... 9 7 10 — 26
0-2). fouled out: None. rebounds: L.A. Clippers 29 coLorAdo ............................ 13 17 5 — 35
Late Saturday $13,800
(George, Harden 6), Dallas 42 (Doncic 10). Assists: L.A. Olin Browne ..................................... 70 77 68 — 215 -1
Clippers 22 (George 8), Dallas 22 (Doncic 10). total
power-play opportunities: Winnipeg 0 of 4; Colorado 2 of houston 0 0 0 Brian Gay ......................................... 72 74 69 — 215 -1
4. Goalies: Winnipeg, Hellebuyck 1-3-0 (30 shots-26 dALLAs 0 2 2
fouls: L.A. Clippers 27, Dallas 21. A: 20,411 (19,200)
saves), Winnipeg, Brossoit 0-0-0 (4-4). Colorado, Geor-
Jay Haas .......................................... 75 67 73 — 215 -1
first half: None. $10,460
giev 3-1-0 (26-25). A: 18,129 (18,007). t: 2:42. second half: 1, Dallas, Musa, 3 (Twumasi), 55th minute; Steve Allan ...................................... 69 69 78 — 216 E
2, Dallas, Ibeagha, 1 (Junqua), 80th. Billy Andrade ................................... 74 70 72 — 216 E
Pacers 126, Bucks 113 Goalies: Houston, Steve Clark, Andrew Tarbell; Dallas, Stuart Appleby ................................ 74 72 70 — 216 E
miLwAukee ...................... 33 31 21 28 — 113
Canucks 4, Predators 3 (OT) Maarten Paes, Jimmy Maurer. Shane Bertsch ................................. 66 71 79 — 216 E
yellow cards: Musa, Dallas, 16th; Illarramendi, Dallas, Stewart Cink .................................... 71 70 75 — 216 E
indiAnA ............................. 33 34 31 28 — 126 VAncouVer ..................... 1 0 2 1 — 4 42nd; Micael, Houston, 62nd; Kamungo, Dallas, 73rd; Joe Durant ....................................... 74 72 70 — 216 E
nAshViLLe ........................ 1 1 1 0 — 3 Gaines, Houston, 87th; Sviatchenko, Houston, 90th+2.
miLwAukee: Middleton 9-22 7-8 25, Portis 2-4 0-0 4, red cards: Dorsey, Houston, 5th.
Paul Goydos ..................................... 68 73 75 — 216 E
Lopez 12-18 0-4 27, Beasley 8-12 0-0 20, Beverley 3-6 2-2 first period Jesper Parnevik ............................... 68 72 76 — 216 E
9, Beauchamp 1-2 0-0 2, Crowder 1-4 0-0 2, Gallinari 3-5
Houston, Steve Clark; Ethan Bartlow, Griffin Dorsey, Boo Weekley .................................... 76 69 71 — 216 E
scoring: 1, Vancouver, Boeser 2 (Miller, Soucy), 2:55. 2, Franco Escobar (Hector Herrera, 66th), Micael (Erik
0-0 6, T.Antetokounmpo 0-0 0-0 0, Connaughton 2-6 0-0 Nashville, Jankowski 1 (Carrier, Lauzon), 5:34. Sviatchenko, 84th); Artur, Latif Blessing (Daniel Steres,
Charlie Wi ........................................ 70 74 72 — 216 E
4, Green 3-7 0-0 8, Jackson Jr. 2-4 0-0 6. totals 46-90
9-14 113. second period 19th), Adalberto Carrasquilla, Sebastian Kowalczyk
(McKinze Gaines, 84th); Ibrahim Aliyu, Amine Bassi
indiAnA: Nesmith 3-6 4-4 13, Siakam 6-14 1-3 13, scoring: 3, Nashville, Nyquist 1 (O’Reilly), 5:21. (Brad Smith, 47th). PRO fO O T BALL
Turner 10-17 2-6 29, Haliburton 8-16 3-3 24, Nembhard Dallas, Maarten Paes; Marco Farfan (Bernard Kamungo,
6-9 0-0 15, Jackson 0-3 0-0 0, McDermott 1-2 0-0 3, third period 46th), Sebastien Ibeagha, Sam Junqua, Nkosi Tafari;
Toppin 6-9 0-0 13, Walker 0-0 0-0 0, McConnell 4-11 0-0 scoring: 4, Nashville, Forsberg 2 (McDonagh, Josi), 0:12. Paul Arriola (Tsiki Ntsabeleng, 82nd), Patrickson Delga- united football League
8, Sheppard 2-2 2-2 8. totals 46-89 12-18 126. 5, Vancouver, Boeser 3 (Miller, Lindholm), 17:11. 6, do (Jesus Ferreira, 67th), Liam Fraser, Illarramendi (Carl
Vancouver, Boeser 4 (Miller, Pettersson), 19:52. Sainte, 90th+1), Ema Twumasi; Petar Musa (Logan XfL w L t pct pf pA
three-point Goals: Milwaukee 12-33 (Beasley 4-7, Lopez St. Louis ............................4 1 0 .800 151 95
3-5, Jackson Jr. 2-4, Green 2-6, Beverley 1-1, Beauchamp oVertime
Farrington, 90th+1).
San Antonio ......................4 1 0 .800 115 86
0-1, Portis 0-1, Connaughton 0-2, Crowder 0-2, Middle- D.C.....................................2 3 0 .400 94 138
ton 0-4), Indiana 22-43 (Turner 7-9, Haliburton 5-12, scoring: 7, Vancouver, Lindholm 2 (Garland, Joshua),
Arlington...........................0 5 0 .000 90 125
Nembhard 3-4, Nesmith 3-5, Sheppard 2-2, McDermott 1:02. Minnesota united 2,
1-2, Toppin 1-2, McConnell 0-3, Siakam 0-4). fouled out: shots on GoAL
None. rebounds: Milwaukee 42 (Middleton 10), Indiana Sporting KC 1 usfL w L t pct pf pA
38 (Siakam, Turner 9). Assists: Milwaukee 26 (Jackson VAncouVer ..................... 8 5 6 1 — 20 Birmingham ......................5 0 0 1.000 132 68
nAshViLLe ........................ 9 10 11 0 — 30
Late Saturday Michigan ...........................3 2 0 .600 109 93
Jr. 7), Indiana 33 (Nembhard 9). total fouls: Milwaukee
18, Indiana 18. A: 17,274 (20,000) power-play opportunities: Vancouver 0 of 2; Nashville 0 sportinG kc 1 0 1 Memphis ...........................1 4 0 .200 86 132
of 2. Goalies: Vancouver, Silovs 1-0-0 (30 shots-27 minnesotA 2 0 2 Houston ............................1 4 0 .200 76 116
saves). Nashville, Saros 1-3-0 (20-16). A: 17,590 first half: 1, Minnesota, Boxall, 1 (Lod), 2nd minute; 2, week 5
(17,113). t: 3:00. Minnesota, Oluwaseyi, 4 (Rosales), 25th; 3, Sporting KC, sAturdAy’s resuLts
Lakers 119, Nuggets 108 Pulido, 3 (Salloi), 37th.
Goalies: Sporting KC, Tim Melia, John Pulskamp; Minne- San Antonio 25, at Arlington 15
Late Saturday Birmingham 32, at Houston 9
Bruins 3, Maple Leafs 1 sota, Dayne St. Clair, Alec Smir.
denVer .............................. 23 25 32 28 — 108 yellow cards: Fontas, Sporting KC, 23rd; Padelford, sundAy’s resuLts
L.A. LAkers ....................... 28 33 30 28 — 119 Late Saturday Minnesota, 31st; Boxall, Minnesota, 63rd.
Sporting KC, Tim Melia; Andreu Fontas, Tim Leibold, St. Louis 45, at D.C. 12
denVer: Gordon 3-7 1-2 7, Porter Jr. 10-20 3-5 27, Jokic
boston ................................... 1 2 0 — 3
Kayden Pierre (Khiry Shelton, 70th), Dany Rosero; Michigan 35, at Memphis 18
toronto ................................ 0 0 1 — 1
10-20 11-11 33, Caldwell-Pope 6-8 0-0 14, Murray 9-23 Nemanja Radoja, Erik Thommy, Remi Walter; William
week 6
4-5 22, Holiday 1-3 0-0 3, Braun 0-2 0-0 0, Jackson 0-1 0-0 first period Agada (Johnny Russell, 62nd), Alan Pulido (Alenis
0, Watson 0-3 2-2 2. totals 39-87 21-25 108. scoring: 1, Boston, van Riemsdyk 1 (Lohrei), 15:09. Vargas, 83rd), Daniel Salloi. sAturdAy’s GAmes
Minnesota, Dayne St. Clair; Michael Boxall, Devin Birmingham at Memphis, noon
L.A. LAkers: Hachimura 4-8 0-0 9, James 14-23 2-2 30,
Davis 11-17 3-4 25, Reaves 7-15 6-6 21, Russell 8-15 1-2
second period Padelford (Carlos Harvey, 80th), D.J. Taylor; Kervin Houston at St. Louis, 3
scoring: 2, Boston, Marchand 3 (Coyle, McAvoy), 8:20 Arriaga, Robin Lod (Alejandro Bran, 90th+2), Joseph
21, Prince 3-7 2-2 9, Hayes 0-2 0-0 0, Dinwiddie 0-1 1-2 1,
Rosales, Wil Trapp; Franco Fragapane (Bongokuhle sundAy’s GAmes
Vincent 1-4 0-0 3. totals 48-92 15-18 119. (pp). 3, Boston, Pastrnak 2 (Marchand, Zacha), 19:18.
Hlongwane, 46th), Tani Oluwaseyi (Miguel Tapias, San Antonio at D.C., 4
three-point Goals: Denver 9-30 (Porter Jr. 4-11, third period 66th), Teemu Pukki (Caden Clark, 46th). Arlington at Michigan, 1
Caldwell-Pope 2-3, Jokic 2-5, Holiday 1-2, Braun 0-1, scoring: 4, Toronto, Marner 1 (Lyubushkin, Bertuzzi), 5:43.
Gordon 0-2, Watson 0-2, Murray 0-4), L.A. Lakers 8-26 week 7
(Russell 4-8, Vincent 1-2, Hachimura 1-3, Prince 1-4, shots on GoAL Los Angeles fC 3, Timbers 2 sAturdAy, mAy 11
Reaves 1-6, Dinwiddie 0-1, James 0-2). fouled out: boston ................................... 8 9 5 — 22 Memphis at Arlington, 1
None. rebounds: Denver 40 (Jokic 14), L.A. Lakers 46 toronto ................................ 7 9 10 — 26 Late Saturday St. Louis at Birmingham, 4
(Davis 23). Assists: Denver 30 (Jokic 14), L.A. Lakers 23
(Davis, Reaves 6). total fouls: Denver 15, L.A. Lakers 20. power-play opportunities: Boston 1 of 3; Toronto 0 of 3. portLAnd 0 2 2 sundAy, mAy 12
Goalies: Boston, Swayman 3-0-0 (26 shots-25 saves). Los AnGeLes fc 2 1 3
A: 18,997 (18,997)
Toronto, Samsonov 1-3-0 (17-14), Toronto, Woll 0-0-0 Michigan at D.C., noon
(5-5). A: 19,256 (18,819). t: 2:32. first half: 1, Los Angeles FC, Miller, 44th minute; 2, Los San Antonio at Houston, 3
Angeles FC, Tillmann, 4 (Olivera), 45th+5.
second half: 3, Portland, Rodriguez, 2 (Moreno), 65th; 4,
Portland, Moreno, 3 (Bravo), 73rd; 5, Los Angeles FC,
AuTO R A C i N g Stars 3, golden Knights 2 (OT) Bouanga, 6 (Atuesta), 90th+2. TENNiS
Goalies: Portland, Maxime Crepeau, James Pantemis;
Late Saturday Los Angeles FC, Hugo Lloris, Abraham Romero.
NASCAR Cup Series dALLAs .............................. 1 1 0 1 — 3 yellow cards: Bogusz, Los Angeles FC, 48th; Bravo, Madrid Open
VeGAs ............................... 0 2 0 0 — 2 Portland, 52nd; Sanchez, Los Angeles FC, 54th; Rodri-
würth 400 guez, Portland, 55th; Williamson, Portland, 68th; Chara, At Caja Magica; in Madrid
At Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway first period purse: $8,429,002
Lap length: 1.00 miles
Portland, 72nd; Chanot, Los Angeles FC, 75th; Kamara,
surface: Red clay
scoring: 1, Dallas, Johnston 1 (Heiskanen, Robertson), Los Angeles FC, 89th; Miller, Portland, 90th+6.
(Start position in parentheses) 11:11. Portland, Maxime Crepeau; Miguel Araujo, Claudio men’s sinGLes — round of 32
1. (6) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 400 laps, 53 points. Bravo, Kamal Miller, Juan Mosquera (Eric Miller, 46th);
2. (21) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 400, 51. second period Diego Chara, Santiago Moreno, Eryk Williamson (David Jan-Lennard Struff (23), Germany, def. Ugo Humbert (13),
3. (15) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 400, 51. Ayala, 83rd); Antony Alves Santos (Dairon Asprilla, France, 7-5, 6-4; Tallon Griekspoor (24), Netherlands, def.
scoring: 2, Dallas, Heiskanen 1 (Dadonov, Seguin), 5:25. Holger Rune (11), Denmark, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Andrey Rublev
4. (1) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 400, 42. 3, Vegas, McNabb 2 (Stephenson), 10:40. 4, Vegas, 59th), Felipe Mora (Cristhian Paredes, 77th), Jonathan
5. (29) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 400, 40. Eichel 2 (McNabb), 13:50 (sh). Rodriguez (Zac McGraw, 83rd). (7), Russia, def. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (27), Spain,
6. (5) Noah Gragson, Ford, 400, 31. Los Angeles FC, Hugo Lloris; Maxime Chanot, Ryan 7-6 (12-10), 6-4; Hubert Hurkacz (8), Poland, def. Daniel
7. (2) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 400, 40. oVertime Hollingshead (Omar Chagoya, 79th), Jesus Murillo, Sergi Altmaier, Germany, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2); Carlos Alcaraz (2),
8. (9) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 400, 41.
scoring: 5, Dallas, Johnston 2 (Robertson, Suter), 16:23.
Palencia; Eduard Atuesta, Mateusz Bogusz, Ilie Sanchez Spain, def. Thiago Seyboth Wild, Brazil, 6-3, 6-3; Taylor
9. (14) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 400, 28. (Kei Kamara, 79th), Timothy Tillmann; Denis Bouanga, Fritz (12), United States, def. Sebastian Baez (18),
10. (19) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 400, 27. shots on GoAL Cristian Olivera (Luis Muller, 90th+6). Argentina, 6-2, 6-3; Francisco Cerundolo (21), Argentina,
11. (4) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 400, 38. def. Tommy Paul (15), United States, 6-7 (9-7), 6-4, 6-2.
12. (22) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 400, 25. dALLAs ............................ 18 15 5 8 — 46
13. (10) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 400, 0. VeGAs ............................... 7 10 10 7 — 34 women’s sinGLes — round of 32
14. (12) Josh Berry, Ford, 400, 23. power-play opportunities: Dallas 0 of 2; Vegas 0 of 1. Sara Bejlek, Czech Republic, def. Ashlyn Krueger, United
15. (11) Austin Cindric, Ford, 400, 22. Goalies: Dallas, Oettinger 1-2-0 (34 shots-32 saves). Earthquakes 1, Nashville SC 1 States, 6-3, 6-1; Elena Rybakina (4), Kazakhstan, def.
16. (13) Joey Logano, Ford, 400, 21. Vegas, Thompson 2-1-0 (46-43). A: 18,536 (17,367). t: 3:19. Late Saturday Mayar Sherif, Egypt, 6-1, 6-4; Yulia Putintseva, Kazakh-
17. (18) Chris Buescher, Ford, 400, 20. stan, def. Caroline Dolehide, United States, 6-2, 6-2;
18. (31) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 399, 19. sAn Jose 0 1 1 Daria Kasatkina (10), Russia, def. Anastasia Pavlyuchen-
19. (7) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 399, 18. nAshViLLe 1 0 1 kova (20), Russia, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5; Mirra Andreeva, Russia,
20. (34) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 398, 17.
TRA N S AC T iON S first half: 1, Nashville, Mukhtar, 2 (Muyl), 19th minute. def. Marketa Vondrousova (7), Czech Republic, 7-5, 6-1;
21. (25) Corey LaJoie, Chevrolet, 398, 16. second half: 2, San Jose, Skahan, 1 (Rodrigues), 63rd. Jasmine Paolini (12), Italy, def. Caroline Garcia (21),
22. (20) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 397, 15. Goalies: San Jose, William Yarbrough, Emi Ochoa; France, 6-3, 6-2; Danielle Collins (13), United States, def.
23. (36) Justin Haley, Ford, 397, 14. mLb Nashville, Joe Willis, Ben Martino, Elliot Panicco. Jaqueline Adina Cristian, Romania, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1; Aryna
24. (37) Zane Smith, Chevrolet, 397, 13. boston red sox: Recalled RHP Naoyuki Uwasawa from yellow cards: Lovitz, Nashville, 4th; Tsakiris, San Jose, Sabalenka (2), Belarus, def. Robin Montgomery, United
25. (32) Corey Heim, Toyota, 397, 0. Worcester (IL). Designated LHP Joely Rodriguez for 14th; Kikanovic, San Jose, 40th; Akapo, San Jose, 51st; States, 6-1, 6-7 (7-5), 6-4.
26. (26) Harrison Burton, Ford, 397, 11. assignment. Costa, San Jose, 90th+2. women’s doubLes — round of 16
27. (23) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 396, 10. kansas city royals: Sent RHP Carlos Hernandez to San Jose, William Yarbrough; Carlos Akapo, Tanner
28. (27) Jimmie Johnson, Toyota, 395, 9. Omaha (IL) on a rehab assignment. Beason, Vitor Costa, Rodrigues (Daniel Munie, 87th); Sara Sorribes Tormo and Cristina Bucsa (8), Spain, def.
29. (35) Kaz Grala, Ford, 394, 8. washington nationals: Assigned 38 Jake Alu outright to Cristian Espinoza (Paul Marie, 89th), Carlos Gruezo, Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Veronika Kudermetova,
30. (24) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 383, 7. Rochester (IL). Niko Tsakiris (Jack Skahan, 46th), Jackson Yueill; Russia, 7-6 (8-6), 6-1; Taylor Townsend and Coco Gauff
31. (30) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 379, 6. Jeremy Ebobisse (Preston Judd, 64th), Benjamin Ki- (4), United States, def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands and
32. (16) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, accident, 329, 6. nhL kanovic (Amahl Pellegrino, 46th). Sofia Kenin, United States, 6-2, 4-6, 10-8; Desirae
33. (3) William Byron, Chevrolet, accident, 329, 13. colorado Avalanche: Recalled F Nikolai Kovalenko from Nashville, Joe Willis; Brent Kallman (Walker Zimmerman, Krawczyk and Caroline Dolehide (7), United States, def.
34. (33) Christopher Bell, Toyota, accident, 328, 3. Colorado (AHL). 77th), Daniel Lovitz (Taylor Washington, 73rd), Jack Ma- Lucia Bronzetti, Italy, and Liudmila Samsonova, Russia,
35. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, accident, 320, 5. detroit red wings: Signed D Andrew Gibson to a her; Sean Davis (Brian Anunga, 74th), Anibal Godoy, Hany 6-3, 6-7 (7-3), 10-8; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and
36. (8) Michael McDowell, Ford, garage, 285, 1. Mukhtar, Alex Muyl, Dru Yearwood (Tyler Boyd, 77th); Anastasia Potapova, Russia, def. Nadiia Kichenok,
three-year, entry-level contract.
37. (28) Ryan Preece, Ford, garage, 66, 1. Jacob Shaffelburg, Sam Surridge (Teal Bunbury, 87th). Ukraine, and Miyu Kato, Japan, 6-4, 6-1.
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1249 CARROLLSBURG PLACE SW,
WASHINGTON DC 20024
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of
Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case:), 2015 CA 003640 R(RP)
the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 1249 CARROLLSBURG PLACE SW, WASHINGTON
DC 20024 at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY
WEST AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On MAY
28, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated in
the District of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot
0086 in Square 0651, and more particularly described in the
Deed of Trust recorded in the Land Records of the District
of Columbia, on JUNE 27, 2007 as Instrument Number
2007085045. The property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed
“as is” without any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee
Simple, subject to conditions, restrictions, easements, and
all other recorded instruments superior to the Deed of Trust
referenced above, and subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $45,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash
or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction
is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors
or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and
may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is
to be paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the
sale by the Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
If purchaser fails to settle within the aforesaid sixty (60) days
of the ratification, the purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’
reasonable attorney fees as ordered by the Court, plus all
costs incurred, if the Trustees have filed the appropriate
motion with the Court to resell the property. Purchaser
waives personal service of any paper filed with the Court
in connection with such motion and any Show Cause Order
issued by the Court and expressly agrees to accept service
of any such paper or Order by certified mail and regular
mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser and
as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective
