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BY JOSEPH DITZLER

Stars and Stripes

TOKYO — History profes-sor Cord Scott likes this analogywhen he tries to relate currentevents to World War II for his students.

“We’re watching ‘Avengers:Endgame,’ or, if you like to read,we’re picking up a Stephen Kingnovel and we’re starting at page450,” Scott said during an Aug. 26interview.

In other words, the legacy ofWorld War II is still ripplingthrough world events and influ-encing history. Even though thewar ended 75 years ago, and itswarriors are down to a relativehandful, the world is still de-fined in many ways by what theyaccomplished.

Much of what remains from the war is obvious: rusted tankson lonely Pacific islands or crum-bling pillboxes above Frenchbeaches. Still relevant but less tangible are institutions like NATO, the Department of De-fense and the United Nations, ele-ments of the world as ordered byWorld War II.

Until recently, knowledge ofthe war and its legacy passed be-tween generations; but as the lasteyewitnesses to that history leavethe scene, that knowledge resides instead in books and classrooms.

“To be honest, some studentscan’t identify groups we foughtagainst in World War II,” Scott said. “At times I’ve had to go through and reestablish the basics.”

Scott and David Harmon, both

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U.S. Air Force Academy cadets start the school year with a class held outdoors last month in Colorado Springs, Colo.

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A midshipman uses a sanitizing wipe to clean her desk before the start of a leadership class last month at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

BY LOLITA C. BALDOR

Associated Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — As eight Navy midshipmen file into their economics class, instruc-tor Kurtis Swope points to the antibacterial wipes on the desk. “Did you grab wipes?” he asks, then tells each one to take two, wipe down the desk when they arrive and again when they leave. “That should be your process.”

As chairman of U.S. Naval Academy’s economics depart-ment, Swope broke his class into

two sections, so every student could attend in person. Down the hall another instructor, flanked by chemistry equipment, stands in front of two computers teach-ing in an empty classroom. And another instructor sits in her of-fice, talking to a grid of camo-clad students on her laptop.

Under the siege of the coro-navirus pandemic, classes have begun at the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. But unlike at many

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Amazon wins FAA approval to deliver by drone BY JOSEPH PISANI

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Getting an Amazon package delivered from the sky is closer to becoming a reality.

The Federal Aviation Admin-istration said Monday that it had granted Amazon approval to de-liver packages by drones.

Amazon said that the approval is an “important step,” but added that it is still testing the drones. It did not say when it expected

drones to make deliveries to shoppers.

The online shopping giant has been working on drone delivery for years, but it has been slowed by regulatory hurdles. Back in December 2013, Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos said in a TV interview that drones would be flying to customer’s homes within five years.

Last year, Amazon unveiled self-piloting drones that are fully electric, can carry 5 pounds of

goods and are designed to deliv-er items in 30 minutes by drop-ping them in a backyard. At the time, an Amazon executive said deliveries to shoppers would be happening “within months,” but more than 14 months have passed since then.

Seattle-based Amazon is the third drone delivery service to win flight approval, the FAA said. Delivery company UPS and a company owned by search giant Google won approval last year.

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BY COREY DICKSTEIN

Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON — Army of-ficials are investigating an anti-Semitic social media post shared Friday by a second lieutenant based at Fort Stewart, Ga., who said he shared it as a joke.

Army officials said Monday that they had suspended 2nd Lt. Nathan Freihofer from his duties and launched an investigation into a post on the controversial TikTok platform by the 23-year-old field artillery officer. In the short video, Freihofer said he would never be-come a “verified” user because of the content that he shares before telling his so-called joke, which was about the Holocaust and Jew-ish people.

“If you get offended, get the f— out, because it’s a joke,” he then said in the video. In text alongside the video, he added: “For legal reasons this is a joke.”

Maj. Gen. Tony Aguto, the com-mander of Fort Stewart’s 3rd Infantry Division, called the re-marks shared in the video “vile.”

“The statements made in the video are not indicative of the values we live by, and there is no place for racism or bigotry in our Army or our country,” Aguto wrote in a statement posted to Twitter. “An investigation has been initiated into this matter and the soldier has been suspended of any and all leadership authorities effective immediately, pending

the results of the investigation.” Army officials said they were

first alerted to the video by jour-nalists. They also said it clearly violated the Army’s social media policy, which calls on soldiers to treat others with respect online and forbids racist or discrimina-tory posts. Soldiers can face disci-pline, including criminal charges, for posts that violate the policy.

In recent months, the service has taken steps to encourage sol-diers to speak openly about diver-sity and discrimination within the ranks amid a national conversa-tion on race.

Freihofer is a prolific sharer on social media, posting hundreds of videos and photos – often in uni-form -- on popular platforms in-cluding TikTok and Instagram. He boasted nearly 3 million followers on TikTok and another 220,000 on Instagram, as of Monday.

Messages seeking comment from Freihofer were not returned Monday. The soldier also appears to have deleted his TikTok ac-count after the Army announced the investigation.

U.S. troops are barred from downloading the Chinese-owned TikTok app on government-owned phones, but they can ac-cess it on their personal devices, at least for now. President Donald Trump has flirted with banning the popular social media platform where users post short videos often to music.

The offensive video appeared

to have been removed from Tik-Tok. But it continued to circulate on Twitter on Monday afternoon where it had been viewed at least 567,000 times.

Among hundreds of posts dis-playing the video was the official account of the Auschwitz-Birke-nau State Museum, which aims to educate the world on the atroci-ties committed by Nazis against Jews and others at that concentra-tion camps in Europe during the Holocaust.

“Would he look into the eyes of survivors liberated by [the U.S. Army] and tell them this?” the museum’s official Twitter account wrote, linking to an online history of the former death camp in Po-land. “Nathan, if you see this, take this lesson to learn why you hurt real people & their memory.” [email protected]: @CDicksteinDC

BY JOHN VANDIVER Stars and Stripes

STUTTGART, Germany — A Russian fighter jet followed a U.S. B-52 bomber over Denmark, marking a rare and “sig-nificant violation” of NATO airspace, allies said this week.

The incident Friday prompted Denmark to scramble quick reaction aircraft to coun-ter the Russian Su-27, which took off from Russia’s military exclave in Kaliningrad, NATO said.

“The unauthorized intrusion of sov-ereign airspace is a significant violation of international law,” NATO’s Allied Air Command said in a statement Monday. “Friday’s incident is the first of this kind

for several years and indicates a new level of Russian provocative behavior.”

On Tuesday, the Danish government summoned Russia’s ambassador to lodge a formal complaint over the airspace intrusion.

The intercept happened during a large NATO training drill in Europe, which in-volved the U.S. flying six B-52 bombers around European airspace escorted by about 80 fighter jets from allied states. The drill, called Allied Sky, prompted Moscow to scramble jets of its own.

In a separate incident Saturday, the U.S. said a B-52 bomber’s maneuvers above the Black Sea were restricted by two Rus-sian fighter planes that flew in an “unsafe and unprofessional manner” when they

crossed within 100 feet of the Air Force’s strategic bomber.

The intrusion into NATO airspace Friday happened after the Russian jet intercepted the B-52 over the Baltic Sea as it was clos-ing in on Danish airspace near Bornholm island, NATO said.

“The Russian Su-27, flying from Kalin-ingrad, followed the B-52 well into Dan-ish airspace over the island, committing a significant violation of airspace of a NATO nation,” it said.

The Russian jet turned back before Dan-ish planes could reach it, NATO said. Dan-ish jets remained airborne to guard the airspace, the statement said.

“This incident demonstrates Russia’s disrespect of international norms and for

the sovereign airspace of an Allied nation. We remain vigilant, ready and preparedto secure NATO airspace 24/7,” Gen. Jeff Harrigian, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and head of NATO’s Allied AirCommand, said in the statement.

There has been an uptick in Russian in-tercepts of U.S. aircraft in recent months,including confrontations over the Mediter-ranean Sea and near the United States.

Last week, the Air Force scrambled aflight of F-22 fighters to intercept six Rus-sian Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft fly-ing off the coast of Alaska. The Russianaircraft loitered in the area for about fivehours and came within 50 nautical miles of Alaskan shores, but at no time did they enter U.S. airspace, the military said.

BY WYATT OLSON

Stars and Stripes

The crew of an E-2C Hawkeye bailed out safely before the air-craft crashed Monday near Vir-ginia’s barrier islands, according to the Navy.

The plane, assigned to Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 120 Fleet Replacement Squadron, at Naval Station Norfolk, went down near Wallops Island, ac-cording to a statement from Cmdr. Jennifer Cragg, spokesperson for Naval Air Force Atlantic.

The two pilots and two crew members were on a training flight when the Hawkeye went down at about 3:50 p.m. Local media re-ported that part of the plane land-ed in a soybean field.

All four crewmembers bailed out through the main cabin door

using parachutes, Cragg said. Crewmembers are required to don parachutes when boarding the plane, she added.

The cause of the crash is under investigation, but initial reports indicated “no structures or per-sonnel on the ground were dam-aged or injured” as a result of the crash, Cragg said.

The Hawkeye — distinctive for its large radar — is a twin-turbo-prop carrier-capable tactical air-craft used for early warning and command and control.

The Airborne Command and Control Squadron reports to Air-borne Command and Control and Logistics Wing commanded by Capt. Michael France, Cragg [email protected]: @WyattWOlson

BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS Stars and Stripes

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The Navy has sent an-other guided-missile destroyer through the Taiwan Strait, its second transit there in less than two weeks.

The USS Halsey on Sunday

sailed through the strait on a “routine transit” to demonstrate “the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” 7th Fleet spokesman Lt. Joe Keiley said in an email Tuesday.

“The U.S. Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows,” Keiley said.

The trip came just 12 days after the USS Mustin sailed through the 110-mile-wide strait that separates the island of Taiwan from China. The Halsey’s transit marked the 11th time the Navy has sent a ship through the Tai-wan Strait this year.

China regularly objects to Navy trips through the strait.

Beijing asserts sovereignty over those waters and over Taiwan, a self-governing island with its own elected government.

The U.S. regards the strait as international waters and acknowl-edges China’s claim to Taiwan under its “One China” policy but views the island’s status as unset-tled. Taiwan split from mainland

China in 1949. With 11 trips in 2020, the U.S.

has nearly met its record of 12Taiwan Strait transits in a singleyear. That record was set in 2016,according to data the Pacific Fleetprovided earlier this year.

[email protected] Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos

MILITARY

Allies: Russian jet violated NATO airspace

Fort Stewart officer removed from duties after TikTok post

Crew safely bails out of Navy plane before crash

Destroyer makes Navy’s 11th trip through Taiwan Strait this year

TikTok

A screen capture from 2nd Lt. Nathan Freihofer’s TikTok account.

JOHN IVANCIC/U.S. Navy

An E-2C Hawkeye, like the one above, crashed near Virginia’s barrier islands Monday. The crew bailed out safely before the crash.


BY WYATT OLSON

Stars and Stripes

Donald Fosburg was off duty and lying in his bunk in the belly of the battleship USS Missouri on a steamy August night in 1945.

He and his fellow radiomen were always first to receive news of the Pacific war against Impe-rial Japan, but that night’s scoop was a bombshell.

“A radioman friend of mine came running up,” recalled Fos-burg, 93, during a recent phone interview from his home in Whit-tier, Calif. “He said, ‘Wake up, Don! The Japanese have accept-ed our terms of surrender — the war is over!’ ”

The radioman swore Fosburg to secrecy because it was rightly up to the Missouri’s command to announce it to the crew.

“But you know, you’re in a bunk room. You’re right next to everybody so in a very short time everybody aboard ship became aware of it.”

The news of Japan’s surren-der Aug. 15 — which became of-ficial during a formal ceremony of surrender aboard the Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945 — eventually made its way to the tens of thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines de-ployed throughout the Pacific. Some had been away from home for years, while others had al-ready returned to the States after long stints at war.

Many suspected the end was near after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiro-shima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9. Their hope was fulfilled when Japanese Emperor Hirohi-to announced the surrender in a radio broadcast six days after the second bombing.

‘We were there to win’

The news was, of course, wel-comed by troops scattered across a theater that had been at war for almost four years.

But whether filled with joy or relief, most men’s minds turned quickly to a single question.

“Your first reaction is: When are we going to go back home?” Fosburg said.

Elmer Halley, 95, was drafted into the Navy while still in high school in 1943 and became a phar-macist’s mate. He was stationed at a hospital on Saipan until he and 10 other pharmacist’s mates were plucked from there and put aboard the USS Monitor, a ve-hicle landing ship, which headed for Japan in August 1945.

“We were all just young guys, 18 years old, greenhorns really,” Halley said during a phone inter-view from his home in Huntsville, Mo. “We were there to win the war. This was our main thought. I didn’t know how long I was going to be over there. All we wanted to do was whip the Japanese.

“Never again will you see our country united like we were then. It was like one big family trying to get the job done. Our people were really united to get this job

done.”As fate would have it, the Moni-

tor was moored close to the USS Missouri on the day of the sur-render ceremony, and Halley was among the thousands of service-members who watched as Gen. Douglas MacArthur presided over the signing.

“It was one of the greatest events,” Halley said. “We knew we were making a lot of history there. I can still close my eyes and see MacArthur and those people signing that peace treaty.”

‘The boss of that day’

Not everyone sensed the mo-mentous nature of what would

unfold on Tokyo Bay that day.Robert McGranaghan, 95, was a

seaman first class on duty aboard the destroyer USS Nicholas, also moored near the Missouri.

“Over the PA, they announced that anyone who wants to watch the signing of the treaty on the Missouri can go over,” said Mc-Granaghan during a phone inter-view from his home in Omaha, Neb.

He had joined the Navy at age 17 in 1943 and was aboard the Nicholas for 12 major battles as it hopped island to island north to-ward Japan.

On the heels of all that, Mc-Granaghan says that, at the time, the signing did not strike him as a

lasting historical moment.“In fact, some of my friends

who could have gone over didn’t go over,” he said.

But McGranaghan did attend, and a few moments remain vivid in his mind.

“I watched MacArthur slam his hand down and say, ‘This meet-ing is over,’” he said with a laugh. “That was after five guys talked. He didn’t want any more talk. He was the boss of that day.”

Some men in uniform were out of the combat zone by the time of the surrender and reflecting on the sacrifices made for the victory.

James E. Richardson, 99, served in Burma as a member of the famed Merrill’s Maraud-ers, only eight of whom are still alive to see the surrender’s 75th anniversary. He was one of seven brothers, six of whom served dur-ing the war.

In a written response to Stars and Stripes, Richardson recol-lected returning to the U.S. from India in December 1944 and being reassigned to Camp Ruck-er in Alabama, where he learned that the atomic bombs had been dropped.

“I was glad to know the war was finally over and won by the United States and Allied Forces,” said Richardson, who lives in

Jacksboro, Tenn. “But I felt sadabout the loss of one of my young-er brothers, J. C. Richardson, as Ilearned he had been killed fight-ing in France. I didn’t know hehad been killed until I returnedto the United States. He is buriedin France.”

‘Big bomb’

For some in the most remote regions of the Pacific, the newsbarely registered.

Chester Syska, 95, was draft-ed out of high school in upstate New York in 1943 and served in a couple of Army artillery units in Burma, where he tended sixmules that lugged a single pieceof disassembled artillery through the jungle.

“My favorite mule was a pink one, so I called him Pinky,” Syskasaid during a phone interviewfrom his home in New York.

He was hospitalized with ty-phoid fever in Burma, after which he was sent to China, where he developed aerial photographs ofenemy positions until the end ofthe war.

Syska can recollect many de-tails and events from Burma andChina before being sent backto the U.S. in September 1945, but news of the war’s end is notamong them.

“No. I tell you, I was far andaway from everything,” he said.

The surrender was the end ofa long nightmare for the roughly14,400 American prisoners of warheld by the Japanese.

Daniel Crowley, 98, was takenprisoner on Corregidor Island, the Philippines, in May 1942.

“We were slaves,” Crowley said during a phone interview from his home in Connecticut.

He labored in a southern Phil-ippines jungle building a runwayand then in March 1944 was load-ed aboard one of the infamous“hellships” — crowded, filthy and pestilent — bound for Japan.

He and other POWs were putto work in the Furukawa copper mine, fed rice gruel and tendedby brutal guards.

Crowley recalled that a few ofthe guards in early August 1945were walking around with ashen faces. “Big bomb,” he recalled one saying.

It was at that point that themost sadistic of the guards began disappearing, and the prison-ers began to sense a change was afoot.

On Aug. 14, the Japanese com-mander ordered that no work would be done in the mine be-cause the emperor was to give aradio speech.

A Chinese prisoner, whocooked for the Japanese officers, approached Crowley after thebroadcast.

“Crowley-san, war is over. Em-peror speak,” Crowley recalled him saying.

Crowley’s mind raced to one thought: How soon can I [email protected]: @WyattWOlson

75 YEARS AFTER WWII

For US troops in the Pacific, the end of World War II deepened the ache for home

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Daniel Crowley attends a ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii in 2018.

‘Get this job done’

Chester Halley

Elmer Halley, right, poses for a photo taken during World War II.

James Richardson

James Richardson, 99, a member of the famed Merrill’s Marauders in Burma during World War II, poses with his daughter, Judy Robertson, in February . He is holding a photo of his brother, J.C., who was killed in France during the war.


FROM FRONT PAGE

history professors for Univer-sity of Maryland Global Campus, teach U.S. service members, their families and interested civilians about that history. They sized up for Stars and Stripes some of the significant legacies of World War II.

“World War II put us on the world stage,” Harmon said dur-ing an Aug. 19 interview. “We be-came the bank then, also.”

Power projectionFormer adversaries, the Axis

powers, namely Germany, Japan and Italy, today are allies of the U.S., which still bases military forces in each of those countries. Before rising out of the war’s ashes to thrive again, they existed beneath a military and economic umbrella provided by the U.S. and its wartime allies.

The value of those alliances is sometimes questioned, but Scott believes they’re still relevant.

“On the whole, most America foreign policy officials realize these alliances are necessary,” he said. “They build a strong, cohe-sive interaction and if we try to do things on our own, this can lead to bigger problems down the road.”

Western powers after the war divested themselves or were re-lieved of their colonial posses-sions or mandates.

The United Kingdom ended its control over India, which became independent along with Pakistan, in 1947. Ceylon, today Sri Lanka, followed in early 1948. Israel’s founders declared a nation in May 1948, provoking an invasion by four Arab countries.

The Netherlands reluctantly yielded its control over the East Indies, which became Indonesia in 1949. The Philippines, a U.S. territory, became independent on July 4, 1946.

Tensions between India and Pakistan as well as Israel and its Arab neighbors, including dis-placed Palestinians, continue to this day.

World War II also planted the seeds of further conflict involv-ing the United States. The U.S. during the war fostered a rela-tionship with Ho Chi Minh, lead-er of a Vietnamese insurgency against the occupying Japanese. Afterward, the U.S. forfeited that tie by yielding instead to French entreaties to reoccupy its former colonies in Indochina.

The origins of today’s “great power” competition in Asia were also laid during and immediately after the war.

In August 1949, the U.S. ended its support for the Nationalist Chi-nese under Chiang Kai-shek. The Nationalists fled to Taiwan after their defeat that year by com-munists under Mao Zedong, who founded the People’s Republic of China. The two sides had worked together to fight the Japanese during the war.

Taiwan and China remain at odds today, and the U.S. again backs the government on Taiwan and still has a contentious rela-tionship with mainland China.

The year 1949 was eventful in

other ways, Harmon said. The So-viet Union tested an atomic bomb and continued a blockade on West Berlin begun in 1948, NATO came into existence and U.S. President Harry Truman ordered a plan to strengthen the nation’s defense, delivered in January 1950 as NSC 68.

“Can you imagine having a year like that? I mean, this is all on Truman’s plate,” Harmon said.

NSC 68, or United States Objec-tives and Programs for National Security, laid out three main objectives: rearming West Ger-many; peacetime mobilization, in practical terms, establishing overseas U.S. bases; and speed-ing up development of the hydro-gen bomb.

Out of World War II also came the Cold War, the result of a di-vide between former Allies in the West and the Soviet Union. The

U.S., which demilitarized after previous conflicts, this time could not cede international leadership to a powerful adversary.

British Prime Minister Win-ston Churchill defined that rela-tionship soon after the conflict ended with a speech at a Missouri college in 1946, where he applied the phrase, “Iron Curtain,” to the line separating East from West.

Harmon believes the 44-year Cold War started definitively at the Potsdam Conference between Truman, Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in summer 1945. There, Harmon said, Stalin reneged on a promise to the late President Franklin Roosevelt to permit free elections in occupied Eastern European countries.

“Essentially, his quote is: ‘A freely elected government in any of these Eastern European coun-tries would be anti-Soviet and we can’t allow that,’” Harmon said. “I’ve argued the Cold War started right there when he finished that sentence.”

Within 10 years, proxy wars, fueled by unresolved issues from World War II, and by competition with the communists, cropped up in Korea and then in Vietnam.

Personal legaciesThe broad sweep and lasting

consequences of World War II elicit a sense of detachment and distance, but World War II also left personal legacies. Harmon and Scott both had family in the war.

Harmon’s father, Charles Har-mon, served with the 95th Infan-try Division, which fought across Northern France and into Ger-

many. His father never talkedabout his wartime experience,Harmon said, and he died at age88 in August 2012.

Scott’s grandfathers both served in the war. His paternal grandfa-ther, Earl Scott, was drafted lateand expected to take part in theinvasion of Japan. Instead, he ar-rived in Japan after the surrenderand saw firsthand the bombed-out city of Hiroshima.

“That kind of floored me andhe passed before I could followup with him,” said Scott, who has lived in Hiroshima prefectureand has seen photographs of thecity after the bombing. “I thought,‘My lord, this is just pictures in a book. What did my grandfathersee and smell going through thoseactual places?’”

His maternal grandfather,Jerry Smetana, was an artillery-man with the Army from North Africa to Sicily before an injury sent him back to the U.S .

In 2005, at a coffee shop in Chi-cago, Scott said, he spotted anelderly man in a cap bearing thewords “USS Indianapolis,” theheavy cruiser torpedoed and sunkby the Japanese after deliveringparts of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. A third ofthe 900 crewmembers survivedthe sinking and four days at sea, surrounded and preyed upon bysharks.

“Are you from the Indianapolisfrom World War II? He was veryreluctant to talk about it,” Scottsaid. “That story, in and of itself, was absolutely stunning to me.”[email protected] Twitter: @JosephDitzler

Legacies: History professors recount WWII’s long-term impact 75 YEARS AFTER WWII

U.S. Army Signal Corps

From left, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Harry Truman and Soviet leader Josef Stalin pose after dinner at Potsdam, Germany, on July 23, 1945.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh wrote to President Harry Truman asking for American intercession to stop the return of French forces to its former colony in Southeast Asia on Feb. 28, 1946.


Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — The death toll from a week of heavy flooding in northern and eastern Afghanistan rose to at least 190 on Tuesday, an official said, with scores more injured as rescue crews search for those missing under the mud and rubble of col-lapsed houses.

Heavy rains, compounded by mudslides, often threaten remote areas of the war-torn nation, where infrastructure is poor. Summer often brings heavy rain-fall and flooding to the country’s north and east regions.

State minister for disaster management Ghulam Bahawudin Jilani told reporters Tuesday that more than 170 people have been reported injured so far while at least 12 are still missing. Last Thursday, the death toll stood at 150 but rose as more bodies were uncovered. Jilani said he feared the final death toll would be even higher.

“Our rescue teams are remov-ing rubble at the sites and looking

for more possible dead bodies,” he said, adding concerns that this was not the final death toll.

The most heavily affected by the flooding was the city of Chari-kar in northern Parwan province, a popular vacation destination for many Afghans, where the floods started last Tuesday.

Powerful flood waters in the mountainous province dislo-

cated thousands of large rocks that caused major injuries and destroyed entire homes, burying people under the rubble. Several excavators reached the area and were digging for those stuck be-neath the rubble.

According to Rahmatullah Haidari, deputy spokesman for the provincial governor, Parwan has had 121 dead and 136 others

injured so far.Jilani said that overall, ap-

proximately 1,055 houses have been competently destroyed and close to 3,000 others were par-tially damaged. Afghan officials with the state ministry for disas-ter management said that ground and air support are helping those trapped by the flooding in the provinces.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Tal-iban insurgents launched a com-plex attack Tuesday morningagainst a military base in easternAfghanistan, killing at least threepublic protection forces, an offi-cial said.

Five other forces were wound-ed in the attack, said Abdul Rah-man Mangal, a spokesman for thegovernor in Paktia province.

A suicide car bomber targetedthe entrance gate of the base inthe provincial capital Gardez, then two gunmen started shoot-ing at the Afghan security forces,Mangal said.

Security forces killed both at-tackers in a gunbattle lasting al-most 10 minutes and the area isnow under control, he added.

A Taliban spokesman, Zabi-hullah Mujahid, said the group claimed responsibility for the at-tack in Gardez.

The attack comes after Af-ghanistan’s president appointed46 members to a council for na-tional reconciliation, which will have final say on whether thegovernment will sign a peacedeal with the Taliban after whatare expected to be protracted and uncertain negotiations with theinsurgents.

The negotiations were envis-aged under a U.S.-Taliban peaceagreement signed in Februaryamid intra-Afghan talks to decide the country’s future. A series ofdelays have hampered the start of the negotiations, which somehad expected to begin late lastmonth.

There are also other obstacles in the way of the negotiations.The Afghan government has re-versed a decision to release thelast 320 Taliban prisoners it isholding until the insurgents free more captured soldiers.

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UNITED NATIONS — The United States vetoed a U.N. res-olution Monday calling for the prosecution, rehabilitation and reintegration of all those engaged in terrorism-related activities, saying it didn’t call for the repa-triation from Syria and Iraq of foreign fighters for the Islamic State extremist group and their families, which is “the crucial first step.”

U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft

said the resolution, “supposedly designed to reinforce internation-al action on counter-terrorism, was worse than no resolution at all.” She dismissed the measure as “a cynical and willfully oblivi-ous farce.”

Because of the COVID-19 pan-demic, the 15-member Security Council voted by email. The re-sult was 14 countries in favor and only the U.S. opposed. It was an-nounced by the current council president, Indonesia’s U.N. Am-bassador Dian Triansyah Djani,

whose country sponsored the resolution.

In her statement explaining the U.S. veto, Craft pointed to her comments at a council meeting on counter-terrorism last week. She stressed then that repatriation and accountability for crimes by fighters for the extremist group also known as ISIS and their fam-ily members are essential so they “do not become the nucleus of an ISIS 2.0.

“It is incomprehensible that other members of this council

were satisfied with a resolution that ignores the security implica-tions of leaving foreign terrorist fighters to plot their escape from limited detention facilities and abandoning their family mem-bers to suffer in camps without recourse, opportunities, or hope,” she said Monday.

Craft said last week the Trump administration was disappointed that Indonesian efforts to draft “a meaningful resolution … were stymied by council members’ re-fusal to include repatriation.”

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The U.S. military and the State Depart-ment must agree to update Congress on the war in Afghanistan and the peace process or they will face subpoenas, House Demo-cratic lawmakers say.

A letter sent Monday to Defense Secre-tary Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanded the two depart-ments provide witnesses to testify at a Sept. 9 hearing in Congress.

“Should your departments refuse to ap-pear voluntarily, the (National Security) Subcommittee will have no other choice but to receive testimony through compul-sory process,” said the letter, which was signed by 15 Democratic members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

The Pentagon has already said that it would not attend the Sept. 9 hearing and the State Department’s key envoy to Af-

ghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has said he could not testify “due to travel,” the letter said.

These decisions are part of a pattern of failing to appear at briefings and hearings on Capitol Hill regarding the war, the let-ter said.

Last March, lawmakers were told DOD could not attend another scheduled meet-ing because it was “cutting back our number of Hill engagements” due to the coronavirus pandemic.

During other hearings, DOD refused to testify or said no witnesses were avail-able to speak, the letter said. It accused the White House of having “obstructed the Subcommittee’s oversight of the U.S. strat-egy in Afghanistan.”

Lawmakers who signed the letter also raised concerns about the Trump admin-istration’s deal with the Taliban, signed on Feb. 29. The accord would draw down U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan in ex-

change for concessions by the militants. While the United States has reduced

troop levels in line with the agreement, key aspects of the deal, such as peace talks between the Taliban and the government in Kabul and a prisoner exchange, have been repeatedly delayed amid a surge of violence attributed to Taliban attacks. The letter cites a June Pentagon report which estimates that Taliban attacks on Afghan government forces had increased five-fold since an agreement struck prior to the Feb. 29 deal to quell the fighting.

The letter also called for answers on the roles played by Russia and Iran, which are “seeking to expand their influence in Afghanistan” and possibly paying the Tal-iban to target U.S. forces, citing media re-ports in June and August.

“The American people have the right to hear directly from their government about the prospects for peace in Afghanistan after nearly two decades of conflict, or

whether it once again may become a havenfor terrorists that could threaten us here at home,” the lawmakers’ letter said.

While congressmen in both politi-cal parties have raised doubts about theWhite House’s Afghanistan strategy, the tight-lipped nature of the administrationhas only heightened those concerns, saidAndrew Watkins, a senior Afghanistananalyst at the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank.

“The House oversight committee noted that Trump’s administration has dodgedinquiries on its Afghanistan strategy for afull year,” Watkins said. “But this lack oftransparency takes on heightened signifi-cance, with each new report that emergesof Taliban activity that may violate theterms of the Feb. 29 agreement — as well as each report of dysfunction in the Afghan government.” [email protected] Twitter: @jplawrence3

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Democrats urge Esper, Pompeo to testify

Afghanistan flooding toll rises to 190 at minimum

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Afghan Security personnel work at the site of a suicide truck bombing in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan on Aug. 25.

Afghanistan military baseattacked by the Taliban

US vetoes UN resolution over Islamic State fighters’ return


BY WYATT OLSON

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FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — Ships and aircraft blasted a decommissioned U.S. Navy am-phibious cargo ship to the bottom of the sea Sunday during a two-day live-fire drill serving as a finale for the Rim of the Pacific maritime exercise near Hawaii.

The two-week exercise, joined by navies from 10 nations with 22 surface ships and one submarine, concluded Monday.

This year’s exercise, held en-tirely at sea due the coronavirus pandemic, included 53 replenish-ments-at-sea and the distribution of 101 pallets of cargo, accord-ing to a Navy statement Monday. More than 16,000 small-arms rounds were shot, with more than 1,000 large-caliber weapons fired and 13 missiles launched, the statement said.

About 1,100 pounds of mail was delivered to the roughly 5,300 personnel involved in the training.

Participating countries includ-ed Australia, Brunei, Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, Singa-pore and the United States.

“Our formidable team of capa-ble, adaptive partners has spent the last two weeks demonstrating that we have the resolve and abil-ity to operate together in these challenging times,” Vice Adm. Scott Conn, commander of U.S. 3rd Fleet, said in the statement.

“We strengthened relation-ships and deepened our sense of trust in one another. Each one of our navies has something to offer and that diverse range of knowledge and professionalism is what makes us stronger and

allows us to work together to en-sure a free and open Indo-Pacific and, ultimately, our collective prosperity.”

This year’s exercise marks the first time a non-U.S. female in uniform — Capt. Phillipa Hay of the Royal Australian Navy — led a RIMPAC task force of more than 2,500 sailors, the statement said.

The Royal Canadian Navy frig-ate HMCS Regina was among the vessels involved in drills, held Saturday and Sunday, that sank the ship formerly designated as USS Durham.

The Regina fired an RGM-84 Harpoon surface-to-surface mis-sile, an anti-ship missile used by most NATO member states, the U.S. Navy said in a statement Sunday.

The decommissioned ship was stripped and cleaned before sink-ing to eliminate environmental hazards, the statement added.

“Shooting a Harpoon missile is a difficult and perishable skill, so any opportunity to plan and execute exercises with combined forces increases our skills, profi-ciency, and overall capability,” Lt. Mike Vanderveer, the weapons officer aboard the Regina, said in the statement.

“Simulation is a critical part of our training, but there is nothing better than to conduct live fire training,” Hay, commander of the exercise’s Task Force One, said in the statement. “Sinking exercises are an important way to test our weapons and weapons systems in the most realistic way pos-sible. It demonstrates as a joint force we are capable of high-end warfare.”

The biennial exercise was sig-nificantly reduced in size and

scope this year due to the coro-navirus. In 2018, the exercise boasted participation by 26 na-tions with 47 surface ships and five submarines.

Following a dramatic increase in virus cases on Oahu that began in July, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell instituted a stay-at-home order Thursday, which will

last at least two weeks.The state had 8,472 confirmed

cases of the virus as of Monday, the vast majority on Oahu, ac-cording to the Hawaii Depart-ment of Health. Seventy people in the state have died from the [email protected]: @WyattWOlson

BY SETH ROBSON

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More than 1,000 Marines began a field exercise Tuesday with 400 local troops in Australia’s North-ern Territory, according to the Marine Corps and the Australian Defence Force.

Exercise Koolendong, which will last through Sept. 11, is hap-pening at the Mount Bundey Training Area in the far north of the country, said 1st Lt. Bridget Glynn, a spokesman for the Ma-rines in Darwin. The service has trained Down Under during the southern hemisphere’s winter months each year since 2012.

“All of [Marine Rotational Force — Darwin] will participate in Koolendong, totaling just over

1,000 Marines,” Glynn said.That’s fewer than the 1,200 the

Marines had planned to rotate to Australia and well short of the 2,500 sent there last year.

This year’s mission has been curtailed by the coronavirus pan-demic, which forced Marines to quarantine for two weeks after arriving. The last Marines to arrive in country only finished quarantine Aug. 7.

One of those involved in Kool-endong, Marine Gunnery Sgt. William Horton, said his unit — Kilo Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment out of Twen-tynine Palms, Calif. — has been at Mount Bundey, a 290,000-acre former cattle station near Kaka-du National Park, since the start of July.

The 60 Marines from the bat-tery who made it to Darwin can operate only three of six M777A2 howitzers that were prepositioned there, Horton said.

Mount Bundey is “mountainous terrain similar to what we have in Twentynine Palms,” he said, add-ing that the Australian conditions are more humid.

The gunners have just finished live-fire training in support of 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment and 5th Battalion, Royal Austra-lian Regiment, Horton added.

They’ve been using RQ-21 Blackjack drones to get eyes on potential targets such as simulat-ed troop formations and armored vehicles. So far, they’ve blasted about 500 high explosive projec-tiles down range, he said.

During the training, the ground troops stay a minimum of 1,640 yards away from the targets, al-though they could be closer in ac-tual combat, Horton said.

“We’re really pushing the lim-its of cannon artillery in line with the commandant’s guidance,” he said, referring to a planning document issued by Gen. David Berger last summer.

“We are a naval expeditionary force capable of deterring malign behavior and, when necessary, fighting inside our adversary’s weapons-engagement-zone,” Ber- ger wrote in the guidance.

Marines are taking plans they might have used in previous years and pushing them forward into enemy territory, said Horton, a veteran of deployments to Iraq

and Afghanistan.Kilo Battery’s guns aren’t

the only indirect fire at MountBundey. The 3rd Battalion, 7thMarines has 81 mm and 60 mmmortars in its rifle companies,Horton said.

There are also guns there from 103rd Battery, 8th/12th RoyalAustralian Artillery Regiment,he added.

“They’re our sister battery herein Australia,” Horton said. “They have three M777A2 howitzers.”

During Koolendong, the Ma-rine howitzers will support theAustralian Army for two daysand then transition to supporting U.S. Marine infantry, he [email protected]: @SethRobson1

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US Marines in Australia kick off large-scale, live-fire exercise

RIMPAC ends with bang in sinking of retired cargo ship

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U.S. Navy Gunner’s Mate Seaman Apprentice Isaiah Moore fires the shot line as the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon conducts a replenishment-at-sea drill with the HMAS Sirius during the Rim of the Pacific exercise near Hawaii on Aug. 25.

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Smoke and fire billow from a decommissioned ship used in a sinking exercise during the Rim of the Pacific drills near the Hawaiian Islands on Sunday.

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The Chung-Hoon launches an SM-2 missile on Aug. 23.


BY STEVE BEYNON

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WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden vowed not to exploit the National Guard for political purposes and restore the relationship between civilians and the military in his latest effort to draw a sharp con-trast between himself and Presi-dent Donald Trump.

“I promise you, as president, I’ll never put you in the middle of politics, or personal vendettas,” Biden said Saturday during a virtual gathering of the National Guard Association of the United States. “I’ll never use the military as a prop or as a private militia to violate rights of fellow citizens. That’s not law and order. You don’t deserve that.”

The former vice president said the civilian and military rela-tionship has been “tested lately,” referencing Trump’s demands earlier in the summer for gov-ernors to use Guard troops to “dominate” the streets amid na-tionwide protests against police brutality.

“I’m suggesting to some of these governors that are too proud. ... Don’t be proud. Get the job done. You’ll end up doing much better in the end, calling the National Guard. Call me,” Trump said in June during remarks at the

White House about the protests across the country. “You have to dominate the streets. You can’t let what’s happening, happen.”

Biden’s remarks came after Army Gen. Mark Milley, chair-man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told House lawmakers last week that the military will not play a role in November’s election and troops will not handle any dis-putes over the results.

“I believe deeply in the prin-ciple of an apolitical U.S. mili-tary,” Milley wrote in responses to several questions posed by two Democratic members of the House Armed Services Commit-tee. “In the event of a dispute over some aspect of the elections, by law, U.S. courts and the U.S. Con-gress are required to resolve any disputes, not the U.S. military. I foresee no role for the U.S. armed forces in this process.”

Milley and Defense Secretary Mark Esper had issued apolo-gies for accompanying Trump on June 1 — during the height of the protests — in a walk from the White House across the street to St. John’s Church. Ahead of the walk to the church, U.S. Park Po-lice cleared the area of protesters with rubber bullets and batons. Acting Chief Gregory Monahan of the Park Police told Congress in a hearing on the incident that no police were injured ahead of

the street clearing and that law enforcement knew the president intended to visit the church. Sol-diers with the National Guard were there but did not engage protesters.

Milley called it a “mistake” because he said his presence sug-gested the military formally sup-ports Trump’s politics instead of remaining apolitical. In a news briefing the next day, Esper said: “Look, I do everything I can to

try and stay apolitical and try to stay out of situations that may appear political. Sometimes, I’m successful, and sometimes I’m not as successful.”

Trump has maintained a law-and-order message during his campaign for reelection amid on-going riots and protests in some cities following multiple police killings of Black men. In many cases, Trump has urged the de-ployment of the National Guard

as a response to protests.Trump claimed Monday that

he saved Kenosha, Wis., when he insisted Guard troops be activat-ed to respond to protesters. Thereare hundreds of Guard soldiers from several states deployed to support law enforcement inKenosha. All units deployed to Kenosha are on state orders fromgovernors, according to the Na-tional Guard Bureau.

“If I didn’t INSIST on hav-ing the National Guard activateand go into Kenosha, Wisconsin,there would be no Kenosha rightnow. Also, there would have beengreat death and injury. I want to thank Law Enforcement and theNational Guard. I will see youon Tuesday!,” tweeted Trump,who plans to visit Kenosha onTuesday.

Trump also called on Biden toback the deployment of the Na-tional Guard in “crime-infestedDemocrat cities and states” without specifying the locationswhere soldiers should be utilized and what the mission would be.“When is he going to suggestbringing up the National Guard in BADLY RUN & Crime Infest-ed Democrat Cities & States? Re-member, he can’t lose the Crazy Bernie Super Liberal vote!” Trump tweeted [email protected]@StevenBeynon

BY ROSE L. THAYER

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AUSTIN, Texas — The five ci-vilians selected by the Army to conduct an independent review of the command climate and cul-ture of Fort Hood arrived Sunday in the nearby city of Killeen to begin a “two-week fact-finding mission,” the Army said Monday.

Announced in July, the Fort Hood Independent Review Com-mittee was created by Army Sec-retary Ryan McCarthy following the disappearance and death of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, which trig-gered outcry for reform at the central Texas base from veter-ans, advocacy organizations and members of Congress.

During their two weeks in Texas, committee members will “examine the command climate and culture at Fort Hood and the surrounding military community to determine whether they reflect the Army’s commitment to safety, respect, inclusiveness, diversity and freedom from sexual harass-ment,” according to an Army news release about their arrival. Members plan to meet with unit leaders, soldiers, local officials, law enforcement and community groups.

Guillen’s death also raisedconcerns about the implementa-tion at Fort Hood of the Army’sSexual Harassment/Assault Re-sponse Prevention Program,known as the SHARP program. Guillen’s family said that prior to her death, the soldier told themshe had faced sexual harassmenton base.

Before traveling to Texas, com-mittee members spent severaldays in Virginia reviewing histor-ical data, attending backgroundsessions and finalizing adminis-trative details.

Its members are former FBIinspector Chris Swecker, Armyveteran Jonathan Harmon, Armyveteran Carrie Ricci, MarineCorps veteran Queta Rodriguezand Army veteran Jack White.They have a combined 75 yearsof experience as active-dutymilitary and law-enforcement personnel and they have broadexpertise with the law and gov-ernment investigations, accord-ing to the news release.

An interim program report isdue in mid-September and a finalreport by Oct. 30, according tothe Army news [email protected]: @Rose_Lori

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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germa-ny — The German government has approved an Army request for military retirees and eligible veterans to use Morale, Welfare and Recreation services and fa-cilities such as libraries, gyms, lodges and golf courses on Army bases in Germany, officials said Tuesday.

A provision in the 2019 Na-tional Defense Authorization Act expanded veteran eligibility for shopping at military exchanges and commissaries starting Jan. 1 of this year.

“This came out of this same initiative,” said Mark Heeter, a spokesman for Installation Man-agement Command-Europe. “The Army needed to get some additional permissions from the German government to allow these same populations to use MWR facilities and services.”

The authorized list of facili-ties includes paid services such as golf courses, bowling centers, auto skills shops, arts and crafts shops, outdoor recreation and lodging; and free services such as fitness centers, libraries and Army Community Service.

Retirees approached IMCOM-Europe “with a request for help” that was championed by U.S. Army Europe commander Lt. Gen. Christopher Cavoli, IMCOM-

Europe said in a statement.To obtain post access at gar-

risons within Germany, veterans must have a Veterans Health Identification Card issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs in the U.S.

The card, which is not yet is-sued overseas, must be the newest version that displays the veteran’s eligibility status, to include Pur-ple Heart recipients, former pris-oners of war, and veterans with documented service-connected

disabilities or their VA-docu-mented caregivers, IMCOM-Eu-rope said.

Veterans residing in Germany must also obtain an installation access pass, which requires a background check. The pass will also allow veterans to sign on spouses.

Veterans who are only visiting Germany may obtain a tempo-rary installation pass, officials [email protected]

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Biden vows not to use the Guard as a prop

Committee arrives for review of command climate at Fort Hood

Army in Germany extends MWR access to retirees, some veterans

CAROLYN KASTER/AP

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at campaign event in Pittsburgh on Monday . “I’ll never use the military as a prop or as a private militia to violate rights of fellow citizens,” Biden told the National Guard Association of the United States on Saturday.

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A golfer tees off at Rheinblick Golf Course in Wiesbaden, Germany. Retirees and some veterans may now use Morale, Welfare and Recreation services and facilities on Army bases in Germany.


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TOKYO — The U.S. military in Japan announced one new coro-navirus case Tuesday while the nation’s capital city tallied more than 100 for the eighth day in a row.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Gov-ernment reported 117 new coro-navirus cases that day, according to public broadcaster NHK.

In western Tokyo, Yokota Air Base announced one new case, an individual who tested positive for the virus on Friday while in quar-antine after having contact with an infected person, according to

a statement from the base.On Okinawa, where the bulk of

U.S. forces are located, the pre-fectural government was closed Tuesday as a passing typhoon soaked the island. U.S. bases there cleaned up in the wake of Typhoon Maysak, which passed by overnight Monday and into Tuesday morning.

On Monday, the prefecture on Monday reported one death, a woman in her 80s from Naha. Hers was the 28th death due to the coronavirus on Okinawa since the pandemic [email protected]

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The Guam governor’s office said three people died of the coronavirus Tuesday, bringing the island’s pandemic death total to 13.

The first death, which hap-pened just after midnight at Guam Memorial Hospital, was a 73-year-old woman who had “underlying health issues,” ac-cording to a statement issued Tuesday.

The second patient, a 36-year-old woman who died hours later at the same hospital, is the island’s second youngest fatality related to the virus, the statement said. The youngest was 34.

Both women were not known to have had the illness before being

hospitalized. The third patient was a 74-

year-old man who died at about 9 a.m. at Naval Hospital Guam, the statement said.

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero, who recovered from the illness after testing positive last month, said in the statement there have been “too many days filled with grief and too many lives lost.”

“Thirteen people have suc-cumbed to this virus,” she said. “Contrary to what some have said, not all of them were elderly — two of them were in their thir-ties, with their lives ahead of them.”

