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sTyLe Violence, rumors and court cases have shadowed music mogul Sean Combs, but they have yet to slow his ascent. C1 heALTh & sCienCe people who make “good enough” decisions, instead of “perfect” ones, are often happier, research suggests. E1 Threat of jail time The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s New York trial found him in contempt of court and warned the former president he was flirting with detainment. a8 charges dropped A Virginia prosecutor has withdrawn the cases against five officers in Irvo Otieno’s death at a mental hospital. B1 in the news russian authorities detained a U.S. Army soldier on criminal misconduct charges. A15 The eConomy Businesses are partnering with states to make it easier for families to find available child-care slots in an industry ripe for disruption. A17 The Region the loudoun county sheriff called for school resource officers on elementary campuses as the district assesses its safety protocols. B1 With early voting in Virginia’s 10th District underway, candidates jockeyed for position in a crowded field. B1 The nATion Black americans’ desire to vote in this year’s election is down sharply compared with 2020, a Washington Post-Ipsos poll found, a potentially troublesome sign for President Biden. A2 The WoRLd two women are seeking Mexico’s presidency, but the race is about the man in power. A10 chinese president Xi Jinping visited France during his first trip to Europe in five years. A11 CONTENT © 2024 The Washington Post Year 147, No. 53844 Business neWs.........................A17 ComiCs.........................................C7 oBiTuARies..................................B4 opinion pAges..........................A21 TeLevision...................................C4 WoRLd neWs.............................A10 1 BY ROBYN DIXON IN MosCoW As Vladimir Putin persists in his bloody campaign to conquer Ukraine, the Russian leader is directing an equally momentous transformation at home — re-engineering his country into a regressive, militarized society that views the West as its mortal enemy. Putin’s inauguration on Tuesday for a fifth term will not only mark his 25-year-long grip on power but also showcase Russia’s shift into what pro-Kremlin commentators call a “revolutionary power,” set on upending the global order, making its own rules, and demanding that totalitarian autocracy be respected as a legitimate alternative to democracy in a world redivided by big powers into spheres of influence. “Russians live in a wholly new reality,” Dmitri Trenin, a proKremlin analyst, wrote in reply to questions about an essay in which he argued that Russia’s anti-Western shift was “more radical and far-reaching” than anything anticipated when Putin invaded Ukraine but also “a relatively minor element of the wider transformation which is going on in Russia’s economy, polity, society, culture, values, and spiritual and intellectual life.” In “Russia, Remastered,” The Washington Post documents the historic scale of the changes Putin is carrying out and has accelerated with breathtaking speed during two years of brutal war even as tens of thousands of Russians have fled abroad. It is a crusade that gives Putin common cause with China’s Xi Jinping as well as some supporters of former president Donald Trump. And it raises sEE ruSSIa oN a18 Putin’s militarized new nation An ultraconservative, anti-Western society is emerging under longtime leader’s forceful hand RussiA, RemAsTeRed nanna heITMann/MagnUM PhOTOS fOR The WaShIngTOn POST a star with a z, which has come to represent the russian military, stands near a memorial honoring World War II heroes in Moscow. BY JEREMY BARR The Washington Post was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including a win in the national reporting category for an immersive series on the political salience and cultural impact of the AR-15 rifle that used chilling imagery and 3D animation to convey the full scale of the weapon’s deadly capabilities. Editorial writer David E. Hoffman was recognized for his series on the rise of autocracy around the world. Vladimir Kara-Murza — a Russian political activist and Post contributing columnist who has been imprisoned in Russia since April 2022 for speaking out against the invasion of Ukraine — won the commentary category for essays he wrote from behind bars. ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative reporting organization, won the public service honor — considered the gold medal of the Pulitzers — for its examination of the relationships between supreme Court justices and the billionaire donors who have lavished sEE pulItzerS oN a6 Washington Post wins three Pulitzer Prizes Honors for AR-15 series, imprisoned columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza, editorials on autocracy JaBIn BOTSfORd/The WaShIngTOn POST Silvia Foster-Frau, third from left, peter Wallsten, fourth from left, and other post staff members celebrate after winning the pulitzer prize for national reporting for a series on the ar-15 rifle. Prices may vary in areas outside met ABCD ropolitan Washington. ESU V1 V2 V3 V4 Democracy Dies in Darkness tuesday, may 7, 2024 . Showers, humid 78/65 • Tomorrow: T-storm 87/65 B6 $3 BY JACOB BOGAGE AND JULIE ZAUZMER WEIL social security and Medicare will run out of money in just over a decade, a new report warned Monday, putting fresh pressure on Congress to address the nation’s financial health as federal debt rises and the population ages. The trustees for the massive retirement programs project that social security will be insolvent by 2035, and Medicare by 2036, which would force benefit cuts. That’s better than many experts had expected, though — last year, federal actuaries said the programs could go belly-up sooner. The report said the roaring job market and low unemployment rate means more workers are contributing to the programs, shoring up their finances even while record numbers of retirees enroll for benefits. But that improvement may not last and can’t change an overall bleak picture, the trustees said, and Congress still must act to stabilize the programs to prevent cutting off benefits from tens of millions of seniors or plunging the nation into insurmountable debt. “This isn’t a report where everything is fine and wonderful. It almost shows you how much we’re living on a razor’s edge,” sEE SocIal SecurIty oN a7 Retirement programs face bleak outlook Report says Medicare and Social Security will be insolvent by 2036 BY TAYLOR TELFORD AND JULIAN MARK Last year, Eli Lilly’s annual shareholders letter referenced the acronym for diversity, equity and inclusion 48 times. This year, “DEI” is nowhere to be found. In March, starbucks got shareholder approval to replace “representation” goals with “talent” performance for executive bonus incentives. At Molson Coors, “People & Planet” metrics have displaced environmental, social and governance (EsG) goals, and the acronym DEI has disappeared altogether. Amid growing legal, social and political backlash, American businesses, industry groups and employment professionals are quietly scrubbing DEI from public view — though not necessarily abandoning its practice. As they rebrand programs and hot-button acronyms, they are reassessing decades-old anti-discrimination strategies and rewriting policies that once emphasized race and gender to prioritize inclusion for all. sEE deI oN a6 DEI e≠orts undergo a corporate rebranding Amid legal threats, some firms drop the term and focus on inclusion for all BY LAURA MECKLER AND HANNAH NATANSON As pro-Palestinian student protests surged in the past week, universities responded with consequences not imposed en masse for decades: suspensions, expulsions and arrests, hoping to tamp down a spiraling movement that has inflamed passions on all sides. Experts reached back to student protests against south Africa’s apartheid regime in the 1980s and even further to the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early ’70s for comparisons. Nothing since then has come close to this sort of disciplinary crackdown. For students and school leaders alike, the stakes are high. school leaders face intense scrutiny over their handling of a deeply political issue. students face the prospect of losing a semester’s worth of credit and tuition money and, for some, the possibility of not graduating on time. some students might find their financial aid jeopardized. sEE proteStS oN a4 Protesters face tactics not seen in decades Tolerant no more, campus leaders turn to mass arrests, expulsions Lashing out at the West: Russia announces tactical nuclear drills. A15 Columbia: School cancels its main commencement ceremony. A3 Reaching out: holocaust survivors offer hope to victims of Oct. 7. A12 Report to Congress: Biden faces tough call over Israel’s actions. A14 FAQ: What the budget outlook for Social Security means for you. A7 Hopes revive for deal on Gaza Hamas said Monday it agreed to a Qatari-Egyptian cease-fire proposal and Israel said it would send meditators to negotiate, reviving hopes of an extended pause to the fighting in Gaza even as Israel vowed to press on with its long-awaited military campaign in Rafah. Early Monday, the Israeli military ordered tens of thousands of civilians in southern Gaza to “evacuate immediately” and said it would act with “extreme force” there, sending a surge of fear through more than a million Palestinians sheltering in the area. Hours later, as displaced families rushed to pack their belongings once more, panic gave way to celebrations, after Hamas announced it had informed Arab mediators that it would approve the cease-fire proposal. But the path to any final agreement is likely to be a winding one, and there will be no immediate sEE ISrael oN a13 This article is by Karen DeYoung, Susannah George, Hajar Harb, Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Hazem Balousha and Kareem Fahim Hamas agrees on cease-fire plan Israel to negotiate even as it presses Rafah attack

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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]. BY CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR., EMILY GUSKIN AND SCOTT CLEMENT Black Americans’ desire to vote in this year’s election is down sharply compared with four years ago, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll conducted last month — a potentially troublesome sign for President Biden, whose ascent was powered by Black voters in 2020 and who has intensified efforts to court them before November’s election. The poll of more than 1,300 Black adults finds that 62 percent of Black Americans say they’re “absolutely certain to vote,” down from 74 percent in June 2020. The 12-percentage-point drop outpaces the four-point drop among Americans overall, from 72 percent to 68 percent. The drop in turnout interest is sharpest among younger Black people, who have always been less enthusiastic about Biden and have now shifted to majority disapproval of his job performance. Overall, nearly 1 in 5 Black voters who turned out for Biden in 2020 say they are less than certain about whether they will vote at all this year. The softening support includes voters such as Michayla Crumble, who said she held her nose and voted for Biden in 2020 — and still cringes when she remembers Biden saying, in the midst of the 2020 campaign, that if an African American voter was having trouble deciding between him and Donald Trump, then “you ain’t Black.” Four years after voting for Biden to stop Trump, the 26-year-old student from St. Louis has left Biden’s camp altogether. “I think it’s maybe because of the way the economy is going, how inflation is going and then with the whole situation in Palestine and how he’s responded to it — it’s just made me less impressed with him,” said Crumble, who said she is likely to vote for a third-party candidate in November. “So the likelihood of me voting for him again is pretty low.” In follow-up interviews, poll respondents stressed a number of issues that weakened their interest in voting and supporting Biden: Biden has not delivered on the criminal justice, police and voting rights reforms that he campaigned on. Several mentioned the conflict in the Middle East, either as a moral disaster or as a conflict that has soaked up U.S. money while minority and poor communities at home struggle for resources. Many said that they and the people they care about have been affected by ballooning costs of groceries, gas and other goods. Deatrick Woods voted for Biden in 2020 but is on the fence about turning out this year in Michigan, a state Biden won by 2.8 percentage points. “Biden, he hasn’t made things better like I would have thought at this point,” said Woods, who identifies as a Democrat and has never been a Trump supporter. “Economy and inflation, that’s still a big problem,” the 35-yearold retail worker in Highland Park said. “Rising prices affected me a lot, along with everybody else . . . more spending and less saving.” Asked what would motivate him to vote, Woods said, “I just want to have the confidence that they’re going to improve things.” The drop in enthusiasm is notable among Black women, who have been a backbone of the Democratic Party. The poll finds 41 percent of Black people ages 18 to 39 are certain to vote this year, down from 61 percent in June 2020. Among Black women in that age group, certainty to vote dropped from 69 percent in 2020 to 39 percent this year. The Post-Ipsos poll finds 74 percent of Black registered voters say they would “definitely” or “probably” vote for Biden. Just 14 percent of Black voters say they would definitely or probably support Trump. That is smaller than Trump’s Black support in some recent national and state polls, though it would still mark a slight improvement from his performance in 2020. Some 20 percent say they would probably or definitely vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 14 percent say the same for professor and activist Cornel West, and 9 percent say they would at least probably vote for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, although only 1 percent say they would “definitely vote for” any of the third-party candidates. (Rather than asking a traditional forcedchoice vote question, the survey asked respondents to rate their likelihood of voting for each candidate and respondents could say they would “probably” vote for more than one candidate.) Among Black registered voters under age 40, 60 percent say they are likely to vote for Biden, compared with 20 percent for Trump and 21 percent for Kennedy. Biden’s support rises to 78 percent among Black voters ages 40 to 64 and to 88 percent among those 65 and older. About 1 in 3 Black registered voters are younger than 40, as are about one-third of poll respondents. And more Black Biden supporters than Black Trump supporters say they are certain to vote this year — 78 percent of those who say they will probably or definitely vote for Biden say they are certain to vote, compared with 51 percent of those who support Trump. Erica Young, 53, of Atlanta, is certain she’ll be disappointed at some point if Biden wins a second term. Inflation is taking a bigger bite out of her monthly disability check, and she feels gun violence is out of control in her community. She is also worried that the president is too focused on conflicts in Ukraine and Israel, and not on the poor and disadvantaged at home. But she’s unenthusiastically voting for Biden anyway, because she’s terrified about what will happen if Trump wins the White House again. “I’d rather choose the lesser of the two evils,” said Young, who voted for Biden in 2020. “Biden has his faults. There are a lot of questionable things. But if this is the choice between the two of them, I’d rather it be [Biden]. Trump is a show. He’s a clown. He’s not a real politician.” Young said part of the reason she’s certain to cast a ballot, if reluctantly, is because she lives in Georgia, a hotly contested battleground that will be one of a handful of states that decide who wins the White House. Overwhelming majorities of Black voters supported Biden in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, according to network exit polls; each state Biden won by narrow margins. The Post-Ipsos poll finds a 76 percent majority of Black Democrats say they are certain to vote, but that is down from 84 percent four years ago. The drop is even sharper among political independents, from 54 percent to 38 percent. While 64 percent of Black Americans overall say their vote matters “a great deal” or “a good amount,” that drops to under half of those under 40. Biden and his campaign recently have intensified their efforts to shore up support among Black voters. In August, the campaign said it was spending $25 million to reach key voters in battleground states, including what it called the largest and earliest investment in Black media for a reelection campaign in history. Those ads highlight Biden’s efforts to close the racial wealth gap and note that he has presided over the lowest Black unemployment rate in history. In addition, Biden launched a pair of ads in March aimed at Black voters in battleground states, touting pandemic relief checks and his administration’s successful effort to cap the price of insulin at $35 a month. Last week in Atlanta, Vice President Harris began a national economic tour aimed at highlighting how Biden administration policies have helped Black Americans. She stressed that the Biden administration has helped narrow the racial wealth gap with student loan forgiveness and small-business grants. Still, the Post-Ipsos poll indicates some positive — or at least mixed — signs for Biden among Black voters. Some 62 percent of Black Americans approve of Biden’s job performance, down slightly from 66 percent last year and from 70 percent in 2022. His disapproval rating has reached 37 percent, up from 31 percent last year and 28 percent two years ago. That’s still far better than Biden’s approval rating with the general public, which stands around 40 percent in a Post average of April polls. And Black Americans trust Biden more than Trump to handle a wide range of issues, although sizable shares say they trust “neither” candidate on each issue. Biden holds a 50 percent to 16 percent advantage over Trump on the economy and a 54 percent to 9 percent advantage on abortion. Biden also holds wide leads over Trump on whether Black voters trust him to handle crime, immigration, the Gaza war and racism. But Black Americans have mixed opinions on Biden’s record. Some 38 percent say his policies have helped Black people; about half (49 percent) say his policies have made no difference; while another 11 percent say they have hurt Black people. Asked about Trump’s presidency, 55 percent say his policies hurt Black people, while 13 percent say they helped and 30 percent say they made no difference. “Sometimes he does good and sometimes he’s just a little slow,” Carl Wade, 71, said of Biden. The retired data typist from New York City voted for Biden in 2020 and plans to do so again in November. “President Biden has been a little slow as far as trying to solve the problem of prejudice and discrimination. But I know that he alone cannot solve the problems . . . I know that the president is just a human being like you and me.” Over half of Black Americans, 55 percent, say they trust Biden more to handle racism compared with just 6 percent who trust Trump more, with 33 percent saying they trust neither. Black Americans under 30 have flipped in a negative direction on Biden: 56 percent approved of Biden’s job performance last spring, but today 55 percent disapprove. Today, just about half of Black people in their 30s approve of Biden (51 percent); ratings rise to 59 percent among those in their 40s, 72 percent among those ages 50 to 64 and 85 percent among Black adults ages 65 and older. On the Israel-Gaza war, 42 percent of Black Americans overall trust Biden more to handle the conflict, while 11 percent trust Trump more and 40 percent trust neither. About half of Black adults under age 30 trust neither candidate to handle the IsraelGaza war, though nearly as many say the same about abortion, racism and crime. Black Americans’ overwhelmingly negative views of Trump could represent one route for Biden to energize his supporters by November. An 83 percent majority of Black registered voters have an unfavorable view of Trump; 80 percent believe he is biased against Black people. Over three-quarters of Black voters say Trump is “probably” or “definitely” guilty of a criminal conspiracy in his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Just 8 percent think he is innocent. The Washington Post-Ipsos poll was conducted April 9-16, 2024, among 1,331 non-Hispanic Black adults ages 18 and older along with a partially overlapping sample of 1,029 U.S. adults overall through the Ipsos KnowledgePanel, an ongoing survey panel recruited through random sampling of U.S. households. Results among Black Americans have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points. Poll: Black Americans’ desire to vote is down Older Black Americans are more likely to approve of Biden than younger Black Americans Q: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling his job as president? Approve No opinion/Skipped Disapprove Black adults overall Age 18-29 Age 30-39 Age 40-49 Age 50-64 Age 65+ 62% 37 43 55 51 46 59 39 72 27 85 14 Source: April 9-16, 2024, Washington Post-Ipsos poll of 1,331 Black adults with an error margin of +/- 3.2 percentage points. Error margins larger among subgroups. Black Americans trust Biden over Trump on a number of issues; significant minorities trust neither Q: Who do you trust more to handle the following, Biden or Trump? Biden Neither Both equally No opinion/Skipped Trump Racism Abortion Te economy Crime Immigration War between Israel & Hamas 55% 33 6 54 31 9 50 27 16 46 33 6 13 44 31 20 42 40 11 About 6 in 10 Black Americans are favorable toward Biden and Harris, nearly 8 in 10 are unfavorable toward Trump Q: Do you have a favorable or unfavorable impression of each of the following people, or don’t you know enough to say? Favorable No opinion/Skipped/Don't know enough to say Unfavorable Joe Biden Kamala Harris Donald Trump 62% 8 30 59 15 26 14 7 78 Most Black Americans say Trump is biased against Black people, Biden is not Q: Do you think each of the following is biased against Black people? Yes, is biased against Black people No opinion/Skipped No, is not biased against Black people Donald Trump Joe Biden 77% 5 19 23 5 72 Note: Totals may not equal 100% because of rounding. Source: April 9-16, 2024, Washington Post-Ipsos poll of 1,331 Black adults with an error margin of +/- 3.2 percentage points. EMILY GUSKIN / THE WASHINGTON POST Share of Black Americans saying they are certain to vote down from 2020 poll Q: How likely are you to vote in the presidential election in November? Absolutely certain to vote Probably vote 50/50 chance Less than 50% No opinion June 2020 April 2024 74% 8 6 11 62 12 12 15 Source: April 9-16, 2024, Washington Post-Ipsos poll of 1,331 Black adults with an error margin of +/- 3.2 percentage points. June 9-14, 2020, Post-Ipsos poll of 1,153 Black adults with an error margin of 4 points. SCOTT CLEMENT / THE WASHINGTON POST Younger Black Americans are less certain to vote this year than in 2020 Percent saying they are "absolutely certain to vote" in November June 2020 April 2024 Black adults overall Age 18-39 Age 40-64 Age 65+ 74% 62 61 41 82 70 87 88 Source: April 9-16, 2024, Washington Post-Ipsos poll of 1,331 Black adults with an error margin of +/- 3.2 percentage points. June 9-14, 2020, Post-Ipsos poll of 1,153 Black adults with an error margin of 4 points. Error margins larger among subgroups. About 3 in 4 Black voters say they will “definitely” or “probably” vote for Biden Q: How likely are you to vote for each of the following candidates for president? (Respondents were asked separately about each candidate) Definitely vote for Probably vote for No opinion Probably not vote for Joe Biden Donald Trump Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cornel West Jill Stein Definitely not vote for 48% 26 9 16 9 9 76 19 25 53 12 28 56 8 25 63 Source: April 19-26, 2024, Washington Post-Ipsos poll of1,125 registered Black voters with an error margin of +/-3.5 percentage points. 62% are ‘absolutely certain’ to cast ballot, a 12-point drop from 2020 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. On federal holidays, the deadline for next-day insertion will be 3pm (photo deadline: 1pm). 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tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ re A3 Politics & the Nation BY DANIEL WU, RICHARD MORGAN AND LAURA MECKLER Fallout from nationwide proPalestinian protests continued Monday as Columbia University canceled its main commencement ceremony, Harvard threatened suspensions of demonstrators in an encampment and police arrested dozens of students on two California campuses. Administrators at MIT ordered an encampment to disperse, and the leader of the University of Pennsylvania said he fears violence at the protest site on his campus. At Columbia, where protests and arrests last month sparked a nationwide movement, the Manhattan campus remained on lockdown with a heavy New York police presence at the request of Minouche Shafik, the university’s embattled president. Despite the restrictions, more than 100 demonstrators still gathered by the campus’s only accessible entrance in the afternoon, next to Hamilton Hall, the site of a tumultuous police sweep last week. Sueda Polat, a Columbia graduate student, said student protests were freshly inspired by Israel’s threatened incursion on Rafah, in southern Gaza. Across the country Monday, universities continued to grapple with how they could gain control over protests they said were violating campus rules and disrupting campus life in the face of protesters’ determination to press their case against the war in Gaza. At the University of California at Los Angeles, 44 people, including some students, were taken into custody by campus police, and then a peaceful but loud student march through campus followed. Sixty-four people, including 40 students, were arrested at the University of California at San Diego as an encampment there was dismantled. Graeme Blair, an associate professor of political science at UCLA, said he saw an Instagram post about 7 a.m. local time Monday warning that student protesters were being arrested and held in a campus parking lot. He headed to the scene, where police caution tape and two stationary police vehicles kept him and others away from those detained, who appeared to be sitting on the concrete floor of the parking structure, Blair said. At Harvard, an administration frustrated by an ongoing encampment said students who remained on the site would be referred for “involuntary leave” from their schools, meaning they cannot take exams, live in Harvard housing or be on campus — the latest in a coast-to-coast discipline crackdown not seen in decades. Protesters at Middlebury College in Vermont, however, announced they would remove their encampment as part of an agreement with the school that included a promise that the endowment would not invest in arms and arms manufacturing, the Middlebury Gaza Solidarity Encampment said. As the student protests have continued, colleges have braced for how the demonstrations and added security on campuses would affect commencement ceremonies. The University of Southern California also canceled its main commencement ceremony, it announced in late April, citing safety measures put in place after protests began on its Los Angeles campus. The university said it would still hold other events, including school ceremonies. At Columbia, Shafik said in an April 29 statement that the university “will indeed hold a commencement.” But on Monday, the institution said it was calling off a universitywide ceremony scheduled for May 15 and moving most individual schools’ graduation events from its main Morningside campus, where most protests have taken place, to the university’s Baker Athletics Complex at the northernmost tip of Manhattan. Columbia said it made the changes to commencement after consulting with student leaders and would focus its resources on keeping its smaller graduation events “safe, respectful and running smoothly.” “We are determined to give our students the celebration they deserve, and that they want,” the university said in an announcement. But the announcement also acknowledged: “These past few weeks have been incredibly difficult for our community.” Spokesman Ben Chang said the security concerns around a large commencement ceremony on campus “proved insurmountable” and the university was unable to locate an alternative venue that could accommodate such a large event. “Like our students, we are deeply disappointed with this outcome,” he said. The announcement frustrated students including Teji Vijayakumar, 21, Columbia’s student body president who has also been participating in the protests. She is about to receive a bachelor’s degree in computer science and visual arts. “It seems like they want to close off any spaces where there can be freedom of assembly. If you’re worried about protests [at commencement], then don’t be there,” she said. Vijayakumar noted that university officials have often said that they were trying to limit protests to protect commencement and the senior class experience; the encampment on the school’s south lawn was cleared with this rationale. “Well, if you cleared these spaces for commencement, why did you cancel commencement?” Early Monday afternoon, about a dozen student members of the local United Auto Workers union beat upturned plastic tubs as drums and marched in a small circle while referencing, in chants, Columbia’s storied history of student protests by singing “ ’68 and ’85! History is on our side!” The demonstration disbanded after about a half-hour. Later, another group of some 100 protesters gathered in front of the campus gates under the watch of roughly 30 NYPD officers, none in riot gear but many with zip ties at their waists ready for arrests. The demonstrators cheered for speakers who renewed calls for divestment from Israel and “intifada revolution.” Students carried a banner showing slices of watermelon, a symbol of Palestinian solidarity, with a message: “They tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds.” “We’re here against Columbia but most importantly we’re here for Palestine, as we’ve always been,” said Polat, a Columbia graduate student who was one of two student negotiators from the encampment. The protest grew steadily but was a far cry from the tumult that unfolded on the street a week earlier, when officers in riot gear climbed through a second-story window to clear Hamilton Hall. Next to the protesters, other students continued to stream in and out of campus gates, some wheeling cardboard moving boxes of belongings from their dorms. The protest left Columbia’s gates after around 20 minutes to join protesters at another college. Columbia’s main campus remained closed to the public and Columbia students, except for students who live in residential buildings on campus and essential workers. New York police officers guarded its gates. Colleges and universities have been under enormous pressure in recent weeks — both from protesters as well as political figures who have demanded that administrators get control over their campuses. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) responded to Monday’s news with a sharp attack on Columbia’s administration, saying commencement was being canceled because the school was unable to properly restore order on campus. “President Shafik and Columbia University administrators have displayed a shocking unwillingness to control their campus,” he said in a post on X. “Now, thousands of students who’ve worked hard to achieve their degrees will not get the recognition they deserve.” Johnson, who has previously called for Shafik to resign if she couldn’t control her campus, went further Monday, saying Columbia trustees should remove her as president. Canceling commencement festivities represents a particular disappointment for this year’s graduating class. Four years ago, many of these students saw their high school graduations canceled due to the pandemic. “I was talking to my roommate, and she said this was going to be uglier than her high school graduation that was a drive-through graduation in a parking lot,” Vijayakumar said. “It’s frustrating because there were just a lot of other ways this could have been resolved.” richard morgan in New york, yvonne Condes in los Angeles, Annie gowen and hannah Natanson contributed to this report. Main Columbia commencement ceremony is canceled ChArly trIbAlleAu/AFP/getty ImAges A New York police officer patrols Columbia University on Monday. A heavy police presence continued on the Manhattan campus. University cites security issues; arrests continue at other U.S. campuses DEALERWEBSITE.COM Call Now For Your FREE IN-HOME CONSULTATION DEALER LOGO HERE SALE! TRANSFORM THAT OLD BATH TODAY! YOUR DREAM BATH IN AS LITTLE AS 1 DAY LIMITED TIME OFFER! 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A4 eZ re the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 NeW YORK AG sues groups over ‘abortion pill reversal’ New York is suing an antiabortion group and almost a dozen pregnancy counseling centers for promoting an unproven method to reverse medication abortions, Attorney General Letitia James announced monday. James, a Democrat, sued Heartbeat International and 11 pregnancy centers in state Supreme Court in manhattan, arguing the groups violated laws around making false or misleading advertisements. The case follows a similar lawsuit in California and other legal action in states such as Colorado regarding unsubstantiated treatments to reverse medication abortions. medication abortion is the most common way to end a pregnancy. The process involves taking two different drugs — mifepristone and misoprostol — days apart. According to the New York lawsuit, the organizations promote a protocol called the “Abortion Pill reversal,” in which a person who has taken mifepristone is advised not to take the follow-up of misoprostol and instead is given repeated doses of the hormone progesterone. The “Abortion Pill reversal” treatment has not been approved by federal regulators and major medical associations have warned that the protocol is unproven and unscientific, the lawsuit said. “Abortions cannot be reversed. Any treatments that claim to do so are made without scientific evidence and could be unsafe,” James said in a statement. Heartbeat International, in a statement, said the lawsuit is “a clear attempt to censor speech.” — Associated Press PeNNsYLVANiA Man tries to shoot pastor during service A man who tried to shoot a pastor during a service at a Pennsylvania church because “God told him to do it” was thwarted when his gun didn’t fire and he was tackled by a congregant, authorities said. The chaos at the Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church in North Braddock took place Sunday while the service was being livestreamed, state police said. Bernard J. Polite, 26, of Braddock entered the church just after 1 p.m. and walked toward the front while the rev. Glenn Germany was giving a sermon, police said. The pastor told WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh that Polite smiled at him and they made eye contact just before Polite pointed the gun at him. Germany then ducked out of the way as a male congregant tackled Polite. Germany and the congregant then worked together to wrest the gun away from Polite, who was soon subdued. Polite said “God told me to do it” and that he planned to shoot Germany and “wait to be arrested” so he could go to jail and clear his mind, according to court documents. He faces numerous charges, including aggravated assault and attempted homicide, and was being held monday without bail at the Allegheny County Jail. The body of a shooting victim was found in a home near the church where Polite had been shortly before going to the church, county police said. The county medical Examiner’s office identified the body monday as that of Derek Polite, 56, of North Braddock, but did not say if he was related to Bernard Polite. — Associated Press MissOURi Man confesses to killing wife in hospital A Kansas City-area man who has been charged with killing his hospitalized wife told police he couldn’t take care of her or afford her medical bills, court records say. ronnie Wiggs made his first appearance monday on a seconddegree murder charge. His wife was getting a new port for her dialysis when staff at Centerpoint medical Center in Independence called a “code blue” friday because she was unresponsive. Staff managed to get her pulse back, but they determined she was brain-dead and made preparations to harvest her organs, according to the probable cause statement. His wife died Saturday. After the attack, Wiggs left the hospital. But the statement said the woman’s son brought Wiggs back to see her and he confessed. Wiggs said he was depressed and couldn’t handle the caregiving and bills. He said he also attempted to kill his wife while she was at a rehabilitation facility, but she woke up and told him not do that again, the statement said. — Associated Press Digest vate prison companies or fossil fuels, even making high-profile concessions to students’ demands in some cases. In 2017, Yale agreed to drop the name of former vice president and senator John Calhoun, an avid proponent of slavery, from a prominent campus building after students held a sustained series of protests, including blocking intersections. In 2021, Harvard agreed to end its investments in fossil fuels after long-standing student calls for divestment, including the occupation of campus buildings. And in 2015, Columbia agreed to sell its shares in private security and private prison companies — and vowed never to invest in such firms again — a year after students launched a protest campaign. Universities were able to manage those disputes in part because they had worked to create spaces and guidelines for free speech and assembly that were successful in satisfying all parties. But now those guidelines are being tested in new ways, said Peter Lake, a law professor and director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson University. “We saw a real movement prior to this to insist that college campuses be open public spaces to dialogue,” he said. “Now it’s kind of boomeranging in a way that was not anticipated.” In recent years, student groups have been more willing to abide by the conditions set forth by the universities, said Lindsie rank, director of campus rights advocacy at the foundation for Individual rights and Expression. “This moment it feels a little bit different because, alongside peaceful protests, which are certainly happening, we’re seeing a lot of violations of reasonable and content-neutral rules,” she said, pointing to rules about how loud sound may be amplified or whether tents are allowed. And, she added, not all the protests have been peaceful. Another critical factor: This conflict puts one group of students in direct conflict with another, with campus leaders feeling pressure to respond to Jewish students who say the movement makes them feel scared, unwelcome or even unsafe on campus. A Jewish student has already sued Columbia for failing to protect members of her faith during the protests. (A lawsuit also was filed on behalf of pro-Palestinian groups over suspensions of the organizations.) As such, universities are under enormous pressure to protect Jewish students and combat antisemitism on campus. The House education committee has already held two high-profile hearings on the subject and plans a third. The first helped lead to the resignations of the presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania; in the second, Columbia’s president took a strong stand against antisemitism. A week after the hearing, House Speaker mike Johnson (r-La.) put additional pressure on Columbia when he visited the school and called on the school’s president to resign “if she could not immediately bring order to this chaos.” “If the president of Harvard can get fired on this, they are going to be afraid for their jobs,” said robert Cohen, a history professor and expert on student protests at New York University. “It wouldn’t be unreasonable as a [university] president to feel, if this protest is not suppressed, it can threaten your job.” This is all very different from protests in recent years, said Jones, when “there was no one who was really actively in favor of investing in prisons or fossil fuels.” “This,” he said, “is a uniquely divisive issue.” The stress of the situation has been difficult for rueff’s father, Alex rueff, who is helping pay the tuition. He said in an interview that he does not always agree with Katie’s choices or politics and that he is concerned about the financial and other ramifications of a suspension. But he said the most important thing to him was sustaining his relationship with her. “Suspension and loss of money and loss of time was really upsetting, but losing my daughter would be worse,” he said in an interview. But not all families can afford to forgo a semester’s worth of tuition. michael Lee-Chang, a sophomore who has been involved in protests at California State University at Sacramento, said he has not been threatened with suspension but worries he might be. He’s already on probation for something unrelated to the protests, and he cannot afford to be expelled. “my family is relying on me to graduate,” he said. “I need a degree to find a job to support my mom and I.” He added that he wears masks and avoids clothing that would be recognizable when he goes to protest. “If university administrators closed in on the encampment, I would leave — for my own safety and for the assurance that I may have a chance to still graduate.” Why this time it’s different Experts agree that the protests underway — and the reactions to them — are far more sweeping than anything seen since the Vietnam-era demonstrations. Back then, protests and suspensions were commonplace. And when four students were killed by the ohio National Guard while demonstrating at Kent State University, that sparked more protests still. At Columbia, for instance, the school called in 1,000 New York police officers in 1968 to make 700 arrests. The school also suspended 73 students at the time, although only 30 suspensions were upheld. The closest comparison since Vietnam came in the 1980s as students protested South Africa’s apartheid regime. That, too, led to arrests, though those demonstrations did not spread as fast as today’s events. Since then, almost no schools had pursued these kinds of tactics until now, said Jones, the Columbia lecturer. Instead, he said, administrators were “highly tolerant” of student movements calling for ethnic-studies programs or urging schools to divest from priShe also said that just because she set up the art, that doesn’t mean she’s responsible for the encampment. “I’m losing the second semester of my college career for this,” she said. “It does suck when it’s your second semester of college and, for practicing your rights of freedom of expression, you are losing $40,000 of tuition. It sucks, but I think it’s worth it. our demands are very, very important. We need Cornell to stop investing in genocide.” on Thursday, Cornell offered to allow rueff to finish and get credit for the semester if she agreed to stay away from and not promote any campus protests that the school considers violations of the university policy, she said. She also would be barred from encouraging others to participate. She declined, saying she objected to being used as a “bargaining chip” to distract from the group’s demands. “I believe that my suspension is bigger than just me,” she said. “I want to continue to use my voice.” Joel m. malina, Cornell’s vice president for university relations, confirmed in a statement that the university offered to let suspended students receive incompletes in their courses and later finish the spring term if they agreed to “not facilitate, engage in, participate or assist in any other violations of university policy.” He also said students on temporary suspension maintain access to university housing, dining and health services. ous assurances in her application. for instance, the notice said, rueff had assured the university that there would be no tents and fewer than 50 attendees, and that the event would not have food or music. An encampment staged in the Arts Quad soon after violated those terms, the letter said. “Your actions directly led to an unauthorized event, where participants have flatly refused to comply with university policies and the lawful directives of university officials specifically made to protect public health and safety,” the letter said. “The University has avenues available for everyone to make their voices heard, but this must be done in ways that respect the rights of all members of our community.” Cornell had offered protesters another, less prominent spot on campus, but they rejected it for various reasons. In a statement to the community, Cornell President martha E. Pollack said the encampment was displacing other events from the quad, disrupting nearby classes with noisy rallies, and diverting the attention of public safety and other staff. She said protesters refused to move after being warned that they would be punished. rueff said no one at the university approached her directly about the alleged violations before sending the suspension notice — what she sees as a violation of due process. She said officials should not have assumed that protest leaders would share the message. “They’re not supposed to escalate charges so quickly,” she said. pelled three students in early April who helped lead a 21-hour sit-in in a main campus building calling for divestment from Israel. Vanderbilt’s provost wrote in a statement that “student choices and decisions can lead to serious and costly consequences.” Suspending or expelling students typically involves an internal process and opportunity for appeal, where evidence is presented and students have the chance to defend themselves. Those proceedings are just now beginning in most cases and could take weeks or months. They are already being criticized as overly harsh, for instance in a lawsuit against Indiana University filed by the state ACLU. But in the meantime, students face tough choices: abandon activism that they care deeply about, or risk losing credit for an entire semester of classes already paid for. Facing suspension, a student must choose Katie rueff, who is in her first year at Cornell University, received a notice on April 26 informing her that she had been temporarily suspended and could no longer attend classes, take exams or set foot onto most of campus. It was one of four issued to students that day, she said. The notice explained that rueff had applied for a permit for an art installation — an eight-foot-high painted wall declaring “The sun will shine in a free Palestine” — in the Arts Quad and had made vari- “Students were suspended and expelled in the ’60s and the ’80s, but more recently we’ve seen universities be much more lenient with student protesters,” said Thai Jones, a Columbia University lecturer who studies the history of radical social movements. “What we’re seeing now … represents something very different.” The different response today appears driven by the complicated politics of the conflict, the fact that there are other students on the opposite side of the issue, and the pressure on universities to respond to perceived or actual antisemitism from some on the proPalestinian side. many students have responded to threats and punishments with defiance. At fordham University in New York City, students wrote “free Palestine” on their suspension notices, according to a journalist on the scene. At Brown University, sophomore rafi Ash continued to participate in an encampment after an arrest late last year and after a threat of suspension more recently. “We’re willing to make these sacrifices and take these risks because we understand the risks that students in Gaza face simply for existing,” Ash said. The charges were ultimately dropped, and so was the suspension threat, after protesters reached an agreement with Brown, though Ash may still face probation. The discipline often involves charges that students maintained unauthorized encampments that disrupted campus life and infringed on the rights of other students. often students are accused of failing to abide by the university’s policies governing the “time, place and manner” of gatherings or of posing a safety concern. In some cases, allegations are more serious: destruction of property or vandalism, for instance. And police involvement has soared, with more than 2,200 people arrested at pro-Palestinian protests on American college campuses in the past two weeks. overall, it is clear that campus leaders across the country have decided they will no longer tolerate the protests, which often consist of dozens of tents set up on a prominent green space on campus. In a few cases, colleges have negotiated agreements with students to end them, but in most places, there either were no negotiations or they broke down, and administrators are now using discipline. “one group’s rights to express their views cannot come at the expense of another group’s right to speak, teach, and learn,” Columbia University President minouche Shafik said in a statement on April 29 announcing that negotiations with protesters had failed. The statement was issued just before Columbia notified students that they would be suspended if they did not leave their encampment. Columbia is hardly alone. on monday, Harvard University announced that those continuing to participate in a campus encampment would be placed on “involuntary leave” — barred from taking exams, living in Harvard housing or being on campus. Earlier, the University of Georgia suspended close to a dozen students last week for setting up an encampment on campus, protesters told reporters. George Washington University suspended seven students for setting up tents in a grassy yard. At Tulane this month, the school announced that it was suspending seven students who helped erect a tent encampment on the edge of a campus lawn. Schools including Yale, Barnard, New York University, Columbia and UCLA have all threatened suspensions or expulsions. Vanderbilt, meanwhile, exPROTEsTs from A1 Crackdowns on campus protests recall Vietnam War era PaTricia Li ed ou for The WashingTon PosT TOP: Katie Rueff, a first-year student at Cornell University, with the pro-Palestinian art installation she helped organize. ABOVE: Police encircle a sit-in by Fordham University protesters on Wednesday.

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Question the appraisal report if it affects your financing. Check for errors like square footage, inadequate home comparisons, or incorrect descriptions of the home or neighborhood. 86. Order the title search. A clean property title means the buyer and lender agree there are no claims on the property that could become an issue after ownership is transferred. 87. Regularly contact your lender to ensure the loan process is on track to meet the closing requirements. 88. Ensure any necessary funds, like earnest money or down payments, are received by the stated deadlines to avoid any risk of the seller terminating your contract. 89. Ensure all parties have all forms and information needed to close the sale. Missing or late paperwork can cause delays. 90. Check addendums and alterations for agreed-upon terms. 91. Take note of the location and details of your closing meeting. 92. Confirm and communicate the closing date and time to the seller’s agent, noting any changes. 93. Schedule and conduct a final property walk-through. Create a comprehensive checklist of your concerns regarding the home, and then confirm that any agreedupon repairs were addressed or fixed by the seller. 94. Confirm the clear-to-close status, indicating all documents and conditions to approve your loan have been met, with your lender. 95. Review your closing statement. It explains the terms of the mortgage, the projected monthly payments, and how much your fees and closing costs will be. 96. Double-check all taxes, dues, and prorations related to your purchase. 97. Request the final closing figures from the closing agent. This is the total amount of money that you will have to bring to the closing table. 98. Review your title insurance commitment carefully to ensure all information is accurate. 99. Be aware of wire fraud risks, and verbally verify all wiring instructions with the seller’s agent before transferring funds. Get the detailed instructions from your closing company, and be leery of any messages you receive that request changes to the original instructions. 100. Provide receipt of escrow deposit to the seller’s agent/ broker to verify this financial step has been completed. 101. Gather all required forms and documents for closing. Typically, you’ll need a photo ID and a cashier’s or certified check (or receipt of a wire transfer). 102. Perform any remaining closing activities to complete the transaction. 103. Review all closing documents with the closing agent or attorney. Be prepared to sign a ton of paperwork. 104.Distribute final documents to all involved parties for their records. You’ll want to keep this important paperwork safe. 105. Verify receipt of all keys, access codes, garage door openers, and manuals for all equipment and appliances. Post-Closing Activities 106. Prior to moving, consider rekeying your locks and changing access codes as an extra precaution to safeguard your home from anyone who may have had access prior to your ownership. 107. Remember to transfer all utilities and services to your new residence so you do not incur costs on your former residence. This ensures everything is up and running in preparation for your move-in date. 108. Turn your home inspection report into a maintenance to-do list. 109. File claims with your homeowner’s warranty company as needed. A home warranty is a policy that covers the cost of major repairs or appliances. 110. Stay engaged and proactively follow up on any pending items or concerns post-closing. Keep a running checklist handy to ensure you stay on top of any potential warranties, including their expiration dates. 111. Arrange for the move-in day in your new home by contacting movers. Buy yourself a bottle of champagne. Congratulations, you’re a new homeowner now. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT

A6 eZ re the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 “I miss his voice on a daily basis. So I want to thank The Washington Post for making sure that the voice of Vladimir is heard. That he is not forgotten. His vision is not forgotten,” she said. She added: “I’m truly heartbroken that Vladimir cannot be here today and accept this high distinction by himself. He should be here addressing you. He would be finding the right words. Such is the price of telling the truth in today’s russia.” Buzbee said the awards validate The Post’s editorial mission, particularly amid a broader climate of cost-cutting across the media business. “The industry obviously has so much turmoil facing it that it’s so critical for an organization like The Post to keep this commitment to deep reporting.” The Pulitzers also honor excellence in book writing, the arts and music. The Post was also a nonwinning finalist in three other categories, including a nod for the Ar-15 series in the prestigious category for public service journalism. In the international reporting category, the Pulitzer Prize committee recognized as a finalist “rising India, Toxic Tech,” a series focused on the ways in which Indian Prime minister Narendra modi and his political party use the internet and social media platforms to achieve their political aims. Another finalist, in the illustrated reporting and commentary category, was “Searching for maura,” a visual telling of the story of an 18-year-old Suyoc Igorot woman from the Philippines who died after coming to the United States to be put on display at the 1904 St. Louis World’s fair. A portion of her brain was taken by the director of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution’s U.S. National museum, who used human body parts to test his theories about biological differences between races. elahe izadi contributed to this report. duced again and again and again.” Cameron Barr, then the Post’s senior managing editor, suggested a focus on just the rifle that has become most closely associated with mass shootings. Their goal was to tell the weapon’s story in a more ambitious and eye-opening way that would leave no doubt about its raw capacity to destroy human bodies and decimate communities. one feature of the series, dubbed “American Icon,” used animation to show exactly how bullets fired by an Ar-15 can shred the human body. To make the presentation even more visceral, the team got permission from surviving families to depict how two children in two different mass shootings were fatally wounded by the weapon. “It’s an affirmation of our willingness as a newsroom to take risks,” Wallsten said of the prize. “It’s a reminder of how powerful it can be when a newsroom like The Washington Post decides a really important subject is worth a lot of attention, and we really have a lot of tools at our disposal and we can throw everything we have at a really important topic that’s vital for the country and have a huge impact.” Another entry in the series, “Terror on repeat,” featured graphic photographs of 11 mass shootings, including the bloodstained floor at robb Elementary in Uvalde. Investigative reporter Silvia foster-frau and visual reporter N. Kirkpatrick scoured thousands of images and videos of mass shootings — images, fosterfrau said, “that are seared into our brains forever.” They started to notice “eerie” commonalities. “Seeing that connection basically made it clear that the story of mass them with gifts and travel. The Pulitzer committee took special notice of media coverage of the oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent military incursion into Gaza. The New York Times won the international reporting category for its coverage of the conflict, and reuters won the breaking-news photography category. The committee also issued a special citation honoring the journalists covering Gaza, noting the high number of journalists who have been killed. In recent years, national news organizations such as The Post have dominated the Pulitzers, which are administered by Columbia University: The Times won three prizes monday, while the New Yorker won two. But the committee this year also recognized several smaller local news outlets — including the fouryear-old Lookout Santa Cruz, which won a breaking-news prize for coverage of devastating floods in central California, and the Honolulu Civil Beat, a finalist for coverage of the August wildfires in Hawaii. Invisible Institute, a nonprofit journalism organization on Chicago’s South Side, shared two prizes with media outlets it collaborated with on local crime stories. The Post’s Ar-15 project first took shape on the morning after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Tex., in may 2022. Investigations editor Peter Wallsten pulled two colleagues aside, he recalled monday, and they quickly agreed on one thing: “We needed to find a new way to write about mass shootings,” he said. “The same stories were being written over and over, and proPulitzerS from A1 Post opinion writers, reporters win Pulitzers moved away from employee resource groups that had identified some people as “members” and others as “allies.” Some opened up mentorship programs that were reserved for employees of certain races to people of all backgrounds. “I do think that some programs were operating with an exclusivity that was potentially problematic,” fish said. She doesn’t think the new labels matter much from a legal perspective. “What matters most is how their programs are being implemented.” Joelle Emerson, chief executive of DEI consultancy Paradigm, considers corporate DEI to be “one of the most visible civil rights initiatives of the past decade.” much like affirmative action before it, DEI has faced resistance from within organizations and outside them — and now it’s being thrust into the political limelight at a moment of acute polarization. “DEI has only been the acronym du jour since 2020,” Emerson said. “regardless of what we call it, we’ve done a really poor job storytelling what this work is actually about.” The rebranding is clearly being sparked by the “baggage” now associated with DEI, Emerson said. She pointed to conservative activist Christopher rufo, who led the campaign to oust Harvard’s first Black president, Claudine Gay, framing her exit as “the beginning of the end for DEI in America’s institutions.” “Companies with leaders that might be particularly supportive of DEI might also be the ones that are uniquely averse to drawing scrutiny,” Emerson said. “A lot of the companies that were vocal in the past have already been sued.” rhonda moret, founder of Elevated Diversity, a DEI consultancy, said she’s seen “a shift in what we’re being asked to do.” Demand for programs such as unconscious bias training — high a few years ago — has dried up, she said. But there’s been a spike of interest in employee resource groups, particularly those that aren’t racebased, such as groups for caregivers, veterans and first-generation Americans. Like many consultants, moret has been tweaking the terminology she uses to describe her work, now framing it as L&I (leadership and inclusion). She prides herself on having always taken an “inclusion-forward” approach, and she’s noticed the movement away from emphasizing “diversity” in her field. But she’s conflicted about whether to follow the tide and change Elevated Diversity’s name. “I am what someone thinks of when they think of diversity,” said moret, who is Black. “Do I want to change who I am to be able to fit into another model? I still haven’t decided.” one in 2024. It also eliminated a section on progress toward meeting its racial justice commitments, which had been included in 2023. Yet the pharmaceutical giant still ties executive compensation to general goals of fostering diversity within the company — and it cites fostering a diverse workforce as a core priority. In a statement to The Post, the company said it removed the references to DEI “to avoid redundancies in reporting.” Information about the company’s diversity efforts and racial justice commitments are detailed in its latest “ESG report” as well as in a separate DEI report published last fall. “Lilly is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion — they are foundational in every part of our organization and essential elements of our success as a company,” Eli Lilly said. molson Coors, meanwhile, erased DEI references from its “People & Planet” metrics, a change from 2023. This year, it says, fostering an “inclusive culture” is central to its efforts. The company did not respond to a request for comment. many large companies see a correlation between a diverse workforce and financial success, and routinely tout the “business case” for DEI. Companies with the highest racial, ethnic and gender representation are 39 percent more likely to financially outperform, according to a 2023 study by mcKinsey & Co. involving more than 1,200 firms worldwide. In June of last year, a study by the ratings agency moody’s found that companies with higher ratings tended to have a greater racial diversity on their boards and in their executive ranks. In his annual letter to shareholders this year, JPmorgan Chase CEo Jamie Dimon emphasized that DEI “initiatives make us a more inclusive company and lead to more innovation, smarter decisions and better financial results for us and for the economy overall.” Still, he said, JPmorgan will “scour” its programs to ensure they comply with the changing legal landscape. Similar assessments are playing out at meta, Snap, DoorDash and Home Depot, which have culled their internal DEI teams in the past year. others, such as Zoom, have outsourced their DEI work to consultants. marilyn fish, an Atlanta-based employment attorney who specializes in affirmative action, said she’s seen companies “looking at policies more holistically” since the Harvard-UNC decision. many of her clients — among them fortune 500 companies — have renamed their programs to put “inclusion” up front, hoping it will resonate with employees. Some of her clients recently case because they did come out with very specific goals,” Bueno said. Now, “they’re moving them from a more prominent area of the bonus plan to a little more backstage.” Bueno estimated that 35 to 40 percent of large-cap companies — those with a market capitalization of $10 billion or more — have some DEI targets in their executive bonus criteria. About half of them frame these policies around quantitative targets, while the rest take a more qualitative approach. Still, “companies are treading carefully,” given the legal climate, he said. Starbucks has already withstood legal scrutiny of its policies: In September, a federal judge in Washington state threw out a lawsuit alleging Starbucks violated its duty to shareholders by endeavoring to diversify its workforce. The suit targeted the company’s goals for hiring people of color and awarding contracts to “diverse” suppliers and advertisers, as well as its tethering of executive pay to diversity goals. Betsy mcmanus, a spokeswoman for Starbucks, said the company has a goal of achieving “racial and ethnic diversity of at least 30 percent at all corporate levels and at least 40 percent at all retail and manufacturing roles by 2025” in the United States. “real inclusion requires intent, and diversity creates stronger communities and workforce,” mcmanus said in a statement emailed to The Washington Post. “With that in mind, we continue to make improvements and changes to ensure Starbucks remains a diverse, inclusive, equitable and accessible company.” Eli Lilly scuttled DEI from its proxy statement this year and dropped mentions of “racial justice” — from eight times in 2023 to velopment, a DEI consultancy, said he has seen the “branding merry-go-round” playing out for decades, tracing back to the wake of the civil rights movement. He expects the language to keep changing in response to public attacks, especially those by highprofile figures like Elon musk, who in January wrote on his social media platform X that “DEI is just another word for racism.” “If every day you’re getting pummeled and there is no effective strategy to protect the brand of DEI, there’s no doubt it’s going to be hard for it to survive,” Ellis said. “We keep adjusting.” Starbucks is “a case in point” for how companies are altering terminology around DEI, said Brian Bueno, ESG practice leader at farient Advisors, an executive compensation consulting firm. After floyd’s murder by minneapolis police, the company was among the first wave of firms incentivizing executives to achieve DEI targets, he noted. In its proxy statement last year, Starbucks said it was “holding our senior leaders collectively accountable” for goals that focused “on improvement in Black, Indigenous, and Latinx representation at the manager level.” It also had goals around executive mentorship for BIPoC (Black, Indigenous and other people of color) employees, scores on inclusive leadership surveys and other metrics, Bueno said. But starting this year, Starbucks is weighting its incentive plan more toward financial performance, tethering representation-related rewards to “talent” goals. The company’s 2024 proxy statement references a goal to “ensure that leaders have accountability” for “creating a culture of belonging.” “Starbucks was an interesting lessened their prioritization of DEI. In fact, 57 percent said they had expanded their DEI programming in the past year. But that sentiment is far more subdued than it was in 2020, when corporate America poured more than $50 billion into racial justice causes. meanwhile, the DEI industry — which was worth an estimated $9 billion in 2023, according to market researcher fact.mr — is also rethinking its public face, consultants say. Last fall, a few months after the Harvard-UNC decision, Taylor was already noticing growing antipathy toward the methods that companies, institutions of higher education and other organizations used to diversify their ranks. So instead of referring to DEI, Taylor switched to calling these efforts “IED,” putting the focus on “inclusion” as DEI accrued cultural and political baggage. SHrm, the human resources association he heads, changed the name of its annual DEI conference to “Inclusion 2023.” Some practitioners and executives dismissed the rebrand as superficial, Taylor said, a concession to political correctness. But months later, his strategy has proved prescient. A growing number of companies — including language app Duolingo, JetBlue and molson Coors — are either listing DEI as a “risk factor” in shareholder reports or removing mentions of diversity goals outright. A Bloomberg Law analysis found that two dozen public companies have incorporated similar risk-factor language into their filings. And several companies, including Kohls, Salesforce and Workday, have dropped references to diversity goals in regulatory filings, the Wall Street Journal reported. Eric Ellis, CEo of Integrity DeIt’s a stark contrast to 2020, when the murder of George floyd unleashed a racial justice movement that prompted companies to double down on policies aiming to increase opportunity for groups that have historically faced discrimination. Less than a year after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in colleges and universities — a landmark ruling that found raceconscious admissions violated the right to equal treatment under the Constitution — a growing contingent of critics is arguing that DEI creates inequalities of its own. Some conservatives have blamed DEI for a variety of problems, such as the Baltimore bridge collapse and Boeing’s safety woes, without providing evidence. Dozens of anti-DEI bills are being considered by state legislatures across the country, and DEI looks poised to become a wedge issue in this year’s presidential election. Johnny C. Taylor Jr., chief executive of the Society for Human resource management, said that practitioners of DEI and its antecedents traditionally have focused on improving representation for historically marginalized groups, believing that “the magic bullet was diversity.” “We underestimated that inclusion was the real challenge,” Taylor said. “Now people are saying, ‘Not only should we probably call it something different, we should probably evolve it.’ ” This shifting landscape is forcing companies and consultants to adapt on the fly, with many acting preemptively to guard against the legal threats that have led some firms to recast or discard racebased initiatives. They’re renaming diversity programs, overhauling internal DEI teams and working closely with lawyers. Some are moving away from using racial and gender considerations in hiring and promotion, and toward approaches that focus more on inclusion. To be sure, some companies have successfully fended off challenges. In April, a discrimination lawsuit against an Amazon grant program for Black, Latino and Native American contractors was dismissed by a federal court in Texas, though the plaintiffs have appealed. Pfizer and Starbucks have prevailed in court against similar legal attacks, though Pfizer modified the DEI program in question to make it race-neutral, according to court filings. And many companies have held onto their programs since the Supreme Court ruled against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina last June. Six months after the ruling, the employment law firm Littler mendelson reported that 91 percent of the 320 executives surveyed said the ruling had not Dei from A1 In Corporate America, a shifting landscape for DEI e≠orts Luisa Jung for the Washington post Kara-murza, 42, was not available to comment on receiving the award because he is serving a 25- year sentence on charges of treason for criticizing russia’s war against Ukraine. Editorial page editor David Shipley said that Kara-murza “has made a long-term commitment to live a life where he is speaking out on things that require a lot of moral clarity to speak about.” “Columnists develop authority and persuasiveness in a lot of different ways,” he said. “His authority is certainly conferred on him by not just his clarity of thought but also the way that he’s lived his life.” The writer’s wife, Evgenia Karamurza, told a newsroom gathering monday that their family’s travails began well before he was sentenced to prison two years ago. Hospitalized after alleged assassination attempts by poisoning left him suffering organ failure, he had to relearn “how to walk, how to talk, how to use a spoon,” she said. Hoffman, who has worked at The Post since 1982, said he is “absolutely thrilled” to receive the honor. He launched his series after learning about Danuta Perednya, a 21-year-old Belarusian college student sentenced to six years in prison for reposting her boyfriend’s message on the social media app Telegram that was critical of the war in Ukraine. “Six years for a post,” Hoffman said. “That to me is the animating thing, the injustice of it. I was angry about these young people being imprisoned.” After his initial story (“They clicked once. Then came the dark prisons.”), he started looking for other cases to highlight, finding many examples around the world. While the story drew a large audience online, Hoffman said he wished it had the desired effect of freeing more of the people imprisoned. “I wish I could think of other ways that we could bring it to the world’s attention and stop it,” he said. shootings in America is one big story,” she added. During an editorial meeting, the team presented a slide show of some of the images. Those in the room, including Post executive editor Sally Buzbee, were moved by the raw horror. “I think I got teary-eyed at certain points,” she recalled. “I can’t imagine any human would not get teary-eyed looking at that stuff.” Considering the sensitivity surrounding the publication of such images, Buzbee wrote a note to readers explaining the paper’s decision-making process, which balanced the societal importance of the story with sensitivity to the families of those killed. The Post shared the national reporting category with reuters, which was recognized for coverage of Elon musk’s automobile and aerospace businesses — stories, the Pulitzer committee said, that “provoked official probes of his companies’ practices in Europe and the United States.” Marvin Joseph/the Washington post David Shipley, Post editorial page editor, and Sally Buzbee, executive editor, applaud the paper’s wins.

tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ re A7 Woo Memoir or autobiography: “liliana’s invincible summer: a sister’s search for Justice” by Cristina rivera garza Poetry: “tripas: Poems” by Brandon som General nonfiction: “a Day in the life of abed salama: anatomy of a Jerusalem tragedy” by nathan thrall Music: “adagio (for Wadada leo smith)” by tyshawn sorey Audio reporting: staffs of the invisible institute and Usg audio Fiction: “night Watch” by Jayne anne Phillips Drama: “Primary trust” by eboni Booth History: “no right to an honest living: the struggle of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War era” by Jacqueline Jones Biography: “king: a life” by Jonathan eig and “Master slave husband Wife” by ilyon times Editorial writing: David e. hoffman of the Washington Post Illustrated reporting and commentary: Medar de la Cruz, contributor, the new Yorker Breaking-news photography: Photography staff of reuters Feature photography: Photography staff of associated Press invisible institute National reporting: staff of reuters and staff of the Washington Post International reporting: staff of the new York times Feature writing: katie engelhart, contributing writer, the new York times Commentary: Vladimir kara-Murza, contributor, the Washington Post Criticism: Justin Chang of the los angeles 2024 Pulitzer winners Public service: ProPublica Breaking-news reporting: staff of lookout santa Cruz Investigative reporting: hannah Dreier of the new York times Explanatory reporting: sarah stillman of the new Yorker Local reporting: sarah Conway of City Bureau and trina reynolds-tyler of the soon enough,” said Joel Eskovitz, senior director for Social Security and savings at AArP Public Policy Institute. Some conservatives insist that benefit cuts are the answer, even though many republican leaders now view that route as politically toxic. romina Boccia, an economist at the libertarian Cato Institute who focuses on entitlement programs, argues for cutting benefits for high earners with healthy retirement savings, rather than hiking taxes. “People don’t just continue to pay taxes,” she said. “They will work less. They will find creative ways of earning income that is not taxed as earned income.” Left-leaning economists and some Democrats argue that Social Security benefits should be, if anything, more generous, with the increase funded by measures such as removing the cap on the level of income subject to Social Security taxes or raising the tax rate for all earners. “of all the issues confronting the nation in terms of policy, I think it’s the easiest, because it’s an equation — and the American people don’t want benefits cut,” said Nancy Altman, who leads the advocacy group Social Security Works. “Cutting benefits would be terrible policy … There’s plenty of ways to bring in increased revenue.” Changing Social Security significantly has proved politically unpopular. In the early 2000s, President George W. Bush floated allowing taxpayers to keep a portion of their payroll taxes and invest them in private retirement accounts. opponents panned the proposal as a partial privatization of Social Security. While politicians wait to act, dire reports like the one released monday may make the nation’s 60 million retirees and many more people nearing retirement nervous about the future of entitlement programs. The closer the programs come to insolvency without addressing the underlying budget math, the higher the odds that Congress will just have to authorize more borrowing to pay for benefits, riedl said. That would explode the federal debt and could trigger large-scale consequences, experts warn. over the course of Social Security’s 75- year budget window, stabilizing the program through debt could mean $22.6 trillion, according to monday’s projections. That would force interest rates much higher on U.S. bonds, fichtner said. And with borrowing rates already higher than the economy’s projected growth, that could spark a vicious cycle: Even under solid economic circumstances, debt would grow too quickly for the United States to ever pay it off. cording to the Social Security Administration. “I think the public wants to see a fairer tax code, and I think the public wants to see Social Security and medicare made secure. And you put those two pieces together, I think you’ve got a winner,” Senate Budget Committee Chairman Sheldon Whitehouse (D-r.I.) told The Post. So far, policy prescriptions to solve the shortfalls have been few and far between. And any fix would have cascading effects on the global economy. Cutting benefits — including raising the retirement age, as a leading group of congressional republicans recommended this spring — is a political third rail and would upend millions of workers’ and retirees’ finances, said Jason fichtner, chief economist at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank. Congress could also raise Social Security payroll taxes, or do a little bit of both: A more modest benefit cut and payroll tax increase. “You can make some changes now that don’t have to be as drastic, but we’re starting to get closer to that point where if we make some changes to the benefits side, they might not kick in lion potential new beneficiaries each year, forcing the social safety net to pay out far more than it brings in from younger workers. many of those boomers are aging out of the disability insurance side of Social Security and into its retirement program, creating some financial cushion for the program overall. The disability trust fund will be solvent through at least 2098, according to monday’s projections. The retirement trust fund will be insolvent by 2033. Illegal immigration also played a key role in the rosier-than-expected numbers. Undocumented immigrants still have payroll taxes deducted from their income, but do not draw benefits from Social Security or medicare. “on one hand, that’s good for Social Security’s finances, but on the other hand, that means these individuals are being cheated,” said Brian riedl, senior fellow at the manhattan Institute. Without significant changes, though, retirement benefits would face a mandatory 21 percent cut that year, a hit that would upend millions of Americans’ golden years. Nearly 1 in 5 seniors rely on Social Security for at least 90 percent of their income, acwhich is the discretionary part, how are you going to deal with the bigger issues? I just don’t think these people are ready to do it,” rep. Thomas massie (r-Ky.), a leading conservative deficit hawk, told The Washington Post. He wears a lapel pin each day at the Capitol that shows a live calculation of the federal debt. “It would probably take some kind of crisis moment to get their attention.” Social Security and medicare are funded largely through payroll taxes, with future beneficiaries and their employers paying into trust funds for the programs so retired workers will receive a baseline income and health care. The full Social Security retirement age, when enrollees can draw the largest benefit, is 66 for individuals born before 1954, and 67 for those born after 1960. Individuals can generally enroll in medicare at age 65. But the United States is facing a wave of baby boomer retirees, what some experts call the silver tsunami, that is draining the trust fund’s resources. more than 11,000 Americans will turn 65 every day between 2024 and 2027, according to the retirement Income Institute at the Alliance for Lifetime Income. That’s 4.1 milcompromise on spending and entitlements with then-House Speaker John A. Boehner (rohio) and other congressional republicans. more recently, lawmakers — especially in the republican-controlled House — have tussled with Biden over parts of the federal budget. But those fights have focused mostly on what’s known as discretionary spending — items such as defense, infrastructure, education and other policies that Congress must approve each year. All told, discretionary spending accounts for a little less than a third of the money the federal government spends, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget office. The vast majority of the federal government’s spending is on mandatory programs — including Social Security, medicare and veterans’ benefits — entitlements that have grown dramatically. The United States spent $2.9 trillion on Social Security and major health-care programs in fiscal 2023, according to the CBo. That’s nearly twice as much as Congress spent on the entire discretionary budget. “If you can’t deal with your allowance, your pocket change, What is social security? Social Security is a social- welfare program that President franklin D. roosevelt established in 1935 as part of the New Deal. originally designed and still functioning as a retirement safety net, it has significantly expanded over the years. In 1939, Social Security added a survivors benefit program, followed by disability insurance in 1956. In 1965, medicare was created as a national health insurance plan for the elderly, followed by Supplemental Security Income in 1972 to aid the blind and disabled children and adults. Today, about 20 percent of Americans are receiving some kind of Social Security benefit. How is social security financed? funding comes from a dedicated payroll tax paid by employers and employees, with each side kicking in 6.2 percent of gross wages up to a certain threshold, currently $168,600 per year. Any wages exceeding that amount are exempt from Social Security taxation. medicare collects an additional 1.45 percent of gross wages, bringing total deductions to 7.65 percent per worker. These contributions are mandated by the federal Insurance Contributions Act, which shows up on your pay stub as fICA. Selfemployed individuals, meanwhile, are responsible for paying their share as well as the half that the employer would otherwise pay, which means they must fork over 15.3 percent from their income. What is new in the 2024 social security and Medicare report? rosy economic conditions brought some good news for medicare beneficiaries in monday’s report, while the outlook for Social Security was largely unchanged. The trustees of Social Security and medicare — who include the Cabinet secretaries of labor, health and human services, and the Treasury, as well as the Social Security commissioner — said monday that their forecast for the Social Security Trust fund was mostly the same as last year: It will run out in 2033, at which point retirees will see their benefits cut by 21 percent. (The disability trust fund, which is separate, will be able to cover benefits through 2098, one year later than in last year’s report. If the two funds were to be combined, the expiration date would be pushed to 2035.) But the trustees upgraded their outlook for the trust fund that pays for medicare hospital benefits, projecting that it has enough money to cover full benefits until 2036, five years longer than forecast last year. After that, hospital coverage would be cut by 11 percent. The revised forecast rests mostly on good economic news over the past year. Growth has been robust and employment rates have been high, meaning more people are paying taxes into the trust fund. The medicare hospital fund also spent less in 2023 than the trustees had expected. on the other hand, certain demographic conditions still weigh on the programs in the long run, including low birthrates. What happens when the social security trust Fund runs out? for decades, the government has forecast that the Social Security Trust fund will eventually become insolvent: With the aging of baby boomers, there are more retirees relative to workers paying Social Security taxes. But zeroing in on the actual numbers is challenging, because the estimate has to account for variables such as the size of the economy, tax revenue, birthrates and immigration. The deficit between what’s expected to be collected versus what’s being paid out is about 3.5 percent, according to the 2024 report. Possible solutions for closing that financing gap include the politically treacherous choices of raising the payroll tax, cutting benefits, a combination of those two, or taking on more public debt to prop up the system. If policymakers opted to increase taxes to keep the fund solvent for next 75 years, revenue would have to increase by raising the payroll tax rate by 3.44 percentage points, up to 15.84 percent. Employees would see their share go from 6.2 to 7.92 percent. If they chose the second scenario, they would have to cut benefits by 21.3 percent. How can i maximize my social security benefits? The simple answer is don’t start taking benefits until you turn 70. To qualify for benefits in the first place, you need to work for 10 years, which earns you 40 “credits” with Social Security. The more you work beyond that, the greater the benefits will be — until you have worked for 35 years, at which point you’ll max out on what you get back. You become eligible to receive benefits at 62, but those checks will be smaller than what you would get if you waited until what the government defines as “full retirement,” which falls between 66 and 67, depending on the year you were born. The monthly check that you get once you hit that milestone is an indexed benefit that the Social Security Administration calculates through adjusting your eligible earnings by averaging out the fat and lean years. once you hit 70, you can’t move the index any higher, even if you keep on working. To get a reading on where you are on the curve, log in to the system and have a look. You can also keep working while cashing your Social Security checks — but remember that the government will take a slice off the top. If you start taking benefits before reaching full retirement age of 66 or 67, the government will deduct $1 from your benefits for every $2 you earn above the annual limit. for 2024, that limit is $22,320. At the start of the year that you hit your full retirement age, that deduction will be $1 for every $3 earned over a higher limit — $59,520. But once you reach your birthday and qualify for full retirement, your earnings won’t cut your benefit amount. Do i get back from social security what i put in? It depends — and it’s complicated. The answer is determined by marital status, how long you paid in, how much money you made, interest rates and inflation. Broadly speaking, the less you earn over your lifetime, the more you will get back relative to your contributions, while high earners will receive less compared to what they put in. That reflects the vision of Social Security’s framers, who sought a safety net to keep the nonworking elderly from slipping into poverty. BY SCOTT SOWERS AND JULIE ZAUZMER WEIL Agovernment report monday released fresh estimates of the budget outlook for Social Security, which provides critical benefits for retirees, workers’ survivors and some people with disabilities. The report warned of automatic benefit cuts starting in 2033 because the program is paying out more than it takes in, which will eventually exhaust its trust fund. The report offered a more optimistic forecast regarding medicare, the federal health insurance program for Americans 65 and older and those with disabilities. Here’s what you need to know about how Social Security works, what steps could bring it to solvency, and how to prepare for potential benefit cuts. The U.S. is updating its Social Security estimates. Here’s what you need to know. rep. David Schweikert (r-Ariz.), vice chair of the Joint Economic Committee, said. Lawmakers, with eyes on November’s elections, say they could face a rare window to enact sweeping fiscal reforms in 2025, as President Biden pitches new taxes on the wealthiest Americans for a slew of new social safety net programs and republicans eye extending trillions of dollars in Trump-era tax cuts. “Next year will be filled with unavoidably huge fiscal moments, including the expiration of the tax cuts and the need to increase the debt ceiling at the same time that the fiscal picture is likely to continue to deteriorate. This presents a perfect opportunity to actually tackle a number of these big issues as they become increasingly impossible to ignore,” said maya macGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a responsible federal Budget. Neither Biden nor former president Donald Trump have released proposals to right Social Security’s finances. Biden has signaled a desire to raise taxes on individuals earning more than $400,000 and devote that new revenue to the Social Security Trust fund. In his past two State of the Union addresses, the president declared absolute opposition to cutting social safety net benefits. Trump has floated cuts to the programs, but quickly backpedaled from that position and insisted he wouldn’t support reducing benefits. The next year will bring major fiscal policy decisions for whoever wins the election and for Congress. After a near-crisis last year, the debt ceiling suspension that Biden negotiated with congressional republicans is set to expire Jan. 1 — though a failure to raise the debt limit would be unlikely to trigger a potential default until sometime in the spring. (The government has some last-ditch ways of freeing up extra money to avoid borrowing more.) And major portions of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts expire at the end of 2025. Lawmakers in both parties want to keep at least some of them on the books, but renewing the whole package would add $3 trillion over the next decade to the nation’s already enormous burden of $28 trillion in publicly held debt. The last time the nation’s longterm fiscal health was anywhere near the forefront of lawmakers’ agenda was in President Barack obama’s first term, when he tried, but failed, to work out a sweeping sociAl security from A1 Congress faces big Medicare, Social Security questions in 2025 Mark Felix For the Washington Post Nearly 1 in 5 seniors rely on social security for at least 90 percent of their income, according to the social security Administration.

a8 EZ RE the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 BY SHAYNA JACOBS, TOM JACKMAN, DEVLIN BARRETT AND MARIANNE LEVINE NEW YORK — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial found him in contempt of court Monday — the 10th such violation of a gag order — and warned the former president that he was flirting with jail time if he continued to talk or post online statements about witnesses, jurors, or relatives of those involved in the case. “Mr. Trump, it’s important to understand that the last thing I want to do is to put you in jail,” New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan warned from the bench. “You are the former president of the United States, and possibly the next president, as well.” But Merchan added he would take that step if Trump’s behavior did not change. “Your continued violations of this Court’s lawful order threaten to interfere with the administration of justice, in constant attacks which constitute a direct attack on the rule of law,” Merchan said. “I cannot allow that to continue.” The warning came as prosecutors signaled they expected their presentation to last roughly two more weeks. Merchan’s statement marks a significant escalation of the courtroom game of chicken that has played out in recent weeks between the judge and the defendant, who is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents and possible jail time if convicted. Trump, whom Merchan last week fined $9,000 for nine violations of the gag order, has somewhat reined in his public remarks. The judge had given Trump a similar warning earlier, but only in writing. The judge said Monday that jailing Trump would require a monumental effort involving several law enforcement agencies including the Secret Service and New York’s corrections department. “To take that step would be disruptive to these proceedings,” he said. Trump did not reply to Merchan’s warning. Merchan, a stern but softspoken judge, did not raise his voice Monday even as he spoke about a once-unthinkable scenario — the presumptive GOP nominee for president running for office from a jail cell. Trump is the first former U.S. president to face a criminal trial, and Merchan’s toughest warning to date came on the fourth week of the proceedings, at roughly the halfway mark of the trial. In his ruling, Merchan decided that Trump’s comments in an interview — in which he criticized the makeup and selection of his jury — had violated the gag order, while three other public statements he made around that same period in late April had not. Merchan’s decision marks the second time Trump has been told his statements outside court — whether in interviews or social media posts — violated the court order. While Trump has tangled with judges in past civil trials, the stakes in a criminal trial are higher, because the threat of incarceration hangs over the entire process. Outside the courtroom, Trump has said he is willing to go to jail to defend, what he calls, his constitutional right to speak as a presidential candidate. At the end of the court session Monday, Trump told reporters outside the courtroom that the trial was a disgrace, and “even more disgraceful is the gag order where, basically, I have to watch every word I tell you people.” Trump suggested he was, in fact, willing to go to jail in the standoff with the judge. “Our constitution is much more important than jail. It’s not even close. I’ll do that sacrifice any day,” he said. His lawyers have argued that Trump has to be able to respond to the verbal attacks of his political rivals and critics, particularly when that criticism was leveled by a witness against him. The 12th day of Trump’s trial in New York, on charges of falsifying business records to hide hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, was otherwise consumed by the dry but factually critical details about the checks Trump signed in 2017. Witnesses confirmed they handled the paperwork that helped pay former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen for what prosecutors say was a corrupt scheme to influence the election by keeping the actress silent during the 2016 presidential campaign about her alleged tryst with Trump years earlier. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the 34 counts and denied any such sexual encounter with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. To try to prove their case, prosecutors on Monday called Jeffrey McConney, a former senior accountant at the Trump Organization, to describe how he was instructed to arrange the payments to Cohen. McConney said he was summoned by his boss, Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, in January 2017 to discuss the issue. “Allen said we had to get some money to Michael or reimburse Michael,” McConney testified. “He tossed a pad towards me and I started taking notes about what Allen said.” Prosecutors say the money was meant to pay Cohen back for paying Daniels $130,000 in October 2016 to keep quiet. The Trump Organization added money on top of that to include a bonus, and reimbursement for a separate $50,000 business expense Cohen said he paid on Trump’s behalf, McConney said. They also added to the amount so that Cohen wouldn’t lose money on the transactions because of the taxes he would have to pay. “We added everything up, and we came up with the amount we wanted to pay him,” which was $420,000, McConney said. That figure was based, according to an exhibit introduced as court evidence, partly on a $130,000 payment from Essential Consultants LLC, a company Cohen created, which paid Daniels. McConney’s testimony is important to the prosecution case because his former boss, Weisselberg, is unlikely to testify after having previously pleaded guilty to perjury in a different case. While McConney was helpful to prosecutors in confirming the general purpose of the payments and that most of the checks were signed by Trump from his personal account, McConney conceded there were important details he didn’t know. Prosecutors say reimbursing Cohen for the payment made to Daniels was wrongly categorized in company books as legal costs, when it should have been noted as a campaign expenditure. Jurors listened as McConney and a former subordinate described monthly emails from Cohen in 2017 meant to serve as invoices for his payment. While McConney’s testimony helped prosecutors, he was one of several witnesses so far who seem to remain on good terms with Trump even after testifying against him. McConney, who retired after about 36 years working at the Trump Organization, stepped off the witness stand around midday, and as he walked out of the courtroom, Trump grinned at him and pumped his fist. When the next witness, Trump Organization bookkeeper Deborah Tarasoff, left the stand, she smiled at Trump’s son, Eric Trump, sitting behind him in court. Judge warns Trump is flirting with jail if he continues to violate gag order PEtER FolEy/EPa-EFE/shuttERstock Former president Donald Trump gestures as he return to his hush money trial at Manhattan state court. Last week he was fined $9,000 for nine violations of the gag order. BY PERRY STEIN AND DEVLIN BARRETT New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan started the 12th day of Donald Trump’s criminal trial by threatening to send the former president to jail, even as he emphasized that he really doesn’t want to. If Trump keeps violating the court-imposed gag order, Merchan said, he would have no other choice. Merchan ruled Monday morning that Trump violated the gag order for a 10th time — but said three other violations alleged by prosecutors didn’t quite cross the line. The gag bars Trump from commenting on witnesses, jurors and prosecutors in the hush money-records falsification trial, as well as family members of the judge or Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. For the rest of the day, two witnesses who have worked at the Trump Organization took the stand. They handled the paperwork that helped pay Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, for what prosecutors say was a corrupt scheme to influence the 2016 election by keeping adultfilm actress Stormy Daniels silent about her alleged tryst with Trump years earlier. One witness, Jeffrey McConney, a former senior accountant at the Trump Organization, confirmed the general purpose of the payments and said Trump signed most of the checks from his personal account. Here’s a summary of all the gag violations so far, what Merchan said Trump did wrong, and the penalties Trump faces. 1. The latest violation On Monday, Merchan ruled that Trump violated the gag order when he criticized the jury in an April 22 interview with Real America’s Voice: “You know he’s On a fourth occasion, Trump mentioned David Pecker — the former top executive at the National Enquirer and a witness in the case — at an early-morning media event in Manhattan hours before Pecker was expected to return to the stand. While Trump did not say anything bad about Pecker, prosecutors argued that even mentioning witnesses violates the gag order and can influence testimony. “He’s been very nice. I mean, he’s been — David’s been very nice,” Trump said. “A nice guy.” Merchan ruled that he could not determine beyond a reasonable threat that Trump’s comment was a veiled threat to Pecker and other witnesses. 4. The penalties Merchan has fined Trump $1,000 for every violation so far, the maximum penalty he is allowed to impose. That means $10,000 since the trial started. The judge noted in his ruling last week that Trump is a wealthy man, and $1,000 might not be enough to dissuade him from violating the gag order. He said “it would be preferable if the Court could impose a fine more commensurate with the wealth of the contemner” — $2,500 per violation, perhaps, or $150,000. But since he does not have the authority to levy such a high penalty, Merchan warned that “jail may be a necessary punishment” — a threat he reiterated on Monday. “The last thing I want to do is put you in jail,” Merchan said. “You are the former president of the United States and possibly the next president as well.” The judge noted that jailing Trump would require an effort involving several law enforcement agencies including the Secret Service and New York’s corrections department. “To take that step would be disruptive to these proceedings,” he added. The Trump Trials It’s hang ten for Trump rushing the trial like crazy. Nobody’s ever seen a thing go like this. The jury was picked so fast — 95 percent Democrats,” Trump said. “The area’s mostly all Democrat. You think of it as a — just a purely Democrat area. It’s a very unfair situation, that I can tell you.” Merchan wrote that Trump “not only called into question the integrity, and therefore the legitimacy of these proceedings, but again raised the specter of fear for the safety of the jurors and of their loved ones.” 2. The nine other violations Five of the gag order violations Merchan ruled on last week involved Trump repeatedly posting a link to a New York Post article on social media and to his campaign website over a two-day period. The article was about Cohen, Trump’s former attorney. “A serial perjurer will try to prove an old misdemeanor against Trump in an embarrassment for the New York legal system,” Trump wrote each time. Prosecutors argued that the content of the article makes clear that the “serial perjurer” Trump was referring to was Cohen, who will be a key witness in the case. They said that Trump should be held accountable for the words in items that he posts. The judge agreed and wrote that Trump “curated the posts at issue and then took the necessary steps to publish the posts on his Truth Social account and on his campaign website. In doing so, he endorsed the posts with one purpose in mind — to maximize viewership and to communicate his stamp of approval.” Merchan ruled Trump also violated the gag order when he posted on social media about Daniels, whose hush money payment is at the center of the criminal case, with a link to a document that contained facts about the trial. In other violations, Trump called Cohen a “disgraced attorney and felon” on social media and suggested that he should be “prosecuted for LYING.” Daniels is also expected to be a key witness. On April 17, Trump cited a Fox News personality on his social media page, but significantly added to the original on-air statement. Trump’s entire post, attributed to someone else, said: “They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury.” Merchan ruled that was a “clear violation” of the gag order because it calls into question the legitimacy of the jury. 3. Alleged violations rejected by the judge Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, says he is not violating the gag order and his posts and comments are protected political speech in response to attacks made against him. There are four instances in which Merchan agreed with Trump, rejecting prosecutors’ claims that Trump violated the gag order. On three occasions, Merchan ruled Trump’s posts and public criticism of Cohen’s credibility could have theoretically been responding to attacks that Cohen made against Trump. Because no one could definitively prove that Trump wasn’t responding to Cohen, Merchan did not hold him in contempt for violating the gag order in those instances. JanE RosEnbERg/REutERs Former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney is questioned by prosecutor Matthew Colangelo during former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan on Monday.

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A10 EZ rE the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 The World sOUtH AFRiCA More than 40 trapped in building collapse A multistory apartment building under construction in a South African coastal city collapsed Monday, injuring at least 22 workers and trapping more than 40 others in the rubble, authorities said. The injured workers were taken to a hospital; authorities did not immediately provide details of their injuries. South African media reported that at least five workers had suffered serious injuries. The building collapsed just after 2 p.m. in George, on the country’s south coast about 250 miles east of Cape Town. Authorities estimated as many as 48 workers remain trapped based on a count of workers at the site, George Municipality spokesperson Chantel EdwardsKlose said. A total of 70 people were believed to be working on the building when it collapsed, but that was an early estimate, Edwards-Klose said. — Associated Press tURKeY Airstrikes target PKK in northern Iraq Turkey hit northern iraq with airstrikes Monday and claimed to have killed 16 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) sheltering there. The Turkish Defense Ministry said the PKK militants had been “neutralized” in the Hakurk, Metina and Gara regions. The PKK, which has waged an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984, is designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. Last month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks with officials in Baghdad, the iraqi capital, and irbil, the capital of iraq’s Kurdistan autonomous region, about the continued presence of PKK fighters in northern iraq. Baghdad labeled the group a “banned organization” in March. — Reuters COLOMBiA U.S. issues sanctions over migrant issue The United States issued visa sanctions against executives of several Colombian maritime companies allegedly linked to migrant smuggling through the Colombia-Panama border, a senior U.S. official said Monday. The announcement was tied to a meeting of Western Hemisphere officials in Guatemala focused both on supporting migrants and increasing enforcement in the region under an accord known as the Los Angeles Declaration. The sanctions target ferry operators “ruthlessly smuggling” migrants who intend to cross from Colombia to Panama through a dangerous jungle known as the Darien Gap, fueling “a humanitarian and ecological crisis,” the senior official said. The Darien Gap has been a major transit route for migrants from around the world who plan to seek humanitarian entry into the United States or cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. More than half a million migrants passed through the Darien Gap in 2023, Panamanian government statistics show. — Reuters Polish prosecutors have discontinued an investigation into human skeletons found at a site where German dictator Adolf Hitler and other nazi leaders spent time during World War ii because the advanced state of decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death, a spokesman said Monday. The remains were found Feb. 24 at Wolf’s Lair, which was Hitler’s chief base from 1941 to 1944 when the area was part of Germany, and the site of the assassination attempt on Hitler by Col. Claus Stauffenberg in 1944. it is now a tourist site. “The expert stated that the preserved bone remains ... came from at least four people, three of whom were most likely middle-aged men, and the fourth was a child,” the spokesman wrote. — From news services Digest BY MARY BETH SHERIDAN AND LORENA RIOS in MEXiCO CiTY Alondra Juárez, 21, looks at the last few years and sees a Mexico transformed. Thanks to the government, she and her sister received scholarships that helped them study at a technical high school, a dream for their working-class family. “This is the first time in our history the president has helped everyone,” the college student said, not just the elites. José Agustín Cervantes, 27, also believes that Mexico has changed — but not for the better. The ruling Morena party has amassed too much power, the industrial engineer says, and squandered money on giant, inefficient infrastructure projects. if the party wins a big majority, he warned, “whatever’s left of our democracy could collapse.” The June 2 presidential election is shaping up as a clash over the very identity of Mexico, a nation of 130 million that’s intimately linked to the United States by trade, migration and culture. is Mexico a young democracy sliding back toward authoritarian rule? Or a country that was never all that democratic — but finally has a government that looks out for the little guy? A win by Morena candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, could cement the grip of a party that already controls the presidency, both chambers of Congress and two-thirds of Mexico’s governorships. She’s pledging to continue the policies of her mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the first president in modern times to emerge from the left. He is one of the most popular leaders in Latin America. Sheinbaum, a former mayor of Mexico City, has maintained a lead in polls of at least 17 points over Xóchitl Gálvez, 61, a senator from the conservative national Action Party. The dominance of Morena has raised concerns that Mexico is returning to a one-party system of the kind that controlled the country for much of the 20th century. “Obradorismo is a backlash to decades of concentration of wealth in a country where the haves benefited more than the have-nots,” said Denise Dresser, a political scientist who is critical of the president. The problem, she said, is that López Obrador portrays Morena as the only party looking out for the lower-income majority. He assails institutions that challenge him, including the Supreme Court and the independent electoral authority. now, he’s urging voters to give his party super - majorities in Congress so it can change the constitution. “He is asking his followers to vote for autocracy,” Dresser said. How Morena came to dominate Mexican politics López Obrador founded Morena in 2014, and made it synonymous with social programs. Since taking office in 2018, the president has offered Mexicans scholarships, job-training opportunities, pensions and aid to the disabled. He’s doubled the minimum wage and cracked down on abusive labor practices, while maintaining economic stability. Just over half of Mexicans have told pollsters they or a family member benefit from the president’s social programs. in that group, voters favor Sheinbaum 3 to 1, said Alejandro Moreno, a pollster for the newspaper El Financiero. Gálvez leads among the remainder. She’s highlighted her business background and promised to strengthen independent institutions such as the electoral authority. “There are two electorates that are almost completely different,” said pollster Moreno. Political consultant Joel Muñoz calculates that social spending has risen 24 percent under López Obrador. There’s also been a shift in who receives the aid, previously concentrated among Mexico’s poorest. The percentage of lowermiddle-class households that are benefiting, he said, has risen from 17 percent to 26 percent. They’re people like secretaries, plumbers and locksmiths, who earn on average about $150 a week. The government aid isn’t much, Muñoz said, but it arrives regularly — and “no one in history has ever given them this.” López Obrador has personalized the aid programs, creating a corps of “Servants of the nation” in wine-colored vests — the Morena color — to help administer them. The charismatic president constantly reminds Mexicans of the benefits in his daily news conferences and travels through the country. Juárez, the student, needs little reminding. in her home, money has always been tight. Her father is a groundskeeper at a fancy golf course on the outskirts of Mexico City, her mother a homemaker. Her scholarship covered the cost of books, transportation and other incidentals, allowing her to finish high school. now she’s the first member of her family to go to college. López Obrador, she said, “did something for the country.” Gálvez has promised to continue the popular social programs. But she’s battling a perception — stoked by Morena — that she won’t be as generous. Gálvez has appealed to voters with her personal story of growing up poor, with an indigenous father, and becoming a successful tech entrepreneur. She has pledged to reduce Mexico’s stunning levels of violence, and deliver more economic growth, taking advantage of manufacturers’ nearshoring their production from China to be closer to U.S. markets. Crime and jobs are key concerns of Mexicans, said pollster Moreno. But “the biggest issue is López-Obradorismo — and whether it should continue.” Sheinbaum has run a cautious campaign, hewing closely to the president’s policies. She has maintained such a constant lead in the polls that Gálvez has had to fight the impression that the race is over. A recent poll by Data OPM found that 45 percent of voters believed that Morena had effectively already won. But 46.5 percent thought the opposition could still triumph. (The rest didn’t know.) “The election hasn’t been decided,” Gálvez insisted last month to the newspaper El Universal. “i am convinced that, if more than 62 percent of the population turns up to vote” — as in a typical presidential race — “we’ll win.” The Data OPM survey, commissioned by a public policy foundation called Este País, also suggested the race could be closer than it appears. About half of those surveyed said their political preferences differed from those of most of their acquaintances. “They could be making the decision to not be as open with their preferences,” Data OPM chief Pablo Parás said. ‘PRI is now like Kryptonite’ Yet it’s clear Gálvez is facing big obstacles. Both her party and her main coalition partner — the institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRi — are viewed negatively by many voters, who recall their past failures in government. The PRi, which ruled Mexico for more than seven decades in the 20th century, is widely associated with corruption. “The PRi is now like Kryptonite,” said Carlos Bravo Regidor, a political analyst. What most worries the opposition is the possibility that Morena wins not just the presidency but also two-thirds supermajorities in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, allowing the party to change the constitution. López Obrador has already called for a constitutional amendment to allow voters to elect Supreme Court judges. Such a move could weaken the independence of the court, which has blocked many of the president’s attempted changes. Carlos Pérez Ricart, a political scientist sympathetic to Morena, noted what he called the party’s “hegemonic project” of centralizing power. But he described it as a corrective to years of decentralization that have weakened institutions such as the justice system. “i think a certain centralization of power is necessary to solve Mexico’s structural problems,” he said. Cervantes, the industrial engineer, disagrees. He has watched with dismay as López Obrador has poured money into big projects such as an oil refinery and a tourist train in the Yucatán, and propped up Pemex, the stateowned oil company. “People don’t see that this is money from their taxes,” he said. He worries that if Morena wins a supermajority in Congress, it would be able to change laws and exercise near-total political control. That, he said, “would be the downfall of Mexico.” rios reported from monterrey, mexico. Two women are seeking Mexico’s presidency, but the election is about one man luIs aNtoNIo rojas/bloombErG NEws/GEtty ImaGEs aurEa DEl rosarIo/aP ENrIquE Castro/aFP/GEtty ImaGEs TOP: Backers of Claudia Sheinbaum of the Morena party rally last month in Mexico City. Morena is the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Sheinbaum has vowed to continue his leftist policies. ABOVE: Candidate Xóchitl Gálvez has stressed her business experience and Indigenous roots. LEFT: Moreno backers in Mexico City’s Zócalo in March.

tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ Re A11 capitals, Budapest to Belgrade, is under construction as a signature Chinese project, part of Xi’s “Belt and Road” investment and trade initiative. In those stops, Xi is expected to try to sell China as a preferred partner over the United States. He is visiting Serbia the same week as the 25th anniversary of the 1999 American bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, which remains a lightning rod for anti-NATO and anti-American sentiment in Beijing. Xi’s visit to Hungary and Serbia serves as a warning signal to the E.U. about any actions it might take against China’s interests. “While China is willing to make positive efforts toward cooperation with Europe, Hungary, as a form of diplomatic defense, could help oppose any E.U. measures unfavorable to China,” said Song Luzheng, a researcher at Fudan University in Shanghai. The U.S. presidential race may come up during Xi’s visit, and Europe’s position might get more complicated by the end of the year if Donald Trump returns to the White House, Song said, adding that this could create an opportunity for closer cooperation between China and Europe. Xi’s trip to France reciprocates a visit from Macron last year. The French president raised eyebrows in Washington and Brussels with off-key remarks on Taiwan, the self-governing island that has never been controlled by the Chinese Communist Party but which Beijing considers part of its territory. On his way to meet Xi, Macron was asked by journalists about policy on Taiwan. He said that the worst thing to do would be “to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the U.S. rhythm and a Chinese overreaction.” Europe, he continued, risks getting “caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building strategic autonomy.” He has also said that Europe was at risk of becoming a “vassal” and that the continent should reduce its dependence on the “extraterritoriality of the U.S. dollar.” Though few doubt that Europe and the United States see Taiwan differently, most officials and analysts were puzzled and angry that Macron would say so directly and publicly. Macron repeated the “vassal” language shortly before Xi’s arrival. In a speech last month at the Sorbonne in Paris, he argued that Europe needs a more credible defense policy to stand up to Russia and not be a strategic “vassal” to the United States. Xi may have been playing to that sentiment when he noted in a written statement at the outset of this trip that “Both China and France value independence as two major countries.” Chiang reported from taipei, taiwan. BY ELLEN FRANCIS, EMILY RAUHALA AND VIC CHIANG PARIS — Making his first trip to Europe since before the pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping was treated to a state banquet at the Élysée Palace on Monday and will visit the French president’s favorite childhood vacation spot. But French hospitality hasn’t appeared to resolve tensions over trade or win Beijing’s commitment to take a tougher line on Russia. In remarks alongside Xi after a day of talks, French President Emmanuel Macron framed the war in Ukraine as an issue of national sovereignty and territorial integrity — and an existential threat to Europe. “Without security in Ukraine, there can be no European security,” he said, adding that he appreciated that Xi had reiterated a commitment “to abstain from selling all arms and aid to Moscow, and to strictly control the export of dual-use goods.” Customs data suggests that Chinese companies have continued to export dual-use products necessary for Russia’s weapons production, according to a report from the Carnegie think tank. In his own remarks Monday, Xi said his country has “actively sought peace.” He called for a global cease-fire during the Paris Olympic Games this summer, and on Ukraine, he called for a summit that would bring the parties together “on an equal playing field.” He added defensively that the conflict should not “be used to project responsibility on a third-party country, tarnish its image and incite a new cold war.” In Europe, Xi faces a continent that has grown more skeptical of Beijing since his last visit five years ago — although generally not as skeptical as the United States. Even before Russian tanks rolled on Kyiv, Europe was rethinking its relationship with China. Outraged over crackdowns in Xinjiang and Hong Kong and concerned about economic coercion, Europe knew it needed to change its approach. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine seemed to cement a shift toward a more hawkish view, as the European Union and most of its member states reconsidered the wisdom of engaging with authoritarian regimes. In the past two years, the European Commission has led a push to “de-risk” the relationship with Beijing, focusing on trade and supply chains. “The mood has changed at many levels,” said Philippe Le Corre, a French analyst with the Asia Society Policy Institute. Even still, Europe remains more inclined toward China than U.S. officials may want it to be. The European approach to Chinese-owned TikTok is telling. While Washington sounds the alarm about security concerns, the response in Europe has been largely muted. European countries remain divided on whether China should continue to be considered a “partner for cooperation” or, as U.S. officials argue, more of a potentially dangerous rival. “Europe considers China a systemic rival, but it cannot do without China’s market,” said Wang Yiwei, director of the Center for European Union Studies at Renmin University in Beijing. Beijing is eager to exploit the policy gaps between the Europe and United States, as well as the differences in attitude among European countries, analysts say. After meeting with Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in France, Xi will move on to the friendlier countries of Hungary and Serbia. In his public remarks Monday, Xi portrayed China as a country that values open markets and has “a thirst for fairness and justice.” E.U. officials have accused China of “flooding” the electric vehicles market. Partly at the urging of Macron’s government, they have been investigating Chinese subsidies for those vehicles. And they have threatened to impose tariffs if the investigation determines China is artificially deflating prices in a way that hurts European manufacturers. The European Commission has also launched probes into China’s subsidies of wind turbines and public procurement of medical devices. Von der Leyen said she had an “honest exchange” with Xi in their closed-door talks Monday. She said that China’s “overcapacity” in electric vehicles and other areas had resulted in “unsustainable” imbalances and that Europe would “not waver from making tough decisions” to protect its market or its security. According to Chinese state media, Xi said during the meeting that there was no such thing as “China’s overcapacity problem,” and that he hopes E.U. institutions adopt “a positive policy” toward China. Macron later claimed a small victory, announcing that Xi did not wish to see retaliatory tariffs imposed on French cognac, as China has threatened. The French president’s gifts for Xi had included — none too subtly — bottles of cognac. There may be “little concrete result” from Xi’s visit to France, because while “the optics are going to be extremely positive,” the French have some tough messages to deliver, said Abigaël Vasselier, head of foreign relations at the Berlin-based MERICS think tank. The optics will get more positive as Xi moves east. A railway between Hungary’s and Serbia’s China’s Xi meets with Macron in Paris in first post-pandemic trip to Europe yoAn VAlAt/AP Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron participate in the official welcoming ceremony at Les Invalides in Paris on Monday. yoAn VAlAt/AFP/getty ImAges Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, meet French guests and French Armed Forces members. WE BRING THE SHOWROOM TO YOU! 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A12 eZ Re the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 BY SHIRA RUBIN TEL AVIV — Soon after Hannah Gofrit, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor from Poland, grasped the scope of the Oct. 7 atrocities, she sought out the young people who had hidden in safe rooms, in bushes, under tanks, under bodies, behind any makeshift cover they could find that day to save their own lives. Eight decades before, she had hidden in an underground potato shed, and in the closets of neighbors, to escape the Nazis. When she met with children from Kibbutz Mefalsim, one of the 22 communities near the Gaza border ravaged during the assault, she told them that they were not alone, and that this trauma, too, could be overcome. “The children asked me how I survived, and I told them: ‘Just like you. I hid, with my mother, and wasn’t it good to feel your mother’s clothes, to smell your mother’s smell, while what was happening happened outside?’ ” she recalled. Last week, she told a group of survivors of the Nova rave party — where 360 people were killed and 40 others dragged off to the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7 — that “the images, those horrors will stay with you in the night, but the question is, ‘What do you do when you wake up?’ ” On Sunday night, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, she told hundreds of hostage families and their supporters who packed into the central Tel Aviv plaza now known as Hostage Square that she was waiting with them for the return of the hostages, and that the nation would one day begin to heal. “I thought that we would never again be victims,” Gofrit said as she prepared to go on stage. She said her role as an educator and survivor has changed since Oct. 7, as she faced “audiences that are thirsty” for optimism. Holocaust Remembrance Day, an Israeli national holiday, stretched from sundown Sunday to sundown Monday. It was the first of a string of holidays over the next two weeks that are overshadowed by the Oct. 7 attacks — the deadliest assault in Israeli history and the most recent formative tragedy to befall the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Next week will be Memorial Day and Independence Day, which are expected to surface long-simmering controversies over the handling of the war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition maintain that, above all, Hamas must be destroyed, while hostage families and their supporters say the priority must be the return of their loved ones. On Sunday, hundreds of Holocaust survivors gathered with younger generations to share their testimonies, in living rooms and public spaces around the country, as part of a 13-year-old initiative that was originally envisioned as a means of keeping their stories alive as the survivor population dwindles. But on Monday, as the blare of sirens brought Israelis to a standstill, the directive to “Never Forget” — said of the Holocaust, and of Oct. 7, and in some cases both — was imbued with new, more urgent relevance, according to Israeli survivors. “It is not simple, this forging of connecting between this screaming present,” of hostages whose families have for seven months been clamoring for their release, “and the memory of our grandparents, who require us to be worthy of their memory,” said Benny Lau, a prominent rabbi who hosted the Hostage Square Holocaust Remembrance Day event. Survivors and their hundreds of thousands of grandchildren in Israel say the current situation feels like the Holocaust. “I feel like we are living in something we might call an ‘October Holocaust,’ ” said Omri Shtivi, whose brother Idan, a 28-year-old environmental sciences student from Tel Aviv, was kidnapped from the Nova party. Omri said that both their grandparents were Holocaust survivors and that the testimonies he discovered in anticipation of the holiday were “chilling” in their relevance. “This is a much lower scale, but I think that anyone who has seen the pictures from that Saturday cannot call it anything else,” he said. Israel is home to 133,000 Holocaust survivors, some 2,000 of whom were evacuated from their homes because of the war in Gaza, according to Israel’s Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs. On Monday, their plights and their names are being remembered as the war in Gaza could be entering a new phase. Negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage release deal are again at an impasse. On Sunday, Hamas launched a rocket attack on the Kerem Shalom border crossing, one of the few land routes for the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, killing four Israeli soldiers. There are 132 hostages still inside Gaza, most of whom Israel believes to be held in homes and subterranean tunnels in Rafah, the southern city that Israel has pinpointed as its final battlefield. On Monday, Israel issued evacuation orders to some 100,000 residents of Rafah, potentially signaling that a ground incursion is imminent. More than 34,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians. The International Criminal Court in The Hague is rumored to be preparing arrest warrants for senior Israeli government and military officials, including Netanyahu, over their conduct of the war. The International Court of Justice, a separate body, is also considering a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza. Israel has categorically denied the accusations, saying that its military takes measures to protect civilian life and that the war is necessary for the country’s survival. “Eighty years ago, in the Holocaust, the Jewish people were totally defenseless against those who sought our destruction. No nation came to our aid,” Netanyahu said Sunday night, speaking in English at the official opening Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, where an empty yellow chair was reserved as a gesture of solidarity with the hostages in Gaza. “I say to the leaders of the world — no amount of pressure, no decision from any international forum will stop Israel from defending itself,” he added, apparently referring to the ICC proceedings and the international critics of the war in Gaza. “We will defeat our genocidal enemies. Never again is now.” Zili Wenkert, 88, who survived the Transnistria concentration camp and whose 22-year-old grandson, Omer, is a hostage in Gaza, said she felt “enormous disappointment” at the Israeli war aim to annihilate Hamas. “I’m not a military person, but I know that the first thing that they need to do is to let the hostages go, because we cannot destroy all the terror that is in their hearts,” she said, referring to Hamas. “No. First release all the hostages. God knows how many are alive.” She last saw Omer in a video sent to the family on the morning of Oct. 7, showing him stripped to his underwear, handcuffed, lying inside an SUV. Omer has colitis, a chronic gastrointestinal disorder that flares under stress. The family does not know if he has received any of the medicines that were supposed to have entered the Gaza Strip months ago, earmarked for the hostages. 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tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post EZ RE A13 israel-gaza war fer,” the group said. The U.N. relief and Works Agency that aids Palestinian refugees said in a tweet it will maintain a presence in rafah as long “as possible & will continue providing lifesaving aid.” But there is new hope that further escalation inrafah can be avoided with Israel and Hamas returning to the negotiating table. U.S. officials, increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress in talks, have warned Qatar to prepare to evict Hamas from its political office in Doha if the group obstructs a deal. monday’s evacuation order followed days of heavy Israeli bombing on rafah, residents said, in strikes that have repeatedly killed whole families, including children. one of the recent strikes, early on April 29, killed 10 members of Ahlam Abu Taha’s extended family, she said. That day, Abu Taha, 40, heard explosions, shortly after midnight, and the roar of warplanes. Then more explosions. A call came from a niece that her brother’s home had been struck.Abu Taha ran to the house. “Nothing remained as it was,” she said. As she arrived, her brother Ahmed was being lowered from the upper floors of the house on a stretcher tied to a rope.“Ithought he was still alive,” she said. But he was already dead, along with her mother,asister and three nieces. Their bodies were put in white bags and sent to al-Najjar Hospital, which had already received the dead from three other homes hit by airstrikes that morning, she said. “reconnaissance planes and warplanes do not leave the city’s skies,” she said. “The useless negotiations and talk, about a ceasefire or not, have exhausted us psychologically and physically. one day they tell us there is hope and another day they completely deny it and Israel still threatens to launch an operation.” “We are tired,” she said. “This war must stop immediately.” Israeli military officials say that Hamas’s top leaders, including Yehiya Sinwar, the architect of the oct. 7 attack, and many of Israel’s 132 remaining hostages, are holed up in tunnels beneath rafah. In Tel Aviv on monday night, demonstrators blocked a main highway and called for the government to make a deal. “We won’t let you miss this chance,” Einav Zangauker, the mother of Israeli hostage matan Zangauker, told the crowd. Aid groups in Gaza say there is nowhere for civilians to go that is both safe from attack and equipped with basic services. mercy Corps, inastatement monday, described the mawasi area as “tents stretched endlessly under scorching sun with no relief in sight and no electricity, water, or aid. During a recent heatwave, a five-year-old girl tragically died in her tent due to extreme heat,” the group said, adding that the area was full of insect-borne diseases. rafah was the central hub for humanitarian operations in Gaza, and its border crossing a “lifeline for aid to enter Gaza.” A military offensive would cause that already struggling system “to collapse,” the group said. George reported from Dubai, Harb from London, Fahim from Jerusalem and Farouk Mahfouz and Balousha from Cairo. parts of the Strip. They are packed shoulder to shoulder in grinding conditions, in tent camps, schools and other temporary accommodations, stalked by hunger, disease and, increasingly in recent weeks,the roar ofIsraeli warplanes overhead. “We do not know where we will go after the evacuation orders that we received this morning,” said fatima Darabiya, 30, who was staying with her family on the grounds ofaschool in southeast rafah, the area covered by the Israeli order. People around her were fleeing, she said, but she was leaning toward staying: Whatever was coming, she said, was no worse than moving for a fourth time during the war, with her ailing mother, her newborn infant and her sick children, who had no strength left “to bear the dust and displacement.” rain fell on the dust monday, and airstrikes boomed in the distance. Darabiya had no money to rent a car in order to move, or to buy a tent to pitch wherever she ended up. Let the tanks come, she said. “We have nothing to lose after everything we’ve lost.” Videos of boisterous celebrations emerged from Gaza almost as soon as the Hamas announcement was released, with residents clapping, honking car horns and dancing. “God is great!” people chanted, in a small march led by children on one of Gaza’s streets. reached again by phone, Darabiya said she felt some “relief,” but worried that Israel would not sign on to the plan. The Israeli military said monday’s evacuation order was issued ahead of a “limited” operation in rafah, part of a campaign it says is essential to dealing a fatal blow to Hamas’s military capabilities. U.S. officials have said publicly, and repeatedly, that a major offensive in rafah would be “a disaster,” and that any operation must be preceded by a plan to protect civilians in harm’s way. In a call between President Biden and Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on monday, “The President reiterated his clear position on rafah,” the White House said in a statement. The evacuation order monday instructed some 100,000 people to move nine miles away to mawasi, near the edge of Khan Younis, where Arab charities have been working recently to expand a tent encampment, according to imagery collected by Planet Labs and reviewed by The Washington Post late last month. It is unclear how many people the encampment can accommodate, and aid workers have stressed that they are not coordinating with Israeli authorities. Diplomats and humanitarian agencies have warned that an invasion of rafah would deepen a famine that has already taken hold in northern Gaza, put further strain on a decimated health-care system and probably result in massive civilian casualties. “Israel’s evacuation orders to civilians in rafah portend the worst: more war and famine,” E.U. foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a tweet monday. The Norwegian refugee Council called the evacuation orders “unlawful” inastatement. The absence of “fundamental guarantees of safety and return, as required by international humanitarian law, qualifies Israel’s relocation directives as forcible transrelief for rafah. residents reported artillery shelling and bombings as night fell; the Israeli military said it was carrying out strikes against “Hamas terror targets” in the east of the city. “The war cabinet has unanimously decided that Israel will continue the operation in rafah of exerting military pressure on Hamas to advance the release of our hostages and the other goals of the war,” said a statement from the Israeli Prime minister’s office late monday. “At the same time, even though Hamas’ proposal is far from Israel’s requirements, Israel will send a delegation of mediators to exhaust the possibility of reaching an agreement under conditions that would be acceptable to Israel.” Additional meetings are expected over the next several days in both Egypt and Qatar, where CIA Director William J. Burns, who has headed the U.S. negotiating team, met monday with Qatari Prime minister mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. The deal Hamas has agreed to was signed off on by Israel last week, according to a senior Arab official closely familiar with the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss delicate and ongoing diplomacy. In the first of three phases, militants would release 33 women, children and elderly hostages, with three released every three days in exchange for dozens of Palestinian prisoners, the official said. on the 34th day, Hamas would give Israelalist of all remaining hostages. At the same time, Palestinians would be allowed to return to their homes, Israeli troops would withdraw from the most populated areas inside Gaza and there would be a surge in humanitarian aid. All military and reconnaissance aviation would cease for eight hours a day, and 10 hours on hostage-release days. The second and third phases are less specifically spelled out in the written agreement, the senior Arab official said, and are the apparent crux of disagreement between Hamas and Israel. In the second stage, all additional hostages and agreed-on prisoners are to be released once arrangements are made for the return of a “sustainable calm” to Gaza. But the two sides have differing interpretations of that phrase — first proposed by mediators in late february in an effort to bridge what has long been a seemingly irreconcilable gap between Hamas’s demand that Israel agree to a permanent cease-fire in Gaza and Israel’s insistence that any cease-fire be temporary, allowing it to eliminate what it says are the militant group’s last intact battalions inside rafah. During the third stage, according to the proposed deal, the two sides are to exchange bodies of the dead and beginafive-year reconstruction plan for Gaza. Hamas would agree not to construct any military facilities or import materials used for military purposes. The deal does not address Israel’s demands that Hamas’s military capabilities be destroyed, its leaders eliminated and that the group play no part in governing postwar Gaza. Throughout the months-long negotiations, the United States has concentrated on the initial phase of a cease-fire and hostage release, hoping that a period of quiet would convince the combatants not to return to the battlefield. The United States, Qatar and Egypt are listed as “guarantors” of the deal, once agreed, though it does not spell out what that would entail. The Hamas announcement appeared to take the mediators, and Israel, by surprise, after the latest round of cease-fire negotiations had appeared to break down completely following a Hamas attack near an Israeli border crossing that killed four soldiers Sunday. Israeli Defense minister Yoav Gallant told his American counterpart in a call hours later that “military action is required” in rafah — home to about half of Gaza’s population. The large-scale evacuation order was the first for civilians along the border with Egypt, and suggested Israel was moving ahead with plans to push into the densely populated city, despite objections from the Biden administration and widespread warnings that a military offensive would precipitate a humanitarian calamity. 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A14 eZ re the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 israel-gaza war BY ABIGAIL HAUSLOHNER The Biden administration is expected to notify Congress this week whether it believes Israel has violated U.S. or international law in Gaza, a determination with significant moral and political stakes for President Biden. The forthcoming report, portions of which are expected to be made public after its transmission to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, arrives at a difficult time for U.S.-Israeli relations, as President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tangle over Israel’s defiance of Washington’s warnings about its conduct of a war and blockade that has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and triggered the onset of famine. A finding by the administration that Israel has violated U.S. or international law would almost certainly amplify calls for a suspension of American military aid, and is sure to anger conservatives who have railed against American criticisms of the Jewish state, as well as centrist political donors and many voters as Biden mounts a difficult reelection bid. Yet to conclude otherwise, amid the conflict’s enormous civilian toll, would risk a backlash from liberals. Politicians from both parties have already voiced their apprehension, underscoring the challenges Biden faces — and the improbability he emerges unscathed by the report’s findings — whatever they may be. “God help us if this report somehow says that … the delivery of humanitarian assistance has been compliant with international standards,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who is among the Democratic Party’s most outspoken critics of the administration’s management of the Gaza crisis, told reporters last week, referring to Israel’s control of Gaza’s border. “God help us if that’s your finding because anybody with eyes to see and ears to hear knows that that’s just not true.” Under pressure from Van Hollen and other Democrats, Biden in February issued a National Security Memorandum that stipulates any country receiving U.S. military aid must provide written assurances they are abiding by international law and U.S. laws governing foreign aid. The State Department is then to produce a report assessing the credibility of those assurances. The memorandum itself does not trigger specific actions should the State Department determine Israel is not in compliance. But the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act and other laws do, lawmakers say. Were the Biden administration to conclude, for example, that Israel has restricted humanitarian aid from entering Gaza — something U.S. officials have already acknowledged as happening — or that Israel has carried out military strikes on hospitals or aid operations in which the harm to civilians was disproportionate to the importance of the suspected target, the administration could be compelled, under U.S. law, either to suspend weapons transfers or issue a waiver. Both scenarios could also amount to violations of international humanitarian laws, experts say. “The Biden administration is trying to walk a fine line, but I think doing it poorly, and is frankly making everyone angry,” said Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), who like most other members of his party, believes Biden’s memorandum and any negative action toward Israel would be harmful to U.S. national security. Recent reports by prominent human rights monitors and legal experts, along with a leaked State Department memo, have suggested that many of those examining the allegations of wrongdoing believe Israel has violated the law. The Israeli Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment, but the Israeli government has repeatedly defended its actions as compliant with international law. Netanyahu’s government has attributed civilian casualties to Hamas’ presence within Gaza’s dense civilian population, and the militants’ use of civilian infrastructure; and has blamed its restriction of aid convoys on Hamas, which it says uses certain materials to further its fight. Eighty-eight congressional Democrats on Friday wrote to Biden to express their belief that “there is sufficient evidence that Israel’s restrictions on the delivery of US-backed humanitarian aid violate [U.S. law], and therefore call into question the assurances Israel provided pursuant to National Security Memorandum 20.” The letter, led by Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), a member of the House intelligence committee, urged Biden to enforce the memorandum’s terms and “suspend certain transfers should it find the Netanyahu government is violating U.S. laws and policies.” The Israeli military on Monday ordered about 100,000 civilians to “immediately” evacuate the Palestinian border city of Rafah, in southern Gaza, ahead of a planned Israeli military operation there, a move the International Rescue Committee predicted “will result in catastrophic humanitarian consequences,” and which Biden has suggested would be a “red line.” “I’m interested to see the case that the president makes” for or against Israel’s adherence to the law, said Sen. Chris Murphy (DConn.), adding that he has “not yet seen evidence that Israel is compliant.” “And I think this operation in Rafah is, in many ways, going to be determinative of whether they’re abiding by the letter and the spirit of the memorandum,” Murphy said. Spokesmen for the White House National Security Council and the State Department declined to comment on the forthcoming report or the political fury surrounding it. But U.S. policymakers involved in its preparation have said the administration recognizes it is in a tough position. No matter the outcome, one official said, someone will find fault with it. The report is, at its essence, a proxy for the larger argument over whether the Biden administration should continue arming Israel, the official added, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic. And short of a decision to withhold weapons, there is little the administration believes it can do to avoid blowback from skeptical Democrats in Congress. Republicans have seized on the prospect of suspending Israel aid to argue that the administration is betraying a strategic ally in the interest of pandering to domestic politics. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) and Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho), the chair and ranking Republican, respectively, on the House and Senate foreign committees, have accused Biden of issuing the memorandum “to appease critics of Israel.” The policy is redundant to existing U.S. law, and its reporting requirement is “motivated by anti-Israel sentiment,” they wrote in a recent letter to Biden. Waltz, who sits on all three of the House national security committees, said he has spoken recently to some of his “moderate, national security-minded” Democratic colleagues who, he said, “are getting thousands of calls per week.” “Some have had daily protests outside their district offices,” Waltz said. “It has become a very fraught political situation.” About a month and a half after Biden issued his memorandum, lawmakers and congressional aides said the Israeli government provided the State Department with its assurances that Israel was in full compliance with U.S. and international law. One Republican aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media, said that while they opposed Biden’s policy, they expected that the report would not find Israel guilty of any violation. Administration officials have said Israel has dramatically improved the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza in recent weeks, even as the Pentagon prepares to deploy a temporary pier to serve as a supplemental delivery point for food and other necessities — necessary, they say, because a sufficient amount is not getting in through Gaza’s land crossings. Many Democrats have praised the increase in humanitarian assistance, attributing the development in part to the threat of negative findings in the forthcoming report. But Van Hollen said he has also urged the administration to remember: “This report is supposed to chronicle what’s happened since the beginning of the war,” regardless of whether there have been recent improvements. “If the finding of fact and law is that at no point since the beginning of the war in Gaza has there been a violation of international humanitarian law with respect to the delivery humanitarian assistance,” he added, “you have set a terribly low bar for the world.” Michael Birnbaum and Karen deYoung contributed to this report. For Biden, a tough call looms on whether Israel violated laws in Gaza heidi Levine for the Washington Post Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border on Dec. 14. A finding in a forthcoming White House report that Israel violated U.S. or international law would probably raise calls to suspend U.S. military aid. 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tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ SU A15 BY ROBYN DIXON Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a sharp message on the eve of his inauguration for a fifth term in office, planning tactical nuclear drills as the Kremlin accused Western leaders of escalating tensions over the Ukraine war and hauled in the ambassadors of Britain and France for a dressingdown. As Putin met with members of the government Monday while preparing to begin his new term, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced it would stage nonstrategic nuclear missile drills in the near future. Russia’s Foreign Ministry also summoned the British and French ambassadors for a scolding, sending a tough message about Russia’s hardening approach to the West. Tactical or nonstrategic nuclear weapons are smaller weapons designed for battlefield use, unlike strategic nuclear missiles that could destroy cities in distant continents. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the drills were in response to French, British and American statements on the war in Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron has been vocal in refusing to rule out sending ground forces to Ukraine. British Foreign Minister David Cameron said last week that Ukraine was now entitled to use British weapons to strike Russian territory. “They talked about the readiness and even the intention to send armed contingents to Ukraine, that is, in fact, to put NATO soldiers in front of the Russian military,” Peskov said. “This is a completely new round of escalation of tension. It is unprecedented. It requires special attention and special measures.” In his comments, Peskov referred to a U.S. senator who he said made remarks that had also triggered the Russian drills. He did not identify the senator. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, officials from Putin on down have issued successive warnings about Russia’s willingness to use nuclear weapons if “red lines” are crossed. They said that included Ukrainian strikes on Crimea or on Russian territory, or the supply of certain Western equipment to Ukraine. Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Monday said that Britain and France were increasingly involved in what it characterizes as a war by the “collective West” on Russia. Ignoring warnings from Western leaders that they would respond strongly to an invasion of Ukraine, Putin ordered the fullscale war against the nation in February 2022, after demanding a radical reshaping of Europe’s security system on Russian terms the previous December. The war has led to colossal Russian and Ukrainian casualties, including thousands of Ukrainian civilians, and the destruction of Ukrainian cities, industry, infrastructure, hospitals, educational facilities and churches. The West has provided support to Ukraine since the outset of the war, initially imposing strict limits on Ukraine, for example by offering limited-range missiles that could not be used to strike Russian territory. Cameron last week made clear that no such restrictions remain when it comes to British weapons, while the United States recently sent longer-range Army Tactical Missile System missiles to Ukraine, according to U.S. officials. The missiles are capable of striking targets up to 186 miles away, nearly double the range of the midrange missiles the United States sent previously. The war has also isolated Russia from the West. As Russia upbraided the British and French ambassadors, Germany recalled its ambassador to Russia for a week of consultations in a sign of intense displeasure over the hacking last year of German defense and aerospace companies and emails associated with the Social Democratic Party of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The Russian Foreign Ministry later released a statement saying that it expressed “a strong protest” to the British ambassador over Cameron’s comments on Kyiv’s right to strike Russia with British weapons. The response could be strikes on British military facilities and equipment beyond or within Ukraine, the ministry said in its statement. The British ambassador “was told that the Russian side regards David Cameron’s words as an indication of a serious escalation and confirmation of London’s increasing involvement in the military action on Kiev’s side,” the ministry said. The ministry said it summoned the French ambassador over the “increasingly bellicose statements by the French leadership and incoming information about France’s growing involvement in the conflict around Ukraine.” “The Russian side outlined fundamental assessments of the destructive and provocative line of Paris, leading to a further escalation of the conflict,” the ministry said. Russia announces tactical nuclear drills, lashing out in anger at West BY MISSY RYAN, DAN LAMOTHE AND MICHAEL BIRNBAUM Russian authorities have detained a U.S. soldier on criminal misconduct charges, the Army said Monday, in a development likely to intensify tensions with Moscow over Americans held there. Army spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said Russia’s government had notified the State Department that the soldier was taken into custody Thursday in Vladivostok, near the country’s borders with China and North Korea. “The Army notified his family and the U.S. Department of State is providing appropriate consular support to the soldier in Russia,” Smith said in a statement. A senior defense official said the soldier was charged with stealing. It was not immediately clear whether he had committed any crime. A U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss elements of the situation that have not been made public, said the soldier, Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, was in Russia on leave following completion of an assignment in South Korea. He had been expected to return to Texas to begin a new posting there. A State Department spokesperson affirmed that an American citizen had been detained by Russian authorities and indicated that U.S. consular officials there would seek to assist. Black’s detention was first reported by NBC News. Black’s mother, Melody Jones, said her son had traveled to Russia to visit his girlfriend, a Russian citizen, and had been there for about two weeks at the time of his detention. She said that Black, an infantryman in his mid-30s, grew up in Illinois and has been in the Army since age 18. Jones said Black had been questioned extensively by Russian authorities when he first arrived for the visit but then was released. She was informed by the State Department about his detention on Thursday and has not spoken to him since he was taken into custody. She said she is worried he will be mistreated by Russian authorities. The detention is likely to further test already-strained relations between Moscow and Washington, which has accused the government of President Vladimir Putin of unjustly imprisoning Americans in a calculated bid to extract concessions from the United States. The Biden administration has released several Russians imprisoned in the United States in recent years in exchange for Americans imprisoned in Russia. Officials say that Evan Gershkovich, a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, and Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine, remain wrongfully detained there. The Russian embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Black’s detention comes less than a year after another U.S. service member was taken into custody by a nation considered a U.S. adversary. In July, Pvt. Travis King, a soldier stationed in South Korea, entered into North Korea while visiting the two countries’ border. He was eventually released and charged with desertion and other offenses by the Army. Black’s detention adds to tension over Ukraine, which the Kremlin’s forces invaded more than two years ago in an attempt to cement Russian dominance there. Putin has accused Washington, the largest provider of military aid to Kyiv, of stoking conflict between Russia and the West. The State Department, in its latest travel advisory for Russia, advises U.S. citizens against visiting the country, warning of dangers including “harassment and the singling out of U.S. citizens for detention by Russian government security officials.” The United States has no military presence in Russia except for a detachment of Marines who guard the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. alex horton contributed to this report. Russian authorities arrest U.S. Army soldier on criminal misconduct charges alexander Zemlianichenko/aP Russian authorities detained a U.S. soldier on criminal misconduct charges, the Army said on Monday. 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A16 EZ RE the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 N0139 6x21 NATIONAL REPORTING Staf of The Washington Post For its sobering examination of the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, which forced readers to reckon with the horrors wrought by the weapon ofen used for mass shootings in America. Also recognized as a finalist in the public service category. COMMENTARY Vladimir Kara-Murza For passionate columns written under great personal risk from his prison cell, warning of the consequences of dissent in Vladimir Putin’s Russia and insisting on a democratic future for his country. EDITORIAL WRITING David E. Hofman For a compelling and well-researched series on new technologies and the tactics authoritarian regimes use to repress dissent in the digital age, and how they can be fought. THE WASHINGTON POST’S 2024 PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS EXPLORE THE AWARD-WINNING STORIES AND FINALISTS CONGRATULATIONS ALSO TO THE POST’S PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTS INTERNATIONAL REPORTING Staf of The Washington Post PUBLIC SERVICE Staf of The Washington Post ILLUSTRATED REPORTING AND COMMENTARY Claire Healy, Nicole Dungca, Ren Galeno

tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ re A17 Economy & Business AutoMotiVe More Tesla layoffs in software, service Electric-vehicle maker Tesla has laid off staff from the software, service and engineering departments, tech publication Electrek reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The move comes after the Elon Musk-led automaker disbanded its EV charging department following Tesla’s announcement last month that it was reducing its global workforce by more than 10 percent. Employees at the automaker received emails over the weekend as part of broader layoffs, according to the Electrek report. Tesla, whose shares were up more than 1 percent, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. — Reuters BeVeRAge RetAiling Ex-CEO: Starbucks should focus on coffee Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says the company’s leaders should spend more time in stores and focus on coffee drinks as they work to turn around flagging sales. In a LinkedIn post published over the weekend, Schultz said many people had reached out to him after Starbucks reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales and earnings last week. The Seattle coffee giant said revenue dropped 2 percent in the January-March period as store traffic slowed around the world. It was the first time since 2020 that the company saw a drop in quarterly revenue. Starbucks also lowered its sales and earnings guidance for its full fiscal year. Schultz, who bought Starbucks in 1987, is credited with growing the company into the global behemoth it has become, with nearly 39,000 stores worldwide. — Associated Press Housing Survey: Americans brace for higher costs Americans are once again bracing for another round of higher housing costs, amid rising expectations by renters that they’ll never be able to buy a house, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday. As part of its latest Survey of Consumer Expectations, the regional Fed bank found that respondents at the start of the year saw higher near-term increases for rent and home prices, although they do see some relief over the longer haul for home prices. Households also see no relief on home borrowing costs and are bracing for the highest mortgage rates in a survey that dates back to 2014. The New York Fed said that in February, respondents predicted home prices would rise 5.1 percent a year from now, up from the 2.6 percent they predicted a year ago. But five years from now, respondents see home prices up by 2.7 percent, compared with 2.8 percent in last year’s poll. On the rental front, respondents reckon costs a year from now will be up 9.7 percent, the second-highest reading in the survey’s history, compared with 8.2 percent in the poll in February 2023. — Reuters Also in Business A trio of U.S. financial regulators have resumed work on a long-delayed rule-writing project to make executive compensation plans at financial firms more sensitive to risk. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Housing Finance Agency jointly proposed the rule, which would bar incentive-based plans that do not account for risks or allow pay to be clawed back or forfeited, the agencies said. The proposal repeats a 2016 proposal on the matter. Redfin has agreed to pay $9.25 million to settle federal lawsuits that claim U.S. homeowners were saddled with artificially inflated broker commissions when they sold their homes as a result of longstanding real estate industry practices. The online brokerage and real estate services company disclosed the proposed deal Monday in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The settlement, which Redfin agreed to Friday, would resolve pending classaction lawsuits filed in federal court in the Western District of Missouri, and also shield the company, its subsidiaries and agents from similar cases around the country, according to the filing. United Parcel Service said Monday that CFO and executive vice president Brian Newman will leave the company June 1. UPS will evaluate internal and external CFO candidates to replace Newman. “My near-term priority is to focus on my health,” Newman said in a statement. — From news services Digest BY JANE BLACK In the beginning, Andrea and Travis Schroeder’s hunt for child care in Grand Junction, Colo., was all too typical. They put out a call on Facebook. Crickets. They asked their neighbors. Shrugs. When the Schroeders finally found an open slot, it was at an unlicensed center where, after a few weeks, their adopted 18- month-old granddaughter, Madison, came home “spouting cusswords.” Their next provider was also unlicensed and would sometimes take Madison with her on other jobs — and not be home when the Schroeders came to pick her up. Then, eight months after their search began, a member of the couple’s church mentioned that she was helping to build a new database of child care providers for the county — and offered to do a search for them. The Schroeders outlined their requirements — preferred location, price, a center that would help them to potty train — and “she came back with a list of licensed centers and how many openings were available,” Andrea Schroeder said. “It made it really easy.” The Schroeders’ story rings familiar to millions of American families who urgently need child care and can’t find it. More than half of all children — par - ticularly those from low- and middle-income, Hispanic and rural communities — live in a child care desert, which is defined as an area where there are too few licensed slots for the number of children who need care. The crunch only got worse last fall, as the last of $24 billion in pandemic-era funding for child care expired — a funding “cliff” that has since been partially remedied in 11 states and Washington, D.C., but not nationwide. Yet in the Schroeders’ case, the solution was simple: a database. Such searchable directories are a given in many wealthy industrialized countries, where the state oversees, and often pays for, child care. But in the United States, where you can find nearly anything in seconds online, most child care centers don’t even have a website. According to a survey conducted by Upfront, a New York-based software firm that builds child care databases, only about 40 percent of providers have a website — and only a fraction of those are maintained or updated. “Imagine you were looking for an apartment and you were only able to see 40 percent of the inventory,” said Dana Levin-Robinson, Upfront’s CEO. “And of the ones listed, only 20 percent had the price listed and half listed the number of bedrooms. Would you use that? No, you would not.” Upfront and a handful of other companies are building on an effort that began in the wake of the pandemic, when state and municipal governments received federal stimulus funds for child care. Now, the private sector is taking note of companies with systems designed to bring the search for child care into the digital age. The software firm, BridgeCare, which built the Colorado county’s database, works in 14 states including Texas, Alabama and Connecticut — and, in February, announced $10 million in venture capital funding. Upfront has deployed a statewide search in Maryland and will launch in two more states this summer. The Los Angeles-based firm Upwards works with private employers as well as municipalities and has raised more than $43 million to date. ‘Wild West’ The $60 billion child care industry has long been ripe for Silicon Valley-style disruption. But the challenges of imposing order on a messy, fragmented system have deterred many venture capitalists with a taste for fast growth. For one, aggregating existing data is grueling. Licensing regulations vary from state to state, which makes it hard to build one national system that caters to parents everywhere. The data that is stored electronically is often housed at disparate agencies whose systems don’t talk to one another. For example, in New York, the Office of Children and Family Services licenses providers — except in New York City, where center infant and toddler programs are regulated by the Department of Health, while pre-K programs for 3- and 4-year olds are overseen by the Department of Education. Furthermore, there’s no repository for the information most valuable to parents: How much does care cost? What hours are centers open? Which providers have open spots? Another wrinkle is that as many as half of child care providers offer care in their homes. These providers, mostly women, are running small businesses on slim to nonexistent margins, so there’s often no one to build a website, maintain a Facebook page or even answer the phone when desperate parents call. “Childcare is the wild west,” said Laura Weeldreyer, executive director of the Maryland Family Network (MFN), a nonprofit that serves parents and child care providers. “Enrollment data, price data, attendance data — all the things you need to know — don’t exist.” Weeldreyer came to MFN after a career in K-12 education, a sector she describes as “drowning in data.” In 2022, bolstered by additional funds from the pandemicera stimulus, MFN hired Upfront to build a statewide searchable database of providers for parents and its team of child care consultants. Called LOCATE, it allows parents to instantly see where child care providers are, what ages they serve and at what price. It also highlights centers that have open spots and provides a messaging platform and contact information. Through recent data-collection campaigns across the state, Upfront identified 1,600 vacancy spots that providers had not previously shared. A ‘broken market’ While these databases can solve the problem of information, it remains unclear whether they can budge the elephant in the room for parents — namely, cost. In 2021, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen called child care “a textbook example of a broken market.” According to the Treasury Department, an average family with at least one child under 5 must spend 13 percent of their income to pay for high-quality child care. Meanwhile, child care workers earn on average just $27,000 a year. But what these databases can do is show parents that there are more options than they knew about. According to BridgeCare, which conducted a national survey in 2018, providers say slots remain open for an average of three to four months. And governments employing these systems are optimistic that the data won’t just showcase existing availability but help create spots in the places where they are most needed. Take Mesa County, where the Schroeders found care. Perched on the western slope of Colorado, it’s mostly rural, but many residents work in the county’s largest city, Grand Junction. By analyzing search data, the Mesa County Partnership for Children and Families was able to see exactly where in the city parents were looking for care and advise a local child care provider on the best place to open a second center. With the help of BridgeCare’s software, the county has been able to boost the number of child care slots available by about 10 percent since 2021. For a parent on the hunt for child care, a simple search can feel like a miracle. When Charisé Lake-Shenoda, a 33-year-old mother of twin toddlers, moved to Maryland in the fall of 2023, she spent a month searching for child care while working full time. She joined a paid service, which found nothing, and begged colleagues and neighbors for recommendations. She often found herself pushing her children in a stroller during virtual meetings to keep them quiet. Then, in October, she saw a post on Reddit about LOCATE. “I went and searched town by town, then emailed a bunch of providers. A woman emailed me back that same afternoon to say she had slots for both children,” LakeShenoda said. “I started weeping on the phone.” Jane Black, a former Washington Post staff writer, covers food politics, trends and sustainability issues. Start-ups o≠er innovative databases to help parents seeking child care Businesses partner with states to ease families’ search for slots in an industry ripe for disruption PhoTos By Kelsey Brunner for The WashingTon PosT Madison Schroeder, 4, eats her lunch while her grandparents, Andrea and Travis Schroeder, finish preparing their food in the kitchen of their home in Fruita, Colo. LEFT: Madison Schroeder plays with blocks at the kid’s church at the Bethel Assembly of God in Grand Junction, Colo. RIGHT: Schroeder family photos hang on the wall in their living room in Fruita, Colo.

A18 eZ re the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 responded to some but not all of the queries. The Post has also requested an interview with Putin. That request was denied. “If it is not accepted by the society then police have to take measures to bring it into balance with the demands of the society,” Peskov wrote in his reply. “Society is now less tolerant to those parties and nightclubs.” Long obsessed with russia’s population decline, Putin is urging russian women to have eight or more babies, while also seizing chunks of Ukraine’s population by force. russia has issued more than 3 million passports in eastern Ukraine since 2019, according to the russian Interior ministry. In occupied Ukraine, it is virtually impossible to work, drive, or obtain health care, humanitarian aid, benefits or other services without having a russian passport — a potential violation of the Geneva Conventions, which state that “it is forbidden to compel the inhabitants of occupied territory to swear allegiance to the hostile power.” Russia, Remastered nAnnA heITMAnn/MAGnuM PhoTos For The WAshInGTon PosT Military cadets take photos with relatives in front of a portrait of soviet dictator Joseph stalin at Moscow’s Victory Museum, which is devoted to World War ii, the fulcrum of Vladimir Putin’s worldview. In Crimea, russia issued more than 1.5 million passports after invading and illegally annexing the peninsula in 2014. In ambition and scale, Putin’s effort to mold a new national identity is “as profound as the russian october revolution,” a member of the moscow elite with contacts in the Kremlin said, referring to 1917, when Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks seized power. “He overturns all the values,” this person said. “He cuts all the usual ties.” Like many people in this article, this person spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from the russian government, which has jailed and even killed its critics. Some of those interviewed for this article have received overt warnings, including bank account and asset freezes, and two have been jailed. “They are trying to create some new form of ideology for the masses,” said mikhail Zygar, a russian journalist and writer now living in New York. “It’s not a war with Ukraine. It’s a war with America, a war with the West or with Satan, with all those forces of moral decay.” Putinism bears hallmarks of fascism, Zygar said. “He’s using the war and hatred as the instrument to brainwash the russian people,” he said. “That’s everything we know about fascism.” Charges and an arrest warrant for disseminating “fake news” were launched against Zygar after The Post interviewed him. Origins of Putinism Putin’s quest is not new, but russia’s confrontation with the West over Ukraine has allowed him to accelerate his plan. The russian leader, who inherited his post on Dec. 31, 1999, immediately began whittling back democratic institutions and approved a raid on NTV, the main independent television station, just weeks after winning his first election in march 2000. During his first two decades of rule, Putin rode a crest of oil and gas prices, but he never had a mobilizing ideology to convince citizens that his path was better than the West’s democratic freedoms and greater economic wealth. His re-engineering of russia is designed to provide that unifying philosophy. Its symbol — the letter Z painted roughly on extremism; and building a new, militarized elite of “warriors and workers” willing to take up arms, redraw international boundaries and violate global norms on orders of russia’s strongman ruler. “They’re trying to develop this scientific Putinism as a basis of propaganda, as a basis of ideology, as a basis of historical education,” said Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie russia Eurasia Center. “They need an obedient new generation — indoctrinated robots in an ideological sense — supporting Putin, supporting his ideas, supporting this militarization of consciousness.” Kolesnikov, speaking in an interview in moscow, added: “They need cannon fodder for the future.” Just before ordering what he believed would be a short, shock war on Ukraine, Putin published a little-noticed decree billed as vital to russia’s national security. It called for urgent measures to protect “traditional russian spiritual and moral values” and named the United States as a direct threat. “Threats to traditional values come from extremist and terrorist organizations, some news media and communication platforms, the actions of the United States and other unfriendly foreign states,” the order stated. A key goal, it said, was “to position the russian state on the international stage as a custodian and defender of traditional universal spiritual and moral values.” Putin’s descriptions of the West as “satanic” and the war as “sacred” are increasingly echoed by officials and the russian orthodox Church. As he fractures global ties and girds his nation for a forever war with the West, riot police in russia are raiding nightclubs and private parties, beating up guests and prosecuting gay bar owners. russians have been jailed or fined for wearing rainbow earrings or displaying rainbow flags. Dissidents who were imprisoned in Soviet times are once again behind bars — this time for denouncing the war. The Kremlin has defended the crackdown as responding to popular demand. for this article, The Post submitted questions to the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, who the prospect of an enduring civilizational conflict to subvert Western democracy and — Putin has warned — even threatens a new world war. To carry out this transformation, the Kremlin is: l forging an ultraconservative, puritanical society mobilized against liberal freedoms and especially hostile to gay and transgender people, in which family policy and social welfare spending boost traditional orthodox values. l reshaping education at all levels to indoctrinate a new generation of turbo-patriot youth, with textbooks rewritten to reflect Kremlin propaganda, patriotic curriculums set by the state and, from September, compulsory military lessons taught by soldiers called “Basics of Security and Protection of the motherland,” which will include training on handling Kalashnikov assault rifles, grenades and drones. l Sterilizing cultural life with blacklists of liberal or antiwar performers, directors, writers and artists, and with new nationalistic mandates for museums and filmmakers. l mobilizing zealous pro-war activism under the brutal Z symbol, which was initially painted on the side of russian tanks invading Ukraine but has since spread to government buildings, posters, schools and orchestrated demonstrations. l rolling back women’s rights with a torrent of propaganda about the need to give birth — young and often — and by curbing ease of access to abortions, and charging feminist activists and liberal female journalists with terrorism, extremism, discrediting the military and other offenses. l rewriting history to celebrate Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator who sent millions to the gulag, through at least 95 of the 110 monuments in russia erected during Putin’s time as leader. meanwhile, memorial, a human rights group that exposed Stalin’s crimes and shared the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, was shut down and its pacificist co-chairman oleg orlov, 71, jailed. l Accusing scientists of treason; equating criticism of the war or of Putin with terrorism or russiA from A1 Putin reshapes Russia into militarized, anti-West nation Russia's friends and foes Countries that Russia has deemed "unfriendly" Countries that support Russia militarily (Including arms supplies) Countries that support Russia diplomatically (nations that voted against several u.n. resolutions condemning the war) syrIA BeLArus erITreA nICArAGuA MALI BeLArus IrAn norTh KoreA ALBAnIA AnDorrA AusTrALIA BAhAMAs BrITAIn CAnADA e.u. 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tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ re k A19 reform. “But he didn’t,” Kasyanov said. “He pretended.” Kasyanov said he was horrified by Putin’s approach to two hostage crises in 2002 and 2004 — ordering forces to storm in, causing hundreds of deaths. “That was already a demonstration of his real nature, his KGB nature: no negotiations, no compromise, because they can’t come to a compromise because of the belief they will be seen as weak people,” he said. By 2004, Kasyanov was in opposition. “I understood that he’s completely the wrong person,” he said. Putin’s first attempt to dominate Ukraine in 2004 — visiting Kyiv to back pro-Kremlin presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych — backfired and set the scene for the orange Revolution and a rematch election, which Putin’s man lost. Putin saw it as a “coup” and Western support for the winner, Viktor Yushchenko, as interference. It was the start of Putin’s fixation on the “Ukrainian problem” and his belief that an independent, democratic neighbor was an unacceptable threat to his own regime. Abbas Gallyamov,aPutin speechwriter from 2008 to 2010 and Kremlin political consultant until 2018, said Putin invaded Crimea in 2014 and conducted a full-scale military attack on Ukraine in 2022 partly to reverse declines in his approval rating. After voicing frank criticisms of Putin’s decisions, Gallyamov said, Kremlin managers threatened to cut him off. “After this I received threats,” he said. “You’ll starve. You’ll get no contracts.” He moved to Israel with his family. Last year, he was put on Russia’s wanted list, according to an Interior Ministry database, and the Russian Justice Ministry declared him a “foreign agent.” An arrest warrant was issued March 4. In Russia, schoolteachers are used to indoctrinate children and even to police their parents’ views. spending on patriotic education and state-run militarized organizations for children and teens increased to more than $500 million in 2024 from about $34 million in 2021, according to federal budget statistics reported by RBC, a Russian business daily. starting in september, all sEE RUssiA oN A20 was to “encourage our people to give birth to as many children as they can,” to increase Russia’s population. “And in this context, spreading of traditional values is extremely important for us and in this context we have nothing in common with this extremist liberalism in terms of abandoning traditional human and religious values that we’re witnessing right now in European countries. This does not correspond with our understanding of what is right,” he added. Peskov said the Kremlin would “continue to make propaganda out of this, in the good sense of this word,” adding: “Especially now when we have an extreme consolidation of our society around this idea of traditional values and around the president so it’s easier for us to do that.” Russia remastered At a meeting in January, Putin stood stiffly with a group of families clad in bright national costumes. It was latest iteration of his image, long shaped by staged activities like riding bare-chested on horseback. Now, extolling traditional values, he is the grandfatherly patriarch, recalling portraits of stalin with folk from across the soviet Union. “In Russian families, many of our grandmothers and greatgrandmothers had seven or eight children, and even more. Let’s preserve and revive these wonderful traditions,” Putin said in a November speech dedicated to “a thousand-year, eternal Russia.” The emphasis is on a special and powerful state dominated by Putin, on centuries-old Russian self-reliance and stoicism, and the sacrifice of individual rights to the regime. Men give their lives in war or work. Women should give their bodies by birthing children. Putin’s worldview draws from 9th-century Vikings, ancient princes and expansionist czars, but its lodestone is World War II, or the Great Patriotic War, in which Russia helped defeat Nazi Germany. Russian pride in that victory, central to its national identity, is woven into Putin’s mythology about the soviet Union. stalin, who oversaw the deaths of millions in famines, purges and the gulag, has been promoted as a strong wartime leader, with invading tanks in 2022 — now adorns public buildings and banners. Invading Ukraine was the most destructive step in Putin’s longer, grander plan to restore Russia’s greatness as the superpower it was during soviet times and as an empire for 200 years before that. But his transformation of Russia started well before the invasion of Ukraine, using homophobia and so-called traditional values to disrupt Western societies and court support in the Global south. He also projected military power by invading Georgia in 2008 and sending Russian troops to syria and Africa. In Russia, the death in February of Putin’s strongest rival,Alexei Navalny, was a clear signpost on this new path. Putin shrugged off Navalny’s death, showing no sympathy, let alone remorse. “It happens,” he said, endorsing the official finding that Navalny died of natural causes. Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, has accused Putin of having him killed. Putin “decides everything,” the member of the Russian elite said, and while his new term runs until 2030, he iswidely expected to stay in power as long as he chooses. In a state of the Nation speech in February, Putin described his push for women to have more children and to create a new elite of workers and soldiers. “We can see what is taking place in some countries where moral standards and the family are being deliberately destroyed and entire nations are pushed to extinction and decadence,” he said. “We have chosen life. Russia has been and remains a stronghold of the traditional values on whichhuman civilizationstands.” Proclaiming a new “time of heroes,” Putin said the old oligarchic elite was “discredited.” “Those who have done nothing for society and consider themselves a caste endowed with special rights and privileges — especially those who took advantage of all kinds of economic processes in the 1990s to line their pockets — are definitely not the elite,” he said. “Those who serve Russia, hard workers and military, reliable, trustworthy people who have proven their loyalty,” he added, “are the genuine elite.” Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, in written replies to questions from The Post, said the aim Russia, Remastered nAnnA heITMAnn/MAGnuM PhoTos For The WAshInGTon PosT A man and child pose with guns inadisplay representing the Chechen Republic at the Russia Expo, an ongoing exhibition in Moscow demonstrating the country’s technological and cultural achievements. 1991 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2023 0% 15% 30% 45% 49% ukraine war Share of presidential decrees that were secret source: Mediazona People persecuted by the Russian authorities for political reasons 200 400 600 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 738 578 208 note: 2024 data as of April 24 source: ovd-Info second Chechen War 63 percent of Russians expressing a positive view of him in a 2023 survey by the Levada Center polling agency, and 47 percent expressing respect for him. Putin’s admiration for him goes back decades. In 2002, when Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski met the Russian leader for nearly five hours oneon-one, Putin professed strong admiration for three leaders — Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and stalin — and a desire to rebuild “Great Russia.” “My impression was I see a man who was formed by theKGB: KGB education, KGB school books and the books about history, absolutely falsified,” Kwasniewski told Zygar, the Russian journalist, in 2022, “but very much in favor of this understanding of Great Russia and Russian pride.” Putin has long obsessed over the idea of a civilizational battle against the West, distorting history to claim thatRussia is merely retaking its “historical lands” in Ukraine. 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A20 eZ re the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 a dystopian edge In a shared wagon on a longdistance night train, a mother from a southern russian city confided her worries about her children and their futures. Her family loves to vacation in Italy, Spain, Egypt and Turkey. She showed off photos and videos of beach holidays and a New Year’s party in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, packed with russians, all of whom, she said, wished for the war to end. Her daughter, 15, feels drawn to Europe and wants to be a journalist. Her son, 10, loves gaming. Both are addicted to their iPhones and iPads. Like their friends, they use virtual private networks (VPNs) to view banned sites such as Instagram. russian authorities are ramping up technology to curtail dissent. officials have flagged a ban on VPNs, and analysts see a ban on YouTube as inevitable. There’s a dystopian edge to the new russia. Peace activists, young and old, are behind bars, while convicted murderers, rapists and other violent criminals have been set free — pardoned by Putin to fight in Ukraine. Some are returning from war and committing horrific crimes. many liberals, including Kagarlitsky and Gallyamov, doubt that Putin and his hard-liners can succeed. “Societies never get demodernized,” Kagarlitsky said. Gallyamov said that many russians are “really afraid” and will eventually repudiate Putin’s rule, just as Germany rejected the Nazis. “The general russian population is tired of his militarism, of the war, of this patriotic, antiWestern hysteria,” Gallyamov said. “They drastically want just normalization.” Perhaps the fatigue is murmured too softly for the Kremlin to hear. on the overnight train, the woman was careful to steer clear of politics, a subject she dreads. And yet her despair spilled out. “I just wish there was an end to these troubled times,” she said, in a low, bitter voice. natalia abbakumova in riga, Latvia, contributed to this report. Russia, Remastered tovkina, the wife of Lt. Gen. Andrei Kolotovkin, commander of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army, of Samara, developed a project called “Wives of Heroes,” now touring the country, with patriotic portraits of soldiers’ wives draped in their husbands’ uniforms. At the Samara House of officers, she runs a group of women pensioners who cut and fold bandages for the war. The storeroom is crammed with goods to be sent to the front: children’s drawings, trench candles, and comfort packages of dry crackers, sweets and homemade good-luck charms. “The people who are coming back from the special military operation absolutely must be created as this new elite,” Kolotovkina said in an interview. “These are people who proved their love of russia. They are true patriots. They have to be given decent jobs in state institutions.” She blames the West for sending its “filth” to russia, and for promoting LGBTQ+ people. “The new russia is all about family values, mama and Papa,” she said. “our children should be healthy and patriotic. It will be a strong, patriotic society. We will get rid of all those who started to destroy our country. I think the new russia will have no place for these people.” ‘scum and traitors’ Along with its elevation of new heroes, Putin’s push to remake russia is marked by the persecution of thousands of those he calls “scum and traitors” — enemies of the state. more than 116,000 russians were tried under repressive criminal or administrative articles during Putin’s most recent term, the highest since Stalinist times, according to a study by Proekt, an investigative russian news outlet. Among them is Boris Kagarlitsky, a leftist sociologist who was jailed in 1982 as a Soviet dissident his early 20s. Now 65, Kagarlitsky was arrested again in July by the federal Security Service for promoting “terrorism,” handcuffed and forced into an SUV by armed guards in black balaclavas, then driven 17 hours to Syktyvkar in northern russia, where he faced schoolchildren will get military training from soldiers who fought in Ukraine; since last year, university students take a compulsory course in patriotism that conveys distorted history and the idea that russia has no borders when it comes to russianspeaking “compatriots.” Students of all ages are inundated with pro-war activities, including talks from war veterans clad in camouflage and black balaclavas. In Novosibirsk, children made drones for the front, and in mamadysh in Tatarstan, they produced drone tail fins. others have made crutches for wounded soldiers or knitted stockings for the stumps of military amputees. Superstitious conspiracy theories are taking hold, with science in retreat. more than a dozen russian scientists have been accused of treason, thousands have fled the country, and publication of russian scientific papers plummeted by more than 14 percent in 2022 amid russia’s isolation after the Ukraine invasion, according to Scopus, a major independent database of peer-reviewed research papers. Putin anoints heroes whose deeds most shock the West. He honored troops whom Ukraine accused of carrying out atrocities in Bucha in 2022; promoted a top russian prison official days after Navalny’s death; and paid tribute to his children’s rights commissioner, maria Lvova-Belova, who, along with Putin, has been charged by the International Criminal Court with war crimes for the “unlawful transfer” and “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children. The Kremlin rejects the charges. russia’s elite, meanwhile, has hardened against the West, according to one billionaire living outside russia. “Everyone is very anti-West; that’s all you hear,” the billionaire said. “Anti-West, anti-West, antiWest. And it will increase, the longer this war goes on — and it could go on for 10 years or more.” As Putin rails against liberal decadence and permissiveness to rally the nation behind him, russian patriots exult at his promise of a new elite. Yekaterina KoloRussia from a19 he felt “total impotence, powerlessness, helplessness.” “The country is turning into an absolutely totalitarian state. There is complete lawlessness,” Alibekov said. “There is no democracy. There are rich people and slaves, that’s all.” on feb. 20, police dragged him off a train, and he was detained, awaiting trial for allegedly assaulting police. russia’s Interior ministry did not respond to an inquiry about the charges against Gallyamov or the cases against Zygar, Akunin and Alibekov. The shock value in russia’s hunt for enemies is enough to quell most dissent. In January, Yevgenia maiboroda, 72, a lonely, deeply religious pensioner, was charged with extremism and jailed for 51/2 years for two antiwar social media posts. And in february, a Nizhny Novgorod woman, Anastasia Yershova, was jailed for five days for displaying “extremist symbols” — earrings with a frog and a rainbow — which a court found to be pro-LGBTQ+. the russian military” and with “justifying terrorism” for opposing the war in Ukraine. russian stores banned his books, his royalties were seized and he was issued an arrest warrant in absentia. According to Chkhartishvili, Putin is implementing “orthodox sharia” using xenophobic, bigoted, paranoid, misogynistic “and inevitably antisemitic” clichés to mobilize russians. “moscow must become a mecca of morons,” he said. “That’s the plan.” many of those interviewed for this article have fled russia or were later jailed, including an eccentric YouTuber, Askhabali Alibekov, who calls himself the “Wild Paratrooper.” Alibekov, of Novorossiysk in southern russia, has been jailed three times for criticizing Putin and the war. He was on the run when he spoke to The Post in December. He grew up in an orphanage, earning the nickname “Little Wolf,” fighting bullies, always keen to have the last punch. But struggling against Putin, he said court. “Kafka,” he said simply. “Everyone understood the absurdity.” He was fined and freed in December, then jailed again in february, after the prosecutor appealed. His days operating a YouTube channel out of a studio in a dim moscow basement are finished. In an interview over lunch before he was sent back to prison, The Post asked why he did not leave russia. He shrugged and smiled. Jail, he said, was “a professional hazard.” Kagarlitsky said Putin’s effort to re-engineer russia is a desperate — and doomed — throw of the dice, disconnected from reality. “It’s not only out of step with ordinary russians. It’s out of step with the elite itself,” he said, before rushing off to feed his cat. The regime is also striving to discredit Putin critics outside russia, including a beloved detective novelist, London-based Grigory Chkhartishvili, better known by his pen name, Boris Akunin, who was charged with “disseminating false information about nanna heiTMann/MagnuM PhoTos for The WashingTon PosT a man stands in front of Russia’s parliament in late March with a poster supporting the president and a flag that reads: “For the Motherland! For sovereignty! 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tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ re a21 TUESDAY Opinion ize you’ve got one hour left at the fair, and you get serious about how you are going to live. Twenty-five years ago, my then-9-yearold son inadvertently helped me see the way: I was racing to an appearance at a theater on the docks of San Francisco Bay, holding a purse, a coffee, a batch of papers and my latest book, and trying to get Sam to hurry up behind me. Suddenly, some pages blew away toward some bored cormorants on the pilings. Sam caught them and then glared at me. “Mom,” he said, “you’re carrying too much, and you’re going too fast.” You get away with this manic, burdened way of living for the first twothirds of life, but as you transition to the third third, you start to wonder whether this pattern argues a wasted life. You slow down. You start to actually be here for your life. What a concept. After all the losses, disappointments and deaths that every older person has experienced, we usually discover how life miraculously goes on, reshapes itself toward homeostasis and more grace than we could have imagined. We learn to look beyond our dire imaginings and trust that this miracle might just happen again. I once heard someone say that hope is faith with a track record. Take this morning. Something humiliating happened to me professionally. It was not ideal, as I was nearly 3,000 miles and many days away from home. I felt a kind of cold, vibrating sheet metal fear. It was way too early to wake my husband and close friends back in California. What to do? How to get through the morning, let alone my godforsaken life? I cried for a moment, then fluffed up the despair with some rage and plans for revenge, which is the Christian way. This steadied me. Then I remembered something: Deep breath! Oh, right — breathe. Get outside and look up. I dressed and raced out. The morning’s icy blue sky told me that even though it was very, very cold, the blue was burnished by the sun and was an invitation. More warmth and light was on the way. I usually love the mysticism of clouds more than what I sometimes call the sky’s tyrannical blue, but some days you just can’t beat the brightest blue. George Saunders said that what he’s learning as he ages into retirement is that “kindness is the only non-delusional response to everything.” I stroked my shoulder like the best mom, who knew how to keep the little patient comfortable. Next, an overly large, gloriously unhealthy breakfast. Sometimes you need to lift off and fly, but sometimes you need ballast. Back inside, no longer gasping like a fish on the dock, I picked up the 200-pound phone and risked waking my husband. He was apoplectic on my behalf and then helped me with my plans for vengeance — snake attack, of course, and hemorrhoids. Next I called my Jesuit friend Tom Weston. He said I had to arrange for a burnt offering at my next destination, to appease the ancient Canaanite gods. (They love barbecue.) Also, that the god of his understanding is very willing to help Protestants, most of the time. His love made me a bit teary, but I found myself laughing with him. Age and time usually offer us the gift of learning to take ourselves a lot less seriously. We smile ruefully at ourselves more often. And laughter is the DippityDo of the spiritual life, jiggly at first and then holding us firmly. The wiggle and jiggle play with your toxic internal attempts to control life, loosening the membrane between you and the moment, you and the ocean, you and your armored intellectual head; you and me. The hold held me like a rock. As a woman of faith and cranky optimism, I am usually afraid of only a dozen or so things at any given time, which is a major improvement since childhood. I was the single most scared child on Earth in the 1950s. For instance, I was habitually afraid of being murdered while I slept, so I’d practice looking dead. Then the murderer would peek in my room and think, Hmmm, no one to kill in here; the little girl is already dead. I don’t do that anymore (very often). Now I am mostly afraid of my son and grandchild dying before me, beside which all other fears pale. I do worry about falling and breaking my hip. Gravity is a killer. I am, as we speak, on a long airplane flight, hearing a loud mechanical rattle, such as what a wing might make as it works itself off toward freedom. Also, I fear inheriting my mother’s Alzheimer’s, my father’s brain cancer, snakes, the election and the guy behind me coughing. Maybe worst of all, I have to get my driver’s license renewed fairly soon, which means I have to take the written test. I would rather go to my periodontist and let her do the deep gum planing that she seems to enjoy. Even five years ago, when I last went to the DMV to renew my license, I was full of dithery fear, bumbling around like Mr. Magoo on crack cocaine looking for the right counter. To my astonishment, I passed the test. But now, only five years later, I have to do it again. It’s so wrong. I notice a difference now: Back then, fear felt like a swamp inside, with Burmese pythons swimming around, patiently, so I sloshed through the DMV. With age, it is more shadowy, a sneaky menace. Ahh — gotcha! — and I’ve learned to quiet it one fright at a time. They say that babies are born cute so that their fathers won’t eat them, and I think a similar thing takes place when we age. As we look older and somewhat more frail, we have a last chance to coax forth compassion and kindness from the world. As we surrender to the reality that, as we age, most of the systems of body and mind start to go on the fritz, we invite humility into our lives. There is no greater strength. I am definitely running out of time, and I have (mostly) made peace with that. When I was a child, one of the most important events of the year was the county fair. My friends and I would go on all the carnival rides and eat all the carnival food. But around 10 p.m., someone would notice the time. We’d have only an hour until our parents arrived. Suddenly we had a new clarity of purpose. We stopped wanting to ride the Gravitron or eat more cotton candy. We wanted to get one more funnel cake and then head for the Ferris wheel. This is what aging feels like. You suddenly realanne Lamott Lifelong lessons in coping with fear and humiliation andrea Levy For the Washington Post in states such as Kentucky. If you think (as much national political coverage these days suggests) that only Black voters and people with college degrees back Democrats, the party’s relative strength in Wisconsin is surprising. Only about 20 percent of the state’s residents are people of color; just 7 percent are Black. (The U.S. population overall is about 40 percent people of color and 14 percent Black.) Thirtytwo percent of Wisconsin residents have bachelor’s degrees, a bit lower than the national average (34 percent). Democrats are winning in Wisconsin because close to half of White voters in the state are backing them, higher than the national average (about 40 percent) and above other states in the Midwest, such as Iowa and Ohio. White Wisconsin residents with and without degrees are more left-leaning than their counterparts across the country. So a room of Wisconsin Democrats would look like a room of national Republicans: about 80 percent White. Even very Democratic-leaning Dane County is 78 percent White. Why more White Wisconsin voters are sticking with the Democrats is a bit complicated. Part of the explanation is structural and demographic factors that do not involve education level or race. Democrats struggle in states where a high percentage of people live in rural areas or are evangelical ChrisMADisON, Wis. Demographics aren’t destiny in U.S. politics. America’s growing numbers of Asians and Latinos aren’t all voting for Democrats and turning Florida, Texas and other traditionally conservative states blue. On the flip side, millions of White Americans still back Democrats, including many without college degrees, the group whose support for Republicans we’ve heard so much about over the past eight years. These voters have kept Democrats competitive in states such as Wisconsin, and this year they are crucial to preventing the catastrophe that would be a second term for former president Donald Trump. “We are really fired up to reelect President Biden and defend democracy,” said Susan Knower, a therapist who is the Democratic Party chair in Sauk County, a rural area near Madison that is about 90 percent White. After a majority of the county’s voters supported Trump in 2016, the county narrowly flipped back to the Democrats in the 2020 and 2022 elections. Trump’s surprising 2016 victory included a triumph in Wisconsin. Back then, it seemed Democrats were doomed long-term in states such as this where the overwhelming majority of people are White and a big chunk live in small towns and rural areas and don’t have college degrees. But since 2016 this state has been the scene of several Democratic triumphs: the defeat of longtime anti-union incumbent Republican Gov. Scott Walker in 2018, Biden’s victory two years later, and wins in state Supreme Court races in 2020 and 2023 that gave it a liberal majority. So why hasn’t Wisconsin gone red? The math is fairly simple. Like Americans across the country, people in metropolitan areas in Wisconsin are voting Democratic at higher rates than before. In Dane County, which includes Madison, home of the state’s government and the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus, 76 percent of the people voted for Biden four years ago. That was even above the number of Dane residents who voted for Barack tians. But Wisconsin, like Minnesota, is both more urban and less evangelical than many other states in the Midwest and Great Plains. “Religious affiliation is declining nationwide, and that trend is occurring in Wisconsin, too,” University of Wisconsin at Madison political scientist Nathan Kalmoe told me. “That bodes well for Democratic vote shares among Whites in the future, if those trends and alignments continue.” Wisconsin also has a long tradition of progressive and labor organizing, even in rural areas. So there are lots of activists in places that are now Republican-leaning who still strongly identify with the Democratic Party and are eager to campaign for its candidates. Wisconsin’s party chair, Ben Wikler, has become the model for state Democratic leaders, raising tens of millions of dollars, hiring dozens of staffers, and deploying them and volunteers to do canvassing and other key tasks year-round, as opposed to only around election time. “The progressive movement was kind of born in rural Wisconsin, and that survives; it’s still laced through the soul of the state,” Wikler told me in an interview at Wisconsin Democratic headquarters, right across the street from the state Capitol. “That has played a role in Democrats refusing to give up in tons of parts of the state, even though unions were smashed, voting rights were restricted, and [district] maps were gerrymandered.” The big question is whether Wisconsin will stay blue this November. There are a lot of bad signs for Democrats here. Trump has led in most recent polls. The majority of Wisconsin voters have negative views of both candidates, but Biden is more disliked. The decreased enthusiasm for Biden and Democrats and a greater openness to Trump and Republicans among African Americans nationally are showing up in recent election results here, too. The Black vote in Wisconsin is very small, but it helps put Democrats over the top in close elections. Biden also might have a problem with young, progressive voters in the Madison area. About 15 percent of voters in Dane County chose “uninstructed” in the state’s Democratic primary last month, in protest of the president’s Israeli-Palestinian policies. “People feel like even under Biden, their rights and their protections are still kind of slowly slipping away. . . . This is a very liberal campus. I don’t think the danger is really for people voting for Trump; it’s more people just not voting in general, whether they don’t feel inspired or they feel that their vote doesn’t matter or they don’t agree with Biden in some way,” said Drake White-Bergey, who just finished his tenure as editor in chief of the Daily Cardinal, the student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The good news is that Democrats here are very motivated and organized. They keep coming out ahead in close races. They have won since 2016 by emphasizing the radicalism of the current Republican Party and campaigning in every part of the state — exactly as they are doing now. “I’ll be really honest: His age is a deterrent. I would rather not have to vote for some old White guy again. But that’s what we have,” said Kathy Fry, the secretary of the Democratic Party in 17,000-person, 94 percent White Richland County, about 90 minutes from Madison. But Fry said she and other Democratic activists in her town are determined to get as many votes for Biden as possible in their county, which Trump won by about 10 percentage points in 2020. Democrats “weren’t very organized in this area, and that has changed since 2016. There were quite a few people that were shocked by Trump’s win, and they came out. We’ve started working together, and the county party, just in the last year, we’ve doubled our membership — a lot more involvement as far as volunteers,” Fry added. Republicans win elections when they run up huge margins in rural, heavily White areas. But in Wisconsin, there still might be enough people like Fry for Democrats to come out ahead. Thank goodness. Perry Bacon Jr. A potential firewall for Democrats: Wisconsin Wisconsin’s liberal bastion has gotten even bluer in recent years Percentage in dane County voting for democratic candidates: 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2022 2022 is the U.s. senate race; the rest are presidential election results. source: dave Leip’s atlas of U.s. Presidential elections Perry BaCon Jr./the Washington Post 73% 71% 70% 76% 77% 66% Obama (73 percent) in his landslide victory in Wisconsin and nationally in 2008. “Really all of the population growth in this state over the last five to 10 years has been because of this county,” University of Wisconsin at Madison political science professor Barry Burden told me. “Dane County has high turnout and very strong loyalty to the Democratic Party. It’s just an engine that has helped to offset Republican [electoral] growth in some other parts of the state.” And though people in rural areas here, like their counterparts across the country, are voting Republican more than they used to, 30 to 40 percent of the people in most small Wisconsin counties still vote Democratic. In contrast, fewer than 20 percent of residents back Democrats in many rural counties Democrats are winning in Wisconsin because close to half of White voters in the state are backing them, higher than the national average.

a22 EZ RE K the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 “You’re too young to understand.” I know that school leaders are under tremendous pressure from every direction and that they hope for a summer respite. However, I doubt whether the angst will dissipate before classes resume in the autumn. In fact, it is quite possible that students will be more confrontational — especially if they come to believe that is what it will take for their voices to be heard. The summer is an opportunity to plan meaningful engagement that will give students a clear indication that they are respected as independent thinkers who have a stake in their world, and that will include an honest conversation about divestment. Clayton Lewis, Washington As a boomer, I’ve seen all this before. The people rejecting capitalism and living in tents were called hippies, and the protesters against the war were called anarchists. On campuses across the country, they were tear-gassed, clubbed, dragged through the streets with bleeding heads and broken bones, then arrested. And when a group of students gathered on a grassy campus lawn in preparation for a protest at Kent State University, the National Guard opened fire on them, wounding nine students and killing four. Their offense? Preparing to protest. Nevertheless, they persisted in sending the messages that seemed the duty of young people to deliver. And because they were young, the status quo berated them, shot them and seeded a political movement against them and those who had fought for civil rights. They never did listen to the message: War is bad. Capitalism is inhumane. The boys who were being drafted to catch bullets in Vietnam were the ones living with the reality of war, not those who were brutalizing them. Hang in there, kids. I wish you all luck in this graceless age. Denise Sargent, Lakeside, Calif. Regarding the May 1 Metro article “Lawmakers question police for not moving on GW camp”: Let me start by stating that I applaud Police Chief Pamela A. Smith for refusing to send officers to clear an encampment and protesters from the campus of George Washington University. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) was wise to defer to the police chief’s expertise in making this decision. Perhaps before House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Education Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) try to legislate how D.C. handles its own disturbances, these legislators should look closer to what is happening in their own states. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, police were used to remove tents and to detain 36 protesters, and campus unrest is ongoing, while tensions have not yet escalated to that point at the University of Kentucky. Why do these members of Congress think sending the police to a campus in D.C. is a good thing? It appears George Washington University is holding its own nicely without interference. Linda Eaton, Bethany Beach, Del. George F. Will’s April 28 op-ed, “Universities’ loss of prestige amid protests is welcome,” revealed more than he imagined, or perhaps intended. Mr. Will showed himself to be just the latest in a long line of elders who find little beyond fault in the young. To Mr. Will, the protest at Columbia University is nothing more than an “antisemitic encampment.” Other college demonstrations are “histrionic” and “sandbox radicalism” taking place on campuses full of “infantile adults.” Business owners should be wary of hiring private college graduates because they might be more “apt to be enthusiastic about Hamas,” though medical students at UCLA are now also suspect because they were required to enroll in a class taught by a “pro-Hamas guest lecturer.” And apparently it’s not just their politics that are suspect: Mr. Will thinks they’re not studying enough and weak because one relies on an “emotional support rabbit.” Mr. Will’s thinking calls to mind the Roman poet Horace, who wrote: “Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they, so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.” It is not this generation of the young who gave the world the Israel-Palestine conundrum. Neither was it Mr. Will’s, but he provides nothing of worth by decrying the actions of those opposing the status quo. Gregory Adams, Washington Megan McArdle’s claim in her April 26 op-ed, “Why campus protests against Israel probably won’t be effective,” that the movement to isolate Israel is ineffective paints several misleading pictures. After all, the proof is in the pudding. Despite robust spending, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and affiliated super PACs have not been able to knock out candidates such as Dave Min and Summer Lee, who are critical of Israel, in the primaries. An emerging generation gap now means the younger one is, the more likely they are to have an unfavorable view of Israel. Anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow have captured significant attention across the country. The future is only looking bleaker for Israel’s reputation on the global stage, and that’s largely thanks to grass-roots boycott, divestment and sanctions supporters such as protesting college students. Ali Fleih, Ypsilanti, Mich. I’m so incredibly proud of our young people opposing Israel’s mass civilian killings in Gaza, and I want them to know that many of their elders — including older Jewish people like me — respect, agree with and support them. When we stood up against American racism and the Vietnam War, it often seemed that no one outside our peers agreed with us — until one day nearly everyone did. These newest protests embody the essence of enduring hope and resistance to indifference and evil. 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It occurred to me that the very young people protesting the world they were entering had more at stake than most grown-ups. And when I saw the aftermath of Kent State, and other violent confrontations between the police and protesters, I realized, despite my young age, that my country was sick, and that the protesters represented a purity of conviction that was beautiful. Those images have stayed with me for decades. The lessons I thought our country had learned from Vietnam have apparently been lost. The failed proposition of using massive violence to bring “peace” — which cost the United States the respect of the international community — is playing out again in a new conflict, in a new generation. It should be no surprise that the recent antiwar protests have drawn a violent and draconian response. Efforts to muzzle and choke off their message will grow more violent and desperate, because those who oppose them are violent and desperate. The protesters of today don’t simply represent an effort to achieve peace and end enormous death and suffering. They represent an effort to make America great again, for all the right reasons our nation’s Founders would recognize. Robert Soderholm, Boston Throughout my 45-year career in education, I was privileged to watch children of all ages progress through their many stages of social and political awareness. I admired students who embraced a resolve that social and political problems must be addressed and, as they grew older, a recognition that these issues were complex. I handed diplomas to thousands of critically minded graduates who left for higher education. Today, as I watch the turmoil on college campuses, I believe that I know these students. Their issue for the moment is Gaza and the horrors committed against innocent civilians. Few are antisemetic or pro-Hamas, even if their protests may make them seem so. They want their universities to take a stand, to divest from industries that contribute to the war. They want to feel that they are on the right side of history. Gaza is for the moment their imperative, but looking more broadly there is wider scope for students to feel frustrated and angry. They have grown up with social and political issues that adversely affected their lives and future. They know the dire evidence about climate change but see paltry action to mitigate it. They have experienced lockdown drills at their schools or have hidden from active shooters while watching those in authority turn a blind eye to gun control. Their schools’ curriculums and libraries may have been purged of influential ideas. For many young women, their right to control their own bodies has been stripped away. And now, the digital commons that many have chosen to inhabit, TikTok, might be banned. The adults in control seem feckless and uncaring. All these issues have complex circumstances. Yet, that is the very reason to give space for students to reach their own conclusions and to act. The fundamental wrong is when adults in authority suppress the opinions of the young who are most acutely affected by the decisions of those in charge. The worst thing one can say to them is: Protests make America great 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. MICHaEL RaMIREZ A never-ending cycle opinion ABCDE AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER P RESIDENT BIDEN and former president Donald Trump don’t agree on much, but both have pledged not to touch Social Security benefits. This is a reflection of political reality, which is that a lot of seniors, who tend to vote at high rates, depend on the programs, and that they are popular generally. Social Security has a broadly progressive impact on income distribution: The bottom half of earners rely on it to stay out of poverty in retirement. Financial reality, though, is that if the programs aren’t reformed, and run out of money to pay required benefits, cuts could become unavoidable. The latest reports from the Social Security and Medicare trustees, released on Monday, reinforce that sobering fact. Social Security will be insolvent by 2035 and Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund by 2036. These dates are slightly further in the future than the estimates in last year’s report. Because of a strong labor market, more workers earned more money subject to the Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes. Nevertheless, the trustees warn that postponing a crisis is a far cry from solving it. The 2024 campaign is probably not going to feature much honest debate about this, but the conversation has to happen sooner or later. Saving Social Security and Medicare requires reform. We laid out one element of any viable proposal last year: subjecting more wages to payroll taxation. Currently, it applies to up to $168,600 in wages a year. Raising that limit would bring in muchneeded revenue. And many Americans say they support the idea. Other reforms include gradually raising the retirement age for younger generations and slowing benefit growth for the top half of earners. These won’t be popular or painless, but, as even dithering lawmakers often admit privately, the longer change is postponed, the more painful it will be in the end. Or, as the trustees’ report puts it, “significantly larger changes would be necessary if action is deferred." On the Medicare side, the report paints a reasonably hopeful picture. The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is now on track to be depleted by 2036 — five years later than last year’s estimate. In addition to the strong labor market, a decline in inpatient and home health-care spending in recent years has helped the program’s finances. But the report makes clear that “Medicare still faces a substantial financial shortfall that will need to be addressed with further legislation. Such legislation should be enacted sooner rather than later to minimize the impact on beneficiaries, providers, and taxpayers.” On Medicare, Mr. Biden has proposed changes that would extend the solvency of the program for 25 years: adding more drug price negotiations (on top of the ones in the Inflation Reduction Act) and raising the Medicare tax on those earning more than $400,000 a year. Give him credit for at least discussing the topic — but deduct points for placing the entire burden of reform on unpopular drug companies and high-income earners. Structural reforms to the Medicare Advantage program, teaching hospital subsidies, and payments for outpatient services could and should save billions with relatively modest sacrifice from beneficiaries. Given the potential demographic changes that still might upend forecasts, the trustees were wise to adopt more realistic assumptions about U.S. population growth. They now forecast a total fertility rate of 1.9 per woman, down from 2.0 in last year’s report. That might still be too optimistic. Last year, the rate dropped to 1.62, a historic low. An additional way to boost the working-age population that pays into Social Security and Medicare is through immigration, another reason for Congress to pursue comprehensive reform — and for the country to avoid the draconian restrictionism that Mr. Trump favors. The positive impact on entitlement program finances from the past few years of full, or near-full, employment provides yet another reason for government to pursue that goal, consistent with low inflation. The Social Security Disability Insurance program, once threatened by insolvency, now appears fully funded through 2098, according to the trustees, a real accomplishment that reflects both the strong economy and smart policy tweaks, under both the Obama and Trump administrations. The successful stabilization of SSDI shows there’s still hope for the larger two programs. But it won’t happen unless there’s a bipartisan effort such as the one that enabled the last comprehensive reform to Social Security — way back in 1983. At the moment, unfortunately, the only thing the two parties can agree on is doing something between not much and nothing at all. The crisis neither candidate wants to deal with EdITORIaL They won’t be popular or painless, but the longer changes to Medicare and Social Security are postponed, the more painful they will be in the end.

tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ re a23 I don’t have a life coach, but I know who I’d want. It would be a pasty, puffy 29-year-old who can’t jump over a four of clubs, wears a $9 haircut and is bored with his job. He’s the best player in the National Basketball Association and yet seems to rank the sport as about his 10th favorite thing in the world, behind his wife, his kid, his brothers, his buddies, his beer, his horses and not picking up his phone. There’s so much to love about Nikola Jokic, the Denver Nuggets’ 6-foot-11 hesitant hoops hero, but the thing I like most about him is that he doesn’t want to be a hero at all. “When I finish my career,” he told an interviewer this winter, “I really wish nobody will know me.” He dreams of being “a normal person” who can “live in the moment.” This is some moment he’s living in right now. He has the Nuggets with a shot to repeat as NBA champions. He’s pretty much a lock to win his third most valuable player award — and yet when you ask him about it, he looks like somebody just stabbed him in the knee with a melon fork. Reporter: Nikola, I don’t think we . . . have asked you a single MVP question this season — Jokic: Yes! Good job! I love him for all the things he doesn’t do. He doesn’t Facebook, X, Insta, Tik or Tok. He has no social media accounts. Is there another star in pro sports like that? When he retires, his goal is to “not have phone.” You watch him and you have to pound the side of your head. He never seems rushed, never seems tired, never seems like he’s doing much of anything. But he’s doing everything. Last year, Jokic became the first NBA player ever to lead the playoffs in points, rebounds and assists. Then again, the playoffs are only 77 years old. “There’s no muscle definition on him,” former NBA star Tracy McGrady marveled last year, “and he’s just wearing you down.” He’s just so wonderfully odd. Jokic seems to have wandered out of a YMCA lunchtime game somewhere, but he throws passes off the backboard to teammates, passes to guys 180 degrees behind him, passes through defenders’ legs, around their necks, under their armpits. He launches long-bomb football passes and fashions left-hand-behind-the-backno-look-David-Blaine passes. He’s a Nugget that comes with all kinds of sauce. This guy is the all-time NBA leader in player efficiency rating, which is just a fancy way of saying that when Jokic is on the court, he improves his team more than anybody in history, including Michael Jordan (No. 2). Yet get this: Jokic was picked in the second round of the 2014 draft, 41st overall, while ESPN was airing a Taco Bell ad. Turned out he was the supreme deal. And, oh my Lord, his shots. He sails up these high, soft ones that come down the chimney like skinny Santas. Hardly hits net, and if he does, the net barely notices. “I hate it when he makes shots,” the Phoenix Suns’ Kevin Durant said during the playoffs last year, “because he’s so unorthodox and it’s like, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s a miss,’ and then it goes straight in.” I also love him for the things he does. I’ve never seen a photo of him wearing his NBA title ring, but before every game, he takes his wedding ring and ties it to his left shoelace because “family is something that is really important to me. . . . I just want to give them the love.” He’s sweet like that. After every game, win or lose, the first thing he does is try to thank everybody on the other team, all the way down to the equipment guy. Even after the Nuggets won the NBA title last June, he held off celebrating with his teammates until he’d congratulated the entire Miami Heat. He finally let his nearly-as-huge brother Strahinja pick him up and spin him around like a toddler. Then a reporter got a mic in Jokic’s face and asked him how it felt to be an NBA champion. “It’s good, it’s good,” he said, shrugging. “But the job is done. We can go home now.” That flabbergasted people. Later, he was asked to elaborate. “Well, nobody likes his job,” Jokic said. “Or maybe they do. They’re lying.” Somebody asked if he was looking forward to the victory parade. Jokic spun with horror toward the Nuggets’ PR people, “When is parade?” Thursday. “No,” he moaned, rubbing his face. “I need to go home.” Who rains on their own parade? Home is the sleepy town of Sombor, Serbia, where Jokic drinks beer, rides his bike and dotes on his family-owned horses for harness racing. That sport, he says, is his “passion.” The trotters might feel otherwise when he crams his 284 pounds into a sulky. The Joker might not want to be remembered, but it’s too late for that. He’s Hall of Fame, first ballot, guaranteed. “Don’t bet against the fat boy,” he once said. I never will. RIck ReIlly Go big? Jokic would rather go home. matthew stockman/getty images Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets in the NBA Western Conference semifinals in Denver on Saturday. the terms of the law. Hence the House’s legislation this week instructing the Education Department to use an expansive definition of antisemitism. Passed 320-91, the bill would codify the definition and examples created by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The IHRA examples of antisemitism include “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination” and “applying double standards” to Israel. This framework has been consulted by the Education Department since 2018 but would become more permanent and binding if ratified by Congress. Many of the acts at anti-Israel campus protests have been unlawful on their face, and local police should handle lawbreaking. But the IHRA definition would widen the net. More anti-Zionist or anti-Israel speech could face federal scrutiny for violating civil rights law. The First Amendment concerns about this legislation are serious, but put them to one side for a second. The entire civil-rights-based system for regulating the Israel debate is flawed. If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the legislation would imply that the reason the federal government should crack down on anti-Zionist campus advocacy T he quest for a cease-fire to halt the humanitarian catastrophe of the Gaza war has been so intense that it’s easy to overlook a deeper issue: What will the future look like for Israelis and Palestinians who have suffered so much in this terrible conflict? As American mediators struggle this week to finalize a deal for a cease-fire and a phased release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, I hope they will give this issue the primacy it deserves. The one thing you can say with moral certainty is that Israelis and Palestinians deserve a future in which the hideous violence of war is replaced by stability and security. This issue, whose shorthand description is “the day after,” has never seemed to interest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu very much. To me, that’s his deepest failing — that he is leader of a war that took the lives of so many Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers without a coherent plan for what he hoped to achieve once the fighting ended. That’s why Netanyahu should resign — not because he was responsible for the war but because he failed to prosecute it wisely and strategically. Wars in the Middle East often end with a fuzzy ambiguity that allows both sides to claim victory. “Neither victor nor vanquished” is the phrase often used to describe such face-saving pacts. But that diplomatic approach won’t work in Gaza. Israel wants a win against Hamas, whatever the cease-fire agreement says. And that feeling isn’t held just by Netanyahu but also by most Israelis — and I’d guess by most Arab leaders, too. So, let’s consider the elements that would provide a reasonable settlement of this war, including security for Israel and a new future for Palestinians in Gaza. Many of these goals are actually in reach if leaders act sensibly. The most urgent requirement is to rescue Palestinian civilians from the famine and devastation of seven months of war. Humanitarian assistance in Gaza has increased sharply since Israel withdrew most of its troops last month, but more is needed. The floating pier being built by the U.S. military will help. But who will keep the peace when the aid trucks roll into Gaza City? That’s the question Netanyahu has consistently failed to address. There’s only one good answer: Gaza needs an international stabilization force to provide security during and after the cease-fire. If the United States and its allies can organize that force, Arab nations such as Egypt, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates will probably be willing to provide some troops. But they’ll do so only if Israel agrees that this is the first step down the road to a Palestinian state. Netanyahu balks, and so do many Israelis. But this is the pathway to a future in which relations with all Arab states are “normalized” at last. It’s worth some risks. The leader Israel needs now is one who can begin this long transition. The ideal person would be someone with the toughness and vision of the now-deceased Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. “He demonstrated the ability to make bold decisions, to go against his own grain, and to carry his people with him,” as Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington, writes in his biography of Rabin. Local governance in Gaza will be another urgent challenge. Hamas should never rule Gaza again. On that, there’s broad if unspoken agreement among Israeli, Arab, European and American leaders. Here, too, there’s an obvious pathway, but again it’s one Netanyahu refuses to consider. Hamas’s enemy in Gaza has always been the Palestinian Authority, which rules the West Bank and, until 2007, controlled Gaza as well. The PA has nearly 10,000 security personnel in Gaza on its registry. They need to be vetted and trained; they need tight controls, in addition to performance metrics. But a revitalized PA could actually begin its rebirth in Gaza, with careful planning. The demilitarization of Hamas is another inescapable requirement. Netanyahu argues that this is why Israel needs a bloody final assault on Rafah, to destroy the four remaining Hamas battalions there. But those battalions don’t threaten Israel, and they can be dismantled gradually — especially if an Arab-backed international force is securing Gaza City. Netanyahu’s repeated insistence that he must invade Rafah is partly theatrics, to frighten Hamas into accepting a hostage release deal. But what would Israel actually gain from such an assault? Hamas fighters are already roaming Gaza, and they’ll be free to move north in any likely cease-fire deal. Israel accepts that, because it knows they won’t be able to regroup and rearm in a way that would truly threaten Israel. That’s true with the Hamas remnant in Rafah, too. For Israel, success in this war would be the confidence that Hamas will never again be allowed to build the force that slaughtered and terrorized Jews on Oct. 7. That goal is closer than it looks. And Israel knows it will retain the ability to pursue Hamas’s leaders unless they surrender and leave their underground kingdom in the Gaza tunnels. As negotiators exchange drafts of a final cease-fire plan, they should keep in mind the image of a postwar Gaza in the benign chaos of rebuilding — aboveground this time — as construction rigs and concrete trucks build new apartment buildings, municipal facilities and office blocks. That’s what peace will look like — maybe many years from now, but it’s time to begin. davId IgnatIus When the guns go silent in Gaza If the United States can organize an international force to provide security after the cease-fire, Arab nations will probably provide troops. But only if Israel agrees that this is the first step down the road to a Palestinian state. opinion I s the anti-Zionism espoused by campus activists antisemitic? Israel’s supporters tend to say yes — antipathy toward the existence of the world’s only Jewish state is a form of antipathy toward Jews as such. Israel’s opponents tend to say no — anti-Zionism is motivated by universal values, not prejudice against any group. I’d submit that the better answer is: Who cares? Anti-Zionism can be violent and virulent even if those espousing the revolutionary ideology are not antisemites. And the fact that some anti-Zionist arguments are antisemitic does not put them outside the bounds of First Amendment protection. Even if it were possible to draw a Venn diagram of anti-Zionism, antisemitism and their overlap, it would be a poor basis for refereeing America’s Israel debate. So why does the discussion of campus turmoil keep getting routed through this supposed dichotomy? One reason is U.S. civil rights law and the pattern of thinking it encourages. The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to amend civil rights law as it relates to Jews by defining more anti-Zionist speech on campus as antisemitic. The Antisemitism Awareness Act is a bad bill because it threatens to infringe on constitutionally protected anti-Israel speech. But even if it didn’t, the whole exercise illustrates the inadequacy of civil rights law for righting or even defining modern campus wrongs. Some legal background: Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination in federally funded colleges and universities based on “race, color or national origin.” Intended primarily to protect Black people, the Education Department determined in 2004 that it also protected Jews. Protests like those taking place today could constitute discrimination against Jews if they are so “severe” and “pervasive” that they deny Jewish students “equal access to an institution’s resources and opportunities,” as the Supreme Court has put it (defining harassment in a different context). Civil rights law is one reason the anti-Zionism vs. antisemitism distinction has become all- important. If protests are “merely” anti-Zionist, then for the purposes of Title VI, it doesn’t matter how disruptive they are or how abhorrent their aims. Civil rights law doesn’t say anything about discrimination based on political viewpoint. Zionism is obviously closely related to Jewish identity, but a minority of Jews are not Zionists and, more importantly, many Americans, such as President Biden, are Zionists without being Jewish. Only antisemitism can trigger federal involvement under is because it is antisemitic. That misstates the problem in American society that the protests represent. As Joshua Muravchik argued in the Wall Street Journal in December, anti-Zionism in the modern West can be more dangerous than antisemitism. “Until the Holocaust, most Jews were anti-Zionist, believing that fighting mistreatment where they lived was more practical than migrating to the Middle East to create a Jewish state,” he wrote. Today, however, “There is no escaping the reality that the end of Israel could only mean the death of millions of its Jews.” That doesn’t mean that anti-Zionist speech should be punished — all viewpoints, including nakedly antisemitic ones, enjoy First Amendment protection. But it calls into question the usefulness of singling out the portion of anti-Zionism judged to be antisemitic. Civil rights law creates an incentive for such line-drawing, but is that really the best use of Israel supporters’ energies? Hamas is a murderous, revolutionary guerrilla movement dedicated to Israel’s destruction. There is, of course, a spectrum of views on Hamas in the ranks of student protesters. But appearing to root for the group’s success is not unlike rooting for the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s or the Islamic State in the 2010s. Pervasive campus displays of support for most foreign terrorist groups would probably not violate civil rights laws. But they would be no less alarming for that reason. Put another way, the civil rights laws are well-suited to targeting political radicalism on the right, to the extent that far-right movements express hostility toward minority groups. They’re less well-suited to targeting political radicalism on the left, when it frames its agenda in the language of equality, with goals such as ending capitalism, colonialism and national borders. Who could oppose freeing the world from oppression? When groups such as Hamas apply hideous violence in what they claim is the pursuit of a progressive goal, the inevitable progressive expressions of sympathy don’t fit neatly into antidiscrimination’s legal edifice. Supporters of Israel understandably want to use Title VI laws to their advantage in Middle East debates. They shouldn’t allow a peculiar American legal regime to distort the ideological stakes. Israel was founded through impressive feats of statecraft 16 years before the passage of the Civil Rights Act. That laudable legislation shouldn’t be relied on by those who want to defend the Jewish state from isolation and destruction today. Jason WIllIck Don’t twist the Civil Rights Act to defend Israel david ryder/reuters A sign at a protest encampment at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., on April 28.