upon the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United
States Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser
that actual receipt of the certified mail is not required
for service to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to
settlement the deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees
and all expenses of this sale (including attorney fees and
full commission on the gross sales price of the sale) shall
be charged against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In
the event of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from
any resale of the property regardless of any improvements
made to the real property. Interest is to be paid on the
unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the funds
are received in the office of the Trustees. In the event that
the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER,
there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues,
all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district
charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year
to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.
Purchaser shall be responsible for the costs of all transfer
taxes, documentary stamps and all other costs incident
to settlement. Purchaser shall be responsible for physical
possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of
loss from the date of sale forward. The sale is subject to
post sale audit by the Mortgage holder to determine whether
the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/
forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the
sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees that upon
notification by the Trustees of such event the sale is null
and void and of no legal effect and the deposit returned
without interest. Trustees’ File No: 14-900033
JAMES E. CLARKE SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
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1711 KALMIA ROAD NW, WASHINGTON DC 20012 2608 4TH STREET NE, WASHINGTON DC 20002
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of In execution of the Superior Court for the District of
Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case: 2016 CA 002141 R(RP), Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case: 2023-CAB-000219,
the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 1711 KALMIA ROAD NW, WASHINGTON DC 20012 known as 2608 4TH STREET NE, WASHINGTON DC 20002
at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST
AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440, AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On MAY 14, 2024 AT Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On MAY 14, 2024 AT
11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated in the District of 11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated in the District of
Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0006 in Square Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0045 in Square
2748, and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust 3551, and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on
on MAY 31, 2005 as Instrument Number 2005074011. The OCTOBER 1, 2019 as Instrument Number 2019105558. The
property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed “as is” without any property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed “as is” without any
covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject to covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject to
conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above,
and subject to ratification by the Court and subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $50,000.00 or TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $50,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash 10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash
or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction
is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors
or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and
may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is
to be paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the to be paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the
sale by the Court. sale by the Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
If purchaser fails to settle within the aforesaid sixty (60) days If purchaser fails to settle within the aforesaid sixty (60) days
of the ratification, the purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ of the ratification, the purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’
reasonable attorney fees as ordered by the Court, plus all reasonable attorney fees as ordered by the Court, plus all
costs incurred, if the Trustees have filed the appropriate costs incurred, if the Trustees have filed the appropriate
motion with the Court to resell the property. Purchaser motion with the Court to resell the property. Purchaser
waives personal service of any paper filed with the Court waives personal service of any paper filed with the Court
in connection with such motion and any Show Cause Order in connection with such motion and any Show Cause Order
issued by the Court and expressly agrees to accept service issued by the Court and expressly agrees to accept service
of any such paper or Order by certified mail and regular of any such paper or Order by certified mail and regular
mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser and mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser and
as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective
upon the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United upon the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United
States Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser States Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser
that actual receipt of the certified mail is not required that actual receipt of the certified mail is not required
for service to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to for service to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to
settlement the deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees settlement the deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees
and all expenses of this sale (including attorney fees and and all expenses of this sale (including attorney fees and
full commission on the gross sales price of the sale) shall full commission on the gross sales price of the sale) shall
be charged against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In be charged against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In
the event of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be the event of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from entitled to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from
any resale of the property regardless of any improvements any resale of the property regardless of any improvements
made to the real property. Interest is to be paid on the made to the real property. Interest is to be paid on the
unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in the Deed unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the funds of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the funds
are received in the office of the Trustees. In the event that are received in the office of the Trustees. In the event that
the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER,
there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent, there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues,
all public charges/assessments payable on an annual all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district
charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year
to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.
Purchaser shall be responsible for the costs of all transfer Purchaser shall be responsible for the costs of all transfer
taxes, documentary stamps and all other costs incident taxes, documentary stamps and all other costs incident
to settlement. Purchaser shall be responsible for physical to settlement. Purchaser shall be responsible for physical
possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of
loss from the date of sale forward. The sale is subject to loss from the date of sale forward. The sale is subject to
post sale audit by the Mortgage holder to determine whether post sale audit by the Mortgage holder to determine whether
the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/ the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/
forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the
sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees that upon sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees that upon
notification by the Trustees of such event the sale is null notification by the Trustees of such event the sale is null
and void and of no legal effect and the deposit returned and void and of no legal effect and the deposit returned
without interest. Trustees’ File No: 15-900076 without interest. Trustees’ File No: 22-009679
JAMES E. CLARKE SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE JAMES E. CLARKE AND DANIEL K. EISENHAUER
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE
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(703) 777-7101 Leesburg, VA 20175
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840 840
Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
4702 JAY STREET NE, WASHINGTON DC 20019
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of
Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case: 2023-CAB-002145, the
undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property known
as 4702 JAY STREET NE, WASHINGTON DC 20019 at a public
auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST AUCTIONEERS,
INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440, Washington,
DC 20015 202-463-4567 On MAY 28, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M,
the land and premises situated in the District of Columbia,
and designated as and being Lot 0045 in Square 5151, and
more particularly described in the Deed of Trust recorded in
the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on DECEMBER
7, 2009 as Instrument Number: 2009131871 the property
will be sold by Trustee’s Deed “as is” without any covenant,
expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject to conditions,
restrictions, easements, and all other recorded instruments
superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above, and subject
to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $15,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash
or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction
is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors
or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and
may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is
to be paid in cash within 45 days of final ratification of the
sale by the Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid forty five (45) days of the ratification, the
purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable attorney
fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if
the Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the
Court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal
service of any paper filed with the Court in connection
with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the
Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such
paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to
the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded
on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time
of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the
purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that
actual receipt of the certified mail is not required for service
to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the
deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees and all expenses
of this sale (including attorney fees and full commission
on the gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged
against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event
of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to
any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of
the property regardless of any improvements made to the
real property. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase
money at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from
the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the
office of the Trustees. In the event that the settlement is
delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, there shall be no
abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent, condominium fees
and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/
assessments payable on an annual basis, including
sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable,
to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be
responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement.
Purchaser shall be responsible for physical possession of
the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the
date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit
by the Mortgage holder to determine whether the borrower
filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/forbearance
agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the sale. In any
such event the Purchaser agrees that upon notification by
the Trustees of such event the sale is null and void and of
no legal effect and the deposit returned without interest.
Trustees’ File No 22-013431
JAMES E. CLARKE AND DANIEL EISENHAUER
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
840 840
Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
709 BRANDYWINE STREET SE
UNIT B1, AND PARKING UNIT P-19,
WASHINGTON DC 20032
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of
Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case:2019-CA-007819-R(RP),
the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 709 BRANDYWINE STREET SE UNIT B1, AND
PARKING UNIT P-19, WASHINGTON DC 20032 at a public
auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST AUCTIONEERS,
INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440, Washington,
DC 20015 202-463-4567 On MAY 28, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M,
the land and premises situated in the District of Columbia,
and designated as and being Lot 2077 and 2030 in Square
6164, and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on
OCTOBER 13, 2006 as Instrument Number: 2006139642 the
property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed “as is” without any
covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject to
conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above,
and subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $15,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash
or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction
is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors
or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and
may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is
to be paid in cash within 45 days of final ratification of the
sale by the Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to settle within
the aforesaid forty five (45) days of the ratification, the
purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable attorney
fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if
the Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the
Court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal
service of any paper filed with the Court in connection
with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the
Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such
paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to
the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded
on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time
of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the
purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that
actual receipt of the certified mail is not required for service
to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the
deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees and all expenses
of this sale (including attorney fees and full commission
on the gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged
against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event
of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to
any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of
the property regardless of any improvements made to the
real property. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase
money at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from
the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the
office of the Trustees. In the event that the settlement is
delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, there shall be no
abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent, condominium fees
and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/
assessments payable on an annual basis, including
sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable,
to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be
responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement.
Purchaser shall be responsible for physical possession of
the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the
date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit
by the Mortgage holder to determine whether the borrower
filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/forbearance
agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the sale. In any
such event the Purchaser agrees that upon notification by
the Trustees of such event the sale is null and void and of
no legal effect and the deposit returned without interest.
Trustees’ File No 18-9000047
JAMES E. CLARKE SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101