The U.S. territory has been under a government-mandated “Pandemic Condition of Readi-ness 1” since Aug. 15. The order,

which is now set to expire Sept. 30, shutters nonessential businesses; forces schools to shift to virtual instruction; prohibits most publicgatherings; and closes parks and beaches to most visitors.

A stay-at-home order is in ef-fect until at least Friday that di-rects “all persons in Guam” to remain in their residences, ex-cept for essential activities suchas shopping for food, obtaining medical care or commuting to and from work.

As of Tuesday evening, Guam had recorded 1,447 coronavirus cases, according to the gover-nor’s office. Of those, 219 are U.S. service members.

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colleges around the country, most students are on campus and many will attend classes in person.

This is largely due to advantages the military schools have. They’re small, each with about 4,500 stu-dents who know that joining the military means they’re subject to more control and expected to fol-low orders. Their military lead-ers, meanwhile, are treating the virus like an enemy that must be detected, deterred and defeated. They view the students as the next generation of commanders who must learn to lead troops through any crisis, including this one.

“If you look at COVID as a threat, it helps you frame it in a way that I think you can then con-duct action against it,” said Brig. Gen. Curtis Buzzard, West Point’s commandant. The cadets, he said, are getting lessons in “leading through uncertainty and adver-sity. I’ve had to do that throughout my career in the Army, particu-larly in combat, and they’re get-ting a little dose of it.“

The virus outbreak sent most academy students home to finish spring semester online. Air Force seniors stayed and graduated early.

Now students have returned, and 1% to 2% tested COVID-19 positive on arrival and went into isolation. Since then, officials say they’ve seen few new cases. The Navy and Air Force will random-ly test 15% of students weekly; West Point will test 15% to 20% monthly.

Because they need dozens of on-campus rooms to potentially isolate COVID students or quar-antine those who come in contact with infected persons, the Navy and Air Force academies are renting space off-site for healthy students. The Navy, in Annapolis, M d., is putting 375 students at St. John’s College and the Air Force, in Colorado Springs, Colo ., will

put 400 in three local hotels.“We know that with this popu-

lation, that about 90% of this age group is asymptomatic,” said Brig. Gen. Linell A. Letendre, Air Force Academy dean. “That’s what’s re-ally scary about this disease. How do we find those individuals who have it when they don’t even know they have it.”

To limit any spread, the acade-mies made physical and academic changes. At the Navy’s Michel-son Hall, blue tape marks seats that must remain empty, red tape forms large arrows on the floor showing students which way to go, and stairways are designated up or down. Signs remind students about social distancing.

The Navy has the smallest campus, but two large tents were wedged next to the dorm for din-ing. The Air Force and Army, however, have been able to cre-ate large outdoor classrooms and meeting areas.

“I wanted outdoor classrooms for a long time and we’re finally getting them,” said Letendre. “I never waste a good crisis.”

Academy officials said roughly 50% of their classes will be in-person, the rest will be online or a mix. Some students will attend

in person more often if they have lab work.

Students attending academies also need hands-on military ex-perience. The virus made some of that impossible this year, and some students missed critical time in military units or on ships.

“You can do academic course work online. We can teach on-line,” said Andrew Phillips, Naval

Academy provost. “But the pro-fessional experiences they missed this summer are very hard to make up.”

Phillips said most juniors who must pick their service specialty now didn’t get out to active-duty units but will, he hopes, choose wisely. Navy students heading to the Marine Corps, however, got a shortened summer experience be-

cause Marine leaders felt strongly about seeing them in person.

“You want an individual who is a good fit for the Marine Corps, whose attitude is right,” Phillips said. “And you really only can judge that face to face.”

Technology is also a challenge, with thousands online for classes. Many instructors want students to have their cameras on, which requires more bandwidth.

Swope, for example, has one computer set up showing his on-line students; his iPhone camera faces the class, so they are visible online, and his iPad displays his lessons.

Instructors have to be ready to provide online classes to students in isolation, and also be prepared to teach from home if they’re quarantined. Celeste Luning started her junior leadership class at the Naval Academy seeking vol-unteers to set up the computers if she’s not there.

“Have you had in-person class-es yet?” Luning asks. Amid the chorus of “no,” she turns to her computer to address those online: “Can you see your classmates?”

One voice from the computer sums it up. “It’s pretty weird,” he said.

Academies: Schools make physical, academic changes to limit spread

Tokyo reports more than 100 new cases

Guam tallies 3 more deaths; total now 13

VIRUS OUTBREAK

‘ You can do academic course work online. We can teach online. But the professional experiences they missed this summer are very hard to make up. ’

Andrew PhillipsNaval Academy provost

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Cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., started the school year with a mix of reduced class sizes and remote learning .

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A midshipman wears a face mask to protect against COVID-19 while walking near a tent set up as a social distant mess hall on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.


VIRUS OUTBREAK ROUNDUP

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration says that it has re-covered nearly 70% of the govern-ment relief payments that went to dead people.

The Government Accountabili-ty Office said Monday it had been told by the Treasury Department that nearly 70% of the $1.6 billion that had mistakenly gone to dead people had been recovered.

The GAO said it could not im-mediately verify that amount but said its auditors were working with Treasury to determine the exact number of payments that have been recovered.

Treasury is also considering sending letters to request the re-turn of the remaining outstand-ing payments, but has not moved forward with that effort yet, GAO said. Treasury said it was delay-ing that move because Congress is considering legislation that would clarify or make changes to pay-ment eligibility requirements.

The Senate passed a bill in June that would allow the Social Security Administration to share its full death data with the Trea-sury Department to prevent any future payments to dead people.

California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Cali-fornians who haven’t paid their rent since March 1 because of the coronavirus could stay in their homes through at least Jan. 31 under a bill the state Legislature passed late Monday — one day before statewide eviction protec-tions were set to expire.

The pandemic has devastated California’s economy, causing millions of people to lose their jobs as the government ordered businesses to close for months to slow the spread of the disease. In April, the Judicial Council of Cal-ifornia halted most eviction and foreclosure proceedings during the pandemic.

But those protections end Wednesday, meaning landlords could resume eviction proceed-ings on tenants who haven’t paid their rent.

State lawmakers approved a bill Monday that would ban evic-tions for tenants who did not pay their rent between March 1 and Aug. 31 because of the pandemic. The bill would also ban evictions for those same tenants through Jan. 31, but only if the tenants pay at least 25% of the rent owed dur-ing that time.

Florida

MIAMI — Some coronavi-rus restrictions started easing up Monday in parts of South Florida.

In Miami-Dade County, restau-

rants were allowed to welcome back diners to indoor seating for the first time in almost two months, provided masks were worn and the establishments op-erated at 50% capacity.

In Palm Beach County, offi-cials issued an order allowing tat-too and body piercing parlors, as well as tanning salons, to reopen starting Monday.

Under the order allowing in-door dining, restaurants will be required to run their ventilation and air conditioning systems with fans “on,“ keep doors and windows open and limit no more than six people to a table.

Miami-Dade County also is al-lowing casinos to reopen, provid-ed food and drink are consumed in eating-only designated areas, and drinking and eating is pro-hibited at gaming tables and slot machines.

The loosening up of restric-tions in South Florida comes after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he was considering allowing South Florida to move into Phase 2, which would allow more busi-nesses to resume operations.

Georgia

ATLANTA — Georgia’s gov-ernor is extending the two main executive orders that govern Georgia’s response to COVID-19.

Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday signed a 15-day extension of the order that mandates require-ments on social distancing, bans on gatherings of more than 50 people unless there is six feet be-tween each person and lists other rules about operating businesses and nonprofit groups. Those who live in nursing homes and as-sisted living facilities, as well as people deemed medically fragile, must continue to shelter in place through Sept. 15.

The Republican Kemp also extended the underlying state of emergency, which gives him pow-ers to make other orders, through Oct. 10.

In extending the orders, Kemp made no changes. That means he did not update his previous order to declare teachers as “critical infrastructure workers” which would exempt them from re-quirements to quarantine for 14 days after exposure to COVID-19. School superintendents have been lobbying for that authority, which could let them order teach-ers back to work to avoid inter-ruptions to in-person instruction. At least three Georgia school districts have already made the declaration, including the Floyd County district, which was spe-cifically advised not to do so in an email from a lawyer in the gover-nor’s office.

More than 270,000 COVID-19

infections have been confirmed in Georgia, while 5,633 deaths have been recorded. The aver-age number of new infections re-corded over the past seven days fell close to 2,000 on Monday, the lowest level since June 30.

Kentucky

FRANKFORT — Kentucky relaxed its rules for child care facilities Monday and offered financial assistance for some in-home centers in moves aimed at increasing capacity as parents return to work.

The policy announcements by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration come after Repub-lican lawmakers criticized some rules as overly restrictive, warn-ing that many centers wouldn’t be able to stay open amid the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

State Health and Family Ser-vices Secretary Eric Friedlander said Monday that the changes in-clude allowing child care centers to increase class sizes from 10 to 15.

Other changes include allow-ing tours of child care centers to resume. Also, certified homes, licensed infant and 1-year-old classrooms may return to typical group sizes, Beshear’s adminis-tration said.

Michigan

DETROIT — A Detroit island park was transformed Monday into a drive-thru COVID-19 vic-tims memorial as policy makers across the U.S. moved forward with plans to reopen schools and public spaces.

Hearses led processions around Belle Isle Park in the Detroit River, where more than 900 large photos of local coronavirus vic-tims provided by relatives were turned into posters and staked into the ground.

Detroit’s director of arts and

culture, Rochelle Riley, said of-ficials hope the memorial will “wake people up to the devastat-ing effect of the pandemic” and also “bring some peace to fami-lies whose loved ones didn’t have the funerals they deserved.”

New York

NEW YORK — The executive board of the teachers’ union on Monday told union officials to continue negotiations with New York City over a school reopening plan, but that they could autho-rize a strike vote if no agreement had been reached by Tuesday afternoon.

New York City has issued a hybrid plan for the 1.1 million children in its schools for the aca-demic year starting Sept. 10.

The United Federation of Teachers union has said there are safety concerns that need to be addressed in any reopening plan, and that it was prepared to go to court or on strike, even though New York state bars teachers and other public employees from striking.

The union’s executive board said the union negotiators were to bring a successful agreement with the city to a union Delegate Assembly scheduled for Tuesday , or they were authorized to call for a strike vote.

Other big school systems in the country have decided to start remotely.

South Carolina

COLUMBIA — The University of South Carolina has suspended six sororities or fraternities, as well 15 students, for violating COVID-19 safety rules, the school announced Monday.

The announcement came as the number of confirmed cases on campus passed the 500 mark. It also came as some students complained of long lines for test-ing and as Columbia’s fire chief

announced an apartment com-plex had agreed to limit pool at-tendance after officials broke up a crowded pool party Saturday.

COVID-19 cases in SouthCarolina have begun to trend upagain after hitting a low in recent weeks, with the seven-day aver-age of new reports back above900 cases. There’s been a notable spike in new cases in and aroundColumbia. Overall, the Depart-ment of Health and Environmen-tal Control reports the state has recorded nearly 119,000 cases and 2,720 deaths.

The university said it has now quarantined nine sorority or fra-ternity houses, up from the previ-ous six. Monday is the first time the university has announcedsanctions against organizationsand students, citing “unauthor-ized parties or large gatheringsin violation of local ordinances orviolating quarantine,” accordingto a news release.

USC President Robert Caslen had warned that students whobreak coronavirus rules couldface suspension.

Texas

AUSTIN — Texas health offi-cials reported at least 2,374 new confirmed cases Monday of thecoronavirus that causes COVID-19 and just 26 new COVID-19 deaths.

However, Monday reports are often incomplete, particularly be-cause of a lack of Sunday reports of cases and deaths, the Texas De-partment of State Health Services has said. Also, the true number ofcases in Texas is likely higher be-cause many people haven’t beentested and studies suggest peoplecan be infected and not feel sick.

The new cases raised the over-all outbreak number of Texascases to almost 613,000, while thetabulated death toll rose to 12,536,the department Monday.

Officials: 70% of relief payments to the dead recovered

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accounts.Christina Lariviere, 35, of Bow

was arrested on eight counts of identity fraud, the attorney gen-eral’s office said.

The charges allege that last summer, Lariviere obtained So-cial Security numbers, driver’s identification and birth dates from the four, who lived at the Londonderry facility and ranged in age from 87 to 100.

The charges also allege that Lariviere posed as two of the resi-dents to open credit and financial accounts in their names.

6 injured in wrong-way crash with ambulance

NC CHARLOTTE — Six people were injured

when an ambulance collided with a pickup that was driving the wrong way down a North Caro-lina road, authorities said.

Four people in the truck were taken to a hospital with injuries that were considered life-threat-ening after the vehicle hit the ambulance head-on , the Meck-lenburg Emergency Medical Ser-vices Agency told news outlets.

Two ambulance crew members were hospitalized but were ex-pected to be OK, officials said.

The crew members were driv-ing back to headquarters after finishing their shift and did not have a patient on board when the crash happened near an interstate ramp, news outlets reported.

Woman, 99, uninjured after tree crushes home

FL ORLANDO — Authori-ties in Florida said a

large tree crushed a home early Sunday in Central Florida, but the 99-year-old woman who lived there escaped with no in-juries in what they are calling a “miracle.”

WFTV-TV reported that the el-derly woman was in a back room when the giant tree fell, crushing part of her home and snapping power lines.

Firefighters were able to find the woman and help her get out of the house.

The Orlando Fire Department said the house is a total loss.

Man killed when truck rolls on top of him

MT LEWISTOWN — A central Montana man

was killed when the pickup he

was working under rolled on top of him, police in Lewistown said.

Officers found the man under the pickup in Lewistown, Assis-tant Police Chief Jon Polich said in a statement.

The man was taken to the hos-pital where he was declared dead, officials said.

A family member told police the victim was Jason Haivala, 48, of Forest Grove, which is a rural area east of Lewistown.

Historical accuracy is the goal of park update

MS VICKSBURG — A na-tional park on a Civil

War battlefield in Mississippi is replacing the carriages of several cannons to make them more his-torically accurate.

One of the new pieces was in-stalled recently at the Vicksburg National Military Park, the Vicks-burg Post reported.

The new ones are called bar-bette carriages — a style that

enabled cannons to fire over theparapets of earthen formations built to defend Vicksburg when the city came under siege byUnion troops in 1863, said parksuperintendent Bill Justice.

Justice said a former chief ofoperations at the park, Rick Mar-tin, started working on this proj-ect years ago. Steen Cannons ofAshland, K y., built the new car-riages. They are being installedby Paul Lynn Construction Co. ofVicksburg.

New school, ballfields to be named after vets

MA MARLBOROUGH — A Massachusetts

city is naming a new elementaryschool and two new ballfields after fallen veterans from the community.

Marlborough city councilors recently voted to name the $56 million elementary school afterbrothers Theodore, Andrew andCharles Goodnow, who were all killed during the Civil War, ac-cording to the MetroWest Daily News.

Councilors also approved nam-ing the softball field at Marlbor-ough High School after Richard Demers, a Marine killed duringthe Vietnam War in July 1966,and the baseball field at Whit-comb Middle School after HaroldCole, who died in a plane crashin May 1951 while serving in theNaval Reserves.

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

The minimum age Illinois drivers need to be to receive an extra year extension to renew their driver’s licenses because of the coronavirus pandemic. The new expiration date will be a year from the current 2020 date, meaning seniors don’t need to visit a facility to renew their driver’s license until shortly before their

birthday in 2021. There are roughly 147,000 drivers age 75 and over with expired or expiring driver’s licenses in 2020. Eligible drivers are being notified with letters, according to the office of Secretary of State Jesse White.

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AMERICAN ROUNDUP State Fair is off, but basket tradition stays

WV LEWISBURG — The State Fair of West Vir-

ginia is off this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the tradition of a limited-edition bas-ket continues, officials said.

The baskets are made by Jamit Baskets of Sinks Grove. Orders are being accepted through the end of September.

This year’s basket is available in four different colors and can only be purchased ahead by spe-cial order. More information is available through the State Fair Office.

Bow hunter killed by elk that charged at him

OR TILLAMOOK — Au-thorities said a bow

hunter was killed when an elk he wounded charged him and gored him in the neck with its antlers.

Oregon State Police said Mark David, 66, of Hillsboro was ar-chery hunting on private proper-ty in Tillamook when he wounded a bull elk, but wasn’t able to find it before dark.

KOIN reported that the next morning, David and the land-owner searched for the bull and wounded it with a bow when they found it. It charged David, how-ever, and gored him in the neck with its antlers.

The landowner tried to help David, but he succumbed to his injuries. The elk was killed and the meat was donated to the Til-lamook County Jail following the investigation.

Video of subway rape attempt yields arrest

NY NEW YORK — A 31-year-old man was

charged with attempted rape in an attack on a Manhattan subway platform that was recorded by a bystander as a crowd intervened.

The man, Jose Reyes, has a prior arrest history, including in-cidents in the transit system, po-lice said. He was identified from a mug shot through facial recog-nition software, Chief of Detec-tives Rodney Harrison said .

Harrison said the victim told officers her attacker had been on the subway train smoking a hoo-kah, making strange noises and laughing to himself. He followed her when she got off, knocked her down and climbed on her.

“This heinous and horrendous act was interrupted by a good Sa-maritan” who took video while he and other commuters yelled at the attacker to stop, Harrison said. After police circulated the video through the media, tips from the public led to Reyes’ ar-rest, he said.

Caregiver arrested and accused of ID fraud

NH CONCORD — A New Hampshire caregiver

at a long-term care facility was accused of getting personal iden-tification information for four elderly people without their per-mission and posing as at least two of them to open financial

Making waves A portion of the temporary art installation “Colorful Growth/Soft Waves,” painted on the 900 block of Penn Avenue, can be seen Monday in Pittsburgh. The 3,500-square-foot mural by local artist Jayla Patton is part of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership’s “REFORGE Downtown” initiative. The initiative “ invites the community to safely revisit and reengage with Downtown through unique events, activations, and programs.”

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BY GILLIAN FLACCUS

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. — A plan by the governor of Oregon to use sheriff’s deputies from sur-rounding counties to help patrol Portland following the deadly shooting of a right-wing Trump supporter was sharply criticized by law enforcement officials who said it wouldn’t end the “cycle of violence” in the city that’s ap-proaching 100 consecutive nights of often-violent Black Lives Mat-ter protests.

Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, announced the plan Sunday to temporarily use deputies from two counties, as well as Oregon State Police troopers, to help Portland police as the liberal city struggles to regain its footing in the glare of the national spotlight.

But the sheriffs in both coun-ties said Monday they would not send deputies to Portland, where only hours later, police declared another riot after people broke windows, burglarized a business and lit a fire in an occupied apart-ment building. Officers reported seeing rocks and paint balloons thrown at them, and eventually made 19 arrests as they worked for hours early Tuesday to dis-perse the crowd, according to a Portland police statement.

Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts said flooding the city with more law enforce-ment would never work because Portland’s newly elected district attorney has dismissed charges against hundreds of protesters arrested for non-violent, low-level crimes. Roberts and Washington

County Sheriff Pat Garrett also said the liability for their depu-ties would be too great.

“The same offenders are ar-rested night after night, only to be released by the court and not charged with a crime by the DA’s Office. The next night they are back at it, endangering the lives of law enforcement and the com-munity all over again,” Roberts said. “The criminal justice sys-tem will need do its part and hold offenders accountable.”

Charles Boyle, the governor’s chief-of-staff, said: “It is up to each county to determine the personnel and resources they have available to volunteer for this effort.”

Boyle said the governor appre-ciated Clackamas County’s will-ingness to backfill calls normally taken by state police while troop-ers are in Portland.

The rejection of Brown’s plan leaves state and city police to work the protests in the wake of the fatal shooting of right-wing Trump supporter Aaron J. Danielson .

Danielson, 39, of Portland was shot in the chest late Saturday as protesters clashed with support-ers of President Donald Trump who drove in a caravan through the city. No one has been arrested in the shooting.

Trump has made Portland and its Democratic leadership a fre-quent target and the centerpiece of his “law and order” re-election campaign theme. He demanded that local and state leaders call in the National Guard after Satur-day’s fatal shooting .

Associated Press

KENOSHA, Wis. — President Donald Trump dove into the lat-est eruption in the nation’s reck-oning over racial injustice with a trip Tuesday to Kenosha over the objections of local leaders.

The city has been riven by pro-tests since the Aug. 23 shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man hit seven times in the back by police as he was getting into a car while they were trying to arrest him. On the eve of his visit, Trump defended a teenage supporter ac-cused of fatally shooting two men at a demonstration in Kenosha last week and accused Democrat Joe Biden of siding with “anarchists” and “rioters” in the unrest.

“I’m there for law enforcement and for the National Guard be-cause they’ve done a great job in Kenosha. They put out the flame

immediately,” said Trump as he boarded Air Force One.

Upon his arrival in the Mid-west, his motorcade passed a mix of supporters, many holding American flags, and protesters, some carrying signs that read Black Lives Matter. As police stood by, barricades were set up along several of the city’s major thoroughfares in an effort to keep onlookers some distance from the passing presidential vehicles.

Wisconsin’s Democratic gov-ernor, Tony Evers who deployed the National Guard to quell dem-onstrations in response to the Blake shooting, had pleaded with Trump to stay away for fear of straining tensions further.

“I am concerned your presence will only hinder our healing,” Evers wrote in a letter to Trump.

Biden has assailed Trump over the deadly protests that

have sprung up on his watch. ButTrump, claiming the mantle ofthe “law and order” Republican candidate, is offering himself asthe leader best positioned to keepAmericans safe.

He insisted his appearance inKenosha would “increase enthu-siasm” in Wisconsin, perhaps themost hotly contested battleground state in the presidential race, asthe White House said he “wants to visit hurting Americans.“ TheWhite House said Trump was not going to meet with Blake’s family.Blake’s family planned a Tuesday “community celebration” to cor-respond with Trump’s visit.

“We don’t need more pain anddivision from a president set on advancing his campaign at theexpense of our city,” Justin Blake,an uncle, said in a statement. “We need justice and relief for our vi-brant community.”

BY ROBERT BURNS

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — China likely plans to double its stockpile of nuclear warheads in this decade, including those designed to be carried atop ballistic missiles that can reach the United States, the Pentagon said in a report re-leased Tuesday.

Even with such increases, China’s nuclear force would be far smaller than that of the U.S., which has an estimated 3,800 warheads in active status and others in reserve. Unlike the U.S., China has no nuclear air force, but the report said that gap may be filled by developing a nuclear air-launched ballistic missile.

The Trump administration has been urging China to join the U.S. and Russia in negotiating a three-way deal to limit strategic nuclear arms, but China has de-clined. Chinese Foreign Ministry officials have said China’s ar-senal is too small to be included in negotiated limits and that by pressing China to join in such talks the Trump administration has created a pretext for walking away from the existing U.S.-Rus-sia arms treaty known as New START. That deal is due to expire

in February but could be renewed for up to five years if Moscow and Washington agree.