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BY TEO ARMUS It’s a banner year for local politics in Alexandria, with all seven seats on the City Council up for election, including the first open race for mayor in more than two decades. A slew of candidates are contending for Democratic nominations for City Council in a race that could shape how this northern Virginia city spends its money and how fast it leans into urban growth. Questions about commercial development and the city’s tight finances are front of mind for many voters — particularly after the collapse of a controversial proposal to build a new sports arena in the Potomac Yard area — but so are topics such as schools, transportation and housing: In a much-debated move, council members last year approved a package of zoning changes that effectively eliminated single-family zoning. The candidates who win their primaries will be favorites to win in a place that has long leaned heavily blue. no candidate has won a local election in Alexandria without the Democratic nomination since 2009. Below is information on the candidates and when and how to vote. What races are on the ballot? All seven seats on the Alexandria City Council are on the ballot — including the mayor, who chairs council meetings and serves as the ceremonial head of city government. Mayor Justin M. Wilson (D) has declined to seek reelection after two terms. Three candidates, including two sitting council members, are looking to succeed him. There’s also bound to be some turnover on the rest of the City Council. That field of 11 candidates includes four incumbents, two school board members, several former council hopefuls and some new faces. Who’s running for mayor? Alexandria has a weak-mayor system, which means the parttime job’s main policy-making function is presiding over the council. The mayor serves a three-year term. The winner is all but guaranSEE VOTER GUIDE On B2 A guide to Alexandria’s Democratic primary KLMNO t ME uesday, TR may 7, 2024 O eZ re K B RETROPOLIS Four decades on, Kevin Bacon returns to the utah high school where he starred in “Footloose.” B4 RETROPOLIS For stories about the past, rediscovered, visit washingtonpost.com/ retropolis. OBITUARIES rock guitarist Duane eddy, 86, found success with “peter gunn” and as 67 the pioneer of twang. B4 ° 72° 78° 73° 8 a.m. Noon 4 p.m. 8 p.m. high today at approx. 4 p.m. 78° precip: 80% wind: E 4-8 mph BY KARINA ELWOOD Loudoun County’s sheriff is renewing a push to add school resource officers to its 62 elementary schools. The call from Sheriff Mike Chapman (R) came in response to Loudoun County Public Schools releasing 11 safety recommendations from a months-long “Blue Ribbon Panel” on school security. Adding security personnel to elementary schools was among the ideas. “It is time for Loudoun County to develop a multi-year plan and identify the necessary funding to ensure the presence of a School Resource Officer (SRO) in LCPS elementary schools, as we have for every middle and high school,” Chapman said in a news release. “The Blue-Ribbon Panel’s recommendations are a helpful starting point for these important discussions.” Loudoun schools spokesman Dan Adams said the district is in a feedback phase on the recommendations. He said the district is eager to hear more from the community before taking any steps. “This is a conversation starter,” Adams said. The Blue Ribbon Panel met from early December to the beginning of May to assess the school district’s safety protocols. The panel found that the district is “a state and national leader” for school security but offered recommendations for continued improvement, including increasing security personnel at after-school events, improving the WiFi connection in school buildings, and creating an alternative site with increased security for high-risk students. Schools have long deployed law enforcement personnel in their buildings. According to data from the U.S. Education Department, 45 percent of schools reported hosting school resource officers SEE OFFICERS On B2 Sheri≠ calls for units in schools loudoun could add to police presence Recommendation covers 62 elementary campuses BY ANTONIO OLIVO A cow bell clanged inside the Rust Library in northern Virginia, and the 12 Democrats vying for a chance to replace U.S. Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) each moved to a different cluster of voters, hoping to win them over during a “speed dating” candidates forum. A few days later, three of the four Republicans running in their party’s primary election in Wexton’s 10th Congressional District stood before an audience of Loudoun County retirees and tried to outflank each other on issues like border security and inflation. “The majority in the House of Representatives runs through this 10th District,” one of those GOP candidates, Mike Clancy, told the crowd, casting the november election as crucial to his party’s hopes of maintaining control of that chamber. “We have to win this seat.” Early voting is underway in Virginia, and the nomination contests for both major political parties have picked up steam, with a flood of campaign mailers, TV ads and social media posts targeting voters as the June 18 primary nears. Wexton, who is not seeking reelection in november due to health reasons, has held the seat since 2019 — and both parties want a chance to replace her. Political analysts say the district, which is anchored in Loudoun County but stretches into Fairfax, Prince William, Fauquier and Rappahannock counties, is solidly Democratic — and voter turnout in blue-leaning northern Virginia is expected to be especially high in this tense presidential election year. Joe Biden took nearly 59 percent of the 10th District vote in 2020 and Wexton won with 53 percent of the vote in 2022, according to the nonprofit Virginia Public Access Project. “It’s only moving in Democrats’ favor,” said Erin Covey, who analyzes House races for the Cook Political Report. “It’s one of those seats that’s kind of right on the edge of the battlefield.” The crowded field of Democrats in the primary has made it hard for any candidate to emerge as a clear front-runner. A spokesperson for Wexton said she has no plans to endorse anyone in the primary election. Political analysts say that, of the 12 candidates, four have a better chance than the others due to their name recognition in the area or the amounts of money they’ve raised to get their message out: Del. Dan Helmer (Fairfax), former state House speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (Fairfax) and state Sens. Suhas Subramanyan (Loudoun) and Jennifer Boysko (Fairfax). Helmer, who competed against Wexton for the seat in 2018 and now represents a portion of the 10th District as a state delegate, leads in fundraising, with $1.1 million as of the end of March. Filler-Corn, whose recent leadership role in the General Assembly gives her broad name recognition, raised $759,000. Subramanyan, whose Senate district intersects with a large portion of the 10th District, raised $679,000, and Boysko, an SEE WEXTON On B3 A race to be the bell cow in Va.’s 10th District With early voting in progress, 12 Democrats and 4 Republicans jockey for position ahead of June’s primaries VALerie pLesCh For the wAshington post The Loudoun County Democratic Committee’s April 28 “speed dating” forum, in which candidates rotated among blocs of voters, 10 minutes at a time. The dozen Democrats in attendance, along with four Republicans, seek to replace U.S. Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D), who for health reasons isn’t running. BY SALVADOR RIZZO AND LAURA VOZZELLA The Virginia prosecutor investigating the death of Irvo Otieno has withdrawn charges against five law enforcement officers who were indicted on murder counts last year, curtailing the scope of what was once a sprawling case to just three defendants. Otieno, a 28-year-old Black man whose family said he was in mental distress when he arrived at Central State Hospital for treatment, died there of asphyxia as Henrico County sheriff’s deputies and hospital workers restrained him for 11 minutes, according to surveillance video and the medical examiner. Authorities in Virginia’s Dinwiddie County initially charged 10 people in Otieno’s death. Seven were sheriff’s deputies and three were hospital workers inside the admissions room where Otieno died March 6, 2023. His death sparked international headlines, becoming a rallying cry against police use of force targeting unarmed Black men. Otieno’s family said he was an aspiring musician who was off his medication at the time. Otieno’s mother, Caroline Ouko, criticized the decision by Dinwiddie Commonwealth’s Attorney Amanda Mann to drop five of the cases. At a news conference Monday in Richmond, Ouko said she had met with Mann to protest her “radical, reckless decision.” The group of deputies and hospital workers swarmed Otieno, who was bound at the hands and legs, but not all were piling on him or exerting the same level of force, defense attorneys argued for months in private talks with Mann’s office. Ann Cabell Baskervill, who sought the initial charges as Dinwiddie’s top prosecutor in 2023, agreed to drop the cases against two hospital workers last year before resigning to enroll in a French graduate school. Mann, who took over this year as the county’s top prosecutor, filed court papers Friday seeking to dismiss the indictments against Henrico County sheriff’s deputies Jermaine Branch, Dwayne Bramble, Randy Boyer, Bradley Disse and Tabitha Levere, according to court records. Circuit Court Judge Joseph M. Teefey Jr. granted the requests Sunday, the records show. Virginia law allows Mann to refile the charges against the five deputies. Mark Krudys, an attorney for Ouko, said the prosecutor assured Otieno’s mother at their meeting that the five defendants would be “brought back” and that Mann did not view their cases as being weaker than the others. “She . . . assures us that this is just a reconfiguration,” Krudys said. “But we’ve been waiting, as Ms. Ouko said, 14 months today. We don’t want to hold our breath anymore.” Mann wrote in court filings that she decided to stop prosecuting the five deputies because she was unable to change her office’s trial strategy by the time she took over the investigation. An interim prosecutor who filled in after Baskervill’s departure decided the order in which the eight defendants would stand trial. Mann disagreed with that sequence, and a judge denied an earlier request she had made to reshuffle the order, she SEE CHARGES On B3 Charges dropped for five o∞cers in Otieno’s death Prosecutor lets murder counts stand for hospital worker, 2 deputies Ben Crump LAw/Ap Irvo Otieno, 28, died last year after being restrained by sheriff ’s deputies and hospital workers at Virginia’s Central State Hospital.

B2 EZ RE the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 tion from the Blue ribbon Panel. He said the district looks forward to collaborating with the community to see what will work best for the district. Chapman said in the news release that the Blue ribbon Panel’s recommendations offered another chance for the sheriff’s office, the School Board and the county’s Board of Supervisors to work on the issue of school security. “We are already doing more to keep our middle and high schools safe,” Chapman said. “And doing more for our elementary school students, teachers, and families is the next step.” arguing that they pose risks to students of color. following George floyd’s murder by minneapolis police in 2020, several major school systems canceled contracts with police, including in nearby Alexandria and Arlington. Alexandria, like many other school districts, later reversed that decision and reinstated its school resource officer program. But Arlington Public Schools remains without the officers in its schools. Adams, the Loudoun schools spokesman, said that school resource officers are just one type of security presence that could be added to satisfy the recommendathe time, estimates showed it could cost about $13 million to add resource officers to the 52 elementary schools open in the district at the time. In early 2020, the Loudoun County School Board rejected the proposal, opting to keep the Sro program limited to middle and high schools. In a memo, board members cited concerns about disproportionate discipline enforcement, opposition from advisory groups and community organizations, and the “inconclusively of the research on Sros.” Across the nation, some civil rights activists have long worked to remove police from schools, missioners; former deputy chair of the Alexandria Democratic Committee; member of the city manager selection advisory committee l top policy priorities: Increase funding to break ground on affordable housing projects; raise salaries for city employees to be competitive with neighboring jurisdictions; create green job-ready training for flood mitigation efforts l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “I was against it because it was going to create displacement and there wasn’t enough community buy-in.” Jonathan P. Huskey, 47, is a communications director for a nonprofit that advocates liberal tax policies. motivated to run by his experiences advocating against the arena plan, he said the City Council has not been listening to city residents and pitched himself as a voice for neighborhoods and workers. Huskey moved to Alexandria 12 years ago and lives in Del ray with his wife and two sons. l relevant experience: member of the Warwick Village Citizens Association; organizer in the Coalition to Stop the Arena at Potomac Yard; 10 years working at the labor union SEIU l top policy priorities: Push for a hybrid or ward representation system on the City Council; push developers to set aside below-market-rate retail space for local businesses; change the city’s tax code to incorporate progressive property tax rebates, especially for moderate-income homeowners l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “It was unwise, unfair and unequivocally rushed.” James “Jimmy” Lewis, 36, works as a lobbyist for a professional association for senior-care pharmacists. He has emphasized that he would focus on implementation of city policies — an area in which he says he has experience, such as in the city’s Vision Zero effort to reduce traffic deaths. Lewis moved to Alexandria 13 years ago, ran for City Council in 2021 and lives in the West End with his husband. l relevant experience: Chair of the Traffic and Parking Board; vice president of the West End Business Association; more than dent for the past 13 years, he lives in the Landmark area with his wife and two children. l relevant experience: Past PTA president at Samuel Tucker Elementary; past member of the city’s Criminal Justice Board; member of advocacy group Grassroots Alexandria l top policy priorities: Ensure schools are well funded in the city budget; continue to implement city’s mobility plan; use zoning tools to push for more housing around transit hubs l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “I was against it because of the potential financial liabilities, traffic and a lack of good labor agreements in place.” School Board member Jacinta e. greene, 51, is a marketing consultant and small-business owner. She has stressed housing and affordability issues and points to her record in two terms on the School Board, particularly the implementation of the district’s equity plan and the construction of three new schools. She moved to Alexandria 21 years ago and lives in Lynhaven. l relevant experience: 15 years overseeing marketing budgets for big companies; past vice chair of the Commission for Women; founder of literacy program for students living in ArHA public housing l top policy priorities: Create a city program focused on workforce housing; push for more resources for city public schools at the state level; increase funding for the city’s climate office to focus on education efforts l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “Alexandria City Council, through further engagement with city residents, should have been able to have a final vote on whether we wanted the Potomac Yard arena or not.” Kevin Harris, 43, owns a small business that runs sports camps and clinics. He has stressed his community-organizing experience, including an effort to implement Sunday voting in Alexandria, and vowed to fight for the city’s working class. A lifelong city resident, he ran for City Council in 2021 and lives in North old Town with his wife and his four daughters. l relevant experience: member of the ArHA board of comlives in North old Town. l relevant experience: 10 years as a trial attorney; nine years providing social services to residents through an affordable housing nonprofit; past event lead for the city’s chapter of moms Demand Action l top policy priorities: Explore new affordable housing financing tools through the Alexandria redevelopment and Housing Authority (ArHA) and the city’s Industrial Development Authority; improve collaboration with the school system on planning and development for capital improvement projects; incentivize existing buildings to reduce emissions and improve energy efficiency l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “It was an exciting idea that never fully answered the questions the council and the city asked of it.” City Council member John taylor Chapman, 43, is seeking his fifth term. A tour company owner and fairfax County Public Schools staffer, he has emphasized his experience as the longest-tenured council member, especially in dealing with budgets for the city and its public schools. A lifelong city resident and fourth-generation Alexandrian, Chapman lives in Taylor run with his wife and son. l relevant experience: Smallbusiness owner of manumission Tour Co.; former educator running after-school programs; past Alexandria NAACP president l top policy priorities: Convene a citywide summit to map out an economic sustainability plan; expand school capacity and modernize buildings; continue to improve storm water infrastructure l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “While I supported the arena project, the amount of resources and the support of all of the partners was something that never came to fruition.” School Board member Abdel elnoubi, 37, works in budget, planning and procurement for WmATA. He says growing up under a dictatorship in Alexandria, Egypt, showed him the importance of functioning government, and he points to his professional experience in engineering and transportation. A city resipriate use for that suburban location.” Who’s running for City Council? There are 11 candidates vying for six spots on the Democratic ticket for Alexandria City Council. All seats are elected at-large and serve three-year terms. The nominees will face one republican, Celianna Gunderson, in November’s general election. But Gunderson faces long odds: GoP-endorsed candidates have broken through just once in the past two decades. No independent candidates have announced candidacies so far. The vice mayor of Alexandria is elected by their colleagues at the start of each term; traditionally, council members select the top vote-getter in the general election. City Council member Canek Aguirre, 39, is seeking his third term. A health-care consultant, he said he is most focused on equity issues and points to his efforts to spearhead the city’s 2020 Census count and push the city to revamp its engagement strategy, including through popups and multilingual media. An Alexandria resident for 12 years, Aguirre lives on the West End with his wife. l relevant experience: Professional background in community engagement for more than 10 years; chair of the Virginia Board of Social Work; past chair of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission l top policy priorities: Expand DASH bus routes; find a catalyst anchor to develop Potomac Yard; continue to work on compensation for city employees l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan:“regardless of where anyone stood on the arena, the conversation helped highlight the tax imbalance the city has and the need to find new revenues.” City Council member Sarah r. Bagley, 46, is seeking her second term. The executive director of an affordable housing nonprofit organization, she said she is focused on housing, climate and transit issues and points to her work on the council boosting resources for rental inspections and multimodal street projects. Bagley moved to Alexandria eight years ago and Steven Peterson Canek Aguirre Sarah r. Bagley John taylor Chapman Kevin Harris Jonathan P. Huskey Charlotte Scherer Jesse o’Connell six years as a senior congressional staffer l top policy priorities: make mental health referrals available in all city services; accelerate the city’s sustainability plan by making it easier for existing commercial and multifamily properties to retrofit and green; grow the commercial tax base by recruiting biotech and unmanned aviation businesses l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “The proposed deal was a bad deal and our partners, specifically the governor and JBG Smith, seemed unwilling to consider anything but what they put on the table.” City Council member r. Kirk McPike, 46, is seeking his second term. A chief of staff on Capitol Hill for rep. mark Takano (D-Calif.), he has emphasized his experience with and knowledge of the city’s budget process and said he would help guide Alexandria through fiscal challenges in the coming years. mcPike moved to the city 13 years ago and lives in Seminary Hill with his husband. l relevant experience: Past member of the Budget Advisory Committee; past chair of the Economic opportunities Commission; past 12 years as a senior congressional staffer l top policy priorities: manage rollout of the city’s Zoning for Housing program; invest in and improve DASH bus service; facilitate the retrofitting of buildings to lower carbon emissions l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “The city always has to be open to considering proposals that could benefit our budget but the process in richmond was not producing anything that could be workable here.” Jesse o’Connell, 42, works in higher-education policy and said he is focused on affordability issues and parks and recreational space, as well as what he called the “small ways that government shows up” — such as potholes, sidewalks and trash collection. A 12-year resident of Alexandria, o’Connell lives in Del ray with his wife and two children. l relevant experience: Past chair of the Budget Commission, past member of the Parks and recreation Commission; member of the DASH board l top policy priorities: Work with state delegation in richmond for new sales tax authority to fund school construction; use the city’s Industrial Development Authority to break ground on more affordable housing projects; expand the city’s number of recreation facilities l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “I was open-minded about the possibility it could bring necessary revenue into the city but had concerns richmond never got around to addressing.” Charlotte Scherer, 51, is an attorney. She has stressed that she is the only candidate with experience working in the judicial branch and with first responders as a former city magistrate, and emphasized her opposition to the city’s recent elimination of single-family-only zoning. An Alexandria resident for 13 years, Scherer lives in the Braddock area with her wife. l relevant experience: former city magistrate; past member of the Commission for Women; past member of the Community Criminal Justice Board l top policy priorities: Use public-private partnerships to create more affordable housing; direct growth to metro-adjacent areas and away from residential streets; reassign police administrative duties to support staff l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “It would have placed an unjustifiable burden on Alexandria city residents.” teed to win in November: There are no other candidates declared so far, and the Democratic nominee for Alexandria mayor has been elected in every general election since 1976. City Council member Alyia Smith-Parker gaskins, 34, is emphasizing her knowledge of local government and her record on the council, including the creation of the city’s youth ambassadors program and an increase in dedicated funding for affordable housing. Gaskins is a first-term council member and manages grants for a foundation focused on fighting homelessness. She moved to Alexandria eight years ago and lives in Cameron Station with her husband and two children. l relevant experience: Professional background in public health, urban planning, and municipal finance; past member of the Transportation Commission; led a National League of Cities program working with local governments on healthy eating and active living policy l top policy priorities: Invest in youth by expanding jobs and after-school programs; focus on crime prevention by expanding community policing; create a housing preservation task force focused on affordability and property taxes l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “I stayed at the table to see if we were actually going to be presented with a deal.” Vice mayor Amy Jackson, 53, says she has built the relationships within the city and Northern Virginia more broadly to serve as an effective mayor after two terms on the City Council. A former public school teacher and administrator, she said she is focused on public safety, education and infrastructure issues. Jackson moved to Alexandria when she was 9 and lives in Seminary Hill with her husband and two children. l relevant experience: Six years on the City Council; decades in education and school leadership; chair of the metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (mWCoG) Chesapeake Bay & Water resources committee l top policy priorities: Education; public safety; infrastructure — declined to name specifics l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “This arena proposal was not in the best interest of the city as we look toward diversifying our tax base and acquiring more commercial tax base . . . but we still need to look to be a better city where small businesses are more supported and thrive.” Steven Peterson, 58, is a retired real estate developer and newcomer to city politics who says he does not believe Alexandria has achieved full success. He notes that while he does not have all the answers, he would listen to residents first on any decision in a “bottom-up approach.” An Alexandria resident for more than 30 years, he lives in old Town with his wife. They have a blended family of seven children, most of whom are grown. l relevant experience: more than 30 years in the business sector; member of the Washington Airports Task force board; member of the Inova Alexandria foundation board l top policy priorities: Incentivize builder-developers to construct more affordable housing via joint ventures; lobby state legislature to receive more state education funding; test whether minorities are receiving equal pay for equal work l Stance on the Potomac Yard arena plan: “It was not an approvoter guIde from B1 Alexandria’s Democratic candidates for mayor and council James “Jimmy” Jacinta e. greene Lewis Alyia Smith-Parker r. Kirk McPike gaskins Amy Jackson Abdel elnoubi be there to protect the students and staff, but also build relationships,” he said. Loudoun’s formal school resource officer program was implemented in 1999 after the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado. Since then, it has grown — as has the school district — adding officers in all 36 of Loudoun’s middle and high schools. The sheriff’s office proposed expanding the Sro program to elementary schools in 2019. At elementary schools in 2017-2018. mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School resource officers, said the organization saw an uptick in training for officers headed to elementary schools after the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012. Since then, he said, it’s remained more common to see police working with the youngest grades — something that Canady said he supports. “It’s an opportunity to not only in their buildings at least once a week in the 2017-2018 school year. That rose to 49 percent in 2019- 2020. In 2021-2022, it fell back to 44 percent. About 18 percent of elementary schools around the country had at least one full-time resource officer on campus during the 2021- 2022 school year, compared with 45 percent of middle schools and 52 percent of high schools. That was up from about 14 percent of oFFICerS from B1 Renewed push for o∞cers in schools The Guide to Offers Save on tickets to a R&B Mother’s Day Celebration with PJ Morton and MAJOR. on May 12 at The Kennedy Center Concert Hall Hip hop icon and founding Kennedy Center Hip Hop Culture Council member MC Lyte presents a special Mother’s Day celebration with five-time Grammy®-winning soul singer, songwriter, performer and producer PJ Morton and Grammy®-, Soul Train – and NAACP Image Award– nominated soul singer and multi-hyphenate MAJOR. 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tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ re B3 as a relentless fighter. “It is amazing; the first time I carried the menstrual equity bill, they laughed at me and said: ‘oh, there’s no way we’ll do that,’” she told one group about the initial reaction from fellow Democrats discussion about Ukraine with a group. “I also don’t want forever wars, so I’d like to see us try to find a path to peace long-term,” he said. Boysko chopped at the air with her hand while presenting herself under indictment, punching at otieno before he was removed from his cell and taken to Central State Hospital on march 6, 2023, for mental health treatment, officials have said. In a court filing last year, Baskervill had argued that all 10 original defendants should face trial at the same time because each participated in restraining otieno, although she added that “the most culpable persons as first-degree principals would be those on his torso.” “It is not irrelevant that if one person here had acted differently, then otieno may very well have been able to survive,” Baskervill wrote at the time. discussions defense attorneys had with mann. “It is truly a tragic situation, but Kaiyell, and the others, followed their training and were doing their best to get mr. otieno the help that he obviously needed,” riley said. Police initially encountered otieno while responding to a report of a burglary on march 3, 2023, and he was put on an emergency mental health hold and sent to Parham Doctors’ Hospital for an evaluation and help, authorities have said. He was accused of assault at that facility and taken to the Henrico County jail. Jail surveillance video shows Sanders, one of the sheriff’s deputies still ing with his training,” Stone said. “The original prosecutor overreached — charged before doing a thorough investigation.” Stephen A. mutnick, who represents Boyer, said, “We are fortunate that ms. mann has decided to take a step back and really examine the evidence in the case.” Two sheriff’s deputies, Brandon rodgers and Kaiyell Sanders, and hospital worker Wavie Jones still face second-degree murder charges. Jones’s trial is scheduled to start in late September; rodgers’s in october, and Sanders’s in December. Edward riley, the defense attorney for Sanders, said he had expected some defendants’ charges would be dropped after the wrote. “The order in which the defendants are tried is of strategic importance,” mann wrote. Her filings do not delve into any deputy’s conduct. mann declined to comment on monday. russell Stone, the defense attorney for Bramble, said video of otieno’s final moments did not show Bramble acting with malice, a key element required to prove second-degree murder. “I have seen that video two dozen times, and I defy anyone to point to anything that Dwayne Bramble did that wasn’t in keepCHARGES From B1 First of 3 trials in Otieno’s death is set for September s0141 4x3.75 @capitalweather washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang stay one step ahead of the weather with the Capital Weather Gang heels or boots? to her efforts to pass a 2022 law to eliminate the sales tax on personal hygiene products. Some candidates also focused on what it will take to win in November. Former president Donald Trump “wants us to get down in the mud and we have to elevate that,” Qarni told one group. “We as Democrats ignore rural parts of the district at our own peril,” reid cautioned another cluster. At the GoP event, the three republicans there — Clancy, Aliscia Andrews and Alex Isaac — steered clear of being too closely aligned with Trump, saying the election is about the conservative agenda and being able to appeal to enough independent voters. (The fourth candidate, manga Anantatmula, a Trump acolyte, did not attend.) Clancy, a tech company executive who ran for the GoP nomination in the 10th District in 2022, has far outraised his opponents, with $347,000 in his campaign coffers so far. With Latin American migrants crossing the border and violence erupting on college campuses during protests over the war in Gaza, Clancy painted a picture for the audience of a United States in a state of chaos under Biden’s leadership. “I say, ‘No more,'” he said. “It is time to restore America.” Andrews, a former deputy secretary of homeland security for Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (r) and the party’s candidate against Wexton in 2020, blamed failed border policies for a spike in fentanyl overdoses in the region. She highlighted her start in politics as a “mad mom” who got involved in the culture battles at Loudoun County School Board meetings, during which conservative parents fought pandemic policies, efforts to uphold transgender rights and coursework that allegedy promoted critical race theory. “When given the opportunity to stand in a room of people when I’m ignored, and get loud, I can do it in spades,” Andrews said. Isaac, a defense industry contractor, casts himself as the better equipped of the three to draw independent voters. He focused on national security in the face of foreign adversaries trying to weaken the country. As an Arabic-speaking son of an Assyrian Christian father and a Palestinian mother, Isaac said he’s able to appeal to conservative muslims and other immigrants who are worried about the country’s direction. “Those are the folks that, if we can win them over, and I’m the guy to do that, we can flip this district,” he told the crowd. Diane Chandler, 81, walked away from the event unsure of what to think, though she did like Andrews more than the others because of her time in the Youngkin administration. “There’s just so much going on in the world right now,” she said. “I just hope we’ll all be safe.” elected official in the area since 2016, raised nearly $406,000. Krystle Kaul, a political newcomer who owns a defense technology company, has also garnered attention — running online ads in eight languages, including Spanish, Arabic and Hindi — after lending her campaign $450,000 and raising another $377,000. The other candidates are: Dels. David reid (Loudoun) and michelle maldondo (Prince William); former state secretary of education Atif Qarni; former CIA officer Adrian Pokharel; Tavis Nembhard, who oversees D.C.’s Department of For-Hire Vehicles; marion Devoe Sr., Northern Virginia Community College’s director of campus operations; and mark Leighton, a head librarian at George mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. With most of the Democratic candidates aligned on such issues as reproductive rights, stricter gun control measures and expanding access to affordable health care, voters have had a hard time figuring out who is best suited to step in for the popular Wexton, said Liz Carter, chair of the Loudoun County Democratic Committee. Some candidates have emphasized their experience as lawmakers or their professional credentials, while others characterize their congressional bids as grass-roots efforts to strengthen liberal values. The “Candi-Date Forum” that Carter’s committee organized at the library in Leesburg followed the structure of a speed-dating meetup. The 80 voters there — split up into 12 clusters — got a chance to ask each of the candidates anything they wanted before someone rang the cow bell every 10 minutes to signal that it was time for the candidate to move to another group. Several voters wanted to know how the candidates would fight for tighter federal gun safety laws or combat what they see as a politically tainted U.S. Supreme Court, scribbling the answers down on notepads or candidate brochures. others complained about the spreading presence of data centers in the region. “If you’re our guy, what do I tell my republican and independent neighbors that they should vote for you when they see blue versus red” on the November ballot, voter marsha Peltz asked Helmer. “They may not be mAGA, but they’re still republicans.” Helmer responded by talking about his 2019 victory over republican Tim Hugo, a longtime incumbent, to get his House of Delegates seat — a victory he said came thanks to independent voters. 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B4 ez re the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 obituaries BY EMILY LANGER Duane Eddy, an electric guitarist who sold tens of millions of records with hits including “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter Gunn” and left an indelible mark on rockand-roll by pioneering the sound called twang, died April 30 at a hospital in Franklin, Tenn. He was 86. The cause was cancer, said his wife, Deed Eddy. Mr. Eddy, who had his heyday in the late 1950s and early 1960s, was one of the few rock musicians to reach international stardom as an instrumentalist. With self-effacing humor, he often joked that his most significant contribution to music was “not singing.” By all accounts, Mr. Eddy more than compensated for any vocal deficits with his virtuosity on the guitar. He first experimented with the instrument at age 5 or 6 and grew up to become, in the description of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, “the rock and roll guitar god who invented twang.” Mr. Eddy referred to the term as “a silly name for a nonsilly thing.” Twang, a guitar sound heavy on bass and reverb, brought an added jolt of energy to the already powerful dynamism of rock. “Twang came to represent a walk on the wild side, late fiftiesstyle: the sound of revved-up hotrods, of rebels with or without a cause, an echo of the wild west on the frontier of rock & roll,” wrote Michael Hill, the author of an essay written for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on the occasion of Mr. Eddy’s induction in 1994. “It was the battle cry of the early guitar hero, embodied by the lean and handsome Eddy, who arrives in town slinging a guitar like a gun. He didn’t need to speak or sing; he said it all with his terse playing.” Mr. Eddy popularized the sound in numbers including “Rebel Rouser,” his first Top 10 hit — it peaked at No. 6 in 1958, according to Billboard — and “Forty Miles of Bad Road,” which hit No. 9 the following year. He lent his signature fretwork to the title song of “Because They’re Young,” a 1960 movie that starred Dick Clark as a caring high school teacher and gave Mr. Eddy a No. 4 hit, as well as to composer Henry Mancini’s title song of “Peter Gunn,” a detective series that aired on TV from 1958 to 1961. Mr. Eddy sold more than 100 million records in all. Many of his hits, and the sound that defined them, were collaborations with Lee Hazlewood, a producer whom Mr. Eddy had met when he was a young musician just starting out in Arizona and Hazlewood was a local disc jockey. For Mr. Eddy’s early recordings, they improvised a rudimentary reverb chamber using a giant water tank salvaged from a junkyard. “They put a speaker at one end and a mic at the other and [the sound] would come out the speaker, swirl through the tank and the mic would pick it up at the other end and we had our echo,” Mr. Eddy told the Arizona Republic in 2022. “It was great.” Jason Hanley, a musicologist and vice president of education and visitor engagement at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, wrote in an email that Mr. Eddy’s songs “mixed elements of western, rockabilly, and surf into some of the best instrumentals in rock and roll,” and that the low tone of his melodies “set him apart from his contemporaries.” Although the early rock musicians were eclipsed in popularity by the “British invasion” in the mid-1960s, Mr. Eddy maintained his presence in rock as an influence on groups and musicians including the Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Springsteen. A remake of “Peter Gunn” by the Art of Noise, a British technopop band, with Mr. Eddy as a featured artist received a Grammy Award in 1987. And generations that know the early rock period only from history books remember “Rebel Rouser” from the 1994 movie “Forrest Gump” starring Tom Hanks; the song is the soundtrack for one of Forrest’s unstoppable runs. Duane Jerome Eddy was born in Corning, N.Y., on April 26, 1938. His parents ran a country store in the Finger Lakes area, where his father also drove a bread truck. With aspirations of becoming a writer and traveling the world, the elder Eddy took the family west, to Arizona, around 1950. The family lived first in Tucson and later in Coolidge, midway between Tucson and Phoenix, where the father managed a Safeway supermarket. By that point, Mr. Eddy had been playing the guitar for years. He had stumbled on his father’s old instrument in the family’s coal cellar, learned a few chords from his dad and “that was it,” his wife said. He was in high school when he landed his first song, a Chet Atkins number, on the local radio in Coolidge. With a classmate, Jimmy Delbridge, who played the piano, he formed Jimmy and Duane, a country duo that impressed Hazlewood, then working as a DJ. Working with Hazlewood, Mr. Eddy made “Moovin’ n’ Groovin’” in 1957 and followed it soon with “Rebel Rouser.” By then, Mr. Eddy’s twangy style was set. “I played part of ‘Moovin’ n’ Groovin’ up high and part of it down low,” he told the Advocate of Baton Rouge in 2010. “By the time I got to ‘Rebel Rouser,’ I got it all down in the low register and left it there. I knew that the low strings were more powerful than the high strings.” Mr. Eddy became a hit on Clark’s TV dance show “American Bandstand” and released his first album, “Have ‘Twangy’ Guitar Will Travel,” in 1958. In the 1960s, Mr. Eddy moved to Beverly Hills, Calif., where he spent much of the next decades working in music production. He settled in Tennessee in 1985. His marriages to Carol Fowler and Mirriam Johnson, the latter a country singer who performed as Jessi Colter and later married the singer-guitarist Waylon Jennings, ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife of 44 years, the former Deed Abbate of Franklin; two children from his first marriage, Linda Jones of Columbia, Tenn., and Christopher Eddy of Spring Hill, Tenn.; a daughter from his second marriage, Jennifer Eddy Davis of Hendersonville, Tenn.; a sister; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. Looking back on his career, and on the history of rock-androll, Mr. Eddy took a modest view of twang as one step in the eternal evolution of musical sound. “I’m sure some young kid will come along with something one of these days that will just blow everybody away,” he told the Scottish newspaper the Scotsman in 2012. “It depends on the individual and his soul.” Guitarist honed rock’s twang sound duanE Eddy, 86 mArk HumPHrey/AP Guitarist Duane Eddy in 1986. Eddy sold more than 100 million records in a career that began in the 1950s. Eddy followed chart success with a decades-long music production stint in Beverly Hills, Calif. meliSSA mAJcHrzAk Bacon with two letterman jackets, with his name and the SixDegrees logo on the front and “Footloose 1984” on the back. One was for Bacon to keep; the other, which Bacon signed, will be placed in a display with the locker once the new school is built. Staheli said a highlight of the visit was when Bacon signed her husband’s Laserdisc copy of the 1992 film “Singles,” which stars Bacon’s wife, Kyra Sedgwick. “He saw something in this campaign and the work that these kids put in that was worthwhile,” Staheli, 50, said. “Acknowledging that and taking time out of his schedule to visit us speaks to his character. Watching these kids accomplish this is the dream of every teacher.” Raff said Bacon told her and other student council members that he admired their commitment, particularly their work with his nonprofit, which distribBY OMARI DANIELS In his mid-20s, Kevin Bacon walked through the halls of Payson High School in the 1984 film “Footloose.” Last month, Bacon, now 65, traversed those halls for the first time in 40 years and revisited his locker used in the film. “I think it was unexpectedly profound in a weird kind of way,” Bacon said in a phone interview. Bacon’s return to Payson High, in Payson, Utah, was the culmination of a campaign to bring him back to the school before it is torn down next year. Much of the film, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in February, was shot at the school. Residents and students take pride in the film, and Bacon still has fond memories of the movie. Those memories came rushing back as a crowd greeted Bacon when he stepped onto an outdoor stage at Payson High on April 20, the day of the school’s spring prom. “You were all just tireless, unrelenting in your desire to have me return and you talked me into it,” Bacon told the crowd. “It’s amazing, the power that this movie has to bring people together.” The school’s campaign for Bacon’s return included re-creations of the film’s opening dance in TikTok posts last year, a “Footloose”-themed musical in November and fundraisers for Bacon’s nonprofit group, SixDegrees.org. In May 2025, the school will move to a new campus, which is under construction, and demolition of the current building will begin the following month. A few valued items, such as Bacon’s locker, will move to the new location. ‘All of our dreams came true’ Though Payson students, including student body president Rubie Raff, had long lobbied for Bacon to return — and, if possible, attend the spring prom — his visit still took them by surprise. “It was surreal,” Raff, 18, said. “As soon as he started walking onstage and they played the ‘Footloose’ song, I started crying. I was so happy that this finally happened and all of our dreams came true in that moment. It was indescribable.” Jenny Staheli, a Payson English teacher and student council adviser, said the school presented utes kits to low-income people that include toiletries, socks and nonperishable goods. “This idea was originally just to get Kevin Bacon here,” Raff said, “but it turned into something much bigger by impacting other people’s lives.” Staheli and the student council learned in January that Bacon would be coming. They kept the news a secret as Staheli worked with Bacon’s representatives to plan a grand announcement. Payson Principal Jesse Sorenson announced on the school’s Instagram account that 600 people needed to gather in the school’s gym at 5 a.m. on March 22. Ultimately, Staheli said, around 1,300 people came, including community members. Bacon, who was in Atlanta at the time filming the upcoming TV series “The Bondsman,” appeared via live video. “The movie and Payson High School was a big part of my life and I’ve been amazed at the work that all of you have been putting into this with the musical and the flash mobs and the re-creations,” Bacon told the crowd. “It hasn’t gone unnoticed by me.” Bacon called the school’s work with SixDegrees.org “inspirational” and, after a pause, delivered the news that students hoped to hear: “I’m gonna come. I gotta come.” The gym erupted in cheers. Nick Dansie, Payson’s senior class president, said it was rewarding to know that Bacon followed the campaign’s work that paid off in his visit. “We’d been up so early and the day just lasted forever,” Dansie, 19, said. “It just felt like a party day after that. Everybody wanted to be a part of the prom of the year.” Bacon said he was “tickled” by the reaction and called the students who gave him a tour “inspiring and passionate.” “The fact that people maybe two generations later appreciate the movie and find something they can relate to is really staggering,” Bacon said. “There was a kid who said, ‘My grandfather was here when you were doing the movie!’ I was like ‘Whoa, your grandfather?’” ‘It seemed impossible’ In the film, Bacon plays Chicago teenager Ren McCormack, who moves to the fictional town of Bomont, set in Payson, about an hour south of Salt Lake City. Many residents look down on dancing, and the students challenge the town’s strict morals. The film culminates in a prom that Ren puts together for the high school students. Bacon didn’t attend this year’s prom, but he visited earlier in the day, and he also shared a video message that was played during the prom. “I want you all to have a great time, and most importantly, be good to each other,” he told the students. “And don’t forget to cut loose.” The DJ then played the film’s final dance number as students did the dance from its climactic scene. Student say they’ll remember Bacon’s visit long after graduating. “It’s something we’ll tell our kids in 20 or 50 years from now,” Dansie said. “Being able to say we got Kevin Bacon to come back is pretty cool.” Raff called the campaign’s work a “game changer” for the school and said it instilled in students the confidence that they can accomplish something big. “I was so proud that we finally pulled it off,” Raff said. “There was a lot of relief. Even though it seemed impossible, it came together in the best way. It made everything worthwhile.” The school from ‘Footloose’ lobbied Kevin Bacon to visit. He delivered. JeSSe SorenSon/AP TOP: Kevin Bacon, center, visits Payson High School, in Payson, Utah. The school was the backdrop for Bacon’s 1984 film “Footloose.” ABOVE: During his April visit, Bacon helps fill care packages for SixDegrees.org, his nonprofit. “As soon as he started walking onstage and they played the ‘Footloose’ song, I started crying.” Rubie Raff, Payson High School’s student body president 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. 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tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post EZ RE B5 wapo.st/climatexp N0642 2x10.5 Tis is Climate. from No story is more global. More profound. More extreme. A Division of The Washington Posttwpprintsolutions.co m M0036_2x10.5 State-of-the-art PRINTING. Impeccable RESULTS. How can we help YOU? Booklets Brochures Posters Flyers Postcards Business Cards And More DEATH NOTICE ADAIR SYLVIA HOWARD ADAIR Sylvia Howard Adair, 89, passed away on April 17, 2024. Sylvia was born on December 29, 1934, to Alphonse and Phillo Howard in Houston, Texas. After graduating as valedictorian of the Booker T. Washington High School class of 1952, she went on to Dillard University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1956 with a bachelor’s degree in Sociol- ogy. Her academic achievements earned her a scholarship to the Columbia University School of Social Work in New York City. After graduating from Columbia with a mas- ter’s degree in social work, she started her career in early childhood education first with the East End Neighborhood Settlement House and later with the Cleveland Board of Education as a school social worker. She retired in 1996 after serving the children of the city of Cleveland for more than 30 years. She married in 1962 and went on to have three children, Jocelyn, Jennifer and Jay. After retirement, Sylvia spent her time trav- eling the world, visiting with her friends and going on adventures with her children. Sylvia is survived by her daughter Jennifer and her son Jay. Services will be held in Maryland at Pum- phrey Funeral Home in Bethesda on May 10, 2024, at 11:30 a.m. and in Cleveland at Antioch Baptist Church on May 17, 2024, at 11 a.m. Both services’ live stream information will be available on their websites. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Dillard University Alumni Association and the Columbia Uni- versity School of Social Work. Please view and sign the guestbook at: www.PumphreyFuneralHome.com BORGES ROSEMARIE E BORGES (Age 89) Rosemarie E. Borges (Age 89) a resident of Winchester, Virginia passed from this life on Sunday April 14, 2024, in the comfort of her home with the love of her children and gen- tle nursing care. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Animal Husbandry from the University of Vermont where she was an active member of Pi Beta Phi Soror- ity. A lover of animals, travel, and caring for others, she was an avid skier and met her husband Louis J. Borges (1921-2009) on a ski trip in Vermont. They skied together into their eighties, taught their three Children to ski, and she skied with her Grandchildren. She raised her children with a love for the outdoors and traveled with her family to Maine for yearly camping trips on Mooseh- ead Lake. She was blessed with good health late into life and she had a dream vacation to Africa at 79, celebrated her 80th in Ha- waii, and explored the jungles of Costa Rica at 84. She adopted her Husband’s love for sailing, passing that sport on to her children as well. In 1978, she and her husband built a home in Fox Lake in Oakton, Virgina, a neighborhood her husband helped devel- op. She raised a family in that home and lived there until 2015. Gardening and blue- birds were great passions and gifts that she shared with others. Many Fox Lake neighbors and friends remember her for sharing these passions. She received special recog- nition from her neighbors for her efforts in community beautification. She will be most remembered for her loving care of others, not only her children, but also her Mother, her Aunt, and any friend or neighbor who was in need. Rosemarie is survived by her Children, Jennifer Lynn of California; Marie Louise of Florida; Louis James of Virginia, married to Ellen Conway; her three granddaughters, Callie, Sophie and Peyton; and her sisters, Julie Theriault Ouellette of Maine and Karen Landstreet of Maryland. She was a great mother, wife, daughter, sister, and friend, and she will be missed. She taught her children many things, the most import- ant being that “the greatest gift in life is to love and be loved.” At her request, no ser- vices are planned. In lieu of flowers, please contribute memorial gifts to The National Wildlife Federation, [nwf.org] BRENNER BURTON M. BRENNER After six weeks battling challenges from COVID and other ailments, Burt Brenner finally succumbed to his ailments on May 5, 2024 after 84 wonderful years serving his community. His final days were spent surrounded by family and friends under the care and compassion of The Casey House. Burton Murray Brenner, husband of 61 years to Mary Brenner was born in Washington, DC and moved to Silver Spring, Maryland with his younger sister Carol (Milwit). Burt and Mary met in high school, fell in love and raised a family filled with joy and inspiration. Burt was known for his willingness and drive to help all those in need, whether family, friend, acquaintance or stranger. He was a lifelong volunteer and past president of the Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department. He saved lives, fought fires, taught fire safety and CPR life saving skills well into his 70’s. Later in life he continued his volunteer work supporting patient care at Montgomery General Hospital. He never slowed down, even after he began to fall ill. He continued working out of his home, helping neighbors and family whenever there was a need. He was a member of Ohr Kodesh Congre- gation in Chevy Chase, Maryland where he blew shofar, was gabbai and a fixture as an active congregant. Burt was a jeweler and watch repairman leading and expanding the family business at Capitol Gem and Jewel- ry in Silver Spring and Rockville for over 30 years. Throughout his life he loved boating, sailing, fishing, camping and spending time every weekend with family at the cottage on the Severn River. Burt is survived by his wife Mary; sister Carol Milwit; son Robert (Jill); daughter Jo’el Brenner, son Gregory (Laurie); six grandchildren, Morgan, Jacob, (Tracie), Alexa, Reese, Danya, Micah and great grandson Mason. The funeral will be held on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 10 a.m. at Ohr Kodesh Congre- gation, 8300 Meadowbrook Lane, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815. Interment to follow at Judean Memorial Gardens, 16225 Batch- ellors Forest Rd., Olney, MD 20832. Donations in Burt’s name can be made to:The Chesapeake Bay FoundationThe Casey House, Montgomery Hospice, or The Silver Spring Volunteer Fire Department via [email protected]. Arrangements by Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home under Jewish Funeral Practices Com- mittee of Greater Washington Contract. www.HinesRinaldiFuneralHome.com DULANEY DALE ROBERT DULANEY Dale Dulaney, of Washington, DC and Silver Spring, MD, died peacefully on Mat 4, 2024 after living with dementia for over 10 years. Dale is survived by his partner of 19 years, as well as several very close cousins, and innumerable friends in the DC area, across the country, and around the world. Dale was born at Children’s hospital in the District of Columbia on November 14, 1951, and grew up with his grandmother, mother Hattie Mae; and sister Debora Terrell in DC and Maryland. During this time, he also spent four years in New Delhi, India, in the 1960s, where his mother was stationed with the US Department of State. After high school, Dale attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where he studied design and art, which he then parlayed into an ex- tremely successful career for over four-decades in interior and furniture design. As his business grew, he had clients in 10-plus states and the Caribbean. During college, Dale also spent six years serving his coun- try in the US Air Force Reserves. Dale was preceded in death by his grandmother, his mother, and his sister. A private memorial will be held at a future date. In lieu of floral tributes, donations may be made to the Alz- heimer’s Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10001. SZESTAK EUGENE SZESTAK Eugene “Gene” Szestak died peacefully on April 30, 2024 at his home in Lanham, MD. Gene was born in a displaced persons camp in Ellwangen, German on August 26, 1948, the eldest surviving child of Teodor and Ksenia Szestak. His family emigrated to the United States in 1951, settling on the South Side of Pittsburgh, PA, where he attended St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic School and South High. In 1968, Gene proudly became a United States citizen and joined the U.S. Army, serving two tours in Vietnam. He attended Allegheny County Community College and Point Park University, where he played soc- cer and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. In 1974, Gene married Mary Anne Hawrylak, and they moved to Washington, DC to pur- sue their new careers. Gene worked for the United States Secret Service for nearly 30 years, served under seven Presidents, and ultimately attained the rank of Deputy Chief. In retirement, Gene enjoyed spending time in his beloved adopted hometown of Pittsburgh and especially enjoyed serving the community by cooking pierogies as a church fundraiser. He and Mary Anne loved to travel to locales including Germany, Ireland, Alaska, and Egypt. He enjoyed coin collecting, spending time at the pool with friends, and cheering on Notre Dame football. Gene is survived by his wife of nearly 50 years, Mary Anne; his daughter Amy and son-in-law John; and siblings Oresta (Michael), Zenon (Linda), and Luba. He was pre- ceded in death by his parents, sisters Mary and Stefanie, and brother-in-law Peter. A memorial Mass and reception will be held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Landover Hills, MD on May 20, 2024, at 11 a.m. The Szestaks would like to thank Gene’s medical providers and caregivers who served him with compassion. In lieu of flow- ers, donations may be made in Gene’s honor to HEROES, Inc. at https://heroes.org/. Online condolences may be offered at: KalasFuneralHomes.com When the need arises, let families fnd you in the Funeral Services Directory. To be seen in the Funeral Services Directory, please call paid Death Notices at 202-334-4122. POST YOUR CONDOLENCES Now death notices on washingtonpost.com/obituaries allow you to express your sympathy with greater ease. Visit today. GHI DEATH NOTICE ANNOUNCEMENT Remembering Mom on MOTHER'S DAY May 12, 2024 Deadline Saturday, May 11 2 p.m. Call 202-334-4122 Email: [email protected] MEMORIAL SERVICE SACHSE HARRY RUBENSTEIN SACHSE (Age 90) Harry Sachse, of Washington, DC, died on Friday, May 3, 2024 at home. He was 90 years old. He was born on April 1, 1934 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and attended Louisiana State University for both college and law school. He was a founding member of Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Enderson, and Perry, LLP, and spent over 50 years as an attorney primarily focused on Native American rights. He won multiple landmark cases in front of the Supreme Court, and was honored with a lifetime achievement award for Federal Indian Law by the Federal Bar Association. He had a sharp mind and was a born storyteller. He is predeceased by his wife Elinor, whom he loved. He is survived by his children Michael and Marianna; and his grandchildren, Nora Sachse, Teddy Sachse, Elias Arbitman, and Felix Arbitman.A memorial service will be held in his honor on Wednesday, May 8, at 10 a.m. at the Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, DC. DEATH NOTICE COTTER SHEILA COLLINS COTTER (Age 85) On Friday, May 3, 2024, of Annapolis, MD. Beloved wife of the late Daniel J. Cotter; mother of Mary Brigid Frye, and Timothy J. Frye; grand- mother of Megan Elizabeth Frye, and James Frye; sister of Margaret Mary O’Brien, Edward F.X. Collins, Terence D. Collins, and the late Richard Paul Collins, Jr., John Patrick Collins, Michael A. Collins, Brian J. Collins, and Eileen Brigid Collins; also survived by many nieces, nephews, and cousins. Relatives and friends may call at Collins Funeral Home, 500 University Boulevard West, Silver Spring, MD, (Valet Parking), Wednesday, May 8, from 2 to 4 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. John Neumann Mission Church, Annapolis, 620 North Bestgate Road, Annapolis, MD, on Thurs- day, May9at 10:30 a.m. Interment St. Mary’s Church Cemetery, Annapolis, MD. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Asso- ciation at www.lung.org. www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com GREENE DANIEL N. GREENE The Officers and Members of Local #10, International Union of Elevator Constructors, are hereby notified of the passing of Honorary Brother Daniel N. Greene on April 13, 2024. Ser- vices will be private. Fraternally, The Business Office MITCHELL JOHN G. MITCHELL The Officers and Members of Local #10, International Union of Elevator Constructors, are hereby notified of the passing of Honorary Brother John G. Mitchell on May 5, 2024. There will not be a service. Fraternally, The Business Office MURPHY JOAN ELIZABETH MURPHY Spingarn Senior High School ‘63 DC Government (Retired) On April 14, 2024, JOAN E. MURPHY (née Hardy) beloved wife of Lloyd G. Murphy, Jr., and devoted mother of Lloyd G. Murphy, III and Lorne A. Murphy. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, May 11, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., at Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church, 3000 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20020. Visitors will be received at 9 a.m. The family will forego a repast. For detailed information about Joan, visit www.legacy.com. DEATH NOTICE TEITELBAUM MARK EVAN TEITELBAUM We are sad to announce the passing of Mark Evan Teitelbaum on May 4, 2024, following a lengthy illness. He was 68. Born in New York City, and raised in Queens and Monsey, NY, he was the oldest child of Blanche (Goldenberg) and Arthur Teitelbaum. Known for his quick wit and for driving a hard bargain, he was a fixture of the Washington, DC, commercial real estate industry for more than 40 years. A tenant rep broker at CBRE, he wasamentor to many rising associates. Numerous clients became dear friends over the years and that extended to their families. Mark also made an effort to befriend the lobby attendants and parking attendants in every building he worked in. He loved to share information and almost everyone who knew him can attest to being given a book or two to read as homework. In addition, he was an active angel investor and was at his happiest when he was chas- ingadeal. Predeceased by his parents, Mark is sur- vived by his children Drew (Jillian), Caroline, Jill, and Jonathan, and a grandson, Cal. He is also survived by his sisters Sue Teitelbaum and Joan (Dan) Kahn, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. A proud alum of the University at Buffalo, he adopted the city as his hometown. His many passions included being an avid reader and a lifelong student of World War II, aviation, and all things business. Thanks to the many friends and family members who provided a steady source of encouragement and support since he was diagnosed, and special thanks to the capable professionals who formed his care team. Funeral service on Wednesday, May 8, 1 p.m. Judean Memorial Gardens, Olney, MD. Arrangements handled by Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky Goldberg Funeral Care Inc. DEATH NOTICE PRATT RICHARD HENRY PRATT “Dick” Dick Pratt, 89, of Garrett Park, MD, died Tuesday April 23, 2024 at home. He is best known for his love of trains and trolleys, his work on designing the Washington, DC Metro Rail, VRC, and MD Rt 200. The culmi- nation of his career was the three editions of the Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes Handbook. 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An afernoon shower in spots in southern parts. A thunderstorm in spots; in the morning in northern parts, in the afernoon in central parts. High 69 to 76. Winds west–southwest 7–14 mph. Tonight, partly cloudy. Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly cloudy. A stray afernoon thunderstorm in the south; an afernoon shower in spots in the north. High 64 to 80. Winds east–northeast 4–8 mph. Tonight, mostly cloudy. Low 58 to 68. Winds south– southeast 6–12 mph. Pollen: Low Grass Low Trees Low Weeds Low Mold Low UV: Moderate 3 out of 11+ Air Quality: Good Dominant cause: Ozone 82/66 80/68 66/59 75/63 73/61 65/57 78/63 83/66 88/64 77/67 76/67 79/65 81/61 78/65 72/60 78/65 56° 55° 63° 64° Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, clouds breaking for partly sunny, a brief shower or two. Wind south 4–8 knots. Waves 0–1 foot. • Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, clouds then partly sunny, a brief shower or two. Wind south 4–8 knots. 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BY TRAVIS M. ANDREWS, ANNE BRANIGIN, HELENA ANDREWS-DYER AND SAMANTHA CHERY of Diddy’s American Dream BY SIBBIE O’SULLIVAN Unlike Ben Franklin, who arrived in Philadelphia after a long journey by foot and boat, with enough money to buy three puffy rolls, Tom selleck entered Los Angeles in the family car, dad at the wheel, ready to settle down in sherman oaks, a short drive from Hollywood. Though Franklin is not mentioned in selleck’s memoir, “You never Know,” his work ethic and didacticism are widely evident. Another great American is also present: Huck Finn. By combining Franklin’s homiletic pronouncements with Huck’s folksy immediacy of voice, selleck, along with co-writer ellis Henican, has created an easygoing, talky American memoir. And why not? sturdy as Mount Rushmore, athletic and eminently likable, selleck exudes traditional American masculine traits; he’s the very embodiment of the strong, silent type. But silence can be a hazard when it comes to writing a memoir, which after all is a genre of self-reflection, confession and exposure. Known for his privacy, selleck has written a what book instead of a why book, a chronology of doing, as he writes about his life. As he says late in the book, “Feelings are hard to describe.” so readers can decide if they’re satisfied with a résumé — a running of the credits, if you will. I like Tom selleck, and while waiting for the book to arrive, I watched a lot of his movies and shows. Though I find the memoir disappointing, it will make a great audiobook, and I wonder if that’s what he had in mind, letting his easygoing voice tell a story that is soothing because he keeps it on the surface. A quick list of some doings: student at see book woRld on C4 Book world In his memoir, Selleck has plenty to say, but not much of it is personal KLMNO tuesday, may 7, 2024 Style eZ sU CBryan Bedder/GeTTy iMaGes for The iMG dark side Rap mogul Sean Combs, pictured backstage at a 2008 fashion show for his clothing label, Sean John, has been the subject of several recent lawsuits that allege sexual assault as well as a Homeland Security raid of his homes. aBC newS Kim Godwin abruptly steps down from the helm of the division. C5 jojo Siwa The internet darling’s rebranding is making people uneasy. C9 CondÉ naSt The magazine giant reaches a last-minute deal with unions. C5 Carolyn Hax her husband fesses up to infidelity, then wants her to ‘let it go.’ C9 He was a modern-day Jay Gatsby. That’s how media outlets often referred to Diddy — previously known as Puff Daddy, Puffy and P. Diddy — at the turn of the millennium. Already an established rapper, record mogul and businessman who forever transformed the hip-hop world, he bent the culture to his will. The colorful White Parties he threw from 1998 to 2009 didn’t only attract A-listers. They cemented them. He was a kingmaker. “He was incredibly beloved musically, and an incredibly important part of the culture,” says Touré, a music journalist and culture critic with TheGrio. And like Gatsby, there was a darkness always brewing beneath the surface of the glamorous life. Violence, rumors and court cases shadowed Diddy, who was born sean Combs, even at the height of his influence, but none slowed his ascent. now, five lawsuits have been filed against Combs, 54, accusing him of decades-long patterns of sexual assault, vindictive and violent behavior, and sex trafficking. A separate lawsuit that accuses his son Christian Combs of sexual assault names sean Combs as a co-defendant. In late March, the Department of Homeland security raided multiple homes belonging to Combs. As news of the federal raids broke, the celebrities who attended his parties and colleagues he made famous have been mostly quiet. The Washington Post asked more than 40 such people about the disgraced mogul who declined to comment on the record. “I can’t help but think that there are a lot of people who at least had some clue as to what was going on, and that they’ve chosen to protect him,” says culture critic Jamilah Lemieux. “Money will go a long way in terms of protecting you. If you can pay people for their silence, you can get away with a lot.” Combs has not been charged with any crimes, and he has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. Federal authorities have declined to comment on the status of the investigation. If he is eventually charged, then, like see diddy on C2 JaMie MCCarThy/GeTTy iMaGes Met Gala’s night of ‘Sleeping Beauties’ Cynthia Erivo, left, and Ariana Grande arrive at the Met Gala (theme: “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion”) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday, one of fashion’s biggest nights of the year. For more photos, see Page C10.