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Bids & Proposals IN THE CIRCIUT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
DGS | DCAM-24-CS-IFB-0007 MARYLAND
Hill East Ph II: 72” Sewer
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
Relocation 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Bids Due: 05/17/2023 Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
Anchor Construction is looking
for subcontractors for the proj-
vs.
ect above. CBE Firms are highly
encouraged to submit pricing.
SANDRA L. HOBSON
(DECEASED)
886 Bayridge Drive
For further information, Gaithersburg, MD 20878
please contact Bill Custead at
Defendant(s).
202.269.6694; estimating@an-
chorconst.com
Case No.C-15-CV-23-000832
Anchor Construction is an equal NOTICE
opportunity employer.
Notice is hereby given this 12
day of April, 2024, by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County,
Maryland, that the sale of the
property mentioned in these pro-
ceedmgs and described as 886
Give the gift of knowing Bayridge Drive, Gaithersburg,
MD 20878, made and reported
Gift subscriptions by the Substitute Trustee, will be
RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, un-
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of be shown on or before the 13
day of May, 2024, provided a
copy of this NOTICE be inserted
in some daily newspaper printed
Give a in said County, once in each of
three successive weeks before
the 13 day of May, 2024. The
report states the purchase price
gift that at the Foreclosure sale to be
$412,000.00.
delivers KAREN A. BUSHELL
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland
every day BWW#MD-155007
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012457995
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850
Montgomery County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
MARGARITA MONTOYA
JOSE F. MONTOYA
3305 Camden Street
Silver Spring, MD 20902
Defendant (s)
Case No.C-15-CV-22-002659
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 10
day of April, 2024, by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County,
Maryland, that the sale of the
property mentioned in these pro-
ceedings and described as 3305
Camden Street, Silver Spring,
MD 20902, made and reported
by the Substitute Trustee, will be
RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, un-
less cause to the contrary there-
of be shown on or before the 10
day of May, 2024, provided a
copy of this NOTICE be inserted
in some daily newspaper printed
in said County, once in each of
three successive weeks before
the 10 day of May, 2024. The
report states the purchase price
at the Foreclosure sale to be
$447,000.00.
Karen A. Bushell
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland
BWW#MD-355316
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012457811
Apr 15,22,29,May 6 2024
850
Montgomery County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND
Diane S. Rosenberg, et al
4340 East West Highway,
Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
Substitute Trustee
Plaintiff(s)
V.
Esther D. Bacagan
Leticia A Malondras
Eugenio Toralbalia
11832 Huggins Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20902
Defendant(s)
Case No. C-15-CV-23-001204
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 12
day of April, 2024 by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County,
Maryland, that the sale of 11832
Huggins Drive, Silver Spring,
MD 20902, made and reported,
will be ratified and confirmed,
unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before
the 13 day of May, 2024, pro-
vided a copy of this notice be
inserted in The Washington Post
a daily newspaper printed in said
County, once in each of three
successive weeks before the 13,
day of May, 2024. The Report
of Sale states the amount of
the foreclosu e sale price to be
$402,000.00.
KAREN A. BUSHELL
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Montgomery County, Maryland
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012457993
0012456655
850
Montgomery County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
LESLEY JOHNSON (DECEASED)
3 Pickering Court, Unit 102
Germantown, MD 20874
Defendant(s).
Case No.C-15-CV-23-003451
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this
10 day of April, 2024, by the
Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Maryland, that the sale
of the property mentioned in
these proceedings described as
3 Pickering Court, Unit 102,
Germantown, MD 20874, made
and reported by the Substitute
Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
contrary thereof be shown on or
before the 10 day of May, 2024,
provided a copy of this NOTICE
be inserted in some daily news-
paper printed in said County,
once in each of three successive
weeks before the 10 day of May,
2024. The report states the pur-
chase price at the Foreclosure
sale to be $241,000.00.
KAREN A. BUSHELL
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Montgomery County, Maryland
BWW#MD-350177
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012457815
Apr 29,May 6,13,20 2024
850
Montgomery County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND
James E. Clarke, et al.
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
V.
Mirna Magana and CRR Inc.
Defendant(s)
Civil No. 453672V
NOTICE PURSUANT TO
MD RULE 14-215 (A)
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, Mary-
land, this 23 day of April, 2024,
that the foreclosure sale of the
property described in the deed
of trust docketed herein and lo-
cated at 909 Ednor Road, Silver
Spring, MD 20905 made and re-
ported by James E. Clarke, Hugh
J. Green, Shannon Menapace,
Christine M. Drexel and Brian
Thomas, Substitute Trustees,
be RATIFIED and CONFIRMED,
unless cause to the contrary
be shown on or before the 23
day of May, 2024; provided a
copy of this Order be inserted
in THE WASHINGTON POST, once
in each of three (3) successive
weeks before the 23 day of
May, 2024. The Report of Sale
states the amount of the sale at
$576,000.00.
KAREN A. BUSHELL
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Orlans 17-700054
Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012459243
0012457449
850
Montgomery County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND
Glen H. Tschirgi,
Substitute Trustee
Plaintiff,
V.
Bijan Khorsand
Defendant(s)
CASE NO. C-15-CV-23-000209
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this 15
day of April, 2024, that the
sale of the property in this case,
13220 Glen Rd., Gaithersburg
MD 20878, reported by Glen H.
Tschirgi, Substitute Trustee, be
ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary be shown
on or before the 15 day of May,
2024, provided a copy of this No-
tice be inserted in The Washing-
ton Post, a newspaper published
in Montgomery County, Mary-
land, once in each of three (3)
successive weeks on or before
the 15 day of May, 2024. The
report states the amount of sale
to be $236,000.00.
KAREN A. BUSHELL
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012458361
Apr 29,May 6,13,20 2024
851
Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
THE COUNTY OF
PRINCE GEORGE’S,
MARYLAND
WILLIAM M. SAVAGE, et al.
Trustee(s)
Plaintiff(s)
vs.
RUBEN A GARCIA
Defendant(s)
Mortgagor(s)
CIVIL NO: C-16-CV-23-002876
NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this
17 day of April, 2024 by the
Circuit Court for the County of
Prince George’s, Maryland and
bythauthority thereof, that the
sale made by William M. Sav-
age, Gregory N. Britto, Trustees,
of the Real Property designated
as 1800 Metzerott Road Unit
401, Hyattsville, MD 20783,
and reported in the above enti-
tled cause, wil be finally ratified
and confirmed, unless cause to
the contrary thereof be shown
on or before the 17 day of May,
2024 next; provided a copy of
this order be inserted in THE
WASHINGTON POST, 1150 15th
Street Washington DC, MD pub-
lished in said County of Prince
George’s once a week for three
successive weeks before the 17
day of May, 2024. The report
states the amount of the sule to
be $150,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR COUNTY OF PRINCE
GEORGE’S
Trustees File #: 22-290950
Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012458514
0012457802
851
Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTI,
MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
vs.
ANNIE M. MUNSON
CATHERINE BRADY
(DECEASED)
9907 51st Terrace
College Park, MD 20740
Defendant(s).
Case No.CAEF22-15540
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 22nd
day of April, 2024, by the Circuit
Court for Prince George’s Coun-
ty, Maryland, that the sale of the
property mentioned in these pro-
ceedings and described as 9907
51st Terrace, College Park,
MD 20740, made and reported
by the Substitute Trustee, will
be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED,
unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before
the 22nd day of May, 2024, pro-
vided a copy of this NOTICE be in-
serted in some daily newspaper
printed in said County, once in
each of three successive weeks
before the 22nd day of May,
2024. The report states the pur-
chase price at the Foreclosure
sale to be $385,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Prince George’s County,
Maryland
BWW#MD-354991
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Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
725 BRANDYWINE STREET S.E., T3,
WASHINGTON DC 20032
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of
Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case 2023-CAB-004208,
the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 725 BRANDYWINE STREET S.E., T3, WASHINGTON
DC 20032 at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY
WEST AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On MAY
14, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated
in the District of Columbia, and designated as and being
Lot 2130 AND Square 6164, and more particularly described
in the Deed of Trust recorded in the Land Records of the
District of Columbia, on APRIL 9, 2007 as Instrument
Number:2007048647
The property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed “as is” without
any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject to
conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above,
and subject to ratification by the Court.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $10,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash
or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction
is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors
or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and
may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is
to be paid in cash within 30 days of final ratification of the
sale by the Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to settle
within the aforesaid thirty (30) days of the ratification, the
purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable attorney
fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if
the Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the
Court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal
service of any paper filed with the Court in connection
with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the
Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such
paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to
the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded
on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time
of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the
purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that
actual receipt of the certified mail is not required for service
to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the
deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees and all expenses
of this sale (including attorney fees and full commission
on the gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged
against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event
of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to
any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of
the property regardless of any improvements made to the
real property. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase
money at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from
the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the
office of the Trustees. In the event that the settlement is
delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, there shall be no
abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent, condominium fees
and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/
assessments payable on an annual basis, including
sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable,
to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be
responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement.
Purchaser shall be responsible for physical possession of
the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the
date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit
by the Mortgage holder to determine whether the borrower
filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/forbearance
agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the sale. In any
such event the Purchaser agrees that upon notification by
the Trustees of such event the sale is null and void and of
no legal effect and the deposit returned without interest.
Trustees’ File No 23-005552
JAMES E. CLARKE AND DANIEL K. EISENHAUSER,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
Apr 15,22,29,May 6 2024 0012457097
Samuel I. White, P.C.
6100 EXECUTIVE BLVD.
SUITE 400
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND 20852
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
VALUABLE RESIDENTIAL DWELLING KNOWN AS:
139 WILMINGTON PLACE SE,
WASHINGTON, DC 20032
By virtue of Deed of Trust recorded in the land records of
the District of Columbia recorded on July 29, 2008, as
Instrument Number 2008081250 , and in accordance
Judgment filed on March 13, 2024 in case 2019 CA 007253
R(RP) and at the request of the party secured thereby, the
undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer to sell at public
auction, within the office of
HARVEY WEST AUCTIONEERS, INC.
5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440
Washington, DC 20015-2034 on
May 14, 2024 at 1:00 PM
the land and premises situated in the District of Columbia
and more particularly described in the above referenced
Deed of Trust and as of the date hereof designated on the
Records of the Assessor of the District of Columbia for
assessment purposes as
139 Wilmington Place SE, Washington, DC 20032,
LOT NUMBER 0013 AND SQUARE NUMBER 6118
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, the ability of the purchaser to obtain
title insurance or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject
to any assessments including assessment pursuant to D.C.
Code Section 42-1903.13.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY
BY certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale.
CASH WILL NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The
balance of the purchase price with interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note (4.625% per annum) from the date of sale to
the date funds are received by the Trustees, payable in cash
or certified funds within TEN DAYS after the final ratification
of the sale. There will be no abatement of interest due from
the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered
before settlement. Adjustment of current year’s real property
taxes are adjusted as of the date of sale, and thereafter
assumed by the purchaser. All other public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts
survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges,
ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale are
to be paid by the purchaser. All costs of deed recordation
including but not limited to title examination, conveyancing,
city revenue stamps, transfer taxes, title insurance, and all
other costs incident to settlement are to be paid by the
purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical
possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or
damage to the property from date of sale. Time is of the
essence for the Purchaser. If the Purchaser fails to settle
within ten days of ratification, Purchaser agrees that the
property will be resold and the entire deposit retained by
the Substitute Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses
occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall
have no further liability. The purchaser agrees to accept
service by first class mail and certified mail addressed to
the address provided by said Purchaser as identified on
the Memorandum of Sale for all correspondence including
any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale. The
defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus
proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulted
purchaser. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into and repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the
loan prior to sale. In any such event or if the sale is not
ratified, the purchaser’s only remedy is return of the deposit
without interest. Trustee’s File No. 55325
Daniel J. Pesachowitz, Esquire Attorney for Trustees
Apr 15,22,29,May 6 2024 0012457462
840
Trustees Sale - DC
5132 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE NW,
WASHINGTON DC 20011
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of
Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case: 2016 CA 004624 R(RP),
the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 5132 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE NW, WASHINGTON
DC 20011 at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY
WEST AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On MAY
14, 2024 AT 11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated in
