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Prices may vary in areas outside metABCDE ropolitan Washington. sU V1 V2 V3 V4 Democracy Dies in Darkness monday, april 29, 2024 . Mostly sunny 91/67 • Tomorrow: $3 A shower and t-storm 89/65 B6 Columbia. In the days that followed, her anger and sadness would grow. so would her frustration, as she saw friends unwilling to take a stand against what she saw as antisemitism on campus. When she went home to Toronto for the Jewish holiday of Passover, part of her did not want to come back to new York. But she did. “I can’t walk away from something that’s hard,” she said. For Jewish college students, this is a moment of intense and sometimes conflicting emotions as many college campuses erupt in loud protests against Israel’s conduct in the war and, in some cases, its existence — all while the deadly war in Gaza presses on and Israeli hostages remain in captivity. It adds up to profound questions over what it means to be a young Jew in America in 2024. For some, the overriding feeling is one of fear and pain. others sEE STUDEnTS on a6 BY LAURA MECKLER AND MICHELLE BOORSTEIN The protests outside her window at Columbia University were loud, and Dahlia soussan lay awake all night, tossing in her dorm room bed, a little bit scared. As a Jewish student, some of the chants felt threatening, like she was being targeted because she supports the existence of the state of Israel. But the next day, when more than 100 protesters were arrested, that was upsetting, too. she did not want students taken to jail or suspended from college. she, too, wants the bombing in Gaza to stop. “Every value that I hold in my heart is in tension with another principle I hold deeply right now,” said soussan, a junior at Barnard College, which is affiliated with For Jewish students, pinballing off emotions Protests against Israel’s war effort in Gaza produce intense feelings sTyle How three up-andcoming D.C. players navigated White House correspondents’ dinner weekend. C1 in Express, young women found assurance that they were in it together, even if they were still figuring it out, Monica Hesse writes. C1 World central Kitchen The organization announced it would resume aid operations in Gaza on Monday, weeks after an Israeli airstrike killed seven of its workers. a7 hostage deal negotiations Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia this week to meet with regional partners. a12 in the news The eConomy Shira Ovide discusses burning questions for TikTok users after President Biden signed legislation that could lead to a U.S. ban on the app. A13 The region prince George’s County school officials finalized a list of busing and bell changes. B1 a Virginia woman is locked in a legal battle with her ex-husband over whether she can use two frozen embryos they froze during a cycle of in vitro fertilization. B1 Housing advocates want a permanent cap on rent increases in Prince George’s, where homelessness is rising. B1 The nATion Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) met privately in Miami. A3 images of a hurt wolf, muzzled in a bar, led to an uproar over Wyoming’s hunting laws. A10 The world Earth’s record hot streak might be a sign of a new climate era. A10 a worker shortage may make it difficult for Olympics organizers to find 22,000 private security agents. A11 CONTENT © 2024 The Washington Post Year 147, No. 53836 Business news.........................A13 ComiCs.........................................C6 oBiTuAries..................................B5 oPinion PAges..........................A14 Television...................................C4 world news.............................A11 In Michigan, navigating residents’ rage over war and Democrats’ fears of Trump sARAh RicE fOR thE WAshiNgtON POst 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. BY TRISHA THADANI SAN FRANCISCO — As CEo Elon Musk stakes the future of Tesla on autonomous driving, lawyers from California to Florida are picking apart the company’s most common driver assistance technology in painstaking detail, arguing that Autopilot is not safe for widespread use by the public. At least eight lawsuits headed to trial in the coming year — including two that haven’t been previously reported — involve fatal or otherwise serious crashes that occurred while the driver was allegedly relying on Autopilot. The complaints argue that Tesla exaggerated the capabilities of the feature, which controls steering, speed and other actions typically left to the driver. As a result, the lawsuits claim, the company created a false sense of complacency that led the drivers to tragedy. Evidence emerging in the cases — including dash-cam video obtained by The Washington Post — offers sometimes-shocking details: In Phoenix, a woman allegedly relying on Autopilot plows into a disabled car and is then struck and killed by another vehicle after exiting her Tesla. In Tennessee, an intoxicated man sEE TESla on a2 Tesla claim of drivers’ liability is challenged Crash-related suits say Autopilot creates a false sense of complacency BY TAYLOR LORENZ AND GUS GARCIA-ROBERTS John Hart-Battles, a 17-year-old high school junior in oklahoma, joined Planet Fitness last June to keep in shape as a member of his school’s color guard team. As a young gay man, he liked Planet Fitness’s focus on inclusivity, an approach that turned it into one of the leading fitness brands in the United states. He started going twice a week. But for the past few weeks, he, like many LGBTQ+ Planet Fitness patrons and staffers, has stayed away, as at least 54 bomb threats have been made to Planet Fitness locations across the country, many of which led to evacuations. “It’s one of my worst fears, to be hate crimed, specifically in a locker room,” said Hart-Battles, who called the attacks on Planet Fitness “very unsettling.” Local police and the FBI say they have yet to determine who is behind the threats, which in some instances have forced the evacuation, police say, not just of Planet sEE planET fiTnESS on a9 Anti-trans ire targets Planet Fitness The inclusive gym brand has become a battlefield over LGBTQ+ rights BRYAN tERRY/OKlAhOmAN/UsA tODAY NEtWORK ‘You just can’t believe the destruction’ A man looks at the wreckage of a building damaged by tornadoes that tore through Sulphur, Okla., on Saturday. An unusually severe outbreak of storms has hit several states, including Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. Story, A8 Capitals get swept out of the Stanley Cup playoffs by the Rangers. d1 BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB IN DEARBORN, MICH. A bdullah Hammoud had been outspoken about Israel’s assault in Gaza and President Biden’s unconditional support of Israel for nearly four months, but he had not attracted much attention outside his native Dearborn. That all changed in late January, when he made a decision that would catapult him from little-known mayor to national figure. Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, was coming to town, a fellow Arab American official told Hammoud. How would the Dearborn mayor feel about meeting with her? something didn’t sit right with Hammoud. Israel’s military campaign in Gaza had killed more than 25,000 Palestinians. Hammoud had heard from residents of this majority Arab American city who had lost 20, 40, even 80, relatives. The war was spreading to southern A mayor in the eye of Gaza storm Lebanon and Yemen, where many of Dearborn’s 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 president reelected. Hammoud, a Democratic mayor of a city of just over 100,000 residents, made a decision that sent an unmistakable message: He turned down the meeting. “That was a concept people couldn’t understand: ‘Why would you do that?’” Hammoud said in a recent interview while driving around Dearborn. “Immediately when I got the invitation, I felt like it was a disingenuous engagement. It was an engagement only for the worry of what’s going to happen in the upcoming election, and not for the worry of what’s actually sEE HaMMOUD on a16 BY HANNAH KNOWLES, JOSH DAWSEY AND ASHLEY PARKER NEW YORK — For 20 minutes Donald Trump campaigned like everything was normal. He made his way down a line of cheering fans outside a construction site at 6:30 a.m., pumping his fist, clasping outstretched hands and signing MAGA hats. “Election interference,” he grumbled about the criminal charges against him, reprising his year-long mantra. But by 9:30 a.m., Trump was stuck in court, no longer narrating the legal saga intertwined with his run for president. He sat quietly for hours at a time Thursday and watched stone-faced as a longtime friend and former tabloid publisher recounted Trump’s agitation in 2016 when a hush money scheme failed to quash a story about an alleged affair with a Playboy model. His go-to outlet: brief interludes in a dingy courthouse hallway in front of TV cameras, where he has vented about the judge, the “freezing” temperatures in the courtroom and “sitting up as straight as I can all day long.” Two weeks in, the first criminal trial of a former president has been personally taxing for Trump and disruptive to his campaign. Despite efforts to schedule dinners at which donors, friends and world leaders join him, Trump’s moods are worse on trial days, according to several people close to him. The former president is accustomed to near-daily rounds sEE Trial on a4 Trump trial is hardly the trail case is disrupting his campaign plans Trump to bounce from court to rallies this week Policing protests: A new set of challenges for law enforcement. A5

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Periodicals postage paid in Washington, D.c., and additional mailing office. the Washington Post is committed to correcting errors that appear in the newspaper. those interested in contacting the paper for that purpose can: Email: [email protected]. call: 202-334-6000, and ask to be connected to the desk involved — national, foreign, Metro, style, sports, Business or any of the weekly sections. comments can be directed to the Post’s reader advocate, who can be reached at 202-334-7582 or [email protected]. fornia. “This case is not about Autopilot. 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 plaintiff’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 dollars. The plaintiffs’ evidence included that Tesla “knew the vehicle at issue had a defective Autopilot system,” according to the order. Citing other fatal crashes involving Autopilot, Scott wrote that there is a “genuine” dispute over whether Tesla “created a foreseeable 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 riverside case as it was being presented to a jury last fall, said michaels, the mLG lawyer who represented Lee’s family. The month-long trial featured testimony from an accident reconstructionist, a top engineer at Tesla and a paramedic who responded to the crash and said it was among the most horrific accidents he had ever seen. michaels said he declined to engage in settlement talks because he wanted to continue to “make this a really public issue.” He said he also “did not have confidence in our ability to come to an agreeable amount.” Tesla and its lawyer in the case, Carey, did not respond to a request for comment. After four days of deliberations, the jury decided the case in Tesla’s favor. Though he lost, michaels said the trial attracted media attention 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 guaranteed money,” michaels said, “but that wasn’t what it was about.” cade before crashing into a vehicle 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 ultimately responsible for the trajectory 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 camera’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 management, said the last thing the company needs is a highly publicized courtroom battle that focuses 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 software 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 Autopilot 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 damage 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 Cali2022 when she struck a Toyota Camry that had stalled on the highway, according to court documents and dash-cam footage obtained by The Post. According to the mitchell family’s lawyer, Jonathan michaels with mLG Attorneys 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 complaint 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 Jaramillo 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 footage 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 recklessness 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 flashing lights and a physical barriif the system is not engaged.” But the Huang case also potentially 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 documents. 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 control” and invites “drivers to overly trust the automation,” NHTSA said Thursday, revealing that a two-year investigation into Autopilot 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. In Phoenix, Iwanda mitchell, 49, was driving a Tesla in may allegedly using Autopilot drives down the wrong side of the road for several minutes before barreling into an oncoming car, killing the 20-year-old inside. Tesla maintains that it is not liable for the crashes because the driver is ultimately in control of the vehicle. But that contention is coming under increasing pressure, including from federal regulators. Late Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched a new review of Autopilot, signaling concern that a December recall failed to significantly improve misuse of the technology and that drivers are misled into thinking the “automation has greater capabilities than it does.” meanwhile, in a twist, Tesla this month settled a high-profile case in Northern California that claimed Autopilot played a role in the fatal crash of an Apple engineer, Walter Huang. The company’s decision to settle with Huang’s family — along with a ruling from a florida judge concluding that Tesla had “knowledge” that its technology was “flawed” under certain conditions — is giving fresh momentum to cases once seen as long shots, legal experts said. “A reckoning is coming as more and more of these cases are going to see the light of a jury trial,” said Brett Schreiber, a lawyer with Singleton Schreiber who is representing the family of Jovani maldonado, 15, who was killed in Northern California when a Tesla in Autopilot rear-ended his family’s pickup truck in 2019. Tesla did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the lawsuits. The outcomes of the cases could be critical for the company. Tesla’s stock has lost more than a third of its value since the beginning of the year. Last week, the company reported a steeperthan-expected 55 percent plunge in first-quarter profit as it struggles with falling sales of electric vehicles and stiff competition from China. To allay investors’ concerns, musk has made lofty promises about launching a fully autonomous “robotaxi” in August. Soon, he said during Tuesday’s earnings call, driving a car will be like riding an elevator: You get on and get out at your destination. “We should be thought of as an AI or robotics company,” musk told investors. “If somebody doesn’t believe Tesla is going to solve autonomy, I think they should not be an investor in the company. But we will.” meanwhile, the company has defended itself in court documents by arguing that its user manuals and on-screen warnings make “extremely clear” that drivers must be fully in control while using Autopilot. many of the upcoming court cases involve driver distraction or impairment. Autopilot “is not a self-driving technology and does not replace the driver,” Tesla said in response to a 2020 case filed in florida. “The driver can and must still brake, accelerate and steer just as TeslA from A1 Drivers warned to be in full control, Tesla says Mason trinca for the Washington Post 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. “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 HIC#410516000653 | 50637 | 69678 | WV027473 LIMITED TIME OFFER $500 OFF* 703-997-9316 GET A FREE INSPECTION FOUNDATION REPAIR BASEMENT WATERPROOFING CRAWL SPACE REPAIR CONCRETE LIFTING *Ten percent off any job over $2500 up to a max of $500. 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monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post Ez rE a3 Politics & the Nation BY JOSH DAWSEY Former president Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis met privately Sunday morning in Miami, according to people familiar with the matter, breaking a years-long chill between the presumptive Republican nominee and his onetime chief primary rival. Allies brokered the meeting in hopes of a potential détente between 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 familiar 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 network 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 exhausted by Trump. There is an incentive for DeSantis to form a closer relationship, as well. People close to DeSantis 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 donors and consultants as weakened 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 president’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 another 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 resistance, and they see Democrats using lawfare to this day to attack him.” But DeSantis has not campaigned for Trump or helped him since, and in fact has made backhanded criticisms of Trump. DeSantis 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, DeSantis 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 DeSantis a “sad little man.” DeSantis is widely loathed inside Trump’s orbit, but the former president has shown a willingness to be forgiving and remarkably transactional when it benefits him. “Will I be using the name Ron DeSanctimonious?” he said after DeSantis endorsed him. “I said that name is officially retired.” The two men have never been personally close, but Trump endorsed DeSantis in 2018 for governor of Florida — and once viewed him as a rising star in the 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 primary, 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 DeSantis raising money for him. Despite icy dynamic, Trump and DeSantis meet in Miami Former president’s allies eye Florida governor’s donor network aP 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. BY PERRY STEIN AND DEVLIN BARRETT Welcome back to The Trump Trials newsletter. Last week was a whirlwind, between Donald Trump’s ongoing criminal trial in Manhattan and the highstakes Supreme Court presidential 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, complaining 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 campaign 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 [email protected] and [email protected] and check for answers in future newsletters. Okay, let’s get into it. What’s ahead The focus this week will mostly 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 document case, we’re still waiting for U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon to makes some big decisions (details below). Now, a recap of last week’s action. 1. New York: State hush money case The details: 34 charges connected 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 witness — 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 assistant at the Trump Organization, Rhona Graff, testified Friday, 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 Daniels. It is Cohen’s hush money payment to Daniels, and how Trump classified his reimbursement to Cohen, that is at the heart of this records falsification case. 2. D.C.: Federal case on 2020 election The details: Four counts related to conspiring to obstruct the 2020 election results. Planned trial date: Unclear Last week: The Supreme Court heard arguments to determine whether presidential immunity extends to Trump’s alleged actions laid out in this election interference indictment. 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. Prosecutors argued that Trump’s alleged deception to overturn the 2020 election results extended far beyond possible immunity protections for presidents. The justices appeared ready to reject Trump’s overall immunity claim, but in a way that could require more litigation and further delay the trial — which has been completely on pause while the immunity question is settled. 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 prosecutors in New York keep claiming his speech is violating the courtimposed gag order, which bars him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors or family members of the judge and the Manhattan district attorney. On Tuesday, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan held a hearing to review allegations from prosecutors that Trump had violated the gag order 10 times. Trump’s lawyers countered that the former president’s postings about potential witnesses are a permitted response 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 campaign stops in Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday, meaning his capacity for violating the gag order may continue to outpace the judge’s capacity to hold hearings about alleged violations of the order. 3. Florida: Federal classified documents case The details: Trump faces 40 federal charges over accusations that he kept top-secret government documents at Mar-a-Lago — his home and private club — and thwarted government demands 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 Cannon 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 attorneys to disclose what classified information they expect to discuss 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 that state. Four of his 18 codefendants 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 prosecutors indicted seven attorneys or aides affiliated with Trump’s 2020 campaign, as well as 11 Arizona 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 Epshteyn. 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 conspiracies in an indictment — such as an alleged coordinated effort to overturn election results — they often include people who allegedly participated in the conspiracy but are not charged with a crime. These are unindicted 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 cooperating with investigators. Because unindicted coconspirators 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 election fraud following the 2020 election.” Guess who? Question Time Q. If Donald Trump and David Pecker were such good friends, why did Pecker agree to testify for the prosecution? A. Pecker testified under a grant of immunity from prosecutors. 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 category 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 considers Trump a friend but hasn’t spoken to him for several years, largely because of the legal mess the two men are in. thanks for catching up with us. Want this weekly roundup delivered to your email inbox? sign up at www.washingtonpost.com/ newsletters/the-trump-trials/. The Trump Trials Trump tries to hit the campaign trail, but he can’t escape from New York Dana VErkoutErEn/aP ElizabEth Williams/aP 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.

A4 EZ rE the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 JEEnah Moon/rEUtErs 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. mented. “You don’t see any prominent republicans here today, do you?” trump in court: Quiet, then combative Trump has been mostly impassive 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 Pecker, the former National Enquirer publisher, discussed a Trump Tower doorman who had claimed — falsely, Pecker said — that Trump had fathered a child outside his marriage. He briefly folded 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 appearances outside the trial room, meanwhile, has at times veered into outright mewling. “I’m sitting here for days now, from morning till night in that freezing room,” he moaned at one. “freezing! Everybody was freezing in there, and all for this.” He has griped about the courtimposed gag order, complaining that he has been unfairly muzzled. And he says he should be out campaigning. “I should be right now in Pennsylvania and florida and many other states — North Carolina, Georgia — campaigning,” Trump said during the first week. Some of Trump’s grousing has provided an opening for the Biden campaign, which has gleefully seized on his daily remarks to portray him as feeble and infirm. “Trump says he has difficulty 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 famous property in manhattan. People close to Trump said he appears happiest in his gilded triplex there, which remains furnished from his time in New York. During evening dinners, the conversation often veers back to the case. Late Thursday afternoon, a small crowd began to gather outside 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 besides 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. 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 Tuesday he was saying that “Thousands of people were turned away from the Courthouse in Lower manhattan by steel stanchions and police.” There have been some minor demonstrations, with appearances from far-right activist Laura Loomer and conservative commentator Andrew Giuliani. But on Thursday afternoon, 68-yearold Gary Phaneuf was the only Trump supporter visibly protesting in the park outside the courthouse. “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 discouraged from mass mobilization after Jan. 6. “We got nothing here right now, let’s be real,” Phaneuf laThey 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 brandishing a thick stack of news clippings, claiming that every article 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 generally pleased with this set of attorneys, people close to him said. on friday, he opened his morning 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 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 advisers he prefers a Holiday Inn Express, 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 renovating his plane, asking for constant 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? the trial has dampened Trump’s mood or hindered his campaign, despite what he called “some justifiable outrage” about the case. He said Trump “keeps telling us to load up his schedule” with events. “obviously, Trump would rather be in battleground states,” miller said. “But we have a great candidate; we have a phenomenal airplane. … We’re going to bring the campaign trail to us.” Trump has settled into a predictable if surreal rhythm for the trial, with his court appearances punctuated by all-caps social media 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 lamented 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 Christopher Conroy said. The outcome of the trial could sway some voters, polling shows, and Trump faces three other criminal cases, though it is unclear if any others will go to trial before the election. Nearly a quarter of registered voters who back Trump say a conviction in one of his cases might cause them to reconsider supporting him, according 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, underscoring how voters of different political persuasions and backgrounds 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 “political persecution,” “an assault on our country” and “really an attack on a political opponent.” (Despite Trump’s claims, there is no evidence 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-Lago Club in florida. Trump has also long prized having control of many of the details in his day-today life, people familiar with the 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 assemble adoring crowds even in heavily 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 comments 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 infrastructure for the general election and close a fundraising gap with President Biden. Expected to stretch six to eight weeks, the trial is limiting the schedule of the presumptive GoP nominee at a critical moment when Biden is outspending 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 primaries, Trump could swoop in and out of his court proceedings with more flexibility and campaign on the sidelines. Now the former president is required to attend; adding insult to injury, his first mid-trial rally was canceled 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 — believing it was meant to hurt him politically. He has trekked to his club in nearby Westchester County to play golf on the days he has been off, instead of hitting the trail. Although Trump has consistently survived major scandals, the New York case is training new attention on salacious allegations that could give some voters pause. Trump is accused of falsifying business records to conceal a hush money payment to an adult-film actress, whose allegations of an extramarital affair with Trump threatened to hurt his 2016 campaign. He has pleaded not guilty. Trump campaign senior adviser Jason miller, who has been attending court with the former president, rejected the idea that triAL from A1 Trump on trial brings political defiance and a loss of control JaBin Botsford/thE Washington Post JaBin Botsford/thE Washington Post ABOVE: Donald trump is seen in Manhattan criminal court during jury selection April 18. LEFt: People gather thursday to watch for trump before he heads to court.

monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post eZ re A5 BY ROBERT KLEMKO, MOLLY HENNESSY-FISKE, TIM CRAIG AND KIM BELLWARE At least 900 protesters have been arrested at pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses in the last 10 days, according to a Washington Post tally, the largest police response to campus activism in years and one that experts say poses myriad potential challenges for law enforcement agencies. Mass demonstrations on campuses ranged from peaceful sitins 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 administrators turned to police, pointing to numerous reports of hate, antisemitic speech and violence that marred some demonstrations. On some campuses, law enforcement offered repeated warnings and conducted cordial, orderly arrests. On others, police and demonstrators engaged in physical confrontations, with officers 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 University last week, and a Georgia State Patrol trooper was captured 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 Saturday after a shout of “Kill the Jews” was heard. A witness posted on social media that the shout came from a pro-Israel counterprotester. School officials said the demonstration had been “infiltrated by professional organizers with no affiliation to Northeastern.” The national wave of campus arrests kicked off April 18, when Columbia University President Minouche Shafik wrote a letter to New York police requesting help to clear the student demonstrators. 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 African American studies, and cofounder of the Center for Policing Equity, attributed the swift interdiction on several campuses in part to the mounting political pressure on university presidents to avoid appearing as if they are appeasing anti-Israel demonstrators. Those presidents watched the careers of former Harvard president Claudine Gay and former University of Pennsylvania president 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 questioned about antisemitism on campus by lawmakers on Capitol Hill the day before she called in police. “Presidents are trying to figure out how to deal with what seems like a fracturing on the political left, tons of pressure on the political right, some reasonable 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 students,” and could reignite tensions between police and protesters that escalated during the racial justice demonstrations. “Any university who is calling law enforcement this weekend and beyond is asking for a tragedy,” Solomon said. The equation is complicated by the shifting nature of youthdriven protests, which have become more difficult for law enforcement to manage in the age of social media, experts said. Policing guidelines for managing civil disobedience that were taught for decades have been rendered moot. Fractured and leaderless protest movements make negotiations useless in many scenarios; the ability to spontaneously and anonymously organize protest action online hampers law enforcement’s ability 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 criminal justice professor at John Jay College in New York. “Every day that goes by, there is more sophistication 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 students occupied a plaza at the university, and several hundred demonstrators and onlookers formed a ring around the encampment to protect them. When police moved to clear the area April 22, intense clashes broke out. Several objects, including water bottles, were thrown at the police. Police reported 120 arrests. University of Southern California administrators canceled next month’s main commencement ceremony after police arrested dozens of people late Wednesday in Los Angeles. At Emerson College in Boston, police said they arrested 108 people during a confrontation in which four officers were injured in the early hours of Thursday. Many law enforcement agencies 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 typically answer without regard for optics. But that did not happen at one university in the nation’s capital. At George Washington University, university leadership asked D.C. police to arrest protesters 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 peaceful 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 institution 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 scrambled to construct the legal grounds to remove protesters before calling police. Indiana University administrators 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 university spokesperson said the policy includes a provision that allows changes in the rule as needed and officials did so to “balance free speech and safety.” On Thursday, campus police arrested 34 people, with charges ranging from trespassing and resisting law enforcement to battery on a public safety official, said Indiana University police spokeswoman Hannah Skibba. To combat strategic disadvantages inherent to modern protests, some law enforcement agencies have responded in recent years with an overwhelming show of force, according to policing 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 spokesperson said. George Lobb, who volunteered 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 president 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 Houston, a junior economics and government major who is Palestinian American, was among those taken into custody by police. “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 instead 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.” Campus protests bring new set of challenges for police Jordan tovin/for the Washington Post Protesters at George Washington University in D.C. on Saturday. 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A6 EZ rE the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 even “pro-terrorism” rhetoric. She saw videos of people at Columbia holding a sign in front of Jewish students that said, “Al Qassam’s next targets,” referencing Hamas’ military wing, and heard chants at Columbia of “Hamas we love you, keep bombing 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 committed to dialogue.” Another sleepless night for Dahlia Soussan, the sleepless night at Barnard, listening to protesters outside her window, was scary. But the most frustrating 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 encampment at Columbia, right next door, the rAs in the union pushed for a resolution condemning 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 protesters. “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 recognizing 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 majority approval and was posted online, 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 condemning antisemitism. “Just as we stood up for students 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 antimuslim 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 statement. “I am tremendously disheartened and disturbed that we couldn’t get enough votes. our inability to join together in condemning hatred against Jews on our campus casts a stain of bigotry 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 thinking 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 campus and its impact on Black, Brown and muslim students but said the union was “equally concerned by the recent surge in antisemitic incidents on campus.” Late friday night, it passed. Union leaders, asked about the previous failure, pointed The Post to the new statement on Instagram. 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 advocating.” 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 urgency.” Bacal felt shaken and confused. He was torn between wanting to trust leadership about their reasons, and doubt over whether his pro-Palestinian activism might be playing a role. rubenstein told The Post that it was not a factor. Shortly before the Sabbath began, 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 campus and hateful comments, including 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 complexity, is really difficult,” she said. “This past week and honestly 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 identifies with progressive politics on every other issue. Now there is a coalition of groups supporting university divestment from Israel, and J Street is one of the only liberal groups that has not signed on. “It’s really hard feeling alienated 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 communities, but she said she was met with “a complete wall” of resistance 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 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 journal and joins a group on mondays singing nigguns, or wordless Jewish 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 encampment, 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. Protesting the war, he said, has given him “a palpable spiritual connection for the first time” — deepening, 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 rituals, the center and the campus Jewish community are to him, and how the unity he feels there is forged “from our profound diversity.” His talk didn’t directly mention the war or politics. the orthodox Hasidic group Chabad. They wore a kaffiyeh, there was disagreement, “and it was beautiful.” “There were people speaking in different ways about Israel and the violence, and we were able to coexist in that space as Jews,” they said. “A lot of it is about shared values and remembering the empathy and justice Judaism can give all of us.” A Pew research Center poll about the war conducted in february shows that younger Americans, and younger American Jews, are more reticent about supporting Israel than their older counterparts. Twenty-six percent of Jews ages 18-34, for instance, said President Biden is favoring the Israelis too much, twice the percentage of American Jews overall, according to the poll. And the Chicago report survey showed how the same words can be interpreted differently by different people. for instance, 66 percent of Jewish students interpreted the phrase “from the river to the sea” to mean “Palestinians should replace Israelis in the territory, even if it means the expulsion or genocide of Israeli Jews.” Among all students, 26 percent interpreted it that way, with roughly the same share interpreting the phrase to be a call for two nations, side by side. Across the country, at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., freshman Elijah Bacal, 19, was also feeling spiritually lifted by connecting with people in both voice for us, no conversation. I feel I’m just being yelled at, rather than being heard.” Cohen, who grew up in marin County, Calif., said that in middle school, someone put a swastika in his backpack, and in high school, he saw Nazi salutes. “I’ve dealt with this since I was 13, and right now this is the most antisemitism I’ve ever experienced.” Cohen says he still proudly wears his star, which hangs on a necklace. “I feel like I hold a stronger bond now to Judaism,” he said. “The moment we break, I break, our people break, that’s when they win.” Finding common cause While some Pitzer students were feeling under attack, Ezra Levinson, a first-year student there from Hawaii, described a very different experience. Levinson is an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace, which rejects the current state of Israel and the idea of a Jewish nation-state in which Jews have more rights than others. The group has staged several protests on campus in recent months. “What’s critical right now is to take necessary steps to stop the loss of life and to address the fact that Palestinians are being killed and forced out of homes on a mass scale by Israel,” Levinson said. “And it’s being perpetrated in our name as Jews.” Last week, Levinson attended a campus Passover Seder run by 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 rabbinical 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 hostage. After that, Israel launched a counterattack that has killed over 34,000 Gazans, according to the Gaza Health ministry. Jewish students are left pinballing between emotions: worry over Israel’s safety and the fate of the hostages, fear of rising antisemitism 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 encampment spread to the University of Pittsburgh in recent days has been “terrifying” to Alitza Hochhauser, president of the orthodox Jewish group Chabad on campus. The junior said she saw a “rules” sign at the encampment that included, “Don’t talk to Zionists.” (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 uneducated 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, whatsoever. What everyone wants is peace,” she said. Sometimes there is a productive dialogue on campus, Hochhauser 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, because, to put it bluntly, everyone is a little scared about where this is going.” In a survey conducted in December and January by the University of Chicago’s Chicago Project on Security and Threats, 19 percent of college students reported feeling in “personal danger” due to their support of Israel or the Palestinians. But those feelings were far more widespread among Jewish and muslim 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 disagreed with the statement “when Jews are attacked, they deserve it,” and 17 percent said the same about supporters of Israel. Separately, Hillel International, a major network of campus Jewish groups, said its members have recorded more than 1,350 incidents considered antisemitic, including social media posts, vandalism, assaults and harassment since the oct. 7 attack. That includes over 400 acts of vandalism, said Adam Lehman, president 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 experienced what felt like hate firsthand 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 Claremont 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 campus. I’ve been called a ‘filthy Jew’ for wearing a Star of David on campus,” he said, “There is no StUDentS from A1 From fear to solidarity to conflict, a kaleidoscope of emotions for Jewish students jaBin BoTsford/ThE WashinGTon PosT In a chat for resident advisers at Barnard College, Dahlia Soussan said not condemning antisemitism on campus “casts a stain of bigotry.” courTEsY of Elijah Bacal elijah Bacal, a founder of Yale Jews for Ceasefire, said it feels like he is “straddling two worlds.” courTEsY of Yakira GallEr Yakira Galler said she has heard “pro-terrorism” rhetoric in her first year at Barnard College. courTEsY of BEn cohEn Ben Cohen, a Pitzer College junior, said he tries to avoid protests but can’t help feeling unsafe. Zain charania Lauren Haines, national president of J Street U, has called “this past week … hell.”

monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post Ez rE A7 BY TIM CARMAN Three days after an emotional ceremony at Washington National Cathedral in which World Central Kitchen celebrated the seven workers killed in an Israeli airstrike, the organization announced it would resume operations in Gaza, where more than 1 million Palestinians face catastrophic 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 widespread 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 operation has always been Palestinians feeding Palestinians,” said Linda Roth, chief communications 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, killing all seven people inside three vehicles, two of which were armored. Among those killed were four members of WCK’s relief team: Lalzawmi “Zomi” Frankcom, 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-yearold 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 worldwide condemnation, including from President Biden. “I am outraged and heartbroken by the deaths of seven humanitarian workers from World Central Kitchen,” Biden said in a statement at the time. “. . . They were providing food to hungry civilians 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, before April 1, it had distributed more than 43 million meals in Gaza, accounting for 62 percent of all international nongovernmental organization aid. Before suspending its operations 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 alBalah in the central part of the territory. When it resumes operations, WCK will open a third high-production kitchen in honor of Soból. Located in Mawasi on the southern coast of Gaza, the facility will be called “Damian’s Kitchen,” WCK said in its announcement. Soból “was pure joy for everyone who knew him,” an emotional 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 organization 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 Emirates. Even as its resumes operations, WCK continues to call for an independent, third-party investigation of the Israel Defense Forces’ attack on the humanitarian convoy. Four days after the attack, Israel’s military released the results of its internal investigation. It said the attack was a “serious violation” of its policies — the result of “errors” — and was “contrary” to military procedures. It said two officers would be dismissed and commanders reprimanded, but made no mention of legal actions such as prosecutions. World Central Kitchen responded by saying that the IDF “cannot credibly investigate its own 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 knowing that aid, aid workers and civilians are being intimidated and killed.” “These are the hardest conversations, and we have considered all perspectives when deliberating,” Gore added. “Ultimately, we decided we must keep feeding, continuing our mission of showing up to provide food to people during the toughest of times.” World Central Kitchen says it’ll resume aid work in Gaza ahmED zakot/rEutErS DarEk DElmanowicz/EPa-EFE/ShuttErStock TOP: One of three World Central Kitchen vehicles hit by an Israeli airstrike on April 1 that killed seven workers. 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A8 EZ RE the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 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 immediately!!!” The National Weather Service in Norman, Okla., issued tornado warnings continuously between 8:59 p.m. and 1 a.m. Central time. At one point, five simultaneous PDS — Particularly Dangerous Situation — tornado 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 tornado 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 tornado around 10:45 p.m. Quick-hitting, weaker tornadoes 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 campus. Forecasters had been confident that the storms would be dangerous. The tornadoes initially were expected to come in several rounds, possibly starting midSaturday. A few had been reported 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 produced 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 memory, with back-to-back-to-back tornadoes reminiscent of historic outbreaks like those in 1974 or 2011 — albeit on a smaller scale. In Sulphur on Sunday afternoon, Oklahoma Senate Majority Leader Greg McCortney (R) looked over a devastated downtown 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. BY MATTHEW CAPPUCCI AND BEN BRASCH OKLAHOMA CITY — Crews were assessing damage Sunday after a tornado outbreak killed at least four people and leveled neighborhoods in several Oklahoma towns Saturday night. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) stood before a battery of microphones 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 been taken to a hospital and since released. He cautioned that authorities were still assessing those numbers. At least two fatalities were confirmed in the town of Holdenville, about 70 miles southeast of Oklahoma City. An infant was among those reported to have died there. The Oklahoma medical examiner’s office said the other death was on Interstate 35 near Marietta, 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 reported tornadoes, primarily in eastern Nebraska and southwestern Iowa, which besieged neighborhoods in the Omaha and Lincoln metro areas and hit parts of the Des Moines area. 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 thunderstorm warnings from Texas to Michigan. The Weather Service rated the Sulphur and Marietta tornadoes at least EF3 on the 0-to-5 Enhanced 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 expected Sunday, although strong tornadoes were less likely. Saturday’s tornadoes devastated parts of Sulphur, where storm-chaser footage showed scores of homes and buildings flattened, and vehicles overturned and demolished. On Sunday, state leaders pledged help for the town. Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall (R), who represents the area, mourned those who were killed. “Everything else can be rebuilt, but we can’t restore life and the wonderful Oklahomans we lost,” McCall said. The number of injuries statewide wasn’t clear Sunday afternoon, said Annie Mack Vest, director of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. She added that crews were trying to restore electricity at medical facilities. About 22,000 customers were 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 downtown bar, Stitt said. Oklahoma emergency services spokeswoman Keli Cain did not provide identifying details for the person who died on I-35. 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monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post eZ Re K A9 ters to interview him, but then canceled. And a Newsmax interview aired but was edited, according to Grondahl, to remove inflammatory comments concerning moore. (A fox News spokesperson declined to comment; Newsmax did not respond to a request for comment.) But raichik aired a mostly unedited interview with Grondahl. flanked by his attorney, Grondahl alleged that the company 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 ‘judgmentfree zone’ means that if you’re a man, you can use the woman’s locker room,” Grondahl said. “Just insane.” meanwhile, raichik has continued to post. Last week, she lambasted the company’s new CEo, Colleen Keating, for signing onto the “CEo Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge,” which supports inclusive workplaces, claiming that the company was standing by its “woke policies.” Haley Zapal, an LGBTQ+ Planet 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 prioritizing 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.” the company’s board the following year, he said, and he was paid roughly $140 million for his shares. In his interview with raichik, 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 involvement with the Company or insight into Planet fitness’ operations, strategy, performance or culture,” a company spokesman said. A reporter from The Post visited Grondahl last year at his mansion in Jupiter, fla. Grondahl was in full war room mode, having put a team of lawyers and investigators on retainer to prove his allegations. 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 incident at the Planet fitness in Alaska. Grondahl’s team reached out to conservative news outlets, though there are indications that they were wary of airing Grondahl’s claims. Grondahl said that fox News arranged for Jesse Watof an executive with a controversial criminal past. richard moore started as Planet fitness’s chief administrative officer and general counsel in 2012, according to his LinkedIn profile. Twelve years earlier, moore, at the time a North Carolina assemblyman, was indicted on charges of “crime[s] of nature” for allegedly engaging in oral sex with three former students 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 felony 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 “inappropriate.” moore said in a statement to The Post: “In retrospect, I regret the choices I made in my early 20s; however, there were no underaged individuals involved and all contact was consensual.” “richard moore has not worked at Planet fitness in nearly seven years and has no involvement 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 been seeing in comments online but directed at me personally,” the staffer said. “I don’t feel comfortable 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 anybody.” 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 parlayed it into the fitness empire branded as a “judgment-free zone” because it welcomed everybody — except for the bodybuilders to whom the industry had previously catered. The Grondahl brothers cut membership fees to the bone; created a “lunk alarm,” a siren that would go off if weightlifters grunted 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 market capitalization is now more than $5 billion. Grondahl said his downfall at the company began with the rise to be closed to traffic during rush hour, police said. It was at least the second threat to the same location. The Planet fitness employee who answered the phone at that location shortly after the incident said they were “not allowed to say anything.” “It’s not just disrupting Planet fitness businesses; a lot of these locations are in plazas with multiple businesses,” said Lt. Nicholas rankin of the Norwich Police Department in Connecticut. “We didn’t just evacuate Planet fitness. We were forced to evacuate a Big Lots department store and a health-care facility.” one transgender Planet fitness staffer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for their safety, told The Post that they initially heard about the campaign when a member called the club “screaming and ranting heinously transphobic nonsense.” “They were screaming about pedophiles, calling me a pedophile. I was misgendered over the phone. They jumped right into talking about men and women’s locker rooms, everything you’ve fitness locations but of businesses nearby. But the pattern is familiar to LGBTQ+ activists, who link the wave of threats to far-right influencer Chaya raichik, who runs the social media account @libsoftiktok. She has made Planet fitness the object of critical posts since early march, when Planet fitness revoked the membership of a woman in Alaska who complained about “a man shaving in a women’s bathroom” and posted a photo of the person online. Though the threats and evacuations have directly affected only a relative few of the chain’s 2,600 locations in the United States, the attacks have caused fear and anxiety 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 nondiscrimination policy states that members and guests may use the gym facilities that best align with their sincere, self-reported gender identity,” a Planet fitness spokesperson said in a statement following the Alaska incident. “The member who posted on social media violated our mobile device policy that prohibits taking photos of individuals in the locker room, which resulted in their membership being terminated.” raichik, who operates the Libs of TikTok account on X and Instagram, declined to comment for this story. She previously has denied responsibility for threats leveled at businesses, schools and hospitals she has criticized for LGBTQ+ inclusive policies. After the Alaska incident, raichik criticized Planet fitness’s trans-inclusive policies and encouraged her more than 3 million followers to boycott the chain. She has posted dozens of times since, encouraging followers to protest the gym in an effort to “take back our country” and documenting updates in a thread that she titled “PLANET fITNESS BLooDBATH mEGA THrEAD.” In late march, she posted a video interview with Planet fitness’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 genderaffirming care, drag queen story hours, and at least two dozen public schools and libraries. Schools in California, Colorado and oklahoma 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 boycott. Its value has dipped over 20 percent over the past year, a turbulent period that saw top-level turnover and scandal before this controversy. Planet fitness declined to provide a count of how many locations have been threatened. The nonprofit media watchdog media matters has catalogued the attacks in its ongoing efforts to document anti-LGBTQ+ hate online, and that tabulation has been confirmed 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 Washington Post. Bomb threats and evacuations The 54 incidents are national in nature: Seven Planet fitness locations in Virginia have been targeted, and at least two in maryland, according to the tabulations. In fargo, N.D., two locations were evacuated, and a franchise manager 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 Charlottesville caused a nearby street PLanET FiTnESS from a1 Planet Fitness faces threats after anti-trans posts MiChAel Noble JR. foR the WAshiNgtoN Post Josh RitChie foR the WAshiNgtoN Post ZACh d RobeRts/NuRPhoto/AssoCiAted PRess aBOVE: Whitaker McManus, 18, left, and John Hart-Battles, 17, are concerned about the rise in attacks on LGBTQ+ people. Hart-Battles is a regular at his Planet Fitness in Oklahoma and felt unsafe after recent threats against the gym chain. LEFT: Planet Fitness co-founder and former CEO Michael Grondahl built the gym empire’s brand on inclusivity — but said he never intended the “judgment-free zone” to apply to transgender people using bathrooms of their choice. BELOW: Chaya Raichik, center, who operates Libs of TikTok, is introduced during the 2023 Conservative Political action Conference in D.C. on March 2, 2023. She has attacked Planet Fitness online for its trans-inclusive policies. “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.

A10 EZ rE the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 BY DANIEL WU 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 target for international outrage. But the images of the injured gray wolf, reportedly taken in Sublette County, drew swift condemnation, 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 background. The man was fined $250 for violating Game and Fish Department regulations on possessing live wildlife, according to records obtained by The Washington Post. Gov. Mark Gordon (R) issued a statement calling the incident “reckless, thoughtless and heinous.” The Sublette County Sheriff’s Office announced it is investigating “allegations of animal abuse” after activists called for the man to face further punishment. But Sublette County officials announced last week that the treatment of the wolf might not break state laws, which exempt the creatures and others classified as “predatory” from animal protections. Kristin Combs, the executive director of Wyoming Wildlife Advocates, 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. “ … People 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 about the loosening of wolf-hunting laws in Montana, which has led to a decline of wolf populations 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 classified as predatory are not protected by the state’s animal abuse laws, an issue raised in 2019 when a legislator tried to amend them to outlaw “coyote whacking”: the practice of hunting those animals, also classified as predatory, by chasing them down and ramming them with snowmobiles. The bill did not pass. The Cowboy State Daily reported that Cody Roberts, a Wyoming resident, allegedly used a snowmobile to run down the gray wolf in the photo in late February, injuring but not killing the animal. Roberts took a live wolf to his house and a business in Daniel, Wyo., according to a Wyoming 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 released this month. The Cowboy State Daily first published an image of Roberts smiling with his 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 Office began investigating the incident. 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 meeting 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 sanctuary called to offer $10,000 to advocate for the strengthening Wyoming’s animal protection laws. Several people who identified themselves as hunters with generations of history in Wyoming 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 Laybourn, a hunter and program director at Wyoming Wildlife Advocates, 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 hunting is buoyed by a hunting culture that dismisses the animals as disruptive predators and threats to livestock, he said. Bumper 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,” Stalling said. “And we treat them horribly.” Last week, Sublette County Attorney Clayton Melinkovich released a statement through the sheriff’s office, responding to criticism that the wolf’s treatment 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 investigation. “While many of the animal abuse provisions do not apply to the hunting, capture, killing, or destruction of a predatory animal, there are narrow circumstances 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 strengthen 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?” Images of injured wolf, muzzled in bar, draw fury over Wyo. hunting laws BY SARAH KAPLAN 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 Bamako hovered above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The cost of ice spiked to 10 times its normal price; an overtaxed electrical grid sputtered and shut down. With much of the majorityMuslim country fasting for the holy month of Ramadan, dehydration and heat stroke became epidemic. As their body temperatures climbed, people’s blood pressure lowered. Their vision went fuzzy, their kidneys and livers malfunctioned, their brains began to swell. At the city’s main hospital, doctors recorded a month’s worth of deaths in just four days. Local cemeteries were overwhelmed. The historic heat wave that besieged Mali and other parts of West Africa this month — which scientists 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 temperatures 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. Scientists are still struggling to explain 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, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, could indicate whether Earth’s climate has undergone a fundamental shift — a quantum leap in warming that is confounding climate models and stoking ever more dangerous weather extremes. But even if the world returns to a more predictable warming trajectory, 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 naturally occurring phenomenon associated 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 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) from preindustrial levels. Yet this El Niño did not just break records; it obliterated them. Four consecutive days in July became the hottest days in history. The Northern Hemisphere saw its warmest summer — and then its warmest winter — known to science. By the end of 2023, Earth’s average temperature was nearly 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the preindustrial average — and about 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than climate modelers predicted it would be, even taking El Niño into account. Researchers have spent the past several months investigating possible explanations for that 0.2 C discrepancy: a volcanic eruption that spewed heat-trapping water vapor into the atmosphere, changes in shipping fuel that affected the formation of clouds that block the sun. So far, those factors can account for only a small fraction of the anomaly, raising fears that scientists’ models may have failed to capture a longer-lasting change in the climate system. “What if the statistical connections that we are basing our predictions 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 preoccupied 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 shipping emissions did in fact contribute 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 — something that the National Weather Service predicts will happen by the summer. Because La Niña is typically associated with cooler global temperatures, scientists expect it will bring an end to Earth’s record hot streak. There are hints that may be happening, 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 records, 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 temperatures do return to a more predictable trajectory, the effects of warming on people and ecosystems have already entered uncharted territory. Sea ice around Antarctica shrank to its smallest extent ever last year. The mighty Amazon River has reached its lowest level since measurements began. Researchers 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 beyond the bounds of what would have been not even normal weather 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 occurred on a cooler, preindustrial planet. In one Malian city, the mercury hit 48.5 degrees Celsius (119.3 degrees Fahrenheit) — probably the hottest temperature ever reliably recorded in Africa, the researchers said. Nights offered little relief, with temperatures often staying above 90 degrees. Studies show that high nighttime temperatures are especially dangerous, because they deny the body a chance to recover. Kiswendsida Guigma, a climate scientist and adviser for the Red Cross Climate Center based in Burkina Faso who contributed to the new analysis, said he barely slept during the heat wave. Frequent power outages prevented him from even using a fan 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 poorest 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 metal 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 previously unthinkable events are becoming commonplace as the world continues to warm. An October heat wave in Madagascar, where record-breaking heat persisted for 10 unbearable days, “would not have occurred” without human-induced warming, the group said. Last September’s heavy rainfall in Libya, which contributed 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 degrees 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 dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, we’re just going 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.” Earth’s record hot streak might signal a new climate era rAPHAEl AlvES/EPA-EFE/SHuttErStock 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. mAHAmAdou HAmidou/rEutErS 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.

monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post ez re A11 The World 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 wartorn 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 Russianinspired. 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’ sheetmetal 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 gendertransition surgeries and for the “intentional practice of effeminacy.” It also bans any organization that promotes “sexual deviancy.” — From news services Digest BY RICK NOACK PARIS — Three months before an Olympics that presents unprecedented security challenges at a globally tense time, French officials are facing a potential shortfall of qualified private contractors 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 public spaces. But leaders in the private 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 companies” 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 Trocadéro 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 companies 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, including through an accelerated three-week course funded by France’s unemployment agency and the regional administration, it may not be enough. Sports Minister Amélie OudéaCastéra said in a television interview 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 embarrassment similar to the London Olympics in 2012, when a private security company’s failure to deliver 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 suspicious behavior and performing other basic security work. “There is no failure. We have surpassed the goals that we had set for ourselves,” Marc Guillaume, 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 underestimating how many contractors 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 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 contractors traditionally are on vacation. 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 without 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. Typically, only about 60 percent of those who go through training go on to take private security jobs, according to industry estimates. Moreover, because the training is not Olympics-specific, people getting certified this year may be recruited for the Games — or for construction sites or to replace people leaving the sector. Brajeux said things could still be turned around. A final recruitment 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. Officials have screened only a small portion of the 1 million people they want to assess before the start of the Games. But as of late March, according to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, 800 had been excluded from participation, 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 private 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. Almost all were French nationals. While those findings could indeed reflect the “possibility of an infiltration” by militant groups such as Islamic State-Khorasan, the Afghanistan and Pakistan arm of the Islamic State, other dynamics 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 concerned about the exclusion of the security contractors. “On the contrary, it’s comforting,” he said, noting that fewer than 1 percent of guards were flagged by the authorities. He added that although 280,000 people were screened, “only around 180,000 people really work in this sector. Some have changed profession, others died.” In addition to French private security, the police and the military, the Paris 2024 security plan includes support from about 50 foreign countries who are expected to send a combined 2,500 officers and an array of equipment. Darmanin said they will focus on “securing their teams, lending us anti-drug, anti-bomb or antiweapon 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 Morocco for being among those to agree to send law enforcement officers this summer, while a security committee from Qatar visited the gendarmerie headquarters in Paris to plan coordination. Although French parliamentarians 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 Olympics in France this year,” Schindler said. gonzAlo fuenTes/reuTers Jeff PAChoud/AfP/geTTy imAges ThibAulT CAmus/AP FROM TOP: A security worker is seen this month near Olympics venues under construction in Paris. A security training exercise is held at the Groupama Stadium near Lyon, France. A worker carries a suitcase at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris.

A12 ez Re k the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 aP Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, listens to her lawyer at an April 1 court hearing in Kazan, Russia. BY NIHA MASIH, JENNIFER HASSAN AND ADELA SULIMAN U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia this week for meetings with regional partners, including Palestinian, 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 participating in meetings of the World Economic Forum and Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh, he will continue on to Jordan and Israel later in the week. The foreign ministers of Britain, Germany and France are also expected at the WEF meeting, alongside the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan 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. Blinken traveled to the country in March to discuss a U.S. plan to normalize relations between 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 Netanyahu. 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 Blinken.” Kirby told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that Blinken will “also be talking to the Israelis 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 optimistic 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 anonymity to discuss a sensitive subject. The former official said Israeli cabinet members accepted “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 proposal is now with Hamas, he said. On Sunday, President Biden reaffirmed the United States’ “ironclad commitment to Israel’s security” in a call with Netanyahu. In a statement, Biden demanded that Hamas release its remaining hostages to “secure a ceasefire and relief for the people of Gaza.” The two leaders also discussed “increases in the delivery of humanitarian assistance into Gaza including through preparations to open new northern 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 address 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, including 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 celebrity 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 million meals ready to enter through the Rafah crossing and will also send trucks into Gaza from Jordan. Pro-Palestinian protests unfolded outside the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night, with demonstrators posing as slain Gazan journalists outside the Washington Hilton. They laid out press vests to honor media workers who have been killed in the enclave and unfurled a Palestinian flag out of a window at the venue. France’s foreign minister arrived in Lebanon on Sunday, in a bid to “pursue the objective of peace and stability in the region,” Stéphane Séjourné tweeted. Séjourné praised the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon as he inspected troops. Reuters has reported that France is trying to ease tensions between Israel and Hezbollah, 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 distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority 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. Blinken set to travel to Saudi Arabia Jack guez/aFP/getty Images 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 BY ROBYN DIXON Russia has arrested two Russian journalists on “extremism” charges in recent days, the latest moves in a continuing crackdown targeting independent reporters and media outlets. A third Russian journalist, with Forbes Russia, was charged with publishing what authorities called “fake news.” The increasing use of anti-extremism laws to prosecute reporters — one piece of a larger campaign 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 Russia, many of them freelancers or employees of small outlets with few legal protections. The Associated Press on Saturday 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 Karelin’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 pretrial detention center. Both men are accused of working with the Anti-Corruption Foundation started by Alexei Navalny — President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent political rival until his death in an Arctic prison in February — which Russia has designated an “extremist organization.” Navalny’s family accused the Kremlin of killing the opposition leader, a claim that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied. Western leaders have stated that Putin bears responsibility for his death. Both journalists have denied the charges against them and face up to six years in prison. Meanwhile, Sergei Mingazov, a journalist with the Russian edition 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 faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of reposting stories on Telegram about the killing of civilians by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Bucha. Kremlin-connected tycoon Magomed 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 invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Putin has jailed hundreds of activists, opposition politicians, LGBTQ+ people, feminists, artists, 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 photography work for Navalny’s organization. At least six independent journalists were arrested last month, several merely for reporting on Navalny’s imprisonment, death and burial. Antonina Favorskaya, a journalist with SOTAVision, a small independent outlet that publishes news about government repression 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 immediately detained on the more serious charges. At least four journalists who covered her arrest and detention were also detained, including Alexandra 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 RusNews 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 Ukraine, it also outlawed the reporting of independent information on the war, with local journalists limited to regurgitating the Russian military’s official version of events. Any reporting on Russian military failures, its massive war casualties, attacks on Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure, or allegations of Russian war crimes are punishable with jail time. 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monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post ez re A13 Economy & Business 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 ultimatum to TikTok’s current owner, Chinese technology giant ByteDance, sound straightforward. But wow, they really aren’t. I want you to think about three burning questions that don’t have straightforward answers: 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 product 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 government 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 Americans and to the country’s national security, but it’s also not telling you to dump the app. “We’re not saying that we do not want Americans to use TikTok,” the White House press secretary said Wednesday, just after the president signed a law declaring that TikTok cannot exist in its current form in the United States. Whether you or your children use TikTok is now a personal choice. I imagine that most people will keep using (or not using) TikTok just the way they did before. Except now you face the looming risk that the app could disappear sometime months or years from now. Who might buy TikTok? The White House says it wants TikTok to be sold to a nonChinese 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 unconstitutional. Maybe they’ll say it’s constitutionally kosher. Maybe the legal case will take years to resolve. TikTok and people 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 Walmart 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 happening. Maybe Earth will get clobbered by a giant asteroid. What happens next with TikTok is unpredictable. Don’t trust anyone who confidently 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 company Lenovo or a Motorola smartphone 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 acceptable technologies from China. tech friend 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? ILLuSTrATIon by eLenA LAcey/The WAShInGTon poST; ISTock; GrAphIcAArTIS/GeTTy ImAGeS In January, OpenAI unveiled revamped policies aimed at preventing its tools from being used to spread disinformation ahead of the 2024 elections, including by blocking people from building chatbots “for political campaigning and lobbying.” But a study released Thursday argues that the rules can be “easily” bypassed “to maliciously target minority and marginalized communities in the U.S. with misleading content and political propaganda,” such as Latinos and Spanish speakers. The findings, researchers say, highlight key enforcement gaps in OpenAI’s rules that could have big implications for underrepresented and nonEnglish-speaking communities during this year’s elections. The Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas, a research unit that examines how Latinos navigate the internet, ran several tests asking OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool to help create a chatbot for campaigning purposes, including “to interact in Spanish” and to “target” Latino voters. While all of the prompts “should not have generated responses” under OpenAI’s rules, researchers wrote, the tests “resulted in detailed instructions from GPT-4.” “Targeting a chatbot to Latino voters in the U.S. requires a nuanced approach that respects cultural diversity, language preferences and specific issues of importance to the Latino community. Here’s how you could tailor the chatbot for maximum effectiveness,” one reply read. Roberta Braga, the group’s founder and executive director, told me that the results show the company’s safeguards “were super easily circumvented,” even when researchers “were not hiding the intent” — targeting campaigns at Latinos. The report draws a parallel between those findings and broader efforts to crack down on misinformation online. Lawmakers and advocacy groups have long accused tech companies of underinvesting in resources to adequately enforce their rules in non-English languages, particularly social media companies. The study shows that with AI tools, too, the rules are “not yet being applied consistently or symmetrically across countries, contexts, or in non-English languages,” researchers wrote. The report did note that “OpenAI’s terms of service are more advanced in addressing misuse and the spread of disinformation than those of most companies bringing generative AI products to market this year.” Researchers also tested OpenAI’s image-generation tool, DALL-E, which company rules prohibit from being used to create visuals of “real people, including candidates.” While the tests did not bypass those guardrails, researchers were able to generate images of politicians holding up the “okay” hand gesture, which groups such as the AntiDefamation League consider a hate symbol due to its ties to white-supremacist organizations. “For us, it showed that the tool can’t detect the nuance, so even though the terms are in place, this tool can very much be used to make strong political statements,” Braga said. OpenAI spokeswoman Liz Bourgeois said in a statement that the “findings in this report appear to stem from a misunderstanding of the tools and policies we’ve put in place.” Bourgeois said the company allows people to use their products as a resource for political advocacy and that providing instructions on how to build a chatbot for the purposes of a campaign is not in violation of its policies. But Braga, who previously worked at the Atlantic Council think tank, stressed that OpenAI’s tools still “offered guidance on how to define intent, create conversational flows, craft responses, integrate feedback loops” and on how to program and configure chatbots targeting Latinos. Study: OpenAI rules can be dodged to target Latinos The Technology 202 by cristiano lima-strong eLIzAbeTh frAnTz for The WAShInGTon poST OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with reporters on his arrival to the Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum on Capitol Hill on Sept. 13, 2023. 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a14 EZ RE the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 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, 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 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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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 What city-dwellers and rural Americans don’t get about each other LETTErs TO ThE EdiTOr Guest opinion submissions The Washington Post accepts opinion articles on any topic. We welcome submissions on local, national and international issues. We publish work that varies in length and format, including multimedia. Submit a guest opinion at [email protected] or read our guide to writing an opinion article at wapo.st/guestopinion. Letter submissions Letters can be sent to [email protected]. Submissions must be exclusive to The Post and should include the writer’s address and day and evening telephone numbers. Letters are subject to editing and abridgment. Please do not send letters as attachments. Because of the volume of material we receive, we are unable to acknowledge submissions; writers whose letters are under consideration for publication will be contacted. EdiTh PriTchETT Traveling on public transit while scrolling TikTok opinion ABCDE AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER S TUDENT LOAN DEBT is so often described as 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 are notably less vibrant and prestigious). 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 mortgages 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 fouryear 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 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, particularly 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 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 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 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. A student loan plan with lots of unintended consequences EdiTOriaL 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.

monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post eZ re a15 W ere he ever to consider a career in stand-up comedy, 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 journalists and Washington power players at the White House correspondents’ dinner. Almost from the start of his appearance in what is traditionally a lighthearted evening, Biden took the kind of personal swipes at his opponent 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 president spending his days in a Manhattan 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 chastised 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 moments 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 narrowed 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 impeachment 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 regard. 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 bipartisan vote in favor of sending $61 billion to Kyiv. Biden has had some other victories as well, including on funding to avert a government shutdown in March and, more recently, reauthorization 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 reelected,” Gallup’s Jeffrey M. Jones wrote. Meanwhile, Biden is struggling to hold together traditional Democratic constituencies, including nonWhites and young people, a challenge 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 correspondents’ 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. KaREn tumulty No joke: Biden turns up the heat on Trump NEW YORK W e can’t blame the Russian bots. We 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 protests and counter-protests, including defaced posters of Jewish hostages around my New York neighborhood and chants about Palestinian 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 demonstrators 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 operatives were seeding disinformation — the original “fake news” — across social media to sow discord. One of the strategies, a Senate intelligence report found, was siting opposing political 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 Houston in 2016. This election cycle, bots are not orchestrating the dueling rallies. Americans are deliberately 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 authoring 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 fundraising) 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 Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to testify about her handling of campus antisemitism. 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 Columbia’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 students 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 Johnson (R-La.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) have made pilgrimages to Columbia (to help cool things down, surely). Somehow a multimillennia-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 opposite 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 companies. It was too fun not to be. Like social media platforms, college campuses 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. CathERinE RampEll We can’t blame Russia for our unrest anymore. It’s homegrown. BY TOMMY TOMLINSON T he dog is humankind’s greatest 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 journey culminated in the dog world’s most prestigious event: the Westminster Dog Show. Show dogs are bred from the purest stock, culled from litters at just a few weeks old, trained with the dedication of Olympic gymnasts — and groomed like supermodels. They’d be unrecognizable to their ancient kin — and to ours. The American Kennel Club, arbiter of bloodlines, now recognizes about 200 breeds, while tracking crossbreeds like goldendoodles, and even mutts. From the most massive mastiff to the tiniest teacup chihuahua, all dogs trace back to the same common ancestors. Scientists think this weird and powerful companionship of humans and dogs might have started somewhere 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 cooking 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 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 developed shorter muzzles and smaller teeth. Their instinct to run became a desire to stay close. With time, dogs were manufactured through breeding 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 popular 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. 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 wandering. 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 companionship but also an uncomplicated 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 creation. 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. Dogs are our greatest creation. And we might be theirs. amy Lombard for the Washington Post Starlord, a Pomeranian, at the 2021 Westminster Dog Show in Tarrytown, N.Y. 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 theological, the specific forms of suffering that alarm Murphy and Cox are tangible and heartbreaking — from “deaths of despair” caused by suicide and drug overdoses 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-getalong 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 economic 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 distinguishes 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 pathologies — drug abuse, loneliness, alienation and anti-social behavior — emerge.” Murphy speaks of how “concentrated A re you skeptical of bipartisan dialogues and commissions that pretend away differences in a chase after a lowest-commondenominator “center”? Me, too. Yet there is good reason to be weary of a political culture so saturated with negative 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: social disconnection, loneliness, the damaging 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 conversation” 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 communitarian themes. By focusing on deep personal dissatisfactions, they are also offering 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 togethpower is driving Americans crazy,” the need to “grow bipartisan coalitions around breaking up monopolies and big companies that have way too much power in our economic lives,” and the imperative 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 other 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 community, that does lead to some of these deaths of despair, this hopelessness that we’re seeing.” Repairing the social damage will require public action to “help build more resilient neighborhoods and economies.” Murphy and Cox also have different (but not diametrically opposed) perspectives on the fiercely contested presidential 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. E.J. DionnE JR. A political odd couple takes on social despair opinion