In its annual “China Military Power” report to Congress, the Pentagon said the modernization and expansion of China’s nuclear forces is part of a broader effort by Beijing to develop a more as-sertive position on the world stage and to match or surpass America by 2049 as the dominant power in the Asia-Pacific region.

“China’s nuclear forces will significantly evolve over the next decade as it modernizes, diversi-fies, and increases the number of its land-, sea-, and air-based nu-clear delivery platforms,” the re-port said. “Over the next decade, China’s nuclear warhead stock-pile — currently estimated to be in the low 200s — is projected to at least double in size as China ex-pands and modernizes its nuclear forces.”

Within that force, the number of nuclear warheads on land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of threatening the United States — currently about 100, ac-cording to the report — “is ex-pected to grow to roughly 200 in the next five years,” it said.

Tuesday’s report to Congress

is not the first time the Penta-gon has predicted a doubling ofChina’s nuclear stockpile. In aspeech at the Hudson Institute in May 2019, the then-director of the Defense Intelligence Agency,Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, said,“Over the next decade, China will likely at least double the size ofits nuclear stockpile in the courseof implementing the most rapid expansion and diversificationof its nuclear arsenal in China’s history.”

Those predictions fit neatlywith arguments the Trump ad-ministration makes to justifyspending hundreds of billionsof dollars to modernize the U.S.nuclear arsenal .

The Trump administration is pursuing a plan, begun during theObama administration, to replaceall major elements of the nuclearforce — submarines, long-range bombers and land-based missiles— over the next 30 years at a cost projected to top $1 trillion, in-cluding the expected cost of sus-taining and operating the forceand of updating warheads as well as command and control systems.It’s unclear whether the full planwould be pursued i f DemocratJoe Biden wins in November.

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DOD: China planning big increase in nuke arsenal

Sheriffs slam plan to curb violence in Ore.

Trump visits tense Kenosha

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A protester plays a banjo during the nightly protests at a police precinct on Sunday in Portland, Ore. A plan by the governor of Oregon to use sheriff’s deputies from surrounding counties to help patrol Portland was sharply criticized by law enforcement officials.


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Belarus poll workers tell of election fraud

Russia viruscases exceed 1M, globally 4th-highest

Associated Press

MINSK, Belarus — Even be-fore the Aug. 9 presidential elec-tion in Belarus ended, a poll worker in Minsk said she was asked to sign a document sum-ming up its result, with the vote totals left blank.

Another worker who pointed out violations during the vote-counting was fired on the spot.

In the small city of Vitebsk, a poll worker signed a document with falsified results in favor of President Alexander Lukash-enko and later was wracked with guilt for betraying the trust of the voters.

In the three weeks since the election that kept Lukashenko in power with a landslide win, hun-dreds of thousands of people have protested what they say was a rigged outcome. Demonstrations and strikes in the country have been met by a police crackdown including mass detentions, beat-ings and criminal charges against organizers.

The Associated Press inter-viewed election workers who said

they saw ballot fraud or were pressured to falsify results in favor of Lukashenko. In addition, other evidence has been posted online showing falsifications and other irregularities.

To many in Belarus, where Lu-kashenko has ruled with an iron fist since 1994 and has been ac-cused of rigging previous elec-tions, his victory last month seemed clearly implausible.

His main opponent, former English teacher Sviatlana Tsikh-anouskaya, drew crowds of tens of thousands of people after she entered the race in place of her husband, Sergei, a popular op-position blogger who was jailed before the election. She had man-aged to unite fractured opposition groups, channeling the growing frustration over the country’s weak economy and Lukashenko’s swaggering dismissal of the coro-navirus pandemic.

When the results were an-nounced, however, the Central Election Commission said Lu-kashenko won 4.6 million votes, or 80%, and Tsikhanouskaya got

only 588,000, or 10%.The opposition was prepared

for such an outcome — allegations of rigged elections have surfaced in every vote in Belarus since Lukashenko took power in 1994. This time, it trained people to be independent monitors at polling stations, it encouraged poll work-ers to report violations and it set up a website where voters could submit photos of their marked ballots to compare with the offi-cial count.

Activists monitoring the elec-tion said in a report that they received complaints about viola-tions, irregularities and incidents of some form of vote-rigging from

at least 24% of the country’s 5,767 precincts.

The report said they studied just under one-fourth of the na-tion’s precincts and found that Tsikhanouskaya received over 471,000 votes in those areas alo-ne Andrei Gnidenko, who worked at a poll in Vitebsk, said he gave in to the pressure and signed a document with falsified results.

According to the final protocol from the station, a photo of which Gnidenko showed AP, Tsikha-nouskaya got a total of 156 votes, while Lukashenko received 488. But Gnidenko says he and other workers counted over 250 ballots for Tsikhanouskaya.

Associated Press

MOSCOW — Russia’s con-firmed coronavirus cases passed1 million on Tuesday as authori-ties reported 4,729 new cases.

With a total of 1,000,048 report-ed cases, Russia has the fourth-largest caseload in the worldafter the United States , Braziland India. Over 815,000 peoplehave recovered so far, authoritiessaid, and over 17,000 have died.

As of Tuesday, Russia has liftedmost lockdown restrictions in the majority of the country’s regions.

Last month, Russian authori-ties announced approval of thefirst COVID-19 vaccine — a move Western experts met with skepti-cism and unease as the shots were only tested on a few dozen people.Last week, officials announcedstarting advanced trials of thevaccine among 40,000 people.

It remains unclear whethervaccination of risk groups — such as doctors and teachers — an-nounced earlier this year will be part of the trials or carried out inparallel.

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Poll workers count ballots after voting ended at a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus.


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From wire reports

Adele set out to celebrate a cul-tural festival honoring Caribbean and Black heritage that had beenforced online by the coronaviruspandemic. But critics accused the English singer of cultural appro-priation when she posted a photoof herself in bantu knots, a tradi-tional African hairstyle, and a Ja-maican flag bikini.

“Happy what would be Not-ting Hill Carnival, my beloved London,” the British pop star, 32,wrote alongside her photo, refer-ring to the annual festival thatnormally draws two million peo-ple to Kensington.

For the internet, the “X” of theJamaican flag marked the wrong spot. Twitter posts and memes abounded, most condemning heruse of a traditional African hair-style and for putting the Jamai-can flag across her breasts.

While her style choice nettedsome support by those who saw itas appreciation rather than appro-priation, most of the commenters saw the move as disrespectful.

“If 2020 couldn’t get anymorebizarre, Adele is giving us Bantu knots and cultural appropriationthat nobody asked for,” tweetedjournalist Ernest Owens. “This of-ficially marks all of the top whitewomen in pop as problematic.”

Other news� Actor and comedian Niecy

Nash surprised fans with herweekend wedding to singer Jessi-ca Betts. The couple had kept theirrelationship under wraps, and the revelation of the ceremony served as a coming out for Nash, who had not publicly been in a relationshipwith a woman before. Nash’s di-vorce from Jayson Tucker was finalized in March.� Ed Sheeran and his wife,

Cherry, have announced the birthof their daughter, Lyra Antarcti-ca Seaborn Sheeran. Sheeran, 29,and longtime girlfriend CherrySeaborn, 28, married last year.� Rappers Gucci Mane and

Foogiano were named in a wrong-ful death lawsuit filed on behalf of a 23-year-old woman fatally shot during a concert at a South Caro-lina nightclub. The administrator for the estate of Mykala Bell filed the lawsuit in Greenville Countylast week, The Greenville News reported Monday.

New this week: ‘Mulan,’ if you have Disney+Associated Press

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.

Movies “Mulan”: Of the films that have shifted to home re-

lease because of the pandemic, the Walt Disney Co.’s “Mulan” is a higher magnitude. The $200 million live-action remake of the 1998 animated movie was originally slated to hit theaters in March, but will in-stead debut in an innovative streaming release Friday. Streaming “Mulan” will cost you $30 and is available only to Disney+ subscribers.

“I’m Thinking of Ending Things”: As the writer of “Being John Malkovich,” “Adaptation” and “The Eter-nal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Charlie Kaufman’s imagination has long been boundless and beautiful. In his latest, which Kaufman also directs, a young woman ( the exceptional Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons). It premieres Fri-day on Netflix.

— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle

MusicIn celebration of turning 70 this year, Billy Ocean is

releasing his first album of new material in a decade. “One World,” out Friday, features 12 songs that Ocean co-wrote, which were recorded last year in New York and Manchester, England. The album was originally supposed to be released in April but was pushed back due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Trinidadian-British singer says “One World” captures all of his

musical influences on one album.U2, Elton John, Kesha, Nick Cave, Father John

Misty, Joan Jett, Lucinda Williams, BÖRNS and more artists appear on the album “Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex,” to be released Friday. Hal Willner, who produced the 26-song album, died April 7 from COVID-19. T. Rex is part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2020 class.

— AP Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu

Television NBC’s “Transplant,” which made its debut Tuesday

night, is a hospital drama with a difference. It stars Canadian actor Hamza Haq as a Syrian physician and refugee from his country’s civil war who’s seeking to re-establish his medical career in a Toronto hospital. The series, which co-stars John Hannah (“Four Wed-dings and a Funeral”) as head of the hospital’s emer-gency department, focuses on issues including the plight of refugees as well as the expected heart-pound-ing medical crises. Worth noting: “Transplant” was a hit when it aired earlier this year on Canadian TV.

Amazon Prime’s “The Boys” returns Friday for sea-son two with anti-superhero pack leader Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) MIA and the rest of The Boys on the run, including Jack Quaid’s Hughie, Laz Alonso’s Mother’s Milk and Karen Fukuhara’s Kimiko. Their targets, the corporate-owned superheroes known as The Seven, have their own woes, with Homelander’s (Anthony Starr) power grab jeopardized by the arrival of Storm-front (Ava Cash). Sorry, no bingeing — episodes will be released weekly through Oct. 9 — but “The Boys” has already been renewed for season three.

— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber

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Yifei Liu is pictured in the title role of “Mulan,” the live-action remake of the 1998 animated film. After being delayed since March, it will cost Disney+ subscribers $30 to view when it begins streaming Friday.

Lamberttops CMAs‘Bluebird’ singer garners 7 noms, including her 1st for entertainer of year since ’15

Miranda Lambert’s “Bluebird,” her first country airplay No. 1

in years, was nominated for single, song and music video

of the year at the CMAs.AP

OTHER ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

From left: Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Eric Church and Luke Combs

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Critics have accused Adele of cultural appropriation after the singer posted a photo of herself in a traditional African hairstyle and a Jamaican flag bikini.

BY KRISTIN M. HALL

Associated Press

Miranda Lambert turned her “Wildcard” into an ace as the leading nominee at the 2020 Country Music Association Awards, includ-ing her fi rst entertainer of the year nomina-tion in fi ve years.

The CMAs announced Tuesday that Lam-bert earned seven nominations. The Grammy winner was pushed by the success of songs like “Bluebird,” her fi rst country airplay No. 1 in years, as well as positive reviews of her smart and sassy “Wildcard” album. She’s followed by Luke Combs, who continues his streak of success as one of country music’s biggest streaming artists with six nomina-tions, including his fi rst for entertainer of the year. Combs earned his fi rst all-genre No. 1 album last year with “What You See Is What You Get,” which had the largest streaming week ever for a country album with 74 mil-lion on-demand streams.

The CMAs are normally held in November in Nashville, although details on this year’s awards show have not been released.

Dan + Shay’s Dan Smyers has six nomi-nations, including four he shares with band-mate Shay Mooney and three with pop star Justin Bieber for their crossover hit “10,000 Hours.” Smyers earned nominations for his work as a producer on the song. These are the fi rst CMA nominations for Bieber, who won a CMT Music Award in 2011 for “That

Should Be Me” with Rascal Flatts. Other top nominees include Maren Morris,

whose fi ve include song and single of the year for her love song, “The Bones.”

Producer Jay Joyce earned fi ve nomina-tions for his work on albums by Lambert and Ashley McBryde, who earned three nomina-tions .

After years of criticism for the lack of women on country radio, women outnum-ber men in the new artist category, which includes Carly Pearce, Gabby Barrett and Ingrid Andress. Pearce earned three more nominations for her duet with Lee Brice, “I Hope You’re Happy Now.” Barrett, who com-peted on “American Idol,” earned a nomina-tion for single of the year with “I Hope,” a No. 1 country hit and Top 10 success on the

pop charts. Andress was nominated for song of the year with “More Hearts Than Mine.” Morgan Wallen and Jimmie Allen round out the new artist nominees.

Notable snubs include country icon Tanya Tucker, who earned her fi rst two Grammy Awards this year for her comeback album “While I’m Livin.’ ” The Chicks, who released their fi rst new album in 14 years, also weren’t nominated, likely due to a longstanding rift between some country fans and the outspo-ken group. Sam Hunt, who put out a long-awaited album this year, also was missing.

The coronavirus likely affected nomina-tions because touring was postponed and some albums were pushed back. Luke Bryan, who delayed his album until after the cutoff for this year’s CMAs, was not nominated.

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BY VICTOR F. ZONANA Special to The Washington Post

In 1997, President Bill Clinton, invok-ing President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 pledge to land an American on the moon by the end of the decade, set an

ambitious national goal: to develop a safe and effective vaccine against AIDS within 10 years.

“It is no longer a question of whether we can develop an AIDS vaccine. It is simply a question of when,” Clinton declared.

Clinton wasn’t the first politician to suc-cumb to wishful thinking when it came to vaccines. Sixteen years earlier, at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic, President Ronald Reagan’s secretary of health and human services promised a vaccine would be ready for widespread testing within two years.

As a political appointee in Clinton’s De-partment of Health and Human Services and a keeper of the department’s reputa-tion, I was painfully aware of the earlier instance of premature triumphalism. HHS tried to warn Clinton off, but the president would not be denied: He wanted his moon-shot moment.

We know how that turned out. Nearly 40 years after AIDS was discovered, we still don’t have a preventive vaccine. But — here’s the good news — what we do have is an arsenal of effective antiviral drugs. And they’ve allowed us to treat and even prevent cases of the once universally fatal human immunodeficiency virus.

This history is doubly instructive given President Donald Trump’s convention speech pledge on Thursday that we “will produce a vaccine before the end of the year, or maybe even sooner.”

Lesson one: Humility is in order for those who predict a vaccine is just around the corner. Lesson two: We should hedge our big bet on vaccines, giving equal prior-ity and funding to treatment research.

The current research agenda is any-thing but balanced. Consider that the U.S. government, as listed by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, has so far invested $10.7 billion alone on manufacturing support for vac-cines vs. about $1 billion on treatment.

I’m as pro-vaccine as anyone, having devoted much of my career to their devel-opment and distribution, including at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and the Gavi Alliance. And at 66 years old, I’d ordinarily be first in line to take a Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccine.

But what if all the current candidates fail or offer just limited protection? What if immunity wanes after a few months? What if the first vaccines protect young people but are useless for at-risk seniors? What if vaccines have unacceptable — or even fatal — side effects?

None of these is a theoretical possibility. “I think when people tell the public that there’s going to be a vaccine by the end of 2020, for example, I think they do a grave disservice to the public,” said Kenneth C. Frazier, chief executive of vaccine pow-erhouse Merck, in an interview with the Harvard Business School.

Frazier dismissed the positive initial re-ports from rival vaccine manufacturers. “There are a lot of examples of vaccines in the past that have stimulated the immune system, but ultimately didn’t confer protec-tion,” he said. Worse, he added, some vac-cine candidates “actually helped the virus invade the cell.”

Again, this is a real possibility. Merck,

which has developed more novel vaccinesthan any other company, was suddenlyforced to stop its AIDS vaccine trial inlate 2007 after investigators realized the vaccine offered no protection — and evenmade some volunteers more susceptible toHIV.

Crash programs to develop vaccines areespecially risky. President Gerald Ford’seffort to vaccinate all Americans against swine flu ended in disaster in 1976 after450 vaccinated individuals were paralyzedwith Guillain-Barre syndrome. Tellingly,like Trump, Ford was running to stay in the White House that year.

Meanwhile, some potentially promisingtherapies languish. Two antiviral drugs used against hepatitis C have demonstrat-ed anti-COVID-19 potential in laboratorytests and small clinical trials. Three Ira-nian studies published in the Journal ofAntimicrobial Chemotherapy on Aug. 19suggest that the drugs sofosbuvir and da-clatasvir are effective against the virus.Yet scientists have struggled to raise themoney needed to confirm these resultsin larger trials. Other researchers have told me its taken months to get the Na-tional Institutes of Health to commit lab space to test potential antiviral treatmentcandidates.

More than 30 years ago, a small band of AIDS activists — many fighting for theirown lives — changed history by demand-ing better treatments. Let’s follow their example, hedge our bets, and give equal priority and funding to COVID-19 treat-ment research.

As is written in the Bible, “Divide yourinvestments among many places, for youdo not know what risks might lie ahead,”(Ecclesiastes 11:2). It’s time to apply thisancient wisdom to a modern plague.Victor F. Zonana was deputy assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services from 1993 to 1998. He is a Sir Edmund Hillary fellow and co-founder of Global Health Strategies and GlobalHealthNZ.org.

BY JUSTIN OSHANA

Special to The Washington Post

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces upheld last week the convictions and dishonorable discharge of Army Sgt. Bowe

Bergdahl by the narrowest of votes: 3 to 2. But a greater majority of the judges agreed on one thing: What President Donald Trump said about Bergdahl was, as the judges put it, “troubling,” “disturb-ing,” “disappointing,” “inaccurate,” “inap-propriate” and “ill-advised.” Chief Judge Scott Stucky perhaps said it best when he wrote in his partial dissent, “This case is unique in modern American military ju-risprudence. Let us hope that we shall not see its like again.” That same judge would have dismissed the case with prejudice because of the actions of the president and other leaders who politicized the case.

I led the team that prosecuted Bergdahl for having walked off his post in Afghani-stan in 2009, later to be captured by Tal-iban fighters. For more than two years, we worked through millions of pages of discovery, interviewed dozens of witnesses and litigated countless motions in an effort to do the most fundamental job of a pros-ecutor: to seek justice.

But, as the chief judge wrote, this case was unique, and while we worked diligent-ly to bring the case to trial, we did not do so in a vacuum. From nearly the moment that

Bergdahl was released as part of a pris-oner swap in 2014, the case became politi-cized. Critics of President Barack Obama attacked his decision to trade five high-ranking members of the Taliban for some-one they labeled as a deserter, or worse, a traitor. And the misinformation campaign did not end there.

Then-national security adviser Susan Rice went on television and said that Bergdahl had served “with honor and distinction.” News outlets reported, with-out evidence, that five or six soldiers died while searching for Bergdahl. And then-candidate Trump turned Bergdahl into a campaign theme, called him a traitor and suggested in increasingly gruesome ways that he should be executed.

The problem is that none of it was true.What Bergdahl did wasn’t honorable,

but there also wasn’t any evidence he was a traitor. And while it’s true, as the court recognized, that a number of people were seriously wounded searching for him, no one died as a result of what he did.

I watched all of this unfold from the in-side. I didn’t have to rely on an increasingly polarized choice of cable news networks to know what happened. I had the documents. I spoke to the witnesses. I sat with the peo-ple who had been hurt while trying to re-cover Bergdahl. I saw all the evidence.

We live in a time where truth falls victim to politically charged rhetoric and cable news trends more toward being entertain-

ment than evidence-based journalism. It’sdifficult to see past the noise.

But it’s more important now that wemake an effort to do so. The truth aboutthe Bergdahl case wasn’t broadcast on FoxNews or CNN. And it certainly wasn’t pres-ent at any of the president’s campaign ral-lies or tweets.

I do not have a lot of sympathy for Berg-dahl. His actions caused immeasurablesuffering to better men and women than he could ever hope to be. But I also think backto the words of my friend, retired Navy SEAL Jimmy Hatch, whose storied careerended after he was shot searching for Berg-dahl. On the stand, Hatch said he went out on that mission “because [Bergdahl] was an American, and he had a mom.”

And Bergdahl, like every American,deserved to have his actions judged, noton the campaign trail, not on cable news,but in a court of law. He did not deserve tobe condemned by the president before he got his day in court. While the presidency might be the most powerful position onEarth, the responsibility to fair and impar-tial justice does not wane to score political points.

Our elected leaders’ words nearly costthe Army its ability to enforce good orderand discipline in a war zone. Let us hopethat we shall not see its like again.Justin Oshana, an Army major, was the lead Army prosecutor in the case against Bowe Bergdahl. His views are his own.

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BY GEORGE SKELTON

Los Angeles Times

This California wildfire season is different. And it must be frus-trating for many politicians. It certainly is for pundits. That’s be-

cause there is no one really to blame.A cardinal rule of politics and punditry

is to clearly state the problem, point out who’s at fault and say what should be done about it.

But during the current wildfires, no human apparently is at fault. It’s Mother Nature’s handiwork — mostly her light-ning strikes. No mortal can turn those fire bolts off.

OK, we could prepare better for them and should.

But so far, it doesn’t seem to be Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s fault. Unlike in past fire seasons, the utility’s old power equip-ment isn’t tumbling down and igniting flammable brush or dead trees it should have cleared.

There haven’t been any nutty arsonists out there that we know about. Nor care-less campers who left their breakfast fires smoldering. No smokers tossing lit ciga-rette butts from their cars.

No, this time it’s Mother Nature’s fault.Many scientists and public officials also

cite global warming, including Gov. Gavin Newsom. They may be right. But lightning was around long before we started burning fossil fuel.

“I’m not in denial about climate change,” Newsom told reporters last week. “If you don’t believe in climate change, come to the state of California and we will educate you ...

“Not just wildfires — droughts and floods. Snowpack (diminishing) and the like. I could go on.”

Newsom’s predecessor, four-term Gov. Jerry Brown, was a fatalist about wildfires. While inspecting devastation from Butte County’s cataclysmic Camp fire in 2018, Brown was asked by a reporter, “How do we curb these fires?”

“You know,” Brown answered, “we’ve had fires for long before the Europeans showed up here. And our Indigenous peo-ple had a different way of living with na-ture. For 10,000 years, there were never more than 300,000 (people in California). Now we have 40 million and we have a to-tally different situation.

“So it’s not one thing. It’s people. It’s how people live, it’s where they live and it’s the changing climate. ... And the truth is ... we’re going to have more difficulties,” he said. “Things are not going to get better. They’re going to get more challenging be-cause of the continuing alternation in the climate ... lack of moisture, early snowmelt and faster winds, the whole thing.”