the District of Columbia, and designated as and being Lot
0030 in Square 3399, and more particularly described in the
Deed of Trust recorded in the Land Records of the District of
Columbia, on JANUARY 23, 20006 as Instrument Number
2006010178. The property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed
“as is” without any covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee
Simple, subject to conditions, restrictions, easements, and
all other recorded instruments superior to the Deed of Trust
referenced above, and subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $50,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash
or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction
is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors
or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and
may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is
to be paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the
sale by the Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE. If purchaser fails to settle
within the aforesaid sixty (60) days of the ratification, the
purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’ reasonable attorney
fees as ordered by the Court, plus all costs incurred, if
the Trustees have filed the appropriate motion with the
Court to resell the property. Purchaser waives personal
service of any paper filed with the Court in connection
with such motion and any Show Cause Order issued by the
Court and expressly agrees to accept service of any such
paper or Order by certified mail and regular mail sent to
the address provided by the purchaser and as recorded
on the documents executed by the purchaser at the time
of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective upon the
purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United States
Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser that
actual receipt of the certified mail is not required for service
to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement the
deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees and all expenses
of this sale (including attorney fees and full commission
on the gross sales price of the sale) shall be charged
against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In the event
of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to
any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any resale of
the property regardless of any improvements made to the
real property. Interest is to be paid on the unpaid purchase
money at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from
the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the
office of the Trustees. In the event that the settlement is
delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, there shall be no
abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent, condominium fees
and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/
assessments payable on an annual basis, including
sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable,
to be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be
responsible for the costs of all transfer taxes, documentary
stamps and all other costs incident to settlement.
Purchaser shall be responsible for physical possession of
the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss from the
date of sale forward. The sale is subject to post sale audit
by the Mortgage holder to determine whether the borrower
filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/forbearance
agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the sale. In any
such event the Purchaser agrees that upon notification by
the Trustees of such event the sale is null and void and of
no legal effect and the deposit returned without interest.
Trustees’ File No: 15-900055
JAMES E. CLARKE SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
Apr 15,22,29,May 6 2024 0012457096
Samuel I. White, P.C.
6100 EXECUTIVE BLVD.
SUITE 400
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND 20852
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
VALUABLE RESIDENTIAL DWELLING KNOWN AS:
1330 S STREET NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20009
By virtue of Deed of Trust recorded in the land records of
the District of Columbia recorded on January 25, 2019,
as Instrument Number 2019008604 , and in accordance
Judgment filed on March 26, 2024 in case 2023-CAB-
001369 and at the request of the party secured thereby, the
undersigned Substitute Trustees will offer to sell at public
auction, within the office of
HARVEY WEST AUCTIONEERS, INC.
5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440
Washington, DC 20015-2034 on
May 28, 2024 at 1:00 PM
the land and premises situated in the District of Columbia
and more particularly described in the above referenced
Deed of Trust and as of the date hereof designated on the
Records of the Assessor of the District of Columbia for
assessment purposes as
1330 S Street NW, Washington, DC 20009
LOT NUMBER 2005 AND SQUARE NUMBER 0239
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS”
condition without either express or implied warranty or
representation, including but not limited to the description,
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity,
physical condition, construction, extent of construction,
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision,
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances
or regulations, the ability of the purchaser to obtain
title insurance or other similar matters, and subject to
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject
to any assessments including assessment pursuant to D.C.
Code Section 42-1903.13.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY
BY certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale.
CASH WILL NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The
balance of the purchase price with interest on the unpaid
purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note (4% per annum) from the date of sale to the
date funds are received by the Trustees, payable in cash or
certified funds within TEN DAYS after the final ratification of
the sale. There will be no abatement of interest due from
the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered
before settlement. Adjustment of current year’s real property
taxes are adjusted as of the date of sale, and thereafter
assumed by the purchaser. All other public and/or private
charges or assessments, to the extent such amounts
survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges,
ground rent, whether incurred prior to or after the sale are
to be paid by the purchaser. All costs of deed recordation
including but not limited to title examination, conveyancing,
city revenue stamps, transfer taxes, title insurance, and all
other costs incident to settlement are to be paid by the
purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical
possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or
damage to the property from date of sale. Time is of the
essence for the Purchaser. If the Purchaser fails to settle
within ten days of ratification, Purchaser agrees that the
property will be resold and the entire deposit retained by
the Substitute Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses
occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall
have no further liability. The purchaser agrees to accept
service by first class mail and certified mail addressed to
the address provided by said Purchaser as identified on
the Memorandum of Sale for all correspondence including
any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale. The
defaulted purchaser shall not be entitled to any surplus
proceeds resulting from said resale even if such surplus
results from improvements to the property by said defaulted
purchaser. The sale is subject to post-sale audit of the
status of the loan with the loan servicer including but not
limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered
into and repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the
loan prior to sale. In any such event or if the sale is not
ratified, the purchaser’s only remedy is return of the deposit
without interest. Trustee’s File No. 81811
Daniel J. Pesachowitz, Esquire
Attorney for Trustees
Apr 22,29,May 6,13 2024 0012457447
OPQRS
840 840
Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
1923 9th Street, NW, Unit 101
Washington, DC 20001
Lot 2026 in Square 0393
Under a power of sale contained in that certain Deed of
Trust, Assignment of Leases and Rents, Security Agreement
and Fixture Filing (the “Deed of Trust”) dated July 15,
2022 and recorded on July 29, 2022 as Instrument No.
2022080729 from Momentux RE Holdings LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company, as grantor, to Hunter C. Piel
(“Trustee”), as trustee, for the benefit of Commonwealth
Capital, LLC, a Pennsylvania limited liability company, as
beneficiary, securing that certain Promissory Note dated July
15, 2022 in the principal amount of $2,410,000.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, and following the
mailing and recordation of an Affidavit of Non-Residential
Mortgage Foreclosure and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of
Real Property or Condominium Unit, at the request of the
current noteholder, Trustee will sell at public auction at
the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin
Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, on
MAY 7, 2024 AT 2:00 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON (if any) situated in the City of Washington,
District of Columbia, known as 1923 9th Street, NW, Unit
101, Washington, DC 20001 (Lot 2026 in Square 0393), and
more fully described in the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting
the same – except those encumbrances of record that are
extinguished by operation of District of Columbia law by
virtue of the foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes,
water and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if
any. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the
property from the date of sale forward. Purchaser shall
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the
property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $100,000.00 by cashier’s
check will be required of purchaser at the time and place
of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of
sale. TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO
SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Balance of the purchase price
to be paid in cash or certified funds at settlement. Interest
to be paid on the unpaid purchase money from the date of
sale to the date of settlement at the applicable interest
rate set forth in the debt instrument secured by the Deed
of Trust. Purchaser shall be responsible for payment of all
settlement costs.
The noteholder and its affiliates, if a bidder, shall not be
required to post a deposit or to pay interest.
In the event that purchaser does not settle as required
for any reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such
default, the deposit shall be forfeited to Trustee and
all of the expenses of this sale (including legal fees and
costs, and full commission on the gross sale price) shall
be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit.
Trustee may resell the property 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. Defaulting purchaser shall be liable
to Trustee for legal fees and costs incurred by Trustee in
connection with such default.
If Trustee is unable to settle as set forth herein, purchaser’s
sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund
of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void
and of no effect whatsoever.
Trustee reserves the right, in Trustee’s sole discretion, to
reject any and all bids, to withdraw the property from sale
at any time before or at the auction, to extend the time to
receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to
waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time
for settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. The
successful bidder will be required to execute and deliver
to Trustee a memorandum or contract of the sale at the
conclusion of bidding.
Hunter C. Piel, Trustee
Apr 23,25,29,May 1,3 2024 0012457070
850
Montgomery County 850
Montgomery 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
682 AZALEA DRIVE #6-682-C
ROCKVILLE, MD 20850
Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated
April 25, 2008, and recorded in Liber 35664, folio 176, of the
land records of MONTGOMERY COUNTY , with an original
principal balance of $170,000.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at THE MONTGOMERY
COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 50 MARYLAND AVENUE,
ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 ON,
MAY 1, 2024 at 1:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with
any buildings or improvements thereon situated in
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD, located at the above address
and more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of
Trust.
TAX-ID# - 04-01495407
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
$22,000.00 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 5.875% 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 even this sale shall be null and
void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit
without interest. File No. (22-087629)
Keith Yacko, David Williamson,
Bryson Stephen, Thomas Gartner,
Substitute Trustees
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012455861
840 840
Trustees Sale - DC Trustees Sale - DC
5137 ASTOR PLACE SE, WASHINGTON DC 20019
In execution of the Superior Court for the District of
Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case: 2019 CA 000531 R(RP),
the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property
known as 5137 ASTOR PLACE SE, WASHINGTON DC 20019
at a public auction within the offices of, HARVEY WEST
AUCTIONEERS, INC. 5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 440,
Washington, DC 20015 202-463-4567 On MAY 14, 2024 AT
11:00 A.M, the land and premises situated in the District of
Columbia, and designated as and being Lot 0041 in Square
5309, and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust
recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on
JANUARY 23, 2007 as Instrument Number 2007010183 The
property will be sold by Trustee’s Deed “as is” without any
covenant, expressed or implied, in Fee Simple, subject to
conditions, restrictions, easements, and all other recorded
instruments superior to the Deed of Trust referenced above,
and subject to ratification by the Court
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of the lesser of $50,000.00 or
10% of the sale price will be required at time of sale in cash
or certified funds. The deposit required to bid at the auction
is waived for the Noteholder and any of its successors
or assigns. The Noteholder may bid up to the credit and
may submit a written bid to the Trustee which shall be
announced at sale. The balance of the purchase price is
to be paid in cash within 60 days of final ratification of the
sale by the Court.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
If purchaser fails to settle within the aforesaid sixty (60) days
of the ratification, the purchaser agrees to pay the Trustees’
reasonable attorney fees as ordered by the Court, plus all
costs incurred, if the Trustees have filed the appropriate
motion with the Court to resell the property. Purchaser
waives personal service of any paper filed with the Court
in connection with such motion and any Show Cause Order
issued by the Court and expressly agrees to accept service
of any such paper or Order by certified mail and regular
mail sent to the address provided by the purchaser and
as recorded on the documents executed by the purchaser
at the time of the sale. Service shall be deemed effective
upon the purchaser 3 days after postmarked by the United
States Post Office. It is expressly agreed by the purchaser
that actual receipt of the certified mail is not required
for service to be effective. If the purchaser fails to go to
settlement the deposit shall be forfeited to the Trustees
and all expenses of this sale (including attorney fees and
full commission on the gross sales price of the sale) shall
be charged against and paid from the forfeited deposit. In
the event of resale the defaulting purchaser shall not be
entitled to any surplus proceeds or profit resulting from
any resale of the property regardless of any improvements
made to the real property. Interest is to be paid on the
unpaid purchase money at the rate contained in the Deed
of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date the funds
are received in the office of the Trustees. In the event that
the settlement is delayed for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER,
there shall be no abatement of interest. Taxes, water rent,
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues,
all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district
charges, if applicable, to be adjusted for the current year
to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.
Purchaser shall be responsible for the costs of all transfer
taxes, documentary stamps and all other costs incident
to settlement. Purchaser shall be responsible for physical
possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of
loss from the date of sale forward. The sale is subject to
post sale audit by the Mortgage holder to determine whether
the borrower filed bankruptcy, entered into any repayment/
forbearance agreement, reinstated or paid off prior to the
sale. In any such event the Purchaser agrees that upon
notification by the Trustees of such event the sale is null
and void and of no legal effect and the deposit returned
without interest. Trustees’ File No 18-900057