A16 eZ Su the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 Khalid Turaani, co-chair of michigan’s “Abandon Biden” campaign, commended Hammoud for deftly navigating these political crosscurrents. But he said he is worried the mayor may ultimately feel pressured to support Biden as a fellow Democrat, which Turaani said would be a “betrayal.” “It would be a huge disservice to our community, because our community is not going to matter if we don’t stand our ground,” Turaani said. ‘No reason for me to be there’ Even before he rose to national prominence, Hammoud wrestled with how to interact with the White House. He visited Washington in midJanuary, about a week before he turned down the session with Biden’s campaign manager, for a meeting of the U.S. Conference of 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 rhetoric, calling Israel’s military response in Gaza “over the top.” He more directly acknowledged Palestinian 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 outside 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 coming from his community. When video emerged earlier this month of protesters in Dearborn chanting, “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 understand the unfolding events. Hammoud said he recognizes Biden’s shift in tone toward Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu but insisted the president 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 forward?” 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 president’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,” Hammoud 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 legislation — he’s going to be remembered as the president who sided with Benjamin Netanyahu and chose him over American democracy.” 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 editorial in february titled “Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital.” The article prompted increased threats to Hammoud and the city, including one person who threatened to behead his 2-year-old and then-4- month-old children. But fatima believes Hammoud has a unique opportunity to advocate on behalf 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 expressed 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 fasting 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 Washington — a move he argued would be especially meaningful after the Wall Street Journal column. “If you want to talk to Arab Americans, you’re going to do it in our city,” Ayoub said. “What we’re basically doing is welcoming all Arab Americans home.” Hammoud agreed. The following afternoon, Hammoud stopped in at one of Dearborn’s grocery stores as residents were picking up items for iftar, the meal in which muslims break their fast during ramadan. Several of the store’s employees warmly greeted Hammoud: one man stocking shelves, another behind the meat counter. Hammoud knows he is likely to face criticism whether he endorses Biden or ultimately announces he cannot support him. many muslims and Arab Americans, 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 Americans and muslims will be blamed for Trump’s triumph. Yet casting a vote for Biden now, after his backing of Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza, seems unpalatable to many Arab Americans. for now, Hammoud is pursuing a careful balance. Before meeting with finer and Power in february, he pored through six hours’ worth of intermayors. When Biden hosted the group at the White House, Hammoud 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 represented 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 profiles. 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 immigrants in Dearborn, he grew up the second of five children 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 as a truck driver delivering steel for auto companies. Hammoud was 12 or 13 when he truly realized his family was poor. A stranger called asking for their address and Hammoud innocently 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 unexpected turn. on oct. 15, 2015, Hammoud’s older brother, Ali, who suffered from seizures, called him at 5:29 a.m., saying something 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 approached with an opportunity to run for an open state House seat. His parents were against the idea. Politics had ruined Lebanon; why would their son want to become a part of that? Hammoud’s father told him in Arabic: “Don’t forget your name is Abdullah Hammoud.” He didn’t think it was possible for an Arab and muslim to win elected office in America. But Hammoud did win, becoming, at age 26, the first Arab American and muslim elected to represent michigan’s 15th district. After a couple of years, Hammoud felt he could have more impact directly overseeing Dearborn than as one of 110 in the state House. He ultimately beat out five other candidates and assumed the mayor’s office in January 2022. many of Hammoud’s experiences growing up have shaped his policies as mayor. He remembers how he and his siblings could not afford the $5 entrance fee to the local pool; during his first summer as mayor, Hammoud made community pools 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 president, and what it might take to win them back. He has become a prominent voice for Arab American and muslim voters, not just in Dearborn but across the country, who say that Biden has betrayed and dehumanized them. And still, the 34-year-old Hammoud has to keep his attention on the job he was elected to do: overseeing the city of Dearborn. He now spends hours discussing foreign policy and the political fallout of Biden’s support of Israel. But his days are filled with meetings about budgets, 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, Hammoud 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 finer, Biden’s deputy national security adviser, and Samantha Power, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. The Israel-Gaza war is, on its face, a foreign policy issue thousands of miles away from a midsize city in michigan. But it occupies a unique space in Dearborn, where it has in essence become a local issue, now consuming 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 dozens of protests and fundraisers since oct. 7, when Hamas militants rampaged through the Israel-Gaza border fence and killed 1,200 people, many of them civilians, and took 253 others hostage into Gaza, according to Israeli authorities. In response, Israel launched a punishing military assault that has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, 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 catastrophe as Gaza’s health system has collapsed and its residents face famine. michigan is home to the nation’s largest Arab American and muslim population, with about 300,000 people who claim ancestry from the middle East or North Africa, and that community overwhelmingly supported Biden in 2020. Biden won michigan 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 headquarters of a movement among progressives to withhold their votes from Biden in November. Activists 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 furiously competing pressures. many Arab Americans and muslims view meetings with Biden or his top aides as pointless or even a betrayal. And many Democrats, while sympathetic to the community’s anger, believe Hammoud 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 community and young progressives,” said rep. ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who met with Hammoud in february. Khanna is a Biden supporter and surrogate who has strong ties to the Democratic Party’s progressive and minority HAMMOUD from A1 Michigan mayor faces dilemma in backing Biden reelection JeFF koWALSky/AFP/geTTy imAgeS “He’s probably the most influential person in the state of Michigan when it comes to the Muslim and Arab American community.” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) factions. If Hammoud does not support Biden, “I’d be disappointed, because I want the president to win and I think that would make his path more challenging, especially in michigan,” Khanna added. “But I understand this is a matter of conscience for Abdullah and he’s true to the community he represents.” Hammoud has not yet decided whether he will vote for Biden. But he gets asked that nearly every day, and he knows he can only postpone the decision for so long. “The whole community wants to know, how do we all march together in one direction? … How do we demonstrate our power come November, and what are the trade-offs?” he said. “Because we also understand that a losing Biden is a winning Trump.” JoShuA LoTT/The WAShingTon PoST FROM TOP: Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, center, speaks to the media a day after the Michigan presidential primary in February. Hammoud, right, greets workers at the Papaya Fruit Market. People embrace as they listen to election results during a “Vote Uncommitted” event on the evening of Michigan’s primary. SARAh Rice FoR The WAShingTon PoST

KLMNO m ME onday, april TRO 29, 2024 eZ re b educatiOn as colleges close at a pace of one per week, what becomes of their students? b2 Virginia a driver is convicted in a 2022 crash that killed two students walking home from oakton high. b3 Obituaries Michael Cuscuna, 75, was a jazz historian and producer who scoured 68 archives for lost tracks. b5 ° 83° 89° 82° 8 a.m. noon 4 p.m. 8 p.m. high today at approx. 3 p.m. 91° Precip: 0% Wind: sW 6-12 mph 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 ongoing changes that school officials say could ease transportation issues. 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. Twentytwo percent will have the same start and end times. About 68 percent of the youngsters 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 shortages — which have affected school systems nationally for years — have led to “chronic lateness,” auditors 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 transportation audit. The audit recommended several changes, including altering bell times and increasing the distances between bus stops. House’s administration decided to adopt some of those recommendations. 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 anticipates 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 review 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 director. 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? sEE SCHOOLS ON B3 Pr. George’s school o∞cials finalize list of busing, bell changes BY KYLE SWENSON 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 the moldy parts, but they never patched the hole, shuford said. “That’s ridiculous,” said Jorge BenitezPerez, an organizer with CAsA, a community advocacy organization in Maryland, who had only minutes before knocked on shuford’s door. “And no rent discount? Can I ask how much you pay?” “$2,500,” shuford said. 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. Partially thanks to a temporary cap on increases passed by the County Council in 2023, rent has remained stable for shuford, 31, since he moved in. But that protection will expire in October, leaving many working-class renters like shuford possibly facing steep hikes in the coming year, even as they struggle with poor maintenance and unresponsive landlords. sEE RENT ON B4 A battle over rent in Pr. George’s Housing advocates and tenants want a permanent cap on increases as homelessness rises in the county PhoToS by Sarah L. VoiSin/The WaShingTon PoST 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 a temporary cap on increases passed by the County Council in 2023, his rent has remained stable. ABOVE: Housing activists canvass at Shuford’s complex, collecting signatures in support of a formal cap. Rent stabilization measures have become more common in counties across the D.C. region. BY OLIVIA DIAZ After Honeyhline Heidemann 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 children were not completely gone, despite multiple rounds of chemotherapy. she and her thenhusband 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 children without these embryos.” Now in 2024, with the couple divorced, the question of whether 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 court this month over two embryos 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. In a Fairfax Circuit Court bench trial, Judge Dontaè L. sEE EMBRYOS ON B3 Embryo access at center of Va. case Couple underwent iVF while married Judge must decide if embryos are ‘property’ BY SPENCER S. HSU A Utah man who recorded himself inciting violence and breaking a window before filming the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt outside the House chamber during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was sentenced Friday to six years in prison. 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 Congress’s certification of the 2020 election results, both felonies, and of five misdemeanor counts. Prosecutors said sullivan was a self-described activist with anarchist 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. Attorneys Rebekah Lederer and Michael Barclay said sullivan “shared a desire to see the government burn” and the vote certification stopped. Defense attorney steven Kiersh said sullivan was born in Virginia, was adopted by a nowretired Army lieutenant colonel and his wife, and moved with them to Utah, where he trained to be an Olympic speed skater before injuries stopped him. Kiersh cited more than a dozen letters from friends and family members who described sullivan sEE RIOTER ON B4 Six years for man who filmed Capitol riot Self-described activist incited violence and recorded fatal shooting

B2 eZ re the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 education next year and Eastern Gateway by June, unless it gets a financial bailout. The for-profit University of Antelope 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, Goddard 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 transferred there from Alderson Broaddus University in West Virginia, 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 continue their educations than students at colleges that gave more notice and ended operations in an “orderly” way, the SHEEO study found. Tatiana Hicks was at her laptop preparing for her final exams in the nursing program she attended at for-profit Stratford University 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 accreditation and was closing, effective immediately. Students had a month to get their transcripts, 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 experience of Misha Zhuykov, who ended his formal education when Burlington College in Vermont shut down during his junior year there. “There was always this ramshackle 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 accepted 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 education. “I didn’t really know what route to take,” she said. “Who do I contact?” The employer ultimately accepted the physical degree that she was handed when she walked at graduation. It triggered unwelcome memories. “I remember graduation and my last semester being gloomy,” said Ali, now 27 and living in Atlanta. She said Newbury’s closing came as a surprise. “They could have given us a warning.” How much difference a warning can make was evident at Presentation College in South Dakota, which — before announcing that it would close — contracted with the nonprofit College Possible to help its 384 remaining students continue their educations. Ninety percent of those last students either graduated before the college closed its doors for good or transferred to another institution, said Catherine Marciano, College Possible’s vice president 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 announcement,” said Paula Langteau, the last president of Presentation, who now works as a consultant 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 fading away. Woodbury University is being merged into the University of Redlands, and St. Augustine College in Chicago into Lewis University. The Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences was absorbed 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 institutions to report if they are entering bankruptcy or facing expensive legal judgments, and to set aside reserves to cover the cost of student loans if they go under. It’s also growing more important 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. lisA rAThke/AP BY JON MARCUS It was when the shuttle bus stopped coming that Luka Fernandes 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 system 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 Fernandes, who was a junior. “I was very angry.” The loans that students had taken out to pay the college weren’t forgiven, which Fernandes 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?” This and other questions are on the minds of more and more students this spring as the pace of college closings dramatically speeds up. About one university or college per week so far this year, on average, has announced that it will close or merge. That’s up from a little more than two a month last year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. So many colleges are folding that some students who moved from one to another have now found that their new school will 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 transfer to other institutions, a SHEEO study found. Of those, fewer than half stay long enough to get degrees. 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 number of Americans — now more than 40 million, according to the National Student Clearinghouse 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 hospital. “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 happen. 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 demand,” said Gary Stocker, a former chief of staff at Westminster College in Missouri and the founder of College Viability, which evaluates institutions’ financial stability. The closings follow 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, BirminghamSouthern College in Alabama, Fontbonne University in St. Louis and Eastern Gateway Community College in Ohio all announced that they would close — Birmingham-Southern in May, Fontbonne When colleges close, what happens to their students? Angelo Merendino for The WAshingTon PosT ABOVE: Notre Dame College in South Euclid, Ohio, will close its doors at the end of the year, stranding for a second time students who transferred there from Alderson Broaddus University in West Virginia, which shut down last year. RIGHT: The Manor House at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt. 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monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post eZ re B3 BY OLIVIA DIAZ A Virginia man was found guilty Wednesday in a 2022 car crash that killed two teens walking home from oakton High School, fairfax County authorities said. Usman Shahid, 20, was convicted on two counts of manslaughter 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 County 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 comment. The crash occurred shortly after oakton High let out on one of the last days of the school year, police said. The fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office said in a news release that on the morning of the crash, Shahid drove “significantly above the 35-mph speed limit” on Blake Lane in the oakton area. A crash expert in Shahid’s case testified that a data recorder suggested he accelerated from 60 mph to 81 mph on the roadway within five seconds before 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.” A sentencing hearing in the case is scheduled for July 19, officials said. Virginia Man is convicted in 2022 crash that killed two Oakton High students oMAri DAniels/the WAshington Post The scene of a crash at the intersection of Blake Lane and Five Oaks Road in Fairfax County in 2022 that left two teens dead and a third injured. The motorist was convicted on two counts of manslaughter. 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. Although Virginia law says that the court can “direct the sale” of property that cannot be divided, the American Society for reproductive medicine has deemed the sale of embryos unethical. 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-husband, 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 previously sparked public outcry when Judge richard E. Gardiner referenced a slavery-era law to overrule Jason Heidemann’s contention that the embryos are not covered under the state’s partition statute. In an opinion letter, Gardiner cited a 19th-century 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 couple testified. Since their 2018 divorce, Honeyhline Heidemann, 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 Honeyhline 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- “person,” “individual” or “human being” in their legal codes, according to Pregnancy Justice’s fetal personhood report. In february, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are people and said that those who destroy them can be held criminally liable. Since that Alabama ruling, multiple fertility clinics in the state have halted IVf treatments. Jason and Honeyhline Heidemann declined to be interviewed until after the trial is over. But in court, Jason Heidemann has argued that the embryos 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 what to do with them — either by court order or a written agreement between the two. In court, Honeyhline Heidemann 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 settlement. “But I care about my embryos.” The Heidemanns’ court battle comes amid a legal and ideological debate across the country involving the future of IVf and whether fetuses should be considered people. At least five states have defined fetuses as a 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 arguments in the case are scheduled for may 9, court records show. Honeyhline Heidemann’s attorney, Jason Zellman, argued that the embryos should be treated as property in light of a 2018 settlement agreement that the Heidemanns signed, which listed the embryos as such. Signed during their divorce, the settlement said that the Heidemanns would keep the embryos in storage until a decision is reached on EMBRYOS from B1 A Va. woman wants access to two frozen embryos. Her ex-husband says no. affected? Students enrolled in a magnet program will be affected by the same bell time shifts, Baldwin said. and staggered arrival of buses in the morning.” My child rides the bus to their magnet program. Will they be the school system anticipates that the changes would “improve the efficiency of support operations like our student meal programs” because they will “reduce the late school. Will it start at a different time? The school system didn’t directly say whether the hours would change. But Thornton said that dia and other methods. The school system is also hosting several community information sessions. Locations and dates can be found via pgcps.org/bus. Will my child’s bus stop change? Under the plan, the average distance between bus stops will increase 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 transportation 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,” Coleman 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 happens overnight.” The audit also included other recommendations that school leaders predict will take years to implement and refine. Will before and after care hours at school sites change? meghan Thornton, a spokeswoman 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 Currently, Prince George’s County Public Schools have 13 different starting times and 17 different 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 Elementary 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? A finalized plan was released Thursday. Parents of children whose schools will start at a different time next year received an alert about the change Thursday evening. School leaders will also share changes with parents through email, letters, social meSCHOOLS from B1 What to know about changing school bus service and bell times in Pr. George’s MiChAel A. MCCoy for the WAshington Post 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. S0115-6x1.25 washingtonpost.com/recipes Search our database of tested recipes by ingredient or name. Explore new cuisines twpprintsolutions.com State-of-the-art PRINTING. Impeccable RESULTS. How can we help YOU? M0036_6x3 A Division of The Washington Post Booklets • Brochures Posters • Flyers • Postcards Business Cards And More

B4 eZ re the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 Sullivan’s interests were mixed, said prosecutors, who called him an agent of anti-establishment chaos who shared the goal of attacking Congress and the presidential transition. Using personas including “JaydenX” and Insurgence U.S.A., Sullivan built a social media following of nearly 500,000 by posting protestrelated content after the 2020 police killing of George floyd. After he organized a July 2020 protest in Provo, Utah, that led to a motorist being shot, he was targeted by conservatives who believed he was a Black Lives matter activist, he said. Black Lives matter activists in Utah said Sullivan was not part of their group and urged protesters to avoid him as a troublemaker and riot chaser. In the winter of 2020, the government said Sullivan wrote in one social media post: “Let the electoral purge commence.” In another post on Jan. 2, 2021, he wrote: “Time To Burn It All Down.” At the Capitol he was recorded saying, “We’re taking this s--- to the ground” and “Let’s f--- this s--- up.” Sullivan grew up in Stafford, Va., about 45 miles from Washington. His brother James is a conservative activist who has denounced John’s liberal politics. The split between the brothers was the subject of an unaired documentary called “A House Divided” by Jade Sacker, who recorded both men in Washington. Some of Sacker’s video was shown at trial. agitator in the mob, as they have sought to direct attention away from what motivated the overwhelmingly pro-Trump crowd. more than 1,350 people have been charged, including nearly 500 accused of attacking police, 130 of whom were armed or caused injury. as “much different” than what the jury saw. The attorney wrote that Sullivan “led an admirable and a caring life in which he displayed a sense of responsibility, a commitment to his family, friends and community and an individual who tried to enhance the lives of those around him.” Since his conviction, Sullivan has been held in protective custody in virtual isolation at the D.C. jail, where authorities deemed that he held opposing political views and that housing him with other Jan. 6 defendants would be a “threat to his physical safety,” his lawyer said. Kiersh asked U.S. District Judge royce C. Lamberth for a 30-month sentence. Kiersh said Sullivan will appeal his conviction and sentencing. Because Sullivan expressed past support for the Black Lives matter movement, conservatives such as rudy Giuliani have claimed that he was a left-wing RIOTER frOm B1 Utah man incited violence at Capitol John earLe suLLiVan John Earle Sullivan, seen speaking to his online followers in 2020, described himself as an activist and expressed anarchist views. Hall knows firsthand how renters have been in a constant battle with management over the disconnect between the price they pay for rent and the housing quality 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, signatures are just the first step in sparking more political engagement 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 signatures. for now, they will keep knocking on doors, reaching out to as many communities as possible. At Heather Hill, raynard Dorsey, 51, pays $1,805 for a carpeted one-bedroom. He doesn’t have a washer and dryer. Calls for maintenance 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 sympathetic to the cause, Dorsey explained, but not sure about signing a petition that might put him at odds with the landlords. management 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. 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 disproportionately affected by rent hikes here, where despite pockets of affluence, 10 percent of residents live below the poverty line, according 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 services, said council member Krystal 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 washing machine was filling with dirty water, and his sink was overflowing regularly. “We have just had temporary rent stabilization at 3 percent, but we want to make this law permanent,” Benitez-Perez said to Shuford. “What do you think of that?” Shuford was silent for a moment. 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, Heather 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 conditions residents described. ‘Not a permanent solution’ rent stabilization measures have become increasingly common in counties across the D.C. region and beyond, as rents skyRENT frOm B1 Renters, housing advocates brace for fight in Pr. George’s sarah L. Voisin/the WashinGton Post 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. 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 organization working with formerly incarcerated people. “These partners coming together shows how dire protections on rent increases are,” Benitez-Perez said. Coalition volunteers have teamed up to go out each week to gather petition signatures from renters. They’ve also engaged people 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 daughter share a three-bedroom unit. ciation, which advocates on behalf of apartment building owners, also opposes rent control. “rent control distorts the housing market by acting as a deterrent and disincentive to develop rental housing, and expedites the deterioration of existing housing stock,” the association says on its website. Organizers concerned about affordable 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 Chair Jolene Ivey said in an interview. She warned that in a county where nearly 4 in every 10 residents 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 increase 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 measure. She added that in her recent conversations with local landlords, they have opposed a permanent 3 percent cap. The National Apartment Assorocketed during the pandemic. Last year, montgomery County passed a bill that would permanently cap rent increases at 6 percent 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 measure, concerned that area landlords 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 permanent solution. We can’t continue this way indefinitely,” Council “There is no way we can expect landlords to provide a service and maintain their properties with [the 3 percent cap] in place.” Jolene Ivey, chair of the Prince George’s County Council ATTENTION DEATH NOTICES CLIENTS: Death Notice placements on Sundays and federal holidays to be self-service only Starting May 1, 2024, The Washington Post Paid Death Notices Department will utilize a self-service only system on Sundays and federal holidays. There will not be any team members available to speak with on these days. As always, team members will be available during regular, non-holiday business hours Monday-Saturday. The deadline to place a death notice will remain 4pm on Sunday for a Monday insertion. The photo deadline for a Monday insertion is 1pm on Saturday. 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monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post eZ Re B5 obituaries BY BRIAN MURPHY Michael Cuscuna, a jazz historian 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 Grammywinning 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 medical problems, said his wife, Lisa Cuscuna. Since the 1970s, Mr. Cuscuna helped reissue recordings or find never-released music for hundreds of albums at Blue Note and Mosaic Records, a label he created in 1982 with a former Blue Note marketing executive, Charlie 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 JazzTimes 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 unissued 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 interviews and liner notes, hunted through old contracts and interviewed 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 Mosaic 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 recordings such as Monk’s jazz combo, the horns of Miles Davis and piano of Kenny Drew. Mr. Cuscuna also made another breakthrough find: the notebooks 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 staggering,” 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 mothballed by the label’s owner, EMI. Mr. Cuscuna and Lourie, now jobless, negotiated continued access to the Blue Note archives. With that agreement in hand, they launched Mosaic, specializing in limited-edition jazz box sets, along with companion essays 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 catalogue by reissuing albums from Blue Note and other labels. “The Complete Nat ‘King’ Cole Capitol Trio Recordings” (1993) won a Grammy Award for best historical 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 unhappy, 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 Lundvall. 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 Concert,” came after a jazz researcher, Larry Appelbaum, uncovered a recording of the Carnegie Hall concert at the Library of Congress. 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 albums as a freelancer for DownBeat magazine, Rolling Stone and others. In the recording industry, he became a freelance producer for labels including Atlantic, Motown and Arista, working on albums for musicians such as Dave Brubeck and Bonnie Raitt. While sorting through the Blue Note archives, Mr. Cuscuna wondered about the album covers. Where were the images not used? He learned there were at least 20,000 unpublished shots by Wolff stashed away. Mr. Cuscuna 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 statement following Mr. Cuscuna’s death. Survivors include his wife of 38 years, the former Lisa Podgur; two children; and two grandchildren. When asked about his efforts uncovering jazz’s past, Mr. Cuscuna often said the most rewarding part was musicians thanking him for giving their work another life. He described how drummer Elvin 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 player 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 enthusiasm of the artists who made the music was very important to me,” Mr. Cuscuna wrote. MiChael CusCuna, 75 Jazz historian and producer combed music vaults for forgotten gems BRIAN Ach/WIReImAGe foR NARAs/Getty ImAGes Jazz historian and producer Michael Cuscuna, seen in 2011 in New York, helped reissue recordings or find never-released music for hundreds of albums at Blue Note and Mosaic Records, a label he created in 1982 with a former Blue Note marketing executive. “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.” Michael Cuscuna, describing his experience with the Blue Note Records archives S0129-4x2.75 Retropolis Stories of the past, rediscovered. washingtonpost.com/retropolis DEATH NOTICE LIPMAN ESTHERMLIPMAN (Age 104) On Tuesday April 23, 2024. ESTHER M. LIPMAN of Chevy Chase, MD. Beloved wife of the late Rabbi Eugene Lipman, loving mother of Jonathan Lipman and David Lipman, also survived by four grandchildren (Avi Lipman, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Mia Lipman, Shira Cahn-Lipman) and four great grandchildren. Funeral service will be held at Temple Sinai, 3100 Military Rd., NW, Washington, DC on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. with a reception to follow. Interment will be private. Memorial contributions may be made to the Capital Area Food Bank or to the Rabbi Eugene Lipman Social Action and Tzedakah Fund at Temple Sinai. Arrangements entrusted to TORCHINSKY HEBREW FUNERAL HOME, 202-541-1001 DEATH NOTICE MCKOY AUGUSTUS JOSEPH MCKOY Augustus Joseph McKoy of Temple Hills, Maryland passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 20, 2024. He leaves to cherish his memory, a loving and devoted wife, Wilmarie M. McKoy; three children, April and Kevin McKoy and Darryl Stuckey (Delisa); eight grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at Ebenezer AME Church, 7707 Allentown Road, Fort Washington, Maryland from 10 a.m. until time of Funeral Service at 11 a.m. Interment Resurrection Cemetery, Clinton, Maryland. www.stricklandfuneralservices.com DEATH NOTICE DAHARSH EDITH DAVIS DAHARSH Edith Davis Daharsh left us on April 12, 2024, five days after our 34th wedding anniversary, she was 81. Edie was a hospice nurse for many years, she practised in Virginia and Maryland. Edie and Mike met at the Smithsonian Castle on a natural history hike led by geologist Jim O’Connor. A memorial service will be held in Northbrook, Illinois June 1, 2024. Donations in her memory may be made to Nature Forward. TROTTER GARY OWEN TROTTER (Age 82) A generous soul and kindred spirit, Dr. Trotter died at peace on March 24, 2024, after a prolonged illness. Devoted husband to Katherine, his wife of 60 years, loving father to his son, Alexander; and his daughter, Holly (John) Johnston; and beloved Baba to his three granddaughters, Loreena, Annika, and Sonja. Gary will be greatly missed by his family and his many lifelong friends. He was a man of letters, with a deep love of literature and the arts, a keen concern for the lives of others, and a uniquely penetrating wit and manner of expression. He graduated with distinction from Hofstra University in 1963 with a degree in English, served as an Army officer during the Vietnam era, and earned master’s and doctoral degrees in American Literature from SUNY Buffalo in 1979. Gary spent most of his life and career in Maryland, where he lived with his family and devoted 30 years to teaching classic and contemporary American literature and “the word and how it works” to his many students at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington, DC. Gary was also widely known in the academic community for his engaging teaching style at Hofstra as a recent graduate, at SUNY Buffalo as a graduate student, and in Maryland at community colleges, an art school, andaprison. With Gaudeamus igitur (So let us rejoice), his favorite graduation anthem of student joy despite the shortness of life, we bid farewell to a noble heart. The arrangements have been entrusted to the William E. Law Funeral Home in Massapequa, NY. 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B6 EZ RE The washingTon posT . monday, april 29, 2024 AVERAGE RECORD ACTUAL FORECAST PREVIOUS YEAR NORMAL LATEST <–10 –0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110+ T-storms Showers Snow Flurries IceRain Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front NATIONAL Today Tomorrow High Low Normal Record high Record low National Dulles BWI National Dulles BWI Today’s tides (High tides in Bold) WORLD Today Tomorrow Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air quality data); National Weather Service * AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature® combines over a dozen factors for an accurate measure of how the conditions really “feel.” Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain, sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice Solar systemMoon Phases NATION OFFICIAL RECORD Rise Set REGION Past 24 hours Total this month Normal Total this year Normal Richmond Norfolk Ocean City Annapolis Dover Cape May Baltimore Charlottesville Lexington Washington Virginia Beach Kitty Hawk Harrisburg Philadelphia Hagerstown Davis OCEAN: OCEAN: OCEAN: OCEAN: Temperatures Precipitation for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica Yesterday's National 84° 3:50 p.m. 56° 2:00 a.m. 72°/53° 92° 1957 33° 1898 85° 4:00 p.m. 53° 5:11 a.m. 71°/48° 88° 2021 32° 1972 86° 3:38 p.m. 52° 5:00 a.m. 71°/48° 90° 1957 33° 1998 Washington 12:20 a.m. 6:57 a.m. 12:23 p.m. 7:56 p.m. Annapolis 3:06 a.m. 10:01 a.m. 4:51 p.m. 10:01 p.m. Ocean City 6:22 a.m. 12:08 p.m. 6:11 p.m. none Norfolk 1:38 a.m. 8:09 a.m. 2:06 p.m. 8:05 p.m. Point Lookout 5:45 a.m. 1:19 p.m. 6:15 p.m. 11:45 p.m. 91° 67° 89° 65° 80° 59° 85° 60° 86° 58° 76° 58° Sun 6:12 a.m. 7:59 p.m. Moon 1:10 a.m. 10:06 a.m. Venus 5:53 a.m. 7:07 p.m. Mars 4:37 a.m. 4:33 p.m. Jupiter 6:58 a.m. 9:06 p.m. Saturn 4:08 a.m. 3:29 p.m. May 1 Last Quarter May 7 New May 15 First Quarter May 23 Full Trace 2.06" 2.97" 14.24" 12.05" Trace 1.60" 3.21" 12.94" 12.36" 0.00" 3.20" 3.15" 17.35" 13.25" Blue Ridge: Today, sunny much of the time. High 71 to 79. Winds southwest 6–12 mph. Tonight, partly cloudy. Low 54 to 58. Winds southwest 6–12 mph. Tuesday, a thunderstorm in spots; a couple of showers, a thunderstorm in northern parts. High 64 to 72. Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly sunny, warm. High 75 to 87. Winds southwest 6–12 mph. Tonight, clear to partly cloudy. Low 59 to 63. Winds south–southwest 7–14 mph. Tuesday, partly sunny. A thunderstorm in the north; very warm in the south. High 74 to 87. Pollen: High Grass High Trees High Weeds Low Mold Low UV: Very High 9 out of 11+ Air Quality: Moderate Dominant cause: Ozone 90/61 87/62 77/61 84/64 83/62 74/61 92/65 92/63 92/56 84/62 78/61 90/65 89/62 88/63 78/55 91/67 54° 52° 57° 58° Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly sunny. Wind south–southwest 4–8 knots. Waves less than a foot. Visibility clear. • Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly sunny. Wind south 6–12 knots. Waves 0–1 foot on the Lower Potomac; 1–2 feet on the Chesapeake Bay.• River Stages: The stage at Little Falls will be around 3.80 feet today, falling to 3.70 Tuesday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet. 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(National): this month: +1.6° yr. to date: +3.2° High: McAllen, TX 97° Low: Dakota Hill, CO 19° World High: Magway, Myanmar 115° Low: Gjoa Haven, Canada –15° Weather map features for noon today. WIND: SW 6–12 mph HUMIDITY: Moderate CHNCE PRECIP: 0% FEELS*: 95° W: H: P: FEELS: 90° SW 7–14 mph Moderate 65% W: H: P: FEELS: 85° NW 3–6 mph Moderate 85% W: H: P: FEELS: 85° ESE 6–12 mph Moderate 10% W: H: P: FEELS: 86° S 7–14 mph Moderate 25% W: H: P: FEELS: 75° W 4–8 mph Moderate 60% A hot start to the workweek Upper 80s to low 90s could tie or beat area record-high temperatures — 91 degrees is the mark for April 29 at Reagan National Airport. Skies look sunny until mid- to late afternoon. That’s when there is a slim chance of seeing a few thunderstorms. If any storms develop, one or two could have brief hail or a strong wind gust. Overnight, skies are mainly clear and summerlike temperatures merely get down to within a few degrees of 65. The Weather washingTonposT.c om/weaTher . 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KLMNO monday, april 29, 2024 Style eZ Re C 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 WHItE HoUSE CoRRESPoNDENtS’ DINNER On your marks, guest lists, GO! Three up-and-coming D.C. players navigate the obstacle course ofaweekend amanda andRade-RhoadeS FoR the WaShington PoSt tieRney L. CRoSS FoR the WaShington PoSt amanda andRade-RhoadeS FoR the WaShington PoSt CLoCKwise FroM top: actress scarlett Johansson and her husband, Colin Jost, the comedian who hosted the annual white House correspondents’ dinner. anthony polcari, the content creator who’s best known as tony p. actress Da’vine Joy randolph. BY MICHAEL ANDOR BRODEUR NEW YORK — Tisn’t remotely the season, but the Metropolitan opera’s colorful new production of John Adams’s “el niño” is good reason to celebrate Christmas in May. Adams premiered “el niño” in 2000 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, a production directed by Peter sellars, who also worked with the composer to assemble the variegated mosaic of its libretto. At once an opera and an oratorio (and yet not quite either), “el niño” is structured in a sequence of 24 parts that move freely between familiar episodes from the nativity and selections from Latin American poets, including the 17th-century poet sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and the 20th-century poets Rosario Castellanos and Gabriela Mistral. An orderly progression of narration, arias and choral passages lend its sometimes-alien soundscape a welcoming shape. sometimes these texts deepen the personal drama of the nativity as well as the physical toll of motherhood — as when Mary sings (in “se Habla de Gabriel”) of her pregnancy “I felt him grow at my expense” and “steal the color from my blood.” other texts widen the frame of the story itself, as in Rosario Castellanos’s see opera review on C8 oPERA REvIEW ‘El Niño’ at the Met paints the Nativity on a grand scale BY MAURA JUDKIS, KARA VOGHT, JESÚS RODRÍGUEZ AND BEN TERRIS T here was a bit of a snafu atthe entrance of Thursday’sAxios/Livenationbash, one of the many parties held in the run-up to the White House correspondents’ dinner. ¶ “He’s not on the list,” said a woman scrolling an iPad, looking for the name Anthony Polcari — best known as Tony P, the social media content creator known for his 25-year-old normal-guy-in-D.C. shtick. ¶ “He’s my plus-one!” said Pete Kalamoutsos, owner of themusic venue echostage.Withinmoments,it wasdetermined that Tony Pshould,in fact, be on thelist.Hewas givenawristband and whisked inside theorganization of Americanstates, immediately encircled by a throng of selfie-seekers. ¶ The White House correspondents’ dinner weekend may be old and past its prime—butit’s still a hotticketfor young, ambitious people who do business in this company town. ¶ Like eugene Daniels, Politico White House correspondent and co-author of Playbook, who is the vice president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. or Annie Wu Henry, the political consultant perhaps best known for running Pennsylvania sen. John Fetterman’s TikTok game during his 2022 campaign. or Tony P, who is hoping to eventually parlay the popularity of his relentlessly wholesome video diaries into an actual TV career. see parties on C2 A roast with no punchline: President Biden spoke seriously on Saturday of the 2024 presidential race. C3 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 notincompatible concerns. 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 Monica Hesse