Unquestionably we need to slow global warming. But to do that we need a U.S. president who doesn’t think climate change is a socialist hoax.

Whatever we Californians and all Amer-icans do to wean ourselves off fossil fuel, however, it isn’t going to stop wildfires for the foreseeable future.

Stephen J. Pyne, a professor emeritus at Arizona State University who specializes in environmental history, put it this way in

a recent LA Times opinion piece:“Until we began binge-burning fossil

fuels, we had managed to live with fire. We need to relearn how to coexist with it be-cause it isn’t going away — it can’t. Unlike for COVID-19, no fire vaccine is possible.

“At this point in our fire-powered warm-ing world, even as we ratchet down fossil fuel burning, landscape fires will likely ratchet up. ... We can ready ourselves to truly manage fire or scramble in bluster-ing incredulity,” he wrote. “But the fires are coming.”

The August lightning strikes, however, were freakish and relatively rare. Light-ning like that doesn’t happen every season. In one three-day span, there were 12,000 lightning strikes in California — an aver-age of 167 an hour.

“That’s an unusual amount of lightning,” says Nick Schuler, deputy chief at the Cali-fornia Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Other big lightning bursts came in 2008 and 1987, Schuler says. But this year’s was bigger than both of those. And this sum-mer, the vegetation is especially flamma-ble because of an abnormally dry winter.

President Donald Trump habitually ac-cuses California Democrats of failing toclear the forests of dead trees and brushthat fuel fires. Newsom “has done a terriblejob of forest management,” the Republicanpresident claims.

That’s typical Trump. The federal gov-ernment owns and manages 57% of Cali-fornia’s 33 million acres of forests. Thestate owns only 2.2% and local govern-ments less than 1%. Private landownershave about 40%. The feds should clean uptheir own mess.

No argument, California governmentsand private landowners all have been ir-responsibly tardy in clearing out fire-fu-eling brush and dead timber. The stategovernment has been trying to catch upduring the last three years. It has cleanedup 90,000 acres. That’s a good start, but it’s just a small stick of kindling comparedwith what’s out there ready to burn.

Forest cleaning should be a top statepriority and it apparently is. There areplans to annually reduce fire fuel on 1 mil-lion acres in partnership with the federal government.

Newsom, Brown and legislators deservecredit for recently hopping to it on firefight-ing and prevention. They’ve purchased 12twin-engine Black Hawk helicopters retro-fitted for firefighting, replacing old Viet-nam War-era single-engine Huey birds.The Black Hawks fly faster and can dump more water.

Cal Fire has added 13 fire engines and858 firefighters — plus a lot of new technol-ogy such as wildfire alert cameras. SinceNewsom took office, the state has spent about $500 million beefing up Cal Fire. Asof Friday, 14,600 firefighters — state, localand federal — using 2,400 fire engines and more than 100 aircraft were battling more than two dozen major blazes.

The state’s long-term solution: Keepdoing what it’s doing — only much more ofit.Political columnist George Skelton has covered government and politics for nearly 60 years and for the Los Angeles Times since 1974.

BY IAN W. TOLL

Special to The Washington Post

On the cool, cloudy morning of Sept. 2, 1945, a Japanese del-egation led by Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu and Foreign Minister

Mamoru Shigemitsu boarded the U.S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. On the galley deck, dozens of Allied generals and admirals stood in ranks. Two copies of the Instrument of Surrender rested on a green-baize-covered table.

Japanese Emperor Hirohito had agreed to surrender 18 days earlier. No one knew what to expect of the coming occupation of Japan, or even whether the peace would stick. American forces had gone ashore, but none had yet entered Tokyo, where hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops were still in arms.

As the Japanese and the other dignitaries waited on deck, coffee and cinnamon rolls were served in Adm. Bill Halsey’s private wardroom to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, su-preme commander for the Allied Powers, and Adm. Chester Nimitz, chief of the Pa-cific Fleet. In one corner of the compart-ment, a handcrafted leather saddle was on display. Halsey had publicly declared that he would seize Hirohito’s famous white horse as a trophy of war. The saddle had been sent as a gift by his admirers in the United States.

At 9 o’clock, MacArthur stepped out on

deck, followed by Nimitz and Halsey. They wore plain khaki uniforms without ties, in sharp contrast to Shigemitsu’s top hat and frock coat. Speaking into a microphone with a slow, stentorian cadence, MacAr-thur said, “We are gathered here, repre-sentative of the major warring powers, to conclude a solemn agreement whereby peace may be restored.” Witnesses noted that his hands shook as he read from his handwritten notes.

In a tense silence, Shigemitsu sat down, placing his hat and gloves on the table. He paused, then with a few strokes of a pen signed his name in Japanese kanji. Histo-ry’s bloodiest war had finally ended.

As the Japanese delegation later de-scended the gangway, hundreds of Ameri-can B-29 bombers and carrier planes thundered overhead at low altitude. The message was clear. Japan lay prostrate, and the conqueror’s power was absolute.

While returning to Tokyo, the Japanese listened to MacArthur’s radio broadcast to the American people. “Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won,” MacArthur said. The speech, a forgotten classic of Ameri-can oratory, was a resounding denuncia-tion of modern warfare. Technology had made war too terrible, MacArthur said, and if nations did not find peaceful means to resolve their disputes, “Armageddon will be at our door.”

Japan, he said, would be liberated and

rebuilt on democratic foundations. Its economy would recover by building “ver-tically rather than horizontally” — that is, at home rather than through foreign conquests. Japanese ingenuity and energy would be redirected to constructive ends.

Toshikazu Kase, an aide to Shigemitsu, later said he was “thunderstruck” by the speech. The Japanese had dreaded the coming occupation. The country was on its knees, verging on famine. Bombing raids had reduced Japanese cities to fields of ash and debris. Halsey’s bloody-minded tirades against the Japanese had seemed to vindicate the regime’s propaganda in-sisting that the Allies would enslave Japan. MacArthur could have tried to humiliate the Japanese. Instead, he had pledged to help the defeated nation “lift itself from its present deplorable state into a position of dignity.”

Historians have been hard on MacAr-thur. The list of indictments against him is damning. He took a huge secret payment from the Philippine government and then championed liberating the Philippines before attacking the Japanese homeland. While serving overseas, he pulled politi-cal strings at home, allowing right-wing supporters to run him as a dark-horse candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1944. MacArthur’s views on global strategy were unwavering: He should receive more troops and weaponry regardless of what was happening else-

where in the world — and he would subvertauthority to try to get his way. That outlookcontinued into the Korean War, finallyprompting President Harry S. Truman tosend him into retirement.

But even the critics applaud MacArthur’sperformance from 1945 to 1950 as supreme commander in postwar Japan. RetainingHirohito as a constitutional monarch, hemade the emperor a vital ally. He oversawthe drafting of a democratic constitutionguaranteeing basic rights to all citizens,including women. He introduced sweep-ing social, legal and economic reforms that benefited workers and small farmers. TheJapanese came to revere MacArthur as abenevolent liberator.

More than any other Allied commander, MacArthur understood that the PacificWar was a contest of ideas as well as arms. Simply winning was not enough; Japan’s imperialist ideology had to be discredited and replaced with something better. Whenthe moment came for MacArthur to speakfor the victorious Allies, he exceeded hismandate by speaking for all nations, in-cluding the defeated. Halsey would neverride the emperor’s white horse, and the Japanese people would not starve. Japa-nese democracy, which turns 75 years oldon Wednesday, is MacArthur’s greatestlegacy.Ian W. Toll is the author of the new book “Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945,” the final entry in his nonfiction trilogy about the Pacific War.

MacArthur seeded Japan’s post-WWII flourishing

Blame game won’t work in this Calif. fire season

KRISTIN MURPHY, THE DESERET NEWS/AP

Ellie Hansen, 4, and Stephanie Hansen wave as Ellie’s father and Stephanie’s husband, Chief Warrant Officer 3 John Hansen, leaves the Utah National Guard’s aviation facility in West Jordan with 8 other Guardsmen on Thursday to fight wildfires in California.


SCOREBOARD/COLLEGE FOOTBALLDeals

Monday’s transactionsBASEBALL

MLB — Suspended Cincinnati man-ager David bell for one game and fined an undisclosed amount for an on-field incident and excessive arguing during an Aug. 29 game against the Chicago Cubs. Suspended Chicago Cubs coach Mike Borzello for one game and fined an undis-closed amount for excessive arguing and failing to leave the dugout during an Aug. 29 game against Cincinnati. Suspended Cincinnati OF Jesse Winker for one game and fined an undisclosed amount for leav-ing the bench and contributing to the incitement of an on-field incident dur-ing an Aug. 29 game against the Chicago Cubs. Fined Cincinnati IF Joey Votto an undisclosed amount for leaving the bench and contributing to the incitement of an on-field incident during an Aug. 29 game against the Chicago Cubs.

American LeagueBALTIMORE ORIOLES — Acquired LHP

Kevin Smith and a player to be named later or cash considerations from the New York Mets in exchange for RHP Miguel Castro.

BOSTON RED SOX — Traded OF Kevin Pillar and cash considerations to Colo-rado in exchange for a player to be named later or cash considerations as well as international amateur signing bonus pool space. Placed LHP Darwinzon Hernandez on the 10-day IL retroactive to Aug. 30. Re-called LHP Mike Kickham, RHP Robinson Leyer and IF/OF Yairo Munoz from alter-nate training site.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Purchased the contract of IF Yolmer Sanchez from alter-nate training camp. Designated IF Ryan Goins for assignment.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned IF Yu Chang to alternate training site. Recalled RF Oscar Mercado from alternate training site.

DETOIT TIGERS — Acquired Zack Short from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Cameron Maybin

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Recalled RHP Chance Adams from alternate training site. Placed RHP Ian Kennedy on the 10-day IL. Optioned CF Nick Heath to alter-nate training site.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Traded C Ja-son Castro to San Diego for RHP Gerardo Reyes. Optioned Gerardo Reyes to alter-nate training site. Acquired LHP Packy Naughton from Cincinnati and a player to be named later or cash considerations in exchange for OF Brian Goodwin. Recalled IF Jamal Jones from alternate training site.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Deivi Garcia to alternate training site.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Traded RHP Aus-tin Adams, C Austin Nola and RHP Dan Al-taville to San Diego for IF Ty France, RHP Andres Munoz, C Luis Torrens and OF Tay-lor Trammell. Recalled OF Braden Bishop and IF Donovan Walton from alternate training site. Placed LHP Nestor Cortes on the 45-day IL.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Designated LHP Anthony Banda for assignment. Activated LHP Cody Reed.

TEXAS RANGERS — Traded LHP Mike Minor and cash considerations to Oakland in exchange for two players to be named later and international slot compensa-tions. Acquired two players to be named later from New York Mets in exchange for cash considerations, C Robinson Chirinos and IF Todd Frazier.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Acquired INF Jonathan Villar from Miami in exchange for a player to be named later. Acquired LHP Robbie Ray and cash considerations from Arizona in exchange for LHP Travis Bergen.

National LeagueARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Acquired

LHP Caleb Smith, RHP Humberto Mejia and a player to be named later from Mi-ami for OF Starling Marte.

CHICAGO CUBS — Acquired LHP Josh Osich from Boston in exchange for a player to be named later or cash consid-erations. Designated IF Hernan Perez for assignment. Acquired LHP Andrew Chafin and cash considerations from the Arizona for a player to be named or a cash consid-erations. Designated CF Ian Miller and IF Hernan Perez for assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Added RHP Mychal Givens to the active roster. Re-called RHP Antonio Santos from alternate training site. Optioned LHP James Pazos to alternate training site. Placed IF Bren-dan Rodgers on the 10-day IL.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Traded RHP Ross Stripling for two players to be named later.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Acquired three players to be named later from Philadelphia in exchange for RHP David Phelps.

NEW YORK METS — Optioned RHP Drew Smith and RHP Ariel Jurado to alternate training site. Selected the contract of RHP Hunter Strickland from alternate training site.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Activated IF Colin Moran from the IL. Optioned IF Will Craig to alternate training site.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Acquired Catch-er Jason Castro from the Los Angeles An-gels in exchange for RHP Gerardo Reyes. Acquired RH Mike Clevinger, OF Greg Allen and a player to be named later from the Cleveland in exchange for C Austin Hedg-es, IF Gabriel Arias, IF Owen Miller, OF Josh Naylor, LHP Joey Cantillo and RHP Cal Quantrill. Acquired RHP Taylor Williams from Seattle in exchange for a player to be named later. Activated IF Mitch Moreland.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Acquired LHP Anthony Banda from Tampa Bay in exchange for cash considerations. Placed OF Joey Rickard on the 60-day IL.

FOOTBALLNational Football League

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Waived CB Jalen Davis.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Placed WR De-Andrew White on IR. Waived De John Daka, WR Michael Dereus and C Sean Pollard.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed RB Napoleon Maxwell. Placed DB Michael Joseph on IR.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed DT Olive Sagapolu. Placed FB Nick Bawden on IL.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Re-signed LB Zach Cunningham to a contract extension. Re-leased LB Daren Bates.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Activated Ju-lian Blackmon from active/non-football IL. Released FB Roosevelt Nix.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Waived RB Leonard Fournette.

LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Released CB Prince Amukamara.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed WR Andy Jones. Waived LB James Crawford.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Acquired DE Yannick Ngakoue from the Jacksonville Jaguars in exchange for a second-round selection in the 2021 draft and a condi-tional fifth-round selection in the 2022 draft.

NEW YORK JETS — Released K Brett Ma-her. Signed WR Donte Moncrief. Claimed DB Zane Lewis off waivers from Arizona.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed LB Fred Warner on reserve/COVID-19 list.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed WR Lance Lenoir. Waived RB Patrick with an injury designation.

WASHINGTON FOOTBALL TEAM — Signed WR Tony Brown. Released WR Darvin Kidsy Jr.

HOCKEYNational Hockey League

ARIZONA COYOTES — Loaned D Victor Soderstrom to Allsvenskan.

HOUSTON OILERS — Signed F Patrick Russell to one-year contract extension.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Named Jacques Martin as an Assistant Coach.

SOCCERMajor League Soccer

ST. LOUIS CITY SC — Named Bernhard Peters youth academy development con-sultant and Mike Forde executive chair-man of sportsology.

National Women’s Soccer LeagueORLANDO PRIDE — Loaned MF Taylor

Kornieck to a club to be announced.SKY BLUE FC — Loaned F Evelyne Viens

to Paris FC.

MLSEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GAToronto FC 5 0 3 18 14 7Columbus 5 1 2 17 12 2Philadelphia 4 1 3 15 12 8Orlando City 4 2 2 14 15 10New England 2 1 5 11 7 6New York 3 3 2 11 7 9Montreal 3 3 1 10 10 9Atlanta 3 4 0 9 7 8New York City FC 3 5 0 9 6 8Cincinnati 2 4 2 8 6 12Nashville SC 2 4 1 7 4 8Chicago 2 5 1 7 8 14D.C. United 1 4 3 6 8 13Inter Miami CF 1 6 0 3 6 11

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GASporting KC 5 2 1 16 18 12Seattle 4 1 2 14 13 5Minnesota United 3 2 2 11 14 11Portland 3 2 2 11 12 14Real Salt Lake 2 1 4 10 11 8FC Dallas 2 1 3 9 7 4Los Angeles FC 2 2 3 9 16 15San Jose 2 2 2 8 12 13LA Galaxy 2 3 2 8 10 13Colorado 2 3 2 8 10 14Houston 1 2 4 7 11 13Vancouver 2 6 0 6 7 16

Note: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Tuesday’s gameMontreal at Toronto FC

Wednesday’s gamesMiami at AtlantaChicago at CincinnatiPhiladelphia at ColumbusD.C. United at New YorkMinnesota at HoustonNew York City FC at New EnglandOrlando City at NashvilleFC Dallas at Sporting Kansas CitySeattle at Real Salt LakeLA Galaxy at PortlandSan Jose at Los Angeles FC

WNBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GBChicago 11 6 .647 —Connecticut 7 9 .438 3½Indiana 5 11 .313 5½Washington 4 11 .267 6Atlanta 3 13 .188 7½New York 2 13 .133 8

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBSeattle 13 3 .813 —Las Vegas 12 3 .800 ½Los Angeles 12 4 .750 1Minnesota 11 5 .688 2Phoenix 9 7 .563 4Dallas 6 10 .375 7

Monday’s gamesChicago 100, Indiana 77Minnesota 96, Los Angeles 78

Tuesday’s gamesConnecticut at New YorkIndiana at AtlantaPhoenix at Las Vegas

Wednesday’s gamesMinnesota at ChicagoLos Angeles at DallasWashington at Seattle

BY STEVE MEGARGEE

Associated Press

LSU knew all along it would have to try to defend its national title without Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Joe Burrow and four other first-round draft picks.

It turns out they’re also missing a few notable players who weren’t in the most recent draft. All-America wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase, cornerback Kary Vincent Jr. and defensive end Neil Farrell Jr. have announced they won’t be playing this season.

“The competitor in me badly wants to play the season and go to war with my brothers, but during this time with so much going on, this is what’s best for my fa mily,” Chase said Monday in a Twitter post announcing his decision.

Chase didn’t specifically say in the tweet that he would be enter-ing the 2021 NFL Draft, but he’s regarded as a likely first-round pick. He won the Biletnikoff Award as college football’s top re-ceiver and set Southeastern Con-ference records for touchdown catches (20) and yards receiving (1,780) last year.

Vincent said he was opting out to begin training for the draft, while Farrell said he plans to play for LSU in 2021.

These three guys from LSU aren’t the only notable college players opting out of this season as college football attempts to hold a season amid a pandemic.

Even before the Big Ten and Pac-12 announced they were postponing their seasons, two of the Big Ten’s top playmakers — Purdue’s Rondale Moore and Minnesota’s Rashod Bateman — had indicated they were opting out.

The Atlantic Coast Confer-ence has been hit particularly hard. Four first-team Associated Press all-ACC players from last year have decided not to play this season.

Here’s a list of some notable players opting out. Although multiple reports have indicated Oklahoma running back Ken-nedy Brooks and Memphis run-ning back Kenneth Gainwell have opted out, they’re not on this list because their schools haven’t confirmed they won’t be playing.

Caleb Farley, CB, Virginia Tech: Far-ley earned first-team all-ACC honors, led the conference in passes defended (16) and tied for second in the league in interceptions (four) last season. Farley announced in late July that he wouldn’t play this season and would instead prepare for the 2021 NFL Draft. Farley cited the “uncertain health conditions and regulations” while noting that his mother had died in January 2018. Vir-ginia Tech still returns one starting cor-nerback from last season in Jermaine Waller. The Hokies also added Illinois State transfer Devin Taylor, who led the Missouri Valley Conference in pass breakups last year.

Eli Johnson, C, Mississippi: John-son started all 12 games for Ole Miss at center and allowed only one sack in 377 pass blocks. Johnson announced Aug. 16 on Twitter that he was opting out of this season. Reports have sur-faced since that Johnson has entered the transfer portal. Ben Brown, who started all 12 games at right guard last season, has been working out at cen-ter during the preseason with Johnson out.

Gregory Rousseau, DE, Miami: Rousseau is sitting out this season to prepare for the draft after collecting 15 ½ sacks as a redshirt freshman last year to rank second among all Football Bowl Subdivision players, behind only Ohio State’s Chase Young. Rousseau said last month that his “mother is a nurse on the front lines and has first hand witnessed the horrors of this ter-rible pandemic and I want to ease their concerns.” Miami still should have a quality pass rush with UCLA transfer Jaelan Phillips and Temple transfer Quincy Roche, who produced 13 sacks

for the Owls last season.Sage Surratt, WR, Wake Forest:

Surratt had accumulated 1,001 yardsreceiving to lead all Power Five playerslast year when he left the Virginia Techgame with an apparent shoulder injurythat sidelined him for the remainder of the season. Surratt announced lastmonth he would forgo the upcoming season and prepare for the draft “dueto the many uncertainties and risksassociated with COVID-19.” Surratt’s absence leaves Wake Forest withoutits top five receivers from last season as well as quarterback Jamie Newman, who transferred to Georgia.

Jaylen Twyman, DT, Pittsburgh: Twyman had 12 ½ tackles for loss and 10 ½ sacks this season as he earned second-team AP All-America honors. Twyman said last month his decision not to play this season and focus on the draft “isn’t about COVID-19, but about his family’s needs, now and in the fu-ture.” Even without Twyman, Pittsburgh should have a solid defensive line fea-turing seniors Keyshon Camp, Patrick Jones II and Rashad Weaver.

Chandler Wooten, LB, Auburn: Wooten recorded 27 overall tackles and 4 ½ tackles for loss last season while earning plenty of playing time in a reserve role. In announcing that he wouldn’t play this season, Wooten said he will become a father in November and that his top priority is the safety of his family. “Unfortunately, playing this season was ultimately not a risk that I was wiling to take.” Wooten is planning to take a redshirt and play for Auburn in 2021. Auburn still appears to be in good shape at linebacker with K.J. Britt, Zakoby McClain and Owen Pap-poe returning.

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BY ERIC OLSON

Associated Press

A court filing disclosed Monday shows Big Ten Conference presi-dents voted 11-3 to postpone the football season, bringing some clarity to a key question raised in a lawsuit brought by a group of Nebraska football players.

The vote breakdown was re-vealed in the Big Ten’s response to the lawsuit.

The court documents did not identify how each school voted, but a person familiar with the outcome told The Associated Press that Iowa, Nebraska and Ohio State voted against postpon-

ing the fall football season. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the Big Ten was not planning on making the specifics of its vote public.

The Big Ten announced Aug. 11 it would move its football sea-son from the fall to the spring semester because of health risks associated with the pandemic. The Pac-12 followed suit, joining the Mid-American Conference and the Mountain West.

The eight Nebraska football players are seeking the reinstate-ment of a fall season.

“The Big Ten Conference con-tinues to share the disappoint-ment that student-athletes and

families are feeling,” the confer-ence said in a statement. “TheBig Ten Return to CompetitionTask Force will continue to be transparent as it actively consid-ers options to get back to competi-tion when it is safe to play.”

The lawsuit in Lancaster Coun-ty District Court contends, among other things, the players are los-ing a chance for development,exposure for a possible pro ca-reer and won’t be able to marketthemselves to eventually capital-ize on name, image and likenessrevenue opportunities.

The Big Ten filing was a re-sponse in opposition to the players’motion for expedited discovery.

LSU trio heads list of opt outs

DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP

LSU wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase, left, is one of three Tigers announced they won’t be playing this season, along with cornerback Kary Vincent Jr. and defensive end Neil Farrell Jr.