C2 eZ Re the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 have denied any wrongdoing. In April, their attorney said the most recent lawsuit was the latest in a pattern of “lewd and meritless claim[s]” from a lawyer whose tactics, he noted, were criticized by a federal judge in a separate case. As Combs’s star plummeted, he remained defiant. Tabloids ran photos of Combs bicycling around miami Beach. In one, he flashes a bright smile and a peace sign. on April 5, after the news cycle had crested and began to quiet down, he posted to Instagram the nearly eight-minute music video for his 1997 song “Victory.” He spends most of the video running from police. “Bad Boy for Life,” read its caption. Combs was born in Harlem in 1969 to Janice Combs and melvin earl Combs, a dapper man who drove limos for new York drug kingpin frank Lucas. Combs has described his father as a hustler and a drug dealer. In 1972, when Combs was a toddler, his father was murdered in a “drug deal gone bad,” Combs said in 2014. His mother worked three jobs to support Combs and his young sister, Keisha, while their grandmother watched over them. These experiences shaped his own hustle-hard mentality. Talking to oprah Winfrey for her magazine in 2006, Combs revisited an incident that happened when he was 9 years old: His grandmother had sent him to the store to pick up some things, and someone stole his money. “my mother wouldn’t let me in the house,” Combs told Winfrey. “she said, ‘Go back out there and get that money, and if anyone ever puts their hands on you, make sure they never do it again.’ she knew the reality: if people smell weakness, they take advantage of you. You have to defend yourself.” Combs has long painted a picture of his childhood as defined by dire circumstances: “one day when I was growing up, I woke up and there was 15 roaches on my face,” Combs once wrote in an Instagram caption. His persona as an artist, too, leaned into darker elements. He took the name Puffy, because, as he told Jet in 1998, “Whenever I got mad as a kid, I used to always huff and puff. I had a temper. That’s why my friend started calling me Puffy.” Combs’s mother casts his life in a slightly different light: In 2002, she recalled to the new Yorker Combs’s dream of starting a paper route. “We had a Cadillac car and a house, and he liked life like that,” Janice Combs said. When Combs was 12, Janice moved the family to mount Vernon, n.Y.; he attended mount st. michael Academy in the Bronx, an all-boys Catholic school. He attended Howard University for a few semesters before begging record executive Andre Harrell for an internship at Uptown records in new York. In 1989, Combs made his music video debut dancing behind r&B singer stacy Lattisaw in the video for her single “What You need.” The 19-year-old Combs was working in the mailroom of motown records in new York at the time. Lattisaw, already on her 10th studio album, was having trouble learning the choreography. A stick-slim Combs offered to help. “He danced so well that the producer was like ‘You know what? How ’bout you come along,” recalls Lattisaw. During a break on the 12-hour shoot, Lattisaw and Combs chatted on a nearby couch. He told her that the mailroom was only the beginning.“He seemed very focused. He had a lot of plans," she says. A year later, he joined Uptown records and worked as a talent director. Three years after joining Uptown records, Combs started his own record label: Bad Boy. I t is difficult to overstate the impact Combs had on the music industry. A new type of musical mashup started appearing in Harlem on cassettes and later CDs dubbed blend tapes, in which DJs would drape r&B vocals over harder rap beats. “The sound was revolutionary, and the sound helped change the music industry itself: the way that hip-hop and r&B were no longer two separate worlds,” says Touré. (The cultural commentator previously claimed to msnBC’s Joy reid that a male relative had an internship with Combs that ended when the mogul allegedly sexually harassed the relative. Touré agreed to see DIDDy on C3 Gatsby, his downfall built up slowly and arrived dizzyingly fast, as the rumors and discreet accusations turned into lawsuits, raids and a decaying of his business empire. “When a powerful Black man is accused of these kind of crimes, there are a lot of people who want very badly to believe he is the victim of some sort of plot to take him down,” Lemieux says. she points out how many people were silent about, or defensive of, r. Kelly before his downfall. “I think there are people who are still going to hold Diddy in the same regard that they always have because of what he’s accomplished.” “men are not judged by their relationships to women,” she adds. On nov. 16, 2023, r&B singer Cassie, Combs’s ex-girlfriend, filed what would become the first of five lawsuits against Combs alleging sexual assault. Two accusing Combs of rape were filed in new York County court. The other three, which accuse Combs of human trafficking in addition to sexual assault, were filed in the southern District of new York’s federal court. Cassie, who was once signed to Combs’s label Bad Boy records and whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, described in her lawsuit in detail the sex parties, known as “freak-offs,” Combs allegedly threw. According to the lawsuit, Combs would have her and his employees fly in male sex workers, whom he would force Cassie to have sex with, and he would give Cassie a cocktail of various drugs including ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine, marijuana and alcohol. Cassie said she routinely required an IV of fluids the day after to recover. she also alleged that he physically abused her throughout the course of their 11-year relationship, and that he exerted total control over her life. In 2012, Combs was allegedly so enraged by Cassie’s brief relationship with Kid Cudi that, during Paris fashion Week, he told her he would blow up Cudi’s car. The lawsuit claims Cudi’s car then exploded in his driveway around that time — which Cudi’s spokeswoman confirmed to the new York Times. In a statement, Combs’s attorney accused Cassie of “blackmail,” citing a previous “demand of $30 million, under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship,” before “filing a lawsuit riddled with baseless and outrageous lies.” The lawsuit was settled the day after Cassie filed it for an undisclosed amount. “mr. Combs’ decision to settle the lawsuit does not in any way undermine his flat-out denial of the claims,” his lawyer said at the time. four more suits were filed in the ensuing months. one is from a Jane Doe who says Combs and others coerced her to fly from Detroit to new York City to hang out with him at his studio in 2003, when she was 17. There, she alleges, Combs and two others got her inebriated “to the point that she could not possibly have consented to having sex with anyone” and raped her. one is from rodney Jones, a music producer who worked on Combs’s most recent project, “The Love Album,” who says Combs forced him to “solicit sex workers and perform sex acts to the pleasure of mr. Combs” at sex parties in 2022 and 2023 and threatened physical violence if he didn’t comply. He also accuses Combs of having underage girls at these sex parties. several lawsuits allege Combs would film these sexual encounters, and two accused him of using the video to control the people involved. Combs vehemently denies all charges. “He views these lawsuits as a money grab. Because of mr. Combs’ fame and success, he is an easy target for accusers who attempt to smear him,” Combs’s attorney said in a statement. “Let me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth,” Combs wrote on Instagram. on march 25, the Department of Homeland security raided Combs’s homes in Los Angeles and miami as “part of an ongoing investigation.” Homeland security Investigations did not comment further. Combs’s attorney called the raids “a gross overuse of military-level force” and “a witch hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits.” Christian Combs and his father DIDDy from C1 Combs remained defiant in face of allegations leNNoX mcleNdoN/aSSocIaTed PReSS Sean Combs, then performing as Puff Daddy, accepts the rap artist of the year award at the 1997 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. JeWel Samad/aFP/geTTy ImageS mITcHell geRbeR/coRbIS/Vcg/geTTy ImageS NITRo/geTTy ImageS RIcHaRd dReW/aSSocIaTed PReSS AT RIGHT: Combs arrives for at court in Manhattan in 2001 for his trial on gun possession and bribery charges. He was found not guilty on all counts. FAR RIGHT: Steve Stoute, an executive with Interscope Records, and Combs in 1999. Stoute alleged that Combs assaulted him after he refused to edit Combs out of a scene in a music video. Combs pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of harassment. LEFT: The Notorious B.I.G., also known as Biggie, at left with Sean Combs in a photo circa 1994, was one of the most successful rappers signed to the Bad Boys Records label. BELOW: Ex-girlfriend Cassie, pictured in 2018 with Combs when he went by the name P Diddy, filed a lawsuit last year alleging sexual assault. The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount.

tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post EZ rE C3 speak with The Post only about Combs’s cultural status.) It was the sound upon which he built an empire. “There was a period in the ’90s, at least in the Northeast, where he is really the dominant sonic figure,” Touré says. “He was constant.” Success came immediately. The first song Bad Boy released — “flava in Ya Ear” by Craig mack in 1994 — shot to No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, was nominated for a Grammy and went platinum. The same year, Bad Boy released the Notorious B.I.G.'s “ready to Die,” an album that has become one of the genre’s defining works and has gone platinum six times. over the next three decades, the label signed faith Evans, mase, Carl Thomas, french montana, machine Gun Kelly and Janelle monáe. At one point, the company was worth more than $100 million. meanwhile, Combs rapped under the name Puff Daddy, finding success with the Billboard-topping album “No Way out” in 1997, which went seven times platinum. “I’ll Be missing You,” a tribute to the late Notorious B.I.G., spent 11 weeks at the top of the charts — and its accompanying music video featured the lasting image of Combs dancing alone in a black suit. But his ambitions far exceeded music. As Touré adds, “He seemed to always be about trying to make money.” In 1998, he launched Sean John, a fashion and fragrance line. In 2007, he became one of the first celebrities to endorse a liquor brand when he partnered with Cîroc vodka. He opened two restaurants and invested in a television network and an athletic beverage line. In 2012, fortune ranked him 12th on its list of the top 40 entrepreneurs under 40. In 2022, Combs reportedly became a billionaire. B ut a storm always followed him. His first public brush with controversy came in December 1991, when he helped assemble a star-studded fundraiser for AIDS education at City College in New York. A reported 5,000 people showed up — thousands more than expected. An agitated crowd waited hours to enter the gymnasium’s single entry door. A stampede left nine dead and dozens injured. It resulted in at least 10 civil suits and eight personal injury cases, some of which named Combs as a defendant. Combs testified as a witness in a lawsuit against the college in 1998 and would eventually pay at least $750,000 in lawsuit settlements brought by victims and their relatives, according to the BBC. As hip-hop approached the center of American pop culture in the mid-’90s, a civil war brewed between factions on either coast. If Bad Boy records defined the East Coast’s sound, Death row records — co-founded by marion “Suge” Knight — was its California-based cultural counterpart. on Nov. 30, 1994, Death row’s biggest star, Tupac Shakur, was in the lobby of Quad Studios in Times Square, where he was shot five times — in the head, groin and hand. Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a Biggie) had been close, but the injured rapper suspected Biggie and Combs were involved in the shooting. They were both in the building that night. The gunmen took Tupac’s diamond ring and gold chains but not his diamond-encrusted rolex. No one else at Quad Studios was attacked. No one at Bad Boy records was ever connected to the shooting, and both Biggie and Combs publicly denied any involvement in it. Tupac released multiple songs blatantly insulting Biggie and Bad Boy records. In September 1995, witnesses said they saw Combs’s then-bodyguard get into an argument at an Atlanta club with Jai Hassan-Jamal robles, a member of Death row’s entourage, shortly before robles was shot and killed. (Eight years later, Combs’s bodyguard would be killed in a gunfight in Atlanta.) In September 1996, Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. Six months later, Biggie was fatally shot in Los Angeles, also in a drive-by shooting. for years, Combs was dogged by rumors that he was involved in Tupac’s death. Combs called the accusations “pure fiction and completely ridiculous.” In half a year, two of hip-hop’s brightest stars were extinguished. dIddY from C2 F or Combs, it continued storming. In 1999, he appeared in a music video for Nas’s song “Hate me Now” as a Jesus figure crucified and wearing a crown of thorns. Combs allegedly had second thoughts and asked Interscope records executive Steve Stoute to remove the scene. He didn’t. Later that same day, Combs allegedly visited Stoute’s New York office and, as Stoute told the Los Angeles Times, “he punched me in the face, and then he grabbed the phone and bashed me in the head with it.” Combs was arrested on charges of felony assault. He later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of harassment and was sentenced to one day of anger management. He reportedly paid Stoute a hefty out-of-court settlement. By early December, Combs was clad in his signature white with his girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, on his arm, chatting with Henry Kissinger at the met Gala. Later that month, Combs, Lopez and Shyne, one of his burgeoning rappers, were in a nightclub when a patron named matthew “Scar” Allen allegedly shoved Combs. money was then allegedly thrown in Combs’s face. Gunfire broke out. Combs and Lopez were arrested as they fled the club in a Lincoln Navigator. Police found a gun under the front passenger seat. Ultimately, Combs was found not guilty of four counts of illegal possession of a gun and one count of bribery connected to the shooting, while Shyne spent nearly nine years in prison for assault and gun possession. Shyne publicly claimed Combs betrayed him to save himself. (“I was found innocent of all charges because I am innocent. It is absolutely ridiculous for anyone to blame me for anyone else’s actions,” Combs said in response.) American baron. In march 1998, Combs paid about $2.5 million for a four-bedroom manse on the exclusive Hedges Banks Drive in East Hampton, the celebritypacked slice of Long Island. months later, Combs held the first of his famous White Parties. “Having an entire party all dressed in white was a stunning sight,” martha Stewart told the Hollywood reporter in 2018. Donna Karan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Howard Stern, moby, Ashton Kutcher, Al Sharpton, Salman rushdie, Paris Hilton and Heavy D all showed up in their crisp linen button-downs and spaghetti-strap dresses. r. Couri Hay, who was a society columnist for Hamptons magazine at the time, says the parties were ultimately a way for Diddy to promote himself. “When he [and J-Lo] came out of the balcony of his bedroom … he was swigging Cristal from the bottle, and they had their arms wrapped around each other,” he says. “It was like rap royalty.” At one point, Combs even hired a valet known as fonzworth Bentley, whose legal name is Derek Watkins, to carry his umbrella on the beaches of St-Tropez. Image, Combs knew, was king. T he same year as his first White Party, Combs launched Sean John. It was fueled by the same ethos as those parties: to insert hip-hop into high society. The brand officially launched in New York in 1999 with a splashy party at the flagship Bloomingdale’s store on Lexington Avenue. “He wanted to create fashion — and change the face of the fashion industry. He did,” wrote The Post’s robin Givhan in 2016. Sold through macy’s since 2010, at its height the label racked upward of $500 million a year in sales. In 2004, Combs became the first Black designer to win the menswear Designer of the Year award, given by the Council of fashion Designers of America. Sean John celebrated the opening of its first (and only) flagship store on fifth Avenue with an A-list-packed party during New York fashion Week. (It closed in 2010.) At its zenith in 2016, Combs sold a majority stake in the clothing brand for an undisclosed sum, only to buy the bankrupt label back in 2021 for $7.5 million. macy’s began phasing out the brand last year, according to Bloomberg. meanwhile, his relationship with Diageo, the company behind Cîroc, soured after the two parties purchased the tequila brand DeLeón in 2013 and failed to generate the expected profit. Combs filed a lawsuit against the company alleging racial discrimination in 2023. The parties agreed to a settlement by January 2024. Over the years, Combs earned the reputation as a cutthroat businessman. mase, who achieved fame as Combs’s wingman and as a Bad Boy rapper in his own right, has been one of the loudest voices decrying Combs’s practice of retaining publishing rights — a practice that was not uncommon in the ’90s. In a 2020 Instagram post, mase accused Combs of rejecting a $2 million offer to buy back his publishing rights — rights mase said he sold for $20,000 when he was 19 years old. “When I see the hurt and the pain of other people on Bad Boy, that motivates me to say something,” mase said in an Instagram Live broadcast in 2022 explaining his beef with Combs. Combs also developed a reputation for being a hard-driving boss, pushing his artists to extreme degrees — which some embraced and others decried. “Diddy was one of my heroes,” says singer-songwriter Kalenna Harper, who in 2009 joined Combs and Dawn richard to form the r&B trio Diddy-Dirty money. Being a Bad Boy artist meant hard work in an almost bootcamp-like atmosphere. But Harper, who grew up as a military brat, said she was prepared for it. “I didn’t feel like he was trying to break me down. I felt like he was trying to fast-forward me,” says Harper. Aubrey o’Day, one of the original members of the Bad Boy girl group Danity Kane, sees her former mentor in a much harsher light. The group was formed as part of the 2005 season of “making the Band.” In 2008, Combs fired o’Day from the group during the show’s finale. The singer, who regularly clashed with Combs, said she was fired for being too “promiscuous.” (She rejoined in 2013.) In a 2022 interview with the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, o’Day revisited her dismissal, claiming that Diddy fired her because she didn’t do what was “expected” of her: “Not talent-wise, but in other areas.” “Diddy would be like, ‘You’re not hot anymore. Like, what happened? You don’t have any curves. I can’t get people to think you’re my good-looking person,’” she added. Diddy’s final reinvention was Love. He legally changed his middle name to Love in 2021. Two years later, he released “The Love Album,” his first solo studio album in 17 years. Love, he told Vanity fair, was now his “mission” following the deaths of his former partner Kim Porter and mentor Harrell, the record executive, and the rise of the #meToo movement. “The #meToo movement, the truth, is that it inspired me,” Combs told the magazine. As Combs ascended to the role of hip-hop elder statesman, he seemed to extend an olive branch to some of the artists who felt he had wronged them. In September 2023, Variety reported he had reassigned the publishing rights back to his artists and songwriters — a deal the publication called “possibly unprecedented in its scale.” “It’s just doing the right thing,” Combs told Variety. He denied that it was a publicity stunt. Joe Poindexter, an executive at Pulse music Group and adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, says that given the sample-heavy nature of Bad Boy’s catalogue, the rights may not be worth much. When divvying up publishing revenue, the artist who owns the rights on the original sampled track would take a substantial portion of the pie, Poindexter says. “It looks great as a headline,” Poindexter said. But “it’s not making anybody rich.” meanwhile, Combs received a string of lifetime accolades, cementing his role as one of the genre’s defining figures. The Grammys honored him during a pre-awards show gala in 2020, saluting Combs as an “Industry Icon.” He accepted the lifetime achievement award at the BET Awards in 2022. At the end of his acceptance speech, Combs pledged to donate $1 million to Howard University and another $1 million to Jackson State University and its football program, presenting the checks to the historically Black universities the following year. Whatever voices criticized Combs again seemed to fade into the background. Two months before Cassie filed her explosive lawsuit, New York mayor Eric Adams awarded Combs a key to the city. So far, he has survived every controversy, but the events of the past six months far exceed mere “controversy.” “The thing I love about Puff is that he comes back,’’ Combs’s assistant Norma Augenblick told the New Yorker in 2002. “After B.I.G. died, people thought he would go right down the toilet — then he put out a No. 1 album. During the [2001] trial, Jennifer dumped him, they said his music career was over, he would be going to prison — and even if he got off he would be through.” Instead, she noted, Combs had a happy family and a thriving business. “Puffy will always come back,” she added. “He’s like nature.” sCOTT grIEs/gETTy IMAgEs fOr IMg EugEnE gOlOgursky/gETTy IMAgEs fOr MTV CIndy Ord/gETTy IMAgEs sTuArT MOrTOn/WIrEIMAgE fOr MAC COsMETICs CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Sean Combs in SaintTropez during his 2006 White Party. Combs poses with the “Global Icon Award” at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards. Combs and model Tyson Beckford pose at the runway at the Sean John Fall 2008 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall in New York. New York Mayor Eric Adams presents Combs with the keys to the city in September 2023. In 2001, Combs changed his name from Puff Daddy to P. Diddy, as a way of putting the incident behind him. He later claimed this was a joke, but kept the name. The change, though, didn’t quiet the waves of controversies. He was sued by former Bad Boy Entertainment president Kirk Burrowes, who said Combs threatened him with a baseball bat to force him to give up his shares in the company, in 2003. The case was later dismissed by an appeals court that ruled the statute of limitations had expired. He was sued for allegedly punching real estate agent Gerard rechnitzer and shoving rechnitzer’s girlfriend in 2007. The case was later settled. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after an altercation with his son’s football coach at UCLA in 2015. During the incident, he allegedly swung a kettlebell at coaching staff. The charges were later dropped. He was accused of sexual harassment and retaliation by his ex-chef Cindy rueda in a 2017 lawsuit. The dispute was later settled. S uch troubles never slowed down Combs’s ambition. He meticulously crafted the image of a gregarious, self-made Sean Combs called the rumors that he was involved in Tupac Shakur’s death “pure fiction and completely ridiculous.”

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During the last season of “magnum,” Selleck asked his network to give his hard-working team of seven years a bonus; the studio refused. So Selleck arranged to have his own bonus docked and gave $1,000 to each crew member. Commendable. “magnum,” is firmly part of what scholar Susan Jeffords calls the “remasculinization of America,” a post-Vietnam cultural shift that, through films and popular culture, reinvigorated hypermasculine images and traditional male values. ““magnum” featured a Vietnam veteran, an ex-Navy SEAL, one who relocates to Hawaii and becomes a private investigator. He became a character millions of men admire and emulate. But Selleck says little about his most long-lived iteration of American masculinity, frank reagan of the TV hit “Blue Bloods,” now in its 14th and final season. A lifelong republican, Selleck, I’m sure, enjoys playing a character who has the same last name as a president he admires. reagan is an aging patriarch who wields his masculinity both as the NYPD police commissioner and as a father who sits at the head of the table during family Sunday dinners. Selleck does not USC, where a drama professor refers him to a Hollywood agent; acting classes to improve his “instrument”; joined California Army National Guard in 1967; appears on “The Dating Game”; TV commercials; print ads; B movies, then better ones; survived the Hollywood cattle calls until he’s chosen for a new TV show titled “magnum, P.I.” By now it’s 1980, and Selleck is 35. He’s paid his dues and lived up to his principle of “Don’t know where I’m goin’, but there’s no use bein’ late.” Hi, Huck. This Hollywood education exposes a ruthless industry that both tests and forms Selleck’s values. He sums up his success by quoting Calvin Coolidge: “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence,” a very franklinesque aphorism. But, despite Selleck’s persistence, he wrestles with the “critic on my shoulder,” that voice that says you’re not good enough. Soon, though, another phrase — a mantra, really — takes its place: “Tom, you’re good enough.” The book gives us a lot of doing and name-dropping. We may learn about the risqué incident when Carol Burnett had her legs around Selleck’s neck, and his photo shoot with a naked Barbara Parkins, but we learn nothing about his love life — according to my research outside the book, he’s been involved with more than three famous actresses — and little about his first marriage. He dilutes his inward thoughts with vague phrasing such as “I kinda knew,” “I don’t know why . . . well, actually, yes, I do know why,” or “I sit here, pen in hand, trying to explain my emotions . . . I can’t.” Such coy deflections and elisions try our patience, and may leave some of us wondering why he wrote a memoir if he can’t express feelings. Instead, we get clichés like “in the film business, work is waiting for you every day, and you owe it your commitment every day” and repetitions of the line he uses in his TV commercials for reverse mortgages: “This isn’t my first rodeo.” In his memoir, does Selleck have difficulty separating himself from the charbooK world from C1 share what it’s like playing this older man who covers up his body with an overcoat and a cowl-neck sweater. Instead, we’re told the business details of “Blue Bloods,” not its personal impact on its star. Selleck is completely silent about the nine “Jesse Stone” TV movies he made beginning in 2005. Stone, a cop, does open up, revealing both the whats and the whys of his character, especially in the exchanges between him and his male therapist. Selleck is also at his sexiest, lounging in bed, the famous chin doubling as he reaches for his reading glasses. How does a masculine icon age? Selleck doesn’t say. Closing on a pastoral note in the epilogue, the 79-year-old actor walks around his ranch and checks the water tanks he needs for his avocado crop while reminiscing about the stories he’s just told us and the ones he’s keeping to himself. In the book’s penultimate sentence he writes, “I am the steward of those stories, the same way I am steward of my land.” Unsurprisingly, Selleck fails to mention his allegedly improper transfer of over a million gallons of water onto “my land” in 2015. It’s hard to separate the dancer from the dance, the mustache from the man, but not impossible. memoir is supposed to puncture the facade of performance, or at least try to. Perhaps Selleck will trust his audience enough to write a more intimate sequel. He’s been speaking to us for a long while now, and I’m sure he has more to say. Sibbie O’Sullivan, a former teacher in the Honors college at the university of maryland, is the author of “my Private lennon: Explorations from a fan Who never screamed.” Selleck devoted 10 chapters of memoir to ‘Magnum, P.I.’ JoHn Paul filo/cBs courTEsy of Tom sEllEck In his new memoir, “You Never Know,” actor Tom Selleck offers a narration of his life but not a lot of insight. “Feelings are hard to describe,” he writes. At right is a photo of Selleck in high school. TOm SellecK You Never Know By Tom selleck with Ellis Henican Dey street. 352 pp. $29.99

tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ re C5 win in her own memo Sunday. “Kim has navigated this team through consequential times in our world, and she did so with respect for the brand and profession — and for that and more, we thank her,” she wrote. OConnell said she would lead ABC News “for the time being.” Godwin came to ABC News in 2021 after a long career as an executive at CBS News. Her appointment to oversee the network followed several internal controversies, including the departure of ABC News executive Barbara Fedida after an investigation allegedly found that she had made “unacceptable racially insensitive comments” on the job. A few years earlier, veteran investigative journalist Brian Ross left the network after a significant reporting error. On Sunday night, Godwin expressed confidence that the news division’s culture has improved during her tenure. “Together, we committed to a cultural shift, where people could be their authentic selves, feeling seen and heard, while doing their best work,” she wrote. “For all these reasons and more, I depart ABC News and this profession with the sincerest sense of pride, accomplishment and gratitude. My heart is filled.” BY JEREMY BARR Godwin abruptly resigns job as president of ABC News JohN lAmPArskI/geTTy ImAges Kim Godwin, who three years ago became the first Black woman to run a broadcast television news division, announced late Sunday that she is leaving the network and retiring from the news business. Her sudden departure comes about two months after the network’s parent company, Disney, appointed a veteran executive in a newly created role just above her to oversee the news division, essentially stripping Godwin of oversight over ABC News. At the same time, however, Godwin signed a contract extension to remain president of the network. In announcing her new contract, Godwin gave no sign of her coming departure. “There is more work to be done,” she wrote. “Now let’s get to it.” She struck a very different tone in a memo to staff on Sunday night, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, describing her departure as a happy ending to a long and storied career. “Anyone who’s passionate about what we do knows there’s no other business like it, so this was not an easy or quick decision,” she wrote. “But after considerable reflection, I’m certain it’s the right one for me as I look to the future and prioritize what’s most important for me and my Kim Godwin’s resignation as the head of ABC News comes about two months after Disney appointed a veteran executive in a newly created role just above her to oversee the news division. family.” Godwin’s tenure atop ABC News was rocky. In the winter of 2023, Godwin initially chose to leave daytime television hosts T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach on air despite a tabloid report detailing a romantic relationship between the two married journalists. It was days later before she pulled the pair off the air while considering how to handle what she described as “an internal and an external distraction.” Robach and Holmes did not return to their jobs at ABC News. That incident confused ABC staffers and led to internal questions about her leadership, questions that have only grown louder in recent months. Debra OConnell, the new executive named to the role above Godwin in February, praised God- “Kim [Godwin] has navigated this team through consequential times in our world.” Debra OConnell, the Disney executive overseeing ABC News BY HERB SCRIBNER Miss USA is taking off the crown, about three months ahead of schedule. Noelia Voigt, who was crowned Miss USA in September, announced in an Instagram post Monday that she would be stepping down from the throne to focus on her mental health. The decision was a blow to the Miss USA Organization, which in recent years has been dogged by accusations of fixing the competition. “I realize this may come as a large shock to many,” Voigt wrote in the post. “Never compromise your physical and mental well-being. … As individuals, we grow through experiencing different things in life that lead us to learning more about ourselves.” She added that she is “forever grateful” for the friendships and connections she made through the pageant circuit. The decision sent shock waves across social media, with many people looking for a “why” beyond her given reason. Several amateur sleuths pointed out that the first letters of her post’s first 11 sentences spelled: “I AM SILENCED,” though it’s unclear what that means, or if it’s a strange coincidence (the first letters of every sentence spelled out: “I AM SILENCED HIP”). Voigt did not respond to questions from The Washington Post about this speculation. The Miss USA Organization did not respond to a request for comment from The Post, but the organization told NBC News that it respects Voigt’s decision. “The well-being of our titleholders is a top priority, and we understand her need to prioritize herself at this time,” the statement said. Voigt’s resignation comes in an era of controversy for the Miss USA Organization. Contestants from the 2022 competition accused the organization of giving special treatment to R’Bonney Gabriel, who won the competition that year. As The Post reported at the time, Miss USA’s umbrella corporation, Miss Brands, was suspended by the global Miss Universe Organization over an investigation into whether the 2022 outcome was fixed. Gabriel — and other officials involved — denied the allegations. (Gabriel, after she became Miss Universe, passed the Miss USA title to Miss North Carolina, Morgan Romano.) Miss USA announced in December that a “thorough and extensive investigation” had found that the rigging claims “were false.” It’s unclear what’s next for Voigt, who was reportedly the first Venezuelan American to earn the Miss USA crown. Her dream has been “to establish her own design firm and host a TV show, where she gives back to families in need of a home makeover,” according to the Miss USA Organization’s website. “Deep down I know that this is just the beginning of a new chapter for me,” Voigt wrote in her Instagram post, “and my hope is that I continue to inspire others to remain steadfast, prioritize your mental health, advocate for yourself and others by using your voice and never be afraid of what the future holds, even if it feels uncertain.” Miss USA resigns title to focus on mental well-being, in blow to organization Tom wIllIAms/AP Miss USA Noelia Voight at the U.S. Capitol last month. She acknowledged that giving up her title would be a “shock to many.” BY LAURA WAGNER After more than a year of contentious negotiations, publishing giant Condé Nast reached a last-minute contract agreement with the labor union representing hundreds of staffers at titles such as Vogue, GQ and Glamour, staving off a planned work stoppage ahead of the Met Gala. Though the two sides struggled for months to reach agreements on issues such as wages, parental leave and severance, talks sped up last week after the union vowed to strike on Monday — a move that would have hamstrung the company’s coverage of one of the biggest fashion and celebrity events of the year. “The Met Gala is fashion’s big night; it’s like the Super Bowl,” said Alma Avalle, a Condé Union bargaining committee member. “Once the work stoppage entered the conversation, all of a sudden the company was like, ‘Okay, well we can give you a little more.’” For example, she said, the company’s negotiators had previously dug in their heels on parental leave, saying its policy was plenty generous already. But in the past week, they agreed to increase leave from 12 weeks to 14 weeks. “Obviously, that’s still not enough,” Avalle said. “But it’s a really great win for our members.” The union contract, which is expected to be ratified this week, will also implement a $61,500 starting salary floor, an end to a two-tier system that shut some workers out of health care plans and other benefits, just cause protection, expanded bereavement leave, and $3.3 million in total wage increases, the union said. Crucially, the contract settles the question of what happens to the roughly 100 laid-off Condé Nast staffers who have spent six months in limbo as the union negotiated their severance packages as part of bargaining. The staffers on what became known as the “layoff list” will get eight weeks severance, three months of health insurance coverage or a one-time lump sum payment in lieu of coverage, and an additional $1,000 payment. The union has been ramping up pressure on the company for months. In January, the union staged a one-day walkout to coincide with the announcement of the Academy Award nominations. Instead of analyzing Oscar snubs and surprises, staffers spent the day picketing in front of the company’s downtown Manhattan office, leaving nonunion editors scrambling to manage the coverage. In late April, they marched in front of the West Village home of Vogue editor and Condé global chief content officer Anna Wintour, posting fliers that said “Anna wears Prada, workers get nada” and chanting “Condé Nasty you can’t hide, we can see your greedy side.” Days later, the union announced its intention to go on strike ahead of the Met Gala if they did not come to an agreement on the contract. “A strong majority of Conde United members are ready to walk off the job to show management how serious we are about having a fair contract. If management doesn’t want us to strike, they know exactly what to do,” the union wrote on social media on April 29. Avalle said the union had been in “marathon bargaining” sessions with the company since announcing the strike pledge, sometimes spending up to 16 hours a day in contract talks. Avalle said the contract agreements was bittersweet, given that the colleagues on the layoff list would be leaving the company after ratification of the contract, but that “I wholeheartedly believe we got as much from the company as we could.” Condé Nast Chief People Officer Stan Duncan said in a statement that the company is “happy to have a contract that reflects and supports our core values — our content and journalism; our commitment to diversity and professional development; our industry-leading hiring practices and our competitive wages and benefits.” The union said, “When we fight, we win.” With Met Gala looming, Condé Nast reaches deal with union, avoids stoppage lAUrA wAgNer/The wAshINgToN PosT Condé Nast employees walk a picket line outside the company headquarters at One World Trade Center in New York City during a one-day walkout on Jan. 23, the day of the Oscar nominations. “I wholeheartedly believe we got as much from the company as we could.” Alma Avalle, a Condé Union bargaining committee member

C6 EZ RE the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 Dear Amy: For the past 50 years, I have lied that I was in the military and served in Vietnam. I’m now 71. I want to come clean with my son/family. I ran away from a bad home life at 13 and lived on the streets. It was horrible. I was beaten up and sexually attacked. I tried to commit suicide twice. My selfesteem was so low for many years. It still is. I met a woman (she was older than me) and we had a son. I believe this is around the time when I started lying that I had been in the military. I was drafted for the Army during the Vietnam War but didn’t pass the physical. I felt ashamed and embarrassed. So, later on when guys got together and started telling war stories, I joined in with mine. Lies. I kept telling more lies to cover the first one. I’m so afraid my son and grandson would be so disappointed in me for lying for so long. Also, my health is not that great, and I’m scared that if something happens, my son will go to the VA for help. I don’t want him to find out that way. I have never used my lie to gain anything from the VA. I kept this lie within my family, but of course they told others, which made my lie worse. I want them to know the truth but don’t want to lose them or be looked at as a liar and disrespected for the rest of my life. Can you help? — Living a Lie Living: I think it’s vital that you understand that the most important respect you can earn is self-respect. The way to gain more respect for yourself is to understand your original motivations for this lie, and choose to make things right. Telling the truth now will be hard to do, but it will liberate you from the burden you’ve been carrying. The truth will also liberate your son from unknowingly perpetuating this lie later on. Telling the truth now is also the right thing to do for the many thousands of men who served during the Vietnam War, and who have oftentimes suffered because of their service. The way to have a hard conversation is to preface it by stating: “This is very hard for me to say. I’m worried about your reaction. I hope you will understand, and I hope you will find a way to forgive me for what I'm about to tell you.” My own reaction to reading your story is one of understanding and compassion. If you tell the truth with humility and without becoming defensive — and if you accept the consequences of your disclosure, this act of personal bravery should inspire those who care about you to forgive you and move forward. Dear Amy: Every year, we host an exchange teacher’s aide from Latin America, as part of our child’s elementary school dual language program. Our current exchange guest is a 22-year-old man who has less means than we do. He has given us unsolicited gifts; these are souvenirs from American cities and theme parks he’s visited. A very kind gesture to be sure, and we thanked him. That said, some are trinkets that we do not want, and would likely throw out. I believe they would be meaningful mementos for him to bring home. Is there a way to politely give them back to him before he leaves in a few months? — Polite Parents Parents: Even though your motive is kind, no, I don’t believe there is a polite way to give back these gifts. Doing so would highlight all the wrong things, including the fact that you don’t want these tokens. Also, please don’t throw these things out. After the teacher’s departure, you could photograph the collection and send him the photo with a letter: “We thought you would enjoy this reminder of all of your adventures!” After that, you could donate these trinkets to Goodwill. Dear Amy: Responding to “Torn in Wisconsin,” who was worried about her unemployed dropout son’s lack of motivation, after a month living with us, I gave our “home from college” son the car keys and said, “Don’t come home without a job.” Ten years later he’s managing a car dealership and doing quite well. He admits it was the best thing I ever told him to do. — C in Wisconsin C: Short, to the point, and effective. Good for you! Amy's column appears seven days a week at washingtonpost.com/advice. Write to [email protected] or Amy Dickinson, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, N.Y. 13068. You can also follow her @askingamy. © 2024 by Amy Dickinson. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. He lied about being a Vietnam War veteran. Now he wants to come clean. Ask Amy Amy Dickinson DISTRICT AMC Georgetown 14 3111 K Street N.W. 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Empire (PG-13) 1:05-3:50-7:00 Tarot (PG-13) 2:50-5:20-8:00 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 12:40 Abigail (R) 12:45-3:30-6:20 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 1:30-7:55 Aa Okkati Adakku 1:25-5:00-8:15 Prasanna Vadanam 12:50- 4:20-7:50 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:10 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 4:50 Regal Hyattsville Royale 6505 America Blvd. The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:00- 1:40-2:20-4:00-4:40-5:20-7:00- 7:40-8:20 Civil War (R) 1:50-5:00-7:50 Challengers (R) 1:30-4:50-8:10 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 2:30- 5:40-8:15 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 2:00-5:10-8:00 Tarot (PG-13) 1:20-3:50-6:10-8:30 Boy Kills World (R) 1:15-4:10-7:10 Unsung Hero (PG) 2:15-5:15-8:25 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 2:10-5:30 Abigail (R) 1:45-4:20-7:20 Monkey Man (R) 8:05 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 1:10-7:30 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 3:00-6:00 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 4:30 Regal Laurel Towne Centre 14716 Baltimore Avenue The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:10-2:20- 3:40-4:20-5:30-7:30-9:10 Civil War (R) 12:55-3:20-6:10-9:00 Challengers (R) 3:10-6:30-9:30 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:50- 3:45-6:20 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 1:40-4:40-7:40 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 1:00-2:00-3:50-5:00-7:50 Tarot (PG-13) 1:15-2:10-4:45- 6:40-7:10-9:35 Boy Kills World (R) 9:15 Abigail (R) 1:20-4:10-7:20 Monkey Man (R) 8:50 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 2:30-6:00-8:40 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:00 Regal Rockville Center 199 East Montgomery Avenue The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:20-2:00- 2:30-3:10-3:50-4:30-5:00-5:30- 6:20-7:00-7:30-8:10 Mars Express 12:45-2:40-5:10 Civil War (R) 2:10-5:05 Challengers (R) 1:00-4:10-7:20 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:50- 2:15-4:40 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 1:05-4:00-6:50 Tarot (PG-13) 3:20-5:40-8:20 Boy Kills World (R) 7:40 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 1:10 Monkey Man (R) 8:30 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 1:30-4:50-8:00 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:10-7:50 Regal Waugh Chapel & IMAX 1419 South Main Chapel Way The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:50-3:00- 5:00-8:10 Mars Express 12:40-3:40-6:20 Civil War (R) 1:00-4:20-6:00 Challengers (R) 1:20-4:50-7:50 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:30 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 3:50-6:40 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 5:20-8:05 Tarot (PG-13) 1:40-4:30-7:20 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 1:10 Unsung Hero (PG) 2:10-5:10-8:00 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 12:55 The Fall Guy: The IMAX Experi- ence (PG-13) 12:50-4:10-7:30 Abigail (R) 2:00-4:40-7:40 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 12:45-4:00-7:10 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:00 Regal Westview & IMAX 5243 Buckeystown Pike Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 7:10 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 12:20-3:35- 6:40-9:45 Civil War (R) 1:40-4:30-7:30 Challengers (R) 11:55-3:05-6:20 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:20-4:20 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 1:30-4:40-7:40 Tarot (PG-13) 11:40-2:10-4:35- 7:05-9:35 Boy Kills World (R) 5:30-8:45 Unsung Hero (PG) 1:00-3:55-6:50 The Fall Guy: The IMAX Experi- ence (PG-13) 11:50-2:50-7:20 Abigail (R) 11:10-2:05-5:00-7:45 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 11:20-1:10- 2:20-5:20-8:25-9:25 Challengers (R) 12:50-4:00-7:15 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:25AM Tarot (PG-13) 12:10-2:40-5:15- 7:50 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:00 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 12:30-3:50 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 10:50-1:50- 4:50-6:00-8:00-9:00 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 2:00 Xscape Theatres Brandywine 14 7710 Matapeake Business Drive Dial M. for Murder 1:00-4:00-7:00 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 12:30-3:30- 6:20-9:10 Civil War (R) 1:45-4:15-6:45-9:25 Challengers (R) 12:25-3:25- 6:15-9:05 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:55- 2:15-4:35-6:55-9:15 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 1:30-4:05-6:50-10:00 Tarot (PG-13) 12:05-2:10-4:20- 6:30-8:40-9:30 Boy Kills World (R) 1:05-3:35- 6:05-8:45 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 1:15-3:55-6:35-9:20 The First Omen (R) 4:25-9:45 Monkey Man (R) 1:35-7:05 Abigail (R) 12:50-3:20-6:10-8:50 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 12:40-3:40-6:40-9:40 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:20-4:10- 7:00-9:50 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 12:05-3:00-6:00-9:00 iPic Pike & Rose 11830 Grand Park Avenue The Fall Guy (PG-13) (!) 2:30- 3:45-6:00-7:00-9:30-10:30 Civil War (R) 4:00-7:15-10:15 Challengers (R) 3:15-6:45-10:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 3:00-6:15-9:45 Tarot (PG-13) (!) 4:45-7:30-10:45 Abigail (R) 4:30-7:45 Monkey Man (R) 11:00 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) (!) 2:45-6:30-10:00 VIRGINIA AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 2150 Clarendon Blvd. The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 1:30- 4:30-7:30 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 1:40-6:50 Civil War (R) CC: 1:20-4:20-7:10 Challengers (R) CC: 1:00-4:00- 7:00 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) CC: 2:10-5:00-7:50 Tarot (PG-13) CC: 1:00-3:25- 5:50-8:15 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 1:10- 5:20-8:00 Monkey Man (R) CC: 3:50 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) CC: 1:05-4:10-7:20 AMC Hoffman Center 22 206 Swamp Fox Rd. The Fall Guy (PG-13) 4:15 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:00 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG13) CC: 7:00-8:00-9:15-10:00 The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 2:00- 5:00-8:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 2:25-6:00-9:35 Mars Express CC: 7:05-9:20 Dragonkeeper (PG) 2:05-4:30 Civil War (R) CC: 1:20-4:35- 7:10-10:00 Challengers (R) CC: 1:30-4:00- 7:00-9:45 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 2:50- 5:10-7:30-9:50 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) CC: 1:30-4:15-10:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) CC: 1:35-4:20-7:00-9:40 Tarot (PG-13) CC: 1:30-4:00- 6:30-9:00 Boy Kills World (R) CC: 5:00- 10:00 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 1:40-4:00-7:10 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 1:40- 4:20-6:40 The Beast (La bete) 1:00 Thabo and the Rhino Case (PG) 4:50-7:30 We Grown Now (PG) CC: 2:35-7:40 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) CC: 4:00-6:45-9:30 The Fall Guy: The IMAX Expe- rience (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00- 7:00-9:50 The First Omen (R) CC: 4:15-9:45 Abigail (R) CC: 1:15-3:50-6:30- 9:05 Monkey Man (R) CC: 4:15- 7:00-9:45 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) CC: 3:15-6:15-9:15 Shrek 2 - 20th Anniversary (PG) CC: 7:10-9:35 The Roundup: Punishment 1:25-9:50 The Mummy 25th Anniversary Re-Release (PG-13) CC: 1:15 Aa Okkati Adakku 1:00-4:15 The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 3:00- 6:00-9:00 AMC Potomac Mills 18 2700 Potomac Mills Circle Abigail (R) CC: 2:00-4:40-7:20 The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 1:00- 4:00-7:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 3:30-6:45 Mars Express CC: 1:25-7:15 Dragonkeeper (PG) 2:10-4:40 Civil War (R) CC: 1:40-4:20-7:15 Challengers (R) CC: 1:20-7:20 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 1:00- 3:30-6:00-8:30 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) CC: 1:10-4:00-6:50 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) CC: 1:30-4:30-7:30 Tarot (PG-13) CC: 1:30-4:00- 6:30-9:00 Boy Kills World (R) CC: 1:15-4:10 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 7:10 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 1:20- 4:15-7:00 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) CC: 2:30-5:15-8:00 The Fall Guy: The IMAX Experi- ence (PG-13) CC: 3:00-6:00-9:00 The First Omen (R) CC: 1:40 Monkey Man (R) CC: 7:40 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) CC: 1:30-4:45-8:00 The Mummy 25th Anniversary Re-Release (PG-13) CC: 3:50 The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 2:00- 4:30-5:00-8:00 Challengers (R) OC: 4:30 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:00 AMC Shirlington 7 2772 South Randolph St. The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 1:00- 4:00-7:00 Civil War (R) CC: 2:30-5:10-7:50 Challengers (R) CC: 1:30-4:30- 7:30 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) CC: 1:20-4:20-7:10 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) CC: 5:05 Wicked Little Letters (R) CC: 1:10 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 1:50- 4:40-7:20 Abigail (R) CC: 8:00 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) CC: 2:00-3:45-6:50 AMC Tysons Corner 16 7850e Tysons Corner Center Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 8:55 Unsung Hero (PG) OC: 6:15 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:00 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG13) CC: 7:15 The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 12:55- 4:00-7:05 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:40-8:15 Civil War (R) CC: 2:10-5:10-7:55 Challengers (R) CC: 1:25-4:35- 7:45 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 1:30- 4:05-6:30 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) CC: 2:15-5:25-8:20 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) CC: 1:35-7:30 Tarot (PG-13) CC: 1:10-3:40- 6:10-8:40 Boy Kills World (R) CC: 8:50 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 4:50 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 12:50- 3:35 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) CC: 1:40-4:25-7:10 The Fall Guy: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) CC: 1:55- 5:00-8:05 Abigail (R) CC: 1:20-4:10 Monkey Man (R) CC: 2:05- 5:15-8:25 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) CC: 1:05-4:15-7:25 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 3D (PG-13) CC: 4:20 The Mummy 25th Anniversary Re-Release (PG-13) CC: 1:50 The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 2:55- 6:00-9:00 AMC Worldgate 9 13025 Worldgate Drive The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 4:00- 5:45-7:00-9:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 6:45 Civil War (R) CC: 4:45-7:30 Challengers (R) CC: 4:15-7:15 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 4:15 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) CC: 3:45-6:30 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) CC: 3:30 Tarot (PG-13) CC: 5:15-7:45 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 5:30- 8:15 Abigail (R) CC: 6:15 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) CC: 4:30-7:30 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - One Loudoun 20575 East Hampton Plaza Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (PG) 7:15 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 12:00-3:30- 7:00-10:30 Civil War (R) 12:45-3:40-6:45-9:45 Challengers (R) 12:30-3:00-6:30- 7:30-10:55 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 7:45 Tarot (PG-13) 12:45-3:20-6:15- 9:00 Abigail (R) 4:00-10:00 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 11:30-1:10-2:25-3:35-6:00- 9:35 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 11:00-4:35- 8:00-10:10 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 12:15-1:25-4:35- 11:00 Angelika Film Center Mosaic 2911 District Ave The Fall Guy (PG-13) 12:00-1:00- 2:40-3:15-4:00-5:25-7:00-8:10 Dragonkeeper (PG) 12:30-2:45- 6:00 Challengers (R) 12:15-4:15- 7:15-8:05 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 12:45-3:25-8:15 Coup de chance (PG-13) 6:00 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 12:00 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 1:15-2:30-5:20-8:15 Civil War (R) 1:40-4:10-5:00-7:30 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:00 CMX Village 14 1600 Village Market Boulevard The Fall Guy (PG-13) 12:00-1:00- 2:00-3:00-4:00-5:00-6:00-7:00- 7:30-8:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 6:45 Civil War (R) 1:45-4:25-7:05 Dragonkeeper (PG) 1:50-4:20 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:20- 2:45-5:05 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 1:20-4:35-7:20 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 12:10-3:20-6:20 Boy Kills World (R) 5:10 Tarot (PG-13) 12:25-2:50-5:20- 7:40 Unsung Hero (PG) 12:45-3:45- 6:30 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 12:35-3:30-6:10 Thabo and the Rhino Case (PG) 12:05-2:30 Abigail (R) 7:55 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 1:10-4:10-7:15 Cinema Arts Theatre 9650 Unit 14 Main St. The Fall Guy (PG-13) 9:40-12:05- 2:35-5:05-7:40 Challengers (R) 10:00-1:00- 4:00-7:10 The Long Game (PG) 9:55- 12:20-4:55 Coup de chance (PG-13) 12:15- 2:25-7:20 The Old Oak 9:50-12:10-2:25- 4:50-7:15 One Life (PG) 9:45-2:30-4:45 Cabrini (PG-13) 7:00 Wicked Little Letters (R) 9:40- 12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30 Cinemark Centreville 6201 Multiplex Drive The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:00-4:05- 7:10-10:15 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 1:25 Challengers (R) 6:40-9:50 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:05-1:10 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 3:40 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 1:35-4:45-7:40-10:35 Tarot (PG-13) 12:00-2:30-5:00- 7:30-10:00 Unsung Hero (PG) 1:05-3:35- 6:30-9:55 Abigail (R) 12:55 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 1:50-3:45-7:00-10:05 The Roundup: Punishment 5:05-8:00 Malayalee From India 5:10 Nadikar 8:30 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 1:45-6:50-10:20 Abigail (R) 4:30-7:20-10:45 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 2:35-5:40- 8:45-9:25 Civil War (R) 12:50-4:00-7:50- 10:40 Challengers (R) 1:40-4:50 Cinemark Fairfax Corner and XD 11900 Palace Way The Fall Guy (PG-13) 2:20-5:25- 6:35-8:30-9:40 Civil War (R) 12:05-2:50-5:35- 8:20 Challengers (R) 12:45-3:55- 7:10-10:20 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 11:50- 12:10-2:40-5:10-7:40 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 12:40-3:40-6:50- 9:50 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 1:05-4:00-6:55-9:55 Tarot (PG-13) 12:05-2:40-5:15- 7:50-10:25 Boy Kills World (R) 10:10 Unsung Hero (PG) 12:55-3:50- 6:45-9:45 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 12:35-3:35 Abigail (R) 12:25-3:30-10:15 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 12:30-3:45- 7:00-10:15 The Mummy 25th Anniversary Re-Release (PG-13) 12:20-3:25 Aa Okkati Adakku 6:25 Prasanna Vadanam 10:00 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:00 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anni- versary (PG) XD: 12:00-3:15- 6:30-9:35 The Fall Guy (PG-13) XD: 1:15- 4:20-7:25-10:30 Regal Ballston Quarter 671 North Glebe Road The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:00-1:30- 2:40-3:40-4:10-4:40-6:00-7:00- 7:30-8:00 Civil War (R) 1:15-4:15 Challengers (R) 1:20-4:00-4:30- 7:20-7:50 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:25 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 1:10 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 3:50-6:50 Tarot (PG-13) 2:20-5:00-7:40 Unsung Hero (PG) 1:40-4:25- 7:15 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 6:40 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:10 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 3:20 Regal Dulles Town Center 21100 Dulles Town Circle The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:00-4:10- 5:50-7:20 Mars Express 1:30-4:00 Civil War (R) 2:10-5:10-8:10 Challengers (R) 1:20-4:40-7:50 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 2:00-5:00-8:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 2:20-5:20-8:20 Tarot (PG-13) 1:40-4:30-7:10 Unsung Hero (PG) 1:15-3:50 Abigail (R) 6:30 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 1:10-4:20-7:30 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 2:40 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:00 Regal Fairfax Towne Center 4110 West Ox Road The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:50-7:10 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 3:30 Mars Express 2:20 Civil War (R) 2:30-5:10-7:50 Challengers (R) 1:30-4:30-7:40 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 5:00 Tarot (PG-13) 2:10-4:40 Exhuma (Pamyo) 3:00 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 3:20 The Roundup: Punishment 1:40- 4:15-6:00-6:50-7:30-8:00 Shekko 4:50 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:20 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 6:30 Regal Fox & IMAX 22875 Brambleton Plaza The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:20-4:40- 8:00; 11:20-2:40-6:00-9:20 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 11:50AM Civil War (R) 1:35-4:25-7:10- 10:00 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:50- 3:20-5:50-8:10 Crew (Hindi) 11:35-6:35 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 6:50 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 12:00-2:45- 5:40-8:30 Tarot (PG-13) 11:10-1:50-4:30- 7:20-10:10 Boy Kills World (R) 10:30 The Fall Guy: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) 12:20-3:40- 7:00-10:10 Abigail (R) 11:45-9:50 Aavesham (Malayalam) 2:55-9:45 Malayalee From India 2:25-9:35 Nadikar 11:25-2:45-6:05-9:25 Aa 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2:10-5:20-8:20 Tarot (PG-13) 11:50-2:20-4:50- 7:20 Boy Kills World (R) 1:00 Unsung Hero (PG) 1:10-4:30-7:40 Abigail (R) 4:00 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 12:10-3:30-6:40 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:00-7:05 Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX 8001 Gateway Promenade Place The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:30-2:00- 3:00-4:40-5:10-7:50-8:30 Civil War (R) 1:05-4:00-6:40 Challengers (R) 1:40-5:20-8:40 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:10 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 2:20-5:15-8:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Em- pire (PG-13) 2:30-5:30-8:15 Tarot (PG-13) 12:50-3:20-5:50- 8:20 Boy Kills World (R) 7:45 Unsung Hero (PG) 1:50-4:45-7:30 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 2:10-5:00 Abigail (R) 3:10-6:00-8:35 Monkey Man (R) 3:40 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phan- tom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 1:20-4:50-6:20-8:10 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:00- 4:10-7:20 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM 7:10 Smithsonian - Airbus IMAX Theater 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway Journey to Space (NR) 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(1976) (NR) 4:10 Superpower Dogs: The IMAX 2D Experience (G) 10:10AM Into America's Wild 11:05AM Deep Sky: The IMAX Experi- ence 11:55-3:20 Blue Planet (Il pianeta azzurro) (NR) 1:45 University Mall Theatres 10659-A Braddock Road Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:30- 2:30-4:40 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 12:10-2:35-5:00-7:30 Monkey Man (R) 7:00 Unsung Hero (PG) 12:15-2:40- 4:55-7:15 MOVIE DIRECTORY (!) No Pass/No Discount Ticket Tuesday, May 7, 2024 www.washingtonpost.com/movies Did you hear Te Post today? Washington Post podcasts go with you everywhere wpost.com/podcasts Politics • History • Culture • More S0108 6x1

tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post EZ RE C7 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 ♠ 8 3 ♥ Q 7 5 2 ♦ K J 10 6 4 ♣ A 10 WEST ♠ K 7 2 ♥ J 8 6 4 ♦ 8 5 2 ♣ 6 5 2 EAST (D) ♠ A 10 9 6 4 ♥ A K 9 ♦ Q 7 3 ♣ 8 4 SOUTH ♠ Q J 5 ♥ 10 3 ♦ A 9 ♣ K Q J 9 7 3 The bidding: “They say a woman’s work is never done,” Wendy, my club’s resident feminist, grumbled to me. “When I try to defend with Cy, it’s a constant trial.” Cy the Cynic, a chauvinist, and Wendy are adversaries even when they cut as partners in a penny game. In today’s deal, Cy had opened in spades, so Wendy, West, led the deuce against 3NT. Cy took the ace and returned the 10: jack, king, eight. Wendy then led her last spade, and South won, took the ace of diamonds and raced off six club tricks. At the end, Cy had to come down to the ace of hearts and Q-7 of diamonds, and South greedily exited with a heart to end-play him. Making four. “A man’s word is never done,” Wendy said sourly, “and Cy had to have the last word, of course. He said I beat 3NT if I shift to the jack of hearts at the third trick. The man’s a nutcase.” Cy must cash the king of hearts at Trick Two, then lead a spade. When Wendy wins, she will have no trouble leading the jack of hearts next. DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ 8 3 ♥ Q 7 5 2 ♦ K J 10 6 4 ♣ A 10 Your partner opens one club. The next player jumps to two spades (preemptive), you double and partner bids three hearts. What do you say? ANSWER: Your negative double promised heart length, plus diamond length or club tolerance, and enough strength to compete to at least the three level. Partner’s three hearts “raised” the suit you showed. His hand may be minimum; he could have bid four hearts but didn’t. Pass. BOTH SIDES VULNERABLE EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH 1 ♠ 2 ♣ Pass 2 ♦ Pass 2 NT Pass 3 NT All Pass Opening lead — ♠ 2 BRIDGE ©2024, TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC. — Frank Stewart