C2 eZ Re the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 der. the room ooooohed as his husband, nate Stephens, hid away the strap of daniels’s Skims bodysuit. outside, they could hear the growing chants of a big antiwar protest, a throng of more than 100 wearing kaffiyehs, some wearing fake blood. “We were anticipating it,” daniels says. “i mean, they go everywhere Biden goes. they’re honoring 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 connecticut 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 champagne-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 Hilton, 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 dinner, but, you know …” T ony p avoids the whole thing by coming in through a different entrance. He mugs for the cameras on the red carpet (“exhilarating. exhilarating!”) before heading down to the Bloomberg cocktail hour. despite his masterful networking — he has already made contact with the bookers for several networks, as well as several White House and campaign staffers — tony is feeling a funny combination of awe and insecurity. He’s actually here, on the inside, telling rocha, in a frothy pink confection of a dress, that she looks “exquisite. exquisite!” “i don’t even get why people like me,” he had said a night earlier, in a moment of vulnerability. “i always ask myself why.” He reminds himself: “i’m invited to the party. Senators like me. reporters like me. if they like me, continued on next page partygoers, she makes a distinction between the two. “Someone last night said like, ‘Well, you must be important because 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.” O n Saturday, hours before he would sit on the Hilton ballroom’s dais next to Vice president Harris, daniels is hosting his own party. in his suite at the Hilton, he and several politico colleagues are passing around bottles 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 shouland the embassy of Qatar. Business 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 mocktail at party thrown by the united talent agency, where she’s a client. She had just co-hosted a threecourse 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 taylor Swift’s publicist), and journalist mehdi Hasan (the only person she really wanted to meet). Someone pulls her away to introduce her to Kevin munoz, a Biden campaign spokesman. “isn’t that what we’re here for?” Henry says, but then quickly clarifies. “i’m not here to network, but i’ll say hi to people.” unlike some embassy that he would film content from their after-party at the ambassador’s residence. But his goals weren’t just about menswear and party tickets. He had recently left his consulting gig to become an influencer full time, but that was just a stopover 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 weekend 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 Scarlett,” — 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 parties: the nBc party at the residence 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 everything, including the dinner itself, as a guest of Bloomberg. this is tony p’s first White House correspondents’ dinner weekend, and he approaches 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 estate.” His suits — four of them plus a tuxedo — had been provided by a sponsor in exchange for his posting about the brand. He also had an agreement with the french 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, giving the up-and-comers and social climbers their moment in the room with the moneyed old guard, sorting the passersby and lookyloos from those who have something to offer, something to trade. after a turn on the step-and-repeat with Kalamoutsos, tony p was whisked upstairs, champagne in hand, to a roped-off Vip area, where he mingled with party doyenne and consultant tammy Haddad and axios ceo Jim VandeHei. 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 somehow 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 outsider — 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 spreadsheet with all 12 events she was going to, with each event’s duration, location and travel time between 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 her. a Biden campaign spokeswoman she knew from her work with rep. alexandria ocasio-cortez (d-n.Y.), axios reporters, fellow content creators, others who worked in democratic politics. even if they don’t know her, they know her social media feeds, and say she does such amazing work. ‘I f you’re getting invited to a bunch of cool parties, embassies, and all that kind of stuff, just remember, it is your job and your title, and your news organization 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’ association scholarships for aspiring 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-hopping, with eight major events happening all across town — the networking olympics. daniels began his night at crooked media’s party at the downtown restaurant grazie 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 democratic establishment, but the establishment nonetheless. daniels found himself speaking with White House communications director Ben LaBolt and dean Lieberman, deputy national security adviser to the vice president. the exchange on their end was friendly, 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, referencing Saturday’s two elite afterPARTIES from C1 3 D.C. hopefuls, 1 packed weekend KyLe gusTAfson foR The WAshingTon PosT AmAndA AndRAde-RhoAdes foR The WAshingTon PosT 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. TieRney L. CRoss foR The WAshingTon PosT TieRney L. CRoss foR The WAshingTon PosT AmAndA AndRAde-RhoAdes foR The WAshingTon PosT

monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post EZ Su C3 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 Lorax.” 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 gathering of reporters and their subjects morphed into the “Nerd prom” about 35 years ago — a red carpet extravaganza where news organizations battle to host administraa “decent” man who Jost said reminds him of his beloved grandfather, a staten island firefighter. 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 mastercrowned co-chair of the republican National Committee. Her father-in-law wasn’t in the building, but comic impressionist matt friend emerged from the crowd with a Trump impersonation — as well as sendups of Bernie sanders, 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 puppies,” 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-monthold dog because she was “untrainable” 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 Kelly 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, AMAndA AndRAdE-RHoAdES FoR THE WASHingTon PoST BonniE CASH/Pool/EPA-EFE/SHuTTERSToCK BY ROXANNE ROBERTS There were some 2,600 people at saturday’s White House Correspondents’ 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 typically 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-Lago. 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 president 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 immunity 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 Washington’s political media, it was a special occasion. The correspondents’ dinner is ostensibly a playful celebration of the codependent relationship between Washington politicians and reporters who spend the rest of the year covering them and deadly serious issues: Trump’s legal trials, looming uncertainty about what will happen in November (and beyond), the ukraine war, the israel-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 genocide!” and confronting guests arriving to the dinner in their tuxedos and gowns. some attendees were followed by tight circles of protesters yelling “shame!” inches 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 imprisoned 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 uyghurs. and they yelled louder. and then i went inside.” olivia Nuzzi, a political reporter for New York magazine, got off a presidential zinger of her own: “i can’t hear a thing in here — i feel like Biden.” Biden’s own zingers were directed almost entirely at his opponent. “Trump’s so desperate, he started reading those Bibles he’s selling,” the president said. “Then he Biden laughed, but he made clear that Trump is no joke 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 dispensed with the yuks and pivoted to what felt like a stump speech about the clear and present danger posed by Trump and his movement. He called on the journalists in the room to report “truth over lies.” He implored them to move past the election horse race stories and focus on american democracy. “The stakes couldn’t be higher,” he said. No punchline. officially, the evening is nonpartisan, and the only toast of the night goes to the sitting president, regardless of party affiliation. unofficially, the dinner has always been perceived as a hotbed of Washington elites who lean left, regardless of media affiliation. 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 following years and even counterprogrammed 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-discreet 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-inlaw Lara Trump, recently MAnuEl BAlCE CEnETA/AP “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 tion officials, Hollywood a-listers, 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 ringwald, 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 category — 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 accountability went to The Washington post for coverage on the impact of assault rifles and mass shootings. The evening ended, as it always does: with an impassioned defense of democracy and the critical 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. 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. 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 opportunities. Who knows what will happen after the party ends. But tonight, at least, he’s in. tary of Commerce gina raimondo. “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 translation: “How do you say, ‘i don’t speak french, but i want to learn.’” (He approximated part of the phrase, in his Boston accent. “Exactement,” said ambassador Laurent 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 upgether, arms wrapped around one another. “You know, you’re going to have to get used to this,” Johansson says, hugging him. “You’re fabulous.” 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 higheststakes 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 secrefrench ambassador’s residence is bathed in the rainbow colors of NBC’s logo and servers walk through the crowd holding massive trays of shellfish, Daniels stands in the foyer and finds himself 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 toshe 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 making 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 staffer and her friend, political strategist rina shah, clears up the misunderstanding. 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 husband. over in Kalorama, where the i’m good.” Tony p air-kisses Haddad and makes his way even further inside, to the dinner, where Daniels is chatting with the vice president and CBs News senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang. (Later, at the NBC party, neither will say what they and Harris talked about. Daniels: “she’s actually very funny.” Jiang: “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. from previous page A journalist, an influencer and a consultant walk into D.C.’s biggest party. . .

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Help National LEGEND: Bold indicates new or live programs + High Definition Movie Ratings (from TMS) ++++ Excellent +++ Good ++ Fair + Poor No stars: not rated television andrew HarnIk/aP Express, a mall staple, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company announced that it would be closing 95 stores nationwide, representing about a fifth of the total retail locations. 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 school for 16 years, and there were fancy clothes, like what would be worn to a prom — and then there was a whole murky middle, a class of clothes that young adult women were expected to know how to navigate, and those clothes could be purchased at Express. The aesthetic of the Express pants was not high fashion but high assimilation. It was shopping-as-handholding, an assurance that you and millions of other young women were in it together, even if you were still figuring it out. The store in my nearest mall isn’t one of the ones that will be closing, but I went there a few days ago anyway, to soak up the vibe and to commune with the pants. formerly a loyal customer, I hadn’t been inside wear, or with Steve madden 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 internship and never had the heart to get rid of. Express was not selling you HESSE from C1 work in television, and Lara would move to London, and Anne would become a teacher in maine and then return to our 15-year reunion with the most perfect redheaded son. That was all years away, though. In that moment, what we had was each other, and our whole lives ahead of us, and our shoddy wardrobes that would now make us cringe with embarrassment. And sometimes when you think about that time in your life — how you had to bravely keep walking forward with no idea of what the future held — sometimes it fills you with such tenderness for your dumb past self, for everything you walked through and the pants you wore while doing it. an Express in years — which might indicate why the company is going bankrupt, or might just indicate that the store isn’t for me anymore. But standing among the pants, I had the strongest memory of a night I’d completely forgotten: my college friends and I getting ready for a networking fair. We barely knew what networking was. We moved from dorm room to dorm room, seeking each other’s advice on shoes and résumé formatting. Somehow, I had acquired an attaché case, which seemed like a very professional thing to carry, even if it was empty inside. Ahmara told me it was, anyway, and she would go on to get a joint mD and PhD, and Jo would go on to Brandon Bell/getty Images Monica Hesse Express has filed for bankruptcy. Don’t pretend you never shopped there. Express was not selling you pants alone. Express was selling you pants that imagined a whole life.

monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post EZ RE C5 BY MICHAEL ANDOR BRODEUR When Terence Blanchard premiered “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 company’s 138-year history. Though, as Blanchard made a point to mention from the stage at Strathmore on Friday night, he certainly wasn’t the first to qualify. “Fire” was widely hailed (including by me) as a success, not least of all for its boundary-bending 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), embedding 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 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 opportunity at Strathmore on Friday to hear the opera (or large swaths of it) in the more concentrated, focused 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 baritone and most recent Marian Anderson Vocal Award winner Justin Austin, and the powerful soprano Adrienne Danrich. Blanchard opened with two selections from “Absence,” his most recent album with the E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet, recorded in tribute to the late saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter. It was a bracing introduction to his band — guitarist Charles Altura, pianist Taylor Eigsti, bassist Dale Black Jr. (filling in for David Ginyard Jr.) and longtime Blanchard collaborator, drummer Oscar Seaton Jr. This opening gambit also introduced the lone issue that would haunt the evening — the sound itself. The onstage mix of acoustic and amplified instruments necessitated the use of microphones, and the muddled mix was often a betrayal of Strathmore’s usually pristine acoustics. The full drum kit and the (albeit pleasing) bass often swallowed the Turtle Island players whole, lending unintentional novelty to their sporadic emergences from the din (like the staccato passages that bookend “I Dare You.” And the singers — both powerhouses with no need of help from the sound system — had to put in some visible work to mitigate the mix. When balance was achieved onstage, Blanchard’s band hit hard. Altura’s solos were lithe, tasteful and tasty and Seaton’s drumming was explosively expressive (even taking to the hardware now and then). Blanchard’s trumpet — run through a line of effects — left behind a comet trail of delay, its sound seeming to double itself. These opening jams bordered on psychedelic (an effect aided by large projections of vibrant abstractions by artist Andrew F. Scott), but the trip felt soundly mapped. (Another album track, “Chaos,” served as an unofficial encore and energizing send-off at the evening’s close.) After this, the Turtle Island players — Balakrishnan and Gabriel Terracciano on violins, Benjamin von Gutzeit on viola and Naseem Alatrash on cello — ushered in the “Fire” suite, beautifully concentrating a tangle of anguished themes before Austin’s striking opening aria, “Tears of Anger and Shame.” It’s not an easy one — Charles comes in hot, and so must the singer. Austin knows how to balance force and frailty in his voice to bold dramatic effect, without ever sacrificing his careful control. His counterpart, the soprano Adrienne Danrich, was the standout performance of the evening, a singer of unusual might. She inhabited multiple characters, capturing the love and loss of motherhood for bookend arias as OpeRa Review Reduced ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ turns up heat Charles’s mother, Billie, embodying the growing apprehensions of his short-term lover Greta, and bringing exquisite sensitivity (and titular fire) to the opera’s magnificent centerpiece, “Peculiar Grace.” Musically, the suite is cleverly orchestrated and arranged, with casually seamless transitions guiding one aria into the next, and themes granted more intimate articulation across the combined ensembles. But perhaps the most pronounced effect of this new arrangement is the way it showcases Blanchard’s facility not only with emotional extremes, but also with the charged ambivalence between them — so crucial to understanding Charles as he moves between the magnetic fields of identity. Onstage, Blanchard is most clearly doing his respective thing when trailing behind his trumpet, his searing lines suggesting something between authorship and abandon. But the “Fire” suite reveals the composer’s emotional acumen and hotblooded humanity. It’s a fire that burns brighter each time I hear it. Jim Saah Soprano Adrienne Danrich and trumpeter Terence Blanchard. DISTRICT AMC Georgetown 14 3111 K Street N.W. 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Challengers (R) OC: 9:20; 3:30-6:25 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) CC: 4:15-7:45-10:00 Boy Kills World (R) OC: 6:35 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 3:45-7:10-9:25 Unsung Hero (PG) OC: 6:15 Abigail (R) CC: 4:10-7:00-9:40 Spirited Away - Studio Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00 Alien Day 45th Anniversary Re-Release 3:45-6:30 Ruslaan 4:40-7:00 Spider-Man 3 (2007) (PG-13) CC: 7:00-10:10 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 4:00-7:30 Civil War (R) CC: 5:05-6:45-9:20 Challengers (R) CC: 4:10-7:10- 10:15 Dune: Part Two: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) CC: 6:05-9:40 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 4:40-9:45 Late Night with the Devil (R) CC: 7:40-10:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) CC: 4:00-7:40-10:20 Boy Kills World (R) CC: 4:05-9:10 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 3:30-4:35- 7:10-9:00-9:45 The Beast (La bête) 4:00-6:15 We Grown Now (PG) CC: 4:00- 6:30-9:00 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) CC: 4:20-7:00-9:45 The First Omen (R) CC: 4:50-9:50 Sasquatch Sunset (R) CC: 10:30 Civil War: The IMAX Experience (R) CC: 3:30 Monkey Man (R) CC: 4:10- 7:20-9:15 Dancing Village: The Curse Begins 7:00 Shrek 2 - 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Studio Ghibli Fest 2024 (PG) 7:00 The Mummy 25th Anniversary Re-Release (PG-13) OC: 4:00 Spider-Man 3 (2007) (PG-13) CC: 7:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 12:15-4:05-7:40 Civil War (R) CC: 11:55-2:40- 5:25-8:10 Challengers (R) CC: 12:10- 3:20-6:30 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 1:55- 4:35-7:10 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) CC: 1:45-7:45 Boy Kills World (R) CC: 2:05-4:55 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 2:50 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 2:10- 5:10-8:05 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) CC: 1:20-4:10 The First Omen (R) CC: 4:15 Civil War: The IMAX Experience (R) CC: 1:05 Monkey Man (R) CC: 1:35- 4:50-7:50 Challengers: The IMAX Experience (R) CC: 4:20-7:30 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 3D (PG-13) CC: 4:45 The Mummy 25th Anniversary Re-Release (PG-13) CC: 1:00 Alien Day 45th Anniversary Re-Release 1:10-7:15 AMC Worldgate 9 13025 Worldgate Drive Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 4:45-8:30 Civil War (R) CC: 5:00-7:45 Challengers (R) CC: 4:00-7:00- 9:00 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 3:30-6:30 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) CC: 5:15-8:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) CC: 3:45-6:00 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 4:30 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 4:45-7:30 Abigail (R) CC: 5:30-8:15 Monkey Man (R) CC: 8:45 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 7:15 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - One Loudoun 20575 East Hampton Plaza Spider-Man 3 (2007) (PG-13) 7:00 Civil War (R) 11:30-2:35-3:30- 5:40-7:30-8:50-9:55-10:50 Challengers (R) 12:00-12:45- 3:30-7:45-10:40 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 11:00-1:00-4:25- 6:15-11:10 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 12:00-2:05-9:05 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 3:00 Sasquatch Sunset (R) 11:15AM Monkey Man (R) 5:35 Alien Day 45th Anniversary Re-Release 2:20-4:10-6:00-9:25 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 11:45-6:45-9:40 Abigail (R) 12:15-3:15-6:30-9:50 Angelika Film Center Mosaic 2911 District Ave Civil War (R) 12:00-3:05-5:35-8:10 Challengers (R) 1:15-2:15-4:15- 5:15-7:15-8:00 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 12:15-2:30-5:10-7:55 Coup de chance (PG-13) 12:00-6:00 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 12:30-3:00-5:30-8:00 Wicked Little Letters (R) 1:00-3:30 We Grown Now (PG) 1:00-3:15- 5:30-7:45 Sasquatch Sunset (R) 8:15 Abigail (R) 12:35-3:10-5:35-8:05 CMX Village 14 1600 Village Market Boulevard Arthur the King (PG-13) 2:45 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 12:00- 3:35-7:10 Civil War (R) 12:05-2:00-4:40-7:20 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:15- 5:20-7:45 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 1:40-4:35-7:25 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 2:10-4:55-7:40 Boy Kills World (R) 2:20-5:05-8:00 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 1:10-3:55-6:40 Unsung Hero (PG) 12:30-1:30- 3:15-4:15-6:00-7:00 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 12:50-3:40-6:20 Abigail (R) 2:40-5:15-7:55 The Mummy 25th Anniversary Re-Release (PG-13) 1:00-4:00 Alien Day 45th Anniversary Re-Release 7:05 Cinema Arts Theatre 9650 Unit 14 Main St. Civil War (R) 9:45-12:05-2:20- 4:40-7:20 Challengers (R) 10:00-1:00- 4:00-7:10 The Long Game (PG) 9:55-12:20 Coup de chance (PG-13) 9:50- 12:15-2:25-4:45-7:15 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 5:05 One Life (PG) 2:30-4:45 Cabrini (PG-13) 7:00 Wicked Little Letters (R) 9:40- 12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30 The Last Bumblebee 7:15 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 9:45-12:10-2:35 Cinemark Centreville 6201 Multiplex Drive The Mummy (1999) (PG-13) 3:45-9:55 Civil War (R) 2:20-5:05-7:50-10:10 Challengers (R) 1:10-4:20-7:30 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:35-4:05 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 1:30-4:25-7:20-10:15 Unsung Hero (PG) 1:20-4:10- 7:00-9:50 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 9:25 Abigail (R) 6:40 Rathnam 2:00-8:00 Dancing Village: The Curse Begins 1:00-5:10-8:20 Alien Day 45th Anniversary Re-Release 2:10-6:50 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 3:25 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 12:30-3:30-5:15- 6:30-9:30 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 12:35 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 7:10 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 7:40-10:35 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 2:30-5:20-8:10 Abigail (R) 2:05-4:55-10:05 Cinemark Fairfax Corner and XD 11900 Palace Way The Mummy (1999) (PG-13) 4:10-10:10 Civil War (R) 1:05-3:50-9:20 Challengers (R) 12:20-3:30- 9:50-10:00 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:00- 2:30-5:00 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 12:45-3:45-9:55 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 1:00-4:00-10:15 Boy Kills World (R) 1:40-4:30- 10:20 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 12:50 Unsung Hero (PG) 12:00-2:50- 5:40 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 12:40-7:05 Abigail (R) 2:05-4:50-10:30 Monkey Man (R) 3:40-10:05 Dancing Village: The Curse Begins 3:25-10:15 Shrek 2 - 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C6 EZ RE the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 BREWSTER ROCKIT: SPACE GUY! TIM RICKARD CURTIS RAY BILLINGSLEY SHERMAN’S LAGOON JIM TOOMEY RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE LIO MARK TATULLI HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER AGNES TONY COCHRAN WUMO MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE SUDOKU NORTH (D) ♠ K 6 4 ♥ 5 3 2 ♦ A Q 10 8 3 ♣ K 10 WEST ♠ Q J 10 8 7 ♥ A 7 4 ♦ 7 ♣ J 6 5 3 EAST ♠ 9 2 ♥ J 9 8 6 ♦ K 6 4 ♣ Q 9 8 2 SOUTH ♠ A 5 3 ♥ K Q 10 ♦ J 9 5 2 ♣ A 7 4 The bidding: “The Time Travel Club will 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 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 diamonds 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. 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 diamonds. 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), South is sure of at least nine tricks. DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ K 6 4 ♥ 5 3 2 ♦ 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 reach 3NT, the cheaper ninetrick 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. N-S VULNERABLE NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 1 ♦ Pass 2 NT Pass 3 NT All Pass Opening lead — ♠ Q BRIDGE ©2024, TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC. — Frank Stewart

monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post EZ RE C7 PREVIOUS SCRABBLEGRAMS SOLUTION PREVIOUS SUDOKU SOLUTION SPEED BUMP DAVE COVERLY DENNIS THE MENACE H. KETCHAM FAMILY CIRCUS BIL KEANE REPLY ALL LITE DONNA A. LEWIS PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER BEETLE BAILEY GREG, BRIAN & NEAL WALKER BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE FLASH GORDON DAN SCHKADE LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK ZITS JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN GARFIELD JIM DAVIS NON SEQUITUR WILEY MUTTS PATRICK McDONNELL HEART OF THE CITY STEENZ FRAZZ JEF MALLETT More online: washingtonpost.com/comics. Feedback: 1301 K St. NW, Washington, D.C., 20071; [email protected]; 202-334-4775. 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. 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 (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 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 way to begin your week. Five 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 expressed in practical ways. 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, 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 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. 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. BIRTHDAY | APRIL 29 — Georgia Nicols © 2024, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC. HOROSCOPE

C8 EZ rE the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 This isn’t somethingIwant 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 [email protected]. get her column delivered to your inbox each morning at wapo.st/gethax. Join the discussion live at noon fridays at washingtonpost.com/livechats. 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. 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, soIlike to crack jokes. She hates this and says I’m 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 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 imposearule, “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 Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: I found out that my partner was lying to me about talking to exgirlfriends 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. After he lied, he gave me the passcode to his phone. But now it’s always with him. Carolyn Hax illuSTrATiON by NiCk gAlifiANAkiS fOr ThE WAShiNgTON pOST BY TREY GRAHAM Things to knowaboutthemusical “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 thinning there — but inescapably, infuriatingly winning, too, what with the snuggle-puppies vibe of its hippie-commune characters and the undertone of existential confusion that shades and deepens the best of the sunny-with-achance-of-apocalypse tunes. Set aside for a moment the macro-issue sociopolitical echoes that could maybe, if negotiated brilliantly, make a 2024 production of this Vietnam-era protest musical seem fresh as a flowerin a reservist’s rifle barrel:I turned up for the opening of Signature Theatre’s staging just off a conversation 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 individual adolescents is what registered most with me this time around. So thoroughly of its time are the show’s once-radical specifics —it’s allin on freelove, psychedelic drugs, and men figuring out that omG, they can like each other — that it really has no business working anymore.Yetin an America whose kids seem uncertain about their place and almost frantically eager to find better ways of being in the world, matthew Gardiner’s exuberant and openhearted 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’ 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 measures up, too, with costumes by Kathleen Geldard so apt they might be made entirely of hemp and patchouli, plus a jam-packed set (by Paige Hathaway) that compresses 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 likeashared hallucination unfolding inside one of Peter max’s lunchbox radios. 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 pastiche numbers that don’t earn their time onstage. (Looking at you, sneering satire of flag-waving yokels, and maybe even you, uninspired riff on federal agencies with imposing initials.) That these hang like solo clothespins upon the barest line of plot — will the sensitive but hardlyiconoclastic 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. So even in a first-class commercial 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 connection that’s probably been missed but might still be just possible; and “I Got Life,”awan 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, sensational — bendy, bouncy, bountiful in every shape and shade imaginable, in sync and on point and eager to connect as they move throughAshleighKing’s vivacious choreography, bright-visaged and sly-eyed and justjoyously 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. thEatEr rEviEw Though messy, ‘Hair’ can still be fun and relevant in 2024 ChriSTOphEr muEllEr 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. 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 delicate 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 performance, was in fabulous form, wellattuned to the rhythmic demands of the score, and easily maintaining the sheen of its more abstract passages. Clusters of dancers sometimes emerged from the chorus, choreographer marjani forté-Saunders filling in the oratorio’s occasional blanks with fluid, 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 emotional arc. If anything, “El Niño” indulges in deep abstraction, as well as a distance that feels (appropriately) liturgical. BlainCruz’s immersive vision collapses the distance between heaven and earth, and it feels likeasmall miracle. El Niño runs at the metropolitan Opera through may 17. metopera.org. sized the crisp, scintillating spray of strings, harps and guitar at the oratorio’s outset. She effectively A trio of countertenors, Key’mon W. murrah, Siman Chung and Eric Jurenas, filled several roles: They were narrators. 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 favorite), but they were most effective when bound in Adams’s sleek harmonies. Leading the metropolitan opera orchestra, conductor marin Alsop (making her met debut with this production) empha- (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 “Golden mary”—elegantly (and adventurously) adorned by costume designer montana Levi Blanco. The softness and vulnerability of Bullock’s voice cloaks its steely force, especially present in “memorial 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, especially in Castellanos’s “La Anunciación,” atop a tempest of woodwinds 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 Heavens” 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 military regalia and wearing an ashgray face, he was contemptuous and sinister. His rich, smoky baritone anchored duets with Bullock, who here and there struggled with some of Adams’s more demanding vocal leaps. 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 naturalism. 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 vaginal apparition haunts Joseph in a dream. Not all of these visual bells and whistles worked. Puppeteers maneuvering the illuminated figure of a young girl holding a star in her hand struggled to keep her head from flickering out.A towering statue of Herod — that doubled as a carriage for his arrival — felt too cumbersome and silly for its payoff. And a center-stage conveyor belt served several expository 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 favorite). 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 multiples. In addition to a “mary of the Land” (sung by soprano Julia Bullock) and a “mary of the Sea” “memorial de Tlatelolco,” which Adams employs to relate Herod’s edict to slaughter Bethlehem’s children with the brutal suppression of student protesters in a 1968 massacre in mexico City. These outside texts serve to both ground the Nativity in contemporary experience while liberating it from doctrine — or faith, even. more than anything, this “El Niño” is a feast for the eyes — a radiant vision from director Lileana 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 adaptation 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 helplessly anemic against the visual volume of the staging. Trees glide in from the wings and descend from the skies, clumps of handpainted flora bloom in the corners, long sheets of blue satin become the waves of a surging sea, shooting stars streak overhead. The vibe is both grand and naive; at times, the set feels like an exploded diorama. Projected textures lend the enopEra rEviEw from C1 ’Tis not yet the season, but ‘El Niño’ is a vibrant reason to celebrate at the Met EvAN ZimmErmAN/mETrOpOliTAN OpErA Mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, foreground at left, and soprano Julia Bullock, at right, in a new Met production of “El Niño.” More than anything, this “El Niño” is a feast for the eyes — a radiant vision from director Lileana Blain-Cruz.