3 in Big Ten voted to play season

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BY HOWARD FENDRICH

Associated Press

NEW YORK — For all of the obvious concessions to the coro-navirus at the no-fans-allowed U.S. Open — near-empty arenas; silence pierced by the occasional clap, sneaker squeak or roaring jet; a lack of line judges — the aftereffects of one player’s posi-tive test caused the biggest stir on Day 1.

Yes, plenty of matches were played amid a pandemic at the first Grand Slam tournament in nearly seven full months.

And, yes, first-round matches were lost — by 16-year-old Coco Gauff among the women, and No. 9 seed Diego Schwartzman among the men. And won — by No. 1 seed Karolina Pliskova, 2018 champion Naomi Osaka and 2016 champion Angelique Ker-ber among the women, and No. 1 Novak Djokovic, No. 4 Stefanos Tsitsipas and No. 5 Alexander Zverev among the men.

But Monday was significant for introducing terms to the ten-nis lexicon such as “bubble in the bubble” and “fake bubble.“ That’s because seven players were al-lowed to stay in the tournament while placed under additional re-strictions on their movement and subjected to daily COVID-19 test-ing after coming in contact with Benoit Paire, the Frenchman dropped from the U.S. Open after testing positive for the coronavi-rus, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.

The players were not identi-fied to the AP by the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the U.S. Tennis Associa-tion did not announce the names of anyone involved.

But three players from France acknowledged their involvement: Kristina Mladenovic, who is seeded 30th in women’s singles; Adrian Mannarino, seeded 32nd

in men’s singles; and Edouard Roger-Vasselin, who is entered in men’s doubles.

Asked to describe what she can and cannot do, Mladenovic

chuckled. “Let’s make it simple: I’m al-

lowed to play my match,” shesaid. “Literally, not allowed to doanything else.”

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

MondayAt USTA Billie Jean KingNational Tennis Center

New YorkPurse: $21,656,000

Surface: Hardcourt outdoor(seedings in parentheses):

Men’s SinglesFirst Round

Juan Ignacio Londero, Argentina, def. Evgeny Donskoy, Russia, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5.

Borna Coric (27), Croatia, def. Pablo Andujar, Spain, 7-5, 6-3, 6-1.

Egor Gerasimov, Belarus, def. Dusan Lajovic (18), Serbia, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Jordan Thompson, Australia, def. Ste-fano Travaglia, Italy, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

Federico Coria, Argentina, def. Jason Jung, Taiwan, 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, 2-0, ret.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Spain, def. Dennis Novak, Austria, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 6-0.

Cameron Norrie, Britain, def. Diego Schwartzman (9), Argentina, 3-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, 7-5.

Denis Shapovalov (12), Canada, def. Sebastian Korda, United States, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Hubert Hurkacz (24), Poland, def. Peter Gojowczyk, Germany, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4.

Stefanos Tsitsipas (4), Greece, def. Al-bert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-2, 6-1, 6-1.

Adrian Mannarino (32), France, def. Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, 6-1, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3.

Gilles Simon, France, def. Mohamed Safwat, Egypt, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.

Brandon Nakashima, United States, def. Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (3).

Alexander Zverev (5), Germany, def. Kevin Anderson, South Africa, 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-3, 7-5.

Mitchell Krueger, United States, def. Pedro Sousa, Portugal, 3-6, 6-2, 7-5, 6-3.

Jack Sock, United States, def. Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (2).

Maxime Cressy, United States, def. Jozef Kovalik, Slovakia, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Pablo Carreno Busta (20), Spain, def. Yasutaka Uchiyama, Japan, 4-6, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Taylor Fritz (19), United States, def. Dominik Koepfer, Germany, 6-7 (7), 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.

Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, def. Attila Balazs, Hungary, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4.

Kwon Soon Woo, South Korea, def. Thai-Son Kwiatkowski, United States, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1, 6-2.

Marcos Giron, United States, def. Marc Polmans, Australia, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, def. Fed-erico Gaio, Italy, 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Lloyd Harris, South Africa, def. Marco Cecchinato, Italy, 6-4, 7-5, 6-2.

Kyle Edmund, Britain, def. Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, 2-6, 7-5, 7-5, 6-0.

David Goffin (7), Belgium, def. Reilly Opelka, United States, 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-1,

6-4.Filip Krajinovic (26), Serbia, def. Mikael

Ymer, Sweden, 6-2, 7-6 (3), 6-3.Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Damir

Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 6-1, 6-4, 6-1.

Jan-Lennard Struff (28), Germany, def. Pedro Martinez, Spain, 6-0, 7-5, 6-4.

Steve Johnson, United States, def. John Isner (16), United States, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Women’s SinglesFirst Round

Marketa Vondrousova (12), Czech Re-public, def. Greet Minnen, Belgium, 6-1, 6-4.

Kristina Mladenovic (30), France, def. Hailey Baptiste, United States, 7-5, 6-2.

Angelique Kerber (17), Germany, def. Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, 6-4, 6-4.

Varvara Gracheva, Russia, def. Paula Badosa, Spain, 6-4, 7-5.

Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, def. Francesca Di Lorenzo, United States, 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-0.

Karolina Pliskova (1), Czech Republic, def. Anhelina Kalinina, Ukraine, 6-4, 6-0.

Caroline Garcia (32), France, def. Jas-mine Paolini, Italy, 6-3, 6-2.

Petra Kvitova (6), Czech Republic, def. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 6-3, 6-2.

Anna-Lena Friedsam, Germany, def. Caroline Dolehide, United States, 6-2, 6-2.

Danka Kovinic, Montenegro, def. Li-zette Cabrera, Australia, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.

Marta Kostyuk, Ukraine, def. Daria Ka-satkina, Russia, 6-1, 6-2.

Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, def. Whit-ney Osuigwe, United States, 6-3, 7-5.

Anastasija Sevastova (31), Latvia, def. Coco Gauff, United States, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.

Anett Kontaveit (14), Estonia, def. Dan-ielle Collins, United States, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2.

Magda Linette (24), Poland, def. Mad-dison Inglis, Australia, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.

Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, def. Al-lie Kiick, United States, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Kaja Juvan, Slovenia, def. Usue Maitane Arconada, United States, 6-4, 7-6 (2).

Madison Brengle, United States, def. Arina Rodionova, Australia, 6-2, 6-2.

Petra Martic (8), Croatia, def. Tereza Martincova, Czech Republic, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4.

Vera Lapko, Belarus, def. Viktorija Gol-ubic, Switzerland, 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2.

Shelby Rogers, United States, def. Irina Khromacheva, Russia, 6-2, 6-2.

Dayana Yastremska (19), Ukraine, def. Astra Sharma, Australia, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2).

Elena Rybakina (11), Kazakhstan, def. Katarina Zavatska, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-0.

CiCi Bellis, United States, def. Tamara Korpatsch, Germany, 6-7 (13), 6-3, 6-2.

Yulia Putintseva (23), Kazakhstan, def. Robin Montgomery, United States, 6-1, 6-3.

Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, def. Rebec-ca Peterson (32), Sweden, 7-6 (1), 6-4.

Jennifer Brady (28), United States, def. Anna Blinkova, Russia, 6-3, 6-2.

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that lasts, I know that we’ll all be gone in a few years, all removed from college football, but I don’t look at it any differently than how you build the culture of a program.

“With good leadership and good morals you build success-ful programs in college football and college athletics,” he said. “And that’s kind of the same thing we’re trying to do.”

We Are United grabbed head-lines last month with a bold and broad list of demands and a threat of mass opt outs of prac-tices and games if the Pac-12 did not address them. The coronavi-rus and athlete compensation is-sues got most of the attention, but concerns about racial injustice in college sports truly spurred their movement.

Within days, Big Ten United emerged — a group spun out of College Athlete Unity, founded earlier this year by athletes to “address systemic injustices in our communities.”

Within a week, those two groups connected with players in other conferences, most notably Clemson star Trevor Lawrence to create the social media campaign #WeWantToPlay, which called for, among other things, the for-mation of a college football play-ers association.

“The scale of the discussions was never what it is right now,” said Michigan defensive back Hunter Reynolds, a College Ath-lete Unity founder. “It’s athletes from all across the country, all sports in all divisions kind of talking among themselves now. I think that’s probably the big-gest takeaway: Starting the con-nections, like, the nationwide connections.”

The specific goals of each group are not perfectly aligned. As some conferences postponed their fall seasons, players pushed to play and some are still doing so.

Still, the players say they don’t need unanimity to work together. They have been encouraged to see their efforts attract a wide range of athletes from future NFL mil-lionaires such as Lawrence and Oregon offensive lineman Penei Sewell to walk-ons and athletes outside of football.

“We all look at each other as equals,” Grant said. “We all re-alize that no man or woman is more important than the other. No sport is more important than the other.”

Longtime observers of college sports and the NCAA marvel over what athletes have accomplished this year.

Tim Nevius, an attorney and former NCAA investigator, said too often the debate over whether college athletes should be paid overshadows other issues. That the NCAA made its COVID-19 guidelines to member schools mandatory after athletes pushed for more stringent requirements was a huge win for players’ rights, he said.

“I think that the message that the players are sending has stay-ing power,” Nevius said. “They’re advocating for basic rights and fundamental fairness.”

College sports leaders often tout the NCAA’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committees as a shin-ing example of how athletes are given the opportunity to influ-ence policies. SAAC representa-tive sit on all sorts of committees. They have input in the legislative process and voting rights.

Gabe Feldman, director of Tu-lane’s sports law program, said SAAC provides athletes a voice, but little power.

“I think SAAC is a good group. And I think it’s important and I think it should continue, but it does not serve the same purpose as a unified structure that can actually have a true seat at the table,” Feldman said.

Reynolds, the Michigan player, compared SAAC to student-body government in high school.

“They’re fine having the stu-dents vote on the brand of choc-olate milk that’s going to be in the cafeteria but when it comes to budget cuts and things of that nature that’s when the student be-comes pretty ignored,” Reynolds said.

Reynolds said the ultimate goal is that so-called seat at the table, but some who support the athletes question whether they can get there without help from lawmak-ers. Earlier this month a group of senators led by Democrats Cory Booker (N.J.) and Richard Blu-menthal (Conn.) announced a college athlete bill of rights they hope will be the foundation of sweeping legislation.

Donna Lopiano, a former col-lege sports administrator and coach who now runs a sports management consulting firm, said college athletes’ greatest power lies in their willingness to not play.

“The athletes have to realize that they can get what they need if they’re willing to do that,” Lopiano said. “Look at what the institutions are doing now just to play. If the athletes say, ‘You know, forget about that money.’ I’m not sure they know the power they have.”

A move to unionize football players at Northwestern was blunted by a National Labor Re-lations Board ruling in 2015. But Feldman said the players could get the representation they desire without a labor union.

Jay Bilas, a former Duke bas-ketball player and frequent NCAA critic who now does work for ESPN, said college athletes are more aware of their power than ever before. He called this summer an inflection point for college athlete rights.

“Any decision about them should not be made without them,” Bilas said. “And right now, all decisions made about them are completely without them.”

But for how much longer?

Power: Activism may paydividends years from now

American Coco Gauff was ousted from the U.S.

Open during the first round Monday, losing her opening match to Latvia’s

Anastasija Sevastovain New York.

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7 players face additional COVID-19 restrictions‘Bubble in the bubble’


MLB STANDINGS American League

East Division W L Pct GBTampa Bay 25 11 .694 —New York 19 14 .576 4½Toronto 18 15 .545 5½Baltimore 15 19 .441 9Boston 12 23 .343 12½

Central DivisionChicago 22 13 .629 —Cleveland 21 14 .600 1Minnesota 20 16 .556 2½Detroit 16 16 .500 4½Kansas City 14 21 .400 8

West DivisionOakland 22 12 .647 —Houston 19 14 .576 2½Seattle 15 22 .405 8½Texas 12 21 .364 9½Los Angeles 12 24 .333 11

National LeagueEast Division

W L Pct GBAtlanta 20 14 .588 —Miami 15 15 .500 3Philadelphia 15 15 .500 3New York 15 20 .429 5½Washington 12 20 .375 7

Central DivisionChicago 20 14 .588 —St. Louis 13 13 .500 3Milwaukee 16 18 .471 4Cincinnati 15 20 .429 5½Pittsburgh 10 22 .313 9

West DivisionLos Angeles 26 10 .722 —San Diego 22 15 .595 4½Colorado 17 18 .486 8½San Francisco 17 19 .472 9Arizona 14 21 .400 11½

Monday’s gamesBaltimore 4, Toronto 3, 11 inningsSeattle 2, L.A. Angels 1Tampa Bay 5, N.Y. Yankees 3Atlanta 6, Boston 3Kansas City 2, Cleveland 1Chicago White Sox 8, Minnesota 5Miami 5, N.Y. Mets 3St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 5Philadelphia 8, Washington 6Milwaukee 6, Pittsburgh 5San Diego 6, Colorado 0

Tuesday’s gamesToronto at MiamiTampa Bay at N.Y. YankeesAtlanta at BostonN.Y. Mets at Baltimore Detroit at Milwaukee Cleveland at Kansas CityChicago White Sox at Minnesota Texas at Houston Oakland at Seattle, ppd.St. Louis at Cincinnati Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh Washington at Philadelphia San Francisco at Colorado Arizona at L.A. Dodgers

Wednesday’s gamesN.Y. Mets (TBD) at Baltimore (TBD)Toronto (Ryu 2-1) at Miami (Sanchez

1-0)Tampa Bay (Morton 1-1) at N.Y. Yan-

kees (Montgomery 2-1)Atlanta (Erlin 0-0) at Boston (Perez 2-

4)Detroit (Turnbull 3-2) at Milwaukee

(Houser 1-3)Cleveland (McKenzie 1-0) at Kansas

City (Junis 0-0)Chicago White Sox (Lopez 0-1) at Min-

nesota (Berrios 2-3)Texas (Allard 0-3) at Houston (TBD)Oakland at Seattle, ppd.San Diego (Lamet 2-1) at L.A. Angels

(Teheran 0-2)San Francisco (TBD) at Colorado

(Freeland 2-1)St. Louis (Oviedo 0-1) at Cincinnati

(Mahle 1-1)Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 3-4) at Pitts-

burgh (Holland 1-2)Washington (Scherzer 3-1) at Phila-

delphia (Wheeler 3-0)Arizona (TBD) at L.A. Dodgers (Ker-

shaw 4-1)

MondayOrioles 4, Blue Jays 3 (11)

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T—3:38.

Padres 6, Rockies 0San Diego Colorado ab r h bi ab r h biGrisham cf 5 0 0 0 Tapia lf 4 0 1 0Tatis Jr. ss 4 2 1 2 Story ss 4 0 0 0Machado 3b 3 0 0 1 Arenado 3b 4 0 1 0Hosmer dh 3 0 2 1 Hmpson 2b 0 0 0 0Moreland 1b 4 0 0 0 Blckmon rf 4 0 1 0Myers rf 4 1 1 1 Murphy 1b 4 0 2 0Crnnwrth 2b 4 1 1 0 Kemp dh 3 0 0 0Nola c 3 1 1 0 MMn 2b-3b 4 0 0 0Profar lf 4 1 3 1 Hilliard cf 3 0 1 0 Wolters c 2 0 1 0 E.Diaz ph-c 0 0 0 0Totals 34 6 9 6 Totals 32 0 7 0San Diego 003 200 100—6Colorado 000 000 000—0

DP—San Diego 2, Colorado 0. LOB—San Diego 5, Colorado 7. 2B—Hosmer (6), Murphy (3). 3B—Tatis Jr. (2), Cronenworth (3). HR—Myers (9). SF—Machado (2). IP H R ER BB SOSan DiegoRichards 32⁄3 1 0 0 0 4Morejon W,1-0 3 4 0 0 0 2Johnson 1⁄3 0 0 0 1 1Pomeranz 1 1 0 0 1 3Rosenthal 1 1 0 0 0 2ColoradoMarquez L,2-5 6 8 5 5 2 7Hoffman 1 1 1 1 1 1Almonte 2 0 0 0 0 1

Morejon pitched to 3 batters in the 7th. T—2:49.

White Sox 8, Twins 5Chicago Minnesota ab r h bi ab r h biAnderson ss 4 0 0 0 Kepler rf 5 0 0 0Jimenez lf 5 0 0 0 Polanco ss 5 0 0 0Abreu 1b 5 0 2 2 Cruz dh 3 0 0 0Encrncn dh 3 1 0 0 Rosario lf 3 1 0 0Snchz pr-dh 0 1 0 0 Sano 1b 3 3 2 1McCann c 4 2 2 0 Arraez 2b 4 1 1 1Robert cf 4 2 2 2 Gnzalez 3b 4 0 0 1Mendick 3b 5 0 0 0 Cave cf 4 0 1 1Engel rf 1 0 1 2 Jeffers c 3 0 1 0Mzara ph-rf 3 1 2 2 Mdrigal 2b 5 1 2 0 Totals 39 8 11 8 Totals 34 5 5 4Chicago 000 202 103—8Minnesota 031 001 000—5

E—Engel (1), Madrigal (1), Giolito (1), Kepler (1). LOB—Chicago 10, Minnesota 6. 2B—McCann (2), Abreu (10), Robert (8). HR—Robert (10), Sano (7). IP H R ER BB SOChicagoGiolito 5 4 4 2 1 8Heuer 1 1 1 1 1 0Fry 1 0 0 0 1 2Foster, W, 4-0 1 0 0 0 0 2Colome, S, 7-8 1 0 0 0 1 1MinnesotaHill 31⁄3 3 2 2 4 2Duffey 12⁄3 1 0 0 2 1Clippard, BS, 0-1 2⁄3 3 2 2 0 1May 11⁄3 1 1 1 0 4Romo 1 0 0 0 0 0Rogers, L, 1-3 1 3 3 0 0 1

WP—Clippard. T—3:43.

Royals 2, Indians 1Cleveland Kansas City ab r h bi ab r h biC.Hrnndz 2b 3 0 1 0 Mrrifld cf-lf 4 0 0 0Ramirez 3b 4 0 1 0 Dozier rf 1 1 0 0Lindor ss 4 0 1 0 Soler dh 2 1 0 0Santana 1b 4 1 1 0 O’Hearn 1b 4 0 0 0Reyes dh 4 0 2 1 Franco 3b 4 0 2 1Mercado pr 0 0 0 0 Gordon lf 3 0 1 0Naquin rf 4 0 0 0 Strlng pr-cf 1 0 1 1Luplow lf 3 0 0 0 Mondesi ss 3 0 0 0Naylor ph 1 0 0 0 Lopez 2b 3 0 0 0R.Perez c 3 0 0 0 Gllagher c 2 0 0 0DeShields cf 3 0 0 0 McBrm ph 1 0 0 0 Viloria c 0 0 0 0Totals 33 1 6 1 Totals 28 2 4 2Cleveland 000 000 100—1Kansas City 000 000 02x—2

LOB—Cleveland 6, Kansas City 9. 2B—Reyes 2 (6). IP H R ER BB SOClevelandBieber 6 1 0 0 4 9Maton, H, 1 2⁄3 1 0 0 0 2Wittgren, H, 6 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0Krnchk, L, 0-2, BS. 2 1⁄3 1 2 2 2 1Cimber 2⁄3 1 0 0 0 1Kansas CityKeller 61⁄3 3 1 1 1 4Hahn 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0Barlow, W, 2-1 1 2 0 0 0 1Holland, S, 2-2 1 1 0 0 0 1

HBP—Maton (Lopez). WP—Keller, Hahn. T—3:11.

Braves 6, Red Sox 3Atlanta Boston ab r h bi ab r h biSwanson ss 4 2 1 0 Verdugo rf 4 2 3 0Freeman 1b 4 1 2 0 Vazquez c 3 1 1 0Ozuna dh 5 1 1 0 Devers 3b 4 0 2 1Markakis lf 4 1 3 2 Bgaerts ss 4 0 1 1Riley 3b 5 0 2 3 Chavis 1b 4 0 0 0Duvall rf 4 1 1 1 Dalbec dh 4 0 0 0Camargo 2b 4 0 2 0 Bradley cf 3 0 1 0Flowers c 4 0 0 0 Arauz 2b 4 0 0 0Inciarte cf 4 0 0 0 Peraza lf 4 0 0 0Totals 38 6 12 6 Totals 34 3 8 2Atlanta 100 131 000—6Boston 101 000 010—3

DP—Atlanta 1, Boston 1. LOB—Atlanta 9, Boston 6. 2B—Markakis (10), Camargo (8), Ozuna (7), Verdugo 3 (12), Bradley Jr. (5). 3B—Riley (1). HR—Duvall (5). IP H R ER BB SOAtlantaFried, W, 6-0 5 5 2 2 2 5O’Day 1 0 0 0 0 2Martin 1 0 0 0 0 1Smith 1 3 1 1 0 3Melancon, S, 7-8 1 0 0 0 0 0BostonBrewer, L, 0-3 4 8 5 5 2 4Valdez 1 1 0 0 0 3Leyer 1 2 1 1 1 1Stock 1 0 0 0 1 2Springs 2 1 0 0 0 3

Brewer pitched to 3 batters in the 5th. T—3:19.

Rays 5, Yankees 3Tampa Bay New York ab r h bi ab r h biArzrena dh 4 1 1 0 LeMhu 2b 5 1 2 0Lowe rf-2b 4 0 0 0 Voit dh 4 1 1 2Diaz 3b 3 1 2 0 Ford 1b 4 0 1 0Renfroe rf 2 0 0 0 Frazier rf 4 0 1 0Choi 1b 3 2 3 3 Urshela 3b 4 1 1 1Brosseau 1b 0 0 0 0 Tchman lf 4 0 0 0Adames ss 5 0 3 0 Sanchez c 4 0 0 0Wndle 2b-3b 4 0 0 0 Mercer ss 2 0 0 0Margot lf 5 0 1 1 Hicks ph 1 0 1 0Kiermaier cf 3 1 1 1 Gardner cf 3 0 0 0Perez c 4 0 0 0 Totals 37 5 11 5 Totals 35 3 7 3Tampa Bay 210 011 000—5New York 000 000 120—3

E—Perez (1), Renfroe (3), Frazier (1). LOB—Tampa Bay 13, New York 7. 2B—Adames (12). HR—Choi (3), Kiermaier (2), Urshela (6), Voit (13). SB—Arozarena (1), Frazier (1). IP H R ER BB SOTampa BayGlasnow W,2-1 6 2 0 0 1 9Garcia 1 3 3 3 1 0Fairbanks H,4 1 1 0 0 0 1Castillo S,3-4 1 1 0 0 0 1New YorkCole L,4-2 5 8 4 4 4 7Nelson 1 3 1 1 0 1Yajure 3 0 0 0 3 2

Garcia pitched to 2 batters in the 8th. HBP—Cole (Wendle). WP—Glasnow, Yajure. T—3:21.