JAMES E. CLARKE, SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE
C/O ORLANS PC
1602 Village Market Blvd SE, Suite 310
Leesburg, VA 20175
(703) 777-7101
Apr 15,22,29,May 6 2024 0012456383
850 850
Montgomery County Montgomery County
GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP
201 International Circle, Suite 230
Hunt Valley, MD 21030
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
13205 Wilton Oakes Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20906
By virtue of a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust
from ELICIA Y. PAISLEY AND SEAN A. WILBON, dated
September 23, 2005 and recorded in book 30950 , page
692 among the Land Records of MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
Maryland, default having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure
Case docketed as Case No. C-15-CV-23-003498; Tax ID
No. 13-00961166) the Substitute Trustee will sell at public
auction MONTGOMERY COUNTY courthouse located at 50
MARYLAND AVENUE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 .
APRIL 30, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Said property is subject to a prior mortgage.
Said property is subject to a IRS Right of Redemption.
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in MONTGOMERY 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 of $ 21,000.00 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
MONTGOMERY 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 five percent (5%) from the date of sale to the date
funds are received by the Substitute Trustee. 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 is 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 # 55978.0037)
SYDNEY E. ROBERSON, NICOLE LIPINSKI, MARC MEDEL,
Substitute Trustee (s)
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012454653
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Pardo & Drazin, LLC
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
617 Balboa Avenue
Capitol Heights, MD 20743
Account ID 18-1990928
Under a power of sale contained in that certain Purchase
Money Deed of Trust (the “Deed of Trust”) dated October 29,
2021 and recorded on December 28, 2021 in Book 46790 at
Page 393, from Foote Creek LLC (“Borrower”), a Maryland
limited liability company, as grantor, to John D. Eubank
and Timothy E. Lewis (“Original Trustees”), as trustees,
for the benefit of Commercial Lending, L.L.C. (“Lender”),
a Virginia limited liability company, as beneficiary,
securing that certain Commercial Deed of Trust Note (the
“Note”) dated October 29, 2021 in the principal amount of
$225,000.00, as amended, default having occurred under
the terms thereof, and pursuant to a Deed of Appointment
of Substitute Trustee dated March 29, 2024 and recorded on
April 1, 2024 in Book 49696 at Page 441 removing Original
Trustees as trustees under the Deed of Trust and appointing
Russell S. Drazin (“Substitute Trustee”) as substitute
trustee under the Deed of Trust, Substitute Trustee will sell
at public auction at the front entrance of the Circuit Court
for Prince George’s County, located at 14735 Main Street,
Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, on
APRIL 30, 2024 AT 12:00 PM
ALL THAT FEE-SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND AND ANY
IMPROVEMENTS THEREON situated in Prince George’s
County, Maryland, commonly known as 617 Balboa Avenue,
Capitol Heights, MD 20743, and more fully described in the
aforesaid Deed of Trust, as well as ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY
encumbered by the Deed of Trust (collectively, “Property”).
The Property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition and subject
to recorded covenants, conditions, restrictions, agreements,
and senior liens, if any, and with no warranty of any kind
(except as required by the Deed of Trust).
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $10,000.00 by cashier’s check
will be required of the purchaser at the time and place of
sale. The balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash
or certified funds within ten (10) days of final ratification
of the sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County.
Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the
rate in effect under the debt instrument secured by the
Deed of Trust from the date of sale to the date of settlement.
Secured Party, if a bidder, shall not be required to post a
deposit or to pay interest.
Purchaser shall settle within ten (10) days of final
ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s
County. TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT
TO SETTLEMENT BY PURCHASER. Cost of all documentary
stamps (recordation taxes), transfer taxes and settlement
expenses shall be borne by purchaser. Taxes, ground rent,
water, and sewer, if applicable, are to be adjusted for the
current year to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by
purchaser.
In the event purchaser does not settle as required for any
reason, purchaser shall be in default. Upon such default,
Substitute Trustee may file a motion to resell the Property
at the risk and expense of defaulting purchaser. Purchaser
hereby consents to entry of such resale Order without
further notice. Defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled
to any surplus proceeds or profits resulting from any
resale of the Property, and the deposit shall be forfeited
to Substitute Trustee and all of the expenses of this sale
(including attorneys’ fees and full commission on the gross
sale price) shall be charged against and paid out of the
forfeited deposit. Purchaser shall pay all attorneys’ fees and
costs, and all other damages of any kind or nature, incurred
by Substitute Trustee and the secured party, and their
respective agents, employees, successors and assigns, in
connection with any such default.
If Substitute Trustee is unable to convey title, purchaser’s
sole remedy at law and in equity shall be limited to a refund
of the deposit and the sale shall be considered null and void
and of no effect.
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.
Substitute Trustee reserves the right, in his sole discretion,
to reject any and all bids, to withdraw the Property from sale
at any time before or at the auction, to extend the time to
receive bids, to waive or modify the deposit requirement, to
waive or modify the requirement that interest be paid on the
unpaid purchase money, and/or to extend the period of time
for settlement.
Additional terms may be announced at the sale. Purchaser
will be required to execute and deliver to Substitute Trustee
a contract of the sale at the conclusion of the bidding.
Russell S. Drazin, Substitute Trustee
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851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
MCMICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY, LLC
7470 Technology Way
Suite P
Frederick, MD 21703
(470) 480-1820
TRUSTEE’S SALE
1007 DRUM AVENUE
Capitol Heights, MD 20743
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated April 7, 2008 and recorded in Deed Book 29632 at
Page 310 among the Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S
COUNTY, Maryland, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, the Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction at
the PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER
MARLBORO, MD 20772, on
MAY 14, 2024 AT 1:45 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in PRINCE
GEORGE’S COUNTY, Maryland, located at the above address
and more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of
Trust (the “Property”).
TAX ID#: 18-2018877
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $32,000 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 3.4% 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.: 22-002131-01
Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012456389
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
3106 Brightseat Road
Landover, MD 20785
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
MAMIE LOU CRISP, dated May 24, 2018 and recorded
in Liber 40973, folio 452 among the Land Records of
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD, default having occurred
thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.C-16-
CV-23-000585; Tax ID No.13-1539261 ) 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
852 852
Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
MCMICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY, LLC
7470 Technology Way
Suite P
Frederick, MD 21703
(470) 480-1820
TRUSTEE’S SALE
4180 SHOREHAM BEACH ROAD
Edgewater, MD 21037
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated February 11, 2022 and recorded in Deed Book 38413
at Page 304 among the Land Records of ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTY, Maryland, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, the Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction at
the ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, 8 CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS,
MD 21401, on
APRIL 30, 2024 AT 3:45 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in ANNE
ARUNDEL COUNTY, Maryland, located at the above address
and more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of
Trust (the “Property”).
TAX ID#: 01-000-90001332
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $36,000 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 8.5% 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.: 23-002176-01
A181, A316, A311, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463, A508
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012456375
MCMICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY, LLC
7470 Technology Way
Suite P
Frederick, MD 21703
(470) 480-1820
TRUSTEE’S SALE
1254 WASHINGTON DRIVE
Annapolis, MD 21403
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated April 8, 2022 and recorded in Deed Book 38598 at
Page 392 among the Land Records of ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTY, Maryland, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, the Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction at
the ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, 8 CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS,
MD 21401, on
APRIL 30, 2024 AT 3:45 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in ANNE
ARUNDEL COUNTY, Maryland, located at the above address
and more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of
Trust (the “Property”).
TAX ID#: 0259706889500
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $100,000 by cashier’s/
OPQRS
852 852
Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
Brock and Scott, PLLC
5431 Oleander Drive
Wilmington NC, 28403
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
1537 Winterberry Drive
Arnold, MD 21012
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain
Deed of Trust to DAVID E. WATERS AND ANTHONY B. OLMERT
SR, Trustee(s), dated January 8, 2021, and recorded among
the Land Records of ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND in
Liber 36018 , folio 112, RERECORDED JANUARY 26, 2021
IN BOOK 37573, PAGE 379, 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 ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 8 CHURCH CIR,
ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401 ON,
APRIL 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
LOT NUMBERED TWENTY-FOUR (24) IN THE SUBDIVISION
KNOWN AS “PLAT FOUR OF FOUR, RESUBDIVISION OF
CAPETOWNE”, AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED AMONG THE
LAND RECORDS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND, IN
PLAT BOOK 89 AT PLAT NUMBER 37. THE PROPERTY HEREIN
IS SUBJECT TO WATER AND SEWER FACILITIES CHARGES
(FRONT FOOT BENEFIT ASSESSMENTS) IMPOSED BY J&W
UTILITIES, INC. ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, PURSUANT
TO AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN BROOKFIELD BUILDERS AND
DEVELOPERS, INC. AND J&W UTILITIES INC. RECORDED
AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
IN LIBER 3807, FOLIO 795 WHICH SHALL CONSTITUTE A
CONTRACT WITH THE GRANTEES AS WELL AS A COVENANT
RUNNING WITH THE GROUND AS A GENERAL UNIFORM
PLAT OF DEVELOPMENT, IN THE AMOUNT OF $120.00 PER
ANNUM FOR WATER AND $120.00 PER ANNUM FOR SEWER,
FOR A PERIOD OF 33 YEARS FROM OCTOBER 30, 1984
AND THE GRANTEES, THEIR SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS,
BY ACCEPTANCE OF THIS DEED AND JOINDER HEREIN
EXPRESSLY ASSUME AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY SAID
AGREEMENT THIS IS NOT A CHARGE FOR THE CONSUMPTION
OF WATER OR FOR THE USE OF WATER AND SEWER LINES
BUT A CHARGE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF UTILITY LINES
NOT CONSTRUCTED BY ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND.
THIS PROVISION SHALL BE SPECIFICALLY INCORPORATED IN
ALL SUBSEQUENT DEEDS.
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 $27,500.00 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
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at
the rate of 3.25 % 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. (22-19363 )
JOHN ANSELL, JEREMY B. WILKINS,
ROBERT A. OLIVERI, AMANDA DRISCOLE,
PAUL HEINMULLER, JOHN C. HANRAHAN,
KRISTOPHER HAWKINS, Substitute Trustees
A181, A316, A311, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463, A508
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012455988
851 851
CLASSIFIED H
852 852
Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
Brock and Scott, PLLC
5431 Oleander Drive
Wilmington NC, 28403
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
KNOWN AS
8319 Watermill Drive
Millersville, MD 21108
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a
certain Deed of Trust to MARK H. FRIEDMAN AND KENNETH
J. MACFADYEN, Trustee(s), dated December 28, 2006,
and recorded among the Land Records of ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 18688 , folio 615 , 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 ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURTHOUSE
LOCATED AT 8 CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401 ON,
APRIL 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 33 AS SHOWN
ON THE PLAT OF “GARTELMILL, 87 SINGLE FAMILY LOTS”
AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT RECORDED AMONG THE LAND
RECORDS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY AT PLAT BOOK 202,
PAGES 28 THROUGH 31 AND ALSO AS SHOWN ON A PLAT
ENTITLED “ADMINISTRATIVE PLAT GARTELMILL PHASE II”,
WHICH PLAT IS RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS
OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY AT PLAT BOOK 211, PAGE 31.
PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 03-332-9010260
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 $33,000.00 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
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at
the rate of 2.00001% 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. (14-22713 )
JOHN ANSELL, JEREMY B. WILKINS,
ROBERT A. OLIVERI, AMANDA DRISCOLE,
PAUL HEINMULLER, JOHN C. HANRAHAN,
KRISTOPHER HAWKINS, Substitute Trustees
A181, A316, A311, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463, A508
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012455975
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND MARYLAND
CARRIE M. WARD, et al.
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
James E. Clarke, et al.
Substitute Trustees
Rockville, MD 20852 Plaintiffs
Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs,
V.
vs.
Anthony D. Pearson and
RICHARD DELONTAY PARKS Kelly M. Pearson
3724 Apothecary Street Defendant(s)
District Heights, MD 20747
Defendant(s). Civil No. C-16-CV-23-003867
Case No.C-16-CV-23-004514 NOTICE PURSUANT TO
MD RULE 14-215 (A)
NOTICE
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court
Notice is hereby given this 22nd for Prince George’s County,
day of April, 2024, by the Circuit Maryland, this 16th day of April,
Court for Prince George’s Coun- 2024, that the foreclosure sale
ty, Maryland, that the sale of the of the property described in the
property mentioned in these deed of trust docketed herein
NOTICES H Trustee Sales—MD D9
852 852
Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
MCMICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY, LLC
7470 Technology Way
Suite P
Frederick, MD 21703
(470) 480-1820
TRUSTEE’S SALE
112 WELDON ROAD
Greenland Beach, MD 21226
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated October 1, 2018 and recorded in Deed Book 32555
at Page 91 among the Land Records of ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTY, Maryland, default having occurred under the terms
thereof, the Substitute Trustees will sell at public auction at
the ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, 8 CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS,
MD 21401, on
APRIL 30, 2024 AT 3:45 PM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the
buildings and improvements thereon situated in ANNE
ARUNDEL COUNTY, Maryland, located at the above address
and more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of
Trust (the “Property”).
TAX ID#: 03-395-90007450
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $18,000 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 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.: 23-000412-02
A181, A316, A311, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463, A508
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012455047
853 853
Calvert County Calvert County
MCMICHAEL TAYLOR GRAY, LLC
7470 Technology Way
Suite P
Frederick, MD 21703
(470) 480-1820
TRUSTEE’S SALE
3871 MOONBEAM AVENUE
Huntingtown, MD 20639
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
dated July 21, 2018 and recorded in Deed Book 5234 at
Page 461 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
APRIL 30, 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#: 02-050056

ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements

certified check or such other form as the Substitute Trustee Prince Georges County Prince Georges County proceedings and described as
3724 Apothecary Street, Dis-
and located at 1122 Blue Wing
Terrace, Upper Marlboro,
may allow, in their sole discretion, required at time of sale IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR trict Heights, MD 20747, made MD 20774 made and reported TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000 by cashier’s/certified
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and except for the party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, and reported by the Substitute by James E. Clarke, Substitute check or such other form as the Substitute Trustee may
more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust. on purchaser from date and time of auction. The property
MARYLAND MARYLAND Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND Trustees, be RATIFIED and CON-
allow, in their sole discretion, required at time of sale except
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the FIRMED, unless cause to the
The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and and improvements will be sold in “as is” physical condition CARRIE M. WARD, et al. CARRIE M. WARD, et al. contrary thereof be shown on contrary be shown on or before for the party secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on
subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record without either express or implied warranty of any kind and 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
or before the 22nd day of May, the 16th day of May, 2024;
purchaser from date and time of auction. The property and
2024, provided a copy of this provided a copy of this Order
affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind. subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, NOTICE be inserted in some daily be inserted in THE WASHINGTON improvements will be sold in “as is” physical condition
Terms of Sale: A deposit $15,000.00 will be required at record affecting the same. Balance of the purchase price vs. vs.
newspaper printed in said Coun- POST, once in each of three (3)
without either express or implied warranty of any kind and
ty, once in each of three succes- successive weeks before the 16
the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of sive weeks before the 22nd day day of May,2024. The Report of subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of
OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. sale. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at WILLIAM OBENG-DARKO JR.
EVELYN ROBERTS
JACQUELINE D. WILSON
(DECEASED)
of May, 2024. The report states Sale states the amount of the
record affecting the same. Balance of the purchase price to
the purchase price at the Fore- sale at $389,300.00.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within the rate of 8% from the date of sale to the date funds are 1901 Page Court 7975 Riggs Road closure sale to be $274,730.00. be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of sale.
ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for received in the office of the Substitute Trustees. There will Bowie, MD 20716 Unit 5
Hyattsville, MD 20783
BY THE COURT:
Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the
Defendant(s). Mahasin El Amin
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds Defendant(s). Clerk, Circuit Court for
Mahasin El Amin
Clerk of Circuit Court rate of 4.625% from the date of sale to the date funds are
purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed Case No.C-16-CV-23-005796 Prince George’s County,
received in the office of the Substitute Trustees. There will
Case No.C-16-CV-23-004957 Maryland
forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s for any reason. NOTICE
Orlans 20-700525
be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds
risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service NOTICE BWW#MD-357626
Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012458505
are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed
Notice is hereby given this 25th
and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment day of April, 2024, by the Circuit Notice is hereby given this 22nd Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012459237
for any reason.
addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if Court for Prince George’s Coun- day of April, 2024, by the Circuit
ty, Maryland, that the sale of the Court for Prince George’s Coun-
identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges property mentioned in these pro- ty, Maryland, that the sale of the IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. Adjustment
Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground ceedings and described as 1901 property mentioned in these pro- PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND of all real property taxes, including agricultural taxes, if
Page Court, Bowie, MD 20716, ceedings and described as 7975
to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed made and reported by the Sub- Riggs Road, Unit 5, Hyattsville, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR applicable, and any and all public and/or private charges
event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be by purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners stitute Trustee, will bll,RATIFIED MD 20783, made and reported Diane S. Rosenberg
Mark D. Meyer
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY,
MARYLAND or assessments, including water/sewer charges and ground
AND CONFIRMED, unless cause by the Substitute Trustee, will
entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including, association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser to the contrary thereof be shown be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, Miroslav Nikolov rent, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed
but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary on or before the 27th day of unless cause to the contrary 4340 East West Highway,
Suite 600
James E. Clarke, et al.
Substitute Trustees by purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners
May, 2024, provided a copy thereof be shown on or before
may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be of this NOTICE be inserted in the 22nd day of May, 2024, pro- Bethesda, MD 20814 Plaintiffs association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible some daily newspaper printed vided a copy of this NOTICE be in- Substitute Trustee
Plaintiff(s) from the date of sale forward. Cost of all documentary
in said County, once in each of serted in some daily newspaper V.
Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received for obtaining physical possession of the Property. If the three successive weeks before printed in said County, once in stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses shall be
by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement Substitute Trustees are unable to convey title for any the 27 day of May, 2024. The each of three successive weeks V. Estate of Bernice E. Bell AKA
borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
report states the purchase price before the 22nd day of May, Bernice Elizabeth Bell
of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at reason, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall at the Foreclosure sale to be 2024. The report states the pur- Teresia Arnold Defendant(s) for obtaining physical possession of the Property. If the
the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the $366,000.00. chase price at the Foreclosure 10607 Chickory Court
Substitute Trustees are unable to convey title for any
sale to be $123,000,00. Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 Civil No. C-16-CV-23-004571
settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the Purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited to the Mahasin El Amin Defendant(s) reason, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall
Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the Substitute Trustees for application against all expenses, Clerk, Circuit Court for Mahasin El Amin NOTICE PURSUANT TO
be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the
Prince George’s County, Clerk, Circuit Court for Case No. C-16-CV-23-005208 MD RULE 14-215 (A)
borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of Maryland Prince George’s County, Purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited to the
or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate the above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default, Maryland NOTICE ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for
Substitute Trustees for application against all expenses,
BWW#MD-367328 Prince George’s County, Mary-
or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without all expenses of this sale (including attorney’s fees and the BWW#MD-361371 Notice is hereby given this 16 land, this 16 day of April, 2024, attorney’s fees and the full commission on the sale price of
the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall full commission on the gross sale price of this sale) shall
Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012459347
Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012459242
day of April, 2024 by the Cir- that the foreclosure sale of the
the above-scheduled foreclosure sale. In the event of default,
cuit Court for Prince George’s property described in the deed
be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit. County, Maryland, that the sale of trust docketed herein and lo- all expenses of this sale (including attorney’s fees and the
remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest. The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the Property
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
of 10607 Chickory Court, Up- cated at 2512 Fairlawn Street,
full commission on the gross sale price of this sale) shall
per Marlboro, MD 20772, made Temple Hills, MD 20748 made
Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may MARYLAND PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, and reported, will be ratified and and reported by James E. Clarke, be charged against and paid out of the forfeited deposit.
and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies against Diane S. Rosenberg
MARYLAND confirmed, unless cause to the Substitute Trustees, be RATIFIED
The Trustees may then re-advertise and resell the Property
contrary thereof be shown on or and CONFIRMED, unless cause
condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all the defaulting purchaser without re-selling the Property. Mark D. Meyer CARRIE M, WARD, et al. before the 16 day of May, 2024, to the contrary be shown on or at the risk and expense of the defaulting purchaser or may
public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis, In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall
Miroslav Nikolov
4340 East West Highway,
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101
Rockville, MD 20852
provided a copy of this notice before the 16 day of May, 2024;
avail themselves of any legal or equitable remedies against
be inserted in The Washington provided a copy of this Order be
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such Suite 600 Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, Post a daily newspaper printed inserted in THE WASHINGTON the defaulting purchaser without re-selling the Property.
if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and surplus results from improvements to the Property by said Bethesda, MD 20814
Substitute Trustee vs.
in said County, once in each of POST, once in each of three (3)
In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall
three successive weeks before successive weeks before the 16
assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall Plaintiff(s) the 16 day of May, 2024. The day of May, 2024. The Report not be entitled to receive the surplus, if any, even if such
be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the be liable to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable V.
JALEEL PHILLIPS
6008 Addison Road
Report of Sale states the amount of Sale states the amount of the
surplus results from improvements to the Property by said
of the foreclosure sale price to sale at $304,000.00.
property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection with Capitol Heights, MD 20743 be $580,000.00. defaulting purchaser and the defaulting purchaser shall
the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the Estate of Cassandra Pair
4705 Tecumseh Street
Defendant(s). BY THE COURT:
be liable to the Trustees and secured party for reasonable
Mahasin El Amin
Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any resale. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status Unit 203 Case No.C-16-CV-23-004763 Clerk of the Circuit Court
Mahasin El Amin
Clerk of the Circuit Court attorney’s fees and expenses incurred in connection with
reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust including, but not College Park, MD 20740 Prince George’s County,
all litigation involving the Property or the proceeds of the
Defendant(s) NOTICE Maryland
be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without limited to, determining whether prior to sale a bankruptcy
Orlans 23-004572
resale. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status
interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason, was filed; forbearance, repayment or other agreement was Case No. C-16-CV-23-005260 Notice is hereby given this 17 Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012458398 Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012458395
of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust including, but not
day of April, 2024, by the Circuit
the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of entered into; or the loan was reinstated or paid off. In any NOTICE Court for Prince George’s Coun- limited to, determining whether prior to sale a bankruptcy
the deposit without interest. (File # 22-002044) such event, this sale shall be null and void and Purchaser’s ty, Maryland, that the sale of the
was filed; forbearance, repayment or other agreement was
Notice is hereby given this 22nd property mentioned in these pro-
sole remedy shall be return of deposit without interest. day of April, 2024 by the Circuit ceedings and described as 6008 entered into; or the loan was reinstated or paid off. In any
JAMES E. CLARKE, Court for Prince George’s County, Addison Road, Capitol Heights,
such event, this sale shall be null and void and Purchaser’s
Maryland, that the sale of 4705 MD 20743, made and reported
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL, DIANA THEOLOGOU, GREGORY THORNE, Tecumseh Street, Unit 203, by the Substitute Trustee, will sole remedy shall be return of deposit without interest.
JOANNA FORONDA, ADRIAN JACOBS, BRIAN CAMPBELL, College Park, MD 20740, made be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED,
and reported, will be ratified and unless cause to the contrary
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES CHRISTINE COTTON, Substitute Trustees confirmed, unless cause to the thereof be shown on or before DIANA THEOLOGOU, GREGORY THORNE,
contrary thereof be shown on the 17 day of May, 2024, provid-
or before the 22nd day of May, ed a copy of this NOTICE be in- ADRIAN JACOBS, BRIAN CAMPBELL,
File No.: 23-002177-01 2024, provided a copy of this no- serted in some daily newspaper CHRISTINE COTTON, Substitute Trustees
tice be inserted The Washington printed in said County, once in
Post in a daily newspaper print- each of three successive weeks
A181, A316, A311, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463, A508 ed in said County, once in each of before the 17 day of May, 2024. File No.: 22-002933-01
three successive weeks before The report states the purchase
the 22nd, day of May, 2024. The price at the Foreclosure sale to
Report of Sale states the amount be $252,000,00.
of the foreclosure sale price to
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012454687 be $152,000.00. Mahasin El Amin
Clerk, Circuit Court for
Mahasin El Amin Prince George’s County,
Clerk of the Circuit Court Maryland
Prince George’s County,
Maryland BWW#MD-363997
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012456382 Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012459241 Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012458512 Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012456703
D10 CLASSIFIED H NOTICES H Trustee Sales—MD H MERCHANDISE H Pets & Animals OPQRS EZ MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2024
856 856 856 856 857 857 851 852 872 DC H SOUTHEAST
Frederick County Frederick County Frederick County Frederick County Howard County Howard County Prince Georges County Anne Arundel County Fairfax County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR TRUSTEE’S SALE OF Houses
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY 13942 New Braddock Road,
Brock and Scott, PLLC Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC Brock and Scott, PLLC MARYLAND Centreville, VA 20121 SE DC - 113 55th St. 3 BR house,
5431 Oleander Drive 11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302 5431 Oleander Drive William M. Savage, et al.
Substitute Trustees
close to schools, Section 8 welcome
Thomas W. Hodge, et al. In execution of a Deed of Trust Call 202-635-1766
Wilmington NC, 28403 Hunt Valley, MD 21031 Wilmington NC, 28403 Substitute Trustees in the original principal amount
470-321-7112 Plaintiffs, Versus of $316,425.00 dated Febru- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
ary 23, 2017 recorded among
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF v. James A. Wellman the land records of the Circuit Roommates
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY TRUSTEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY Michele L Wellman Court for Fairfax County on
Defendants March 28, 2017 as Instrument
KNOWN AS VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY KNOWN AS Estate of Olan Thomas a/k/a
Olan Thomas, Jr., Number: 2017019314.001, the
8390 CURIOSITY COURT KNOWN AS 5771 Elkridge Heights Road Defendant. No. C-02-CV-23-001050 undersigned appointed Substi- NW PETWORTH - Large furn room in
quiet home, close to shopping,
tute Trustee will offer for sale at
Walkersville, MD 21793 1601 COLONIAL WAY Elkridge, MD 21075 Case No. CAEF19-00059 NOTICE public auction, at the Main en- on busline. $795. 301-529-5430
FREDERICK, MD 21702 trance of the courthouse for the
MARYLAND
Notice is hereby issued this Circuit Court of Fairfax County,
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a NOTICE

Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated certain Deed of Trust to DAVID SILVERMAN, Trustee(s),
Monday, April 08, 2024 that the 4110 Chain Bridge Rd, Fairfax, VA
Roommates
Deed of Trust, dated June 4, 2004, and recorded among the Notice is hereby issued this sale of the property in the pro-
ceedings mentioned, made and
22030 on June 3, 2024 at 10:30
Land Records of FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber January 8, 2007, and recorded in Liber 6534, folio 560, of dated August 6, 2021, and recorded among the Land 9th day of April, 2024 that the
sale of the property in this case, reported by William M. Savage,
AM the property described in
said deed of trust, located at
4716 , folio 227 , the holder of the indebtedness secured the land records of FREDERICK COUNTY , with an original Records of HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 20908 , 903 Sero Estates Drive, Fort Substitute Trustee BE RATIFIED the above address and briefly CAPITAL HEIGHTS - House to share.
AND CONFIRMED, unless cause
by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned principal balance of $239,500.00, default having occurred folio 183 , the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Washington, Maryland 20744,
reported by THOMAS W. HODGE, to the contrary thereof be shown
described as: ALL OF THAT CER-
TAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND
Close to shopping & Metro.
$175 & up each Friday. 240-840-6308
Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute GENE JUNG, LAURA D. HARRIS, on or before the 8th day of May SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN
2024 next; provided, a copy of
the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred will offer for sale at public auction at THE FREDERICK Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid ROBERT M. OLIVERI, CHRISTINE
JOHNSON, SCOTT ROBINSON this Notice be inserted in some
THE COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, COM-
MONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, AND
DISTRICT HEIGHTS - Furnished room
under the terms thereof, and at the request of the party COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 100 W. PATRICK ST, Land Records, default having occurred under the terms AND LOUIS GINGHER, Substi- newspaper published in Anne MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED
for rent, near Metro.
secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will FREDERICK, MD 21701 ON, thereof, and at the request of the party secured thereby, the tute Trustees, be ratified and
confirmed, unless cause to the
Arundel County, once in each
of three successive weeks be-
BELOW AS FOLLOWS:
LOT NUMBERED THIRTY-SIX $125 & up weekly. Call 240-388-4611
offer for sale at public auction at THE FREDERICK COUNTY undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public contrary be shown on or before fore the 8th day of May 2024 (36) SECTION (6) SINGLETON’S VIRGINIA
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 100 W. PATRICK ST, FREDERICK, MAY 1, 2024 at 9:30 AM auction at THE HOWARD COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT the 9th day of May, 2024, pro-
vided a copy of this Notice be
next. The report states that the
amount of sale of the property
GROVE, AS THE SAME APPEARS
DULY DEDICATED, PLATTED AND Roommates
MD 21701 ON, 9250 JUDICIAL WAY, ELLICOTT CITY, MD 21043 ON, inserted in The Washington Post, at 8998 FORT SMALLWOOD RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 7061
MAY 8, 2024 at 9:30 AM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any a newspaper published in Prince
George’s County, Maryland, once
ROAD, PASADENA, MD 2112 to
be $441,000.00.
AT PAGE 607 AMONG THE LAND
RECORDS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY,
buildings or improvements thereon situated in FREDERICK MAY 8, 2024 at 12:30 PM in each of three (3) successive VIRGINIA AND CORRECTED IN ALEXANDRIA VA near metro,
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more fully weeks on or before the 9th
day of May, 2024. The report
Scott A. Poyer
Circuit Court for
DEED BOOK 7173 AT PAGE 1833.
Tax ID: 0652 05 0036.
pref Male, no car, references,
$1250/mo. 202-629-6675 text only
thereon situated in FREDERICK COUNTY, MD and described described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust. ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements states the amount of sale to be Anne Arundel County, MD.
245
as follows: thereon situated in HOWARD COUNTY, MD and described as $505,000.00. Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012457454
TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s
deposit of $12,000.00 or 10% of Electronics
TAX ID# - 02-025493 follows: Mahasin El Amin 856 the sale price, whichever is low-
LOT NO. TWENTY-EIGHT (28), BLOCK C, SECTION THREE,
Clerk Frederick County er, will be required in the form
of a certified or cashier’s check.
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PLAT TWO, DISCOVERY SUBDIVISION, AS SHOWN ON A PLAT The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NUMBERED Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012457813
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RECORDED AMONG THE PLAT RECORDS OF FREDERICK IS” physical condition without warranty of any kind and THIRTEEN (13) AS SHOWN IN A PLAT RECORDED IN PLAT CIRCUIT COURT FOR
deposit. Settlement within fif-
teen (15) days of sale, otherwise Limited Time Up To $600 In Gift
COUNTY, MARYLAND, IN PLAT BOOK 8, AT PAGE 36. SAID subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of BOOK NPC 86 AT PLAT 440 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF FREDERICK COUNTY,
MARYLAND
Trustee may forfeit deposit. Ad- Cards. Call Today! 1-855-407-6870

PROPERTY BEING IN FEE SIMPLE. TAX ID NO. 26-493269 record affecting the same, including any condominium or HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND. CONTAINING .542 ACRES 100 West Patrick Street
ditional terms to be announced
at sale. This is a communication
265
Home & Garden
homeowners association assessments pursuant to MD Real MORE OR LESS. Frederick, Maryland 21701
Clerk of the Court: 301-600-1976
from a debt collector. This notice
The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS” Property Article § 11-110 and § 11B-117 . Assignment Office:
is an attempt to collect on a debt
and any information obtained Eliminate gutter cleaning forever!
condition without either express or implied warranty or The property will be sold in an “AS IS WHERE IS” 301-600-2015 will be used for that purpose. LeafFilter, the most advanced
representation, including but not limited to the description, TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of condition without either express or implied warranty or IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR Case Number:
(Trustee # 24-001414) debris-blocking gutter protection.
Schedule a FREE LeafFilter estimate
fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity, $28,500.00 by cashier’s/certified check or such other form representation, including but not limited to the description, PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, C-10-CV-22-000044 Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee, today. 15% off Entire Purchase.
Other Reference Numbers:
physical condition, construction, extent of construction, as the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole fitness for a particular purpose or use, structural integrity, MARYLAND LLC C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548,
Leesburg, VA 20177 (703) 777-
10% Senior & Military Discounts.
Call 1-844-566-3227.
workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision, discretion, required at time of sale except for the party physical condition, construction, extent of construction, JASON MURPHY, et al, ERIC VANDELINDE 7101 website: www.Orlans.com
610
environmental condition, merchantability, compliance secured by the Deed of Trust. Risk of loss on purchaser workmanship, materials, liability, zoning, subdivision, Substitute Trustee,
VS.
The Vendor auction.com will be
used in conjunction with this
Dogs for Sale
Plaintiff,
with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances from date and time of auction. The balance of the purchase environmental condition, merchantability, compliance sale.Potential Bidders: For sale
HAZEL JOHNSON ESTATE OF
or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to price together with interest thereon at 7.650% per annum with building or housing codes or other laws, ordinances V. information, please visit www.
Auction.com or call (800) 280-
DACHSHUND PUPPIES
easements, agreements and restrictions of record which from date of sale to receipt of purchase price by Substitute or regulations, or other similar matters, and subject to KARINA CERQUEN, et al, Date: 4/11/2024 2832.
2 boys, 2 girls, blue dapples with
tan, will be completely vetted and
affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to Trustees must be paid by cashier’s check within 10 days easements, agreements and restrictions of record which Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE Apr 8,15,22,29,May 6 2024 0012456610 wormed, ready by June 20th, now
all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record after final ratification of sale. The noteholder shall not be affect the same, if any. The property will be sold subject to Case No. CAEF22-13004 873
taking deposits. 540-841-4415
Notice is hereby issued by the
affecting same including any condominium and of HOA obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There will be all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of record Circuit Court for Frederick Coun- Prince William County
NOTICE
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110. no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event affecting same including any condominium and of HOA ty this 11th day of April 2024, GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPS - 2 M, 2F,
3 sable, 1 black, AKC registered,
that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110. Notice is hereby issued this 16th that the sale made and recorded
by Marc Medel for the sale of shots/wormed, parents on premises.
day of April, 2024, that the sale
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $6,000.00 payable in settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes of the property in this case, 1307 the property described in these Ready 4/29. 240-606-3815

certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from and other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $36,500.00 payable in OLD CANNON RD FORT WASH- proceedings TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
14328 Springbrook Court,
purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. certified check or by a cashier’s check will be required from INGTON, MD 20744, reported by
Jennifer Deardorff, Attorney for 906 Winding Way, Woodbridge, VA 22193 GOLDENDOODLE PUPS - Mini and
Full Size. Nonshed. $1500. Hlth Guar.
funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court If applicable, any condominium and/or homeowners purchaser at time of sale, balance in immediately available the Substitute Trustee, be ratified Mt. Airy, MD 21771
In execution of a Deed of S&W. Call/txt 540-729-6365
of FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at association dues and assessments that may become due funds upon final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court and confirmed, unless cause to
the contrary be shown on or be- be ratified and confirmed thir- Trust in the original principal www.doodledogpups.com