C8 EZ RE the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 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 an elegant, gifted communicator who has high personal standards. You like to make an excellent impression on others. This is a good year to rest and rejuvenate your energy. Focus on business and personal relationships and make sure you are with people who have your back. Moon Alert: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The New Moon in Taurus peaks at 11:22 p.m. ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19). Today’s New Moon bodes well for future economics and financial advantages for you. (Would I kid an Aries?) Think of new ways that you might boost your income. Can you get a better paying job? TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20). Today’s New Moon (which is the only one all year in your sign) promises wonderful romantic relations with others. You might discover new love. Or perhaps your existing relationships will become more affectionate. GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20). Today the New Moon is taking place in a hidden part of your chart, which means it’s perhaps the best day of the year for you to think about how to deal with little self-defeating behavior patterns that you have, or at least, get them in hand. (We all have these!) CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22). The New Moon today gives you a wonderful opportunity to enhance and improve your friendships with others, as well as improve your relations with members of groups and organizations. LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22). You will make a fabulous impression on others today, especially people in authority. In particular, some of you will strike up a cozy friendship with someone, perhaps blurring the lines between professionalism and romance. Hmmm. VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22). Today’s New Moon is a little hint that you have many opportunities to travel and do things that will expand your world this year. Of course, you have to cooperate. LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22). Today is perhaps the best day of the year for you to think about how to improve your relations with shared property and how you are handling inheritances and anything to do with insurance issues, taxes and debt. SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21). Today the only New Moon opposite your sign all year is taking place. This means it’s the best opportunity for you to think about how to improve your closest relationships with friends, partners and spouses. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21). This is a lovely day to explore opportunities to improve your relations with people you know who are related to your job, your health or a pet. Not only can you improve these relationships, you might discover new romance. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19). Oo la la! Today’s New Moon is a chance for you to explore all kinds of romantic opportunities. You might even meet the person of your dreams. Meanwhile, relations with your kids will be warm and friendly. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18). A romantic introduction to a family member might occur for many of you today. Meanwhile, all of you will see ways to improve your relations with family members. You will see how you can express your affection more easily and appreciate your family dynamic. PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20). Be friendly to others today. You have marvelous opportunities to improve your daily contacts with everyone! Many of you will discover new love or an exciting flirtation. Or you might commit to a new level of friendship. BIRTHDAY | MAY 7 — Georgia Nicols © 2024, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC. HOROSCOPE

tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ re C9 Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: My spouse of 25 years recently admitted to an affair. This happened after I was suspicious for a while. I finally confronted him after being diagnosed with HPV. He told various stories and has finally settled on saying he had a one-night stand with someone whose name he couldn’t remember. In the past year, he has admitted to other inappropriate incidents. I suspect there is a lot more he hasn’t said. He is now of the position thatIshould accept what he has told me and “let it go.” How do I move forward? I feel stuck in this situation with no clear way out. — Anonymous Anonymous: You have a bunch of options, including some sparkly clear ways out — when you’re ready for them, not when he is. So please say that to him. Then: l You can decide you’re done and get a legal separation. Talk to an attorney first to protect your financial interests. l You can tell your husband you’re not satisfied with his answers, given how many times he changed his story. Tell him you believe there’s more to this than he has shared with you, and you won’t“let it go” — not without a commitment from him to work this out in counseling. Just make sure you’re prepared to act on a Plan B if he refuses. l You can decide your marriage is and always has been a flawed thing, and you kind of always knew he was up to stuff on the side, and you chose to look the other way because you had your reasons. You can recognize things are different now only because he has been less subtle about it. And then you can decide that choosing to stay would essentially be the same decision you’ve been making all along. Not everyone sees infidelity as a dealbreaker. You can decide, for your own reasons, that it’s not — that you get more from this relationship than his selfishness costs you. l You can decide your old idea of the marriage has died at his hand, RIP—but a new idea of the marriage works for you. You can treat this as an opportunity to make changes in your relationship that serve you better. I emphatically do not recommend agreeing to “let it go” just because your husband is pressuring you to. Some nerve, that. It’s the kind of me-first thinking that explains why some people cheat. (Though reasons for cheating are varied and sometimes complex.) You have agency here. It matters less how you use it than the fact that you do. Sorry you’re having to deal with this. Readers’ thoughts: l Your situation sounds like mineafew years ago—Ialways had suspicions, stories finally came out, I continued to worry there were still more. I felt “stuck with no way out.” Eventually, my way out was extensive therapy, from which I learned that my “stuck” feeling was fear and a sense that I had little agency of my own — feelings that in my case were sourced to unprocessed childhood trauma. That led to realizing that forgiveness doesn’t mean continuing to make myself vulnerable to someone who hurts me, takes me for granted, deceives me, etc. l Get tested for other STDs, because your husband gave you one linked to possible cervical cancer. 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. Husband finally admits to one-night stand; now he wants spouse to ‘let it go’ Carolyn Hax illusTraTioN By NiCk galifiaNakis for THe WasHiNgToN PosT steal anything. There’s no such thing as stealing.” “‘Karma’ makes you listen, ‘Karma’ makes you ask, ‘Karma’ makes you confused. So, whether people like it or not, marketing plan worked,” she added. ‘It’s called “gay pop”’ And if that wasn’t enough, some took issue with Siwa saying she invented the idea of “gay pop” —amusic genre generally by and for people in the LGBTQ+ community. Siwa told Billboard that she told her record label about a new era of music she wanted to introduce, which led to her comeback.“I said, ‘I wantto startanew genre of music.’ And they said, ‘What do you mean?’ I said, ‘Well, it’s called ‘gay pop.’” The problem: Gay pop has arguably been around for decades, and it’s still alive and well. Elton John, Madonna, Lady Gaga and dozens of others have been credited with crafting gay pop classics, and artists suchasKimPetras and Troye Sivan have released modern hits in the subgenre. Several people deemed Siwa as disrespectfulfor claiming she invented the genre. Popular artists Tegan and Sara, stars of the gay pop genre, reacted to Siwa’s comments on TikTok, as did Charli XCX. Siwa walked back the claim that she invented “gay pop” shortly after the backlash. “I definitely am not the inventor of ‘gay pop,’ for sure not. But I do want to be a piece in making it bigger than it already is.” ‘This is kind of just who she is’ Okay, so here we have this former internet darling, known for eccentric yet gleeful dance moves and smiles, accused of stealing music and taking credit for an entire genre of pop. She’s now been meme-ified into oblivion and reviled as cringe incarnate. A potential resurgence for a young child star seemed to flop. “Audiences feltalittle bit of that bait and switch,” said Hannah Neuman, who critiques pop culture on TikTok to more than 415,000 followers. “They thought they were going to get something big from her, and then it ended up just kind of still being Jojo Siwa.” “When she promisedarebrand, people thought they were going to get this version of her that was justalot less — less costume, less jewels, more raw,” said Neuman. “She just is very comfortable being as big as possible. And that might not be everybody’s cup of tea.” But maybe that’s the point. Maybe JoJo is, just, JoJo. This is who she is. An oddball, a little eccentric, fun.“She drives around a car with her face all over it. I don’t think it should come as much of a shock to people,” said TikTok creator Kai Cameron of Siwa’s new era. “This is kind of just who she is.” “There’s something kind of fun about someone who’s just being, just totally themselves,” said Cameron, who posted multiple videos of himself impersonating Siwa. Regardless, Siwa is still the subject of conversation on social media. Her recent run might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but at least she’s what people are talking about when they spill it. “It’s very hard to win,” when it comes to rebrands, said Cameron, the TikTok content creator. “I think the whole point is to make people speak about it.” Or maybe Siwa has been listening to Kim Kardashian all this time. “At some point,” Kardashian wrote about then-17-year-old Siwa for Time in 2020, “she’ll evolve and grow upalittle bit, and that’s O.K. The people who love and support her will always be there. Live in the moment. Have fun.” BY SAMANTHA CHERY AND HERB SCRIBNER J oJo Siwa showed up on “Saturday Night Live.” Well, it was comedian Chloe Fineman impersonating JoJo, but she looked just like her these days — black makeup, black rhinestones, black lipstick, black leather. “I’mabad girl now!” Fineman exclaimed, mocking Siwa’s recent rebrand. “Yeah, it’s a pretty big change. I used to be way more sparkles and now I’m black sparkles.” Then, she remarked sarcastically, “I’m 20 and gay!I’m the first gay girl in the world! Bet you never met a gay girl before!” Upon dropping her new single and walking red carpets as a “bad girl” version of herself—trading the giant bows and candy store aesthetics for black and blue rhinestones and Kiss-esque makeup — the internet has had a field day poking fun at the former child star. The totally cool, not-atall weird dance routines on TikTok gave social media users a laugh, while the grrs, grunts and grins made people roll their eyes. But this appears to be just JoJo being JoJo. For Siwa, ditching the brightly colored outfits that defined her early career had a purpose — she wanted to pull a Miley Cyrus or a Britney Spears and leave the childhood star branding behind to become something new in the eyes of the public. Her new target audience has mostly hatewatched her song’s music video to 33 million views and (briefly) the top spot on YouTube’s trending music category. But even they aren’t completely sold on her. A 2012 version of her song sung by another artist out-charted her version on iTunes, and she lost more than 22,000 Instagram followers in the last month. Of course, social media experts and content creators understand that this is par for the course for JoJo Siwa. This recent turn might be part of Siwa’s plan, an attempt to rebrand herself with silly, eyerolling eccentricities that stir up conversation and some free marketing. After all, Siwa has always been a little different. The rise of JoJo Siwa didn’t always have an uneven relationship with the internet. The Omaha native became a household name as a child star and entrepreneur after her time on Lifetime reality shows, first as a 9-year-old on “Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition” and soon after as a cast member on “Dance Moms,”ashow that followed the drama as competition dancers rehearsed and competed while their moms watched. On both shows, she wasn’t particularly loved by her dance teacher, and she was made fun of for her speech impediment and brash personality. But she took the high road, releasing the antibullying anthem “Boomerang” in 2016 and securing a book deal in 2017 andaclothing line at J.C. Penney in 2018, adding to her successful bow brand. Two years later, she was deemed one of Time magazine’s most influential people. “JoJo Siwa is a ray of sunshine in a world that seems scary right now,” Kim Kardashian wrote about Siwa for Time in 2020. “As a parent, you want your kids to admire positive figures. There’s no one more positive than JoJo.” Since that time, she’s amassed 11 million followers on Instagram and 45 million followers on TikTok. In her home tours posted to YouTube over the years, she’s shown off walls of bows, a dedicated room full of her own merchandise and enough bright colors to make Skittles look dull. But success has also brought controversy. JoJo’s Juice, a JoJo Siwa card game released through Nickelodeon and manufacturer Spin Master in 2018, was removed from store shelves after parents said some of the game cards were “inappropriate” for its advertised age group of players 6 and up. Some more problems appeared to emerge for Siwa as she extended her cloud of influencing over others. Leigha Sanderson, a former member of the group XOMG Pop!, and her mother, Anjie, told Rolling Stone for a story in February that the Siwas on multiple occasions hurled insults at the girls while managing them. (The Siwas denied the allegations through their lawyer.) Most recently, Siwa, now 20, had been teasing a new era. “No one has made this dramatic of a change yet,” she said in a Billboard interview. “No one has made, in my generation, this extreme of a switch, and I am the first of the generation. It is very scary. But someone’s got to do it.” Then came ‘Karma’ On April 5, Siwa released her new single, “Karma,”aboppy pop jam about regretting infidelity. But the song came with a music video that really showed what JoJo had planned with her rebrand. Her face was painted with Gene Simmons-influenced makeup and her lollipop-colored outfits were darkened with cool-colored rhinestones. Siwa had seemingly traded in the bows, the bubble gum and the brightly colored glitter for … uh, darkbadgirlmatureadultsomethingsomething. And of course, like many things these days, “Karma” became its own thing. JoJo posted multiple TikToks of her doing a snippet of the “Karma” dance choreography with so much passion and energy that commenters were aghast. “if i saw this outside my house, id scream,” wrote one TikTok user. Another joked,“Ithink myKarma is having to listen to this song.” Compare that with how people felt when choreographer Richy Jackson did the same dance number. The Lady Gaga choreographer who has worked with Siwa for years was widely praised for his moves.“ok but Richie Jackson is slaying,” one commenter wrote. Another said, “Seeing the choreographer, it all makes sense now. He’s amazing. But when he performs every move is very clean.” In addition to the debate over her dance routine, commenters and social media critics were quick to poke fun at her new look and style — deeming it something a kid would consider to be an adult outfit. Others put it a little more cleanly — cringey, uncomfortable and just ick. There were also rumors that Siwa might have taken the song from Cyrus and Brit Smith, both of whom allegedly were offered the song in the early 2010s. Smith, whose 2012 version surfaced on TikTok, then released the song on streaming platforms with the name “Karma’saB----.” The song roseuptheiTunes chart and briefly surpassed Siwa’s song in April. Siwa told TMZ that she didn’t steal the song because, well, music apparently can’t be stolen. “What happens is people write songs, and then, they don’t do anything with them. Then, a few years later, it makes sense for another artist,” she said.“I did not Scaring up attention with new image is just JoJo being Jojo BoNNie Jo mouNT/THe WasHiNgToN PosT Will HeaTH/NBC via geTTy images ABOVE: JoJo Siwa performs at Wolf Trap in 2019. Siwa became a household name as a child appearing on Lifetime reality shows. LEFT: Chloe Fineman pokes fun at Siwa’s new image alongside Colin Jost on this weekend’s broadcast of “Saturday Night Live.”

C10 EZ Su the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 The dress code for Monday’s Met Gala was “Garden of Time,” a pairing to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibition — and the celebrities in attendance seemed most inspired by the garden part. Save your “Devil Wears Prada” jokes about “Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking” — they’ve all been made, and besides, we did see some groundbreaking florals. Like Greta Lee’s gauzy white Loewe column, which swooped across her face. Or Taylor Russell’s breastplate, which resembled sculpted wood, with a floral inlay. Or theater producer Jordan Roth — we love a man in a gown — whose dress chronicled the life cycle of a flower, with green buds on top, big blooms in the middle, and brown, withering petals at the bottom. But the stars who attempted looks inspired by sleep and time took greater risks, with potentially richer rewards: On the tamer side, there were archival looks “awakened” from the fashion archives — Balenciaga’s re-creation of a 1951 gown for Nicole Kidman — and straightforward references to sleep, like actress Lily Gladstone’s starry column gown evoking the night sky. Co-host Zendaya began the evening in a moody, villain-esque blue-and-green gown that looked like a garden at night, and then — surprise! — changed into a 1996 Givenchy corset gown with a fascinator shaped like a floral bouquet. Then there was singer Tyla, who managed to nail multiple elements of the theme with one Balmain dress. It looked as if it had been sculpted from sand — a nod to the fragility of the archival pieces in the exhibition — and she carried an hourglass as a purse. Earth, time, beauty, rest: fragile, ephemeral, unique. — Maura Judkis Lush takes on gardens and awakenings at the Met Gala aLIah anDERSon/gEtty IMagES angELa wEISS/aFp/gEtty IMagES JaMIE MCCaRthy/gEtty IMagES DIa DIpaSupIL/gEtty IMagES JaMIE MCCaRthy/gEtty IMagES anDREw kELLy/REutERS JaMIE MCCaRthy/gEtty IMagES JuStIn LanE/Epa-EFE/ShuttERStoCk angELa wEISS/aFp/gEtty IMagES CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Co-host Zendaya walked the carpet not once, but twice, in distinct looks. Cardi B gets ready for photos. Tyla in a dress reminiscent of sand. Theater producer Jordan Roth’s floral gown chronicles the life cycle of a flower. Bad Bunny in Maison Margiela Artisanal. Demi Moore’s gown was made from vintage wallpaper. Janelle Monáe in a glittery ensemble. Greta Lee in a Loewe dress that partly covered her face.

KLMNO SPOR tuesday, may 7, 2024 TS sU D orioles at Nationals | 6:45 p.m., mAsn, mAsn2 meGAn BrIGGs/GeTTy ImAGes trey lipscomb handled the jump from class aa to the nationals’ starting lineup, contributing to their early-season success by playing multiple positions and hitting .241. BY SPENCER NUSBAUM Two years ago, Tennessee Coach Tony Vitello went to check on the calmest kid in the clubhouse, lest he felt any pressure. such as, you know, the weight of the Volunteers’ first seC championship season since the ’90s on his shoulders, pressure about his draft stock because he rode the bench for most of his previous three years or the ongoing rain delay and whether it had induced restless jitters. so, just in case, Vitello walked into the clubhouse. There, lying on a foam roller, Trey Lipscomb was taking a nap. Two years later, Lipscomb, 23, owns that same sleepy heart rate, one that helped him jump from Class AA Harrisburg straight into the Washington nationals’ everyday lineup this season. nationals Manager Dave Martinez says he “plays the game the right way” every chance he gets. He’s hitting .241, running the bases well and playing a particularly strong third base while being see nationals On D3 Even-keeled Lipscomb playing ‘the right way’ — and with confidence next eight years. It’s happening again. Whether the process leads to great teams and a World series or just plenty of good, exciting contending clubs that play with energy and élan will be a subject for the rest of this decade. But it’s likely to be one of those two pleasant outcomes, though few except nationals fans have noticed. In their past 100 games, since mid-July of 2023, the nats are 50-50. That alone deserves attention for a team with so much see boswell On D3 In baseball, you build a culture before you build a contender. That’s how it felt in 2011 when the Washington nationals changed from a team of losers to a club that battled to approach .500 at 80-81. That club established the internal team accountability — and the sense of personal connection — that helped the nats have nearly the best record in baseball over the Remember when the Nats sprouted into a delight? It’s happening again. A slow but steady build Thomas Boswell A South African sportsman helped model an era of campus protests shortly after I landed as a freshman at northwestern University in 1977, my attraction to its Black students’ history of activism was realized. For quickly sprung on campus was a memorial conference to steve Biko, the inspirational leader of Indigenous south Africa’s liberation movement who died in south African police detention that september. One of the organizers and speakers was Dennis Brutus, an english professor and poet. But I quickly learned Brutus was far more. He was introduced as a south African exile, who survived being shot by police as he tried to escape his home country. A former prisoner at infamous Robben Island, where he was jailed with nelson Mandela. A onetime amateur weightlifter and co-founder of the south African non-Racial Olympic Committee, which lobbied the world successfully to get south Africa banned from the Olympics because of its brutalization and slaughtering of Indigenous south Africans. And not long after that oneday symposium, a flier circulated on campus demanding the university divest of any business interest with or connected to south Africa’s murderous racist regime. soon, some of us as students, stirred by Brutus’s fearlessness, were demonstrating in front of the administration’s offices as part of a nascent nationwide movement on college campuses against complicity in apartheid. I don’t recall any encampments on campus then like the ones college students across the country established in recent weeks to protest the killing of more than 34,000 people in Gaza, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, including 13,000 children. That came during Israel’s response to the Hamas attack on Oct.7that, according to Israel, massacred see blackistone On D5 Kevin B. Blackistone The 2024 quarterback draft class was as historic as some expected, and its unprecedented nature — with six of the first 12 selections spent on passers — has already focused attention in scouting circles on next year’s options. specifically, there was plenty of chatter after this nFL draft about Colorado quarterback shedeur sanders, son of Hall of Fame cornerback Deion sanders, who also serves as his bombastic coach with the Buffaloes. Opinions vary, at least to some degree, about where sanders would have slotted among his peers this spring had he left school to enter the pro fray. But the same general managers and evaluators who told me months ago that the 2024 class would feature six see on the nfl On D5 Looking ahead to 2025 draft, Sanders might head QB class On the NFL Jason La Canfora Pro footBall Tom Brady—unroastable? Personalities from across spectrum took a shot. D5 high schools st. John’s, unbeaten in the WCAC, is poised to defend its boys’ lacrosse title. D6 Pro BasketBall Jalen Brunson (43 points) and the Knicks hold off Pacers in Game 1 thriller. D7 BY CHUCK CULPEPPER LOUISVILLE — To find Bob Baffert during Kentucky Derby weekend, you had to exit the Churchill Downs gates a few paces and happen across the friendly man selling “Bring Back Bob” T-shirts along the nearby streets. There on the shirts appeared an image of Baffert — or at least his famed white mane and sunglasses. To find the country’s most recognizable trainer at the Preakness on May 18, well, he’ll be right there smack amid the proceedings, maybe even saddling the favorite. With the 150th Kentucky Derby complete and the videos of its photo finish examined, next comes the 149th Preakness and its present-day subtext: the Baffert Triple Crown on-ramp. For the third straight first saturday in May, Churchill Downs forbade see baffert On D6 A cloudy Preakness field braces for Ba≠ert Status of Derby winner Mystik Dan is up in air, but here comes Muth 149th Preakness stakes may 18, 6:50 p.m. post time, nBC

d2 eZ su the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 THE DAY IN SPORTS PRO fOOTBALL Texans owner: Dell will make full recovery Houston Texans owner Cal McNair said Monday that wide receiver Tank Dell will make a “full recovery” after he was wounded in a shootout at a Florida restaurant last month. McNair did not provide details on the nature of Dell’s injury, but the team called it a “minor wound” the day after the April 27 shooting, in which nine others were injured. Speaking before the team’s annual charity golf classic, McNair called the situation “frightening.” “It looks like Tank will make a full recovery,” he said. “We saw him in the office the other day, and he looked good, in good spirits. But he’ll have to rehab and get back to where he was.” Coach DeMeco Ryans was evasive when queried about Dell, declining to answer when asked whether he expected the secondyear player to be ready for Week 1. “Tank should be fine,” he said. Ryans added that he has spoken with Dell several times since the shooting. Dell was drafted in the third round in 2023 out of the University of Houston. He had 709 receiving yards and set a franchise rookie record with seven touchdown receptions before breaking his left fibula in December. Ryans said in April that Dell had recovered from that injury. . . . The Los Angeles Chargers added depth at wide receiver by signing DJ Chark Jr. Chark had 35 receptions for 525 yards with Carolina last season, and he led the Panthers with five receiving touchdowns. He was a second-round draft pick by Jacksonville in 2018 and spent four seasons with the Jaguars before joining Detroit in 2022. Chark’s best season was in 2019, when he had 73 receptions for 1,008 yards and eight touchdowns. Wide receiver remains a work in progress for the Chargers after they released Mike Williams and traded Keenan Allen to Chicago. They drafted Ladd McConkey in the second round. SOCCER Manchester United’s woes get even deeper A referee wore a camera for the first time in an English Premier League match as Crystal Palace beat up Manchester United, 4-0, in London. Footage from the device worn by Jarred Gillett, dubbed the RefCam, was not broadcast live but will be used in a program made by the league to show the ups and downs of refereeing. It also will provide a close look at United’s woeful defending as it lost 13 games in the EPL for the first time. Defenders backed off Michael Olise and allowed him to stride forward unchallenged and score the opener in the 12th minute. Jean-Philippe Mateta made it 2-0 five minutes before halftime. The United defense failed to deal with a ball into the box, and Tyrick Mitchell slid in to poke home a third goal in the 58th minute. The fourth came soon after when Casemiro was dispossessed by Daniel Muñoz, who cut the ball back for Olise to score his second. . . . David Moyes will leave his position as West Ham’s manager when his contract expires at the end of the season. The club made the announcement Monday to end speculation about Moyes’s future. The BBC reported that Julen Lopetegui, the former Spain and Real Madrid coach, agreed to come in as Moyes’s replacement. West Ham said only that the recruitment process for Moyes’s successor had begun. Moyes is in his second stint with the club after returning in December 2019. In the past fourplus years, he led the team to the Europa Conference League title last season — its first major trophy since 1980 — and two topseven finishes in the Premier League. . . . Rúben Amorim pledged to stay with Sporting Lisbon after leading the club to its second Portuguese title in four seasons. Amorim has been linked with moves to clubs including Liverpool, but he said he does not intend to leave. His contract expires in 2026. Sporting clinched the league title Sunday when Benfica lost at Famalicão. Amorim, a former Portugal midfielder, has coached Sporting since March 2020; he led the team to the league title in his first full year. . . . Union Berlin, which is fighting to avoid relegation from the German Bundesliga, fired its coach for the second time this season. Nenad Bjelica was let go; Marco Grote was appointed on an interim basis. Urs Fischer had been fired in November. . . . Three top-tier clubs urged Brazil’s federation to suspend their national league matches for the next 20 days because of serious flooding. Internacional, Grêmio and Juventude are based in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, which has been devastated by floods. Authorities said at least 83 people have been killed over the past seven days in the region; another 111 are missing. The stadiums of Internacional and Grêmio have been severely damaged by the water. GOLf LIV’s Gooch has invite to PGA Championship In an apparent nod to his work on the LIV Golf circuit, Talor Gooch received an invitation to next week’s PGA Championship. The 32-year-old Oklahoma native, whose Official World Golf Ranking placement was in the 30s when he defected from the PGA Tour in May 2022, has plunged to 644th while with LIV, whose events have yet to be approved for OWGR points. The PGA of America traditionally fills out its PGA Championship field with players in the top 100. While his ranking plummeted last year, Gooch won three LIV events, finished in the top 12 in six others and garnered an $18 million bonus for winning its individual points race. He thanked the PGA of America for its invitation on social media. “Looking forward to Valhalla next week!” Gooch wrote, referring to the storied course in Louisville set to host the tournament for a fourth time. “See y’all there.” Gooch’s 2022 results on the PGA Tour earned him spots last year in the fields of three majors: the Masters, the British Open and the PGA Championship. After the U.S. Golf Association tweaked its qualifying criteria for the U.S. Open in February 2023, Gooch referred to himself in saying it was “obviously disappointing because that changed rule only affected one person,” then fell short of making the U.S. Open field that year when his OWGR mark dropped below the top 60. While several LIV players have been eligible to play in majors this year because of past success in those events, Gooch — whose best finish in a major was a tie for 14th at the 2022 Masters — has had to rely on his world ranking. That well ran dry in 2023, and Gooch was facing the prospect of not appearing in a major this year until, per his post, the PGA of America took a detour from its usual practice. The organization is expected to reveal its full field Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. Another LIV golfer, Joaquin Niemann, said in March that he had received a special invitation to the PGA Championship. Assuming that’s the case, it will be the second straight major in which Niemann participates via invitation, after Masters officials included him in their field last month. Niemann, who was ranked in the teens when he left the PGA Tour, had taken strides to keep his world ranking (currently 91st) from falling off a cliff. In addition to playing LIV events, the 25-year-old Chilean competed in several tournaments on the Asian and European tours, in which his four top-five finishes included a win at the Australian Open in December. LIV Golf’s David Puig, who joined the circuit in 2022 after starring at Arizona State, has taken a similar approach. By bolstering his résumé with several top-10 finishes on the Asian Tour over the past year, the young Spaniard has climbed the OWGR to a perch just outside the top 100, and he reportedly also received a PGA Championship invitation. — Des Bieler PRO BASKETBALL WNBA expansion team picks general manager WNBA Golden State named Ohemaa Nyanin as the expansion franchise’s general manager. Nyanin, who played at American University, will oversee all basketball operations as the still-unnamed team prepares to launch in 2025. She will begin her tenure next week. Nyanin joins WNBA Golden State from the New York Liberty, with which she spent more than five years in a variety of capacities, most recently as the assistant general manager. Before her time with the Liberty, Nyanin spent five years as USA Basketball’s assistant director of the women’s national team. She led youth national teams to international competitions, managing delegation logistics and serving as an interpreter in Spanishspeaking countries. . . . Chicago Sky rookie Kamilla Cardoso will be sidelined for at least a month with a shoulder injury she suffered in a preseason game Friday. The No. 3 pick in the draft will be reevaluated in four to six weeks, the team announced. The 6-foot-7 center helped South Carolina go undefeated and win the school’s third national championship last month. She earned Final Four Most Outstanding Player honors after her 15-point, 17-rebound performance against Iowa in the title game. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Utah guard Smith transfers to St. John’s Utah point guard Deivon Smith is transferring to St. John’s, giving Coach Rick Pitino an experienced replacement for Daniss Jenkins. A fifth-year senior, Smith ranked sixth in the country with 7.1 assists per game last season. He also averaged 13.3 points and 6.3 rebounds. Smith played his freshman season at Mississippi State and then spent two years with Georgia Tech. He shot a careerhigh 46.7 percent in 28 games during his only season at Utah. Jenkins followed Pitino from Iona to St. John’s for his senior season and propelled the Red Storm to a 20-13 record. He led the team in scoring (14.9 points), assists (5.4) and steals (1.6). MISC. Arizona Bowl’s new sponsor: Snoop Dogg Snoop Dogg is putting his name on the Arizona Bowl in the first partnership between an alcohol brand and a college bowl game, the rapper and media personality announced. The Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl Presented by Gin & Juice By Dre and Snoop is set for Dec. 28 at Arizona Stadium in Tucson and will match teams from the Mountain West Conference and the Mid-American Conference. Gin & Juice, named after Snoop’s 1994 hit, is the first product from Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre’s premium spirits company. . . . Cecil “Hootie” Ingram, a former Alabama football star and athletic director, died at 90. Ingram, who was injured in a fall in March, died at a Birmingham hospital, an athletic department spokeswoman said. Ingram was an all-SEC defensive back who led the nation with 10 interceptions as a sophomore in 1952, a conference record that still stands. Later, he was associate commissioner of the SEC, where he worked from 1972 to 1981. Ingram went on to become athletic director at Florida State (1981-89) before returning to run his alma mater’s athletic department until his retirement in 1995. . . . Belgian Tim Merlier won the third stage of the Giro d’Italia after race leader Tadej Pogacar almost caught the sprinters by surprise during a breathtaking finish in Fossano, Italy. Merlier claimed his second career stage win at the Italian grand tour ahead of Jonathan Milan and Biniam Girmay. Merlier timed his last effort precisely, surging from the right side to beat Milan by less than half a wheel. Pogacar, who grabbed the pink jersey Sunday, was not expected to shine during Monday’s trek between Novara and Fossano. With its mainly flat profile and just a small hill near the finish, the 166-kilometer (about 103-mile) stage looked ideal for the first battle between the sprinters. The main contenders were expected to spend the day safely in the peloton, but Pogacar had other ideas. “It’s still better to be in front than stay in the bunch,” he said. “Then, in the final, it was stretching the legs.” — From news services and staff reports DeMeTrIus FreeMAN/The WAshINGToN PosT The winners from West Point President Biden lauds the Army football team Monday at the White House for claiming the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy. two-time European weightlifting champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko, stopped beating,” the Ukrainian weightlifting federation wrote on Facebook. National coach Viktor Slobodianiuk added: “War takes the best of us. This is a very heavy loss for the entire weightlifting community of Ukraine. Heroes do not die.” More than 400 Ukrainian athletes and officials have been killed in the war. ing suspension to win the 2016 European under-85-kilogram division by one kilogram. He successfully retained his title in 2017. Pielieshenko missed out on an Olympic medal by five kilograms at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, where he placed fourth. He committed a second doping violation in 2018. “It is with great sadness that we announce that today the heart of the honored master of sports of Ukraine, ASSOCIATED PRESS KYIV — Two-time European weightlifting champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko died on the front line in the war in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Olympic committee announced Monday. He was 30. Pielieshenko died Sunday, the committee posted on Telegram. He joined Ukraine’s armed forces in the first days of Russia’s invasion, the committee said. 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tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ SU d3 of its future still playing in the minors. But the news is better than that. Last year, the Nats’ final 33-33 push required scrappiness and a few wins’ worth of good luck and good managing. This year, their 17-17 start has a more substantial tone because every day, regardless of the score, the Nats have been engaged, resilient and, in manager Dave martinez’s word, “relentless” despite many injuries and a brutal schedule. Their two-game series with Baltimore this week concludes 21 straight games against clubs from the 2023 playoffs. They’re 11-8. The Nats haven’t been lucky this year. Two-thirds of the projected opening Day lineup has had significant injuries: Josiah Gray, Keibert ruiz, Lane Thomas, Nick Senzel, Victor robles and Joey Gallo. Last year’s rBI leader, Joey meneses, has zero homers. Patrick Corbin tries, but he is his ErA (6.45) and doesn’t even profile as a plausible lefty reliever on a team that has none. The Nats have been forced to use rookies in the lineup (utility infielder Trey Lipscomb and center fielder Jacob Young) and the rotation (mitchell Parker). Low-rent players acquired to be backups or part of platoons have had to play extensively, including Jesse Winker (18 rBI), Ildemaro Vargas (a .310 average), riley Adams and Eddie rosario, who hit a game-winning homer Sunday after entering the game 7 for 73. The rotation has been steady but lacks even one real innings eater. As a result, a good, fairly deep bullpen has been worked hard. Kyle finnegan (1.88 ErA, 11 for 12 converting saves), Hunter Harvey (2.45), Dylan floro (0.52), Derek Law (3.32) and Jordan Weems are on pace to pitch in at least 71 games. If martinez had just one lefty reliever, even one made out of papier-mâché to prop up in the corner, he might sleep better. Somehow, he manages around it. Despite all this, the Nats have an mLB-leading 12 come-frombehind wins. Their dugout is usually so enthusiastic that coaches Gerardo (Baby Shark) BoswELL from D1 thOmAS BOSWELL Nats aren’t must-see, but they are a fun watch At the plate, almost every pitch was at the corners. In the field, repetitive tough plays gave Lipscomb a better sense of his range. Because Wood and Lipscomb figured they would be playing in Upstate New York, they weren’t shy to train outside in the maryland winter. They wanted to be put in uncomfortable situations. Caceres obliged. “We were like three professors working on a project,” Caceres said. “They knew how to make an adjustment if something goes wrong.” “Yeah, he didn’t make it easy at all,” Lipscomb said. “But he knows there’s going to be ups and downs, but you’ve just got to keep your head on a straight path. He’s a great guy for that.” While working with Lipscomb, Caceres compared the motion of a swing to whipping a towel — reacting with the lower body and letting the hands do the rest. They worked on his posture, watching video of players who hit for contact and power such as mookie Betts, ronald Acuña Jr. and Jose Altuve — letting his hands have space to stay inside the ball rather than under them. At times, he would throw almost directly at Lipscomb and have him aim to the opposite field to force him to stay inside the ball. Lipscomb’s posture improved, and his hands stayed on plane for as long as possible. for whatever adjustment comes next, he’s prepared. “max Scherzer played in that city, and I was able to coach him. It’s kind of the same deal,” Vitello said. “If the answer is not there or they don’t have the skill to get the job done, then they’re going to get to work and figure out a way to make it happen. This is a sport where you have to constantly evolve or your name disappears off the face of the earth. . . . He’s going to get to work and figure out how to solve that next problem that comes.” “You’re a brief second away from him appearing to be the most intense guy on the field,” Vitello said. “And then a moment later, it’ll be like he’s in a rocking chair over there at third base. Just waiting for the next play. . . . He was a chameleon.” This past offseason, as he had the previous two years, Lipscomb trained with James Wood’s longtime trainer, Gerardo Caceres. Wood and Lipscomb, who both grew up in maryland, spent the year as roommates in the minor leagues. Instantly, Caceres saw the payoff: They were making quicker adjustments and talking about the game with more sophistication. That allowed them to get into more challenging, realistic scenarios that prepared them for the higher levels of affiliated ball. largely without a weakness. “You could see it coming. It was like a volcano that scientists were expecting to erupt in a certain month, and maybe it occurred five or six months later,” Vitello said. “And I think, maybe, the explosion or the boiling point reached an even hotter temperature because it was cooking a little longer.” In his senior season, he played 66 games for the Volunteers. At Tennessee, he had the slowest walk from the on-deck circle but the most explosive swing. He was the Volunteers’ most poised defensive player, but if there was a tag that needed to be applied, Vitello said, “you felt it.” That Tennessee team was known for having an attitude. If it got chippy, Lipscomb would be in the front of the pack. next year. Transferring was on the table. He never bit. “He wasn’t always looking for the next big thing,” said michael frownfelter, Lipscomb’s coach at Urbana High, who added that Lipscomb fielded offers from local private schools but never jumped ship. “In high school, it was like: ‘Hey, we’re a pretty good program. This is good for me. So why do I have to go look somewhere bigger?’ ” So when Lipscomb was mired in a traffic jam at Tennessee, he made small tweaks and bulked up. His routine was sharper. He did what he had in high school, when a defensive miscue would keep him on the field for hours after practice: He attacked each imperfection head-on. He entered his senior year of college asked to move all around the infield. Lipscomb’s big league shot arrived early this year. An impressive spring training put him in the mix for the opening Day roster. on march 27, the Nationals made him the final roster cut, and 72 hours later, after an injury to third baseman Nick Senzel on opening Day, Lipscomb was in Washington’s lineup. Still, while such poise has helped elevate Lipscomb, baseball’s highest ranks have a learning curve. He’s making contact to all fields, but his average exit velocity is in the bottom 10 percent of all major leaguers, and he is hitting .154 against breaking balls. His average launch angle, minus 3.2 degrees, is the lowest among any major leaguer with at least 75 plate appearances. By outs above average, Lipscomb has been one of the game’s best defensive third basemen this season — though he has had trouble playing out of position, with recent miscues in stints at first and second base weighing down his overall defensive metrics. He always has a piece of gum in his mouth, and he carries himself unlike most rookies. He has, after all, been asked to provide a lot in a role he has spent little time in previously. “I would say it’s more preparation than confidence,” Lipscomb said at the end of spring training about his poise. “The noise is just noise,” he said six weeks later. “Just going out there and playing the game.” Until his senior season at Tennessee, Lipscomb was largely a bench player. He arrived in Knoxville with tools, but his strength and conditioning didn’t match that of his older teammates. His sophomore year was shortened by the coronavirus pandemic, and the extra season of eligibility granted to seniors left him stuffed on the bench the NaTioNaLs from D1 In rookie season, Nationals’ Lipscomb is staying calm and collected meGAN BrIGGS/GeTTy ImAGeS “The noise is just noise,” Trey Lipscomb said of pressure. “Just going out there and playing the game.” on the final weekend of the season. Cal ripken Jr. had 93 rBI. Nobody else had more than 70, but 12 players had 25 or more. There was no big star, just constant roster patching, unlikely heroes and oriole magic for six months. Last year, Arizona made the playoffs with just 84 wins, then reached the World Series. The Diamondbacks were awful in ’21 (110 losses), then went 74-88 in ’22. Now they’re 15-20 and lookin’ poorly. Where did ’23 come from? But they get to keep the flag. Some of my favorite teams are the overachievers, the rebuilding organizations, whether they make it all the way back or not — clubs such as these Nats with (I just counted ’em) 11 vets who signed contracts for not much more than the rookie minimum, so they could stay in the game and — oh, please — play their way into another contract next year. Where? Anywhere. Someday, maybe, the Nats will be Wood and Crews, Brady House and robert Hassell III, Cade Cavalli and Jarlin Susana, plus some $100 million-plus free agents. might be quite a team. or not quite. Either way, the Nats of the past 100 games have been quite a team in their own unnoticed way — quite entertaining and often quite promising. They’re not must-see TV yet. But if you look away, there’s no telling what you might miss. emerging star trying to figure out how to be selective enough at the plate to be a supernova, scored from third base on a “wild pitch” only 12 feet from home plate. I saw an old tape of Jackie robinson doing that. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody do it in real life. rizzo says Washington is building its next World Series team. He should think so. But those who follow the team shouldn’t have their fun spoiled by applying the highest possible standard before being happy. You need superstars to be a super team. right now, the Nats, potentially, have just one in Abrams. Eventually, they will need a handful of ’em. Lefty macKenzie Gore may polish up into one, in the Gio Gonzalez mold. He has the stuff, a necessary but hardly sufficient condition. Wood, who’s ripping up Class AAA, may be a midorder beast. But two or three high-end free agents will be needed, too. Until those prospects, free agents and trade pieces start arriving — and it won’t be this year — it may be useful to recall one of my most painful lessons as a baseball writer. In 1988, the orioles went 54-107. The next spring I wrote an entire magazine story making fun of their hopelessness and touting their chances to be the worst team in history. Those ’89 orioles went 87-75 and were still in the playoff race score again. Yet, somehow, they do. They will steal everything but your sanity. They are on pace for 272 stolen bases, just behind the larcenous reds. Sure, the new rules help. But neither maury Wills nor Lou Brock nor rickey Henderson ever played on a team that stole 272 bases. Young, CJ Abrams and Thomas are capable of 40 to 60 steals, depending on how much they play and how much of a beating the Nats are willing to allow their bodies to take. Luis García Jr. and Lipscomb are 20-to-30-steal types. Believe it or not, the Nats’ top two prospects — 6-foot-7 James Wood and Dylan Crews — are speed merchants who project as 30-plus-steal players at a minimum. robles is fleet, too. Who knows how far General manager mike rizzo planned ahead for this speed onslaught? or whether it was an accident. But if a roster of Young, Crews, Thomas, Abrams, García, Lipscomb and Wood ever gets on the field together, it may be the fastest team I’ll ever see except for Whitey Herzog’s runnin’ redbirds in the 1980s. With their flash-mob offense — the bases seem empty for an hour, then suddenly crazed Nats are running around everywhere — Washington uses double steals, delayed steals of home plate and hit-and-runs and is always looking to take the extra base. recently, Abrams, an Parra and Sean (Doctor) Doolittle, those energizers on the 2019 champs, seem to fit right in. The years have shown that martinez may rank with Dusty Baker in that unmeasurable but essential managerial skill: clubhouse whisperer. The comebacks would be impressive if the Nats could hit. But with their two leading rBI men from ’23, Thomas and meneses, producing little and the two semi-powerful lefty bats they added over the winter, Gallo and rosario, hitting barely .100, the Nats look — on paper — as though they should never NAtiONALS ON dECk vs. Baltimore Orioles Tuesday 6:45 mASN, mASN2 Wednesday 6:45 mASN, mASN2 at Boston Red Sox friday 7:10 mASN Saturday 4:10 mASN Sunday 1:35 mASN at Chicago White Sox Tuesday 7:40 mASN2 may 14 7:40 mASN2 may 15 2:10 mASN2 Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM), WDCN (87.7 FM) WILfredo Lee/ASSocIATed preSS Luis García Jr., one of the Nationals’ young building blocks, and veteran Eddie Rosario have helped the team to an uplifting 17-17 start. ASSOCIATED PRESS Jeremy Swayman stopped 38 shots, Brandon Carlo scored a goal just a few hours after his wife gave birth to their son, and the Boston Bruins topped the florida Panthers, 5-1, in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series monday night in Sunrise, fla. morgan Geekie, mason Lohrei, Justin Brazeau and Jake DeBrusk also had goals for Boston, which improved to 5-0-0 against the Panthers this season. Pavel Zacha had a pair of assists for the Bruins, who scored three times in the final 7:08 of the second period to erase a 1-0 deficit and seize control. matthew Tkachuk had the goal for florida, which has rallied from a 1-0 deficit to win a Stanley Cup playoff series only twice in nine previous opportunities — but one of those was last year against Boston in the opening round. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 24 shots for the Panthers, who were playing for the first time in a week. Game 2 is in Sunrise on Wednesday night. Swayman has been in net for all five of Boston’s wins in these playoffs and was stellar yet again — just as he was against Toronto in a first-round series that ended with a Game 7 overtime thriller Saturday night. He stopped all seven shots he saw on florida’s three power plays, improving the best stats of any netminder in these playoffs. Through seven playoff appearances, Swayman has made a league-best 210 saves with a stingy goals against average of 1.43. It was the first one-sided game of the five this season between the clubs that finished 1-2 — florida first with 110 points, Boston second with 109 — in the Atlantic Division. Boston won them all in the regular season, three by one goal and the other by two, but florida was either tied or ahead in those games 78 percent of the time. This one was different. once Boston got the lead, the Bruins — who have now successfully rallied from deficits of 1-0 in four of the five games with florida this season — went completely airtight defensively. Swayman gave up the game's first goal to Tkachuk, the florida star’s fourth of the postseason, midway through the second after he and Bobrovsky were in a goalie’s duel for the first 31 minutes. He didn’t deal with the deficit for long. It took Boston only 67 seconds to get the equalizer, with Geekie cleaning up a loose puck in front. And the lead came 3:25 later, when Lohrei got his first playoff goal by going over Bobrovsky’s shoulder from a tough angle. That set the stage for Carlo to add to a day he will never forget. He wasn’t on the flight with the Bruins to South florida on Sunday, staying behind because his wife, mayson, was about to give birth. She delivered their son, Crew, on monday morning, in time for Carlo to hop on a plane for the three-hour trip south. He arrived at the arena after the rest of his teammates but in time to be in the lineup — and he scored with 21 seconds left in the second, staking his club to a 3-1 edge. Brazeau sealed it with 12:47 left, getting behind the florida defense and beating Bobrovsky with a backhander. The Panthers pulled Bobrovsky with 5:30 left, and DeBrusk added an emptynetter about two minutes later. Jets coach Bowness retires rick Bowness walked off the ice following the Winnipeg Jets’ final loss of the season, which eliminated them from the playoffs, unhappy with his performance and how his team played, and it dawned on him that it should be the final NHL game he coaches. “Coaches have always told me, they’ve always said you’ll know it’s time,” Bowness said. “It just hit me then: It’s time.” Bowness announced his retirement after 38 NHL seasons, a well-respected career that included leading the Dallas Stars to the Stanley Cup finals in 2020 and more time spent behind the bench than anyone else in league history. This season, Bowness led the Jets to a fran chise-record 52 wins and a second postseason appearance in as many seasons on the job. StANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Boston has easy time in opener at Florida BRUINS 5, PANTHERS 1