Phillies 8, Nationals 6Washington Philadelphia ab r h bi ab r h biTurner ss 5 3 4 1 McCtchn lf 4 0 0 0Soto lf 4 2 2 4 Hoskins 1b 4 1 2 3Kendrick dh 5 0 1 0 B.Hrper dh 2 1 0 0Cbrra 3b-1b 5 0 0 0 Realmuto c 3 1 0 0Thames 1b 2 0 0 0 Grgorius ss 4 1 1 0Hrrsn ph-3b 2 0 1 0 Segura 2b 4 1 1 3Eaton rf 4 0 2 0 Bruce rf 4 2 2 1Gomes c 3 0 0 0 Haseley rf 0 0 0 0Garcia 2b 4 0 0 0 Bohm 3b 2 1 1 1Taylor cf 3 1 1 1 Quinn cf 3 0 0 0Holt ph 1 0 0 0 Totals 38 6 11 6 Totals 30 8 7 8Washington 000 020 202—6Philadelphia 110 400 20x—8

LOB—Washington 7, Philadelphia 2. 2B—Eaton 2 (8), Segura (1), Bohm (3), Hoskins (7). HR—Soto 2 (11), Taylor (3), Turner (7), Hoskins (5), Bruce (4). SF—Bohm (1). IP H R ER BB SOWashingtonFedde L,1-3 6 4 6 6 1 4Suero 1 3 2 2 1 2Doolittle 1 0 0 0 0 2PhiladelphiaHoward W,0-1 5 5 2 2 2 4Romero 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 2Hembree 1⁄3 2 2 2 0 0Hunter H,4 11⁄3 2 0 0 0 1Workman 1 2 2 2 0 2

HBP—Fedde (Realmuto). T—2:48.

Cardinals 7, Reds 5St. Louis Cincinnati ab r h bi ab r h biWong 2b 5 1 2 1 Votto 1b 4 2 2 0Edman lf-3b 5 1 2 0 Cstllnos rf 4 0 0 1Gldshmdt 1b 3 2 3 1 Winker dh 4 1 2 0Miller dh 4 1 0 0 Suarez 3b 4 1 2 4DeJong ss 5 1 2 4 Mstakas 2b 4 0 0 0Molina c 4 0 0 1 Aquino lf 4 0 0 0Crpnter 3b 2 1 0 0 Akiyama cf 3 0 0 0Bader cf 1 0 0 0 Galvis ss 3 0 0 0Fowler rf 3 0 1 0 Barnhart c 3 1 1 0Thomas rf 0 0 0 0 Carlson cf-lf 4 0 0 0 Totals 36 7 10 7 Totals 33 5 7 5St. Louis 111 400 000—7Cincinnati 100 001 003—5

DP—St. Louis 1, Cincinnati 0. LOB—St. Louis 9, Cincinnati 1. 2B—Edman (3), Goldschmidt (5), Barnhart (1). HR—De-Jong (1), Suarez (7). SB—DeJong (0), Goldschmidt (0). SF—Molina (1). IP H R ER BB SOSt. LouisHudson W,0-2 7 4 2 1 0 7Gomber 1 1 1 1 0 1Woodford 1⁄3 2 2 2 0 1Gallegos S,1-1 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 2CincinnatiDeSclafani L,1-1 32⁄3 7 7 7 4 3Lorenzen 4 2 0 0 1 3Jones 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 2

Gomber pitched to 1 batter in the 9th, Lorenzen pitched to 2 batters in the 8th. HBP—DeSclafani (Goldschmidt). T—3:09.

Mariners 2, Angels 1Seattle Los Angeles ab r h bi ab r h biCrawford ss 3 0 1 0 Smmons ss 4 0 2 0Haggerty lf 4 0 1 0 Jones pr 0 0 0 0Lewis cf 4 0 0 0 Trout cf 4 0 0 0Seager 3b 4 0 1 0 Rendon 3b 3 0 0 0Mrmljos dh 3 1 2 1 Pujols dh 4 0 0 0White 1b 4 0 0 0 Upton lf 3 1 1 1Walton 2b 3 0 0 0 Adell rf 3 0 0 0Fraley rf 4 1 2 0 Walsh 1b 3 0 0 0Odom c 4 0 1 1 Rengifo 2b 3 0 0 0 Bemboom c 2 0 0 0 Ohtani ph 1 0 1 0Totals 33 2 8 2 Totals 30 1 4 1Seattle 001 001 000—2Los Angeles 010 000 000—1

DP—Seattle 1, Los Angeles 1. LOB—Se-attle 7, Los Angeles 3. 2B—Haggerty (4), Crawford (5). 3B—Fraley (1). HR—Mar-molejos (4), Upton (4). IP H R ER BB SOSeattleGonzales W,4-2 9 4 1 1 1 8Los AngelesBarria 41⁄3 5 1 1 2 3Andriese L,1-2 12⁄3 1 1 1 1 2Mayers 1 0 0 0 0 2Pena 1 1 0 0 0 2Buttrey 1 1 0 0 0 1

T—2:30.

Marlins 5, Mets 3Miami New York ab r h bi ab r h biDickerson lf 2 0 0 0 McNeil 2b 4 0 2 1J.Sanchez rf 1 0 0 0 Alonso 1b 4 0 0 0Cooper dh 5 1 1 1 D.Smith lf 3 0 1 1Joyce rf-lf 3 1 0 0 Ramos c 4 0 0 0Anderson 3b 4 1 1 1 Cano dh 4 1 2 1L.Diaz 1b 4 1 1 1 Mrsnick cf 3 0 0 0Villar 2b 2 0 0 0 Gimenez ph 1 0 1 0Berti ph-2b 2 0 0 0 Gllorme 3b 4 0 1 0Rojas ss 4 1 2 1 Rosario ss 2 1 0 0Alfaro c 4 0 2 1 Conforto ph 1 0 0 0Brinson cf 4 0 1 0 Nimmo rf 2 1 1 0Totals 35 5 8 5 Totals 32 3 8 3Miami 000 004 010—5New York 002 001 000—3

E—Alonso (2). DP—Miami 2, New York 1. LOB—Miami 6, New York 5. 2B—L.Diaz (1), Alfaro (2), McNeil 2 (7), Cano (6). HR—Cooper (2), Anderson (5), Cano (6). SB—Brinson (2), Rojas (2), Joyce (1), Alfaro (1). SF—D.Smith (3). IP H R ER BB SOMiamiRogers W,1-0 5 5 2 2 2 5Vesia H,1 1 1 1 1 0 0Bleier H,5 1 1 0 0 0 0Garcia H,2 1 0 0 0 0 1Kintzler S,7-7 1 1 0 0 0 0New YorkdeGrom L,2-1 6 6 4 1 2 9Strickland 1 0 0 0 1 2Brach 1 1 1 1 0 0E.Diaz 1 1 0 0 0 2

T—3:03.

Brewers 6, Pirates 5Pittsburgh Milwaukee ab r h bi ab r h biGnzalez ss 5 1 1 2 Urias ss-3b 5 0 0 0Frazier lf 4 0 1 1 Yelich lf 4 1 1 0Newman 2b 4 0 0 0 Hiura 2b 3 1 1 1Bell dh 3 0 0 0 Smoak 1b 3 0 0 0Moran 1b 2 1 0 0 Gamel cf 3 2 3 1Stallings c 3 1 1 0 Gyorko dh 4 1 1 0Polanco rf 4 0 0 0 Narvaez c 3 1 1 0Osuna 3b 4 0 1 2 Mths ph-rf 1 0 0 0Tucker cf 3 2 1 0 Peterson rf 1 0 0 0 Garcia ph 0 0 0 0 Nnghm pr-c 0 0 0 0 Sogard 3b 3 0 1 1 Arcia ph-ss 1 0 1 1Totals 32 5 5 5 Totals 31 6 9 4Pittsburgh 002 012 000—5Milwaukee 021 110 01x—6

E—Newman 2 (5). DP—Pittsburgh 1, Milwaukee 0. LOB—Pittsburgh 6, Milwau-kee 7. 2B—Tucker (3), Stallings (4), Nar-vaez (4), Gamel (5). HR—Gonzalez (3), Hiura (8). IP H R ER BB SOPittsburghT.Williams 4 7 5 3 2 6Howard 2 0 0 0 2 2Bashlor 1 0 0 0 0 0Turley, L, 0-1 2⁄3 1 1 1 1 0Stratton 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 1MilwaukeeSuter 3 1 2 2 1 3Rasmussen 2 2 1 1 2 2Peralta, BS, 0-1 11⁄3 2 2 2 1 3D.Williams, W, 3-1 12⁄3 0 0 0 1 4Hader, S, 8-9 1 0 0 0 0 3

T.Williams pitched to 1 batter in the 5th. HBP—T.Williams (Hiura), Peralta (Frazier). T—3:25.

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Miami Marlins third baseman Brian Anderson, top, rounds the bases after hitting a solo homer off of New York Mets pitcher Brad Brach during the eighth inning of the Marlins’ 5-3 win Monday in New York.

LeadersAMERICAN LEAGUE

BATTING—T.Anderson, Chicago, .330; Lewis, Seattle, .328; Alberto, Baltimore,.321; J.Abreu, Chicago, .315; D.Fletcher,Los Angeles, .313; Cruz, Minnesota, .311;Severino, Baltimore, .309; Y.Diaz, Tampa Bay, .307; Verdugo, Boston, .306; Schoop, Detroit, .303.

RBI—Trout, Los Angeles, 32; J.Abreu, Chicago, 32; Tucker, Houston, 29; Cruz,Minnesota, 29; Santander, Baltimore, 29; Lowe, Tampa Bay, 27; Voit, New York, 26;Piscotty, Oakland, 26; E.Jimenez, Chica-go, 26; Seager, Seattle, 26.

HOME RUNS—Voit, New York, 13; Cruz,Minnesota, 13; Trout, Los Angeles, 12; T.Hernandez, Toronto, 12; J.Abreu, Chi-cago, 12; E.Jimenez, Chicago, 11; Lowe,Tampa Bay, 10; Robert, Chicago, 10; Ol-son, Oakland, 10; M.Chapman, Oakland,10; Santander, Baltimore, 10.

PITCHING—Bieber, Cleveland, 6-0; Keuchel, Chicago, 5-2; Dobnak, Minne-sota, 5-2; J.Hernandez, Texas, 4-0; Foster,Chicago, 4-0; Lynn, Texas, 4-1; Maeda, Minnesota, 4-1; Fiers, Oakland, 4-1; Fair-banks, Tampa Bay, 4-1; G.Cole, New York, 4-2; Bundy, Los Angeles, 4-2; Gonzales,Seattle, 4-2; Cease, Chicago, 4-2.

ERA—Bieber, Cleveland, 1.20; Lynn,Texas, 1.93; F.Valdez, Houston, 2.35; Bun-dy, Los Angeles, 2.47; Maeda, Minnesota, 2.53; Greinke, Houston, 2.68; Keuchel,Chicago, 2.70; Ryu, Toronto, 2.92; Cease,Chicago, 3.00; Gonzales, Seattle, 3.09

STRIKEOUTS—Bieber, Cleveland, 84; Giolito, Chicago, 66; G.Cole, New York, 60;Glasnow, Tampa Bay, 57; Lynn, Texas, 56; Maeda, Minnesota, 48; Bundy, Los Ange-les, 47; Carrasco, Cleveland, 45 .

NATIONAL LEAGUEBATTING—T.Turner, Washington, .377;

Soto, Washington, .367; Cronenworth,San Diego, .356; Blackmon, Colorado,.351; Goldschmidt, St. Louis, .349; Solano, San Francisco, .327; Winker, Cincinnati,.327; Do.Smith, New York, .326; Conforto, New York, .317; F.Freeman, Atlanta, .314.

RBI—Tatis Jr., San Diego, 33; Machado,San Diego, 30; Blackmon, Colorado, 28; Do.Smith, New York, 26; Hosmer, SanDiego, 26; Betts, Los Angeles, 26; Soto,Washington, 25; Realmuto, Philadelphia,25; Seager, Los Angeles, 25; Myers, San Diego, 25.

HOME RUNS—Tatis Jr., San Diego, 13; Soto, Washington, 11; Betts, Los Angeles,11; Machado, San Diego, 11; Winker, Cin-cinnati, 10; Castellanos, Cincinnati, 10; Bellinger, Los Angeles, 10; 7 tied at 9.

PITCHING—Fried, Atlanta, 6-0; Dar-vish, Chicago, 6-1; S.Gray, Cincinnati, 5-1; Davies, San Diego, 5-2; Kershaw, LosAngeles, 4-1; Wheeler, Philadelphia, 3-0;Wainwright, St. Louis, 3-0; 8 tied at 3-1.

ERA—Darvish, Chicago, 1.47; Fried, Atlanta, 1.60; deGrom, New York, 1.76;S.Gray, Cincinnati, 1.94; Gallen, Arizona, 2.09; P.Lopez, Miami, 2.10; Bauer, Cincin-nati, 2.13; Lamet, San Diego, 2.35; Wheel-er, Philadelphia, 2.58; Davies, San Diego,2.61.

STRIKEOUTS—deGrom, New York, 58;S.Gray, Cincinnati, 55; Scherzer, Wash-ington, 55; Bauer, Cincinnati, 54; Cas-tillo, Cincinnati, 52; Darvish, Chicago,52; Lamet, San Diego, 51; Gausman, San Francisco, 48; Aa.Nola, Philadelphia, 48;Woodruff, Milwaukee, 48.


MLB

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Tyler Glasnow flummoxed the Yankees for six innings, Ji-Man Choi and Kevin Kiermaier homered off Gerrit Cole, and the Tampa Bay Rays extended their mastery of New York with a 5-3 victory Monday night.

The AL East leaders improved to 7-1 against the Yankees this season and stretched their divi-sion cushion to 4 ½ games.

New York had won three straight since snapping a seven-game skid, but crumbled early with Cole on the mound.

Glasnow (2-1) had a no-hitter through five and completed six innings of scoreless, two-hit ball. He struck out nine and walked one.

Gio Urshela hit a solo homer, and Luke Voit added his eighth homer in 12 games for the Yankees.

Diego Castillo stranded a run-ner in the ninth for his third save. Cole (4-2) labored through five innings, allowing four runs, eight hits and four walks. He struck out seven.

Phillies 8, Nationals 6: Spen-cer Howard threw five effective innings, Rhys Hoskins homered and drove in three runs and host Philadelphia beat Washington.

Juan Soto hit a pair of two-run homers and Michael Taylor and Trea Turner also went deep for the defending World Series cham-pions, who fell to 12-20.

Howard (1-1) allowed two runs and five hits, striking out four to earn his first major league win in his fourth start.

Cardinals 7, Reds 5: Paul DeJong slugged his first career grand slam, helping Dakota Hud-son to his first win of the season as St. Louis held on to win at Cincinnati.

The Cardinals loaded the bases with two outs in the fourth in-ning on Kolten Wong’s single and walks by Paul Goldschmidt and Brad Miller. DeJong capitalized, sending Anthony DeScalfani’s full-count pitch over the center-field fence for his second homer of the season.

Hudson (1-3) finished with a season-high seven strikeouts and no walks. He allowed four hits and two runs, one earned.

Padres 6, Rockies 0: Wil Myers homered and Garrett Rich-ards led a committee of pitchers that scattered seven hits as San Diego won at Colorado.

Even as the Padres capped a series of roster additions ahead of Monday’s trade deadline, it was mostly holdovers providing the pitching and pop in the victory.

Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a two-run triple, Eric Hosmer had an RBI double, and Jurickson Profar de-livered an RBI single among his three hits, helping San Diego take three of four in the series .

Orioles 4, Blue Jays 3 (11): Jose Iglesias and Bryan Holaday had RBI doubles in the 11th in-ning, and Iglesias threw out the potential tying run at home plate as visiting Baltimore ended a five-game losing streak.

Iglesias’ leadoff hit, to deep left-center field, scored Anthony Santander, who started the inning at second base. Holaday then dou-bled to right field to drive in Igle-sias. Both hits came off Toronto reliever Anthony Bass (2-2).

Marlins 5, Mets 3: Miguel Rojas hit a tiebreaking RBI single during his team’s four-run sixth inning against Jacob deGrom, and Miami won at New York.

Garrett Cooper and Brian Anderson homered for Miami, which had dropped four in a row. Trevor Rogers pitched five effec-

tive innings for his first major league win, and Brandon Kint-zler worked the ninth for his sev-enth save.

Mariners 2, Angels 1: Marco Gonzales retired 21 consecutive Angels while throwing a four-hitter, and Jose Marmolejos hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning of Seattle’s win at Los Angeles.

Gonzales (4-2) had eight strike-outs and didn’t walk a batter until the ninth inning of his second ca-reer complete game .

Braves 6, Red Sox 3: Austin Riley had a tie-breaking, bases-loaded triple to help Max Fried improve to 6-0 as NL East-lead-ing Atlanta won at rebuilding Boston.

Adam Duvall belted a homer over the Green Monster and Nick Markakis had three hits and drove in two runs for the Braves, who entered the three-game set winless (0-12-3) in their last 15 series against the Red Sox.

Brewers 6, Pirates 5: Orlando Arcia’s pinch-hit single with two outs in the eighth inning drove in the tiebreaking run as host Mil-waukee slipped past Pittsburgh.

Ben Gamel led off the eighth with a double against Nick Tur-ley (0-1) and scored on Arcia’s hit off Chris Stratton as the Brewers took three of four in the series.

Royals 2, Indians 1: Maikel Franco and Bubba Starling had RBI singles in the eighth inning as host Kansas City rallied to beat Cleveland.

It was the Royals’ first win this season when trailing after seven innings.

White Sox 8, Twins 5: Luis Robert hit a tying homer in the seventh inning and the go-ahead double in the ninth, and Chicago took the AL Central lead by rally-ing to a win at Minnesota.

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CHICAGO — San Diego acted boldly once again. Miami actu-ally strengthened its roster. Mike Clevinger, Starling Marte, Archie Bradley and Todd Frazier were on the move. Lance Lynn and Dylan Bundy stayed put.

Baseball’s pandemic-delayed trade deadline was quite a day.

The contending Padres got Clevinger in a multiplayer trade with Cleveland, bolstering their rotation Monday in a rare dead-line deal between contenders. The surprising Marlins reeled in the dynamic Marte for their outfield. There was a lot of talk about pitchers Lynn and Bundy, but Lynn stayed in Texas and the Angels held onto Bundy.

The trade deadline is normally July 31, but it was pushed back when the start of the season was delayed because of the coronavi-rus. With the shortened season and financial uncertainty brought on by the pandemic, there was talk that it might be an unusually quiet day. But there was plenty of activity instead, spurred in part by the expanded playoff format for this year.

“It felt like a normal deadline in a lot of ways,” Cubs general man-ager Jed Hoyer said. “Tons of ac-tivity and phone calls and things like that. I think that in the end, you know, with the Padres not-withstanding, I think that there probably wasn’t quite as much aggressiveness.”

The lack of a minor league sea-son also hurt the market, forcing teams to work off older informa-tion on prospects. There was very little to go on when it came to the players working out at alternate training sites.

“I’d say the volume of consum-mated transactions probably sur-prised me a little bit,” Brewers general manager David Stearns said.

Shooting for its first playoff ap-pearance since 2006, San Diego acquired Clevinger in its fifth big trade since Saturday. The cost was a package of young players that included outfielder Josh Nay-lor, right-hander Cal Quantrill and catcher Austin Hedges, add-ing to the Indians’ depth for their pursuit of the AL Central title.

The Padres also made a smaller deal right at the deadline, picking up reliever Taylor Williams from Seattle for a player to be named.

Clevinger hopes to join his new team in time for its series opener at Anaheim on Wednesday.

“Definitely something spe-cial brewing here and I think it’s going to be something special for coming years, not just this year,” Clevinger said.

Miami is normally a seller atthe deadline. But the Marlins are in the postseason mix with a .500 record after dealing with a coro-navirus outbreak, and help is onthe way.

Miami sent pitchers CalebSmith and Humberto Mejia anda player to be named to the Dia-mondbacks for Marte, who is bat-ting .311 in 33 games this year.The Marlins also traded JonathanVillar to Toronto for a player to benamed, but Isan Diaz is workingout again and could return to the Marlins soon.

“Our club has fought so hard forthe first 30 games for what theyendured,” Marlins president of baseball operations Michael Hill said. “We want to do everythingon our part to put us in a positionto make it to the playoffs.”

There were very few sellers with 16 teams heading to theplayoffs, but the last-place Dia-mondbacks also traded left-hand-ed starter Robbie Ray to the Blue Jays, Bradley to Cincinnati andfellow reliever Andrew Chafin tothe Cubs. The struggling Rangers dealt Frazier and catcher Robin-son Chirinos to the Mets, and sent lefty Mike Minor to AL West-leading Oakland.

“There are moments in timeyou can’t go chasing something that isn’t there,” Arizona GMMike Hazen said. “For this sea-son, it hasn’t been there. I feel like pivoting at this moment in time iswhat’s most appropriate.”

The Dodgers, Yankees, Bravesand White Sox were noticeablyquiet. Of course, the loaded Dodg-ers, who traded Ross Striplingto Toronto for two players to benamed, don’t have much to worryabout, sitting atop the NL Westwith the best record in baseball.

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Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Tyler Glasnow had a no-hitter through five innings and pitched six innings while allowing two hits and no runs in the Rays’ 5-3 win over the host New York Yankees on Monday.

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Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Mike Clevinger was traded to the San Diego Padres in a multiplayer deal.

Glasnow helps AL East-leading Rays extend mastery of Yankees

Padres, Marlins make big moves at trade deadline

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Stanley Cup playoffsCONFERENCE SEMIFINALS

(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)EASTERN CONFERENCE

At Toronto(6) N.Y. Islanders 3, (1) Philadelphia 1N.Y. Islanders 4, Philadelphia 0Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, OTN.Y. Islanders 3, Philadelphia 1N.Y. Islanders 3, Philadelphia 1Tuesday: Game 5x-Thursday: Game 6x-Saturday, Sept. 5: Game 7

(2) Tampa Bay 4, (4) Boston 1Boston 3, Tampa Bay 2Tampa Bay 4, Boston 3, OTTampa Bay 7, Boston 1Tampa Bay 3, Boston 1Monday: Tampa Bay 3, Boston 2, 2OT

WESTERN CONFERENCEAt Edmonton, Alberta

(1) Las Vegas 3, (5) Vancouver 1Las Vegas 5, Vancouver 0Vancouver 5, Las Vegas 2Las Vegas 3, Vancouver 0Las Vegas 5, Vancouver 3Tuesday: Game 5x-Thursday: Game 6x-Friday: Game 7

(3) Dallas 3, (2) Colorado 2Dallas 5, Colorado 3Dallas 5, Colorado 2Colorado 6, Dallas 4Dallas 5, Colorado 4Monday: Colorado 6, Dallas 3Wednesday: Game 6 (AFN-Sports2, 2

a.m. Thursday CET; 9 a.m. Thursday JKT)x-Friday: Game 7

MondayLightning 3, Bruins 2 (2OT)

Boston 0 1 1 0 0—2Tampa Bay 0 1 1 0 1—3

Second Period—1, Tampa Bay, Palat 5 (Shattenkirk, Coleman), 4:21. 2, Boston, Pastrnak 3 (Krejci, Bergeron), 12:38 (pp).