the rate of 4.5 % on unpaid purchase money from date of after the date of sale shall be purchaser’s responsibility. of HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at the fore the 16th day of May, 2024, ty (30) days from the date of
this Notice, unless cause to the
amount of $402,573.00 dated
September 28, 2021 recorded
sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a Purchaser shall pay all transfer, documentary and recording rate of 2.75 % on unpaid purchase money from date of provided a copy of this Notice be
inserted in Washington Post, a contrary be shown, provided a among the land records of the GOLDEN RET AKC & GOLDEN /
LAB RET CROSS PUPS & ADULTS
bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party taxes/fees and all other settlement costs. Purchaser is sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a newspaper published in PRINCE copy of this Notice be inserted
in some Newspaper published in
Circuit Court for Prince Wil-
liam County on September 29, 8 weeks - 5 yrs. Vet checked, parents
purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to responsible for obtaining possession of the property. Time bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party GEORGE’S County, Maryland,
once in each of three (3) succes- this County, once in each of three 2021 as Instrument Number: on prem, health guar. 240-620-2013
complete full settlement of the purchase of the property is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser defaults, purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to sive weeks on or before the 16th (3) successive weeks. The report
states the amount of the sale to
202109290112185, the under-
signed appointed Substitute
W www.VictoriasPups.com W
within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk and complete full settlement of the purchase of the property day of May, 2024. The report
states the amount of sale to be be $390,000.00. Trustee will offer for sale at pub-
sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the $366,040.00.
Sandra K. Dalton
lic auction, at the Main entrance LAB PUPS - AKC, Blk. Pups,
of the courthouse for the Circuit Shot/Wormings, Champ. Bloodlines,
shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit Mahasin El Amin Clerk of the Circuit Court Court of Prince William County, Family Raised, Call/Text 540-848-
and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public attorney’s fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk Clerk Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012457890 9311 Lee Ave, Manassas, VA
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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)
convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012458508 PM the property described in
of deposit without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale charges and private charges or assessments, including said deed of trust, located at the
above address and briefly de-
POODLE PUPS & YORKIE PUPS-
Purebred pups, NOT mixed, located in
audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be scribed as: The land hereinafter Ruther Glen, VA. For pics and info
including but not limited to determining whether prior to adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and referred to is situated in the City
of Woodbridge, County of Prince
TEXT Marie at 210-584-8896
sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement William, State of VA, and is de-
other agreement was entered into; or loan was reinstated shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium scribed as follows: Lot 486, Sec-
tion 9-J, Dale City, as the same
or paid off. In any such event this sale shall be null and and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will appears duly dedicated, platted
void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not Manage and recorded in Deed Book 983
at page 713, among the Land Re-
without interest. File No. (18-222728) ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR cords of Prince William County,
the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Virginia. Tax ID: 8091-49-2730.

sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of KEITH YACKO, THOMAS GARTNER, or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s) MARYLAND your TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s
the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights DAVID WILLIAMSON, BRYSON STEPHEN, sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of DIANA THEOLOGOU, ET. AL. deposit of $13,000.00 or 10% of

and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known Substitute Trustees the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights
and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs print the sale price, whichever is low-
er, will be required in the form
Shetland Sheepdog (Sheltie) AKC,
2 male puppies, 10 weeks old,
or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon vs.
of a certified or cashier’s check.
Cash will not be accepted as a $1000.00, info@fiveblessingsproper-
refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect, or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon subscription! deposit. Settlement within fif- tycare.com or 434-610-7944

and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect, CHARLENE N. BARNARD teen (15) days of sale, otherwise
Defendant(s). Trustee may forfeit deposit. Ad-
Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the ditional terms to be announced SHIH TZU - Reg ACA Shih Tzu Puppies,
of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review Case No.:C-16-CV-23-001129 at sale. This is a communication

the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel NOTICE
wapo.st/ from a debt collector. This notice
is an attempt to collect on a debt
1 white male with brown ears, one
brown and wht female. Ready to go
May 10. $1000 540-394-8188
to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior and any information obtained
shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and
Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012455168 to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit ORDERED this 23 day of April,
2024 by the Circuit Court for
my-post will be used for that purpose.
(Trustee # 24-002433)
conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time 857 857 shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and Prince George’s County, Mary-
Howard County Howard County conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time land, that the sale of the prop- Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee,
and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the erty at 5236 Daventry Terrace, LLC C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548,
Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the District Heights, MD 20747 Leesburg, VA 20177 (703) 777-
order of 10.16.2020 . File No. (23-03656 ) Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s mentioned in these proceed-
ings, made and reported Diana
7101 website: www.Orlans.com
The Vendor auction.com will be
order of 10.16.2020 . File No. (22-13605) C. Theologou, et. al, Substitute used in conjunction with this
Trustees, be ratified and con- sale.Potential Bidders: For sale
JOHN ANSELL, JEREMY B. WILKINS, Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC firmed, unless cause to the information, please visit www.
ROBERT A. OLIVERI, AMANDA DRISCOLE, JOHN ANSELL, JOHN C. HANRAHAN, contrary thereof be shown on Auction.com or call (800) 280-
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302 BRENNAN FERGUSON, JEREMY B. WILKINS, or before the 23 day of May, 2832.
PAUL HEINMULLER, JOHN C. HANRAHAN, Hunt Valley, MD 21031 2024 next, provided a copy of
KRISTOPHER HAWKINS, Substitute Trustees AMANDA DRISCOLE, ROBERT OLIVERI, this notice be inserted in some
Apr 1,8,15,22,29,May 6 2024 0012456674

470-321-7112 PAUL HEINMULLER, Substitute Trustees newspaper published in said

Apr 22,29,May 6 2024
Robertson, Anschutz, Schneid & Crane, LLC
11350 McCormick Road, EP 1, Suite 302
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
470-321-7112
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Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012455990 Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012459274
Call 202-635-1766
June 22, 2005, and recorded in Liber 09312, folio 098, of 872 872
the land records of HOWARD COUNTY , with an original Fairfax County Fairfax County
principal balance of $352,500.00, default having occurred
under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at THE HOWARD COUNTY OLD DOMINION TRUSTEES, INC.
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 9250 JUDICIAL WAY, ELLICOTT SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE
12355 SUNRISE VALLEY DRIVE, SUITE 650
CITY, MD 21043 ON, RESTON, VIRGINIA 20191
MAY 14, 2024 at 10:00 AM
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY
13709 Black Spruce Way, Chantilly, Virginia 20151
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any
SALE AT FRONT ENTRANCE OF
CIRCUIT COURT OF FAIRFAX COUNTY
buildings or improvements thereon situated in HOWARD 4110 CHAIN BRIDGE ROAD
FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA 22030
COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more fully
described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust. Under the power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust dated April 7,
2016, from Manish Chauhan and Prerna Chauhan to MainStreet Bank,
securing a loan in the original principal amount of $150,000.00, record-
TAX ID# - 16-069035 ed in the Clerk’s Office of the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Deed Book
24525, page 0786, as Instrument No. 2016019371.012 (the “Deed of
Trust”), default having occurred under the terms of the Deed of Trust
The property and improvements will be sold in an “AS and the Credit Agreement secured thereby, and following the recording

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Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust IS” physical condition without warranty of any kind and
of a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees in the Clerk’s Office

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of the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Deed Book 28067, page 1892, as
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subject to all conditions, restrictions and agreements of Instrument No. 2024004405.001, at the request of the party secured by

folio 105, of the land records of FREDERICK COUNTY ,
with an original principal balance of $212,578.00, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, the appointed
Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at
record affecting the same, including any condominium or
homeowners association assessments pursuant to MD Real
Property Article § 11-110 and § 11B-117 .
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the Deed of Trust (the “Secured Party”), the Substitute Trustee will sell
at public auction at the front entrance of the Circuit Court of Fairfax
County, 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, on
THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2024 AT 12:30 P.M.

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THE FREDERICK COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 100 W. TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of
the real property described as follows (hereafter the “Property”):

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PATRICK ST, FREDERICK, MD 21701 ON, $34,000.00 by cashier’s/certified check or such other form Lot 33, WALNEY WOODS, as the same appears duly dedicated, platted

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and recorded in Deed Book 11033 at Page 1952 among the land re-
as the Substitute Trustee may determine, in their sole

MAY 1, 2024 at 9:30 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any
buildings or improvements thereon situated in FREDERICK
COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more fully
described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust.
TAX ID# - 25-479416
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 .
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 4.8900% 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
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cords of Fairfax County, Virginia.
The real property or its address is commonly known as 13709 Black
Spruce Way, Chantilly, Virginia 20151. Tax Map Reference No. 0444-16-
0033.
The Property will be sold subject to: (i) all conditions, liens, restrictions,
rights of redemption, covenants, encumbrances and agreements of re-
cord contained in the deeds forming the chain of title to this property,
including a Deed of Trust in favor of Mortgage Electronic Registration
Systems, Inc., as nominee for Residential Finance Corporation, record-
ed on December 27, 2012 in the land records of Fairfax County at Book
22814, page 1379, as assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. by that As-
signment of Deed of Trust recorded on August 16, 2019 in the land
records of Fairfax County at Book 25857, page 293; and (ii) such state
of facts that an accurate survey or physical inspection of the Property
might disclose. Washington Post newsletters
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by any oral announcements during the conduct of the sale, constitutes
the entire terms upon which the Property shall be offered for sale, sold
or purchased. All payments to the Substitute Trustee hereunder shall Discover and subscribe for free at
be paid by cash, cashier’s check, or such other form as the Substitute

TERMS OF SALE: A non-refundable bidder’s deposit of

$19,500.00 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 2.250% 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 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
Trustee may determine acceptable, in its sole discretion. A non-inter-
est-bearing deposit of $100,000.00 shall be required and delivered washingtonpost.com/newsletters
to Trustee at the time and place of sale and, within two (2) business
days after the sale, must be increased to 10% of the purchase price.
The balance of the purchase price shall be paid at settlement, which
must occur within thirty (30) days following the sale. The purchaser
shall pay interest on the unpaid purchase money at the rate set forth
in the Credit Agreement from date of sale to date of settlement. If a S0114 4X5
bidder, the Secured Party, its affiliates, subsidiaries, or any entity under
common control with the Secured Party, shall not be required to post
a deposit or to pay interest on the unpaid purchase money. If the Se-
cured Party purchases the property at the sale, the amount bid by the
Secured Party, after deducting all expenses related to the sale, shall be
a credit against the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust. The

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. (23-163850)
KEITH YACKO, DAVID WILLIAMSON,
BRYSON STEPHEN, THOMAS GARTNER,
Substitute Trustees
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. (23-152700)
KEITH YACKO, DAVID WILLIAMSON,
BRYSON STEPHEN, THOMAS GARTNER,
Substitute Trustees
Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012456392
purchaser shall be responsible for all unpaid real property taxes, water
and sewer charges, public charges and assessments with respect to
the Property, and all amounts due in connection therewith, without
adjustment. The purchaser shall pay all closing costs of the sale. All
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obligations of purchaser hereunder shall survive closing and delivery
of the deed. The purchaser (other than the Secured Party) shall be re-
quired to sign a contract including this advertisement and other terms.
Time is of the essence.
The Property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition and without any re-
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course, representations or warranties, either express or implied, of any
kind. The purchaser of the Property at the foreclosure sale shall be
responsible for any code violations (and resulting fines) occurring on
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or about the Property, and for the risk of loss to the Property from
and after the time of sale. The purchaser shall be solely responsible
for obtaining possession of the Property. If the purchaser defaults, the
Substitute Trustee may declare the entire deposit forfeited and, in ad-
dition, may resell the Property at the risk and cost of the defaulting
purchaser. In such event, the defaulting purchaser shall (i) be liable
for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase price, all costs and
expenses of both sales, and (ii) not be entitled to any surplus proceeds
resulting from the resale of the Property even if such surplus resulted
from improvements to the Property made by or on behalf of the de-
faulting purchaser.
If the Substitute Trustee does not convey the Property by reason, the
sole remedy of the purchaser of the Property shall be limited to the
refund of the deposit. Upon refund of the deposit to the purchaser,
the sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no
further claims against the Substitute Trustee or the Secured Party. The
conveyance by the Substitute Trustee to the purchaser at settlement
shall be by Substitute Trustee’s Deed, without covenant or warranty.
NOTE: The information contained herein was obtained from sources
deemed to be reliable, but is offered for informational purposes only.
The Auctioneer, the Substitute Trustee and the Secured Party do not
make any representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy
of such information. For additional information, please contact Rich-
ard Lash, President, Old Dominion Trustees, Inc., 12355 Sunrise Valley
Drive, Suite 650, Reston, Virginia 20191, 703-796-1341, extension 144,
or Richard.lash@bhlpc.com. This is a communication from a debt col-
lector and any information obtained with be used for that purpose.
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