d4 eZ su the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 nl games dIAMONdBACKS AT rEdS, 6:40 w-l ErA TEAM Gallen (R) 3-2 3.38 3-3 Montas (R) 2-2 4.19 3-2 pAdrES AT CUBS, 7:40 TBD ---- ---- ---- Imanaga (L) 5-0 0.78 6-0 METS AT CArdINAlS, 7:45 Buttó (R) 0-2 2.57 3-2 Mikolas (R) 2-4 5.68 2-5 gIANTS AT rOCKIES, 8:40 Harrison (L) 2-1 3.79 5-2 Hudson (R) 0-5 5.93 1-5 MArlINS AT dOdgErS, 10:10 Cabrera (R) 1-1 6.05 2-2 Yamamoto (R) 3-1 2.91 3-4 al games rANgErS AT ATHlETICS, 3:37 w-l ErA TEAM TBD ---- ---- ---- Stripling (R) 1-5 4.24 2-5 TIgErS AT gUArdIANS, 6:10 Maeda (R) 1-1 5.02 3-3 Allen (L) 3-2 5.11 4-3 wHITE SOx AT rAYS, 6:50 Soroka (R) 0-3 6.48 1-6 Eflin (R) 1-4 4.17 2-5 ASTrOS AT YANKEES, 7:05 Verlander (R) 1-0 2.08 1-2 Gil (R) 2-1 3.19 4-2 MArINErS AT TwINS, 7:40 Hancock (R) 3-3 4.75 3-3 Ober (R) 3-1 4.55 3-3 nl scores SUNdAY’S rESUlTS at Pittsburgh 5, Colorado 3 at Chicago Cubs 5, Milwaukee 0 at L.A. Dodgers 5, Atlanta 1 at Arizona 11, San Diego 4 at Philadelphia 5, San Francisco 4 MONdAY’S rESUlTS at Philadelphia 6, San Francisco 1 N.Y. Mets 4, at St. Louis 3 San Diego 6, at Chicago Cubs 3 Miami at L.A. Dodgers, late al scores SUNdAY’S rESUlTS at Cleveland 4, L.A. Angels 1 at N.Y. Yankees 5, Detroit 2 (8) Texas 3, at Kansas City 2 (10) Boston 9, at Minnesota 2 Seattle 5, at Houston 4 MONdAY’S rESUlTS at Cleveland 2, Detroit 1 at Tampa Bay 8, Chicago White Sox 2 at Minnesota 3, Seattle 1 Texas at Oakland, late Interleague games OrIOlES AT NATIONAlS, 6:45 w-l ErA TEAM Burnes (R) 3-1 2.61 5-2 Williams (R) 3-0 2.27 5-1 ANgElS AT pIrATES, 6:40 Sandoval (L) 1-5 5.91 2-5 Priester (R) 0-2 3.31 0-3 BlUE JAYS AT pHIllIES, 6:40 Berríos (R) 4-2 1.44 5-2 Sánchez (L) 1-3 3.68 1-5 rEd SOx AT BrAVES, 7:20 Crawford (R) 2-1 1.56 3-4 López (R) 2-1 1.50 3-2 BrEwErS AT rOYAlS, 7:40 Rea (R) 3-0 2.67 5-1 Lugo (R) 5-1 1.60 5-2 mets 4, cardinals 3 Brandon Nimmo hit a solo homer in the seventh inning to lift New York. sean Manaea pitched six effective innings and edwin Díaz rebounded from a blown save sunday for the Mets. iván Herrera had a two-run double for st. Louis, which has lost five of six. METS AB r H BI BBSOAVg Nimmo cf-lf........522 101 .228 Marte rf..............500 101 .264 Lindor ss .............210 110 .204 Stewart 1b-lf......301 100 .194 Bader cf ..............101 000 .286 Martinez dh ........301 011 .273 Baty 3b ...............400 002 .259 Wendle 2b ..........302 000 .250 Alonso 1b............100 000 .205 McNeil lf-2b........401 000 .231 Nido c..................312 000 .226 TOTAlS 34 4 10 4 2 5 — CArdINAlS AB r H BI BBSOAVg Fermín 2b .............4 1 2 0 0 0 .300 Contreras c ...........4 1 1 1 0 2 .274 Goldschmidt 1b ....3 1 0 0 1 0 .203 Arenado 3b...........4 0 1 0 0 0 .286 Carlson cf .............4 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Herrera dh ............3 0 1 2 0 0 .215 Burleson ph ..........1 0 0 0 0 1 .241 Donovan lf............4 0 1 0 0 0 .216 Winn ss ................4 0 1 0 0 1 .265 Nootbaar rf...........3 0 1 0 0 0 .175 TOTAlS 34 3 8 314 — NEw YOrK .... 100 020 100 — 4 10 0 ST. lOUIS....... 000 003 000 — 3 8 1 E: Nootbaar (1). lOB: New York 7, St. Louis 5. 2B: Stewart (3), Bader (3), Donovan (8), Winn (5), Contreras (10), Herrera (1), Nootbaar (6). Hr: Nimmo (4), off Kittredge. METS Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Manaea................ 6 6 3 3 1 1 3.31 Diekman .............. 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.86 Ottavino .............. 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.70 Díaz ..................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.45 CArdINAlS Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Gibson ................. 6 7 3 2 2 4 3.68 Kittredge............. 1 1 1 1 0 0 1.20 Fernandez............ 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.51 King .................... 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 3.86 Robertson........... 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 wp: Manaea (2-1); lp: Kittredge (0-1); S: Díaz (5). T: 2:25. A: 31,283 (44,494). twins 3, mariners 1 simeon Woods richardson struck out a careerhigh eight and walked just one in six scoreless innings of one-hit ball, and Minnesota scored twice in the seventh to beat seattle in the opener of a fourgame series. Minnesota bounced back quickly after its 12-game winning streak was snapped sunday with a 9-2 loss to Boston. MArINErS AB r H BI BBSOAVg Rojas 3b..............400 002 .342 Rodríguez cf .......400 002 .254 Polanco 2b ..........411 001 .195 Haniger rf ...........401 002 .214 Raleigh c .............200 021 .206 France 1b ............300 002 .248 Garver dh............201 101 .163 Raley lf ...............300 002 .219 Moore ss.............300 001 .192 TOTAlS 29 1 3 1 2 14 — TwINS AB r H BI BBSOAVg Julien 2b .............400 003 .204 Larnach dh ..........400 000 .348 Kirilloff lf............300 003 .232 Farmer 3b ...........100 001 .145 Kepler rf..............311 010 .295 Correa ss.............412 101 .279 Castro 3b-cf........310 000 .270 Santana 1b .........100 020 .188 Vázquez c............200 101 .209 Margot cf-lf........301 100 .180 TOTAlS 28 3 4 339 — SEATTlE........ 000 000 100 — 1 3 1 MINNESOTA.. 000 010 20x — 3 4 0 E: France (2). lOB: Seattle 4, Minnesota 5. 2B: Correa 2 (4), Kepler (4). MArINErS Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Castillo ............. 62/3 2 3 2 3 7 3.35 Thornton .......... 11/3 2 0 0 0 2 2.45 TwINS Ip Hr ErBBSO ErA Woods Richardson...6 1 0 0 1 8 1.74 Jax............................1 2 1 1 1 2 2.40 Duran........................1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00 Thielbar....................1 0 0 0 0 2 6.14 wp: Jax (3-2); lp: Castillo (3-5); S: Thielbar (3). Inherited runners-scored: Thornton 2-1. IBB: off Castillo (Santana). wp: Woods Richardson. T: 2:09. A: 14,384 (38,544). phillies 6, Giants 1 Zack Wheeler struck out 11 in seven innings, Bryce Harper hit a three-run homer and kyle schwarber added a solo shot to help philadelphia complete a four-game sweep of san Francisco. the major league-leading phillies won their sixth straight and have won 10 of 11 and 17 of 20 to open a three-game lead over atlanta in the NL east. gIANTS AB r H BI BBSOAVg Lee cf..................402 000 .252 Estrada 2b ..........410 002 .248 Wade dh..............302 000 .347 Slater ph-dh........100 001 .118 Flores 1b.............301 100 .226 Conforto lf..........300 011 .252 Chapman 3b........400 003 .209 Yastrzemski rf....300 002 .219 Fitzgerald ss.......300 002 .263 Reetz c................300 002 .250 TOTAlS 31 1 5 1 1 13 — pHIllIES AB r H BI BBSOAVg Schwarber dh .....422 111 .214 Realmuto c .........512 001 .264 Harper 1b............412 301 .243 Bohm 3b..............400 000 .349 Marsh lf..............411 001 .264 Castellanos rf.....212 120 .197 Stott ss...............300 012 .235 Merrifield 2b.......401 100 .250 Rojas cf...............400 001 .210 TOTAlS 34 6 10 6 4 7 — SAN FrAN. .... 000 001 000 — 1 5 0 pHIlA............. 000 140 01x — 6 10 1 E: Stott (2). lOB: San Francisco 5, Philadelphia 8. 2B: Flores (5), Realmuto (4), Marsh (3), Castellanos (1). Hr: Harper (8), off Black; Schwarber (9), off Ty.Rogers. gIANTS Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Black................. 41/3 8 5 5 3 4 10.3 Miller................ 11/3 0 0 0 0 2 4.67 Jackson............. 11/3 1 0 0 1 1 4.26 Ty.Rogers ............ 1 1 1 1 0 0 3.07 pHIllIES Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Wheeler............... 7 4 1 0 1 11 1.64 Strahm ................ 1 1 0 0 0 2 1.29 Kerkering............. 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.04 wp: Wheeler (4-3); lp: Black (0-1). Inherited runners-scored: Miller 1-0. wp: Wheeler. T: 2:23. A: 33,408 (42,901). Guardians 2, tigers 1 José ramírez hit a solo homer in the sixth inning, breaking Hall of Famer Larry Doby’s franchise record with his 87th career goahead blast to lift cleveland past Detroit. ramírez’s drive off starter Jack Flaherty hit the foul pole in right field, snapping a 1-all tie that had stood since the first. TIgErS AB r H BI BBSOAVg Greene dh ...........5 1 1 1 0 1 .266 Canha lf ..............3 0 0 0 1 2 .248 Vierling 3b ..........4 0 0 0 0 1 .276 Carpenter rf........3 0 1 0 0 1 .260 Torkelson 1b.......4 0 1 0 0 1 .217 Keith 2b ..............2 0 1 0 0 0 .158 Ibáñez ph-2b.......2 0 0 0 0 0 .276 Meadows cf........1 0 0 0 1 0 .096 Pérez ph-cf .........1 0 0 0 1 1 .296 Báez ss ...............4 0 1 0 0 1 .180 Kelly c .................3 0 1 0 1 1 .185 TOTAlS 32 1 6 1 4 9 — gUArdIANS AB r H BI BBSOAVg Florial lf..............3 1 1 0 0 0 .206 Laureano ph-rf....1 0 0 0 0 1 .150 Giménez 2b.........4 0 1 0 0 2 .269 Ramírez 3b .........4 1 1 1 0 0 .230 J.Naylor 1b .........2 0 1 0 1 0 .275 Brennan rf-lf.......3 0 1 1 0 1 .245 B.Naylor c ...........3 0 0 0 0 1 .172 Manzardo dh.......3 0 0 0 0 3 .000 Freeman cf..........3 0 2 0 0 1 .204 Rocchio ss...........3 0 0 0 0 1 .206 TOTAlS 29 2 7 2 1 10 — dETrOIT ........ 100 000 000 — 1 6 0 ClEVElANd... 100 001 00x — 2 7 1 E: B.Naylor (1). lOB: Detroit 9, Cleveland 4. 2B: Carpenter (6), Florial (3), Freeman (5), Giménez (7). Hr: Greene (9), off McKenzie; Ramírez (7), off Flaherty. TIgErS Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Flaherty............... 6 6 2 2 1 6 3.86 Wentz.................. 2 1 0 0 0 4 0.68 gUArdIANS Ip H r ErBBSO ErA McKenzie............. 5 3 1 1 3 6 3.97 Hentges.............. 2/3 0 0 010 0.00 Sandlin ............. 11/3 1 0 001 2.04 Gaddis ................. 1 2 0 0 0 1 2.70 Clase.................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.49 wp: Sandlin (3-0); lp: Flaherty (0-2); S: Clase (11). Inherited runners-scored: Sandlin 2-0. T: 2:21. A: 15,029 (34,788). pirates 4, angels 1 edward olivares hit his first career grand slam and Mitch keller pitched a fivehit complete game to lead pittsburgh past Los angeles. olivares’s slam came off tyler anderson in the third inning to break a scoreless tie as the pirates went on to their third consecutive victory following a fivegame losing streak. the angels lost for the 14th time in 17 games. ANgElS AB r H BI BBSOAVg Schanuel 1b ........401 000 .233 Moniak cf............402 001 .184 Ward lf................400 001 .271 Calhoun dh..........401 001 .375 O'Hoppe c ...........300 000 .253 Drury 2b..............300 000 .156 Adell rf................300 001 .250 Tucker 3b ............200 011 .357 Neto ss ...............311 100 .239 TOTAlS 30 1 5 115 — pIrATES AB r H BI BBSOAVg McCutchen dh.....311 011 .187 Reynolds lf..........412 000 .250 Hayes 3b.............310 010 .248 Joe 1b .................400 002 .279 Tellez 1b .............000 000 .211 Olivares rf...........412 400 .218 Suwinski rf.........000 000 .176 Bart c ..................300 001 .189 Cruz ss ................301 000 .244 Triolo 2b..............200 010 .221 Taylor cf..............300 002 .229 TOTAlS 29 4 6 436 — l.A.................. 000 001 000 — 1 5 0 pITTSBUrgH. 004 000 00x — 4 6 1 E: Cruz (7). lOB: Los Angeles 3, Pittsburgh 4. 2B: Moniak (2), Calhoun (4), Olivares (2), Reynolds (8), McCutchen (3). Hr: Neto (3), off Keller; Olivares (4), off Anderson. ANgElS Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Anderson.......... 61/3 6 4 4 3 5 2.74 Strickland......... 12/3 0 0 0 0 1 2.45 pIrATES Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Keller................... 9 5 1 1 1 5 4.41 wp: Keller (3-3); lp: Anderson (2-4). Inherited runners-scored: Strickland 1-0. T: 1:55. A: 9,506 (38,753). rays 8, White sox 2 Jonny DeLuca continued his hot hitting with a home run and four rBi as tampa Bay beat chicago for its fourth consecutive win. DeLuca has 10 rBi in four games after being sidelined with a broken hand. chicago’s Mike clevinger, recalled from class aaa charlotte before the game, allowed four runs in two-plus innings. wHITE SOx AB r H BI BBSOAVg Grossman rf........3 1 0 0 1 1 .211 Pham cf...............4 1 1 2 0 2 .282 Vaughn 1b...........4 0 1 0 0 0 .189 Jiménez dh .........4 0 0 0 0 1 .220 Benintendi lf.......3 0 0 0 1 2 .190 Ramos 3b............4 0 1 0 0 0 .286 Lee c....................3 0 0 0 1 2 .258 DeJong ss ...........4 0 0 0 0 2 .213 Lopez 2b .............3 0 1 0 0 1 .211 TOTAlS 32 2 4 2 3 11 — rAYS AB r H BI BBSOAVg Díaz 1b................5 0 1 1 0 1 .234 Arozarena lf........3 0 1 0 2 1 .147 Lowe rf ...............5 0 2 0 0 0 .400 Paredes 3b..........4 0 0 0 1 0 .285 Rosario 2b...........5 1 1 0 0 1 .308 H.Ramírez dh......4 3 4 1 0 0 .286 Caballero ss ........3 1 1 0 1 0 .265 Rortvedt c...........3 2 1 1 1 0 .350 DeLuca cf............4 1 2 4 0 0 .333 TOTAlS 36 8 13 7 5 3 — CHICAgO........ 002 000 000 — 2 4 2 TAMpA BAY .. 031 031 00x — 8 13 2 E: Lopez (2), Hill (1), Caballero (5), Rosario (1). lOB: Chicago 6, Tampa Bay 9. 2B: Arozarena (3), H.Ramírez (3), Lowe (1). 3B: Rosario (2). Hr: Pham (2), off Alexander; DeLuca (1), off Shuster. wHITE SOx Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Clevinger ............. 2 6 4 3 4 0 13.5 Shuster............. 21/3 4 3 3 1 0 3.00 Hill.................... 12/3 3 1 0 0 0 2.92 Banks................... 2 0 0 0 0 3 4.96 rAYS Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Alexander............ 4 4 2 2 1 7 4.96 E.Ramírez............ 3 0 0 0 1 1 4.76 Uceta ................... 2 0 0 0 1 3 0.00 wp: E.Ramírez (2-0); lp: Clevinger (0-1). Inherited runners-scored: Shuster 2-0, Hill 1-0, E.Ramírez 2-0. wp: Clevinger. pB: Lee (2). T: 2:33. A: 12,042 (25,025). royals 3, brewers 2 Michael Massey homered and Maikel Garcia singled in two runs in a three-run seventh inning for kansas city. the royals broke through against the Brewers’ bullpen after doing nothing against starter Bryse Wilson. BrEwErS AB r H BI BBSOAVg Contreras dh ......300 012 .328 Ortiz 2b ..............200 011 .265 Turang 2b ...........100 000 .296 Hoskins 1b .........300 011 .219 Adames ss..........411 000 .258 Perkins cf...........300 012 .258 Sánchez c ...........411 201 .212 Frelick rf.............200 011 .248 Chourio lf ...........301 000 .222 Monasterio 3b....200 002 .000 Dunn ph-3b.........100 000 .230 TOTAlS 28 2 3 2 5 10 — rOYAlS AB r H BI BB SOAVg Garcia 3b ..............2 0 1 2 2 1 .236 Witt ss .................2 0 0 0 2 0 .314 Pasquantino 1b ....4 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Perez c..................3 0 1 0 0 2 .328 Massey 2b ............3 1 1 1 0 0 .294 Renfroe rf.............4 0 1 0 0 1 .161 Melendez lf ..........2 0 0 0 0 0 .183 Velázquez ph-lf....1 1 0 0 0 1 .213 Fermin c ...............0 0 0 0 0 0 .218 Frazier dh .............2 1 0 0 1 1 .164 Blanco cf...............3 0 1 0 0 1 .222 TOTAlS 26 3 5 358 — MIlwAUKEE . 000 200 000 — 2 3 1 KANSAS CITY 000 000 30x — 3 5 0 E: Perkins (1). lOB: Milwaukee 4, Kansas City 7. Hr: Sánchez (4), off Ragans; Massey (3), off Koenig. BrEwErS Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Wilson................. 6 1 0 0 3 6 2.40 Koenig................ 1/3 1 3 3 1 1 3.60 Peguero............... 0 2 0 0 1 0 3.38 Milner .............. 12/3 1 0 0 0 1 2.40 rOYAlS Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Ragans ................ 6 2 2 2 2 8 3.38 Anderson ............ 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.77 Duffey ................ 1/3 1 0 0 1 0 1.69 Smith ................. 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 9.00 Stratton .............. 1 0 0 0 2 0 5.40 wp: Anderson (2-1); lp: Koenig (2-1); S: Stratton (2). Peguero pitched to 3 batters in the 7th Inherited runnersscored: Peguero 2-2, Milner 3-0, Smith 2-0. IBB: off Peguero (Witt). HBp: Wilson (Perez), Koenig (Velázquez). T: 2:27. A: 10,005 (38,427). padres 6, cubs 3 Yu Darvish pitched five scoreless innings, Luis campusano drove in three runs, and san Diego beat chicago. Darvish allowed three hits, struck out five and walked one in his second straight win. pAdrES AB r HBI BBSOAVg Arraez dh.............. 4 0 0 0 1 0 .333 Tatis rf.................. 5 1 1 0 0 1 .248 Cronenworth 1b.... 4 1 2 0 0 1 .285 Profar lf................ 4 1 1 2 0 0 .341 Azocar lf............... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .300 Bogaerts 2b .......... 4 1 2 0 0 0 .224 Solano 3b.............. 3 1 2 1 1 0 .667 Kim ss................... 3 1 0 0 1 0 .209 Campusano c ........ 4 0 2 3 0 2 .274 Merrill cf............... 4 0 1 0 0 1 .283 TOTAlS 35 6 11 6 3 5 — CUBS AB r HBIBBSOAVg Hoerner 2b.................5 0 1 0 0 0 .279 Tauchman rf ..............4 1 2 0 1 1 .278 Happ lf .......................4 0 0 0 1 3 .228 Morel dh.....................4 1 1 2 1 0 .220 Busch 1b ....................3 0 0 0 0 2 .254 Wisdom ph-1b ...........0 0 0 0 1 0 .261 Swanson ss................2 0 0 0 2 1 .216 Madrigal 3b................4 0 2 0 0 1 .222 Crow-Armstrong cf ...4 0 0 0 0 1 .216 Gomes c .....................4 1 1 1 0 2 .192 TOTAlS 34 3 7 3 6 11 — SAN dIEgO .... 000 006 000 — 6 11 0 CHICAgO........ 000 002 100 — 3 7 0 lOB: San Diego 5, Chicago 10. 2B: Bogaerts (6), Campusano (9), Hoerner (11), Tauchman (8). Hr: Morel (8), off Matsui; Gomes (2), off De Los Santos. pAdrES Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Darvish................ 5 3 0 0 1 5 2.94 Matsui................ 2/3 1 2 211 3.38 De Los Santos ..... 1 1 1 1 1 1 2.45 Peralta................ 1/3 1 0 020 4.02 Estrada............... 1/3 1 0 011 0.00 Suarez .............. 12/3 0 0 003 0.59 CUBS Ip H r ErBBSO ErA Steele ............... 42/3 3 0 012 0.96 Lovelady ............. 1/3 3 3 300 7.36 Palencia............... 1 3 3 3 1 1 6.55 Brewer................. 2 1 0 0 0 2 3.38 Alzolay ................ 1 1 0 0 1 0 5.14 wp: Darvish (2-1); lp: Lovelady (0-1); S: Suarez (11). Inherited runnersscored: Estrada 1-0, Suarez 3-0, Lovelady 1-0, Palencia 1-1. wp: Matsui. T: 3:01. A: 35,560 (41,363). pErsonnEl dEpt. dodgers: placed reliever Joe kelly (shoulder) on the 15-day injured list, opening a roster spot for rHp Walker Buehler, who was reinstated from the iL to make his first major league start since June 10, 2022. Buehler has been recovering from his second tommy John surgery in august 2022. Guardians: placed oF steven kwan, who leads the aL with a .353 average, on the 10-day iL with a left hamstring strain. cleveland recalled oF kyle Manzardo from class aaa columbus. rays: reinstated oF Josh Lowe (right oblique strain and hamstring) from the 10-day iL. by thE numbErs 10 consecutive home wins by the MLB-leading phillies, two away from the franchise record set in 2012. philadelphia has won 17 of its past 20 games overall. Baseball national league american league Matt rourke/associateD press Philadelphia power play Bryce Harper, second from left, is greeted by J.T. Realmuto, left, and Kyle Schwarber after his three-run home run in the Phillies’ 6-1 victory over the Giants. today Interleague scores SUNdAY’S rESUlTS at Washington 11, Toronto 8 Baltimore 11, at Cincinnati 1 Chicago White Sox 5, at St. Louis 1 Tampa Bay 7, N.Y. Mets 6 (10) Miami 12, at Oakland 3 MONdAY’S rESUlT at Pittsburgh 4, L.A. Angels 1 at Kansas City 3, Milwaukee 2 nl leaders Entering Monday’s games. BATTINg Ohtani, LA ....................................... .364 Bohm, Phi ........................................ .360 Betts, LA ......................................... .352 Smith, LA ......................................... .347 Profar, SD ........................................ .344 Turner, Phi ....................................... .343 Contreras, Mil .................................. .336 Arraez, SD ....................................... .311 Díaz, Col ........................................... .308 Marte, Ari ........................................ .307 HOME rUNS Ozuna, Atl ........................................... 10 Ohtani, LA .......................................... 10 Muncy, LA ............................................. 8 De La Cruz, Cin ...................................... 8 Alonso, NY ............................................ 8 Schwarber, Phi ..................................... 8 Hernández, LA ...................................... 8 5 tied ..................................................... 7 rBI Ozuna, Atl ........................................... 33 Bohm, Phi ........................................... 32 Contreras, Mil ..................................... 27 Betts, LA ............................................ 27 Smith, LA ............................................ 26 Cronenworth, SD ................................ 25 Hernández, LA .................................... 25 Ohtani, LA .......................................... 25 Walker, Ari ......................................... 24 rUNS Acuña, Atl ........................................... 31 Betts, LA ............................................ 31 Ohtani, LA .......................................... 30 Contreras, Mil ..................................... 29 De La Cruz, Cin .................................... 27 Schwarber, Phi ................................... 27 Tatis, SD ............................................. 27 Turner, Phi .......................................... 27 BASES ON BAllS Betts, LA ............................................ 28 Freeman, LA ....................................... 24 Harper, Phi .......................................... 24 Nimmo, NY ......................................... 24 Schwarber, Phi ................................... 23 Walker, Ari ......................................... 22 Happ, Chi ............................................ 21 Kim, SD ............................................... 21 Reynolds, Pit ...................................... 21 ErA Imanaga, Chi .................................... 0.78 Assad, Chi ........................................ 1.66 Suárez, Phi ....................................... 1.72 Hicks, SF .......................................... 1.90 Wheeler, Phi .................................... 1.91 Cease, SD ......................................... 2.55 Jones, Pit ......................................... 2.63 Rea, Mil ............................................ 2.67 Glasnow, LA .................................... 2.70 Severino, NY .................................... 2.93 SAVES Finnegan, Was .................................... 11 Helsley, StL ........................................ 11 Suarez, SD .......................................... 10 Iglesias, Atl .......................................... 8 Phillips, LA ........................................... 8 Alvarado, Phi ........................................ 7 Bednar, Pit ............................................ 6 Doval, SF ............................................... 6 Díaz, Cin ................................................ 6 Neris, Chi .............................................. 6 INNINgS pITCHEd Glasnow, LA ....................................... 50 Suárez, Phi .......................................... 47 Webb, SF .......................................... 461/3 Nola, Phi ........................................... 431/3 Cease, SD ......................................... 421/3 Wheeler, Phi .................................... 421/3 King, SD .............................................. 42 Jones, Pit ............................................ 41 Musgrove, SD ..................................... 41 Pfaadt, Ari .......................................... 41 STrIKEOUTS Glasnow, LA ....................................... 63 Jones, Pit ............................................ 52 Wheeler, Phi ....................................... 52 Peralta, Mil ......................................... 50 Cease, SD ............................................ 48 Greene, Cin ......................................... 47 Suárez, Phi .......................................... 46 King, SD .............................................. 43 Gore, Was ........................................... 42 Pfaadt, Ari .......................................... 42 Sale, Atl .............................................. 42 Yamamoto, LA .................................... 42 notEs East W l pct Gb l10 str Baltimore 23 11 .676 — 7-3 W-4 New York 23 13 .639 1 6-4 W-3 Boston 19 16 .543 41 / 2 5-5 W-1 tampa Bay 18 18 .500 6 5-5 W-4 toronto 16 19 .457 71 / 2 3-7 L-1 cEntral W l pct Gb l10 str cleveland 23 12 .657 — 5-5 W-3 Minnesota 20 14 .588 21 / 2 9-1 W-1 kansas city 21 15 .583 21 / 2 5-5 W-1 Detroit 18 17 .514 5 4-6 L-4 chicago 8 27 .229 15 5-5 L-1 WEst W l pct Gb l10 str seattle 19 16 .543 — 6-4 L-1 x-texas 19 16 .543 — 6-4 W-2 x-oakland 17 18 .486 2 8-2 L-1 Houston 12 22 .353 61 / 2 5-5 L-2 Los angeles 12 23 .343 7 2-8 L-3 x-Late game East W l pct Gb l10 str philadelphia 25 11 .694 — 9-1 W-6 atlanta 20 12 .625 3 4-6 L-3 Washington 17 17 .500 7 7-3 W-1 New York 17 18 .486 71 / 2 4-6 W-1 x-Miami 10 26 .278 15 4-6 W-1 cEntral W l pct Gb l10 str Milwaukee 20 14 .588 — 4-6 L-3 chicago 21 15 .583 — 4-6 L-1 pittsburgh 17 19 .472 4 4-6 W-3 cincinnati 16 18 .471 4 2-8 L-5 st. Louis 15 20 .429 51 / 2 4-6 L-3 WEst W l pct Gb l10 str x-Los angeles 23 13 .639 — 8-2 W-4 san Diego 19 19 .500 5 5-5 W-1 arizona 15 20 .429 71 / 2 3-7 W-1 san Francisco 15 21 .417 8 3-7 L-4 colorado 8 26 .235 14 2-8 L-2 x-Late game al leaders Entering Monday’s games. BATTINg Kwan, Cle ......................................... .353 Altuve, Hou ..................................... .343 Perez, KC ......................................... .328 Rutschman, Bal ............................... .324 Peña, Hou ........................................ .323 Witt, KC ........................................... .319 Soto, NY ........................................... .316 Rosario, TB ...................................... .313 Paredes, TB ..................................... .294 Smith, Tex ....................................... .293 HOME rUNS Trout, LA ............................................. 10 Henderson, Bal ................................... 10 O’Neill, Bos ........................................... 9 Tucker, Hou .......................................... 9 Rooker, Oak .......................................... 8 Raleigh, Sea .......................................... 8 Naylor, Cle ............................................ 8 Greene, Det ........................................... 8 Perez, KC .............................................. 8 García, Tex ............................................ 8 Soto, NY ................................................ 8 rBI Perez, KC ............................................ 30 Soto, NY .............................................. 28 García, Tex .......................................... 27 Ramírez, Cle ....................................... 27 Naylor, Cle .......................................... 26 Henderson, Bal ................................... 24 Ward, LA ............................................. 24 Westburg, Bal .................................... 23 Santander, Bal .................................... 23 Tucker, Hou ........................................ 23 rUNS Witt, KC .............................................. 31 Kwan, Cle ............................................ 28 Greene, Det ......................................... 26 Henderson, Bal ................................... 26 Altuve, Hou ........................................ 25 Semien, Tex ........................................ 24 Soto, NY .............................................. 23 Tucker, Hou ........................................ 23 Volpe, NY ............................................ 23 Duran, Bos .......................................... 22 O’Neill, Bos ......................................... 22 Ramírez, Cle ....................................... 22 BASES ON BAllS Judge, NY ............................................ 26 Soto, NY .............................................. 26 Greene, Det ......................................... 25 Tucker, Hou ........................................ 24 Polanco, Sea ....................................... 20 Guerrero, Tor ...................................... 19 Pasquantino, KC ................................. 19 Julien, Min .......................................... 18 Verdugo, NY ....................................... 17 Volpe, NY ............................................ 17 ErA Berríos, Tor ...................................... 1.44 Crawford, Bos .................................. 1.56 Lugo, KC ........................................... 1.60 Gilbert, Sea ...................................... 1.69 Skubal, Det ...................................... 1.90 Houck, Bos ....................................... 1.99 Blanco, Hou ...................................... 2.10 Anderson, LA ................................... 2.23 Singer, KC ........................................ 2.46 Gray, Tex .......................................... 2.50 SAVES Holmes, NY ......................................... 11 Clase, Cle ............................................ 10 Foley, Det ............................................. 9 Kimbrel, Bal .......................................... 8 Miller, Oak ............................................ 8 McArthur, KC ........................................ 7 Estévez, LA ........................................... 5 Jansen, Bos .......................................... 5 Muñoz, Sea ........................................... 5 Yates, Tex ............................................. 5 STrIKEOUTS Crochet, Chi ........................................ 53 Skubal, Det ......................................... 53 Flaherty, Det ...................................... 50 Gilbert, Sea ......................................... 50 Castillo, Sea ........................................ 49 Cortes, NY .......................................... 46 Houck, Bos .......................................... 46 Ragans, KC .......................................... 46 Ryan, Min ............................................ 46 López, Min .......................................... 45 Shop Post Special Products Unique items showcasing the exclusive work of Post columnists, artists and photographers National Parks Posters (set of 5) $60 for the set; 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tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post eZ SU D5 The 49ers are loath to agree to such guarantees — it has been an organizational mantra not to go there — and Coach Kyle Shanahan tends to think he can find and develop quarterbacks anywhere, as seen in Purdy’s rise from mr. Irrelevant. further, San francisco’s rising payroll is already leading to a tough negotiation with wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk. Shanahan’s affinity for Cousins is well known, and a year from now he essentially could be renting him for 2025 at $27.5 million (or less). Cousins would make just $35 million in 2026 and 2027 (nonguaranteed), with $63 million of his $100 million in guarantees paid for in the first year of the deal. And Penix, a top-10 pick who is already nearly 24, is only going to sit for so long. As to whether Cousins would be willing to further rework his contract to facilitate a trade that would reunite him with his first NfL play caller in an offense he loves, well, I’ll let reasonable minds draw their own conclusions there. “Atlanta doesn’t take Penix there if they don’t think they have trade partners for Cousins,” the first Gm said. “No way. By next year, Atlanta will be willing to eat some of the contract to move him — trust me.” The other Gm said: “Purdy will want more than [Tagovailoa, Prescott and Lawrence], and he should get it. . . . Does Kyle think he needs a $60 million QB to win? That’s the question.” The evaluator of the team that selected a quarterback this year said: “Kyle’s not afraid to trade quarterbacks, and Kyle and mike [Shanahan] love Cousins. . . . my first thought was the same as yours: Cousins is going to end up with the 49ers.” Ewers are on the path to serious top-of-the-first-round potential. Every evaluator I spoke with was shocked the New York Giants sat out this draft’s quarterback derby. “They must really love their roster, but I don’t,” the Gm said. “I don’t think they can win with that group and Daniel Jones.” The general belief is it was maye or nothing for the Giants at the most critical position, and after the Patriots stayed at No. 3 and took maye, the Giants wound up with wide receiver malik Nabers at No. 6. Another Gm agreed that “you can kind of see the market already. Giants. Jets. raiders. Broncos because I don’t think they’re totally sold on Nix. I’d put Carolina up there, too.” Yes, that’s despite the Panthers drafting Bryce Young with the No. 1 pick just a year ago. other evaluators I talked with believed Young has at least a chance of succeeding in Year 2, but they weren’t overly enthusiastic about it. And few seemed bullish on Aaron rodgers’s tenure with the Jets ending well, setting up a potential reboot with a new quarterback in 2025. What’s next for cousins? The hottest quarterback rumor of 2025 is already being whispered in industry circles after the Atlanta falcons drafted Penix eighth overall just months after giving Kirk Cousins a free agent bounty. follow me here: If some of the aforementioned quarterbacks seeking extensions get massively rewarded and/or overpaid and Brock Purdy has another strong season for San francisco, it stands to reason Purdy’s asking price by January could be north of $55 million per year, with $200 million fully guaranteed. This kid can really play. He’s got good accuracy. He can let it rip. He’s not a sprinter, but he’s more than athletic enough. He’s got some charisma to him. He has strong leadership traits. He’s more than tough enough. “Now, his father is a total loose cannon, and this kid goes against Bill Parcells’s doctrine about the celebrity quarterback. . . . But that’s becoming more and more antiquated anyway, isn’t it?” And a top talent evaluator for a team that did select a quarterback in 2024 said of Sanders: “I really like him, man. I really do. He can play. He was right up there in the top three [quarterbacks] for me. I would have been stacking him right there with Daniels or maye. Definitely would have had him before [michael] Penix, [J.J.] mcCarthy or [Bo] Nix. If this kid comes out, he’s going in the top five or six picks. He could be the first pick of this draft.” Undoubtedly, 11 months from now, the narrative about Sanders being a late riser on draft boards will be percolating, as happened with mcCarthy and Penix this year. The reality is keen evaluators already saw both as top-half-of-the-firstround picks months ago, as they do with Sanders now. Barring injury or a dramatic turn for the worse, Prime Time 2.0 will launch in a very big way. Who needs a Qb in 2025? Early as it may be, consensus is already forming about teams that could be in the market for a quarterback next spring. The free agent class looks threadbare — especially if Jared Goff, Dak Prescott, Tua Tagovailoa and Trevor Lawrence get extensions as expected. In addition to Sanders, Georgia’s Carson Beck and Texas’s Quinn first-round quarterbacks were in agreement that Sanders would have stood up comparatively well against Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, Drake maye et al., and those evaluators are projecting Sanders will go much higher next year than mock drafts are predicting. “He was [the top QB] for me if he came out this year,” said a longtime NfL evaluator whose scouting reports about the 2024 class proved salient. (He spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the proprietary nature of scouting observations.) “You have to manage him a little differently, and Deion is going to be heavily involved . . . so you have to be prepared to deal with that bulls---. But I love watching that kid play. He’s a born winner.” one NfL general manager, whose team could be in the quarterback draft market in 2025, said: “Absolutely, he was a first-round pick. Absolutely. There would have been seven [taken in the first round]. We obviously didn’t do as much work on him as the other quarterbacks once he announced he wasn’t coming out, but he would have been in the top three [quarterbacks] for us this year, I think, had he gone through the entire process. He probably would have been up there with Williams and Daniels.” one agent who was involved in recruiting many members of the 2024 quarterback class and is preparing for the same in 2025 said: “I think he would have been under serious consideration with Washington [at the second pick] if he doesn’t stay in school. I honestly believe that, based on some of what I picked up through this process. ON The Nfl from D1 oN the NFl Evaluators see Sanders as a possible No. 1 draft pick BY CINDY BOREN Comedians, former teammates, rivals and a Kardashian took their best shots at Tom Brady on Sunday night in Netflix’s “The roast of Tom Brady,” spewing f-bombs and zingers over more than three hours at Kia forum in Inglewood, Calif. In the end, Brady proved to be “unroastable,” as he had promised in a promo for the show, but it wasn’t for a lack of trying by, among others, host Kevin Hart, Nikki Glaser, Kim Kardashian for some reason, Ben Affleck for obvious reasons, former coach Bill Belichick and former teammates rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman and randy moss. Brady’s long NfL career offered a rich tableau of roastable nuggets — his divorce from Gisele Bündchen (and her jujitsu instructor), Spygate, Deflategate, his TB12 diet and his relationship with his friend/“body coach” Alex Guerrero (“the snake oil salesman that turned Tom into a complete weirdo,” as Edelman put it). Brady’s journey from 199th draft pick to Sunday’s roast began when he replaced injured New England Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe in 2001, so it seemed appropriate to let Bledsoe take the first shots. “A lot of people assume I have a lot of animosity toward Tom Brady,” he said, “so I’m here tonight in front of millions of people to tell you — they’re correct.” Here’s a rundown of some of the best lines (minus most of the profanity): moss, who never won a ring with Brady: “I’ll tell you what you deflated: my legacy. I want my ring. . . . Drew Bledsoe was in the freakin’ hospital, and he has a Super Bowl ring. Nate Ebner — who the f--- is Nate Ebner? He has three Super Bowl rings.” Gronkowski on Brady and Belichick, noting that both hate fun: “You both live and breathe football. Neither of you are married anymore. You’re both even divorced from football — and both of you take full credit for the dynasty.” Belichick: “really, Tom, why are all these people so hard on you? Do you miss me?” Patriots owner robert Kraft spoke of Brady’s interest in becoming part owner of the Las Vegas raiders and his reported feelings about a former teammate: “Tom, good luck buying the raiders. They did your favorite thing for you already — they got rid of Jimmy Garoppolo.” Peyton manning, calling Brady a three-time Super Bowl loser: “my [golf] handicap is 6.4, while Tom’s handicap is blowing leads in the Super Bowl to my brother Eli.” Kraft: “Vladimir Putin, if you’re watching, give me my f---ing [Super Bowl XXXIX] ring back.” As roasts do, this one turned into a free-for-all in which no one escaped unscathed, although Brady seemed to tell comedian Jeff ross to back off the massage jokes concerning Kraft. But if you thought perhaps there would be no cracks about the late Aaron Hernandez and murder or CTE, you were sadly mistaken. And you probably didn’t foresee the night’s star turn by a smiling, laughing, relaxed . . . Belichick, who seemed to enjoy taunts about his inability to find a coaching job since parting with New England in January. “remember when you used to yell at us, ‘Look, a------, the f---ing kids down at foxborough High can make that f---ing play!’ ” Edelman recalled. “Well . . . foxborough High is the only job offer you have! . . . Do your job? more like need a job, Coach.” Bledsoe had a rip for Belichick, too: “Turns out he has some time on his hands. At least when I got fired, somebody else wanted me.” But Belichick didn’t take it sitting down. “It’s an honor to be at the roast of Tom Brady on Netflix tonight,” he said. “It’s not to be confused with the 10-part Bill Belichick roast during the Apple TV documentary.” Known for his “do your job” mantra, he begged Gronkowski, who now appears on fox’s NfL broadcasts, to “please stop doing your job.” It felt a little like a Patriots dynasty family reunion for Kraft and, he said, “like many family reunions, there are some people I’m desperately trying to avoid — Coach Belichick, good to see you. You really look debonair in sleeves.” But the night — and the last words — belonged to Brady (or Brady’s writers): About those deflated balls: “The NfL spent $20 million and found that it was more ‘probable’ than not, that I was ‘generally’ aware that someone may have deflated my footballs. You could’ve just given me the 20 mil and I would’ve just told you I f---ing did it.” on the Peyton manning rivalry: “I know sometimes you live in Denver and sometimes you live in Louisiana. But you will always live in my shadow.” on his interest in being part owner of the raiders: “I’m tired of owning just the Colts and the Bills.” on the Chiefs and Taylor Swift: “Kansas City, you say your stadium is the loudest. It helps when your fans are 14-year-old girls. . . . In honor of Tay Tay . . . let’s take a look at the Chiefs’ eras: terrible for 50 years, good for five. Shake it off.” And to Belichick: “I’ve been out of the game for a minute, so I’m curious: How many Super Bowls have you won since I left? . . . When I go to the Indy 500, I don’t ask, ‘Hey, who gassed up your car?’ ” Former teammates and rivals take their best shots at Brady MATT WINKelMeyer/geTTy IMAgeS for NeTflIx Tom brady and the audience toasted former Patriots coach bill belichick during Netflix’s “The Roast of Tom brady” on sunday. MATTheW SToCKMAN/geTTy IMAgeS shedeur sanders returned for another year at colorado, but he probably would have been a first-round pick if he entered the 2024 draft. but it put apartheid on the sports pages, and people in the U.S. began to learn about events such as the June 1976 Soweto uprising, in which more than 600 black schoolchildren were gunned down by the South African police, and the September 1977 murder in police custody of Steve Biko, the leader of South Africa’s Black Consciousness movement. on the sports pages!” By the mid-1980s, Northwestern was back at the center of the movement, with students arrested for refusing to leave an administrative building. Later that decade, student protesters began erecting shantytowns on campuses to mimic the poverty in which Indigenous South Africans were forced to survive. At Yale in 1986, its president and future major League Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti oversaw the arrest of dozens of protesting students and the razing of their shantytown. And slowly, it all began to make a difference. By the end of the 1980s, at least 155 U.S. colleges and universities divested from South Africa, starting with the first, Hampshire College in Amherst, mass., in 1977. Northwestern divested some of its investments with South Africa in 1986. And in 2015, a campus organization called NUDivest called for the university to divest from corporations it believed to be violating the human rights of Palestinians. Shortly before he died, Brutus explained his reason for direct action. “When we are taking significant action against government, the media does not cover it or they will bury it somewhere,” he told foreign Policy in focus. “. . . We cannot get it out to the people of the world, all of whom should know that there is a very lively, active and caring center of people in the United States who are engaged in protest against the wars and in demanding social justice, both in the U.S. and internationally.” U.S. college students are doing that now, even though they are probably as unconscious of using Dennis Brutus’s model of protest as I once was of his history. 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. about 1,200 people, including more than 300 soldiers, and left around 100 held hostage still. But the college students’ uprising in support of Palestinians against the deluge of deadly force unleashed by Israel the past seven months is more reminiscent of the South Africa divestment movement — greatly inspired by the sportsman Brutus — than of the late 1960s’ anti-Vietnam War campus protests much of the media has referenced. After all, the movement that started roiling some college campuses a few weeks ago is about cutting financial ties to Israel’s war machine. As The Washington Post recently quoted Cornell University student protester Nick Wilson: “Divestment is a rallying cry that is nationally resonant. We don’t want our tuition dollars going to the research and development of weapons.” And the lineage of campus divestment movements goes to anti-apartheid protests spurred by Brutus, using the platform of sports. “Before muhammad Ali had to fight for his title in the courts, before Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their black-gloved fists at the mexico City olympics, before Bill russell wrote ‘Go Up for Glory,’ before Billie Jean King served and scored for an entire gender,” richard Lapchick wrote upon Brutus’s death Dec. 26, 2009, “Brutus saw the power sport had to change society. He might have been the first sports social activist.” Brutus found refuge in the United States after a tour here in 1967. He was then in London on the International Defense and Aid fund staff. The main purpose of the tour was “to acquaint Americans with the present situation in South Africa, and particularly to present the condition of the 5,000 political prisoners . . . to inform sportloving Americans . . . of the color discrimination practiced in South Africa, and to urge their cooperation in a world boycott of South African athletes.” And to raise money. A couple of years later, Black students at Princeton coordinated a sit-in of a campus administrative building to call for the school to rid itself of holdings tied to apartheid. The spark at Princeton didn’t ignite a movement. It wouldn’t be until the late 1970s that the cause Brutus motivated caught on. “He was a professor at Northwestern at the time,” wrote Lapchick, a lifelong human rights activist and sports as social justice researcher, “and together we helped stage the first American sports protest against South Africa at the U.S. open in forest Hills, N.Y., in 1977. It was there that Arthur Ashe announced he was supporting the boycott after advocating sports contacts with South Africa for the previous few years. “Americans knew little about apartheid, and the American movement was small,” Lapchick continued. “only 75 people demonstrated at that U.S. open, blAckisTONe from D1 keviN b. blackistoNe Campus protests rekindle spirit of Brutus’s activism dAve pICKoff/ASSoCIATed preSS Protests on campuses and at the U.s. Open called attention to apartheid in south Africa.

D6 eZ SU the washington post . tuesday, may 7, 2024 BY AARON CREDEUR Despite rain delays and setbacks at the top of the lineup during the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference boys’ tennis tournament, Bishop Ireton turned to its depth to carry it to its first title, riding a dominant performance in monday’s final. The Cardinals (13-1) entered the final at Southeast Tennis and Learning Center two points behind defending champ Dematha after their top three singles players got eliminated in earlier rounds. But when freshman Ben Phelps and senior Valentino Schroeder secured early wins at No. 4 and No. 5 singles, Coach Tom Noone saw a path to the title begin to emerge. “We moved into first place with that first match of the day,” Noone said of Phelps’s win. “It gave us a little boost of confidence right away, and it got us started. And when [Schroeder] won right behind him . . . we were on our way.” Ireton swept the rest of its finals matches, with wins from sophomore Paul Khalil at No. 6 singles and seniors matthew Antonio and Drexel rieder at No. 2 doubles. Phelps returned to the courts with freshman Dimitry Schroeder to win another three points at No. 3 doubles, launching the Cardinals into a lead they would not surrender. Their winning total of 32 points outdistanced runner-up Dematha (19) and St. John’s and Gonzaga (a third-place tie at 17 points). “Dimitry and myself coming in as freshmen, we can kind of back this momentum up for a few more years,” Phelps said. “And there’s a lot of room to still improve for both of us. So we can definitely still make something work next year.” After Ireton finished fifth in last year’s WCAC tourney, Schroeder says his team was poised to surprise the conference after offseason training on weekends throughout the winter. That work, paired with talent, pushed the Cardinals over the line. The team’s mantra, Phelps said, was “Believe it,” and that belief helped carry the Cardinals to the title. “for Coach Noone, it’s probably the most I’ve ever seen him smile when he got that trophy here,” Schroeder said. “After my match he cried a little bit, just a little tear.” WcAc BoYs’ tennis chAMPionshiP Ireton rallies to capture its first conference title FROM STAFF REPORTS St. John’s lacrosse players had a singular focus in the lead-up to friday’s regular season finale against Gonzaga. They texted into Thursday night about the weight of a game that would determine the top seed in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference tournament. Anticipation mounted as they discussed the matchup at lunch the next day. After school, that excitement spilled into the locker room and warmups. Those nerves settled for goalie ryan Inzer after his first save. After that, the sophomore found a rhythm and anchored the Cadets’ 12-5 win. “I was seeing the ball really well,” Inzer said. “All the guys were really hyped up before the game. That had me motivated to play.” Gonzaga (12-6 overall, 8-1 WCAC) scored the game’s first three goals to put Inzer and St. John’s in an early hole. The Cadets (10-4, 9-0) settled in after that, however, and took a 6-4 lead into halftime. The Eagles pulled within a goal out of halftime, but it was all St. John’s from there. The Cadets, reigning WCAC champions, scored the final six goals. “Goalie was lights out,” Coach Wes Speaks said. “ryan was the best player on the field.” The Cadets will play Tuesday against the winner of The Heights and o’Connell in the quarterfinals. — Taylor Lyons Softball When Joe mills was hired to lead the George marshall softball team in September, he inherited a struggling program in dire need of new leadership. The Statesmen had endured several coaching changes in recent years and were fresh off an 0-18 season. “The expectation from the hiring panel was, ‘Hey, let’s just get one win,’ ” mills said. “Let’s try to get a win and see where we can go from there.” Eight months later, the Statesmen already have seven victories. mills and his coaching staff have injected new life into the falls Church program, fast-tracking marshall’s rebuild to the delight of its players and the school community. The Statesmen are 7-10 and in the hunt for the fourth spot in the Liberty District. The team snapped its lengthy losing streak in its season opener against Chantilly and hasn’t looked back. “When we won that first game of the year, we had parents in tears because they watched their kids deal with, for a lack of better words, crap last year,” mills said. “They dealt with a lot.” over the first three years of their high school softball careers, marshall seniors Carmen musallam and Emily manifor said losing became a deflating norm. A disconnect between players and coaches made winning feel impossible. A negative culture festered. manifor said mills and his staff have stressed a positive team mind-set throughout the season, imploring players to find the fun in softball. Winning has been a byproduct of a rekindled joy. “Last year, it was a drag,” musallam said. “Every day we’d come out here even though we didn’t want to. We just dreaded softball. This year, it’s actually fun to come out here and practice. I look forward to it after school every day.” — Noah Ferguson baseball Adam Leader remembers looking out onto the empty field, visualizing what could be. Chosen to lead the reservoir baseball team at the school’s inception in 2002, he was tasked with building a winner. Since then, much has changed. That plot of land is now the Gators’ home diamond, outfitted with the necessities — even though it took a few years before the money was raised for an outfield wall and dugouts. Through the years, there has been one constant: Leader, the winningest coach in Howard County history. on friday, reservoir’s 14-9 win over Hammond made him the first coach in the county to reach 300 career wins. The memories are plentiful. Before his first game at reservoir, the Gators arrived at Glenelg and realized they left their batting helmets behind. A picture commemorating his first varsity win — at oakland mills, the coach recalls — sits framed on his desk. In 2014, the Gators won their first state championship, which Leader calls “the pinnacle of my career.” Leader, 48, has helped elevate not only reservoir’s program but also Howard County baseball. He serves as the president of the maryland State Association of Baseball Coaches and has run his own baseball camp for more than two decades. What has stuck with him the most are the relationships he has built. once just an idea, reservoir baseball is now a community. four of reservoir’s six assistants are former players. Leader can’t imagine being anywhere — or doing anything — else. “The people at reservoir, the families and the players have been so incredible,” Leader said. “I couldn’t imagine sitting opposite the dugout that I helped build.” — Emmett Siegel boys’ track A brisk walk, a series of stretches or even a quick session of mediation are all common sights in the lead-up to a sprinter’s race. Table tennis is not. But at the Penn relays in Philadelphia last month, St. John’s Coach Desmond Dunham wanted to ease his runners’ stress — and show off his ping-pong skills. So about an hour before the races, Dunham found a table on a side field and challenged star sophomore Karil Arnold to a game. Arnold upped the ante, betting 100 push-ups on the result. Dunham proceeded to win, 21-2, and talked plenty of trash along the way. “He then asked me to play another 10 times, but we actually had to focus on his Penn relays race,” Dunham joked. Dunham’s strategy worked wonders as St John’s ran a time of 7 minutes 44.66 seconds in the 4x800 meters, trailing only Jamaica College. It was the fastest American time in the event. Arnold’s 1:53.94 split gave the Cadets a chance before Jamaica ultimately pulled away, leaving Arnold and Dunham proud but also disappointed. “It was definitely mixed emotions,” Arnold said. “We were really happy that we came in second and the first American team. But also we didn’t win.” Luckily, Arnold’s showing saved him from the 100 push-ups. The Cadets weren’t the only area school to shine in the event. Quincy Wilson and Bullis captured a win in a 4x400 heat before finishing third to two Jamaican schools in the final. Wilson ran the fastest split ever by a high school athlete at the Penn relays — 44.37 — making up five places in the preliminary after a teammate stumbled midrace. A similar stumble happened in the championship round, preventing Bullis from taking home the crown. But Wilson’s time was the crowning achievement. “This [record] did feel different, because the Penn relays have been going on since 1895,” Wilson said. “To be able to run the fastest split ever is amazing.” — Sam Jane Girls’ tennis Getting prepared for competition isn’t something that happens naturally for private school girls competing in the D.C. State Athletic Association tennis tournament next week. Unlike boys’ teams that play in the spring, the girls’ bracket forces players to recapture whatever momentum they had in their fall regular season, creating some awkward scheduling and training issues. for National Cathedral junior merve Uyumazturk, who plays No. 2 singles for the Eagles, that sudden transition from the offseason to high-pressure championship matches had her excited and a bit anxious about stepping back onto the courts with her team. “The environment is completely different,” said Uyumazturk, who won last year’s DCSAA girls’ doubles title with senior Hayley Shay. “There is that anxiety because you want to impress everyone who’s watching. There are so many more people watching this tournament than the individual tournaments that I play.” While Uyumazturk has stayed busy this offseason playing USTA tournaments and training with her private coach, the National Cathedral team hasn’t had many opportunities to practice ahead of the DCSAA competition. Not that the layoff caused any problems for Uyumazturk or Shay last year, when they won the title despite never having played doubles together. This year, Uyumazturk is hoping to rekindle her on-court chemistry with Shay while also making her way through the singles bracket. And while the atmosphere will be a stark contrast to her recent individual tournaments, she’s excited to have her team on the sidelines to cheer her on. “Although it is hard and the timing is not perfect, I use the tournament as a time to de-stress and forget about everything else going on,” Uyumazturk said. “I’m surrounded by my teammates and my friends and my school coach, and so it’s hard for me to stay really stressed or really anxious because I have people constantly helping me to stay positive and stay competitive during my matches.” — Aaron Credeur high school notes St. John’s boys secure the No. 1 seed in WCAC lacrosse Larry french St. John’s overcame an early deficit to beat Gonzaga, 12-5, on friday ahead of the WCaC tournament. kay ward the George Marshall softball team, which went 0-18 last season, has won seven games this season under first-year coach Joe Mills. and to the nonprofit I work for, so I thought this was just a fun T-shirt. And I think he served his two years and Churchill has kind of done some messed-up s--- this year [tacking on another year of suspension after initially demanding two]. You know, they said, ‘Hey he could come back this year,’ then they’re like, ‘Nah, no he can’t.’ ” Baffert had won osbourn’s heart by donating to the nonprofit Stable recovery, which aims to help people with addiction with a 90-day program that trains them as grooms. “We’d just had a big fundraiser for Stable recovery,” osbourn said. “And I took the weekend off and went to Nashville, and I was with my buddy, and, I don’t know, it just hit me. I was like: ‘Hey, I want to try to do something that’s fun around the Derby. I know it’ll piss people off, but then I know [some] people are for it.’ ” for that latter cohort, there’s always the Preakness. also don’t involve Baffert: He’ll be looking back across mystik Dan’s past performances. After winning the Derby on Saturday, mcPeek said he “ran this colt back too quick in November. He won really easy in his maiden race [Nov. 12], and I wanted to stretch him out, and it was the end of the season. I ran him back [Nov. 25] in an allowance race going a mile, and he coughed up a lung infection on me. Learned a little lesson there with him.” Whoever does run, the market for T-shirts won’t be as robust. robert osbourn reckons he sold about 150 of them at $20 per to passersby who had parked in the neighborhood. He served as a bit of a monitor of public opinion on Baffert, which included taking on the odd expletive from non-fans. He laughed as he told of that. “Pretty much 75 percent of the public doesn’t really know what goes on,” he said, “and you know, he’s personally been good to me because of the pandemic.) While those winners won at odds of 12-1, 12-1, 7-2 and 4-1, muth figures to step right in at shorter odds. on march 30 at oaklawn in the Arkansas Derby, he won by two lengths over Just Steel and by six over, well, mystik Dan. He has won four of his six starts. That prompted a question about whether some trainers might shy away just because of the 71-yearold Baffert’s prowess with his record eight Preakness and 17 Triple Crown race wins. “It doesn’t change anything for me,” Brown said by his Churchill Downs barn Sunday morning. “ . . . I could see maybe some people are considering that. . . . I don’t think people should, you know, trainers should be avoiding him. I know he has nice horses and he’s a great trainer, but I don’t know. I don’t worry about things like that. I just run.” Any misgivings for mcPeek him from the Derby in light of the drug tests in 2021 that cost his medina Spirit an apparent victory. for the second straight third Saturday in may, he’ll join the Triple Crown already in progress, and here comes muth, his Arkansas Derby winner. “I look forward to bringing muth to the Preakness,” muth owner Amr Zedan said in a news release in late April after his lawsuit failed to elbow muth into the Derby. That means Baffert, who wound up with the attention last year when his Havnameltdown broke down and died in the sixth race before his National Treasure won the Preakness in the 13th, will again find the spotlight at Pimlico race Course. others aren’t coming. That includes Sierra Leone, who ran that herculean race in the Derby to come within a nose of winning. “I think giving him the five weeks to the Belmont is definitely [prudent],” trainer Chad Brown said. That includes forever Young, who also ran a marvel of a race in the Derby before coming in a nose after Sierra Leone. He’s headed home to Japan. And that might include mystik Dan, who actually won the Derby with jockey Brian Hernandez Jr.’s expert rail-side steering. “We’ll let him tell us,” trainer Ken mcPeek told reporters at Churchill Downs on Sunday, taking the wait-and-see that another Lexington-based trainer, Eric reed, used after winning the 2022 Derby with rich Strike in a you’re-kidding shocker. Told that mystik Dan was a maybe Sunday, Brown said, “really?” The Preakness, which had just seven entries last year for the lowest in 37 years, sits on four straight winners who did not run the Derby: Swiss Skydiver in 2020, rombauer in 2021, Early Voting in 2022 and National Treasure in 2023. (Swiss Skydiver’s win came on oct. 3 after a Kentucky Derby held on Sept. 5 baffert from D1 A fuzzy Preakness field will feature Ba≠ert’s Muth Benoit photo trainer bob baffert, banned from the Kentucky Derby, hopes Muth will be his ninth Preakness winner. sweater or tank top? Stay one step ahead of the weather with the capital Weather gang @capitalweather washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang S0141 2x3