nba playoffs despite lettinga31-point lead vanish, the Clippers hold on for a game 4 win over the Mavericks. D6 pro basketball Candace Parker retires after 16 seasons in the WNBa yielded two MVP awards and three titles. D2 KLMNO SPOR monday, april 29, 2024 TS Su D toM BreNNer/aSSoCiated PreSS 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. 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 The NFL draft began with a whirlwind of offense and an 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 In the draft, Falcons fumble, while the Chiefs simply reload on the nFl adam Kilgore BY SAM FORTIER Adam Peters didn’t fix everything in one offseason. But maybe most importantly, given the past 25 years, the Washington Commanders’ 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 evena playoff spot may be tough — many sportsbooks 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 emboldened 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. Either way, Peters has sEE coMMANders ON d5 analysis Foundation is laid, but full remodel will take time Craig hudSoN for the WaShiNgtoN PoSt general Manager Adam peters, right, prioritized talent, leadership and experience in the NFL draft. nationals at Marlins 6:30 p.m., MaSN2 BY SPENCER NUSBAUM MIAMI — After the Miami Marlins went down in order during the third inning sunday afternoon, the Washington Nationals looked lifeless. Facing a sevenrun 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 forgivable. 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 Winker’s towering grand slam the day before, senzel’s fifth-inning, three-run blast was a screamer, gone in a flash. It put the Nationals 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 sEE NAtioNALs ON d5 Nationals, Senzel get last laugh after rally nationalS 12, MarlinS 9 BY BAILEY JOHNSON The Washington Capitals were not the better team in their firstround stanley Cup playoff series with the New York Rangers. That much was clear from the start. The Presidents’ Trophy winners from New York matched up against a Washington team that needed all 82 games — and more than a bit of good fortune — just to reach the postseason as the Eastern Conference’s final representative. But when Capitals Coach spencer Carbery was asked sunday morning, ahead of a do-or-die Game 4, whether games within the series felt as lopsided as the 3-0 deficit made it seem, Carbery’s response was quick and unequivocal. “Not at all,” he said.“Not at all.” On sunday night at Capital One Arena, the Capitals were, for the fourth game in a row, able to hang with — and at times have the upper hand on — the Rangers at five-on-five. And for the fourth game in a row, it didn’t matter. sEE cApitALs ON d3 Special teams again are downfall as Capitals get swept by Rangers for more. But in the Washington Capitals’ sweep at the hands of the New York Rangers, which ended with sunday night’s 4-2 loss, Ovechkin couldn’t find the net, not once. It’s symbolic, really, because the four straight firstround losses that ushered the Caps out of these stanley Cup playoffs showed that this franchise, defined by Ovechkin for so long, is in need of transition. And soon. sEE svrLugA ON d3 In his 24 playoff series over 19 seasons, Alex Ovechkin — the greatest goal scorer of his generation, embarking on a quest to become the most prolific ever over the final two seasons of his career — had never failed to score at least one measly goal. scoring goals is what defines him, what fuels him. When he sniffs one out, the scent gets stronger, and he goes With Stanley Cup-winning corefading, it’s time for the next generation to lead Last in, first out Barry Svrluga On the day before Caitlin Clark achieved her latest record, a $28 million signature sneaker deal with Nike, the professional basketball union she is about to become part of released a statement on Instagram: “Endorsements are NOT WNBA salary.” It was a reminder from the Women’s National Basketball Players Association that, to twist a phrase from the now bad-andboujee Tony Kornheiser (who pointed out some years ago that 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 sEE bLAckistoNe ON d6 Kevin B. Blackistone Clark’s deal with Nike is all about her, not the WNBA

d2 eZ sU the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 THE DAY IN SPORTS 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 alternateshot 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-yearold 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. McLaughlin and Penske’s fuel strategy worked to perfection Sunday, with teammate Will Power finishing second — the same order they started in. McLaughlin’s fifth IndyCar win provided temporary solace after a troubling week for Team Penske, led by series owner Roger Penske. On Wednesday, Newgarden had his seasonopening win in St. Petersburg, Fla., stripped for manipulating the push-to-pass function system on his car. McLaughlin, likewise, was disqualified after finishing third. soCCer PSG wins third straight French league crown Paris Saint-Germain won the French league in Kylian Mbappé’s last season at the club after Monaco lost, 3-2, at Lyon. PSG has an unassailable 12-point lead over second-place Monaco, which has three games left. The Ligue 1 triumph is PSG’s third in a row and a recordextending 12th overall. Mbappé has been involved in six of them, but his contract runs out at the end of the season. He’s expected to be signed by Real Madrid. PSG is on course for a potential historic treble. It will play at Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals Wednesday and then face Lyon in the French Cup final May 25. In Coach Luis Enrique’s first season at the club, PSG produced one of the most dominant seasons in league history with just one loss in 31 games. . . . Arsenal survived a late scare at 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 sixthplace 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 SaintGermain, 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. MisC. Texans’ Dell is hurt in shooting in Florida Houston Texans wide receiver Tank Dell suffered what the team called “a minor wound” in a shooting in which 10 people were injured in Sanford, Fla., early Sunday morning. Dell was released from a hospital, according to the Texans. The team did not provide details about his injuries. According to a Seminole County Sheriff’s Office arrest report, a 16-year-old was taken into custody after 10 people suffered gunshot wounds just after midnight at an entertainment venue in Sanford, which is about 20 miles north of Orlando. Authorities told the Associated Press that the victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries and most were shot in their lower bodies. Dell, 24, is from Daytona Beach, Fla. The Texans selected him in the third round of last year’s NFL draft out of Houston. He had 47 catches for 709 yards and seven touchdowns in 11 games as a rookie before suffering a fractured left fibula during a December game against the Denver Broncos. — Mark Maske and Nicki Jhabvala The St. Louis Battlehawks won a franchise-best fourth straight game, 45-12, over the D.C. Defenders in a United Football League game at Audi Field. The Battlehawks (4-1) won by the largest margin in team history, scoring 25 points in the fourth quarter. Jordan Ta’amu completed 12 of 23 passes for 101 yards for 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 Seyboth Wild in the third round, 6-3, 6-3, in his first event after he skipped Monte Carlo and Barcelona because of an arm injury. The third-ranked Alcaraz is trying to become the first player to win three straight Madrid Open titles. He will next face JanLennard Struff, his opponent in last year’s final in Madrid. — From news services and staff reports sPotlight: Wnba teleVision and radio stanleY CuP PlaYoffs, first round 7 p.m. game 5: tampa bay at florida » espN 9:30 p.m. game 4: dallas at Vegas » espN golf 5 p.m. Pga Professional Championship, second round » Golf channel tennis 5 a.m. atP/Wta: Madrid open, early rounds » tennis channel College softball 7 p.m. Mississippi state at Missouri » sec Network Mlb 6:30 p.m. Washington at Miami » MAsN2, WJFk (106.7 FM), WdcN (87.7 FM) 6:30 p.m. new York Yankees at baltimore » MAsN, WiYY (97.9 FM), WsBN (630 AM) 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago White sox » Fox sports 1 9:30 p.m. los angeles dodgers at arizona » MlB Network nba PlaYoffs, first round 7:30 p.m. game 4: boston at Miami » tNt 8:30 p.m. game 4: oklahoma City at new orleans » NBA tV 10 p.m. game 5: los angeles lakers at denver » tNt MArk J. terrill/AssociAted press Candace Parker earned WNBA titles with the Los Angeles Sparks (2016), Chicago Sky (2021) and Las Vegas Aces (2023). Parker joined the Aces in 2023 for what would become her final season and her third title. A seven-time all-star, she also won Olympic gold medals for the United States in 2008 and 2012. Wearing No. 3 in part because she was inspired and encouraged by Allen Iverson, she became the second woman in WNBA history (after Lisa Leslie, her Sparks teammate) to dunk during a regulation WNBA game June 22, 2008, against the Indiana Fever. She would quickly become the first player to do it twice, dunking again two days later against the Seattle Storm. Parker’s impact on the sport has extended beyond the court. In 2018, she became an analyst and commentator for Turner Sports, appearing on TNT, NBA TV and NCAA men’s tournament broadcasts during the WNBA offseason. In 2019, she signed a multiyear extension with Turner for NBA work and for NCAA work on CBS. In 2023, she became the first woman to do in-game color commentary at the NBA All-Star Game. “This offseason hasn’t been fun on a foot that isn’t cooperating,” wrote Parker, who turned 38 this month. “It’s no fun playing in pain (10 surgeries in my career), it’s no fun knowing what you could do if only . . . it’s no fun hearing ‘she isn’t the same’ when I know why, it’s no fun accepting the fact you need surgery AGAIN.” Parker played for Pat Summitt at Tennessee and was picked first overall by the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2008 draft. In addition to rookie of the year honors, she won her first MVP award that season. Parker captured her first WNBA title with the Sparks in 2016, earning Finals MVP honors. She spent the 2021 and 2022 seasons with the Chicago Sky, winning another championship in 2021. BY CINDY BOREN After 16 seasons, WNBA championships with three teams and two MVP awards, Candace Parker announced her retirement Sunday, saying in an Instagram 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 oneyear 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. Parker calls it quits after 16-year pro career Former Tennessee standout won three league titles, two Olympic gold medals

monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post eZ sU D3 mcmichael drew a hooking penalty less than two minutes later, but the Capitals’ series-long problems on the power play continued 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 Sandin tripped Panarin as he brought the puck up the ice with 2:42 left. Carbery pulled Lindgren to bring the game back to five-onfive — one final, last-ditch attempt 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.” changed that with a stunning solo effort midway through the period. As he picked the puck up in the neutral zone, four rangers stood between Lapierre and Shesterkin; he paid the numerical disadvantage little mind. first weaving past Jack roslovic, then finding a lane between Chris Kreider and ryan Lindgren, Lapierre attacked down the slot and fired a backhand shot that Shesterkin saved. In previous games in this series, 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 Washington in a dangerous position, and New York quickly capitalized. Artemi Panarin needed just 11 seconds of power-play time to find the back of the net off a feed from mika Zibanejad. 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 roughing. Already in a precarious position 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 pointed out Sunday morning that Washington had one five-on-five goal from a top-six forward in the series — center Connor mcmichael’s opening goal in Game 2. Center Hendrix Lapierre 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-ordie game, the Capitals were in a hole. But Washington didn’t let Jensen’s gaffe spark a death spiral. 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 Aliaksei Protas, who spotted defenseman martin fehervary flying down the wing with space. Protas’s tape-to-tape feed set up fehervary for a one-touch finish at 14:54 as Shesterkin sprawled, losing 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 TroWashington’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 Capitals 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 Shesterkin stopped 23 of 25 for New York, which will face the Carolina Hurricanes 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 battle, they won the games, and that’s what ended up turning the series.” Game 4 began on an inauspicious note for Washington. DeCApITALS from D1 Capitals get pushed aside and exit playo≠s quietly ASSOCIATED PRESS Brock Boeser had the best playoff game of his career at the perfect moment for the Vancouver 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 Saros 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, obviously 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 celebrated 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 opportunity 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 Vancouver 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 Andrew 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, replaced 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 quarterfinals. 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 Georgiev 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 season for the 29-year-old Nichushkin, 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 Winnipeg. Nichushkin added an emptynetter with 13 seconds left to give him his first hat trick in game No. 580 of his NHL career, including regular season and postseason. “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 surrendered 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. stanley CuP Playoffs Vancouver ties it late, then wins in overtime canucks 4, PredaTOrs 3 (OT) tom Brenner/associated press 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. 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. 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 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 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, 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 takecare-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 SvrLugA from D1 barry svrluga Latest first-round loss shows it’s time for young core to take the lead tom Brenner/associated press 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.