Third Period—3, Tampa Bay, Cirelli 2 (Point, Hedman), 12:03. 4, Boston, Krejci 4 (Clifton, Chara), 17:27.

Second Overtime—5, Tampa Bay, Ma-roon 1 (Shattenkirk, Hedman), 14:10.

Shots on Goal—Boston 8-15-12-11-1—47. Tampa Bay 5-8-8-7-7—35.

Power-play opportunities—Boston 1 of 4; Tampa Bay 0 of 4.

Goalies—Boston, Halak 4-3-2 (35 shots-32 saves). Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 10-3-0 (47-45).

T—3:58.

Avalanche 6, Stars 3Dallas 0 2 1—3Colorado 5 1 0—6

First Period—1, Colorado, Bellemare 2 (Nieto, O’Connor), 4:37. 2, Colorado, Burakovsky 5 (Makar, Rantanen), 11:51. 3, Colorado, MacKinnon 8 (Graves, Com-pher), 12:32. 4, Colorado, Kadri 8 (Lan-deskog, Nichushkin), 13:43. 5, Colorado, Rantanen 6 (Burakovsky, Girard), 14:27.

Second Period—6, Dallas, Pavelski 8 (Janmark, Gurianov), 7:50. 7, Dallas, Heiskanen 4 (Gurianov, Hintz), 17:31 (pp). 8, Colorado, Burakovsky 6 (MacKinnon), 18:04.

Third Period—9, Dallas, Benn 5 (Heis-kanen, Gurianov), 14:12 (pp).

Shots on Goal—Dallas 5-11-18—34. Colorado 23-15-3—41.

Power-play opportunities—Dallas 2 of 6; Colorado 0 of 6.

Goalies—Dallas, Bishop 1-2-0 (19 shots-15 saves), Dallas, Khudobin 7-4-0 (22-20). Colorado, Hutchinson 1-0-0 (34-31).

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Hedman’s goal in2nd OT lifts Bolts

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TORONTO — The Tampa Bay Lightning remained perfect in overtime and are headed to the NHL’s Eastern Conference finals for the fourth time in six seasons.

Victor Hedman scored with 5:50 left in the second overtime to give the Lightning a 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins, ending their best-of-seven, second-round playoff series in five games on Monday night.

The Tampa Bay defenseman beat goaltender Jaroslav Halak from the left circle, scoring off a pass from Brayden Point.

The resilient Lightning outshot the team with the league’s best record during the regular season 7-1 in the second OT, improving to 5-0 in overtime games in this year’s playoffs.

“We know what we want,” Hed-man said. “We’re not taking no for an answer.”

David Krejci’s goal at 17:27 of the third period wiped out a 2-1 lead that Anthony Cirelli gave the Lightning when he redirected Hedman’s shot past Halak with just under eight minutes remain-ing in regulation.

Krejci, limited to one point in the first four games of the series, also assisted on David Pastrnak’s power-play goal in the second period for Boston, which was left wondering might have been if the season had not been put on pause in March because of the corona-virus pandemic.

“Clearly we didn’t reach our goal,” said Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy, who watched his team — a Stanley Cup finalist last season — lose four straight after winning Game 1 against the Lightning.

“I also believe with the turn of events with the pause and stuff going on in the world bigger than hockey ... once we got back here it wasn’t the same as a normal sea-son. It just wasn’t,” Cassidy said, adding that wasn’t an excuse for the second-round result.

Cassidy said it was too soon to talk about possible changes to the roster going forward, includ-ing whether veteran defensemen Zdeno Chara and Torey Krug will return next season.

“I don’t want to speculate if it will be their last game. Those are decisions that will be made by the players and management. ... Both are great Boston Bruins, and we’ll see what happens down the line.”

Vezina Trophy finalist Andrei Vasilevskiy had 45 saves and On-drej Palat scored his fifth goal in four games for Tampa Bay, which is back in the East finals after being swept by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the first round in 2019.

“It’s a great feeling to win the first two rounds, especially after last year,” said Vasilevskiy, who stopped 147 of 157 shots in the series.

Avalanche 6, Stars 3: At Ed-monton, Alberta, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare began a five-goal scor-ing spree in the first period and Colorado avoided second-round elimination with a victory over Dallas in Game 5.

The Avalanche trail the Stars 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. They’ve never won a series in team history when facing a 3-1 deficit. Game 6 is Wednesday.

Andre Burakovsky, Nathan MacKinnon, Nazem Kadri and Mikko Rantanen also scored in a 2:36 span for Colorado in a high-flying first period. The five goals sets the franchise postseason re-cord for a period.

Burakovsky added another in the second. He also had an assist.

Colorado goaltender Michael Hutchinson made an unexpected start as he stepped in for Pavel Francouz. Hutchinson earned his first NHL playoff victory by turn-ing back 31 shots.

Stars starting goaltender Ben Bishop surrendered four goals before being replaced by Anton Khudobin with 6:17 remaining in the first.

Miro Heiskanen and Joe Pav-elski scored second-period goals. Jamie Benn added another late in the third period and Denis Guri-anov had three assists for a Dal-las team looking to advance to the Western Conference finals for the first time since 2008.

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Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman, second from left, celebrates his game-winning goal Monday against the Boston Bruins with teammates Ondrej Palat, second from right, Patrick Maroon, left, and Alex Killorn during the second overtime period of Game 5 of their Eastern Conference playoff series in Toronto.

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Tiz the Law drawsNo. 17 post in Derby

Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Tiz the Law is the 3-5 morning-line favor-ite for the 146th Kentucky Derby and will attempt to become the first winner from the No. 17 post position drawn for Saturday’s rescheduled marquee race for 3-year-olds.

All the race favorites will break from the outside. Second choice Honor A. P. — at 5-1 odds — drew the No. 16 post on Tuesday at Churchill Downs. Authentic is the 8-1 third choice from the far No. 18 slot, which last year earned 65-1 long shot Country House the glory when the colt crossed the finish line second before being awarded the victory after Maxi-mum Security was disqualified for interference.

Country House was just the second winner from the No. 18 post in 33 starts (6.1%), with four second-place finishes since the use of a starting gate began in 1930. This year’s Derby will have a new 65-foot, 20-horse starting gate that eliminates the wide gap between the old No. 14 post and No. 15 spot in the auxiliary gate.

Honor A. P.’s odds are slightly better at 8.3%, with four wins, three seconds and three thirds in 48 starts from the No. 16. Ani-mal Kingdom was the last winner there in 2011.

Jockey Manny Franco will try to make history with Tiz the Law, who is unbeaten in four starts this year. That includes the Belmont Stakes in June, which led off this year’s reshuffled Triple Crown. More recently, Tiz the Law won the Grade 1 Travers at Saratoga by 5 ½ lengths on Aug. 8.

This year’s $3 million Derby was postponed from its tradi-tional first Saturday in May for the first time since 1945 because of the coronavirus pandemic, and no spectators are allowed.

There was one defection Tues-day when Art Collector, who was projected as one of the contend-ers, dropped out because of a foot issue. He was replaced by South Bend, whose trainer, Bill Mott, guided Country House. South Bend will start from the No. 8 post as one of eight 50-1 long shots.

Washington Footballrenames roads

ASHBURN, Va. — The road to the Washington Football training facility known as Redskins Park will no longer be called Redskin Park Drive.

The team announced Tues-day it’s renaming the road to its Ashburn, Va., practice facil-ity Coach Gibbs Drive in honor of the Hall of Fame, three-time Super Bowl-winning coach Joe Gibbs. And a main street leading to the entrance of FedEx Field in Landover, Md., will be called Sean Taylor Road in memory of the late Washington safety whose career was cut short when he was

murdered at age 24 in 2007.“As we look forward and build

a modern identity that everyonecan be proud of, it’s imperativethat we revere tremendous indi-viduals who have had a positiveinfluence on the franchise and our fan base,” owner Dan Snydersaid. “There are no two people more deserving than Sean Taylorand Joe Gibbs.”

The street sign changes are part of an organizational re-branding that began in July withdropping the Redskins name.Washington Football Team is the official name for at least the 2020season.

Roglic wins mountain stage in Tour de France

ORCIERES-MERLETTE, France — Primoz Roglic assert-ed his Tour de France credentials with a victory in the first moun-tain stage Tuesday as Julian Ala-philippe kept the race leader’syellow jersey.

Roglic, a former ski jumperfrom Slovenia who won the Span-ish Vuelta last year, posted histhird career stage win at the three-week race in the Alpine town of Orcieres-Merlette.

The 100-mile trek in the Hautes-Alpes marked the race’s first summit finish this year, witha final 7-kilometer climb up tothe ski resort where Luis Ocanahanded five-time Tour winnerEddy Merckx a resounding de-feat back in 1971.

Roglic couldn’t shake off any ofhis main rivals on the final ascentbut used his power to prevail inthe sprint launched by French-man Guillaume Martin with 500 meters left. Roglic reached aspeed of 32 mph as he raised both arms to cross the line.

Blatter questionedin FIFA investigation

BERN, Switzerland — FormerFIFA president Sepp Blatter wasquestioned Tuesday by Swiss investigators about a $2 millionpayment he authorized in 2011 to then-UEFA president MichelPlatini.

Blatter was quizzed about sus-pected criminal mismanagementat FIFA one day after Platinispent about three hours at theoffices of Switzerland’s federalprosecutors.

The 84-year-old Blatter wavedas he arrived in Bern with his lawyer, Lorenz Erni.

A criminal proceeding has beenopen against Blatter since the al-legation was revealed in Septem-ber 2015, though it was extendedto Platini only three months ago.

Blatter has also been a suspect since May in a second allega-tion linked to $1 million of FIFAmoney gifted in 2010 into the con-trol of now-disgraced Caribbeansoccer leader Jack Warner.

Tampa Bay finishes off series with Boston


NBA PLAYOFFSScoreboard

PlayoffsAt Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

FIRST ROUNDBest-of-seven; x-if necessary

EASTERN CONFERENCEMilwaukee 4, Orlando 1

Orlando 122, Milwaukee 110Milwaukee 111, Orlando 96Milwaukee 121, Orlando 107 Milwaukee 121, Orlando 106Milwaukee 118, Orlando 104

Toronto 4, Brooklyn 0Toronto 134, Brooklyn 110Toronto 104, Brooklyn 99Toronto 117, Brooklyn 92Toronto 150, Brooklyn 122

Boston 4, Philadelphia 0Boston 109, Philadelphia 101Boston 128, Philadelphia 101Boston 102, Philadelphia 94Boston 110, Philadelphia 106

Miami 4, Indiana 0Miami 113 Indiana 101Miami 109, Indiana 100Miami 124, Indiana 115Miami 99, Indiana 87

WESTERN CONFERENCEL.A. Lakers 4, Portland 1

Portland 100, L.A. Lakers 93L.A. Lakers 111, Portland 88L.A. Lakers 116, Portland 108L.A. Lakers 135 Portland 115L.A. Lakers 131, Portland 122

L.A. Clippers 4, Dallas 2L.A. Clippers 118, Dallas 110Dallas 127, L.A. Clippers 114L.A. Clippers 130, Dallas 122Dallas 135, L.A. Clippers 133, OTL.A. Clippers 154, Dallas 111L.A. Clippers 111, Dallas 97

Utah 3, Denver 3Denver 135, Utah 125, OTUtah 124, Denver 105Utah 124, Denver 87Utah 129, Denver 127Denver 117, Utah 107Denver 119, Utah 107Tuesday: Game 7

Houston 3, Oklahoma City 3Houston 123, Oklahoma City 108Houston 112, Oklahoma City 98Oklahoma City 119, Houston 107, OTOklahoma City 117, Houston 114Houston 114, Oklahoma City 80Monday: Oklahoma City 104, Houston

100Wednesday: Game 7

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS(Best-of-seven; x-if necessary)

Eastern ConferenceMiami 1, Milwaukee 0

Monday: Miami 115, Milwaukee 104Wednesday: Game 2Friday: Game 3Sunday, Sept. 6: Game 4x-Tuesday, Sept. 8: Game 5x-Thursday, Sept. 10: Game 6x-Saturday, Sept. 12: Game 7

Boston 1, Toronto 0Boston 112, Toronto 94Tuesday: Game 2Thursday: Game 3Saturday: Game 4x-Monday, Sept. 7: Game 5x-Wednesday, Sept. 9: Game 6x-Friday, Sept. 11: Game 7

MondayHeat 115, Bucks 104

MIAMI — Butler 13-20 12-13 40, Crowder 3-8 0-0 9, Adebayo 5-12 2-2 12, Dragic 9-15 7-7 27, Robinson 1-4 1-1 4, Olynyk 1-1 1-2 4, Iguodala 1-4 0-0 2, Herro 3-11 2-2 11, Nunn 3-9 0-0 6. Totals 39-84 25-27 115.

MILWAUKEE — G.Antetokounmpo 6-12 4-12 18, Middleton 12-24 0-0 28, B.Lopez 8-10 4-4 24, G.Hill 2-5 3-5 8, Matthews 2-4 1-2 7, Korver 4-9 0-0 11, Williams 2-5 1-1 5, Connaughton 1-5 0-0 2, DiVincenzo 0-1 1-2 1, Mason 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 37-75 14-26 104.Miami 29 31 32 23—115Milwaukee 40 23 23 18—104

Three-Point Goals—Miami 12-31 (Herro 3-6, Crowder 3-7, Butler 2-2, Dragic 2-5, Robinson 1-4, Iguodala 0-3, Nunn 0-3), Milwaukee 16-35 (B.Lopez 4-6, Middleton 4-8, Korver 3-7, Matthews 2-3, G.Antetokounmpo 2-5, G.Hill 1-3, Connaughton 0-3). Fouled Out—Miami None, Milwaukee 1 (Middleton). Re-bounds—Miami 46 (Adebayo 17), Mil-waukee 34 (G.Antetokounmpo 10). As-sists—Miami 21 (Adebayo 6), Milwaukee 22 (G.Antetokounmpo 9). Total Fouls—Miami 23, Milwaukee 24.

Thunder 104, Rockets 100HOUSTON — Gordon 3-12 2-2 9, Tucker

3-8 0-0 9, Covington 7-11 0-0 18, Harden 11-22 7-8 32, Westbrook 8-15 0-2 17, Green 1-5 0-0 3, House Jr. 5-9 0-0 12, McLemore 0-0 0-0 0, Rivers 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 38-84 9-12 100.

OKLAHOMA CITY— Gallinari 9-17 3-3 25, Gilgeous-Alexander 4-11 0-0 10, Ad-ams 3-9 0-0 6, Dort 5-9 1-2 13, Paul 10-20 5-5 28, Ferguson 0-3 0-0 0, Noel 1-2 0-0 2, Bazley 1-2 5-6 8, Schroder 5-16 2-2 12. To-tals 38-89 16-18 104.Houston 25 26 24 25—100Oklahoma City 24 24 29 27—104

Three-Point Goals—Houston 15-44 (Covington 4-6, Tucker 3-7, Harden 3-11, House Jr. 2-6, Westbrook 1-2, Green 1-5, Gordon 1-6), Oklahoma City 12-36 (Galli-nari 4-9, Paul 3-6, Gilgeous-Alexander 2-5, Dort 2-6, Bazley 1-2, Ferguson 0-3, Schro-der 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Houston 41 (Tucker 11), Oklahoma City 51 (Adams 14). Assists—Houston 19 (Harden 7), Oklahoma City 17 (Gilgeous-Alexander 6). Total Fouls—Houston 19, Oklahoma City 16.

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Chris Paul and the Thunder had their backs to the bubble wall, a tougher spot than usual when fac-ing elimination.

This time meant lots of packing, getting ready for a potential re-turn home after a long time away. They weren’t interested in their trip — or their season — ending.

“We’re not ready to go yet,” Paul said.

He made sure they wouldn’t.Paul gave Oklahoma City at

least one more game at Disney, scoring 15 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter for a 104-100 vic-tory over the Houston Rockets on Monday night in Game 6 of a Western Conference first-round series.

Paul made two free throws with 13.1 seconds left and the game tied at 100, and Danilo Gallinari added two more after a turnover by Russell Westbrook to finish it off.

Game 7 will be Wednesday night, with the winner advancing to face the top-seeded Los Ange-les Lakers.

It gives the West two Game 7s. Denver and Utah played theirs on Tuesday.

In a game that was close all the way — neither team led by double digits — the Thunder bounced back from a blowout in Game 5. And nobody handles close games better than Paul, who led the NBA with 150 points in clutch

situations, defined as the last five minutes of a game in which the point differential is five or less.

“We expect him to make those shots, especially at the end of the game,” Gallinari said.

Gallinari added 25 points.James Harden had 32 points,

eight rebounds and seven assists for the Rockets, while Robert Covington had 18 and Westbrook 17 in his second game back from a right quadriceps strain.

Heat 115, Bucks 104: Jimmy Butler scored a playoff career-high 40 points, Goran Dragic

added 27 and Miami clamped down defensively in the final three quarters to beat Milwaukee in Game 1 of their Eastern Con-ference semifinal series.

Bam Adebayo had 12 points, 17 rebounds and six assists for the fifth-seeded Heat, who are 3-1 overall against the top-seeded Bucks this season. Tyler Herro added 11 points for Miami, which improved to 5-0 in the postseason.

Khris Middleton scored 28 points for Milwaukee, which also dropped Game 1 of its first-

round series against Orlando.Brook Lopez had 24 points on8-for-10 shooting, and Giannis Antetokounmpo had 18 points, 10rebounds and nine assists for the Bucks.

But Antetokounmpo’s night will likely be best remembered bywhat he did at the foul line: The reigning MVP went 4-for-12 from the stripe, the worst performance by anyone with at least 12 free-throw attempts in a playoff gamesince Andre Roberson went 2-for-12 for Oklahoma City on April 23, 2017 against Houston.

BY BRETT MARTEL

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram has been named the NBA’s most improved player in a season that saw him bounce back from a life-altering blood clot and a trade from the team that drafted him second overall in 2016.

Ingram, who came to New Orleans as part of a blockbuster trade that sent Anthony Davis to the Los Angeles Lakers, averaged a team-leading and ca-reer-best 23.8 points per game while hitting 46.3% of his shots. He also became an NBA All-Star for the first time.

“It goes back to last March, me getting injured, and not being able to be back on the court until Sep-tember,” Ingram said on a Zoom call Monday with TNT after being informed by his parents he had won the award. “That’s very little time to start preseason and to start the regular season, but I was ready for it. Since Day 1 ... I just wanted to put in my work every single day and just get the best out of it.”

Ingram credited former Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry for his success, saying the coach who was fired on Aug. 15 “gave me a great opportunity for me to go out there and do what I wanted to do.”

Ingram received 42 first-place votes from a glob-al panel of 100 sports writers and broadcasters and earned 326 total points. He edged Miami Heat cen-ter-forward Bam Adebayo, who finished in second place with 295 points (38 first-place votes). Dallas Mavericks guard Luka Doncic finished in third place with 101 points (12 first-place votes).

Ingram talked about his season earlier this month

when he was a finalist for the award.“It was a great year for me,” Ingram said. “People

are seeing my work that I’ve put in, and it’s definite-ly shown on the basketball floor.”

The former Duke standout, who turns 23 on Wednesday, became a more dynamic scor-er by significantly improving both his three-point and free-throw shooting.

Ingram shot a career-best 39.1% from three-point range, up from 33% from deep dur-ing his final season with the Lakers.

“First, it was me figuring out the mechanics and the right way to shoot the basketball ...

shooting from my legs and stuff instead of my arms, just the consistency and how to shoot,” Ingram said. “Then it was the amount of attempts that I took, hav-ing the confidence to take those shots and continue to take those shots. ”

Ingram’s free-throw percentage rose from 67.5% last season to 85.1% this season.

Meanwhile, he remained largely healthy, playing and starting in all but 10 of New Orleans’ 72 games without experiencing a recurrence of the deep vein thrombosis in his right arm that sidelined him for his final 19 games with the Lakers.

The timing of his improved play comes at a fortu-itous time for Ingram, who is a restricted free agent this offseason.

23.8Brandon Ingram’s career-high point average this season, which led theNew Orleans Pelicans.

By the numbers

SOURCE: Associated Press

46.3Shooting percentage for

Ingram this season, his first season as an NBA All-Star.

39.1Ingram’s three-point

shooting percentage this season, a career high and up from 33% last season.

Pelicans’ Ingram named most improved

Scores 18 in 4th as Oklahoma City forces a Game 7 on Rockets

Paul refuses to let Thunder lose

MARK J. TERRILL/AP

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris Paul goes up for a shot between the Houston Rockets’ James Harden, left, and Robert Covington. Paul scored 15 of his team-high 28 points during the fourth quarter of the Thunder’s 104-100 Game 6 victory Monday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

‘ People are seeing my work that I’ve put in. ’

BrandonIngram

Pelicans forward

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SPORTS Lightning advanceTampa Bay bounces Boston

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Pelicans’ Ingram Most Improved PlayerNBA, Page 23

Padres, Marlins make trades at deadlineMLB, Page 21

BY RALPH D. RUSSO

Associated Press

College athletes come and go, cycling through their programs and campus-es in about four years. Organization has been difficult to attain. Motivat-ing people to band together and fight

for reforms when they might not be around to reap the benefits is challenging.

This summer there have been signs that is changing.

College athletes have called out coaches and administrators, backed causes both social (Black Lives Matter) and political (changing the Missis-

sippi state flag) and demanded to be part of the discussion about whether sports can be played safely during a pandemic. They have organized campus marches, threatened boycotts and trend-ed on social media without stepping foot on a field.

If this moment spawns a sustained movement, it will be because college athletes have learned to harness their collective power and laid a founda-tion for their successors.

“We all know that this isn’t a movement for the present,” said Jaydon Grant, an Oregon State de-fensive back and a leader of the Pac-12 We Are United group. “As far as establishing something

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Members of the Baylor football team demonstrated Thursday to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin.

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Oregon State defensive back Jaydon Grant is a leader of the Pac-12 We Are United group, which last month issued a list of demands and threat of mass opt-outs if the Pac-12 didn’t address them.

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