tuesday, may 7, 2024 . the washington post EZ SU d7 FROM NEWS SERVICES AND STAFF REPORTS Jalen Brunson scored 43 points, becoming the fourth player in NBA history with four straight 40-point games in the postseason, and the New York Knicks beat the Indiana Pacers, 121-117, on Monday night in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Brunson had 21 in the fourth quarter, rallying the Knicks after they trailed by nine early in the period, and joined Hall of Famers Jerry West, who had six consecutive 40-point games in the postseason, and Michael Jordan and Bernard King (both with four). Donte DiVincenzo hit the tiebreaking three-pointer with 39 seconds remaining and scored 25 for the Knicks, who opened the second round with the type of close finish their first-round victory over Philadelphia was full of. “I just think the way they work, they’ve invested a lot into this season and they put a lot into each and every day,” Knicks Coach Tom Thibodeau said. “So when you make that commitment to each other, you’re not going to give in. You’re going to keep fighting.” Josh Hart added a playoff career-high 24 points to go with 13 rebounds and eight assists. The second-seeded Knicks will host Game 2 on Wednesday. Myles Turner scored 23 points for the sixth-seeded Pacers, who got strong play from their bench and were in good shape to follow their first-round ouster of Milwaukee by jumping to the lead against the Knicks. But Brunson guided New York through another tight finish and soundly outplayed fellow all-star point guard Tyrese Haliburton, the NBA’s assists leader who finished with six points and eight assists after being listed as questionable with back spasms. — Associated Press Wembanyama is top rookie San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama was unanimously named NBA rookie of the year Monday, becoming the third player in franchise history to win the award after Hall of Fame centers David Robinson (1990) and Tim Duncan (1998). Wembanyama, the No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft, received all 99 first-place votes, beating out fellow finalists Oklahoma City Thunder center Chet Holmgren and Charlotte Hornets forward Brandon Miller. Holmgren received 98 secondplace votes and one third-place vote. Miller received one secondplace vote and 83 third-place votes, while Miami Heat forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. (10), Golden State Warriors guard Brandin Podziemski (four) and Dallas Mavericks center Dereck Lively II (one) also received third-place votes. Regarded as the most coveted teenage basketball star since LeBron James entered the league in 2003, Wembanyama lived up to the hype by averaging 21.4 points, 10.6 rebounds, 3.9 assists, 3.6 blocks and 1.2 steals in 71 appearances, numbers that have been matched by only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Hakeem Olajuwon in any season in NBA history. The 20-year-old French phenom led the NBA in blocks per game and ranked first among award-eligible rookies in scoring, rebounds and player efficiency rating. Wembanyama enjoyed a strong start to his rookie season by winning two high-profile showdowns against Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant, and he closed by averaging 23.5 points and 12.0 rebounds after the all-star break. His popularity, as judged by social media engagement and jersey sales, rivaled the likes of James and Stephen Curry. “My goal was always to help my team as best I could and get better as the year went on,” Wembanyama said in an interview with TNT. — Ben Golliver l TIMBERWOLVES: Minnesota was without center Rudy Gobert for Game 2 of its Western Conference semifinal series against the reigning NBA champion Denver Nuggets on Monday night. The game ended late. Gobert was back in Minneapolis, where his fiancée gave birth to the couple’s son early Monday. Any thought of getting him back to Denver in time for tip-off was scuttled by high winds in Colorado that disrupted air travel. — Associated Press nba ROUndUP Streaking Brunson rallies N.Y. in Game 1 knicks 121, Pacers 117 SCOREbOaRd PRO baSKETbaLL nba playoffs first round Best of seven eAstern conference ceLtics eLiMinAted heAt, 4-1 Game 1: at Boston 114, Miami 94 Game 2: Miami 111, at Boston 101 Game 3: Boston 104, at Miami 84 Game 4: Boston 102, at Miami 88 Game 5: at Boston 118, Miami 84 knicks eLiMinAted 76ers, 4-2 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 Game 5: Philadelphia 112, at New York 106 (OT) Game 6: New York 118, at Philadelphia 115 pAcers eLiMinAted bucks, 4-2 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 Game 5: at Milwaukee 115, Indiana 92 Game 6: at Indiana 120, Milwaukee 98 cAVALiers eLiMinAted MAGic, 4-3 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 Game 5: at Cleveland 104, Orlando 103 Game 6: at Orlando 103, Cleveland 96 Game 7: at Cleveland 106, Orlando 94 western conference thunder eLiMinAted peLicAns, 4-0 Game 1: at Oklahoma City 94, New Orleans 92 Game 2: at Oklahoma City 124, New Orleans 92 Game 3: Oklahoma City 106, at New Orleans 85 Game 4: Oklahoma City 97, at New Orleans 89 nuGGets eLiMinAted LAkers, 4-1 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 Game 5: at Denver 108, Los Angeles 106 tiMberwoLVes eLiMinAted suns, 4-0 Game 1: at Minnesota 120, Phoenix 95 Game 2: at Minnesota 105, Phoenix 93 Game 3: Minnesota 126, at Phoenix 109 Game 4: Minnesota 122, at Phoenix 116 MAVericks eLiMinAted cLippers, 4-2 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 Game 5: Dallas 123, at L.A. Clippers 93 Game 6: at Dallas 114, L.A. Clippers 101 second round Best of seven; x-If necessary eAstern conference ceLtics Vs. cAVALiers Tuesday’s game: Cleveland at Boston, 7 Thursday’s game: Cleveland at Boston, 7 Saturday’s game: Boston at Cleveland, 8:30 Monday’s game: Boston at Cleveland, 7 x-Wednesday, May 15: Cleveland at Boston, TBA x-Friday, May 17: Boston at Cleveland, TBA x-Sunday, May 19: Cleveland at Boston, TBD knicks LeAd pAcers, 1-0 Game 1: at New York 121, Indiana 117 Wednesday’s game: Indiana at New York, 8 Friday’s game: New York at Indiana, 7 Sunday’s game: New York at Indiana, 3:30 x-Tuesday, May 14: Indiana at New York, TBA x-Friday, May 17: New York at Indiana, TBA x-Sunday, May 19: Indiana at New York, TBA western conference tiMberwoLVes LeAd nuGGets, 1-0 Game 1: Minnesota 106, at Denver 99 Game 2: Minnesota at Denver, late Friday’s game: Denver at Minnesota, 9:30 Sunday’s game: Denver at Minnesota, 8 x-Tuesday, May 14: Minnesota at Denver, TBA x-Thursday, May 16: Denver at Minnesota, TBA x-Sunday, May 19: Minnesota at Denver, TBA thunder Vs. MAVericks Tuesday’s game: Dallas at Oklahoma City, 9:30 Thursday’s game: Dallas at Oklahoma City, 9:30 Saturday’s game: Oklahoma City at Dallas, 3:30 Monday’s game: Oklahoma City at Dallas, 9:30 x-Wednesday, May 15: Dallas at Oklahoma City, TBA x-Saturday, May 18: Oklahoma City at Dallas, TBA x-Monday, May 20: Dallas at Oklahoma City, TBA COLLEGE LaCROSSE nCaa men’s tournament pLAY-in GAMe wednesdAY Sacred Heart at Albany, 7 first round sAturdAY’s GAMes St. Joseph’s at Virginia, noon, ESPNU Utah at Duke, 2:30, ESPNU Michigan at Denver, 5, ESPNU Princeton at Maryland, 7:30, ESPNU sundAY’s GAMes Lehigh at Johns Hopkins, noon, ESPNU Penn State at Georgetown, 2:30, ESPNU Sacred Heart-Albany winner at Notre Dame, 5, ESPNU Towson at Syracuse, 7:30, ESPNU quArterfinALs sAturdAY, MAY 18 At JAMes M shuArt stAdiuM in heMpsteAd, n.Y. TBD, ESPNU TBD, ESPNU sundAY, MAY 19 At unitAs stAdiuM in towson, Md. TBD, ESPNU TBD, ESPNU seMifinALs At LincoLn finAnciAL fieLd in phiLAdeLphiA sAturdAY, MAY 25 TBD, ESPN2 TBD, ESPN2 finAL At LincoLn finAnciAL fieLd in phiLAdeLphiA MondAY, MAY 27 TBD, ESPN nCaa women’s tournament first round fridAY’s GAMes Robert Morris at Maryland, noon Coastal Carolina at Notre Dame, 1 Binghamton at Yale, 1 Niagara vs. Stony Brook, 2 James Madison vs. Penn State, 3 Long Island at Virginia, 3 Stanford vs. Denver, 4 Duke vs. Loyola (Md.), 4 Fairfield vs. Johns Hopkins, 4 Mercer vs. Michigan, 4 Drexel vs. Princeton, 4 North Carolina vs. Florida, 6 Richmond at Penn, 7 second round sundAY’s GAMes Mercer-Michigan winner vs. Coastal Carolina-Notre Dame winner, noon Drexel-Princeton winner at Boston College, noon James Madison-Penn State winner vs. Robert MorrisMaryland winner, 12:30 Duke-Loyola (Md.) winner vs. Richmond-Penn winner, 1 North Carolina-Florida winner vs. Long Island-Virginia winner, 1 Stanford-Denver winner at Northwestern, 2 Niagara-Stony Brook winner at Syracuse, 2 Fairfield-Johns Hopkins winner vs. Binghamton-Yale winner, 2:30 quArterfinALs thursdAY, MAY 16 TBD, ESPNU TBD, ESPNU TBD, ESPNU TBD, ESPNU seMifinALs At wAkeMed soccer pArk — in cArY, n.c. fridAY, MAY 24 TBD, 3, ESPNU TBD, 5:30, ESPNU finAL At wAkeMed soccer pArk — in cArY, n.c. sundAY, MAY 26 TBD, noon, ESPN hOCKEy Stanley Cup playoffs first round Best of seven eAstern conference rAnGers eLiMinAted 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, Washington 2 hurricAnes eLiMinAted isLAnders, 4-1 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) Game 5: at Carolina 6, New York 3 pAnthers eLiMinAted LiGhtninG, 4-1 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 Game 5: at Florida 6, Tampa Bay 1 bruins eLiMinAted MApLe LeAfs, 4-3 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 Game 5: Toronto 2, at Boston 1 (OT) Game 6: at Toronto 2, Boston 1 Game 7: at Boston 2, Toronto 1 (OT) western conference AVALAnche eLiMinAted Jets, 4-1 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 Game 5: Colorado 6, at Winnipeg 3 oiLers eLiMinAted kinGs, 4-1 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 1, at Los Angeles 0 Game 5: at Edmonton 4, Los Angeles 3 cAnucks eLiMinAted predAtors, 4-2 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) Game 5: Nashville 2, at Vancouver 1 Game 6: Vancouver 1, at Nashville 0 stArs eLiMinAted GoLden kniGhts, 4-3 Game 1: Vegas 4, at Dallas 3 Game 2: Vegas 3, at Dallas 1 Game 3: Dallas 3, at Vegas 2 Game 4: Dallas 4, at Vegas 2 Game 5: at Dallas 3, Vegas 2 Game 6: at Vegas 2, Dallas 0 Game 7: at Dallas 2, Vegas 1 second round Best of seven; x-If necessary eAstern conference rAnGers LeAd hurricAnes, 1-0 Game 1: at New York 4, Carolina 3 Tuesday’s game: Carolina at New York, 7 Thursday’s game: New York at Carolina, 7 Saturday’s game: New York at Carolina, 7 x-Monday’s game: Carolina at New York, TBA x-Thursday, May 16: New York at Carolina, TBA x-Saturday, May 18: Carolina at New York, TBA bruins LeAd pAnthers, 1-0 Game 1: Boston 5, at Florida 1 Wednesday’s game: Boston at Florida, 7:30 Friday’s game: Florida at Boston, 7 Sunday’s game: Florida at Boston, 6:30 x-Tuesday, May 14: Boston at Florida, TBA x-Friday, May 17: Florida at Boston, TBA x-Sunday, May 19: Boston at Florida, TBA western conference AVALAnche Vs. stArs Tuesday’s game: Colorado at Dallas, 9:30 Thursday’s game: Colorado at Dallas, 9:30 Saturday’s game: Dallas at Colorado, 10 Monday’s game: Dallas at Colorado, TBA x-Wednesday, May 15: Colorado at Dallas, TBA x-Friday, May 17: Dallas at Colroado, TBA x-Sunday, May 19: Colorado at Dallas, TBA oiLers Vs. cAnucks Wednesday’s game: Edmonton at Vancouver, 10 Friday’s game: Edmonton at Vancouver, 10 Sunday’s game: Vancouver at Edmonton, 9:30 Tuesday, May 14: Vancouver at Edmonton, TBA x-Thursday, May 16: Edmonton at Vancouver, TBA x-Saturday, May 18: Vancouver at Edmonton, TBA x-Monday, May 20: Edmonton at Vancouver, TBA PRO FOOTbaLL United Football League xfL w L t pct pf pA St. Louis ............................5 1 0 .833 173 103 San Antonio ......................4 2 0 .667 127 104 D.C.....................................3 3 0 .500 112 150 Arlington...........................0 6 0 .000 117 153 usfL w L t pct pf pA y-Birmingham...................6 0 0 1.000 171 89 Michigan ...........................4 2 0 .667 137 120 Memphis ...........................1 5 0 .167 107 171 Houston ............................1 5 0 .167 84 138 y-Clinched playoff berth week 5 sAturdAY, ApriL 27 San Antonio 25, at Arlington 15 Birmingham 32, at Houston 9 sundAY, ApriL 28 St. Louis 45, at D.C. 12 Michigan 35, at Memphis 18 week 6 sAturdAY’s resuLts Birmingham 39, at Memphis 21 at St. Louis 22, Houston 8 sundAY’s resuLts at D.C. 18, San Antonio 12 at Michigan 28, Arlington 27 week 7 sAturdAY’s GAMes Memphis at Arlington, 1 St. Louis at Birmingham, 4 sundAY’s GAMes Michigan at D.C., noon San Antonio at Houston, 3 week 8 sAturdAY, MAY 18 Memphis at Michigan, 4 Houston at Birmingham, 8 sundAY, MAY 19 D.C. at St. Louis, noon Arlington at San Antonio, 4 SOCCER MLS eAst w L t pts Gf GA Inter Miami CF ..................7 2 3 24 32 18 Cincinnati..........................6 2 3 21 13 9 Toronto FC ........................6 4 1 19 14 14 New York...........................4 2 5 17 16 16 Columbus ..........................3 1 6 15 12 9 Charlotte FC......................4 5 2 14 12 13 New York City FC ..............4 5 2 14 11 12 Philadelphia ......................3 2 5 14 19 16 D.C. United ........................3 3 5 14 16 17 Atlanta..............................3 4 3 12 14 11 CF Montreal ......................3 4 3 12 13 20 Nashville ...........................2 3 5 11 14 18 Chicago..............................2 5 4 10 11 19 Orlando City ......................2 5 3 9 11 18 New England.....................2 7 1 7 7 18 west w L t pts Gf GA Real Salt Lake ...................6 2 3 21 18 9 Minnesota United.............6 2 2 20 17 11 LA Galaxy..........................5 2 4 19 21 17 Vancouver.........................5 2 3 18 18 10 Colorado ............................5 3 3 18 18 15 Austin FC ..........................4 3 4 16 14 13 Los Angeles FC..................4 4 3 15 19 19 Houston ............................4 4 2 14 9 10 St. Louis City SC ...............2 1 7 13 15 14 Sporting KC.......................2 4 5 11 18 19 Seattle ..............................2 5 4 10 13 13 Portland ............................2 5 4 10 20 23 FC Dallas ...........................2 6 2 8 10 15 San Jose............................2 8 1 7 17 26 sAturdAY’s resuLts Philadelphia 2, at D.C. United 2 Minnesota 2, at Atlanta 1 at Charlotte FC 2, Portland 0 at Miami 6, New York 2 Cincinnati 1, at Orlando City 0 at San Jose 3, Los Angeles FC 1 at Toronto FC 3, FC Dallas 1 St. Louis City SC 0, at Houston 0 at Nashville 4, CF Montreal 1 New England 1, at Chicago 0 at Real Salt Lake 1, Sporting KC 0 Austin FC 0, at Vancouver 0 sundAY’s resuLts Colorado 2, at New York City FC 0 LA Galaxy 0, at Seattle 0 sAturdAY’s MAtches D.C. United at Atlanta, 7:30 Nashville at Charlotte FC, 7:30 Miami at CF Montreal, 7:30 New England at New York, 7:30 Orlando City at Philadelphia, 7:30 New York City FC at Toronto FC, 7:30 Cincinnati at Columbus, 7:45 Austin FC at FC Dallas, 8:30 Houston at Sporting KC, 8:30 Chicago at St. Louis City SC, 8:30 San Jose at Colorado, 9:30 Real Salt Lake at LA Galaxy, 10:30 Vancouver at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 sundAY’s MAtch Seattle at Portland, 4:45 wednesdAY, MAY 15 New York at D.C. United, 7:30 Atlanta at Cincinnati, 7:30 Columbus at CF Montreal, 7:30 Miami at Orlando City, 7:30 New York City FC at Philadelphia, 7:30 Houston at Austin FC, 8:30 Charlotte FC at Chicago, 8:30 LA Galaxy at Minnesota, 8:30 Toronto FC at Nashville, 8:30 Los Angeles FC at St. Louis City SC, 8:30 Vancouver at Colorado, 9:30 Seattle at Real Salt Lake, 9:30 San Jose at Portland, 10:30 nWSL w L t pts Gf GA Orlando .............................5 0 3 18 14 7 Kansas City .......................5 0 2 17 21 12 Washington ......................5 3 0 15 16 11 Portland ............................4 3 1 13 17 14 Chicago..............................4 3 1 13 11 11 North Carolina...................4 4 0 12 12 10 Angel City .........................3 3 1 10 9 11 Louisville...........................1 1 5 8 10 7 Gotham FC ........................2 2 2 8 4 5 San Diego..........................2 3 1 7 5 6 Seattle ..............................2 5 0 6 7 10 Bay FC ...............................2 6 0 6 13 19 Houston ............................1 3 3 6 7 15 Utah ..................................1 5 1 4 5 13 sundAY, ApriL 28 Louisville 1, at Gotham FC 1 wednesdAY’s resuLts Washington 4, at Chicago 2 at Orlando 4, North Carolina 1 Portland 3, at Bay FC 2 fridAY’s resuLts Angel City 2, at Utah 1 at Seattle 2, San Diego 1 sAturdAY’s resuLts at Portland 2, Washington 1 at Gotham FC 1, North Carolina 0 sundAY’s resuLts Kansas City 1, at Houston 1 at Orlando 1, Louisville 0 Chicago 2, at Bay FC 1 wednesdAY’s MAtches Gotham FC at Houston, 8 Utah Royals FC at San Diego, 10 Kansas City at Seattle, 10 fridAY’s MAtch Washington at Louisville, 8 sAturdAY’s MAtches Bay FC at Orlando, 7:30 Seattle at Portland, 10 sundAY’s MAtches Utah Royals FC at Chicago, 5:30 North Carolina at Kansas City, 6 Houston at Angel City, 7:30 Gotham FC at San Diego, 7:30 fridAY, MAY 17 Portland at Houston, 8 Utah Royals FC at North Carolina, 8 San Diego at Bay FC, 10:30 Galaxy 0, Sounders 0 Late Sunday Los AnGeLes 0 0 0 seAttLe 0 0 0 first half: None. second half: None. Goalies: Los Angeles Galaxy, John McCarthy, Novak Micovic; Seattle, Stefan Frei, Andrew Thomas. Yellow cards: Morris, Seattle, 75th; Paintsil, Los Angeles Galaxy, 81st; Cerrillo, Los Angeles Galaxy, 83rd. Los Angeles Galaxy, John McCarthy; Julian Aude (John Nelson, 90th+5), Jalen Neal, Miki Yamane, Maya Yoshida; Gaston Brugman, Edwin Cerrillo (Jonathan Perez, 86th), Diego Fagundez (Daniel Aguirre, 82nd), Joseph Paintsil, Gabriel Pec; Miguel Berry (Eriq Zavaleta, 90th+5). Seattle, Stefan Frei; Yeimar Gomez Andrade (Reed Baker-Whiting, 86th), Jackson Ragen, Nouhou Tolo; Josh Atencio (Danny Musovski, 57th), Joao Paulo (Cody Baker, 74th), Cristian Roldan, Albert Rusnak (Leo Chu, 74th), Obed Vargas; Jordan Morris (Georgi Minoungou, 86th), Raul Ruidiaz. TEnniS aTP sinGLes rAnkinGs Through Sunday. 1. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 9990 2. Jannik Sinner, Italy, 8860 3. Carlos Alcaraz, Spain, 7345 4. Daniil Medvedev, Russia, 7195 5. Alexander Zverev, Germany, 5435 6. Andrey Rublev, Russia, 4740 7. Casper Ruud, Norway, 4535 8. Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, 3860 9. Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, 3730 10. Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, 3605 11. Alex de Minaur, Australia, 3435 12. Holger Rune, Denmark, 3250 13. Taylor Fritz, USA, 2870 14. Ben Shelton, USA, 2460 15. Ugo Humbert, France, 2455 16. Tommy Paul, USA, 2300 17. Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, 2055 18. Karen Khachanov, Russia, 2000 19. Sebastian Baez, Argentina, 1960 20. Felix Auger-Aliassime, Canada, 1880 21. Adrian Mannarino, France, 1875 22. Francisco Cerundolo, Argentina, 1870 23. Jiri Lehecka, Czech Republic, 1695 24. Nicolas Jarry, Chile, 1675 25. Frances Tiafoe, USA, 1650 26. Tallon Griekspoor, Netherlands, 1595 27. Sebastian Korda, USA, 1525 28. Tomas Martin Etcheverry, Argentina, 1460 29. Lorenzo Musetti, Italy, 1405 30. Cameron Norrie, Great Britain, 1350 31. Mariano Navone, Argentina, 1329 32. Alejandro Tabilo, Chile, 1320 33. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Spain, 1315 34. Arthur Fils, France, 1251 35. Jordan Thompson, Australia, 1191 36. Fabian Marozsan, Hungary, 1179 37. Matteo Arnaldi, Italy, 1160 38. Gael Monfils, France, 1145 39. Roman Safiullin, Russia, 1138 40. Jack Draper, Great Britain, 1136 41. Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, 1120 42. Alexei Popyrin, Australia, 1057 43. Christopher Eubanks, USA, 1053 44. Laslo Djere, Serbia, 1050 45. Tomas Machac, Czech Republic, 1036 46. Sebastian Ofner, Austria, 1036 47. Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, 996 48. Facundo Diaz Acosta, Argentina, 983 49. Marcos Giron, USA, 980 50. Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, 957 doubLes rAnkinGs 1. Marcel Granollers, Spain, 7490 1. Horacio Zeballos, Argentina, 7490 3. Matthew Ebden, Australia, 7390 4. Rohan Bopanna, India, 7210 5. Joe Salisbury, Great Britain, 6630 6. Rajeev Ram, USA, 6585 7. Wesley Koolhof, Netherlands, 6300 WTa sinGLes rAnkinGs Through Sunday. 1. Iga Swiatek, Poland, 10910 2. Aryna Sabalenka, Belarus, 7498 3. Coco Gauff, USA, 7313 4. Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstan, 6673 5. Jessica Pegula, USA, 4655 6. Marketa Vondrousova, Czech Republic, 4090 7. Zheng Qinwen, China, 3945 8. Maria Sakkari, Greece, 3925 9. Ons Jabeur, Tunisia, 3748 10. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, 3493 11. Daria Kasatkina, Russia, 3313 12. Jasmine Paolini, Italy, 3048 13. Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazil, 3035 14. Karolina Muchova, Czech Republic, 2930 15. Danielle Collins, USA, 2759 16. Madison Keys, USA, 2688 17. Liudmila Samsonova, Russia, 2495 18. Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia, 2450 19. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, 2400 20. Marta Kostyuk, Ukraine, 2235 21. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, 2191 22. Emma Navarro, USA, 2143 23. Caroline Garcia, France, 2068 24. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 2024 25. Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, 2003 26. Anna Kalinskaya, Russia, 1916 27. Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, 1832 28. Katie Boulter, Great Britain, 1742 29. Linda Noskova, Czech Republic, 1684 30. Elise Mertens, Belgium, 1684 31. Anhelina Kalinina, Ukraine, 1666 32. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 1619 33. Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine, 1590 34. Leylah Annie Fernandez, Canada, 1575 35. Sloane Stephens, USA, 1552 36. Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, 1510 37. Donna Vekic, Croatia, 1468 38. Yuan Yue, China, 1461 39. Marie Bouzkova, Czech Republic, 1422 40. Mirra Andreeva, Russia, 1412 41. Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 1393 42. Wang Xinyu, China, 1371 43. Anastasia Potapova, Russia, 1347 44. Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 1308 45. Clara Burel, France, 1300 46. Anna Blinkova, Russia, 1275 47. Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, 1266 48. Lucia Bronzetti, Italy, 1256 49. Arantxa Rus, Netherlands, 1194 50. Diane Parry, France, 1190 doubLes rAnkinGs 1. Hsieh Su-wei, Chinese Taipei, 8740 2. Elise Mertens, Belgium, 8615 3. Storm Hunter, Australia, 7695 4. Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, 6385 5. Laura Siegemund, Germany, 6210 6. Erin Routliffe, New Zealand, 6140 7. Nicole Melichar-Martinez, USA, 5275 7. Ellen Perez, Australia, 5275 GOLF World Golf Ranking Through Sunday. 1...................................Scottie Scheffler 14.71 2......................................... Rory McIlroy 7.06 3.................................... Wyndham Clark 6.35 4................................ Xander Schauffele 5.94 5.............................................. Jon Rahm 5.86 6.........................................Ludvig Aberg 5.68 7......................................Viktor Hovland 5.30 8..................................... Patrick Cantlay 4.83 9........................................Brian Harman 4.12 10...........................................Max Homa 4.10 11..............................Tommy Fleetwood 3.97 12..................................Sahith Theegala 3.94 13..................................Collin Morikawa 3.90 14................................. Matt Fitzpatrick 3.68 15............................. Hideki Matsuyama 3.57 16...................................Cameron Young 3.51 17..................................... Tyrrell Hatton 3.42 18....................................Russell Henley 3.34 19...................................Keegan Bradley 3.09 20.................................. Matthieu Pavon 3.03 21......................................Jordan Spieth 2.98 22............................................ Chris Kirk 2.97 23..............................................Tom Kim 2.92 24............................................Jason Day 2.90 25........................................ Sepp Straka 2.90 26..........................................Nick Taylor 2.82 27.......................................... Sam Burns 2.81 28.......................................... Tony Finau 2.75 29.................................... Justin Thomas 2.71 30......................................Will Zalatoris 2.64 31................................. Denny McCarthy 2.54 32................................... Byeong Hun An 2.49 33.................................... Akshay Bhatia 2.48 34.......................................Min Woo Lee 2.47 35....................................... Lucas Glover 2.41 36................................. Nicolai Hojgaard 2.41 37....................................Brooks Koepka 2.37 38..........................................Sungjae Im 2.36 39...................................... Rickie Fowler 2.32 40.......................................... J.T. Poston 2.32 41....................................... Shane Lowry 2.31 42...................................Stephen Jaeger 2.30 43.............................................. Eric Cole 2.27 44......................................... Si Woo Kim 2.25 45......................................Adam Schenk 2.23 46.................................... Emiliano Grillo 2.18 47..................................... Harris English 2.18 48.................................... Kurt Kitayama 2.12 49..................................... Adam Hadwin 2.11 50....................................Austin Eckroat 2.07 PGa Tour fedex cup LeAders Through Sunday. points Money 1. ....................... Scottie Scheffler 3,915 $18,693,235 2. .........................Wyndham Clark 1,892 $9,111,009 3. .....................Xander Schauffele 1,539 $5,528,071 4. ........................ Sahith Theegala 1,518 $6,565,228 5. ............................. Ludvig Aberg 1,510 $6,511,053 6. .................... Hideki Matsuyama 1,325 $6,007,495 7. ................................... Chris Kirk 1,198 $5,013,871 8. ..........................Byeong Hun An 1,175 $3,566,267 9. .........................Matthieu Pavon 1,139 $3,837,243 10. ........................ Patrick Cantlay 1,062 $3,311,599 11. .......................Collin Morikawa 1,014 $2,996,982 12. ............................Shane Lowry 1,003 $3,516,146 13. ........................Stephan Jaeger 992 $3,100,931 14. ...............................J.T. Poston 983 $2,831,991 15. .......................... Brian Harman 982 $3,663,018 16. ............................ Rory McIlroy 975 $3,000,722 17. ...........................Will Zalatoris 959 $3,542,630 18. ......................... Akshay Bhatia 941 $2,924,616 19. .................................Tom Hoge 907 $2,588,621 20. .............................. Jake Knapp 902 $2,850,220 21. ...............................Nick Taylor 876 $2,780,935 22. ............................... Max Homa 851 $2,627,533 23. ....................... Cameron Young 848 $2,714,425 24. .........................Justin Thomas 842 $2,575,577 25. ..............................Si Woo Kim 831 $2,474,800 26. .........................Russell Henley 823 $2,513,757 27. ................................ Jason Day 803 $2,391,616 28. ..........................Harris English 789 $2,229,591 29. .........Christiaan Bezuidenhout 785 $2,935,309 30. .........................Austin Eckroat 772 $2,380,321 31. ............................. Sepp Straka 740 $2,126,370 32. .......................... Peter Malnati 734 $2,223,001 33. ...................... Matt Fitzpatrick 733 $2,231,620 34. ........................Taylor Pendrith 724 $2,357,530 35. ..........................Adam Hadwin 707 $2,161,642 36. ..........................Thomas Detry 697 $2,031,160 37. ............................... Sam Burns 674 $2,189,223 38. ....................... Patrick Rodgers 648 $1,823,099 39. ...................Tommy Fleetwood 639 $2,121,394 40. ............................... Tony Finau 632 $1,971,910 41. ...................... Erik Van Rooyen 630 $1,850,776 42. ...................................Eric Cole 628 $1,790,728 43. .......................Grayson Murray 622 $1,921,563 44. ..........................Mark Hubbard 600 $1,744,874 45. .................................. Luke List 598 $2,424,893 46. .......................... Jordan Spieth 589 $2,171,225 47. ...............................Alex Noren 584 $1,780,570 48. ...............................Sungjae Im 584 $1,705,397 49. ......................Denny McCarthy 567 $1,821,364 50. .......................... Billy Horschel 562 $1,510,194 51. ...........................Adam Schenk 561 $1,701,697 52. .........................Emiliano Grillo 543 $1,629,367 53. ........................Keegan Bradley 530 $1,600,305 54. .......................... Brendon Todd 524 $1,570,694 55. ........................... Taylor Moore 520 $1,622,125 56. ..........................Corey Conners 501 $1,552,972 57. ......................Nicolai Hojgaard 471 $1,516,848 58. ...................... Andrew Putnam 470 $1,442,757 59. .................. Mackenzie Hughes 462 $1,438,355 60. ...........................Brice Garnett 440 $1,128,455 61. ..................... Charley Hoffman 435 $1,325,382 62. ............................Min Woo Lee 430 $1,320,851 63. ........................ Cameron Davis 428 $1,195,759 64. ...................Maverick McNealy 416 $1,400,569 65. ..............................Adam Scott 415 $1,139,791 66. ..........................Keith Mitchell 407 $1,193,442 67. ...............................Ben Kohles 377 $1,250,314 68. ............................Justin Lower 368 $1,026,133 69. ...............................Doug Ghim 367 $1,156,964 70. ......................... Kurt Kitayama 361 $1,166,971 71. ............................ Lucas Glover 360 $1,088,627 72. ..........................Tyrrell Hatton 348 $1,013,385 73. .........................Seamus Power 346 $1,052,846 74. ......................... Sami Valimaki 342 $1,025,038 75. ........................... Beau Hossler 336 $964,316 76. ............................Nate Lashley 334 $1,109,389 77. ...................................Kevin Yu 330 $1,244,531 78. .................................Aaron Rai 316 $1,022,347 79. ...............................Ben Griffin 313 $913,149 80. .................Taylor Montgomery 313 $1,064,266 81. ...................Nicolas Echavarria 310 $811,375 82. .................................. Tom Kim 308 $900,389 83. .........................Andrew Novak 302 $901,606 84. .................... Kyoung-Hoon Lee 300 $851,743 85. ..................................Chan Kim 281 $829,186 86. .............................. Lee Hodges 275 $867,920 87. ......................Seonghyeon Kim 267 $820,384 88. ......................Chandler Phillips 265 $766,320 89. .............................Chad Ramey 257 $774,113 90. .......................Adam Svensson 247 $787,882 91. .............................. Erik Barnes 244 $682,639 92. ........................... Sam Stevens 242 $666,137 93. ............................David Skinns 230 $739,449 94. ................................. Carl Yuan 230 $711,840 95. ..................... Max Greyserman 226 $682,888 96. ......................Davis Thompson 222 $551,747 97. .............................Michael Kim 221 $610,047 98. .............................. Kevin Tway 220 $615,925 99. ......................... Ryo Hisatsune 217 $608,066 100. ...................... Viktor Hovland 216 $653,025 101. ............................. Sam Ryder 215 $690,662 102. .........................Rickie Fowler 214 $724,382 103. ......................... Greyson Sigg 214 $583,261 104. .........................Matti Schmid 214 $587,855 105. ...................... Jimmy Stanger 213 $604,066 106. ..................................C.T. Pan 213 $674,187 107. ......................Alejandro Tosti 210 $721,576 108. ....................... Martin Trainer 208 $640,668 109. .........................Matt Wallace 208 $671,998 110. ............................Justin Rose 204 $662,032 LPGa Tour MoneY LeAders Through Sunday. trn Money 1. ................................Nelly Korda 6 $2,424,216 2. .................................Maja Stark 9 $1,156,868 3. ............................Hannah Green 6 $861,302 4. ................Brooke M. Henderson 8 $771,064 5. ................................Haeran Ryu 9 $688,620 6. .....................................Lydia Ko 7 $639,222 7. ........................ Lauren Coughlin 9 $573,600 8. .............................. Ayaka Furue 10 $492,449 9. ...........................Sei Young Kim 8 $408,926 10. ............................... Jin Hee Im 5 $380,954 11. .......................Carlota Ciganda 7 $379,093 12. ......................Sarah Schmelzel 9 $360,922 13. ...................Patty Tavatanakit 6 $353,291 14. ..................... Esther Henseleit 8 $330,749 15. ..........................Nasa Hataoka 9 $330,578 16. ............................ Bailey Tardy 6 $330,000 17. ...........................Mi Hyang Lee 9 $305,692 18. ..........................Celine Boutier 8 $301,658 19. ............................Hye-Jin Choi 9 $297,036 20. .............................. Andrea Lee 9 $294,786 21. ........................ Leona Maguire 8 $291,317 22. ....................................Xiyu Lin 8 $290,788 23. .................................. Narin An 8 $239,426 24. ..........................Minami Katsu 5 $236,212 25. .................. Albane Valenzuela 7 $234,844 26. ...................... Gabriela Ruffels 7 $234,141 27. ...................... Jennifer Kupcho 9 $233,920 28. ............................Jin Young Ko 4 $231,343 29. ......... Emily Kristine Pedersen 9 $227,227 30. ............................... Linn Grant 8 $221,739 31. .............................. Alexa Pano 9 $219,369 32. ................Madelene Sagstrom 8 $217,079 33. .............................Ruoning Yin 9 $215,109 34. ............................... Ally Ewing 7 $214,096 35. ................................A Lim Kim 7 $212,584 36. .............................Charley Hull 6 $210,184 37. .......................... Megan Khang 7 $209,116 38. .........................Ryann O'Toole 6 $208,645 39. .............................Hira Naveed 4 $206,791 40. .............................Yealimi Noh 5 $205,946 41. ...........Nanna Koerstz Madsen 8 $199,288 42. ................................Alison Lee 6 $197,137 43. ................................Yuka Saso 6 $185,812 44. ..................................... Lucy Li 7 $176,164 45. ....................Gemma Dryburgh 9 $171,928 46. ......................... Allisen Corpuz 9 $167,383 47. .......................Anna Nordqvist 7 $165,881 48. ..............................Gaby Lopez 7 $164,945 49. ............................ Hyo Joo Kim 7 $163,774 50. ...................... Yuna Nishimura 6 $161,125 Formula One points LeAders Through Sunday. 1. Max Verstappen, 136. 2. Sergio Perez, 103. 3. Charles Leclerc, 98. 4. Lando Norris, 83. 5. Carlos Sainz Jr, 83. 6. Oscar Piastri, 41. 7. George Russell, 37. 8. Fernando Alonso, 33. 9. Lewis Hamilton, 27. 10. Yuki Tsunoda, 14. 11. Lance Stroll, 9. 12. Oliver Bearman, 6. 13. Nico Hulkenberg, 6. 14. Daniel Ricciardo, 5. 15. Esteban Ocon, 1. 16. Kevin Magnussen, 1. 17. Alexander Albon, 0. 18. Guanyu Zhou, 0. 19. Pierre Gasly, 0. 20. Valtteri Bottas, 0. 21. Logan Sargeant, 0. aUTO RaCinG naSCaR Cup Series points LeAders Through Sunday. 1. Kyle Larson, 467. 2. Martin Truex Jr, 438. 3. Chase Elliott, 412. 4. Denny Hamlin, 411. 5. Tyler Reddick, 374. 6. Ryan Blaney, 367. 7. William Byron, 362. 8. Ty Gibbs, 338. 9. Alex Bowman, 336. 10. Ross Chastain, 331. 11. Chris Buescher, 316. 12. Kyle Busch, 314. 13. Christopher Bell, 296. 14. Chase Briscoe, 290. 15. Brad Keselowski, 287. 16. Bubba Wallace, 283. 17. Joey Logano, 269. 18. Daniel Suárez, 250. 19. Noah Gragson, 216. 20. Austin Cindric, 215. 21. John H. Nemechek, 205. 22. Carson Hocevar, 200. 23. Josh Berry, 196. 24. Todd Gilliland, 190. 25. Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 186. 26. Michael McDowell, 185. 27. Erik Jones, 181. English Premier League Gp w d L Gf GA pts Arsenal .......................... 36 26 5 5 88 28 83 Man City ........................ 35 25 7 3 87 33 82 Liverpool........................ 36 23 9 4 81 38 78 Aston Villa..................... 36 20 7 9 73 53 67 Tottenham..................... 35 18 6 11 69 58 60 Newcastle...................... 35 17 5 13 78 56 56 Chelsea .......................... 35 15 9 11 70 59 54 Man United.................... 35 16 6 13 52 55 54 West Ham...................... 36 13 10 13 56 70 49 Bournemouth ................ 36 13 9 14 52 63 48 Brighton......................... 35 12 11 12 53 57 47 Wolverhampton ............ 36 13 7 16 49 60 46 Fulham........................... 36 12 8 16 51 55 44 Crystal Palace................ 36 11 10 15 49 57 43 Everton .......................... 36 12 9 15 38 49 37 Brentford ....................... 36 9 9 18 52 60 36 Nottingham Forest........ 36 8 9 19 45 63 29 Luton Town.................... 36 6 8 22 49 78 26 Burnley .......................... 36 5 9 22 39 74 24 Sheffield United ............ 36 3 7 26 35 100 16 sundAY’s resuLts at Brighton 1, Aston Villa 0 at Chelsea 5, West Ham 0 at Liverpool 4, Tottenham 2 MondAY’s resuLt at Crystal Palace 4, Man United 0 sAturdAY’s resuLtes Fulham vs. Man City, 7:30 a.m. West Ham vs. Luton Town, 10 a.m. Wolverhampton vs. Crystal Palace, 10 a.m. Bournemouth vs. Brentford, 10 a.m. Everton vs. Sheffield United, 10 a.m. Newcastle vs. Brighton, 10 a.m. Tottenham vs. Burnley, 10 a.m. Nottingham Forest vs. Chelsea, 12:30 sundAY’s resuLt Man United vs. Arsenal, 11:30 a.m. MondAY’s resuLt Aston Villa vs. Liverpool, 3 hiGh SChOOLS MondAY’s resuLt bAsebALL MArYLAnd Bethesda-Chevy Chase 3, Blake 1 priVAte Gonzaga 5, Good Counsel 4 Indian Creek 3, Glenelg Country 1 Sandy Spring Friends 10, St. Anselm’s Abbey 0 softbALL MArYLAnd Bethesda-Chevy Chase 15, Springbrook 2 Quince Orchard 12, Blake 2 Walter Johnson 16, Wootton 1 boYs’ soccer VirGiniA Independence 1, Riverside 1 boYs’ LAcrosse MArYLAnd Severna Park 6, Broadneck 5 Sherwood 19, Einstein 3 boYs’ GoLf priVAte Severn School 17, Saints Peter & Paul 4 TRanSaCTiOnS nfL Las Vegas raiders: Signed WR Jalen Guyton and OL Andrus Peat. Los Angeles chargers: Signed WR DJ Chark. new england patriots: Released QB Nathan Rourke. new York Jets: Signed CB Brandon Codrington and QB Colby Suits to contracts. Knicks 121, Pacers 117 indiana ................................ 24 31 32 30 — 117 new York ............................ 27 22 33 39 — 121 indiAnA Min fG ft o-t A pf pts Nesmith 30:53 3-6 6-6 2-6 3 4 12 Siakam 36:40 8-16 2-4 2-6 5 4 19 Turner 34:36 8-16 5-6 1-2 3 4 23 Haliburton 36:08 2-6 0-0 0-2 8 0 6 Nembhard 29:08 4-10 2-2 0-2 4 5 11 McConnell 22:17 9-16 0-0 0-1 3 2 18 Toppin 19:17 5-7 0-0 0-6 3 2 12 Sheppard 17:43 3-5 0-0 0-2 2 1 8 Jackson 13:18 4-6 0-1 2-5 1 0 8 totALs 240 46-88 15-19 7-32 32 22 117 percentages: FG .523, FT .789. 3-point Goals: 10-26, .385 (Toppin 2-3, Sheppard 2-4, Haliburton 2-5, Turner 2-6, Nembhard 1-2, Siakam 1-3, McConnell 0-1, Nesmith 0-2). team rebounds: 6. team turnovers: 1. blocked shots: 5 (Jackson 3, Toppin, Turner). turnovers: 7 (Haliburton 3, McConnell, Nesmith, Siakam, Turner). steals: 9 (Haliburton 4, McConnell 3, Siakam, Turner). technical fouls: None. new York Min fG ft o-t A pf pts Anunoby 42:05 5-14 0-0 0-9 4 1 13 Hart 48:00 9-13 5-8 4-13 8 3 24 Hartenstein 36:01 5-9 2-2 2-6 4 4 13 Brunson 43:32 14-26 14-14 1-6 6 2 43 DiVincenzo 43:41 10-17 0-0 0-3 1 5 25 Robinson 11:47 1-1 0-0 1-2 1 3 2 McBride 10:36 0-2 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 Achiuwa 4:18 0-0 1-2 0-1 0 0 1 totALs 240 44-82 22-26 8-40 25 19 121 percentages: FG .537, FT .846. 3-point Goals: 11-23, .478 (DiVincenzo 5-9, Anunoby 3-7, Hart 1-1, Hartenstein 1-1, Brunson 1-4, McBride 0-1). team rebounds: 10. team turnovers: 1. blocked shots: 4 (DiVincenzo 2, Brunson, Hart). turnovers: 14 (Hart 5, Brunson 4, Anunoby 2, DiVincenzo 2, Hartenstein). steals: 5 (Hart 3, Anunoby 2). technical fouls: None. 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Rezoning #REZ2023-00016, Chapel Springs Assembly of God: This is a request for a proffer amendment to amend REZ#1998-0016 to remove private school prohibition. The property is located at 11500 New Life Way Bristow, VA, 20136. The subject site is identified on County maps as part of GPIN 7595-61-9828 on approximately ±39 acres; is zoned O(M), Mid-Rise Office; and is designated OMU-3, Office Mixed Use - Mid-Rise (T-3), in the Comprehensive Plan, and is located in Highway Corridor Overlay Districts, Historic Sensitivity Areas, and Airport Safety Overlay District. Brentsville Magisterial District 2. Special Use Permit #SUP2022-00035, Tiny Hearts Family Day Home: This is a request for a special use permit approval to allow a family day home for up to nine children and one non-resident employee. The property is located at 1925 Winslow Court, approximately ±0.053 miles northwest of the intersection of Winslow Ct and Blackburn Rd. The subject site is identified on County Maps as GPIN 8391-32-5135, on approximately ±0.0289 acres; is zoned R-6, and is designated RN-3, Residential Neighborhood, in the Comprehensive Plan. Woodbridge Magisterial District 3. Special Use Permit #SUP2024-00003, Bank of America Signage: This is a request to allow the modification of 2 existing roof mounted signs to reflect the new brand logo. The subject property is ±0.647 acres that’s located 150 feet East of the intersection of Prince William Parkway and Shoppers Best Way. The current address of the subject property is 2850 Prince William Parkway and is identified on the Coun- ty’s Maps as GPIN 8292-62-1977. The property is zone PBD, Planned Business District and is designated as MU-4, Mixed Use (Community) on the County’s Comprehensive Plan. The property is located within the Highway Corridor Overlay District, Planned Districts and Land Use Special Planning Areas. Occoquan Magisterial District 4. Special Use Permit #SUP2024-00021, 7070 Infantry Ridge Out- door Covered Storage: To allow for temporary outdoor storage in association with a by-right industrial/office warehouse building and including landscape buffer modifications and waivers. The ±3.84-acre subject property is located ±365 feet south of the intersection of Infantry Ridge Rd. and Gaskins Way within Battlefield Business Park, is identified on County maps as GPIN 7697-36-3895, and is currently addressed as 7070 Infantry Ridge Rd. The site is zoned PBD, Planned Business District; is designated OMU-3, Office Mixed Use, with a T-3 Transect that recommends a range of 0.23 to 0.57 FAR. The site is located within the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District and E-Commerce Overlay District; and is also located within the Sudley Road Redevelopment Corridor special planning area, and partially within the Environmental Resource Protection Overlay of the Compre- hensive Plan. Gainesville Magisterial District 7:00 p.m. 5. Rezoning#REZ2023-00009, Featherstone Road: This is a request to rezone ±4.74 acres which is a portion of an existing ±16.522 acres site from B-1, General Business to PMR, Planned Mixed Residential. The property is located on the east side of Richmond Highway, south- west of Featherstone Road and addressed as 14645 Richmond High- way. This application is being processed with a concurrent request for a Special Use Permit to allow a restaurant with a drive-through win- dow service and a Special Use Permit to allow a self-storage center. The subject site is identified on County maps as GPIN 8391-46-7054 on ±16.522 acres; is zoned B-1, General Business; and is designated MU-4, Mixed Use (Community) and is located in the Route 1 Rede- velopment Corridor in the Comprehensive Plan; and is located within the North Woodbridge Redevelopment Corridor Overlay District and Prehistoric Sensitivity Areas. Woodbridge Magisterial District 6. Special Use Permit #SUP2023-00012, Featherstone Coffee Shop: This is a request for a special use permit to allow a drive- through window service in connection with a new freestanding restaurant with sign modifications. The property is located on the east side of Richmond Highway, south of Featherstone Road, and ad- dressed as 14645 Richmond Highway. The subject site is identified on County maps as GPIN 8391-46-7054, on a portion of ±16.522 acres; is zoned B-1, General Business; and is designated MU-4, Mixed Use (Community) and is located in the Route 1 Redevelopment Corridor in the Comprehensive Plan; and is located within the Redevelopment Overlay District. Woodbridge Magisterial District 7. Special Use Permit #SUP2023-00013, Featherstone Self Stor- age Center: This is a request for a special use permit to allow a self-storage center. The property is located on the east side of Rich- mond Highway, south of Featherstone Road, and addressed as 14645 Richmond Highway. The subject site is identified on County maps as GPIN 8391-46-7054, a portion of ±16.522 acres; is zoned B-1, General Business; and is designated MU-4, Mixed Use (Community) and is lo- cated in the Route 1 Redevelopment Corridor in the Comprehensive Plan; and is located within the North Woodbridge Redevelopment Cor- ridor Overlay District and Prehistoric Sensitivity Areas. Woodbridge Magisterial District For additional information regarding the Board meeting, please con- tact the Clerk to the Board at (703) 792-6600. All meeting materials are posted online when the agenda is published, and at that time, a copy of all staff reports, proposed resolutions and ordinances, and other documentation will be available for review by the public in the office of the Clerk of the Board at One County Complex Court, Prince William, Virginia, 22192. Members of the public may appear at the Board of County Supervi- sors’ Chamber in the McCoart Building, One County Complex Court, Prince William, Virginia, at the designated time to express their views. ACCESSIBILITY TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES: The hearings are be- ing held at a public facility believed to be accessible to persons with disabilities. Anyone with questions on the accessibility of the facility should contact the Clerk to the Board at One County Complex Court, Prince William, Virginia, or by telephone at (703) 792-6600 or TDD (703) 792-6295. Persons needing translation or interpreter services must notify the Clerk to the Board no later than 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. 1447 Autos Wanted DONATE YOUR CAR/TRUCK/RV Lutheran Mission Society of MD Compassion Place ministries help local families with food, clothing, counseling. Tax deductible. 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Ready to go May 10. $1000 540-394-8188 Montgomery County 850 Brock and Scott, PLLC 5431 Oleander Drive Wilmington NC, 28403 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 1647-C Carriage House Terrace Silver Spring, MD 20904 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust to DOUGLAS DOUGLAS, Trustee(s), dated August 22, 2005, and recorded among the Land Records of MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 30702 , folio 748 , 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 50 MARYLAND AVENUE, ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 ON, MAY 8, 2024 at 11:00 AM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements thereon situated in MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD and described as follows: ALL THAT PROPERTY SITUATE IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, STATE OF MARYLAND, DESCRIBED AS: CONDOMINIUM, UNIT NO. 1647 C IN THE TIERS OF SILVER SPRING, A CONDOMINIUM, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND, AND THE COMMON ELEMENTS APPURTENANT THERETO, PURSUANT TO THE DECLARATION AND AMENDMENTS THERETO RECORDED IN LIBER 6396, FOLIO 614, LIBER 5411, FOLIO 854, LIBER 6411, FOLIO 857, LIBER 6484, FOLIO 358, LIBER 7151, FOLIO 53 AND LIBER 7173, FOLIO 651, AND LIBER 7270, FOLIO 604 AND LIBER 7409, FOLIO 161 AND PLAT RECORDED IN CONDOMINIUM PLAT BOOK 34, PLAT 3564, ET SEQ,, AND CONDOMINIUM PLAT BOOK 35, PLAT 3621 ET SEQ., AND CONDOMINIUM PLAT BOOK 35, PLAT 3714, ET SEQ., AND CONDOMINIUM PLAT BOOK 40, PLAT 4160 ET SEQ., AND CONDOMINIUM PLAT BOOK 41, PLAT 4294, ET SEQ., AND CONDOMINIUM PLAT BOOK 41, PLAT 4312, ET SEQ., AND CONDOMINIUM BOOK 42, PLAT 4404 ET SEQ., AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND. FOR DERIVATION OF TITLE SEE LIBER 5594, FOLIO 697, AT MONTGOMERY COUNTY LAND RECORDS. 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 $12,000.00 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 MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at the rate of 6.875% on unpaid purchase money from date of sale to date of settlement. The secured party herein, if a bidder, shall not be required to post a deposit. Third party purchaser (excluding the secured party) will be required to complete full settlement of the purchase of the property within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of the ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court otherwise the purchaser’s deposit shall be forfeited and the property will be resold at the risk and expense, of the defaulting purchaser. All other public charges and private charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, ground rent, taxes if any, to be adjusted to date of sale. Cost of all documentary stamps and transfer taxes and all other costs incident to the settlement shall be borne by the purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner association dues and assessments will be adjusted to date of sale. If the sale is rescinded or not ratified for any reason, including post sale lender audit, or the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey insurable title or a resale is to take place for any reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in law or equity shall be limited to the refund of the aforementioned deposit. The purchaser waives all rights and claims against the Substitute Trustees whether known or unknown. These provisions shall survive settlement Upon refund of the deposit, this sale shall be void and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against the Substitute Trustees. The sale is subject to post-sale review of the status of the loan and that if any agreement to cancel the sale was entered into by the lender and borrower prior to the sale then the sale is void and the purchaser’s deposit shall be refunded without interest. Additional terms and conditions, if applicable, maybe announced at the time and date of sale. Sale is subject to the attestation by the Borrower in accordance with Section 5.A of the Governor’s order of 10.16.2020 . File No. (19-17136 ) JOHN ANSELL, JOHN C. HANRAHAN, BRENNAN FERGUSON, JEREMY B. WILKINS, AMANDA DRISCOLE, ROBERT OLIVERI, PAUL HEINMULLER, Substitute Trustees Apr 23,30,May 7 2024 0012456705 S0114 2X3 Washington Post newsletters deliver more of what you’re looking for. Discover and subscribe for free at washingtonpost.com/newsletters bo ks? Montgomery County 850 Montgomery County 850 BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 9024 HONEYBEE LANE BETHESDA, MD 20817 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated August 31, 2006, recorded in Liber 33167, Folio 506 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with an original principal balance of $240,000.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on MAY 10, 2024 AT 2:15 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, and any improvements thereon, 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. The property will be sold subject to 2 prior mortgages, the amounts to be announced at the time of sale, if made available to the Substitute Trustees. Terms of Sale: A deposit of $6,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. 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, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. 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 any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of 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. Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 366729-1) Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees Apr 23,30,May 7 2024 0012458278 twpprintsolutions.co m M0036_2x6 A Division of The Washington Post State-of-the-art PRINTING. Impeccable RESULTS. How can we help YOU? Booklets Brochures Posters Flyers Business Cards Postcards And More Montgomery County 850 Montgomery County 850 BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 8837 THOMAS LEA TERRACE GAITHERSBURG A/R/T/A MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, MD 20886 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated November 15, 2006, recorded in Liber 33469, Folio 22 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with an original principal balance of $348,500.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on MAY 24, 2024 AT 1:22 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, and any improvements thereon, 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 $49,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. 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, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. 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 any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of 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. Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 353133-1) Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees May 7,14,21 2024 0012459644 S0114 2X6 Washington Post newsletters deliver more of what you’re looking for. Discover and subscribe for free at washingtonpost.com/newslettersSPO TS ? Montgomery County 850 Montgomery County 850 BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 18559 SPLIT ROCK LANE GERMANTOWN, MD 20874 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated April 26, 2017, recorded in Liber 54214, Folio 330 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with an original principal balance of $235,653.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on MAY 24, 2024 AT 1:24 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, and any improvements thereon, 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 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. 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, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. 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 any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of 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. Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 358892-2) Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees May 7,14,21 2024 0012459646 Take Te Post for a trip wpost.com/podcasts Washington Post podcasts go with you everywhere Politics • History Culture • More S0108 2x6 Montgomery County 850 washingtonpost.com/classifieds EFGHI CLAS TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2024 SIFIED D8 EZ INSURANCE SERVICES DENTAL INSURANCE from Physicians Mutual Insurance Company. Coverage for 350 plus procedures. Real dental insurance – NOT just a discount plan. Do not wait! Call now! 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EZ CLASSIFIED zone EZ | 2024-5-7 | D 9 | BLACK EZ D 9 | Montgomery County 850 BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 731 OWENS STREET ROCKVILLE, MD 20850 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated July 3, 2003, recorded in Liber 25124, Folio 534 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with an original principal balance of $149,750.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on MAY 24, 2024 AT 1:20 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, and any improvements thereon, 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 $7,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. 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, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. 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 any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of 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. Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 356190-2) Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees May 7,14,21 2024 0012459643 Rosenberg & Associates, LLC 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 907-8000 www.rosenberg-assoc.com SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 19323 LIBERTY MILL ROAD GERMANTOWN, MD 20874 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from John J. Mattson, Jr. and Mary H. Mattson dated September 17, 2007 and recorded in Liber 34898, folio 421 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on MAY 17, 2024 AT 4:18 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and improvements thereon situated in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #09-00776366. The property, which is improved by a dwelling, 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 $36,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. 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. 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 in the office of the 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. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. There will be no reduction of interest due to overpayment of deposit. Adjustment of all real property taxes (excluding recapture of previously reduced or exempt taxes) and any other public charges or assessments, to the extent such amount survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges, and ground rent to be adjusted to date of sale and paid at execution of the deed, except where the secured party is the purchaser, and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All due and/or unpaid private utility, water and sewer facilities charges, condo/HOA assessments and Columbia Assoc. assessments, to the extent such amount survive foreclosure sale, are payable by the purchaser without adjustment. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, recaptured taxes (including but not limited to agricultural taxes), and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale. If the Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, the deposit shall be forfeited, to the 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 reselling 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. Defaulting purchaser waives personal service of any document filed in connection with such a motion on him/ herself and/or any principal or corporate designee, and expressly agrees to accept service of any such document by regular mail directed to the address provided by said purchaser at the time of the foreclosure auction. Trustees’ file number 23-000472-MD-F-1. Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Trustees Apr 30,May 7,14 2024 0012458939 Montgomery County 850 Montgomery County 850 BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 9236 HUMMINGBIRD TERRACE GAITHERSBURG, MD 20879 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated April 28, 2006, recorded in Liber 32262, Folio 178 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with an original principal balance of $256,000.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on MAY 17, 2024 AT 4:10 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, and any improvements thereon, 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 $26,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. 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, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. 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 any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of 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. Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 69076-1) Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees Apr 30,May 7,14 2024 0012458922 Rosenberg & Associates, LLC 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 907-8000 www.rosenberg-assoc.com SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 5902 JARVIS LANE BETHESDA, MD 20814 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Richard Wright dated August 25, 2006 and recorded in Liber 33073, folio 790 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on MAY 17, 2024 AT 4:20 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and improvements thereon situated in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #07-00678857. The property, which is improved by a dwelling, 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. The property will be sold subject to a prior mortgage, the amount to be announced at the time of sale. Terms of Sale: A deposit of $10,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. 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. 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 in the office of the 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. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. There will be no reduction of interest due to overpayment of deposit. Adjustment of all real property taxes (excluding recapture of previously reduced or exempt taxes) and any other public charges or assessments, to the extent such amount survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges, and ground rent to be adjusted to date of sale and paid at execution of the deed, except where the secured party is the purchaser, and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All due and/or unpaid private utility, water and sewer facilities charges, condo/HOA assessments and Columbia Assoc. assessments, to the extent such amount survive foreclosure sale, are payable by the purchaser without adjustment. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, recaptured taxes (including but not limited to agricultural taxes), and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale. If the Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, the deposit shall be forfeited, to the 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 reselling 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. Defaulting purchaser waives personal service of any document filed in connection with such a motion on him/ herself and/or any principal or corporate designee, and expressly agrees to accept service of any such document by regular mail directed to the address provided by said purchaser at the time of the foreclosure auction. Trustees’ file number 22-000613-MD-F-1. The property will be sold subject to a 120 day right of redemption by the Internal Revenue Service. Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Trustees Apr 30,May 7,14 2024 0012458606 Montgomery County 850 Montgomery County 850 BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 9955 BELLISON ROAD DAMASCUS, MD 20872 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated July 26, 2007, recorded in Liber 34659, Folio 405 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, with an original principal balance of $960,000.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on MAY 10, 2024 AT 2:13 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon located in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #12-00942048 and #12-01680014. The property, and any improvements thereon, 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 $69,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. 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, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. Condominium fees and/or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. 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 any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of 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. Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 361097-1) Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees Apr 23,30,May 7 2024 0012458277 Rosenberg & Associates, LLC 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 907-8000 www.rosenberg-assoc.com SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 8001 ROCKY ROAD GAITHERSBURG, MD 20882 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Christopher J. Lee dated July 27, 2017 and recorded in Liber 55347, folio 69 among the Land Records of Montgomery County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, at the Court House Door, 50 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850, on MAY 10, 2024 AT 2:20 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and improvements thereon situated in Montgomery County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #01-00010497. The property, which is improved by a dwelling, 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 $31,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. 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. 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 in the office of the 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. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. There will be no reduction of interest due to overpayment of deposit. Adjustment of all real property taxes (excluding recapture of previously reduced or exempt taxes) and any other public charges or assessments, to the extent such amount survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges, and ground rent to be adjusted to date of sale and paid at execution of the deed, except where the secured party is the purchaser, and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All due and/or unpaid private utility, water and sewer facilities charges, condo/HOA assessments and Columbia Assoc. assessments, to the extent such amount survive foreclosure sale, are payable by the purchaser without adjustment. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, recaptured taxes (including but not limited to agricultural taxes), and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale. If the Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, the deposit shall be forfeited, to the 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 reselling 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. Defaulting purchaser waives personal service of any document filed in connection with such a motion on him/ herself and/or any principal or corporate designee, and expressly agrees to accept service of any such document by regular mail directed to the address provided by said purchaser at the time of the foreclosure auction. Trustees’ file number 23-000845-MD-F-1. Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Trustees Apr 23,30,May 7 2024 0012458303 Montgomery County 850 Prince Georges County 851 GREENSPOON MARDER, LLP 201 International Circle, Suite 230 Hunt Valley, MD 21030 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY KNOWN AS 506 PEACOCK DRIVE Landover, MD 20785 By virtue of a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from OLUSEGUN ADELEGAN, dated February 16, 2021 and recorded in book 44950 , page 283 among the Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Maryland, default having occurred thereunder (Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No. C-16-CV-24-000502; Tax ID No. 18-2053023) the Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY courthouse located at FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 . MAY 16, 2024 at 2:00 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 of $ 30,000.00 will be required at the time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR BY CASHIER’S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser. If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the property shall be resold at the purchaser’s risk and expense. The purchaser waives personal service and accepts service by first class mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided by said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser shall not be entitled to receive any benefit from the resale, including, but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus which may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid purchase money at 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 # 23-001575-01) SYDNEY E. ROBERSON, NICOLE LIPINSKI, MARC MEDEL, Substitute Trustee (s) Apr 30,May 7,14 2024 0012457350 Samuel I. White, P.C. 448 VIKING DRIVE, SUITE 350 VIRIGINA BEACH, VA 23452 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 5600 Coolidge Street Capitol Heights, MD 20743 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust to TROY GOTSCHALL, Trustee(s), dated March 3, 2005, and recorded among the Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 21965, folio 469, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON, MAY 23, 2024 at 10:00 AM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and described as follows: ALL THAT PROPERTY CONVEYED BY DEED OF TRUST RECORDED ON APRIL 27, 2005 IN LIBER 21965, FOLIO 469. THE PROPERTY IS SUBJECT TO A PRIOR MORTGAGE. IF AVAILABLE THE AMOUNT WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THE TIME OF THE SALE 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 $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 at 11.25% per annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. There will be no abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. There will be no abatement of taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments for any reason. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner association dues and assessments that may become due after the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to pay reasonable attorneys’ fees for the Substitute trustees, plus all cost incurred, if the Substitute Trustee’s have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property. The purchasers waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with such a motion and expressly agrees to The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy is return of the deposit. The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into a repayment agreement, reinstated, or paid off the loan prior to sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sol remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. Trustee’s File No. (76604) Robert A. Jones, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES May 7,14,21 2024 0012458676 Prince Georges County 851 Prince Georges County 851 Samuel I. White, P.C. 448 VIKING DRIVE, SUITE 350 VIRIGINA BEACH, VA 23452 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 4321 Monroe Street Brentwood, MD 20722 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust to JAMES T. CASEY AND RICHARD G. REESE, JR. , Trustee(s), dated May 4, 1998, and recorded among the Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 12153, folio 734, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON, MAY 23, 2024 at 10:00 AM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and described as follows: LOT NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY (380), THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE (381), AND THREE HUNDRED NINETY-ONE (391) IN THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS “LENOX” AS PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK RNR 2 AT PLAT NO. 54 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND; BEING IN THE SECOND (2ND) ELECTION DISTRICT OF SAID COUNTY 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 $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 at 7% per annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. There will be no abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. There will be no abatement of taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments for any reason. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner association dues and assessments that may become due after the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to pay reasonable attorneys’ fees for the Substitute trustees, plus all cost incurred, if the Substitute Trustee’s have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property. The purchasers waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with such a motion and expressly agrees to The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy is return of the deposit. The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into a repayment agreement, reinstated, or paid off the loan prior to sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sol remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. Trustee’s File No. (85527) Robert A. Jones, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES May 7,14,21 2024 0012457444S0115-2x3.75 Search our database of tested recipes by ingredient or name. washingtonpost.com/recipes Try new foods sunny or soggy? 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White, P.C. 448 VIKING DRIVE, SUITE 350 VIRIGINA BEACH, VA 23452 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 15715 Chadsey Lane Brandywine, MD 20613 Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust to HERITAGE TITLE LTD, Trustee(s), dated December 30, 2020, and recorded among the Land Records of PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 44709, folio 69, the holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of Trust having appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by instrument duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, default having occurred under the terms thereof, and at the request of the party secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON, MAY 16, 2024 at 10:00 AM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD and described as follows: LOT 30 IN BLOCK C, IN A SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS “CHADDSFORD” AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT ENTITLED “PLAT TWO, LOTS 15 AND 16 BLOCK A LOTS 1 THRU 11 AND PARCEL C BLOCK B AND LOTS 16 THRU 34 BLOCK C (RESUBDIVISION OF OUT LOT 4, BRANDYWINE VILLAGE P.B. VJ 186 P. NUMBER 64) CHADDSFORD, SECTION 1”, RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY PLAT BOOK REP 211 AT PLAT NUMBER 70. SUBJECT TO DECLARATION OF DEFERRED WATER AND SEWER FACILITIES CHARGES RECORDED IN LIBER 25950 FOLIO 364 AND 25950/364. 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 $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 at 3.125% per annum from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. There will be no abatement of interest for any reason. Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. There will be no abatement of taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments for any reason. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner association dues and assessments that may become due after the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited, and the property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting purchaser and the purchaser agrees to pay reasonable attorneys’ fees for the Substitute trustees, plus all cost incurred, if the Substitute Trustee’s have filed the appropriate motion with the Court to resell the property. The purchasers waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with such a motion and expressly agrees to The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms of sale, the purchaser’s only remedy is return of the deposit. The sale is subject to post-sale confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the borrower entered into a repayment agreement, reinstated, or paid off the loan prior to sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sol remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. Trustee’s File No. (84678) Robert A. Jones, et al SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES Apr 30,May 7,14 2024 0012457098 S0115-2x4 Search our database of tested recipes by ingredient or name. washingtonpost.com/recipes Recipe finder Take Te Post shopping wpost.com/podcasts Washington Post podcasts go with you everywhere Politics • History • Culture • More S0108 4x5 Prince Georges County 851 Frederick County 856 Rosenberg & Associates, LLC 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600 Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 907-8000 www.rosenberg-assoc.com SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY 1488 HEATHER RIDGE COURT FREDERICK, MD 21702 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust from Derrick J. Smith dated March 21, 2022 and recorded in Liber 15825, folio 500 among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on MAY 17, 2024 AT 1:10 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with the buildings and improvements thereon situated in Frederick County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. Tax ID #02-075911. The property, which is improved by a dwelling, 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 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for Frederick County. 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 in the office of the 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. The noteholder shall not be obligated to pay interest if it is the purchaser. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE FOR THE PURCHASER. There will be no reduction of interest due to overpayment of deposit. Adjustment of all real property taxes (excluding recapture of previously reduced or exempt taxes) and any other public charges or assessments, to the extent such amount survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer charges, and ground rent to be adjusted to date of sale and paid at execution of the deed, except where the secured party is the purchaser, and thereafter assumed by the purchaser. All due and/or unpaid private utility, water and sewer facilities charges, condo/HOA assessments and Columbia Assoc. assessments, to the extent such amount survive foreclosure sale, are payable by the purchaser without adjustment. Cost of all documentary stamps, transfer taxes, recaptured taxes (including but not limited to agricultural taxes), and settlement expenses shall be borne by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale forward. Additional terms to be announced at the time of sale. If the Trustees are unable to convey good and marketable title, the purchaser’s sole remedy in law and equity shall be limited to a refund of the deposit without interest. If the purchaser fails to go to settlement, the deposit shall be forfeited, to the 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 reselling 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. Defaulting purchaser waives personal service of any document filed in connection with such a motion on him/ herself and/or any principal or corporate designee, and expressly agrees to accept service of any such document by regular mail directed to the address provided by said purchaser at the time of the foreclosure auction. Trustees’ file number 22-002770-MD-F-2. Diane S. Rosenberg, Mark D. Meyer, et al., Trustees Apr 30,May 7,14 2024 0012458941 S0114 2X4 Washington Post newsletters deliver more of what you’re looking for. Discover and subscribe for free at washingtonpost.com/newsletters TE H? Frederick County 856 Frederick County 856 BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 10745 LAKE POINT COURT NEW MARKET, MD 21774 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated February 23, 2007, recorded in Liber 6491, Folio 490 among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, with an original principal balance of $359,100.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on MAY 10, 2024 AT 12:54 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon located in Frederick County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, and any improvements thereon, 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 $38,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. 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, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/ or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. 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 any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of 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. Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 74875-1) Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees Apr 23,30,May 7 2024 0012458275 BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 1719 BROOKSHIRE RUN POINT OF ROCKS, MD 21777 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated March 29, 2019, recorded in Liber 12932, Folio 296 among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, with an original principal balance of $237,373.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on MAY 17, 2024 AT 1:15 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon located in Frederick County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, and any improvements thereon, 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 $22,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. 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, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/ or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. 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 any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of 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. Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 365064-1) Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees Apr 30,May 7,14 2024 0012458921 Frederick County 856 Frederick County 856 BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 5149 MAITLAND TERRACE FREDERICK, MD 21703 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated December 31, 2012, recorded in Liber 9366, Folio 300 among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, with an original principal balance of $446,586.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on MAY 10, 2024 AT 12:50 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon located in Frederick County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, and any improvements thereon, 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 $39,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. 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, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/ or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. 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 any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of 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. Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 361530-1) Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees Apr 23,30,May 7 2024 0012458273 BWW Law Group, LLC 6003 Executive Blvd., Suite 101 Rockville, MD 20852 (301) 961-6555 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES’ SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AND ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEREON 10501A OLD ANNAPOLIS ROAD FREDERICK, MD 21701 Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust dated December 22, 2016, recorded in Liber 11660, Folio 70 among the Land Records of Frederick County, MD, with an original principal balance of $432,030.00, default having occurred under the terms thereof, the Sub. Trustees will sell at public auction at the Circuit Court for Frederick County, at the Court House Door, 100 W. Patrick St., Frederick, MD 21701, on MAY 10, 2024 AT 12:52 PM ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND, together with any buildings or improvements thereon located in Frederick County, MD and more fully described in the aforesaid Deed of Trust. The property, and any improvements thereon, 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 $43,000 in the form of certified check, cashier’s check or money order will be required of the purchaser at time and place of sale. Balance of the purchase price, together with interest on the unpaid purchase money at the current rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note, or any modifications thereto, from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the Sub. Trustees, payable in cash within ten days of final ratification of the sale by the Circuit Court. There will be no abatement of interest due to the purchaser in the event additional funds are tendered before settlement. 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, to the extent such amounts survive foreclosure sale, including water/sewer, ground rent and front foot benefit charges, to be adjusted to date of sale and thereafter assumed by purchaser. Purchaser is responsible for any recapture of homestead tax credit. All transfer taxes and recordation taxes shall be paid by Purchaser. The purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the ground rent escrow, if required. Condominium fees and/ or homeowners association dues, if any, shall be assumed by the purchaser from the date of sale. Purchaser is responsible for obtaining physical possession of the property, and assumes risk of loss or damage to the property from the date of sale. 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 any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, this sale shall be null and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the return of the deposit without interest. If purchaser fails to settle within ten days of ratification, subject to order of court, purchaser agrees that property will be resold and entire deposit retained by Sub. Trustees as liquidated damages for all losses occasioned by the purchaser’s default and purchaser shall have no further liability. The purchaser waives personal service of any papers filed in connection with its failure to settle within ten days of ratification and expressly agrees to accept service by first class mail at the address provided by the Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of 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. Sub. Trustees will convey either marketable or insurable title. If they cannot deliver one or the other, or if ratification of the sale is denied by the Circuit Court for any reason, the Purchaser’s sole remedy, at law or equity, is return of the deposit without interest. (Matter No. 323803-15) Howard N. Bierman, Carrie M. Ward, et. al., Substitute Trustees Apr 23,30,May 7 2024 0012458274 Frederick County 856 CityofAlexandria 871 OLD DOMINION TRUSTEES, INC. SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE 12355 SUNRISE VALLEY DRIVE, SUITE 650 RESTON, VIRGINIA 20191 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE OF LEASEHOLD INTEREST IN 2000 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314 SALE AT FRONT ENTRANCE OF THE PROPERTY 2000 DUKE STREET ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 22314 Under the power of sale contained in a Leasehold Deed of Trust and Fixture Filing dated February 19, 2019 and recorded among the Land Records of the City of Alexandria as Instrument No. 190002606 and re-recorded as Instrument No. 190002994 (the “Deed of Trust”), default having occurred under the terms of the Deed of Trust and the Lease- hold Deed of Trust Note secured thereby (the “Note”), and following the recording of a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustee as Instru- ment No. 240002904, at the request of the party secured by the Deed of Trust (the “Secured Party”), the Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction at 2000 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, at the front entrance that faces Dulany Street, on THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2024 AT 12:00 NOON the leasehold interest in certain property located in the City of Alex- andria, Virginia, RPC #073.01-02-06, more particularly described as follows (hereafter the “Property”): ESTATE 1 (FEE SIMPLE DETERMINABLE, AS TO PARCEL “1” DESCRIBED BELOW): All those certain buildings and all other improvements constituting real property located on the land as defined in the Amended and Restat- ed Deed of Lease executed by Terra Funding-Duke, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as lessor, and 2000 Duke, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as lessee, dated as of January 7, 2019 (the “Improvements”) ESTATE 2 (LEASEHOLD, AS TO PARCEL “1” DESCRIBED BELOW): Leasehold, pursuant to that certain Amended and Restated Deed of Lease executed by Terra Funding-Duke, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as lessor, and 2000 Duke, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as lessee, dated as of January 7, 2019, excepting therefrom all improvements as evidenced by that certain Memorandum of Ground Lease dated January 7, 2019 and recorded on February 28, 2019 as Instrument No. 190002599. ESTATE 3 (EASEMENT, AS TO PARCELS “2”, “3”, AND “4” DESCRIBED BELOW): As to Parcels 2, 3, and 4 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF THE LANDS: PARCEL “1”: Lot number 1102, 69,627 sq. ft. or 1.59842 ac as shown on that certain plat entitled “Plat showing Subdivision of lot 1001, Carlyle, City of Al- exandria, Virginia scale: 1” = 50’,” dated February 17, 1995”, prepared by Patton Harris Rust & Associates, Fairfax, Virginia, and recorded with Deed of Subdivision in the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of the City of Alexandria, Virginia in Deed Book 1525, at page 1821. PARCEL “2”: Together with those certain non-exclusive real property estates, if any, as set forth in Deed and Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions dat- ed December 11, 2003 and recorded December 12, 2003 as Instrument Number 030050515. PARCEL “3”: Together with those certain non-exclusive easements for ingress and egress over the common areas as set forth in sections 2.5 and 3.4, for potential encroachments as set forth in section 3.6, and for lateral and subjacent support as set forth in section 3.7 of that certain Declaration for Carlyle, recorded in Deed Book 1517 at page 1342, in the aforesaid Clerk’s Office; as amended by Amendment Number One to Declaration for Carlyle, and recorded in Deed Book 1570 at Page 1305; Amendment Number Two to Declaration for Carlyle, and recorded in Deed Book 1604 at Page 87; Amendment Number Three to Declaration for Carlyle, and recorded in Deed Book 1626 at Page 306; Amendment Number Four to Declaration for Carlyle, and recorded in Deed Book 1682 at Page 438; Amendment Number Five to Declaration for Carlyle, record- ed in Deed Book 1693 at Page 670; Amendment Number Six to Decla- ration for Carlyle, recorded in Deed Book 1707 at Page 1063; Amend- ment Number Seven to Declaration for Carlyle, and Recorded in Deed Book 1722 at Page 0032; Amendment Number Eight to Declaration for Carlyle, and recorded as Instrument No. 000023928; Amendment Num- ber Nine to Declaration for Carlyle, and recorded as Instrument No. 010028212; Amendment Number Ten to Declaration for Carlyle, and recorded as Instrument No. 010031867; Amendment Number Elev- en to Declaration for Carlyle recorded as Instrument No. 020041747; Amendment Number Twelve to Declaration for Carlyle recorded as Instrument No. 030035555; Amendment Number Thirteen to Declara- tion for Carlyle recorded as Instrument No. 030050514; Amendment Number Fourteen to Declaration for Carlyle recorded as Instrument No. 040007112; Amendment Number Fifteen to Declaration for Carlyle re- corded as Instrument No. 040022462 and Amendment Number Sixteen to Declaration for Carlyle and recorded as Instrument No. 080008794. PARCEL “4”: Together with and subject to the non-exclusive right of access for ingress and egress to the extent real property estates are created, subject to the conditions imposed, by Deeds of Easement recorded in Deed Book 1510 at Page 207. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: The Property is believed to be improved by a five-story multi-tenant office building with an underground parking garage. 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 in the form of 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 $50,000.00 shall be required and delivered to the Substitute Trustee at the time and place of sale and, within twenty-four (24) hours after the sale, must be increased to 10% of the purchase price. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid at closing, which shall take place on or before June 20, 2024 at the of- fices of NM Commercial Title, 8229 Boone Boulevard, Suite 610, Vienna, Virginia 22182, unless the Substitute Trustee extends such period at its discretion. The purchaser shall pay interest on the unpaid purchase money at the rate set forth in the Note from the date of sale to the date the funds are received in the office of the Substitute Trustee. If closing is delayed for any reason, there shall be no abatement of interest. 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 Se- cured Party purchases the Property at the sale, the amount bid by the Secured Party, after deducting all expenses related to the sale, shall be a credit against the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust. All real estate taxes, charges, and assessments (and all amounts due in connection therewith) affecting the Property (the “Taxes”); all costs necessary to redeem the Property from tax sale; all ground lease pay- ments; all charges for water, electricity, sewer rental, gas, telephone and other utilities, as applicable and to the extent not paid directly by tenants of the Property; and all rent paid by tenants of the Property shall be adjusted as of the date of closing and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. If the Taxes have not been finally assessed for the cur- rent fiscal year by the taxing authority at the time of closing, then the Taxes shall be adjusted at closing based upon the most recently issued bills and re-adjusted when final bills are issued. If any utility bills are not available at closing, then those amounts shall be adjusted after closing, within ten (10) days of receipt of such bills. The Substitute Trustee shall be liable for only those security deposits, if any, and such income, if any, as the Substitute Trustee may have in its actual possession on the date of closing. The purchaser shall pay all closing costs of the sale, includ- ing recordation, sales and transfer taxes. All obligations of purchaser hereunder shall survive closing and delivery of the deed. The purchas- er (other than the Secured Party) shall be required to sign a contract including this advertisement and other terms. Time is of the essence. The Substitute Trustee reserves the right to require registration and/ or pre-qualification of bidders, to modify or waive the requirements for bidders’ deposits and to approve the creditworthiness of any bidder and final purchaser. The Property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition and without any re- course, representations or warranties, either express or implied, of any kind. Neither the Substitute Trustee, the auctioneer, nor the Secured Party make any warranty or representation of any kind of nature, ex- press or implied, with respect to: (i) the physical condition of, the de- scription of, or title to the Property; or (ii) the zoning, subdivision, or use of the Property; or (iii) the purchaser’s ability to obtain possession of the Property. The Property will be sold subject to (i) all conditions, liens, restrictions, rights of redemption, covenants, encumbrances, and agreements of record that take priority over the Deed of Trust; and (ii) such state of facts that an accurate survey or physical inspection of the Property might disclose (if any) that are not otherwise extinguished by operation of law. In addition, the Property will also be sold subject to all existing housing, building and zoning code violations (and resulting fines), subject to all environmental problems and violations which may exist on or with respect to the Property, whether or not official notices thereof are issued, and subject to all matters and restrictions of re- cord affecting the same (if any). The purchaser of the Property at the foreclosure sale shall be responsible 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, in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies available to it, 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 de- faulting purchaser shall (i) be liable for the payment of any deficiency in the purchase price, all costs and expenses of both sales, reasonable at- torneys’ fees, and all other charges incurred by the Substitute Trustee; 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 title to the Property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser of the Property shall be lim- ited 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 Se- cured Party. The conveyance by the Substitute Trustee to the purchas- er at closing shall be by Substitute Trustee’s Deed, without covenant or warranty. NOTE: The information contained herein was obtained from sources deemed to be reliable, but is offered for informational purposes only. The Auctioneer, the Substitute Trustee and the Secured Party do not make any representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy of such information. For additional information, please contact Rich- ard Lash, President, Old Dominion Trustees, Inc., 12355 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 650, Reston, Virginia 20191, 703-796-1341, extension 144, or [email protected] or Stephen Karbelk, Auctioneer, 571-481- 1037 or [email protected]. May 6,7,8 2024 0012459360 S0114 2X5.25 Washington Post newsletters deliver more of what you’re looking for. Discover and subscribe for free at washingtonpost.com/newslettersbo ks ? CityofAlexandria 871 D10 CLASSIFIED OPQRS EZ TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2024