d4 eZ sU the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 tigers 4, royals 1 Wenceel pérez hit a tworun drive for his first major league homer and Jake rogers also homered for Detroit, which has won five of seven. it was Detroit’s 10th come-from-behind win of the season. Detroit left-hander Tarik skubal pitched seven innings of one-run ball and struck out six. rOYALS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Garcia 3b ............. 4 1 1 0 0 1 .223 Witt ss ................ 4 0 1 1 0 1 .308 Perez 1b............... 3 0 0 0 1 0 .340 Velázquez lf......... 3 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Massey ph ........... 1 0 1 0 0 0 .208 Fermin c............... 3 0 0 0 0 1 .195 Pasquantino ph ... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .217 Renfroe rf............ 2 0 0 0 1 1 .149 Melendez ph........ 1 0 0 0 0 1 .195 Blanco cf.............. 4 0 1 0 0 2 .227 Hampson 2b ........ 3 0 1 0 0 0 .212 Frazier dh ............ 3 0 0 0 0 1 .188 tOtALS 32 15 129 — tigErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Greene lf.............201 110 .240 Canha 1b.............411 000 .272 Pérez rf...............412 200 .286 Carpenter dh.......401 001 .276 Vierling 3b ..........301 000 .280 Keith 2b ..............400 001 .161 McKinstry ss ......401 002 .220 Rogers c..............422 101 .164 Meadows cf........301 000 .091 tOtALS 32 4 10 4 15 — kANSAS citY 100 000 000 — 1 5 0 dEtrOit ........ 210 001 00X — 4 10 0 LOb: Kansas City 6, Detroit 7. 2b: Garcia (4), Canha (7), Meadows (1). hr: Pérez (1), off Wacha; Rogers (2), off Wacha. rOYALS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Wacha .............. 52/3 9 4 4 0 3 4.24 Smith.................. 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 10.6 Anderson............. 1100 1 0 3.60 Klein .................... 1000 0 2 0.00 tigErS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Skubal.................. 7411 1 6 1.72 Miller................... 1000 0 1 2.03 Foley.................... 1100 1 2 1.38 wp: Skubal (4-0); Lp: Wacha (1-3); S: Foley (9). hbp: Wacha (Vierling). t: 2:10. A: 18,794 (41,083). nl games NAtiONALS At mArLiNS, 6:40 w-L ErA tEAm Irvin (R) 1-2 4.55 1-4 Rogers (L) 0-3 4.10 0-5 cUbS At mEtS, 7:10 Taillon (R) 2-0 1.69 2-0 Severino (R) 2-2 2.67 2-3 rEdS At pAdrES, 9:40 Lodolo (L) 2-0 2.12 3-0 Waldron (R) 1-2 3.96 1-4 dOdgErS At diAmONdbAckS, 9:40 Paxton (L) 2-0 2.61 3-1 Henry (L) 1-1 5.55 3-2 al games YANkEES At OriOLES, 6:35 w-L ErA tEAm Schmidt (R) 2-0 3.55 5-0 Rodriguez (R) 3-1 4.45 4-1 rOYALS At bLUE JAYS, 7:07 Bowlan (R) 0-0 0.00 0-0 Rodríguez (R) 0-1 3.86 2-1 twiNS At whitE SOX, 7:40 Ryan (R) 1-1 3.45 3-2 Crochet (L) 1-4 6.37 1-5 al scores SAtUrdAY’S rESULtS at Baltimore 7, Oakland 0 at Detroit 6, Kansas City 5 at Chicago White Sox 8, Tampa Bay 7 (10) Minnesota 16, at L.A. Angels 5 SUNdAY’S rESULtS Oakland 7, at Baltimore 6 at Detroit 4, Kansas City 1 at Chicago White Sox 4, Tampa Bay 2 Minnesota 11 at L.A. Angels 5 nl scores SAtUrdAY’S rESULtS Washington 11, at Miami 4 St. Louis 7, at N.Y. Mets 4 Philadelphia 5, at San Diego 1 Pittsburgh 4, at San Francisco 3 (10) SUNdAY’S rESULtS Washington 12, at Miami 9 at N.Y. Mets 4, St. Louis 2 (11) at San Francisco 3, Pittsburgh 2 Philadelphia 8, at San Diego 6 Interleague games cArdiNALS At tigErS, 6:40 w-L ErA tEAm Matz (L) 1-2 5.55 2-3 Maeda (R) 0-1 5.96 2-3 rAYS At brEwErS, 7:40 Pepiot (R) 2-2 3.77 2-3 Wilson (R) 2-0 3.50 2-0 phiLLiES At LOS ANgELES, 9:38 Sánchez (L) 1-3 2.96 1-4 Canning (R) 1-3 7.50 1-4 brAvES At mAriNErS, 9:40 Fried (L) 2-0 4.97 5-0 Miller (R) 3-2 2.22 3-2 pirAtES At AthLEticS, 9:40 Falter (L) 2-1 3.33 4-1 Boyle (R) 1-4 7.06 1-4 Giants 3, pirates 2 Thairo estrada and Mike Yastrzemski hit back-toback home runs in the third inning and rookie right-hander Keaton Winn had another strong start to lead san Francisco. rookie shortstop Tyler Fitzgerald added three hits for the giants, who took two of three from the pirates and finished their long homestand 6-4. pirAtES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Hayes 3b.............301 001 .283 Reynolds lf..........400 000 .254 Cruz ss ................401 001 .241 Joe rf...................400 000 .282 Olivares dh .........210 011 .233 Tellez 1b .............312 010 .205 Triolo 2b..............401 200 .221 Taylor cf..............300 012 .261 Davis c ................200 002 .169 Suwinski ph........100 000 .180 Bart c ..................100 000 .259 tOtALS 31 25 237 — giANtS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Lee cf ..................401 000 .269 Wade 1b..............200 112 .339 M.Chapman 3b....401 002 .221 Conforto lf ..........400 000 .267 Bailey c ...............300 000 .296 Soler dh ..............300 003 .216 Estrada 2b ..........311 101 .235 Yastrzemski rf....312 100 .236 Fitzgerald ss.......313 000 .313 tOtALS 29 38 318 — pittSbUrgh . 000 010 001 —250 SAN FrAN. .... 003 000 00X —380 LOb: Pittsburgh 7, San Francisco 4. 2b: Tellez 2 (2), Fitzgerald (3). hr: Estrada (4), off Jones; Yastrzemski (2), off Jones. pirAtES ip h r Er bbSO ErA Jones ................... 5 6 3 3 1 3 3.18 Ortiz .................... 2 2 0 0 0 3 3.38 Nicolas................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00 giANtS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Winn.................... 6 3 1 1 1 5 3.18 Miller................... 1 0 0 0 1 1 5.54 Walker................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.81 Doval ................... 1 2 1 1 1 0 3.38 wp: Winn (3-3); Lp: Jones (2-3); S: Doval (5). hbp: Winn (Olivares), Walker (Hayes). pb: Bailey (3). t: 2:23. A: 36,380 (41,915). twins 11, angels 5 austin Martin and alex Kiriloff drove in two runs apiece, and Minnesota stretched its winning streak to seven games. The Twins pounded 17 hits while scoring at least five runs for the seventh consecutive game. twiNS Ab r h bi bbSOAvg Jeffers dh...........5 2 3 1 0 0 .305 Buxton cf............4 3 1 0 1 2 .244 Margot rf............2 0 0 1 0 1 .173 Kirilloff ph-rf......2 1 1 2 0 1 .266 Miranda 3b .........5 0 3 2 0 1 .292 Santana 1b.........5 0 1 1 0 0 .182 Castro ss ............5 0 3 1 0 0 .250 Vázquez c ...........4 1 3 0 1 0 .250 Farmer 2b...........2 1 1 0 0 0 .115 Julien ph-2b .......3 0 0 0 0 2 .236 Martin lf.............3 3 1 2 2 0 .226 tOtALS 40 11 17 10 47 — ANgELS Ab r h bi bb SOAvg Trout dh .............3 0 1 1 1 0 .226 Neto ss...............4 0 0 0 0 3 .213 Ward lf...............4 0 0 0 0 3 .265 Drury 2b .............4 0 0 0 0 1 .167 Hicks cf ..............4 0 0 0 0 3 .140 O'Hoppe c ...........4 1 1 0 0 0 .293 Adell rf...............4 1 1 1 0 2 .327 Rengifo 3b..........3 2 1 2 0 1 .289 Schanuel 1b........3 1 2 1 0 1 .228 tOtALS 33 5 6 5 1 14 — miNNESOtA.. 000 140 420 — 11 17 0 L.A. ................ 000 040 100 —563 E: Rengifo (3), Adell (1), Drury (1). LOb: Minnesota 8, Los Angeles 3. 2b: Jeffers (6), Farmer (3), Miranda 2 (4), Kirilloff (6), Castro (7), O’Hoppe (4), Adell (2). hr: Rengifo (1), off López; Schanuel (2), off López. twiNS ip h r ErbbSO ErA López................... 5444 1 8 4.83 Sands ............... 12/3 2110 3 1.35 Jax...................... 1/3 0000 1 2.45 Okert................... 2000 0 2 3.86 ANgELS ip h r ErbbSO ErA Detmers .............. 5955 0 3 3.12 Cimber................. 1100 0 0 3.65 García................. 2/3 3442 1 6.55 Moore................. 1/3 1000 1 3.72 Kristofak............. 2320 2 2 0.00 wp: López (2-2); Lp: Detmers (3-2). inherited runners-scored: Jax 2-0, Cimber 1-0, Moore 1-0. hbp: Sands (Rengifo). wp: Detmers (2). pb: O’Hoppe (2). t: 3:01. A: 38,955 (45,517). athletics 7, orioles 6 AthLEticS Ab r h bi bbSO Avg Butler rf...............4 1 1 0 1 1 .205 Nevin 3b...............5 2 2 1 0 2 .286 Bleday cf..............3 1 1 1 0 0 .227 Ruiz ph-cf ............2 0 0 0 0 1 .250 Rooker dh ............4 0 1 2 0 2 .210 Brown lf...............4 1 1 1 0 1 .200 Schuemann 2b.....3 0 1 0 0 1 .150 Toro ph-2b ...........1 0 1 0 0 0 .229 Allen ss................0 0 0 0 0 0 .179 Noda 1b................4 0 0 0 0 1 .143 Hernaiz ss-2b ......3 1 0 0 1 0 .150 K.McCann c..........4 1 2 2 0 2 .313 tOtALS 37 7 10 7 2 11 — OriOLES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Henderson ss ...... 5 0 0 0 0 1 .288 Rutschman c ....... 5 1 1 1 0 3 .318 O'Hearn rf ........... 3 1 1 0 0 1 .297 McKenna ph-rf .... 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.00 Santander dh ...... 3 1 0 0 1 1 .218 Mountcastle 1b... 4 1 3 2 0 1 .319 Mullins cf ............ 4 1 0 1 0 0 .222 Cowser lf............. 4 0 1 1 0 2 .310 Urías 3b............... 4 1 1 1 0 1 .186 Mateo 2b............. 3 0 1 0 1 2 .257 tOtALS 36 69 62 12 — OAkLANd ...... 013 000 102 — 7 10 1 bALtimOrE... 023 100 000 — 6 9 0 E: K.McCann (3). LOb: Oakland 5, Baltimore 5. 2b: Bleday (6), Cowser (7). hr: Brown (2), off Suárez; Nevin (2), off Coulombe; K.McCann (2), off Kimbrel; Rutschman (4), off Blackburn; Mountcastle (4), off Blackburn; Urías (1), off Blackburn. rbi: Brown (6), Bleday (6), Rooker 2 (13), Nevin (6), K.McCann 2 (5), Mullins (17), Cowser (18), Rutschman (17), Mountcastle 2 (14), Urías (3). Sb: Mullins (6), Mountcastle (1). AthLEticS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Blackburn ............ 4 7 6 6 1 5 3.34 Muller............... 21/3 1 0 012 2.29 Adams ................ 2/3 1 0 001 1.93 McFarland ........... 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.97 Erceg.................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 1.54 OriOLES ip h r Er bbSO ErA Suárez ................. 4 7 4 4 1 6 2.35 Akin ..................... 2 0 0 0 0 2 3.46 Coulombe ........... 2/3 1 1 101 3.48 Webb .................. 1/3 0 0 000 2.25 Cano..................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.45 Kimbrel................ 0 1 2 2 1 0 3.18 Tate ..................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.84 wp: McFarland (1-0); Lp: Kimbrel (3-1); S: Erceg (1). t: 2:53. A: 40,887 (45,971). yankees 15, brewers 5 aaron Judge homered in the first inning and played a central role as a base runner during a seven-run rally in the sixth for New York. YANkEES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Volpe ss ..............422 320 .282 Soto rf ................511 100 .318 Grisham cf ..........100 000 .059 Judge cf ..............413 310 .211 Trammell pr-rf....010 010 1.00 Verdugo lf...........611 001 .267 Stanton dh..........611 002 .237 Rizzo 1b ..............434 210 .277 Jones 3b..............000 000 .200 Torres 2b ............522 101 .218 Cabrera 3b-1b.....422 111 .269 Trevino c.............412 300 .280 tOtALS 43 15 18 14 65 — brEwErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Frelick lf..............411 011 .263 Miller ph .............100 001 .083 Contreras c .........522 001 .352 Wiemer ph..........100 000 .111 Adames ss ..........412 111 .276 Bauers 1b-p ........513 302 .214 Sánchez dh .........101 010 .213 Dunn ph-1b .........100 001 .203 Perkins cf............401 112 .296 Turang 2b ...........500 000 .310 Ortiz 3b...............100 040 .276 Chourio rf............501 000 .207 tOtALS 37 5 11 5 89 — NEw YOrk .... 100 037 220 — 15 18 0 miLwAUkEE . 000 041 000 — 5 11 0 LOb: New York 8, Milwaukee 15. 2b: Rizzo 2 (4), Torres (4), Adames (7), Contreras (7), Bauers (5). 3b: Frelick (1). hr: Judge (6), off Myers; Volpe (3), off Myers; Rizzo (5), off Junk; Bauers (2), off Stroman. YANkEES ip h r Er bbSO ErA Stroman .............. 4644 5 4 3.69 Marinaccio........ 11/3 1 1 1 1 1 2.35 Hamilton ............ 2/3 1 0 0 1 0 2.93 Tonkin............... 11/3 2 0 0 0 1 0.00 Ferguson ............ 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 4.76 González.............. 1100 1 1 2.61 brEwErS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Myers .................. 5544 0 5 4.50 Uribe................... 2/3 2 5 5 3 0 6.92 Peguero .............. 1/3 2 2 2 1 0 4.05 Junk..................... 2844 0 0 12.0 Bauers ................. 1100 2 0 0.00 wp: Marinaccio (1-0); Lp: Uribe (2-2). inherited runners-scored: Marinaccio 1-0, Hamilton 1-1, Ferguson 2-0, Peguero 2-2. hbp: Stroman (Sánchez), Hamilton (Sánchez). wp: Peguero. pb: Contreras (3). t: 3:21. A: 35,295 (41,700). blue Jays 3, dodgers 1 Kevin gausman pitched seven solid innings for his first victory of the season, and Toronto stopped Los angeles’ six-game winning streak. alejandro Kirk went 3 for 3 for Toronto, which had lost five in a row, hitting his first homer of the season in the second. he had been in an 0-for-11 slide coming in. dOdgErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Betts ss.................... 4 0 1 0 0 0 .387 Ohtani dh ................. 4 0 0 0 0 1 .336 Freeman 1b .............. 3 1 1 1 1 1 .306 T.Hernández lf ......... 4 0 0 0 0 2 .257 Muncy 3b.................. 4 0 1 0 0 1 .258 Pages rf.................... 4 0 2 0 0 0 .302 Outman cf................ 4 0 0 0 0 1 .173 Lux 2b....................... 4 0 1 0 0 2 .187 Barnes c ................... 2 0 0 0 1 0 .238 tOtALS 33 1 6 128 — bLUE JAYS Abr h bi bb SO Avg Springer rf................ 4 0 0 0 0 2 .219 Guerrero dh .............. 4 0 2 0 0 1 .218 Bichette ss ............... 4 0 1 0 0 1 .210 Turner 1b .................. 4 1 1 0 0 0 .306 Clement 3b ............... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .275 Schneider lf .............. 2 1 1 0 1 1 .228 Varsho cf .................. 3 0 0 1 0 0 .233 Kiner-Falefa 3b-2b ... 3 0 0 1 0 1 .240 Kirk c......................... 3 1 3 1 0 0 .206 Biggio 2b-1b ............. 2 0 0 0 0 0 .235 tOtALS 29 3 8 316 — LOS ANgELES 000 001 000 — 160 tOrONtO....... 030 000 00X —380 LOb: Los Angeles 7, Toronto 4. 2b: Pages (4), Lux (2), Muncy (7), Betts (10), Schneider (4). hr: Freeman (2), off Gausman; Kirk (1), off Grove. dOdgErS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Grove ................... 2 4 3 3 0 3 6.88 Vesia.................... 1 1 0 0 1 1 1.88 Yarbrough............ 4 2 0 0 0 2 3.00 Crismatt............... 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 bLUE JAYS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Gausman.............. 7 5 1 1 0 5 4.50 García...................2/3 1002 1 0.68 Mayza ..................1/3 0000 0 6.30 Romano................ 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.18 wp: Gausman (1-3); Lp: Grove (0-1); S: Romano (4). inherited runners-scored: Mayza 3-0. ibb: off García (Freeman). hbp: Grove (Biggio). t: 2:20. A: 39,053 (39,150). White sox 4, rays 2 erick Fedde pitched seven-hit ball into the ninth inning, and chicago beat Tampa Bay for a sweep of the three-game series. gavin sheets and eloy Jiménez each had three hits for the White sox in the finale. andrew Benintendi, who homered twice and had six rBi during saturday night’s 8-7 victory, had two hits and drove in two runs. rAYS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Díaz 1b .................4 0 0 0 0 2 .232 Palacios rf ............4 0 2 0 0 1 .311 Rortvedt c ............0 0 0 0 0 0 .378 Rosario ss ............4 0 1 0 0 1 .320 Paredes 3b ...........4 2 2 1 0 0 .275 H.Ramírez lf-rf.....4 0 1 1 0 1 .255 Shenton dh...........4 0 1 0 0 1 .207 Mead 2b ...............4 0 0 0 0 1 .228 Siri cf....................3 0 0 0 0 1 .173 Pinto c ..................2 0 0 0 0 1 .214 Arozarena ph-lf....1 0 0 0 0 0 .152 tOtALS 34 2 7 2 0 9 — whitE SOX Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Lopez 2b .............. 3 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Pham cf-rf ........... 4 1 1 0 0 1 .357 Sheets 1b............. 4 2 3 0 0 0 .269 Jiménez dh .......... 4 1 3 0 0 0 .259 Benintendi lf........ 4 0 2 2 0 2 .204 Grossman rf......... 3 0 1 1 0 1 .182 Ortega cf.............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Mendick 3b .......... 4 0 1 1 0 0 .250 Lee c..................... 3 0 0 0 0 0 .255 Shewmake ss ...... 3 0 1 0 0 1 .171 tOtALS 33 4 12 4 07 — tAmpA bAY .. 000 100 001 — 2 7 0 chicAgO........ 000 200 02X — 4 12 0 LOb: Tampa Bay 5, Chicago 6. 2b: Shenton (4), H.Ramírez (2), Shewmake (2). hr: Paredes (7), off Fedde. rAYS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Littell................... 6 8 2 2 0 6 3.27 Rodríguez ......... 11/3 42201 13.5 E.Ramírez........... 2/3 00000 3.18 whitE SOX ip h r Er bbSO ErA Fedde................ 81/3 72209 2.60 Leasure............... 2/3 00000 1.59 wp: Fedde (2-0); Lp: Littell (1-2); S: Leasure (1). inherited runners-scored: E.Ramírez 2-0, Leasure 1-0. t: 2:06. A: 12,669 (40,241). braves 4, Guardians 3 (10) austin riley knocked in ronald acuña Jr. with a 10th-inning single, and atlanta rallied late to beat cleveland and win a threegame series between the top two teams in MLB. atlanta has won 11 of its past 13 games. gUArdiANS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Kwan lf ...............501 100 .339 Giménez 2b.........402 110 .275 Ramírez 3b .........301 010 .261 J.Naylor 1b .........400 001 .283 Fry dh..................402 001 .295 Brennan rf ..........300 000 .225 Laureano ph-rf....100 000 .157 Freeman cf..........401 001 .215 B.Naylor c ...........311 011 .200 Rocchio ss...........322 011 .215 tOtALS 34 3 10 2 45 — brAvES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Acuña rf..............521 003 .255 Albies 2b.............412 102 .329 Riley 3b...............402 111 .234 Olson 1b..............401 102 .212 Ozuna dh.............400 000 .340 Arcia ss...............400 000 .296 Harris cf..............300 011 .315 Kelenic lf.............411 002 .305 Tromp c...............301 102 .269 d'Arnaud ph-c .....101 000 .292 tOtALS 36 49 42 13 — cLEvELANd 001 010 100 0 — 310 1 AtLANtA .... 000 010 020 1 — 490 One out when winning run scored. E: Gaddis (1). LOb: Cleveland 7, Atlanta 8. 2b: Kelenic (4), Albies (8). gUArdiANS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Lively................ 41/3 4 1 1 2 5 2.30 Sandlin ............... 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 2.70 Smith................... 1000 0 1 2.77 Barlow................. 1000 0 3 3.21 Gaddis ................. 1322 0 0 2.51 Beede................... 1100 0 1 5.27 Clase................... 1/3 1 1 0 0 1 0.63 brAvES ip h r Er bbSO ErA Elder ................. 51/3 4 2 2 4 2 1.50 Bummer............ 12/3 3 1 1 0 2 5.79 Matzek ................ 1100 0 0 7.71 Iglesias................ 1100 0 1 2.38 Minter ................. 1100 0 0 1.32 wp: Minter (5-1); Lp: Clase (1-1). inherited runners-scored: Sandlin 1-0. hbp: Elder (Ramírez), Sandlin (Albies). wp: Elder (2). t: 2:55. A: 40,758 (41,149). mets 4, cardinals 2 (11) Mark Vientos hit a tworun homer in the 11th inning to give New York a comeback victory over st. Louis that prevented a three-game sweep. Francisco Lindor homered for the Mets. cArdiNALS Ab r h bi bbSOAvg Donovan lf...........5 0 1 1 0 0 .229 Contreras dh........4 0 1 0 1 1 .288 Arenado 3b..........5 0 0 0 0 1 .271 Goldschmidt 1b ...3 0 0 0 1 1 .208 Herrera c .............3 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Burleson ph .........1 0 0 0 0 0 .263 Pagés c ................0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Nootbaar rf..........4 0 1 0 0 0 .189 Winn ss ...............4 1 1 0 0 3 .311 Gorman 2b...........3 0 0 0 1 0 .198 Siani cf ................3 1 0 1 0 1 .108 tOtALS 35 2 4 2 37 — mEtS Ab r h bi bbSOAvg Nimmo lf .............5 0 0 0 0 2 .202 Lindor ss .............3 1 1 1 2 0 .202 Alonso 1b ............2 0 0 0 3 1 .248 Stewart dh ..........4 1 1 0 1 0 .204 Taylor rf ..............5 0 0 0 0 1 .293 McNeil 2b ............5 0 1 0 0 0 .242 Bader cf...............5 1 2 1 0 0 .275 Baty 3b................3 0 1 0 0 0 .256 Vientos ph-3b .....2 1 2 2 0 0 .750 Nido c ..................3 0 0 0 0 2 .214 Martinez ph.........1 0 0 0 0 0 .333 Narváez c ............0 0 0 0 0 0 .176 tOtALS 38 4 8 4 66 — St. LOUiS.... 000 010 000 01 —240 NEw YOrk.. 000 001 000 03 —481 Two outs when winning run scored. E: Baty (1). LOb: St. Louis 6, New York 10. 2b: Contreras (8), Nootbaar (4), Winn (4), Baty (2). hr: Lindor (5), off Lynn; Vientos (1), off Liberatore. cArdiNALS ip h r ErbbSO ErA Lynn .................... 5511 3 3 2.64 Fernandez ........... 2000 0 3 2.45 Gallegos ............. 2/3 0002 0 5.00 Liberatore ........... 3332 1 0 3.14 mEtS ip h r ErbbSO ErA Quintana ............. 8311 1 3 3.48 Díaz ..................... 1000 0 2 0.93 Garrett................ 2110 2 2 0.61 wp: Garrett (5-0); Lp: Liberatore (0-1). inherited runners-scored: Fernandez 2-0, Liberatore 2-0. ibb: off Garrett (Gorman), off Liberatore (Alonso). t: 2:59. A: 30,980 (42,136). rangers 4, reds 3 Wyatt Langford and adolis garcía homered during Texas’s four-run first inning, helping Dane Dunning and the rangers beat cincinnati. Dunning struck out a season-high 10 while throwing 69 pitches in 52/3 innings. rEdS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Benson lf ............411 102 .200 De La Cruz ss ......411 000 .281 Steer 1b ..............401 101 .253 Fraley rf..............400 003 .315 India 2b...............402 001 .235 Martini dh...........300 012 .200 Candelario 3b......400 004 .159 Maile c ................311 000 .188 Fairchild cf..........300 002 .193 tOtALS 33 36 21 15 — rANgErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Semien 2b...........400 002 .252 Seager ss............400 003 .238 Lowe 1b ..............412 001 .310 García rf..............311 211 .291 Heim c.................311 000 .261 Langford lf..........311 201 .248 Jankowski lf .......000 000 .190 Wendzel 3b.........200 000 .133 Smith ph-3b........000 010 .304 Knizner dh ..........200 002 .115 Carter ph-dh .......000 010 .213 Taveras cf...........301 001 .225 tOtALS 28 46 43 11 — ciNciNNAti... 000 003 000 — 3 6 0 tEXAS............ 400 000 00X — 4 6 2 E: García (2), Seager (3). LOb: Cincinnati 5, Texas 3. 2b: Maile (1). hr: García (8), off Abbott; Langford (1), off Abbott. rEdS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Abbott .............. 51/3 6 4 4 0 7 3.27 Sims ................... 2/3 0 0 0 1 0 6.75 Pagán................... 1000 2 1 3.97 Wilson ................. 1000 0 3 4.05 rANgErS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Dunning............ 51/3 3 2 1 0 10 4.13 Sborz .................. 2/3 2 1 0 0 1 0.00 Robertson............ 1000 0 3 1.17 Latz ..................... 1000 0 0 3.38 Yates ................... 1100 1 1 0.00 wp: Dunning (3-2); Lp: Abbott (1-3); S: Yates (5). inherited runners-scored: Sims 1-0, Sborz 1-1. hbp: Robertson (Maile). wp: Sims. t: 2:30. A: 37,008 (40,000). astros 8, rockies 2 Kyle Tucker, Jose altuve and Jeremy peña each hit a solo home run, helping Framber Valdez and houston beat colorado in Mexico city. Valdez, who had been out with elbow inflammation, pitched five innings of two-run ball in his first big league start since april 2. AStrOS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Altuve 2b ............4 3 2 1 1 0 .342 Bregman 3b ........4 1 2 1 0 0 .216 Alvarez lf ............3 0 0 1 0 1 .275 Meyers cf............0 0 0 0 0 0 .217 Tucker rf .............4 1 1 2 0 0 .290 Cabbage rf ..........0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 Peña ss ...............3 2 1 1 1 0 .321 Diaz dh................4 0 1 2 0 1 .291 Dubón cf-lf..........4 0 0 0 0 0 .279 J.Abreu 1b ..........4 0 0 0 0 0 .099 Caratini c ............3 1 1 0 0 0 .294 tOtALS 33 8 8 8 2 2 — rOckiES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Tovar ss ..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .284 Doyle cf...............4 0 1 0 0 1 .323 McMahon 3b.......4 0 1 0 0 2 .308 Díaz dh................4 1 2 0 0 0 .303 E.Montero 1b......4 0 0 0 0 1 .220 Jones lf ...............2 1 1 0 0 1 .170 Cave lf.................1 0 0 0 0 1 .259 Bouchard rf.........3 0 1 1 0 1 .286 Stallings c...........2 0 1 1 0 1 .320 Trejo 2b...............3 0 0 0 0 2 .091 tOtALS 31 2 7 2 0 11 — hOUStON ...... 201 100 040 — 8 8 0 cOLOrAdO .... 020 000 000 — 2 7 0 LOb: Houston 2, Colorado 3. 2b: Diaz (5), Jones (5). hr: Tucker (7), off Gomber; Altuve (7), off Gomber; Peña (3), off Gomber. AStrOS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Valdez.................. 5 5 2 2 0 6 2.60 R.Montero ........... 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.57 B.Abreu ............... 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.30 Pressly................. 1 1 0 0 0 2 6.75 Hader................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 7.59 rOckiES ip h r Er bbSO ErA Gomber................ 7 6 4 4 0 2 4.50 Bird..................... 2/3 14420 6.08 Mears ............... 11/3 10000 4.50 wp: Valdez (1-0); Lp: Gomber (0-2). inherited runners-scored: Mears 2-2. hbp: Bird (Caratini). wp: Hader. t: 2:23. A: 19,841 (20,576). diamondbacks 3, mariners 2 Brandon pfaadt had a career-high 11 strikeouts, Ketel Marte broke a tie with an rBi double in the eighth inning, christian Walker homered, and arizona beat seattle to end a three-game losing streak. d'bAckS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg McCarthy rf ........300 002 .300 Gurriel lf .............400 001 .268 Marte 2b.............401 102 .307 Walker 1b ...........412 102 .271 Pederson dh........311 001 .296 Grichuk ph-dh .....101 000 .268 Suárez 3b............401 101 .229 Carroll cf .............400 002 .189 Barnhart c...........100 011 .200 Moreno ph-c .......200 000 .230 Newman ss.........210 010 .178 tOtALS 32 36 32 12 — mAriNErS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Rojas 3b..............311 100 .297 Rodríguez cf .......401 101 .275 Polanco 2b ..........401 003 .163 France 1b ............400 002 .247 Garver dh............400 002 .143 Raley rf ...............200 001 .196 Moore ph-ss .......100 000 .192 Clase lf................301 002 .222 Zavala c ..............200 002 .143 Haniger ph-rf......100 000 .237 Rivas ss ..............211 001 .500 Raleigh c .............100 001 .232 tOtALS 31 25 20 15 — ArizONA ....... 010 000 110 —361 SEAttLE........ 101 000 000 —250 E: Barnhart (2). LOb: Arizona 5, Seattle 3. 2b: Walker (3), Pederson (5), Suárez (6), Marte (9). 3b: Rivas (1). hr: Walker (5), off Gilbert; Rojas (3), off Pfaadt. d'bAckS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Pfaadt.................. 6522 0 11 4.63 Mantiply.............. 1000 0 1 4.09 Thompson ........... 1000 0 2 1.69 Ginkel .................. 1000 0 1 3.00 mAriNErS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Gilbert .............. 61/3 4 2 2 1 9 2.02 Speier ................. 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 0.84 Thornton ............. 1111 1 1 1.54 Saucedo............... 1100 0 2 2.70 wp: Mantiply (2-1); Lp: Thornton (0-1); S: Ginkel (5). inherited runners-scored: Speier 1-0. hbp: Gilbert (Walker). wp: Pfaadt, Gilbert. t: 2:26. A: 33,474 (47,929). phillies 8, padres 6 Bryson stott hit two tworun homers, J.T. realmuto also connected and starting pitcher Taijun Walker made a slick behind-theback catch in his season debut to help philadelphia beat san Diego for its first road sweep of the season. phiLLiES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Schwarber dh ...... 5 1 2 0 0 1 .200 Turner ss ............. 5 0 1 0 0 1 .339 Harper 1b............. 4 0 0 0 1 1 .234 Bohm 3b............... 5 1 3 0 0 1 .365 Realmuto c .......... 5 1 2 3 0 2 .245 Marsh lf ............... 4 0 1 0 0 2 .291 Castellanos rf ...... 1 2 0 0 3 0 .179 Stott 2b ............... 3 3 2 4 0 0 .226 Rojas cf................ 4 0 1 1 0 0 .250 tOtALS 36 8 12 8 48 — pAdrES Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Profar lf................4 1 2 0 1 0 .303 Tatis rf .................4 1 1 1 0 0 .244 Cronenworth 1b ...4 1 2 2 0 0 .264 Machado 3b..........4 0 1 0 0 0 .252 Bogaerts 2b..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .213 Merrill cf...............4 0 0 0 0 0 .295 Kim ss...................3 1 0 0 1 1 .220 Pauley dh..............3 1 1 0 0 1 .143 Rosario ph ............1 0 0 0 0 1 .273 Higashioka c.........2 0 0 0 0 1 .174 Campusano ph-c...2 1 1 3 0 1 .290 tOtALS 35 6 9 6 2 6 — phiLA............. 020 202 110 — 8 12 1 SAN diEgO .... 003 000 300 — 6 9 0 E: Bohm (5). LOb: Philadelphia 6, San Diego 4. 2b: Bohm 2 (12), Rojas (3), Cronenworth (6), Tatis (4), Profar (7). hr: Stott 2 (3), off King; Realmuto (5), off King; Cronenworth (4), off Walker; Campusano (2), off Walker. phiLLiES ip h r Er bbSO ErA Walker.............. 61/3 8 6 6 2 4 8.53 Hoffman ............. 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 1.38 Marte................... 100000 2.13 Alvarado.............. 100002 5.06 pAdrES ip h r Er bbSO ErA King .................. 51/3 6 6 6 3 6 5.00 Cosgrove............. 2/3 1 1 1 0 0 10.3 De Los Santos ..... 110011 0.77 Peralta................. 121101 4.73 Kolek ................... 120000 3.52 wp: Walker (1-0); Lp: King (2-3); S: Alvarado (5). inherited runners-scored: Cosgrove 1-0, De Los Santos 1-1. hbp: Cosgrove (Stott). wp: De Los Santos. t: 2:36. A: 42,037 (40,222). red sox 5, cubs 4 Tyler O’Neill hit a gameending bloop single, and Boston topped chicago. Jarren Duran hit a tworun triple and connor Wong drove in two runs with a pair of two-out singles, helping Boston to the series win. The red sox beat the cubs, 17-0, on saturday. cUbS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Hoerner 2b...........4 1 1 0 0 0 .282 Tauchman rf ........4 1 2 3 0 1 .294 Happ lf .................4 0 1 0 0 2 .229 Morel 3b ..............4 0 0 0 0 3 .210 Busch 1b ..............3 1 0 0 0 1 .278 Swanson ss .........4 0 1 0 0 1 .238 Mervis dh.............3 0 1 1 0 1 .133 Madrigal ph-dh....1 0 0 0 0 0 .219 Amaya c...............4 0 0 0 0 3 .214 Crow-Armstrong cf ..............3 1 1 0 0 0 .385 tOtALS 34 4 7 4 0 12 — rEd SOX Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Duran cf ................4 1 1 2 1 1 .252 Devers 3b..............3 2 2 0 2 0 .279 O'Neill lf................4 0 1 1 1 2 .329 Abreu rf.................4 0 0 0 0 1 .292 Wong c..................4 0 2 2 0 0 .343 Yoshida dh ............2 0 1 0 0 0 .275 Refsnyder ph-dh ...1 1 0 0 1 0 .375 Valdez 2b ..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .146 Dalbec 1b ..............4 0 1 0 0 3 .137 Rafaela ss .............4 1 1 0 0 1 .194 tOtALS 34 5 9 559 — chicAgO........ 000 000 130 — 4 7 1 bOStON......... 101 002 001 — 5 9 0 No outs when winning run scored. E: Hoerner (5). LOb: Chicago 4, Boston 10. 2b: Rafaela (6). 3b: Duran (3). hr: Tauchman (3), off Martin. cUbS ip h r Er bbSO ErA Wesneski ............ 4 5 2 1 1 3 0.87 Lovelady .............. 1 0 0 0 1 1 0.00 Almonte .............. 1 2 2 2 2 2 4.91 Palencia............... 2 0 0 0 0 3 4.50 Leiter................... 0 2 1 1 1 0 0.73 rEd SOX ip h r Er bbSO ErA Houck ............... 62/3 4 1 109 1.60 Martin .............. 11/3 3 3 302 5.56 Jansen ................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 1.86 wp: Jansen (1-0); Lp: Leiter (0-1). inherited runners-scored: Martin 2-0. ibb: off Almonte (Devers). hbp: Houck (Busch). t: 2:34. A: 32,052 (37,755). pErsonnEl dEpt. cubs: chicago placed Lhp Jordan Wicks on the 15-day injured list with a strained forearm. he was scheduled to start the series finale at Boston. mets: rhp Kodai senga (right shoulder capsule strain) is expected to throw 20 to 25 pitches of live batting practice against minor league hitters. by tHE numbErs 300 career home runs for Yankees 1B anthony rizzo, who reached the milestone sunday while going 4 for 4. quotablE “He hit one to the track last night. I guess he did a couple extra push-ups this morning.” — a.J. Hinch, Tigers manager, about RF Wenceel Pérez, who hit his first career home run Sunday in a victory over the Royals. Baseball national league american league seTh WeNig/assOciaTeD press Veni, vidi, Vientos! Mark Vientos, called up Saturday by the Mets, hit a walk-off home run to beat the Cardinals on Sunday. today Interleague scores SAtUrdAY’S rESULtS L.A. Dodgers 4, at Toronto 2 Cincinnati 8, at Texas 4 at Boston 17, Chicago Cubs 0 Cleveland 4, at Atlanta 2 (11) Houston 12, at Colorado 4 N.Y. Yankees 15, at Milwaukee 3 at Seattle 3, Arizona 1 SUNdAY’S rESULtS at Toronto 3, L.A. Dodgers 1 at Texas 4, Cincinnati 3 at Atlanta 4, Cleveland 3 (10) N.Y. Yankees 15, at Milwaukee 5 Houston 8 at Colorado 2 Arizona 3 at Seattle 2 at Boston 5, Chicago Cubs 4 nl leaders Entering Sunday’s games. bAttiNg Betts, LA ......................................... .391 Smith, LA ......................................... .367 Ozuna, Atl ........................................ .354 Bohm, Phi ........................................ .354 hOmE rUNS Ozuna, Atl ............................................. 9 Alonso, NY ............................................ 8 De La Cruz, Cin ...................................... 7 Schwarber, Phi ..................................... 7 Ohtani, LA ............................................ 7 rbi Ozuna, Atl ........................................... 31 Bohm, Phi ........................................... 26 Betts, LA ............................................ 23 Contreras, Mil ..................................... 22 ErA López, Atl ........................................ 0.72 Imanaga, Chi .................................... 0.98 Suárez, Phi ....................................... 1.32 Hicks, SF .......................................... 1.59 StrikEOUtS Glasnow, LA ....................................... 53 Wheeler, Phi ....................................... 46 Greene, Cin ......................................... 42 Cease, SD ............................................ 40 Suárez, Phi .......................................... 40 notEs East W l pct Gb l10 str New York 19 10 .655 — 6-4 W-2 Baltimore 17 10 .630 1 6-4 L-1 Boston 16 13 .552 3 6-4 W-2 Toronto 14 15 .483 5 4-6 W-1 Tampa Bay 13 16 .448 6 3-7 L-3 cEntral W l pct Gb l10 str cleveland 19 9 .679 — 7-3 L-1 Kansas city 17 12 .586 21/2 5-5 L-2 Detroit 16 12 .571 3 6-4 W-2 Minnesota 14 13 .519 41/2 8-2 W-7 chicago 6 22 .214 13 3-7 W-3 WEst W l pct Gb l10 str seattle 15 13 .536 — 7-3 L-1 Texas 15 14 .517 1/2 5-5 W-1 Oakland 12 17 .414 31/2 4-6 W-1 Los angeles 10 18 .357 5 1-9 L-4 houston 9 19 .321 6 3-7 W-2 East W l pct Gb l10 str atlanta 19 7 .731 — 8-2 W-1 philadelphia 19 10 .655 11/2 8-2 W-4 New York 14 13 .519 51/2 5-5 W-1 Washington 13 14 .481 61/2 6-4 W-3 Miami 6 23 .207 141/2 2-8 L-6 cEntral W l pct Gb l10 str Milwaukee 17 10 .630 — 6-4 L-2 chicago 17 11 .607 1/2 6-4 L-2 cincinnati 15 13 .536 21/2 6-4 L-1 pittsburgh 14 15 .483 4 3-7 L-1 st. Louis 13 15 .464 41/2 4-6 L-1 WEst W l pct Gb l10 str Los angeles 18 12 .600 — 6-4 L-1 san Francisco 14 15 .483 31/2 6-4 W-1 san Diego 14 17 .452 41/2 3-7 L-4 arizona 13 16 .448 41/2 4-6 W-1 colorado 7 21 .250 10 3-7 L-2 nationals 12, marlins 9 NAtiONALS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Abrams ss............5 1 1 2 0 1 .296 Senzel dh .............6 2 2 5 0 2 .222 Winker lf..............5 0 1 0 1 1 .286 Meneses 1b .........6 0 0 0 0 0 .236 Vargas 2b.............5 1 2 0 0 2 .304 Lipscomb 3b.........4 3 3 0 0 0 .292 Call rf ...................2 3 2 0 2 0 1.00 Adams c...............4 0 0 0 1 3 .231 Young cf...............5 2 3 3 0 0 .333 tOtALS 42 12 14 10 49 — mArLiNS Ab r h bi bb SO Avg Arraez 2b-1b.........5 1 2 0 0 0 .305 De La Cruz lf .........4 2 2 0 1 0 .261 Bell dh...................4 1 0 0 1 1 .176 Chisholm cf...........3 2 1 4 2 1 .245 Anderson ss..........4 1 1 1 1 3 .223 Rivera 1b...............3 0 1 1 0 0 .241 Gordon ph-2b........2 0 0 0 0 0 .197 Myers rf................3 1 1 0 0 1 .333 J.Sánchez ph-rf ....2 0 1 1 0 1 .227 Bruján 3b ..............4 1 2 1 0 0 .235 Fortes c.................4 0 1 1 0 1 .132 tOtALS 38 9 12 9 58 — wAShiNgtON 000 541 020 — 12 14 1 miAmi.............. 610 000 200 — 9 12 2 E: Abrams (1), Bruján (4), Myers (1). LOb: Washington 10, Miami 7. 2b: 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 Bender; Chisholm (3), off Corbin. rbi: Young 3 (7), Abrams 2 (15), Senzel 5 (9), Chisholm 4 (15), Bruján (2), Fortes (3), Rivera (3), Anderson (5), J.Sánchez (10). Sb: Young 2 (10), Lipscomb (5), Vargas (2). NAtiONALS ip h r Er bb SO NpErA Corbin............... 4 8 7 4 2 4 936.82 Law .................. 2 2 0 0 0 3 293.00 Weems............ 1/3 2 2 2 1 0 164.66 Harvey........... 12/3 0 0 0 1 0 193.07 Finnegan ......... 1 0 0 0 1 1 212.19 mArLiNS ip h r Erbb SO NpErA Weathers ..........456 6 3 3 874.55 Bender ..............133 3 0 2 209.00 Smith ................121 1 1 1 303.77 Ramirez.............110 0 0 1 170.00 Hoeing...............132 2 0 2 272.00 Cronin................100 0 0 0 122.25 wp: Law (2-1); Lp: Bender (0-2); S: Finnegan (9). inherited runners-scored: Harvey 1-0, Bender 1-1. hbp: Weathers 3 (Call,Abrams,Lipscomb). wp: Hoeing(2). t: 3:17. A: 15,894 (37,446). hOw thEY ScOrEd mArLiNS FirSt Luis Arraez singles. Bryan De La Cruz singles, Luis Arraez to second. Josh Bell hits into a force out, Bryan De La Cruz to second, Luis Arraez to third. Fielding error by CJ Abrams. Jazz chisholm homers to left field, Josh bell scores, bryan de La cruz scores, Luis Arraez scores. Tim Anderson strikes out swinging. Emmanuel Rivera lines out. Dane Myers triples. vidal brujan triples, dane myers scores. Nick Fortes singles, vidal brujan scores. Luis Arraez hits into a force out, Nick Fortes out at second. marlins 6, Nationals 0 mArLiNS SEcONd Bryan De La Cruz doubles. Josh Bell grounds out. Jazz Chisholm walks. Tim Anderson strikes out swinging. Emmanuel rivera doubles, Jazz chisholm to third, bryan de La cruz scores. Dane Myers grounds out. marlins 7, Nationals 0 NAtiONALS FOUrth Trey Lipscomb singles. Alex Call walks, Trey Lipscomb to second. Riley Adams flies out, Trey Lipscomb to third. Jacob Young doubles, Alex call to third, trey Lipscomb scores. cJ Abrams doubles, Jacob Young scores, Alex call scores. Nick Senzel homers, cJ Abrams scores. Jesse Winker grounds out. Joey Meneses reaches on error. Ildemaro Vargas strikes out on a foul tip. marlins 7, Nationals 5 NAtiONALS FiFth Trey Lipscomb hit by pitch. Alex Call singles, Trey Lipscomb to second. Riley Adams strikes out swinging. Jacob Young singles, Alex call to third, trey Lipscomb scores. cJ Abrams strikes out swinging. Nick Senzel homers to center field, Jacob Young scores, Alex call scores. Jesse Winker lines out. Nationals 9, marlins 7 NAtiONALS SiXth Joey Meneses grounds out. Ildemaro Vargas doubles to deep right field. Trey Lipscomb singles to shortstop. Ildemaro Vargas to third. ildemaro vargas steals home, ildemaro vargas scores. Alex Call walks. Riley Adams strikes out swinging. Jacob Young lines out. Nationals 10, marlins 7 mArLiNS SEvENth Jazz Chisholm walks. tim Anderson doubles, Jazz chisholm scores. Nick Gordon pinch-hitting for Emmanuel Rivera. Nick Gordon flies out. Jesus Sanchez pinch-hitting for Dane Myers. Jesus Sanchez singles, tim Anderson scores. Vidal Brujan lines out. Nick Fortes grounds out. Nationals 10, marlins 9 NAtiONALS Eighth Ildemaro Vargas strikes out swinging. Trey Lipscomb singles. Alex call singles, trey Lipscomb to second, Alex call to third, trey Lipscomb scores. Riley Adams called out on strikes. Jacob Young singles, Alex call scores. CJ Abrams grounds out. Nationals 12, marlins 9 al leaders Entering Sunday’s games. bAttiNg Kwan, Cle ......................................... .345 Perez, KC ......................................... .340 Altuve, Hou ..................................... .336 Rutschman, Bal ............................... .324 hOmE rUNS Trout, LA ............................................. 10 O’Neill, Bos ........................................... 9 Henderson, Bal ..................................... 9 rbi Perez, KC ............................................ 26 Ramírez, Cle ....................................... 24 García, Tex .......................................... 23 Soto, NY .............................................. 23 Ward, LA ............................................. 23 ErA Berríos, Tor ...................................... 1.23 Crawford, Bos .................................. 1.35 Blanco, Hou ...................................... 1.65 Houck, Bos ....................................... 1.65 Lugo, KC ........................................... 1.66 StrikEOUtS Castillo, Sea ........................................ 42 Skubal, Det ......................................... 41 Crochet, Chi ........................................ 40 Kirby, Sea ........................................... 38 Ryan, Min ............................................ 38

monday, april 29, 2024 . the washington post eZ su d5 was third-round pick Brandon Coleman. He played guard and tackle at TCU, and most draft experts projected him to play guard in the NfL. NfL.com analyst Lance Zierlein wrote that Coleman could play tackle “in an emergency.” “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 position.” 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 market is relatively thin, and on Sunday night, Philadelphia scooped up one of the best available by agreeing to terms with mekhi Becton, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. other remaining free agents include Donovan Smith and Chris Hubbard. 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 quarterback 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 approach. The Commanders bet big on Daniels, of course, but otherwise 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. 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. Peters had a clear vision for how to use his assets. He de-emphasized the short-term problem of positional need and instead prioritized talent, leadership and experience. All nine picks spent at least four years in college. Seven were team captains. Two metrics, Next Gen Stats and relative Athletic Score, graded the Commanders’ 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 philosophy better than second-round defensive tackle Jer’Zhan “Johnny” 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 surprising. We had a first-round grade on him, and he is an explosive, 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 dependable 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 coordinator] 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 major 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 CoMMANDERS from D1 aNaLysis Peters lays a foundation, saves some fixes for later balls in the dirt. Washington, and Corbin, looked finished after the inning, with three consecutive base runners and a Jazz Chisholm Jr. grand slam putting the Nationals behind 4-0 before Corbin recorded 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 instances 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, anything can happen. And you saw that today.” 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 another 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 Corbin put the Nationals in a jam, all of that was pivotal. It was a break from their recent form — Nationals 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-inning strikes over the plate and 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 backto-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 Before the game, martinez moved his designated hitter up to No. 2 in the lineup. He did so partially as a testament to Senzel’s proclivity for hitting lefthanders, 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 readily described as “intense” by martinez — 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 yard, Senzel turned to the Nationals’ 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 fielder Jacob Young said. “They’re going to keep fighting,” 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 oneyear “prove it” deals — have mentored Washington from a team that’s young and scrappy to one capable of pulling out these sorts of wins, of building on momentum, of sustaining the sort of life that’s needed to survive a 162-game slog in which the Nationals 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 getting 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.” NATioNALS from D1 Senzel hits two HRs as Nats erase seven-run deficit NaTiONaLs ON deck at Miami Marlins monday 6:40 masn2 at Texas Rangers tuesday 8:05 masn2 Wednesday 8:05 masn2 thursday 2:35 masn2 vs. Toronto Blue Jays friday 6:45 apple tV plus saturday 4:05 masn sunday 1:35 masn Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM), WTEM (980 AM), WDCN (87.7 FM) WiLfredo Lee/associated press Nick Senzel, right, is greeted by Alex Call after ripping a go-ahead three-run homer in the fifth inning. 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 firstyear 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. 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 firstround 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 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 shelllike 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. 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 firstrounders. oN ThE NfL from D1 ON The NFL Eagles, Chiefs make some savvy moves during draft Jacob Kupferman/associated press Texas wide receiver Xavier Worthy, who set an NfL combine record in the 40-yard dash, gives Patrick Mahomes a deep threat. BY JACOB CALVIN MEYER 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 orioles 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 being removed with what manager Brandon Hyde said after the game was upper-back tightness. on friday, the veteran righthander 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 Kimbrel exits with tightness in back after blowing save Athletics 7, orioles 6

d6 EZ SU the washington post . monday, april 29, 2024 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. 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 factchecked 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 BlACKIStoNE from D1 KEviN B. BLACKiSTONE Clark’s deal says the quiet part out loud about women’s hoops SCOREBOARd PRO BASKETBALL NBA playoffs first round Best of seven; x-If necessary eAstern conference ceLtics LeAd heAt, 2-1 Game 1: at Boston 114, Miami 94 Game 2: Miami 111, at Boston 101 Game 3: Boston 104, at Miami 84 Monday’s game: Boston at Miami, 7:30 Wednesday’s game: Miami at Boston, TBD x-Friday's game: Boston at Miami, TBD x-Sunday, May 5: Miami at Boston, TBD knicks LeAd 76ers, 3-1 Game 1: at New York 111, Philadelphia 104 Game 2: at New York 104, Philadelphia 101 Game 3: at Philadelphia 125, New York 114 Game 4: New York 97, at Philadelphia 92 Tuesday's game: Philadelphia at New York, TBD x-Thursday's game: New York at Philadelphia, TBD x-Saturday’s game: Philadelphia at New York, TBD pAcers LeAd bucks, 3-1 Game 1: at Milwaukee 109, Indiana 94 Game 2: Indiana 125, at Milwaukee 108 Game 3: at Indiana 121, Milwaukee 119 (OT) Game 4: at Indiana 126, Milwaukee 113 Tuesday’s game: Indiana at Milwaukee, TBD x-Thursday's game: Milwaukee at Indiana, TBD x-Saturday's game: Indiana at Milwaukee, TBD cAVALiers And mAGic tied, 2-2 Game 1: at Cleveland 97, Orlando 83 Game 2: at Cleveland 96, Orlando 86 Game 3: at Orlando 121, Cleveland 83 Game 4: at Orlando 112, Cleveland 89 Tuesday's game: Orlando at Cleveland, TBD Friday's game: Cleveland at Orlando, TBD x-Sunday, May 5: Orlando at Cleveland, TBD western conference thunder LeAds peLicAns, 3-0 Game 1: Oklahoma City 94, at New Orleans 92 Game 2: at Oklahoma City 124, New Orleans 92 Game 3: Oklahoma City 106, at New Orleans 85 Monday’s game: Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 8:30 x-Wednesday's game: New Orleans at Oklahoma City, TBD x-Friday's game: Oklahoma City at New Orleans, TBD x-Sunday, May 5: New Orleans at Oklahoma City, TBD nuGGets LeAd LAkers, 3-1 Game 1: at Denver 114, Los Angeles 103 Game 2: at Denver 101, Los Angeles 99 Game 3: Denver 112, at Los Angeles 105 Game 4: at Los Angeles 119, Denver 108 Monday's game: Los Angeles at Denver, 10 x-Thursday's game: Denver at Los Angeles , TBD x-Saturday’s game: Los Angeles at Denver, TBD timberwoLVes LeAd suns, 3-0 Game 1: at Minnesota 120, Phoenix 95 Game 2: at Minnesota 105, Phoenix 93 Game 3: Minnesota 126, at Phoenix 109 Game 4: Minnesota at Phoenix, late x-Tuesday's game: Phoenix at Minnesota, TBD x-Thursday's game: Minnesota at Phoenix, TBD x-Saturday’s game: Phoenix at Minnesota, TBD mAVericks And cLippers tied, 2-2 Game 1: at Los Angeles 109, Dallas 97 Game 2: Dallas 96 at Los Angeles 93 Game 3: at Dallas 101, Los Angeles 90 Game 4: Los Angeles 116 at Dallas 111 Wednesday’s game: Dallas at Los Angeles, 10 Friday's game: Los Angeles at Dallas, 9:30 x-Sunday, May 5: Dallas at Los Angeles, TBD Knicks 97, 76ers 92 new york ......................... 17 30 30 20 — 97 phiLAdeLphiA .................. 27 22 27 16 — 92 new york: Anunoby 8-16 0-0 16, Hart 0-7 4-8 4, Hartenstein 4-6 0-2 8, Brunson 18-34 9-11 47, DiVincenzo 3-11 0-0 8, Achiuwa 0-5 1-2 1, Bogdanovic 0-0 0-0 0, McBride 4-7 2-3 13. totals 37-86 16-26 97. phiLAdeLphiA: Harris 4-10 2-2 10, Oubre Jr. 7-15 2-2 19, Embiid 7-19 12-14 27, Lowry 1-6 4-5 7, Maxey 8-21 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, DiVincenzo 2-7, Brunson 2-8, Hart 0-3, Anunoby 0-4), Philadelphia 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 (Brunson 10), Philadelphia 23 (Lowry 7). total fouls: New York 19, Philadelphia 24. A: 21,048 (20,478) chise playoff record 22 threepointers 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 milwaukee. 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 Antetokounmpo (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 playoffhigh 47 points and added 10 assists, and New York beat host Philadelphia 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 within a victory of getting to the Eastern 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. ASSOCIATED PRESS Paul George and James Harden each scored 33 points while playing key fourth-quarter roles to help the Los Angeles Clippers hold on after blowing a 31-point lead and beat the host Dallas mavericks, 116-111, on Sunday, evening the first-round series at 2-2. The Clippers won again without 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 firstround 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 threepointer by Harden. The stars combined 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 added 24, and Indiana made a franNBA PLAyOffS ROuNduP Los Angeles ties series behind Harden, George clippers 116, mavericks 111 Lakers 119, Nuggets 108 Late Saturday denVer .............................. 23 25 32 28 — 108 L.A. LAkers ....................... 28 33 30 28 — 119 denVer: Gordon 3-7 1-2 7, Porter Jr. 10-20 3-5 27, Jokic 10-20 11-11 33, Caldwell-Pope 6-8 0-0 14, Murray 9-23 4-5 22, Holiday 1-3 0-0 3, Braun 0-2 0-0 0, Jackson 0-1 0-0 0, Watson 0-3 2-2 2. totals 39-87 21-25 108. 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 21, Prince 3-7 2-2 9, Hayes 0-2 0-0 0, Dinwiddie 0-1 1-2 1, Vincent 1-4 0-0 3. totals 48-92 15-18 119. three-point Goals: Denver 9-30 (Porter Jr. 4-11, Caldwell-Pope 2-3, Jokic 2-5, Holiday 1-2, Braun 0-1, Gordon 0-2, Watson 0-2, Murray 0-4), L.A. Lakers 8-26 (Russell 4-8, Vincent 1-2, Hachimura 1-3, Prince 1-4, Reaves 1-6, Dinwiddie 0-1, James 0-2). fouled out: None. rebounds: Denver 40 (Jokic 14), L.A. Lakers 46 (Davis 23). Assists: Denver 30 (Jokic 14), L.A. Lakers 23 (Davis, Reaves 6). total fouls: Denver 15, L.A. Lakers 20. A: 18,997 (18,997) HOCKEy Stanley Cup playoffs first round Best of seven; x-If necessary eAstern conference rAnGers eLimnAted cApitALs, 4-0 Game 1: at New York 4, Washington 1 Game 2: at New York 4, Washington 3 Game 3: New York 3, at Washington 1 Game 4: New York 4 at Washington 2 hurricAnes LeAd isLAnders, 3-1 Game 1: at Carolina 3, New York 1 Game 2: at Carolina 5, New York 3 Game 3: Carolina 3, at New York 2 Game 4: at New York 3, Carolina 2 (2OT) Tuesday's game: New York at Carolina, 7:30 x-Thursday's game: Carolina at New York, TBA x-Saturday's game: New York at Carolina, TBA pAnthers LeAd LiGhtninG, 3-1 Game 1: at Florida 3, Tampa Bay 2 Game 2: at Florida 3, Tampa Bay 2 Game 3: Florida 5, at Tampa Bay 3 Game 4: at Tampa Bay 6, Florida 3 Monday's game: Tampa Bay at Florida, 7 x-Wednesday's game: Florida at Tampa Bay, TBA x-Saturday's game: Tampa Bay at Florida, TBA bruins LeAd mApLe LeAfs, 3-1 Game 1: at Boston 5, Toronto 1 Game 2: Toronto 3, at Boston 2 Game 3: Boston 4 at Toronto 2 Game 4: Boston 3, at Toronto 1 Tuesday’s game: Toronto at Boston, 7 x-Thursday, May 2: Boston at Toronto, TBA x-Saturday's game: Toronto at Boston, TBA western conference AVALAnche LeAds Jets, 3-1 Game 1: at Winnipeg 7, Colorado 6 Game 2: Colorado 5 at Winnipeg 2 Game 3: at Colorado 6, Winnipeg 2 Game 4: at Colorado 5, Winnipeg 1 Tuesday’s game: Colorado at Winnipeg, 9:30 x-Thursday's game: Winnipeg at Colorado, TBA x-Saturday's game: Colorado at Winnipeg, TBA oiLers LeAd kinGs, 2-1 Game 1: at Edmonton 7, Los Angeles 4 Game 2: Los Angeles 5, at Edmonton 4 (OT) Game 3: Edmonton 6, at Los Angeles 1 Game 4: Edmonton at Los Angeles, late Wednesday's game: Los Angeles at Edmonton, TBA x-Friday's game: Edmonton at Los Angeles, TBA x-Sunday, May 5: Los Angeles at Edmonton, TBA cAnucks LeAd predAtors, 3-1 Game 1: at Vancouver 4, Nashville 2 Game 2: Nashville 4 at Vancouver 1 Game 3: Vancouver 2, at Nashville 1 Game 4: Vancouver 4, at Nashville 3 (OT) Tuesday’s game: Nashville at Vancouver, 10 x-Friday's game: Vancouver at Nashville, TBA x-Sunday, May 5: Nashville at Vancouver, TBA GoLden kniGhts LeAd stArs, 2-1 Game 1: Vegas 4, at Dallas 3 Game 2: Vegas 3, at Dallas 1 Game 3: Dallas 3, at Vegas 2 Monday's game: Dallas at Vegas, 9:30 Wednesday's game: Vegas at Dallas, TBA x-Friday's game: Dallas at Vegas, TBA x-Sunday, May 5: Vegas at Dallas, TBA Bruins 3, Maple Leafs 1 Late Saturday boston ................................... 1 2 0 — 3 toronto ................................ 0 0 1 — 1 first period scoring: 1, Boston, van Riemsdyk 1 (Lohrei), 15:09. second period scoring: 2, Boston, Marchand 3 (Coyle, McAvoy), 8:20 (pp). 3, Boston, Pastrnak 2 (Marchand, Zacha), 19:18. third period scoring: 4, Toronto, Marner 1 (Lyubushkin, Bertuzzi), 5:43. shots on GoAL boston ................................... 8 9 5 — 22 toronto ................................ 7 9 10 — 26 power-play opportunities: Boston 1 of 3; Toronto 0 of 3. Goalies: Boston, Swayman 3-0-0 (26 shots-25 saves). Toronto, Samsonov 1-3-0 (17-14), Toronto, Woll 0-0-0 (5-5). A: 19,256 (18,819). t: 2:32. Stars 3, golden Knights 2 (OT) Late Saturday dALLAs .............................. 1 1 0 1—3 VeGAs ............................... 0 2 0 0 — 2 first period scoring: 1, Dallas, Johnston 1 (Heiskanen, Robertson), 11:11. second period scoring: 2, Dallas, Heiskanen 1 (Dadonov, Seguin), 5:25. 3, Vegas, McNabb 2 (Stephenson), 10:40. 4, Vegas, Eichel 2 (McNabb), 13:50 (sh). oVertime scoring: 5, Dallas, Johnston 2 (Robertson, Suter), 16:23. shots on GoAL dALLAs ............................ 18 15 5 8 — 46 VeGAs ............................... 7 10 10 7 — 34 power-play opportunities: Dallas 0 of 2; Vegas 0 of 1. Goalies: Dallas, Oettinger 1-2-0 (34 shots-32 saves). Vegas, Thompson 2-1-0 (46-43). A: 18,536 (17,367). t: 3:19. Avalanche 5, Jets 1 winnipeG ............................... 1 0 0 — 1 coLorAdo .............................. 1 3 1 — 5 first period scoring: 1, Colorado, Lehkonen 4 (Mittelstadt), 8:10. 2, Winnipeg, Schmidt 1 (Appleton, Stanley), 13:56. second period scoring: 3, Colorado, Nichushkin 4 (MacKinnon, Makar), 11:36 (pp). 4, Colorado, Makar 2, 15:03. 5, Colorado, Nichushkin 5 (Lehkonen, MacKinnon), 19:36 (pp). third period scoring: 6, Colorado, Nichushkin 6, 19:47 (en). shots on GoAL winnipeG ............................... 9 7 10 — 26 coLorAdo ............................ 13 17 5 — 35 power-play opportunities: Winnipeg 0 of 4; Colorado 2 of 4. Goalies: Winnipeg, Hellebuyck 1-3-0 (30 shots-26 saves), Winnipeg, Brossoit 0-0-0 (4-4). Colorado, Georgiev 3-1-0 (26-25). A: 18,129 (18,007). t: 2:42. Atlanta united 0, fire 0 Late Saturday AtLAntA 000 chicAGo 0 0 0 first half: None. second half: None. Goalies: Atlanta, Brad Guzan, Joshua Cohen; Chicago, Chris Brady, Spencer Richey. yellow cards: Lennon, Atlanta, 46th; Arigoni, Chicago, 75th; Slisz, Atlanta, 90th; Mosquera, Atlanta, 90th+8. Atlanta, Brad Guzan; Luis Abram, Brooks Lennon, Efrain Morales, Caleb Wiley; Thiago Almada, Saba Lobzhanidze, Bartosz Slisz; Giorgos Giakoumakis (Daniel Rios, 66th), Tristan Muyumba (Dax McCarty, 78th), Tyler Wolff (Edwin Mosquera, 66th). Chicago, Chris Brady; Allan Arigoni, Rafael Czichos, Andrew Gutman (Jonathan Dean, 66th), Mauricio Pineda, Tobias Salquist; Kellyn Acosta (Brian Gutierrez, 66th); Hugo Cuypers, Fabian Herbers, Georgios Koutsias (Tom Barlow, 71st), Chris Mueller (Arnaud Souquet, 76th). fC dallas 2, dynamo 0 Late Saturday houston 000 dALLAs 0 2 2 first half: None. second half: 1, Dallas, Musa, 3 (Twumasi), 55th minute; 2, Dallas, Ibeagha, 1 (Junqua), 80th. Goalies: Houston, Steve Clark, Andrew Tarbell; Dallas, Maarten Paes, Jimmy Maurer. yellow cards: Musa, Dallas, 16th; Illarramendi, Dallas, 42nd; Micael, Houston, 62nd; Kamungo, Dallas, 73rd; Gaines, Houston, 87th; Sviatchenko, Houston, 90th+2. red cards: Dorsey, Houston, 5th. Houston, Steve Clark; Ethan Bartlow, Griffin Dorsey, Franco Escobar (Hector Herrera, 66th), Micael (Erik Sviatchenko, 84th); Artur, Latif Blessing (Daniel Steres, 19th), Adalberto Carrasquilla, Sebastian Kowalczyk (McKinze Gaines, 84th); Ibrahim Aliyu, Amine Bassi (Brad Smith, 47th). Dallas, Maarten Paes; Marco Farfan (Bernard Kamungo, 46th), Sebastien Ibeagha, Sam Junqua, Nkosi Tafari; Paul Arriola (Tsiki Ntsabeleng, 82nd), Patrickson Delgado (Jesus Ferreira, 67th), Liam Fraser, Illarramendi (Carl Sainte, 90th+1), Ema Twumasi; Petar Musa (Logan Farrington, 90th+1). Minnesota united 2, Sporting KC 1 Late Saturday sportinG kc 101 minnesotA 2 0 2 first half: 1, Minnesota, Boxall, 1 (Lod), 2nd minute; 2, Minnesota, Oluwaseyi, 4 (Rosales), 25th; 3, Sporting KC, Pulido, 3 (Salloi), 37th. Goalies: Sporting KC, Tim Melia, John Pulskamp; Minnesota, Dayne St. Clair, Alec Smir. yellow cards: Fontas, Sporting KC, 23rd; Padelford, Minnesota, 31st; Boxall, Minnesota, 63rd. Sporting KC, Tim Melia; Andreu Fontas, Tim Leibold, Kayden Pierre (Khiry Shelton, 70th), Dany Rosero; Nemanja Radoja, Erik Thommy, Remi Walter; William Agada (Johnny Russell, 62nd), Alan Pulido (Alenis Vargas, 83rd), Daniel Salloi. Minnesota, Dayne St. Clair; Michael Boxall, Devin Padelford (Carlos Harvey, 80th), D.J. Taylor; Kervin Arriaga, Robin Lod (Alejandro Bran, 90th+2), Joseph Rosales, Wil Trapp; Franco Fragapane (Bongokuhle Hlongwane, 46th), Tani Oluwaseyi (Miguel Tapias, 66th), Teemu Pukki (Caden Clark, 46th). Earthquakes 1, Nashville SC 1 Late Saturday sAn Jose 011 nAshViLLe 1 0 1 first half: 1, Nashville, Mukhtar, 2 (Muyl), 19th minute. second half: 2, San Jose, Skahan, 1 (Rodrigues), 63rd. Goalies: San Jose, William Yarbrough, Emi Ochoa; Nashville, Joe Willis, Ben Martino, Elliot Panicco. yellow cards: Lovitz, Nashville, 4th; Tsakiris, San Jose, 14th; Kikanovic, San Jose, 40th; Akapo, San Jose, 51st; Costa, San Jose, 90th+2. San Jose, William Yarbrough; Carlos Akapo, Tanner Beason, Vitor Costa, Rodrigues (Daniel Munie, 87th); Cristian Espinoza (Paul Marie, 89th), Carlos Gruezo, Niko Tsakiris (Jack Skahan, 46th), Jackson Yueill; Jeremy Ebobisse (Preston Judd, 64th), Benjamin Kikanovic (Amahl Pellegrino, 46th). Nashville, Joe Willis; Brent Kallman (Walker Zimmerman, 77th), Daniel Lovitz (Taylor Washington, 73rd), Jack Maher; Sean Davis (Brian Anunga, 74th), Anibal Godoy, Hany Mukhtar, Alex Muyl, Dru Yearwood (Tyler Boyd, 77th); Jacob Shaffelburg, Sam Surridge (Teal Bunbury, 87th). Los Angeles fC 3, Timbers 2 Late Saturday portLAnd 022 Los AnGeLes fc 2 1 3 first half: 1, Los Angeles FC, Miller, 44th minute; 2, Los 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, Bouanga, 6 (Atuesta), 90th+2. Goalies: Portland, Maxime Crepeau, James Pantemis; Los Angeles FC, Hugo Lloris, Abraham Romero. yellow cards: Bogusz, Los Angeles FC, 48th; Bravo, Portland, 52nd; Sanchez, Los Angeles FC, 54th; Rodriguez, Portland, 55th; Williamson, Portland, 68th; Chara, Portland, 72nd; Chanot, Los Angeles FC, 75th; Kamara, Los Angeles FC, 89th; Miller, Portland, 90th+6. Portland, Maxime Crepeau; Miguel Araujo, Claudio Bravo, Kamal Miller, Juan Mosquera (Eric Miller, 46th); Diego Chara, Santiago Moreno, Eryk Williamson (David Ayala, 83rd); Antony Alves Santos (Dairon Asprilla, 59th), Felipe Mora (Cristhian Paredes, 77th), Jonathan Rodriguez (Zac McGraw, 83rd). Los Angeles FC, Hugo Lloris; Maxime Chanot, Ryan Hollingshead (Omar Chagoya, 79th), Jesus Murillo, Sergi Palencia; Eduard Atuesta, Mateusz Bogusz, Ilie Sanchez (Kei Kamara, 79th), Timothy Tillmann; Denis Bouanga, Cristian Olivera (Luis Muller, 90th+6). Clippers 116, Mavericks 111 L.A. cLippers .................... 39 27 16 34 — 116 dALLAs .............................. 16 33 29 33 — 111 L.A. cLippers: Coffey 2-5 0-0 4, George 11-19 4-7 33, Zubac 6-11 1-2 13, Harden 12-17 5-5 33, Mann 3-9 2-2 11, Plumlee 3-3 0-0 6, N.Powell 4-8 0-0 11, Westbrook 2-8 0-2 5. totals 43-80 12-18 116. dALLAs: Jones Jr. 6-9 0-1 14, Washington 4-9 1-1 10, Gafford 1-4 3-4 5, Doncic 10-24 8-10 29, Irving 14-25 6-6 40, Kleber 1-1 0-0 3, Lively II 4-4 0-1 8, Exum 0-2 0-0 0, Green 0-3 2-2 2, Hardy 0-0 0-0 0. totals 40-81 20-25 111. three-point Goals: L.A. Clippers 18-29 (George 7-10, Harden 4-5, N.Powell 3-5, Mann 3-6, Westbrook 1-2, Coffey 0-1), Dallas 11-33 (Irving 6-12, Jones Jr. 2-3, Kleber 1-1, Washington 1-5, Doncic 1-9, Exum 0-1, Green 0-2). fouled out: None. rebounds: L.A. Clippers 29 (George, Harden 6), Dallas 42 (Doncic 10). Assists: L.A. Clippers 22 (George 8), Dallas 22 (Doncic 10). total fouls: L.A. Clippers 27, Dallas 21. A: 20,411 (19,200) TENNiS Madrid Open At Caja Magica; in Madrid purse: $8,429,002 surface: Red clay men’s sinGLes — round of 32 Jan-Lennard Struff (23), Germany, def. Ugo Humbert (13), France, 7-5, 6-4; Tallon Griekspoor (24), Netherlands, def. Holger Rune (11), Denmark, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Andrey Rublev (7), Russia, def. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (27), Spain, 7-6 (12-10), 6-4; Hubert Hurkacz (8), Poland, def. Daniel Altmaier, Germany, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2); Carlos Alcaraz (2), Spain, def. Thiago Seyboth Wild, Brazil, 6-3, 6-3; Taylor Fritz (12), United States, def. Sebastian Baez (18), Argentina, 6-2, 6-3; Francisco Cerundolo (21), Argentina, def. Tommy Paul (15), United States, 6-7 (9-7), 6-4, 6-2. women’s sinGLes — round of 32 Sara Bejlek, Czech Republic, def. Ashlyn Krueger, United States, 6-3, 6-1; Elena Rybakina (4), Kazakhstan, def. Mayar Sherif, Egypt, 6-1, 6-4; Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, def. Caroline Dolehide, United States, 6-2, 6-2; Daria Kasatkina (10), Russia, def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (20), Russia, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5; Mirra Andreeva, Russia, def. Marketa Vondrousova (7), Czech Republic, 7-5, 6-1; Jasmine Paolini (12), Italy, def. Caroline Garcia (21), France, 6-3, 6-2; Danielle Collins (13), United States, def. Jaqueline Adina Cristian, Romania, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1; Aryna Sabalenka (2), Belarus, def. Robin Montgomery, United States, 6-1, 6-7 (7-5), 6-4. women’s doubLes — round of 16 Sara Sorribes Tormo and Cristina Bucsa (8), Spain, def. Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, 7-6 (8-6), 6-1; Taylor Townsend and Coco Gauff (4), United States, def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sofia Kenin, United States, 6-2, 4-6, 10-8; Desirae Krawczyk and Caroline Dolehide (7), United States, def. Lucia Bronzetti, Italy, and Liudmila Samsonova, Russia, 6-3, 6-7 (7-3), 10-8; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Anastasia Potapova, Russia, def. Nadiia Kichenok, Ukraine, and Miyu Kato, Japan, 6-4, 6-1. AuTO RACiNg NASCAR Cup Series würth 400 At Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway Lap length: 1.00 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (6) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 400 laps, 53 points. 2. (21) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 400, 51. 3. (15) Martin Truex Jr, Toyota, 400, 51. 4. (1) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 400, 42. 5. (29) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 400, 40. 6. (5) Noah Gragson, Ford, 400, 31. 7. (2) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 400, 40. 8. (9) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 400, 41. 9. (14) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 400, 28. 10. (19) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 400, 27. 11. (4) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 400, 38. 12. (22) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 400, 25. 13. (10) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 400, 0. 14. (12) Josh Berry, Ford, 400, 23. 15. (11) Austin Cindric, Ford, 400, 22. 16. (13) Joey Logano, Ford, 400, 21. 17. (18) Chris Buescher, Ford, 400, 20. 18. (31) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 399, 19. 19. (7) Chase Briscoe, Ford, 399, 18. 20. (34) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 398, 17. 21. (25) Corey LaJoie, Chevrolet, 398, 16. 22. (20) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 397, 15. 23. (36) Justin Haley, Ford, 397, 14. 24. (37) Zane Smith, Chevrolet, 397, 13. 25. (32) Corey Heim, Toyota, 397, 0. 26. (26) Harrison Burton, Ford, 397, 11. 27. (23) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 396, 10. 28. (27) Jimmie Johnson, Toyota, 395, 9. 29. (35) Kaz Grala, Ford, 394, 8. 30. (24) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 383, 7. 31. (30) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 379, 6. 32. (16) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, accident, 329, 6. 33. (3) William Byron, Chevrolet, accident, 329, 13. 34. (33) Christopher Bell, Toyota, accident, 328, 3. 35. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, accident, 320, 5. 36. (8) Michael McDowell, Ford, garage, 285, 1. 37. (28) Ryan Preece, Ford, garage, 66, 1. SOCCER MLS eAst w L t pts Gf GA Inter Miami CF ..................6 2 3 21 26 16 Cincinnati..........................5 2 3 18 12 9 New York...........................4 1 5 17 14 10 Toronto FC ........................5 4 1 16 11 13 Columbus ..........................3 1 6 15 12 9 New York City FC ..............4 4 2 14 11 10 Philadelphia ......................3 1 4 13 15 11 D.C. United ........................3 3 4 13 14 15 Atlanta..............................3 3 3 12 13 9 CF Montreal ......................3 3 3 12 12 16 Charlotte FC......................3 5 2 11 10 13 Chicago..............................2 4 4 10 11 18 Orlando City ......................2 4 3 9 11 17 Nashville ...........................1 3 5 8 10 17 New England.....................1 7 1 4 6 18 west w L t pts Gf GA Real Salt Lake ...................5 2 3 18 17 9 LA Galaxy..........................5 2 3 18 21 17 Vancouver .........................5 2 2 17 18 10 Minnesota United.............5 2 2 17 15 10 Los Angeles FC..................4 3 3 15 18 16 Colorado ............................4 3 3 15 16 15 Austin FC ..........................4 3 3 15 14 13 Houston ............................4 4 1 13 9 10 St. Louis City SC ...............2 1 6 12 15 14 Sporting KC.......................2 3 5 11 18 18 Portland ............................2 4 4 10 20 21 FC Dallas ...........................2 5 2 8 9 12 Seattle ..............................1 5 3 6 10 11 San Jose............................1 8 1 4 14 25 sAturdAy, ApriL 20 at New York City FC 2, D.C. United 0 Cincinnati 2, at Atlanta 1 Portland 2, at Columbus 2 at Miami 3, Nashville 1 Orlando City 2, at CF Montreal 2 at Toronto FC 1, New England 0 Real Salt Lake 4, at Chicago 0 Austin FC 1, at Houston 0 St. Louis City SC 3, at Sporting KC 3 at Colorado 2, FC Dallas 1 New York 2, at Los Angeles FC 2 Vancouver 2, at Seattle 0 sundAy, ApriL 21 Minnesota 3, at Charlotte FC 0 at LA Galaxy 4, San Jose 3 sAturdAy’s resuLts at D.C. United 2, Seattle 1 at Austin FC 2, LA Galaxy 0 at Cincinnati 2, Colorado 1 CF Montreal 0, at Columbus 0 at New York City FC 2, Charlotte FC 1 Miami 4, at New England 1 Vancouver 1, at New York 1 Toronto FC 2, at Orlando City 1 Real Salt Lake 2, at Philadelphia 1 Atlanta 0, at Chicago 0 at FC Dallas 2, Houston 0 at Minnesota 2, Sporting KC 1 San Jose 1, at Nashville 1 at Los Angeles FC 3, Portland 2 sAturdAy’s mAtches Philadelphia at D.C. United, 7:30 Minnesota at Atlanta, 7:30 Portland at Charlotte FC, 7:30 New York at Miami, 7:30 Cincinnati at Orlando City, 7:30 Los Angeles FC at San Jose, 7:30 FC Dallas at Toronto FC, 7:30 New England at Chicago, 8:30 St. Louis City SC at Houston, 8:30 CF Montreal at Nashville, 8:30 Sporting KC at Real Salt Lake, 9:30 Austin FC at Vancouver, 10:30 sundAy’s mAtches Colorado at New York City FC, 4 LA Galaxy at Seattle, 6:30 PgA Tour Champions eLectric cLAssic At TPC Sugarloaf; Duluth, Ga. purse: $2 million yardage: 7,179; par: 72 finAL round $300,000 Stephen Ames ................................. 71 64 67 — 202-14 $160,000 Doug Barron ..................................... 65 72 69 — 206-10 Paul Broadhurst ............................... 67 67 72 — 206-10 $108,000 Steven Alker .................................... 65 71 71 — 207 -9 K.J. Choi ........................................... 68 69 70 — 207 -9 $76,000 Retief Goosen .................................. 69 71 68 — 208 -8 John Senden .................................... 67 70 71 — 208 -8 $60,000 Miguel Angel Jimenez ..................... 70 69 70 — 209 -7 Tim Petrovic .................................... 66 74 69 — 209 -7 $48,000 Darren Clarke ................................... 73 69 68 — 210 -6 Ken Duke .......................................... 68 72 70 — 210 -6 Lee Janzen ....................................... 68 69 73 — 210 -6 $37,000 Gene Sauers ..................................... 70 69 72 — 211 -5 Kevin Sutherland ............................. 68 70 73 — 211 -5 David Toms ...................................... 68 71 72 — 211 -5 Y.E. Yang .......................................... 70 68 73 — 211 -5 $28,280 Thomas Bjorn .................................. 69 71 72 — 212 -4 Richard Green .................................. 67 72 73 — 212 -4 Mark Hensby .................................... 72 71 69 — 212 -4 Tom Pernice ..................................... 74 72 66 — 212 -4 Mario Tiziani .................................... 72 68 72 — 212 -4 $21,550 David Branshaw .............................. 71 71 71 — 213 -3 Scott Dunlap .................................... 71 72 70 — 213 -3 Billy Mayfair .................................... 71 71 71 — 213 -3 Jeff Sluman ..................................... 69 72 72 — 213 -3 $17,000 Woody Austin .................................. 69 74 71 — 214 -2 Chris DiMarco .................................. 70 72 72 — 214 -2 Thongchai Jaidee ............................. 73 72 69 — 214 -2 Kenny Perry ..................................... 69 72 73 — 214 -2 Paul Stankowski .............................. 74 72 68 — 214 -2 Michael Wright ................................ 74 66 74 — 214 -2 $13,800 Olin Browne ..................................... 70 77 68 — 215 -1 Brian Gay ......................................... 72 74 69 — 215 -1 Jay Haas .......................................... 75 67 73 — 215 -1 $10,460 Steve Allan ...................................... 69 69 78 — 216 E Billy Andrade ................................... 74 70 72 — 216 E Stuart Appleby ................................ 74 72 70 — 216 E Shane Bertsch ................................. 66 71 79 — 216 E Stewart Cink .................................... 71 70 75 — 216 E Joe Durant ....................................... 74 72 70 — 216 E Paul Goydos ..................................... 68 73 75 — 216 E Jesper Parnevik ............................... 68 72 76 — 216 E Boo Weekley .................................... 76 69 71 — 216 E Charlie Wi ........................................ 70 74 72 — 216 E Canucks 4, Predators 3 (OT) VAncouVer ..................... 1 0 2 1—4 nAshViLLe ........................ 1 1 1 0 — 3 first period scoring: 1, Vancouver, Boeser 2 (Miller, Soucy), 2:55. 2, Nashville, Jankowski 1 (Carrier, Lauzon), 5:34. second period scoring: 3, Nashville, Nyquist 1 (O’Reilly), 5:21. third period scoring: 4, Nashville, Forsberg 2 (McDonagh, Josi), 0:12. 5, Vancouver, Boeser 3 (Miller, Lindholm), 17:11. 6, Vancouver, Boeser 4 (Miller, Pettersson), 19:52. oVertime scoring: 7, Vancouver, Lindholm 2 (Garland, Joshua), 1:02. shots on GoAL VAncouVer ..................... 8 5 6 1 — 20 nAshViLLe ........................ 9 10 11 0 — 30 power-play opportunities: Vancouver 0 of 2; Nashville 0 of 2. Goalies: Vancouver, Silovs 1-0-0 (30 shots-27 saves). Nashville, Saros 1-3-0 (20-16). A: 17,590 (17,113). t: 3:00. PRO fOOTBALL united football League XfL w L t pct pf pA St. Louis ............................4 1 0 .800 151 95 San Antonio ......................4 1 0 .800 115 86 D.C.....................................2 3 0 .400 94 138 Arlington...........................0 5 0 .000 90 125 usfL w L t pct pf pA Birmingham ......................5 0 0 1.000 132 68 Michigan ...........................3 2 0 .600 109 93 Memphis ...........................1 4 0 .200 86 132 Houston ............................1 4 0 .200 76 116 week 5 sAturdAy’s resuLts San Antonio 25, at Arlington 15 Birmingham 32, at Houston 9 sundAy’s resuLts St. Louis 45, at D.C. 12 Michigan 35, at Memphis 18 week 6 sAturdAy’s GAmes Birmingham at Memphis, noon Houston at St. Louis, 3 sundAy’s GAmes San Antonio at D.C., 4 Arlington at Michigan, 1 week 7 sAturdAy, mAy 11 Memphis at Arlington, 1 St. Louis at Birmingham, 4 sundAy, mAy 12 Michigan at D.C., noon San Antonio at Houston, 3 Pacers 126, Bucks 113 miLwAukee ...................... 33 31 21 28 — 113 indiAnA ............................. 33 34 31 28 — 126 miLwAukee: Middleton 9-22 7-8 25, Portis 2-4 0-0 4, Lopez 12-18 0-4 27, Beasley 8-12 0-0 20, Beverley 3-6 2-2 9, Beauchamp 1-2 0-0 2, Crowder 1-4 0-0 2, Gallinari 3-5 0-0 6, T.Antetokounmpo 0-0 0-0 0, Connaughton 2-6 0-0 4, Green 3-7 0-0 8, Jackson Jr. 2-4 0-0 6. totals 46-90 9-14 113. indiAnA: Nesmith 3-6 4-4 13, Siakam 6-14 1-3 13, Turner 10-17 2-6 29, Haliburton 8-16 3-3 24, Nembhard 6-9 0-0 15, Jackson 0-3 0-0 0, McDermott 1-2 0-0 3, Toppin 6-9 0-0 13, Walker 0-0 0-0 0, McConnell 4-11 0-0 8, Sheppard 2-2 2-2 8. totals 46-89 12-18 126. three-point Goals: Milwaukee 12-33 (Beasley 4-7, Lopez 3-5, Jackson Jr. 2-4, Green 2-6, Beverley 1-1, Beauchamp 0-1, Portis 0-1, Connaughton 0-2, Crowder 0-2, Middleton 0-4), Indiana 22-43 (Turner 7-9, Haliburton 5-12, Nembhard 3-4, Nesmith 3-5, Sheppard 2-2, McDermott 1-2, Toppin 1-2, McConnell 0-3, Siakam 0-4). fouled out: None. rebounds: Milwaukee 42 (Middleton 10), Indiana 38 (Siakam, Turner 9). Assists: Milwaukee 26 (Jackson Jr. 7), Indiana 33 (Nembhard 9). total fouls: Milwaukee 18, Indiana 18. A: 17,274 (20,000) gOLf LPgA Tour LA chAmpionship At Wilshire Country Club; Los Angeles purse: $3 million yardage: 6,447; par: 71 finAL round $562,500 Hannah Green .......................... 67 69 70 66 — 272 -12 $341,488 Maja Stark ............................... 65 69 73 68 — 275 -9 $247,725 Hae-Ran Ryu ............................ 66 72 71 69 — 278 -6 $172,940 Jin Hee Im ................................ 72 72 63 72 — 279 -5 Jin Young Ko ............................ 72 68 72 67 — 279 -5 $115,917 Nataliya Guseva ...................... 66 73 71 70 — 280 -4 Emily Pedersen ........................ 70 67 73 70 — 280 -4 $77,402 Esther Henseleit ...................... 68 68 71 74 — 281 -3 Gaby Lopez ............................... 74 68 71 68 — 281 -3 Madelene Sagstrom ................ 74 70 72 65 — 281 -3 Mao Saigo ................................ 71 71 70 69 — 281 -3 Xiaowen Yin ............................. 72 68 73 68 — 281 -3 $46,990 Celine Boutier .......................... 68 74 69 71 — 282 -2 Ashleigh Buhai ........................ 69 71 73 69 — 282 -2 Hye Jin Choi ............................. 69 72 74 67 — 282 -2 Nasa Hataoka .......................... 73 71 64 74 — 282 -2 Wei-Ling Hsu ........................... 72 69 68 73 — 282 -2 Charley Hull ............................. 71 70 71 70 — 282 -2 Hyo Joon Jang .......................... 72 70 70 70 — 282 -2 Aline Krauter ........................... 71 71 69 71 — 282 -2 Jennifer Kupcho ....................... 70 69 70 73 — 282 -2 Somi Lee .................................. 73 71 70 68 — 282 -2 Yan Liu ..................................... 71 73 70 68 — 282 -2 Kaitlyn Papp ............................ 72 68 72 70 — 282 -2 $31,864 Ally Ewing ................................ 72 68 70 73 — 283 -1 Ayaka Furue ............................. 74 69 67 73 — 283 -1 Grace Kim ................................ 64 66 76 77 — 283 -1 Pernilla Lindberg ..................... 71 71 73 68 — 283 -1 Wichanee Meechai .................. 72 67 75 69 — 283 -1 Patty Tavatanakit ................... 70 74 67 72 — 283 -1 Chanettee Wannasaen ......................................... 65 73 73 72 — 283 -1 $24,011 Isabella Fierro .......................... 77 67 69 71 — 284 E Kristen Gillman ........................ 71 71 73 69 — 284 E Sei Young Kim ......................... 65 73 74 72 — 284 E Yealimi Noh ............................. 72 71 70 71 — 284 E Paula Reto ............................... 70 71 71 72 — 284 E Jenny Shin ............................... 73 68 72 71 — 284 E Rose Zhang .............................. 69 69 73 73 — 284 E $17,644 Cydney Clanton ........................ 73 70 69 73 — 285 +1 Allisen Corpuz .......................... 73 70 70 72 — 285 +1 Lauren Coughlin ....................... 70 72 72 71 — 285 +1 Gemma Dryburgh .................... 68 74 70 73 — 285 +1 Sarah Kemp ............................. 71 69 71 74 — 285 +1 Alison Lee ................................ 74 68 71 72 — 285 +1 Mi Hyang Lee ........................... 74 67 74 70 — 285 +1 Jeong Eun Lee5 ........................ 69 72 75 69 — 285 +1 TRANSACTiONS mLb boston red sox: Recalled RHP Naoyuki Uwasawa from Worcester (IL). Designated LHP Joely Rodriguez for assignment. kansas city royals: Sent RHP Carlos Hernandez to Omaha (IL) on a rehab assignment. washington nationals: Assigned 38 Jake Alu outright to Rochester (IL). nhL colorado Avalanche: Recalled F Nikolai Kovalenko from Colorado (AHL). detroit red wings: Signed D Andrew Gibson to a three-year, entry-level contract. Rangers 4, Capitals 2 n.y. rAnGers ......................... 2 0 2 — 4 wAshinGton ......................... 1 1 0 — 2 first period scoring: 1, N.Y. Rangers, Kakko 1, 0:57. 2, Washington, Fehervary 2 (Protas, Strome), 14:54. 3, N.Y. Rangers, Trocheck 3 (Panarin, Zibanejad), 19:44 (pp). second period scoring: 4, Washington, Lapierre 1 (Alexeyev), 7:48. third period scoring: 5, N.Y. Rangers, Panarin 2 (Fox, Zibanejad), 3:21 (pp). 6, N.Y. Rangers, Roslovic 2 (Trouba, Lafreniere), 19:09 (en). shots on GoAL n.y. rAnGers ....................... 10 6 7 — 23 wAshinGton ......................... 8 10 6 — 24 power-play opportunities: N.Y. Rangers 3 of 4; Washington 0 of 2. Goalies: N.Y. Rangers, Shesterkin 3-0-0 (24 shots-22 saves). Washington, Lindgren 0-3-0 (22-19). A: 0 (18,277). t: 2:30.

the local expert on local jobs homes for sale, commercial real estate rentals merchandise, garage sales, auctions, tickets dogs, cats, birds, fi sh Trustee Sales 202-334-5782 washingtonpost.com/ recruit washingtonpost.com/ realestate washingtonpost.com/ rentals washingtonpost.com/ merchandise washingtonpost.com/ pets mypublicnotices.com/ washingtonpost/ PublicNotice.asp For Recruitment advertisements, go to washingtonpost.com/recruit or call 202-334-4100 (toll free 1-800-765-3675) Legal Notices: 202-334-7007 Auctions, Estate Sales, Furniture: 202-334-7029 Biz Ops/Services: 202-334-5787 To place an ad, go to washingtonpostads.com or call 202-334-6200 Non-commercial advertisers can now place ads 24/7 by calling 202-334-6200 TrusteesSale - DC 840 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 Apr 29,May 6,13,20 2024 0012458382 1447 AutosWanted DONATE YOUR CAR/TRUCK/RV Lutheran Mission Society of MD Compassion Place ministries help local families with food, clothing, counseling. Tax deductible. MVA licensed #W1044. 410-228-8437 www.CompassionPlace.org 1480 Trucks DODGE 2005 RAM 1500 Gray, great cond inside, 131k miles. $5,000. Call 301-843-0090 Legal Notices 815 “In accordance with New York law, the National Rifle Association of America announces that its Annual Meeting of Members will he held May 18, 2024 at 10:00am in Dallas, Texas in a room at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center that will be prominently posted.” Official Notices 820 ABC LICENSE: Firebirds of Springfield Franconia LLC trading as Firebirds Wood Fired Grill 7027 A Manchester Blvd, Unit 38, Franconia (Fairfax County) Virginia 22310. The above establishment is applying to the VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL (ABC) AUTHORITY for a Mixed Beverage Restaurant license to sell or manufacture alcoholic beverages. Steve Kislow, Manager NOTE: Objections to the issuance of this license must be submitted to ABC no later than 30 days from the publishing date of the first of two required newspaper legal notices. Objections should be registered at www.abc.virginia.gov or (800) 552- 3200. S0114 10X2 A ts & entertai ment? Washington Post newsletters deliver more of what you’re looking for. Discover and subscribe for free at washingtonpost.com/newsletters Trustees Sale- DC 840 Bids & Proposals 825 DGS | DCAM-24-CS-IFB-0007 Hill East Ph II: 72” Sewer Relocation Bids Due: 05/17/2023 Anchor Construction is looking for subcontractors for the project above. CBE Firms are highly encouraged to submit pricing. For further information, please contact Bill Custead at 202.269.6694; [email protected] Anchor Construction is an equal opportunity employer. Give the gift of knowing Gift subscriptions washingtonpost.com/my-post S0390-1x.5 Give a gift that delivers every day Gift subscriptions washingtonpost.com/my-post S0390-1x2 Trustees Sale- DC 840 1711 KALMIA ROAD NW, WASHINGTON DC 20012 In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case: 2016 CA 002141 R(RP), the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property known as 1711 KALMIA ROAD NW, WASHINGTON DC 20012 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 0006 in Square 2748, and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on MAY 31, 2005 as Instrument Number 2005074011. 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: 15-900076 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 0012457442 Montgomery County 850 IN THE CIRCIUT COURT FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND CARRIE M. WARD, et al. 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, vs. SANDRA L. HOBSON (DECEASED) 886 Bayridge Drive Gaithersburg, MD 20878 Defendant(s). Case No.C-15-CV-23-000832 NOTICE 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 proceedmgs and described as 886 Bayridge Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, made and reported by the Substitute Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 13 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 13 day of May, 2024. The report states the purchase price at the Foreclosure sale to be $412,000.00. KAREN A. BUSHELL Clerk, Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland BWW#MD-155007 Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012457995 Trustees Sale- DC 840 Montgomery County 850 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 proceedings and described as 3305 Camden Street, Silver Spring, MD 20902, 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 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 Trustees Sale- DC 840 2608 4TH STREET NE, WASHINGTON DC 20002 In execution of the Superior Court for the District of Columbia’s Decree of Sale in Case: 2023-CAB-000219, the undersigned Trustee(s) will offer for sale the property known as 2608 4TH STREET NE, WASHINGTON DC 20002 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 0045 in Square 3551, and more particularly described in the Deed of Trust recorded in the Land Records of the District of Columbia, on OCTOBER 1, 2019 as Instrument Number 2019105558. 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: 22-009679 JAMES E. CLARKE AND DANIEL K. EISENHAUER 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 0012456655 Montgomery County 850 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, provided 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 Trustees Sale- DC 840 Montgomery County 850 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 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 $241,000.00. KAREN A. BUSHELL Clerk, Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland BWW#MD-350177 Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012457815 Trustees Sale- DC 840 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 Apr 29,May 6,13,20 2024 0012457449 Montgomery County 850 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, Maryland, this 23 day of April, 2024, that the foreclosure sale of the property described in the deed of trust docketed herein and located at 909 Ednor Road, Silver Spring, MD 20905 made and reported 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 Trustees Sale- DC 840 Montgomery County 850 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 Notice be inserted in The Washington Post, a newspaper published in Montgomery County, Maryland, 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 Trustees Sale- DC 840 709 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 Apr 29,May 6,13,20 2024 0012457802 Prince Georges County 851 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. Savage, Gregory N. Britto, Trustees, of the Real Property designated as 1800 Metzerott Road Unit 401, Hyattsville, MD 20783, and reported in the above entitled 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 published 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 Trustees Sale- DC 840 Prince Georges County 851 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 County, Maryland, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings 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, 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 22nd day of May, 2024. The report states the purchase 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 Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012459238 washingtonpost.com/classifieds EFGHI CLAS MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2024 SIFIED D7 EZ

TrusteesSale - DC 840 725 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 Trustees Sale- DC 840 Trustees Sale- DC 840 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-CAB001369 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 Trustees Sale- DC 840 Trustees Sale- DC 840 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 Montgomery County 850 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 Trustees Sale- DC 840 Montgomery County 850 Trustees Sale- DC 840 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 Montgomery County 850 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 Give the gift of discovery Gift subscriptions washingtonpost.com/my-post S0390-1x1.5 Trustees Sale- DC 840 Montgomery County 850 Prince Georges County 851 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. 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Prince Georges County 851 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 ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and more fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust. The property will be sold in an “as is” condition and subject to conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the same, if any and with no warranty of any kind. Terms of Sale: A deposit $15,000.00 will be required at the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including, but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in the event additional funds are tendered at the time of sale or any time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed for any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan, prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee’s prior knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps, transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent, water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee(s) are unable to convey insurable title for any reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to a refund of the aforementioned deposit without interest. In the event the sale is not ratified for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is the return of the deposit without interest. (File # 22-002044) JAMES E. CLARKE, CHRISTINE M. DREXEL, JOANNA FORONDA, SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012454687 Prince Georges County 851 Anne Arundel County 852 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/ 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% 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.: 23-002177-01 A181, A316, A311, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463, A508 Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012456382 Anne Arundel County 852 Anne Arundel County 852 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 Prince Georges County 851 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND CARRIE M. WARD, et al. 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, vs. WILLIAM OBENG-DARKO JR. EVELYN ROBERTS 1901 Page Court Bowie, MD 20716 Defendant(s). Case No.C-16-CV-23-005796 NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 25th day of April, 2024, by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings and described as 1901 Page Court, Bowie, MD 20716, made and reported by the Substitute Trustee, will bll,RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 27th 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 27 day of May, 2024. The report states the purchase price at the Foreclosure sale to be $366,000.00. Mahasin El Amin Clerk, Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland BWW#MD-367328 Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012459347 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND Diane S. Rosenberg Mark D. Meyer Miroslav Nikolov 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 Bethesda, MD 20814 Substitute Trustee Plaintiff(s) V. Estate of Cassandra Pair 4705 Tecumseh Street Unit 203 College Park, MD 20740 Defendant(s) Case No. C-16-CV-23-005260 NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 22nd day of April, 2024 by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland, that the sale of 4705 Tecumseh Street, Unit 203, College Park, MD 20740, made and reported, will be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 22nd day of May, 2024, provided a copy of this notice be inserted The Washington Post in a daily newspaper printed in said County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 22nd, day of May, 2024. The Report of Sale states the amount of the foreclosure sale price to be $152,000.00. Mahasin El Amin Clerk of the Circuit Court Prince George’s County, Maryland Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012459241 Anne Arundel County 852 Prince Georges County 851 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND CARRIE M. WARD, et al. 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, vs. JACQUELINE D. WILSON (DECEASED) 7975 Riggs Road Unit 5 Hyattsville, MD 20783 Defendant(s). Case No.C-16-CV-23-004957 NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 22nd day of April, 2024, by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings and described as 7975 Riggs Road, Unit 5, Hyattsville, MD 20783, 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, 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 22nd day of May, 2024. The report states the purchase price at the Foreclosure sale to be $123,000,00. Mahasin El Amin Clerk, Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland BWW#MD-361371 Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012459242 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND CARRIE M, WARD, et al. 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, vs. JALEEL PHILLIPS 6008 Addison Road Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Defendant(s). Case No.C-16-CV-23-004763 NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 17 day of April, 2024, by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings and described as 6008 Addison Road, Capitol Heights, MD 20743, made and reported by the Substitute Trustee, will be RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 17 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 17 day of May, 2024. The report states the purchase price at the Foreclosure sale to be $252,000,00. Mahasin El Amin Clerk, Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland BWW#MD-363997 Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012458512 Anne Arundel County 852 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 Prince Georges County 851 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND CARRIE M. WARD, et al. 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 Substitute Trustees/Plaintiffs, vs. RICHARD DELONTAY PARKS 3724 Apothecary Street District Heights, MD 20747 Defendant(s). Case No.C-16-CV-23-004514 NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 22nd day of April, 2024, by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland, that the sale of the property mentioned in these proceedings and described as 3724 Apothecary Street, District Heights, MD 20747, 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, 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 22nd day of May, 2024. The report states the purchase price at the Foreclosure sale to be $274,730.00. Mahasin El Amin Clerk, Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland BWW#MD-357626 Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012459237 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND Diane S. Rosenberg Mark D. Meyer Miroslav Nikolov 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 Bethesda, MD 20814 Substitute Trustee Plaintiff(s) V. Teresia Arnold 10607 Chickory Court Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 Defendant(s) Case No. C-16-CV-23-005208 NOTICE Notice is hereby given this 16 day of April, 2024 by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland, that the sale of 10607 Chickory Court, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772, made and reported, will be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 16 day of May, 2024, provided 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 16 day of May, 2024. The Report of Sale states the amount of the foreclosure sale price to be $580,000.00. Mahasin El Amin Clerk of the Circuit Court Prince George’s County, Maryland Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012458398 Anne Arundel County 852 Prince Georges County 851 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND James E. Clarke, et al. Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs V. Anthony D. Pearson and Kelly M. Pearson Defendant(s) Civil No. C-16-CV-23-003867 NOTICE PURSUANT TO MD RULE 14-215 (A) ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland, this 16th day of April, 2024, that the foreclosure sale of the property described in the deed of trust docketed herein and located at 1122 Blue Wing Terrace, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774 made and reported by James E. Clarke, Substitute Trustees, be RATIFIED and CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary be shown on or before the 16th 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 16 day of May,2024. The Report of Sale states the amount of the sale at $389,300.00. BY THE COURT: Mahasin El Amin Clerk of Circuit Court Orlans 20-700525 Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012458505 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND James E. Clarke, et al. Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs V. Estate of Bernice E. Bell AKA Bernice Elizabeth Bell Defendant(s) Civil No. C-16-CV-23-004571 NOTICE PURSUANT TO MD RULE 14-215 (A) ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland, this 16 day of April, 2024, that the foreclosure sale of the property described in the deed of trust docketed herein and located at 2512 Fairlawn Street, Temple Hills, MD 20748 made and reported by James E. Clarke, Substitute Trustees, be RATIFIED and CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary be shown on or before the 16 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 16 day of May, 2024. The Report of Sale states the amount of the sale at $304,000.00. BY THE COURT: Mahasin El Amin Clerk of the Circuit Court Orlans 23-004572 Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012458395 Anne Arundel County 852 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 Calvert County 853 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 TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000 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 4.625% 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.: 22-002933-01 Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012456703 Anne Arundel County 852 Calvert County 853 MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2024 EZ OPQRS CLASSIFIED H NOTICES H Trustee Sales—MD D9

Frederick County 856 Brock and Scott, PLLC 5431 Oleander Drive Wilmington NC, 28403 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 8390 CURIOSITY COURT Walkersville, MD 21793 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust, dated June 4, 2004, and recorded among the Land Records of FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 4716 , folio 227 , 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 FREDERICK COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 100 W. PATRICK ST, FREDERICK, MD 21701 ON, MAY 8, 2024 at 9:30 AM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements thereon situated in FREDERICK COUNTY, MD and described as follows: LOT NO. TWENTY-EIGHT (28), BLOCK C, SECTION THREE, PLAT TWO, DISCOVERY SUBDIVISION, AS SHOWN ON A PLAT RECORDED AMONG THE PLAT RECORDS OF FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND, IN PLAT BOOK 8, AT PAGE 36. SAID PROPERTY BEING IN FEE SIMPLE. TAX ID NO. 26-493269 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 $6,000.00 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 FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at the rate of 4.5 % on unpaid purchase money from date of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to complete full settlement of the purchase of the property within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public charges and private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s order of 10.16.2020 . File No. (23-03656 ) JOHN ANSELL, JEREMY B. WILKINS, ROBERT A. OLIVERI, AMANDA DRISCOLE, PAUL HEINMULLER, JOHN C. HANRAHAN, KRISTOPHER HAWKINS, Substitute Trustees Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012457784 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 6 EAST G ST BRUNSWICK, MD 21716 Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated November 18, 2020, and recorded in Liber 14743, 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 THE FREDERICK COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 100 W. PATRICK ST, FREDERICK, MD 21701 ON, 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 . 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 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 Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012455307 Frederick County 856 Frederick County 856 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 1601 COLONIAL WAY FREDERICK, MD 21702 Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated January 8, 2007, and recorded in Liber 6534, folio 560, of the land records of FREDERICK COUNTY , with an original principal balance of $239,500.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the appointed Substitute Trustees will offer for sale at public auction at THE FREDERICK COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 100 W. PATRICK ST, FREDERICK, MD 21701 ON, 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# - 02-025493 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 $28,500.00 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 7.650% per annum from date of sale to receipt of purchase price by Substitute Trustees must be paid by cashier’s check within 10 days after final ratification of sale. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. There will be no abatement of interest due from the purchaser in the event that additional funds are tendered before settlement or if settlement is delayed for any reason. All real estate taxes and other public charges and/or assessments to be adjusted as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. If applicable, any condominium and/or homeowners association dues and assessments that may become due after the date of sale shall be purchaser’s responsibility. Purchaser shall pay all transfer, documentary and recording taxes/fees and all other settlement costs. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining possession of the property. Time is of the essence for the purchaser. If purchaser defaults, deposit will be forfeited and property resold at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser who shall be liable for any deficiency in the purchase price and all costs, expenses and attorney’s fees of both sales. If Substitute Trustees do not convey title for any reason, purchaser’s sole remedy is return of deposit without interest. This sale is subject to post-sale audit of the status of the loan secured by the Deed of Trust including but not limited to determining whether prior to sale a bankruptcy was filed; forbearance, repayment or other agreement was entered into; or loan was reinstated or paid off. In any such event this sale shall be null and void and purchaser’s sole remedy shall be return of deposit without interest. File No. (18-222728) KEITH YACKO, THOMAS GARTNER, DAVID WILLIAMSON, BRYSON STEPHEN, Substitute Trustees Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012455168 Howard County 857 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 9453 RIVERARK RD COLUMBIA, MD 21045 Under a power of sale contained in that Deed of Trust dated June 22, 2005, and recorded in Liber 09312, folio 098, of the land records of HOWARD COUNTY , with an original 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 COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 9250 JUDICIAL WAY, ELLICOTT CITY, MD 21043 ON, MAY 14, 2024 at 10:00 AM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND together with any buildings or improvements thereon situated in HOWARD COUNTY, MD, located at the above address and more fully described in the aforementioned Deed of Trust. TAX ID# - 16-069035 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 $34,000.00 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 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 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. (23-152700) KEITH YACKO, DAVID WILLIAMSON, BRYSON STEPHEN, THOMAS GARTNER, Substitute Trustees Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012456392 Washington Post newsletters deliver more. washingtonpost.com/newsletters TE H? S0114 2X2 Frederick County 856 Howard County 857 Howard County 857 Brock and Scott, PLLC 5431 Oleander Drive Wilmington NC, 28403 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 5771 Elkridge Heights Road Elkridge, MD 21075 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust to DAVID SILVERMAN, Trustee(s), dated August 6, 2021, and recorded among the Land Records of HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 20908 , folio 183 , 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 HOWARD COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 9250 JUDICIAL WAY, ELLICOTT CITY, MD 21043 ON, MAY 8, 2024 at 12:30 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements thereon situated in HOWARD COUNTY, MD and described as follows: BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NUMBERED THIRTEEN (13) AS SHOWN IN A PLAT RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK NPC 86 AT PLAT 440 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND. CONTAINING .542 ACRES MORE OR LESS. 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 $36,500.00 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 HOWARD COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at the rate of 2.75 % 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. (22-13605) JOHN ANSELL, JOHN C. HANRAHAN, BRENNAN FERGUSON, JEREMY B. WILKINS, AMANDA DRISCOLE, ROBERT OLIVERI, PAUL HEINMULLER, Substitute Trustees Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012455990 Fairfax County 872 OLD DOMINION TRUSTEES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE 12355 SUNRISE VALLEY DRIVE, SUITE 650 RESTON, VIRGINIA 20191 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY 13709 Black Spruce Way, Chantilly, Virginia 20151 SALE AT FRONT ENTRANCE OF CIRCUIT COURT OF FAIRFAX COUNTY 4110 CHAIN BRIDGE ROAD FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA 22030 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, recorded 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 and the Credit Agreement secured thereby, and following the recording of a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustees in the Clerk’s Office of the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Deed Book 28067, page 1892, as Instrument No. 2024004405.001, at the request of the party secured by 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. the real property described as follows (hereafter the “Property”): Lot 33, WALNEY WOODS, as the same appears duly dedicated, platted and recorded in Deed Book 11033 at Page 1952 among the land records 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 record 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, recorded 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 Assignment 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. TERMS OF SALE: This advertisement, as amended or supplemented 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 be paid by cash, cashier’s check, or such other form as the Substitute Trustee may determine acceptable, in its sole discretion. A non-interest-bearing deposit of $100,000.00 shall be required and delivered 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 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 Secured 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 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 obligations of purchaser hereunder shall survive closing and delivery of the deed. The purchaser (other than the Secured Party) shall be required 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 recourse, 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 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 addition, 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 defaulting 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 Richard Lash, President, Old Dominion Trustees, Inc., 12355 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 650, Reston, Virginia 20191, 703-796-1341, extension 144, or [email protected]. This is a communication from a debt collector and any information obtained with be used for that purpose. Apr 29,May 6 2024 0012459278 Give the gift of discovery Gift subscriptions washingtonpost.com/my-post S0390-1x1.5 Howard County 857 Fairfax County 872 S0435_1x1.5 wapo.st/ my-post Manage your print subscription! Prince Georges County 851 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND Thomas W. Hodge, et al. Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs, v. Estate of Olan Thomas a/k/a Olan Thomas, Jr., Defendant. Case No. CAEF19-00059 NOTICE Notice is hereby issued this 9th day of April, 2024 that the sale of the property in this case, 903 Sero Estates Drive, Fort Washington, Maryland 20744, reported by THOMAS W. HODGE, GENE JUNG, LAURA D. HARRIS, ROBERT M. OLIVERI, CHRISTINE JOHNSON, SCOTT ROBINSON AND LOUIS GINGHER, Substitute Trustees, be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary be shown on or before the 9th day of May, 2024, provided a copy of this Notice be inserted in The Washington Post, a newspaper published in Prince George’s County, Maryland, once in each of three (3) successive weeks on or before the 9th day of May, 2024. The report states the amount of sale to be $505,000.00. Mahasin El Amin Clerk Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012457813 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND JASON MURPHY, et al, Substitute Trustee, Plaintiff, V. KARINA CERQUEN, et al, Defendants. Case No. CAEF22-13004 NOTICE Notice is hereby issued this 16th day of April, 2024, that the sale of the property in this case, 1307 OLD CANNON RD FORT WASHINGTON, MD 20744, reported by Jennifer Deardorff, Attorney for the Substitute Trustee, be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary be shown on or before the 16th day of May, 2024, provided a copy of this Notice be inserted in Washington Post, a newspaper published in PRINCE GEORGE’S County, Maryland, once in each of three (3) successive weeks on or before the 16th day of May, 2024. The report states the amount of sale to be $366,040.00. Mahasin El Amin Clerk Apr 22,29,May 6 2024 0012458508 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND DIANA THEOLOGOU, ET. AL. Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs vs. CHARLENE N. BARNARD Defendant(s). Case No.:C-16-CV-23-001129 NOTICE ORDERED this 23 day of April, 2024 by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, Maryland, that the sale of the property at 5236 Daventry Terrace, District Heights, MD 20747 mentioned in these proceedings, made and reported Diana C. Theologou, et. al, Substitute Trustees, be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 23 day of May, 2024 next, provided a copy of this notice be inserted in some newspaper published in said County once in each of three successive weeks before the 23 day of May, 2024 next. The report states the amount of sale to be $270,000.00. Mahasin El Amin CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND Apr 29,May 6,13 2024 0012459274 S0114 4X5 Washington Post newsletters deliver more of what you’re looking for. Discover and subscribe for free at washingtonpost.com/newsletters heal h & welln ss? Take The Post shopping wpost.com/podcasts Washington Post podcasts go with you everywhere Politics • History • Culture • More S0108 4x5 Anne Arundel County 852 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY William M. Savage, et al. Substitute Trustees Versus James A. Wellman Michele L Wellman Defendants No. C-02-CV-23-001050 NOTICE Notice is hereby issued this Monday, April 08, 2024 that the sale of the property in the proceedings mentioned, made and reported by William M. Savage, Substitute Trustee BE RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 8th day of May 2024 next; provided, a copy of this Notice be inserted in some newspaper published in Anne Arundel County, once in each of three successive weeks before the 8th day of May 2024 next. The report states that the amount of sale of the property at 8998 FORT SMALLWOOD ROAD, PASADENA, MD 2112 to be $441,000.00. Scott A. Poyer Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, MD. Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012457454 Frederick County 856 CIRCUIT COURT FOR FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND 100 West Patrick Street Frederick, Maryland 21701 Clerk of the Court: 301-600-1976 Assignment Office: 301-600-2015 Case Number: C-10-CV-22-000044 Other Reference Numbers: ERIC VANDELINDE VS. HAZEL JOHNSON ESTATE OF Date: 4/11/2024 NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby issued by the Circuit Court for Frederick County this 11th day of April 2024, that the sale made and recorded by Marc Medel for the sale of the property described in these proceedings 906 Winding Way, Mt. Airy, MD 21771 be ratified and confirmed thirty (30) days from the date of this Notice, unless cause to the contrary be shown, provided a copy of this Notice be inserted in some Newspaper published in this County, once in each of three (3) successive weeks. The report states the amount of the sale to be $390,000.00. Sandra K. Dalton Clerk of the Circuit Court Apr 15,22,29 2024 0012457890 Manage your print subscription! S0435_1x4 wapo.st/ my-post Fairfax County 872 TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 13942 New Braddock Road, Centreville, VA 20121 In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original principal amount of $316,425.00 dated February 23, 2017 recorded among the land records of the Circuit Court for Fairfax County on March 28, 2017 as Instrument Number: 2017019314.001, the undersigned appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction, at the Main entrance of the courthouse for the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, 4110 Chain Bridge Rd, Fairfax, VA 22030 on June 3, 2024 at 10:30 AM the property described in said deed of trust, located at the above address and briefly described as: ALL OF THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED BELOW AS FOLLOWS: LOT NUMBERED THIRTY-SIX (36) SECTION (6) SINGLETON’S GROVE, AS THE SAME APPEARS DULY DEDICATED, PLATTED AND RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 7061 AT PAGE 607 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND CORRECTED IN DEED BOOK 7173 AT PAGE 1833. Tax ID: 0652 05 0036. TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s deposit of $12,000.00 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is lower, will be required in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. Cash will not be accepted as a deposit. Settlement within fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise Trustee may forfeit deposit. Additional terms to be announced at sale. This is a communication from a debt collector. This notice is an attempt to collect on a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. (Trustee # 24-001414) Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee, LLC C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548, Leesburg, VA 20177 (703) 777- 7101 website: www.Orlans.com The Vendor auction.com will be used in conjunction with this sale.Potential Bidders: For sale information, please visit www. Auction.com or call (800) 280- 2832. Apr 8,15,22,29,May 6 2024 0012456610 PrinceWilliam County 873 TRUSTEE’S SALE OF 14328 Springbrook Court, Woodbridge, VA 22193 In execution of a Deed of Trust in the original principal amount of $402,573.00 dated September 28, 2021 recorded among the land records of the Circuit Court for Prince William County on September 29, 2021 as Instrument Number: 202109290112185, the undersigned appointed Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction, at the Main entrance of the courthouse for the Circuit Court of Prince William County, 9311 Lee Ave, Manassas, VA 20110 on June 3, 2024 at 12:00 PM the property described in said deed of trust, located at the above address and briefly described as: The land hereinafter referred to is situated in the City of Woodbridge, County of Prince William, State of VA, and is described as follows: Lot 486, Section 9-J, Dale City, as the same appears duly dedicated, platted and recorded in Deed Book 983 at page 713, among the Land Records of Prince William County, Virginia. Tax ID: 8091-49-2730. TERMS OF SALE: A bidder’s deposit of $13,000.00 or 10% of the sale price, whichever is lower, will be required in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. Cash will not be accepted as a deposit. Settlement within fifteen (15) days of sale, otherwise Trustee may forfeit deposit. Additional terms to be announced at sale. This is a communication from a debt collector. This notice is an attempt to collect on a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. (Trustee # 24-002433) Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee, LLC C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548, Leesburg, VA 20177 (703) 777- 7101 website: www.Orlans.com The Vendor auction.com will be used in conjunction with this sale.Potential Bidders: For sale information, please visit www. Auction.com or call (800) 280- 2832. Apr 1,8,15,22,29,May 6 2024 0012456674 DC H NORTHEAST Houses NE DC - 509 K St. 3 BR house. Right on bus line. 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